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.Red China Offers New IndocMna Cease-Fire Plan The Weather Max. Min. 42 45 50 Precip. .5 .07 .00 T Salem Portland 60 San Trancisco 66 New York 68 59 Willamette River 2.3 feet FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McNary Field. Salem i: Partly cloudy today with possible scattered showers, partly cloudy to night and mostly sunny Friday. High today near 88 and low tonight near 38. High Friday near 70. Tempera ture at 12:01 a.m. today was 47. 104TH YEAR Lumber Mills Strike Starts In California PORTLAND JP) Three thousand men walked out in a dozen Northern California lumber mills Wednesday, the first major work stoppage in the sprawling, restive industry where 150,000 men have voted to qui if they don't get more money. Last - minute talks continued in several areas from Northern Washington to Central California in the hope of averting a two-union igpGuos The postmortem on the career of the late Harold G. Hoffman, one-time governor of New Jersey which now is coming to light, of- fers a singular case history in American politics. It is the stop-; ol a good time Lname in pout-1 the nearest approach to that from ics who embezzled to keep his ' any important operator, front and his pace in politics and j AFL and CIO. in an action whose wrestling with conscience ; unprecedented since the CIO broke led to his confession posthumous-, away from the parent AFL ly made public. ( Carpenters' Union in 1937, have Previously Hoffman had been ! announced they will work together recalled as the governor who ' for their demands. The CIO policy messed 'into the Hauptmann con- committee, which has held strike viction for the kidnaping of the authority for six weeks or more, Lindbergh child, though the sent- is expected to set its industry-wide ence was executed, and no valid strike date when it meets Friday basis for doubt has since arisen and in view of the co-operation as to Hauptmann's guilt. After re- statement of the unions, the date tiring as New Jersey's governor, j 1S expected to be Monday. in 1938 Hoffman took a state job as director of the state division of employment security. He was sus- I rniffiiri11CA pended from this position when jUU1 LIIUlloC Robert B. Meyner became govern or, and investigation of Hoffman's T J official record led to filing of 16: I lPfllP.T 1 OH TO charges of misconduct, including """" a false bank deposit of $300,000 in the South Amboy Trust Co. of which Hoffman was the head. Hoffman died of a heart attack in his New York apartment on June 4th. He had left a letter with his daughter to be opened after his death. In this he confessed to embezzling over a term of years $300,000 from accounts with the Trust Company. The withdrawal of funds began when a certain wealthy man, since deceased failed to. make good on his promise to finance Hoffman's campaign ex pense for congress. The high cost of living in Washington induced him to make further withdrawals. Then when he told his predicament to (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Gym Wing at South Salem High Ready The gymnasium wing of new South Salem High School is all but completed and ready for final inspection by Salem School Board Friday at 1 p.m. School directors will consider final acceptance of that part of the building, then later inspect and accept the other three sectors of the $4 million building project as each is completed. Fjrst part of the building com pleted, the sector now ready for acceptance faces Rural Avenue and includes science and health laboratories and classrooms as well as the main gymnasium and shower rooms. The gym has a 106 by 108 maple floor, big enough to handle four gym classes. Four other courts are in (he balconies. Seating ca pacity is 3.500. School board members also will meet at 3 p. m. today at the ad ministration office building to ex amine school buses displayed by bidders for a contract for four new 60-passenger busses. ANIMAL CRACKERS V W AH KEN SOODRICH '1 "How con you gather honey all day and be such a sour puss at night?" 