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65th Year, No. 42
Z Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, February 18, 1953
5c
Salary Boost
For Officials
Brings Hassle
, Ways and Means
Committee to Tackle
; Salary Increase Job
1 By JAMES D. OLSON
' Proposed increases In salaries
of elective and administrative of
ficers of the state recommended
by the majority of a subcommit
tee threw the Joint wars com
mittee into a hassle Wednesday
ending with a decision to consid
er the recommendations Thurs
day morning in a eommittee-of-the-
whole.
' The recommendations of the
subcommittee, after five weeks
0 work, placed the proposed
salary increases into three cate
gories, first, the six top elective
officers, next the supreme and
circuit court judges and the
third, the administrative offi
cials. .
Governor Up to $15,000
. The report, upon which Sena
tor Angus Gibson, chairman of
the subcommittee refused to con
cur, proposes Increase in the gov
ernor's salary from $1),000 to
$15,000 a year plus $1200 a year
for expenses; an increase from
$8,880 to $10,000 a year for the
secretary of state, state treasurer
(Concluded n Pm . Cetamn 4)
House Passes
Price
By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR.
(Ajuclatod mtt Corrwondut)
' The house passed and sent to
(he senate a bill to make ure
that the voters are told about
ballot measures that reduce
state revenues.
, The so-called "price tag"
bill provides that this Informa
tion be attached to ballot meas
ures that reduce state revenue,
mending the 1951 law that
said the price tags should be
placed on measures that in
crease revenues for taxes.
... Besides being attached to the
ballot measures, the informa
tion is puDiisnea is we v overs
Panmhlet
The estimates are prepared
by the secretary of state, state
treasurer and finance director.
Rep, Henry Semon, Klamath
Falls, sponsor of the mil, saia
"the taxpayers have the right
to know the financial effect fo
every measure."
Rainmakers
Hearing Set
House and Senate committees
will hear arguments Saturday
morning on what's the best way
to -regulate rainmakers.
At Issue are two bills, both by
legislators in Jackson county,
where fruit growers are arguing
with dry-land farmers.
The fruit growers have been
using chemicals dropping from
airplanes to prevent hailstorms,
and the other farmers claim
these experiments are robbing
them of rainfall.
Both legislative bills would
regulate cloud-seeding, but with
different purposes.
Sen. Ben Day. Medford, in-
troduced a bill to set up a state
weather control board, which
would require rainmakers to get
permits and to post bond against
any Injury they might cause to
anybody's crops.
Ren. Robert Root. Medford,
would let the public utilities
Commissioner do ..the licensing,
Morse Not Hit
In Changed Bill
Chairman Richard L. Neu
berger, Portland democrat, of
the senate elections committee
proposes that the so-called "anti-Morse"
bill be changed so
It wouldn't affect Senator
Wavne L. Morse.
But State Sen. John P. Houn
aU. Hood River republican.
who sponsored the bill, thinks
It ought to become law now.
The bill. . introduced last
Friday, would prevent office
holders from running for re
election to any other party than
the one in which they ran or
iginally. That would stop
Morse, who bolted from the re
publicans, from running as an
independent ,
; Neuberger, announcing his
committee would consider' the
bill February 25, said Houn
sell's idea is "reasonable." . But
he suggested that it go into
effect January 1, 1957. This
would exempt Morse, who will
run In 1958.
New Zoning
Code Offered
Salem People
Ten Basic Districts
Provided, Off-Street
Parking Required
By STEPHEN A. STONE
8alem's proposed new soning
code, tentatively accepted by the
planning and soning commission.
ana to be given public hearings,
provides 1 basic use districts.
They are four residential.
four commercial, and two indus
trial. In addition are several spe
cial classifications, namely, a
Capitol district and several pub
lic use. districts consisting of
lands dedicated to public use.
.The new code classifications, a
summary of which was made
public today, replace the four
regular and two special zones of
the old code.
City Districted
The code will regulate and re
strict building location and land
use by dividing the city into the
several districts. It will limit the
height and dimensions of build
ings, provide set-back lines, and
front yards, side yards and rear
yards in some districts.
