THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUD 7 tonight aad Sunday, little chug la tarn. " peratur. Lew tonight, 14; nlxh Swday, (C FINAL EDITION Netr School Bill Rclains Local Control Public Hearing on Reorganization Bill Set for March 31 7 By JAMES D. OLSON Placing the greater part of responsibility for school dis trict re-orgniiatio on a local rather than state level is the purpose of new school reor (anlsaUoa bUl that will be the (abject of a public hear Inf Tuesday at 7:3 p.m. in Boom 321, 8tate Capitol. , : ; The senate education com mittee, of which Sen. Bobert D. Holmes is chairman, has been .working arduously , throughout the session to draft a bill which would Improve school district organization and at the same time avoid the pit falls which led to defeat by the people by a narrow mar J gin of the 1951 school reor ganization law, ; i The 1951 law was based on a report and recommendations made by Dr. T. C. Holy, di rector of the bureau of educa tional research at Ohio State university. 1951 Law Defeated . Even though the 1951 edu cation, committees of the legis lature labored during the . greater part of - the session, holding hearings and attempt ing to placate opponents, the law was defeated at the polls, largely because of the feeling on the part of some groups throughout the state that con trol of local schools would be taken over by the state board of education, and that Inti mate ties of the schools with the 1 communities would be largely lost. - .: ".- Members of the senate edu cation committee declare that the new- bill will allow coun ; ties to work out their , own plans to achieve sound school administrative units; will re : suit in more advantages for I all children; . better adminli : tration for the school and bet ' ter use of the school tax dollar. : Local Control Remains f; The bilVthey say." will not : close up buildings, nor will It 1 destroy local control, result in . large plants, cause teachers to : lose their jobs, destroy com- munity life andwill not make . children ride long distances on buses, all of which were list- cd as objections by the oppo- nents of the 1951 school dis trict reorganization bill. . (Concluded on Page 5, Column 2) County Salary Bill Passed Legislation to let county ' courts and commissions fix sal- ' aries of county officers was passed by the house Saturday and sent to the governor. If the governor signs it, the bill would relieve the legisla ' '. ture of its task of fixing sal- aries for each county's officers at every session. A bill to restrict the practice of chiropractors was passed by the senate Saturday with no opposition. It goes to the house. Chiropractors now are al lowed to practice "minor sur gery," but that term Is not de . fined in the present law. The bill defines minor sur ' gery as treatment of cuts and bruises, superficial lesions, and i removal of foreign bodies. - The bill, Introduced by Sen. Pat Lonergan, Portland, orig- .; inally would have prevented ' chiropractors from practicing - obstetrics and any surgery. New Storm on Way to Oregon ' (Br UnlUd Ptmi) . The weatherman said a . storm was moving toward Ore gon coast from about 1200 ' miles out In the Pacific ocean ' today and possibly would bring ' heavy rains to the region early next week. During the weekend, how ever, partly cloudy conditions with little change in tempera i ture were expected, forecasters ' said. Some rain or showers were predicted for parts of the state. Temperatures during a 24 ' hour neriod ended this morn ing were mild with a high of ; S8 reported at la uranae ana Ontario. Weather Details Mditiif. R nlnlmim to. f.r anth! 4.7i m SJI. S mlrtUilra. M M "' ""J; krttkt. . fett (Beporl 7 B-S. Weik Barnl.) 65rh 2 Hit Wrecked Freight Cars 21 Killed, 60 in Hos pitals in Triple Smash On New York Central Conneaut, O. () Two Mew York Central passenger trains. thundering along at more than a mile a minute, smashed into a pile-up of derailed freight ears Friday night, and II per sons were believed killed. . Eighteen bodies were recov ered by noon Saturday, and Deputy Coroner Wallace C. Mulligan' of Erie, Pa. county said he expected workmen to find three more under one car rammed deep into muddy ground. . in Hospitals " More than 60 other passen gers, among 400 on the two express trains, were in hospi tals here and in Ashtabula and Erie, Pa. 27 miles west of the accident scene. Only one of these was described by the hos pitals as seriously injured. A "death train" arrived In Erie early Saturday morning wlth.16 bodies and more than two hours later giant wreck cranes, moving the jumble of criss-crossed . cars, . uncovered the body of a 16-year-old girl. More than an' boor later a man's body was found under the same car where Mulligan believed three more victims were burled. Caused by Piece of Pipe . The freight and two express trains piled up between 10 and 10:30 o'clock ", (EST) Friday night. A piece of pipe rolled off (Concluded on Page 5, Column I) ille Bill : Voted by Senate . Closure of the Coquille river to commercial fishermen was approved 21 to S by the Senate Saturday. The bill goes to the House. ': : t: ' J.