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; ' : I i : inn a mm Thousands failed; (Lommunists Jbabel - 'Y i ' ' PCUNDDD 1651 ! 103 YEAR i THREE Venus Not 'Victdrieuse r. InAttemptto Woo Salem SOKs Assist as 100 " flflbra MWs Escape I! By WILLIAM C. BARNARD T . SEOUL (JP) Nearly 700 oners broke out of two Allied stockades Saturday mgnt ana sun day, some with the aid of South Korean Army tanks and trucks. The U. N. Prisoner of War Command said the American-made vehicles were manned by Republic of Korea troops. ) i The U. N. Prisoner of War Command said the American-made ve- . - wr 0333300 hXDffiQB Exit '"Venus Victorieuse.' The Renoir statue will not be used to grace (or disgrace) the precincts of the Marion county courthouse. The Pioneer Trust Company has withdrawn its ten der made in endeavoring to carry out the bequest of the late Carroll Moores, stating simply that it had no desire to force an unwanted piece of sculpture on the people of the city and county. The general response had been hostile and the agitation against the "Venus" rose to the propor tions ofa small "cause celebre. The protests against the statue were numerous, the most vehe ment being that it did not exemp lify pioneer life and so was not consistent with the terms of the Moores bequest. Some objected because it was a figure by a French artist, in the nude; and that it would be out of place at the courthouse. Others who saw the published pictures simply didn't like "Venus." So "Venus" will not come to Salem. Presumably she will be some place where her style of beauty is better appreciate!. I have no disposition to quar rel with those who didn't like the "Venus" Tastes vary in art as in foods; and every one to his own dish. What I was interested in, being a member of the courthouse commission, was -to obtain some work of art which would embel lish the new courthouse. I still hope that this may be accomp lished. It was unfair to judge the "Venus" only by the newspaper pictures. They showed her 'in the raw." What had been xon templated was ' (Continued on editorial page ,4) Chinese Reds Renew Push SEOUL Chinese Red Forces renewed their probing thrusts Sunday against South Koreans in the Pukhan River area of the East-Central Front but ig nored sectors manned by Ameri can and other foreign troops. With two fresh divisions total ing 16.00Q men thrown into the Pukhan sector, the Chinese gave every sign of testing defenses for a new drive south like last week's steamroller attack which caved a two-mile-deep bend in the battle line. The Reds probed and maneuv ered southeast of Finger Ridge, searching for weak spots. One Chinese company won a Christ mas Hill outpost east of Finger Ridge. South Koreans counterat tacked. ' i . Rain fell across the battle front Saturday night. Host Allied planes were grounded Saturday. Sixteen B-29 Superforts bomb ed the Uiju and Sinuiju airfields in Northwestern Korea, only a few hundred yards from the Yalu River boundary to Manchuria. The planes roared through in tense antiaircraft fire. Two swept wing Communist fighters darted around the big bombers but did not fire. Dieting Saves Logger's Life ROSEBURG (A Mert Weaver, a logger, says he owes his life to his diet The other day a log rolled down on him. A broken stub of a limb held the log up just far enough to keep Weaver from harm. If he had the 40 pounds which disappeared m the last two months of dieting, be would , have been crushed, say Weaver. . . . r - SECTIONS 23 PAGES more Red-hating Korean War pris l hides were manned by Republic of Korea troops. The command said also that American-made rifles and machine guns were fired by "unknown per sons" in support of the escapes. The tanks battered down nine foot barbed-wire fences and the trucks hauled away the freed POWs. Defends Policy , Asked for official comment on the use of U. S.-built tanks and trucks for a purpose sharply criti cized by the U. N. Command, Dr. Karl Hong Kee, official South Ko rean government spokesman, told correspondents: "This government has issued or ders to release any Communist Ko rean prisoners of war, and any means of carrying out this directive is considered by this government as an order. ; "Wherever these prisoners are held., they are to be released that is our policy., The tanks were used in a fresh breakout front the POW camp at Sang-Mudai in! Southwestern Korea. They probably came from a ROK Army training center nearby. 