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ft The Ctatesaacm, Scdom, Onyotu Monday, January 3 1SS3 Newsmen Receive -'Scenario -of Battle For Hilltpp inKorea (Story also on page one.) : By FORREST EDWARDS WEST CENTRAL FRONT, Ko rea UP They called it "Opera tion Smack." It had .been planned since Jan. 16. High brass of the U.N. In fantry, Artillery. Air Force and Tank Force made the plans for the Truman Denies Ike Journey Demagoguery NEW YORK (A Former Pres ident Truman, who twice called Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's cam paign promise to go to Korea demagoguery, was quoted Sunday night as saying the trip Itself 'was, not demagoguery." "I was in favor of that and it probably did some good," Truman told American Broadcasting Com pany Correspondent Bryson Rash 10 days ago while still in the White House. Rash reported Sunday night on his interview with Truman on an ABC television program ("All Star News"). He said , the statement on Korea was not cleared for release until after Eisenhower took office as president. Truman first denounced the Eis enhower campaign announcement at a press conference last Dec. 11. A week later he reiterated the view at another press conference saying he had nothing to add or take back. Rash quoted Truman as having laid last Jan. 15: "It was demagoguery for a po litical nominee to say he was go ing to Korea with the implied promise to all the wives, mothers and sweethearts of the men at the front that he would end the war" Truman added, however. Rash said, that the trip itself "was not demagoguery. I was in favor of that and it probably did some good." Rash' further quoted Truman as saying. "I was never angry with, the general but I was deeply hurt that he did not come to the de fense of his best friend and men tor. General (George C.) Mar shall." during the campaign. Marshall, former secretary of state, was chief of staff of the U. S. Army when Eisenhower com manded the European invasion. He had been attacked harshly by a number of Republicans, includ ing Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R Wis). Eisenhower reportedly had pre pared to defend Marshall in a campaign swing through Wiscon sin, 'but his addresses In that state contained no such remarks. The GOP camp denied that Eis enhower had deleted a defense of Marshall at McCarthy's urging. Ten Persons Perish in Fires BILLINGS, Mont W Five eld- . erly men burned to death Sunday when fire swept the interior of a unit of a Billings Nursing Home. A sixth patient at the home is in critical condition at a local hos pital from burns suffered in an at tempt to rescue one of the victims. Two other patients escaped. All were patients in a remodeled two-story frame dwelling in the rear of the Gallagher Nursing Home. The nursing home itself was not damaged by the blaze. HOUSTON Lf) Five persons died early Sunday when' fire roared through- a crowded old 10-room tenement house at the edge of the downtown business district. Fifteen others escaped from the blaze. Four of them were injured. One critically. Two firemen also were hurt. Red Scolded For Signing Up Cotcas Sister i MOSCOW 13 Pravda sternly i rebuked a Soviet official Sunday 'i for wrangling a 3,000-mile, govern- jnent-paid train trip for his cow oy registering ber as his sister. The villain in this bit of costly deception, said the Communist Party organ, was a food procure ment ministry official named Grid asov. The cause of all the trouble was. bis pet cow. Elsa. Pravda un- " folded this account: Gridasov ; was so fond of Elsa that, when he was ordered to move to Sarotov region more than 3,000 - miles distant, he insisted he had to bring her along. By registering Elsa as bis own - sister, he managed to get the ani- mal a private car and the govern ment got the billl 25,000 rubles - C about $6,000 at the Russian fixed - rate.) Pravda also chided the Food Procurement Ministry for falling for Grida soy's ruse.":,. . TO AID OXIr SEARCH : BEAUMONT, Tex LB Two. little "aircraft carriers' are being built here for use in off-shore oil ex plorations. One is a former mili tary craft. Both, will be small ships built so that heliocopters can land on the aft portion. The Gulf Oil Corp. expects to save money by sending men and supplies via the helicopter ; to crew at work In 4hm gulf. The usual method Is by small boat. ' " " - ' air-ground raid against Little Spud HiH below the T-Bone HJU mass west of Chorwon. Hours before the infantry kick off Sunday, invited correspondents and generals were handed a seven page timetable at special brief ing. It was bound in cardboard cov ers with a three-color front page decoration pasted onto the card board. . Contents of the program are classified as security material and can not be disclosed. - While the - generals and corres pondents were being