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The Weather Max. Min. Preeip. Salem Portland . San Francisco M 24 .00 49 M r Tr .J9 30 .00 Chicago 33 , JOI 4. I w York Willamette River 4.1 feet Forecast .(from U.S. wethf bu reau. McNary field, Salem): Partly cloudy today with niftiest near 49. -Clear tonight with the lowest near s 5. Mostly sunny Monday. - Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today was 38. , - Geared ti the Crawtk f Ortraa NUNDHD 103rd YEAR 32 PAGES Tho Dragon Statesman, SalemJ Oregon. Sunday. March 14 1954 PRICE 10c No. 349 Camera Captures Beauty, Serenity of Salem at Night 'Wild ! Shots' at reaten " - - - " .VV-.! .- MUNDBD :ll65r ' ! " - Th President's - lu til 1 . mi America, thinks Jacques Bar run, French-born American who is both scholar and critic, has de veloped a passion for culture. Not America only: ".The belief has y spread over the world . that a great nation must have art All the totalitarian powers produce the kind they like under pressure; all ' the governments, including ours, have cultural attaches." Barzun says that in his new book, "God's Country and Mine," a chap ter of which appears in the March Harper's magazine (as did an other chapter in the February Atlantic Monthly). Here in America "we have dem ocratized culture." A tremendous , unofficial propaganda for the arts goes on all the time. Advertis ing promotes it "in popularizing difficult modern art," Life. Maga zine gives weekly spreads of paintings and sculpture and evo lutionary history for the edifica tion and instruction of its readers. Phonograph records and . radio popularize the masters of music as well as the products of Tin pan Alley. Quoting Barzun: "In a word, the fusion of elite and people, which . began as a political and social movement, has now reached culture and is . stall I say? homogenizing it" Buy in popularizing the arts we may lose the specific virtue of art in the opinion of Barzun. For art is something deeper than arti facts, and more profound than the techniques which have achieved a wide following: "Like philosophy, but clothed in seductive forms, art records man's consciousness about life and d-ath. Appearance and Reality are the main concern, of both artist and philosopher: the artist ipf kes patterns so as to focus the beholder's feelings upon what his life is really like; art makes us imagine once again what we actu ally are (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Bobs, Playboy Star V Friendly Separation? PALM BEACH, Fla. m Wool worth heiress Barbara Hutton and her latest prince charming, porfi rio Rubirosa, international playboy and Dominican Republic diplomat agreed to a "friendly" separation Saturday ten weeks after their New York marriage. ' f A terse statement signed by both of them said: "We regret that 've have mu tually decided it is wisest for us to separate. Our separation is entire ly friendly and any published state ment giving & different impression is completely incorrect ; The decision was made public by R. D. Maxwell Jr.. a Miami attor ney, at the exclusive Everglades Gub where Barbara is staying with her aunt, Mrs. James P. Donahue. . Barbara remained at the club ' with her aunt at least temporarily, and Rubirosa returned alone to the handsome villa on South' Ocean Boulevard rented , for . their honey moon. Many vantage points in West and Sooth Salem offer striking: views of the city at unusual ground photographs of the city by Statesman staff photographer John Erick night, Jut one of the most beautiful and probably most often seen is from the sen was taken from the bridge on a recent rainy night. Large white streak above the Center treet Bridge. The above photograph No. 3 of a series of aerial or skyline is smoke from the paper mill illuminated by city lights. (Statesman Photo) rrm now o rani -4, 1 1 Nations Vote! To Battle Red ration ) CARACAS"".. Venezuela tfC-The American republics - approved by an overwhelming vote Saturday the resolution of fefS Secretary ok State Dulles calling jfor collec tive action -gainst Comrtaftjst in filtration or the westeraBetnis phere. ' . . Only Guatemala accused hyf the United States of being under Communist influence voted against the resolution at the 10th Inter - American Conference. I The vote was 17-1 with 2 abstentions Mexico and Argentina .j Adoption of the resolution, to be known henceforth as the "Declara tion of Caracas," was a diplomatic victory for Dulles. He led the fight to have the Americans serve no tice on Moscow that Communist in filtration of a country would be considered in. the same light as a foreign invasion. Dulles left by plane for Washing ton after the conference acted. Argentina's abstention was at tributed to its policy of taking a "middle position" in the struggle between East and West Mexico's action apparently reflected; its fears that the declaration might be used by some American re publics as a pretext for interven tion in the internal affairs of! oth ers. Turnpike Murderer r Ruled Guilty GREENSBURG, Pa". OH jury of five women and seven men convicted 24 year old John Wesley Wable Saturday of being the phan tom slayer of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and fixed punishment at death in the electric chair, f The jury deliberated four hours before finding Wable guilty of shooting Harry F. Pitts. 