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EDITION
65th Year, No. 61
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Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 12, 1953
Price 5c
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Jenial of Pay
Hike Protested
By Legislators
Labor Union Leaders
Also Call it Injustice
To Employes
By JAMES D. OLSON
Denial of pay Increases for
3,300 state employes, the ma
jority In the lower salary brack
ets, by the joint Ways and Means
committee, brought violent pro
tests from legislators, union
leaders as well as the official
spokesman of the Oregon Em
ployees' association.
Members of the Marion coun
ty delegation led in the protests
and were joined by others, mak
ing it almost certain that the
issue will be fought out on the
floor of the house and senate.
Both Senators Fred Lamport
and Douglas Yeater character
ized action of the Ways and
Means committee as "unfair."
"The top officials can take
care of themselves," said Sena
tor Lamport, "but the little fel
lows In the employ of the state
are having a struggle and are
entitled to an increase just like
the top officials have been giv
en." (Continued on Page 5, Column 3)
Liquor by Drink
Bill up Friday
The Oregon Legislature took
little action Thursday as it pre
pared for important bills Friday
to provide sale of liquor by the
drink and a study of educational
television.
A stiff Senate battle over the
. House-passed liquor by the drink
bill was assured when Sens. Eu
gene Allen and Jack Bain, both
of Portland, announced they
would move to send the bill
back to the Senate Alcohol Com
mittee. Allen and Bain, who are mem
bers of the seven-man commit
tee, don't want bottle clubs re
tained after liquor by the drink
becomes legal, and they want li
quor by the drink dispensers to
get a 15 per cent discount on u
nnnr thev buv from the state.
The House will debate Fri
day on the proposed interim
committee to make a two-year
study of whether the state should
go into the educational television
business.
School Merger
Plan Revised
Oregon's legislature, which
was two months old Thursday,
readied itself for another try at
solving the difficult problem of
getting the many school districts
to consolidate into bigger dis
tricts.
The senate education commit
tee voted 6 to 1 to introduce a
bill similar to the one passed by
the 1951 legislature, and defeat
ed by the people last November
hv h scant 6.274 votes.
This new measure provides
for elected county committees to
outline the proposed new dis
tricts, and the districts would be
created by majority vote.
It would force little districts
into consolidations, and that's
why the state Grange and small
Sistricts may fight it as hard as
they fought the bill passed at the
1951 session.
The committee believes there
are too many school districts,
and that the new bill would be
a spur to getting them to con
solidate in larger, more econom
ical units.
Church Council
Slams Probers
New York VP) The National
Council of the Churches of
Christ in the U.S.A. says free
dom is endangered by "certain
methods" of congressional com
munist investigations affecting
educational Institutions.
Congress has no business en
croaching on local control of
schools, the council contends,
and local trustees and boards of
education can deal responsibly
with the "occasional subver
sive" in the institutions.
The statements were made in
a resolution adopted Wednes
day by the general board of the
council, representing nearly
three-fourths of American Pro
testant and Eastern Orthodox
church members.
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Korean War
Arms Shortage
Charge Upheld
Senate Group Says
Van Fleet's State
ments Substantiated
Washington (U.R) The Sen
ate Armed Services Committee
said today that Gen. James A.
Van Fleet's charge of ammuni
tion shortages in Korea has been
"fully substantiated." It directed
a subcommittee to determine
who or what was responsible.
Van Fleet has said in testl
mony before the committee that
there . had been ammunition
shortages in Korea throughout
the 22 months that he was com
mander of the Eighth Army and
until he left Korea about a
month ago. Chairman Leverett
Saltonstall R., Mass., of the com
mittee said Monday that am
munition supplies to Korea have
improved rapidly since Van
Fleet left Korea.
To Continue Inquiry
Saltonstall's committee ap
proved a resolution directing a
subcommittee to continue the
ammunition inquiry started by
the full committee. It called for
a report on 'the officials and
conditions responsible for this
situation of ammunition short
ages." The resolution was sponsored
by Sen. Harry F. Byrd D., Va.,
who- has called the shortage a
"national scandal."
(Continued on Page 5, Column 8)
Campus Fire at
Oregon State
Corvallis P) Fire destroyed
part of an unoccupied frame
men's dormitory on the Oregon
State college campus early Wed
nesday, No one was hurt but it tight
ened still further the housing
problem for the week-end
NCAA basketball tournament
crowd.. .
