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V: amp - i i h u VV ly vv POUNDQD 1651 104TH YEAR 2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, Normbr 24.' 1954 PRICE 5e No. 242." i S Sign at Bypass .to Point Out Salem Changes in road signs on the Salem bypass highwar "to let the traveler know, where the" Sa lem business district is" were authorized Tuesday by State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock. The signs, to go up immediate ly, will be those at the junction Weisvield Salem Store Soon . " (Picture on page 10, sec Z) - : A Weisfield's Inc., jewelry store part of a well-known west coast chain will be established in Salem early next January, it was learned Tuesday. ' ' President Leo Weisfield told The Statesman from bis headquar ters in Seattle, Wash-, that the store would be located on the north west corner of N. Liberty and Chemeketa streets in downtown Salem. It looks very much as though events themselves had reversed the findings of the Federal Pow er Commission on the' supplying of natural gas to the Pacific Northwest The FPC after months and months , of hearings awarded the "golden apple" of a permit to serve this area to the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Co., a com pany sponsored by Texans, which proposed to secure its supply ot natural gas in the San Juan basin in Southeast Utah. Rejected was the application of West Coast Transmission Co. which was plan ning to tap the gas reserves of the Peace River country in North ern British Columbia. Now ac cording to report irom Vancou ver, B. C. the executives of the two companies who spent many thousands of dollars fighting each other for the franchise are affect ing an amalgamation in which both pipelines will be built with gas flowing from both regions In to the Pacific Northwest. i . x. il.:. w Accoruing iu tuts rcpuri rt cm Coast will build a line from Ft St John in the Peace River coun try to the coast and thence 'south to California. It would supply gas to all of British Columbia, to wes tern Washington and Oregon with the surplus going to the Califor nia market Pacific Northwest would build a line to meet the other at the California border. Companies in addition to the two mentioned (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Patterson Pays Off Bet, Gives Langhe Two Turkeys " OLYMPIA. Wash. tf! Gov Langlie got the bird Tuesday. In fact, he got itwo of. them both huge turkeys. : ' V. -' The gobblers were payoffs-from Gov. Paul Patterson of Oregon in a two - point wager over 1954 for est fire losses in the two states. Last June Gov. Patterson bet Gov. Langlie that Oregon would have fewer man caused forest fires than- Washington. ; Washington's chief executive ac cepted the wager and proposed one of bis own that Washington would have fewer acres of state - protected land burned than Ore gon. La Grande Unit Threatens to Quit State Young GOP LA GRANDE i - The Young Koruii-mran i.itin a i r.awpm Oregon College, miffed because it received no invitation to the recent state meeting at Medford, threat ened Tuesday to withdraw from the state federation. i . . Arthur Hart graves, dub "chair man. said the group would continue to support senior members of the Republican Party. The club recently began a drive to sign up 200 members, is reputed to be the third largest m the state. ANIMAL CRACKERS V WAKREN OOOOMICM 'Oh boy! Wefflesr Bus iness of the bypass with Highway 99E south of Salem. The north Salem junction will be considered as soon as the traffic "cloverleaf there is completed, Baldock said. As he approaches Salem from the south the traveler will see two signs at the junction. The 's Plans The biulding' is the Nelson Building on its lower floor for merly occupied by Capital Auto Parts. It is across the street from the new Lipman Wolfe, firm, which also recently joined the growing Salem business family. "We plan to establish our store in Salem just after the first of the year," said Richard Weisfield, vice president of the firm which now has stores in 14 large cities in Oregon and Washington. "We haye wanted to come to Salem for a long time," he said. "It is one of the most progres sive cities in the state. Our stores are already in Portland ( where it was formerly Weisfield & Gold berg) and in Eugene. In Wash ington stores are located in Seat tle, Tacoma and Spokane. In addition to jewelry