Taft in Coma; Family Called -to His Bedside OUNDBD 1651 103 YEAR roaDCDura In various congressional inves tigations a procession of witness! es have refused to testify, talc- ins shelter under the Fifth Amendment which reads: "No person . . . shall be com pelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Gangsters, cheats and suspected Reds have taken advantage of this exemption and kept silent as to their activities and associa tions. Often it has been difficult to see in what possible way they might incriminate themselves by answering some of the simple questions asked them. In quizzes into alleged subversive activities witnesses have learned to parrot Tifth Amendment" from the start o, the questioning. In this way they avoided being cited for contempt for their silence, be cause courts have ruled that such resort to the amendment is not a case of contempt In the effort to get around the exemption of the Fifth Amendment and force witnesses to testify, Senator McCarran of Nevada has for a number of years been pushing a bill to give con gressional committees power to promise immunity from prosecu tion to- witnesses. Thus a balky witness could be assured no crim inal proceedings would lie against him if he testified. If he then declined to testify he could be cited for contempt. Late in the session of July 10 the Senate, without a record vote, passed McCarran's bill after it had been amended to require first the assent of the attorney gen eral or a majority vote of the House or Senate if such assent was not given in a week. Ten Senators rose to say they (Concluded on editorial page 4) Reds Step Up 'BeKindTlaii For Austrians VIENNA, AsutriaS m The Rus sians announced Thursday they are going to start paying their owp oc cupation costs in this country Aug. I, as the United States had done for the past six years. Austrian officials speculated this drastic concession on the part of the Russians may mean a Soviet step toward settling the five-year deadlock j over an independence treaty. r Vienna buzzed with excitement over the : latest move in the cur rent Russian "Be Kind to die Aus trians" campaign. Former Klamath Officer to Join Silverton Force i lUteimai Ntwf Service SILVERTON Robert T. Lewis, to, former member of the Klam ath Falls police, has been ap pointed , to the Silverton police department, City Manager Robert Borland said Thursday. Lewis succeeds Howard Robin son, who resigned from the force effective Saturday. A veteran of five and a half years in the Navy, Lewis served in the South Pacific during World War II. He and his wife have three children. Today's Statesman Section 1 General news 1,2,5,12 Editorials, features 4 Sports 6,7 Radio-TV 8 Markets 8 Classified ads 9,11 Section 2 Food news 1,5 Society, women's 89 Recalcitrant balloon 9 Comics 11 Valley news 11 Animal Crackers Bv WARREN COODRICM 6o$M.' IS THAT At- VVSVE oar.m -'? - y 2 SECTIONS 2i PAGES The Oregon Delay In Recess Forecast WASHINGTON W President Eisenhower asked Congress today for a 15-biIlion-dollar hike in the federal debt limit in view of red- ink figures which he said have piled up despite vigorous efforts to reduce expenditures." The present limit, fixed by Con gress in June, 1946, is 275 billion dollars. The debt is 272 billions. Shortly before Eisenhower sent the formal request to Congress, Secretary of the Treasury Humph rey told newsmen that if the gov ernment failed to pay its bills and meet federal payrolls under re strictions of the present debt limit it might cause "near panic." Adjournment in Doubt Eisenhower's 11th hour request threw congressional plans to re journ this weekend into an uproar. There were some forecasts the ad journment plans would be delayed at least a week. Grumbles of protest both at the prospect of cancelling vacation plans and at raising the debt lid to a point only 10 billion dollars below the World War II peak arose from Democrats and Repub licans alike on Capitol Hill. While many Republicans have said the present fiscal situation is a heritage from 'the Roosevelt Truman regimes. Democrats today raised a cry of "waste" and ac cused the Eisenhower administra tion of staging a "political man euver" by waiting almost until the eve of adjournment to spring its proposal. Criticism Also from GOP. There was some