Sawmill RazeS At Sheridan in $200,000 Fire Statesman Newt Service SHERIDAN The McCormick Lumber and Manufacturing Co., a lumber plant employing about 60 persons, sustained a $200,000 loss by fire Tuesday night and volunteer firemen were still quell pouNDnD 1651 104TH YEAR 2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday May 19, 1954 PRICE 5c No. 53 E HJ ODDB At a meeting of the Twelfth Judicial District Bar Association (Yamhill and Polk Counties) in McMinnville last Friday night Prof. Kenneth J. O'Connell of the University of Oregon law school faculty, made a strong plea for a revision of Oregon law to adapt it to modern life and thought What he proposed was not mere ly statutory revision such as was performed in the recent recodi fication of the Oregon laws, but a review of legislation for such sub stantive changes as may seem nec essary. The Association, accord ing to the report in the McMinn ville News - Register, thereupon authorized naming a committee to draft a resolution proposing such reform, to be. submitted to the Oregon State Bar. O'Connell suggested that a sur vey plant be set up at the Uni versity law school to start such a project, working over particu lar portions ef the law as might be recommended by a committee of bench and bar. He cited the progress made in New York state by revision in substantive law and the dropping of rules now archaic. A layman dare not venture very far in this field without getting beyond his depth. It may be well to note, however, that Oregon has made considerable progress in modernizing its legal machin ery. A special committee on re forms in judicial procedure, head ed some years ago by "r. Justice Rossman, fathered numerous acts which (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Court Cancels Insurance Firm Purchase PORTLAND CP Three men or rnntrol of a $290,000 life Insurance company for $2,000 will have to surrender meir cunirm under a court- order issued here Monday by Circuit Judge Martin W Hflwkixis. The order requires that they surrender all class B -stock to the American Guaranty Life Insurance Co. for cancellation. The three participated in forma tion of the company at Roseburg. issuing 20,000 shares of class B stock, which they bought for $2,000, Attorney Leland Hess said. Voting control was in class B stock. Other stockholders got class A stock, putting up more than $290,000, Hess said. The three men then elected them selves officers and declared that class B shares would draw divi dends equally with class A shares, which sold at $35 and more per share, compared to 10 cents a share for class B stock, Hess said. This meant an unfair profit for the three men, said Hess, who represented class A stockholders in the suit filed here. Hess said Oregon law does not allow insurance companies to issue more than one class of stock in this manner. Judge Hawkins ordered the surrender and cancellation of the class B stock. Hess said the class A stockholders then will be able to re-organize the firm. He said some 165 families in the Roseburg area own the class A stock. No Time to Eat ! ! Fred E. Weber of 1616 Court St. placed the following for rent ad in the Want-ads and received at least 16 calls in the first day. 2 BEDROOM, dinette, fireplace, dry basement, gas beat, wired for range and washer, farage Ph. x-xxxx. Mr. Weber said: ' Hardly gave me time to eat breakfast, the calls came so fast." To place your Fast-Action Want-Ad Call 2-2441 Today! On son& atesman ANIMAL CRACKERS V WARREN OOOORICH V To you or do you not have Khodo Island Reds here? RAD ing the Dlaze early Wednesday. Fire units answering the call about 6 p.m. Tuesday included the more than 20 me' from She ridan as well as the firemen and equipment from Willamina. H. B. Gram, general manager of the plant, told the Associated Press that the loss in building, equipment and some inventory was partially insured. It was be lieved that two or three Southern Pacific freight cars parked near the company were lost in the fire. Cause of the blaze was not known, but firemen said they thought it might have been start ed near some oil barrels in the vicinity of the company. The McCormick company is the third largest operation in this area. Conference On Guatemala Issue Sought By NORMAN' CARIGNAN WASHINGTON CP Sen. Wiley (R-Wis) Tuesday night urged west ern hemisphere nations to go into consultation about the shipment to Guatemala of arms from Communist-dominated Poland. Such consultation, under inter American agreements, could be the prelude to concerted action by the nations of the hemisphere. Wiley, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a frequent administration spokes man on foreign affairs, spoke at a dinner honoring Latin American diplomats. Earlier, the State Department of ficially notified Latin American embassies here of the shipment. WASHINGTON If) The act ing head of Guatemala'! embas sy, Dr. Alfredo Chocano, walked out of a dinner of Latin Amer ican diplomats Tuesday night at Sen. Wiley R-Wis.) sharply crit icized the shipment to Guate mala of artns from Communist dominated Poland. which it had announced Monday night, but gave