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14 Oregon ... 20 Nebraska. 12 OCE.....40 S0CE....14 Colo...... 21 Wash. .;. 20 So. Calif. . 29 Baylor . . .-25 Calif. . . ... 0 COP..... 25 Stanford.. 20 LSU.. .20 Wffl.......O i.Sl..13 Texas 7- m Ay 1 (Additional scores on Sports page.) The Weather Mix. - Mln. Prec. .78 S3 jOO . 74 53 .00 . 69 60. JOO .14 63 .41 'Sww 1m 9 Wtii Cored to ttt Crawta ! Ortpa Idem Portland San Francisco On vs Chicago Kew York .. 73 55 M Willamette River -3.2 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McNsry Field. Salem) : Some early morning cloudiness, otherwise fair today and Monday. Highest today near 80. lowest tonight near 45. Temperature at 13 41 aun. Was 52 degrees. UNDBB 103RD YEAH 3 SECTIONS-32 PAGES Tli Oregon Statesman, Salem Oregon, Sunday September 20 IS 53 PRICE 10c No. 174 - CPS Wast 1651 Alligator Found on Salem Front Lawn By JAMES BURR MILLER Staff Writer, The Statesman A Salem woman thought she noon when she stepped from her tunning himself on her front lawn. The 'gator, about one-foot long had mysteriously located himself The United States, as the op erating manager for the U. N. side in the anticipated Korean peace conference, rejected the Communist China proposal to in clude Asian neutrals at the con ference table, and called on the Beds to participate as previously planned. The U. S. has suggested Oct 15th as the date for conven ing and Honolulu or Geneva as a place for the conference to be held. It is now up to Red China to indicate what its decision will be. Reporting from Tokyo Henry S. Hayward, chief correspondent for the Christian Science Moni tor, says it is believed that the Communists hope the conference can be postponed indefinitely. The truce agreement calls for a session within 90 days, but the Reds are past masters at stalling. They may object to the place or to the composition of the con ference, or dig up other excuses for delay. Communist tactics evidently are directed toward broadening the conference for some sort of package deal in the Orient. The U. S. seeks to restrict the Korean conference to Korean issues, though it professes itself willing to meet all Asian powers in any general conference dealing with problems of the Far East Al ready China has developed sup port among non-C ommunist members of U. N. for concessions such as admission of Red China to U. N. membership. On the question of giving India a seat at the Korean peace parley the U. S. was left with scarcely any allies outside of Latin America, so the tactics of division en dorsed by Stalin proved partially effective. One can't help wondering in this great game of power politics why our side doesn't work harder to divide the Communist alliance. The West welcomed the final de fection of Communist (Continued on editorial page 4.) Korea Orphan Thrilled by County Fair EUGENE tf A small Korean boy walked into the first county is tA AtToi Vi o conn anI nntiil a policeman. "Better be good. The MPs are here," he told his companions. The Army is about all the. South Korean lad remembers. An or phan, he was rescued from the squalor of a damaged town in Korea by Sgt Aaron Garber of nearby Veneta. Thereafter Garber and his buddies took care of him. He was dressed in cut-down Army clothes and was addressed by Ar my rank which, depending on his behavior ranged from private to lieutenant Garber managed to get the boy entry to this country, where he is being adopted by Garber's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Reid Garber. He came in on a troop transport at Seattle with Garber . recently. He is called Buckshot, for no one knows his real name, nor even his age. although he is believed to be 6 or 7 years old. It was Garber's parents who took young Buckshot to the fair, where he gazed wide-eyed at the ani mals and rode joyously on ponies, ferris wheel, merry-go-round and everything else available. " Buckshot, who is eager to start school, has been well-behaved, al though Mrs. Garber said she had to threaten once to spank him. "You can't spank me. I'm a lieutenant and you're only a priv ate," he responded. National League At Brooklyn 5. Philadelphia 4 At Milwaukee 5. Cincinnati 2 At New York 4-5. Pittsburgh 1-6 At St. Louis 3. Chicago 5 (12 inn.) American League At Boston 3. Kew York 0 At Philadelphia . Washington I At Detroit-Cleveland, rain Only games scheduled. was in the Everglades Saturday front door to find an alligator and described as "plenty feisty,1 in front of Mrs. Clarence Mc- CoBam's home at 1255 N. 19th St Neighbors and police quickly congregated at the McCollam home after Mrs. sounded the alligator alarm and there ensued several long minutes of maneuv ering trying to get the "beast into a box. City officer Michael Leslie Elkins was credited with luring the 'gatoreinto a box after several attempts were made by others to pick the animal .up. Witnesses at the scene said each time someone came near the ani mal (tentatively identified as male) he would hiss, switch his tail and snap his jaws in very adult fashion. Gator