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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather- ' Today's fwraeasft Momlrvg clouds, sunny this efterweer. . air tonight and Friday. High today 7M0, tonight 41. 50. cauu tr( ( ,. mm POUNDBD 1651 106th Y.r 4 SECTIONS-21 PACES .Tha Oregon Statesman, Salani, Oregon, Thursday, August 16, 195o PRICE Sc No. 142 0)eoims Sftommp ut Civol lights evD" by 4" -I" Thousands of Catholic Faithful Make Marian Pilgrimage a Adlai Within 13 Votes of Victory ton ym jflBiH ms ! H Km trtwtl, f Off- - ji ill u ' UCDCDQS ' Th international conference to consider the Suet Canal affair opens today in London, with at tendance from 22 .nations. Egypt and Greece alone declined the Invitations Issued by Britain, France, the USA. The conference will meet in an atmosphere which dampens the powder of the im perialists and of the nationalists who would like to give Nasser of Egypt spanking. When the British Labor party declared for avoidance of force in effecting a settlement of the prob lem, the unity necessary for bel ligerent action was taken away. Add to this the evident reluctance of the United States to invoke force, the appeal of Nehru for settlement by negotiation and the standoffish attitude of the USSR to the whole business and it be comes clear that this conference Will wave no war club over Egypt. That may be done later, by Bri tain and France, with the U.S. as a reluctant cooperator, but not by the international group. India has for its delegate V. K. Krishna Menon, Nehru's great pacifier who will exercise his ingenious , brain to furnish a formula for peace, even at sacrifice to the West. ' It must be admitted that Egypt's position is superior from both a geographic and a political standpoint. The canal crosses Egyptian territory. The canal company is an Kgyptian corpora- tion. Egypt under Nasser has been reaching for leadership of the ; Arab nations and in this contro- versy has their support. Other i Arab states, like Saudi Arabia and Iraq, have rich oil resources now being tapped by the West. Others like Jordan and Syria and Leha- Continued on editorial page 4.) WARRENS OFF TO BOMBAY ZURICH, Switzerland Ufl Chief Justice Earl Warren and Mrs. Warren left Zurich Wednesday by plane for Bombay. WILBERT I s ill a- - I- . I M , ,1 i I I 'A Ar MT. ANGEL Third annual Maria Pilgrimage brought thousands to Crooked Finger district, ear Mt Angel, Wednesday. Procession, led to Holy Rosary Pilgrimage Chapel la back ground. This afternoon photo shows portion of marchers. A second pilgrimage was con darted at night by candlelight. (Statesman Photo by John Eriekien) . Over 7,000 Participate In Pilgrimage Slatrunu Nrwi Srrvir MT. AN'GEL Over 7.000 wor shippers Wednesday evening made a candle-lit pilgrimage to the tiny Holy Rosary Catholic Chapel 12 miles east of here. The procession was the second of the day. Wednesday afternoon. about ' 2,000 persons walked the half-mile route to attend services. Both pilgrimages were part of the third annual Marian Pilgrimage at the chapel in the Crooked Finger district. Observers said the evening crowd was the largest ever assembled for the yearly night-time service. The Rev. francis woods. New lork. spoke on the "Power of the Ro sary" at both services. "A world at prayer is a world at peace," he told the assembled worshippers. Participating in the services were the Mt.' Angel firing squad and an honor guard composed of fourth degree Knights of Columbus. Fa ther llildebrand Melchior officiated at the evening mass. Frank Le- bold, Salem, was organist for both services. Worshipers sang the evening mass, led by the Mt. Angel men's vested choir. i Tooze Takes Oxygen Again, Termed Fair Walter L. Tooie, Oregon supreme court justice, was described as in fair condition Wednesday night at Salem Memorial Hospital, Hospital attendants said Tooze had been under oxygen during part of the day. Tooze has been hospitalized since Aug. 6 State Board May Use Stream's Entire Drainage Basin for Test A unique program to experi ment with the various uses of stream water in Oregon was out lined Wednesday hy Gov. Elmo Smith at a meeting of the State Natural Resources Comrilltee. The, program would Involve many experts testing ideas for use of water in such fields as domes tic, municipal, irrigation, power development, industrial and min ing uses, and in the programs of wildlife, recreation and fish de velopment. L "Many studies have been made relative to ' single uses of water but little is known of the relation ships of one use to the other,'' l:,iL' Smith nit , "One of the state's basic re sources is fish," the committee ! w as told. "Fishery biologists and (others have repeatedly suggested I that fish life has decreased be cause of a variety of causes such 1 as barriers, diversions, winter A v Multnomah Probers Ask . Changes in Oregon Laws