U.S. Civil ian Pilots Brave Red Fire at Dien Bien Phu 104TH YEAR 2 SECTIONS 32 PAGES Gifts Send Y Drive Off to Flying Start Salem YMCA dramatically opened its $450,000 building fund campaign Tuesday night with a report from Board President Carle Abrams that nearly half the goal already is in sight A broad public solicitation for $90,000 of the amount begins today, with several hundred YM members and friends expected to igpffiOB The Dr. Oppenheimer case is being heard behind closed doors in a room in Washington whose location has not been made pub lic. The special board conducting the hearing is composed of Gor don Gray, former secretary of war, now president of the Uni versity of North Carolina, Thom as A. Morgan, former president of the Sperry Corporation, and Dr. Ward V. Evans, professor of chemistry at Loyola University, Chicago. The board's findings will be reviewed by the Atomic Energy Commission which will make the final decision. Thus the "trial" of Dr. Oppenheimer will have none of the characteristics of a hippodrome such as often marks the inquisitions of cong ressional committees. At the same time secret trials are to be deplored. They hark back to the Star Chamber ses sions of courts in England. Offen sive to some as may be the blare and glare of a public trial; it nevertheless puts every witness and every action or statement of judge or juror or counsel under public scrutiny. The Oppenheim er hearing should not serve as a precedent, or under less trust worthy hands the hearing proce dure might degenerate into an other Star Chamber assize. In Washington last week I vis ited with a scientist, one who in fact had had spme responsibility for the work of one of the labo ratories which developed the atom bomb. He is well acquaint ed with Dr. Oppenheimer whom he described as a man of brilliant mind and very sensitive consci ence. What was of special inter est was his comment that there are only a very (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Two-Headed Child Dies WASHINGTON, Ind. i The two-headed child of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hartley, died late Tuesday of a respiratory difficulty. The child had been taken to the Daviess County Hospital from the Hartley home in nearby Peters burg by their family physician an hour before he died. The hospital said both heads of the child were blue when it was admitted and that one head lived 15 minutes longer than the other. The baby was born Dec. 12. The Hartleys had named the two heads Donald Ray and Daniel Kaye. Less than a month ago the child was taken to the James Whit comb Riley Hospital for Children In Indianapolis with pneumonia in the left head and chest. He was released about two weeks ago and returned to the family home in Petersburg. Max. Min. Precip. Salem . . - 2 37 M Portland 61 37 .00 Baker 55 30 .00 Medford "4 37 .00 North Bend 55 47 .00 Roseburg 68 42 .00 San Francisco .. 68 46 .00 Chicago 61 45 .82 New York 78 53 .00 Willamette River 1.9 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McNary Field. Salem): Mostly fair today, tonight and. Thursday. Not much change in tem perature with the high today near 66. low tonight near 34. Temperature at 12 01 a.m. today was 40. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 40 93 37.00 35.19 ANIMAL CRACKERS V WARREN GOODRICH "No, thanks, I think I'll skip tht fish count tonight." tl&OH- be out seeking donations. But one group of Y leaders has been at work many weeks obtain ing some of the large-sc:I: sub scriptions that will be necessary to financing the proposed three story addition to the YM. Enthusiasm and evidences of strong organization for the fund appeal stood out Tuesday night as 285 men. women and boys sat down to dinner and an official campaign start. Filling the YMCA gymnasium, this crowd heard YM President Abrams mention the last capital funds campaign of the YMCA in 1925 and the planning for the present campaign over the past decade by the YM board. "We have stepped aside for other organizations these 10 years, but our time is now," Abrams declared. Then he gave the news that the special gifts committee headed by Walter C. Winslow already can count on about half the goaL Campaign General Chairman Roy Harland told the volunteer fund raisers: "We have the pow er and the ability in this com munity to make a success of this job ... If the YM is to carry on as it should, we must expand." And speaking for the boys of the YMCA, Hi-Y member Ron Anderson told how the Y helps them train for manhood tomor row. He pinned his remarks on the recurring phrase: "What are we worth to you?" (Additional details on page 2, sec. 1.) County Voter Registration Ends in Rush Slightly more than 48,000 vot ers were enrolled in Marion Coun ty as of closing of registration booths Tuesday night, and county clerks said they had their busi est registration crowds just before deadline time. Registrants were taken care of by 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the clerk's office at the Public Ad ministration Building and by an hour later in special offices in the new courthouse. Marion County Gerk Henry Mattson explained that regis trants for the May 21 primary election were "much slower