Salem. Flag Sdliites War Dead
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TK Oregon Statesman, Salem Oregon, Monday, May 30, 1955
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Last Friday night Miss Mar
garet Truman substituted for Ed
ward R. Murrow for his weekly
televised interview with famous
Turnna1itiAa Rh mac a Vila tn t.'
lect a couple very lately in high
station: her parents, former Pres
ident and Mrs. Harry S. Truman,
with the earner) viewing and the
microphone interviewing them in
their home in Independence. !
Quite a remarkable performance;
ji was, giving tne American peo
ple a view of a man who had
emerged from among them, risen
to the highest office in the gift
r of the people, and then returned
to familiar scenes and surround
ings, stripped of power to be sure.
but free also of responsibilities
Miss Margaret of course could
'converse with them on most inti
mate terms. One thing she asked
her father to relate was about one
of his experiences in the White
House. He was awakened one
morning about three o'clock with
a rap on his bedroom door. He
arose, opened the door, and there
was no one there. He remarked
thai it may have been "Lincoln's
ghost" ,
That remark was indeed reveal
ing. For every one called on to
tenant the White House since
1865 must "feel" the presence of
the Great Emancipator. He may
feel also the presence of others
who have lived for a term within
its walls: tough-willed Old Hick
ory, Andrew Jackson, the digni
fied McKinley, the dour Coolidge,
the robust Teddy Roosevelt,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the experi
mentalist. Of them all the im
manence of Lincoln must be most
pervasive- Every President lives
in his shadow, sharing something
of the burden which he carried,
aspiring to preserve the Union
which was his supreme task.
The same is true of this Me
morial Day. It is invested with
the memory of Abraham Lincoln
and of Grant and Sherman and
Sheridan and Logan and of the
boys in blue who in four bitter
years of war confirmed Lincoln's
resolution to save the Union.
Though the Day very properly is
expanded to include a tribute to
the dead of all our wars, and is
hallowed to the memory of loved
ones whose life span is ended,
still its links are primarily with
the Civil War. It is a day of rec
ognition of the principle for
which Daniel Webster plead:
"Liberty and Union, now and for
ever, one and. inseparable"; and
of those whose sacrifices pre
served the Union iri the 1860s and
have preserved it in all its subse
quent trials. In their memory we
how our heads in tribute.
Infant Dies .
After Blow
From Father
PORTLAND in - A month-oldJ
oaoy Doy, who police said was
struck by his enraged father, died
In a Portland hospital Sunday.
The death of the infant, Randolph
R. Johnson, was caused by a blow
on the head, the coroner's office
reported.
Police said the father. Earl R.
Johnson. 29. had admitted in a
signed statement, that on May 21
he became angry at the baby's
fussing and struck it on the side
of its head with his fist.
The baby had convulsions two
days later and was taken to a
hospital.
The father was booked in the
county jail on an assault charge.
Bail of $5,000 was set.
Temperance
Official Hits
Gobel Show
SAXFORD, Maine W The ex
ecutive director of the National
"Temperance League said Sunday
that television comedian George
Gobel should apologize to the Na
tional Safety Council." .
In a sermon at the Springvak
Baptist Church, Maj. Clayton Wal
lace of Wolfeboro, N.H., and Wash
ington, said: J
"On this' Memorial Day week
end with a predicted death toll on
the highways of 360 persons and
when the Safety Council is urging
people to drive safely, George Go
bel at the end of his show last
night told people they could buy
happiness. He advised them to go
out then or today and buy a fifth.
"It seems to us that such advice
at a time like this is .worthy of
an apology to the National Safety
Council.'
HOLIDAY TAKES TOLL
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Traffic accidents have taken
five lives, drowning claimed three
others, and fumes from a pleas
ure cruiser are blamed for another
death on the Memorial Day holi
day fa Washington state.
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A breeze whips the U. S. flag into a Memorial Day salnte to the
nation's veterans of all wars at City View Cemetery in Salem.
