1 i i Pre - - - J,'.-. mm On 103BOYEAR 12 PAGES I i Th Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon. Monday. February 8. 1954 PRICE 5c No. 315 am oj i nun r s re hn . m - j :' j v MUNDDD 1651 ; I , 6, Survive Plane - j Crash in Alaska; 2 Me, 8 Missing CURRY, Alaska (JP) A veteran Alaska bush; pilot who waded 15 miles through deep snow to wreckage of an Air Force C47 said Sunday night the plane apparently blew up in the air, killing at least two men. Eight others of the 16 aboard are missing and six survived. ' . . : f . j The bush flier, Cliff Hudson, told the Associated Press in a long distance telephone interview Lrtr 3331100 Pi) mora Preview of Spring Finds Boating Enthusiasts Active ! i Advances of 1 Vietminh forces in Laos seem to have created more stir in Washington than in Paris. The French capital is so fed up with the rebellion in In dochina, so eager to find a way of escape, that a fresh penetra- tion of one of the Associated States rouses no call for swift counterattack. Washington, how ever, which has been steadily increasing its contribution to the French-Vietnam cause in Indo china seems I much concerned. Already there 'are 400 U.S. mili tary technicians in Indochina and Saturday the Defense de partment announced it is send ing additional light bombers and 200 more ground crew specialists to aid in their upkeep. Thus far, American military personnel has not been committed to the fighting, but i they have been backing up the forces engaged in defending Indochina from the Communist-led rebels who get their supplies' from Red China. What worries Washington is whether the Reds can be stop ped, and whether the United States will join in the actual lighting. . The San Francisco Chronicle ays that "it is fundamental in Mr. Eisenhower's book that the West must not lose Indochina to the Reds.", The results of that catastrophe says the Chronicle, would be: mX The Communists would move into strategic command of all Southeast Asia, bringing into imminent jeopardy Burma, Ma laya, India and Indonesia. Even the Philippines would be im periled. "2 The West would face the loss of vitally needed (Continued on Editorial Page 4) FBIChief Cites Commie Goals WASHINGTON (J) J. Edgar Hoover believes settlement of the Korean war and recall of Ameri can troops from abroad are among the major current objectives of the Communist Party in the United States. ' The Reds also have as principal goals, the FBI director told the House Appropriations Committee, a five-power peace pact including Communist China, and resumption of U. S. trade with Iron Curtain countries. Hoover testified behind closed doors recently when the commit tee considered his budget for the new fiscal . year starting July 1. His testimony was made public Sunday. from : this little interior Alaska waypoint it was unlikely any of the missing men would be found alive.: The twin-engined C47 crashed Friday 75 miles northeast of here on a 275 mile flight from Anchor age to Fairbanks. Hudson, who located the scat tered ; wreckage late Friday, said several- of the I rescued men told him of suddenly being flung into the air as the plane disintegrated. "They said they were playing cards and riding along smoothly one minute and the next thing they were floating down to earth," Hud son reported. Polled by Chutes The Air Forpe would make no official comment on Hudson's con viction that the plane exploded. "All the guys I saw were pretty banged up from being scraped along the rocks when they hit the ground and were pulled along by their chutes," Hudson said, "but none ' of them seemed to be hurt too badly. "I saw two j bodies wrapped in parachutes where .the plane went down it was spread over three- quarters of a mile and they'll never find any more of them alive. Tells Story I Hudson tramped through deep snowdrifts to Jget from this little Susitna River town 75 miles north east of Anchorage to the crash scene. He told his story when he arrived back here. Hudson said the two known dead were apparently knocked uncon scious by the explosion and could not pull the ripcord on their 'chutes. He said those he talked to related thai all the men aboard the plane were wearing para chutes, t He said the six who have been found or sighted were . wearing