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Schine on Stand, . Says Photograph Stevens ' Request By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON UP Pvt. G. Da vid Schine, the millionaire draftee in the McCarthy-Pentagon case, took the witness stand and the TV spotlight Thursday. And, under a protective barrage of . shouted ob jections by his former boss. Sen. McCarthy R-Wis, Schine testi fied : 1. McCarthy is right Schine posed for a photograph with Sec retary of the' Army Stevens last Nov. 17 at the specific request of Stevens. The Army secretary says he doesn't remember it that way at all. 2. McCarthy's Pentagon oppon ents are right on another point a colonel standing beside Schine in the original picture was missing from the photo submitted by the Record Judgment Goes to Policeman A Marion County Circuit Court jury returned a verdict to the plaintiff Thursday evening awarding a judgment of $60,000 to the former Salem police officer for injuries allegedly sustained in an JOB MB JUQQj I 5S? Spokane's "Operatioi Walkout" was hailed as a great success. It was a trial run for the evacuation of the central business section after the sounding of the city's bomb raid siren. In ten minutes occupants of downtown buildings poured out on the streets and traveled on foot to the previous ly marked safety zone. Jet planes roaring overhead and machine guns chattering from roof tops and helmeted troops patroling the streets gave quite a businesslike air to the test. One thing noted was the silence which gripped the downtown area when the sig nals sounded. No motor traffic, only the hurried shuffle of thou sands of pedestrians intent on reaching as promptly as they could the area designated. The report from Spokane re minded me of the civil defense trial of an earlier day. In the first part of December, 1941, before Pearl Harbor, the civil defense organization in Portland which was headed by Mayor Earl Riley, staged a blackout. I stood with him and a party on top of one of the downtown buildings and saw the lights go out on signal. There too the observance was universal and darkness gripped the city. Only in a spot or two, as in the stairwell of an office building did a light show. Many will remember the black out requirements of World War I: windows sealed to prevent any rays of light escaping which might attract enemy bombers headlights dimmed Ordinances were passed making it an offense not to darken the windows. In this respect we were merely copy ing Britain whiehunde a rain of bombs during the blitz had in p r o v i s e d protective measures. Later we realized that the black out was not effective. The rivers reflected the moonlight and of fered a good chart for any (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Police Hunt Knife Victim State police were searching ear- lv Friday morning in the area about five miles south of Inde pendence for an unidentified prowler who might have been slashed in a knife fight. The search was touched off when Salem police discovered the blooded form of Charles Dodge m the back seat of a car they had stopped for speeding through town. Driver of the car, Roy William Gregory. Crawfordsville. told po lice he was hurrying to get his partner to the hospital. He was assisted to Salem General where Gregory explained that he and Dodge are partners living on a hoo ranch south of Independence. He explained that the two had heard a prowler and Dodge had gone to investigate. A fight en sued with an unknown assailant who wielded a broken bottle cut ting Dodge. He said Dodge lashed out with his hunting knife, heard the man groan and stumble into the darkness. ANIMAL CRACKERS BV WARREN GOODRICH I W ACE LIPB INSURANCE CO. "Naturally the premium is o tittle higher if we cover all 9 Uvt$." McCarthy forces to Senate investi gators. The Army side charges the original Air Force photo was "doc tored." Schine explained that when be turned the photo over to McCar thy aides, the colonel was in it He had nothing to do with cutting the colonel out, he said, and doesn't know who did it. The wavy-haired, 6 foot 3 Schine took over the witness stand from Stevens over the vehement objec tions of McCarthy, who was far from finished with cross-examining the Army secretary and pro tested that to break up the testi mony was "changing the ground rules in the middle of the game." (Additional details on page 2, sec. 1.) acciaeni in ivoi. The judgment was believed to be the largest ever awarded for personal injury from the Marion County court. The jury deliberat ed about four hours having heard the case since Monday. Ronald W. Wiebe, in two sep arate actions, brought suit against Chris Seeley, as admin istrator of the estate of Edward Piasecki, and against Mrs. Kath ryn A. Piasecki, widow of the Salem attorney killed in a boat ing accident on Oregon's coast in August, 1952. Wiebe had sought a total of $77,000 dam ages. Wiebe