Truman
ndergoes Emergency Appendectomy
Guatemala
Advancing
Rebels
apidly
By SAM SUMMERLIN
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras VP) Col. Carlos Castillo Armas'
anti-Communist forces announced Saturday night they were making
rapid progress and meeting only slight resistance on their invasion
of Guatemala.
They predicted complete victory and the downfall of the Red
influenced regime of President Jacobo Arbenx Guzman within a
ifew days.
Advances up to 25 miles inside
Guatemala were reported by the
anti-Communist chiefs.
Fighting was reported in prog
ress at Zacapa, only 60 miles from
the capital, Guatemala City.
Much support was reported from
among the local people as the in
vading army advanced under the
flag of Guatemala.
But in a broadcast heard here
Arbeni predicted final victory and
called on workers and farmers to
rise and assist him, though he ad
mitted the invaders had made pen
etrations of "some kilometers."
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Surgery
Termed
Success
KANSAS CITY CD Ex-Presi
dent Harry Truman underwent
successful operation for removal
of his appendix early Sunday and
is doing fine, his physician, Dr
Wallace Grahams, said.
The former President's gall
bladder was also removed during !
the operation, his physician an
nounced. He entered surgery at 12:30 a.
m. and hospital attendants said the
appendix was removed at 2 a. m.
Attendants said the operation
was a major one. Truman's condi
tion was reported unofficially to be
fair.
NDBD 1651
104TH YEAR 8 SECTIONS 24 PAGES
Thm Orocon Statesman, Scdom, Ozwaon, Sunday, Jus 20, 1954
PRICE 10c
No. t5
I Hearings
End at
Portland
H u0 favding his personal physician at the White
House, performed the operation
TEGUCIGALPA. Handaras Car.
los Ca stills Armas, a gua
thrust ia his trousers. It the
leader of the Guatemalan re
volt now is progress. (AP
Wirephoto)
forces included Honduraus, Nicar
aguans, Cubans, Salvadoreans,
Dominicans and Costa Ricans.
Leaders of the invasion who were
interviewed near the border, how
ever, said they were Guatemalan
nationals and that their forces car
ried the Guatemalan flag. j
The penetrations, he said, were !
in the departments of Chicimula i
and Zacapa, which border Hondur-!
as. Fighting was reported at Zaca-1
pa, only about 60 miles from the j
capital city.
Th Guatemalan Embassy in i
Washington said military install a-
ttoiM at Jalapa, southeast of the
capital, had been bombed. I
t
(Additional details and Guate-,
mala stories on page 2.)
PORTLAND UP The House
Un-American Activities Committee
hearing wrangled to a close Sat
urday with a witness demanding,
"Is Reed College now to go on the
attorney general's list?"
A balky witness, William Earle
Lewis. S3, a former student at the
The 70-year-old former President colleee. which fieured orominentlv
was in excellent spirits as he was j i the two-day hearing in Portland,
wheeled from the elevator. A nurse j phrased the question as the last
asked him if the sedative had made of 17 witnesses,
him more comfortable. , Ro5ert L Kunzigi committee
Eases Pain j counsel, at once stopped Lewis
Yes." he replied. "It has eased from going further, calling the
the pain considerably." I query "plainly facetious." To
Mrs. Truman waited in the lobby , Chairman Harold Velde (R-Ill)
outside the surgery. i who had missed Lewis' remark,
Truman had been ill since Fridav ' Kunzig then explained the witness
I night when he was stricken at Kan-1 had asked whether Reed was going
sas City's Starlight Theater. , to be on the U.S. attorney gen-
Truman walked into the hospital ' eral's subversive orgamza
at 10 o'clock Saturday night after I ,tlon.s- elde admonished Lewis to
a one-day s lHness and at mid- '""" """T1" J
night his physician. Dr. Wallace
Salem Soldiers Study Weapons at Ft. Lewis
t
iW
Stat
(Following is the first portion
of the address given on the dedi
cation of the new Marlon County
Courthouse Friday by The States
man editor. The remainder will
appear In the Monday inane of
The Statesman.)
na the Service of the ?eoplew
Fart 1
Co
We are assembled at this his
toric spot on an occasion we
shall long remember for th; dedi
cation of this new Marion C'sus'.y
Courthouse. The site is historic.
