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Grab Lost in
Senate 19-11
Effort of Multnomah
County to Pass log
rolling' Bill Fails
By JAMES D. OLSON
n enort to transfer the
power for placement of state
Institutions from the voters to
the legislature Wfl tnnnrll.
feated In the senate Friday by
The vote came on motion hv
Senator Ben Dav nf Marlfn,.1 income tax nittxiifimantt moria
that the minority report, rec- y at least two members of the
ommendine nassaen nt fh hin commission and svamiiwH hv
uc suusiuutea ior the majority tne tniru even though he does
tyun wmcn cauea lor defeat no1 concur in tne decision,
Q7 Baton u mim tltm :.
65th Year, No,
FINAL
EDITION
To Lift Veil
Of Secrecy
On Tax Cuts
Senate Group OKs
Publicity on Income
Settlements
The blanket of secrecr oh In
come tax settlements made by
ine state tax commission would
be lifted in a bill approved
Friday by the senate committee
on assessments and taxation.
Under the terms of the bill
information on reductions in
Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 17, 1953
PRESIDENT ADDDRESSES PRESS
Price 5c
of the measure.
Lamport Leads Fight
Senator Fred Lamport,
chairman of the senate com
mittee on public welfare and
ijiuiHuuuui, ueciarea mat pass'
would be made available to the
governor who in turn would
be free to make the informa
tion public.
Approval of the bill was urg
ed by Governor Paul L. Patter-
age of the bill, which referred S0I. who declared:
ine constitutional change to
ine next election, would bring
about log-rolling in the legis
lature. He declared that under
ine constitutional provision re
stricting establishment of state
institutions to Marion county,
ume5s ine voters decree other-
Wise, no new institution has
peen established in Marion
county since 1908, when the
constitutional restriction
adopted by the voters.
Senators Day and Lonergan,
both of whom were on the
minority , report, contended
that the bill was long overdue
Approved by Governor
'Secrecy is the hand maiden
of suspicion."
The governor declared that
because of- the many rumors
heard throughout the state con
cerning tax settlements, pas
sage of the bill would be in the
interest of the state tax com
mission itself.
'During the past year or year
and one-half" the governor
said there has been a growth of
suspicion on tax assessments
and under the present law
there is no way in which to
17 "" '
i p C . v
House Repasses
Welfare Bill
and denied that the nuroose eitner Prove or. disprove such
oi ine Dm was to move the rcJ'ur-
capitol away from Marion (Concluded on Pare . Column 5)
county,
Senator Day said that he did
not know of any group better
qualified to make decisions on
placement of state institutions
than the state legislature.
Would Move Capitol
Senator Jack Bain, however,
said that the ranltnl chnnlft ha
moved to Portland. The bill opening up state
"The onlv mistake that was welfare rolls to public Inspec-
made when the old capitol tlon amended to prevent radio
building burned down was that
the capitol wasn't moved to
Portland," Bain said.
Other Multnomah senators
quickly repudiated their fel
low senator, insisting that it
was not the purpose of the
legislation to do this.
(Concluded on Fare 5, Column I)
as well as newspapers from
publishing the lists, was re
passed 44-13 by the Oregon
House of Representatives and
sent to the Senate.
Already approved by both
Houses, the bill was recalled
I from the governor's office be
cause Attorney General Robert
IY. Thornton ruled the original
measure discriminated against
newspapers by applying the
ban on publishing the names
to them, without applying it to
I radio.
The new amendment bans
any form of publication, but
The Legislature's Joint Ways some House members still
and Means Committee, which claim it violates fredom of
passes on all bills appropriat- the press. They object that
N.W. Gas Firms
Plan Merger
Seattle VP) Gas firms now
serving nine cities in the Paci
fic Northwest would be merg
ed under plans revealed Thurs
day by Stewart Matthews and
Sanford Berry, gas company
presidents, in Seattle. ,
Under the merger plans filed
with the Securities and Ex
change Commisison, Matthews'
cascade natural Gas Co..
would take over the Northwest
Cities Gas Co.. which Berry
heads. Also embraced in the
proposed deal would.be the
Bremerton, Wenatchee an
Bellingham gas companies
which Matthews also heads.
