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The firstarticle in the Novem
ber Header's Digest, by. Lester
Velie, is headed "Our Shabby
"Welcome to Foreigners." From
his account it is worse than
shabby, it's deplorable. "Incredi
ble acts of bureaucratic bungling
by our consul abroad and by
officials at our port of entry" are
giving the USA a plenty bad
name among travelers.
Much of the complaint which
Velie reports arises from treat
ment not of ' isitors to the United
States but of those touching our
soil en route by air or otherwise j
to a foreign destination. He re- j
lates how an Italian businessman ,
for lack of a transit' visa when:
he stopped at LaGuardia Field j
en route from Portugal to Mexico j
was held overnight under guard j
and then shipped back to Portu- j
gal. - Two days later he returned j
with his proper visa; but the im-'
migration officials demanded a
surety bond to. guarantee his de-!
parture on schedule. It wouldn't
take currency, insisting on a sure-'
ty bond or U.S. treasury bond i
which he could not furnish on j
short notice. So he was locked up j
at Ellis Island over night Other
instances of very callous treat-!
ment are cited.
Part of the trouble may be at- ;
tributed to plain stupidity on the
part of officials, part to the j
stringent text of the laws, and j
part to the spasms of fear which ,
have enveloped all officialdom in j
the present climate of fear. ;
Whether the McCarran act is di-
rectly responsible or not I do i
not knowr but it certainly .
(Continued on Editorial pagej 4.) '
Gales Slow
Arctic Search
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (ft Icy
"gales swept mile-high Myrdalsjo
kull Glacier Saturday night, hand
icapping efforts to rescue three"e
ported survivors of the crash of a
U.S. Navy Neptune bomber on its
snowy wastes.
A U.S. patrol plane striving to
pinpoint the wreckage, first spot
ted Friday afternoon, was obliged
to turn back at 4 p. m. because
of the wind. -
The dangerous weather hint
ing of - another blizzard, like that
in which the twin-engine Lockheed
bomber cracked up with its crew
of nine on a patrol flight Thurs
day immobilized at least one of
the three Icelandic parties as
signed to the ground search. -
Boehnke Seeks . '.
GOP Chairmanship
PORTLAND VFi Ed Boehnke,
Eugene, said Saturday be will be
a candidate to succeed Robert A.
Elliott, Medford, as state Repub
lican chairman.
Elliott has announced he will
resign Jan. 16. Elliott : defeated
Boehnke for the position In voting
of the party's state . central com
mittee in 1932, 33-27.
103RD YEAR
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Young Life Group Brings Spirit of Christmas
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Members of Salem's Young Life
sweep and his 11 children as a Christmas goodwill project. Cleaning ceilings at the Carnett mime
(upper left) prior to applying a coat of paint are Ruth Nalley, 795 N. Winter St., with broom and
Joan Maguren, 525 Locust St. Sharon Beard, 79 S. Liberty St., Nancy Willard, 481 Cascade Dr..
and Diane Ferguson. 1145 Columbia SL (upper center, left to right) thread a spring on new kitchen
curtains. At upper right (left to right) Larry Newson, 1153 Narcissus St., Neal Scheidel, 1035 Fair
view Ave., and Ken Rawlings, 810 Ratcliff Dr., find that brooms fit their hands as well as foot
balls and basketballs. Tommy Carnett, nearly 3. (below) admires his "new" suit in his bedroom,
newly painted and carpeted by Young Life members. Two sisters, Betty, and Lule, 5, look on.
(Statesman Photos.)
i UllULJ III M.HVULOVU it JUCWOO X UlilllJ UJ j
1 3 With Newly Redecorated House
By TOOMAS G. WRIGHT JR.
Staff Writer, The Statesman
Young Life put some new life
into an old house Saturday and
gave a family of 13H a promise
of a merrier, brighter Christmas.
