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THE WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY with seat
r.r.?? hower tonight, Friday.
Jlttle change In temperature,
tow tonight, 49; high Friday,
FINAL
EDITION
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Legislators
Seek Double
Annual Pay
Senate Group
Sponsors Proposal
For $1200 a Year
By JAMES D. OLSON .
An effort to doable the
alary of members of the 1953
legislature Is being made by
the senate's committee on state
and federal affairs which has
sent an amendment to the sen
ate fixing the pay for legisla
tors at 11200 a year. -i
The present annual salary of
: $600 was set up by a constitu
tional amendment passed . by
the voters, and it was admitted
by members of the committee
that there is serious question
that the proposed salary hike
for the solons would be consti
tutional. i, But the committee members
contended that there is "good
ground" to believe that the
amendment would stand the
test of law on the grounds that
the constitutional provision for
the salary is a minimum rather
than a maximum. ' -
All Losing Money
"Every legislator coming to
Salem for the session loses
money. We think the bill will
stand the test." Senator
Ben Day pointed out that
' the constitution provides
that the governor receive a
salary of $1,500 a year but that
the present legislature recently
: voted an increase for the gov
ernor from $11,000 to $15,000,
' (Concluded on Pate B. Column I)
Dim Hopes of
Ropes that the 95-day-old
legislative session would end
; ' ; Saturday night grew dimmer
Thursday, as both houses faced
a mountainous Job of legisla
ting. Soma leaden nredicted it
would run until the middle of
- next week. :
1 the controversial bill to re
organize school districts was
made a special order of busi-'
" Bess in the House for' Friday
morning. It already has been
passed by the Senate.
At the same time, the Senate
Will debate the House-passed
resolution to let the Legisla
' ture locate institutions outside
Marion County. This one was
to have been argued Thursday
but was set over to let the Mar
ion County delegation organize
arguments against the bill.
The Senate passed and sent
to the House a bill to create
the State Emergency Board.
This is a 8-member legislative
committee to make appropri
ations between legislative ses
sions.
Another bill approved by the
Senate would prohibit race
track touting, under which a
. person supplies race tips to bet
tors in order to get a cut of
the bettor's winnings.'
Death Blow
Given Pinballs
An effort to legalize 'free
plays' on slot machines in Ore
gon was given a death blow by
a sub-committee of the ways
and means committee late
Wednesday.
Thlc hill snnnsnred bv John
F. Steelhammer, speaker of the
1951 house ol representatives,
caused considerable furor when
it was passed by the house sev
eral weeks ago.
Former Attorney General
r.snr Nnener issued a ruling
that 'free plays' won on slot
machines were a thing of value
and the proposed mil provaea
that such plays were noi any
thins of value.
Steelhammer, appearing be
fore the committee contended
.k. !, hill merely clarified
um ti w
the law and would bring the
state tax money xrom macmnes
that are being operated in
,4. nf the state in de-
fiance of the attorney general s
opinion.
The committee, composed of
Senators Howard Belton of
Canby and John C. F. Merri-
field, Portiana, ana ixyi
tative Francis Ziegler of Cor
. .,. .i.rf h bill with al
most no discussion. The action
was unanimous.
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Ways-Means
To Complete
Labor Tonight
$1,000,000 Approved
For Emergency
Fund
The joint ways and means
committee expects to complete
its labors with a night meet
ing Thursday, it was announe
ed by the Joint chairmen, Sen
ator Dean Walker and Repre-
sentative Henry Semon.
The announcement was made
after it was found that there
were only a couple of bills re
maining in the hands of the
subcommittees and the mem
bers of such committee agreed
to have their reports ready for
action at the 8 p.m. -meeting.
If the important ways and
means committee succeeds in
disposing of its work as sched
uled, it will be the first time in
recent legislative history that
this committee wound Up its
work before the tax commit
tees of both houses had com
pleted their work.
(Concluded an Fate 5, Column 4)
Pork Barrel
Bill Defeated
The "Squirm in Herman" bill,
which would give another
dozen local shows and. events
a cut of state racing revenues,
went down to a 40-18 defeat in
the House Thursday.
And at the end of the argu
ment, Rep. Herman Chindgren,
Molalla, told the House:
Herman s squirmm days
are o'er, Herman yoost won't
squirm no more."-
Chindgren Is head of the
County Fairs Association. If
the bill had passed, it would
have meant less money for the
county fairs. That s why- Her
man has been squirmin'. '
The House State and Federal
Affairs . Committee, which is
disgusted because nine local
shows already get a cut of the
racing receipts, drafted the bill
in' order to make the whole set
up look ridiculous.
