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
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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.
In the year 809 A.D. the emperor
Charlemagne ! issued an edict
which outlawed the pressing of
wine with bare feet because it was
unsanitary.
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