Texas Collision Kills 6
In Car, Wrecks Train
ROYSE CITY, Tex. (JP) A sta
tion wagon and the crack Texas
Special passenger - train smashed
"together here Sunday night, killing
the six persons in the car and
sending the engine and all but 4 of
the 14 train cars crashing off the
tracks.
Three train passengers were hos
pitalized. About 30 others on the
Missouri-Kansas-Texas red and sil
ver special were bruised.
Killed was Victor Saufley of Dal
. las, star Southern Methodist Uni
versity football center in 1930 his
wife, and three sons. Bill, 5, John
and Jim. 2-year-old twins, and Ir
ma Davis, their maid.
The crash came as the St. Louis
bound special sped through the
center of this little farming town
Salem Mother's Vigil1 for Son
Broken by Word of Army Trial
A Salem mother, who hasn't heard from her 22-year-old soldier
i son since September, was told by the Army Saturday that he had
been courtmartialed over a month ago at Ft Benning, Ga., and sen
tenced to five years at hard labor.
Mrs. Daisy Swartz of 1140 Oxford St., said her son was convicted
of stealing $485 because he refused to inform on a friend he knew
KJtDODS
In the cult of college profes
sors a great to-do is made on
what the profs "publish." So ad
dicted have they become to study
and research in order to qualify
as "scholars," which seems to be
proved best by i "publishing"
papers and books), that the fine
art of teaching often is neglected.
' In deference to this cult, or in
proof of the productivity of mem
bers of faculties of higher insti
tutions the State Board of Higher
Education has just gotten out a
bulletin, "Faculty Publications
-Issue, 1950-1952." It lists what
each professor has gotten pub
lished in pamphlet or magazine
or book during that period. Some
have been very prolific . the
scientists seem to turn out more
stuff than the "humanitarians."
Scanning the lists one finds a
wide range, from "Six amens; for
mixed voices" by Milton Dieter
ich of the university to "Five
easy steps ior deciding now
many trucks per shovel," by A.
L. Roberts of the state college.
There are some you can hardly
wait to dig your teeth in, like
Rearrangement of some disub
stituted cyclic ketones" by E. N.
Marvell of the college, or this
one on "Abnormal reactions of
2 - thianaphthlenylmethylmagne
sium chloride," by V. B. Gaertner
of the university. There should
be a big demand for "The flexi
bility of football players" by P.
O. Sigerseth of the university.
The medical school staff does
.a lot of writing on diseases, and
the state college people turn out
a steady grist of articles on agri
culture. The colleges of educa
tion are not quite so productive,
but there are some inviting
titles, like "The annoyances of
elementary school teachers, by
Louis Kaplan of Monmouth. One
surmises that a copy of this
should clap hands that these men
parent.
The catalog runs to over 60
pages. At least it proves that
faculties of Oregon institutions
are busy with typewriters. And
when we stop to think how much
of toil in laboratory research, in
reading and in cerebral exercise
goes into the final product we
should clap hands that thtse men
and women are seeking to add to
the store of human knowledge.
Only one hopes they do not get
i i A t A
su UU11CU 111 UllgUMll
that they neglect the work of the
classroom.
U. S. to Furnish
Planes to NATO
PARIS UP! The United States
will furnish at least half of the
1,300 warplanes NATO, expects to
add to its growing air force in
1954, a high ranking American offi
cial said Sunday.
The United States will throw its
support behind the plan for a big
boost m North Atlantic Treaty or
ganization air power at the NATO
ministerial meeting opening here
Monday, another high ranking
American official said.
Some 50 ministers of the 14
NATO nations who flocked into
Paris this weekend for the import
ant three-day meeting are expect
ed to approve the plan with much
discussion.
Animal Crackor
Bv WARRIN COOORICH
"Tve been feeding him onti-
fcnock got but he" still complains
I about everythingf
of 1.200 persons 23 miles northeast
of Dallas.
The automobile was knocked
spinning 100 feet against, a switch,
throwing it to split the train, send
ing part of it wheeling down a
side track.
The engine spun off the track
anc1 tilted crazily; one car
wrapped around it; four others
flipped over on their backs, their
wheels in the air, and five plowed
off the rails.
Passengers and scores who
rushed to help turned the scene
into a milling mass of confusion.
