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Dfo Sheppard Trial Jiiry Keqnests More Time to Delibe rate The Weather FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today; mostly cloudy tonifht and Wedaeaday, with a few ahowera Wednesday. Mot much chan re - la - temperature, with the highest today near 48, lowest tonifht near 34. Temperature at 12.01 a.m. today was 34. SALEM PRECIPITATION' time Start Weather Tear Seat. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 1X37 ', U.M rX POUNDOD 1651 A , -H-iVht-1 -V V ' 104TH YEAR 2 SECTIONS 16 PAGES Th Orwgon Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Tuesday. Dacaznbar 21, 1954 PRICE 5c No. 269 Quake in Jid Left Big Fissjires, May F6rd Geosh to Alter Maps n 'Mata Han' Faces Trial Today By LEONARD LEFKOW DIXIE VALLEY, Nev. w Ge ographers may have to revise their maps because of the earth quake last Thursday which caused awesome changes in the terrain of this sparsely - settled area. The quake centering in this re mote valley was felt in five west ern states. i Scientists who converged on mile-high Dixie Valley found gap ing fissures that scarred the base of surrounding mountains for 28 miles. . ! ' Snowopped peaks looking down on the desolate valley either were shoved upward a few feet or the valley floor dropped because of the violent quake, they said. Geograph ers won't know which it is until readings are taken of the moun tains. ; : i Fissures Mapped j Prof. David Slemmons, Univers ity of Nevada earthquake expert, flew over the area in West Central Nevada about 110 miles east of Reno mapping the tremendous fissures. "The quake was without doubt one of the most important ever DTP 033JJQS PitDCiDffl recorded in the United States, Slemmons said. This; he explained is in terms of ground displacement ; Slemmons measured three new ly opened faults." one of which ran along the Stillwater Range on the east side of the valley. Anoth er 26-mile slash was discovered at the southwest ?art of the Clan Al pine Range. A third fissure about 12 miles Ion? opened just east of the Clan Alpine, Frightening Sight A reporter who drove across the desert to the base of one of the faults found a frightening sight: '55 Draft Calls Halved, Military Cut Announced WASHINGTON (jP) Secretary of Defense Wilson said Monday that, partly because of greater "opportunities for peace," draft calls will be halved next year and the armed forces will be reducd by 403,000 men by June 1956. j , ' The reduction will bring total strength down to 2,815,000 from the current figure of 3,218,000 registered last month. Wilson told a Pentagon news Gleason Signs TV Contract For $6 Million The Reece committee set up by the 83rd Congress to investigate tax-free foundations has submit ted its report, but it is only half a report Though signed by three members (all Republicans); one of the number qualifies his signa ture with a dissent from its accu sations as to make the report only a fifty-fifty proposition; for "the two Democratic members Tiave signed a minority statement which brands the report as -cricxpot mad by persons ill with "fear sickness." Certainly the newspa pers assailed in the report the New York Tunes, the Herald Tri bune, the Washington Post are jzoodly company In the minds of most sensible Americans. - In 1952 the 82nd Congress es tablished a committee, with Rep, Ei E. Cox of Georgia as chair man, to investigate tax-free foundations. Its report was mod erate in its tone, generally com plimentary to the foundations. It recommended that all such found atioos be required to give a pub lic accounting, and that laws be : reexamined to the , end that cor porations may make gifts to "our free schools, colleges, churches, foundations, and other charitable institutions." The next Congress at the insistence of Rep. B. Carroll Reece of Tennessee, renewed the, committee, with Reece as chairs man. 1 Apparently Reece was out to do a hatchet job, for the man em ployed as counsel was as violently biased as ean well be imagined, He prepared a "bill of particulars which put the foundations under accusation. His method prompted resistance from Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio). A ' climax was reached when Hays read extracts from ' i (Continued on editorial page, 4.) conference the decision to cut mil itary manpower was made "in the last few weeks . . I by the Presi dent after a review" of all fac tors. I