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Ly mm foe ir WalEtou. Set Today, EVUay Odle 225 in Salem An area-wide strike is scheduled to begin today in the Pacific Northwest's lumber industry and if carried out would idle thous ands in the three state area. An estimated 223 workers may be involved in Salem, officials of two major lumber companies here reported. The strike has been scheduled by joint memberships of a num ber of AFL and CIO lumber union workers and Salem officials held little hope Sunday night for a. settlement before the sched ULP tTHBQjDCB "la the Service f the People" Part II the address by The Statetmaa edi- Ur at the dedication of the new Marion Ceanty Coarthoose last Vw4Am Friday In the dedication of this magni ficent new Courthouse I wish at the outset to emphasize that this is preeminently the people's build ing, the seat of government for all the people of Marion County. It is not a monument to the ambi tion of public officials, nor a build ing to gratify the pride or merely to give comfort to those who work within its walls. It is erected for the. use and benefit of the people of the County. The portals are opened daily in its service. The people have provided the funds for its construction. Very properly they may take pride in it, be cause it is theirs not only as phy sical property, but in its function ing for the housing of an essential arm of government The Courthouse really is funda mental in our political organiza tion. Laws are made at the na tional and at state capitals; but it is in the County Courthouse that laws are applied. In the ordinary routine of living many persons rarely have business at a court house; but let there be a trespass on the rights of the individual and the courthouse becomes a place for legal redress or even a haven frfi,'wwi vHitnH.i p... ) (Continued on Editorial Page, 4.) Freight Cars Derail; Loss 'In Millions' FABENS, Tex. m Tons of shattered freight cars blocked Southern Pacific Railroad main line Sunday as 22 cars -piled up in a derailment doing damage un officially estimated at "up to a mil lion dollars, No one was injured in the acci dent Twenty of the cars were carry ing perishable fruit and two car ried cattle. Fabens cowmen res cued 27 cows and calves from one over-turned car. They probably would have perished in the heat otherwise. A spokesman in the Southern Pa cific yard office, who declined use of his name, said damage might run to "one million dollars" be cause the food in the cars "cer tainly can't continue to its intend ed market so the railroad will have to buy it" Tbo perishables were beading for Eastern markets. Spokesmen for the railroad said also they did not expect to clear the track sufficiently to start re building the torn rails until Mon day morning. Traffic on the tracks would not be resumed until Monday after noon. At least four passenger trains were scheduled to move along the tracks before Monday. Railroad officials said deals were made with bus lines to transport passengers from El Paso to Fa bens, a distance of 20 miles to be put aboard trains brought in from the East to handle the load. Cause of the wreck had not been determined early Sunday evening. It was theorized that one car Jumped the track at a high rate of speed, pulling others with it Iowa Flood Fatal to Youth SIOUX CITY, Iowa U Swirl ing waters claimed a life as Iowa's flood crisis moved southward to include an emergency evacuation in Des Moines following a five inch cloudburst just outside the capital city Sunday night Alfred Anderson. 18-year-old farm boy near Dows in North Cen tral Iowa, was drowned when he apparently was swept from his horse by flood waters of the Iowa River while he was trying to round up cattle stranded in the water. ANIMAL CRACKERS BV WARRIN OOOORICH "Will somebody please telt Minnie what Bridal Shower fPJif uled walkout E. A. Linden, manager of the Oregon Pulp and Paper Com pany's lumber division, estimated that 140 men there may be af fected if the scheduled strike is carried out Such a strike would effectively close the plant, he ex plained. The 140 men are af filiated with the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers union. Ap parently the company's paper di vision and sash and door opera tion would not be affected, Lin den said, but there is no certain- ir rf fViic 1 Return to Work workers employed by the com- j pany returned to work last week ! following a short work stoppage. ', U7fcotli.