Young Salem visitor Denny Blanchard of Portland, at the ceme
tery to help Jus grandfather decorate graves, pauses to look at
the headstone of an Indian War volunteer in the cemetery's Civil
War, circle. Individual flags had been placed on graves of all
known war veterans by Salem veteran organizations. (Statesman
Photo by Thomas G. Wright Jr.).
Parade to
Memorial Services
Highlighting the observance of Memorial Day in Salem today
will be a parade through downtown streets, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
in the Capitol Mall area.
All state, county, federal and school offices will be closed, as
will be most stores and plants.
The weather forecast indicates a cloud canopy for the parade,
but little- likelihood of any rain,
Featured in the parade will be
marchers from Salem's patriotic
orders, the Salem Junior Saddle
Club," reserve groups and six
bands. Service recruiting men
will be grand marshals.
Parade Route
Parade route is west on Che
meketa Street from the mall to
Cottage Street; south on Cottage
to State; west on State to Liberty,
with reviewsng stand in front of
J. C. Penney's store; down Lib
erty to Court; east on Court to
High and the Marion County
Courthouse, where a program
will be held on the west steps.
Presiding will be Dave Hoss;
guest speaker will be Walter
Winslow, Salem attorney; the
Rev. Wayne Greene of the First
Christian Church will give invo
cation; and the Rev. James Kratz
of South Salem Church of the
Nazarene will present the bene
diction. .
Cemetery Service
Preceding this ceremony, there
will-be services at 9 a.m. -at the
Civil War Monument in City
View Cemetery, and at Marion
Street; ramp at the same hour
where wreaths will be dropped
from the span to the Willamette
River belowMn honor of Navy
and Marine' war dead. The lat
ter service will be sponsored by
Salem chapter of Navy Mothers.
Salem Federation of Patriotic
Orders, meanwhile, announces
that flags for veterans' graves
will be available at all city ceme4
tenes.
Many will flock to the eoast
today to see the Fleet of Flowers
at Depoe Bay, beginning at 2
p.m. State Sen. Mark Hatfield
will speak.
Heavy Traffic
. While traffic was on the heavy
Side Sunday on all major highway
routes fa- the area, state police re
ported jm serious accidents. '
Max. Mia. Precip.
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Chicago :
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Willamette River 1 feet.
FORECAST Urom U. S.
-weather
Bureau, ncnary, ikjo, aaiemi: :
KJUQy mgni una morning vjourat
with scattered showers and partly
cloudy afternoon through Tuesday:
continued cool with highest today
near 70. lowest tonight neaa 44.
Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today
was 4.' , :
SALEM PRECIPITATION -Since
start ( Weather Tear Sept. 1
Thts Tear Last Tear Normal
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Highlight
Jobless Truck ,
Driver Slays
Children, Wife
PHOENIX, Ariz., Ufi A .28-year-old
unemployed truck driver
killed two of his children and his
wife and then wounded himself in
a small motel apartment here
Saturday night, police reported.
The father, Lester Bartholomew,
was in critical condition.
His oldest; child, Linda. 5, ran
from the apartment when the
shooting - began and was- not
harmed, police said.
The other two children, Richard,
3. and Pamela, 2. were shot
while lying in bed. Detective Bill
Blick said the wife, Marie. 23,
apparently was shot in the kitchen
and dragged into the bedroom.
At . the hospital, detective Herb
Neal said Bartholomew told him:
"I planned to shoot the kids and
myself and leave - her to suffer
but I shot her when she inter
ferred !
Neil said Bartholomew told him
his wife ragged him and had
deserted . him in January of this
year. Bartholomew said he re
turned to her later, according to
NeaL
Neighborhood
Suspicious ofK'
Slot'Mdcliines'
EL MONTE, Calif., tf) - A big
moving van rolled up in, front of
Mrs. Patricia Shedley's home Sat
urday. The driver unloaded 11 slot
machines.
Suspicious; neighbors wondered
whether a gambling casino was
being, opened. Sheriff's vice squad
officers arrived.
