MB ives omes; 2 Intd Portland Die, Girl Hurt PORTLAND un An Airi Force F94 jet plane crashed in te east Portland suburbs Tuesday) after noon, killing its two occupants, injuring a little girl and damaging lour or five houses. The plane came roaring in low from the southwest hit a fir tree anc exploded with a bias heard over a wide area. i Barbara Lee Cox, 4, playing in the back yard at her home, was hit by a fragment of the plane and rushed to a hospital here where attendants described her condition as serious. She suffered skull fracture and head' cuts; "The dead were identified by fhe Air Force here as 2d Ltf James Kennedy of Richmond, fa., the pilot, and 2nd Lt. J. A. Reid, Peoria, III, radar observed An Air Force officer at the scene aid tney were of the 497th Fighter Inter ceptor Squadron based here. Lebanon As Auto The officer said it appeared that Kennedy was trying to miss a house possibly after losing power in a flame-out and crashed into the tree, one of a clump sfttting the area. A huge fragment the turbine- ripped through a wall of the Loyd Konkle residence. Mr. and Mrs. Konkle were seated in the living room and Mrs. Konkle threw her self to the floor, thinking a bomb had exploded. Plane fragments and live machinegun ammunition were found in every room and the house was badly wrecked. There was no fire, although the explosion put a huge puff of smoke and dust into the air. The plane's wreckage was scat tered qper a hundred yards or more. The. bodies of the victims were found 50 yards apart, one in N. E. Holladay Street and the other behind a residence. Mother Killed i Collide '4 M wMktt mm FOUNDED 103RD YEAR 2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Wednesday, January 27, 1954 Reds PRICE No. 303 Agrb Conditionally to lccept 21 PWs i U.S. Rejects Red (China as To Run Again r ' Stttsmin Newt Service LEBANON A 34-year-ol Lebanon mother of three was killed outright and a Stayton jpentist injured in a car-freight train crash here Tuesday night in yhich ;six freight cars were derailed. Killed was Mrs. Frances Canoy of 1357 Grove St., a nurse for Dr. Boyd Van Santan ho recently moved his offices to Stayton from Lebanon. I ij Dr. Van Santan, driver of the car, suffered broken ribs. His condition was not considered critical at Lebanon Community Hospital. Police said the Van Santan 1952 Cadillac was demolished when it slammed into the mid dle of a westbound Southern Pacific freight train. Brakeman Herb Miller said six of the cars were derailed one of them squashing the front end of the Cadillac. The accident occurred at 6:05 p.m. on an unmarked crossing about seven miles north of Le banon on the Lebanon-Scio road. It has been the scene of several mishaps in recent months. Mrs. Canoy is survived by her husband, Virgil, and three chil dren, Craig, 10, Kent, 7, and a daughter, Michele, 4. vS Tomorrow evening four groups of women volunteers will conduct a block-by-block can vass for funds for the March of Dimes. It will be a fporchlight rather than a torchlight parade, "with lights turned on in door ways where the good ladies are invited to stop and tick f up a contribution for this worthy cause. This appeal fs so well known and touches the heart so deeply that no special empha sis from this columnist jseems ' needed to encourage! a liberal response. t f ! There are some facts,! how ever, which the public fchould know. The disease, j polio, has not been "whipped.'! Extensive research has been carried on for years. Gamma globulin is , credited with having isome bene ficial effect in reducing the dan ger of permanent crippling. This year extensive tests of a new vaccine will be tested across the $ country. But until its preven tive or curative powef is proven, victims of the disease will con tinue to require long and ex pensive special treatment jto save their lives and to preserve their use of their muscles. I The Marion County Founda tion has lone a great tleal in providing for the care of those afflicted with polio A treat ment center is maintained at Salem Memorial Hospital, fur nished with the necessary equip- . ment. The YJICA summing pool is used in restoring; muscu lar controls. Trained personnel are at hand to give the approved treatments. Iron lung facilities are available. f i All of this is very expensive. The National Foundation -has (Continued on Editorial page, 4) Bank Robbers Get $61,000 ' 8th Grade Girl Top Speller At Perrydale PERRYDALE Mary Barth, 13, whose hobbies are coqking and sewing, is spelling champion of Perr y d a 1 e WASHINGTON Oregon's senior U.S. senator, Guy Cordon, an nounced Tuesday he will seek re election this year. Sen. Cordon Plans to Seek Re-Election Oregon Flax Textiles Plant! Inspected