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i - - - - - -i- :.' -!,!- : A !--..- -s - i-- -: I "- i - .- ;i - ; i t '' ' - '.'- I I .; : f I I M Pea to Cm Voting Ask to 1H 103RD YEAR: 2 SECTIONS 0MI3O0 RJCDffiQCa hi s The significant thing about President Eisenhower's message to Congress is its liberal flavor. Grumblings over it should not come from Democrats, but prob ably will come I from hardshell Kepublicans. The only comfort the latter will get is the approval of certain tax cuts and a five billion cut in national spending. They will want inore .of both. Here are proposals which sav or of continued participation of the federal government in pro motion of "public welfare": Government construction of major flood control and power nroiects t Federal aid; ist building "nec essary schools"! Continued military and techni cal assistance to friendly nations Freer trade Retain federal gas tax and con tinue support for highways Amend the; Taft-Hartley Law Extendjjnemployment compen sation to cover f an -additional 6.5 million persons; Include another 10.5 million persons under social security Housing program with low in terest on long- time loans and aids for slum clearance U. S. government participation ! in the St Lawrence seaway In the highly controversial field of agriculture, while details were not given, Eisenhower fav ors a flexible! support system, and would seek to stockpile sur pluses in a way to prevent them from I I (Cont'd onji;ditoriai Page,4) i Sergeaht Dies Protecting GI From Grenade FT. DIX, Ki 1. - Sgt. Leon ard Moran of South Boston, who won a combat infantry badge and three battle stars in Korea, died Thursday alter protecting a trainee from a? grenade explosion with his body. P Army authorities said tne 22 1 year old Korean War veteran, an instructor with tne 3n rieia Ar tillery Battaliop, had been on a maneuver, using live grenades, with Pvt. John D. O'Callaghan, 20, of New York, the trainee. O'Callaghan Apparently tried to throw a grendade out of a trench, but it hit the bank and fell back into the pit with the two men, the Army said, i Army authorities said soldiers in nearby trenches saw Moran hurl himself between the grenade and O'CalUlghan and try to kick the grenade in the open back of the trench. It exploded land its charge hit Moran over his entire body. He died an hour I later in the post hospital O'Callaghan was wound ed in the leg but was not in ser ious conditionj In Boston; I Korean War vet eran disclosed; that Moran saved his life three years ago while both were on duty I in Korea. John F. Norton, 22, said Moran hurled him to the ground and fell on top of him while a ilil of bullets whined overhead, if Benefkctor Posts Bond for Wife in Theft WASHINGTON ID An unl dentified benefactor posted $10,000 cash bond Thursday to obtain the release of Mrs. James Rufus Lan- dis, wife of! the principal suspect in the $160,000 Bureau of Engrav ing theft. II Douglas FL i Smith, a vice presi dent of the I National Savings Trust Co., who delivered the bond money in court, said it was sup plied by a neighbor of the Middle burg, Va., banker - farmer who has employed; Mrs. Landis father as butler and chauffeur for years. Smith saidi the neighbor acted for two reasons: (1) He believed Mrs. Landis was innocent of any complicity in j the theft and 2 he wanted to reward her father for n "outstanding public service." Mrs. Landis father. Irving Grant, refused a cut of the loot and informed police that Landis and William! Giles, another sus pect in the lease, forced him to take $95,000 for safekeeping after the theft was discovered last Mon day. 11 a FARM PRICES RISE 1 PORTLAND t Oregon farm product prices advanced 1 per cent in the month ended Dec. 15, the federaTerop reporting service said Thursday. 