heavy winter! clothing and that fact probably saved their lives in the 26-degree f above temperature. Rescuers found three of the six survivors 15 miles from the downed plane. Two others were near the wreckage and another was sighted by a helicopter as it was en route to Curry.; All have been flown out. Men Identified The Air Force identified the six men as Airman 3. C. Rupert C. Pratt, home town unavailable; Airman 1. C. Edward J. Fox, hometown unavailable; 'Airman 2. C. Huey T. Montgomery, Eldndge, Ala Airman 2. C. Edward W. Olson, Elkader, Iowa; Airman 1. C. Bob by Gr Sallisj West Helena, Ark and Airman 2. C. Eli R. LaDuke, Au Sable Forks, N. Y Sallis and! LaDuke were both taken to an Air Force hospital at Elmendorf Air Force Base, where attendants said they' were suffer ing from exposure and were un able to give a coherent account of the crash. The other j four men : were also en route tor Eimendort. au six were passengers aboard the two engined plane. Hudson said the rescued men with whom he talked : seemed to be in good : spirits despite their experience. He quoted one of the men as saying: Boy, I'm going to Sunday school every Sunday from now on. i M (I - u - 1 By ARTHUR G A VSHON BERLIN ( AP)Hieh officials reporid Sun day night the Western 'Allies have set. a price for negotiating an Indochinese peace with Red hma: The Peiping regime must; co-operate first in a Korean settlement or else stop arming the (revo lutionary armies of Ho Chi Minh. And this West wants action not promises. Sunny Sunday heightened utdoer activities in the mid-valley area j lomette River its first 1954 test. Several scores in some 15 to 20 with throngs rushing to the beaches, mountains and streams in boats converged on the landing underneath the Marion Street usual summertime fashion. Enthusiasts of Salem Boat Club were (Bridge by mid-afternoon. (Statesman Photo.) out in numbers Sunday giving their new boat ramp and the Wil-1 Beaten Woman's Home Holds Over $500,000 DETROIT, Mich. (JP) More than half a million dollars was found Sunday in the home of an 86-year-old woman who was beaten brutally last Wednesday. The woman, Mrs. Carrie Wheritt, dressed in rags and lived alone. ; Police counted $291,800 in cash and estimated there was at least that much more in securities in Pope Rallies, But Anxiety Continues VATICAN CITY Iff) Ailing Pope i Pius n rallied Sunday. The 77-year-old spiritual leader of more; than 400 million Roman Catholics ctill !e fnohlo anri nnriptv rontini no. nvr hie condition hprause of i condition in receiving hospital, of- his age and the toll taken of hiffered no explanation of the large: strength by two weeks of senou su,n 01 muty a safe in tier bedroom. Mrs. Wherritt, still in senous Russ Can Claim Adam and Eve PITTSBURGH I (Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, former president of the United Nations Assembly, said Sunday night Adam and Eve prob ably were Russians. "Since they were cold and mis erable, unsheltered, hungry and misled by. a serpent they must hrve been Russian, Romulo de clared in a speech at the Pitts burgh Post-Gazette Dapper Dan Club's annual dinner. The Dapper Dan Club is a charitable organiza tion composed of sports fans. Animal Crackers v WARREN GOODRICH "Arc yeir gonna take that? What art yow, a mews or a man? - -. illness. But in the most heartening com munique since the pontiff was stricken Jan. 23 by a stubborn stomach ailment, his personal phyf sician and faithful friend, Dr. Ric cardo Galeazzi-Lisi, announced Sunday: f "The" Pope last night slept rast er welL Signs of improvement are noted in the condition of the stom ach, which is quieter and less dis turbed. However, in his general condition there continues to be considerable weakness." Resting Easily I It i was the second consecutive night in which rest had come easi er to the Pope as he lay on his wooden. bed in the Apostolic Pal ace i with grave-faced medical ex perts in constant attendance. - During the evening, the Vatican announced the Pope had spent a "tranquil day" Sunday. -4 As always, no matter how ill, the pontiff took time for affairs of the church Sunday morning. Msgr. Dominico Tardini, pro-sec retary of state for extraordinary ecclesiastic affairs, was at the papal bedside