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$100,000 Blaze Destroys Dallas Mart POUNDI 165! 104TH YEAR 2 SECTIONS 14 PAGES Th Oregon Startetman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, May 11, 1954 PRICE 5c No, 45 McKay 'Campaigning' Raises Wrath Of Newbry Backers; Protest to GOP 1 r,- v.: s Mi. r fee DALLAS Charred wood and merchandise remains were about all that was left of Al's Shopping Center after a $100,000 fire early Monday. Checking into the ruins in above photo is an employe of the big market, Ray Thiessen, of Dallas. una Qua Last week a new organization was formed ostensibly to combat ' super-internationalism and Com munism." It chose for its title 'Tor America" which sounds very much like the "Pro Ameri ca" organization which flourished in New Deal days and still exists though not active in Oregon. The new organization seems a lineal descendant of "America First" and seems certain to attract the support of the relics of that body. The names identify the poli cies which the new body will es pouse. "For America" was launch ed at a luncheon given by Col. Robert R. MeCormick of the Chicago Tribune. Co-chairmen are Robert E. Wood, who headed America First." and Clarence E. EE ESQ Manion, former dean of the Notre Dame University law school, re cently relieved by White House request as chairman of a com mittee on state-federal relations. Members of the organizing com mittee are Burton Wheeler, form er senator from Montana, John T. Flynn, author of "The Road Ahead," Howard Buffett, former Nebraska congressman and Ham l'ton Fish, former congressman from New York, and Manion. a? Instead of setting out as a new political party the organization plans to function in a bipartisan manner, that is. lo throw its weight to candidates it favors within both the old parties. The organizers dedicated the new body to "God and country" and proclaimed a set of purposes many of which are laudable, such as: "To promote peace; To re store and uphold our constitution as our basic law." etc. But the past (Continued on editorial page. 4) Warmer But Cloudy, Says Weatherman A few . clouds and warmer weather are looked for in Salem today, tonight and Wednesday ac cording to predictions by U. S. weathermen at McNary Field. The temperature is expected to be a little warmer with a high looked for today near 75 and a low tonight near 44 degrees. Tem perature Monday ranged from a high of 73 to a low of 46 degrees. Midnight temperature was 53 de grees. ANIMAL CRACKERS V WAR REN GOODRICH "I lev my wife but I with fh.'d fix h.rt.lf up." f, Jlf L Fire Levels Dallas Store; Cash Saved Statesman New Servir DALLAS Fire destroyed Al's Shopping Center in North Dallas shorfty before dawn Monday and the owner, Al Coote, estimated damage at around $100,000. The store was one of the largest in the Most-Wanted Con Nabbed at Seattle Home SEATTLE Alex Whitmore, 44, who was placed on the FBI's 10 most wanted men list five months aeo. was arrested, unarmed, here Monday. Richard D. Auerbach, special agent in charge of the Seattle FBI office, said agents arrested Whit more at an apartment house after receiving a tip from a person who recognized the fugitive from want ed circulars. Auerbach said Whitmore, wanted in connection with a Virginia as sault case in 1950, had a $50 bill sewed into the seam of his pants when apprehended. He told officers he had arrived here about two weeks ago and was working as a roofer. Russ Ballet Stilled by Tide of Battle PARIS d The first week of the scheduled three weeks of perform ances by a troupe of stars from the Russian ballet was canceled Mon day. There wai a strong possibility the dancers TOight go back to Mos cow and Leningrad without ever performing a pirouette for a Paris audience. Military developments in far-off Indochina kept the stage dark. Taking no chance on incidents at the Opera House, the Cabinet de cided last Friday to close the na tional theaters on Saturday and Saturday nights. That meant can cellation of the scheduled Satur day opening and the Sunday night performance. Monday Premier Joseph Laniel decided the danger was not past and ordered the performances post poned. CLASHES ON BORDER ' JERUSALEM, Of) The death toll in Jordan-Israel border clashes that began during the weekend rose with charges by Jordan that eight persons were killed and four wounded in new incidents Moniay Max. Min. Preeip ... 71 4 .M Salem .. Portland Baker Medford North Bend Roseburg San Francisco Chicago New York .. 69 70 78 57 77 61 sa 54 46 49 .00 .03 i .00 .01 .00 .00 trac .39 .00 48 40 49 44 45 55 Los Angeles 65 Willamette River -.4 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today, tonight and Wednesday. Little warmer today with the hi(fh near 75. low tonight near 44. Temperature at 12:01 today waa 53. 