Ryan Reports on U.S.S.R.
e
Russian
Peool
State Grangemaster Elmer Mc
Clure writes in the Oregon
Grange Bulletin that the "family
size farm and the way of life
it created, are threatened with ex
tinction." He regrets this, thinks
America cannot afford to make
the transition and says: "The
Grange feels that the time has
come when we must make a more
concerted effort to save the family-size
farm and the American
rural community."
That threat is real, but the
means of salvation do not seem
to be at hand. Mechanical power
applied to agriculture is reducing
the need for human labor, mak
ing large-scale farming profita
, ble and by increasing the capital
requirement for farming decreas
ing the opportunity for small
farm operators.
McClure cites census figures to
show that two per cent of the
country's farms produce more
than 25 per cent of farm produce
marketed. The so-called family-
size farms which are about 50 per
cent of the total number produce
only about 25 per cent of produce
sold. Farming is fast becoming
big business from the standpoint
of acreage, capital investment
and volume of output
There is a counter - current,
however, such as we have in the.
Willamette Valley and other areas
of intensified farming. Certain
crops, like berries, are grown usu
ally on small tracts. Also part
time farming is coming in, where
persons divide their time between
farming and jobs or businesses.
The aggregate marketed produc
tion of these enterprises, how
ever, is relatively small.
: It is regrettable to see the de
cline of the old-time rural com
munity, which was the spring
which nurtured chic, political
(Continued on editorial page ,4.)
Parents to
Take Home
2-Headed Styi
INDIANAPOLIS Ufi - Mr. and!
Mrs. Cecil Hartley decided Sunday!
to take, their two-headed son into .
their home near Petersburg with i
their three other children as soon
as Riley Hospital releases him.
Sunday was the first time tbej
27-year-old mother, Margaret Hart-1
ley, had seen her 5-day-old son.
Hospital officials indicated the
baby could be released before
long.
The Hartleys , were left alone in
the room with their malformed
child. They remained a short time
and showed no emotion when they
tame out. i
A doctor assured them the
child's condition remains satis
factory. However, the baby has
been given oxygen treatments pe
riodically since he was brought
here immediately after his birth
in a Washington, Ind., hospital
Dec. 13.
The hospital said the oxygen
has been administered because
blood circulation hasn't been nor
mal on the left side.
The mother was unconscious
when the baby was delivered by
Caesarean . section. Until Sunday,
she bad seen only a photograph
of the baby.
Dr. J. W. Elbertthe Hartley'
family physician at Petersburg,
lnd., said Mrs: Hartley has recov
ered from the birth.
Dr. Elbert said he will come
to the Indiana University Medical
Center here "some time this week"
to discuss the baby's case with
Riley Hospital doctors. The hos
pital said its examination of the
baby has been completed.
Throng Pays
Final Respects
To Sen. Walker
Scores of persons paid final
respects Sunday to State Sen.
Dean H. Walker, prominent Ore
gon legislator who died early
Thursday, as his body lay in
state at Clough-Barrick Funeral
ChapeL
Filing by the casket between
10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. were
many of Walker's legislative as
sociates and prominent officials
including Sec. of Interior Douglas
McKay, Gov. Paul L. Patterson
and Rep. Walter Norblad.
Private services were held later
at the Walker family residence in
Independence with the Rev.
Charles S. Neville officiating. Pri
vate committal services were in
ML Crest Abbey Mausoleum.
Animal Crackers
Bv WARREN GOODRICH
"Ntver mmd.'
Restless
Broken Pledges
Editor's note: William L. Ryan it a native New Yorker' wha for
several years has made a intensive stady of Pravda aad other Russia,
publications, analyzing their contents for The Associated Press. He has
traveled along the Iron Curtain from Finland to Iran, and this fall
he went Into the Soviet Union Itself.
He spent three months in Moscow and traveliag CM miles to ,
eight of the Soviet republics. Back In the United States and free from
censorship, he now writes of the things he observed and heard la the
V. S. S. R. This Is the first of six articles to appear this week.
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Foreign News Analyst
The anger of Russian house
wives set wheels in motion in the
fastnesses of the Kremlin itself.