- tki ormin will H in. Whether this group will be in volved if the strike is carried out has not been determined. About 85 workers of the Cap itol Lumber Company will be in volved if the strike is called, company president Charles H. Strickfaden said Sunday night These include workers both in the plant and woods, he explain ed. All are affiliated with the AFL. Strickfaden expressed belief that no settlement will be made prior to a strike and added, "I expect to see picket lines in front of the company Monday morning." Meeting Called A meeting of the board of di rectors of the Oregon Pulp and Paper Company has been called tor Tuesday morning in the lum ber division headquaters, accord ing to William S. Walton, board treasurer. President Nils Teren of Portland, is expected to be present. The Associated Press reported Sunday night that thousands of lumber workers already were off the iob in Oregon. Washington and California. Today's sched- J?"" .m .f'S. Vh. l J a : 1 l... ATT T . , mlin, tnsl ditional thousands in the three sUtes plus Montana Idaho and Nevada. The unions are demanding a 12 li cent hourly pay increase. Late Sunday night Ted Prusia, business agent of the AFL local at Roseburg, reported that em ployers in 10 mills in that area had made "substantial offers" in negotiations and these plants would not be struck. Associated Press reported. Hanoi Awaits Monsoon, Also Possible Siege HANOI, Indochina Storm clouds piled over Hanoi Sunday as this sunburned war capital waited for overdue monsoon rains and a siege that may not come. Communist-led Vietminh divi sions which crushed Dien Bien Phu six weeks ago with human sea at tacks have semi-circled Hanoi for two weeks and are now at bases 40 miles to the north and west, 55 miles to the southwest, and 90 miles to the south. Vietminh supply convoys total ing hundreds of Molotov trucks and Red China-supplied artillery and anti-air batteries have pushed re lentlessly forward to the outer de fense perimeter of the Red River Delta despite almost daily French bombing, napalming and strafing. Apparently the rebels are in po-v sition to start a battle for the delta and Hanoi today, tomorrow or next week. JBut the delta is teetering on the edge of the monsoon season and there has been speculation that if the rebels do not attack before the rains ceme, they will not attack until the rains quit some time in September a view not held by Gen. Rene Cogny, commander of French Union forces in North Viet- Nam. The handsome Woot, 4-inch three-star general knows torren tial rains would have a more ad verse effect upon the French mo bile columns, tanks and artillery than upon the "human sea" in fantry attacks of the Vietminn and he credits the rebel command with enough intelligence to know it also. WILSON SEES U.S. AHEAD QUANTICO, Va. ( Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson aid Sunday he still thinks the Unit ed States has a two or three year edge on Russia in weapons tech nology, and "I don't know the gap is narrowing, exactly." WESTERN INTERNATIONAL At Slem 8-4. Wentqjie 7-1. At Trl-City 7-4. Yakima 10-15. At Calgary 1-17. Spokane 9-. At Edmonton S-S. LewUton 1-7. (Only fames scheduled.) COAST LEAGUE At Sacramento 3-4. Portland t-t. At San Diego 5-5. Seattle 4-4. At Oakland 4-. Los Angeles 2-3. At Hollywood 5-S. San Francisco 4-1 NATIONAL LEAGUE At New York 7. St. Louis . At Philadelphia 3-. CtnclnnaU 4-15. At Pittsburgh 2-4. Milwaukee 1-3. At Brooklyn S-6. Chicago 4-3. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Chicago -7, New York 1S-3. At Cleveland J-9. Boston 1-2. At Baltimore L3. Waihinfton 7-T. J04TH YEAR Guatemala Plane Crash Fatal Near La Grande LA GRANDE (Jl Louis E. Coffey was killed outright Satur day night when his crop dusting plane struck a power pole and crashed two miles north of here. Coffey, 37, was manager of the Oregon Trail Skyways at Baker. He was working for the Blue Mountain Air Service, a crop dust 'n2 firm- at the ttme of the mis- : . . The widow. Maryella. two daugh - J I lers geS 10 and 5, of Baker, and his mother, Mrs. Ernie Taylor, Lewiston, Idaho, survive. Truman Sits 4 In Chair, Rests Comfortably KANSAS CITY Ul Ex-President Harry Truman was resting comfortably Sunday night after un dergoing an emergency operation for removal of his gall bladder and appendix early Sunday. After sitting up in a chair for a while, the D uckv 70-vear-old form. er President slept peacefully for more than three hours late Sun da y. His physician, Dr. Wallace Graham, said Truman could walk a few steps Monday. The ,doctor said his condition was better than that of the average patient. 