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irDBira liDSS U3 W ImI OtTD nn mimmmm C : - TT soviet nas reuer Atomic weap Russ Envoy Hints By FRANCIS W CARPENTER Jr. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. () Andrei Y. Vishinsky hinted Thursday that the Soviet Union has atomic, hydrogen and other weapon types which the Western countries do not have. Western delegations privately discounted the claims as bluster (UCDOuDCa Monday morning The States man reprinted under Editorial Comment a column written by Charlie Stanton in the Roseburg News-Review in which Charlie re viewed a recent speech of Sen. Wayne Morse in Roseburg. This reprinting has prompted two con tributions to our Safety Valve which appear on the editorial page today. One accuses Stanton of lampooning Morse without in the least refuting any of the sen ator's statements. The other says that Stanton fails to meet . the senator on the issues. What Stanton did was to set down his personal impressions of Morse and of his speech. I thought it was a piece of writing much above the ordinary run-of-mill editorial writing, which mer ited reprinting. It was sure to delight the foes of Morse and prick the flanks of his friends. The latter seem to be quite as sensitive to criticism as the sen ator is himself. What these critics ignore is that Morse himself IS an issue. He personalizes everything. His speeches are intensely personal both in self-justification or in self-glorification. He personalizes his attacks, condemning not alone the reputed "giveaway" of tide lands and power sites, but Eisen hower and McKay as the doers of . evil. He magnifies the failure of the 1952 Republican delegation to give Mm a committee post at the national convention into be ing "kicked out" by the Repub lican party though he did not voice this idea until he deserted the party nominee and announced he would become an (Concluded on Editorial Page 4) Boat Mishap Gaims Life Of Coos Man 1 COOS BAY tfl The owner of a barbecue place here apparently drowned Wednesday night when a boat taking him and his family to a lake home for the Thanksgiving holiday capsized in South Tenmile Lake. His sons heard George Manos, 42, in the darkness tell his wife to erab a kitchen stool floating from the boat. Rescuers could not find him. They pulled out his wife, floating unconscious and gripping the stow. - : " The sons. George Jr.. 16. and Eddie, 14. clung to one side of the overturned boat and attracted res cuers by their shouts. Mr. and- Mrs. Pat Kelly in one boat and Roy Smith and Nig Yeager in another hurried to the scene. The boys and Mrs. Manos were taken to the Kelly home. Later she was treated at a hos pital for shock and released Thurs day morning. The lake was dragged for Manos body. Bourbon Still Stilled BOURBON. Ind. t Harry Shaw. 54, of Wayne, Mich.; was charged Thursday with making moonshine whisky 14 miles from Bourbon. i : , Ma Min. rrecip, Salem - 51 44 Xly Portland 54 44 - .44' San Franciac 61 51 .00 Chicago . 32 30 r .15 New York 49 37 M WiHameH Rivr 15.S feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather ran, McJiary field. Salem): Cloudy with intermittent rain to day and tonight Partly cloudy with a few showers Saturday afternoon and night. High todav M to M and low tonight 43 to 45. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. Wfai n. SALEM PRECIPITATION State Start of Weatlitr Tear Sept. I This Tear Last Tear Tformal 1131 2M 10.21 Animal Cro&crc y WAftftEN GOODRICH GJvt mi a thov r two snWts slow." - - T' ons, : to offset a solid defeat suffered by me soviet peace package pro posals which would ban all such weapons of mass destruction. The chief Soviet delegate men tioned the mystery weapons in a 2 hour and 10 minute appeal to the 60-nation Political Committee for approval of the peace pack age. -. The committee overwhelmed ev ery key paragraph of the Russian proposal. There was no vote on the balloting, i ..' Lack Elaboration Vishinsky did not elaborate on his remarks about Russian super- : : i - i . . juruy in atomic ana hydrogen bombs. ' The Russian delegate led intn his claim by saying British Minis ter of State Selwyn Lloyd had as serted the; Russians were trying to get general reductions of arma ments in the fields in which they were weakest. It was alleged, he said, that the Soviet Union was trying to prohib it atomic: weapons because, ac- coraing to Lloyd, the other side naa greater numbers of them. Heard by Committee Then Vishinsky said: "How can one speak such words at the present time when