- " v.-.' The bill, first on a list of 32 measures which the Senate had up for final consideration Sat urday, consumed 90 minutes. The Senate refused 17 to IS to send it back to committee for removal of the emergency clause. , . ' Sen. Robert D. Holmes, Gear' hart, principal foe of the bill, charged that ' the emergency clause was put on the bill only to prevent the commercial fish ermen from referring 'the bill to the people. Sen. George A. Ulett, Co quille, the father of the bill, said "commercial , fishermen are sweeping the river clean so that there aren't any fish left for the sportsmen." Retirement Program Nearly Completed The Legislature finished Its work Saturday on the three bills to combine the state re tirement program with the fed eral social security system. The actual change over is ex pected to becur Monday. Under the plan, some 39,000 employes of the state and local governments will get greater benefits at less cost than they now are paying under the state plan. The House passed the third of the bills Saturday morning and sent it to the governor. Legislative Analyst Must Be Independent A legislative analyst, . such as the joint ways and means committee of the legislature is considering for Oregon, must be backed by a strong legisla tive committee, must be inde pendent and responsible only to the legislature, according to Alan L. Post, legislative analyst for the state of Cali fornia, Post, who appeared before a joint ways and means and judi ciary committee Friday and was in conference with legisla tive leaders Saturday, said the main objective of the commit tee was to bring about effi ciency in state government, economy in its operation, and above all else, gather such in formation and statistics as will reveal just how money appro priated by the legislature is expended. In California, where the legislature meets annually, 30 days in one year for a budget session and a six months ses sion in the following year for Year, No. 75 SPRING WORKSHOP FOR. PRESS Press Women Salem is the meeting place this week-end for women, in Oregon who are members of Oregon group of the National Federation of Press Women. The group started its work shop session Saturday morning at the : Senator hotel and at noon had as their luncheon speaker Charles A. Sprague, who told of his experiences at the United Nations. . Heard at the workshop ses sion in the morning were Gene vieve Morgan who is in charge of public relations for the state department of agriculture and Venita Howard from the traffic safety division of the secretary of state's office. ' Miss Morgan told of the pub lications of the agriculture de partment for which she is re sponsible, of the clipping serv ice lor her department that she has and the releases that she prepares for the department, including material for a radio program on radio, station KOAC. ' Noting that promotion of traffic safety was her division's job, Miss Howard commented that the purpose of her releas es and programs was to change human attitudes. She briefly outlined the work done by the department and told in detail of their radio program featur ing recordings ol police omcers making arrests and court pro ceedings, along with follow-ups of accidents. "- In the afternoon session of the work shops there will be two speakers, MaJ. Lane Carl son from the Information sec ( Concluded on Page 8, Column 4) Adenauer Sees Unrest in Russia Bonn, Germany, W) Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer said Saturday Stalin's political heirs are "doubtless experi encing a period of internal unrest in Russia." But he warned the free world not to count on this as a breathing space and inter rupt its defense buildup. Addressing the youth section of his Christian Democratic Party, Adenauer observed that the new Kremlin rulers had recently caused .world-wide flutters with what sounded like tentative peace feelers. "It is my. opinion there is only one possible policy to ward Russia," the chancellor declared. consideration of general bills. the legislative - analyst has staff of 18 technicians together with a clerical force, working under a joint budget commit tee made up for 10 members of the senate and assembly of California. The office, he said was open to give research service to in dividual members of the legis lature, aid Interim committees and also make studies of opera tions of various state activi ties. While he said that his de partment works closely with the department of finance, fre quently making joint studies with this department, none the-less the analyst works in dependently of the administra tive department, a point that he stressed was important for the reason that when the gov ernor's budget was completed, his office begins careful study of it, and very frequently "we do some rather drastic slash ing of the budget." (Concluded en Page (, Column I) Saltm, Oregon, ITT V W Oregon press