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' . -M r -' ' : ' ! i" . -7. ' i' i ' - r : - r.- :" -. :--. ' I It1 1 :rf own: Plane- Off: Soviets If I U.S. 104TH YEAR 12 Near Today at the Fair MONDAY, SEPT. C 7 jn Gates Opea . i -; , 1' i 9 a.m Judging: Open! classes Dairy cattle Guernsey, Hoi stein. Brown Swiss, Beef cattle Heref ords; sheep and goats Cor riedalet, Romneys, Southdowns, Donets; swine All barrow class es. 4H: Cake baking; dollar din. ner, c k e r y demonstration, bread biking, dairy; demonstra tion, i i j j l:15.pja. Horse radng, grandstand '. i j 1:30 pjn. 4-H: Judging Hoi. steins and Holstein Showmanship 2:30 pjn. Qrcns, Stadium i Z p jil Ted Mack I Amateur Talent Quest, Midway I 4:3b pjn Mower I arranging demonstration. Garden , S pjn. Free band concert, Lawn .; . 7 pjn. Boy Gordon's Free Fun, Midway , ; S pjiL Uelene Eoghes Stage Seme, Grandstand i j J i 8 pjiu Circus, Stadium 12 midnight Gates close. 1 On the heels of n; article) in Fortune Magazine oa the Ford Motor Company, which now ranks next to General Motors as a pro ducer of motor vehicles, specula tion has arisen over; the possible sale of stock in the Ford company to the public. At present the bulk of the Class A (non-voting) stock is owned by the Ford Foundation which was act up in 1936 by Henry and Edsd Ford. The Class B, vot ing, stock is owned by the Ford family, so it retains control of the corporation. . ! t . ,; The rumor is that the Ford Foundation would like to diversify its investment To! do that; it would put on the market part or all of the 3,000,000 shares of Class A stock which it owns. But) to obtain listing on the New York Stock Exchange where, it would have the widest market,' the stock would have V be given a voting privilege. At least present rules of the exchange do not permit list ing such non-voting stock. The Ford family, however, is doubtless reluctant to see the chance that control of the company would pass Into other bands. Certainly the voumrer feneration,! Henry and William, have demonstrated excel lent capacity in company manage ment. " ! -! ; Ford Motor Co. wa$ fo-mded in 1903 bj Henry Ford end a few others who were willing to back him in bis efforts to produce a good, cheap car. Later when the company "met with success Ford bought out bis associates. He was an odd genius, but he set the pace for efficient, assembly line produc tion of motor cars and really made (Continued on editorial page, 4.1 China to Pull 7 Divisions Out of Korea TOKYO OB Peiping radio said Sunday . night seven -Bed Chinese divisions will be withdrawn from North Korea during the next two months. v - Advance announcement of the purported Red troop movement was unusual. Such redeployments usually are kept secret .i V It possibly was intended as prop aganda aimed at countering; the imminent withdrawal f four Unit ed States divisions from Korea and Japan. ;? By coincidence, the aggregate strength of seven Chinese Red di visions would just about equal that of four U.S. infantry divisions! Chinese divisions, during the Ko rean War, totaled around 6,000 to 8,000 men. U.S. divisions, if any where near normal strength would have somewhat more than twice as many men. ; Animal Crackers ' V WARREN 0OOORICM ' :$or Dry??? OtP TFQJfjlDCg . . ; ' I ' PAGES til r By LTLLTE L. MADSEV Farm Editor, The Statesman Crowds continued to make news Sunday at the 89th annual Oregon State Fair as they started climb ing in numbers early in the day to make substantial leads on the 1953 State Fair Sunday attendance and threaten the all-time ! record attendance at Oregon fairs.' : By 4 p. m. total attendance had advanced to 61,845 , as Compared to 42,520 at the same hour a year ago. Officials' and press i; room folk at once got I busy looking up the all-time record and found that in 1946 the total Labor Day at tendance was listed at 89,66$. This was before the i Saturday ! open ings, when Labor Day was -the big day and there was no fair on Sunday. - ' : -in Eclipses Old Mark ' I Until Sunday,, 1954, the highest gross Sunday was in 1952 when 69,782 folk passed through : the gates of Oregon's Greatest Show. Total attendance Sunday ( added up to 85,675 with the circus at 7280 and the night revue 5049. The Oregon State Fair going-public has never been so happy as they are showing this year. Quality right along with crowds is making this a top fair. . j ' It certainly is no "pumpkin fair, Dr. Earl B. Stewart, chair man of the fair commission, told press folk Sunday afternoon. "You know we advertised far and wide that we were offering special prizes r for the ' 'biggest pumpkin.' We wanted this to be a real farm fair. What did we get? No pumpkins, Dr. StewarJ said. Canby Man Wins .