rORTLAND (irv Changes in Ore gon la wto permit removal of pub lic officials and appointment of special grand juries were recom mended Wednesday by a Multno- mar County grand jury that spent 10 w e e k s investigating vice and corruption in Portland. . The jury also called for suspen sion of public officials who have been indicted for violation of crim inal law. Indictments were returned Marathon Piano Player Con I in lies St'MBERLAND, Md. I Joe N'yland, 32 year old Cumberland pianist, went into the third day Wednesday of his marathon stint of playing the piano SO minutes of every 60 In a downtown music store. NORTHWEST l.EACl'K At Eugrnr 4. Salrm 3. t Tn-City 4. Lrwliton S. Mt Spokim l-S, WtnilihM 1-1. PACIFIC COAST I.EACrf At San Franriaro 3. Portland 4. . At Lot Angeles 4. Vancouver 14. At Sacramento S-t, Hollywood 1-0 At San Diefo 4, SeatUt t. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Kansai City 0. Chicago 10. At Cleveland 0. Detroit 1. At Baltimore 3, Washington 3. At New York S. ftnaton 4. NATIONAL I.EAGl'K At Brooklyn O. New York t. At Philadelphia I, Pittsburgh I At Chicago .1-3. Cincinnati 4-V. At St. I-nuu 1, Milwaukee 4. floods, sanitation, inadequate flow, fires, splash dams, predators, over-fishing and other factors." The proposed experiment, said the governor, may help lind the answers to some of 'the problems. If carried out the proposal would be the only known test of its kind in the, United States. The natural resources committee au thorized Gov. Smith to start the project moving by appointment of a technical committee to develop a detailed outline. The entire drainage basin of a Western Oregon stream would be set aside (or the study. As envisioned the experiment would be in a location in which foresters, engineers, fishery biolo gists, soil conservationists and others could test their' ideas in re lation In the many activities tak ing place in or near a river to the, mutual advantage of each phase. ' . 1 MAn against more than 30 persons, including Dist. Atty. William M. Langley and Police Chief James Purcell Jr. These two officials, who posted btmd on the charges, remain on duty. Offer Report The jury, working under the direction of Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, had prepared the report for submission to Circuit Judge Frank Lonergan Wednesday morn ing. The judge announced from the bench, however, that he would not accept the report as written The rewritten report contained the law change recommendations. Contents of the earlier report were not disclosed. The jury recommendations called for: 1. Changes in the state Consti tution to permit the removal from office by proper authority of a public official who refuses when summoned before a grand jury, to testify on conduct of his offici to sign a waiver of immunity against prosecution or to furnish financial statement. Special Juries promote gambling; Purcell, in dicted on a charge of malfeasance, incompetency and. delinquency in office; and eight Portland police men, indicted on charges df per jury, all have retained their offices. 4. The sound-proofing of the Jury room to make it "completely secure from all unauthorized list ening, whether intentional or acci dental." The grand jury probe was touched olf by a series of articles in The Oregonian, which charged that Seattle men had conspired with certain public officials to set up a vice syndicate in Portland. 2. That the laws of Oregon he amended to authorize the appoint ment of a special grand jury when directed by the Circuit Court or the governor. "It is very apparent that the extended investigation hy this grand jury has caused sub stantial delay and .inconvenience in the administration of criminal justice in Multnomah County. It is conceivable that this situation may arise some time in the future. This problem has been met in other states by amendment of the grand jury statutes to permit special... grand juries. It is rec commended that . this matter, should be carefully investigated by the 1957 Legislative Assembly and that action be taken to correct the statute." Automatic Suspension 3. That the laws of Oregon be mended "to provide that any public olftcer who is under indict ment for an alleged criminal vio lation shall be automatically sus pended from the performance of his official duties until the charge has been tried and determined in court of law." Lsngle; indicted on charges of malfeasance and conspiracy Top Strategist For Harriman Admits Defeat CHICAGO (AP)-AdU Stev enson edged to within 13 votes of a first ballot Democratic nomination for President Thursday morning, carried by a bandwagon movement among big delegations and a scattering of minor shifts elsewhere. At 1 a.m. EST The Associa ted Press tabulation of delegates, based on commitments through caucuses and other ise, and the expressed preferences of dele gates not yet