Named Pete After the capture the animal was given to Miss Carmelita Bar quist, 1395 Mission St, biology instructor at Salem High School. She put the animal in a tank at school with her pet 'gator named "Pete." "As soon as the little one got in the tank he hissed at Pete, she explained. Pete is about four feet long and used in visual dem onstrations in the biology class. "Pete didnt seem too worried," she said. "He just hissed ana honked at the little one." Horse Meat Diet Miss Barquist explained that alligators the size of "the little stranger" usually feast on such items as frogs and bugs. "Pete, who is about 17 years old, has a diet of horse meat packaged of course," she explained. She estimated the smaller animal's age at about six years. Where he came from remained a question Saturday night but Miss Barquist admitted she hoped he wasn't claimed. "He's really a fine specimen and I'd like to keep him in my classroom," she said. Speculation by some indicated the animal might be someone's pet purchased about a year ago or so when a local drug stove was selling them. Miss Barquist thought he might be from Cali fornia. "Pete s from Florida and they don't look the same," she explained. Heroic Girl Dies in Flames CHICAGO IrV-A 14-year-old girl, awakened Saturday by smoke in the home of her parents, threw her young brother to safety, awak ened 31 other people in the house, but perished in the flames. The body of the young heroine, Rostell T. Jones, was found in the embers of the suburban Chicago Heights residence of Mrs. Vera Jones. Nixon Given Job to Soothe AFL Feelings ST. LOUIS President Eisen hower Saturday assigned Vice President Nixon the job of smooth ing ruffled feelings of AFL leaders sore at the administration since labor Secretary Martin Dur kin's resignation. The White House in Washington announced that Nixon will deliver a personal message from Eisen hower to the annual "AFL conven tion next Wednesday. Nixon may give the President's reply to the charges made by Dur kin, an AFL union president and Democrat, that he quit because the administration ran out on an agreement on Taft-Hartley Labor Law changes to be recommended to Congress. Weather Officials Promise Fair Day A "fair" day was promised to day in Salem by VS. weather men and temperatures are ex pected to range from 80 degrees to 45. Early morning cloudiness was expected. Highest temperature in Salem Saturday was 78 and the lowest 52 degrees. Precipitation contin ued to fall short of previous schedules with only a "trace" recorded this year as compared to .20 of an inch last year and a normal reading of .85 of an inch. SALEM PRECIPITATION Sine Start of Weather Tear Sept 1 This Year Last Year Normal trac M JU Twins to Help rfi IS i&k ( & ' ;- UV ' 0 -esii Salem public elementary school pupils prepared for the opening of classes Monday with registra tion on Friday. Entering the first grade at Washington School, the twins shown above were found getting acquainted with one of the elementary teachers, Mrs. Genevieve Carrey (right), 1045 N. 5th St The girls, Sharon Rae (left) and Cherryl Kay, are shown with their mother, Mrs. La Vera Mattison, 2170 Carleton Way. (Statesman Photo.) Russia Backs Red China In Korean Parley Policy UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (P)-Soviet Russia backed Red China's insistence on a Korean "roundtable" peace conference Saturday with a demand for U.N. Assembly debate on Communist proposals to include India and three other Asian nations. The United States and its 15 Korean Allies, already picked as the U.N. side in the conference, have announced they oppose Commies Stall On Delivery Of Prisoners PANMUNJOM U-l Without explanation, the Communists Sun day put off until Thursday the de livery into Indian custody of more than 300 Allied prisoners including some Americans labelled by the Reds as "unwilling" to return home. This delay followed release Satur day of 13 such prisoners some of whom promptly said tehy want ed to go home all the time but were held back because they had been "uncooperative" with their captors. The Communists said the 13 12 South Koreans and 1 Turk chose at first not to go home but changed their minds under "persu asion" by the Reds. Kim Sang Bong, 25, one of the South Koreans freed, said the num ber still in Red custody at a camp near Kaesong is nearer 400 than 300 and that it includes some Americans. Another freed South Korean, Lee Choo Bok, 20, said most of this group was being detained forcibly by the Reds. Lee said that South Koreans still in detention, were be ing told that if they returned home the South Korean army would put them on an offshore island and keep them there for three years. Pencil Removed From Man's Ear After SO Years NEWPORT. Ky. W A half-inch long lead pencil, imbedded in the ear canal of a Newport man for 30 years, has been removed. The Fort Thomas veterans hos pital said Saturday the pencil was retrieved while Charles E. Yates was undergoing an operation for a mastoid condition. Yates said he fell from a truck when he was 7 years old and the pencil pierced his ear. Woman Driver More Deadly Than Male IONIA. Mich. W Frederick W. Schultx, 77, escaped injury Friday night when his auto collided with one driven by Paul Geiger, 33.. A half hour later as Schultz con tinued on his way home, be waa killed when his car collided with a truck. It was driven by Geiger's wife, Mary. Today's Statesman Section 1 General news 2,3,5,12 YMCA story . 