briefed, the room was shaken time after time by pie reverberations of pounding air attacks and artillery barrages during the first phases of the -day long cordinated attack - raid by planes, artillery, tanks and infan try. High Officials Attending the operation were three generals and numerous other high army and air force officiaTs. One page of the secret document handed visitors had a capital let tpr headinrf. Seenarlo " The mimeographed pamphlet outlined in detail the order of at tack by the planes, artillery, tanks and infantry. It was followed on a timetable schedule untfl the in fantrymen charged up the steep slope in a withering hail of cross fire and bursting grenades. The troops were beaten back by Reds who had survived the plane. artillery and tank fire not ac cording to program. The high brass saw the show from a forward observation bunk er overlooking a small plan from which the infantry assault was mounted. Detailed Time Table Every military operation of any significance in the Korean War has been preceded by a detailed timetable made available in most cases only to ' the officers actually directing the operation. This was one of the few times that the complete timetable was made available to war correspon dents before the operation began. A division spokesman said the program for "Operation Smack" was no more complete than that for any other operation. He said the division merely made a "nice presentation" of it because of the visitors. Jets Patrol Sabre jets high over Northwest Korea continued their deadly pa trol of the Manchuria n border Sun day and shot down one MIQ and hail of deadly Chinese Commu damaged another, the Fifth Air Force announced. The Fifth Air Force said Shoot ing Stars, Thunderjets, Corsairs, Skyraiders and Panther jets sup ported the Spud Hill battle, dam aging 17 bunkers, 14 gun positions and sealing three caves. Artillery and mortars pounded heavily while tanks fired high vel ocity shells at close range. But the preparation was not enough. A wounded infantryman told .Cor respondent Edwards: "Despite everything thrown at them before we jumped off, the Gooks weather it in their rabbbit holes, trenches and bunkers. "They lobbed hand grenades down on us as we started up the hill and as we got close to the top they caught us in crossfire from two directions. Couldn't Ge Further "It was pure hell that fight they put up. We got to within 15 yards of-the highest point' but we simply could not go any farther." The costly assault was billed be forehand as a "raid." The Allied division involved in the action dis tributed mimeographed programs in fancy covers to dozens of invit ed guests and correspondents, Ed wards said. Lt Gen. Glenn L Barcus, Fifth Air Force commander; Lt. Gen. Paul Kendall, First Corps com mander and Ma J. Gen. Wayne C. Wmith, commander of the U. S. Seventh Division were, among wit nesses of the coordinated attack. They watched from observation posts overlooking T-Bone Hill. ROCK BLASTERS SET RECORD KEMANO. Canada UP) Drilling crews at the Aluminum Co. of Canada project here have broken their own world record for tun neling. A crew blasted through 274 feet of solid rock for an aver age of 45.7 feet a day to break their previous record by 18 feet. Freed om Airlift' Being E Refugee BONN, Germany in The little publicized "Freedom Airlift" is be ing beefed up to aid refugee-cram med West Berlin . The big : and glamorous Allied airlift of 1948-49 carried in food and supplies that kept Soviet-ring ed West Berlin from being starved out by the Russian blockade. The Freedom Airlift is a Ger man operation taking out refugees Peeing Communist purge and ter ror in East Germany a human cargo the Russians i never would permit to go through their occupa tion zone by rail or road. It is a magic carpet ride to free dom and new life in West Ger many for nearly 1.000 refugees a day. - It is financed almost en tirely by the West German . gov ernment, which pays the fares on British, French - and American commercial planes and the cost of resettling them in the West. " The Berlin refugee situation is one of the big developing human dramas of the decadeV' U : The' Bonn Parliament has re ceived a survey predicting that 200.009 refugees will pile into West Berlin this year :. nearly twice as many a last year and nearly half the entire population of Indi anapolis, Ind. - TbHeadCIA - . f " . WASHINGTON Allen W. Dalles poses in Washington after FresU -dent Elsenhower picked him to . be director of the central intelll . gene agency. Dalles ha bees depmty director. As beg el the agency Dalles, a brother ef Sec retary of State Jena Fester Dalles, will replace Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, who becomes undersecretary of state. (AP Wlrephoto.) 