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Capital Aoiaral 63rd Year, No. 279 SSi"JSTiSS Salem, Oregon, Thursday, November 22, 1951 V .esj Price 5c FD INI AIL EOBTDO INI THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT and Friday. Some morning fog. Little cooler tonight. Low tonight, 34; high Friday, 55. 63rd Year, No. 279 SSi"JSTiSS Salem, Oregon, Thursday, November 22, 1951 Detroit Lake Will Provide Play Areas ' Plans Call for Camp, ; Recreation and Scenic Spots By I AMES D. OLSON An outdoor playground for Salem and valley residents, on the shores of Detroit lake, in cluding both daytime and over night picnic and camping areas, hoat launching ramps and view lookouts at scenic spots, will be available under preliminary plans when the Detroit dam pioject Is completed. The plans, "announced Thurs day, have been completed by the Corps of Army Engineers and the U.S. forest service, and have been forwarded to Wash ington for approval. The reservoir to be formed by Detroit dam will be approxi mately nine miles in length with a maximum width of about one mile. Areas along both the north and south shores have been des ignated in the plans for public use development. (Concluded on Page S. Column 7) Cold Wave Hits Most of Nation (By the Associated Press) There were a few mild spots but generally the weather was on the cold and chilly side over wide areas of the country today. The eastern and most of the southeast still waited for the warming that appeared slow in arriving. Another blast of sub freezing hit parts of the south east but relief was promised to day. 1 It was 25 above in Augusta, Ga., and 28 in Greensboro, N. C. Readings were in the 40's in northern Florida. At the same time it was 69 in Miami and 61 inNew Orleans, and 65 in Dal las, Tex. It was 2 above at Cari bou, Me. and 34 above in New York City. ' . A new batch of cold air a "moderate outbreak" from Can ada chilled most of Montana and Wyoming, the northern great plains, Minnesota and most of Iowa. It was reported to ex tend over most of the midwest by tonight. Temperatures were below zero in some of the cold belt early today and similar icy readings were pridicted tonight. The mild but windy. areas included the west gulf states, the southern plains, the Ohio valley and the lower Great Lakes re gion. Readings were around nor mal in the far western states. Snow flurries hit parts of the midwest cold belt and in the northern and central Rocky mountain states. Light showers were reported in the Ohio valley, the middle Mississippi valley and parts of lower Michigan in advance of the cold air. I ' Oklahoma Tax Auditor Resigns ' Washington, Nov. 22 The Internal Revenue Bureau said ycjerday, without elaborating, tbjk a special investigation is be ing made by J. Frank Wilcox, chief of audits in the collector's office at Oklahoma City. There was no indication of the nature of the investigation. More than 30 Internal Revenue Bureau employes, including re gional collectors, have been fired or. suspended or have resigned 4his year. A widespread inquiry has been underway by the bur eau and by a house ways and means subcommittee .- Wilcox's attorney, Charles E. Dierker, said in Oklahoma City yesterday his client submitted his resignation Nov. 6 . H. I. Hinds, Oklahoma collec tor of internal revenue, could not be reached for comment and Wilcdx was visiting relatives in Fort Worth, Tex. But Dierker, former U. S. dis rict attorney here, said in a state ment: - "I have gone over the matter with Wilcox and also with rep resentatives of the government. I believe Wilcox was quite indis creet in some instances, but I'm sure he has done no real wrong." Wilcox, with the bureau more than 10 years, has been on leave of absence. Weather Details ' Mt(mn yelrdir M: minimum ta J.M. TUI I1.hi.nr prfciplUlln: truce; for Ainnlht f.M; normal, 4.17. driftm r rlpltitlfta, H.M: tt urinal, . River f M. . Korl J U.S. Wealhir BrM.) Thanks Given By Nation for Its Blessings Americans Even on Battle Line Get Turkey Dinner IBy tht Associated Pr.0 A nation anxious for peace, but involved in an undeclared war a third of the way around the globe, interrupted its nor mal pursuits today to give thanks for its blessings. Even in Korea, where the United States had counted more than 100,000 casualties in 16 months of bitter fighting against communist aggression, U. S. soldiers in many instances had at least a reminder of Thanks giving day at home. At one frontline post, the mess sergeant prepared a menu rang ing from stuffed celery hearts, olives and shrimp cocktail to hot mince pie. One division on the eastern front employed heli copters to fly turkeys, hot from the kitchens, to an infantry company on Heartbreak Ridge. Chill in Foxholes The day in Korea started out clear and cold, but later there were low clouds and rain, and there was a chill in the fox holes. The president had pointed up the significance and tradition of the Thanksgiving