1 -The Statesman, Satan, Oregon Monday! Feb. t, liS4 mlin Chances Kre Province Bosses By JAMES F. KING - I One diplomatic source here uiNUtjrv un ine Annum vwwea .oovin rreiiuci umu shook up the Communist Party in Malenkor as securing his position two nvre Soviet Republics Sunday by putting trusted lieutenants in Moldavia and Kazakh. There also key spots. He has made many was a shift in the governing hier- moves in that direction since the arrhv in Lithuania. I DUT21M 01 ine aovieis ex-secret I nclice hoar Lavrentv P. Beria. rimutrt in Snvict radio broadcasts ADDeiatmeU Aiaae heard here, appeared at first The first broadcast announced glance to herald the launching of that Zlnovi Hmofeevich Sefdyuk, i miinr Veshuffle tit nartv bosses 1cm a party leader in the Ukraine on the home front. This would be and decorated with the order of in line with recent widespread Lenin on his 50th birthday three chances in Russian diplomatic as- months ago, hade been made top signments abroad. French Battle Reds Outside Encircled Base Bv LARRY ALLEN HANOI. Indochina l French Union forces poured out of the fortress of Dien Bien Phu Sunday and. although outnumbered, inflict ed heavy losses on encircling rebel party man in the neighboring Mol davian S. S. R. The Kishinev Ra dio said Serdyuk succeeded Dimitri Spindonovich Gladkiy. who be came Serdyuk's deputy, That republic Is part of former Bessarabia, which i Russia took from Romania in World War II and occupied until the Romanian peace treaty in 1947 confirmed the Soviet title. I The Moldavian Communists were having trouble in; June just before Bena was fired. A leader in the party bureau was dropped, and a member of the party secretariat was transferred to other undis closed work. Other Changes Two major changes were an nounced in the strategic central SARASOTA, Fla. Sad faced oto II dozed on a special cot in circus headauarters Sunday and apparently . is doing pretty good after an hour and 40-minute brain operation. 1 'Dr. J. Y. Henderson, vetennar ian at Ringline Brothers and Bar- sum fc Bailey circus, sua me underweight gorilla she weighs 63 pounds is '"resting comfortably and eating welL" A brain surgeon. Dr. Mason Trupp of Tampa, entered the gorftV a's brain Saturday to seek the cause of paralysis which has been sapping the - animal's life slowly away. i 1 Before 20 newspapermen and photographers and several doctors. Dr. Trupp snipped small bits of brain from Toto. This brain tissue will be examined to determine whether the cause of Toto's trou ble is a' tumor or a parasitical growth which can be arrested by medicine. - The next step in Toto's treat ment will not be known until path ologists have examined the brain tissue. Results of those studies will not be known for a day or so. troops. The French have been waiting Asian Kazakh S. S. R. The Kazakh Inside the fortress for 79 days for Radio said one Comrade Ponomar- .an all-out ' attack by some w,w Communist-led Vietminh troops camped around the post. Sunday, France's aggressive commander, Gen. Rene Cogny, enko had taken over as first sec retary of the party's central com mittee and that Comrade Brezhnev was his deputy, I The two new bosses were other sent "several bataliona" - 4.000 to wise unidentified. 5.000 men out of the Dien Bien Phu into a hand-to-hand battle against grenade-hurling rebels tur rounding the fortified plain. A French spokesman said many Reds were killed or wounded and conceded , there had been some French losses. ( Aril II it Battle i The encounter took place 'about two miles northeast of the center of the Dien Bien Phu "dust bowl where French and Vietminh artil lery have been probing out each other i positions The attacking Union forces were Another shift in1 the Kazakh Re public, announced by the Ala Ata Radio, said Communist Party first secretary Shayakhmetov and his deputy, Afonov, f had been i "re lieved of their duties." No explana tion was given, i The radio at Wilno, Lithuanian capital, announced that Eduardas Ozarskis, an old party wheelhorse who has been serving as under secretary of the; Communist Par ty's central committee there, had been made a deputy premier in that republic. The broadcast did not say whom he might have re- supported by French warplanes placed, and the significance of the that roared over