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The Weathei Max. MlnSTreeip. S.lrm Portland . San Francisco - .M 17 V, JS 54 35 t)0 SI 43 .43 Chicago 29 f ! JD3bo -Yiaa 1 Ceare. to tbc Cmrtk tf Qrtjst Kew York S3 47 J5 wtllametle River 11 feet FORECAST (from U. S. Weathe Bureau. McNanr field. SaVrn) Mostly fair today, tonight and Mon- vv -- mgn ioaay odhh ana low to Bight 30-32. Temperature at 12.-01 was 35. a.m. today FOUNDED - 1651 . -i 103RD YEAR 3 SECTIONS 32 PAGES Thai Oregon Stat-amcm. Salem, Orjon. Sunday, McacH 21, 1954 PRICE 10c No. 356 Willamette VSenior Class Wins Fourth Straight Freshman' Glee Ikm&m Steps life' Cas6i A- V I) b I. A. V fl UK.if L -Bar ai a n m r i i k . mm anr v r . F WE . , 1 1 1 I M V. II 1 It -.-. I -1 -- Suit! J I DIP 033103 - Since many of our Salem church ' congregations have re cently completed new edifices it is a little late to take note of the contrasting views on church arch itecture as stated in an article in the .New -York Times Magazine: "The Modern 'Church or Tradi tional?" Spokesman for the mod ern was Pietro Belluschi, former- T r n 1 1 j r . iy vi roruana, now uean oi ine school of architecture at Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, and for the traditional was Ed ward Melville Bridge, Boston architect Illustrating the article are pictures of churches old and new as chosen by these eminent auuiin iiics, wiiu men jcuuiuicuis on each. . . , , . How they differ may be pre sented succinctly in quotations from their comments on two of these. Of r daring design by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Uni tarian church at Madison, Wis., Traditionalist Bridge writes: "Certainly this church is a build ing apart, and not like any other whatsoever ... It. places upon the worshipper the - burden of translating from a weazened 'ap propriateness to meaning in the motional, spiritual realm." And of the First Baptist church at Medford, Mass., designed by Bridge, Modernist Belluschi writes: "This church, built in 1935. is of a type which is still apt to receive the ready approval of the average congregation, mainly because it avoids contro versy. But to the modern archi tect it appears to be a tired re statement of what has been said "with more fervor before." What Belluschi argues for is as religion must be "dynamic and alive to be acceptable to the mod ern educated man," the architec ture of the modern church must also be alive and dynamic. The churches of the past reflected the spirit of their age and the aspira tions of their designers and ar tisans. 1 Those of today must re flM the imagination and the cre ative intelligence of the design ers and builders of today whose DUTDOse remains "to impart spir itual significance M the forms they are creating. . Bridge thinks taafcontem porary design, like all moveme'nts of revolt,, has been led by intense. concentrated, yet limited men. Those who design in this mood (Continued on editorial page 4.) Post Office at St. Paul Bobbed Staiasma News Serrtea ST. PAUL Burglary of St Paul Grocery Store and Post Of fice, sometime Friday; night re sulted in loss of $155 and some cigarettes, Marion County sher iffs-deputies reported Saturday. 1 Entrance was 'gained by forc ing a window on th street side of the post office, which is joined to the grocery store. Deputies ad vised that the safe inside the post office was forced open and the money, in cash, was taken. Cigarettes were taken from car tons in ue grocery store. RJCDCDQCa Willamette University's senior class, the class of 1954, set a record for themselves it Saturday night's Freshman Glee by winning the song contest for; the fourth straight year. Slated to swim the Mill , Stream tomorrow at "Bine Monday" will be the fourth-place sophomore class. The seniors are shown above in their formation Seniors Win 9 omores i Lose at Glee By JAMES JBURR MILLER i Staff Writer, The Statesman : The fourth straight victory in Willamette University's annual Freshman Glee was gained Sat urday night by the senior class of 1954 with their formation and song, "Fight for Willamette." f The 46th annual Glee, dedicat ed to Dr. Robert M. Haley of the university staff, had as its theme Fight Songs." ' . Exuberant enthusiasm was dis played" by the songsters of the senior class when announcement was made by Dr. Daniel H. Schul ze that they had won the Glee banner for the fourth straight year. The only s other class to achieve this honor was the class of 1936. I I Fourth place and a 'swim in the Mill Stream running through campus during "Blue Monday" ceremonies tomorrow was awarded to the sophomore class. Second place went to the junior class and freshman, the class pre senting this year's j show, took third place. . I A packed Willamette gymna sium greeted the, four classes as they marched into their competi tive positions and parodied one another until time $ arrived for presentation of their songs. Glee manager! for the