THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY with show,
cri, partial clearing tonight,
Thursday. Little chanie In tem
perature. Low tonifht, 38; high
Thursday, St.
Reject Salary
Hikes for 3300
4
On Slate Rolls
Ways-Means Also Pro
vides for but One Merit
Increase in Biennium
f By JAMES D. OLSON .
I The Joint wayi and means
committee turned dowr a salary
increase for 3300 classified state
employes and provided appro-
t prlation for but one merit in-
''; crease for the 1953-S5 biennium
I In place of two previously au
f thorized. -
'I However, Sen. Angus Gibson,
chairman of the subcommittee
on salaries said that some de
1 nartments had sufficient money
J in their budgets to permit two
'. merit increases during the men
I nium and the committee's action
f did not preclude such increases
if finances were available.
The 3300 employes are prin
", cipally in the lower wage
brackets. ,
The Joint ways and means
committee previously had voted
',1 a salary increase to the top state
4 officials, the administrative of
j fleers, supreme court Justices
and circuit Judges.
. Holmes Voices Protest
Rep. Dave Baum, a member of
; the subcommittee making the
. report, which incidentally was
voted against by a single mem
ber of the committee, Sen. Rob
ert Holmes of Gearhart, declared
that in the past merit increase
. authority had been used to grant
salary increases and were not
based on performance of the
:' employes.
. "Records show that 95 per
. cent of all state employes have
been granted merit increases,"
- 4e declared, "and that certainly
(hows that they were not based
an merit."
'if Baum declared that the 43 per
cent annual turnover oi state em
ployes was lower than the turn
over of employes in private in
ii'dustry. Baum said that a, check
'made on records of many Ore
gon firms, both industrial and
commercial, disclosed that the
turnover of employes annually
ran from 45 to 50 per cent. .
Pay Higher Than Average
; "There is no Justification in
saying that the turnover of state
. emloyes results from inadequate
salaries," Baum continued. "Our
surveys showed that the salaries
." paid in the lowest state classi-
' f ication as well as the highest,
is 15 to 25 per cent higher than
: that paid in private industry."
i Baum said that the fringe
. benefits enjoyed by state em
' ployes in Oregon "was second to
, none except the federal govern
ment." He said that the subcom-
,: mlttee could find no private-
ly employed groups receiving
'i fringe benefits comparing with
those given to state employes.
' (Continued en Par Column 6)
ISernon Returns
From Hospital
Rep. Henry Semon, Klamath
county, was back at his desk
Wednesday after a week's
Illness. His absence from the
house was the first caused by
illness during his 20 years he
has served as a member of the
legislature.
p The Klamath county legisla
iior is co-chairman of the pow
jerful joint way and means com
mittee and is co-author of the
law which requires the placing
of price tags on measures sub
mitted to the people showing the
costs resulting from adoption of
; the measure. This law was enact
ed by the 1951 legislature with
'the late Senator Carl Engdahl of
Pendleton also sponsoring the
bill. At this session of the legis
lature Rep. Semon introduced a
bill to require a price tag show
ing loss of revenue resulting
from adoption of a measure. This
amended bill has been passed by
the house and is now being con
sidered by the senate tax com
mittee. Third of Inch Rain
Falls During Night
Nearly one-third of an Inch of
rain was measured for Salem in
the 24-hour stretch concluding
at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, .30 of
an inch being recorded.
Forecast is for more showers,
although some clearing, tonight
and Thursday, temperatures towhlal erade school and the
continue about the same as theynearby Catholic church on Harri
have been. !0n street the Presbyterian
4 Rainfall so far is behind
schedule for March, the total for
the first 11 days being .39 of an
Inch, against a normal of 1.62
for the period.
65lh Year,
8 Ex-Cabinet
Members Got
Pay for Leaves
House Probers
Charge Abuses 'to
Fatten Own Purses'
Washington tflt Eight cabinet
officers in the' Truman admin
istration were listed by a House
appropriation! subcommittee
Wednesday among a g r o u p of
federal officials who alleredlv
abused the government's annual
leave program "to fatten their
own purses."