It is Block Six on the original
plat j of Salem, laid out by Dr.
Willam B. Willson and filed in
March, 1850, and dedicated as a
Public Square. This is the third
courthouse to stand oo this site.
The first one was built in 1853.
At that time Salem was a town
whose estimated population was
about 500. The County Assessor
reported the population of Mar
ion County for that year as 7794,
though the 1850 census recorded
only 2749 inhabitants. Oregon,
then a territory, had a popula
tion of 13,294 according to the
1850 census, but an estimate two
years later gave it as 20,000. The
1950 census showed that Salem
had grown to have a population
of 43,140, Marion County 101,401,
(Continued on editorial page, 4.)
Flyer Fails in
Von-Stop Hop
WASHINGTON CP The Civil
Aeronautics Administration said a
44-year-old flying farmer from
Utah Saturday night failed in en
attempt at a record non-stop flight
from Alaska to Washington, land
ing at Fargo, N. D .
The CAA said Del Fuhriman of
Trementon, Utah, landed his single-engine
light plane at Fargo at
11:40 p. m. EDT Fuhriman, who
began his flight at Annette Island,
Alaska, had attempted a new non
stop light plane record of 2,730
miles.
Fuhriman's Cessna carried
enough gas for 26 hours and 5 min
utes of flyinc. He had estimated
the flight to Washington would take
him 25 hours at 1H miles an hour.
The CAA said it had no informa
tion on why Fuhriman landed at
Fargo.
Mundt Favors
mmittee to
Ayert Disputes
WASHINGTON ( Sen. Mundt
(R-SD) said Saturday be will take
up with the White House bis plans
for averting in the future "com
pletely reprehensible squabbles"
such as be said marked some parts
of the McCarthy-Army bearings.
Muodt, who presided at the
stormy televised sessions, is draft
ing legislation to create a special
coordinating committee to seek
cooperation and peaceful relations
between coagressaooal investigat
ing committees nad the executive
branch of the government.
He said such group, including
Republican nod Democratic Con
gress members, could work in har
mony and avert squabbles about
their powers.
Opposing Camps
He said disputes over the separa
tion of powers of the executive and
legislative branches of government
at the McCarthy-Army hearings re
sulted in "honest people disagree
ing" and forming opposing camps
when they should have beea in one
camp."
Sen. McClellan of Arkansas, the
subcommittee's senior Democrat,
before leaving for a trip to his
home state, voiced a sharply dif
ferent view.
"We don't need any coordinating
committee if men w4y be men, and
get away from this kid stuff of
quarreling and bickering."
"It doesn't make much sense to
appoint a committee to help a com
mittee." McClellan said.
Conference Proposed
Mundt said his idea is to have
about eight Senate and House mem
bers, representing investigating
groups, sit with about eight from
the executive department, includ
ing some "lower echelon" White
House aide and representatives of
the attorney general, the FBI and
others.
Graham, said, "Mr. Truman has
an acute illness."
"Abtit Twt Hours"
The doctor would say no more
regarding bis patient's condition.
"We'll see in about two hours,"
he said.
It was only 20 minutes later
when the former President was
wheeled onto the elevator to go to
surgery.
His illness had been described
earlier as an attack of acute in
digestion. Before be was taken to surgery
a nurse was seen taking a paper
and pencil into his room.
"The President wants to write a
letter," she said.
Floods Rage
In North Iowa
DES MOINES UR Flood waters
raged through a score of river
valleys in Northwestern and North
ern Iowa Saturday night as rescue
teams stood by for possible emer
gency evacuations.
