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Off DOS President Eisenhower is going through the shape-up for the second session of the 83rd Con gress. His commissions on tar iff, agriculture, state relations. housing will be making their re ports. His staff and others of his administration are working on legislative matters such as amend ment of labor laws. . And the President has just concluded sev eral days of conferences with Republican leaders on the pro gram for the session. What seems to be clear is that defense spending will be reduced, chiefly at the expense of Army and "Tavy; that built-in tax cuts scheduled for 1954 will go, into effect though probably the five per cent cut in corporation taxes will be scaled down, and the ex cise tax structure revised. The outlook is for Congress merely to extend the present 90 per cent parity price support law, and to include more crops under gov ernment beneficence. There is little chance for Congress really to revise its farm support system even if Secretary Benson doesn't like it No particular disturbance will be made on Taft-Hartley. The lineup is not clear on tariff is sues. 'Trade not aid" has a much wider following than be fore,, but industry threatened with foreign competition can be exceedingly formidable during the in-fighting that occurs over tariff legislation. What seems to be evident is that Eisenhower is now ready to play a much more active role in guid ing Congress than he did in the (Continued on Editorial page, 4.) Man Slugged. Robbed While Aiding Pair A Roseburg man told State Police Sunday afternoon he was slugged and robbed by two strangers he had stopped to help near .the summit of the South Santiam Pass highway. Herbert E. Wood told police he was robbed of $100 in trav eller's checks and 5115 in cur rency by two men at about 3:15 p.m. According to police reports Wood said he was driving aloqg when he saw a car stalled it roadside snow between the sum mit and Blue Lake. He stopped to help. The two occupants of the stalled car asked Wood to help pull them out. As he stepped to the rear of his auto to get a tow chain, Wood said, one of the men stuck a gun in his back and the other slugged him over the head. When he re gained consciousness. Wood said, . he drove his car to Sweet Home where he was treated for a large gash on his head. Police said they had only a faint description of the robbers and their auto. U&Novelist Wins Stalin Peace Prize MOSCOW W) Pravda announc ed Monday! the award of 10 inter national Stalin Peace Prizes in cluding one to AmeFican novelist Howard Fast. The announcement came on the 74th anniversary of the birthday of Joseph Stalin who established the award in 1950. An editorial in the official Com munist newspaper lauded this year's recipients as "outstanding fighters for peace." The pictures of all 10 including Fast, French parliamentarian Pierre Cot and Prof. John Bernal of the Univer sity of London appeared on Prav da's front page. The announcement said the prize is aimed at "strengthening peace between the peoples." Fast, a frequent advocate of left wing causes, is the author of The Last Frontier, Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom .Road; and other nov els of the past two decades. Five of his books were removed from U.S. overseas libraries last year. Ti.e Stalin peace prize" has been . valued as high as $25,000. It first was awarded in 1951. A previous American winner was singer Paul Robeson. His prize was given to him in New York, last September after Ribeson was unable to get a passport enabling him to travel to Moscow. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH 4 If - "On th other hond, supposin. It's not a mirage. F7i&l . - . o . ji vj 103RD YEAR Highway Signs Victims of Hunting Season (Vt -nQ5S-' ' 1 M- During hunting season, business at the state sign shops which David Chilles, sign shop foreman is shown above holding one highway sign replacements a sign punctured by bullets which The riddled signs are being replaced by plywood signs which (Statesman Photo.) Einstein Ignores Style At Full-Dress Wedding By HENRIETTA LEITH NEW YORK (JP)-PtoL Albert Einstein mingled with the full dressed and fashionable crowd at one of the season's most elegant weddings Sunday night in one of his rare social appearances. But the 74-year-old scientist, who sometimes refuses to wear socks in public, made little effort I He strode through the refined ! room, pulled off and handed to , ! the check-room girl an old navy I blue knitted cap the kind sail ors wear for a cold watch. NRA Label in Coat