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- - - - - . - i J .. . i . !;;-' i I I- ' ' .! ': -''1..' ; i NjVi ' I-' ;' J . . M j -j j j .' -' . : - - . I ' 1 : - .i ) ' ' ! i . j i . --. I--.- - r 1 founphd 1651 I j 1 j 1 I -" '': I 24 y oSo , SDnips if : ' . i - 1 By JIM INCHON, Korea (ff) A prisoners of war bound for Formosa'Tammed into a small land ing craft Thursday and jpilled 24 American Marine guards to icy death in Inchon's outer harbor. j It was one of the greatest naval disasters of the Korean War period, surpassed orily by a turret explosion in the cruis- 0IEEDDB India turned 21,809 prisoners of war who refused repatriation to Red China and North : Korea ' over to the U. N. command on January 20th and nothing hap pened. Nothing, that is, from the Communist side. The jubilant POWr streamed from their xamps to the U. N. side and were wel comed in camps set up tor them. They are to be turned loose on Jan. 23rd in compliance with the terms of the armistice. The Chi nese will be ferried to Formosa; the Koreans will be absorbed in South Korea. j The emphasis should be on the point that "nothing happened." The Reds had protested the Indian proposal to turn the prisoners back. They claimed it was a vio lation of the terms of the armi stice, and that any unilateral ac tion with regard to the prisoners of war was "absolutely impermis sible. But when the Indian guards opened the gates and the POWs evacuated the camps where they had been for over three months the Reds did nothing. I The fact that nothing happened Is quite revealing. It certainly shows that the Reds were bluffing when they denounced the Indian action, although in the opinion of U. N. officials the turn-back of prisoners was premature, the ter minal date for detention being Jan. 22nd. Had the Reds wanted to renew hostilities they could have made this an excuse and launched an attack. But they didn't In other words thenar for them is over, too. I j In prospect is continued stale mate. Maybe the conference at Tanmunjom to plan a conference wyi get back on the track. jMaybe It. will not. If the peace confer ence is convened there seems no (Continued on editorial page, 4.) CAA Grounds Pilot Godfrey NEW YORK un - The Civil Aeronautics Administration Wednesday .grounded Arthur God frey for lack of a medical clear ance to fly. It also asked that he be kept on the ground for- a while as reckless flier. i The Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington was asked 'to sus pend Godfrey's pilot's license fori as long as necessary, in Jpunish- ment tor a wua Jan. v mice on j i rom Teterboro, N.J., airport. . Godfrey blamed a crosswind for his nearmiss of the Teterboro con trol tower in his private DC-3 air plane. He said he did not deliber ately buzz the tower, although he was displeased with his j takeoff instructions. His plane sent tower personnel ducking for covey. The maximum penalty fer reck less flying is revocation of a pilot's license or a $100 fine. The CAA, however, recommended only a sus pension for Godfrey a temporary grounding. Godfrey is entitled to a hearing before the CAB if he requests it. The CAB sets aviation policy; the CAA enforces it. j 21 DIE IS TRAIN WRECK ISTANBUL; Turkey (. 4 Twenty-one persons were killed and four were injured Wednesday ihen a passenger" train collided .with .a freight train near Adanai South Turkey,' according to press reports reaching here Wednesday night. Today's Statesman SECTION 1 Mrs. Lord's speech 1. 2 Editorials, features 4-- 4 Comes the Dawn I. 4 i Society, women's j 6-8 SECTION 2 ( Sports I. 1, 2 f Farm news L 4 Valley news 5 Our Valley ... j. 5 Radio, TV I 6 Comics i 6 Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH : "Wait a minu, I think I've got BECKER troopship loaded with Chinese er St Paul and the mine-blasting of, a minesweeper. " The Navy! said 18 men were fished from i the icy, choppy wa ters. They included 14 Marines, 2 American soldiers and 2 Koreans who were manning the landing craft j . The Navy isaid the blunt, tower ing bow of the troopship crashed into the side of the smaller vessel and rolled it over on its side. The Marines, carrying heavy combat gear( pitched into the chill waters. Their craft sank almost immediately.; The rescued