Weather Max. . S2 53 CO 37 Min. Precfp. ateaa Portland ; Ban Francisco Chicago New York 41 40 ' M 33 .23 34 1 4)0 44 Willamette River -3 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather bu reau, McNary field. Salem): Mostly Cloudy with showers today and tonight. Hifh today near 47. low tonight near 33. Temperature at 12:01 a m. was 40 degrees. 102nd YEAB CRT 033JJDB UNITED NATIONS, New York,' Dec. 1 At United Nations, con ference room is located on the level just under the great hall where plenary sessions of the as sembly are held. It is used most of the time for sessions of the two political committees which are known as the first committee and the "ad hoc" or special commit tee. Today, each held one session in this room, the ad hoc commit tee, which is working on the Pal estine item, in the morning, and the first committee in the after noon when it concluded work on the Indian resolution offering a means for -bringing an armistice in the Korean War. Since these two topics are the ones of sharpest controversy at the moment in UN, each com mittee spoke to crowded galler ies. In the morning, Ambassador Eban of Israel offered his "blue print for peace" in Palestine. He invited the Arab states to enter into direct negotiations and out lined the benefits which would flow from an accord on the issues which now separate them: Settle ment of the Arab refugees, end ing of the Arab boycott on trade and halting of travel and com merce. He put the blame on the Arabs for launching the war after U.N. approved a partition of Pal estine. But Ahmed Shukairi of Syrai, who followed Eban and spoke for the Arabs, rejected the glowing picture painted by the Israeli dele gate. He put the blame on the Jews in Palestine whose (Concluded on editorial page 4) Top Democrats Urge 'Country AboveParty' WASHINGTON Uft President Truman and the man he hoped would succeed him discussed plans Thursday for recapturing control of Congress in 1954. But both ex pressed agreement that the coun try's welfare should be placed ahead of the Democratic party's. As Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson put It: "Party interests must be sub . ordinated to the interests of the country and the public welfare." Hours later Truman told a news conference the Democrats should give the new Republican admini stration a chance to operate, and he said he will be as happy as anybody else if the Republicans operate all right. That was the President's way of declining requests for comment on President - elect Dwight D. Eisen hower's cabinet designations. Truman said his talks with Gov. Stevenson, the unsuccessful Demo cratic nominee for President, dealt with plans for keeping the party alive so it can take over Congress again in 1954. "We do not intend to try to in fluence Democrats in Congress to obstruct, delay or in any way im peril the national welfare and the new administration's program in sofar as it is compatible with the views of pur party," Stevenson said. The Illinois governor, who came here Wednesday to discuss the par ty'i future with Truman, had an amiable session with reporters at the White House, where he is a guest. The Democrats two major prob lems, he said, ate to pay off a deficit of more than half a million dollars and to "serve the public interest." EDITOR IN MANILA MANILA, Friday) UP) Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief of -' Time and Life magazines, arrived by air Thursday night from Hong Kong on his tour of Southeast Asia. He will leave Monday for Indo nesia. Indochina and Malaya. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN COODRICH "Follow Shish-kobob lot me - THREE SECTIONS, 40 PAGES Road Sounds Urged To Fioiislhi Freeway Approval by the 1953 legisla ture of an additional bond issue of $32,000,000 would mean improve ment of virtually all of Oregon's main traveled highways, Ben Chandlei, state highway commis sion chairman, told members of the legislative highway interim committee in Salem Thursday. The additional highway bonds also would provide money, Chand ler said, to complete the Port-land-Salem freeway, the southern end of the Salem by-pass and im prove other major highways. A substantial part of Pacific High way 99 would be reconstructed, widened and made a freeway in many sections, Chandler said. The 1951 legislature authorized highway bonds aggregating $40,, 000,00 as against $72,000,000 re quested, to cover a three-year pe riod. Approximately $10,000,000 of the bonds are yet to be sold. Chandler said approval of $32, 000,000 more bonds by the 1953 Wage Board After Coal Lyons Robbery Brings Arrest In 16 Minutes Statesman Newt Service LYONS State Police arrested William W. Delawter, 32, Marion, near Lyons Thursday, 16 minutes after the Question Mark Cafe here was robbed of $60 by a knife brandishing man. Dewalter was charged with arm ed robbery and auto theft. State Patrolman Russell Haynes made the arrest seven miles west of Ly ons. He said Dewalter was oper ating an auto which Howard Baldwin, Lyons, had reported stolen. Baldwin, who