Capital JJIotoM.
THE WEATHER
MOSTLY FAIR tonight, Friday
Little warmer. Lew tonight, SI:
high Friday, .
FINAL
EDITION
65th Ytar, No. 79 252.?
Ur4 aad Um
Salm. Oraaon. Thundav. Aoril 2. 1953 3C": . h
, r 0w - w
i
If
I
Allies to Meet
In Truce Talks
Plans for Exchanges
Of III POW Sched
uled at Panmunjom
(Bt Th Aoclttd PrH) '.;
While Western leaden con
tinued to found words at can-
; tion, the Communists delivered
:W to the V. N. Command In Ko-
rea Thursday their latest pro
s' posal for endlnf the Korean
fighting. ' .
'V f; The U. N. Command agreed
.! to a meeting at Panmunjom on
I Xbnday to -discuss plans for ex
changing ilck and wounded
. :J prisoners an article of busi
ess Gn. ' Mark. Clark say
i'4 must be disposed of before re
sumption of truce talks. It was
Clark who made the original
proposal on the prisoners. ; 1
Bed Tactics Reversed , : l
In Washington, responsible
officials and Western diDlomats
-f"saw increasing evidence that
Mussia s snowDaiiing peace 01-
; tensive was a reversal of, cold
-! war tactics aimed at stalling the
""f West's defense buildup and
K,'. wrecking the anti-Soviet's
1 world's unity. i
'J ; This confronts leaders in the
Eisenhower's adminis-
., tration with the critical prob-
. lem of negotiating settlements
Z with Moscow while maintain
4 lng the military power that en
"l ables them to negotiate from
4 strength.
I1' Russians Bisk
, But some authorities say the
Russians are running a risk,
too. If the Western world
maintains its unity it may be
able to create a stability which
the Soviets will find difficult
to upset.
The spotlight remained foc
used on Korea, the scene of the
fighting. More light will be
shed on the situation when the
prisoner of war talks open on
Monday. If the Reds resort to
their customary haggling, the
Western, world will have the
grounds 'for questioning their
iincerity. ; -. i.
(Concluded on rate S, CoiamM B
Britain to Keep
Export Bans
: London W) Britain's Con
' servative government served
notice Thursday it will not
ease its ban on exports of itra
teglc goods behind the iron
curtain despite recent dicker
ing by Communist China.
Peter Thorneycrof t, p r e s !
dent of the Board of Trade,
told the House of Commons
that "circumstances have not
changed so dramatically as to
warrant a substantial altera-
. tion" in Britain's strategic con
trols.
He turned down a suggestion
by Harold Wilson, former
Labor Party president of the
Board of Trade, that a revision
In the list of controlled exports
was "long overdue."
Reds Abandon
.Traffic Control
' Berlin W) Russian Zone bor
der guards virtually abandon
ed controls on the East-West
express highway to Berlin
Thursday and interzonal traf
fic sped at an unprecedented
rate.
The Soviets obviously had
instructed the guards to deal
only perfunctorily with car
goes and credentials.
Giant trucks, hauling as
much as 12 to 15 tons of goods
to West Berlin, were not even
subjected to customs inspec
tions at the border.
The vanguard of Easter hol
iday traffic, including German
and Allied passenger cars, re
ported such speech and court-
esy in passing through the fron
tier had not been seen here
before.
Sunny Weather
With Light Frost
Thursday turned out to be
bright and sunny, but the
morning temperatures were
stiU on the chilly side, the low
dipping to 28 degrees.
The weather bureau says
more spring-like temperatures
re due .'or Oregon over the
week-end, although the nignt
readings will continue cool.
Forecasters are calling for
increasing cloudiness In west
ern Oregon Friday, but they
are being a bit careful about
predicting rain lor Easter
Sunday.
Soviet Threat
Undiminished
Says tlidgvray
Warns That. Russia '
.Continues to Increase
Military Capacity.
Supreme Headquarters, Al-
lied Powers in Kurope, JPi
Gen. Matthew B. Bldgway
warned Thursday that Soviet
Russia's threat against the
Western Allies "has not dim
inlshed one iota."
NATO's supreme command
er in Europe said nothing
about the current peace moves
in a speech at the second anni
versary of SHAPE, his head
quarters here near Paris, but
he warned that Soviet Russia
has "increased and continues
to "increase" her military ca
pacity. Appeals to Allies
v Then Ridgway made a strong
appeal to the Western Allies to.
bring West German troops into
the defense of the 4,008 mile
West European Front. .