Van driver David Diaz, 29 ex
plained:.. J
In Bremerton, Wash., he had
loaded Mrs. Shedley's furniture for
transport here. In Tacoma the van
picked up the slot machines for
delivery in Las Vegas, Nev.
To get Mrs. Shedley's furniture
out of the van, Diaz and his helper
had to remove the one-armed
bandits first.
"How; was. I supposed to know
it's against! the law to haul the
machines through California? he
asked.-
- The deputies confiscated the one
armed bandits and cited Diaz for
illegal possession of slot machines.
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CIO Tempters
Guaranteed
Wage Demand
DETROIT IP Revision of the
Ford Motor Cs "package," offefjo tension in the Far. East J T .
and an adjustment in the CIO , Menon, Prime Minister' Nehru's top adviser on foreign affairs,
United Auto Workers guaranteed intimated to a. news ronference that other American airmen held
annual wage - demand emerged
from contract negotiations Sunday
as the two sides met In an emer
gency' session to head off an im
pending strike of 140,000 Ford em
floyes. v
The UAW reduced the amount it
is asking for laid-off workers
from its original demand of 100
per cent of take-home pay to CO
per cent of gross pay for a 40-hour
week. ...
Ford, it was revealed for the
first time, adjusted the phrasing of
its separation pay proposal to as
sure the union that an employe
leaving the company could receive
separation pay without jeopardiz
ing pension benefits.
Concession Seen
The meeting adjourned at
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p. m. PST) and will resume at
10 a. m Monday, Memorial Day
Some observers viewed the re
phrasing of the severance pay
clause as a concession to union
demands. The company, however,
insisted the revision only brought
the offer in line with the company's
original intention in its package
offer made last Thursday.
Essentially, neither the company
nor the union deviated - from the
principle of their original de
mands. There still was no indica
tion that the company was willing
to accept the principle of the guar
anteed annual wage.
Walkout Okehed
The union already has authorized
a walkout after midnight Wednes
day if contract talks fail
Mother, Four
Children Die
OfE
xposure
GERALD INE, Mont. Vfl A 23-year-old
mother and her four chil
dren, ranging in age from nine
months to five years, were found
dead in a coulee near this Central
Monona community Sunday morn-
Discovery of their bodies
cli-
maxed a grim search by more
than 100 men by airplane, horse
back and on foot.
Sheriff Jack Bradley of Choteau
County said he believes the five
died of exposure.
Dead are Mrs. Alice Phillips and
her four children Mary, 4, Cary,
3. Clifford, 18 months, and Wil
liam, 5 months.
Bradley placed their death at
Thursday night during a heavy
rainstorm about seven miles from
their home in rough, rolling coun
try near the Missouri River.
Mrs. Phillips and the children
had been missing since Thursday.
Bradley said her 34-year-old
husband, Howard Phillips, told
him he went to Geraldine Thurs
day to get groceries. When Phil
lips returned to his small ranch
his wife and children were not at
home.
Bradley quoted Phillips as say
ing he started to search for his
family by horseback.
Phillips did not notify authori
ties of his family's disappearance
until Saturday, afternoon.
Bradley and the Geraldine mar
shal, Ed Fuller, immediately or
ganized a searching party.
Bradley said he could find no
explanation as to why Mrs. Phil
lips bundled up her four children
and set out on foot from her small
ranch home.
Chinook Pass
Still Closed
OLYMPIA m Chinook Pass,
leading across the Cascade Moun
tains toward Yakima, still was
closed Sunday, after snowslides
battered at three automobiles Sat
urday afternoon.
The State Patrol at Olympia re
ported that rain, fog and slush
hampered efforts by highway
crews to reopen the pass. Curious
motorists were warned from the
area.
