i
Eisenhower .Plans Major
Defense Statement Today
WASHINGTON (AP) The White House said
DIP I
The last legislature appropri
ated $2,200,000 for building and
equipping a new building I or tne
Dental SchooL When the Board
of Higher Education met to set
tip its building program it was
confronted witn a letter irom me
chairmen of the ways and means
committee. Sen. Walker and Kep.
Semon, advising them that pro
ceeds of any sale of the present
property should go into the state-j
general iuna tor xuxure appropri
ation for running expenses ox tne
school.
This, however, conflicts with
the 1945 act for taking over the
privately owned schooL The law
provided that when the property
was disposed of "the money de
rived therefrom shall either be
used in acquisition or construc
tion of another building and
plant, furnishings and facilities,'
or be invested in eligible securi
ties the earnings from which
would go to the support and main
tenance of the schooL The law
provides a disposition of the
funds superior to the directive of
the committee chairmen. Wheth
er the Board can use the pro
ceeds without further legislative
sanction is a question for the at
torney generaL-
The building appropriation is
made without condition, save that
approval of the emergency board
is required before a contract can
be let The real question is how
much it will cost to build and
equip a proper Dental School
for the state system of higher
education. The Board of Higher
Education thinks it will need the
full appropriation plus the esti
mated $300,000 it hopes to get
from the old property. Its judg
ment in this respect should be
respected. The emergency board
can approve the project, and
should
(Continued on editorial page, 4)
Pen Officials
Hired by State
Control Board
The state board of control ap
proved Wednesday the, hiring of
a business manager and a deputy
warden for the state penitentiary.
The VtVK LVfSfnflgf -,anag is
Francis Werideriy, who has work
ed for the auditing division of
the Secretary of State and in the
prison's accounting department
The new deputy warden will
be Louis P. Barnes, now business
manager of a hospital at Truckee,
Calif., and who has held high
positions in several federal pri
sons. The present deputy, Lawrence
O'Brien, will keep his job, being
assigned to supervision of mass
treatment Barnes will head the
individual treatment of prisoners,
a position he has held in the
federal prison system.
The Legislature abolished the
position of prison superintendent
and decided to have a business
manager under the warden. It
also increased the number of
.deputy wardens from one to two.
Wonderly and Barnes were re
commended by the new Warden,
Clarence T. Gladden.
Wonderly will have charge of
all financial aspects of the pri
son, including the prison farm
and industries.
Barnes has woked in federal
prisons in Englewood, Colo.; At
lanta, Ga.; and Terre Houte, Ind.,
as well as in the Bureau of Pri
sons in Washington, D. C.
Wednesday President Eisenhower will "make a major
pronouncement on the defense of the United States
and a program for that defense,'' at a news confer
ence Thursday'.
This word was given to newsmen by James C
Hagerty, press secretary, who made clear in response to newsmen's
questions that the President would disclose the administration's
long-awaited defense spending plans.
Hagerty said the President's statement will be made after
morning conferences with Republican congressional leaders and
with the National Security Council, the government's top policy
making group on defense matters.
Eisenhower told his news conference last week he is confident
that defense spending can be cut but he declined to estimate how
much might be trimmed off the 46-billion dollar defense budget
recommended by former President Truman for the fiscal year be
ginning July 1.
Eisenhower said during the election campaign and has repeat
ed many times since that in his opinion one .of the great problems
confronting this country is the job of meeting the huge cost of de
fense. The subject is known to have come up almost every week at
Security Council and Cabinet meetings, as well as at sessions with
congressional leaders.' :
Meanwhile, the administration was reported preparing to ask
Congress for about $5,800,000,000 for foreign aid military and eco
nomic to nearly 60 friendly governments.
This sum, tentatively approved at a White House meeting
Tuesday, is $1,800,000,000 less than former President Truman rec
ommended in his farewell budget
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Couple Reunited in Hospital
Lodge, Vishinsky
Trade Handshake
NEW Y0R Klfii Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr., flashed a broad smile
and shook hands Wednesday night
with Russia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky,
Lodge -avoided shaking hands with
VLhinsky earner this rear when
the;r paths first crossed at the
U. N.
Lodge, chief U. S. delegate to
the U. N., and Mrs. Lodge were
dinner guests of , Vishmsky, head
of the Soviet delegation t- U. N.,
at the Waldorf Astoria. Vishinsky
gave the dinner as the retiring
April chairman of the U. N. Se
curity Council.
