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Soviet Plans Dramatic Disavowal of Treaties jWith England, France MOSCOW (iP) The Soviet Union's ruling Council of Ministers .asked Parliament Saturday to scrap Russia's treaties of friend ship and alliance with Britain and France-. The move was in retalia tion for ratification by, those nations of the Paris agreements re arming West Germany.- : : . . . There is no question Parliament, the Supreme Soviet, will take Easter marks the culmination of the story of Jesus and is the cli max of the year for the Christian church. Like Christmas its reli gious significance is offset by tin , related symbols: Santa Claus for 9tV?l'ugjJbJlr w . TOUur T ish Parliament approved the Paris ever, that Easter is recognized as " mu' . . kt:Z rL?igreeme providuig for remili- "ILfSLJS? rl ChJ" tarization of Western Geonany and tian churches are filled to over- i,,,.i,,4 i --nu---, flowing. The gospel narratives tJT?l?L ? JL ?S the death and resurrection of Jesus are recited. Choirs sing Allelluias of rejoicing: and folk leave the churches uplifted in spirit some of them not to return until next Easter. v. - - . Many writers have noted the late revival of interest in religion. Some account for it by the portents of the times. The world is passing through a fresh time of troubles. The material abundance which people enjoy today does not sub due their fears. As knowledge, of the potential of new , weapons spreads there is nothing of brava do, no "eat, drink and be merry complex though death may ride jn tomonw's bomber. Folk are taore sober. . Some religious leaders, however, regard this revival of religion as rather superficial; an eagerness to get God on one's side rather than to range one's self on God's side. Religion, church membership have (Continued on editoral page 4). Russia Seeks Fast Action on na - MOSCOW I The Soviet-Union declared Saturday it considers un justified any further delay in an Austrian independence treaty andi expressed hope the visit here next week of Chancellor Julius Raab will promote a speedy conclusion of the long-delayed treaty. Apparently taking note of a dec laration on Tuesday by the three Western powers that the Austrian treaty .was matter of four-power concern!" Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov called in the dip lomatic representatives of the United States, Britain and France and presented them identical state ments. These said the Soviet Union took ' into consideration that Austrian officials have exchanged opinions on the treaty with the Western powers since the four-power for eign ministers', conference in Ber lin early in 1954. i "The Soviet Union expresses the hope that in case there is a desire on the part of all states concerned. It will be possible to achieve an agreement' for the conclusion of an Austrian state . treaty," , the statements added. ' At the Berlin conference the Rus sians linked withdrawal of troops with the conclusion of -a peace treaty for Germany. Saturday's statement to the Western powers said the Russians had proposed at Berlin "to return not later than in 1933 to the exami nation of the question regarding the time of withdrawing the troops of the four powers from Austrian territory. Diamond Lake Resort Owner Dies of Stroke ASHLAND "to William Emerson Fox, 48, operator of the Diamond Lake resort, died Saturday. He had suffered a stroke last Sunday. Surviving are the widow, and a daughter, Toby Kay Fox. Funeral services will be held here Tuesday. Treaty Russ Teenager Tires of Defection' In West, J oins Parents in East Reich By TOM REEDY BERLIN UP A- Russian teen-j ager feted t for three . weeks by American officials as an anti-Communist defector voluntarily re turned to his parents Saturday, spouting Soviet" slogans, Valery Lysikov, son of a Soviet lieutenant colonel, was reunited with his father and mother at U.S. high' commission headquarters here at noon. He hugged and kissed them, whispered in his mother's ear, and was "promptly whisked to East Berlin.. The four-minute ceremony cli maxed a strange flip-flop story that .aroused the Soviet, Union to the point. where Foreign Minister V. M. . Molotov ; personally inter vened with a demand for the boy's return, charging the Americans would not let him go- , Lysikov, admittedly in trouble in his school at Soviet headquarters in . East" Berlin, crossed, into the U. S. sector March 18. A week later, his parents came to see him but he. refused all their entreaties to return to them,'- He claimed he could not stand the action promptly in a special session to dramatize the cancel lation. The treaties were signed during World War. II when the three governments were - allied against Hitler ' - Saturday's announcement, ' read at a news conference; asserted the Paris agreements bring West Ger many into an alignment directed against Russia. Opposes Alliance , It said that by signing the friend ship treaties, Britain, France and Russia "took responsibility to pre vent the rebirth of German mil itarism and