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Newspaper Page TextC apitat A Journal THE WEATHER MOSTLY CLOUDY with snow showers tonight and Tuesday. Slightly cooler. Low tonight 76; high Tuesday, 38. EDITION! 64th Year. No. 18 .ftSTthSK Salem, Oreqon, Monday, January 21, 1952 .xs'es; Price 5c Salem, Oregon, Monday, January 21, 1952 tter at Salem, Oregon Newbry to Rule Ike's Name Off Talks Appear Korean Truce Demo Ballot Mahoney Threatens Legal Action to Keep It on for Primary By JAMES D. OLSON Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry Monday indicated that he would rule the name of Gen eral Dwight D. Eisenhower off the democratic ballot in the May primaries, but said that a defi nite decision would not be made for several days. s - Newbry pointed out that the raregon law is clear in the case of candidates entered in the pri marics by petitions that the can didate must be a member of the same political party as that to which the petitioners belong. Democratic State Senator Tho mas Mahoney, who filed the Ei senhower petitions with 1,110 democratic names for the demo cratic primary, said in Portland Monday that legal action might be taken to keep the general's name on the democratic ballot. Holds Ike Republican Newbry said that he had planned to write directly to Ei senhower to ask him which po litical party he claimed member ship to, but after the statement issued by the general, decided that his political affiliation to the republican party was clear. Mark Hatfield, executive sec retary of the Oregon for Eisen hower committee, said Monday that although the committee has far in excess of the required 1000 names on the Eisenhower peti tions, the filing of the petitions would not take place for several weeks. "In our talks with national leaders of the Eisenhower move ment," he said, "both Mr. Phil lips and I were told that the more names we could obtain on j)ie petitions the better it would be For that reason we are con tinuing the circulation of the petitions throughout the" state." (Concluded on Pace 5, Column 2) Compromise on UMT Program Washington (P) It appears virtually certain the country's youth will not be enrolled this year in a full Universal Military Training program. This was evident Monday af ter the nation's top military leaders, once emphatically in favor of it, suggested a compro mise plan in testimony before the House Armer Services Com mittee holding public hearings on the issue. The military leaders asked es sentially that 60,000 of the men subject to the growing draft this year be permitted to volunteer instead for a partial UMT. The purpose would be to get basic machinery oiled for the time, in the future, when full-scale UMT might be adopted. Chairman Vinson D.-Ga. of the house committee said Sun day it would be "relatively sim ple" to get UMT under way on a limited scale. Al Dead-End Only Major Policy Change Can End Endurance Contest Fanmunjom, Korea U.R Ko rean armistice talks appeared to have reached a dead-end today with both sides refusing to budge, Only a major policy change by the United Nations or the com munists can end the endurance contest and save the negotiations from final collapse. Both subcommittees working on a truce agreed to meet again at 11 a.m. Tomorrow( 8 p.m., today, CST), but neither held out any hope for agreement. Each side served notice in the two subcommittees today that it will not yield on the two main issues blocking an armistice the U. N. demand for voluntary repatriation of war prisoners and for a ban on military arif ield con struction. Threaten War Renewal A communist newsman cover ing the truct talks told U. N, correspondents that full - scale Korean fighting is "sure to be gin" unless the U. N. drops its arifieid ban demand. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 7) Reds Force Back Allied Raiders 8th Army Headquarters, Ko rea (U.R) Fierce Communist fire forced back United Nations raid ers on the western front today. The U.N. raiding patrol first attacked a hill northwest of Yonchonat 2 a.m., only to be thrown back by intense small arms and mortar fire. After an artillery bombard ment, the raiding party again as saulted the hill and this time got close enough to hurl hand gre nades at the Reds. Once more, however, the enemy fire drove the allies back to their own lines. Slightly farther east, U.N. units repulsed a probing attack by 15 communists near Chorwon. Another 15-man probe was thrown back south of Pyonggang on the central front. On the eastern front, U.N. pa trols fought four engagements with Communist units in bunk ers west of the Mundung valley. In one, the allies surrounded four bunkers, killed 24 Reds and captured five others Bad weather hampered air ac tivity after another day of me thodical destruction of Commun ist installations and supply routes Sunday. Patrolling American Sabre jets also shot down two Communist MIG-15 jet fighters 3$ njfy SS Ihil'F'iiiiii . '"Bw . ajjtatf'W laim Taft Aids ke's Candidacy Washington IIP) Sen. Taft's Assertion that Eisenhower-f or President