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THE WEATHER
MOSTLY PAIS tonight, Wed
aesday. Local frost. Low to.
night, tl; slightly waraer Wed.
aesday, high 6t.
Group Named
To Pass Upon
New Building
Belton Chairman of
Committee to Decide
State Program
Br JAMES D. OLSON ;
i Senator Howard Belton of
Clackamas was named chair-
man of a seven-man building!
committee to review requests
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and the board of higher educa-
tlon for appropriations for new
bialding during the , 19S3-55
blennium.
The appointments, made by
Co-Chairman Henry Semon,
Included Senators George
Ulett of Coos and Curry coun
ties; Angus Gibson of Lane
county, and John C. F. Merrl
. field of Multnomah county and
Representatives Orval Eaton,
Clatsop county; Robert Root,
Jackson county and Dave
Baum of Union county.
Chairman Ecltcn announced
that the first meeting of the
new committee will be held
Friday at 8:30 a.m.
Two Programs Asked
The committee will review
the building progams proposed
by the board of control, total
ing S6.772.000 and the pro
gram of the board of higher
education o f approximately
18,000,000.
In addition the board will
probably consider the proposal
for immediate construction of
the domiciliary hospital near
Portland, estimated to cost ap
proximately $3,000,000.
Senator Dean Walker, co-
chairman of the joint ways and
means committee said that
Rep. Semon and himself had
decided to enlarge the build
ing committee beyond the cus
tomary number in order to
five representatation to all
parts of the state.
110 Million Available
"If this session of the leg
islature is to close on the date
we are talking about April
(Concluded on Face 5, Column 1)
McKay Plans to
Dedicate Darri
Prlneville, Ore. VP) Secre
tary of Interior McKay may
return to his home state of
Oregon for dedication of De
troit Dam, tentatively schedul
ed for June 11.
The ceremonies at the Wil
lamette Valley dam also may
be attended by Ma. Gen. Sam
uel D. Sturgis Jr., chief of
Army Engineers, and - gover
nors of Idaho, Washington and
Oregon.
These tentative plans were
announced Tuesday by Wil
liam Burpee,- assistant regional
counsel for the Bureau f Re
clamation and current' secre
tary of the Columbia Basin
Inter-Agency Committee.
Burpee said the committee
members also would attend the
dedication, then go to Central
Oregon to view reclamation :
projects and to hold a meeting
at Bend, June 11.
The first power from De
troit Dam, which is on the
North Santlam River about SO
airline miles east of Salem, is
expected to be released at the
ceremonies. It will be a 50,000
kilowatt unit.
March Goes Out
With Frost
March's last day, Tuesday,
was a chilly- one, the thermo
meters dropping to 29 for the
official minimum in Salem.
'And April's entry, Wednesday,
gives little indication there
will be any warmer weather
for a time.
The five-day forecast calls
for cool temperatures at the
start of the period with show
ers due by Friday and contin
uing through Sunday. And that
means the Easter bonnet
biooms"may be "watered" with
a few drops to keep them fresh,
come next Sunday.
Another low temperature,
around 28, is forecast for to
night in Salem, four degrees
below freezing.
A frost hit many sections of
Oregon during Monday night
and early Tuesday morning.
Bend had the coldest minimum
this morning, 14 degrees. New
snow was reported at high ele
vations, and a light fall was
reported from Portland's West
Hills section.
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Bill for Pellon
Dam Killed by
House 31-28
Senate Passes Simpli
fied Tax Program for
General Fund N
By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR.
ine Oregon House of Rep-
resentatlves Tunday kUled U
to 28 the Portland General
Electric Company'! bill to per-
nui coun appeals irom oeei-
dons of the Hydroelectric Com.
aill..
mission.
The bill, Introduced for
PGE, would have enabled the
company to appeal from the
commission's refusal to allow
PGE to build Pelton Dam on
the Deschutes R 1 v c t , It also
would have taken away the
Fish Coaunlssion's veto power
over construction of power
dams. - j
At the same time, the Senate
voted unanimously for the
Hmiw-Rpprowd main legisla
tive tax program. It simplifies
state' taxes by putting Income
tax receipts,7 now used to re
duce property taxes, into the
state general fund.
