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THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY tonight, Frl-
morning fog.
Little rhaafe la Umperatnra.
Uw tonlfht, tl; tlx h Friday, SI.
Pay Hikes for
Top Officials of
Stale Approved
Ways and Means
OKs Bigger Salaries
. For Judges Also
By JAMES D. OL80N
Salary increases for six elec
tive state officers, seven su
preme court Justices and S cir
cuit Judges were approved by
the Joint ways and means com
mittee Thursday, with Senator
Angus Gibson, of Lane county,
chairman of the sub-committee
that recommended the salary
boosts, fighting almost alone to
reduce the amount of Increases.
; The .committee re-referred the
recommendations for salary in
creases for appointive officers
with instructions to re-examine
(hem and also separate officers
who are paid from the state's
general fund and those paid by
self-sustaining departments.
For Appointive Officers
' Also adopted by the commit
tee was the policy of setting both
a minimum and maximum salary
'for the appointive officers, a
plan that Sen. Dean Walker, co
chairman said, was to enable the
appointing officer to give a mini-
mum salary to a new man andsoU. ilo talked with Sen-
Increase him to the maximum af-
ter such an official has proved
his worth.
' Sen. Gibson first attempted to
eliminate the governor expense
account of $1,200 a year while
Rep. Robert Duniway moved to
decrease the governor's salary
and raise the expense account
In order to save the governor in
Income tax payments. However,
both efforts failed and the rec
ommendation that the governor
be paid $18,000 a year plus
$1,200 expense money was ap
proved. ' (Crammed a Face 8, Comma )
6 Die in Crash
Of Train-Bus
Brawley, Calif. VP) A South
fro Pacific train crashed Into a
bus loaded with farm workers of
Mexican descent Thursday ana
Police Chief Joe Gahard said six
were killed.
Gabard said 12 persons were
taken to Pioneer Memorial hos
pital here, six of them In critical
condition.
A witness, James Bynum, said
the collision sent a "streak of
fire 80 feet along the railroad
tracks. The bus was carried
130 yards and was crumpled and
twisted into debris.
"I don't see how anyone es
caped alive."
The combination passenger
and freight train was en route
from Nyland to Calexico.
The bus was owned by the
Arena Imperial Co., a Brawley
produced packing firm.
Valley Streams
Continue Drop
Cold temperatures continued
for Salem and area, Thursday
morning, the minimum in the
city dropping to 28 degrees. A
similar mark Is called for to
night.
Rivers In the valley were fall
Jng gradually Thursday morning.
At Salem, the Willamette meas
ured 12.4 feet The Willamette
was falling at Eugene, Corvallis
and Albany, and the Santiam at
Jefferson also was falling slow
ly. .
Rainfall for Salem in the 24
hour period ending at 10:30
a.m. Thursday amounted only
to a trace.
Icy conditions continue for
hiih mountain regions, the high'
way commission warning motor
ists chains are necessary for all
mountain travel.
12 Alsatians to
Get Amnesty
Paris VP) The French Nation
al Assembly voted amnesty
Thursday to free 12 of the 14
Alsatians sentenced last week
for their part in the wartime
massacre of 642 persons in ura
rinur-sur-Glane village.
The 12 to be freed had been
entenced to prison terms of
five to 12 years.
The clemency-exempting from
punishment all Frenchmen who
were forced Into German serv
ice during World War II and
committed war crimes on Ger
man orders will not benefit
the other two Alsatians convicted.
5lh Yrar,
Slate l!ol to
LoseTVChance
Says Governor
2 Years' Delay
Held Permissible
For School Station
The state's peeslble entry late
the educational televtrion field
would be studied by a proposed
Interim committee provided in
a resolution that is expected to
be Introduced la the legislature
in ue immediate future. .
This was disclosed Thursday
when Governor Paul L. Patter
son met with key members of
the house and senate and the di
rector of the-state-owned radio
station KOAC.
Supporters of Immediate ac
tion to establish educational TV
in Oregon, at a cost of upward
of $700,000, as the initial invest
ment, had argued the state faces
the prospect of losing reserved
TV channels unless action is tak
en by June 2.
No Beat Emergency
But Governor Patterson told
the group that he had contacted
the governors of a number of
states in the same position as
Oregon, including New York,
Connecticut, Michigan and Hin-
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(Concluded en Pace . estasaa S)
Goals Set for
Vegetable Crops
Washington A The Aari
culture Department today set
goals calling for increased out
put of summer vegetables and
melons this year and decreases
for fall vegetable grown for
fresh market
It called for a 1 per cent cut
in the nine vegetables grown
for commercial processing. -The
department asked growers
for 487,930 acres of IS summer
vegetables, up 1 per cent from
last year; 260,070 acres Of IS fall
vegetables, down S per cent: and
383650 acres of three summer
melons compared with 382,190
last year.