2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES strike tnat would nan an but a handful of operations in the woods and mills of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana and Nevada. One of the biggest of the North ern California operators Tuesday j night offered a company-paid health and welfare benefit worth 7 Vi cents an hour. The mill work ers accepted and as a result, 1,000 j Hammond Lumber Co. employes stayed on the job while workers ' at other mills struck. Some of the j strikers had turned down a pro-1 posal they consider the 7 -cent i offer. The unions both the AFL Lum- j ber and Sawmill Workers and the I CIO Woodworkers have asked 12 t, cents an hour more pay in! the Northwest. The 7 H cents is: Include Tours Visitors to the new Marion County Courthouse Friday will be conducted on tours through all parts of the building after a 50 -minute dedication ceremony beginning at 2 p.m. The women guides who will conduct the tours were instructed how to do their jobs in a brief talk Wednesday by County Judge Rex Hartley. The guides repre sent nearly all the communities within Marion County. They will take visitors through the build ing until 9 p.m. Friday and all day Saturday. Additional tours are planned for Monday and Wed nesday evenings next week. The dedication program Friday will be held on the portico in front of the building. Radio an nouncer Dave Hoss will be mas ter of ceremonies, and Charles A. Sprague, editor of the Oregon Statesman, will be the principal speaker. Sprague's topic Will be "In the j Service of the Public The program will include the introduction of local and state leaders who will be present for the occasion and a ceremony in which the building's cornerstone will be sealed. A color guard of U.S. Marines will be present for flag ceremonies. 'Million Dollar Rain' Turns to Deficit As Strawberry Crop Rots on Vines By LILLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman Even brief spells of sunshine were being welcomed by Willam ette Valley Farmers Wednesday with "partly sunny skies for j Thursday", promised by the U. S. ! weather bureau, being awaited 1 with bated breath. What started out, to be a "mil lion dollar rain" after an early spring drought and late frost, may still be a million dollar rain, but on the red rather than the black side of the ledger, farmers were saying. For the past few days, thousands of dollars worth of strawberries have been softening and rotting on the vines, with too much mois ture and no sun. Even some of the berries picked which looked com paratively good were found to have soft cores. While the rains have brought on late blooms on the valley plants, should hot weather come immediately upon rain stop page, these will not develop to any great extent, and, say straw berry growers in the valley, under no circumstances can sufficient now be borne to rke up for the tons of strawberries which should have been ripening and should Luby to Replace Storev as Solons' ti Field Manager The board of directors of the Salem Senators Baseball Club announced last night that Hugh Luby, the club's non-playing; gen eral manager, will succeed Har vey Storey, field skipper, effec tive Friday. The move is being made as a measure of economy on the financially unstable base . ball organization. Storey has been offered a reg ular player's contract to remain as third baseman on the club, but will not decide on an answer until Sunday. He will continue as manager of the team during Its scheduled doubleheader at Yakima tonight, and Luby will take over Frfday night when the Senators are slated to open a local series with Wenatchee. Storey was hired as manager this sea sos, and Luby, who was the manager for the three previous campaigns, took over the general managership. (Full details in today's sports sec tion.) McCarthy, Welch Clash Delays Finale WASHINGTON tft The Mc Carthy - Army hearings missed j their adjournment target Wednes day in a session of weary wrangl-1 ing that flared up into a slashing ! new passage at arms between j Sen. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) and the! Army side's chief counsel, Joseph ; N. Welch. The 63-year-old Welch, briefly shaking off weariness in the 35th , day of the televised proceedings, told McCarthy he has no monopoly , on battling Communism, and de- clared in tones of harsh anger that : the armed forces work at that job, ; too, night and day. "Don't pull that on me. Mc Carthy snapped back. He asserted he hopes his subcommittee can get back soon to hunting subversives with the Army's cooperation "but. with or without it, take my word for it, we will do it." The televised hearings now are scheduled to end early Thursday afternoon eight weeks to the day after they began. (Additional details on page 10, Sec. 1.) Midwest Heat Fails to Abate By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Midwest's heat wave went through its sixth day Wednesday with no sign, of an early break. Cooler and drier air covered the Great Plains but a large high pres sure area over the eastern United States prevented it from spreading eastward. In contrast, cool air covered the northwestern and northeastern states. Lakeview, Ore., had a low reading of 31 degrees. Light snow fell at Stampede Pass. Wash., and Mullen Pass, Mont. Stampede Pass had a midday temperature of 34 and Mullen Pass, 29. Scattered showers and thunder showers occurred over virtually the entire nation, except the Southwest. The temperature reached 90 de grees in Chicago at 1:30 p.m. the sixth consecutive day that mark was reached. have been harvested during the past three weeks. Reports from the Silverton Hills, one of the sections which supply a heavy portion of Willamette Val ley Strawberries, showed that even here the berries were rotting to some extent. While the berries are not far enough along for gen eral picking in the hills, growers checking Wednesday morning said they found a number of green ones which had softened and decayed. However, should weather clear off, promptly, the big crop in the hills would be saved, growers believed. Not only are growers suffering from the heavy rains, but pickers as well. Many pickers who come into the valley, together with val ley families who depend upon fruit picking as part of their live lihood, are showing considerable gloom. At least two weeks of the money-making summer are gone with no money made. Grass seed growers in the valley were reporting much of their crop "down", which in many cases means cutting before harvesting. Not only is more of the crop saved when harvested standing, it is a more economical method of harv esting, as only one process is Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, YWCA Building :v: ;:. , 'X2B?iryz , . , - irfCJmt "t f J !t i Is, X : -r I ' it in .im 1 in i 'rni! wi kiiiiiiii in - - ii i MUMHtUt : Im W jSmmmmmJk LThe recently furnished interior of the new Salem YWCA building lobby is shown above as things were being readied for dedication ceremonies this Sunday. Open to the public, the ceremonies will begin at 3 p.m. in the gymnasium, and 'tours through the $430,000 structure will follow. Mrs. Daryl May, receptionist (standing), and Ramena Salmi nen, 1035 X. 22nd St., are shown, looking at YW literature. (Statesman photo.) (Story and pictures on page 5, sec. 2.) Ike Ignoring Question of '56 Candidacy WASHINGTON iJF " President Eisenhower said Wednesday he is concentrating on the big problems of the present and by no manner of means casting his mind forward to running for another term in 1956. This matter of 1956, Eisehower said, hasn't even been discussed in the White House since he has been there except in the most fa cetious vein. He said he isn't one to predict, and, as he sees it, suf ficient unto the day are the evils thereof. This last comment produced a round of laughter at the Eisenhow er news conference, and the Presi dent joined in. The chief executive also said: His meeting next week with Prime Minister Churchill is intend ed to keep the bridge between the Unitpd States and Britain strone and to combat the idea there are great rifts between the two na- tjons The next step in the Korean armistice problem, now that the Geneva conference has failed to reach an agreement, is up to the United 'ation? . an nour with city ponce ana a nost ; Figueroa Cordro. 29. and Irving haDDened ui utenvc at mitt -r i ,,, o" ,.