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Salaries for
Judges Hiked
To $12,000
. Ways-Means Refuse
Senate's Demand but
Expand Pensions
By JAMES D. OLSON
The controversial supreme
court salary bill was reported
out on the basis of $12,000 an
nual salary for the members of
the high court. In eontunntlnn
with an expanded pension plan
. for the seven members of the
high court and 37 circuit
judges In the state.
Under the terms of the bill
widows of judges who were
elizble for pensions will be
granted a pension of one-fourth
of the base salary of the
judges.
- The contribution of the
judges Is increased from three
to five per cent of the base
salary and the state's contribu
tion increased from two to
three per cent.
At present there are four
Judges and thrcj widows eli
gible for pensions under the
bill.
Goes Back to Senate
The supreme court salary
bill will how go back to the
senate, from whence it had
been returned to way's and
means 'committee with specific
instructions to 1 n c r e a s e the
alary to $12,500.
Members of the joint ways
and means committee, compos
ed of both senators and house
members, did not consider the
specific instructions binding,
but decided to expand the pen
sions for the judges in place of
the $500 increase sought by the
attorneys in the senate for the
supreme court.
(Concluded on Pate 5. Column 5)
Civil Rights Bill
Sent Governor
The Oregon Legislature got
rid of its civil rights issue
Monday when the House voted
46" to 11 for, the bill to pro
hibit discrimination against
minority groups by public eat
ing,., lodging . and amusement
places.
When Gov. Paul L. Patter
son signs it, Oregon will be
come the 21st state with civil
tights legislation.'
The only opposition to the
bill came from a small group
of representatives who wanted
the bill referred to the people.
The referral move failed 39 to
18.
The Senate passed the bill
21 to 9 two weeks ago.
Rep. Mark Hatfield, Salem,
chairman of the House State
and Federal Affairs Commit
tee, led the argument for the
bill, and against referring it to
the people.
Iranians in Riot
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Tehran, Iran, (IP) Police
used tear gas and clubs to
smash demonstrations in down
town Tehran Tuesday over
Premier Mohammed Mossa
1 degh's attempts to wrest con
trol of the Army from the
shah.
But the Majlis lower house
Lof Parliament failed by one
member to raise a quorum and
thus delayed until Thursday
any legislative action on Mos
sadegh's proposal to curb the
power of Shah Mohammed
Beza Pahlevi, including Army
control.
An atmosphere of explosive
excitement gripped the city
after an announcement by a
group of Army officers Mon
day night threatening an arm
ed revolt to protect the mon
archy. Rain Missing From
Weather Forecast
Believe it or not, the weath
oj man didn't have the words
rain or showers in the fore
cast for tonight and Wednes
day but they loom again for
the latter part of the week,
according to the five-day fore-
CaL. m t inr innluht and
Wednesday U fair, but for
- TKai nm.
cool temperatures.
paratively low temperatures
are to prevail through .the
1.
WUU in the "-hour
period ending at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday amounted to only a
trace. Light showers are due
by Friday and Saturday.
House Votes
Against Salem
As Capital City
Bill Gives Legislature
Location of State
Buildings
First step in an effort to re
peal the constitutional provi
sions that all state institutions
must be located in Marlon
county unless the voters decree
otherwise, was taken in the
house Tuesday when a consti
tutional amendment was voted
for submission to the voters al
lowing the legislature to locate
the buildings.
The resolution, sponsored by
Rep. F. H. Dammasch of Port
land, who has long opposed the
restriction, was adopted by
vote of 43 to 13.
The crucial vote was on the
adoption of the majority report
of the committee recommend
ing rejection of the resolution.
The Dammasch forces won this
fight 42 to 15 with three ab
sent.
Vote Upon Measure
Those voting for the "do not
pass" recommendation were
Representatives Robert L. Elf'
strom, Lee Ohmart and Mark
Hatfield, all of Salem; Carroll
Locey of Ironside; Harry C. El
liott of Tillamook; Frank Far
mer of Rickreall; Alva Good
rich of Bend; B. A. (Dutch)
Stover of Bend; Joe Dyer of As
toria; Carl Francis of Dayton;
Francis Ziegler of Corvallls,
Ed Geary of Klamath Falls,
Jack Steiwer of Fossil and
Charles Tom of Rufus. Repre
sentatives William Chadwick
of Salem, Loren Stewart of
Cottage Grove and Boyd Over
hulse of Madras were absent
On the final vote Locey was
added to the list of those absent
and Representative Ziegler
switched.
