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aal FINAL EDITION THE WEATHER MOSTLY CLOUDY tonight and Sunday. Continued cool. Low tonight, 34; high Sunday, 44. N003H0 aN,u080JO 63rd Year, No. 281 Entertd u second tlui otnm Salem, Oregon, Saturday, November 24, jo Price 5c tnttttr at Salem, Capital ii ilo Spotlight of Politics May Shine on State Oregon Could Again Hold Important Role In National Race By JAMES D. OLSON Oregon may be in the nation West Told to Revamp Plan to Please Russia Vishinsky Dema; Revision of Dis armament Program Paris, Nov. 24 W) Soviet For eign Minister Andrei Y. Vishin sky demanded today that west, ern powers rewrite their disarm Russia Claims Lost US Plane Fired First at Red Fliers al political spotlight next May just as It was four years ago when Governor Thomas E. , Dewey of New York and Harold Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, fought it out for the republican preferential nod for , president. Dewey won. ) It is now certain that there ; will be an interesting race be tween General Dwight D. Eisen hower and President Harry S Truman on the democratic tic ket and a strong possibility that Gen. Ike will be pitted against Senator Robert A. Taft on the republican ballot. Taft's nation al organization men do not wish to enter the Oregon primaries, but some Oregon pro-Taft men might go ahead on their own. Just to make it more interest ing there is a strong possibility that Gen. MacArthur's name will be placed on the republi can ballot, also, reports being that petitions to this end having already been circulated by E. P. Epton in Multnomah county. (Concluded on Page 5. Column 6) McCarthy Gets Oil Concession Paris, Nov. 24 VP) Texas oil man Glenn McCarthy said today he had signed a multi-million dollar deal to take control of a company which would exploit more than 7,000 square miles of Egyptian territory for oil. Exact terms of the deal were not disclosed, except that under the agreement McCarthy would have a 51 per cent interest in Uhe Egyptian National Petroleum company. The remaining 49 per cent is owned by varied inter .' ests, mostly Egyptians. Some sources said previously the deal would involve "be tween six and ten million dol lars," but one of McCarthy's aides said today "the exact amount of the investment can't be known until we see just how much and what type of exploi tation will be necessary." The oil lands of Egypt range over most of the northern sec tions of the country, from the Sinai desert westward to an area on the Mediterranean some 300 miles west of Cairo. Cold Wave and Rain in East (By United Pre.w A severe cold wave, with temperatures more than 35 de grees below normal, chilled the northern midwest today while a soaking rain drenched a wide area extending from Texas to New England. i The cold wave was centered in Minnesota with below-zero temperatures reported in all Sections of the state. Alexan ria, Minn., had 12 below and finneapolis five. It was 16 be low at Jamestown, N. D., six below at Grantsburg, Wis., and two below at Mason City, la. To the south and east, a band of rain 200 miles wide stretched from north-central Texas all the way to the Atlantic coast. It rained almost all day yes terday in the lower Ohio valley. Forecasters said that Paducah, Ky., registered a total rainfall of 3.66 inches, and West Plains, Mo., recorded 2.76 inches. Temperatures in the west al so were below normal. Phoen ix, Ariz., caught both the cold and the rain with a tempera ture reading of 49 very low for that area and a .78-inch rainfall. The Mississippi river at Min neapolis was frozen over and half a dozen families fled their houseboat homes yesterday when an ice pack swept away gangplanks and ground the boSTs into splinters. The giant ice jam also snap ped the mooring lines holding two 400-ton barges which broke loose and started on an uncon trolled journey downstream. Weather Details Maifmum Ntrrday, Xft: minimum to T, M. TUt tl-hour prcclpiUtlttnt Iraee; for month: normal, 4.11. firiton pre cipitation, llaM: normal, .. Rlw hlfht, . of a'fool. (Rfporl hy U.S. Vt tnr ttnrtiv.) ament plan almost completely to make it acceptable to Russia. Spokesmen for Britain and the United States immediately ex pressed disappointment and dis couragement with Vishinsky's long awaited reply to the arms reduction plan submitted by the western big three. Some said, however, that they thought Vi shinsky had left the door open for negotiation. The Soviet demands for revi sion of the western plan were incorporated in a series of 12 amendments submitted to the 60-member United Nations as sembly political committee. The amendments, to all practical purposes, would transform the western plan into the one the Russians submitted two weeks ago. Disappointment Voiced Ambassador Philip C. Jessup, United States delegate who is handling the disarmament de bate in the political committee now, made this comment: "We are very much disap pointed. Mr. Vishinsky still