Burma Border Invaded by Eed Chinese Troops
toff tofj
fursd to ike Srewlk ef Oreeea
106th Year
Jim Elkins,
Indicted in
LKDCDXH
Lacking push from President
Eisenhower himself (most unlike
ly), Harold Stassen'i boomlet (or
Gov. Christian Herter for Vice
President was doomed from the
first. The political "pros" moved
in promptly for the kill, and any
associates Stassen may have had
remained discretely underground.
One hundred eighty members of
the House signed a manifesto en
dorsing Nixon which surely indi
cates the set of the political winds.
Most of the party leaders seem
to like Nixon (and dislike Stas
sen l, and others are unwilling to
oppose him as long as he enjoys
ikes favor.
The, upshot is that Stassen ap
pears at the moment to have
killed himself off and given Nixon
a jet impulse forward to renomi
nation. That's for the short term.
For the longer term, the Stassen
declaration bodes ill for an Eisen
hower Nixon ticket in November.
When one as high-placed in the
administration as Stassen, with as
much political background as he
enjoys, says bluntly that Herter's
' name would add strength to an
Eisenhower ticket (with the infer
ence that Nixon's will not) he
feeds the strong undercurrent of
opposition to Nixon which will
comt to the surface in November.
Probably it will not be strong
enough to swing the election to the
Democrats, but with a few other
adverse breaks it might.
So Stassen gets a scolding for
bringing up the subject. He's a
bad boy, and from coast to coast
politicians and pundits are taking
Harold out to the woodshed for a
verbal laying on of hands.
That Stassen's opinion is shared
bv others is evident from a recent
iCeallaaed aa Editorial page. 4.)
Poisoner of
Two Children
To Be Freed
Seventeen years of prison will
end next month for a 54-year-old
St. Helens woman convicted of the
arsenic killing of two stepdaugh
ters. :
The woman, Mrs. Agnes Ledford,
will be paroled during August,
State Parole Director H. M. Ran
dall announced Monday.
Mrs. Ledford, who never admit
ted hrr guilt, went to prison in
19.19 to serve a life sentence. She
was accused of feeding arsenic to
the two girls because she was
jealous of them and . wanted to
collect their life insurance;
The woman has lived in the same
room at the prison during all her
confinement. .She has made a good
adjustment, according to Warden
Clarence T. .Gladden.
Today's Statesman
Page See.
Classified 10-11
Comics 6
Crossword 3
Editorials 4
Home Panorama . . 7
Marker .... 9
Obituaries ........ 12
Radio-TV ; - 4
Sports t-9
Star Caxer '. ... .. 7
Valley Newt - 3
Wirephoto Pago .'....a..
WILBERT
Wxf,
12 PACES
Flames Sweep Home
For Aged. Trapping 12
Pl'XICO, Mo. Fire raged quickly through the Reagan Nursing
Home here Monday night, killing 12 persons.
Coroner Ray Rainey said 12 bodies had been recovered.
Only one of the 13 persons in the two-story frame home apparently
escaped
Puxictf is about 125 miles south
of St. Louis, in southeast Missouri
near Poplar Bluff.
The one person saved was ident
ified as Mrs. Charity Frederick,
Poplar Bluff. She climbed out on
a porch to safety.
The flames were out of control
in the 20-story frame building be
fore they were discovered. Vol
unteer firemen could not reach
anyone inside.
The firemen had to fight hard
to keep the flames from spreading
to surrounding buildings, one
block north of the main street in
this town of 750 population in
southeast Missouri.
Express
way
Reop
eimis
Set Au2. 10
V
Steps toward completion of the
closed section of the Salem-Port-1
a n d expressway and the new
Dolph Corner-Rickreall section of
coast highway were announced
Monday by the State Highway
Commission.
