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2 -The- Statesman, Scum, Oregon, Monday, rons IS. 1953 TT AT' A J 'Th 'I . Reds Intend To Prolong War?9 y ROBERT E UN SON TOKYO UPi The powerful Com nipitiBt ' attacks which have sQiashed the United Nations lines back as much as two miles hi the last few hours may be aimed at prolonging the Korean War. Questioned LOS ANGELES Mrs. Mary Ken dall Curtis, 39, is questioned by District Attorneys Investi gators in Los Angeles after telling authorities in a letter, ; police said, that her' missing - daughter's body is on a desert "but youll never find if Po . lice said Mrs. Curtis took the . girl, Charlotte, 15, last Friday from a school where the girl was & Juvenile ward. She has not been seen since. (AP Wire photo to The Statesman.) Canyon Hides Fate of Scouts In Arizona WINDOW ROCK. Ariz. Two Des Moines, la., explorer Boy Scouts remained lost Sunday night in Nakai Canyon on the -.Navajo Indian Reservation in one of the roughest sections of the United States. n, Indians on horse back and afoot and government officials in jeeps searched all day Sunday for Bud Mclntire, 15, and Phil Crowley, 16. who have been missing since Thursday in the rugged canyon which slashes across the Arizona Utah border. The scoots were in a party of 55 who left Des Moines by char tered bus June 4 for a two-week trij to explore the canyon. They planned to return next Tuesday. Civil Air Patrol planes made low sweeps over Nakai Canyon Saturday but were kept on the ground Sunday by high winds. Mclntire and Crowley and two other youths obtained permission to leave the main, group of scouts Wednesday to go into the canyon. The other boys returned Thursday night and said Mclntire and Crow ley had decided to search further for cliff dwellings supposedly known only to the Navajos. They had canteens of water but no food. When the pair failed to return to the Betatakin ruins Friday, In dian Service officials at Window Rock, headquarters of the reserva tion, were notified. The Indian Service offered a $50 reward for finding the boys, and the word waft passed from Indian to Indian through the vast reserva tion. Nakai Canyon, into which the boys are believed to have strayed, is 35 miles long. Many smaller canyons bite into its sides. , , yj m " hi - t" "' -. t .-. .A V Jvw '- -f lALCvNItS: I N I Avn DA D These tmy r d helcimiea ereala tntereaHag Ugh! aadt w. patterns on modern apartment hnfldteg la Rashld Street, the "Main Street" of Baghdasl, This is a gruesome thought, but competent military observers point out that if the Communists are capable of sending thousands of men to their deaths when an ar mistice is all but signed, then they are capable of doing anything, in eluding wrecking a truce. Staff officers at Panmunjom sup posedly are putting the finishing touches on a line of demarcation to divide the opposing forces when the armistice takes effect In principle this line of demar cation is the "line of contact." or the point where patrols meet, fire on each other and fall back. Coald Lengthen War The line of contact was moved back considerably Sunday night, according to front line reports. Continual changes in front line positions could prolong the war indefinitely. On the other hand, the Commu nists may be staging this "stretch drive" offensive to gain better po sitions before the truce goes into effect According to the terms of the armistice each side is supposed to pull back two kilometers (about a muV. and a quarter) within 73 hours after an armistice is signed. Most Pask Beyond Thus, if they really want Snipers Ridge. White Horse Mountain and Capitol Hill, outposts they are driv ing on, the Reds will have to push a good mile and a half beyond 1 them. Gaining these outposts would force the Allies to fall back con siderably f anther also, 'when they must pull back to their armistice 'line positions. The thing that shocked the West ern world the most, however, was that the Reds would stage an all out offensive when the only thing standing between war and a truce was agreement on a "stop shoot ing" line on a map. Incredible, But True ! It seemed incredible, but it was true. About a month ago, U. N. Com mand officers said the fighting in Korea could stop in a matter of days, once the prisoner of war issue