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82 Comvm t of War Killed in Korea Mutiny' (Story in Column 2.) Min. Prcclu, $ .S3 n .09 41 .00 14 04 49 54 27 EOQD30S New York 40 Willamette River 7.4 feet, FORECAST (from U. S. Waathr Bu reau. McN'ary Field. Salem): TogfT this moraine, becoming partly cloudy this afternoon and cloudy tonight. Lo- cal valley fog rtn tonight. Hifh to day 44 to 48. low tonight 15 to 37. Tern peratura at 13:01 un. waa 94 degreaa. I02cd YEAB. 14 PAGES Thm Oregon Stcrtesman, Salem. Orcjon, Monday December IS. 1952 PBICE 5c No. 285 Muiist Prisoners . t . I SK ! . . I . . Weather ; m ii jpv i ,r i in n ill i i Ui i i ii ii ii ii.ii i i . i ..... r i - 3a i i iiiiiiii v iiiiii v ii i i . wucuo 9 W1 :wmm$mm wmm POUNDBD 1651 UNITED NATIONS. N. Y Dec. 11, 1952 Two dayi ago I report ed how the actions of the United Nations organs are in the form of resolutions which lack the force of law, and depend for effective ness on the consent of . the na tions to whom they are adressed. Today it was my privilege to sit in the speciaLcommittee and lis ten to the report on a resolution of Dec. 2, 1950 which had been put into force. This was on the former Italian colony of Eritrea on the east coast of Africa along the Red Sea. When the four great powers failed to agree on its disposition following the last war its fate was turned over to United Nations. The latter sent out a mission to study the question, after getting its report the UN Assembly adop ted the resolution referred to which recommended the inclusion of Eritrea as an autonomous state in Ethiopia which it adjoins. Dr. Matienzo, a Bolivian, was ap pointed high commissioner to ne gotiate the federation. The UN commissioner journeyed to Eritrea via London, Rome and Addis Ababa (capital of Ethiopia). He conferred with the administer ing authority in Eritrea (British), and with local groups in various Earts of the country. The popu ition was divided in its religion (Christian and Moslem), and in language. There was a substan tial Italian element which had contributed much to economic de velopment. Residents near the Ethiopian border favored (Continued on editorial page 4) Townspeople FiD Pit After Death of Boys LEVITTOWN, N.Y. An gered at the deaths of two small boys in a rain-filled excavation, residents of this Long Island com munity grabbed shovels Sunday and began filling the pit. One boy was smothered by a landslide in the pit last Monday. Friday another boy drowned there. Scores of Levtttown parents, arm ed with shovels, marched on the pit Sunday morning. Then this happened: I . Two bulldozers were found at the nearby construction job and "borrowed." A man in the crowd knew how to operate a bulldozer, and a tele phone call to a sympathetic con tractor produced another opera tor. Someone found a small pump, an put it to use taking out water as the kand and gravel went into the 72 by 72-foot hole. Other townspeople brought out coffee to warm the workers. The watchman on the construc tion job watched and said nothing. Neither did his employers or the police. The owner of one bulldozer showed up, however, demanded to know who authorized use of his machine, and was told: "A man in a black homburg hat." Finding no black homburg hat in the crowd, he departed with his bulldozer. Then the fire department sent a truck with floodlights, so the lone bulldozer could finish the job Sun day night before any small boys would be playing around the pit again. Florida Town's Laws Behind the Times LIVE OAK, Fla. A com mittee is studying Live Oak's city ordinances to bring them up to date. It's about time. Right now, it's against the law to drive an -automobile down the streets. SHIT STILL AGROUND ABERDEEN, Wash. (Jt A sec ond tug is due here Monday to aid in attempts to free the grounded i freighter Yorkmar, the Coast Guard reported Sunday night. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH .,Ty come fo osk for your daugh ters harv in marriage, so to speak." i:---- Mutiny Try Fails In Korea PUSAN, Korea un The Allied Prisoner of War Command report ed Monday that 82 Communist pri soners were killed and 120 wound ed in a mutiny by die-hard civil ian internees in a camp on the island of Pongam Sunday. An official announcement said American and South Korean sol diers quelled the uprising and maintained uncontested control. The announcement said the up rising probably was a part of re cently intercepted Communist plans indicating preparations for a mass breakout. It said the uprising occurred in UNC Camp No. 1C on Pongam, a small island west of Koje off the southern tip of Korea. About 3,600 of the camp's 9,000 internees participated in the si multaneous uprising in six sepa rate compounds. The Allied command said many of the mutineers were former in mates of notorious Compound 62 on Koje, where bloody rioting broke out last Feb. 18. The POW command .announce ment said : "Die-hard Communist civilian in ternees (reclassified Communist prisoners of war) mutinied