for some minutes to report and receive instructions Liquid Food - -V But the doctors sternly insist the Pope conserve his meager strength. A little liquid food is able to pass the Pope's lips how but for many days he was unable to take food. That coupled with a long siege of hiccups, now passed left him greatly en feebled. It is this general weakness which is the great source of worry to his physicians. If the Pope re mains able to take liquid, physi cians hope to be able to give him another set of X-rays which will pin-point the stubborn ailment, be lieved glandular in origin. The cash was in $500, $100, $50, $20 and $10 bills. Police found Mrs. Wherritt sprawled on her bedroom floor after a neighbor reported she bad not seen the aged woman for sev eral days. The safe lay beside her. Detectives theorized that ' the woman was beaten for refusing to tell robbers the combination of the safe. The neighbor, Mrs. Evangeline de Martini, 54, told police that Mrs. Wherritt often left her house at night always traveling through alleys instead : of streets and would return about midnight Mrs. Wherritt s home is a two- story red brick flat in the path of one of Detroit's new express ways. All but one other house around hers had been razed ; to clear a path for the highway. I Police said Mrs. Wherritt's liv ing room was a museum piece of antiques, and the basement was oaded with old newspapers, tin cans, light bulbs, metal coat hang ers and other objects. ' PAUL ALTBOUSE DIES NEW YORK ( Paul Althouse. American Tenor who avstarred with Caruso in a 30-year career at the Metropolitan Opera, died Saturday. He was 64. PORTLAND FIRE FATAL PORTLAND Ufi Dominic Le- Fevre, 50, idied in a fire which swept through his second floor apartment in northwest Portland early Sunday. Hughes Offers to Buy All RKO Studio Stock HOLLYWOOD Iff) Howard Hughes, who holds the controlling interest in RKO Radio Pictures Corp., said Sunday he has offered to buy out the rest-of the stock holders for 23 Vt million dollars. The industrialist-plane builder' picture producer said this sum rep resents $6 a share for all stock except his a price twice that pres ently quoted on the New York Ex change. I Housewife, Insurance Man j May Head County Demo Ticket A young Salem housewife and a Salem insuranceman may head the Democratic ticket in Marion County at the May primary elec tion it was indicated. Sunday. Democratic party 'activities in the county pointed! to Guy W. Jonas Jr.,? operator I of a Holly wood insurance agency, and Mrs. Alfred (Sheila) Laue, as among possible candidates for the Ore gon legislature. Jonas is newly elected presi dent of the Marion County Demo cratic Club and Mrs. Laue is its secretary.! Both indicated they were considering running, but had not decided definitely one way or the other, i Other candidates in the county may be decided at a club execu tive board meeting Tuesday. Jonas said Sunday. We probably will not have a full slate of can didates but -hope to have a list of strong candidates, Jonas said. j So far oniy' Democrat to I an nounce has been P. W. Hale, Hollywood jeweler, who is a can didate for city alderman in! Sa lem. . . - H t Others are expected tcH an nounce prior to a Feb. 13 public meeting here at which State Richard L. Neubergei and his wife,- Rep. Ma urine Neuberger, Portland, will speak. 1 Neuberger told The Statesman Sunday he was still undecided whether to run against incumbent U. S. Sen. Guy Cordon. He said he would probably make up his mind within the next two -weeks. : Deadline for filing for the! pri mary May 21 is March 12. U (Candidates' story 'also on pg.3.) Watchman at Mine Held in Death of B Temperature j Near 90 in LA. LOS ANGELES im The temp erature rose to 88 here Sunday, sending thousands to the beaches. Lifeguards said Santa Monica had the greatest winter crowd in their memory. Traffic was bump er to bumper along the ocean front. At Los Angeles International Air port the mercury reached 90, a record there. In downtown ; Los Angeles the highest February: re cording was 92 in 1921, but Sun day's 88 was a record for Feb. 7. oy BOULDER, Colo. OH An 80- year-old mine watchmn who told officers he fired a .22-caliber rifle in the air "to scare off some boys" was held Sunday without