was settled if the Reds really wanted an armistice. .The agreement to exchange pris oners of war was signed by the armistice delegations one week ago. Sending 4,000 men out to be killed or maimed hardly proves that the Reds really want an ar mistice. Or if there is an armistice, offi cers on the staff of General Mark W. Clark are wondering: "How long will it last?" High Commie Official Ousted Due to Illness' MOSCOW JD The newspaper Turkmenskaya Iskra announced Sunday that O. O. Shikhmuradov. secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee in the Turkmen Republic, has been released from ilia uuiicb in wiuicvuuii wiui ill ness." Nurdzhamal Durdyev was elect ed in his place. This dispatch, through Soviet cen sorship, gave no hint whether the release of Shikhmuradov from his party post was part of the continu ing purge of high party officials in the Soviet states outside the Rus sian Soviet Federated Socialist Re public, or Great Russia, which in cludes Moscow. Only Saturday the official axe fell upon Leonid G. Melnikov, top man in the Ukrainian Communist party. He was purged for going i iuu iar iu nis enui is iu rvussian- ize" the western districts of the Ukraine. Current Soviet policy is to dis courage anything tending to un dermine the friendship of the many various nationalities which make up the Soviet Union. j v .J.1; vf,;K- ,.- , . . CP if v , GpdfreyFinds Recuperation BOSTON UB . TV-radio star Ar thurj Godfrey who underwent sur gery a month ago left his bed for the first time Sunday and experi enced the "most horrible thought of ray life. "For 'a minute I thought I'd nev er walk again, but doctors quickly assured me that everything was natural." the entertainer said in an exclusive bedside interview at the Massachusetts General Hospl UL ! "Cosh, what a feeling when I found I couldn't just hop out of bed j and start walking," he de clared. "But the doctors and nurs es helped;, me get to the chair and 1 1 sat up three minutes." ' Tells of Venture Godfrey, operated on May 15 to correct right hip injuries suffered in an automobile accident in 1931, laughed and joked as he told of his venture from the hospital bed. "The doctor says that I'll find it much easier to get out . of bed and ! sit down tomorrow and in an other week m think very little of it," he said. Sbecial exercises ton the re-cw. ! nrativ nnivrim minimf tnr ClnA- frey, who despite pain, for years has done such strenuous activity as flying, ice skating, swimming and ; horseback riding. "You know, the doctors tell me my convalescence is faster than oth ers because of all the exercises I've; done through the years," God frey said. To Leave for Farm The popular entertainer said he hopes to leave the hospital "the first week of July" and spend the rest of his recuperation period at his 2,000 - acre Beacon Hill Farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. "I won't be able to put any weight on my right leg for six months, but if all goes well the good Lord willin' I'll probably be able to ride horseback before I'm able to walk without crutches. "It will be a long time before I'm ; completely okay, but already I have 70 per cent motion in the leg land hip. Before the operation I only had 36 per cent." Godfrey said-he hopes to return to radio and television "sometime after the first of August" "We can broadcast and tele cast shows from my farm until I'm able to get around," he said. "Just tell the folks I said hello and; the Lord willin' I'll be see ing ' them real soon. AFL Rejects Anti-Chadwick Resolution COOS BAY CPV-The AF of L State Building Trades Council meeting here Sunday on the eve of the AFL state convention re jected a resolution to punish state Representative W. W. Chad wick of Salem for his part in what the council said was anti labor legislation during the re cent legislature. The resolution asked that all unions be urged not to patronize the Senator Hotel which Chad wick operates in Salem. The council rejected the pro posal on grounds that it would be unfair to single out Chadwick from other members of the legis lature who also supported the measures. Wheat to Pakistan Measure Ready VfrASHINGTON Speaker Martin said Sunday the House lead ership is shooting for passage next week of an administration measure granting a million