i Th secretary also announced that the 1st Marine Division will be returned from Korea to the West Coast, as soon as shipping assembled. It will be replaced one of two Army divisions in Ja pan. n ,! NEW YORK UR Jackie Glea- The Army, Navy ana Marine the TV funnyman who plays Corns are all to be trimmed in me i . u... orivar. -t . new ticket ta next 18 months; only the Aif Force I fortune Monday, a fat two-year win De increasea in manpower, i contract for six million dollars Wilson said that among factors I Th hfrv r-nmwlian in on nf influencing the decision, in addi- the biggest deals in television his- uon to wnat ne cauea increasea op- orv. will be taken over by Milton portunities for peace, were inai Berle's present sponsor. Buick, japan naa siariea io ouua up us i Mxt falL own defense forces and that the I tk. contract also will provide an situation in Korea 'bad become I option to allow Buick to continue more stable, i I the nroeram for a third year at an By .Wilson s xiguring. uie Army additional cost of 3tt million. on June 30. 1958 will nave 1.000,000 Vm flabbergasted " Gleason men, 1 a decrease 91 w.uw irom quipped to newsmen. last month; the Navy will have There was no comment from 650,000. a decrease of 42,000; the Berle Marine Corps will drop 32,000 The show will remain on CBS to 190.000. and the Air Force will I Saturday nirfit but will be cut nave sra.ouo, an increase 01 ivwai. i from one hour to-a half hour. Total armed forces strength is to The amount Gleason will receive drop to 2440,000 by next June 30. personally under the new contract Wilson said we i or art can ior i wasn't disclosed, but it was re- February, which has been an- ported to be more than his present nouncea at zo.uuo men, wiu oe re- five-figure weekly take. duced to 10.000 or 11,000. He said in another CBS development the the low quota would be continued I network announced a multimillion Slightly Warmer Weather Forecast 1 1- . Temperatures will remain above freezing in Salem all day today. the McNary Field "weather station predicted earlv Tuesday. Expected low temperature is 34 degrees to night, well above the season s low of 22 registered here Sunday. Light snow fluttered down over much of the East and Great Lakes region Monday, the Associa ted Press reported. Snow flurries extended as far south as Eastern Tennessee. . VO GETS BONES ' t i " ' EUGENE m The University of Oregon Museum of Natural History, has received an early Christmas gift the bones of Tusko once, the largest elephant of the Al G. Barnes Circus. at least through June. Paper Moves Tragedy Off front Pkges KLAMATH FALLS W - The Klamath Falls Herald and News moved to inside pages Monday all news of tragedy and 4 strife, starting a week-long program of "a cheerful and j Christian page one." f I . present to readers; giving them t a well earned t rest trom uie dollar contract for a two-year ex tension of "I Love Lucy," starring the husband and wife team of Lu cille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The amount involved in the new contract which runs to 1957, was not announced. A source close to the negotiations reported, however that it would be at least as much l as uie eignt million dollars in volved in their present 2Va-year pact James Hilton. Author, Dies ' - ' ' 1 A,. . . . ; ' Xfv; Mendes ced warm water gushing trom the mountain and raging along! the quake-caused gash. The trench measured from 12 feet deep to 30 et across. This is in an area where water has never been found, at least in appreciable quantities. A few ranchers graze cattle on the valley floor, but there is no settlement in miles. . i I The gashes along the base of the mountain look as if a giant had ripped the terrain with al jagged knife mile after, mile I and then had torn it apart with his hands, t Had the quake occurred in ,a populated area," Slemmons said. TI hesitate to think of the death and destruction it would have caused." t None Injured Six families live during the sum mer in the bleak valley, roughly; twice the size of Manhattan Island. Sheriff George Wilkins said a few ranchers were in the valley dur ing the quake but none was in jured. i Slemmons found part of a new fault where, one side is 20 'feet lower than on the other side. He said this is possibly the greatest vertical shifting of earth ever re corded in the United States. The San Francisco quake of 1906, by comparison, caused only a 3-1 