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.1 2 Sc 1 Statesman, Saltfm, Ore. WocL. Nor. It. 1953 Reds End Demand For 'Round Table' Korea Conference PANMUNJOM m The Com munists Wednesday indicated they had dropped their demands for a Korean round table peace confer ence but still would insist on non belligerents including Russia Kitting in to insure a "harmonious atmosphere. Th Rls mit forth their nosi-i tion on the composition of ihe'nrious vote needed for approval. conference during a meeting of Allied and Communist diplomats seeking to lay the groundwork for the long delayed conference! Meanwhile, the Indian w Com mand announced that for the third straight day there would be no interviews Thursday to anti Communist war prisoners by Red Communist war prisoners by Red j agents seeking to induce the POWs to return home. - ! In the diplomatic sessions. North Korean Delegate Ki Sok Bok re iterated his proposal that the peace conference be conducted tUre, Governor Patterson told the "between the two sides on an j Medford Chamber of Commerce equal footing." This was a sharp forum here Monday, reversal from previous Red de-j This is an "ominous sign," the mands that belligerents and neu-; governor said, and he expressed trals sit in on an equal footing. ! the opinion that the state's fi Ki insisted that Russia, India, j nances should be watched closely Burma, Pakistan and Indonesia -a the next few years, take part in the talks, but failed ve must be sure to pay our to make clear just what role they wav as we g0" he said. "If the would play. i present trend continues, when the He said that the Allied opposi- j Legislature convenes again it will tion to neutrals would "make it impossible for the political con ference to accomplish smoothly its task in a harmonious atmos phere. Communist correspondent Wil ; fred Burchett, who often echoes official Red policy, said the Red j Four Alaska Fliers Found ANCHORAGE. Alaska v-Four Alaska fliers who have been miss ing in the territory's interior were found Tuesday unharmed. First to be located was Jack Peck, vice president of operations for Alaska Airlines, and j Thomas Campobasso, the airline's! director of operations and maintenance. They were spotted at Rainy Land ing, oO miles northwest ot Mc Grath. , They 'both were safe and their plane is near a cabin. Civil Aero nautics Administration officials said. They apparently had landed Sunday after encountering bad weather on a flight from McGrath to Unalakleet on the West Coast. Later. Bob Vanderpool, veteran - bush pilot, and " his unidentified passenger who have been missing since Monday afternoon, flew into Skwentna. Vanderpool reported he had landed on a 225-mile, flight from McGrath to Anchorage when he encountered bad weather en route, ; continuing on Tuesday. Elks Varietv Show Dec. 17 The Salem Elk's Lodge will : present "Elk Varieties , of 1953," j their annual charity benefit show, at Salem High School auditorium the evening of Dec. 17. - This year the lodge will pre sent . an all-professional cast in lieu of home talent. Previous charity shows have been held at the lod?e three or four nights in succession, but a full schedule of activities at the lodge prevents this this year, officials explain. Watch This Space For THE PIKE SPECIALS Brick Ice Cream Reg. 45C Oft. Quart Brick 07C HOT BUTTER FUDGE SUNDAE Reg. 25c . . 20 13. S. Liberty Ph. 3-6828 Give your cords fhot "ptrsonol touch" fhs ytorl With -your nom ngrovarf or imprinted1, toch mts ms btcomts 6t finctivtly your own . . . conveys your ytings wiffc p ciol wormfh end sn ctfify. But . . . is short I Choos and crdf your prson efcto cord NOW, Statesman Publishing Co. 280 N. Church plan in effect was a complete abandonment of their demand for a round table conference. Burchett told Allied newsmen the Red plan provides that neu trals be allowed to vote only on procedural matters. He said major decisions would be left to the two sides with unan Sagging State Income Noted T "I K"ir lwfVPrTlilV ,VUUTW MEDFORD UPi Sagging income is clouding Oregon's financial pic- find it does not have the planned 36 million dollars to start the biennium." He said that although taxes have been increased four timet in the . i i a ; past five legislative sessions, this year's income is not equal to what was anticipated. Dairy Breeders Slate Meeting For Silverton Marion County Dairy Breeders Association will hold its annual meeting in Silverton, Wednesday, Dec. 2, starting at 10:30 a. m. Manager Technician Bill Wil liams says another block of mem ber certificates will be bou Jit by the association following lunch. Glen Nelson, Oregon State Col lege economist, will talk at 1:30 on costs of production ffn dairy firms. Later