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Welch Denounces Sen. McCarthy as 'Cruel, Reckless9 By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON (JfVThe McCarthy-Army hearings reached their high point of drama Wednesday with Army counsel Joseph N. Welch accusing Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) of recklessness, cruelty and lack of decency and with McCarthy then taking the stand and be ginning his main round of sworn testimony. Many spectators in the jam-packed, steaming hot hearing room CRT 0B3DOQ0 The schools are out. The pupils are ranging around in their new freedom, some working, some playing, some going to camp, all of them growing. And when they get back to school their teachers will wonder how possibly they could have forgotten all they were supposed to have learned the past : year. That too Is one of the priv ileges of youngsters. and one of the worries of teachers and par ents. How good are our schools? Good ness knows they come under a lot of fire these days. The patrioteers are sure some of their textbooks are subversive. Venerables are positive the schools are not teach ing the fundamentals as they should, the famous old Three-Rs. And many blame "progressive" Mturation for everything from ' Door spelling to juvenile delin 1 ouencv. So the first question i miaht wll he rhaneed to. How I bad are our schools? j One magazine, and a business magazine at that. Kiplinger's Changing Times, tries to tell "The Truth About Our Public Schools" in its June issue. Kiplinger Is the man who has made a business out of getting the facts (if he can before they happen and retailing them in letter form to subscribers over the country. So one would not suspect his magazine of cov- ering up any dirt about the schools ; which take such vast sums of tax- j pavers' money. After reciting tne , (Continued on editorial page, 4.) 9 Governors To Confer on Segregation RICHMOND, V. (ft - Nine Southern governor put their heads together here Thursday to try to find the where-do-we-go-from-here answers to the Supreme Court de cision outlawing (chool segrega- tion. Among the nine will be three governors Herman Talmadge of Georgia, James F. Byrnes of South Carolina and Hugh White of Missis sippi who have vowed to keep the races apart and, if need be, to abolish the public school system. Govs. William B. Umstead of North Carolina, Robert F. Kennon of Louisiana and Thomas B. Stan ley of Virginia have indicated they would like to see some plan de vised whereby the South could le gally sidestep the court ruling. Two other governors Gordon Persons of Alabama and Charley Johns of Florida have remained mum about the possibility of find ing a circumvention method. The ninth governor, William C. Marland of West Virginia, has said his state plans no action to try to get around the court's decision of May 17. ' Compromise Reached in AEC Dispute WASHINGTON OB The Senate House Atomic Energy Committee tentatively agreed Wednesday on compromise solution for a bitter fight within the Atomic Energy Commission. Under the plan all five AEC members would have equal author ity in decisions but the chairman would be AEC spokesman, and ex ecutive officer in administering the multi-billion dollar agency. 'Three of the five AEC commis sioners and several committee members strongly opposed an ori ginal proposal to name chairman Lewis L. Strauss as the commis. sion's "principal officer." Reps. Price (D-fll) and Holifield (D-Calif) said it would lead to "one-man rule" of the AEC. The committee, in a closed door session, agreed on a substitute sec tion of an omnibus atomic energy bill, which Price said he and Holi field now favor. e ANIMAL CRACKERS V WARRIN OOORICH "If this the nest you promised ni before we were married?" 1 - ! broke into loud, unchecked ap- plause after Welch denounced Mc Carthy for referring , to a young legal associate of Welch's as a man with "a Communist front rec ord." "If there is a God in Heaven," Welch told the Wisconsin 'senator, "it will do neither you nor your cause any good." Welch then abruptly ended his cross - examination of McCarthy' counsel Roy Cohn, and went out side to a hallway, where he broke down and wept. Points to Lawyer McCarthy drew the denunciation for charging that Welch tried to "foist" on the investigations sub committee a lawyer who once be longed to the National Lawyers Guild. He said that Welch calling him "the completely phony Mr. Welch" presumably did no, know at the time of his past af filiation of the lawyer, Frederick G. Fisher. On the aftermath of this clash. McCarthy took over the witness chair from Cohn. But he quickly left it and went to a big colored map and chart where he delivered an introductory lecture on com munism. The climactic encounter between Welch and McCarthy came after the Boston lawyer using irony as his weapon tried to show Cohn "sat on" evidence of alleged sub version in the Army instead of tak- in it to Secretary Stevens and savin?