24 PAGES Modern This sketch by architects Wilmsen proposed new group of cottages T0 XT" . fc, ' - f 1 - struction of the building shown in the middle at extreme left will be opened today, according to Dr. Irvin Hill, superintendent. The $221,000 structure will house 100 boys. Appropriations for the oth er buildings will be sought at future legislative sessions, Dr. Hill Deetz Files Milk Control Repeal Petition Repeal of Oregon's 20-year-old milk control law is sought in an initiative petition filed in the state elections bureau Thursday afternoon by Elmer Deetz, Canby dairy farmer. Deetz recently was convicted of selling milk without a license as required by the fluid milk act, which is not involved in the ini tiative. In event Deetz obtains 37,404 signatures of registered voters by July 1 the iniiiative measure will go on the ballot at the general election in November. Deetz also has filed a court suit attacking the milk control law. f ; ine nmK " 1 ; establishment of quotas for dairy The milk control law permits producers and the iixing pi mini- mum prices. 1 This law has been the subject of controversy at every j legisla ture in Oregon for many years. Man Killed as Car Plunges IntoWillairiette OREGON CITY lit The plunge of a car off a 75-foot cliff into the Willamette River Thursday took the life of Fred Pontin, 63, Olympia. a Crown Zellerbach safe ty supervisor. ! Pontin was thrown from the wheel to a river bank ledge at WTest Linn. He was rescued by boat and brought across the river to a hospital here, but was dead on arrival. ! : Pontin's car went over a 10 inch timber edging a parking area at the rear of the West Linn Inn. It rolled 30 feet down a bank, crossed a board walk, crashed through the walk's guardrail and then fell to the river, i Pontin had gone to his firm's West Linn paper plant on business. Survivors include a son and a daughter, both married,! at Shel ton, Wash. f ; NO BIRTHDAY MENTION MOSCOW I Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov was 52 years old Friday. The big Moscow morning papers Pravda, Izvestia and Trud did not mention; his birth day. Electronic Translate By MARTLN POST NEW YORK iff The Interna tional Business Machines Corp. put its ingenious electronic' brain to work on language Thursday and came up with a new kind of trans lator, fi Give the brain a sentence any old sentence such as tills one in Russian: M ! "Myezhdunarodnoye Sponyiman yiye yavlyayetsya vaihnim fakto- rom t ryeshyenyiyi poliyityichye- skix voprosov. ItH be tossed back at 70a in English in 10 seconds, f j The arrangement is mostly the doing of Dr. Leon Dostert, chair man of Georgetown University 1 Institute of Languages and Lingu istics, and Dr. Cuthbert C. Hurd, director of IBM's Applied Science Division. FOUNDED IA5I Tht Oregon Statesman, Salem, Orefon, Cottages Visualized for Fairyiew Home and Endicott of Eugene show a; at Fairview Home. Bids for con Hillside Continues ASTORIA (P) Eight more families abandoned homes Thurs day on a sliding, water-soaked hillside here. That made 23 families which have left their homes td the slide this week. Three other families in the slide area west of the business dis- frirt ctnrl- tt-itfi fhpir hnmps uhirh ... , Parley Site Debated BERLIN WV Representatives of the three Western Allies swapped views with the Russians Thursday to try to smooth the way for the Berlin conference i of the Big Four foreign ministers. But they had to schedule another session for Saturday after failing to agree 0n a site for the parley. 4U West Berlin's three Allied com mandants conferred for six hours at . British headquarters with Sergei A. Dengin, Berlin repre sentative of the Soviet High Com mission, After what was officially de scribed as ! "an exchange I of views," the four decided to meet again Saturday at Soviet head quarters in Karlshorst, East Ber lin. West Opens A-Pool Talks L0ND0Nij The United States and Britain! have opened secret talks in Washington to work-out technical means of putting Presi dent Eisenhower's atomic pool plan into operation, British inform ants said Thursday night Canadians are taking part in the discussions, it was said here. A Foreign Office spokesman con firmed that atomic talks were go ing on in Washington, but he would not disclose ; their nature. The informants said British ex perts are seeking to learn exactly how the plan would work, j SCHOOL BOARD APPOINTEE . PORTLAND The Portland school board Thursday night i ap pointed Clifford E. Zollinger, a bank vice president, to take ; the place of board member Allan Rine hart, who died of heart ailment last week, j i Brain Can Lang uages It consists of 12 machines weigh ing tons each and was introduced last year by IBM. The rig takes seconds to do an equation that would take you a lifetime. ! The