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FINAL
EDITION
J " lOf
65th Year, No. 57
ntmtf u mm IM
Salem, Oregon, Saturday, March 7, 1953
Price 5c
Mail Notices
For Increased
Taxes Favored
House Tax Committee
Amends Bill to Pro
tect Property Owners
By JAMES D. OLSON
Every property owner would
receive notice by mail ot any
increased assessment made by
th count? assessor if the house
nmmtttee on taxation has its
way.
-Much of the time of a com
ro.tttee meeting Friday was de
voted to this subject with Heps.
Robert Root of Medford, Frank
Farmer of Polk county and Ed
Geary of Klamath Falls lead
in the fight for notices.
When it was brought out that
an upward revaluation ot all
real property in a county would
result in heavy expense to the
assessors office if notices to all
real property owners were re
quired. Rep. Geary said:
Geary Speaks Cp
"If the assessor raise the
valuation of all the real prop
erty in Klamath county he cer
tainly should send notices by
mail to all property owners."
It was recalled that in
Clackamas county, several
years ago, property in the
northern section of that county,
was revaluated upward by the
assessor and no notices of such
revaluation were sent out. The
action was discovered when one
property owner happened to
drop into the court house at
Oregon City to check her own
appraisal and discovered that
the valuation of all properties
in the area in which she resided
had been upped.
(Continued on Pate 5, Column 7)
Short Session
Out of Window
There isn't much talk around
the Legislature any mora about
a short session, but the law
makers still think they can end
by the 100th day. The session
was 55 years old Saturday.
The highlight of the week,
which saw nearly all the acti
vity in committees, was the an
nouncement by Gov. Paul Pat
terson, Senate President Eugene
E. Marsh and House Speaker
Rudie Wilhelm, Jr.
They listed the 11 pieces of
legislation they consider impor
tant. Nothing like that had
ever been done before, and it
might serve the worthy purpose
of shortening the session.
This list of bills which they
believe should be acted upon
will focus the Legislatures' at
tention on the important things,
It will enable the legislators to
onsimte the wheat from the
..huff among the 1,0000 bills
that have been introduced.
Permit Hearing
On College Bill
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01 Korean War
Advances Plan After
Van Fleet Sees Ike
For 2 Hour Talk
Washington Sen. Tart R
Ohio) proposed Saturday a full
scale congressional investigation
o the conduct of the Korean
War.
Taft, the Senate Republican
leader, told reporters he thinks
it might be wise to broaden a
pending inquiry into reputed
ammunition shortages to cover
also the circumstances surround-
armistice talks and the handling
of prisoners.
The senator advanced his plan
shortly after Gen. James A. Van
Fleet had spent an hour and 10
minutes with President Elsen
hower. The general declined to
say whether he and the chief
executive talked about his claim
that ammunition has been
seriously short in Korea.
Van Fleet Non-committal
The retiring commander of
the Eighth Army, whose report
on ammunition supplies had set
off the congressional investiga-
tion, would say only that he had
had a "friendly, old-time chat
with the President.
(Concluded on Pate fc Column 8)
Steelman to
Resign as Aide
Washington W The White
House said Saturday John R.
Steelman has resigned as spe
cial assistant to the President.
Steelman, who will set up a
private labor relations and eco
nomic consultant office here,
was assistant to former Presi
dent Truman for many years
and remained as a special ass is
tant to President Eisenhower
during the changeover in administrations.
Steelman acted as Trumans'
labor advisor and took part in
settling several major labor
dispute.- ------
Sherman Adams of New
Hampshire succeeded Steelman
in the $20,000 a year post as
assistant to the president
There probably will be no suc
cessor to Steelman as special
assistant since Eisenhower al
ready has two of them, C. D.
Jackson and Wilton B. Persons.
ThA Hnuse Education Com
rotttee said Saturday it would
iw.rm!t the State Board of High
er Education to give testimony
on the bill to make a four-year
college out of Portland State
College. , .
The committee had approved
the bill 5 to 3, but Chancellor
r-korio. n Bvrne of higher edu
cation complained that the
board didn't get a chance to be
heard.
s Ren. Maurine Neuberger,
c-iionH chairman of the com
mittee, announced Saturday the
committee would hear Byrne
and other higher education offi
Mii in q fpur davs.
She said there was a public
k.irintf on the bill, but that no
body from the Board of Higher
Education showed up.
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Mercy Flight
Saves Alaskans
Anchorage, Alaska VP) A
mercy flight has brought med
ical aid to isolated Lime and
Whltefish villages and disclos
ed a critical food shortage in
the two communities some 200
miles west of Anchorage.
