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The Weather Max. Mia. ' Fr0. - SJ 31 .Mj , galea Portland - Baa Francisco 56 4V .00 New York 35 25 J00 jfl&a YSfla' Geared to the Crnril f frigs rORICAST (from XT. S. weather bureau. McNary field, Salem): Variable high cloudiness today ln--rsins and lowering- tonight witli -few aprinkles pocsibl Monday. Bich today 82-94 and low tonight 13-40. ; Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today Waa 31. 103ED YEAR 4 SECTIONS 44 PAGES Th Oracjon Statasmcm, Salem, Oracjon, Sunday March 7, 1954 No. 342 ID ionalist Boss o uerto eize l . i ' j . : -:.:-r price ioc a ' Ricaia Police IYV I OtP S3MIDB There is very eood bookstore in the terminal of the National Airport at Waihington, with of ferings far better than the usual array of paper-back reprints, sexy magazines and pamphlets on how to figure your income tax. One evening last fall, waiting to board a plane for Portland, I fcmwged amone its bookshelves and bought a copy of "Out of These Roots" a late autobiogra phy of a very prominent and very able American woman, Mrs. Agnes E. Meyer. It was a happy choice I found it so fascinating that I read it through on the flight to Oregon. (I'm a poor sleeper at best and a night on a plane is usually wakeful) It is hardly fair to Mrs. Meyer merely to identify her as the wife of Eugene Meyer, the owner of the Washington Post, who served his country in important . capacities as chairman of the War Finance Corporation in the first world war, and later as Gov ernor of the Federal Reserve Board and managing director of the Reconstruction Finance Cor portation. For Mrs. Mefer is a very competent person in her own right, a woman of varied in terests, . tremendous energy, a lively sense of justice and un daunted courage. She is the one, by the way, over whom Chair man Velde of the House un American activities committee took such a fall-on-his-face when be got her mixed up with an alleged .Communist woman of somewhat similar name. Mrs. Meyer's autobiography is packed full of incidents and experiences (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Girl Using Lie Detector On Boy friends OKLAHOMA CITY tfl A pretty 17-year-old' high school girl, with a bent for science, has built a simple Be detector that is keeping her boy friend on the straight and narrow. Red-haired Jane Welborn. senior at Central High School, says that the machine uses three of the five principles found in most profes sional lie detectors. 0 Hers incorporates the testing of respiration, heartbeat and pulse rate, which give an indication of the subject's physical response to questions. The professional models also check blood pressure and brainwaves. , Jane explains to do this she would have to "amplify the elec tric current on her 'gadget to such a degree that it could cause elec trocution." . 1 No Sense in losing any boy friends, she agrees. Jane will enter her machine in the Science Fair here in hopes it is good enough to be rated for national competition. She has proof positive that her machine does the job. "- No matter how the boy friends react to other questions, there's one that unfailingly upsets them. The gadget "goes wild" when she brings up the subject of home work. Yellowstone Bears Injure 43 in Season WASHINGTON Ufl Forty three urnn were injured, none serious ly, by bears at Yellowstone Nation al Park last year, when the park had 1,326358 visitors, the National Park Service reported Saturday. Black bears continue to vie with Old Faithful geyser each summer as the star attraction at the park, th srvir said, "but their antics and holdups of park visitors along the highways continue w give par - L..J..kd t rangers dwuiu. Lyons Approves Fire District r Mtatam'aa Iwi Benrlea T.vnxs Voters of this com munity approved-the. formation of the Lyons Fire District Satur day by a vote of 109 to one. The Ipne ballot was illegible, election officials said. . a Elected to the board of direct ors of the district were Wilson Stevens, John SUbernagel, Ralph Downer, Don Huber and Percy Hiatt. - Photographer m0g-y - '-mm- - " v -'-' cr i . .0 u "r" . - ti ,r- Cloudless skies and calm winds enjoyed here last week not only gave valley residents an early taste of spring, but gave The Statesman a chance to bring its file of aerial photos up to date. One of these RotariansDue InSalemToday For Conclave I Several hundred Rotarians will "begin gathering in Salem today for the annual conference of Ro- due to run through Tuesday.. "Highlight speech of the three-day session will be delivered Monday by Prentiss A. Rowe, San Fran cisco, personal representative of President Joaquin Serratosa Ci- bils of Uraguay. Other speakers for sessions,, an scheduled for the Marion Hotel, include Harry Dillin, district gov ernor from McMinnville: Dr. Clifford E. Maser, Oregon State College; Milan Smith, past dis trict governor from Pendleton; Lloyd G. Williams, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia; Gov. Paul L. Patterson and Frank J. Van: Dyke, Medford. (Full details of convention In Rotary Section id .