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O-V POUNDOD 1651 IT 102nd YEAB 18 PAGES The Oregon Statesman. Salem. Orw Thursday December 4, 1952 PRICE 5c No. 254 i Korea Co Wins Overwhelming Support in U.N. Vote , By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. The U. N. General Assembly ap proved overwhelmingly Wednesday an Indian plan for peace in Korea. It was ordered dispatched speedily to Red China and North Ko rea with an appeal for their quick acceptance. They and Moscow have already condemned the plan. , Fifty-four members of the 60-nation Assembly voted on a final KHHIUB rLKDQjQCa United Nations New York, Nov. 30 The announcement yesterday that Senator Henrv Cabot Lodge would succeed Warren Austin as U. S. representative to United Nations was received with warm approval at the U.. S. mission. It Was known that Mr. Austin who is 75 and ailing, wants to retire lodge will be welcomed as Aus in'm itrtzsriT because of his well- known interest in the work of United Nations, his sense of U. &. responsibility in the conduct of world affairs and his previous service in 1950 as member of the U. S. delegation to UN. Thus it may prove that Lodge's defeat for reelection as senator in MassachusetsS will open the way to him for even larger public serv ice. Already it has been noted that his grandfather, after whom he was named, was a bitter foe of fWoodrow Wilson's League of Na tions. This time skip of a . genera tion resulted in a great reversal "of judgment on the role of the United States in the modern world. The grandson now is called on to make effective the' weight of U. S. influence in and through United Nations. For all Its .reputation as a. city devoted to commerce and to pleas ure New York is also a great re ligious center. Here rise the spires and domes of many faiths; and here are some of the world's re nowned clergymen. In midtown, within the range of a few blocks of our hotel, are the Community church of which John Haynes Holmes is pastor emeritus, an Ar menian church, the "Little Church around the Corner" (Episcopal), the Marble Collegiate whose pas tor Is Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, and the Madison Ave. Baptist Church. The last is now served (Continued on editorial page 4) Wreck Throws Pair From Car A Salem couple was thrown out of their car from the impact of a collision Wednesday at the inter section of Broadway and Market Streets shortly after 5 p.m. Taken to Salem General Hospi tal after the accident were Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Place, 1178 N. Commercial St. Place suffered a slight concussion and a possible fractured shoulder. Mrs. Place re ceived a laceration on her hand and multiple bruises. Both were considered to be in "good" condi tion Wednesday night. The couple was injured in a collision between their car. and a oickup driven by Ivan Wayne "Soode, Salem Route 6, Box 373P. After the couple was thrown rom the car it struck a parked car belonging to Mrs. Betty Jo Spafford, 1242 Clearview St. Minor damage to the Spafford car was listed by city police. The Place auto received con V siderable damage to the left side, Goode's car received minor front end damage. No citations were is sued. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH "Congratulations, Mr. Salmon If to boy and 375 fiirls." u - 22 ise roll call for the resolution which reached the Assembly floor after weeks of debate. The five Soviet bloc countreis fighting bitterly to the end against the solid Free World front, cast the only negative votes. Nationalist China abstained on the grounds that the resolution would not be ef fective. Although the Communists al ready have rejected the resolution, some U.N. leaders hoped for a change of mind in Peiping and Pyongyan. The action closes the first chapter of the Korean case in the seventh Assembly and there is expected to be a lull now until the Communists react. Delegates feel that such reaction will not come in time for fresh decisions here by the new year. They are ready to suspend ac tion until President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower takes office in Washington Jan. 20 and sends a new delegation to the Assembly reopening in February. U.S. Ambassador Ernest A. Gross told the Assembly the resolution shows the way to peace. After the Assembly adjourned, Sen. Alexander Wiley R-Wis). who will head the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee next year, said: "If the Russians want peace they can have it tomorrow. All their talk about Korea is camouflage. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vi shinsky's speeches indicate there will be no peace." The resolution would establish a four-country repatriation commis sion which would handle ths repa triation of all prisoners and the resolution states that force Will not be' used to send the prisoners home or detain them. It provides for an umpire to vote in case of a deadlock by the com mission. - At the end of 80 days after an armistice the commission 'would turn over to a projected political conference on Korea the prisoners not yet repatriated. At the end of 30 days more the conference would turn over to the U.N. all prisoner remaining unrepatriated or not dis posed of otherwise. The Soviet bloc has insisted on an immediate ceasefire with forced repatriation of prisoners. Drive-in Theater Scheduled for Four Corners Plans for a drive-in theater, to be situated IVt blocks north of State Street at Four Corners were announced Wednesday by Jesse E. Jones, Portland theater operator. Jones said work on the theater will begin in the near future and the project should be ready for operation in the spring. The new drive-in will have landscaped grounds, a snack bar with new features, a screen and projector of the latest" type and parking space ior about ouu cars. The Four Corners district was selected as site for the new pro ject because, according to Jones, it is close to the city and as a community has shown- consider able growth and enterprise He has been working with the Mar ion County commissioners, county sanitarian and the traffic depart ment of the State Highway Com mission on the proposed plans. TURKEY SHOW WINNER ROSEBURG m Dave Cooper, Parkdale, took five first prizes in the broad-breasted bronze division at the Northwestern Turkey show here Tuesday. tuprom Clayton Jones Supporters to Push Challenge for Council Seat Supporters of " Clayton Jones will go to the City Council, and if need be to court, to break the tie between Jones and incumbent Claud Jorgensen for alderman from Ward 3. This was decided Wednesday night after several .men from a South Salem area included in the ward met with city officials. Jones will appear before the Council Monday night to enter a formal contest of the election, and Alderman David O'Hara said he will propose an ordinance to al low for a drawing to settle the tie which resulted at the Nov. 4 election. If the Council does not act to break the deadlock, the issue will be appealed to Circuit Court, said Louis F. Neuman, spokes man for the Jones group. The city's charter does not pro vide for coin-flipping, drawing or other means of settling ties. City Attorney Chris Kowitz has ruled that the state law providing a drawing does not apply to a city and that; an incumbent continues in office until a successor is elect ed and qualified. The charter, however, does state Gates Family GATES Five minutes after this family of Gates left on a Journey new home. From left, standing-, Mrs. Hampton, and Judith, 8. family will unite for flight to Ecuador. Family Buys Farm in South America Wilds By CHARLES IRELAND Valley Editor, The Statesman GATES A family of nine left here Thursday to start life anew in the wilds of Ecuador. The journey climaxes 30 years of dreaming and five years of planning for Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hampton who have lived near uates, 40 miles east of Salem, for the past 10 years. The Hamptons are migrating Morse Won't Try To Block McKay Confirmation PORTLAND m Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon saiJ Wednesday he would not attempt to block Senate confirmation of Gov. Doug las McKay as secretary of the Interior Department. Morse told The Oregonian by telephone that he would support McKay because "a president has the right" to have whoever he wants in his official family." Earlier, Morse called McKay "a well-recognized stooge of the tide lands oil thiever, the private utili ties gang, and the selfish interests of the country...." "There can be no question that McKay is qualified (for the post) from the standpoint of character and loyalty," Morse said Wednes day, "and he is certainly qualified to carry out the political philosophy of Eisenhower." Morse will return to Oregon Sunday for a series of talks in the state. 