men were rushed aboard the hospital ship Consola tion. They jwere suffering from shock and exposure. Daring Loading The tragedy struck during load ing of Chinese prisoners of war aboard huge; LSTSf (landing ship, tanks) for transport to National ist Formosa! The POWs were re turned Wednesday, from India's neutral custody. The Navy jsaid the Marines had been ordered to guard the POWs during the Formosa trip. The Marines, bound for outward service, were fully armed and equipped, carrying heavy rifles and wearing heavy servicg boots. Navy and Marine officers feared the heavy j weight may have dragged many to their deaths when they were pitched into the harbor. j Little Ilope j The Navy; said it had little hope for the missing men. Nineteen of the survivors were taken aboard the hospital ship Consolation and five others were carried aboard the transport Gen. John Pope, i Three bodies had been recovered by 3 p. m. Marine officers said a fourth man was known dead. The bodies were taken aboard the Brit ish freighter Newcastle. The Navy1 said it believed the smaller craft had cut across the course of the big LST and was struck amidships by the LST's blunt, towering bow. The scene was about IVi miles from the Inchon docks where the 14,000 Chinese had been loading for their four-day Formosa voyage. Tipped on Its Side Witnesses said there was a rend ing crash, and the LCM was tipped up on its side, hurling the Marines into the water. The fate of the crew was not known immediately. The LCM 'then sank stern first until about two thirds of it was under water. A radio message from the Gen. Pope said boats were lowered im mediately for rescue. Within 10 minutes, the area was "covered with boats." Apparently the heavily loaded Marines sank quickly. Three of the rescued still were unconscious at 1 p. m. Store Employe Raises Hands Try w lOllCS LiClllCCi A telephone tip that Orcutt's Market, 4200 N. River Rd., in Keizer District, was being held up Wednesday night sent city, county and state police cars roar ing to the scene. Police quickly discovered that the well-intentioned caller had apparently seen an employe with his hands in the air directing a truck that ) was backing up to the store, i Eugene Vetoes Purchase of Parking Lots EUGENE 1 11 A proposal that the city of j Eugene acquire and operate off-street parking lots was overwhelmingly defeated in a special election Tuesday. The vote fas 4,479 to 707 in the biggest turnout for a special elec tion in history here. Twenty-five per cent of those eligible cast ballots. The vote! was on whether the city should j buy -and operate the lots to relieve downtown parking congestion and on a $750,000 bond issue to finance the start. Opponents contended that pri vate operators were well able to provide and handle any off-street parking faculties. PORTLAND WORKER DIES PORTLAND l Alfred T. Anderson, about 60, a workman at a wool scouring plant here, fell 12 feet from a machine at the plant Wednesday and died of a skull fracture. Do You Drive a Car or Herd It? Question; Does the car to the right always have the right-of-way?. Answer: No. , The law says that's the way right-of-way is decided when two cars approach a point inan intersection simul taneously. But traffic experts agree this doesnt mean a driv- KU Vl till VU&lft Ul UU- marked intersection completely ignoring the traffic to his left 103RD YEAR 2 SECTIONS-20 PAGES All-Day Relaxes I Salem bundled xup Wednesday against an all-day freeze and the Coldest temperature since 1952 an 18-degree reading at 7:30 a.m. But warm air moved in from the south Wednesday night to surprise even the weather fore casters with a 39-degree midnight temperature. The weather station at McNary field forecasts rain for today and jFriday, with possibly a little snow snow mixed in today, j The mercury is expected to stay above freezing most of the day, so freezing rain is not ex pected here as it is in the colder Portland area, the forecasters re ported. Starts Rising j After the temperature dropped to 18 Wednesday morning, the mercury rose 10 degrees by 1:30 p.m., stayed at 29 or 30 until 6:30 p.m., then began rising, j Over the state, weather stations consistently marked up the cold est weather of this winter, and in neighboring