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Quick Police Acts dfi Cot .M Avert Dock Riots K POUNDCD 1651 , 103RD YEAB McCarthy Seeks Write-Ike Effi -orts to Reverse Record Diving Attempt MIAMI. Fla. UP A 52-year-oId Miami attorney reached a depth of at least 300 feet in a free-swim ming dive Thursday and then lost his life His body was not recov- 1 ered. The attorney, Hope Root, made ! his dive from a boat in the Gulf Stream off , Miami Beach. He planned to descend to 410 feet for a new free-swimming diving rec ord. In free swimming dives, face mask, foot fins and a compressed air tank are used, but the diver swims freely like a fish. No heavy equipment such as a diving suit, air pumps and the like are used. Gordon Klein, skipper of the charter boat Abaltete, said Root went overboard at 12:27 p. m.. when sunlight : penetration into the! water was at its greatest. He ex- i pected to complete the dive within j 20 minutes. ! "He descended to 40 feet, then I hesitated to equalize the pres- i sure," said Klein. "Then he de- j jt cended to 80 feet and stopped ! Atrocities in Korea Condemned in U.S. i By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JP) The U.N. Assembly Thursday approved an American-backed resolution condemning atrocities by any government and expressing "grave concern" at reports of Red atrocities in Korea. The Russians protested with cries of "fake" and libel." . The final vote was 42-5 with only the Russian bloc opposing the res olution. 1 ; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief American delegate, said the ver dict proved true the American charges that Communist Chinese Charles A. Sprague, M ho write the IT SEEMS col umn appearing, daily in this space, is participating in aconf erence on Natural Resources in "Washington, D. C. His column will be resumed -Sunday. and North Koreans, acting on a conscious policy laid down by the Communists, tortured or killed 38,000 U. N. soldiers and Korean civilians. j i Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Russian deputy foreign minister, made a last assault on the American case after the vote. He denounced it as "a falsification,' a fake and utterly spurious"." He assailed the resolu tion as libelous and hypocritical. Lodge rushed the charges to the U. N. Assembly in late October following the demands of mem bers of Congress for the delegation to do something about the tale of horror and death released in Wash ington by the Pentagon. The Americans have been can vassing thoroughly for support and they watched the vote closely the end of three days of tense bate. Abstaining from voting were Af ghanistan, Burma, Egypt. Indone siaIraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Yugoslavia. India's delegate, V. K. Krishna Menon. said .. "not participating" when the roll was called. He had announced at the begin ning of the debate that Indiawould not take part ; because India is chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission now try ing to dispose of prisoners of war In Korea. The sponsors ( of the resolution avoided a direct condemnation of the Reds in order to gain as many votes as possible. But in he de bate they said the Reds, were to blame. The views of some of the Arab Asian bloc was expressed by Mo hammed Zafrullah Khan, foreign minister of Pakistan, who j ex plained he was abstaining because no opportunity was given for both tides to be heard. Story also on page 10, sec. 2J Animal Crackers By WARRN COODRICH WkV so fcord oixM fSoty IP feu ir 2 SECTIONS 28 PAGES again to equalize the pressure. Then he went down like a shot to 400 feet. "That was all according to schedule. But after leveling 'Dff at 400 feet, he dropped to 450. We had a cable over with painted tags at various depths. Root expected to bring back the tag from the 410 foot level, which would have given him a world's record dive. "Our deepest tag was at 450 feet, and I thought perhaps he was go ing for that one. But something happened. He went down again, this time to 500 feet. "He was tracked by sonar equip ment on a University of Miami research boat to these various depths. The water there was about 620 feet deep. "That was the end. He wasn't seen again. Root had been urged not to at tempt the dive because winds up to 26 miles an hour stirred the sea and caused strong currents, The