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Capital JLjJpu THE-WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY tonight and Wednesday.' Slightly wanner. Low tonight, 42; high Wednesday, 72. FINAL EDITION JUL JUL JU w - t. ' ajo eue83 66th Year, No. 128 EiUrc4 m kmi! iUh vaiem, Oregon, Tuesday, June 1, 1954 isIIm l mImh, Ortcu Roy Mills of Control Board Quits Nov. 30 Declines Offer of Year's Extension Under Retirement Act By JAMES D. OLSON Roy Mills, secretary of the state board of control Tuesday submitted his resignation effec- tive November 30, 1954, declin ing an offer of board members to extend his retirement for an ' Mother year. Mills became 65 years of age subject to retire ment from state service in May. All three members of the board Governor Paul L.- Patter son, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry and State Treasurer Sig Unandor, paid high tributes to the work performed by Mills and expressed regret that he was leaving the state service. Secretary Since 1941 Mills has been with the state board of control sines 1940, first be ing appointed co-ordinator of insti tutions. A year later he was ap pointed secretary and has served in that position ever since. From 1932 to 1940 Mills was deputy banking superintendent and for 20 years prior to work ing for the state, was associated with the Charles K. Spaulding Lumber company, rising from a bookkeeping job to assistant gen eral manager of the company. Payment Denied The board refused to pay a demand of $537.84 to Robin D. Day, Salem attorney, for a prune crop harvested in 1953 through the use of convict labor. Day rented this prune orchard from Leo Spitzbart, manager of the Oregon State Fair. "(Continued on Page 5, Col. 3) Unable to Agree On Air Academy WASHINGTON HV-Rep. Shafer (R-Mich.) said Vuesday Ihe com mission .charged with finding a site for the new Air Force Acad-, emy cannot agree : ' ' He told a reporter he has learn ed the commission members may report to Secretary of the Air Force that they have been unable to come to a decision. In the absence of a unanimous recommendation by the five-member commission, which the law would require him to accept, Tal bott is to pick the location from the commission's top three recom mendations. Shafer, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said the commission members are "far apart" on their recommendations. After months of inspecting scores of sites throughout the country they have narrowed the field down to five possible locations, Shafer said. He listed them as St. Mary's, Calif.; Colorado Springs, Colo.: Alton, 111.; Madison, lnd.; and Battle Creek, Mich. Cloudy and Cold During May Cloudy skies are due to con ,v tinue through Wednesday for I valley regions, but the forecast calls for slightly warmer temper atures. The five-day outlook is for generally fair weather until the week end when showers are due again. Mild temperatures also are due during the period. May was a cold and cloudy month, the monthly report from the weather bureau reveals. The average temperature was 55.6 degrees, or 1.6 degrees below normal for the month. There were only three clear days for the month, against 12 partly cloudy ones and 16 cloudy ones. The mean maxi mum was 69.6 degrees and the mean minimum 41.5 degrees. The highest temperature for the month was 87 degrees, recorded on May 17, and the low mark was 25 degrees on May 1, the lowest on record for that late m the spring. Precipitation for the month totaled 1.34 inches, or .59 of an inch below normal. The heavi est 24-hour rainfall was .55 of an inch, measured on May 25-26. There were four days of .10 of an inch or more of rain. Prevailing wind was north northwest. TITO I CREEK WATERS ATHENS, Greece Lfl Yugo !av President Tito arrived in Greek waters Tuesday for a state visit which informed sources say will be followed by announcement of a tim ...-'itary alliance between Greece. Turkey and Yugoslavia. Weather Details Mavlmnm yrltrdi?, Kit minimum to dar. 4-.'