Matthews said the consolida
tion would effect savings and
strengthen the financial posi
tion of the companies involved
The Northwest company now
serves Walla Walla, Yakima
and Clarkston in Washington,
Lewiston, Idaho, and Pendle
ton and Eugene, Ore,
president Eisenhower (arrow) receives a standing
uvauuu uuiu uieinaera oi ine American society of News
paper editors in Washington. The President told the
group mat .Russia's leader can prove their will for peace
vr cuuuig uic iwreaa war... ur reiepnoioj
Washington VP) The Fed
eral Power Commision has call
ed a six-week recess in a hear
ing on applications to pipe
natural gas to the Pacific
Northwest.
Ways-Means
Finishes Work
ing money, cleaned up its work
Thursday night.
The committee killed, 7 to 5,
a proposal to have a legislative
analyst, who- would check on
spending and operations of
g t a t e departments between
legislative sessions.
Other action by the commit
tee:
Recommended an interim
committee to report to the 1955
session on whether the state's
money- collecting agencies
should be combined into a
the bill, which bans publica
tion of public records, might
set a bad precedent for the
future.
Clawson Fired
By Sec. McKay
Washington VP) Marion
Clawson, who challenged the
State Department of Revenue ' ecre ary of the
under the governor. ........... ... .... ......
Approved a 53,828,542 DM-1 .
t tha -tota ntnilcnliiru mmiHBCmcill, 19 UI1UCT
romnared with the reauest bv formal dismissal notice.
the1 prison for $4,542,932. War- McKay served the notice
den Clarence T. Gladden was Thursday and gave Clawson
ouotcd as saying the appropria- five days to show cause why it
Hon would he bie enoueh to do should not become effective
h. uinH of lob the nublic April 30.
wanis clawson, wno said ne beuev-
Gave the parole board $459,- ea ms JOO was proieciea Dy
una nr S5B.000 more than the civil service but knew he could
toard asked. The increase will not frce McKay to retain him,
v. used to hire more Darole 5a'a was noi surprised ai
ffirprs. as the hoard is about "e development, tie wunneio
further comment.
and House Speaker Rudie Wil-
helm, Jr. said they think the
session will run into next week.
They had considered holding
800 cases behind
ADDroved $7,309,300 for the
state hospital, or $800,000 less
than the hospital asked.
Weather Forecast
Shows Little Change
The weather outlook for the
next five-day period is for lit
tle change from present con
ditionssome light showers,
slightly above normal temper
atures and cloudiness.
was measured in Salem for the f Sunday meeting only if the
r.u.::.:rinrfina.f i nan legislature could finish its
r. " work on that dav.
Partly cloudy skie, and scat- The house killed, 11 to 25, a
....I. LI , .h. nrrior for senate bill to ban billboards on
tonlRht and Saturday here, so newly constructed main high-
. .... .u I., 37 on ways.
lar mis momi w. .,, ,nlrnHll.j nn
half of the Oregon Roadside
Council, the bill would have
wiped out virtually all bill
boards outside cities.
But it had been watered
down so much that some rep
resentatives didn't think It was
worth passing.
The outdoor advertising In
dustry lobbied hard against the
Housing Costs
Washington (IP) The House
Appropriations Committee Fri
day ordered a halt to the gov
ernment's low -rent housing
program as it cut deeply Into
the 1954 budget requests of 23
federal agencies.
Its action, if sustained by
Congress, also would start get
ing the government govern
ment out of the mortgage and
housing business by ordering
it to dispose of home mort
gages it now holds and to re
fund local housing bonds held
by the Public Housing Admin
istration.
By committee arithmetic 61
per cent or $721,423,697 was
lopped from original Truman
budget estimates of $1,172,-
444,190 but some Democrats
described much of the cut as
"phoney."
In the same category was a
large part of an additional $1,
945,472,000 the committee
claimed would pour into the
Treasury as a result of its recommendations,
REFUGEES IN HONG KONG
Hong Kong VP) Forty-three
refugees, mostly white Rus
sians, arrived Thursday night
from Communist China. All
were former residents of
Shanghai.