seems to prefer denunciation to negotiation. Secretary Acheson's speech made it clear that we desire to forsake invective and go to work. We will proceed in the hope that progress toward a genuine system of disarma ment is still possible." A leading Scandinavian dele gate, said he found Vishinsky's address "less belligerent than previous ones," he said he thought "the soft tones at the end of the speech might be an opening for negotiations." Other Developments "The Americans can now come -with detailed questions to the Russians on what they mean. Other developments at the U. N. today: (Concluded on Page 5, Column 5) Vishinsky Raps William Oaf is Paris, Nov. 24 WP) Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Vish insky made a backhanded ref erence to William Oatis, Associ ated Press correspondent now imprisoned in Czechoslovakia, during his speech in the United Nations today. Vishinsky was turning down western proposals for interna tional inspection of atomic es tablishments when he said: "As for the inspection, this would be entirely in the hands of the United States with all the consequences, this implies. The "honest profession' of the Oat ises, to which Mr. Acheson (U. S. secretary of state) referred here, would no doubt enjoy great 'protection also in the work of this inspection." Oatis was accused of spying and espionage in Czechoslovak ia and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. Oatis' superiors in the Associated Press and U. S. government officials have called the trial a travesty of justice and said that Oatis could not possibly have been engaged in spying. Mayor and Council Stage Secret Session At high noon today the city council met in one of those sub rosa, under cover, star chamber sessions according to a plan that Mayor Al Loucks has been toy ing with ever since he took of fice. The meeting was in the office of City Manager J. L. Franzen, and a repast, prepared by a nearby caterer, was served. The mayor, when asked by a newspaperman if the meeting were open . to the press, an swered: "Well, yes and no." He then streamlined the an swer so that it definitely meant no. "If anything really Important comes up," said the burgomaster, I'll give vou a buzz." At press time he hadn't buzzed. Asked if his secret meetings were going to be Saturday noons Danish Navy's Arsenal Blasted Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov. 24 VP) Exploding half-ton mines last night blasted the Danish navy's arsenal here into a charred tangle of death and wreckage. At least 18 firemen and navy enlisted men were killed. Oth ers possibly were blown into the harbor or" still may be lying under the tangle of concrete and metal debris. Seventy-nine others were injured. Unofficial estimates put the damage somewhere between 75,000,000 and 100,000,000 kro ner (about ..$1,100,000 to 400,000). The violent chain reaction of fire and explosion, which de stroyed five buildings and heav ily damaged other navy instal lations, shattered windows throughout Copenhagen; set, off hundreds of burglar alarms and knocked people out of their beds as far away as Sweden, 30 miles across the Straits. Firemen who first were called to battle the gasoline fire, were caught by the blast and only one of them was able to tell what happened. The other 22 were either dead or in the hospital. Engineer Ran Past Red Light New York, Nov. 24 VP) The engineer of the New Haven rail road express train involved in the Thanksgiving day Park ave nue tunnel wreck has been quot ed as saying he ran his locomo tive through a stop signal. The express sideswiped a Stamford-bound local as the two eight-car trains carrying 1,100 holiday passengers moved north side-by-side in the narrow tun nel. T w e n t y-seven passengers were injured, one critically. Three coaches were derailed and parts of the two trains crashed into opposite sides of the tun nel. After a closed hearing yester day the engineer, James D. Tay lor, 50, of East Haven, Conn., was quoted as admitting he fail ed to see a red light in time to avoid a collision. Already under suspension, Taylor will be subject to rail road disciplinary action. preceding a Monday night coun cil meeting, or on Monday night just before the public session, the mayor said he wasn't sure yet. Two weeks ago it was held 30 minutes ahead of the open meet ing. At today's little party, the mayor said, the aldermen would have a look at the Monday night agenda. Presumably, on a good many things, the action to be taken Monday night was pat terned and cut and then laid out to drv over the weekend. Will that save time and talk Monday night? Oh, no. The boyi gotta put on a show, you know, pro bono pub lico. Aldermen Bob White and Dan Fry were out of town and could n't go to the party. Alderman David O'Hara wasn't expected to be there. O'Hara eschewi secret meetings. , Foch Statue Unveiled American soldiers (left) march past statue of Marshal -Ferdinand Foch, World War I Supreme Commander, at