charge in the death of Howard McCoy, 13. Sheriff Art Everson quoted the watchman, Frank Graves, as say ing he did not aim at the Denver youth. McCoy and three . other boys. members of Denver Boy Scout Troop 29, were on a Sunday out ing i nLeft Hand Canyon, 21 miles northwest of here. Scoutmaster G D. Taylor, who was with seven other Scouts three miles away. said McCoy and the other youths wanted to inspect the old Slide Mine. Two of the Scouts with McCoy told Sheriff Everson they also felt bullets. Larry Taylor, son of the Scout master, said a bullet passed through a canteen carried on his belt. Charles Swartz, 13, reported bullet ripped through his sweat er. Neitcer boy was injured. Everson said a dog belonging to one of the boys also was killed by a bullet The McCoy youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren McCoy, appar ently died of a- bullet which struck him in the back of the head, Ev erson said. Graves, the watchman, has been employed at the Slide Mine for about 12 years, Everson said. He lives in a cabin near the mine entrance. Traffic' Accident Breaks Tot's Arm The crash of a speeding; tri cycle Sunday evening resulted in a fractured left arm for a 3-year- old Salem boy, authorities at Sa lem General Hospital reported. Donald Leslie Jones, 1081 Parkway Dr., was thrown to the ground when his tricycle, being pushed by an older brother. overturned. He was treated, and released, hospital officials said. GRAB AT BIRD FATAL 1 NEW YORK UH A 55-year- old nurse fell to her death Sunday from a third floor window. Ponce said she apparently lost her! bal ance trying to catch a parakeet escaping from its cage. She was Miss Mary Blue, of Forest Ems, Daily Speller Following are 29 words from a list oi 1000 which will form the basis for semi-final and final oral competition in The Statesman KSLM Mid-Valley Spelling Con test for 1954, la which 83 schools are participating. allowance . combination employer cylinder advertising barometer -elsewhere ignorance objection . instruction pardon argue venture complaint evaporate answer 1 occupation familiar contrast worried 5 Injured in 3-Car Wreck Near Idanha Statesman Newt Service STAYTflN Fivp nonennt were treated at the Saniiam Me morial Hospital here Sunday af ternoon for injuries sustained in a three-car smashup about l our miles east of Idanha on Highway 22, state police reported. Most seriously injured was Byron Jackson of Sweet Home, who received a fractured left shoulder, hospital authorities said. He was a passenger in a car operated by George A. Sieg, also of Sweet Home, t Sieg and three other passen gers, including a 1-year-old boy, were treated for minor cuts and bruises. All five were released Sunday night Investigating officers' said a westbound car operated by Ro bert L. Arnold of Beaverton, went out of control on an icy spot an slid into a car driven by William N. Backe, 4355 Mon roe Ave., Salem. The impact caused the. Backe vehicle to veer into the Sieg car, police said. Sieg's car was almost totally wrecked, police said,: and the other two cars were extensively damaged. The American, British and French foreign ministers are ex pected to make this plain to Rus sia's Vyacheslav M. Molotov Mon-J day in the course of the first se cret session of the Big Four con ference. Other Goals U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. British Foreign Sec retary Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault were also reported determined to: 1. Fix a deadline for their main discussions on a German settle ment unless Russia is prepared to modify her demands. 2. Rebuff a Molotov effort to win immediate international recog nition for the quick-shooting-gov ernment of Mao Tze-Tung. The Russian statesman sought such recognition by proposing that Red China be brought into a Big Five parley to consider global prob lems. Disarmament Policy 3. : Confine all international at tempts to bring about world dis armament to the United Nations. Molotov himself came up with an idea nearly two weeks ago. for world disarmament conference un der U. N. auspices to include Red China and other non-members. The ministers, with three aides! and an interpreter each, kick off, the third week of their conference in the conference room