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t. I Rghter-Bombors Await Public Gaze Today ,1 1C3 TEAS 4 SSCTIOKS--24 PAGES TJm Orwgon SlcdmcQw Satan. Or?oa, TJuxradar May 14, 1S53 f PRICE, 5c No. 47 sptsti LMosft Tone Gen. Nan . . t . . . . . Scornful Sections of Bridge Ready to Be Joined Girls in ojjiift Gang !r,r v.LW, - r- These three U. S. Navy TBM fighter-bombers wont he part of the military display la front of the downtown Armory Thursday, bat they're still part of Salem'i Armed Forces Day and will be shown at the Navy Air Facility en McNary Field daring open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Armament and radio equipment of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines will be .displayed downtown all day today along with a cutaway airplane-engines-display trailer belonging to the Navy Air Force. (Statesman Photo.) L Egypt, Oiarges British Soldiers Witti Violence By ZEIN NAGATI CAIRO, Egypt WVThe Army's Revolutionary Council accused British soldiers Wednesday night of killing eight Egyptians and wounding 17 in April and May in a fresh outbreak of violent inci dents in the Suez Canal Zone. The charges followed a prediction by an Egyptian official that smless the British withdraw their 80,000-man garrison from the 03OOGe WD 000 If John Q. Citizen is like the writer of this column he is a bit dizzy by the sweeping change in the joint chiefs of start oraerea by President Eisenhower; and rather bewildered by the reor ganization proposal for the De fense Department which the Pres ident sent to Congress some ten days ago. The whole subject is so complicated that the civilian or lay person feels quite incom petent to assess the recommenda tions. . f ' As for the personnel changes they are within the authority of the President, for he is Commander-in-Chief. One wonders, however, at the clean sweep which Eisenhower has made. Ad miral Radford whose antagonism to unification and advocacy of naval air are well known becomes chairman of the joint chiefs; and Admiral Carney replaces Admir al Fechteler whose term had two years to go. Moving up General Ridgeway to succeed Gen. Law ton Collins as army chief of staff opened the way to promote Gen. Gruenther as NATO commander. Previously, Gen. Twining had been named to succeed Gen. Van denberg as Air Force chief of staff. it was Senator Taft, who called for firing the chiefs of staff in his campaign last year; but it is Eisenhower, himself a former general and former chief of staff, who has cleared the slate. The Air Force interprets the shifts as a slapdown for its service; the Navy may feel it is upgraded. What is even more confusing to the lay mind is the reorganiza tion of the defense establishment recommended by a special com mittee and submitted to Con gress by the President It be comes effective within 60 days unless one house of Congress ve toes the plan. The changes point toward greatly increasing the authority of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and greatly in creasing the (Continued on editorial page, 4) Varied Weather on Forecast for Today Scattered showers this morning in the Salem area are forecast to give way to sunshine this after noon with fair weather predicted to hold over through Friday. . Wednesday's high temperature of 68 is called for again today. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH 'I've Wxifp fCEtwtf urn meat - V : ; zone within the next month or two there will be a popular uprising against the troops. The prediction appears to put a time limit to the satisfaction of Egypt's demands. Earlier, the Interior Ministry an nounced that seven Egyptians had been killed and 24 wounded in in cidents involving British soldiers in the zone since March 1. The Army's Revolutionary Coun cil explained that the ministry s figures were not complete as to the number killed. '- At the same time a British mili tary spokesman said two had been killed and two wounded on the British side since April 1. Accused ef Lying v Lt CoL Gamal Abdel Nasstx, acting chief of staff, and Premier Gen. Mohammed Naguib's top ad visor, accused British Minister of State Selwyn. Lloyd of "fabricat ing accusations against Egypt" Lloyd first dSclosed .the new wave of violence Tuesday in a speech in the House of Commons. He said there had been 30 attacks' on the British since April if and that the Egyptian Army connived the .attacks. ... 