THE WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY tonight,
Tuesday. Continued mild. Low
tonight, 43; high Tuesday, 70.
$400r000 for
Properties in
Capilol Mall
Legislature Allots
Funds for Extension,
Buying Church Lots
' By JAMES D. OLSON
A total of $400,000 has been
provided the state board of
control by the legislature for
acquiring .properties .in the
Capitol mall area bordered by
Capitol and Winter streets on
the east and west and from
Court street on the south to
Union street on the north.
The 1951 legislature ap
propriated $250,000 for the
same purpose, a sum that was
utilized by the board of con
trol in acquiring properties
owned by persons who desired
to sell.
The legislature has also
granted authority to the board
to exchange two pieces of prop
erty in the mall for a tract
of land owned by the First
Presbyterian church eater
corner from the present
church edifice.
To Appraise Values
The state-owned property
which the church seeks to ac
quire in order to expand its
church plant is located in the
west half of Block 82 and in
cludes houses at 388 N. Win
ter street and 884 Center
itreet.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 6)
Senate Votes
Colleqe Bill
The State Senate stayed In
session until 7 p.m. Saturday
to get rid of one big problem
the Board of Education's An
derson Report to expand the
college program.
This legislation, sent to the
governor, calls for installing
libera arts courses and high
school teacher training at the
colleges of education in Mon
mouth, La Grande and Ash
land. It also would put grade
teacher training in the Univer
' sity and Oregon State College.
That part of the plan was
approved 19 to 11. But the
part to expand Portland State
College harely squeezed
through by a 16-14 vote.
Portland State, now a two
year extension center offering
freshman and sophomore
courses, will become a four
year school. It will have full
liberal arts work, plus train
ing for grade and high school
teachers.
But it will remain an exten
sion center of the State System
of Higher Education, rather
than a degree-granting institu
tion. Lipman Deal
Seems Certain
Announcement by the Ge
vurtz Furniture Company that
it has received notice to vacate
the property at 275 North Lib
erty street by July 1 seems to
confirm rumors that the prop
erty, with other adjoining
property, has been acquired by
Lipman, Wolfe & Co., of Port
land. Other property involved in
the rumored transaction is that
on the southwest corner of the
intersection of North Liberty
and Chcmekcta and an area
along Chemeketa to North
Commercial.
The rumor was first circu
lated from Portland March 18,
and said Lipman, Wolfe intend
ed to build on the property and
establish a department store
here.
Sizeable Run of
Smelt in Sandy River
Portland (U.B A "sizeable"
run of smelt was reported in
the Sandy river today.
It was the latest appearance
of smelt in the stream in 24
years. During that time no
smelt have shown up later
than April 9.
State Policeman Darwin
Petrie said the run appeared
to be "sizeable" and Sandy
residents later confirmed the
report.
However, there was no fish'
ing today. State law prohibits
dipping smelt from the Sandy
between midnicht Sunday and
midnight Monday.
Veather Details
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iar, 41. Tnttl 24-hoar prrrlpllalfon:
e)i far month: .1). normal, l.itf. Sesvon
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Weather Darean)
65th
Legislative
Session Ends
5 p.m. Tuesday
If Date Kept Will
Be 100-Day Session;
Clean Up on Bills
By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR.
(Associated Press Correspondent)
The Oregon Legislature set
p.m. Tuesday as the target
date for ending the long, weary
session that would be 100 days
old if it ends that day.
Legislative leaders said Mon
day they are sure that adjourn
ment will come Tuesday, with
the windup possible some time
in the afternoon.
Both houses spent most of
Monday clearing up the odds
and ends, with the prospect that
by nightfall there wont be
much left to do except for each
house to consider the other
house's amendments, act on
conference committee reports,
and pass a few appropriations.
Building Program Passes
The building program, call
ing for $3,297,000 worth of
college and university buildings
was passed by the Senate Mon
day and sent to the governor.
This program calls for a new
dental school in Portland, jour
nalism building at Eugene,
chemical engineering building
at Corvallis, a wing on the state
hospital at Salem, a state re
formatory, a cottage for 100
mentally deficient children in
Salem, and other smaller proj
ects. Hospital Bill Beaten
Meanwhile, the House reject
ed 35-24 a motion by Dr. F. H.