the Soviet-Union does have the atomic bomb and does have the hydrogen bomb and when the Soviet Union is not behind other countries in this respect, other countries which, I may add, do not have every thing in this field of atomic and otner weapons, that the Soviet Un ion already has." --That was the version as heard by the delegates in the committee room and reported in the verba tim transcript of the committee meeting, i Slight Variation That section was nlaved hark from tape recording of the origin al Russian and this is the version as translated by an unofficial U N. Russian-speaking source: "What ground is there to talk iie uus i at present when th uk possesses the atom bomb, when USSR possesses the hydro gen bomb, when the USSR in nn way can or does las behind other countries possessing such weapons in this field and even possibly do not possess all such weapons as the USSR i possesses. Vishinsky went on to say (in the verbatim translation version): Nevertheless, the Soviet Union consistently calls for the prohibi tion and elimination of these wea pons, despite the fact that the So viet Union holds these weapons, despite the fact that the atomic weapon, be it in Soviet or in American hands, is equally ef- iecuve as regards its force and its power.! Denies Weakness It is not correct to say that we are weaker in this realm of endeavor.! Why do you not listen to your own specialists, chemists. physicists,! etc.? "If you win heed that advice, you will know of the place of So viet science and practice, as well as the progress achieved by So viet applied science. "Therefore, it is incorrect to say that we are urging a reduction of armaments in the fields where we are the weakest. This is noth ing but a myth, utterly unfounded in reality." - A reporter asked Vishinsky after toe committee adjourned to ampli. fy his remarks - on weapons. The Russian said through an In terpreter that he meant the Soviet Union has the atomic weapon, and tnat tne soviet Union insists on its prohibition. He refused to ela borate on that Toy Train Blamed For $100,000 Fire CINCINNATI on Fire, be lieved to have started from a short circuit in an electric toy train, caused an estimated 1100.. 000 damage to a five-story build ing in downtown Cincinnati Thurs day night. 1 Firemen, pouring water into the top two ' floors from six aerial lines, confined the blaze to the one building, housing the Foltzer Electric Co. I Missing ORANGE, Tex. t A middle-1 aged couple'rmasquerade for love that began 22 years ago when they were very . young . ended Thursday, But not the complica tions. For Thomas C. Buntin, member i of a wealthy , Nashville, Tena ! family, and Betty McCuddy, Rus sellville, Ky., heiress, were legally dead. ' But Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Palmer, parents of six children, tersely admitted : they were the socially-prominent young insurance executive and his secretary who dropped from sight in 193L Thursday night, they ate a be lated Thanksgivmg dinner with four of their six children and tried to act as did the neighbors who dropped by to chat as if nothing out of the ordinary bad happened in the masquerade life. that tum bled around them -Thursday 103RD YEAR 2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES Chiang, Rhee Set SEOUL m South Korean President Syngman Rhee left by plane- unexpectedly Friday for Formosa and a visit with Presi dent Chiang Kai-Shek of National ist China. Rhee said the surprise trip had no particular significance, that he merely was returning a "friendly visit.". Follows Meeting However, observers noted that the trip followed closely a round of conferences Wednesday between Rhee and top-ranking U. S. mill tan leaders. - Rhee met aboard the U. S. bat tleship Wisconsin at Inchon, Korea, with Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, 8th Army commander: Vice Adm. J. J. Clark, retiring commander of the U. S. 7th Fleet: dark's sue cessor. Vice Adm. A. M. Pride: and Lt. Gen. S. E. Anderson, U. S 5th Air Force commander. Snrnrise Move TJiere had been no indication that Rhee would visit the Chinese leader. The conferences plus Rhee's abrupt trip touched off all sorts of speculation, including t hat Rhee and Chiang may be forging mutual defense plans against the Communists: disposition of some 14,500 anti-Communist Chinese war prisoners now in Indian custody in the Panmunjom neutral zone and a possible, break in the dead locked preliminary talks for Ko rean political conference. Injured TO Trio Still on Critical List Statetmaa News Service . McMWNVILLE Three Will amette University students injur ed in a two-car crash which killed two persons Wednesday near Grande Ronde remained in criti cal condition early Friday morn ing, but two showed some im provement In grave condition was Frank lin 0. (Bud) Parker Jr., 19, New port, son of the Lincoln County coroner. He is at McMinnville Hospital as is Carol Litchfield, 19, former Miss Lincoln County and runner- up in the Miss Oregon contest two years ago. She Is the daugh ter of Kenneth Litchfield, New port city attorney. Still Unconscious Hospital attendants said Miss Litchfield was "somewhat im proved but still unconscious." The third student, 19-year-old Jo Ann Curry, daughter of a New port merchant, was moved to Physicians and Surgeons Hospi tal, Portland, Thursday. Although still critical, she also was report ed somewhat improved. Both she and Miss Litchfield suffered skull fractures. Killed in the wreck were Irvin Monroe Nicholas, 19, Willamette University freshman from New port, and the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Aldropp, Langlois, who were in the second car. Funeral Rite Set Mr. and Mrs. Aldropp, both 26, were taken to Dallas Hospital, but were not seriously injured. Mrs. Aldropp was released from the hospital Thursday. Her husband suffered a frac tured Jaw and facial lacerations. He remained at tne hospital. Funeral services for Irvin Nich olas will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Chinch, Newport Announcement of funeral serv ices for the Aldropp infant will be made later by Macy Funeral Home, McMinnville. Meeting Pair 's Masquerade Ends After 22 Earlier they had sat, silently and miserably, while their love story was laid bare and the ques tions asked: - a. What of the $50,000 insurance Buntin left a wife and three sons? What of the million dollar estate that Betty couldn't share.-- be cause she was "dead?" ' There were no answers, now, from the thin, tall man and the motherly-looking woman with gray in her hair. ' - They have told all their six chil dren, they said, since the . first news came out Thursday morning. And : they have told one of their two sons-in-law. The -other is in the Air Force in Korea.- Were they ever legally mar ried? " "We have nothing to, say now," they said. "Let us think this out."" The teen-age Sunday school class al:SL.Mark'f Methodist Church V . x fs A - i ' - ' :' - i . h t ' ' r v 'V. , ) f ri." jjsy These three Salem High School students are members of a class bow making rag dolls, crossword puzzles and other toys to be given to the Salem Exchange Club who will in torn give them to the Salvation Army for Christmas distribution to the needy. In addition to the high school toys, members of the club will give at least three other toys. Shown above from left to right in Larch Ellenburg's Crafts I class are Robert Shryock, Pat Wendt and Nancy Christopher. (Statesman Photo) Gunmen, Held After Robbery OfSalemHotel Salem Hotel at 161 S. High St was held up early this morning and less than five minutes later fast-working police had arrested two men as they fled in a car. ' Police identified the pair as Virgil M. Barker, 24, Snohomish, Wash., and Robert Boston, 26, Lone Beach. Calif.. They- were jailed' on open charges until a complaint is signed. Bud Stull, 62, of 775 center St., clerk at the hotel said only S7 or S3 was stolen. City police officers Calvin Steward and David Bain made the rapid-fire arrests. While on routine patrol they spotted two men running east on Ferry . Street near High Street The pair, jumped into a car parked by the curb with tne motor running and took off at high speed, the officers said. Police Cave chase. At the time Steward and Bain did not know the hotel had been held up. The fleeing car, a 1941 Chev rolet, ran a red light at 12th and State streets, narrowly avoid ing a collision with another ve hicle. Police stopped the car just east of the intersection. When we had them stopped. Steward said, "we heard the ra dio broadcast of the stickup." Stull identified Barker as the man who tame into the hotel about 12:25 a.m. and, according to Stull. said: 1 "This is a stickup. I mean bus iness. Fork over all you've got." Stull said he emptied the petty cash drawer which totaled only S7 or $8. '"He asked for more and I showed him the empty drawer," Stull said. Roasting Turkeys Given Blame for Stalled Elevator DETROIT UB Turkeys were blamed for stalling an elevator in a six-story apartment building Thursday. ' . . Firemen rescued two men and a girl from the elevator after