Rare Snowfall
Blankets City
Of Jerusalem
JERUSALEM. Israel Sector ;
A rare December snow blanketed
the Holj City Saturday night.
After a day-long snowfall cov
ered the city's seven hills and new
and old buildings,. a bright full
moon broke through the clouds to
reveal the white-mantled scene oft
en pictured on Christmas cards
but seldom seen in fact.
Snow is unusual in Palestine and
very rare in December. It is ex
pected to melt away by Sunday
and a white Christmas in the Holy
Land was considered highly im
probable. City Mail Delivery
Scheduled Today
Salem postmen will make regu
lar deliveries of incoming mail
today, according to Postmaster
Albert C. Gragg, but no delivery
will be made on rural routes.
The main post office general
delivery window will also be open
from 3 to 5 p. m., he said, so
packages can be claimed by per
sons who were not at home when
carriers calle'd.
SPRINGFIELD MAN DROWNS
COOS BAY UT) Asbury Warren
Hull. 37, Springfield, Ore., drowned
in Coos Bay Friday night after
falling from the dredge Olympia.
Fellow workmen said they heard
him shout for help, but were un
able to reach him in time to save
him.
SECTIONS 36 PAGES Th
Club turn out in force to redecorate
Scores of Salem High School
' students, members of the Young
1 Life Club of Salem, swarmed over
j the old house at 1211 S. Liberty
j St., now the home of the C. W.
I Carnetts, with brooms and paint
ibrushes and when they were
through little Mrs. Carnett had a
completely redecorated house.
And besides that several of the
11 youngsters, ranging in ages
from 14 months to 17 years, had
new clothes, a toy or two, and
new beds and mattresses. The
twelfth is expected early in 1954.
Oreration Redecorate beean
witn brooms, putty,' plaster and
paint remover about 8:30 a.m.
Saturday. By mid-afternoon
brushes started spreading paint
contributed by several Salem
firm. At intervals during' the
day mattresses, . clothing and
more helpers arrived. By night-,
fall paint had been applied to
most of the house, new linoleum
was going down on part of the
kitchen fldor and counters, and
curtains were going up at the
windows. Somewhere in between,
overflow help had found time to
patch the roof, take the hazard
out of a heater stovepipe and
clean up the yard. ,
- Carnett, operator of a chimney
sweep business which . has . been
"going very slow", voiced his re
peated thanks for the contributed
today's Statesman
Section 1 . V
General news .2, 5, 8, 12
Editorials, features ",'.4
Sports ..10, 11
Section 2 . . ' t ,
Society, women's .1-8
.Garden, home.., 9
Valley" news J...i.-10
Toymaker Yule Story 10
TV, radio.. 11
Crossword puzzle.... -11
..Classified ads 11-13
Section S '
Full-color comics
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POUNDED
Orocjon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, December 20,
the home of a workless chimney
ey.-vw
rm . . . , .
efforts of everyone m the proj-
ecL On relief, the family had ;
slenderhopes for a happy Christ
mas until the club took over.
(Additional details on page 6,
sec. 1.)
French Recess
From Balloting
For President
- VERSAILLES, France W) The
unprecedented deadlock in the
French Parliament over election
of a new president of the republic
held through the sixth ballot Sat
urday night. The weary parlia
mentarians then put off the next
rollcall until Sunday.
Splitting as before along right,
left and center lines, the deputies
and senators sitting in old Ver
sailles Palace left France's busi
nessman Premier, Joseph Laniel.
56 votes shy 'of the majority of
votes cast on the sixth ballot.
The rightist" politician received
397 votes, 23 more than he got on
the fifth tally.
Marcel-Edmond Naegelen, the
Socialist who is supported by Com
munist votes because he is opposed
to the European army plan, polled
306, a drep of six, and the third
candidate, Jean Medecin, radical
socialist (moderate) mayor of
Nice, gathered 171, a decline of
36.
