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OMtt UU in R Cuofis 1V kV POUNDDD 103RD YEAR 2 SECTIONS K PAGES The Oregon Statesmafc Salem, Oregon, Saturday, March 6, 1954 PRICE 5c No. 341 4k w vw. Ill iv: IV . T , i ' 1651 i . J. u A mm Aide to Protests ; j McCarthy Drops Benton . WASHINGTON JH Sen. Mc Carthy (R-Wis) dropped his two million dollar libel and slander suit against former Sen. Benton (D-Connl- Friday amid clashing statements as to why the action was abandoned. Benton, who had accused Mc Carthy of perjury, fraud and de ceit, said the Wisconsin senator "refused to face examination un der courtroom conditions." He said McCarthy never could have won the suit "because I told the truth about him and he knew it." McCarthy said his lawyers had advised him they were- unable to find anyone who believed Benton's charges. Under these circum stances, he said, it would be im possible to prove he had been dam aged, and just to demonstrate that 321300 The meeting of the Tenth Inter-American Conference at Ca racas, Venezuela gives occasion for another parade of the hurt feelings of the Latinos. They are described as suffering from U. S. neglect because this coun try is concentrating on Europe and Asia and engrossed in com bating Communism. Our neigh bors of Central and South Amer , ica feel injured: we haven't given them the attention they merit as consistent friends of the United States and haven't lavished our money on them as we thave on France and Italy and Britain and Japan. This old complaint nas uuie to justify it . The Latin Ameri can countries profited enormous ly in two world wars, and made very little sacrifice of their own in either. The United States is their best customer for coffee, bananas, sugar, copper, mahogany, petroleum. The United States buys from Latin America 95 per cent of its coffee -imports, 54 per cent of its petroleum, -65 per cent of its copper, and 75 per cent of its sugar imports.' Looking at those statistics it can hardly be said we are neglecting the countries south of the border not with coffee the price which it is. Likewise we are their closest and usually their best supplier of manufactured goods. In ad dition huge sums of private U. S. capital has been poured into the Latin countries of the "New World, and our government has made heavy grants and loans. There is nothing seriously wrong with the economy of these countries for which the United States is responsible; and little wrong, which - (Continued on Editorial Page 4) AVALANCHES IN ITALY TRENTO. Italy ( Avalanchesl of snow and rock blocked roads Friday in Northern Italy, killed two men and interrupted the Bsen ner railroad line. - DO5 1 1 rl TO PCD 103 W111 Brilliant Physics Teacher ! Unmasked; History Plwneyl DURHAM. N. H. I The Uni versity of New Hampshire was re vealed Friday, as the victim of -a brilliant home-made scientist who capably taught higher physics un der another man's name. The teacher was Marvin Hewitt, about 31, of Hempstead, N. Y, He left the New Hampshire faculty last Jan. 31 after a student acci- Animal Crockerr- v WARREN GOODRICH .' r ST. Mi- jr. .'A V.' 4 "Frankly, Elolst, I was think, ing of a quiet little .wedding away frem all this, but if this to what yev went. . Stevens Support Libel Suit Benton's charges were false would "not be enough." McCarthy sued Benton two years ago, accusing him of "libel, slan der; and conspiracy" to have the Wisconsin Republican ousted from the Senate. The litigation was based on Ben ton's charges before a Senate Elec tions Subcommittee in September. 