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64th Year, No. 279 2S2?JIS& Salem, Oregon, Friday, Noveiw. c t, ivi2
(18 Pages
Price 5c
New Bureau
Of Vehicles
Stale Plan
Interim Committee
. Will Introduce Bill
In Legislature
By JAMES D. OLSON
Creation of a new department
of motor vehicles, to include
administration of motor vehicle
laws and collection of all fees,
will be recommended to the
1953 legislature by the legisla
tive highway interim commit
tee. At a meeting Thursday in the
state highway building, the
committee approved a tentative
draft prepared by the statute
revision council, and directed
that two bills be prepared for
introduction when the legisla
ture opens. The two bills will
be submitted to the committee
fpr final approval at a meeting
in December.
The new department, under
the terms o the proposed bill,
Mill take over the entire motor
vehicle department, including
registration of cars, issuance of
drivers' licenses, collection of
fuel taxes and administration of
the financial responsbiility di
vision, all now under the secre
tary of state's offic.
Would Collect Truck Fees
In addition the new depart
ment proposes taking over the
entire collection of truck fees
now under the jurisdiction of
the public utility commission
ers.
Concluded on Page 5, Column 5)
V. A. to Abandon
19 Hospital Sites
Washington VP) The veter
ans administration said Friday
it is turning over to the general
services administration GSA
for disposal 19 sites on which
it had planned to build hospitals
now dropped from the construc
tion program. One is in Ore
gon, at Klamath Falls.
An. official told reporters the
action was taken under a 1949
law providing for disposal of
surplus property because con
gress adjourned on July 7 with
out extending the life of the
legislation under which con
struction of the hospitals was
authorized.
Col. George E. Ijams of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, who
on Monday revealed he had
protested to Veterans Adminis
trator Carl R. Gray, Jr., against
disposal of any of the sites by
the outgoing administration be
fore the new administration
coming into office January 20
can set its policies.
Sees No Need
Of Tuna Tariff
Washington U A domestic
.funa canner says that if Japa
. hese tuna production could
break the U. S. market, it would
have done so this year.
Thomas Sandoz, president of
the Calumbia River parkers of
Astoria, Ore., said this year is
"one of the most bountiful Alba-
core white meat tuna productions
on record
Japanese production has been;
particularly high this year, he
said, "but instead of the market
breaking, the price to fishermen!
hs gradually but steadily in
creased during the season."
Sandoz testified in the fourth
day of the U. S. Tariff Commis
sion hearings on importation of
fresh and frozen tuna from Ja
pan. Heavy Frost Lifts
Blanket of Fog
Frost was very noticeable In
Salem and area Friday morning,
the fog lifting to permit more of
a freeze. The minimum this
morning was 29 degrees here,
More clear and cold weather
Is due tonight the mercury ex
pected to go even lower than it
was early this morning.
Highways in the state are re
ported in good shape with bare
pavement generally. Some pack
ed mow Is listed at East Dia
mond lake and spots of ice were
listed for some pass regions, in
cluding Santiam and Willamette
passes.
Weather Details
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Allies Repulse
Red Assaults
All Along Front
Fanatical Assaults on
Frozen Slopes of
Sniper Ridge Stopped
Seoul W) Allied Infantrymen
smashed .s fanatical Chinese as
sault today on Sniper Ridge I
on the Central Korean front !
and stopped lesser attacks else
where on the battle line.
In the air, American Sabre
jets clashed with MIG-15s for
the fifth successive day and pi
lots reported one destroyed by
Lt. Richard B. Smith, Jr., Med
ford, Ore. He damaged oni
Thursday.
Allied fighter-bombers ranged
over a wide area of North Ko
rea. Pilots said they wiped out
70 buildings, seven guns and
cut rails in five places. They
also pounded the communist
battleline.
He said an estimated 750
Chinese stormed the frozen, for
bidding slopes of Sniper Ridge
but were killed, wounded or
driven back by stubborn South
Korean troop, who have lost
and retaken the height 16 times
in 33 days.
(Concluded on Page S. Column 4
Wreck Piles.up
Train, Chemauit
Klamath Falls W Cars were
piled up two and three deep
Friday as a Great Northern
freight train was derailed at
Chemult in southern Oregon.
None of the crew was injur
ed, but several cattle in three
of the IB derailed cars were
killed. Gene Obiatt, Great
Northern superintendent, said
he had no idea what caused the
derailment.
The train was being pulled by
a three-unit diesel over the
Southern Pacific mainline.