also not to join any alliance directed against one of the contracting powers'."' - "Regardless of this," the decla ration added, "the government of Great Britain signed and the Brit i?""'" viet Union An identical charge was directed against France. Not Surprised British and French officials ex pressed little surprise at the - an nouncement. State Department re action tin Washington also was calm. In efforts to delay or defeat ratification of the Paris agree ments, Russia first threatened last December to abrogate the friend ship and alliance treaties. - Folsbm Adds Police in Strike Violence Zone ATLANTA W The Alabama State Patrol and courts of three states moved Saturday against mass picketing in an effort to halt violence in the strike of Southern Bell Telephone Co. workers. . Gov. James Folsom refused to send the National Guard to Bes semer, Ala., a suburb of Birming ham, but he reinforced the State Highway Patrol with orders to pro tect lives but "not to take sides." At the same time, courts in Birmingham, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Asheville, N.C., issued in junctions limiting picketing by strikers. , Meanwhile, in Atlanta, the South ern Bell , Telephone Co., said it ! had offered a $6,500,000 pay In crease and called on strikers to return to their jobs. Reports of new outbreaks of Vio lence and property damage came from Clinton. Tenn., and Paris, Ky., and in Nashville, Tenn., com pany officials announced discharge of 19 strikers for "misconduct and violence toward non-striking work ers." Sheriff Holt McDowell and Major Jap Bryant asked Folsom for tional Guardsmen. The governor, in refusing, de clared he did not intend to use the militia "as "a strike breaking organization. Toronto Girl's TORONTO Hi A body believed to be that of 8-year-old Judy Car ter, missing from her home here for 43 days, was found floating in a stream Saturday. Police Chief Clarence Wideman of Markham Township, where the discovery was made by two boys fishing in a tributary of the Rouge River, said tentative identification had been made from clothing on the body. The girl is believed to have been the victim of a sex crime. 4 DIE IN PLANE CRASH NORFOLK, Va. HI A Navy seaplane crashed into a seawall shortly after takeoff here early Saturday and broke in half, killing four members, of its 11-man crew. The other seven were hurt but not seriously. Communism 'anymore because it taught "hatred of other people." U.5.- High Commissioner James B Conant refused Soviet High Commissioner Georgi M. Pushkin's demand , for return of the boy, whom the Russians called "imma ture."' Molotov took it up, with Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen in Moscow. American "psychological war fare" people held Lysikov in Frankfurt, took him around to see his pet subjects, airplanes and automobiles, got him to broadcast anti-Soviet speeches on the Yoke of America, gave him a ride on a Rhine River boat, squired him to teen-age dances and to a Marilyn Monroe movie.' The bubble burst along about All Fools' Day. The next day Lysikov became moody. After he was , shown the text of a Radio Moscow charge that he had been held by the Americans against his will, he ex pressed concern for the welfare of his parents.' i ' : ''- ; He waited until the 5th to ten the Americans he wanted to talk to Body Found .. . . . ' t . .--: . - . . i ' : . . 105th Year Knight Errant In Plane Finds Lady in Distress BOWMAN, N. D. JP Chiv alry is not dead. It's merely taken to the air Mrs. Ole Septon stopped her car on a highway near here with a flat tire. " : As she grappled with the tire, other motorists whizzed past, plying her no mind. Not so with Alfred Miller, flying his light - plane ' over head. He landed nearby, helped her change the tire and then took off. again. Senate Votes $10 Increase In Jobless Pay By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City 'Editor, The Statesman The Oregon Senate by a pre liminary vote Saturday indicated it is prepared to approve raising unemployment payments and boosting employer taxes to finance the change . Senators debated for. an hour and a half over how much to in crease the present maximum weekly payment of $25. Then they voted by 21 to 8 to set the figure in the proposed new law at $33. This would up payments to eli gible workers about 40 per cent end raise the employers tax about 50 per cent on the average. Final Senate action on the Sen ate bill proposing the $10 increase will come Tuesday morning. It is one of the major pieces of legisla tion facing this session of the State Legislature. Minority Report The action yesterday ' was the acceptance of the report of a min ority of the Senate committee on labor and industry, spearheaded by Sen. S. Eugene Allen (R), Port land. The. committee majority recommended holding the1 maxi mum payment to $32. Besides the $33 maximum, these are principal features of the bill: 1 Covers nearly 30,000 more employes in firms hiring fewer than, four persons. - ; 2 Permits workers to draw un employment and still earn up to one-third as much as their UCC benefit weekly. ; .4 . . K 3 Tightens up rules to allow only, half-payments to those who quit work, are fired for cause or refuse to accept offered jobs. 4 Removes, from coverage an estimated 15,000 seasonal workers by requiring that earnings be more than $600 a year and that they he more than one and a half tunes the highest amount earned in any quarter. , Contribution Raised ". 