Names of the eight were on a
list made public by Chairman
Phillips (R,-Calif.) and Rep.
Thomas (D.-Tex.), ranking mi
nority member of the subcom
mittee. The congressmen said the re
tiring Democratic officials got
me loiiowmg amounts for ac
crued leave or, as the subcom
mittee put it, as "severance pay":
'Severance Pay' Listed .
.Charles F. Brannan, secretary
of agriculture, $6,921.66; Charles
Sawyer, secretary of commerce,
$3,933.69; Robert A. Lovett, sec.
retary of defense, $4,328.12; Os
car L. Chapman, secretary of in
terior, $5,187.50; Maurice J. To
bin, secretary . of labor, $2,500;
Jesse M. Donaldson, postmaster
general, $5,437.50; Dean Ache
son, secretary of state, $4,421.87;
John W. Snyder, secretary of the
treasury, $5,478.56.
No accumulated leave was list
ed for the Truman attorney gen
eral, James P. Mcuranery.
Lump Sums for Leaves
In most cases, the committee
members said, the procedure In
volved collection of lump sums
(Continued on Pat t. Column 7)
To Name New
Pacific Prexy
Forest Grove VP) An acting
president , will be named within
two weeks for Pacific university
at Forest Grove, Dr. Paul
A. Davles, superintendent of the
Congregational Conference of
Oregon, said Tuesday.
Davies is one of three named
to administer affairs of the uni
versity until an acting president
is chosen to replace Dr. Walter
Giersbach, president, who re
cently was given a six months
leave of absence.
The leave followed a faculty
request tnat Uiersbach be dis
charged. The Congregational
church gives some financial aid
to Pacific.
Rescue 28 from
Crippled Ship
New York VP) The coast
guard reported Wednesday that
28 crew members of the broken
Liberian tanker Angy had been
rescued but that at least eight
were missing including all the
officers and the captain's wife.
Three coast guard cutters and
a plane are speeding to the
storm-tossed area some 400
miles southeast of St. John's.
Newfoundland, in the hope of
finding the forward half of the
vessel afloat with the missing
persons clinging to it.
According to crew members
picked off the stern section of
the tanker, the vessel caught fire
and exploded three days ago.
The men were rescued by the
Waterman Steamship Line's
8,492-ton freighter, Claiborne,
bound for Cherbourg, France.
Woodburn Burglars
Raid Churches, Schools
By VIC FRYER
Burglars broke into fourlloris Hanauska. 499 First street.
church and school buildings and
private garage In Woodburn
Tuesday morning and are pre
sumed to have stolen a car that
was taken during the same early
morning hours as the burglaries.
Woodburn Police Chief Neil
Calkins and Marion county Dep
uty Sheriff Lawrence Wright in
vestigated the break-ins and re
ported that apparently nothing
was missing with the exception
of the car.
Order of the break-ins was not
known but the places entered
were the Washington school on
Lincoln street, the St. Luke's db-
church at Garfield and Third
streets and the neighboring gar-
age of the church minister, Rev.
E. Kay renton.
The stolen car belonged to De-
C apit a! jkj onraal
No. 60 SSUUStS
Draff 53,000
For May Quota
Washington (ffO The Army
Wednesday issued a draft call for
53,000 men in May.
This is the same number prev
iously asked in the months of
February, March and April. It
will bring the total of men
drafted or earmarked for service
to 1,414,430 since selective ser
vice was resumed in September,
1950.
Only the Army has been re
sorting to the draft since last
May, when the Marine Corps dis
continued use of selective serv
ice after drafting 81,430.
The Navy and the Air Force
have depended entirely upon
volunteer enlistments.
The Defense Department said
that current draft quotas for the
Army are based on requirements
to maintain approved strength
after allowing for the number of
volunteer enlistments and re-
enlistments.