Last spring was a bad time for
potatoes and beets and cucumbers
to disappear from the city's mar
kets just after Stalin's death
and on the edge of a struggle for
power.
When the Secret Police of Lav-
renty Beria gripped the country J
nuusewue ;aiasna ivanuvaa
muttered comments could be ig
nored. But Stalin has gone now,
and the Secret Police were no
longer the reliable instrument of
control they had been.
Red People Restless
Something new was happening.
And the Soviet people, more and
more openly, were beginning to
show signs of restless annoyance.
The government of Premier
Georgi Malenkov needed every
ounce of loyalty and support it
could muster. And so the new
consumer program was born, to
promise more and better goods
for the public.
Even today. Natasha Ivanovna's
anger keeps lights burning late in
Communist Party headquarters
throughout the Soviet republics.
Moscow is angry and anxious.
The agriculture program, the
basis of Premier Malenkov's
promise of better living standards
in two to three years, has gotten
off to a slow and faltering start.
Weary of Promises
The Communist Party Central
Committee is building fires under
its party branches throughout the
Soviet empire, to get the program
moving, to avoid failure for Mos
cow's promises. People of the So
viet Union give evidence that they
are weary of broken promises.
But the i.b ahead is one of ar
palling magnitude and dishearten-
ing contradictions.
In September party Secretary
Nikita S. Khrushchev admitted
that some areas had livestock be
low "1917 levels. The party de-;
mands a 20 per cent increase in
livestock by next October.
To Increase Slaughter'
But at the same time, the party
calls for a 37 per cent increase
in meat available to the public.
Can even the Communist Party
attempt to increase the slaughter
of herds and still increase the
number of livestock?
Can it kill calves and still in
crease the output of milk? Can
it produce more leather and more
hrric fit th camp timo
i wctorn ifri...u,.roi .4 !
estimates, on the basis of figures ; P"bab'y du to be halted
presented at the September meet- . ,
ing.
that at lAast millinn hDA
of catle died in the Soviet Union
in the winter of 1952-33 because j
of lack of fodder and shelter,!
overcrowding in winter shelter i
and disease. He estimates that the
same number are doomed this
winter.
Personal observations in a half
dozen Soviet republics indicates
the Kremlin's troubles are far
from over in this respect.
Animal Shelters Bad
In mountainous Kazakhstan,
swept by icy winds from the Si
berian steppes, the few animal
shelters are fantastically bad and i
fodder bases inadequate
The livestock-fodder program al-
sc,:ms lu . ' 's ""'"'".j
to the concern of the central party .
Recently leading
agricultural j
workers, farm chairmen, machine
specialists, heads of departments.
Communist Party members and
"guests" from Moscow were
called into conference in Alma
Ata, Kazakhstan's capital, to hear
the agricultural situation get a
thorough going over.
Herds on Decline
They were told the number of
head of cattle, sheep and goats.
In 191 7, an Oregon Senator Came Close to Being the Only
Solon to Kill a Colleague on the Floor of the U.S. Senate
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Sutesmaa Correspondent
WASHINGTON Sen. Harry
Lane (D-Oreg.) walked onto
the Senate floor with a dagzer
ready for instantaneous use. His
eye was rigidly trained on . . .
,Sen. OUie James (D-Ky.),
whose hand was on the revolver
hidden benea.th the flowing tail
of bis frock coat James had his
eye on . . .-
Sen. Robert LaFollette - R
W'is.) who was staging a dra
matic fight with - President
Woodrow Wilson which had all E
the passion, of today in an ear
lier era when politicians backed .
up their flaming oratory with :
whatever weapons - they could
command.
May Aid Perspective j
This chapter from American l;
history. 36 years old, may aid
those who. wish some per? pec- '
tive for today's . bitter - battles
within and between our major ;
parties on issues made extreme
ly sensitive by serious interna
tional problems. As now, wax
or peace seemed at stake.
to
far from increasing, 'had decreased
since 1940. So did the milk yield
and the wool yield. They, were
told that although almost 30 mil
lion acres of grass was mown for
hay this year, only 2.3 per cent
of it was stacked.