Dulles Tells Effect
ection
Of Russian Rei
. Washington VP) Secretary
of State Dulles said it wlU be
necessary "to move ahead on
all fronta" with the defense
buildup unless Russia responds
promptly- to President Eisen
hower's peace proposals. '
Talking with reporters ait-
Chiang at Fault
United Nations, N. Y. UP)
Burma laid a mass of evidence
before the UJJ. Friday to back
up Charges that Nationalist
China not only controls 12,000
guerrillas inside Burma but is
supplying them with American
arms. ; .
Burma's chief delegate Jus
tice Myint Thein presented his
case in a 10,000-word speech
before the 60 nation Political
Committee and demanded that
the government of Generallis-
simo Chiang "Ks'-Shekbe con
demned as aggressors. ' - -
He hit hard at Nationalist
China's claim that the guerrilla
forces were independently di
rected by Gen. LI Mi and were
not under the control of the
Taipeh government -, Myint
Thein quoted statements from
other Nationalist officials con
tradicting this. I
One of these - was ; Patrick
Soong, charge d'affaires at the
Chinese Nationalist Embassy in
Bangkok.
er addressing a closed session
of the senate foreign relations
committee, " Dulles was asked
the effects of the president's
address Thursday to the Amer
ican Society of Newspaper
editors.
Dulles responded:
'It created a situation where
it is obvious that unless there
is a very prompt response
from the Soviet Union in a
great many respects it will
be quite apparent it la neces
sary to move ahead on all
fronts, East and West, to de
velop a stronfc position."
borne of the senators Quoted
Dulles as telling the commit
tee were are "reasonable pros-
Embassy Gives
Ike's Address
To (he Kremlin
Chiefs of the U. S.
Missions Abroad
Deliver Texts
Washlnrton U.PJ The United
States embassy in Moscow has
delivered President Eisenhow
er'! speech to the Kremlin and
stressed it is a "serious con
structive effort" toward achiev
ing world peace, the State De
partment announced today.
In an unusual, and perhaos
unprecedented action, chiefs of
all U. S. missions abroad also
were instructed to hand texts
or the speech to foreign min
isters in 70-odd countries and
to empnasize that it presents a
way toward peace and stability.
vaoinei meets
This government was throw
ing all its diplomatic and pro-
puganas lorces oenind Mr. El
senhower's "peace offensive."
Mr. Elsenhower, himself.
was recovering in Augusta, Ga.,
from an attack of food pois
oning he suffered yesterday.
But at his direction, the cab
inet met here without him and
thrashed over ideas and Plans
ior marshalling the free .world
behind his program. - -
The Voice of America sent
the President's words around
the globe in 45 languages to
the Soviet Union, its satellites,
and to free nations.
(Concluded cn Page 5, Column 3)
Ike Suffering
Food Poisoning
Ga.
' Augusta,
VP) President
pects" for an agreement with Eisenhower came down Thurs-
Western European nations for
substantial Increases in the
day with "a slight case of food
poisoning" but an aide said
fense forces,
' After another
pmrance fTiaay. Dulles was
quoted as sayine that "nolh.
ing in United States policy con-
rciupiaies a - irusieesnip over
rormosa,'
Abandon Plans to
Hold Sunday Session
Plans to hold a session Sun-1 bill, and some legislators feel
day afternoon collapsed as Sen- the bill would restrict free en-
ate President Eugene . Marsh terprlse.
inch of rain has been meas
ured, against a normal of .37
for the period.
Weather Details
Milan mi"'". Ml I"1""
I., aimlh. Jill nurro.l. Id-." J
rlslUllaa. M rml.
i'lrtl. 4 .t ft- ?'