com ing in" than in most past elec tions. The estimated tally of 48,000 compares with 50,448 regis tered for the general election of 1952. Three representatives of the clerk's office were on hand in the new courthouse to register about 55 voters as an additional part of special non-partisan rally sponsor ed by the Marion-Polk Counties Young Republican Club. The ceremonies were held in front of the new courthouse Tuesday night. Radio appeal was made in an hour long broadcast urging vot ers to register before deadline and special transportation was provided for those unable to get downtown. Ten people took ad vantage of this service. Thirteen candidates in the com ing election were introduced and gave a short election speech. Mu sic was provided by the Willam ette University Air Force band. RED DELEGATES LEAVE HONG KONG UPl A Communist Chinese delegation headed by Pre mier Chou En-Lai left Peiping Tuesday by plane for the Geneva conference. Board Asks Parents Pay for Youths in Training Schools The State Board of Control de cided Wednesday to ask the leg islature for permission to make parents pay for ' the support of children in the State Training School for Boys and Girls. The board said it would have a bill drafted so that circuit judges, in sentencing the boys and girls, could make the parents pay. The state now can make rela tives pay for care in state hos pitals. No Extension Sought Gov. Paul L. Patterson, board chairman, said the board wouldn't ask that the principle be extend ed to the penitentiary and the new state reformatory. The 1953 legislature: considered a bill to require parents to help pay the cost of care for delin quent children, but the bill didn't get out of committee. Both the governor and State Treasurer Sig Uhander said that KUNDIDi 1651 Thm Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Finalist in Beauty Contest r ' , ; i. Eunice Peckenpaugh, 21, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Pecken paugh, 2299 State St., will be one of 10 finalists in Miss Oregon Press Photographer contest to be held in Portland at the Mult nomah hotel May 1. Miss Peckenpaugh is a sophomore at the University of Oregon, and was chosen to be in the top 10 from photographs of 60 entries judged in Portland Tuesday night. High Taxes Increase Need for PTA, National Official Says Parent-Teacher Association work is more important than ever in these days of high taxes, said Mrs. Herman Nordfors, national PTA vice president, as she arrived in Salem Tuesday afternoon for the state PTA convention. Enthusiastic veteran of 26 years' PTA experience, the Long view, Wash., woman described the PTA as a layman's group with 3 Salem Boys Win NROTC Scholarships Three Salem High School sen iors have been notified that they are the recipients of Naval Re serve Officers Training Corps scholarships covering the next four years. Ron Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Leslie Anderson, Salem Route 8, and Wayne Erick sen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bjarne Ericksen, 2415 S. Cottage St., won scholarships which they-; plan to use at Oregon State College. Bruce Michels, son bf Mrs. Dorothy Michels, 2180 Maple Ave., was notified that he is an alter nate for an NROTC scholarship to Stanford University. The scholarships cover tuition and books, with $50 a month, 12 months a year, extra Cor ex penses. Also included in the NROTC scholarship are summer cruises. the proposed bill would be a means of forcing parents to care for their children. Newbry Absent Secretary of State Earl T. New bry, the third member of the board, was -bsenL The matter came up when Judge Virgil Langtry. Portland ordered parents of a boy to pay part of the cost of supporting their son in the State Training School at Woodburn. The board cited an attorney general's opinion that it would be illegal to collect from the parents under present laws. Gov. Patterson said he would inspect the four proposed sites for the new reformatory on April 29. The other board members will make their inspections s at an other time. 5 The emergency board meets here May 7 to make . itf inspec tions and final choice. AH of the sites are in the Salem area. ttdesmau Wednesday, April 21, 1954 important public relations respon- sibilities on behalf oi a commu nity's schools. "You don't have to 'sell' schools, really, for nothing is more ob viously desirable to an American community than good schools; but you can do much to keep your fellow citizens well inform ed about the schools," Mrs. Nord fors said. More Tax-Conscious She acknowledged that the public is becoming more and more tax-conscious, as .school po pulation growth results in build ing needs. "That's why it's more import ant than ever for PTA to help keep the public well informed; after all, PTA knows the need for new schools, she stressed As Mrs. Nordfors was inter viewed by The Statesman in the Hotel Senator lobby, state PTA officials came up to welcome their distinguished guest and brief her on the three-day state conclave to follow. Speaker Today The national PTA leader will be principal speaker at the state group's opening assembly at 10 a.m. today in the Elsinore Thea ter. Mrs. Helmer Lindstrom, As