criticism of the administration from the Republi can side also. On the House floor, Rep. Coudert (R NY) said the administration had put Congress in "a cruel and bitter dilemma" by failing to slash government spending so that an increase in the debt limit would not be necessary. The result, he said, is a threat of permanent inflation." Sen. Morse (Ind Ore.) told the Senate as it started a night session on other matters he believes con gress will be called back in Octo ber to consider the debt limit situa tion. Morse said there are two ways of dealing with the problem: Either raising the ceiling or scaling down congressional appropriations. He said he favors the latter alterna tive. Fine Weather In Prospect Next 2 Days Sunshine, clear skies and mod erate temperatures is the forecast for mid-valley regions today and Saturday, according to the Weath er Bureau. A slow moving low ceiling off the coast may bring some clouds Sunday, says the weatherman, but it's still a 50-50 chance. The mercury today is predicted to move up a bit from Thursday's high of 78 to near 82 to 84. Chance Remark Breaks Big Salem Check Case A chance remark at a police convention last May cracked an eight-months-old check forgery case for Salem police and led to the suspect's arrest this week. Arrested in Olvmpia, Wash., was T. J. Short, about 38, of Littlefield, Tex., who Salem po lice charge with cashing over $2,000 worth of bad checu here last September. Marion County Grand Jury returned a secret indictment against Short and a Circuit Court bench warrant was issued against him charging forgery. Police said Thursday Short is being held in Olympia and has refused to waive extradition, but District Attorney Kenneth Brown said extradition proceedings would begin against him immedi ately. According' to city detectives, several sheets of blank checks were stolen from the Oregon Gravel Co. at 1405 N. Front St last fall and forged with the names of company officials, as well as being stamped with the company's check protector. Twenty-nine of the checks were cashed in Salem beginning Sept 6 and totaled $2,059.90, Police at first thought it was an "inside job." but analysis "of the firm's employes' handwriting proved nothing. After several months of fruit less investigation,, the break in the case came at a May conven tion in Tacoma, Wash of the Northwest Check Investigators. , A Salem detective overheard a captain of the Olympia, Wash police remark that be had just extradited a Texas man to face forgery charges in Olympia. Further swapping of informa tion., showed the . Salem . and Olympia forgeries bad ' similar patterns. Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 31. 1953 PRICE 5c Br No One Crowded In On 'em w i wwV " :smm4 In order to prove to James Walker, an assistant state forester, that there are rattlesnakes in The Dalles area. Bill LiRose (above) of The Dalles brought this one to Salem Thursday merning alive and poisonous. La Rose's method of handling the reptiles isn't standard however he Is an ex-circus snake handler. (Statesman photo.) Well, You Should Stay Out of Jail In the First Place PORTLAND m Someone broke into the apartment of Abe Altman, a bail bondsman, here early Thurs day and smashed and slashed to pieces belongings he valued at 11,800. - Scrawled across Aftman's mir ror were the words: "Leave me in jail, huh". Mrs. Renshaw Heads Clinic At Silverton Statesman Newi Service SILVERTON Mrs. B. M. Ren shaw will become superintend ent of Silverton Hospital Satur day, pending a "permanent ar rangement," Dr. A. W. Simmons, chairman of the hospital board announced Thursday. Mrs. Renshaw, a full-time nurse at the hospital for six years, replaces Miss Ruth Barber who announced her resignation last week and ascribed it to ill health. Mrs. Renshaw, a graduate of the University of Nebraska School of Nursing, came to Silverton 10 years ago. Olympia police forwarded a picture of the man and samples of his handwriting. A Salem tavern operator identified the picture as that of the man who had cashed a check at his place. This identification plus testi mony by a handwriting expert proved sufficient for the grand jury and an indictment was returned. Valley's Bean Harvest Begins; Most Yards Will Start Monday By LILLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman Bean picking in a number of valley yards got underway this week, with the bulk, however, to start next Monday. Biggest single harvest this week is at the 200- acre wax bean yard at the U.S. Alderman Farms ers by mid-week numbered 1,322, many of whom came from as far away as the coast. School busses were among transportation vehicles. Pickers are receiving 2H cents a pound, and the crop is being processed on the Alderman farm. More 5 Tea Members Added to the Willamette Val ley's growing list of Five Ton Strawberry Club members is G. P. Conner of SL Patd, who qual ified Wednesday. Working on ground which had been planted to grain since pioneer homesteadlng days, Con nor and his son. Jack, this year achieved yield ox more v than five tons per acre in their seven-! acre Marshall strawberry tract! During the three weeks of berry: picking, the Connors employed 35 to 40 pickers. Connor : will be one of the guests at the Five-Ton Club din ner at Portland Aug. 7. . ' t"; I Early tree fruit and nut surveys j indicate - that, pears, are nmnmsiry . A State Water Policy Urged By Patterson Development of state policy on water rises was recommended by Gov. Paul Patterson at the first meeting of the new water re sources committee at the capitol Thursday. "Water problems in Oregon too long have been approached on the sectional basis without regard for the remainder of the state," Pat terson averred. The governor said lack of a water code for Western Oregon was among the problems. State Has No Control "Wells are being dug and sub terranean water is bein; utilized without any control by the state." Committee members are Chair man Lyle Watts, retired federal forester; Lasell E. Coles, Prine ville, manager of the Ochoco ir rigation project; J. W. Barney, city manager of Hillsboro and member of the Willamette basin commission; Frank McColloch, ex state public utilities commission er and now practicing law in Portland: Kenneth W. Sawyer. Pchairman of the agriculture com mittee of the Portland Chamber of Commerce; C. T. Beecher, Roseburg, retired Marine corps general, and J. D. Bennett, On tario. Methodists Buy Site For Retirement Home PORTLAND If) Oregon Meth odist Homes, Inc., announced Thursday the purchase of 21 acres of land near Milwaukie as a site for a $2,125,000 retirement home. The Rev. Edward Terry, board chairman, said construction will start as soon as the ground is cleared. near Dayton. . The count of pick promising. Not only is encourag ing word being received from the Southern Oregon pear .regions, but growers in the Willamette Valley of the BartleUs and fall and winter varieties are reporting a bumper crop expected. Filbert Outlook Poor There will likely be fewer fil berts,' bat prunes - are jsxpeeted to torn out larger than a sear ago. Harvest time in tree fruits, like the berries, is expected to be considerably later than ' usual. Bean harvest is fully two weeks later than a year ago. However, nut growers are of the opinion that barring further unusual weather, the season will have caught up 'with itself b harvest time.' . , i No. 123 Siberian Air Fight Charged MOSCOW UPl The Soviet gov ernment charged Friday an Amer ican B50 flew over Siberia near Vladivostok and- fired on a Soviet fighter plane which rose to inter cept it. ' H A note delivered to the American Embassy here Thursday night strongly protested an alleged vio lation of Soviet territory by the American plane. The note claimed that the Amer ican plane a four-engined B50 violated the Soviet frontier ' in the region of Vladivostok. It said two Soviet fighters rose to intercept it .and the American plane then opened fire. It said the Soviet fighters then returned the American plane's fire and the American B50 disap peared in the direction of the sea. MUNSAN (J) TheCommunist3 charged the Allies Friday with two new breaches of the Korean arm istice involving Allied planes fly ing over the demilitarized zone. In all, the Reds bave charged 12 violations since Monday when an uneasy truce stilled the guns of the three-year Korean War. The U.N. Command still bad re ported no protest of Communist violations based on a 5th Air Force report that hundreds of Red planes flew into North Korea from Man churia Monday night, after the armistice was signed. The Air Force picked up the mass move ment on radar. The latest Communist charges were made at Friday's 1 hour and 46 minute meeting of the Military Armistice Commisison at ' Pan munjom. Maj. Gen. Blackshear.M. Bryan, senior Allied general on the Com mission, said the meeting "went along all right today." Compr omise Foreign Aid Bill Formed WASHINGTON Wl A com promise $6,652,422,390 foreign aid bill was worked out late Thursday night by a Senate-House confer ence committee. The total. Including $4,530,457. 