5 Employers contribution rate stepped up by .3 of 1 per cent. 6 Unemployment fund stabilized by " requiring automatic raise of employers rates when fund falls to certain level. i Sen. Allen argued that it wouldn't be fair to tighten up the unem ployment law to the extent of this bill if it weren't accompanied by a substantial increase m payments to qualified workers who are out of jobs. Higher Taxes Sen. Gene Brown (R), Grants Pass; opposed the $35 pay on grounds that it would quicken the time all employers would have to pay even higher taxes than the increase in the bill now. Sen, George Ulett (R, Coquille, chairman of the committee which drafted the bill after studying six proposed bills on the subject, said he thought even $32 was too high for payments. . Voting against the $33 report Saturday were Sens. Harry Boivin (D), Klamath Falls; Lee Ohm art (R), Salem; Truman Chase (R) and Donald Husband (R), Eugene; Stewart Hardie (R), Condon; Carl Francis (R), Dayton; Brown and Ulett Sen. Mark Hatfield (R), Salem, was absent. (Additional legislative news on Page 3,.See. 1.) . i! t the Soviet Military Mission. He was allowed to write a letter to the mission asking 5for the right to return. The State Department in Wash ington agreed and the high com mission here emphasized that Ly sikov was free to go just as he was free to, receive asylum in the West American spokesmen insisted at a news" conference: 1. Lysikov had convinced Ameri can intelligence interrogators of his maturity and . sincerity when he defected. Afterward, he . con vinced them equally of his fear for his parents safety and his con viction that he ..would not suffer reprisals, if he: returned. 2. Future cases involving defect ing minors will be dealt with "on their individual merits.: . . 3. Lysikov was -"not. an agent planted on the West to embarrass the Americans. ! ' A spokesman said he. felt the American position in granting asy lum and just as promptly acceding to the youth's wish to return after he changed "his mind was consist ent 3 SECTIONS-32 PAGES It "Ha " ' . ' "i " TP! - To Catnadiaii Mid-Valley, Churches to Celebrate Easter Message Today 0 V '" 1 ' - -:-'. " 'j ;h ; 1 : ri - I i;-: mm h ? 1 1 :: : .... -; V.; 'f : i - j j t - I : i n I . ' ."."! ; '! '.; IP' . :'r :m 'a by- i:n( The holy observance' of Easter, Resurrection, will be 'observed id mid-Willamette vauey com munities today in harmony with churches the world ever. Shown here is the Easter morning Holy Encharist service which will State Primary BallotDelay Wins in : Holding Oregon primary elec tions a month later received the approval of the State Senate Sat urday. . The bill proposing that the pri mary, be held on the fourth Tues day m June now goes to the House. Another feature of the measure is electing the precinct committeemen for both - parties at the general election instead of the primary. The six Democrats in the Sen ate. Voted against the bill; all the Republicans were for it : Sen. Pat Lonergan (R), chair man of the elections committee of the Senate and sponsor, of the bill, said the cha-ge would short en the time and save expense of campaigns for the general elec tion. The primary now is in May. The Democrats contended that by late June vacations and farm work would keep many people from the polls and this, in turn. would add to the number re moved from pollbooks for the general election for not voting jn two. successive elections. Sheriff Quits At Rosebui'2 i. ' -ROSEBURG W Sheriff Calvin Baird. who took office in 1933 after four years , as Roseburg chief of police, submitted His resignation Saturday. It will become effective April 18. Baird said he will return to the federal Bureau of Prisons, the aeencv he was with for several years in the late 1930s and early 1940s. . . Today's Statesman Sec Page Classifieds lllLi'Ml Comes the Dawn L , 4 Comics .... ..... HI Crossword ... II 4 Easter Page II 8 .Editorials . lJ 4 Garden .. . tL 6,7 . Homo Panorama; 11 1-5 legislative L . 3 Sports . . LS, 9 f Star Gaxer II . 