THE WEATHER
. FABTLY CLOUDY with ml.
tered showers tonight, early
Sunday. Cloudy, followed by
rala by late afternoon or eve-
Blag. Little chance fat temper.
store. Low tonight, It; high
Sunday, 52. ,..
Tax Exemption
For Child (are
House Committee
Reports Out
.Two Bills
' By JAMES D. OLSON
Two important tax measures
one allowing Income, tax
deductions for child nursing
care and the other bringing the
exemptions in the state income
tax more nearly In line with
federal exemptions have been
v reported out with a "do pass"
recommendation by the house
tax comimttee. .
' Action on the two bills was
favored by all members of the
' nine-man committee other than
- Rep. Russell Hudson, who vol
ed in the negative on both bills
: but will not file a minority re
port .
Covers Nursing Care
The committee-approved bill
providing deductions for child
' nursing care for any taxpayer
whose adjusted gross income
1 does not exceed $3,000 came to
! the committee in the form of
bill sponsoed by Rep. Maurine
Neuberger providing deduc
tions for working mothers who
employed baby-sitters.
(Concluded on Page 6, Column I)
Asks Freedom
For Jos. Poggi
The Legislature was asked
Saturday by Sen. . Richard L.
Neuberger, Portland Demo
crat, to consider the case of
Joseph Poggi, the 57-year-old
state prison convict who was
released Friday only to be tak
en back to Oregon City for fur
ther court proceedings. ...
Neuberger - told the Senate
that Poggi, whom a Salem
judge released on the ground
he had been improperly sen.
tenced under the habitual cri
minal law, should not have
been taken back to Oregon
City. -
--. "Poggi served 19 years
that he shouldn't have served,;'
. Neuberger said.' "He's1 man
without a friend, and with no
eonnections, financially, s o-
cially, poltically or otherwise,
None of his crimes was a crime
of violence.
"While he commited four
crimes, there are men in the
penitentiary who . have com
mited seven crimes without
being given life under the habi
tual criminal law.
"The Legislature should
(consider this case." .;
Italian Reds
Storm Senate
Rome VP) Screaming,
rounding fists and feet, com
munists and Allied extreme
left Socialists Saturday halted
a Senate session considering a
government-proposed election
law. Similar outbursts marked
the measure's earlier passage
through the Chamber of Dep
uties. The law would give bonus
seats to any party or group
getting a simple majority of
votes in forthcoming parlia
mentary elections.
The bill, virtually certain of
adoption by the upper house,
was proposed by Prime Minis
ter Alcide de Gasperi's Chris
tian Democrat party. It claims
the law is needed to assure sta
ble government.
More Rain Forecast
Over Week-end
Rain, goodly showers of it,
continued for Salem area Sat
urday and the prospect is for
more during the next few days.
In the 24-hour period ending
at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, .59 of
an inch was measured for Sa
lem, and the month's total to
date is 3.51 inches, more than
half an inch above normal.
Rivers in the valley are
higher due to the rains. At Sa
lem, the Willamette measured
8.7 feet Saturday morning. The
weather bureau reports rivers
are due to come up slightly
during the next 24 to 48 hours
in the middle and lower valley
regions.
RHEE 7$ NEXT THURSDAY
Seoul VP) South Korea's
durable President S y n g m a n
Rhee will celebrate his 78th
birthday next Thursday. The
chief executive isreported
"completely recovered" from
a recent illness.
Gets Group OK
65Hi
Alumina Plant
Lease Near to
Decision Expected
To Put Plant Back
Into Production
Torrance. Calif, (fl . An
abandoned alumina plant near
Salem, Ore., built during
worm war II, may be put back
into operation, with the deci
sion due in about week, a
spokesman for the Harvey Ma
chine company reported Fri
day.
He said the firm, negotiating
lor the plant with the govern,
ment's General - Services ad
ministration, now expects the
decision next week.
Will Use Native Clay
If the firm is able to lease
the plant, Leo Harvey, presl
dent of the company, said ;it
plans to produce alumina frcjn
native clay rather than from
imported bauxite. . t
"Then we would not have to
go out of the country to get
this raw material. This Is im
portant in time of emergency,"
he said. .
He added that experimental
plants were built during .the
last war which extracted alu
mina from clay. The experi
ments were dropped, though.
when bauxite became avail.
able through importation at
the war's end. -
The Salem plant is one of
these wartime experimental
plants, he said.
Williams Not
To Join Group
Washington, W Sen. Wil
liams.., Del.) said Saturday
he is going to turn over to the
Treasury and the attorney gen
eral any future facts he col
lects about tax frauds.'
