' ' . ; - Paui Pattersom Takes .Governors Oath in Brief Gereiinomy , - v nTj? , ' i t .. ?, ml L"' - f" t , V v, '"" " ' . .j .v-i- . This paper started a chain of events Wednesday. it s me resicnauon hown handing it to Secretary EQQDjOS RTCDDDQCa UNITED NATIONS, New York, Dec. 14 New York is getting all dressed up for Christmas. Other cities across the country are doing the same to be sure, but here, especially in the stores, the deco rations are on a more lavish scale. The central feature of outside dec orating may be found at Rocke feller Center. There in front of the RCA building a tall fir tree has been set up, gaily trimmed with luminous plastic balls, a myriad of tiny lights, and with silvery ropes looping among the branch es. On the promenade leading fr6m Fifth Avenue to the skating rink rows of tall white candles topped with lights search along the strip i where in summer the waterfall i plays. And fronting the scene, across the avenue in the lighted front of Saks-Fifth Avenue Store, figures of carollers line the second story. Most interesting of the store windows are those at Lord Ac Tay lor's where animated figures per form: gay skaters on a rink of mirror ice, a ferris wheel, domes tic scenes with figures busy at sewing and cleaning. Macy's have given over a long stretch, of their 34th St. windows to a Lionel train exhibit. Other stores of course have very attractive windows. The prevailing color is white rather than red and green, even the "Uoos are lacy with frost and ice. Along Park Avenue, which our hotel faces, thirty Christmas trees were set up in the parking strip in the center, and were lighter to night. They were raised in memo ry of those who c 'ed in World War II and in the Korean War, And down in front (Continued on editorial page, 4.) New 600,000 State Agriculture Building Sought The State Board of Agriculture decided Wednesday to ask the 1953 legislature for an appropna tion of $600,000 to construct a new state agricultural building. It vas proposed that the struc ture be located on the fringe of Salem, where adequate parking space would be available. Board members said the current build ing, located in the capitol group, is inadequate to meet the increas ing demands of the agricultural department. The department, under the pro posal, would repay half of the money appropriated by the legis lature through a levy on licenses and service fees not to exceed two per cent annually. Fred Cockell, Milwaukie, presided at the meet ing. OLDEST MAN DIES DES MOINES Of) Ben Tay lor, 114, a former slave who re fused to brag "about be in' de old est man in Iowa and maybe in de whole world 'cause de Lawd don't like braggin' ", died of pneu monia at a hospital Here Wednes day. . Animal Crackers Bv Warren coodrich "Just give me a lug of me thoii. and fet m loaf." 1 ' I i r.,.. that chanted Oregon s roTernors oi uounu mcivay um;, woo is of State Earl T. Newbry. 102nd YEAR Benton County Men Arrested In Surplus Deal PORTLAND UP) A charge of conspiring to commit fraud in connection with the purchase of war surplus trucks put five Oregon men under bond Wednesday. Three of them are prominent Benton County lumbermen, one a logging truck driver, and the other a sand and gravel company em ploye. They were charged under a Los Angeles indictment, accusing them of being involved in a transaction to buy trucks from the War Assets Administration for re-sale, Marshal Jack Caufield said. He said that one of the five Francis W. Fetherston, Eugene, logging truck driver who formerly lived at Corvallis, is charged with buying several trucks under the guise that they were for his own use. As a veteran he could make such a purchase. Actually, the government con tends, the trucks were bought for re-sale. The other four are charged, as purchasers, with conspiring in the transaction. Arrested and released under $2,500 bail each, besides Fethers ton, were Ben Ellis and George Edward Shroyer, Corvallis lumber mill operators, and John M. Fields of Philomath, an employe of the Corvallis Sand and Gravel Co. Rex Clemens, head of Clemens Forest Products Co., Corvallis, owner of the largest lumber mill in Benton County, was indicted. but was not placed under arrest because he was in a hospital with a heart attack. Karl Huston, his attorney, said he would post the $2,500 bail for Clemens. Huston, who also repre sents Ellis and Shroyer, said the three told him they were unable to explain the indictments. The five would be removed to Los Angeles to face the charges under the indictments The United States attorney's office at Los Angeles said seven men were indicted altogether, but the other names and details would not be released until all were in custody. Grounded Ship Moves Slightly ABERDEEN OF) A salvage tug pulled the freighter Yorkmar "a length of the ship" on the beach west of here Wednesday and hopes ran high for refloating her on the high tide at noon Thursday. The 7,200-ton ship has been held a captive of beach, sands for nine days. The Coast Guard reported the tug Salvage Chief from Portland succeeded in swinging the ship's stern on Wednesday's high tide and pulling it about 400 feet clos er to the safety for which salvage observers once almost despaired. The captain and 37-man crew of the Calmar Line ship have re mained aboard since she ran aground while trying to enter Grays Harbor on a