Then he doffec an overcoat so ancient that a waiter was not sur prised to see it had an NRA label in it. Then, in a well-worn dark busi ness suit and vest and an ordinary striped tie, the white-haired Ein stein went in to mingle with men in white tie and tails, and women gowned in formal silk and jew els. Einstein ' came to the wedding because the bridegroom, Dr. Tho mas Lee Bucky, is the son of an old friend, physicist Gustav Buc ky. 40-year Friendship I His friendship with the elder j Bucky dates back some 40 years, ! to an association in Germany Ein-; stein made another rare public ap pearance a year ago to testify for his friend in a patent infringe ment suit which Bucky won. The younger Bucky, who is di rector of student health at Cor nell University, was married to Miss Margaret Neuburg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Neuburg, of Park Avenue and Weston, Conn. ; Einstein came late, accompanied ! by several unidentified friends, and j declined to talk to reporters. Rescuers Near Plane Wreck LONDON f A ground rescue team toiling up a southern Iceland glacier was reported Sunday night within m miles of a U. S. Navy plane which crashed Thursday with nine men aboard. U. S. Air Force headquarters i residents of Israel will be permit ! here said the rescuers were bat-1 ted to cross Jhe armistice borders j tling a blizzard and winds up to 50 ' at Jerusalem's Mandelbaum gate ! knots. Christmas Eve to attend mass at The rescuers made their report the Church of the Nativity in by radio to a U. S. Navy P2V Jordan-held Bethlehem. Neptune plane, a sister ship of i In addition, about 50 diplomats ; the crashed plane which disap- and United Nations staffers will , peared on a routine flight out of , make the traditional pilgrimage to i Keflavik airfield in Iceland. The Bethlehem over the southern route i searching crew reported no sign j which is closed during the rest ' of life around the wreck. I of the year. I ' - - ... .. . ,,, , -' - ' ' i m McKay Says BP A to Continue 'A Certain Amount' of Planning PORTLAND ir The Bonne ville Administration will continue to do "a certain amount" of plan ning for future power demands. Interior Secretary McKay said here in a Sunday interview. That was a limited modification of what Undersecretary Ralph Tu dor said here last week. Tudor' had reported that Bonneville's fu ture role would be only that of a wholesaler of power produced by Army Engineer and Reclama tion Bureau dams. . But McKay 'said Bonneville still ha responsibilities as a member of the Columbia Basin Interagency Committee and rill still have a certain amount of planning to es timate requirements on various parts of the system. At an end. though. Is what Mc Kay called Bonneville Administra tion's work of "promoting public power." . Tb Northwest needs more dams, McKay said, putting the SECTIONS 16 PAGES to be fashionable himself. halls of the Hotel Plaza into the f ortland Bomb Said Threat ToMcCourt PORTLAND m Police report ed Sunday, after a three-day in vestigation, that they had a dyna mite bomb and a report thai it had been intended to be used against Dist. Atty. John B. Mc- Court They added that they weren't j at all sure there real' was a threat against McCourt.. They are continuing their investigation. Police Chief James Purcell head- ed the investigating staff that went into action after George Barnard turned over the bomb to Detective Robert McKeown Thursday, and told him an anonymous phone call er had told him it was in his car and he'd get $3,000 if he would attach it to McCourt's car. Barnard was questioned Sunday. McCourt said he doubted that there had been any threat against him. Purcell said there were several peculariaties in the story. Barnard insisted, though, he had told all he knew. g Barnard has often been in the news, most notably as the cam paign manager for Sheriff Mike Elliott. Barnard later worked for Elliott s Tecall. Christians to Visit Bethlehem Despite Armistice JERUSALEM Officials said Sunday about 3.000 Christian figure at ' 400.000 kilowatts aridi. tional a year just to keep even with regional development He looks to private money to help "I saw a story out of aWshington me other day. he told an inter viewer, "which said private Uility companies are planning to spend 20 billion dollars in the next 20 years on power development. I know that about 500 million dollars in private money is ready to go in Northwest development, includ ing what Idaho Power Company wants to spend in Hells Canyon." He spoke approvingly of the new 20-year contracts between Bonne ville and private