Weatherman to Try to Make TOME More Rain Fall in Northwest K33EHH0B irPCDODQCH The plane I came west on left LeGuardia Field at 11:30 Tuesday night and arrived at San Francisco airport at eight the next morning. Allowing for time change the travel time was 114 hours; one stop at Chicago. Coming up from San Francisco the plane left at 810 p.m. and reached Portland, non-stop, at 11:25, 2Va hours fly ing time. So swift is the flight it almost seems as if the passenger is standing still and a projection machine is flashing pictures of cities New York, Chicago, San Francisco,' Portland on a screen before his eyes. I mention this because it gives a clue to the transformation which is going on in the world. For In stance, natives from countries in Africa (or elsewhere on the globe for that matter) who want to ap peal to United Nations, can take a plane from their home country, fly to Rome or Paris or London and then hop across the Atlantic to New York in much less time than it takes to get their visas processed in Washington! The airplane is accelerating the speed of travel and it is opening up remote regions of the world. Radio communication of informa tion (and propaganda) is even faster, travelling on the wings of light. Thus the globe contracts, prim itive peoples are suddenly pro jected into the kleig light of world politics or of world economics, and advanced peoples come face to face with the ambitions and the resentments of those long re garded as tribal and backward. So it is that the world prob lems of the immediate future re late not exclusively with the re lations between Russia and the West, absorbing of world atten tion though the latter are. They must include relations among all the peoples who are struggling to maintain or assert independence at a time when closer interdepen dence becomes more essential. This is what I learned at United Nations. Solving these problems will take a long, long time; and United Nations can be a tremen dous factor in effecting their wise solution. I woke up Saturday morning to the sound of a locomotive whistle, and realized I was home again. In Manhattan engines and trains are moles. One doesn't see them on the surface or hear them. At the U.N. building we could see tug-pushing barges floating freight cars between terminals, but no trains. The whistle was the signal to go to work again at what JL re gard as my own job,' here on The Statesman. Crawfordsville Man Dies From GunshotWouiid Statesman News Service LEBANON -i- Marion Arthur Field, 44, of Crawfordsville, died Saturday noon in the yard of his home apparently from a gunshot wound. Linn County Coroner Glenn Huston reported. An autopsy on the body is tq) btf conducted Sunday at the Hus ton Funeral Home by Dr. Homer Harris, head of the State Police crime laboratory in Portland to determine the exact cause of death. Field was born In Geddes, S. D., Jan. 1, 1907, and came to Oregon in 1937. He had lived in Craw fordsville for the past four years and was employed as a carloader at the Indianola Lumber Company in Lebanon. Survivors Include his widow, Mrs. Jane Field of Crawfordsville and five children. Announcement of services will be made later by the Huston Funeral Home. Boy Drowns as Christmas Gift Car Dives Into River COOS BAY Of! A 15-year-old youth drowned Saturday when an automobile, a Christmas g i f t plunged into the Coos River. He was Thomas Nale of Coos Bay, one of three youths riding in the car. The other two, Carl Dyer, 16, and William Orchards, 15, both of Coos Bay, were res cued by passing motorists who saw the car in the water and dived in to pull them out. Both boys were unconscious. Later another motorist towed the car out of the river and the body of Nale was found inside. The car was a Christmas gift to Dyer from his father. V Medf ord Woman First Yule Traffic Fatality in State MEDFORD Ml Oregon went through two days of the Christmas holiday without a traffic fatality, but on Saturday, the third day, Mrs. Mark F. Wright. Medford, wat killed here. The car she was driving collided with a , Southern Pacific freight train at a grade crossing In Med- v. By FRANK O'BRIEN WASHINGTON (AP) The Weather Bureau an nounced Saturday it will make a new and different attempt to see whether man can make rain fall on a big' scale. Instead of trying to make apparently dry skies drop rain, the bureau will go "W" e.. t. Latourette Chief Justice of Supreme Court (Picture on page 2) Appointment of Earl C. Latour ette as new chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court was an nounced in Salem Saturday. He will take over his new duties Jan. 5. Latourette was named to the supreme court bench in 1950 by Gov. Douglas McKay and was elected to serve a six-year term the same year. Previously he had served three elected terms as Cir cuit