n.,'.'--.-;r r' V ter i . " for Oveross iiry OF Warrant Issued Arrest of Silverton Man in Kaser Case By THOMAS G-. WEIGHT, JK. ! ' ' Staff Writer, The-Statennam ; ' A Marion County Grand Jury, acting on new evidence, indicted PCUND3D 1651 105th Year Coast Woods Combed For Missing Youth, .7? Portland Clues Found ASTORIA, Ore. UP) A seven-year-old boy, who disappeared Sunday afternoon, was sought in the woods near Elsie by blood hounds and some 100 searchers Monday. - The boy, Tommy -Woodard, son of Joseph Woodard, an Elsie logger, , was Its', seen on an archery range. chasing arrows for a OTP TTCDOuCO Representatives of Trans World Airlines visited Salem last week, j They reported a tremendous surge of business in sight for the coming summer! Trans-Atlantic bookings to Europe for June already are sold out. Other transportation and travel agencies give similar op timistic, reports. Americans in greater, numbers are , traveling abroad and are traveling in very distant places. The airplane per mits one to reach remote corners of the globe in a matter of hours, and our people are taking advant age of the new 'travel facility. In visiting many portions of the globe, American tourists will be struck with: how, backward they are. Quaint Oriental bazaars, bur ros for beasts of burden, an ox drawing a wooden plow for cul tivating the soil, women carrying jars' of water from a well 'or doing the family washing in a running - stream.' Sights, sounds and smells are alien. Americans view all these tilings and come home im pressed with the gap that separates living conditions here and in the distant lands they have visited. It is a mistake, however, to view all these peoples with disdain. For many their way of life is superior in their estimation , I (Continued on editorial page, 4.) )iy Chair9 Debate Eyed ' WASHINGTON W Sen. Neu berger (D-Ore) said Monday he will go to Pendleton, Ore., in Sep tember and "debate an empty chair" if Rep. CoonJR-Ore) does not appear to -discuss his bill for partnership construction of John Day Dam on the Columbia River. Referring to Coon's replay to his challenge last i week, Neuberger said it is obvious ' the congress man 'Is dodging my challenge when he says the question may be fettled completely by next fall He said the engineering plans for John Day "cannot be finished for at least one full year, so it is evi dent his information is totally in correct" - ! Neuberger said that in any event" he plans to go to Pendleton in late September at some time convenient to mat city's Junior Chamber of Commerce which has offered to sponsor the debate. "I trust that Congressman Coon win show up. . the senator said. "If he does not come, I will debate an empty chair." j Cloudy Sides On Forecast Cloudy skies are predicted for today and Wednesday by.McNary Field weathermen who also see the mercury getting somewhat higher than Monday's maximum of 58. Today a high of 64 is expected."- For northern Oregon beaches, it's expected to be doudy with occa sional light rain and drizzle today. Temperatures win range from 45 to 55 and winds, moving southwest, should range from: 10 to 20 miles an iour. - i j BILLS TABBED FOR PASSAGE WASHINGTON JT Highway. housing, minimum wage and other legislation were among bills tabbed for Senate passage this year in an outline by. Democratic leader Lyn don B. Johnson, of Texas Monday ANIMAL CRACKERS V WAKKIN OOOKICH WeIL baby, wkert have . y bee an my Hfe?- By Neuberge 2 SECTIONS-! 6 PACES I man about 20 years old. Three caches of new clothing. Army papers referring to a Pvt. William E. Kent, and used rail road tickets were found in the woods near where the child last was seen. i Hounds Circle j Sheriff Paul Kearney said the bloodhounds, following the boy's scent, kept circling back to the f nearby Sunset Highway. That led I to speculation the boy might have I been picked upTy a motorist I Tommy's 12-year-old brother said Tommy was chasing arrows for a blond man about 6 feet in height. He said the man was wearing combat boots and Army clothing. Tommy was wearing blue jeans and a yellow plaid shirt ,- when last seen. . . The search for the missing boy was begun Sunday night and 100 men, including 60 Navy men from the Tongue Point Naval station, joined the search Monday. The Army papers indicated that Kent had been a patient in the Army Hospital at Fort Campbell, Ky., on