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EseiD VCYC SnaCie Kiver lam Si Wor Idaho Eower By JOHN KAMPS J WASHINGTON (JP) A Federal Power Commission (FPC) exam iner recommended Friday that the Idaho Power Co. be permitted to build a dam in the' Snake River. The recommendation was quickly denounced by advocates of the proposed federal Hells Canyon dam. The examiner, William J. Costello, recommended in an initial decision that the FPC grant a construction license for Brownlee EH? IrjhBB WhrrVn. lh fat of HenitO I Mussolini is well known and carefully, documented, though the Italian government keeps secret the place where his body dence reveals what happened to Adolf Hitler. They died just two days apart, these dictators who once bestrode "most of Europe, and 1955 is the decennial of their end. " It is generally accepted that Hitler and his wife of a few days, Eva Braun, perished by suicide,; and their bodies were burned in a funeral pyre at the Reich-'t0 chancellery where the Nan nil-j ers'had their headquarters. But no trace of the remains has been found. Just after the war there were rumors that Hitler might have escaped by submarine or airplane, but they never gained any substance. The most careful investigation of Hitler's last days was made by Hugh Trevor-Roper, intelli gence officer in the British army, who has written a book on the subject The Russians who had captured Berlin and overrun the chancellery and the underground bunker where Hitler had his headquarters neglected to collect evidence and information cover ing what happened to Hitler. Trevor-Roper got to Berlin in time to pick up the ends, interro gate a number of witnesses and establish the record of Hitler's moves as his German Reich col lapsed about him and Russian ar mies pressed at the border of the capital. He has condensed the ac count for the New York Times Magazine. I What happened was that Hitler had supreme faith in his star, was confident s ' (Concluded on editorial page 4). i Salem Crime Average Low, FBI Reports Less than two crimes per day were averaged in Salem during the year 1954, according to an nual statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI said Salem'f figures were "re markably low" for a city of its size. ! : ! ' Not a single case of murder was recorded in Salem during -the year and armed robberies totaled only two. The FBI's figures show ed the city had 145 burglaries, 76 cases of larceny involving $50 or more and 451 larcenies under $50. Auto thefts totaled 38 lor the year. j ; Total crimes in Salem during 1954 were announced as 712, an average of slightly under 14 per week. I 1 The FBI's report is based on daily and monthly crime records kept by the city's police depart ment . .! "Few American cities of the size boast a better showing for law-abiding citizenship than Sa lem," it was declared in the re port j U :j ' ; 3 Youths Held in Roclc Death of Q uarry Worker V PORTLAND ! Three boys, one of whom threw a rock that killed a quarry worker Wednesday, were held at the juvenile home Fslday pending further investiga tion. I Judge VirgiHbangtry, after pre liminary hearing, said he wanted further information on the boys, two aged 14 and one 13. Sheriffs deputies had said the death appar ently was accidental and that they doubted there would be any charges. I Peter E. Andrews, 54, was killed when hit; by a rock and knocked "75 feet toi the base of the quarry. A witness said three boys looked over the ; edge of the top of the quarry and one flipped down a 20 pound rock. The boys, who were brought in by their parents after one of the mothers recognized their descrip tions, said they hadnt seen Andrews but that the rock was aimed at a cable. ANIMAL CRACKERS V WARREN GOODRICH fl-ho, aaa, Hoo, HOO!" Dam, upstream from the federal Hells Canyon site between Idano and Oregon. Construction of the Brownlee Dam would make the proposed high federal dam eco nomically unfeasible. -Twe Rejected He turned "down the company's applications to license two other dams in ther Hells Canyon stretch of the rivers-one near the federal site the other at Oxbow. PtralMI fUhvtJM ,ff.MA. tno tlx lie power groups which .opposed I M.k. r 1 t - ZZl- . Sfvd nft: be appealed to the conunu. ? or w arguments and a final Her position was echoed in scath ing statements against the examin er's finding by Sens. Morse and Neuberger,- Oregon Democrats, Magnuson and .Jackson, Washing ton Democrats, and Rep. Pfost (D- Idaho). Badly Needed Thomas Roach, president of Ida- iio Power, called on the commission issue its final order in the case "as soon as nhvsicallv possible. "He said his company badly needed the Brownlee project and stood "ready and anxious" to build it. Costello . said be recommended against -the company's Hells Can yon and Oxbow dams, which would store no water, because he felt no market could reasonably be predicted for their power produc tion. FPC engineers estimate Brown lee Dam 395 feet high and 1,700 feet wide with a reservoir 574 miles long would cost $93,433,000. U. Si, Britain Enter Austria . . . - . . Oil Dispute VIENNA. Austria ( Ameri can and British oil interests inter vened indirectly Friday night in the five-nation dispute over future control of Austria's petroleum fields. The intervention came as envoys of Britain, the United States, France and .Russia and the Aus trian foreign minister neared final agreement on an Austrian inde pendence treaty. The crucial issue of oil ia holding up final agree ment. " . ; . ... ,t, A statement given to The Asso ciated Press by : Rohoel Gewhv nungs Aktien :Gesellschaft (RAG), a subsidiary of the American and British oil; interests,; said . they "never accepted any payment whatsoever" from the Nazis for handing over extensive oil explora tion rights in the Vienna basin in 1938. ; - : The statement was made in an swer to a request for clarification of the position of RAG. which per haps is the most powerful single oil group operating in Austria. Austrian officials had told news men RAG : sold out to the Nazis in return for fair, and reasonable compensation based on market standards. Tens of millions of dollars are at issue m the Western oil com panies' claim for restoration - of their lost rights and compensation lor lost earnings. Nationalists Mine Straits TAIPEI, Formosa (fl The Na tionalists disclosed Friday they have sown mines in waters close to Red China to thwart an invasion- moves against offshore is lands and to choke off shipping to the Red port of Foochow. The minefields were laid around islands which the Nationalists hold as close as four miles to the main land. The move freshly underscored Nationalist intent to hold on to the islands. Foreign Minister George Yeh is - reported 4o have assured the legislative Yuan (parliament) that the government resolutely op poses any -idea of a cease-fire in Formosa Strait - , " Drug Claimed Effective For Mental Disorders By FRANK CAREY 1 Associated Press Scieace Reporter WASHINGTON ll -. Encourag ing results in a new application of the mentally calming drug chlor promazine were reported Friday by a South American psychiatrist Dr. Honono Delgado of the Uni versity of San Marcos, Lima, Peru, told of using the drug in the treat ment of compulsion nemos is. This is one of the stubbornist of all mental disorders even though its victims in general are not de ranged as is true of prychotics. Sufferers feel compelled to do certain acta which they usually recognize as irrational, but never theless find practically irresistible. For . example, a patient might feel compelled to wash himself and his clothing almost continuously! because of a fear ot contamination by some germ. Kleptomania, tbe impulse to steal without seed, is another example. 105th Year N. S. Rogers ROGERS CAMP, Tillamook Burn Thi4 was the scene Friday in tbe late state forester was instrumental in rehabilitating to eventual tim heart of the Tillamook Burs of the dedication of the N. S. Rog- ber production. A Salem resident most of his life, Rogers was state ere State Forest, 3,700 acres of burned over timber land which the forester from 1940 to 1949. (Stateman Photo) Timber Tract Honors Late State Forester A 3.700 acre forest in the Til lamook burn area officially be came the N. S. Rogers State For est Friday afternoon in dedica tory ceremonies at Lamp .Rog ers. ' , , ,. i , The forest bears the name of the man who served as state f or- ester from 1940 until his death in 1949 and who was instrument al in bringing about the program to restore the burn to timber pro duction. ! i The dedicatory program op ened at noon with foresters, lum bermen, conservationists and pub lic leaders in attendance. Open ing remarks were made by George Spaur, state forester, who also introduced Mrs. N. S. Rog ers and family. 4 ! J. F. Daggett, Prineville, a member of the state board of for estry, gave the brief dedicatory address. ' Following Daggett's address, the plaque bearing the legend, MA memorial to a conservationist whose vision and tireless efforts inspired the rehabilitation of the Tillamook Burn," was. unveiled. A field trip to forest rehabilita tion projects closed the program. Among those from Salem at tending the dedicatory program were Edwin Armstrong, execu tive assistant to the governor who was representing Gov. Pat terson: State Treasurer and Mrs. Sig Unander, W. C Williams, Charles Ogle, Jim Short, Albert Wiesendanger, Axel Segerstrom and Fred Paulus. A large num ber of state forestry employes also attended. Prineville Tot Dies j In Irrigation Ditch j PRINEVILLE un Bobby Hall, 2, wandered away from, his home here Friday and drowned in a nearby irrigation ditch. j The boy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hall. Tbe body was recovered by two boys about 15 minutes after Bobby fell in the water. Hitherto, this relatively new drug originally developed in France, has been used largely in the treatment of psychotic conditions where a patient might be disturbed to the point of violence. Psychiatrists say it has tended to calm such patients, and make