Court judge for Clackamas County following his appointment to that post in 1931 by Governor Norblad. The appointment marks the third time a Clackamas judge has been named to head the state's highest court. The late Thomas A. McBride and James U. Campbell both held the position. -Latourette was named to the post following the death of Justice Arthur Hay who was scheduled to become chief justice Jan. 1. Justice Latourette Is a native of Oregon, born at Oregon City in 1889. He attended schools at Ore gon City and Portland before at tending the University of Oregon from which he graduated in 1912. At the university he was active in athletics, playing quarterback on the varsity four years and being selected as All-Northwest quarter back. Latourette was admitted to the Oregon State Bar in 1913 and practiced law in Oregon until his appointment as Circuit Court judge. British Fly Crescent Wing Jet Bomber LONDON UPi The world's first crescent wing bomber with four Jet engines whose giant plants produce more power than 25 ex press locomotives made its first flight Saturday. Immediately after the flight at Boscomb, Western England, the Royal Air Force said it had or dered the ship, named the Hand ley Page 80, "in quantity" for the bomber command. Great Britain presently holds the world lead in jet commercial airliners with the high-performance Comet. Britain's jet fighters also are among world leaders. . Flight details were withheld for security reasons but the Handley Page 80 combines a revolutionary design with the crescent, or scim itar, shaped wing. It is calculated that the shape of the wing in cludes all the aerodynamic and operational . merits of both the delta and sweptback wings. The makers made the claim that "no other bomber flies as fast, a , far and as high with as great a bomb load. Power plants are Sapphire jet engines. Recently it was an nounced that the newest Sapphire could produce an 8,300 - pound thrust. Holiday Eases Power Crisis SEATTLE UP) A holiday slack ening of industrial power demands eased the Northwest power situ ation this week despite last week's cold snap which cut stream levels to seasonal lows. a... E. Karrer, executive vice president of the Puget Sound Pow er & Light Co., said many indus trial consumers, required to- cut their power use 10 per cent, have reported savings of nearly 20 per cent. However, an increase in the de mand is expected to build up after the holidays. "Some of the consumers told us they have been building up a cred it to be used as soon as the holi days are over," Karrer said. "If that is general, it could mean an unusual demand beginning Jan. 5." Construction on Site of Burned-Out Stores Scheduled Construction on the site of a recent fire which destroyed four Salem business houses in the 100 block of South Liberty Street is scheduled to begin within a few months, owners, reported Saturday.-- The area was purchased in March of this year by the CL., the L.F. and the CC Corporations, presumably for large scale busi ness expansion. The fire Christmas morning destroyed four of the businesses included in this block. No listing of prospective tenants baa been released. - - - to the wettest place in the United States the Pacific North- WC9I WH1 UUW UlUUi, AX WJ, wetter it can make it. The experiments' will be con ducted from the U. S. Naval Air Station at Sand Point, near Seat tle, from late January to May and again during the fall and early winter of 1953 Ferguson Hall, weather bureau specialist in rain making experi ments, will-be in charge at Seattle. At the start, a Weather Bureau spokesman said, the cloud seeding will take place over the southwest corner of the state of Washing ton but the area may be extend ed or changed. The idea is to carry out some think like a medical experiment, where one group of patients is given treatment and another group is not. The untreated group is used as a "control," permitting better scien tific judgement of the results. . Like the doctors, the Weather Bureau wants to know not only what happens under treatment, but what would have happened had their been no treatment That is why the rainy Pacific Northwest was chosen for the ex periment. The area has more rainy days than any other in the United States. Give Much Choice This, the announcement said, will give the rain makers a choice of many days when it is raining or practically certain to rain. On some of these1 "favorable" days planes on loan from the Navy will go aloft to seed rain clouds with two standard weapons of commercial rain makers dry ice pellets and silver iodide fumes. On other favorable days, noth ing will be done. In this way, the Weather Bu reau spokesman said, it is hoped to discover how much more rain falls, if any, when clouds are seeded on days when rainy con ditions are present. Over Small Areas As a further control, the cloud seeders will work only over small areas at any one time. This will allow comparison of rainfall from seeded and unseeded j clouds on the same day. The Weather Bureau conducted rain making experiments, mostly near Wilmington, Ohio, in 1947 and 1948. It came up unconvinced that rain making is practical. The re sults, according to the Weather Bureau showed: 1. Seeding could cause changes in cloud structure. 