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r 9 C 8-Pound I Boy First on Salem Scone i . 1 : ' i " I : i . . POUNDDD 103BD TEAR 12 PAGES Th Ongoa Stcrtetmcm, Solent Orgoa, Sahirday, January 2. 1354 PRICE 5c No. 278 POWUrses Of I rp.w 1651 U v ' - ', r zt - - "i4" . , - r ? j wf; . e ; .-'v a,. I s:- . Ui v -v I i Wide eyed and open mouthed, 7 fround, 14 ounce David Cleon Crutchfield Salem't first 1954 baby is shown above getting acquainted with his mother and father New Year's Day at Salem Memorial 1 -Hospital. Little David who arrived at 6:57 a.m. Friday has a two-year-old sister, and 'is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleon Crutchfield, 3393 Brown Rd, Salem. (Statesman Photo.) SQHBQB One of the problems which :hould have -the early attention of "the Board of Control is prep aration of some policy regarding : this intermediate penal institu tion whose- construction was sty mied only by the-bpiniorl of the Attorney General - to the effect that the appropriation did not include buying a site. Certainly a paucity of authorization for the institution's operation marks leg islation on the subject. The only referenccto it in jthe law books is the inclusion ofjthis item with 1 five "others in an f appropriation j bill passed by the last legisla-j ture: for ' i . 5 - "The purpose of; planning, con structing, altering, repairing, furnishing or equipping an in-: termediate correcitional, institu-; lion within Marion County, $1,- 250,000." ! ' ' ' : j Nothing is said as to its gov ernment or operation, or who will be committed; to it The pre sumption is that! settling such questions was lefj, to the next legislature. Very iweli, planning such legislation now becomes ur gent As has previously been re marked in The Statesman, this Interval of enforced idleness on construction may! be used very profitably for study of the prob lem and preparation of legisla tion making effective the pro gram which may be! developed. ; . An architect has been appoint ed who has made some studies rdm his standpoint. So far as I know nothing is being done by (Continued on fcaiionai rage Studenti Seeks Financing By Extortion LONG BEACH.! Calif. - Po lice Chief Williani H. Dovey said Friday a Pomona College student has admitted tryijig to extort $40, 000 from four wealthy families, under, threats of! death, in an ef fort to finance his education. The chief said! Robert Wallace Moen, 23, has signed a statement acknowledging he wrote the let ters demanding $10,000 from each family.! ; i . .. Chief Dovey said Mcfen impli cated James Chambers, 23, of Long Beach, and that Chambers was booked on suspicion of extortion. The chief said he will be ques tioned! as a possible accomplice. Intended victims of the plot, de tectives said, were James W. Wood nrf Lester ' Callahan, millionaire oil men: Elmer Decker, owner of an oilfield equipment firm, and Ed Frank, wealthy furniture deal erand, their families. j :. Animal Crackori Bv WARREN ICOOORICH Tv tho 2 to 4 AM. : ' . $hifr I to ana i t - i . J I t'-c-1 -'V- bfJ? r. V First baby born in 1954 at Salem 1954 child in Salem, 9 lb., IOVj ounce JSuzanne Kita Kiley is shown above with her mother. Mrs. Earl T. Riley, 5015 Windsor Island Rd., Salem. Suzanne arrived at brothers and two sisters. (Statesman photo.) (Story on page 2.) Little New Year Gets , Damp, Blustery Start Little 1954 got off to a damp, day, but otherwise the new year by serious mishaps. . Police reported traffic ifiormal dent listed in Salem. Restaurants noted a heavy flow of holiday diners and theaters counted more- than-average patronage. Many residents took advantage of the day to rest up from accum ulated i holiday activities and to watch or hear the annual football bowl classics on television and radio. Skiing enthusiasts migrat ed to favorite snow areas at ML Hood and Hoodoo BowL Most business will beopen to day but some announced closures to give harried employees anoth er day of rest before diving into inventories and January sales. City workers wrill get an extra holiday again with offices closed today.; The weatherman declined to take any holiday however, 1 prom ising high winds with gusts to 50 miles an hour early today. Con siderable rain is expected; to ac company the storm, tapering off to showers this afternoon, j One Oregon Death On Holiday's List -By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The first fatality of the long New Year's holiday was reported Friday. : . !'' ';, Dead is Mrs. J. A. Livingston, 43, of Glide, Ore. She was killed when a car driven by her mother, Mrs. Susan Tillotson, plunged off a narrow road east of Roseburg at about 3 a.m. Friday