otilities, but agreed they would not be worth much if more dams aren't built. He declined to comment on ap pointment of a successor for Paul Raver who is expected to resign as Bonneville administrator im mediately on confirmation Ex pected Monday as head of Seattle City Light - - 1 1 POUNDOD 1651 Th Ortgon Statesman Salem, is always good, gets even better. of the reasons for an increase in cause the large rust spots shown. will not rust and are cheaper. Poison Candy Sent to Florida Church People LAKE WALES, Fla. w Police and postal authorities are attempt ing to learn who mailed at least five boxes of poisoned candy to members of the First Baptist Church here. Fourteen persons j were made violently ill, but none was ever in serious danger. j Police Chief K. M. Mellick said! Sundav the affair is a complete i mystery so far there is no sus- j pect, no known motive and the poison has not been identified. Sam ples of the candy have been sent to a laboratory for analysis. None of the boxes had a return address. The names and addresses of recipients were formed of let ters clipped from a newspaper and pasted on. There were no accom panying messages. The candy, apparently home ' "J-"-. WdS & wun ) pink icing. Those who ate it became ill about four hours later, vomiting heavily and remaining nauseated for a day or two, Mellick said, It was not until word of the ef - fects ; spread around and people began to compare notes that any- 1 . a 1 uiuig unusuai was suspecien. men; a doctor advised one of his patients ! to report the matter to police and an investigation began. One box was sent to the Rprpan Bible class of the First Baptist church. The adult class has 28 members. Others went tn inHivi. dual members of the church. j Horses Injure Two Men at ! I ! Fairgrounds C7 Horses took their toll of riders Sunday sending two to a Salem hospital as the result of mishaps at the Oregon State Fairgrounds. At Salem Memorial Hospital with a severe laceration of the forehead and skull fracture was Lebanon Logger William Mc Pherson, 39. McPherson, a rodeo hand who has ridden in State Fair shows, was practicing bull dogging Sunday morning when he was kicked by a hazing horse as it went by him. He was given treatment by Salem first aidmen and taken to the hospital by friends. His condition was de scribed as good by hospital of-1 ficials. j Second victim of a horse was ' Keith Adams, 31, of Independ- i ence Route 1 and also a rodeo j rider. His own horse bit him on j the hand, requiring treatment at j Salem Memorial hospital. He was later released. AI1(lrtv Tlonlinrii iiUllrC) nCpDUrll9 Ferrer Awarded Lt Col. Joseph O. r letcher, who if anywhere, military competition t witn the choice of neutrality or j submit a letter as to why thei KTs-ur vrtov im k a u 'organized the first detachment for, will be a game of wits in which j obliteration, may decide that neu-;wouj(j je j0 nave their owl k., rT Z. 2U"iey Hep" the drifting ice island T3 in 1950, flexibility and versatility will win trality is their only salvation," he ' homes ilnJerTJI Sunfdf wereisaid such units might prove to be'over brute force. . . 'said. "Already wThear talk from hmCS named top movie stars of the year .v. J:. ,i: ..n n j : m . r I 11 r . in uie annual poll of cntics Dy tne trade publication Film Daily. Miss Hepburn, a screen new comer, was also labelled top "find" of the year because of her perfor mance in "Roman Holiday." Fer rer was cited for his acting in "Moulin Rouge." Citations for best supporting per formances went to crooner Frank Sinatra for his straight dramatic role in "Prom Here to Eternity and to Gloria Grahame for her portrayal in "The Bad and the Beautiful." Oregon, Monday December 21 Ston Subside, 2 Dead Less waterboth in the skies and in the streams in this area is the weatherman's forecast for today, following a storm Satur day which claimed two lives in highway accidents. Sunday the weather moderated and although many streams ran bank full there was no immediate danger of damaging floods. Ap proximately 2Vi inches of rain fell on the Salem area over the weekend. A storm lurking out in the Pacific northwest of here is ex pected to move inland Monday night and to. begin dumping more, rain Tuesday. East of Burns a Eugejie woman, Mrs. Elmer Anderson, was killed when her car collided with anoth er auto, because a boulder had rolled onto the road. (Story on page 2, sec 1.) Tree Strikes Car William B. Derry, 21, of Glen wood near Hillsboro was killed when a storm blew a tree down onto the car in which he was rid ing. After a night of heavy winds and rain streams in the Willam ette Valley were falling Sunday. The Santiam crested at Jefferson at 19 feet The Willamette River is expected to crest at Salem to day at about 18 feet River Flooding The old Salem-Silverton road through the Pudding River bot tom was flooded Sunday in that area. A large fir tree fell across the road and damaged a garage near the Knott farm on Greenwood Road north of Independence ear ly Sunday. 