operates a cloth ing store beside the Question Mark Cafe, gave this version: A man entered the cafe and flashed a knife. Mrs. Robert Jubb, wife of the proprietor, fled through the back door. The man scooped $60 from the cash register and left. Baldwin said Mrs. Jubb ran into his store. He said he phoned state police, and the man drove off in the Baldwin car while he was reporting the crime. Baldwin said his car was dam aged when the man apparently sideswiped another car on the out skirts of Lyons. Dewalter was taken to Linn County jail at Albany. State Po lice Capt Ray Howard said ' he had been released from McNeil Island Federal Prison in Wash ington 10 days ago and had been staying at Marion for three days. Howard said Dewalter has a rec ord of five prior convictions, all involving auto theft. Fire Districts Name Officers Harold Rosebraugh was chosen president of the combined Liberty-Salem Heights and' Vista Morningside Rural Fire districts last night. Directors of the now-combined groups chose five from their own numbers to membership on the board of the enlarged district Rosebraugh; Carl Armpriest as vice president; Robert Cannon as secretary; Donald K. Griffith as treasurer, and William Rranrwa. Rosebraugh, Armpriest and Griffith were on the directorate of the Liberty-Salem Heights dis trict, which now is the name of the combined area, and Cannon and Franzwa were on the board of the Vista-Morningside District. The meeting was held at the Armpriest residence. Jaycees, MacLaren School to Repair Toy 8 for Yuletide WOODBURN Woodburn Jay cees are planning a Christmas toy drive in co-operation with Mac Laren School for Boys. Jaycees will collect broken toys and deliver them to the school, where boys will repair them for distribution in Woodburn to chil dren who would otherwise have a toyless Christmas. The toy drive is part of a pro gram to integrate the school and the community. In charge of the drive will be Bert Wellman, Charles Sauvain and Harley Pi per. FRENCH VOTE CONFIDENCE PARIS JP) Premier Antolne Pinay won an easy vote of con fidence in the National Assembly Thursday night and then disarmed critics of his budget by lifting dis puted tr- - ' i c'-M-es from the biQ. The Oraxjon legislature, coupled with other highway revenues and federal aid, would permit the highway com mission to reduce what he termed a $150,000,000 critical deficiency in Oregon highways to $80,000,000. He said the latter figure could be offset from normal income of the highway department after the main highways have been com pleted. Also mentioned in connection with the statewide improvement program where the river level highway between Portland and Pendleton, coast highway 101, the Dalles-California highway in cen tral Oregon, highway 20 from Bend to the Idaho line, and some work east of Pendleton. Chandler said $5,000,000 of the $10,000,000 Bond money now un spent would be contracted at the January meeting of the highway commission and the remaining $5,000,000 would be exhausted by June. Head Quits Boost Given WASHINGTON UR President Truman accepted the resignation of Archibald Cox as chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board (WSB) Thursday night and named Charles C. Killingsw-rth to re place him. Cox quit in protest against Tru man's decision to overrule the board in the soft coal wage in crease case. Truman ordered ap proval of the full $1.90 a day in crease negotiated by John L. Lewis for his United Mine Workers. The board had voted against any in crease beyond $1.50 a day, on the ground it would be inflationary. Killingsworth, the new board chairman, is a 35 - year - old economics professor from Michi gan State College. He had been vice chairman. Despite the speedy shift in chair men, .the wage board was unable to function because of a boycott by its six industry members, who had sided with Cox and the five other public members in the mine wage dispute. The industry members called a meeting for Friday at which they may decide whether to follow Cox's lead and resign. Some of them at least were believed cer tain to pull out. One told a re porter the President's action made a "mockery" of the board's work. The increase granted by the pres ident was for diggers of soft coal. Hard Coal Boosted Too In another development late Thursday the government approved a daily wage boost of about $1.90 for hard coal miners. Economic Stabilizc-r Roger Put nam wrote a letter to the WSB saying Truman's soft coal decision "of course would extend to any other similar contract Involving the raise negotiated by the hard coal men." It was uncertain Just when the Board would be able to comply with Putnam's order, because of its disorganized state. Putnam also gave official ap proval late in the day to the soft coal contract between Lewis and Harry M. Moses, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators Associ ation. Moses bargains for 240 million tons of annual soft coal production, slightly less than half the nation's production. He was the only indus try official who appealed