tied down showed him only 124 voles shy of the 486 'i required for a quick deci sion when the balloting starts Thursday "night. Other shifts were in the making. The coimrr Stevenson 674, Averell Harri man 234, others 237, uncommitted or unreachable 206. Michigan started it shortly after midnight Tuesday night by mov ing most of its votes, previously committed to Gov. G. Mennen Williams, into the' Stevenson .col umn. Technically the ballots were still tied to Williams but the gov ernor himself was urging a first ballot shift. Swing U Adlal Then Wednesday morning New Jersey swung its whole 36 votes to Stevenson and Arkansas fol lowed with 26, with the proviso that a satisfactory platform would be required to make the shift ef fective. An informal poll of the Maryland delegation indicated all 18 of state's votes would go to Steven son. The delegates previously bad been split M for Stevenson and I for Harriman. Washington remained with 174 votes for Stevenson, 4 for Harri man, V for Sen. Symington and 4 still uncommitted; Oregon list ed all 16 for Stevenson: Idaho 2 for Stevenson and 64 for Harri man with 3' uncommitted. . Admits Lms CONVENTION HALL. Chicago Frank McKinney, one of Averell Harriman s top itrateg ists, Thursday conceded defeat for his candidate. McKinney told a reporter the New York governor's cause is now hopeless a fact which had been evident anyway as Adlai Steven son picked up votes in near steamroller fashion. McKinney was asked whether President Truman's appeal for harmony at the national conven tion early Thursday marked the end of any prospect for Harri man's nomination. McKinney said it did. McKinney, a former Democrat ic National Chairman, had worked as part of a Truman team in an effort to put Harriman over. Clouds, Sun to Vie in Forecast Clouds are expected early this morning but it will be mostly sunny this afternoon, according to the McNary Field weather station. Fair skies are predicted for. to night and Friday. Probable high today is 78 to 80, the low tonight 48 to SO.' Wednesday's high was 76 in Sa lem, the weather bureau said. Correspondents Lay Success of Stevenson Bandwagon To Moderate Political Climate Created by Eisenhower By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP CHICAGO ' Four individuals have made the chief contribution to the smooth success of Adlai Stevenson's bandwagon. In their peculiar order of descending im portance, they are Dwiglit D. Kisenhower, James Klnnegan, Kleanor Roosevelt and Estes Ke fauver. Eisenhower must come first be cause he created the moderate political climate in which Steven aoji has flourished. The insistence of Harry S. Truman and Averell Harriman that you really have to fight a political campaign, and that basic issues matter like the devil, fell on deaf or positively hostile ears here at Chicago. The great majority of state leaders simply did not want that Trumsn Harriman kind of campaign this time. They wanted the, Stevenson kind, because of the climate that Kisenhower has created. Created Machine j Jim Finnecan comes second among the engineers of the Ste venson victory because this quiet- Meat Loaf, Corn-on-Cob Fifteen inmates of Marlon County jail complained about quality of food Wednesday as they went on a food strike at suppertime. The tray pictured, typical or the meal Tf Jerted, In cludes meat loaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, an car of corn, cole slaw, three alicet ef bread and coffee. ' U.S., Russia Oppose Force In Suez Issue LONDON l - The United States and Russia were reported in broad agreement Wednesday night that armed force must be ruled out In the Sues Canal dis pute. , v Secretary of Stata Dulles con ferred for the first time with So viet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov. ' Dulles emerged from their 90 minute talk satisfied that the So viet Union was ready-to join in an effort to take the canal dis pute out of world politics. Dulles formed the impression that the Russian was both open minded and willing to do business over the final form of a Suez set tlement at the 22-nation con ference opening Thursday. Their talk took them no nearer firm agreement on what the set tlement will be. But it did clear the air and informants .said it clarified the viewpoints of each. They were still split over Presi dent Nasser's insistence that Egypt must operate the canal and limit any international role to ad vice: Dulles and Shepilov were re ported agreed that the conference can take no positive, final deci sion. Dulles was said to have of fered the view that the West can not present any ultimatum to Egypt but only a set of recom mendations Kgypt might be will ing to accept. But the major difference be tween them Egypt's role as sole operator of the canal seemed certain to be a sticking point. (Add. Sues Stories Pages I and IIP" 400.004 BATTLE FLOOD LONDON i