Machine tractor station special
ists were lambasted for poor use
of technical facilities, or violating
their contracts with collective
farms, for slow progress of mech-
anization
Under Pre-War Level
In the public library in Tash
kent, capital of agricultural Uzbek
stan, a chart shows that the num
ber of dairy cattle in that repub
lic is still below the pre-war level.
In cotton-growing Tadjikistan, la
borious manual labor methods are
still predominant, though mech
anization has. been promised over
and over.
Only as one travels westward
along the fertile Black Sea coast
of Georgia, along the Don River
and into the Ukraine, does farm
ing begin to look efficient There
is a long way to go in the re
publics of centarl Asia and much
of Great Russia.
Waste in Transport
Even where farming is better
on the whole, transport is so bad
and this is true of most Soviet
agricultural areas that much
waste is encountered in getting
produce to market.
The party, faced now with Mal
enkov's broad promises, is almost
beside itself in the effort to get
the program rolling. There can be
no turning back, because this pro
gram has been so widely adver-
! Used.
One can see it on billboards and j
in the press, hear about it con- j
! stantly on the radio and blasting 1
i into the streets from loudspeak
ers
. T i r l l
Monumental Problems
There are monumental problems
shortages in manpower, labor-
saving machines, fertilizers and
animal fodders. There is the great
j machinery bottleneck. For exam
j pie, the Krasnodar plant for self
I propelled combines met only 30
per cent of its goal in September.
Something has had to give away.
Since the government is loathe to
slow down its heavy 'industry pro
gram" it has been looking for man
power by halting the "veliky
stroiky" great projects so
dear to Stalin's heart.
It is fairly certain, for example.
that the Turkmen Canal project
has been stopped. Other big labor-
consuming programs also
are
I umurriiw . nuw a wuiikn mokes
ends meet.
'
C.-jw.t 17rfcVOClcf
kIlvl v JL UlULctOl
For Northeast
United States
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A batch of cold out of Canada
sent temperatures tumbling Sun
dav in the northeastern tip of the
United States. And the U. S. weath
er Bureau forecast snow over
much of the norlhern area from
the Rockies to the northwestern
nroot , poo;n
Arctic air sent thermometer
readingg p,ummeting in northern
New York state and New England.
Readings of 5 to 10 above were re
ported in upper New York and
Vermont. Colder weather was ex
pected to hit the eastern Middle
Atlantic states.
. Colder air also was pushing ino
the northwestern and Northern
Plains states. It was much cold
er than Saturday in the Dakotas
and western and central Nebraska.
Cold alerts were given for western
Kansas and Northwestern Okla
homa. It occurred early in March,
1917, just btfore Congress was,
due to adjourn, as was then
automatically determined by the -calendar.
Wilson, in desperation
to protect American merchant
fleets against the Kaiser's
U-boats, had asked Congress at
the last minute for approval of
a bill permitting merchant ships
to b armed. '
Isolationism was then more
prevalent than today, especially
in the heartland of America
whence came Bob LaFollette to
lead the duel on foreign policy
with Wilson. LaFollette argued
that the armed ship bill would
only lead the United States in
evitably into outright participa
tion in the Great War that had
engulfed all Europe: He vowed
to filibuster the bill to death by
obstructing a vote until the
hour of adjournment was nigh.
Shakes Mane ; Jx-
As LaFollette stood in the
chamber, shaking . his : great
mane for emphasis, seeking rec
ognition by the vice president.
Sen. James moved menacingly
Due
12
Burglar
MILWAUKEE, Wis. Trim 17-year-old
Patricia Ann Tratnick
was arraigned in Milwaukee,
Wis., district court on a bur
glary charge. Detective Lieu
tenant Charles Nowakowski
said she admitted IS burglaries
since April with total loot of
about $1,000. (AP Wirephoto
to The Statesman).