. The goals for vegetables lor
processing asked for 1,779,480
acres against last year's 1,800,980
acres. Goals for vegetables for
processing are on a planted acre
age basis while all tobers refer
to harvested acres.
Ho Hearings
On Surcharges
Public Utilities Commission
er Charles H. Heltzel refused
Wednesday to grant Rep. Mon
roe Sweetland's request for a
hearing of Sweetland's com
plaint against the 20 per cent
power rate surcharge. He said
it wasn't in proper form.
Sweetland made the request
in a letter to Heltzel Tuesday,
but Heltzel repUed that Sweet
land's request is not in proper
legal form..
Heltzel said his lawyer ad'
vised that Sweetland's request
is not proper because it doesn't
set forth any ground of com
plaint, doesn't identify the pow
er companies he complains
against no extra copies of
Sweetland's letter were pre
pared, and Sweetland didn't
pay the $1 fee that's required.
Sweetland said he would
have to wait a few days before
filing his formal complaint be
cause he was flying Wednesday
night to Constantine, Mich.,
where his father it seriously
ill.
Building Owners Fight
'Skyscraper' Tax Bill
Building owners in Portland tax payer was not paying any
who derive income from rentals thing to the state but instead was
alone are paying "bout 2 times contributing to the county."
they would pay Ifthe excise tax!B'ley ,ormCT ttorney for the
exemption were removed by the!'
legislature
This was the purport of a
statement made by Ralph Bailey,
attorney for the Association of
Building Owners and Managers
who appeared before the houre
tax to oppose H. B. 83 commonly
known as the "skyscraper" bill.
which If approved would remove
the excise tax exemption of
property where 90 per cent of
gross receipts are derived from
rentals.
"I would hate to think that
the legislature would pass a tax
bill on the assumption that the
.
fc.
It
8
Sudan Free to
Make Alliance
Khartoum, Sudan VP) Dis
puting claims of Egyptian Pre
mier Mohammed Naguib,
spokesmen of two leading Su
danese parties declared Wed
nesday night that an indepen
dent Sudan would be free to
make any alliance lt desired. .
The two men, Ibrahim Bedri,
of . Uw . socialist' republican
party, and Abdulla Khalil, see
rotary-general of the Umma
party, Sudan's largest, were
commenting on lfagulb's recent
declaration that the . Sudan
could not Join the British com
monwealth of nations.
Pointing out that they were
not saying the Sudan wanted to
Join the commonwealth, Khalil
declared:
. "If the Sudan chooses inde
pendence, lt would certainly
have relatiqns with other states
and might choose any form of
association with them."
War Begun on
Air Pollution
Portland VP) The new Oregon
Air Pollution Authority said at
a meeting here Wednesday it
planned to take steps to try to
prevent the state's cities from
developing smog problems now
confronting many cities of the
country.
The authority issued its first
directives, ordering a Portland
refuse dump operattor and a
soap company to put an end to
air pollution.
Richard E. Hatchard, author
ity engineer, said that North
Bend in Coos county has the
worst air pollution problem in
the state on the basis of a sur
vey of 118 stations in 38 com
munities. He attribtued condi
tions to lumber mills in the area.
He said that the next worst
was Coquille, also in Coos coun
ty. Others with enough air pollu
tion to be a nuisance in resi
dential areas included Portland.
We have the spectacle of the
government trying to gouge the
states, the states competing with
the counties and the counties
competing with the cities for tax
revenue."
Bailey declared that removal
of the excise tax exemption on
buildings depending on rentals
would not bring in $1 million an
nually, as had been predicted,
but on the best analysis covering
a group of such buildings, the
state's income would be increas
ed by $240,000 a year.
(Ceacluded oa rage Celuma $)
No. 43 XSfS,
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Ftbruary 19, 1953
a
. Mud, fhe Foe of Construction Record January rains have
transformed loose earth1 around Salem's new $3,800,000 South
Salem high school into muddy loblolly that slows building
progress and discourages workmen. At present 61 men are
employed on the project.
Lodge Tells of U.S.
Plans in Korea to Utl
' United Nations told its UJT.