day, say ing in his formal proclamation: "More than three centuries ago the pilgrim fathers deemed it fitting to pause in their au tumn labors and to give thanks to Almighty God for the abun dant yield of the soil of their homeland. "In keeping with that custom, Hallowed by generations of ob servance, our hearts impel us, once again in this autumnal sea son, to turn in humble gratitude to the giver of our bounties." (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Weather Halts Search for Plane Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Nov. 22 W Bad weather again kept search planes from Yugoslavia's skies today in their hunt for a missing U.S. air force C-47 trans port. The transport, with four men aboard, disappeared Mon day. The U.S. embassy plane here and a Yugoslav civilian plane at Sarajevo both were grounded by poor visibility. Twelve U.S. planes were ready at Treviso, in northeastern Italy, and eight more in Rome should the clouds and fogs break up. Premier Marshal Tito's gov ernment gave permission yes terday for the searchers to roam the skies over the northwestern part of his country, where for eign planes usually are restrict ed to a few air corridors into! Belgrade. Yesterday's weather confined searchers to the Italian Adriatic coastline and areas north of Venice. The plane disappeared on a routine flight from Germany to Belgrade. It apparently got off course and was fired on by Hun garian and Romanian border guards, but the pilot's radio re port of the firing made no men tion of any damage. It was believed the plane had turned back from the borders of the Soviet satellites and made a crash landing, out, of gas, either in Yugoslavia or in the Adriatic. Veep Pays Surprise Visit to Korean Hospital Seoul, Korea, Nov. 22 W jfella." Vice President .and Mrs. Alben A few moments later Barkley Barkley paid a surprise Thanks-1 shouted to his wife, "Here's a giving Day visit to Korea and a i boy from Kentucky." The youth military evacuation hospital. was shot in the ankle. "Nothing Thev chatted with dozens of serious," he said. wounded And they heard screams of pain from a soldier with a shat tered righ eye who spent Thanksgiving on an operating ta ble. Barkley talked to an 8-year- old Korean girl who lost an arm As he turned avay the v i c e president muttered. "It s too bad: I so awful." He talked with a young lieu-ity tenant who was shot in the hip! As the Barkley." left the hos yesterday north of the Punch- pital, an exasperated nurse hand bowl. As B kley walked away, led a pajama top to a bare-chest- the lieulenii.it asked another pa- tients: "Who's the old man?" Told it was the vice president i of the United States, the lieuten- ant grinned. "Well I'll be damned," he said. 'Sure never expected to see Barkley out here. He's i nice pssfjyi Mil t.,',.tii(tssssssssssssssMMSM " J.III.MII I IBVy II t8gyrrW ! Judge Vinson Truman's Guest Key West, Fla., Nov. 22 P) President Truman played Thanksgiving host today to the man many believe he would like to have step into his shoes if he should decide not to run again. Fred M. Vinson, chief justice of the United States, and Mrs. Vinson, were guests of president and Mrs. Truman at the white cottage with the spacious lawn where the chief executive now regularly spends his winter va cations. They planned a trip to the beach, a walk around the naval submarine station, and most of all, a whopping big turkey din ner at 2 p.m. (EST). There has been no word from the president whether he will seek re-election in 1952. Nor has there been any indication whatsoever that Vinson plans to step down from the supreme court. But there has been specula tion that should Mr. Truman de cide against running he would rather see Vinson- succeed him than any democrat he knows. Certainly there is no man in whose judgment on - political matters the president has greater reliance. World Citizen A Stowaway Auckland, N. Z., Nov. 22 Iff) George Charles Titman, 26, an American who renounced his U. S. citizenship in 1949 to become 'world citizen," was accused in court today of stowing away aboard a ship trying to get back to the United States. He gave himself up to the master of the ship, the King Rob ert, when it was 14 hours out. The ship turned back. J. E. Kiley, assistant U. S. consul here, said Titman's re nunciation of his citizenship he tore up his American pass port in front of the American consul here two rears ago was final and had been approved by the state department. Titman came to New Zealand about three years ago from Cal ifornia with his wife and child. The wife and child returned to the states about a year ago. He told the court on his arraign ment today that he had attempt ed to work passage back to the United States, Barkley took down his name and address: Cpl. Charles M. Conley, 2961 I'ritchard St., Ashland, 22-year-old son of a coal miner. He said he was go ing -to write to Conley's mother. Barkley looked at