4-Way Wreck
Near Silverton
Hospitalizes 5
A four-way wreck, including a
crushing headon collision be
tween two cars, sent five persons '
to Silverton hospital and dumped
a truck load of cattle north of
Silverton Sunday morning.
Soupy fog which covered near-'
ly all of Western Oregon Sunday ;
morning was blamed by police j
for the mishap about a half mile !
north of Silverton on the Silver-
ton-Oregon City Highway. j
Taken to Silverton Hospitals
were driver Charles Earls, 35, j
Brooks Route 1, his wife, June j
Earls. 34. son David Earls. 16.1
103RD YEAR
father Dave Earls, 70, and Gene By RICHARD R. KASISCHKE
Eby, 16, Scotts Mills Route l, MOSCOW m Pravda has
operator of the second car. All (blasted Soviet movie distributors
suffered cuts and bruises and f0r sending out Id American pic
Earls and Eby were released i tures featuring Tarzan, whose
after treatment. A second tarls
son was uninjured,
James D. Painter of the Silver
ton police department who was
an estimated 150 yards from the
collision when it occurred said
Earls, heading toward Silverton,
was attempting to pass another ;
car
A stock truck, carrying 17 head
of cattle and driven by D. G.
Duchat, Sublimity, braked to
avoid the pileup and skidded in
to a roadside ditch, dumping the
cattle into an orchard. None of
the animals, enroute to Stavton.
was apparently injured. A third '
car also went into the ditch be-
hind the truck but was only
slightly damaged.
The pileup blocked the route
for nearly an hour. Both cars in
the collision were demolished.
Storm Center on
Way to Valley
A storm center, reported about
200 miles northwest of here early
this morning, is expected to bring
rain and gusty winds to the Sa
lem area by early afternoon,
weathermen at McNary Field
predicted.
High temperature today is ex
pected to range near 45 degrees
and a cool 37 is forecast for to
night Some patches of light fog
are possible early this morning,
weathermen added.
QUAKE RECORDED
BERKELEY, Calif. UP - The
University of California seismo
graph recorded a sharp local quake
in the vicinity of Holister, 80 miles
south of Berkeley at 5:30 p.m.. Sun
day. No damage was reported.
toward him, one hand on a re
volver under his coat. The Wis
consin senator's son and aide,
Bob Jr., stood in the Senate
doorway watching with horror,
wondering whether he had left
his father dangerously defense
less by an earlier decision to
remove the revolver that his
father ordinarily carried in a
light traveling bag which was
then in the corridor for emer
gency use. . - " , ...
, But - James never drew his
gun nor would he have had a
chance to fire had he drawn.
At least this is the assurance
LaFollette later received from
his friend and fellow isolation
ist, Sen. Lane of Oregon, who
was alert to James from ' the
start
In the biography of the elder
Lafollette J just published by
McMillan Co. and written by
the senator's widow and daugh
ter, there is recorded this pas
sage in which Lane, a physician
and graduate of Willamette
University, told LaFollette how
he had been set to defend the
filibustering orator with a sharp
. ....
PAGFS
Th Oregon Statesman, Salem Oregon, Monday, December 28, 1953
Holiday
Fatality
Pace Cut
By The Associated Press
Christmastide's violent death
toll in the U. S. mounted to 648
Sunday night as the clock ticked
away final hours of 1953's 3-day
holiday period.
Since 6 p.m. local time Thurs
day 473 persons died in traffic:
crashes across the nation. An
other 76 lives were lost in fires
and 99 persons perished in mis
cellaneous mishaps.
California with 35 and New
York with 34 led the slaughter
on the streets and highways.
The National Safety Council
had predicted at least 510 would
die in traffic mishaps before the
holiday period closed at midnight
Sunday.
Death Pace Slows .
As the traffic fatality death
pace slackened, however, the
council said it appeared as though
the total toll "may stay well
within the original estimate of
510, instead of setting a new all
time record."
The record death toll lor a
similar 3-day holiday was set at
Christmas time in 1950 when
traffic deaths numbered 545. That
figure was only 11 short of the
all-time 4-day high of 556 for
the Christmas holiday in 1952.