The payoff in the debate
came when Rep. Lee Ohm art,
Salem, asked for unanimous
consent to give some of the race
money to the "Pacific City
fish-fry fly-in."
Retail Clerks
Vole To Strike
By a 4 to 1 vote the retail
grocery clerks of Salem, Dallas
and Silverton went on record
today in favor of a strike if
their demands are not met by
the store managements in the
three cities.
The vote, taken by secret
ballot at Labor Temple at 7
o'clock Thursday morning was
94 favoring a strike and 23
against.
The next step, according to
John Moore, business agent for
Local 992, Retail Clerks Inter
national association, will be to
negotiate with the employers,
and that will be resumed In a
meeting at the Senator hotel
Thursday night.
Demanded by the clerks are
40-hour work week at the
same salaries as now paid for
a 48-hour week for men clerks
and for the present 44 hours
for women; and also insurance
benefits.
The Thursday night meeting
has been arranged by Harold E.
Carson, secretary of the Oregon
Independent Grocers associa
Business Agent Moore said
today that 90 per cent of the
men and women clerks employ
ed in independent and chain
grocery stores here are mem
bers of the union.
Fifth Prison
Captured at
William Carl Lind, 21, Ore
gon State Penitentiary escapee,
was captured at Vancouver,
Wash., early today by local po
lice just after allegedly com
mitting a robbery.
Lind escaped with four oth
er convicts Monday afternoon.
The others were captured less
than an hour after the escape.
Police said Lind broke in a
skylight at Jaffee's Loan com
pany in Vancouver and stole a
gun and some money.
Officers stopped Lind as he
walked down the street casting
glances back over his shoulder.
Lind told officers he stayed
around Salem two days after
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CLEARING IOOF
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' Top: Construction of fence on the north side of Odd
Fellows' cemetery in a section used long ago for Chinese
interment. Shown is C. D. Runner, city park employe,
removing macabre debris for disposal. The site was once
occupied by a sexton's shed. Lower: Chinese altar with
inscriptions on a marble plaque inserted- in the concrete
form. This monument, overgrown by brush, has not been
used for .pagan rites in recent years. . ... ; :
Century-old Cemetery
Improvement Starts
By BEN
City and county employes, a
seven-man crew now engaged
in fencing 100-year-old Odd
Fellows cemetery, have redls
covered a Chinese altar in the
Oriental section and a number
of funeral relics that they
promptly disposed of with 11
nality. :- . i '
: Most of the cemetery prop
erty passed out of lodge own
ership decades ago before per
petuity in care became an im
portant consideration. Lots
with 16 grave spaces were sold
for $20 each or at a cost of
$1.25 for each gravesite. Then
care of the 'cemetery was by
owners of lots. But that was
a half century or more ago.
Since then the cemetery has
been neglected and has be
come overgrown and seedy.
The current session of the leg
islature enacted a bill that en
ables the county and the city
to cooperate in improving ap
pearances within the cemetery
Interest Rates.
Pushing Up
New York W) The need for
more money to run the na
tion's industries and farms
grows. The cost of coming by
the money is pushing up again.
Interest rates on mortgages
feel the upward pressure. So
do bank loans to business and
agriculture.
Small-loan companies are
paying higher rates today to
borrow from banks so they
may get the money to lend to
buyers of autos and appliances.
Rates that brokers and deal
ers must pay for bank loans to
buy and carry corporate se
curities are up again.
The U.S. treasury is paying
more to borrow the money it
needs to meet the growing
deficit.
And corporations find they
must pay more interest on the
securities they sell the public
to finance plant extension or
to carry their business opera
tions. Escapee
Vancouver
the break and then drifted
north of Vancouver
He may be held for Washing
ton state penitentiary authori
ties, police said. Lind escaped
the Washington prison in Sep
tember, 1952. He was cap
tured and convicted of auto
theft in Oregon the same
month. .
Convicts who escaped Mon
day with Lind were - Charles
Smith,' 31; William P. V.
Smith, 36; Marcellus Winters,
28. and Ray Alan Barber, 19.
They were caught when their
commandeered car ran Into a
roadblock at Newberg 'bridge.
(Concluded on Pag 6, Column I)
Salem, Oregon,
CEMETERY REVEALS
MAXWELL
and that Is now being accom
plished by county and . city
employes.
. At nresent a fence Is under
construction along the north
side of the cemetery where an
area was dedicated to Chinese
interment. ' Removal of brush
(CtncMtd on Page I. Cblama f)
Nation's Income
Below Guesses
New York VP) Undersecre
tary of the Treasury Marion B.