'All That Fuss Research Hospital is not air-conditioned. When attendants offered to move his bed to a room on the shady, side Sunday afternoon, Tru- Uman told them not to bother. He said he didn't want to be the cause of "all that fuss." Dr. Graham disclosed that Tru man had suffered several gall blad der attacks while in the White House and had periodic X-ray checks at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington. Truman walked into Research Hospital with Mrs. Truman and Dr. Graham Saturday night Had Flarenps Dr. Graham said Truman had had flareups of the gall bladder conditon in the past, one shortly after he entered the White House and two or three during his presi dency. These were not made pub lic he said. The physician added that none of these was very severe, just pain ful, and that Truman visited Walt er Reed Hospital in Washington se eral times for X-rays. Mrs. Truman and her sister, Mrs. George Wallace, waited anxiously just outside the surgery room dur ing the operation and remained at the hospital until dawn. Mrs. Truman returned to the hos pital at 9 a.m. after a few hours sleep. She brought a Father's Day gift for Mr. Truman for daughter Margaret, who is scheduled to make her debut in the legitimate theater Monday night at the Po- cono Playhouse at Mountain Home, Fa. Talks With Mother Miss Truman talked with her mother by telephone Sunday and was told that Mr. Truman's condi tion was excellent. She decided to go ahead as planned with Monday's pertormance. Members of the immediate famil only were permitted to visit Mr, Truman. Mrs. Wrigley, Unconscious 6 Years, Lives PASADENA, Calif. l Mrs. Ada Wrigley, widow of William Wrigley Jr., baseball and chewing gum magnate, is making medical history, her. doctors say, by keep ing alive. On Dec. 23. 1947, she suffered a stroke at her palatial residence here. In the six and a half years since then she has never regained consciousness. Almost totally pa ralyzed, she is attended' by six nyrses, two on each eight-hour shift. The Los Angeles Times Sunday quoted her Chicago physician. Dr. William G. Hibbs: "It is the medical miracle of my life and, so far as I know, is alone in the literature of medicine." Dr. J. Robert Sanford of Pasa dena, in charge since she was stricken, agreed. He said that in her state of coma Mrs. Wrigley cannot speak or swallow and must be fed through a nasal tube. Her son, Philip K. Wrigley, now ruler of his father's empire that includes the National League Chi cago Cubs and their home grounds, Wrigley Field, said: "I (Still think mother will come out of it. She is tough as a nail." A long-time friend of the fam ily, Roy C. Osgood, retired vice president and trust officer of the Chicago Bank, says he has kept her age a secret but he believes she is 83 or 84. ' Her husband died Jan. 26, 1932, is Phoenix, Artec. v POUNDDD 1651 12 PAGES jRllSsia UrgeS U.N. to Act On Guatemala By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (J) Russia Sunday vetoed an American-backed proposal to shunt Gua temala's complaint of aggression to the Organization of American 1 States and demanded that the U.N. Security Council act in the case. It was Moscow's 60th veto in the Security Council. Russia's Delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin, with Guatemala giving full agreement, stood aside and permitted the Council, meeting in a long and tumultuous Sunday session, to approve a resolution by France calling for an immediate end to :he bloodshed in Guatemalav The French proposal, passed unanimously by the 11 - member Council, also urged all U.N. mem bers to refrain from assisting any party in the fighting in Guatemala. Resolution Killed Even though the Russian action killed the resolution by Brazil and Columbia to send the matter to the inter-American organization, it was certain the matter will be I taken UP bv that inier-American organiza tion's peace commission will meet Monday in Washington at 4 p.m. for a discussion of the Guatemalan fighting. The Council was startled to hear a charge by Guatemalan Ambas sador Eduardo Castillo-Arriola that a plane which made a bombing run over Guatemala crashed at Tapa chula, Mexico, and two Americans were aboard. Mexican authorities said in Mexi co City they had no report