8ALRM PRECIPITATION Since SUrt of Weather Tear Sept. 1 Th Year Last Year Ne-rmal 41-21 381 36.59 4, g 4 X, Dallas area. The Dallas fire department an swered the alarm but flames were too far advanced to prevent destruction. The building was of frame and concrete block construction. It housed the grocery and meat de partments opened by Coote sev eral years ago, a hardware and novelty section added since, and frozen food lockers. Loss was partially covered by insurance. The insurance coverage includ ed the food stored by many Dal las area citizens in the 400 frozen food lockers at the store. It was believed by insurance compani;s that each locker has up to $50 in surance. Firemen kept the blaze from spreading to an adjacent vacant garage building and several mo tel cabins withi 100 feet. While firemen were still play ing water on the smoking debris. Owner Coote dug out of the rub ble two cigar Vttes which he said contained about $4,000 in cash. The money was not burned. The fire burned a telephone cable and knocked out long dis tance service to Dallas, Falls City and Valsetz until 8:15 a.m.. Pa cific Telephone & Telegraph of ficials announced. Full service was restored at 11 a.m. Coote said he didn't know if he would rebuild the store. It was Dallas' worst fire since the million dollar Willamette Val ley Lumber mill fire Oct. 3, 1940. Dallas Lumber & Supply in down town Dallas had an $85,000 fire in 1948. STORM KILLS SEVEN TOKYO Wi - A great wind storm struck northern Japan Monday, killing at least 7 Japanese, leav ing 34 others missing and destroy ing or damaging an estimated 2.000 homes. Politics on Parade . . . Who's Running for What in Mav Primaries! (Editor's note: Stories in The Ore- i con 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. Today's subject: S. EUGENE ALLEN Candidate for STATE LABOR COMMISSIONER R.) With the retirement from public service of Mr. Kimsey, a fine of ficial and splendid gentleman, it is imp ortant that the Repub lican party nominate some- ' 1 one with lfff breadth of vi- "sion, wide ex perience, s y m- "S3? pathetic under standing and standini personal in- T a. A. -ty v a. . I have had ex Eocene ADea perience in ag riculture, labor relations, business management, education and pub- Educational TV Has Its Day; Conferees Claim Kids Go for Learning the TV Way By CONRAD P RANGE Staff Writer, The Statesman Will kids go for television shows which don't have lots of gunfire in them? Is TV producing a generation of non-readers? Can TV show people how to increase their incomes? What is television doing to American home life? These and many other ques tions were batted around with considerable vigor and under standing by some of the keenest minds in western radio and tele vision at a .onference in Salem Monday on educational television. Reds Agree To Removal Of Wounded GENEVA UFi The Communists agreed Monday to allow the French to airlift 1,300 wounded from Dien Bien Phu. Communist Vietminh representa tives at the Geneva conference said French planes and medical person nel could begin the evacuation as soon as the battlefield commanders of the two sides worked out the de tails. The French government in Paris immediately ordered Gen. Henri Navarre, French commander in Indochina, to contact rebel Gen. Nguyen Vo Giap to arrange the' evacuation. Truce Plans Offered by Communists GENEVA iff) The Communists laid their own armistice plan for Indochina before the Geneva con ference Monday and, after two ses sions, the conference appeared deadlocked. Pham Van Dong, vice premier of the Vietminh regime, rejected out right the armistice plan proposed by" French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault on Saturday. Dong said it could not "serve as a se rious basis" for bringing peace to Indochina. April Frosts Cut Crops by 25 Per Cent PORTLAND im Heavy frost last month reduced Oregon's 1954 strawberry crop by more than one-fourth, the Federal Crop Re porting Service said Monday. Severe damage to tree fruits and some early planted rowcrops also was reported. The strawberry crop now is es timated at 1,360,000 36-pound crates a drop of 26 per cent from last year's harvest of 1,827,000 crates. The report said that cherries suffered considerable damage throughout Oregon as did pears at Medford in the southern part of the state. lie service. I was reared on a dairy farm in Deschutes County, graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in econom ics, served as editor of the Ore gon Labor Press (AFL for 12 years and have been secretary manager of the Associated Res taurants of Oregon for three years. I am 39. I have served for 12 years as member of the Portland