Opposed by Hatfield
Rep. Hatfield spoke in behalf
of the Marlon county delega
tion who were solidly against
the change. Hatfield said that
the proposed method would
lead to log-rolling and the pres
ent concentration of institutions
in one place is more economi
cal. ' - ' '
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Stages Bought
By Greyhound
' ' Charles H. Heltzel, public
utility commissioner Tuesday
granted application of the Pa
cific Greyhound Lines to ac
quire certain equipment and
operation privileges of Oregon
Motor Stages. The transfer will
leave Oregon Motor Stages
with its lnterurban runs in the
Portland area.
"The evidence clearly show
ed that Oregon Motor Stages'
financial condition is extreme
ly precarious," Heltzel said,
"and it has been operating only
by the grace of its creditors.
The acquisition by Greyhound
is timely and very much in the
public interest.
"The alternative would be
the immediate financial col
lapse of the entire operations
of Oregon Motor Stages
leaving large segments of the
population centers without any
public transportation."
Commissioner Heltzel dis
counted protests offered by Mt.
Hood Stages and the Contin
ental Pacific Trailways on the
grounds that they were not
competing lines. '
Protest was also made by the
unions to which the drivers be
long on the grounds that some
members would lose seniority
as a result of the transfer.
Floor on Minimum Rate
For All Carriers Asked
In a turbulent informal ses
sion of the senate committee on
commerce and utilities some of
the members agreed to send an
amended bill to the senate floor
placing a floor on minimum
rates on all transportation car
riers. The amendment, offered by
Senator Phil Brady, Portland
labor leader, alters Senate Bill
319, Introduced by Brady at
the request of the truck lobby.
In the committee meeting
Monday afternoon members of
the committee complained that
the so-called amendments of
fered by Brady were not in
proper form and insisted that
they be printed before the
amendment bill would be sent
to the senate.
Senator Fred Lamport, chair
man of the committee, declared
that Brady bad submitted a
FOUR ESCAPING CONVICTS LOCKED UP AGAIN
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Metal Prices on
Down Grade
New York Wl Metals
prices often are the last to
take the down road. ' But
when they do they often go
surprisingly fast and far. .
So today businessmen are
watching the shifts in metals
prices closely to see if they
will put the official confirma
tion on the end of inflation
and the start of deflation, so
long expected. -
And consumers watch metal
prices because they affect a
long list of things from cars,
household appliances, tin cans
and fences to safety pins.
The picture so far is far
from clearcut. Today we find
lead and zinc prices weak. Tin
prices are skidding spectacu
larly.. Copper prices have
slipped from the post-decontrol
peak and further drops
are freely predicted in the
trade for later this year. But
at the same time steel execu
tives are thumping the drums
for a price hike in that basic
metal.
Britain Slashes
Taxes Slightly
London VP) Britain handed
its income taxpayers a small
across-the-board cut Tuesday
and reduced purchase taxes
on a wide range of consumer
gdods.
The Income tax cuts amount
to only six pence seven U.S.
cents on every pound $2.80 of
taxable income, but even so It
is significent. Britain is the
second country in the com
monwealth to reduce Income
rates this year. Canada has
ordered an 11 per cent cut
effective July 1.
The present basic income
tax in Britain is 45 per cent.
new bill and not amendments
and said that there was anoth
er substitute bill proposed by
shippers which would remove
the floor on rates on all car
riers. Members of the commit
tee, without formal vote, indi
cated that they would vote to
send this bill to the floor also.
If both the amendment bill
of Brady's and the shippers'
bill goes to the floor of the sen
ate, there is certain to be a reg
ular donneybrook.
John H. Carkln, head of the
transportation division of the
public utilities commission, told
the committee that he favored
control of all carriers.
However, Charles H. Heltzel,
public utilities commissioner,
Tuesday issued a statement in
which he said that his office is
neutral in the controversy,
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Shown here, handcuffed together, are four of the five
convicts who escaped Monday afternoon from Oregon
State Prison and the highway department employe they
kidnapped. From left, Ray Allen Barber, 20, doing life
for murder; William Smith, 36, doing 12 years for burglary;
Charles Smith, his brother, 33, also 12 years for burglary; :
and Marcellus Henry Winters, 29, serving 10 years for
assault with intent to kill. At right is Edmund A. Meola,
landscape architect for State Highway Department, whom
the convicts kidnapped and forced to drive them to New
berg bridge where they were captured. Below is William
Carl Lind alias Donald Mark Morris, 22, who is still at
large. He is doing seven years for burglary.