Folsom said Thursday present
prospects are that the federal
government's Income this year
will be "substantially below"
the estimate made by former
President Truman.
If these prospects material
ize, he said, the new adminis
tration's problem of balancing
the budget will be made more
difficult. .
Judgment must be suspended
til the administration can de
termine how expenditures and
income will compare in the
next fiscal year, staring July
1, Folsom said.
Truman estimated receipts
for this fiscal year, ending on
June 30, at $68,700,000,000.
Folsom did not say, in a
speech before the special tax
conference of the National In
dustrial Conference board
here, by how much receipts
would fall under the estimate.
As for timing of tax cuts,
Folsom said the first reduction
must come in the excess profits'
tax now being levied on busi
ness concerns and in individ
ual income tax rates. He din
closed no specific recommen
dations in either of these cases.
Perle Prepares
For Coronation
London W) Perle Mesta,
America's full-of-bounce for
mer minister to Luxembourg,
flew into London Thursday to
start planning a "bang-up cor
onation party."
Draped In a gray mink stole
and flashing her most sociable
smile, the 61-year-old social
ite told reporters at London
airport "my coronation party
here on June 3 will be, I hope,
a big event." '
"I have arranged to stage It
at London famous old Lon
donderry House, where I will
invite about 90 people to din
ner and 120 to a dance after
wards," she added with enthu
siasm.
Mrs. Mesta first got the ilea
of going to Russia in conver
sation with Russia's new am
bassador to Belgium and Lux
embourg, Victor Ivanovich
Avilov, who asked her why
she didn't visit the Soviet
Union. The U.S. state depart
ment announced it would be
okay as far as it was concern'
ef for her to visit Russia as a
private citizen.
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Thursday, April 16, 1953
PAGAN ALTAR
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Vote to Kill
Rent Ceilings
Washington ) The House
Banking Committee Thursday
approved an administration
opposed bill by Chairman Wol-
cott R., Mich., to knock out rent
ceilings April 30 on about live
million housing units in 32
states. '
Committee members said the
vote, in a closed session, was
16 to 10.
Republicans were said to
have solidly backed Wolcott's
proposal despite pleas from the
Eisenhower administration for
an extension of general rent
controls until Oct. 1. ;
: Reo. Spence D.. Ky. former
chairman and senior Democrat
Itm the committee told a report
er 'it s another case of the
Democrats fighting tor the
President's programs against
the members of his own party,"
Wolcott, denying any sharp
dispute with the administra
tion, said he looked lor house
passage of bis bill early next
week. a
All wage, rent and price con
trol powers expire April 30 un
less extended. , . :
Hells Canyon
Bill Revised
Washington A revised
Hells Canyon bill was given
congress Thursday as advocates
of the controversial 400 million
dollar Snake River project re
newed their fight in its behalf.
Legislation which would
authorize the big power pro
ject was introduced by Sen.
Morse (Ind., Ore.) and by three
Democratic House members,
Reps. Pfost of Idaho, Don Mag
nuson of Washington and Met
calf of Montana.
Similar legislation intro
duced in the last session of
Congress provoked a storm of
controversy and the bill died
in tujM.mnec Hue iifuuhbs. i
runs headlong into proposals of
the privately owned Idaho
Power company to build a se
ries of low-level dams along
the stretch of the Snake River
which would be flooded by
Hells Canyon Dam.
Morse, in a 10,000-word
speech prepared for delivery
with introduction of the bill,
said new language in the pres
ent bill "makes it increasingly
difficult, if not impossible, for
opponents of the project, al
ready hard put to find fault, to
declare that the irrigation
structure of Idaho, present and
future, is endangered."
Scattered Showers
Says Weatherman
Rain was back in the weather
picture lor the valley again,
Thursday, a goodly amount of
It, too, A total of ,18 of an Inch
had fallen here In the 24-hour
period ending at 10:30 a.m.
Thursday, and the light show
ers continued throughout the
morning.
A weak storm moved Inland
from the ocean last night and
early today to bring the preel
pitatlon.
- The forecast for tonight and
Friday is for partly cloudy
skica and only scattered show
ers through the period. Tem
peratures are a bit warmer than
they have been the low In Sa
lem Thursday morning being
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Peme Waaiedjnd tUfer :
Allies to Reply
Friday on Red
Truce Offer
Munsan, Korea WV-The U,
N. command will tell the com
munists Friday whether it is
ready to resume the long-stalled
Korean armistice negotia
tions, and it Is expected to say
"yes."
The U.N. late Thursday
night asked lor a meeting to
deliver a letter answering re
peated Red requests to get the
talks under way again. Nego
tiations were Indefinitely sus
pended by the U.N. last Octo
ber 8.