27,600 Freed About 27,0001 anti-Communist Ko rean prisoners have burst out of U. N. Command prison camps throughout South Korea since Thursday, under orders of the South Korean: government , About 1.000 have been recaptured.' There were! 32,000 in the camps and 3,000 in hospitals before the mass breakouts. Approximately 9,000 North Korean captives still remain in the compounds. The series of breaks have brought to the boiling point the crisis facing the United Nations, the Communists and the South Korean government A Korean truce negotiated and all but signed when President Syngman Rhee defiantly ordered the prisoner breakouts hangs in the balance, j The POW Command said that 420 prisoners : escaped from . the huge camp at Sang-Mudai in South western Korea. Gas Ineffective U. S. troops used tear and vomit ing gas without effect ' Shortly before the break, the command said. South Korean Army tanks and trucks were ob served maneuvering into position on three sides of the camp. The prisoners were hauled away in the trucks.' During the! mass breakout, rifle and automatic weapons fire crack led through the area. The Allied command said it came from "per sons outside the perimeter of the camp. I Today's Statesman Section i General news 1, 2, 5 Televine L : 4 Editorials, features ..- 4 Society, women's 6, 7, 8, 9 Section 2 Sports .4- 1A, 2A Valley news 3A Farm, home garden 4A Crossword puzzle 5A TV-radio log 8A Classified ads 6A, 7 A, 8A, OA Dallas Girl Needs $221 Today For Goodwill Visit to Greece- j statessaasi News Service ' 1 DALLAS- If 17-year-old Dee Smith 'is biting her fingernails today, she! has good reason. . - The Dallas High School junior lacks S22L50 needed if she is to go oa a long-planned inter national fc oodwill trip to Greece. The deadline for receiving con' tributions jis today. v, A, committee of Dallas citi zens has already raised 3468 for the girl's steamship fare, and they "are trying to scrape to gether another $171-50 for train tickets and .$30 far spending money. Dee wag selected by the Amer ican Field) Service committee on the basis of educational ability and other qualifications to spend three months in Greece as a guest at the home of that na tion's minister of finance. Her mission will be to make friends The) Oregon Statesman, Sorlem Oregon, Sunday Inn 21 Protest Stops Plan to Buy French Statue Venus went down for the count Saturday! V Artist Renoir's statuary sym bolic of womanhood won't come to live on the Marion Courthouse grounds; after alL Not that Venus doesn't have friends. Quite a few have said they would welcome her as a valued addition to the city's cul ture. But her opponents were both louder and more numerous. So the Pioneer Trust Company, which is charged with the specific expenditure of a $30,000 estate, announced: "In view of the adverse public reaction to the selection of the Renoir 'Venus Victorieuse as a statue to early Oregon pioneers, authorized under the will of the late Carrol L. Moores, we will not present it to the City of Salem." Lively Argument Arguments over Venus the past few days have been among the liveliest ever growing out of a civic issue. Opponents objected to her plumpishness, her nudity and her remoteness from Oregon lore: Proponents pointed to her ranking in the wprld of art her permanence in cultural values and to the fact that memorials confined strictly to the pioneer theme are common throughout the state. The choosing of Venus as the memorial bequeathed by Moores, long-time janitor in the Supreme Court Building who died 14 years ago, was recommended by Thom as Colt director of the Portland Art Museum, and Pietro Bellus chi, nationally-known Portland architect and dean of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The recommendation was ac cepted several days ago by a committee composed of Charles A. Sprague, Chandler Brown and Henry Compton. Storm Breaks Then the storm broke and those on the committe said it was not unexpected. But wnat to do with the sau.iXXJ now? "We have no desire to force a piece of sculpture on the people of Salem and Marion County," the Pioner Trust Company said Saturday. "In the endeavor to discharge our duty under. the Moores will, we consulted those of known pro fessional competence in the field of art and acted on their advise. While there are those who feel that in the Course of time, their judgment would gain acceptance. we do not want to offend those of the present generation. sees: Approval "It is the hope and expectation of Pioneer Trust Company that a memorial may be selected and acquired through the use of the Moores Fund which will be gen erally approved." The Moores will provided that the estate go to purchase a mem orial to Oregon pioneers. Legal opinions have held that whatever is purchased with the $30,000 should be a separate and distinct entity. And what to acquire that would not demand a permanent expenditure for maintenance has been debated for years. Next? BANKERS TO CONVENE EUGENE Uh The Oregon Bankers Association win open its 48th annual convention here Mon-e day. W. Harold Brentoa, president of the American Bankers Associa tion, win speak. for the United States and also to learn something of that Med iterranean country. Her expenses must be paid by her own com munity and interested individuals.