6 I TV; Radio ' II 9 Valley, I 10 POUNDDD 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Salem, limn bearing thev message ef Christ's en An egg hunt for the kiddies, a union sunrise service at McCul loch Stadium and traditional obser vances in countless churches will commemorate Easter today in the Salem area. : . '.. As is customary, milady -will ap pear in her annual finery and the man ' in the , family may be .'ex, pected to spruce up a bit also. Numerous family ' gatherings win marh the Iay. ', ' ' . , ' Although there, had been ; pre dictions for scattered showers for Easter, the latest report indicated it would be cloudy today but no rain was mentioned. State police said they expected increased traffic on highway routes of the area, but nothing compar able with . the congested holiday weekends of the summertime. Some 10,000 candy eggs will be the quarry for hundreds of youngs ters expected to participate in the annual Salem 20-30 Club Easter egg hunt at WiUson Park today. The hunt will begin at 2 p. m. at the west end of the CapitoL - Participants in the hunt wiu be divided . into two age divisions 6 years and younger and 7 to 11 The younger group will hunt their eggs on the south side of Willson Park m center sidewalk and the older youngsters will search on the north .side. Prizes will go to those finding specially-marked eggs. To Start at C A. M. The sunrise service, sponsored by the Salem Ministerial Associa tion, will begin at 6 a. m. at Me CuOoch . Stadium. - Dr. Edison . mr ... . t ' ' tiaoegger. van xyups, uui., evan gelist will present the message to an expected large turnout of worshippers. Station KSLM will air the service. . ' ; Other groups taking part in this morning's sunrise event will in clude a unit of the 162nd Infantry, National Guard, presenting colors; the Salem Academy choir, direct ed by John Eby: and Boy Scouts of Salem Troop 1, who. will act as ushers.: . j ' Other Sunrise Services . - : Many churches in the area will hold their own individual sunrise services followed by traditional Easter breakfasts and other rites throughout - the day. Special sun-i rise services are - scheduled at churches in Turner, j Hopewell, Lyons, Falls City, Unionvale, Rose dale,- Silverton and other mid- valley communities.' - The Salvation Army organixatidb m Salem will have Brigadier James Fookes, Portland, as speak er; at special morning and eve ning services. A Sunday School pro gram will start at 9:45 av m. An Sunrise Op Day Oregon, Sunday, April 10, 1955 .Brit Tow: take place this morning at St Minister is the Rev. George Swift, pastor. Acolytes are (from left) William Crandall, William Purvine, Thomas Dunham, David Perry, Thomas QeltxeL and Bingham PowelL (Statesman photo) - Service to Easter , cantata,' . ""The. - Saviour Lives" will: be presented at 7:30 p. m. The high school , group at First Congregational Church will hold an Easter breakfast this morning after - attendance at the .McCul loch Stadium services. , EMPTYING HOPE. CHEST EPHRATA (UP) Radio sta tion KULE Friday received this ad for its "shop and swap", pro gram: "For sale-One ; beautiful white satin wedding gown, size 10. Never been used, t Max. Min. Preclp. Salem ' ' as .14 Portland ' Events 53 t9 .42 65 39 trace 58 49 .10 53 - .07 60 49 .07 65 i 46 .trace 74 ' 40 .00 59 40 .00 71 49 . .00 Baker Medf ord North Bend Roseburg .... San Francisco Chicago New York Los Angeles Willamette Hiver 4J feet FORECAST from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): F-rtly" cloudy today, clearing to night and Monday. A little warmer with a high of 60-62 today: Monday. KS-es. ixw tonight 32-34 with local frost. Temperature at 12:01 a. m. today was 41. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 Tali Year - Last Year Normal 25.03 .i 40.78 ' ; 343 of Wrangle May Cheek U. S. Gtizensliip for Churchill WASHINGTON UP) Congres sional proposals to grant Sir Wins ton Churchill honorary U.S. citizen ship' might- do more harm than good, administration officials said Saturday. -.- . ! - ' They were far from opposed to the idea of this nation's showing its appreciation for Churchill's services to the free world during his long career But there were definite : misgivings about' risking legislative debates and a possible legal inquiry by the Supreme Court into the constitutionality of any move to give Churchill citizenship. "What everybody has in mind is something like giving Churchill the keys to the city on a grandiose scale,? one informant said. "That would be safer (than the citizen ship move.) Tt would be too bad to start a big controversy that could wind up embarrassing Churchill." Sen. - George A. Smathers (D- Fla) and Rep. Hale.Boggs (D-La) have announced plans to Introduce legislation - to grant : the former PRICE 10c Joyous Isolated Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem oyment Rise Below tation The Spring employment pick up in the state generally was be low expectations, the 'Oregon State Employment Service said Saturday. Cool weather was listed as' a contributing factor as it held back expansion in various industrial fields. How ever, said officials, employ ment in Marion and Polk" Coun ties was comparable to March of 1954. . The cool, wet weather held down seasonal agricultural , ac tivity to a point where placement of agricultural workers by the Salem office was 65 per cent be low March of last year. Estimated unemployment in Marion and Polk Counties was 4,200 in March, comparable to the same period : last year but about 100 under February 1955 figures. Unemployment was found chiefly in food processing, lum ber, logging and