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UgCiftoniBDg C&nocEcs Ou: Kadlio, n1 iwh'Je: Ofimrfm"! in T&im&miiintl Uilll feWy WW lllltHVWV M eJ M WW a-aW WW lightning crackled down on Salem Friday afternoon in the midst of i driving wind and rain storm, knocked out radio station KSLM for in hour, shattered a In the last JO years the rumor that Guy . Cordon wouldn't run for reelection as U. S. Senator or was going to resign has cropped up so majy times that its whis kers most he quite grey. It is therefore surprising that the Coos Bay Times should give cur rency to a fresh one, and give it the distinction of a "copyright" as an "exclusive." What adds embellishment at present is the addition of a re port that Cordon would resign after he was elected and that .Governor Patterson then would appoint William E. Walsh, ex state senator Irom Coos County, as Cordon's successor. Walsh said he'd like to have the job but knew of no such deal; and both Patterson and Cordon vigorously deniedit It appears to be just one of those rumors which is the prod vet of some one's imagination. Awhile back another was float ing about that Judge James Alger Fee would be appointed to the circuit court of appeals and ther- Governor Patterson would be named to the district court vacancy. It was just an other bit of curbstone speculat ing. Maybe the wish was father in ti thnucrht . The Cordon - Patterson - Walsh "deal" begins with the assump tion that both Cordon and Pat terson will be reelected. That may seem likely at this writing; but Patterson has opposition in the primaries, and if nominated will face a Democrat in the falL Joe Carson,- former Portland mayor, has taken radio and TV time for Monday to announce his decision on becoming a can didate for the Democratic nomi nation for Governor. It hardly looks as though he would, go t that expense- j usr to say "no.' And Cordon faces the possible (if not probable) opposition of Sen. Richard L. (Continued on Editorial Page 4.) plate' glass window and kayoed lights and telephones. I Residents and the Weather Bu reau reported, seeing only one bolt of lightning. J It struck about 4:11 p. m. and the following thunder cup prompted some citizens to call the police radio, switchboard and ask if there was an explosion or earthquake. I The lightning seen In all parts of the city apparently centered its blow on the Kingwood Heights district in West Salem. KSLM's 354-foot transmitting tower on Lowen street became a giant-lightning rod. A Chief Engineer Clyde Carlton said the bolt shattered several electrical instruments: at the sta tion and blanked out the tower lights. 1 The station, whichlwas broad casting Fulton Lewis at the time, was off the air from;4:12 to 5:13 p. m., Carlton said, il C. M. Lowen of 725 Clarmont Dr. said a four by eight-foot plate glass window in his; home was shattered, by the lightning. Lowen's brother. M. J. Lowen of 625 Fir Gardens, Said his fur nace was knocked out as well as his phone. 1 Other residents reported power and telephone outages and sev eral said their homes, were jarred by the bolt ; Salem Electric Col said 40 or 50 homes in the district were without power for 15 to 30 min utes. Portland General Electric reported scattered outages. An inch and a quarter of ran fell on Salem yesterday and ran the' total fall up to 2.21 inches since the current Storm started about 1 p. m. Thursday. Winds reached gusts of 38 miles an hour about 8:30 last night McNary Field iWeather Bu reau is forecasting showers today with an outside chance of sun shine Sunday. '$ Wind gusts up to 75 miles an hour were recorded at Portland airport Friday evening. -Icing conditions at the Colum bia Gorge were " expected to lessen Saturday with rising tem peratures. f ' " 1 Schools , were closed in south eastern Washington Friday by one of the wor ice storms of the" season. 1 ft i . - - - - b - - ----- I - -( r- ' - ! WUNDID 1651 - ' 1C3RD YEAR 2 SECTIONS 14 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Satan, Oregon, Saturday, February; 13, 1954 PRICE 5c No. 320 , 1 v: r-'ii Shakeup Hits Top Agriculture Aide; Politics Credited Appeal Story Couple, Dog, Parakeets Gas Victims PORTLAND UP) Mr. and Mrs Jack DeVore went to the home of his parents Friday morning to leave their two infant girls while they went to work. They found the bodies of his parents. Torrey E. DeVore, 52, and Hazel. 