. Tolal St-hoor Drrrlpltallon, .M; for month, .fll normal. .02. Sra.on pro rlpitation, IS.Sfti normal, a;.p7. Btw hrlthl, -. ot a foot, (Report or V. E. Weather Binov.) Injured Peak Climber Saved By Helicopter Soldier Barely Alive Evacuated From Mr. McKinley FAIRBANKS, Alaska Wl . A Brooklyn soldier injured May 16 in a fall on towering Mt. McKin ley was evacuated by Air Forpe helicopter early today and flown nere tor Hospitalization. Doctors said the soldier, Pfc, ueorge Argus, whose , hip was broken in a 1,000-foot fall that killed a companion, was alive but unconscious when lifted from the mountain by a helicopter pilot who "squeezed every inch out of the altimeter" to reach him on the ice of Muldrow Glacier. He was reached at about the 6,500-foot level of the 20,690 - foot peak, the tallest in North America. Argus was flown in the helicopter to Pantishma, a small mining community at the foot of the mountain, where he was placed in a small air force plane and taken to Minchumina. A two-engine plane met the party there to fly him to Fairbanks. The helicopter, piloted by Capt. Ralph Searle of the 74th Rescue Squadron, returned to the moun tain to begin evacuation of eight members of the rescue party who brought him down the ice-covered mountain. (Continued on Page 5, CoL 6) Lumbermen Renew Parley PORTLAND Wl - A ,'resh round of contract talks between employ ers and CIO Woodworker negotia nts wna atueuuieu mis weeKvnne AFL Lumber and Sawmill Worker representatives from six states prepared to report Friday on re sults of a strike vote. Already there were a few scat tered reports that some AFL lo cals had struck, but Kenneth Da vis, executive secretary of, the Northwestern Council of the union said local disagreements might have been more responsible than the industry-wide failure to reach an accord. Both the CIO and the AFL unions, representing upward of 150,000 woods and mill workers, have sought 12 14-cent hourly pay increases. Management represent atives have offered to renew exist ing contracts without change. The CIO approved a strike, set May 3 as a strike date, then post poned the strike indefinitely in fa vor of continued talks. Thus far they have not been productive. Hope to End Snake Hearing WASHINGTON W) - William J. Costello, Federal Power commis sion (FPC) examiner, Tuesday ex pressed a hope that the hearing on proposed Snake River power projects will not go into the second year. Costello pointed out that the hear ingon an application of Idaho Power Co. to build three power dams on the Snake in Idaho and Oregon began last July 7. R. P. Parry, attorney for Idaho ower, joined the examiner in ex pressing hope for an early con clusion of the hearing. Costello's remarks regarding the length of the hearing were made as Leland Olds, former FPC chair man, resumed the stand after a weekend recess. Olds is the tenth and final wit ness for public power proponents who want the government to build Hells Canyon Dam on the same location of the Snake on which the lesser Idaho Power dams would be located. Nullify Conviction Of Slayer of Parents WASHINGTON Wi - On the grounds that a psychiatrist took up where the police left off in their questioning, the Supreme Court Tuesday set aside the con viction of Camilo Weston Leyra, who is under death sentence for the hammer murder of his father in Brooklyn, N.Y. Leyra was accused of killing his 75-yeapvold father and his 80-ycar-old mother in their apartment in January 1950 after an argument over business matters. Levra, 54, was convicted of first defj'M mur der in the death of his father and of second degree murder in the killing of his mother. Justice Black delivered the 5-3 decision. Justice Minton wrote a dissent ing opinion joined by Justices Reed and Burton. Justice Jackson took do part. 1 -Z:rTM 4, 9 Die in Crash Of Guard Plane DULUTH, Minn. UPi A Minneso ta National Guard plane, bucking low visibility .in a heavy fog, plummeted into a gravel pit near the Duluth Airport last night, : carrying nine troopers to their deaths and . injuring four others, three critically. i "We heard the roar of the planes : engines so close and loud we I QUONSET POINT, R.I. Ifi A thought it was coming down our naval board of inquiry Tuesday chimney," said Mrs. Russell West- resumed hearings into the explos berg, who lives about a city block j0n which rocked the aircraft car away, rier Bennington last Wednesday "Then there were a couple of with a loss of 1Q0 lives and many terrible crashes and everything ! injured. . was quiet.' Lt. Col. Ralph M. Jerome,' com mander of the 179th Fighter-Inter-cepter Squadron, said the ship was returning from a practical flight to Indianapolis, where the 14 aboard had seen the annual Memorial Day speedway race. , V, Jerome said bodies of five men were taken from the' scattered wreckage and that three more had died en route or shortly after reaching hospitals. All but one of the victims was attached to the squadron and lived in this area. Kilauea Lake Of Lava Recedes HfLO, Hawaii (UP) Thousands of tourists stood in drenching rain