NORTHWEST LEAGUE ,
At Salem 19-7. Yakima S-l
At Lewistton -ll. Eugene 15-t
At Spokane 4-4. Tri-Cit 13-t
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
- At Portland San Francisco .1-3
. At Los Angeles 5-4. San Diego f-3
At Oakland 4-10. Sacramento t-1
At Seattle 5-0, Hollywood 7-5
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At Kansas City I, Cleveland 4
At Detroit 3, Chicago
At Baltimore 0, New Yvrk 1
7 At Boston 12, Washington 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At New York S. Brooklyn
At Chicago , Milwaukee ..
At St. Louis 7. Cincinnati 1
At Pittsburgh philaadlpfaU S-3
Ied - China to Free
Fdur ahk Airmen
--:'-! - By HAROLD K. MILKS
i NEW DELHI Idian diplomat V. K. Krishna Menon an
nounced Monday that the Chinese Communists will release four
American sirmpn within . few hours as a move toward relaxation
W-W 'I
Delegates to
Jersey Meet
Gather Here
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
Farm Editor, The Statesman"
' Delegates to the 87th annual
convention of the American Jer
sey Cattle Club began registering
at the Marion Hotel Sunday for
the week-long session to be cli
maxed by Wednesday's business
meeting.
some uu memDers irora
states had registered by late Sun
day and some of the delegates
were attending committee meet
ings Sunday afternoon and eve
ning. The board of directors will
swing into action Monday after
noon at 1 p.m. with another meet
ing scheduled for Monday" night.
D. T. Simons, Fort Worth, Tex.,
president of the national club,
said that four changes in the, con
stitution will be considered at the
Wednesday business session.
Change Authorized
One of the changes will author
ize a shift from the $500,000 hold
ing permit to one of ,$2,000,000.
Assets of the association frequent-H
ly run to $1,000,000, Simons point
ed out. Abo to be considered will
be a change in membership fee
now set at $50. Originally the fee
was $100, Simons said, with hopes
now of bringing it down to $25
and so greatly increasing the
number of members.
Simons also reported' that at
Wednesday's meeting a president,
three regional directors, and a di-
rector-at-large will be elected. He
added, in answer to inquiry that
he "feared" he was, unopposed as
candidate for president
2-Term Limit
"It is usual," he explained,
"that the president retain the po
sition for a couple of terms, and
I'm' afraid no change in prece
dent will be "made this time."
Several visitors arrived Friday
and Saturday and were taken for
short tours around the Salem area
Sunday. (Additional details, page
2.)
Yakima Woman
Wins Air Race ,
TUCSON, Ariz. Wl Mrs. Gini
II. Richardson of Yakima, Wash.,
Sunday night was announced as
the winner of the second annual
Hayward, Calif, to Tucson air
race.
Flying a Cessna 120, she did the
distance in 6:04.49 and had a
handicap of plus 13.7.
. The planes, which were handi
capped according to horsepower
and top speed, made stops at
Bakersfield and Thermal, Calif.,
and Gila Bend, Ariz.
Mrs. Richardson wins a $900
prize.
Slaying Suspect Back From Alaska'
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Back ia Marion County jail Sunday wis Casper Oveross, Silvertoa, returned here from Fairbanks,
Alaska, to face a first degree murder indictment ia the Feb. 17 gna slaying of Ervin Kaser, Ever
green community bop farmer. Here Pvervss listens to instructions from Marion County Sheriff
Denver Yoong as he is being booked Sunday morning. Sheriff Young and Sgt. Wayne Hoffman of
! State Police brought Oveross from Fairbani where lie turned himself ia tea day ago. (Statesman
Photo). - -:
Eiaoiiaay Qiniasniipg
by Peiping also might be freed
soon. ; -. . y
Calling the Chinese release of
the fouT fliers "a major step."
Menon said the "cases of other U.
S. service men still held in China
are "constantly under review."
Those to be released Monday,
Menon said, are the "Fischer
group" Capt. Harold Fischer
Jr., of Swea City, Iowa; 1st Lt.
Lyle W. Cameron of . L i n c o 1 n.