Idaho, where Ore gon State College's basketball team is heading, Moscow report 'ed 21 degrees below zero. 22 Degrees Below Meacham, Ore., had that beat, at 22 below, early Wednesday. All Oregon weather stations re ported at least freezing temper atures for the day's low. Pendle ton and The Dalles had 5-below readings; Redmond 1 below. It was 18 below at Senaca, south of Pendleton; 16 below at Austin west of Baker; 10 below at Brothers and Chemult in the mountains. , At Vancouver, Wash., 3,330 customers of Portland Gas. & Coke Co. were without gas much of the day, when high temperature was 25. Ice had formed in a supply line north of Portland. . ! Gas workmen from as far as Salem were called to help repair the line. Coast Guard Heliconter Si . Crash Kills 5 ! PORT ANGELES. Wash. OB A Coast Guard helicopter Wednes day tumbled into the Strait of Juan de Fuca a short distance off Shore, killing the five men aboard. r Coast Guard headquarters at Seattle said none of the bodies was recovered. A first report said four men were aboard the plane but a i-echeck established there were four enlisted men and one officer n the crew. i The 'copter was on a routine training flight from Port An geles Coast Guard station when it fell, about 3 p. m. (PST), break ing up as it hit the water less than 100 feet from shore near the station. . . I Ira Houck, a railroad worker, said he heard the craft's motor sputter and looked up. He said the helicopter was about 500 feet Up and that its rear rotor blade Stopped whirling. "Then a section of the big blade broke off and the machine tumbled end over end," he said. "There was an explosion just before it struck and it seemed to fly apart as it hit the water. There was no sign of life." Winter Arrives as Motilities Change Hats NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C-U) Arrival of winter was officially recognized here Wednesday. Scarlet-clad Mounties appearing as witnesses in county court ap peared' in fur caps instead of their customary stetsons. Freeze State Dickers for Gamp Adair For Use as Industrial Gov. Paul L. Patterson and the j Oregon Development Commission; are negotiating with the U. S. De-; fense Department for acquiring the Camp Adair site for indus trial use, the governor said Wed nesday. ':' The property, located west ot Albany, and southwest of Salem in Polk County, consists of sev eral thousand acres of land. Part of it now is used by the Oregon National Guard and the State Game Commission. !The land," the governor said, "is well situated for industrial use, inasmuch as there are a number of well constructed build ings and warehouses . available, together with a complete water system with pumping plants and filtration equipment providing four million gallons daily ca- I AUIU I parity." I Got. Patterson laid hi under- 4 'owd FsM m ilf : I V City's First frkAJf -r - V fSl Salem' Businessman Carl William lloxg was surprised and honored Wednesday night when (he was named Salem's First Citizen for 1953. He is shown above receiving the plaque from 1952's First Citizen, William L. Phillips Sr. (center), concluding ceremonies in the Marion Hotel. Gov.iPaul L. Patterson, the banquet's key speaker, is seated at left. (Statesman Photo). Carl Hogg Chosen I ; 1 : 1 Salem First Citizen By JAMES BURR MILLER i Staff Writer, The Statesman j Carl William Hogg was named amidj a tremendous standing ovation Wednesday night by over 250 Salem i citizens, concluding a two-hour, suspense-packed testimonial dinner program inthe Marion Hotel. Holding the suspense to a minimum both for the guests and himself (the winner's name was enclosed in a sealed envelope), last year's First Citizen William ; L. Phillips ! Sr., amiably com-; mended his successor after open- ing the document. ! Announcement of Salem s fourth! First ! Citizen followed an evening's banquet program which included an address by Gov. Paul L. Patterson.1 The governor, in a sterling tribute before a rapt audience, likened the selection of a r city's leading citizen for a year's period! to an annual meet ing of a small segment of this country . !. looking back over a year's civic accomplishments . . . profittihg by our mistakes" and declaring dividends to him who !has worked the hardest" Hogg stood