present world record of 306 fpet was set in the Mediterranean. Veneer Plant Planned for McMinnville MeMINNVILLE iff Beau Veneer, Inc., Seattle, has an nounced it will set up a plant here within 60 days to manufacture wood veneer-plastics. Max Beery, an official of the firm, said the plant first will pro duce lamps and lamp shades. The shades will be of thin veneer sand wiched between two layers of clear plastics. About a dozen men will be employed. These will go to a Seattle com pany which will mount the lamps on bases it produces. Beery said the Seattle firm might move and the complete lamp-producing op eration might be located here later. The McMinnville Development Corp., established recently with support of the Chamber of Com merce to attract new industries, backed the new plant Big Downtown Water Line I Project Begun - Excavation is underway on downtown Front Street for a new 12-inch water line extending from Trade to Court Streets. City Water Manager John Ger en said the new line would meet a recommendation of the Fire Underwriters Bureau by strength ening the reserve water capacity of lines in the high-value proper ty downtown district Cost of the 1,100-foot line was estimated by Geren at $5,000. Be cause of the railroad and other heavy traffic on Front Street, he said, construction is expected to require three or four weeks. INTERVIEW REQUESTED WASHINGTON (JPyThe Cana dian government was asked by the U. S. State Department Thurs day to arrange for an interview between Igor Gouzenko and mem bers of the Senate internal se curity subcommittee. SHIPPING TIED UP OSLO, Norway (JP) Norwegian shipowners were swamped Thurs day night by wholesale resigna tions of ship officers in a strike for more pay that may tie up rthe world. Today's Statesman SECTION 1 General News 2J5.6.7 Editorials, Features . 4 Society News . 8,10 Valley. News .'. 11 Sports News 12,13 SECTION 2 Food News 1-0 General News 10,11 Radio-TV, Markets 11 Classifieds 1-13 Tha Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, Dec 4,; Policies Of Challenge To Leadership By ROGER D. GREENE WASHINGTON UFi Sen. Mc Carthy (R Wis, disowning any idea of challenging President Eis enhower's leadership, called Thursday for a nationwide "write the President" campaign designed to reverse one phase of Eisenhow er foreign policy. Speaking out within 24 hours aft er Eisenhower warned against "coercion" of America's Allies, McCarthy requested all who agree with his views to write, or wire the President asking him 4o halt what McCarthy termed the "blood trade" with Red China. Disagrees With Dulles McCarthy said he is in com plete disagreement" with Secre tary of State Dulles on the ques tion of continued aid to countries trading with the Chinese Commu nists. Dulles' stand, as set fort at his news conference on Tuesday, is that U. S. dollar aid to friendly nations "does not give us the right to dictate their trade policies. The President backed Dulles to the hilt at his own news confer ence Wednesday - and cautioned that "the easiest thing to do. with great power is to abuse it. McCarthy's statement was nade about 10:45 a. m. EST Thursday, 120 Telegrams At 8:30 p. m., Murray Snyder, the President's assistant press sec retary, said that up to that time about 120 telegrams had been re ceived. , Asked if they all supported Mc Carthy's stand, Snyder said: j "No, they are not all one way by any means, but we will have to wait until tomorrow to get a break down." , There was no comment from the President. Reacting to double barreled rebuffs from the President and Dulles, McCarthy, issued a 600 word statement in which be: 1. Scoffed at suggestions that he was challenging Eisenhower's par ty leadership. "Ridiculous and un true," he said. Refused to Retreat 2. Refused to retreat an inch from the previous stands with which the administration dis agreed. 