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Capital jpvflh 1 1 -. "Yl T1 VO tdptX iftk. FAIR TONIGHT mnA u;.j j. Low tonight, Mi warmer Wfd y, high, M. Kontf Ties i FINAL EDITION JflJJOlUll J ri i i in mm r mm Congress Adds 30 Guards fo Capilol Force Still Aghasf at Shoot ing; One Victim in Critical Condition By WILLIAM F. A BOG AST WASHINGTON Iffl Congress added 30 guards to the capitol and resumed business as usual luesday although still aghast at the incredible pistol attack by Puerto Rican fanatics on the House chamber. , An air ot grimness was height ened by news that Rep, Alvin M. Bentley (R-Mich) most seriously wounded of five lawmakers hit by the spray of bullets from a gal leryremained in a critical condi tion. In an 11:45 a.m. bulletin, the 35- year-old lawmaker's physician still gave him only a 50-50 chance to re cover despite emergency surgery and four blood transfusions. Bent ley, hit in the liver and lung, was : in an oxygen tent. The other wounded lawmakers were all reported to be doing well. Prayer for Victims About 200 members were in their seats when the House convened at noon. They stood with bowed heads as the Rev. , Bernard Braskamp, chaplain, prayed for the recovery of the victims, for strength and faith for their relatives, and for forgiveness for' their assailants. Dr. Braskamp visited Bentley Tuesday morning and said the wounded congressman had asked that he pray for those who shot him because they did not know what they were doing." The four Puerto Ricans held for the attack were described by po lice as showing no signs of re morse. (Continued on Page 5, Col, 4) 250 in House At Shooting WASHINGTON l Some 250 , House members were on the floor Monday afternoon when shots rang out from the gallery. For a stunning moment, nobody could believe what was happening. Rep. Keating (R-NY) got the ame reaction as.' many others: Some one must have set off fire crackers. But Kcaling's impression was a fleeting one. He was silting next to Rep. Alvin M. Bentley (R Mich). "Bentley dropped right at my feet," Keating said. "Then I drop ped to duck the bullets." Rep. Wheeler (D-Ga) also thought of firecrackers. He was lighting a cigarette at the rear of the chamber. He looked up to see a bullet hole 18 inches from his head, another bullet hitting two or three feet from the first. "I fell to my knees and crawled out to the cloak room," said Wheeler. Seated next to another legislator who was hit. Rep. Kenneth A. Roberts (D-Ala.), vas Democratic Rep. Priest of Tennessee. "I heard the sound," Priest said, "and almost immediately Ken said to me. 'Percy, I'm shot.' Then he toppled over." Seeing his colleague was bleed ing at the knee. Priest yanked off his tie and applied a tourniquet. And Rep. Leo Allen (R-Ill) re lated: "A newspaperman from my home town called me out for an inter view. While I was out the shoot ing started. "I'll never cuss you newspaper men out again." Cold Wave Hits Great Plains (Br Th Anocltfl Prml A March cold wave knifed into the Great Plains today as the rth;n ni.-op Vnllpv states dug out from a paralyzing snowstorm that! took at least 13 lives. Thp arctic air. flowing down : from northern Alhcrla. sent the: mercury skidding to subzero lev-1 els in the Northern Plains and along the eastern slopes ot the Rockies. The entire Midwest was: expected to fed the sting. Manv schools still were closed; and highway travel was impeded today after a heavy snowstorm, that piled a deep blanket over: northern Ohio ana rasiern r. tucky and eastern Tennessee. Sunny Skies and Freezing Nights Here Sunnv skies and freezing nights continued the weather order for Salem and vicinity, Tuesday, but thi forecast calls for warmer tem perature? Wednesday. The Tuesday morning minimum WaS 27. IWO lUUUll man riav. but still below freezing anc 7 . . I but still below ireczing anu with hcnvy frost The five-dav forecast calls lor little or no piocipitatinn bclorc Saturday or Sunday, temperatures in continue below normal. Colder Thursday and Friday. 