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FORECAST (from U. S. weather
-bureau. McNary field. Salem t:
Gradually increasing cloudiness to
day and tonight. High today near 73
and low tonight near 38. Partly
cloudy Monday with possible light
rain.
Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today
was 38.
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104th YEAR
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The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, May 2. 1954
PRICE 10c
No. 36
Reds Hurl Mightiest Assault at Bien Bien Phu
Weather Joins Campus in Paying Homage to Willamette May Queen
4 Ju.'NasjJ
Coronation ceremonies for Willamette University's Mayday queen won the blessings
of a warming sun and crystal clear skies Saturday. The colorful rites were held in
front of Eaton Hall on the campus with several hundred persons in attendance.
Sitting with her Royal court is Queen Carolyn Crane, Portland, flanked on the
right by Princess Alice Girod of Salem and on the left by Jane Gray. Standing
are master of ceremonies, Louis Hampton, flower girl Susan Beal and crown bearer
te
Steven Beal. At far right are flower girl Sandra Kay Bennett and Mrs. Betty Jean
Joseph, queen of 1952 who placed the crown on Carolyn's head. Attendants, (bottom
left to right) are escorts Thomas Joseph, William Merriam, Gary Kelley, and Phil
Ringle, and attendants Mary Campbell, Carol Emerson, Donna Jenkins and Jane
Notson. (Statesman Photo)
tUCPffiOGl
Pi Phis, Betas
Win Songf est
At Willamette
Frost Seriously
Fruit; Worst
Damages
Said
The return of Secretary Dulles
from Geneva is variously inter
preted. John Hightower. the AP
foreign affairs analyst, attrib
utes it to a division of opinion
in administration circles here
over an Indochina policy. An INS
correspondent in Geneva inter
prets the flight as a means of
dissociating the United States
from some compromise at Ge
neva which Dulles rates as a
fatal ppeasement of the Com
munists. Either way of looking at
the matter reveals a structural
weakness, either in our own ;
policy or in the western alliance ;
which has been the key to post-!
war foreign policy. j
However, our government may
have tried to go too fast and too
far. Clearly our allies were un
willing to serve an ultimatum on
Red China as originally proposed
by Dulles: and here at home re
sistance was developing against
any U. S. intervention alone in
the Indochina war. At Geneva
Russia may have preyed on the
weakness of France and its eag
erness to stop thv Indochina
drainage of men and money and
secured concessions which Dulles
docs not approve of. This is by
no means certain because at Ber
lin Bidault for France stood up
manfully against Russian pres
sure or blandishment.
The Russian aim has been to
break the western alliance, pri
marily with respect to EDC. The
United States, while working
(Continued on editorial page. 4.)
Winners of the song contest in
Willamette University's annual
May Weekend activities were the
Pi Phi sorority and the Beta Theta
Pi fraternity.
Winners were announced Satur
day afternoon following the coro
nation of Carolyn Crane, senior
from Portland, as Queen Carolyn I
at ceremonies in front of Eaton
Hall.
Second place awards went to the
Alpha Chi Omea sorority and
Sigma Chi fraternity.
The coronation festival preceded ; pected
a track meet Saturday afternoon ; just how much damage in dol
at McCulloeh Stadium between j iars and cents the two-day cold
Below freezing temperatures are
expected again in the mid-Willamette
Valley this morning coming
on the heels of Saturday morn
ing's heavy frost which seriously
damaged fruit crops in the area.
Weathermen at McNary Field
predicted temperatures this morn
ing would remain well above Sat
urday morning's record low of
25 degrees, however, giving some
slight encouragement to farmers.
Low this morning in Salem prob
ably will be near 29, forecasters
said, and possibly two degrees
colder in the Keizer district. In
creasing cloudiness also is ex-
Willamette University and Whit
man College.
Weekend activities will close
this morning with the queen and
her court attending morning wor
ship services at the First Metho
dist Church.