of the incident. Government flight con trol authorities there said there had been no landing at Tapachula by a damaged plane. First Time It was the first time the Security Council has held an extraordinary Sunday session since the Korean War began four years ago. The meeting was marked by a shouted demonstration by a man in the public gallery and by a spirit ed exchange between Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., United States chief dele gate and Council president, and Tsarapkin, Tsarapkin said the Guatemalan question must be acted on by the Security Council and not be sent to the inter-American organization, which he said was dominated by the United States. Lodge replied with heat that Mos cow had designs . on the Western Hemisphere and sharply" told Tsarapkin to pass the word to Mos cow to keep out of the Western Hemisphere. Captured U. S. Airmen Put On Red Ship SAIGON, Indochina OR Auth orized French military sources said Sunday night five U.S. air men captured by Vietminh rebels six days ago near Tourane bad been herded aboard a Communist ship heading southward. Questioning of Vietnamese town and village officials revealed the Americans and their 4 -ton weap ons carrier were loaded onto the ship Monday, a few hours after their capture. These sources said the airmen, who were armed with weapons they might have borrowed, were seized by Vietminh village guards after having driven along the coast past the Marble Mountains, five miles south of Tourane. The French said the notables in terviewed were reliable and could be believed. Today's Statesman Editorials, features 4 Society, Women's news 6 Radio, TV, Comics 7 Sport news 8,9 Classified ads 10,11 Valley news 12 Star Gazer, Crossword 12 Kansas Cons Kill Guard, Hold Eight As Hostages; But Escape Try Fails LANSING, Kan. on Six long term convicts, wielding, three crudely-fashioned, home-made pis tols and several knives, killed a guard and briefly held eight terri fied prison visitors as hostages in an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the Kansas State Prison Sun day. Two convicts and one. of the near - hysterical hostages were wounded, none critically, in the gun-fire that occurred when the prisoners brazenly tried to escape through the administration build ing. William Norris. secretary to Warden Charles Edmondson, gave this account: The convicts were waiting in the The Orocon .Reds Form . Moving i " tii i nirrrmirrT-n-i r-i t i m . mi i mm mw,i J, . - ,'-' r t '"' " s ' ? - 1 " V ' ' t j i f " . . i i-. ! 1 cV )'::: i. ! " ;: lUvl ; M; I ' ti' - . . , '..; -r . - ,. i f. p , i - - ' -' . ; f; f - . , r, Sunday was moving day for most of the county's prisoners. First arrivals at the "penthouse" atop the new courthouse were installed shortly after 1 p. m. And they expressed reserved pleasure at the new, clean surroundings. One of the first prisoners stands in the doorway to his cell at left awaiting others of 25 moved from the Salem City Jail. On hand' to greet the new tenants were Sheriff Denver Young, background, and Jailer Linton Palmer. Still to be moved are three prisoners at Albany, a woman prisoner and two juveniles still at city jail. (Statesman Photo.) Dedication of New YW Building Draws Over 300 Persons Over 300 Salem citizens attended the formal dedication of the $430,000 YWCA building Sunday afternoon. Following the serv ices, at which Mrs. Carlton Greider, president of the YW board, presided, guests were taken on tours of the building. The crowd represented a large number of townspeople as well as men and women who have long been associated with the YWCA. Participating in the brief cere- mony held in. the gymnasium were John O. Merril Jr., Portland, rep resenting the architects, who pre sented the plans; Erwin E. Batter man, contractor, who presented the keys; Miss Dorathea Steusloff, chairman of the building commit tee, who presented the building; and William L. Phillips, chairman of the board of trustees, who ac cepted the building. Greetings were given Mayor A. W. Loucks, Otto J. Wilson, United Fund board president, William H. Hammond, president of Salem Chamber of Commerce, and Judge George Duncan of Marion County. VjTJae Rev. Louis White gave the invocation and tne nev. joon u. Cauble the benediction. Solos were presented by Betty Starr Ander- son a no josepnine mucri ojj Hi ding of Portland. The entire audience participated in the responsive service led by Mrs. Carlton