' Crop damage mounted by the
hour, hundreds of northern Iowa
families had either evacuated their
homes or moved prized possessions
to safety and flood waters spilled
intn ipvpral tnurn fi
The floods began Thursday night ! 01 Twar . wim "ssia.
and earlv Fridav when the northern ! Kunzig scornfully remarked on
third of Iowa got general thunder
storms averaging three to six
inches of rainfall, with an official
ly measured 8.57 inches at Britt
and an unofficial 10 inches at Wo
den.
tions and the hearing ended in a
few minutes without further ex
citement. 'Filibustering
There had been plenty before
that, at one point Velde accusing
a witness of "filibustering" and
the witness, Don Wollam, 40, a
longshoreman, responding, "I have
no intention of becoming a mem
ber of your stable of stool
pigeons."
Wollam was one of 11 unfriendly
witnesses on the closing day. They,
refused to answer any questions
that went beyond such subjects as
place of residence and employ
ment. Some refused to answer
even those.
All had been named by one or
more of the three friendly witness
es as Communist Party members
in the late 1940s.
Five of the witnesses woro for
mer students and three faculty
members at Reed, a privately en
dowed Portland coBege with high
scholastic repute and an enroll
ment of about 600.
Professor Silent
One of these was Lloyd J.
Reynolds, S2, professor of arts,
who invoked the Fifth Amendment
in refusing to answer questions.
He left the witness chair after
Kunzig asked. "Are you still a
professor at Reed at this minute?"
- Reynolds answered softly, "At
this minute."
Another, Leonard Marsak, his
tory instructor, conferred with his
attorney, when asked whether he
would fight for the U.S. in case
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FT. LEWIS Top ranking non-commissioned officers of Salem's National Gnard Company D, 162nd
Infantry, are shown above readying a 75-mflli meter recoilless rifle for firing on a FL Lewis,
Wash., range where the citixen soldiers are undergoing two weeks summer training with the 41st
Division, (left to right) Sergeants Donald Johnlson, William Cox and William Fleener. (Gnard
camp story and picture on page S, sec. l.
Salem State
Headquarters
For Vet Group
the conference and said
Marsak were loyal there would be
no need to confer,
Salem was selected as state
headquarters for the Department
of Oregon, Veterans of World War
I, at the group's organizational
that if I meeting Saturday night in the
Senator Hotel. The meeting was
called to form the state depart-
Troops Patrol Alabama
City, Police Hunt Killer
By REX THOMAS
PHEN1X CITY, Ala. (Heavily armed National Guard troops
patroled this jittery city Saturday night while police hunted a gun
man who killed A. L. Patterson, Alabama's anti-vice crusading
j Democratic nominee for attorney general.
j And Adj. Gen. Walter J. Hanna, in personal command of the
state militia, said that "gambling has stopped and will remain
stopped. We will keep troops
this is completely
is over in Phenix
Marsak's attorney started to ob
ject, and Marsak said, "This is
complicated legally." After a few
The Omaha office of the Army i more whispered words with the
Engineer ordered eieht rescue attorney Marsak turned and tnun-
teams. with motor boats, to the ' der?d to the committee:
town of Onawa near the Missouri
River on Iowa's western border.
Onawa is near the rampaging
I most emphatically would fight
for the United States."
I
ment.
Nearly 250 veterans and their
! wives from eight state barracks
' were on hand for the banquet
j which preceded the business ses
; sion.
here until
cleaned up.
"The show
City."
He added, however, that he has
no intention of putting Phenix City
under martial law unless the situ
ation grows worse.
City officials ordered all cafes,
bonky tonks and amusement plac
es closed at S p. m. Saturday.
