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4 Sc. 2V-Statsman, Salem, Ore., Sunday, Aug. 21, 1935 Russians Reveal Plans to 3 U. S. Prisoners Release WASHINGTON UD Soviet Rus-! ia notified the United States Sat urday she is releasing three more Americans, two on demand and a third voluntarily. The two being freed by request of the Stat Department are Army privates who have been missing Jot more than seven years. They "were listed as Wilfred C. Cumish of Amesbury. Mass., and Murray Fields, of Bayside. N. Y. The Army said Cumish and Fields, the latter also known as Murray Feingersch, are classed en Liquor Probe Report Made By Patterson I ! (Story also on page 1) Gov. Paul Patterson issued t!itmnt Saturday detailing recent liquor commission investi gation and subsequent report, which Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton has declared was not made public in all important parts. The governor's statement follows: "Let's get the facts straight. Ttie linnnr investigation originated with reports to me that an employe of . . - - -r - ' i i the I Oregon uquor umxui vtmi mission had stated that if he were t?ken care of. he could be of as sistance in an official capacity to a distiller's representative. One report mentioned a figure of $10,-1 000. Ordered Probe "I immediately ordered an in vestigation outside of the Liquor Commission itself. Robert Maguire vas chosen to head the investiga tion because his reputation for in tegrity and ability could not be questioned by any sincere person. He accepted the request as a pub lic service and refused any com pensation. "Maguire spent weeks in care ful and thorough investigation of the charge but was unable to find sufficient evidence to sustain the alleged misconduct. Evidence Found "In the course of this investiga- tion, evidence came to light that two employes of the Liquor Com mission might have received pay ment for travel expenses to Seat tle from liquor interests. Mr. Maguire and Mr. Eobbitt put at the , disposal of Mr. Woodworth, Mr.i Thornton's Assistant Attorney General assigned to the Liquor Commission, the transcripts cover ing this conduct by these employes and also reported the same to me. These men were promptly suspend ed 4 at my direction. Mr. Wood wortn, toe Assistant Attorney Gen eraJL; then prepared a notice of suspension against the two em ployes and later presented the case to the Civil Service Com mission on behalf of the Liquor Commission, which, had suspend ed the two employes. As a result thereof, the employe, who had ap pealed, was ordered reinstated. General Practices "At my direction, Mr. Maguire its records as deserters and they will be subject to arrest and trial upon their return to American custody. Third I'nknowi The third man being released. identified by the Soviet Foreign Office as Frederick Charles Hop kins, was not known by the State Department from available rec ords. The Soviets simply said a man by this name will be freed along with the two soldiers whose return had been requested by this coun try in a note July 16. In the past several years the Soviets have released five Ameri cans on specific demand. , The Army said Cumish and Fields were absent without leave when they disappeared behind the Iron Curtain in 1948. Deserters Army officials said in the cases of some other men who have been listed as absent ; without leave along the Iron Curtain, the Army has merely dropped them from the rolls of active duty after they have been missing for 30 days. In the case of Cumish and Fields, however, they said, infor mation received from American military authorities in Europe in dicated both men left their units deliberately and their local com manders had classified them as deserters. The Army said when the two are turned over to American au thorities they will be subject to the customary investigation mat will determine whether their al leged offenses are serious enough to warrant courts martial.- Pevastation Marks Tlood Area P I 1 . 'j'v';."-"'1 lr -mT": s" . " U.S. Readies Arms Secrets Swap Policy Salem Man, 71, Tours Europe With Cyclists WOONSOCKET, R. I., Ang. 20 The downtown section of this tity looked like Wis arter tne worse hA nm lrnki last nifht under pressure irom tne rising waiera or me uiacitsiojie iuver. mm ber from nearby yard caused damage to cars in foreground while street still has several feet of water. (AP Wirephoto) Freed Flier Said En Route To Portland RED BLUFF, Calif. Ufi Daniel Schmidt stopped off at a nearby mountain resort Saturday while on the way to visit his mother at Portland, Ore., but reportedly left again later in the day. The airman, home after 32 months in a Chinese prison camp, filed suit for divorce Friday against una hchmidt-r me, con tending she was an unfit mother for their 2Vi-year-old son. After filing papers here at the Tehama County Courthouse, he moved on to the mountain resort with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Wal ter Ferguson. There was local rumors without any substantial confirmation that Schmidt, 22, was considering a reconciliation with Una, who has said she married logger Alford Fine, in the belief that Schmidt was dead. But Mrs. Ferguson said she had not heard Schmidt