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64 French ! I The Weather FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau, McNary field, Salem): i I i Early morning log patches, other wise partly cloudy with scattered . . lowers today: high today near: AS, fair tonight with fog patches form- 11 tag; low tonight near 30: - morning i fog Saturday, with increasing cloudi- ! Bess. Temperature at 12.-01 a.m. today Was 37.. s: Willamette River 1.5 feet. h' ' K POUNDBD 1651 I 1 104TH YEAR 4 SECTIONS 4S PAGES Tht Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, December 10, 1954 PRICE 5c No. 258 Reuther ; Assails Ike Stand LOS ANGELES UFi CIO Presi dent Walter Reuther Thursday ac y cused President Eisenhower of practicing "political fraud" f by failing to back up Secretary: of Labor James P. Mitchell. ( Reuther told the CIO cnvention Mitchell lacked the standing in ' Eisenhower's Cabinet enjoyed ; by Secretary of Commerce Sinclair "Weeks. 1 1 - Mitchell had told the convention in a speech here Tuesday that he condemned "categorically" laws now in effect, in 17 stales prohibit ing unions and employers from ne gotiating contract clauses toj re- auire workers to become union members. I Eisenhower said in his Washing ton news conference the next day that Mitchell had not necessarily spoken for the administration, al though the labor secretary had a risht to express his own views. Reuther said that if Weeks makes a business policy statement to a , convention of the National Assn. of Manufacturers "you will ' net find that he is repudiated the next morning by the White House. "I believe the people of America I ought to recognize the political fraud that is taking place in Wash ington " Reuther said. : "The secretary of labor is not a member of the Cabinet. He is just there as convenient window dress ing to make the working people believe they have a voice in the policy making decisions of our go ernment. i Mitchell had been commended by other convention speakers: for the stand he took in opposing the: state "right-to-work" laws, i morse rraises iruman ; ( Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) told cheer ing delegates that former Presi dent Truman has done more to top communism throughout; the world than all bis Republican de tractors put together. Salem Snowman 'Imported' From Valsetz r - V 11 "J i h t: I ; ' - M a K . ;-. - - t $ - ' - Visits by Kings, Potentates Swamp State Department i By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER t In between have come such per w SHTN-nTov' -urn : So manv I sonages as the premiers of France. kings, potentates arid premiers are JapanJ Pakistan, Ceylon and three beating a path; to this worm capi-i",-o"u",,a" " yuccn Ul that . welcoming officials hard-1 Mother of England, the chancel- ly have time to get. their striped "rs of vvesi vermany ana Aosma, pants pressed. I in.e Pjesiaents ot 5oum Korea and So the State Denartment ; cell- Suytiam stressed that all the vis itors fere invited here and were welcope indeed. It's the rapid suc cession of visits that poses the problem. S ; cately disclosed plans Thursday to slow the pace in Woa. -As Press Officer Henry Suydam put it: "The whole matter, of foreign visits' for next ; year is being ex amined to see how it shapes up. Efforts are being made to arrange them at somewhat : more widely spaced intervals Suydam didn't say so, but the red carpet has worn a bit thin. with the footsteps of foreign digni taries following so closely upon each other there was hardly time to run the( vacuum cleaner and whisk away the dust: The crowded procession finally perturbed the State . Department. Perhaps it perturbed President Eisenhower and Secretary of State I , MM it 1 I Ail M I Dulles lirst. . iney nave naa to ina surprise move seemed vir- struggle to sandwich their other I tuallv certain to deprive Adenauer i - . 