tons of wheat to famine-ridden Pakistan. Martin said hi a statement he hoped for action during the week and expected Congress to support the measure "enthusiastically." The Senate also is expected to act early jn the week on the bill, which wase ndorsed unanimously by its Agriculture Committee. The com mittee added an amendment per mitting free distribution of the wheat to destitute Pakistanis. "Pakistan is in dire need be cause of two successve crop fail ures." Martin said. "Her people are in grave danger of starvation." Road Tough (I f 1 ' ! - ' x J x Sitdown Against TrUce L . L SEOUL Kept from invading the press billets In Seoul by American military police, these South Korean youths sit down In the street to chant their pretest against the truce being negotiated at. Pan munjom. There was no violence daring this demonstration on June It bat on Jane 13 U. 8. soldiers were" forced to fire rifles over the heads of stone-throwing youths as the opposition to' the proposed truce mounted in South Korea. (AP WirephoU to The Statesman.) Hungary to Open Teace' Session Today (Editor's note: Richard O'Regan. the Associated Fr ess bureau chief in Vienna, is one of a party of Western reporters granted visas to. go to Budapest, behind the Iron Curtain, to cover a Communist sponsored peace meeting. They are the first to go to Hungary since the Mindszenty trial in 1949. Here is O'Regan's first dispatch.) By RICHARD O'REGAN BUDAPEST. Hungary UP) World Communism prepared Sunday to open a peace conference in this Hungarian capital which may an swer some of the questions about the Kremlin's international policy. For the first time since 1950 Western correspondents were invit ed behind the Iron Curtain to Buda pest to report the meeting. This was regarded as an indica tion that the Kremlin attaches ma jor importance to the assembly of the World Peace Council which for years has acted as a sounding board for 1 Moscow policies. It opens a week of discussions Mon day. It was believed here that the council meeting may give a clue to the demands the Soviet Union may make at any Big Four meet ing following the Bermuda confer ence of the United States, France and Britain. The council often has given a forecast of Soviet aims, but so far there has been no indication in the local press what the council may recommend. In fact Budapest news papers have not yet told the local population in what building the ses sions are to be held. Correspondents of news agencies of three Western powers began ar riving in Budapest Sunday after .noon. They found the Hungarian government laying out the best red carpet this Communist nation can offer. The American car was in sharp crossed the Iron Curtain by auto mobile from Vienna at noon and were rushed through customs with out inspection of their baggage and only a brief examination of their papers by saluting officials. They found Budapest gaily dec orated with flags of 70 nations said to be sending representatives to the council meeting. These included the flags of America, England and France. Curious crowds gathered around the American correspondents as they checked in at Budapest's Pal ace Hotel. At Gyor, Hungary's third largest city, children excitedly fingered the correspondents' yellow 19S0 conver tible as it stopped to allow an 1870 locomotive to pull a train load of freight into the big Wilhelm Pieck heavy machinery works. The American car was! n sharp contrast to the Sunday vehicular traffic on the Vienna - Budapest highway. Only a few cars said to be owned by high Communist functionaries were on the road. Otherwise the Hungarian coun tryside looked like that in neigh boring Austria. Hungarian girls girls dressed in bright red and white cotton summer dresses were walking with their boy friends. The country folk looked as well dressed as those In Austria. Old men sat dozing in the hot tun. Geese, fattened to produce Hun gary's pate de foie gras. waddled across the road by scores. Catholic churches, whose influ ence was reduced by the 1949 trial of Cardinal Mindszenty, showed definite sighs of neglect. Steeples were rusted, ' and broken windows unrepaired. DON'T WORRY HAVt OlttNDABlt IMSUMAMCt ftOTtCTION GUY JONAS. INS. r ,.2135 Fairgrounds Hi. rhene2-Ul . . . Mrs. Roosevelt Visits Yoshida TOKYO l Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida was host at a lun cheon Sunday at his home for Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, now on a tour of Japan. Later he received Adm. Arthur Radford, next chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Vice Adm. and Mrs. Robert R. Briscoe. Briscoe, commands U.S. naval. forces in the Far East. Budget-Cutters Approach Goal In Congress WASHINGTON Cfl With a big lift from President Eisenhower, congressional budget-cutters are within reaching distance of their goal of a 10 billion dollar slash in new appropriations proposed by for mer President Truman. The target was" set by Chairman Taber R-N.Y.) of the House Ap propriations Committee, when Tru man submitted his farewell budget to Congress last January, as re quired by law. At the time, many observers believed Taber had set his sights too high. But with seven regular money bills already passed by the House and another cleared by Taber's committee for House action, it now looks as if the New Yorker wasn't being too optimistic: Actually, the House already has. in the seven bills passed, chopped 1,800.000.000 from the Truman re quests for new money for the fis cal year starting July 1. The mon ey voted is 76$ million dollars be low the revised Eisenhower budget Milkman Wins Gold Medal WASHINGTON ( A milkman who wrecked his truck and near ly killed himself to avoid striking a boy on a bicycle was awarded the Milk Industry Foundation's gold medal Sunday. William C. Gtddens, 40, Dallas, Tex., took the top award among 11 announced by the foundation for heroism or distinguished . service performed by milk routemen in line of duty during the last year. The awards' have been made an nually lor 16 years. . ... Giddens deliberately' overturned his truck last March 10, the cita tion said, to avoid striking a- boy on a bicycle who suddenly cut into his path on the outskirts of Dal las. Giddens. pinned under the truck. ! suff-red' near-fatal injuries includ ing the loss of one leg. 1,300 Given Degree at, Univeraily of Oregon EUGENE (A Degrees were conferred on 1,300 students at the University of Oregon commence ment here Sunday. The Rev. Ralph W. Sockman, pastor of the New . York Christ Methodist Church, was speaker.- m w -m .MBsnianasssnBaaaSnsI a A i v T . wu .7121 IT Gates Open 7:00 f Shew At dusk ENDS TUESDAY! 1 NEVER WAVE . AT A WAC B a find Russell i In Technicolor. ' .TROPIC ZONE - Ronald Reagan' General Stages i Bloodless Coup In Colombia - BOGOTA. Colombia Iff About to be fired, Colombia's Army chief Ltj'Genj Gustavo Rojas Pinilla made himself president Saturday night in a Dgbtning bloodless coup. He named a 13-man Cabinet to ruk under military control until clean elections can be held. The coup, in which not a shot was fired and which went off like clockwork, caused hardly 'a ripple in j the usual - weekend calm that prevails In this capital high in the Andes. ' V ? No extra troops or police were seen in the streets Sundav and at noon the radio was playing its usual Sabbath religious concert. Ousted: President Laureano Go mez, was placed under arrest in his home. . Unofficial reports that could not immediately be con firmed said he may be given a passport to leave the country. Gomel, who gave up the presi dency temporarily in 1951 because of ill health, returned unexpected ly j to the presidential palace Sat urday and asked acting President Roberto : Urdaneta Arbelaez and War Minister Lucio Pabon Nunez to! issue a decree ordering Rojas Pinilla to retire. Retakes Office When Urdaneta and Pabon Nu nez declined to take such a grave step, Gomez summarily announced he was taking back the presidency from Urdaneta.' lie promptly fired Pabon Nunez and put Jorge Leyva in his place. Gomez and Leyva then drafted a decree kicking Rojas Pinilla out and-naming Lt. Gen. Regulo Gai tan to take over the armed forces. But the top military men in Bogota remained loyal to Rojas Pinilla. They speedily sent a plane to: pick up their general, who was relaxing in the little valley town of; Melgar 50 miles southwest of Bogota, and fly him back. Palace Surrounded Rojas ! Pinilla's loyal troops al ready had surrounded the presi dential palace, seized control of all official buildings and communi cations including the radio sta tions. When