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
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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.
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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.
House: -
On Yates (D-M) motion to send
independent offices appropriation
bill back to committee with in
structions to provide funds for1
starting 35,000 units of public hous
ing in next fiscal year, defeated
245 to 157: Against Angell, Coon,
Ellsworth, Norblad s
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