-- - j ; !. He was right There are no pumpkins in the Land Products show, but it is one of the best Land Products show the; state fair has had since the days j when the fair was held in early October and all grains and fruit were har vested. '. : '' -i,v e : Larry Faist of Canby1 took the sweepstakes in the vegetable, di vision, having five firsts. In the fruit section, A. J. Marble of Hood River topped with the lbertbox of - fruit Red Haven peaches. The -bees, which are held par tially responsible for big and good fruit crops, are an important part of the Land Products Show, and in this .section J. Oran Kane of Banks was the sweepstakes wu ner.' V i Shows Draw Well While the exhibits from the live stock to the (fancy worlt drew crowds, it was the entertainment Sunday afternoon that really rated. Several thousand people watched the colorful International, Folk Dance 'on the lawn, set to lively music Several more I thousand also watched the Ted Mack Ama teur Talent Quest show through which the second finalist was se lected. It was Jack Carlina a 17-year-old youth from Grants Pass who played his way to top place on an accordion, choosing!; "Lady of Spain" as his medium, j I It is expected that Monday may draw even a larger group! to the Amateur hour, as it is then that Miss Barbara Smith, Salem high school junior, will play a piano number on the same I program. Miss Smith has lived : at ! Salem for 1J years, and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin: ibmith, 582 S. 20th. Dress Liked , Renorts comin? out of the cir cus, by the spectators, iwere that "it's great" and that "if you like a circus, this has everything.' Just as glowing reports are heard late at night as the crowds attend in the Helene Hughes night revue report that "it's the best show that's been here." The night show was a sell-out by noon Sunday. . I In the meantime, judging of ex hibits has been going merrily on, with announcement comine Sun day .afternoon that ,the Gervais Future Farmer chapter took top honors in the first day of Future Farmer judging.! The I chapter's farm shop exhibit topped a field rf ten entries to win the $100 cash prize offered by the Oregon Bank ers; Association. Amity placed second, ' followed by Hillsboro, Perrydalei and McMinnville. win ning prizes of $80, $60, $30 and $40, respectively. (Additional de tails pages 5, 12). ; j I WESTERN INTERNATIONAL ; At Trt-Clty 3. saiem in i i At WenatchM 4. Yfam B ' At Edmonton S-3. Lcwittoa: 5-4 COAST LEAGUE 1 ! ! At PortUnd 3-z. statue ' ,At Hollywood 1-1. Lo Anjrele 7-4 At San Diego 12-3. Sacramento 3-J At San Francisco 4-3, Oakland 1-1 AMERICAN LEAGUE if 1 At Chicago 2. Cleveland I ' At Washinrton S. New York 4 At PhiUdelphia 5-3. Bosto a t f At Detroit 3. Baltimore 4 i NATIONAL LEAGUE ' ! ' I At New York 4. Brooklyn T At Cincinnati S-7. Milwaukee - At St. Louis 6, Chicaco 3 . At FitUbursh 5. Philadelphia U ' Record aYll II la.- rails uespne 'No Pumpkins' PCUND3D 1651 Thm Orcjon Statesman, Salem, 85,675 Flock to Work in Full Swing to Lihk Higliicay With Neiv Expressway i Vv-JV rf.v. " -- --- - - - - - - - " - '-,' I V a s " : Pile drivers, trucks, earth movers present a busy scene these days i near HayesviBe en the Pacific Highway just north; ef Salem, I where State Highway Department contract work Is is full swing I Chinese Shell Quemoy Again; By SPENCER MOOSA TAIPEH, Formosa fl Chinese Communists were reported Mon daj to have shelled for the third successive day Quemoy Island, where two VS. officers were killed Friday. 