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Th Oregon Stalosman, Salem, Oregon. Tuesday, April 27, 1954
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No 31
French Ask Truce to Save Wounded
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History-making tests of i new polio-combating vaccine began in Salem Monday and mill continue this
week. The above scene was taken at the vaccine administering clinic set up in Englewood school.
Second-grader Scott Putnam (right) has just participated in the blood-drawing procedure and is
waiting th vaccine inoculation. Conferring are (from left) Dr. Brace Knapp, Dr. William L. Lid
beck and Mrs. Alice Lambert, laboratory technician.
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President Eisenhower told the
l S. Chamber of Commerce Mon
day that this is "a time of great
decisions." How very true is that
remark And Kisenhower is the
man carrying tlu- chief respon.si
b;l,ty tor making those decisions.
Rumors are Tying as to what he
has decided and the course of ac
tion he will take. It is probably
accurate to say that the situation
is fluid, that decisions are once
again "on a 24-hour basis" as
Franklin Roosevelt has said. That
is. major decisions may hang on
what happens at the Geneva con
ference which opened Monday.
In one dispatch we read that the
French have asked for military
aid and the President has refused
it, though intimating it may be
forthcoming under a ten-nation
agreement. In another dispatch
we read a statement from -Congressman
Bentley of Michigan that
Kisenhower will ask Congress for
authority to send military' aid
(troops, etc to Indochina. All we
really know is that the adminis
tration feels ve "cannot afford"
to see Indochina go down the Red
dram. Other than a proposal for
"united action" the public is not
apprised of the concrete program
of the administration We may not
have to wait long, however, for
other plans to unfold.
The Geneva conference opened
after the usual manner of inter
national bodies. Prince Wan of
Thailand was chosen presiding of
ficer for the opening day. and he
will alternate with Molotov of the
USSR and Eden of Britain The
first item for consideration will
be Korea whose status is that of
an armed truce
(Continued on editorial page. 4.)
Qual
ve Shakes
Mempl
A
us Area
MEMPHIS A window-rattling
earth tremor rolled through
parts of east Arkansas and west
Tennessee Monday night. No dam
age was reported
The cities jarred by the earth
movement about 8pm 'CST
all lie along the New Madrid fault,
which stretches from Cairo, 111,
to Memphis.
The tremor was felt here and
as far away as Blytheville. Ark.,
60 miles to the northwest and
.larkson. Tenn., 80
northeast.
miles to the
NAVY PLANE SIGHTED
WASHINGTON r The Navy
said early Tuesday a twin engine
Privateer, missing since April 17.
has been sichted off Ellesmere Is
land, off the northeast coast of
Canada. The spokesman said he
had no information as yet on whe
ther there were anv survivors.
ANIMAL CRACKERS
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"See " boasts little Susan Browne. Englewood second-grader, "you can't hardly see anything after
that shot." Susan shows her arm to fellow-students as they get ready to take part in the polio
vaccine testing at their school Monday. Others are (from left of Susan) Charles Waite, Walter An
derson, Rusty Bennett and Gary Wisser. (Roth Statesman photos).
Store Will Park 500
Autos Underground
By ROBERT E. GANGWARE
City Editor. The Statesman
Meier & Frank's Salem store will have underground parking
facilities for 500 cars, the City Council was informed Monday.
The Portland department store business is planning to erect a
new store in downto'.vn Salem on the block where demolition of the
Public School Administration Building is scheduled for later this
year.
In final legislation Monday
night, the City Council at a meet
ing in City Hall vacated two al
leys in that block, alleys for the
most part long unused because
of the school building there.
The aldermen approved charg
ing a fee of S7.500 for benefits
derived from the alley vacation,
as is the practice in such vaca
tion of streets or alleys in Salem.
The amount of the fee was
based on appraisal of nearby land
at its market value just before
Meier & Frank began acquiring
property in the area, reported .
Alderman Robert F. White.
Ilf caiH mnct nf the fniinrM!
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felt it would be unfair to base; motor and the propeller pulled the
the fee on prices later paid by i motor and stand across the floor
Meier L Frank on some of the ! into Davis.
lots. Estimates of the vacation) Ware and the other ftudent,
fee based on some would have Robert Lloyd, Eugene' tried des
put the figure at $49,000 or even Innately to stop the engine but
higher, he added. j failed. v
Salem Attorney Robert DeAr- i n , . ..
mod. appearing on behalf of the !
vacation for Portland Hotel, Inc.,
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was desired primarily to make
possible the underground park
ing. With other parking off the
street in the Meier & Frank ac
quired' area. PeArmond said, a
total of 700 cars would eventual
ly be handled.