TROUPE RETURNS NEW YORK m Arthur God frey anoTnis troupe returned Fri day after giving a New Year's eve entertainment for American officers and men at Thule Air Force 'Base in Greenland, the "loneliest Air Force base in the I world.". General Hospital and the second 9:29 a.m. Friday,! and -has two blustery start in mid-valley Fri found things very quiet, unmarred and careful with only one acci Holiday Toll Remains Low By THE ASSOCIATED jpRESS Traffic accidents had taken the lives of 132 persons in ,the first 30 hours of the nation's- four-day new year's holiday weekend. The violent death toll ; was 175, twenty-four persons perished in fires and 19 others were killed in accidents of miscellaneous types, Motor mishaps were in 33 states with New York ; reporting the most, 13. However, Illinois, Cali fornia and Michigan each report ed 12. i A week ago, after approximately the same number: of hours in the Christmas holiday period, the total fatalities had reached 249, of which 211 resulted from I traffic, 22 from fires and 16 from miscellaneous causes. 1 Woman Held For Murder PORTLAND m ' Police booked Elcie Carroll Young on a murder charge here Friday after her hus band s bullet punctured body was found in ar hotel room. - - The 'man, Norwood Carl Young, 54, had been shot three times in the back, groin and leg. . Patrolman Lee Stockdale said the woman admitted the shooting, He quoted her -as saying, "I got tired of him batting me around." Toe shooting climaxed an argu ment which bad been underway for several days'.' Stockdale said. ; The Youngs are Negroes. Claims He Led Group Travel Study Offered by Reds, Says Batchelor SEOUL cnClaude J. Batchelor whc asked repatriation from a Red compound Friday told a news con ference Saturday he was the leader of the 22 Americans held in Indian custody. j He recommended that the Neu tral Nations Repatriation Commis sion flush out: the compound in a raid for secret weapons and to in vestigate conditions in the com pound. Batchelor whose decision to re turn to the American side was in fluenced by pleading letters from his Japanese wife, was handed over to the U.N. command Friday. The 22 year old corporal is from Kermit, Tex. ; Other Leaders Later, under questioning, Batche lor said there were other leaders in the camp , indicating there were factions. In the Communist prison camps' in the North. Batchelor said, he i was known as "a progressive that i didn t squeal." By this he meant he had a rep- utation for believing Communist isiaoc knf fnr nnt 4t11inT am hie I buddies. He. said he was guilty of no wrongdoing against his fellows dur ing his more than three years as captive. He was a member of the First Cavalry Division and was captured Nov. 5, 1950. Just Wanted Peace Batchelor said he told Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimafya, Indian chairman of .'the NNRC, that he had been 'No. 1 man among the 22 Amer icans who declined repatriation. Batchelor said the Chinese Com munists had offered him, to de cline repatriation: ! "Travel and practically anything wanted. They said I could go to Europe to , help in the peace movement. They said I could go to South America and Asia. They said I could have any kind of edu cation I wanted, anywhere I want ed it." i He added; I didn't want to be a Commu nist. I just wanted to be a peace fighter. I just wanted to help the Communists , advance some of their ideas such as that America was an aggressive nation and the Soviet Union was peaceful. At the time, I believed those things. Some of the things they told me I didn't believe." Decision Slow His decision to return, Batchelor said, was "a slow and growing thing." He told newsmen he made up his mind to return between Dec. 14 and 16 and the letters from his wife "had a lot to do with it." Asked why he had written his wife that he agreed with Commu nist views, the repatriate replied: "The letter had to be read by everyone there in the compound before it went out, so I just threw in the stuff about Communism to make it look right. In my letter, though, I kept trying to impress my wife that I would be back. Why did the letter have to be read by the others? "I can't tell you about that," he said, "but that's the way it was." Batchelor said the letter written by Pfc. Richard Tenneson, in which he told his mother he would not returni to the American side. was read aloud in the compound before being sent out. Sang Internationale Tenneson s mother. Mrs. Portia Howe of Alden, Minn., received the letter after making a dramatic trans-Pacific flight in an effort to persuade her son to come home. A reporter asked Batchelor, on the last day of