Feb." 18, for treatment of a lung ailment. Kent was listed .as a member of Co. G of the 503rd airborne division." The search was to resume Tues day. . i Mutilated Doll Meantime at Portland detectives said that a pair of shoes, in which the name William Kent appeared, and some Army equipment had been located in a hotel room. Also in the room was a new 24- inch doll which had been mutilat ed. . - ster ForNazareue Meeting Here The first 400 of an expected 600 delegates from Nazarene churches in western Oregon con verged on Salem Monday for the Oregon-Pacific district assembly and convention which opened at Salem's First Church of the Nazarene. A Monday night sermon by Harmon Schmelzenbach, mission ary from South Africa, high lighted opening activities in the five-day meeting. . The convention ends this eve ning and the assembly then starts Wednesday at 9 a.m. and ends Friday at noon. 1 Delegates from 66 churches will hear Schmelzenbach lead de votion services this morning at 9 a.m. and this afternoon at 2 p.m. Tonight at 7:30 p.m., Dr. Hardy C. Powers, senior general superintendent of Nazarenes from Dallas, Tex.,' will speak. Some 80 ministers are attend ing the sessions and visitors have come from California, Washing ton and Idaho, Slated for this morning is elec tion of district officers. NOKTHWEST LEAGUE At Tri-City-Salem. rain At Lewistotr 1. Wenatche 4 s At Spokane-Yakima, raia NATIONAL LEAGUE At St Louis , Pittsburgh (Only major league game scheduled) 4UUKegi 1 A A Vfe Red China Premier Reaffirms Negotiation Offer on Formosa V By JIM BECKER ' TOKYO vn Premier Chou En- Lai of Red China has reaffirmed his offer to negotiate the touchy Formosa issue but has accused the United States of delaying talks by evasive and puzzling responses, Peiping radio said Tuesday. The official Chinese Red radio. in a broadcast heard here. said. Chou renewed his offer, Friday in a report on the Bandung 'Asian- African conference to Red China's National Congress. President Eisenhower said at a news conference on April 27 that the United States would be glad to talk with the Chinese Commu nists on a Formosa cease-fire. : , In a sweeping report Chou also: 1. Insisted that U.S.-Red China talks on Formosa must exclude Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist gov ernment ' 2. Accused the United States of "intensifying its active preparation for new wars. -3. Demanded a seat in the U.N. and charged that the United States had "manipulated", resolutions in that body. Tho Oregon Statesman, ! Navy's 'Weekend Warriors' r-.. , llu.i . n., i, ii j . i . , i. . The first of three two-week training sessions at the Naval Air i Facility began Monday, with familiarization nights from saiem This years training program will include night flying and one ex airport Airman A. M. Winn, reservist from Jefferson, la shown tensive cross-country hop of at least 800 miles. (Statesman Photo). Dep uty state Warden Takes Kansas Post ! ' - (Picture on Page 2, Sec 1.) Arthur5 Hoffman, 58, Oregon State Penitentiary deputy ward en for the past two years, next month becomes warden of ; the Kansas State ' Penitentiary at Lansing. . Warden Clarence T. Gladden said the state Board of Control may name Hoffman's successor at its next meeting. A control board meeting slated for today was postponed until 'later this -week. . Hoffman, one , of two - deputy wardens, - was in . charge of : cus tody here. -He was a lieutenant at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, . Kan., .whea -Glad den called bim to Salem three months after Gladden became warden. The federal penitentiary- at Leavenworth is about five miles from the state institution at Lan sing. ' ' i Hoffman entered prison work as a custodian officer at Lewis burg, Pa., and . began at Leaven worth Penitentiary as a guard in 1933. He was training offi cer before becoming a lieutenant Hoffman said he and his wife are leaving here about Mjy 27 and are to be at Lansing June 15 Man Fined 8100 For Assault on Mt Angel Abbot Constantine Paulus, 64, Mt Angel, was fined $100 and given a 30-day suspended jail sentence Monday in Marion County Dis trict Court after he was found guilty of assault and battery committed against the abbot of Mt Angel Abbey,' the right Rev. Thomas Meier. Paulus had pleaded innocent to the charge filed against him in mid-ApriL- He was accused of striking the abbot several times after he was remonstrated with for killing a dog. TRIBUNE EDITOR NAMED CHICAGO tfl Chester M. Campbell, president of the Tribune Co., Monday was appointed pub lisher of The Chicago Tribune. The newspaper has been ' without a publisher since the death April 1 of Col. Robert R. McCormick. 