1 t. i . r l :L a .1 i - - . As for the future. Suydam said he had heard talk of a visit here bv Premier! Mario Scelba of Italv. He had not rieard anything, howev er, : about the possible pilgrimage by Yugoslavia s Marshal Tito. The United States has dodsed the Tito visit for several years be cause! as ai Communist ruler with a record of religious prosecutions he is thoroughly disliked by some elements of the American citizen ry, i i Anti-Rearmament Bloc Forms in West Reich IIUNICH, Germany (JP) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's firm hold Ion the Bonn Parliament's upper house was shaken Thursday in one fif the biggest domestic setbacks he has suffered this year. the anti-rearmament Socialists and three- right-wing parties an nounced a decision to form the unprecedented state coalition which would end Adenauer's eight-year control of the Bavarian state gov ernment. chores in between ceremonial func tions. , . ! ! This vear Washington iwill have received 17 visitors requiring high level courtesies, police! escorts. and the personal attention of Eis enhower and Dulles, This does not count, a host of lesser VIP's. The strain of callers began with President Celal Bayar of Turkey last January. It will end in a few of his two-thirds majority in the Bonn government 'upper house), since! the new state government will appoint its six representatives in thje federal body. , If Adenauer loses his two-thirds majority in the Bundesrat it would pose ja serious threat to implemen tation of the Paris treaties on Ger man f rearmament. Leaders of the Christian Social Iran. Doctors Agree Pope Steadily Gains Strength VATICAN CITY tf Medical experts announced Thursday night Pope Pius XII is gaining strength his hiccups have ceased and his general condition has i improved preceptibly. i I The 78-vear-old pontiff under went a two-hour examination his second in a week of grave illness that brought fears for his life by three specialists and his personal physician. Dr. Riccardo Gaieazzi Lisi. ' '1 One of the consulting physicians, Dr. Raffaele Paolucci di Valmag giore, said J'I can exclude that the Pope has cancer." He said the ill ness of the pontiff began two years ago "and if this had turned out to be cancer the Pope, also because of age. would have died inside a year." ' ." t Galeazzi-Lisi and the three spe cialists also issued a bulletin; "As foreseen, the state of health of the holy father has improved perceptibly and progressively i in the last few days," tne doctors bulletin said. M "Disturbances have disappeared. among them the hiccups, and it was possible gradually to resume direct feeding, which has permit ted a satisfactory recovery of strength. I The bulletin was signed by' Gale azzi-Lisi; Prof. Antonio, Gasbarri- ni, a nutrion expert" from Bologna: Prof. Raffaele Paolucci di, Val maggiore, a noted surgeon; and Dr. Paul Neihans, a Swiss hor mone specialist First Salem snowman of the winter is claimed by Kathy and Jeff Crippen, 60 Claremont Dr West Salem. The kids, five aad feur-years-eld, are shown above with their prize which was made from Valsetz snow. Their father la Valsetz en business loaded the car trunk with anew and brought It home. After building the snowman, the kids had enough left ever te make 'ice cream." (Statesman Photo.) I )-..- i..j-t-:"--..;-t-;-;l;;-'-'; I.- rl" ;'! 'wi'l- A Morse to Run ;i- i . I 5 As Alderman If Defeated LOS ANGELES W) Sen. Morse (Ind-Oret told the CIO's conven tion jokingly Thursday that if de feated for ) re-election ; in , 1956 and that won't happen without a real fight" he may run for his home town council; in Eugene, Ore. iMorse was stripped of major Senate committee iassignments aft er! he switcnea trom Kepumican political affiliation to become an independent anc was assigned to the Senate's District of Columbia "So I'm here as a District of Columbia alderman.' Morse said, laughing.- "If Oregon Republicans retire me. in 1956 I may run for my town council, thanks to tram ins obtained on! the District of Columbia Committee. Lily Disdainful Of Cool Weather A 'I : -. . It It could be spring the way an Easter lily is acting up in the yard of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Aesch- limann. 