1 - " ' - : -' - There was no confirmation of the reports, which came even as top I TAIPEH, Formosa (JF) Three1 unidentified aircraft flew ever the suburbs of this Nationalist Chinese capital ; early Monday, causing an island-wide blackout. i Three brief, but loud bursts of antiaircraft fire were heard. i Air defense headquarters did not divulge t h e number of planes involved. : The i blackout, imposed by turning off master switches, lasted from 1:20 a.m. until 4:15 U. and Nationalist Chinese offi cers conferred on the Red attacks. Other unverified reports said Na tionalist jAir Force planes had at tacked Red-held islands and main land, points from which . Quemoy had been shelled. ; : The English . language China News reported: ' "Daredevil Chinese (Nationalist) planes showered bombs and rock ets all day Saturday on Commu nist shore batteries. Military au thorities did not confirm the in formation, but it was learned that low-flying Thunderbolts . . . merci lessly pounded Communist gun- posts ringing Quemoy. Red posi tions on 'small islands received es pecially; heavy bombardment " Peiping Radio said Saturday Na tionalist fighter planes had bombed Arnoy, near Quemoy Island on he China coast It said one plane was shot down, another damaged. More Clouds Due in Valley i . - - : The expected large Labor Day crowds : at the State Fair today wont be inconvenienced by rain, says the weatherman. . But the forecast by the Weath er Bureau calls for increasing cloudiness and occasional, .light rain Tuesday. Predictions are for little change in temperatures. High reading Sunday was 73. Trio Flees Girls' School, 2 Caught Three gins made their escape from Hillcrest School Sunday afternoon and city police picked up two of them several hours later on a downtown Salem street Apprehended were two 15-year-olds. Still' sought late Sunday night was the third escapee, a 13-year-old. KILLED NEAK BORDER JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector Ifl -A& Israeli army spokesman re ported Sunday1 a tractor driver and three shepherds were killed in two new incidents on the Isxaeli-EgjTK ban border. Busy Oregon. Monday. September Holiday j Deaths Rise, Oregon By THE ! ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic deaths surged upward Council said the sudden upswing was "especially alarming.1 ! The council, which earlier had expressed optimisim that the traffic toll for the 78-hour holiday might be less than its estimate of Boys'Sclibol Pair Escape! tured , ; Two; 14-year-old boys escaped Sunday night ; from j HacLaren Boys School near here, but their freedom was brief as state .police apprehended them a; short time later near Brooks. ; j ; , Flight of the two brought to nine the number of escapes from the institution in the past six days. Seven ' escaped from the school Tuesday evening I after forcing a supervisor to yield keys at knife point ; The seven later were captured and all served with district court warrants charging assault dangerous weapon. i With a EDUCATOR SUCCUMBS t ORINDA, Calif. (P) ! Dr. Dav id Prescott Barrows,! 81, former educator in the Philippines, re lief administrator in Belgium and president of the University of California, died of a heart; attack Sunday, Max.; Mia. Precip. .M .00 .00 410 JM M M DO Salem ! Portland -71 j 50 Baker I -69 35 40 49 41 45 70 68 Medford . North Bend .S3 70 78 -71 97 -S9 Roseburf San Francisco . Chicago New York Trace Los AnEele . 78 59 .00 Willamette River 2.1 feet ! FORECAST (from Ui S. weather bureau, McNary field, Salem): Increasing cloudiness today, becom Ing mostly cloudy tonight and Tues dar; occasional light rain Tuesday: little change in temperature; high est today near 73, low tonight near 46. f ; .-. Temperature at - 12:01 ajn today waa 47. SALE PRECIPITATION ' Since SUrt of Weather Tear ! Sept X This Tear Last Tear jNermal Trace , M ; I 20 Air Attack ATSUIGI, Japan v ! Ensign John Henry Reid tried to pass a life raft out ofa sinking Neptune patrol plane 40 miles off Sbjeria Saturday. ' - He shouted "Get put chief, get out; to Chief Petty Officer Paul Roger Mulhollem, also of Alameda. ' Nine survivors of the plane, shot down by two Russian-made MIG 15 fighters, told that dramatic story Monday. Reid was the" only one not picked up by rescue planes. "Reid "was at his duty j station when we crashed, Mulhollem said. We were trying to get out a sec ond big life raft From first to last the plane floated only 30 sec onds I after hitting. T- j; : i "The water came rushing! in and finally Reid yelled, 'Get out chief. get out' I made it free and Ithat'f Recap 6.