- i Jars have been placed in Dal las stores to receive donations and on Thursday and Friday Dee appeared at Dallas movie theaters to help in the drive for funds. About $23 was collected tt the theaters. Saturday night Mrs. H. D. Pe terson, wife of a Dallas veterina rian, invited friends to a show er for Dee . and needed articles were obtained in that way. ' What is lacking now is a couple hundred dollars, and Mrs. Peter son, who is handling the collec tion of donations, Miss Smith, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray TaHey of Dallas, and her friends are getting a little anxious as the deadline draws seas, Red Tanks -t ! BERLIN Three Soviet tanks stand guard in Chauseestrasse in East Berlin at the French Soviet sector border as Communist raiding parties smash the worker rebellion in the Red Zone. With the strongest police tactics since Hitler's days, the Reds' have forced most of the workers back to their jobs. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Berlin to The Statesman.) 1 1,000 Strike in Hawaii Protesting Jury Verdict By ROY ESSOYAN HONOLULU (JP) A walkout of 11,000 workers protesting the jury's verdict in Hawaii's Communist conspiracy case tied up the Honolulu and Hilo waterfronts and idled 16 sugar plantations Satur day. A union source said "everything will be tied up by Monday" in the protest following the conviction of the organization's leader. Methodists to End Conclave With Services Over 300 young people joined in the business sessions Saturday at the annual conference of Ore gon Methodists in Salem. - - Today's concluding services will be held at 9:30 a.m. in the First Methodist Church with organ meditations and Morning Wor ship. Service at 10:45 sum. at McCuIloch Stadium. Bishop A. Raymond Grant of the Portland area will preside. The service at McCuIloch Sta dium, during which the bishop win speak, will replace worship in most Salem area Methodist churches. The service; will be broadcast from 11:30 to 12:30 over KSLM. Included in Saturday's portion of the conference was a reading of the annual report. Each chair man and representative of the report's various subdivisions gave an individual report to the group. The conference on Youth Fellow ship was held in Waller HaU on Willamette University's campus at 2 p.m. and the annual Youth Banquet was held in Baxter HaU Saturday evening. Ordination of new ministers and baptism of in fants was also held later in the evening. 187th Airborne Combat Team Arrives in Korea SEOUL (JP) The 187th Air borne Regimental Combat Team began arriving in Korea Sunday from Japan. A U.N Command announce ment said the regimental combat team will be assigned to the U.S. Eighth Army. Advance units arrived Sunday by air. The regiment last year served on prisoner of war guard duties on Koje Island and elsewhere, during the break up of unruly Communist compounds into smal ler, more manageable! groups. It was not known immediate ly if the tough paratroopers would be assigned to POW guard duty again, however. The regi ment will be air lifted from Japan to Korea in what -the U.N. Command called an ' air trans portability training exercise." . The troopers had been train ing in Japan since they left Ko rea last falL Father Shares Attention With Slimmer Today Today is the first day of sum mer at least officially. It's also Father's Pay. I - The weather, however, win be anything but summery,' says the weatherman. He ' suggests that Father take a topcoat along it he plans to play golL ' ' Forecast ' calls for . clouds and cool temperatures with the high est in the upper 60's Snd the low-, est in the 40's. I While Oregon kept, cool Satur day most of the nation sweltered. It was 104 in Chicago, 87 in Bos ton and C5 in New York, it was only es in Salem. 