machine s twinkling lights can work in any language, j pro vided it is supplied with the proper ingredients j Dotsert explained that Russian was picked for the first tests be cause of the current interest in what Russians say. and do and be cause there are mountains of data available in print which our non Russian speaking scientists Cant read. i . That "myeshdunarodnoye pony- manyiye" business? It means, ac cording to the electronic grain: "International understan dine constitutes an important factor in decision of political questions. Friday, January 8, 1954 said. They will be of approximately the initial building, plans for which the State Board of Control. Plans have not received official approval, needed because of the crowded conditions at Fairview in Astoria to (V3ove u-pre the last affprted in the lUregons area. Heavy rains more than 10 inch es since Jan. 1 touched off the slide, which came in an area that has felt minor earth slides for years. The hillside moved; more than 12 feet Thursday, twisting houses off foundations, cracking streets and water pipes. No house has collapsed, but two have settled badly, and two; others are leaning precariously, Tm P.H Prncc nffirialc are pv. I norteA from San Francisco Fridav r - to determine whether to declare the hillside a disaster area and thus make Red Cross aid available to the affected families. More showers were forecasefor Friday, increasing the danger that the slide area will grow. ; Hallinan Starts Prison Term MCNEIL ISLAND PRISON, Wash. UR A former candidate for President arrived in a drizzle of rain late Thursday to start his second prison .term here, but his greeting failed to match the send off when he left a year and a half ago. Vincent Hallinan, San Francisco attorney and the Progressive Par ty's presidential candidate in 1952, was brought from Tacoma on a prison boat to start serving an 18 month term for evading $30,000 in income taxes. He had also been fined $30,000 at San Francisco. Kephart to Head Silverton Drive Statesman Newt Service SILVERTON Lenard Keph art, Portland General Electric manager here, was named chair man of the Silverton March of Dimes drive Thursday. S Containers for the campaign will be distributed Friday by Boy Scouts. Junior Chamber of Com merce members will again sup port collection contests j for the drive. Dollar Per Pound Coffee Forecast PORTLAND (J The! price of coffee will go up to a ( dollar a pound in stores here some time next month, coffee company offi cials predicted Thursday, The reason, they said, is a series of increases that have- raised wholesale coffee prices 7 cents in the last month, f ! I Max. 47 Mia. Predp. Salem Portland 43 J 44 10 44 trac 24 .00 .49 San Francisco 57 Chicago 38 New York -34 2S M Willamette River ( feet FORECAST (from IT. S. weather bureau. McNarr field. Salem): Partly . cloudy today. , increasing cloudiness tonight with ! occasional tight rain by Saturday morning. High oday 49 to 47 and low tonight 36 to 3a. Temperature at 12:01 a. m. was 37. SALEM PRICrPTTATION Since Start t Weather Tear SepC 1 This Tear Last Tear Normal SLM is.se U.7 No. 284 the same type and structure of already have been approved by for the entire group of cottages Dr. Hill said. The buildings are Nearly 18,000 Join Rolls of Unemployed vr 1 i0 jj j a Nearly 18,000 were added to unemployed d u ri n g December, bringing the number of active job seekers up to 63,395, the State Unemployment Com pensation Commission reported Thursday. Claims for compensation con tinued to rise and passed the 40,000 mark in the final week of 1953. Further seasonal layoffs were anticipated by employment officials, but weekly totals were CAytiieu not expected to reach the 64,556 l"wdr Pea ln mm- r eDruary, 1950. With the rate of insured un employment increasing from less than 3 per cent to 12 per cent in the past three months, the number of those seeking work jumped from 19,365 jto 27,311 during October and tq 45,862 at the end of November; , Local employment 'offices of the State Unemployment Com pensation Commission reported only 521 specialized job openings remaining unfilled as,' the New Year opened. f Payments to insured workers reached $2,884,707 last month, a new high for the period. Six Cleared Of Contempt in Brink's Case BOSTON W The