no indication whether it would promote any ef forts to halt this or possible later shipments. Wiley said news of the shipment was ''alarming" and "of the ut most gravity," but he told the dip lomats the situation is not one for United States concern alone. "It is a hemispheric concern," he said. "It is a basis for hemi spheric consultation." The State Department announce ment, which, gave no details of the size or nature of the shipment, said it was made from the port of Stet tin in Communist Poland, and the arms are now being unloaded in Guatemala. Wiley said the shipment is "part of the Communist global pattern of force and violence" and is "totally disproportionate to any legitimate needs of that country. It is a ship ment contrary to the best interests of all that for which the Organiza tion of American States stands." In the House, Rep. Hillings (R Calift said the arms delivered by "Soviet sources is undoubtedly aimed at the Panama Canal," and called for "bold action" by the United States. "The Reds apparently wish to gain a foothold in Central Ameri ca," he said, "so they can sabotage the Panama Canal if United States intervention, should become neces sary in Southeast Asia." Two Fires Said Due to Smokers Smokers caused two fires in northeastern Oregon near La Grande in the past two days, burning 11 acres, the state for estry department said. The forestry department said the fire weather forecast is for cooler westerly winds with hu midity of 22 to 32 in the inter ior. VALLEY BERRIES RIPE PORTLAND HP The first Willamette Valley strawberries were offered on the Portland produce market Monday. A ship ment from Dundee, fair in quality, sold at $4 per crate. East, West Fail to Break Deadlock on Indochina GENEVA Ofl East and West wrangled in secret for another three hours Tuesday but failed to break the deadlock in their ne gotiations for peace in Indochina. An official screen of secrecy covered the talks, but a conference source said no progress on the ma jor issues separating Western and Communist viewpoints had been made. The dispute inside the conference room spread outside where French and Vietminh spokesmen, in sep arate news conferences, voiced re criminations about the breakdown of the arrangement for evacuating wounded from the fallen fortress of Dien Bien Phu. Trombones in L . If D Trombone slides held high, these playing at the annual President's review was the presentation of 1 with Willamette President G. I photo.) (Picture also on page 5, Brothers in Wartime Bribe Demand Cash WASHINGTON Of) Henry and Murray Garsson, munitions mak ers who went to prison for bribery in a World War II contract scan dal, are now asking the govern ment for more than 18 Vi million dollars. They say, in a petition filed with the U. S. Court of Claims, they should be paid "the reasonable val ue" of what they contend was the government's use of methods and processes they developed for water materials. The Garsson brothers, of New York, along with Rep. Andrew Jackson May D-ky, were sen tenced in 1949 to 8 to 24 months in prison. The brothers were con victed of giving May $53,634 in bribes to use his influence as chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee to help them get war contracts. May was re leased in 1950 and the Garssons in 1951. The petition filed with the Court of Claims said the government, through use of Garsson develop ments, saved more than 500 mil lion dollars between 1942 and 1952. Their petition was filed April 16 and the government has been given until July 15 to reply to the petition or file motions in connection with it. The brothers set forth that the War Department had been unable to develop a satisfactory method for mass production of 4.2-inch chemical mortar shells. Then, they said, the department successfully turned to Garsson methods, de-' signs, processes and engineering developments. It was contended the Garsson processes saved more than $14 per shell on more than 12 million 4.2 shells manufactured in 1942-45, and that they were subsequently ap plied to numerous other shells and rockets, with an over-all savings of more than 500 million dollars. Mt. Hood Loop Highway to Open The ML Hood Loop Highway, impassable due to snow for sev eral months, will be re-opened for two-way traffic st 4 p.m. Thursday. State Highway Engi neer R. H. Baldock announced. Snow plows working from both ends of the road will break through at Barlow Pass on the summit. The nine delegations engaged in the difficult negotiations the Big Four, Red China, the three associ ated states of Indochina and the Vietminh agreed to -meet again Wednesday in secret. But the pro tracted bargaining gave little pro mise of peace in Indochina. One reliable source with access to the viewpoints of all delegations said not the slightest progress had been made in reachinig a settle ment. Another Western informant close to the negotiations said the West was faced with "complete intransigence" on the part of the Communists. (Additional details on, page 6, sec. 2). Formation at AFROTC Review Willamette University Air Force ROTC band members are shown review at McCulloch Stadium