the ori ginal WSB cutback decision to Put nam. Unhappy at Order The six labor members of the WSB, although outwardly pleased that the miners are going to get the full increase, were unhappy that the WSB was overruled. They them selves had voted for the full $1.90, but the public - industry majority cut the raise back to $1.50. The labor members said the presidential overturn set a prece dent which could work both ways. They appeared agreed that Tru man's decision destroyed the inte grity of the tri-partite system, and they predicted it would have a terrific and disappointing im pact on other unions which have accepted WSB wage reduction ord ers. The president said failure to ap prove the full $1.90 would probably bring on a coal strike which would confront President - Elect Eisen hower with a "national emergency" on the very day he takes office. Truman said he wanted to present Eisenhower with a smoothly func tioning economic machine. Donnelly Said Quit As High Commissioner WASHINGTON LB Walter J. Donnelly, . one of the top career diplomats In the State Department, has resigned as U. S. High Com missioner to Germany, officials said Thursday. Administration informants said President Truman has accepted the resignation, but has delayed announcing it for diplomatic rea sons. BENSON DUE JS OREGON PORTLAND UR Ezra Taft Benson, who will be secretary of agriculture in the Eisenhower cab inet, win visit Portland Saturday. Benson, who is making a tour of the Northwest, win hold a press conference at 10: IS sum. fOUNDBD 1651 Statesman Salem, Orecjon. Friday, Britain Slices Defense LONDON Gfl Prime Minister Churchill announced a new cutback in the British defense effort Thurs day to minimize the entanglement of the nation's economy in an in flationary spiral. He did not specify the size of the cut in his statement to a packed and attentive House of Commons. But he made it clear the action was designed to protect Britain's finan cial solvency. "Some curtailment must now be made," Churchill said. "This win, to some extent, involve the can cellation or modification of con tracts already placed. "The reductions will, so far as possible, be brought about by spreading deliveries of equipment over a longer period. It will, how ever, not be "possible to solve the problem entirely by spreading de liveries forward intj future months or years." This was the method used in the first cutback. Churchill's Conserva tive government announced last winter that Britain's long range, 13 billion dollar 'earmaraent program. first put forward late in 1950, had been extended a year beyond the originally planned three years be cause of manpower and steel short ages and the effects of the nation's economic crisis. Last July Churchill warned that a further curb would be necessary to prevent "a plunge into bankruptcy." ' Churchill stressed that Britain is as determined as ever to carry her full share in the efforts of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion. Britain is now spending 1,462, 000,000 pounds ($4,093,000,000) a year for defense. More than a third of this goes for new weapons. Photos Strong Reminder for Driving Care Persons involved In auto acci dents have an added reminder of what such things can result, in from a framed display at Salem city police station showing true pictures of several graphic Salem area crashes. , The pictures are hung just above the table where drivers fill out ac cident forms and are titled, "Will You Be Next?" The pictures were taken on the spot at accidents throughout the Willamette Valley and portray everything from fatal auto- pedestrian encounters to train collisions with autos and motorcycle smashups. Each picture has been labeled and assists in telling the story portrayed by twisted wreckage and mangled bodies. A few of the labels read: "Squeeze Play," "One man slept two sleep now," "Fall to stop fail to live "Don't stop; don't look; never listen," and "Quick throttle slow brake." City police have advised every one filling out accident forms to study the lesson told in this series in the hope that some accidents might be minimized. Rites Monday For A. Karlin, War Casualty Funeral services for Arnold Wil liam Karlin, 23-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Karlin of Marion, who was killed in Korean action in October, will be held Tuesday at 1:30 pjn. in the Clough-Barrick Chapel. Interment will be at Belcrest Memorial Park, with the Rev. F. H. Becker officiating. Karlin was killed off the East Coast of Korea while serving aboard the destroyer USS Lewis. The ship was protecting two South Korean minesweepers which were being shelled by Communist guns ff Wonsan. One 75 mm shell hit the ship, putting the boiler out of service and killing seven men. T arlin grew up and went to school in Marion, 12 miles south east of Salem. Born near White River, S. D., he came to Marion with his parents 15 years ago. He enlisted in the Navy six years ago after attending S t a y t o n High School. Survivors include the parents and a brother, Bernard. Roseburg