in a UNC camp on the island of Pon gam at 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14. "United Nations soldiers of the United States and Republic of Ko rea armies quelled the uprising and maintained uncontested con trol of the situation. "Eighty-two prisoners died and 120 were wounded in the abortive uprising which probably was a part of recently intercepted! Com munist plans Indicating prepara tions for a mass breakout. "Since the discovery of these plans, UN guards have been alert ed for any such contingency. "Two U. S. soldiers and two Re public of Korea Army soldiers were injured by thrown rocks. "The uprising occurred in UNC Camp No. 1C on Pongam, a small island west of Koje. Pongam is a steep, terraced windswept camp. "An estimated 3,600 of the camp's population of 9,000 inter nees participated in the simultan eous action in six separate com pounds ofInclosure No. 2. "The action started when pris oners in the six compounds, each containing approximately 600 per sons, organized and continued mil itary drills and demonstrations in each compound in defiance of law ful orders. "Moving according to plan they massed at the top of a high ter race where three ranks with locked arms defied advancing troops while others abover the tight ranks hurled a shower of stones which kept UN troops from ascending the steep incline. "Orders, warning shots and riot guns had no effect on the organ ized mob and when three waves of fanatical Communists advanced on the guards, individual weap ons were brought to bear when their power became necessary to prevent the entire mass from breaking out.-0 Fog, IHIeavy Travel Over- Fog, innumerable Sunday driv- ers and the necessity of re-routing traffic combined Sunday to reduce opening day traffic over the Mar ion Street bridge to a snail's pace. The presence of dense fog in the early morning and evening hours Sunday shrouded signs on the approaches to the new bridge. City officers j in the evening pro vided flare-pots for the signs so drivers, driving fcumper-to-bump-er much of the time, could deter mine where and when to turn. As well, police 'stayed on the job until late evening to guide traffic. " City officials were on hand early Sunday morning to make the first trip over the new structure. City Manager J. L. Franz en. Mayor Al fred Loucks and E. Burr Miller drove over the new span in the first car. No ceremony preceded the opening. One of the most complicated traffic problems arose when east bound traffic on the bridge in the evening persisted in driving tip Marion Street a one-way street westbound. A: temporary sign was quickly thrown up by city police and flare pots set around it ad vising drivers they should not en ter Marion Street eastbound. The new bridge will eventually , be one day westbound when the Center Street bridge is reopened, thus eliminating this confusion. With the opening of the Marion 1 m W7 T . McKay Returns With Tan, New Faith in Ike Intends to By WENDELL WEBB Managing Editor, The Statesman Oregon's zestful Gov. Douglas McKay arrived home Sunday with a new tan, a "deep sense of responsibility," and a more-iervent-than- ever admiration for his new boss "The thing that impresses me talk to you," the governor said as NATO Nations To Increase Armed Forces PARIS m The North Atlantic alliance announced Sunday night that its 14 member nations will have a bigger and better fighting fore; next year than it has now. This announcement was made on the eve of the annual review meeting which brings to Paris the top ministers and military leaders of all: the powers pledged to block Russian aggression. Robert Barnes, American chair man of the Review Board, said at a news conference that all mem ber countries had promised great er military expenditures "across the board" in 1953 than in 1952, and that national production would also be higher. Barnes was speaking in the pres ence of Ole Bjoern Kraft, Danish foreign minister and present chair man of the North Atlantic Treaty Council, and Lord Ismay, secre tary general. Upwards of 200 correspondents crowded into the conference and their questioning reflected a some what critical attitude about the promised progress and about the prospects for sweeping expansion of NATO's fighting forces. Lord Ismay, opening the news conference, said there would be "no spectacular decisions" taken at the NATO confab. There will be a decision, he said, on the Mediterranean Command, possibly on the extent of airport, radar screen and naval port build ing to be started this coming year. but no decision on how many sol diers, ships and planes will be pro grammed for 1953. Barnes and Ismay said there probably would be no formal an nouncement, even at a later meet ing, of the number of divisions NATO is going to build. Blaze Destroys Tavern at Aloha KLLLSBORO iS) Fire destroyed the Top Notch tavern at nearby Aloha Sunday. Tony Jones, owner of the building, estimated the loss at $25,000. The fire, was believed to have started from electric wiring on