Tuesday afternoon. Highlight of the awards to outstanding AFROTC students. In the reviewing stani Herbert Smith, were city, state and sec. 1.) Burglar to Hunt Uranium BERKELEY, Calif. UFi A pros pective uranium prospector bur glarized Minerals Unlimited early Tuesday. He took a book on how to find uranium, a geiger counter, a min eral light (you shine it on a rock and if the rock shines back it means something), a case and bat tery for the light, and an even $40 from the cash register, sufficient for a small grubstake for a urani um hunter. Wood Wins in Pennsylvania Governor Race PHILADELPHIA Wi Lloyd H. Wood, organization-backed "har mony" candidate, early Wednesday won the Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nomination in a walkaway. George M. Leader, Democratic State Policy Committee choice, ap parently earned the righg to oppose Wood in the November election by holding an early lead into the morning hours. It was a primary marked by light voting and was a complete victory for both Republican and Democratic organizations. With 4,268 of 8,589 precincts counted in the Republican guberna torial primary, Wood had 361,745. His independent opponents were far behind. Thomas S. Stephenson had: 77,140 and Gordon F. Cham berlin 25,099. Reports from 4,291 precincts in the i Democratic primary gave Leader 151,772 votes to 86,180 for William D. McClelland and 16,992 for Charles J. Schmitt. McClelland had the backing of some labor lead ers. Central Oregon Dry Spell Mounts PRINEVILLE Ufi Ranchers expressed concern Tuesday over the continuing dry spell in Central Oregon. They said grass on the benchlands was drying up so fast there no longer is good grazing there. Higher ranges are in better shape because of late snow but there too rain will be needed soon. The dry spell has lasted eight weeks with only .12 of an inch of rain in that period. Max. Mia. Preeip. 82 4 .M SO 48 J0O ..94-44 .00 91 54 .00 61 49 .00 S4 47 .00 67 49 .00 . 1 44 .00 .70 M trace Salem Portland Baker Mediord North Bend Roseburg San Francisco Chicago New York Lm Angeles 67 M .00 Willamette River -. feet. YORXCAST (from V. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Some morning cloudiness. Other wise generally fair today. Highest today near 75. low tonight near 48. Morning cloudiness Thursday, oth erwise continued fair. Temperature at 12:01 a. m. today was 48. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start f Weather Year Sept. I T&ii Tear Last Year Normal Ml 39-54 37a Air Force officials. (Statesman France, U.S. Said Agreed On Asia Pact GENEVA OP) A French source said Tuesday France and the United States have agreed to plan a Southeast Asia defense pact with out waiting either for British ap proval of for the end of the Ge neva conference. The source, close to French For eign Minister Georges Bidault, said secret talks between French and American diplomats have been in progress in Washington, Paris and Geneva in the last few days and would continue irrespective of the progress of the Geneva conference. The British view is that negotia tions for an anti-Communist pact in Southeast Asia should await the outcome of the Geneva conference. The French feel the Communists may try to stall the conference in endless debate in order to give the Communist-led Vietminh rebels in Indochina time to build up their strength in the vital Red River Delta for a fullscale assault on Hanoi. When the time comes, the French want to lose no further time in having to argue over the possibility of active support from their allies. Today's Statesman SECTION 1 Editorials, features 4 Comes the Dawn 4 Ballot Recommendations 4 Willamette U. Awards . . 5 Society, women's 4..6, 7 SECTION 2 Sports ... ....1-3 Valley news 4-5 Stargazer t 6 Crossword puzzle ........ 7 Classified ads ....7-9 Comics 10 Radio, TV, Inside TV ....10 Gty Committee Approves Plan To Annex Residential Area By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor, The Statesman Proposed annexation to Salem of a 191-acre suburban residen tial area north of Sunnyview Ave nue received a nod from a city planning committee Tuesday night But financing the city improve ments in that or any other future annexation area remains a stumbling block, as the City Council and Salem Planning Com mission have yet to work, out a plan of meeting the costs of an nexations. In another piece of business before the Planning Commission at City Hall last night, plans were revealed for a new 264-lot resi dential subdivision on 100 acres ot land on the Aronson place just west of Oak Knoll golf course on Salem-Dallas Highway. 