unveiling ceremony in Paris. Barkley Fires Birthday Shell at Chinese Reds Central Front, Korea, Nov. 24 (IP) V i c e President . Alben Barkley celebrated his 74th birthday today by firing an au tographed artillery shell at the Chinese Reds. ... , He said he was coming through his long trip to Korea "in good shape," then added, "it's not too rough." When he landed at the for ward airstrip of the U.S. 25th di vision, -the -division band broke into "Happy Birthday to You." "I expect to live to 105, espe cially after this exhilerating trip to Korea," he said with a broad grin.. , Arnold Paid Lindy Tribute Washington, Nov. 24 VP) The late "Hap" . Arnold general of the Army H. H. Arnold, who was World War Two U. S. air leader said that Charles Lind bergh never received credit Ar nold believed was due him for ferreting out information about pre-war Germany's aircraft. This was recalled here today by reports from Paris that a forth-coming book tells of visits by Lindbergh in 1935 to Reich marshal Hermann Goering "at the request of the United Stales government to get information about the expanding luftwaffe." The book, to be published in Lon don, Dec. 6, is "Marshal Without Glory," a study of Goering by two British journalists, Ewan Butler and Gordon Young. They praise Lindbergh for getting an "extremely full re port on the luftwaffe" and say he has never received, publicly,' credit due to him. . Hap Arnold, too, in his book "Global Mission," published in 1949, said "Nobody gave us much useful information about Hitler's air force until Lindbergh came home in 1939." Truman Seeks Experts for Jobs Key West, Fla., Nov. 24 OP) President Truman wrestled to day with the major problem of drawing experts into the gov ernment service to handle key defense assignments. Emergency agencies are op erating largely with executives on leave from private business or educational institutions whose services in many cases are nec essarily of temporary duration. Gordon Gray, on leave from the presidency of the University of North Carolina, was able to resign yesterday as director of the psychological strategy board because1, as he put it in a letter to the president, "a very com petent successor has been found." That successor is Dr. Raymond B. Allen, who is leaving the presidency of the University of Washington on January 1 to take over the duties of Gray, a for mer secretary of the army. In his assignment, Dr. Allen will formulate and co-ordinate overall psychological objectives, policies and programs of thf de fense program. Barkley reviewed an honor guard and shook hands with the 25th division's commander, Maj. Gen. Ira P. Swift. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme allied commander, and Gen. James A. Van Fleet, eighth army chief, accompanied Bark ley on a swing along the front in an aerial caravan of light planes. Barkley returned to Tokyo by air Saturday night. Tired by his three-day tour of the Korean battlefront, he slept most -of the way. Ridgway, U.S. Ambassa dor John J. Muccio and other governmental and military lead. ers accompanied him back to From the 25th division the group flew to the 24th division where the veep presented a pre sidential unit citation to compa ny "K" of the 19th infantry re giment. Battery "C" of the 52nd field artillery battalion greeted Bark ley with a 19-gun salute and gave him a polished shell case bearing the vice president's seal and this inscription: "Fired for freedom by the 24th infantry division in Korea 1951." Snow lay in patches on the ground and the mercury had ris en to only 25 degrees from a low of 14 Saturday morning. Bark ley came bundled up for the cold. Barkley pulled the lanyard on a 105 millimeter howitzer to celebrate his birthday. The veep wrote his name on (he shell with a red crayon be fore firing it at the Chinese in the hills to the north. He signed it simply, "Alben Barkley." Stassen to Hurl Hat in GOP Ring By JACK BELL Washington, Nov. 24 VP) Pressure built up today behind potential republican presidential aspirants to bring their candi dacy out into the open. Friends were reported urging Harold E. Stassen, former gov ernor of Minnesota and now president of the University of Pennsylvania, to announce his candidacy before Jan. 1. Senator Morse (R., Ore.) said if Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is going to be a candidate for the republican nomination he should 'say so immediately. Politicians generally credited the early entry of Senator Rob ert A. Taft of Ohio into the re publican race with the early pressure beinfr brought to bear on other potential candidates. Thus far only Gov. Earl Warren oi LalHornia, the 1H4H vice presidential nominee, officially had entered the list against Taft. However, associates said they believed Stassen soon will throw his hat into the ring, without regard to any decision that may be made by Eisenhower. Eisen hower has not publicly said whether he would be available for any presidential