the second floor of the 15-year-old building. Traffic SIou few Bridge bridge and subsequent closing of the Center Street bridge, Front Street resumed its two-way traf fic status. Prior to the opening of the new span this street had been made one-way to provide a more accessible approach to the Center Street bridge. Another complica ting factor arose when traffic on Front Street tried to drive up the narrow jutty along the north side of the new bridge. Police quickly eliminated this further potential jam of traffic. Eventually this north side street will provide a one-way access westbound straight off Marion Street through to Front Street Its companion jutty on the south side of the bridge will provide a one way access eastbound through from Front to Commercial Street. The west side approaches to the new span were fairly simplified with the only real jam being at the intersection of Edgewater; and Wallace Road. Police provided men at this end also to guide Sun day traffic into the proper lanes. The Center Street bridge I will remain closed until the east-side approach has been completed as well as major alterations along the older span. A cloverleaf j ap proach is to be provided on the west side approaches to the two bridges to facilitate access to the West Salem shopping ana residen tial areas as well as an easy route to the coastal highways. " WJCr? 1 Resign Soon President - elect Dwight Eisenhower. is that you can talk to him like I he relaxed in front of his fireplace last night But the governor himself wasn't doing much talking about what he d learned in his talks with Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, and other top-ranking men with whom he conferred on the Cruiser Helena off Wake Island in the far Pacific. That part of his trip was top-secret. As for what the new secretary of the interior will do so far as his governorship is concerned "I'll resign very quickly, maybe Monday or Tuesday. It wouldn' be fair to stay on. I'm having to give so much time to the interior department, and besides Paul (governor-designate Paul Patter son) should have every chance to take over." Has Apartment Not that the governor plans to leave immediately "I probably won't go to Washington until early in January." But he already has a month's rent paid at the Greenbrier Apartments, effective tomorrow, so he'll have a place to light in the national capital any time. As for his own home on Jerris Avenue, it will be occupied by his daughter, Mrs. (Mary Lou) Lester Green, whenever the McKays move to Washington. Governor McKay left Salem in secret a week ago 'last Friday night via army plane. The second day following he was put aboard the Helena via helicopter 4500 miles westward. His presence dur ing an outbound stop at Honolulu was in secrecy. But censorship lifted when he joined the general off Wake. Talks With Eisenhower The first night aboard the Helena, McKay said, was spent discussing the Korean situation with Gen. Eisenhower and others of his group. Of this conference and many succeeding it, the gov ernor said: "It was a fascinating experience discussing intimately the interna tional situation, about Korea, In dochina and other hot spots, with such men as Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Omar Bradley, Gen. Lucius Clay, Adm. Arthur Radford, Gen. Wilton Persons and others. "After all, as a captain (McKay is a veteran of both World Wars) I hadn't been used to associating witn generals and admirals. For a country boy, well . . He stayed in a lieutenant commander's quar ters. In Honolulu on the return trip, Gen. Eisenhower, McKay and others in the party were given "a very enthusiastic welcome" in an open-car parade. "And then they put me in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel where practically everybody seemed to want to talk about statehood or boost some candidate for governor of Hawaii." At Marine Base The group stayed all night at Kaneohe Marine Base one of the first places blasted by Japanese bombs in the surprise attack of Dec. 7, 1941, when McKay was on the islands with the Willamette University football team. On Dec. 7 this year, he was on Wake Jsland on the llth anniversary of the at tack there. Still on Wake, the governor said, are evidences of the bomb ing, as well as two small Japa nese tanks and many Jap-built cement pill-boxes. Flown From California The governor was flown j to Portland Sunday from Edwards Air Force Base in California, and came to Salem via car. Eisenhower went directly to New York from California. As for the 43 appointments he must make within the next few weeks, McKay said most had not been determined his under-sec-retary, solicitor, secretaries of im portant divisions (minerals, land, water, power, etc.) and other as sistants, as well as the governors of six territories Hawaii, Guam (incumbents already have re signed), Alaska, Samoa, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. He did say, however, that Rec lamation Commissioner Michael Strauss