Allies Thursday about future di
plomatic steps planned for deal
ing with the Korean War, but
Insisted c pubUat secrecy boot
them.-""'
Chief U. S. Delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., after an hour's
conference with representatives
of 13 countries who have sent
trops to Korea, told newsmen
Group to Study
T-H Act Changes
Washington, W Hope mixed
with skepticism was the reaction
Thursday to Secretary of Labor
Durkin's appointment of a spe
cial committee to recommend
changea in the Taft-Hartley La
bor, law.
lhe 15 - member advisory
group representing labor, man
agement and the public will be
headed by Secretary Durkin as
chairman. -
Durkin, former president of
the AFL Plumbers Union, called
it a "continuing body to which
from time to time I shall pre
sent particular problems . . ."
The first such problem is what
position the new administration
should take on the Taft-Hartley
Labor Law, now being studied
by congress for possible amend
ment. One change, proposed in a
prepared statement Thursday to
the House Labor committee,
would exempt unions more than
25 years old from the law's ban
of closed shops. In a closed shop,
the employer must hire only un
ion members.
10 Smash Out
Of Texas Jail
Fort Worth, Tex. UP) Then
men. including badman Floyd
Hill, smashed their way out of
the Tarrant county Jail here
Wednesday night Only one was
recoptured.
Hill is one of three men charg
ed in the $248,000 robbery of two
Cuban exiles here last Oct. 3 at
the lush Western Hills hotel.
The break occurred shortly
after 10 p.m. when three pris
oners on the fifth floor of the
Jail slugged Jailer Jim Holcomb
with a shower pipe, took his keys
and then freed Hill and four oth-
After taking an elevator to the
basement, they attacked sneriH's
Deputies Jason Young and Jim
Smith and Trusty Eulon Knight
and unlocked an outer door to
the Jail office to gain the out
side. Lonnle J. Bauch, 23, charged
with receiving stolen goods, was
- recaptured about 30 minutes aft-
er the break at he walked down-
I town.
V Vf?r
-
"actions will speak louder than!
words." , :
In a brief statement. Lodge
said:- 4 ; -:
"We have shewn our ae-l
lions" we really believe m- trie
principle of collective security.
We counselled today on steps to
take in the future." , .
He declined to comment fur
ther.
The General Assembly re
sumes its sesions next Tuesday
with the Korean question still
high on the agenda.
Lodge described the meeting
as one of a series between the
U. S. and the other U. N. coun
tries with trops in Korea. He
said there would be more of
them.
Of the IS countries invited,
Luxembourg and Ethiopia did
not show up for the opening of
the meeting in Lodge's office. Sir
Gladwyn Jebb attended for Bri
tain and Ambassador Henri Hop
penot for France.
Scientists Admit
H-Bomb Blast
Washington W) Atomic
scientists were quoted at tell-
lne a congressional committee
Wednesday that last fall's tests
at Enlwetok proving ground
Included two "highly success
ful" thermonuclear explosions.
Thermonuclear is the word
scientists used to describe the
proposed hydrogen bomb, the
oretically much more power
ful than conventional atomic
weapons.
Scientists of the atomic en
ergy commission AEC met
Wednesday with the senate
house committee on atomic en
ergy. One member who asked not
to be named said they report
ed being "well on the way"
toward developing the hydro
gen bomb. But he quoted them
at saying some difficulties, pri
marily of size, remained to be
worked out.
Fag Sales Zoom as
Control End Nears
Portland UP) Cigarette sales
were reported unusually heavy
here as well as elsewhere in the
country in anticipation of an end
to price ceilings.
The Fred Meyer stores' tobac
co merchandiser said customer
buying was "very heavy" Wed-
nesaay.
When ceilings go off. the retail
price may go up 2 cents a pack
age, retailers reported.
Weather Details
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House Voids
$20.5 Million
Aid to Schools
Economy Pleas Over
ridden to Help Out
. Emergency Needs
Washlngtoa iff) Overridiag
ac my pleat by tta Appropria
tions Committee, the House
Thursday ye ted MVi aoilllon
dollars of federal aid to com
munities whoso school popula
tions have been swollen by gor
rument defense activities.
By an unrecorded vote of 199
to 37, the House restored the
funds previously knocked out
of supplemental money bill
brought in by the Appropria
tions Committee.
For Emergency Needs
The House action was taken
In the face of demands by Rep.
Busby (R-ni.) and Rep. Taber
(R-NY), Appropriations Com
mittee leaders, to "stand and be
counted" on the economy Issue.
