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2 The Statesman, Salem, lEast Reich ; Workers Stage j Slowdowns, ' By TOM REEDY BERLIN un Sullen East Ger man workers have thrown a new ;right into Communist ranks by rash of slowdowns in vital Russian :Zone plants. Evidence piled up Sun day that the Red regime seemsJ . . i t . :t I jcomuseu as io now w comoai u. The ruling Socialist Unity (SED JCommunist) Party sent its top trou ble shooter Saturday to Halle in an effort to drag the issue into the ppen and find a solution. The party newspaper said .Her jnann Matern. Politburo member and head of the Control Commis sion, had found a "highly disturb ing" set of affairs. ; Matern reported back that the big railway repair shops on the 'outskirts of Halle have been limp Jng along in an obvious slowdown -strike foe weeks. .Below Normrl - The production plant fell 10 per .cent short of normal in August and fro .far in September is running at only 50 per cent of capacity. Matern said. In a meeting of party leaders of the area. Matern demanded "a fi hal handling of the provocateurs who are sabotaging" the economy, i Halle, near Leipzig, was particu larly riotous in the June 17 upris ings. Ifint in Papers Worried government and. party leaders indicated the slowdown Jveapon is being used in more areas. A week ago there was a hint in the Communist press that pro duction in Goerlitz on the Polish border and in the shipyard city of Rostock was far below normal. The party's Neues Deutschland laid Sunday morning that the Tight against provocateurs and enemies" has been too weakly han dled in the entire Potsdam area, outside Berlin. Not Isolated Case" Kurt Seibt, first secretary for the district, admitted in an article that resistance by the workers" is a Continuing question. He added that machine tractor plant in Schul tendorf was plagued by sabotage and that "is not an isolated case." ' Deputy Prime Minister Otto Nus chke, returning from, a swing through Mecklenburg, complained that workers and party people are too concerned with the problems of daily life. "In open discussions, the personal wishes play the major role," Nus chke wrote in his newspaper Neue Zeit. "Discussion of the great na tional questions is an exception." , Nuschke's views confirmed re ports in the West that the Soviet Zone population is rumbling with jdiscontent over the basic essentials of living food, clothing, housing. Allied quarters have been in formed that the average worker who joined in the two million-man riots in June is uncewed and big Imports of Russian butter and other rood failed to win enthusiasm for the regime. Evening Mass Celebrated In New York . . HOBOKEN. N. J. (tf The first tvening mass in the history of the New York metropolitan area was celebrated Sunday night on a pier for 45 invalid Catholic pil grims departing for Europe. .- Bishop C. L. Nelligan of As sumption College. Windsor. On tario, celebrated the mass on the upper deck of Pier 5. using a small altar banked by palms. About 500 persons attended the tnass. The pilgrims, from 11 states and Canada, boarded the Holland America liner Neiuw Amsterdam Sunday for their 17,000-mile trip to shrines in Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Holland. Most of - the pilgrims were in wheelchairs. One woman making the trip has spent most of her life in an iron lung due to polio. The pilgrimage is sponsored by the Confraternity of Pilgrims, an organization of about 20,000 mem bers which helps the sick poor to travel to religious shrines. This was the first pilgrimage they have sponsored to shrines outside of the United States and Canada. French Pilot SightsC-47 T a. vvumv PARIS UP French security po lice set out through dense forests Sunday to the spot in the eastern Pyrenees where a French pilot says he saw the wreckage of a U. S. Air Force C47, missing since Saturday night with a crew of four aboard. ! The big four-engine transport had been on a training night from England to Spain. It had reported Setting lost earlier and its last message said it was 30 miles south pt Marseille. A pilot from a local French fly ing club in southeastern France said he sighted glittering metal through low hanging clouds on J,-TSO-foot Moulos Peak in the Albercs range along the - French-Spanish He said although visibility was wreckage of the plane. He could not determine the fate of the crew men. : The pilot said the plane was on the French side of the peak about SO miles south of Perpignan. U. S. Air' Force planes from France and Germany fanned out dver a wide area in the search tor the missing plane, which was -based at Burtonwood. England. Oreaon. Monday. SepL 28. 