Peiping Radio said Wednesday night 400,000 per sons are battling' floods in Man churia's Heilungkiang province, city of Harbin and affected a mil lion acres of the province's farm land, the broadcast said. spoken, deliberate actiag, cool headed and intensely professional Irish politician has utterly trans formed the Stevenson high com mand. The turning point for Ste venson, in fact, was when he called his campaign manager from the hard training ground of Pennsylvania politics. Outwardly, to he sure, the Ste venson entourage has not been very greatly changed by Finne gan. The group of enthusiasts that the political prole. n's always call the "crewciits" (with a-decidedly biller intonation) are still in their enthusing. So-!s the com panion group of prosperous, idea listic Ladies. Rut behind this fami liar facade, there is no more of the fantastic confusion that reigned four years ago in the Ste venson headquarters in Spring field. Instead, there is the smoothly whirring efficiency that goes with IB Machines. File Card .System The mechanics used hy Flnne gan were familiar enough the de tailed card file of delegates and alternates, with everything listed including names of wives and pre ferences in liquor; the intelligence Something New in Traffic Hazards Something new la the way f complaint was received Wedaes ii by the Marira Ctuaty she rilf'i africc. It dealt with a hag f raw manure auspeided aver a raunly read. Deputies a a i 1 the. complaint came Irons C. P. Westward, Ai rra. who reported his ear straek Ike bag as H ( trm a tree limb ea a read la the Da aid area. Guardsman Soldier Faces Court-Martial SlaWnaaa Mi Serrlca DALLAS, Ore. An Oregon Na tional Guardsman, charged with failing to attend summer encamp ment, will be court marlialled here on Aug. 22. Defendant in the rare military trial was listed as Sgt. l.C. Wes ley L. Rhoades, Dallas, a mem ber of the Dallas National Guard Company. Darrell Jactson, executive offi cer of the National Guard com pany, said R h o a d e . also is charged with making improper re marks to his company comman der, Capt. Stanley Singer. Jackson said Rhoades is charged with failing to accom pany the Dallas tank cor pany to Ft. Lewis, Wash., for summer camp June 15-30. Today's Statesman Page Sec. Classified ....:.J3 27....IV Comics 12 II Crossword 2S....IV Editorials : 4 I Farm News 6 I Home Panorama ..IS Ill Markets 21 Ill Obituaries 25 IV Radio-TV 12-13 II Sports 23-24 IV Star Gazer 1 I Valley News ...lft III Wirephoto Page . ..12 II operatives in each region and each state; the method of daily pooling the detailed information transmitted by the field men. But all this usual machinery was brought by Jim Finnegan to an unusual pilch of perfection. Finnegan's machinery provided the data on which to base confi dent judgments of conspicuous as tuteness. After the California pri mary, for instance. Finnegan al ready foresaw that President Tru man would probably intervene on behalf oMJovernor Harriman. For this reason, he angrily warned the Stevensonites against relating their efforts. But at the same time, Finnegan also forecast that if there was no relaxation, noth ing would take' the nomination away from Stelt'enson ,so he and Stevenson togelher could set the target of getting the nomination without making any deals with anyone which was a bold thing to do. Supreme Test , , The correctness of the judg ments, the efficiency of the ma chinery, received their supreme test when Finnegan's prediction of Rejected County Jail Inmates Stage Food Strike By JERRY STONE Staff Writer, The fttatetmaa Fifteen inmates of a cell block in the Marion County JailJiad bo supper Wednesday evening. It was a result of a self-inposed food strike "te gain more privileges. Marion County Sheriff Denver Young said the men, confined in cell block "B". turned their backs on the 4 p.m. meal and submitted a penned note demanding more commissary privileges. . The inmates also charged that there has been no improvement in the food in the past ix months other than removal m macaroni and cheese from the menu. Front Ymr( s Garden One of the trays of food re jected Wednesday by the prison ers contained steer beef meat loaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, cole slaw, an ear of sweet corn. three slices of bread and coffee. Sheriff Young said the corn came from his own garden. There was no indication whether the inmates would continue their food boycott through breakfast this morning. Commissary Rlghti In their note of protest, the pri soners agitated for daily commis sary rights for purchase of such items as fruit, candy and news papers. They presently get such privileges two days a week but are not permitted newspapers or candy. He cut off their purchase of newspapers, said Young, "be cause they have been in the habit of rolling the papers up, poking them through bars and damaging