Capt. Carl M. Russell of the
39th Medical group at Elmen
dorf air force base treated 23
persons for an unidentified ill
ness the entire population of
the two villages.
All but two are reported re
covering. A couple known as
"old Mr. and Mrs. Bobby" are
in serious condition and the air
force planned to send planes
Saturday to bring the two per
sons to Anchorage.
Meantime the 71st air rescue
squadron is standing by with
food ready to be flown to the
stricken villages as soon as a
request is received from the
Alaskan Native Service.
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New Cold Wave
Hits Mid-West
(Br Tlx AMOci.ted Prtu)
A blast of icy air from Cen
tral Canada sent the tempera
tures tumbling in the North
Central States Saturday, with
readings as low as 23 below zero
in some areas.
The cold air extended into the
Ohio Valley as far as Kentucky
and Tennessee. But the mid win
ter-like weather centered in
parts of Minnesota and Wiscon
sin.
It was -23 early Saturday in
Bemldjl, Minn.; -22 in Grants
burg, Wis.; -21 In International
Falls, and -11 In Duluth, Minn.
The Twin Cities of Minne-
apolis-St. Paul shivered in near
zero weather.
Some warming was in pros
pect for the mid-continent by
Sunday.
Snow began whirling in Chi
cago Saturday morning, and a
fall ot two to four inches was
forecast. The Weather Bureau
in Chicago said the snow area
extended from Northern Illinois
through Southwestern Wiscon
sin, Iowa and Southern Minne
sota to the Dakotas.
Skies were clear in most other
areas of the nation.
Production at
Record Pace
New York VP) Industrial pro
duction hit a near-record pace
this week with businessmen de
bating what If any effect
Stalin's death might have on the
long-term economy.
The feeling was pretty gen
eral that Stalin's death would
have little effct on business and
industry.
Many, In fact, believed the
death of the Soviet leader might
stimulate production.
They felt there would be no
let up In the output of military
goods and some took tne view
that a virile defense program
was even more necessary than
before.
Certainly the death of Stalin
brought no immediate reaction
in the nation's factories.
Industrial plants whipped
along at close to post-war rec
ords. There were reports from
sections that the available sup
ply of skilled workers was rath
er scanty.
SPUD OFFICIAL PAY HIKED
The salary of the administra
tor of the Oregon Potato Com
mission would be boosted from
$6,000 a year to $7,200 by a bill
passed Saturday by the House
and sent to the senate.
One Minute Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishlnsky
(right) bows his head during a minute ot silence at the
United Nations in New York tor the late Russian Premier
Josef Stalin. (UP Telephoto) '
UN Asked to Select
Successor to TrygveLie
United Nations, N.Y. VP) lot the current session of the
Britain and France Saturday General Assembly as a result
asked for a meeting of the U.N. of Lie's resignation last Novem
Security Council early next ber. The Security Council,
week to consider picking a suc
cessor to Secretary-G e n e r a 1
Trygve Lie.
The question is on the agenda
Gromyko Back
At UN Meet
New York,, VP) Andrei A.
Gromyko arrived here by plane
from London Saturday to re
place Andrei Y. Vishinsky tem
porarily as leader of the Russian
delegation to the United Nations.
Gromyko had no comment on
the death of Premier Stalin and
his toccessionJyjGeorgl M.jwal
enkov. ' ' "" '
"I have nothing to say," he
told newsmen as he disembarked
from a British Overseas Airway
plane. "I'm just here to attend
the UN General Assembly."
Gromyko, ambassadorto
Great Britain, flew into New
York less than 24 hours alter
Vishinsky sailed on the French
Liner Liberte for conferences
with Moscow officials.
Vishinsky learned just before
sailing that the Malenkov
regime had reduced him from
foreign minister to deputy for
eign minister while assigning
him as permanent delegate to
the UN.
must recommend a
before the assembly
however,
candidate
can act.
Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmie Pan
dit, leader of the Indian delega
tion, is the latest entry In the
list of names being mentioned.
She told reporters Saturday
that, if elected, she would ac
cept the post, but that she
won't run for the job.
Mrs. Pandit Is the sister of
India's Prime Minister Jawal-
harlal Nehru and former In
dian ambassador to Moscow
and Washington,
U.N. delegates differed today
whether the shift of Andrei Y.
Vishinsky from ' Soviet minis
ter to chief Russian U.N. del
egate was a demotion or presag
ed a new and tougher Soviet
line in the world organization,
The change was announced
by the Kremlin yesterday as
Vlslilnsky sailed for home. As
sociates said the tough-talking
Moscow lawyer received
no advance word of the shift
that put Deputy Premier V. M,
Molotov in the top foreign min
istry spot.
