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8 I I Ml s r. li IK' ' 4. ' lC2sd YEAB 18 Iritisb Jre&Ii Nasi Plot. to JSegsIini ' LONDON Britain's for eign office announced Thursday thai British authorities In Ger many have arrested ringleaders; of a. Nasi croup which planned ' to seix power In Western" Ger many. v . . The Foreign Office announce ment said the croup had been di rected and has been opera tine from centers in the British sane. : Those arrested Included: Dr. First Champ Qualifies For Spelling Contest The first school champion to be certified for the semi-finals of The Oregon Statesman-KSLM Tri -County Spelling Contest is Donna Shenk, 13-year-old daughter Seven years after the death of Alexander Scherbakov, politi cal head of the Russian army, and Andrei Zdhanov, brilliant general and member of the Polit buro, nine doctors (Jewish) are accused of having done them to death. This "autopsy" certainly is belated. The case isn't any ordi nary malpractice suit the doc tors are charged with murder ing these Russian leaders and planning the death of five others. Zdhanov was 52, Scherbakov was 44 an early age for death. In fact when the former died a tremor of doubt pulsed round the world as to the cause. That doubt is revised now, and pres ent charges eive it substance. It .may be that one of the accused. Dr. Vovsi, tells the truth when he savs he received orders to kill off certain military leaders. If so. it may be another grim mis carriage of justice that the pres ent accusers of , the doctors are the original plotters who issued the orders to do away with their rivals. In the phantasmagoria which is Communist Russia that mav be the truth. The present purpose is not to avenge the deaths of the two gen erals but to carry out some dia bolical scheme .against the Jews. The claim is made that the deaths were part of a plot contrived by the British and American Intern eence services and - Zionist or ganizations. These are the scape goats of the prevailing purges within the Soviet orbit. The two former are stock villains: Zio nists are a comparatively recent invention though long under of' ficial condemnation in Russia. The selected victims for the present blood sacrifices are principally Jews, giving basis for the con clusion that anti-Semitism Is flourishing in the country which professes to have abolished dis crimination. - One wonders what the effect of these anti-Jewish drives will be (Continued on editorial page, 4) Police Outrace 2 Hillcrest Escapees ALBANY Two 17-year-old girls who escaped early Wednes day morning from the Hillcrest School for Girls in Salem were apprehended here early Wednes day evening, but not before they had given state and local police a foot race. State police said one of the girls was caught almost Immediately, but the other managed to elude , police for 'about 20 minutes. The girls were reported missing at 8:10 yesterday morning. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN COODRICH "CQOl.lWisCOOl! 'UQ3H3DCE PAGES KekCii; CoinioS Werner Nantnann. former state secretary in Dr. Joseph Goeb bels? propaganda ministry who was nominated In Hitler's win to succeed Goebbels as Reich propa canda minister. : r v V' Dr. Gustav ScheeL formerly Reich minister of culture. - A Herr Zimmerman; former SS Elite Guard brigade leader and economic official connected with the administration of Concentra tion camps. - of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Shenk, Route 1, Sheridan. , Donna will reo-esent Buell N:School, Polk V County. She Is in the 8th grade. i me semi-nnais, hlO of them, will I be held early in 1 March. Two top I spellers from 'each semi-finals .will compete in 'the grand finals - a at Parrish Junior Donna Shenk High March 25. The Buell champion was certi fied by Principal Iris Birky. Don na whose major hobbles are em broidery work and reading, suc ceeds Roy Peterson, last year's winner at BuelL Second- and third-place win ners, respectively, at Buell this year are Brendan Herber, 14, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. Leo Herber, Route 1, Sheridan, and Loretta Bailer, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bailer, also Route 1, Sheridan. Brendan is in the 8th grade, Loretta the 7th. All three will receive certifi cates of merit signed by Charles A. Sprague, publisher of The Statesman, and Glenn McCormick. owner of KSLM. Donna is eligible for further awards. Car Dives Off Cliff, Man Dies NEWPORT, Ore. (S) A motorist was Milled and his wife injured Wednesday night when their station wagon apparently went out of control and plunged off a 300-foot embankment. Dead was Lelan McCall Butts, Newport, tractor operator and mechanic for the E. A. White Implement Co. here. His wife, Esther. 