Squalls Lash
Oregon Areas
Br The Associated Press
Wind, rain snow and hail hit
Oregon Wednesday afternoon.
Snow fell at Klamath Falls and
the wind reached 36 miles an hour.
Snow flurries were report ea at
scattered Eastern Oregon points.
Roseburg had hail.
The Weather Bureau said a sys
tem .of squalls extending south
along the Oregon coast brought
rain showers and gusty winds.
Small craft warnings were flying
on the coast
Animal Crackers
Bv WARREN COODRlCH
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Few Salem
Taverns to Get
Liquor Permits
Not more than three beer
taverns are likely to get liquor-
by-the-drink licenses in Salem, it
appeared Wednesday after the
City Council's license committee
conferred with Oregon Liquqor
Control Commission leaders.
But most of the 12 Salem res
taurants and clubs with present
type liquor licenses stand good
chance to have the new license if
they want it
Possibility of a second state
liquor store for Salem also was
discussed at the informal get
togther Wednesday morning of
License Chairman Robert F.
White and Alderman Claud Jor
gensen with Liquor Commission
ers Lester Ireland and R. H.
Sroufe and Administrator Wil
liam H. Baillie.
Baillie stressed that the legal
maximum of one license per 2,000
population doesn't mean that any
given locality can get the num
ber of licenses indicated by this
ratio. Because of scattered popu
lation in some parts of the state
and a holdback of some licenses
against future needs, said Baillie,
the ratio for a city like Salem
would be more like 1 to 3,000 or
3,500.
To Start May 11
The liquor commission has be
gun granting licenses for the
liquor-by-the-glass sale which is
to be permitted in Oregon begin
ning May-11. But so far the only
applications considered have
been from present liquor serv
ing establishments where the
customer brings his own bottle.
These licenses will account for
about 540 of a total possible of
760 licenses.
White said the license commit
tee is considering applications
from six taverns which have ap
plied so far. His committee in
tends to give a recommendation
to as many places as have good
records, possibly recommend a
geographic or other preference,
then leave it to the liquor com
mission to pick out the three
Salem is expected to get
White urged that others intend
ing to apply for licenses get their
applications in soon.
Some Approved
Of the present liquor spots, the
state has already approved Mar
ion and Senator Hotels, Shat
tuc's and the Ranch. The City
Council has recommended in ad
dition Chuck's, New Village Tav
ern and the Elks Club. Other li
quor license holders, some of
which haven't applied for the
new privileges, include the Spa,
Legion, Moose, Eagles and
Knights of Columbus clubs.
Subject of an additional liquor
store came up with reports of
complaints that Salem's lone
store at 557 Court St is over
crowded and creating a traffic
problem on the street outside.
Liquor officials said some con
sideration already had been given
to the possibility of a second
store or the addition instead of
one or more liquor agencies in
business places qf outlying sec
tions. But they mide it clear that
initiative for any such change
would have to come from the city
officials.
San Francisco
Area Welcomes
PW Returnees
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. Si Thirty five men freed
by the Reds in Korea less than
two weeks ago flew home Wed
nesday to freedom, blaring bands,
cheering crowds, thick steaks and
a bedlam of interviews.
The vanguard of 149 sick and
ailing Americans freed by the Com
munists, they arrived in a big
transport plane to a joyous but
wild scene at this air base north
of San Francisco's Golden Gate.
Television and news cameras
spotlighted the 26 walking, patients
and the nine litter cases as they
came slowly down the ramp from
the yawning door of the C-97.
At first all 35 waved aside any
thought of questions. But later five
of them agreed to a mass inter
view in the big auditorium of the
Air Force base hospital. Some 300
reporters, photographers, radio,
TV and newsreel men struggled in
a chaotic scene to get at them.