Farouk's Wife
Said Divorced
Rome U.H Members of the
family of former Queen Narrl
man of Egypt reported today
that her romance with ousted
playboy King Farouk has end
ed. They said the royal couple
entered a separation agreement
last night and that Namman
intended to go home to Egypt.
A spokesman for Farouk, liv
ing in exile at his villa near
Rome, denied the rift.
But reports both here and in
Cairo indicated that the mar
riage of the rolypoly king and
Narriman, whom he met in a
jewelry shop, was threatened
with disaster.
It was believed that last-minute
attempts at a reconciliation
might be under way today.
The Cairo newspaper Al Ah
ram first reported that Far
ouk and Narriman had been
"divorced" last night.
The Washington school was en-
Itered by prying a rear window.
The office door was also pried
open and the office ransacked. A
wall safe was untouched.
At the St. Luke's school, en
try was gained by forcing a rear
door into the boiler room and
breaking the glass Jn the office
door to unlock it. It too was
ransacked.
A forced basement window
gave entry to the Catholic church
and a padlock was pried from a
cabinet upstairs but nothing ap
peared missing.
At the Presbyterian church, a
basement window off a narrow
alleyway between the church
and Rev. Fenton's earaee was
forced and the upstairs office
door was also Jimmied.
Leaving by a side door, the
burglars went into the garage
(Concluded on Pags 2, Column 4)
: T v
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Salem, Oregon; Wednesday, Match 11,195'
West Salem Shares in State and City Construction Top:
West Salem lift station, when complete with three 12 Inch
pumps and one 20 Inch pump, will force sewage across the
Willamette Into the Salem sewage disposal plant. The larger
pump will handle water from West Salem's storm sewers.
Lower: Shown at the extreme right in this photograph is the
crew of General Construction Co. now completing the left
leg of the Marion street bridge. At the left is the new ap
proach to the re-aligned Center street bridge now being
reconstructed by Natt McDougall Co. of Portland.
Mamie Holds Her First
Press Conference
Washington W) More men
than women showed up at Mrs.
Dwight Eisenhower's first White
House news conference Wednes
day but the male contingent
could muster only one question:
How's the lood? , ,
Next BA Power
For Companies
Seattle W The next 500,000
kilowatts of power generated in
the Northwest by federal power
plants will go to private power
companies, Dr. Paul J. Raver,
Bonneville power administrator,
said in Seattle Tuesday.
He said that because of this
commitment the Bonneville Pow
er Administration will have no
power for direct sale to new in
dustries until 1957, other than
for a proposed aluminum plant
near The Dalles, Ore.
Approximately 120,000 kilo
watts have been set aside for this
plant and other defense opera,
tlons, and only a national emerg
ency bringing a bigger demand
for defense projects could upset
this program.
Raver made his remarks be'
fore a meeting of Bonneville of'
ficials with representatives of
public and private power compa
nies and large industries.
Senate Delays
Statehood Bill
Washington (U.R) The house-
approved Hawaiian statehood
bill appeared today to be tem
porarily stalled in the senate
behind tidclands legislation.
Statehood for the mid-Pacific
territory is No. 2 on the "must"
legislative list of GOP Senate
Leader Robert A. Taft. But No.
1 is submerged oil lands legis
lation, still hung up in the same
interior and Insular affairs com
mittee which must handle the
Hawaii bill.
The tidelands bill is expected
to provoke prolonged senate
debate. Even when it is dis
posed of, some democrats are
already talking of "very lengthy
discussion," they didn't use the
word filibuster, of the idea of
statehood for the solidly repub
lican Hawaii and not the tra
ditionally democratic Alaska.
The house approved the
Hawaii statehood bill yesterday
274 to 183, after rejecting by
227 to 182 a motion to send it
back to committee.
The house did, however, tack
on an amendment requiring
Hawaii's constitution to be ap
proved by Congress before the
islands become the 49th star in
the U.S. flag, which could not
happen before 1954. And it cut
Hawaii's allotment of house of
representative! seats to one
Fine, said the first lady amid
general laugher.