CIO Postpones
Lumber Strike
PORTLAND Itfi The CIO
Woodworkers Saturday postponed
indefinitely a strike scheduled to
begin next Monday in the Pacific
rcnrthwest and Northern California.
F. Hartung. president of the
union representing 50,000 workers
in this region, said after a day
long session with a group of em
ployersthat negotiations would
continue.
He did not say whether progress
had been made, but observers
guessed that employers must have
softened their attitud somewhat
from the previous refusal to grant
a wage increase.
The union has been seeking a
12 t-cent hourly boost. The basic
hourly wage now is $1.77.
U.S. National
Plans Portland
Drive-In Bank
PORTLAND GP The U.S. Na
tional Bank of Portland announced
purchase of another downtown cor
ner here Saturday, and said it was
going to put up a drive-in bank.
The new structure will go on a
quarter-block adjacent to its pres
ent home bank.
It will Be a five-story building
with drive-in windows on the street
level and sheltered parking space
for those who want to step to
nearby booths.
There will be public parking in
the basement, parking for custom'
ers on the second floor, and park
ing for tenants on the third floor
The fourth and fifth floors will
match adjacent floors in the pres
ent bank building. They will be
used for the trust department and
executive offices.
Among the firms to be moved
as the result of the construction
is the Oyster Loaf Restaurant.
12
CONTRACT REACHED
LEWIST0N, Idaho (fi - Potlatch
Forests, Inc., and negotiators for
the CIO International Woodworkers
of America announced in a joint
statement they reached agreement
Saturday for a new union contract
period has caused in the two
county area cannot be judged
yet, said D. L. Rasmussen, Marion
County extension agent. It s just
too early to tell and there s no
i it i
use in guessing, ne aeciarea.
Rasmussen added that it is likely
early strawberry blossoms on the
valley floor will bear no fruit this
McMinnville
Boy Drowns at
Lincoln Beach
NEWPORT. Ore. OP A nine-year-old
McMinnville boy, at near
by Lincoln Beach for a Sunday
school picnic, drowned Saturday
in the surf.
He was Dean Ray Ebeling, son
of Mrs. Fay Lbehng.
The Rev. Elton E Smith, pastor
of the First Baptist Church at
McMinnville, said the six adults
who were in charge of the picnic
for the 31 youngsters, did not
miss the boy until sometime later
when the group was in Taft en
route back home in a caravan of
automobiles
The body was first seen floating
year but the later crop probably : 0ut in the surf by a man who was
will not be affected
Charles Cole, formerly with the
State Department of Agriculture,
reported his potato patch had been
nipped by the freeze.
Other gardeners scattered
throughout the valley reported
damage in varying degrees indicat
ing that the frost struck in pockets
hitting some places much harder
than others.
(Additional details on Page 2
Sec. 1.)
fishing from the shore.
Not realizing that one of their
own party had drowned, the adults
quickly rounded up the children
to get them away from the beach.
Then at Taft. it was discovered
that young Ebeling was missing.
The boy's twin brother. Dale,
was among the children taken on
the outing.
Poppele New
'Voice' Chief
NEWARK, N. J. OP Two New
Jersey Republicans Saturday con
firmed they have been appointed
to high national administration
posts one as head of the Voice of
America, and the other as deputy
director of the budget.
J. R. 'Jack) Poppele, South
Orange, 56-year-old radio and tele
vision pioneer, acknowledged that
he had been offered the post as
new head of the Voice of America,
and had accepted.
Percival F. Brundage of Mont
clair, 62-year-old banker and certi
fied public accountant, also con
firmed that he had been appointed
to the budget post.
Soviet Shows Off Huge
Sweptwing Jet Bomber
Western International
At Salem 12. Calgary 1
At Lewiston 5. Spokane 6 ( 10 inn.)
At Tri-City 7. Edmonton 6
Pacific Coast League
At Portland 3. San Diego 7
At Seattle 4-5. Sacramento 1-2
At San Francisco 3, Hollywood 9
At Los Angeles 5. Oakland 1
American League
At Boston 0. Chicago 3
At Philadelphia 2, Baltimore 1 (10
Inn.)
