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THE WEATHER. VARIABLE CLOUDINESS with scattered showers t.nifht; becom ing partly cloudy Tuesday. Little change in temperature. Low: to light, 42; Ugh Tuesday, Si. '-! on rial FINAL EDITION 56th Year, No. 127 Salem, Oregon, Monday, May 3 V 1954 . v (16 Pages) Price Sc IftlMhV OnW Tribute Paid Nation's War Dead by Ike ' Wreath Placed on Tomb of 'Unknown Soldier' by President WASHINGTON ,(UP) rresident Eisenhower r-took off today lor he tort where he js scheduled, to deliver a ! major loreign policy speech at ceremonies marking the 200th anniversary , of Columbia University. : -' Mr.. Eisenhower, who formerly was president .of Columbia, is ex pected to urge the free world to unite in the fight against Com munism and to outline a program for "peace and (freedom.'' He made the ., trip in his personal plane, 'The Columbine, :,j ; j ::. His address will, .be carried on a nationwide radio and television networks at 6:30 p.m. PDT. WASHINGTON, (UP) Presl dent Eisenhower ,; reverently placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown . Soldier today to lead the nation in solemn tribute to America's war dead. The President's; act of grate ful remembrance on this 85th Memorial Day preceded formal services in the Arlington Nation al Cemetery Amphitheater acrqss " the Potomac River In Virginia. The amphitheater is only a few steps from where a World War I fighting man "known but to God" ties in honored rest: -- -" A 21-salute roared from four cannons over the hillside ceme tery as the President's motorcade approached the tomb. ; (Continued on Page 5, Col. 2 Flash Storms Hit Midwest Br THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thundershowers pelted the north ern midwest Monday, a continua tion of weather conditions that spawned , a series of. tornadoes that killed four persons in Nebraska Sunday flight ; i. : , ', 1 '. The stormy center over eastern South Dakota swirled showers over north central United States as far east as. the Great Lakes. Rainfall amounts1 ranged up to Huron, S D 's 1.08 inches; Duluth's 1.30 and St. Cloud, Minn.'s 2.01. , . dhtt through farming country near Nor folk, Neb. Eighteen persons were injured. Three farmswere report St. Cloud, Minn. 2.01. - i Elsewhere 'in the nation, skies were generally fair and tempera tures mild. The exceptions: Light rain in the extreme north west. . Temperatures in the 30s in the northern Rocky Mountains,- where light snow fell Sunday night. Reports from over the nation In. eluded: St. Louis 69 and clear j- De troit 58 and cloudy; New York 66 ' and clear; Miami 78 and partly cloudy; San Antonio 76 and fair; Denver 54 and fair; Los Angeles 60 and clear; Seattle 50 and light rain. ,. In N. Carolina ;- RALEIGH, N.C. W) W, Kerr Scott, strongly supported in rural areas where many roads were paved while he was governor, to day held North Carolina s Dem ocratic nomination for y. S. sen . ator. ..: v-:'; ? . Scott, 67-year-old dairy farmer, defeated Sen. Alton A. Lcnnon and five other candidates in a bitter primary battle Saturday. The race issue played a major role in the latter stages of: the campaign. . ,v. v : ' Unofficial returns from 1918 of the state's 2027 precincts gave Scott 207,001 votes to Lennon's 271,867, a lead of 25,340 for Scott and a 5,341 majority over the field. Scott will oppose Republican Paul West ot Raleigh In the No vember general election. West was nominated in convention. The Domocratic nomination is tanta mount tn election in this tradi tionally Democratic state. Half Inch Rain Falls In Weekend Showers j Nearly half an inch of "rain came down in the showers oyer the week end in Salem, .48 of an inch being measured in the 24 hour period ending at 10:30 a.m. Monday. Of this total, .12 of an inch came down in the last 24 hours. . - Even so, May was going out - with rainfall below normal bar ring extra heavy precipitation before midnight the total Monday morning being 1.28 inches against a normal fall of 1.S0 inches. . ' Variable cloudiness and more scattered showers are due to night, according to the forecast, ending i rainy holiday week end. .l . .- : . Aft -it r . -j m I , f It y A (A LU' ? u- i- " 't l'"s mmml r" : . Top: Graduates led by University doctors march to McCulloch; t ' . ' ' "' . ; ' : Bodyof Slain BOULDER IB Sheriff Arthur Everson Said Monday an unidenti fied . girl found dead in Boulder Canyon west ot Here April 8 may be the same woman Marvin C. Boyd of Lebanon, Pa., claims he killed near Las Vegas," NeV. Boyd made the statement at Van Buren, Ark., where he was ordered held for investigation aft er telling authorities he buried the body of another - woman in the desert near Mexicali.