School and will compete in the semi-finals the 1954 Ore gon Statesman KSLM Contest. Mary, who is in the 8th grade and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Barth of Route 1, Box 354, Dallas, WASHINGTON tfi -Guy Cordon, Oregon Republican, will seek re election to the Senate. He issued a statement Tuesday ending the doubts that had existed for a number of weeks. The doubts were j first raised when he said he'd like to retire from the Senate. Then he said of course he would not retire if he felt that would threaten loss of a seat by the Republicans. His statement: "After thorough consideration of all the factors involved. I have concluded to be a candidate for reelection. I place my candidacy 0 i squarely upon the record I have maue in unite Mine cumins iu uie Senate in March of 1944. "I feel deeply that the voters of Oregon should have an opportunity to express themselves on questions of fundamental political philosophy which necessarily will be a major issue in the coming campaign. I shall be happy to abide by their decision." 5-Power Meet Next Spring BERLIN un "The United States scathingly refused Tuesday to ac cept Red China in a Big Five conference on world problems as proposed! by Soviet Russia. Secretary of State Dulles told the Big IFour Berlin conference: "The United States will not agree to join in a five-power con ference with the Chinese Commu nist aggressors for the purpose of dealing generally with the peace ot tne world. The United States refuses, he said, "not because it denies that the regime ' exists or that it has power. . .we do not refuse to deal with it where occasion requires. "We deal with it today at Pan munjom in our effort to bring about a Korean peace conference. It is one thing, however, to recog nize evil as a fact. It is another thing to take evil to one's breast and call it good." Unshaken by the rebuff, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov submitted a written mo tion to the three Western minis- ers that the conference witn China be held in May or June. Dulles hurled back the charges of menacing world peace which the jut-jawed Russian made against the U. S. government at the opening; session Monday. But Dulles and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, tempo rary chairman, led the West in accepting Molotov's agenda with discussion of a Big Five con ference the top point. They did so in order, "not to waste time." Together : with Britain's Anthony Eden, they had agreed over a lnnrhpnn tnhlp TWsrfav In avprt J i i n 1 1 j : . i i rr" i j L . . i a long word battle about the con- ine mia-vaney puiieu on us wiuw uwu xuy uu tuncv ference work schedule by letting digging out from under a soggy blanket of slush and snow, patched Molorbv talk on China first, then ' "nd repaired telephone and power lines and kept an eye on the skjr. get on to1 their own objectives: ' 11 was a holiday for hundreds of school kids, but a rugged work normanv'c unification and An.' day for emergency crews and scores of other citizens. :: l cut tne weamerman is oucring a suraewnai Drignier quuooK. on page 2, j Warmer temperatures and wide spread rains are expected in tne VlJ'. -J ,V V jr n Li-' i 't I ' i rz n I 'j ' i i I I J. R. (Jack) Millar, chairman of the board of National Automotive Fibres of Detroit, Mich., is shown above (nearest machine) inspecting the Oregon Flax Textiles plant an affiliate of the fibres firjm in West Salem Tuesday. With him is Clyde Everett, local plant manager. Following the tour, a liinch eon was given for Millar and a few Salem friends. (Statesman photo.) -r Crews Busy Repairing; Valley Storm Damage ' SPRINGFIELD. Mass. 'j Two young men armed with sawed - off shotguns held up the Brightwood Branch of the Union trust Co. Tuesday and escaped with $61,000 in cash only 10 minutes before the bank's closing time.f J The men, dressed in military-style fatigue clothes, fled: after barri cading six bank employes," four customers and a small; boy in a small rear room. j 4 Mary Barth was certified for the contest by her principal, Hugh Hanna. Her teacher is Mrs. Frank M. Watson. Eleanor Nazarenus, 13, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Naza renus, Route 1, Box 320, Dallas, won second place at Perrydale, and Donald DeJong, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard DeJong, Route 1, Box 54, Amity, won third. Eleanor is in the 8th grade, Donald the 7th. Certificates of merit have been sent to all three winners. Do Yon Drive a Car or Herd It? Question: Comes the snow, how much of an advantage are tire chains? Answer: Extra traction and stopping power. National Safety Council says tire chains cut stop ping distances about half and