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r " ;J ;:; ' Capitol ii Journal IF 0 MAE, EDITION THE WEATHER CLOUDY WITH occasional rain tonight. Scattered ikiwiu Thursday. Little change In tern pe rata re. Lew tonlf ht, 44; high Thursday, (S. S ":. Saltm, Oregon, Wednesday, January 21, 1953 a 65th Year, No. 18 ;26.2-FI. Flood In Willamette Nov Receding Crest Reached Last Night, Slow Drop Underway Creatine at Salem at t6.t feet, 8.2 feet above flood stage, the muddy old Willamette was slow ly receding la thli area of the valley Wednesday morn inf. Peak of the flood came at the Salem gauge about B p.m. and . the mark 28 2 held until about midnight before the waters start ' ed going down. The river read ing here was 25.6 Wednesday ' morning and the receding waters will go down gradually. The tor- rential rains through Tuesday augmented the already swollen treams of the valley to keep , liver levels in a flat crest for tome time. All points along the main . Willamette to the south reported waters falling Wednesday morn ing. Portland was due for its crest of 20 feet, two feet above flood stage, late today. Oregon City was getting - its crest of : 18.9 this morning. Flood stage there is 12 feet i (Concluded n Pate S. Column () Demands Probe Of Surcharges A legislative Investigation of 'the 20 per cent surcharge on . electric bills will be sought by Sen. Warren Gill, Lebanon re publican. Gill said be would introduce ' a resolution calling for a three- member committee to investi gate immediately "the whole ' story of why the surcharge la in effect." There would be one senator , and two representatives on the committee. The 20 per cent surcharge was added to the electric bills I by Portland General Electric, t Pacific - Power and Light and Mountain States Power com. ' panies to reimburse them for the t added cost of steam generation during the recent water short ! age. Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel said the sur charge would remain in effect . only until the companies have been repaid their added steam generating costs. Dams Slacked Flood Crests Rebellious Cons 4 Defy Governor BeUefonte, Pa. WV-ShouUng defiance, some 325 rebellious convicts again spumed surrend er ultimatums Wednesday in their barricaded cellblock at the Rockview State Penitentiary and refused to release six guards held as hostages until their "arioes" are honored. It was the third day of their surprise insurrection. Tuesday nieht 400 of Bockview's prison ers capltaulated to a demand for Gov, John S. Fine who warn' ed that additional jail sentences would be given to every man who continues to defy authority. The newest rejection of the state's efforts to bring peace to the prison came in a yelling ex change between Deputy Attor ney General Edward Friedman, standing on the ground outside cellblock "A" and the convict leader who peered out barred windows 30 feet above. Saw Russians Down U.S. 6-29 Tokyo Japanese fisher men released from Soviet captiv ity said today they saw Russian fighter planes and ground guns shoot down a U. s. bzs super fort last Oct. 7 off Northern Ja pan. One fisherman said he saw two Russian fighter planes chase the B29, heard gunfire and them "Black smoke started to stream from the American plane and it crashed into the sea at a tremendous speed." " . The fishermen gave their ac counts to Japanese reporters at Nemuro on the Northern island of Hokkaido. Three fishing craft with 23 crewmen were released after six months of hard labor the Russian-held island of Official Now This was the scene on Capitol Hill a f Gen. Elsenhower took oath of office as 34th President of the United States administered by Chief Justice Fred Vinson. At left is Mr. Truman, right, Vice President Nixon. (UP Tele- . photo) ' Seek Revision of Hydro-Electric Law By JAMES D. OLSON A new hydroelectric commis sion of Oregon composed of give members in place of three mem bers as provided in the present law, is the aim of a bill being drawn for central Oregon legis lators. The bill is expected to be introduced in the house later this week. - Portland CP) Army Engineers here computed what effect the valley dams had on the flood At Eugene, where the crest was 13.9 feet, it would have Deen 15.8 without Cottage Grove and Dorena Dam. And had Lookout Point been completed the level could have been held to 9.5. At Corvallis the 26.35 stage would have been 27.8 had it not been for Cottage Grove, Dorena and Fern Ridge Dams. At Albany it was 28 and would have been 29.4 without those three dams. Salem's 28.15 would have been 29.3. Aiding at Salem was Detroit Dam, too. Soviets Blast Israel's Premier Advanced Pay Asked by Solons Speaker of the House Rudie Wllhelm, Jr., announced Wed nesday that he had requested At torney General Robert Y. Thorn ton tor an opinion on whether the