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12 The Statesman, Salem. Orfc. Monday, April 27, 1853 Peace Talk Contest Only Defines Issues Clues to Compromise Still Hidden By JOHN M. HIGHTOWEB WASHINGTON (A The peace talk contest under way between Washington and Moscow so far Has defined and sharpened the great East-West Issues without develop lng any doe as to how they may be compromised or resoivea. . The statement published Satur day in the Soviet controlled news papers Pravda and Izvestia in re- 8 Children Die As Fires Strike Canada City SAULT STE. MARIE, OnLtf) Three fires one of them burn ing to death eight children and one destroying a 1300,000 lumber yard struck the twin border cities of Sault Ste. Marie in an 18-hour per iod ending early Sunday. Th children perished in a fire which swept through a one-story bouse on the outskirts of this Ca nadian city Sunday morning. Five of the victims were children Of Philip and Winifred Derry, who sui'ered severe burns trying to rescue the youngsters. The other three were neighbors who were spending the night at the Derry borne. Across the St Marys River po lice said two 11-year-old boys ad mitted starting a small fire to warm themselves Saturday night and it touched off a spectacular blaze that destroyed most of. the Lock City Manufacturing Co., a lumber products firm. Wind-whipped flames shot high Into the air and could be seen 50 miles away. Thousands of resi dents from both cities ringed the fire scene. Seven nearby homes were saved only by a 20-inch thick concrete firewall. Also spared was the lum ber company's big new showroom which had been dedicated only a day earlier as part of the com pany's 50th anniversary celebra tion. This is located across a street from the manufacturing opera tions. The first of the three fires de stroyed more than 1,000 telephones in a Michigan Bell Telephone Co. warehouse in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The telephones were to be used in converting to a dial sys tem. The blaze damaged just one wooden end of the concrete block warehouse. Loud-Mouthed Rooster Sought ROGUE RIVER UTV-This South ern Oregon town wants roosters that crow loud and often. The one that crows most often in a half-hour period here May 23 will be declared champion in what is planned as an .annual rooster crowing contest. Robert Gail, chairman of the sponsoring Boosters Club, said the roosters would be shut inside dark cages. At 10 a.m.. the cage doors will be opened. This is supposed to make the rooster think dawn has .arrived, and he will set to -crowing. Gail said he expected about 500 entries. Canadian Regiment Leaves Trust Fund For Korean Child SAN FRANCISCO W A re turning Canadian regiment which had to leave its 7-year-old Korean mascot behind has deposited a $1, 000 trust fund here for the boy, the Bank of America said Sunday. The money is to feed, clothe and care for "Willie Royal" and to be gin his education "as a Korean na tional of the Christian faith." The Right Reverend Arthur E. Chad well, assistant bishop of Korea, was named to administer Willie's money. sponse to President Eisenhower's peace challenge of April 18 served notice that if the President thinks there is a new era in Soviet for eign policy since Premier Stalin s death he is mistaken. As U.S. experts analyze the Mos cow statement, it appeared to pro vide no new openings for specific East-West negotiations, no evi dence of any important changes in Kremlin plans and policies, and no encouragement other than a fam iliar generalization for believing that the Soviets are now ready to join in businesslike efforts to end the cold war. Signs From Korea The hardening of the issues was pointed up by signs from Korea, and by the spreading war in Indo- chma, that there will be no quick or easy settlement with the Reds, if there are to be any settlements at alL Despite official optimism by the Eisenhower administration many well informed authorities here, particularly in the state depart ment, see no chance of a break in the cold war. In the Korean talks resumed at Panmunjom Sunday after a lapse of many months the Communists disagreed with everything the Al lies proposed. Eisenhower Hopeful The White House issued a hope ful statement as a reflection Eisenhower's April 16 speech. which boiled down to a new call on the Soviets to do "something concrete" in the way of easing world tension. Of the Pravda-Iz- vestia statement, the White House said mainly the tone was milder than "the usual vituperation against the United States." Meanwhile, the North Atlantic Treaty Council in Paris, at which Secretary of State Dulles is the chief U.S. delegate, stated official ly that it had found no evidence of a lessening of the Soviet threat And in this country. Undersecre tary of State Walter Bedell