The commission awarded a $307,
503 contract Monday for paving
4.43 miles of the Dolph Corner
Rickreall section of the Salem
Willamina highway now under con
struction. The contract went to Central
Paving Co., Independence. This
project 10 miles west of Salem,
will bypass Dallas on the route
between Salem and coastal points.
It is to be completed this summer.
The battle to stop the highway
made by Joe Harland, Polk Coun
ty farmer through whose farm the
new road passes, was lost when
the state supreme court ruled re
cently in favor of the commission.
Meanwhile, the highway depart
ment also announced the section
of the R. H. Baldock expressway
from Salem to Wilsonville will be
reopened to traffic on Aug. 10.
This section of the four -lane
highway Has been closed since
May 2, in order that about 10 miles
of the southern lane could be com
pleted and an additional section of
the northern lane surfaced.
Averell Won't
Make Issue of
Ike's Health
POLAND SPRING, Maine (l -
Gov. Averell Harriman of New
York, a candidate for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination, said
Monday he will not make an issue
of President Eisenhower's health
during the, contest.
"But I will talk of the failure
of the Eisenhower administration
to meet the needs of the people
in this country and the world,"
Harriman told newsmen upon his
arrival to confer with Maine dele
gates and alternates to the Demo
cratic convention.
Harriman said Eisenhower "made
his own health an issue when he
discussed it on television. "It
seems that the doctors have be
come politicians," he added. "Per
haps the politicians should become
doctors."
Asked how many, delegates he
had lined up. Harriman said he
did not want to "get into the num
ber racket."
Hungary
BUDAPEST. Hungary iv-Com-munist
Hungary ireshuffled its
government Monday, naming' a
new foreign minister and making
six other cabinet changes.
Then Premier Andras Hegedus
took the floor in Parliament and
promised improvement in he liv
ing standard of both city dwellers
and peasants, and a reform of
the legal code to remedy injus
tices of the Stalin era.
The Prime Minister addressed
the first session of Parliament
since the June 28' Polish workers'
rebellion at Poznan, which shook
all the Communist satellites. It
was also his (irst speech after the
ousting two weeks ago of Matyas
Rakosi, Hungary's long-time dic
tator, as chief of the Communist
party.
Both these events were obvious
9 Others
Vice Probe
Sheridan Area
Crash Fatal
To 2 Persons
Staletmaa. Newt Service .
SHERIDAN Two persons were
killed and another was critically
injured when two automobiles col
lided Monday on Highway It near
the Widow Creek Fish Hatchery,
about 25 miles west of here.
Killed were Carl Leonard Liber
man, 50, Neotsu, driver of one of
the cars, and a man identified by
Lincoln deputy coroner Robert
Bateman as Jack Loose, 32, Port
land, a passenger in the second
car.
The other driver. Ray B. Hutch
inson, 24, Portland, was taken to
McMinnville Hospital with injuries
to the head and ribs, and multiple
cuts and bruises. His condition was
reported as critical.
State police investigating the ac
cident said neither car left skid
marks, indicating that brakes were
not applied before the collision.
Firemen Build
Truck Home
In One Spurt
Sutrimaa Newi Service
MIDDLE GROVE - A home for
Middle Grove's new fire truck took
shape like a mushroom Monday
evening as firemen of Four Corners
district wielded saws and hammers
under floodlights.
Labor was donated as the volun
teer firemen worked in madcap
fashion to complete the one-story
frame structure at Lancaster Road
and Silverton Highway. There was
a possibility the building would be
completed at a hate hour Mon
day. Construction was started from
scratch earlier Monday by some
25 firemen of the district.
The Middle Grove area is a part
of the Four Corners district and
the new fire truck will give a con
siderable boost to district fire fight
ing facilities.
Monday evening's high speed
construction drew a number of on
lookers as firemen hammered up
sidings and rafters under flood
lights from a tanker tmck.
Youngster Bumped
By Car, Hospitalized
Stateimaa Newt Sarvlra
BROOKS A 6-year-old boy was
hospitalized Monday with a pos
sible concussion after he was
struck by a car on the parking
lot at Bergs Keizer Super Market.
