Safety Measures Quito Apparent n r; POUNDDD 1651 103BD YEAR 1 SECTION 12 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Saturday, October 24, 1953 PRICE 5c N0.2C8. ailed. Mef Given Lead PiB ; : t i Hurt by Anti-Red; 1 t r i . ' il--' (''V'V - I V Commie C Beatin g, Critically Th two fcii jnnior Hiffh School and nedestrian aafetr. the contrast at night The hard-to-see rider at left is Bad Chapelle and his lighter-clothed, easier -to-see companion is David Austin. Motorist is Mason ChappeUe, father of Bad. (Statesman photo) Story also on Page 2. SHXDCB TOQUE Today is' United Nations Day, the eighth anniversary of the establishment of this organization as an international body design ed primarily to preserve peace in the world. October 24, 1953 finds UN heavily engaged in wrestling with grave and bitter disputes. The most serious of course is Korea where the process of executing a truce agreement produces strain and controversy. A fresh and grievous outbreak in Palestine reminds the world that the truce between Israel and the Arab states is an uneasy one. And Tri- este.vlong off the agenda at UN, has been projected into the ar ena, of debate by Russia svish insky. Other issues embitter the at mosphere if they do not disturb the decorum at United Nations: South Africa's race legislation (which only this week prompted Premier Malan to call UN a "can cer eating at the peace of the world"); nationalist aspirations of Morocco: demands of back ward nations for a sharing of wealth. The forum of the nations becomes a sounding board for the proclamation of the woes of the nations, and their ambitions. Perhaps the significant fact is that United Nations has survived eieht years of tension, 6f-cold war and hot, of conquest without violence (the satellite states), of border conflict, of resurgent na tionalism. It has; and no nation has withdrawn its membership. Instead a score of countries are eager for admission, kept out only by the tactics of the (Continued on Editorial Page 4) Clark Accepts Citadel Post COLUMBIA, S. C. n Gen. Mark W. Clark announced Friday he will accept the presidency of The Citadel, the South Carolina military college at Charleston. The former supreme Allied com mander in the Far East will retire from the Army Oct 31. TROOPS TAKE OVER LONDON lav-Urgent efforts to end a wildcat strike of London's oil truck drivers failed Friday night and the government ordered 2.600 armed troops to take over the distribution of emergency supplies. Top Industry Leaders See '54 Business By STERLING GREEN PEBBLE BEACH, Calif, un -Top men of industry Friday fore cast that, despite' a "readjust ment" already in progress, busi ness in 1354 will hold up 'to within 5 per cent of this year's boom .level. .. . .Thirteen industrialists, selected Animal Crackers By WARREN COODRIQH l DUWNO! IT DOESNT SPEAK FISrt .- bicvele riders above are demonstrating, in the interest of bicycle between dark-and light-clothed Injured Couple IKleld For Abduction of 0 re g on IP o .iceman ' TOPPENISH, Wash. () A 28-year-old White Swan man and his 21-year-old woman companion who were injured in an automo bile crash near Mabton, 28 miles southeast of here, Friday were arrested for investigation in the abduction at rifle point of an Ore gon State policeman at Pendleton, Ore., a few hours earlier. They were identified as Leon ard Ellsworth Miller and Barbara Jean Royer of Omaha, Neb. They were in an automobile which crashed headon with another and after being taken to the hospital at Toppenish two loaded pistols were taken from Miller. A rifle was found in the wrecked car. Five in Auto Sheriff Bert Guns said Miller told him he, Miss Royer and three unnamed men were in a car stop ped three miles east of Pendleton by the policeman, Laurence Kez- 'ar, .24. - When Kezar returned to his car for his ticket book, Miller and another man got out and Kezar was ordered at rifle point to enter this car. The rifle was discharged, Miller said, but no one was injured. Manacled to Car Six miles beyond this point, Ke zar was left at the roadside, man acled to the wheel of his car. The gunmen broke the policeman's radio and car battery before leaving him. . . . ,. ..... ine menu saia jmuer ium ui dropping the other three men off near Prosser, 30 miles southeast of Toppenish, and continuing north. Near Mabton. while attempt ing to pass