-Mex., earlier this year. , Van Buren Police Chief Vol Rus set quoted Boyd as saying he killed Jeanette Harris of Harnsburg, fa. drove to Colorado and threw her body into the canyon. Everson said he was awaiting receipt of a mailed copy of Boyd's statement to check it against known facts in the case. I think the body was hauled in here," he said. "Otherwise it would have been identified. We've checked on every girl in this coun ty who even resembles the vic tim." . , c- . il ''. . , . ' Bill Graham Converts British Red Leader READING, England UV-Charles Potter, former. . secretary of , the Reading Communist Party, an nounced yesterday ne has resigned from the party after hearing two sermons by American Evangelist Billy Graham. s, Potter, who. is 43, had been a Communist since 1938. He said be ,m,ll avnlain ki- MmVAreinll of an open air meeting next Sunday in ine Keaaine Marxei riace. Kilauea Volcano in Most Violent Eruption H1LO, Hawaii W Kilauea Vol cano erupted with unusual vio lence early today, spouting fiery lava through giant fissures on the main floor of the volcano's large crater. - First reports from the volcano, which is 30 miles south of this port city, indicated the 7 a.m. FST eruption was much more vio lent than the last previous activ ity June 27, 1952. The 1952 eruption continued until November but was conlined to the Halemaumau fire pit, a huge 500 foot deep gorge in the center of Kilauea crater. Today, however, early reports from the crater said big cracks npneared in the earth both m Halemaumau and in the main Kil auea crater, spewing lava onto the main crater floor. Nash Castro; assistant supcrin- tendent nf Hawaii National Park, scid "there are whole chunks of CONCLUSION OF WILLAMETTE Top: Graduates led by University doctors march to McCulloclV stadium where degrees for graduates were conferred follow- : ing ceremonies. Lower left; Dr. Charles E. McCulloch, assisted by James "H- Hitcbmah, student body president, breaks ground for Willamette C;T. and Fanny Kay Blsh&p1 Memorial Health Center; .lower, right: Mrs, Bruce Baxter views the portrait oi ;s the late Dr. Bruce Baxter following unveiling t Baxter HalL 152 Graduates Receive famette i There is need in business and industry' for-, the 'well educated man and woman, This was the as surance given members of the senior class of Willamette uni versity by Arthur V. Wilker at the 112th annual commencement Memorial for Carrier's Dead QUONSET" POINT? R. I. MV The Navy planned special memo rial services today for 100 sea men who died Wednesday in a below-decks explosion aboard the carrier Bennington, ' r, : . 'i Services were scheduled on the flight, deck of the great, grey car rier, now tied up a.t its Quonset dock a grim reminder of 30-odd sailors still fighting for life at Newport Naval Hospital. : , The 100th victim Navy Lt. Robert R. Wright, 34, of Marl boro, Mass. died last night and became a double carrier-tragedy for his wife, Rita. Her brother. Lt. William A. Gagas, perished in an explosion that racked the earner Leyte at stuff coming up" and that gasscs from boiling lava filled the huge crater with a pungent, sulphur ous smell. . ' 1 A scientist at the Hawaiian Vol cano Observatory said the erup tion was preceded by "several sharp earthquakes." Detailed ac counts of the eruption were not expected until Dr. Gordon Mc Donald, volcanulogist in charge of the observatory, returned from a survey into the crater. Tourists at the hotel at the rim of the crater said Halemaumau pit was aglow with lava and that one l: va fountain In the pit spouting lava 500 to 800 feet into the air -.' . : Kilauea, one ot Hawaii's sever al volcanic formations, last erupt ed June 27, 1952 after 18 years oi, dormancy. There was little danger in that explosion, since the lava did not reach the rim 1 cf the Halemaumau (irepit in the i center of the giant crater. UNIVERSITY'S ACADEMIC; YEAR Diplomas held Sunday afternoon at .Mc Culloch stadium. ; , :' . ' : Although!' lowering clouds threatened rain, the program was held as scheduled. In fact,, before the last of the 152 graduates had received from . President G. Her bert Smith the document that is indicative of a finished- course, the skies had brightened percept ibly. " ...... ... r ,..., Dr. Wilker, former vice presi dent of the National Carbon com pany and presently trustee of the Union Carbide Educational schol arship fund, predicted an "ever expanding economy as long as re search continues at . its present pace." He qualified this assur ance that there doubtless would come , relapses in the upward trend. In this connection he said that it must be kept in mind that "we