- "For the defense of this vast
region," he said, "one signifi
cant contribution the partici
pation of Germany is still as
yet withheld. ' ' .
' "It would welcome this addi
tional military potential. A
Western German contribution
would not only strengthen the
whole edifice of Allied Com
mand Europe. It would lighten
proportionally the burden of
the cost of this defense."
(Concluded on Pate 5, Column S)
Seattle Metal
Workers Strike
'
Seattle W -Workers num
bering 8,000 ; In three- AFL
unions struck at metal fabri
cating shops, and foundries
in Seattle, Tacoma and Ever
ett Thursday in wage dis-
oute. :. . ' .... '
The work stoppage idled
another 5,000 workers In other
unions not on strike who ob
served strikers' picket lines.
Hope - Lodge 79, Interna'
tional Association of Machin
ists, with 3,000 members, was
the largest union on strike. Its
workout affected 82 plants. -
Three locals of the Molders
& Foundry Workers union
struck SO shops in the Puget
Sound area, with 1,000 work
ers Involved. .
The third union on strike
is Local 289 of the Automotive
Machinists' union. A spokes
man said 400 to 800 members
walked out.
U.S. and France
For Safety Meet
Berlin W -The United States
and France accepted Thursday
a Russian invitation to join in
current Soviet-British talks on
air safety over Germany.
The Invitation from Gen,
Vassily Chuikov, chief of the
Soviet Control Commission in
Germany, came after the Brit
ish had met twice with Rus
sian Air Force experts to dii
cuss ways of avoiding such air
incidents over Germany as the
destruction of a British bomb
er by Soviet jet fighter March
12.
Weather Details
Mailmust rHtcrdsvy, Hi mint nam
day, U. Total I4'km rtclpltailvni i
for mosith; Oi nrmIt .IS. Snm ro
elpttatloti, M.tli aormal, MM. River
helrht, I.S fetl. (Beporl br U.S. Wmther
BMreaa.)
Ike Plans to Reorganize
Defense Mobilization
Washington JP President
Elsenhower Thursday sent
Congress a plan to reorganize
the Office of Defense Mobiliza
tion. He said it is intended "to
achieve the maximum degree
of mobilization readiness at the
least possible cost."
The plan would merge the
functions of the mobilization
agency and those of the Nation
al Security Resources Board. It
also would give permanent
status to the ODM, which has
been operating as a temporary
emergency agency.
The plan to create a single,
central Defense Mobilization
Office will go into effect au
tomatically In 60 days unless
either the Senate or the House
veto the plan in the meantime,
or unless both branches vote
. In.- Affant Aa-lfn.
IU UV FM
In a special message to Con-
gress, Eisenhower said the plan
4
GLAD TO
It was home again for, Mrs. Douglas McKay, wife of
the Secretary of the Interjor, shown above at the door
of her Jerrls avenue home. With her is her constant com- .
panlon since her arrival, her little grandson, Danny Green.
Mrs. McKay arrived Wednesday night for a 10-day stay
at her Salem home. . . . , .
Mrs. McKay Hated as
She Greets Neighbors
By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER ?
' f'Ifs wonderful to be home.
I have been enjoying Washing
ton. It is an interesting and
wonderful place but there's
no place like Oregon and
Wilson Cracks
Security Slips
Washington ff) Secretary
of Defense Wilson has cracked
down on security slip-ups he
blames on into-service rivalry
and lax handling of secret doc
uments.. ...
The nation's security has
been - affected and "countries
hostile to the United States"
have picked up vital intelll
gense, Wilson said, because of
recent "leaks."
Two orders by Wilson, dis
closed Wednesday by the Pen
tagon, call for: , - '
1. "A higher degree of se
curity for our - official docu
ment." 2. Closer checks on disclo
sures of technical - military
data, through "inter-service ri
valry in the weapons develop
ment field."
The directives, dated March
26, were addressed to the sec
retaries of the Army, Navy and
Air Force, the Joint chiefs of
staff and other top level offi
cials. Wilson said his instruc
tions "specifically include key
executives and military per
sonnel" in Washington.
"will permit better organize
tion and management of the
federal programs relating to
ma t e r i a 1 s and requirements
and will thus help to achieve
the maximum degree of mobi
lization readiness at the least
possible cost."