4. Charged that "certain per sons sought at the Bandung meeting in April to "confuse the objective of the Asian and African peoples in their struggle against colonialism. , It was at Bandung that Chou first made his offer to negotiate with the United States on Formosa. He described U.S. responses as "evasive and equivocal." In commenting on Chou's new est offer, officials in Washington said the United States is seeking to find out what the Chinese Red Premier has in mind. Lacking diplomatic relations with Communist China, .the United States has encouraged volunteer mediators , such as Britain, .the Scandinavian countries. India and Pakistan in its quest the authori ties said. ". . - , :' , The Chinese Premier said in his report: "The Chinese people have twa possible means to liberate Taiwan, namely by war or by peaceful means.. The Chinese people are willing to strive for the liberation of Taiwan by peaceful means to far as possible.? . . ., Salm( Oregon, Tuesday May '3k fl4 lite Asks $30 Million to Push Anti-Polio Project WASHINGTON WV-President Eisenhower Monday asked Con gress for 30 million" dollars to carry forward the polio program, 28 million of it to insure that poor children get their shots of the Salk vaccine. ; The other two million dollars would go. to take precautions against blackmarketing. of the vaccine and for the hiring of more health personnel to test the prod uct "for safety and potency. ; Eisenhower acted after putting his approval on a report by Secre tary of Welfare Hobby, asking for financial aid and lor reliance on a voluntary system ' of distributing the vaccine. . . After presenting r her. report to the President Mrs. Hobby went before the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, where she ran into some critical questioning from Sen. Lehman (D-NY), ' Plaa Said Delayed Lehman told her the administra tion should have been ready .with a distribution plan April 12. when the vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk was approved. think you are a long way as yet even now, from having adopt ed something that wiH be really effective": the New Yorker. told her. . " , Mrs. Hobby replied that all vac cine now. available is going to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, for use in its program of free inoculations of first and second graders. N Voluntary Plan Waits . She said the voluntary plan will take over when additional vaccine is on hand, and insisted that There is no other system that could be devised that could do the job as fairly and effectively."' The shortage of vaccine now, she said, "is tremendous. Sen. Morse. (D-Qre) repeated his demand for federal control of dis tribution. He said in a statement that Mrs. Hobby's "administration of the vaccine program to date has been thoroughly incompetent. Her recommendations are no bet ter." - . (Additional details on page 3, section 1.) Patterson Vetoes Municipal Court Jury Trial Bill Gov. Paul Patterson vetoed Mon day the bill guaranteeing jury trials in municipal courts. He said he doesn't oppose the purpose of the bill, but that the measure doesn't go into enough de taiT on how the city jury panels should be drawn. The governor also protested that the bill doesn't fix jury fees and other mechanical details. Gov. Patterson also signed bills which will do these things: Permit circuit courts to order prison convicts to appear as wit nesses in trials. ... Increase supreme court justices salaries from $12,000 a year to $13, 500, and those of circuit judges from $10,500 to $11,000. 4 Direct the state labor commis sioner (o appoint the faif employ ment practices advisory commit tee. ; , Max. Mia. Precly. it trace SS 4S .10 -. 53 37 .17 96. XI M 54 44 r M 55 37 M , M 44 M S.S1 SO M 7S . 4t . M . Salem Portland Baker Medford North Bend Roseburf San Fraacisc Los Anfeles Chicago New York SO 55 .00 Willamette River 2.4 feet. FORECAST (from- U.-S.- weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy today and Wednesday with partial cleartnc during the after noon. High today near 44. low to night near 44. Temperature at 13:01 a.m. today 81. - SALEM FRECIPITATIO! Since Start of Weather Tear Seat. 1 Tkii Tear lst Tear - NorauU . .30.7 41a 36J7 17, 1955 PRICE Start Salem Training Cruise i.i.. i in iiii.iiihhihiihiii i 111111 i i, nmi imUK wm . i .. "i .ip m.v '.'.I o above giving the "O. K. to Land" Wage Offer Said Rejected By Teamsters SAN FRANCISCO - JB AFL Teamsters in the 11 Western states Monday turned down by an over whelming - majority a wage" and working conditions offer- by truck ing associations, a union spokes man said. . . Union officials said the offer was being rejected by a margin of 50 to l over the West and that, in Northern California the vote was nearer 400 to 1. Joseph Diviny, international vice president of the union, said that despite talk of a possible strike Wednesday or Thursday, there still is time for. a new proposal from the trucking companies. The union and management ne gotiating committees will meet Tuesday in Los Angeles to discuss the situation, Frank Brewster of Seattle, president of the Western .Conference of Teamsters, said. The Teamsters Union has about $0,000 members in the 11 .states covered by the conference, but no such number would be involved should a walkout be called, union officials said. Probably 15.000 would be closer to . the number. Wolf Creek Driver Killed GRANTS PASS Ml An 18-year- old motorist from Wolf Creek. Ore., was killed late Monday after noon when his car skidded on wet pavement and plunged off the Pa cific Highway about 11 miles north of here. - ' Coroner Earl Hall identified the victim as Glen -Harris Kuhl. He was thrown out of the car after it went over a bank and plunged more than 200 feet down a steep hill. Kuhl suffered head Injuries. He was driving alone. JOHNNIE RAT TO WED BIRMINGHAM, England w - Crooner Johnnie Ray said Monday he plans to marry a 21-year-old blue-eyed; blonde he met in Eng land six weeks ago. She is Sylvia Drew, an English singer with the band accompanying Ray . on his current tour of Britain. .". 11 ', ' i .' : v ' x 1 Armed Forces Day Today to Include Arms Display, Lunch - Salem's attention today will be ! focused on 12 military reserve and national guard units of this area and on the nation's military strength in general as the city observes Armed. Forces Day. Tanks, aircraft, heavy weapons and othei arms of these units win be displayed, mostly at the State CapitoL and a public lunch eon in the downtown Armory at noon will feature an address by Rear Adm. Howard L. Collins, commander of the; Pacific Mili tary Sea Transportation Service at San Francisco. Honor guests will include Gov. and Mrs. Paul Patterson and the commanders of Salem area re serve units. Mayor Robert L. White will introduce the guests No. 51 sign to a reserve torpedi bomber. Remodeling of 2 Downtown Work on new fronts for business buildings at 426 and. 432 State St was started Monday by Contract or E. E. Batterman, who secured a $25,000 building permit. The pro ject will include renovation of the interior of 432 State St. The buildings are owned by the Hawkins and Roberts . Building Corp. , Will's Music Co., which occupies the building at 432 State St., has moved to the other building tem porarily - while the interior of -its store is being renovated. ' t William H. Hammond,- property manager, said the. interior of. the second btfuding would be remod eled when a new tenant is found. The store was formerly occupied by Fields Dress Shop. : The enameled steel fronting, which will extend to the top of the two-story building. wiH eliminate second-floor - windows, Hammond said. Other permits .were issued Mon day to M. A. Binder, to do $1,000 in repairing on his house at 865 Jefferson St; R. M. Haynes, $5,500 in ' alterations on a house at 770 Shipping St.; Jory Packing Co., 985 N. Front St., $100 in altera tions on the loading platform; J. F. Smith, $300 in changes on a house at 1480 N. 24th St 20-Year Term Results From Dallas Attack Statesman News Service . DALLAS Joe Paul Slate. 