2aiuraay nignts winds up- rooted many trees all the way i from the northwest part of the state into Central Oregon. Skies cleared for a time in some areas Sunday and the forecast ca,,s for cloudy skies but little rain today. Airliner Leads Lost Rescue Plane to Safety TOKYO iPi A Pan American . Airways plane came to the aid j of a distressed Coast Guard plane some 200 miles east of Wake Is - j land Monday in the western Pa- ; cific so swiftly that the Coast I Guardsmen were not obliged to j make an emergency ditching. . r a a i - ran American Airlines company here reported the commercial air - liner, bound for Tokyo was divert- ed after its takeoff to search for i the Coast Guard craft which had! ! radioed at 10:20 a. m. (5:20 a. m.. Sunday, PST) that it was ditching off Wake. The Pan American plane, named "Nightingale" and carrying radio and television commentator Ed ward R. Murrow among its pas sengers, reached the Coast Guard plane in time to lead it to safety. Both planes landed at Wake midway stop on the Honolulu Tokyo run. The Coast Guard plane, a sea rescue craft, was searching for another plane belonging to the Overseas National Airways. The Overseas plane had radioed earlier that one of its engines failed. The plane was presumed to have land - ed safely at Wake. Today's Statesman SECTION 1 Editorials, features 4 Society, Women's 6-7 SECTION 2 ' Sports 1-3 Comics 2 Womeji of the Year .5 Radio, TV 6 Classified ads 6-7 Vallev news n. . . xuymaKers siory s Fighter Planes With Atom Bombs On Polar Ice Islands Proposed By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON OP An Air Force Arctic expert Sunday proposed forming , small fighter plane units on polar ice islands which could lash out with atomic bombs against any aggressor nation. UK only reauiiy avaiiduic ieiLua - t bases jf Russia snouid strike suddenly and wipe out present U. S. air bases in forward areas Fletcher, who is now in the air research and development com mand, outlined his proposal in a paper written for the official publi cation "Air University Quarterly." The basic unit might be built around the all-weather fighter as; an biuiuic uviiiu ucuvciy veiutie, supported by long-range air trans- port or by submarine," he wrote. Such a widely dispersed force would be at home anywhere la the 1953 no Woman Tells of Ride As Escapees' Captive (Editor's note: The following story was told T one of two women taken as hostages on a night-long escape flight ay fir Southern Michigan Prison Inmates.) By MARY LOU WATTS As told to Ed Smith, of JACKSON, Mich. (ff)-X was a 41 1 , - mese men Dargea rigm into our and the others had knives. They told us no one would be New Problem In Path of U.N. Talks to PWs By STAN CARTER PANMUNJOM W The Neu- j tral Nations Repatriation Commis- sion ruled Monday a 12-page come; home appeal by the United Na tions to 22 Americans, 77 South Koreans and a British marine must be considered a part of ex planations and be delivered to the prisoners by an explanation team. The ruling came as time was fast running out on the 90-day per iod in which explanations can be made. At midnight Wednesday, Dec. 23, the chance to talk the repatriates back home expires under terms of the armistice agree ment. The Communists suddenlv re- sumed their explanation program Monday and met with a quiet, or derly group of 250 Chinese. Of the first 111 interviewed, 11 decided to return to the Commu nist side. The others chose to re main in the anti-Communist camp. The Allied explanation program still was badly snarled. Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya of In dia, chairman of the NNRC, said the prisoners would have to agree ! to receive the Allied 12-page let i ter. He has contended all along ; the prisoners must agree to at tend explanations. In another action, the NNRC decided to postpone until 3 p.m. luesaay uu a.m. ;uonaa, ran. its consideration of a long list tl jr 1 T T' ! complaints from the balky 77 South ; Korean prisoners. The 22 Americans have said they will not come out for explanations ! until the list of South Korean com - ; plaints is heard. The complaint f a rs 1 . Ti I nsi is au pa?es long, u appearea ! unlikely that they could be ad- justed in time for explanations on the final day, Wednesday, McKays Here For Holid ays Interior Secretary and Mrs. Douglas McKay arrived in Salem by auto Sunday morning for what was designed as a strictly "pleasure trip and visit over Christmas." The McKays arrived in Port land bv train at 9 a. m. Sunday : after the train had been delayed ! an hour from Spokane by stormv ; weather. They made the rest of i the journey, accompanied by Sec. McKay s mother, in a limou sine dispatched by Gov. Patter son. McKay said he had ho business planned between now and his de parture li v train from Portland for Washington Jan. 1. He said he would meet with Oregon Re- publican Party workers in Port - land Wednesday, but that was politics. salem precipitatiov g since sun oi wttuit r Yemr spi. I aui ir i car Dimi S.S2 1S.71 Arctic Ocean, would possess un - : paralleled destructive capability, and would be relatively invulner- able to countermeasures, since it could fade away into the trackless expanses of ice and water easier than an Arab in the Sahara. Here, i rrujcriy (.diiiuuuacu, n tuuju I lurk within short distances from enemy shores without fear of de- tection. , . . "There are no technical obsta - cles formidable enough to prevent the development of such a tactical capacity. . While he did not so specify, it is I known that small but powerful atomic bombs now can be carried ui sutn indues as uie jci r ot it&iu- er Fletcher said that in any sudden atomic war Russia would strike first and possibly destroy .such for- PRICE 5c ? The Jackson Citizen-Patriot little after 9 p.m., Saturday when i ... . .. nouse. une ot tnem neia a gun hurt and then proceeded to ran sack the house. All we could do was sit there, i My husband. (Joseph Watts), j Helen (Miss Helen Gilbert), Don (Don Peck), Mary (Mary Bobe, 14. a baby sitter) and I couldn't ! believe it. They took three of Joe's suits. tnree pairs ot nis snoes, even me ones he was wearing, and one of his shirts. Don's Cadillac was parked outside, full of gas. It was just like an invitation for them. Girl Left Behind We were scared. Little Mary was . . i . .. j terrified and began to cry when the men got ready to leave and! said they were taking her as a hos - tage. We begged them not to take her and they changed their minds. They ordered Helen and me into the car. Before we left, though, they ask ed my husband the way to Indiana. They promised that we wouldn't be hurt. Then they tied the oth ers after collecting about $30 from all of us. But they left one dollar with my husband. Then we started out. Dowling Driving The man named Dowline (Rob- ert Dowling) was driving. I sat in front with him and another man. Helen was in the back seat with the other three. We headed south on M60 at about 70 or 80 miles an hour. We ran into the first roadblock about 15 miles from home but they saw it in time and backtracked to the first side road. Then Helen and I really were scared From then on it was just one set of back roads after another. Convicts Kind It was funny. All of them except the one called Usiondek (Roman Usiondek) were almost kind. One time I sort of bowed my head . i , r trying to siay awaKe ana one ot the convicts asked if I was sick. Once they talked about the break and one of them said he felt like turning himself in after they were outside. He said there were too , manv to be successful. , Whenever they wanted to talk , ... . . . .. about ineir plans, mougn, iney stopped the car and talked outside. Once we skidded into a ditch be cause there was ice on the road. Then Usiondek wont wild, scream- ng about Dowling s driving and waving a gun. It scem?d as if they all were afraid of him. Hold Consultation We reached Detroit fbout C:?0 a m. Neither Helen nor I k ow much about it but we s.opp.'d at Wyoming and Joy Roads 'on the northwest side of the city). There was a consultation and two of them got out. Then the other three left, but not before they gave us two dol- -lars to use for food and phone calls. They t'd us not to turn in an alarm lor at least 15 min utes. j We started to drive away but ran out of gas. There was a fil- j ling station open and we went in ; to call. We called the State Police ' and then called home to let then know we were safe. We hadn't eaten since Saturday i afternoon. Even though the con- victs offered to stop and get us ! hamburgers and coffee during the J ride we were too nervous and ' keyed up to think of food. Neither one of us slept, either. although one of the men in the back slept on the floor for a while. When the Detroit police found us, we both found it hard to be lieve we were still alive. 