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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
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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
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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.