supporters are "cry ing to high heaven" against the methods of Taft's campaign man ager brought a "rightfully so" retort from Sen. Ives (R., N.Y.) Monday. Taft, an 'announced candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, said Sunday that those seeking the nomination for Gen. Eisenhower have been contending Taft couldn t win the election next November. The Ohio senator added he wasn't able to understand "why the Eisenhower people should cry to high heaven" because Taft's manager, David S. In- galls, had made the same argu ment against naming Eisenhow er to head the GOP ticket. "It's more than that," said Ives, an Eisenhower backer "The Taft people are trying to tear . down Eisenhower by in nuendo, and I think the result has been to enhance the gen cral's chances for the nomina tion." Weather Details Mailmara yttUrdtj, 39: mlnlmam to day, . Total 54-boar precipitation: .14; for month: 8.53: normal. S.JU. Season pre caution. 2T.R5: normal. 2A.U. Hirer hflthl. t.3 feet. (Report hj t'.i. Weather) ROK Takes Over Ameriran Shins Astoria, Ore. (U.R) South Kore an naval crews take over com mand of two patrol craft and two support landing ships at ceremo nies here today. Present for the cermonies, scheduled at the Tongue Point Naval Station at 2:30 p.m., will be Young Han Choo, consul gen eral for the Republic of Korea, and officials of the Unnted States government. The 174 Korean sailors and of ficers to man the vessels arrived at Tongue Point Saturday from Seattle the last stage of a two week sea voyage from their homeland. Choo said the four-ship flotilla will be commanded by Capt. Pak Okkyu when it sails for Korea Ask Ratification Of Jap Treaty Washington VP) Secretary of State Acheson and John Foster Dulles urged the Senate Monday to ratify the Japanese Peace Treaty. Dulles said this must be done to keep Japan from becoming "a captive of Communism." Acheson and Dulles were the first witnesses to be called by the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, holding hearings on the Japanese treaty and three other Pacific security pacts with Japan, the Philippines and Aus tralia and New Zealand. Enactment of all the treaties was urged by both Acheson and Dulles. Acheson said the treaties are musts in order to set up a new and "effective syste mof region al security in the Pacific." And Dulles, architect of the treaty which has been signed by 49 nations, asserted that "the community of free nations needs Japan." Gen. Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, expressed belief that the Peace Treaty and the proposed Security Pacts will "contribute very materially to peace in the Pacific." He said the Defense Depart ment is in "full accord" with the treaties, but added military leaders hope the peace pact will not take effect until an adminis trative agreement relating to the maintenance of U.S. troops in Japan is worked out. Renew Fighting In Suez Zone Ismailia, Egypt VP) Fighting broke out again today between British troops and Egyptian guerrillas as the Egyptian gov ernment promised a full inves tigation of the killing of an American nun in this turbulent Suez canal town. Four Egyptian guerrillas were killed and a British officer was reported seriously wounded when British troops raided a big guerrilla ammunition depot. The guerrillas fired with Sten guns when the British troops surrounded a cemetery where the ammunition was stored. The troops broke through the guer rillas' defenses after heavy fight ing. Five guerrillas were captured. The U. S. embassy in Cairo said acting Egyptian Foreign Minister Ibrahim Farag Pasha promised American Ambassador Jefferson Caf f ery last night . to investigate the killing of the nun. Three Killed, 49 Burned in B-25 Crash Air Force rescue workers search the smoking wreckage of an Air Force B-25 ' which crash-landed on top of a guard house at Mather Air force Base, near Sacramento. At the right is part of guard house which was demolished in the crash. At least 3 men were killed and 49 others injured seriously. (AP Wircphoto) iruman's Budget Calls for $85.4 Billion Expenditures Nation Faces 2 Years Deficit Of $22.6 Billion Expands Cost Of Armed Forces To $51 Million 5 Survive Crashed Mercy Plane on Peak Port Angeles ff) Three; airmen's bodies were reported Monday on the Olympic Penin sula mountainside where five other members of a B-17 mercy plane crew miraculously escap ed death. Lt. Cmdr. Gordon H. Mac- Lane, Coast Guard helicopter Survivors Tell Of Plane Crash McChord Air Force Base VP) Seven survivors told Sunday of praying in unison as they watch ed 25 passengers of a crash-land ed Korean airlift plane swept one by one to their deaths in icy North Pacific seas. One soldier told of baptizing a youth just before he slipped beneath the battering waves. Thirtv-three of the 43 rjersonA1 UUUOIU Ub UUb U-l LUC fl.aili: SD,t' ly after it hit the water off the British Columbia coast. But only seven remained hud dled on the half-submerged wreckage when fishermen ar rived with a skiff. The seven survivors, flown here Saturday night