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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1953)
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The issue which confronted the wheat farmers , on August 14th was simply whether the acreage ad- justments for 1934 should be under price support at 90 pet cent of parity cr 50 per cent 04 that question they voted for the 90 per centi guarantees The Kline statement goes on to say: ' ' On the jother hand, farmert know perfectly: well that this is not a permanent solution. No. .markets . were enlarged. No vote was taken on facing the conse juences oi a forced reduction of I SO or 40 r-tillion acres in 'those crops with relatively high price supports which; would put such acres intOTompetition with other farm products . not under price supports. - "No decision , was made with regard to the probable conse quences of forcing guaranteed - profitable price support programs I for sucn competing farm pro-1 aucts, Dota storabie and non- storase. No aDDraisal was (Continued 6n Editorial page 4) 1 j. Succumbs to CORVALLIS W Former State.1 Sen. Julian N. McFadden, 70, well- known for many years in horse racing circles in Oregon, died) in; a hospital here Saturday night, fol lowing a heart ack. - McFadden was driving a car when he suffered the attack. The car smashed into a tree and he was injured. He died later at the hospital. McFadden s widow was taken to the hospital shortly after wards for treatment of a heart ailmentr ; - - ) McFadden first became interest ed in horse racing as .a sideline. and specialized in breeding thor oughbred racing horses. In 1333 while av member of the State Sen ate he was instrumental in getting: the parimutuel betting law passed in the Legislature. " McFadden was chairman of the State Racing Commission for six years.-' 1 i - He practiced law until 1902 and then took up farming near lor- vajlis. He built the Julian Hotel here in 1910.; ; Ironically the sixth race at Port land Meadows Saturday afternoon was the J. N. McFadden purse. It was run just a few hours be fore he died. : European Recovery j Said Help to Far East NEW YORK UR Harold E. Stas sen, director of the Foreign Oper ations Administration, said Sunday that improved conditions in Eu rope mean increased economic help will b possible from this country for the Far and Near East and South Korea.1 Stassen arrived by plane from Paris after a meeting with United States mission chiefs of foreign op erations in. western Europe and North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion countries; Dissension Betiveen Koreans Reported by POWs FREEDOM VILLAGE. Korea Ul American soldiers freed by the ' Communists in the Korean War prisoner exchange told Monday of increasing ill feeling between the Chinese Reds and North Koreans .behind the Communist lines. 4 Repatriates returned Sunday In the 27th day i of Operation Big Animal Crackers e WARREN GOODRICH i 7 r vi r,. l'lL EET YOU CANY. . SAY 'PRUNES' , v i , 1 1 til I I r i i j j 1 1 i i i i i i . -iAr-ry t a ' in 11 i n IC3HD YEAR Dixiecmt 5,. Rally Nothing to Off er - Br JACK BELL -WASHINGTON tB Sen. Holland (D-Fla) said Sunday he- has de clined an invitation to a Democratic I rally featuring AdTai E. Stevenson I at Chicago next month because he I thinks the South will gain nothing there. Holland, whose home1 state ' of 'Here We J w SAN FRANCISCO Friends, relatives and loved ones jam 'the pier at Fort Mason as tne transport to dock. The vessel, 'second troopship to' return' repatriates to San Francises, brought home 437 'liberated Army and Marine Corps personnel. One of the spectators at other end of .pier holds up a sign to attract the attention of one of the returnees. (AP Wirephoto to the. Statesman;. Four Corners By Automobile Statesman New Service . , FOUR CORNERS A 76-year-old woman was seriously" injured in front of her home here Sun day night when she was - struck by a car while crossing the street She was Mrs., Minnie Laurit son, 4140 E." State St, - who was listed in "poor" condition at Sa lem General Hospital late Sun day