- "Sic 'em, Stevens McCarthy flushed under recur rent bursts of laughter from spec tators at this line of questioning, and later struck out at Welch. Young Lawyer He declared the elderly Army counsel originally brought to Wash ington as one of his aides a young lawyer associated with his firm. Fisher, who was McCarthy said a member of the National Lawyers Guild after that organization was listed as subversive by the House Committee on Un-American Activi ties. "I don't think," McCarthy said, "you can find any place, anywhere, an organization which has done more to defend Communists.. ..to defend espionage agents, and to aid the Communist cause, than the man (sic) whom you originally wanted down here at your right hand." Welch paled and seemed to have difficulty in speaking. "Until this moment, senator," be said, "I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your reck lessness." "Little did I dream," Welch said, "you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it I were in my power to torgive you for your reckless cruelty, I would do so. I like to mink I am a gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me." 'Baiting Cohn McCarthy fired-back that Welch had been "baiting" Cohn. He start ed again to talk about Fisher, but Welch interrupted: "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you left no sense of decency?" McCarthy would not be quited. Welch may be "pained," be said, but "there is no pain in his chest about. . . the attempt to destroy the reputation and take the jobs away from the young men who were working in my committee." "Mr. McCarthy," Welch said, his voice ice cold and his manner radi ating outrage "I will not discuss this matter with you further. . . if there is a God in heaven, it will do neither you nor your cause any good. Teachers See 4--." v ;,' A demoastration of the Bishop method of precision sewing highlighted the opening session Wednes day of a a three day meeting of Oregon Homemaking Teachers at Willamette- University. Shows above demonstrating the sewing method Is Mrs. Katherine Ro truck, Washington. D. C (right). Looking on (from left to right) are Mrs. Jennie Magnuson. Wood burn: Mrs. Estelle Van Cleave. Sil verten: Mrs. Hope Edwards, Salem, and Mrs. Thelma Miller, Salem. Mrs. Rotruck's demonstration was sponsored by the Salem division ef vocational education. (Statesman Photo). 104TH YEAR AFL, WIL Leader Suggests Baseball League Fold Disbanding of the Western International Baseball League, at least in its present ten-team form, appeared imminent Wed nesday following release of the contents of a telegram signed by League Pres. Robert B. Abel and received by directors of the Salem Senators. Action by the financially stricken league is expected Sat urday at a vital meeting of di rectors of the league with Abel in Spokane. According to the telegram, Abel was quoted as saying "Be fore situation becomes hopeless I accept my responsibility under the by-laws of the league and declare the league as a whole facing insolvency and direct that it cease to operate as of June 14, 1954 (Monday). "This is subject to directors' action at called Spokane meet ing, at which time they can p prove, disapprove or reorganize the league ..." Coronations at ' Strawberry Festival Today LEBANON Not one, but two coronations Thursday will get Leb anon's annual Strawberry Festival off to a festrve start. Installing of the royal court and the junior court, plus a carnival and street dance, are the big Thursday attractions. Cutting and serving "the world's largest straw berry shortcake" will come Fri day noon at a public program fol lowing the grand parade at 11 a. m. Strawberry Queen Phyllis Greer will be crowned at a S p.m. cere mony Thursday at Elks Temple. Junior Quees Cheryl Ann Cope land and King Roger Gark will start their reign with a corona tion ceremony at 3 p.m. Thursday in the temple. A royal court of se lected princesses and boys and girls will surround each event. The coronation street dance is Set for 9.30 p.m. Thursday. Strawberry exhibits and auctions, stage programs, industrial tours, motorcycle racing and exhibition folk dancing also are on the three day festival program. Ramoz Sentenced To 10 Years, Plea For Retrial Due DALLAS, Ore. ( John Ramoz, 48, Grand Ronde, was sentenced Wednesday to iO years in the state prison and fined $250 for his conviction by a circuit court jury earlier in the week. Judge