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'if mundbd! 1651 tibmau I03RD YEAR 2 SECTIONS 18 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, January 14, 1954 PRICE 5c No. 290: Car Topsy Turvy After Wreck, Driver Urjhurt NaVV DllC To --rA-tsbj few Jit-1 f.k-'-"WA - ..... . "a I .v --fc - f Dock i 150 Ships One car, shown above, landed on its top and a second received major front end damage resulting from ' a collision Wednesday afternoon at N. jCottage and E Streets. Driver of the overturned vehicle, lisle F. Dempewolf. 1840 N. 23rd St- who was going south on Cottage Street, told police he rolled over in the seat just before the collision and escaped injury. Car in the foreground was operated by Max V. Medford, 1010 N. Church St, who was headed west on E Street City Patrolman Leonard E. Skinner (inset) inspects the license plate of the Medford vehicle which was imbedded in the left door of Dempefolf s car. (Statesman photo.) ; j 633ZDQB mum Pen Guard's Trail ; j ocated in Dllinois By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON Iff) - The Navy, fitting its fleet to the military new look and to economy, said Wednes day it will pull 50 fighting ships out of service in the next 18 months, I The announcement, even before the scheduled submission1 of the new defense budget to Congress Jan. 21, caught many Congress members by surprise, but; two Up members of the House Armed Ser vices Committee said the plan would not impair national securi ty. I Chairman Short (R-Mo) said "it won't take away any of our major striking power," and Rep. Vinson (D-Ga, ranking Democratic mem ber, agreed. There has been no hint of the size of the Navy's proposed new budget, but it is known (that the Navy has been called on to take a sizeable part of proposed reduc tions in military spending. First to go into ; mothballs will be the heavy cruiser Quincy, "the least modern of the Nave's active cruisers, the Navy said. That 13,600-ton ship, built m 1943 and now at the Long Beach, Calif., Navy Yard, "will be inactivated at an early date." The Navy did not say What oth er ships would be laid Up. There has been speculation they would include most or all of ) the four huge 45,000-ton battleships, the Missouri, Iowa, New Jersey, and Wisconsin Oregon L iquor Board Chairman Plans to Resign PORTLAND l William A. Spangler, Klamath Falls, will re sign as chairman of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission as soon as a successor is appointed, Port land newspapers reported Wednes day. , , .j Gov. Paul L. Patterson, attending a meeting in Boise, confirmed the report in a statement tost reporter, He said he is not yet ready to make an appointment At Klamath Falls Spangler refused to comment A second column on the Lewis and Clark Journals: In the Sunday column 1 re ferred to the penetration of trade among the Indian tribes across the northern part of what is now the United States, as disclosedvn the Journals. Manufactured arti cles, metal wares, beads, cloth . were traded by the whites to the Indians for: beaver and otter skins. The two principal sources of wares at the time Lewis and Clark made their journey, 18054, were the British trading posts on Lake Winnipeg and on the Cana dian rivers: and British and American ships calling at points on the Northwest coast and trad ing with Indians there. Some penetration also occurred from the Spanish settlements far to the South. Commerce among the Indian tribes became a matter of import ance; and the tribes themselves fought to control it For this In dians in the gorge of the Colum bia occupied a very strategic spot Capt Clark gives this de scription of one of the Indian villages located-there: . "This is the great mart of all the country, ten different tribes visit those people foe the pur " pose of purchaseing their fish, and the Indians on the Columbia and Lewis's river the Snake) quite to the Chopunnish Nation (Nez Percesl visit them for the pur pose of trading horses, buffalow j robes for beeds, and such articles as they have not The Skillutes (the local Indians) precure the most of their cloth knives axes and beeds from the Indians (Continued on editorial page, 4) McKav Bureau May Take Over Yamhill Locks SUtesmam Newt Service DAYTON Yamhill locks and dam at Lafayette may be taken over by the Department of Inter ior according to a report recced Wednesday from Secretary of In terior Douglas McKay. Notice of this was given to State Representative Carl Francis by Brig. Gen. E. C. Itschner, Army Corps of Engineers. According to the general, the engineers plan to abandon the in stallation Feb. 4 as an economy ruovei Aroused farmers who irri gate 1,800 acres from the dam pool appealed to McKay to intervene .after navigation interests failed to convince engineers that the con tinued operation was necessary. Job-Providing Projects Asked By Governor Gov. Paul L. Patterson asked the (Oregon Development