999 in new cash and S2 121,964.391 in unobligated funds left over from previous appropriations for military and economic aid pro gram, is $669,315,866 less than President Eisenhower asked. The compromise measure, still subject to final action by the Sen ate and the House, is $455,734,211 more than the amount originally voted by the House but $92,895.- 812 less than the total the Senate had approved. (The conferees cut 60 million dollars in new cash off the amount voted by the Senate for military assistance to Europe, as well as 40 million in unobligated balances left over from previous appropria tions. Offsetting this 100 million, how ever, was an equal amount added to the bill for defense financing for Indochina. Long-Tim e Shop Boss for County To Retire Tod ay J. r. (rier) AspinwalL em ployed for the past 20 years as mechanic and shop foreman for Marion County, retires at the close of today's work. Aspinwall, a native of South Dakota, came to Oregon in 1902 with his parents who settled near Brooks. His father was a pioneer loganberry farmer. The county foreman lives with his wife at 1578 Ferry St. Replacing him will be Robert Han, in the records office, and Robert Hindman, in charge of equipment repair. Western International At Yakima X Salem S At Tri-CttT 7. Lwistoi S At Spokane S. Vancouver V At CaUrary IS. Zdnaonton 47 (Only game scheduled) Coast League At Portland 1, Seattle 3 At Hollywood 4. Los Angeles S At Sacramento 1. San Diego 1 At Oakland 2, San Francisco S National League 'At Chicago 1. Brooklyn X At Milwaukee a. New York t At St. Louis 10, Pittsburgh 4 At Cincinnati . Philadelphia 17 American League At New York S. Cleveland 4 At Boston I. Chicago 17 At Washington 1. Detroit 4 At Philadelphia , St. Louis S KyaTV Ms lkr 7 SEN. ROBERT TAFT Colonel Sheets Named State CD Director CoL Arthur M. Sheets, Corval lis, was appointed by Gov. Paul Patterson Thursday to become a state director of civil defense Aug. 1. The retired army colonel has been Benton County civil defense director since October, 1950. In the top state civil defense post he succeeds Jack A. Hayes who died Feb. 21. Acting defense di rector has been Robert Sands- trom, the state organization's ad ministrative coordinator. CoL Sheets taught military sci ence and tactics at Oregon State College in 1940-41. In World War II he served 38 months at Okin awa, Solomon Islands and other combat areas, as an artillery com mander. He was also a World War I overseas veteran. He retired from the Army in 1949. Britain Cries 'No' to U. S. Walk-out Plan LONDON UPl Britain served notice Thursday she strongly op poses any United Ctates plan to walk out of the Korean peace talks without first consulting -this coun try. Prime Minister Churchill's top deputies told Parliament that Brit ain is "in no way committed" to any such unilateral American ac tion. Acting Prime Minister Richard A. Butler, speaking in the House of Commons for the ailing Churchill, said "I want to make it absolutely clear, x x x that we would expect definitely to be consulted before any such action was taken." Angry Labor ites raised the issue in attacking U. S. Secretary of State Dulles. Dulles told a Wash ington news conference Tuesday the United States would walk out of the post-armistice political con ference on Korea after 90 days if it felt the Communists were delib erately stalling. He said the United States would not buy Korean unity at the price of Red Chinese mem' bership in the U. N. Laborite Jack Jones said "I don't want to be rude but one could very easily misconstrue the words Dulles into 'dull ass.' " Six Killed in 'Copter Crash O'NEILL, Neb. UPl Six persons, one of them a noted German sci entists, died Thursday when a big Air Force helicopter plunged to earth and burned near