All but a handful of Repub
licans and all Democrats voted
for the supplemental school aid
funds to meet emergency needs
of local school districts for the
remainder of the fiscal year,
which ends June 30,
2nd Finnish Oil
Tanker Sighted
Washington ") A second
Finnish tanker, loaded with Jet
fuel for communist warplanes,
nas been spotted in the Medi
terranean by Western security
agents.
But American officials be
lieve the. ship's operators may
have changed their minds about
hauling ita highly strategic car
go to communist China. -
The ship, named "Neste." is
reported carrying 8,000 tons of
aviation Jet fuel picked up at
the Romanian all port of Con
stanta en tha Black Sea, , .
. Tha vessel it reportedly chart
ered by the same company
which tried to move another
tanker, the "Wiima," from Ro
mania with 7,000 tons of Jet
fuel bound for communist
China. The Wiima, defying
United Nations ban on such
shipments, is now anchored
about 20 miles off Singapore,
carefully watched by Western
security agents.
Balk on Hike
In Wheat Prices
Washington () Importing
countries continued to balk
Thursday at any sizeable price
increase in wheat ceilings. ,
The international wheat
council it winding up its third
week of bargaining on the
trade agreement, which expires
July 31.
Under it, the' 42 importing
nationa have been able to buy
over - two billion bushels of
wheat at a celling of $1.80 a
bushel.
Delegates read President
Elsenhower's news conference
statement Wednesday that this
amounted to a U.S. subsidy of
77 cents a bushel.
At chief exporter, the U.S.
it asking a celling of $2.80, but
conference in London last
spring foundered on this de
mand and there lt little chance
of its being met. Canada and
Australia, the other big ex
porters, are asking $2.25.
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Jersey Racketeers
tipped Cost of Bases
Washington VP) Investigat
ing senators reported Thursday
that "payroll padding by racke
teers and local politicians at a
New Jersey waterfront" added
millions of dollars to this na
tion's air base building program
in North Africa.
The report, filed by a com
mittee headed by Sen. Lyndon
B. Johnson (D., Tex.), describ
ed what lt called "unsavory"
conditions at the Claremont
Terminal in Jersey City, N. J.
Johnson said the report was
delayed until now to enable the
New York City Antl-Crlme com
mittee to complete its investi
gations of racketeering on the
waterfronts.
A Senate committee it sched
uled to hold hearlnga soon at
Xiuarr x . .
M"!Pflwei ipa Ail I fZe
Shot Down
By Sabre jets
Seoul, Korea tUB American
Sabre Jets shot down two more
Russian-built M1G Jet fighters
today while protecting more
than 300 U. N. warplanet at
tacking Red training school, a
freight yard and large oil stor
age center. . - .
The Sabres shot down the Bed
jets In blazing duels near the
Yalu river. A third destruction
claim awaited confirmation.
Col. Royal N. Baker, McK In
ner, Tex- achieved "double-
ace" by registering his 10th MIG
kill, the second highest score of
the Korean war. Col. Jamea K.
Johnson of Phoenix, got the oth
er MIG. '
Nearly 200 UJJ. fighter-bombers
splashed bombs and rockets
on the training school at Kang
so, west of Pyongyang, North
Korean capital, for the second
straight day.
They destroyed 14 buildings,
raising the total for yesterday
and today to 183. - i .
Korean Targets
Hard to Locate
Seoul Allied airmen said
Thursday they are hitting the
communists where it hurtsbut
are running out of lucrative tar
gets in North Korea. .
The air force lets the Reds
rebuild their shattered war
plants, then sends its pilots back
to knock them down again.
Savage trip-hammer blows by
nearly 600 allied fighter-bomb
ers Wednesday, and Thursday
ravaged communist tank and
Infantry . training center near
Pyongyang.
Lt Col. Brad Evans of Palo
Alto, Calif., said "there's a scarc
ity of lucrative targets" and "in
many cases we have to wait far
the communists to build them
up. , -. - , , .,
"We let the enemy expend
maximum labor-and money to
rebuild these areas, then we hit
them.? . .
At for rail lines, roads, trucks
an almlla targets, Jtvant aula,
"We have to go back all the time
and keep hitting them. There
will always be those kinds of
targets. The enemy it always
trying to bring up supplies.?
Dulles Studies
Far East Crisis
Washington () Secretary of
State Dulles has assured Allied
nations the United States it
seeking to avoid "political em
barrassments and troubles" with
them in charting new moves
against Red China.
One of several actions under
consideration, Dulles told a news
conference yesterday, is estab
lishment of a naval blockade of
the China coast Another, -he
said, is stricter "enforcement'
of United Nations recommenda
tions against trade with China.
