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t 104TH YEAR Top Level Talk to Decide U.S. Actions in Indochina By JOHN A. SCALI WASHINGTON OP The' United States and France have arranged high - level talks to discuss specif ic conditions under which Ameri can and other allied forces might intervene in the war in Indochina. Diplomatic officials said these secret conversations would start Death of Tin Heiress Ends Runaway Love PARIS (JP Isabels Patinol Goldsmith. 1R - year - old Rolivian tin heiress whoe runaway ro- j mance with a wealthy youne Bri ton last January won headlines all ' over the world, died here Friday night in the American Hospital. She and 20 - year - old .lames Goldsmith, son of a hotel owner, defied her father's efforts to pre vent their marriage and eventually got his consent to it. Isabel a youngest daughter of Bolivian tin magnate Antenor Pat ino. was found lying unconscious in a Paris hotel room last Thurs day. Mum The State Emergency Board composed of the elder statesmen of the Legislative Assembly just can't resist the notion that "papa knows best," papa being the board itself. This came out again in the recent criticism of the State Board of Control for plan ning a building at the state hos pital with capacity for 670 beds instead of 445 beds which the legislators said they had in mind when the appropriation of $1, 500,000 was made. On the other hand I presume the Emergency Board Members would orotest that in this case it's the Board of Control which assumes that it is the papa who knows best what the state needs. At any rate Secretary of State Newbry said the EB was too autocratic; Treasurer Unander nays the hospital desperately needs more beds; and Governor Patterson said he found no re striction in the appropriation as to the number of beds to be provided. The Emergency Board had the right to express its opinion since it was asked for a supplemental appropriation of $30,000 to. cover the amount of the proposed con tract. However the Legislative Assembly assumed a wrong pre rogative when it wrote into its appropriation bill the require ment of approval of the Emer gency Board before the board of control or State System of High er Education could let a contract for a building to be paid for out of state funds. This is an unwar ranted invasion of the executive function, and is beyond the com petence of the legislative branch. The old emergency board started this some years ago with its postwar building fund pro gram, inserting a provision that though the funds had been ap propriated approval of the Emer gency Board was (Continued on Editorial Page 4) Autos Smashed On Detour Route A two-car collision early Satur day morning on a Turner road detour two miles east of Salem near the Portland-Salem express way project resulted in consider able damage to both vehicles. Drivers of the cars were Jam mes Clarence Brigham. 1571 Mis sion St., and Lee Christine My ers. 1310 S. 13th St. Neither driver was hurt in the collision which occurred as one of the cars emerged onto Turner road from the detour. Both vehicles were towed from the scene. ANIMAL CRACKERS V WAR R C N SOOOHICH "W must do something about Junior's posture." pi) mora 2 SECTIONS 16 PAGES within the next few days, probably in Paris, in answer to an urgent French appeal for hard informa tion about American intentions. Both French and American au thorities say France has not yet asked direct U.S. intervention. i American authorities emphasized i that the agreement to talk with She was transferred to the Amer ican Hospital in suburban Neuilly and operated on for a brain hemor rhage Hpt husband was at her bedside when she died. The youns couple's hide - and seek elopment to Scotland ended happily, with family troubles ap parently patched up. Patino caught up withl 'he defiant couple just be fore their wedding and then con sented to the marriage. The newly-weds recently had been vacationing on the French Riviera. The young woman was expecting a baby in September. Thief Cleans Out Dallas Station Till Statesman News Service DALLAS, Ore The broad day light theft of $258 from the till of a service station was reported here Friday. Police Chief Paul Kitzmiller .said the theft was reported by Carl May who operates a station at Washington and Church streets. Time of the theft was placed between 2 and 2:30 p.m. May told police he was changing a tire and his attendant was washing a car when the money disappeared. Two customers were with May. Nobody was seen to enter the sta tion until May went to the cash register and found it empty, ac cording to the police report. The loss was reported as insur ed. Chiropractic Official Faces Theft Charge SEASIDE (.P C. C. Dunham, removed Wednesday by Gov. Paul Patterson as secretary-treasurer of the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, was arrested here late Thursday. He was charged in a warrant issued by Clatsop County Dist. Atty. Thomas Brownhill with lar ceny of public money. The com plaint was signed by Forrest I. Goddard, Salem, president of the State Board of Chiropractic Ex aminers. According to Brownhill the com plaint charged Dunham with fail ure to pay the state treasurer $10 he received