two wound ed Chinese, exchanged smiles with a wounded Thai soldier, and told a Scot of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. "We're migh- proud of you." ed GI. "Here the vice oresident comes to see us," she said, "and you don't even have a shirt on." Before visiting the hospital, the Barkleyi had Thanksgiving Day lunch with American jet fighter piloti at their rainswept Das. For Thanksgiving He'll Take Hamburger Wolfgang Sing er (above) hard at his occupation (left) and indulging in his favorite food (right) is not looking forward to America's favorite dish of Thanksgiving. As roasting cook for a plush San Francisco hotel (Palace) Singer has prepared an average of 12 turkeys a day for the past 18 years or a total of 54,000. "I'll probably have turkey for Thanksgiving, but I'd prefer hamburger," Singer sighed. (AP Wirephoto) County Jail hmates Enjoy 24 Pound Tom By DOUGLAS In an old wood stove that would have been the pride of a pioneer's kitchen, trusties of the Marion county jail Thursday were tenderly browning and basting a 24-pound turkey. Italians Blast Dike Along Po Rovigo, Italy, Nov. 22 Frantic workers put dynamite to dikes along the still-rising Po river today in an effort to send the raging flood waters more quickly ', to the Adriatic sea;;.-;'i ' ' ;i -More towns, and villages were menaced hourly by the waters from Itply's mightiest river, ris ing at the rate of two inches an hour as it pushed its eastward course across the country's rich est region. One gap was blasted early to day in the retaining wall near this stricken provincial capital. Two other blastings later to day were scheduled. Many die-hard villagers op posed the dike-breaking cer tain to loose waters at their own doorsteps and some refused to budge from their homes. In the southern half of the Po basin, in Reggio Emilia prov ince, unknown assailant shot and killed a rescue worker. Po lice believed the killer was fighting to stay in his home. The already - flooding Po, swelled by overflowing tribu taries throughout northeastern Italy, rose still higher. More than 100 persons have died and estimates of the homeless from the past two weeks of floods range between 200,000 and 350,000. Torrential rains caused a tun nel near Mornaga Cimbro to collapse on a refugee-loaded train last night, killing the en gineer and the fireman. Fifteen others were injured. Bus Strike on In New York New York, Nov. 22 (P) About 40 bus routes in Manhattan and the Bronx were tied up today by a wildcat strike. Union lead ers later gave tneir sanction to the walkout but said it will end at midnight. The stoppage on the vast Third Avenue Transit system was sparked by a dispute over Thanksgiving holiday pay rates. Michael J. Quill, president of the CIO Transport Workers un ion, at first reportedly disap proved the unauthorized strike. Later in the morning he told a meeting of 250 drivers: 'Go home and have your Thanksgiving turkey today with your families and report back to work tomorrow." Mathew Guinan, president of local 100. said the walkout will end at midnight when normal work schedules resume. Only about half the usual 1.- 800,000 daily riders on the af fected bus lines use the buses on a holiday. The walkout came as a pre lude to a threatened citywide strike against private bus lines by the TWU. It has been de manding pay raises and a cut in tht work week to 40 hours. THOMAS The bird, trussed and stuffed with a bread, celery and spice dressing, simmered slowly along while some 16 inmates sniffed the fragrant odors from the din gy kitchen. And those odors provided the only thing many'of the inmates could find for which to be grateful on Thanksgiving day. Off in the corner, a youngish woman, serving out time be cause she is unable to pay a fine for driving while under the in fluence of intoxicating liquor, looked forward to another day of solitary confinement in the women's section. She spends most of her time alone. There are no other inmates, and the county jail has only one day time woman deputy and that deputy was not on duty for the holiday. Nearby, one juvenile was con fined in the section for boys. The grill to the main jail oc casionally showed a face of in mates drawing closer to the kit chen for a better sniff of the turkey and trimmings. Dinner time was set for about 4 p.m. A different air prevailed in the city jail. There, no kitchen odors were present to remind the prisoners of the holiday. The city purchases meals from a downtown destaurant. But the 15 city prisoners were looking forward to a turkey din ner Thursday. The customary holiday fare turkey, dressing and all the other traditional Thanksgiving foods were pre scribed by Chief Clyde A. War ren. Science Proves God Says Pope Vatican City, Nov. 22 IIP) Pope Pius XII said today that modern science has contributed to proofs of the existence of God. With concreteness of physical proofs, modern science, said the Pope, "has confirmed the contin gency of the universe and also the well-founded deduction as to the epoch when the cosmos came forth from the hands of the ere ator." The pontiff gave his discourse upon the opening of the ,J4Uth academic year of the Pontifical Academy and the academy at tended the ceremony. The entire front page of the Vatican's "L'Osservatorc Ro mano" and another two inside columns were devoted to the ad dress, described by Vatican sources as among the most im portant the pontiff has made in the more than 21 years of his reign. The Pope said the existence of God, "so essential to the life of every man," receives confirma tion by "every deepening and progress in scientific know ledge." 