around the firepit of Kilauea Vol cano today to watch its lake of molten lava recede after the most spectacular eruption in 33 years. The tourists climbed cautiously to the peak of the 4000-foot moun tain after it appeared the bubbling red lava was sinking back into the fiery pit from which it erupted yesterday. With the level of the lava drop ping 20 to 30 feet an hour, ava lanches in the crater walls sent great boulders crashing down into the molten pit. fluge clouds of steam hissed upward as the cooler stones struck the hot lava. Kilauea erupted early yesterday sending smoke 13,000 feet into the air. Thirteen Girl Scouts and their two leaders were camped on the rim of the crater when the erup tion began and were forced to run to safety when a huge, fiery fis sure thratcned to trap them. ANTI-COMMUNISTS WIN ROME W The Christian Dem ocrat Party of Premier Mario Scelba has won elections in 12 of 16 Italian communities which voted for local offiocrs Sunday. Communists and their Socialist al lies won the other four. In other actions the high court: 1. Upheld 7-2 a Nebraska per sonal property tax on flight equip ment used by airline companies in interstate commerce. Braniff Air ways contested validity of the Ne braska levy as contrary to the federal constitutional provision that congress alone may regulate com.' merce among the states. The tax is computed by a for mula based on the ratio of busi ness done by an airline in the state and the total business it does in all states. In 1951 the Braniff tar totaled $4,518. 2. Denied a hearing to seven persons convicted In what has been called the Binghamton (. Y.) "protected gambling case of 1951" The group convicted included Ray mond O'Keefe. onetime head of the Binghamton police bureau vice squad. (CoDtinud op Fas 5, CoL 8) BENNINGTON MEMORIAL SERVICE FT3 Byron Ferguson of Jersey City, N.J., slumps in his wheelchair as his wife, Miriam, on the left, stands for prayers during Memorial Day services at Quonset, R.I., for the hundred men killed on the carrier USS Bennington May 26th while at sea. Seaman Robert E. Berry of St. Joseph, Mo., folds band aged hands, while in background Red Cross nurse Lorene Frazier attends Seaman Benjamin Valdez of. Roanoke, Va. (AP Wircphoto) Resume Naval Inquiry Into Bennington s Blast The Bennington's dead were hon ored Monday at special Memorial Day services on the sunny flight deck of the scarred 32,000-ton war- Coast Lumber LONGVIEW W-Merger of the Gardiner Lumber Co. of Gardiner, Ore., with the Long-Bell Lumber Co. was announced Tuesday by John D. Leland,' Long-Bell presi dent. . The Gardiner firm has operated sawmill and plywood plant at Gardiner and a sawmill at Reeds port, Ore. The company will be known as the Gardiner Division of Long-Bell. The local firm also has mills at Vaughn and Vernonia. Ore., and at logging operation at Grand Ronde, Ore. A. J. Myers, who was vice pres ident and general manager of the Gardiner Lumber Co., will con tinue as manager under the new program. Navy Graduates Oregon Middies ANNAPOLIS, Md. tfl - Eight Oregon midshipmen are on the Naval Academy's June 4 gradua tion list with four of them sched uled for ensign commissions with the Navy and lour slated to get second lieutenant commissions in the Air Force. . The list and branch of service: Henry' Arthur Proctor, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Proctor, In dependence; Air Force. Ernest Albert Stamm, 22, son ot 2Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A, Stamm, Medford; Navy. Gary Thomas Smith, 22, son of Mrs. Marguerite Landis, Oakridge; Air Force. Bernard Richard Grieisen, 24, son of Mrs. Rose Mary-Griessen, Portland; Navy. David Randall Hinkle, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin D. Hin kle, Portland; Navy. Richard Warfield Nelson, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis R. Nelson, Portland: Air Force. Alton Lane Van Ausdal, 23, son of Mrs. Rosabell Van Ausdal, Port land, and Ira Van Ausdal, Oak land, Calif.: Air Force. William Paul Anderson, 24, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Scott W. Anderson, Turner; Navy. Dedicate Allied Cemetery in Russia MOSCOW Wl A five-man offi cial party representing the United States, Britain, Pakistan, Canada end Norway headed for the Arctic tundra country outside Murmansk Tuesday to dedicate the first Al lied military cemetery in the So viet Union. Four Americans, 20 Englishmen and three Pakistanis who lost their lives in supply convoy runs to the Soviet Union in World War II are buried