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Newspaper Page TextC aiDital m al IF1NIAL EtDDTOOINI THE WEATHER. MOSTLY CLOUDY with occa ainnal showers. Increasing wind this evening; occasional rain, cooler Tuesday, Low tonight, 40; high Tuesday, 48. 63rd Year, No. 282 EntrtJ u wood elui matter at 8atam. Orccoa Salem, Oregon, Monday, November 2o, IV51 (76 Pages) Price 5c 20th Annual Farm Bureau Meeting Opens Committees Work on Resolutions for Later Action By MARGARET MAGEE Salem this week is host to the 20th annual meeting of the Oregon Farm Bureau Federa tion, with the resolutions com- mittee and land and water use committee opening sessions Monday morning. Preliminary to the opening of .the conference here the board 1 of the Oregon Farm Bureau J held a session Sunday night. ' Tuesday commodity groups of the organization will hold meet ings at which they will elect chairmen. The general meet ing is to get underway Wednes day, lasting through Friday. 800 Expected By Monday noon about 150 persons were registered for the various committees and .regis tration is expected to reach 800 before the annual meeting ends. The. organization has a total of 5.496 farm families from 28 Oregon counties. During their Monday morn ing session the land and water use committee and the resolu tions committee selected a sub committee from the two groups which will be headed by Ira Staggs of Baker. This commit tee is to meet wilh Henry Bueh ner of Portland and Frank Fol som, regional assistant U. S. forester to establish a policy on O and C land problems. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 3) Wind and Rain Weekend Storm New rain and wind storms swept the western Oregon sec tions over the week-end and early Monday morning, ,and .flow was piling up in higher elevations. In Salem, 1.10 inches of rain came down in the 48-hour peri od ending at 10:30 a.m. Monday, nearly three-quarters of an inch, .73, coming down in the last 24 hours. Winds ranged from 23 to 25 miles (in peak gusts) per hour velocity in Salem, Sunday, and Monday morning peak gusts hit 29 miles an hour here around 4:30 o'clock. A heavy snowstorm was re ported this morning in the San- tiam and McKenzie passes, bringing waYning to mortorists to be equipped with chains if planning to cross the mountains Snow plows were at work at both heights. It was reported snowing hard in the pass re gions this morning. Storm warning were flying along the coast, the weather bureau forecasting continuing coast. Winds up to 55 miles an hour are due by tonight, accom strong winds to whip along the panied by occasional rain, increasing wind is due to fcnight in the valley, but only oc casional rain and colder tern peratures are due tomorrow. (May to Open Safety Meet Governor Douglas McKay will open the governor's three day safety conference in Port land Wednesday afternoon. It will cover the fields of indus trial, traffic and home safety. The conference will highlight a busy week for Governor Mc Kay. Other events on his calendar include a banquet of the Ore gon Motor Transport association in Portland Wednesday evening; a dinner of the State Horticul tural Society at Corvallis Thurs day evening; and conference of the Western Forestry and Con servation association in Port land Friday afternoon and eve ning. His Salem engagements in clude a state library board meeting this afternoon; board of control and land board meet ings tomorrow morning, and luncheon with officials of the American and State Farm Bu reau Federation Thursday noon. Weather Details Mitlmim ?tilrtT. M: minim am I. f4, U Total S4-hfar prlpllallon: .!: fn month: 4.; normal. ft. 11. pr fitlilton. Ift.lfl: norm I. fVTA, Rlrrr fe'irht. f font, (Rfpnrt hr t'.ft, ffa- Stalin Makes RussianChurch Red Vehicle New York, Nov. 26 OJ.Rl "Our father who art in Moscow . , ," The muffled words came from the lips of one of two white hooded Ukrainian Catholic priests who told reporters yes terday that Soviet Premier Jo set Stalin had made the Rus sian church a communist "ve hicle." "Stalin has priests he trains in 36 hours for their posts," the man who identified himself only as "Father X," said. "I saw churches in Czechoslovakia with statues of him, substituted for God. Psalms are sung to him and the prayer now recited is 'My father who art in Mos cow'." Midwest Storm Moving East (By the Associated Prwwl A storm which dropped sleet and freezing rain on much of the midwest was moving eastward Monday causing some snow flur ries and light rain. Warmer weather in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York was expected to keep the storm from icing highways. The weather bureau in Chica go said the storm started Satur day in Colorado, Nebraska, Kan sas and Oklahoma, and has been moving slowly eastward. Large portions of Nebraska. Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Wiscon sin and Michigan and Indiana were covered Sunday with a per ilous coating of frozen rain mak ing driving hazardous. Milder temperatures today were expect ed to clear the area of its iciness Elsewhere in the nation show ers were reported in the Gulf states and in the northwest Pa cific states, with snow at some of the higher elevations.' A jam of heavy slush in the Mississippi river near Minneapo lis and St. Paul was threatening to flood the main power gener ating plant of the Twin City Rap id Transit Co. If the plant is flooded streetcars serving the Twin Cities would be unable to run. IT S Armv Engineers said thpv pnuld not break the deep mass ot slusn wnicn is noicung back the river's flow. Some early morning tempera tures were Chicago 31, Frago, N. r 13 Seattle 45 Los Angeles 51 rnrt Worth 49. Brownsville, Texas, 71, Miami oo, Boston oa and Caribou, Me. 12. Iranian Senate Votes Confidence in Premier Tehran.' Iran, Nov. 26 u.B The Iranian senate gave Premier Mohammed Mossadegh a unan imous vote of confidence today on his demand for immediate parliamentary elections. Mossadegh set the vote for Dec. 4 and announced his can didacy for reelection. The senate approved 36 to 0, with no abstentions, Mossadegh's report on his U. S. visit and his request for an immediate elec tion. The Majlis (lower house) yesterday gave him a 90-0 vote of confidence with 17 absten tions. Mossadegh's declared candid acy contradicted a statement he made last summer to quit pub lic life after Iran had national ized its British-run oil fields. Caudle Terrorized for War on Racketeers Washington, Nov. 26 (IP) T. Lamar Caudle, ousted assistant attorney general, testified to day that he was "afraid for my life" because of his efforts to stamp out rackets in Charlotte. N. C, where he formerly was U. S. attorney. In an emotion - charged ap pearance before a house ways and means subcommittee inves tigating his prosecution of tax fraud cases, Caudle said he was the victim of the "malicious in tent" of Charlotte Police Chief Frank Littlejohn and two fed eral agents. "Godamlghty, the hatred and bitterness they have against me is incalculable, he cried. Just before Cauldle took the witness stand the committee and Attorney General McGrath reached agreement on opening up justice department files deal ing with tax fraud prosecutions. Rising from the witness chair and addressing his remarks to spectators as well as committee members, Caudle testified that 16 Die, 60 Hurt In Collision of Streamliners Deluxe New York New Orleans Trains Crash in Alabama Woodstock, Ala., Nov. 26 VP) Workers today searched the man gled wreckage of a combination passenger-baggage car for add! tional victims in a streamliner collision which killed 16 and in jured 60. Two deluxe New York-New Orleans passenger trains met headon yesterday afternoon. The silvery northbound South erner pulled from a siding here into the path of the onrushing southbound Crescent. The sledgehammer crash turned the first car of the Southerner into a giant coffin. The trains met on a high rail road trestle 29 miles southwest of Birmingham. The Crescent was using the Southern tracks because a bridge was out on the Louisville and Nashville lines Slammed Back 80 Feet The Southerner had stopped after pulling out from the sid ing. The Crescent rounded a curve and roared into it. "We were slammed back 80 feet." said George Newton, Sent inary, Miss., a passenger in the third coach of the nortnnouna train. "Everybody was running through the train screamir? Normally the Crescent oper ates over the Southern to Atlan ta, over the West Point route to Montgomery, Ala., and thence to New Orleans via the L & N. All of the known dead were on the Southerner, most of them in the first car, which was smashed like an eggshell. Train men said P. J. Powers, Birming ham, engineer of the northbound train, was killed and his body caught in the wreckage. It had not been recovered. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 8) DiSalle Talks On Controls Washington, Nov. 26 (IP) Price Director Michael V. Di Salle testifies today that new higher pricings resulting from existing laws "will be harmful to the economy." DiSalle appeared before a joint congressional committee on defense production, which is inquiring as to how controls are working. The plump and jovial price boss told lawmakers that tail ure of congress to remove cer tain amendments to the price control extension makes it dif ficult to enforce the law and curb inflation. He recounted in great detail various price orders issued in different fields Senator Maybank (D., S.C.), chairman of the senate-house group as well as the senate banking committee, told Di Salle that he and other con gressmen want to review the re sults of controls now, as a basis for possible legislative action in the new session that begins Jan. 8. Senator Capehart (R., Ind.), author of an amendment that has been vigorously criticized by DiSalle, President Truman and others, and Rep. Paul Brown (D., Ga.), were the only other committeemen present. "the rackets down there (Char lotte) were protected by Little john and allowed to run." Caudle named Howard Frid dle, federal revenue intelligence agent, and an FBI agent, identi fied only as Montgomery, as those who, along with the Char lotte police chief, "hate and despise me." "I was afraid for my life, and I am today," he said. "That's why I rarely go to Charlotte." Caudle made an impassioned