in the afternoon, Ben Simonson. manager of the Oregon Dairy Breeders Associa tion, will show films of the bull stud at Corvallis and its opera tion. A-Radiated . Oats Immune To Stem Rust DALLAS, Tex. W Atomic radia tion has made oats immune to stem rust, a disease costing farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Dr. Calvin F. Konzak reported luesaay. Dr. Konzak, a biologist, put oat seeds into the atomic pile or re actor at Brookhaven National Lab oratory', Upton, N. Y. For eight hours they were bombarded by thermal neutrons coming from splitting uranium atoms, Some of the seeds yielded plants which resist one strain of stem rust, a fungus which eats through the stems of plants. The bom bardment had changed the genetic structure of the oats to give re sistance. Dr. Konzak told the American Society of Agronomy that this is apparently the first time atomic radiation has done this. He has used just one strain of oats, the Mohawk strain, which is very susceptible to, stem rust. The oats became resistant to strain 7A j stem rust. Third generation plants from j the bombarded seeds still show i this resistance, he said. The bombardment does not : make the oats radioactive, he said. MISS AMERICA WEDS LOS ANGELES (JP) Jean Bartel, Miss America of 1943, was married here Tuesday night to a former Navy commander. Don Norton, 36, of Reseda, Calif. 2-2441 tA li V I fi ' i Secret White Renorts Bared At Hearing ( Story also on Page One.) . WASHINGTON M-Atty. Gen. Brownell Tuesday broke an eight- year seal of secrecy on FBI re ports, sent to the White House during the Truman administra-' tion, which told of the wholesale theft of U.S. secrets by an al leged Soviet spy ring within the government Testifying with Brownell at a tense congressional hearing, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover disclosed that the FBI delivered seven sep arate warnings to - the White House not two as reported earl ier dealing with espionage and specifically mentioning ' Harry DeJtter White. This was in the period from Nov. 8, 1945 to July 24, 1946. Brownell emphasized anew that he wasn't impugning Truman's loyalty, but he did not retreat an inch from his original statement that started the whole controversy boiling that White "was known to be a Communist spy by the very people who appointed him to the most sensitive and im portant position he ever held in government service." Kb own as Spy Questioned sharply by Senator McCleJIan (D-Ark), Brownell said he could not see how "any rea sonable person, with legal train ing, could reach a different" con clusion. He agreed with McClellan that in essence he was saying that j White was known by Harry Tru j man to be a Communist spy." i Brownell has said Hoover sent the 7hite House two reports 'on Sov' : espionage, one a general document dealing with White and others in December. 1945, and a second relating to White along the following February 4. After Conferences White's appointment to the Mon etary Fund was approved by the Senate Feb. 6, 1946. Truman said Monday night he allowed the ap pointment to go through after con ferences with Supreme Court Jus tice Tom Clark, who then was attorney general, and the late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, who was secretary of the treasury at the time. The "final responsibil ity,' Truman said, was his. The Senate subcommittee took note of published reports that White's move to the Monetary Fund was under an arrangement with the FBI so that White could be kept under better surveillance without tipping any persons in volved in espionage. To Clear Up Point It was largely to clear up this point. Chairman Jenner (R-Ind, said that, the subcommittee felt it necessary to call Hoover to the witness stand. And on that point. Hoover said: "I did not enter into any agree ment to shift White from the Treasury Department to the In ternational Monetary Fund. This was not within my purview." The FBI. he said, never object ed to getting rid of government officials on whom it had evidence ;of subversive activities. Asks Removal In fact, he said, he told Atty. Gen. Clark on Feb. 21, 1946, a fortnight after the Senate ap proved the White appointment, it would be unwise to let White remain in government. He said Gark told him "an effort would be made to remove Harry Dexter White, although the attorney gen eral expressed doubt that this would work out." He said Clark advised him White would be surrounded at the Monetary Fund with especially selected people who were not se curity risks and that Truman wanted surveillance continued. Hoover said he told Clark sur veillance would be kept up if that was the desire. But it was harder for FBI agents to keep track of White