adjacent Venetian blinds. Dropped Fram List Young said candy had been dropped from the list of privi leges because of some bad ex periences in the psst." The sheriff aocled that the In mates are permitted pocket books and there are some 500 books in the jail library." Young said macaroni and cheese was dropped from the menu some time ago because prisoners complained of too much starch. Truman's intervention was duly fulfilled. That day, at the regular meeting of the Stevenson high command, the crewcuts were ap prehensive and cast down. But Finnrgsn turned to his able in telligence chief. John Sharon, who placidly announced that Truman's declaration for Harriman would cost Stevenson prec' ly dele gate votes. In the upshot, Sharon was one vote low. In these' circumstances. Steven son could afford to wait, while his bandwagon seemed to slow' and check, until the big, uncom mitted northern stales finally climbed aboard. But there might well have been no bandvagon at all without the senior political professional in the entire Demo cratic party, Ann Eleanor Roose velt. Turned Scalei Stevenson himself has said that Mrs. Roosevelt turned the scsles in the California primary,, where Stevensnn.'i big win stopped Estes Kefauver dead in his tracks and put Stevenson far in the lead. Mrs. Roosevelt was also the domi nant personality in the complex negotiations to compromise the Sam Rayburn, Truman Help ; Quell Uprising CONVENTION HALL. Chi cago (AP) - The Democratic National Convention e a r I V Thursday brat back by voice vote an attempt by a group of Northerners to nail a stronger civil rights plank into the. party's i5 piattorm. The action Came after a per sonal appeal from former Presi dent Harry S. Trumaa to reject the Northerner' proposal. The convention then roared ap proval of the whole platform. In-' eluding the controversial plank which recognized the Supreme Court desegregation decision bat did not pledge, as the rebels' wanted H to, specific enforcement of the decision. : .4 Truman said he had had a hand1 in every convention since' 193R. He said he bad gone over this ' platform, too. and "it's the best one this convention has ever had put before it." Trumaa said the majority plank was fully acceptable to him "and I've done more te implement (civil) rights than any other Pres ident of the United States." The vote came at 1:21 a. m. (EST) and after all the talk, the way convention Chairman Sam Rayburn ran it. It took only a couple of minutes te settle the decision. Flaal ffaeaker ' , The Georgia standard was wav ing, and there were cries and much pointing toward R, but Ray- Convention stories alsa pages S and XX. Hlghllghta af. party platform an page 7. Pie turea page i. It and 22.) burn went light ahead and pre sented the final speaker ef the program, Negro Rep. William L. Dawson of Chicago. At soon as the vote was taken, Truman left. The short-lived Northern revolt, which stalled the convention near ly an hour while backstage ef- forst were made to quell It. came mainly from New York, Michigan' and a few other big population states. Ne Rait Call The 14 insurients on' the 10B- member platform committee tried and failed to have a roll call an their plank. They couldnl let the necessary request from eight states. Rayburn didn t help them try, either. He called for a voice vote en the substitute plank and promptly decided the noes had it. ' A cry of protest arose many supporters of the sub- stitute. After the vote was taken. plat- . form committee chairman MO- Cormark said: "I'm so happy at the sound ac tion of the delegates. It mean unity and victory in November." The civil rights fight broke out when delegate Robert Short ef Minnesota proposed the Northern ers subttitute. ll REBELS KILLED ALGIERS OH - Eighteen Na tionalists were killed in western Algeria and 10 In the east in the past 24 hours, French report said Wednesdsy. civil rights issue. When she spoke up for compromise, and even pro vided the language of the original compromise civil rights plank with no mention of the Supreme Court, the heart went out of tha northern fire-caters. And when Mrs. Roosevelt came to Chicago tp help her man win. the Steven son camp seized upon her as a sort of human talisman, and made her work as hard for three day as though she had been a candi date herself. Working at Chlcaga As for the fourth man on the., list above, Estes Kefauver has te be included not because he with drew from the race against Ste venson. His campaign debts forced that decision. Kefauver ha to be included, rslher, because here at Chicago he worked day and night to bring his own funda mentally anti-Stevenson delegate into the Stevenson camp and did this, ton, without asking any firm commitment that he weuld get tha vice presidential nnm' tion. Add up the list. They make at odd group. (CopytJrhl 1. . yw York itetaio) Tribune, aas.)