"The purpose of the code,"
says a statement from the com
mission, "is to encourage the
most appropriate use of land
throughout the city; to provide
adequate light, air and access;
to secure safety from fire and
other dangers; to prevent the ov
ercrowding of land; to facilitate
making adequate provision for
transportation, theater, schools,
parks and other improvements;
stabilize and conserve the
(Conclude n Pate 5, Column I)
Reuther Roasts
School System
Atlantic City, N.J. HV-Wal
ter P. Reuther, president of the
CIO, declared Wednesday "the
plight of our schools has de
teriorated from a national
scandal to national tragedy.''
"Millions of American chil
dren . . . are being robbed of
their rightful opportunity for
decent and full education,"
he said in a speech before the
American Association of School
Administrators.
If the nation can afford bit
lions for defense, it can afford
an adequate school system, he
added. Hundreds of thousands
of CIO members work in mod
ern, well-lighted, well-ventilated
defense plants paid for by
taxpayers, he said, adding:
But the kids of these work
era are forced in too many
communities to go to schools
that are outdated, or over
crowded, or under-staffed oi
makeshift or obsolete."
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rovoo Appeals
Life Sentence
New York VP) Former Army
Sgt John David Provoo, sen
tenced to life for treason, was
held in a federal house of de
tention Wednesday while his
counsel worked to appeal the
case.
Federal Judge Gregory F.
Noonan sentenced the San Fran
ciscan Tuesday for going over
to the Japanese after he was
captured with other Americans
on Corregidor in World War II.
Noonan spared Provoo the
death sentence because his pri
son camp actions were "spawn
ed in an aura hard to describe"
and because doctors found him
to be a person of "great emo
tional instability" though legal
ly sane.
Three Nearly
Drown When
Car Hits Rail
A' narrow escape from
drowning was the experience
of Theo. Hermann, Ronte 1,
Bex 299, Anmsville, his son,
Lee, and Robert P. Borcbers,
Ronte 1, Box 279 Anmsville,
about 3:45 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon.
It happened when a picknp
track driven by Lee Hermann
struck the rail of a culvert
over Little Padding river,
kidded across the top wreck
ing the vehicle, and then
plunged into the stream.
At this point Little Pud
ding was about five feet deep
Tuesday afternoon and only
the top of the pickup waa vis
ible when state police inves
tigated the accident.
Archie Gardner, Route 6,
Box 568, who lives nearby,
said a sharp bend in the road
and a dip have been the cause
of three wreck at this point
within a year and a half. Yes
terday afternoon Mrs. Gard
ner was startled by the sound
Of screeching brakes and the
crash of the picknp when it
st rack the nearby culvert.
While she rushed down to
the bank of Little Padding
river she heard shouts for
help and arrived to see the
three occupants of the pick
np on top of the cab.
The elder Hermann suffer
ed a leg injury and his son
received cuts and bruises.
Robert Borcher, 17, youngest
of the passengers, waa appar
ently suffering front shock.
Train Runaway
Caused by Valve
Washington VP) The Inter
state Commerce Commission ICC
said Wednesday an incorrectly
placed brake valve caused the
spectacular wreck of a runaway
express train in Washington's
Union Station.
The ICC recommended that
all railway cars having brake
valves placed in a similar posi
tion be checked immediately to
make sure that they can't cause
similar accidents.
The wreck here, on Jan. 15
came when the Federal Express
from Boston, operated jointly by
the New Haven and Pennsyl
vania Railroads, failed to stop
as it came into the station. ,
It ran off the dead end rails,
and crashed into the concourse
of the huge station, only three
blocks from the nation's Capitol.
Wrecked and Dunked Three Aumsville men driving east
ward on Sunnyside road struck the rail of the bridge over
Little Pudding river, skidded across it to wreck their pickup
truck and plunged into the stream. All escaped serious injury.