of the Al lied Control Administration build ing in the American sector here. For the past week they had been meeting in the Hall of Mirrors of the Soviet Embassy in the Com munist sector. Western informants also said j Sunday night Eden is prepared to f urge that Prime Minister Church ill drop any idea of seeking a face-to-face meeting with Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov. Siegmund to Join Race for County Post y : '- rir' A fourth Republican candidate for Marion County Commission er was in the race Sunday with -the announcement of J. Laurance Siegmund, deputy county asses sor since 1947. - H ; . Siegmund, a former business man and restauranteur in Stay ton and once that city's mayor, has been a resident- of Salem since 1944. He was born on a farm near Stay ton and has been a resident of Marion County all his life. j in his statement of: candidacy, Siegmund emphasized that "since I have been a farmer for' a num ber of years, as well as a busi-; nessman, I feel that 1 1 will be able to understand the many and varied problems and serve the people of Marion County in an efficient manner . . . " Other candidates for the post, now held by E. L. Rogers, are Salem Alderman Thomas Arm strong and E. A. Kurtj. Rogers is expected to seek re-election. Train Kills Bridegi room PHILIPPINE QUADS BORN MANILA un Quadruplets were born Sunday to Maximina R. Can las 28. wife of a fisherman, in the San Fernando Provincial Hos pital in Pampanga. All are boys. Today's Statesman Editorials, features 4 Valley news 5 Society, women's 6 Radio, TV 7 Comics 7 Sports I.. ... 8, 9 Classified ads 10, 11 PENDLETON un Roscoe E. Broyles, 39, of Echo, Ore., a bride groom of three days, died when struck by a train near Stanfield Sunday. J. A. Folsom. Umatilla County coroner, . said the Union Pacific freight train crew reported that Broyles was killed outright when he lay down on tracks in front of the oncoming train. Folsom said investigation of the case was not yet complete. Copters Thwart Long Passes for British Sailors BANGOR, Wales tfl Four helicopters ferried 200 crewmen to the British aircraft carrier Per seus Sunday and ended ' their hopes of a long shore leave, The crewmen came ashore Sat urday night but rough seas stopped the small boats scheduled to take them back to the carrier this morning. So the carrier's four helicopters dropped into a car park and quick ly flew the crewmen back aboard. Council to Get Plan to Rfec-nce t - ! ' One-1 WWGrid - VI S- ' Human Torch Starts Miami 3-AlarmFire MIAMI. Fla. un A human torch set off a three-alarm fire at the Red Top Cab and Baggage Co., in downtown Miami Sunday, caus ing damage estimated at more than $100,000. ' - Daniel Molina, about 3d, ran screaming from the building "look ing like he had been hit by a flame thrower", and was taken to a hospital with second and third degree burns. His condition was critical. Dozens of taxicabs were wait ing and drivers were milling around the building ready to change shifts when the fire broke out. Cabs were being filled with gasoline. "Molina was standing in a pool of gasoline and was filling a cab," one driver said. "Then a spark from a cigarette or somehwere ignited the gasoline and a sheet of flame shot up where Molina was stanGing." . t ' Other drivers heard Molina's screams a nd saw him running through the rear of the building. : "They were yelling at him to stop, to roll on the ground but he wouldn't listen," said Trudy Bjork, a driver. "They finally knocked him to the floor and rolled him in coats and sweaters." Dispatcher George Becker said damage to 40 automobiles . alone might reach $120,000 and "there were several new Cadillacs and about a thousand tires on the sec ond floor" of the two-story building. A return to two-way traffic for certain "fringe' streets of Sa lem's one-way grid f system will be proposed at the' city council meeting tonight. City.;. Manager J. L. Franzen said4 s Being considered - for return to two-way traffic are High and Cottage Streets between. Marion and Union Streets; and Court and Ferry Streets between Com mercial and -- Front . Streets, hi said. . . ' I The one-way system on these streets was originally intended to lead traffic safely into and out of the grid but traffic offi cials believe it may be hamper ing the smooth flow of traffic, the city manager explained. ; Other council business will b a resolution to prohibit parkins, on the east side of l5th Street between B.and D Streets, Fran zen said. This action has been requested by the Traffic Safety Council . i 'A.: ! 