27, was taken to a hospital with undetermined injuries. Another motorist reported that the Butts station wagon passed him on U. S. Highway 101 a mile north of here, swerved across the road and went oyer the bank. Threat Against City Police Officer Brings Jail Term A threat against the life of a Salem city police officer brought a six-month jail sentence Wed nesday for Lloyd Schrieber, 280 Hrubetz Rd. - - Schrieber appeared in Marion County District Court on a charge of threatening commission of a felony. He allegedly told a police sergeant on Jan. 6 that he would kill Patrolman O. O. White. Yesterday in court, the charge was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor on the district at torney's motion. Schrieber pleaded innocent but was found guilty at a trial conducted by District Judge Val D. Sloper. ' f ' - BoV'JGdnaped With Parents After Nine Yeafs SOUTH BEND. Ind. Or) In a dramatic courtroom scene a Day ton. O.. couple was 'awarded cus tody Wednesday - of "a ft-year-old boy they claim is the son kidnaped from then: home, in '1944. Special Judge Lewis W. - Ham mond, his eyes filled with tears, told Mr. and;: Mrs. " Arthur C Thompson he was convinced the boy is their-son. Ronnie. ..; The boy has been living here as Charley ; Joe Tipp, son of Robert A. Tipp, a ' South Bend factory technician.; : -s-r'1:. - ; The ! 78-year-bld I judge. In an nouncing his decision, said: "Anybody, can see the striking resemblance , between the picture of Ronnie and Charley; Joe.' r " Tipp brought the boy to South Bend, from Tampa. Fla., after his former' wife. Louise, was commit, ted to a mental; hospital instead of being tried for the murder of another , boy she claimed -was her SOn, ' '-i. i..-;' ''.-.-.' Referring to Tipp, Judge Ham mond said: "Let us put the mantle of charity over him. Ha loved Lois Thft.Oragoa Statesman, Satan High --5.- " x V Hish brass of Oregon's National Guard rataered around this ventse model of Army's M-l rifle aft an nual federal Inspection Monday night of Salem's B Company of the guard. Demonstrating Is MaJ. Burl Cox, Salem; looking on (from left) MaJ. Gen. II. G. Msison, CoL A. R. Sewall, 6th Army's Inspector General. CoL Paul Kliever, CoL Louis- D. Farnsworth Jr Mai Orrin MeDanlels, 1st Lt. Fabian Nel- - aon, new company commander. S I Truman Envisions $500 Billion U.S. Economy; Editor Fears Depression Bj ROGER D. GREENE WASHINGTON UFl President Truman said Wednesday that with in the next decade the nation can achieve a 500-billion-dollar annual economy with every family having an income of at least $4,000 a year. He said that .minimum of spend able income should be the target for "a basic American standard of living for all." The 500-billion-dollar output of goods .and services would com pare with 345 billion now. As for family income, Truman said that in 1951 about 40 per cent of all American families had spendable income of less than $3,000. In a 15,000 - word message to Congress his seventh and last economic report - Truman saia that despite some faint alarm sig nals which it is "none too early to note." the prospect is for contin uing "unparalleled prosperity " throughout 1953. But the President cautioned mat once aeiense spenaing Degins vo taper off. the gravest threats since the end of World War II may con front this country's economic sta bility. Threats of Slump Specifically, he said 1954-58 will bring "serious" threats of a slump. And he said that in tne Digger economy we nave now. a recur rence of the great, depression of the 1930's "could mean some 20 million of our workers walking the streets." On Capitol Hill, Truman's mes sage drew baroea expressions oi sarcasm from some Republican lawmakers. Democrats contended the message showed Truman has set the country "on the right track. with a sound prosperity," and that any setback would be the fault of the new Republican