Feb. 1, 1954. The dis trict attorney said the state attor ney general's office told him an audit of the board's books showed a shortage of about $9,000. Dun ham s bail was set at $5,000. Politics on Parade . . . Who's Running for What in Mav Primaries! (Editor's note: Stories in The Ore Ron 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 he in ae rnrdapre with The Statesman's own policy ) Today's subject: PAIX PATTERSON Candidate for GOVERNOR (R) Paul Patterson has given Ore gon a fresl). vigorous leadership that people like and completely trust Sincere, cap able and forth right his na tural friendli ness, unques tioned integrity and keen inquir ing mind have made him one I of the most popular govern- V ors in the his tory of the Paul Patterson state. With a distinguished record of 25 years of public service . that led to his election as president of the state senate and to the gov ernorship upon the resignation of (7 POUNDDD 1651 Th Orocon Statesman, Salem, France did not constitute a U.S. commitment to enter the war. Presiden Eisenhower, with the approval of Congress, will decide this, they said, if and when France meets conditions Secretary of State Dulles laid down in a speech on Indochina a week aj:o. Dulles has informed French Am bassador Henri Bonnet, it was said, that the views set forth in this ad dress were not just his own but represented clear - cut American government policy. The secretary said flatly that "the present situation does not provide a suitable basis for the United States to participate" in the seven year old fight in Indo china. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault will represent the French govcrn ; ment and Ambassador Douglas Dil j Ion. and possibly other top officials, will speak for the United States in the forthcoming talks. The State Department declined to say anything about them. But dip lomatic informants said Dulles and Bonnet already have concluded tentative arrangements for the meeting. France urgently requested the talks in order to guide her diplo mats now negotiating a possible Indochina armistice at Geneva and to help devise future battlefield strategy in Indochina. " A French Embassy spokesman said the conversations are "imper ative," especially in view of the growing Communist attacks in In dochina against the outer defense of the critically important city of Hanoi. "We need to have a clear cut answer from you right away about what you intend to do to help us if anything," he said. Huge Concrete Bucket Falls. 2 Die. 6 Hurt THE DALLES. Ore. OP A huge concrete bucket weighing sev eral tons broke loose from a crane and fell on a group of workmen at The Dalles Dam Friday even ing. Two men were killed and six were injured. The coroner's office reported that Ferrell C. Ball. 22, of The Dalles was killed outright when he was crushed by the falling bucket El mo Monroe Lawson, 21, died en rouie to a hospital. The injured were identified by attendants at The Dalles hospital as Edward L. Sellers, and David Pearson, both of The Dalles, and Walter R. ' Brooks, and Glen Cal lipo, both of Lyle. Wash. Extent of their injuries could not be ! learned. j Two other workmen were treat i ed for minor injuries and later re ! leased. The accident occurred at about i fi p.m. in the spillway section of tne aam wnicn is Deing ouiu oy the Atkinson Ostrander construc tion firm. G ft Am - c w CnliAxliflnc Eugene Rally Speech EUGENE (iP Adlai Stevenson. 1952 Democratic candidate for president, will address a fourth congressional district Democratic rally here in July. Lane County officials of the party, in making the announce ment Friday, said the date will be set later. former Gov. Douglas McKay, Paul Patterson brought to his present job a practical under standing and working experience in what it takes to get things done in state affairs. He's doing the job the people of Oregon want done. He's doing it with a simplicity and effective ness that commands respect, con fidence and cooperation. The civic record of Paul Patter son is a record of jobs effectively and well done. Member of the state senate from 1945 through 1951, he was president of the sen ate in 1951. In Hillsboro he was president of the Chamber of Com merce, Rotary Club, Washington County Veterans Council, Wash ington County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League, and was commander of his American Le gion Post. He has been state 1 president of the Oregon State Motor Association and state chair man of American Legion Junior Baseball. He was a trustee of the Hillsboro Congregational Church, of which he is a member. Born in 1900 in Kent, Ohio, he has been a resident of Oregon since 1908. Married in 1926 to Georgia S. Benson, the Patter sons have three children. Oregon. Saturday. May 15. 