Crews from Eugene and Kla
math Falls went to work imme
diately clearing the tracks.
Oviatt said passenger trains
can be rerouted over the old
and slower Siskiyou route into
California. Six freight trains
were waiting between Eugene
and the point of derailment.
Thuie Airbase
Connecting Link
Copenhagen, Denmark Vft
Jonn M. Redding, U. S. assistant
postmaster gneral. predicted
Friday the U.S. Air Force base
at Thule in Greenland will be
come "one of the most important
cross-roads of the air age." He
envisaged a modern city of a
half million population at Thule
withm 10 to 15 years.
Redding was a passenger on
the airliner Arild Viking on its
trail blazing flight across the
polar ice-cap from California to
Europe. The American - built
Scandinavian Airlines System
plane arrived here Thursday
night after a trip that took 28
hours and 7 minutes from Los
Angeles. The flying time for
the 5,852-mile hop was 23 hours
and 38 minutes.
One of the two stops was at
Thule. Without use of that far'
northern base the flight to blaze
a trail for commercial flying
across the bleak polar regions
j would ha ve been impossible. The
new route cuts off about f ourjwouid be paid in a lump sum
hours flying time from the U. S. equal to $80 as increased vaca
West Coast to Scandinavia. 'tion benefits.
Turkey Growers in
Tussle With Thieves
Oregon turkey growers are
finding it necessary to organize
against the depredations of
thieves because of night raids on
the flocks, which have become
serious, especially in the Willa
mette valley.
On a night two weeks ago
turkey rustlers raided a yard
about eight miles from Salem
and hauled. away ISO head. Re
cently in the McMinnville dis
trict it Is estimated 500 were
stolen from a flock of 4000.
Rustling is more serious there
because of the hilly country
the situation has attracted the
attention of Life magazine
which this week has a two-page
feature about the turkey rust
ling problem' in Oregon and
Washington. Among the illustra
tions is a picture of Harold Davis
of McMinnville, president of the
Oregon Turkey Improvement as
sociation, checking a map with
Deputy Sheriff Ford Hagan in an
attempt to detect routes traveled
Governor Douglas McKay at his desk opening a portion of
the flood of telegrams from all over the world congratulating
i him upon his selection by President-Elect Eisenhower as
secretary of the interior in his cabinet.
McKay Gets Wires
From All Over World
The girls in the governor's
office agreed that Thursday was
the hardest day of their lives.
Gov. McKay's staff was worn
out Friday after the hectic day
on which their boss was named
as the new secretary of the in
terior. McKay Rapped
By Sen. Morse
Atlantic City, N. J. u-R Sen.
Wayne Morse of Oregon, who
bolted the republican party toi
support Adlal E. Stevenson, Fri
day described the three cabinet
appointments of President-elect
Dwight D. Eisenhower "as very
good for the reactionary forces
that are out to plunder the peo
ple." Morse, now classifying him
self as an Independent, said Or
egon Gov. Douglas McKay,
named secretary of the interior
by Eisenhower, "is a well re
cognized stooge of the tidelands
thieves, the private utility gang
and the selfish interests which
place materialistic values above
human values.' The senator
was in Atlantic City for a con
vention speech.
Delays Decision
On Coal Wage
Washington OT Economic
Stabilizer Roger Putnam said
Friday he will bold off until next
week a decision on whether to
approve a $1.90 daily wage in
crease for soft coal miners.
The Wage Stabilization Board
(WSB) has ordered it held to
51.50.
Putnam told a reporter his
mind was pretty well made up
but that he had not yet come to
a conclusive decision.
It was learned, meanwhile,
that a compromise plan on the
wage boost had been rejected by
mine union President John L.
Lewis and Harry M. Moses, who
is president of the Bituminous
Coal Operators association.
Officials close to the situa
tion, who refused use of their
names, said this was the plan:
The 40 cents which the WSB
cut from the dailv waee oackatre
by and possible hideaways of
tne thieves.
Sam Speerstra of Salem. Dresi-
dent of the Oregon Turkey
Growers association, has this to
say:
The rustlers seem to be peo
ple who know something about
the turkey business. They oper
ate by truck and haul the birds
away alive. It is suspected they
have a small processing plant of i
their own tucked away some
where. Nevertheless all the legi
timate processing plants have
been alerted and are continuous
ly on the lookout. Any quantity
of birds that comes in from any
one not an established grower is
carefully checked.
"That is one step in what we
are trying to make an organized
defense effort against the thiev
es. Another is to report ail thefts
immediately, and another is to
induce the growers to brand their;
birds.