was riding in a patrol car which collided with a car operated by Piasecki at 12th and Mission Streets on Nov. 4, 1951. Following the impact, Wiebe's car struck a pole and threw the former patrolman to the street In his suit Wiebe alleged that he sustained fractures of the back and ribs, bruises, scalp lac erations, shock and disturbance of the nervous system. After leaving the hospital he was giv en a disability release from the police department. Wiebe was represented by Allan G. Carson and Thomas W. Churchill, both Salem attorneys. Settlement in Indochina Seen by Ike . WASHINGTON CD President Eisenhower said Thursday a prac tical settlement of the Indochinese War may be possible even though a completely trustworthy peace with the Communists appears to be something over the horizon. The President told his new con ference the most the United States can hope for is to work out a prac tical way of getting along with the Communists. That is what we have been doing in Europe, he said. But Eisenhower declared em phatically it would be unaccept able to permit the whole anti-Communist defense of southeast Asia to crumble and disappear. The President thus laid new stress on his statement earlier this week that Indochina is "the cork in the bottle" whose loss to the Communists would affect the fate of hundreds of millions in Asia. 30 A-Cannons Make Up New Rhine Watch U. S. Army sources said Thurs there are now 30 atomic cannon in day there are now 30 atomic can non in West Germany capable of defending a 150-mile Rhine River front against Soviet ground at tack. Five atomic cannon battalions, each equipped with six 280 mm guns, now face a potential aggres sor. Only three such battalions in Germany were identified until Thursday, when the Army disclos ed it now has five here. The first such battalion arrived in Germany last October. The oth ers have been shipped here since under tight military security. They are believed to be the only Amer ican atomic cannon stationed out side of toe United States. The big 85-ton guns, the world's largest artillery, have a range of 20 miles, an elevation up to 55 de grees and can fire in almost all directions. (WBWMl Westers International At Salem 7, Edmonton 6 At Spokane 14. Yakima 3 At bewiston 7, Wenatchee S At Tn-City 13. Calgary 3 At Vancouver 12, Victoria 7 Pacific Coast League At Los Angeles 5. Oakland 4 At San Francisco 6. Hollywood 3 At Portland-San Diego, rain At Seattle-Sacramento, rain National League At Cincinnati 5, Brooklyn 7 At St. Louis 3. Pittsburgh 4 At Mil-vaukee Philadelphia 4 Only games scheduled American League At Washington 1. Baltimore 2 At New York S. Chicago 4 At Boston 3, Cleveland Only games scheduled 0 104TH YEAR 4 Salem Man I Y - Tic. Robert Kaplan, former Willamette University i student and husband of Mrs. Audrey Kaplan, 285 ! W. Rural St., is shown above giving a bundle off clothing to a little Korean girl from the town of Yang-Gu. Huge quantities of clothing, donated b'y religious groups in the United States, are being distributed- in many of the villages well north of the 38th parallel. Kaplan is currently with the 24th Infantry Division in Korea. 2,000 Attend First Home, Garden Show By LILL1E L. MADSEN Garden Editor, The Stateman Over 2,000 visitors, many with winter coats, streamed through the admission-free gates Thursday night after Mayor Alfred Loucks clipped the golden ribbon and op ened Salem's First Home and Gar den Show now being held at the State Fair Grounds. Addition of a booth Thursday night by the Drayton Lumber Co., Brooks, brought the total number of display ooths to 78. Star of the first nights 20-minute show was Heck Harper, lanky cowboy singer from KPTV, who performed in the grandstand pavilion where the show is being held. Hunt for Prtees Hunting prize numbers in the various booths where merchandise is displayed, became the big game of the evening. Hands of show attenders were soon filled with cards which entitled them to free gifts at the downtown stores next week. Arranging the prize give-away program for the Lions Club, spon sors of the Home & Garden Show, is Hub Harris who explained that a . completely new set of tickets will be issued to the Friday night crowd and the treasure hunt num bers in the booths will also be changed. Too, another four cert ificates of $25 each will be given to holders of the free-entrance tickets. Prizes for these are-given out an hour apart, Harris explain ed. Entertainment Set Herbert Alder, chairman of the entertainment show which goes on at. 8:30 each night, said that Friday night would bring out Barb ara Young, vocalist, and Sue Mc Mullen, pianist, both from Wil lamette University, and that Sat urday night. Harper would be here again to close the show, with Mike Davenport, also from KPTV as master of ceremonies. In the booths, arranged by the Salem merchants and services, al most every conceivable type of in door and outdoor home and garden appliance is on display. Small out door barbecue pits, arranged on wheels, numerous varieties of power lawn mowers, building stones, wood finishes, floor cover ings and electrical appliances pre dominated. Oa Again Tonight Winners of $25 gift certificates Thursday night included Mrs. Gladys Pinner, 1231 Ruge St., Mrs. Glen Chrisman, 515 Lancaster Dr., and Mrs. Fern Bradford. 