Mrs. Eisenhower, was friendly
and completely at ease at the
news conference, the first, ever
held by a President's wife 1 at
the White House to which mea
were admitted.
All told, there were 41 men
and 37 women at the get-to
gether.
A bit surreptitiously, the men
reporters maneuvered to the
back rows of the room and lis
tened to a lot of talk about
clothes and furniture arrange
ment. They took copious notes;
whether they understood their
own notes is a question that
could get you in an argument.
Mrs. Eisenhower started the
conference off by listing her
schedule up to April 11.
Then, with a wave of her hand
and a smile, Mrs. Elsenhower
announced: Ready and waiting
for questions.
Question: Does Mrs. Eisen
hower feel like she's living in
a glass bowl?
Answer: No. Everything is
quite comfortable, she said, add
ing that she has spent her life
in large rooms that have high
ceilings.
Question: Is there a house
rule against shop talk after the
President winds up his work for
the day?
Answer: Mrs.. Elsenhower
doesn't have to bother about
enforcing any such rule. She
noted, with a laugh, that when
her husband returns to the
White House living quarters
from his office, he is too tired
for shop talk.
Deny MIT Blame
For 'Voice' Sites
Cambridge, Mass., President
James R. Killlan of the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology
says institute staff members "at
no time" recommended specific
sites for two Voice of America
transmitters which have been
termed "worthless."
The senate committee Investi
gating the Voice of America has
been told that the transmitters,
built at a cost of 20 million
dollars, were located where
they are subject to atmospheric
interference.
The committee heard test!
mony Tuesday that M.I.T. was
paid half a million dollars as a
consultant on the construction, a
figure which Killlan denied in
his statement Tuesday night.
The M.I.T. president said
members of the institute staff
concurred in findings "in re
gard to the general areas for the
location of the superpower
transmitters" and added that
"the total expense of the tech
nical review of this question of
location undertaken by M.I.T.
did not exceed $6,000,"
ges)
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By Lodge for
Imperialism
United Nations
Applauds Attacks on
Communist Tactics
United Nations, N. Y. (AV-
The V. S. charged Wednesday
that Russia's bosses have em
barked on a policy of imperial'
ism, not because of any fear of
aggression by any other coun
try, but because of fear of their
own people.
Chief U. S. delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge,. Jr., told the U. N.
General Assembly that the Sov
iet Union has lost the respect
of the world because of its pol
icy of "violent words and vi
olent deeds."
The Assembly broke out into
wild applause, and had to be
called to order, as Lodge spurned
charges by Russia's Andrei A.
Gromyko that the U. S. was do
ing everything in its power to
prolong the Korean War.
Gromyko Alleges Atrocities
The exchange broke out short
ly after British Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden said that,
despite Korea, we were not; yet
to World war III.
In that connection, Gromyko
accused the U. S. army of atroci
ties in Korea. .
(Concluded on Fate . Column 4)
Balk on Probe
Of Newsprint
Washington, W) Members of
the house judiciary committee
were, reported Wednesday to be
irritated over a decision of the
house commerce committee to
investigate the subject of news
print.
One member of the judiciary
committee who would not be
quoted by name said the reason
tor the irritation is the fact that
a judiciary subcommittee inves
tigated the matter in 1950 and
submitted a lull report in May,
1951.
"some ol us feel that a new
investigation is unnecessary
and a needless expense," the uv
formant told an interviewer.
The house approved a reso
lution last Thursday, presented
by Chairman Wolverton (R.,
N.J.) of the commerce commit
tee, authorizing the group to in
vestigate the newsprint situa
tion and hold hearings outside
the country if necessary.
U. S. Policy on
Tito Pays Off
Belgrade 01.19 American poli
cy toward Yugoslavia "has paid
off" U. S. Ambassador George
V. Allen said today at the end
of his three-year service in Bel
grade. Allen told the United Press in
an exclusive interview "I am
convinced that the United States
policy of full respect for Yugo
slav independence and sover
eignty has paid off."