330 E. Wilson St. The lily, disdainful of the cal endar and nippy days, has de veloped two blooms in the past several weeks, the Aeschlimanns reported. ? h Suit Seeks to Prevent Sale of Silverton Union High Bonds days with the visit of the Shah of Unioa, ' which is the Bavarian ally of Adenauer s Christian . Democrat ic Party, said there still -Was a, possibility, however, that the new coalition would fall apart in trying to agree on apportionment of seats in the State Cabinet, thus opening the way to new negotiations with the Adenauer party. Observers pointed out, too, that unlike those from the other Ger man! states Bavaria's senators in the Bundesrat are not: bound by instructions so that some of them migli still vote for rearmament. A f widespread "count me out" feeling among trade unionists and World War II veterans with re spect to conscription and the eco nomic load , of rearmament has been; pointed out by politcians. Demonstrations against rearm ament have occurred recently in three cities, and opponents of re armament are reported organizng in a score of places. A suit to block the purchase of Silverton High School by the newly-fowned Union High School District 7 J, Silverton, was filed Thursday in Marion County Cir cuit Court I i Plaintiffs are Oscar H. Loe and Oral D. Egan, of the Evens Val ley School district, and A. - A. Paquin, Monitor sawmill owner. Both Monitor and Evens Valley districts are members of Union High School District 7 J. ! The three men contend ; that the high school building is un suitable for use by the new dis trict as its high school and has been wrongly appraised in value. The plaintiffs ask for an inter locutory order Restraining, the district's board of directors, named as the defendants, from selling bonds to secure funds to purchase the building ! and grounds. - -Next Monday had been fixed bv the directors as the date for opening bids on the bonds.! The plaintiffs: further ask a re appraisal of the building and grounds. They allege that sew age backs into the first floor of the building and that the floor must be abandoned for school use at times, i ' , Solons Snowbound in Hawaii j Firm Discharges While Investigating Drought Silent Witness PHILLIPSBURG. N. J. W! Ingersoll-Rand, Inc.. announced Thursday the immediate dismissal of one of its employes, Maurice K. Slater, who deci.ned Wednes day to answer questions before the McCarthy Senate subcommittee in vestigating Communist activity. ANIMAL CRACKERS BV WARREN GOODRICH -" I U 1 WJ i r, S 4 ' r . I' I Isn't that cwte?They're camp Ingeutr HALE-KAL., Maui, T. H. (UP) I A waterlogged congressional committee, scouring the Hawaiian islands for the drought it was sup posed to investigate, climaxed its tour, Wednesday by getting snow bound. ' i : i :': ! - - !; : The incident occurred atop Ha waii's 10,000-foot Mount Haleakala, I much to i the embarrassment of Mrs. Elizabeth Farrington, Ha waii's ! congressiohai delegate and one of the nine-member House In terior and Insular Affairs Commit tee, i i ; J I ; But it was not the first day of chagrin for Mrs.) Harrington. The drought seeking Congress- i men arrivec' at Honolulu Nov. 28 the day the islands got 5.5 inches I of rain that killed two persons in flood waters., , ? i j During the next ! few days the committee enjoyed a total of 75 minutes of cloudless skies. ; Monday, the committee still i interested in the drought toured i Kauai Island in cloudy - weather with intermittent; showers. ; Tuesday, they reached Maui. So did the rain. In cats-and-dogs quan tity. ;:!' I i By Thursday the search for drought had become a hunt by in dividual committee members for some dcy spot. Instead they got snow three inches of it acconv panied by blizzard winds, t ; Soon after the aloha-shirted con gressmen reached the 9.000 foot level on Haleakala. the "subver sive weather hit The only foresighted member of the. party. Rep. E. Y. Berry (K Sd, buttoned his sheepskin tightly about him and chortled: "Makes me sort of homesick Also homesick but not so well prepared were Reps. A. L. Miller R-Neb frand Wesley A. D'Ewarl (R-Mont). They were clad in aloha shirts. ' . i ' Rep. William Dawson (R-Utah sniffed the ; find-juggled snow ex pertly and said he, thought it was all a hoax pulled by the Visitors Bureau. 