(Concluded on Paffe 5, CeL 7)
Merl Young
Found Guilty
Washington VP) E. Merl
Young, who was a central fig
ure in a Senate investigation
of the Reconstruction Finance
corporation, was - convicted
Tuesday on four charges of
perjury.
A jury in U. S. District
Court deliberated for about
two and a half hours before
returning its verdict.
Young, a 88-year-old former
Mlssourian whose wife was a
White House stenographer with
a mink coat, stood .nervously
as the Jury filed in to report
its verdict.
Each of the four charges car
ries a possible penalty of two
to ten years in prison.
Young was -convicted of
swearing falsely when he said
that while employed . at the
RFC as an examiner he never
had anything to do with loan
applications filed by the Lus
tron Corp.
His wife's fur coat became
a much debated issue. It was
a $9,450 pastel mink coat
which actually never figured
in Young's trial, but which
had a large part In the sen
ate inquiry.
Laflimore's Trial
Again Delayed
Washington WV-U. S. Dis
trict Judge Luther W. Young
dahl Tuesday agreed to post
pone Owen Lattimore's perjury
trial until October. He refused
to move it out of Washington.
The judge said he would fix
a definite trial date In a formal
order to be issued later. The
trial had been scheduled for
May 11.
Defense counsel had asked
for a change of venue to some
other jurisdiction and a post
ponement of the trial until next
January.
Judge Youngdahl ruled that
the trial will be held in Wash
ington, saying Lattlmore can
have "just as fair a trial here
as he can in any other Juris -
diction."
Budget Committee
Over Financial Hump
Addition of 180 new park
ing meters, ruling out the pen
nies and making all meters for
nickels only, will be one way
the city will raise necessary
money during the next fiscal
year.
Another way will be elimi
nation of five men from the
fire department by curtailing
the first aid and the inspection
services.
Those two items, the first
estimated to yield up to $30,
000, and the second to deduct
$20,185 from city expenses are
two of the main items where
by the city will make $80,485
more money available in the
1953-54 budget calculations to
increase salaries by $50,000
and make an emergency fund
of $30,485.
Another big item entering
into the calculation is $22,000
by removing North 16th street
extension project from the
Cap
Year, No. 77
SOLEMN
imJma . as
Silent and solemn Londondera line the approach , to
t Horse puards Parade in Whitehall as the late Dowager
- Queen Mary's funeral procession makes its way to West?
; minister Hall, where the mother of kings laid in state
until her burial today. Following the gun carriage are,
left to right, the four royal dukes of Edlngburg, Windsor,
Gloucester and Kent. . (UP Telephoto)
Queen Mary Buried in
Windsor Castle Chapel
Windsor,. England (ff)
Queen Elizabeth II cast sym
bolic earth upon the coffin of
her grandmother Queen Mary
Tuesday, and saw the body
committed to the ages in the
ancient tomb of British roy
alty.
The - 85-year-old dowager
queen, was buried beneath St.
George's' Chapel- of Windsor
Castle, betide the klng-nusband
she survived for 17 years. The
Archbishop of Canterbury, pri
mate of all England, spoke the
committal rites of the 40-min-ute
Church of England service.
FCC Takes Time
On Colored TV
Washington VP) Paul A.
Walker, chairman of the Fed
eral Communications Commis
sion -declared Tuesday that the
agency is not going to be rush
ed into approval of an untested
color television system.
He sharply rejected some
industry suggestions that the
"millenlum" has arrived ' in
color TV and said the industry
has yet to prove it has a bet
ter system than the one FCC
approved in 1950. That sys
tem was advanced by the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System.