senior claw was Larry Pritchett Words for t the song were? written by Margie Leonard and music by Lisbeth Shields and; Carol Emer son. Song leader was Don Mar rison and Jim Hitchman led the f cremation. ' Accompani f.s were Jane Gray and Lisbeth Shields. (Story also on page 2, sec. 1.) Center Nearly ; Loses Father i DETROIT, "Mich, f AP) You couldn't blame Gerald A. Page for- being a little excited Satur day when he took his wife to the hospital to have her first baby but hospital officials hope Page will be calmer the next time, j .The young Detroit- expectant father rushed his wife, Wtnda, to the Zieger Osteopathic Hos pital maternity center. - With one hand bn his wife's arm and the other; clutching an overnight bag. Pace charged to ward the entrance. He didn't stop for the glass door which shattered as Page walked through it -t- - :- - i .. : . - -Ai Page was treated for cuts about the face and hands . while he waited for the arrival of his baby. . " i FARM ' GROUP XLECTS f CORONADO, Calif. W -Edwin oossner ot smiinneid. Utah, was elected president of the Pacific Dairy and Poultry Assn. at the or ganization's final convention ses sion Saturday. He succeeds ' H. Glenn Olson ofi North . Hollywood, Soph Maternity - , . 0 (J - f f-, A-f'-A n Ike Backs $930 Million Colorado Dam f Network By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON -President Eisenhower Saturday approved a $930,343,000 power and irrigation development for the Upper. Colo rado River- Basin and recommended early congressional considera tion. ; .. j. - .....;,,-- V.. He thus got firmly behind his administration's first major dam and power projett, a vast undertaking designed to improve the Credit Card r Firm Files for Bankruptcy PORTLAND tn -i- National Credit Card, Inc., a Portland firm which operates in 42 states and Canada and England, filed a bankruptcy petition in federal court Saturday. The three-year-old concern has issued a number of -credit cards-to businessmen, tourists t and other clients. These cards were honored by member businesses such as hotels, service stations and . res taurants. National then : received a discount on the bills for its serv ices, in processing . and collecting them. . - ;i' ;'-.. Officers of the concern-listed liabilities of $966,389. Assets were lsted at 1750,187, but of this $682. 629 was listed as "debts due on open accounts." Because of the nature of the business, the bankruptcy is expect ed to affect many small businesses scatterd throughout the country, fcs . an example, - one service sta tion in a small New Mexica town was listed as, a creditor for more than $600. 1 ' - ' McCarthy Woyld Campaign for Ike - OKLAHOMA- CITY. fl : Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) said Saturday night that he would feel "com pelled" to campaign for President Eisenhower if the President were running again today even though he does not think he is "a super man. - -, j . . . The senatorwho has come un der criticism within his own party for his Red-hunting methods, said that Eisenhower's batting average in office is so much higher than that of any other President in re cent years that "there is no com parison." ... : Section 1 T - I Oscar Predictions - . 3 i -Institution Plans 3 ' Editorials, features ..4 f Comes the Dawn .... 4 I Garden news- 6 I Valley news : .7 i Our Valley i : .t, . r 'Crossword .............. 8 I Radio, TV 9 Sports v .. Gen. Curtis Lemay -10-ll .-12 Section 2 ' J "Society, women's , World This Week 1-7 . 8 - 9-11 ; Classified ads Ike Views Business J.......12 SeetioB i -" i rull-color comics. Tpdas Sf3tar.:a on the gymnasium platform where they portrayed a streak of light ning and sang "Fight for Willamette." This is the first class since the class of 1936 to win Freshman Glee four times in a row. There has been a Glee contest on campus water supply for farms and pro vide economic and industrial ex pansion for 3 million people in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. . A. House interior subcommittee is expected to vote on the project early next week. The President announced his ap proval Of recommendations made by Secretary of the Interior Doug las McKay after review by the Budget Bureau. He called the project a "com prehensive, well planned develop ment of a river basin." He said if also carries out the administra tion's "approach t water resource development." The administration last August unveiled a new federal power pol icy. It i placed less emphasis on public power than did the . preced ing Democratic regimes, but, called for continued federal construction of multi-purpose projects with hy dro-electric features which because of size or complexity were "be yond the means of local, public or private enterprise." Eisenhower specifically included the controversial Echo Park Dam on the Colorado - Utah border in his recommendations. This is a 9176,400,000 structure which con servation groups had opposed on the ground it would flood out por tions of the Dinosaur National Monument park and destroy, much of the area s scenic beauty. National Democratic Chiefs Expect To Lead Party to Victory l-iter Note: In U foUowln. 