after the suspected treasury offi cial went to the Monetary Fund, Hoover said. This, he explained, was because the premises of the fund had "extra-territorial status" . not subject to U. S. govern ment control and agents had no right to follow White there. Mail Fraud Case Delayed By Pregnancy I' PORTLAND W) Because his wile is pregnant, a Eugene sales man won't have to go to Oklahoma to face a mail fraud charge right away. William Lindsey, 34, told U. S. Commissioner Robert Leedy that his wife expects her fourth child next month, and he expressed a wish to be with her until after the event Leedy continued the re moval hearing until Jan. 15, pro vided that Lindsey posts $2,500 bond. Lindsey, who works for a food freezer firm. . was indicted by a Muskogee, Okla., grand jury on a charge of promoting a fraudulent scheme in which Future Farmers of America chapters in that state were supposed to sell calendar advertising. LEARIJ TO DAMCE All types of dancing taught 80c ft Hour Studio Opon 10AJK. to 10 P.M. Jon-Msr Dance Studios 474 Ferry Street PfcoM 4-49C2 And Then There Were Three 'if' & i Jf: til Mfir vCf COOSKIA, Idaho Three little kittens, who act just like moles,- take turns coming out until they fill all the holes. The venturesome pussies, who had hidden under an old building near , the home of Roscoe LeGresley in Kooskia, Idaho, responded one by one to the coaxing of the LeGresley children. Papa was on hand with a camera to record the three-stage coming out party. (AP Wire photo to The Statesman.) Firemen, Wives Sign For Dancing Classes Don't be surprised if you see some Salem firemen waltzing up their ladders in jig time or doing the rumba on the hose line. Eleven of the laddies at central station and their wives have signed up-for dancing lessons at a local dance studio. Two Portland Men Charged With Extortion PORTLAND - Two men $1,150 from three cab drivers, were arrested here Tuesday Booked on charges of larceny and attempted larceny involving extortion, were Earl D. McKillop, 27, and Vernon Charles Dent, 33, both of Portland The three cab drivers. Raymond Leap. Bob Sellner and Norman Checkley, said the two men told them they had information the three were about to be arrested on vice charges. The two men offered to have the charges "fixed" for sums totalling $1,150, the cab drivers said. The cab drivers reported the matter to the district attorney, ' who arranged the arrests. McCarthv to Reply by Air To Truman NEW YORK Of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) Tuesday demanded radio and television time to answer former President Truman's reference to him Mon day night. The National Broadcasting Co. said it wired McCarthy an offer of time. There was no immediate com ment from other major radio and TV networks. McCarthy referred to Truman's talk as an "attack upon me." In defense of his conduct in the Harry Dexter . White case, Tru man said at one point in his speech Monday night: It is now evident that the pres ent administration has fully em braced, for political advantage. McCarthyism. I am not referring to the senator from Wisconsin be is only important in that his name has taken on a dictionary meaning of the word. That mean ing is the corruption of truth, the abandonment of our historical de votion to fair play. It is the aban donment of the 'due process' of law." xxx Can Company Strike Voted PORTLAND Ifl The CIO Steel workers Union here announced .Tuesday that local members had voted authorization for a strike at the American Can Company plant in Portland. Whether the strike is called Is up to Jack Heathman, union presi dent. About 500 employes would be affected. The union has been negotiating with the company in New York for a wage increase and other gains. About 20,000 workers In 33 plants of the company are included in the negotiations. ma -- Truck-Auto Crash Injures Salem Man A Salem man was injured and his car totally wrecked when it smacked into a tank truck, spill ing about 500 gallons of stove oil on Highway 99W three miles north of Rickreall Tuesday night Taken to Salem General Hos pital by Dallas Ambulance was Clifford Hedrick, 63, Silem Route 4, Box 30. He was treated for abrasions and discharged. Ke norXbSEd State police ; said the accident Hedrick car shot underneath the southbound double tank truck on a curve, knocking the truck's trailer wheels at a 45-degree an gle and puncturing one of the. tanks. Driver of the truck, owned by j T"nsPrt,1Co; as C,aude W. Baggett, Portland. He was un hurt The disabled tank truck blocked the highway for four hours, re ducing traffic to one-way, said state police. Oil spilled on the highway was sanded by highway department crews. Malting Plant Tour Scheduled For 2040 Club