tne jungie-coverea move was obscure. hills strafing and firebombing reb el points. There were indications Sunday's action might herald the start of the long-awaited battle for Dien Bien Phu. It was believed the French initiated it because the Vietminh'a crack 308th Division has ouit the area to spearhead the thrust towards Luang Prabang Defense Asc Set The French have set up a de fense arc 50 miles from Luang Prabang to give their troops time to set up strong defenses on the outskirts of the capital. The Viet- Bidault Stand Firm Against Soviet (Attacks Siclt Gorilla Recovering Surgery BERLIN If) 4 Georges Bidaul once an uncertain quantity in the French cabinet, has become i minh are reported nearing the de- nower-housa in Berlin. u ,fense arc. but observers speculated The dark haired French foreign they might bypass the capital and push on to the Mekong River bor dering Thailand. It was apparent that Dien Bien Phu had lost its value as a defense post and had become an offensive bastion. Cogny had wanted to use the. post as a springboard for an attack when the French withdrew from the Tahi country's capital of Laichau minister, who stands barely should er high to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, has surprised Bri tish and American delegates by his stout battles with V. M. Molo- tov. i His outspokenness has bee'n par ticularly pleasing to the Ameri cans although they know that every Judge Rules Rail Union Shop Illegal AMARILLO. Tex. I - District Judge E. C. Nelson ruled Saturday it would be unconstitutional for the Santa Fe Railway and 16 non-op erating unions to enter into a union shop agreement He ruled in favor of 13 Amamio employes of the Santa Fe who had sought a permanent injunction bar ring the railroad and 16 unions from making such an agreement Judge Nelson said his formal or der will be entered next week. Attorneys for both sides said the order will be effective throughout the Santa Fe system. In a nine-page opinion. Judge Nelson declared: 1. A union shop agreement would deny to the 13 plaintiffs rights guaranteed them under the First Fifth, Ninth, 10th and 13th amend ments to the U. S. Constitution. . 2. "The making and enforcing of a union shop agreement such as that proposed by the defendants would violate an essential and in herent right of man regardless of any constitutional provision." 3. ". i .Congress has no. right to enact legislation making union membership a test of the right to work for a carrier engaged in In terstate commerce." I A union shop agreement requires that an employe join the union within a certain specified time aft er employment " i Portland Boy Dies in Wreck ,000 Mexico Homes Lost In Earthquake i - MEXICO CITY UH Planes be gan flying out the injured -ana homeless Sunday from four Mexi can towns in a 50-mile wide coffee producing area - hit hard by a catastrophic earthquake Friday. The area isXm Chiapas . State W miles from the Guatemalan bord ers - . Some 5.000 families were report ed, homeless. The town of Ya jalon, population 5,000, suffered great property damage. The Eovernor of the state. Efrain Aranda Osorio, said he had talked by telephone to mayors in Yaja log and three other towns hard hit by the c,uake and none reported any fatalities. There was one report, uncon firmed officially, that four farm era had been buried in landslide. Officials said light construction of homes in the area accounted for the lack of heavy casualties. Rescue, . teams . were pushing through Jungle roads to take medicines and .food to the vic State officials estimated the damage at 200 million pesos (17 million dollars). They said all the bouses in Petaldngo and 75 per cent of those la Yajalon were re ported destroyed. Gregorio utniia, a conee piant- r uU his t-ancr hmiu was swal lowed up before his eyes. He stat ed: . "When the swaying stopped. looked toward my house and was gone, swalloed up in a deep crack in the earth. After that the crack closed up and there wasn' a sign, of the house. time he defends the European He may convert to that Army Treaty he risks hotter poli- now. tical fire for himself at home. Cogny has never doubted he He came to the conference reo- could whip the rebels if they drew resenting the weak sister among their forces against Dien Bien Phu, the Big Three. Moreover, in