trip from San Francisco. The tug Sea Lion from San Francisco will be added to the sal vage forces for Thursday's try. It passed a tow line to the Salvage Chief Wednesday afternoon so it will be able to "brace" the Chief in the next pulling effort in case the Chiefs catch anchors should slip on the ocean floor. McKay to Occupy Office in Capitol - Former Gov. Douglas McKay will occupy a conference room in the State Capitol pending his de parture for Washington, D. C-, probably about Jan. 1, to assume his duties as Secretary of the In terior. McKay said he has a series of appointments with numerous in dividuals and delegations prior to his departure. i i i, With his hand npraised for the oath of office, Paul L. Patterson of Hillsboro became Oregon's 26th state Kuwrn WednesdaT mornlnr. Followinr In the leral saccession noon the resignation of Dourlas Mc- Kay, former Senate President Supreme Court (right). 20 PAGES Th Siamese Twins Parted In 12l2-Hour Operation CHICAGO (JP) The 15 -months-old Brodie boys, Siamese twins, were separated Wednesday night in a dramatic, unparalleled 12 hour, 40 minute operation that culminated more than a year of medical planning and preparation. If the twins live, the operation will be the first successful one of its kinds in medical history. It will go down as one of the longest on record involving children. Doctors said the odds were against the twins' survival from the start but that the boys, Roger Lee and Rodney Dee Brodie of Moline, 111., were "unbelievably hearty." The twins were joined at the head. Tests before Wednesday's op erations showed they had separate brains and separate brain cover ings, at least in part. Stanley Oslon, dean of the Uni versity; of Illinois College of Medi cine, said the twins still had a "long way to go" before their su- vival is assured. He said the post-operative period usually is more critical than the operation itself. Teams of doctors, representing five medical specialities, began op erating at 8 a.m. Announcement that the twins had been separated came at 7:30 p.m., but surgeons continued to work over the twins as the announcement was made The hospital spokesman reported the separation was accomplished at 6:26 p.m. That was 10 hours and 36 minutes after the start of the operation. Doctors Exhausted The spokesman said that a de tailed account of the history-ma'-ing surgery will not be available until Thursday morning. He ex plained: "the members of the operating team are exhausted." Two of the surgeons, including the head surgeon, did not leave the operating room during the en tire operation. The operation was conducted in the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Insti tute, part of the University of Il linois Medical Center in Chicago. Cost of Wednesday's surgery and eight previous preparatory opera tions was borne by the university without cost to the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Royt Brodie. Other was Simple In comparison, the successful separation of twin girls born Sun day in Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleve land, was relatively simple. The girls were joined at a point where the chest and abdomen meet by a thin band of flesh, small vessels and cartilage. No vital organs were involved. Except for the joined skulls the Brodie boys appeared to be nor mal. Weeks before Wednesday's oper ation, they could crawl, roll and sit. Roger would stand in a crouched position when invited to do so. Both loved to "patty cake" and could say "Da Da," "Hi," and "Nightey-Night" They attempted to mimic whatever they heard. This . month the twins tipped the scales' at 38 pounds, combined weight Roger measured 30 inches long and Rodney, 29 inches. The, Brodies live on an 87-acre farm near Moline. Brodie, 34, farmed the land last summer and has been employed as a meat cut ter in a Moline warehouse this winter. The most famous Siamese twins were Chang and En, born in Siam of Chinese parents in 181L After prosperous career as showmen in the United States, they retired to a North Carolina farm, married sisters, had children, and lived until 1874. Max. 43 - 48 - 55 Min. Predp. Salem Portland San Francisco 91 43 28 .00 J0O .00 .00 Chicago 46 4S New York 35 Willamette River A feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. , McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy with little temperature change toaay ana tonicm. tuga waay, -; low tonight, near 37. Temperature at 111 a m. today was 37. SALEM PUCIFITATIOtr Since start mt Weather Tear. Sept. 1 Tnia Year Last Year Normal 8.77 X1.4J 1408 1 Patterson was sworn in by Chief FOUNDED 1651 Orecjon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, December 18. 