Bars Asked to Close
On Christmas Eve'
PORTLAND UH Taverns and
cocktail lounges Saturday were
asked by the executive board of
the Oregon Licensed Beverage As
sociation to close Christmas eve
at 7 p.m. j
The association represent more
than 800 holders f liquor and
- beer licenses.
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McCarthS'!
i
Confers
With Ike
WASIJJ'S.'GTON The flam-
ing issue of subversives in govern-
ment and elsewhere was focal
point of attention Saturday on the
final dav of President Eisenhow-
er"s three-day whirl of conferences
with Republican legislative lead- he added.
ers. Lishts Blown Down
The last day of unprecedented a tree blew over and blocked
talks on the 1954 legislative slate the street in the 2200 block of
brought the President and Sen. Liberty street, city police re
McCarthy R-Wis together, along ported. A crew from the citv en
with Rep. Velde (R 111 . top GOP gineer s office remov-d the "tree,
leaders in Congress and Atty. Hjgn xvind bjew down a string
Gen. Brownell. 0f Christmas lights which were
Eisenhower said they concen- hanging across Commercial street
trated on several proposals for at Court street, police -reported,
"more effective investigation and The storm also caused an esti
prosecution" of subversive ele- mated $400 worth of damage to
ments in American society as well a new warehouse under construe
as criminals who take advantage tion at 1115 N. Commercial St.
ff Ipoal lfWinhnlfS. Voith R TarL-cnn rnntraMnr
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McCarthy is chairman of the
Senate permanent investigations j
subcommittee, Velde of the House 1
Un-American Activities Commit-
tee.
The Wisconsin senator left the
White House saving "he wasn't
I displeased at anything he heard.
He wouldn't say whether he had
i talked alone with Eisenhower or
had made any suggestions of his
own on legislation relating to sub-
versies.
Dictates Statement
Later on, he telephoned the
j White House press room and die-
tated this statement:
"This is the first time that 1
nave nao an opportunity to watcn ;
the President in action over a per- j
iod of time. I was tremendously 1
' imDressed hv his handlin? of the
edge of every subject or piece of
proposed leg.slation that was dis-
cussed"
V U93CU.
Brownell Proposals
On the list of talking points Sat-
urday were proposals Brownell
made last month to:
Legalize use in federal courts
of evidence obtained by wire tap
ping in espionage cases.
Deprive witnesses in special
cases of the right to refuse to an
swer questions on grounds of pos-
sible self-incrimination. This would ;
be done by granting them immu
ity from prosecution arising from
anything they might tell congres
sion investigators.
'Story on Eisenhower legislative
program on page 2, sec. 1.)
Two Floors
Ready in New
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Two floors of the 42-bed. three-!
story addition at Salem Memorial
j Hospital were finished Saturday
after nine months of work and
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The third floor js slated tQ bfi
fi:.hpH in ,hn,. thrpA wppk
A day-long job Saturday of un-
packing, moving and assembling
36 beds and hospital equipment
was assumed by 13 i members of
Salem's Knights of Columbus
Council 1748. The equipment was
stnrrt in rratps in th( hnsnital's I
boiler house and the volunteer
help made the new rooms and
wards ready for occupancy.
Cost of the new wing at the
hospital is $350,000. Top floor of
the wing will be used as a mater
nity section. The lower two floors
will be for medical-surgical use.
The basement will hold a dining
room, nurses lounge and storage
and other rooms.
On hand all day Saturday to
make the new rooms ready for
patients Monday were Carl Jung
blut, Walter Heine, "Roy Green,
A. . L. Elvin, Ed Tobin, Lisle
Dempewolf, Roy Marker, Jerome
Eppinf, Henry Kropp, Adam
Lefor, John Nathman, Joseph
Mozena and Richard Lefor.
Elizabeth Sits Cross-Legged
Eating Pig With Tonga Queen
MUKUALOFA, Tonga Islands W
Britain's Queen Elizabeth -
sat cross-legged Saturday in' the
palace of her friend. Queen Salote
on Tonga, and ate roast-suckling
pig with her fingers.