Ambulances from every nearby
town and from Dallas sped here.
The city was jammed with the
morbid curious and with relatives
of passengers on the train who
came when they heard the news.
to be guilty ot tne tnett. me
guilty party was later caught,
Mrs. Swartz said.
Her son, Pvt. Guy T. Swartz,
a former student in Vanport Col
lege, Portland, was attending of
ficer's candidate school at Ft
Benning. His wife, who is ex
pecting a baby in May, lives in
Portland.
Told of Transfer
The last word Mrs. Swartz had
from her son was through his
wife. He called his wife in Sep
tember and said he was being
transferred to Camp Stoneman,
Calif., his mother explained.
When letters stopped coming
from her son Mrs. Swartz tried
to get word of him through the
Ft Benning chaplain's office and
through the office of U. S. Sen.
Guy Cordon
She finally heard from Senator
Cordon that her son was being
held in the Ft Benning stockade
on the larceny charge. Mrs.
Swartz then wired an uncle of
Jier son, Homer Adams of Ousley,
Ga., who went to see her son. Pri
vate Swartz told his uncle he had
not taken the monev but knew
who did and did not report the
theft, Mrs. Swartz explained.
Son Convicted
Although the man who took the
money was located, Mrs. Swartz
said, her son was convicted
of the charge Nov. 10. His sen
tence included dishonorable dis
charge from the service, she add
ed. No word of the court martial
or sentence reached Mrs. Swartz
until Saturday, more than a
month after the 'trial.
Private Swartz was drafted in
Sept 1952, his mother explained,
and was sent to Camp Roberts,
Calif., for basic training. He later
applied for officer's training and
was accepted.
Record Clean
He's never been in any kind
of trouble before," his mother
asserted, "and he's just not the
kind of boy to pull a trick like
that."
The sentence will be reviewed
by a court martial board at Ft
Benning and then be forwarded
to the Judge Advocate General
in Washington, D.C., officials at
Ft Benning informed Mrs.
Swartz.
In the meantime she is still
awaiting word from her son.
Doctors to Start
X-Rav Tests on
Two-Headed Boy
INDIANAPOLIS un Physi
cians at the Indiana University
Medical Center said Sunday there
had been no change in the con
dition of a two-headed baby born
Saturday morning.
The infant boy remained in an
oxygen tank at Riley Hospital,
part of the medical center, pend
ing a series of X-rays and other
tests which were to begin later
Sunday night.
The baby, born by Caesarean
section to a 28-year-old woman in
Washington, Ind., was described
as strong and apparently healthy
when it was brought here by am
bulance late Saturday.
It has two heads, two necks and
four, arms on a trunk that merges
into a normal body m the chest
region. A spokesman for the Chi
cago Maternity Center said the
two-headed infant probably was
the first ever born alive.
Lumber Barse
Aground on Jetty
SEATTLE (A Rough seas
grounded a loaded lumber barge
on the north jetty of Coos Bay.
Ore., Saturday, the Coast Guard
reported.
A second barge and the towing
tug, the Winquat, laid offshore dur
ing the night, but made port safely
Sunday morning.
An estimated one-third of the
grounded barge's load of 800,000
board feet of packaged lumber
went overboard.
The tug was damaged somewhat
and so was the surviving barge.
The tug Winquat is owned by
the , Rogue River Towing Co., of
Aberdeen, Wash. The barges are
owned by the Upper Columbia Riv
er Towing Co.
t-CAR CRASH KILLS 4
ROME. N. Y. UH Four per
sons were killed and one was in
jured critically in a two-car crash
early , Sunday on a rain soaked
highway about nine miles east of
this central New York city.
103RD YEAR
Segregation Provides Closer Check on Cons
" ' e
j s
, J
If
i . 1 : : 1 1 i
Oregon State Penitentiary Guard Charles Jones is shown above standing guard over a block of pris
oners in the newly completed segregation building at the institution. The building completed
after nearly two years contains 94 cells, and was occupied recently. Many of the prisoners now
housed in the segregation building were active in the last riot at the prison. (Statesman Photo.)