cannot control the minds of men and we must learn to live with an atomic age." ';, (Continued on Page 5, CoL 4) Presbyterians For Merger ' MONTREAT, N.C. '() Uni fication was the problem facing the General Assembly of. the Southern Presbyterian church here today. " v The issue came in the wake of Saturday's dramatic session whichisaw the church strongly urge its doers be opened to all- regardless of color,- . ; ', ' Underlying' the passage of the desegregation issue was. the phil osophy of the unity nf mankind, the oneness of God. Those favor ing union with two northern branches of the church looked back and took encouragement that the union ; issue may be swept into the current of liberal ism also. Others felt that' the conces sions already made by the con-: servatives would cause them to fight union with even more vigor than in the past.' " Union already has been ap proved by the Presbyterian Church of the U.SA. Northern Presbyterian Church of - North America. Weather Dethils Maximum wttrfas, A3t minimum Is a.. 47. Talsl 34-h.ur prrrlplUlln. fur month. nnrmul. Srn urc elnlUtlMi. 4t.Wi nurmul. 3T.Ht. Hirer h'lrht, -J ftf . (nut. IRfPWi ur V. S. Wcuthrr Bureau. . . Yukovich Wins Speedway Race INDIANAPOLIS, m- " Bill Vukovicb, a dour little man but a sweet race car driver, Monday won the rich 500-mile Speedway race for the second straight year.: Only Wilbur Shaw and Mauri Rose had won two in a row in the 38 Memorial Day classics.- " The 35-year-old Fresno, Calif., leadfoot grabbed the lead for the third time when Jimmy Bryan stopped for. fuel and tires after 149 laps. . .... Speed records were set for vir tually, the entire distance ' as about 150,000 holiday f ahs watched., . ' ,' ' " There was no holding Vuko vich once he regained the lead. He had his foot down on the throttle after . tanking up . and changing tires for the second time at 129 laps. . Second place, was won by Jim my Bryan, Phoenix, a 26-year-old rwho finished sixth as a rookie in 1952. . -, V Red Plot Boils In MIAMI- (UP) " The. Miami Herald today quoted an unidenti fied source as saying that the delay of a, 10-milIion dollar Com munist arms . shipment to Guate mala. foiled a red plot to assassi nate Nicaraguan President. Gen. Anastasio Somoza and 'start a revolution in Central America. The. Herald said a "highly au thoritative" source who had just arrived here from Central America reported the revolution failed to take place because of a timetable mixup in. the arms shipment. . . The paper quoted the informant, who asked that his name not be revealed, as saying, "they had a detailed plot worked out and there was a .whole series of planned moves behind the arms move ment."; . ' Socialists for Public Works PHILADELPHIA . (PI 1'he latest ' platform of the Socialist party features a multi-billion dol lar government program of pub lic works. . 1 . : The policy platform was pre sented to the 29th national con vention yesterday by . Mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee. Among other planks in the platform: 1. Increase In the basic Income tax exemptions and abolition of excise taxes on necessities. - 2. Lifting the housing program from its "present emphasis on guaranteeing profits for . .; . money lenders to one of guaran teeing homes for people." 3. Increase in farm subsidic- Pad Before Any Cease-lire to Peace Guards For Indochina .GENEVA (UP) India has in dicated to both the Red and Western delegations to the- Far East Peace Conference that she ir -willing' to supply guardian forces and to accept some kind of responsibility -' for keeping peace in Indochina, it was report-' ed today. India's decision was made known during the past week in which the first bit of progress was made toward ending - the fighting in the seven and a half year Indochina War. , The nine nations taking part in the closed-door Indochina le- gotiations decided Saturday to set by tomorrow a date for the first military talks - which will start marking zones and perhaps start work on a cease-fire. . Private Meeting French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U. S.. Undersecretary of State' Wal ter Bedell Smith launched the sixth week of the conference to day, with a, private meeting at Eden a villa. ,: , ' . (Continued on Page S, CoL 3) Pakistan Jails 150 Disloyal KARACHI, Pakistan UA Troops Jailed some 150 persons in trouoied East Pakistan today in the wake ot. Karachi's ouster of the provin cial: government for "disloyalty." - Among those taken into custody were Sheikh Mhibur Rehman. one of the 14 members of the former provincial. Cabinet, - tad- Mohom' maa uuianj yuaair, memoer ot the East Pakistan Provincial As sembly, i . . .' i. Official source -said Abdul Kas em Fazlul Huqr ousted chief min ister, and others among .his Cab inet colleagues also may- be ar rested soon.. Developments in East Pakistan were cloaked, by official censorship.. , v . r; -. j .:-: t ' . r : The ouster- of Fazlul Huq' ad ministration.' was ordered yester day by Gov. Gen. Ghulam Moham med, Pakistan i chief of state,, as bitter differences between the div ided sections of the country came to a head.' The Governor- General acted under the "governor's rule" followed since Britain withdrew from the Indian subcontinent in 1947 ': '-: - -" Airman Held for LSONARDTOWN, Md. M Au thoi ities . planned ; a new . search Monday for a pair : of. .