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EDITION
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65th year, No. 55
'KnWrtd h aeaed claw '
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Salem,Oregon, Thursday, March 5, 1953
(32 Pages)
Price 5c
- JLalw
Claim Truckers
Bill Eliminates
Competition
Measure Places Floor
On Minimum '
Railroad Rates -
By, JAMES D. OLSON
. ' Placement of a floor oa Bin
Imam railroad freight rates, at
provided la Senate BlU Sit,
.sponsored by the big trackers,
would eliminate eompetiUoa la
transportation and result in
higher rates to shippers.
This prediction was made by
Both Roy Shields and Frank Mc
Colloch, appearing before the
senate utilities and commerce
committee in a. three-hour hear
ing. When the hearing opened
Sta. Phil Brady, retired head
of the Teamsters' union in Ore
gon, announced that an amend
ed bill would be introduced
bringing both the truckers and
water transportation under the
terms of the bill. Shortly there
after Robert Knipe, representing
the truck interests, passed out
the amended bill.
Morgan Repudiated
One of the highlights of the
hearing, however, was the re
pudiation of testimony by How
ard Morgan in favor of the bill
by M. S. Shrock, who has been
prominent figure in grange
activities for SO years.
Morgan, who purported to
Represent the Oregon State
grange as an economic adviser,
declared that the grange fa
vored the bill because It was in
yie "public interest."
Shrock declared that be did
not agree with Morgan because
in the first place the Oregon
state grange had taken no
stand on the Issue but had al
ways favored lower freight
rates. . . ;
(Cenchried an Page S. Caloma S)
Patterson for .
Security Plan ;
'.CfDv. Paul L. Patterson en
dorsed Thursday a plan that
would enable the state to Join
its retirement plan with the fed
eral social security system.
- The plan, which might be
adopted by the current Legisla
ture, would increase public em
ployes' benefits- at least SO per
cent, and also would decrease
the cost to the employes by about
22 per cent-
The governor gave his views
. to the Joint Ways and Mean
Committee. It will require much
study, he said.
If the plan Is approved, state
employes and teachers automa
tically would come under it
Employes of cities and other lo
cal governments would be al
lowed to come under it on the
same terms.
' The committee had virtually
lecided to have a two-year stu
dy of the problem, and leave it
to the 1855 Legislature.
But with the new proposal, the
committee hopes it can act at
this session.
jobless Doles
To Be Extended
Labor's proposal to extend un
employment insurance to em
ployes of little businesses appar
', ently will go to the senate floor
without emDloyer opposition.
. At the first hearing before
the senate labor and Industries
committee on the CIO-AFL bill
to extend coverage to businesses
with fewer than four employes,
the spokesmen for the employers
said they wouldn't oppose the
extension of the coverages to lit
tle business;
However, the employers ar
gued strongly against another
section of the bill which would
Increase the employers' payroll
ava 2n rwrcent.
' James T. Marr, secretary of
the State Federation of Labor,
aid the tax increase is needed
to keep the unemployment trust
! fund solvent. The fund totals
M 7 million dollars, or about me
11 same as two years ago.
I . T.mM foliar mnlover rcD-
uuniiilm answered that the
1 fund Is In good shape, ana tnai
1 "this is no tme o pui
J taxes on business. An increased
i mi ,ia at a diaadvan-
MlJk WUUiu - -
I iage with employers in other
states."
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Price Controls
Lifted on Long
List of Products
Major Household
Appliances, Bread,
Autos Included ,
Washington W The govern
ment Thursday lifted price con
trols from major household ap
pliances, bread and bakery pro
ducts, automobiles and laundry
services.
Price Chief Joseph H. FreehiU
estimated that the annual sales
volume of items removed from
control by the action is 25 bil
lion dollars.
It was the fifth major sten in
lifting controls since President
Eisenhower, in his State of the
Union message, called for an end
to price curbs by April 30.
These are the major items
from which the controls were
removed Thursday:
All Bakery Products
All bakery products, including
bread, rolls, pies and so forth.
estimated to have an annual vol
ume of 3V4 billion dollars.