defense of the discharge of his official duties, first as U. S. attorney for the western district of North Carolina from 1940 to 1945, and as assistant attorney general from 1945 until he was fired by President Truman two weeks ago for "outside activi ties" deemed incompatible with his office. Under questioning by Adrian W. Dwind, committee counsel. Caudle acknowledged that there had been some complaints over handling of two rases while he was U. S. attorney. X I Ck, Congressman Walter Norblad Scores Government Spending Waller Norblad, Oregon congressman shown before a loud speaking 'mike' at Salem Chamber of Commerce where he told of Gen. Ike Eisenhower's fear of excessive government spending for non-defense purposes. Norblad Quotes Ike s Speech on US Spending By JAMES Ever-mounting government spending for non-defense pur poses was bitterly denounced by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower be fore a group of congressmen re cently, Rep. Waller Norblad of Senator Smith Wanted for Veep Washington, Nov: 26 mSen- ator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, the senate's only current woman member, was proposed by Senator Aiken (R., Vt.) to day as the republican vice presi dential nominee next year. "I know she would greatly strengthen our 1952 ticket with anyone," Aiken told a reporter. "And if anything should happen to the president, the country would still be in strong, capable hands." Told of her colleague's sugges tion, Mrs. Smith said in a sep arate interview: "I appreciate the confidence and faith Senator Aiken ex pressed. I am not a candidate. I am realistic enough to know that there is not even the most re mote possibility of such a thing happening. ' Aiken's plug for Mrs. Smith came in the wake of an an nouncement by supporters of Harold E. Stassen that they are opening a headquarters here for a drive to win the GOf presi dential nomination for him. Daniel C. Gainey of Owatonna, Minn., said he and others expect to persuade Stassen, former Min nesota governor who is now pres ident of the University of Penn sylvania, to run for the nomi nation he failed to win in idib. Truman Weak Asserts Byrd Washington, Nov. 26 'Pi Sen ator Byrd (D-Va.) said he re gards President Truman as "weaker today than any" other possible democratic nominee for the presidency in 1852 and he does not think the president can be re-elected. Byrd, perhaps Mr. Truman's bitterest critic within his own party, said however it is his per sonal belief "that he is going to run if he thinks he can win," and he added: "I've been doing all I can to help him make up his mind. I do not think he can be elected if nominated." Mr. Truman has said he has decided whether he will run again but is not ready to an nounce his decision. Meanwhile, Senator Aiken (R- Vt.) proposed that the repub licans nominate for the vice presidency the senate's only cur rent member, Senator Margaret hase Smith of Maine. Mrs. Smith said she is not a candidate. Byrd, in an interview with the magazine U. S. News and World Report, left little doubt if Mr. Truman wins the democratic nomination again he will contin ue to oppose him. 1 4' D. OLSON Oregon told a Chamber of Com merce luncheon audience Mon day. About 100 members of the Oregon Farm Bureau were guests of the chamber at the luncheon. "The general told us at his headquarters in France that we cannot have a government so far in debt that it will collapse," Norblad said, "and he strongly advocated a strong economy as a necessity for the United States in these troubled times." Norblad himself declared that non-defense spending during the last ten years has gone com pletely out of hand. "As an example the commerce department expend i t u r e s are now over 1000 per cent higher than in 1940," he said. "Every government department is spending al least three times more now than ten years ago," he declared. When General Eisenhower was asked how he felt about the French fighting spirit in event of a Russian attack, Norblad said that the general told the congressmen mat he had wor ried about France's will to fight when he first landed on the job but that he was no longer con cerned. "Eisenhower told us that al though there are at least 25 per cent of the population of France enrolled as communists, he had found that the average young French communist had become but an adherent to communism to combat domestic conditions,1 Norblad said. "He told us that when it came lo defending Mother France the Frenchman would be in there fighting." (Concluded on Page 5, Column 7) Flood Waters In Italy Recede Rovigo, Italy, Nov. 26 ()') Flood fighters readied new dyke- cutting blasts today to hasten to the Adriatic the destructive wat ers carpeting this Po river delta area. Though the water level drop ped slowly in this drowned-out provincial capital, new threats were posed by disrupted sewage systems, weakened buildings and a lack of drinking water. More than 160,000 have been made homeless and the unof ficial death toll has climbed past 150 in the last 17 days of floods. but thousands clung stubbornly to the upper stories of their water-weakened, marooned homes. W. Averill