from Sand spit Airport in the Queen Char lotte Islands, told of a 90-minute struggle for survival in the icy seas. They described how, numb with cold, they clung to a slip per' wing until the rescue boat arrived. The four-engined plane, in bound from Japan with troops en route home on emergency leave, crash-landed a mile off Sandspit Airport early Saturday after it developed engine trou ble. Griffis Resigns as Envoy Washington (IP) Stanton Grif fis resigned Monday as ambassa dor to Spain, saying he had al most reached the age of 65 and wanted to retire to private life Icy Streets Make Travel Hazardous in Salem Icy streets and hazardous travel are in prospect tonight and early Tuesday morning with below freezing tempera tures following the snow of Sunday and Monday. The new storm moving in Sunday with snow is due to con tinue tonight and Tuesday, more snow showers being pre dicted. Snow falling in Salem became pretty slushy during the mid day Monday, but colder tem peratures tonight will bring new worries for motorists tomorrow morning. A low of 26 degrees is due tonight. The Monday morn ing minimum here was 29 degrees. Total snowfall for the 24-hour I period ending at 10:30 a.m. Mon day amounted to .9 of an Inch the weather bureau reported. Downtown areas and the flats surrounding were not as hard hit with the snow as residential sections on elevations. In many higher places in Salem the snow was measured from 2 Inches to as high as 6 inches on the ridge to the south. The snow started in at 6:15 a.m. Sunday and fell intermit tently throughout the day and night. In some lower elevations the snow melted rapidly and at times the showers turned to rain, but on many hillsides the white stuff stuck to the ground and piled up as the flurries went on. (Concluded a Pace $, Column 4) Ike Honored by French Academy Paris VP) Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower was made an asso ciate member Monday of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institute of France, a 300-year-old French seat of culture and learning. In accepting the honor, he told the members of the academy in a speech that the task of forming an international defense force to resist Communist aggression a task of a scope never before seen in peacetime, even during the three centuries of the exist ence of this ancient institution.' The general said "the freedom loving peoples of the world have now embarked on a great col lective effort to preserve those things which make life worth living. We can succeed in this great endeavor only if each and every one of us is willing to give the full measure of courage, sacri fice, work and vision; not in a divided effort, but working to gether in the pursuit of our com mon goal. pilot, said all the bodies were found where they had been thrown from the catapulting plane in a 1,300-foot drop late Saturday. MacLane said a para-medic team that stayed on the frigid mountain overnight found two of the bodies prior to his land ing on the mountain this morn ing. He said a walkie talkie radio report after his take-off told of finding the third. Mac- Lane had landed with two more para-medics. He said he will fly to the mountain again this afternoon to fly out with the bodies. The Coast Guard originally listed the peak as Mt. Tyler but said Monday it was an unnamed peak near Tyler. The plane bounced over the top of the mountain late Satur day, after hitting near the peak, and skidded and bounced about 1,300 feet down the snow on the other side to around the 5, 000- foot, ".uvel. , ' . A crew member described the brush with death as "like being inside an automatic washing ma chine." The four-engined search and rescue plane was returning from the scene of a British Columbia plane crash Saturday night when it clipped the top of 6,359-foot Tyler Peak in a blinding snowstorm. The ship bounded over the peak and skidded through the snow down to the 5,000-foot level. Search planes located the wreckage Sunday. Only two of the survivors re quired hospitalization and they had only cuts and bruises. They were the pilot, Capt. Casimir F. Hybki, 31, of Tacoma, and the crew chief Sgt. Carl E Scargall, 22, Tillicum, Wash. Capt. Hybki said the crash came just five minutes after the crew had obtained the last "fix on their position. The air was turbulent, said the pilot, "tossing the plane up 700 to 800 feet at times. A blinding snowstorm prevented seeing the mountain. "There was a blinding flash we may have hit some trees first as the plane crashed." Washington (IP) President Truman Monday sent Congress an $85,444,000,000 spending budget, an unprecedented figure except in all-out war. He said it was "a heavy burden , . . the price of peace." To lawmakers talking loudly of economy in this election year, the President outlined an 11 bil lion dollar expansion in armed forces spending to more than-51 billion, including a start on building the Air Force from 90 wings to 143. Atomic Energy Expansion And he gave notice, in a bud get preview for reporters, that new five to six billion dollar five-year expansion program for atomic energy facilities will go to Congress soon. This isn't included in his budget for the fiscal year start ing July 1, Mr. Truman said, be cause it would be spent later in connection with some fantas tic weapons. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Snow Closes Dallas Schools Temporarily Dallas Heavy snowfall in the hills surrounding Dallas Monday caused S. E. Whitworth, city superintendent, to close all city schools for the day. Snow was reported to range from a foot to 15 inches in depth in the hills west of Dallas If there is no further snowfall the schools will resume classes Tuesday after snow plows have opened roads on bus routes. Budget Seeks 553 Navy Ships Washington (U.R) President Truman's new defense budget carries funds to build 553 navy ships including another super aircraft carrier and another atomic-powered submarine, was announced today. The announcement was made by Chairman Carl Vinson (D Ga.), of the house armed services committee shortly before Mr. Truman formally submitted his fiscal 1953 budget to congress. Vinson said that, all told, the budget includes $1,150,000,000 for navy shipbuilding and conversion. Vinson said the program calls for construction of 237,500 tons of new ships and conversion and modernization of 90,000 tons of existing ships. "The program is required to keep our navy in step with new developments and to replace those ships and, particularly 'jie small craft, which have become obsolencent and worn-out and which are no longer able to op erate efficiently in our national defense," Vinson said in a statement. Vinson said he is introducing immediately a bill to authorize the navy work as outlined Budget Asks National Park Funds Slashed Washington (IP) President Truman Monday asked Congress to provide $32,289,383 for the National Parks for the year starting July 1 a cut of about 5 ',4 million below the amount appropriated last year. The decrease was asked de spite estimates by the National Park Service that more visitors will tour the parks this year. Mr. Truman asked in his bud get message for $14,310,000 for construction work by the Park Service. This compares with $20,649,- 000 made available for the cur rent fiscal year ending June 30. The construction includes roads, trails, parkways, build ings and other physical facilities, To Build Second Atomic Sub Washington (IP) Chairman Vinson (D., Ga.), of the House Armed Services Committee in troduced a bill Monday to au thorize construction of the Na vy's second nuclear - powered submarine. The measure also includes au thorization to build giant air craft carriers one up to 60,000 tons capable of berthing atom bomb-carrying aircraft. The bill would authorize con struction and renovation costing approximately one billion 150 million dollars. Vinson, in announcing the bill, said it would permit con struction of 237,500 tons of com batant vessels. This includes two aircraft car riers, four destroyers, four sub- maines, thirty minesweepers, three destroyer escorts, two re frigerated stores ships, two tank ers and twenty-three landing ships. BUDGET AT A GLANCE "By the A.sso:intett Pr.A3 For Year Ending June 30. In billions 1952 1953 $62,680 $70,988 70,881 85,444 8,201 14,446 Income Outgo . . . Deficit . . Year-end debt ..$260,222 $274,922 60 Below Zero At Fnirhnnks Fairbanks, Alaska (IP) The temperature skidded to 60 de grees below zero Sunday and Fairbanks' 2000 residents, their regular air communications vir tually cut off by the bitter cold shivered in a frosty world of their own. The cold spell, the second in ten days, held most of the far north in its grip. It was 78 below zero at Snag on the Alaska-Canadian border and many interior Alaska points reported readings of 70 below or colder. A dense ice fog which always forms when the mercury drops below minus 45, forced sched uled airlines to cancel flights to and from Fairbanks. The occasional plane that did arrive took off again before its engines got cold. Visibility at night was reduced to about 30 feet. New Korean Casualties Washington (IP) The Defense Department Monday identified 59 additional battle casualties in Korea. A new list, No. 484, reported 14 killed, 41 wounded and four missing in action. It also listed 10 dead who were previously reported missing. $125 Million More For Veterans' Loans Washington (IP) A House subcommittee Monday approved a bill to make another 125 mil lion dollars available to veterans during the next year for loans on new homes and farms. The measure now goes to the Veterans' Affairs committee which will decide whether to submit it to the house. Approval of the bill is considered likely. Cannery Tender Aground Astoria IIP) The cannery ten der Susan of Sitka, Alaska, ran around in a snowstorm on Pea cock Spit on the Washington shore at the mouth of the Co lumbia River early Monday. . . American Nun Slain at Suez Ismalia, Egypt (IP) The U. S. consul from Cairo arrived here Monday for an on-the-spot in vestigation of the slaying of an American nun, the first Ameri