U. Friends Talk
In Secret on Asia
By JOHN SCALI
WASHINGTON ufl The United
States is secretly sounding out
friendly United Nations countries
to determine whether they would
support some form of collective
aetion to protect southeast Asia
against Communist aggression.
Senator Asks
tL S. Action
In Guatemala
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WASHINGTON iP American
nations arc looking to the U.S. to
take a stand against Red infiltra
tion in Central American, Sen.
Smathers of Florida asserted
Thursday. And Chairman Wiley
(R-Wis) of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee called for
consultation on the touchy issue.
"The countries of South America
are looking to us for a position,"
Smathers said "Mere statements
of lofty purposes and high sound
ins phrases will not do."
Wiley said that so far as he has
heard the cargo of Communist
arms Guatemala got from Poland
is the "greatest ever to arrive at
any port anywhere in the Ameri
cas." Sevilla Sacasa said the shipment
described by other diplomatic in
formants as including at least 30
carloads of fighting gear and am
munition is "excessive ' for Gua
temalan needs and "threatens the
peace of Central America and the
security of the hemisphere." His
view that the shipment is excessive
coincides with that of some U. S.
officials.
Nicaragua cut off diplomatic re
lations with Guatemala Wednesday
charging that Guatemala used its
Managua embassy, to distribute
Red propaganda and helped Com
munist infiltration in other ways.
"All of the grave occurrences
which haVe taken place in the Cen
tral American region during recent
weeks." Sevilja Sacasa said, "show
a well conceived Communist-type
plan."
Both the Nicaraguan ambassador
and the U. S. State Department
reportedly are feeling out the other
American nations now on the idea
of bringing into play the 1947 mu
tual defense treaty of Rio dt Jan
eiro and the anti-Communist dec
laration adopted in an inter-American
conference at Caracas, Vene
zuela, in March.
These provide not ocly for con
sultation but also for definite ac
tion, if the American republics wish
to take it, against threats from
overseas or from internal Commu
nism. Sevilla Sacasa conferred with
Secretary of State Dulles for 20
minutes today and said the secre
tary was "not able to hide his pre
occupation and interest in events
going on in Central America."
The ambassador told reporters
he didn't refer to invoking the Rio
pact or Caracas resolution but
spoke in general of the Communist
threat as a "very grave" menace
to Central America and the entire
hemisphere.
The State Department withheld
comment on the break between Ni
caragua and Guatemala. But it did
ask the Swedish government to in
vestigate use of the Swedish
freighter Alfhelm to haul the arms
cargo from Stettin in Communist
dominated Poland to the Guatema
lan port of Puerto Barrios.
POWER STEERING
DETROIT (INS) With more
than one million power steering
units installed on automobiles in
the last two years, and sales this
year estimated at another mil
lion, power steering is proving to
be the most popular auto acces
sory since the introduction of the
car heater and radio.
There are about as many miles
of elevator shafts as there are
subway tracks in New York City.
McCarthy Ready to Resume
Televised Capitol Hearing
By ED CREAGH
WASHINGTON if Sen. Mc
Carthy iR-Wis said Thursday
night "he will be on hand Monday
when the Senate investigations sub
committee resumes its televised
hearing on his row with Army offi
cials. "I will be there." McCarthy said.
But he added that he could "make
no promises" as to other steps he
might take in protest against a
presidential secrecy order which.
the senator contends, "stacks the ;
deck" against him. j
There had been speculation that
McCarthy might boycott the hear
ing in view of President Eisenhow
er's refusal to modify an order
forbidding White House aides and
other high officials to testify about
a Jan. 21 meeting in which they
discussed the Army's troubles with
McCarthy and assistants.
McCarthy contends this foreclos
es him in an attempt to inquire
into the genesis o fArmy charges
against him and his aides.
"I don't see why the President
should be afraid to let them tell
the truth." McCarthy said. He lik
ened Eisenhower's orders to invok
ing the Fifth Amendment, as some
witnesses before his investigations
subcommittee have done to avoid
giving any self-incriminating testi
mony. McCarthy told newsmen:
"I don't like to have the execu
tive branch taking the Fifth
Diplomatic officials who reported
this Thursday nighr said Secretary
of State Dulles is anxious to learn
if they would vote in the U.N. As
sembly for one or both of these
moves:
1. Sending a peace mission to
Indochina to make an on-the-spot
survey to determine whether the
present Communist attacks are a
threat to world peace and security
2. A resolution empowering the
United Nations members to adopt
united action, including use of
force if necessary, to check further
Communist advances in southeast
Asia.
Highly Informal
Informants stressed that talks
so far are highly informal and do
not necessarily mean Dulles defi
nitely will favor bringing the Indo
china crisis before the United Na
tions.