The Delaware senator reiter
ated in an interview his deter
mination not to accept mem
bership on finance investiga
ting subcommittee because of
a rule he said would permit the
full committee to "stifle re
port on any case." ,
Williams spurred an inves
tigation of tax frauds in the
last session of Congress by
periodic reports In the senate
on alleged irregularities Be naa
dug up.
He was offered the chair
manship of a finance subcom
mittee but only if he would
agree that the full committee
must pass on all reports before
they were made to the Senate
and under the condition that
no subcommittee member
otherwise could talk about the
the Inquiry. .
Shriners Hospital
Founder Passes
' Philadelphia (U.B W. Free
land Kendrlck, 78, founder of
17 Shriners hospitals for crip
pled children, died in Univer
sity Hospital yesterday.
Kendrlck was former
Philadelphia mayor and im
perial potentate of the Shrin
ers of North America.
He launched the Shrine hos
pitals for crippled children
with an appeal at his election
in 1920 as imperial potentate
for the then 800,000 members
to contribute to a fund for such
hospitals. He became chair
man of the board of trustees of
the project.
Harvey Firm
Zapotocky Elected
To Succeed Gottivald
Vienna, Austria, VPh-Anton-
in Zapotocky, 68-year-old for
mer Nazi concentration camp
trusty wanted by the Dutch on
war crimes charges, was elect
ed communist president of
Czechoslovakia Saturday.
Prague radio announced the
rubber - stamp Czech Parlia
ment voted unanimously, 271
to 0. to put the one-time trade
union leader in the seat vacated
just a week ago by the death
of President tuemem uon-
wald.
Gottwald. 86. caught a fatal
cold at the funeral of Joseph
Stalin in Moscow, according to
communist announcements,
The deputies, summonded
Friday to a session to elect a
president, learned only after
they got into tne nail wno was
to be the nominee.
Ywr. No. W SSSWSTitr Jol.m, Oragoit
ONE
Van Fleet Fears
U.S. Indecision
Gainesville, Fla.' VP) Gen.
James A. Van Fleet said Sat
urday the democratic nations
'have nothing to fear but in
decision" in the Korean war
and they must end the con
flict with a military victory.
The retiring commander of
the Eighth army, in a speech
delivered at a University of
Florida centennial . convoca
tion, said "This is a war we
must win, - . ; .
: "We can defeat communism
in Korea and ' oh any other
front in which it seeks to ad
vance without getting involv
ed in World War KT' if and
I - emphasize this 'if if we
act boldly Aid with decision.
Aggression is always encour
aged by timidity and caution.
It is always discouraged and
checked by decisiveness ' and
courage. We cannot drift to
security. We must drive
ahead to win it."
Warns State of
Hopper Plague
Washington 0J.R The Agri
culture department today
warned that Oregon rangelands
may be Infested this summer
by hordes of grasshopper and
Mormon crickets.
Bureau of Entomology and
Plant Quarantine scientists
based the prediction on recent
surveys of northeastern New
Mexico and adjacent areas of
bordering states. Those areas
are marked as containing the
largest infestation, of range
land grasshoppers.
They said Oregon, Montana,
Idaho, Washington, Nevada and
Utah may expect severe range
infestations, but involving
much less land than the New
Mexico infestation. .
Small, but heavy infestations
of Mormon crickets may be ex
pected in Idaho, Oregon, Cali
fornia, Montana, Colorado and
Wyoming.
Then it was announced the
Central Committee of the com
munist party and the communist-dominated
national front
proposed Zapotocky, a life-long
revolutionary and union boss
who got only an elementary
education in his youth.
The announcement by Depu
ty Prime Minister Vilem Siro
ky was greeted by loud cheers
and Zapotocky was sworn in
within 19 minutes.
The supreme Soviet, in Mos
cow, had more notice when it
was called upon just last Sun
day to confirm Georgi Malen
kov as Stalin's successor as
Prime Minister. Majenkov had
previously been chosen by the
higher echelons of the party
and had been in oflce nearly
10 days when the Soviet par
liament was called upon to
rubber stamp him.
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ARM BANDITS GET THE AXE
' v ,. v Vu
' Several thousand dollars worth of Illegal slotmachinea
were destroyed by county officers Friday. Above, Deputy
:. Wayne Stevenson (left) and Sheriff Young swing sledge
hammers on some of the contraband machines confiscated
' In a raid on a Silverton coin machine company warehouse
two weeks ago. Deputy . Lawrence Wright is at right.
In the lower picture Sheriff Young stands beside the blaz
ing fire fed by the remains of the gambling machines.