The retiring ambassador left
ffor Frankfurt, Germany, on his
way to the United States and a
new post as ambassador to In
dia.
In another statement at the
Belgrade airport he told news
papermen he believes "this is the
beginning of a new era" for Yu
goslavia, both abroad and internally.
Oklahoma Warden
Frustrates Escapees
McAlester, Okla. VP) Three
hardened prisoners, threatening
death to the warden they held
at knifepoint, tried unsuccess
fully to break out of the Okla
homa state penitentiary here
Wednesday.
They were frustrated by one
of the trio who suddenly had
a change of heart and disarmed
the leader.
The convicts, two of them
murderers, first took Chaplain
R. R. Reed, captive at knife
point, along with the prison
librarian, and then pulled a
knife on the warden, Jerome
Waters, who was summoned by
Reed in a telephone call.
Gerald Clark, convicted mur
derer serving life, held a knife,
stolen from the leather goods
shop, at the warden's chest and
threatened to kill him unless
Price 5c
Rain and Snow
Curb Fighting
On Korea Front
Seoul WV-Raln. snow and
clouds , restricted the Korean
war to scattered small raids and
patrol fights today,
U. S. Sabre jets patroled MIG
Alley but found no MIGs to fight.
Ail other Allied warplanes were
grounded.
Last night 14 B29 Superforts
pushed through heavy weather
and showered high explosives on
a combination officers school
and supply dump 10 miles north
ol Slnanju on the west coast.
On the rugged Eastern Front.
Republic of Korea troops pa
trolled through new-fallen snow
and tangled 10 times with North
Korean Reds in r.q man's land.
They reported 43 communists
killed or wounded.
The U. S. Eighth army said
Red casualties for the week end
ed Saturday- were 1,380 killed,
920 wounded and 4 captured.
Pravda Appeals
For Red Unity
London VP) Moscow's Prav
da renewed Soviet appeals Wed
nesday for unity against "in
ternal and external enemies."
Such exhortations have formed
a main theme tor public pro
nouncements in the Soviet
Union since Joseph 6talln's
death.
"The enemies of the working
people would like to see panic
and confusion in the ranks of
the Soviet people, which has suf
fered heavy loss," said an edi
torial in the Communist Party
newspaper broadcast by Moscow
radio.
"But the calculations of en
emies are unfounded," the news
paper declared. "Bitter disap
pointment awaits them.
On days of great sorrow the
people of the Soviet Union
workers, peasants, intelligentsia
rally even closer together and
close their ranks around their
own Communist party and its
central committee, around the
Soviet government.".:.';-
Poles Release
Danes' Fish Ship
Copenhagen, Denmark VP)
Six Danish fishing vessels ' de
tained since Sunday at the Pol
ish port of Hela, near Gdansk
Danzig, were released early
Wednesday.
An official announcement
said that Aage KJoeller, skip
per of one of the ships, mes
saged that all had been released
at 4 a.m.
The six ships, with 23 men
aboard, were detained when
they sheltered at Hela during a
storm raging in the Baltic Sea.
The detention was announced
just after Denmark officially
told Poland that a Soviet-built
MIG-15 fighter plane landed on
Bornholm by a refugee Polish
pilot would be dismantled and
examined by Danish air force
experts.
Denmark's Foreign Minister
Ole Bjoern Kraft said, how
ever, that there was no evi
dence of any connection be
tween the two events. Poland's
minister to Copenhagen, Stan-
lslaw Kelles-Kraus, described
the detention of the ships as
not "an act of reprisal but a
routine check."
Weather Details
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he got them a truck In which
to escape.
But the warden bargained
coolly with the convicts for 45
minutes before Calvin T. Bettls.
34-year-old Bryan county man
serving a term for car theft,
suddenly changed his mind and
wrested the knife from Clark's
hand.