give four to seven times more starting and climbing traction ability. Millar Praises Operation of Textiles Plant tria's I independence. (Additional detail's sec. 1.) Missouri Boy Kills Parents, Grandmother ST. JOSEPH, Mo. it A 15-year-old boy told police Tuesday that he killed his father, mother and grandmother in their Sher burn, Minn., home Monday night and was on his way to get a cow boy job in Texas. Detective Chief Verne Starmer said Richard Wisdorf readily ad mitted the triple slaying when he was arrested here Tuesday after noon. Killed were Tony J. Wis dorf, 47; his wife. Myrtle, 44, and her mother, a Mrs. Larson, 70. The boy said he was angered because his parents had told him earlier be had to stay home in the evenings for a week and could not go to wrestling matches in Fairmont, Minn., Monday night. The punishment was imposed be cause he was late getting home from school. Trailer Blaze Fatal to Young Albany W oman Statesman News Service ALBANY A young Albany housewife was burned to death in her trailer home here Tuesday j much of their local service re next 36 hours for most of the val ley. Monday's storm, which dumped up to a foot of snow on higher elevations around the valley and an official 1.2 inches iii Salem, was still hard felt in soine spots. Stayton grade and union high schools will be closed again Wed nesday. Local Service Restored j North Santiam Canyon re mained cut off from telephone contact late Tuesday though individual towns had f $2,500 Blaze Discovered as TV Set Quill Fire starting from an electric ; wall heater in the bathroom did . an estimated $2,500 damage Tues- J. R. (Jack) Millar, chagrman of the board of National Auto motive Fibres, paid high tfibute Tuesday to the operations of Oregon "lax Textiles anil its manager, Clyde Everett. Millar is on a tour of subsid iaries of the fibres firnji, of which Oregon Flax Textiles is one. The Detroit executive also commended Salem for its ("pro gressive strides" and said it was one of his "very favorite cjties." Millar and 20 Salem friends were guests at a luncheon in his honor Tuesday noon given by Joe Randall at Randall's Cater ing Service, 1525 Mill St Guards Okeh Transfer) of All Prisoners By FORREST EDWARDS PANMUNJOM U The Com munists agreed conditionally Wed nesday to accept j 21 captured American soldiers who renounced their homeland at a press confer ence and asked to j live as "free men under Red rule. By radio. Red China and North' Korea said they had granted a request of Communist Red Cross workers to take custody Thursday of the 21 American, 1 Briton and 325 South Korean prisoners and help them obtain "the right of residence." But the broadcasts said the Com munists still believed the ultimate fate of such war prisoners must be passed on at a future Korean peace conference "or at any other related international conferences." Proposal Okehed Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya of In dia Wednesday approved the pro gram for transferring the POWs. H? said records of the men would be turned over to the Communist Red Cross Thursday by the Indian Red Cross. The former Allied sol diers may be .taken out of their unlocked camp in the neutral zone singly and turned over to the Com munists, he said. The 347 prisoners have been vir tually men without a country since Jan. 23. On that date, the U. N. Command set free 22,000 anti-Red prisoners. The last of more than 14,000 anti-Red Chinese arrived in Formosa recently. The 7,500 North Koreans were sent to South Korea. Troops Leave Indian custodial officials opened the gates of the pro-Red camp Jan. 23, pulled-out 200 troops and said they no longer had any re sponsibility. The Communists then refused to take back their prison ers, saying to do so would be to join the Allies in violating the ar mistice. Wednesday, however, the Red radio said the Communist Red Cross had decided "out of humani tarian consideration" to seek cus tody and the request was granted by the Red command. The Communist made it clear that it was the Communist Red Cross not the Communist govern ment that was assuming respon sibility, f 1 J l A A. ll 1 riipht al-iaav "igni xo ine nome t ! a m t 1 ! ana Airs. ieii Lmmuns Dr. Olson to Run afternoon when she poured fuel into an oil stove and it exploded. State and county police iden tified her as Pauline Zentz, about 22, who) lived with her husband, a county employe, in the Tower Grove trailer court, Salem road, on the north edge of Albany city limits, i Polic said Mrs. Zentz was alone in the trailer when the ex plosion : occurred about 3 p.m. Neighbors called firemen who put out the fire before the trailer was destroyed. Mrs. Zentz apparently had at tempted to escape through a win dow in the trailer, police said. The front door of the dwelling was locked and police and fire men had to break it down. I 1 Max. Mln. Preclp. Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago New York .. 3!j J2 32 43 SI 59 3 .15 .01 .65 .00 Tax Problems Aired at Livestock Meeting, Governor Notes Jobless Decline Since 1950 stored. The main line to Detroit was out and Pacific Telephone and Telegraph officials said repair crews counted 20 telephone poles down between Aumsyille and Sublimity. J Service was expected to be re stored as far as Mill City late Tuesday night and on to Detroit Wednesday. 650 Phones Out I f In Salem arid suburbs, line trouble knocked out 650 tele phones during the day and re pair crews had about half of them operating Tuesday night. Most trouble was in South Salem and Salem-Heights-Liberty area. Highway travel in Marion Coun ty, including North Santiam Can yon, continued ' with little diffi culty but chains are needed State Highway Baker St. Flames spread into the attic, destroying a bedroom and fur nishings as well as clothes and fishing and hunting equipment. Emmons said he and his wife were watching television and didn't discover the fire until the TV set and living room lights went out. By that time the blaze had reached the attic. If 1675 ror rolk :eat In Legislature Dr. O. A. Olson, Wallace ijnaiLxi road, ension Starts Today 21. Olson practices dentistry tin Sa lem and prior to the consolidation Firemen from central and i of Salem and West Salem iwas a i North Salem stations were called member of the Salem council for ! at 10:27 p.m. They left the scene several years. ! shortly after midnight i j Also filing Tuesday was j Emmons said four of jus guns i an Chase, Eugene, for ree i were destroyed. The house is cov- as state senator from the ! ered by insurance, he said.' lucsuuy nieu lor Maie represen-; Salem s one-war ert evetom tative from the 10th representa- will be extended one block this tive district. Polk County, at the j morning from Cottage to Winter rtepuoncan primary election, way streets on Ferry street Trum- 51 5 Willamette River 8.1 feet. FORECAST (from IU. ! S. weather bureau. McNary fieldf Silem)- Cloudy with occasional rain today through Thursday. JWjjrmer today with the high 46 to 8 and the low tonight 38 to 40. Warmer Friday. Temperature at 12:01.r. was 37. SALEM PRECIPITATION Slnee. Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1 Hilt Year Last Year Normal 2.M U.5i i 23.14 Animal Cracker WARREN GOODRICH Simprj Thert'i nothmd to it. . count the coloriti.", By LILLIE L. MADSEX Farm Editor, The Statesman Tax equalization and other tax problems topped the bill of fare at the meetings Tuesday of the Western Oregon Livestock as sociation at its second-day ses sion of Its annual three-day con vention which opened Monday at Senator Hotel. Gov. Paul Patterson touched on taxes in his morning address to the some 200 stockmen and women gathered at the hotel. The tax problems were aired again in a panel discussion Tues day afternoon with the panel in cluding Senator Howard Belton, Canby; Samuel Stewart, state tax commission, LiaJ Winney, Alsea, Albert Julian Lyon, and Arthur Johnson, Astoria, . ranch ers. In view of the possibility of additional real property levy, Gov. Patterson said it is "im portant to bring assessed value in Oregon to an acceptable equal ity as rapidly as possible even though this means stepping on 1 somebody's toes. I The governor also touched upon unemployment concerning which he was optimistic. While having 63,000 unem ployed people in Oregon cer tainly presents a problem, un employment, in spite of the many reports to the contrary,- is hot so serious now as it was on Feb. 1, 1950, or even as it was a year ago, the governor said. That is no help to the man unemployed, the governor said. It was, he believed, encouraging to note that the 63,000 unem ployed compares with 94,000 un employed in 1950. There are now 23,000 more people employ ed in Oregon than there were a year ago, he added. That there had to be some government curtailment x- pensewise, was also the expres sed opinion of the governor. "We "have to try 'to do the same thing in the government as you people are doing on your livestock ranches," he . said. "Right now you cant go ahead and build barns unless you can see it is economical to do so. "That's true of state depart mentsr too. When our ! income begins to slacken we have to use a high degree of eleetiyitj putting in only those things through which we have a rea sonable chance to cut costs for the people." The governor indicated strong ly that he did feel it economical ly sound to build the interme diate institution now being considered. "There