Paris, which boasts the high fire power o many Americans and a good many American-supplied weapons. With Frenchmen never felt sure just this firepower he believed he could where Bidault stood on the EDC. onset tne reoeis numerical super- Here they are not in doubt iority more than four to one. Eisenhowers Sit in Lincoln Church Peiv WASHINGTON I - The Presi "dent and Mrs. Eisenhower sat in Abraham Lincoln's pew during special Lincoln services at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church Sunday. After the sermon by Dr. George M. Docherty, minister of the downtown church which Lincoln attended, the Eisenhowers rode back to the White House for a brief presentation ceremony on the .north portico, overlooking his toric Pennsylvania Ave. Mrs. Barney Balaban, wife of the president of Paramount Pic tures, Inc. presented - to Mrs. Eisenhower the original letter written by Mary Todd Lincoln to Queen Victoria in acknowledge ment of the Queen's condolences following Lincoln's assassination. The letter was dated May 21. 1865. a little more than a month after the assassination April 14. The Balabans, old friends of the Eisenhowers, sat with them in the church and later rode to the White House with them. "He acts like a man who has burned his bridges behind him," said one high American source. He has verbally slugged it out with Russian Foreign Minister Mo- lotov day after day, defending the EDC as the only device for curb ing German militarism because it means harnessing Germany with "democratic peace-loving nations" in the Western sense. If any impression at all has been made on Molotov during the pres ent Big Four conference, it has been made. American sources sus pect, by that argument ; PORTLAND (i - A 17-year-old youth was injured fatally Saturday night when an automobile failed to make a turn and crashed down 30-foot bank. He was Weldon Satterberg, 17, son of Mr. ana Mrs. Arvia m, Satterberg, Portland. j Police identified the driver of the car as Jack Williams, 18, of nearby Lake Grove. Williams and another passenger, Gale Kings bury, 18, also of Lake Grove, were held In jail overnight and later released. S The accident occurred in a sub urban : district southwest of Port land, i I Satterberg was thrown from the car. Tne other two youths were not hurt. Over 100 Missing As Boat Capsizes On River in India BOMBAY j India I I A boat carrying pilgrims to a Hindu re ligious festival capsized i in the Ouraa River near Surat, Western India, Saturday night and police said Sunday only 23 survivors of about 125 persons aboard had been found. ; It was the second disaster in volving religious pilgrims in India in less than a week. About 500 stampeding Hindus were crushed to death at the Kumbh Mela bath ing festival at Allahabad. 800 miles northeast of Surat last Wednesday, Malenkov Agrees To Campaign on One-Party Ticket MOSCOW ( Premier Georgi Malenkov announced Monday he has agreed to stand as the sole candidate for- the Leningrad elec toral district for a seat in the Council of the Union, one of two houses making up the Soviet Par liament The elections take place March 14. It will be the first general elec tion since Malenkov succeeded Jo seph Stalin as premier. Stalin used to allow his name to go on the official list of candidates in the Moscow area. . The Communist newspaper Prav da said Malenkov decided to run in Leningrad, a district he already represents, after receiving offers of nominations from more than 70 Britisli Police Kill Mail Mail Chief NAIROBI,! Kenya (J) British security" forces Sunday killed the Mau Mau leader "Brigadier Batu Batu" and 17 of his henchmen in a running gun battle in terrorist-in fested woods around Karatina. The "brigadier" was one of the three colorfully-named leaders a gang that terrorized tribesmen in the district ! Yearly Crime Cost at $495 Per Family WASHINGTON If) Crime costs each family in the United States Reds. Tighten Security In i Eastern Germany 1 By DANIEL DE LUCE I BERLIN M East Germany, a political bomb with a sputter ing fuse, was wrapped up by Com munist secret police Sunday in the strongest security measures since the 1853 revolt I , Anti-Red ( underground sources estimated 300 to 500 Russian Zone workers have been hustled to jail Solon Refutes Postal Bureau 'Econornies' it