At Washington 1. Detroit 6
At New York 2. Cleveland 10
National League
At St. Louis S. Pittsburgh 4 (10
Inn.)
At Chicago 4. New York 3
At Milwaukee 3. Philadelphia 4 (10
ton.)
At Cincinnati 7. Brooklyn (11
ton.)
By RICHARD KASISCHKE
MOSCOW OP The Soviet air
force uncorked a huge new four
engined sweptwing jet bomber and
sent it screaming over Red Square
at Saturday's May Day parade.
Premier Georgi Malenkov, other
top Soviet leaders and Western
diplomats watched intently as the
big bomber streaked out of the
west over the Lenin Museum and
traversed from horizon to horizon
in 30 seconds. Four fighters trailed
the big ship in V-formation.
Western observers estimated the
new bomber was capable of carry
ing any weapon yet produced.
It was part of an air show that
stole the stage from the other mili
tary displays.
Featured-were 175 new jet fight
ers. The first 94 to flash across
the square were twin jets with
one engine painted blue and the
other yellow. The next 81 had their
wings swept back in a sharp V
shape. .
watching was U. S. Ambassador
Charles Bohlen, recently returned
from a 10-day motor trip to the
Ukraine and Crimea. Bohlen, who
sat in the stands reserved for the
diplomatic corps, said he was fas
cinated by the sight of the new
jets.
The traditional May Day oration
was delivered by the Soviet de
fense minister. Marshal Nikolai
Bulgarrin.
Standing atop the Lenin-Staun
tomb with other government lead
ers. Bulganin assured Russians the
government was trying Its hardest
to raise living standards so the
people could have some of the good
things in life as well as a strong
military defense.
Bulganin's speech contained no
jibes at the United States which
marked some previous holiday orations.
Queen, Duke
Reunited With
Tivo Children
TOBRUK. Libya OP Queen Eli
zabeth II and the Duke of Edin
burgh, happily reunited with their
two children after an absence of
more than five months, headed for
home Saturday night aboard the
royal yacht Britannia.
Prince Charles, 5, and Princess
Anne, 3, got a big hug and kiss
from their globe-girdling parents
aboard the yacht. The children ar
rived Friday and their parents Sat
urday, The reunion was delayed
four hours while the Queen and
Duke took part in official ceremon
ies and met with King Idriss I.
From a launch 50 yards away
observers could see the bobbing
blond heads of Charles and Anne
as first the Queen and then the
Duke bent over to kiss them.
Newsmen aboard the launch
waited for more than an hour and
a half for a glimpse of the reunit
ed family, but the yacht sailed
away with the happy group still
below the decks. Stops at Malta
and Gibraltar will wind up the
tour which Elizabeth and the
Duke began last Nov. 23.
Rural School Fund
Vote on Monday
Marion county's rural school
districts will vote Monday night
between 8 and 9 pan. on a 1954
55 rural school district budget of
$1,251,536, of which $1,013,968 is
above the 6 per cent limitation.
Should the county-wide budget
fail to pass, each district will de
vise its own budget to be voted
on Jun 21.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Smudge pots were fired up again
Saturday night in the hard-hit soft
fruit areas of the Pacific North
west as temperatures began a skid
that forecasters said would bring
killing frosts for the second straight
night.
Damage already was estimated
in the hundreds cf thousands of
dollars.
cut growers were given some
encouragement. The Weather Bu
reau said Saturday night mini
mums would not drop to the record
lows experienced in a score of
Northwest localities 24 hours ear
lier. And by Sunday night, the weath
erman said, a low pressure area
bringing clouds and warmer air
will have ended the unseasonable
cold snap.
Lowest at Bend
The mercury made its lowest
dip at Bend, in central Oregon,
where it got down to 13 above.
Salem, Roseburg and Pendleton
had 26. Eugene 28, and Medford
and Portland 29.
