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' i n f -' . '' ' ' -. - nn - Cds3 D0gEc3 'in FCUND3D 1651 b Sire ! KANSAS CITY (JP) -r- The government geared Thursday night for a nationwide hunt for mystery man Thomas Marsh in the Bob by Grecnlease kidnap-slaying but delayed final action. j , Official explanation was that although Marsh has been formally! charged with murder of the 6-year-old child at St Joseph, Mo, the: FBI has not resolved discrepancies in statements by Carl Austin Mystery Man h r L KANSAS CITY Thomas John Marsh, paroled convict, will be the subject of a nationwide search, if police decide he is linked to the Greenlease kid-nap-murder case. He is 5 feet , has brown hair, blue eyes and a ruddy complexion. (AP Wire photo) , ; -.v-' . ;, 933106 'UCD ijjOCE Short Hills, N. J. The fodder was in the shock all "right when we came through the great corn belt of the midwest, but the frost was not on the pumpkin. In fact, the midwest was still bathed in summer heat, though I the tem peratures ' were ranging lower than a few days earlier. : The prolonged and searing heat had turned the cornfields to a sallow whiteness, pastures were thin and dry. Fall coloring of leaves was evident scarlet i su mac, yellow hickory, brown oak; but less brilliant than usual be cause of the drought which had dried them out - Winter, however, could ot be far behind, because when we woke up just out of Butte on the Northern Pacific the mountains and their forests were white with a freshly fallen snow. ' No flights of ducks were sighted and very few were, seen resting on the ponds and sloughs. The warm weather evidently threw them off their calendar. Here on the East Coast the lack of rain shows -in the dried-out lawns and leaves. . ' This is the first time for a good many years we have traveled by the Northern Pacific, self-styled Main Street of the Northwest" It was the last of the northern transcontinentals to speed up its best train," the North .Coast limited. Its route is an interest ing one, touching as it does the best parts of Montana the min ing ' (Concluded on Editorial page 4) Nigel Bruce Actor, Dies SANTA MONICA. Calif. V Nigel Bruce, the Dr. Watsc . of "Sherlock Holmes' movie and ra dio serials, died Thursday of a heart ailment His physician said the 58-year- , eld actor was stricken with coron ary thrombosis last Sunday and was taken to St John s Hospital. He had been troubled with a heart ailment about a year ago. He was probably best known for Ws Dr. Watson portrayals with Basil Rathbone in the Sherlock Holmes part. He played this role In films and radio for seven years, ending in 1943. Films in which he appeared in' eluded Charlie Chaplin's "Lime light- and Arch Oboler's "Bwan pa Devil." one of the first 3-D " films to be given general distribu tion. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH teMAMTlC. AIMY IT.'MELVJN ? HalL : . Hall, 34, is the confessed master mind of the 5600,000 ransom plot that led to death for the only little cati fit Tniilfi-mniitnttiiHa PaKmv fr Greenlease and to capture of Hall ana a . woman companion, Mrsj Bonnie Brown Heady, 41. ; Doubt Expressed " Serious doubt was expressed by some authorities . that Hall an(J Mrs. Heady had an accomplice, f But the FBI in Kansas City late Thursday ? filed - information with U. S. Commissioner Charles Aj Thompson that Marsh has - fled across state lines to avoid prosed cution on- the Missouri murder charge and Thompson issued a warrant for Marsh's arrest , Delaying Search- : ! In Washington, bureau officials emphasized that despite this action it is holding up the usual nation-; wide alert for such a fugitive. Hall and Mrs. Heady are held in St Louis on $100,000 bonds on federal charges of extortion, but the government 'said Thursday it would turn them over to Missouri authorities for prosecution, either! for murder at St Joseph or for; kidnaping at Kansas City. Both cities are - seeking their custody. I Death in the gas chamber is a maximum penalty under Missouri; law for either crime. - 1 Linked to Ransom ' The government added another link in the case by putting the! finger on Mrs. Heady as a princi pal in collecting the fabulous ran-? som. The FBI said it had found the woman's fingerprints oa ransom extortion papers, showing that she had handled them. I