I,! Ls i!VdlMiJL tit id' , -
f Ii iiu -iiTytninTITII H?3tr-W
? i m h Ml i 1 1 r,' k c
Sgt M. Meyers, Oregon State Penitentiary guard, is shown above
locking one end of a cell block la the new segregation building
at the prison. The 94-cell building lias an overall and single lock
ing device (not shown) which operates from a room outside the
cell block. (Statesman Photo.)
Horse Rescued From
Cistern After 3 Weeks
TALLADEGA, Ala. (tfVMaude, a retired work horse and neigh
borhood pet, was rescued from a 20-foot deep cistern into which she
tumbled three weeks ago, and was given a 50-50 chance to live
Sunday.
Ill with tmeumonia after losing
of her owners, covered with blankets and fortified by shoets of peni
Indochina Red
Leader Again
Talks of Truce
LONDON (JB Ho Chi Minh's
Vietminh government Sunday
night again stated its readiness to
negotiate an end of the 7-year-war
in Indochina.
Moscow radio carried a Tass
dispatch from Shanghai quoting
Ho's information agency which
said:
"If the French government real
ly respects the independence of
Viet Nam and is ready to start
negotiations with the people's gov
ernment of Viet Nam to end this
war, the people and government
of the democratic republic of Viet
Nam will be ready to accept the
French DroDOsal."
Ho, president of the Communist
led government which s has been
battling the French and later the
French-supported Vietnamese gov
ernment to Saigon, told the Stock
holm newspaper Expressen. in a
special cable Nov. 20 that his gov
ernment was ready to discuss an
armistice. His offer was in the
form of answers to five questions.
Grand Ronde
Driver Killed
McMINNVILLE . (J) Marion
David Mercier, 27, Grand Ronde,
died in a hospital early Sunday
from injuries suffered in an acci
dent a short tune earlier on uign
way 22 about 25 miles- west of
here.
His car failed to make a curve
and plunged off the road.
Max.
Min.
31
3S
41
31
Free.
jM
Trac
Salem
Portland
San Francisco
53
-67
JM
JM
M
Chicago
.42
New York 50
42
Willamette River 13 5 feet.
TO RECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. MrNirv field. Salem):
Mostly cloudy with occasional Sent
showers today, tonight and Tuesday.
uiue cnange in lemperaiure wiui
the highest today near SO and the
lowest tonight near 38. Temperature
at um a. m. was 40.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Siace Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1
This Year Last Yaar formal
1JJ7 a.14 J-
2 SECTIONS 18 PAGES
Li
400 pounds, Maude lay in a barn
cillin ana wtusKy.
Maude had been hunted by chil
dren in a rural community ever
since she disappeared three weeks
ago. Billy Ray Hurst, 13, finally
spotted her shivering in three feet
of water in the deep cistern Sat
urday.
Fortune Teller
One of the owners, Cecil Hurst,
had consulted a fortune teller who
told him Maude was still alive in
a cistern. When he returned home
the horse had been located.
A construction company loaned
a crane which was used to lift
Maude back to the surface while
gathering children cheered. Al
though trembling with weakness,
Maude trotted across the field to
the barn and her feed trough.
Horse Won't Eat
Dr. R. L. Jones, a veterinarian,
first gave Maude a shot of peni
cillin, a heart stimulant, whisky
and warm corn meal. Sunday he
continued the penicillin, and whis
ky, and gave her a respiratory
stimulant, but Maude wouldn t eat.
Jones said Maude, whose weight
dropped from 1,200 to an estima
ted 800 pounds, has a 50-50 chance
of . recovering. She managed to
stay alive m the cistern because
she had water to drink.
The cistern was covered by rot
ten timbers and old Maude crashed
through when she walked upon
them.'
Dr. Jones said doses of whisky
ranging from a cup to a pint
warm Maude's stomach while the
penicillin fights her pneumonia.
Maude is between 20 and 25
years old. She is retired from
farm work, but still used as
riding horse by children.
Russians Left Six Climbers Dead Near Top of
Mti Everest in Attempt to Beat British Team
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Uh A
noted Swedish explorer said Sun
day a Russian expedition tried a
year ago to scale 23,002-foot Mt
Everest, world's highest peak on
the Tibet-Nepal border, but failed
and 'left slkdead climbers behind.