The flames were first noticed
at 3:15 a.m. in a section of Hud
son Hall. That is a two-story
structure brought here from the
Vancouver shipyard in 1946. At
the post-war enrollment peak it
housed 375 men. The burned
part covered rooms for 75.
The fire was halted by fire
doors and walls separating Hud
son Hall from a similar structure,
Central Hall, to which it was
joined.
College officials said that
those having NCAA week-end
reservations in Hudson Hall
would get accommodations . in
other dormitories.
Olympia Solons
Balance Budget
Olympia VP) A balanced
state budget without new taxes
won top honors Thursday as the
major accomplishment of the
1953 legislature.
As members of the republican-controlled
33rd session pre
pared to quit and go home
Thursday, they listed other
major legislation enacted dur
ing their 60-day meeting.
Highway and bridge bills,
school legislation, a new pub
lic welfare code and Gov. Lang
lie's stale power commission
measure headed the list of
some 300 bills passed by both
houses.
More than 700 proposed laws
never made it. They died in
committee or were brought
out on the floor and killed,
Bill Seeks Increase in
Timber Severance Tax
Final touches were made
Thursday on a bill expanding
the forestry protection and de
velopment program supported
by timber harvesting severance
tax by the house committee on
forestry and mining.
The bill which Increases the
forest severance for timber har
vested west of the Cascades from
five cents per thousand board
feet to eight cents but reduces
the tax on lands east of the
mountains from five to four
cents, will be printed and finally
considered by the committee
next Tuesday.
Under the terms of the pro
posed bill revenues derived
from' the tax will be used in
emergency fire protection, re
search in utilization of forest
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Price Controls
On Coffee Lifted
Washington VP) The govern
ment Thursday swept away price
control from all consumer goods
and foods as well as many In
dustrial materials.
The Office of Price Stabiliza
tion announced that coffee and
instant coffee, beer and ale, East
Coast heating oils, soy beans
and animal feeds and most chem
icals are decontrolled, effective
at once. .
OPS officials said coffee
prices may rise 10 to 12 cents
a pound at retail, following in
creases of about five cents i
pound on standard brands with
in the past week.
Beer in some localities may
climb one-half to one cent a bot
tle on the strength of an av
erage wholesale rise of three per
cent, the officials estimated.
They foresaw no increase for
animal feeds, soybeans, a num
ber of building materials, and
a long list of chemicals from
which ceilings were removed,
Egypt's Queen
Flees to Zurich
Rome OT Egypt's Queen Nar-
rlman flew to Switzerland
Thursday amid conflicting ru
mors of an impending divorce
from ex-King Farouk, preg
nancy or a political move to
safeguard the royal dynasty.
She took off from Home's air
port for Zurich. She was ac
companied by her mother, Mrs.
Sila Sadek, a nurse and a little
black poodle, but did not take
her baby son. King Faud II.
A spokesman for Farouk de
nied all rumors of a divorce or
separation.
"The Queen is going to Zurich
for a short period of rest and
treatment," he said.
Narriman's departure follow
ed a week of press reports in
Rome and Cairo that Farouk
and his queen would be divorced
or separated. One such report
in Rome said Narriman had
cheerfully agreed to a separa
tion, though not a divorce, to
"protect the dynasty.
CONANT COMING BACK
Bonn, Germany VP) U.S,
High Commissioner Dr. James
Bryant Conant will fly to the
United States early next month
to testify before congressional
committees on the high com
mission's budget for the next
fiscal year, American officials
said Thursday.
products and forest manage
ment.
Forest lands in the state are
dcvlded into two classes, "A'
and "B." The lands under Classi
fication "A" covers all forest
lands in the state while the "B
class lands are only those west
of the mountains and under the
Jurisdiction of the state forestry
department.
The four cent tax collected
from all forest lands will be
used for research while funds
collected from timber cut on
the "B" lands will be used for
both research and fire protec
tion. '
The reason for the exclusion
of Eastern Oregon timber lands
from the fire protection phase
(Continued on Pag 8, Column ()
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I i 1 f
Robbery Aftermath Upper photo shows Walter R. Kruse,
assistant manager of the Mt. Angel branch of the U, S. Nation
al Bank of Portland, checking the operating funds of the bank;
x Wednesday: morning following the robbery Tuesday after-.;
,.nbon-L Assisting are Henrietta..Saa.lfeld1.Jeller,.-on left and.