another car. Miller's auto collided headon with an oncoming vehicle. A passerby took Miller and' Miss Boyer to the hospital at Toppenish where thev were put under arrest by State Patrolmen who recognized the smashed outomobile as an swering 'the description of the one involved in the Oregon ab duction. Rifle Recovered Lt R. W. Denslow of the Wash ington State Patrol said he re covered a rifle from the back seat and Patrolman William W. Wilson took two pistols from Miller at the hospital. Neither of the two persons were iniured badly. No charges have been filed against them but the sheriff said he is holding them for the Oregon police. The district attorney at Pen dleton meanwhile had issued John Doe warrants charging five persons with kidnaping Kezar and setting bail at $10,000. NIXON IN SINGAPORE SINGAPORE tf) U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon arrived at this British crown colony Sat urday from Indonesia on his offi cial tour of the Far East. at High Mark from the 169-member Business Ad visory Council of the Commerce Department, for a survey of their own sesments of the economy, de livered the reports to Secretary of Commerce weeks. .- They foresaw a period of intense competition, smaller profits ana some price declines. But council Chairman John U Biggers, chairman of Libbeyr Owens-Ford Glass Co., Toledo, summarized the survey in this way: v " .' "We are now experiencing what I would consider a moderatet ad justment from an abnormal situa tion to a normal a very nigh nor mal. : ' : - ' "Industrial production will be higher in 1954 than in any previous year with the exception of the arti ficially high year of 19ol A council spokesman later told reporters that the reports indicated a "sound present situation and an encouraging outlook for 19oV al though conditions vary from in dustry to industry. The spokesman said the reports, indicating moderate declines in sales and production in several industries, should be considered in the light of the fact that the econ omy in 1353 was buoyed by the "artificial stimulus of war and mobilization. bike riden as seen by a motorist Vikings Take Crucial Game With Corvallis i ... Salem High School's Vikings Friday night defeated the Corval lis Spartans 14 to 0 in their cru cial District 8 A?l football game before 4,000 at Waters Field. It was the seventh win of the season or the undefeated and untied Salems, ranked No. S in the re cent Associated Press poll for high school grid squads. Halfback Mike Campbell scored for the Vikings in the second quarter on a' pass play from Quarterback Herb Triplett and in the fourth period Triplett crashed over from the 1-yard line. Halfback Ray Taylor, who has made good with 23 out fo 24 con version attempts over two sea sons.. connected after .both, touch downs, r (Full details and statistics in today s sports pages.) . Berserk Man Takes Lives Of 6 Persons MONTE VISTA. Colo. W) A berserk railroad . man, defendant in ' a divorce action, shot four members of his family to death to day, killed a policeman summoned to the scene, then blasted out his own life with a 12-gauge shotgun. Another policeman was seriously wounded in the shoulder and back by shotgun blasts. Police Chief Andrew Hull iden tified the railroad man as Rudy Morgan, 55, superintendent of the San Luis Central Railroad. His body, with that of his wife Betty. 32: their son Jimmy. 7: daughter, Tamara, 5, and Mrs. Morgan's mother, Mrs. Nannie De- trich, 58, were found in the blood- drenched two-story house. Outside was found the body of Assistant Police Chief Guy O'Neal, 50. The other officer was R. V. Keyes. Although his condition was reported as serious, he was expect ed to recover. Hull said Morean had been liv. ing 'in. a hotel after separation from his wife. She filed suit for divorce Li Del Norte. Sept " 24, cnarging mental and physical cru elty. B17 Blows Tire In Salem Landing An Aia Force B17 bringing 1 Navy enlisted men to Salem on weekend leaves blew a tire in landing at McNary Field at 9:45 Friday night but the pilot taxied the plane to a stop without in cident . Capt Delbert Gosser, 245 Elma Ave., Salem, was piloting the plane which flew here from Point Mugu Naval Air Station near Los Angeles, Calif. Gosser said he was getting new tire and wheel today and would return to Point Mugu Sun day afternoon. . Haley Candidate