-bloodied trousers which they say a Navy airman discarded after slaying a Navy Wave.? .'-r.; i V . ,-1 .. They said their prisoner Airman Carl WUlis Strickland, ' 21 would accompany them on their tour of the Scotland Beach area. Strickland is due to appear in Magistrate's Court Friday on a murder charge. St. Marys county Sheriff Willard B. Long said he thinks Strickland disposed of his trousers,' Miss Con ole's purse and two beach blankets. Powers of i WASHINGTON tfl ' ' Sen. Mon ror.ey D-Okla), an author of the. Congressional Reorganization Act, Monday disputed Sen. McCarthy's claim that that, law supports the Wisconsin senator in his constitu tional clash with the Eisenhower administration over, getting secret informs tion from government workers.-- ... - v , Furthermore, 'Monroney declared in an interview, McCarthy has been "usurping" the prerogatives o( other congressional committees by invading their fields.- - There was no immediate re sponse from McCarthy, vacation ing over Memorial Day. -But the Wisconsin Republican contended at televised hearings last week that the congressional act makes him chairman. of the Senate Govern ment Operations Committee and its Permanent Investigations Subcom mitteean "authorized person'! to be fed secret data from federal employes. : That was a central point in his argument against the administra tion's expressed view obviously aimed at McCarthy that Execu-Dr?n-h -":'-:-, nhnuld not dis Supply MM .l MM - ' maartny ursurp Vjetnam to Set Up 2 U.S. Training Posts Hanoi, Indochina UP" Viet Nam was reported today to have agreed to set up two training cen ters for use by American officers in building five, new Indochinese cmbat divisions. ., . A report from Saigon said the Viet Namese high command had reached the agreement with Maj, Gen. John W. O'Daniel, head of be American Military Mission in Indochina. - ': O'Daniel set up a' training pro gram in South Korea that built the- ROK army into an effective fighting force. The French per mitted him to come to Indochina only after he had agreed to drop his rank from three star to two star general. , , The general- has made several flying-trips to Laos and Cambo dia, Indochina's, smaller states, for parallel negotiations. The reported .' agreement be-, tveen O'Daniel and the Viet Na mese now awaits French approval. Arms Pad Wins Socialist Aid PARIS l Supporters of the Eu ropean Army Treaty cheered to- dav a Socialist party decision that its members in the rrencn na tional Assembly must vote for the pact or face party discipline. The move may give the government enough backing to ensure ratifca- tion of the hotly disputed treaty. The decision was taken last night at. a party conference. The disci pline could take the form of ex nulsion from the party of all mem bers who- failed to jvote for the treatv. "' :'. '": ''1Z2':'-' ;f'yW4M'fiei. to the pact i which would create in-nauon European Army including German troops has . come . from the Se Gaullists, Communists and some Socialists. It Js generally agreed the government needs about 75 of the 105 socialist votes in tne As sembly, to insure ratification. The party's decision was a chal lenge to 58 socialist deputies who previously signed an agreement to oppose i the past Observers estimated that about : 15 to. 30 still might defy the order.- : ,, France to Freei GENEVA (UP) . . F r e n c h spokesmen announced today that the French government has auth orized the' release of 575 Com munist: rebel prisoners : held in Indochina, ;: : .:..