administration under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Rep. Leo Allen (R-Hl) comment ed dryly: "If Truman's economic predictions are no better than some of his other statements, the people need not take them too seriously." Admits War Basis Chairman Wolcott (R-Mich) of the House Banking Committee said that in forecasting a serious threat of recession when -defense spending ebbs, Truman "seems to admit for the first time that our present prosperity is predicated on a defense emergency and war in Korea. Commenting on a"" recommenda tion by Truman's Council of Eco nomic Advisers that tax cuts be delayed. Chairman Reed (R-NY) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee said: "That doesn't carry any- weight with me whatsoever. : -- Reed is sponsoring a bill to cut Individual income tax rates 11 per cent starting June 30. as Infant, Back Tipp, and we must; comas end him for the excellent care he took of the boy while he had him." : The Thompsons filed their cus tody petition t in Probate Court 10 months ago. j 4 . . During the hearing medical evi dence was given that examina tion of Mrs. Tipp showed she had never been . pregnant. , The . Thompsons, searching for clues-to-their missing son, turned to Florida in 1951. - w , In that year Detroit -officers in vestigating the kidnaping of 11-month-old . Paul Jevaharian tried to determine whether he had been kidnaped by the same woman who took the Thompsons' son. a Mrs. Tipp, who had been opera ting a tavern in Tampa. Fla.. be came the, subject of investigation. - She had been Indicted in the murder of one of two boys who had been living ' with her as her sons.; -.-j -f.;,j-.r,. ', . -v Mrs. Thompson," shown pictures of Mrs., Tipp, Identified her as the woman she had hired as nurse maid and who 4ater left, taking Bonnie with her. r Oregon, Thxasdar, January 15, Brass ects Canada Valley Wears Heavy Blanket of Ice VANCOUVER, B.C. GP The Fraser Vallley became a giant skat ing rink Wednesday when freez ing temperatures ; followed close on the heels of a heavy rainfall. One death resulted. More than 4,000 school children in the Chilliwack area. 00 miles east of here, were given an unex pected holiday. School buses could not negotiate ice-coated roads. Don Campbell 45-year-old milk truck driver, was killed at a cross ing when an icy windshield block ed his view of an approaching train. William Samers, a ditch-digger, was buried 10 minutes beneath a solid wall of mud loosened by hea vy rain. He was rescued without losing consciousness but was re ported in "poor" condition. The polar air mass which surged down through the Fraser Canyon brought hail, freezing rain and light snow in its wake. Police warned motorists that driving conditions on all roads were treacherous and ordered a 20 m.p.h. speed limit. The weather office said the pre sent cold snap will last two or three days. 8105,000 Paid For Half-Interest In Hereford Bull CHESTER. W. Va. UP) An Ak ron, O., insurance executive es tablished a new world's record price of $105,000 half interest In a purebred Hereford bull here Tuesday night. E. C. McCormick, owner of Mc Cormick Hereford Farms at Me dina, O., paid that sum for half interest in eight - year-old HC Har ry Domino 12th. . The bull, champion Hereford bull at the International Livestock Ex position in Chicago in 1947, has sired five international and 14 na tional champions. " McCormick purchased half inter est in the prize Hereford from Hill crest Farms here, owned by C. A. Smith of Chester. Bullfighter Union Threatens Strike MEXICO CITY CB A bullfight ers union demand for 50,000 pesos ($5,800) threatens to halt the rest of this season's fights. - The claim was filed by the band erilleros. the men : who plant, the barbs in the-bull's shoulders, and the picadores. the men .who spear the animal from horseback; They ask wages for a : fight cancelled two weeks ago when the bulls were found to weigh less than the min imum permitted in the ring. SOUTH KOREANS PRAISED SEOUL. sV-Gen. James A. . Van Fleet described . the South Korean Army's progress as "unparalleled in history" in a congratulatory note oa ilts. ren nlversary Thursday..