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64th Year, No. 45
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HST Defends
Aides in Talk
Before Masons
In Off-rhe-Cuff Talk
. Cites Abuses Hurled
At Other Presidents
Washington (U.F9 President
Truman told a Masonic gather
ins; Thursday that he works all
day and nearly all night as Pres
ident, "but Just between you and
me and the gatepost, I like it."
The President confided this
attitude in an off-the-cuff talk
to Grand Masters of Masons at'
tending a nation-wide confer-Vence.
P Cabinet members and White
House staff representatives also
attended the hotel breakfast at
which Truman defended his
aides against the description of
"Missouri Gang," which he said
has been given them by his op
ponents.
Cites Other Presidents
He noted that Lincoln, Jef
lerson, Cleveland and other pres
idents underwent a lot of criti
cism and that it was some years
after Cleveland left office that
it was said of him "they loved
him for the enemies he made."
"I hope you love me for that
same reason," the President said.
Truman did not' identify the
"they" in the remark about
Cleveland.
He went on to say that if he
mums uca jijgiib .ill wuafc lie
does, "I don t care if anyone
likes It or not."
Turning to the criticism of
past presidents, Truman said:
1. It has taken 150 years to
determine the greatness of
Washington.
2. Thomas Jefferson was once
described as a "Jacobin" which
Truman said, is about the same
as being called a communist today.
3. Two papers the New York
Tribune and Chicago Tribune
In rdflronrp in T.lnmln'a RdHrt.
Cburg address said "the president
also spoke and made the usual
ass of himself. ' .:-
This, of course, was not true,
Truman said. .
$3 Million in
Wages Paid.
No Work Done
Laborers in Secret
North Pole Airbase
Got $13,000 a year
Washington W) A Senate in
vestigation heard Thursday that
workers on a super-secret air
base construction program near
the North Pole collected more
than three million dollars In
wages before even reaching the
Job.
Lt. .Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief
of Army Engineers, defended
these payments as well as sal
aries at a rate of $13,000 a year
for laborers and $17,000 a year
for mechanics on the project,
Drew Salary Enroute
Questions by Downey Rice,
counsel for the committee
which was set up as a watchdog
group on military spending
brought out the salary figures,
Rice did not indicate how
many workers shared the three
million dollars, but said they
drew the pay while en route to
the Job by ship and airplane.
He said some of them left
Norfolk, Va.f-by ship, expecting
to be at the job in IS days but
actually were 42 days on the
way.
Blue Jay Project
The project was known by the
code name of "Blue Jay" pre
viously publicized as being in
Greenland.
Rice said this project and an
other air base construction job
in North Africa, known 'by the
code name of "Atlas", already
involved expenditures of about
100 million dollars.
New Snow Hits
Eastern States
IB Unttad Preu) .
New snow hit the Midwest
and New England today before
residents had time to dig out
of paralyzing snow dumped by
storms earlier this week.
Sixty deaths were attributed
to the storms which began Monday.
Snow plow teams worked
around the clock to rescue per
sons marooned by drifts deeper
than four feet in some areas
as the new storms bore down,
Fresh snow whipped by 30
mile - an - hour winds reached
southern New England early to
day and began to spread north
east toward where 13 seamen
stubbornly stayed aboard the
stern of their torn tanker, the
Fort Mercer, off Massachusetts
shores.
The Fort Mercer and another
tanker, the Pendleton, were split
in two by mountainous waves
churned by Monday's nor'easter.
Fourteen seamen were lost in
the double disaster.
.- New light snows added an
other two inches to 29 - inch
r depths left by the blizzard that
swept across the Dakotas
Chains Needed
In Mountains
Chains are needed in all
mountain areas of Oregon and
many other roads are icy, the
State Highway Commission said
Thursday.
The road report said chains
are needed because of packed
snow at these points:
Government Camp, Timber-
line, Warm Springs Junction,
Ochoco, Santiam Pass, Lapine,
Willamette Pass, Meacham, John
Day and Seneca.
Icy spots were reported at
Portland, Troutdale, Wilson Rl
ver Summit, Astoria, Newport,
Salmon River Summit, Eugene,
Cave Junction, Union Creek,
Sisklyous, Coquille, The Dalles,
Bend, Detroit, Chemult, Lake
view and Pendleton.