night with the following-in juries: - A compound fracture T of the right leg, fracture of the left leg, left bin : and collar ldne,r and possible bead and internal injur ies. - - She was rushed to the hospital by Willamette Ambulance Ser vice alter treatment oy taiem first aidmen at the scene. ' ; State police said the accident occurred shortly beiore 8:30 p.m. when MrsvLauritson was hit by a car driven by Texas Frajklin Neuf eldt 19, of 3417 D St . r Police said tne car was Deing driven west towards Salem, ap- Darently at a moderate speed as indicated by short skid marks. Switch recounted numerous Instan ces of Chinese brutality to North Korean civilians. An airman: said ie was hidden by a - North Ko rean family and others said the ci vilians gave indications of hate for their Red masters. I An American officer said it was his belief the Chinese Communists have taken over North Korea from the local Red government I i Stories of brutal . treatment of North Korean civilians by Chinese soldiers came from CpL James A. Arntson, Cloquet, Minn.; CpL Rob ert O. Gray, Roanoke, Va, and Sgt J. P. McMillan. Sweetwater, f'ex., among others. i Arntson said one day. an old wo man perhaps even a great-grandmother with a child on her back walked up road alongside his POW camp one day and was knock ed down and kicked by a Chinese guard. .. V' i : Gray said one day Chinese guards at his camp wanted a sled to haul wood, so they ordered the prisoners to take one away from a North Korean farmer. The prisoners re fused. i A Chinese guard walked vp to the farmer then and demanded the Sled," Gray recalled. The farmer Shook his head. The Chinese hit him in the kidney with a rifle butt, knocked him down and took the slel The farmer lay on the ground trjing. - - - Reds 12 PAGES Spurns Be: Asserts 91 i Florida went 'for Eisenhower and against Stevenson Jn.' last yearsl rresicenuai eiecuon, saia in an interview he finds no tangible signs the prty leadership has changed its views on issues that cost Steven son 57 electoral votes in four South ern states, In ' this connection, the Florida Are h Folks'. j r J V 'vaWr I J i: Gen. William v llase moves up , - Driver Stuck Tivice; Only Once in Mud -David Gordon Pfau, 1120 James St, got stuck twice Saturday night: in the mud with his car and with a citation in court on a reckless driving charge. A police officer said . be fol lowed the Pfau car through sev eral city streets until it went into an alley in the 300 block of Co lumbia Street - 1 The car continued through al leys, said the officer, until it reached River Street. and the road ended. But the car didnt stop until it had traveled 120 feet over rough , ground and finally got stuck. The driver was arrested and wrecker called to free the car. Full Service Of Weather Plans to operate the Weather Bureau at McNary Field on a 16- hour a day basis have been tossed out the window and the' bureau will continue its around the, clock operation, a Weather Bureau spokesman said Sunday night Word of the reversal in the ex pected change came in a telegram from the . Weather Bureau's re gional director at Salt Lake City. It is expected the 24-hour op eration will continue for the next year at least ' t. At the same time, H. A. Peter son, wno was transferred . xrom the- Salem bureau to Washington June 15, was re-assigned here and begins work today. - " s . Peterson's , return ' brings the staff up to its normal complement of five men. . . Reduction of the staff and the 16-hour a day operation was planned in light of budget cuts. ' Piccard Eyes New j Sect-Diving Record I NAPLES, Italy U! Swiss sci entists Augusta Piccard, who took his sea-diving bathyscaf e down 1,100 meters 37S feet) last Wed nesday off Capri, hopes to try for 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) and a record ' within -; two weeks. STRIKE SETTLED - CLEVELAND (fl "A strike of Z5,S00 Firestone Tire k Rubber Co. employes begun last Wednesday mirinirht -' ended Sundav in an agreement providing a 12-ent hour ly pay raise package, muueng a a -cent general Increase. ' Party ocrat . Has.: to