foot vertical' displacement About 700 persons were killed In that BERLIN Irmrard Marrarete Schmidt 25. East German beantr. Co tremor. In the valley, a deserted shack, tilted at a crazy angle, stands only few feet from a sudden drop. Water roaring from the depths of the mountain has cut a bed under neath the shack and runs out the front Only a few months ago a family had lived there, trying to scrape a, meager living by grazing cattle on the sage. But they pulled out. I guess they were lucky after all," said Sheriff Wilkins, whose vast territory includes this, quiet valley which spawned an earth quake felt by millions. will be tried Tuesdav before U. S. Hieh Commission court in West Germany on three charges of transmitting Allied informa tion to the Russians. U. S. officials acknowledged the icussians naid Irmrard onlr S375 for the order of battle for the Allied defense of West Berlin. She was caaght only three weeks ago after a year and a half of intimate contact with two top American intelligence agents. IAF wtrepnoto ay radio irom serum. 'Prophet ' . 3 ; Coast to y Says West Today Mississippi to Vote on Public Schools' End i JACKSON, Miss. (l Missis sippi faces .the question of giving its Legislature power to abolish public schools in Tuesday's special election. . The "last resort" amendment; facing Ike to Spend Christmas at Augusta, Ga. vote was designed to keep Negroes out of white schools despite the U. WASHINGTON ( President constitutional and Mrs., Eisenhower will spend the People's I rhrietmac and Tftrar Var' at Augusta, : Ga., where the Presi- everyday diet of doom and despondency, , The too position 'was given to local story of the maturing of LONG BEACH, Calif. (A - Hilton, screenwriter and novelist who wrote such books as "Goodbye Mr. Chips" 'and "Lost Horizon," died Monday night in Seaside Hospital after a long ill ness. He was 54. Hilton had been critically Ql for work on three messages to Con gress. The White House said Monday U. S. government bonds held by "uw" iu1Ui tk. mi tw. several weeks. He succumbed at U1C IOla 4Vfc va,a aw I ... ... mtaa cfftlMM Af PnM faAVMIIinff I f.Ufe Ivl UlCl WW, UIS.C. his Christmas message? of a local ho had maintained . vigil for vw man nhnninhi. iminu he days, was still at the bedside. :n.,id h- hnm nnexnectedlv. for i Although he, had been writing Christmas; of special Yule events ..uw" here and in CaWornia and Colo-he lved here in Long Beach rado; and i of fine weather and ,or 1U cnow.frpA hlcrhwavf over the state. I Missing from page one were six 'Santa OailS Gang' strained British-Soviet relations. Arrested- in 1 Okyo th. r!Uviaiwi : shennarn muraer i h-iai and nfhr nw of difHculties. TOKYO Uh Police Sunday ar- The only stories in the usual spot rested a gang of four enterprising news category appearing on uie "!ltv. ine wieves were promptly front page, aside from those having I dubbed "the Santa Claus men." a dfriKt rhrisrmas connection. The reason: They made their dealt ; with local business and entrv and exit with their loot via Canada's talk of; diverting Colum- chimneys. bia River floodwaters to British Columbia's Fraser River. I f? rp H Photographs on the page. fllus- arUierS 1 ell traung local news, were oominaiea S. Supreme Court ruling that seg-ldent to 8et in some golf and regauon ta public education is un constitutional. The loss of public schools would not be too great a price to pay, the Eisenhowers i will fly down amendment sponsors contend. 1 Thursday and return about Jan, Opponents argue the amendment 13, three Mays before the President isn't necessary. Both sides : insist I is to deliver in person his annual segregation must remain in Missis- address to Congress on the state sippL 1 I of the Union. Gov. Hugh White predicted a I Other messages, one on the fed light voting turnout Icral budget and the ether on the Polls open at 7-8 a. m. and close I economic report, will be sent to at 6 p. m. ' congress later in January. The amendment heeds only a I Mrs. Eisenhower's mother, Mrs majority vote to pass. I John S. Doud of Denver, ; will ac Opponents charge that the pow- company the President and first er to abolish public schools would I lady. be the first and only : resort by one five columns wide showing ( 1 J a church choir in a Cbristmas VI XOlSOIieQ Game Birds ' Newberg Driver Killed in! Arizona ANIMAL CRACKERS V WAJRIN OOOR1CH 1 "Oh, my goodness! Wok up grandpa! Ifs timfor his vita min pirn- CASA GRANDE. Ariz. CP) A head-on automobile collision killed Harry A. "Perkins, 79, Newberg, Ore.. Monday and critically m-l jured his widow. j Highway Patrolman C. D. Tyre said a car driven by Jose Lopez Villa. 