'story, A. Kobcrt Smith, T States, auua's ; Washington correspondent,, detcrikea toe political rUrtety be. Inr devised y national Democratic Party ' leaders " toward- Oregon. Next week lie will present an arti cle on RepaoUeaa Party strategy.) By A. BOBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent . WASHINGTON Democratic leaders have outlined the state of ! Oregon in red on the . wall '- maps that adorn "fnational conv Imittee ,'Iiead i 'quarters, for their strategists say they expect to see the Dem focratic Party Ibreak into the congressi o n a 1 f win column in 1954 for the first time in a - , nany years. . t , .... Their - strat egy, as they explain it to the . in quiring reporter, shapes up some thing like this around the follow ing issues and personalities: 1. Rienard I Neuberger they believe Neuberger to be the strongest candidate that could possibly have been found to run against Sen. Guy Cordon this year, because he is well known- since 1908. (Statesman Photo.) Grant Variety Store Plan Confirmed Practical confirmation that the W. T. Grant Co. will open one of its chain of variety stores in Salem was learned Saturday. xity officials are expected to put their stamp of approval Mon day on an application by the firm to install a fuel oil tank at 260 N. Liberty St, preliminary to opening a store at that site. The property, formerly occu pied by Tinkham Gilbert Appli ance Co. and leased to Mark Sa lem, is located just south of. the First National Bank building and across, the street from the Lip- man Wolfe store now under con struction. ' Plans by the company for the store, to be known as Mark Sa lem, were still undetermined Sat urday. Architect - for the . New York firm, Nelson Rice ofxLos Angeles, did not indicate whether a new building would be con structed on the site or. whether, the present one-story building would be utilized. The property is 82.83 feet wide and 166 feet deep and owned by George Put man, editor emeritus of the Cap ital Journal. Other Grant stores, owned by Melvin Mark of New York City carry a wide variety of merchan dise ranging from a few cents to a dollar in costs SALEM PEECrPlTATlOX Sine Start f Weather Tear Sept 1 Thia Year Uit Ten Nomil 37.SJ 35.lt ,32.21 they - think - much better known than Cordon and offers voters what Democratic leaders believe is a desirable' alternative. to the incumbent that is, a liberal vs. a conservative. r Heads Demo Ticket They think of Neuberger, as head of the Democratic ticket in Oregon, giving strength to tther Democratic candidates. But they are less inclined to discuss with any optimism the ? gubernatorial candidacy, of Joe Carson. hey had. nnsuecessfnlly .as it turned out, sought: to persuade former U. S. Attorney Henry Hess to enter a primary contest; against Carson, confident that Hess would do better against the Re publican choice, whether it be Gov. Paul Patterson or Earl Newbry. - - -:. , a"i : 2. Unemployment-with charts before them that , indicate" hew much they are counting ; on this issue, Democratic leaders point out that the Pacific Northwest has been hardest bit of all the states. And they . have been : led to believe by Louis Beam, - the statistician who predicted , the 1948 election of Harry Trama, that employment generally will pick up a bit this summer but fall off again before election time when it will be useful as an important campaign issue. McCarthy Prep Press, Radio Expose By JOHN CHADWICK i OKLAHOMA CITY JPy-Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.) said Saturday night he has been working for months on a report "on the aims of the Communist Party to infiltrate and control every media of infor mation, such as radio, newspapers and television." I He said the report he has been "painstakingly preparing" would go into "the extent to which they Man Flees in Brice Kidnap Case Search PORTLAND Ufi Search for the 'mail who attempted to kidnap George F. Brice III from Catlin Hillside School shifted to Clacka mas County late Saturday night. Sheriff s deputies at Oregon City said they had been tipped that a man answering' the description of he missing gunman, lived in a cabin near Harmony Point, east of Milwaukie. They drove up to the cabin late Saturday night but the occupant fled through a rear window and disappeared in the brush. A dep uty said a hat similar to the one worn by the man who attempted to kidnap the Brice child was found inside. The boy, known as Butch, and his sister, Beverly, 12, were not seen outside their wealthy par ents' home Saturday. Their mother, Mrs. George F. Brice said that after Friday's har rowing experience, she wanted to keep the children out of the news as much as possible. The armed gunman forced his way into