(Concluded on Put 5, Column T
They were snowed under by
telegrams from all over the
country, and from such far
away places as Tokyo, Brazil,
Guam and Europe. And they
were bothered throughout the
day by reporters, photograph
ers, newsreel cameramen, ra
dio announcers and television
crews.
They could take things eas
ier Friday because the gover
nor went to Portland for two
days.
I never thought 1 would
have a worse day than when we
gat the flood of telegrams and
letters last spring on whether
the governor should declare
daylight saving time," said Miss
Leolyn Barnett, one of the sec
retaries. But Thursday was
even worse than that,"
She said . nobody had asked
the governor for a job in the
department of interior yet, but:
that one present employe of the
department sent a. telegram of
congratulations which sounded
like "apple polishing" to her.
Spending Totals
$350 Billion
Washington OT The federal
reserve board said Friday the
nation's total spending this year
will be a record 350 billion dol
lars. But it said the 1952 in
crease will be substantially less
than in the past two years.
Total expenditures and total
production are showing a con
siderable rise in the last quarter
of the year, the report said,
"reflecting strengthening of
business and consumer demands
and probably some increase in
national security expenditures.'
Defense spending is now
about treble what it was before
Korea, the federal reserve said.
It said defense expenditures this
year will equal about 15 per
icent of the national total. The
increase in security outlay in
1S52 has been substantially
smaller than was anticipated,
but is now picking up, the re
port added.
In the third quarter of 1852,
according to the federal reserve,
security spending, including
atomic energy, military and
economic aid and stockpiling.
was at a rate of about 52 bil-
ion dollars a year.
Triggerman
Now in Custody
Los Angeles 1.R With dead
pan Mobster Leonard C, Mocerl
accidentally in custody, police
Friday sought answers to un
solved gangland executions dat
ing from liquor bootlegging days
to the modern Mafia.
The nation's most wanted
triggerman" was the tab given
45-year-oid Leonard the Lip by
Capt. J. E. Hamilton of the
Los Angeles police intelligence
unit.
He'd give officers the slip 20
years since indictment on four
mob killings in Toledo, O., dat
ing from l3t to 1833.
Officers think there might be
some recent chapters such
the Bugsy Siegel murder, the
killing of Mickey Cohen's attor
ney Sammy Rummel and the
double slaying of Tony Brancato
and Tony Tromblno in Hotly
wood a couple of years back.
Detroit police also want to!
ask some questions concerning
the demise of hoodlum Jack
George whose body was found
stuffed in an automobile trunk
Humphrey, BrownelI,$tassen
Named tor Key Posts by Ike
U. S. to Accept
India's Korean
Compromise
United Nations, N. Y. m
The United Slates and seven
other countries were reliably
reported Friday to have decided
to accept India's compromise
plan for settling the Korean
prisoner-of-war deadlock, sub
ject to two changes.
The question of what to do
with Red prisoners, held by the
U, N., who say they don't want
to go home has been holding
up an armistice.
The eight countries Austra
lia, Britain, Canada, Colombia;
: Denmark. France, the United
States and Turkey also have
decided to recommend that the
Indian plan be given priority
over all other Korean resolu
tions in the U. N. general assem
bly.
India's POW Proposal
T , , , j, . , 1
India proposed that boih the
U. N, and the Reds turn over
to a commission made up of
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Swit-:
zerland and Sweden. ;
If this commission deadlocked,
it would elect or ask the general
assembly io choose an impartial
umpire.
The eight decided Friday to
recommend that the- Indian reso
lution be amended to provide
that if the four did not agree
to art umpire within three weeks
they wouid hand the problem
back to the assembly.
Political Convention
Under the Indian plan, the
prisoners still on the commis
sion's hands at the end o 80
days would have iheir fates de
cided by a political convention
called on Far Eastern problems
under terms of the draft armi
stice agreement eaiready adopt
ed,
The eight powers decided to
support a suggestoin voiced
Thursday by British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden that,
instead, they be turned over to
a special V. N. body.
Snyder Admits
Tax Case Action
Washington W Secretary of
the Treasury Snyder, It was dis
closed Friday, has acknowl
edged to house tax investiga
tors, that he acted personally to
speed up a 20 million dollar tax
case, but only in the interest
of more efficient administra
tion.
He said "at no time did 1 ex
press Interest In the result of
the case."