39, of Bowling Green, Va., in the head last July 28 as Pitts slept in his truck on the super highway. Tbe.Ohiopyle. Pa., 'man also is accused of similarly killing Lester B. Woodward. 39, of Duncan-rs, Pa., and wounding John K. Shep erd, .34. of West Alexander. Pa. fThe shootings occurred at three day intervals. The state linked them together at -the .Wable trial and claimed the same gun, fired all the bullets. . afjlt Prince Passes Sonic Barrier. Thrill Saved for Slower Flight LOS ANGELES (U - Royalty flew through the sonic barrier for the first time Saturday,; but the excitement came later in a slower plane.";'--. -,r ' v 1 i - Prince Bernhard of. the Nether lands waa at the controls when the TF88, " a xtwo - place Sabre Jet trainer, flew faster than sound dur ing a dive.'-, -; - -i- After that flight the prince and Lt CoL A. T. House, U. air force plant . representative at North American Aviation Inc., went up for a flight in a propellor driven T2&B, a Navy trainer. While at between 7.000 and S.O00 feet six I miles out 'over the .Pacific with 4, 0 X Young Lebanon Wife Critically Wounded . f : Statesman Newt Service it LEBANON An 18-year-old woman was shot near here late Saturday night and police are investigating with the belief that she may have been shot down by a would-be murderer. The girl, identified as Mrs. Helen Brinkley, was listed in criti cal condition by authorities at Lebanon Community Hospital early Sunday morning. The bullet believed ! to have been fired from a Decision on ExactFilins Asked The atfcaSNy general has been asked for wLegal opinion on whether 5 pSoff ice' closing hours or 12 miapt is the legal deadline for filingcandidates lor primary, ballot pjons. Friday was the last aHpt re ceiving candidates' filin officials said, that filings beaij mg postmark up to midnight Fri day would be accepted by the f Secretary of State, f ; "This is a question we desire to have settled for all time," Da vid O'Hara, registrar of the state elections bureau said Saturday. The- filing involved a minor of fice, O'Hara averred," He would not make public the name of the person who mailed the filing. It was postmarked 6 p.m. Friday, an hour after -O'Hara had stop ped receiving filings; in the state department - , -1 , The filing is being held pend ing receipt of the attorney gen erals opinion. i SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weathet Year Sept I This Year Last Year , Normal 37.79 32.33 i V 31.28 Today's Statesman SECTION 1 - v, i - ; Spelling contest iJL 3 Editorials, features 4 Garden news lt. i' 6 Valley news 7 Our Valley 7 Sports ... .i.L i-.8, 9 Radio, TV .....4....1 10 Crossword ... 1-10 , Picnic places ..1J 12 SECTION 2 I j Society, women's J. . .1-6 Kids Parade pictures . 7 Eddy Gilmore reports ...... 8 , Classified ads ..S.L.--...9-11 SECTION S Full-color comics the prince at the controls,; the en gine quit i j . ' Col. House took oyer and glided the trainer back into Los Angeles International Airport for an emer gency dead stick landing. , Prince Bernhard joked about the incident .;:, The husband) of Queen Juliana did most of the flying during the 23 minutes the TFM jet was in the air Test Pilot 'Joe Lynch, who flew with Bernhard, made the in itial takeoff and one landing. Bernhard acknowledged it was the fastest he had tver flown and North American credited him with being the tfirst member of royalty to break the -sonic barrier.. '. llbe i , si small caliber riile, entered the left side of her head and lodged near i the top of the skull, the at tending physician said. After treatment at the Lebanon Hos pital she was rushed erjy. this morning to a Eugene hospital by the Huston Ambulance Co. The "shooting "occurred! about 10:15 Saturday night , at Victim's home about six miles south of Lebanon on Highway 20, William H. Springer, assistant chief of po lice at Lebanon, reported. ; Mrs. Brinkley's husband, who was recently dixharged from the service, told police he and his wife had just arrived home from California and his wife had en tered the house. As he was bend- ins over the trvnk of the car, po lice Quoted him - as savins, he fard aVshot anc1 saw his wife drc&. Police said Brinkley reported seing nfifeone in the house or yard. The attending physician said the bullet was fir$d frcm close range. Early Sunday., morning state police and deputies from the Linn County sheriffs offk along with Lebanon police combed .the area in search of clues that .' would lead to identity of the person who fired the shot' , E - TV mf or the judges. "Another v Ifillt JT erSOHS bridegroom, being i iC? "ptjltely towed by his bri Hurt m Crash South of Salem Eight persons, were injured in a two - car collision aoout live miles south of Salem lat Saturday night, state police reported. Reported in serious condition at! aaieui memorial nupuii .was Johnny Tremel, Turner Route 2. who! suffered 'lacerations about the head and serious loss of blood. ct w ; i tr. :i -i i He was riding in a car operated by William Redenius, 1219 Ruge St., which crashed Into a car oper ated; by Thomas Eubanks, Salem Route 4, state police reported. Also in the ! Redenius vehicle at the time of the accident were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wolf. Ger- vais ! Route 1, and Eva i Miller. 