- i Tfitcted5 Ride In Stolen Car Ends in Jail j Hitch-hiking proved the un doing of 46-year-old Richard Vernon Easter, of Redding, Calif., and resulted in his spend ing Saturday night in the county jail at City HalL It seems , that Easter was "hitching" on Highway 89E ; en route south when he was picked up ; near Oregon City by a 16-year-old 'youth from that city. v The pair travelled soutn in tne early hours of Saturday morning and Esster settled back for a nap. He was awakened by the wail of a police siren at-lllihee HilL about seven miles south of Salem and the car pulled over to the side of the road by a state natrolman. The young driver was arrested on a charge of possessing an auto stolen from Milwaukie about bne hour previous. Easter was charged with vagrancy to which he oleaded guilty and was given a' suspended sentence in Marion County - District Court after - a night in jaiL The teenager was picked up later in the day!' by Clackamas County authorities. BERMISTON VOTES BONDS f HERMiSTON (A A $187,000 bond issue to improve the city water system was approved Friday by Hermiston voters, 208-83. The money will be spent for a new well, reservoir, new distribution pipes and more-fire hydrants. n - ; -. 4'-: SWAKSON ELECTED 4 , GEARHART (J! Ray Swanson of Nod, Ore., is the new president of the Western Forest Industries Assn. Takes Aerial Union C High School if , . Statesman Newt Service SILVERTON In one of the largest votes ever cast In a school issue here, Silvertoh School District High School for Silverton 463 to 183. I A second question on the ballot, "Shall the site and building for the proposed union high school be the present union high -school district at a price to be determined by a qualified appraisal com Heavy March1 Snowstorm On Gulf Coast By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS j March the month spring comes hit Northwest Florida and other parts of the Gulf Coast with the area s heaviest snowstorm in years : Saturday. Northern states shivered id a daytime freeze. The snow ranged from a trace on the ground in Florida up to four inches m parts of Mobile, Ala. The powdery white stuff filtering down was such a strange sight in the area that children and adults rushed outdoors in excitement. In Mobile, where azaleas and ca mellias are blooming in profusion, oldtimers called the four-inch snow the heaviest in a half century. The snow reached its greatest depth at 7 a. m and then higher tempera tures turned it to slush. . The snow caked on blooming plants and piled up on the white sands of Gulf Coast beaches. The storm came at the height of Mo bile's azaleas season. The March storm left a white blanket across parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Northwest Florida. - - . Daytime temperatures remained below freezing over lower Michi gan, the Eastern Great Lakes re gion and the Northern Appalachi ans. The weather was near freez ing along the Atlantic Seaboard. Warmer weather came, to the Great Plains ' with daytime tem peratures ranging from 40 to 64 degrees. ' 1; . , Gouds Expected Byj Weatherman i ' 1 Cloudy skies with slightly cool er temperatures is the weather picture for the mid-Willamette Valley today, according to weath erman at AIcNary Field. ' Clouds will lower tonight . and Monday and ' some light precipi tation is expected Monday. High est temperature today will range near 54 while the low tonight will be near 38, forecasters said, ; 1 j SALEM rUCXTTTAtlOX Since Start of Weather Year Sept 1 This Year r Last Year Normal as-as i aii , aoss Look at New Bridge System ' photographs a shot of the city and and the new route through West man staff photo by John Ericksen.) voters Saturday favored a Union pany mutually acceptable, was also favored 440 to 164. Action here Saturday clears the way for the 12 neighboring dis tricts to petition to join the Un ion High School District Districts involved in the proposal are Ever green, Brush Creek, Evens Valley, Central Howell, Victor Point, Bethany,! Mt Angel Silver Crest, Crooked Finger, Monitor, Butte Creek