'In fact," he declared, ac cording to the measure of its progress, and contrary to affir mation advanced in the past, true science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science." Churchill to Leave Dec. 29 London, Nov. 22 Prime Minister Winston Churchill will leave England Dec. 29 for his meeting with President Truman in Washington. Soviet Charges Security Act Violates Treaty Asserts lr Provides Funds for Groups Behind Iron Curtain Paris. Nov. ZZ (JP) Russia to night moved to bring before the U.N. general assembly charges that the United States mutual security act was intended to fos ter subversive activities in com-' inunist countries. I The Soviet union sent a note lo the United Nations secretary general, Trygve Lie, asking that this question be placed on the agenda for assembly debate at this session. The move came 24 hours af ter Moscow handed the United Stales a note charging that the mutual security act violated the Roosevelt-Litvinoff a g r e cmcnt of 1933 on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Finances Armed Groups The Soviet note to the U.N. declared passage of the pact pro vided funds for financing armed groups directed against Russia and charged that this was a "new aggressive act" against the Soviet union. The request for U. N. action will be referred to the 14-nation steering committee of the as sembly. The steering committee will then decide whether it should recommend putting the item on the agenda. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 4) Tito to Liberate Church Prelate New York, Nov. 22 (VP) The New York Times said today that Premier Marshal Tito of Yugo slavia will announce "in the near future" the liberation of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac. . In a dispatch from Rome, C. L. Sulzberger, the Times' chief foreign correspondent, said "The archbishop will be sent oack to his native village of Krasic,; where he will be per milled to live as a private indi vidual and clergyman with full restoration of his civil rights on the condition that he docs not engage in political activity con sidered to be against the inter ests of the state." Archbishop Stepinac, now in Lepoglava prison has served five years of a 16-year sentence on charges including wartime col laboration with the axis powers. Sulzberger said the Roman Catholic prelate would not be recognized as the Roman Cath olic primate of Yugoslavia by the Belgrade government. "For this reason," Sulzberger said, "the forthcoming announce ment of the archbishop's freedom is not likely to settle the status either of the former primate himself or of the Roman Catho lic church in the eyes of the Vatican." Bruton Skippers Wisconsin Washington, Nov. 22 Captain Henry C. Bruton, native of Little Rock, Ark., has been assigned command of the 4.5, 000 ton battleship, Wisconsin, it was learned today. mi arJ f f k '.. TV. V. ; VIS rije. -va' - t jams For Korean Thanksgiving MSgt. Charles Allison has just proved that this shipment to the port of Pusan, Korea, is not mislabeled, climbing into a big cargo net full of boxed turkeys that have been shipped for the combat forces' Thanksgiving dinner. (U. S. Army photo via AP Wirephoto) Lowe Confirms Massacre of 5,600 Troops Portland. Me., Nov. 22 (Pv Maj. Gen. Frank E. Lowe, USA Ret., president Truman's per sonal observer in Korea for nine months, yesterday termed as true reports that 5.600 U. S. troops captured in Korea were victims of "death by atrocity." Declaring this knowledge is general among the men fight ing in Korea, Gen. Lowe told the Portland Young Republi cans he was surprised the Amer ican public had not been told of the atrocities before. He said military commanders make desperate efforts to pro tect their men from capture and even to recapture prisoners deep in enemy territory. His comments on atrocities were made in answer to a ques tion from the audience. He described the war in Ko rea as the "roughest, toughest fighting since Custer's last stand." Trains Collide In N.Y. Subway New York, Nov. 22 (P) Two holiday-crowded trains, running sidc-by-side smashed together in a tunnel under Manhattan today, njuring 12 lo 17 persons. Ten were hospitalized. The wreck of the New York New Haven and Hartford rail road