Dammasch, Portland, to recall
from the Ways and Means
Committee his bill to provide
three million dollars to build
the proposed mental hospital in
Portland immediately.
(Concluded on Page t. Column E)
Melting Snow
To Raise Rivers
(Br The Associated Press)
. Oregon's balmy weather Is
expected to bring slight rises
in streams fed by snow fields,
Elmer Fisher, river forecaster
for the Portland Weather Bur
eau, said Monday.
Fisher said, however, that
the rises would be slow, since
little snow is left at lower ele
vations and much of the run
off will soak into the ground
before it reaches streams.
Sunny skies brought the tem
perature into the 70s in scat
tered sections of Oregon Sun
day. Highest reading reported
to the Weather Bureau was 77
reported 76, Pendleton 73 and
degrees at The Dalles. Ontario
Portland and Eugene 70.
The only frost Monday morn
ing was at Baker where the
temperature was 31.
Partly cloudy skies with
little temperature change is the
forecast through Tuesday.
Valley folk enjoyed almost
balmy weather Sunday and
Monday with prospect the mild
temperatures would continue
through Tuesday, although
some cloudiness is forecast.
Sunday's maximum temper
ature in Salem was 70 degrees
and a similar mark was due
Monday, also on Tuesday.
No rainfall was recorded for
the 24 hours ending at 10:30
a.m. Monday. The total for the
month is way behind, however,
only .39 of an inch being meas- justments" in the U. S. economy
ured against a normal of 1.63 but would not set off a dopres
for the period. sion.
McKay Criticized
For Days Dismissal
Washington VP) Pressure
from California duck hunters
and Alaska salmon packers
cost him his job as director of
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, says Albert M. Day.
Secretary of the Interior
McKay had no comment on
Day's remarks, voiced Sunday,
or on statements criticizing
Day's dismissal as politically
inspired.
The statements came from
Sen. Kefauver (D., Tenn.) and
Rachel Carson, who once
worked in Day's agency and,
now is a free lance writer best i
known for her books. "Under ,
the Sea Wind" and "The Sea
Around Us."
Kefauver referred to Dr. Al
len V. Astin's removal, since
postponed by Secretary of
Commerce Weeks, as director
!of the bureau of standards,
j "Apparently the lessons
of
Capital
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STEEL ARRIVES FOR CENTER STREET BRILt
Southern Pacific
To Hike Fares
Washington VPI Two major
railroad systems operating west
of Mississippi river Monday
were given permits to increase
their interstate passenger fares
by 10 per cent.
The authority, issued by the
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, went to the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad company, the
Southern Pacific company, and
their affiliated lines.
These roads were also au
thorized to increase their min
imum one-way ticket charge
from 15 to 20 cents.
Under the ICC order, the
railroads may invoke the
higher charges on five' days
notice to their patrons.
The higher fares are esti
mated to give the companies
about 3 million dollars a year
more revenue. The 10 per cent
jump raises coach fares from
2.5 to 2.75 cents per mile and
pullman fares from 3.5 to 3.85
Storms Leave
3000 Homeless
Columbus, Ga. (U.B Officials
today began the giant task of
rehabilitating more than 3,0011
homeless families and clearing
miles of rubble left by tor
nadoes that claimed 11 lives
in three southern states.
Hospitals here and in a score
of cities and towns of Alabama
and Arkansas were still jam
med with injured. The toll of
injured soared well over 400
and hundreds of others were
slightly hurt.
The vicious twisters Satur
day first struck in Arkansas,
where one was killed, and then
ranged through fjCentral Ala
bama, killing eight, before
lashing this metropolis in
which two more died.
The storms' final thrust with
100-mile-an-hour winds across
the Alabama line into a resi
dental section of this teeming
Army camp city left 2,100
homes uninhabitable and 552
others damaged, according to a
Red Cross count.
NO DEPRESSION SEEN
BY SECY. HUMPHREY
New York (U.R) Secretary of
the Treasury George M. Hum
phrey said today a Korean
armistice would bring "read
that ca.se have been lost on
Secretary McKay," Kefauver
said, adding that he believed
McKay was using the Fish anfl
Wildlife Service 'for political
purposes."
Day said that, when inform
ed last Thursday ho was being
replaced, he was told McKay
wanted to put men of his own
choice in all top policy Jobs.