. Walker was the final wit
ness at House Commerce Com
mittee hearings which Chair
man Wolverton (R., N.J.) said
were called to determine if
color TV for public consump
tion has deliberately been de
layed. Witnesses had urged the FCC
to take swift action to settle ;
the color TV issue. The gov-;
ernment recently revoked or-
ders banning use of critical ma
. terials in color TV manufac
Uure.
budget for the year. And there
are other smaller Items. One
is reduction of the airport es
timate by $2800, an addition
of $5000 to estimated delin
quent tax collections, reduc
tion of the drainage estimate
by $4000 and street lighting
by $1500.
The city budget committee
meeting Monday night ap
proved previously announced
recommendations of its fact
finding subcommittee, which
had to do mainly with salaries,
and Its subcommittees on fire
department and police.
Of course pressure will be
exerted, against the parking
merer program, onouia u oe
upset, or any other serious dis
turbance occur in the plan now
set up, the only alternative
would be to call a special elec
tion to vote on mlllage taxes.
The meeting last night was def
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iZ Salem, Oregon,
PROCESSION
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The royalty of 13 nations and
that . prince of 'commoners,
Prime Minister Winston Chur
chill, watched as the reigning
Queen, almost 80 years Junior
to the dead queen grandmother,
paid her homage by sprinkling
the earth upon the coffin
just as she .had done 13 months
ago for Elizabeth's father, King
: A moment' later -the aldtsi
ion, 'the Duke of Windsor he
Who caused Mary so much Joy
and so much heartbreak came
forward. He. stood for silent
seconds reflecting beside the
opening in the floor of the
chspel into which the body of
his mother had been lowered.
Then he bowed deeply and
walked out Into the sunshine
with shoulders stooped.
Queen. Mary's body was
borne 25 miles in the early
dawn from London where it
had lain in 'state - in historic
Westminster hall for two days
while 120,00 mourners filed
past.
As the brief service began,
the dull tolling of the funeral
bell atop the chapel told the
people of ancient Windsor
town that Queen Mary was
neartng her final rest. '
Soviet Slashes
Prices of Food
Moscow VP) The Soviet gov
ernment announced Tuesday
night a significant price reduc
tion covering major foodstuffs
and consumer goods. '
This was the first action to
reduce livine costs under the
regime of the new Premier
Georgi Malenkov.
It followed a decree 1 a s t
Saturday announcing a sweep
ing amnesty program for free
ing all Soviet prisoners serving
five year terms or less for
crimes representing "no danger
to the state." ,
The announcement on prices
was made simultaneously over
the Soviet's radio network and
Moscow's loudspeaker system.
The price reductions go into
effect Wednesday morning in
all stores all over the country.
The decree affected some of
the most Important goods for
Soviet consumers, including
such principal items as bread,
flour, meat, fats, and sugar.
Liquor including vodka was on
the list in addition to tea, cig
arettes, textiles, clothing and
footwear.
765 Liquor by Drink
Places in Oregon
Portland VP) There will be
765 liquor-by-the-drlnk estab
lishments In Oreffon anil mnni
than 2,000 applications are now
on file, Liquor Administrator
William H. Baillie said Mon
day.
He said it would be about
May 4 before the commission'
finished issuing licenses. No
sales will be allowed until that
program Is about complete,
Jonmal.
Tuesday, March 31, 1953
Veak Atomic
Blast Packed
Strong Shock
. Flash Less Brilliant
Than 2 Previous Tests
But No White Cloud
..Las Yesas. Nev. VP) An
atomie explosion, relatively
weak aa Judged by veteran ob
servers here but packing
strong wallop at the Atomic
Energy Commission's provlngJ
ground .76 miles .nor in west,
flared ever the Nevada desert
at ajn. Tuesday.
The flash was leu brilliant
than either of the two preced
ing shots of the spring test
series. The usual fast-rising
white cloud from the blast, al
most always seen here, was not
visible. And no shock wave
waa felt here, also unusual.
But the AEC reported the
device, touched off from 300
foot tower 3y observers &t
the Yucca Flat teat site the
most severe jolting they've had
this year.- ;
(Concluded en Page 1. Cohunn i)
Recover Safe,
Arrest Trio
Portland U.tt An all-night
police stake-out of a southeast
district house today brought
the arrests of three burglary
suspects and recovery of a safe
stolen Sunday from a grocery
store only two blocks away.