The whole range of "measures
of varying kind which could be
adopted," Dulles said, is under
intensive study in the light of
three considerations: "their
feasibility, their military con
sequences and the degree of po-
litical embarrassments and
troubles that might be caused
with our allies' .
MARKETS CL08E MONDAY
New York VP) Financial and
commodity exchanges through-
out the United States will be
closed Monday, Feb. 23, in ob
servance of Washington's blruv
dsy. Various livestock reports
will be issued by the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
alleged crookedness on the wa
terfronts.
The Senate preparedness sub
committee, which Johnson heed
ed in the old Congress, report
ed that Dade Brothers, a
terfront operator, obtained
blanket contract to handle ship
ments of all materials needed
for the rush alrbase projects in
North Africa.
It said this contract spiraled
from an original $130,000 Job
upward until the waterfront
firm asked nearly nine million
dollars.
When senate investigators
working with other crime inves
tigating bodlei discovered pay
roll padding and ex-criminals
hiring waterfront workers, the
contract was canceled, the re
port said.
Gri:n P2tfcio:r
Prcj:r.!:d cf
World Crisis
Congress Leaders '.
Hear Ike Brief ;' , 1
War Strategy - .
Washington UP) Cusrestlou-
al leaders of both parties re
viewed the global military attaa
tlen with President Etaaahewer
Thursday, and house meat bar
said afterward It waa a portray
al of "a grim picture" ,
The republican and democrat
ic leaders of the senate and
house spent an hour and a half
with Eisenhower at the Whit
House session. ' ' -
They were briefed on Korean
war strategy and the military
and diplomatic situations else
where by Gen. ' Omar Bradley,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and by Allan W. Dulles.
chief of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
On Hell ef a Fix'
A presidential assistant. Rob
ert J. Cutler, also took part In
the briefing. He is in charge of
liaison with the National Se
curity Council.
After the session, Rep. Halleck
(R, Ind.), house floor lender,
told reporters: .
"Everybody knows lt Is a grim
picture." . v -
Another congress member who
attended said no conclusions
were reached at the session, "un
less you might say we are In a
hell of a fix." He asked not to
be named. .
Senate Republican Leader Taft
brushed by reporters, declaring
no naa "nothing, nothing at all"
to say. - .. .. ,
Very Informative' '
Then he tossed back over his
shoulder as he strode from tha
White House:
It was a briefing on a lot of
facta, military and diplomatic'
Halleck called n "a very in
formative briefing,'' which ha
said covered the whole military
outlook. '
He added that It dealt with
both the Korean and the Indo
China wars, among other things.
; -Twelve senators ana is nous
members attended tha briefing.
Washington VP) Rep. Pow
ell (D., N.Y.) told house inves
tigators Thursday that "New
York City it a city of terror for
minorities" and its police com
missioner should be fired.
"Every day he lt in office lt
disgrace to my town and to
my country," Powell asserted.
Powell, a Negro, charged
that Commissioner George P.
Monaghan made some kind of
an agreement with justice de
partment officials last July to
mike the FBI keep hands off
civil rights cases in New York.
He tald lt prevented FBI agents
from questioning New York po
licemen in cases alleging police
brutality. .......
Monaghan . has denied the
FBI ever agreed to ignore such
charges. .
The congressman, testifying
before house Judiciary tub-
committee probing the Justice
department, said an agreement
was reached after FBI agents
inquired into the police-slaying
of John Derrick,' a Negro Ko
rean war veteran early in 19SL
To Hike IILRB
To 9 Members
Washington VP) Rep. Kearns
(R., Pa.) came up Thursday with
a proposal to Increase member
ship of the National Labor Re
lations Board from five to nine
members. -
Sen. Taft (R.. Ohio) majority
leader and co-author of the Taft
Hartley Labor Law, has called
for upplng the NLRB member
ship from five, as it is at pres
ent, to seven. 1
The CIO expressed "strong dis.
approval" of this Idea, contend
ing it would put the board into
partisan politics. -
Kearns proposal was offered
to a house labor committee.
which it holding extensive hear
ings on amendments to the Taft
Hartley law. t
Secretary of Labor Durkin an
nounced Wednesday he has chos
en a 19-member advisory group
to draft the labor department s
recommendations for changes in
the law.
NINTH TRAFFIC DEATH
Portland VP) Portland's ninth
traffic death of 1953 was rec
orded Wednesday with the death
In a hospital of John H. Lewis,
72. He was hit by car Feb. 10
while walking across street. ,
New York City"
Of Terrorism