1952 NATO Leaders Gut Building; Plans in Half PARIS 11 In the face of warn ings from their military command ers. North Atlantic diplomatic and political leaders Wednesday cut to ribbons the proposed 428 million. dollar Western defense building program for 1953. They said such a sum might wreck their nations' economic sta bility. Informants reported the request by NATO's supreme commander, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, for 428 millions to spend on building air bases and ground defense had been slashed to 210 millions. They added it might be cut still further at Thursday's closing meet ing of the NATO Council. Ridgway has repeatedly de clared that his fighting force is short of airports, radar screens, communications networks and nav al facilities. But the foreign, defense and fi nance ministers of the 14 NATO nations concluded, a spokesman said, that "the risk of aggression had to be balanced against the danger of Internal collapse." Briefing officer Geoffrey Par sons, head of the NATO informa tion staff, said eight ministers spoke and several emphasized that the economic pressure of the de fense program already was increas ing unemployment. They agreed on a recommenda tion that the member nations "make the maximum effort with out endangering their economic stability." in other actions Wednesday, the ministers approved the stra tegic guidance outline drawn up by the NATO chiefs of staff, revised to take in the added responsibility and added fighting forces com ing with the adhesion of Turkey and Greece to the North Atlantic pact. Willamette Basin Meet Talks Favor More Local Controls By LILLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman A back-to-th.e-s tat e-and-the- people policy on river basin pro jects was clearly favored by prac tically all the speakers at the an nual meeting of the Willamette Valley Basin project committee meeting held at Senator Hotel Wednesday. More than 200 people attended the meetin gand luncheon over which Elmo Chase of Eugene pre sided. The Willamette Valley projects will be developed just as rapidly as the valley wants them devel oped, Ronald E. Jones, Brooks, chairman of the basin commis sion ,and opening speaker, told the group. He said development will be measured "by just how much you will be able to assist." The new policy was apparently due to two causes: that the con struction period was more than 0 per cent completed, and that it was time to put to work the pro vision under the 1950 rivers and harbor bill, that the army engi neers cannot start any revetment and channel bank work unless lo cal groups provide right of ways and assure maintenance of the projects. Cash outlay on the local and state level was not expected to1 --. , - -.7 -TV Justice James T. Brand of the State Steel Allotment For Civilian Use Increased WASHINGTON Of) The govern ment Wednesday authorized mak ers of automobiles and other ci vilian goods to increase their use of steel in the second quarter of next year up to 70 per cent of the amount they consumed before the outbreak of the Korean war. The Defense Production Admin istration said this is the highest allocation of steel since the pres ent mobilization program began. It is about 16 per cent higher than for the third quarter of this year. Ralph Trigg, acting DPA chief, said the bigger allotments should permit in the second quarter: 1. Production of 1.250.C0O passen ger cars and 315,000 trucks. 2. Increased construction of small schools, hospitals, power and transportation faculties and public works. 3. The highest rate of highway construcUon ever achieved in this country, but still slightly below re quested levels due to a tight sup ply of structural steel. 4. Full development of the atom ic energy construction program as planned, along with meeting full defense needs of defense agencies 5. New housing construction at the rate of one million living units annually. 6. Production of 9,000 freight cars a month, the highest rate since scarce materials were put under government control. Unander Takes Treasurer Oath Sigfrid Unander, Portland, who will become Oregon State Treas urer Jan. 5, took his oath of of fice Wednesday. It was administered by Chief Justice James T. Brand. The law requires that the new treasurer must take his oath with in 20 days after he's notified that he has been elected. NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE PARIS Iff) An eleventh-hour effort by the Truman administra tion to solve the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute appeared Wednesdry night to have collapsed. Official sources said the latest British - American talks ended here without "any sort of solution in sight." be large, as the federal govern ment will step in and assist where any major need Is noted, Jones added. While five of the major seven dams in the basin project have been constructed, Jones said that ' Senators tell us that it s gomg to be pretty tough to get these last two underway without real, substantial local interest" However, both Brigadier Gen eral C. H. Chorpening, assistant chief of the army engineers, and Col. T. H. Lipscomb, Portland dis trict engineer, promise "every co operation possible in the continu ance of the project, which it was essential to . finish" as soon as funds are available. During more recent years. Irri gation in the Willamette Valley has grown tremedously, Marshall Dana, agricultural chairman of the Portland Chamber of Com merce, said during the afternoon session. Currently irrigated acres in Western Oregon was listed at near 100,000 acres, and the job of providing irrigation is now ap proximately one fourth completed. Water and power shortages, two things speakers admitted they hadn't expected to be a problem in the Willamette Valley, were now "facts", all admitted. (Additional details on page 6) Shown above with Got. Paul L. Patterson are Edwin II. Armstrong (left) who will remain as administrative aide to Patterson, and Miss Alene (Pes) Phillips, personal secretary to the