it stopped between floors. Too many birds were being roasted in electric ovens in the 100-apartment building, they ex plained, overloading circuits and blowing a mam fuse. sent Margaret Palmer, 16, a bou quet of flowers. Margaret, who is In the class, called her teacher in tears and cried, "What will peaple think?" "Yon put on powder and your lipstick and be in church as usual Sunday," Mrs. M. M. Brock said she told the girl. The Orange' Leader said it bad called many persons and found no one "who had any .criticism for that family." ' i , : The parents of' the two Orange youths who are married to Palm er girls said it mad no difference to them. " They are Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Burton,, parents of Corp. William Burton, who is married to Betty and is now in the .Air. Force in Korea, and Mr. and Mrs. James E. Herrmg, parents -of Corp, Wil liam Herring, . married to Jane, POUNDCSD 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Helpers for ' Santa Claus Duty Postpones Turkey Dinner For 1st Aidinen Duty came before turkey for Salem first aidmen Thursday noon. First aid Capt. Robert Blegen, chief cook for firemen at central station for "operation turkey," and his driver, Tommy Giles, were about to take that first bite of bird when they got a calL They wheeled the first aid car out to South 20th street and treat ed a 10-year-old boy for a cut fin ger but got back before all the turkey was gone. - MIG Bounty Near for Red Korean Pilot WASHINGTON ( - The $100,- 000 reward won by a North Korean Communist pilot by turning over his Russian-built MIG jet fighter is soon to be presented to him. An Air Force spokesman said Thursday the Far East Air Force has been authorized to make the presentation "at an early date" to Lt. No Kum Sok, 20 year old pilot who flew to the United Na tions side two months ago. Plans which have been under consideration call for the setting up of a trust fund, part of which would finance the lieutenant's ed ucation at some U. S. engineering school. The remainder would be his to use otherwise as he saw fit, Apostrophe Adds Distinctive Note GREENSBORO, N.C. (J - At torney George Hampton asked the witness how she spelled her name. "P-e-o-p-l-e-'-s," spelled the wit ness. "What's the apostrophe for?" Hampton asked. "That's so folks can distinguish me from them other peoples," she explained. j Thief Takes Turkey Off Family's Menu DETROIT un Rosie Tillman fed her husband and five children hamburger and cranberries Thurs day. A hungry burglar had broken into their home during the night and stolen - their - 13-pound turkey from the refrigerator. and stationed at an Air Force base in Washington State. : . Buntin was 23 when he fell from sight and he .left a wife, now re married, and three sons. His sec retary was 22. For 22 years they have lived in Texas and raised their family; they have one grandchild now and another expected any moment. Thursday was their Thanksgiv ing holiday, and they were home just like any other couple of mod est ' Income, when the telephone started ringing and the reporters started calling. , ' "S t The ' National Tennesseean had published the news of their life in a copyrighted story; Just Wednes John Seigenthaler, talked to them in Beaumont, where both work. "We were in love. Money didn't mean too much to ns. If money had meant anything, ws wouldn't have dont what wt did,' tha for i EKMitl Friday, Norembcr 27. 1S53 Dulles Seeks Gouzenko Case Solution By WILMO HERCHER WASHINGTON W) The case of Igor Gouzenko was back in the hands of the diplomats Thursday, with Secretary of State Dulles asked to seek from Canada a re- ilaxation of the terms under which Gouzenko can be questioned by Senate investigators about Soviet spying. Until Dulles has had a fresh exchange of views with Canada's foreign secretary, Lester B. Pear son, it appeared that the senate's internal security subcommittee would take no further steps to in terrogate Gouzenko, former code expert in the Russian Embassy at Ottawa. Other Irons in Fire .But Sen. Jenner (R-Ind), sub committee chairman, has addition al irons in the fire, and he indi cated Thursday his group will press its investigation of other as pects of alleged espionage inside the U. S. government. Gouzenko exposed a big Soviet spy network in Canada when he renounced Communism in 1945. The espionage activities apparent ly extended into the United states. and it is in this connection with the Jenner subcommittee is anxi ous to talk with him. Set Down Conditions Canada has agreed that Gouzen ko may be questioned by the sub committee but it set these condi tions: . Gouzenko, now living under an assumed name and under police protection, must be willing; the meeting with American authorities must be a confidential one under Canadian auspices; and the deci sion to make public or keep sec ret any information obtained from Gouzenko must rest with Canada, Jenner has objected to . the last condition. Today's Statesman SECTION I General News J 2, 5, 8 Editorials, features it- Society, Women's News 5 . Valley News 9 section n Sports News 1 ; 1, 2 General News . 