Malenkov in
Stalin's Post oi
USSR Dictator
Elevation Accompan
ied by Shake-up
Of Top Officials
Moscow () Georri M. Mal
enkov today led the Soviet Un
ion and Its wide dominions
officially as successor to Jo
seph V. Stalin. His elevation
was accompanied by wnoie
sale ahakeup of top government
personnel. I
Selection of Stalin's 51-year-
old protege to be the new Rus
sian prime minister was an
nounced by the Kremlin last
night Long a close associate of
the dead communist chief, Mal
enkov had been considered his
likeliest successor.
(Concluded en Pat S. Column I)
Chinese Reds Off
For Stalin Rites
Tokyo VP) Peiplng Radio
said a delegation of Chinese
Communists headed by Premier
and Foreign Minister Chou En
Lai left by plane for Moscow
Saturday.
The official Red China broad
cast, heard here by Radio Press
Agency, did not Identify the
mission. It was presumed, how
ever, Chou and other Commun
ist big-wigs planned to attend
the funeral of Russia's Premier
Joseph Stalin Monday.
The Chinese Red Army com
mander in Korea, Gen. Peng
Teh-Hual, sent a letter ot con
dolence to Moscow declaring
his troops "in memory of the
great Stalin will turn their sor
row into strength . . ."
He said his army In Korea
"will stand alongside the people
of the great Soviet Union and
peace loving people all over the
world."
Chinese Reds
Repulsed at
2 Outposts
Seoul WV Chinese commun
ists hurled two company-sized
assaults at Allied outposts on
the Korean Western front Sat
urday and then withdrew, leav
ing an estimated 106 dead on the
muddy battlefield.
The Reds hit southwest of
Kelly Hill with two separate
raids each with about 175
men.
South Korean soldiers cut
down the charges with wither
ing rifle and machine gun cross
fire, while heavier guns in the
rear pounded the oncoming
Chinese. The Reds retreated af
ter an hour's fight.
The Chinese attacked again a
tew hours later, but half-heartedly.
They pulled back after 30
minutes.
Chilling rain reduced most
other ground activity.
Low-hanging clouds and mist
grounded U. N. warplanes dur
ing the day. But Friday night 17
U. S. B-29 Superforts from
Japan plastered the main Red
supply route from the Yalu Riv
er to Sinanju with 170-tons of
bombs.
Call Strategy
Meet in Paris
Washington, VP) American
military leaders left for Paris
Saturday to Join a high-level
meeting on strategy geared to
the existing capabilities of the
Western European defense sys
tem. Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman
ot the joint chiefs ot staff, left
shortly after noon for the "com
mand exercise" at supreme al
lied headquarters which was
called by Gen. Matthew Ridg-
way, Allied chief.
Stalin Shilling
Figure in Dcslh
As When Alive
Lies in State in Hall of
Columns, Vast
Crowds Visit Bier
By EDDY G1XMORB
Moscow (fitin death as la
life, Joseph Stalin is a singular
figure of a man. Lying here in
the Hall of Columns, his head
on a silk pillow, he Is a striking
figure. There Is a monumental
dignity about him.
He wears a grey military jack
etone that the world has seen
in so many pictures. Over his
heart are numerous medals. One
recognizes particularly the Gold
Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor.
You start in this seemingly
endless line of people at the
door of the Hall of Columns In
the House of Trade Unions. It's
a bitterly cold day, the kind that
makes the pavement burn
through the soles of your shoes.
The sun is shining but the mer
cury has sagged below zero.
AU Kinds of People
Moscow's wide street near
the House of Union are cleared
and orderly as lines converge on
the, green colored building in
the heart ot the city, a very
short distance from the old
Kremlin, where Stalin worked
and died.
There are all kinds of people.
Old people, young people, middle
aged people, children.
(Concluded Pace Ceiaasst O
Body to Lie
In Red Square
Mfkurnur (JpL-Thm SAirUt TTtn.
Earlier in the day Gen. Hoyt ion today readied the greatest
Crabb Found Guilty of
Slaying Georgia Lang
Roseburg VP) A circuit court
Jury Friday night found Ches
ter Dean craDD, 24, guuty oi
first degree murder in the slay
ing last April of Georgia Lang,
19.
The unanimous verdict carried
a recommenaauon oi me imprisonment.
Crabb, an ex-sauor irom atb-
go in Coos county, and his wife
were standing with their arms
entwined as the verdict was
read. They both broke into
tears.
Miss Langs nude body was
found seven months after her
death in a field near a deserted
highway in the Oakland, Ore.,
area.