Almost lost in a wilderness of
radio microphones. TV cameras
and newsmen popping a barrage
of questions, the five managed t
piece together a story of a monot
onous rice diet, inability to con-
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Sixteen-year-old Mrs. Betty Barringer of Salem was at her dying
husband's bedside Wednesday at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver,
Colo., after an emergency flight from Portland. The hospital re
ported Pvt William E. Barringer, was still in extremely critical
condition with leukemia. The above picture was taken prior to
his shipment overseas a few months later.
Young Salem Bride at
Bedside of III Husband
Betty Barringer and her husband were together again Wednes
day, but for how long no one knew.
The 16-year-old Salem bride of 11 months reached the bedside
of her dying soldier-husband early yesterday morning at Lowry Air
Force Base, Denver, Colo.
Hospital attendants said late last night Pvt William E. Bar
ringer, who will be 22 f naay
was still in extremely criucai
condition with leukemia.
When the Red Cross first call
ed Betty here Tuesday, reports
were that her husband would not
live through the night
Betty and her mother, Mrs.
verse much with their captors. 2 . it.u.j :
the only English reading was med
ical journals and laughable efforts
by the Reds to "sell" their pows
on the Communist way of-4ife f-
"Keep praying for the guys over
there still in Communist hands,"
said PFC Raymond H. Medina, of
the Bronx, N.Y. ,
Dr. GiersBach
Resigns Post
PORTLAND ( Dr. Walter C.
Giersbach, who has been under
fire of faculty members, resigned
Wednesday as president, of Pacific
University at Forest Grove, effec
tive Aug. 31.
Giersbach was placed on a leave
Xree of tte seal's feu couple had Uved together only
o'clock Tuesday night for Den
ver. They arrived at 1:43 a. m.
Wednesday-
. Red Cross officials met moth
er and daughter and rushed them
to the Lowry Air Force Base
Hospital. It is believed that Bet
ty has been at her husband's side
ever since.
Barringer, whose parents live
at El Paso, Ark., was hospitalized
with leukemia in January while
stationed with the Army in Eng
land.
He was being flown from Eng
land to Fort Lewis, Wash., to the
hospital there when his condi
tion grew worse and the plane
stopped at Denver.
Mrs. Louie Rudie, Betty's land
lady, recalled Wednesday night
how happy her young boarder
was when she learned her hus
band was on his way home. The
members signed a petition accus
ing him of mismanagement
Finding it desirable to make
proper and adequate arrangements
for the future of my family, I am
taking this means to inform the
board of my intention to resign
as president," he wrote the board
of trustees, who accepted the
resignation in a meeting here
Wednesday.
three months when he was sent
overseas.
Betty has a sister living in Sa
lem, Mrs. Opal Boatwright, of
Route 4, Box 278. She also has a
brother and Sister in Coos Bay.
Her mother is the widow of a
Spanish-American. War veteran.
WILLAMINA til RETURNS -
SEATTLE m Pfc. Robert J.
West Willamina, is among Ore
War theater above the Navy trans
port Gen. W. M. Black. The
passenger list includes S10 Army
and Navy men.
Patterson to Leave
Sunday for Washington
Church Council
Asks Red Probe
JOPLIN, Mo. (ft The House
Un-American Activities Committee
Gov. Paul Patterson will leave was urged by the American Coim-
here Sunday by airplane for cil of Christian Churches Wednes-
Washington, D. C., where he will day to investigate Communists in
attend a governors conference churches.
called by President Eisenhower. In a resolution adopted at its
The governor will return to spring meeting, the Council said
Oregon Wednesday night it believed Reds in churches and
Senate President Eugene fellow travelers "to be numbered
Marsh, McMinnville, will serve as among the most dangerous, ene-
governor during Patterson's ab- mies confronting the church in
sence from the state. the nation.' 1
Morgan's 'Con' Labor Charge
Draws Deiiial From Rancher
Col. Alfred
Starts Japan
Boys9 Toivn
Statesman News Service
SILVERTON CoL Lee Alfred,
formerly of Silverton, has started
a Boy's. Town joa the .Island of
Hokkaido in Japan, his father t
B. Alfred learned while listen
ing to a broadcast Tuesday morn
ing. The news broadcast report
ed that there were now 35 Jap
anese boys in the "town and
that Alfred had hopes of develop
ing it to 150 and that it would
be self-supporting.