clutching his new ly won, plaque before the assem blage and declared chokingly that, j TSalem has been good to Win: 'and me . . ." His first lady, Winifred .stood by him with a bouquet of roses presented her by Mrs. James T. Brand, wife of the supreme! court justice. Coordination of the evening's banquet was handled by William H. Hammonfi, president of the Chamber of Commerce. Gov. Pat terson jl was j introduced to the group iby Mayor Alferd Loucks. (Additional First Citizen de tails on page 2, section 1). Portland Police Raclar Proposed PORTLAND m Police Chief James Purcell proposed Wednes day to use radar in police cars to check ispeeders here. The, Traffic Safety Commission approved his! plans, after he said he was not planning arrests, but warning tickets for the drivers. He! said the radar vehicle would be marked distinctly. Its speed findings would be used in planning traffic; control, he said. The;: chief jsaid he expects the radar equipment to arrive in 10 days, ji f 1 1 Site stands that the government would deed the property to the state at no cost ! The government acquired the site for training soldiers in World War! t i The : governor said he and the development commission ' also are considering! other projects to solve i the state's unemployment problem, j L.! B. Teeole, Portland, chair man! of the development commis sion, -said several industries have shown an interest in Camp Adair. "Any new industry coming to Oregon will mean new perma nent ijobs so sorely needed to off set ! unemployment causea bj shutdown of Seasonal employ mentis Teeple isaid. ! Gov. Patterson also said he is looking into the possibility of using some of 1 the Camp Adair buildings to store surplus wheat Th't Ortqon Statesman, Salem, Ortgon, Thursday January Citizen! Receives Salem's new 1953 First Citizen Dutch Ratify Europe Army THE HAGUE, The Netherlands W) The Netherlands Parliament completed ratification of the Eu ropean Army Treaty ' Wednesday when the First Chamber (Senate) approved the pact. The treaty now goes to Queen Juliana for signature. Lower House approval was obtained July 23 last year. The treaty calls for. the estab lishment of a six-nation, one-uniform army composed of troops from West Germany, Italy, Bel : . . . it rru X 1 1 t i. g.um France. jThe Netherlands ! and Luxembourg WASHINGTON) UP) President Eisenhower Wednesday welcomed The Netherlandsl Parliament's rat ification of the- European Defense Army project as a move toward "permanent pea.ee and prosper- ity." I, : H. H. DeArmond Enters Race for State Legislature BEND W) A veteran Republican leader Wednesday entered the race for state representative from Des chutes County and two incumbent GOP house members announced they would not seek re-election.. Harvey H. DeArmond. 69, who became the county's first district attorney in 1916 and a frequent delegate to Republican national conventions, said he will run for the House. Bend Republicans Alva C. Good rich and B. A. Stover announced they are giving up the House seats they held for two terms. Goodrich, DeArmond's lat partner, repre sented Deschutes County and Sto ver a joint Deschutes-Lake County J' i i I I t - i- i i aisinci wnicn nas Deen aoousnea under legislative reapportionment Deschutes now will have only one state representative and Lake will share a seat with Grant and Harney counties. Daily Speller Following are 20 words from a list of 1000 which will form the basis for semi-final and final ora? competition in The Statesman KSLM Mid-Valley Spelling Con test for 1954, in which S3 schools are participating. moffic television debate -. mantial accident carbon barely accuse camouflage payable based ache ; cancel many accompany draft illegible hoarse . soul ,t 1 groceries Plaque Reds Claim E Truce Breach As PWs Freed PANMUNJOM CP) Thousands of prisoners of war returned to the Allies Wednesday from India's neutral custody sped on Thursday toward a future offering a chance to serve in Nationalist China's and South Korea's anti-CommUnist ar mies. I The 21,809 Chinese arid North Korean POWs who refused to re turn to their Red homelands will be freed as civilians by the U.N. Command at midnight Friday de spite Communist objections. At Seoul's port of Inchon, 10,000 Chinese POWs