All other points reported the
pavement either bare or sanded
Paratroopers Mass
Hong Kong VP) The Hong
Kong newspaper Wah Klu Yat
Po said Thursday 4,000 newly
trained paratroopers h a v
joined 290,000 other Red Chi
nese troops massed near the
Indo-China and Burma. borders
Truman Made
No Secret Pact
Washington (U.I!) House re
publicans said today they are
satisfied with President Tru
man's assurance that he has
made no secret agreements with
Britain to send additional Amer
ican troops anywhere in the
world.
But administration officials
and democratic leaders said it
was too bad the president was
compelled by circumstances to
reveal a fact which may be of
great interest to Russia.
Mr. Truman made the no-com
mitments statement late yester
day, shortly after the house
passed a GOP resolution de
manding a full report on any se
cret deals made at his meetings
with Prime Minister Winston
Churchill last month.
Officials said he spoke out
even though the resolution was
not binding on him because he
feared continued silence might
deepen the suspicion that he had
something to hide.
That suspicion has been har
bored by some congressional re
publicans ever since the
Churchill visit.
Mystery Explosion
Mystifies Portland
Portland VP) A thundering
noise alarmed . southwest Port
land and outlying suburbs Wed
nesday night. The cause still had
not been determined Thursday,
Some residents at first be
lleved a jet plane had crashed,
but this proved false.
Some thought a meteor had
passed over, but no reports of
one came from other areas.
A weather observer said it
may simply have been a freak
crash of thunder. Hail, which
usually accompanies thunder,
was reported in a few sections.
M ! I r
LUSCIOUS LIZ
London (IP) Movie Stars Eli
zabeth Taylor and Michael Wil
ding were- married shortly be
fore noon Thursday in the midst
of a lively mob scene.
The 19-year-old bride and her
39-year-old groom, arriving sep
arately, slipped almost unnotic
ed into the Caxton registry hall
through a side door but a crowd
of hundreds descended upon
them as they emerged after the
10-minute civil ceremony.
Elizabeth radiated happiness
as she was jostled by hundreds
of persons in the corridors of
the hall and in Caxton street
outside. Seemingly the cooler of
the two, she recognized friends
in the milling crowd and shout
ed greetings to them.
Only about a dozen persons
saw the ceremony, which was
the second marriage for both
Liz and Wilding.
Coy Resigns as
FCC Chairman
Washington (IP) Wayne Coy
resigned Thursday as chairman
of the Federal Communications
Commission.
Coy told reporters he was
quitting because he could not
afford the personal sacrifice of
continuing in the $15,000 a year
job.
Coy added that he had asked
President Truman to relieve him
of his post so that "I can ne
gotiate for a job in private industry."
The FCC supervises opera
tions of the radio and television
industry among other duties,
Coy, 48, was named chairman
of the commission in December,
1947. He left a job as assistant
publisher of the Washington
Post and as manager of radio
station WINX, to become a mem
ber of the FCC.
Petitions bearing names of
1,068 registered republican vot
ers to place the name of Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on the
primary ballot as a candidate
for president were filed Thurs
day with Dave O'Hara, in
charge of the state election bu
reau.
Sales Tax Bill Filed
For Old Age Pensions
A preliminary initiative peti
tion for a 2 per cent sales tax to
be used for old age pensions was
filed with the Oregon State De
partment Thursday.
The measure would provide
for minimum monthly pensions
of $75.
It was filed by Elmer E. Row-
ton, Otis, and Verna L, Schorn
Toledo.
If the sponsors get 26,2K sig
natures, the measure would be
on the November election ballot.
Blame for Tax Scandals
Plated Upon Politicians
San Francisco VP) The King
congressional s u b c o mmittee
ended its San Francisco hear
ings with a blast at politically
appointed internal revenue officials.
It said rank and file employes
"have done a good, honest job."
A statement by Chairman King
(D., Calif.) blamed the local
internal revenue scandal on
"incompetent" political appoint
ees of King's own party "pro
tected by ... on inept top ad
ministration in Washington."
It urged an end to political
lppontments in the revenue
ervlte.
Two republican committee
members who stayed for Wed
nesday's windup of the 16-day
hearings, Reps. Robert W. Kean
(N.J.) . and John' W, Byrnes
(Wis.), concurred in King'
strongly-worded statement.
The statement sa'd the San
Francisco internal revenue of
fice was "badly administered"
prior to September 27, 1951
That day, Collector James G
Symth and five top assistants,
all democrats, were suspended
on orders from Washington
They later were fired.
"Control . . . had fallen into
the hands of a top. echelon of
political appointees whose chief
falling was their gross incom
petence, ' the statement said.