66th FDR and Adlai Easy on Reds During War President Quoted as Telling Navy U.S. Not to Oppose Reds WASHINGTON (-Investigating senators luesaay made public the purported minutes of a 1942 Navy Department meeting at which the late President Roosevelt was quoted as saying "the United States was bound to not oppose the activities of the Communist Party" in this country. The senate internal security sub committee placed a copy of the document in its official records at a public hearing, and had it read aloud. Chairman Jenncr (R-Ind) ad mitted the document in evidence, subject to revision if the Navy later produces an official version which differs from it. The document was read shortly after Rear Adm. Adolph Staton, ret., had quoted Adlai Stevenson to the subcommittee as telling him during World War II that "I don't think we should be too hard on the Commies." Adm. Staton Witness Stevenson, the Democratic can didate for President in 1952. was a special assistant during the war to Frank Knox of Chicago, a He publican whom President Roose velt had made secretary of the Navy. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 5) Adlai Followed Orders on Reds CHICAGO (UP)-Adlai E. Ste venson said today he was follow ing orders of his superiors In rul ing during World War II that ra dio operators, suspected of being Communists, could work on V. S. merchant ships. , Rear Adm.. Adolphus Staton (ret.) testified in Washington to day that Stevenson told him in ruling on the radio operators that "I don't think we should be too hard on the Commies." Staton, 74, told the Senate In ternal Security subcommittee) that Stevenson mane the statement after a board headed by Staton had removed suspected Commu nists as radio operators from U S merchant ships. Staton said former President Roosevelt, himself, finally handed down an order that membership in the Communist Party should not, in itself, be grounds for refus ing a radio operator's job to a Communist. Naguib Back From Sudan CAIRO (UP) President Mo hammed Naguib returned rom the Sudan today and said ne was sure the Sudanese government! will "severely punish" those re sponsible for the rioting in which at least 25 persons were killed in I Kharloum yesterday. Only one member of the revo-1 lutionary junta. Maj. Gen. Abdcl nmci. mii.iiii,..,,!.. ... ..." Naguib as he stepped from the plane with Maj. Salah Slamc, min istcr of national guidance who had accompanied him to Khartoum. Naguib, who was born in the Sudan, went to Khartoum to at tend the formal opening o( the lirst Parliament since the Sudan was freed. The opening was post poned to March 10 because of the riots. The Sudan cabinet met today to discuss the riots in which more than 100 were injured, and Slame said he expected to receive a ! telephoned report on its discus-1 Masked revelers, garbed in cos sion. ; tumes ranging from angels to al- Naguih was asked if he planned most-nude savages, took to the to return to the Sudan and he re- streets with the lirst rays of day plied. "Why not? It all depends light to await Rex's glittering pro on my work here." i cession. 3 Small Snake Dams Decrease Flood Control WASHINGTON - An Army Engineer said Tuesda the substi tution of three small dams for the proposed federal Hells Canyon Dam could result in decreased flood control along the Columbia River unless other projects were added. Gordon H. Fcrnald Jr., of Port land, Ore., said this during the cross-examination at a Power Commission hearing on Idaho Power Co.'s applications for three dams in the Hells Canyon of the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. - ii. ,..;(:.. il.nt fni..1 ri..rnnn nr '". sc tne rrM-nuns in lilt- rti my s Ultllll ontrol p!an for the Columbia River, including the federal Hells This would be true in handling a Canyon project, would he 26.900.. , flood o the magnitude of the 1IW4 000 acre feet. Storage for an alter- flood worst in the Columbia Riv natc plan, with Idaho Power's pro-1 er's history, he added. Year, No. 51 EaUrett mc4 tliu Mailer Salem, Ore teat SEIZED AFTER HOUSE GALLERY Capitol police hold three persons after a shooting from the House gallery that hit at least five congressmen. The woman seized, sec ond from left, identified herself to reporters as Lolita Lcbron. The 'two men are not iden No Tax Slashes On Corporations WASHINGTON Iff - THE House Ways and Means Committee voted 22-2 Tuesday to continue the pres ent corporation income tax for one : inure year, ana wipe i j I billion dollar reduction scheduled automatically under present law tor April 1. Only two Democrats R c p s. Mills of Arkansas and Gregory of K c n t u c k y voted against the move, strongly urged by President Eisenhower. The committee decided to put ' the corporate rate into a general 800-page bill overhauling almost all of the nation's tax laws At the same lime it decided to take up Wednesday the question of excise, tax rates. Under present law, a number of cuts are scheduled April 1 in the excise rates, sometimes. , called sales taxes. Senators Back Pakistan Aid WASHINGTON Several key I senators Tuesday stood firmly be-; hind President Eisenhower's deci- sion to give military aid to Pakis-i td.i de.;i,iie bitter criticism of the move by India s Prime Minister Nehru Nehru s blistering rejection of similar aid was coupled Monday with a demand for withdrawal of 18 American observers with the United Nations cease fire team in disputed Kashmir. " J".