Philippe Ocupe, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Primo Ocupe, Salem' Rt. 2,
Box 223, was to remain overnight
in Salem General Hospital for ob
servation for possible concussion,
his mother said. Driver in the
p.m. accident was Robert E
Moriarty, Salem Rt. 1, Box 833,
stale police said.
BACK SI EZ SEIZl'RF.
BEIRUT, Lebanon Some
2.000 demonstrators paraded Bei
rut streets. Monday night support
ing Egypt's seizure of the Suez
Canal. They shouted anti-Western
slogans.
Shifts Government
ly on Hegedus' mind during his
two-hour speech although he never
once mentioned Rakosi or Poz
nan. Rakosi is reported to have
gone to Moscow to be out of the
country while his successors try
to effect reforms.
The Parliament session is ex
pected to last a week and to be
marked for the first time by some
relatively free debate. It opened
with the speaker announcing the
cabinet changes. The most Im
portant was the appointment of
Imre Horvath, 50-year-old career
diplomat, as foreign minister re
placing Janos Boldoczky. norvath
is a former minister to Washing
ton. Otheraappointmehts were GergV
ely Szaho as minister nf chemical
industries replacing Arpad Kiss;
MUNDBD 1651
Tho Oregon Statesman,
$1,000,000
Libel Action
Filed by DA
PORTLAND 1 - James B. El
kins,. 55, financier of local night
clubs, was indicted by a Multno
mah County grand jury Monday
on misdemeanor charges involving
illegal gambling.
Two other men also were served
warrants on identical charges re
turned in grand jury indictments.
They were Charlej E. Canady, 29,
ex-boxer, and Harvey Edward
Ferguson, 66.
Elkins appeared voluntarily at
the courthouse and posted $500
bond on each of 10 counts. Can
ady and Ferguson also-accepted
two warrants each and posted
bail. ,
These indictments were among
those returned Monday by the
grand jury, which issued a par
tial report after an eight-week in
vestigation of newspaper charges
of vice and corruption here. Sher
iff Terry Schrunk said 32 war
rants were issued in all, naming
a number of persons.
The grand jury was to hold an
other session Tuesday.
Elkins was named by The Ore
gonian as its source of tape re
cordings and other information
used in a series of copyrighted
articles which touched, off the
grand jury probe. "
The grand jury's report,' still
incomplete, followed by 24 hours
the filing Sunday by Dist. Atty.
William M. Langley of a one mil
lion dollar damage suit against
The Oregonian Publishing Co..
Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton
and Elkins. The action charges de
privation of civil rights.
Gambling Attempts
The suit and the indictments
are an outgrowth of a series of
articles in The Oregonian dealing
with attempts to open the city to
gambling and vice.
Previously filed was a $300,000
damage suit by Clyde C. Crosby,
Teamsters Union head in Oregon.
The indictments were turned
over to Circuit Judge Alfred P.
Dobson for further action.
The jury is expected to wind up
its investigation later this week.
Seeks $250,00t
. Langley's suit seeks $250,000
compensatory damage and a like
amount for punitive damages on
each of two counts. It contends
that the defendants offered the
grand jury evidence gained by
wire tapping with intent to obtain
an indictment and arrest of Lang
ley; that the defendants conspired
to deprive Langley of "equal pro
tection of the laws" by using a
grand jury to send letters to Lang
ley demanding that he waive im
munity and appear as a witness,
and that the defendants unlawful
ly intercepted and divulged tele
phone messages to the press.
Gavernor Conlers
Sunday, . in Salem, Gov. Elmo
E. Smith, just returned from a
California trip, conferred briefly
with Thornton over a letter Lang
ley wrote to the governor charg
ing that the attorney general i had
conducted the grand jury investi
gation improperly.
Monday, the governor taid "the
grand jury is in session, and if
Langley has any information, t he
should take it to the grand jury."