2263; State St They were shaken up and received minor cuts and bruises. With Eubanks were his wife and seven-year-old son, j Steve, who! were treated for possible shock and' bruises, hospital au thorities - said. The Eubanks ve hicle landed Upside down and was J completely demolished. The second car received major front end damage. state . police re ported. , ' , . ! Partly Cloitdy Skies Forecast .Partly cloudy skies . are " fore cast for the Salem area today with some clearing and cooler temperatures expected tonight weathermen at McNary Field pre dicted. t -1 V? High temperatures today is ex pected to range near 49 with the low tonight sinking to near 26. Monday's forecast - is for sunny , skies. . I ...: ! " 4 Costumes, Pets, Ingenuity in Kids Parade (Pictures on Page 7, Sec. 2.) Downtown Salem belonged to. the ; kids Saturday morning and they Wound up in youthful en thusiasm with a parade, featur ing costumes, pets and ingenu ity, I and topped it off with ice cream; and a movie. "... i - "'Tol temperatures kept en tries down in the event spon sored! by the Downtown Mer chants Association in conjunc tion With their Spring FestivaL; But those several hundred,, in eluding two bands, who were on hand provided judges with some Solomon decisions to pick the winners. The parade route from the Capitol Mall through downtown streets was well populated and crowd pleasers all along the way were a winsome bunny, little Roy Talley, Salem, an electronic man from j another world in Gordon Tavlnr Salem, and a nair of prospectors complete with pack- j horse in. Richard Steinke and! Jerome Ramey. . Other prize winners included youngest parade , entrant 16-month-old Laurie Watkins,' Sa--lem,. as "the grandest lady in the Easter parade," a five-part proj-i ect for the "Last Ride of the Lone! Stranger," Jocko the mon key Who . rode on his human horses and was the -eye catcher ior the judges. "Another winner appro- bride in thPggoneymoon Express. Gfre2 Marshal of the parade was JHarper, Western TV perforirKho was also on hand to greet fSNds at a free movie following tMarding of prizes. Master ' ofereraonies was Dick) Schlup, Rodent of the! Downtowh MercTfets Associa tion. va I - w Ike lnspectl Renovation Workor Home GETTYSBURG, pa. Uh Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower prowled happily through mud and rain Sat' urday to inspect renovation work on the Gettysburg battlefield home to which they plan to retire when they ( leave the White House. I The . President, rain dripping from his brown felt hat and his trousers tucked in five-buckle ga loshes, surveyed the construction work and remarked with a broad grin: ' This doesn't look " like much nowj does it? . Well, some day it will be a good farm home." .?? "Some day," he ; added, ."when I get this farm tack . from these people (the renovators), IH have f to make a living at it some way or other." r'-v;.;-h;v.;:- - - y The President and the first lady drove here from their Catoctin mountain lodge. Camp David, at nearby Thurmont, Md., where they are 'spending the weekend. ? Eisenhower ' purchased . the 189- acre farm here after world Wai WORKMAN CRUSHED . PORTLAND .i ' A i workman at the Plylock Corporation here was ' crushed to death Saturday when caught between two. logs.' He waa -Byron' A. Taylor, 36. . h Prog : ' McCarthy tb Stay Tough With Traitors' By ARTHUR BYSTROM MANITOWOC. Wis. tff Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) asserted Satur day night "as -long as I am in the United States Senate,; and I hope it is a long time, I don't intend to treat traitors likegentle men. They are not gentlemen." McCarthy declared "I don't care how high or low those who scream at what we are doing." The Wisconsin senator declared, without reference to anyone by name that "some people have told me that I shouldn't get so rough. "A Senate friend a kindly old gentleman had something to say about it the other day," McCarthy told a group of Manitowoc busi nessmen. "It's a difficult job to pick these slimy creatures without getting rough. If someone can tell me the gentlemen's way to dig out Com munists, I invite them to 'come on in, the water's fine.' " ; "All this furore has been brought about because we dared to