This was referred to again at
a city budget committee session
followine the Council meeting.
when White suggested that this
big parking pool be taken into defense officials announced Mon
consideration next year in anti- day they intend to set up a civil
cipating revenue from parking defense warden system in this
meters. area, enlisting up to 45,000 volun-
( Additional Council news on teers as wardens.
page 8, section 2.)
RAIN ANTICIPATED
Light rain anticipated this
morning is expected to become
showery about noon, according to
predictions by the U.S. weather- OPPOSES MILITARY AID
man at McNary Field. Highest WASHINGTON OP Israel's am
temperature in Salem Monday bassador. Abba Eban, called at
was 59 and the lowest 40 degrees the State Department Monday
with a total of .06 of an inch of night to register his government'!
rain recorded. Temperature range I "unconditional opposition" to
is expected to be about the same , American moves to send military
today. (equipment to Iraq.
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Plane Engine
Kills Student
EUGENE (J An airplane en
gine whirled crazily across the
floof at the Eugene Vocational
School's aircraft department Mon-
day and killed a student outright
The victim, Bobby Frank Davis,
23, and two other students were
testing the light engine s. motor,
mounted on a test stand. Peter S.
U or. 9j nnnnrinll rt i r-t .A !
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, V- LI
in the building at tee time. He
said that usually the engine-bear-
ing stands at the school are an
chored to the floor by chains but
this one was not.
45,000 Sought
In Portland as
Defense Wardens
PORTLAND Portland civil
Vernon Toedtmeier was appoint
ed to a full-time job as warden
service coordinator. He has been
a recreational director in the Port
land Park Bureau.
McCarthy Denies
Being 'Bought Off
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON i An open
hint that Secretary of the Army
Stevens might have tried to "buy
off" an investigation by Sen. Mc
Carthy R-Wis brought a shouted
denial bv McCarthy Monday that
he ever has been 'bought ot( by
anybody or ever will be.
Some spectators burst into ap
plause. Sen. McClellan 'D-Ark1,
who touched off tne exchange,
shouted back at McCarthy. The
uproar was the sharpest and nois
iest to date inhree days of tele
vised public hearings in McCar
thy's dispute with high Pentagon
officials.
Asked Suspension
It came after Secretary Stevens,
on the witness stand, acknow
ledged asking McCarthy to sus
pend' hearings on alleged espion
age at Ft. Monmouth. N.J. but
branded as "an unequivocal lie"
600 Children
Launch Week
Of Polio Tests
By CONRAD PRANGE
Staff Writer. The Statesman
Approximately 600 Marion
County school children partici
pated in the first day of the polio
vaccine field tests Monday and
officials said the scheduled week
long procedure is "going like
clockwork."
Inoculation and blood sampling
will take place today at clinic
centers at Richmond School in
Salem and at Mt Angel and
North Marion High School. The
program for the rest of the ap
proximately 1,800 young partici
pants will continue for the rest
of the week at other centers in
the county.
The program was opened in
Marion County, one of three in
Oregon participating, Monday at
Englewood School in Salem and
at Woodburn. At Englewood
175 Englewood students and
about 90 Hoover School students
participated.
At the clinic set up in Wood
burn city library about 279 pu
pils from Woodburn public and
parochial schools, Gervais pub
lic and parochial and from the
school at St Louis participated.
"Wasn't anything to it," brag
ged little Kenneth Schwiegert at
Englewood after he had received
his arm "shot" of vaccire. "Didn't
hurt much at all."
"The children were really
wonderful," said Mrs. Martha
Fox, second-grade teacher at
Englewood. She led her young
charges one by one through the
brief record-scanning routine in
the clinic room prior to the ac
tual inoculation and blood-taking.
Only one child grew faint
and did not participate.
Officials and doctors in charge
of the testing program said late
Monday that if "rest of the test
goes like this first day we won't
have any trouble at all."
The program is part of a nation-wide
test of a new vaccine
whii has already proved suc
cessful against polio in smaller
tests.
(Additional stories and picture
on Page 2, Sec. 1.)
McCarthy's charge that he tried
to switch the investigation to the
Air Force and the Navy.
McClellan, cross-examining Ste
vens, said the Army secretary
could have granted a direct com
mission to McCarthy aide G. Dav
id Schine but refused to do so.
Implication Noted
"The implication is here," said
the stern-voiced McClellan, "that
you were trying to buy off this
committee the Senate investiga
tions subcommittee from investi
gating the Army."