Elaine Annen, teller and clerk at right. Miss Annen was
forced at gun point to collect $18,000 in a paper bag ai.d hand
it to the bandit while others lay on the floor. Below, Glen
Roy.Sulisky, 17, of Hermiston, in handcuffs, being taken into
police headquarters by Lt. Farley Mogan of State Police, after
Sulisky's arrest, ! -
Robber Caught After
Looting Mt.
Mt. Angel Glen Roy Sulisky,
18, of Pendleton, was held in the
Salem jail Wednesday charged
with robbing the Mt. Angel
$12,114Pledged
To Red Cross
Red Cross contributions Tues
day night were about $1,500
ahead of contributions made at
that period of the drive in 1952.
The goal this year is $51,000.
By Tuesday night contribu
tions had reached the $12,114
mark, while a year ago at the
same time the total contribu
tions were $10,586.
Showing great increases over
the same time last year were
the residential district with
$1,112 this year compared to
$634 a year ago and the state
offices, which this year have
$1,484 ot date and at the same
time last year had $971.
Business district contributions
by Tuesday night had reached
the $1,299 mark.
First of the areas to com
plete the drive was Woodburn,
which had contributions totaling
$1,608.89 and expects to have
still more contributions. Last
year Woodburn had contribu
tions amounting to $1,526.
Potato Research
Funds Offered 05C
Klamath Falls (IP) The Ore
gon Potato Commission offered
funds Wednesday to start a plant
research greenhouse at Oregon
State college.
The commission allocated $7,
500 on condition that other agri
cultural groups donate matching
funds.
The commission also set aside
$5,400 to continue employment
of a potato specialist in Malheur
county.
12 JAP SHIPS MISSING
Tokyo VP) Twelve small
Japanese ships with 101 crew
members are missing or in dis
tress as a result of a storm, the
Japanese coast guard said
Thursday night.
Angel Banfckims Figures
branch of the United States Na
tional Bank of Portland of $18,
069 Tuesday afternoon.
Sulisky's brief career in crime
started at 3 p.m. at the Mt. An
gel bank and ended four hours
later at Mill City when he sur
rendered to State Police Officer
Lawrence Jack and Bill Rich
ards, Mill City policeman, as he
was stopped by a road block.
"How did you know where to
find me?" the youth asked as the
officers retrieved the missing
money and a .32 automatic pistol
from his automobile.
Sulisky entered the bank
shortly before closing time and
engaged Walter R. Kruse, assist
ant manager, in conversation re
garding a proposed loan on his
automobile. He said his parents
lived near Molalla and that he
lived near Woodburn, Kruse re
ported. Kruse said that after the
bank had closed he rejected the
loan and Sulisky drew a pistol,
informing him:
'This is a holdup."
(Continued on Page 5, Column 4)
Seek Bow of
Solit Oil Tanker
New York VP) Coast Guard
cutters and planes searched an
80-mile radius of the gusty
North Atlantic Thursday for the
bow of a split oil tanker and
eight missing persons.
Six Navy and Coast Guard
planes from Argentina, New
foundland, Salem, Mass., and
Brooklyn and three cutters
concentrated their search in the
area where the stern of the LI
bcrian tanker Angy was found
drifting.
The Angy caught fire, ex
ploded and broke apart about
four days ago. Its aft section
was sighted Wednesday by the
American freighter Claiborne
and 28 crewmen were rescued.
The Coast Guard here quoted
them as saying they saw the
bow drifting for more than 30
minutes alter the ship broke up,
Then rain came, and it was
never sighted again.
Four men were seen on the
bow as lt floated away.
keds Dovm British
In Flames Over Germany
Ike Submits
Plan to Merge
Health Agencies
Washington VP) President
Eisenhower laid t.efore Congress
Thursday a reorganisation plan
setting np a new federal depart
ment of health, education and.
welfare to take over the func
tions .of .the .present .Federal
Security Agency.
The White House said the
present FSA administrator, Mrs.
Oveta Culp Hobby, would be
come secretary of the new de
partment if, as expected, the
plan becomes effective.