Five Convicts Escape,
Only One
Kidnaping, robbery, car
theft and bold flight across
country were all involved in
the plot when five convicts es
caped early Monday afternoon
from Oregon State Prison. -
Ponger Pleads
Guilty as Spy
Washington, (JP) Kurt L.
Ponger, an Austrian-born for
mer GI, pleaded guilty Tues
day to conspiracy to spy on
U.-.S, ;defense JJpcrets. for Com
munist Russia. -
Ponger, 39, entered his plea
24 hours after Otto Verber, his
co-defendant and brother-in-law,
pleaded guilty to the spy
conspiracy.
Ponger pleaded guilty to a
charge which government law
yers said carried a possible
death penalty. But the prose
cutors, in effect, waived any
possibility of the extreme pen'
alty for Ponger.
As a result, : Ponger faces a
maximum -sentenance of 20
years, twice the time Verber
could receive.
Verber and Ponger are for
mer residents of New York.
They were living in Austria at
the time of their arrest last
January. They were flown
here for trial.
Ponger pleaded guilty to
conspiring with Verber and a
former official of the Russian
embassy in Washington and in
Austria to transmit to Soviet
officials in the two countries
Information concerning Amer
ican defense secrets.
McCarthy Says
Took No Funds
Washington VP) Sen. Mc
Carthy (R., Wis.), said Mon
day night that if he had 'ever
diverted to his own use funds
given him to fight Communism
he "would be in jail," put there
by the Truman administration.
The senator became angry
when questioned about the
matter during the recording of
an interview for later broad
cast over the Mutual radio net
work. His first reply, at his request,
was deleted and a second one
inserted In the tape recording
which was used for the actual
broadcast. In both, McCarthy
denied diverting to bis person
al use funds contributed to the
campaign against what he calls
Communism in the govern
ment. Jack Steele, New York Her
ald Tribune reporter, referred
to a report Issued In January
by a Senate Elections Subcom
mittee which investigated Mc
Carthy. The report raised ques
tionsand supplied no answers
about McCarthy's dealings.
The Justice Department said
last week it is still studying
the report.
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Still at Large
But four of them were back
in custody in little more- than
an hour. The fifth, the only
one who trusted his feet in
stead of a stolen car, is still at
large, and the object of an or
ganized search all over the
state. .
ThU elusive fugitive is Wil
Ham Carl Lind, alias Donald
Mark Morris. 22, who was do
ing a seven-year rap from
Josephine county for burglary
and larceny. He was booked
at the prison in November,
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Escaplnig with Lind, but soon
back in their cells were:
Marcellus Henry (Ted) Win
ters, S9 . sent- up from Clacka
mas county , on a 10-year jolt
lor assault wim intent to kill,
received at the prison in De
cember, 1952.
Ray Allen Barber. 20, Mor
row county, me sentence for
murder, and received at the
prison in December, 1951.
William Smith, 30, Washing
ton county, 12 years for lar
ceny, violated parole, received
in September, 1941.
Charles Smith, 33, brother of
wimam, same Oregon prison
record as his brother, also vio
la ted parole.
After their capture at New-
berg bridge the four men told
their story to State Police.
They said they spent the week
end making a false bottom to a
flax truck bed. Monday after
noon they concealed them
selves under the false floor and
after the truck had been load
ed in the flax mill with waste
it was hauled by tractor out
side the yard to a point half
a mile east of the prison to be
dumped. The truck was in
charge of Guards George Bix
ler and Howard Hunsaker, both
unarmed.
At the prison gate the truck
was examined by a guard, who
prodded Into the load with a
steel bar.
"That rod went throuah the
thin false floor," said Convict
Charles Smith later, "and
jolted me on the head. An inch
the other way and it could
have knocked my brains out."
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Power Cut off
Metal Plants
Portland VP) A shortage of
water to generate power and
the usual heavy Monday de
mand for electricity, forced
the Bonneville power adminis
tration to cut off 150,000 kilo
watts from the northwest's
aluminum and metals Indus
try. The power was restored aft
er the peak, demand had pass
ed. A BPA spokesman said
similar cuts might be expect
ed periodically until the
spring freshet.
Power generated at Grand
Coulee dam on the Columbia
river has been reduced by
210,000 kilowatts from the
maximum of 2,300,000 be
cause water, behind the dam
has been released to make
room for the expected spring
floodwaters.
In times of power shortage,
those users with interruptlble
contracts, such as aluminum
plants, are the first to be cut
off.