Day said he was told he had
made some enemies.
After 35 years in his field,
seven as director of the; As he handed over his crc
agency, Day said he was ; dentials and the letter of re
bound to make some enemies. can for hi, prrdeccsor, George
Among sucn lie usiea aucx
hunters who want longer;
shooting periods and permis
sion to use bait, the latter ban
ned for 20 years, and salmon
packing groups in Alaska he
said were "disappointed" by
conservation measures to rc-
1 store war-dcpletcd salmon
fisheries.
Salem, Oregon,
Moore Drydock, sub-contractors for raising cast shore
spans of the old Center street bridge, received Initial steel
for the job Monday morning. The shore span of the bridge
shown in the background will be raised 11 Vi feet, the
center span about five feeet. Six men working under the
supervision of Jim McConville expect to accomplish the
job in about 60 working days. Heavier steel on a railroad
siding will be used to carry the "pony" span.
Cut $31 Million Off
Army Engineer Budget
Washington W) Revisions Jn
the Army Engineers' budget
have cut nearly 31 million dol
lars from Pacific Northwest
power projects, Rep. Ellsworth,
R., Ore., said Monday.
The revised budget proposal,
To Reorganize
Justice Bureau
Washington (ff) President
Eisenhower Monday sent Con
gress a reorganization plan for
the Justice Department. ,
It would make the deputy at
torney general second in com
mand at the department instead
of the solicitor general.
Additionally, the plan pro
vides for an acting attorney
general when the attorney gen
eral and deputy attorney gen
eral are absent.
It would authorize the attor
ney general to set down the
order in which assistant attor
neys general and the solicitor
general would take charge of
the department in these cir
cumstances. Raymond Davis
Treasury Aide
Washington OP) Secretary
of the Treasury Humphrey
Monday appointed Raymond
Davis of Seattle, Wash., as one
of his assistants.
Humphrey said Davis will
help Deputy Secretary W. Ran
dolph Burgcs, and Assistant
Secretary Andrew N. Overby
in supervising the Treasury's
savings bond program.
Davis was born in Midvale,
Utah. From 1936 to 1944 he
was comptroller of the Univer
sity of Washington. He was a
banker in Seattle and Renton,
Wash., from 1930 to 1936.
Davis, 53, was an insurance
company executive in Seattle
when he was brought here in
January by Secretary of the
Interior McKay as a special as
sistant. He has helped line up
new top personnel for the In
teior Department. The pay at
the Treasury will be the some,
$10,800 a year.
Bohlen Offers
Credentials
Moscow U.R U. S. Ambas
sador Charles E. Bohlen hand
ed his credentials to President
Klementi Voroshilov of the So
viet Union today and stated
that the guiding principle of
American foreign policy is
peace.
Bohlen rode in state from
the U. S. embassy to the Krem
lin to make his formal call on
j Voroshilov,
Kennan, Bohlen said:
"In its foreign policy the
government of the United
States is consistently guided by
the desire to contribute to the
cause of peace in the world,
enhance respect for interna
tional obligations and develop
friendly relations between all
countries."
Journal
Monday, An'oJig 76 Pages Price 5c
V9c .nV i
for -the year beginning July 1,
was sent to the House Appro-
by tne Budget bureau.
It earmarked $120,656,000
for' projects in Oregon and
Washington, Including Albenl
Falls in Idaho. The budget
sent to congress by former
President Truman had includ
ed $151,480,000 for the same
projects.
The revised budget contains
no funds for Ice Harbor lock
and dam on the lower Snake
river, or for Detroit dam in
Oregon, Ellsworth said he
was advised army engineers
have enough money to com
plete the Detroit project with
out the $1,275,000 which had
been asked. The Truman
budget had contained $4,900,-
000 for Ice Harbor.
Aside from those projects
deleted entirely, the biggest
slash among the northwest
projects was received by The
Dallas lock and dam on the
Columbia which was cut
back from $58,400,000 to $37,-
429,000.
Other Pacific northwest
items Truman budget request
in parentheses include:
Chief Joseph 25 million,
30 million. McNary lock and
dam $27,700,000, $28,185,
000; Lookout Point reservoir,
19 million, $20,375,000; Ama
zon Creek $245,000, $245,
000; Willamette river bank
protection, $330,000, $400,000;
Albeni Falls, $7,002,000, $7,
700,000, Business Shows
Gains in Profits
New York VP) A cheery
profits report card has been
handed in so far by American
business.