All major household applianc
es, including home refrigerators,
dishwashers, ' ranges, clothes
washers, driers and ironers, nd
home and farm freezers.
(Concluded on Page 8. Column 4)
Senate Passes
Justices' Bill
The Senate passed 18 to 13
Thursday and sent to the Gov
ernor a bill to remove Justices
of the peace from partisan poll-
tics.
The action came after Sen,
Richard L. Neuberger, Portland
Democrat, took a slap at
"threats" by members of the
House.
Neuberger, urging passage of
the House bill, told the Senate
that several representatives ap
peared before his elections com
mittee Wednesday and "made
throats" about what would hap
pen to certain Senate bills if
the Senate Elections Committee
acted unfavorably on some House
proposals.
He said Rep. E. H. Mann, Med
ford, chairman of the House
Elections Committee and author
of the Justice of the peace bill,
made "improper statements."
"There has been a great deal
of vlndictiveness in the House
over sponsorship of some Senate
bills," Neuberger said. "I want
to give notice that their bills are
likely to get the same treatment
in the Senate if this continues."
Strike Holds Up
Sailing of Liner
San Francisco VP) CIO ship
radio operators refused to sign
on the Matson luxury liner Lur-
line, scheduled to leave for
Honolulu Wednesday, and the
vessel was still at her pier Thurs
day morning.
some 730 -passengers were
feted on board Wednesday night
as though the ship were at sea.
The radio operators, asking a
9.S per cent wage boost, acted
as individuals in refusing to sign
the ship's articles. The CIO
American Radio Asociation earl
ier had said it would not at
tempt to tie up the Lurline.
Superior Judge Preston De
vine declined to issue a restrain
ing order against the union. He
spoke with Matson officials by
telephone and met with union
officials at his home Wednesday
night, but could not arrange a
settlement
Bonneville Council
Gets McKay Statement
One-of Secretary of Interior
Douglas McKay's first major
statements on power policies was
made public today at the Bonne
ville regional council area meet
ing being held In the Camellia
room at the senator hotel.
The council, made up of u tili-1
tv. business, farm and education-
al leaders, meet I quarterly to,
discuss power needs and prob-
lems of the area. j
McKay's statement, made in a development and regulation of
letter to the Northwest Public non-federal power generation
Power association, was presented1 and distribution,
by Gus Norwood, executive sec- "2. Urge that the people of the
retary, as part of his committee. region utilize their full resources
report. The secretary pledged to of private and public effort to
use the influence and energies of achieve for themselves a maxi
the department to encourage and mum development to the full 11
assist In unifying all possible mit of their capacity,
agencies to achieve maximum, (Caocloded .a Fag t. Calami 4)
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Orgy of Fiery
Destruction
Hits N. Korea
Seoul, W Allied warplanes
unleashed an orgy of fiery de
struction over North Korea to
day. It included a record 1,000-
mile round trio fighter-bomber
smash within 50 miles of Rus
sia's Siberian border.
The U.S. Fifth Air Force said
IS F84 ThunderJets, flying from
bases in South Korea, plastered
industrial-targets near Chong
Jin, 140 miles from Vladivostok,
in the longest fighter-bcAnber
strike of the war. "
Other fighter-bombers pound
ed communist positions along
the quiet, 155-mile battlefront.
Thunderjets followed up the
Chongjin strike with an attack
on a muitions plant near Sun-
chon, north of Plongyang North
Korean capital.
Seek Discount
On Club Liquor
Hotel, restaurant and club
operators said Wednesday night
that bootlegging would be in
creased unless they get a 15 per
cent discount on liquor bought
from the State Liquor Commis
sion. Testifying before the senate
alcohol committee on house -passed
liquor by the drink bill
that now doesn't provide for a
discount, they said bootlegging
already has reached alarming
proportion In Oregon.
The senate committee gave a ,
special Invitation to church and I He said Britain had strained
prohibition groups to say whaliher economy to the maximum in
they think of the bill. Several her rearmament drive.
were present, but none talked
George Amato, Portland night i
club operator, pleaded for a 15
percent discount because liquor
by the drink then could be sold
more cheaply.