4- The accusation against the Egyp tian Army was a fabrication, Nas ser declared in a press statement The Interior Ministry said all the incident since March were due to the British military's provoca te actions. Near to War (In London, a rightwing publica tion, the Recorder, said Wednes day that events; in Egypt have brought Britain "nearer to a new war than we have been since the outbreak in Korea." The conser vative weekly added that the "position in Egypt is suddenly dangerous.") First disclosure of the renewed violence in the canal zone was made Tuesday in the British House of Commons by Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd. He said there had been 30 attacks on British troops since April 1. Europe Unity Parley Ends PARIS W The foreign minis ters of six European nations wound up two days of discussion Wednesday on how to bind them selves together into a powerful po litical community patterned rough ly on the lines of the United States. The foreign ministers, represent ing France, Italy, West Germany, Holland, Belgium and Luxem bourg, said they had unanimously agreed on the need for such a community and will get down to work on it without delay." Toll Tops 100 at Waco, Weather Slows Search WACO, Tex. im The toll of mangled dead picked from Waco's tornado ruins rose to 98 late Wed nesday and searchers said they were sure to find more bodies in the , twisted steel and shattered stone. i , While the tired diggers sifted the tons of debris a new security cor don was clapped arourd the wrecked heart of the Central Tex as City. :. The five latest bodies recovered were found in the heap of scrap that is all remaining of the 5-story R T. Dennis furniture store. Rew wet weather closed again on the dreary i hunt for victims. Earlier Wednesday Waco sav fo hours of sunlight the first ince the black horror of Monday. Then surly gray clouds dropped back al mos to roof -top level and a cold drizzle slanted down once more. " The' swollen Brazos River calm ed down after tailing by two feet to reach its flood crest of 28 feet This would have left the 1 river seven feet short of the top of lev ee?- protecting 'all but exposed low land areas of the city of 90,000. Cant. E. K.f Browning, of ; the Armed r orces to Parade, Display Exhibits Today Salem's Armed Forces Day today will include a special luncheon in the downtown Arm ory, display of armament, open houses at military installations .and a parade through the busi ness district at 11:30 this morn ing. The 36-piece Willamette Uni versity Reserve Officer Train ing Corps band will be featured in the parade with colors, stan dards and marching units from reserve companies in Salem. The parade will conclude at the downtown Armory where Maj. Gen. Alfred A. Kessler Jr., commanding general of the Fourth Air Force will be guest speaker at the luncheon there at noon. An exhibit of armament in front of the Armory will be shown all day and the U. S. Navy Air Facility at McNary Field will be open for inspec tion from 1 to 4 p.m. The Naval and Marine Corps Reserve training center on Airport Road will hold open house from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and a reception in the Senator Hotel from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. will precede a military ball at the Army and Air Force Reserve Armory on Airport Road at 9 p.m. Atom Weapons Still Ready for Use in PARIS un Gens. Mathew B. Ridgway and Alfred M. Gruenther said Wednesday atomic weapons will be used in event of attack by Russia, a threat they said had not been diminished by any recent peace moves. Ridgway, picked to be the new U. S. Army chief, of staff, and Gruenther, who is to succeed him as supreme commander of the Al lied powers in Europe, held a joint news conference and discussed the current status of Western defenses. Ridgway explained that when ue spoke of the continuing Soviet threat, he was referring to the Russians' capabilities to attack "not intentions." He added that he had heard of no indications of "imminent hostilities.". Answering questions about atom ic weapons, Ridgway said that if the West is attacked "I take it that every weapon in our arsenal wfll be used." He stressed that atomic training courses now being given Allied of ficers in Germany are "essentially defensive." Gruenther commented that the