nomination. It is likely that Stassen'i sup porters will enter his name in the March 11 New Hampshire primary. They might withdraw it from that race, however, if Eisenhower s name is placed on the ballot and the general does not take the necessary steps to remove It Pinpoint Hall Of Cease Fire Line in Korea Munsan, Korea, Nov. 24 Wi United Nations and communist staff officers today pinpointed half the 145-mild cease-fire line across Korea. A U.N. spokesman said allied military experts hope to com plete the job tomorrow but "couldn't make any guaran tees." The spokesman, Lt. Col. How ard Levie, indicated that if the staff officers are unable to map the entire battle line Sunday, the joint cease-fire subcommit tees will take over. This ap parently means the full truce delegations cannot approve the buffer zone clause before Mon day. The staff officers meet in Panmunjom for the third time at 10 a.m. (5 p.m. PST Satur day). Meet for Five Hours If they fail to reach com plete agreement "it's not to be considered a failure," Levie said. He explained that sub delegates have far more latitude and would be able to make quick decisions. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 7) Allies Repulse 4 Red Attacks Seoul, Korea, Nov. 24 VP) Reds hurled thousand-man at tacks -at United Nations outposts in four sectors but today had made no major change in the fighting front that may become the basis for a cease-fire line in Korea. An allied officer said the at tacks were designed to wipe out small U.N. outposts in front of the main United Nations line. 'They came al us two or three to one, to surround small units on hills, then tried to kill as many as possible," he said. He called it a change from the Reds' "human sea" wave attacks of the past. The Red ladies apparently were to bleed the U.N. forces al night, then pull back before day light out of range of allied fight er planes and artillery. 'But even in the dark fire power still chews them up," the officer said. "That's why you can hear our artillery going so hard. The heaviest Red altack came on the western front west of Yonchon. Two Chinese battalions knock ed U.N. forces off a hill on "lit tie Gibraltar" ridge Friday night nut fresh allies counterattacked in sub-freezing temperatures and by dawn Saturday had regained the peak. At the end of the day light hours Saturday the allies held three of the four hills on the crest that looks something like the rock that guards the western entrance to the Mediter ranean. The Reds threw in a battalion of reserves Saturday at nightfall and the fighting raged on in the darkness. Lost US Plane Shot at 20 Miles from Russia Paris, Nov. 24 (U,R) Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway told the United Nations today that two Soviet fighter plans attacked a missing UN weather reconnaissance air craft more than 20 miles out side Russian territorV today. Ridgway's report, submitted to the UN Security Council, blasted a formal Soviet accusa tion to the United Stales that the UN twin-engine plane with 10 men aboard deliberately flew over Russia's naval base at Vladivostok. A report from the UN su preme commander in Korea said an Intensive search for the navy P2V Neptune patrol bomb er proved fruitless. It disap peared Nov. 6 while on a weath er reconnaissance mission for the UN command. "The route this plane was fol lowing did not approach closer Russia Hands Secret Notes To 4 Nations Moscow, Nov. 24 VP) Acting Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko summoned the dip lomatic representatives of Brit ain, France, Turkey and the United States today and hand ed them notes of similar content. There was no official word im ediately as to the contents of the notes, but informed sources said they charged the four coun tries with trying to deprive Mid dle and Near Eastern countries of their independence. Britain, France, Turkey and the United States have proposed a Middle East defense command setup, which Russia bitterly opposes. Premier Galls Election in Iran Tehran, Iran, Nov. 24 VP) Premier Mohammed Mossa degh's government announced today it would call for immedi ate national elections and chal lenge parliament's decision to delay them until December 18. The surprise move came a day after the aged premier's return from a 47-day flying tour to the United States and back by way of Egypt. He conferred five and a half hours yesterday with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and presumably got royal sup port for his new decision. The big issue is the Iranian financial crisis arisng from the loss of royalties that formerly came in from the Anglo-Iranian OiL xompany(-now.nationalized by Mossadegh's . regime, and idle. Mossadegh failed to get more than a promise of serious con sideration on his request for a loan on a visit in Washington with President Truman. The oecision to call for imme diate elections was announced by Deputy Premier Hossein Fa temi, who accompanied Mossa degh on