women met at the Senator today for their annual spring workshop conference. From left: Miss Rebecca Tarshis, Portland; Mrs. Mabel Schoenfeld, Cor vallis; Mrs. Margaret Thompson Hill (standing) president of the group, Portland; Miss Claire Lyon, Portland and Mrs. Katherine Harris, Lebanon. (Story in society, Page 6) . France and US Warn On Reds Abuse of Truce Washington Iff) France and the United States warned Sat urday there would be "the most serious consequences" on peace efforts if the Chinese communists used a truce in Korea to wage aggressive war anywhere else in the Far East. ' The warning was given add ed point by the announced ac ceptance by the Chinese com munists Saturday of the Uni ted Nations proposal for ex changing wounded war prison ers and also their suggestion tor renewed truce talks. The joint statement, Issued after three days of talks be- U.S. Endorses Lie's Red Drive United Nations. N. Y. WV- The United States Saturday en dorsed U. N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie's campaign to drive American communists out of the U. N. secretariate. Henry - Cabot : Lodge, Jr., chief U. S. delegate, opened a debate on U. N. personnel pol icies in the 60-natlon General Assembly, with a promise that the United States will continue to investigate American citi zens who are on the U. N. pay roll and give Ue the Informa tion on which he can act to fire suspected subsersives. . "We have . no Interest in knowing whether, any Ameri can in the secretariat Is repub lican or democrat or independ ent, so long as he meets the U. N. charter standards of ef ficiency, competence and integ riyt," Lodge told the Assem bly. , ' 50 More Natives Nairobi, Kenya, WV-A gang of Mau Mau terrorists killed at least 12 pro-British native home guards in a night attack on an African village near Nyerl, it was announced Sat urday. The fillings followed only about 24 hours after the massacre of at least 180 loyal natives near Nairobi. Early reports from Nyeri, 60 miles south of Nairobi, said the gang of about 100 terrorists was armed with pistols and rifles. The attack was made in Chinga location in the South Nyerl Reserve. It was the latest in the long series of murders and other violence by the Mau Mau, a secret native society whose members take a blood oath to drlvetthe white man from Ken ya. Hundreds of persons have been slaughtered by the ter rorists and houses and other properties destroyed. Bad Checks Passed, Two Men Put in Jail Two Coos Bay men were jailed Friday after one of them passed two bad checks in town. Donald Randolph Kltchin was charged with check vag rancy in the passing of a $20 check at a downtown depart ment store and a $3.49 check for a shirt at a clothing store. His companion, Jerl Hlggins, was held tor vagrancy. They were arrested at downtown hotel where they had registered under fictitious names. . Saturday, March 28, 1953 WOMEN tween President Eisenhower, French Premier Rene Mayer and their top aides, said: ' : , "It was the view of both gov ernments . . . that should the Chinese Communist regime take advantage of such an, ar mistice . to pursue aggressive war elsewhere In the Far East, such action would have the most serious consequences for the efforts to bring about peace in the world and world conflict directly with the understand ing on which any armistice in Korea would rest." : . The reference to "elsewhere in the Far East" obviously meant Indochina where the French have been fighting Communists, for seven years. There have been frequent re ports of substantial aid from the Chinese ; to the Indochlnese Redl. . !.-;; The joint announcement said 'plans are being developed with a view to achieving suc cess in Indochina and are being Btven intensive Study so as to determine how and to what ex tent the United States may be able to contribute material and financial support." Pope Warns Catholic Pastors Vatican City W Pope Plus XII, in a Lenten address, warn ed Roman Catholic pastors and preachers of ' Rome to guard their flocks against the rav ages of "the enemy." Vatican sources said he meant atheistic communism and other modern threats to the church. The pontiff addressed the group Friday in the Vatican's Conslstorial hall in one of the few audiences he has given since his serious ailment that confined him to his bed more than two months ago. The pope warned against "fierce forces that attack the church; powerful organizations fighting God, Christ ana tne church.' r Ralph Cake May Replace Roberts Washington U.I0 Ralph C. Cake, former Oregon republi can national committeeman, was among a half dozen prom inent party members mention ed today for national chairman following the resignation un der fire of C. Wesley Roberts of Kansas. Cake, a Fortlander. . was prominent in' the election of President Dwight Elsenhower last November but has, up to now, declined any official post with the new administration. A committee of the Kansas legislature said Roberts had vi olated the spirit if not the let ter of the state's lobby law In connection with the sale of hospital building to the state involving an $11,000 fee tor the departed chairman). Within a, matter of hours, Roberts re signed, leaving the Elsenhower administration with an urgent repair job to do on the party organization. The national chairman is considered the par ty's chief political agent. - The job pays 332,000 a year, WARREN AUSTIN ILL Burlington, Vt. W The retired U. S. ambassador to the United Nations, Warren R. Austin, 75, is in "grave but not critical condition" at Mary Fletcher hospital following cerebral attack. 