SO Slot Machines Go
Under Sheriffs Axe
By VIC
A group of about 80 slot ma
chines with a total value un
officially estimated at be
tween $10,000 and. $20,000
went , under the axe aV the
MarRflny WuMy'.'-ctarAp grounds
Friday. , ;. i.-rt . .
' The" Machines ' were : those
Dulles Falsified
Washington Sen. Mc
Carthy (R. Wis.), accused Sec
retary of State, Dulles Satur
day of giving an "untrue " re
port of the position of the de
partment's security officer on
the nomination of Charles E.
Bohlen to be ambassador to
Moscow.
McCarthy said H had', been
"definitely established" that
R. W. Scott McLeod, the State
Departments security chief, re.
fused to clear Bohlen for the
post after seeing his FBI re
port. "So what Dulles said yester
day was untrue," McCarthy
told reporters after a meeting
of his Senate investigations
subcommittee at which Mc
Leod did not appear.
The senator, after falling for
two days to get McLeod before
the group for quizzing about
Bohlen, had said, he was ex
pected Saturday.
South America
Chiefs in Pact
Cucuta, Colombia WT The
anti-communist government
chiefs of Venezuela and Colom
bia gathered with their advis
ers today at an international
bridge between their countries
to display political solidarity
and talk about Increasing trade
and combating smuggling.
Festivities which began yes
terday on each side of the An
des border heralded a cordial
get-together for the two lead
ers acting Colombia Presi
dent Dr. Robert Urdaneta Ar
belaez, 64. and Venezuela Pre
sident Col. Marcos Perez Ji
menez, 39.
There has been no official
disclosure of what will be dis
cussed, but observers expect
ed some consideration would
be given to the forging of an
anti-Red front across the top
of South America.
Authoritative sources said
one major point would be how
to deal with large-Kale smugg
ling along the rugged frontier.
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FRXEB
confiscated recently in a raid
on the warehouse of a Silver
ton coin machine company op.
erator and ordered, destroyed
by Marion county district
court Judge Val D. Eloper.
' Two truck loads of the ma
chines were taken frodj ibelr
storage place in Capital City
Transfer company warehouse
Friday "by Sheriff .. Denver
Young and Deputies Lawrence
Wright and Wayne Stevenson
and . removed to the county
dump grounds at Macleay
where they were smashed and
burned.
Victor David, operator of
the warehouse and . amuse
ment company, was fined $30
in the district court action for
illegal possession of a slot ma
chine.
They were confiscated in a
raid March 6 by the three
county officers along with Sil
verton Police Chief Rell S.
Main and city Officer Kosse-
baum.
Another group of 73 ma
chines also stored in the Sa
lem warehouse is expected to
be destroyed next week.. They
were taken in a raid by state
police at Delake some time
ago , and were ordered de
stroyed this week by Justice
of the Peace Otto Cahill of
Dalake.
They were taken from the
Delake Amusement company
of Vernon J. Burroughs. Bur
roughs was fined $10 per ma
chine for illegal possession
and $4.50 court costs for a
total of $1,058.50.
Captain R. G. Howard of
the Salem district police of
fice said Saturday that the
machines would be turned
over to the Lincoln county
sheriff next week to be de
stroyed. 35 Die in Crash
Of Big Airliner
Alvarado, Calif. U.R A big
Tranaocean Airlines DC-4
plunged into a hill near here
killing all 35 persons aboard,
and autorifles today sought to
learn whether the crash was
caused by ice coated on the
plane's control surfaces.
Civil Aeronautics Authority
officials said the pilot of the
four-motor plane gave no in
dication' of trouble last night
when he radioed the Oakland
airport 23 miles north of here
and said he was flying at an al
titude of 3,500 feet to make a
standard instrument landing
approach. '
Five of the dead were Identi
fied as crewmen of the DC-4.
The 30 other victims were Air
Force personnel from Walker
AFB at Roswell, N. M., en
route to the Far East as main
ten a nee specialists for the
509th Bomb Wing.
oft.
VVIIUIIUIUlf
Red Alfifude
Freeing of British
Prisoners One of Sev
eral Developments
London VP) Western obser-
vers sifting recent 8 ovist
moves today reported encour
aging signs of a new concilia.
tory Ruinlan attitude toward
the West The feeling was
heightened by Kremlin pro
mise of Immediate action to
ward freeing British civilian
prisoners In North Korea.
The promise was made by
Soviet Foreign Minister Vya
cheslav Molotov and announc
ed last night by the British
Foreign office. Although the
Foreign Office warned against
premature optimism, the Soviet
move followed two other de
velopments that foreign diplo
mats in Moscow said could
have ; a profound impact on
world peace. These were:
(Conelnded en Page 5, Column f)
Russia Admits
London VO Moscow radio
broke sharply Saturday with
the old Soviet propaganda line
and told the world how Rus
sia, Britain and America har
moniously cooperated in win
ning World War II.