He said it is not practicable
at this time to try to itemize
savings which he expects to re
suit
In addition to merging func
tions of the ODM and the Na
tional security Resources
Board, the plan calls for:
Appointment of a director to
head the ODM, and a deputy
director to serve as top aide.
Arthur S. Fleming is acting
chief of ODM at. present, but
the White House declined to
-fi -T tuhothof ha lunillft Kf. nnitlli
oj ....
nated to head the agency usr
der the proposed new set-up.
BE HOME
Skfx;! "trim 4
7
ir
home' was the comment irom
Mr. Doualas McKay, wife of
the- Secretary of the Interior,
as she greeted newspaper peo
ple at her Jerris avenue home
Thursday morning.
Mrs. McKay arrived in Sa
lem late Wednesday night It
is her first visit home since she
left for the national capital in
early January when former
Governor McKay became Sec
retary of the Interior in Pre
sident Dwight D. sisennowers
cabinet.
Mrs. McKay will be here
until April 10, visiting her
sons - in - law ana ' aaugniers,
Mr., and Mrs. Wayne Hadley
antl, Mr. and Mrs. Lester D.
Green, and the five grand
children. The former first lady
of Oregon confessed she has
been very lonesome for the
grandchildren Danny - Green,
Eileen, Allan, Bruce and Nan
cy Hadley. , '
One of the first things Mrs.
McKay did this morning was
to dress young Danny Green,
two 'and one-half year old
grandson, and she was chuck
ling over Danny s remark to
his mother: -
"Oh, we have to move. Wa
have to call the big moving
truck."
The Greens are living in the
McKay home during the time
the McKays are in Washington.
Douglas is working hard
and puts in long days," Mrs.
McKay said of her husband.
(Concluded on Past 5, Column I)
Backs Weeks
Against Astin
Washington P) President
Elsenhower, backing up Sec
retary of Commerce Weeks,
Thursday accepted the resig
nation of Dr. Allen V. Astin
as director of the national bu
reau of standards.
Astin resigned after Weeks
asked him to quit
Weeks mid he called for the
resignation on the ground that
the bureau, a unit of the com
merce - department, had not
been "sufficiently objective"
In its testing methods. He
said there also were other rea.
sons but did not disclose them
Astin denied the accusation
that the bureau was not objoc
tive. He said it must stand
by its scientific findings re
gardless of "pressures."
Weeks singled out for spe
cial mention the bureau's de
cision that a battery "dope"
designed to pep up aging bat
teries was no good.
Spent Only
- ' . .. j .
Ways-Means
OKs Monies for
State Colleges
A budget totaling 128,239,
783 for the state board of high
er education won approval of
the Joint ways and means com
mittee Thursday after Senator
Howard . Belton, chairman of
the subcommittee that studied
the budget, announced that the
committee had Issued certain
ins tractions to the board that
wnnld remit In a muchs clearer
i. budget two years from now.
. Sen.. Belton said that the
board had long been following
a practice of spending legisla
tive funds first and then using
funds derived from fees and
other sources.
"We have instructed them to
reverse i this p-ocedure and
spend the fee funds first, then
the legislative funds, so that if
all, funds are not expended,. the
unexpended portion will re
vert to the general fund," he
said. : -v
Hard to Understand '
Rep. Robert Root, a member
of the subcommittee, declared
that the board of higher educa
tion budget was compiled in a
manner that made it impossi
ble for committee members to
understand it. '
(Concluded on Paso S, Cohunn I)
Oyster Men Ask
For Tax Relief
Washington U.R Petitions
for relief from deficiency as
sessments amounting to nearly
$78,000 imposed by the Bureau
of Internal Revenue were filed
In the Federal court here yes
terday by Associated Coos Bay
Land Owners, Inc., ana tntree
stockholder-employes of . the
corporation, E. R.. Errion and
J. p. Barton, both ot roruana,
Ore., and Glenn R. Munkers,
Salem, Ore. ...
The group was connected
with extensive litigation grow
ing out of -an attempt to de
velop oyster beds at Coos Bay,
The alleged deficiencies were
assessed for the years 1942-43.
The Bureau claimed the fol
lowing amounts, including pen
alties, due the government
Associated Coos Bay iana
Owners, Inc., $48,180; Errion,
$13,242; Barton, $6655, and
Munkers, $6136.