Eisenhower submitted his
proposal under a general law
permitting him to draft plans for
reshuffling government agencies
in the interest of economy and
efficiency.
(Continued on Page 8. Comma 6)
To Set Aside
Postmasters
Washington VP) The Eisen
hower administration shortly
will issue an executive order
setting aside all recent postmas
ter exams won by Democrats, a
highly-placed Republican sena
tor said Thursday.
This was described as a neces
sary first step In a series of
moves to give Republicans
taste of the Postmastershlp
plums for the first time in about
1 20 years. As a second step, new
examinations would have to be
held. . .. .,; ? ..-
All of the 40,000 postmaster-
ships in. the country are under
civil service. About 3,000 of
them are vacant or are filled by
temporary appointees named by
the Post Office Department.
The Republicans have been
eyeing these 3,000 jobs. But they
have found that, as a result of
the civil service examinations.
the lists of eligibles for many of
these positions are nearly all
filled by Democrats.
On Red Armies
Philadelphia (U.R) Sen. Stuart
Symington (D-Mo.) challenged
the 'government last night to
publish a complete estimate of
Russian military strength in
comparison with U. S. armed
power so that the American peo
ple could judge the danger.
The former Air Force secre
tary under President Truman
charged that the nation is in
adequately defended and that
the Elsenhower administration
had failed to shift from a policy
of "guns and butter" to one "In
favor of guns."
Symington told the closing
session of the seventh annual
Philadelphia Bulletin Forum
that the administration should
tel why the atomic bomb is not
used on' military targets in Ko-
ea. He caled the Korean war a
military university" for the
Russians.
"At very little cost to the
Russians, we are teaching them
how to defeat us if they decide
to expand the Korea war into
World War III," Symington said.
Red Attacks on Allied
Planes Heighten Crisis
Washington VP) The second
Red fighter attack In 48 hours
allied aircraft over Ger
many Thursday heightened the
East-West crisis in one of the
most dangerous areas of cold
war conflict.
House Speaker Martin (R.,
Mass.) told newsmen: "We can't
be expected to let them raid
our territory without doing
something about it." He de
clined to elaborate.
Diplomatic and military au
thorities here sought full de
tails from news reports in an
effort to estimate the Impact of
the shooting down of a British
military plane two days after
Soviet-made Jet fighters from
Czechoslovakia blasted an
American patrol fighter from
the sky over the American zone
in Germany.
0
Winter Back
On Battle Line
North Korea
Seoul VP) Allied soldiers
grappled with Communist troops
all across the storm-battered Ko
rean Peninsula today.
Winter returned to the rugged
Eastern Front with a vengeance.
Front-line reports said howling
gales piled snow into 10 to 15-
foot drifts. Almost a foot of snow
fell in the bleak and barren
Heartbreak Ridge sector.
Snow, pelting rain and heavy
clouds again restricted Allied air
attacks. Most warplanes were
grounded.
The heaviest ground fighting
erupted before dawn on the Cen
tral Front. An Allied patrol nos
ed into no man's land and ran
smack into a force of 150 to 17.5
Chinese Reds.
The Reds quickly surrounded
the outnumbered Allies, identi
fied only as Europeans, and
closed in for hand-to-hand fight
ing.
Two reinforcing units raced to
their aid. The first was intercept
ed 'by Communists. The second
fought its way through to the
first Then the combined force
fought grimly through a screen
of Reds, rescued the patrol, and
fought slowly bacK to Aiuea
lines.
Sabrejets for
Western Europe
Washington U.B Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway's tiny jet in
terceptor force in Western Eu
rope is to be bolstered soon witn
150 of-the. fastest F-BB ssacre
fighters yet developed ...
, But there - is no . immeaiai
prospect of coming close,, with
jets of equal performance, to foe
number ot MIGs that Russia has
in Eastern Germany, in satellite
states and along her own West-j
em boundary. These are esti
mated in the thousands.
The shooting down on Tues
day of an American F-84
Thunderjet fighter bomber by
two Russian-built MIGs over the
U. S. zone of Germany focused
attention on the air strength
Rldgway would have available
in a showdown.
While his North Atlantic
Treaty Air Forces are estimated
to have close to 4,uuo pianes,
only 75 are Sabres, and Sabres
are the only combat planes of
the free world that can outfly
the MIG.