Smith said the United States is always ready to try to make settlements but is also aware that it is dealing "with an extremely reactionary re gime still wedded to an archaic concept of power." Defines Problem Eisenhower delivered his peace challenge to the Soviets in a speech calling for an armistice in Korea as a first step, for a united Korea, for peace in Indochina and Malaya, an Austrian peace treaty, unification of Germany with free elections, liberation of the East European satellites, and for dis armament with resultant savings to be spent on a new world war against poverty and hunger. The Soviets published the text of Eisenhower's speech Saturday in side the same papers whose front pages took it apart and subjected it to a stream of criticism amount ing to a virtual rejection of Eisen hower s proposals. The text of the long statement was put under searching examina tion at the state department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the White House. It apparently was decided to treat it both as a policy document and as a propaganda move. Saturday's White House statement emphasizing once more U.S. willingness "to work unceas ingly for peace" evidently was de signed to counter the propaganda effects of the Soviet statement. 3 Log Outfits Approve CIO PORTLAND l The CIO Wood workers won labor elections at three Oregon logging operations, a union spokesman said Saturday. Workers at the Douglas Lumber Co., Roseburg, voted 94 for the CIO to 11 for the AFL, said Bill Botkin of the Woodworkers. He said the Beaver Lumber Co. work ers voted 13 for the CIO and 6 for no union, and the Ogle Log gings Co. voted 11 for the CIO and 5 for no union. Both the latter operations are in Tillamook County. Bodies Recovered from Mine;' Seventy Trapped Men Freed Solons Frown On Exchange Of A-Secrets i WASHINGTON (A Members of the Senate - House Atomic Energy committee have responded to n- f ormal soundings with a pointed indication they will reject any pro posal to exchange atomic weapon information with Great Britain. Some members who believe that such an exchange may have been suggested by Prime Minister Win ston Churchill in his talks with President Eisenhower early this year said they doubt the admin istration ever will formally present the proposal. There is no doubt, however, that some high administration officials would like to have authority for the U.S. to tell the British govern ment how many atomic bombs it possesses and how it proposes to deliver them against an enemy in case of attack. Such information might include data on the development of atom ic power for industrial purposes, but it was not proposed that any information be exchanged on ac tual manufacture of the atomic bomb or on progress made with the hydrogen bomb. Opposition within the Senate -House committee to any such ex changes of information apparently is based largely on the belief that Britain's atomic security precau tions are not tight enough that any. facts given to London would soon find their way to Moscow. Jay cee Group Urges Special Day of Prayer Salem Junior Chamber" of Com merce has joined with other Jaycee units in the United States and other civic and veteran groups in promoting an "Operation Pray," May 3. On that day a unjted prayer for world peace will be offered. Salem Jaycees recently adopted a reso lution calling for a day of national prayer asking for "divine guid ance for President Eisenhower, the Cabinet, Congress and Judiciary in their efforts to lead the world to peace," Jaycee officers said. Judge Douglas Hay, president of the Salem Jaycee chapter, urg ed all Salem churches and their congregations to offer prayers for world peace next Sunday. Joining in the movement on a national scale are the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Lions and Kiwanis clubs. UN Repatriates Leave Communist Ambulances Body of Man Found in Creek OREGON CITY (f The body of a 75-year-old man missing since April 7 was found Sunday on Hackett Creek, nearly two miles from the mountain resort com-, munity of Brightwood. Lynn Fuller, Portland, and Otto Lang, Brightwood, discovered the body of Henry Steiner of Bright wood while inspecting Fuller's summer home property. Steiner apparently had fallen from a stump on which he bad sat down to rest His cane was lying against the stump. The body was taken to Oregon City. The cause of death was not immediately determined. During the extensive search for the elderly man. his son, Fred Steiner, 39, of Brightwood, drowned in the Sandy River April 11. A rubber life raft in which the younger Steiner was searching the stream overturned. ANGANGUEO, Mexico () Masked rescue workers Sunday brought out the bodies of 11 work ers killed Saturday in a cave-in and explosion of an American Smelting Company silver