2. It apparently could cause some rain to fall, but how much was not clear. "Milked" Clouds 3. Seeding only "milked" clouds of what ram moisture was already in them. That is, it did not set up conditions in which new moist air rushed in, building up new rain .cloud formations. These experiments were with ordinary types of clouds and un der more ordinary conditions than found in the Pacific Northwest, where very thick rain clouds are often present. The Navy : and several other governmental agencies are lending the Weather . Bureau a mass of equipment to make the new ex periments scientific and informa tive. Specific Details Here are some details of the attempt 1. Special aircraft instruments will measure changes in cloud formations after seeding. 2. An extensive series of rain gauges, on the ground, will record the amount of rain reaching the ground. 3. Several experimental devices for measuring rain drop sizes are being installed. This is to check claims of commercial rain makers that they produce gentler rain, consisting of smaller drops. Such rain would not damage crops and cause erosion as do hard rains of big drops. 4. Radar equipment will be used to detect rain areas and cloud formations and to guide the seeding planes to clouds selected for seeding, 'Fireball' Seen in Washington Skies SPOKANE UPi Airline ground observers reported seeing a "big green fireball flash across the skies Saturday night. A motorist, Dora Reld, said it looked white to him and gave him quite a scare. Charles Starr and Stephen Fer guson, observers at Geiger field, said the "fireball" took five to seven seconds to pass from view. They said it was reported seen at Ellens burg. too. Newspaper reporters checked an almanac here and noted that Met calfs Comet is due to return this month. - Arlington Plane frash Kills Pilot ARLINGTON. Ore. UT . Robert Lee Ekuidge, 29, Arlington, truck driver up for a spin in a private plane, was killed as the plane crashed in a pasture two miles of the Arlington airport Saturday. A passenger, James David Bau- man. 18, Arlington, was critically injured. He was hospitalized at The Dalles. Eldridge-is survived by his wid ow and a daughter. 102nd YEAR 2 SECTIONS Accident Toll Rises To 548 By The Associated Press The nation's death toll from acci dents during the extended Christ mas holiday reached 548 Saturday night. The heavy fatality rate pushed the total ever closer to an all-time record as driving weather contin ued good over most of the country A heavy boost in the number of traffic deaths was expected Sun day. Traffic accounted for 414 of the deaths. Fires killed 58 persons, and 76 died violently in miscellaneous accidents. Heavy highway traffic Saturday night and Sunday, with many travelers homeward bound, could push the traffic toll past the pre vious record slaughter 555 during the four-day Christmas holiday in 1936. Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, said Saturday in a statement: "It looks now as if the holiday traffic death toll may reach an all-time high for any holiday by going to 700 or more." Dulles Declines To Testify in Hiss Inquiry WASHINGTON WV-John Foster Dulles, secretary of state - desig nate. has declined an invitation to testify before a House committee on his part in naming Alger Hiss as president of the Carnegie En dowment for International Peace. This was reported Saturday by Howard W. Keele, co nrel for the House group which has completed an investigation of tax-free educa tional and philanthropic founda tions to determine whether their funds are being used for subver sive purposes. After he left the State Depart ment, Hiss became president of the Carnegie Endowment in 1946. The House committee received testimony recently that Dulles, who was board chairman of the endowment, suggested Hiss for the Job. Keele told a reporter Saturday he invited Dulles, by telephone and telegram, to present his side of the story early next week. Keele said Dulles replied by telegram that he "greatly appre ciated the courtesy of the commit tee but my time is sharply limited between now-and Jan. 1." Dulles said he was forwarding to the committee a transcript of his testimony at Hiss' trial and said he could not add anything by appearing before the commit tee. Dulles testified at the trial that he wanted Hiss to resign his en dowment post after Communist