53, and a dead pet dog and parakeet The deaths apparently resulted from carbon monoxide fumes seep ing up from a basement garage from the exhaust of the family car which, had been left running. The man's body was in the bath room, his wife's in the -kitchen. Both were in nightclothes. Detectives said it apparently was an accident One theory was that one of the couple, had become sick during the night and that the other had gone to the basement, started the car, returned upstairs and col lapsed. An autopsy was ordered. Police said the dog apparently had made desperate attempts to get out of the house before collapsing. Depression Fear Foolish. Says Wilson - if NEW YORK UP) Defense Sec retary Charles E. Wilson said Fri day night "there is no reason to fear" that the nation's shift from its Korean war footing to peace will lead to depression. VI have no patience with the oeoDle who seem to think that blood spilling and jobs are synon ymous," he declared. In an address at the 68th an nual Lincoln dinner of the National Republican Club, Wilson said that war and production of guns and war equipment makes "no con tribution to real j prosperity." "Whatever we put into defense we take out of bur standard of living," he said. i'AIl the energy, all the money poured into war eoods means .less! effort and fewer resources than can be devoted to civilian eoods." I . Wilson said ; the Communist world's failure to demobilize after World War II had made it essen tial for this country to "maintain a maior defense program" and it is doing to. By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON UP) Politics and differences of views on future farm policies were credited Friday with bringing about a big shake up in the Agriculture Department's multi-billion farm price support and crop control agency the Commodity Stabilization Service. Secretary Benson formally an nounced the resignation of Howard H. Gordon, a North Carolinian gen erally regarded by Republican crit ics as a Democrat, as administra tor of the service. A New York Republican farm leader,. James A McConnell, was appointed to suc ceed Gordon. Politics Undisclosed Gordon, whom Benson brought into the department a year ago, has riot disclosed his politics except to say that he has voted "one way in local elections and another in national elections." Neither Benson nor Gordon an nounced the reasons for the change but! officials who asked not to be named, said the shakeup followed a "showdown conference between representatives of the Republican National Committee and Benson last week. The conference is expected to result in several other changes, in eluding: the resignation of Marcus B. Braswell as associate stabiliza tion service administrator. Bras- well is a holdover from the Tru man administration. While McConnell was named head of the Stabilization Service. he: did not succeed Gordon in the CCC post. The department an nounced late Friday : that Under secretary of Agriculture True D, Morse, a St Louisian, will head CCC, and will also continue as un dersecretary. Of Indochina Cut by Korea By MILO FARNETI SEOUL W) A South Korean government source said Saturday the republic had not been request ed to send military aid to Indo china, but had offered a full divi sion nevertheless in response to appeals for "aid and 'comfort." The ROK government said in a statement earlier the offer of a division (about 14,000 men) was made after receiving "two urgent appeals signed by the cabinet min ister of the Laos government Denied Requests French and Laotian officials in Paris denied that there had been any request that South Korean troops, be sent to fight against the Communist in Indochina. In Wash ington, a French Embassy spokes man said South Korea's offer would be rejected. Clarifying Friday's statement, the South Korean : government source said two general appeals for aid and comfort in the fight against Communist aggression were received in Seoul from Par is. From Minister The first, he added, was handed by the Laos minister to the Korean minister in Paris. The source said he did not know' the exact date of that message. He said a second message of the same nature was transmitted the ROK government by the French minister at Seoul last Dec The source said it likewise made no request for troops. Today's Statesman SECTION I Society News 3 Editorials-Features 4 Comics - 6 Valley News 7 Radio-Television 6-7 World This Week 8 SECTION n Sports News 1-2 Market News 3 Classifieds .... 