the new store will handle electrical appli ances, houseware, dishes, dinner- ware and "similar lines." The Weisfields said the Salem site would be "extensively reno vated" lor their new store. . The two-story building also con- tains' other tenants. Adolph Nel son, owner, is on a trip to Cali fornia and was not available for comment Tuesday. Two School Districts Vote To Consolidate Statesman: Newt Service SILVERTON Voters in the Silverton and Evans Valley school districts have voted - to form a consolidated district Su perintendent of Schools Howard Baldertone announced Tuesday. In the election, held Monday in both districts, Silverton voters approved the consolidation by 92-31 margin and Evans Valley residents by a majority of 66 to 50. i Baldertone said the merger will take effect at the beginning of the next fiscal year, July 1955. Evans Valley students in the fifth, sixth, . seventh and eighth grades now attend Silver- ton schools on a tuition basis. Firemen Rescue Portland Woman From Apartment PORTLAND Of) A 37-year-old woman crawled out of her apart ment window here to escape a fire but found no place to go from there. . . So she gripped the window ledge and hung here, hoping someone would notice her plight- . Rescue came several minutes later, after a passerby saw the fire and called firemen. They put up a ladder and rescued Martha Peterson. The damage t o her apartment, amounted t o $1,000, A careless smoker was blamed. GirlIimed,BrutaUyMauleain Washington Gty; Boy Quizzed MOUNT VERNON, Wash. A cold chill ef fear and horror gripped this town Tuesday ? night as law enforcement officers sought the person who shot, then brutally mauled 'a 13 - year - old girl in the ' kitchen of her home Monday night ; ! The girl Sylvia Johnson,- died outright from a bullet which en tered her left ear as she . was spreading peanut butter on a sand wich about 8:45 p. m. ' Her assailant apparently : fired the shot from outside the kitchen, through a window which was brok en. Then be entered the borne and dragged the, girl's body across the kitchen floor to the enclosed back porch. . ;: Her clothes: had been entirely ripped. off with the exception of a flannel shirt- Her underclothes, violently ripped and topped by her overalls were found in a pQe near the body. An autopsy report indi cated she had not been sexually assaulted. , J . - One person a 15 - year - old neighbor boy has beca picked District left hand sign (pointing toward Salem) will read, "Portland via Salem Business District" and will contain the 99E shield. The right-hand sign (pointing down the bypass) will read.' Portland via By-Pass," and will also contain1 the 99 E shield. "This arrangement," said Bal dock, "will let the traveler know that no matter which road he takes he can come back on the highway and not lose his. way to Portland and points north. And it will inform the traveler as to the whereabouts of the Salem business district" Since the bypass was opened recently motel, service station. hotel and eating place operators have been complaining they've lost business because of diverted traffic They attached part of this blame to inadequate signs at the bypass junction. The signs, tney said, did not inform the traveler where the Salem busi ness area was. - Committee to Devise Jobless Pay Changes An overall study of Oregon's unemployment laws, one of the controversial issues of every leg islature, was launched in Salem Tuesday afternoon at a meeting of a new committee appointed by Gov. Paul L. Patterson upon recommendation of President Eis enhower. The committee expects to file its report as soon as possible af ter t the 1955 Legislature meets here in January.- - The President, in a letter to the Governor, said be had recom mended a re-evaluation of the unemployment laws in every state with a view of increasing benefits. As a former member of the Legislature I feel there is a bet ter way to approach this sort o! legislation man nas been prac ticed in the past," Gov. Patterson averred. : 4Urvi mere nave oeen too many compromises and in some cases bills handed to the Legislature nave not received the consider? tion they deserved." Important among the projects involved in the study, Gov. Pat terson said, are increased bene fits, obtaining more funds, addi tional coverage, seasonality, dis qualification features and pro tection of both the employers and the