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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1954)
a Page 10 SECTION THE CAPITAL' JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon Friday, May 21, ,1951 Hundreds of Youth Stage Riot on Subway Tra in vttut vnnK in Hundreds of high school students staged a run ning riot Thursday on a Bronx-to-Manhattan s u b w a y-elevated train and stations along the route. They roughed up a. porter, niih train pnuinment and ter- orued passengers before police aid came. - " , ... aranu.rnt -hnvn and 19 ffirls were seiied for questioning. Later all were releasea except ueurge Riley, 16. and a 15-year-old boy. Riley was held in unusually high bail of $10,000 on a,ai5oraeriy tuu- The melee started after about 1,700 students of the High School ot Commerce started home when their field day at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx was mierrupieu QUEEN FOR DAY 3P MI M ' ! K'" ( i , W tl l.l . 'in by rain. Authorities said the Com merce High students tim oeen joined at the park by several hun dred students playing hookey from other schools... , ..... ., That made about 2,000 students who converged on the Van Cort landt Park elevated station a: 242nd Street. A station superintend ent said about 1,300 of the young sters paid their fares but other hundreds either ducked under the turnstiles, hurdled them, or poured through a gate after breaking a chain. Police said most o fthe rioters were Negroes. Hundreds of students twarmed aboard a train and took over. They smashed light bulbs, ripped up seats, broke windows, pulled emergency cords and held train doors open to keep the cars from moving. Students from the group who took an earlier train got off at the underground station at 168th Street, jammed the elevator from the tunnel to the street and roughed up the elevator operator. Ho was not seriously injured. i -; i, Patrons ot the Marion hotel dining room Thursday thought they were in Hollywood when they saw Nema Poitras in full Indian regalia dining with a friend, Lee Port It developed that Lee wagered Nema a luncheon that she would not dare wear her costume to work at the State Forestry Depart ,mont where they both are em ployed. Miss Poitras is a quar terblood Muncie Indian from Kansas and a graduate of Che mawa Indian School. Workshop for? Mi. Angel Class MT. ANGEL - ML Angel Worn en's college is announcing date and program for the summer school session to be conducted from June 22 through July 30. Mrs. Mary Jo Albright, art co ordinator for the Corvallis pub lic schools, will conduct an art workshop again this year during the session. She will also teach an afternoon class in ceramics. Workshops will bo conducted in corrective speech and reading by Sister M. Bernadette, OSB., and in health and physical education by Mrs. Robert Brady, Salem, and staff assistants. The tentative schedule includes the following courses and instruc tors: arithmetic in the elementary school. Sister M. Mariam, ObB.j Oregon school law, Sister M. Ida, OSB.; literature of the western world and history of western civilization, Sister M. Anne, OSB.; human geography. Sister M. Jo sephine, OSB.; American history and government since 1865, Sister M. Alberta, OSB.; public speak ing and inter-racial relations, Sis ter M. Margaret, OSB.; educa tional psychology, Oregon history end mental hygiene .courses are also scheduled. Registration will be held on the aftornoon of June 20, and begin ning at 8:30 o'clock on June 21. No Progress Yet on Right of "Way Strip The Marion county court has been informed by the state forestry department that no progress has been made by the latter in con nection with the securing of t Strip of right of way some 1310 feet long in the Niagara district needed for the removal of some five million feet of timber. A letter to this effect received Thursday resulted in the matter being turned over to the district attorney for "appropriate action. The strip of road in question was vacated several years ago when It was thought it was no longer needed. Now it develops that it is needed for the removal of the timber. The county will receive 75 per cent of the net receipts for the timber sold. Ralph D. Adams, who with W, E Thomas own the strip needed, has Informed the forestry department he docs not care to sell. No re sponse has been received from Thomas. Rain Falls on East Coast (By Tha Associated Press) More rain fell Friday alone the Atlantic Coast and in parts of the Rockies but fair weather prevailed in most other sections of the country. Although cool weather continued from the Mississippi to the East Coast there was a warming trend in the Midwest, which has been chilled with below seasonal tem peratures for several days. The wet belt in the East ex tended from North Carolina to Southern Maine with heavy falls in some parts of Virginia. The showers in the Rocky Mountains generally were light. It was warmer in Montana early Friday than in Northern Florida, with a reading of 75 at Great Falls compared to 59 at Jacksonville. At . the same time it was 85 at Las Vegas, Nev. and a chilly 26 at Cadillac, Mich. . ... . , Readings in the 50s were com mon from Maine to Northern Flor ida while the Gulf- States and Southern Florida reported temper atures in the 70s.- Readings in the 50s were reported in the Central Plains, the upper Mississippi Val ley and along the West Coast while they were in the 60s and 70s in the Northern Rockies. Plan Big Hotel, East Portland . PORTLAND m The East Side, long the stepchild of Portland bus iness establishments, is about to get a 22-acre, multi-million-dollar shopping center. ' ' . Nobody says anything definite but from published reports Thurs day it was clear that construc tion would be or. the Ucyd Corp. tract adjacent to the new Interior Department building and have as its hub a major department store to be built by Allied Stores, owner of Seattle's Bon Marche, This is the third big shopping development talked for the East Side. The other two have been pro posed for the far eastern fringe ot the" city. This is close ini only a few blocks from the eastern, end of the Steel bridge. . t ' - The Lloyd tract is property which once was owned by Ben Hol laday, railroad and stagecoach king. Meier & Frank Co. has been re ported ready to put in a suburban branch department store at the northeast edge of the city and Fred Meyer is building a big de velopment south of there. . Ex-Sailor on f FBI Wanted List WASHINGTON W The FBI Friday added to its Jist of "10 Most Wanted Men" - Otto Austin Loel, 43-year-old ex-sailor charged with stabbing a woman to death in - an Oklahoma City motel last Jan. 10. The FBI said the victim had arranged, with the assistance of her husband, to travel in Loel's car on an expense sharing basis from Compton, Calif., to Newark, Ohio. Three days after they left California, her half-nude body, slashed with 19 stab wounds, was found. Loel had disappeared. ot medium buud, Loel has brown hair and eyes and the FBI said that although he has false teeth, he seldom wears them, giving his face a sunken appearance. He went on .the "Most Wanted" list as a replacement for Alex Whiunore, sought for a hatchet as sault on a robbery victim at Nor folk, Va., who was picked up at bcatue earlier mis month. To Probe Extent of Trade With Red China WASHINGTON W : Chairman Bridges (R-NH) said today the Senate Appropriations Committee will make a "searching' inquiry" into the extent to which free world allies, have agreed to relax bans on trade with Red China. . "Bridges'. plan for an investiga tion of this issue caine after Sen. McCarthy iR-Viit) told the Senate yesterday- it would be ''criminal folly", not to cut off U. S. financial aid to. nations which ship "the sinews of military and economic strength" to the Communists. McCarthy had barely finished his floor address before Foreign Aid Administrator Harold E- Stas sen shor back with -a statement that what the senator -said, was "fantastic, unbelievable .and un true. . sf- Stassen, who has tangled McCarthy before, aid.v- We are steadily building for,,peace under President Eisenhower's ; leader ship." And in an obvious reference to McCarthy's-' televised tangle with Army officials, Stassen de clared, "Sen. McCarthy is fran tically reaching for diversionary headlines after the sorry spectacle with of his record in recent hearings.' McCarthy, Jn what he said was "painful and unpleasant" dis- cussion of Republican "shortcom ings;", called for the listing by Stassen of "every type of material which we have agreed that our al lies can ship to our enemies." .... ' Bridges said in an interview to aay thai the appropriations group. 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