sailed Thursday morning for . Nationalist Formosa in a convoy of 10 U.S. Navy land ing craft guarded by warships and planes. Six more landing craft were hng about 4 200 A standing by to take on the remain j authority said they would put out to sea at 3:30 p.m., also under escort. The first two trainloads'of North Korean POWs arrived eary Thurs day at the Southeastern Korean port city of Pohang where they were greeted by cheering crowds. It is there the 7,582 Koreans will be invited to enlist in the South Korean Army after Friday. Those who do so probably will find them selves side by side again with many if not most of the 26.000 Korean POWs who were freed last June by President Syngnian Rhee while confined in Allied camps un der South Korean guard.' The Communists in a broadcast by Red China's Peiping radio charged Thursday that the return of the prisoners had 'torn to shreds" the armistice, y "The Americans by overwhelm ing pressure maneuvered, the In dian custodian force into adopt ing the illegal measure of turning back the POWs so as to achieve their purpose of retaining the POWs by force and turning them over to Syngman Rhee nd Chi ang Kai-Shek as cannon J fodder," Peiping said. IS Mahoiiey Named Judge Pro Tern Thomas R. Mahoney, Portland attorney and former stte sena tor, will serve a pro tern appoint ment as Multnomah CoUnty cir cuit judge, j assigned to I the de partment of domestic relations. He is one of three Portland attorneys appointed Wednesday on a pro tem basis by Chief Jus tice Earl C. Latourettd of the State Supreme Court Mahoney will serve 28 days, starting Feb. 28; William-J. Craw ford 28 days, starting Feb. 1; Pul R. Harris 30 days,! starting Jan. 25. Max. 34 Mini recip. It ,M 191 M 45 i J0O Salem - Portland 24 San Francisco SS hicago S3 411 Jl 35 1 44 New York 53 Willamette River 7.8 leeti FORECAST' (from U. S.j Weather Bureau. McNary Field. Salem I: Occasional rain today, tonight and Friday, except for aome r3in mixed with snow tonight. High today near 38: low tonight near 30. Temperature it U:01 ajn. today was 39! SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start f Weataer Tear Sept. 1 This Year Last Year a Normal 24.U 11M ' I 2342 21, 1954 v Attfeitotito Lights, Scale s , i ! j Of Peri ! By PHIL SLOCUM I 1 Staff Writer, The Statesman Four State Penitentiary convicts one of )them a murderer made a bid for freedom Wednesday night after dousing half the prison lights, but were caught trying to sneak I back to their cells when the escape backfired, j , Most notorious of the foursome was Allen ; Brumfield, 39-year-old convicted murderer serving life from Multnomah County, who has figured in previous escapes. Warden Clarence T. Gladden gave this account of the escape try: I The convicts managed to slip . unnoticed into cellblock B about j 7 p.m., apparently from the re- j turning 'supper line. They climbed to the top of; the cellblock, sawed off two bars cov ering a two-foot long, 16-inch wide ventilator $haft which led to the roof, if Douse Lights I . Descending to the ground via a ; ladder (used for current construc tion work) secured to the side of the cellblock, the prisoners enter ed a temporary power station in the basement of the building! and pulled all he light switches.! Gladden said the convicts ap parently thought the switches would douse all the prison lights. About half; went out Tower (and wall lights 'remained on. The four then climbed to the roof of thes so-called intermediate building just to the rear of; the administration building. Above Outside Wall This put them above the out side wall and about 15 feet away from it They then attempted to toss a 3,4-inch cable with a home made hook; on the end of it over the wall, f The warden said the convicts apparently got scared off when they failed: to snag the wall with the hook and then attempted to sneak back to their cells unob served, j I A guard; spotted them as jthey huddled behind a door leading into the central control room. Gladden said extra guards .were called on duty and an ynmejliate search started as soon as; the lights went out Other Convicts I Others Jnvolved with Brum field were Steven J. RindaU, 34, 20 years from Klamath County for burglary, forgery and larceny, received in