36 Mile per Hour Wind Visits Salem A total of .19 of an inch of rain fell in Salem Wednesday and was blown about by gusts of wind up to 36 miles per hour, the weather bureau reported. More of the same was expected today. Oregon's highways - were said improved Wednesday, but chains are still needed in the Government Camp area, Timberline, Baker, Burns, Santiam Pass, McKenzie Pass and Ochoco Summit. that the Council shall be the judge 'of qualifications of its mem bers and that it shall determine contests for membership. O'Hara said he felt this would allow a new ordinance to settle either the current question or future ties, but Kowitz would not give an off hand opinion as the legal possibil ity of the effect on a past elec tion Bringing the challenge was left up to Jones after it was indicated that Jorgensen would "sit tight," backed by the city attorney's opinion that he was entitled to two more years in office unless proved otherwise- The full term is four years, but the ruling would keep the incumbent in only until the next election. Mayor Alfred W. Loucks stres sed that he was interested only in seeing that the Council takes legal action and that a legal alderman is seated. The group from South Salem Progress Club included eight per sons, with Neuman, Jones and Roy Adsitt as spokesmen City Man ager J. L. Franzen was, the only other official present. Leaves to Pioneer in Ecuador , -.-A, , Iff- . ji,- . , -rf . A picture was taken Wednesday, above to Ecuador in northern South are Herbert, 16, Hnrh. 15, Jeanne, Eldest son, Lewis Jr. and his wife left to an equator wilderness because they are beginning to feel cramp- ed in the booming Willamette Valley. They see in Ecuador a land of boundless opportunity and resources Adventurous blood, too, courses strong in these two descendents of mid-valley pioneers. Six of their children ana the wife of their eldest son are ac companying them. They are mo toring to Miami, Fla., where on Dec. 18 they will board an air liner for a 12-hour flight to Guay aquil, the largest city in Ecuador. One - hundred miles inland lie 6,000 acres of undeveloped land which the Hamptons have pur chased for $9,000. They describe it as a series of jungles and clear ings inhibited by monkeys, wild turkeys, parrots and wild pigs. "And snakes," said Mrs. Hamp ton. "That's the part I don't like about it." River Full of Fish "But the Rio Congo will be full of fish," countered her husband. The Hampton's parcel of land will be comparatively small by Ecuadorian standards. It is part of a hacienda which they purchased from a family that had owned the land for generations. They report some family haciendas are "as large as Marion County. Their son, Lewis Jr., went to Ecuador alone last January, in spected the land and sent pictures to his parents who authorized the purchase. House Rented The family has rented a house for $50 a month at Guayaquil where they will live temporarily. Their property is accessible only by river. The menfolk will sail upstream with a portable sawmill, small ' electricity plant, tractors and tools which they have ship ped to Ecuador. Their goal for this winter is to assemble the sawmill, choose a residential site on their vast prop erty and ponder what crops to raise. . They expect to maintain a per manent balsa forest, . stating that the trees are ready for harvest in five years. They also plan to gath er rubber from wild trees. Poten tial crops include rice, pineapple and sugar cane. In Rainy Season Bananas are the largest crop of the district they will live in. The average 'year-round temperature Is 80, and the six-months rainy season has just started. Mr. and Mrs. Hampton plan to return- briefly next spring, accom panied by their younger children, to supervise sending more equip ment. Meanwhile, two married chil dren will live on the 800 -acre mountainous goat ranch they own above Gates. The family has ac cumulated money to finance the move primarily from the sale of salvage timber on their property which had been logged when they bought it. Hamptons said total cost of the move, including land purchase was near $15,000. "We'll either make a million or go bust, said his son, Lewis Jr. And people who know the Hamptons are betting that it won't be the latter. (Additional details on page 11.) members of the Lewis Hamrmon America where they will establish a 11, (seated) Hampton, Coral, 4, separately for Florida where the Dairy Breeders Keep Barnes As President By LIULIE L. MAD SEN -Farm Editor, The Statesman SILVERTON Richard Barnes of Silverton was re-elected presi dent of the Marion County Dairy Breeders Association and also re elected to the board of directors at its annual meeting held at the Silverton Armory Wednesday. The meeting was an all-day event with a no-host luncheon at Toney's at noon which was attended by 70 Others named to the board were Frank Gratzinger, Gervais; Ray Johnson, Canby; Rogner, Ander son, Colton and Ed Ebner, Sub limity. , Mrs. William Williams of Silver ton was retained as secretary treasurer of the group and Wil liams as manager of the associa tion which serves not only Marion County but the south part of Clackamas County as well. Paul Mann, Silverton,- is the assistant technician