- . . The release decision was com municated to the Rebel command Saturday, the spokesman said. It followed the release of 868 French wounded at Dien Bien Phu by the rebel command. ' But at the same time, a United Press Hanoi dispatch said the rebels had held up the promised release of 27 French army medi cal personnel captured at Dien Bien Phu. : i . , : Helicopters already had been assigned to fly to Dien Bien Phu to evacuate the medical unit; i vng Executive close classified- material to "un authorized" individuals whoever they are. : The Congressional Reorganiza tion Act, passed in 1946 and known as the "La Fouette-Monroney Act was designed among other things to revamp the committee set up and lay out lines of jurisdiction. Monroney was a member of the House at the time. The late Sen. Robert M. La Follette Jr. (Prog- Wis), the co-author, was defeated by McCarthy in a bid for another Senate term. Monroney said Monday: "There is nothing in the act which permits the senator from Wisconsin to violate executive or ders or the law against receiving or divulging classified informa tion. "It was never intended to give the chairman of the subcommittee e hunting license for an over-all investigation of government activ iiies. His committee's investiga tive powers are pegged primarily to expenditures and there was no thought that they would supersede authority of the other standing committees. in Most Essential GENEVA OP) The Commu- ', nist-led Vietminh strongly hint- ' ed Monday that the Indochina Peace Conference must agree m principle on a political settle ment - before any Indochina cease-fire can be accepted by the Communists. ; A Vietminh spokesman dror ped this hint at a news confer ence shortly before the fl-part'- . conference convened for another secret session on the mihtar- -aspects of a cease-fire. He agrer ... that a cease-fire would preccr' the implementation of any p".' tical agreements, but said. "The military and poll-.. .. problems are inseparable." ' Asked if the Vietminh ' wou! ' insist on an agreement in prin- , ciple on a political settlement ' before putting the proposed cease-fire into effeat, the spokes man evaded a direct answer but, : when pressed, repeated that the military and political factors can- .: not be separated. : France for Cease-Fire France ' has insisted that a cease-fire should be put into ef fect before political problems, such as elections,, should be dis-'' cussed. .: ' ; The ' Vie'ntminh ' spokesman said Vietminh military represen-, tatlves would arrive in Geneva within the next few. days to be gin direct talks with representa tives of the French union forces on zones of assembly for the re grouping of the rival forces after a cease-fire. French represent' fives, also were, reported... en route. . . ,','; '' ;; ; ; .... , ..' : . (Continued on Page 5, Col.- 3) - , HANOli- Indochina (UP)-French authorities announced, today that the Communists successfully nave moved the bulk of 'their 40,000 man siege army from Dien Bien Phu to within 42 miles of Hanoi": French intelligence reports said heavy - artillery - and- supply con voys of ' Molotov trucks had ar rived at the big Red River town of Phu Tho where the river's del? ta broadens out into the vital tri angle- of rich - rice fields and plan tations.,. :,'". ''The whole of the four Red divi sions which finally overran the. heroic, French garrison, at Dien Bien Phu with "human wave" as-. saults, was expected, to be con centrated in the Phu' Tho region within 10 days. - . , . The French High" Command be lieves Red Gen. Vo -Nguyen Giap will launch a big offensive against the Delta June 15. Call U S. Visits Onl : SEOUL 11 The South Korean , government subsidized daily news- : DaDer. the Korean Republic, Mon day described the recent visit of. three American governors as ;"a glistening whitewash job for all phases of the reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts." ' ' The editorial was accompanied bv a cartoon showing three blind folded men holding their hands over their ears. They were shown squat ting on a flying carpet for the -, "flying trip of U. S. governors" over Korea. The cartoon was en titled, "See Nothing, Hecr Nothing, Learn Nothing." ; : Korea is fully prepared to admit that there are two sides to the reconstruction story and, that all the right may not be on our side. But as far as the supposedly im partial investigators are concerned, there is only one point of view, and that belongs to those who apparent ly are more interested in building up bureaucratic empires than in creating a strong and healthy Ko rea x x x ."' Govs. Da;) Thornton of Colorado, John S. Fine of Pennsylvania and Allan Shivers of Texas came to Ko rea last Monday on a presidential mission to survey the U.- S. re construction and rehabilitation pro gram in Korea.-They left Friday and were to make a first hand re port to President Eisenhower. STRIKES AUTHORIZED SEATTLE 4-The Pusct Sound District Council of the AFL Lum ber and Sawmill Workers Union has authorized a strike to support ocmands for a UW-cent hoi'r'" wage increase. . ; -; , ' . ' .! ; . ' Reds Remove 40.000 Troobs yWhitevrash