Driver Lee A. Hermann and his passengers, Theo Hermann
and Robert P. Borchera were on top of the cab calling for
help when their shouts attracted Mrs. Archie Gardner who
Uvea nearby at Box 868 on Route 6.
Leftist 'Voice' Writer
Re fuses to Answer
Washington VP) Sen. McCar
thy (R.-Wls.) told his senate in
vestigations subcommittee Wed
nesday that Mrs. Eleanor Roose
velt helped to arrange govern
ment circulation of some writ
ings by leftist author Howard
Fast. J -
McCarthy then called Fast to
the witness stand, and the writ
er refused, on grounds of possi-
6 Quiz Benson
n Farm Policy-
Washington, VP) The Senate
Agriculture Committee Wed
nesday decided to ask Secre
tary of Agriculture Benson to
testify soon in. a public session
on his farm policies. I.
Benson has been under sharp
attack from some Democratic
senators who accuse htm of In
action in the face of falling
farm prices, but Chairman
Aiken (R., Vt.), of the senate
committee upheld him vigor
ously after the group's closed
session Wednesday. I
'He's a good secretary," de
clared Aiken. "He's honest as
the sun. He's going to win out
in spite of these well-organized
attacks on him."
Aiken said the committee's
session with Benson, which he
hoped could be arranged In
about 10 days, would in no
sense be an investigation of
the secretary's policies.
"We want to clear the atmos
phere a little bit it can stand
clearing," the chairman commented.
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Government
Lifts Controls
Dairy Products
Drugs, Cosmetics,
Coal and Most
Service Charges
Washington W) The govern
ment Wednesday lifted price
control from milk, batter, tee
cream and other dairy products.
Drags, cosmetics, coal and most
service charges, such as for auto.
radio and television repairs, also
were freed from controls.
Price Stabilizer Joseph Free-
hill said the items decontrolled
in the new list affect about 10
per cent of the articles used in
making up the cost of living in
dex. He said the Office of Price
Stabilization still retains full
control over about 13 per cent
of the items and partial control
over about 3.8 per cent.
Tobacco Not Included
Missing from the list was cig
arettes and other tobacco pro
ducts on which OPS had plan
ned Tuesday to lift controls. The
agency decided overnight to sub
stitute milk and dairy products
and oleomargarine for the tobac-coes.
This was the third major ac
tion of stripping off price curbs
since President Elsenhower call
ed for ending controls in an or
derly manner by April 80.
(Cenoladed en Page & Column $)
Nehru Slams
At Ike Over
China Blockade
New Delhi, India, ( In
dia's Prime Minister Nehru
Wednesday told Parliament a
soldier is a very fine person
in his own domain, but this
Intrusion of the military men
tality into the chanceries of
the world presents very great
danger. .
Without mentioning Presi
dent Elsenhower by name,
Nehru said in reply to the
lower chamber in the debate
on the President's State of the
Union address: . "As some
Frenchmen once said war is
far too serious to be entrusted
to a soldier let alone peace."
Peace now seems to be
speUed W.AJl," he said. "We
are becoming enveloped by the
military mentality. Statesman
ship is being more and more
governed by military factors.
This talk of a blockade of
China or other such steps is
obviously not talk of peace,
whatever else it might bring.'
ble self-incrimination, to
whether he is or has been
communist, tie wouldn't say
whether he was a communist
when he wrote the material the
government circulated.
McCarthy also told the sub
committee that Secretary of
State Dulles has countermanded
an order issued by subordinate
last Feb. 3- which the senator
said directed that "special cre-
oiDUity" should be placed on
writings of "communist endors
ed" authors, including Fast, In
overseas anti-communist propa
ganda broadcast by the "Voice
of. America
McCarthy Is presiding over
the subcommittee's investigations
of charges of waste and misman
agement in "Voice" affairs.
He told his colleagues that
some of Fast s writings had been
given distribution by "Army
Services" and the State Depart
ment. The Senator added that
Mrs. Roosevelt has "helped."