About 75 National Guardsmen
New officers of the state organ-
t7atisn wra &ifiaii and inctalloH
He refused, however to answer ; . h H rf w Barn national j were brought into this once gay
stalling officer. Elected as de-
Little Sioux River which is flood-! olher questions, protesUng he had
ing at dozens of points upstream. no chance to cross-examine any
In Sioux City, about 500 persons j J":U3C' . . . TI i partment commander was Mar-
tie nau oeen uauieu uj nuiuci : ,. n , t4a rtu f
Leroy Owen. 30. Arlington Va . a I ?Ay Sfu?rS???; 2.e-r.-!'
evacuated their homes.
Flood conditions still existed over
a wide area of Northern Iowa and
four highways around Belmond,
Cherokee, Mason City and Correc
tionville were blocked by high
water.
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'Doing the Town' at Sheridan
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WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
At Salem-Wenatehe (ratnt
At Vancouver-Victoria train)
At Edmonton 3-8, Lewiston 7-S
At Tri-City 3, Yakima
At Calfary S, Spokane 12
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE '
At Sacramento 3. Portland S
At San Diego 7. Seattle 6
At Hollywood 0. San Fraitcwco i
At Oakland 8. Los Angelea 12
NATIONAL LEAGLE
At Brooklyn 6. Chicago 2
At Philadelphia. 6. Cincinnati ?
At Pittaburgh 2. Milwaukee 11
At New York 9. St. Louis 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At Baltimore 2. Wahinrtnn S
At Chicago 3. New York l
At Cleveland 2. Borton S
At Detroit 4, Philadelphia I
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Hanna said more can be moved in
on short notice if needed.
Bank Board to
Meet in Salem
PORTLAND The board of
directors of the First National
Bank cf Portland will meet in the
bank's Salem branch next Tuesday : he idled
Lumber
Strike
Spreads
PORTLAND on Several thou
sand more CIO Woodworkers went
on strike' tn the Pacific Northwest
Saturday joining the AFL Lumber
and Sawmill Workers in an indus
try - wide walkout scheduled by
Monday. .
CIO workers in the sprawling
Weyerhaeuser and Long-Bell saw
mills and at other smaller plants
in Longview, Wash., staged a mass
walkout Saturday morning. Then'
later in the day. James E. Dicey,
vice president of the union, report
ed the strike had spread to the
Central Oregon pine belt, affect
ing workers at Bend, Prineville
and Redmond.
The AFL and CIO unions, work
ing together for the first time ia
yearff; are asking a iVt cent ,
hourl? increase. In negotiations,
which have been underway for
some tin;, management has gen
erally contended the industry could
not afford additional costs and of
fered to renew the present contract
without wage increases.
Manday Deadline
Both unions some time ago set
Monday as the strike deadline. The
AFL strike would idle all affiliated
woods workers in the states of Ore
gon, Washington, California, Ida
ho, Montana and Nevada.
The CIO announced it would call
out only workers in the Douglas
fir belt of Oregon and Washing
ton. A total of 150.000 men might be
idled by the strike, Dicey esti
mated. There have been a few scattered
settlements and a number of
strikes the past few weeks. Among
recent strikes were those in North
ern California pine operations
which began earlier Wi the week.
Near Lebanon
One of the more recent settle
ments was with the Timber Tech
Corp., an AFL operation near Leb
anon, Ore. The company and the
union greed on a 7 Hent hourly
increase instead ti the 12 cents
reported earlier. W. G. Hanley.
company-vice president, said the
contract had not yet been signed,
however.
At least 17 other operations em
ploying more than 4,000 men have
reached agreements, the Lumber
men's Industrial Relations Com
mittee, an employer group has re
ported.
More Closures
However, a number of additional
closures were reported Saturday.
Glen Kepple, business agent of a '
plywood workers' Seattle local,
said the U.S. Plywood Corp.. plant
there would be struck at midnight.
It employs 550 men.
Meantime at Sweet Home, Ore.,
John Ball, business agent of the
CIO local there, said no plants un
der his local's jurisdiction would
The union some time
afternoon.