Eisenhower Becomes Oregon Candidate General Dwighi
D. Eisenhower became a candidate in the Oregon republican
primaries for the presidency of the United States when his
petitions were filed Thursday at the State House. The peti
tions bearing 1068 names, more than necessary, were filed
by Mark Hatfield, left, secretary of the Oregon-for-Eisen-hower
committee, who was accompanied by W. L. Phillips of
Salem, state chairman of the committee, shown at right.
In center at desk is David O'Hara, supervisor of the elec
tions division of the state department.
Petitions Filed Placing
Ike on GOP Ballot
By JAMES D. OLSON
French of Texas
To HeadWSC
Spokane VP) Dr. C. Clement
French, vice president of Texas
A&M Thursday accepted the
$18,000 a year job as president
of Washington State College.
French will succeed Dr. Wil
son Compton who resigned last
spring after disagreements with
the Board of Regents.
James McCluskey, chairman
of the WSC Regents, announced
French's acceptance and said he
was selected from a list of more
than 230 candidates.
French, 50, holds a Master of
Science and Doctor of Philoso
phy degree from the University
of Pennsylvania and was a che
mistry professor there for eight
years.
He was a member of the fac
ulty of Randolph-Macon Wom
en's College in Virginia before
becoming vice president of Vir
ginia Polytechnic Institute in
1949.
French resigned as vice presi
dent of Texas A&M, a post he
has held since 1950, to accept
the WSC job after a meeting
with McCluskey in Chicago last
week.
Churchill's Free
Rides Upheld
London Prime Minister
Churchill stoutly denies he did
wrong by accepting free rides
on steamships and trains dur
ing his January visit to the Unit
ed States and Canada.
He said Wednesday in the
House of Commons, "the gifts
and services of the Cunard
Steamship company, as well as
those of the United States and
Canadian Railways, were not to
ministers but to the British tax
payers." 'Conservative support
ers backed him up with loud
cheers.
He was hitting back at opposl
tlon charges that he failed in
his duty by "the acceptance of
gifts from commercial under
takings." Laborite Col. G. E. C. Wlgg
had said that Churchill should
have declined free trips.
The value of the boat rides
given Churchill and Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden was
1,752 pounds ($4,905). The train
trips cost considerably less.
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BaraaH.)
The petitions were presented
to O'Hara by William L. Phil
lips, chairman and Rep. Mark
Hatfield, executive secretary of
the Oregon for Eisenhower com
mittee.
Names on the petitions were
gathered in 16 Oregon counties.
The filing Thursday was made at
the request of Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr., Massachusettes re
publican and manager of the Eis
enhower for president campaign
Hatfield said that only a min
imum number of names requir
ed were filed now and later sup
plementarv petitions bearing
names-irorh virtually every com
munity in the state will be filed
in behalf of the general.
'It seems probable that Gen
eral Eisenhower will return to
this country before the conven
tion" the committee said in a
statement issued at the time of
the filing.
'The sincere and personal sup
port Gen. Eisenhower has with
the rank and file of Oregon vot
ers does not depend, however,
upon his return for a political
campaign" the statement contin
ued. "It rests upon the charac
ter of inspired and magnetic
leadership he has already dem
onstrated in service to our country."
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column 4)
Green Lights lor
New Buildings
Washington VP) The Nation
al Production Authority Thurs
day approved a start on con
struction on 645 churches, fire
stations, orphanages and com
munity buildings with materials
to be made available in the ninth
month following July 1.
The go-ahead, lt was under
stood, applies to virtually the en
tire list of pending applications
for public welfare and safety
projects in all parts of the coun
try. The total estimated cost is
more than 200 million dollars.
Details as to the specific pro
ects approved and their location
will not be announced until after
all the building authorizations
and the allotments have been issued.
NATO Calls for
60 Divisions
By Year's End
14 Foreign Ministers
State Problem Forced
By Russian Policies
Lisbon, Portugal VP) The 14
Atlantic foreign ministers met
behind closed doors Thursday
for an up-to-the-moment study
of the Russian problem.
A spokesman said U.S. Secre
tary of State Acheson and his
colleagues heard . and thrashed
over top-level reports on the
Soviet Union and its latest poli
cies toward the free world.
French Foreign Minister Rob
ert Schuman told the closed
door session about the situation
in Indo-China. Problems of the
Middle East, including Egypt,
were gone over.
Call for Big Force
Earlier, Allied defense minis
ters in less than an hour ap
proved a military committee re
port calling for 50 to 60 divi
sions to be in the field by the
end of 1952.
The report now goes to the
council. There the full-dress as
sembly of foreign, finance and
defense ministers must settle a
conflict between the allied chiefs
of staff and W. Averell Harri-
man's temporary council
mittee.