-. . - nf(, : "-ur,,, 'ailinrl ' . ... . . ; Nehru, having had his say. might : be content to let the issue die with- '; out a formal request to the U. N. C.n L'nfMi lin rf rqlifnmia IhP ' rn", T.. , i I Dcpartmcnt officials in saying the i n. must receive an o iciai i complain, from Nenru hcfore his ; country can make any decision on withdrawing observers Mardi Gras Climax At New Orleans NEW ORLEANS -The 'city's madcap Mardi Gras celebration reaches its lavish climax today when Rex. Lord of Misrule, reigns over the "City That Care Forgot." posed dams replacing the federal project, would total 24.500,000 acre feet he said. Despite this. Fcrnald said flood control to be achieved by the two plans "would be practically identi cal." Mrs. Evelyn Cooper, lawyer for groups favoring the federal proj ect, asked how this could be true since storage with the big dam in the plan would be 2.400.000 acre feet greater than with Idaho Pow er's three-dam proposal in the plan. Fernald said either system would be operated so only 20 mil lion acre feet of storage actually would be used for flood control. Salem, Oregon, v , Im" Can 't Co Along With McCarthy, Hall Says WASHINGTON Oft Chairman I : Leonard W. Hall of the Rcpubli- can Nalionai Committee said after a conference with President Eiscn. I howcr Tuesday that "1 can't go along witn icn. Mccarmy lit Yis when he attacks persons "fighting communism just as con scientious as he is." Hall did not relate that com ment directly to any specific sit uation but he said he did not like the wav things developed last cck in the controversy between McCarthy and the Army. In that collision between the Wisconsin senator and Secretary 383FiredNot All Commies WASHINGTON UPi Philip Young, chairman of the Civil Serv ice Commission, said Tuesday the 383 persons separated from the government under disloyalty pro visions of President Eisenhower's .nmrik- nrnwnm are not neccs-: sarily "Communists or s u b v c r- sjvcs , .. ,. . rnmmm, J ' . ..', ",., .. . "X ii cajvc (hal jn m caSM lllt.re H-as information of a definitely sub i versive nature in the files." ! Sen. Monroney (-Oklai asked j Young whether this information ! was sufficient cause for separat ing uice tiinjiujt-a iiuiu e"--'" ment service. -t don't know." Young replied. ,. iri th h d of th(, aEcncics involved probably would be able to answer the question. young appeared before the Civil c " mill.. ; wnennnen In .'rT 0f ine disputed question of secur- iiu nb n Ihp pnvprnment. He supplied a new breakdown with some more flaia man was con i tained in the one he sent to the House Monday. No Decision on Power Rates PORTLAND M Undersecre tary of Interior Ralph A. Tudor said in a statement released by the Bonneville Administration here Monday that no actual decision has yet been made on possible in creases in Bonneville power rales. ! The statement was prompted by nublishtd reports concerning his testimony before a House commit tee Tudor said he testified a month ago "before Bonneville officials submitted any rate figures to us. ! We are now studying these figures. I In my testimony I said the rate structure must by law be reviewed every five years, inis must oe done before December of this year, " February Bui Permits $670,692 Salem building permits in February totaled 69, estimated to cost a total of $670,692. The total number of dwellings for which permits were issued was 22 for a total estimated cost of $2:13,650. The most costly building for which a permit was issued dur ing February was the State Fi nance building, nearly $400,000. It will he built at State and Ferry streets Tuesday, March 2, 1954 SHOOTING tified. "1 want freedom for my country. My country is Puerto Rico," the woman shouted. Alter the shooting five members of congress were treated for wounds, two members were seriously wounded. (AP Wircphoto) of the Army Stevens, McCarthy accused the Army of "coddling Communists" and Stevens accused him of browbeating officer wit nesscs. Hall said he had discussed "the so-called McCarthy situation" with the President, but did not give Eisenhower's reaction. Eisenhower's backing has been given to a statement from Stevens that the secretary will do what he can to protect any future Army witnesses against unfair treatment in hearings by McCarthy's Senate investigations subcommittee. Hall told reporters he believed a cure lor ine smiauon , m.sm. . e in changing the rules of commit- tee procedure. A move in that Hiriwtinn hns hepn lntiatcd bv the Senate Republican Policy .