5 Rail Unions Start Strike in Midwest Area CHICAGO CR Members of five railway unions walked 'off their jobs on the Chicago Great West ern Railway Sunday In a dispute involving more than 600 claims and grievances. Picket lines were established in some places, but there were no re ports of disorder. The railroad mainly a freight carrier, operates some 1,500 miles of line from Chicago to Omaha, Neb., and .from Kansas City north to Minneapolis and St Paul. It operates only in Illinois, Iowa, Min nesota, Missouri and Nebraska. Demands of the railway work ers' unions center about changes in rates of pay, rules and work ing conditions. Edward T. Reidy. vice president and general manager of the. line, said the strike involved "several hundred workers." Exact figures were not available. The striking workers are mem bers of the Order of Railway Con ductors, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine men, or the Switchmen's Union of North America. Gas Well in Gulf Explodes MORGAN CITY, La. W A gas well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico 39 miles south of here Sun day and flames boiling from the site were visible 15 miles away. Ofl men called it a multi-million dollar fire. ' The blast occurred about 10 a.m. and the flames had not been controlled late Sunday night. In tense heat from the inferno melted a 150 foot derrick on the well plat form within 30 minutes . and it dropped into the gulf. No- one was injured in the ex plosion although 32 men were on the gas well platform at the time. Living quarters for. the men, built on a platform erected on pil ings driven into the gulf, would be endangered if the wind shifts to the south. Only 50. feet away from the liv ing quarters the United Gas Com pany has gas filters where gas is taken from the wells and piped to shore. Morgan City is about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans. ONE POSTER HELPS ANOTHER MONTREAL 11 One railroad man came to aid another here re cently. Roger Garneau, - express porter with the Canadian National Railways, found a wallet contain ing $500 belonginfT to one Brvon Bascom. Garneau discovered that Bascom was also a porter with the same railroad and returned the wallet. -Crammed Nearly 30,000 were in West Ber lin's 70 refugee camps on Jan. 20, and the camp population was bounding upward.' Many thousands live with friends or find other shel ter. - Until the first of the year they were being flown out at a -rate of 700 day. Then, to relieve the camp overflow, it was decided to increase the quota by another 7r 000, spread over four weeks. But the influx into West Berlin has doubled recently to about 1,000 a day. There are several reasons. The Reds apparently are driving for . total immunization of East Germany. Purges of "Zionists," "Trotskyites," "Tltoites," and many other kinds of alleged dis sidents are causing thousands to flee. They fear their last chance to get out will soon be gone.: ; ,; Until last June, East Germans trying to skip to the West had a comparatively easy; time of cross ing 'the Iron Curtain drawn be tween the two groups of Ger mans. But then the Communists, seeking to seal off their zone, cre ated a "death zone' along the bor der from; the Baltic to Czechoslo vakia. " " - - V Crossing became extremely haz- EiiropeSaid Vulnerable to Red Air Attack: (Editor's Note: Tom Masterson, the -AP correspondent assigned to Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers in Europe, just outside Pa ris,' spends considerable ef his time questioning likely sources there about news, attitudes and possibil ities. The following dispatch is based on some of this questioning. The sources requested him not to use their names or. identify them by organization.) By TOM MASTERSON V PARIS UP) A surprise, all-out Russian air attack could knock out Western Europe's first line of air defense in one fell swoop, a high ranking American Army - officer said Sunday. - - It would at least seriously crip ple the Allies' air defense system just like the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor and Clark Field, the officer said. " It might even blind the Allied Air. Force to the extent it could not locate Russian concentrations to make the use of atomic weap ons worthwhile. "That's the way things stand right now. the officer said. The North Atlantic Pact nations, he explained, have so far failed to give overall protection to their far flung and growing- air defense sys tem our first line of defense. "That's why we're in this situa tion today." Funds Omitted The 14 nations have granted enough money to build the best planes, lay out main air bases and train enough crews. But in an ef fort to economize they have fail ed to provide funds for building up three other items just as im portant, the officer said. He list ed them as: 1. An adequate warning and com munications system linking air bases stretching through seven Eu ropean countries from Norway to Italy. 