Elizabeth and her husband, the
Duke of Edinburgh en route to
New Zealand on their world tour
stopped over at this British pro
tectorate in the South Pacific to
visit 6-foot-3- Salote, the only other
woman ruler in the British com
monwealth. High spot of the day was ' the
luncheon feast at Salote' s palace.
In accordance with the traditions
of Tonga, known as the 'Friendly
Islands, the royal guests sat cross
legged on cushions before long ta
bles and partook with their fingers
1953
PRICE 10c
m.p.h. Gale Brings
Heavy rain and high winds hit Western Oregon Saturday and ing up. Five were caught within
caused some cases of power failure in the Salem area. Gusts up to"; three hours as State Police
fiO miles an hour were recorded at McNary Field shortly before ' pumped bullets into their careen
6 P m- ing stofen car and it went into
The storm claimed one life in Oregon when a tree was blown ditch,
across a car near Glenwood west of Portland killing William B. ; A sixth was found in the wreck
21, of Glenwood,
Several power poles were
blown over at Spong's Landing
northwest of Keizer, L. M. Flagg,
line superintendent of Portland
General Electric, said. Service
was restored late Saturday night,
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the wind snapped two braces and I
permitted a section of wall form- J
ing to crash down. The Lester j
DeLapp Trucking Company owns
the warehouse.
Power Failures
a few cases of power failure
werti reported south of Salem 4
and in the Silverton Hills, but
service was restored a short
while later, Flagg said'.
T) - , . ' .
Power failures and overturned
trees were reported in several
parts 0 the state as the storm
swept in from the coast,
A total of 1.88 inches of rain
fell in Salem Saturday and high :
rainfall was reported elsewhere
e iinuicne
River is expected to crest at Sa-;
ln early Tuesday morning
at
18.5 feet, weathermen said. The '
crest at 19 feet
at 7 o'clock this
morning, six feet above flood
stage.
W eathermen predict continued
toda-v nd Monday in the
S1 arca-
Egyptians Find
Step Pyramid
Near Another
CAIRO. Egypt to - A medium-
sized step pyramid has been dis -
covered in the sands of Sakkara
only about 170 yards from the
great pyramid of Pharaoh Zoser.
long one of ancient Egypt's most
famous monuments.
The Egyptian Antiquities De-
partment announced the find Sat-
urday. The long job of digging it
out is still to be done.
Mohamed Zakv Ghoneim and
j French archeologist P. Lauer said
i their workers uncovered a wall
of the buried structure during a
search around the wall of the
j Zoser monument at the village of
! Sakkara, 15 miles south of Cairo,
! AH of Egypt's great pyramids
; arc sten nvramiris that is the
r i- - -
, huge stone blocks that form the
; outer sides are fitted in the forms
of steps. They were built as the
tombs of kings.
Lauer said the base of the new
find is calculated to cover about
13,000 square yards. Though that
is the equivalent of a city block,
several of Egypt's pyramids are
larEer
;
Sen. Ellis Sells
Portion of Ranch
PENDLETON (J) - State Sen.
Rex Ellis, Pendleton, has sold part
of his large ranch near Board
man. Mr. and Mrs. E. . McCor-
mack, Hillsboro. bought 1,500 acres
for an undisclosed price. They are j ers were being invited.
stocking it with high-price Here- i McKay will arrive in Oregon
lords. Sunday to spend Christmas here.
Ellis said his remaining range,
land may be irrigated for asparagus-growing
He said he had been , Gordon Dean Weds
conferring with Stockton, Calif.,
men about it. ; POTOMAC, Md. i Gordon
of Toast pig, lobster, duck, chicken
and an assortment of native fruit.
As the feast proceeded, Tongan
girls brought around gourd finger
bowls. Natives fanned the guests
to ward off the tropical beat.