He did - not elaborate, and
swung immediately into the
questioning of Fast,
The developments came after
a Voice of America official had
testified that he suspects, but
could not prove, there has been
'a premeditated, planned at
tempt" to draw the teeth from
anti-communist propaganda
broadcast to Latin-America by
the Voice.
Winter Still Lingers
In The Lap of Spring
Delayed winter weather con
tinued to prevail over valley
regions, Wednesday, albeit it
spring is just about a montn
away. Wednesday, morning's
minimum was near the freezing
mark in Salem and the forecast
calls for below freezing tem
peratures tonight
Big flakes of snow were mix
ed with rain falling Tuesday
evening in Salem, but the white
stuff did not stick on the
ground. The turn in the weather
is a bit of a shock now, follow
ing a January that had record
high temperatures for the month
and the most rainfall on record
for the month. Also, spring
flowers are popping out right
and left, and most folk are fear
ful of any severe freeze coming
now to damage plants.
River levels In the lower part
of tho valley were still coming
up Wednesday morning, but to
the south the Willamette and the
Santiam at Jefferson were both
falling.
At Salem the Willamette was
up to 11.4 Wednesday morning
and was due to go a bit higher.
A total of .68 of an inch of
precipitation was measured in
the 24-hour period ending at
10:30 a.m. today. Sunshine peek
ed through the clouds several
times during the morning,
In the high mountains heavy
snow piled up for the third
straight night. Chains are
necessity for all traveling
mountain passes.
Cold Shoulder
Given to Israel
Washington W) The United
States is reported turning a
cold shoulder to Israel's urgent
plea for aid while lining up
limited military and economic
help for Egypt.
The Elsenhower administra
tion, it was learned, has decid
ed to sidetrack Israel's bid.
temporarily at least, in order
to avoid antagonizing strategic
Arab governments.
Seven Arab nations jointly
told the state department yes
terday "any more help of any
sort might endanger the un
easy truce between Arabs and
Jews In the Middle East.
The bitterly worded Arab
complaint said Israel was try
ing to "exploit" its diplomatic
break with Russia to win spe
cial assistance from the U.S.
Top American officials re
portedly assured the Arab dip
lomats the administration
would treat all Middle Eastern
countries equally.
To back up this policy, ar
rangements are taking shspe
behind the scenes to pump
some dollar aid and weapons
shipments to Egypt
Weather Details
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UN Strategy.
Meet Called
United Nations, N.Y. W
Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr., Wednesday called a
strategy conference of the U.N.
allies in Korea, apparently to
discuss plans for the U.N. as
sembly meeting next Tuesday,
Bids went out from the U.S,
delegation to representatives of
every country with fighting
forces in Korea to meet in
Lodge's office at 11 a.m. Thurs
day.
India, which has only a med
ical unit with the U.N. forces
in Korea, was not Invited.
The American delegation had
no Immediate comment on the
meeting or its purpose.
Power Output
Gains in Week
New York CP) Electric pow
er production climbed to 8,147,-
4Hi,ouu Kilowatt hours in the
week ended Feb. 14, from 8,129,
038,000 the previous week, Edi
son Electric Institute reported
Wednesday.
Output In the latest week was
up 9.5 per cent from the like
week last year when production
amounted to 7,439,767,000 kilo
watt hours.
All of the industry's geogra
phical divisions reported gains
over the year-ago week, with
percentages varying as follows:
New England up 8.7, mid-Atlantic
7.0, Central industrial 10.6,
West Central 10.00, Southeast
14.0, South Central 5.3, Rocky
Mountain 9.2, Pacific Northwest
3.1 and Pacific Southwest 9.4.
Ike Drafting
Notes to Russia
Washington VP) Members of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee working In close co
operation with President Eisen
hower continued work Wed
nesday op two sharp notices to
oe served on Russia.
One will voice a warning to
Stalin and hi satellite countries
that this nation condemns with
out reservation any campaign of
persecution of Jews behind the
Iron Curtain....... . - ..
The other 1 Intended to make
it clear to the Soviet Union and
its victims alike that the U. S.
disowns any secret executive
agreements under, which people
have been enslaved.