48. Stanfield. Ariz., was in the left lane, passing another car. when, the collision occur red. Among Mrs. (Perkins injuries were two; broken legs. NEW COMMANDER IN EUROPE ? WASHINGTON. The Amy , announced Monday that Lt Gen. Anthony C McAuliffe, famed com bat leader in the Battle of the Bulge, will be made commanding general of U. S. Army forces., in Europe. , ' . Statctmaa Ncwi Serriea RICKSEALL A warning went out late Monday that all banters In the RiekreaU aad Perrydale areas should be wary f eating any geese shot In those sections because of the possibility of the geese being victims of poisoning. Farmers in the area have been placing poisoned grain in their fields U rid them .of the troublesome field mice. Some geese have been reported eat ing the grain and may be in fected with the poison. UnUl farther notice, it has beea ad vised that birds shot in the areas not be eaten. . One fanner reported that a eat died shortly after eating one of the poisoned mice. Sev era! geese have also beea f oond who are believed to have died from the poisoned grain. pushed by "black" counties with heavy Negro populations. These counties, mostly in the rich, agricultural delta, would rather abolish public schools than pay the cost of equalizing Negro and white schools as present laws require, they said. Leaves r JapanMonk Has Sideline NLRB Chief ost WASHINGTON ( George C, Bott stepped out Monday night as general counsel of the - National Labor Relations Board, automatic ally halting the start of any new prosecutions under the federal la bor laws, until his successor takes office, niuiv. iauau un tcuiuic ui-1 Rnft'a Fniip.map farm 'ha . ficials in this ancient capital of pired and nobody is authorized to Japan have unfrocked a Buddhist take over his duties. The general monk who worked in a pmball C(HiCw! himself the : oniy one parlor on; the side. . j wn0 may start Drosecutions under incy aiMi wxioeu uuu i h Taff.HartW law ! t W- I- - " irk several ui uie icmyic uuu- dhist images. "Even a monk has to eat," his excuse. was Slate Highway Officials Report No Chains Needed Tire chains aren't needed any place in; Oregon, the highway commission reported Monday. There was no new snow in the state over the week end. . The commission reported icy spots at Government Camp, Tim berline, Wilson River Summit Sunset Summit McKenzie Pass, Green Springs, Chemult and Lake view. i Roads at all other points were (either bare or sanded. President Eisenhower's choice to succeed Bott has been Theophil C. Kammholz. Chicago attorney. But his nomination, presented at the recent Senate session to consider the censure of Sen. : McCarthy (R Wis), did not come up for confirm ation. .. .'-'', Kammholz. who has been an ad viser to Secretary . of Commerce Weeks, is highly regarded by both management and . labor, groups, Salem . Portland Baker Max. Mia. . 41 27, . 42 33 . : " s Medford . S3 28 North Bend . 59 39 Roseburf 52 32 Saa Franeiaco 50 35 Chlcaao 28 18 New York' 34 28 Los Aagelei ; B S3 Willamette tUvtr 1.1 feet. Predp, .00 .00 ! M , j00 XO M " , Jl . ". ! .09 .00 Bacl By Vote To Start v . . . ... 5th VBay Today CLEVELAND UT) Dri Samuel Sheppard's murder trial jury Mon day night asked for more time to deliberate on his life or death, it was j learned from a ) reliable source. . ' - The request shelved for the time being any plan to discharge the Jury.' , Common Pleas Judge: Edward Blythin sent a note up to the jury room, about 10 p. m., EST, it was learned. The substance Of it was inquiry whether the jury an thought it could make any progress if it continued deliberations or PARIS tfl - The French :'N- wheth' ft was hopelessly dead- tional Assembly gave- Premier,,ocea-, ... i . .. . Pierre Mendes-France a vote of The jury sent back word that it confidence on his Indochina poli-wantM ,rnore Hme' according to cies Monday and then plunged into qualified informant : debate on German rearmament . , The Premier won the Assem- VWSL I' 7vn.nllS bly s backing on the Indochina is-i mu;- Mn hAm th. k . r tin tn nmn-HUOSe BIythm sent them to the mT: :;f;Kuu!hotel for the fourth night m a row UIV lllttJVl MKJ Vf Od VV11UUI WUIVt alt marked , a continuation of the steady