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Newspaper Page TextJournal THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY tonight, cloudy Thursday with showers by afternoon. Little change in temperature. Low tonight, 41; high Thursday, 66. FINAL EDITION 64th Year, No. 122 SSSTMSSS Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, May 21, 1952 Kooao '3K30 priCe 5c C apitai By-pass Road Route South of City Selected Extension from State Street to Battle Creek, Bids Called for North By JAMES D. OLSON Th nt the Salem by pass road, south of State street r .... i j has been selected by the state hichwav commission, and will extend to a point near the cross ing of Battle creek, approxi mately five miles south of the ' alem city limits. ' Announcement of selection of the route was made Wednesday by R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, who said that bids for grading and topping the first uit of the south section from the Silverton branch of the Southern Pacific railroad to a point where the new highway route will cross Mill creek south of State street, will be opened at the highway commission meeting next Monday and Tues day in Portland. Bids at May Meeting Bids will also be received at the May meeting of the commis sion for placing 16 inches of gravel materials on the by-pass road north of the Silverton branch of the railroad to the point where the new by-pass road intersects with the existing Pacific Highway East near Hayesville. It is planned to build the roadbed for the entire by pass road, top it with gravel, and then let a paving contract for the entire nine-mile length of the new highway. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 4) End of Railroad Strike Seen Near Washington VP) An end to the three-year railroad labor dispute seemed possible Wednes rinv jne a trin nf hie unions nre. pard to give a yes or no answer to a wnlte House peace plan. The unions representing 150, 000 workers the engineers, firemen and conductors asked for another clarification meet ing Wednesday with chairman Leverett Edwards of the nation al mediation board. Top policy groups of the three unions were to vote later in the day on the contract plan offered by the White House to end the marathon labor dispute. The carriers accepted the plan Monday soon after it was hand ed both sides by Presidential As sistant John R. Steelman, top White House labor mediator. 60,000 Still Out in Oil Strike Denver VP) Major segments of the nation's oil industry re mained closed down Wednes day as an estimated 60,000 workers refused to ratify or failed to reach back-to-work agreements. Scattered settlements were rTorted, mostly among small locals. O. A. Knight, president of the OiM Workers International Vision CIO, estimated that only about one-third of the 90,000 refinery and pipeline workers who walked out April 30 have returned to their jobs. Knight predicted that nearly all the strikers would be back by the end of this week. However, talk between the CIO union and Tidewater Asso ciated in San Francisco broke off Tuesday night with a state ment by union Representative Verlin McKendree that "if this is an indication of what the in dustry is planning here, a strike is inevitable in California. Eola Deer Inspect West Salem Lockers Taking advantage of the able for industrial locations. 'harvest laborers and their fami closed hunting season, two: Tnis was tne recommendation lies young deer strolled through today of the Industrial Develop-1 Numerous buildings that for West Salem early Wednesday, I ment Council of the chamber.' merly served as barracks and cast an apprehensive eye at thelmi since the council had previ-later as temporary housing are freezing locker plants, and de-.ousiy been given authority by still on the ground and will pro parted towards Eola at a brisk the chamber board of directors 'vide a good deal of salvage to trot. to decide whether the purchase reduce the cost of the purchase. W. F. Wells, an early riser. was advisable its recommenda-The selling party in the deal is who lives at 256 Gcrth street, saw the deer and proved it to1 neighbors with their tracks, Rice Shortage Manila UP) The government ha awarded contracts for im portation of 123,000 tons of rice, mainly from Burma, to help re lieve a shortage of food. the staple Conviction of Long Upheld in Murder Case Supreme Court Grants New Trial to Mrs. Hansen of Corvallis The Oregon supreme court ruled on two first degree mur- der cases Wednesday by affirm Inn- Ka ilaoili can t anna nt WivDt ing the death sentence of Wayne LcRoy Long of Portland, and