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The Weather Max. Ml R. Vrcp. lalem M . Portland 78 44 .00 San Francisco 59 48 .00 Willamette River 1.4 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem : Partly cloudy today and tonight. Mostly cloudy Tuesday with a few widely scattered showers. Cooler to day with a hieh near 72 and a low tpnight near 42. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today was S3. afes lEIIlIt mm m& Ceard to tbt Grwrtk af Orui NDIID 1651 104TH YEAR 2 SECTIONS 16 PAGES The Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon Monday. May 24, 1954 PRICE 5c No.-58 Youths Try Out Area's Newest Swimming Hole Red Jets Mass Off Formosa British Cabirot-to ComsiderdiiiiiDted DP3 I The editorial cartoon isn't quite as popular a newspaper feature as once it was when the best of the crop used to be reprinted in the Literary Digest and the Re view of Reviews. The shift has been to strips and to cartoon pan els which usually are a political because they are sold to papers of differing political complexions. However the art of cartoon drawing is not dead, and some of today's work ranks with the best of Tom Nast and Homer Daven port. Those who are rated tops in the profession are David Law of London. Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Herbert Block ' Herblock of the Washing ton Tort. The Beacon Press, Bos ton, has just brought out a book of the latters cartoons under the title "The Herblock Book." While cartoons are as perishable as a cut flower we are still close en' :h to the events which spur red Herblock "s crayon to "hold a mirror up to nature" that the points of those reprinted in the book still are sharp to one's con sciousness. A cartoonist is more than a man with a drawing board and some crayon and pencils. His success depends on more than his (Continued on Editorial page, 4) Many Attend Willamette U. Baccalaureate Willamette University's bacca laureate service, a prelude to the 112th annual commencement cere mony scheduled next Sunday, was held at the First Methodist Church Sunday afternoon. Dr. Howard K. Runkel, profes sor of speech at Willamette, di rected his address, "This Race We Run," to the graduating class of 1954. Several hundred persons nearly filled the auditorium. Invocation was given by the Rev. Collis Blair, minister of the Leslie Methodist Church, and Dr. G. Herbert Smith, president of the university, read the scripture. Included in the service were se lections by the university's a cap pella choir directed by Don M. Gleckler. Alumni day will be held next Saturday with registration start ing at 9:30 a. m. in Lausanne Hall. Lost Mother, Daughter. 4, Found Safe HOQUIAM. Wash, Lost since Thursday when they left their home at Axford Prairie, 18 miles north of here, to attend a neighbor's birthday party. Mrs. Lena Peterson 41. and her 4 year old daughter, Terry Sue , were found safe Saturday. Mrs. Peterson told a ground search party who located her she and the little girl had had nothing to eat in the two days they wan dered the brushy area and had only one drink of water. The woman and the girl became separated early Saturday when Mrs. Peterson left the tot to try and find some water. She said she was unable to find her way back. A search party found the little girl late Saturday morning, hun gry and thirsty, but otherwise un harmed. Mrs. Peterson was sighted from a plane and a ground party picked her up. Mrs. Peterson told her rescuers that instead of taking the rnad to a neighbor's home to attend the party she took a short cut through the woods and become lost. Her husband, a logger, did not notify the sheriff's office his wife and daughter were missing until Friday evening. ANIMAL CRACKERS V WARMIN OODWICM "Don'f worry, kid. wt'vt got th brains en our side." Summer vacation for several thousand youngsters in the mid-valley is just around the corner, but this quintet couldn't wait for school to end to try out the area's newest swimming hole. In the water, which they reported "w-w-wwarm as t-t-t-toast" are Jack Corbett, 4355 Glenwood Ave., Gary Clement, 4340 Glen wood. Marvin Corbett, brother of Jack's engaging in a bit of a Detroit Dam Recreation Area 'Blooms' With Boats, Campers By CHARLES IRELAND Valley Editor, The Statesman DETROIT, Ore E-ery tenth car on the North Santiam High way seemed to be hauling a boat Sunday as the Detroit Dam rec reation area burst into full bloom. Sunday was literally the fourth big weekend in a row for West ern Oregon's new playground, and District Ranger S. T. Moore expressed surprise at how quick ly it had caught on with the pub lic. Moore estimated that at least 1,500 pleasure seekers had fished. U.S. to Urge Bao Dai Take Viet Nam Helm SAIGON'. Indochina ( Amer ican diplomats here will recom mend soon that chief of state Bao Dai be urged to return to Viet Nam to assume the leadership of his faltering country. The American view, shared by many other Western diplomats here, is that the political situation since the fall of Dien Bien Phu is deteriorating at such a rate that bold steps must be taken. The ex-Emperor of Annam is on the French Riviera