3. Called on Dulles to . "reap praise our whole policy" toward Allies trading with Red China. After reading his prepared state ment, McCarthy reverted to the latter subject and ad-libbed a re quest for all Americans who agree with him to write or telegraph President Eisenhower. GOP Endorsement McCarthy said . he wanted to make these points perfectly clear "1. It has been suggested by our political enemies that I am chal lenging President Eisenhower's party leadership. That suggestion is most ridiculous and untrue. "2. I will give my utmost sup port to all Republican candidates for the House and Senate next year, because it is so important to this nation that Republicans re tain control of Congress. "Women Make New1 Gains for Positions WASHINGTON (JP There now are more women in Con gress, in state legislature and in other state elective offices than ever before. This was shown Thursday by the 1953 annual survey of "Women in Public Service,1 made by the Women's Division of the Republican National Committee. Coast County Probe Eyed; Patterson Requests Ruling Gov. Paul Patterson announced' Thursday he had asked Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton for an opinion whether the attorney general has authority to conduct an investigation in any county without being directed to do so by the governor. The opinion is needed. Got. Patterson said, before he decides whether the state should investi gate recent, charges of gambling, prostitution and corruption in Lin coln 'County. Some confusion has arisen, the governor said, as to whether the attorney general can conduct the Lincoln County investigation with out an order from the executive department A group of Lincoln County resi dents first asked Thornton to con duct the investigation but he told them he could sot do so without a directive from the governor, The request then was taken direct to the governor. 1953 Toyland Day " 1 r - With longing looks, the kids shown above push up to the plate glass window separating them from the Christmas toy display in a local store window. The children Sherry Koontz, Brownsville; Wally (cen . ter) and Larry Ramsay, Molalla had Just teen Santa, and from the looks on their facet might be wondering if maybe they shouldn't go back and ask for a few things they forgot the first time. (States man photo.) Flight Themes ' WinTrJnsfnr 2 Schoolmoms Statesman Newt Service DALLAS, Ore. Originality won trips to Washington, D. C, Thurs day for two Polk County school teachers. Mrs. -Lois Alsip, Dallas, and Mrs. Gertrude Patterson, Mon mouth, won on their entries in a contest designed to observe the 50th anniversary of powered flight They were among four Oregon winners. The entries suggested methods by-which aviation could be used as a theme in the study of vari ous school subjects. Mrs. Alsip, mathemiatic teacher at Dallas Junior High, submitted a series of arithmetic problems based on aviation. Mrs. Patterson is a supervisory teacher in the primary depart ment of Monmouth Elementary School, operated in conjunction with Oregon College of Education. The. two will fly to Washington, D. Cthe week of Dec. 14 for a series of events commemorating the golden anniversary of the air plane age. Berle Joke Fails to Win License Fee NEW YORK m Television comedian Milton Berle took out a license Thursday for his third ven ture in matrimony. The 46-year-old showman set next Wednesday as the date for his marriage to 32-year-old Ruth Cosgrove, a brunette who also has been married twice before. When the time came to pay the 13 fee for the license, Berle peeled two one dollar bills off a rojl of currency and turned to his bride-to-be: w "Ruth, give me a dollar. This is forever, so pay your share." Miss Cosgrove smiled just smil ed. Berle went to the roll for an other dollar. Other Lincoln County groups later denied charges of vice and corruption in that area and asked that no investigation be made. Spokesmen for these groups point ed out that a grand jury recently had investigated and failed to re turn any criminal indictments. The grand jury report said some evidence had been introduc ed that .there had been lax law enforcement in the past but not since a new district attorney and sheriff took over carry last Janu ary. . Governor Patterson is now studying 41 affidavits filed by persons asking the investigation. All of the affidavits were signed by Otto CahilV former Delake justice of the peace pro tern, and George Utley, deposed state .po lice officer. The governor indicated he would make his decision soon af ter he receives Thornton's opin ion. PRICE Dreams in' Fash ion Now Trio Cruises , W eams Three 14-year-old Salem boys apparently decided to play "Huck Finn" Thursday, afternoon and cruise down Mill Creek and Shel-' ton Ditch in a rowboat. When a police