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Plane Wreckage vM2S
Aboard found in Sasmdes
Of US Synthetic
Rubber Plants
' AurusU, Ga. VP) President
Elsenhower Tuesday recom--nended
sale of 65 million dol
lars ' worth of government
owned synthetic rubber plants
:o private industry.
. In a special message to Con
gress from his vacation head
quarters here, the President
asked the lawmakers to enact
legislation authorizing dispos
al of the facilities. ,
"I am in hearty accord with
the policy determination of the
Congress that the security in
terests of the nation will best
be served by the development
within the United States of a
free competitive synthetic rub
ber industry, and I believe that
now is the time to undertake
plant disposal," the President
said.
Recommended by RFC
"The program recommended
in the report of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation
appears to provide basic out
line of a satisfactory method to
achieve this result."
Eisenhower noted that tt the
onset of World War H, when
the United States was denied
access to its normal supplies of
natural rubber "a huge govern'
ment-owned synthetic rubber
industry was created at a cost
of some 700 million dollars."
He added:
Rubber Production " '
' "There remain in govern'
ment ownership facilities
which cost approximately 650
million dollars and which now
supply nearly all of the na
tion's requirements of synthet
ic rubber, which, in 1USZ,
amounted to 808,500 long tons
(Concluded on Pace S, Column t)
Defense Funds
Schnectady. N. Y. W Sen.
Taft (R-, Ohio) believes mili
tary expenditures can be cut
by about four billion dollars
this coming fiscal year and he
hopes by another 10 billion in
1954-55.
Taft said Monday night he
felt "the elimination of waste"
would permit reducing the mil
itary budget by 47 billion for
the year beginning July l.
The GOP leader called for
establishment of a commission
to "reevaluate military
thought," and said the move
would offer hope of a further
cut to 37 billion in the suc
ceeding year.
Such a commission already
is under consideration, Taft
told a Freedom Forum audience.-
Declaring that a new con
cept of military planning was
needed, the senator said that
the emphasis In planning
should be put on defense of the
nation and not on preparation
for all-out war.
Taft expressed belief that
war with Russia was not Inev
itable.
ANTHONY EDEN BETTER
London VP) The Foreign Of
fice said today that Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden's gen
eral condition continues to be
satisfactory. Eden was operat
ed on at the London Clinic last
Sunday for gallstones.
Over 100 Blocks Found
With limited Parking
By STEPHEN
The city administration has
found over 100 unmetered
blocks in Salem where restrict
ed car parking prevails, and
where the city manager, by au
thority given him by the coun
cil Monday night, may Install
parking meters If he considers
lt necessary.
This means that additional
revenue needed by the city may
come from adding to the 1800
or so meters the city now has
rather than by making nickels
instead of pennies the minimum
coin that can be used In meters.
Yielding to pressure from
the organized downtown mer
chants and some other groups
the budget committee has
dropped Its plan to make the
meters exclusively nickel de-
vices,
Allied Sick
POWonWay
To Liberty
, Panmunjom (U Sick and
wounded allied war prisoners
rolled down bumpy Freedom
road today and United Na
tions - officials ordered war
planes to assure the convoy
'freedom from attack."
The friendly-. planes at
tempted to scout the 200-mile
long cratered highway from
Chonma on the Yalu river to
Panmunjom but could not see
the convoy because, of heavy
cloud layers.
The nearest marauding al
lies planes came to Freedom
road was at Sonrhon, 15 miles
away, where navy Jets found
holes in the clouds and bomb
ed 10 buildings and a number
of trucks. -
135 Red Tracks Blasted
Altogether allied aircraft
destroyed 185 Red trucks in
attacks along the Korean front
U.N. Commander Gen. Otto
P. Weyland ordered all air
attacks on the Freedom road
area halted.
Lebanon GI
Panjunjom, Korea OUD
Sgt. Calvin Clemmer of Leb
anon, Ore., today was named
one of three enlisted experts
to supervise direct army ra
dio - teletype communications
from Panmunjom when Unit
ed Nations sick and wounded
prisoners are exchanged by
the communists.'' '
- Clemmer' s aides in handling
the Cow of news copy .will
bfcf -"'Cpl.' -Cecil Little; Hot
Springs, Ark., and Pvt. Bethel
Wheeler, Birmingham, Ala;
The direct circuits are being
set up especially for the prls-
onuer exchange. Previously,
all copy originating from the
truce site had to be telephon
ed to Munsan and relayed via
Tokyo.