them more amenable to other forms of therapy. - Addressing a scientific confer ence marking the centennial of St Elizabeths Hospital here, Dr. Del gado said he and his associates had used the drug in association with other dmgsi in the treatment of 10 'cases and' had effected ap parently complete recovery in 5 of them, including 3 who bad Deen afflicted for from 7 to 14 years. He stressed, however, that it is still too early to make a firm eval uation of the results and that the number of patients studied is smalL ' 2 SECTIONS-14 PAGES i . State Forest Dedicated in Tillamook Burn y ' ' i A ... .. . ' v! ' - - J K j i - - . r c- s --jr- x v fc. t" N Traffic Crashes Kill two Salem Persons Two; Salem persons were killed accidents in the area. Officers listed the victims as Allen J. Stroh, 16, 1275 N. 25th St, and Benjamin Wedel Jr., 34, of 4724 Lowell St Stroh was fatally injured about 7:30 p.m. when -his motorcycle collided with a car at Park avenue and Market street Wedel, iden tified by state police from papers in a wallet apparently was killed Washington U. Jumps Cost Of Education SEATTLE UP) University of Washington regents, faced with sharply rising costs and growing enrolment, voted Friday to make it tougher financially and academ-ically-4-to attend the school. Students will be nicked in the pocketbook through increased in cidental fees, which will be raised $6 to j $27.50 a quarter for resi dent students and $31 to $52.50 for non-residents. The increase will be effective with the opening of fall quarter. Students whose homes are in Alaska and Washington are classed as resident students; from all oth er places: as non-residents. Tuition fees will not be affected. SunLoving Bather Cited City police Thursday had an other reminder that springy days have at-last arrived. ' Officers were called to the 500 block o S. Church Street where they found a man bathing in his birthday! suit in Mill Creek. De scribed as a transient, he was ar rested and charged with disorder ly conduct ! Beaverton Youth Winner in Area it Science Exhibit CORvAlLIS ( Lee Grunden. a studeunt at Beaverton Hign School, Friday was named sweep stakes winner in the third annual Northwest; Science Exposition here. j ! , Some & grade and high school students,!; selected from among 5,000 science students in Oregon and Southwestern Washington, had displays in tbe exposition. Grunden's winning display was on human nutrition. - Other top winners included.' Fifth grade class, Queen Anne School, Lebanon, intermediate bi ology; Jan Hoover, Parrish Junior High School, Salem, junior phys ics, Larry Wiscarson, Leslie Junior High, Salen junior biology. Forecast Says Continued Fair 1 1 ' Continued fair weather is in store for the Salem area today, weathermen at McNary Field forecast early this morning. Some cloudiness is expected tonight and Sunday. j: . ' High today should range near 76 with a low tonight of near 40, forecasters said. POUNDDD The Oregon Statesman, lay Friday night in separate traffic 11 outright about 11:55 p.m. when his 1933 rora station , wagon ' plummet- ted ' from a curve on N. River road some two miles north of Keizer. ' . - The two deaths brought Marion County's traffic toll for the year to seven and zoomed the Marion Polk total to 12. - . . Police said the Wedel vehicle was virtually de-1 JF molished after leaving the mm road striking a tree and bound ing back out on the highway, where it came to rest upside down. Police searched the imme diate area but could find no evidence any one else was riding with the victim. Contents of the car were scattered a considerable distance but Wedel was not thrown from the vehicle. Papers indicated his place of employment to be Willamette Grocery Co. Young Stroh was rushed to a hospital by Willamete Ambulance but died shortly after . arrival. Attendants indicated the youth suffered internal injuries. Passenger Injured A girl passenger riding with Stroh, Pamela Pickens, 18, Sil verton, suffered a fractured right wrist and left ankle after being thrown from the motorcyle. She was taken to Salem General Hos pital . where her condition was called "good." Evalyn Hough, 17, of 1427 E. Park Ave., a passen ger in the car involved, also was taken to the hospital after suf fering ' lacerations of the head ; and ear. She later was released. Pobce said the accident occur red when the Stroh motorcycle collided with a 1936 Ford sedan driven by Norman Harper, 16, Sa lem Route 4, Box 58. The motor cycle reportedly was going east on Market and the car was south bound; Officers said Stroh was pinned under his smashed motor cycle. . Relatives Listed Papers indicated Wedel's . sur vivors to include tbe widow. Betty, and a smalt dauehter. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. . Young Stroh's survivors in clude the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter V. Stroh, Salem. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Howell-Edwards mortuary. BOUND FOR PEIPING NEW DELHI, India t V. K. Krishna Menon, India's foreign policy expert left by plane Satur day ' for Peiping for talks with Red China's Premier Chou En-Lai. Be 1 Baaaaam NORTHWEST LEAGUE ' ' At Yakima 1. Eugene 10 ' At Wenatchee 24. Tri-City t , PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE ' At SanDiego 4. Portland 1 At Sacramento Z. Seattle 1 At Hollywood 3, San Francisco 1 At Oakland 3. Los Angeles 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE At Boston 6. New York At Washington 2. Baltimore 1 At Cleveland 4. Kansas City 1 At Chicago' 1. Detroit .-- NATIONAL LEAGUE At St. Louis S. Milwaukee S At Philadelphia 4. Brooklyn . At New York x. Pittsburgh 3 i At Cincinnati 4. Chicago 2 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, May 7, Polo in Coronation of Willamette U. Queen Today A caravan pf cars carrying col lege royalty ( paraded through downtown Salem Friday after noon as Willamette , University students opened May weekend festivities. - " ' ' The parade was led by the Air Force ROTC drill team and -the Willamette barfd. In addition to convertibles for May Queen Marie DeHarpport, and her , princesses, each campus living organization was represented. The parade concluded at Mc culloch Stadium for an all-school barbecue. ' Today's festivities in the tradi tional salute to May include: an all-campus songfest at 10 a.m. in the gymnasium; coronation of the Queen, 1:30 p.m. on the Eaton lawn; Willamette-Whitman base-jtakc ball game, 3 p.m.; and the coro - nation uii a-iuru-jr " . p'r u j -ii Weekend activities will con- JdlWd f Z JZ S day mo A About 200 high school students are taking part in the celebration as guests of the university. Levy Okehed At Woodburn Statesman News lervict WOODBURN A special election held Friday:, in, the Woodburn School District saw voters approve tax levy, in "txcess of the 6 percent limitation as a step to ward a balanced budget The bal loting was in favor, 163 to 42. - The election result means $129,- 315.53 will be raised through taxes toward: a budget figure of $189,840.19. Approximately $15,000 from the budget has been ear marked for a hot lunch program hut nf final sain a mamr nnrtinn r n.oti trill onmo frnm a special improvement fund. ' Brodie Child, Parted Siamese1 Twin, Said in Grave Condition CHICAGO ( Rodney Brodie, who survived separation from his head-joined Siamese twin in 1952. was reported m "grave condition Friday night with a hemorrhage inside the brain. . University of Illinois Research Hospital , announced that Rodney now 3, was brought in with the bleeding condition Tuesday. A hospital spokesman said an exploratory operation was per formed Thursday in an attempt to control the bleeding but that this was to no avail. The spokesman .said there was no apparent injury to the brain and doctors do not know wny tne bleed ing started. ' Rodney has been in a coma since 5 a. m. Friday, the hospital said. Rodney was separated from his brother Roger Dec. 17, 1952, when they were a little more than 14 months old. Roger died 34 days later, leaving Rodney as the first bead-joined twin ever ' to live I Until Tuesday Rodney was con- 1955 PRICE Prog Evaluation Of Serum WASHINGTON (JP) Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele early Saturday recommended that all polio vaccination programs be sus pended pending evaluation of a report on the Salk serum by a toj level medical panel. - Scheele said the U. S. Public Health Service would announci Sunday its recommendations regarding the use of the Salk vaccina The medical panel Friday night 1 concluded a two-day study - of the manufacture and testing ' of the vaccine. Scheele said their recommenda tions and other information would have to be evaluated before the Public Health Service could make an announcement The Health Service said in 1 statement: ' "Pending the. Sunday announce ment the surgeon general recom mended that states and municipali ties postpone their vaccination pro grams." Scheele announced Friday that the government has held up in spection of new batches of the vac cine until it can be sure it is using "every conceivable safeguard." !' At that time, Scheele renewed official assurances that the vaccine already approved is safe to use and urged that vaccination pro grams continue. Free, United Europe Seen By Sec. Dulles WASHINGTON 11 Secretary of State Dulles flew to Paris Fri day night declaring that "a new Europe, united, free and secure" is assured with Germany's entry into the North Atlantic alliance. Dulles took off with a party of advisers in President Eisenhower's four-engine aircraft "Columbine." He had conferred with the Presi dent earlier in the day on prob lems of Far Eastern peace, Eu ropean defense and negotiations with the Communists. These are questions he will be discussing with other Western ministers in the French capital for the next week. In a departure statement Dulles announced that if talks now under way with the Russians in Paris can finally break the 10-year-old stalemate over an Austrian inde pendence treaty he will fly from Paris to Vienna to conclude that document t About three hours before he went to the airport Dulles accepted from West German Ambassador Heina L. Krekeler a document making Germany the 15th member of the Atlantic nlltannp flprmanv will its seat at a meeting of the North Atlantic treaty council in paris next week. Dulles' statement on Europe was e of the most optimistic for world peace that he has ever made Dn taking off on a foreign mission. TROOPSHIP DUE 1 SEATTLE in The Navy trans port Gen. H. B. Freeman Is due here Monday morning with 1,447 passengers from the Far East. Salem Max. Min. Preeip. 