Car-Train Crash
Fatal to Three
Monroe. Wash. (flV-A car-
train crash killed three teen
agers at a crossing here at 11
o'clock Wednesday night
Another was critically In
jured.
The dead were veima mane
Burns, 15, of Carnation, Jerry
E. Patterson, 18, and Herbert
Anderson, 18, Monroe.
Elnora Perrin. 16, was re
ported semi-conscious in the
Monroe hospital. She was re
ported to have fractures of the
skull, both arms and a broken
pelvis. Her home also is near
Carnation.
The Burns girl was killed
outright as a through Great
Northern freight train smashed
into the side of the car. Pat
terson died two hours after the
accident and Anderson two
hours later.
Coroner Ken Baker said An
derson was driving a 1946 se
dan he had bought two weeks
ago.
Judge Blinks;
Cuts $1000
From Bail
Portland ura Harold Hat
cher, Klamath Indian ap
pearing before Federal Judge
Gus J. Solomon to ask for
reduction of ball on an as
sault charge, was asked by
the Judge if he had ever been
In trouble before.
Hatcher's attorney replied:
"Just once, your honor, he
stole some whiskey once
from a Judge's room." '
Solomon linked, smiled
broadly and remarked, "A
pretty heinous crime."
Then he reduced Hatcher's
ball from $2500 to $1500.
1"
O'MALLEY ABANDONS OFFICE
I hi 1! '"S 1 J i
IP : Jltfeo I".
Virgil O'MaUey
shown
papers Tuesday night, ready to abandon his office as ward-".
4 - B,.,. r,..l..inn. ri'UallAV mmm warn rM. Art .
from office by a rjght order from the State Board ot Con
trol, and Clarence Gladden, ex-federal prison adminlitra- ;
tor,. Immediately took over in his place. ..t..
tfer Warden Outlines
Oregon Prison Polities
Oregon's penitentiary will
get a sound rehabilitation pro
gram! based on - strict, disci
pline, promises Clarence T.
Gladden. ltonewwardeiu. . .
" Gladden, who retired from
the federal prison syaterfl jast
Chinese Attacks
Seoul W A Chinese Com
munist battalion- about 750
men hit the South Korean
Capitol Division on the Central
Front early today, but the
snapshooting ROKs drove off
the Reds with deadly artillery
and small-arms fire...
Eighth ' Army headquarters
said 83 Communist bodies were
left on the battlefield and an
other 74 Reds probably were
killed. -
When reporting the attack
earlier, the. Eighth Army had
said it' was made by only 250
Reds. , , .: -.'.!
The Chinese crossed the
Kumhwa - Kumsong highway
shortly after midnight and
stormed ROK positions south
of Kumsong. After 40 minutes
of savage fighting the Reds
broke off the battle and were
driven back across the road by
counter attacking South Kore
ans, the Army said. .
SENATE OKs YOUNG TAFT
Washington W The Senate
Thursday approved the nomi
nation ot William Howard Taft
III to be ambassador to Ire
land. Taft is the son ot Senate
Republican Leader Taft of
Ohio.
Praise and
Greet College Report
Proponents of two bUls in
the legislature, implementing
principal recommendations in
the so-called Anderson report,
drastically changing currlcular
allocations among institutions
of higher learning, predominat
ed at a meeting held Wednes
day night before a Joint ways
and means committee.
J. F. Cramer, dean ot the
general extension division of
the board of higher education
and chairman of the Anderson
report committee ' said that
the Anderson study was con
ducted by Dr. Earl W. Ander
son of Ohio State university
over a six months period and
his recommendations were the
basis of two legislative bills,
Senate Bill 426 and House BiU
713
The senate bUl would permit
f
(TV '
after packing his personal
December tl after 33 years ot
service, went to , work .Wed
nesday, laboring from 6 au
until tar Into tfa night to
wbat' golUg-oh In the prisori,
. 'TU bat torspend some
ftm-' to feel my way around
here." he said, "and I won't
know for while ? what
changes I'll want to make."
He was'hlred Tuesday night
when the board of control
fired Warden Virgil O'MaUey
on charges that he tailed to
maintain discipline among the
convicts. ' .... .,
Gladden, kindly looking,
friendly . 88-year-old man, is
determined to maintain strict
discipline. ; ;,V"
The prison should have a
aood training program - with
education and supervised rec
reation," be said, "but any re
habilitative program must be
tied up with constructive dis
cipline to make it successful.
