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2 (Sac 1) Statesman, Salenu Oro- TfeursU Jan. 21. 19S4 Man Caught Breaking Into Market on 99 Riissel Pratt Also Honored at First Citizen Bannuet IFive Persons 1 - U.JV; Delegate Visits f : Die jinj Wreck In California I , ' i ' ' .? L- 1 ,5 ,li ... - ' ..:- . '. i f M1 rfv.fj . - w Mrs. Oswald B. Lord (left) United Nations delegate is shown dis cussing UN work with Charles A. Sprague, publisher of The States man and former UN delegate, in Salem Wednesday night Mrs. ' Lord attended a dinner meeting at the Senator Hotel prior to her UN report talk at Waller Hall on the Willamette University cam pus. (Statesman photo.) U. S. Can Afford to Pay U. N. Peace Price, Mrs. ! ! By CONltAD PRANGE 1 1 , SUff Writer, The Statesman j The United Nations is helping to build world peace at a price America and the rest of the World 1rc rutuoM n T-nrrf cairl in ?alpm i Mr Ird. who enthusiasticallv lems of the eighth session of be UN general assembly, termed the world organization "the conscience of mankind." j . i jorettes to; Vie Friday atj Elks Contest ! I c,tm viir. Tndo. will nrowni : ltll5th annual Drum Maiorette i fetort to "Se pblte FridaJ Vt ' WiCe!Uf. aJ,t:", Pu" j anonum. I I , , . . , - Competing for prizes will be 1Q., girls from Oregon high schools, including those m Salem, Sweet ; Home, Independence, Beaverton, j Cops: Bay, .M o 1 a 1 1 a, Portland, : Kccdsport, McMinnville, Mill; City,! jetierson, rsewDcrg, orai- lisJ An ii innovation this year wilj be sCore cards available to those: at tending so they can ''make, their own! rating on performances. Among the contest judges wilj be Charles Steele. Cottage Grove, a ! former national drum major eon test winner and baton teachef" at ihe national band camp of Gun nison, Colo. j Salem High's band will provide the music for the twirlers. For the lodge Tom Hill and Vernon Wiscarson are co-chairmen for the event i ! i ! - i Xavier Cugat, Wife Rqbbed, Kidnaped j HOLLYWOOD U) - A "shabby i "ol -caucasian" kidnaped Xavler Cugat I venant theory that any v,;. .Sf a t te;H guarantee of human rights is dif- the Pan Pacific Auditorium Wed- nesday night and robbed them of jewels which the bandleader jval ued at $20,000. j Police, said Cugat and the Icur vaceous singer, still visibly shaken by their experience, gave this ac count a few minutes later: j They left the auditorium after the first show at the auto show, for which Cugat's band is playing. At the stage door, where Cugat's expensive white convertible was waiting, a man rose up inside the car i and displayed a gun. He forced them into Cugat's car and ordered them to drive away. Near Third Street and Fairfax Avenue, a few blocks ' awayj the gunman ordered the car halted in a shadowy spot. There he took Miss Lane's jewels. Cugat's wrist watch, ring and $150. j Then he left the car and dis appeared. Congress WASHINGTON Ufi The f Sen ate! voted 51-33 Wednesday jiight fori joint U.S.-Canadian construc tion of the St. Lawrence Seaway, to provide a route for ocean-going liners to Great Lakes ports, t Other congressional highlights : Air Academy The House com pleted consideration, and arranged forja final rote Thursday, oh es tablishment of a West Point of the air to train Air Force officers. Taxes The House Ways and Means Committee voted to extend tax exemption to most, sick bene fits paid directly by employers as well as those financed under in surance contracts. But it decided income tax should be collected on such municipal revenue bonds as those which some southern cities now issue to buy or build factor ies as an inducement to new in dustries. " I " ' ' Cotton House and Senati con- ferees reached agreement,! still Lord Says i can afford to pay, UN delegate WpHnPsriav nitrhL outlined the progress and prob- negaraiess oi.ine lanacies " j ing circulated in the United States ; about the ineffectiveness of the j United Nations, Mrs. Lord pegged j the UN as vitally necessary iniTI 11 T ! I safeguarding world peace. She outlined the