--Com-- mittce. and various bills on the ooint have . been introduced. After mentioning the subject of his talk with the President, Hall said: "Mv feeling about it is this: While Joe (McCarthy) is fighting communism I go along and we all go along. When he begins to at tack persons who are fighting a i .... communism i just as conscientiously fs 's- 1 lan 1 8" along wnn I'"11- , ..... , At another point in his exchange reporter, mc uur cnaiiiiian said he did nut think anyone would say that "generals in our Army are not fighting communism." Fairview Home Escapee Shot DAYTON, Ore. M-,An escaped mental patient from the Fair view Home at Salem was critical ly wounded by a shotgun blast after he had entered a farm home seven miles south of here Tues day morning, W. J. Jones, Yam hill County sheriff, reported. He identified the man as Don ald Allphin, about 24, a deaf mule, and said he was reported to have escaped Monday. Jones said it was believed at first that the wounded man was Kay Mans field, a rapist who escaped from the State Penitentiary Monday afternoon. Mrs. Howard Dixon, Rt. 1, Day ton, told Jones she shot the man accidentally. She said her hus band told her to take the shut- nun and trv to hold him at the J. C. Clcvengcr home, which he had seen the man enter, while Dixon called fur police help. As she approached the door, Mrs. Dixon said, Allphin ad vanred toward her and she stepped bark into a hole in the porch, causing her to discharge the gun. He was taken to a Mc.Minn ville hospital. Arrangements were being made with the Fair view Home for special medical care. Fairview officials here have sent one of their doctors lo Mc Minnville to take charge nf All phin's medical care, they said Tuesday afternoon. They reported he has a rec ord of running away from the Home and on several occasions he has entered homes to commit petty thefts, they said. He has not been involved in any serious trouble. He has the approximate men tality of a 7- or 8-year-old, they said. r.S.-J.W PACT COMPI.KTEII TOKYO m Military and dip lomatic sources said negotiators agreed Tuesday on the final mili tary section of a U.S. -Japan mu tual security agreement to strengthen japan's defenses. (20 Pag L Reapportion Amendment Valid Rules Supreme Court Comb Area for Escapee From State Prison A convicted Salem rapist and burglar escaped from the Oregon State Penitentiary Monday after noon, presumably in a prison truck, and is currently the object of a widespread manhunt in the stale. Prison Warden Clarence T. Glad den identified the escapee as Kay Kermit Mansfield, 49, convicted in Marion county circuit court in September, 1952, of charges of rape, assault with intent to com mit ripe and burglary. He was to serve a total of 40 years. Mansfield was working on a flax work . crew and apparently escap ed in a prison truck going from the prison to a warehouse outside the walls, prison officials said. He did not steal the truck but appar ently hid in or on it in some way, they said. The driver of the truck said he didn't sec anything of Mansfield., Ilid In a Train Once outside the prison he ap- pat ently hid in a train on a nearby siding and rode with it to Mon mouth. His prison clothing was found in a box car there Tuesday morning. The train left the prison area at 3:15, about an hour after Mansfield's escape, state police Captain Ray Howard reported. The box car in which Mansfield's prison garb was found was not one of those sitting near the prison but was near the ones left at Dallas, he said. The area around Dallas was blocked off and an Intensive man hunt was under way there Tuesday after a man answering his description was seen hitch hiking southward about 8:30 a.m., Captain Howard said. Un less he caught a ride before po lice roadblocks could be set up, ne , undouhlcdly in tne h ajrtprt ' rr "ei' T!,' rosse rinns no irace c'-A. previous -rush of police and prison guards to an area cast of town Monday evening netted no trace of Mansfield. A farmer in the