Before Stevens could reply, Mc
Carthy heatedly contended McClel
lan was making a "completely im
proper and unfair" suggestion that
he McCarthy "could be
bought off."
McClellan snapped back at Mc
Carthy: "You think anything you
want.
"Never Been Bought Off"
"This chairman." said McCarthy,
the subcommittee's regular chair
man though he's stepped down for
these hearings, "has never been
bought off any hearing and never
will be bought off any hearing."
A ripple of applause came from
spectators the first such dem
onstration to occur in an actual
session since the hearings began
last Thursday.
Acting Chairman Mundt iR-SD)
banged his gavel, forbade any
more demonstrations and told Cap
itol police Vo remove any spec
tator who disobeyed.
Earlier, McCarthy injected a
note of mystery into the proceed
ings. Mystery Interview
He left the hearing room for 20
minutes and. when he returned,
told Mundt he had been interview
ing a witness of "tremendous im
portance" to the investigation. He
promised the chairman a full re
port Tuesday.
McCarthy got his first chance
to cross-examine Stevens Monday
called him "Bob" and chal
lenged him to cite one word sub
committee staff member Francis
Carr had uttered in favor of pref
erential treatment for draftee
Schine.
Very Minor' Rol
Stevens said be couldn't quote
any specific language. He said it
was his personal recollection that
Carr played only a "very minor"
role in the affair, adding that fu
ture Army witnesses will have
more to say about Carr.
As the afternoon session drew
to a close, Mundt told Stevens that
he wanted to be sure that "we
understand that you are going to
search your mind concerning Mr.
Carr and in the morning either
particularize the charge or with
draw it against Mr. Carr?"
"I am certainly going to search
my mind and try to do that,"
Stevens replied.
(Additional details on page 5,
section 2'.
Power Fails
In Polk Areas
Statrsman Swi Service
DALLAS Several Polk County
rural areas near Dallas, Inde
pendence and Rickreall were with
out electric power Monday night
for periods ranging from a few
minutes to IV hours.
R. G. McFarland, Dallas man
ager for Mountain States Power
Co.. said two power lines crossed
and shorted after burning on a
power pole cross arm near Dallas,
apparently the result of an arc
formed by the rainfall following
a long dry spell.
The outage came about 7 p m.
Dallas proper was not affected
as its auxiliary power aource was
cut in by Mountain States.
Portland Jaycees
To Back Vote on
Daylight Saving
PORTLAND UP The Portland
Junior Chamber of Commerce
started another attempt Monday
to bring daylight saving time to
Oregon.
Spokesmen said they understood
the junior chamber would make a
similar attempt in Washington.
The plan is to get daylight time
here next year by putting the mat
ter up to vote on the November
ballot. The junior chamber will
sponsor circulation of petitions to
win a place on the ballot. They
will need 37,400 signatures in Ore
gon. Daylight time was banned ef
fectively by a law passed at the
last general election. It provides
the governor can proclaim day
light saving time only if neighbor
ing states first adopt it.
TO ALLOW EXIT
CANBERRA. Australia OP
Australia said Monday that Tass
correspondent Victor Antonov
mentioned as a possible link in
the Petrov spy case will b
granted clearance to return to
Russia.
Reds Violating
Rules of War,
Bidault Says
GENEVA, Switzerland OP , The
19 nations called together by the
Big Four to try to guide . Asia to
peace met Monday and decided
to turn at once to the problem
of Korea. But the urgent question
of war-torn Indochina's fate over
shadowed the Korean issue in
many minds.
French Foreign Minister Geor
ges Bidault issued a statement as
the conference opened .accusing the
Vietminh of violating the rules of
war in Indochina in refusing to let
the French fly out their "hun
dreds and hundreds" of wounded
frnm n;n Dion DV,,,
" u- ! routine in this city of 175.000 came
Bidault did not issue the state- : to a virtual stop during the 30
ment at the conference, but it oh-1 minnt tt
viously was meant for the ears of
the delegates. He asked for some
action to allow the beleaguered
garrison a temporary truce to send
out its wounded.
He added that it was inconceiv
able for a conference taking place
in the birthplace of the Red
Cross to refrain from taking some
action towards a
truce.
humanitarian
At Monday's session, the dele- 11 went off perfectly, I thought,
gates organized their procedure in i Musante was one of dozens of
31 minutes. But they faced a long, j observers from all parts of the
rocky road to the goal set for country whe watched the volun
them. tar' exercise from the "red alei t"
Settling the question of the con
ference chairmanship swiftly, elect
ing Prince Wan of Thailand, the
delegates decided to plunge into
debate Tuesday on the long smoul
dering Korean issue. (Additional
details on page 8, section 2.