A visit to the Great Western Malting plant, Vancouver, Wash., has been scheduled for Nov. 23, by the Polk County 20-40 Club for its annual industrial tour. The group will meet at the OGW Farm Store, Rickreall at 8:30 a. m. in order to be at the malting plant at 10:30 a. m. Arthur Dempsey, chairman of the industrial tour committee, is asking that all members planning to attend should notify him at once as reservations must be made at Vancouver for the num ber going through the plant. Crosby Told To Answer Damage Suit LOS ANGELES OB Crooner Bing Crosby Tuesday was directed to file a legal answer within 10 days to a $1,051,400 auto accident damage suit against him. Superior Judge Ellsworth Meyer also refused to strike out a plea tor So25,000 punitive damages in cluded in the claims by three per sons injured in a collision between their car and Crosby's Oct. 11. The plaintifffs, city fireman Frank Verdugo, his wife, Lucy, and her brother, Eulalio E. Perea. alleged that Crosby was under the influence of liquor and ran through a red traffffic light. Crosby in depositions has ad mitted having some drinks at a party during the evening and early morning hours before the accident but denied he was intoxicated and denied going through a stop signal. The crooner's attorney said his denials will be incorporated in the formal answer to be' filed. RAIN SLOWS MILLS CORVALLIS in Some Willam ette valley sawmills went on part time operation last week because of heavy rains, the weekly farm forest products report from Oregon State College stated Tuesday. i-Ponnd Serving Baked Potato or French Fris Tossed Salad Hot Roll 440 State Exceptions to New Zoning Code Sought (Story also on page one.) Salem Planning and Zoning Commission now faces the first requests from property owners for exceptions to 1 the new city zoning code which went into effect last week. Three December variance. Bear ings were scheduled by the com mission Tuesday night at a City Hall meeting: and Chairman W W. Rosebraugh predicted "we'll be besieged by a great number of variances for some time to conle." Variances, which the commis sion now has the power to allow after public hearing, mean per mission given to property owners to violate some feature of their zone in special hardship or un usual cases. ' Many of the requests now being made are on the basis that prop erty owners had made their plans before the new code was enacted. Hearing was set Dec. 15 on William Roth's request for per mission to build three cabins and a house addition on property he has owned for some time on 16th Street near the Paulus Bros. Can nery. Now it's in M-2 industrial zone which forbids new residen tial construction. W. C. Germain, Coos Bay, wants to convert a two-story house to duplex use at 346 N. 13th St., now in an R-2 zone. Hearing was set. for Dec. 15. Remodeling of a neighborhood store building at northeast corner of Lincoln and 'South Commercial Street is asked by Frank D. Vin son. Although this is a residential zone, the store was operated as a grocery there many years. Hear ing will be Dec. 8. A. J. Becker was asked by the commission to submit more in formation on his request for per mission to add a house to a court property at Liberty and Oak ! Streets Paper Claims Rocket Plane Sets Record LOS ANGELES UP) The Times said Tuesday night the Douglas Skyrocket plane last Oct. 14 reached a new world speed mark of 1272 miles an hour. Scott Crossfield. 32-year-old pilot I for the National Advisory Com mittee for Aeronautics, was at the controls of the swept-wing rocket plane when it exceeded the record of 1238 miles an hour set Aug. 15. 1951, by Bill Bridgeman, Douglas test pilot, in the same plane, the Times said. Miles said officers of the Na tional Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Moffett Field veri fied the new speed mark. Crossfield's flight, which fol lowed a drop from the belly of a Superfortress bomber, took him to an altitude of about 62,000 feet above Muroc Dry Lake. It was on the sixth anniversary of the first penetration of the sonic bar rier by Maj. Charles Yeager at 967 miles an hour in the Bell X-l rocket plane. The World War II Navy fighter hit a top speed of , "mach IM," or nearly twice the speed of sound, the paper said. The Douglas plane also holds the world altitude record of 83,233 feet, set last Aug. 21 by Marine Lt. Col. Marion E. Carl. Miles said Crossfield was dropped at about 33,000 feet alti tude and presumably held the Sky rocket in a climb of about 25 or 30 degrees before turning downward at 62,000 feet for his speed dash through the stratosphere. Stassen Says U.S. . Wins Initiative in World Leadership BURLINGTON, VL Har old E. Stassen, director of the Foreign Operations