V. S. govern ment Thursday night reopened in vestigation of the unsolved $1,219, 000 Brink's holdup a few hours after six persons who balked at answering questions before a fed eral grand jury were cleared of ranipmm. The U. S. Court of Appeals ruled that the six balky witnesses had a right to invoke the Fifth Amend ment against possible ; self-incrimi nation in the fabulous Jan. 17, 1950 cash robbery. : U. S. Atty. Anthony Julian said after the appeals court gave its decision: i , "I have reopened the Brink's investigation. We aim to crack this case wide openj ;We will not rest until we bring the criminals involved to justice." ! No one ever has been arrested or tried in connection with the crime. Classes Set ! Today In New Grammar School at Stay ton Statesman News Service STAYTON Classes will be taught in the new $250,000 Stay ton Elementary School for the first time Friday. ;i - Supt John D. Cannon said the move started Thursday afternoon and seven classes would be mov ed by Friday. Balance of the 12 classrooms in the new school will be occupied next week. Approximately 263 pupils in grades one through six . will oc cupy the new school. Dedication of the new school Is planned early in February. ! (Story also on page 11, sec. 1). LEE FORT AT FORT LEE FORT LEE, Va. p A para trooper named Lee Fort an swered roll call here Thursday. PRICE 5c In State Comment on ( President's Speech Varies WASHINGTON Ufi ' Congres sional reaction to President Eisen hower's State of the Union Mes sage Thursday ranged all the way from "inspired" and "dynamic" to "Hodgepodge" and "platitudes." Many members reserved judgment until more details are supplied. Several Democratic senators, particularly from the South, joined in Republican accolades and prom ised to cooperate in achieving the administration's overall goals. There was some Republican criticism, especially on specific is sues such as the President's re quest that present corporate and excise tax rates be continued and that postal rates be raised. The Democratic Senate leiader, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, called the tone of Eisenhower's message "one of moderation and reason." Knowland Praises Sen. Knowland of California, the ; oeudie xepuoucan ieaaer, saia 1 Eisenhower had civen a "forth-1 - - : j ngru message on me stale ot tne Union and called upon all good citizens, regardless of party affili ations, to join in the building of a stronger America and in helping to maintain a free world of free men." Calls for Democratic support al so were sounded by several other Republican leaders including Chairman Wiley (Wis) of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee, who termed Eisenhower's message "a masterful charter for American freedom and security" and said: "It presents a -specific program in which men and women of the two major parties can join whole heartedly as Americans." Senators Divided WASHINGTON ( Views of I Oregon and Washington members i iof Congress on President Eisen-i , hnwr's mp iihH u-ith thir ! politics Thursday Sen. Cordon (R-Ore) hailed it as "exactly what the framers of the Constitution envisioned when they provided for the President to give his iews to the Congress . and showed a rare awareness cf the responsibility of the exec utive department in co-equal de partmental j government." Sen. Morse, Ind.-Ore., saw the speech only as "a masterpiece of platitudes." He said the record ct the Eisenhower administration tt date "cannot be squared with many of ! the representations made." i Billy Rose to Win Freedom, LoseMoney NEW YORK UP) Billy Rose finally won his freedom from Ele nor Holm Thursday, digging into his fabulous bankroll for $30,000 a year alimony plus a $200,000 settlement, They agreed to divorce before summer. The dark-haired former Ameri can swimming queen thus ends a 15-year marriage to the Broadway showman with a guaranteed $500,- 000 over the next 10 years pro - vided she; does not remarry The couple worked out their cease fire; two weeks ago over a midnight cup of coffee in Billy's Beekman j Place mansion and thus halted Broadway's sensation al two year "war of the roses." "Too bad neither of us had sense endugh to have that cup of coffee j 24 months ago," lamented Billy, POLISH GUARDS FIRE BERLIN W The