22, Porterville, Calif., was sentenced to 20 years in the Oregon State Penitentiary after pleading guilty to a charge of rape lodged against him Friday. - Slate waived preliminary exami nation and grand jury investiga tion. He was sentenced by Polk County Circuit Judge Arlie Walker. He was arrested about 6 p.m. Friday, three hours after a young Dallas housewife was attacked in her home. Hawaii Girl First Portland Princess PORTLAND m . The first! princess of the 1955 Rose Festival was named Monday. Students at Roosevelt High selected- a tiny, 17-year-old brunette. She is Blanche Ruth Krulik, a 5-foot, 1-inch native of Honolulu who .has been in Portland four years. Other high schools will make their nominations later, with one of the princesses then to be named queen. . and CoL William. H. Hammond will introduce the speaker. Wil liam C Dyer is Armed Forces Day chai-man. -Many of Salem's service clubs and other organizations will join in the luncheon program today, in " place of their usual weekly club luncheons. ' The reserve outfits represent ed in the displays or at the luncheon include Cos. B and D, 162nd Infantry; Btry. D, 722nd AAA, of the National Guard; Naval Reserve surface division; Ml 4th VAR (air reserve); 235th Engineers; 919th Field Artillery; Co. K, 413th Infantry;' Hdq. and A batteries of 923th: USAR school ' detachment; Marino Re serve. 5c 44-year-old Casper A. Oveross Monday for' the gun slaying of his one-time neighbor Ervin Kaser three months ago tonight , Oveross, who was arrested and freed of the charge of first degree murder shortly after the night-time shooting, was expected to be taken into custody again today in Northern California whert he is reportedly visiting rela-1 tives Kaser, a Silverton area hop farmer, was slain Feb. 17 by a rifleman who pumped four well aimed shots Into his automobile a few seconds after he had ar rived at bis home on. the Cascade Highway two miles south of Sil verton. One of the bullets struck Kaser . in the , left side, killing him instantly. ' Trial Date Undecided How soon Oveross could be brought . to trial was undeter mined here Monday night. If he is arrested in Oregon he can be returned here immediately for arraignment If he is arrested in California it will take extradi tion proceedings to have him turned over to Oregon authori ties. He may either waive or fight extradition. If he chooses to fight extradition it may take several days of legal, maneuver ing to force his return, It apparently took the grand jury only a few minutes to reach its decision for indictment after beginning deliberations. Jurors filed into Circuit Judge George Duncan's courtroom just after. 5 p.m. Monday, shortly after hear ing the last of 20 witnesses called by District Attorney Kenneth O. Brown. New Evidence ' Brown ' had announced last Thursday that he would ask the jury - to 'return' a first, degree murder indictment against Over oss on the basis of new evidence centering around discovery of a rifle in Pudding River. The rifle, a 30-30 Winchester hunting gun, was f dund by 12-year-old Larry Wacker of Salem near the bank of the river about five road miles from the scene of the slay ing. It had apparently been tossed . there from a nearby bridge. Ballistic tests proved the gurt to be the murder weapon,- accord ing to Brown and police. .They said it could be linked to Oveross who reportedly purchased a gun of that description from a Sil verton hardware store in 1949. S-Menth Probe Sheriff Denver Young, who with state poliee officers has led the three-month-long - investiga tion of the crime, was first of the 20 witnesses called by Brown Monday. Following Young into the grand jury room, during the morning were Dr. Homer Harris, head of the state crime labora tory at Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel Kellerhals, who reside across 'the highway from Kaser's home and were apparently the only witnesses to ' the starlight slaying, and Silverton police offi cer James Painter. Among witnesses during the aft ernoon were Melvin Kaser and Harvey Kaser, brothers of the slain man and both residents of the Evergreen . community where the crime was committed. Also appearing were Gerald Hoyt, Mrs. Jennie Gilham, Daniel Gilham, Robert Barnes, Mrs. Ethel Over oss, former , wife of the suspect Jeff Kaser, young son of Harvey Kaser, Charles Hopkins, Wayne Moore, Mrs. Marian Zahler, Offic er Lloyd Riegel of the State Police, Ralph Prouty, ballistics expert with the state . enme Laboratory, Omer Bailey, and Rodney Luther. 