awaiting the results of the Geneva confereence and the Paris negotiations aimed at granting full independence to Viet Nam. the biggest of the three states of Indochina. When he quit Saigon more than a month ago he promised to re turn soon, but he has shown no signs of coming back. His continued absence, and the absence of most of the Cabinet, has left the country rudderless at one of the most important periods in its history. Racial Verdict Logical, Hear Eisenhowers WASHINGTON (. President and Mrs. Eisenhower, attending services Sunday at the National Presbyterian Church, heard the Supreme Court's anti-segregation decision described as "logic to its fruition." Dr. D. Elton Trueblood. recent ly appointed chief of religious in formation for the U.S. Informa- 1 tion Agency, was guest minister j and he referred in his sermon to the court's decision last Monday ruling unconstitutional the segre gation of white and Negro pupils in public schools. Dr. Trueblood said the salva tion of the world lies in a "posi tive ideology, the dignity of the individual man." If the people can see and accept the Supreme Court decision, he added, "we will be moving into one of the greatest phases of history." British Forces Kill 42 Mau Mau NAIROBI, Kenya JF British troops and police shot dead 42 Mau Mau terrorists in five weekend bat tles, army headquarters reported Sunday. The army announcement said un its of the King's African Rifles with Kenya police and Kikuyu troops ac counted for 26 terrorists in a large scale clean-up operation on Satur day near Nyeri in the Mount Kenya area. a - f - . - : - . w r-. camped or picnicked in the De troit area every Sunday this month. "I hate to think what Memor ial Day's going to be like," the veteran ranger added. Only Half Jest Moore's remark was only half a jest. Camping and boat-launching facilities have been strained by the early-season weekend crowds. And 11 times this month, rangers have been dispatched to douse camp fires that visitors failed to stamp out. Sunday, a ranger had to go to Piety Nob, the big tree-covered island in Detroit Lake, to extin guish a camp fire that had spread to surrounding terrain. But if the rangers got a work out, everybody else in this area seemed to be having loads of fun Sunday. Fishing reports were a bit spotty, but there were plenty, like Ira Horsey of Portland, who got a limit catch of 10 trout. A boat census was difficult there are several launching spots but estimates ranged from 200 to 400. Many Visit First Time Many who visited the recrea tion area for the first time Sun daylike Leo Stevens and Gar ence Fitzwater of Portland ex pressed delight. But everywhere the cry was being raised for more camping space and launching facilities. Ranger Moore had no optimis tic answer. Further development of the area, he said, will require federal funds that are not yet in the offing. There has been a scramble every weekend for the eight over night camping sites in the com paratively new Lakeshore Forest Camp. Moore said the area could use at least five more similar camps at water's edge. That will be the next step when money is avail able. Next priority will go toward clearing an area where organiza tions can locate summer camps or lodges. Twenty requests of May Rainfall Below Normal May rainfall in the mid-Willamette Valley shows little indica tion of reaching the normal level, weathermen at McNary Field re ported early this morning. Only .19 of an inch has been re corder since May 1 with the last measurable fall on May 4 when .04 of an inch was reported. Normal for the month is 1.93 inches but during May of last year 3.76 inches were recorded. Today's forecast is for partly cloudy skies with a remote pos sibility of widely scattered show ers tonight or Tuesday. High temp erature is expected to range near Tl with the low tonight near 42. Los Angeles Feels Quake LOS ANGELES lift A brief, sharp earthquake was felt in parts of metropolitan Los Angeles and some outlying Southern California communities today but no damage was reported. California Institute of Technol ogy's seismological laboratory said the single shock was recorded there at 3:53 p m. but the labora tory had no reports from its out lying stations. water fight with Lester Fisk, 385 S. Elma, and Ted Rickman, 462 S. Elma. The swimming hole, about an acre in size, is located near, the site of the interchange for the truck bypass and rerouted San tiam Highway between Salem and Four Corners. (Statesman Photo ! by Thomas G. Wright Jr.). this type have been received. 