The request came only '. a
few hours after the first group
of allied sick and wounded
from North Korea stockades
arrived at Kaeiong, just six
miles from freedom. .
50 BOW Non-Koreans
Communist stall officers
said hall of the first 100 POWs
to be exchanged Monday at
Pannrunjom are non-Koreans.
UJf. officials were hopeful as
many as 60 Americans will be
freed. The communists have
promised that 130 Americans
will be among 600 U.N. pris
oners returned. -
(Concluded on Pago 5, Cohmw S)
Indochina Reds
Saigon, Indochina CP) Fren
ch forces Thursday held back
their big fire power as the com
munist-led Vietmlnh poured
thousands more ot their beat
fighting men jnto the kingdom
o , Laos..The French- hope to
trap the enemy when its com
munication lines are over ex
tended. .-. ;...r .
The French hope eventually
to. bottle-up the Invaders of
the little mountain kingdom
by striking at a strategic point
with the full fire-power from
U. S. supplied guns, an Army
spokesman said. The Vietmlnh
continued their- campaign
against Laos without a major
clash.. ,. .
French and Laotian troops,
after pulling out of Samnuea,
are pushing through the jungle
and mountainous terrain to
reach Xiengkhouang, 200 miles
southwest of Hanoi, where
they are expected to make a
stubborn stand.
Malan Victor in
African Election
Pretoria, South Africa VP)
'Prime Minister Daniel Malan
won the South African elec
tions with possibly a doubled
majority lor his party in Par
liament. . "
Leading newspapers in op
position to the Prime Minister's
mpn nnllrim pflnmripil ha hurl
won Tuesday's polling. Thurs-
day night, Malan was forging
still farther ahead. At that
time returns gave his Nation
alists 54 seats, the United Party
49 and the Labor Party 4.
There were 48 results out
standing, and 39 of these are
in cast-iron Nationalist strong
holds.
Plans' Trap lor
Portland Housing Croup
Made Quick $500,000
Washington U. A house
appropriations committee In
vestigator asserted tonight that
the Portland, Ore., housing au
thority made a quick ssuo.ouo
profit on land turned over to
it at cost by the Federal Pub
lic Housing administration.
The report of the Investiga
tor, who was not identified,
was made public in a record of
a hearing on PHA appropria
tions before a house appropria
tions subcommittee.
Some 5,100 dwelling units
and 415 acres were Involved,
the report said.
"The Housing Authority re
alized a profit of over $500,000
on the Immediate resale of 72
acres," the report said.
The property sold, In the
"Guilds lake tract," was de-
scribed In the report as "one of ! around and within just a cou
the most desirable industrial Pie of days make $500,000 pro-
areas in Portland."
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Chinese Reds
Repulsed in
Night Charge
Seoul WV-Chinese Reds up
to 350 strong attacked Fork
Chop Ridge and another west
ern . outpost about mianignt
Thursday, fought into allied
trenches but were hurled back
by U.S. defenders early Fri
day in hand-to-hand lighting.
A front line division spokes-
an . said the communists
fousht their way Into the
trenches on Fork Chop just
before midnight.
. The light inside the Ameri
can trenches lasted only a lew
minutes- and the communists
withdrew Irom the hill a lew
minutes later, the spokesman
said. , v.;'
- Meanwhile, other commu
nists hit Outpost Arsenal, at
the base ol nearby T-Bone
Hill, but here too, they were
repulsed.
By 1 ajn., lighting on both
hill sectors , bad died down,
Eighth army headquarters re
ported. ,. , . . ''
Sabrejets Hit
5RedMia-15s
Seoul. Korea JJ0 American
Sahrs lets destroyed or dam
aged live communist uu
fighters today wnua prowcuna
TinitAd Nations liahter-bomb-
ers attacking communist posi
tions across the batueune.
The F-86 pilots shot down
two ol the Russian-built light
er nlanes and damaged three
In patrols over the eastern hall
of the Korean peninsula, The
Sabre usually oatrol MMi al
ley tn northwest Korea. The
MIO Villa were credited to
Cant- Joseph McCormell; Jft,
Apple Valley, Calif., and Col.
James K. Johnson of Phoenix,
Ariz. McConnell now has nine
MIGs destroyed and. Johnson
7. .... .
The fighter-bomber pilots
swiicnea uieir anacss inun
the communist road network
today to battlelino positions
because of the movement ol
three "freedom convoys" bear
U. N. prisoners to Kaesong.
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Shah Blocked
Phoenix. Iran W) Parlia
ment deputies opposing Pre
mier Mohammed Mossadegh
Thursday successfully blocked
a showdown move by the aged
Nationalist leader in his light
to deprive Iran's shah of con
trol of the armed forces.