WwlhH Bum
pre
lum
A bill sent by the house to
the governor would let the De
partment of Agriculture force
landowners to eliminate rag
weed, a prime cause of hay
fever. '
Another bill which the house
sent to the governor would pre
vent doctors, chiropractors, and
other healers from practicing
while they are appealing from
suspension or revocation of
their licenses. This is aimed
at alleged abortionists who
have kept In business while ap
pealing from loss of their li
censes. Some 50 appointive state of
ficials will get salary boosts
under a bill passed by the
Loggers' Wage
Hike Rejected
Portland HP) Employers
rejected the CIO Woodworkers'
latest move Thursday, a mo
tion to submit their wage dis
pute to the American Arbitra
tion Association.
A. F. Hartung, union presi
dent, argued the union was en
titled to a 12 -cent hourly pay
increase, asserting that corpor
ate profits have gone up 100
per cent while woodworkers
wages have risen only 36 per
cent.
The employers said only that
they were willing to renew the
present contract.
The eight employer groups
represented in the session hire
23,000 of the union's 45,000
members in five Northwest
states.
size and quality of their de. there was no cause for alarm.
ine auacic developed early
capitol ap- m ,nB mornln8 oelore Eisen-
Dulles was ugusia oy piane
.ur ms loreign poucy speech in
Washington and an informal
talk at Salisbury, N. C.
The president went to yA
shortly after he,xeturned here
Thursday night. His nhvslclan.
Dr. Howard Snyder, said El
senhower was fcelintf "not no
not."
The president himself told
newsmen he was feeling "pret
ty good" as he steeped off his
plane and headed for his vapb-
Wsahlnfftin cm tion headquarters at the Au.
Eisenhower Frlrloir r,nmi.,i gusta National Golf Club. ....
out. us ppearea weary and
usuess alter a strenuous 12.
hour day.
Ike Nominates
SRedMIGs
Shot Down
By Sabre jets
Seoul mU. S. Sabre let
puou snot down lour Commu
nist MIG Jets and probably de
stroyed another Frldav whili.
Allied ' fighter bombers plas
tered nea positions on the Ko
rean Front.
Capt Manuel J. Fernandez.
Jr., Miami, Fla., one of the five
U. S. double aces of the Kore
an War, bagged his 11th MIG.
It brought him within one of
equalling the score of CoL Roy
al M. Baker, McKinney, Tex,
the world's leading jet act.
Fernandez also Is credited
with one MIG probably de
stroyed and one damaged. "
On the ground, the Chinese
Reds hurled 1.000 men aeainat
live west Korean hills, overran
part of one key height, then
Resurapfion ;
Of Armistice
Agreed Upon
Allies and Reds Hold
Liaison Meeting
Sunday on Truce ; '
Manias. Korea W) Ti
United Nations and Comma.
ntet Friday agreed to hold a
liaison meeting Sunday to dis
cuss resumption of the lone
suspended Korean Armistice
talks.
' The ' agreement came less
than 15 hours after the U. N.
told the Reds It was readv
to reopen , the talks, providing
the Reds do no stalling on the
lines in the face of lavage al
lied counterattacks,
Troops of the U. 8. 7th Di
vision defended four of the five
outposts.
U.S. Destroyer
change . of prisoners the last
big obstacle to an armistice. ,
The U. N. had asked for the
liaison meeting Saturday to
work out details for startln. '
the new talks. The Reds, how
ever, suggested 11 ajn. Sunday
(8 p.m. PST Saturday), The
U. N. agreed. ...
Technical Details , .
Allied spokesmen said th
liaison groups probably would
do little more than discuss tht
technical details of resuming
full-scale armistice talks. -
(Caneloded en Page fc Column 4)
POW Happy on
Tokyo (OB Disabled Allied
prisoners of war slated tor ex
change at . Panmunlom next
Monday are' "hilariously hap
py" about returning home, a
Communist correspondent said
a Chicago manufacturer, Ed
mund F. Mansure, to head the
General Services Administra
tion. .
This is ' the "housekeeping'
agency which has charge of
government buildings and does
a lot Of government buvins.
Elsenhower also sent to the
Senate the nomination of Nor
man Ross Abrams of Philadel
phia to be assistant post master
general.