vast scope of work done by! the UN. She ex- plained committee workings. She! told how UN organizations have helped on a global scale in the ; cause of health, economics, dis-! "se. child welfare and technical assistance, esoeciallv in food oro- duction in backward nations. j tt u.M ckAA,;ntf ijcuu iiiau uiivvuu ianv Deonle sav all the UN does is-taik" she said. It is bet. ter to talk than to shoot And UN taiking has settled manv problems I whicn otherwise might never have j been ironed out peaceablv." She explained how technical ex- j perts of some nations help out!,arcu u" with know-how and equipment other nations." The UN, she ex- plained, doef n't do all the work, but "setarlip pilot plants which; enable nations to help others by- neiping memseives Despite rumors to the contrary, Mrs. Lord assured her audience which packed Willamette Univer sity's Waller Hall, the UN re spects and guarantee the sover eignty of its member nations, is not a nest of spies, is not control led by Russia and only costs each American citizen about 62 cents a year to support. Named to U.N. Post Mrs. Lord, irj the UN since 1947, was chairman of the International Children's Emergency Fund, when she was named to the Human Rights Commission last year. "Kirs. Lord explained last night that although! the United States supported wholeheartedly the de claration on human rights, it has a 4 i il. r ! ficult to enforce. Appearing pn the West Coast by courtesy of the World Affairs Council of Ihe Foreign Policy As sociation Mrs Lord's appearance in Salem was sponsored by a group of interested citizens in Corvallis, Eugene and Salem, and a group of local service, women's and labor groups. Prior to her talk Mrs. Lord met with these who formed prelimin ary plans to organize a Willamette Valley World Affairs CounciL Af ter her speech the visitor was en tertained by a group of local and state Republican leaders. She will appear in Portland today. The use of coffee in Abyssinia j is recordea irom tne loin cen tury at which time its use was said to be very old, but coffee was not used extensively in Eu rope until the 17th Century. Highlights subject to approval in both houses, on a 1954 cotton acreage of 21, 379.000 acres. The 1954 cotton crop is the first in several years to be subject to production controls. Racket Probe The House Gov ernment Operations Committee, authorizing a probe of alleged la bor racketeering, picked Rep. Ben der (R-Ohio) instead of Chairman Hoffman (R-Mich) to direct it NLRB The Senate Labor Com mittee put off action until Friday en the nomination of Albert C. Beeson. California industrialist, to be a member of the National La bor Relations Board. Some Dem ocratic members ' called him "a company man. DAV The; Disabled American Veterans, smarting under a New York legislative committee's criti cism of its fund raising, sought and , got v a House Veterans Com mittee hearing to insist it does not operate a "chanty racket. A 32-year-old Canadian soldier who said he "just wanted to get warm" j was -' caught - red-handed breaking into Dickson's Market, 4280 S.- Pacific Highway, about 4:30 Wednesday morning. Jean Paul Beaudom, alias Jean Marie Gauthier, Regina,' Saskat chewan, was arraigned in Mar ion County District Court later yesterday on a charge of burg lary not. in a dwelling. The case was continued to Jan. 21 and he was jailed in lieu of $2,500 bail. Neale Chaney owner of the market who lives in an apart ment above the store,, said his three-year-old daughter. Colleen, was responsible for alerting the family. Colleen woke ; up and called for ! her mother. ' Just then Mrs. Chaney heard glass breaking in a door downstairs and called her husband. . "If I hadn't been so sleepy I probably wouldn't have been so brave," said Chaney, who yelled to the; intruder to come into the center! of the store where he could be seen. The! soldier obeyed, explaining he just "wanted to keep warm." Meanwhile, Mrs. Chaney called state police. Chaney said Beaudoin put up no resistance. He was arrested by