Administra tion, said Tuesday "the United States has taken the initiative in foreign policy required by world leadership." He added, in an address before the 7th annual session of the Na tional Grange: "It is now the United States that keeps the Kremlin off bal ance." Starts Today Regular Prices Plus 15c for Viewers 3 Color Co-Hit SWEETHEARTS ON PARADE TIUCOIOI - IT CONSOilOATtO Uf WSIinttWICIi! MUM tun tamiT sat amn unuri Sec This Show On Oar New Wide Silver Scree mm Arthur Fiedler Ovation at Symphony Concert By MAXINE BUREN Statesman Mnsie Editor Arthur Fiedler conducted the Portland Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday night in what is to be the orchestra's only Salem ap pearance. He was given the biggest ovation we have ever heard following a performance here. The guest conductor, director of the famous Boston Pops Or chestra, skillfully led the players in a program of symphonic music Auto Workers - Union Fined After Violence COLUMBUS. Ohio UP - A judge fined a ClO-United Auto Workers local $20,000 Tuesday suspend ed pending future good behavior a few hours after violence flared at ' the strike-bound North American Aviation plant here. Judge Joseph M. Harter of the Franklin County Common Pleas Court ruled CIO Local 927 in con tempt, then suspended the fine on condition the union observe pro visions of a picket limiting order issued Oct. 23. Tuesday's flareup of violence produced minor injuries to a re ported nine persons and resulted in one arrest at the plant which produces Sabrejet fighter planes. In the court case the union was attempting to show cause why it Should not be held in contempt because of alleged violations of the picket order, issued the day the strike started. Some 12,500 members of the un ion struck the local plant to en force a demand for a 26-cents-an- hour wage increase after the com pany offered 4 cents. Strikes also are in progress in the firm's Los Angeles and Fresno, Calif., plants Portland Gets Varied Weather PORTLAND LP Portianders got their choice of weather Tues day. There were brief periods of rain, sunshine, hail and a lightning storm. At night the thermometer began dropping toward the freezing level. Two lightning bolts knocked out four transformers of a power firm, interrupting service for several score of homes. The firm said service was restored for roost of them within an hour. PNONI s-sose HELD OVER! t m ft mi wtt .1 1 mm - ALSO -Colorful Short Subject! "NORTH OF THE SAHARA" Pro Football Game Thrills) L A. Rams -vs.- S. F. 49'ers 2ND Victor Mature "AFlFAIR WITH TAKE Take HAMBURGERS , rake FRENCH FRIES Take MILKSHAKES Tak COFFEE Take ORANGE ... Take ROOT BEER Take COKE Take's To Take Out AH Day From 11 A. M. to Midnight on Weekdays From 18 to S P. VL on Sundays ' . Downtown on State. Street COUNTER SERVICE AT ABOVE PRICES 4 f P. M. to Midnight Mondays Threagh Saturdays Gets 'Biggest9 of the kind which affords a de lightful evening's entertainment The first part of the program was played with a limited orches tra. It included the Handel Royal Firework Music, arranged by St Hamilton Harty and Haydn's Symphony No. 88. Both are fine program pieces, and were done with excellence by the musicians. The final half of the program was done- with full orchestra. First came the pleasant and amus ing modern suite The Incredible Flutist by Piston in which, sur prisingly enough, members of the orchestra joined lustily in a vocal imitation of a noisy circus crowd. Two stirring Slavonic Dances by Dvorak followed. The final number, Capriccio Italien by Tchaikowsky was my personal favorite, and a fine finale to a delightful evening. The Portland orchestra, which gained skill under the baton ot Mr. Fiedler, unfortunately played to a comparatively small house. It was admittedly a busy week in Salem, but it is regrettable that Salem cannot produce an auditor ium full of music-minded folk, willing to give up other things to hear the conducting of a man of Arthur Fiedler's musical stature. Those who attended certainly showed by their applause, their appreciation. Moore Firm Opens Office New business offices of Moore Business Forms, Inc., 1895 S. 16th St, were occupied Tuesday and the remainder of new facilities at the addition will be filled as soon as new machinery arrives. Moved into as well was the new plant cafeteria with facili ties for 80 diners. The new main office is 80 feet in length and 22 feet wide with supplemental space. The complete addition will add 19,000 square feet to the plant - PMONK 9-9447 Continuous Daily! STARTS TODAY! tiCi'iiJLJ 2ND BIG HITS MOT BOKtSKAKLOfr NOW PIAYING BIG HIT -Jean Simmon A STRANGER" IT OUT! t 19c -at 9t at I9t -at 9 -at .at St 96 9c No Time ... ... To Take Home