2. Enough alternate and reserve air fields so important in time of war. 3. Pipelines to transport jet fuel to air bases. The ministers of the 14 NATO nations at their December meet ing In Paris earmarked only 224 million dollars for military build ing this year barely more than half of what Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme allied comman der, had asked. Healthy Economy The ministers, who emphasized the need to relax the strain on their nations' economies, said they had recognized that "a strong de fense requires a healthy economy" and that lt had been decided as a result to stress quality rather than numbers in the buildup this year. Obviously irked at the ignoring of his advice, Ridgway assailed the decision as "unimaginative" and declared there could be "no excuse" for slowing the defense effort. He has since declared that al though he did not think a Soviet attack in the next 12 or 18 months would defeat Western divisions they would suffer "grievous blows." The Russians right now can put 20,000 planes in the air, including 5.000 jets and perhaps more, and fly them from bases within ''strik ing distance of ours." the Ameri can informant said. The Western Allies, aiming at a 4,000 - plane target, have built or are building 95 air bases in West ern Europe. In addition some bas es in West Germany are available. Hagerty Tells of Proposed Video Programs by Ike WASHINGTON (J) James a Hagerty, White House press secre tary, explained on a television pro gram Sunday why President Eis enhower decided to let television and radio into bis press conferenc es. Hagerty was asked about the de cision during a filmed interview on CBS' new series, "State of the Union." "It was a simple and practical conclusion," Hagerty replied. "The President believes that tele vision and radio goes into the homes of the people of the United States and he believes we owe an obligation, to the people of the United States to bring the actions, words and deeds of the president and this' administration into the homes of the people of the country. "And we believe the easiest and best way to do that is through radio and television and, of course, the newspapers." Expanded to West Berlin ardous and West Berlin became virtually the only hole in the Iron Curtain. The refugee flood funnel led into It. The Reds are 'tightening up on their border controls around West Berlin but entrance - into the Al lied sectors still is relatively free. Some Allied officials think the Rus sians have their reasons. j For one thing, the Communists may figure these refugees are dis sidents whom they could never con vert anyway. Many are aged -and comparatively useless in the Com munist slave labor program. " Some Communist agents are as signed to filter into the West with the refugee flood. Moreover, the refugee tide puts a heavy finan cial and social burden on ; West Berlin and West Germany. - 'West Germany already has giv en refuge to nearly 10 million since the vrar more, than the entire population of New York City prop er, and almost as many as in the entire state of California or Penn sylvania. Bringing the 200,000 expected in West Berlin in 1953 to West Ger many and giving them even tem porary shelter will cost about 83 mill inn dollars, it is estimated Found Hanged - - WASHINGTON? John C. Mont gomery' (above), 41. chief of the U. 8. state department's Finnish desk. ,wu found banged ta the heme of Attorney - A. Marvin - Bravermaa in the fashionable Georgetown section ef Washing ton, L.C. Montgomery lived there, t (AP Wlrepboto to The Staieamaa.) r Diplomat Death to Loneliness WASHINGTON (J) Police ex pressed belief Sunday that lone liness and thwarted ambition brought about the death of John C Montgomery, 41-year-old State De partment aide , who was found hanged early Saturday. Detective Sergt. Lloyd Furr of metropolitan police, who had charge of the inquiry, advanced both motives for the man's death. Montgomery's nude body was found by A. Martin Braverman, Washington attorney, in whose home Montgomery lived. Furr said Montgomery's "highest ambition was to become a foreign diplomat.' "But since 1948 he had failed two and. possibly three foreign service examinations," Furr add ed. The detective, who had ques tioned, the dead, mans friends and associates added: "He was also : a lonely and self contained man who did not talk about his troubles to others. Dr. A. Magruder McDonald, Dis trict of Columbia coroner, ! an nounced; he would issue a suicide death certificate. Montgomery was in charge of the Finnish desk at the State De partment. Smith Praises U.S.. Russian 0 Services WASHINGTON UH Gen. Walt er Bedell Smith, retiring chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, said Sunday the U.S. Intelligence Service