The Weather
Mil. Mln, PrrrlB.
Salrra ... SI 4
Portland 7S sa
.00
.00
.Oil
.00
.00
.m
.on
trace
.00
Baker - 4 4
Medford 61
North Brnd M 4
Rosehurg S.1 41
San Francinco M SO
Lol Angelas .... 77 64
Chicago 77 6
New York 7S SI
Wlllamatta River -14 feet.
Arpad Konya as minister of pub
lic education replacing T I b o r
Erdei-Gruz; Rezso Nyers as min
ister of food replacing Ivan Alto-
mare. In each case the replaced
minister had been under heavy
criticism, mostly for inefficiency.
Ernoe Geroe, who succeeded
Rakosi as first secretary of the
Communist party, resigned his
deputy premiership. Two new
deputy premiers were appointed.
One is Georgy Marosan, a purged
one-time Socialist who was recent
ly rehabilitated and put bick on
the Central Committee nf the
Communist Party. The other i
Istvan Hidas, already a member
of the Politburo and the party
central committee. Geroe and
Sandor Ronai, speaker of Parlia
ment, were appointed members of
the .Presidential Council.
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, July
Chicago Mother
Has 10th Child ly
Cacsarean Section
CHICAGO lrl A 39-year-old
mother gave birth to her 10th
child by caesarean section Sun
day night in Mercy Hospital. 1
She is Mrs. Margaret Thomas,
wife of Peter Thomas, a printer.
The new arrival is a eeven
pound, one ounce son. Three of
her other children are boys and
six are girls.
Years ago three caesarean de
liveries .to any mother was con-,
sidered the limit but good pre
natal care and improved tech
niques have removed this bar
rier. Mrs. Thomas' 10 js not a rec
ord . caesarean family. Mrs.
Joseph L. McAndrew of Prov
idence, R. I., then 38, had her
11th. caesarean child April 22,
1954.
36 Convicts
Shatter Legs
With Sledges
BUFORD, Ga. UH Thirty-six
inmates of Rock Quarry State
Prison broke their own legs with
10-pound sledge hammers Monday
in protest against working con
ditions at the "Little Alcatraz" of
the Georgia state prison system.
Jack Forrester, State Director of
Corrections, said a prison .doctor
told him that all 36 men had
shattered bones in their legs.
Forrester said the 29 white and
7 Negro inmates staged- the un
usual revolt during an afternoon
rest period at the rock quarry
where they were working about
half a mue from the prison.
Warden Hubert Smith said the
injured men told him afterwards
that they felt their wheelbarrows
were too heavily loaded and that
the sun was too hot for working.
Temperatures were reported in the
low Ms.
Forrester described the men who
took part in the incident ai among
the most hardened in Georgia. He
said they used 10-pound sledge
hammers to Injure themselves. The
hammers normally are for crush'
rock at the quarry.
He said the, men placed rocks
under their heels and knees and
"started whacking away." There
were no screams, he said, and the
guards who also were taking a
break did not notice anything
wrong until they ordered the mea
back to work.
Fair Weather
To Continue
Fair skies and warm weather
will, continue today and Wednes
day, McNary Field weathermen
said.
The forecast calls' for a high both
days of 85 and a low tonight of 45.
Monday's high was II.
Moderate forest Tire danger was
expected today in Northwest Ore
gon, with humidity 30-35 per cent
in Willamette Valley and western
Cascades, slightly higher in the
Coast Range and slightly lower in
the upper Cascades. No fires of
any consequence were reported
Monday.
Northern Oregon beaches will
see fair weather today after early
morning cloudiness, Associated
Press reported. There the fore
cast la for temperature ranging
from 50-66 and northwest winds
6-18 miles an hour.