2 ESCAPEES CAUGHT MONTGOMERY, Ala. Iff) Two more of the nine desperate con victs who escaped from Atmore Prison were captured Sunday while the three still at large were be lieved cornered in woods near Perdido, Ala. Author's Murder With Woman Duplicates Scenes of Savage Novels of Roaring 920s J By WATSON SIMS NEW YORK m Writer Max well Bodenbeim and a woman be lieved to have been his wife were found; slain Sunday in a; setting as Bavage as his novels of Green wich Village in the 1920s. Bodenheim, 63, had a spectacu lar and controversial career in the 1920s and 30s as a writer, of poetry and harsh novels. In recent years he I had faded into an obscurity of alcoholism and poverty. . The bodies were found . Jn a cheap, furnished room when the proprietor sawed off a padlock which had been placed on tfie door from the outside. Bodenheim had been shot once in the chest. The woman had been stabbed and beaten almost beyond recognition. Both were fully clothed. On the chest of the dead novel ist, police said, was a copy of Rachel Carson's best seller, "The Sea Around Us." f i.' J - No weapons were found. Police ruled out robbery as a motive , for the double slaying in the ; poorly furnished room. No other motive was indicated im mediately. ' ; i Papers on the woman's body bore the name Ruth Feagan, 33. Other tenants said 'she was the writer's typist and that the couple was believed to have been mar ried some time ago.i v t ' ; Bodenheim had been a shabby figure on the streets of Greenwich Village and the Bowery in recent years. - . : ' i ., f But-as a young man he . had been a prominent . figure f in the literature of the Bohemian village and the lusty Chicago of the 1920s. Portland Raid Nets 18 Minors PORTLAND Iffl State Liquor Commission inspectors and mili tary police arrested ? 18 persons, all .under 21, in a raid on a public dance hall parking lot Saturday night ' ' J! . Five of those arrested were juveniles. Three others were sail-, ors. . i l LL Gordon McReary of the Liq uor Commission said there had -been a number of : complaints re cently about rninors drinking in cars in the parking lot Clouds Diie to Arrive Tuesday - 'V ;! ' ' " Fair weather is ; forecast for mid-valley today and tonight but the Weather Bureau at McNary Field experts a partly cloudy sky condition Tuesday morning with increased cloudiness f during the day.- .- t fi Temperature today is expect ed to range near 50 with a low tonight near 28, forecasters said. Bodenheim, born In Hermanville, Miss., became widely known as one of Greenwich Village s liter ary "characters" three decades ago. -: By 1935, however, he was broke, on relief, and had been diagnosed at Bellevue Hospital as an acute alcoholic. 1 As recently as 1942, shortly af ter the the publication of his novel. "Lights in. the Valley," he -was cast in a leading role for William Saroyan's play, "Across : the Boards on Tomorrow Morning. " Since : then, : however, . be had sunk progressively deeper into ob scurity, rie was most recently in the news when-arrested for sleep ing on .a subway, in 1932. Then broke, bleary-eyed '. and shabby, he spent the night in jaiL Friends finally , put up h Is $25 bond. ! - TO SEEK MINSTERS. NEW YORK M. fi A training program to encourage more young people to enter the ministry, and backed by $100,000? annully of Rockefeller money, was announced Sunday, by the American Assn of TheotoH" Soo v ; I? SalcM Portland Baker Mia..' Mil. : Prtdp. -"Si Medford North Bend Rose burg San Francisco Chicago .411 i, JO- t I i .0 38 as 33 29 27 41 31 3S 22 27 JO0 J00 M M M .09 M New York M Willamette River. 7J feet FORECAST (foora U. S. weather bureau, McNary Held. Salem): - Fair except for . cattered hlfh cloudiness today and tonight. Partly cloudy Tuesday. High today S4-S2 and low tonight 2S-3Q. f ' Temperature at 1241 a. m. today wax 30. - - . SALKM FKECtPITATlOTC Since Start f Weather Tear Sea. 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