drop in popularity which Mendes-France has been suffering in the Assembly since the conclu- without any comment whatsoever on the message exchange. At that point the jury had been out 84 hours and 10 minutes. a -I a ' A 1 a. al sion of the indochinese ce! SS Dr. Samuel Sheppard, the 30- ! The issue Monday never had been considered" a danger for Mendes-France. His enemies are anxious for him to be saddled with responsibility for pushing through the German rearmament agree ments. His biggest bloc of enemies, the deputies of the Popular Republi- year-old osteopath on trial on a charge of first-degree murder in the July 4 slaying of his pregnant wile, Marilyn, entered the court room to confront the jury again Monday night as he must each time the jury leaves the building. His face was flushed and he can Movement announced they ( clasped his hands nervously in were abstaining from the confi-i front of him as he sat awaiting dence tote so that the treaty de bate should not be delayed. Paul-Henri Teitgen. the party spokesman; warned that the ab stention - "signifies defiance." The first part of the Assembly's work on the German rearmament question was formal presentation of committee reports. the jury's arrival. He licked his hps repeatedly. High Tension Tension had mounted during the evening and the courtroom was packed in expectation of some dra matic development when the jury appeared. I ! The expectations had been based on a conference earlier in the day After the committee reports are; ti..,v.: j tJ- deputies probably will be called ; tiMk K Q,uP iT,ki ZaU- wiiti ""at Judge Blythin would ask the cedural question which will give. ro Haw 'Swn. Bhnnt ihm lift tadication of bow i7Zttr: ' nilgni gO. TVtm nnt. tho infnnn.iit aiA XUIO IlllKUh VU1I1C uu a IIIUUUU for adoption of a national defense committee report recommending postponement of the debate. After that, general .debate can get un der way. Some 30 to 40 orators are expected to give their views. CHICAGO Mrs. Dorothy -Martin, prophet of doom for mil lions: remained calm Monday on the eve of the cataclysm she says will befall the continent u Mrs. Martin, who lives in suburban Oak Park, predicted last September that water would engulf much of the land between the Arctic Circle and the Gulf of Mexico Dec. 21. She said also that the West Coast will be submerged from Seattle to Chile. "There has been no change in my original prophecy, she said "But we are awaiting further word." ' ' ' J Mrs. Martin declined to predict what she will be doing Tuesday. But, she told a reporter, "I will be tomorrow, I have assurance of being. I am making no plans and formulating no ideas." Visiting Mrs. Martin Monday was Dr. Charles Laughead. whose ac ceptance of her prophecy led to loss of his job on the student health staff of Michigan State College, Dr. Laughead made only this comment to a newsman who tele phoned him. "I have nothing more to predict If I have anything else to say, I'll send it over , to you." Anthony J. Mullaney, Chicago civil defense chief, reminded Chi cago I residents that' the city's 86 air raid sirens will go into their 1 weekly test wails at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday regardless of cata clysms. -'.' There was no slackening of the pre-Christmas shopping rush in donwtown stores as Mrs. Martin's deadline approached. The restau rants reported no noticeable. slack ening of diners appetites. Coast Guard, fire department po lice and utilities officials said that they, expected the usual run of emergencies and were ready for them. Reminders of Mrs. Martin s prediction, nowever, brought re actions ranging from the non-com- mital to the indignant. One waitress, asked what she thought of the prediction, respond ed: "You don t see me climbing no steeples. ; What will Mrs. Vartin feel if the cataclysm fails to come off? My faith will not be shaken" she said. ) Russ to Scrap British Pact if delivered Monday night io the jury was the first prod it has received since it started deliberations atj 10:13 a. m. Friday, r Soon after the conference, Judge Blythin was asked how long he was willing to let the deliberations continue. Ha. replied: "I have not set any deadline. Tho jury has not dropped a sin gle hint how its deliberations are progressing. . , Sep MOSCOW I! Soviet Russia informed Britain Monday it will scrap the British-Soviet Mutual Assistance Treaty of 1942, a pact that still has eight years to run, if ratification of the Paris agree ments to rearm West Germany is completed. j ' The warning came in a formal note delivered by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to British Ambassador Sir William Hayter at the j Soviet Foreign Of fice. ! " France got a similar note from 'The crash occurred at the infer tile Russians last Thursday con-1 section of Pine and Broadwar cerning a matching- treaty, the streets. 