Airman On Missing C47 TOKYO. Friday I Civil Air Transport, Inc., has identified the two Ampriran crew members aboard a C-47 transDort missing since early Wednesday on a flight from Korea to japan. TV line said thpv were: Capt. Robert C Snoddy, 31, Rose burg, Ore. Capt. Norman A. Schwartz, 30, TtiiisviTie. Kt. The cargo plane, leased by CAT in th IT s. Air Forc. was last heard from when it messaged it was clearing the Korean coast The twA Americans were be lieved to be the only persons aboard December 5, 1952 Takes Over CARACAS Lt. Col. Marcos Feres Jimenes (above), of Venezuela, is the nation's new president. He took office as three-man junta resigned following an nouncement pro-g o v e r n ment party was leading elections for constituent ass e m b 1 y. Feres Jimenez was a key member of the junta. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman.) Paulus Cannery To Erect Large New Warehouse Plans for a new $150,000 ware house were revealed Thursday by Paulus Bros. Packing Co. The new 400 by 16C foot building will be an addition to the existing large plant at 14th and Oxford streets in southeast Salem. It will provide badly needed storage space and will approximately double the current storage capacity at the plant, officers of the firm said. A contract for the building has been let to Austin Construction Co. of Portland and work is expected to get underway soon. A request for a building permit was filed Thursday with the city building in spector s office. Financing of the project has been arranged through the sale Of preferred stock and a long-term loan, company officials said. This project is the firSt since the recently inauguration of the Salem Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Council. It is esti mated cost will push construction totals in Salem so far this year to a record total of nearly $11 mil lion. 45 MPH Gusts Rock Salem; Rain to Stay Salem was buffeted by 45-mlle-per-hour gusts of wind and rain totaling .73 inch Thursday and more wind . . . accomponied by more rain is predicted for today. The Oregon coast got another pounding from gale winds that reached 70 miles an hour in gusts. No major damage was reported, although power service was inter rupted, ship movements were halt ed at the mouth of the Columbia River and ferry service was sus pended there. Farther inland and at higher al titudes, ice continued to be a threat with chains still necessary in most mountain and eastern Oregon areas. Especially hazard ous .are the Wilson River Summit, the Siskiyous, Bend, McKenzie Pass, Lapine, Chemult, Bly, Keno, Meachum, Baker, Austin, Seneca and Burns. & as Filbert Growers to Ask Again For Quota on Imports of Nuts By LTLLTE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman Oregon filbert commission mem bers wiU, in January for the sec ond time in one season, request million pound quota to be placed on imported shelled nuts, D. J. Duncan, executive .secretary of the commission, told some 200 filbert growers Thursday. Duncan gave the commission re port at the 38th annual session of the Nut Growers Society of Ore gon and Washington, which open ed Thursday at the Izaak Walton League building and will close to day. ! Duncan explained that the two-year-old commission has a two fold purpose: Legislation and the study and promotion of new uses for filberts- - The commission recommended to the tariff commission the quota on imports. After reviewing the matter, the tariff board, made the recommendation to President Tru man. N It is unprecedented that the president does not sign the request PRICE 5c No. 255 S. Korea Rejects Proposal UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. un South Korea turned down an In dian compromise proposal for end ing the Korean War Thursday as the president of the U. N. Assem bly wrote an appeal to the Com munists to. accept it. Y. T. Pyun, foreign minister of the U. N. - sponsored Republic of Korea, announced here that his government could not accept the Indian resolution, approved Wed nesday by 54 of the 60 U. N. members, because "it is against the spirit of the constitution of the Republic of Korea." Western delegates said private ly they would not worry about South Korea's stand if the Com munists did the unexpected and agreed to the proposal. Pyun objected to the heart of the plan, which is a provision for sending thousands of North Ko rean war prisoners to a demili tarized zone from which they would be repatriated by aU. N. commission. Pyun said his gov ernment regarded the prisoners as liberated Koreans. Those who de sired to remain in the South should be liberated now, he added. The others are Communists, he said, but they still are Koreans and are not alien prisoners of war. He said it would reflect on Korea's sov ereignty to send them to the de militarized zone, even temporarily. Lester B. Pearson, president of the Assembly, told a news , con ference he was writing a letter to go along with the Assembly's resolution. This letter would ex plain the background of the resolu tion and would end