The first 79 companies to
issue earnings statements for
the first three months of this
year show tholr combined
profits after taxes running 13
per cent ahead of the same
period last year.
Two-thirds of the companies
did belter this year than last.
Of the 26 whose report cards
are poorer, three operated in
the red. Last year four of
them showed a net loss.
The period for which the
companies are reporting is the
one directly preceding the
start of the Kremlin's peace
hints. The effect on business
production and profits of the
peace talks is yet to be record
ed. And this year's good show
ing is in contrast to last year's
poor one. The first three
months of 1952 business prof
Its were trailing the 1951
first quarter by 9 per cent.
That 1951 first quarter, in
fact, marked the high point
of profits. From that quarter
until the third quarter of 1952
profits consistently fell be
low their marks of the pre
ceding year.
BANKER HUGHES
APPOINTED
Augusta, Ga. VP) President
Eisenhower Monday appointed
New York banker Roland R.
Hughes as assistant director of
the Budget Bureau. Hughes, 57
is vise president of the National
City Bank of New York,
WO Disabled Allied POW
'
Exchanged For 500 Reds
Dulles Veloes
Proposals for
Big 4 Meet
Secretary Says Such
Conferences Useful
After Way Prepared
Washington W Secretary
of State Dulles indicated Mon
day he opposes any idea of I
high-level Big Four conference
at this time to settle cold war
problems.
Dulles told a news confer
ence such meetings as a Big
Four conference are useful
only after tne way has been
prepared carefully. He added
so far no such preliminary pre
parations have taken place.
Dulles made known his views
on the subject after a reporter
noted Prime Minister Churchill
had said earlier Monday he
looked forward to possible high
level Big Four talks. He was
asked whether there was any
possibility of such a meeting
soon.
Armistice Comes First
Dulles considered the query
for a moment and then replied
he was not aware of any plan
for any such meeting. He vol
unteered his other comments
when the reporter asked
whether he believed such a
meeting could be useful.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 5)
Tall Fights for
Hi$ino Funds
Washington VP) Sen. Taft
(R Ohio) says he will fight
to restore money for the pub
lic housing program if the
house goes along with a com
mittee recommendation to
wipe it out,
. Taft, the senate republican
leader and one of the original
authors of the program, said
he favors making money avail
able for the construction of
35,000 low rent units in the
year beginning July 1, as re
quested in former President
Truman's budget,
He commented in an inter
view before leaving Washing
ton for Georgia, where he
went to play golf with Presi
dent Eisenhower.
The house appropriations
committee approved language
In a money bill forbidding the
public housing administration
from making any further
loans or contributions in the
program, claiming this would
save 795 million dollars.
Taft disputed this and other
savings the republican-controlled
house committee said
had been made in the Indepen
dent offices bill. The house
is due to act on the bill later
this week.
7 Britons Interned in
Korea Reach Moscow
Moscow, U.R) Seven Britons
Interned In North Korea since
1950 arrived today on the
Trans-Siberian express.
They we're ordered released
after the British and Soviet
Foreign Offices had exchanged
notes. The British had asked
the Soviet government to use
its good ofices to free the In-ternccs.
Crippled POW All Glad
To Return
At U. N. 121st Evacuation
Hospital, Yongdongpo, Korea
(U.R) The half-blind soldier ex
tended his hand from the
stretcher.
"Golly, chaplain," he said,
'I'm glad to be back."
Another of the 50 United
Nations soldiers who were re
turned by the Communists
Monday a Puerto Rican
commented, "You know, it's my
birthday today.
A South African flier who
had been In a Communist pris
on camp 15 months praised the
food the Allied prisoners were
served at Freedom Village. He
kept talking about the Ice
cream as though he nad been
dreaming of Ice cream for all
those months.
The disabled soldiers were
brought here from Munsan by
helicopter for a thorough
medical checkup, interrogation
Battleship
New Jersey
ShellsWonsan
Seoul, Korea U. The 45,-000-ton
U. S. battleship New
Jersey, a sister ship of the bat
tleship Missouri which re
peatedly has shelled the Won
san harbor installation, hit the
Red shore emplacements with
everything from her 16-inch to
her five-Inch guns.