Commis sion i Wednesday to help plan for providing of temporary jobs for the Unemployed. The governor asked the five-man commission to meet with him soon. He suggested it name a subcom mittee to survey unemployment and to make the plans. About 12 per cent of the workers insured by the unemployment com mission were out of jobs on Jan. 1, with half a dozen cities reporting unemployment of more than 22 per cent Seasonal Decline The decline in the lumber and other seasonal industries is blamed for the big jobless list. Gov. Patterson said he is ask ing the highway commission to see if any projects could be started immediately to provide new jobs. Hie also is requesting the State Forest Products Laboratory to make a study to see if it can start any job-providing projects. "Utilize Every Agency" "1 propose to utilize every agency in the state that can aid in j providing temporary employ ment that will carry the unem ployed over until logging and other industry resumes in the spring. 'Through concerted effort on the pah of representatives of state agencies, together with industry in the state. I feel certain that some relief can be given to people who find themselves out of emplbyment at .this time, through no fault of their own." Gov. Patterson wrote in; a prepared statement. Planners Seek to lASdd Btealm, r Atom- to Atela's Hydroelectric Power i i i it Stack Rises at TB Hospital By PHIL SLOCUM : Staff Writer, The Statesman Search for State Prison guard Victor Harry Williams, 40, who mysteriously' disappeared last April 3, was reopened Wednesday night! when state police learned he may have worked at an Aurora, I1L, sanitarium recently. (Picture on page 2, sec. 1.) j State Police Captain Ray Howard said William's father, who lives in Turner, received his son's withholding tax statement Wed nesday from Mercyville Sanitari um, a Catholic institution in Au rora, 111. j The statement-i-for 1953 was addressed to Williams in care of his father. i The Associated Press in Chica go reached the sanitarium's man ager at his home! in Aurora late last night but he i was unable to remember if Williams had work ed at the institution. The manager said he would check his records today. Capt Howard said prison rec ords indicated Williams had pot left the penitentiary tor any length of time between his em ployment in July, 1952 and his disappearance last April. This led police; to believe Wil liams may have worked in Aurora after he dropped out of sight for unknown reasons. Williams, whose wife and chil dren live at Salem Route 4, Box 192, vanished the night of April 3 after he left his home, presum ably to go to wflrk at the prison. Gothing Found The next morning his guard coat, hat. tie and wallet were found on Highway 99W three miles north of Rickreall. The following day his abandoned car was found in Port land, j Police then checked a tip that a man fitting William's descrip tion had bought a bus ticket in Portland April 4 for Ft. Smith, Ark. Nothing turned up and family and friends have not; heard from him since. Tuesday, state; police and Port land police investigated a tip from a Portland woman that Williams' body was in a well on her former farm five miles porth of Rickreall. Covered 10 year Capt Howard said the well had been covered fori 10 years and that a check of several other wells in the area .yielded nothing. I He said the tip was "completely unfounded" and was probably "dreamed up" bv the woman who had read newspaper accounts of Williams disappearance. Demos Ask Governor Call Extra Session Animal Crackort v WARREN GOOOftlCH RED TRAINS ADDED TOKYO Vh Peiping "radio said Thursday through passenger and freight trains would begin running this month from China to Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other Iron -Curtain countries. PORTLAND UH Gov. Paul L. Patterson was urged Wednesday by Oregon Democratic Party offi cials to call a special session of the Legislature to meet ''the deep ening economic crisis. In a letter to the governor, they called Oregon's unemployment "the most critical of all 48 states." They said a special session could do these things: 1. Authorize emergency works projects to be ready! for "the depths of unemployment predicted for March and April." 2. Appropriate funds to aid county welfare work. V 3. Protest to Congress and to Interior Secretary McKay against threatened increases in the basic wholesale power rates for Colum bia River Power." 