Episcopalian
Diocese Gets
$10,000 Gift
By VAN EISENHUT
Church Editor, The Statesman
. - A s 10,000 gift was presented
to the Episcopal Diocese of Ore
gon Monday night at the group's
66th annual convention banquet
in the Marion Hotel.
The gift was made by Scott B.
Appleby of Washington, D.C., in
honor of the 100th anniversary
of the diocese which was organ
ized by his granduncle, the Rt.
Rev. Thomas Fielding Scott,
first bishop of Oregon. The sum
represented $100 for each year
of the diocese.
Over 400 persons, in Salem for
the three-day centennial conven
tion, attended the banquet. Prin
cipal speaker was the Rev.
Thomas E. Jessett of Seattle, who
outlined the early history of the
Episcopal movement in the Pa
cific Northwest. His address
covered the 15-year period -of
Bishop Scott who arrived in Ore
gon 100 years ago this month.
At that time, the Rev. Jessett
explained, the Episcopal Church
b?d three clergymen in the area
which included all of Oregon
and Washington and parts of
Idaho and Montana. During his
tenure Bishop Scott organized 13
churches in Oregon including St.
Paul's in Salem.
"The Episcopal Church in the
Pacific Northwest is what it is
today largely through the effort
of Bishop Scott," the Rev. Jessett
declared. (Additi onal details on
page 5, sec. 2.)
Politics on Parade . . .
Who's Running for. What in Primaries !
(Editor' note: Stories ia 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
poUcy.
Today's subject:
WALTER R. ALVrV
Candidate for
SALEM ALDERMAN
in (2nd Ward)
Old Oregon Pioneer parentage:
education, Linn County grade and
high schools. University of Oregon.
Began, career
farming and
car - lot potato
and grain ship
. ping at Leban-
.1 , r ' o n. Graduated
5 . f 'A lst lieutenant at
I A .' f jEugene and
I HT.. Camp Free-
I -- i mont. Govern-
Uzfj
v I ment appraiser
tor nome own
ers Loan Corp-
W. R. AJtui ration. F.H.A.
President many years Lebanon
Strawberry Fair Board; also rep
resentative for Great Northern
and Northern Pacific Land Settle
ment Departments.
During my past 17 years' resid-
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Cemittirall -Spdkairoe
Evacuated ion 10
Wimutes in Test
SPOKANE, Wash. (JP) Spokane stamped "Operation
Walkout" a sobering success Monday and officials said it
proves a metropolitan area could probably be evacuated quick
ly in event of A-boml attack.
More than 11.000 person.- .-ti earned out of buildings and
left the streets within 10 minutes, walking quietly through
rain and a cold wind to "safetv" 1
outside
a 10x15 -block "danger
zone.
It was the nation's first attempt
at mass evacuation in civil de
fense exercises and the normal
The crowd was orderly, serious
and well briefed. A screaming si
ren, noisy aerial "bombs," the
chatter of machine guns firing
blanks and the presence of tanks
and steel-helmeted troops added
stark realism.
VTent Off Perfectly
"I didn't think it could be Hone."
i said Charles J. Musanle, civil d-
fense director for Savannah, Ga.
at 9:35 a. m. to the "all clear"
at 10:05 a. m. The city's six radio
stations cut into programs at 9:20
a. m. to announce a "test warn
ing yellow."
"L was really amazing," said
H. T. Potter, the Montana civil
defense chief.
Vice Adm. Daniel E. Barbey.
the Washington state civil defense
director, said success of the opera
tion "astounded" him, and he
added:
Can Destroy Apathy
"It shows we can get rid of the
apathy about civil defense with
the right kind of organization. It
vas wonderful here today.
"It shows we can clear a metro
politan area with only a brief
warning that an attack is immi
nent." Had this been a real attack,
evacuees would have been picked
Up by buses at points outside the
"danger zone," and rushed out of
town. The buses Monday brought
people back to work.
Observers from Pullman. Wash ,
80 miles south of Spokane, watched (
tne exercise, gunman wouia taKe
5,000 Spokane evacuees in a disas
ter. Like Ghost Town
Except for the troops carrying
M-l rifles and uniformed block
wardens, the entire main district
looked like a ghost town within
minutes after a powerful siren
atop a 15-story building let go with
a shrill, 3-minute blast.
Two tanks and an Army weasel
roamed t lie streets Four 30-cali-ber
machine cun on rooftops fired
blanks at highly effective
in'-T-
vals.
But for the "bombs" and the
report of the guns, there was
scarcely a sound. Observers agreed
it was an eerie feeling, frighten -
ing and extremely sobering.