Is as good as any in the world except possibly the Rus sians. , Smith said Soviet agencies have have only to invest a three cent stamp in order to get from an American company a free booklet telling: all about the firm's opera tions and other data on the Ameri can scene. By contrast, he said, gathering information about what goes on behind the Communist Iron Curtain is a painstaking and expensive job. To . improve 1 U.S. intelligence. Smith said, CIA is now develop ing a Corps of career officers which "in a few years will become the best In the world." i - "We are now about as good as any country in the world," he added, "with the possible exeep tion of the Soviet Union." Smith's outline of U.S. intelli gence jvork led off a three-day series of meetings by the Nation al Security Commission ofv the American Legion. The sessions are designed to ac quaint Legion leaders with current security problems at home and abroad.:, : Sanitarians to ' Attend Courfeffe ! Three of four, sanitarians in Marion County; health department will attend the annual sanitarians' short course at Oregon State Col lege, Tuesday to Thursday. 'L G. Lermon,; William Hellle and Wilbur P. Green expect to go for the entire course, which will in clude reports on public water-sup ply, sewage disposal, soils. Home safety, food sanitation, air pollu tion and disease transmission through tod and water. Zt is the fifth such program at the school, sponsored by Oregon State Board of Health, Oregon section of National Assaciation of Sanitarians and OSC i Health.' Educator Vernon Olsen also expects to attend one! day's sessions. . ; CherBerg, Staled Likeli by Cassill: SEATTLE" Ul Athletic Direc tor Harvey , CassilL who touched off the-charge that blew Howie Odell out of his job. as Washington head football coach, indicated strongly Sunday one of Odell'a as sistants will succeed him. ' "We are fortunate in having two men of head coach caliber on the campus. . right now. CassQ said. He referred to freshman coach Johnny f Cherberg, whose teams have won 23 of 24 games, and beckfield coach NeH J. (Skip) Stab- Charged Sdv X J: r Londoners. Ask Government Stop Smogs - LONDON (A Alarmed London ers clamored Saturday for govern ment action to ; stop a series of smogs the worst in living memory that have killed thousands of per sons here in a winter of daytime darkness. - .. . . Newspapers, members of Parlia ment and private citizens Joined in the demands. Prime Minister Churchill's government has already said it is treating the smogs as "a problem of the very greatest urgency. . Deadly fogs have settled over London repeatedly since early De cember. Hundreds' of thousands of persons have been sickened. The economic loss from grounded air planes, dirtied clothing, curtains and' buildings and slowed com merce runs into many millions. The Air Ministry Meteorological Bureau says It has been the foggi est season m many years and ex perts say the fogs have contained more futh, especially sulphuric acid, than any before. "Massacre." Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard . Editorialized, noting that the December death toll from fog 6,000 nearly equalled the toll of 6,957 killed by Nazi bombers in September, 1940, worst month of the World War XI blitz. The number killed so far in Jan uary has not been announced. "It s almost on the scale of mass extermination." cried Marcus Lip ton, a Laborite MP in the House of Commons. Poverty Stalks Once Wealthy Moselle Valley By WILLY M. HORBACH TRIER, Germany Iff) Poverty has found its way into the once rich Moselle Valley, world famous for tasty wines. Wine prices to vintners have sharply declined and are about the same that grandfather paid 40 years ago. But production costs have soared sky hieh. about 700 Der cent more than before the First World War. Moselle wine kings, who own large estates, can still come out on top by restricting their output to choicest types and by financing "Drink Wine and Stay Healthy" campaigns. Bui the average small grower. with a yearly production of 1,000 gallons, faces economic disaster. His vineyard is so small that a must live from hand to mouth. West German agricultural ex perts estimate that the income of these small growers averages 20 pfennigs per hour (about five cents). Skilled industrial workers earn ten to twenty times as much. . "We are sentenced to a slow death," one spokesman of the email wine growers told a news man visiting the Moselle's poverty row. "There is despair In every vil lage. Our sons are looking for new jobs in the city. If it keeps on like this, most 'of the small wine grow ers win be wiped out and our occu pation will become extinct." The steep, almost vertical hills along the river do not allow varied agriculture as a substitute. The rich black soil, produced by vol canic eruptions