Hall has insisted Mrs. Heady was duped into taking part in the abduction, contending she was un aware of it at the start Scotts Mills A Accident Fatal - SCOTTS "MILLS (J! " , Oregon) recorded its second gunshot fatal-; ity of the 1953 hunting . season? Thursday with the death of Gilbert Gabnelson, 23, Portland. ' Me was killed by; a bullet which also wounded his brother, Herbert uabrielson, in the right leg " 'Sheriffs Deputy Bin Brooks of Clackamas County, said that Her bert was sitting on top of a car holding a ; Japanese 7.7-calibre rifle. His brother was at the wheel of the car.; Herbert apparently dropped the gun. Brooks said. It discharged and the bullet wounded Herbert in the leg, . slammed through the windshield and struck; uuoen m tne nee ana head. Gilbert died in an Oregon Cttvf nospiiai. ms Drother is there for treatment. The shooting occurred, near the Clackamas-Marion Coun ty line, 12 miles east of here. ! 'New' Gty Hall Clock Nearly ! Set to Strike ! Works of! installing the old Courthouse clock at City Hall is! well underway and city officials! predict the clock will be operat-j ing in , about , three weeks. lll enarge oi me insiaiiauon oh is C. F. 4 Jackson of Toweri Clock Service, .Atlanta, Ga. The new clock face will be 8 feet in diameter and of plexiglass! in aluminum frames. Interior! clock lighting will outline the1 black hands and Roman numer4 ais. me ciock win siriKe nouny. Much of the financing of the project is by citizens' contribu tions, largely through the work of the Soroptimist Club. i Police Arrest Senator's Son HYATTSVILLE, Md. W Den- nis Chavez Jr., son of Sen. Chavez ( D NM ) Thursday i was charged with drunken driving and driving without a permit Prince Georges County police reported. . , . Chavez, 40, was released after posting or SZ3Z in collateral for a hearing Oct 22. . According to Arlington. Va.i court records.: the younger; Chavez was convicted of a drunk ' driving charge there in 1950. Slwivers on Weather Menu The sunny spell was broken a bit Thursday when , old man weather decided to send a few sprinkles to the valley and ac cording to the Weather Bureau, much of Oregon can expect more rain through Friday. - Showers are predicted to visit Salem and environs this after noon and evening. They may come again Saturday, says the weatherman. " But mild temperatures are ex pected to continue, with the high Area near 72. 1C3RD YEAR 4 Chost Worker Rests Feet : i - . - ' .! : :: ; ' , , - -rv. " k A . : I .; 'V'i !' -I Ahhhhhh! that feels-good,7 sighs at Salem Community Chest headquarters Thursday to rest her feet after residential campaigning for the Chest drive. Helping with hot water is Mrs. Brace Williams, general chairman of the women's division, Mrs. Woodry is Ward 5 captain. (Statesman photo). Portland Licenses Pinball Machines PORTLAND UV-Ttae City Coun cil decided - tentatively Thursday to license, pinball machines again. A final vote is scheduled Nov.. 12. By a ; 4-1 vote commissioners gave tentative " approval to two ordinances, . designed to . bring li cense fee. money into the city treasury. T h e V machines -were banned in -1951, but have contin ued in operation, pending court appeals, Mall Building Plan Opposed ByArchitects : Plans to build the new state Supreme Court building in the center of the Capitol Mall were opposed Thursday by the Oregon chapter of the American Institute of Architects. " A location south of Union Street was recommended by Francis Keally, New York archi tect, who designed the present capitolland who is developing a long-rafige program for future state Duumngs. I The mall area north of the capitol Vould in the distant fu ture extend beyond Union Street as far north as Mill Creek, under Capitol Planning Commission proposals. : Donald W. Edmundson, secre tary of the Oregon chapter of the AIA, said the architect believe that the construction of the court building in that location would prevent future expansion of the malL ' It probably will be several years betore the building is built (Additional details on Page 5, Sec !) AWL KILLS MAN CORVALLIS ; ( Melvin Alii- son, 46, logger from Raymond, Wash., was killed in the woods near Alsea, 20 miles southwest of here, Thursday. He was struck by a flying awl. He had been living with his wife and three children at Alsea -recently. U.S. Aslis Yalh; FW UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. tfW- The United States 'called on Com munist China and North Korea Thursday , to say quickly whether they intend to take part in a Ko rean peace conference and when they wflT be ready. Our side is prepared to nego tiate in all reasonableness and good faith," a U. S. note said. "If your side has any intention of car rying out the recommendation con- tamed in the armistice agreement and to participate in a Korean political - conference looking to ward a peaceful settlement of the Korean question and the withdraw al of foreign forces from Korea, etc.. there can be no reason for your side to refuse to get on with the conference." ... i v The United " States concluded SECTIONS 32 PAGES Mrs. Glenn Woodry as she pauses Near $30,000 Subscribed in ' " .. Chest Drive Doorbell ringing, employe col lections and" company donations Thursday helped boost the total cash ' turned in on the current Salem Community Chest fund campaign to 21 per cent of the total goal of $140,000. A total of . $29,442 had been reported in by 5 p.m. Thursday. Chest officials were hopeful the entire quota would be reached by the end of . the drive next week. The first state department to meet its chest quota was the State Library. It reportedly al ready Is over-subscribed with about one-half the total returns in, according to Captain Grace Sutter. . ' Over-subscribing quotas have been turned in by the State Board of Aeronautics and the Supreme Court Library. The De partment of Finance and Admin istration at the Capitol had ex ceeded its goal when incomplete returns came in Thursday noon to Chest headquarters. j Among local firms turning in large-size collections Thursday, were the local Standard Oil Col with nearly $700 from firm and employes; Terminal Ice and Cold Storage, where aU employes gave an average of $8 each, r - Nearly all local canneries have equalled or exceeded last year's quotas. Chest officials said. . U At Salem Senior High School students Thursday launched their own Chest drive. The school's goal is $400. . . j: : Among the various "Chest cam paign divisions the. city, county and federal government division has collected the largest per cen tage of its $1,950 quota 40 per cent. The division turning in the most cash so far is industrial with $7,713, followed by automotive with $3,869, and residential, with $3,354. . , OXYGEN BLAST KILLS 2 NEW KENSINGTON, Pai t - A huge tank of liquid oxygen ex ploded Thursday at a General Electric Co. plant here, killing twi workers and injuring four, one critically. Reds for Quick '.Answer bnj Peace 'Explanations' May 4arfc? Cfonday with a request that the Reds give an early answer. The Reds ignored three previous notes from the. U. S. trying to get the conference on the way before the Oct 23 dead line recommended in the Korean armistice agreement ; Thursday's note informed the Reds officially that the U. N. As sembly resolution of Aug. 28 limi ting the peace conference to the belligerents, plus Russia if invited by the Communists, stands with out change despite efforts to over turn it . It reminded the Communists that the U. J. side (the United States is acting as its spokesman) had offered to send a representative to San Francisco, Honolulu or Gene va to meet Communist representa tives and agree on, a time and other details tor a conference, t The Oregon Statesman lavs Stone U.S. Embassy as TTh JTFO-1 Mobs Wreck Information Service Office j By ALEX SINGLETON BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Yugoslav mobs smashed windows of the United States, .Britain and Italian embassies here Thursday night in angry protest against the decision to turn over Zone A of the free territory of . Trieste to Italian administration, i ,President Marshal Tito's govern ment denounced the British-American decision and vowed to fight it with "all measures at its dis posal under the United Nations charter." Demonstrators late Thursday night also wrecked the street floor display windows of both the U. S. Information Service headquarters and the British reading zoom. Aft er smashing the plate glass the mobs hauled away exhibits which they . scattered in- the streets. ! No one was injured. One Amer ican official said he was booed by the crowds while driving through the "city. Fifteen Yugoslav militia men armed with tommyguns guarded the U. S. headquarters. Break Windows . r ; The stone throwing demonstra tors broke windows on the first two floors of the U. S. Embassy. An American marine guard was struck on one arm by a rock when he went out to investigate. A fel low guard estimated at one point nearly ; 200,000 Yugoslavs were demonstrating. 