January, 1953; Arvin G. Gilman,- 23, 10 years for forg ery, larceny and burglary from Clackamas County, received Feb ruary, 1953; and Patrick Fi La Fran, 25, five years for i two counts of larceny, received from Harney County in 1949. j Brumfield, who was sent t() the prison in ; November, 1939 j at tempted ah escape Oct. 28, 1952 with five other convicts which ended in I two convicts being wounded and capture of all of them. He made; good an escape from the penitentiary in February, 1946. Gladden ; said the four Were placed in the segregation cell block last night j Frozen Bridge Delays Train LA GRANDE W) --The Unioij Pa cific's eastbound passenger 'train No. 18 found the traveling too chilly Wednesday morning csnd got out of here- five hours late. Its big trouble ; was a frozen drawbridge ! over : the Columbia River which held it at Hinkle until a connecting train from Yakima arrived. Then it spent 40 minutes at Pendleton, trying to thaw out a Pullman heating system,) and repeated that there. The morning minimum here was 2 degrees below zero. Indian Guards Plan to Leave Rejected PWs PANMUNJOM I Indian. LL Gen K. S. iThimayya said Thurs day be win ask the Communists once more to accept 21 Americans and 328 other pro-Red captives and if the Reds refuse Indian guards will simply walk, away from the captives at midnight Fri day, j . ! Thimayya made his remarks at a news conference. "What will happen if they (the Reds) still refuse?? he was asked. "First we will have to tell the prisoners that their owners refuse to take them back," Thimayya said. j "Then we will i open the gate and we will tell our men to go back to their line.' No. 237 Wall Thwarted Convicted murderer Allen Brum field, 39, was one of four State Prison convicts involved ia an abortive escape Wednesday night Senate Passes St. Lawrence Seaway Bill WASHINGTON ( Supporters of the St. Lawrence Seaway, aft er 20 years ;of effort, Wednesday night won Senate approval of leg islation to authorize the United States to join; with Canada in build ing the controversial project. Passage ot the bill, which the pro-seaway forces had been free ly predicting; since the beginning of debate a week ago, came on a roll call vote with 51 senators voting yes and 33 no. It was a bi-partisan vote which gave; President Eisenhower vic tory in the first major item on his program to come before the Sen ate this session. Twenty-five Republicans and 25 Democrats joined with the one In dependent, Morse Ind-Ore). to pass the billj It was opposed by j 18 Democrats and 15 Republicans. ine seaway, discussed for more than 50 years, would be a 27-foot-deep ; waterway in the St. Law rence River ; from the Atlantic Ocean to the' Great Lakes jdlow ing ocean-going vessels to sail di rectly into lake ports. The outcome became apparent after ; the bill's supporters beat down an amendment by Sen. Long (D-La) that would have required the project to be financed through annual appropriations. And. when the Senate voted 51 32 against returning the bill to committee, as proposed by Sen. Flanders (R-Vt), it was all over but the shouting. Fire Truck Run Brings Collision But No Blaze South Salem fire truck collided with :a car Wednesday night on the way to a fire that wasn't a fire after all No one was injured in the acci dent which occurred- shortly be fore 11:30 p.m. at Lincoln and Commercial streets. After a few minutes delay! at the accident scene, firemen con tinued to the "fire- which was called in as a car blaze at 240 . Owens St. Firemen said the car owner, Earle Daue, 240 E. Owens St., had mistaken steam coming out from under his car for smoke.- The accident damaged the right front fender' and bumper of the fire truck and scraped the side of the car which was driven by Earl Wilton, 2735 S. Summer SL A-Bomb Storage; Bases Planned ! WASHINGTON I The na tion's "new look Air Force is . planning a worldwide chain i of ' storage bases for its special wea pons j including atomic bombs it was disclosed Wednesday. . The plan came to light after Sen. Case (R-SD). chairman of a Senate armed services subcom mittee, announced his group had approved 11 M million dollars for construction of "special weapons storage . . j PRICE 5c Douse Scheme Fails j 'v4!V-j-- j ' ill ; it -I 1 , i