Sen Ferguson R., Mich., said
he would urge committee hear
ings to determine not only what
agreements were made at Pots
dam, Yalta and other meetings,
"but who was responsible for
these agreements."
Dutch Speeding
Tariff Union
The Hague, The Netherlands
W) The Netherlands has called
on the other five Schuman plan
countries to commit themselves
to set up a tariff union within
a specified number of years, it
was learned Wednesday.
A Dutch note sent on Monday
to France, Italy, West Germany,
Belgium and Luxembourg de
clared that the proposed West
European Union must have a
complete common market for all
goods as one of Its alms.
xne note was intended as a
basis for discussions at the con
ference in Rome next Tuesday
of the Council of European For
eign ministers. The. ministers
will meet to discuss plans for po
litical unity among their coun
tries.
The Dutch in their note made
clear they are not inclined to
participate in a European politi
cal community unless it has eco
nomic union as one of its alms.
Napalm Mines
Guard UN Lines
Central Front, Korea O)
Mines which shower flaming
death in all direction guard the
Allied line across the 185-mile
Korean battle front
And Lt George McElrcy. who
helped develop them, says they
"are going to slow down any
Red attack that come In."
The Jellied gasoline napalm
mines can be detonated electri
cally by Allied tropoa, or set off
by Red soldier who trip over a
wire or plunger apparatus.
'Tire shoots out 18 to 19 yards,
sticks to whatever it hits, and
bum there," McElroy said "If
the communists are on the sur
face if they don't have a hole
to hide in they will be killed
by lt It usually only take a 20
oer cent burn to kill a man."
- The Lieutenant chemical om-
cer of a U. S. Infantry division.
says the napalm mines are pmb-i
ably .tha cheapest leuuu weapon
of Its kind hth awn arsenal.
Indian Envoys
Moscow VP) In a brace of bis
rare meetings with foreigners
Prime Minister Stalin received
two Indians T-iesday night As
usual, . the news was on the
front pages of the Soviet press
Wednesday and as ususl none
of the conversation was reveal
ed.
One of Stalin's callers was
India' new ambassador to the
Soviet Union, K. P. S. Menon.
His predecessor, Sir Sarvaalli
Radhakrlshnan, was received
twice by the Soviet generalis
simo, soon after he arrived in
January, 1950, and Just before
he left Moscow last April.
In a separate meeting, the
Kremlin's most distinguished
resident also received Dr. Sal
fuddln Kltchlu, chairman of the
AU-Indla Peace - Council and
winner of a Stalin peac prize
last year. Announcing the
meeting, Moscow radio and the
local papers gave no details.
The announcements said
Stalin saw Menon for 30 min
utes. The length of the inter
view with Kltchlu was not dis
closed.
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Destroy 1:3
Il.KorcznCjio
7. Red Mig Jets
Destroyed in
Furious Air Bottles -
Seoul ( Nearly 4t AlJlad
flfhter-besabers blasted a bit-
North Keraaa tank and Infan
try training base sate flaming
rain in dawn to daak talds Wed
nesday, teaching art farlea air
sanies that saw seven Red
MIGs (hot from the skies, the
V. 8. Fifth Air Fare reported.
Two tremendous air blows by
a total of 378 Canter-bombers
turned the canter near tha
North Korean capital of Pyong
yang- into a sea of "hellish ftre"
with great explosions that Jar
red raider plane 11,000 feet up.
returning puots reported.
Biggest Bald af Tear
Air Force and Marin nlane
I teamed in tha strike, billed as
- .i . . . . .
aqw ox vm year, uita
arrivals over the target said
fires and towering smoke col
umns made it Impossible to tell
immediately how much dam
age was wrought ;
It was the second bis raid!
of tha week. On Sunday, mora
than 200 fighter-bombers at
tacked a troop and supply can
tar southeast of Pyongyang.
While flghtav-bomber avata.
matlcaUy worked over tha tar
get swift Sabre barreled on
north and took on MIO-18 Jets
wno wars Beading south from
their Manchurlan base toward
tna bombing seen.