1 A spokesman at the Italian Em bassy reported,- "Many stones were thrown ; and many windows were broken. It looks like an or ganized riot' Slogaa Shouted ' v- 1 V i Demonstrations continued Thurs day night in the streets of Bel grade and elsewhere in the coun try. Marchers shouted: "we are ready to give: our lives, for Trieste" - I - i - -"' ' In downtown Belgrade a speak er told a large crowd, "I fought against the Italians in the last war and will fight again." ; r ; The' crowd cheered and shouted, "Tito, here we are, lead us." Tito learned of the decision dur ing a formal call by Sir Ivo Mallet and Woodruff Wallner, British and American envoys, who told him it was the Test solution" the West ern, powers could find for settling the seven-year feud between Yu goslavia and Italy over, the stra tegic Adriatic port. Both Wallner and Mallet were secretive about how Tito received the news, but Wallner commented, "Well, I'm still in one piece." NLRB Asked ToOkehAFL Dock Union '. ,.-":.( ... ( NEW YORK Wl The American Federation of Labor Thursday asked the National Labor itera tions Board to certify its new dock union as collective bargaining agent on the New York waterfront Charles T. Douds. regional NLRB director, said the AFL un ion, which is trying to put the old International Longshoremen's As sociation out of business, sub mitted signed pledge cards to sup port its petition. The old ILA promptly declared it would fight the action. 1 The scandal-ridden. ILA was tossed out of the AFL for failing to clean up its own house. ; . Douds said a field examiner has been assigned to the case, in ac cordance with NLRB routine. Field examiners usually need 10 days to two weeks to process a case before the board can schedule a hearing. The law requires a union claim ing bargaining rights to submit pledge cards or petitions with the names of 30 per cent of the workers of the bargaining unit involved. By GEORGE MCARTHUR PANMUNJOM (A .The U.N. Command said Friday a building speed-up may make it possible to start "explanations' to balky pri soners of war on Monday. r Brig. Gen. A. L. Hamblen, Al lied commander for prisoner af fairs, wrote the " Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission that the Allies with the help of Indian euard troops can cut from 7 to 5 days, the time required for build ing a temporary shelter in which Communists will give their "ex planations, to 22,500 Chinese and North Korean POWs refusing to co home. The commission Thursday indi rectly accused the ILN. Command of stalling Red " explanation - ef forts. It asked the command to Salem. Oreaon. Friday, October 9 1SS3 H ; TTh. "11 o h A lauan. Jr oiicy Jn Lebanon Pair ; d Newport Spat Accident "NEWPORT, Ore. W) - High ; waves capsized a boat at the Yaquina Bay bar here Thursday and drowned a father and his son on a '.sports fishing trip. The coast guard rescued a third man. , The drowning victims were Har ry Ludtkel owner of the 22-foot at, and his father, A. A. Ludtke. Both were! from Lebanon, Ore. Lee Pruitt, also of Lebanon, a son-in-law ( of Harry Ludke, was the ' rescued man. Another S fishing boat saw the 22-foot boat in trouble and called the coast' guard. The coast guard sent a 40-foot boat to the scene in time, to find Pruitt and Harry McKay Plans, Short Visit in By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON Secretary of wag a quic&ie visii 10 aaiem next weesena. The former auto dealer, who of ten tells visitors to his swanky office that he is still just a peddler by (trade, is on the road these days selling his new policies for resource development to audiences ; ; I in every corner of the land. Businessman Fills Vacancy WASHINGTON (A President Eisenhower Thursday picked a Re publican' businessman, genial, 52 year-old James P. Mitchell, as his new secretary of labor. The former New York City de partment; store executive will take his oath i)f office Friday morning