officers are being instruct ed in the use of all types of atomic weapons for tactical support. GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE NAIROBI. Kenya A British court Wednesday sentenced 1? Mau Mau knifemen to death for their part ir. the massacre of 150 Kikuyu men, women and children in the village of Lari March 28. State Highway Patroi said the new cordon was placed in the center of the tornado area. Until late Wednesday soldiers and national guardsmen had done the patrolling with bayonet-tipped weapons. The new cordon com pletely restored civilian control to thr most battered part of town. However, Browning said troops probably still would patrol the out side rim of the tornado section. Mayor Ralph Wolf and City Man ager, Jack Jeffery split up the damaged ara into sectors and as signed groups to work them. How ever. Wolf said the business dis trict would : remain paralyzed un til next Monday at the least- . Meanwhile, San Angelo, Tex., stil1 counted nine killed by another tornado just two hours before the Waco storm. " v " i The combined totals of, the two storms mounted to 107 tornado dead in Texas. : v1;. I ? A preliminary report on a sur vey made in Waco by the Corps of Engineers showed 60 out of 475 buildings in the 4-square mile area were destroyed. Of the remaining 415 structures 2S per cent are tn afe for occnp - cy, tat report raid.' Europ TACOMA m A teen-age "hellcats gang" of 25 -girls who carried on large-scale shoplifting was uncovered here Wednesday and search for a possible "Fagm who directed their ; efforts was begun. , The 25, all from "nice families.1 have stolen - more than $4,000 worth of merchandise in the past year from Tacoma stores, Sheriff Harold Bird reported. Their loot included evening gowns, suits and dresses. Fagin, a character from Charles Dickens' book "Oliver Twist," was a receiver of stolen goods and a trainer of young- thieves. "We think someone may have been promoting this gang," Sheriff Bird said. "We're working on that angle, anyway. Home Crowded So many girls were found in volved that the juvenile detention home could not hold tbem all and some were allowed to remain at home in the custody of their parents. They used clever, almost pro fessional techniques in their steal ing," Sheriff Bird said. . "One would attract the attention of the clerk while others of the group helped themselves : to whatever caught their eye." About $1,000 of clothing and cos tume jewelry has been recovered. Members of an "inner circle" of the gang wore leopard scarves for identification and calle.' them selves the "Hellcats." All the girls livt in the Lakes District south of the city. All Cooperative "Everyone concerned schools. parents and even the girlshave been cooperative,' the sheriff said. We don't want to make it any tougher on the kids ; than we have to." A deputy said all came from nice families. - "Practically . none come . from broken homer . and many have higher than average intelligence, he said. He added that- school grades of the group had dropped since activities started. The case broke when a youth was arrested for car theft and told sheriffs deputies of the shop lifting. Anti-Picketin Measure Held Constitutional The controversial anti-picket-ing measure of the recent legisla ture was found constitutional by Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton Wednesday, but Gov. Patterson has yet to make up his mind whether to sign it . The governor has until 5 p.m. today to veto or sign bills. Other wise they become law within 30 days without his signature. House Bill 663 known as the anti-picketing measure pro hibits organizational picketing by labor unions. Constitutionality of the bill was questioned by several members of the legislature. It has been on the governor's desk since short ly after the legislature adjourned. Some opponents of the bill said it probably would violate freedom of speech. Thornton said : the bill con forms with federal law as applied to interstate commerce. Yesterday Gov. Patterson veto ed the legislature's bill to levy a 25 per cent tax on timber cut on federal mining claims. The governor said the bill pro bably, is unconstitutional. Its Dur pose was to stop persons from acquiring mining claims for the sole purpose of getting the tim ber on those claims. ,- The governor .also said the bill would hurt legitimate