No Fatalities
As the holiday period neared
its expiration, Nevada, North
Dakota and Wyoming reported no
fatalities of any kind.
In one Ohio traffic tragedy fiv
Toledoans perished when their
auto which police said was
traveling at a 75-mile an hour
clip plunged off a Toledo
bridge into the Maumee River.
Tarzan's Roars
Said Scaring
Russian Pigs
jungle roars are scaring the chick
ens and pigs on collective farms.
The official newspaper of the
Russian Communist Party de
manded that Soviet peasants, in
stead of being required tQ watch
Americ'an cowboy and pirate fj,mSi
"trashy stuff like Tarzan and
be shown serious films about Rus-
sian scientists, doctors, and teach-
ers.
' Tarzan travels from village to
: village, from settlement to settle
' ment, from town to town on his
! l'4-ton truck," Pravda said. "His
w"a storek is even
month in Voronezh
heard this
(290 miles
southeast of Moscow.
Planned Weeks Ahead
"His visits are planned weeks
ahead of time. And when his
screams die away, another trashy
film will go into the villages where
from the continuous screaming
and shooting chickens are
awakened from their sleep and
panic is caused among the live
stock in the barns and villages 1
at night.1' . ,
The old Tarzan films starring
Johnny Weissmuller, made years
ago in jhollywood. have been the
most popular movies in the Soviet
Union for several years.
Form Long ' Lines
The Russians have been form
ing long lines in front of Moscow
theaters to see the four Tarzan
films taken by the Russians as
war booty from Berlin. No fees
are paid to the American produ
cers for use of the films.
Since the Soviet film industry
makes no pictures on cowboys and
pirates also blasted by Pravda
it is clear that these also are
American-made pictures.)
pointed rattail file:
"1 had this file in my office,
and I slipped it into my pocket
If you slip this file inside a
man's collarbone on the left side
you can reach his heart with one
thrust and he will never move
again.
Within Reach
"When you were trying to get
recognition and Hitchcock was
recognized, Ollie James, who
was carrying a gun, started
across the chamber toward you
with his hand under his coat
tails, but he would never have
drawn that gun.Before he could
have done so 1 would have
stopped him with this file. I was
right within reach of him, all
the time." 5 v ,
LaFollette ron the day,
backed by Lane and Sens. Wes
ley Jones (R-Wash.), George
N orris (R-Neb.) and a handful
of others. The bill died on
March 4, 1917, but not without
Wilson turning on a withering
blast which has since become a
famous Wilsonian quote:
"A little group of willful men,
representing no opinion but'
fOUNDID 1651
Ifraf3
Mother, 4 Children Die in Fire
rill I -, - v. - . .
k ' - V i " ' -
V-
FLATROCK, Mich.-Only the brick wall, stand where Mrs. Mary !
Hurst, 25, and her four small children perished in the flames of
their home in Flatrock, Mich., on Christmas dav. Townsneople !
inspect the gutted home. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesm- j
r Censors, Jane
Film Needs Cut;
By BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD CSVJane Russell in 3D is the subject for Howard
Hughes' latest assault against the movie industry's self-censorship
code.
RKO, which is operated by the
it will open "French .Line" in St.
picture has not received the seal
Salem Busy
As Travel Hub
Over Holidays
through Salem were jammed ' th CPS to ny tbeater where it is
with homeward-bound holiday ; sn(mn-
travelers Sunday, according to, Miss Russell sided with the cen
bus, rail and air line passenger sors. Marking her first break in a
agents. ! 13-year association with Hughes,
Nearly all bus schedules both
j north and southbound were run
ing three and four sections all
day Sunday, Miss Susan Nelson.
Greyhound passenger agent, re -
vcaled. Most sections were re-
ported carrying capacity loads.