South Senator said he believes Dixie Dem ocrats won-kicked over the traces in 1952 are going to be difficult to woo back into the national party fold unless some changes are made. "All of the efforts to bringvthe Solid South back into the national party will be unavailing until the party organization takes the South into .full partnership in drafting the platform and picking the nomi nees." be declared. Holland's decision not to. attend the Sept 14-15 Chicago rally ap parently is in line with the intended action of some other Southern Dem ocrats. . . Byrd Uninvited Sen. Byrd (D-Va), who helped swing Virginia to Eisenhower last year, said he had not been invited to the. Chicago meeting. He said he has no present intentions of .attend ing.' .-. I ' However, Sen. Ohn Johnston (D- SC) said if he can work 'out his schedule, he will go to Chicago. He said he doubts there "will be much discussion there of last year's Southern defections. ' Byrnes to Bypass - ' Gov. James F. Byrnes, South Carolina Democrat who supported Eisenhower, recently made it clear that he will take no part in the Chicago proceedings. He said he hadn't been invited and wouldn't accept if he were. Byrnes said at the annual gov ernors' conference in Seattle earlier this month that the South Carolina Democratic Party is an entity which can back any national ticket it chooses. He said he won t attend any further national convention that demands advance pledges of sup port for its nominees. 9 Shun Stevenson Byrnes and Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas have made it plain they have no enthusiasm for Stevenson as a possible 1956 nominee. Texas also went Repuolican In 1952 and Shivers publicly backed Eisenhower on the submerged lands issue last spring. Although that has faded into the background with en actment of a new submerged lands law, the fundamental controversy over civil rights remains as much alive as it was when it plagued the 1952 convention. ... - - , , . 50 Sergeanjts Amonsf POWs Exchanged By JIM BECKER PANMUNJOM US Fifty Amer ican sergeants returned to free dom in the first contingent of Mon day's war prisoner exchange tne Z7tn day of Operation Big Switch. They were among 150 U.S. per sonnel and 250 South Koreans in volved in the day's operation. Tne repatriates came back amid growing nopes tnat as many as 500 more Americans than expected may be liberated. The additional Americans pre sumably would be those captured late in the fighting but carried on U.S. casualty lists as "missing in action." The sergeants returning in Mon day's first group jumped briskly from the six Russian-built trucks which brought them from the Com munist North. But they were quiet There were no sick or wounded among them. There were 28 officers. Including two Navy ensigns, in the second group of 50 Americans. Most of the others were senior non-camr im'tfinnwl AffiM . A The Communists said they would release Tuesday 100 Americans, 25 Enusn. 20 Turks. 5 Australians and 250 South Koreans. Tragedy Ends Young, Pilot's Plane Flight OAK RIDGE. Tenn. tfl A 16- year-old girl who received her pi lot's license a month ago took her father for a plane flight Sunday lor the first tune. The plane took, off, then hesitat ed at an altitude of about 500 feet and nosed over into a cornfield about 30 feet from a house. Both Jane Dobbs and her fath m vtr vr YVvkH vti view of her brothers, William C. Dobbs, la, and Jimmy- Dobbs?. 7. Their mother was at home in Oak Ridge. . ' .. . . WINDS VEER OFF MANILA If! A typhoon wi2i winds up to 140-miles-an-hour veer ed west early Monday toward sparsely - settled islands clustered between the northern Philippines and Formosa. MEETS WITH RITEE . , I SEOUL IB Sen. Knowland CR- Calif.) conferred with President Syngman Rhee for an hour Sunday at the presidential xnansion. Tb. Oregon Statezncrxu Salm, Twice A POW r NgajSsflsjMaSjpsjVp aiiia-www.j- PANMUNJOM Marine Sergeant Frederick J. Stumpges, Sheboy gan, Wise, -who survived the Bataan Death March during World War II, story on page 5) is shown at Panmunjem fol lowing his release by the Com munists in Korea.' He has spent nearly 7 of his 14 years in the Marine Corps as a Prisoner of War. (AP YVlrephoto via Radio from Tokyo to the Statesman). Bible 'Bomb' Plan Blocked, SaysChurch AMSTERDAM. The Netherlands (A The International Council of Christian Churches said Sunday the U. S. State Department has refused it permission to float small Bibles by balloons into Communist-con trolled nations from the U. S.