thousands of years pago and weathered into fertile soil. is unsurpassed in West Germany, but no plowing Is possible. It is a beautiful spot, this narrow, winding valley, - with the Moselle flowing pleasantly by medieval vil lages. Tourists from all over the world .come each spring and aut umn to this shrine of Bacchus. Gaiety reigns then on the theme of "wein, weib and gesang" (wine, women and song). The semi-annual influx is the only thing that helps the little wine growers keep their chins up. "If we hadn't the tourists, we would have been goners long ago," one of the vintners said. During the roaring weeks of wine festivals, they sell most of their stock that regular dealers will not take. Their trade names are obscure for a simple reason: Owners of large estates have time and money to cultivate their wines, selecting the best to be kept for years in the moist, .warm cellars, where they become more valuable from month ta month. This the small men cannot do. They must sell quickly; even if it hardly: pays far their work. 'Battle Report Washes Ashore In Corked Bottle SAN DIEGO, ,. Calif. - W A "battle report" was washed ashore here in a corked ; briwn . bottle, which an oceanographer said could have drifted from Korea. The bottle, it "was disclosed Sun day, was found Wednesday by a beach cleaning crew. , : Inside was a paper, on which was what appeared to be a mili tary map showing disposition of a "Com L" and the ."enemy". The 324th Combat Group and 224th In fantry were also mentioned. ' Under the -heading "Battle Re port' dated Dec. 7, . 1950, were two penciled notations. . -' On said: ' "Wasting out time playing.'; 1 truck got through the Red trap. Only Lout of 23 trucks." ; Tha other read: "Dec. 7, Co.' L. We bad 48 men, now only 23, but we won. Sgt. William Walling." Charles Knox, oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Ocean ography, said a bottle could have drifted from Korea in the - two years since the dates on the paper. ley, former Penn State star who has ' bossed football at Delaware University, Brown. George Wash ington University and Toledo Uni versity. - : ". : Blorid&Held ifi Probe I ill I I I II II I ! V NEW YORK Diane Harris, 21, weeps at Criminal Courts building. New York, after she was arrested as material witness In forthcoming trial of "playboy Mlnot (Mickey) Jelke en compulsory prostitution charges. She-was held la $25,006 bail. Assistant District Attorney A. J. Llebler described her as the "golden girl of cafe society, and an acquaintance of ex-Egyptian King Farouk's "official procurer.' (AP Wlrephoto te The Statesman.) Harvard President Seeo Threat to U.S. Academic Liberty in Hunt for Redo CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Ufi Har vard University President James Bryan Conant said Sunday the-colleges of the United States have nothing to hide and that "lt would be a sad day" for this country if the tradition of dissent were driven out of our universities. In his annual report for the aca demic year 1951-52, the educator, nominated to go to Europe as high commissioner : in Germany, de clared there are no known Commu nists on the Harvard staff and added: "But if there were, the damage that would be done to the spirit of this academic community- by an investigation by the university aimed at finding a cryp to-Communist would be far greater than any conceivable . harm such a person might do." Would Limit Probe Dr. Conant said the independence of colleges and universities "would be threatened if governmental agencies of any sort started in quiries into, the nature of the in struction that was given." He expressed the hope that the government would ferret out and prosecute staff members - of any university who are engaged in sub versive activities but added: "I trust they will not create an atmosphere in whict . professors would be afraid to speak freely on public issues."" Pouts to Threat "Certainly," he continued, "if the trustees or administrative officers of a university were to engage in any investigation of a professor's activities as a private citizen, the life of the university would be destroyed. Of that I am sure." Conant said that outside of the classroom a. professor speaks and acts as a private citizen and that what his views may be is of no concern of the university admini stration "provided he is not acting illegally as determined by due pro Cess of l&w' "And," Conant emphasized, "the phrase' 'due process can well be underlined in this period of ten sion." , Period ef Peril "Today once again we live in a period of peril, far greater 'peril to my mind than many of us appear to realize,' Conant said. "The pros pect of the physical annihilation of all of Harvard is for the first time In our history a possibility that we must admit. "The. destruction of the spiritual premises on which our. whole tradi Navy Reports On Activities en Whereabouts and activities of six Willamette Valley Navy men was reported Sunday by the Fleet Home . Town News Center, Great Lakes. 