in Eisenhower's office and then attend his first! Cabinet meeting. Eisenhower told his news confer ence that Mitchell is a man of extraordinary ability and great character? with long experience in labor relations problems. His home is in Spring Lake. N. J. Mitchell's selection was greeted with varying j comment Some Democrats and bunion leaders ex pressed disappointment that a man from union ranks was not chosen. But the appointment was generally hailed as a good one, even by CIO President Walter Reuther. ; Mitchell, an assistant secretary of the Army, frith a decade of experience in government jobs, de clined for the present to express any opinions on (the hot Taft-Hartley Lawj controversy. He told re porters He intends to do "the best possible Job fori the people of the Uniteu States." (Story( also 04 page 2, sec. 1) Stofm Heading Towarfl West Florida Coast MIAMI. Fla. ?( A tropical storm ins the Gulf of Mexico, rapid ly building up to hurricane force, swirled toward j the Florida West Coast Thursday and may strike the Tanjpa area Friday .i At 11 Ip. m. ! (EST) the.,-storm was centered 220 miles west of Key West and was moving in a north-northeast direction at about 14 mileslper hoar. : Highest winds were estimated at the time at 60 to 65 miles per hour and the Miami Weather Bu reau warned thfct "this storm will very likely increase to a full hur ricane by Friday morning. build an" explanation center with in four day.3 or let the Communists do it Hamblen turned down that proposaUand also an offer of Com munist help, i ' "Your loffer of assistance from the Communist! has been consid ered " Hamblen wrote Indian Lt Gen. K. S. Thimayya. chairman of the five-nation Repatriation Com mission. "The proposal cannot be acceDtecUi But Hamblen! did agree to put construction work on the tempor ary shelter oa a 24-bour basis and accepted fyour kind offer of (Indian) !aistoclial force" which guards tSe POWs in the neutral zone. . - ori this basis, he said, the build ing should be completed by Sun day, and talks- with tne prisoners could start the cexi cay. ' LefljbyDurldn TT PBICE 5c Drowns in Ludtke clinging to wreckage.' Ludt ke was unable to grasp a line thrown : to him and went under while coast guardsmen watched helplessly. The elder Ludtke ap parently went under when the boat capsized. He was not seen after that, i (- (Harry Ludtke, 49, and his fath er, A.' A. Ludtke, about 80, were long tune residents of Lebanon. The younger Ludtke operated a transfer and wood business there and his father was a houso painter. (Pruitt owns and operates a trucking company in Lebanon. Bodies j of the two victims have not .been recovered, authorities said late Thursday night) ' Salem Soon Interior Douglas McKay is plan-J T. : il- r lr.v iu icuuiuauy wim airs, aicivay and Alene Philips, his personal secretary. Secretary ; McKay re turned Thursday night from 10 days ion the "Chicken a la King Circuit" which found him making speeches and receiving awards from! the Rockbound coast of Maine: to the Gulf Coast, of Texas and Louisiana. - : ' Next Monday he will be off again, with first stop at Columbus, Ohio; where a group of Republic can, omen ''will' fonnMr audi ences Later in the week McKay will be principal speaker at the national convention in Reno of the National Reclamation Associa tion, ; " . :--.- .. ? From Reno, -McKay plans to duck into Salem for a brief fam ily visit while on the road as a traveling salesman for the Eisen- hower admimstration. IkfeSaysRuss 'Capableof Atomic Attack9 By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON President Eisenhower said Thursday Soviet Russia now has "the capability of atomic! attack on us" and com mands: "a weapon or the forerun ner of, a weapon of power far in excess of the conventional types.' The; j President made the state ment; at his news conference in an effort to clarify seemingly con flicting statements by various offi cials on the potentialities of soviet atom! bomb and . hydrogen bomb developments. Eisenhower also announced that he has asked all members of bis administration "to refrain from comment on Soviet nuclear capa bilities unless they first check their statements . with the chair man of the Atomic, Energy Com mission." Eisenhower read swiftly from a prepared statement reviewing the facts! of Soviet progress in ther monuclear armament and de clared: ' We, therefore, conclude that the Soviets now have the capability of atomic attack on us, and such capability will increase with the passage of time." As ffor this country's strength, Eisenhower said he does not plan ! to disclose U.S. atomic strength. But he gave assurance that ;the arsenal of U.S. atomic weapons is "large and increasing steadily." t "It is my hope, my earnest prayer, that this country will nev er again be engaged in war," he said.? (Additional details on page 7. sec. L ) . I r Max. Min. Precip. . 