state police officers Floyd Mor rill and Norman Johnson. Police said Beaudoin later ad mitted he was after cash. He told officers he hitchhiked to Salem from Los Angeles, arriving at 12th Street Junction shortly be fore the break-in at the store. Police said he admitted serv ing time at McNeil Island for il legal entry into this country and was released last May. He also told officers he again illegally entered the U. S. in December h.j ' i the western states sinc A " H 1 A i r I s n At 11 n I r nc? il.ll 11J1C1 lTlalVCo illPilV I ,.111 Mill O" i , 7 ! BUFFALO, N.Y. - m A twin- engmea American Airlines Con- made a belly landing in a field ednesday just after taking off from Buffalo Airport, and the 21 passengers and three crew menv bers walked away from the wreck, An American Airlines official - a few of the passengers were sudncu up uui nune was injureu seriously.. The ; flight captain, Charles HQ born of Buffalo, reportedly was cut by glass from the windshield. n airi'ne sa ine airline said one engine Britain Not Invited to Join A-PoolTalk LONDON Wl Britain has not been invited to join the American-Russian talks on the Eisenhow er; atomic pool plan slated to take place during the big four foreign ministers conference in Berlin, the Foreign Office said Wednesday. A spokesman said no arrange ment has been made for Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to take part in the "procedural" talks scheduled between U.S. Secretary of State Dulles and Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. These talks are aimed at set ting up full dress negotiations on President Eisenhower's proposal to organize a pool of fissionable materials for peaceful atomic pro jects.' Britain, which ranks herself with Russia and the United States as a leading atomic power, has been kept informed by the State De partment of the progress of the Washington talks, however. Portland State PORTLAND Ul - Portland State College Wednesday reported that student enrollment for the winter term was 21 per cent higher than the same term last year, The total is 1,605. of which 1,206 are men. For night classes of the extension service, 2,721 are en rolled, an increase of 100 from last year. Dancer's Husband Sues' for Divorce ILOS ANGELES in Dancer actress Leslie Caron, 20, was sued for divorce Wednesday by George A. Hormel II. 25, scion of the meat packing family. His complaint said that since their marriage in Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 23. 1951, she has treated him witn extreme cruelty and nas in dicted grievous mental suffering upon him. It gave no details. , LEON'S 2 for 1 Shoe Sale Now in Progress Bay the first pair at regu lar price get the second pair FREE! N Enrollment Up l- d-H v- --.r?' v Last year's Chamber of Commerce presented a certificate of recognition and a scrapbook of the year's! Chamber events daring the First Citizen Banquet Wednes day evening at the Marion Hotel Conclusion of; the two-hour program was announcement to the more than 250 present of the selection of Carl William Hogg as 1953's First Citizen. Shown at the head table during the presentation to Pratt by William H. Eisenhower Gets Gift on i WASHINGTON lm A beaming President Eisenhpwer got a sur prise gift from his cabinet a handsome , -crystal cup depicting highlights of his (career as he began his second 'ear in the White House Wednesday. ! The 63-year-old j chief executive described by an aide as "thriving on the 'challenge' of perhaps the toughest job in the world, received the gift while cabinet members. Republican! Party officials, lead ers of the : Citizens for Eisenhow er Coromittee and White House asistants looked ;on. Mrs. jEisenhower also was pres ent for jthei ceremony marking the first anniversary 'of her husband's inauguration. The rleguiar routine of the Presi dent's busjf day Was broken only by thatj brief ceremony and a pri vate luncheon wim a group oi oia Army, iNaiy and! Air Force bud dies at Fort McISair, overlooking the Potomac Rivier. Hirii ins i i ! 