the explanations, Dec. 23, when the Americans made a loudspeaker broadcast to your compound,; were you among the Americans who sang the Commu nist Internationale? Batchelor smiled and said he was, but he refused to say why. At one point Batchelor spoke of the "Chinese" sending infor mation Into the camp some thing the ! Indian Command has sturdily denied. When pressed, for details, lie again declined to an swer, i Refuses Comment He also; refused firmly, but po litelyto give any details of his leaving the pro-Red compound ear ly in the : morning. Batchelor said the Chinese told the prisoners that CpL Edward S. Dickenson of Big Stone Gap, Va., who left the North Camp Oct 22, had been "persecuted" by the Americans. He said be did not know that Dickenson had returned home and married, although the Indian com mand has said that several com pound leaders had been told. BLAZE UNDER CONTROL LOS ANGELES, U A forest fire that menaced Mt. Wilson's observatory and television trans mitters appeared : virtually con trolled Firday. Beavers9 Favor Returned; Water Hauled for Bam PRINCEtON, Mo. un TJie Les lie Austins are paying back their beavers. They are! pumping water from a well into 10-gallon can and pour ing it into'! a creek bed j behind the beavers' dam, a quarter mile away. I Whyr j Because the beavers Used a smart trick' last summer to bring water down the dry creek bed dur ing a drouth. When the creek went dry, the beavers dug a trench sev eral hundred yards up the creek to a lower water level and divert ed it to their dam and the Aus tin's 40 head of thirsty livestock. Finally even that supply was ex hausted, jj'" j Now it's time to repay the beav ers and Mr. and Mrs. Austin aren't shirking. j Hot Session Seen for New '54 ss WASHINGTON W Congress will reconvene Wednesday for what promises to be one of the hottest sessions in many a yeari With control of both chambers as well as administration prestige at stake in this November's elec tions, some Democrats were .re turning to Washington in j a mood that could only be described as boiling mad. j They are aroused by Atty.-Gen. Brownell'S: handling of the Harry Dexter White Communist spy case, the abortive move tb subpoena for me President Truman,! and by New York Gov. Thomas.,' E. Dew ey's linking of Democrats with "diplomatic failure, military fail ure, death and tragedy.'f They are embittered oo by what they call! a failure of the Eisen hower administration to consult with their leaders on vital foreign policy issues. j President Eisenhower -has invit ed the Democratic leaders to the wnite House Tuesday for a pre view of the foreign policy-defense sections of his State of the Union message,? which be. will read-to Congress I on Thursday, i but Sen Sparkman (D-Ala.) declared there is "no prior consultation on for eign policy I Trio Survives i Night on n i reaK PORTLAND UPi Three climb ers marooned Thursday night atop 11 Ml Hnnri Hnrintr vin. lent storm made their way backfl to Timberline Lodge at; the 6,000 foot level Friday afternoon. They apparently suffered no ill effects. Forest Ranger Jim Ralph said. The three, experienced moun taineers! had plenty of equipment and food and little fear was felt for their safety at any time. Fred Hart. Corvallis, ' Art MafcX Ridgefiejd, Wash., and Layden Walsh, Olympia, left the lodge Thursday morning, wanting to be the first: on the peak New Year s Day. They expected to; reach the top by nightfall and stay over night, f j But a violent storm i hit Thurs day night, bringing heavy snow and gale force winds.! Tempera tures were 15 to 20 degrees below freezing. Congre Onetime Pal of Dillinger, W rites Autobiography From Prison Cell fey ?HIL SLOCUM j Staff Writer, The Statesman i Bank robber, war hero, pal of John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd, cellmate of Al Capone and one of the last survivors of the gangster era ofj merican history. This'! it the story of James H. Audett Blackie Audett to the underworld now a I convict for the ' second time in his life at Oregon State Penitentiary. This is the story that Audett has put into words. It is his auto biography, but it is also the story of an infamous era in American crime and ; of the un derworld figures who strutted on that stage . between the two World. Wars. j .The! book, titleless! now, is to be published this summer by William Sloane and. Associates of New York. Those who have read the man uscript call it a "whale of a story, and one that covers a part of Americana never f touched on before, : ,j -. ? . Idea for the book was born two and a half years ago. It grew out of a client-lawyer relation- z snips iSDg if HOD, s) cam