Reservations on southbound
Southern Pacific coaches are sold
out through Jan. 5, the passenger
agent reported, and added that
about the same situation exists
with Pullman space. Coach space
is still available on northbound
trains, he said
Or.lv nnp United Air T.inen
flight left Salem Sunday because
of poor flying weather here and
in the southern Dart of the val-
ley. The one flight, which left
at 3:45 p.m. northbound, was
carrying a full load of passengers,
United officials said.
One flight bypassed Salem
Sunday because of fog and three
flights were cancelled. A north
bound flight, originating, at Med
ford and due at Salem this morn
ing has also been cancelled.
Today's Statesman
Editorials, features 4
Society, women's .6, 7
Valley news 7
Sports 8, 9
Comics 9
Radio. TV 10
Classified ads 10, 11
their own, have rendered the
great government of the United
States' helpless and contempt
ible.' - i
Zimrnevrpaa Note
Bui other .events of the hour
were sweeping America to war.
The incredibly stupid Zimmer
man note, in which Germany
proposed (b Mexico that she
could have Texas as the reward
for allying herself with Ger
many against the U. S was
made public March 1. The Rus
sian revolution was launched
March 17. And .during that
month five American merchant
chips were sent to the bottom
by German submarines.
' -Wilson and a fair share of the
: populace had had enough. So on
April 2 ' the president asked
Congress for a declaration of
war, and in the wee hours of
. April 6 he received it
- For -all the passion of the
Senate debate only a month
earlier, it quickly became but a
blinking buoy in a sea thrashed
into a whirivooi events of
greater moment and more last
ing significance.'
mum u
Russell Agree
RKO Adamant
Texas millionaire, has announced
Louis next Tuesday although the!
of approval from the Production ;
code Administration, ine 3D musi
cal stars Jane Russell and Gilbert
Roland.
The Breen office, which must
see all Hollywood films before
the seal is given, has asked
Hughes to make certain cuts.
An office spokesman was quot
ed as saying there -were "some
glaring breast shots of Jane Russell
and a dance sequence by that lady
during her rendition of 'I Want a
Man,' . . . that will certainly bring
i sn5. sai
thoroughly agree with the
j Breen office It is the public s safe-
p.ad .and l,he a!t?rs.s t00' l. c,er:
; "V"1 00 nwi 7ani a5;oc,aiea
a"-v P'ure. euner ior my,,, other conciusion.
y'" i " '
! "c",cu
Asks Cuts Made
"I fought and beefed and argued
over scenes in the picture. I have
no more say-so over what finally
appears on the screen than I did
in 'The Outlaw. I hope and pray
the studio will see the light and
1 'ude u,e culs requwicu.
i.. ,i i i
j .s,h add.?d that the incident
I w'!l certainly color any chances
"4 '"'S"'" " "
Her contract ends in February.
RKO had no official comment,
except that the picture will go into
general release after the first of
the year. The Breen office, which
dosn't like to wash the industry's
dirty linen in public, was also
close-mouthed.
This is not the first time that
Hughes has used Miss Russell to
buck the code. When he was an
independent' producer in 1943. he
produced a sexed-up version of the
Billy the Kid saga, "The Outlaw."
Made Cuts
When the Breen office turned
thumbs down, he opened the pic
ture in a few cities. He the re
moved the film from release for
a few years, made certain cuts
and brought it out again with the
Breen blessing.
The latest Hughes move brings
speculation over a possible revolt
against the code. It was set up in
side the industry to curb the ex
cesses of certain producers and to
eliminate the reason for censor
ship by religious and political
boards.
Picture Denied Seal
Supporting those who might try
to defy the code is the example
of "The Moon is Blue." Because
it toyed with words like "preg
nant" and "seduction," it was de
nied a seal. '
It also was one of the few Holly
wood films to be condemned by
the Catholic Legion of Decency.
But United Artists has announced
that the film win gross over four
million dollars in this country
alone.
Wind in Sierras
Snaps Off Trees
SONORA, Calit (P-Shrieking
winds with gusts up to 100 miles
an hour struck the High Sierra
skiing, country Sunday, snapping
off pine trees and damaging ski
lift towers in the Pinecrest-Dodge
Ridge area. ,
The Dodge Ridge ski lift was
wrecked when two large trees fell
across it knocking down "about
1.000 feet of cable. The wind
blew the upper landing platform
50 feet off its base.