last three covernors, who will work in the Interior Department under Ex-Gov. McKay. m ram PRICE 5c lice, MacAljtliUij Discuss Ways to Achieve Peace By JAMES DEVLIN NEW YORK (JP) President-elect Eisenhower and Gen. Douglas MacArthur discussed across a luncheon table Wednesday the problem of how to achieve peace in Korea and the rest of the world. "We discussed the possibility of peace in Korea with particular reference to the world situation, in which, of course, such Korean peace would have to be determined," Eisenhower said afterward. Eisenhower and MacArthur con- f erred for more than two hours as guests of John Foster Dulles, secretary of state designate, in Dulles' tovm house. The President-elect described it as a "very enjoyable luncheon." MacArthur said it was a "very pleasant reunion with the President-elect." The meeting stemmed from a Dec 5 speech in which MacAr thur said there "is a clear and definite solution" to the stalemat ed Korean fighting. Neither Eisenhower nor MacAr thur gave any details on the views they exchanged nor did they re veal whether they were agreed on a course to follow to achieve peace. Dulles and his two guests emerged from the house together after the session, and the two mili tary men ave an informal report on it to more than 100 newsmen and photographers congregated about the entrance. Eisenhower spoke in a low voice that could be heard only by those nearest to him. Later, back at Eisenhower's Ho tel Commodore headquarters, he gave a recapitulation of his re marks, as he recalled them, to James C. Hagerty, his press sec retary, who relayed them to the press. They were as follows.: "I have just met with two old friends for a very enjoyable lunch eon. "Our general topic of conversa tion was peace. We discussed the possiblility of peace in Korea with particular reference to the world situation, in which, of course, such Korean peace would have to be determined. "I hope my former commander will say a few words." Eisenhower hau served under MacArthur years ago In the Philip pines, and later when MacArthur was chief of staff. MacArthur told the cluster of newsmen at the Dulles home that the discussion centered around "the problem of peace in Korea and in the world in general." He remarked that he had not seen Eisenhower for six years and that the meeting marked the resumption of a friendship of 35 years. - Shirley Temple Shuns Publicity For Daughter WASHINGTON UP) Ex-movie moppet Shirley Temple, angry at what she called an attempt to cap italize on the presene of her four year old daughter in a indergar- ten Christmas play, took her out of a private school Wednesday. I have not and will not allow anyone to commercialize on my daughter's presence," said the young mother, now - the wife of Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles Black. Her action, she explained in a statement was taken after she read a newspaper story that Linda Sus an's appearance as a fairy in "Cinderella" Tuesday at Honey well school was her stage debut and that she would make a repeat appearance Thursday night at the American University gymnasium. Then, Mrs. Black said, she was "amazed" to find that news photo graphers had been called in to take pictures of the children Wed nesday morning, Shirley said she understood Thursday's show would be a bene fit with admissions charged. Susan, the daughter of Shirley's first; husband, John Agar, Is just a year older than her mother was when she began her sensational career as a movie star. Her step father is stationed in the Navy here. If c,f 1 - V " - 1 No. 288 TV Hearings Stalled Again WASHINGTON W A further delay in hearings on Portland.Ore., television Channel 6 was ordered Wednesday and further delays on channel 8 hearings were Indicated, Federal Communications Com mission Examiner Elizabeth C. Smith delayed the two-way fight for Channel 6 to March 16. And she indicated the hearing for the four applicants seeking Channel 8 would be set over from Jan. 6 to Jan. 26. Tito Severs Diplomatic Ties With Vatican BELGRADE, Yugoslavia CP) Premier Marshal Tito's Commu nist government cut diplomatic re lations with the Vatican Wednes day, charging in effect that the recent nomination of Archbishop Alojzijc, Stepinac to the College of Cardinals -was a slap in the face. The Holy See was accused anew of hostility toward Yugoslavia and interference in her internal af fairs. Deputy Foreign Minister Ales Bebler called in the Vatican's charge d'affaires, Msgr. Silvio dl Oddi, to notify him of the break and asked .him to leave as soon as possible. Yugoslavia has had no diplo mat at the Vatican since last year, when Charge d' Affaires Oren Ruz ic packed up and left an other wise deserted legation building. Yugoslavia was - the last of the Communist nations with which the Vatican had diplomatic relations. (Vatican officials reserved com ment pending the receipt of furth er information). The rupture capped six years of dispute in which the strong featured, spare-framed Archbishop Stepinac has been the central fig ure. Convicted by a Tito court of collaborating in World War II with the Germans, Italians and .domes tic foes of Tito, he was freed con ditionally last December after serving five years of his 16-year sentence. Now 54, and a "former archbish op" in the view of Yugoslav -officials, he is limited to the work of a parish priest in