miners who have filed on mining claims with no idea as to the timber involved- The way to remedy abuse, the governor wrote. Is to insist that the federal covernraent enforce the mining laws by requiring that proof of the existence of minerals be given before a min ing patent Js issued. Besides the anti-picketing measure, the governor has vet to act upon a .bill providing for ex- nansion of the elementanr teae ers training program in the state. ne governor sened Wed nesday to strengthen the laws n Bang's disease in cattle, and to prevent imitation Ice cream from TV ancrWate Supply Why is there a sudden drain oz. city - water wpplief . at times? For name of culprit, see Televine on page 4 today.' Yr COMPLETE Newspaper r i - - TA" -;' ',1 77'' IimS A Vi k4 it I "w " ? , - ' l AI Mauck, 631 Breys Ave, state specting two sections of east half of the Center Street bridge which are slowly being joined. The section en which juanck a total of six and one ha preach. (Statesman Photo.) section en which Mauck stands a total of six and ene naif feet. Doubt Cast OnVaHdityof State Leases Validitv of a number of leases nn nrnnerties now used for State purposes was questioned Wednes day, based on an opinion oi At torney General Robert Y. Thorn ton. The opinion, asked by State Finance Department Director TTarrv Tlnmsn. had to do with a lease by the state of a part of a building in worm &ena ownea hv Rex mils. Pendleton, for use by the State Tax Commission. Thornton held the use ox pub lic office for private advantage was against the common and mor al law. "Because we have pending numerous reauests for opinions as to the validity of contracts of public officers wttn tneir prin cipals, we have reviewed the law on the subiect and summarize it as invalidating contracts of pub lic officers made with the govern mental entities of which they re spectively are officers," Thorn ton wrote. An omnion of the State Su preme Court involving an Oregon case was quoted by the Attorney General, it read in pan: "Vvorv nnhlir officer is bound to be disinterested in the consid eration of all public questions ana any contract which interferes with the free and unbiased exer cise of bis judgment in relation to a question ox trust; ana conu Honr rTvuced in him is against public policy and good morals." Several buildings, usea oy me Secretary of State in various sec tions of Oregon, are under lease from Sen. Ellis. The Attorney General . made it nlain that the contract in ques tion, involving the North J3end building, was not aepenaem up on a statute but rather on broad public policy. Also involved, Thornton said, is the question whether the agreement Is, in its nature, such as might be injuri ous to the public No direct reference was maae in the opinion to leases executed between Senator Ellis and the Secretary of State. Boy Burned to . Death, Father Just Home from Korea Word was received by rela tives here of the death of Frank Stacey Jr., the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stacey of Redwood City, CaL Mrs. Stacey is the former Jean Pound, daughter of the late Dr. B. F. Pound and Mrs..PoundL Dr. Pound was long a practicing dentist in Salem. The boy was badly burned when some petro leum product became ignited, i The father, who has been in service in Korea was due home Saturday, two days after the fatal accident. The Staceys have one surviving child, Bobbie. Mfx. .se Mln. Predp. 43 JOS 51 trace ss . jn Sala Portland es San mndieo 1 Chicago , 43 Kw. York . W to as i wuiunnn raver s xceu FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau, McNary field. Salem) : Partly cloudy with scattered showers this morning. Clearing this afternoon. Tair tonight end Friday. Little change la temperature. High today near M and low tonight near SS. Temperature at 11:01 ajn. waa 49 degrees. ' , SALKM PRECIPITATION I etaee Start off Weatner Tear, Beet. 1 inn i ear &sr Tear jvormaj aaaa , - ss.74 bridge Inspector, stands high ever will be raised to Join section at Kaismg is being oone to accomodate tne bridge's new east ap- State Hospital Escapee Listed As Dangerous An Oregon State Hospital in mate described as violent and extremely dangerous by hospital authorities -escaped from a work crew at the hospital colony farm about 1 p.m. Wednesday. He was identified as Tlman Torgrimson, 54, S feet 11, 180 pounds, of Gresham. The colony