and Scott Mills. Silverton School Supt Howard Balderstone said the board of education-hopes the issue can be set tled bf May since .the Silverton District is now without authority to hire teachers for the coming year. Weathermen To Eliminate Guesswork K WASHINGTON Ml Imagine picking up your, morning paper, reading 'and believing: "Rain will start at 4:32 p. m. and end at 10:46 p. m." This wEB be possible "certainly within 10 years, possibly within five, predicted Capt Howard T. OrviQe, chairman of the U. S. Ad visory Committee on Weather Con trol, in a CBS public affairs radio program Saturday. Orvllle said development of a na tional electronic network" will take the guesswork out of weather forecasting. . Billy Graham Sees 'Hunger for God' in London i! LONDON un American evan gelist Billy Graham ended the first week of his. London revival drive Saturday night, declaring "there is a great hunger for God in this, vast city. : "The; response has been mag nificent" Graham told a reporter. About 65,000 persons have heard Graham preach in the Harringay Arena which acconimodates more than 11,000 persons. Graham's London crusade slated to run 12 weeks. DUKEj succumbs COBURG, Germany W Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe Coburg GothaJ a grandson 1 of Britain's Queen Victoria died here Satur day after a long illness. He was 69. the aew one way bridge system Salem Is shown above. (States Two Houses AtValsetz Stateiman News Service : VALSETZ A furious; early- morning fire destroyed two houses and sent one family, scampering through a fear window to safety here Saturday. Nobody was injur ed. The adjacent houses were oc cupied by the Carol Warden and" Loren Allen families. Both Were owned by Valsetz Lumber Co. which owns most of the dwellings in this company town. The fire apparently started in the wiring of a 1951 Pontiac housed in a garage which separa ted the two frame houses,: accord ing to W- B. Brownjohn, superin tendent of; the lumber company. Mrs. Warden smelled the smoke about 2 a.m. Her son, Vernon, 24, dashed into the Allen house. awakened the family and helped the parents carry their three child ren to safety through a rear win dow, Brownjohn reported. i The Allen family- includes boys and 2 and a nine-months-old gut The two families lost virtual ly all possessions hi the fire which observers isaid spread very fast Besides the, car, the Aliens lost several new appliances including a television set, laundry unit and dryer. Loss to I both families was re ported partly covered by insur ance;. Brownjohn said both fami lies were relocated in other com pany dwellings and Valsetz town folk had responded with clothing and household articles. He said total loss would be approximately $10,000. . ! J The two houses that! burned were at the end of a row of 10 company j houses. Fast work by Valsetz ' volunteer firemen - prob ably I saved other dwelling from destrucunon, Browjohn said. The fire was the worst for this isolated i town, located 25 miles southwest; of Dallas, since ' three members of the Fitzgerald family died in a home blaze about two years ago.: .- " f : - . " iff : Moral: Hang on To Report Cards -TULSA. Okla. (A - A Tulsa High School student learned .Saturday that when he tossed his report card through a : bus window fate must have been laughing. . t 1 The .' ; card. -. bearing ; 1 sub-par grades, landed among empty jewel cases taken in a recent S27J300 burglaryJ r Suspicious officers, who - later found thei discarded jewel boxes and the f report card Questioned the frightened boy, then released him to face more quizzing at home. Fire Destroy Campos, Aides Arrested After 2-Hour Battle SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico W Police seized Pedro Albizu Cam pos, chief of Puerto Rico's Nation alist. Party, and five of his aides in a blazing two hour battle of guns and homemade bombs Sat urday. ! Gov. Luis Munoz Mario made plain the crackdown on the fanati cal Nationalist Party was the re sult of the shooting of five U.S. congressmen by Nationalists in Washington last Monday. He pledged all out effort to "stamp out this poisonous snake in our midst" The governor issued orders to police to arrest 38 Nationalist Par- ty leaders. Within five hours, 36, (The story of Pedro Albizu Campos and his Puerto Rican National iit Party appears on page 12, section 3 of today's Statesman.) - including the 62 year old Albizu Campos and five women; were under arrest Among the women was Doris Torresola, a party secretary. Her brother, Griselio Torresola, was killed by Secret