officer inter cepted them the lads were carry ing the seven-foot craft east in Mission street at Lee street They explained they had "bor rowed" the boat near the peni tentiary and were taking it home, but forgot to mention how they navigated the swift waters. Explainers Fail to JDent List of Ninety PANMUNJOM UTi South Ko rean officers raced through the third day of explanations Friday to countryment who chose Com munism. They failed to wirf back a single war prisoner. In the three days, 90 captives now! in neutral custody have re fused to return to. South Korea. The explainers abandoned the emotional appeals they used on the first two days, thej recordings of stirring patriotic songs and rich folk music and the voices of fam ilies of the prisoners. As a result, interyiews were completed in the forenoon for the first time and the Allies asked for 40 instead of 30 prisoners in Thurs day's group. But an Indian spokes man said the request was made too late. Officers read 4-minute state ments telling the prisoners they had freedom of choice and re minding then that this was their last chance to go home. Eagle Scoit Gets Rank in Record-Time - MYRTLE CREEK L Dick Lowell already is an Eagle Scout although be is only 12 years old. A Boy Scout Court of Honor gave- him the award j here after he had packed into 19 months the job of meeting all Scout require ments through first class. He also had 21 merit badges. There may be other Eagle scouts younger than Dick but not much. A boy can't be a Scout until he s 1L Dick's 13th birthday won't come until next Jan. 128. His father, Leroy Lowell, is a former scoutmaster. His mother is a Cub Scout den mother. Max. -51 Mia. Precip. Salem Portland 4f 44 ' .78 1 44 M. 45 .33 " 51 San Francisco 5Sj Chicago , 56 New- York 57 35 M Willamette River ti feet FORECAST (from XJl S. weather bureau. McNarr field. I Salem) : Partly cloudy with cattered ahow- era today. Mostly cloudy with ram tonight -and ahowera Saturday, tit tle change tn temperature with the high today near S2 and the low tonight near 38. Temperature at 12:01 ajn. was 49 degrees., ' SALEM MtECirrr ATIOK Stare Start of Weatheri Tear SeC 1 This Year Lart Year Normal UJS . S.4S IMS 5c No. 249 FBI Captures Elusive Army Paratrooper i - LOUISVILLE, Ky. Wt. A teen age paratrooper whose AWOL jaunts already have cost the Army $30,000 was recaptured Thursday afc Mount Vernon. Kv." Special FBI Agent E. L. Boyle,"! tn charge of the Louisville office, announced the arrest of Pvt Olen M. Mowdy, 18. Cpburg, Ore., and another escapee. Pvt. Joe A. Laws, 21. Harrogate, Tenn. The pair fled the -Ft. Campbell, Ky., stockade Monday after over powering two guards on a work detail and taking their shotguns: Boyle said the soldiers, seized by Rockcastle County officials, would be prosecuted by the FBI on charges of assault and robbery of the shotguns. They are being held at Richmond. Mowdy pulled his first disap pearing act last summer. He turned up in Oklahoma City 34 days later with a tear-jerking story of having lost his mother in an auto accident and being deserted by his father. Offers to adopt him poured In. but his mother identified him from a newspaper picture and exposed the hoax. While being returned to Ft Campbell, Mowdy eluded Army guards by jumping off a train at Oak Grove, Ark. He was picked up a month later in Oregon, while visiting his mother. Military authorities estimate cost of the various searches, which in volved a battalion of soldiers and airplanes, at $30,000. Sock Boots Man In Pocketboolq Money Vanishes SEATTLE tf You might get a boot out of this even though it socks John E. Trimmer where it hurts in the pocketbook. Trimmer reported to police Thursday that before retiring Wednesday night he put $40 in his sock, bolted the door of his apart ment from the inside, put the sock on his foot, climbed into bed and went to sleep. When he woke up in the morn ing, he reported, the $40 was. gone but the sock still was on his foot. Osmosis?' Churchill, Laniel Awaiting: Arrival Of Eisenhower for Big-3 Sessions By ARTHUR GAVSHOV 1 TUCKER'S TOWN, Bermuda OP Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Joseph Laniel separately lined up arguments Thursday to convince President Eisenhower on policies they believe the Allies should follow to promote a new phase in East-West relations.. A