1951, that McCarthy committed perjury, fraud and calculated de ceit of the American people j in pressing his campaign against what McCarthy termed subver sives in the government. Benton, a wealthy advertising man whom McCarthy called Tan odd little mental midget," deliv ered a 25,000-word blast before the subcommittee in support of his res olution to expel McCarthy. Party Activity Admitted. But g Denied By DOUGLAS, B. CORNELL WASHINGTON OF) An admitted former Communist testified Friday he was a member of a Red cell operating in a-Nutley, N. J., elec tronic laboratory, but denied knowledge of any spying there; The testimony came from Peter A. Gragis of Levittown,' N. : Y., appearing before the Senate ; In vestigations Subcommittee headed by Sen. McCarthy R-Wis). I Gragis named Frank McGee as educational director of the Commu nist cell in the Federal Telecommu nications Laboratory. McGee was brought to the witness stand, ire fused to say, whether he is or ever has been a Communist, but also disclaimed any part in sabotage or espionage or any knowledge of it Both Gragis and McGee testified they handled secret work. McGee said classified material frequently was spread on his desk, at times when. Harry Hyman visited his of fice. Gragis said that to his knowledge neither McGee nor Hyman engaged in spying, sabotage or activity harmful to national security, j Night Blocks; Plane Search! MARSEILLE, France (JV-Dark ness called a halt Friday to a Vast air and sea search for a U. S. Air Force transport plane with 20 Americans aboard which apparent ly crashed on a flight from Italy to Germany Thursday. Planes and ships of three nations swept over the Mediterranean from Rome to Marseille about 450 miles f and along the treacherous iAlps on the French-Swiss frontier with out sighting the missing twih-en-gine C47. The hunt will be resumed at dawn Saturday. The C47 took off from Rome and sent its last message, "all normal," from over the radio beacon on Cor sica an hour and 15 minutes later. dentally stumbled across his ; true background. ; For a year Hewitt, a mild-man was nered yet seit-assurea man.! was ; known as Dr. Kenneth ftYates. The real Yates is a Crystal Lake.' ill., scientist wno naa no i lcea someone was masquerading under his name The first account of the- intellec tual deception came Friday from school officials here. Later. Robert F. Chandler Jr., university president, in Chicago at - tending the National Conference on Hiaher Education, gave additional details. It was a, story of a man with a keen mind and a deep-seated de sire to be a teacher. But Hewitt's formal schooling ended in thigh school Frustrated by his father, a laboring man, and in his effort to attend college, be taught himself and then had to make up creden tials to become a teacher, j i "The man's teaching actually was very satisfactory," Chandler said. "He was undoubtedly a bril liant physicist . "After the years of work he spent an the subject it is really tragic that he had to take such a course as this." ; . ... i . Qpits, Eack McCarthy Tangle Basis of Actions v - ? WASHINGTON W) A top aide to Army Secretary Stevens quit his ! job Friday in protest against what he called the failure of Ste vens' superiors to give him badly needed support in his fight with Sen! McCarthy. ' i John F. Kane, special assistant to the secretory, announced his resignation in a letter which charged that "Stevens had not re ceived full fighting support m the gallant battle you are trying to put up for the Army." Kane wrote also that he felt that Stevens and the Army need such help "very badly" and added his opinion that the Army should "nev er be subjected, even indirectly, to politics of ;ahy kind." Needed Support .. Kane did not say just what su periors he had in mind. Steven's immediate superiors would be Secretary of - Defense Charles E. Wilson and Deputy Sec retary Roger M. Kyes. Over them is President Eisenhower. , : Kane expressed the hope that Stevens would, stay in his post to "fight, for the 'firm establishment" of his principles. - Fight Over Stevens Stevens recently took issue with what he termed Sen. McCarthy's "abuse" of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker. McCarthy had . criticized Gen. Zwicker because of an honorable discharge given Maj. Irving Peress a New York dentist whom McCar thy calls "a fifth Amendment Com munist" Zwicker said he merely acted under orders in giving the discharge. I , . Oregon Man Linked to ThefllofGold MEDFORD UP! Everett A. Skeeter, 50, Medford area logging operator, was arrested late Thurs day on a charge of violating the federal gold ireserve act A federal warrant from Los Angeles linked hirrovith three Ore gon