3 Editorials, Features 4 Sports 6-8 Crossword puzzle 8 Radio, TV 9 Classified ads 9-11 Section 2 Society, women's ; 1-6 Garden news 8,9 Valley news 10 Section t Full-color comics , Swell Rdnks of another debate on the peace con ference makeup. They are still waiting for a direct reply from the Communists on the time and place of the proposed par ley, after telling them the U. N. decision barring neutrals still stands. - Question of Intent Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was out of the city for the day. But a U. S. delegation spokes man said the Soviet move raised the question of whether the Com munist really want a peace in Ko rea. The spokesman's words echoed Dulles' statement to the Assembly last Thursday. To Reopen Question Andrei Vishinsky, top Soviet dele gate, took the step to reopen the question here by asking the U. N. to debate Communist Chinese and North Korean cablegrams to the U. N., containing the '.'roundtable" demands, as a special item on the Assembly agenda. His demand, accompanied by no tice that he wants to be the first speaker Monday morning when the Assembly resumes its general pol icy debates, was made public by U. N. Secretary-General Dag Ham marskjold's office. 2 Drivers Die At Speedway RALEIGH. N. C. Two driv ers were killed and several others were injured before the first lap was completed in Saturday night's 220 mile national championship NASCAR sportsman's modified stock car race at the Raleigh Speedway. As the 60-car field was nearing the final turn, a 15-car pileup oc curred and five cars caught fire, two exploding. Coroner Marshall W. Bennett said Bill Blevins of Fayetteville, N. C, burned to death in his car. Jesse Midkiff of Burlington, N. C, was dead on arrival at a hospital. The track was cleared an hour after the accident and the race was restarted with 47 cars. Police Seeh Last Laugh On Burglar ROSEBURG (fl Police, trying to get the last laugh on the laugh ing burglar, arrested Jack Frank Bliss, 38, Saturday. Bliss denied be was the man they want The laughing burglar frustrated them Friday Jiight by telephoning to say that while they were in vestigating one break-in report he had broken into another store. He laughed and hung up. They rushed out to find it was true, but while they were out, there were two more break-ins elsewhere. Police Chief Stan Olson said they found Bliss asleep in an automo bile, and were going to charge him with being drunk when they found a pried open cash register and an adding machine in the car. They charged him with burglary. A cash register and adding ma chine were taken' in one of the break-Ins. School Children 9,000Ready For Opening Day of School Some 9,000 pupils, a record number by several hundred, will flock to the city's classrooms to morrow for the delayed opening of Salem public schools. Registration Friday at the schools confirmed estimates by school officials that an overall gain of 500 to 600 can be ex pected over last year's count Classes will begin. Monday morning in 27 of the city's 29 public schools including two junior high schools and Salem Senior High School. But at Liberty construction de lays have forced postponement of first classes to Wednesday. The new Morningside school, also de layed by construction holdups, will send its first and second grade children to Richmond. Third through sixth grades will be transported to Liberty School. Bus routes for Morningside pu pils are as follows: Grades 1, 2 First pickup at Pringle Road and Strong Road at 8:35 a. m., thence to Morning side School, thence north on 12th with stops at Vista and Fairview. Return trip will leave Richmond School at 2:15 p. m. and reverse the route. Grades 3-6 First pickup at 12th and Fairview Streets at 8:20 a. m., thence to Morningside School. Bus will leave Liberty School at 3:15 p. m. for return trip. Second Brush With Power Line Fatal BAKER (J) Claude Phillips, about 35, escaped alive from a 20,-000-volt power line that fell across his truck and killed 15 hogs. Then Phillips made the mistake of go ing back to remove the hogs. He stepped on the power line and was killed. Phillips was driving the hogs to market in La Grande, when ' the truck went off the road and knocked over a power pole, the high tension line dropping on the truck. He was burned, but was able to walk to the house of his em ployer, Oran Pellissier. They went back to the truck to try to re move the hogs. Soviet Union Reveals North Korea Aid Plan MOSCOW I The Soviet Un ion announced Sunday it is grant ing, war-ravaged North Korea big financial and material aid for re construction. The aid program was announced in a communique issued