charges against him were aired In the summer of 1948. Dulles thus contradicted Hiss, who had testified earlier that Dulles did not ask him to resign. Queen Mother of Denmark Dies COPENHAGAN, Denmark UPi Queen Mother Alexandrine, 73, died Sunday after a long illness. She died in her sleep in the early hours of the morning, five days after her 73rd birthday. King Frederik was at his moth er's bedside. Volume of Highway Construction in Oregon in 1952 Reaches Ail-Time Peak of $29,300;000 The largest volume of construc tion work in the history of the state was contracted for in 1952 by the Oregon State Highway Commission which spent $29,300, 000 during the year on the high way system. R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, in a report released Sat urday, said that construction con tracts awarded in 1952 totaled $31,168,000. . "Very substantial progress has been made by the State Highway Commission in the projected elim ination of the $150,000,000 of In tolerable highway deficiencies' ex isting in 11951 when the State Legislature decided to supplement current highway revenues by au thorizing the sale of $40,000,000 of highway construction bonds, extending over the years 1951-53," Baldock said. 1 Construction work contracted during the-year involved 118 sepa rate contracts, varying in amount from $13,500 to $1300,000 and av eraging $265,000. It included 220 miles of grading. 215 miles of rock base construc tion, 100 miles of oiled wearing surface, 137 miles of - asphaltic concrete pavement and 88 new bridges. Of the $29,300,000 expended on construction work during the year, $12,000,000 . was bond money, $7,500,000 ! was . federal aid and 19,800,000 was money from cur 30 PAGES The Orecjon Statesman, Salem. Oregon. Sunday. Little Change in Little change is anticipated In - i. -5f L t? - heaval, Charles A. Sprague (left), who served as an alternate UN delegate, said Saturday at a welcome-home press conference arranged In Salem by the World Affairs Council. Sprague, pub lisher of The Oregon Statesman, commended Secretary of State Dean Acheson as able and intelli gent. Among the interviewers were (left to right) Dr. Frank Monk of Reed College, president of World Affairs Council in Portland; Mervin Shoemaker of the Oreronian, and Philip Slocnm, who arrived this week from Burlington, Vt, to be a reporter on The Statesman. (Story on page 2.) Ex-Salem Man Pinned for 8 Hours In Washington Train Wreck; 2 Dead George A. Shattuck, 21, former Salem resident injured early Sat urday in a Northern Pacific freight train crash, was considered in critical condition Saturday night at a Spokane, Wash., hospital. The young man's mother, Mrs. R. Er Shattuck, 2764 Brooks Ave, advised The Statesman Saturday evening that she had received a message from authorities at the Deaconness Hospital in Spokane and that her son was in serious condition. She also said she was leaving for Spokane Saturday night Shattuck sustained severe leg injuries when the train, on which he was head brakeman, derailed near Warren, Wash., killing twa trainmen and pinning him under debris in below-freezing weather for almost eight hours. After he was freed he was taken to a hos pital at Moses Lake, about 23 miles from the scene of the crash, and then later transferred to Spokane. Shattuck. who attended Sacred Heart Academy while living in Sa lem, has been working for North ern Pacific for about a year and one-half. His wife, Helen Haff- ner Shattuck, former Salem girl, and six-months-old son Michael, live in Pasco, Wash. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Her mann Haffner, 5075 Chehalis Ave., Salem. Mrs. Fred Mitchell, Pringie Road, aunt of Shattuck's, men tioned during a call to The States man that their two families seem ed to be harrassed with ill for tune lately. Her son, William Mitchell. 15. was one of four boys Injured in an automobile accident south of Salem Nov. 4. The Mitch ell boy just recently came hojae from the hospital and will remain in a body cast for some time yet. rent road-user revenues, Baldock reported. Construction work under con tract at the end of 1952 totaled $26,200,000 and plans are complete for an additional $10,000,000 to be contracted during January, 1953. In the Salem area, a new bridge has been constructed on Marion St over the Willamette River to carry westbound traffic and the existing bridge on Center St. is being reconstructed to carry east bound traffic Included in this project, esti mated at $2,750,000, is construc tion of 0.5 miles of fourlane high way and a traffic interchange to carry through traffic past the busi ness district of West Salem and to give safe access to the highway from Wallace Road. All work on this project is expected to be completed before the end of 1953. The Salem by-pass section of U. S. Route -89E 10 miles in length and costing an estimated $2,150,000 is being constructed to speed up travel on the state's heaviest travelled cross-state traf fic artery.. Present construction is on a two lane basis with underpass struc tures and some of the larger, ex cavations being made to four-lane width to effect savings when a four-lane pavement is required. -. Construction is now well ad vanced on the 11 -mile section of youNpno 1651 U.S. Policy at s9 CD U.S. policy at United Nations regardless of the domes tie political up Britain to Free Atomic Spy Alan Nunn May LONDON UP) Two London newspapers said Saturday night that Dr. Alan Nunn May the Western world's first convicted atom spy will be freed from Wakefield Prison Monday. The British Home Office con firmed that May would be re leased this month but declined to specify the day. The shy little 41-year-old British scientist, caught in the Canadian spy plot in 1946, will have served six years and eight months of the 10 year sentence for passing vital atomic Information along to the Russians. The Home Office said he was being released early for "good be havior." May was arrested In London after a young Soviet Embassy clerk in Ottawa swung his alle giance to the West and spilled the story about the Russian spy ring. The scientist was supposed to have received about $700 and two bottles of whisky for his services. May himself contended he did it for the "safety of mankind." He never publicly repented. A month after May s arrest, the Russian who had been identified m a a . a as head oi tne spy ring uoi. Nikolai Zabotin was recalled to Moscow. Four days after he got back, he was reported "dead" from heart failure. the Portland-Salem Expressway which extends from the junction with highway U. S. 99W, north of Tigard, south to and Including the crossing of the Willamette River at Wilsonville. The cost of $5,130,000 will pro vide an access controlled and fully grade-separated four-lane high way which 'will ultimately be ex tended from the Willamette River crossing to Salem. Meanwhile, it will serve Portland-Salem traffic by a connection with the existing Pacific Highway East at a point near Hubbard. Other projects: completed or constructed in major part during 1952 in this area and approximate costs include Stout Creek-Mill City, paving. North Santiam High way in Marion County, $315,000; Little North Santiam River Bridge, North Santiam Highway in Mar ion County, $215,000. Also, Woodburn - ML Angel, grading and paving, Hillsboro Silverton Highway in Marion County, $225,000; and Sheridan Deer Creek, grading and paving, Salmon River Highway in Yamhill County, $215,0004 ' ; Included In the Forest Highway projects, completed or constructed in major part in 1952 and under supervision of the Bureau of Pub lic Roads is the Niagara-Detroit paving project. North Santiam Highway in Marion County, at an approximate cost of $275,000. December 28, 1952 U. N. Anticipated WARDEN, Wash. UP) A young railroad brakeman, cold, wet and injured, was trapped for almost eight hours Saturday beneath an overturned steam engine in a de railment that killed the engineer and fireman. - George A. Shattuck, 21, lay be side the bodies of the victims from before dawn to nearly noon before rescuers could cut through wreck age with blow torches to free him. Scalding steam enveloped the en gineer and fireman but a piece of canvass between them and Shat tuck gave protection to the brake- man. Shattuck remained conscious through the long ordeal on the snow - swept Eastern Washington prairie. He complained occasional ly of the cold it was below freezing and the pain from a leg fracture and steam burns. It happened so quick there wasn't time to do anything," Shat tuck told rescue crews es the hours dragged on. A doctor crawled through the wreckage to administer a sedative and confirm that engineer Harold M. Cunningham, 86, and fireman John Dimmitt, 32, were dead. They apparently were killed instantly. Police, railroad workers and farmers dug a trench in the frozen ground beside the engine so men with torches could get close to the pieces that pinned Shattuck's legs. He could move his head and arms. I'm cold," Shattuck whispered at one point. They built a fire and heated stones to place around him for warmth. They passed coffee and cigarettes to him, using flashlights to see through the darkness of the engine cab. Shattuck, married and the father of a 7 - months - old baby, was finally pulled free and loaded on a stretcher. He looked up and gazed at the wreckage, then was taken to a Moses Lake hospital where his condition was reported as serious. The engine was pulling 26 cars of sugar beets on a remote North ern Pacific branch line five miles north of here when it lumped the track at a switch and slid side ways down a ditch