- - - , - '.' lb Mere 2-PIatccn Cc!!:j;:3To Fcottsll , ; Collere football's two-platoon system is gone! One of sport dom's biggest stories in many a month one whose reverber ations have shaken the grid world to its very .roots is re lated In this morning's issue of The Statesman. Turn sot the sports pages for full details. Insp f v - :,: r. 1853 -PEICS Se Riflo BOSTON m An editor of Busi ness Week said Wednesday night President-elect Eisenhower's ad ministration is likely to run into a business depression "of some dimension." Kenneth Kramer, the magazine's executive editor in a speech at a meeting of the Independent Oil Men's Association, said: "Whether the present boom lasts six months, a year, or two years or more, the Eisenhowr adminis tration will probably have to deal with a business setback of , some dimension before its four-year lease on the White House expires." A business downturn is likely to come in 1953 or 1954. Kramer said. Tax Exemption Increase in State Sought r A bill to make state income tax exemptions the same as the feder al exemptions was Introduced at the Oregon Legislature Wednes day by Rep. Maurlne Neuberger, Portland Democrat. Exemptions now are $750 each for husband and wife, plus $300 for each child. The new exemptions would be $600 for each member of the fam ily. A couple without children would pay slightly more tax. A couple with one child would pay the same tax while couples with two or more children ! would pay Jess. It also provides exemption of $600 for persons 69 or older and the same exemption for blind per sons. Mrs. Neuberger introduced a similar bill in 1951, and the 'House passed lt But lt died in the Sen ate. Gov. Paul L. Patterson recom mended In his message to the leg islature that it pass such a bill. : r - McKay Visits Inauguration Site re S Hi WASHINGTON. D. Cw Salem's designated is at left In this troop of men examining- part of the million board feet of lumber roinr into Presidential Inaugural stands and enclosures at the CapitoL With him (from left) are Sen. : Gay Cordon. Rep. Harris Ellsworth and two officers of National Lumber. Manufacturers, George No. 316 Firemen Escort Blaze for 3 Miles , atatemaa Kws Scrvic FOUR CORNERS - Firemen here escorted a fire for three , miles before dousing lt Wednes day. - I Firemen said the blase start ed in rubbish, enrouto to the Marlon County damp on a San itary Service track. When first attempts failed to extinguish the blaze, firemen accompanied the trash to the damp where the blaze was quickly pat eat after the load was dumped. Cause was not de termined. Lay Plans for Publicity Drive i By LILLTE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman CORVALLIS The public .is go ing to hear more about the good points in dairy products and less about the bad points in the dairy industry if action taken at the 59th annual meeting of the Oregon Dairymen's Association carries through. The association closed its two day event here Wednesday after noon with reports of the resolu tion committee and election of of ficers. A plea for more "unity to main tain public relations" was made at one time or another, in almost every talk given at general as semblies during the two days. This did not mean however that the old battle of butterfat content in milk was discarded or that dairy substitutes were approved. In the' closing minutes of the ses sion, following adoption of regular ly submitted resolutions, a resolu tion was presented from the floor and passed unanimously, approv ing the appointment of a commit tee formed of representatives from all breeds of dairy cattle, to study the possibility of creating a small er price margin between high and low butterfat content milk. This study, when completed, will not be presented to the legislators but to the Oregon Milk Control Board. The resolution called for a study on "selling 4.4 per cent milk at One cent above S.8 milk, and 4.8 milk at 2 cents above 4.4 milk." Prior to the passage of this re solution; discussion centered around requiring a higher butter fat content in bottle trade, with a number of the dairymen indicating a desire for such action. Another resolution passed, at the closing session through the regular resolution committee headed by Edgar Grimes of Harrisburg, ap proved the proposed amendment to Chapter 143 of Oregon laws gen erally known as "Frozen Desserts Act. This amendment would pro hibit the use of any dairy terms on package of vegetable fat desserts, some