mine here. -With black and yellow smoke still pouring from the mouth of the mine, the search teams hunt ed for the bodies of 14 other known dead and six other miners still un accounted for in Mexico's worst mine disaster in recent years. . Some 200 of the mine's 300 day shift workers managed to escape from the upper level when the lower level roof caved in Satur day afternoon, causing electrical shorts which touched off violent dust or gas explosions and turned the caverns into a blazing inforno nearly 500 feet below the surface. - Some 70 other men were led out Of the murky tunnel Saturday night during rescue efforts in the darkness, made more drastic by the wailing and praying of friends and relatives of the victims. Those saved during the night suffered ill effects from the smoke but other wise were believed not in serious condition. .The mine, which in addition to silver also yields zinc, gold and iron,' is in a remote mountain area three miles from this little village 80 -miles west of Mexico City. The town itself is reachable on twist ing narrow cart roads. -.The cave-in carried through four subterranean levels. Three of the known dead lie in a flooded gal lery on the lowest level, t : Four Mexican government mineH officials reached nere Sunday morning to investigate the cause of the disaster. Hundreds of relatives and friends of the workers stormed the gates to the mine Saturday when news of the disaster swept through the countryside. Reinforced police lines sent in to keep order had a bard time keeping the often hys terical crowd under control. Sun day the crowd had dwindled to 300. Suspects in Murder Held NORTH BEND. Ore. If) Po lice held two men and sought a third Saturday for questioning, fol lowing the death of Mrs. Ethel Gladys Moore. 40. The man sought is one reported to have been seen with her in a tavern Thursday, the day before she was strangled to death in a hotel room. Held in jail are Ralph W. Plant and Louis R. Barlow. District At torney John Pickett said Plant told him he had been living with the woman, and had returned from a poker game to find her fully clothed body on the bed. Barlow was a friend of the couple. He disclaims any knowledge of the slaying. Pickett said. FARMERS! Don't Pnl Of! Your A&otor .'Repairing Rots- us check Ihose motors and get them ready foe the hard lob ahead when minutes ars "worth dollars. Present this ad with your repair Job before May 29 and SAVE 10, DISCOUNTS ALSO ON PUMP PANELS Ford & Simpson Stav ELECTRIC CO, Phone 24158 Salem, Ore I A i 1 r Vv ...-- t - -I , r " :V ..v.... r. ... .. . .-. . ... 1 1 "ill ' i ' . - 1 1-7- . 'J PANMUNJOM United Nations returnees released by the Communists daring the fourth exchange or fuws at Jranmtmjom, are shown about to enter receiving tent after unloading from Red am bulances. At right, center, is Rear Adm. John DanieL chief UN liaison officer. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman.) Java Volcano Erupts Lava JAKARTA, Indonesia U) The big killer, volcano Merapi has been erupting lava streams daily since Thursday, it was reported Sunday night "'. VV"- The head of the volcanologic serv ice said the dangerous volcanic material is flowing over the very thinly populated northern slope of the mountain and has so far caused no deaths or injuries. There are no signs of panic among the near ly two million people living on Merapi 's three other sides, he said. Talbot Watches Bomber Test SEATTLE (A Secretary of Air Harold E. Talbot toured the Boe ing Airplane Co. plant Sunday and watched a test flight of the giant, 8-jet B-52 bomber. Talbot said after seeing the B-52 for the first time that he was "very thrilled with the plane and its performance." Boeing plants here and at near by Ren ton are being tooled up for production of the B-52, chosen by the Air Force as its intercontinen tal heavy: jet bomber. Two of the big planes have been completed. Talbot plans to spend the next three days inspecting aircraft plants in the Los Angeles area. Chutes Found in B-29 Wreck Area WESTHAMPTQN. N.Y. in Coast t Guard- searchers Sunday'' round tnree paracnutes and more bits of wreckage in the area where a B-29 was sunk in tha Great P. tonic Bay after an air collision. ine superior oomber collided with a jet fighter and both crashed In ' flames ' Fridav. The - hnrii nf the fighter pilot and of one bomb er crewman nave Deen recovered. I Four other crewmen from the bomber still are missing. Oregon Vote On Bills Noted WASHINGTON (A How Ore gon members of Congress were re- corded as voting on recent roll-, calls: Senate: On Anderson (D-NM) motion to put aside "Udelands" legislation and take up a bill to provide for temporary economic controls, de feated 61 to 21: For Morse; 1 Against Cordon. 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