would be replaced. "But I'm not announcing things too soon," McKay laughed. "After all, my appointment hasn't been confirmed by Congress. If it isn't, ni just retire quietly to my busi ness (Chevrolet and Cadillac: dealer in Salem)." But the com ment was academic his confirm ation, from all appearances, will be unanimous. I Oregon Men on USS Helena Sing With McKay si" s 8 ls ABOARD THE USS HELENA Gov. Douglas McKay of Oregon (left), newly-designated secretary of the Interior, joins In a aongrfest with some of the 27 Oreron men aboard this cruiser, including; Harry L. Catterson and Dennis W. Prescott of Salem; Lester F. Lambert and William A. Lambert Jr. of Leb anon; Charles Pierce of Silverton; James Jackson of Donald; James E. Moulett of Woodburn and Ker mit K. Morton of Sherwood. McKay was flown from Oregon to Wake Island and then to the Helena for conferences with President-elect ABOARD THE USS HELENA High-ranking appointees In Presldent ; elect Eisenhower's administration were flown aboard this cruiser by helicopter for vital conferences. In the 'copter shown landing on the cruiser's deck are Gov. Douglas McKay of Oreron, the new secretary of the Interior, and George Humphrey, new secretary of the treasury. The Helena Is dne at Long Beach Dec. 16. First Baptist Church Holds Dedication An estimated 1.400 DeoDle were on land Sunday at the dedication ceremony of the new sanctuary for First Baptist Church, Marion and Liberty Streets. The sanctuary, which replaces the old church, is located Just north of the older structure. Plans are to tear the old church down and use the space created for a temporary parking lot until long- range planning will materialize in to additions to the new structure. The dedicatory message was given by Dr. Albert G. Johnson, president of the Conservative Bap tist Foreign Missions Society. Wal ter Kelly presided at the presenta tion of the building and Frank Hughes accepted. Minister of the church is the Rev. Lloyd T. An derson. RUSSIAN INTENTIONS" MOSCOW (JPi -r The all-union chamber of commerce has an nounced that Russian manufac turers next year will produce long-playing phonograph records and a camera that takes and de velops a picture in less than a minute. Hey, Kids! Today's the Day ! Today Is the day Steve and Nancy start their big adventure with Santa Claus and the Toy Making Machine. Turn to page 9 of today's paper so you won't miss the start of this special Christmas feature for the kid dies. It will run every day until Christmas Eve in TOUR HOME NEWSPAPER r ! ft? f. r Dwight Eisenhower. Snow Falls ih Florida Areas JACKSONVILLE, Fla. OH Flo rida had a little snow Sunday. None of it stayed on the ground. It was not quite cold enough. But it was real snow, says the Weath er Bureau, and that's most unus ual for this state. Light flurries were reported at Tallahassee, Crestview, Green ville, and at Chevalier Field near Pensacola. It '"i Solons Ask Review of $12 Billion In Authorized River Projects By Russell Brines WASHINGTON (JP) Investiga ting Congressmen Sunday propos ed a complete review of 12 bil lion dollars worth of accumulated river projects throughout the country to determine if they are worth building. The investigators said a backlog of 949 authorized, river, harbor and flood control -proposals would take 25 years at constantly in creasing costs to 1 complete and said many might well be dropped. A public works subcommittee urged "more sincere" cooperation among government agencies and, the elimination of "pork barrel" practices in congress to reduce waste. The group accused the Army Engineers of "flagrant disregard of a law requiring them to keep plans up to date and said the Engineers submitted "deceptive" cost estimates to Congress. The Engineers and the Reclam ation Bureau, it said, were guilty of a "breach of faith with the Congress for allowing expendi tures on some projects to exceed ! 4 '4: - ;Hv:W Eisenhower Names Three to Treasury Johs NEW YORK UPl Three appoint ments to posts in the Treasury De partment under the administration of President-elect Dwight D. Eisen hower were announced Sunday. They are: H. Chapman Rose of Cleveland, O., assistant secretary of the Treasury. W. Randolph Burgess of Hast-ings-on-Hudson, N. Y., consultant and special deputy secretary of the Treasury on debt management and monetary policies. Marion B. Folsom of Rochester, N.Y., now chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Committee on Economic Development named un der secretary of the Treasury. Folsom is to be charged witn particular attention to tax policies, according to Eisenhower's press secretary, James C. Hagerty, who announced the appointments. Rose is a partner in the Cleve land law firm of Jones, Day, Cock ley, Reavis. Burgess is chairman of the exec utive committee of the National City Bank of New York. Folsom is treasurer of the East man Kodak company. 