or manager. During the morning session, Williams made the annual tech nician's report showing that dur ing 1952 there were 440 members who had 3,262 cows in the asso ciation. This was the seventh an nual meeting of the group. Wil liams also reported that Marion County's association was one of the first four in the Oregon Dairy Breeders Association which now has 21 units. Ben Simonson, Corvallis, mana ger of the OBDA, showed a film il lustrating the work of the associa tion, and emphasizing the im provement of dairy cows in the state through artificial insemina tion. A panel discussion on dairy problems was moderated by Don Coin Walrod of Oregon City. Tak ing part were Dr. E. L. Henkel and James Philips of, Silverton, Floyd Walborg, Ben Simonson and Paul Berger of Oregon State Col lege and Rogner Anderson of Col ton. . A feature of the day was the buying back of the first 10 capi tal certificates issued. Dr. A. W. Simons of Silverton held the first of these. Others whose certificates were re-purchased were those is sued to the late George Kruse, Mt. Angel; Fred Peron, Salem; El ton Watts, Silverton; Bernard Schiedler, Ed Zack, j Arthur Schwab, John Frank and Walter Duda of Mt. AngeL and Felix Hassing, Aurora. Portland Mayor to Visit Germany PORTLAND UR Mayor Dorothy McCuDough Lee of Portland said Wednesday she would make a three-month trip to Germany for the State Department i after she leaves the mayor's office here Jan. 1. ! Mrs. Lee said she would be a special consultant in organization of local government. She said she expected to leave Portland Jan. 7. Weather Max. BKn. 39 39 39 Predp. as .16 .00 ttKm 5 49 ss 35 Portland San Francisco 30 J00 Willamette Kiver ieeu : lORCAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salens : Considerable cloudiness I with show era today and tonight. High today near 8. low tonight 38. Temperature at 12:01 am. was 50 deereeat ) SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Star' f Weather Year, Sept. 1 This Year Last Year j Normal 3.48 19.1S ll- itn m - .nil. - Ex-Czech Bosses Hanged I By RICHARD A. VREGAN J VIENNA, Austria Ufi Rudolf Slansky. former Communist boss of Czechoslovakia, and Via do dem entis, its former foreign minister, were hanged in Prague Wednesday with nine other fallen party lead ers. They were judged "Zionist, Trot skyite" enemies of Stalinism. The 11, eight of them Jew., were sentenced last 'Thursday in a mass show trial of 14 top Communists who confessed in the accustomed wooden manner to all sorts of crimes against Czechoslovakia, communism and the Soviet Union. Three others, all Jewish, got life imprisonment. The swiftness with which the ex ecutions were carried out hinted that the savage purge of Czech oslovak Communist ranks was be ginning. At the same time there were many , signs that commu nism's 1952 purge was to hit all the satellite . Communist nations and perhaps many persons inside the Soviet Union itself. The Prague Radio announced the executions were carried out at grim Pankrac prison. The three major party leaders executed were: Slansky, former Kremlin favorite installed by Moscow in 1945 as sec retary general (boss) of the Czech oslovak Communist party. He was one of the chief architects of the February, 1948, coup which put thi Communists in power. His fall appeared to stem from a struggle for power with Presi dent Klement Gottwald, who dec orated him with a high order on Slansky's 50th birthday in July, 1951, for services to Moscow and communism. Clementis, former foreign minist er and former Czech chief dele gate to the United Nations. He sat out World War II in London in stead of in Moscow, his major mis take. When he was arrested in the spring of 1950, he was accused of "losing faith in Stalin." Bedrich Geminder, former head of that party's - foreign affairs sec tion, a "gray eminence" behind scenes who was a potent power in international Communist ranks, dic tating in the name of the Commu nist International to the French and other parties. The others were lesser lights In the Czech Communist ranks, but held key posts in the government. Electro-Watt Firm Filling Army Contracts Operating on its fourth contract for the Army, a government order for an allotment of 500 - gallon water tanks, is Electro-Watt In dustries, Inc., 3501 Portland Rd. According, to Manager Jack Neil sen, the contract for the water tanks, which will amount to about $140,000, will keep the Salem plant busy through February. There is a good chance, said Neilsen, that an additional contract will keep the crews busy through May. The plant is now using a crew of 29 men to make the tanks which are of welded metal construction. The tanks must be treated with a rust proofing process before they can be painted. Electro-Watt has installed additional equipment for this process. One of the leading furnace man ufacturers in the Northwest since 1939, this plant Jiad previously completed three contracts with the Army for fuel tank orders, total ing about $100,000. Congress to Investigate Charges Interference With Grand Jury in U.N. Case WASHINGTON Ufi The House Judiciary Subcommittee has launched an investigation into re ports tha. the State and Justice Departments interferred with a New York grand jury's search for alleged American Reds in the Unit ed Nations organization.' As Chairman Chelf .