1953 PRICE 1 10c Help Smash Berlin Rebellion ' i , - . Li- ' The union has about 26,000 mem bers on the docks, and sugar and pineapple plantations. Sugar employers said workers left machinery going at one planta tion. Truck drivers at Honokaa, in the island of Hawaii, stopped their trucks on the road and walked away. Hawaii's pineapple opera tions, biggest in the world, were not immediately affected because there were no weekend work on them. Two ships sailed without filling their cargoes. Nine more were tied up in ports. , Most 'sugar plantations operate on a five-day week so the full ef fect wiU not be felt until Monday. The walkouts began - within an hour after a racially-mixed jury Friday convicted Jack HalL Ha-f waii regional director of Harry Bridges' International Longshore men's and Warehousemen's Union. HaU and six co-defendants were found .guilty of conspiring to teach Sid advocate violent overthrow of e government ' Robert McElrath, public rela tions man for ILWU, said walkouts appeared to be a "spontaneous re action to the verdict.' i Some employers heard the pro test walkout would go on until Tuesday. f Pinckney Hot, Hell Hotter PINCKNEY. Mich. OB It was 103 degrees here Saturday but it reportedly was even hotter in Hell. . Hell is a little crossroads com munity in Southern Michigan two miles south of here. Apparently it was so hot there the residents weren't answering the telephone for an inquiring reporter to get the temperature. But the people of Pinckney say Hell is in low country a ad in a heat wave it's two degrees hotter there than Pinckney. That would make Hell's esti mated temperature Saturday 105 degrees. 1 Friends Plain. IKlero (Surlals r7fvs f7ii.nftfl rfrz-Nrrnlkn- ' By WATSON SIMS NEW YORK (J 1 lie bodies of Julius , and Ethel Rosenberg lay in a Brooklyn funeral home Satur day, night while sympathizers planned hero burials for the exe cuted atom spies. 'A growing crowd stood vigil out side the chapel after the bodies were brought in a black station wagon from Sing Sing Prison. - The bodies then were dressed in traditional funeral garb and laid on biers before an altar in the chapel, which "was decked with roses, lilies and Jonquils. At t p. m. the chapel was opened to approximately 500 persons who had lined up on the streets to view the corpsefc.-'---:-----!,. f Attendants said the chapel would remain open throughout the night and until funeral services at 1 p. m. (EST) Sunday. "Attendance at the funeral will be by invitation only. y: ' A six-man police squad was dis patched to the scene shortly after the bodies Arrived. , 1 The force was increased to 23 as the crowd continued to grow, and Assistant . Police Inspector David Condon said 200 others were in reserve 'against possible disturb ances. : No. 83 .. ' . . . . . ' ! Most of Nation Hit by Searing Heat Wave By The Associated Press Withering heat baked the Mid west, South and East Saturday with temperatures soaring above 100 in many sections. Arkansas, caught in a record breaking heat wave, reported at least three deaths attributable to temperatures that hit 107 degrees wih no relief in sight. Five-persons drowned in Illinois, four of them in Chicago, as thousands flocked to the beaches to escape 100-pIus read lags. Michigan reported 11 deaths from drowning. In Cleveland, O., three persons died from heat prostration. Massachusetts reported five dead in the heat wave, four by drowning Temperatures above 100 were commonplace throughout the Mid west most of Saturday. But cooler air from the Pacific Ocean began moving into Kansas. Nebraska and the Dakota in the afternoon. Many spots in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri. Oklahoma, Texas and Ar kansas reported temperatures of iw ana upwaras. Chicago had 1044, the hottest for any June day in its history and six tenths of a degree from Chicago's all-time high of 104.8, set July 24, 1934. New York had a 96, its hottest day of the year. It was 97 in Bos ton. Louisville had 99, a new re cord for the date there. Terre Haute, Ind., had 101. .Temperatures in the '80s and 90s were general in New England, the Southeast and Gulf states. In land cities of Texas and South west were gripped by 90-100 de gree weather. In Texas it was 106 at Mineral Wells and 102 at Ft Worth. Tiny Puppy Stolen From Salem Home A six-weeks-old toy terrier puppy only six inches long and three inches high was stolen from a Salem home Saturday morning, police reported. Roy Loyens, 135 Lee St, owner Of the tiny pup, said someone entered his house and made off with the dog between 10:30 a. m. and noon. , . A wave of demonstrations, many of which were .marked by violence, was reported throughout the world before and , after the executions Friday. By midnight there was no wait ing to get into the chapeL Police estimated more than 2.000 persons had filed past the bier. A few wo men wept but most faces showed little expression. An American flag was held by the guard posted near the altar. EVnanwi Bloch, attorney for the Rosenbergs throughout the more than two years of court litigation that preceded their death, reached the chapel at 8:35 p. m. r He stood briefly as a guard be side the altar., On leaving the chapeL he said the Rosenbergs' two sons would not attend the funeral. Asked where the boys will live, h said- "That hasn't been decid ed yet They'll live where they-rel happiest. He said the letters written by death house are being edited in book form. Proceeds from' sale of the books wiU go to the children, he said, : The bodies were brought here in cloth prison bags after being claimed by Mrs. Sophie. Rosen berg. 71-year-old , mother, of the Riots as - By TOM ! BERLIN (AP) Communist raiding parties rock eted through rebellious East Geriany Saturday night in the greatest police action. the permans have seen since Hitler smashed the bomhittempt on hislife in 1944. s v V.' U;K :' - Russian and East German Communist secret police were seeking workers who blew a virtual civil war into the open last Wednesday with strikes, ar son ana Darenanaea noting against Red rule. . Three thousand men were report ed Jailed in East Berlin and untold thousands in the surrounding So viet Zone from the Oder to the Elbe. The Communists admitted public ly Saturday night for the first time that there had been a putsch (re bellion) in East Germany. They had referred to it previously as a series of disturbances. An official party report said the group of iron ore mines at Gera was one of the - targets of the putsch. Another target was the Gib Buna synthetic rubber plant at Halle, the party said. The Red news agency ADN re ported that "an agent of i the so called fighting group against in humanity." an anti -' Communist West Berlin organization, had been arrested in Dessau on the Elbe "with considerable Western cash." ADN said he faced Soviet execu tion. Student Returned An American student arrested in East Berlin Thursday was fi nally released and returned safely to the U. S. sector Saturday night. He was Rudlph Kass, 22, of Cedar hurst, N. Y., who is enrolled at the free university in West Berlin. American authorities took up the case with the Russians after Kass was reported seized with two fel low students while they were taking pictures. 1 f Two correspondents of the West German news agency (DPA) seized by Red police during the riots, were also freed. Admit' Scooe of Revolt The Communists admitted for the first lime the scope of the workers revolt The official ADN news agen cy and the party press published dispatches from a score of cities dedicated to the theme Western agents and fascists provoked the putsch, that it was smashed and that the rank and file has pledged to go back to work. The dispatches contained the very information the West other wise never could have learned through the ring of steel that So viet martial law has forged. In each case, the regime admitted that every major city and major in dustry was paralyzed as though a D-Day signal had flashed through. By the Communists' own listing of trouble spots, it became clear that several million East Germans, almost half the working force, had risen in fury against hated bosses. Allied informants said the giant Leuna synthetic gasoline plant in Halle, set afire by the rebels, was reported largely destroyed and its neighbor, a synthetic rubber plant, was more than half wrecked. HOOVER OPPOSES PLAN WASHINGTON Former President Herbert Hoover told Congress Saturday he opposes President Eisenhower's proposal to increase the authority of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mm fflfifiH3igi Max. - Min. Praclp. 48 trace 1 SI .1ft . 1 49 .00 , 7S JOO Salem Portland C3 San Francisco 6S Chicago 104 New York 96 11 1 .00 Win.mette River 1.0 feet. FORECAST (from U., S. Weather Bureau. McNarjr Field. Salem): Part ly cloudy today, tonight and Mon day. High today near M to M and low tonight near 43 to 45. Tempera ture at 12:01 a.m. wii 44 degrees. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Tear Sept 1 This Year La it Year Normal 43.1S 41J7 37.88 man who was convicted of j con spiring to give atom secrets to Russia. ' ' - "'" l,iv They were laid in open oak cas kets in a 500-capacity chapeL A committee handling arrange ments said it was the largest fu neral ' chapel in the Manhattan Brooklyn area. I 1 Orthodox Jewish services were planned at 1 p. m. Sunday for the man and woman who were execu ted for aiding the cause of Com munism by betraying America's atom secrets to Russia. They were laid out in white mus lin shrouds. '. The husband was also clothed in a prayer shawl and cap. v Rabbi Abraham Cronback, pro fessor emeritus of Hebrew Union College. Cincinnati, wiU preside over the final rites. Maurice Erstling, former presi dent of the Cantors Association of New York. wiU sing. The arrangements committee said others will be added to the list of speakers. The funeral procession will then wind over a 35-mile route to Well wood Cemetery, near Farmingdale on Long Island, for burial cere- J monies at 2 p. m More speeches were planned at the cemetery. Rebellibri r REEDY Bidding Plans PreBMnaries to construction of a Ms. department store by Lipmajf Wolfe & Co. of Port land, wjll draw consideration of the Ssjem City Council at its ickuub mecunz juonaav nizni. Theaempany, which plans to erect building for the store on the southwest corner of the Che meketsi and N. Liberty St. inter. section? , has requested permis sion ot tne city to construct la transformer; room under the sidewalk on Chemeketa Street and to dig a well for a cooling system? in the alley adjacent to the riar nf th hnlMinw lk. provalihas been made by City Engineer J. Harold Davis and City Manager J. L. Franzen. : Thlhni1riin mi (ha mm occupied by Gervurtz Furniture Company will be torn down to make way for the new building. Street improvement and sewer extensions are also up for study by thecounciL The city engineer reports failure of remonstrances against' improvement of Ellis Avenue west of 23rd Street, and of 24th Street between Adams and Claude Streets. Petitions for improvement of S. 22nd Street between the line of New Haven Addition and the city limits are on the agenda along with resolu tions falling for improvement of Hoyt fStreet fromA22nd to Ford Street Sonora Way from Boice to Mountain View Dr. and Moun tain View from Boice to Mc- uiichrist Street h i. Salem Joins lnjMoek Raid ' i ' A quiet, "just pretend" Civil Defease exercise was held in Sa lem Saturday as part of an eight state Jtest and involved about 15 staff members here under direc tion of Robert Sandstrom, acting state fcivil defense director. I ' Tinie was spent at , the Civil Defease office in simulating alert calls land in correlating other activity throughout Oregon and the other seven western states involved in tne test. Th most active cities Involved in the test according to Sand strom, were Coos Bay and ! Eu gene! Eugene devoted about 30 minutes to testing its alert i call system, sounding its warning sirenf and. correlating simulated "emergency' announcements by locaE radio stations. The test in Eugene did not include citizens taking cover, however, Sandstrom saldj .' - ;. ; I InCoos Bay civilian airplanes flewilow over the city, simulat ing a bombing raid and directors -of the test there estimated a "lossf of property and life by the fraid" as well as setting up mock hospital units. Planners ther presumed damage had been done! in the city by "saboteurs" and iet up means of defense ac cordlpgly. : j - j Portland, key city in 'the last year's simulated "attack," ! was r not included in this year's exer- else' ' r: - .. i. " "Some states : really went all out fduring this exercise, Sand strom said Saturday, "but we feel I our two-day simulated ' at tackf the last time tested civilan and panned forces ability to cope with an emergency. . Our I test Saturday, lasting from 7 a.m. to 5 p-pL, was thorough and proved SuccessfuL" he explained. i i 11,1 1 - McDERMOTT ENVOY SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Uh -t Michael McDermott, former State Department press officer, ar rivefl Saturday to assume his du ties I as U. S. ambassador to El Salvador,-; yy: 1 1 " ' ! ' " S y WHUn Intrrs&UonsJ At Lvrlston 4-1. Salem 14-S , . i Af Vancouver 2, Calfary 4 AtVlctorU 1-5, Xdmonton S-A . . A Spokan S-4, Wenatche 1-3 A Trt-Oty S-a, Yakima S-10 I ' - Coast Laaraa " At Oakland 4, Portland 10 Af Los Ansa 13. 8atU At Saa ZMcro 4. 8n rrandsco 1 At Sacramento . Holljwood S i 1A inn ' i AmtricuUini vAt New York a. lx-vr-.. 2 At rnuaaeipua . uucago At Boston 4. St. Louis S A Washington 1. Cleveland S ' I - ' NaUcnal Iasaa A MUwaukee 8. 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