-;tv, , . . , nappeneu. jw a -J - PORTLAND (jP A record attendance of 563 delegates was reported as the Oregon Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and and Accepted Masons opened here Wednesday. needed of the two when the crop must first be mowed and then combined. Heavy clover and vetch fields, planned for hay, are also down, complicating the harvest, and in some instances somewhat lessen ing the quality of the hay. Not much hay has been cut. how ever, with scores ot larmers put ,u --j ; u mi LiiviL icru i vy in git.v;it lsj way of silage. Grain growers and pasture folk were not grumbling yet on Wed nesday, but rumbles were being heard from bean growers. In most instances the beans were in prior to the rains and while not showing too much growth are at least not spoiling. However, a few of the growers got late beans in just be fore the rains began, and these said they would have to replant if they wanted a crop this year. Word of bean mold reached the Statesman Farm editor early Wed nesday, but a later check proed only in isolated cases. While not going anywhere yet, the beans as a whole seemed unharmed by the rain. Sun is needed to bring them along in time for the usual picking period however. (Farm news also on page 6, i i sec. 2.) 1651 Thursday, June 17, 1954 Ready for Dedication Sunday LoiTffer Breaks CO Ankle. Carried 2 Miles 'Piggy Back' gtattiman Niwi Service DALLAS Lou W. Lifever, 29, Monmouth logger, is recovering in a Bartell hospital from a fractur ed ankle, after a two mile "piggy back" ride. Lefever and his half-brother, Clyde Parks, Jr., wert bucking logs' alone Tuesday on : the Con nie Hodge logging operation near Rose Lodge in the Coast Range, when a log rolled over ; Lefever's legs, fracturing his right ankle and bruising his left leg. Parks carried Lefever on his back to the nearest passable road two miles distant, and brought him to Dallas by automobile. Corvallis Folk Chase Steers CORVALLIS jP Th northern residential section of Corvallis was j the scene briefly Wednesday of an impromptu "rodeo" when a couple of steers broke out of their pasture i and provided about 50 ; would-be j cowhands opportunity to thow their rPin skl11- ; The steers, apparently upset by the attention they created, charged rodeo" when a couple jover fences and lawns : for about vn men anu uu3 flumu " ilii ! ropes in pursuit. Once the steers were cornered. but they escaped by ; charging through the ring of : would-be captors. The chase ended when the animals returned voluntarily to the pasture. Their owner, Hi G. Whit ney, said he'd try to keep them penned up until he disposes of them next week. TWO CARS DAMAGED A collision at N. Capitol and Chemeketa streets Wednesday evening caused extensive damage to the two cars involved, city police reported. Drivers: were list ed as Johnny R. Bartlett, 996 S. 15th St., and Fred Henry West phat, 3995 PleasantvieW Dr. SALEM PRECIPITAIIOV Since Start of Weather Yrar Sept. 1 This Year Last Year I Normal . 44 4fl 43 12 38.M WESTERN INTERNATIONAL At Yakima-Salem tralnj At Vancouver 2-5, Victoria 1-7 At Wenatchee 7. Tri-Citjf 11 At Calgary 12. Lewiston; 10 At Edmonton-Spokane (rain) COAST LEAGUE ! At Sacramento 3. Portland 1 At Hollywood 5. San Francisco S At Oakland 0. Los Angeles 8 At San Diego 4. Seattle; 3 i NATIONAL LEAGUE At Brooklyn 8. Milwaukee 4 At New York 4, Cincinnati 0 At Pittsburgh-Chicago t rain i At Philadelphia-St Louii (rain) AMERICAN LEAGUE At Cleveland 5, Washington l At Baltimore 0. New Yprk 2 At Detroit 2, Boston 3 i At Chicago 11. Philadelphia PRICE 5c m J " Puerto Ricans i Of Gun Attack WASHINGTON Jfi Three Puer to Rican men were convicted Wed nesday night on all !0 counts of amL ii. inc i anumiiig then laughter swept the TOW of which wounded five congressmen. congressmen and the overflow au The woman in the case was con-1 djence victed on five counts and the jury1 with'ihaf Sfarknvh intoritH- I CdUIJlXl A 111141 verdict on five other counts against her. Dark eyed Lolita LeBron. 34. nnc. u:.. r: 1 j lookin extremely pale and tired, was the only one of the four de fendants whose fate had not yet been decided in full as the jury of seven men and five women ended ll1? hours of deliberation. The three male defendants were , found guilty on five counts each of ! assault with intent to kill and five ! counts each of assault with a dan gerous weapon. Maximum possible' sentence is 75 years in prison each, i Mrs. LeBron. convicted on five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, raised a mild objection when the jury could not agree on the five charges of intent to kill. "I don't see why they don't con vie, me, too," she whispered to a woman marshal. Miss Eleanor Kehl, sitting behind her. The three male