1S53 Cripple Plants Storm Damages Japan's Pearl ; Cultivation Bezels TOKYO LB Last week's typhoon dealt a near knockout blow to Ja pan's pearl cultivation industry, Asahi reported Monday, causing an estimated 5 V million dollars dam age. For the next two or three years no cultivated pearl will come out of the famous Mikimoto pearl grounds, the newspaper said. . The pearl grounds are in five inlets facing the Pacific in central Japan. They, received the full brunt of the typhoon. Some 25,000 rafts from which pearl oysters are hung were either sunk or washed away. McCarthy to CamoaiTi for Republicans WASHINGTON UB Sen. Mc Carthy (R-Wis) said Sunday he will be on tap to campaign for Republican senatorial candidates in crucial states in next year's battle for control of Congress. McCarthy, who has drawn sharp criticism from some Democrats for his congressional inquiry meth ods, said in an interview he in tends to keep his Senate investi gating subcommittee going at full blast during the 1954 campaign. Between hearings, however, he said he will be available to cam paign for Republican colleagues who invite him into their states. He is understood to have invita tions already from state GOP of ficials in California and Wyoming, with more likely to be forthcoming. Officials of the Republican sena torial campaign committee appar ently intend to use McCarthy ex tensively. They seem to be con vinced that he would be a cam paign "asset. Helped Butler McCarthy helped Sen. John Mar shall Butler of Maryland defeat former Sen. Millard F. Tydings. a Democrat, in a bitter fight in 1950. He also campaigned against former Sen. William Benton in Connecticut last year. Benton, a Democrat, was whipped by Repub lican Sen. William A. PurteU. Democrats appear to be divided on the political effect of what their leaders call "McCarthyism." Adlai E. Stevenson, the 1952 presidential nominee, told a Demo cratic rally at Chicago recently that "McCarthyism" had become synonymous abroad with "inquisi tions, purges, book-burning, repres sion and fear." Discount Issue But some Democrats at the meet ing, particularly among the South erners, were inclined to discount the issue. 0 A panel discussion by state chair men brought out Dixie views that the party was paying too much at tention to the Wisconsin senator at the expense of much more vital issues. Without reference to the Mc Carthy question. Sen. Russell (D Ga) said he believes the paramount issue in next year's congressional elecyon will revolve around farm price problems. Armed Forces Bulletins List Valley Men Whereabouts and activity of four Salem servicemen was re ported Sunday in dispatches re ceived from U. S. military public relations offices. Word has been received that Sgt Richard E. Coats, whose mother, Mrs. R. E. Coats, lives at 605 Morgan Ave., is on his way home after 30 months of overseas duty. Coats is a gradu ate of the Salem Bible Academy and enlisted in the Army in March, 1951. His first duty sta tion was at Schoficld Barracks in the Hawaiian Islands. He more recently has served aboard the USS Winston helping transport North Korean POW's from Koje Island to Inchon in "Operation Big Switch." Marine Capt Allen P. Semb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Semb, 1260 Nebraska Ave., has com pleted a course in air and ground instruction at the Fleet Air Gun nery Unit in El Centro, Calif. , Serving at the U. S. Naval Sta tion at Cavite, P.I with the sur face craft department is Ray M. Hoke, seaman, USN, son of Mrs. M. M. Hoke, Salem. The naval station is located eight miles southeast -of Manila in a par tially man-made peninsula. Among the members of the U. S. Naval Construction Battalion