1161 Sec ond St. The show will open again Fri day night at 6 o'clock and run to 10 and Saturday from noon to 10 p.m. A possibility that the show will be open on Sunday was raised Thursday night. R. M. Fischer, chairman of the space committee, said several merchants had sug gested the idea. A decision will be made today, he added. SECTIONS 32 PAGES Helps in Aid Commando Raids Keep Red Units Off Balance By LARRY ALLEN HANOI, Indochina (vP) French commandos struck hard at the Vietminh in lightning raids all around the Dien Bien Phu fortress, the French command announced Thursday night Following up pre-dawn raids in the northwest corner of the be Way Clear to Geneva Talks On Indochina GENEVA OP East and West appeared to have cleared the way Thursday night for talks on the war in Indochina. Efforts to reach agreement on a formula for Ko rean unity bogged down in a welter I of old aria repetitious argument. While Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov was solidly backing Red Chinese and North Korean plans for divided Korea in the con ference hall, a French official an nounced the last obstacle to calling the conference on Indochina ap peared to have been surmounted. Bao Dai, Vietnamese chief of state, has agreed reluctantly after long objection to permit Viet Nam representatives to sit at the same conference table with emissaries of the Communist Vietminh regime now waging bitter war against French Union troops in Indochina, the French official said. PROTESTS CONTRACT CAIRO, Egypt fr Dr. Adham El Nakib, a 27-year-old Alexandria physician, said Thursday he and ex-Queen Narriman will be married next month. She is 20. Women Journalists Honor Two of Salem PORTLAND (Special) George Putnam, editor emeritus of the Salem Capital Journal, was hon ored here Thursday night when he became the fourth recipient of the Edith Knight Hill Memorial award for outstanding contribu tion to Oregon. The award was presented at the annual Matrix Table banquet of Theta Sigma Phi, women's journalism honor society. The fraternity also tapped for associate membership four Ore gon newspaperwomen, including Miss Maxine Buren, woman's edi tor of The Oregon Statesman. Miss Buren, with Miss Isabel McLelland, Portland author of juvenile books. Miss Patricia L. Green, manager of radio station KBPS, Portland, and Miss Beth Fagan, fashion editor of The Ore gonian," will be initiated into the group at a later meeting. Joining Putnam at the honor table Thursday night were three Oregon women, cited for out standing work in their profession. The "Women of Achievemenf POUNDDD 1651 The Orocjon Statesman, to Koreans leaguered plain, the commandos, firing machine-pistols and hurling grenades, broke through encircling Vietminh lines Thursday night and picked up prisoners during the sor ties, the French said. Prisoners Questioned The prisoners were questioned for information on the offensive plans of the Communist-led forces of Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. In the earlier blows from the shrunken defenses, the French smashed a string of the enemy's fortifications and killed at least 70 Vietminh on the northwest corner where Vo has been massing for a thrust to only 600 the heart of the fortress yards awav. Describing the situation inside the tight defenses, a French spokes man said the defenders were get ting a regular ration of dehydrat ed wine which makes up a nor mal wine ration for the French sol dier when mixed with water. No Acrobat, But Toenail Cuts Eye GREEN BAY. Wis. Tavern keeper Harvey Verheyden can dis play a certificate from St. Vin cent's Hospital to prove his ver acity he cut his eye with his toe nail. Verheyden was trimming his toe nails with a clipper when a frag ment of the nail snapped off and lodged in the eye. There was no permanent injury. were Maurine Neuberger, free lance writer and state represen tative; Adelaide Lake, associate professor of journalism at Oregon State College, and Saidie Orr Dun bar, executive secretary of the Oregon Tuberculosis and Health Association and three times chair man of the governor's committee for children and youth. Presenting the award to Put nam, in honor of the late Edith Knight Hill, the "Marion Miller' of The" Oregonian, was George TurnbuIL former dean of the University of Oregon and now on the staff of the Albany Democrat Herald. Other winners have been Burt Brown Barker, Ben Hur Lampman and Stewart T. Holbrook. Speaker at the banquet was Miss Lulu Fairbanks, scioa of a pioneer Alaska family for which