area had reported seeing him about 10 p.m. near Sweglc school. (Continued on Page S, Col. 6) AFL Picketing New York Docks NEW YORK m I'nion team sters, in a retaliatory move against the old longshoremen's union, began picketing the New York waterfront Tuesday and ex pected io have 85 per rent of Man hattan and Brooklyn piers tied up at the end of the day. A spokesman tor the AFL Inter national Brotherhood of Teamsters said Slaten Island piers were 'pretty well closed down.' "There is no problem yet in New Jersey," Thomas L. Hickcy, 1BT international vice president and an officer of IBT Llocal 807, said. Teamsters will continue to go to the New Jrsy pirs, h said. Shortly before noon police re ported that 22 Manhattan and Brooklyn piers were picketed. Hickcy said other teamsters' local "generally were respect ing" Local B7'3 picket lines. The move against the old Inter national longshoremen's Union, ousted from the AFL, followed a three-hour meeting Monday night of the eastern conference of Ihc AFL International Brotherhood of Teamsters. CIIRYSI.KK SEEKS LOAN DETROIT lll') Chrysler Corp. one of the "big three" auto pro ducers, has arranged In borrow 2.VI million dollars from Ihc Pru drntial Insurance Co. nf America lo expand and modernize its plant facilities. 6 Die in Flaming Crash Of Helicopters, Florida KEY WEST, Fla. W - Six Navy men died Tuesday in the flaming crash of two helicopters a mile from downtown Key West. The helicopters collided 100 feet off the ground seconds afler taking off on a training exercise. Navy officials said they were flying in formation as they turned to cross Fleming Key about a mile from the seaplane base, one hcli- copter slid into the other. Both plunged to the bleak coral1 key and hurst into flames. Each helicopter carried three men, a pilot, a co-pilot and crew mart! Their names were withheld pending notification of next ot kin. The six men were members of helicopter anti-submarine squad- Salem Student Wins Science Talent Search WASHINGTON OB - Two Ore gon high school students Monday night were awarded $100 science scholarships in the Wcstinghouse "Science Talent Search." They are Donald M. Crothers. 17, 210 N. 15th St.,' Salem; and David R. Simons. 17, 749 West M. St., Springfield. Jack L. Tech, 17, now of Okla home City but formerly a resident of Salem, also received a $100 scholarship. The three were among 40 final ists selected from more than 2,000 entrants in the United States. Alan F. Haught. of Bethesda, Md., won the top prize, a $2,800 scholarship. Dean Resigns As Peace Envoy WASHINGTON Wl -Special Am bassador Arthur H. Dean has re signed from his post as deputy to Secretary of State Dulles for the 20-nation Korean peace confer ence. The Stale Department disclosed this Tuesday by making public an exchange of letters with Acting Secretary Walter B. Smith who praised Dean's negotiations with the Communists in Korea as ' a splendid chapter in American dip lomatic annals. Dean, former New York law partner of Dulles, gave as his rea son for resigning that his law work "would not permit me to continue actively on the comcrcnce work beyond March or at the outside, I April 1954." Lane County Co-op tQ.Quit EUGENE UP After about 25 years the farmer-owned Lane Co operative Warehouse is going out of business here. Circuit Judge William East named three receivers Tuesday to go ahead with dissolution of the business, which was voted bv two - thirds of the 700 farmer members recently. J lie three are Clyde Wright, Louis Kokkeler and George Kebel- beck. J heir petition said ware house property is worth about $223,000, and they expect to be able to pay all creditors in full. They listed $17.1.000 in debts. A hearing on the matter is scheduled in court March 15. Mitchell Sees Stabilization LOS ANGELES UP Secretary of Labor Mitchell said Tuesday "we are not going from boom to bust" but that the country is com ing out of an inflationary period and soon will stabilize. In an address prepared for the 35th annual convention of the As sociated General Contractors, Mit chell said there may be "a slight. but not significant, increase in un employment for the next two months." Alter that, lie predicted, condi tions will level out and "before lung I would hoe and expect to see the beginning of an upward climb . . . loward a new prosperity and new records of security and living standards for our people." Weather Details Maximum 'Mtrrriar, .Mi minimum lit At, r. Total 21-hniir prpripllatlnn: l tr month: i