The safe, minus $1900 in
cash it originally contained,
was discovered burled beneath
the floor of the basement in
the house where . Douglas
James D'Avolio, 81; his wife,
Doris, 25, and Floyd W. John
son, 27, were arrested. .
The safe was identified as
one taken from Akers grocery
early Sunday.
Police said a customer at the
grocery remarked that he had
observed three or four indi
viduals unloading a - car in
front of the nearby house
shortly after the time of, the
burglary and had been suspi
cious of their actions. - i
Detectives kept the house
under surveillance ' from 4
p.m. yesterday until a late
night hour when they de
cided to search the premises.
Rail Oil Rates
Hearing Held
Portland VP) Railroads op
erating in the Pacific North
west began Monday telling an
imersiaie commerce uomima-
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' The railroads are asking
permission to cut their rates
20 to 50 per cent to get back
some of the petroleum hauling
business they have lost to
other carriers such as barges
and trucks and more recent
ly to pipe lines. Barges and
trucking interests are oppos
ing the rate cut.
Sitting in at the hearing be
fore ICC Examiner C. A. Rice
are Joseph Starin, a member
of the Washington Public Serv
ice Commission, and Clifford
Ferguson, assistant superinten
dent of rail carriers for the
Oregon Public Utilities Com
mission.
Starin and Ferguson, on the
basis of testimony at the hear
ing, will make recommenda
tions on requests which car
riers have filed for freight rate
adjustments in their states.
Seattle Trio
Held for Slaying
Seattle VP) Murder charges
were filed Tuesday against
three young Tacomans accused
of the holdup-slaying of a Riv
erton Heights market operator.
A charge of first degree mur
der-was filed In Superior court
against James Frazier, 22, now
held by police In Lebanon,
Ore. Second degree murder
charges were filed in justice
court against Billy Joe Snow
den, 23, and John Lyle Wilson,
24, arrested in Tacoma.
Prosecutor Charles O. Car
roll, who obtained signed con
fessions from two of the men
Monday night in Tacoma, said
Snowden and Wilson claimed
Frazier fired the fatal shot.
Nunzio P. Salle, 01, was shot
and killed during the attempt
ed holdup of his market on
March 6.
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United Nations Secrttary-Gen
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be a Swedish, diplomat by the
name of oaf Hammerskjoeld.
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Red China's offer to settle the
Korean prisoner of war Issue
was delivered formally Tues-
Nationalists
Hold Offer
Smokescreen :
Talpeh, " ' Formosa VP) A
spokesman for N at i on ! I t
China asid Tuesday commu
nist proposals for '.ending the
Korean fighting are merely a
smokescreen .to mask plans
for further aggression. -
Prof, Tao Hsi-Sheng, famed
Chinese historian and a key
adviser to President Chiang
Kai-Shek, suggested mat the
west watch the middle East
and Burma for possible new
communist moves.
Tao said the Red offer may
also have been designed to
build up the prestige of Rus
sia's new premier, Georgi Mal
enkov. The professor's views were
echoed in other Nationalist
circles. .' Many observers ex
pressed the opinion that the
communists fear a major al
lied offensive this spring ' '
Atomic Power
Plants for Subs
' Washington UP) The world's
first known version of an at
omic power plant to propel si
submarine has been placed in
operation, the Atomie Energy
Commission announced .'Tuesday.-
v. -
The device a working mod-
power the Navy's atomic
tne uas Nautilus was set in
operation on dry land at the
AEC's testing station in Arco,
Idaho..
The AEC said the "proto
type" power plant that is, the
land-docked version of a seago
ing type hat "successfully en
tered its first phase of opera
tion" and will eventually be
brought to "full power."
This was the first word that
atomic scientists had actually
achieved power in a reactor of
the type that is expected to al
low a fubmarine to travel
many thousands of miles wlth-
out refueling and to stay sub-
merged for great lengths
of
time.