3-5 Church News 15c Price Tag Put onlCoffee s PORTLAND & Major hotel dining rooms here started charg ing 15 cents a cup for coffee rn day. I The price had been 10 cents. Bill Boyd Jr., s secretary of the Portland Hotels Assn., said the boost was necessary if hotels were to continue serving a good cup, The 15-cent Charge is only for A - a a cup ordered; separately irom meals, he said, and refills are free Ten-cent coffee still is being served in Portland restaurants. The Associated Restaurants of Ore gon recently turned down a pro posal to increase the price to 15 cents a cup although many oper ators Indicated they would charge 10 cents for every cup, including refills. f French Armor Attacks Reds HANOI, Indochina tf French armored forces with strong air cov er launched a three-pronged at tack Friday against encircling Vietminh on the plain of Dien Bien Phu. The French claimed capture of one Red hill position but were driven back by sharp rebel resis tance at other points. -The probing attacks indicated the French may be preparing to leave their Northwest Indochina defense bastion and give battle to the Communist-led Vietminh, who have been camped around Dien Bien Phu fortress for more than two months threatening an all-out assault Turns OtMer Way SAN DIEGO Calif. tt One of San Diego's central business district restaurant's advertised Friday that starting Monday it will cut the price of a cup of coffee from 10 to 5 cents. Reward Offered for Arrest Of Silverton Phantom Caller SUteuou New Serrle SILVERTON A S2T reward was offered by City Manager Robert E. Borland here Friday Animal Crackors ftv WARRfN GOOORICH "Wait a minute, how far south do you intend to go for the winter?" for inforamtion leading to the ar rest and conviction of the phan tom phoner who has plagued Silverton residents recently. ' Police Chief Buck Main said the phantom caller made about 18 calls Friday. Five of them were to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Legard. The caller threatened their 14-year-old son Harold with death if be was seen on the streets. And the lire department was called out on a false run to the home of Ralph Motter, 210 Jer ome St. about 12:30 pjn. Chief Main' said several calls were made I to grocery stores ordering lists of groceries to be delivered to phony addresses or persons. He. said none of the stores fell for the calls. . Mrs. Katie Needles received call which consisted chiefly of violent swearing. Chief Main said police were pressing their search for the Wreckage Of Jet Found VANCOUVER. B.C.t Wreck age of an aircraft has been found near a ski village on a mountain north of here, the Royal Canadian Air Force said late Friday. It had not been identified, a spokesman said, i but the RCAF "assumed"! it was wreckage of an American F86D jet that disappeared at noon over this city. ; RCAF Fliers Make 'Slight' Flight Error ST. LOUIS un A Royal Canad ian Air Force jet plane, on I training flight between two Ca nadian points, breezed into &t Louis by mistake Friday night I Flying Officer N. L. Harrison of Toronto, who was "surprised to say the least," said all his naviga tional aids had gone on the blink. Harrison said he and Flying Of ficer G. G. Macleod of Montreal left their base at Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, late Friday aft ernoon for North Bay, Ontario. "I began to suspect something was wrong," Harrison said, be cause we picked up none of the scheduled check points on the radio." ! The distance between the two points in Canada was estimated at about 900 miles roughly, the same distance from Portage La Prairie to St Louis, U.S.A. Republicans Talk Farm Politics f tr ft" , . . . . r 1 X f v . . s - r XS - V " S r-iV: 1 - r-f : ? 7 Nation's Fate Hinged on , n Unity VS. Rep. Ralph Harvey, Indiana Republican, is shown above (at right) discussing farm politics with Winton Hnnt of Woodburn, Marion County Republican central committee chairman, in Salem 'Friday. Later Harvey gave a Lincoln's birthday address at Bash SchooL (Statesman photo.) is Soldier Survives 1,000-Foot Drop QUEBEC tfl A young Army private plunged 1,000 feet from a C119 Flying Boxcar Thursday with a partly opened parachute and lived to tell about it Pvt. Raymond Jacques of Thet ford Mines, Que., landed in two feet of snow and suffered several broken vertebrae. Hospital officials said they expect him to recover. Mahoney Seeks Post PORTLAND (fl Thomas R. Mahoney. Portland, a Democratic state senator for seven legislative