anti-Commu nist Information Bureau West said Thursday Polish border guards on the east side of the Oder River fired on an East German border patrol New Year's- Eve, killing a lieutenant! and seriously wounding two men for his patrol. Bolivia Tin Heiress, Fiance Tie Knot; Father Drops Court Ban KELSO i Scotland UPi Love tri-1 ally man and wife. ! umphed Thursday night for Isa- bela Patino and Jimmy Goldsmith, the runaway romancers. The 18 year old Bolivian tin heiress and her dashing English fiance, 20, were married in this picturesque border village seven hours after her father, multi-mil lionaire Antenor Patino, withdrew a court ban in Edinburgh against their marriage. The couple ex changed jvows and embraced. Mr. and Mrs. Patino, who bad dashed to Scotland from Paris last week in a vain attempt to find Isa bela and talk her into changing her mind, did not attend the sim ple. 15-minute ceremony in the Kelso registry office. But a crowd of villagers gave the young couple a hearty sendoff as they stepped out, smiling and holding hands. Man, Wife . The young lovers, who had come to stem (but romantic old Scotland in a month-long elopement that spanned ; two continents and roused the interest of millions, were fin- of Union Eisenhower: Sets Applause Record WASHINGTON (AP)- Pre sidemt Eisenhower j drew I 45 bursts of applause,! including some rebel yells, in f delivering his 54-minute "State of the ' Union" address to a joint "ses sion of Congress Thursday. It was a record for recent years, at least.1 i j Former President Truman was applauded 12 times in 40 minutes in his last personally delivered ''State of the Union" speech on Jan. 9, 1352. Opinions (Are Decisive in Traffic Poll I Persons in favor of Salem's one-way traffic grid system are decisive 1 in their opinions, but were somewhat hphtnri numpri- rally Thursday in the second count 01 The Statesman s poll. Th "vnfmo" ir utVi - . ' iiiil. Thp parlv rniint af nn. posed to! the grid, 34 in favor of ReJ,eI Ye!ls Heard it f Senate 'and House members. Comments written : on the bal-i meeting together in the House lots favoring the grid included I chamber, j broke into rebel yells the phrases "very definitely" and i an(I war 'hoPS and their heav "by all means." ies measure of applause at Eis- One "voter" opposing the grid i enhower's ! proposal to deprive suggested "more parallel park- i Communist conspirators of Ameri- mg, in the . downtown area esDe - cially, td keep streets wider, and more free parking lots sponsored by the city to encouarge down town shoppers. Merchants, too, should sponsor free parking lots." The poll, designed solely to ascertain majority opinion, will continue through Friday, Jan. 15. It is open to anyone in the val ley. Today's ballot is on page 12, section 1 Coastal Area Sees Flash NEWPORT. Ore. VFi Oregon coastal , residents reported seeing a bright flash on the ocean hori zon Thursday about. 5:30 p.m. It Was seen here, and as far south as Empire, which is about 100 miles from Newport. Coast Guard headquarters in Se attle, collecting data on the flash, said it apparently was a meteor, traveling from east jto west. The Coast Guard said ho ships were reported in trouble, and all planes in the area were accounted for. Drive for Grade ( ' . 0'. i -a . LrOSSing Signal atr 4 ' 4 Corners Gains Statesman News Service FOUR CORNERS A campaign to secure a signal device at the North Lancaster (Drive: grade crossing was gathering imomen tum here Thursday! j The Rod and Gun Club here has appointed a committee to meet with representatives of other ' community I organizations ! concerning a safety device at the crossing. j : Six persons have been injured in two recent train-auto accidents at the crossing, three on; Dec 26 and three on Jan. 4. Today's Statesman SECTION 1 j Editorials, features Valley news ..J J... 7, 11 ..8, 0 Society, women's i. SECTION 2 I Food news j L Markets L ;. --.10 l-7 Radio, TV i. Comics 8 Classified ads .j. L.J 8-11 When the knot was tied, Jimmy turned to Registrar James Marble and said: "After tonight youll be as famous as us." : None of the principals attended the five-minute hearing in Edin burgh's Ceurt of Sessions Thurs day morning at which Patino dropped the temporary injunction called an interim interdict he had obtained Tuesday