(D.-Ky.) an nounced the inquiry was under way, the International Monetary Fund disclosed that Frank Coe, its $15,500-a-year secretary, has been fired after refusing to tell Senate investigators whether he was ever Communist or a wartime spy. The Monetary Fund, set up to stabilize currencies, has . contrac tual relations with UN but is not a part of UN. Chelf and Rep. Keating (R.-N. Y.)t another member of the ju diciary group, said an investigat or already was on the way to New York to look into "serious charges of delay, interference and hampering which they said nad been made against the Justice De partment by members of tha Fed eral Grand Jury. One of the jurors. Max Zim merman, told reporters in .New , : 1 .1 WASHINGTON (President Truman Wednesday gave th nation's soft coal miners a $1.90 daily wage increase because, hm said,, he does not want President-elect Eisenhower to have a coal strike crisis on his hands when he takes office. Truman, in approving the full $1.90 which JohnL. Lewis negotiated with the industry, overruled the Wage Stabilization ivoara, ine juxmomic staoinzauon i Agency and Defense Production Chief Henry H. Fowler.; The Wage Board had held that any more than fl.50 would "ir reparably damage" the program to control inflation. The other high stabilization officials sided with the board. But Truman declared he was not willing to take an action which would confront his successor with a big strike emergency. Therefore he approved the full $1.90 for the 375,000 soft coal miners. Opposed by Putnam The President's decision, reached one week ago, was announced by Economic Stabilizer Roger Put nam who said: "This is not the decision I would have made. It is not the decision I would have recommended." But Putnam told newsmen he wpuld not resign over the disagree ment in handling the case and he was certain that at least three of four public members of the Wage Board would also stay on the job. borne of the board s public mem bers told newsmen privately some time ago that they intended to re sign if the government rejected the board's decision that a $1.50 rise was all that could be. allowed und er the government's anti-inflation program. . Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, and the industry jointly appealed the board's de cision to Putnam and th matter then went to the White House. Lewis and the industry had agreed on a $1.90 rise but under wage-price con trols it could not be put into ef fect without government approval. Higher Celling Truman s decision that the min ers should have the $1.90 means higher price ceilings for many va rieties of soft coal bv probably not for all. Most soft coal has been selling well under existing ceiling prices and the higher wage costs can be absorbed for some varieties within present ceilings. ; Actual prices, however, are ex pected to go up. Truman estimat ed the additional cost of produc ing coal will be "perhaps five or six cents a ton." PITTSBURGH W A top United Mine Workers official said Wednes day night that President Truman's action in overruling the Wage Sta bilization Board and approving a day wage boost for John L. Lewis' 375,000 soft coal diggers "undoubtedly averted a strike." "The men were becoming a little itchy and they were ready to quit the pits unless action was . forth coming soon," declared John Bu sarello, president of UMW District No. 5. Police Use Tear Gas to Give Ticket MIAMI BEACH, Fla. W An irate motorist had to be driven from his car with tear gas Wed nesday after he refused to accept a traffic ticket. Patrolman Larry Taylor said he wrote a reckless driving ticket for Hal Long, 34. "He wouldn't take it," Taylor said, "So I reached in to take his key out of the ignition. Then he slugged me." The officer said Long then rolled up all the windows and locked him self in the car. Taylor radioed for help and Dep uties Mike Dougherty and Colman Pont dropped a tear gas pellet through an opening in the canvas top of the car. That brought Long out and he was booked on a charge, of as sault and battery. Long