In eastern Washington, Ellens
burg checked in with 20. Wenatchee
23, Spokane 25, Walla Walla 26 and
Yakima 27.
Vancouver, B. C, shivered at 33,
and Seattle at 35.
Growers estimated that possibly
95 per cent of the cherry, apricot
and peach crop was lost in the rich
fruit-growing areas of central Brit
ish Columbia. Wenatchee reported
"some damage" but had no dollar
estimate. Yakima, where smudging
spread a pall of smoke over the
entire valley, also had some frost
kill in blooming soft fruit orchards.
Third Freeze
Peaches, cherries and apricots
in the Milton-Freewater area of
Oregon, south of Walla Walla, suf
fered their third freeze of the sea
son as lows of 22 were recorded in
some sections. Irrigated pastures
were turned into sheets of ice
Heavy damage also was reported
to cherries and other soft fruits in
Union County, near La Grande,
Ore. The cherry crop there is val
ued at $300,000 annually
In southern Oregon, visibility at
Medford was cut to one block by
heavy smudging, but growers said
there was some loss to their 14
million dollar peach and pear crop.
Saturday morning's cold snap
"undoubtedly added" to frost dam
age suffered by Eugene area fruit
crops Thursday morning. Lane
County Agent W. B. Parker said.
Wide Range
Loss from the Thursday frost
to peach orchards, which yield a
minor cannery crop, ranged from
one-third of the fruit to almost
complete destruction, Parker reported.
He said cherry trees, just past
peak of their bloom, also were
damaged but "probably not as se
verely as peaches." Cherries are
the area's major commercial fruit
crop.
The thermometer dropped to its
lowest May reading on record, and
fruit growers said some of their
crop in the Hood River Valley
suffered damage Saturday.
The extent of damage was not
determined at once, but most
growers said there was certain
damage to some of the big crop
Dulles
Ignores
Chou
GENEVA of) East-West negot
iations for setting up peace talks
on Indochina entered a decisive
phase Saturday night as U.S. Sec
retary of State Dulles prepared to
leave Monday without having ex
changed a word .with Red China's
Foreign Minister Chou En-Lai.
Representatives of the Big Four,
North and South Korea and Red
China met for 2'i hours Saturday
afternoon on Korea.
Assistant U. S. Secretary of
State Walter S. Robertson de
scribed the discussions as "an in
formal exchange of views" and
said no decisions were reached.
He added that the group probably
would meet again on a later date.
The seven - nation parley was j
decided upon Saturday morning at
a meeting of the 16 nations which
fought in Korea. The conference
has been unable to reach any
agreement on unification of Korea.
Dulles has refused to take any
recognition of Chou at the confer
ence. In regular sessions he is
seated behind Chou but studiously
ignores him. Dulles never has been
introduced to Chou or spoken a
word to him.
Dulles met with Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov on the proposals
by the United States to establish
a poll of atomic materials for
peaceful purposes. It was the sec
ond such meeting this week.
A communique issued by the U.
S delegation indicated no conclu
sions had been reached. The com
munique said a reply to an earlier
American note handed over by
Molotov at the first meeting with
Dulles will be studied further in
Washington.
Succumbs
v ' . Si
..:-:Silj' 4T--.
Judge Rex Kimmell of the Mar
ion County Circuit Court, who
died at a Salem hospital Saturday.
Alness Fatal to
Circuit Judge
Rex Kimmell
Intervention in
Indochina War
Still in Doubt
WASHINGTON OR The Eisen
hower administration has reached
no decision yet on whether to rec
ommend United States mterven
tion in tne inaocrunese war, in
formants said Saturday night.
President Eisenhower has re
peatedly said war action by this
country should be taken only with
approval by Congress.
Bntauf s refusal so far to join
in a coalition with the United
States and other countries interest
ed in southeast Asia was described
as placing a major barrier in the
way of American aims.