-1334 on the big traffic Interchange (above) which will link the present Pacific Highway with the new expressway to Portland and the new bypass east ef Salem. (Statesman Photo.) i " I I - Toll I at Three Sunday and the National Safety 3S0 killed, said the upswing indi cated four prediction will be aw fully, jawfully close," ; I Fifty-four hours after the week end began at 6 pxa. Friday deaths on the nation's highways had risen to 223. There were 45 deaths by drowning and 44 in miscellaneous mishaps for a total of 314 deaths by violent means. -, v ! "The upswing in traffic deaths is especially alarming because this is the day in the middle of the holi day when the toys usually remain relatively low," said Ned H. Dear born,'! president the National Safety Council.. Oregon's death toll for the lone Labor Day holiday stood at three Sunday night Jay Oliver, about '50, of Keat ing, Ore., was the latest victim. He suffered fatal head injuries Sunday when his automobile ran off a road 23 miles northeast of Baker. He had been grouse hunting- ' . '; .Earlier traffic victims were Rudy Santos, 25, a farm 'worker, kuled hi a two-truck smashup near Hermiston, and J a c k Robert James, 14, who was fatally in jured at The Dalles when his bi cycle ran into an automobile.. i. Airborne Pop Bottle 'Born bs. Fair Goer ' i - ' - , A Visit to the State Fair Droved unfortunate Sunday for a Port land woman when she was knock ed unconscious by a pop bottle dropped from the mezzanine of the Agricultural Building. ; After treatment by . first aid men. Mrs. Gertrude Robinson was removed to Salem General Hos- pltaL where eight stitches were taken in a bead laceration, ine was later released. v . V THRILL RIOTS BROKEN STOCKHOLM,; Sweden UR-Forty-ninet persons were arrested and four j were hospitalized with sabre cuts! as mounted police struck early Sunday to quell another out burst of thrill riots in the heart of Stockholm. Victim Trapped Trying ' to Get fthe last we saw of him. He must have gone down with the ship." . The crew said two MIG fighters made three firing passes at them and shot them down a full 40 miles from the Siberian coast southeast of Vladivostok ; ;. ; - Cmdr. John Booth Wayne. Ala meda, said the Neptune was on a routine patrol mission from Atsugi Saturday and was not even taking photographs. He said the plane's machineguns were not charged when the MIGs started firing. . The Neptune was 40 miles from Cape Ostrovnoi over open sea, miles outside any territorial limit recognized or claimed. "The sun was low in the west" Wayne said. "It was 6:15 pjn. Sud denly Aviation Machinists Mate William A. Bedard (of Worchest er. Miss.) shouted ever the inter PRICE 5e I ' No. 162 - ? , 1 -v JJ CV' ' i I 28 Succumb In Shannon River! Crash SHANNON AIRPORT, Ireland tf) A New York-bound KLM Royal lJutch Airlines . Super-Constella tion plowed into a sticky Shannon River mudbank ; early Sunday and death claimed 23 persons exactly half the 56 aboard. I Eleven who perished were Amer icans; three i others j were foreign residents of the United States. The giant plane skipped across the surface of the wide, muddy river mouth I at low tide with its four engines roaring and settled in to the mudbank shortly after its pre-dawn takeoff from- Shannon airport . j - 1 1 i Gas Leaks in Cabin . i Gasoline. leaked into the cabin and gagged many of the victims. Some apparently drowned as the tide came in. One or two others were feared buried 'alive as they struggled in the dark across the treacherous, mile-wide mudbank toward safety. The bodies: of 25 persons trapped inside were recovered from neck deep water.) Rescuers said most of them were found submerged, still trapped in their safety belts. The two missing bodies were be lieved to be outside the plane, eith er mired in the mud or sunk in the storied Shannon. ' Fifteen . Americans 4 Among the 28 survivors were 15 Americans. Three of the plane's Dutch crew of 10, including a stewardess, died in this second crash of a KLM airliner within two weeks, i . V - - -I The American casualties includ ed Miss Elaine Cooper, about 25, a native of Portland, Ore., who headed the commercial department at Basskk High School in Bridge port, Conn. I ! i ' Today's; Statesman General News .. .. 2, A, 5, 10, 12 Camera at the Fair 3 Editorials! Features ..........4 Society, Women's News.. 6 Stargazerj' , .. ......6 Comics. Inside TV 7 Radio-TV I . ...7 Sports. News 3-9 Valley News .L.i.i........