School Board and during the 1953 legis lative session as- state senator. The people of Oregon have es tablished certain standards for the protection of workers. Included among these is the guarantee that every Oregon citizen shall have equal opportunity to secure em ployment at the job for which he is trained and qualified without regard to religion, race or color. These standards will be honored by me and the law will be up held against any violators. I will protect the working people and their organizations in the ex ercise of their rights. But no or ganization, labor or employer, shall override the public interest nor the authority of the state. : (Tomorrow: H. E- Barker.) "If we expect TV to help Amer icans appreciate their cultural heritage," said Mrs. Lillian Van Loan, Oregon State College psy chology department, '"we must start with children's programs. Because the biggest TV audience is the fnur-to-five years old group." Gloria Chandler of KING-TV in Seattle said they proved there that kid viewers will even go overboard for educational TV shows, if the programs are pre sented "right." "We have one program," she said, "which urges children to read and parents to tell or read their offsprings stories. The pro gram is on each Saturday and is over with by 10:30 a.m. And by noon you cant find a book by the author we feature on the pro gram, in any library' in King County. The kids really clean the shelves." KING-TV, she said, recently asked viewers to write and tell the station what they liked best about TV. The station received 35,000 replies. In nine out of 10 answers, Miss Chandler said, viewers stressed education above entertainment and nearly every body said television was draw ing the family circle tighter. Ding Dong School, with its three and one-half million pre school viewers, was labeled by Harrison T. McClung, an educa tional TV expert, as one "of the City Stops Curb Cut At New High School By ROBERT E- GANGWARE City Editor, The Statesman Salem School District was ordered Monday night by the City Council to stop work of cutting back the curbs on Church Street and Rural Avenue in front of new North Salm High School. Acting on a report that school permit to alter me streets, aiaer men voted to have the work stop ped and a study of the situation made by City Manager J. L. Fran ten. No Permits Issued City policy has been to permit the setting back of curbs, for the purpose of head-in parking, only on streets at least 80 feet wide. Both streets involved at the new school are 30 feet in paved width. City Engineer J. H. Davis said his office had issued no permit for such work but he had noticed new curbs being made at the school site, apparently for head in parking purposes. The engineer, manager and po lice chief, who comprise the Traffic Safety Council, agreed at last night's City Hall meeting with the Council that this prac tice on a narrow street creates a traffic-hazard. Nearing Completion Engineer Davis said he thought the unauthorized curb project was nearing completion. Some aldermen hinted they would investigate whether the school district was providing off street parking comparable with tie amount of such parking area now required by law for apart ment and other construction. City Council members after their regular meeting last night conducted another city budgst session with citizen members and all but cleared the way for final hearing on a $2H million city budget. (Additional stories on page 2, sec. 1.) Solo Signal Links Aid for Escapees LIMA. Ohio UP A woman Monday was found guilty of aid ing a jailbreak by singing "come to Me. My Melancholy Baby" to let three prisoners know the coast was clear. Earline Hines. 22. Geveland. was sentenced to one to seven years in the Marysville Reformatory for Women for her part in the escape of three men from the Allen Coun ty iail here last March 28. WESTERN INTERNATIONAL (No fames scheduled.) PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE (No games scheduled.) AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland 8. New York 7. At Baltimore 7. Philadelphia 6. (Only games scheduled.) NATIONAL LEAGUE (No games scheduled.) lowest- cost pre - kindergarten courses in the history of education."