granting a new trial to Mrs. Mar- grcthe Hansen of Corvallis. Long was caught in a bank holdup in Portland June 15, 1950, after he had murdered Walter L. Rucker in Clackamas county to steal Rucker's truck. Mrs. Hansen was convicted of killing her husband, Sigrud Han sen Sept. 10, 1950, by running over him with their car in their garage. All seven members of the high court voted to uphold Long's conviction. Insufficient Evidence They all agreed there was in sufficient evidence to convict Mrs. Hansen. Four of the judges voted for a new trial, while the other three wanted to dismiss the entire case. Justice Hall S. Lusk, in the majority opinion, said that the district attorney told the jury that Mrs. Hansen intended to kill her husband by poisoning him from the exhaust of the automobile. But, Justice Lusk pointed out, there was no evi dence to support the theory. Dissenting Opinion In a dissenting opinion, Jus tice Earl C. Latourette wrote that Hansen's "death is a mys tery, but there is no reason to plant the stigma of guilt on the defendant in the absence of sub stantial evidence of guilt. I would reverse with directions to dismiss." Justice George Rossman, also wanting to dismiss the case, said the state failed to prove its case. Supporting Justice Lusk in his opinion in favor of the new trial were Chief Justice James T. Brand and Justices Arthur D. Hay and Harold Warner. Mrs. Hansen was sentenced to life in the state penitentiary. The court ruled that the court of Circuit Judge Ralph M. Hol- man of Clackamas county com mitted no error in Long's trial, and that there was plenty of evidence to support his sentence to the gas chamber. New Smasher For A Energy Upton, N. Y. (U.R) A new atom smasher, capable of firing "bul lets" almost as fast as the speed of light, opened a new ear in science Wednesday that may en able man to create matter from energy The doughnut-shaped machine known as a cosmotron, produced atomic particles of 1,300,000,000 volts of energy Tuesday in an historic test at Brookhaven Na tional Laboratory. Atomic Energy Commission scientists achieved the greatest voltage ever produced by man by shooting the bullets, or hy drogen protons, through the cos motron at 167,000 miles a sec ond. The speed of light is 186, 000 miles a second. The speed and voltage exceed ed that loosened by detonation of our mightiest atomic bomb. Frost Causes Damage Belgrade, Yugoslavia VP) Snow fell in Central and North ern Yugoslavia Wednesday. Se vere frost caused widespread damage to fruit and vegetable crops. C of C to Buy Land For Industrial Sites The Salem Chamber of Com- merce will buy 96 acres of land east of the city to be made avail - tion may be considered final. The decision was reached by unanimous vote of the industrial nerymen, agricultural and fruit council after making a personal growers, and the Chamber of inspection of the area Wednes-j Commerce as representative of day morning. the business interests of Salem. The ground to be bought is From the location approxi the greater part of the location mately 29 acres is being pur east of Turner road that was chased by the state highway de- used by the Army Air Force dur- ing World War II tor barracks, West Germany To Join Allies Washington VP) Secretary of State Acheson said Wednesday he hopes plans to unite West Germany with the rest of West ern Europe will be completed in the next day or so. Only a few controversiay points, Acheson told a news con ference, remain to be solved. The problem of simultaneous ly giving the West German gov ernment a peace, contract and fitting it into a new European Defense community has been troubling Acheson and other American policy makers for weeks. A solution has been de layed repeatedly. Acheson will leave for Eu rope immediately after he gets word of the agreement. While there he wil1 discuss a number of important questions with British Foreign Secretary Eden and French Foreign Min ister Schuman. He indicated Britain's quar rel with Egypt and French dif ficulties in Tunisia would be among the matters to come up. Senate Confirms J. P. McGranery Washington (IP) A lop-sided Senate vote cleared the way for James P. McGranery to walk in to the Justice Department Wed nesday and take over as the boss. By a 52 to 18 vote, the Senate Tuesday night confirmed Presi dent Truman's nomination of the 56-year-old Philadelphia jurist to succeed J. Howard McGrath as attorney general. All the votes against the ap pointment were cast by Repub licans, but 14 other Republicans joined 38 Democrats in voting tor confirmation. Pennsylvania's two Republi can