toria, state president, win open the session. Mrs. Nordfors, a past president of Washington State PTA and a member of the Washington State Council for Children and Youth, is rounding out her first year as vice president for the region em bracing Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Montana, Idaho and Wy oming. PTA's growth has been "trem endous' in this area, keeping pace with the big growth in school population, she said. Ore gon has an 11-time high PTA membership of 109,481 (Additional details on page 6, sec. 1) (Photo on page 2. sec 1) Parolee's Body Found in Creek YACHATS Url The body of Robert C. Bowersox, 47-year-old parolee frcm the state peniten tiary, was found in Big Creek southeast of here Tuesday. He had been missing since April 10 when he went on a fishing trip. Police speculated he lost his foot ing while fishing in Big Creek and drowned. No. 25 Late Worshipers Not Allowed to Foreet Offering INDIANAPOLIS (JP) Milton Spitzer, 33, and Carl Wetzel, 36, explained to Magistrate GeWge M. Ober Tuesday that they had gone to the New Aug usta Church to pray when po lice found them there at 1:30 a.m. Monday. The men said that in the course of drinking a quart of wine they became conscious stricken because they hadn't gone to church on Easter. The magistrate withheld judgment but ordered the men to sen (S 10 to the church's pas tor. East Salem Petitions Ask Annexation Some 200 property owners in a arge residential area east of the State Fairgrounds presented peti tions for annexation to the city Tuesday night to Salem Planning and Zoning Commission. The area involved approximates 185 acres and lies north of Sunny- view Avenue, between the Fair grounds and the new bypass high way. The northeast boundary jogs along Livingston Street and Lan sing Avenue to present city limits. The annexation petition was submitted by Edward J. Fischer, 685 Larry Ave., a builder who does not live in the area. The planners turned the peti tion over to their annexation committee headed by V. D. Mc- Mullen. Members said an annexation move also is underway in area east of Salem and south of the section represented by the peti tions now before them. (Additional details on Page 2, Sec. 1.) Oregon Town Turns Yellow CLIFTON, Ore. (J" This small community turned yellow Tuesday. When residents awoke, there was a coating of yellow dust over the whole fishing community, which is located 20 miles up the Columbia River from Astoria. Astoria again had things falling from the sky Tuesday shiny, black, soot-like specks, such as fell there Saturday. No black specks were reported here, though. Just the yellow dust, which continued to sift down in the morning, it was inicx enough to pile up a bit in corners. The whole community had a yel lowish cast. Nearby towns, such as Bradwood and Wauna, escaped the dust. The wind was light and from the south, leading to speculation that paper mills at St. Helens and Longview might have something to do with the yellow dust. The paper mills, however, said their plants were fixed to prevent dis charge of any such thing. Long-time residents said they never before had seen such a thing. First Forest Fire Of Season Halted PRINEVILLE UV- The first forest fire of the season in Central Oregon was stopped 20 miles east of here Monday, before it got into a stand of merchantable trees. The fire started in brushland, burned about three acres of brush and young trees. It was heading for the Ochoco Lumber Co. tree farm before it was controlled. The fire was blamed on timber cutters, who had built a warming fire in the area. Melton Crawford, district fire warden, warned that the woods were drier than usual for this time of year. NO GLASS MYSTERY PITTSBURGH Ufi Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. said Tuesday ex amination of 150 autos hit by the so-called pock-marked windshields shows they were victims of road conditions and no scientific mys tery. Const League 1 At Portland 5-4. Sacramento 4-4 At Seattle 1-S. Saa Ditto 4-1 (tad 11 Inn.) t At Oakland S. San Francisco ff At Hollywood 7. Los Angeles 1 American Leasee At Detroit 2, Chicago 7 ; At. Washington 0. Philadelphia T Only games scheduled. National Leasee At New York S, Pittsburg 1 At Philadelphia 4. Brooklyn 2 At St. Louis 4. Cincinnati 13 At Chicago-Milwaukee, vain. PRICE 5c French Lose Outpost; Lines Draw Tighter By LARRY ALLEN HANOI, Indochina J! American-supplied planes dropped tons of food and war material to the defenders of Dien Bien Phu Tues day. Braving rebel anti-aircraft fire, American civilian pilots swooped in low in Dakbtas and Flying Box cars to parachute ammunition, food and war material of all types into the heart-shaped area still held by the French Union troops. Thousands of French. Viet Nam and Foreign Legion troops were dug in to hold against a massive new assault. They chalked off 151 days of desperate defense Tuesday. French military sources said that by giving up another hard-to-defead position in the northwest corner of the fortress they had made the besieged bastion more compact for defense. Aerial Supplies The garrison depends on a thin aerial life line for all supplies and reinforcements, even firewood and timber, the latter used for trenches and bunkers. Only its drinking wat er is obtained at the fort, from the Youm River which flows through the heart of the plain. In the hills and jungles and in the forward foxholes and trenches around Dien Bien Phu were tens of thousands of attackers. Rumbling into the Vietminh bas es were long caravans of Russian made Molotov trucks bringing in fresh regular or regional and guer rilla fighters rounded up in North ern Indochina, as well as tons of Red Chinese supplies. The rebels now hold two outposts in the northwest and three in the northeast. 