closer alignment of Western aims' and actions is clearly the goal of each of the Big Three, who will open what may prove to be a historic parley on this British island colony in the Atlantic late Friday. . . "The Western Big Three foreign rministersU. S. Secretary of State Dulles, Anthony Eden of Britain and Georges Bidault of France are to set the stage .with a pre liminary meeting a few hours aft er Eisenhower's party arrives from Washington Friday noon (I a. m. PST). . Between 2 Unions . By CLYDE B ARTEL ' SAN FRANCISCO Rioting erupted on the San Francisco waterfront Thursday afternoon, but prompt police action prevented a major riot between some 1,400 backers of bitter labor r-is Harry Lundeberg and Harry Bridges. v ; Riot clubs and improvised weapons were swung when a nastily gathered line of policemen headed off a mass march of some 1,100 of Lundeberg's AFL sailors against Bridges-backed independent stew ards picketing the passenger ship Aleutian. Six men were hurt in the clash, r ; fought in a drizzling rain, but the! continuing arrival of police rein forcements armed with tear -gas j and riot guns gave weight to the ! arguments of cooler heads. ' Five men were arrested, one for carrying a concealed pistol. Second Flarenp It was the second flareup of the day on the waterfront near the berth of the Aleutian, center of a jurisdictional dispute between Lun deberg's AFL Marine Cooks and Stewards Union and the independ ent National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, which is in the process of being incorporated into Bridges' independent left-wing International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU). Earlier in the day, an AFL at tempt to break through the picket line was disrupted by police after a brief' slugging scuffle irf which three men, one an AFL attorney, were hurt. None of the injuries was serious. Police on Scene Some 200 police, in uniform and plainclothes, reported to the Aleu tian's berth at Pier 39 after the first clash' but all but abobt 30 were sent back to regular stations after peace was restored. Later in the afternoon, AFL members massed at their union hall near the bay bridge and began a march toward the Aleutian, two and a half miles away. Rain was coming down in a steady drizzle as the marchers slogged along in a ponderous mass 20 to 30 abreast. Clubs and Chains Some of the marchers made no effort to conceal their weapons, which varied from baseball bats rolled in newspapers, to pieces of 2 by 4 timbers and lengths of chain. As they marched, the rain increased from a drizzle to a steady beat. Alerted to the march. Police Chief Michael Gaffey put in a riot call for all available reinforce ments and personally joined some 60 officers then at Pier 39. He deployed the police in a line across the 230-foot wide street at Pier 35, two berths away from the Aleutian, and waited the arrival of the marchers. Holds On they came, with an occasional shout of "We'll get those Com mies." Meanwhile, some 200 of Bridges supporters had Joined the 30-odd pickets on Pier. 39 and be gan breaking up placard handles and mallets for weapons. When the marchers hit the police line, the union men surged for ward for a moment, but the police held. Another brief rush and night sticks and timbers came into play. Singling out the most active, of ficers subdued them and rushed them to nearby patrol wagons. All the time, police reinforcements spilled from cars and motorcycles. An attempt by Bridges men to join the fray from the rear was put down by about IS officers. The fray ended when Chief Gaf fey spoke over a sound truck to both groups, promising to respect eacl's rights, but declaring his firm resolve to prevent further bloodshed. Surgeons Cut Joined Twins LONDON (vP Tomunotanye and Wariboko Da vies, 3-montlvold Siamese twin Negro girls from Nigeria, were separated success fully in a London hospital Thurs day, but Tomunotanye died three hours later. "' Her curly haired sister was re ported in good shape Thursday night and sleeping, peacefully in a specially designed oxygen tent They had been joined across their abdomens and chests. In the dialect of their west Afri- c a n homeland, Tomunotayne means "The WTill of God." Wari boko means ?She Who Will Bring Her Parents Greatness. The parents are Victor Davies, a Bantu clerk, and his wife Veron ica, a sales -assistant in a store of Kanu, Nigeria. 