of which are now labeled "imitation ice cream," a label which would be prohibited under the amendment. Officers elected for 1953 include Wilbur Riling. Klamath Falls, president; Edgar Grimes, Harris burg, first vice president, W. H. Plaep, Corvallis, second vice presi dent;, and H. E. Ewalt, Corvallis, secretary.. Directors are George Hofstetter, Redmond; Ray Hobson, Troutdale; Hans Luethold, Tilla mook, and Everette Messier, Coos Bay. . r Douaias McKay, interior 5 secretary Fuller and Lee Uocine. State Dairymen Mfiise My By HECTOR L. FOX Associated Press Writer Proposals to make Oregon welfare rolls public, to raise state police salaries and to finance, state highway work by selling $32, 000,000 worth of bonds and by charging a toll on the Portland Vancouver bridge appeared .Wednesday in the Oregon Legisla ture. . . : ; v V . The brisk starting pace of the lawmakers continued on the third day of the new session at i the CapitoL but both houses pre pared to adjourn - Thursday .and give members what probably will be their only .-free" Friday of the session. . , ; First bill of the i 47th Legis lature was passed Wednesday by both houses and sent . to Gov. Paul Patterson. It was a $400,000 appropriations bill to cover . ex penses of this Legislature. The joint ways and means com mittee saw a possible means of tossing additional funds toward the state building program in a proposal to lift secrecy of welfare rolls, . - The social welfare subcommit tee of ways and means plans to confer with the welfare commis sion and representatives of the Oregon Association of County Judges oh the idea, which in some states, notably Indiana,, has resulted in substantial state sav ings. Saving Indicated . Sen. Rex Ellis, Pendleton, chair man of the social welfare sub committee, . estimated Oregon might save as much as $6,000,000 in the biennium by revealing re cipients of welfare funds. Fed eral law formerly prohibited such publicity, but this was left up to the states by - an amendment , by Congress in 1951. A joint meeting of . the . House and Senate highway committees came up with approval of 34 Highway Department bills, one of which would almost double the state indebtedness for road build ing. This was a request for per mission to sell $32,000,000 in high way construction bonds. The last legislature approved $40,000,000 in bonds, and the last of these was sold recently. Toll On Bridges ! Another proposal would Impose a toll on the interstate bridge be tween Vancouver and Portland to help defray costs of a new span adjacent to the existing bridge. Present planning between the Or egon and Washington- Highway Commissions contemplates a toll on the new bridge, but; no, au thority now exists to levy fees on the old bridge. Other proposed highway legis lation would prohibit advertising along highways inside cities and would let state police -Impound abandoned autos. Pay increases of 10 to 20 per cent for state police ar: pro posed in a House bill signed by more than 50 legislators and In troduced Wednesday. Effective March 1 under terms of the bill state police recruits would get a maximum annual salary of $3, 420, privates $4,740, sergeants $5, 340, lieutenants $5,700, and cap tains $6,300. Present scales are recruits $3,120, privates $4,080, sergeants $4,560, lieutenants $4, 920, and captains $5,520. .... Seven Bills The House also received seven bills prepared by the interim tax committee to streamline the state! tax structure. The principal doc ument 125 pages would place all Income tax collections direct ly into the general fund. Instead of using such receipts to offset property taxes. Not all legislators will be work less Friday. The Joint .ways and means committee , has scheduled sessions that day, and probably will meet Saturday, too. First public hearing of the 47tn Legislature is scheduled' for Thursday morning by the House statute revision committee head ed by Rep. Carl Francis of Day ton. This committee has the In itial task of hearing opinions on the statute revision council's ver sion 5,039 pages of moderniz ing the state's law code. Also on Thursday's docket Is a joint session of the alcohol con trol committees with the Ore gon Liquor Control Commission. A preliminary, meeting of "the house alcohol control group was held Wednesday, but none of the several bills to set up liquor by the drink was considered. Instead, the committee, headed by Russell Hudson of The ,- Dalles, . studied suggestions and recommendations submitted by the OLCC to assist the legislators in arriving at a single acceptable measure. - (Additional legislative news. pg J SUMMERFDZLD O KKHKI1 WASHINGTON Ul Arthur E. Summerfield was okayed for ' the job of postmaster general by the Senate . Post Office Committee Wednesday.' He was, the - first of President - elect Eisenhower's Cabinet choices to -win ' committee approvaL . i V.