With the knife away from
the warden's chest, Deputy
Warden H. C. McLeod bowled
Clark over by hitting him with
a tear gas grenade. He was
quickly overpowered along
with Billy R. Oliver, 19-year-
old lifer under murder convic
tion from Oklahoma county.
The bizarre bargaining ses
sion took place In the chap
lain's office in full view of some
30 convicts reading in the -ad
jolniax library.
FINAL
EDITION
UX Pilots lo t
Fight Back if
Again Fired on
Afrirlr ku : 1
' late DamoJa A i ' 1
mosr aenous
Wiesbaden. GennanT UPtlthm
V. 8. Air Force declared Wed-
mini American - puow
wlU tight back the next time
flBinmnnlit .I.hh ln. nri
vu uviuwuf ana aiixcK u, a.
sorcrart.
This was the reaction her to
the action of two Soviet-built -
MIG-15 jet fighters from Czech.
oslovakia in jumping on two U.
S. F-84 jet planes near the German-Czech
border Tuesday and
shooting down one over Ameri
can-occupied territory. .
U. S. Ambassador - George
Wadsworth delivered a strong
protest to the Czech government '
in Prague early Wednesday over
the incident regarded as the
most serious yet in Europe in
the East-West cold war. i
Reply of Czechs ,
Prague was auick to nmlv.
The Prague radio announced
Wednesday that a protest was
delivered to Wadsworth charging
that the two American jet planes
had violated Czech territory.
statements at a news conference
Wednesday, said the Red MIGs
had opened fire on them from
seven to 15 miles inside the
American zone.
(Continued on Page S, Column I)
GOP Eyes 331
Jobs in Oregon :
Washington (UB The patronage-hungry
republican majority
iu congress learned, toaay that
Bums aai xeaerai positions in
Oregon are not under civil serv
ice protection, v ; t.
The civil service commission
disclosed the information in a
report tiled with the senate.
Nearly 250 of the non-protected
jobs are in Portland, includ
ing five subject to nominatlosi
by the president and confirma
tion by the senate. These lncludo
posts of U. S. attorney at $9600
a year, U. S. marshal at $8360 a
year, collector of customs at
$9600 a year, captain, coast and
geodetic survey, at $8358, and
commander, coast and geodetic
survey, $6936.
Several other Portland inh.
however, pay more monev. in
cluding the $14,800 oaid the
Bonneville power administrator
and other high-salaried BPA
jobs, and these are subject to
appointment by Secretary of In
terior Douglas McKay.
About 81 federal posts in Ore
gon outside of Portland also are
outside of civil service, the com
mission said.
Name Alaska's
New Governor I
Washington VP) President"
Eisenhower Wednesday nomi
nated B. Frank Heintzleman of
Juneau, Alaska, as governor of
Alaska.
The president also sent to the
senate the nomination of Feder
ick BlUlngs Lee of Woodstock,
Vt., as administrator of the civ
il aeronautics administration.
Lee has been serving as deputy
administrator.
Hentzleman's nomination was
forecast last month when Secre
tary of the Interior McKay an
nounced he h a d recommended
the appointment.
Heintzleman, 65, has been re
gional forester for Alaska since
Feb. 16, 1937, He also is com
missioner for the agriculture de
partment in Alaska and is the
federal power commission's rep
resentative in tne territory.
Flying Boxcar
Crashes in Korea
Seoul VP) An air force C-119
Flying Boxcar crashed five
miles south of Taejon, Korea,
Wednesday after an explosion
ripped off its left engine and
its crew of four had parachuted
to safety.
Fifth air force said the plane
was en route from Japan to
Seoul.
We heard a loud explosion.
looked out, and the left engine
wasn't there," said the pilot,
Lt. Sheldon L. McConnell of
Portland, Ore. Then the other
engine failed.
McConnell ordered the other
three members to ball out, then
rode the plane down to 3,000
feet before balling- out himself.
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