Fairbanks was named. Miss Fair banks, associate editor . of " the Alaska Weekly, published in Se attle, spoke en the topic "Alaska Dog Sled to Jef Salem Oregon, Friday, April World Strategy Plan Upheld; Eisenhower Keeps Troop Control By RUSSELL BRINES WASHINGTON OB The House Thursday upheld President Eisen hower's request for a flexible world strategy by beating down, 214-37, a proposal to limit the use of Amer ican troops in combat zones. Then it voted the armed services Balk at Loyalty Oath Costs Welfare Post PORTLAND (JP) A former world relief organization worker said Thursday she had lost her job as a case worker for the Multno mah County Public Welfare Commission because she refused to sign a loyalty oath. She is Katherine Patten, a 1934 University of Oregon graduate who once worked in Poland for the old United Nations Relief and Rehabil itation Administration (UNRRA). J. Warrington Stokes, county welfare administrator, confirmed that Miss Patten refused to take the oath required of welfare com mission staff members because they participate in the civil de fense program. Denied Hearing He said Miss Patten, notified of her discharge, asked a hearing before the State Civil Service Com mission, but that this was denied because she had been with the commission less than six months. He said Miss Patten was the only staff member who refused after notification last Nov. 24 that they must sign the oath. Method "Not Sound" Miss Patten said she refused to sign because it "is not a sound method of detecting Communists and subversives but is a device conceived by . . . self-seeking men posing as guardians of American freedom." She also said the oath "is a first step in chipping away indi vidual freedom" and "has arisen out of the fear and suspicion of one American for another. Instead of allying distrust, it will crease it." in- Union Chiefs' Huddle Hinted CHICAGO OP Dave Beck, pres ident of the powerful AFL Team sters' Union, disclosed Thursday he would meet in Washington Sat urday with John L. Lewis and Dav id J. McDonald. The talks will bring together the heads of three of the most power ful unions in the nation. Announce ment of the meeting brought im mediate speculation that some big labor deal may be in the making. Lewis heads the independent United Mineworkers, McDonald the CIO United Steelworkers. He said he is not authorized by the AFL council to ask the inde pendent UMW or the steelworkers to affiliate with the AFL. Woman Overcome Bv Ammonia Fumes Salem First Aid was called to the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Lucero, 2397 Adams St., Thursday night to administer oxygen after the family had been partially ov ercome by leakiing ammonia gas from the family refrigerator. . Worst affected was Mrs. Betty Jean Lucero who had gotten up from bed to investigate the odor and opened the refrigerator door. She was the only one requiring oxygen. Fair Election FAIRBANKS, Alaska U It was a soft life for election judges in the Yukon River village of Wood chopper. Only three persons in the settle ment Vtere eligible to vote in Tues day's territorial primary election. They cast their ballots, then took over their duties as election judges and tallied the vote. The village went Democratic, two to one. Todays Statesman Section 1 General njws 2, 5, 8 Editorials, features 1 -4 Valley 6-7 Section 2 Society, women's 1, 2 General news 3, 5, 6, 8 AP News in Pictures 4 Comics, puzzles 6 Radio, TV 6 Safety at Home 7 Section 3 Food news General news Section 4 Sports Markets Classified ads ------ 7 1-4 L 1-K I . . 30. 1954 a post - Korea low of $28.i84.250, 486 in new money for the year ending in mid - 1955. The Defense Budget, which now goes to the Senate, was approved by ya roll call vote of 377 to 0. The House overwhelmingly de feated an amendment, by Rep. WU Mayday Parade Set For 3 Today Willamette University students will serve notice on Salem today that May Weekend is on, when they stage an afternoon parade in downtown Salem. Ten campus residence groups will be represented in the 3 p.m. parade, as will be the Salem Cher rians, Silverton High School band, student Air Force reserve drill team and Oregon Mounted Posse. Paraders will proceed to McCul loch Stadium for the freshman sophomore tug-of-war, the greased pole climb and the all-school bar becue associated annually with the May Weekend. Carolyn Crane, Portland senior, is the May Queen. (Additional details on States man's women's page.) Frost Crimps Valley Area Fruit, Flowers Strawberry plants and other budding flora in springtime gar dens and farms suffered a throttl ing blast of cold early Thursday morning when temperatures in Salem dipped to a low of 28 degrees at 6 a.m. The low temperature was record ed at McNary Field weather sta tion, but lower temperatures were called in from farmers in the area, according to D. L. Rasmus sen, Marion County extension ag ent. One farmer in