2 DIE IN HOTEL TLAZE DUBUQUE. la. 0P) Two elder ly men died Saturday night in a fire which gutted Two floors of the brick Bell-Marr Hotel in down town Dubuque. Twenty other guests in the hotel at the time es caped. The subcommittee, headed by Rep. Robert E. Jones Jr., (D-Ala), made the statements on the first of four reports to the public works committee on the results of 15 months' study of the country's public works programs. Congress, the report said, au thorized funds to plan numerous water projects in an effort to pre pare for an expected slump in employment after World War II, This planning authority devel oped into a Congressional "ex pedient . . . for easing pressures . . . a practice which well merits the charge of pork barrel" and led to an increasing backlog of projects on which work has not begun. 4 Now, it added, there are 580 flood-control proects and 369 river and harbor proposals, totalling an estimated eight billion dollars, on which no work has been done. Nearly four billion more will be neeed to complete partly-constructed jobs, the report said. The present estimated costs of these projects have jumped from 99 A to 274 per cent over estimates at the time they were authorized, the report said, A - - -i i !T(Sj 1 -m- i General Back in Nefiv York' - By DON WHITEHEAD NEW YORK (JPy President elect Dwight D. Eisenhower re turned S inday from his historic 21,000-mile trip to the Korean battlefields and the Pacific with "renewed confidence that a cat. isfactory solution in Korea can be speeoea. i He said his 16-day journey "marks not the end hut the hp. ginning of a new effort" to bring an nonoraoie ena to tne Korean fighting, j " "This Is not the moment to state more than that resolve," he declared. ''For we face an enemy who we cannot hope lo impress by words, however eloquent, but only bv deeds executed under circumstances of our own choos ing." The treneral'a hnnp an A his m. solve stemming from his first hand survey of the war in Korea were outlined in a formal state ment handed to newsmen shortly after he alighted from the big Air Force Constellation that landed him at La Guardia Field at 2:02 p.m. EST. "Common Sense." - Eisenhower said a solution in Korea, "will demand common , sense and care, much foresight and much patience." And he add ed: - "But no more in Korea than anywhere else in the world is honorable peace beyond the power . of free men to achieve when they pursue t intelligently and energetically." "I believe the architects of ag gression can be made to realize it would be fateful folljr to ignite other conflagrations like the Ko rean conflict elsewhere In the world. , - "I believe that if we think clear- ! enOU?h. Mian 1 ramfllllv onmirrh and work tirelessly enough, we can both save freedom and se cure peace." Eisenhower said the "simple purpose" of his trip to Korea was "to look, to listen and tn iaai-n so that the experience and know ledge of the United Nations sol diers on the scene might be my future guide in these matters .... No Simple Formula All of us have long realized that there can be no simple form ula for bringing a swift, victor- iOUS end to this war " h A-r.A "But at the very least, that know ledge nrenarea u fnr m..... tough task lies ahead. Such spirits ual preparedness, in our embattled world, is as necessary as physic al ouuaiiieni. a rree citizenry expecting its soldiers honorably to face the enemv mii it.w honestly face reality." Secretary - of State designate John Foster Dulles, who accom- paiuea rasennower on the flight home, told newsmen the state ment would be the only one the President-elect wnnM nn ki. - u.jtw vt turn Korean trip. hat to a small, cheering crowd on i " aurpori zor nis arriv- ml- Met by Staasen Among thoaa ) m k. ,. - - " w uiui (veil Harold Stassen, Mutual Security designate, and Gov. Sherman Ad ams of New Hampshire, who will be assistant president In the new aaminisirauon. Eisenhower said that any pub lic report he would make on his trip would be "naturally limited.' "Until I assume the office of the presidency," he said, . "it would be wrong for me to pretend to speak with the authority attach ing to that office." He is to be inaugurated Jan. 20. Eisenhower -said he had made three definite observations on his trip. They were: "First The training of ROX (Republic of Korea) forces can and should be expanded and speed ed. This is my opinion and the unanimous opinion of the com manders on the scene. Supply Problems Second In the strictly mili tary sphere, certain problems of supply have reached rather seri ous proportions and require early correction. "Finally, we must an recognize In all our thinking and out plan ningthat the Korean War is but the most dramatic and most pain ful phase, for us at this moment, of our worldwide struggle against Communist aggression' , - In an extemporaneous remark to the 200 persons who greeted him, Eisenhower ref erred to the Korean War as "A UN opera- . "I didn't go out to tell them bow to run their business, and 1 didn't." he said. tALEM PKICIFITATIOJ . tart f WMtaer Tsar Sept. 1 This Year - a.n Last Year Normal 14.61 ! I n