4 . ' "It looks synthetic to me." he said knowingly. "Not like the reai stuff in Utah;" ! i Malik Assails U.S. Plea for Release of GIs UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. () -Russia's Jacob A. Malik Thursday denounced as "shameful" and "jerry - built" an American de mand for the release of 11 Ameri can aviators held in Red China as spies and indicated the Com munists would ignore any U. N, action. . -- A: i Anthony Nutting, British minis ter of state, and Henri Hoppenot, France, partners with the United States in the Western Big Three, assailed Malik for his opposition to a resolution put before the U. N. Assembly by the United States and its Korean War allies for the release of the prisoners ' The Assembly adjourned an ex traordinary night session at 11:06 p. m.-until 10:30 a., m. Friday with ten mare speakers to be heard. The U. N. officials said they hoped for a final vote by Fishermen . - - - - -. i Feared Lost DUBLIN. Ireland (fl Flood waters surged through almost all the low lying i northern area of Dublin Thursday, trapping thous ands of Irishmen in their homes. It was the worst flood in the mem ory of this Irish capital of more than a half million population. Freezing winds and torrential rains whipped mucn of Europe. Ice. sleet and snow added to the misery. .-U j . j -.v.: Shipping wast hard hit with M French : fishermen feared ; lost in seven trawlers which , vanished along -the French Coast during fierce gales j About 100 seamen were known dead or presumed lost in two weeks of almost continuous heavy weather j In Dublin the Irish army joined with police and; fire services in the Lrescue of thousands of persons ma rooned m flooded homes. Waters poured out by. raging rivers hit the northern! part of the city bor dering Dublin Bay an inlet of the Irish Sea. . Treatment Given Flood victims by the hundreds received quick) hospital treatment for shock, exposure and exhaustion after 12 hours and more of battling the surging waters. r ; At least 30 were injured. Some had fractures dealt out by floating furniture, j I , Lord Mayor Alfred Byrne called the floods "the worst I have ever known." He declared a series of emergency rones in the flood areas and ordered every aid for stricken families. j, j ; i Maroons Hundreds , Anxiety grew, for hundreds ma rooned in small farmsteads along side upper reaches of the Shannon River in Central Ireland. "; i. I Already the Shannon had spilled over more thn 30 square miles and was rising hourly. But Wednesday night's gales so disrupted tele phone communications across the republic no clear picture of the Shannon floods could be : formed here.' ' : . - u - day night that Russia and its East aBy a silvjery stream, smashed European communist allies would down, a raJroad bridge within Reds to Boost Armies if West Reich Rearmed MOSCOW ! The Soviet Union warned the. Western powers Thurs- increase their armed forces West, Germany is rearmed. In j notes;pecifically aimed to prevent Western ratification of the Pari? agreement to rearm West Germany. Russia told the United States, Britain and 'France the stepping up of Red armaments was 'to counter-oppose the grow ing armea lorces of tne aggres siv tenance They also allege that equip ment at the site is outmoded and not fit to be used for the con ducting of a union high school. Defendants Named ! Named as the defendants in the suit are Fred Schwab, Mt An gel, chairman of the board: John Seims, Robert Humphreys Felix eariy Friday afternoon wngni oi anvenon: jonn nas, Nuttinsr ' said that the Sooner Scotts Mills, and the Silverton Wretarv General Dae Hammar- Union High; School District 7 J. I skiold can intervene in their be- : i i m Twelve school districts in the I half. "Let our voice go out on be- Silverton area voted to form a I half of our soldiers of the U. N., union high school district May 3. he said to a burst of applause from the delegates. Malik spoke for one hour and 25 minutes in giving the Communist answer to attacks, on the Peiping regime by the United States and some of its allies. it Appraisal Co., the , i- n Sr. Nervous Bank On March 6, Silverton District 4 C had voted to consolidate such district when it wasj formed. Silverton Hieh School was then to be sold at a price to be deter mined by a qualified: appraiser. The General Appraisal Co., the suit states, of the site and OO t t . Plaintiffs elaim that the prop- KailflltS Use erty is not worth more than $181.-1 t 000 and asks an appraiser be ap- Yf7 lKi TlKi pointed to determine if the build- W aiKlC-1 H1K16 ing is fit to use a a union high scnooi. i . i I civ ppivrrern m Pmir Repairs Said Needed i I bank robbers - using walkie - talk- T.no vhn tntorviowod Thnrc. ies but so nervous they strewed j il.i a. .