Only US Adventurers
Fighting in Burma
Rangoon, Burma VP) Bur
ma's ambassador to the Unit
ed States says his government
presumes Americans lt claims
are fighting alongside Chinese
Nationalist guerrillas in Bur
ma are unofficial "adventur
ers." In an Interview Monday
night, the envoy, James Har
rington, said captured docu
ments proved conclusively
that Americans have been
helping to train the National-
1st guerrilla forces of Gen Li
Ml.
Pentagon to Applaud
McCarthy Trade Curb
Washington VP) A top
Pentagon official told Sen. Mc
Carthy R Wis., Tuesday his
efforts to curb Western trade
with Red China 'would meet
with applause" from the mili
tary unless he undercut overall
government policy.
This testimony by Frank C.
Nash, assistant secretary of de
fense, came on the heels of a
blast from Harold E. Stassen,
mutual security director, who
said Monday McCarthy's work
was "undermining" the admin
istration's effort to deal with
the Red trade problem.
As Nash began his testimony
before McCarthy's Senate in
vestigations subcommittee, the
senator announced he had ar
ranged a meeting for Wednes
day with Secretary of State
Dulles to seek an amicable
settlement of the controversy.
-
atraona
er
slivered to
day to V. N. General Presi
dent Lester B. Pearson. '
The offer, contained in a
message from Communist Chi
nes Premier Chou En-LaU
arrived with a request that it
be distributed among the U. N.
delegation,
Pearson said at first clance
the message appeared to be
similar to Chou's broadcast
from Peiping Monday.
The request that the mes
sage be circulated to all dele
gations specifically exempted
Nationalist China, but a U. N.
spokesman said that it would
be circulated promptly to all
U. N. members. Thus it would
be dispatched to Nationalist
China in spite of Chou En-
lai's request. -
A UJf. source said that the
messaae iarohMy jre-jld fcc
dispatched to Gen. Mark W.
Clark, V. N. commander, for
his consideration and for his
us in resumed talks at Pan-
munjora. .,: .; i. - & :,,'.
Earlier V. S. Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., con
ferred with chief British Dele
gate Sir Gladwyn Jebb and
V. K. Krishna Menon, India,
on : the Communist Chinese
move - :-.'.
Yawl off Course
When Seized
Hong Kong VP) A British
missionary said Tuesday a 42
foot yawl carrying two IT. S
news correspondents and an
other American appeared to be
off course shortly before it
was seized by Chinese - com
munists March 22. ?
The Rev. Clifford V. Cook
said he was aboard the Macau
terry when the yawl Kert
crossed the ferry's path and
apparently headed for ' Lap
Lep Mel, a Red-held island.
This, was about five hours
before the British Naval Ob
servatory F on Lantao- Island
saw the yacht. being towed to
iiap Lap siei by a Red gun
boat. 1 ';;.-f-:-i ; - i
Aboard the yawl were Rich-
Ore., former United Press cor
respondent now with National
Broadcasting Co., Donald Dix
on of New York, International
News Service correspondent.
and Benjamin Krasner, Brook
lyn, snip captain. Three Chi
nese boat boys also were- re
ported aboard. . ... ( ,
Seek to Curtail
Ike Tariff Cuts
Washington VP) Party-split
ting battle lines were drawn
Tuesday over a proposed law
tnat would curtail President
Elsenhower's power to lower
tariffs to stimulate foreign
trade. -
The bill was introduced Mon
day by Rep. Richard M. Simp
son ( R . - P a .) , third-ranking
GOP member of the tariff-handling
House Wsys and Means
Committee. It would extend the
reciprocal trade act for one year
but clamp tight new curbs on
The act, now due to exDire
June 12, permits the President
to reduce larlffs on foreign
goods coming into the United
States. It calls for the tariff
commission to fix "peril point"
tariff levels below which
American industry would be
hurt by cheaper foreign com-
petition.
McCarthy said he's sure he
will get President Eisenhower's
backing if the President "is
given the facts."