AndeVvBinaer, 29, Swedish al
pinist and leader of a Swedish
Italian expedition to the South
American Andes in 1932, told the
Stockholm newspaper 1 Svenska
Dagbladet the Russians made a
wen planned attempt in the fall of
1952 to beat the British to the peak.
Last May. just before Queen
Elizabeth's coronation, ; a British
party headed by CoL John Hunt
POUNDED
The Oregon Statesman, Salem,
WW.
Yankee PWs
Refuse to Meet
For Interviews
PANMUNJOM Iff) The United
Nations Command refused to take
"no" for a final answer Monday
from 22 balky Americans who re
fused to appear before Allied
come-home explainers.
The Allies requested that the In
dian Command produce for ex
planations Tuesday either six j
Americans, 30 South Koreans or
a lone British marine. All are list
ed as refusing repatriation.
The Allied move would allow
the prisoners themselves to decide
who would appear.
An Indian spokesman said he
presumed that the Americans, the
South Koreans and the English
man would stick together in their
holdout stand which has stalled
the Allied explanation efforts.
Some 78 South Koreans have
balked at appearing before the ex
plainers because they want the
right to' deliver "counter-explanations"
to South Korean officers.
Leaders of the 22 Americans
said they would not appear unless
the South Koreans did. Presum
ably the Englishman also would
refuse to show up.
The Americans sent out awrit-
ten refusal Sunday night to leave
their camp and attend explanations
which had been scheduled to start
at 9 a. m. Monday in the neutral
zone. The Indian command, then
cancelled Monday's talks.
(Additional story on page
2,
sec. 1.)
Man Admits
Kidnap-Theft
Story Hoax
A Salem motorist who told
Portland police early Sunday that
a stranger naa iorcea mm 10
drive to Portland and then had
knocked him unconscious and
robbed him of $100 admitted to
Salem police Sunday that the
story was fictitious.
Dale E. Burke, 5055 Hernn Rd.,
Salem, reported, Portland police
said, that a chunkily-built man
had entered his car as he was
stopped for a traffic light be
tween . Salem and West Salem
Saturday afternoon. Burke said
the intruder made a threatening
motion with his hand which was
thrust Into his jacket pocket and
told Burke to drive to PortlancT
tin reacning roruana, pouce
quoted Burke as saying, the
stranger knocked him out with
a blunt instrument When he re
gained consciousness, the report
continued, Burke said he was
missing $100 which he had in
tended to use to pay bills. Burke
told police his assailant over
looked $30 in his clothing.
After being questioned at his
home Sunday by state and city
police, Burke admitted making
up the story, police said. Burke
told police he had spent most of
Saturday afternoon in a cafe In
the Keizer district playing a "Five
Ball" machine, police said.
FIRE IN CHURCHILL. BARN
WESTERHAM, England )
Fire of undetermined origin gut
ted a barn on Prime Minister
Churchill's country estate Sunday.
made the first successful ascent
to the top of Everest
Bolinder said the story of the
unsuccessful Russian climb leaked
through the Iron Curtain when two
of the party's Tibetan guides. Osin
in and Batisong, fled over the
Himalaya Mountains and reported
to authorities in Katmandu, Ne
pal's tapitaL
Bolinder gave this detailed ac
count of the careful preparations,
quick advances, and tragic end of
the Russian expedition:
The Russian party left Moscow
by plane Oct 18, 1932, for Lhasa,
Tibetan capital, in an attempt to
beat the British and Swiss party
ii jifi lips
i (liilt wMl
i iwrnm nnnnnnni
JISPiui t III
1651
Oregon, Monday, December
DeanWiU
Return to
America
PANMUNJOM (J) U. S. special
envoy Arthur H. Dean said Mon
day he was returning to the Unit
ed States Tuesday after trying un
successfully for eight weeks to ar
range a Korean peace conference
with the Communists.
Dean will leave Seoul Tuesday
at 1 p. m. (8 p. m. Monday, PST).
He said he was returning to
Washington to consult with U. S.
authorities and officials of other
governments which he represents
in the broken off talks to arrange
a Korean peace conference.
Dean broke the bitter discus
sions last Saturday when the Com
munists charged the United States
with "perfidy" in permitting the
release of 27,000 anti-Communist
North Korean prisoners last June.
The prisoners were released by
order of South Korean President
Syngman Rhee.