300 Seek Space After that will come the sum mer homes for families. About 300 people have signed up for space, some of them as long as three years ago. But already it seems that De troit Lake has everything to please the man with a boat and a yen to fish. It looks, too, like the North Lincoln beaches and the Portland Zoo had better plan on sharing the Sunday sight-seers with the North Santiam Canyon. Plane From Salem Makes Crash Landing CHEYENNE. Wyo. UP An Air Force B25 glided into a crash landing in a pasture about two miles from Cheyenne Municipal Airport Sunday after both of its engines failed at 7,000 feet. The five crew members escaped injury, but control tower officials said damage to the plane was ex tensive. The pilot, Capt. Dean L. Ken nedy, was given credit for avert ing a possible tragedy by his skill ful handling of the disabled craft. The public information office at nearby Warren AFB said the plane was en route from McNary Field at Salem. Ore., to Wright-Patterson Field at Dayton, Ohio. It was just entering the flight pattern to make a fuel stop here when the engine failure occurred. Big Tractor's Brakes Fail; Nine Injured PHILADELPHIA Of) A huge tractor-trailer loaded with 29.000 pounds of dried milk roared down a mile-long hill Sunday and plowed into a busy line of Sunday traf fic, injuring nine persons and wrecking five cars before coming to rest on its side. One fo the injured, a 77-year-old woman, was pronounced dead of a heart attack after being treated for minor injuries. The victim was a passenger in one of the cars sideswiped by the mammoth tractor as it raced wild ly downgrade into busy Wissahick on Drive. Driver John Verhulst, 21. told po lice, his brakes failed as his truck started down Ridge Pike a straightaway hill which drops 200 feet in the distance of about five city blocks. Salem's Triplets Receive Names Salem's new triplets, born Fri day to Mr. and Mrs. MaiUand Car ter, 1120 Hood St., were named Sunday. The three, Denise Ann, Diane Rae and Debra Jo, were reported "doing fine" and feeling "peppy Sunday night at Salem Memorial Hospital. Hospital officials said the little girls probably will re main in an incubator for several weeks. WILSON AT MANILA MANILA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson arrived here Monday for two days of Im portant defense talks brought on by the Indochina crisis. Church Honors Marion County War Veterans Memorial services at the First Congregational Church Sunday evening honoring Marion County's veterans of all wars drew an est imated 200 persons. The Rev. I Louis E. White. Salem minister, i gave the address. i Sponsored by the Salem Federa tion of Patriotic Orders, the serv- i ice included the roll call of the county's deceased veterans. Paying tribute to America's war dead, the Rev. White declared, "Men have died that we as a great and powerful nation might dis charge something of our obligation to other smaller and weaker na tions threatened by enslavement and aggression." The people of America can best acknowledge their indebtedness to these men by keeping faith in the principles of this nation's origin, he said. "We cannot do this unless sustained by spiritual power." God has issued a call to Amer icans to save the old world from destruction, he maintained, "and he has giveniis more of the in struments anoools that are need ed than he has given to any other people in this day." Unless the people of this country remember and build accordingly. American patriots will have died in vain, he declared. "This is Am erican's hour of destiny under God. And his purpose awaits our discovery." Charley the Killer' Starts Innocent Hunt SAN FRANCISCO JP "Charley The Killer" innocently touched off a hunt for a supposed desperado early Sunday. It started when an alarmed Los Angeles woman, Mrs. Ruth Gross man, told police there of an anony mous 3:45 a.m. telephone call from a man who called himself "Charley The Killer," then hung up. The call was traced to Room 312 of San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel, occupied by Charley Kays of Eureka, Calif. San Francisco Police Inspector William Stanton double-checked his gun and awakened Kays short ly before dawn. Stanton said he asked the Eureka man if he had telephoned Los Angeles, and got this reply: "That got loused up. I was try ing to get Ruth Grossman in Bev erly Hills and they gave me some other Ruth Grossman. Wrong number, so T hung up." Had he described himself as A killer? "Oh. that," came the sleepy answer. Stanton said. "You see, up in Eureka everybody knows me as 'Charley The Killer'. "I run the Eureka Termite Ex terminating Co." Stanton left quietly. Charley The Killer went back to sleep. SALEM PRECIPITATION This Year Last Year Normal 41.21 41.15 37.40 Today's Statesman SectiM 1 Editorials, features 4 Society, Women's news 6,7 Sectim 2 Sport news 1-3 Radio, TV. Comics 4 Valley news 5 Classified ads S-7 Star Gazer, Crossword 8 TAIPEH, Formosa, i Red China has built a new jet air base 200 miles from Formosa and is massing Russian - supplied MIG jets there with Russian advisers already on hand, a source of Na tionalist China's Interior Ministry said Sunday night. The same source said Red China recently acquired 60 twin-engined bombers from Russia. The ministry claims underground contacts on" the mainland. The source said the new jet base is at Kienow in the northern part of Fukien, the province just across the Formosan Strait. More than 80 Comunist planes are reported based there, the ma jority of them MIGs. The source said 10 or more Soviet advisers recently arrived at Kienow. The Nationalists previously have told of a big Communist jet base farther north on the mainland at Ninghsien in Chekiang