The committee says the 1954
target of 100 divisions on active
duty or in immediate reserve
must be scaled down 12 per
cent because the European eco
nomies cannot afford the full
goal.
Japanese Reds
Riot Over U.S.
Colonization
Tokyo, Friday (IP) Thou
sands of Japanese communists
and sympathizers rioted in
Tokyo Thursday in a demon
stration against "colonization"
of Japan by the United States.
At least 14 Japanese police
men were injured in stone
throwing and tear gas melees
before order was restored.
An etsimated 11,300 police
patrolled the city to prevent
further trouble.
Other demonstrations were
reported in Yokohama, the big
industrial city of Osaka, Nagoya
and elsewhere.
The Japanese communists, ir
their most open postwar dem
onstration of violence,, had set
Thursday as "anti-colonization
of-Japan day."
Even before the demonstra
tions subsided, the Peiping
radio was reporting that Chi
nese communist youth had sent
'messages of solidarity" to the
"Japanese Youth Federation'
for its "struggle against colonialism."
2676 Soldiers
Land, Seattle
Seattle VP) The Navy trans
port Marine Adder arrived here
Thursday from the Far East af
ter being, slowed two days by
rough weather in the North Pa
cific. It brought 2,676 homeward-bound
Army rotation
troops.
It raised to 86,472 the total of
men' returned through the Se
attle Port of Embarkation under
the Army's rotation plan.
Another ship, the Hugh J. Gaf-
fey, is due Friday with 817 pas
sengers. It is filling what is oft
times labeled a "diaper ship"
role, carrying 316 military de
pendents. It also has 499 mem
bers of the Armed Forces aboard.
Nunan Resigns
From Law Firm
New York VP) Joseph D. Nu
nan, Jr., former commissioner of
Internal revenue, has resigned
from his Washington, D, C, law
firm because of the criticism di
rected at him in tax case probes.
Nunan's New York counsel,
Richard J. Burke, announced the
resignation Wednesday.
The action was attributed to
fear that Nunan's partners
might "suffer unjustifiable
harm temporarily through his
continued association with
them."
Burke said Nunan "has been
subjected to the most vicious
character assassination and un
founded villification, rumor and
innuendo. .
Lakeview Wants
To Join Nevada
Reno VP) Some Lakeview,
Ore., residents want to secede
from Oregon and put their town
under Nevada jurisdiction, a
Nevada assemblyman said here
Wednesday.
Don Crawford of Vya, an as
semblyman who long has advo
cated that Nevada take over the
eastern slope of the Sierras in
northeastern California, said
five Lakeview residents wrote
him that they wanted to join,
too.
They suggested that a 30-mile
strip along the southern edge of
Lake County should be includ
ed in the border-shifting plan,
he said.
He said they added:
That the Lake county seat,
now at Lakeview, could be mov
ed some 50 miles north to Pais
ley, "which has always wanted
it anyway."
Fontana Sues
For $118,000
Charles P. Fontana, who May
14, 1951, was discharged by the
Oregon liquor control commis
sion, Thursday morning filed
suit against the commission in
the circuit court of Marion
county for damages in the sum
of $118,080.
Fontana, 41 years of age, al
leges in his complaint that he
was wrongfully discharged by
the commission and that he was
damaged by not being permit
ted to continue his services to
the commission though he had
offered to continue and perform
said agreement on his part.
The complaint states that Fon
tana had been employed by the
commission April 1, 1944, to
serve with the law enforcement
division and that the defendant
agreed to employ him until his
retirement age of 65.
Fontana further notes in his
complaint that in 1947 he was
elevated to the position of a lieu
tenant In the liquor commis
sion's law enforcement division
and at the time of his discharge
was receiving a salary of $410
per month. He states that he
complied with all of the reason
able rules and regulations of the
defendant and was duly appoint
ed and qualified to perform the
services for which he was employed.
Second Atomic
Sub Ordered
Washington VP) The Atomic
Energy Commission Thursday
ordered construction of a second
atomic-powered submarine en
gine. It said this one will be of a
design which may be easier to
build and operate than the one
already under construction.
An AEC announcement said
the General Electric company
has been authorized to start con
struction at Its West Milton, N.
Y laboratory of a test engine
which "will be used for final de
velopment work leading to con
struction of an intermediate en
ergy reactor for propulsion of a
submarine."
The Westinghouse Electric
corporation already is working
on a thermal reactor at Its test
ing station in Idaho.