4. Instruct the Board of Control to intervene against f the Idaho ower Company's petition for per mission to build low dams at Hells Canyon on the Snake River. The letter was signed by Monroe Sweetland, Democratic national committeeman; Lilian Burton, na tional committeewoman; Howard Morgan, state chairman, and Gladys Last, state vice chairman. Morse Fails to i Get on Major Committees WASHINGTON LB The Sen ate Wednesday turned down, 59-26, a third effort to put ) Sent Morse (Ind-Ore) on the two major com mittees from which he was bumped last yearf j Morse told the Senate before the vote that he was the; victim of a "political horsewhipping" last ses sion because he opposed the pres idential candidacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. j Morse supported Democrat Ad lai Stevenson against Eisenhower and quit the Republican Party. Sen. Anderson (D-NM) and 12 other senators sponsored an amendment to the Senate rules to restore Morse to the Armed Ser vices and Labor Committees. Anderson told the Seriate it was only "common justice" to put the Oregon senator back on the two committees on which he served for several years prior to Janu ary last year. i But Sen. Knowland of Califor nia, the Republican: leader, and j Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the Democratic leader, both fought : the Anderson amendment. Knowland said the Senate would be "playing with fire" if it decid ed to vote on the floor to assign individual senators to committees instead of letting them be named by party caucuses as is the pres ent system. ! The Republican conference of all senators Tuesday approved com mittee assignments which left Morse on the two lowly commit tees, Public Works and District of Columbia, to which he was rele gated last year. - ; On the showdown vote, three Republican senators, Langer and Young of North Dakota and Case of South Dakota. oted with 22 Democrats and Morse -to give him back his former committee seats. Opposing were 36 Republicans and 23 Democrats, j Sen. Cordon (R-Ore.) opposed placing Morse on the major committees. if HSU 4 r I Governors, Basiii Group Plan Studies A 72-foot steel smoke stack, shown above, was lifted into place Wed ' nesday over the central heating plant at the Oregon State Tuber f culosis HospitaL Weighing 7 tons and 42 inches in diameter, the I stack will take care of a 250 horsepower boiler expected to go in ' to operation about Feb. 1. The new boiler will provide heat for a new dormitory and the two new floors of the hospital unit, David T. McKeown, business manager, said. (Statesman photo.) KNOWS BITTER TRUTH NEWARK. NUI. (if) A thief knew the bitter! truth Wednesday. That case he stole from a parked truck at the Great Atlantic k Pa cific Tea Co. warehouse Tuesday contained 24 bottles of bitters. Attempt to Pick) Big 4 Parley Site 'Collapses fWhoi o day for picnfcP BERLIN tfi Russian and West- em officials broke up in disagree ment Thursday after trying unsuc cessfully for a week to agree on preliminary details for the Jan. 25 Big Four foreign ministers conference. i They could not even agree on Which Berlin buildings West and East should house the ses sions., v. I The 'matter now has been re ferred back to the governments of the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union. i Observers said inability to pick a site might delay the conference on the future of Germany and Austria. i The West asked that the Big Four talks be held in the Allied Control Authority Building, a pre sumably neutral island in the U.S. sector of West! Berlin. An American! spokesman report ed Soviet delegate Sergei Deng in said the Allied Control Authority Building had no four-power char acter since 1948, and insisted that the talks be established on a basis of one for one one meeting in the East, sector for every one in the West The .American - informant said that, because of this Russian in sistence on 50-50 treatment we pointed . out that this was not conference of only two powers but it made no difference. (In Washington, : immediate re action made clear that the United States will continue to try to reach satisfactory solution on the prob lem of where in Berlin to bold the conference Man Shoots Judge to ! Death in Courtroom WARREN, Pa. (yP) A 26-year-old construction worker cited for non-support payments to ms wue snot to aeain sine presiaeni juage of Warren County Wednesday before the horrified eyes of six court room witnesses 51 State police chased Norman Moon of Connellsville, Pa., for six miles before a j hail of bullets brought Moon's ear to a halt west of Warren. 'Space Helmet? Flies Children To Anesthesia WASHINGTON UP 4 Navy doc tors have perfected a "space hel met" for children to wear on flights into anesthesia! i The helmet has been developed at the Bethesda, Md.. Naval Medi cal Center to take the fear out of being put to sleep on an operat ing table. It was named:! after its popular counterparts in comic strips and television programs. The helmet, which has a built In tube for administering anesthetics,' was first tested on 4-year-old Jimmy Bowden, son of a chief hos- pitalman at the Bethesda Medi cal School t i Young Jimmy had steadfastly refused to submit to an operation on his tonsils until told that he was going to make a space trip and that the helmet would prepare him for a "blast-off" from earth. Up on coming out of the anesthetic. minus his