115 lo Close EUGENE W The Siuslaw Co. will close a Forest j Products" .sawmill employing 115 persons at Maplet6n.50 miles west . of here. Jan. 2$ because iof "poor market conditions?' Frank McPherson, manager, announced Wednesday. But jhef said the company will re-openj a smaller mill and some of the 115 will be employed there. The firm's plywood plant will continue operation. North America Weather Map Jll 11 FAIRBANKS, Alaska (Jl North America's weather map is strange ly upside; down. It's warmer in Alaska s arctic sector! than it is in a large part of the! northern states. It was a mild 20 above zero Wednesday morning at Point Bar row, the i tip of Alaska closest to the North Pole. It was 7 above here in Fairbanks, below the Arc tic Circle in Alaska's center. The Weather Bureau here at tributes the situation to a change in the course of frigid arctic storms, whiclj periodically sweep out, of i Siberia. Normally they pass southward over Alaska. But this time a mass of "warm" air over the tej-ritory is forcing the move ments! from behind the "icy cur tain" to : detour north of Alaska Canada. Above zero temperatures are communities that often have had readings! of 40 to 70 below zero at this thne of year. Red Spy Editor Faces Death 'I SEOUL tffl South Korean ed itor Chung Kook Gun, 38, convict ed as a Communist spy, will be executed publicly Saturday, the Defense Ministry announced Wed nesday. 5 Chung,5 former editor of the newspaper, Yun-Hap Shinmoon, was sentenced to death last month by al military court. A large crowd of Koreans, in cluding his family, is expected to see the execution by an Army ru ing squad. YOUR KODAK Camera & Equipment Headquarters Artz Photography 325 Court St. PL MTU THE PIKE Butter Caramel 1 ICE CREAM -ll 38 S. liberty Anniversary TTncirlfk Tlrvti .... ' ( - president, Rnssel IE. Pratt, was Carl Ho Service to City Related ; " j (Story also on page one) ; Obviously honored, surprised and humbled by the announce ment that he is i Salem's 1953 First Citizen, Carl IWilliam Hogg clung tightly to his newly ac quired plaque and ;thanked those present for the j privilege be stowed upon him. j Last year's "citizen," William L. Phillips Sr., preceded open ing of an envelope which dis closed who th.? 1953 selection was. by explaining some of the qualifications and j standards for this honor. Briefly, these j. qualifications are: One who is oyer 35 years of age; a Salem resident for at least the past year; one who performs volunteer and outstand ing community service; one who possesses a high degree of spirit of cooperation in community en terprises and one who is recog nizably a leader by inspiration and an example in community affairs. In a breakdown of the First Citizen's accomnlishments in the community, which were conclud ed by the announcement of who this year's selection was, a num ber of Hogj's achievements were cited. ' Among them were mem bership in the Elk's Lodge, the Izaak -Walton League, The Eagles Lodge, Veterans; of , Foreign Wars, American Legion, Salem Chamber "f Commerce, Salem Memorial Hospital Board. S-' Industrial Development Council (chairman) and ;the Lutheran Church. In State Position Hogg was noted, for his service as chairman of the Board of Gov ernors of the Associated Employ ers of Oregon for 1937-38 and for his selection by former Gov, Charles A. Sprague to serve on the State Unemployment Com pensation Council representing employers of the state in 1938 39. Hogg is a past board member and president of the Salem Re tail Trade Board and in 1942 he was elected vice-president of the Salem Chamber ! of Commerce and the following year was elected president; in which lat ter office he served for three successive years. I He has served several terms on the Salem Community Chest board of directors and in 1946 was campaign director. He was elected to the office of president of the Chest for the year 1947, In Chest Drive In 1950 he .again responded to a need and served as co-campaign chairman of; the Community Chest Daring the year 1947 