workers. Gov. Patterson said the unem ployment fund already this year has paid ' out $13,000,000 more than it has received. It was in dicated that contribution rates would enter prominently into the committee's study. Action on what brakes shall be used to protect the unemploy ment fund was mentioned during the discussion. The governor made it plain that the report of the committee would be only informative and advisory. Committee members agreed that the study has many ramifica- tions and any report, filed early Uval services, with offerings go in January probably would be re- hng to the program, will be held stricted largely to basic material, Additional details on page 9, section L) STOCKS HIT POST T HIGH NEW YORK tfl Persisient it highest level since 1929 Tues- day. Some leaders gained $3 and $4 a share. up for" questioning by Chief of Po- der the direction of Ernest Frie lice Don Landreth. sen. They will sing two groups Th hfiv th chief said, "owned one pair of shoes tennis shoes - and they were wet He had a .22 caliber revolver. The ni?ht was dewv and wet nrints of what aooeared to be a boy's feet ia tennis shoes were found on the back porch. A ZL caliber bullet caused the - girl's death. The boy has denied any connec tion with the killing. Sylvia's death was not noted for at least a half hour after it hap-1 held at the -Garden Road Chris pened. Then her grandmother, who I tian Church tonight at 7:30 with had heard a cracking sound about 8:43 p. nu went to the kitchen to investigate and there found the body. 1 ' planning to hold Thanksgiving The girl's parents were out for Day services are Trinity Luth the evening and did not learn of eran, at 10:30 a.nL, with the Rev. the tragedy until they returned. separately, later. The sirl was described by Chief Landreth as "a .good, clean out door kid" who was -on the streets only wfaea - "going to and coming from school." With 200 Gallons of Gravy ( N - 4 . Just a portion of the 180 turkeys giving day. dinner for patients at the Oregon State Hospital are shown above being inspected Tuesday by Robert E. Becker, food supervisor. Other items on the menu will include 200 gallons of gravy, 450 pounds of cranberries, 40 crates of celery, 1,500 pounds I mince meat, 250 gallons of cold slaw and so en. (Statesman Photo) -: . . Churches Thanksgiving Rites Salem churches will observe services tomorrow and the day will in foreign lands as a result of special collections to be taken up then. Meanwhile, over 10,000 school trict will have a four-day vacation Willamette university students. lem schools will not resume , un til Monday. Parochial school pupils will also have a four-day vacation and return to school Monday. - Most stores and all ' banks, state, federal, city and county offices will be closed tomorrow. 'Most businesses will be open as usual Friday. Surplus Food Drive ' '"T More than . 20 local churches are planning to participate in the nation-wide program through which great stores of government-owned ' Surplus . foodstuffs will be distributed overseas. Purpose of the program is to raise money through offerings for the distribution of 500,000, 000 pounds of goods. The pro gram is called "Share Our Sur plus.' at St Mark Lutheran at 9 a.m.: Grace Lutheran, 10 a.m.; St John Lutheran, 10 a.m.; Christ Luth eran, 10 a.m.; St Paul's Episco pal, 10 ul, and First Church of Christ, 11 a.m. The annual union service spon- oredsb to slkm. J""?"1! Association will be held at First Baptist Church at 10 a.m. tomor row with the Rev. Wayne Greene of the First Christian Church delivering the sermon, "He Took the Bread." Various city religious leaders will officiate at the service. Festival Mosie Special festival music win be given by the Salem Singers, un- 1 01 numbers. I The Kev. Omar JBartn, pastor Calvary Baptist Charch, is in icnarge 01 arrangemenis ior me I service. The offering at this service I will -also go entirely for Share Our Surplus," sponsored by the Church World Service, local boosters are the Salem Council of Churches and the Salem Min isterial Association. Special festival services will be the tier, urvnie aucr, uauas, delivering the sermon. Among Silverton churches Joseph A. Luthro speaking. I Immanuel Lutheran Church at 1 10:30 a m- with a sermon en- titled "GodVOpen Hand." Cat vary Lutheran Church at 11 a.nt, I with the Rev. Arvid L. Hokon- son, pastor, rivinj