He also criticized the fact
that dispensers could have bot
tle club licenses or liquor by the
drink licenses, or both. He ad
vocated a single liquor by the
drink license.
development of the hydroelec
tric potential of the Northwest.
"More specifically," he said,
"it is my purpose to
"1. Recognize and sustain the
right of the people of the local
and state communities to decide
whether they prefer distribution
of electric power by investor-
owned enterprise or by publicly
owned agencies ana their right
to control, at the state level, the
Spring Weather Favors Road
tle Creek road bridge spanning Mill creek immediately west
of Turner is a Marion county Job 180 feet long and with a 24
foot deck.- This bridge will be completed and the road re
opened in about 12 days. Lower: One of four overpass struc
tures for the bypass route east of Salem under contract by
Tom Llllebo and now progressing over market road 56.
Construction Resumed
On Public Projects
. Pleasant spring weather nasi
enabled Marlon county and
state highway construction to be
resumed' with - rigor -in -t-this
Churchill Asks
Record Budget
London M) Prime Minister
Churchill Thursday asked the
House of Commons to approve a
record peacetime defense budet
of over AVi million dollars. This
is an increase of more than 12 V4
percent over the 1952-53 figure.
The British expect the United
States to cover about one tenth
of the total.
The budget calls for spending
of 1,636,760,000, $4,585,728,
000 for the year ending March,
1954.
Churchill emphasized that the
heavy defense sepnding was ab
solutely essential in this "testing
time for a free world." But, he
added;
"Any further substantial di
version of our resources from ci
vil to military production would
gravely imperil our economic
founditions and with that our
lability to continue the rearma-
men' program.
Survey Urges
Lower Tariffs
Washington VP) A special
White House survey urging
sweeping changes in American
trade policies strengthened the
hand Thursday of a British dele
gation here for dollar talks with
top American officials.
The report, drafted by 13
American business, labor and
farm leaders, strongly appealed
for lowering of tariffs and other
barriers now restricting foreign
exports to the U.S.
The recommendations coin
cided almost exactly with what
British and other Allied officials
have been hoping this country
would do.
Britain's Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden and Chancellor of
the Exchequer Richard Butler
were expected to cite the sur
vey's conclusion as they arrang
ed new meetings with Secretary
of State Dulles and other U. S
officials.
LOT OF GAS IN CANADA
Washington W) Some 20 na
tural gas fields in Western Can
ada's Peace River country con
tain reserves exceeding 2 tril
lion cubic feet, a geologist told
the Federal Power Commission
Wednesday.
Construction Top: New Bat
locality. Now a county crew
under supervision of Joe Roble
is building a new bridge over
j Mill tyeek on Battle Creek-road
ana Torn J-.Uiebo, with a crew
of eight men, is pushing con
struction of an overpass for the
new bypass route east of Salem
that will span market road 56.
Marion county's new bridge
on Battle Creek road immediate
ly west of Turner will be 180
feet long and have 24 foot deck
made of tongue and groove
material. Thirty-six cedar piling
acquired by the county in the
neighborhood of Idanah will sus
tain the structure. Because the
formation here has the nature
of a cemented gravel, most, if
not all, piling is steel shod be
fore driving. The pile driver on
the job has a 2100 pound ham
mer and piling is driven to a
depth of seven feet.
New Battle Creek road bridge
replaces a structure near 20
years old and almost worn out
While clearing for the new con
struction Roble's crew discov
ered truss blocks that, indicate
a covered bridge once stood on
this site. The new bridge will be
completed and the road re-open
ed in about 12 days.
Lillebo's job is the first of four
similar structures to be con
structed for the bypass route
west of SP tracks. The overpass
for market road 36 will be 100
feet long and have a 30 foot
deck. Llllebo also has under
contract the Boone road, Pringlc
road and Battle Creek struc
tures.
NAM to Oppose
All Controls
Washington Iff) . A standby
system of wage-price-rent con
trols would violate President El
senhower's blueprint for a free
economy, the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers NAM told
Congress Thursday.