37 .H . 40 ; .00 35 .00 3 .00 42 1 .00 43 ! M 52 ; trace 49 trace 52 .00 55 : .55 Portland Baker Medford North Bend Roseburg San Francisco Chicaeo New York Los Anseles . Willamette River 2J ieet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly fair today. sliehUy warmer with high near 76. Partly cloudy to night and Sunday. Low tonight near 40. Temperature at 12:01 a. m. today was 46. SALEM PRECIPITATION Start OI weainer inr srpi I This Year Last Year Normal 29.80 41.21 36.30 sidered to be well on his way complete recovery and a normal life. Rodney was returned to the hos pital this week when his parents found he was becoming lethargic, not as playful as usual. Doctors discovered the bleeding condition. Tbe hospital said Rodney has been receiving transfusions "as needed but was unable to say how many transfusions he had re ceived. The historic operation in which Rodney and Roger were separated by a team of 13 persons required 12 hours and 40 minutes. Roger s survival was precluded by tbe fact that the twins had a common sag ital sinus, the main vein for drain ing blood from the brain. A hard decision was made. The surgeons gave the vein to Rodney because he appeared to be the stronger of the two. Rodney was left without a hard covering for part of his bead. Doc tors had planned to close the ..gap with some hard substance later. 69 5 80 .... 56 70 67 S3 70 69 No. 41 ram 1 noman Asks Halt to Vaccine PORTLAND v-The governing body of the Multnomah County, Oregon, Medical Society - Friday recommended a temporary halt U Salk vaccine inoculations here. The action virtually assured a postponement of the inoculation ol "It now appears more cer tain that the Marios County ia culation program set for Mon day morning will be called off," Dr. Willard J. Stone, conn-' ty health officer, said Friday night after hearing action tak en by the Multnomah County.'. Medical Society. The Marion - Polk County Medical Society's public health: liaison committee and county health officials had "tentative ly" decided Thursday night to abandon plans to begin inocula- . tions Monday. Dr. Stone said the ultimate decision an whether to go ahead with inoculations in Ore gon will depand on the out come of a State Board of Health meeting today ia Port land. first and second grade school chil-, dren scheduled to begin through out the state Monday. A resolution, passed unanimous ly, said the county council "approved active immunization against poliomyelitis but disap proves the inauguration of such a program at the present time in view of an inadequate supply of sufficiently tested vaccine." The council's recommendation will go before a meeting of the State Medical Society Saturday. A spokesman for the county group said he expected the state organ ization would approve a similar . resolution and that the mass inocu lations would be postponed. 5 The State Board of Health, which has final say on the inocu lation program, has scheduled a meeting for Saturday also. Dr. Samuel Osgood, state epidemiolo gist, indicated the board also would recommend a temporary halt to the program. He said he concurred in the county council's recommendation. I Meantime at Pendleton in East ern Oregon, Dr. Edgar E. Berg, Umatilla County health officer, , said he planned to return the coun ty's vaccine - supply . to state offi cials if there is any further delay in the mass inoculation program, Carl W. Hogg Rites Monday; Funeral services for Carl W. Hogg, 61, prominenf Salem busi ness man and civic leader, will be held at First Presbyterian Church Monday at 10:30 a. m. un der direction of Howell-Edwards mortuary. '1 Hogg died unexpectedly from a heart attack Thursday in the gar age of his home while preparing for a fishing trip. , r ; The Rev. Paul Newton Poling will officiate at the services and interment will follow at . Mount View Cemetery, at Oregon City. GOP Treasurer Neault to Resign PORTLAND UH The Repub- l: Ctt. -,1 rnmmlllu ha tohe job of electing a new treas-t urer, as well as a cnairman, wnes it meets May 21. Lawrence M. Neault, Baker, is resigning, as . treasurer, a position he held seven years. 1 Also to be replaced is EJ Boehnke, Eugene, who resigned as chairman. ' Today's Statesman Sec Pag Church L IK. 7 Classifieds 3-6 Comics I' Crossword ll.. 3 Editorials . Horn Panorama I. I. . "4 v . 6 : .2-3 ; -1.2' , 3 . . 3t . - 3 -Markets ....ll.. Sports IL Star Gazer I- TV, Radio (Sun.) L TV, Radio (Sat.) I ; Valley L 5c Probe Slated t .1