express any de sire for a reconciliation and the airman was noncommital to a newsman who talked with him. The divorce suit asked "control Northeast Staggering From 'Worst' Flood By THE ASSOOATED PRESS j Story also on page one.) Eight northeastern states Satur day night staggered under the worst flood in the history of the area. Early reports placed the death toll at 141 and damage is expected to run into billions of dol lars. 4 Gov. Abraham Ribicoff of Con- breaking to see the devastation." Evans Clinchy of The Hartford Times, the first newsman to reach tiny Winsted, Conn., said people were "wandering the streets, dazed." Every Store Every store front along the main street was smashed in and the street itself, normally a hard. necticut, after a personal tour of blacktop road, is now nothing but the worst-hit areas, said, it wm take a superhuman effort to re store this state to the condition it was in before the torrential rains struck. It has been absolutely heart- Two Hearings Scheduled on Ter Issue WASHINGTON Ut Two Senate subcommittees will hold a series of hearings next month on public and private power programs. Sen. O'Mahoney (D Wyo) announctd Friday. The hearings will be held jointly by the judiciary anti-monopoly a mass of twisted asphalt, concrete and broken pipe from the city's water system." The flood cut off the manufactur ing city of Waterbury, Conn., and killed 15 persons. ; At Putnam, in Northern Con necticut, a burning magnesium plant added sew fear to the horror of the raging Quineabaug and Franch rivers. v All night the plant burned fierce ly and blazing barrels of magne sium were swept through the flood ed streets, exploding continually like bombs. Terrible Damaee Flood Ordeal Described by One Survivor STROUDSBURG, Pa. Ml One of three survivors of a flood which wiped out a vacation camp Satur day and killed 37 persons de scribed her experience late Satur day night. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON Ifl The United States is prepared to let Russia make aerial photographs of its worldwide net of military bases if the Soviets will trade information of equal value to this country. The American position on this point has been developed in pre paration for the reopening Of dis armament negotiations between the Western powers and the Soviet Union, at Hew York on Aug. 29. The United States, Russia, Brit ain, Canada and France comprise a United Nations subcommittee charged with working out a global plan for controlling and reducing armaments and eliminating atom ic weapons from the arsenals of all nations. New Pnsb The work of the committee has been given a new forward push 'y last month's Big Four talks in Geneva and particularly by the spectacular proposal which Presi dent Eisenhower made to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. Eisenhower suggested that the United States and Russia . trade blueprints of military establish ments and permit each to make aerial photographs of the other s territory "from one end of our countries to the other." This Eisenhower proposal raised a big question which officials at Geneva never answered but which has now been answered by high authorities here. The question is whether the President's limitation of the ex change proposal to the territories of each country meant that he was deliberately excluding foreign bases. Exclusive Foreign Bases The answer now supplied is that he had to exclude overseas bases from his Geneva talk because they are on the territories of many oth er countries from Japan to Iceland and no reference could be made to them without consultation with those countries. The President's advisors did not want to consult for fear of tipping his hand and destroying the sur prise impact of the proposition he made. In principle, however, the ad ministration was not opposed to considering an information trade with Russia covering overseas bases. Equal Information It has now been decided that if the boviets are interested in a trade, and if they wish to get in formation about American bases Paul Deuber, a retired employe cf the State Highway Department, and at 71 still an active member ot the Salem Chemeketans, is on a trip to Europe he is a native Ot Switzerland. The Statesman has received a letter from him at Geneva describing his trip back to the land of his birth. He crossed the United States by bus, visited with relatives in Rhode Island and at Montreal. There he joined a hostel group who sailed from Quebec on a ship of the Greek line. Landing at Southhampton the party took to wcycies. Deuber writes: "The English landscape north and east toward London is very beautiful and there is not much evidence left of the bombing. While at Salisbury we visited the remains of what was evidently a worshipping place of a people who lived at Stonehenee 4.500 years ago. Great stones are stand ing upright ten to 15 feet high with stones almost as big on top ef them. During all our travels so far we noticed many buildings with straw roofs. Quite a differ ence between England and Swit zerland for instance where in the town where I was born 71 years ago no straw roofs were left at that time and only one covered by shingles, the rest all with tile or