to pre vent any Scottish' authority from issuing the couple marriage per mits. 1 I-- Pick Up Permits: The case was handled by the op posing lawyers. Lawyers for Isa- bela and Jimmy, picked up the marriage permits three hours lat er. The Patinos slipped out of their plush hotel suite in Edinburgh be fore dawn Thursday, bag and bag' ease. They left iby : a side door and no one knew, or would say. where they had gone. A hotel por ter said the tin ma gnat was im passive and unsmiling. Message oration, Excise Tax Gut Sought By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON 1 Preside Eisenhower laid before a question mark Congress Thursday a mas sive program aimed, he said, at building a? "stronger America." In a 7,000-word State of the Un ion iMessage, he declared the na tion; must i pursue peace from a position of military and economic strength, but is prepared to use atomic weapons if need be "to preserve Our freedom." On the domestic front, his pro posals ranged from revision of farm, labor, social security, hous ings and tax laws to demands for the vote for 18 year olds and a proposal to strip American citi zenship from Communists convict ed of conspiring, hereafter, to over throw the; government by force. On the ever-lively issue of taxes, he called for postponement of re ductions in corporation income and excise levies scheduled for April l. but pledged more cuts later as new economies take ef fect, t !, - ,m -luzensnip They beat their hands, too. when the President declared that 18 year olds ought to be allowed to vote since they "are summoned to fight for : America." Sen. Know land (R Calif) rushed back to the senate and introduced the neces sary constitutional amendment Eisenhower held out to the peo ple hopes of more "substantial" social security benefits, a "sound" farm program and changes in the Taft-Hartley labor law. Nation Hears Television and radio relayed the President's words to the nation asfhe spoke to Congress in person. Through the Voice of America the message is being spread before an estimated audience of 45 mil lion persons in foreign lands. The great goal, the President said, is "the building of a stronger America," an America at peace, strong in freedom and a growing economy; and dedicated to solving the human problems of its citizens. Eisenhower placed economic preparedness alongside military preparedness in importance to the nation and brought out in general terms a plan to combat depres sion. The government, he said, will always be ready for "well timed and vigorous action." Much of the program was a holdover from last year. Some of itiwas entirely new. For amenca, etc., 9th graf nl Eisenhower (moved last night) (Additional details on pages 2, 3, sec. 1.) State Traffic Death Number Drops in 1953 ! Oregon traffic deaths fell off ih 1953 giving the state one of the best records in the nation, but traffic safety experts don't know why. They figure it's luck. There were 480 traffic deaths ih U52 and 370 in 1953 a re duction of 22.9 per cent accord ing to Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry's traffic safety division. I January was the worst month in 1953 with a traffic death rate of 7.8 per 100 million miles trav eled. August was the best with a rate of 4.6. I Nearly 75,000 drivers were con victed of violating traffic laws during 1 1953. Biggest violation was drunken driving which brought fines,' jail sentences and 6 license suspensions to 3,346 8 drivers. I IRE KILLS FARMER I ASTORIA UP) John Kaakinen. about 65, Clatsop County seed grower, was trapped Thursday by flames that destroyed his barn. about eight miles south of Astoria. I His body was found inside after embers died down.. SEA COMMERCE DROPS PORTLAND OB Portland's ocean commerce decreased nearly 10 per cent in 1953, the Portland Merchants Exchange reported Thursday. Daily Speller Following are 20 words from a list of 1000 which will form the basis for semi-final and final eral competition in The Statesman KSLM Mid-Valley Spelling Con test for 1954, in which 83 schools are parttdpating. assume guarantee , properly ; region ' spoken argument courageous -sufficient . elerator favorable protest halibut superintendent historic ' influence " detour assistance . operate conference, .'knowledge torp Delay - 1-2