his foreign lour. At the same time Falemi dispelled any i:otion that Mossadegh would voluntarily resign under pres sure of mounting opposition. Dynamite Blasts Open Dikes on Po Rovigo, Ilaly, Nov. 24 MP). Engineers set off nearly two tons of dynamite this morning to blast open Po river dikes and release torrents of flood waters toward the Adriatic sea. The action was taken to re lieve flood pressures on larger towns along the raging river's banks. Church bells tolled a warning to any persons remain ing in the area just before the blast was set off. The Po has been cutting a path of devastation across North Italy for 16 days now. At least 200,000 persons have been driven from their homes, hun dreds of millions of dollars in damage have been counted and unofficial figures place the number of dead at more than 150. than 40 miles to U.S.S.R. terri tory, and the plane crew had been thoroughly briefed not to approach closer than 20 miles to U.S.S.R. territory under any cir cumstannces," the note said. It can only be concluded that the plane made neither an in tentional or planned approcah to the Russian coast, and that the plane was Intercepted and at tacked without warning while over international water, and furthermore, while well outside of 20 miles from the Russian Coastline." From the plane's last reported position, the report said, there is no doubt it was the same air craft referred to in a formal Sov ict protest delivered Nov. 7 in Moscow. The Russian note said that two Soviet fighter planes fired on a twin-engine bomber Nov. ft In the vicinity of Cape Ostrovnaya, Counter Charge Filed by U.S. at United Nations Washington, Nov. 24 (IP) Russia claims that the American patrol bomber which Soviet fighters fired on in the Far East opened fire first when the Red fliers sought to force it to land. The American plane has been missing since the encounter. The Russian charge was dis closed today with publication by the state department of the protest which Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko hand ed to American Diplomat Hugh S. Cumming, Jr., in Moscow, November 7. This country countered i n Paris with an accusation in the United Nations that Soviet air craft attacked the patrol craft without warning while it was flying over international wat ers of Siberia. Russian Version of Attack The Russian version was that the twin-engine bomber flew over the Soviet, border in the area of Cape Ostrovnaya, on the Sea of Japan, about 80 miles east of Vladivostok at 10:10 a. m. Vladivostok time, November 2. Two fighter planes approach ed the aircraft "with the inten tion of forcing the American plane which had violated Sov iet state frontiers to land on a Soviet airport," Gromyko told Cumming. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 4) Ridgway Says 8000 GIs Slain Paris, Nov. 24 (IP) The pos sible total of American prisoners slain by communists in Korea has been raised to 8,000 in a new ly disclosed report from Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme allied commander in the Far East, to the United Nations se curity council. That is 2,000 more than pre viously indicated. The disclosure, made in.one of the U. N. commander's regular semi-monthly reports, was sub mitted to the U. N. by the U. S. delegation along with two other reports on Nov. 12. It covers the period from Aug. IS to Aug. 31. Ridgway s statement, declar ing that as of July 20, 1051, "ap proximately 8,000 United States military personnel have been re ported killed as war crimes vic tims. This report was apparent ly made early this month before Col. James M. Hanlcy said the Keds had killed about 5.500 American and 200 other allied prisoners. Col. Hanlev is chief of the 8th Army's war crimes investigation section. The report, as disclosed in Washington last night, was de scribed as saying exact evidence obtained through July 20 num bered some 400 killings. The 8, 000 total was described as uncon firmed reports from various sources and in various forms. Pentagon Mum On Atrocities Washington, Nov. 24 (U.I!) Pentagon officials had no imme diate explanation today about why they kept secret for weeks Gen. Matthew B. Ridcwav'. communication that 8000 Amer ican prisoners of war had been reported slain by the commu nists in Korea. Press officers on duty carlv today said they "had nothing to say" about Ihe failure of the Pentagon officials to seem aware of the Ridgway report at me time Col. James M. Han ley, Eighth army war crimes investigator, made his first re port on Korean atrocities on November 14, in Pusan, ICorea. Ridgway's atrocity estimate made in a routine report to the United Nations had been trans mitted to U.N. officials two days previously after having been cleared by the joint chiefs of staff, and the defense and state departments. Quizzed about Hnnley's dis closure that over 5,000 Ameri can prisoners had been slain by the Reds, Pentagon officials appeared at the time to be skep tical of the figures.