farm is off the Salem-Dallas Highway near the Wil lamette River. ' Police had not apprehended Torgrimson late last night, Plan Salem Conventions Salem will see even more than usual of the U. S. postal service in the next couple months. Oregon's three biggest organi zations of postal workers will all conduct their annual con ventions in Salem this summer. About 200 postmasters are ex pected June 2-4 far the conven tion of Oregon Chapter, National Association of Postmasters. Sa lem Postmaster Albert Gragg is making arrangements; Ethan L. Newman,; Eugene, is state pre sident, and Carl Black, Dallas, secretary. : Another 250 will be in the city July 4-5, for a convention of Oregon State Association of the National : Association of Letter Carriers,, with headquarters at the Senator Hotel Robert Gar rett is convention chairman and Ed Amo program chairman. Oregon Rural Letter Carriers Association, also part of a na tional group, will celebrate its golden anniversary at a conven tion here July 9-11. On the Gold-1 en Jubilee theme, special honor will be paid James A. Reming ton, Salem, who was the state group's first president, and oth er retired carriers and past pre sidents. About 150 are expected for this convention at the Marion HoteL Lyman McDonald is con vention chairman. Luther Cook is chairman for the oldtime program leing planned for the opening; night Postal Groups Gvic Leaders Cany Airport Tower Fight to By WINSTON H. TAYLOR Staff Writer, The Statesman Determined to save the Salem airport control tower, with safe ty as the primary motive, civic leaders took their fight to Wash ington, p.G, Wednesday. Closing of the tower by June 30 was or dered Monday. " Following a City Hall meeting in the morning, work' was begun to try to restore to the Civil Aeronautics Authority appropria tion enough money to run the tower another yearmoney which was sliced by the House. It was estimated here at between $23, 000 and $33,000, mostly in salar ies which officials claimed would not be saved anyway. Attempts to contact Oregon's Sen. Guy Cordon, on the Senate appropriations committee, failed Wednesday but will continue to day. Officials did talk with Secre tary of the Interior Douglas Mc the Willamette River at Salem fa- upper right as soon as it is raised Workers Start To Raise Old Bridge Span Raising of the steel spans; on the east approach of the Center Street bridge over the Willamette River' at Salem to tie in with the extended approach is underway this week. ! Work on the east approach is almost complete except for pour ing of several - cement slabs on the approach. Oregon State High way Department engineers said work on the bridge was "on time" and that it would be opened to traffic late next faH i The steel spans en the east ap proach must be raised from six to 11 feet to meet the new concrete east approach. This approach, which comes to grade on North Commercial Street, is higher; and longer than the old approach, which came, to grade on North Front Street. I The portion of the concrete ap proach ramps spanning Front Front Street was poured jlast week. A 90 foot span connecting the ramp with the main bridge span is to go in later. i Huge 100-ton hydraulic lacks are being used to raise the heavy steel bridge sections inches at a time to meet the new construc tion level. Super-Secret Plane, 2 Men Lost in Blast TRENTON. Ont (JPt-V. SJ and Canadian Air Force planes plan to resume their search early Thursday over Lake Ontario for bodies of two American airmen and wreckage of the super-secret Bell X-2 experimental plane, blasted from a B-50 bomber late Tuesday night by a mysterious explosion. I The two fell, jumped orjwere blasted from the B-50, a mother plane' to which the experimental rocket craft was attached, 'when the explosion occurred at 30,000 feet over the lake. Scene ef the accident, one of the weirdest In aviation history, was about 30 miles south of Trenton, j : Washington Kay who, as a citizen of Salem, expressed 'deep interest' In keeping the tower operating here. Yesterday's meeting stressed that the control program should be kept here for the sake of safe ty,: even though its traffic! count currently does , not justify the tower. The budget cut also was called "false economy since the five tower operators here Will be transferred to other posts Although they had Ween expect ed, representatives