Judge Denies
Illegal r ce
At IlillsWo
HILLSBORO OH -Washington
County Judge Harry Sea bold
pleaded innocent Monday when
arraigned on a charge that a
realty firm in which he is a part
ner received a $32$ commission
from the sale of county-owned
land in violation of state statutes.
' Trial was set for Aug. 14 by
Circuit Judge Glen Hriber. The
State Supreme Court will assign
a judge to hear the case.
Judge Seabold was indicted by
a grand jury here earlier this
month.
NORTHWEST MEARVC
At Kuaene 0. lwliton t
At Yakima I. Wenetrhee 4
At Spokane 11. Tri-city 7
PACIFIC COAST' I.RAOI'R
At Portland 10. Karmmento S
Only game lu-heriulrd.
NATIONAL l.r.AOl K
At ilrooklvn . Milwaukee S
" AI Philadelphia -4, Chlraao 4-1
At PHtuhurih J C'lnnnnati 4
, Only gamet echedulrd.
AMERICAN I.RAGI R
At Cleveland I. New Yn,lt 11
At Kaniut ritv S. Raltlmora 4
At Detroit 4, Roaton 1
Only (amag scheduled.
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Disaster mi
Terrible to View
Salem Area
By JERRY B. STONE
Staff Writer, The Statesmaa
''It was an awful sight those
moaning, bloody kids lying atop
one another in that crevasse
That was the comment Monday of
a Salem area climbing party which
was first to render aid to 19 East
ern youths who met with disaster
on Mt. Hood Sunday afternoon.
Thomas Pfau, 35, Brooks, leader
of the party climbing in the vicin
ity of the tragedy, related a tale
of risky maneuvering amid the
screams of the severely injured.
Others in his party, all from Salem,
were Dennis Glasgow, IS, 771 Rose
mont Ave. Frank Franklin, IS, 1640
S. High St.; and GaU Wright, 16,
2845 Pioneer Dr.
Pfau said "it was a miracle more
didn't die" when the Eastern
group plunged over a 40-foot drop.
The one fatality was Lynn Kauf
man, 16, Larchmont, N Y.
Heard Taelr Screams
Pfau told how he and the others
in his party first heard screams
and then observed the victims piled
Hood Fall Victims
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Mt. Hood by It youthful climbers left Meredith StebbinslZ,
Wayland, Mass., with a compound jaw fracture (top), Ronald
Heinrlth, 24, Clear lake, Is., (below), sips hot drink after
rescue. (A Wirephotes)
E
MIC! S
Party Risked Lives to Help
up at the bottom of the crevasse
near Crater Rock high on the peak.
"That was about 3:30 p.m., 'aid
Pfau. "and in order to get down
to aid the kids it was necessary to
broadjump a yawning gap about
10 feet across."
For the Salem area party it was
a case of then scrambling down to
the victims' sides, disentangling
them and cutting loose rope which
had carried the entire group of
youths, sliding, sprawling and
bounding over the drop.
Tried to Dig Girt Oat
Pfau told of frantically trying to
dig the Kaufman girl free of snow
which had virtually buried her.
"I had removed snow to her
chest and she was talking," re
counted Pfau. "I told her to keep
talking but she apparently died
by the time I had her free to her
waist."
The Salem party said rescue
toboggans arrived about four hours
after first discovery of the tragedy.
The three Salem youths in the
rescue party, all making their first
- ;WV.'-
tumble into rocky crevasse on
The Weather
rORBCAIT linn V. I. weather
bureau, MrNary field, t.lemi:
Fair tnnajr, tonight and Wednee
eUy; llltla ehaoge In temperature.
Tha hlgto tody and Wadnaada, St;
and tha law tonight, 49.
Temperature at U am. today
Wae at.
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f lara iurt at WeeUiee tear tee. 1
tale Tear . La it VM Xorau.1
mm nil .
No, 12
IPeok
climb of Hood and "probably our
last." related bow they had first
seen the ill-fated climber slipping
down a snow field.
"We toon lost tight of them i
hind a rock." taid GaiT"Wftght.