The radio message also stated
that Mrs. Alfred, now on her
way to Japan to join her hus
band, had a large number of
T-shirts with her which had-been
donated for the camp by the
Sunnyside Methodist Church of
Portland, of which the Alfreds
are members.
CoL Alfred Was with the Na
tional Guard when it left Sil
verton in the fall of 1940 and
has been in the service since.
He has seen much frontline serv
ice in the Orient He is a grad
uate of Silverton High School
and was employed at the former
Eastman Bros, plant here before
entering the service.
Mrs. Alfred, the former Mary
Sanders, was a teacher at Sil
verton prior to her marriage.
A son, Robert Allen, is a stu
dent at Willamette ' University,
and their daughter, Karen, is with
Mrs. Alfred on the way to Japan.
Grandma Gives
Birth! to Triplets
DORENA, Mo. m Mrs. Harry
Parks, a 48-year-old grandmother,
gave birth to triplet daughters
here 'Wednesday.
- The triplets, born two months
prematurely, already . have a
nephew. One of the parents' five
'other children, a 20-year-old
daughter, i has a five-month-old
son. Dorena'a population, inciden
tally, went up to 303.
Vicious Spring
Gale Leaves 11
Dead in South
By The Associated Press
A vcious spring storm that hit
Texas with death-dealing twisters,
cloudbursts and lightning,, moved
eastward : across Louisiana and
Mississippi Wednesday.
The storm left at least 11 dead.
more than a dozen injured and
caused havy property damaee in
its eastward sweep.
Hundreds were driven from their
flooded homes in Louisiana where
10 inches of ram fell in blinding
sheets. The worst damage to
homes was in the Alexandria area
where water poured over curbings
and into the living rooms of more
than 250 homes.
With the storm Still threatening.
New Orleans closed all its schools.
The Weather Bureau reported a
very slight possibility" of a tor-
nado there.
Expect TwWrs
Residents of Southeast Louisi
ana, extreme Southern Mississippi
and West Tennessee were alerted
for possible twisters.
Blinding dust storms soread a
pall over Texas which earlier
Wednesday had been riDDed bv
tornadoes. The drab dust clouds
blew into deep East Texas and
into Brownsville at the southern
most tip of the state.
Marble size hailstones dumped
on Salina, Kas., Wednesday dur
ing what one nurseryman said was
the worst hail storm in the area
since 1341. Damage was reported
to roofs, gardens and trees.
Brings Death
At least six tornadoes struck
Texas Tuesday night and early
Wednesday killing two persons
one near Gonzales and one near
San Antonio. Five other nersoni
died in lightning caused fires at
Kilgore. -Two youths were killed
in car collision in heavy rain
near Dublin. A boy drowned in
vaMmmrSkt Cdrfius Christi.
In Louisiana, a twister struck
a farm area halfway between
Bcreveport and Monroe, destroy
ing or damaging several homes.
No one was reported injured in
the twister, but a man was killed
at La Fayette by a wind-toppled
tree.
The Weather Bureau said ,the
Trinity River would be 17 feet
above flood stage at Dallas by
lnursaay morning. Floodwaters
closed many roads in East and
South Texas. Up to 10 inches of
rainfall hit Eastern Texas in local
cloudbursts.
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PANMUNJOMj (AP) The Allies Thursday re
jected any Asiatic nation as a neutral to superviso
Communist prisoners of war who do not want to
return to Red rule
Lt. Gen. William K, Harrison Jr. said no Asiatic
nation would be acceptable because all Asian coun
tries "are located very close to
Max. Min. Precip.
Salem M 37 .14
Portland 53 38 .12
San Francisco 61 SO .03
Chicago j. 61 42 trace
New York 5 43 .00
Willamette River 4.3 feet.
FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu
reau, McNary field. Salem): Partly
cloucy with .scattered showers to
day, tonight ana rtday. Little
change in temperature with trie high
today near 60 and the low tonight
near 35. Temperature at 12:01 ajn.
was 43 degrees.
Howard Morgan's allegation
that ranchers in the Jefferson
area had benefitted unduly from
prison labor brought an emphatic
denial Wednesday and there was
no apparent move to press the
charge.
The State Board of Control
meeting passed without action on
the state democratic chieftain's
complaint sent Monday to G6v.
Paul Patterson.
Morgan named no one in his
letter to the governor, but said
that ranchers land had been
cleared by convicts and prison
bulldozers on instructions from a
"high prison official." (By law,
only the Board of Control could
approve that type of work.) Mor
gan alleged "misconduct.''
Wednesday, a prominent 1 Jef
ferson-area rancher told The
Statesman that "there was no
land clearing. The i state took
around 1,700 cords of wood free
from land owned by myself and
others, for fuel for stats institu
tions, but the stumps are still In
and they (convicts) just brushed
things up.
The rancher also denied Mor
gan's allegation that convicts
and state equipment were re
moved because of a recent prison
investigation which resulted in
the lirine of Warden Virgil 0
Malley "they left to get the
wood from the clearing opera
tions on the new Salem toy-pass
highway several weeks ago."
George Alexander, former pris
on superintendent Whose office
recently was abolished by law,
reiterated that no prison labor or
equipment had been consigned
for land-clearing operations. He
said 1738 cords had been taken
from the Jeff erson area, near the
99E bridge, and estimated that
quantity would last the state, pen
and prison annex a year or mare.
Most of the wood fuel is burned
at the annex. At the prison; St is
used for the . bake shop-and
guards Mtctien, . i
Wind, Rain
Visit Salem
Squalls highlighted, Salem's
weather Wednesday with' the
strongest one striking the city
about 3:30 pjn. when wind gusts
reached 41 miles an hour and
rain came down by the prover
bial bucketsfulL .
Most of the .14 Inches of rain
recorded here yesterday came
with this brief bur fierce storm.
Outlook for today and Friday
was for gradual improvement,
but clouds and scattered showers
are still predicted.
Pilot Downs
12th Red MIG
SEOU Uf Capt' Manuel Fer
nandez of Miami, Fla.. shot down
his 12th Communist MIG Thurs
day to equal the Korean war mark
set byyCol. Royal Baker of Mc
Kinney. Tex.
The; Fifth Air Force said the
27 year old pilot scored in a morn
ing air battle. j
Fernandez now has a mark of
12 MIGs shot down, one probably
destroyed and one damaged.
Baker has destroyed 12 MIG's
and one propeller driven plane. He
went home on rotation recently.
' Fernandez is shooting at the ov
erall mark of 14 Red planes de
stroyed by Mai. George Davis,
missing in action fox., more than a
year. Davis had 11 MIGs and three
propeller driven planes to his cred
it.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Since Start ( Weather Year Sept. 1
This Year Last Year Normal
38.14 39.43 34.76
countries dominated by .Commun
ists and might therefore be sub
jected to Communist military, ec
onomic or political influence.
The senior Allied negotiator
made his position clear- during a
5r minute truce session with the
Communists in the conference
hut Both sides agreed to meet
again Friday. j
Harrison called on the Commu
nists to nominate a non-Asiatic
nation as neutral supervisor at
Friday's meeting. j
"Since without agreement on
such a neutral state it would be
impossible to reach an armistice
accord based on your original
proposal, Harrison said, "we see
no advantage in discussing seri
ously the other, elements of your
proposal until we have; come to
at least some measure of under
standing on the neutral state.'
To Meet Again
Rear Adm. John C. Daniel said
that Allied and Red liaison offi
cers would meet at 10 a. m. Fri
day to discuss problems concern
ing the exchange of disabled cap
tives. ' !
Daniel is a member of the Al
lied truce team and head of the
liaison officer group. I
He did not say what the prob
lems were. The Communists
turned over 684 disabled U. N.
war prisoners last week and said
that was all they had. But tne
returned prisoners have told of
many more sick and wounded in
Communist bands. ;
The Allies have been? returning
500 Communist sick and wounded
daily.