74 57 trace .70 ss jOS . 73 47 JM .si 3S jn Salem ' PotU-ikJ,- San Francisco Chicago New York SI 41 J00 W-Qamctte Biver -i-S feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today, tonight and Saturday with a Urn -hower thia afternoon and eveninf . Little change in temperature with the highest to day Bear 73 and the lowest tonight near '45. Temperature at 12.-01 ajn. S7. ; SALEM PRECrPITATlO! ' Slaeei BUrt f Weather Year Sept. 1 This Tear Last Year Normal sjo ' aaa - - 3 I- - - - - - No. 1S3 nounced U.S., British to Give Trieste Zones to Italy By WILMOT HERCHER 1 WASHINGTON Hi The United States and Great Britain an nounced Thursday they are turn ing over their occupied rone of Trieste to Italy but Yugoslavia angrily declared it will refuse to accept the decision. Less than an hour after the news reached Belgrade, hundreds of Yugoslavs poured into the streets shouting "We will give up our lives, but not -Trieste! Yugoslavia occupies Zone B of the disputed territory, while the British : and ..Americans occupy Zone A. , v The Yugoslav position was" broadcast by Vice President Ed- vard Kardelj, who said "we can not leave to the mercy of the Ital. tans tens of thousands of Slovenes still living in Trieste. , Kardelj said the Anglo-American move would be appealed to the United Nations, and it was re ported that Yugoslavia would file its formal protest with the West ern powers before the day was out -, In announcing that Italy would be given the occupation adminis tration of Zone A as soon as pos sible, the State Department said: - It is the firm belief of the two governments (the United States and Britain) that this step will contribute to the stabilization of a situation which has disturbed Italy-Yuroslav relations in recent years." (See Story Also on Page 2, Sec. 1) Burned Youth Quells School Although burned about the face and neck, a cool tMnTrfng Salem youth, Thursday morning extinguished an oil fire caused by a backfiring furnace at Liv ingstone School, 1913 Broadway St, and prevented serious prop etry damage. . , Norman C. Eastridge, 21, of 456 Radcliff Dr., suffered first and second degree burs$ of the face and neck and was taken to Salem Memorial Hospital by Wit Lunette Ambulance Service. His condition was said to be "pretty good" Thursday night Eastridge was lighting the school furnace about 6:30 a. m. before going to his regular, job at Cherry City Baking Co. when it - suddenly backfired spraying him and the floor with burning oiL ' ' V; - ; ; According to an ambulance driver,-Eastridge pulled his jack et over his head, smothering the flames, then beat out the burning oil on the floor with his jacket, He then went to the baking com pany and first aidmen and an am bulance were summoned. Obliging Bank Robber Gets 721 LOS ANGELES (A A man who obligingly stepped to another win dow after a bank clerk told him she was busy escaped with . 1721 Thursday from a Bank of America branch. Teller Marjorie von Geartner was busy recording papers. The bandit then handed teller Jott Kurchner a note reading, "This is a holdup. I've got a gun pointed at your heart Give me all the 5, 10, 20 and larger bills you have. Kurchner did, and the robber fled, eluding bank employes who pursued him. ; WALNUT TALKS SET PORTLAND W) Representa tives of the walnut industry and the Agriculture Department will meet here Friday to discuss amendments to, the federal wal nut marketing agreement Among those expected is James H. Brice, manager of the Walnut Control Board, Los Angeles. Today's Stsfssmsn Section 1 Editorials, features 4 Society, women's 8-10 Section 2 Sports ' 1-2 Markets . : : ; 3 , Section I Food tews 14 Valley news . 8-11 Comics 11 Section 4 Classified ads 1-4 Radio, TV - 1 Furnace Blaze