which has returned to Port Hue neme, CaliL, from the Philip pines is Richard W. Sim, steel worker third class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Sim, 2770 Garden Rd. NEW HOURS: 1 1 :30 ajun, to 8 p.m. Starting Monday Sept. 28 SPEEDWAY ' RESTAURANT 1170 Center St. h German Riots Set Back PW Release Date (Story also on page one) CAMP FRIEDLAND, Germany (J) Conditions in Soviet prison camps improved considerably after the death of Stalin last March, but worsened again after the June 17 anti-Communist rebellion in East Germany, repatriated German pris oners of war said Sunday; These were reports from some of the 468 prisoners, including It wom en and eight children, who arrived at this West German transit camp Saturday night. The group was the first to be released from Russian camps since Stalin died. Officials Said 30 per cent were former offi cers, among them 30 colonels. Release of PWs The Russians announced the re tease of the prisoners, all sentenced for alleged minor war crimes, fol lowed an agreement reached at Moscow last August between the Kremlin and a Soviet Zone govern ment delegation. But women pris oners said they were brought to a repatriation camp at Krasnopol June 19. "Apparently word came through then of the June 17 uprisings in East Germany and our departure was delayed," one woman said. "Two days after the uprisings, Soviet officers told us that rebelli ous elements had incited unrest in the Soviet Zone to sabotage peace ful reconstruction in the (Commu nist) German Democratic repub lic," a former soldier told news men. Last Work Day' "It was the biggest sensation for us." he said. "June 17 was to be our last work day before the sched uled departure to Germany June 27. "Soviet reaction to the June 17 events came a few days later," he reported. "We were told that no rail cars were available for our repatriation because all were need ed to ship Russian food to the Soviet Zone. "In August, however, the camp officers admitted publicly that it was the rebellion in East Germany which delayed our departure." The total of German prisoners of war repatriated from Russia in the past 48 hours climbed to more than 1,500 Sunday. West Berlin au thorities reported. Egypt Police Raid Villa of Ex-King Zog ALEXANDRIA, Egypt GFi Po lice raided the villa of ex'King Zog of Albania Saturday, ordered Zog to open his safe and seized a number of documents. Egyptian officials disclosed Sunday. The police found in the-safe 9.000 gold coins, which they returned to the ex-King under receipt, the of ficials added. The Egyptian Foreign jministry removed Zog's diplomatic immuni ty in the last half of August. It also withdrew recognition of the Albanian legation. The police declined to give any others details of the search. They said it was made by two members of the public prosecutor's office, one police officer and a representa tive from the Taxation Department of the Ministry of Finance. Zog protested the search, but the four went ahead. They declined to identify the gold coins but they are believed to have been British sov ereigns, worth an estimated $10 each. Shortly after diplomatic recogni tion was withdrawn from the Al banians, Zog said he was leaving Egypt permanently. He did not say where or when he was going. Press reports said he was to leave Oct. 8 for France. Two years ago Zog bought a big mansion on Long Island, New York. It is not known whether he still owns this.. Zog has' been in exile since flee ing Albania during the Italian in vasion in 1939. Army engineers and cavalry played an important part in sur veying the route of the Union Now Showing Open 6:45 . Regular Prices Plus 15 For Viewers THE ARENA" 3 Dimension 1b Color with Gig Young. Jean Hagen Co-Feature "MAN ON A TIGHTROPE" Terry Moore, Fredrie March D A L LA S DRIVE-IN THEATRE GATES 'OPEN 7:09 SHOW AT DUSK Phone SS41 ENDS TONIGHT Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis la "Sailor BewarV' 1 AIM "Dark City" imroi!rTii Polar Bears s I, . MILWAUKEE, Wis. Sultana II Park Zoo, Milwaukee, ending Stassen Notes Big Increaee In China Trade WASHINGTON Of) Foreign Op erations Director Harold Stassen reported Sunday a big increase