legislature has authority to pass law to pay the mem Den $1200 salary in one year. The voters approved the $1200 salary for a full term of two years. The 1951 legislature pass ed a law providing for payment of $600 in a lump sum the first year when the session is held and $150 quarterly during the second year. Some members now want the whole salary in the year the le gislature meets when their ex penses are greater. Final Message Sent by Truman Yuri near Hokkaido. They had President Truman', final mes- Deen seizea ior Biiegeaiy puncn ing on Russian waters. The accounts they gave varied in some detail but most said they saw two Soviet fighters chase a B29 while they were fishing un der Soviet orders. Hop Growers Meet At Portland Jan. 29 Portland WV One of the chief topics at the 1953 convention of the U. S. Hop Growers Associ ation here Jan. 29-31 is expected sage to congress called for con tinuing the water ana una de velopment projects of the nation under a revised policy ana moa ernized administrative techni ques. And one of his final acts was the transmission to congress, of a report completing the authori zation of a 54 million dollar Sacramento Valley canal unit of the California Central Valley reclamation project. The President's thoughts on water resource development were sent to congress late Mon- JrE. ttJffeet of ot n W night without flourish and wut.r Growers . voted recently to i """""" - abandon the agreement under witn ms message ne ninnwu mhich ulahlo nuntai were as- a voluminous report of the Presl- signed. aentt waxer Resources x-uuey Co-chairmen of the convention .Commission, appointed in 1950 are Gordon Hadley and Eugene! to study the practices of federal D. MacCarthy. water development . Under the terms of the pro posed law, an appeal from any decision of the commission to the circuit and supreme courts is provided. In the present bill no such appeal can be made ana in recent circuit court case brought against the commission by the Portland General Electric company in an effort to obtain a permit to construct Pelton dam on the Deschutes river, the court pointed out that it was power less to act because the law pro vided no appeal of any decision made by the commission. The proposed law would cre ate the commission of five mem bers, four of whom are to be appointed by the governor, one from each congressional district of the state and the fifth mem ber, as now, to be the state en gineer. The present requirement in the hydro-electrlo commission law that before the commission can grant license for construe- tion of a dam the applicant must first obtain a permit from the state fish commission is eliminated. (Concluded en Page a, Column Ask Increase in Parcel Post Rates Washington (ff) The Inter state Commerce Commission Wednesday disclosed a petition from the Post Office Department for a new increase in parcel post rates averaging close to 35 per cent. The petition was filed by Jesse M. Donaldson, who went out of as postmaster general at noon Tuesday. Dated Jan. 15, the plea for higher rates was one of his Red Death Zone About Berlin Berlin () Four hundred last German farmers fled Tuesday night to West Berlin and told refugee officials Wednesday the communist plan for "death zone" around the city is nearlng reality. ' Most of the farmers said they had been warned that they would be forcibly vacuated to the deep interior of the Russian zone and their lansd confiscated. The group was largely made up of men who have been tilling land near the outskirts of West Berlin on farms which have been in their families for gen erations. The so-called death zone pre parations started several months ago. Communist police indicated they intended to teal off an area one kilometer five eights of a mile deep on the 70-mile West Berlin border. To be caught in this area without specific per mission could mean abrupt death from the . guns of the Soviet-trained border police. Asks Congress To Outline Hew Wafer Policy McKay Wants Cus- ; tomer Preference In Revisions Washington, W) New Secre tary at tha Interior Douglas Mc Kay aaid Wednesday ha hopes Congrats will ntllne a water policy for tha nation In mora detail, and has found congress men receptive to tha idea. McKay told reporters ha thought it might be wise to in clude some revisions of the ex isting preference customer pro visions of the public power law. "The Department of the In terior foUows the law,". McKay said. "In my conversations with member of Congress since I've been in Washington, I believe they are receptive to the idea of outlining a national water policy in more detail." Customers Handicapped Under existing law and reg ulations public 'power must be sold at the lowest reasonable rates consistent with good bus iness practices. Preference also must be given cooperatives and other public