1 ward bases as the big airdrome ward bases as the big airdrome at Thule, in northwest Greenland. Moreover, he suggested that use I of bases in foreign territory .might ; be lost by shifting policy of friend - ly nations. . "In some cases our Allies, faced aun.c ui wicm. j Fletcher also said that the sub- marine will become an important weapon in the Arctic. j "To the submarine the pack ice, which restricts its access to the ' surface1, also offers protection ! from del J from detection and attack from the . air . . . From the shelter of he ! pack forays against thousands of! i miles of strategic coastline can be; indue, Fletcher sak "Sooner or later the airplane and the sub marine will take their places as the instruments for controlling this strategic area." fn Cages; Five Still Free The Weather Max. Mia. 44 Preci. Ai JS Stlem SI 53 Portland San - Francisco .1 SI JSI 3 ; 31 M Chicago 52 New York 43 Willamette River 111 feet FORECAST (from V. S. weather bureau. McNry field, Salem): Partly cloudy today with increas ing cloudinesa tonight. Rain Tuesday. Uttle change to temperature. High today pear 50 and low tonight near 38. Temperature at 12:01 a. m. today, 5. No. 266 n nemaimn; Men Loose in Detroit Area DETROIT. Mich. Ui The eighth ot 13 desperate convicts who tunnel ed and blow-torched their way out ?L;f .T t!l c ? llch,.ga Prison at Jackson Saturday night was nabbed in that city Sunday night. But the five still at large in the big penitentiary's biggest break some of them the toughest iq the lot left a cold trail in sprawl ing, residential northwest Detroit. Hundreds of police concentrated their intense search there after the five abandoned a stolen cai I i i j aa reieasea unnarmea two wo. i men held all night as hostages, Jackson police seized Harold Ro. sa, 24, in the basement coal bis of a hotel. Rosa was the last of eight te. , Ions hunted in the Jackson ara j 80 miles west of Detroit He wal serving 4-to-15 years for breakini : and entering in Saginaw, Mich, I This was one of the lightest 1 terms being served by the 13. whs. j somehow laid their hands on ai t acetylene torch and cut throush giant storm sewer grate. The fiv hunted in Detroit included two life term murderers, a convicted kidt napper an armed robber. Up to 14 hours after the fiv set out in two groups on foot De. troit police reported they didnf have a single clue. 19 Missing on Two Planes In Guam Area GUAM ID - Navy planes an! ships fanned out from Guam Mon day in an extensive search fc two missing planes with 19 pen sons aboard. One, a Navy search plane, dis j appeared Sundav while looking fa '. . - .. 7 the other, a weather plane ar.j its crew of nine, missing sinci last Wednesday. The new disappearance addei I to a series of Guam plane traga ; dies. Dec. 17 a B29 tried to mail a landin? after develoDin? mntti i trouble but crashed and explode! as it ripped through a miutari housing area. The crash killed .1 persons and injured 12 others. The day before the crash, t!i weather plane failed to retun i from a mission of tracking a ty j phoon. "It last reported while 31 i miles north of Guam. 1 Monday the Navy sent out V planes in a continuing search. A 6 p. m., the Navy confirmed thai a R4D-8 with its crew of 10 hai broken off radio contact and wai listed as missing, , Korean War Vet Wins Homo Downpayment A veteran of the Korean Wai has been chosen winner of a dowi payment Christmas present of I new home in the Lockwoo Homes development in Salem"i 1 Morningside district The lucky veteran, now an em ploye of the state, is George K Day who will occupy the homo, first completed in the develop ment, with his wife and threi small children. Day, recalled t active duty with the Air Forc when the recent Korean conf lie? broke out was a veteran a) World War II. The Days will receive theii "dream come true" at a specif program Thursday afternoon it the site of the new home on Peel and Harris streets. Sam Loekwocj will make the presentation whicj amounts to aDDroximatelv $900 at t down Davment on the $8,001 three-bedroom home. The Ret : Donald Payne will give the invo j cation at the program. 1 rjar was selected bv Veteran ; Df Foreign Wars from a list ti j veterans who were reauired tt Washington Auto Death Toll Cut - - -. OLYMPIA m The State Pa trol reported these comparative I figures Surxay in the campaigi to cut Washington's traffic fatali tics in half during November an December: Traffic deaths 1933: 62 since Nov. Traffic 'deaths for same periol 1932: 103. 4