A two - thirds majority would be
needed to sponsor such United Na
tions intervention under the "Unit
ed for Peace" Resolution adopted
in 1950 after the Korean War had
started.
Dulles would be extremely re
luctant to risk a rebuff in the As
sembly unless he was fairly cer
tain in advance that enough votes
were assured to approve such res
olutions in the face of certain bitter
Communist opposition.
Top American officials, however,
are known to believe the U.N.
clarification of the moral issues
involved in the Indochina War
would facilitate creation of the
united front Dulles has been urg
ing since last March 29.
WASHINGTON UP New Zea
land's foreign minister, T. Clifton
Webb, said Thursday he "can't
conceive of a satisfactory alliance"
to block communism in southeast
Asia withori Britain as a member.
Webb declined to answer report
ers' questions as to whether New
Zealand would join such an alli
ance if Britain stays out. Presi
dent Eisenhower said Wednesday
it might be possible to establish
a workable arrangement without
British participation, although it
might not be as satisfactory as
might be desired.
Talks With Dulles
"We can't see Britain not want
ing to be in." Webb told newsmen
at the State Department. "You
are asking me to speculate on a
situation which we don't believe
will arise."
Webb conferred with Secretary
of State Dulles for nearly an hour
on Indochina developments. He
also spent half an hour with Presi
dent Eisenhower, with Dulles and
New Zealand Ambassador Leslie
Knox Munro sitting in.
Webb said the White House call
was "purely oocial."
The external affairs minister
said his government wants mili
tary staff talks on Indochina to
begin soon among representatives
of his country, the United States,
France, Australia and Britain.
Six Arrested
In Boston for
Conspiracy'
BOSTON J" Six persons, in
cluding Otis Archer Hood, four
times Communist Party candidate
for governor, and Ann Burlak
Timpson, 43, known as the "Red
Flame" of New England textile
strikes some 20 years ago, were
arrested Thursday night on Suffolk
grand jury indictments charging
"conspiracy."
All were rounded up in the Bos
ton area with the exception of Mrs.
Barbara S. Bennett Rosenkrantz,
31, who was arrested at her Spring
field home by local detectives.
The three men and three women
taken into custody were among sev
en named in secret indictments
returned by the grand jury which
investigated communism in Boston.
All were charged specifically
with conspiring to advocate the
overthrow of the government by
force and violence since Jan. 1,
1949.
Amendment on a meeting at which
there were prepared the charges
against my staff and me. and then
have to order my staff to testify."
Secretary of the Army Stevens
has stated that he did not act on
orders from any higher-ups. but on
his own responsibility in bringing
the charges.
Late Thursday Sen. Mundt (R
SD1. acting chairman of the sub
committee, said Stevens would be
called back to the witness stand
Mondav and invited to repeat this
statement under oath,
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Action Stalled on
NW Power Bills
WASHINGTON. OP Legislation
to authorize local participation in
construction of two federally auth
orized dams in the Pacific North
west may provide the basis for a
full-scale review of administration
power policy.
This was indicated Thursday be
fore a Senate committee which re
cessed without action on either bill.
The bills, passed Wednesday by
the House, would authorize con
struction by local interests of the
Priest Rapids power dam on the
Columbia River in Washington and
joint construction of Cougar Dam
on Oregon's McKenzie River at the
federal government and Lugene,
Ore., Water and Electric Board.
At hearings before a Senate pub
lic works subcommittee Thursday,
however, even Sens. Magnuson and
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Ike's Plan for
Ex-Workers
WASHINGTON 1 The House
Ways and Means Committee Thurs
day approved President Eisenhow
er's plan to permit retired workers
to earn more income and still keep
their social security payments.
Officials estimate that more than
a million aged workers, otherwise
eligible, are barred now from re
ceiving their social security checks
because of the present restriction.
The plan also would permit mil
lions of workers retiring in the
future to supplement their social
security payments with more
earned income.
The law now forbids pension pay
ments in any month ia which a
person under 75 earns $75 or more
in employment covered by the sys
tem. The new plan allows full social
security payments for those making
up to $1,000 a year. One month's
social security check would be lost
for each $80 earned above $1,000.
Thus, for example, a worker
could earn $1,800 a year and still
draw two months' social security
payments.
Under both the present and the
proposed new law, persons over 75
may draw their social security pay
ments without regard to other
earnings.
The theory of the restriction is
that workers must actually retire
from the laoor force before draw
ing social security payments.
Many workers have complained,
however, that they were unable to
live on their social security pay
ments and they needed more out
side income.
The first foreign salute to Am
erican sovereignty was fired in
the Dutch colony of St. Eustatius
in the West Indies in 1776.
Alexander Graham Bell was a
teacher of the deaf before he in
vented the telephone.