PRICE 5c
No. 273
Panel Split on
Blame for PW
'Influencing'
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD '
PANMUNJOM OP) -The Neu
tral Nations Repatriation Commis
sion told the Allies and Commu
nists Monday to decide the fate
of more than 22,000 prisoners of
the Korean War who have refused
to go home.
An Indian spokesman said that
if the two sides do not get to
gether "we do not appear to have
any legal right to hold the pris
oners after Jan. 22."
Under the armistice time table
all war prisoners in Korea become
civilians on that date.
Both Sides Must Agree
An Indian spokesman said the
period for explanations to prison
ers on why they should go home
would not be extended unless both
sides agreed. Explanations ended
Dec. 23.
He said the report asked
S",lt "t" T.SJ'nriSSSE
"LdntusA 'PT
a"e?1.pt bJe,ak.uut after an' H
Tuhat ls the date the armistice says
the prisoners shall become civil
ians.
But the armistice also provided
that a Korean peace conference
should discuss the prisoners' situ
ation for 30 days. There is vir
, tually no chance that such a con
j ference will be convened before
'Jan. 22. .
i Mar Screen PWs
The spokesman indicated the In
dians might conduct their own
screening of nrisoners to learn
their desires. He said that would
depend on reaction of the two
compounds to the majority report.
The recommendation was made
in a majority report.
Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya of In
dia, chairman, signed the report
along with the Communist Polish
and Czech members.
The Swiss and Swedish members
entered a minority report.
The majority report accused the
Allied side and South Korea in
particular of Influencing anti
Communist prisoners in Indian
custody.
"Not Free of Influence'
"The commission cannot record
a finding that the prisoners of war
in its custody (anti-Communists)
were completely freed from the
influence of the former detainig
side, and in particular the author
i ities of the Republic o Korea
j whose incursions made it impos-
! sible for the commission to come
The Swiss and Swedes in their
minority report said "it was a fact
that prisoners of war arrived" in
Indian custody in an organized
manner. They concluded that it
was not unreasonable with the
general spirit of the Geneva con
vention that the POWs would con
tinue to be organized."
Approves Red Tactics
As to activities among prisoners
in the pro-Communist camp, the
majority report said "the commis
sion had no evidence of any activ
ity of the former detaining side
(Communist) in respect of the
prisoners in that camp.
"While these prisoners appeared
to be well disciplined the commis
sion again had no evidence which
-might have thrown any light on
the existence of any organization,
its character or objectives."
There is almost no possibility of
agreenent by the U.N. and Com
munist commands on further dis
position of the captives.
The U.N. Command frequently
has promised the more than 22,000
captured Chinese and North Ko
reans who did not return to the
Communists that they would be
freed Jan. 22.
The Reds want more time for ex
planations.
Milk Price Cut
In California
SACRAMENTO Of) A cent a
quart price reductions for milk in
Southern California and most of
the Southern San Joaquin Valley
will be effective Jan. I.
The reductions were announced
by the State Milk Control Bureau
which said they were made pos
sible by improved dairy feed con
ditions, an abundant milk sunolv
and lower production costs.
The new price schedule, with
the store price preceding that for
home delivery . Fresno County,
19 Vx, 20 Imperial, 1V, 22,
Los Angeles, 20, 21 ; San Diego,
21. . : - - J -
Max. Min. Pretip.
.41 J4 . .M
. 44 3S i .09
. 70 4S ',' M
litem
Portland -
San Francisco .
nrw iwr mv
36 i 1 OlO
WUlamcttc River S.7 feet.
FORECAST frm- U. S. Weather
Bureau, McNary Field, Salem :
Mostly cloudy thii morning. Cloudy
with raia and fusty . winds this
afternoon and tonight. High today
near 4 and low . tonight near AX
Temperature at 1J:01 a. m. was 43.
IAUX fMCIMTATIO! . '
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This Year Last Year Normal
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