--'V 322 Max. - SI - so 48 ' Mia." Precip. : 41 ; Jtt 4S v .04 ' 60 , .10 s, 39 .05 SS .00 atom . Portland San Francisco , Chicago New Yora- 52 Willamette River 13.1 ft , rORICAST (from U. 8. weather bu reau, McNary neia. uaiem: Parity cloudy today and tonight. Mostly cloudy Friday with rain oy ai i.mnnn T Jtila ehanffa in temperature. Hlsh today. 4S; tow tonight. 12. Salem temperature t 12:01 un. today was 42. " IAUM pRECrPITATlOM ' tmm itrt f Weather Year. SroC S This Year . Laat Year - Normal U. S. Jet Pilots Down 8 MIG's, B-29s Active SEOUL m American Sabre jet pilots racked up their biggest score of Communist MIGs in four months Wednesday and U.S. B 29s followed with blows Wednes day night at Red rail and mining centers on Korea's East Coast. On the ground. Chinese Allied patrols stalked across the no-man's land, of the battle front in sub xero weather Wednesday night and early Thursday. And Eighth Army headquarters spokesman said Allied patrols on the Eastern front were becoming very aggressive. Sabre pilots reported they blast ed eight Russian-built MIGs from the skies deep over North Korea and shot up possibly more in the best day's hunting since Septem ber. The pilots said the MIGs "popped up everywhere." At night, 12 Japan-based B-2 Superforts battled through 120-mile-an-hour winds and heavy ic ing conditions to hammer a rail yard and an ore processing centei on tne .cast Coast Neither had been attacked before. The Superforts switched their at tacks to the east after striking for five straight nights at vital Red rail facUities in the Sinanju area of Northwest Korea. Pen Officials StiU Not Sure Con In or Out The perplexing -problem of whether a missing State Prison Inmate is within or without the prison walls continued to plague penitentiary authorities early to day. .-,.(. Alvls O. Davis. 38. was renorted missing from his cell in the pris on's old cell block at the 8:30 p-m. count Tuesday. Guards searched prison grounds that night and all day Wednesday but failed to turn Up the missing inmate. "I have a hunch he is still hldina out someplace within Drison walls," Warden Virgil O'Malley said late last night. The search was continuing early this morning. If Davis did get out, said O'Mal- . ley, it's a mystery to prison of- ficials how he did so. The last guard check at noon on Tuesday. Davis was not working on an outside prison work project, said '' O'Malley. However, idle prisoners are not always coniinea to their cells all day. ho said. Because of construction work so- Ing on inside prison walls, O'Mal ley said, there are lots of places for a man to hide. . i " Whereabouts of another in ma to who escaped from the prison early Tuesday was still unknown by law officers, it was reported early this morning. Ho is Jdhn L. Kincey, 27, s feet tall Negro who slipped away In early morning darkness about 6 ajn. . 1 Both Kincey and Davis, both trustees were serving sentences for burglary. Neither had ever given rison authorities trouble before, t was said. Appeal Stalls ROSEBURG (A The execution - of Thomas S. Bouse, scheduled at .the state prison Friday, willed have to be called off. His attorneys filed an appeal to the State fo - preme Court Tuesday, bringing sua automatic . stay of execution. Bouse was convicted of drowning his wife, Ethel, in a bathtub here last' October." His attorneys asked a new trial, contending there were ' irregularities in the trial. When Circuit Judge Carl Wimberly den ied . their motion, the attorney appealed to, the higher court. Daily Spoiler! (The following words are amesx those from -which will be chosea the . words - for the 1S'3 Oretrea Statesman-KSLM Spelling Con test . for 7th and tth graders f Marlon. 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