WASHINGTON I Sen. Olin D. Johnston (D-SC) said Sunday Postmaster General Summerfield erred in claiming large savings in the Postoffice Department under the Republican administration. Johnston quoted Summerfield as saying that the anticipated deficit for the current fiscal year ending June .30 had been cut from 7S2 million dollars to "something in excess" of 400 million, or a saving to the taxpayers "of more than a million dollars every working day." : f But, the senator declared in statement,; the postmaster general has not made any such saving. Actually, Johnston said, the Post- office Department has gained S199, 400.000 from higher rates in the past year. This included 159 mil lion from increased parcel post charges, 24 million on international postage and $16,400,000 on "such things as box rents and miscel laneous fees. : ' Also, the senator said, various bookkeeping shifts 1 have trans ferred US million dollars of charg es from the Postoffice Department books to other agencies. He said the biggest of these was $80,665, 000 in airline subsidies shifted to the Civil Aeronautics Board. These shifts and i higher rates make "a grand total of 316. mil lion, Johnston said. So it appears, I be went on "that instead of spending less of of the taxpayer s money, he (Sum merfield) is actually spending more. Mavbe there are some an average of $495 annually, chief overall savings, but I would like u-man J. Edgar noover nas in- to see them spelled out A" -.. t " lormea a congressional commiuee. For every dollar spent on ed ucation. Hoover estimated. $1.82 is Spent indirectly paying for crimin al activities, and for every dollar donated to churches, $10 goes to crime. Hoover supplied the statistics to I the House Appropriations Commits tee while testifying in support of the FBI's new budget ! Preliminary data, he said, indi cates that 1953 will set a new high for major crimes, with a major offense being committed every 14.S seconds. f In the past week for heckling Com munist rallies, or otherwise speak ing out against the Molotov plan for Germany at the Big Four con ference, j. i Police Chief Ernst Wouweber's army of secret agents stayed on full alert Sunday in five East Ger man provinces. But a Sunday calm temporarily settled down. With most factories idle, no new inci dents between Communist Party agitators and unconverted work ers were reported,'. Men on whom the security of Western Europe! depends icon- firmed that the 300,000-man Soviet occupation army.! which crushed the June 17 uprising with armored force, has not been- diverted o riot squad positions at present It is known authoritatively that Soviet divisions are going about their routine winter activities. Some regiments I from Potsdam are now in the Magdeburg area for firing practice. But Magdeburg itself is quiet though last summer it was a flaming center of anti- communism. It was evident, however, that vi olence could erupt in brooding workers' cities if the tension was renewed this week. But WoUweb- er's army of agents was under orders to "arrest ten if you sus pect one. I Red ear of public feeling ex tended Saturday to the East Ber lin school system. A search was made of pupils for Western news papers and periodicals. Even some Western comics were seized. Planes Supply Snowbound Area in Italy ROME UP Italian rescue planes dropped 2,500 pounds of food and medical supplies Sunday to 10 iso lated Appenine Mountain hamlets where 32,000 persons have been snowbound for a week. A crack fire department ski team was sent by train to Abruzzi Province to aid in bringing relief to the villages worst menaced of more than 75 hamlets in Italy s mountainous spine southeast Brownell Tells 'Security Risk' ! " Dismissals WASHINGTON tfl House com mittee hearings disclosed that as nf last Deoemher thera had been Statistics for the first six months eight "security risk"' dismissals of 1953, he said, showed that every from the Justice Department under j.3 minutes a murder, manslaught-j the Eisenhower federal employe er, rape or assault wiin intern io security check. kill was committed. i The department which emoloves I do not believe the average about 2t.800 persons ' has consis- dtizen senses the proper role that tently refused to make the dismis- enrne piays as a nauonai proo- gai total public