expose some people in the military. We ve got to get rough. The Communists didn't treat our boys like; gentle men." The "kindly old gentleman" ref- erence obviously was to Sen. Flan-1 ders (R-Vt), who made a Senate speech this week saying Mc Carthy's activities threaten to split the Republican Party. President Eisenhower later ex pressed general approval of Flan ders' remarks. j ' Also in an interview prior to his address McCarthy declared he wanted to testify under oath about his ' current ' row with the Army. He aaid he wanted to step down temporarily from the chairman ship of his Senate investigation sub committee to present "all the facts as a witness." Leslie School Publication VV7i M c l-Trkn ntc v? 1119 J.JLU11U1 9 "The Broadcaster," school pub lication of Leslie Junior High School, won first place honors in the Columbia Scholastic ' Press Association's nationwide contest according to reports received Saturday. The publication competed with 1,300 other junior high: school newspapers entered by : schools throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. Maynard Tweet science instruc tor, is the faculty advisor. Principal Earl Hampton ex plained that the entries involve publications printed in the fall of 1953. The editor last fall was John Harvey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Harvey Jr; 2855 Peck Ave. John's brother, Paul III (now a junior at Salem High) was an editor of "The Broadcast er" when be was at Leslie and he too took honors in this competi tion. The boys' father is Associ ated Press Bureau chief in Sa lem, f ; .The publication was 1 entered in the class for lithographed newspapers of junior! -high schools having pupil registrations of 700 to, 1,200. The entries were judged on the basis of f typogra phy, makeup, features and edi torials. V : . L British Airliner At Singapore, 33 Die SINGAPORE UB A British air liner, London-bound from Aus tralia, somersaulted and burned, in landing at Singapore's airport Sat urday and killed 33 of the-40 per sons aboard. , fThe victims : included! at least three Americana and a Canadian. ; Josephine Butler, the stewardess on the BOAC Constellation, died in the general : hospital Sunday morning, raising ' the death toll to 31 -..i, A :" -.,';"-The seven aboard who survived were crew members. Another crew member, a steward, was . kMed. - The airliner skidded in landing and then turned end over end and burned. Rescue workers, including some Europeans who were spend ing a quiet Saturday afternoon at a nearby swimming " pool, rusnea to the scene and dragged th aur-iana rami Nixon Says 100-Mile Winds In Georgia Kill 2, Destroy Planes j COLUMBUS, Ga. (AVWinds' raging at more than 100 miles per hoar hit the post at ; Ft Benning and Lawson Air Force: Saturday night leaving at least: two dead, one missing and? 12 persons with minor injuries. The Lawson public informa tion office reported eight of the Air Force's huge C19 troop . carriers destroyed and undeter mined damage to buildings. An unconfirmed report said a jump tower used by the Army in paratrooper training was blown oyer. . The dead were listed a the 4-month-oId daughter of Sgt and Mrs. James Joyner, killed when a roof collapsed, and a Lawson airman whose name was withheld, pending notifica tion of next oft kin. The missing man at Lawson also was not identified. 1 FBI Puts Top j Priority on Seattle Search SEATTLE m FBf Director j. Edgar Hoover ordered top prior ity" for the Greenwood bank gunmen-killers Saturday as the area's big manhunt saw police checking possible hideouts and suspicious strangers. A message to . FBI Agents Rich ard D. Auerbach from Washington aaid: . - j "Afford the case every priority possible, with continuous attention and full coverage. ' ' ! ' Auerbach and Seattle Police Chief James Lawrence, urged all citizens to watch for an automo bile bearing this Washington li cense plate: Z24-34 A. The es caping trio, after killing one offi cer and wounding two others in shooting their way to freedom Friday, abandoned their stolen getaway car and .nay have trans ferred to the artcd one, Auer bach said. The Seattle First-National Bank posted a $5,000 reward for the three men, one A whom shot and killed Policeman Frank W. Hardy through a "one way" glass which prevented Hardy from seeing him The FBI asked public assist ance and the Seattle police de partment detailed 40 detectives to help out The cold-blooded trio fled with $6,900 in cash, but dropped and left behind a sack r $y 800 in cuTency. Four Democrats Added to Filings, Sweetland Says PORTLAND ( Four Demo cratic candidates for state repre sentative did not get their names on the final list of filings because their declarations, although mailed In time, did not reach Salem by S p.m. Friday. Monroe Sweetland, Democratic national committee man, said. ' ' He said the candidates are Mrs. Dorothy Lowell, Klamath ! Falls, for the Klamath district; , Ronald Southworth, John Day, for the Lake-Harney-Grant joint district; Mrs. Verna Coffinberry, Pendle ton, for the Umatilla district; and Tom Kidder,, Portland, for; Mult nomah County. t . i . Kidder earlier had announced he would run for state labor com missioner. ' - : - . f - f vivors out Firemen extinguished the fire that sent smoke shooting 300 feet high. s ' j - , i The dead included;. - , ; . j Grant F. Olson, 48. a vicl presi dent and director of the I W. J A. Sheaffer Pen Co., of Fort Madison, la. -- ' V'"i:V:-jr- Michael Shathin, 60, far east sup ervisor "of Warner Bros., ia film concern. .. . . - . r ; - .