Senate GOP leader Knowland of
California, with obvious criticism
of British policy, Saturday called
on this country to move at once
for a coalition defense against com
munism in Asia even if it means
acting without one of its major
Allies.
Meanwhile a story published by
Joseph and Stewart Alsop in The
New York Herald Tribune said
the Eisenhower administration last
week came near asking Congress
to approve American intervention
in the war, but the British Cabi
net's refusal to join in an immedi
ate coalition blocked it.
Some top officials here believe
that if the British would agree to
join a defensive arrangement the
United States then almost certain
ly would intervene with air and
naval power in the fight against
Communist forces in Indochina.
But President Eisenhower him-
self has made it clear that several
steps would be involved in any
such procedure, and other inform
ants said Saturday night in fact
no government decision to inter
vene had been made. (Additional
details on page 2. sec. 1.)
Marion County Circuit Judge
Rex Kimmell, on the circuit
bench since 1949, died Saturday
morning at a local hospital fol
lowing a severe illness of the
past few months.
The judge underwent surgery
at a Seattle, Wash., hospital sev
eral weeks ago at which time
one cancerous lung was removed.
He was apparently on the road
to reeoverv at his Salem home.
1861 State St., when he suffered
relapse and was taken to the
Salem hospital last Tuesday.
His condition remained critical
the entire time and he finally
succumbed Saturday.
Described by his companions
as "one oi the most Drmiani le
gal minds," Judge Kimmell grad
uated from the University ot
Idaho and received his LLB in
1923. He began private law prac
tice in Cascade, Idaho, the year
of his graduation and from 1925
to 1927 he was district attorney
for Valley County, Idaho. In
1927 he was affiliated with the
law firm of Neuner (George, for
mer attorney general) and Kim
mell at Portland. He was United
States Conciliation Commissioner
at Multnomah County from 1934
to 1938..
A Republican, Judge Kimmell
was born July 18, 1896 at Albion,
Ind. On Sept. 2, 1926 he was
married to Gail F. Musser who
survives him. Othej survivors in
clude three brothers, I. J. Kim
mell. Miami. Fla., Keith Kim
mell, Wilmington, N. C, and
Kenneth Kimmell, Caldwell, Idaho.
Funeral services will be held
at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the
Clough-Barrick ChapeL (Addi
tional details on page , Sec
Third
All-Out
Attack
tMap on page 9, Sec. 1.)
HANOI. Indxrhina Lrt Tens of
thousands of Vietrninh troops
smashed at the defenders of Dien
Bien Phu Saturday night in the
third and mightiest attempt to
overwhelm and destroy the north
western Indochina fortfess.
The French High Command an
nounced Sunday the tnassive as
sault came at 10 p. !m. after a
violent artillery barrage from the
enemy positions in the surrounding
hills. Wildly screaming.; the attack
ers charged into the fort s barbed
wire barricades.
Hand-to-Hand
Fierce fighting raged throughout
the night and early Sunday as the
French Union defenders fought
back in hand-to-hand encounters.
An all-out assault by the Commu
nist-led rebels surrounding the
French Union fortress had been
expected as a Vietrnina bid for vic
tory to sway the Geneva conference
in its Indochina negotiations.
Unsuccessful Tries
Since the letrninh ' first lunged
at the northwestern Indochina posi
tion seven weeks ago they have
made two unsuccessful attempts to
overwhelm its garrison by sheer
force of numbers. ?
At the same time they have whit
tled away the French! defenses un
til they cover a perimeter less than
a mile across. The French held an
area 4 by 6 miles when the battle
started.
No Means of Escape
The garrison is completely sur
rounded, with no meins of escape
into the hills. Air evacuation is not
possible since jm planes have been
able to land at the Dien Bien Phu
air strip, which hai been under
.heavy enemy artillery and mortar
fire and is partly occupied by the
attackers.
The massive assault Saturday
night came after a kill of several
days in heavy gtound action.