Afterward, hundreds of . spear
wielding warriors and graceful
young girls staged a dance in Eli
zabeth's honor.
There was an embarrassing mo
ment this evening when the elec
tric lights failed while Elizabeth
and her husband were dining at
the British residency. Kerosene
lamps were hurriedly substituted.
Saturday night the 'royal pair
slept at Salote's palace while 400
Tongans with flaming coconut fi
bre torches stood guard.
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Career Ends
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A. Millikan, dean of American
imijsh.si, aDU iuiaoruy on
cosmic rays, died Saturday at
a rest home. He w:
tas 85. (APi
Photo.)
Dr. Millikan.
Nobel Winner.
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Tn'e worid ren0wned scientist!
who for years was head of the
California Institute of Technology. I
succumbed after a long illness at
bis residence in neighboring San
Marino. He was 8.5.
The dean of American physicists.
I an authnritv n rnmir rav
was once described as the "billion- j seven,f?t ,ouJ ,n Jckn. It waj
volt sparkplug" of the California ! flYef the latter group that abductt
Institute of Technology here. As 1 edwt.V, women
chairman of the Executive Coun-' . M,.""na.n ,car was jumped bj
cil. he was Caltech's chief admini-; sheriff s deputes on MaO near Na
strative officer for 24 years. Pleon- 12 m'le,s southeast of Jack
u v, iqoi vki r;, ; son. Two state troopers to th
physics for his isolation and meas -
urement of the electron and for his
1 photo-electric researches.
; Work on Electron
, His Nobel Prize-winning work on
' the electron enabled scientists ac-
tually to count the number of mole-
; cules in any given weight of any
i simple substance with great cer-
tainty and accuracy.
j He held 25 honorary degrees
from various universities, seven of
1 th m fnrpi an
) Many Books. Papers
Millions of hieh school and col -
j lege students have studied his text
books. He authored 18 books and
hundreds of papers.
From 1920 to 1940 he probably
knew as much as any living scien
tist about cosmic rays, electrical
ly charged particles of great ener
gy that originate outside the
! earth s atmosphere and continual-
; iv bombard the earth from all di-
; rections. Their origin is unknown,
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lalk witn lucivav
PORTLAND () Oregon Repub
lican Party workers will meet
I with Secretary of Interior McKay
! here Wednesday.
! Philip Englehart, Multnomah
County Republican chairman, an
nounced the meeting, and said all
county chairmen, state legislators.
members of the Republican finance
I committee and other party work
Dean, former chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission, and
Mary Benton Gore were married
Saturday at the 40-room home of
the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
H. Grady Gore.
This was Mrs. Dean's first mar
riage. Dean was divorced from his
first wife.
Max. Min. Preclp.
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. 99 45 1.13
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Saleaa
Portland
San Francisco .
Chicago ,
New York
WillamerU River S.7 feet
FORECAST (from V. S. Weather
Bureau. McNary Field. Salem):
Partly cloudy today with scattered
howers. Colder with a high near 48
and a low tonight near 38. Cloudy
with rain Monday.' Temperature at
12.D1 a. m. 48. -
. " ' .. i - '
SALEM PRECEPITATIOX ,
ftlitre Start f Weather Year Sept. 1
This Year - " Last Year Normal
18.21 - 8.S1 15.49
6 of 13
Escapees
At Large
JACKSON. Mich. Five des.
perate convicts grabbed a 23-yearw
old housewife and a 31-year-old
l nurse as hostages Saturday night
! ia a wild flight following their e
' cape from gigantic Southern Mich
igan Prison. .
Thirteen escaped and all terror
i ized one household, stealing a gua
: and an automobile, before break
age vicinity an hour afterward,
and sliil later a seventh was pieke
up in downtown Jackson. The sixth
still missing was believed holed
up here.
Escape as through a prison
sewer in which the band of con
cicted murders, robbers, burglars
and kidnapers used a makeshift
acetylene torch to cut barred steel
gratings.