Service police when the Nationalists tried to as sassinate President Truman in Washington in 1950. No lives were lost in the shooting Saturday. There was no violence elsewhere in connection with the other arrests, and the entire island was reported calm Saturday night Albizu Campos was in a hospital under police guard. Tear gas had been used to subdue him and the others but police said the fiery eyed longtime radical was not in jured. When he was found upstarts in his apartment he had gasped I am asphyxiated." Albizu Campos "was Jailed for a violation of a pardon given him after being sentenced to 54 years in prison following a revolt he led in 1950 which claimed the lives of 50 Puerto Ricans. A graduate of Harvard University, he had served a previous 6 year sentence in At lanta Federal Penitentiary for in surrection. Saturday s shooting will probably result in additional charges against him. Heavy Catch of Fish Almost Swamps Boat ASTORIA W The drag boat Oregonian, so heavily loaded that waves washed 5,000 pounds of fish off its decks, brought in this week the biggest catch of bottom fish since World War H. . The boat nearly swamped When it crossed from the ocean into the Columbia River Friday, but man aged to reach dock, where 65,000 pounds of sole, ocean perch and some petrale were unloaded at the New England Fish Co. Jack Ray, skipper of the 65-foot boat, said bis crew hit such good fishing that another 25,000 pounds of fish was given away to other fishermen. All told, about 95,000 pounds of fish were caught in five days, he estimated. The value of the catch was estimated at about $3,000. McKay Still Under Guard as Result of Shooting in Congre By A. ROBERT SMITH . ' Statesman Correspondent : WASHINGTON Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay i is still under tight security guard, whether he likes it or not as result of the shooting of five : i e ongressmen last Monday.! Y- 1 1 And there Is little liklihood he win be go ing to the Vir? gin Islands, much less Puer- A. R. Smith h a d planned prior to the terrorists' attack.! McKay had scheduled his de parture from the capital Tues day at 9:45 aJXL, flying down to Puerto Rico for' an inspection visit before going on to nearby Virgin Islands, which is popu lated by a good many Puerto Ricans. As Secretary of Inter ior, McKay is chairman of the board of directors of the Virgin Island Corp- which is required by law to' hold one of its quar terly meetings annually in the islands. - Going with him was Agriculture Secretary Ezra Ben- Ad lai Says; fc Avoids Criticizing Due to Political Motive By. JACK BELL 1 MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Adlai E. Stevenson asserted Saturday night that the Republican Party "divided against itself, half McCarthy and half Eisenhower"- has deliberately embarked on a campaign of "slander, dissension and deception" in an effort to remain in power. ; Stevenson, the 1952 Democratic nominee, declared in a speech pre pared for the Southeastern Demo cratic Conference, that President Eisenhower has soft - pedaled crit icism of Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) because he has been persuaded "that McCarthyism is the best Re publican formula for political suc cess." a "Aims to Capture Party' j C Lashing out at McCarthy, vaca tioning in a nearby Miami Beach' hotel, Stevenson said that the chief objectives of the Wisconsin senator and those who support mm, in clude "not only the intimidation and silencing of all independent institutions and opinion in our so ciety, but the capture of one ot our great instruments of political action the Republican Party." The end result in short is: a malign and fatal totalitarianism." he declared. Democratic Harmony Stevenson's speech was ar ranged before a backdrop of I a Democratic harmony lest in a state the former Illinois governor lost to Eisenhower in 1952. Party officials - and office holders from almost every section of the nation came here to hear him speak as the titular head of their organiza tion. : ? . In what was for him a bitterly- phrased address, Stevenson took a step toward ending speculation about Democratic tacucs in uus Congress. As few -Democrats thus far have been willing to do,- Stevenson charged Eisenhower with personal responsibility for the "McCarthy ism". The former presidential nominee blamed primarily for the i bitter harvest of the seeds of slander, defamation and disun ion planted in the soil of democ racy." i Citing the controversy between Eisenhower and McCarthy oyer the latter's charges that the Army had "coddled" Communists, Stev enson said. that if the President had cracked down on the Wiscon sin senator he would have had the country's support (Additional de tails on page 6, Sec. 1). ( . ; Catholic Church i Cardinal Dies I VATICAN CITY 1 - Massimo Cardinal Massimi, 76, an outstand ing expert on the law of the Ro man Catholic Church, cued Satur day of a heart attack. ! The death broke the full comple ment of 70 in the College of Cardi nals, which had been brought to top strength when the Pope named 24 princes of the church in January of last vear. ' i Massimi's death the first of a cardinal in nearly two years reduced the number of Italians in the college to 25. Non-Italians total 44. . ! ss son, a member of the 7-inan boaru. - They were stopped before hey on got underway by the assaull the House of. Representatives Monday' afternoon. Within a half hour of the attack, security guards were assigned to jgive McKay 24-hour protection, j No one would say where; the guards came from or who had assigned them. But presumably they are attached to the XL S. Secret Service here which! has the everyday responsibility! of guarding the president ' j The meeting of the Virgin Is- land Com. came off without a hitch, for fortunately at least four boaVa members t a qub rum - were on hand in ad vance of the hostilities and went ahead to conduct the necessary business without McKay or Ben son. -V-rtZ-V!-- . f Mrs.' McKay missed the i nui sance : and possible worry i that comes with being under special guardV for she. had left Wash ington, D.C for Salem earlier Monday. Having accompanied the secretary last vear on his trip to the islands, she was tak ing the occasionjto get in a visit back home. . fflcCartiiy, State Suing f Mt. Angel on Sewage Issue Discharging of sewaee into th Pudding River at Mt Angel b came the basis of a suit filed Sat urday with the Marion County Clerk's office naming the muni cipal city and its officials as co defendants. i ! Plaintiff in the suit is te State of Oregon through its Sani tary Authority. ! A decree is sought by plain tiffs to permanently enjoin the defendant from discharging any sewage into the river without ade quate prior treatment It is aP ' leged that failure to treat the sewage -has resulted in the wa ters Becoming polluted and un sanitary and detrimental I to ani mal or aquatic life. It is further alleged that this failure on the pan ot the, aty deters what might be a site for recreational enjoyment -r- Specifically, the complaint charges that the city owns and operates a municipal sewer sys tem from which effluent Is be ing discharged into the-Pudding River. As welL it Is char red. . the said sewasi dlsnoaal system also receives Industrial " wastes from the. ML i 1 Angel Co operative Creamery;' which wastes are also being discharge ea into the waters i , The downstream waters of tie, river are . used for irrigation, livestock watering, fishing and recreation. Reference is made in the com plaint to a public hearing con ducted July 18, 1932, -at which time the city was presented the findings of fact concerning a study by the State Sanitary Au thority. The complaint states that on Aug. 11, 1952, an order was directed from the plaintiff to the defendants making it man datory that effective July I, , 1953, no sewage waste or sewage -effluent would be discharged into Pudding River without, ade quate prior treatment . The State charges that "the defendants have failed and ne glected to obey said order . . . and have continued to create a public nuisance. ets To Get Farms wt -a . ' WT Valley V PASCO, Wash. W Several ; Oregon veterans were among the i lucky whose names . were drawn J Friday for 82 units of land in a ; Bureau of Reclamation project in 1 the Columbia Basin near. here. The units vary in size from 50 to 120 acres. The land is scheduled to receive its first irrigation water next year. - r ' Among the first 82 names drawn were these from Oregon: - Orville Maiden, Albany; Victor ; Ahnen. Mount Angel: O. - Dale ) : Shockey, Sweet Home; Glenn W. i Hill,. Sweet Home; and James L. Barrett, Albany. j Today's Statesman SECTION. 1 ; "General news.. 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11 Editorials, features Valley news Our. Valley " Television TV-Radio log Sports SECTIONS Rotary Club News General news ""ift 1 . 4! SECTION J 1 - " -Society women's jiepf .-1-8 j - " Music - : Shoe Fashions ......... 5-9 World This Week 10 r General news -.11, 12, 14 ; Garden . . .. -13 j SECTION 4 Markets -. . Crossword puzzle : Classified ads SECTIONS Full-color comics 1 143 i . t . i y