bodies, such as municipalities and government agencies. (Ceaeradei ea Page . Cehunn $) 7RedMg-J5s Shot Down by U.S.Sabrejets Seoul W Allied Sabrejet pi lots shot down seven Communist MIG Jet fighters and damaged three others in battles high over Northwest Korea today, the U. S Fifth Air Force said. Two U. S. Jet aces. Col. Royal N. Baker, McKinney, Tex., and Mai. Robinson Rlsner, Oklaho ma City, each was credited with his eighth MIG destroyed. U. S. losses. If any, will be announced in week-end summary. Today's bag was one of the biggest in several months. U. S. pilots destroyed eight MIGs last Wednesday the most in one day since September. On the ground Allied troops hurled back sharp communist at tacks on tha frozen Eastern Front while the Pelping radio boasted of an unconquerable defense line of tunnels across the Korean Peninsula, . .. Hint Sabotage In Depot Crash Washington W) Sen. Tobey (R., N. H.) said Wednesday the FBI is investigating the possi bility of sabotage in the wreck of a crack Boston-to-Washlng-ton passenger, train that hurtled into Union station here last Thursday. He told reporters he hopes the FBI can report its findings Thursday to the senate com merce committee,1 which launched a public inquiry into the accident Wednesday. Tobey is the committee chairman. It had previously been dis closed that the FBI was among the agencies looking into the causes of the wreck, in which more than 50 persons were injured. At the initial committee hear ing two witnesses for the Penn sylvania railroad testified that may have tampered Truman on Trip To Old Home En route to Independence, Mo., WV-Harry S. Truman, on his way home as a plain citizen found out Wednesday what it's like to get around as an ex President. He took a fast walk into the station when his train reached Cincinnati at 7:15 a.m. to pick up a couple of morning papers. No secret service men were at his aide to steer him through the crowd. : ... And when he returned to the .track side to reboard the pretU dential private car he's using by courtesy of President Elsen hower he found the train being switched. "I guess they won't go off and leave me,", he said with a grin. This time he said it more like a question for this was. not presidential train, but the War Casualties Total 128,971 Washington W) Announced U. S. battle casualties in Korea reached 128,971 Wednesday, an increase of 250 since last week. The Defense Department's weekly summary based on noti fications to families through last Friday reported: New total killed in action 20, 362; wounded 93,596; mining 13,013; tout 128,871; Datue deaths 22,375; current missing 9,288. Following it breakdown of the casualties by services: New total Army 101,022; Navy 1,777; Air Force 1,407; Marine Corps 24,765. Ike's Cabinet : Except Wilson Get Approval McKay Now Secretary Of Interior Despite '" Senator Magnuson ' Washington VP) President Elsenhower's cabinet selections except for Charles E. Wilson to be secretary of defense wan senate . approval .. Wednesday, clearing the way for them to be gin running their departments. A voice vote approved them. Prospects as to Wilson were still clouded with doubt because of the controversy over his big financial interest in General Motors which has billions of dollars in defense contracts. Ha is a former president of GM. . In a flurry of senate debate, Sen. Morse Ind.-Ore. asserted that Eisenhower should not go through with his plan to nomin ate Wilson for his official family although word from tha White House was Eisenhower still had this intention. Morse Baps Wilson "He's behind the eight-ball be fore he starts," Morse said of Wilson. "He's bound to bo sus pected on any matter directly or indirectly involving General Motors. The cabinet appointees con firmed were: John Foster Dulles of New York as secretary of state. : (Concluded ea Page S. I) Ho Solution to' Wilson Case i; DeGasperi Wins' Confidence Vote last official acts. Postal officials estimated that I someone the proposed hike would raise with the brakes of the train income from parcel post service n o 1 1 i b 1 y twice before it by about 130 million dollars a cra5ned. year, These sources said Donaiason had no choice except to file the petition since the package serv ice was operating in the Tea. Under a congressional man date, the department must in these circumstances seek higher rates from the ICC or lose its I No More Nazism Says Adenauer Moscow, yPi A leading Soviet publication Wednesday blasted Israel's Premier David Ben Gurion, foreign minister Meshe Sharett and late President Chaim Weizmann as tools of American-British imperialism. A long editorial in the for eign affairs weekly News Times also charged the Zionists with supporting a policy to establish "bloody, Fascist regimes per- J meated by a spirit of racial big- I otry. Including