'Strong Contacts' The French also disclosed that strong patrols were sent out to wards the south to feel out whether a big rebel attack was ready to unfold. They reported "strong con tacts" about 800 yards east of "isa belle," the southernmost strong point which is cut off from the fortress center. In the fortress itself, French troops and tanks were busy day and night plugging gaps breached by rebel infiltrators who continual ly blow up long strings of thick barbed wire" barricades. The French parachute reinforc ing troops into the fortress as rap idly as Brig. Gen. Christian de Castries calls for them. But the Vietminh have dug trenches into a 300 yard area of the 1,200-foot airstrip. They con stantly shower the pocked field with mortar and artillery shells. They have been blowing up the steel landing matting. Planes can not land. Hospital planes on the strip can not take off with the wounded. No wounded have left the fortress since March 25. Vet Memorial Model Seen Members of the Marion County Courthouse Commission journeyed to Portland Tuesday to view the clay model of the veterans memor ial relief which will go on the face of the new courthouse. The model was viewed at the studio of the sculptor, Frederic Littman on Sky line boulevard, overlooking the Tualatin valley. The model is virtually complet ed, at half-scale. It will be cast in plaster and from this the sculp tor will carve the slab of white marble which will be the perma nent work. The figure is that of grieving woman, with head bowed, holding a urel wreath in her hand. Those viewing the work ex pressed satisfaction with the art ist's work, and felt confident it would be approved by the public. Littman will do most of the carving at his studio, reserving the finishing touches for execu tion after the slab is in place. He hopes to have it done for an un veiling on Nov. 11. Politics on Parade . . . Who's Running for What in May. Primaries ! (Editor's note: Stories In The Ore gon Statesman's exclusive Political Parade series are written by or for the candidates on invitation of this newspaper and opinions expressed therein may or may not be in ac cordance with The Statesman's own policy. The stories are published solely In the public interest, and without cost or obugauon on' the part of anyone.) Today's subject: WILLIAM E- KIMSEY Candidate for STATE REPRESENTATIVE Marion County (R) William E. Kimsey came to Oregon in 1910 from Kansas, his native state, and to Salem in 1943, wnere ne has resided since. He was em ployed in Ore gon City and in Portland at his trade of print er until 1922, when he be came associat ed with the com m ereial W. E. Kimsey printing firm of Dempsey, Kimsey t Downs in OKI' McCarthy Says Army Attack Seeks to Avoid Probe of Wilson Aide WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) charged Tuesday an Army report blasting him and his chief aides was instigated by a high . Pentagon official trying to dodge investigation "for misconduct and possibly for law violation." The official, Asst. Secretary of Defense H. Struve Hensel. retorted: "bare-faced lies." i McCarthy hurled the accusation as investigating senators reached final agreement on "ground rules" for public, televised hearings op ening Thursday in McCarthy's bit ter row with Army officials. The gist of the agreement: McCarthy will step off the Senate investigations subcommittee during the hearings. Sen. Dworshak (R Ida will sit in for him. But Mc Carthy and his Army antagonists will have as McCarthy has insist ed all along the right to cross examine witnesses. While this agreement was being hammered out. McCarthy and aides Roy M. Cohn and Francis Can filed a "bill of particulars" de claring the Army's original charges against them were put out under the "influence and guidance" of Hensel in an effort to block an investigation of "serious charges" against himself. The McCarthy statement said the investigations subcommittee has established Hensel made at least $56,526 in three World War II years from a private ship supply firm operating with government priori ties while he was a high-ranking Navy official. Declaring McCarthy is "cor nered" and resorting to "cowardly irresponsibility. Hensel threatened to sue him if the senator repeated the charge without the protection of senatorial immunity. (Addition al details on page 2, section 1. Thomas Fails To Recover Congress Seat NEWARK, N. J. Utl J. Parnell Thomas, who tried to ride back to Congress on a pro-McCarthy plat form, Tuesday was overwhelming ly defeated in a Republican pri mary election in New Jersey's Seventh District. Rep. William B. Widnall. the in cumbent, easily defeated Thomas, who