-8 Classifieds' ..10-11 Crossword ' Puzzle ...12 com from bis station in the after observation; dome, We've got com pany!" - j ' v - : 1 "It was two MIGs coming up below and behind. 1 it; We had : had company some times before, but never shooting 1 Bedard said the first MIG fired tracers into the starboard wing arid Wayne took violent evasive action as the second MIG roared in its 20mm fcannon firing. When the first MIG came back for its second pass, Ordnanceman Ernest Louis Pinkevich of Alameda managed to unlimber and charge the Neptune's 50 caliber machine gun. v - ' ' . - "I fired about 150 rounds, Pin kevich said. "It was mostly in nope of scaring them off because it was a bad position for aiming. But they didn't scare. i lilberian iCosLst - , I WASHINGTON JP) Ten Americans in a UJ5. Navy patrol plane were shot down off Red Siberia Saturday in what the United States Sunday night denounced as a "wanton and unprovoked attack" by two Soviet planes. ' ' j' The State Department said the attack; occurred "without warn ing' over the international high seas. The Russians said the Navy plane had violated their frontier. ? Nine of the crew members were saved, after a night bobbing around in life jackets, but the tenth was feared lost He was Ens. Roger Henry. Reid of Ala meda, Calif., who apparently was trapped in the navigator's com partment and sank with the plane. The State Department rejected a Soviet protest that (1) the Amer ican patrol plane had violated Russian "air space and (2) that the Americans bad opened fire first on two Red fighters. HIGs Blade Attack The attacking planes apparently were MIG15 type jets, one of which scored hit on the two-en gine propeller-driven P2V Neptune. The slower Navy plane was forced down in the Sea of Japan with its wing afire. Asst Secretary of Defense Fred A Seaton announced the attack. These developments followed in rapid order: , Hake Formal Protest 1. Russia handed a formal pro test to the American Embassy in Moscow claiming an American mil itary plane had opened fire on two Soviet fighters ; when they ap proached for; the purpose of "pro posing that it should leave im mediately the air space of the So viet Union. . 2. Sen. Knowland of California, the Senate Republican leader, called for breaking off diplomatic relations with Russia. In a tele gram to President Eisenhower at Denver. Knowland said the attack was another example of Soviet ar rogance and aggressiveness. Two Notes to Moscow ; y 3. The State Department sent two notes to Moscow protesting the attack and rejecting both Soviet contentions. , Tv;. The American notes 'said "at -no time did the U. S. Navy aircraft open fire on the Soviet aircraft! and this attack took place over the international high seas approx imately 100 miles east of Vladi vostok and 44 miles from the Si berian coast "The U. S. government protests this wanton and unprovoked at tack on a U. S. Navy aircraft en gaged on a peaceful mission over the high seas, one American note said. Bequest Punishment The U. S. government requests that measures be taken to sub ject those responsible to immedi ate and appropriate punishment The U. S. government reserves all rights to claim damages for loss of property and lives and for other circumstances resulting from this illegal attack by Soviet aircraft" Prior to release of the notes, a State Department spokesman had denounced the attack, which oc curred: at 5:18 a. m. (EST) Satur day, as a "dastardly act" Coffee Pinch About Over, Reports Say J WASHINGTON l The Agri culture Department said Sunday the production-consumption pinch which has been blamed for -sharp price increases in coffee is about over.' : . j . It said that beginning in mid' 1955 there should be more coffee produced worldwide than is con sumed. Just how much that will amount to will depend on the ex tent to which Brazil recovers from last year's frost damage and on bow , much more coffee drinkers will use. ! ! The department made this fore cast in its official publication "For eign Crops and Markets" as it estimated world coffee production for the 1954-55 marketing year. It refrained 4 from making any predictions as to whether prices would drop as a result of this ex pected easing in the previously tight production situation. Recent ly, however, a number of major retail firms have cut coffee prices as much as 10 cents apound. : Closed