sessions, said Friday he will be a candidate this year for a Mult nomah County circuit court judge ship. FREIGHTER SINKS . YOKOSUKA. Japan W A 600- toa ! Japanese freighter capsized and sank 130 miles south of Tokyo Friday night and 16 of its 25 crew members are missing. Ike on Holiday Bags 10 Quail THOMASVILLE, Ga. (JB Pres ident Eisenhower brought down 10 quail two short of the daily limit within three hours alter ne ar rived here Friday for a vacation weekend. The President shot the birds on the plantation estate of Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey. Eisen hower was out in the fields with a bird dog and a shotgun as soon as he could change to hunting togs after flying from Washington. Eisenhower. Humphrey and tne rest of the party started shooting at 4 p. m. and returned for dinner two hours and fifty minutes later. They planned a full- day in the fields Saturday after a early breakfast Farm Surplus Top Problem, Harvey Says By CONRAD PRANGE Staff Writer, The Statesman The national farm picture going round and round with too much wheat butter, subsidies and politics, and where it'll stop nobody knows. This was the message brought to Salem Friday by U.S. Rep. Ralph- Harvey, Indiana Republi can member of the House agri culture committee, r Rep. Harvey said that Congress and the administration were working mightily to straighten out the farm problem. The cur rent administration, he said, in herited a farm program -overbur ifoned with surnlus farm goods. . xcti-mis natinnai in. I mate absolute weapon a come depends on a strong farm 000 mile per hour intercontinental guiaeu nussue wiui u . muiiut warhead is now near. ! And "no known defense is either available or in sight to cope with such a weapon." Ralph V. Whiten- er told the annual convention of the National Aviation Educton Councl. The council is an organization of high school and college aviation teachers and other educators. Whitener, program director for the Air Force Assn., a Veterans group, didn't say when such a weapon would be available, but he called for the development now of a "super intelligence ; system" capable of learning about an ag gressor missile attack before it happens." 10,000 MPH Missile Seen Near for U. S. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. tfl An Air Force Assn. official said Friday development of "the ulti mate absolute weapon a 10, Salem Portland Baker Max. Mln. Pre. S4 M ? us S4 U 121 S.1 37 At Medford North Bend Koseburg SB :4 San Francisco 51 . JO Chicago ' 39 t i M New York . 23 " 15 M Willamette River 1-6 feet. - FORECAST (from U. S. . weather bureau. IfeNarr fielA Salem): rjecreaaiiiC abower mcttritr today becoming partly cloud? tonight and Sunday. Continued mild with high today M to S3 and low tonight. 34 to . Temperature at 13:01 ajn. today was 47. . 1AI rUCVITATION Since Start of Weather Tear Sept. ! This Year Last Year Normal 31.SC 22.4. 24-34 income, and because me lar- mer must not be turned loose to sink or swim." some of the basic price supports will be continued, the Congressman Said. The American! farmer, now- i - i ever, must readjust ms proauc tion to what he can use or sell here or abroad. Overproduction must be curtailed as much as possible." , - Harvey admitted, nowever, mai neither he nor anybody else in Washington had the answer on how to eliminate i surplus butter. There is a great difference of opinion : among congressmen and the administration on the Benson farm program," Harvey said. "Some feel that in view of the confusion the present pro gram should be continued for a year or so. My guess is that most of the Presidents' recommenda tions will eventuaUy be adopted." Protected Wage Scale Because of the high artificial wage scale of the city industrial worker, Harvey i said, the wage scale of the farmer also must be protected, if he; is to survive. Harvey spoke at a public Lin coln's Birthday observance under local Republican auspices at Bush SchooL As Republican achievements of the past year Harvey cited the ending of the war in Korea, strong firm foreign policy, re duced taxes, inflation halted, and "truth in government and honesty In public affairs. Pupils Top Honors Won by At Grand Ronde, Falls City . 