he served as treasurer of the Wil lamette Valley project commit tee, president of the Salem Long- Range Planning Commission and president of the; Highway u99" association as well as first vice president of the Pacific North west Travel Association. The same year he was elected Repub lican delegate of the First Con gressional District In 1949 he was appointed by former Gov. Douglas McKay (now Secretary of the Interior) to the chairmanship of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. In 1951 he served as a delegate to the Republican National Conven tion and participated in the nom ination of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1952 he was ap pointed chairman of the Indus trial Development Council, which office he now holds. Came to Salem in 1935 A native of Oregon, raised and Old Shoes' Lo6lc I, Like New After . A' Trip to Jim's Shoe Serviee 175 N. High i Salem T - noni a-crta Robert Taylor - Ann Blyth Stewart Granger Betta St John "ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT:' I ' Short Subject "Lanrentlan Sports Holiday ' and : - . . -1 . "Winter Paradise Hammond, president of the Chamber and master, of ceremonies, are, left to right, Mrs. Pratt; William L. Phillips Sr. and Mrs. Phillips; Mrs. Paul L. Patterson and Gov. Patterson;: Pratt and Hammond (standing); Mrs. Hammond, Mrs. 'Alfred Loucks and Mayor Loucks. and Mrs. John Caudle and the Rev. Candle, pastor of St. Marks Lutheran Church. (Statesman Photo). i 1 v ! A Kiss for His First Jady ( IS - : n Salem's 1953 First Citizen Carl William Hogg, Salem businessman, had a kiss for his first lady, Winifred, Wednesday night shortly after announcement was made of his selection. Hogg became Sa lem's fourth First Citizen since the inception of the idea in 1950. (Statesman photo.) l I j schooled in Oregon City, he first came to Salem in 1935 establish ing business of Hogg Brothers Appliance and Furniture f Store. He and his brothers were- assoc iated in business since 1913. He married Sept 7, 1927, and he and his wife, Winifred, curreptly re- side at 2185 S. High St : An atmosphere of melodic calm was, achieved and intermingled with suspense during the ban quet portion of the evening Wed nesday by the Willamette Univer sity String Trio, composed of Lisbeth Shields, piano; Sally Bol linger, violin, and Margaret Hu son, cello. Melvin Geist dean of the school of music at Willam ette, sang a regularly scheduled song, "The Vagabond, dedicated to the (then unannounced) First Citizen. He substituted jas well as guest singer for his student, Clorinda Topping, who was re ported ill. Dean Geist's?; second number, "Silent Worship," was dedicated to the (then unan nounced) First Citizen's ? wife. Patterson Speech H In his address, entitled "The Light to Live By," Gov. !Paul L. Patterson commended trie first citizen award as another; means of " . . . making America and our community a better place in which to live." j; Gov. Patterson, whose speech preceded the announcement of who Salem's "First" was,; told the group that "(when he j is an nounced) ... you will juio w he has been in your midst; and by so being has made your commun ity a better place to be.'; Master of ceremonies,; William H. Hammond, president; ; of , the Chamber oi commerce, preceded introduction of Phillips (by pre senting to the assemblage three previous First Citizens.; Intro duced were Charles A. Sprague (1950, and Salem's first First Citizen); TL L. Elfstrbm, Sr. (1951), and Phillips (1952). An nouncement of the secret com mittee chosen to select 1953's First Citizen was not made. SEE THE FABULOUS PFAFF 'Sowing Machino i i it MYRONS 153 S. Liborty Ph. ji-5773 NOW SHOWING OPEN 6:45 2 TOP HITS IN COLOR! ' TAKE THE II HIGH GROUND Richard Widmark Karl Maiden j i ' Technicolor Co-Hit --A UON IS INI THE STREETS?! James Cagney, Barbara Hale if - J- '- r Daniel Ray Ruled Insane PORTLAND (A Daniel Ray, 45, 'who is accused of killing his 39-year-old brother last September, was found insane Wednesday and committed to the state hospital at Salem. I Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dobson ordered the commitment after; he received a report from three psy chiatrists. Ray had been charged with first degree murder following the shoot ing of his brother, Dr. George L. Ray; Dr. Ray's wife, Harriet,! 