in trade between the West and Com munist China, but asserted it was not necessarily harmful. At the same time, he stated there had been "considerable im provement" in the Free World's drive to stop strategic materials of a war-making potential from mov ing to countries behind the Iron Curtain. Stassen's statement was con tained in a 96-page report to Con gress on world-wide enforcement of strategic trade controls under the Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act (the Battle Act). While reporting an increase in non-strategic trade. Stassen said the Western nations have tightened shipping controls and expanded their list of banned strategic items especially on goods bound for Communist China. Stassen disclosed that non-strategic shipments to the Chinese Reds would increase nearly 50 per cent over 1952 if trade continues at the same rate as the first few months of 1953. Stassen's report, which covers the first six months of the year, estimated non-strategic shipments to Red China would total around 375 million dollars this year against 257 million dollars in 1952. "The 1953 increase was not due to a relaxation of strategic trade controls," he emphasized. "The strategic embargo was being tight ened in the first half of 1953, not relaxed. The increase was in non strategic goods. "The main reason for it seems to be the changed attitude of the Chinese Communists who had dropped their reluctance to deal with the West and were placing more and bigger order for the kind of goods that the free govern ments would have been willing to ship all along." In his detailed trade survey, Stassen made clear that although the United States bars all trade with Communist China, it does not object to non-strategic trade with the Chinese Reds on the part of its allies. French Forced to Use Air Support In Indochina HANOI. Indochina OP) The French high command announced J Sunday night it has been forced to send air support to Vietnamese bat talions to ward off attacks by Viet minh soldiers in the vital sector of the Red River delta which had been assigned exclusively for de fense by the Vietnamese. DEAN MARTIN JERRY LEWIS i "The Caddy" WAYNE MORRIS THE MARKSMAN NOW PLAYING! 50c TILL 5:00 Burt Lancaster Virginia May "SOUTH SEA WOMAN" Joel McCrea TONE HAND" SILVERTON DRIVE-IN THEATER , ' Phone 3-345C Gates Open C:i5, Show at 7:15 NOW SHOWING "Trader Horn" AIs "Sequoia" ' : S - " A - IF i 1 Appreciate Cooler Weather ,3--- j.-.-- : w -- .- Jt f ' watches nine-month-old son take plunge into pool at Washington 10 - day heat-caused stay in their den. (AP Photo.) Oregon Man Dies In Idaho Wreck GOODING, Idaho OP) A Nyssa. Ore., man was killed instantly Sunday when his car zig-zagged across the highway, overturned and pinned him underneath. Dead is D. Glen Hammon. 55. who was traveling home from Ar co where he had been working. Gooding sheriff's officers said his car went off the shoulder on the right side of the road a mile west of Gooding, swung back onto the highway and off again on the left side before it overturned. Dr. J. H. Cromwell. Gooding County coroner, said no inquest would be held. Medf ord Area Blaze Fatal MEDFORD W One person died and two others were badly burned in a house fire in the Ster ling Creek area near here early Sunday. Eugene Calhoun. 35, occupant of the house, and Harold Mills, 43, were hospitalized here for treat ment of burns. State police were unable to learn the identity of the charred body of the person who died in the blaze. Sterilization Policy Backed By Britisher . CHESTERFIELD, England 0T Sterilization for "problem families", was recommended Sunday by a British medical officer as a way of cutting public housing expenses. Dr. J. R. Graham said "some neans will have to be found to deal with the problem at the source." Dr. Graham complained that the problem families have strings of unwanted children and wreck the homes which the county rents out. Urging sterilization in some cases, Dr. Graham said "very many problem families spring from bad stock and such parents are likely to produce bad stock." "In the bad old days, a process of the survival of the fittest elimi nated many of the bad stock, but