Eight opposition deputies
left town, preventing the quor
um necessary for a meeting of
parliament's lower bouse Maj
lis at which Mossadegh had
planned to demand approval
for his bill to cut the shah's
power.
The opposition move also
knocked the wind out of a
massive demonstration Thurs
day morning supporting the
premier by some 20,000 per
sons, at least 5,000 of them
from the communist Tudeh.
From early morning, Teh
ran was keyed to a high pitch
of excitement as crowds con
verged on the Majlis square.
John Taylor ' Egan, PHA
commissioner, under question
ing by subcommittee members
tent ot congress to turn such
housing over to local govern
ments when they ask lor it.
"Under the law,' 'he said, "it
Is up to the housing authority
and the local people to make
the determination, and we can
not police that, once they make
the determination."
"But I was not aware," Sub
committee Chairman .John
Phillips (R Col.) replied, "that
congress authorized you or sug
gested to you that you com
pletely overlook all local con
ditions and Implications and
turn over to a community a
piece of property . . . permit
ting the community to turn
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Challenge Reds
To Disarm end
Outlaw A-Bomb
By MEKRIMAN SMITH
Washington UJD FraaMeat
Elsenhower challenged Bnasla's
new leaders today to prove
their will lor peace by ending
the Korean war, lifting the
Iron Curtain from - satellite
countries and Joining world
disarmament pact that wanli
ootlaw atomic weapons. -
He seized the diplomatic ini
tiative from the Communists in
a major foreign policy speech
listing specific "deeds" the
Russians can perform to dem
onstrate the sincerity of their -recent
peace talk. - ' -
He said the death of Soviet
Premier Josef Stalin has given
his Kremlin successors ' "a
precious " chance to turn the
black tide of events sweeping
the world toward atomic war,
but warned that "w do not yet
know" whether they mean to
do it. i -; -" -' -.!'
Jut Settlement '
Mr. Eisenhower interrupted
his golfing vacation at Augusta,
Ga., and flew here to deliver
the 3,500-word address before
the American Society of News
paper. Editors, He planned to
return to Augusta late this aft
ernoon. -i! L . - y . . '
Diplomatic circles hailed tha
speech as a "momentous" dec
laration ol the new admlnlstra-;.
tlon's readiness to negotiate a
just cold war settlement wtu
Russia. .'...v . .(-
(Contlnned on rage g, Cohoaa S).
Red UU Bloc
United Nations.. H. Y. O
The Soviet bloc withdrew It!
own controversial Korean pro
posals Thursday and joined tha
rest of the V, N. in an appeal
lor further talks at Panmiuv
jom. ', -'
The appeal expressed hope
these talks will lead to a Ko
rean armistice, , but made no
attempt to suggest settlement
terms. i ' V f.
The unanimous vote in the
UJf.'s 60-nation Political Com
mittee, believed to be the. first
on a Korean Issue,, was on a ,
Western-backed Brazilian' res-.
olutton. - - :-- .
Soviet support cams after-
Poland withdrew' an omnibus
Communist peace package
which included Korean armis
tice proposals.
Polish Foreign Minister
Stanislaw Skrzeszewskl told
the U.N.'s 60-natlon political
committee he was dropping
completely the section ot his
plan calling lor an immediate
cease-tire in Korea and would
not press for a vote on other
sections at this assembly sea. .
slon.
81 Rescued on
Burnino Vessel
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Los Angeles VP) All 81
members of a burning British
freighter were forced to taka
to lifeboats in the Pacific '
Thursday and later were saved
by an American vessel that re
sponded to an oua. t r
. Attempts were being made to
save the British vessel, Menet
theus, which was carrying a
general cargo from ue East
Coast to the Orient. ; :
The fire broke out in tha en
gine room and was still bum
ing five hours after it was re
ported, Coast Guard officials
said.
The American vessel Jtavalo)
Victory went to the rescue off
Magadela Bay in Baja Callfor
nia, 460 miles south of San Di
ego, Calif. In Los Angeles u
ship's agent, Funch, Edye and
Co., reported that everyone;
was rescued and there were no
injuries. ! .
Deportation Hearing ,
For Portland Unionist ;
Portland W A denortatioai
hearing will be held her May
12 for John J. Fougeroue, whs
has held a number ot offices la
the Fortiana longsnor loeeL. -He
is accused ot having beask
a member of the Communist
Party since his entry into thai
country 30 years ago. Ba wls
arrested in 1951, and has berg
free on bond since. The gov.
ernment said he is French n
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