Greider, Taking part were Diane Clough, Y-Teen; Celia Balcaen, Co-Rec; Miss Grace Rich ards, Golden Age Club; Mrs. Wil liam Crothers, board member; Miss Gertrude Achesbn. executive secretary of the YWCA; Gus Moore, executive secretary of the YMCA; and the Rey. Lloyd An derson, representing the Salem churches. i The past presidents of the YWCA were honored at a recep tion and tea following the services in the foyer and social room. prison yard outside the building. They grabbed Fred i Kenega, an unarmed guard supervisor and a veteran of 25 years on the prison force, and the visitors, including an 11-year-old boy and a two-year old girL They forced them Bt gun point towards the building and into an eight by eight foot sheltered vesti bule in the prison yafd. It adjoins the administration building. Kenega apparently tried to halt them. He was shot and killed by a .22 caliber bullet, fired! from one of the pistols, fashionedi from wood and pieces of pipe. He had been shot in the stomach. ; "The women were screaming and almost hysterical" said Nor ris. i Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, June 21, 1954 Day for County Man, Locked 8 Days in Sealed Boxcar, Alive CASA GRANDE, Ariz. UFi A 28-year-old man locxed in a sealed railroad car for eight days was found alive when the car was opened here late Sunday. He was identified by papers in his possession as Milford Alvin Fitzgerald of 4450 Fifty-First Ave., S.W., Seattle, Wash. A physician said Fitzgerald was in "poor" condition'. At first unable to talk, he began to mumble incoherently a few hours later at Pinal County Gener al Hospital in Florence. "He is too dehydrated from lack of food or drink," commented Dr. E. L. Heap, a hospital physician. Officials of the Southern Pacific Railroad said Fitzgerald apparent ly had climbed into the car loaded with lumber in Washington State. The car then was sealed. . When the train had left Tucson for Casa Grande Sunday, an uni dentified hobo told sheriffs depu ties that he had heard a man in side the sealed car. The deputies notified local officers to be ready for the train's arrival. The desperate convicts ordered gate keeper Andy Hollingsbead to open the gate which leads from the vestibule to the administration building and fired at him when he refused. Mar jorie Capehart, 19, of Topeka, Kan., whose two-year-old niece was with her during the ordeal, sobbed in the warden's office after ward: : "The man who was holding me was real nice he didn't take the child. But they kept telling us to ten the guards to let us all out" Warden Edmondson rushed to a second gate ' about 15 or 20 feet behind the vestibule gate. He tried to reason with the convicts and urged they release the hostages. He drew gunfire in return. 6r axf Prisoners Voters to Elect New Director Of School Area Salem School District voters will name a new director today during the annual school election from 2 to 8 p. m. The new director is the only issue to be decided and. four men are candidates to succeed Board Chairman LeRoy Stewart, whose term is ernirinp and whn has declined to seek re-election. ; The four are Ray C. Cates, partner in the Curry-Kropp-Cates Insurance Agency; Albert W. Morris, assistant cashier of the First National Bank, Salem Branch; Donald L. Parker, as sistant attorney general for the State Industrial Accident Com mission; and Dale W. Stuart, dis trict manager for Purina Mills in Salem. Voting will be held at 10 places, Highland, Washington, Four Corners, Richmond, Engle wood, Morningside, Leslie and West Salem Schools; 1305 N. Winter (replaces polls at Grant School) and the new School Ad ministration. Building at 13th and Ferry streets. Tot, 2, Spills Pan Of Scalding Water At Roseburg, Dies ROSEBURG UP) Loren Kim Williamson, 2, spilled a pan of scalding water at his home here Saturday night and died in a hos pital six hours later from burns. His mother was using the water, with a cloth over it, as a vapor izer to ease the breathing of the boy, who was suffering from a cold. The entire lower part of his body was scalded. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Williamson Jr. Fair, Warmer Seen For Today, Tuesday Official arrival of summer to day will be accompanied by real summer weather, according to forecasters at McNary Field. Fair and warmer is predicted for both today and Tuesday. The new season becomes offi cial at 2:55 p.m. when the sun is farthest north from the equator. This is called the summer solstice. Expected high temperatures to day is 82 with tonight's low near 50. PICKETING PLANNED QUINCY, Calif. Ufi The Quincy local of the AFL Lumber and Saw-i mill Workers Union made its plans Sunday for picketing, beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, of six mills in this area. PRICE 5c No. 86 Army Martial Law Reigns Over Nation's Area By SAM SUMMERLIN TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras OPV President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman imposed martial law throughout . Guatemala Sunday night and read- i ied a "taxicab army" to combat anti-Communist invaders of his . country. Guatemala City's streets were cleared as soon as the martial law decree was announced, a report from the capital said. Leaders of the . "liberation : army," who said their 5,000 men consisted entirely of Guatemalans, declared their three-pronged inva- r sion was well advanced toward the Pan American Highway near the Salvadorean border. But Associated Press Cor spondent Jack Rutledge in Guate mala said the . government had ordered all private automobiles ; commandeered, and had put -' guards over all gasoline stations i to prevent sales to private owners. He said the cars 1 were being mobilized to move troops, and that ! a decisive phase in the battle for ; Guatemala might be reached in ' 48 hours. He quoted Guatemalan army of ficers as saying no field action had been fought in the three-day old revolution against the red-backed regime, but that action could not be delayed much longer President Arbenz was reported to be in personal charge of defense strategy, and it was speculated that he might have in mind an emulation of the famous "taxicab army" which France rushed up to the Marne in World War I to turn back the Germans from Paris. The U.S. Embassy in Guatemala also was reported concerned by a f rising "anti-American" campaign ; in the capital. It was reported making plans to evacuate the 1.200 ; Americans in Guatemala. The embassy described the situation as 1 "very, very serious." A spokesman at the "liberation ' army" headquarters here of Col. Carlos Castillo Armas, leader of the Guatemalan resistance move ment, said the invaders were mov ing toward Jutiapa, a town of 5,000 . some 45 miles south of Guatemala City and 20 miles north of the El j Salvador border. The rebels also were pointed to ward Asuncion Mita, a town of ; 3,000, 13 miles northeast of Jutiapa. . The spokesman said rebel planes .. were dropping arms in Western' 1 Guatemala where uprisings : against the government have been , reported. He said small-scale up risings had occurred at Tutonica- ' pan, which has a population of 9,500; Retalhuleu, 7,500; and Hue huetenango, 6,000, which is farther north and close to the Mexican -border. (Additional details page w0-' Missing Boat Docks Safely WESTPORT on A 31-foot pleas ure boat missing offshore since lata Saturday with five men aboard turned up here safely Sunday dur ing the height of a Coast Guard search. Leonard Johnson, Montesano, owner of the vessel, said the fuel pump failed about 5:30 p.m. Satur day and the men worked all night to repair it while anchored about half a mile out some 10 miles above -the north jetty of Grays Harbor. Mist and fog cut visibility and prevented searchers on shore from spotting the anchored cruis er. Johnson and four fishermen, in cluding Bob and Jim Zenk of Se attle and two unidentified friends, put out from Westport early Sat urday. As they returned Sunday the Coast Guard had a cutter from Astoria, Ore., a plane from Port Angeles, a lifeboat and shore part ies all engaged in -the search. Toddler Dies in Salmon Creek VANCOUVER. Wash. (jB Becky Ann Ramey, 1 Vt, toddled away from a family picnic at Salmon Creek near here Sunday and drowned. The child, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Ramey of Vancouver, disappeared while the family was preparing the picnic lunch. Ramey found the body a short time later, 150 feet downstream in a five-foot pool. lSf!)6 gGfflfundol' Max. Mln. Preeip. 74 .M 7S 61 .00 Salem , Portland Chicaco .90 13 T Willamette River: 1.0 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary tlttd. Salem): Fair and warm today, tonlrht and Tuesday. Hifh today near S3 and low tonight near SO. Temperature at 13:01 ajn. today was 52. ' SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start af Weather Year Sept. 1 Thl Tear Last Year JarmaJ 4AM 4X11 38.71 i