under present conditions state and local aid enable them to exist and increase." ReTerring to neighbors of these families, Graham noted: "It can not be pleasant for a decent, clean housewife to live next door to such people. The comfort of the average decent citizen, who makes no fuss, is sometimes rather apt to be overlooked." KNOWLAND IN EGYPT CAIRO, Egypt Sen. Know land (R-Calif.) arrived by jplane Monday for a two-day visit in Egypt. M MM J M.H Hf t NOW PLAYING! lit Tecnni color ERROLFLYNN I "The Master Of Ballantrae" Egypt by 3" STARTS WEDNESDAYI REGULAR PRICES Plus ICe for viewers! THE BEST IN 3-D SANGAREE COLORED BY TECHNICOLOR Starring Fernando Lamas Arlena Dahl Patricia Medina -ALSO wai em Eiriott :. IN THE HOMESTEADERS 0T Heavy Rains Hit Sections Of Southeast By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Torrential rains hit wide sections of the southeast Sunday a direct result of the gulf hurricane that blew itself out over Georgia after lashing the northwest Florida coast with 90-mile-an-honr winds. The Weather Bureau said the creeping pace of the weakened storm moving north at 10 miles an hoifr with winds reaching a top of 40 miles an hour was re sponsible for the heavy rains. Georgia-, Florida and the Caro lina reported the heaviest falls. Columbia, S. C, had more than 6 inches in 24 hours. Other 24 hour amounts included: Savannah, Ga., 5.42; Raleigh, N. C, 3.33, and Char lotte, N. C. 1.88. t A record breaking early autumn heat wave roasted Texas, Arkan sas, Colorado and parts of Louisi ana Sunday. In Texas temperature readings were in the 100's in a score of cities. Llano, in central Texas, reported a high of 112. Denver, sweltered under a record heat wave with a high of 92 and La Junta, Colo., reported the state's high mark 98. Shreveport, La., hit 100, a record for this late in the year. Little Rock, Ark.'s 88 also was a record mark for Sept. 27. Wreck West OfSandyFatal OREGON CITY MB A man identified by state police as Ralph Arthur Van Alen, 63,, of Los An geles, was killed outright Sunday when his car skidded and struck a telephone pole. The accident occurred on a high way about 3 miles west of Sandy. HULL DUE IN TOKYO HONOLULU OB Gen. John E. Hull, newly designated United Na tions commander in the Far East, arrived Sunday en route to Tokyo where he will succeed Gen. Mark Clark about Oct. 8. Gates 6:45 -Show 7:15 DRIVE-IN THEATR UIHH CilDtMi. HIGHWAY tf ft 31 ENDS TONITEI (Tuos.) Betty Grable Dale Robertson Thelma Ritter la Technicolor "THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE Clyde Beatty "PERILS OF THE JUNGLE" "STARTS WEDNESDAYI E if also If !) All Technicolor Show! (( TAKE ME TO TOWN" ) I noV'JACKMcCALL DESPERADO-Jj I A , , , Pfcwne 4-4215 lV Stewart Granger () Jean Simmon iC "Young Best" IC If f ALSO f fr Below The Sahara' ) I Both la Technicolor 11 Jackson Club to Hear jMrs. Pfost PORTLAND tl Gracie Pfost (D-Idaho),' who campaigned as -Hell's, Bene," will be the prin cipal . speaker at -the Democratic Jackson Club meeting here Oct. 3. Mrs. ! Pfost's nickname stems from her i endorsement of a high federally constructed dam at Hell's Canyon on the -Snake River. Before entering Congress Mrs. Pfost served as county auditor at Caldwell. Idaho. Gale Whistles Over Western gton SEATTLE un A storm with winds up to SI miles per hour whistled over most of western Washington Sunday night, toppling telephone lines and trees and swamping two fishing boats. The Nada went down near the mouth of the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula. .Her owner, Tom Brathun, the onlyman aboard, was taken off safely. Lester A. Fairbrother, Port Angeles, was tak en off his salmon trailer when it foundered near the Swiftsure light ship at the entrance to Puget Sound. Every Coast Guard boat from ah Bav. Port Tnwnspnrf Rellin?. ham. Port Angeles and south to 1 Tacoma left its dock to answer a distress call, the Coast Guard here reported "A great number of pleasure boats were caught by the storm," the Coast Guard said, adding that it planned to send planes aloft Mon day to scan the waters of Puget Sound for capsized boats or per sons in distress. In Seattle. City Light officials