Gromyko Called
Bark fo Russia
London U.B Soviet Ambas
sador Anrirpf firnmvVn la lu.
luansure would succeed jm m i-oniio 4 iurncn.... j
Larson as GSA administrator. Jacob Malik probably will suc
Larson resiened sonn nftrr th .uat v.i .,,ii...u.u...
, r , I ....., auMiviiiauvc suurces
usciuiuwer administration said today.
took office. Gromvko nnlrl ri .oil-
Eisenhower also sent to the
... , ,, . . i j .....iiQict
oenuie ine nomination OX two Winstnn rhiirh11
caJ?e5 uPlomals lor Pt to handling the foreign office dur
whlch they were appointed by ing Foreign Secretary Anthony
President Truman in recess ap- Eden's lllnpa. nH ivrini.t0.
P0...UHC11W. state Eelwvn Llovd.
They are George Wadsworth The
of New York, ambassador to Georgi Zarubln, the Soviet am
Czechoslovakla, and Jack K. bassador to Washington, also
McFall of Washington, D. C, may be replaced.
minister to Finland.
BA Contracts to
Total $4 Million
Portland OP) The Bonne
ville administration Is about
ready to place an order for
more than four million dollars
worth of transmission line.
It will be aluminum line,
reinforced by steel, with a
dirmeter of 1.6 Inches. It will
go into the Bonneville grid.
including the ll.ies of McNary-
Ross, Chief Joseph-Snohomish-
Kitsap line.
All told, there will be
enough of It for 1,358 miles
of power line.
The apparent low bid was
$4,078,784 from the Aluminum
Company of America, with de
livery at Vancouver, Wash.,
where Alcoa has a plant
Officials said they would
need further study, however,
to determine whether a $4,
339,068 bid from Reynolds
Metals company, Louisville,
Ky,, might be lower when
freight rates are considered.
The RpvnnlHi hlri ttrnt nn ftn
house and tent to the governor. f.o.b. destination basil.
Heifetz Slugged
In Jerusalem
Jerusalem VP) An unidenti
fied assailant slugged Violin
ist Jascha Heifetz with an iron
bar early Friday, injuring his
right hand. It appeared he
might have to cancel the re
mainder of his recital series
here.
uromyko Is the second
among Russia's leading ambas
sadors to be recalled since Pre
mier Georgi Malenkov took
over the leadership of the So
viet Union following the death
of Josef Stalin.
Washington VP) Enemy
guns scored one direct hit on
the destroyer . Maddox off Ko
rea Thursday, wounding one
seaman critically and causing
minor damage to. the ship, the
navy announced.
The navy man was identified
Seaman Frank Nick Cetl-
do, Des Moines, Iowa.
The navy said Friday at
least two North Korean batter
ies fired 156 rounds at. the
Maddox in Wonsan harbor off
the Korean east coast.
A single shell hit the de
stroyer on the main deck.
portslde, but damage was "not today.
serious," the navy reported, Alan Winnington of th
communist London Dailv
worxer, said be watched the
Allied prisoners arrive at
"collecting point" all day long.
ne cua not say where the col.
Iectlng point was,' but it nre-
sumably was Kaesong, the Red
truce camp six miles north oi
Moscow UJ Alt ! Fanmuulom.
newspapers published promt- niianousiy nappy
nently today, and with tinpre- ' ',em8 on thelr way homo
ceaented speed, a report of muu wonaering u au
President Eisenhower'! foreign "." Winnington said in
policy speech. dispatch broadcast by Pel
The report was published in Pm tamo. He laid a "bar
this morning's newspaper! Jn I handful' of the prisoner! are
the form of an official news Matched cases and the rest
agency disnateh with a Nw can get around
York dateline quoting the ' Most are suffering ailment!
speech and , giving a running "ng from wounds or frost-
commentary on It. Moskow u"e wuicn occurred at tna
radio also broadcast the Turn I time of their capture.
A very large part of the
repatriates have quite minor
aisaouiues."
Ike's Speech in
Soviet Papers
dispatch for foreign newspa
pers. .
The president devoted the
major part oi his speech to a
justification of American for
eign policy, . including arma
ments and the North Atlantic
pact, blaming the Soviet Un
ion for the existing situation,"
the Tass dispatch said. "But he
did not give any facts to sup
port inn.