Arlie G. Walker granted a stay of execution of sentence to give Ramoz' attorney time to file j a motion for a retrial. Ramoz was found guilty of the fatal shooting last Dec. 30 of William Lee Riggs, Grand Ronde, in a fight at Ramoz' home. Newest Techniques in Sewing 7TX.V. mm mm mm mr - mm m h mt t " ft. ;Vy q X3 ( J1 ' 2 SECTIONS 16 PAGES CIO Ratify In Tacoma, Abel denied he had recommended that the lea gue disband or reduce its size, but admitted that the league was in serious financial difficul ty, the reason he called the Sat urday session at Spokane. Calgary, Victoria, Lewiston, Salem and Spokane entries in the league have all reported light attendance and a doubtful financial future. Calgary drop- ped its franchise once this year, ; 8 to 8:30 p. m., EST, at a meeting but later picked it up again. j of district chairmen of the Na Possibility of dropping Cal- tional Citizens for Eisenhower Con gary and Edmonton, thus elimi-! gressional Committee at the Stat nating a long and costly jaunt ! ler Htel here, to central Canada has been con- Eisenhower s decision to go on jectured. And also dropping of 1 the air re-emphasi?ed his impa the other two Canadian teams, ! tience over the slow progress parts Vancouver and Victoria, to form j of the administration s prograrn a six-team league was reported-1 ?r makmS m Congress. Some of ly being considered by league i hls . measures already have met members. - major setbacks and roadblocks. A if a fM e A vi? f Ka (Additional details on sports ; pages.) ,0 Bigger Volume PORTLAND ( Betty Jean Benton, 28, received a six-months jail sentence and a $500 fine Tuesday, and Municipal Judge Philip Bagley said he wished he was a circuit judge so he could have made it tougher on her. What made him so angry was I that when arrested as an immoral woman, she smashed a policeman's hand, started a fire in the patrol wagon, and swung at a policeman with a photographer's tripod. Subpoena Asks Gore Produce All Petitions BARABOO, Wis. Iff) A sub poena was issued Wednesday re quiring Leroy Gore, Sauk City edi tor, to produce all signed petitions demanding the recall of Sen. Mc Carthy (R Wis). Justice of the Peace John Ter t i ii l l ai . bilcox issued the subpoena at the request of Dist. Atty. Harlan W. Kelley. It directs Gore, founder of the Joe Must Go Club, to produce the petitions June 16 before the court inquiry into the recall move ment. Kelley said if Gore does not pro - duce the petitions he will ask that the editor be held in contempt of court. Gore said Monday, in an nouncing that insufficient signa tures for a recall election had been obtained, that the petitions were being taken out of the state, some to Chicago and some to Minneap- olis. "I don't care if the petitions are in Timbuctoo or South America, Kelley said. "Gore has to bring ! them in. It is my duty to find out what he is hiding,' Gore had expressed a determina tion to protect the signers and cir culators from "pseudolegal har assment." He said he would not produce the petitions. POUNDDD 1651 The Oregon Statesman. Nation to Hear Ike Tonight WASHINGTON (J) President Eisenhower will address the na tion by radio and television Thurs day night in a move to spur public support for his legislative program. The White House said Wednes day the President will speak from Prirflnt npWcmV.n rm,rM- sional leaders had assured him I they would enact his program, but j he said he wished they would get it on the books and soon. The White House announcement Wednesday came less than 24 hours after the President and his secretary of agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, suffered a legislative re buff at the hands of the House Agriculture Committee. Laniel Issues Call for Vote Of Confidence PARIS UF) French Premier Jo seph Laniel early Thursday chal lenged the National Assembly to approve bis cabinet's Indochina pol icies or throw him out of office. In a dramatic overnight session, he asked the deputies for a vote of 4 confidence for the third tim on the same embarrassing question of In dochina. Laniel survived the last confi dence test on May 13 by the scant margin of two votes. Some of his support seems to have melted away since then and there were doubts that he could squeeze through again. The vote is scheduled for Satur day morning and before then Laniel hoped he could scrape up enough support or convince enough depu ties to abstain to give him another reprieve on Indochina. It was generally agreed that the cabinet will fall as soon as the ; current Geneva conference on In dochina is over; many deputies may be hesitant about provoking a government upset while the Geneva negotiations are still in progress. In the all-night