men arrested recently at In dio, Calif., wjth 350 ounces of bar gold in their possession. Skeeter waji released on his own recognizance to appear in court later. No details of the basis of the charge against him were avail able. I Arrested atj Indio Feb. 13 were Peter Guorley, 46, Roseburg: Her bert Hogan, 47, Oakland, Ore., and William Mays:, 44, Freewater. Guorley is put on $4,000 bond. Hogan and Mays are in the county jail at Los Angeles. Rancher Finds Balloon Bomb l BURNS iSi What looked like m wartime balloon-carried Japa nese bomb was found this week in southern Harney County. Ed Caldefwood, rancher, who made the find, said it was a box like affair with strings attached as though to: a balloon. - I During the' war many Japanese balloon-bombs landed on this con' tinent. One of them came down near Bly, about 150 miles south west of here, and a minister's wife and five children, on a Sun- cay school pfenic were killed when the bomb exploded. They were the only continental casualties of the war. Silverton Youngster Injured in Mishap ! " - V " - Statesman News Service SILVERTON Five-year-old ' Jimmy Roth; incurred a fractured j ' , nd broken legwhen a trailer ran over him Friday at f "ft "a iw m- i yin ojw. The littler fellow was riding on an r implement trailer behind a tractor which was moving a tur key laying house. He fell off and the trailer 'ran over him. His fa- 1 ther was driving the tractor and ! did not notice the boy had fallen. ; Silverton Hospital authorities reported late Friday that Jimmy was . "doing fine." " . ', : The. Roth farm is on Silver Creek Fail Road. Tcdav'sf Statesman SECTION I ' i Society Womens News 3 ! i Editorials-Features 1 44 Valley News 6 1 Comics-Radio-TV 7 ' j Church News' c 8 SECTION II v ' ' i i Sports News ...J : i Market News Classifieds - .1-2 3-6 Fertile Field for Christian i Bnih - ffl hr , - - - - - - - If W V ' ' r ' "f j. mm mm -. mmpm ' "-w ? V " L. - ' , - " 1 . mm mm mm mm i S : -! Ik,! t - 4E 1 ': ff ! I ' .ii " I If "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone" might well ie the text ef the Rev. Glenn W. Sachs, Protestant chaplain at the Oregon State Penitentiary, as he stands in the pulpit of the prison chapel. Both Protestant and Catholic services are conducted each week at the institution, and both chaplains . spend much time counseling the convicts. (Statesman photo.) (Additional photo and story, an Church page S, sec. 1.) : j TurncoatPOW Behind Bars, Facing Trial SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UFi The Army put Cpl. Claude Batchelor of Kermit, Tex., a prisoner of war in Korea who changed his mind about staying with, the Reds, be hind bars Friday. Fourth Army headquarters here i announced that charges of collabo rating with the enemy had, been .' preferred against the corporal and a pre-trial investigation will begin soon to determine whether the ev idence justifies trial by court mar tial. He was confined Friday to the stockade at Fort Sam Houston here, headquarters of the Fourth Army. He refused to make any statements or grant any inter views. ! Auto Flips, But Driver Missing A 1952 model sedan reeeived extensive damage . Friday night when it left the road and rolled ovr about one -mile west of Four Corners but apparently no one was injured in the accident, state police reported. Police said the ear, registered to Kenneth J. Templar, apparent ly was westbound when it went off theileft side of the road and flipped over. No one was at the accident scene when investigat ing officers- arrived. Sunshine to Wane, Says jWeatlierman Spring weather is expected to end temporarily in , mid-valley this morning with cloudy skies predicted by ' weathermen at McNary Field. The sky condition is forecast to change to partly cloudly tonight and Sunday. Slightly cooler temperatures are due today with the high ex acted to range near 55 and the low tonight near 36. Ti I f tt h gylj fpr Pff 1 UUl) Undergoes r Christine9 Change LONDON I A British war time "fighter pilot, father of two children, has . undergone medical and surgical treatment that , has transformed, him into a woman. Press Association reported Friday night f "-..H In a long detailed dispatch the news agency said this "may well be the most complete! change of sex in the world's rmedical his tory."