Charles R. Sligh Jr., NAM
president, said in testimony pre
pared for the Senate Banking
Committee:
"The association's views on
price and wage controls, as well
as on the need and desirability
of standby controls, parallel
those of President Eisenhower
the free enterprise s.stem
should be given a free rein."
The committee is conducting
public hearings on a variety vl
controls measures, Including ex
tension of authority for present
economic controls which soon
expire, as well as proposals for
standby powers through which
the President could freeze
prices, wages and rents in the
event of war or economic emer
gency.
Stalin's Lik Ebbing Amy ,
Rep ort Chart $tedilyfci&
Ike Willing fo
Meet Stalin's
Successor
Attaches Same .
Conditions He
Stipulated Week Ago
Washington VP) President
Elsenhower expressed willing
ness Thursday to go half way
to Moscow to meet whoever
succeeds the dying Joseph Sta
lin la Russia's scat of power.
He attached the same condi
tions he set oat a week ago for
a possible meeting with Stalla.
In a news conference state
ment the president aald be did
not know what might come
from the impending shifts In
Russia and described the Unit
ed States' attitude of the mo
ment as very definite watchfulness.-
He said this country's basic
aim would be, as it has been, to
seek progress toward peace,
(Canctaded rare S. Catamn g)
Munitions Short
Says Van Fleet
Washington W) Gen. James
A. Van Fleet told senators Thurs
day there was a "serious short
age of ammunition" the whole
time he was In Korea, and Sen.
Byrd (D.-Va.) promptly called
on the Pentagon to punish those
responsible for this "criminal In
efficiency."
Byrd cam out of a closed door
session of the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee, where he had
heard jVan- Fleet, and fired oft a
burning letter to Secretary of
Defense Charles . Wilson.
Asserting that in 20 years In
the Senate he had "never been
more shocked" than he was at
Van Fleet's testimony Byrd told
Wilson:
General Van Fleet testified
this shortage has been continuous
since he took command and that
almost daily he had reported it
officially and through channels."
Byrd told a reporter Van Fleet
Waiiiied there was a shortage of
all types of ammunition, includ
ing hand grenades.
60,000 East
Germans Flee
Berlin VP) Mayor Ernst Ren
ter said Thursday between 50,
000 and 60,000 East Germans are
expected to seek asylum In this
island city In March and re
newed his appeal for Interna
tional aid.
"Berlin and the federal repub
lic cannot bear the load .alone,"
he told the city assembly. "What
Germany needs is international
support and not Just internation
al spmpathy."
He said negotiations are un
der way with three allied Com
mercial airlines serving Berlin
to fly 1.500 refugees out of West
Germany dally to ease the city's
burden.
Polish Flier Lands Mig
On Danish Airfield
Roenne Denmark (ff) The
first Soviet Jet fighter plane to
come into western hands un
damaged was brought to a
breath-taking landing by a dar
ing young Polish refugee Thurs
day on the Danish Baltic Island
of Bornholm.
A Polish legation spokesman
in Copenhsgen declared angrily
his government would "of
course" demand return of the
jet, believed to be a MIG IS,
as soon as possible. High Dan
ish air force officers flew here
immediately to examine the air
craft. The plane, which carried Pol
ish air force markings, circled
low over Roenne, administra
tive center for Bornholm, be
fore the pilot decided to risk a
landing at the nearby airport.
While airport personnel look
ed on in horror, the Jet screech
ed down the 1,300-yard long run
way, about a third the length
normally required for planes
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Possible Successors to Stalin
L. P. Beria (top), long
chief of Soviet state security
and secret police; Vlacheslov
M. Molotov (center), a for
mer Soviet premier and for
eign minister and Georgi M.
Malenkov (bottom), a deputy
premier and a leader In In
ternational communism. (AP
Wirephoto)
Mountain States
Surcharge Ended
Mountain States Power com
pany was ordered Thursday to
reduce its surcharges in the Coos
Bay and Nelscott districts, effec
tive with the March billings.
Public Utilities Commistoner
Charles H. Heltzel ordered the
company to cut the surcharge
n the Coos Bay division to 4 per
cent, and in the Nelscott district
to 8 per cent.