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Indochina Reds
Seize Sam Neua
Saigon, Indochina VP) The
French -backed Indochlnese
kingdom of Laos ordered gen
eral mobilization Tuesday u
Communist-led Vletmlnh troops
struck across its northeastern,
border and encircled the little
town of Sam Neua 100 miles
southwest of the big French
base of Hanoi. "
The French High Command
announced Monday night It had
evacuated Sam Neua. French
and Laotian forces apparently
were falling back toward Luang
Prabang, residence capital of
the little country's ailing King
Sisavang Vong.
The French said they ordered
the evacuation because of the
difficulty In defending the lit
tle mountain-encircled town,
Laos called up all able-bod-led
men between the ages of 18
and 38 to fight alongside the
French against the guerrilla in
vaders. A. STONE
But the council Monday night
adopted a resolution directing
the city manager to install
meters where the city deems
It necessary to restrict parking
time. This was in line with a
recommendation made to the
council by the budget commit
tee.
A survey made by the police
department revealed over 100
blocks where parking is re
stricted to 15 minutes, 30 min
utes, one hour or two hours. It
Is not the Intention to meter all
of these blocks, though the city
manager Is now directed to me
ter any of them where it seems
necessary. It is estimated that
around ISO meters will be add-
led, which will mean consider-
able aaaea revenue.
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Two Survivors
Rescued, More
May Be Alive
Seattle W A chartered air
liner that - vanished ' before
dawn Tuesday on a flight to
Seattle with soldiers asa a
crew of three was found smash
ed In the Cascade foothills
shortly after noon, and heli
copters ' Immediately started
the rescue of survivors.
Two were picked uo in the
first hour. How many others
there might be was not known,
but one of the rescued said be
knew only of four dead, : ' .
The first two survivors pick
ed up by helicopter told dra
matic stories of survival.
Stewardess Rescued ,'
Mrs. Adra Long of Berkeley.'
Calif., 28-year-old stewardess,
was picked up after a long hike
from the wreckage, Lt Cmdr.
R. T. Norris, Coast Guard res
cue officer, estimated she had
walked eight miles through the
snow. frs-; fv ;-
"It was snowing hard." aha
related. In describing the crash
shortly after 2:22 ajn., just af
ter the plane had crossed the
Cascade Mountains summit
"I could tell that the left en
gine was not operating right,
but I wasn't alarmed. s iv
Thrown Out in Chair
'Suddenly the sign flashed
for the passengers to fasten
..their safety belts. I realized
something was wrong. When I
awoke after the crash, I was
still sitting in my chair. It had
been thrown clear of the plane."
The crash scene was at the
3,000-foot level, about 10 miles
east of the little village of Bel-
leek, which was the coordinat
ing center for the search, v
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Washington (PI The under
secretary of air said Tuesday
the Defense Department is not
supporting statehood for Alas
ka. -
James H. Douglas told a -House
Interior subcommittee
the' Defense Department feels
that ; while statehood might
have a long range advantage to
the military it would have no
immediate benefit.
Douglas was the first wit
ness as the subcommittee open-,
ed a hearing on legislation to
admit Alaska to the union. ;
"The Defense Department
realizes," Douglas testified,
"that over a period of years,
statehood may provide a mere
sound political and economic
form of government, and that
this would be of benefit to the
armed forces by providing bet
ter communications and addi
tional 'interior security forces.
"However, the immediate
impact from a national secur
ity standpoint would be of no
great import because the mili
tary responsibility remains the
same."
Under questioning by Dele
gate Bartlett (D., Alaska), how
ever, he said "it seems clear
that a larger population and
stronger community would be
of military interest to the U.
S."
13 F-86 Jefs
Sent Germany
Landstuhl, Germany (ff T
Thirteen ' combat-tested F8S
jets arrived Tuesday from the
United States J V
The delighted young com
mander of the U.S. fighting
arouD to which thev are
signed danced a Jig on the
runway and exclaimed "Boyl
-run i giaa to see your'
Their arrival gives the U.S.
air force here its first such
fighter regularly based in Ger
many capable of meeting the
Soviet Mlg-15 on anywhere
equal terms. ;i
Other U.S. Jets based in
Britain were traruiferrnl 4n
Germany temporarily follow
ing me incidents several weeks
ago in which allied aircraft
were shot down bv eommunlat
jets.
The jets landed here at the
big Landstuhl air base which
has been hewed out of a for
est 2s miles west of the Rhine
river line,
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