senators, Duff and Martin, were among those voting ap proval. McGranery, a former House member, has been a federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 1946. and later acquired by the Salem j Agricultural Housing, Inc., as 1 quarters for transient farm and Salem Agricultural Housing, Inc., composed jointly of can- partment to be usea in consiruc- (Concluded on Page 5, Column 3) Grand Patriarch Decorated Hugh Lewis, newly-elected grand patriarch of the Grand Encampment, IOOF, is shown being given the regalia .of office by George Houck, retiring grand patriarch. Looking on is Maj. Gen. Jesse T. Jones, grand marshal. Grand IOOF Parade At 7 O'clock Tonight Wednesday evening is parade time for the Odd Fellows and affiliated bodies, who since Sunday have been in Salem for the 96th annual session of the Grand Lodge of Oregon and affiliated bodies. The parade, which starts mov ing from Marion square at 7 o'clock, will go down Commer cial street to State street and up State street, going across High street to Court street. It Kefauver Drive Strikes a Snag Los Angeles (IP) Sen. Kefau ver, opening a drive for Califor-: nia's 68 delegates to the demo cratic convention, ran into tough opposition right from the start Wednesday In Washington the head of a rival slat-!, State Atty, Gen. Ed mund G Brown, told reporters President Truman had author ized him to say that the presi dent hopes Brown's slate will win over Kefauver's in the June 3 primary. Brown conferred with the president Wednesday morning Kefauver said he had no com ment but would have something to say at a press conference later Wednesday, Newsmen asked the White House office to check the presi dent on Brown's statement to them and Irving Perimeter, as sistant press secretary, later re ported: "The president wished the Brown delegation good luck, but intended no implications about Kefauver." Bodies of Four Found in Sound Bellingham, Wash. IP) The wind-whipped wake of one of Puget Sound's worst yachting tragedies has revealed tne bodies of four of seven persons who were aboard the 35-foot sailing sloop Prelude when it vanished Sunday evening. An extensive search for the other three persons now pre sumed dead and the wreckage of the mysteriously missing boat is continuing Wednesday. The bodies of Mrs. Ellen For dyxe, her son, Kenneth, 12, Ed E. Jukes and Mrs. Donald W. Card, were found Tuesday in the waters between here and Orcas Island, some 15 miles to the southwest. Only Jukes was not wearing a life preserver. Still missing are Paul For dyce, the owner of the yacht, Donald Card and Mrs. Jukes Only a mattress, lifeboat pad-i me American ngnier Dase iicio ena some ume ancr an evening dies two scat cushions and anhere Wednesday, the third suchibanquct at the Marion hotel, ice box door from the Prelude Thunderjet crash In a month. I All members of the Industrial have been found. The pilot was killed. council of the Chamber of Corn- will then move up Slate street and terminate at the Capitol Mall. Divided into three sections, the parade is to be led by the Salem Naval Reserve color bear- and. guard. Floats, bands and other marching groups will be included in the parade. Six bands are slated to take part in the event and include Willam ette University band, Silverton high school band, Leslie junior high school band and the Jef ferson high school band. Eleven cash prizes are be ing given. The sections for which the prizes are offered and the prizes are: IOOF floats of the Centen nial theme, first prize, $50; sec ond prize, $35; and third prize, $25. IOOF floats other lhan Cen tennial, first prize, $50; second prize, $35. Fraternal floats other than IOOF, first prize, $50; second prize, $35. Marching units, IOOF, first prize, $50; second prize,$35 Marching units other than IOOF, first prize, $50; second prize, $35. (Concluded on Page 5. Column 6) Boys Find $2180 In Pool Package Portland IIP' Three boys saw a strange looking object float ing on a shallow pool here Tues day. They fished it out and found it contained $2,180 in cur rency. The money had been wrapped in paper, scaled in a glass jar and then wrapped in a water tight container made of an old inner tube. The boys, Lynn Hill, 7; Myron Wicomb, 9; and Melvin Weaver, 11, divided the money and went home. The mother of one of the boys reported the find to the sheriff's office. The money was thought to have belonged to James Stevens, 71, who died thre months ago in a nearby shack. Stevens, a re cluse, had told neighbors before he died that he had saved enough money to return to his native Russia. A search of his house