in Pacific Collision Rips Gapingj Hole in Bay-Bound Craft SAN FRANCISCO UP) The freighters Permanente Silverbow and Colorado collided Friday night off the northern California coast,' ripping a gaping hole in the Sil verbow' s No. 14 hold and flooding the forepeak of the Colorado, l But the Silverbow which had the most damage radioed she was proceeding toward San Fran cisco in calm weather, escorted by the other vessel and the pass ing Standard Oil Co. tanker J. H. MacGaregill. I The Coast Guard estimated there were 45-50 men aboard each of the ships involved" in the collision 11 miles off Ft. Bragg, Calif., 145 airline miles northwest of San Francisco. A Coast Guard patrol boat left Ft. Bragg td join the escort and the cutter Escanaba was ordered out of San Francisco Bay to give any assistance needed. The Silverbow, 7,629-ton bulk ore carrier owned by the Kaiser Com panies. Inc.! and registered 1 out of Oakland, Calif., was eh route from Portland, Ore., to San Fran cisco. The Colorado, a Victory-class freighter owned by the States Steamship Co. of New York ana registered out of Vancouver, Wash, left San Francisco at noon Friday for Manila. '; William Alien; NW Cannery Leader Dies William G. Allen, Ttnown as the dean of Northwest canners: and the oldest canner and packer in the region, died early Friday night in a Salem hospital at the age of 77 J : Allen, resident of Salem since 1911, had been a pioneer of the food canning industry of Marion County and the Northwest since 1893 and contributed greatly in making Marion County one of the leading food processing areas in the nation) He was respnsible for develop ing several new methods of food processing.; - He operated the Allen Fruit Co. in Salem until 1952 when Allen's business interests were centered at Newberg, site of his cherry processing plant. Born in Kansas City, Kan., July 31, 1876, Allen came to Oregon in 1892. He and his fa ther, W. K. Allen, started the Allen Evaporating Co. there the following year. Father and son built more than 100 prune dryers in the Northwest! before the turn of the century. His father developed the tunnel system of drying prunes. (Additional details on page 2) Today's Statesman General News 2,4,5,6,12 Society-IWomens News . 3 Editorials, Features . 4 Comics! 6 Church,' Valley News ..4... 7 Sports News, Features U 8,9 Radio-TV i 4 10 Classifieds 10,11 ship between Audett and Mer' lin Estep, Salem attorney.1 . Said Estep: "It took me more than six? months to convince Audett to write the story of his life." l . 1 "He told me: 'I've -lived a life of hell. If the story of my life was written so that it glorified crime, and children and young people followed in my footsteps . . . . no crime I've, ever commit ted would compare with that crime.";' j "' But Estep said the book serves an important sociological pur pose and "will help to get at the roots of crime prevention. Once convinced of this him self, Audett unfolded the "fan tastic" story of bis Hf e most of it dictated on a wire recorder. The book starts with bis child hood. And there were some trag ic years! there. Audett also tells of his "first mistake." ' It reveala much of the lives of leading j underworld characters. But it chiefly focuses on that vio lent and bullet-splattered gang ster era between the first and second World Wars. ! ! (Additional details on age 12) To Stiart Jami. 25 By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (JPh-The Western powers Friday accepted Rus sia's date of Jan. 25 for opening the Big Four foreign ministers conference at Berlin and at the same time sought to avert any new delay which might arise from argument over an agenda. Similar notes were delivered by; Ambassador Charles E.4 Bohlen and British and; French envoys to the Soviet Foreign Office, j The American note expressed re gret that the Soviet government had not accepted the opening date of Jan. 4 which the United States, Britain and France had proposed But it went on to say that , the U.S. agrees to the date of Janj. 25 suggested in the Russian note of Dec. 26. The United States also made two ! oiner principal points in ine mes sage to Moscow as did the Brit ish and French governments in their notes: 1. It was agreed as suggested by Russia that the site of the Berlin ments should be discussed by rep resentatives of ; the high commis sioners of the; four governments in Germany. But the United States reiterated its stand that; the building for merly used by the Allied Control Authority (previously suggested for this conference by the Western powers) is a suitable one for the parley. I 2. The United States has already stated what questions