-occu pied zone of Germany. The council's spokesman said he did not know the reason, but the refusal might be based on political erntmde I The Rev. Dr. Carl Mclntire ef Collingswood, N. J., president of the council, wired President Eisen , hower asking "your immediate as- r .a aa earn . f .m . n . sistance. - i.nc icaoie saia me dsj loons were not to carry political propngantia. j v. Denied Stoppage . - In Bonn, a U. S. High Commis sion official denied that the State Department had refused permis sion. . There was no immediate com' ment from the State Department in Washington. Dr. Mclntire's par ty of four arrived here Saturday night from Germany. Amsterdam is the international headquarters of the council, a Protestant organ ization. Texas Floods Cliase3,O0Dy From Homes ROBSTOWN, Tex. W More than 3,000 persons had been evacu a ted from this flat Texas Gulf coast area Sunday as new torren tial downpours increased the dan ger to their flood' bound homes. About 1,500 persons were In em ergency shelters here, 17 miles west of Corpus Christi, after being chased from their homes by al most 10 inches of rain., Another 3 inches feu Sunday. Bashed to Safety In Sinton, 28 mQes north of Cor pus Christi, another 1,500 -persons were rushed to safety. A total of 129 families were evacuated Satur day night and more were rescued Sunday as a 7-inch cloudburst fell in less than five hours. - Sunday's rain made a total of almost , 20 inches in Sinton since last Thursday. ; Several families were evacuated Sunday from the Mathis commu nity, 16, miles west of Sinton, and bkidmore, 19 'miles nortnwest Rains up to 4 inches fell in the areas Sunday. No Deaths Reported No 'deaths have been - reported. About one-fourtn or Mnton was reported under water, including both residences and! business hous es. The flooding ranged from sev eral inches to several feet Western Iaternatiejal At Salem e-4,rvncouver 1-1 At Spokane r-f?aJf ary 4- At WenatchVC juCity 9-i . At Yakima IprKntoa 4-1 Coast Igtte.iT, i.x . At PortUnd-4yNu Dleso 1-5 At Zxw Aaeles -, Hollywood 4-9 At Saa franciaco 7-J, Oakland S-4 At Sacramento Seatye S-l ' National League 1' ' . At Brooklyn 30. St. Louis 4 At Pittaburfh 4-3. Milwaukee IS-lt At New York 10-1. Chicaro 14 At Philadelphia 4-4, Ctnonaatt X-3 Amerlcam League 1 ' ' At ChJcago -l. New York lft-e At Qeveland e-a, Boston S-4 At SC Louis 3-3, Washlnrton 0-9 1 lMMfitia Orfyon. Monday, Auout 31 r . i . , , . i ; "i Lrr Mass' By DON DO AXE BONN, Germany W The West German ' government said Sunday it has! broken up a Communist plot to disrupt next Sunday's T parlia mentary election by arresting at WW II , A -V' A iW U II VaH aaVVIiyiWW WUUUU H Cites DaDiaou AciBOtTQ IjONDON (Pi Yugoslavia published denials Sunfay that she planned to annex the Slav zone of Trieste and broadcast charges that British-American military Italy in a move to grab parts of Italian charges that Yugoslav President. Marshal Tito was! ready ing a Trieste grab announcement in a speech Sept 6 set off .the flurry The Yugoslavs counter charged that - the Italians were massing tanks and troops about 20 miles I north of Trieste in a seizure step, t Toward midnight an Italian crui ser, tfcro destroyers and a number of smjall vessels sailed into Venice harbor, on the northern coast neari Trieste, Rome newspapers report ed. ! ' No Explanation j There was no official explanation for the arrival of the -fleet at this time but newspapers in Venice and Rome said it was "obviously in connection with the mounting Italo Yugoslav dispute. Italian military " authorities In Romej also acknowledged that an Italian infantry regiment and an armored battalion deployed Satur day