session, however. deputies on all sides attacked the Laniel government's policies, O & C Timber Bill Sent to White House Washington w - The House Wednesday passed and sent to tne White House a bill to settle juris diction over 472,000 acres of public land in Western Oregon. The land, now administered by the Forest Service, also is claimed 1 by the Bureau of Land Manage jment as part of the Oregon & j California Railroad grant lands which it administers. The bill, by Sen. Cordon and Rep. Ellsworth, Oregon Republi cans, would leave administration in the hands of the Forest Service, but would require that receipts from sale of timber be distributed in accordance with the O & C formula. This formula gives 75 per cent to the 18 counties instead of the 25 per cent normally received from national forest lands. MEXICO STRIKE DECREED MEXICO CITY 1 Mexico's first general strike was ordered Wednesday for July 12 to support a demand for wage increases. Bmfe CTftfifteffl Max. 59 . 63 . 56 56 - 56 55 Min. 41 52 48 40 48 46 48 65 58 56 Precip. .13 trace Jl .01 .01 .01 , .07 .00 .00 .00 Salem Portland Baker Medford North Bend1 Roseburg Saa Francisco 62 Chicago 90 New York -74 Los Angeles 68 Willamette River .00 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McNary Field, Salem : Partial clearing today, tonight and Friday. Widely scattered hower today and tonight. A little warmer with the high today 65 to 67. low tonight 42 to 44. High' Friday 68 to 70. Temperature at 12:01 a.m.-today was 50. SALEM PRECIPITATION sine start ef weathr Year sept. i o.u 4iii aij7 Salem, Oreqon, Thursday, I 6No Raiding9 Pact Queen Jan h - ii i r Vi i J.L. lit ! C .'.VA -fj f I - r .('''i"; ' , 'f . i - ,o 1 ;"V-' ) "" . v ; At m il . 1 j:re '- ii i "in PORTLAND Jan Markstaller, blonde Washington High School stu dent, was selected Wednesday night to rale over the Portland Rose Festival. The selection ji as made at the Multnomah Stadium. 17 Missing in Navy Plane on Asia Flight TOKYO W t- A U.S. Navy am phibian plane with 17 aboard van ished Wednesday in bad weather off Southern Japan on a flight to Hong Kong. Air Force and Navy planes and Japanese and U. S. ships searched the area1 of the Pacific between Japan and Okinawa without suc cess. They resumed the hunt at daybreak Thursday. Rough seas and bad weather raised fears for the safety of the 15 Navy officers and enlisted men and two Marine officers aboard. The plane, a twin - engine PBM, I took off from Iwakuni Air Base j at 530 a. m. Wednesday. It sent I its last radio message an hour and ; 25 minutes later. , The Navy identified one of those aboard the missing plane as Avia tion Electronics Technician 3C. Jerrold D. Edwards of Portland; Ore. Woman Officially j Becomes Gunn-Moll BEAUMONT, Tex. CP Susanne Stedman is now officially a gunn moll. She qualified for the title when she was married here last Satur day. Her husband: Lt. James Gunn-Moll. Lawyer, Accused of Plotting To Kill Trio, Victim of Suicide LAKE WALES. Fla. on Em mett Donnelly, a lawyer accused of plotting to kill three wealthy persons by means of a- hired gun man, was found dead Wednesday. ' was an apparent suicide. The 6l-year-oid Donnelly was discovered by neighbor's children lying beneath a clump of poin settia flowers at his home. Officers think he put a shutgun, which was lying at his side, into his mouth and, fired. Part of his head was blown off. County Soliutor Clifton, Kelh said it appeared a suicide and recommended there be no in quest. Coroner Frank Stanley agreed with this but has made no official pronouncement. State At torney Gunter Stephenson says he is continuing to investigate, recommended there be no inquest. Coroner Frank Stanley agreed with this but has made no official pro nouncement. State Attorney Gun ter Stephenson says he is contin uing o investigate. Sephenson questioned Mrs. Jes sie Stanley who he identified as (Donnelly's wife. The state attorney I "id she had been his legal wife una 10. 1954 PRICE 5c of Rosaria i Portland Festival Acquires Queen, Two Navy Ships PORTLAND UTi Portland ac quired a queen and two more Navy ships Wednesday in its annual Rose Festival. The queen, selected before a crowd in Multnomah Stadium, is a pretty blonde. Jan Markstaller. a Washington High School student. She was selected from a field of eight high school girls. The new Navy arrivals were the cruiser Toledo and the submarine Gudgeon. They joined four Navy minesweepers that had reached port the previous day. All are open to public inspection through the Festival, which reaches its climax with a floral parade Saturday. )'- . , . 