Crabb, a, his trial, told this
story of events tne nignt me
girl died:
He. John W. Coffield, 24, and
Miss Lang went in a truck to the
field near Oakland. Crabb re
mained in the truck while she
and Coffield went into the field,
Coffield returned to the truck
alone. Crabb said he found Miss
Lang nearby whimpering. She
refused to go back to Roseburg
with Coffield so Crabb told htm
to drive on
Then the girl "went wild" and
began running through the field
tearing oft her clothing. Crabb,
to stop her, tackled her. He
tried to revive her by washing
her face and body with a hand
kerchief, then ran. to the road to
seek help. He became fright
ened and hitched a ride to Eugene.
The jury deliberated the case
about four hours.
Greyhound Bus
Smashes Pillar
Los Angeles U.R A Grey
hound bus carrying 28 passen
gers went out of control and
smashed a concrete pillar at an
underpass today injuring many,
four critically.
Police said the bus, driven by
Forrest Luther, of Los Angeles,
was coming from El Centro to
Los Angeles. The accident oc
curred on Valley Blvd. at the
Soto St. underpass at 2 a.m., this
morning.
The force of the Impact shear
ed off the whole left side of the
bus and hurled one unidenti
fied woman through the wind
shield.
Officers said passengers com
plained that Luther had been
driving "erratically" during the
night, but they said cause of the
accident was still under Investigation.
Police said the injured, still
unidentified, were "scattered all
over" in various hospitals in the
city. However, they said the four
critically injured are all in Gen
eral hospital.
Butler Piles
Up tor Waste
Washington 0J.B The govern
ment is still buying butter at
the rate of almost 2,000,000
pounds a day, despite Agricul
ture Secretary Ezra T- Benson's
assurances to dairy farmers
that price supports would not be
cut.
Since Benson on February 27
announced his decision to keep
butter price props at 90 per
cent of parity for another year
almost 9,000,000 pounds of but
ter has come Into the govern
ment'! hands.
I It now owns about 99,000,000
Ipoundi, or $67,000,000 worth.
With Britain
Washington VP) Britain and
the United States wound up four
days of economic and political
talks with a final joint confer
ence Saturday in the office of
Secretary ot State Dulles.
Conference members declined
to discuss subjects or disclose
any agreements or conclusions.
W. Randolph Burgess, deputy
to Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey for monetary mat
ters, told reporters there would
be further meetings of techni
cal working parties but that an
other full dress gathering of the
principals would not be needed.
Saturday morning's confer
ence Included Dulles, British
Foreign Secretary A nt h o n y
Eden, Chancellor of the Exche
quer R. A. Butler, Humphrey
and Mutual Security Adminis
trator Stassen plus a large num
ber of their aides.
Civil Service Law
Faces Change
Washington VP) Sen. Taft
(R.. Ohio) hinted Saturday re
publicans may ask congress to
change the civil service laws to
place more of their party mem
bers in government jobs.
Taft praised President Els
enhower's decision to issue an
executive order taking hun
dreds of top jobs off the civil
service rolls, but said congress
may need to do "other things."
Taft said that Elsenhower's
order would affect only about
10 top jobs in each of the de
partments and agencies, giving
new cabinet members and oth-
a chance to choose their
own assistants. ine oraer
would reverse actions of the
Roosevelt and Truman adminis
trations in blanketing these
jobs into the civil service.
Taft said some changes in
the civil service laws would be
necessary to reach some jobs
which he said are on a policy
making level, but covered by
civil service.
These would be outside the
list of about 65,000 positions
paying $4,000 or more a year
which are not now classified by
the civil service.
Vandenberg, air chief of staff,
departed for the meeting. Van
denberg, also will inspect USAF
installations while abroad. Adm.
Lynde McCormick, commander
ot NATO forces In the Atlantic,
was scheduled to fly to - the
meeting from his headquarters
at Norfolk, Va,
Law Halts
Trio of Big
Game Hunters
Chicago VP) Traffic police
man James Miller halted three
youngsters in busy Michigan
avenue Friday and ended their
planned hunting expedition to
Canada.
One of the youths was poll
ing a little red wagon piled
high with blankets, extra clo
thing and provisions. The
prospective explorers also had
$3 In cash.
The boys told Miller they
were en route to Canada via
Benton Harbor, Mich. They
planned to shoot elk, deer and
buffalo with their one air
rifle.
Asked how they were going
to kill big animals with a BB
gun, John James Incandella,
10, replied:
"It's not easy. You've Just
got to be a erackerjack of a
good shot."