and Atty. Gen. lem, be salO. "It exists on a scale RrowneU told a recent news con- SO enormous that it is difficult to Iference he did not intend to do grasp it. it can reasonably be esti so : mated that 20 billion dollars annu- u. has also nnnoipd anv hreak. ally is the cost of crime in this down of dismissal reasons in the country." j overall aovernment total, which HOOVer voiced concern Over an President Eisenhower has Blared f , At t - 1 . . I ' increase in me crime rate among at 2200. youths. He said 7.8 per cent of the Brownell said his interest was in persons arrested in 1952 were und- protecting the future employment er years, ij.j per cem were prospects Of those let out Under 21, and 23.1 per cent were However, members of the House Unuer Z5. j I Annmnriatinn Suhrnmmif tw rnru The group under 18, he said, ac- -.irf-rw nnwatin fund it th Counted for 19.4 per Cent Of all Jnstim TVnartmpnt surrPAded in robberies in which arrests were getting the dismissal figure for made, 36.9 per cent Of all Ur- that department I when thev cenies, 47.8 per cent of all burg laries, and 52.6 per cent of all auto thefts. Armistice Day! Change Asked O i WASHINGTON in Asserting that Armistice Day has lost its original significance, Rep. Rees (R-Kan) proposed SundayftO change Nov. 11 to Veterans Day. Rees said he will introduce bill lor the name change so i" grateful nation may pay proper homage to all its veterans' of; all its wars, and not to commemorate World War I alone. SUPERVISORS TO MEET I William F. Engesser. chairman of the industrial engineering de partment at Oregon State College, Corvallis, will speak at a meeting of the Industrial Supervisors Club at 6:30 p. m. today in the YMCA. . - - : 1 IK- MI kit PMCMS S47 50c tm S:M sun. " T Spencer Tracy THE ACTRESS" Also Olivia DeHavtnaad THE SNAKE PIT TOt VINCIANCT James Craig lita Mores A 4lor Ce-Blt . New Showing Opea fc5 -sTAiAo ir William fieldea Dea Tayler vests S-STM . Burt Lancaster ia -HISMAJESTT omrr Also j JohaHodUk ia "CONQUEST OF COCKXSE Man Killed As TV Tower Falls WILLIAMSPORT, Md. W -I A man lashed to a television antenna tower with a safety belt crashed questioned Brownell and Dep. Atty ben. wuiiam v. Rogers in a closed session last S Dec. 7. The testimony was made public Sun day. j TRUCKS ARE TRUCKS LINCOLN, Neb. LrV-They make no exceptions at the highway 'weighing stations set up around Nebraska to see that trucks abide I by weight regulations. One of the to his death Sunday when the long trucks ticketed was a state pole snapped off. j weights-and-measures truck, sent The victim was Identified r by out to test the accuracy of the State Police as Thomas W. Thomp- scales. son, 29-year-old employe off the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele phone Co. Trooper Edward Crowther Thompson was working on top of the 50-foot tower at the home of his father-in-law. Two supporting wires snapped, causing the tower to break off. Roads in by 15 to the area are 20-foot snow- of Rome. choked drifts. The public works ministry said all available road clearing equip ment had been rushed to the most heavily blanketed areas of Abruzzi and Molise Provinces. Several thousand volunteer workers also turned out to help clear a path up the mountains to the isolated villages. In north Portugal the heaviest snow since 1932 fell over the week end. Eight people perished. Crash Involves Patrol Car A collision involving a city pa trol car at the intersection of Center and High Streets Sunday evening resulted in damage to two cars but no injuries, city po lice reported. Drivers were Officer Thomas Robson and Kenneth Alberts, 450 S. Winter St Both stated they thought the traffic signal was green, police said. The police car sustained con siderable front end damage while the Alberts vehicle received a smashed rear fender. MONDAY LUNCH AT NORTH'S 1 In the Capitol Shopping Center SPAGHETTI WITH I MEAT BALLS j Hot Rolls and Butter ' Cole Slaw 65c Fast Service Delicious Food Try Salem's Best Place to Eat SIMMS NOW PLAYING said IV f ',nl rv '. --v.- A -Jt t ' ' 1 - ? II a asaa i ill -v i v srwTW v-ij - 11 -i Plus 15c for Viewers Ji J&Z. LJr ( I i l-"i New Impreved J If Q d tf-ClJ ; V I 'll Polaroid iYewera V f- -W 1( iKrC- CUp on and Regular -!' 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