the message. which win make np the Thanks .v;. ,',.cv:K,;;tf Schedule Thanksgiving Day with numerous become a reality for needy folk children of the Salem School Dis when classes end today, as will Classes at the university and at Sa Fog Slows Air, Ground Traffic : Visibility In the S a 1 e m area ranged from zero to half a mile most of Tuesday as a thick, heavr fog continued to hang over the city. Highest visibility was about i-an nm- th MoNarv i i d weatherman renorted. when sham- miles. . -m.. v..v. juc iuk . uiuukiil an ii ami: ai- most to a standstill. Two schedul ed morning flights were delayed until. early afternoon, and three night flights were cancelledUnit ed Airlines chartered a bus Tues day afternoon to take passengers to Portland, where the fog was thinner and most flights were mov ing on schedule. Vehicle traffic was also slowed considerably. State police reported cars, were moving as slowly as five miles an hour at some points but said no serious accidents had tak en place. The early-morning forecast Wed nesday called for continued fog and low clouds, with occasional drizzles. An afternoon high temper ature of about 56 is expected. Ambassador Bohlen Home From Moscow WASHINGTON tf Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. ambassador to Mos- cow,. arrived in nasmngura iues- day for what be called "normal consuiutko." He smilingly brushed aside reporters, questions about. U.S.-Soviet relations. Salea 5 42 .t Portland Baker , 55 ' . 53 . 55 . 4 . 58 , 41 20 33 46 43 ' 43 S3 30 .00 .00 . M .00 M .00 JDO JO .00 Medford North Bend Roseburg' .. San Francisco Lm An (ele Chicaro 44 50 New York tir:n..M Yt.., JU-. 7 0. s. weathe, bureau. MeNarr field. Salem): "Nifht aad morning lor. tow clouds. and occasional drizzle, with a lew breaks ia the afternoons today and Thursday. High today near 56;' low tonight near 43. Temperature at was 47. 13:01 a.m. today SALEM PRECtPITATIOH Sine Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 XHii Tear Last Year Hernial i , .. low.., t.ea. 1 Site for School Bought By GARTH FANNING j Staff Writer, The Statesman , The Salem District School Board announced Tuesday night that the district has purchased a seven-acre tract in the north En- grewood area and that an elemen tary school will be built on the property in aooui two years., ; ...The property is bounded on the south by Madison Street; on the east by 23rd Street; on the west by 20th Street and on the north by the State Fairgrounds. ! Charles Schmidt, assistant su perintendent of Salem District schools, said the planned school would relieve the current heavy pupil load at Hoover, Washington and Englewood schools. The board also agreed to put up half the money to make avail able gyms at Liberty and swegie schools for after-school and week end use by youths of the two areas and of Middle Grove. There4s no gym at Middle Grove School. The action followed a letter written to the board by Arthur LV. Myers, director of suburban area schools; in which the lace of recreation facilities for youths in the three areas was brought to attention. The board, it said, hopes the action will encourage interested groups to put up the other half of the money needed. The funds would be Used to hire supervisors, Such a procedure has been fol lowed in the city, where the div trict foots half the bill, the city the remainder. . '.. - (Additional details on page 2, sec 1.) . Plague Germs on T bor TV 1 acoma jliocks TACOMA tfl The Tacoma bar- was put: under surveillance Tuesday by federal officials con cerned over finding here last week a rat infested with bubonic plague fleas. .,. I Dr. Frederick W. Kratz, medical director of the health service quar antine office in Seattle, ordered the surveillance program to pre vent movement of rats to or from ships in' Tacoma. He said the pro gram will be luted as soon as health officers are certain there is no further threat of bubonic plague. The city was similarly Designat ed in 1944 when plague infested fleas were found. I The program requires ships In Tacoma to be kept at least four feet from docks, carry rat guards on all lines and either raise or guard gangplanks in darkness I hours, The action resulted in a step- ipmg up vi ptevauiwu7 1 Seattle and other Puget Sound ports. Seattle Port of Embarka tion officials ordered a new rat I hunt unoer its piers I Dr. Kratz said no cause' for u