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
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104TH YEAR
2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES
Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday May 19, 1954
PRICE 5c
No. 53
E
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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.
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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