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Jackson (D-Wash), sponsors of the
Priest Rapids proposal, indicated
only half-hearted support for their
bill.
Joint Statement
In a joint statement, they said
they and a majority of Northwest
residents would prefer to have the
federal government build Priest
Rapids.
"The primary reason that this
legislation is before you," they
said, "stems from the fact that
there have been no new starts in
the Pacific Northwest for two
years and this year there are ne
funds in the budget to initiate
construction on new dams."
Magnuson said he "thoroughly
disagrees" with the administra
tion's change of power policy "but
because the Pacific Northwest
needs power I feel the local people
should have a chance to help them
selves." Merit Challenged
Jackson challenged the merit of
a policy of water resource develop
ment in which the federal govern
ment assumes the cost of flood
control, navigation and other non-
revenue producing dam facilities
and leaves the power or revenue
producing aspects to its "partner."
Doubts of the Washington sena
tors were echoed by Sen. Morse
(Ind-Ore) who suggested the sub
coqimittee "should be very care
ful' in approving legislation which
might modify" the national power
policy. He said he felt it should
not be acted upon without "hear
ing's in the field."
Asserting that flood control and
pfwer development are "insepar
able." Morse said he was "not
ringing with enthusiasm in support
of a proposal which seeks to post
pone flood control."
Main Topic Priest Rapids
Although most of the 2 hour
morning hearing was devoted to
Priest Rapids, Morse and Magnu
son' indicated they would also have
"something to say" about Cougar
Dam legislation later.
Sen. Cordon (R-Ore), sponsor of
the Cougar proposal, urged its ap
proval by the subcommittee. He
said the bill would enable the city
to ''provide for its own power needs
and at the same time reduce the
cost of flood control to the federal
government."
Ivan Oakes of Salem. Ore., ex
ecutive secretary of the Willamette
River Basin Committee, said he
has "yet to find anyone in the
basin opposed to the project." He
said flood control features of the
project "are very badly needed"
in the community.
The subcommittee recessed with
out acting on either bill.
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Lands Backed
WASHINGTON UPi The Senate
Thursday approved a bill to leave
administration of 472,000 acres of
disputed Oregon timber land in
the hands of the Forest Service.
It passed the bill on a voice
vote after rejecting 52-18, an
amendment by Sen. Morse (Ind
Ore) to transfer control to the
Department of Interior. The bill
now goes to the House.
The acreage, now administered
by the Forest Service, is part of
the Oregon and California railroad
land grant reclaimed by Congress
in 1916. Jurisdiction has been
claimed by the Interior Depart
ment's Bureau of Land Manage
ment which manages two million
additional acres of O & C timber.
Cordon's Bill
The bill, by Sen. Cordon R-Ore,
would provide that receipts from
sale of timber on the disputed
land 'should be in accord with the
O&C formula 75 per cent to
18 Western Oregon counties and
25 per cent to the government
instead of the reverse which would
be the case if receipts were dis
tributed in line with Forest Serv
ice law.
It also would direct that the
secretaries of Interior and Agri
culture undertake an exchange of
lands within two years to block
up present intermingled holdings
in the area to increase manage
ment efficiency.
If approved by the House and
signed by the President, the bill
would resolve a controversy which
has existed since early in the cen
tury. 'More Sensible'
In seeking to place administra
tion of the lands under the Interior
Department, Morse asserted it
would be "more sensible and ef
ficient" to have the entire O&C
acreage under one agency. He
contended also that a recent deci
sion of the U.S. Court of Appeals,
declaring the lands to be O k C
lands, had settled the question of
administration.
Cordon differed, saying the court
decision had not settled the ad
ministrative question and was sub
ject to appeal. He said also that
two additional areas of O & C
lands now are being administered
by the Forest Service.
STAMP ISSUE
WASHINGTON (INS) The In
terior department expects to sell
1,000,000 1954-55 migratory bird
hunting stamps showing two ring
necked ducks in flight. The ring
necked duck is also known as
"ring-bill" or "black-jack."
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BONNE RS FERRY JPi Flood
waters from the rising Kootenai
River may roll over 15 of 17 dik
ing districts protecting some
40,000 acres of wheat land near
here if the river reaches a pre
dicted 35.8 feet crest.
Gilbert Bean, an information of
ficer for the engineers, said all
the districts but two might be
flooded at 35.8.
Farmers in lowland areas have
moved out. - Army trucks, troops
and bulldozers were rushintr in
wherever weak spots appeared in
the diKes.
Most stores in town hav cIosm!
but residents who see the Kootenai
threaten them every spring have
snown no excessive alarm.
More than 2,870 acres were flood
ed by breaks in the dikes Thurs
day.
A bridge over a creek between
Troy, Mont, and the Yaak, Mont.,
Air Force radar station was
washed out Wednesday and it left
100 men stranded at the station.