here after nine days of negotiation between a North. Korean delegation headed by Premier Kim n Sung and So viet Premier Georgi Malenxov and other Soviet leaders. " TfcS chief announced points of the agreement 'reached said Russia will: , ' , L Grant Ninth Korea one billion rubles (250 million dollars) for re construction, especially for rebuild ing the battered Yalu River hydro electric .plants. (The ruble's value is fixed by the Soviet government at 25 cents but this cannot be taken as a true standard of measurement of its purchasing power in the West) Senators Investi Tib on JL Plan to Deposed Chief Said Hiding in Neutral Nation WASHINGTON The Senate investigations subcommittee Satur day was reported studying a tip that Lavrenty P. Beria. deposed former boss of Russia's Secret Po lice, has escaped from Soviet Rus sia and is hiding in a neutral coun try. The subcommittee's chairman, Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis), declined to comment on the report, which came from a Senate source. This source said an agent of the subcommittee has been in touch with a man representing himself l as Beria. The Senate source said Army in telligence officers also are investi gating the case, seeking to deter mine whether it is a "great hoax or a fantastic fact." Fled by Plane The man representing himself as Beria, the informant said, told a story of having escaped by plane to a neutral non-Communist coun try. The McCarthy subcommittee's in terest in the matter presumably would be in Beria's knowledge if he should be at large of Soviet secret agents in this country. The Senate source said there re portedly have been discussions in neutral countries of possible asy lum for Beria in the West, perhaps even in the United States. Paper Reports SAN DIEGO. Calif. Ufi The San Diego Morning Union in a copy righted story Saturday night said a man claiming to be Lavrenty P. Beria and three other supposed Communist leaders reported to have escaped from Soviet Russia, are in hiding in a deep southern country. 1 The paper said that the man rep resenting himself as Beria and his associates are reported willing to exchange top Communist secrets for an asylum in the Umted States. Seeking Asylum The Union said the original re port that four top world Commu nist leaders had escaped from Rus sia, and were seeking asylum in the United States, came as the re sult of its own work in investigating Communist penetration in Latin America. According to the copyrighted story, the Union was the, interme diary through which the original contact was established between the man claiming to be Beria, the McCarthy Senate investigating sub committee, and United States intel ligence investigating agencies. The paper said the original report of the escape of the four Commu nist leaders was routed through a Western hemisphere center tf Communist espionage, operating out of Mexico City, whose members now fear for their lives as a result of Beria's ouster and the new lead ership of the Soviet Secret Police. : Firemen Halt Stubble Blaze at Sky Ranch Statesman News Serrlct FOUR CORNERS A stubble fire sent Four Corners Fire De partment to the Sky Ranch, four miles southeast of here, Saturday afternoon. Firemen said the stubble was being burned on a permit but got away from those supervising it Richard Severin was listed as tenant of the property. 2. Send equipment and material for restoration and reconstruction and technical advisers. 3. Send supplies of consumer goods. 4. Postpone repayment of credit already extended during the war. The Soviet Union also promised easier terms for repayment of the North Korean debts. , The aid program was announced in a communique after a dinner Malenkov gave at the Kremlin Sat urday night for the North Korean delegates. The United States has provided about 775 million dollars for relief and rehabilitation in South Korea. The U. S. government also has announced a program to make South Korea a "showcase of the Free World" through rehabilita tion work drawing on the know how of specialists among Ameri can, troops stationed there. Beria 'Tell Secrets 18 Saved From cean : In B-29 Crash, 7 Losi MIAMI, Fla. (JP) Eighteen men were rescued from the sea 200 miles east of Charleston, S.C., Saturday, nine from a stricken B29 Hurricane hunter plane and the others from a rescue air craft which alighted at the scene of the ocean drama. Svn nthr mpn rnH th rtistrAH R2Q rinvn 1 If ur' ditched Friday night and are tinued for them or for wreckage i of the lost aircraft The nine men who jumped in parachutes paddled about in life jackets until search aircraft drop ped a power lifeboat and rubber liferafts. They clung to these until rescued. Two ships picked them up from the sea. The SS seatrain Georgia took aboard three men, one of them badly burned. The ship re ported she would take her sur vivors to Charleston where she was to rendezvous with a Coast Guard cutter at 4 a.m. Sunday for their transfer. Also Seaplane The steamship Nassau rescued six B29 crewmen and nine men from an SA16 Grumman sea