1952 Trial If Oveross is brought to trial it will be the first murder trial in Marion County since Albert Karnes was convicted of the axe slaying of Mrs. Susan Litchfield in 1952. . A possible motive for the Kaser murder, .according to police, was the separation and divorce W the Oveross couple which Casper Over oss had reportedly blamed on Kaser. Kaser was also separated from his wife and was reportedly in trie company of Mrs. Oveross a few hours before he was shot to death. Oveross was questioned at length on the night of the slaying and at that. time told police he did not own a rifle. The missing weapon hampered police investigation and an ex tensive search of creeks, ponds and other, possible hiding places was made in the area. Its discov ery apparently held the key to the grand jury indictment for an earlier grand jury" declined to in dict Oveross on the basis of evi dence then presented and he was freed to continue his occupation as carpenter. la California About ten days ago a day or two before the gun was found Oveross reportedly left for Cali fornia. His attorney, Bruce Wil liams, said Monday night he had no comment to make on the grand jury action. He said, however, he expected Oveross would 'return to face the charge as soon- as he heard of the indictment Grand jurors hearing the case Monday were Arthur R. Jones. foreman, Mrs. Esther M. Alesfaire. Sam Adolph, Mrs. Mildred Burns, George E. Windecker, Mrs. Gladys B. Cochran .and Paul H. Everett PRODUCTION CLIMBS WASHINGTON Urv- The Federal Reserve Board said Monday in dustrial production rose in April to within one index point of the record high reached in mid-1933. . CASPER OVEROSS Indicted by grand jury. D.A. Mulls Plea to Leave District Attorney Kenneth Q. ,' Brown said Monday he did not feel he would be justified in step ping aside as prosecutor of Casper Oveross. indicted for the rifle slay ing of Ervin Kaser. 1 - Brown admitted that members of the Kaser family had suggest ed he turn the case over to a spe , cial prosecutor presumably be cause all principals in the case in eluding Brown are from the Sil verton area. "I feel I am qualified to try the case. I do not feel that I am in anyway prejudiced because I live in ' Silverton inasmuch as ' I have never to my knowledge so much as met the accused or the Tic tim, Brown stated, r Difficult Sitwittoa " t J "I have been elected by the peo ple to prosecute criminal actions in Marion County, including Sil verton, I hesitate to ask the coun ty court to incur the expense of hiring a special prosecutor. How ever, the feeling of the relatives creates a difficult situation and I wish to consider the matter at greater length "At the present time, my general feeling is that I would not be justi fied in stepping out of the case simply because I am from Silver ton." . - . Precedent Set ' ' "' V ' Once jo recent history has a dis trict attorney of -the county dis qualified himself as - prosecutor. During the term of office of Lyle J. (Barney) Page 17 years ago in the case involving the county treasurer, sheriff and county court offices. Page disqualified himself on the grounds he was the legal advisor for those offices. The coun ty court then appointed a special : prosecutor to conduct the case. Brown, said the only ways he could be superceded in the- case would be for him to voluntarily step aside, or for the governor tar ask the attorney general s office to intercede as it did in last yearns Lincoln County vice probes. Rocky Downs British Foe SAN FRANCISCO ID-Rocky Marciano retained his world , heavyweight boxing title Monday night by battering. British challen ger Don Cockell into a ninth-round technical knockout victim, leaving, the blood-spattered Briton reeling ': drttnkenly toward the ropes as the referee halted the fight ' Cock ell was knocked through the ropes in the eighth and took a count of two just before the bell : sounded ending the round. A terri fic right by Marciano sent' Cockell to the canvas twice in the ninth. ' He refused to stay down and drag ged himself to his feet before the fight was halted. (Additional de tails on sports pages.? TV A SALE PROPOSED NASHVILLE. Ten. Wl The Nashville Tennessean, in a copy righted story, said Monday night' the Hoover commission task force : on water resources and power has proposed that Tennessee Valley Authority power facilities be sold or leased. ' Today's Sfslcsr.m Classifieds Comics Crossword Editorials Homo Panorama L, 1 Markets $ Sports - ; ' :.U 1-3 Star Gazer " ' 7 TV, Kadio 4 VaHy ! II .V- Sec Pag it 5-7 4 l 4