1 , rench-Soviet Mutual Aid Pact of. Hospital attendants said Olsen 1944. I The note charged that "by be coming a participant in the Paris was also injured in the accident agreements, Britain has grossly; but was released after spending violated her commitments as an two weeks in the hospital ally under the Anglo-Soviet ; treaty Olsen's death was Marion Coun- . ! jty's 21st traffic fatality during II accused the Churchill govern-' 1954. ment of following a policy, which Born March 20, 1884, in Wil was "openly directed against the low Lake. S D. Olsen moved to U.S.S.R and jother peace loving1 Oregon in 1942. He had been states." ! ; I custodian of the Keizer School since 1944. His home was at 2485 Chemawa Rd. 1 - He was a member of St Mark's Lutheran Church. Survivors in clude the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Harvey. Holtzkamp, Salem, and Mrs. Harold Burr, Faulkton, S. D.; a son, Alvin Olsen, Marti nez, Calif.; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. CufiAil aiirimai orill Via h Isf Approximately 200,000 Christ-L, m- ,m wMtn.H in h u. cua er pieces oi, clough.Barrick ChapcL with the Alsop Reports on Trip Dohind Red Lines in Indochina - Correspondent Joseph Alsop, whose columns along with those of his brother Stewart appear regularly on the editorial pages of The "Statesman, recently spent three days behind the "Bamboo Curtain" in Indochina observing "how the Communists are running their most recently conquested country. In an article on the editorial page of today's Statesman, he tens, how rapidly the Reds are consolidating their gains. is account gives American readers their first glimpse at bow the Red "Committee of the South" turned a small supply of Japanese, guns and a treasury of $3 into eventual victory over the French. fc-7- f 1 Injuries Fatal To Keizer Man - , - : l A Keizer man who had been unconscious for 103 1 days died Sunday night in a Salem hospital. The victim was Oscar Martin Olsen, 70, who was hospitalized Sept 7 after a collision between his car and an ambulance en route to the scene of another accident. 21 had never regained consciousness. His wife, Mrs. Bessie Olsen, 66. Peak of Yule MaU Floods Post Office mail were mailed Monday in Sa lem Post Office's annual "biggest day." ' i : - . Scores of regulars and substi tutes worked steadily at the maze of tables, boxes and machines to keep up with the flow of mail in side the post office. On Sunday, when the late rush began, they cleared all 72,000 pieces of mail which came to the post office. . Through the day Monday, car- Rev. John Cauble officiating. Bu rial will be in the Restlawn Ceme tery. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers contribu tions be made to the St Mark's building fund. STILL. MOONSHINE FOUND PORTLAND m A 40-gallon still and 30 gallons of moonshine found at Hermiston Sunday led to . . r . ti : rir war mat-ins lv,iK1. fin. airCSl W SUI.U3 IU. romd mil, a. W.?-m . -VIe taps Lt Gordon McReary of the State around their routes and a sepa-"' rTniL ZZZ7 XZ Z rate crew was delivering pack ages, j The tabulation of cancellations at Salem Post Office is running several thousand ahead of last year's December totals. Postmaster Albert Gragg said fiublic cooperation had been good n the matter of sorting their Christmas cards for city and out-of-town mailing. This speeded the handling of the mail considerably. Liquor Commission charged with unlawful sale and transpor tation of whisky. ; POPE PLANS MESSAGE VATICAN CITY-1 Pope Pius XII will give a ' Christmas Eve message and blessing to the world by radio,' but because of illness will forego delivering his annual appeal for peace for the first timer j Today's Statesman SECTION. 1 I " "Ueneral news .Ljl 2, 3, 5 Editorials, features 4 Society, women's news 8-7 SECTION 2 ! V Sports -1 1-3 Radio, TV i - 4 Comics .4- Star Gazer U --.5 VaUey news ..U 5 Classified ads ... ; 6-7 X-word puzzle .-1- J,..- 6 Markets . i 5 Christmas Story i 8 1