normal, .'il. cnn vrt. rlplfiilftft, !Vitii norm!. ?.t. Rtr h'ltnt, IM. fBpoft hv I'.. Wrath x flurraa.) ron No.l, formed two years ago, and the Navy said this was the first patrol accident here. The planes were made by Si korsky and known as the II04S type. They are sometimes used by Marines to carry troops but were converted here for anti submarine use. The wreckage was a mass of flames by the time rescue workers reached the scene. The Navy said each helicopter carried about 200 gallons of high- octane gasoline The last maior plane accident in this area occurred April 2,1, 1051, when a Navy plane persons. Cuban DC-4 and a collided, killing 43 Redistriction of State in Effect For '54 Election By JAMES D. OLSON The State Supreme Court Tues day upheld the validity of the leg- . islative reapportionment measure adopted by the voters at the 1952 general election, The decision was unanimous. Chief Justice Earl C. Latourelte. who wrote the opinion upholding me decision ot Circuit Judge Rex Kimmell of Marion county, declar- eu in voung me reapportionment amendment the sovereign people have spoken. "Under the American theory of government, state constitutions de- . rive their vitality from the people themselves, all power being in herent in them, their voice will not be stilled so long as the amendment is legally adopted and uoes not contravene the Federal Constitution. , Overrules All Objections ine court dispelled all objec- . lions made by attorneys for Rep. . , . Dave Baum of La Grande, who brought the suit, both as to the procedure leading up to sub mission of the amendment and to the amendment itself. In rejecting the claim that the amendment was not legally adopt- pri hppmicp it irintatpH fi caMtnti of the constitution providing that every act shall embrace but one subject the court said the pro visions ot the constitution have no reference to constitutional amend- . menis aaopteo Dy me people. The court further pointed out "the purpose of the measure was , expressed in the ballot title" and concluded that the voters were . fully apprised of the nature of the amendment. Baum's attorneys contended the ' amendment violated Section 17 of the state constitution requiring mat wnen two or more amend ments are submitted to the voters. each amendment shall be voted., upon separately, (.Continued o? Page 5, Col. 3) ; Seek fo Move i I 1 1 f 1 Mines Bureau WASHINGTON (UP)-Rcp. Ben" F. Jensen (R., Iowa), chairman m mc House appropriations sub- committee on the Interior Depart- ment. was reported today lead ing a drive to move the Bureau of Mines' regional office from Al bany, Ore., to Idaho or Montana. Jensen made a detailed inquiry of the reasons for having the re gional oflice at Albany during hearings before the subcommit tee, according to testimony re leased today. Jensen suggested it was not too late to move the mines headquarters. The Iowan, assisted by Rep. Hamcr Budge R., Ida.), ques tioned Bureau Director John J. Forbrs and Paul Zinner. director of the minerals division, at length. Jensen wanted to know if the two officials could "give any good reason for putting that re gional office way over against the Pacific ocean in Oregon, instead of having it in the area where most of your mining takes place." Zinner said "one overriding reason", was that Ihc bureau had larjje facilities at Albany, and "would pay rent elsewhere." He said also the office had originally been placed at Albany because of the donation of college build ings. POW Sustained By Religion WASHINGTON W - Two Ma- rine officers told Tuesday how religious faith sustained them through months of torment by thir Communist captors in Korea. Their accounts were given in testimony at the start of the third week of the Marine Corps inquiry into the germ warfare confession extracted by he Reds from Col. ' Frank Schwable, ranking Marine . prisoner of the enemy in the Far East. Maj. Dec E. Ezcll of Ft. Worth. Tex., said he told his captors he would "ask God to forgive you be cause you would be doing wrong" when he was told by a Communist officer that he would be shot if he refused to answer questions. Capt. John P. Flynn Jr., Greg ory, S. D., testified that he told his interrogators he could not con- -fess to germ warfare charges be cause "being a Catholic, I could not be guilty of grievous sin by aiding e godless cause." A Marine spokesman told re porters that Schwablc's lawyer, Colonel Paul Sherman, plans to call as a witness next Monday -t Crn. William F. Dean. 1 i