"but actually at the time we
thought the kida were just having
some fua."
Kaa far AtalaUare
"We heard sonM yelling up
there," recalled Dennis Glasgow,
'but we at first didn't think much
about it because kids sometimes
yell just for the fun of it."
Frank Franklin told of running
part way down the mountain to
relay word to two tkiert after the
accident was, discovered.
ine aaiem area party oecame
aware of the tragedy after climb
ing above Crater Rock and noting
cameras, watches and ice axes
scattered along tracks leading to
the lip of the crevasse. And, too,
there was the chorus of screams
and moans.
Young Wright taid the dazed and
injured guide of the Eastern group,
Carl Schooner, Portland, was
heard to remark that inexperience
with ice axes probably played a
part in the tragic Incident.
Watched Great 8114a
Pfau himself hat climbed Hood
on two previous occasions. Hit par
ty bad not planned to go to the
summit Sunday since as he taid,
"we were not sufficiently equip
ped." Pfau t wife, Louise, accompanied
the party partially up the moun
tain Sunday but halted to rest. She
taid through binoculars the ob
served the Eastern youths sliding
down a tteep anow field.
"They then disappeared," she
added, "but at tha time I didn't
realize what had occurred.
Pfau estimated that the victims
slid about K feet, including about
40 feet of rocks. ,
Maimed, Hurt
Hood Qimhers
Reach Safety
(Plctaro on WtrepWa Page)
T1MBERUNE LODGE, Ore. Iff
The II maimed and injured
survivors of mountain climbing
accident were safe Monday after
their hours-long ordeal at the bot
tom of a 'fume-filled crevasse.
One youngster was killed in the
Sunday mishap as the climbers
plummeted into a gully at the bot
tom of a chute of ice. high on the
slopes of lUtS-foot Mt. Hood. The
girl was pounded Into hardpaeked
snow when her II companions
tumbled down a 40-foot cliff onto
her already brokea body.
Raawd Tegrtker
The climbers were roped to
gether oo a single life line when
one of them slipped. Then the
whole screaming group lost foot
ing and catapulted some 150 feet
down the steep slope and into the
crevasse, one on top of the other.
Ralph Wiese, district forest
ranger who headed the rescue
operation, issued a statement
Monday In which he attempted to
clairify earlier reports of the Inci
dent. The statement made no at
tempt to fix the cause of the
accident.
SUd IS Feci
Wiese said the party of climbers
slid only ISO feet down a 45-de-
gree slope before plunging Into a
rocky, 40-foot deep crater. Each
of the climbers wore properly fit
ted crampons and carried
axes, he satd, but apparently only
the climb leader had any prior
experience in the use of axes and
safety ropes for checking descent.
Lynn Kaufman, IS. of Larch
mont, N.Y., was dead by tha time
help arrived. Her body was
badly broken.
Susan Stein, It. of Baltimore,
suffered a skull fracture and Su
zanne Blum, 16, Baldwin, N.Y.
had a fractured spine. They were
In critical condition.
Brakes Banes
The others were hurt less seri
ously although a number of them
had broken bones.
Lawrence Dean McCormlrk.
Psinesville, Ohio, sixth in the line
of climbers, told of how ho dug
his Ice pick Into the slope to hold
the group back. "It pulled right
out. I flipped completely over and
got my pick dug in once more,
but It wouldn't hold."
(Story alia e Page 12.)
SI RCKKY I NDKRBONE
SANTA MONICA, Calif. i,r For
mer actress Shirley Temple's mo
ther, Mrs. Gertrude Temple, un
derwent surgery at Santa Monica
hospital Monday for removal of
hrr gall bladder. She is expected
to remain la tha hospital five days.
Frontier
Breach
a
Reported
Burmese Chiefs
Ponder Action in
Latest Incident
RANGOON, Burma on Sev
eral hundred armed Chinese Com ,
munist troops have crossed a sno
mile stretch of Burma's northern
frontier and occupied Burmese
territory, reports from the border
said Tuesday.