Rojas Pinilla arrived, he offered his support to Urdaneta, who declined to resume the presi dency from which he had been ousted. The Army chief went into heated conferences with top military and political leaders and then took over the presidency himself. Broadcasting to the nation, short ly after taking over, the North American university-educated Army boss appealed for "no more bloodshed, no further depreda tions, no more quarrels among the sons of Colombia." He promised Colombia would honor her international obligations and sent greetings to Colombian troops fighting with U. N. forces in Korea. Iran Court Scene of Riot TEHRAN, Iran Iff! Supporters Iran's shah clashed with Pre mier Mohammed Mossadegh's fol lowers in the criminal court Sun day and .broke up the proceedings in a free-for-all brawl. . i Chairs and tables in the court room were smashed at the opening of the trial of a number of retired Arm officers charged in connec tion with a mob assault on Mossa degh's bouse Feb. 28. Shouts of . "long live the shah" were answered by "long live Mos sadegh." Then the two groups be gan pummelling one another with the courtroom furniture. The court sitting broke up. No date was set for its reopening. New Showing Open :45 "MY COUSIN RACHEL" with Olivia DeHaviUand Musical Co-Feature "I DREAM OF JEANIE" The life ef Stephen Foster STAHTIIIG Price This Engagement Onlyl . ADULTS - CHILDREN Admission .4 Admission 55c Viewer Glasses 10 Viewer Glasses 15e TOTAL $IX0 TOTAL. -65c yriusti AtmmiJQ . , , j ' " i ' ADDED ' . 1 ADE AimiALS ACTODS' --Andf .j' Dogs Bonny Cartoon Vnenvied Record f. 4 : - 1 I ' L 4 LOS ANGELES Jack O'Leary Los Angeles, Califs who blgan whai may be the world's longest; siege of hiccups when his appendix ruptured five years ago, shows the fantastic totals reached by the more-than-one-in-a-second spasms. He's! tried hundreds of reme dies land been treated by more, than !20Q doctors. O'Leary, 11 r 'weighs only 77 pounds. He can sleep only 'about an hour before the jarring and sound of the hiccups wake him up. (AP Wire photo to The Statesman. ' Marylhursf Ceremony Draws Salem Group t Several Salem persons attend ed an open, house at Marylhurst Convent near Oswego Sunday, which marked the conclusion! of a fund campaign for a new wing on the convent. j A Capacity crowd toured the new structure, attended ' services at the chapel tfbd an open house at Marylhurst College for Girls. Inebriate Carries Own Traffic Liglit City police were not sure if a Salem inebriate was looking for an honest man or just insuring his own safety while crossing the street . " '. J . But anyhow, they arrested him on a drunk charge Sunday after noon at Court and Commercial Streets sfter he crossed Com mercial Street against a red light while holding one hand out for traffic to stop and swinging a lighted kerosene 4antern in the other. j MONI s-srsa Now! Doors Open S:45 John Derek Technicolor in "PRINCE OF PIRATES" ' --And Elizabeth's Coronation -A" QUEEN IS CROWNED H MM Mill l ConL 1:00 PJ. I je an jnarnn i f jerry uewa in "SCARED STIFF" Also "KANSAS TERRrroRy 50c TiU 5:00! Rock Hudson Technicolor- ! in SEMINOLE" Also Rosemary Clooney in". Stars Are Singing' V7EDIIESD AY! yoitvi run cifcrii j r I na jtk tii ' t i ' " V , i " dimoomm 5mrs.l57.lS6M Buijglar Enters Three Offices in Medical Center Investigation of three burglar ies at 1 the Medical Center near Salem i General Hospital some time Friday night or early Sat urday knorning continued Sunday by city police. Although two ' doctor's off ices and the main clinic were en tered, i only $9 in cash was re ported .missing.' That was taken from a desk in Dr. J. S. Back strand's offices at 2441 Grear St The! intruder or intruders en tered 1 all the offices through open, unlocked windows. -, Offices of Dr. John R. Wood, 2431 Grear St, were : gone through, but nothing taken, po lice reported. : . At the main clinic: a safe con taining narcotics was untouched and more than $50 in cash and checks! at Dr. Backst-snd's office were Overlooked; ) ' ' WEQIIESD AY! AUl jCHWSTlWI PAULA RAWWW VCX PCNNICX kMMnww .. m VtXfifMm 13 na&KU i . ,.. ., . J l-2nd Hit! Hod Ccaneron "saii AirroiiE - Tuesday At Ij Mklnlqb.tr '.j , BIG HORROR 1 MIDNIGHT ,! PREVIEW1 - . b ran. iw ta cny at getsg anaacra ta many r na