TovReturn 500
The U. N. Command notified the
Reds Thursday it would return
250 Chinese and 250 North Koreans
in Friday's delivsry of sick and
wounded prisoners.
Portland City
Council Kills
Time Switch
PORTLAND W The City
Council refused Wednesday by a
4-1 vote to switch the working
hours of its employes to a daylight
time schedule. , j
Although state law" makes stand-
ard time mandatory, the council
could have moved working hours
ahead one hour. Commissioner
Nate .Boody was the only council
man voting for the shift, i
The action was expected to rule
out any general change in the
working hours- of business firms.
Many had said they .would follow
the lead of the council.
Some changes have been made.
however. The Portland Air Force
Base and the Albany Bureau of
Mines laboratory are working day
light time hours, in. addition to a
number o f shipping firms i n
Portland and other businesses. . '
The Central Oregon Chamber of
Commerce Tuesday night tabled a
request for a time shift because
of lack of interest i
U.S. May Shift
Aid Quickly
Tqhina
WASHINGTON (ff) The Eisea
ounaea prisoners. . hower administraUon, deeply con
Seventeen of the North Koreans r , K, ,
will be civilians and 13 will be S
stantial amount of foreign aid to
Communist officers
..PeJr7 IlJIlt I French and native teas fighting
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fit a A Hi ao ft innrnrirnQrAltf A mil I
ZZJXm morr were ror . Sen. Wiley (R-WisJ,. chairman of
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?rw. tho AllfM lr.aHv hav hand- invasion oi we Bungapm oi
ed back the 700 Chinese they prom'
lsed to return originally.
Little Progress
Four days of maneuvering In
Laos is "a serious eruption on the
world perimeter." !
He reported that Secretary ol
State Dulles, in a private session
with the committee, said the la
the first truce negotiations since vasi0n has "created a serious new
problem which disturbs all peace
loving peoples. .
Vietminh invaders have Just cap
tured the post of Bannambac, 40
miles north of the Laotian royal
do is to make a careful; study of r BrSrMim
last Oct. 8 have shown little prog'
ress.
(An editorial, broadcast by Pei-
ping Radio and heard: m ban
Francisco by the Associated Press,
said "what the U. S. side should
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h "fL JSrS: haw a road south to the border!
mm seen a iamiuiuiiusc aim ut
persist in dismissing and reject
ing it")
In Tokyo, a high Allied source
suggested a possible compromise
on one point: Leave tne iNortn
of Thailand (Siam) and Burma.
"The whole matter of shifting
more aid to Indochina is having
serious consideration," Wiley said.
He added that Dulles told the
senators that both the State and
nation.
Marbles Champs Practice
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Korean prisoners on the peninsula , t f. M nrv4n
but send the Chinese to a neutral 7"""." Ka".
authoritative reports that the Unit
ed States already has allocated ad
ditional money to be spent on ar
tillery, tanks and aircraft for the
defenders. I
Indochina. Wiley told newsmen.
is a spearhead the Free! World
cannot afford to lose.
POW FLIGHT READY
TOKYO (A The second group
from the 149 American sick and
wounded freed last week by the
Reds is scheduled to start ' its
homeward flight Thursday. ;
There was no indication of the
time of departure or size of the
second group. - !
FOUR CORNERS-JEtain or not, these three winners in: Lincoln
School's recent marbles tournament aren't going te miss practic
ing for the forthcoming district tournament sponsored oy me
V. F. W. From left are Larry Greider, school champ; first grader
Joa Bnrnham, runner up, and Sherrin White, the only girl to
place In the tourney, istaiesmu rww
Statesman
Cookbooks
Available
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ly produced by Woman's Edi
tor Maxine Buren as a souve
nir of The Statesman's formal
opening in its new building.
will continue to be given free
to all women who call at the
$400,000 plant .
As long as the supply lasts.'
the cookbook Also is available
by mail at 10 cents each to
cover Handling ana postage
costs. . '
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