2, 5, 7 Business Page ... 6 Radio, TV 8 Classifieds - 7, 9 mer secretary told Seigenthaler. i Fnends and neighbors said she I was the one who has carried the main burden of the family. She worked for a while in Orange as a court reporter and now is a court reporter for the Jefferson County Court of Law at Beaumont. Her husband works in a televi sion appliance store in' Beaumont, and they commute the 24-miles. "We could hear her typing way up Into the early . morning hours," said one neighbor who asked not to be named. "She did extra work to make money. "Everybody in the neighborhood thinks the world of them." The '. Tennesseean had . the ' clue that Buntin was living in a citrus city in Texas when it started the search 13 days ago. That, hint came from a Chattanooga lawyer for the New York-Life Insurance Co.. which' announced, oa. Nor. I PRICE 5e No. 242 Czech Riddle Studied By MILO FARNETI INCHON, Korea The wounding oa Communist Czech truce inspector puzzled U. S. offi cials Friday. Was it an accident or was he trying to make a break for freedom? A After Lt. Col. Vojtech Bagda was found wounded in his quarters Thursday be was taken to the U, S. hospital ship Consolation where Czech authorities immediately threw an iron curtain around him, No Quiz Permitted They refused to allow U. S. au thorities to talk to Bagda even though he was on an American ship in a harbor controlled by the United States. A U. S. officer said the reason the Communists could do this was that Bagda and all other members of neutral nations inspection teams have diplomatic immunity. Therefore, he added, Czech in sistence on making an investiga tion and keeping Americans away must be respected. He added, how ever: Plaa Investigation "When the Czechs have finished their investigation, I think we'll make an investigation too. After all, we're responsible for the se curity of the neutrals in South Korea." . The original United Nations Command announcement left the impression that Bagda had wound ed himself in the head in an at tempt to bolt to freedom before a possible return to Red North Ko rea. " Doctors on. the hospital ship were quoted as saying he was not critically wounded, and was "con scious and exhilerated." This im plied that he was happy about the whole thing. Pace Change Averts Crash Of Two Ships PORTLAND in A Victory freighter put on speed to avoid colliding with another vessel and plowed into a : pier here Thurs day. It rammed through 10 feet of dock, cut a four-inch city water main and damaged several dock pilings. But the freighter, the F t T Builder, suffered only a dent in its bow and the captain said he planned to sail from here to Seat tle on schedule. The freighter, which had little cargo aboard, was hurled back by the strong current of the swollen Willamette River as it threatened to collide with the prow of the India Mail. It cleared the other vessel but the speed forced it into the dock. Rain, Turkey Hash Slated In Area Today Thanksgiving menu for Salem and vicinity: Weather and food: Scattered showers with steady deluges of dark and white meat followed by heaping servings of everything else. Riven Measured at 15.6 feet at midnight, falling slowly. Traffic: light in Salem all day; main routes such as 99E light during day, picked up consider ably later in the evening. Accidents: Scattered fender bumps, but no major crack-ups reported. Church services: Capacity crowd of 800 at union services in First Methodist Church. Thirty churches represented. Several other individual services. Outlook: Rain here and there today followed by cold turkey, turkey hash and turkey soup. Years, 6 that it had - found Buntin alive. The company got an injunction tieing-up part of the 850,000 paid on Bun tin's insurance policy when he was declared legally -dead 15 years ago.