was jailed in 1949 for payroll padding and later pardoned by President Truman. Thomas had campaigned as a "1,000 per cent" supporter of Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy (R-Wis). Widnall held a 31,393 to 4,075 lead over Thomas in unofficial re turns from 227 of 264 election dis tricts in the mostly rural Seventh Congressional District. Widnall issued a victory state ment, saying: "I think the results show that you need more than McCarthy as a platform on which to make a successful run. It seems to me that the American people are getting just a little bit tired of McCarthy and it is gradually being chased off the front page. Widnall, one of President Eisen bower's first supporters in the state, had plugged for the Presi dent's program 'during the cam paign. Widnall will be opposed in the November election by Democrat Eugene B. DeMarest, a Hacken sack real estate operator. The dis trict is predominantly Republican CARRIER PLANES SENT WASHINGTON ( A Navy spokesman said Tuesday night that several F4U Corsair fighters were flown from the U. S. aircraft car rier Saipan Monday to Indochina to bolster French air strength against the Communists there, Portland, except for the years 1919-1922, when he was secre tary of the Central Labor Coun cil of Portland. He disposed of his interest in the printing business in 1937 and accepted a position with the Federal Mediation and Concilia tion Service, leaving that to take the position of chief deputy la bor commissioner in 1939. He was elected state labor commissioner in 1942, re-elected in 1946 and again in 195a He will complete his third term this year and instead of being a can didate for re-election he is seek ing the Republican nomination for state representative in the legislative assembly from Marion County. (Tomorrow: Gay W. Jonas) FIRE DANGER SEEN MEDFORD (Jl Warnings of forest fire danger, were issued here, following a fire that burned two acres in the Squaw Cn ek area near Tallowbox Lookout, Foresters said drying weather had created an earlier-than-usual . danger. 7 Die in Crash Of Air Force Plane on Peak BURBANK, Calif. U Seven men, including a Toppenish, Wash., man were killed in the fiery crash of an Air Force Fliyng Box Car against fog-shrouded Mission Peak in the Santa Susana Mountains. The big twin-engine C119 from Charleston, S. C, Air Force Base smashed head-on into the peak only 70 feet below the 2,771-foot crest. The plane was making an instru ment approach to Lockheed Air Terminal while on a routine train ing flight. Many persons living in the foot hills below heard the explosive im pact of the aircraft against the mountain but searchers groped through the fog nearly an hoar before the flaming wreckage was spoiled. The bodies, at least one of them badly burned, were in or near the wreckage, which remained concen trated in a small area. Flames ignited surrounding brush, hamper- approach the plane. The plane itself burned for sev eral hours as firemen lugged hoses for more than a mile up the steep. brush-covered slopes of Bull Can yon from pump trucks on a primi tive fire road below. Fog and smoke hung over the scene as firemen and policemen quelled the flames and began the grim task of removing bodies from the hot wreckage. Three bodies found under heavy sections of fuse lage were not burned. The Toppenish man killed was Airman 1. C. Charles N. Gonzales. the radio operator of the ill-fated plane. Gonzales was the son of Mrs. Grace R. Gonzales of Toppenish. Dulles Leaves For Geneva WASHINGTON CP .Secretary of State Dulles left for the Geneva conference Tuesday night, promis ing to seek an "honorable" peace in Indochina 'and a free, united Korea. But he said the recent "reckless assaults" by the Reds in Indochina are "not a good prelude to Gene va." He said it is tragic that the lives of tens of thousands should be sacrificed by the Communists in an attempt "to improve their bargaining power at Geneva. Dulles served notice that he would oppose an expected Russian move to turn the Geneva meeting on Far East issues into a Big Five meeting on world problems. This was in line with the U. S. government view that specific problems should be tackled one by one, as a means of testing Russian good faith. Grand Ronde Man Pleads Innocent to Murder Charge Statesman News Service DALLAS, Ore. John Ramoz of Grand Ronde pleaded innocent to a second-degree murder charge here Tuesday. Trial was set for June 2 m Polk County Circuit Court by pro tern Judge John L. Foote. Defense Attorney W. A. Wiest said he proposed to show that Ramoz was "insane or mentally deficient" when William Lee Riggs was fatally wounded by rifle shots at Grand Ronde on Dec. 30. 0 Ramoz was charged with second dogree murder after Riggs died in March. MORE SUN. EXPECTED Continued fair weather was pre dicted for Salem today, tonight and Thursday by U. S. weather men at McNary Field. Tempera tures ranged Tuesday from 62 de grees to 37, with about the same expected today. . Today's Statesman Section 1 Editorials, features 4 Comes the Dawn . 4 Society, women's S. Section 2 Sports l- Valley news J 4 Section S ' Parent-Teachers Section 4 Classified ads Markets Radio, TV ..... Comics . . .1-12 ... 1-J .... 1 4 4