1954 Youth Charged With Kidnaping -T( I y - - J , ) ft k x t rf ( (ft iX :J A V ! Things looked much glummer for Floyd Lafayette Johnson, 17, (at left) Friday night following his arrest by Monmouth police and subsequent facing of charge of kidnaping. He was arrested in pos session of a car in which two postal employes were kidnaped Thursday after they left work. City Detective Robert D. Mason is shown at right examining the 32.20 caliber revolver the boy allegedly used to hold the two men. Johnson, said he is an AWOL Marine from Camp Pendleton, Calif., was certified to Marion County juvenile court Friday and held in lieu of $10,000 bail. (Statesman photo) (Picture and story also on page 2, Sec. 1) Viesko, Post Bids Low on WU Buildings Willamette University's million dollar construction program won the go-ahead sign from a Board of Trustees' committee in Salem Fri day for opening bids on the pro ject. Low bidder was the Salem firm of Viesko and Tost, which sub mitted $1,050,500 as the cost of erecting a set of three new campus buildings'. The proposed tine arts and au ditorium; building, health center and new women's dormitory will rise on the campus facing old Sweetlarid Field. Six Bids: Opened Other base bids opened by the committee Fridny were: E. E. Batterman, Salem, $1,062,900; Donald M. Drake Construction Co., Portland, $1,127,500: Henry M. Mason, $1 ,150.871 : Ross B. Ham mond, Portland, $1,154,209; A. V. Peterson Co., Portland, $1,167,756. Furnishing, landscaping and architect's fee are expected to bring total cost, based on the low bid. to approximately $1,150,000. James L. Payne, Salem, is archi tect. , Financing of the construction is to be; accomplished through the university's current Challenge Fund, now being raised and stand ing at approximately $700,000. Set 1955- Completion The university development com mittee recommended that the work proceed, soon and that the low bid be accepted. Plans call for completion of the three buildings in time for the opening, of the 1955 fall term. Buildings are designed for rein forced concrete construction, with brick veneer. Both classrooms and an auditorium will be included in the fine arts building of 223 by 118 feet Army Boosts Draft Totals WASHINGTON OP The Army raised its draft call by 5.000 Fri day, calling for the induction of 23.000 men in July. Inductions since January have been running at the steady rate of 18,000 a month, but the Defense Department has announced it will need mpre men after July 1, when a large, number of draftees will be completing their two years of serv ice. . Pentagon officials said the in crease had nothing to do with the situation in Indochina. WESTERN INTERNATIONAL. At Salem 6, Vancouver 2 At Tri-City 7. Victoria 4 At Yakima 6, Lcwiston 4 At Wenatchee 7. Spokane 9 t Only games scheduled) COAST LEAGl'E At Seattle 6. Portland 4 At San Francisco 10. Los Angeles 4 At Hollywood 5. Oakland Z At San Diego 7-2. Sacramento J-5 AMERICAN LEAGUE At Detroit 4. New York S At Cleveland S. Washington 2 M Baltimore 7. Boston 2 At Chicago 4. Philadelphia 3 NATI0NAL, LEAGUE At Philadelphia 0, Cincinnati 1 At New York S. Chicago At Pittsburgh 3. Milwaukee 2 (10 inn.l At Brooklyn 1. St Louis 10 PRICE 5c Roval Tour Over LONDON OP Queen Elizabeth II sailed home Friday night to mist shrouded England from a historic six months globe - gridling tour. First to greet her was Prime i Minister Winston Churchill, who boarded the royal 't' P- ' in Southampton Harbor at the Queen's special invitat on. Soviets Yield On Indochina; Blocks Remain By LYNN HEINZERLING GENEVA m Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov budged Fri day from the rigid position taken by the Communists toward ending the war in Indochina. But formid able obstacles still stand between the Indochina conference and peace. Molotov proposed an amendment to the Communist armistice plan presented earlier by Vietminh rep resentatives. The amendment pro vided for supervision of the armi stice by a neutral nation's com mission. Both United States and French spokesmen declined comment, but one French delegation source said it was "a concession on one of the points which we regarded as most important." Rogue Valley Orchardists Granted Aid MEDFORD (JPi Jackson and Josephine counties have been de clared disaster areas and Rogue River orchardists whose fruit crops were damaged by the May 1 freeze thereby are eligible for Farmers Home Administration loans. Sen. Guy Cordon (R-Ore.) tele phoned word Friday that the Sec retary of Agriculture had made the disaster designation to a Jack son County Fruit Growers League disaster committee. Kenneth Saw yer, Oregon administrator for the farm home agency, said at Port land his office had recommended it Growers appealed for federal aid after the big freeze had de stroyed an estimated 65 to 75 per cent of the rich Rogue fruit crop. WARNED BY MORSE PENDLETON UP Sen. Morse of Oregon said in a speech here Friday that "the situation today is as deadly serious as any inter national crisis that the U.S. has experienced." Neuberger EUGENE UP) A 20-year "Ted eral power program of great bene fits and success" in the Pacific Northwest was "deliberately, cal culatingly and definitely ended" by Interior Secretary Douglas (Mc Kay. State Sen. Richard L. Neu berger said Friday night Neuberger, Democratic candi date for U.S. senator and well known author, replied to McKay's radio-television power policy talk last Monday in a speech at a Democratic rally here. Neuberger said McKay's address "consisted of half-truths, quarter truths and just plain downright gobbledygook." McKay's- decision