anti-Semitism." I It was the most severe attack on Zionism yet to appear In the I Soviet press, Emergency Agencies Control Flood Here Numerous families, especially i Some persons, unable to get in the Keizer area, were still liv-1 back to their farm houses, ap ing In homes surrounded by wa-Speared at Red Cross headquar ter tndav. but the situation was ters today asking for assistance. well under control and no one I Eighteen families registered was suffering. ' with the Red Cross, but it is es- Thls was the report by Frank jtimatcd that about 50 are sur- Parcher, Marion county RliemerMnc, evacuation was that!Pler WM b,ent from th;lied actions, Bonn, Germany, W Chancel lor Konrad Adenauer told the West German Parliament Wed nesday he wanted to assure Ger many and the world that Ger many will never again return to Nazism. He pledged that his govern ment would keep a close watch on all traces of neo-Nazism to Boise W) A bill to outlaw stamp t hem out. slot machines in Idaho passed. He assured the world that 44-15 by the House Tuesday I when West Germany becomes a headed for the Senate Wednes- formal republic "it would be day when early House ad jour- with the free world for peace ment blocked a possible move 'and freedom, which were out- regular appropriation. Slot Machines Lose in Idaho Baltimore and Ohio's Capital Limited, moving on regular schedule. "I hope not." wat the best as surance of the railroad official standing by his side. As the train twitched back In and he prepared to step abroad, a man gave this final goodbye: "Hope to see you In the White House again in four years." "Oh, no, you won't," the grey haired former President said with emphasis. Siamese Twin Finally Dies Chicago, WV-Tiny Roger Lee Brodie, Siamese twin who for 34 days amazed the medical world by surviving a head to head surgical separation, died last night. The 16-month-old boy naa been In a deep coma since the history-making operation Dec. 17. His brain circulation wat Im paired and his condition had been listen "very precarious" since the separation from his brother Rodney Dee. Attending physicians had ex pressed amazement that he sur vived the 12 hour and 40 mln ute operation. ' Washington (AV The abrupt delay of a senatorial inquiry sig naled today that the new Eisen hower administration has found no solution to its most pressing political problem whether to push for approval of Charles X. At issue is Wilson's financial . interests in General Motors, .a Rome JP) tha longest fill buster in Italian paxliamTitaryiBlg detcnse-corltract Bolder, history ended early today witn a steamroller vote oi commence In Premier Alcide de Gasperl's anti-communist government and BDDroval of the election change his regime aemanaea. Certain of defeat, the com munists and their Socialist allies finally walked out of the par liamentary chamber after seven weeks of debate punctuated by frequent fist-fights in Parliament and strikes outside. The remaining deputies quick ly gave the Premier's Christian Democrat Cabinet a 399-25 vote of confidence. Then they approv ed, by a vote of 332-17, his new election law wmcn auois oa per cent of Parliament's seats to any party winning 51.1 per cent of the vote in next spring s general election. It goes now to the sen The deputies had been in set- slon for 69 hours when the hoarse, bleary-eyed communists gave up and walked out. Rhee Congratulates Ike on Inauguration Seoul (n South Korean President Syngman Rhee con gratulated President Eisenhow er today on nis inauguration Rhee called It "the dawn of I new era of international Justice for all." "Your inauguration," Rhee said In a message, "wat not only a day of rejoicing to the people of America, but also to the free nations of the world that are struggling against international aggression." The eight other Eisenhower cabinet members, hurriedly nominated officially after his in auguration yesterday, apparent ly were in line' for Senate con firmation today. That would let tbem move into their jobs. But Chairman Saltonstall (It- Mass.) told a reporter he was delaying until Friday an armed services committee hearing for Wilson. I for reconsideration A closer vote is anticipated in the Senate, which is expected to consider the repealer late this week or early next week. Pete Cennarusa, R., Blaine, who serv ed notice Tuesday he may seek reconsideration of the slot re I Newt Timet also accused the Cr0M PT mn- nd,W"1-io! the Varner and the Bandine 8 . V,e Lillace Wharton, director of the ,,,. .... Mnnriv .firn.n Israeli nation of waging "a cruel war of destruction against the local Arab population in Pales tine." It said that armed Zion ist detachments seized land from the Arabs, expelled them Into the desert and evicted them from factories. Weather Details BHttwvfli nttfriar. Ml BtnlMma 4, 4. T4l tl-kar raIMUtM! jrit