39, and their stepmother, Mrs. Mattie L. Ray, 65. George Ray was killed: the women recovered. ' Judge Dobson said Daniel Ray would be brought back to face trial if the state hospital superintendent ever decides he has regained sanity. ' ? Java Volcano Still Rumbliii JAKARTA, Indonesia Ml Cen tral Java's Merapi Volcano con tinued to rumble ominously and to throw out hot ash clouds Wednes day, i I Dr. De Neve Vollcanologic Ser vice chief, reported this after an on-the-spot I investigation ' of the mountain's! activities following Monday's eruption which took a toll of 37 dead and 79 injured. ( IEARN TO DANCE All typos of dancing taught 80c Z, Studio Opon 10 A.M. to 10 P.M. i . Jon -Mar Dance Studios 474 Ferry Street Phone 44942 ALLTKZ SPLENDOIU.THZ IXDIO; Calif. W Five persons i were killed and a 4 months old girl was critically injured : Wednesday in a two-car headon collision 46 miles east of here on Highways 60-70. i Killed iin the accident, the sec ond on .this highway in less than three months that has claimed! five lives, were; - : Norton R. Baldwin. 32, and hisi wife, Mildred Gray Morrell Bald win, 32. .'and her two sons. Norman Randolph Morrell; 14, and Alonzo P. MorTell, 5, all of Abilene, Tex. Doctors! at Coachella Valley Hos pital said the couple's baby girt, Mary Ellen Baldwin, suffered in ternal injuries.: The family was enroutejto California to make its home. Also killed was Clarence William Stockman. 46, of Merced, the driv er and isole occupant of the other car. j 1 The Highway Patrol reported that the crash occurred at the approach to an elevated bridge over a dry wash, where approach ing traffic is obscured. French Retake Indochina Port HANOI, Indochina OB French Union forces reoccupied the Me kong River port of Thakhek Wed- nesday without firing a shot and sealed a big part of the gash the Communist-led j Vietminh had cut : across i the narrow waist of Laos. I The Strike by tanks and infantry, j gunboats and Marine commandos served ; to lessen a Red threat to ' Thiland, across the Mekong, and open the way for resumption of river and road; traffic between the north and south of Laos, one of three associated states of Indo-: china. ; j ' French Army headquarters here ; said the task force met no opposi tion in regaining control of Thak hek, a provincial capital abandon ed at Christmas in the face of a drive by a j Vietminh division across! Indochina from the South China seacoast to the Mekong. The; rebels apparently had fled northward or eastward into the jungles, possibly toward Vinh, one of their old biases in neighboring Viet Nam 160 miles south of Hanoi. Polio Strikes Twice at Same Name i i CANBY, Ore. tfl Dr. Val Chronovsky studied the case of 11-month-old Freddy Rice, called in a Portland specialist, then reported that Freddy has polio. And just seven years ago, Dr. Chronovsky said Wednesday, he had done the; same thing: Diag nosed the illness of another Freddy Rice as polioj The older boy now is a senior and leading athlete in Canby High School. He and the 11-month-old boy, the new polio victim, are not related. j THURSDAY LUNCH i AT NORTH'S In Capitol Shopping Center SWISS STEAK i Whipped Potatoes ; And Natural Gravy Cole Slaw Hot Biscuit and BuUer 65c Fast Serviee . . Delicious Food Try; Salem's Best Place to Eat SALEII HEALTH FOOD STORE 475 I Center St Now Under New Management Thursday, Jan. 21st wi win hare Miss Jan Stinnette, Representative of the Battle Creek Dietetic Co., to help you j with your problems. At this time we will offer onr IZ.M BELVEX to ya for Je, a savin ( of $1.12. rtrOWE S-S40T 50c Till 5:00 s Alan Ladd James Mason ! In "folairy trw Also Walter Brennan "Ban)oOaMrKaN" Eveninr Adnlta ! 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