His companions, David As
sen, 13 and Gary Allen Wal
per, 13, agreed.
Danes Aroused
On Polish Plane
Copenhagen, Denmark VP) I
Diplomatic complications multi
plied Saturday among Denmark,
Poland, Britain and NATO over
the Russian-built MIG-1S jet
fighter landed by a Polish Air
Force lieutenant on the Danish
Baltic island of Bornholm
Thursday.
While the pilot, claiming to be
political refugee seeking asy
lum, was being grilled at Copen
hagen police headquarters, Po
lish Minister Dr. Stanislaw
Kelles-Krauz delivered his sec
ond stiff note to the foreign of
fice demanding that the plane
and pilot be handed back to Po
land Immediately.
However, U. S. Gen. Mat
thew B. Rldgway's Supreme
Allied Headquarters was report
ed trying to persuade the Dan
ish government to hold the
plane, the first MIG-13 to tall
undamaged Into western nanas.
funeral in Its 87-year history
tor Joseph V. Stalin. The new
government aud the communist
party announced that hi body.
after rites Monday, would lie .
e,uu,,iua wviiiu til BU
Square until a great Pantheon,
a new temple shrine of world
communism, is built to receive
them and other Red "immor
tals." .
An official announcement of
the party central committee
and the government council of
ministers, now headed by
Georgl M. Malenkov 'as Stalin's
successor said the funeral
would be held at noon Monday
4 a.m. EST, but gave no de
tails of the form the rites would
take.
Nor did it say whether any
part would be taken by reli
gious leaders, who have led
public prayers for Stalin since
his last Illness was announced
Wednesday.
Eden Says Britain to Ban
Exports to Red China
Washington VP) British For
eign Secretary Eden, it was an
nounced Saturday, has assured
the United States that England
intends to ban the delivery ot
strategic materials to Red China
in British ships.
Also, under the assurances.
Britain would not allow vessels
which carry such materials to
the Chinese communists to be
refueled In a British port.
This crackdown on the flow of
war supplies to the Reds was an
nounced in a communique Is
sued on political talks held here
between Eden and Secretary of
State Dulles.
Apparently the decision on
shipping meant that the whole
far flung system of strategically
located supply points which
Includes Singapore will now
be closed to any vessel carrying
strategic cargoes to the communists.
The communique on the poli
tical talks also said:
1. The British intend to stand
firm on proposals to Iran for
settlement ot the oil crisis which
were made Feb. 20 and which
the United State considers
"reasonable and fair." The use
of these words meant a' public
endorsement of the British set
tlement plan, which Iran has
thus far failed to accept. It pro
vides for settlement ot the oil
dispute, property compensation
and the revival of the flow of
oil from Iran to world markets,
plus financial aid to Iran.
2. A "prior understanding"
that the use ot United State mili
tary bases in the United King
dom in an emcigency "would
be a matter for Joint decision'
by the two governments was re
affirmed. Apparently this is
aimed at reassuring British cri
tics that any American use of
British bases would be for pur
poses agreeable to the British
and thus, for example, prevent
American airplanes from taking
action against the Russians un
less the British were agreeable.
3. Both governments express
ed concern that the treaty for a
European Defense Community
should be "ratified as speedily
as passible." This is the pact
under which West Germany
would be armed.
4. Ot the Middle East in gen
eral they agreed that major
problems urgently required
"constructive solutions" but did
not define the problems.
Expect Purge
In Satellites
Washington (U.R) American
officials predicted today that
the new leaders In the Kremlin
will move quickly after Stalin'
funeral to purge Soviet and
Satellite leaders who might
threaten their newly won power.
These officials feel there also
is a slight possibility ot a fall-Ing-out
between Premier
Georgl M. Malenkov and hi
rivals that could shake Russia
and the communist world to its
foundation.
Officials pointed out that
Malenkov, as Stalin's "shadow1
over the years, know all the
techniques for ruthlessly (tamp
ing out oppositoin with gun,
prison cells and slave labor
camps.
"They will have to clean
house again, and it's anybody'
guess where It will start and
stop," one official said.
Ike Calls Conference
On Taft-Hartley Law
Washington VP) President
Elsenhower uteklnff aHvl mi
what to do about Taft-Hartley
Act revisions, has invited Senate
and .House Labor Committee
chairmen to sit in on his regular
meeting with congressional
leaders Monday morning.
The White House said Satur
day that beside the usual lead
ers from both branches, the)
President will confer with Sen,
H. Alexander Smith R., N. J
and Rep. Samuel K. McConuell,
R., Pa., chairmen respectively of
i the Senate and' House Labor
Committee. i
vision and radio.
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