for Holiday The Statesmaa-Journal Busi ness Office will be closed this afternoon U mark Labor Day. . Wayne took the lumbering Nep tune down to 400 feet above the calm sea in the hope of evading the zooming MIGs. But the plane couldn't maintain altitude with its burning wing. It pancaked into a crash landing and the MIGs dis appeared into the setting sun. : The impact of the crash broke off the tail and popped open, the plexiglass nose. "11 , was a miracle anyone got out," ' Wayne said. -; The' crew,lhowever, managed to get out one seven-man , Iiferaft Reid i apparently died trying lor the' second. j. Asked how many rounds the at tackers fired Bedard answered in Japanese "Takusan - "Many -many!" - 1 It was the second time Bedard Jet Flier Killed in ' -i t : Pace Try DAY?0n Ohio UB An Air Force pilot who established a new world speed x mark only last Fri day, was killed ' Sunday when his jet fighter crashed during anoth er assault on the record at the Na tional Aircraft Show here. Maj.i John L. Armstrong, 32, of nearby Fairborn, died when his low-flying F96H Sabre jet crashed in a field 10 miles from Cox Mu nicipal Airport at nearby Vandalia. where a holiday crowd of 101,237 was awaiting Armstrong's flight in the Generl Electric Trophy .event. Cause Undetermined Cause of the crash was not de termined.! Parts of the plane were scattered! over a two-mile area. About an hour before the crash, : the Air I Force had announced ' Armstrong lad broken the record last Friday for the 500-kilometer (310 miles) closed Course, at 649.302 m.p.h. t That was 42 m.p.h. faster than ' the record for the distance estab lished last May by Capt Anders westeriound of the Swedish air force at 607.1 m.p.h. Preparing for Event He was to have made another try to beat his own record Sun day, when he crashed, he was pre paring for the G. E. trophy event five laps around a 100-kilometer (61 miles) course. Despite his death, his record will stand; as the trophy winner. He was the only entrant Flames Gut Atlantic Gty Resort Shops I ATLANTIC CITY, XJ. W A lightning-fast general alarm fire, clearly visible to tens of thous ands of Labor Day visitors, dam aged 11 shops on the famed board walk and the facade of Steeple chase Pier -Sunday. .u i The flames, "fanned by stiff breez es off the Atlantic Ocean, gutted the fronts of seven shops on one side of 3 the ' boardwalk, leaped across the wide wooden promen ade and damaged four more on the pieri ' . - , Damage was estimated at $200,- 000 to the store and $25,000 to. the boardwalk. The blaze started shortly before A p.ra., apparently under the boardwalk, and was re ported extinguished within an hour after a battle by a small army of of firemen from here and ne? by Ocean Gty. Girl Toreador Gored by Bull DEL RIO, Tex. Vh Patricia McCormklO 24, the girl bullfight er from Big Spring, Tex., was seri ously gored Sunday in the bull ring in Ciudad Acuna, just across the Rio Grande from here. She was in surgery at the Del Rio Hospital Sunday night. -Doctors were not certain of the ex tent of her injuries but said she i? considered in serious condition. Joe Blair, Jier manager, said she was fighting her second bull of the afternoon when she was gored in the groin. She was fighting at the La Macarana Arena in Ciudad Acuna in old Mexico. Blair: said the girl had fought the first bull very weli and ; was doing a good job when she made a mistake sidestepping and the horn caught ! her1 body. He said Miss McCormick, who has fought about 23 or '29 bolls, .was fighting her best fight yet .when she was gored. has been shot down. The first; was by the Japanese naval air force is the Marcus Islands in 1944. f Asked if it was old stuff and was : he getting used - to it he quipped: "It's old stuff, but you don't get used to it" t After the plane plunged below the surface, the men swam about . . .it m i a: -1 iL.i picxing up an uoauax articles uai might help them, and then clambered into the overloaded raft Navy Capt Jack Irving Bandy, Veberna Park, Md., commander of the Neptune's unit Fleet Air Wing 6 at Atsugi. said the men lay Jow the' first ffew hours because of "heavy Communist flying activity in the area" after the shooting. s The 'men were reluctant to dis cuss this, and apparently had been briefed not to jo further into the subject, Out Lite Raft X i.. j 5 i :