However, the Allied envoy said
his chief aide, Kenneth Young of
the U. S. State Department, will
remain in Korea tor about a
week to see if the Communists
wish to resume the talks."
He said Young would have "full
authority" to resume the suspend
ed talks with the Reds if the Com
munists withdraw the perfidy
charge and give some sign they
are ready to negotiate in good
faith.
Dean's aides, Charles Allen,
Christopher van Holleri and Good
win Shapiro will return with the
special ambassador who was
Secretary of State Dulles' law
partner in civil life.
Dean announced he was return
ing to the United States shortly
after he called on Indian Lt. Gen.
K. S. Thimayya for a farewell
visit. Thimayya is chairman of
the Neutral Nations Repatriation
Commission which oversees the
"explanations" to war prisoners
now at a standstill in another
deadlock with the Reds.
4 From Salem
Listed as 'Lost'
Stockholders
Four present or past residents
of Salem may be in for a Christ
mas surprise in dividends as
missing" stockholders, thanks to
an eastern tracer company.
The four, three of whom still
reside in Salem, were listed as
missing stockholders to which de
livery of dividend checks, cash
surrender values and other stock
interests could not be made for
want of an address.
But one of them still resides at
the last address listed, and an
other lives in the same house but
with an address changed from
rural route to street number.
Some From '30's
Contacted by The Statesman
Sunday in regard to the unex
pected "fortunes" were Mrs. Mary
Cole Vinyard, 3395 Center St.,
and Emmett Welling, 1333 Boone
Rd. Mrs. Vinyard said she knew
of no stocks but there might have
been some in the "slim 30's."
Welling said he had a probable
explanation for the inclusion of
his name in the list In changing
addresses from Salem Route 4,
box 640 to 1333 Boone Rd. some
stock certificates were returned
to the firm by the post office but
have since been delivered, Well
ing said.
Trail Grows Cold
Third name on the list was
that of Mrs. Delia V. Martin
whose last known address was
carried as 1205 Columbia St. The
widow of Charles Martin, she was
traced by The Statesman to 445
S. 16th St, 645 Ferry St, and
950 Tamarack St., where she
resided sometime after 1947 be
fore the trail became cold. Ef
forts failed to locate a son, name
unknown, who was believed to
have resided at Brooks.
The other name on the list is
Mrs. Annie C Paul, mother of
Mrs. Wendell Webb, 3275 Pringle
Rd. Mrs. Paul presently is in
Lansing, Mich., and news of her
dividends will be. forwarded to
her there.
in the dramatic race for the "top
of the world.:
The climbers included 32 special
ists, carefully chosen from a group
of 150 who had been training for
months in the high Pamir region
of Soviet central Asia.
Among the experts were Prof.
Antonij Jindomovnov, a geologist;
Dr. Pavel Datchnolian; and Dr.
Josef Dengumarov, specialist in
physiology who was physician for
the party.
One month after arriving in Lha
sa the expedition reached Neuslon,
a small village on the northern
slopes of Everest. The expert
group returned to Lhasa Dec. 27,
reporting that six members of the
14, 1953
PRICE 5c
Pw.S
nn f?
other
TOKYO (F) - Mrs. Portia Howe, the mother who waited
in vain to see her war prisoner son who has renounced nil
country, Monday read a letter from him jeering at the United
States.
With tear-filled eyes, the Alden, Minn., mother read a lettei
from her 20-year-old son, Pfc. Richard R. Tenneson which
Trip Futile
a j
T ,
4;
TOKYO Mrs. Portia Howe of Al
den, Minn, (top photo) received
a letter Monday! from her son,
Pfc. Richard Tenneson (bottom
photo) in which he refused to
return to the United States. He
is one of 22 PWs who have re
fused repatriation. (AP Wire
photos.) Mrs. America
To Stay Mrs.
LOS ANGELES UP) Mrs. Amer
ica of 1949, Mrs. Frances Cloyd,
has decided to remain a Mrs.
Her attorney disclosed Sunday
she has dismissed a divorce suit,
alleging cruelty, filed Against Ar
thur T. Cloyd Jr., 28. an auto
mechanic, last April. They have
become reconciled.
The Cloyds' who have four chil
dren, were first married 10 years
ago. They were divorced in 1950
but were remarried he following
year.