Lydda Is Now Lod
Lod, Israel (IP) This is the
new name of the Israel town
formerly called Lydda. Lod is
the ancient Hebrew name for
the place and Is so mentioned
in the Bible.
UN Tells Reds
Russia Can't
Act as Neutral
Record of Past
Participation in Korea
Bars Soviet Union
Munsan, Korea VP) The U. N.
command told the communists
Thursday Russia's "record of
past participation in Korea"
bars the Soviet Union as a neu
tral fit to help police a Korean
truce.
Simultaneously general head
quarters in Tokyo warned that
every step forward in truce talks
"will be followed by a step back
ward until Moscow is convinced
that the final decision for Korea
must be made without further
delay."
An information bulletin com
piled from "Voice of the U. N.
Command Broadcasts" declared:
"It seems to be their plan to
raise two additional disputes to
take the place of every one that
has been settled.
"Like the hydra-headed mon
ster of mythology, there will be
new entanglements following
every settlement just as long as
the Kremlin thinks there is still
something to gain by prolonging
the talks."
At Panmunjom. an allied
spokesman said U. N. reasons for
rejecting Russia were "clear,
cogent and irrefutable." He did
not spell out the reasons.
Held Not Satisfactory
Col. Don Darrow said the
U. N. command would reject the
nomination of any nation "in
close proximity to Korea" or
any nation which had "a record
of past participation in Korea."
A Red staff officer said the
U. N. reasons were not satisfac
tory.
Darrow refused to be drawn
into an argument. He said:
The United Nations does not
propose to enter Into endless
discussion on this topic and rec
ommends that your side give our
statement serious consideration."
Langlie Blames Reds for
'Hunger Strike Invasion'
Olympia VP) Gov. Langlie
Thursday denounced William J,
Pennock, president of the Wash
ington Pension Union, and other
leaders of "Hunger Strikers,' a
group of persons who were
ejected from the chief execu
tive's office by state patrolmen
Wednesday.
Langlie said several persons
had testified that Pennock was
a Communist when they appear
ed as witnesses before the state
legislature's hearing on un-American
activities in 1948.
The chief executive used
strong words against other lead
ers when he talked to reporters
Thursday morning.
A group of approximately 50
of Pennock s followers spent
Wednesday night in Secretary of
State Earl Coe's office after they
had been carried or escorted
from Langlie's office by state pa
trolmen.
During the night they viewed
a sound movie "Peace Will Win'
which members of the group de
scribed as a documentary film on
the Communist peace conference
in Warsaw In November of 1951.
Langlie was in Portland at
tending a meeting of the Colum
bla Basin Inter-Agency Commit
tee when approximately 10(
men, women and children de
scended on the Capitol to pro
test cuts in welfare grants.
Sabre Jets Down
2RedMig-15s
Seoul, Korea VP) American
Sabre jet pilots shot down two
more Red jets Thursday bring
ing their toll this week to ten.
The two MIG-ISs eliminated
were blown out of the air during
20-minute battle in cloudy
North Korean skies between 27
American Sabre jets and 20
MIGs.
The kills were credited to Lt
Billey B. Dobbs of Fontana,
Calif., and Capt. Brooks J. Liles
of Elizabeth City, N. C.
American losses, if any, were
not announced. The Air Force
discloses U. S. plane losses only
once a week.
On the ground a Red ambush
pinned down an Allied patrol
and its rescue force for more
than an hour on the frozen East
ern front.
A second United Nations res
cue group broke the trap and
freed both Allied units in sharp
fighting. The action occurred
northwest of Kansong, on the
east coast.
Critics Grilled
By Ridgway
Tokyo VP) Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway said Thursday night
it is deplorable that many
Americans still ask "Why are
we in Korea?"
The supreme allied comman
der declared the pattern of
communist Intentions is "now
spread across the world where
even the blind can see."
For his part, Ridgway said
there can be no question of the
"validity and purpose" of U.S.
fighting in Korea "against that
deliberately planned unprovok
ed aggression."
"To have done otherwise," he
said, "would have been a re
pudiation of every principle we
had previously professed."
Ridgway spoke at the annual
convention of the Far East De
partment of the Reserve Offi
cers' association.
He made no mention of the
Korean armistice talks at Pan
munjom. The address was devoted
largely to remarks on military
reserve officers and George
Washington, who was born 220
years ago Friday.
Blood Program Chairman
Lebanon Don Baxter wai
lamed chairman of the Leban
on Red Cross blood program, re
ilacing George Kingan, who re
signed last week.