trains temporarily tied up ;ill service out of big Grand Cen tral station, stranding thousands of Thanksgiving day travelers. The trains, one bound for Stamford, Conn., and the other for New Haven, left Grand Cen tral terminal at about the same lime from different levels in the terminal. But about eight blocks north, the upper and lower level of the underground tracks converged onto the same level at about 50th street and Park avenue. There, I police said, the crash occurred. Ambulances, fire trucks and emergency squads swarmed to the area. First police reports said two cars, of the Stamford bound train, loaded wilh about 500 people, were badly damaged. Passengers were shaken about, and some hurt by flying glass. One woman was trapped in a crushed seat. Seven injured persons were brought out on stretchers. The New Haven-bound train carried about 600 holiday riders. Stephen C. Osvaji, conduclor of the Stamford-bound train, said the third car of his train veered over to the right, smack ing against the other train. 4 Percent of People Receive Public Aid Washington, Nov. 22 P The proportion of the population re ceiving some form of public aid has declined from 11'. 2 per cent in 1940 to less than 4 per cent at present, the social security ad ministration reported last night. It said also that public aid pro-: rams now take a penny out of the national income dollar, com pared with 3'i cents in 1940. Ad ministrator Oscar R. Ewing said a further decline can be expect ed "as more old people qualify for old age and survivors in surance." Negotiators Near Armistice Agreement Only One Point Unsettled in Buffer Zone Dispute Munsan, Korea, Nov. 22 iP) Truce negotiators neared agree ment at a Thanksgiving day meeting on a plan which could open the way for an end of fighting in Korea by Christmas. Only one point remained to be settled in the buffer zone dis pute. Delegates were so close to gether they called a Friday meet ing of staff officers to start draw ing the line of battle contact ac ross Korea. This would become the cen ter of a buffer zone, 2' miles wide, if an armistice is sign ed within 30 days. 3 Major Hurdles If the remaining dispute on a cease-fire line is ironed out, hree major hurdles would still sland in the way of making it effective, and signing a truce by Christmas (1) terms for en forcing the armistice, (2) ex change of prisoners, and (3) rec ommendations to governments on withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea. A U. N. command spokesman said only one question is holding up full accord on the buffer zona issue. That is how a new cease fire line would be fixed if no agreement is reached in 30 days. (Concluded on Pace 5. Column S) Reds Over Ran Allied Position Seoul, Korea, Nov. 22 lP) . Two communist battalions at tacking through barbed wire and a hajl of artillery fire over-' ran an advance allied position in western Korea early today. .- As American troops along most of the rain-swept battle front observed Thanksgiving with turkey and trimmings, the Reds hit the central sector of the western front wilh a series of hard jabs. The attacks cenlered west of Chorwin, U. S. Eighth army headquarters said. One allied unit was reported surrounded during the night. But it beat back Ihe attacking Reds and then regained advance positions lost earlier. In the same sector, elements of a Bed regiment hit two U. N. positions, but Ihe attack was beaten off. Army spokesmen said at no point did the enemy smash through lo the main allied lines. By dawn the front was reported quiet. Elsewhere, minor communist probing attacks were beaten back southeast of Kumsong and cast of the Pukhan river on th central front. Thanksgiving dawned cleaf and crisp. But rain fell as the morning wore on, cutting down sir activity and drenching men in the foxholes. Helicopters braved weather to fly piping hot turkey from one mess kitchen to an infan try company dug in an Heart break ridge on the eastern front. Big 3 Confer With Adenauer Paris, Nov. 22 German Chancellor K o n r a d Adenauer mt with the western Big Three foreign ministers today lo de fine the terms by which west Germany will get almost full sovereignty. The western ministers reach ed agreement on terms of a peace contract with t h e Bonn govcrnmcnl this morning. They expecled Adenauer's approval this afternoon. The agreement covers only the general outline of a peace contract which the western world is to sign wilh the west German republic, abolishing the present occupation statute. Details of such problems as how many soldiers and airmen are to be recruited from among Germans to join Ihe western world's anti-aggression forces and when are being left to la ter talks by experts, it was learn ed. American sources in Frank furt, Germany, said agreement already had been reached on the main principles for granting west Germany near-sovereignty so she may participate as an equal pa r t n e r in Europe's defense. y