to abandon federal claim to Hells Canyon dam No. 49 Boeing Takes Wraps Off Big Jet Airliner SEATTLE OH Boeing unveiled its "15 million dollar gamble" Fri daythe sleek, swept-wing plane with which it hopes to capture the world's commercial jet airliner market. The prototype model, built as a military tanker-transport, can eas ily be converted for commercial use. Poised on its 10-wheeled, tricycle landing gear, the giant, four-jet plane was rolled out of the com pany's nearby Renton plant at 4 p.m., just two months ahead of schedule. Similar in size to Boeing's six jet B47 bomber, the 707 will have a 550 mile an hour cruising speed and fly in the stratosphere at 30, 000 to 40.000 feet. Boeing said it will be able to make transcontinental flights in less than five hours and transat lantic flights from New York to London in less than seven. Freak Operation Mishap Fatal to Seven-Year-Old EASTON. Pa. Iffl Seven-year-old Roy Henthorn died in Easton Hospital Friday from injuries suf fered Tuesday when an anesthesia bag exploded during a routine ton sillectomy. Hospital administrator Arthur H. Brittingham -said the exploding gases apparently travelled through a tube leading into the boy's throat causing internal burns. IKE AT CAMP DAVIS WASHINGTON ll President and Mrs. Eisenhower will spend the weekend at Camp Davis in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. Max. Mia. Precip. Salem Stt M .M Portland .. 79 45 .00 Baker 82 31 .00 Medlord 83 44 .00 North Bend 63 42 .00 Roseburg 84 36 .00 San Francisco 63 45 .00 Chicago 71 46 .00 New York 62 49 .00 Los Angeles 67 58 Trace Willamette River -.7 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary Field, Salem I : Variable high cloudiness today and tonight. Warm todav with the higti 83 to 85. low tonight 43 to 47. A httle cooler on Sunday. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today was 56. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. I This Year Last Year Normal 41.21 38.34 MM Says McKay Scuttled sites on the Snake River "is a threat to every valuable water power site belonging to the Ameri can people in the Pacific North est" Neuberger said, . "The people know that and this is the reason that the Republican National Committee had to put up political campaign funds" to soon sor the talk "so that the secretary could try to square himself with the people he has wronged," Neu berger continued. He criticized the Republican ad ministration's "partnership" pro gram under which the federal government would join with pri vate and public local agencies in creating new power facilities. Neuberger said under the pro Ike Puts 'Don't Talk9 Order on Army Session By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON (Jf) The Eisenhower administration Friday clamped a secrecy lid on a now-famous meeting which helped pre pare the way for the Army's challenge to Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis). The "don't talk" edict brought swift protests from Democrats on the McCarthy-Army investigating subcommittee. They demanded that top federal officials up to but not including President Eisen hower be called if necessary to find out whether the Army's actions were master-minded at the highest level of government. The meeting in question was held i Jan. 21 and was attended by Sher man Adams, the President's top assistant; and Atty. Gen. Brow nell. Told to Keep Record Army counselor John G Adams testified Wednesday that Sherman Adams advised him at this meet ing, held in Brownell's office, to keep a written record of the Ar my's troubles with McCarthy's of fice over Pvt. G. David Schine. Later publication of this record led to the present blazing row. Friday Democrats on the Senate investigations subcommit tee pressed for more details of the meeting, and down over the tele vised hearings came the adminis tration's secrecy lid. Told to Keen Silent Joseph X. Welch, counsel to the : Army officials, said Adams had ( been instructed to say no more i about the meeting. These instruc- j tions. he said, came from the act- mg head of the Defense Depart ment. Robert Anderson. Welch ad ded that he understood Anderson was transmitting them for some body else. That pointed to the White House. And at the White House, Assis tant Press Secretary Murray Snyd er, when asked if the order origin-1 ated there, would say only: "I have no information to give out." Welch tried and failed during the noon recess of the hearings to get some explanation in writing for the investigators. Reluctantly, the Democrats agreed to give him the week-end to make a further at tempt. Additional details on page 2, Sec. 1.) Ike Assails Diversion ToHearing WASHINGTON UP) President Eisenhower declared Friday night the heart of America is sound "even if at times our attention is diverted by unworthy scenes in our national capital." The President's remark in an In formal speech touched off a rous ing ovation at an Armed Forces Day dinner at the Statler Hotel. No Elaboration Eisenhower did not elaborate on his statement about "unworthy scenes in our national capital " But his remarks apparently were inter preted by many in the audience as an allusion to the row between Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) and Secre tary of the Army Stevens. "Never forget," Eisenhower de clared, "the strength of freedom and the Free World. We know how much we value the right to worship as we please and to choose our oc cupations." Standing Ovation He went on to say that "we know the value we place on those I things," and that "even if at times ! our attention is diverted by un- j worthy scenes even in our national capital. ..we still know tha' we ; are Americans that the heart of ! America is sound." j The President got a standing ov- j ation when ne was introaucea. tsut his audience, made up mainly of servicemen .really cut loose with applause when he remarked about "unworthy events" in the capital. Death Strikes Qose To Sleepers in Cabin EUGENE OP A car left the Pacific Highway, ripped through and demolished a cabin at Goshen south of here early Friday. No one was injured but the bumper of the automobile came to a stop on a pillow beside the head of D. W. Waldrip. asleep in the cabin with his wife and six children. State police cited the driver, William Van Bailey, Portland, on a reckless driving charge. AEC FUND OKEHED WASHINGTON v-A mammoth appropriations bill providing $5. 700,800.000 for the operation of the Atomic Energy CommiRsion and a score of other agencies during the next fiscal year was approved Friday by the Senate Appropria tions Committee. gram the government would pay for non-revenue producing facili ties such as fisbways, navigation locks and flood control gates while power companies, by paying a "fractional share" of a dam's cost, would be "able to monopo lize all the income . . ." Addressing a question to McKay. Sen. Cordon and Reps. Ellsworth and Coon, all Oregon Republicans. Neuberger asked: "What was wrong with the part nership which we had and which all of you so deliberately ended?" Neuberger said that between 1333 and 1932 the Democratic adminis tration's power program "in creased farm electrification jn Oregon from 27 to nearly 98 per Island Folk Appeal for End to Tests UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. J Citing evidence of physical injury, people of the far-flung Marshall Islands have urgently appealed for an immediate end to the United States hv-drogen bomb tests affect ing them. Ask C"inpentatWa If the tests must continue, they said, proper safety precautions and compensation must be provided. The Pacific islanders reported that residents of two atolls. Ronge lab and Uterik. suffered "in vari ous degrees from 'lowering of the blood count.' burns, nausea, and the falling off of hair from the head" as the result of the Ameri can tests with "lethal weapons." Blame Mar. 1 Blast The language of the petition. signed by more than one hundred Marshallese. received here 10 days ago and made public by the U. N. Friday, indicated these ailments results from the hydrogen blast of March 1. Rail Crossing Mishap Kills Marion Man Statesman News Service MARION Albert G. Mounts 78. farmer of the Marion area. 15 miles south of Salem, was killed 4 early Friday when his auto mobile was struck by the Southern Pacific northbound Cascade limited on a crossing near the train depot His body was taken to the Howell-Edwards Fan era 1 Home at Salem where announcement of services will be made later. Mounts became Marion Coun ty's fourth traffic fatality for 1954. Investigating state police said the train apparently struck the automobile on the right neai fender and parts of the vehicle were found 260 feet from the scene of the accident Mounts was en route to a neighborhood store . when killed. The locomotive crew said they saw the approaching car but not in time to avoid the crash. He is survived by his widow who lives in Alba n v. Big Cliff Power Units Placed in Operations DETROIT & An 18.000 kilo watt generator and a 26.5Q0 horse power turbine went into operation Thursday night at the Big Cliff Re-regulating dam. 2 4 miles downstream from here. The dam is the newest unit in the Willamette Basin Project. After 10 days operation in a dry ing out process the generator will undergo three weeks of tests. Col. Thomas H. Lipscomb, Portland district Army Engineer, said. STRIPPER SLAIN OAKLAND Lynn Williams. 28-year-old San Francisco strip tease dancer, was fatally stabbed here early Friday. Today's Statesman SECTION 1 General news 2. 3, 5 Editorials, features 4 Society, women's 6-7 Sunday TV-radio logs 7 X-word puzzle . 7 Star Gazer ; " Church news t SECTION 2 Sports 1. 2 Comics .. 3 Saturday TV-radio 3 Inside TV 3 Markets ; Gassified ads .r 4-7 Valley news S Power Plan cent" and provided "the jobs to support the largest proportionate population increase ever experi enced by the state ..." "What was wrong." he asked, "with the partnership under which the federal government built huge power-producing ; dams and '' then strung transmission lines to major load centers, where either private power companies or publicly -owned systems or .vast manufac turing plants could buy that energy for local user" f Neuberger said the Columbia River power system is "being broken up piecemeal '. . . with the power company, of .course, dominant in the share of energy to be controlled. t -