the Brice home Friday, and when he discovered that the boy was in school, be ordered Mrs. Brice to drive him there. She convinced him the school would release the boy only to her and she went inside and had the principal notify police she had a kidnaper in the car. At this point the gunman rushed in the school, pushed his way into a classroom and fired several shots. An instructor, Manvel SchaufOer. suffered a minor wound in the hand. The gunman then became fright ened and fled. Police began an immediate search through the wooded West Hills area. There were a number of reports that the gunman had been seen but no definite clues as to his present whereabouts had turned up. Mrs., Brice said the man told her he was going to hold the child for ransom. Weather Matches Arrival of Spring The weatherman took notice of the first day of spring Sat urday and predicted continued fair weather for the mid-valley area today, and Monday. Some patches of light fog are possible in low. areas early this morning but these should burn off quickly after sunrise, fore casters said. Temperature dropped to a chilly 27 Saturday morning with a low of near 30 expected tonight in Oregon 1954 Election They count on this condition, which they say will pervade the Midwest and Western ftates, to convince the voters that this is the effect of the economic phi losophy of the Republican Party. They say this won't be nearly as effective an issue in the .East, where unemployment has not risen as sharply, because it will be difficult to show Easterners that the change in administration has affected them adversely, es-; pecially with a tax cut in the fitting, . , t' i Used as Symbol ' ' 3. Hells Canyon this will be made -symbolic of the issue of federal resource development as advocated by the past Democratic presidents vs. the ; "partnership" policy of the GOP which invites local utility participation, v I This, -too,; Is ' an issue Demo cratic national headquarters has marked for widespread western use this' fall, wherever there, is any . public power sentiment or river development plans 'drawn up by the past administration. They count it bigin Oregon, mostly - in eastern Oregon near Hells Canyon where the Demo cratic candidate for the House, Albert Ullman of Baker, is a leader in -- the i organized Hells Canyon- movement They count ares have succeeded and how some pol- i lticians are in mortal fear of and therefore to some extent guided by them. I In notes prepared for an address j nere aaiuruay nigm ueiure a um- ner sponsored by the State Repub lican Central Committee, McCar thy said the report was an "in dividual project" and not a project of the Senate Investigations Sub committee which he heads. "Some chameleon politicians of both parties make the grave mis take of thinking that the left wing elements of radio, television -'. and press along the Potomac represent America," he said, adding: "Clever Communists would at tempt to use the fellow travelers, deluded egg-head liberals, and fair weather or weather - vane politi cians to cut down the power of committees to dig out Commu nists." . The senator also urged the American people to get copies of the subcommittee's forthcoming probe of his row with the Army and offered tq foot the bill himself if demand exceeds the commit tee's limited supply. U.S. Increases H-Bomb Blast Danger Zone TOKYO m U The United States, surprised by the devastating power of the hydrogen blast March l, has more than tripled the distance ships must keep between them and the center of future mid-Pacific explosions. - Japan's Diet was informed Sat urday that , the danger zone has been increased in square miles by more than 20 times. Japanese ships were told to stay out of an area with a radius of 430 miles during future tests in the Marshall Islands area. The pre vious barred-off zone was roughly 150 miles north-south by 200 east- west. (The U. S. Navy confirmed in Washington the establishment of the enlarged danger zone which it described as an incomplete circle radiating out 450 miles from a point roughly between Eniwetok and Bi kini atolls. ; i x The area extends out from the testing grounds in a directions in which winds could normally be ex pected to blow at this time of the year. It omits a pie-shaped part of the circle a supposedly safe re gion to the southeast, including Kwajalein atoll, the airway stop ping point on the route across the Pacific.) Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki told the Diet that the greatly en larged limit was set in a , note handed to the Japanese ambassa dor in Washington. The United States acted after 23 Japanese fishermen went to hos pitals with radioactive burns suf fered by a shower of ashes. Neuberger Ullman's chances better by far than any other Democratic can didate for the House in Oregon, running against freshman Rep. Sam- Coon. , Voice of Liberalism 4. Sen.' Wayne Morse If there was ever a dear voice of liberal ism in the West, Morse is it," one party bigwig at headquarters de clared. He said , they count on Morse to campaign for Neuberger and possibly other Democrats, drawing votes of liberal Republi cans on the theme that liberalism is dead in the GOP, an oft e I peated contention of the senator. They contend that the . Republi cans today have no successors to Charles McNary, George Norris and Bob LaFollette now ' that Morse is no longer in that party. Democrats say they , believe they not only can twins' impor tant seats in Congress on the issues of unemployment, resource development and farm prices, but that enough tot close races can be won by them in the West to shift the balance ot power in both House and Senate from nominal GOP control, back to the Demo erats. ... i.v:-"V That's why they have outlined Oregon in red on their maps, considirini' it the "dark horsel state lor Democratic- gains in 1834. Action Minus Full Approval Of Governo By THOMAS G. WRIGHT, JR. SUff Writer, The Statesman Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton accepted an invitation to step into a probe of reports of vice and corruption in Lincoln County, with the blessings hut apparently not full approval of Gov. Paul L. Patterson. S Thornton. revealed a letter SaU urdayan which he accepted the: invitation of Lincoln County Dis trict Attorney William Hollen and suggested that Hollen get out of the way and let the grand jury and Thornton handle the inves tigation beginning Monday. Hoi len replied that he would not sten aside : , Gov. Patterson SiH ho h-rt nnk been advised of Thornton's de cision but commented that "I anr sua mat me attorney general h? complied with the request of District Attorney Hollen. The ; people have a right to expect effective cooperation between the two." No "Comnetenf Fvil...- The attorney general did acV me a week ago for extlusive charge of the investigation.- He did not, however, -present to me any competent evidence u though repeatedly requested to do so, that would justify , me in replacing the daly elected Lin. coin County district attorney. In y juugmenv sincere coopera tion on the part of the attorney general in the present arrange ment will permit him to fully ex plore all matters, including the serious charges contained in his letter to the-district attorney . UTMhornton said in his letter to Hollen that because of charges and countercharges against the district attorney, "it would ap. pear that in, all fairness you should take no part in the in quiry. Otherwise you would be investigating yourself.". vjics vnarges - The letter ' continued, "Specif ic charges have been m.H. against you that you may be in volved in criminal violations; that you interfered with the law ful investigation of the grand jury and exerted improper pres sure on both the grand jury and witnesses; that you prevented witnesses from testifying on vice conditions and your possible con nection therein except in your presence, and that you altered first grand jury report by elim inating the statement that vice conditions still exist in some in stances and that public officials had been intunidated. .,. Thornton noted that Gov. Patix terson had refused to give him authority to supersede Hollen But he said, "in view of the mantf appeals for help from Lincoln County citizens and especially from, members of the last twd grand juries, I feel that it is iml duty to be on hand at the granil jury investigation which you hav scheduled to start Monday." J Willing to Leave Room i f Hollen said at Newport that hi 1 was willing to leave the grand jury room any time be is asked to but that he will not withdraw from the investigation. n Reports of alleged vice in the county sent two delegations from the county to call oh the governor in Salem last fall, one asking the governor to authorize" a full in-! vestigation and the other deny" ing that the reports were true. The governor later declined to order the attorney general into the probe, stating that no evi dence that vice conditions exist- .ji 1i.il w..m .-.... . : it ui-1. uiuc .nuriugn 155 uca an opinion that he could enterthe probe' only on the governor's or der or on the invitation of the T .. : i district attorney. Salesman Robbed; Of $200,000 in j Loose Diamonds j CENTRALIA. Mo. (luA Newj York diamond salesman was robbed of an estimated $200,000 int. loose diamonds and shot in the foot' Saturday night on a Wabash train just before it arrived here from Kansas City. ; ' -! ; The gunman jumped from the; train as it pulled, into the-station and fled ia a car. ? , J : The tictim4 John Gray, 55, a salesman, and partner in the firm, of Adolphe Adler, New York, was taken to a Mexico,: Ma, hospital where his condition' was described as satisfactory. a i - The robbery occurred ahprtly aft- er 7 p. m. after Cray had finished eating in the dining car and hadj sat down in the dub car to read a. magazine. Gray , was going to St 1 1