1 Most lots would be 80 by 15(7 feet or 80 by 143 and the area includes a lagoon which would be bridged when the new streets are put in, according to plans sub mitted by Surveyor Ralph Barnes. Details of the plat remain to be Cattle Killed in Wreck Statesman News Service MILL CITY A Christenson Meat Company (Tillamook) truck and trailer loaded with 18 white face cattle from Eastern Oregon went off the highway one mile east of Gates Tuesday evening and rolled down a 30-foot embankment. An observer of the truck wreck age said that six of the cows were killed in the wreck and two or three were badly injured. Driver of the truck, Donald Notbloom, Tillamook, told invest igating state police that he was traveling from Gates toward De troit when the sun got into his eyes on a curve. He said the truck got onto the highway shoulder where he lost control. The cab of the truck was smashed and the driver, traveling alone, sustained minor injury. He was examined by a Mill City doctor and taken to Tillamook by friends. The cattle were allowed to pas ture in a field near the wreckage until trucks could be driven from 7'illamook to pick them up. Additional story on page 5, sec. 2. ) Jelke Verdict Upset; Press Barrier Cited NEW YORK W Minot F. (Mickey) Jelke's vice conviction was upset Tuesday in one of New York's most far-reaching decisions of the century bearing on freedom of the press. A new trial was or dered. The appellate division of the State Supreme Court in a 3-2 de cision flatly rebuked Trial Judge Francis L. Valente for barring press and public during the state's case against the 24-year-old oleo margarine heir. His action was termed "unorthodox. . .unwarrant ed." "We conceive it to be no part of the work of the judiciary, tne ap peals court said, "upon the facts here presented to decide what a newspaper prints or to what por tion of the people it caters to sell its papers." The court added that Valente denied Jelke a "fair and im partial trial." He did not rule di rectly on the issue of press free dom. But its decision was a strong, new bulwark for the state's news papers. The majority opinion said, in ef fect, that the jury justly convicted Jelke of cafe society pandering but that Valente bungled the case. The ruling was on a question of law, rather than fact. Jelke was sentenced March 27, 1953, to three to six years in prison as a cafe society procurer of young women who peddled their charms for as much as $500 a night. He had been convicted one month earlier on a charge of compulsory prostitution after one of the most sensational trials New York had seen in years. He also was sentenced to eight months in the city's workhouse on charges of illegal possession of guns. He was freed last Oct. 6. He has been free on bail pending his appeal of the vice case. CATERPILLARS APPEAR PORTLAND CD An infestation of tent caterpillars was reported in the northern part of the Willam ette Valley Tuesday. County agriculture agents advised farmers to take prompt action either burning or spraying the pests. worked out, but Plat Chairman Robert Stanley indicated his committee considered the plan a good One. After studying the move toward annexation brought by petition of 150 residents east of the city, Annexation Chairman V. D. Me Mullen's committee recommended favorable endorsement of the an nexation to the City CounciL ' The annexation area is mostly residential in character and about 35 per cent built up with estimated population of 325 in some 255 bouses, reported Me Mullen, who added the forecast that this area would eventually house about 2,100 people, prob ably within five years. McMullen's committee estimat ed water service to the area would cost $57,000 and sewers $88,000' but that additional city service costs would be offset by increased tax revenue from that area. The report concluded that despite immediate costs, the area would eventually benefit the city. (Additional details on Page 5, Sec. 2.) !DaDi7gini'qf, As BONNERS FERRY, Idaho (JP) Gov. Len Jordan declared a state of emergency at Bonners Ferry Tuesday as Army Engineers went to work bolstering dikes to protect the town and valuable farm land from waters of the fast-rising Kootenai River. "It doesn't look good," in the opinion of Mayor Myrl A. Felch. The situation could be even worse than in 1948 when everything in tne area was soaked, ne saia. But there seemed to be no im mediate danger for the town's 1,800 residents. The river was up to 29.6, a little more than a foot below official flood stage Tuesday evening, and the Weather Bureau predicted a level of 31.2 by Wednesday morn ing, probably flooding some 2,000 acres of pasture and wheat land north of town. "Our dikes are built for 37 feet protecting the town and we feel they can take a 36-foot level," Felch said. Seepage Found Some seepage was discovered Tuesday in dikes protecting farm land, and volunteers were at work with sandbags plugging up holes as they appeared. Some 35,000 or 40.000 acres of rich farmland are threatened by the rushing river, Felch said. Although there appeared to be no immediate danger to the town if the dikes hold firm, 15 families in the North Side Flats were ad vised to begin evacuating. Flood Coordinator Dayton Doug las said evacuation was voluntary at this point, but several families were moving out. The Army engineers sent a con voy of 100 men and 50 pieces of equipment in Tuesday. They ar rived in late afternoon and went right to work sandbagging weak spots in the dikes. 