Today's Statesman
SECTION 1
Editorials, features 4
Society, women's 6, 8
SECTION 2
Sports 1, 2
Comics 2
Toymakers story 3
World This Week 4
Radio, TV 5
Classified ads 6, 7
Valley news 8
party had disappeared without
trace during the climb.
Three days later the experts
were ordered by Moscow to 'make
a wide search for the missing
men. The group returned to Ever
est and searched for 18 days in
blinding snow-storms and paralyz
ing cold. The search was concen
trated on altitudes of between 23,
000 and 26,000 feet. '
It was probably the first time in
the history of Everest expeditions
that men have clung on at these
heights during the terrible winter
storm period.
The climbers found no trace of
the missing six men and returned
to Moscow via Lhasa..
SSSTfBJWT" r
f Y
1 . r.
LA iv 'i Li
I . v ,. n -
m ( v -A j
2t
No. 259
Letter to
ion Tokyo
said in part:
"United States authorities . . .
have probably told you I wai
forced, doped, brain-washed
some other horse manure that
they used to slander and defilt
people like myself who will stand
up for his own rights and righti
of man.
Holding Bible
Holding a New Testament in hei
hand. Mrs. Howe almost sobbd
as she said, "Where did I fail -I
don't know where I failed."
In the letter. Tenneson sail
uui iiij me a nave niuicasci
both peace and war in the Unitei
States. . ."
Mrs. Howe said, "He was onl;
17 what does he know of lif
and life in the United States. H
was in combat seven weeks. Wha
does he know of war. The whol
argument falls apart."
Asks Letter Released
. The 43-year-old mother of fou
i 11U1U1CU, saiu, 1 Wdiu ills wuui
letter released to the public. ;
think people should know how vi
cious a thing Communism is. I
it can destroy a home, it can dij
integrate a nation."
Tenneson said "it is impossibl
for me to live in the United State
because I want to live as I wish.'
Mrs. Howe 'said, "I wouldn'
have any idea what he mean
about 'impossible.' I have faile
somewhere and I must find oc
where because I have three othe
children and I must not make th
same mistake.
Reviews Training
"I believe a mother should stai
at birth trying to train a chil
for life. Perhi s I overdid it
Richard resenteu discipline. Pei
haps that is where I made m
mistake."
Mrs. Howe said in response t
a query from a reporter, "Oh, i
course I want to see my son -of
course, I still want to see him,'
and she almost broke down.
Taking a moment to recover h
composure at which time She cot
ered her face with her slim fii
gers. Mrs. Howe said "I have n
given up hope that some day m
son will come back to me.
"I have not given up my fail
in God nor Richard. Sooner a
later he will see the light. I ai
basing my hope on prayer."
She opened her Bible and read
"Train up a child in the wa
he should go and when he is ol
he will not depart from it."
(Text of letter on page 2 ,sec. 1
Heavy Snow
Due in East
WASHINGTON (JP-The Weathi
Bureau Sunday night predicted
heavy snow belt likely will d
velop through central Pennsy
vania and central New York b
Monday afternoon and evening o
the heels of storms closing in o
the area.
The bureau began issuing a sa
ies of special bulletins as a dii
turbance moved up the coai
from Florida and a cold air mas
moved out of Hudson Bay in Cai
ada southeastward toward th
Great Lakes region.
Between the two , the Eastet
part . of the country was in fc
some rough weather.
In an earlier advisory the bi
reau had warned that the tw
storms might bring heavy snow I
parts of the Eastern seaboan
along with strong winds. The polj
air mass in Canada contained 1
to 30 degree below zero mpatha
the bureau said.
Fishing Boat
Explodes at
Newport Dock
NEWPORT, Ore. W) A 39-fot
commercial fishing boat explode
at the city mooring basin bei
Saturday night. The blast wi
heard at Agate Beach three milt
away, and windows and disbi
were rattled in Newport No oi
was injured.
The vessel, the Fairwinds, wi
owned by T. K. Pearl of Albanj
Ore. Its skipper was Roy Philipr
The Coast Guard said the bo
had not been fishing lately.
State police and local authority
investigated the explosion, believ
to have been accidental. Only tt
wrecked hull remained. Witness
said everything above water wi
"blown sky high" in the explosia
There was no damaga ectimat
X