construction fields. CHILE BLAST KILLS 10 CONCEPCION. Chile un Ten persons were killed and 12 injured Saturday by a black damp explo sion in a coal mine. British prime minister honorary citizenship. The Library of Congress has no record of any previous- congres sional action to grant honorary cit izenship to a foreigner. , , The State Department, officials said, isn't taking any initiative one way or the other on the citizen ship - for - Churchill campaign. ; If the questioners say that a pre cedent was set in the case of the Marquis De LaFayette, they are told they are wrong. It is pointed out that . the French hero, who fought on the side of the colonies during the Revolutionary War, be came a citizen . when . the Consti tution was adopted. This happened only .because Maryland and .Vir ginia previously - had voted La Fayette state citizenship. When the two states entered the union under the Constitution LaFayette auto matically became a VS. citizen. But the Congress never voted him citizenship of any kind. - - Jbimpl Expec in i vvv No. 14 Easter 19 Days Priest Hero Of Snou bound ST. HTLAIRE DE DORSET. Que. HI The isolation of St. Hilaire ended Saturday when a big bulk dozer cut a path through 18-foot snowdrifts to this hunger-threatened village. ; The village of 265 persons, 7S miles south of Quebec, had been snowbound 19 days. The arrival of the bulldozer and a convoy of jeeps meant a joyous Easter. St. Hilaire has no stores, no baker, no butcher, no doctor. The villagers were short, of ra tions, cattle and horses. were go- ing without feed, and farmers were considering butchering their live stock when the relief column broke through the nine-mile .road from St Evariste, the nearest railroad station. The hero of the long siege was the parish priest, the Rev. Armand Germain, who sent out the IcaU for help to the provincial high-' ways department last Thursday. Father Germain had been shar ing his supplies with mothers of eight or more children whose hus bands were away in the many sugar camps of the area 40 miles north of the U. S. border. But his reserves were about exhausted. St. Hilaire -depends upon St Evariste for its supplies, but 20 days ago ; a swirling blizzard dumped great mounds of snow on the nine-mile lifeline. All travel except on snowshoes became , im possible, j Contractor Henri - Paul Gilbert, who sent two bulldozers into ac tion Friday morning after the call for help, said "Neither. I nor my men have stopped working since." Seven Children DieinTacoma House Fire TACOMA tn -- Seven- children who never had a prayer's chance of escaping" perished in a flash fire which swept, through their 2 story frame house "early . Saturday while the mother of six of them was away at a show. - ; i The flames which raced through the structure so rapidly neighbors were helpless to even attempt a rescue wasbelieved to have start- . ed in overheated wiring in a kitch- ' en refrigerator. Hours later, how ever, other , possible - causes , still were being' sought (' Six of the victims were children . ef Mrs. Jean McCarley, 28, who returned home while the blaze was at .its peak. They were Nancy. 12; Thomas, 11; Cyndia, 9; DarelJ, 8; Susan 3, and Magnus, 8 months. The seventh victim was James '. Clifton, 15, brother of Mrs. 'Me-' - ; i i i i i . vu icy wuu Udu utxil icu lu uaujr sit while the mother attended , drive-in theater with a man friend. . The father of the children, Win fred A. McCarley, lives; in San Diego, j Calif. He and the mother have been estranged three years.1 intense Heat The fire was discovered by a neighbor at 12:45 a. m., -already blazing at inferno intensity. Police who arrived at the scene a few minutes later said the heat was so intense they could not get with in five feet of the building. Mrs. McCarley told officials she had left the; house about 9 p. m., feeling the older children could "take care of things." She was lodged in Tacoma city jail for questioning. Later, the dry-eyed mother said . t i ... n .nw- ne rciuiucu ui sec iuc uuB9 anu police cars in front of her home. No Answers , 'I went down and asked ' what happened and nobody would an swer me, she told Captain of po licewomen Myrtle Van Bevers. Mrs. McCarley said she knew then that her children and brother had died in the fire. There was nothing ; in it for me," the woman toio miss van r Bevers. "I ; turned around and' walked away." " . She was asked about attending the funeral. ; I don't think I will, she an swered. "I don't believe in fun erals. I will let tbeir father handle that. . - Then she added: "I want to think of my children as they were when. I walked cut of the door last night so happy. Frost Forecast ' Ujf VT CillJUCl illCH Local frost is' predicted for" to night by , McNary . Field weather men who, however, forecast warm er daytime temperatures for to- dav ' and Mondav Toniffht'a low will be about 32-34. -: - Today , is ' to be partly- cloudly but it's expected to be clear to night and Monday. ..I ' Today's high is 'expected to be 60-62; Monday's, 63-65. Quebec Sie