here. The scientist was Dr. Guenter Loeser, 40, one of the doctors of the Air Force Lower Atmosphere Research Project. The others aboard were military personnel. HE'S GOT A JOB AHEAD PITTSBURGH Utl Jhn A. Herron, 29, said he didn't know why he, did it he wasn't even in his cups but be admitted Thurs day stealing 100 brassieres from washlines. He was placed on a year's probation and ordered to restore the brassieres. East Germans EPefy Red Thousands Flock id BERLIN IT) Communist bill board warnings of death were de lied Thursday by 200.000 East Ger mans swarming to west erun tor U. S. UR financed food relief, i The total of hungry Soviet zone residents receiving free food pack ages soared to 650,000 in four days. Two thousand volunteer German welfare workers, already swamped by the flood of needy, were ordered to prepare to feed at least a half million Saturday and Sunday.' i All over East Germany, 'factory workers were reported planning to set -out for West Berlin on their weekend holiday time. j Red Police struck back at hun dreds of East Germans returning with Western fats, flour, canned niilk aifd fried vegetables. , . . Witnesses said the police snatched : the .food gifts from the arms ox sobbing -women at railway NEW YORK (AP) Sen. Robert A. Taft remained in a coma early Friday and members ' of the family-maintained a vigil at the bedside of the failing Republican leader A spokesman for New York Hospital said at 12:50 a.m. (EST) that the 63-year-old senator condition was unchanged. , . . NEW YORK (JP) Sen.. Taft is in a comma and is failing rapidly. New York Hospital reported late Thursday night A 1Q p.m. (EST) hospital bulletin gave no further details. Three of the senator's their father earlier in the evening was reported critically ilL Only Thursday morning the Ohio Republican party stalwart iad sat up on his bed and chatted with callers. At 2:30 p.m. he took his turn for the worse. Then at 5:15 i.m. the hospital said: , ' "Senator Taft's condition is criticaL" ' This followed by two hours a bulletin saying the Senator iad taken another turn for the worse and was breathing "with larked difficulty." The last report was the in grave terms. It followed a publisher that the Ohio Republican Is dying of cancer of the DlOOd." , . .. . The hospital consistently has refused to disclose the nature' pi Taft's illness. It first became apparent weeks ago with a lesion of the hip. Publisher William R. Mathews of the Arizona Daily Star of Tucson, writing from Washington, said in a dispatch to his pa per: "Whereas originally he (Taft) was expected to live for six -months to a year, he is not expected to live for more than weeks at the most, and possibly days. "The fact is generally known in Washington. " Police Hunt Trio of Boy Marauders i i Three boys who reportedly "en tered a Salem home and bothered two children of i family and the baby-sitter were the object of po lice search Thursday. The boys, believed to be 0, 13 and 14 years old, followed a nine-year-old girl of the family to her home Wednesday evening, said polic -,' grabbed her and held her mouth so she couldn't scream. They forced her into the house, then grabbed her 18-month-old sister and carried her upstairs. When the 25-year-old baby sitter protested, the boys report edly held her mouth so she couldn't yell. They also scattered clothes and other articles around the house, the sitter told police. The trio left whe one of the girls called police. Pet Parade Starts 1953 Bean Festival Statesmaa News fcrrlre STAYTON The Pet Parade of the 14th annual Santiam Bean Festival Thursday evening at tracted 90 contestants and bun dreds of onlookers from Stayton and vicinity. V ' Every child entering the pa rade was given a free admission ticket to a ride at the carnival now at Stayton' (through the fes tival this week end) and winners also received cash awards. Includ ed in the colorful display through downtown Stayton were the Stay ton High School band, the city police car and the Boy Scout col or guard. x Grand prize of the parade was won by Danny and Hannah Bald win, young children of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baldwin f Stay ton. The youngsters portrayed the cowardly lion and a tin woods man.. The children's parade kicked off the three-day Bean