can casualty in the bloody Suez fighting. At the same time, a British staff officer here announced military court of inquiry would meet to determine who killed the nun. He did not say when. In earlier statements, which the officer said were based on pre liminary reports, the British blamed the Egyptians. British officials said Egyptian "thugs" were responsible for the slaying of Sister Anthony, 52, born Brigitte Ann Timbers, daughter of Samuel Timbers of Pcekskill, N. Y. But Egyptian officials asserted that British rifle fire killed her as she stepped from her convent door Saturday with other nuns to welcome a British tank de tachment. As British troops virtually completed their task of clearing out the Arab quarter of this Suez Canal Zone center, a private rc quem mass was held for Sister Anthony. Washington (IP) President Truman told Congress Monday that for the year beginning next July 1, fiscal 1953, the govern ment should spend $85,444,000, 000 compared with $70,881,000, 000 estimated outlays for the current year, ending June 30, and $44,633,000,000 spent last fiscal year. Increase taxes by about $4, 600,000,000 with revenue from present laws estimated at $62, 680,000,000 this fiscal year and $70,998,000,000 next year. Run up a deficit of $8,201,000, 000 this year and $14,446,000,- 000 next year, compared with a surplus of $3,510,000,000 last year. Increase National Debt Increase the national debt from $255,222,000,000 last June 30 to $260,222,000,000 on June 30 this year and to $274,922,000,000 on June 30, 1953. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 8) To Speed-up Arms Deliveries Washington (IP) President Truman, asking new billions for. foreign aid, told Congress Mon day the United States is about to speed up its arms deliveries to Western Europe and other Red-threatened areas under a new allocations policy. Within the year, he said con fidently in his budget message. Western Europe with this Amer ican help "can have a compact force which would offer strong resistance in the event of an at tack." But it will be "a few years," he said, before the force will bo powerful enough to make remote the danger of an attack. To finance his projected mu tual security program including economic as well as military aid to friendly nations all over the world, the President proposed to spend $10,525,000,000 in the 12 months beginning next July 1. Asks $26 J Million for Northwest Power Plants Washington (H'i More than $261,177,265 is included in President Truman's budget for Oregon and Washington power and water projects. By far the biggest chunk is the $166,406,865 sought by the army engineers to build and maintain more than a half dozen rivers and harbors and flood control projects in the two states. This is more than one-fourth of what the engineers propose to spend in their entire nation wide program during the 12 months beginning July 1. It docs not include $8,100,000 sought for Albcni Falls and $6, 087,000 for Lucky Peak reser voirs in Idaho. Neither does it include the six million which President Tru man said he would seek in a supplemental request if con gress authorizes Hells Canyon Dam. Bonneville Power Adminis tration is down for $67,606,400 to continue construction of its widening transmission grid, and an additional $6,600,000 for op crating and maintenance. Bureau of Reclamation re quests for the two states total $20,474,000, of which 20 million is earmarked for the Columbia Basin Project. The engineers' budget again construction on Ice Harbor Dam, which has been rejected twice by congress. It is the only new project for the northwest area. Conoress Plans hM Slash Washington (U.R) Members of congress began demanding cuts in President Truman's $85,000, 000,000 plus budget even before they officially received it today. The president's spending pro posals for the fiscal year 1953, beginning next July 1, were scheduled for formal submission to the house and senate 12:15 p.m. EST. Mr. Truman already had indicated, in his economic message last week, that the .spending total would top $85,-000,000,000. Assistant House Republican Leader Charles A. Hiilleck jump ed the gun on the official release time by saying in a radio inter view yesterday that it was an 'open secret" that the budget would call for about $85,500,000,- 000 in spending, and estimated revenue of $71,000,000,000. The Indiana congressman de manded that congress slash $14, 500,000,000 from the budget to avoid a deficit of that amount. Ho said that even military spend ing and foreign aid two major items should be subjected to rigorous economy cuts. Mr. Truman was expected to repeat his earlier request for some $5,000,000,000 in new taxes to help close the gap between federal spending and income. But leaders of both parties agreed that there is no chance that congress will raise taxes in this election year. Name Fits His Job Sandpoint, Ida. (IP) The army has assigned a new man to its recruiting station at Sandpoint, a city covered with more than 30 inches of snow. His name is Snowball Sgt. L. M. Snowball.