Province. During the past week, several sky skirmishes have occured be tweenRed MIGs and Nationalist propellor - type planes, F47 Thun derbolts supplied by the United States. Air Force headquarters here said two F47s tangled for 10 min utes Saturday off Chekiang with six MIGs. The two Nationalist planes returned safely and made no claims of damage against the MIGs. I Frog Jumping Mark Broken By Bullfrog ANGELS CAMP. Calif. A three-year-old bullfrog owned by a cattle rancher who raises frogs in his spare time broke the official world's frog jumping record Sun day in the now famous event in spired by Mark Twain. Under the gaze of an estimated 9,000 spectators, the frog Lucky Lager leaped a total of 16 feet 10 inches in three jumps to capture the $1,000 first prize. The frog's owner is Angels Camp Roy Wiemer, whose frog Can't Take It won first prize last year with a leap of 15 feet 6 Vi inches. Can't Take It placed fifth Sunday. Lucky Lager's jump broke the record of 16 feet 2 inches, set in 1944 by the frog, Aggie, owned by Merlin Fisher of Stockton, Calif. A South African entry. Leaping Lena, was the day's big disappoint ment. In practice jumps, Lena leaped as far as 32 feet. But Sun day she was temperamental and hopped a total of just 12 inches. One frog, Don Diego, a San Diego, Calif., entry, reportedly passed out from the altitude at this one-time Sierra gold mining capitol and was unable to jump. The jumping events climaxed the 27th annual Calaveras Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee. The affair was inspired by Mark Twain's short story, "The Celebrated Jump ing Frog of Calaveras County." Headon Crash Kills Driver HOOD RIVER UPi Lloyd Kile. 57. of nearby Parkdale was killed outright Sunday afternoon when a car he was driving collided headon with one driven by Ray Sato, 35, also of Parkdale. Sato was given first aid treat ment at a Hood River hospital and then released. The collision occurred on a state highway three miles north of Park dale. A .1 n Atlanta iampai Segregation in ATLANTA CP A local com munity level campaign for early elimination of public school segre gation was launched by the Na tional Association for Advancement of Colored People here Sunday. Branches in all affected areas were instructed to petition local school boards for immediate end ing of racial separation in schools, and to offer assistance in working out problems. Representatives of chapters in 18 states having mandatory segre gation made plans to carry the campaign to the local school boards at a two-day session here. The new strategy was announced in an "Atlanta Declaration" read at a morning news conference. Possible opposition by some of the more outspoken foes of non segregation was mentioned only briefly. But at an afternoon meeting, the veteran NAACP leader, Executive Secretary Walter White called Govs. Herman Talmadge of Georg ia and James F. Byrnes of South Carolina "the two most pathetic figures in American life today . . . in their frustration and bitterness." While last Monday's U.S. Supreme Court decision merely an- du (q1 c In 5 on By ARTHUR GAVSHOX LONDON (JP) Prime Minister Churchill hurriedly summoned his Cabinet into a special session Monday. Informed sources said the government would consider united action against Communists in Indochina should the Geneva peace talks fail. British sources made it clear the problem of supporting any pro- 1 jected united action was but one Boy. 5, Dies In Fall Into Clackamas OREGON CITY (if) A five-year-old boy drowned Sunday aft ernoon when he tumbled from the top of a cabin cruiser that listed in a Clackamas River eddy. The boy, John Henry Clausen, was the son of Bruce J. Clausen, Portland, who was operating the boat. Two other youngsters also were thrown into the water but they were pulled out by Clausen. All the children were wearing life jackets but apparently the Clausen boy's came off after he was thrown into the river. The accident, which occurred near Gladstone, was witnessed by a number of persons on the High Rocks beach. The boy's body was not im mediately recovered. Kootenai Foot Lower. But Still Threatens BONNERS FERRY. Idaho UP The Kootenai River dropped a foot upstream Sunday night and there was renewed hope for the 1,800 residents of town and the farmers who own 30,000 endangered acres. The river, swollen by the runoff of record mountain snowpacks, was down a foot at Libby, Mont., and the level here at dark stood at 34.9 feet, .4 less than the Saturday peak. "We're breathing easier now," said James Graves, the Boundary County extension agent, "and there are some smiles around town for a change." Some 1,000 men, including 500 soldiers, wound up the first week of battle against the Kootenai Sun day padding the 37-foot dikes sur rounding the town and building up the normal 34-foot barriers protect ing rich farm land in the Kootenai Valley. Although the river was receding, the danger still wasn't over. There was no letup in the 'round-the-clock efforts to plug holes in dikes and rush heavy army equipment to danger areas. The last break in a dike came early Friday. The Kootenai, an annual