alarm exists in any of the ports but that it is necessary to take all possible steps to prevent out break of the . disease. . PREMIER LEAVES NEW YORK tft French Pre mier Pierre Mendes - France took f for home Tuesday; night, end- 10-day North American visitj Discovered Churchill Tells Wartime Plan To Let Reich PWs Fight Soviet By JAMES F. KING WOODFORD. Enzland tf Prime Minister Churchill disclosed Tuesday night he had made plans to rearm the surrendering Ger mans in the closing days of World War II "if the Soviet advance into Western Europe continued The prime minister' remarks cam almost casually at a birtn- day party given for him by his supporters in this suburban town, he has represented in Par- Iiament for 30 years. Churchill will be SO on Nov. 30. Without elaborating, he said Even before the war ended. M.x. Min. Frecijjand while the Germans were sur- rpnaenng uy . uunuicvu ui muu- sands, I telegraphed Lord Mont gomery directing him to be care ful : in collecting German arms and to stack them so that they could easily be issued again to the German soldiers with whom we should have to work if the Sbviet advance into Western Eu. I TOPe Continued. I Churchill SDOke from notes but 1 J:,j v.;. . A. .-rti u shid he wanted to "tell the story plainly and bluntly He was ondersconng nis long- time -suspicions of the Russians especially Stalin, whom he de nounced as being "carried away by the triumph of victory and U. S. State Department Files Protest Against 'Trumped Up Red Charges' WASHINGTON UP Communist China condemned 13 American to prison terms Tuesday and the U.S. State Department promptly dispatched a strong protest against what it term MtrnmnH n charges." . , A State Department spokesman told newsmen the American con sul general at Geneva, Switzerland, is being instructed to make "the strongest possible protest" to the I Chinese Communists. The Red Chinese decision was labeled in the State Department statement as "further proof of the Chinese Communist regime's dis regard for accepted practices of international conduct." . Simultaneously, the Defense De partment issued a statement call ing the Chinese charges "utterly false." Sharply critical senatorial com ment had preceded the reaction from the two departments, with Sen. Mansfield (D-Mont) calling for a United Nations investigation and Sen. Welker (R Idaho) suggest ing the time has come to use force. Other senators also crit icized the action, which Sen. Sym ington (D Mo) called "a dastard ly outrage." -. ( Four Years to Life The Peiping radio, in announc ing the sentencing, said the Amer icans w?re spies. Thirteen Amer icans were sentenced to serve terms ranging from four years to ife. The State Department acted through Geneva because that is the only official contact the United States has with Peiping. It was set up during the Far East conference at Geneva. Besides saying the 13 Americans were condemned on, trumped up charges, the department contend ed the imprisonment of i the two civilians among the 13. John Thomas Downey and Richard George Facteau, was deliberately concealed" during the Geneva con ference last June First Word ? "Today is the first word we have had that they are being held by the Chinese Communists" the statement said. Downey and Facteau were civil ians .employed by tbe army. The Defense Department in its statement said the Peiping radio announcement of the sentencing illustrates again the bad faith. insincerity and amorality which have characterized" the Peiping regime s - conduct throughout its international relations. Because of its low opinion, of Red China's actions in the past, the united States has refused to recognize it as a legitimate gov ernment and has fought all efforts, to admit the Communist regime to the United Nations. ; (Additional details on page 7, sec. 2.) Attack Injures LEWISBURG, Pa. tf) William W. Remington, a former govern ment employe convicted of per jury for denying Communist Party associations, suffered serious head injuries when attacked with a stocking - covered brick at the federal penitentiary here. News of the attack on Reming ton was disclosed Tuesday by Act- ing Warden Fred Wilkinson, . and confirmed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. - ' Details of the attack were with held pending completion ot an FBI probe. . Remington is confined in the same prison where Alger Hiss, former