between the two rails. Eight other cars were also de railed. , r Conductor W. L. Carson of Ken ne wick was riding in the caboose with two other brakemen, J. E. Wilson and G. T. Goeckner, both of Pasco. Shattuck was ' head brakeman. Northern Pacific officials said a faulty switch may have caused the derailment. The freight, train was traveling only 20 miles an hour, the speed limit on the branch line in this sector. The derailment occurred about 25 miles from Moses Lake where C-124 Globem aster plane crashed week ago, killing 86 men in his tory's worst air disaster. . Kax. 4S - 47 87 . IS Mia. 33 34 Predp. trc trc Portland San Francisco Chicago 4S .39 IS jOO I 33 - trace ! New YorK 3S Willamette River -l.T.fcet. FORECAST (bom U. a. Weather Bu reau, McNary field. Salem) : Partly cloudy with a few patches of fog this morniaf. ' Increasing cloudiness with rain this evening and tonight. A little cooler today with the highest tempera ture near 48, lowest tonight near 36. Temperature at 13 -"01 un. was 33 de grees. IALIM MtECmTATlOI " time start at Weather Tear feat. X This Tear LastYear Kormal t innl"'""''" " ' ( PRICE 10c No. 2:3 Quota at 53,000 WASHINGTON CP The military high command stepped up its cau for draftees for the U. S. Army Saturday to the highest level reached since early in the Korean War. It asked Selective Service to Induct 53,000 men in rebruary. This raised the prospect that lf-year-olds would be drafted in in creasing numbers. A Selective Service spokesman said that state draft headquarter have been under orders to fill their quotas with older men t wherever . possible, but undoubtedly would be told to dip into the ranks of la- year-olds if they could not get enough men otherwise. Brig. Gen. Guy N. Henninser. Nebraska state director of Selective) February Service, said that his state mav not , be ble to meet its anticipated quota of about 700 without callinf 19-jrar-olds. dtler states may find themselves in the same position, although offi cialsTiere indicated that still others may not be forced to take 19-year-olds. . Officials said theremvas no pros pect of drafting fathers or men who have already served in Korea. Anna Rosenberg, assistant secre tary of defense, said recently that it is planned to maintain the na tion's present military strength of 3,600,000 men and women through June, 1954, without drafting fathers'. or Korean veterans. - i The Defense Department's offi- cial explanation for the size of the, , February call was that many draft ees' terms of service are about to run out. But there appeared to be other factors contributing to the call. A check of calls since last surine showed some monthly totals as low as 10,000 men. Why the calls wer held down when the department knew that a large number of origin al draftees would be eligible for release starting this winter and ' spring was not clear. PORTLAND UPi Eetween 400 and 500 men will be on the Febru ary military draft call in Oregon, Col Francis W. Mason, deputy state director of selective service, said Saturday. He made that estimate after 1 learning that the" national goal; will be 53,000 men in the draft in February. Drug Disarms TB Germs ST. LOUIS UPi Tuberculosis germs start to laugh at a new anti-TB drug, but then find the Joke is on them, a scientist report ed Saturday. The bugs become resistant to the drug, isoniazid, so it no longer can kiH them. But the germs lose their ability to cau: .- TB infection. They are disarmed in changing to meet the threat from the drug. This strange quirk In action of isoniazid was described to the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science by Dr. E. ' Grunberg of Hoffman Laroche, Inc., Nutley, N. J. This is what happens, at least. in test-tubes. Germs that become resistant to the drug don't cause TB infection when injected into guinea pigs or mice, he said. If this same kind of disarmament occurs in human TB, it is a hopeful sign in treatment of this stubborn disease. MAMIE HAS COLD NEW YORK WW-Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower was confined to bed with a cold Saturday. An Expjert Looks At the Year Ahead Roger W. Babson's Business and Financial Outlook for 1953 will appear in The Oregon statesman on Wedn e s d a y, Dec. 31. Mr. Babson --a pioneer in the field of business and financial sta tistics en joys an unus ual record of accuracy in his ' Annual Kegar W.Bahaom Forecasts. His score for 1052 was 88 per cent accurate. On December r-17. 1951, he predicted: (1) that World War III would not start during 1S52; (2) that the Taft-Hartley Law would not be repealed during 1952; (S) that there would not be an increase in corporation and personal taxes; (4) that the national Income for IS 52 would continue very high. Watch for the Bauson Out look for 1953 In Tevr COMPLETE Newspaper.