Repeatedly in the past the
Soviets have insisted they
won the war all by themselves
not only in Europe but in
the Far East as well.
Saturday's broadcast ap
peared to fall in the pattern
of "sweetness and light" state
ments made by Soviet bigwigs
since the death of Stalin and
the succession of Georgi Mal
enkov as prime minister.
The talk in English by the
regular Moscow radio politi
cal commentator. Boris Leont-
yev, - went further than most
recent utterances, containing
surprisingly ' kind words for
the western world. V ,. ,
." 'He Waited by asserting that
"peaceful coexistence of the
two systems,- the capitalist and
the socialist, is perhaps one
of the most crucial issues of
our times." . '
U.S. Appeals
For Friendship
United Nations, N.Y. W
The United States made a new
appeal to Russia Saturday In
the name' of humanity to
"work side by side with all of
us here for the goal of peace."
The appeal was made by
U.S. Delegate Ernest A. Gross
in the U.N.'s 60-natlon poli
tical committee. . He said he
was disappointed by the an
swer which Russia's Valerian
A. Zorln gave two days ago
to an earlier U.S. appeal for
concrete evidence of the
Kremlin's avowed desires for
peace. .
Just before . Gross spoke
Satuday morning, Zorin told
the committee the best way to
achieve peace was along the
lines which Russia has been
urging for the past seven
years by an immediate re
duction of armaments and
prohibition of atomic . weapons.
Family of 10 All Killed
In Auto-Truck Collision
Washington, N.J., W Ten
persons of one family killed to
day in a crash of an automo
bile. State police said it was one
of the worst traffic accidents
in the history of New Jersey.
In Chicago, the National
Safety Council said, so far as
is knows, "it was the greatest
number of people ever to be
killed as occupants of a single
passenger automobile."
Killed outright were Clar
ence Matlock, who operated a
60-cow dairy farm in rural
Silver Lake, N.J., his wife,
Alma; three daughters, Ester,
10, Joan, 5, and Rosemary, 2;
a son, Clarence Jr., 1, his
mother, Elizabeth 75, and his
two sisters, Grace, 48, and
Mary,. 80.
'Another son, Raymond, the
only member of the family
taken from the car alive, died
In a Warren hospital early this
morning on his eighth birthday.
Price 5c
Sabre Jets Hit
12 Red Migs
Over W. Korea
Seoul VPh-Allied Sabre Jets
today shot down, five commu
nist Migs and damaged seven
others In the skies over North
Korea. ; ;
Two American pilots down
ed their 10th Migs and became
double aces during the furl
pus air battles.
Capt. Manuel ' Fernandez,
Jr of Miami, Fla., and Capt
Harold E. Fischer, , Jr., of
Swea City, Iowa, each raised
his Mig destruction score to
10, the Fifth air force Mid.
Fernandez shot down two
Migs this afternoon ' while
Fischer shot down one. , :
. On the ground, there were
only-sporadic clashes between
mud-caked soldiers as steady
rain soaked the 155-mile bat-
tlefront until near dawn.
Allied fighter bombers slic
ed through clearing skies to
strafe and bomb the -communist
front and just behind the
Bed lines. ... :r..
Twenty American Super
forts blasted Red troop and
supply centers in North Korea
during darkness.
Tito Declares
Hopes Attained
London W President Tito
of Yugoslavia wound up an
historic visit, to Britain Sat
urday with the declaration:
"All that we have hoped for
has been attained.' .' We have
reached full agreement."
What he was taking back to
Yugoslavia with him was a
British pledge to stand by his
communist Balkan state , in
the event of aggression.
The Red dictator who broke
with Stalin's Russia in 1948
stood stiffly at attention as
the London , port's launch
"Nore" drew away from West
minster Pier. He wore full
uniform with a light gray coat
with scarlet lapels.. ,:.
. Foreign. Secretary Anthony
Eden was Prewt to bid Mm
adieu. . . K naval , guard of
honor presented' aims as. Tito
stepped from his bullet-proof
limousine and moved toward
the launch. . .
Down the Thames, at Green
wich, Tito transferred from
the launch' to the Yugoslav
naval training, ship Galeb Sea
gull, which brought him here
for his week-long visit :
Taipeh U.R) Adlal E. Steven
son said today the Nationalist
Chinese government of Chiang
Kai-Shek could make "the most
historically important accom
plishment of many years In the
Far East." ...