The Wisconsin senator got
into a publicly-aired row Mon
day with Stassen over Mc
Carthy's announcement that
his subcommittee has obtained
agreements from Greek owners
of 242 ships. to quit hauling
goods to Red China, North Ko
rea, or between Communist
ports.
McCarthy said he is halting
negotiations now in progress in
London with the Greek owners
of ISO or more other vessels,
until after the talk with Dulles.
Nash told the subcommittee
Tuesday that even one ship
taken out of trade with the
Reds Is a help, and that "242
ships would be 242 times the
amount of that help." '
FINAL
EDITION
Clark Ready .
To Talk Truce
In Good Failii
Reds Must Agree to
Details of Exchange
Of POW in Advance
Macau VP) . Gen. Mark
Clark v told the Communists -Tuesday
he la ready to resume
Korean armistice neiotiationa
one they agree to details ef
exchanging sick and wounded
prisoners of war.
The U. N. Far East comman
der proposed that liaison'
groups from both aides, headed
by a general or an admiral, -meet
at Panmunjom to mak
the trade arrangements.
- Clark served notice that after
nearly three years of war and
two years of talking about "
peace, the Communists must
show god faith before the U.N.
will go back to the conference
Picks Liaison Groups 1 1 -
In a letter delivered at Pan-'
munjom, he told the Reds he
would instruct his liaison group '
to arrange resumption of arm
istlce negotiations "aa a second
order of business." .
Clark arrived in Korea from
bis Tokyo headquarters two
hours before his letter was da-,
livered at a meeting of liaison.'
officers. There was no refer
ence in the two-minute meeting
to the new proposal by Red
China's Premier, Chou En-Lai,
to settle the truce-blocking
lasue of exchange of prisoners -
of war. :;;
' Clark, accompanied by Army
Secretary Robert Stevens and
Eighth Army Commander Lt.
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, con
ferred ' with South Korean
President Syngman Rhee for
SO minutes at the presidential '
mansion. '.:''-.','";-,' .- '-v-.""---':'--.
' Clark's letter was addressed
to the top Communist comman
ders in Korea, Premier Kim a
Sung, commander of the North,
Korean forces, and Gen. Peng '
Teh-Hula, commander of the
Chinese forces. ' "
(Con eluded en Page g. Cehsna I) ;
Moscow (ff) Western diplo
mats speculated . here today
that both Britain and the U.S.
may soon offer diplomatic as
surances of Interest in recent
conciliatory Soviet moves.
The feeling was sparked by
British Ambassador Sir Al
vary Gascoigne's hurried trip,'
to London and the Imminent,
arrival of the new American
envoy, Charles X. Bohlen.
Observers here believe that
Bohlen, expected in Moscow
within the next 10 days, may
be bringing a message from'
either Secretary of State Dul
les or President Eisenhower..,. .
The ; U.S.- chief executivt
told a news conference March
19 that any Russian peace
move would never be met less
than half way by his adminis- '
tratlon. Other U. S. officials
have said the Russians should
back up their recent peace talk
with concrete action.
Toft Defends
His Labor Law
Washington VP) Sen. Taft
(R., Ohio) defended the Taft
Hartley law's national emer
gency provisions Tuesday In a
Senate Labor Committee hear
ing at which several senators
suggested lt be changed.
Sen. Humphrey (D., Minn.),
former member of the commit
tee, appeared as a witness to
propose the present T-H em
ergency strike procedures b
repealed.
' Sens. Ives (R., N.Y.) and
Douglas (D., 111.) indicated
they felt the law should b
changed. The present low pro
vides for a 80-day court injunc
tions as "cooling off" periods
to prevent labor troubles which
threaten the nations' health or
safety.
Humphrey contended the in
junction operated more to the
detriment of strike-threatening
workers than to management,
point Taft vigorously disputed. .
'1 don't see. how the injunc
tion can be described as anti
labor by any manner or
means," Taft insisted. "It pre
vents an employer lockout,
closing down his plant, in
labor dispute, Just as much as
lt stops workers from striking
for ths fixed period."
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