Neb, Lt. Col Edwin L Heller of
Wynnewood, Pa, and 1st Lt. Ro
land W. Parks of Omaha, Neb
All four are fighter pilots shot
down during the Korean War.
In addition to those four the Chi
nese Communists hold 11 other
American - airmen they have
charged with espionage. No such
charges have been made against
Fischer and his group.
All 15 airmen were fighting with
the United Nations forces in Korea.
Under the armistice which ended
the war in 1953, these men were
supposed to have been released
immediately.
Fischer and the other three all
fighter pilots had been held in
Mukden, Manchuria. Fischer's par
ents have said he wrote them re
cently that he and his companions
had been moved to Peiping. Fisch
er's letters to his parents also told
of improved treatment for the pri
soners. Fischer.- 28, was a double jet ace
with 10 MIGs shot down in 66 mis
sions. He was shot down April 7,
1952; near Suiho Reservoir in North
Korea.
Heller, 36, was shot down Jan. 23,
19S3. Fellow airmen said they last
saw him in a dog fight about three
miles south of the Yalu River. The
Communists claimed he was shot
down over Manchuria.
Cameron was shot down Oct. 26,
1952.
Parks, 24, was shot down on his
59th mission Sept 4. 1952.
Police Return Oveross
To Face Murder Trial
. Casper Oveross, who will go
on trial here next month for the
uiuiuci . ""ff -
down from a United Air Lines
plane here Sunday between two
police officers after a flight from
Fairbanks, Alaska where he
turned himself in ten days ago.
The 43-year-old Silverton car
penter was vigorously chewing a
stick of gum and sporting a new
blue baseball cap on his arrival
here at 9:10 a.m. He was booked
in at the Marion County jail a
half hour later.
Oveross was brouht back in
the custody of Marion County
Sheriff Denver Young and State
Police Sgt Wayne Huffman who
left Salem Thursday to return
him.
A few - minutes after, being
booked in Oveross was in confer
ence with his attorney Bruce Wil
liams on plans for his . defense
against the first degree murder
indictment returned against him
at ;
Princess Bawled
Out for Sneaking
Into Stage Party
LONDON W They're telling
this story around London's plushy
Mayfair this weekend and calling
it the biggest social blooper of the
year.
After last week's celebrity-studded
first night of the play "The
Reluctant Debutante," a theater
official bawled out three young
girls who clambered over the stage
scenery to reach the backstage
party.
"Get out," he bawled "Get out
and come in the right way."
The girls went, and a bystander
whispered in the official's ear: "I
suppose you know the one in the
middle was Princess Alexandra."
Princess Alexandra, cousin of
Queen Elizabeth, is ninth in line
to the British throne.
Truck Tieup
Shuts Down
Chrysler Plant
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LOS ANGELES (JV-The 11-day-old
trucking tie-up in 11 Western
states has caused Chrysler Corp.
to shut down its assembly plant
here, idling 4,800 workers, the
company manager said Sunday.
The plant is West Coast assem
bly center for Chrysler, Dodge,
De Soto and Plymouth automo
biles. It turns out about 430 cars
a day. Studebaker-Packard Corp.
stopped operations at its nearby
Vernon plant last Wednesday, also
because of the strike.
The trucking strike-lockout start
ed when the AFL Temasters Un
ion struck three companies. Truck
ing associations hit back with an
11-state shutdown. Industry spokes
men say the tie-up has affected
100,000 drivers, dockmen and other
workers.
The union has been demanding
10 cents more' now and 8 cents
additional in each of the next two
years. Base pay for Western long
haul drivers is now $2.14 an hour
or 714 cents a mile, whichever
is greater.
by a Marion County Grand Jury,
May 16.
karraigned in Marion county Or
cuit Court Tuesday following the
holidays. Attorney Williams said
if the indictment was okehed by
them at the arraignment Oveross
would probably enter a, plea of
Innocence at the same time in an
effort to speed court machinery
toward an early trial.
It appeared likely Sunday that
Oveross trial for the Feb. 17 gun
slaying of his one-time neighbor
would get underway by mid-June.