tmr MMthl It til rvtftl. t.M. huM m ltt,Ua. tt.Ml rMKl. tit. Sim krtlht. tS.S tU ftUhu. Bart T V S. Marlon county Civil Defense the, Th Uve on walker hop two emergency agencies that ,h , ,,. .... nf th, ln. have been on 24-hour alert since ndence bridge. i 7"'? v,5"y "??! Wharton said there were two started, with their efforts coordi-1 operatloni ,n the valley that uaiu. u,prA nr allv well-hanaiea. With the crest of the flood -One was in the Santlam delta having passed at Salem it is now u nei.e Delmer Davis was in mainly a matter of "drying out," charge," he said, "and the other Wharton said. at Keizer with Bert Edwards In However, both organizations charge." are set to carry immediate relief i He also gave much credit to in event of a need of food or Willard Taylor who la ln charge clothing or of sickness in any of a fleet of boats, of the marooned families. ' (Continued en Pact (, Celuma 7) lined so excellently by Presi dent Eisenhower yesterday in his inaugural address." The chancelor arose in the first 1953 session of the Bunde stag (lower House) to deliver a statement on the political furore caused here by two recent al- House session Wednesday. i These were the arrest last Introduced in the House was a (Thursday by the British of bill to distribute 25 per cent of ;,even former leading Nazis on Find 13 Red Leaders Guilty of Conspiracy Wesi Europe Lauds Ike's Talk London W) Western Europe gave a warm welcome to Presi dent Elsenhower Wednesday and hailed hit inaugural speech as proof of continued American cooperation. There were slgnt, too, tnai Western Europe will pledge its support to Eisenhower's anti communist policy just as it co operated with outgoing Resi dent Truman. Among senders of messages of good will to the new .American president were West German Chancellor Konraa Aaenauer, President Marshal Tito of Yugo slavia, and King Baudoin of Bel gium. From India President Rajendra Prasad expressed be lief "friendship ana co-operauon between our two countries will continue to grow." Western Europe's press took deep satisfaction in noting that Elsenhower apparently will fol low the same general foreign policy lines at his predecessor. Inaugural Ball , Ends at 3 A.M. the surplus of the state liquor fund to cities before Its alloca tion to the state and counties. Army Transport Due San Francisco VP) The trans port Gen. J. C. Breckenridge ar rives today from the Orient with 1,538 Army men, 92 Air Force men, 6 Navy personnel and 2 marines. The transport Gen. E. T. Collins It due tomorrow from the Far East with 2,091 Army men. suspicion of plotting to seize power, and the publication over the week-end by the Americans of a public opinion survey by 1.2000 people which reported a significant rise in neo-Nazi and nationalist sentiments among 48 million West Germans. Hlrohlto Congratulates Tokyo () Emperor Hlrohl to today tent congrniMons to President Eisenhower on his Inauguration. New York OP) A federal I court jury Wednesday found 13 New York communist leaden guilty of conspiracy. The jury of tlx men and tlx women reached a verdict after receiving the case last Thurs day. The trial lasted eight and one-half months. All of the communist leaders were charged with conspiring to teach and advocate the over throw of the U, S. government The jury foreman. Mist Lu cllle Collette, a music teacher, announced the verdict after 48 hours of deliberations: "We find the defendanti guilty as charged!" They could receive maximum tentencet of five years ln prison and fines of 30,000. The defendants, all from the New York area and all second string leaders of the communist party, are: Alexander Bittelman, i; George Blake Charney, 46; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 60; Betty Gannett, 44; Victor Jere my Jerome. 54: Arnold Samuel Johnson, 46; Claudia Jones. 36; Alexander Leo Trachtenberg, 65; Louis Weinstock. 48: William Wolf Weinstone, 53; Pettit Perry, 54; Jacob Mindel, 71; Albert Fran cis Lannon, 43. Judge Edward J, ulmock told the Jurort the verdict wat "am ply Justified by the evidence" and thanked them for "the ex hibition you gave of careful study and the knowledge you showed." Washington W Happy re publicans wassailed on into the wee hours of today ln a last great and gala Jubilee marking the In auguration of President Eisen hower. And Eisenhower and his lady celebrated right along with them. They didn't hold out until the final curtain at 9 a.m., but de parted at 1:18 comparatively early. Long lines of limousines and taxis, stalled in trallic were still bringing guests when be left. The new President was ln tine fettle, right up to the end. He still looked daisy-fresh, although his day had begun 18 hours earlier and had Included tha most impressive event any American can experience being sworn ln as president of the United States. !
