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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
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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.
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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
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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.
!