It will be the first time in the
89-year history of the bank that
the board has scheduled a session
former Reed student, as a Com
munist when the two were taking
graduate work at Cornell Univer
sity. Ithaca. N.Y.. in 1951.
(Additional Details on Page
Sec. 1)
2,
Gary Grant Injured
During Film Production
NICE. France on Cary Grant
suffered a painful torn shoulder
ligament when a pile of boxes col
lapsed on him in the Nice flower
market during the shooting of a ;
picture Saturday.
Work on the film, an Alfred j
Hitchcock movie to be called "to j
Catch a Thief." was resumed and :
Grant was able to rejoin the com- j
pany after his injuries were treated
at a hospital.
ficers are John Dillage, Eugene,
senior- vice commander; Milo
Stewart, LaGrande. junior vice
commander; Carl E. Pyeatt. Sa
lem, quartermaster ; Franr Feike,
Portland, judge advocate: R. J.
Baldwin, Salem, adjutant; and
Arthur Medinnus, Camp White,
historian.
Delegates to the state meeting
"My job here is to preserve law outside of Portland.
ago renewed the present contract
with no wage increase.
About 2.000 AFL workers in the
; area are expected to be off the
! job Monday.
and order and we intend to do
that." the adjutant general said.
"If it means closing every bonky
tonk in Phenix City, well do that."
A National Guard helicopter cir
cled above Phenix City in an ef
fort to spot any illegal mass gath
erings. (Additional details on page 2,
sec. 1.)
President C. B. Stephenson said
the meeting will give the directors
an opportunity to sef better ac
quainted with Salem area business
men.
50 DISHONEST THIEF
BEND lifl There is a thief
who is only about 50 per cent
dishonest, according to Mrs. O. R.
Reiten, a resident in the city's
will conclude their session today I SEATTLE MILL STRUCK
with a picnic at 11 a.m. in the SRATTLE on CIO pickets East side. She reported to police
Silverton City Park. In event of closed the U. S. Plywood plant j that someone cut her 25-foot
bad weather the picnic will be held here, blocking the big mill's main : garden hose in two. and made off
at the Senator Hotel in Salem. plant near midnight Saturday. ! with one of the pieces.
Sobrietv Test-Taker
Overly Enthusiastic
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo, on
A policeman .volunteered to under
go a new type of sobriety test
here.
But he had to be taken home
and put to bed instead by three fel
low officers. He was too Intoxicat
ed to blow up a balloon from which
breath samples are taken."
Four Candidates to Vie in Monday's Election
To Pick New Salem School Board Member
Today's Statesman
SHERIDAN A crowd, estimated at 15,000 witnessed the largest
parade in the history of the Pail Sheridan celebration Saturday.
The '10t floats, and marchers took more than an hour to pass re
viewing stands. Celebration closes with rodee at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Phete shows division winners in Junior Pirsde Marytimr Hand
lev f Bend (left) and Linda Ann McKlnley, Sheridan, in "Gay-0's-
garb.
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General news .... 2,3,5.8
Editorials, features ...... -- 4
Comes the Dawn 4
Sports 6.7
Crossword puzzle 7
Stargazer 8
SECTION 2
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Valley news . 5
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Classified ads 2 6-8
SECTION 3 !
Full-color comics j
Residents of the Salem School
District will vote Monday to
choose a new director to succeed
Board Chairman LeRoy Stewart
whose term "is expiring and who
is not a candidate for re-election.
Four candidates for the office
are Ray C. Cates. Albert W. Mor
ris. Donald L. Parker and Dale W.
Stuart.
There is no other issue on the
school ballot at this election. Polls
will be open from 2 to 8 p.m. at
10 places Highland, Washington,
Four Corners, Richmond, Engie
wood, Morningside, Leslie and
West Salem School; 1305 N. Winter
(replaces polls at Grant School),
and the new school administration
building 13th at Ferry (replacing
old administration building at
Marion and High).