60 I s ni mk, ana uje Marines Again Pull off From Seoul W Battle-weary V. S. Marines pulled oft the summit of bloody outpost Vegas Satur day night before frantie Chi nese Red attacks and Allied ar tillery began churning It with constant explosions. : ,, v " It was the third time since Thursday that the Reds had forced the Leathernecks to yield the Western Front out post In the Bunker Hill area guarding the invasion route to Seoul. Vegas is 25 miles south west of Old Baldy, seized ear lier by the Reds In a spring drive they opened Monday. AP Correspondent Forrest Edwards said shortly after mid night it was not clear that the Chinese were on the crest of Vegas. The Marines pulled back to the lower slopes after the Chinese struck, ' (Concludes en Page i, Cetaan 1) UN Diplomats Encouraged United Nations, N. Y. W Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., chief U. S. delegate, and other top ranking U.N. diplomats Sat urday described as encourag ing the ; agreement by . Red China . to exchange , alck and wounded prisoners of war in Korea. . . ---. The message intensified spec ulation in the U. N. that the Communists are about to come up with a new formula tor set tling the Korean War. "It is very encouraging if It Is bonafide and sincere,", said Lodge. ' ' ' -V - ' . ' ' ; tj. ; ' ' Lester B. Pearson of Canada president o'f the General As sembly, said: .:x "This is something we have been hoping would happen. So far as it goes it is encourag ing."- ' George N. Zarubln, Soviet ambassador to Washington and a member of the Russian dele gation here, said "In my opin ion, it is very good news." Ike Frowns on Shortage Probe Washington W) Some sena tors indicated belief Saturday that President Eisenhower has put a damper on a special sen ate investigation into ammuni tion shortages in Korea. The president told his news conference Thursday that the ammunition supply inJCorea is now perfectly souncKfonsid ing the type of operatieW go ing on there now. That appeared to line up the president on the side of the Pentagon and the Army chief of staff, Gen. J. Lawton Col lins, In the heated dispute about Korean ammunition supplies. The special senate investi gation resulted from repeated statements and testimony by Gen. James A. Van Fleet, re tiring field commander, that serious and critical ammuni tion shortages existed during his entire 22 months of serv ice there. : French Officials In Final White House Meeting Washington, 0J.ro Top French officials concluded the main business of their visit to Washington Saturday with a White House conference at which Secretary of State Dul les said things went "all right." It was reported the consult ants had agreed generally on stepped-up campaign against communists In Indochina. At the same time Informants said a dispute over disposition of the Saar area was left for future solution, along with de tails of the plan for Indochina. "All right, all right," was the succinct description of the meeting with President Elsen hower which Dulles gave to newsmen as the party left the executive offices. He said this morning's slon was the last of that sort and the "full meeting" was over, Price 5c to hdizzrj cH' POW Propose 'Wonderful': Says Van Fleet Ft Bennlng, G. UJD Gen. James A. Van Fleet, former commander of United Nations' forces In Korea, said today he thought it was "wonderful" that the Communists : have agreed to an exchange of sick and wounded war prisoners. Van Fleet, commenting brief ly on the development which may bring about a resumption of peace talks, said: . "I think it is wonderful. The prisoner exchange proposal has been advanced many times." arry Seoul. Korea OUO A U. S. Air Force fighter-bomber wing in Korea has been equipped with modified F-86 Sabre jets presumed capable of carrying atomic bombs, it was announc ed today. The Fifth Air Force said the 18th Fighter -Bomber Wing, which formerly flew only pro peller - driven F - 51 Mustangs and F-80 Shooting Star jets, has been using F-86s .long nmitfh tn nrnriiipft in arm ' The conversion to : the Air Force's latest mass production Jet aircraft was kept so secret that planes shot down by Sa bres of the 18th Wing have been credited to the 4th Fight- er-Inceptor Wing. : :, ' : An Air Force spokesman said the main . value . of the modified Sabre was its ability to fly flghte--bomber . missions without fighter escort. : The' F-84 Thunder let and F-80 Shooting Star tighter- bombers do not i compare