U.S. Civil ian Pilots Brave Red Fire at Dien Bien Phu
104TH YEAR
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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
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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. .
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