- "By bringing children, via TV, such things as hobbies, outdoor studies, books and other activ ities," said Mrs. Van Loan, "we can force homes, schools and churches to be up-to-date. I know one school eacher who told me she was going to have t get a TV set, even if she couldn't af ford it, because nearly every child in her class watched TV at home and she felt she had to keep up with her stifdents." "What about a program dis cussing books which have changed the thinking of man kind'" asked Dr. D. Glenn Star lin, production director of the University of Oregon radio stu dios. "How about programs deal ing with political science, social and cultural problems, health and disease control, music appre ciation and iayb" a program of psychology for overworked house wives?" A day when college students would "go to school" right in their own living rooms with in structions coming from a profes sor 100 miles away, was envis ioned by Paul A. Walker of Wash ington, D. C, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Educational television can take the university to the people. Such programs can advance adult literacy, aid in emotional malad officials had not obtained a city Doctor Wants Con to Use as Guinea Pig SACRAMENTO, Calif. uP Dr. Negley K. Teeters of Temple Uni versity suggests that Caryl Chess man be spared the gas chamber so he can be used as a guinea pig in studying criminal behavior. In a letter to Gov. Knight, the penal authority said Chessman, who wrote a book about his five years on San Quentin's death row, "is regarded as a brilliant man but is apparently devoid of social responsibility." Chessman,, scheduled to die in the San Quentin gas chamber Fri day, "may make interesting con tributions to the field of penology and even to psychiatry," Teeters said. Today's Statesman SECTION 1 General news 2, 3, 5 FBI vs. Reds 4 Society-Womens news &-7 Comics-Radio-TV 8 SECTION 2 Sports news 1-2 Market news 3 Classifieds .A 3-5 Morse Ready to Assume Democrat Label To Ease Campaign, Party Leaders Believe By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON Sen. Wayne Morse is edging closer to mem bership L- the Democratic party, according to top party officials who met here this past weekend. Democratic leaders who have scouted Mor?e on some of his re cent spearing appearances around the country and who have conferred with bin. privately re port that the senator conveys to them this attitude: He would prefer to remain in dependent of either party, but this poses the serious prospect of bis being squeeze" out of office between regular party candi dates in his 1956 bid for re-election to the Senate. He tells Dem ocrats he certainly will not re turn to the GOP and he carefully points out he has never said he would not ultimately become a Democrat. These party officials are in creasingly impressed, they de clare, by Morse's political effect justment cases, fill in leisure j time, and in general help spread the knowledge and ideas piled up j in cities and universities out over j the rural areas, he said. j The group meeting in the State i Capitol Monday represented ed ucators, business, industry', labor and commercial television lead ers. It asked Gov. Paul Patterson to appoint a permanent statewide study committee on educational television. Patterson, in turn, told the group educational TV was fine if some means could be devised for raising state unds for it. (Additional details on p. 6, sec. 2) W. P. Carson Named County Circuit Judge fPhoto also on page 6. Sec. 2 Wallace P. Carson, widely known Salem attorney and active in Oregon legal circles, was ap pointed Monday as Marion County circuit judge to succeed the late Judge Rex Kimmell. who died Mav 1. Larson s appointment came from Gov. Paul Patterson, follow ing several days study of the mat ter by the governor and after meeting with a committee from the Marion County Bar Associa tion. Practice Since 1923 The new appointee probably will be sworn in and take over his new duties soon. The office to which he was appointed will be thrown open for an election by the people in the general election next fall. Carson has practiced in Salem since 1923, the year he obtained his bachelor of laws degree from Willamette University law school. He was born in Salem, Jan. 14, 1901. He attended schools here and later the University of Ore gon. In Brother's Firm His father. John A. Carson, also was a prominent Salem attorney having practiced here from 1890 until his death in 1916. Shortly after his admittance to the bar in 1923 the new appointee became associated in the practice of law with his two brothers. John and Allan Carson, both of whom are former state legislators. Active Lawyer Carson was married to Edith E. Bragg. Nov. 19, 1929, and they have a son, Wallace P. Carson Jr., now attending Stanford Uni versity. A former president of the Ore gon State Bar Association and former president of the Marion County Bar Association, Carson currently is serving as vice-president of the county organization. He is a Republican and a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The late Judge Kimmel suc cumbed in a Salem hospital fol lowing a lung operation. QUEEN AT 'ROCK' GIBRALTAR OP Britain's roy al family visited this fortress gate way to the Mediterranean. Mon day on the last stop of a common wealth tour that is taking . Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburg, around the world. iveness on the stump. They find him v sharper, less long winded than at onetime. A national com mitteeman from a midwestern farm state illustrates this with the story of a recent appearance by Morse before a huge farm au dience in bis state. The senator opened his prepared address something like this: "To paraphrare Shakespeare, I have come bere not to praise the Eisenhower administration but to bury its broken campaign prom ises to the farmers. Before the Oregon orator could go on, the committeeman said the audience burst into a spon taneous hat tossing demonstra tion of approval that prevented Morse continuing for some mom ents. This incident is cited to help explain Demi ratic confidence in the political effect on the fall congressional elections oi fallen farm prices and satisfaction with Morse's ability to capitalize on it pygLoose Talk of Power Politics warmed up in Oregon last night Secretary of the Interior Doug las McKay assailed "loose talk" in his defense of the federal ad ministration's power program, and backers of Earl Newbry' for governor demanded McKay's "re call'' to Washington, D. "c. for ' disrupting our GOP party." In a telegram to Leonard Hall, chairman of the Republican Na tional Committee, a - Newbry group complained that McKay Aas "using the funds o the Re publican National Committee to influence the Republican guber natorial contest" in favor of Gov. Paul Patterson, candidate for re election and Newbry 's opponent ;r. the primaries. Stable Rate Promised McKay, reached by The States man at the Multnomah ; Hotel in Portland, said he had ''no com ment to make." The telegram, signed by Attor ney Clarence Bollenback of Port land and Percy Locey of Corval lis, became known soonafter Mc Kay, in a television appearance in Portland, had declared that Bonneville power rates would not be increased for at least two years, and that there was no basis for "loose talk" that any federal power projects' were for sale "we will keep thetn as they are and build some more." Response to Criticism McKay's talk was billed as a response to a recent letter from Newbry in which Newbry crit icized McKay's partnership (fed eral and private) program for hydro-electric development. Newbry supporters said last night the blast at McKay was overdue. Sources more friendly to McKay said it was designed primarily to steal the headlines from McKay's talk, and to clut ter the gubernatorial issue. Bollenbeck and Locey were identified, as signers of the tele gram, as "president" ; and "sec retary." Of what, it didn't say. But the first line of the tele gram said "We, the officers of a group of Republicans dedicated to 'Build Oregon, hereby protest, etc." It was understood the group met and organized in Port land Sunday. Huge Debt' Cited In his talk defending the ad ministration's power policy, Mc Kay said "President Eisenhower reaBzed the time had come for a greater participation by local agencies, such as the state, pub lic utility districts, , municipal power systems and commercial public utilities," because: "The federal government, faced with a staggering national debt of 'almost 275 hillien dollars, could not be expected to make the enormous appropriations necessary to meet the Northwest's needs. He said the administration's power partnership program would make possible such projects as Cougar Dam on the McKenae, Green Peter Dam on the Santiam and the John Day and Priests Rapids Dams on the Columbia. (Additional details Page 2, Sec. 1.) LIFE SPAN GROWS WASHINGTON iff An Ameri can now has an average length of life of 68 V years, a gain of near ly four years in the past decade, the U.S. Public Health Service re ported Monday. What draws Morse closer to the party be once scorned is some simple arithmetic applied to Oregon election statistics which tell him and his Democrat ic friends that the? senator will have to pull a poStical miracle in 1956 if he is tc win running as an Indepe: dent' Democrats say Morse agrees that as an Independent, he would have to pic up our of every five "floating" votes that is votes from the broad middle ground of the electorate that is not tied inseparably to one party or the other. They; doubt he can manage it, however favorable the political climate two years from now. , j ' . - But if be should .run as a Dem ocrat, he would automatically set the hard core Democratic votes which go to whomever the party nominates. .And 'iMorse would need to pick op only 11 oat of 20 of the floating votes. They dost see how be can miss, if those conditions hold tree.