speed or .maneuverability, yith. euner ' me nea - jea or Hie Sabres, he said. ... : .. - Drill Oil Wells Midland, Tex., W) J. D. (Jack) Bodkins, Midland in dependent -oil operator, an nounced Saturday he will start wildcat wells in . Washington and Oregon this year. Bodkins acquired oil and gas leases on about a million acres in the two states last year. He said a 10,000-foot test will be drilled in each atate. The exact locations haven's been selected yet, ,. ,... . ' Bodkins said the wells will be drilled to the Mississlppian line formation. The Mississlp pian is productive In the Will- iston Basin region and in Can ada, and Bodkins thinks there are good possibilities it will carry petroleum In Oregon and Washington. - - - He said locations for the two wildcats will be selected as soon as field geological parties complete their work. He ex pects that to be done in about six months. Bodkins' leases are In Wheeler, Crook Deschutes, Harney and Malheur counties of Eastern Oregon and In Walla Walla. Whiteman. Adams and Grant counties of Southeastern Washington, There will be further talks, on a lower level, on the re maining issues. This was French Premier Rene Mayer's comment as he posed for photographers out lids the White House: "My colleagues and I, before leaving Washington, are happy to say how much we have en joyed the conversations we have had with the President and his colleagues. Once again a frank exchange of views has enabled us to verify the com munity of views between the United States and France on all the big problems concern ing peace in Europe and the Far East- I mean the peace of the tree world." Before the White House moeting it was reported French plan for victory in In dochina In two years had ex cellent prospects of support. . J' ' 'fM."' a mm am 0 Resumption Gf Tokyo, The Co agreed.- Satarday night - to : V J, oner to exenange atek . aad wounded prisoners before the . end of ths Kereaav War, and at the same time propose Immediate resumpUoa ef the suspended armistice talks. The Reds said such an ex change could lead to "smooth settlement" of the entire POW question, which broke im that sijuulice iaiks at Panmunjom '. last Oct, 8. ! The POW issue was the only onu left unsolved. ' A spokesman here said the VJi. command could begin an exchange of tick and wound ed "within a matter of days." . Clark Stndles Red Otter' Gen. Mark Clark, UJf. Far East commander who made the exchange offer Feb. 22, said he would favor resumption of the talks, it the Reds are sincere in their acceptance, Clark told a reporter Satur day night:, . v.i we are going to study tnls offer very closely. We want to be sure there Isn't anything in it we don't understand." , ? The Red move covers orur sick-and wounded prisoners a small percentage of the 12l, 000 Red held in Allied camp, There were . no immediate figures on the ; number of Americana eligible for such an exchange. v" (Ceaelaaea en Page i, Cohann I) Washington OtBThe U. 8." government hope an exchange of sick and wounded prisoners in Korea "win occur prompt ly,' Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today. . The State Department greet ed the communist offer to ex change sick and wounded war prisoners as an "uncondition al acceptance" of . proposals made Feb. 22 by Gen, Mark W. Clark, United Nation supreme) commander in the Far East- The Red move was under close scrutiny not only by Dul les but by the-joint chiefs of staff. , Whether-the communist ac ceptance of Clark's proposal heralds early resumption of stalemated truce talks is yet to be determined. : -v Dulles said that the UN com mand has been - seeking ex change of suffering prisoners "tor some time in the past . . . as a humanitarian move. He said the long efforts bad been "without result"' until now. London ll.R) The British government is planning urgent consultation with the U. S. State Department on the Com munist offer to exchange sick and wounded prisoners in Ko rea, It was understood today. ' iV' .-. : . ,,, - -: ,:$ ; Projnptiom Hoped by Dulles ... - -v - Red Proposal May End War From the British viewpoint. 1 the Communist offer, if It proves to have been made in good faith, may end for good the dreaded prospect of an ex tension of the war in Asia. . To France, whose top lead ers now are in Washington, it means the prospect that within measureable time American aid In Asia might be concen trated on Indochina.- A foreign office spokesman said here that no official mes sage had been received up to mid-afternoon on the Red of fer. He added only that the offer will receive "the most careful study" when it Is re ceived officially. -: 1 ' Uranium Discovery in Philippines Disclosed Manila, 0J.R President . El pldeo Quirlno disclosed for the first time today that uranium has been - discovered in the Philippines. t Quirlno gave no detail! as to the location or extent of the atomic bomb ingredient. Hit report caught local mining of ficials by surprise. They had heard no reports of uranium deposit in the country. : . 11 .J t.