50-Mile Radius Capt. Clifford Rew, commander of the 231st Engineer Battalion, said his men will be ready for emergency help over a 50-mile radius if necessary. That would include the town of Troy, Mont, 40 miles upstream from Bonners Ferry. The river has been rising fast at Troy, Gale Weidner, Red Cross disaster chairman, said, but that town is not quite so vulnerable as Bonners Ferry. He said about 100 families in a low section might be in danger if the river rises too fast. Some 400 soldiers were standing by at Fort Lewis, Wash., for to help if the area needs it. The Weather Bureau could give no prediction of when the rivQf might crest. It forecast a rise of about a foot a day up to Friday. The warm sunny weather that has sent the big snow pack rushing downstream may let up a little by Thursday, it said, but it would take a couple of days for cooler weather to slow down the flow at Bonners Ferry. Giant Balloon Sets 22-Mile Altitude Marie MINNEAPOLIS UFi A giant plastic balloon, nearly as tall as an 18-story office building, soared more than 22 miles into the sky Tuesday higher than ever be fore for a balloon of its type. The "Super Skyhook," which stretched to about the length of a football field before its inflation, bore a cargo of scientific instru ments to study mysteries of the upper atmosphere. The "super Skyhook" was made of transparent polyethylene film. Stretched flat, it would have covered three acres. Fully in flated it was 200 feet in diameter. The previous altitude record for a plastic balloon was 111,000 feet, a little more than 21 miles, set two years ago by a smaller balloon, officials said. The balloon reached a final alti tude of between 117,000 and 122,000 feet. The exact height will not be known until the instruments are studied. Radio signals which varied with the changing atmosphere gave ground observers altitude in formation. Portland Man Shot to Death PORTLAND Police hunted unsuccessfully Tuesday for a man who shot Michael Joseph Crowe, 40, to death on a street corner and then disappeared. . Crowe left an all-night restaurant at the same time early Tuesday as the man blamed for the shoot ing. Witnesses said the two appeared to get in an argument after they went out the door. A shot followed, Crowe slumping to the pavement and the other man then walking away into darkness. Witnesses said the two did not act as if they had met before. FloodStage Due Thursday At Vancouver PORTLAND un The Columbia River at Vancouver. Wash., will reach flood stage of 15 feet by Thursday, Elmer, Fisher, Weather Bureau river forecaster, said Tuesday. At that level, the river will flood an estimated 10,000 acres of low lands below Vancouver. This occurs almost annually and little damage is done. The rising Columbia will back up the Willamette River at Port land. A flood of 18 feet is expected in the Portland Harbor by Saturday night or Sunday. Lower level docks are covered by water when the river is this high. Fisher said both the Willamette and Columbia will continue a general rise to peaks of 25 4 to 27 Vt feet, probably in mid-June. River Danger Alerts Agency The Oregton Civil Defense Agency announced Tuesday it has alerted civil defense agencies, along the lower Columbia River to cope with major flood condi tions. State Civil Defense Director Arthur M. Sheets said that if a major flood occurs, the disaster relief activity would Involve the engineering services f drainage and diking districts cities, coun ties, the state. Army engineers, Red Cross and medical and wel fare organizations. He said civil defense would di rect all relief activities. Red Cross Units Warned of Flood SAN FRANCISCO i Paifi. area disaster headquarters of the National Red Cross Tnosrlav an nounced it is alerting all local chap ter disaster committees in Wash ington. Idaho and flrpirnn fn tha possibility of spring floods. ine tiea cross said it bad been warned bv the Weather Rnr9 11 an1 Army Engineers of the danger of flooding in the Columbia Basin and other areas from rapid spring uiaws ana runoit. Picket Line Blocks Work On Substation Statesman Newt Service LYONS Work halted on Bon neville's Santiam substation near Lyons Tuesday when 48 workmen refused to cross a picket line. The picket line was placed by the Salem Building Trades Coun cil. Workmen involved include plumbers, carpenters, electricians. ironworkers ana laborers, repre sented by unions headquartered in Salem, Corvallis and Portland. The picket sign reads that con tractors are unfair. A union spokes man said what involved were fringe benefits including health and welfare clauses and travel time. Contractors are Nottingham Construction Co. and City Elec tric fvBoise, Idaho. Construction started April 1 on the $28,000 substation and is about 25 per cent finished. WESTERN INTERNATIONAL At oaiem j, vinoni a At Tri-Clty 7. Vancouver1 0 At Calgary 12. Yakima At Spokane 6, Lewiston I At Edmonton C, Wenatcbe T COAST LXAGUX At Portland 0, San franciaco U At Los Aaceles 9. Seattle 0 At Sacramento 3. Hollywood 1 At Oakland 1-S. San Dleo -7 AMERICAN LXAGITK ' At Detroit . Philadelphia 3 At Baltimore 1. Washington S At Chicago 3. New York 4 At Cleveland . Boston 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE At Brooklyn 1, Chicago 7 At Philadelphia 2. Milwaukee At New York 3. St. LouiS At Pittsburgh S, Cincinnati