or dered every available man back on the job to repair downed poles and wires. Whole sections of the city were blacked out when winds ripped down a number of 4,400 volt feeder lines. Brothers Jailed On' Rape Charge Two Wichita. Kan., brothers were arrested by city police Sun day morning in a local hotel on a charge of rape. The two were held Sunday evening in lieu of $1,500 bail each. Apprehended were James Mar tin Klopp, 28, and Richard Earl Klopp, 23. Their arrest followed signing of a complaint with the Marion County district attorney's office by a 29-year-old Salem woman. She alleged in her complaint that the two drove her to a gravel road north of Salem and there crimin ally attacked her. Death Claims Oscar Melgarrd Oscar Melgarrd, for about 20 years an employe of the Cooke Stationery Co., died late Saturday night He had retired from the stationery business about six years ago. Associates at Cooke's remem bered that Melgarrd had worked as a salesman when Cooke's was called Patton's Stationery. He is survived by a niece, Mrs. G. W.1 Cruson, of Portland. Announcement of Services will be made later by the W. T. Rig don Company. $69.95 M 455 Court Street Washin iu rJlllin IEEE) COME SQUARE DANCING WITH . i Fonton "Jonesy" Jones j AS CALLER i The Hollywood recording star for MacGregor records. Salem Armory September SO, S:S0 P. M. Music by the Wagonwheelers Orchestra Soonsored bv Salem Callers Asso. Tickets $1.00 may be purchased from Assoc Members Jl eider's Salem Record snop Spectator Tickets at Door 40c 1EARGPT0 DAM i . . - - All Types of All Professional Instruction ly Top Teachers In The Dancing World. Fox Trot Walts Swing ,Ramba ' Samba Tango Mambo Two Step (yfns Per Hour !- 9 Now Classes Now Forming In All Typos of Dancing . j j J Studio Open 10 474 Ferry Street " 15 Questioned After Fires at Moses Lake MOSES LAKE, Wash. (F. Fif teen men. many of them Mexican! and Indians, were held for ques tioning Sunday after damaging firei Saturday night which may have been the work of an arsonist. The men were picked up while loitering near the scent of a lum ber company fire and a cold stor age warehouse blaze six blocks dis tant -s State deputy fire marshals from 2pokane and Yakima poked through the embers of the - firei Sunday. So did Thor Fled wed of r ij.l. . i mwii u uene, iuang, representing; the national board of fire under-! writers. j The storage plant 'fire knocked out the. main telephone and power lines Saturday night plunging this Central Washington city of 5.500 uuo uarsncss except lor ine names of the two fires. Some 472 tele phones also were put out of com mission. Damage to the cold storage plant was estimated at about $230,000. Lumber company losses were un officially set at around $100,000. Fire fightinwas plagued by four false alarms. There were also two false alarms reported at nearby Soap Lake. Deputy state fire marshals in vestigating were Leonard Burgun der of Spokane and Jerry P. Young of Yakima. Moses Lake Fire Chief Leonard Cook and Rnv Ranrtl nt the rural fire district also probed the fires. An explosion resulted when flames reached a store o' nitrates Saturday night I Police Charge Motorist With f Driving too Slow j Driving too slow was the charee made against Theodore H. Rhoades, 170S N. Church St, Sun. day by city police. j Police reports allege that Rhoades was driving west on State Street and was clocked "at speeds less than 10 to IS milei per hour" between Cottage anc North Liberty Streets. The ar resting officer charged that Rhoades' vehicle held up traffic claimed to be heavy at that time Rhoades was cited to court i MOTORIST ARRESTED i Alfred Lucero, Southern Pa, ciflc Railroad Camp 23, wss-arrested by city police Sunday night on a charge of driving while in toxicated. He was lodged in city jail Sunday in lieu of $230 ball See Norge freezers Both Chest Type tad Upright At LAUE, REFRIGERATION A APPL 2251 State St Ph. 2-544! TERMITES FREE INSPECTIONS Guaranteed Pest Control Service 265 So. 20th Ph. 2-0711 GOODIE'S MARKET 1927 State St. OPEN EVENINGS 'TIL 11 P. M. Instruction Tap Ballet Toe Acrobatics Modern Character Baton Twirling And Others A. M. To 10 P.M. 4 : Phono 4-4962