2 More Sf ales Ratify
Education Compact
Two more states. Idaho and
Wyoming, have ratified the
western state compact for high
er education, according to word
received at the state capitol
Friday.
In doing so, these states have
associated with Oregon. Ari
zona, Colorado, Montana. New
Mexico and Utah In planning
ior tne training of doctors
dentists, vetcrlnarles and pub
lie health personnel living in
these states that have no
schools ofcring programs in
these fields.
Property Destroyed
By Youthful Vandals
Younff pnnrilrfnfp tnr ilol
Heifetz was struck shortly Institutional rnre urn rnitalncf
-- i. - I . . I , . - n
" fiayea a sonata oy cny authorities no end of trou-
German Composer Richard ble in Salem parks by destruc-
auauu. oiaruss- music U Un- tion OI nubl e nronertv
welcome In Israel, because of Twice this week all windows
tne nazi oan on works bv have been lennrknri nut nt ...
lewi. of the rest rooms in nnh Pn.
onorny alter the attack on
Heifetz, an anonymous caller
phoned the- Voice of Israel
radio station and said the
slugging was carried out by
nanorar Halvri Hebrew youth
movement. The caller said
ture Park, and other devil
ment has been dona In the
same park and others in Salem.
Thursday morning all the
windows were foui;d knocked
out. They wen. replaced dur-
Helfetz had better get out of Ing the day. Frldav nlafit thev
Israel or the attack would be were crashed out again,
repeated. Hanoar Halvri is And that Isn't all. All the
reported to be an Illegal, ex- mirrors were broken, toilet
tremist, nationalist organize- bowls were filled with rnrkn.
tion. toilet seats Wfri hrnWl.n lnnca
The Israel Philharmonic or- from the floor and th tanka
chestra, under whose auspices dismantled. i
the Jewish-American artist Is Light bulbs were shattered,
touring Israel, issued a state- walls defaced with obscenities.
ment condemning the "cow- and trash icattcrcd about the
ardly act." floori. And. of course, there
were the Inevitable beer bot
tles. In other parts of the
park outdoor fireplaces were
overturned.
There is evidence that the
vandals enter the park in
cars, and fencing li now con
templated so cars can't get In.
Similar depredations have
occurred In Marion Square
ana otner places.
City authorities are consid
ering the kind of legal action
tc be used on the vandals if
they are caught.
"What will be done with
them is, of course, a matter
for the courts to decide," was
one comment today. "But It
looks like they need lntsitu
tional care Jail or the peni
tentiary If they are old enough,
the State Boyi School or the
home for mental defectives It
they are juveniles. It looks
like the work of morons." i
7 American
POW to Be Free
Washington VP) Russia has
notified the United States that
North Korean authorities "are
taking measures to release"
stven American civilians seiz
ed nearly three years ago at
the outbreak of hostilities.
The state department said
North Korean authorities also
have sent wore1 through Rus
sia that three other Ameri
cana, including a Catholic bis
hop, are dead and three others
missing. ,
The Russian foreign office
gave this information to Jacob
Beam, . American embassy
minister, Thursday. Beam had
asked Moscow two weeks ago
to use its good offices in help
ing obtain the release of all
13 Americans believed held by
North Korean authorities.
Press Officer Michael Mc
Dermott told a news confer
ence the details and date of
release have not been worked
out yet. Moscow has promis
ed to keep the embassy in
formed.
French Retreat
In Indochina
Saigon, Indochina VP) Some
3,000 to 4,000 French and Lao
tian troops fleeing over
mountain trails in the kingdom
of Laos to escape a strong pur
suing force of the communist
led Vietmlnh were reported
nearlng the safety of a strong
ly defended area.
The retreating column wu
marching single file from th
town of Samneua, 108 mllea
southwest of -Hanoi, to Laos
new key defense post of
Xlengkhouang, 84 air mi lea
south of Samneua but many
more by the tortuous, densely
jungled land route. . :
The town b main outpost
on a road leading to Luangprm
bang, r