of CAA from Seattle did not arrive. Tlis fol lowed telephone conversation Tuesday night between Mayor Al fred W. Loucks and R. D.j Bedin ger, regional CAA administrator, in which the latter said the tow er was "lost, to -Salem. He did say, however, that a man would be left here to maintain special instrument landing equipment . (Additional details on 1C.) . page By GEORGE A. MCARTHUR PANMUNJOM (JB .The Com munists Thursday rejected the United Nations Command counter proposal for settling the prisoner of war issue blocking a Korean truce. :'. - - North Korean General Nam D, head of the Red truce delegation informed the Allies the proposal was "absolutely unacceptable." -- Nam told Li. On William tr Harrison, Jr., chief Allied negotia- wr, mat tne communist high com mand had made a ''preliminary study of the U. N. nrnnrl and found it 1 tends to overthrow the basis of- negotiations of both sides. . . : : ... . "Your Drooosal la ahsolnUlv un acceptable." he said. "We reso lutely reject it." Reds Dismantle Tent Outside the conference hut Com. munist newsmen told Allied cor- respondents they believed the Communists had dismanrlml thii tent receDtion area for e-rrhnnmoA war prisoners, used during the re cent repatriation or more then 6.000 Communist sick and wounded for some 600 disabled Allies. TOat is an answer to vour sn. point counter DroooaaL" the RmI newsmen said. - The Allies - nronocal imfnlAA m Panmunjom Wednesday would re lease any North Korean prisoner unwilling to go nacK to the Reds, spurned tht. Commtmi formula for letting Russian satellites Po- iana ana uecnosiovakia bring in troops io guard such prisoners, and refused to let the prisoners' faU be settled by a post-armistice conference, i . The nlan. ! carefullv wnrkt nut and co-ordinated in Washington, ' got an icy receDtion, from the Pom. munist side of the table. The Reds saia tne Allied attitude "threat ens the prospects of the whole ar mistice negotiations. Counter Proposal . Harrison j presented the plan; which was a counter proposal to one made by the Reds last week. It incorporated part of the Com munist plan, such as agreeing U a five-power neutral repatriation commission. - But It ' carefully screened out any Red provisions which might permit forced repatriation.-' ' ," ; "". . - ' - ' ' . Harrison's , major proposal that about 34,000 North Korean prison ers opposed- to Communism be re leased immediately "iter an armi stice is ' siened woii immediate South Korean support. Held fer Days The remaining 14.500 amonr the non - Communist prisoners now in Allied camps all Chinese would oe neia lor eo aays under super vision of a neutral rrommiasinn made up of India. Poland. Czech- oslovakia, Switzerland and Swe- uen. The Communirs would be al lowed to j send representatives among them to try to talk them into returning to Red China. Threats would be forbidden and if the Chinese prisoners still refused to so back thev also woul' he re leased as civilians. Harrison said the Drooosal "went as far as wa thought practicable." The United Nations Command In. sists that prisoners refusing to go Dacx to the Reds would face indef inite captivity if their case was luraea over to political confer ence, as the Communists proposed. New Po8toffice Building Planned For Silverton Statesman News Service SILVERTON Plans for a . new Silverton post office became known here Wednesday. The new building win be just : north of the Palace Theater on a . lot now used for parking. It is '' understood the building will be 63 by 50 feet in size, and will be erected by Alfred Adams, pro prietor of the theater, and leased to the government Postmaster Henry Aim could not be reached for comment The present postoffice is located in the Dickerson Building on First Street : The new postoffice is expected to be ready by early fall , Western International At Salem-Lewlston. rain. At Calgary -7. Wenatchee 15-6 At Trt-Clty , Spokane S At Vancouver i. Victoria 1 At Edmonton S-a. Yakima S-T w i Coast League At At At At 1 i r At At At At i . -- I ' At At Saa Francisco 0. Portland T Sacramento 1. Oakland 4 Seattle 4. Hollywood 0 Loa Angetee X San Dieffo t American League New York fl. Cleveland 4 Botton J. Chicago 0 Philadelphia 2. St. Louis 1 Washinrton-Detroit, rain. . - ' National League Milwaukee 11. New York 1 Milwaukee 11, New York 1 other, samee postponed. -1