slate." Red Dean was. The hostel movement in my estimation is doing a great deal for everyone participating and will bring a greater understanding between nations. , Dueber adds a postscript that "On the 7th of August I noticed Norman Winslow's and Gus Moore's name on the register at the foot of the Matterhorn." River, Harbor GroiipUrged Funds Hike COOS BAY, Ore. () The Northwest Rivers and Harbors Congress Saturday urged an in crease in appropriations for river and harbor maintenance through out the nation of 15 million dol lars. This was one of 10 resolutions adopted by the group at its clos ing session here. The organization also voted to support only projects of national and regional status and to act as proponent only of those projects which have been studied by the Corps of Engineers. G. N. Palcott, Olympia. Wash., was elected president for the com ing year and his city was chosen "While admiring the cathedral in rantnrknrir wn maf iaiw in. S ,.,i;t - '....Jtor 1956 meeting. dressed in black, tall and had W. L. Williams, Portland, was black leggings from the knees!"!medT HJ&al. V th. dean of the calhedn.1 whkh 2""'?". l" Ci Mrs. Jennie Johnson of Jersey City, N. J.. who lost two boys in abroad they may do so provided the water, said: i they will give information of their aii 'own to the Lnited States and as suming the countries where the bases are located give their con sent. Decisions such as this one, offi cials said, are being made by the National Security Council, under the President's leadership, as de velopments in the disarmament planning require. was built in the 13th century. A great deal of the rock, the dean told us was brought on barges from Belguim and all the tall dark marble columns from Italy. After he left I quickly asked some body for the name of the dean r' r i t i m J U ..... i 01.WUU liiacu iiiu aancu. nave avvu uui heard of the famous Red Dean of Canterbury known in all the world for his Red leanings?" Visited Dover After a visit in London where Deuber found a niece who is a nurse in a hospital, the party bicycled to Dover, then took the Channel crossing on a day when the water was unusually calm. From Ostend they went to Bruges and on to Ghent and then to Brus sels. "From Brussels we took the traiu to Cologne in Germany. Here we were fortunate to find the big pest hostel yet and very excellent. On its walls the record said that it had been built by American money. It holds about 400. Only son, Everett, Wash.; L. C. Sher wood, Hood River; and N. R. Whitcomb, Willapa, Wash. Stanley R. Allyn, Newport, was elected president of . the Oregon State Port Authorities. Palcott will head the Washington group for a "My God it was terrible those children ; (she wiped away tears, choked momentarily and then went on). "It must be awful to drown. I went down, ' down and I guess I kept waving my arms trying to fight back to the surface. But I don't know what happened after that. All I know is that something must have hit me in the head .Jid knocked me out. Floating in Debris "When I came to I was floating on top of the water and there was unk all around me. and custody" of the son, Daniel Schmidt Jr. Una's attorney, Har- j subcommittee and the interior sub old Berliner Jr., said she would ! .nmmtttwi nn irrigation and recla- and Mr. Bobbitt, while making this ! contest the action for custody of ! mation. investigation, investigated the gen-(the child. The sessions will be held here, eral administrative practices of the Harold P. Welch, attorney tor'-n- ?t , nreonn t.iminr rntrd rmmic!non;.i eoM t, ,ij beginning aepi. 19, tion, in order to remove any pos-' divorce complaint on Una as soon! OMahoney, acting chairman ot sibility f complaint. In the coursers he could locate the 20-year-old i anti-monopoly subcommittee of this, there came to light the J wife. She was believed to be in and also a member of the interior HIM matter anrl tho matter nf 1 ih Cm Wo o I Committee. Said the maiOT SUb- gifts to the Commission members j Just where Schmidt stopped fori15 to be covered would include: the night was not known. Mrs. r rpposea merger 01 uie rug- Ferguson said he is "supposed to!" iouna ugnt rower w. wun be" on his way to visit his mother, ! the Washington Water Power Co., New York. Massachusetts, and suffered terrible damage from the! 1 grabbed a board, then gave it unprecedented deluge. Rural farm- uP fr a blSer. "ne ItTs?md land and populous Eastern cities ; l'ke j10"" fra?sed 1 alike felt the crushing force of the: Ja"""vu swift waters 1 Some municipalities were under! " co.nldn't s" an,th: ltKwasT civil defense or military jurisdic-'0 d.arlj: ,ut Vjttle blt11I jjon ; heard Beth (Beth Liddle, an 11- ! The problem of getting clean 1 ?'ear-ld irl wasT ,buT' water, food and necessities into I lowr camP w',hi L'd 1P" many stricken areas assumed ma- callin for h?lD- 1 could tell e ' ' i cause her voice was so close. JUS friujjui 11UIU, and certain employes. The results of this investigation were given to me and I in turn, took them up with the District Attorney of Mult nomah county. This information was also presented to the liquor Commission, Mr. Woodworth and to the Attorney General. Mr. Clos then resigned bu subsequently at