with an ap peal to Peiping and Pyongyang to accept it. The resolution calls for creating a repatriation commission made up of Czechoslovakia. Poland, Sweden and Switzerland to take charge of the prisoners. It pro vided specifically that no force should be used to repatriate or detain them. If the prisoners were not disposed of in 120 days, they would be handed over to the U. N. as refugees. Turner Turkey Selected Champ McMINNVILLE UFl The Gath Brothers of Turner won the first grand championship of the Pacific Coast Turkey Exhibit here Thurs day. A 21 -pound adult bronze hen from the Gath ranch won the title in the dressed division. As in the day previous, entries from the Gath Brothers, the Lyons Triple B Turkey Ranch of Port land, and Loren Johnson of Scap poose dominated in Judging. Lyons entries won four events, Johnson six and Gath Brothers one. The only event not dominated by these three was in live bronze commercial hens, which was swept by Louis Hadley, Dayton. The exhibit will conclude Friday with the turkey dog contest, judg ing of pens and special' awards, and a banquet. November Toll On Roads High Oregon's traffic death toll In the first 11 months this year was 406, or two more than in the same per iod of 1951. The November total was 45 killed greatest for any November in 16 years. There were 3,351 persons con victed of traffic violations during November. These include 211 con victions for drunk driving. of the tariff commission, but I guess President Truman was caught between whistle stops any way he turned it down," Dun can stated, adding that when the new administration takes over, the nut commission will repeat its re quest with hopes for better re sults. Duncan's report showed that un der its research program six new uses for filberts were being tested with "reasonably satisfactory re sults," adding that in the case of filbert nuts in ice cream and re lated products, the result was very good. The use of filberts in cheese and dairy food spreads was also proving successful, Duncan be lieved. He urged growers to continue their support of the commission as one means of furthering the in dustry in Oregon. Financial sup port is gained through charge per ton against the grower. R. A. Ward Portland, is chairman of the com mission,, but was unable to be pre sent Thursday. , (Additional details on page 17) Keaotlhieir IKIatch v Walter Heather (above) was the Congress of Industrial Organiza tions' "choice Thursday for pres ident to succeed the late Philip Murray. ) Salem Escapee Of 21 Ago Gives Up Edward Maynard Sharlow, 2, who escaped 2; years ago with four companions from the - old Marion County Courthouse jail, surrendered to agents of the FBI in San Francisco Thursday. An nouncement of his surrender was made by James B. Poster, special agent in charge of the FBI in Portland. Sharlow, who took part in a Sunday! escape made possible by prisoners sawing cell window bars during a church service in the jail corridor, was taken into cus tody by- the FBI to answer charg es of transporting a motor vehicle from San Francisco to Portland in October,, 1949. He had been held in Salem on a charge of possession of stolen property and made his escape April 23, 1950. With ISharlow In his escape were Robert j Morrow, Donald Elmer Floodstrom, William Hector Love Joy and Donald J. Barker. Lovejoy and Barker were captured seven hours later. At the time of the escape, Shar low was wante dby law enforce ment agencies in Chico and Los" Angeles, Calif., and Vancouver, Wash. ! Senator Sees Higher Taxes, More Spending CORVALLIS ;( State Sen. Philip S. Hitchcock of Klamath Falls Thursday forecast increased state spending and higher taxes. Hitchcock spoke at the opening of a two-day state tax conference here, sponsored by Oregon State College. He said that education costs took $103,000,000 of the $180,000,000 bud get for 1951-53 and education needs are suU growing. "Obviously we can't cut the school budget," he said after point ing out that the Oregon school pop ulation in 1956 will be double that of 1940. Hitchcock said that other big ex penditures such, as those for wel fare and for state institutions will get bigger rather than sr..aller. He added that the state already Is be hind its responsibilities in the in stitutional field. General taxation problems were discussed by Dr. Marvel M. Stock well, economics professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. Lattimore Case To Grand Jury WASHINGTON Of) The govern ment gave the controversial case of Owen Lattimore to a federal grand jury Thursday, asking the jurors to decide whether the Far Eastern expert should be indicted for perjury. The Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee contends that Lat timore told "flagrant - falsehoods when he- was grilled for 12 days last EDring about Communist con nections and what influence he wielded on America's postwar po licy in the Far East. When he was challenged by the senators about contradictions in his testimony Lattiiwre said they were I lapses in i memory about trivial things many years ago. Lattimore is director of a school of international relations at Johns HoDkins University. Baltimore. For a time after the war be also served as a consultant to the State Department on Far Eastern af fairs.) ' l . SenL McCarthy (R-Wis) has ac cused him of being the chief So viet spy in the United Sta s, a charge Lattimore nas ceruea vig orously. ! . - ! SALZM PStBCXriTATIOW SIjm Start mt Wath Twr S'pt. , I This rear J4 Last Tear 20 JO Normal I Vri:ii f I-ft ii ii ii l Year Eoe&4Q,! 