the Keizer area reported the temperature dipped to 22 degrees at his place. Extent of damage due to the un expected chill will not be determ ined for several days, the extension agent said. The Associated Press said a statewide survey revealed no extensive crop damage though there were such low Jemperatures recorded as 20 degrees at Bend and 28 at Roseburg. Prediction by the weather bur eau at Salem is for a partly clou dy day today, tonight and Satur day with the highest temperature near 57 and the lowest near 35 degrees. Highest temperature re corded Thursday was 54. Politics on Parade... Who's Running for What in May Primaries! (Editor's note: Stories in The Ore- son Statesman's exclusive Political : Parade series are written by or for the candidates on Invitation or this newspaper and opinions expressed therein may or may not h in ac cord nca with The Statesman's own policy. Today's Candidate: CLAYTON W. JONES Candidate far SALEM ALDERMAN (Ward 3) I was born in Kansas in 1P3. We came west in 1900 and nude our home in Pendleton in 1901. I came to Sa lem in 1914 and A have lived here ever since. My first job in I Salem was in a grocery store tnr Ui'acfivitt Mr 4:Thielsen. locat- ij ed aoout wnere .tbe Man's Shop k"is today. ..Next Clayton Jen I worked for WeCer Bros, on Commercial St No. 34 Coudert (R NY), which would have required prior congressional approval before any of the new money was used to support forces in combat in Indochina or other parts of the world which the United States is not obligated by treaty to defend. The 214-37 vote that beat the Coudert proposal was a standing tally, in which members are not recorded by name. Saw Danger in Curb President Eisenhower told his news conference Thursday morn ing that any artificial restraint on his power to send troops anywhere in the world could not fail to dam age his flexibility in trying to pro tect the United States. The House changed money items in the bill only by adding $3,543,986 to continue full operation of the Murphy General Hospital at Walt ham, Mass. The final total was $1,202,804,514 less than President Eisenhower originally requested. Of this 541 million dollars represented cuts by the House Appropriations Commit tee, and the balance were book keeping changes, some of which were volunteered by the services. Air Force Leads The measure earmarks $10,819, 310,000 for the Air Force; $9,705, 808,500 for the Navy and $7,619 066,986 for the Army. Rep. McCormack of Massachus etts, deputy Democratic leader, sparked an attack by Democrats who raised the question whether the budget is too small. He said "there is some doubt in my mind that the United States is strong enough to repel an attack." Salem Senior Class Near To Graduation Salem High School's senior class of 536 is now starting its last month of school and its prepara tion for June 7 graduation. Commencement speaker will be Dr. G. Herbert Smith, president of Willamette University, it was announced Thursday by Principal E. A. Carleton. The class will graduate from the largest high school student body Salem will have for some time, as next fall sees the division of high school students into two schools. The studgit body now numbers about 2,080. Principal senior class events will be the senior assembly at the school and dinner party at the Marion Hotel, June 3, the junior senior prom June 5 at the scboV and baccalaureate June 6. Max. Min. Prec. ZS trace Sairm Portland Baker .. S4 49 49 59 51 56 62 64 65 35 23 32 trace .00 JOO .00 JOO .00 .00 .00 Medford North Bend " 51 33 Roseburg 56 2S San Francisco 62 49 Chicago 64 4 New York 65 45 Los Angeles 57 Willamette River -.2 feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today, tonight and Saturday. High today 55 to 57. low tonight 35 to 37. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today was 42. n ... . w24aS SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 41.01 38.14 15.S2 (also grocers); then for Busicks. who had a grocery store east of the alley about where Morris Op tical Company now is. That was all the grocery exper ience I wanted so next I went to work for the Whittenberg King Company, a new dehydrating com pany, to dry fruits and vegetables. I was a superintendent in the the Whittenberg Company which later became Salem Kings and then the Kings Food Products Company. I left Kings Food to join the Navy in World War I. After the war r decided to try furniture 'so the first opportunity was for Max O. Buren Funiture; ; next H. L. Stiff Furniture Com pany; then I went to work for Homer Leisy in drapery and when the depression began to tighten, I quit drapery and went into bus mess for myself, upholstering furniture from 1929 until 1350., 1 Most of the last 40 years I have spent, in Ward 3. I feel I am a neighbor to most of you in Ward 3 and, if I. am elected as alderman for this ward I am sure I can serve you welL . ' , (Tomorrow: Leenari Eowaa),