I'll give as much training
as possible. The inmates must
be better prepared to meet
competition - in society. And
we have to change their atti
tudes toward society."
When Gladden went into
retirement, he and his wife
moved to Tacoma, Wash.,
where she. has relatives.
But he didn't like being
idle, so he welcomed the
chance to take over at the
Oregon prison.
The state board of control
learned about him from James
V. Bennett, federal director of
prisons, who gave Gladden the
highest recommendation. '
He's here only on tem
porary basis, but that word
"temporary" might mean as
long as a few years.
Criticism
the three colleges of education
at Monmouth, Ashland and Le-
Grande to offer secondary tea
cher education and give a ba
chelor ot general studies de
aree. At present these institu
tions are permitted to offer
only elementary teacher educa
tion,
House Bill 713 would per
mit Portland state Extension
center to offer both elementary
and secondary teacher educa
tion programs. To date they
have been able to oner oniy a
lower-division program In day
classes.
Another ot Anderson's re
commendations would give ele
mentary teacher education to
the University ot Oregon and
Oregon State couege, now lim
ited to only secondary teacher
education. '
(Concluded ea Fage I, Column 1)
lloAfteotto
Verity Chcrc3$
By Witnesses
By JAMES D. OLSON
Virgil J. O'MaUey, nl-iassi
warden at the Oregon state
penitentiary Thursday charged
that the three lnvestlgatiar
wardens, whose adverse report
on conditions at the prison re
sulted In his dismissal, sprat
only It minutes Inside that
walls of the penitentiary dar
ing their three-day investiga
tion, v.
In a lengthy statement
O'MaUey shifted blame . for
many of the deficiencies con
tained in the report on Super
intendent George Alexander,
denied some charges and inti
mated that the entire Investiga
tion was "rigged" against him.
'"Previously someone did a
pretty good Job ot organizing
the parade of witnesses for the
committee," he declared. "Pert
haps this would explain why
the so-called evidence dove
tailed o perfectly." . - .- l)
No Records Inspected ,
O'MaUey complained furth
er that the investigators---War-dens
Joseph E. Ragan of UU- :
nois, G. Morton Jameson, ot
South Dakota, and L. E. Clapp
ot Idaho, had not requested nor
Inspected records at the prison
nor attempted to verify the tes
timony given by witnesses with
official sources. , . ..-
I do not believe that any
vestlgator or investigating com
mittee should ever reach, any
conclusions without ; at least
trying to verify Information re
ceived from official sources. '
"Furthermore, it Is my opin
ion that it is a highly unethical
practice for any committee or
board evaluating a report to
condemn anyone without gtv
Cravens Will
.-.)'$
Washington (n -President -
Eisenhower Thursday - nomin
ated Kenton R. Cravens, St,
Louis banker,, to be adminis
trator of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation. .
Cravens - would succeed
Harry A. McDonald as head ,
of the big government lend
ing agency. McDonald's res
ignatlon Was accepted . Wed-
nesday. , . vw ; :
The appointment apparent
ly - wiU be a short-term on
since congressional leaden k -have
reported the administra
tion plans either to let the
RFC die on June 30, 1954,' or
perhaps abolish It earlier. ,
Cravens, a 48-year-old na
tive ot SaUna, Kans., has been
in credit work during his en
tire business career.
At present he Is an execu
tive officer in charge of lend
ing activities and bank opera
tions for the Mercantile Trust
company In St. Louis.
Since 1930 he has maintain
ed other business interests,
particularly rubber manufac
turing. . ' .. '.vT
Split on Control
Ot Rain Makers
The House and Senate of the
Oregon legislature were spUt
Thursday over how rainmakers .
should be controlled, and it
will be left to the Joint Ways
and Means committee to try
to reach a compromise.
The house voted 83 to T
Thursday for Rep. Robert
Root's biU to Ucense persons
who try to change the weather,
and at the same time to en
courage experiments In that
field. - -
The senate voted last week
18 to 11 for Sen. Ben Day'a
bUl to license the weather con- -
trol men, but to have severe
restrictions imposed on the
cloud seeders.
Both Root and Day are
from Jackson county, scene ot
a bitter dispute last year in
which the people defeated by
only 34 votes county meas
ure to ban cloud seeding ex
periments. ? ', ' -
The Day bill already Is In
the Ways and Means commit
tee, -and Root told the house
he is asking that his be sent
there, too, ; -r- ,. - -i.
1
: !
1.
1
I