plane and was taking them to New York, The SA16 was a rescue craft which spotted two B29 survi vors on the water, alighted to rescue them and was damaged in rough seas and abandoned. One of the Hurricane hunter crewmen aboard the seatrain Georgia told .rescuers that the big plane, returning to its Ber muda base after being evacuated because of hurricane Edna, had developed engine trouble Man Burned , The tact that one man was badly burned was taken as an indication that fire resulted. The B29, converted for -storm scouting, got into trouble while flying from Hunter Air Force Base at Savannah, Ga., to Kind- ley Field. Bermuda. Whether the craft flashed a distress call was not known here. However, a "mayday" call was ordered by the Air Force when it was determined that the ship was in distress. "Mayday" is the aircraft voice radio equivalent of an SOS. Such a call silences all radio traffic except that neces sary to the rescue effort Red Guerrilla Chief Killed in South Korea SEOUL UP) Police announced Sunday they have killed the long- hunted chieftain of guerrillas ana five of bis lieutenants in the for bidding Chiri Mountains, Red stronghold in southwestern boutn Korea. They identified him as 52 year old Lee Hyun Sang, who had a price on his head of 10,000 pounds of rice offered by the U. S. 8th Army and $300 offered by the South Korean government. With the killing of the guerrilla, police claimed the break-up of the bandit force. The chief of the police combat team which killed Lee said: "Lee was the symbol of the guerrillas. Their morale is now broken." Police claimed the once numer ous guerrilla force has dwindled to 1,000 as result of captures, sur renders and desertions. Almost all are concentrated in the wild Chiris Mountains. Cowboy Seriously Injured at Fair EUGENE UH Cowboy William Parrish, 22, of Roseburg was ser iously injured when he was thrown by a horse during the Lane County Fair rodeo here Saturday. The accident occurred during the bronc busting event Parrish was thrown against a fence and his horse then rolled on him. He was still unconscious four hours after the accident Rattlesnake Killed Near Eugene Gry Limits EUGENE LB A rattlesnake. rarely seen In this area, was killed near the Eugene city limits by Harry Moore. He said the 30- inch long snake, which had eight rattles, was coiled when he came across IL He killed it with a shot gun. 'Escape missing. An intensive search con Die Delivers VerbarDigjat Adlai, Truman: CHICAGO m President Eisen hower, in a surprise climax to a GOP party rally, told Republican women Saturday the future of America is in their hands and "I have no fear of the outcome." - administration was under fire at a Democratic conference here Mon day and Tuesday, slapped a glanc ing blow at the opposition. He took a fling at "that kind of leadership that consists only in the clever word or sometimes bad deport ment . . v That was the nearest he came to a direct comeback at former fresiaent Truman and Afliai v.. Stevenson, the 1952 presidential nominee, the' big - name speakers the Democrats offered at their con ference. " . ; -:' Eisenhower was under pressure to come to this meeting. The Demo crats had a former PnsJdnt and presidential nominee, while the Re publicans had a Cabinet membef and senators, but nobody of Eisen bower's stature. Dallas Man j - WinsAuto at I Trade Center : Kenneth Reagle, Dallas, wafci the winner of a Hillman Mint: automobile as the grand prize in the Capitol Shopping Center's re cent sales promotional entitled, "School Days." Reagle, an employe of the State Highway Department is a former' Salem resident having just re cently moved. Other winners Saturday eve? ning in the concluding drawing of iVim nrnmntlnnal hcviin Aits' Iff" were E. T. Taggart, 1994 First St a deep fat fryer; Glen Duvalt Hebo, a record changer and radio: - Bertel Siodinr. 1815 N, 24th St, a pair of shoes, and Mrs, Lloyd Moore, 1157 N. 19th St, a boys or girls bicycle. y Five-year-old Sharon Compton of Scotts Mills was selected from the large audience on the Center's parking lot to draw the tickets. ; Debutante Killed i I : "m By Lightning Bolt: PITTSBURG!! tr A 20-year- old Pittsburgh debutante was killed by a bolt of lightning Saturday which also stunned Pete Snead, 44. golf professional at the Pittsburgh Field Club. The victim was Patricia (Pat I Hinkel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Hinkel Jr., of subur ban Fox ChapeL Snead, brother of the famed goll pro, Sammy Snead, is in good con dition and is expected to be dis-' charged from a hospital Sunday. - FAIR REPORTS PROFIT PORTLANDon The Multno mah County Fair reported a rec ord $43,140 profit ' Saturday from this year's week-long show, i Highway Bypass- Dane or Blessing? . Oregon's highways rapidly are bypassing Its cities. The . North Santiam Highway and 99-E soon will swerve away from more valley communities. Is the death knoll for small towns? Read what has hap-; pened at Jefferson, a town that' was bypassed tlx years age, ea Page 10, Section 1L of today's Oregon Statesman.