shortly after his death turned up $327 hidden in envel opes and a tobacco can. The money was taken by the sheriff's office to be turned over to Stevens' estate. Thunderjet Explodes, Pilot Killed in Britain Mansion, England, (U.R) A U, S. Air Force F-84 Thunderjet ex ploded In flight and crashed on Fiunce tonters Highest Honor On Eisenhower Medaille Militaire Given As Farewell Tribute by Pinay Paris (IP) France conferred its highest honor the Medaille Militaire on Gen. Eisenhower Wednesday in a farewell tribute within the shadow of Napoleon's tomb. The Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Europe receiv ed the award from Premier An- toine Pinay in the Court of Honor of Les Invalides. The last foreigner to receive this mark of France's highest esteem was Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. Citizen of Louvecinnes Two hours earlier Eisenhower became an honorary citizen of Louvecinnes, the billage of 2,400 inhabitants in whose area SHAPE headquarters is located. The general drove to the Arc de Triomphe after the Invalides ceremony and placed a wreath j of red roses on the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier. The Medaille Militaire is awarded to commanding officers only after they have received every other high decoration. Ii (Concluded on Page 5. Column 4) Senator Aiken Raps Brannan Washington VP) Sen. Aiken (R., Vt.) charged Wednesday that political manipulators forc ed grain prices down a billion dollars in 1948 and declared "they're not going to do it again this year if I can stop it." Aiken was carrying along his attack on Secretary of Agricul ture Brannan, as the cabinet of ficer began testifying before the Senate Agriculture Committee to reply to criticism of his de partment.4 Brannan brought on Aiken's outburst by charging that some of the difficulties of his de partment with grain storage were caused by limitation which he said Congress put In the Com modity Credit (CCC) charter act in 1948. He said these prevented his department from taking effec tive action to expand storage facilities for huge 1948 crops it had to buy up under the farm price support laws. Morse Refuted By ASNE Chiei Washington (IP) The presi dent of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) has challenged a statement by Sen Morse (R.-Ore.), that press, radio and television did not fully report the steel seizure dispute "News coverage by the Ameri can press of all viewpoints on the steel controversy has been thorough and complete," ASNE head Wright Bryan, editor of the Atlanta Journal, said in At lanta Tuesday night. "Anyone who says otherwise simply has not read the news papers, or else refuses to believe the evidence before his eyes." Bryan said editorial comment has expressed every conceivable attitude as "it always does on controversial issues." Weather Details Maximum yrilcrdar, 1; minimum to. dar, 4H. Total 24-hour precipitation: n for month: .10: normal. Sraon nrr rlpitatlon. M.O.t: normal. M.a. "'"r'timC of his death. nurrai.l' ' '' Oregon Textile Day To Be Full of Action By STEPHEN A. STONE Oregon Textile day. which is tomorrow, is going to keep the Salem Chamber of Commerce, business men, industrialists and an impressive crowd of visitors busy all day, The visitors, arriving by Southern Pacific with special reservations, will mainly be from Portland, though there will be a sprinkling of them from other large northwest cities. The program for the day starts at 8:30 in the morning and will I' iV "" 1 I I ? k U L I Visitors at Session Dr. J. H. Nelson (above) oldest liv ing past grand master of the IOOF grand lodge of Oregon, formerly o f McMinnville, Ore., and now of San Fran cisco, who is in Salem to at tend the 96th annual session of the lodge. Presley Horn (below), past grand master of the jurisdiction of Idaho, who was the speaker for the grand reception held Tuesday night. Odd Fellows Story of Lodge One hundred years of Odd Fellowship in Salem, in Oregon and in the northwest that was the theme from which Presclcy Horn, past grand master of the jurisdiction of Idaho, drew for his speech at the IOOF grand reception here Tuesday night. Tracing the history of the bringing to Oregon of the IOOF lodge, Horn mentioned that it was as far back as 1842 that the grand master in Washington, D. C, petitioned for a lodge to be located in Oregon City. This was turned down because it was not a legal jurisdiction. Shortly afterwards a group of men from St. Louis, who planned to come to Oregon, petitioned to start a lodge in Oregon City. That, too, was turned down. The speaker commented that