defendants Ra- faei Cancel Miranda 25, Andres i r IOin rtOQllIIUeZ 7 2aVe no SrlOW of emotion as the verdict was read. Ar Orders Salutes my More i WASHINGTON The Army is ordering all soldiers to return ! to the old practice of saluting at all "appropriate" times. , Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. chief I of staff who announced the de- cision Wednesday, said the order will take effect Sept. 1. The new order requires soldiers to give and return salutes at all times when they meet and recog nize persons entitled to the salute. Exceptions to the rule will include occasions when men are not in uni form or are in public conveyances and places where a salute would be "manifestly inappropriate or im practical." Lindbergh's Son Sought for Trip SAN FRANCISCO UP Leaders of a projected raft expedition to Hawaii Wednesday were trying to ge in touch with Jon Lindbergh, son of the famous flier, to clear the way tor nis joining me party. The expedition plans to drift from here to Hawaii on ocean cur - rents. The six men of the party expect to live on rain water, plank- j ton and fish, taken as they drift. Lindbergh and his wife are en route to Chicago to visit her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Robbins. BUT No. 82 itnCSS Berates Probers By JIM HUTCHESON SEATTLE liT A shouting wit ness threw a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing into turmoil here Wednesday and brought a unanimous committee vote to recommend a contempt of Congress citation. Members of the committee said it was the first time such action had been taken on the spot, in open i session, by the present investigat- ing group. 1.I1C u... Ames orote ott me 19- Anv actual contempt citation i nation conference on Korea here would have to be by the House of Tuesday after remaining complete Representatives. , ly deadlocked since the beginning The witness was George Tony i conference last April 2fi Starkovich. 32. formerly of Bell- Talks Recessed ingham, who said, under protest, I The nine-party Indochina talks that his residence now is in Seattle, i were recessed until Friday after A 1950 passport application to a ' noon to give delegates a chance "Peace Congress" in Europe listed to study Cbou's proposals. By that the applicant of that name as a time, they also hoped France would plywood worker. (have a-government Pierre Mendes- "Only Contempt" France was busy in Paris trying to " The flareup came as he told the 1 committee members belligerently , that he had only contempt for them i4,;oio -ni u i aa. as individuals, although he added ' "I don't have contempt for Con gress. I'm proud of my country : and Congress." ( When Chairman Yelde (R-Ill) once threatened to oust him from the chamber, he retorted that an inquiry put to him was "a phony question from a phony congress-1 i man." Reps. Clardy (R-Mich), Jackson ! i (R-Califi and Doyle (D-Calif) all1 ' n-j i.: l - . . ' : isiicu uiin iuc iiium toniempiuous witness ever to appear before the ' committee. Floodlight Explodes An exploding television bulb, that went off with of a grenade at the end committee rostrum, added to the i confusion. The blast came just as Starko vich was stridently shouting against what he called "McCarthy demogoguery," in reference to the activities of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. There, was a moment of tension tinkling of falling glass.! ' "Congressmen, you're safe in Seat tle." (Additional details on page 2, Sec. 1. Policeman's Bullet Wounds Bystander PORTLAND iff! Police accused a 32-year-old man Wednesday of ! using his car as a weapon in a downtown iracas with ponce in which a bystander was hit in the leg d- a police Diniei. Lucas Franklin Munoz, Portland, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after the fracas ended. The wounded man was a taxicab driver, Joe Harper. 