For GOP Position MEDFORD tfl George Haley, Salem plumbing and heating con tractor, was reported to be a can didate for president of the Oregon Republican Clubs as the organiza tion opened a two-day convention here Friday. About 150 delegates are attend ing the meeting which will be cli mazed by Sen. Guy Cordon's key note speech at a Saturday night banquet - Loyalty Of 1,456 Doubted By B. L. LIVINGSTONE WASHINGTON CB The firing or forced resignation of 1,456 gov ernment employes as poor secur ity risks was announced Friday by the White House. It represented the results of the first four months of, operation of new security program set up by President Eisenhower last May 27. ' i Others Released V At the same time. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty told news men that since the Eis enhower administration took of fice. 145,000 other federal employes have been let go for economy rea sons. When the new administration took over last January, there were approximately 2,600,000 employees on government rolls. On Aug. 31 the Civil Service Commission put government employment at 2,445, 200. For Four Months ' The figures on security separa tions were submitted to the Cabi net and the National Security Council by Philip Young, chairman of the Civil Service Commission. They cover only the four-months period from May. 27,- when the President put into operation his new security program, to Sept 30. Young's statement said 862 em ployes were dismissed for security reasons, and 593 resigned. Partisans Kill East German Police. Reds BERLIN tffl Partisan bands have slain" nine "East German po licemen and one Communist Party official in the past two weeks, ac counts reaching West Berlin indi cated Friday night Five resistance fighters were re ported executed by firing squads A state of siege has been laid down in the Cottbus area, near the Polish and Czech frontiers. The Communist East announced some details of the outbreak of violence, which apparently started Oct 10 and is still a threat In Cottbus, the official Commu nist newspaper blamed "fascist murderers" and drew a parallel with 1932 and early 1933, when the Nazis and the Reds clashed through Germany in street battles that took hundreds of lives. Pieced together from admissions by the East and from under ground and Allied sources in West Berlin, the picture in southeast Germany is one of high tension. 200 Hunters SHERIDAN, Wyo. W Forest Service officials and law officers worked Friday to rescue an esti mated 200 snowbound big game hunters sighted from the air in northern Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. The hunters were trapped in the mountain wilds after a two-day storm from the Pacific Northwest dumped 12 to more than 30 inches of snow and accompanying winds piled the crystals into drifts 4 feet deep in 24 degree temperature Three reconnaissance planes made a 4-hour flight from Sheridan over the area and reported sight ing six camps with the letter F, designating a need for food, stamped out In the snow at each. Motherly Treatment Grounds for Divorce BRISTOL, England Wi Mrs Flossie Cridge, 32, was- granted a divorce Friday on .grounds of cruelty. She complained the trouble be gan on their wedding night when his mother sneaked into their bed room to tuck her son in and did almost every night thereafter and he didn't object HE Max. Min. Precip. sum 6S 94 .oo Portland . 65 ' 34 'M San Francisco 71 42 .00 Chicago , S3 59 trac New York 68 50 JOO Willamette River -l.S feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Togzy this morning becoming part It cloudy this afternoon and to night. High today 63 to 65 and low tonight 36 to 38, Temperature at 12:01 a.m. was 3S. SALEM MtEClPITATIOX Since Start tf Weather Tear Sept. This Year Last Year Normal 4it .43 3.90 Snows Trap BensonFails to Head Off Caravan Of lred Capital-Bound Cattlemen By GARDNER L. BRIDGE WASHINGTON W President Eisenhower and Secretary of Ag riculture Benson grappled with a growing farm problem at an hours- iong conference in the White House Friday as Benson tried vainly to stop a caravan of cattlemen from descending on the capital. I Confronted by mounting crop surpluses .and reports of unrest among farmers throughout the country, Eisenhower and Benson presumably canvassed all angles of the farm policy they have prom ised to play before Congress