are not a lot more in mates percentage wise in our boys' L school now than there were 1 30 years ago. The differ ence j lies in the more serious ness j of the crimes now being committed. An intermediate in stitution might save both boys and dollars, in the opinion of the- governor. Following his talk, Patterson was presented with a model Hereford trophy contributed by Ernest Henmngsen of Talbot The governor was also presented with a pair of leather work gloves and an honorary mem bership to the Marion County Livestock .j Association, with Roger Dumdi, president of the state association, making the presentation. (Additional de tail page 2, Sec 1.) BRIDGE BONDS SOUGHf PORTLAND. Ufi Miiltnomah County voters will be asked at the i TOLL ROAD APPROVED crews from Santiam Pass report ed 18 inches of new snow, mak ing a total of nine feet at the summit Detroit reported three feet of snow with more coming aown Tuesday night Water service was restored at St. Helens early yesterday where crews worked around the clock to repair a water line which had been ripped out by a landslide last Saturday. (Additional weath er news one pege 2,' sec. 1 and page 6, sec. 2.) May primary election to Department j a 12 million dollar bond Daily Speller Following are 20 words from a list of 1000 which will form the basis for semi-final and final oral competition in The, Statesman KSLM Mid-Valley Spelling Con test for 1954, in which 83 schools are participating. i improvement priest scientific gallon frequently scheme household imprison heritage formal bayonet attract tour' hasten membership pefformance program occur illustrate nctimty county Board of Commissioners re ported Tuesday. City Engineer J. Harold Davis said it is hoped the extension will eliminate a bottleneck. The change!makes Ferry street one-way from! Front to Winter street ! r si i , i vuv council Dassea an orm- ection j nance authorizing the extension Third ! Jan. ll navK exnlainurl it ua judicial district, Lane County. Dart of the original erid plan but Chase is a Republican and has j was struck out at the last min- severai UP served in the senate for sessions approve ssue for I OKLAHOMA CITY OP million dollar toll road program . 4 . '!., j ,. I linking Oklahoma with three other a new Morrison Street Badge, the j states was approved byTvoters Tuesday election. in a special statewide A 150-! 1 About six new signs have been put up along the one-block ex- tension. j Most Polk County Schools to Reopen Today; Roads Cleared Statesman News Serjtirei j DALLAS Most Pollil County ; schools are scheduled jo reopen Wednesday morning ijlollowing numerous one-day closure due to snow-clogged roads. All public schools serving In dependence, Monmouth and Dal las planned to resume J classes. Polk County was hard hit by telephone outages that started Monday night; service! to Falls City and Valsetx remained out all day and had not been restored late Tuesday night ,f The large GerKnger Carrier plant in Dallas was 4dled by the weather. jj I About half the 350 j out-of -service telephones in Dallas were restored by Tuesday iight after a busy day for line repair crews. Heavy snow accumulating on lines until they snapped account ed for most of the difficulty. Fifteen spans of (f telephone PGE Rates to Drop for 6,000 Around 6,000 residential and farm customers of Portland Gen eral Electric will have approxi mately $35,000 chopped off their annual power bill, PGE announc ed Tuesday. The 6,000 have the kind of me- Dallas, with another dozn down te wch ; call r, a S1-20 mourn cAira cnarge n power curl sumption exceeds 10 kilowatts during the highest half-hour pe riod of use. James H. Pohlhemus, PGE pres ident said that PGE's application to eliminate the charge had been approved by the Public Utilities Commission. lines were reported down) in one spot near Salt Creek, north of nearby, About 75 'phones were put ear ly in the day in Independence Monmouth area but service was restored by late afternoon. A major part of the rural area served by Mt States Power Co. at Dallas' was without service for a time Tuesday while; special crews of trouble-shootejrs from Albany and Independence made repairs. About half of Falls City ectricity Tuesday was reported without e from Monday night to afternoon. Independence-M o n nj o u t h School District, which Central High and the three ele mentary schools. Tuesday, an nounced that all schools would operate Wednesday and, barring another storm, school b;us travel seemed assured. Dallas schools issued a similar report Today's Statesman SECTION 1 Editorials, features 4 Society, women's 8 SECTION S Sports ; 1, 2 Radio, TV Comics ; . 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