! Press Association declined to state the source of . the story but said documents prove its authen ticity.: j - f..-. The i patient was " identified as Bab Cowell, 33, former rugby foot ball player and racing motorist and son of Maj. Gen. Sir Ernest CowelL Gen. Cowell was honorary surgeon of the late King George VI and President Eisenhower's di rector of medical services In the Pet Dog Brings Home the Bacon COOS BAY tfl Don Matson's dog is taking some of the pressure off the family food budget. The animal has been bringing home cans of beef and gravy. Mat son hasn't found out where the dog is getting them but police believe they may be part of the loot from a recent burglary of the Charles ton school near here. Several cases of canned beef and other goods were taken from the cafeteria. License Over Buzzing Case WASHINGTON ( A Civil Aeronautics Board examiner threw the book -at Arthur Godfrey Friday for "reckless" frying, recommend ing that he be grounded for six months.' This is the stiff est avail able penalty. In New York, the radio-television star said through a spokes man that he would not appeal. If no appeal is "filed by March IS, the finding of the examiner, Al bert 'H4 Ruppar, will become the final decision of the five-man board and Godfrey's pilot's certifi cate will be suspended for six months.". Ruppar said he was convinced, from tfte evidence submitted by Godfrey) and by the Civil Aeronau tics Administration in its V com plaint, that Godfrey intentionally buzzed the Teterboro, N. J.,' air port control tower with his twin engine DC3 on a take off Jan. 7. j BUY FILM RIGHTS j ! : NEW jYORK 1 Samuel Gold wyn Productions, Inc., Friday pur chased film rights to the stage hit musical, buys ana uoiis, in a deal reportedly exceeding one mil lion dollars. . ' i ) , : ' ! VOTE BOND ISSUE - i ; OREGON CITY W Oregon City voters Friday night approved 495 rto 420 a $1,170,000 bond issue for construction oi a new junior mgn school and repairs and, additions to existing : schools. Ti 1 f rrt ! fr fltUPr OT I ICO 1 Ul X IVU North African campaign of World War II. :: Press Association gave this ac count: I . " , ' ' M- :" Bob Cowell became conscious of changes in his physical condition j and mental outlook in 1943 after years of hazardous adventure as a Spitfire pilot and - driver ' of racing: cars and motorcycles. An eminent physician told him that his body showed prominent femi nine sex characteristics, .-; S , He abandoned ' motor '' radng, gave tip-eld friends and on the advice , of doctors underwent hor mone treatment designed to ex pedite ; the - change. ; ' - . ,' - I " f "Brilliant plastic surgery was the next step. In three years skill ful operations at a London hospi tal by one of Britain's: most emi nent surgeons completed the trans formation. Gradually, the chrysalis emerged as a female.! Godfrey Loses ! Endeavor Fralheis Files 31 For Senate; , in Race State! Rep. Carl H. Francis, Dayton Republican, filed Friday for the state senate from Yamhill County. - .; . ; His action takes him out of the contest lor speaker of the House of Representatives. The only oth er announced candidate for speaker-is Rep. David Baum, La GrandeJ Elmer? Deetz, the Canby dairy j man who is fighting the State : Milk Control Law and sanitation I regulations, filed for the Republi can nomination for State repre sentative from Clackamas County. Other? filings: State jRep. Gust Anderson, Port land Republican, for reelection. Eugene G. Cecchini, Portland Republican, for State Representa tive. I State! Sen. G. Russell Morgan, Hillsboro Republican for reelec tion. Ernet J. Burrows. Portland Republican, lor State Representa tive i Beulah P. Moore, Oregon: ,City Democf at, , for State Representa tive. Rudie Wilhelm. Jr.. Portland Republican, for State Senator. Franris W. Ziegler, Corvallis Republican for State Senator. i Foreign Aid Is Continued WASHINGTON (. President Eisenhower told Congress Friday be nas; ordered