11 LI- . Grande Ronde -Gary Bowers, 13-year-old son of Joseph Bowers, is spelling champion of the 7th . and 8tn graoes "V :- at Grand Ronde ; acnooi nu wm compete in a se mifinals of The ( i Oregon SUtes- A' A man - KSLM Spelling comesi at Dallas Mon day niehU March carr B- i i the 7th grade. His teacher Is Mrs. F. An derson. He was certified for The SUtesman-KSLM Contest by Prin cipal John Rose. Ronald George, 13. son of Mrs. Alberta George, and Phyllis Jahn. 14, daughter of Otto K. Jahn, placed second and third, respec tively.. Ronald and Phyllis are in the 8th grade. Certificates of me rit have been sent to all three top spellers. ; Falls City Three 13-year-olds, with the only girl member of the trio leading the parade, took high -s - honors in spell- l intr mt Fallc Pitv mm """ef Grade SchooL Winner of the right to repre sent Falls City in the semi-finals of The SUtesman-KSLM Spelling Contest was Wanda Nin mo. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Or- i 1 1 e Nimmo, whose other hobbies are Toller ball, stamp collecting and "danc ing. She was ' certified for the contest by Principal J. H. Bond. Her teacher is James Bowman. 'In second place was Roy Car ver, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Carver, and .winning i third was Ronald ; Switzer. son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Switzer. f All three winners are in the 8th grade. I ,; m VVv Waada Wlin Right Place, Wrong Time KNOXVILLE, Ten.. ( An un identified man showed up at Knox County jail Friday to fin out his income tax return. "Not here, buddy," said a de uty sheriff. "This is where you come if you don't fill it out. May Be Award For Consistency MOSCOW Eugene Varga, Soviet economist who since World War II has persistently predicted an economic : depression . in the United States, was presented the Order of Lenin at a ceremony in Sverdlovsk Halt Friday night The order is the highest Soviet civilian decoration. , LANE CRASH FATAL COTTAGE GROVE A Tacoma woman. Mane Archie, w, was killed near here Friday night in a head-on car crash. State police reported. The accident occurred about three miles north of Cot tage Grove on Highway 99E. WARM IN DENVER ( " DENVER tf The temperature rose to 73 degrees here Friday aft ernoon, setting a new record for Feb. 12. . ': I! :1 w - - McKay Acts Draw Wrath Of Neuberger By LILUE L. M ADSEN , Farm Editor, The Statesman Douglas McKay. Secretary of the Interior, received more men tion Friday in the 30 minutes Sen ator Richard Neuberger talked before the 44th annual , Oregon State Farmers Union convention than he could hope to get from even his favorite newspaper in if month. The mention Friday was all adverse. The. convention, which opened Thursday at the Veterans of For eign Wars hall, will close Satur day with election which advance gossip has it will be a heated one Sen. Neuberger, who appeared on the Friday afternoon program, in his full and enthusiastic con demnation of McKay and all his works, said that "with: one stroke of his (McKay's) pen," he ended public power program, but . "we can restore it" Threat to Resources : The senator described McKay's position as "a threat to re sources that belong to all peo ple. The utilities were, Neuber ger said, "calling the tunes to day." j He urged his listeners "not to! faU for the so-called local control program," labeling it instead as 'just a utility power control" program. If Hell's Canyon," Neuberger went on, as he shifted to his favorite public address "subject. can be given away, can't other power sites be given away just as easily? How does Mr. McKay square what he did to Hell's Canyon with American Tradition?" Doubts Ability That Oregon would build mul tiple purpose dams on the Co lumbia would be a laugh to Neu berger, he indicated,-if the mat ter wasn t so serious. "How can a state, that can provide only 10 per cent of what it should for handicapped children, ' a state that can't provide sufficient funds for its old age pension, or funds for its penal and tubercular insti tutions, talk about' building multiple-purpose dams?" the speaker asked, getting a resounding ap plause as answer. . Ninteen-fifty-f our will be a year of "great decision," the sen ator closed with, as he urged for alertness to fight the "huge bill board and TV campaign that is confronting us. ; (Additional details on page 5.) By DANIEL DE LUCE BERLIN Uf) Soviet Russia re fused Friday night to free Austria. It blasted the last chance for Eu ropean settlement at the Big Four conference. ' . : Soviet Foreign Minister MololoT knocked, out Austrian hopes of in dependence in the foreseeable fu ture with these new demands: ! 