SHIPS DUE FOR FETE
WASHINGTON' Iff) Sen. Guy
Cordon R-Ore) reported Saturday
that five U. S. Navy ships will
dock in Portland during tfat dry's
itoje f estival.
Crash Damages
Two Automobiles
Two cars received extensive
damage early this morning in a
collision at North Church and
Center streets.
Police identified the drivers -as
Eugene Knupp, 16, of Salem
Route 6, and Earl Brown, 17, of
Salem Route 8. Police said the
Knupp vehicle was traveling east
on Center street and the second
car was traveling north on
Church street Both cars were
towed by Bales and Brady Tow-
ing Service.
apples and also to pears and
cherries.
PP&L Stockholders
Approve Merger
PORTLAND ( Stockholders
oi Pacific Power and Light Co.
have voted in favor of merger
with Mountain States Power Co.,
PPfcL officials reported Saturday.
Earlier the merger was ap
proved by Mountain States stockholders.
Politics on Parade . . .
-A-
Who's Running for What in May Primaries!
Chinese pIGs
Poised at Edge
4
Oflndocl una
WASHINGTON ifi Reports
reaching here say aiswarm of Chi
nese MIG 15 jet fighters and bomb
ers are poised on airdromes close
to the Indochina i border, from
where they can stabj swiftly if Mos
cow and Peiping decide Red China
should intervene mbre actively.
ine wnne vapor ?irom high-uy-
ing craft, seen almost as far down
as Saison near the! southern end
of Indochina, suggests the Red air
force is making aerial reconnais
sance of targets it teuld attack if
ordered to strike. -
The number of MIG 15 fighters
concentrated on airdromes along
the (Thina-Indochina border, includ
ing two big fields with hard-surfaced
runways, is more than 600.
say persons renirnmg from the Far
East. ;
In addition to tile MIGs there
are believed to be a number of
light, twin-engined ?jet bombers.
For the last two years. Red Chi
na has been building up two biz
supply areas close to the border,
which in addition to providina
equipment for shipment south to
the Vietrninh ground forces, pre
sumably contain stockpiles of fuel
and spare parts for aircraft.
(Editor's note: Stories In Tne Ore-
icon Statesman's exclusive PoUUeal
Parade series . are written hy or for
the candidates on Invitation of this
newspaper and opinions expressed
therein may or may not e in ac
cordance with The Statesman's own
poUcy.
Today's Subject:
E. C. (CARL) CHARLTON
Candidate for
ALDERMAN 4th WARD
E. C. (Carl) Charlton, 345 S. 23rd
SL, Salem, who is a candidate for
alderman (councilman) of Ward 4,
comprising the
southeast part
of Salem, has
lived at the
above address
for over 27
years. He was
born in Salem,
and has lived
the most of his
life here. Mar'
ried and has
one son.
i ' J r
v.-
E. C.
ChaxiUa
Charlton is a home owner and
thus a taxpayer. He was with the
Salem Police Department for 23V
years. He retired about two years
ago, at. which time he held the
position of assistant chief of police.
He served overseas with the Army
in World War I, is member of the
American Legion, Post No. 9,
Veterans of Foreign Wars No. 661,
and the Salem Kiwanis Club. He
is a member of the First Congre
gational Church.
His work with the city as an
employe, as well as being a prop
erty owner, taxpayer, family man
and neighbor, qualifies him to
serve Ward 4 as well as the entire
rity. His being retired allows him
the time to do this.
On the ballot, vote for: E. C.
(Carl) Charlton, "Sound Progress."
(Tomorrow: C B. Helms)
Salem Woman
I
Top Speaker
GEARHART, Ore. I Miss
Nancy Stewart of Salem won first
place Saturday m the Northwest
regional speech contest sponsored
by the Toastmistffesses.
She will represent the Northwest
in the national contest scheduled
for sometime in Jtdy in Kentucky.
Miss Francii Duncan of Kirk
land, Wash., won second place.
SALEM PaECTPlTATlOV
Sine Start of Weather Year Sept. I
This Year Lart : Year Normal
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