in January. ' Redisricting Law Test Set For High Court Those opposing reapportion ment of the State Legislature will take to the Oregon Supreme Court the recent decision of Cir cuit Judge Rex Kimmell of Mar ion County, holding valid the con stitutional amendment providing for reapportionment John F. . Steelhammer, Salem attorney for State Rep. David Baum, La Grande, said Friday that Baum had ordered the ap peaL -It was Baum who filed suit to contest the legality of the amendment which Oregon voters approved at the last gener al election. District Changed Defendants to the suit are Sec retary of State Earl T. Newbry and Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton. Under reapportionment plan Baum's district would be expand ed to include Wallowa as well as Union County which he now rep resents. "It is our feeling that the is sues involved in this case are impottahVlo'-botVmembers of the legislature and the public, Steelhammer declared, "and therefore should go to the state supreme court for final consid eration. Termed Confusing Steelhammer said many mem bers of the legislature and pros pective candidates for legislative seats at the 1954 primary elec tion are confused by the reappor tionment amendment and appar ently do not know what course to follow. In event Judge Kimmel's de cision is upheld by the supreme court the legislature will be re apportioned for the first time in 42 years. The constitution now provides for reapportionment every 10 years but this provision has been ignored. Witness for Defense Not Too Much Aid Adam T. Bauer, 61, of 375 Mar ket St, pleading his own case on an intoxication charge, called as a character witness "a friend' who Vas complainant against him on another charge and wound up with convictions on both Fri day in Municipal Court Mrs. Ida Neff, a widow, 745 S. 22nd St, filed a trespassing charge, claiming that Bauer had broken her screen door.5 Bauer was found guilty . and placed on probation.' He then went on trial on the intoxication charge and called Mrs. Neff as a character witness. She testified she had seen Bauer enter tavern the day of his ar rest Bauer paid a $10 fine. PALESTINE ISSUES UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. J The U. N. Secrrity Council Friday scheduled two .meetings for next Tuesday on the boiling Palestine issue. Catron Family Comes Back Home THE DALLES 11. The Willis Catron family is back home. They came, Mrs. Catron and her seven children, to bury her husband. And like always, the goodness of peo ple easjed their trip. It was just last May that the Catrons came to people's atten tion. They had asked then at San Diego for help for their baby, Julie, who was HL People responded, of course, to help the family which had no money to show for harvest work down the West Coast and a foray into Mexico, taken because Catron knew there were poor people there and "I though we might fit in." Briefly, at San Diego, they were put up .in a hotel where the chil dren's chief joy was a gleaming We are not going to pull out anything entirely . new," Benson said after the meeting. "We are going to have some recommendations for improve ments in the present program." While-Benson was closeted with the President and staff experts, his office released a telegram he sent to the head of the National Farmers Union urging that a dele gation of about 250 Western Cat tlemen headed for Washington be fcalled back. But President James G. Patton of the Farmers Union, which or ganized the procession, replied it was too late. In an accompanying statement, the Farmers Union's Washington office accused Benson's depart ment of hemming and hawing, quibbling and procrastinating. The cattlemen's caravan, assem bled from more than 20 West and Midwest states, was due in Wash ington Sunday for the announced purpose of laying their problems directly before Benson and, if pos sible, the President himself. In his telegram to Pattqn, Ben son said a conference involving "such a large number of people is not suitable for an adequate exchange of ideas" and would "accomplish nothing." Benson urged Patton to recon sider "exposing working cattlemen to the hardships of the caravan" and added: ' "I have the greatest interest in the working cattlemen and their views and would regret very much to see them undergo this unneces sary hardship." The caravan, traveling mainly by bus, was due to spend Friday night at Springfield, 111. Benson proposed that instead of coming to Washington the cattle men organize a series of regional meetings around the country at which top aides of the Agriculture Department could hear their views. 