continuance of aid to . nve European nations even though? they have . shipped ! more than six million dollars worth of strategic materials to Soviet. Rus sia and her satellites. . s The 'nations . involved are Den mark, France, Italy, Norway and the United Kingdom. The President said to stop military and economic aid to these countries because they permitted trade with Eastern Eu rope in " recent ' months would "clearly be detrimental to the se curity yof the United States." : -' r"""r Z ; . COSTLV CdFFEfc i WASHINGTON Senate in vestigators developed this gloomy forecast Friday: American coffee drinkers may be shelling out $1.23 a pound for Java before the year is Max. . Min, Pree. M - 2i '.tJ 56 ' 21 !! M 51 i v 17 jOO 70 30 : J0O 50 46 .00 56 31 ; .00 57 48 ; trace 27 1 .00 2J ' M feet. - ! . Portland Baker Medford North Bend Rom burg San Francisco , Chicago m New Yorf . rOKZCAST (from. V. S. weather bureau; McNary field. Salem): Cloudy thia morning becoming partly cloudy this afternoon and to night. Partly cloudy Sunday. Hirh today 53-55 and low tonight 34-36. Temperature at 13 1 a.m. today SALKH PRECIPITATION' Sine Start of Weather Year Sept 1 Thia Year . Last Year Normal 35 JO ; J1.S7 , 30.11 - .. l . r NEW YORK WV-The smoulderinz union rivalrr fnr intf i New York's big waterfront flared day in defiance of a Federal Court Dockers or the old International Loncshoremen' Assn rin t ignored their own leaders as well iuu ua uic fwiii aoo jiicrSf . M . i . - Some waterfront observers sensed in the walkout the long-wait- I ed, do-or-die shutdown between the I LA and a new rival AFL' doc union. However, ilai dock ers have staged similar walkouts in ine recem past as demonstra tions and they have been short lived. j ;. The strike hit hardest at the Hud son River luxury line piers, f mong the busiest in the world. The world's largest liner, the Queen Elizabeth, was caught in the; tieup but sailed , on schedule neverthe less Some of her passengers had to carry their own baggage aboard. The midtown luxury piers are the domain of the ILA's Local 824 called the "pistol local" because of its notorious record of violence. An unidentified official of the lo cal said of the strike: j j 'You can blame the NLRB foj giving us a dirty deal. The! AFL -j started this business and the NLRB lowered the boom on us. j j It was the National Labor! Rela tions Board that went into Federal Court Thursday to get an injunc tion against ILA strikes orjj inter ference with normal waterfront loading activities. I I ILA officials called this discrim ination, and said any court'' order should have covered rival AFL un ions as well. Nevertheless ILA President William V. Bradley said he had ordered his dockers to stay on the job. They refused, j The battle for the waterfront be gan last September when the ILA was kicked out of the AFL for fail ure to purge itself of gangsters and racketeers. i Puerto Bicans Say Innocent' i i Of Shootings J WASHINGTON If) formal pleas of "innocent" were entered in U.S. District Court Friday for four Puerto Rican Nationalists ac cused of shooting down five con gressmen in the House of Repre sentatives Monday. ! t "I would , like it to.be charged that what I committed was the de-. fense of my country," said Lolita Lebron, 34, in broken English. She describes herself as the ringleader in the attack. i "We came here to defend .the independence of our . country," chimed in Rafael Cancel Miranda, 25, another defendant ! I Judge James W. Morris entered pleas of innocent for all four and set April 5 as the tentative date for their trial. I Mrs. Lebron, Cancel, Andres Fu- gueroa cordero, 29, and i Irving Flores Rodriguez, 28, are each charged with five counts of 'assault with intent to kill and five; counts of assault with a dangerous weap on, t ! The court confirmed their bonds L ,A AAA ? Stevens Quits, Report Claims i CHICAGO (JR The Chicago tribune said Friday night in a dis patch from Washington that Rob ert Stevens was reliably j report ed" to have tendered his resigna tion as Secretary of the Army. 1 Stevens resigned, the Tribune reported, after John F. Kane quit as his special assistant in! protest against "failure of the Eisenhow er administration to give Stevens 'full fiahtinir eiinnni4 " , S : ! r In Washington, Defense Depart ment sources said they had j no confirmation that Stevens had sub mitted his resignation. Stevens was out of Washington, and not avail able for comment But Mrs. Stev ens said that her husband had not resigned his post . ! 