Other Uprisings
They left from the same yarJ
i thai was the scene of two blooey
and costly convict uprisings it
1952 at Southern Michigan, tha
I world's largest walled penitentia.
ry. It has a population of approxj
mately 5.000.
I Mrs. Mary Lou Watts and Mis
1 Helen Gilbert were grabbed as hos
tages by the five who invaded th
! Watts' Jackson home. They had a
gun taken from the home invaded
by all 13 a mile from the prison.
i Joe Wattsv the hostage's hus
! band and a Jackson service station
; owner, was at home, but power
Ipse tn intprvpnp arrainct th five
and their gun. The home was ran,
acj;ed for civilian clothing an4
valuables before the desperadoes
ned in Watts- 1952 befee-colorpJ
rariiiiar
Cadillac.
Phone Call Awaited
Ominously as they left the con.
victs told Watts the women woulj
be released unharmed "if nothing
happens to us." The women prom
ised to telephone the minute ot
I their release, but two hours aftei
they had been snatched Watts
; telephone still was silent.
The felons first fell upon thj
home of Glenn Milliman, a 28-yeai
! old automobile salesman and
one-time guard at ine prisoa
Brandishing crude, prison - madi
; Knives i tney lorced their way il
1 terrorizing Milliman ana his wifl
. . 1
and rans acin the house.
T wGu";"lhe' ...
hey found a .32 calibre pistd)
and at least lour outfitted Uwmi
SC1V" .up .""
mans and aU 13 drmn2 ln
automobile.
1 maing 13 too many for one can
; west l"ickl-v ,urne. the'r '
' a.cro;ss . the road- us,n ,l as
blockade,
! Ignored Signals
! The careening car of convicti
refused to heed light signals t
stoP and tne troopers started fin
ing- The car swerved into a ditc
in an attempt to avoid that of thj
: troopers. Two bullets had piercc
i ts windows, but none was in
I jured.
i Four were seized immediately
scrambling out of the wreckage tj
' Milliman's car. A fifth was caugli
in: a chase. These five insists
they were alone, but a sixth wa
picked up within an hour in thf
same vicinity.
It was more than an hour aftei
the shot-punctuated capture tha)
Watts' frantic alarm was sounded
The hunt for tfie women anl
their captors quickly turned tot
ward Indiana. The Cadillac wat
seen heading out on M60. Indianj
and Ohio police were alerted.
52 Police Car '
Michigan state troopers fronj
six of the lower Peninsula's sevei
districts were 'sent speeding toi
ward the scene in 52 siren
screaming cars and at least 6
local law enforcement officer!
were enlisted in a widespread
blockade. Others cruised highwayi
and byways.
A deputy sheriff at Moscow(
Mich., 20 miles southwest of Jack
son. reported" he spotted a beig(
Cadillac with five men and twj
women headed west on M112. a
Detroit-Chicago trunkline, but hal
been unable, to overtake it.
Prison authorities were makini
a routine' check for 10 men the)
; couldn't account for after a 6:2
p. m. check-up. when State Pouci
advised them of Milliman's terror
izing report.
An armed guard quickly wat
thrown up outside the walls, thf
check of the cavernous cell blocks
speeded. Quickly an outside guar
spotted the sewer opening ajaf
outside the walls.
Reds to Resume
Talks With PWs
PANMUNJ0M m The Indiai
Command Sunday announced that
the long-stalled Communist ezpla
nations to Korean War prisoners
would resume Monday. But Allied
efforts to make "come home"
talks to 22 Americans, 1 Britoa
and 77 South Koreans still wen
stalled.
- Apparently the Indian Command
had talked the prisoners into ac
cepting explanations to half the it.
mates wt a cuuipvuuu m a smgiaj
day. '
a a v I ivudlj Ml- t ft m V4 St
fused to permit part of a corn,
pound to go out for interviews. '