$ R. F. Matson, 52, identified only as an American railroad official. , Alexander Wood, 73, Montreal, a retired . milling company execu tive, on a round rorld pleasure trip. . " !- -s- il - BOAC - said .. thating K- other passengers were eight batons, six New Zealanders, four Afralians, one -booth -African,-two isppnea- and-two. Indians., I7 Tfc ' ol. vicerresiaent i Renews Call ' For 'Fair Play'j - i By JACK BELL ' i WASHINGTON UFi Vice Presi-! dent Nixon asserted Saturday night: that "reckless talk" and "ques-i 1 tionable methods" of some con-; gressional Communist hunters are'; threatening President Eisenhow-' er's "great and forward looking program." - . i , He declared in a nation-wide TV-: radio broadcast that when Com-i munist hunters .in Congress "shoot, wild" they may let the "rats get away." j Mentioning Sen. McCarthy (R Wis at the beginning of a na-i tionally televised and broadcast ad-j dress, the vice president said Pres-i ident Eisenhower "is right In in-! sisting on fair play" in investiga tions, j When we use unfair- methods: of fighting communism we help destroy freedom itself," he said. - Such methods, he said, "give ammunition to those who oppose any action against communism." Given Advice While Nixon did not link Mc Carthy directly with these remarks, he said at the. outset that he had received a sheaf of messages, giv ing him conflicting advice to "at tack McCarthy, and others urging him to ignore the Wisconsin sena tor. . The vice president, replying to charges by Adlai . Stevenson that the Republicans have "embraced "McCarthyism," began his ad dress by saying that he was not going to "deliver any political ti' rade." -.. . j . - - j ."The best answer, ia the facta.? he said, adding that this view was concurred in by President Eisen hower. ' ' ' ' - . Fair 'Investigations '- Recognizing the boiling- row now going on between McCarthy and Secretary of the Army Stevens. Nixon said he wanted to pledee the Republican Party to fair in vestigations of communism. , He said a lot of people won-: dered why anybody had to be fair in dealing with "a gang of trai tors." The suggestion was to "shoot -them down," he said. "But when you are dealing with a bunch of rats , and you go out to shoot them, you must shoot straight," he said. "When you shoot wild it not only means that the rats may get away but you might, hit someone else who is trying to shoot rats too." "The President this administra tion and the responsible leadership of the Republican Party ' insists, whether it is the executive or the legislative, that procedures deal ing with rooting out the. threat of communism must be fair and proper," Nixon declared. ' Quit Qaarreluig " He called for. an end to "violent controversy" "-""for Americans to quit -quarreling and get behind the President's program. And he said that advice goes for Adlai Steven son, too. v Hitting out at Stevenson's charge that Eisenhower is not giving prop er leadership! .he said the Presi dent has "undivided", support' not only from Republicans but from the great majority of the Ameri can people. And be said it's all to the Presi dent's credit that he doesn't en gage in "vituperative" name-calling or in "promiscuous" letter writing. . That was a plain dig at ex-President Truman. Nixon said no really great President ever had used eith er practice. . . . Nixon said the danger of Com munist agents in government he mentioned Alger Hiss and the late Harry Dexter White, among oth ers is-reaL'The Eisenhower ad ministration is alive to the danger, he asserted. . : Sets Forth Program - The vice president put. forth what he said ia the program of the administration to combat commu nism in government ass follows: : L To recognize the danger of communism at home and to deal with it through the executive and legislative branches of the govern ment fairly and effectively. 2. Honestly to admit mistakes if they are made, and hot to cover them up as was the practice in the previous administration. . - 3. To insist that in both the exec utive and legislative branches of the government .proper and fair procedures be followed in dealing with this communist threat" The national committee had passed over McCarthy and picked Nixon to reply , to .Stevenson. , (Additional McCarthy contro versy stories and ; pictures , on page 2, section 1 and page 8, .section 2.) - , . it.'