He said the surcharge would
end in those divisions after the
J March billings.
of that type. The landing was
without accident.
A strong military cordon was
flung around the plane. The
pilot, a curly-haired blond
youth of 23, climbed out, still
shaking after his experience.
He asked immediately for
asylum in Denmark, saying he
could not stand conditions in
his Moscow-controlled home
land. Police would not disclose
his name.
Danish sources said the ref
ugee would be given political
asylum, but disposition of the
plane remained uncertain.
A U.S. embassy official de
scribed the plane as a sensa
tional catch that might yield
Invaluable secrets to western
experts. But he added:
"Of course, the fact that the
plane belongs to the Polish air
force may indicate that it la an
obsolescent model. It Is, only
really interesting if It Is ot the
latest type.
Red Dictator Still
In Coma, State
icians
Moscow VP) Joseph Stalin's
heart b faltering, the latest bul
letin from his physicians dis
closes, and the announcement of
his death may be only a matter
ot hoars away.
A medical bulletin Thursday'
night for the first time mentions
a failure of the Prime Minister'!
heart. Previous reports had cen
His Phys
tered around a brain hemorrhage
stroke-and disturbances in
breathing and blood circulation. '
The latest bulletin the third. -from
the 10 doctors since a
stroke felled Stalin in the Krem. '
lln Sunday night acknowledged
that his condition had deterior
ated. It called his status "exceed- "
ingly grave."
Third Bulletin -It
was perhaps noteworthy
that this third bulletin was is
sued only 12 hours after bulletin
No. 2. A full 24 hours passed be
tween the first and second bul- -letin.
This third bulletin was issued
at 8:30 p.m., and reported Stal
in's condition up to 4 p.m., S
ajn.r (PST). If described'. signs ,
of heart failure. .
The bulletin read: '
'The treatment is at present
directed mainly toward combat
ting the irregularities In breath
ing and blood circulation, in
particular of the coronary one." -
This would mean the circula
tion of blood through the heart.
A leading medical authority said
the bulletin meant Stalin soon
would be dead, if he waa not al
ready so, and said it waa in et- -feet
a description ot fatal heart
.failure. "
Grows Exceedingly lal
The phystcwrr bulletin ae- -scribed
StaUn's blood pressure as .
having da ere seed as,e .grew in
creasingly -.pel. ,t-,. v-vs..--,.,
(Oaathiaed I Caluma 4)
Caution Rules
In Washinqfon 1
Washington WV-The United
States will be supercautious to
avoid sudden changes, in mili
tary policy which might alarm
either the Soviets or U. S. allies
during any transition in the Rus
sian regime.
This became apparent today
as the Pentagon weighed each
bit of information about Joseph .
Stalin and consulted frequent
ly with the State Department
Potentially dangerous situa
tions were seen if the U. S. mili
tary, for any reason, should
make major changes in armed
force strength or disposition of
troops at this time:
If the U. S. should start an
abrupt buildup of strength on
the belief the danger of war was
Increasing because of Russia's
internal situation, a new and in
experienced regime in Russia
might seize upon this as a pre
text for launching "preventive"
war. ,
United Nations
Marking Time
United Nations. N. Y. WV-
Soviet Ambassador Georgi Zaru-
bln said Thursday Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei Y. Vishln
sky will fly to Moscow Friday.
United Nations, N. Y. (ff)
United Nations diplomats anx
iously pondered today over news
of Russia's stricken Prime Min
ister Stalin. They held little
hope that any resulting events in
the Kremlin would break the
current deadlock In their debate
on Korea. .
Western delegates wondered
If Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Y. Vishinsky would stay oa
to argue for his program
doomed in advance to over
whelming defeat. There were
unconfirmed rumors that he
was trying to get back to Mos
cow as qulckiy as possible.
The proposals of the commu
nist bloc were scheduled to be
voiced today by Czechoslova
kia's Foreign Minister Vaclav '
David, listed as the first epeak
er In the Assembly's Political
Committee.
Vlshlnsky's policies were echoed
yesterday by Polish Foreign
Minister Stanislaw Skrzesexew
ski. who made no mention ot
IStalin's illness.
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