'O 9 i . - .i 1 Booirledl ATLANTIC CITY, N, J. l Dynamic Walter P. Reuther ! was elected president of the CIO T&ars day in a political scrap wintting tip the labor group's annual n vention. " ; Reuther. 45 - year -old chief of the CIO's million - mencber Auto Workers Union, was seletrted in a hotly - contested balloting ovet ( Allan S. Haywood, veteran 64 - year - old executive vice presi dent of the organization. - iThe voting was 3.079,181- for'. Reuther. and 2,613,103 for Hay wood, based on the CIO claimed membership of 5,692,284. Iteuther thus won by 466,078 votes. The red - haired Reuther. per haps best known for his many, proposals for. social change in the United States,' succeeds the late Philip Murray who had guided the CIO for a dozen years before his sudden death Nov. 9. IDespite the bitter battle between-' the opposing Reuther and Hay wood forces, both sides pledged afterward to bury the hatchet and work together in the future. Pledged to FoUow Murray In a speech accepting the CIO's top post, Reuther pledged to fol low in Murray's footsteps and said he intended to build the CIO into a bigger ano: more effective labor . organization as a monument to Murray's memory. Keuuier saia - tne rat men aiu ting on plush cushions in the Un ion League Clubsacross the coun- ' try" will be fooled if they think the; CIO wiU split apart. "We are not going out of here divided," he declared. "We are eoinff out of here united tn rarnr on until we win." - He promised a renewed organ izing drive in all, industries and said he would concen'.ate, too, on "educating and unionizing the organized" union members' to make them more militant. Haywood Re-elected After Reuther was; elected CIO president, Haywood, amid much praise for his long work in the labor movement, was unanimous ly re - elected as executive vice president. James B. Carey, head of the CIO's Electrical Workers'- Union, was re - elected secretary treasurer. Reuther became the third pre si- dent in the CIO's 17 - year his tory. The first was John L. Lewis, now president of the independent United Mine Workers Union; tho second was Murray. ' The CIO, which was formed in 1935 when . It splintered off from the AFL to organize some of thm mass production industries, alae took steps to renew negotiations with the AFL looking toward re uniting the' two union organiza tions. ' ,f 18 Employes Of U. N. Fired UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. 1H Eighteen American UJN. employes who refused to answer U. e- federal inquiries on subversion haye been fired or, will be dismissed Friday by Secretary - General Trygve Lie, u. N. sources said Thursday night. Nine of -them already have been fired for balking at questions of the U. S. senate internal security sub committee headed by Sen. Pat Mc-"" Carran (D-Nev.) or queries of New York federal grand Juries. I he other nine refused Thursday to give what Lie regarded as satis factory answers at his own follow up inquiry and are to be let out Friday, the sources said, when Lie makes a public report. but of those already bounced were ousted by the U. N. since the McCarran committee began public anti-red dragnet hearings in. New York in October. The other three of these were fired earlier in the year. Korean 2 Below Zero SEOUL OR The Chinese Com munists broke off theirft attacks on Sniper Ridge on the central front Thursday after 24 hourt of close-in ! battle in the coldest weather of the ' year. . : South Korean defenders stood firm in bitter cold of two below zero as the Reds threw In small but . savage and persistent attacks la the blackness before sunrise. Okinawa-based B-29 superfortsM bucked 100 mile an hour winds Thursday night in a daring raid on Cholsan, in Northwest Korea 25 miles from Red China's let fighter next at Antung, Manchuria. The bombers turned a huge Com munist supply center into a flam- in? sauare. Portland Bank Holdup Victim PORTLAND (J! ' FBI agents and Portland police Thursday -night hunted a thin-faced holdup man who robbed a U. S. National branch bank . of an amount esti mated between $700 and $1,200 and disappeared into a Christmas shop ping crowd. The man appeared before noon Thursday at the bank's Stadium branch in the city s southwest apartment house and shopping dis trict and told Mrs. Irene Seabrook, a teUer: "Give me all your tlOOi. tZZn and $20s or you'll be dead." Mrs. Seabrook, widow of HucU cipal Judge John B.. Seabrook, tdl " police - she was so startled she asked: "What did you say?" "This Is a stickup." the mio told her. , 11.42 t