Oveross, who gave himself up
to territorial officials in Alaska
May 20, was not handcuffed for1
the trip back to Salem. Sheriff
Young said the return was un
eventful. Oveross had been in
Alaska nearly a month before be
ing notified by his attorney that
he had been indicted, Young re
ported. He was checked through
the Canadian border station on
the Alcan highway, April 28,
Young said.
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Oregon's Toll
Climbs to 5
For Weekend
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The toll of dead on the nation's
highways spurted upward Sunday
night with two-thirds of the Me
morial holiday weekend past.
At midnight (EST). 54 hours
from the start of the 78-hour holi
day period at 6 p. m. local time
Friday, a total of 330 persons met
their deaths from accidental caus
es. Of these, 231 died in traffic. 73
by drowning and 29 by miscellan
eous accidents. - i s - .
The highway death toll was run
ning about 10 per cent ahead of
last year's rate. The 1954 total
was 362, one under the record
which occurred in 1952.
The National Safety Council had
predicted that the three-day holi
day would take 360 lives in high
way traffic this year, and Sunday
night council President Ned H.
Dearborn feared the total mignt
equal or surpass that figure.
Worst U Come
The council warned that the
worst hours of the holiday were
yet to come as motorists started
homeward from weekend trips to
friends and resort areas.
Traffic deaths for the three-day
Memorial period in 1949 totaled
253. The record number of traffic
deaths . for a. three-day Memorial
weekend was 363 in 1952.
363- Last Year
Last year, the traffic toll for
the holiday was 362. The overall
1954 Memorial Day weekend acci
dent cost was 539 lives, of which
93 were lost in drownings and 84
in miscellaneous accidents.
A survey of accident deaths for
a three-day, 78 hour, weekend period-earlier
this month from S
p.m. Friday. May 13 to midnight
Monday May 16 recorded 446
accidental deaths in the nation:
294 in traffic. 58 in drownings, and
94 miscellaneous.
Five in Oregon
A Central Oregon traffic death
Sunday raised the Memorial Day
weekend accident toll in the state
to five. .
. David W. Hauser, 22, Tygh Val
ley, was killed Sunday when a car.
which he was riding in with two
other men, plunged off a highway.
The other two men were treated
for injuries at The Dalles hospital
Two were killed : in Portland
crashes, Paul Murray, 19, Eugene,
and Nicholas Freund, 80, Portland.
Murray was riding in a car that
collided with a truck. Freund was
struck by a car while crossing a
street.
Harry' B. Hussy, 48, of Madras,
was killed when his car ran off
a highway near Brownsville Sat
urday night.
Pamela Lynn McCartney, a 22-montb-old
Portland girl, drowned
Saturday when she . fell into a
shallow fishpond in her backyard.
33 Drivers
Set for '500'
INDIANAPOLIS (Jfh-The In
dianapolis Memorial Day classic,
the 39th annual 500-mile auto
race, again drew a favorable nod
from the weatherman as 33
wreck-scarred drivers met Sun
day for the final instructions on
the rich running the auto world's
king prize. r.
Big question of the day to the
racing veterans and fans alike
was whether Bill Vukovich could
win the race for-Ve third
straight year, something no one
has ever done. . Vukv won ' in
1953 and took top prize money
of $90,000. His 1954 victory was
worth $75,000. ,
The race will not be televised
but Salem radio station KGAE
will - carry the complete race,
starting, at 7-45 a.m.. (Details on
sports pages.)
French Kill
Eight Rebels
PARIS un French troops
killed eight armed rebels in South
ern Algeria and arrested 200 mem
bers of a terrorist organization in
Morocco in measures authorities
said Sunday were aimed at put
ting down violence ' in turbulent
North Africa.
It was apparent thatthe French
were making an all oJk effort to
convince Moslem populations in
areas of North Africa under
French administration that suffi
cient forces could be amassed to
put down ruthlessly, if necessary,
any uprisings.
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