Snyder explained his interest
in expediting a multimillion
dollar excess profits tax claim
by Universal Pictures, Inc., in a
letter to members of a house
ways and means subcommittee.!
investigating the internal rev
enue bureau.
rjVM!H fnr ihr firs! Ijjt , Fri-
dav bv committee sources. At
the same time, a committee
member, Rep. Curtis R., Neb,)
demanded that Snyder appear
in person before the group "be
fore he leaves office."
Truman Budget
Cut to S 80 Billion
Washington ). President
Truman's budget for the next
fiscal year has been pared with
in the last two weeks to a fig
ure in the neighborhood of $80,-
000,000,000 reliable sources dis
closed Friday,
That is- about $5,000,000,000,
000 less than the fiscal 1954
budget was expected to total on
the basis of preliminary esti-j
mates earlier this month.
Informants said the iowcr
figure reflects a slowdown in
defense spending, which constt
fntes by far the biggest items in
the budget,
Mr, Truman will submit the
budget to congress next Jan
uary, just a few days before
he surrenders his office to President-Elect
Eisenhower, Eisen
hower. Eisenhower wilt be free
to revise the spending requests
as he see fit by sending supple
mental messages to congress.
kucFSfZJi
Herbert Browne!!, Jr., of
New York selected for attor
ney general
Ike Going Only to Korea
Will Not Visit Japan
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r ijie.t iion, and he directs"! sirainsrv i
n.,wM. iw tC,m
rea, and will not visit Japan
ar any other countries when he
makes that journey.
Smith, ranking member of thei
Senate Foreign Relations Com-!
mittee, had a long talk with
Officials Close
Alaska Bank
Anchorage, Alaska W The
Union Bank of Anchorage was
closed at noon Thursday by the
Territorial Banking Board and
two of iis officers later wer ar
rested on seven charges of fail
Ing to abide by banking laws.
The charges, aii misdemean
ors, were made against Andrew
Hassman, the institution's presi
dent, and Rep. Stanley McCut-
chcon, long-time power in terri
torial democratic affairs and a
national committeeman for his
party,
Both posted bond of $3,000
ana were released immediately.
The seven charges, returned as
indictments by a federal grand
jury, accuse Hassman and Mc-
Cutcheon of making loans in ex-
cess of lenal limits, failure to
hold meetings of stockholders
and failure to obey bank borad
orders.
An order posted on the bank's
doors said it would remain
closed until further notice.
Judge Anthony Dimon of the
Third District Federal Court la
ter appointed George Jones, An
chorage accountant, as tempora
ry receiver for the bank.
Meleor Fleshes in
Southwest Explodes
Kjr The A&wctatwl Prets!
A meleor flashed across the
smiifiwestern skv iast niKht and
suddenly riisinlesrated in a blaie
of white light turning night into
day at some places. It was seen
in at least four states.
The Oklahoma City Weather
Bureau said from the varied re
ports it had received there was
no doubt the firebaii was a me
teor. Reports of the object came
from Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas
and Colorado.
Wm. Green AFL Chief
Dies of Heart Failure
Washington VP AFL President
William Green died Friday at
his home at Coshocton, O,, AFLfcut,"
hcadauarters announced.
The announcement said Greentbeen in dally touch with Wash
died at 32:22 p.m., t-SST, ol hearttmgion noaaquariers up to
failure. He was IV ana nan oecn inursnay,
president of the AFL since lB24.j He had been ill during
He was the second ton labor
leader to die of a heart aiiment'New York City to September, Gov. Douglas McKay, Prest
witbin two weeks. icamc here briefly after the con- dent-cicct Dwight D, Elsenhow-
CIO President Philip Murray
dicd at San Francisco Nov. S.
Green had gone to hia native
Coshocion from Washington
early in October,
AFL headquarters here said
It was advised Green suffered
a heart attack Thursday night
and that he "sank rapidly dur -
i
Harold E. Siasscn of Minne
sota, director of Mutual Se
curity Agency
, ....
1 ne conversion msiniy son-
cerned the Far East, he sssd.
Smith visited Korea in 3949,
before the fighting started, and
again last year,
He said fie gave Eisenhower
his vi.ews on the actions neces
sary for ending the war. Sum
marized, they were:
3. An economic blockade of
Red China.
2. A complete agreement with
in the United Nations to provide
coordinated action with respect
to the Chinese Reds.
Smith explained he meant
mainly "cutting off aii trade and
Intercourse with Red China,
3, Formulating a plan "espe
cially with the British" to de
termine "where we go from here
if the truce talks fail."