Today's Statesman
SECTION 1
Polio Vaccination 2
Editorials, fcptirrs 4
Society, women's 6
SECTION Z
Sports 1.2
Valley news 3
Radio. TV 4
Comics 4
Classified ads 6. 7
Skeleton in woods . 8
ence in Salem. I have been em
ployed as special agent for the
State Land Board, covering the
entire state, appraising and re
commending loans from the state
school fund on residential, farms
and business property securities.
Some of these loans were in ex
cess of a quarter million dollars
each, with a record of not a single
default, nor the loss of a penny.
Much of my work with the state
was in connection with the liquid
ation of the veterans' account of
World War 1; also, investigation
and spot appraisal of estates con
nected with gift and inheritance
tax for state treasurer's office.
As special agent. 1 have made a
careful survey of all navigable
bodies of water within the state,
including lands between mean
low and high water marks, ap
praising and surveying all com
mercial usage thereof, and recom
mending annual rental fees and
length of lease terms. All moneys
thus accruing redound to the com
mon school fund and constitute a
great source of revenue for the
support of our public schools. I am
a Republican, belong to the Chris
tian Church, and have no use for
political cliques or back room dip
lomacy. (Tomorrow: Chester Chase).
Malenkov Says
Russ Readv to
Fight A-War
J MOSCOW of Any aggressor
who attacks the Soviet Union with
atomic weapons will be crushed
i by the same weapon. Premier
Georgi Malenkov said Monday. He
predicted "any- such adventure will
inevitably lead to the downfall of
the capitalist system."
Malenkov addressed the Su
preme Soviet iparliamenti. Both
he and Nikitf S. Khrushchev, first
secretary ol the central commit
tee of the Cvmmunist Party, at
tacked U. S. policies. Khrushchev
said:
"If anyone thinks, as Hitler
thought, that we are weak, we will
show them, as we showed Hitler,
jus; how weak we are."
Malenkov charged "aggressive
circles" in the United States with
"artificially maintaining an at
mosphere of war hysteria" and
"threatening the world wkh the
hydrogen bomb."
While accusing America of "re
sorting tr methods of threat and
intimidation" and boasting of So
viet atomic progress, Malenkov at
the same time pleaded over and
over again for a "further easing
of international tension."
Malenkov and Khrushchev 'e
manded that the United States
abandon its policy of non-recognition
of Communist China and
claimed that this was one of the
ing of atomic weapons and aaid
major hindrances to the solution
of world problems.
French Aerial
Attack Hea
vy
HANOI, Indochina OP Corsair
fighter bombers supplied by the
United States went into action over
Indochina for the first time Mon
day The French-piloted planes
in the heaviest air strike of the
seven-vear war helped plaster
! Red-led Vietminh massed for a
death thrust against Dien Bien
Phu.
The war planes rained hundreds
: f tons of bombs on rebel concent
1 (rations in the hills surrounding
the fortified plain.
The French High Command did
not disclose the actual number of
sorties, but said they far exceeded
the previo is one-day record of 136
set earlier this year.
7 j Dice Layout
No Bargain
RENO, Nev. Reno service
station operator Frank Hagen
thinks he's been had.
Hagen reported to sheriff's offi
cers that a customer rolled into
his station Sunday night, bought
gasoline a.nl then displayed a dice
layout which he offered Hagen as
a bargain at $2.
Hagen bought it and the cus
tomer departed. Five minutes la
ter, another affable customer
drove in, spied the dice layout
and promptly challenged Hagen to
a friendly game.
Customer No. 2 won about $100
and departed.
Sheriff's officers looked into the
matter Monday and found the dice
were crooked.
EGYPTIANS SHELLED
JERUSALEM. Israeli Section
The Israelis shelled Egyptian
army positions across the border
Monday for the second day In suc
Max. Mia. Precis..
,,.
97 43 .11
4 38 .00
M 37 .03
M 40 .07
S3 37 -01
M 48 trace
8S , 54 trace
S 35 .00
I 33 M
Salem
Portland ...
Baker
Medford
North Bend
Roseburg .
San Francisco
Chicago
New York
Los Anceles
Willamette River J feet.
FORECAST (from U.8. weather
bureau. McNary field. Salem :
Some light rain this morninf be.
coming showery about noon. Partly
cloudy and cooler tonight. High to
day near SO. low tonight near 34.
temperature at 11:01 a.m. tirtlay
was 4S
SALEM PRECIPITATION '
Sine Start of Weather Year Sept. 1
Thi Yer Lart Year Normal
40 99 37.79 33 61