The former Illinois governor
said Formosa was "an essential
part of the Pacific defense of
the free world." The National-
ists here have made splendid
progress in the past few years.
he said.
Stevenson, defeated Demo
cratic presidential candidate In
the last election, said "every
thing I ve seen or heard indi
cates conspicuous improve
ment." He called President Dwight
D. Eisenhower's recent decision
to "deneutralize" Formosa "a
very logical thing to do."
Two men in the truck es
caped uninjured. They were
the driver, John Scarantlno of
Scranton, Pa., and the owner,
Lawrence Butler of Dunmore,
Pa.
Scarantlno, dazed and horror-stricken,
was booked at
state police barracks here on a
technical charge of causing
death by auto.
Butler told police his truck
was following a coal truck
going north on the highway
when the coal truck put on its
brakes and pulled over to the
right shoulder of the road.
Then they saw a car coming
straight at them, Butler said,
and Scarantlno pulled across
the left lane onto the left
shoulder to try to avoid the
car.
But the car also pulled for
the same shoulder, Butler re.
ported, and the vehicles col
lided.
Relatives said Matlock's
mother is survived by 70
grandchildren.
F I tl A I
EDITION
U.S. I!cv;in::n
Captured by
Chinese Reds
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Richard Applegate's
Yacht Kert Seized
Off Hong Kong
Hong Kong VP) A 4 t-foot
ailing boat flying the Ameri
can flag and carrying two U.S.
news and radio correspondent,
and five others was captured
Saturday ky a Chinese Commu
nist . armed vessel between
Hoar Kong aa Macau, the
Royal Navy Observatory said
Friday night. -''. -
The craft was towed toward
Communist controlled Laps
mai Island, 16 miles west of
Hong Kong, the Navy reported,.
Applegate Lived in Salem
The craft was believed to be
the yacht Kert, owned by U.S.
newspaper and radio corres
pondent Richard Applegate ,of
Medford, Ore., who was man
ager of the Salem bureau of the
United Press for several yean .
before outbreak of world war
H. - : ,
Applegate, accompanied by .
International News Service cor
respondent Don Dixon left
Hong Kong Saturday morning
on a projected one day sail to
Macau. They planned to pick
up International News Photo
Service photographer David Ci
cero at Macau for the return
trip. .,,
The other five passengers
were not identified but report
edly Included a reservist in the
U.S.. Navy. -.K.. , ,
Off Lantao Island
It was not Immediately clear
whether the boat was on its
way to Macau or returning to
Hong Kong at the time of cap
ture. It was about five miles oft
Lantao Island. .
Lantao is six miles due west
of Hong Kong and 'along the
main route to Macau, 40 air
miles distant from the crown
colony. " ; .t
(Concluded en Pat t. Column i)
Dick Applegate
Medford, Ore. uM9 - The
parents of Richard Applegate,
former United' Press staff cor
respondent' whose yacht
"Kert" was reported 'captured
by a Chinese communist gun
boat off Hong Kong, are "hop
ing and praying" their son is
all right '. y ,.,
- Mrs. Frank L.- Applegate
said at her home here she and
her husband first heard about
their son's plight from their
daughter. Mrs. T. R. Barry of
Astoria. Mrs. Applegate said
her daughter heard the news
on a radio broadcast and tele
phoned her parents. .
Applegate is a native of
Medford and formerly work
ed in the Salem and Portland,
Ore., bureaus of the United.
Press. : ', ! "...;"').... j .
Mrs. Applegate said she was
'so flustered ' and edited"
that she "couldn't think-
straight." Her husband was
so upset over news of his ion's
capture that he couldn't talk
to newsmen." K j
Airforce Sticks!
To Plane Story
Washington JP) Sen.' Flan
ders (R., Vt.) says the air
force probably meant to in
fluence public opinion In issu
ing what he termed a "false
report" about the mission of
a U.S. plane fired on by a
Soviet fighter off Siberia. '
Flanders told the senate
Friday he had reliable infor
mation that the American
bomber would not have flown
within 400 miles of Russian
Kamchatka if it was on a
routine course.
The air force said It had
nothing to add to its original
announcement "except to em
phasize the fact that at no
time was the RB-B3 the U.S.
plane, closer than 25 miles to
Kamchatka, and was not in
air space claimed to be under
any national jurisdiction." -
The White House, Secretary
of Defense Wilson and Lt
Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson,
commander of the Alaska de
fense command, all declined
comment, t
REHABILITATION CENTER
Tokyo W Establishment of
a rehabilitation center for
South Korea's soldier and
civilian war maimed was an
nounced Saturday by the
American-Korean Foundation's
six-member study mission just
back from. Korea.
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