night along the Yugoslav bor der and other Army units in the area jwent on alerts in barracks. Military authorities said, howev er, the troop movements were part of "routine exercises" held in man euvers in that area for some time. Help Allay Fears The Yugoslav denials helped al lay fears of western diplomats in Yugoslavia. U. S. diplomats in Rome were reported undisturbed by the exchange. The official Yugoslav news agen cy Tanjug reported the Yugoslav denials. ; They came after Belgrade radio broadcast a. speech' at Idrija, on the . Slovene coast by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Ales Bebler. 4 Italians Charged . , ; . Behler said "Italy is endeavoring with all. means available to incor porate Trieste and part of the Slo vene coast into its territory. . 4 "Unfortunately,, in- their endea vors j the .Italians are getting .the support of the Anglo-American mil itary (government in Trieste." " Earlier, radio Belgrade said lo cal Italian press reports confirmed Italian troop movements. Tanjug assailed the reports of Yugoslav seizure plans as "fabri cated provocation" by "official Ital ian personalities.' u Trieste is an old issue between the tiro countries. SUOMELA i LEAVES . I JUNEAU. Alaska (A Aroie Suomela, director of the Oregon Department of Fisheries who was sent to Alaska for a three month survey. of Alaska fisheries as per sonal! representative of Interior Secretary McKay, has left the ter ritory; Ike's Son U f .... SEOUL President Eisenhower's one of five U. S. 3rd Infantry Division officers honored by the Republic of South Korea,-receives handshake from; Klaj. Gen. Euar Kyin Shin. ROK army deputy chief of staff, after the officer pinned the Cbongma Distinguished Military Service medal with gold! star him. The citation said in part "for outstanding pro fessional skill, resourcefulness, and ingenuity.' ( AP ; Wrephete to the Statesman) , 1953; i ; . :;;;.J PBicE-:5c , H y , i j : . i . l , Arrests i:JoiwaFt least 1,600. Red agents from East uermainy. ; l ; About 1,000 were I arrested in Hehnstedt as they crossed the East West German border! with ( forged travel ipermits, it was announced. government officials wlere backing the disputed free terr ory. Pretty D ver m l m i l anes lriicK Driving nze Btatetman Newt SSrrrlce RICKBEALL pretty Dal- las farm wife steeref, clutched and braked herself fto a quick first place win in the women's truck driving contest at the Polk County Fair Sunday. She is Mrs. Jane Quiring, Dal las Route 1, Box 433A. The con- test climaxed the closing day Sun day of what fair officials Jubilant ly termed , "the raosf successful Attendance High vu. . ..A. , am w mill V. Ross A. " Simpson, 3 Sice chair man of the Polk fair board, who presented the winner's cup to Mrs. Quiring, told Th Statesman the three-day attendance at the fair this year is expected to equal the total attendance bf the past 10 annual fairs. .Tola attendance at the present fair y Sunday night 1 was estimate . at about eleven or twelve tho and. Miss Marceu us and Mrs. Mary Lou Payne, both onmouth. took second and place tro- phies,! respectively the truck driving contest They e sisters. The contest consisted In piloting a truck over a course between 'stakes; and Cumulating backing up to a dock, parking and weaving. Sevenl In Contest 1 Seven - women participated .In the contest sponsored py 10 local dealers, .v. ' ' . Methods of fighting? field .and grain fires were demonstrated by the Southwest Polk Jtural ' Vol unteer Fire Departnaerit, directed by Chief Walter Yountf of Dallas. (Pictures on .page 0) Southwestern Bell, Union End Dispute . By THE ASSOCIATE!) PRESS The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and spokesmen for the CIO Communications workers un ion announced Sunday bight they have reached verbal Agreements on all 'points in the llfday strike of the utility s 53,000 union em ployesi . S SAXXM FRECtPITATIOW Sine SUrt of Weather ear Sept. nil Ttar . Last Tear j Nenaal 44.S4 . . 4X72 t SS.1S Decorated! - t son, Mai. John Elsenhower (right). The Weather ' Treip, Portland ?s 9 7 W It .