Oregon should have had Odd Fellowship before California California's first lodge started in 1849 for in 1846 a Dr. Wall pe titioned for a lodge in Oregon Citv before starting from the cast coast for Oregon. Dr. Wall and his party (rav veiled down the east coast of the two Americas and then headed toward the Oregon coun try. The winds took a hand, how ever, and when they sighted land instead of it being tlic ure- gon country it was Hawaii. The group remained there and what was to have been the Oregon City IOOF lodge became Excel sior lodge No. 1, of Honolulu. Finally in 1852 it was the Sa lem Chcmeketa lodge No. 1 that became Oregon's first IOOF lodge. Here Horn reminded that the first member to be initiated into Chcmeketa lodge was Al Zicber, who had been a member for more than 60 years at the (Concluilfd on Page 5, Column 4) I merce, the sponsoring organiza- tion, with red ribbons on their lapels will drive their cars to the north steps of the State I House at 8:30 a.m. There they will leave their cars and go to the S. P. depot to meet the Portland excursionists at 9. After the detraining the visi tors and their hosts, including the Chcrrians, will form a line behind the Salem high school band, directed by Victor Palma son, and march to the north steps of the State House. Possi bly there will be a color guard (Concluded on Page 5, Column 1 3 Chinese POW Slain in Riots On Koje Island Die Hard Reds Foment Disorder for Propaganda Koge island, Korea VP) A Chinese prisoner was killed by' an Allied guard Saturday in the third prisoner of war incident reported in a four-day span on this riot-ridden rock. The other two occurred at a woman's POW camp and a pris oner hospital. The shooting of the Chinese prisoner announced only Wed nesday was the first fatality reported from the tough Koje stockade since Brig. Gen. Hay don L. Boatner took command a week ago. Boatner said a preliminary in vestigation indicated the prison er was shot when he resisted search on his return from a work detail outside an enclosure holding 5,5000 Chinese commu nists. Quieted by Spokesman Boatner said he conferred with a prisoner spokesman, Maj. Wei Ling, shortly after the shooting. On the camp commander's or der Wei returned to the barbed wire enclosure and within 35 minutes halted a demonstration begun by Chinese POWs with in minutes after the shooting. (Concluded on Page 5. Column 8) 6 Hour Battle Staged with Reds Seoul, Korea (IP) A United Nations tank - infantry patrol fought a six-hour battle with Red forces east of the Panmun jom truce site on the Korean Western Front Tuesday. A U. S. Eighth army staff of ficer said the allied tanks ran ' into small arms mortar and roc ket fire from a Red force of un determined strength. The U. N. force dug in and pounded the Reds with artillery, mortar and tank fire before dis engaging. A delayed report from the cen tral front said a Red ammuni tion storage bunker was de stroyed and 31 others were dam aged by U. N. tanks Monday. Another U. N. tank force on the central front battled the Reds twice on Tuesday. Three communist probing at tacks were repulsed on the east ern front. Ridgway Tells Of Red Build-Up Washington VP) Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway said Wednes day the Russians have made a big buildup of military strength in the Far East and the commu nists in Korea now have "great er offensive potential" than at any time in the past. Ridgway said too he thinks chances are not bright for an immediate cease-fire agreement in Korea. Despite the Red build up, he predicted that if the communists try a surprise offensive llicy will be beaten back with "tre mendous losses." Ridgway is en route from the Far Eastern Command to Eur ope where he will take over the North Atlantic Treaty forces from Gen. Eisenhower. In a busy day here, he spent two hours behind closed doors answering questions from sena tors and then held a news con ference at the Pentagon. U. S. Casualties in Korea Total 108,707 Washington VP) Announced U. S. battle casualties in Korea reached 108,707 Wednesday an increase of 294 since last week. The defense department's weekly summary based on noti fications to families tlirougn last Friday shows these new to tals: Killed in action 17,172: woun ded 79.060; missiim 12,475. Casualties by services: Army 88,406; Navy 1,328; Air Force 1,158; Marine Corps 17,795. Queen Opens Canal ' Amsterdam M') Queen Juli ana Wcdcncsday opened the 45 milc long Amsterdam - Rhine Canal which gives the Rhine a new mouth and speeds Western European shipping to the North Sea. The canal cost $23,800,000.