Harriman, U. S. director of mutual security, warned in Rome of the danger of disease and announced that 4,000,000 would be furnished the Italian government for med icines and other supplies for the flood victims. The decision to rip new holes in the dykes near Adria follow ed an aerial survey of the flood area. The arrival of a French army contingent of 700 men and scores of vehicles highlighted the ever growing foreign aid pouring into Italy, Korea (ease-Fire Line OK'd By Allied and Red Officers U.S. Agrees to Again Try Peace Talks With Reds Paris, Nov. 26 P) The Unit ed States agreed today to get together with Russia for private disarmament talks as suggested by a group of Asian-Arab states, but expressed doubt as to the usefulness of the move. Iraq. Pakistan and Syria submitted a resolution to the 60-member United Natit.ns po litical committee asking that the big four Russia, the Unit ed States, Britain and France meet privately under the presi dency of assembly president Luis Padilla Nervo of Mexico to try to reconcile the western and Russian disarmament plans. Ambassador Philip C, Jcssup later told the committee the U. S. was ready to do this if the committee voted it. Hp pointed out, however, that the deputy foreign ministers of the four countries had tried for 14 weeks last spring to reach such an agreement without success. Russia Undecided Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Y. Vishinsky told report ers he had not yet decided on an answer to the Asian-Arab move aimed at easing east-west tension. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Veep Willing to Go to Moscow Tokyo, Nov. 26 VP) The 74-year-old Vice President of the United States, back from a strenuous three-day tour of Korea's rugged battle front, told newsmen today he would will ingly go to Moscow or any where else in the world if it would promote peace. The "Veep," Alben Barklcy, made the comment to newsmen who had asked him the ques tion. He expresed optimism about the prospects of a Korean peace. Barkley has said he came to Korea to gather information for President Truman. Today newsmen told him there was one report he had come to approach Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway, allied su preme commander in the far east, to take General Eisen hower's job In Europe. "It ie so utterly groundless, it appears ridiculous," he re plied. Barkley planned to meet and to talk with Japanese lead ers. He will not go to Formosa but still was undecided about a visit to Manila. He expected lo be back in Washington in mid December and intends to keep a Dec. 7 speaking date in Honolulu. Today he made a 45-minulo luncheon address in which he said "it is my firm conviction that in the struggle to preserve the soul of man, America and Japan will march down the same highway toward the same goal." More Japs Paroled Tokyo, Nov. 26 WPl Thirlv- five Japanese war criminals will be paroled from Sugamo prison Dec. 1-6. This will bring the number of paroles to 471. Ike Warns N. A. 10. to Stop Haggling, to Unite Rome. Nov. 26 (IP) General Dwight D. Eisenhower sternly warned Atlantic pact command ers today to stop haggling over command appointments, forget individual national glory and "attempt the impossible" in building t r u e western security against aggression by pooling their sovereignty. He declared that unless Eu rope's defense line Is built strongly, far east of the Rhine, there never will be peace with out fear. This was interpreted as a definite reference to inclusion of German forces in the Atlantic pact army. The Atlantic narl sunrrmp commander addressed the North Atlantic treaty organization (NATO) chiefs of ttafi la d Enforcement Of Truce Next On Agenda Tokyo, Nov. 26 Settle ment of the next item on the Korean armistice agenda de-i penris on whether the Reds are! willing to let United Nations se curity teams enter communist! Korea . The item, third on the agenda, is "enforcement of the armis tice." Staff officers finally agreed on; item number two, the cease-fire1 line, tonight. Agreement on the line took four and a half months. Discussion is expected to be-1 gin almost immediately on the; next agenda item. ! It's exact wording is: 'Concrete arrangements for the realization of a cease-fire and armistice in Korea, includ ing the composition, authority and functions of a supervising organization for carrying out the terms of a cease-fire and armis tice." The United Nations delegation is going to demand "concrete evidence" that the enemy is not going to use the armistice to build up his strength. Tail Calls HST On False Charges Washington, Nov. 26 iP) Senator Taft (R., Ohio) describ ed as "completely false" today the assertion by President Tru man that "special interests" poured money into Ohio in 1950 to re-elect Taft to the senate. Testifying at a senate hearing, Taft said it was his opponents, not his supporters, who poured out the funds in the campaign. Ho added: "They were guilty of exces sive use of money, pouring funds into Ohio from every state in the union they used false front organizations, they sent carpetbaggers and outside organizers into Ohio, they bas ed their campaign on