Festival and Friday the Grand Parade will begin at 7 p.m. following judging at 6:30 p.m. An afternoon Of car nival acts will be held Saturday, followed by the "bean hole bean feed and concluded by the Bean Hopper's Ball Saturday evening. (Additional details .page 2.) Seattle Parley Galls McKay PORTLAND UB Secretary of Interior and Mrs. McKay are scheduled to arrive at the Port land Airport at S:25 p.m. Satur day. McKay plans to go to Seattle Sunday to attend the governors' conference there. stations in Luebbeneau and Scboen- rfeld, in Brandenburg. In scores of East German towns, police patrols took down the names and . addresses of returnees and turned the Information over to state security agents for action. Communist billboards erected overnight in Potsdam, Halle and Magdeburg - warned that accept ance of free American food would lead "to' (Western) agents, to bomb nights and to death." The posters had a caricature of a U. S. soldier and West Berlin Lord Mayor Ernst Reuter sitting at a food relief registration desk. Reutherwas smirking at a fat won man applicant ana saying - Hypo critically, "Oh. bow starved." The food rash was a demonstra tion against Communism with a psychological impace almost rival ing the revolt of two million East German workers June 17 a re- .i ' ' - : sons were at the hospital, where first te refer to the Senator's case report by an Arizona newspaper ' Theft at Bank In Mt. Angel Nets 1 Years PORTLAND W - A Umatilla youth who held up the ML Angel branch of the U. S. National Bank and took $18,000 last March was sentenced Thursday to 7 H years in federal prison for bank rob bery. The mother of the defendant.;. Glen Sulisky. 18, wept as she beard Federal Judge Gus Solomon impose the term. Sulisky's attorney, Don McEwen, said the youth robbed the bank in an effort to get money to help pay off 'the mortgage on a house his mother had bought in Pendle ton. She had planned to take in roomers. Judge Solomon said be realized the Sulisky family was hard pressed financially. But he added that young- Sulisky used a gun and innocent people might have been killed. He said ' the holdup appeared, to have been fully planned. ' The defense attorney said the youth got the idea for the holdup from movies and radio. - . Help Voted; Aid for North Sought WASHINGTON UFi With a min imum of discussion, the Senate to day voted 200 million dollars for rebuilding war-ravaged South Ko rea and Sen. Humphrey (D-Minn) proposed a like amount for North Korea. "Let's make a quick bid for the friendship of the North Korean people while the Armistice is being celebrated there," Humphrey said. "Let's, show them a beUer al ternativea new ray of hope." Humphrey conditioned his propos al, however, on the conclusion of a satisfactory peace, "permitting Korea's freedom and unification." The Korean problem proved as perplexing in peace as it was in war to Washington officialdom. One possible; solution of demands by South Korean President Syngman Rhee that his country be unified was seen in talk of "neutralizing" the peninsula. . . Max. 71 Mia. Preclp. 44 .a , 4 .00 . 48 .00 . 71 .53 - Salem HortUml 14. San Francisco 87 Chicago B4 New York V3 7S Jl ' VlHamette Htver - J 1 Scat. FORECAST (from U.S. weather feu res j. McNary field, Salem): rair toaar tnrouin Saturday. Hich today near S--M. low tonirht 4S-SO. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. was 49 degrees. SALF.M PRECIPITATION Sine Start ef Weather Year pt. 1 This Year Laxt Year Normal 43-S ' - 4.S9 HUM Threats; Food Lines volt that is still having repercus sions in Premier Otto Croewohrj Red government. ' ? The man who has directed pro duction of ' arms for East Ger many's 125,000-man army. Con struction Minister Bernd Weinber ger, was fired from the cabinet and demoted to leader of the So viet zone reparations office for defeatism la the face of the up rising. . He was accused of showing "a capitulatory attitufle" toward strik ers when the Communist Central Committee sent him to the Baltic port of Rstock to quell rioting. His successor was not named immed iately. Max - Fritsch, Communist State Secretary for Coal and Power, was thrown out of the government en tirely. ' A tough Communist party worker, Rolf Jaschonka, takes oyer the secretaryship. Korean ft V I . i . .