4. Use of Chinese National
ist troops, now exiled an For
mosa, in fighting the Reds,
Rosenbergs to
Die January 12
New York W Federal Judge
Irving R. Kaufman Friday set;
the week at January 12 far the
execution of Julius and Ethel
HosenberE, convicted a t om i ef
spies. .
Last week the United States
surname court refused for a
second time to rehear the case
of the husband and wife pris
oners.
They were convicted March
2B, 1951, of passing atomic
secrets to Russia, and far many
months have been confined in
the death house at Sing Sing
prison.
In rejecting the Rosenberg
appeai, the supreme court also
denied a petition signed by 50,
00Q persons asking permission
to file a brief arguing tor a
new trial.
fiosenberg, 34, and his wife,
Ethel, 36, were sentenced lo
death last year, the first death
sentence meted out by a civil
court to civiiians under
the
espionage act of 5317.
Transport Docks at Seattle
Seattie W The transport Ma
rine Adder arrived here Friday;
with 2,8 10 soldiers from the Far
East.
It brought home 3? Oregon
men and 31 from Washington,
sing the night." It quoted doctors
as saying "bis heart just gave!
! Headquarters said Green hadi
aru National uonvenuon m
vcntlan and then went ta
Coshocton home.
Funeral services were set ten
iativeiy for next Monday
Coshocton.
The MU fcxecuttvc Council
jwaa expected to meet aoon to tfe -
tide on a successor.
j (Concluded m ple j, Colamn )
Sfassen Picked
As Director of
Security Agency
New Tfark m Gen. Bwfgst
D. Eisenhower Friday designat
ed George M. Hamnhrev. erf
Cleveland, Ohio, secretary of the
treasury.
He named Herbert Browne!!,
Jr., of New York, attorney gen
eral, and Baroiri E. Stassen, for
mer governor of Minnesota, di
rector of the Mutual Security Ag
ency, Detroit OT General
Motors Corp. confirmed Fri
day tnat Charies E. Wilson
will accompany President
elect Dwight JX Eisenhower
to Korea.
A spokesman said there
were no other details to an
nounce. Brownell, New York lawyer.
was a leader of Eisenhower's
iicampaijrn for ih& COP nomSm-
election campaign.
Sias3&n is nw presMenl o &e
5inht,Breitv nf Pmwi,
also was a key figure in Eisen-
bower's nomination.
Humphrey Corporation Head
Humphrey, 82, is president of
the hi. A, Hanna Company oi
Cieveiand. He is a director of.
numerous large corporations.
It was the second day ia a row
Ithat Eisenhower handed out a
new list of appointees who will
take over key posts in his ad
ministration. James Hagerty, the general' I
press secretary, announced the
new designations.
The following are some of toe
I positions heid iy Humphrey In
Jndusiry; , .
(Cte&idd c-n Pxa Sv C&nunn 3
Lodge Has No
Plans for Future
New York M5 President
elect Dwight a Eisenhower re
ceived a report Friday from hit
chief Washington liaison man,
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (fi
ftlass.) and presumably gat tii
latest ward an the Korean sllu&
Hon. Lodge, who has been ai worit
in Washington an the initial
stages of dave-tailing the new
administration witn prooiems oi
ii" o!d, was asked before he en-
tared a conference with Eisen-
hawer whether he was satisfied
with his liaison worts.
"No man is ever satisfied,"
replied, "I da the best I can.
Still a lot more to do."
Ashed about his personal
plans, he repiicd: "I have no
plans."
Living Costs up
Fracfionaiiy
Washington Ml The govern
ment reported today that living
cosis went up fractionally in the
SO days ended Oct. 15. Its in
dex Inched up one-tenth of one
point.
The iitiie change from Sept.
JS means that about one million
workers in the automobile and
aircraft industries wilt take .
pay cut of one cent an hour ef
fective fee. 1 owing to ffving
cost declines in August and Sep
tember. A cost-of-living clause of tlscir
union contract calls far a wag
revision every three month
based on changes in index of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
It also means a rut of $5 Quar
terly in the cost of 3iwing bonus
far salaried workers of General
Motors.
The BLS reported its index on
Oct. 35 was 390.9. This com
pared with JSS.B on Sept. 15.
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iHcKay Io Attend
if, t ,
"witjOygrnOfS rj66n3
hisjer's choice for secretary ot tn-
terror, said Friday he wouid si-
- tend the conference oi governors
at in Phoenix, Ariz., ifec. i-iv.
( McKay U chairman ot the can-
terence.
j He aiso said be wouid attend
iltc dedication of the Davis dam
sncar Kingman, Arlfc, Dec. Id
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