'In lieu of this suggestions," he added, "I would be glad to meet with a small r workable,, group .in Washington who can represent the views of the J50 in the pro posed caravan. Patton replied: "The hardships of a bus trip are inconsequential compared to Traffic Light At Capitol, Court Sought State and city officials Friday proposed a traffic light for bet ter control at Court and North Capitol Streets, a junction where additional traffic troubles appar ently have resulted from Salem's new one-way street grid. - City Manager J. L. Franzen said he would recommend a light to the City Council and State Highway Engineer R. H. Bald ock said he would make the same recommendation to the State Highway Commission. w State and city would share costs. Franzen said the light would aid traffic even if North Capitol eventually becomes a one-way street from Court to Center Streets, as the engineers origin ally proposed when Salem went to the grid. Court Street .now is one-way eastbound up to Capitol Street Both Capitol at that point and Court Street beyond are two way. Otherwise Friday, the third day of operation of the new grid brought but few additional com plaints to city officials. Today's Statesman General News 2, 5 Society News 3 Editorials, Features 4 Radio, TV i 4, 9 Market News 2, 7, 9 Sports News 6, 7 Church News . . 8 bathtub. Catron, 43, was offered an airplane plant job, but his health was bad and he didn't take it. - In June they were ordered out of a ramshackle home and they began to drift east Last week Mrs. Catron wrote from Miami, Fla.. to a reporter who had written about them while in San Diego: "Willis is here in the hospital. He don't even know me. All his trouble is that what he had is cancer. He will die any time. I love him so much." Then he died and Mrs. Catron gathered her seven children and started home. There was a little help from welfare people and some from his brother who lives near here. v the hardships resulting from ruin, ous prices and drought "After these men-have traveled thousands of miles to discuss their plight with you it would cer tainly seem advisable that you ex tend to them : the courtesy of a hearing. They will all wish to see you while m Washington." -Benson, who has been reported leaning toward a more flexible system, said the administration's new program would be ready by the time Congress reconvenes in January and he said: "I don't think it will be any thing revolutionary." Troubled Secretary of Agriculture Benson, under heavy tire for his farm policies attempted Friday to head off a . caravan of ired catlemen bound for the capital to protest policies. Walkout Guts Prdductioiiof Jet Aircraft LOS ANGELES lB Production of jet warplanes at two big North American Aviation Co. plants was halted Friday by a strike which a union official termed the begin ning of an industry-wide struggle between unions and the aircraft industry. An estimated r32,000 production workers were idle. The walkout began last midnight at plants in the Los Angeles area and at Co lumbus, Onio. The main issue is a demand of the CIO United Auto Workers for a wage boost of 23.4. cents an hour. The company offers a 4 per cent general increase.' In Washington, the Defense De partment's Office of Industrial Re lations said that it had conveyed the military services interest in settlement of the strike to the Na tional Mediation Board. . North American produces the F86F Sabre jet which gained fame in the Korean War. the F86D, a continental defense interceptor, the F100 Super Sabre, a new super sonic fighter for the - Air Force, and the T28B, a Navy trainer. Fog Forecast For Valley Foggy mornings today and Sun day are predicted to give way to warm, pleasant afternoons well sprinkled with sunshine. The five-day forecast calls for little or no precipitation for. the period with temperatures averag ing above normal maximums in the 60's and the minimums around 40 degrees. Friday's low mercury reading of 34 was still above the frost point They were in Chicago Wednes day with $4.40 and the rest of their tickets to here. Earl