menace to this North Idaho community, has been kept out of town so far. But it has smahsed through rural dikes and inundated 8,000 acres of farm land. The recorded "flood stage" is 31 feet. STRIKE AUTHORIZED TACOMA OP The Tacoma area district council of the AFL-Lumber ' and Sawmill Workers Union has voted overwhelmingly to authorize strike action to support contract demands, Kenneth Gordon, busi ness agent, announced Sunday. gn Starts to End Public Schools nounced that public school segre gation is illegal and delayed its fin al decree, deliberations of the NAACP representatives here were on the assumption that the major barrier had been removed. The Atlanta Declaration recog nized that "school officials will have certain administrative prob lems in transferring from a seg regated to a non-segregated sys tem." But it added "we will re sist the use of any tactics con trived for the s,ole purpose of de laying desegregation." Statements at the news confer ence, principally by Tnurgood Mar shall, special counsel for the NCAACP. indicated the local level strategy is designed to get around politicians, who might try to cir cumvent the court ruling, by going directly to the local school boards. They are the people who will be responsible for carrying out the Supreme Court decision, he said, adding, "where politicians are making statements. I imagine the school boards are making plans." Marshall declined to set any time limit for ending segregation, but said "reasonable time" does not include "time ' for imaginary problems." s Adiw again whether to join in taking aspect of several issues which the Cabinet would consider. The gov ernment leaders will undertake a full scale review of Britain's posi tion in the Far East crisis as dip lomatic and military events move toward a climax. Up to now it has been the British southeast Asian policy, as stated by Churchill in Parliament, that this country would undertake "no new commitments before results at Geneva are known." Delay Benefits Reds But the longer the Geneva talks go on without any conclusive re sult, the greater advantages ac crue to the Communists, who al ready are improving their military position in Indochina. So now the question posed to the British is whether they should set a time limit to their "wait and see" pol icy. The nation's air. sea and land military chiefs are expected to take part in Monday's cabinet ses sion, at which Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden will give a first hand assessment of peace pros pects. Eden flew to London Saturday and is scheduled to return to Ge neva after the Cabinet meeting. He conferred Sunday with Chur chill and Marquess Salisbury. Lord president of the council, at the Prime Minister's summer home at Chequers. Position Summed Up One authoritative informant summed up the position of the British government at this time as follows: It remains British policy to do I everything possible to bring about a settlement at Geneva. Eden will go back to Geneva Monday with the full upport of the government to continue the search for peace. But nevertheless the government must now take into account the possibility that the Geneva con ference might break down. The Cabinet will have to con sider all the consequences of such a failure. The informant recalled that Eden himself said as much in Paris when he told the French Saturday "We do not forget what the consequences of failure (at Ge neva) may be. We have to pro vide for this, too, with wisdom and foresight." Burglar Gets S250 From Salem Store Loss of about $250 in a burglary of the Sur-Way Co.. hardware store at 2065 Silverton Rd.. was reported to city police Sunday ev ening. Max Hansen, co-owner of the company, told police the money was taken from an unlocked safe. Entry to the building was made by prying loose a plywood panel from the back door, investigating officers disclosed. Missed by the thief were some change in a money box in the safe and several dollars in the cash register. Apparently nothing else in the store was disturbed, police reported. Hansen said he first discovered the theft when he noticed the safe, normally left unlocked over night, was locked. Bed Fire Fatal to Portland Woman PORTLAND OP Mrs. William Griffith. 55. died Sunday when overcome by smoke from a mat tress fire in her Portland apart ment. Firemen said the mattress ap parently was ginited by a cigar ette. The woman apparently tried to put it out by bringing water from the kitchen, but was over come by carbonmonoxide fumes. WESTERN INTERNATIONAL At Lewixton Salem 11-4 At Edmonton 3-3. Yakima S-S At Wenatchec 13, Calfary 14 At Spokane l-S. Trt-Clty 7- Only fames scheduled. COAST LEAGUE At Portland 3-1. San rranciaco At Oakland 3-2. San Diego 7-1 At Loa Ancetes CM). Seattle 7-1 At Sacramento 1-4, Hollywood 4-3 AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland 1-1. Baltimore 1-1 At New York 9. Boston 1 At Detroit 3. Chieaco 4 -At Washlnrvon . Philadelphia 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE At St. Lout . Cincinnati 13 At Philadelphia 4, New York At Brooklyn S-. Pittsburgh 4-1 At Chicac 1-3. Milwaukee 4-