should be considered at the Big Four ses sions and does hot believe this Question of an asenda should be further discussed -now since the foreign ministers will soon take it up -at their conference. - The Western powers have in fact asserted that the business of the meeting will be to negotiate on the unification of Germany and to complete an Austrian peace treaty. Russia has served notice that Foreign Minister Molotov will talk about world tensions generally, in cluding the German problem, and will insist upon an early Big Five meeting, including Red China. The Soviets have i repeatedly objected to talking about Austria at the Berlin conference. Crack Train Derailed by Rockies Slide SPOKANE, i Wash. Ufi The Northern Pacific's crack westbound passenger train the Mainstreeter hit a slide between Noxon and He ron. Mont.. Friday night, throw ing the engine and six baggage cars off the track. The egine crew was reported! "shaken up," but no passengers were injured. Northern Pacific's Spokane dis patcher said none of the sleeping or coach cars in the 17-car tram were damaged in the derailment at 6:45 p.m.; Thf-portion of the train which remained on -the track was returned to St. Regis, Mont., to be rerouted to Spokane' A wrecking crew was sent out Friday night Max. Min. Precip. Salem . i 35 .17 . Portland i 49 38 .14 San Francisco 37 43 Trace Chicago .'4 43 33 .00 - New York i .4S 24 .00 Willamette River 3.S feet. forecast (from U. S. weather bu reau, McNary field, Salem): Cloudy with rain and gusty wind this morn in, becoming showery this afternoon and tonight. High today near 45: low tonight near 34. Temperature at 12:01 a. m., 4S. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since start of Weather Tear Sept. 1. This Year Last Year Normal 1S.S1 11. SJ 1.4 'BLACKIE AUDETT yff, - r At V ' " . .... a 1 "U x essootm j Rose j Bowl . Mich. St. 28, UCLA 20 Orange Bowl Okla. 7, Maryland O I Sugar Bowl Ga. Tech 42, W. Va. 19 Cotton Bowl Rice 28, Alabama 6 I Gator Bowl Tex. T.35J Auburn 13 Sun Bowl Tex. W. 37, Miss. S. 14 Tangerine Bowl Ark. t. 7, E. Tex. St. 7 l Salad Bowl Ft. Ord 67, Gt. Lks. 12 (details on sport pages 8, 9.) Prison Guard Raise Plan Draws Veto State Board of Control mem bers announced Friday they have decided against asking for emer gency funds to raise the pay of State Prison guards. The announcement was mad in; a prepared statement which said the decision was agreed upon by-all three members Gov. Paul Patterson, Secretary of State Earl T.JNewbry and :Treasurer Sig Uriander. ' ! Specifically, the control board said : it would not apply to the State Emergency Board for funds to: make possible an increase in guards' starting salary, as urged recently by the Oregon Public Employes Council, an AF of L union. i Claims Advantage Leo Butts, Portland agent for the union, recommended a boost of from $250 to $300 for guards' starting pay, followed by auto matic increases. Butts contended such an in crease would reduce the turnover in prison operating personnel and attract a higher type of guards. Prison Warden Clarence Glad den also has recommended higher pay. ; , Board of Control members said that while. there was some merit in the proposal for increased sal aries for guards this issue was be fore the 1953; Legislature and the ways and means committee did not grant the request Statement Issued Instead, a sub-group of the ways and means committee . re questedthe board of. control to conduct a study of the . v schedule for guards at the Oregon Prison, along with salaries paiu 10 similar employes in penitentiaries of other states and file recom mendations with the 1955 Legis lature. fin a statement issued by Board of Control members it was stad thai "Because of this request the board feels that no circumstance has arisen in the intervening peri od since adjournment of jthe 1953 Legislature to justify board mem bers recommending an increase in the salary shcedule for guards to the emergency board." Work oh Holiday Costly to Farmer OWENSBORO. Ky. on - Swain Miles didn't take a holiday Friday and it wound up costing him $400. The Daviess County farmer worked all day plowing a field, then discovered that he had plowed under his billfold. It contained bis driver's license, social security card, papers-and $400 in cash. r KPTV Wins Okeh For Tall Antenna I PORTLAND (fl Station KPTV received permission Thursday from the City Council to replace its 1 210-foot antenna with a 500 foot one on Council Crest in Port land's West hills. . I Station officials said the new . tower, to be shipped soon from i Cleveland, "would improve recep itioa in fringe areas. . i . ., , i .. i y- 4-