35. His ankle wound was described as superficial. Police said this is what Munoz. found headed the wrong way on a one-way street. tried to escape police. He was stopped after a short chase, wrestled with a policeman, and then tried to runy-vr"f i . down the traffic patrolman with ! Jl lviaillUtritlOn his car. The patrolman, Kenneth Strand, threw himself to the ground away from the car. Strand got his gun out. One shot bounced off the engine, but another flattened a tire. As Munoz jumped out and ran. a third shot ricocheted and hit Harper. Munoz kept running. i but as caught two blocks away. Portland Men To Invoke 5th Amendment PORTLAND (-ft Four Portland war veterans subpoenaed to appear before the Velde House un-American Activities Committee here, announced Wednesday through an attorney. Irving Goodman,, that they will refuse to testify. The four men. all active or interested in the Progressive Party in 1948, are David Gregg. 33. John McKenzie, 30. William E. Lewis, 35. and Donald M. Wollam, 40. In a statement issued through Goodman, the four said they would invoke the Fifth Amendment in j theif-cefusal to answer questions. ! andj yed: j will not become stool oiteons and inform against our friends and neighbors with the resultant economic reprisals they and their families will surely I experience. Wind up Of Talks Delayed GENEVA CP) The United States and Britain considered Wednesday night the possibility of continuing the Geneva talks on Ladochina in the light of new cease-fire propos als by Red China's Premier Cboa En-Lai and strong French pressure against breaking off negotiations. This was a reversal of the U.S. British determination Tuesday night that the Indochina negotia tions deadlocked on all major is sues since the start seven weeks ago be closed by the end of the week. Chou entered surprise new pro posals, details of which were not disclosed, which U.S. Undersecre tary of State Walter Bedell Smith reportedly said warranted further consideration. "Step Forward" French sources said Chou'snew proposals were a "step forward." And a British spokesman said it appeared enough pro grass had been made in Wednesday's meeting to justify continuing the Indochiaa phase of the conference. pu; l08r c""!t that would i P a.rb a0 approval. j PrPsls. reportedly cov- red three main points: 1 a si multaneous cease-fire, 2) the ne gotiations of the opposing military commands both here and in Indo china, and (3' a proposed ban on importation of troops or arms tc that war-ravaged country. Injuries From Crash Fatal to -2B.M. Ensley d of the , J j utiijauuii nci ic xuaiey, u. ai- lenaant ai ine uregon sute Hos pital, became Marion County's fifth traffic fatality for 1954 when he died Wednesday morn ing at a Salem hospital of injuries sus tained in an auto crash south of Liberty on May 26. Both state police and city first aidmen were called to the accid ent. When questioned Ensley told officers he was going to work in his 1928 model car when it "suddenly veered off the road" and dug into a road bank. Sometime later he was taken to the hospital by state police and lapsed into unconsciousness the following day. The attending phys ician said x-rays showed he sus tained a severe skull fracture. Ensley, who was born at Fos sil, Ore.. Nov. 9. 1910. had lived in this community most of his life. He is survived by the wido: , Mrs. Olga Ensley, Salem Route 4, Box 639: daughters, Mrs. Dorothy ; Kandle. Miss Donna CaspeL U. S. ; Savy. Jack and Jerry Ensley. both ( 0f Salem; sisters. Mrs. E. E. Ball. Turner, and Mrs. Herman Fed dern, Salem; and one brother, C O. Ensley. Beaverton. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Howell Edwards Chapel with interment at Belcrest Memorial Park. The Rev. Roscoe West will officiate. ; Tn.nic C- r.r.A ! A oiuio uuaigcu As Infant Dies SEATTLE cr The parents of an infant boy were charged with manslaughter Wednesday after an autopsy surgeon testified at an in quest that the child died of mal nutrition. A coroner's jury decided the boy died due to ''criminal neglect." The infant was dead when it was taken to a hospital last Thursday. The young couple, Harold Peter sen. Jr.. and hii wife. Armida, were jailed for investisation Fri day and ordered returned to their cells after the inquest. The mother told the jury she fed the. baby at 3 a.m. Thursday and dia not attend to him again until she found him apparently dead at 7 p.m. Peterson said he was satis fied his wife gave their children they have two others good care. Today's Statesman SECTION 1 General news 2, 5, 8, 10 Editorials, features 4 Society, women 6-8 . Star Gazer 10 X-word puzzle 10 SECTION 2 Sports 1, 2 Valley news 3 Comics 4 TV, radio log 4 Inside TV 4 YWCA picture page S Farm page ; 6 Markets 7 Classified ads 7-8 . o