top State Department offi cial and advisor to the late Presi dent Franklin Roosevelt has served the past Stt years for perjury conviction. acting as If he thought he could secure for Russia and communism the domination of the world." Referring to the recent pacts calling for rearming West Ger manv. Churchill said: ' 'Xertainly, if anyone wnen uer many surrendered unconditionally had predicted that we should be allies within 10 years, very tew oeoole would have believed them here and still fewer over in Amer - a ica. . .' - : ms vast reversal of British, American and of European opin ion was brought about only by the policy of Soviet Russia itself and above all by Stalin, tne oictaior. Churchill led up to his remarks on using' Germans in the - closing stages of World War II by say in: - ' ' ' ; "I believe I was the first well known person publicly to state the fact that we have to , have Ger many on our side against Rus sian Communist aggression." Field Marshal Lord Montgorn ery. ' visiting the United States was told in New York about tbe Churchill disclosures.-. "Quite true," Montgomery said. He added. "I don't want to com ment in any way. I don't thiak l want to say any more at this time." He said be had received the orders from Churchill "as soldier,. and I always obey, orders, Remington . . Relatives of Jailed Airman In Portland PORTLAND tfl - The mother. two brothers and an aunt -of a U. S. airman, sentenced in Red China to four years in prison, live here. c .. The airman Is Daniel C. Schmidt whose wife and year-old son live in Redding, Calif., with her mother. . The relatives here are Mrs. Ray Peters, his mother; brothers Jim and Lawrence, and the aunt, Mrs. Donald Dehle. They said the only letter they have received from him was a non-committal , letter received about three weeks ago. ' bcnmidt, an Airman 2C who was in a B29 shot down Jan. 13. 1953, was reared at Coeur d'Alene. Idaho. . w At Redding, Schmidt's wife. Una. 19, didn't appear surprised when she learned of the prison sentence. She said she had received a letter from her 22-year-old husband in September and that he told her he had been in a Red Chinese dungeon for seven months. U.N. Approves A-PoolPlan UNITED NATIONS, N.Yi tf -The Western powers and Russia joined Tuesday with all U.N. mem bers in a rare unanimous vote approving President Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace plan. The action took place in the U, N. Assembly's Political Commit tee which adopted a resolution en dorsing negotiations for an inter national atomic agency to super vise the program and for an in ternational scientific conference on the atpm to be held next sum mer, probably in Geneva. ' After eight years of dreary stalemate on major issues, it was the second time in three weeks the West and the Soviet Union had acted together on a major sub ject. On Nov. 4, the Assembly by unanimous vote instructed the U. N. Disarmament Commission to resume talks on limitation of arm aments and on prohibiting atomic weapons. Those talks will begin in January. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. chief American delegate, who acted ,as spokesman for the seven powers sponsoring . the approved resolu tion during delicate and secret talks with the late Soviet Delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky, hailed the occasion as a "historic moment " He said it promised to bring 'enormous good ' to mankind." He and bis fellow sponsors, del egates of Britain, France, Cana da, South Africa, Belgium and Australia, breathed sighs of relief when Arkady A. Sobolev, Soviet delegate sitting in Vishinsky's place, raised his hand with them for the unanimous vote despite having been defeated In two at tempts . to change the resolution. The General Assembly is ex pected to follow suit quickly. Ne gotiations on . an international atomic agency likely will be ac celerated. President Eisenhower already has picked Morehead Pat terson, New York industrialist and 'ormer member of the U.N.. Dis armament Commission, to handle negotiations with Russia and other countries' on the agency. , " ' " Wootlburn to Get New Post Office ! v WASHINGTON tfl - The Post Office Department has contracted for a hew post office in Woodburn, Ore. - Rep. Norblad (R-Ore) said he was advised the building will be constructed by R. C. 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