1 WESTERN INTERNATIONAL At Salem 5-S, Yakima 2-3 -At Lewiston. Vancouver. Rain At Spokane 8-3, Victoria 0-4 At Edmonton 4-3. Calgary 1-10 At Tri-City 15. Wenatchee COAST LEAGUE At Portland ll-3. Seattle 0-J At San Francisco 1. Oakland 8 At Los Angele l, Hollywood 7 At Sacramento. San Diego, Rain AMERICAN LEAGUE At Philadelphia 4, Chicago 9 At Washington 0, Cleveland 1 At New York S. Detroit 1 At Boston 7. Baltimore 6 NATIONAL LEAGUE At Cincinnati 4. Pittsburgh 3 At Chicago 0-6. Philadelphia 4-14 At Milwaukee 0. New York 4 At St. Louis 3. Brooklyn 0 for several years and did not know why they never formally an- nounced it. Solicitor Kelly said the clear in dications of suicide were powder burns on the teeth, puffed cheeks and all the facial bones were, brok en. Donnelly and Willard Durden were arrested on charges of con spiring to kill for profit K. H. Ger lach, 81, and Mrs. Byrd T. Roach, SI, both of Lake Wales and Mrs. Louise Clark Hawley, about 50, of Orlando. The two accused men were re leased on bond and apparently Donnelly had not discussed the case with anyone before the shoot ing. Sheriff Pat Gordon said Donnel ly and Durden obtained services of a trigger man who in turn be came an informant for investiga tors in the suspected murder plot. Investigating officials said Don nelly's alleged motive was an op portunity to profit by his position as confidential attorney for all details have not been disclosed. No. 75 Okehed By 94 Unions WASHINGTON The AFL and CIO Wednesday culminated more than a year of negotiations by ratifying a "no raiding" agree ment binding 94 unions in the two federations to a labor peace plan. The pact is regarded as the first step toward a possible AFL-CIO merger. It pledges the subscribing unions to refrain from "raiding" or seizing members already or ganized into a rival federation. In all. 65 of the AFL's 111 un ions and 29 of the CIO's 33 unions okehed the plan. The signing un ions claim to represent more than 10 million workers. , Expected te Join Major holdouts include the million-member AFL Teamsters and CIO Steelworkers unions and the 750,000-member AFL Carpenters. However, AFL President George Meany and CIO President Walter Reuther said they expected the holdouts would gradually join in the plan. David L. Cole of Paterson, N.J., formed director of the Federal Mediation Service and a leading labor arbitrator, was named as um pire to settle any "raiding" dis putes under the agreement, which runs to January' 1, 19S6. Meany and Reuther said they expect it to be continued permanently there after. Congratulations Sent Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell issued a statement expres sing the government's congratula tions on the agreement and said it would contribute toward more peaceful labor relations. The agreement would not apply to jurisdictional disputes between rival AFL unions or between rival CIO unions. But the CIO already has a working arbitration system for peaceful settlement of squabble among its own onions. Meany said the AFL expects to establish a sim ilar system tof intra-ATL fights at the federation's convention la September. Dockmen Plan Strike if U. S. Sues Bridges SAN FRANCISCO on The gov ernment can expect a longshore men's "continuous stop-work meet ing" if it presses its suit against Harry Bridges,. Local 10 decided Wednesday. A spokesman said about 4,000 members of the local met in Civie Auditorium and voted "unaaimous- ly" to send a wire about the stop- work plan to Atty. Gen. Herbert I Brownell. The spokesman was asked the meaning of "continuous" and re plied "you can interpret that your self." The Justice Department an nounced Monday that it would re activate a 1949 civil suit against Bridges, charging he was a Com munist Party member when he ob tained citizenship in 1945. Other locals of the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse men's Union, of which Bridges is president, have approved stop-work meetings should the civil suit against him be pressed. Local 10 stopped work from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. Wednesday to hear a report from its negotiating committee and then ratified the committee's action in obtaining an agreement with Pacific Maritime Corvallis Sets Curfew n osc Lovers' ne CORVALLIS Jr The City cuncil has, decided to impose a i Park, long the lovers lane for ! Oregon State College couples. It tentatively set 7 a.m. as the I reopening hour. ACTRESS SUSPENDED HOLLYWOOD l Ava Gard ner's studio suspended her Wed nesday, on the eve of her depar ture for Nevada to establish resi dence for a divorce from Frank Sinatra. Today's Statesman SECTION 1 Editorials, features 4 Stargazer - 4 Society, women's 6, 7 SECTION 2 Sports 1,-2 Crossword puzzle 1 2 Comics 3 Radio, TV 3 Farm news 4 Valley news 5 Classified ads 5-7