The creek eventually runs into the
Kootenai.
The men weren't in any danger
but Capt. Robert Rice, the com
mander, said it may be three days
before they can get out. Plans
were made to bring in a helicopter
to drop supplies.
Lt. Col. Lloyd L. Rail, who is
in charge of military flood - fight
ing operations, had men throwing
sandbags on railroad tracks near
Bonners to keep the river away.
The Great Northern Railway sus
pended operations through here
just before eight miles of its main
line track was inundated.
Every available man in the area.
and many school children, joined
in the long operation of sandbagg
ing the dikes. Some have been at
it 48 hours without a rest.
Four housewives assembled a
mobile restaurant to keep the work
ers fed. They pack a small truck
with food and make several trips
a day up and down the dikes. They
also set iip a trailer cooker to
serve the men hot food.
The schoolhouse, which let class
es out two days ago, is crammed
with the household belongings of
people from evacuated areas.
The main stems of the Columbia
and Snake rivers will continue to
rise the next five or six days,
Elmer Fisher, Weather Bureau
river forecaster, said at Portland.
The Columbia went over flood
stage of 15 feet at Vancouver,
Wash., Thursday, and began lap
ping into undiked pasture land.
The river is expected to push water
in the Portland harbor past flood
stage of 18 feet by Sunday and be
up to 21 feet by Tuesday.
Some docks and undiked low
lands are flooded at that level, but
damage normally is minor.
FOOD SERVER
GALLUP, N. M. (INS) Albu
querque businesswoman Peggy
Leach will spend half her sum
mer vacation this year for the
21st time cooking 5,500 servings
of food for the 500 Indian dancers
participating in the Gallup Inter
Tribal Indian ceremony. Peggy
estimates she has cooked over
100,000 separate meals for the
hungry Indians since she under
took her unusual project in 1933.
Before steel pens were made,
quills from swan, crow, eagle,
owl, hawk, peacock and turkey
feathers were used to make pens.
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LONDON Queen Elizabeth II
has that "good- to get - home"
look as she and the Duke of
Edinburgh smile at cheering
crowds from royal carriage
bearing them to Buckingham
Palace. The royal couple re
turned to London after a six
month tour of the Common
wealth. (AP Wirephoto)
Board Backs
Construction
At Tillamook
WASHINGTON OP) The Bureau
of the Budget has approved a pro
posal for construction of the Til
lamook Bayocean peninsula and
bar project on the Oregon coast.
Rep. Angell (R-Ore said Thurs
day. The project, estimated to cost
1 Vt million dollars, involves con
struction of a sand dike made
necessary by an ocean break
through at Bay ocean.
Tillamook County will vote Fri
day on a proposed bond issue to
finance the local share of the proj
ect. The local share is to be 15
per cent of the total cost.
Best Western
Novel Brings
Writer Aivard
DENVER UPi The Silver Spur
award for the best western novel
of 1953 went Thursday night to
Colorado author Wayne D. Over
holser at a Western Writers of
America banquet here.
Overholser, who writes under the
pen name "Lee Leighton," was
awarded the group's highest honor
for his book, "Law Man."
Other winners of Silver Spur
awards included: Lucia Moore,
Eugene. Ore., for "The Wheel and
the Hearth," voted best western
historical novel.
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PORTLAND ! Plans for a
multi-million-dollar shopping cen
ter in East Portland are expected
to be announced here Friday night.
Officials of the Lloyd Corp.,
which owns alarge tract of land
east of the Willamette River, sent
invitations to a group of civic and
business leaders for a dinner at
which "plans for development of
a project of major importance"
will be announced.
Portland newspapers reported
the project will be a 22-block
shopping center with the major
merchant to be Allied Stores, Inc.,
a department store chain not now
in Portland.
Allied Stores operates the Bon
Marche stores in Seattle, Tacoma
and Spokane. The firm helped de
velop the big Northgate shopping
center at Seattle. It also is build
ing a store at Eugene.
The Lloyd tract i sseveral blocks
east of the river, near the city
center. Newspapers here said the
shopping center would be just
north of the new Bonneville Ad
ministration building.
Logger Dies
In 185-Ft. Fall
From Tree
ROSEBURG Wi The E. G.
Nelson Logging Co. operation 20
miles southwest of here Thursday
morning had its second fatality
within two days.
The victim was William Joseph
Berg. 26, Cottage Grove. Fellow
workers said he was atop a 183-
foot spar tree putting up new rig
ging when he swung his axe at
a knot, missed and cut his safety
belt. He fell to his death.
Wednesday Donald Benson. 27.
Winston, was fatally crushed by
logs rolling irom a truck at the
Nelson operation.
The Thursday accident increased
Douglas County's logging death
toll for the year to six.
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