The reports said the Chinese
Reds occupied the area near the
bordr from Putao to Kunlong
Ferry and were moving further
into Burma.
Pearly Gaarded
Burma's 1.000 mile border with
Red China it poorly guarded.
in the past Communist patrols
up to company strength have
wandered into Burma but have
always withdrawn when Burma
protested.
Prune Minister Ba Swe called
in the inner circle of the cabinet
and the chiefs of the armed forces
to confer on the situation.
The executive 'committee of
go"ernment party, the anti-Fas
cist Peoples Freedom League,
was told there is "threat to
Burma's security." A
Prlplag SUeat
The reports from the frontier
area indicated, the current inva
sion is in much greater strength
than any of the past border cross
ingi, which the Communists al
ways said were errors of local
commanders.
Peiping's embassy in Ranrooa'
declined to comment on the inva
sion report. '
The reports said the Red troops
creased the frontier in small
groups and were strung out in a
wide arc all along the eastern '
borders of the Kachin and Wa
states.
They said the Communists have
penetrated up to S miles into
Burmese territory.
On Friendly Terms .
One report from the area quoted
Red Chinese soldiers as saying
they were searching for Machit
say." plant believed to be a pow
erful antidote against snakebite
and opium or alcohol poisoning.
Neutral Burma has acted in a.
friendly, but not Intimate, manner -toward
its big Communist neigh
bor.
Relations between the two states
are governed In theory by the "De
claration of F 1 y e Principles"
signed by Chinese Premier Chod
En-Lai and former Burmese Pre
mier U Nu. The agreement calls
for: '-.', - --'V .
Respect for each other's terri
torial integrity and sovereignty;
nonaggression; noninterference in
each other's internal affairs;
equality, and mutual beqeflt and
peaceful coexistence,
'IauaJgraaU" Caallcagrd
In the past week the Burma got-
ernment has been in touch with
the Red Chinese about "illegal im
migrants" the Burmese said were
sneaking evef the border from
China.
Among the "immigrants," Bur
mese sources said, were at least
one Communist Army political of
ficer. He was captured but es
caped. Burmese administrators in the
sector have reported that Chinese .
aruiy units on the border hsve
been reinforced In recent months.
The new troops reportedly are Red
army regulars.
Burma decided to replace its
border police with regular army
units because of the increased
activity on the Communist side of
the frontier. Regular Burmese
troops are now being sent to the
most remote parts of the border
area.
Burma Road Area
Burma's northeast frontier area
is mountainous and primitive.
Across it runs the Burma Road
which carried supplies to the Chi
nese Nationalists during the Sino-
Japanese war and first part of
world war II.
In 1944, during the North Burma
campaign, it served ss a vital sup
ply route for the allies. With the
end of the war and the outbreak
of tribal and Communist uprisings
in North Burma, the road declined
sharply in importance.
Civil Deputy Quits;
Successor Hired
1 The resignation of E. J. (Bud)
Boust as civil deputy was an
sou need Monday by Marlon Coun
ty Sheriff Denver Young. '
Boust, who has been with the
sheriff's office during the past
five years, will be replaced by
Frank Papenfus, Salem Rt. 3. Box
t.", formerly with the Pacific Fi
nance Company.
Boust't new job will be at a
sales and service representative
with an eastern firm that manufac
tures equipment for laying rail
road beds. Ha will undergo a six
month training period at Luding
ton, Mich., before being assigned
a territory, he said.
RADFORD IN FORMOSA
TAIPEI, Formosa Arlm.
Arthur Radford, chairman of the
'.I S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived
from Bangkok Tuesday to survey
American military aid programs ,
in Formosa and talks with Chiang
Kai-shek. It Is his fourth jsit here
ss chairman 4)1 tho Joint Chie
of Staff. '