(XI xo Chicara Ye ITork Will melt. Rivr u. a. -thr bureau. McN-ry field. Salem): Mostly cwuoj uiu morning ana tonlf ht. crtn i ns fair during th aitemoon of today and Tuesday. Hi(h today near tt io M and low tonight near SO to M. : Temperature at it 01 a. m. waa 4 degreea. ..:-).. No. 154 srapf Hundreds were seized in various other areas of Germany. - ' All carried forged papers and bundles of printed Communist prop aganda and were well supplied with West German currency. Many ad- mitted, police said that they were sent in by East German Commu nists to spread Red propaganda. West German officials feared the agents also might try to start riots at election rallies and even disturb the noting. One Communist disturb ancp was squelched Sunday at a Free Democrat Party rally in Dues seldorf. j , - " The main target of the agents' was the . industrial Ruhr, where Communists are concentrating their attacks against Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's pro-Western, govern ment. - ' :- '"I ' S ' ; j - But the number seized in outty- ing areas showed that the reported campaign was to be widespread Police admitted that hundreds probably succeeded in reaching theif goals before the border con- '. tro!was clamped on. . j. , Government officials, however, said? they have the situation undet control. A spokesman expressed confidence that the majority of the agents shipped into West Germany have been or will be caught. ! Every train and road crossing the Iborder wal guarded and alJ travielers closely checked. i , ies Eastern Half Of Continent Byf THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The sun .broiled the nation from theigulf states! to the East Coast; Sunday, breaking heat records in many cities. Only the Rockies and the ;Far West escaped the sizzling aun scorci temperatures'' -' ' l The sun melted twd Chicago heat records as the mercury-soared to 96.L That reading broke a record for rthe date., B5.7 degrees : set in 1M5. ; ! Sixth Day la Row f Sunday also was the sixth con-; secutive day When the 'tempera ture! rose to 95 degrees or higher -breaking a record of five such con secutive days; set in 1911.' AtT the Chicago White Sox New York Yankees' baseball double header in Comiskey Park 25 fans were treated Jar heat prostration before the end of the first game. Chicago fire department ambul ances and rescue squads alone han dled 38 cases of persons overcome by the heat in a 24-hour periodi More than 750,000 persons flocked to the city's beaches. Sunday was Chicago's 18th ! consecutive day without measurable precipitation. New York Mark The Chicago Weather Bureau re ported the following mid-day temp eratures: Baltimore 100; Washing-: ton 99; Omaha M. New York .re ported a sizzling 95.9 at 3:05 p.;m. New York s reading set the sec ond consecutive new record for the date. Saturday's 100 also had set a record. : t i New England boiled. Boston's temperature hit 98 Sunday setting a record for the date. The old rec ord was 93 set in 1881. Hartford, Conn;, hit 97. topping the Aug. 30 record of 92 J set in 1921. Five children drowned In Connecticut . since? Friday.' In Richmond. Va.. the mercury bubbled at 101, breaking a record set in 1932 for the date. Gordons- ville,Va., reported 102 degrees and no relief was in sight for. Virginia and Surrounding states. French Drive i if I ' . Tp Wipe Out WITH FRENCH UNION FORCES. AT VIENAN IKIENAN, North eastern Indochina (A French Un- ion troops wading up to their necks; in rain-swollen swamps and rice' fields pushed ahead steadily Sun day night in an attempt to wipe . out over 1.000 encircled Commun- - 1st -led Vletminh soldiers. , - The French drive was aimed at: removing a threat of attack on; this air and war supply base and' the city of Haiphong. ! French conmanders reported . thus far more" than 120 Vietmlnh have been killed in savage fighting and 200 captured in the first 43 hours iof the new; offensive in the Red River delta. Vintage Automobiles T. 2 Editorials 4 Society, Valley! News .... 6 World Tbis'Week .. 7 Sports News; 8. 9 Radio-TV . ..." 10 10, 11 Classifieds M