The' four members of the school
board whose terms do not expire
are Gus Moore, Mrs, David Wright,
Harry Scott and Gardner Knapp.
Brief sketches of the four cand
idates follow:
Ray C. Cates, 41, native of Jef
ferson, Ore; graduate of. Salem
High School: until recently resid
ent of 1R60 Roosevelt in Engle
wood School area, formerly pres
ident Englewood PTA, now resid
ent Route 3. Box 965, South River
Road: three children, Ann in 9th
grade at Leslie Junior High and
twins Judy and Joyce in 4th grade
at Liberty: partner Ctirry-Kropp-Cates
Insurance Agency.
Albert W. Morris. 40. assistant
cashier of the First National Bank,
Salem Branch, graduate of Oregon
City Schools, attended Oregon
State College: with the First Na
tional Bank 19 years, In S,alem 10
years; native of Oregon City, res
ident of 1205 N. 24th St.; formerly
vice-president Of Hoover PTA; one
son, Gregory, in 5th grade at
Hoover School.
Donald L. Parker, 49, with State
of Oregon in Salem for 10 years;
assistant attorney general for
State Industrial Accident Commis
sion past 5 years: resident at 1290
N. 21st St., since 1949; native of
Hartley. Ia., graduate of Ontario.
Ore. High School; yesir at OSC
and took law degree from North
western in Portland; member
PTA: son, Michael, in 4th grade
at Englewood School.
Dale W. Stuart, 32. district man
ager of Purina Mills in Salem; na
tive of St. John, Wash., graduate
Bobo Reaches
Settlement in
Divorce Case
RENO. Nev. on Blonde Bar
bara Sears (Bobo) Rockefeller late
Saturday announced that she had j
reached a property settlement with
estranged husband Winthrop Rock
efeller but she said she could give
no details of the settlement, re
ported by friends to exceed six
million dollars. 1
The 37-year-old coal miner's
daughter also declined to discuss
divorce plans. However, her Neva
da attorney of record, E. P. Car
ville, a former Nevada governor,
said earlier that if there was a
settlement there would be a di
vorce, i
ine property agreement was
signed Saturday afternoon after
lengthy conferences between attor
neys for Winthrop, heir to Rockefe-
feller oil millions, and Bobo, how
ever, they signed the legal docu
ments separately, and he slinned e
Voting at Highland School will j out of the hotel without ever meet
be those registered in precincts i ing her face to face. i
7, 14, 26. 35, 36. 204.
Washington School: 32, 57, 60, 61,
66, 69, 70, 72, 128.
Englewood School: 1, 19, 25, 27,
28, 39, 205, 206, 207.
Richmond School: 3, 5, 6, 20, 30,
40. 201, 202.
Leslie School: 43, 18. 24. 33. 34,
41, 154. 208.
Morningside School: 45. 46. 47,
48, 51. 52, 156. 158. 164. 168.
Four Corners School: 54, 55. 58,
63. 166.
West Salem School: 3, 32, 36, 43,
44, 45 (Polk County Precincts).
1305 N. Winter (polls changed
from Grant School): 8, 9, 15, 21,
22, 37, 38, 42,
of University of Minnesota in 1950
in agriculture bio-chemistry and
business; resident at 4096 Center f
St.. since moving from Hillsboro
a year ago: two pre-school age
sons. Scott and Mark, ages two
and four; membern Auburn Par
ents' Club.
Administration
nd Ferry): 2. 4.
23. 29. 31. 203.
' Building
10. 11. 12.
13th
16, 17.1
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FORECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary field, Salem):
Mostly cloudy with occasional very
light showers this morning. Brief
periods of sunny skies this alter
noon. Partly cloud- tonight and
Monday. High today near 70 and
low toniffht near 30.
Temperature at 124)1 a.m. today,
was 81. - ,
SALKM PRECIPIT1TIOJT
Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1
This Year Last Year Normal
44.94 43.11 34.69