tempted to withdraw his resigna tion and appealed to the Civil Serv ice Commission. The matter was presented before the Civil Service Commission, with Mr. Woodworth, the Assistant Attorney General, appearing on behalf of the Liquor Commission, and the Liquor Com tnission was sustained. No Secrets "There is no 'secret evidence and the public's business has been handled according to law by the agencies charged by law. The At torney General contended in effect that he could supercede the Gov ernor, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, the Civil Service Commission, and the District At- . torney of Multnomah County, and make his own investigations. He went to Court to prove his posi tion and was told by the Court that he was trying to usurp powers that were not his. "The District Attorney of Mult nomah county, the proper authority as I established by the Court, has had the fullest cooperation from me and my investigators with re spect to any possible violation of the criminal laws of the state of Oregon. I wish to reiterate that - there are no secret facts or hid den documents. The reports as they have been made? haw been placed before the Oregon Liquor Control Commission and the As sistant Attorney General assigned to them. Actions have been taken and all facts have been placed before the Civil Service Commis sion as required, Fall Cooperation Mrs. Nellie Peters. But Mrs. Fer guson would not say specifically where he was or even if she was certain he had left this area. Cijrar Chewing 'Aids Long Life' SEATTLE tfl Charles S. Otis, 100 years old Saturday, said the reason he has lived so long is. Because he ate so many cigars. "I've chewed them since I can remember. I think I started whematives and other non-profit organ I was two or three years old." he izations are given priority in pow said. er purchases through reclamation Otis, who was born in Beloit, and flood control laws. Wis. and has lived in Washington! 4. "The power partnership pro State more than 50 years, had a 'gram of the Eisenhower adminis- big birthday cake Saturday and itration, including its origin .and gilts of more cigars. i objectives." t t: J ..A T MAAAU.J ...A The 1st Army sent a fleet of nine . ."1" comb the submerged areas, pick ing up families still marooned. Hundreds Saved j Hundreds had been rescued by rowboat, Army amphibians and helicopters from deluged summer camps, villages and farms. i For each known victim of the flood, there were more missing both Washington State private util ities. 2. Circumstances surrounding the proposed federal construction of a high dam in Hells Canyon on the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon, and the licensing of Idaho n i l 1 t ' ... i 1 i rower co. Dy me reaerai roweriicw wnc nun. muii-viu udH0fh(r and cried everv time we Commission to build three dams fic accidents or electrocutions from ?l"e, na.J e J3. .-I .t! ,1 ......... .J , n i ileal u a v i i 1 1 i uiiicffiicic in uuwiicu (wwci liners. been cast up on a pile of debris that was tossed into a heap by the storm. It was like an Island of twigs, small branches, cans and 'other things and the two of us were on it. Could See Water "By this time my eyes were accustomed to the darkness and I could see the water. It was so NOT AS I DO MIDDLEOWN. Conn. (VP) I. Robert Traverse, a gun expert, was lecturing a high school as sembly on the dangers involved in handling firearms. A gun he was 'displaying accidentally dis charged. Traverse suffered a burned right hand. Sawyer Says Businessmen Ban Ridiculous WASHINGTON UPi A former Democratic Cabinet officer de nounced Friday what he called a "ridiculous outcry" against busi nessmen working - in government for free while drawing regular sal aries from private corporations. Chales Sawyer described Secre tav nf Commerce Weeks' Business cild water, but as we pay onlyHAdvjsory Council (BAC) as a group about 30 cents American money for overnight one can hardly ex pect more. The Cathedral was badly damaged during the war, but much of the damage has al ready been repaired. The Ger man I remembered came in very handy here and I could help out the rest whenever their vocabu lary fell short ... Young Interest "In all my travels so far I could not help but notice the keen interest of the hostelers, especially those under 20. Their eyes would just shine for the joy they experienced in their travels and everybody was glad to help and get along with whatever there of "wonderful people" performing "an unselfish and patriotic serv ice. Sawyer, who served as secretary of commerce under President Tru man, thus lined himself alongside hfs Republican successor in a de fense of government activities of the so-called WOCs. . The abbreviation stands for "without compensation" and refers ' to men who take unpaid federal advisory posts without giving up their private compensation. The average person who at tends a convention spends $93.69 in the convention city says the American Hotel Assn. n n 4 iin.niniinl.il fn. fn.t . IVtn auu uiiaiiuuiiicru iui. must ui mt; .. j . , 1.:.... ... .. t j . black and so terrible looking. deaths were from drownings. A ,.D T ... , , in the Hells Canyon area. 3. Past, present and contem plated