V. Cadle, dining car stew ard on the Union Pacific's City of Portland, took charge of the $4.40. He added $3 from his own pocket and let the word get out in bis dining car. Before dinner was over he had $69. Guy FDean, steward in another diner, did the same and got $33. When the train reached Rawl ings, Wyo., Cadle wired a Poca tello, Idaho, department store and at Pocatello packages came aboard with new clothes for the children and a new maternity dress another baby is due soon for Mrs. Catron. .r-; r..F- , ft : - . -,- ... ,' j. 7 Blows Crush Skull " By ARTHUR EVERETT i NEW YORK W Robert O, Thompson, one of the country' i top Communists,. underwent Ion J and delicate brain surgery Fridaj night after a reputed anti-Corn munist slugged and critically hurt him with a lead pipe in tha Federal . House of Detention. - J Thompson suffered a fracture o the skull and was taken to Belle, vue Hospital for the operation. His condition was described at 10:30 p. m. as critical At that hour the operation had been under way for three and a half hours and the surgery waj not yet ended. ; ; Yugoslav Alien - It was performed in an effort to relieve pressure on the braia from his crushed skull Thompson's assailant was "identic fied as Alexander Pavlovich.' a trouble - making Yugoslav alien who was to have been deported from this country Friday night. Thompson, a World War II bert later convicted as a Red revolm tionist, was clubbed twice by Pav lovich. However detention 'authorities said there was no evidence of an ideological quarrel between thi two inmates, and took the vie that Pavlovich staged the attac) to delay his deportation. If thai was the case,' he succeeded. HU deportation : was put off pendinf an investigation. v. Marching to Lunch 7-'- Pavlovich swung the lead dim at Thompson's head as they weri being marched to lunch with about 30 other inmates. There was ni immediate explanation of how thi alien happened to have such a dangerous, make-shift weapon, Thompson reportedly regained consciousness before removal to a hospital on a stretcher. The 38 year old Thompson wal one of 11 top American , Commu- A 1 t m nisis conviciea in w ot conspir ing to teach and advocate violent overthrow of the IL S.. .government MCanght la Hideout Thompson jumped bail when if came time for. him to serve hii three-year prison Sentence. He wai recaptured only last August in- a California mountain hideout aftet two years as a fugitive. Pavlovich jumped ' ship on thi West Coast in 1951. He served a jail term in Chicago for attempted petty larceny and in 1952 waj brought to Ellis Island for depor. tation. - - . i On Sept 28, 1952, Pavlovicl tried to escape the island, "bi his plans were nipped in the bud. Pavlovich reportedly fled Yugo slavia during the war as a refuge; from Marshal ' Tito's , Communis) regime. ' . . Crosby Sued For Million LOS ANGELES im Crooriet Bing Crosby, was sued for a -mi lion dollars damages Friday ;b; three persons who claimed th he was under the influence intoxicating liquors" at the timl of a traffic crash Oct 11. - The three were .injured am Crosby suffered a wrenched bad in the two-car collision befon dawn at a west Los Angeles inter section. At the time Crosby was drivini his $12,250 German Mercedes-Bent car. The driver of the other cat was Frank Verdugo, 32, a Los An geles city fireman. Also in Verdu go's car were his wife, Lucy, 2$ and his brother in law, Eulalil Perea, 25. HIGHWAY TO OPEN - NORTH BEND, Ore. W j new section of the Oregon Coas Highway between here and Hause will be open to traffic early nex month, Ben R. Chandler, chair man of the State Highway Commis siou, said Friday. The stretch will cut the highway distance between the two point from seven to five miles. ' to 'Bury Pal Cadle then took over the trail barber shop, enlisted a couple. d women passengers, and ' put thi children into the shower. - , As at San Diego,, the .bath wai the thing that most impressed them. "A glorius tune, was th4 way Cadle described it ; They dropped off the train hen Friday. No one was there to mee them but Mrs. Catron said she) leave the children with their unci and be back Saturday That : h when her husband's body wil come home. V She waited Friday at her broth-er-in-law's house, a rural hom where there is no telephone, -anj no one in town seemed sure jus! what she planned for the future.