(ltdMl arnimd th floor and over- ffi looked'-moOO -'Thursday took change, Veteran, AdstraUon f io.DS irom orancn oi me u of America. Two of the ; robbers went into the bank at Geary near Arguello Street and cut telephone cables This was done to I prevent police Police Arrest Fake Doctor In Portland PORTLAND (UP) A man, masquerading as a doctor, had his medical practice cut short when a woman 'patient" became sus- picieus of his unprofessional bed side manner Ralph Caparulo. 40, admitted to Portland detectives and an investi gator for the State Board of Med ical Examiners that he was not i doctor and never had been one. He also' admitted that he had police records in Connecticut and New Mexico, police said. Caparulo, according to Detective Fred Thompson, arrived in Port land about a week ago and intro duced himself to a Portland couple with a name similar to his and claimed he was a physician. He said he was awaiting assignment a' Veterans hospital One patient, "a married woman made an appointment for a physi car examination at her home Wed nesday. But something in Capar ulo's manner and speech made her suspicious, so she checked with the veterans hospital, D o c t o r s Ex the appraisal at much longer per iod than it should have been, that the McGinnis field and its equip- men t included in the purchase. needed extensive repairing and should not have been placed in I the purchase at all. Oral Egan b;arPd and State Board of Medical Ex aminers. No one had heard o Caparulo. Detective Thompson and Alvm McGriff, medical board investiga tcr, walked in on Caparulo at the woman's, home few i hundred j yards of Dublin's Amiens St. ; terminus and cut all rail communication with Belfast and the North, Mammoth Waves Great waves pushing over a sea wall swept away part of the line unking Dublin; and Rosslare. Just before noon the state radio broadcast a government appeal to Lr. ' 5 g m Rowboats worked through flooded Lance of peace. i I . : 1 . .. i .ti i ms in i vtiiv v n i.iins n animi. vucussion oi me uerman oues-iianrp tio nt uon ttussia said, will depend upon in England, gashing rain brought ..caicwi icjcvuun oi proposals to noods to areas stui counting dam- iwmi ovuii. I iasr Trom WMncd9v'i vfrtnnc Together with its notes to the gales. Landslides closed more than Western powers the Soviet govern- 20 mam highways. ment delivered the text of a dec-1 Leicestershire in the Midland la ration adopted at last week s reported its fworst floods in 25 Moscow security conference of years. Nearer London, police kept eignt tast European Communist 1 anxious watch on the Thames Re states pledging an increase in arm- er, already spilling into washlands aments under a unified command in some areas and still rising. presumably Russian to counter Lightnings struck the port outer the prospective rearmament of engine of a Bntsh European Air- Western Germany. ways Viscount airliner soon after The Soviet notes said rearmins ll left London for Majorca with 17 West Germany would mak. im. passengers.! It: returned and landed possible the unification of the East sa'ely- and West! zones of Germanv. They added that ratification of the London-ParuTagreements "will brmg about an intensification of the arms! drive and will create new obstacles to achieving an agreement on the reduction of armaments.' 5, r 10-Fopt Tides Reach Coast The notes were in reply to the West's rejection of Russia's bid for ASTORIA I The " highest tides of the year on the northern an all-Europe security conference I Oregon coast were expected to in MOSCOW AOV. 29. Demos Praise Sec. Wilson pass Friday noon with no damage. Ten-foot tides, equalling those of Thursday, were due at Seaside and Astoria about noon. But they will cause no damage if Thursday s moderate winds continue. Low tides of minus 1.1 were ex pected Friday evening. The Newanna and Necanicum rivers on the coast were hiah. Part WASHiAUTON if! i Two Demo-tof the Seaside golf course was cov cratic senators who have blasted ered by the Necanicum but it was becretary of Defense Wilson s pro- undamaged. I curement !i policies Thursday praised his new order against un due concentration of contracts." "If this new policy is effectively executed,? said Sen. Jackson of Washington, "it will be a1 most significant contribution to our strength and security.' Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee re- ii-j i i i : . : : .1 cm j I . taneu ne nan trmcizea , ine uan-1 via a ger of depending upon one sup-1 ge a pner wnen oenerai Motors was awarded a , contract for medium tanks last year Emphatic 'No9 to Aerial Proposal stated that; the equipment, men tioned in the allegation, referred to the agricultural building and: added that :the "whole appraisal was too high.V Paquin could not be reached. ; i Today's Statesman SECTION 1 j -f : General news 2, 3, Editorials, ' features j i Comes the Dawn ..j.... Star, Gazer L il.-. j. Society, wpmen's news X-word puzxle " .1 . J .:. SECTION 2 ' i rood news While robbing the bank they kept in contact with an accomplice out side -by means of walkie talkie radio. ; i H 1 i ;? A rarely used signal "666, mo bilizing virtually every policeman in San Francisco, . sealed : off all city exits and brought quick dis covery ef the getaway car. The car, stolen Wednesday, was found in front of an apartment in - - . j i j - Cutting Voltage of Clouds Seen As Way to Prevent Forest Fires BOYNE CITY, Mich, un Love lorn aviator Carl Dernier, 40, who. proposed to the lady of his choice banner in the sky, didn't Yes."! Instead, ( he got a "No" from Mrs. Evefynj Brandt, a divorcee, who told newsmen: "And that's definite." I ! This upstate Michigan city of 3.028 got excited Wednesday as a plane circled for 15 minutes, trail ing a huge banner which read: "Evelyn 1 love you. Marry me. CarL" i S SAN FRANCISCO (ft A new method ot fire prevention in west- 5, 13-16 ..4 ... ...4 the 2400 block of Fulton. A' woman era forests taking the fire-start- told police she saw four men climb out of the ear and race up an embankment! into Golden Gate ing nigh voltage out ot ciouas which breed lightning was fore cast here Thursday at the annual 4 Park. Presumably ! they - had an- Western Forestry Conference, "-"I other car staked out there. r , Weathermen SavL 1- SECTION 3 Fabulous Friday 4-. 1-16 Valley news ... 4, 6 Radio, TV .L ... L.. 12 Comics 12 SECTION 4 Sports C ..l-3 Markets 4 Classified ads ........ 3-7 General news Rain, Fog Today; Jack S. Barrows of the Inter- mountain Forest And Range Ex periment Station at Missoula, Mont., told delegates of "Project Sky Fire" which may reduce the number of fires started by light ning, greatest single cause of for est fires. ; h ' Barrows said the project is be ing conducted by the U. . Forest Service and Munitalp Foundation, ; Both fog - and showers are ex pected in me Salem area today, report . weathermen at McNary Field. . v- The outlook calls for fog patches I whose director of research is Dr. in the early morning hours with I Vincent J. Schaefer.' Many other scattered showers later in the day. I agencies are cooperating. Foe also is . anticipated, tonight. I The i project includes a clmid The Thursday minimum was 35. survey from a network of fire i fires in the West in 1954. lookout stations throughout the West. Observers report cloud heights and speeds and character istics of lightning storms. - Also being studied is the "jet air stream" that flows across the sky at altitudes of 20,000 to 40,000 feet. At selected cloudy survey stations, Barrows said, time lapse! FIRE HITS I PUSAN PUSAN, Korea un A fast mov ing fire was brought under con trol after,- a three hour battle Thursday ( after it destroyed 700 Korean dwellings, a school, church and several Quonset huts belong ing to the Korean marine corps. stations, Barrows said, time lapse 1 f-i j, i motion pictures give the life cycle! Uf (JlQ 7'QQ "WUQ of loud formations which gavel , n i Salem . birth to lightning "Exoeriments indicate." he con tinued. Tthat cloud seeding may Snd alter Convective clouds. Project I Medford Sky Fire will test the possibility of using such techniques in pre ventina or reducing severity of lightning." . C. S. Cowan, manager of the Washington Forest' Fire Assn.. re ported a sizable decrease in forest North Bend Roseburg ; San Francisco Los Angeles '. -Chicago .x 1 New York 4 Max. M im. 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