1 Then Churchill, as host, Eisen hower and Laniel will take seats at a huge mahogany round table set up in the conference room of the plush Mid-Ocean Club, sealed off from kibiuzers, cranks and any would-be spies by British tommy gunners manning road blocks and barbed wire barricades outside. Churchill and Eden, with a team of 23, flew in from Britain Wed nesday. Laniel and Bidault, with 25 advisers," arrived from Paris Thursday as representatives, of a government that will resign auto matically in mid-January after France installs a new President. Churchill was on hand at the air port to welcome Laniel. Judging by ' private and public statements of the American, Brit ish and French participants, each of the leaders will seek conference decisions in line with national in Tornado Leaves 9 Dead ALEXANDRIA, La. UP) A tor nado bounced across central Lou isiana killing nine persons early Thursday. Another 20 were injured in Lou isiana, and 14 received injuries in Mississippi when an eany morn ing storm struck a rural area. Homes and barns were ripped to firewood. The Red Cross sent nu'rsef and disaster workers into the central Louisiana area. Seven died at Leander, 25 miles southwest of Alexandria. Two Babies Killed- Two babies were killed when the tornado ripped through Tullos, 40 miles northeast of Alexandria. The Mississippi storm hit in the delta country north of Vicksburg, ' about 150 miles northeast of Alex andria. The Mississippi storm was in .the path of the northeasterly arc of the tornado but was not identi fied definitely as a tornado. At Leander, a critically injured mother sat in the wreckage of her home, swaying to and fro with her baby son in her arms. Her husbandlay nearby. Carried on Wild Ride She was rushed to a hospital, still unknowing that baby and husband lay nearby. At Paradise, four highway work ers sleeping in a trailer were car ried on a wild 100-yard ride by the raging winds but escaped with minor injuries. A short time after the tornado hit Louisiana, a storm struck the area around Fitler, Miss., in the Mississippi River delta north of Vicksburg. Mrs. Evelyn Chambers, 47. of Fitler and her 12-year-old son, Rob ert were rushed to a Vicksburg hospital. Mrs. Chambers' condi tion was called "arave." ' The other U Injured were ten ants on the M. T. Reed planta tion. None of them was believed to be injured seriously. Demolished and damaged homes and barns marked the northeaster ly arc of the storm. Beginning in the Leander area, it brushed the outskirts of Alexandria, hit Para dise, Dry Prong and Tullos. La Salle Parish officials said at least 20 houses were destroyed o.' damaged at Tullos. Damage was reported at Para dise and Dry Prong. Atomic Power Firm Forms .. In Kentucky LOUISVILLE, Ky. tff) - The Nu clear Power ' Co., formed to pro duce electricity from atomic ener gy, has been chartered in Ken tucky. The Louisville Times reported it learned from W. J. Rose, secre tary of the American' Gas and Electric Co.; in New York that: "A group of five large utilities has been working together to ex plore the possibilities of producing electricity from atomic power. "In order to protect the name for possible future us, t incorporating the Nuclear Power Company in various states, includ ing Kentucky. "The companies are the Ameri can Gas and Electric Service Cor poration. New York; the Common wealth Edison Company, Chicago; the Pacific Gas and Electric Com pany, San Francisco; the Union Electric Company, St. Louis, and Francisco." terests. In many major fields, the interests of the three - converge. But in some they seem to diverge. . The United States, for instance, would like for the talks to spur the West's lagging buildup against any threat of further Communist ag gression. The changing international scene has led Britain to believe closer coordination , of Allied policies in Asia is essential immediately. As a by-product, the British would like to have future plans for the 14-nation Nona Atlantic Treaty Organization reviewed in the light of what they consider, has been a relaxation of Communist military pressure in Europe..,' France Is concerned particularly about Indochina and the projected rearming of West Germans in the six-nation European Defense Com munity (EDC), - ,