denied that he slugged Taylor. "He's just a tyrant," Lon said. "He gave me a ticket once be fore. I acted the way I did be cause I didn't like bis attitude." York Tuesday the Jury "had rea sons to suspect" that the State Department, working through the Justice Department, had started to exert pressure to delay or pigeon-hole its report on conditions inside the UN. Speaking for the State Depart ment, Press Officer Michael Mc Dermott said Wednesday it had nothing whatever to do with any such attempt. - 1 The erand jury arned thei American people in its report that an 'overwhelmingly large group of disloyal United States citizens has infiltrated the U M. "Almost without exception these same subversive employes with the United Nations 'were formerly em ployed in various departments of our own federal government," the jury reported.' h It appeared, the jury said, that so many disloyal Americans in key U.N. positions was not coincident al, but part of "a definite, planned pattern." James W. Cothran, commander In chief of the Veterans of For eign Wars, telegraphed a demand Wednesday to Trygve Lie, U JN. Prison Guard Held for Selling or to Con An - Oregon State Prison guard was arrested Wednesday after noon by state police on a charge of peddling liquor to a convict. The guard, Jack Loring Smith, 555 N. Winter St., pleaded guilty tofhe charge at a preliminary hearing and is due v to be sen tenced in Marion County District Court today. He was lodged in Jail following his arrest in lieu of $500 bail. According, to the district attor ney's office, an inmate Rave Smith $20 with which to purchase six pints of liquor. Later prison authorities discovered the bottles and questioned the inmate. Smith has been employed at the prison since Sept. 7, 1951. State, Police and State Liquor Commis sion enforcement agents investi gated the case and the complaint was signed by the latter. State of ficers said that Smith was just married early this week. Cursing Spree Puts Locks on Convicts' Cells Conversation of any kind was limited to cell-mates Wednesday night after the 14 men in the Ore gon State Penitentiary's segrega tion unit were locked in their cells for using foul language. The men were confined to their cells with no recreation periods after they used loud and abusiva language during the fire Monday afternoon at the prison 'tailor shop. "The convicts are; to remain in their cells until X get good ana ready to let them out," Warden Virgil O'Malley said Wednesday, "but it'll be at least a week." The punishment was ordered th ' men after they staged a cursing demonstration during the fire They were eating their dinner ia a cell block about 100 yards from the tailor shop. While Salem fire men fought the fire,, the convicts proceeded to berate them in vul gar language and Warden O'Malley told; a guard to go into the segre gation unit and tell the men that if they didn't quiet down, he would have a fire host turned on them. f i . .1 When the threat was to no avail, the warden ordered a dosage ol tear gas and the men went into their cells. The men in segrega tion are normally let into the cor ridor for meals and exercise. Blood Day in Today Is Blood Day in Salem again, with volunteers sought by the American Red Cross to helg meet its needs in providing blood for hospital and overseas military needs. - Blood donations will be accepted from noon to 8 p.m. at the down town Armory,' with Marlon Coun ty Red Cross Chapter In charge. The slogan for the Christmaa season is "A pint of blood Is a precious gift that means a lot and costs so little. Salem reached Its quota in No vember for the first lima in sev eral months. The December quota is 475 pints. - General secretary, that all Ameri cans who have -refused to answer questions about communism be dis missed immediately. Cothran told Lie the VFW has always supported the U.N., but that a housecleaning is "mandatory" if the organization is to retain the confidence of the American people. Coe's ouster as. secretary of the International Monetary Fund fol lowed bis appearance before a Sen ate Internal Security Subcommittee headed by Sen. McCarran (D-Nev). The McCarran group also has been investigating American employes of the U.N. Jay Reld, public relations officer for the fund, said Ivar Rooth, the Swedish banker who Is manager of the fund, asked for Coe's resign nation two days after Coe refused to tell the McCarran committee whether he belonged to a spy ring during World War IL Coe had held the secretariat from the time the fund was organized ta 1948 to foster International trad relations by supporting the cur rencies of its 54 member nations and by other meani. Mqu Salem Today of Federal