in a small cemetery at iMurmansic, . ship as she lay in Narragansett Bay. " An estimated 2,500 persons, in cluding nine of the burned and in jured, and friends, relatives and shipmates of the victims gathered on the Bennington tor the serv ices. Four of the injured were in wheelchairs. An occasional sob and the drone of passing aircraft were the only sounds that broke the silence as Capt. William F. Raborn told the hushed throng: ' " ' , "It is' difficult to express the emotion- which, I. feel and that which I know yry, feel. . Mere words cannot expre the heroism and courage of these gallant men who gave their lives that this great ship might live." The 100th victim of the explosion which rocked the Bennington as she was returning to port after a routine cruise was Lt. Robert R. Wright, 34, of Marlboro, Mass., who died Sunday night. . It was the second carrier trag edy for his widow, Rita. Her brother, Lt. William A. Gagas, perished in a similar blast aboard the carrier Lcyte while that vessel was berthed in Boston pst Oct. Some 20 navy men are still in critical condition as a result of the blast and fire aboard the Ben nington, i Benson Extols Flexible Plan ; ST. LOUIS Wl Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Tatt Benson Tuesday described the administra tion's proposed program of flexible farm price supports as one "that will be sound for farmers in the short-run and in the long-run." The present program of rigid supports "taxes the American'peo ple for abundance only to deny them the full benefits of abun dance," 'he said in a speech pre pared for a meeting of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. Benson said he will not heed the warning of some that the ad ministration's program is poor politics. "There should be no room for narrow partisan prejudices in this question," he said. "We are deal ing with something that affects the welfare of all farmers of all busi ness of all working people of all consumers." The secretary said there .is no thing new about flexible price supports and that they have been a part of the government's farm program for many years. Hopes Held Out For Hillary NEW DELHI, India (UP)-Hopes soared today for the safety of Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mt, Everest, who was stricken with pneumonia high on the slope of Mt. Makalu in the Himalayas. Reports reaching here from Khatmandu, Nepal, said Hillary has recovered from the lobar in fection. Hillary was stricken after he had broken several ribs in res cuing a member of the New Zea land climbing expedition he led from a 60-foot crevasse. But the Indian Information Ser vice, which received the report, said it was without source and that first-hand accounts ot Hill ary condition still aie lacking. (oh Against Stevens and Army , Molotov Back After Trip to See Malenkov GENEVA m Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov returned to the Far Eastern conference Tuesday after a sudden, two-day trip back to Moscow for consulta tions. Three transport planes returned Molotov and his party from the Soviet capital. A bulletproof limou sine whisked the Russian diplo matic chief to his villa immed iately after his arrival. Molotov went home unexpectedly Sunday, telling several of the West ern delegation chiefs he would re turn. Western observers assumed he had gone back to the Kremlin to report to Soviet Premier Georgi M. Malenkov and his associates on the talks thus far, and to dis cuss the strategy the Soviets will pursue in the future negotiations of Indochina. ' Debating Armistice ' These sources believe the Com munists now are debating whether to try to prolong the negotiations for an Indochina armistice in or der to produce a replica of the two - year - long Korean military talks, at Panmunjom, or whether to seek a halt as soon as possible to the fighting in the Far East. (Continued on Page 5, CoL 6) Thailand Plea Up on Thursday UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. On - The United Nations announced Tuesday the Security Council will meet Thursday to take up Thai land's appeal to send U.N. observ ers to check on the war crisis in Southeast Asia. . " 'The ineetine 1 was 'tfrraneed after consultations between Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief U.S. delegate who is president of the Security Coun cil for June, and other delegates on the 11-nation councio. It was requested Saturday by Thanat Khoman, Thai delegate to the U.N. who said large-scale fight ing has taken place in the im mediate vicinity of Thailand