his native town of Krasic. Pope Pius XII named him Nov. 29 among 24 prelates who will be elevated Jan. 12 to the College of Cardinals. But whether he will ever receive the red hat of a prince of the Ro man Catholic Church is in ques tion. He told a reporter recently he has no plans to go to Rome for the consistory next month, add ing "if I did leave, I probably would not be permitted to return." Tito himself has blasted the nom ination as "a hostile act." He asserted in a speech Tuesday it was an insult to Yugoslavia "that the war criminal Stepinac was named for cardinal."' IKE SELECTS MASDBURN LOS ANGELES UP) Lloyd A. Mashburn, California state labor commissioner and lonjr a leader in the American Federation of Labor, announced Wednesday he has been offered the post of assistant sec retary of labor fa the Eisenhower administration and has accepted. ToKeep McKay Program By WINSTdx II. TAYLOR Staff Writer, The Statesman Oregon gained a new governor Wednesday, as Paul L. Patterson, 52, a Hillsboro attorney, was sworn in to succeed Douglas Mc Kay, soon to become U. S. secre tary of the interior. The ceremony took less than 10 minutes in the governor's public office at the Capitol, with more than 150 state officials and other well-wishers crowded around. Patterson Issued a statement of his intention to continue the Mc Kay program for Oregon, with the special objectives of integrity and fairness, carrying on reorganiza tion for efficiency and economy, holding state tax demands to a "proper minimum." McKay filed his resignation with the secretary of state's office at 10 a. m Then Patterson moved from Senate president to gover nor with the oath administered by Chief Justice James T. Brandt of the State Supreme Court. "Difficult Decision" : In a statement McKay said th resignation ending his service as governor of Oregon was the re sult xt a "most difficult decision," "It was possible only because I hoped that I would be of service to the people of Oregon as well as to the people of the nation by active participation In the new administration," the statement continued. "Dwight D. Eisenhower inspires the best a man has to of fer." been made had I not felt that the governorship would pass into qualified and capable hands. The splendid record of Paul Patterson in all his distinguished service is guarantee of courageous and vig orous leadership. The state will go forward under his administra tion. Given Support T "It would be impossible to thank all those who worked with me in the state administration and the thousands of : sincere citizens whose encouragement, support and counsel sustained our effort." : McKay first' became governor in 1949 and his current term would have expired in January, 1955. . Patterson declared he was tre mendously pleased with the oppor tunity to serve the people of Ore gon as their governor. - "It is particularly pleasing that this 1 opportunity was created by the naming of Governor Douglas McKay to a position of important trust in the Eisenhower adminis tration," Patterson continued. "Hi appointment symbolizes to the na tion recognition of integrity, sin cerity and a common sense of ap proach to the problems of national administration which he has so ably demonstrated in his Oregon administration. ; M v vvuiuiuo iviiiuia "The people of Oregin in 19 SO approved and endorsed the McKay program for Oregon, It is my re sponsibility and my Intention to continue that program. "Three objectives will have ray special interest and concern. "That Oregon shall have a state government whose integrity and fairness will justify the unlimited confidence of the people of the state. - - "That we carry on the reorgan ization of governmental functions ta achieve a maximum of effi ciency and economy while at the. same time recognizing that thor ough consideration is necessary to insure that each , change is souna ana constructive. ; " i nai nunnir inn iwrioa wnrn national defense has a first claim -on our tax resources, state tax de mands should be held to a proper rriinimum and that Oregon shall' guarantee that no one Is required to pay more than his fair share because others escape by favor tism or loopholes of law and ad ministration." i Governor Patterson laid he is not unmindful of the difficulties that lie ahead in these critical times. "I am confident, however, Pat terson continued, 'That with thjr aid and assistance of the many fine people of Oregon who have ex pressed their desire to help,' I can succeed in carrying on the work oz my great preaecessors. m a . M (Additional .details and picture on page 3) Night Temperature To Stay Freezing Sub-freezing pre-dawn temper atures, which have struck the Sa lem area for the past several days, are expected : to continue today, according to the U. S. Weather Bureau at McNary Field. ' But the weatherman looks for slightly warmer temperatures Fri day with the possibility of rain. The mercury has dropped to 80 degffes two below freezing Tues day and Wednesday mornings and Is expected by the weather bureau to repeat this morning. Tuesday's low was the coldest reading for this month. ; : Hanson to Operate Sanliara Ski Lodge BEND (A The Santlam CA Lodge, owned by the U. 8. Forest Service, will be managed this year by Harold Hanson of Salem. Hanson said he expects to have tow and other facilities opera thxa for .the Christmas holidays.