1 Willamiha, j Dayton Girls Win Way to Spelling L i 4 DAYTON Twelve -year - old Charlene Kauble of Willamina spelled "perilous and "paraly sis'' Friday night to win first place in the Yamhill County semi finals of The Statesman-KSLM Spelling Contest . Charlene, 7th-grade student of Curtis Benefiel and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Kauble, Box 312, Willamina, was given a good race by Yvonne Lofton, 13, Vance Noble's 8th grade at Dayton, who stayed right with her jfor 1231 words. . j . j- - Yvonne, daughter of Mr. Ind Mrs. Richard M. Lofton, Route 2, Dayton, won second place and both girls thus qualified! fori the Grand Finals oi the contest at Parrish Junior High in Salem, Wednesday night, March 24. Charlene as winner ;of first place in the semi-finals was pre sented a Webster's New Collegi ate Dictionary, In behalf of the contest sponsors, by Rep. Carl Francis of Daytoa who acted as judge, y . I 1 into a port wide wildcat ttrik FrU I no-strike order. ' ' w I as the government to tie up about S Appointed Charles W. Terry, Alabaman ap pointed director of Oregon Civ- il Service Commission. (Story I on page z, see, Z.) Guatemalan, U.S.Fia;ht Out in Open CARACAS, Venezuela fl The! undercover fight between the Uni-i ted States and Guatemala over ! communism blazed into the ooen at the Inter-American Conference here Friday. i Guatemala's Foreign Minister. ! GuiUermo Toriello, in a st'n- 53-minute speech, attackc' . Washington government's en bring up a resolution here e ! Communist , intervention in I Western hemisphere. He sak I was a "smear" against: his count; ; and ah 'internationalization of M'- Carthyism, of book burning. -U. S. Secretary of State Dulles lashed back in a statement a few hours later in which he accused the; leftist government of Guatemala of backing down on its twice-pledged word to fight communism, and de clared the United States did not intend to let the "abusive" lan guage used by Toriello obscure the: Communist issue : '? ; Cache of Guns NEW YORK m - A big cache of weapons was seized Friday in an upper west side! Manhattan store room and police arrested two men they identified as Cubans. Po lice Commissioner Francis W. H. Adams said they may be members of a big arms smuggling ring. . They were identified as Mario Cruz; 34, and Roberto; Oscar Ace vedo, 36, who speak only a smat tering of English.; ; Adams said the weapons in the arsenal were American made. They included 27 large caliber anti-tank guns with 24 cases of am munition, 25 Garand ' rifles with . four cases of bullets, and 230 hand grenades. :- CAPONE AIDE DIES CHICAGO (v-Terry Droggan one" of the original public enemies who made millions peddling boot leg beer for Al Capone, died Thurs day at the age of 52, virtually ig nored and his fortune nearly gone. Rep. Francis also presented certificates to Charlene, Yvonne and to Dolores James, 13, in Mrs. Mary Lucas' 8th grade at Amity, who won third places. She was spelled down en bririanL" j '- . .Vi ' . M- j 'v ' i sJ if C& i ' . v w mm Discovered Jacqueline Buckler, 12, in the 4 7th grade at Hopewell, supped on "quarantine" after staying with the top four contestants, for more than 200 words . j , Earlier in the contest, Dolores Rose, 14, an 8th-grader from She ridan, slipped inadvertently on "rural' and Delores Quenelle, 13, in the 8th grade at Grand Ronde Agency, put a "c ia "nonsense. Host principal I 1 the semi-C- nals was Robert Tedd. William ! Ross,. KSLM, handled a tape-ree- 4 ording interview with the win j ners, for broadcast at 2:15 p.m. ; Saturday. Words were. called by ! Wendell Webb, managing editor j of The Statesman, i: The next semi-finals will be ' held at Woodburn at 7:43 pjn. Monday, in Washington SchooL i-