and his government feels there is a possibility of an invasion by for eign troops. Some of the fighting in Indochina has been near the border of Thailand. Balk on Lamb's School Bus Members of the State Board of Control said Tuesday they don't like the idea of Supt. James Lamb of the state training school, for boys driving a school bus across the country. l " t It isn't dignifiecOthey said, and it would be a waste of Lamb's valuable time., Lamb was given permission to attend in Washington, D. C, late this month a conference on juvenile delinquency. , Lamb offered to pick up the school bus in Detroit, and to drive it home for the school's use. "It's ridiculous to have a top flight man drive a bus home. He ought to take a plane," Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry, said. State Finance Director Harry S. Dorman added "it's a silly ar rangement." Gov. Paul L. Patterson agreed. So now it looks as though Lamb will fly home, although the final decision was left up to him. French Press Clean-up Of Fleeing Red Troops HANOt, Indochina Wl Viet minh troops fleeing from their ill fated siege of Yen Phu boarded s.;mpans and junks Tuesday to cross the Day River under French air bombardment. Their goal was the relative safety of the limestone hills to the west. Tanks, armored cars, mobile ar tillery and infantry pressed the cleanup offensive 30 miles south of Hanoi, where 12 rebel battalions were routed from their siege posi tions by about 8,000 French Union troops in a sudden offensive last week. They were reported to have pushed the rebels back six miles in this action on the southern rim ! of the Red River delta. Elsewhere, however, the Viet minh clung to the initiative. Red infiltrating units stepped up at tacks near this French headquar ters city. They captured one little post and the French said the de fenders bad "tome losses." WredtJhreat Holiday Death Toll 523 Sets New Record IBy The Associated Press) Violent deaths over the three- day Memorial Day holiday period soared to a new record Tuesday. At least 523 persons died in traf fic accidents, drownings, and mis cellaneous mishaps. This broke the previous record of 510 for a three- day Memorial Day holiday in 1952. The traffic toll was at least 355, or 15 above the National Safety Council's pre-holiday estimate of 340 and near the record of 363 in 1952. An additional 92 lost their lives in drownings, and 6 in mis cellaneous accidents. President Eisenhower Tuesday expressed distress over the "very high highway fatalities" over the holiday. He said something could be done about it if the nation puts its mind to the problem. The violent death total compared with 385 in the two-day holiday last year and the reqprd Memorial uay total of 571 in a four-day pe riod in 1950. . Flanders Rips Info McCarthy WASHINGTON, (UP) Sen. Ralph E. Flanders told the Sen ate today that the anti-Commu nist campaign of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy "so completely paral lels that of Adolph Hitler as to strike into the heart of any de- lensetess minority." In a free-swinging attack deliv ered on the Senate floor, the Ver mont Republican' said -McCarthy like the cartoon character "Den nis the Menace,' spreads "division and confusion wherever he goes." Flanders acused McCarthy of "ax-happy efforts" to split his own Republican party. Referring to the current Army- McCarthy hearings, Flanders also said the investigators have not yet dug into what he called "the real heart of the mystery." "mar mystery," he said, "con cerns the personal relationships of the Army private, the staff as sistant and the senator." The ref erences were to Pvt. G. David Schine, counsel Roy M. Cohn and McCarthy himself. Board Rebukes Eugene Lawyer The State Board of Control ad vised Charles O. Porter, Eugene lawyer, that he isn't entitled to visit state prison inmates after the 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. visiting hours, visiting hours. Porter complained to the board that Warden Clarence T. Gladden refused Porter permission last Tuesday to visit two convicts. Gladden told the board Tuesday "it would have required that I take officers off from other duties in order to let Mr. Porter have his visit. I have to run an orderly in stitution, and it can't be orderly if we have to change the prison rules." i The board instructed Roy Mills, its secretary, to write Porter that Gladden acted properly. Porter is the Democratic can didate for Congress against Rep. Harris Ellsworth, Roseburg. STOVE GETS HOT