4 Jets Against IS MIGs
There was a series of short
and savage air battle, In en of
wmcn lour - Sabres defiantly
took on 32 MIGs.
Wednesday' seven boosted to
33 the number of MIG report-
ea destroy ea or damaged in five
day of fierce aerial fights. Of
tnese, i war destroyed. S
probably destroyed and 16 dam-
agea. . ;
Incomplete report tod said
Sabr pilots shot down fiva
MIGs deep over Northwest Ko
rea and destroyed two mora by
out-maneuvering mam .IB swirl
ing dogfight that produced tha
26th ace of to Korean war.
Capt. Manauel J. Fernandas of
Miami. He was credited with
two killed today. This confirm
ed total to six MIGs destroyed
and one probably destroyed.
ruth Air Force and Marine
plane rained more than 750.000
pounds of explosives on the tar
get area in morning , and after
noon strikes.-. ... "- ;n j
OPPOSES WAR EXTENSION
Ottawa, () Foreign Secre
tary Lester B. Pearson says
Canada opposes any move to
extend the Korean War unless
there is "pretty convincing evi
dence such a move would also
end the war quickly.
Democrats Demand
Republican Budget
Washington UP) Democrats
Wednesday challenged the Els
enhower administration to send
its own budget to Congress to
replace the spending program
outlined by President Truman
just before he left the White
House.
Rep. Rayburn of Texas, for
mer speaker and now Demo
cratic floor leader, raised that
line of attack as the House be
gan debating its first appropria
tions bill of the new congress.
"We have received the Tra
in budget and it has been
kicked and scuffed about," Ray-
burn said. "It seems to me it
would be the wise tiling for the
new administration therefore to
submit to us Its own budget-
that would be a wise and prop
er thing to do, and It should
ib dona."
Rep. Halleck of Indiana, the
GOP floor leader, retorted, that
he could assure the House that
administration officials and the
president would be cooperating
closely with congress to chop
federal spending "and that's
something we haven't had in 20
years."
Halleck added, "It isn't fair
to demand a detailed budget
from an administration which
only took office Jan. 20."
The spending bill, aa turned
out by the Appropriations Com
mittee, carries 3904,672,920 to
supplement fund for various
federal agencies for' the fiscal
year ending June 30. The Ap
propriations Committee slashed
$1,409,046,670 from requests
mad by the Truman administration.
China Fortifies
For Invasion
Talpeh, Formosa W5 T Tan
News Agency said Wednesday
the Chinese Reds have called in
additional troops and . clmpfd
rigorous martial law on tha
mainland coast of Fuklen Prov
ince, opposite Formosa.
Ta Tao. organ of Nationalist
China's Ministry of Interior, said
the communists set up a special
garrison headquarters at Min
now port, capital of Fuklen.
The agency gave underground
contacts aa Its source.
It said Minnow headquraters.
commanded by Gen. Yeh Fei,
was established Feb. 8 three
days after President Eisenhow
er announced the U. S. decision
to de-neutralize the Formosa
Strait
To Tao said Yeh urged emer
gency mobilization of Fuklen
resident, brought In fresh troops
to strengthen coastal defense
and organized militia maneuvers.
Knrpnn f rKimlfiec
Total Now 130,093
Washington VP) Announced
U.S. battle casualties in Korea
reached 130,903 Wednesday, an
increase of 274 since last week.
The defense department's
weekly summary based on no
tifications to families through
last Friday reported:
Killed in action, 20,543.
Wounded, 96,818. Missing, 13,
030. 1 Total, 10,093.
Battle deaths, 22,948. Cur
rent missing, 9,249.
Following 1 a breakdown of
the casualties by services:
Army, 101,659. Navy, 1,828.
Air force, 1,419. Marina corps,
25,187.
TWO CZECHS DOOMED
Vienna, Austria, 15 Two
Czechs have been sentenced to
death and seven other to pris
on terms ranging from 12 year
to life after a Czech communist
court found them guilty of spy
ing for Britain.