policies of the Interior De partment with respect to the power preference clause in operations at federal hydroelectric . plants, whereby public agencies, cooper- Geneva A-Conf erence Ends;, Bulganin Sees Peace Hopes GENEVA ui - The first world-, wide conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy ended Sat urday with a prediction by Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin that its work will lead to a 'further re laxation of international tension." In a message to conference Pres ident Homi J. Bhabha of India, the Soviet leader agreed with an earlier expression from President Eisenhower that the exchange of information should be continued in future meetings. ! "It is the unanimous view of all concerned." Bhabha declared. tions Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commis sion, called it "one of the most .i . i: r i , 'Now that the District Attorney ' V'?1 succeeo- r.r Multnomah oountv has inHiraw;cu Be"DU au aos na Pia- bis desire to examine into these documents and facts, he will be givfn all cooperation and help. "As far as the Attorney General is concerned, I simply will not be a party to unauthorized investiga tion that the Attorney General may desire to make in Multnomah coun ty, in Lincoln county, or in any oth er county. I believe that the laws and statutes of Oregon should be followed by its public officials as well as enforced by them." wished to express regret over the The known death toll by states was: Pennsylvania. 74; Connecticut, 41; Massachusetts, 13: New Jer sey, 5: New York, 4; Virginia, 3; Rhode Island, 1. Lewis, Clark Fete Staged At Astoria ASTORIA, Ore. W Astoria distance crying for help. Some of them just screamed hysterically. And I could not tell" if any of the voices belonged to my own chil dren. "You can't guess how it feels to sit there and wonder whether your own are going to live or die. "Beth and I both wondered if we would live through the night but we didn't mention it to each other. We just prayed. "When day broke we couldn't see : anyone in the stream but at about seven o'clock some men came along the shore and saw us. "They went away at first but came back a few minutes later in fact that Red China and Commu- P31- the great-great-grandsons cf nist East Germany were not in-thc tw0 exPlorers, and Lydia Vited -rge, me g r c a i-gieai-gianu- "This discrimination is' in no daughter of Sacajawea. the Sho- way justified," he said, "and does shone Indian Girl who went mos.t not mntrihnto tn tho nnHor.tanHino of the distance with the expedi- . which developed during the meet- Saturday staged a three-hour pa-!a motorboat. They came back to wnere we were ana xook us to shore. "Firemen took us to the hospital but it was hours before I found out that Nancy (her own daughter) was safe. ' I "Oh God. if only I could have saved my boys. rade to honor the 150th anni versary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition which ended here in 1805. ! Meriwether Lewis and William ing of the four heads of govern ments in Geneva." Skobeltsyn also declared: 1. Russia has been working for some time on methods of harnes sing the energy of the H-bomb but there still is not enough data to tion, were honorary grand mar shals. I Gen. William F. Dean. Korean War hero, and admiral of the As toria regatta, led the procession which was seen by an estimated 23,000 to 30.000 spectators. Smoking 'Bomh' Causes Scare FRANKFURT, Germany (UP) Badly frightened Post Office em ployes rushed a smoking package out of the crowded main railway justify predictions as to when the Tommy Thompson of the Celilp problem misht be solved :and which sold the two explorers Another participant was Chief jstation Friday and dumped it in vacant lot. The United States and Britain previously had made similar state ments, fish when they passed down the Columbia 150 years ago. On Sunday, Fort Clatsop, where successful projects in international f kilowatts" of electric power by cooperation ever undertaken The conference, he said, nad exceeded all expectations of the American delegation. ' The Russians injected the only sour note when Prof. Dmitri .V Skobeltsyn. head of the Soviet dele gation, told a news conference he 2. Russia exoects to have atomic the expedition spent the winter of power plants capable of producing U805' win dedicated. several hundreds oi thousand MOVIES ARE FIXE , GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Ul -Police Judge Edward G. Burlson handed out complimentary movie tickets to one group of traffic vio lators arraigned in his court. He warned wiem w see me uevii Take Us," a traffic safety film at a downtown theatre. I960. Prof Willard F. Libby, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Com mission, declared the United States is ready to help other coun tries "proceed as rapidly as possi ble toward economic production of power from the atom." Firemen and bomb experts called to the scene roped off - the area and waited for the "bomb" to explode, i When it dldn t after several hours wary demolition men opened the package and found a toy auto mobile whose battery-powered mo tor had short-circuited, causing the smoke. 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