1. Soviet troops must remain in Austria as long as Germany ' is divided between East and - West 2. Even a so-called independence . treaty for Austria must depend on banning the key Adriatic seaport of Trieste now in American and . British: hands from use as a West era military, base. Gives ' Dulles 'Chill' The Russian demands, hidden . behind the preamble of a resolu tion piously proposing the comple tion it an -Austrian treaty within three months, appalled the West ern ministers, j U. S. Secretary of State Dulles exclaimed the Molotov proposal "gives me a cold chilL" A British spokesman called it an attempt to perpetuate Russian occupation aft er a mock restoration of Austria's independence. ; French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault asserted the Russians were trying to turn the clock back in Austria to 1943. Hints Home Trip 1 : Significantly, Dulles then! an nounced he could "not remain in definitely in Berlin." but must get back to Washington next week to report to President Eisenhower and Congress before attending the Inter-American conference open ing at Caracas, Venezuela on March 1. I ' On the American's suggestion, the Big Four set up a committee to schedule the order of discus-; sions in the few days remaining and to set a tentative adjournment date. a? ' - Only a glimmer of hope re mained that some ground might be gained toward settlement . of Asian issues, including the break ing of the deadlock on a Korean peace conference. ' I . Silence Reigns Grim silence reigned 'Friday night at the West Berlin headquar ters of Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold Figl, who pleaded at the ministers' table Friday - for , his country's freedom. In Austria,' the reaction was one of deep ! gloom. With irony and scorn, f Dulles challenged Molotov to agree at once to liberate Austria. Dulles declared: I "Surely the mighty Soviet . Em pire cannot really fear lest seven million . peace-loving Austrians should have freedom. Nor can I ; believe the economy of eight hun dred million people within the Soviet-dominated bloc depends up on being able to continue to bleed the economy of the small and naturally poor Austrian state." Queen, Prince May Make Visit to U. S. NEW YORK m The New York Dally News says secret prepara tions are being made for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip to visit the United States next fall as Pres ident Eisenhower's 'guests. In a copyrighted story under a London dateline, the . newspaper says its source was "a person close to the royal family,! s Daily Speller Following are 20 words from a list of 1009 which win 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 house irrigate . register prepaid i patience relieve ancient ambitious territory terrace - eager especially different explode machinery attacked -procession diet opinion ovation What b a 2-14 esglne? - YouTl find out when yori see the little "HibalT engine in the new comic strip coming to this newspaper soon. -. Wateh for the "SPUR LINE! ' beginning' Monday, L FEBRUARY 'li . . , Trace of Girl Sought as Auto Plunges Into rtcy OregonRwer DAYVILLE, Ore; A party! of 50 to 100 state police and neigh boring ranchers searched through Friday for the body of a high school girl after finding a com-, panion, injured and bitterly dulled, beside the icy John Day River. A ear failed to make a turn on the highway five ; miles southeast of Kimberly Thursday night and nlunzed into the river, s Brothers Richard Gibson, 19," and LeRoy Gibson, 14, Spray High School students,' crawled from the car. and called police. ' i .They said , they heard , a jvoice across the river and it sounded like that of Glen- Legler of Kimberly who had been with them in the car. There was a girl with them, too, Jerry Donna Wright, 15, of Spray. - ' ;.- : -v. Police and others" searched the river banks through the night with out finding trace of the one whose vnire haH Iwm hMrrf . Finally. after dawn,9 they came urr : y-mg Legler a mile from fyx jo TSot scene, suffering from iroef-.;. jnd apparently bone fractures. . I Lesler was taken I to Prairie raty. The Gibson brothers, with minor hurts, were m a Jonn uay hospital. . ' I - , . ; Still unaccounted (pr ? was the Wright girL The car was. located and taken from the river. Her body ' was not there; ' and the searca iut.u wcui un. .jcoiuk:! spread out 'from the scene fat the dim hope that she, too had es caped and wandered dazed from the river. i phantom phoner. )