- There is that legal question. There are countless others. Betty McCuddy has been declared legal ly dead, too. Her share of nine million, dollar. inheritance from a great-uncle , was awarded . in 1937 to her -nephew, Robert F. McCud dy, a freshman at Duke Univer sity. :-. Buntin's wife now Is married to Louie Phillips; president of the Broadway National Bank of Nash ville. His family had nothing to say. - ;': - ; ' k Betty's father, Robert Ferguson McCuddy. 76. a banker, chuckled at the news that his daughter was alive. -' .At his home in RussellTille, be western Leaders Get Note By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON OH Russia pro posed to the Western powers Thursday night a Big Four for eign ministers meeting at Berlin at a date yet to be determined and possibly on terms not yet dis closed. A note delivered to the Ameri can. British and French embassies in Moscow and later received at the State Department here was immediately put under study by -U. S. diplomatic officials, includ- ing Secretary ' of State Dulles. The document, which was not made public for . the time being, was described as eight pages long and therefore requiring very care ful consideration before an Ameri can official reaction could be for mulated. Reply to Note Department Press Officer Henry Suydam said that it is a reply to our note of Nov. 16 and proposes a meeting of the four foreign min isters at Berlin. "No date is specified,' Suydam said. Nov. 16 notes from the Western powers to Russia rejected as un acceptable Soviet conditions for a -meeting with the West on the sub ject of German unification and an Austrian independence treaty. The Soviet condition had includ ed agreement by the West to a meeting with Red China and aban donment of the Western defense system. No Precondition It was understood that the new Russian note does, not require agreement to a meeting with Red China as a precondition to a Big Four session, . But it was also indicated that there may be one or more condi tion either stated or implied in the long document which will re quire the fullest study. Thus while it appears that the Soviet government has given ground from its previous position it is not yet clear . whether its newest proposal will prove accept able, i Dulles was kept Informed of de velopments in the latest Soviet move although he did not join otb-' er department officials at the de partment. He arranged a meeting with his chief advisers for early Friday. See Second Motive Diplomats here held strongly to the speculation , that the Moscow maneuver was . timed, to disrupt French : parliamentary debate on the European. Defense Community at a critical point--. The ' government of ; Premier Laniei is scheduled ' to undergo the test of a vote of confidence on this Issue in the Assembly at Paris Friday. Since West Germany would be , armed under the projected EDC treaty, there is powerful opposition to it in France despite official sup port for it Queen Feted By Jamaica KINGSTON, Jamaica un School children, legislators and the so cially elite of Jamaica took turns Thursday in homage to Queen Elizabeth II. From a review of a military parade at 8 a. m., through a mammoth reception for 2,500 per sons Thursday night on the sweep ing lawns and floodlighted gardens of King's House, the official resi dence of Gov. Sir Hugh Foot, the young monarch was on an 18-hour schedule. ' Under a tropical sun, Elizabeth greeted 20,000 school children in a mass demonstration at Kings ton's Sabina Park Thursday morn ing. At noon, Jamaica's Legislature gave the royal couple a "loving and sincere welcome" through speaker C. C. Campbell. Elizabeth and her husband, on a world lour of commonwealth na tions, possessions and protector ates, are to leave on the S. S. Coth 1c Friday for the Pacific via the Panama Canal. To Have and Have Not SEATTLE IA Sign on a ham burger shop here: "COME IN AND EAT BEFORE WE BOTH STARVE." Children told a reporter, "I've got a fami ly again. She's done all right" His only other child, a son, was lolled , in a 1936 plane crash. Betty's moth er died shortly after the daughter disappeared. "1 hope she won't be hurt by an this," he said of Betty. "I hope all this won't have to . go through ' the courts again." Betty had asked about her farm- ly when she talked to the Tennes seean reporter. She was told of her brother's death and that of her mother , in 1932. r "After all these years!" she said, biting her, lip. . . - "Life is a strange thing.- Betty told the' newsman. "We have to tell our children we -are two peo ple when all this time they think we have ' been two other people. If we had wanted to be those peo ple we would never have changed is the first place."; L t ,