lies and misrepresentations about my personal life." The campaign against him, Taft, declared, represented a sinister conspiracy" in which his opponents "apparently would stop at nothing." Taft, now a candidate for the republican presidential nomin ation next year was reelected to the senate in 1950 by a 430.000 vote margin over Joseph T. Fer guson, his democratic opponent. Ferguson charged during the campaign that excesive expen ditures were being made in be half of Taft. An investigation Is being con ducted by a senate elections sub committee, headed by Senator Gillette (D., Iowa). Taft said he welcomed the in vestigation if it also went into expenditures by the opposition and inquired into defamatory literature Taft said was circul ated against him. Gillette said the group would inquire into all phases of the coinpaign. 4.414 Vets Due Today San Francisco, Nov. 26 UP) A big transport brings 4,414 more veterans back to the U.S. today. Yesterday 1,176 marines came in on the navy transport Menard. Among them were the last re turning group of marine veter ans of the Inchon landing made on Korea's west coast 14 months yance of an appearance before the 12-nalion NATO council. He is slated lo toll its members they must step up their defense ef forts for peace through strength. Qualified sources said Prime Minister Churchill's government thus far also has refused to ac cept the American .30 caliber Garand as the standard rifle for the Atlantic allies. Britain still is arguing in favor of Its own new .200 rifle. The North Atlantic command structure, the mid-east command, the small arms standardization and the streamlining of NATO's imililary structure are the chief ssurs bogging down the North i Atlantic defense ministers who tare meeting hert. 1 Only Signatures Of Negotiators Needed on Map Munsan, Korea, Nov. 26 tP Allied and communist staff of ficers tonight agreed on the exact location of a 145-mile Una across Korea where the shoot ing will stop if an armistice is signed within 30 days. Only signatures of the truca negotiators are needed to com plete settlement of the second item on the armistice agenda fixing a cease-fire line. The exact position of the cease-fire line was not disclosed prior to ratification by the full truce delegations. However, an allied spokesman said Kaesong, where the truce talks began last July 10, remains in Red terri tory and Panmunjom, site of the current talks, becomes part of the neutral buffer zone. Allies Retain Key Ridge 'Little Gibraltar," key ridge position on the western front where bloody fighting took place over the week-end, is re tained by the allies. Before tonight's agreement, censors permitted identification of the present battle line rough ly as follows: It starts on the east coast three miles south of Kosong, more than 40 miles north of parallel 38; moving westward it runs just below Mundung which is 2V4 miles north of Heart break ridge; then due west to a point just south of Kumsong; southwest to a point three miles north of Kumhwa; west to point 5 miles northwest of Chorwon; southwest 35 miles down to Imjim river where it joint the Han south of the 38th parallel, then along north shore of Han to the Yellow sea. (Concluded on Vaet S. Column 8) Reds Attack on Long Battle Line Seoul, Korea, Nov. 26 (IP) Communist troops today attack ed savagely through deep snow and bitter cold at both ends and in the center of the Korean bat tle line. In the west, advancing U.N. troops were hit by a reinforced communist battalion south of Panmunjom, the site of cease fire negotiations. Some 20 miles way, near Yonchon, allied for ces Sunday had shattered an at tack by up to 24,000 Chinese against "little Gibraltar." Eighth army headquarters said allied troops were pushing to ward high ground south of Pan munjom when the Reds coun terallacked, shoving the U.N. forces back toward their main lines. East of the Pukhan river on the central front, where the U.N, command launched a victorious two-day line-straightening offen sive Nov. 17-18, a Red battalion drove allied defenders out of three advanced positions. Southwest of Kumsong, in the .same general area, U.N. forces mounted an attack of their own and recaptured an advance posi tion recently lost lo the Reds. Two communist attacks against a hill position north west of Yanggu were beaten off. the eighth army said. The U.N. command has ex pressed belief the Reds were trying to grab strategic positions while truce negotiators at Pan munjom are attempting to map the battle line. Seventeen U. S. F-86 Sabre jets battled nearly 60 Red MIG- 15 Jets over North Korea this af ternoon and damaged two. Fifth Air Force said there were no Sa bre losses. Tacoma Vice Probe Gets Under Way Tacoma, Nov. 26 iPi Wash ington state's "Little Kcfauver" committee met here today to open an inquiry into Tacoma vice conditions. State Sen. Albert D. Roscllini, committee chairman, said first witnesses would be "witnesses of record," including slate tax commission representatives and other officials. Roscllini said the committet plans a broad study of prostitu tion, gambling, bootlegging, campaign expenditures and poi liblt payoffs.