Marriage No
Bar to Draft
Washington, VP) Selective
service officials said Thursday
an executive order is under
consideration designed to make
it Impossible for any young
man to get what amounts to a
permanent draft deferment by
marrying and becoming a fath
er while temporarily deferred.
The manpower committee of
the office of defense mobiliza
tion has agreed that changes to
bar this possibility should be
made in the draft regulations,
these officials said.
Selective service officials
said approval of the changes
would lead to early induction
of about 20,000 fathers
U.S. officials in Initial reac
tion said the Incidents might
very well be coincidental. But
one diplomat cautioned: "You
can't rule out anything."
While it was considered pos-
slblle that the Soviet command
had Issued get-tough orders to
its air units, why lt might do
such a thing some suggested the
Reds may want to create a new
crisis in Europe to offset Amer
ican pressures in the Far East,
or to divert attention from their
suspected designs on the Mid
dle East.
It is conceivable also, though
authorities here consider it
highly unlikely, that the new
Malenkov regime In Russia may
have ordered the shootings be
cause of apprehension about
any efforts of the western pow
ers to make trouble for it.
Bomber
Second Allied .
PlaneDesfroyed,
4 Airmen Killed
Luenebnrg, Germ idt cm-
Russian jet fighteri shot down a
Briusn lour-englned bomber on
the East-West frontier Thurs-
It was the second communist
nUneV nn Alllxl M11t4n. .1
over Germany since Georgi Mal
enkov became Soviet Prime
Minister.
At least four British airmen
were reported killed when two
Soviet MIG-lJs sent a alow pro
peller - driven Lincoln bomber
crashing in flames near the Elbe
River.
Just 52 hours earlier, an nhan.
was shot down by two Czecho
slovak MIG-15s 300 miles south
in U. S.-occupied Bavaria, but
the pilot escaped by parachute.
Chill Europe with Fear
The two incident chilled Eii-
rope with fear. .
They raised a question whe. '
ther new shoot-to-kill ordenj
may have been issued to com
munlst fighters patrolling th(
Western air frontier of the
Soviet bloc. ;
But a British foreign office
spokesman, in London, said it
was too early to say if the at
tacks indicate a pattern.
The British bomber, cruising
on an exercise flight about 3ft -i
nines soucneasi oi Hamburg,
wesi uermany 'a largest city,
was attacked about 2:30 p.m.
(5:30 a.m. PST) in a cloud-
flecked sky. . , .
Two Jeta Chase Bomber
Horrified Vest German eye-',
witnesses saio they saw two jet
pursue the bomber from th M. '
low lt over the British zone
town of Bf eckede, and continue
shooting at it after it had al-
ready burst into flames.
(Continued en Page 5, Column 7)
Seek fo Plug ;
Vacation Leak
Washington, VP) A House ap
propriations subcommittee
promised Thursday to plug a
legal loophole through which its
chairman contends $709,538'
leaked to high officials and em- -ployes
of the Truman adminis
tration, . '
In all, a subcommittee state
ment claimed, 215 officials and
employes including eight cabi
net officers drew that total f or -unused
leave or vacation time :
between Nov. 1, 1952 and Feb.
is, 1953. . .
However, civil service offi
cials as well as a number ot '
those named as receiving the
payments defended them as
justified. A statement by civil
service administrators cited
Public Law 525, enacted in 7944,
and said it allows an employe
leaving the government service
to be paid in a lump sum fur all
his accumulated annual vacation
leave.
The statement said there was
no record of any commission
ruling on such lump sum pay
ments. Reuther Raps
T-H Labor Law
Washington VP) CIO Presi
dent Walter Reuther said Thurs
day the Taft-Hartley Act has
worsened labor-management re
lations and given employers "a
new arsenal of weapons with
which to beat us over the head."
Reuther said that, to carry out
President Eisenhower's pledge
of justice and fairness in labor
legislation, the Taft-Hartley Act
will need "substantial" changes.
The CIO leader prepared a
15,000-word statement for the
House Labor Committee suggest
ing removal of practically all
major provisions of the present
law. The AFL recently proposed
mucn tne same tning. 'me- com-
miuee is noicung nearings on
possible revision of the 1947 act.
There will be some." ssft
Reuther, "who will say that the
substantial amendments we hive
proposed amount to actual Ire
peal. To this soft Indictment we
plead guilty."