tonsils, Jimmy com mented: "Pretty sharp trick. Vote Tabulates School Choice Of SHS Seniors Only 61 of next year's high school seniors living in the South Salem High district, out of a pro posed class of about 300, elected this week to continue their studies at the north school. . Seniors were given this choice so that they might not-break up planned studies when Salem be comes a two high school city next fall. Latest figures of the present enrollment for the new high school were given as 348 sopho mores: 309 juniors and 254 sen iors, a total oi vii. 2upt. ot Schools Walter E. Snyder said that the present enrollment at the north school' is "just under 2,000" and when, the new school opens it will leSve about 1,100 north. if- Daily Speller Following are 2t words from a list of 1000 which wffl form the basis for semi-final and final oral competition in The Statesman KSLM Mid-Valley Spelling Cm- test for 1954, In which S3 schools are participating, j . f j --'ft . ! ' interior: miscellaneous studious proclamation conclusion , retirement whisper ' proportion scurrilous ' liberal compliment affectionate. senator . scissors -liquid i convention preerence weapon respectfully attegianct Today's Statesman ! SECTION 1 Editorials, features Society, women's SECTION X Sports j.-.'.-.J Farm and Valley news .. Radio, TV ... Comics l .............. ....4 ...6 -1. 2 ....3 ...4 4 Classified ads L 6, n Girl Winner of First School Spelling Title McKEE Donna Leder, 12- year-old 7th -! grade student at McKee School ;m Nortnern Mar ion County, is the first school spelling champ ion to be cert ified i n the 1954 States man - KSLM Mid - Valley Contest. j Donna, whose hobby is col lecting dolls, isrA:SWv4 the daughter of Donna Leder Mr. and Mrs.! Carl B. Leder, Route 2, Box 277, Woodburn. Her teacher and principal is Mrs. Emma M. Bisanz, who says she and her pupils enjoyed the op tional written test instituted this vear- ' ' i . Second place m spelling at McKee was won by Joann Wein acht, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Weinacht, and third place by Madonna Edgell, also 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Edgell,: both of Route 2, Woodburn. Joann and Modanno are in the 8th grade. All three winners will receive special certificates of merit from the sponsors an Donna will represent her school in a semi finals contest in March. Moon shot himself in the throat as officers approached him with drawn guns. He was m senous condition. Z Bullets Strike Judge Killed was 51 year old Judge Allison D. Wade. Two of the five bullets Moonjifired struck Judge Wade in the chest He staggered from the bench towards his cham bers, holding his chest and moan ing: i! " He shot Hie, he shot me." Moon had been hailed into court for failing to; pay $30 a week sup port to his Wife as ordered by j Judge Wadei ; The shooting oc curred just as Judge Wade called : Moon to the bench to explain why ;Moon wasnjfjnaking payments. Dist Atty JMyer Kornreich, one of the six witnesses, said he saw Moon open his coat and whip out a .45 caliber revolver. Kept Going if "I started i to run out of the courtroom to call the police and jMoon fired at me. I kept going. As I was going down the steps to the first floor, I heard four or five more shots." One of the bullets fired by Moon narrowly missed Mrs. Bernice Seavy, a court reporter. She faint ed and had to be treated for shock. Kornreich; said Moon fled the courtroom, leaped in his car and drove away!; State police immedi ately picked tip his trail after get ting the call from the district at torney, fi After Judge Wade in 1952 ord ered Moons to make $30 a week support payments to his wife, Janet, Moon- appealed to the state superior court which affirmed the order last December. Mrs. Moon left her husband after filing an assault and battery charge against him. H BOISE, Idaho tft The first step was taken Wednesday toward long-range planning for integration of steam and possible atomic power plants with; hydroelectric generation in the Columbia Basin. ltcame at the Columbia Basin Inter-Agency? Committee meeting after a rslated group the Pacif ic Northwest Governors Power Policy Committee set up an engineering committee to work on the shorter-range goal of which dams should be built, where and by whom, j The inter-agency? committee au thorized appointment of a task force to make the long-range pow er study at the suggestion of Chair man Lesher Wing, San Francisco, regional engineer of the Federal Power Commission. Wing said that ; to date basin planning had centered on genera tion of power from dams, and studies should bej started on the long-term effects of bringing oth er types of generation into the system, j Atomic Power fi Answering a question by Gov. Paul Patterson of Oregon, Wing said he meant atomic as well as steam plants, he, noted that the task force probably would require a year for its study on the out look for the next 150 years or so. Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Wash ington called it I "an excellent idea," and Gov.fLen Jordan of Idaho said he hoped it would not interfere ivith the current FPC studies into headwater storage. Wing said it would not duplicate the work of the governors' power policy committee. The power committee, at a morning Session i which preceded the inter-agency! meeting, voted unanimously to have each of its members name a representative to an engineering committee. The engineers win name a paid, full time engineer to coordinate its work. I I To Study .Data I Concerned primarily with pow er needs j for the next five to 10 years, the engineers will study all available i data and report to the power committee which will rec ommend IthetprftHity for dams. Each member of the policy com mittee will name an engineer. On the committee are each of the 10 utilities in the Northwest Power Pool, Montana. Washington, Ore gon, Idaho, British Columbia, Fed eral Power Commission, Army En gineers, Interior Department, In terstate Compact Commission, and Public Power Assn. The Consolidated Smelting and Mining Corp. was admitted as a member i since it owns the West Kootenay Powenand light Co. in British Columbia. One-Way Grid Ballot Passes 2,000 Mark "With 2,178 votes tallied. The Statesman's poll on Salem's one way grid system Wednesday night i snowed 933 in xavor of retaining it and 1243 for tossing it over board. 1 , - I Opponents of the grid had 57.2 per cent of votes cast, a slight drop from their; previous margin of 57.6 per cenf. . Of the 1243 totes against the grid, 244 were (from persons re siding 'more than 5 miles from downtown Salem. Of the 933 votes in favor of the grid, 105 were from persons residing more than 5 miles from downtown Salem. - There were 1 371 new ballots counted: Wednesday 169 for the grid, 202 against it They includ ed ballots from Jefferson, Hill City, Sihrerton,; Independence and Dallas in favor of the grid; bal lots from Silverton, Turner, Stay ton, Dallas,! Sublimity, Idanha, Brooks, Monmouth and Aumsville against it ; There was' increasing evidence of "stacldngt the vote by multiple balloting on both sides. Many were thrown out for that reason. Several lengthy comments ac companied the ballots. The com ments, withi names deleted, were forwarded to the Salem city halL The ballot (today's is on page S. section 1) will appear in The Statesman for the last time Fri day morning and the deadline for voting is at midnight Friday night None postmarked after that date will be counted. Final results will be made known in Sunday's Statesman. .- (Additional details page 3, sec tion 1). i. 3Srr-? jU-"."-.- : 70-Foof (Fall From Cliff Fatal to Logger TIMBER, i Ore. IB A logger carrying his saw through the woods supped on She edge of a nigh bluff and fell 70 feet to his death 30 miles weft of Forest Grove Wednesday;! He was Marvin Frickey, S3, of Timber, a former resident of Molalla. Exp Industrial osiiion Plan Offered Tentative plans for an Industrial Exposition in Salem were ad vanced from the proposed spring to probably early fall during the regular breakfast meeting of Sa- lem's Industrial Development Council Wednesday in the Marion Hotel j J Special guest of the Council was J. T. Andersonj coordinator of in ventions,, Portland. Committee reports were heard from Edwin Schreder (finance), Clair Brown (realtors and survey) and E.j Burr Miller (public rela tions), i Schreder explained that there was still $45,000 to be gained by the council for their five-year budget ; progant totalling $150,000. Announcement was made that Ivan Bloch, industrial consultant from Portland, is to fce guest speaker at the Chamber of Commerce during the Jan. 25 'luncheon meeting. Bloch's presence is sponsored by the council. I talea LU Portland . ; i . San francttco Chicago U Max. -44 - as--': Min. Precip. n trace 30 M 39 .00 03 trac IS M New York Li 11 Willamette River SJ feet. -FORECAST (from V. S. Weather Bureau. McNary Field. Salem 1: Cloudy with gusty winds, rain to say. tonight. High today near 4S. Low near; 7. Temperature at 121 ur. today; wa 45. SALtM PKKCIFTIATIOK Sine Start mt Weatker Tear Seat 1 This Year I i Last Year Normal Possible' InMd-Valley f f i PORTLAND to Snow is pos sible in theg Willamette Valley Thursday. r Weather observers said tempera hires are expected to fall as winds decrease. Southerly winds moved in from the ocean Wednesday night, prompting forecasts of gusts up to 45 miles an hour through the Willamette Valley. The wind is expected to become westerly Thursday, decreasing in velocity and! perhaps allowing a cold front to bring in snow. . Adm. Johnson to Succeed Blandy NEjff YORK Vice Adm, Felix! L. Johnson, retired Navy veteran of both world wars, Wednesday Was named to succeed Adm.! William H. Blandy as chair man of the Naval Reserve Evalu ation' Board, i Blandy died Tuesday. i r 4.