OAKLANL, Calif. OP) A pot-bellied stove around which stevedores ate their lunches was stolen from a pier shed. The stove was cold when -it was stolen. Now it's hot. V Twenty-seven more survivors of Dien Bien Phu the medical men who administered to nearly 2,000 French Union wounded during and after the savage battle for the fortress which the rebels won May 7 came back to Hanoi Tues day night. , Released by the Vietminh, three doctors and 24 medical corpsmen headed by Maj. Paul Grauwin landed in a Dakota transport. The French speeded defense plans for the Choben Valley as speculation spread that four rebel divisions knifing toward the delta from Dien Bien Phu planned to tin that sector first. For the past week the French have been mopping up shadow patrols infiltrating into the area 40 miles southwest of Hanoi. Some French sources estimated the ene my's main striking force could reach the valley on the Black Riv er in about four weeks. Contradicts Testimony of Adams, Stevens WASHINGTON n n M Cohn denied Tuesday he- ever imeaieneu to wrecK the Army and bring ahrint tho rli Secretary Rnhprt T Kiau.n. it Pvt. G. David Schine was sent ' overseas. "Ridiculous and nntmp" rnnn Said of this earlipr tpetimnnu Ku Army Counselor John G. Adams. Cohn, 27-year-old chief counsel to the McCarthy subcommittee.de nied too that he ever asked, that Schine be assigned to the New York area disputing testimony of both Adams and Stevens. ' ' In the course of a hammorinff cross examination from Srurii Counsel Rav H. Jenkins rnhn rlic. closed he had referred the name ot scnines regimental command er at Ft. Dix to the McCarthy staff for investigation. Admits After Rlngler ' He swore this action as tn I t Col. Earl L. Ringler was not re lated, however, to any concern over Schine's treatment at Dix. He said he took the action He cause he had been told Ringler was not in sympathy with the Mc Carthy Subcommittee's wnrlr nnrl had referred to it as "a witch hunt and a "red herring." ' vonn s oraer tor a check on RinPler was hrnnoht nut rlnnina questioning of the McCarthy aide aDout an assertion from an Army witness that Corn once said Ring ler and Capt. Joseph Miller had been uncooperative where Schine. was concerned and that he (Cohn) would not forget their names. That testimony came from Lt. John Bruce Blount who said Cohn made the statement- in- objecting to a bunday Kitchen police assign-' ment for Schine, v ; ;-i , ' (Continued on Page'5, Col. 5) 'i Deletes Names In Schine Files WASHINGTON (fl Sen. Mc Carthy Tuesday blocked senators investigating his row with ' the Army from eettini? files on work done by G. David Schine until . names of informants have been deleted from them. His stand touched off another angry' exchange during which Sen. McClellan (D.-Ark) accused Mc Carthy of being "unfair" and de manded that the Eisenhower ad ministration make known its posi tion on "pilfered" classified in formation. . McCarthy said he wouldn't let Democrats on the hearings com mittee get the names of his in formants since, he said, McCellan had made it clear last week that he feels government workers who give him (McCarthy) information "about Communists, about trai tors" should be prosecuted. In the upshot, the committee took a luncheon recess without digging into a big cardboard box of purported Schine papers which Roy Cohn, chief counsel to the McCarthy subcommittee, had prof fered to Ray H. Jankms, special counsel for the McCarthy Army hearings. Billion Asked Army Building WASHINGTON Wl President Eisenhower Tuesday asked Con gress for an extra defense ap propriation of $1,100,000,000 for military construction. The only indication o just where the money would be spent came in the White House announcement that $503,000 ot the total would be used for Army construction of a communications system in Alaska. Murray Snyder, assistant presi dential press secretary, said the overall amount includes the ex pense of constructing sites for NIKE guided missiles, and for troop housing. Legislation to authorize the mil itary construction work and fam ily housing projects now is pend ing in Congress. The President's request Tuesday was for Congress to provide the money, once the projects are authorized. It would be used in the fiscal year begin ning July 1. ARMY EXAMS HELD U.S. Rep. Walter Norblad (R. Orc.) announced Tuesday he will hold examinations July 12 fur appointments to the Military, Naval and Air Force academies. Candidates must be residents of the First Congressional District and must notify Norblad by June 14.