111. .i- , - Serving aboard " the fleet oiler USS Passumpsic, engaged as a re plenishment unit for the Formosa Straits patroL Is . Edward L. Schmidt, radarman third class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schmidt, Silverton Route 2. In Washington; D. C Lt Cdr. Geor" H. Suit, son of Mr. and MrsMJf R. Suit, Hubbard, Route 1, and husband of the former Miss Jayne L. Gilbert, Seattle, Wash., was reported to have ' flown a F9F-6 Grumman; "Cougar. during the Inauguration Day Parade. Aboard the destroyer USS Hal sey Powell in the Far East are two Mt. Angel brothers, Donald J. and Leroy E. Holt, both seamen with the DSN. . Also, reported aboard the destroyer USS Renshaw in the Korean combat zone is Wil liam L. Frye, electrician's, mate fireman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Levern W. Frye, Stayton. , . -. On board the fleet oiler USS Kangagee, serving with - the At lantic Fleet, is Maurice D. Stouten- verg, damage controlman - first class, USN, of 422 Evergreen Ave., saiem... y.":T';-. rSJXNDS SUFFER ATTACKS EDD?SO, Greece VPh KaUna Voulgarls, . 42, stepped out of her house to visit a friend and dropped dead of a heart attack on the road. When Assimina Kamminon, 42, heard of this, she rushed over to her stricken friend's home. The sight of Katina'was too much for Assimina. She, too, had a heart attack and died. V n "mT "II TIM- ur.vauevivi tion rests is likewise a possibility that no one can deny who recalls the fate of the university in Prague. To prevent such possibilities be coming in fact realities is the prob lem that we face collectively and individually." Salem Records 6 Car Wrecks On Week End ! At least six separate auto acci dents occurred in Salem over the weekend as a result of rain drenched streets and darkened conditions. All cars were damaged, but no one was reported ser iously injured and no arrests were made. - One Intersection, Capitol and Madison Streets, claimed two of the accidents, one Sunday morn ing Involving a Howell-Edwards Company automobile (For further details see page one) and one Sunday evening involving three cars. City police reports, indicate that the three-car smashup occur red when cars driven by Elbert R. Busselle, Portland, and Charles A. Frederick, Scio, were appar ently struck from behind by a car driven by Robert L. Kroeplin, 480 Hansen Ave. Both Frederick and ' Busselle told police they were waiting at the stop light when the accident happened. Oc cupants of all three cars were checked by Salem first aidmen and Busselle and his wife were advised to see a doctor for x-rays. A city police car driven by Officer William Bales, 2283 Town send War, was Involved In a col lision Saturday night with a car driven by William J. Keen, 2443 Myrtle Ave. The accident occur red at 12th and Mission Streets. Both cars were damaged, no one was injured and no citations were issued. Another accident Saturday evening involved cars driven by. Almo D. Wagner, 2723 S. Summer St., and Floyd F. Plank, Salem Route 3, Box 996. Both vehcilel sustained considerable ! front end and body damage In the accident in the 1900 block of South Com mercial Street. No onej was In jured. I Still earlier ' Saturday, cars driven by Roy Reynolds, 1144 Center St., and Herbert R. Sing hofen, Portland, collided at Ow ens and South Commmercial Streets. Both had dented fenders but neither driver was hurt. Early Sunday morning, cars driven by Charles Wayne Hughes, 393 N. 14th St., and Leon Fran cis Bertram, 2033 John St., col lided at Liberty and Court Streets claiming minor damage to both vehicles, but no injuries to occu pants. ( : "J German Reds Offer Plan for Nationalization - BERLIN (A The Communists proposed Sunday that the entire supply network in East Germany be nationalized Into a vast state corporation, thus spelling the end of private enterprise in the So viet Zone. The proposal, made by the So cialist Unity (Communist) Party's Central Committee, was published prominently in Taegliche Rund schau, the Soviet Army newspap er. That makes it appear the idea has Russian blessing and so prac tically an actuality. .The resolution calls for complete communizing of the entire system of wholesaling and retailing food, coal , and other dally necessities, about the only private enterprise left in the East Zone. "Capitalistic"" methods used by the ministry of supply were blamed by the Central Committee for tre mendous shortages- plaguing the East German State. Families have been doing with out coal, butter, fresh meat, mili and other basic commodities for months and even the secret police have been unable to stifle the grumbling. ' J . . 1 1 --v t ;