On the ground the fighting
came to a new standstill as sick
and wounded prisoners of both
sides were exchanged at Pan
munjom. ,
The Wonsan harbor guns hit
the destroyer James Kyen Sun
day, tearing a large hole in the
ship's main deck. Minor cas
ualties were caused and one
crewman was "seriously"
wounded.
Unidentified planes bombed
and strafed Allied positions in
the Chorwon Valley on the
West-Central Front last night,
Eighth Army headquarters
said today.
Clark Talks on
Peace Outlook
Panmunjom (U.R) Gen. Mark
W. Clark, United Nations Far
East supreme commander, said
at nearby Munsan today the
chance for peace "looks more
encouraging than it has in the
past few months."
Clark 'emphasized, however,
he would "stay right in the
middle" rather than act prema
turely optomlstic. ,
Lt, Gen. William K. Harri
son, Clark's chief ox staff and
chief U. N. negotiator, express
ed similar feelings...... -
Both the V. N. and the Com-
unists agreed yesterday to re
new full-scale truce talks next
Saturday. The talks were brok
en off last October 8 when the
U. N. refused to repatriate pris
oners who did not want to re
turn to Communist control.
Marines Warn
On Atomic Bomb
Las Vegas, Nev. U.R Mar
ines who faced the latest atom
ic bomb test, many of them battle-hardened
veterans, said to
day that the A-bomb is the most
awesome weapon they have
seen and urged that U. S. cit
izens do not under estimate its
power.
S. Sgt. James Cody, 27, Clare-
more, Okla., declared alter
Saturday's explosion that he
had never seen "anything like
this In my life, not even in Ko
rea.
T. Sgt. David E. Williams, 28,
Columbus. Ga., veteran of Ko
rea and fighting In Guadacanal
jungles in World War II, also
had "never seen anything like
It."
They were part of a force of
2.200 Marines, about half of
them veterans of Korea and of
World War II, who witnessed
what may have been the most
powerful atomic device ever set
off inside the U. S. They were
in trenches 4,000 yards away.
to Freedom
by intelligence officers and
good night's rest. Hospital au
thorities said they would au
leave Tuesday for Japan, en
route to their homes.
Doctors and nurses were
surprised at the good physi
cal condition of most of the
men. There were only 10
stretcher cases. Most of the
others looked healthy at least
outwardly.
"It's a real contrast the
condition of those men down
in receiving who come from
the battle line and the condl
tion of the men up here in
this ward," said one nurse.
"It doesn't make sense, after
all these men have been
through."
Red Cross workers gave
home-mado cookies and candy
to the men who could take the
rich food. They passed around
cigarettes and the late maga
zlnei from the United States
FINA L
EDITION
30 American
GIs Included in
First of Swaps
Panmunjom, Korea WV--One
hundred disabled allied war
prisoners, some weeping si
lently, came down Freedom
Road today in an historic ex
change for 500 glum commu
nist sick and wounded of the
Korean war.
The trade, first clear break
in long-deadolcked truce talks,
could be the prelude to , an
armistice in the 34-month-old
war. The talks, suspended
last October, resume Satur
day.
The blue-clad allied prison
ers Included 30 Americans, 12 1
British, 50 South Koreans, 4
Turks and 1 each from Can- '
ada, South Africa, Greece and
the Philippines.
100 Return Tuesday
Another 100 return tomor
row, 35 Americans, 12 Birtish,
3 Turks and 50 South Ko
reans, the Reds said today. In
all, 605 allied sick and wound
ed .are being traded for 8,800
Reds.
Those crossing today appear-
cd to be In fair health and
well fed.
None mentioned unusually
harsh treatment in the North
Korean prison camps, where
some had been since 1950, the
first year of the war. But one
officer said treatment was
"unbelievably poor" before
the truce negotiations began.
then picked up materially.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column I)
Many Died in
Prison Camps!
Munsan, Korea, VP) A re
turned South Korean soldier
said Tuesday many of his com
rades died in North Korean
prison camps.
Skeptical South Korean of
ficials viewed the health of re
turnees and refused to believe
that all the prisoners were
treated as well as these.
One South Korean soldier
who lost an arm said he had
no medical care for a year. The
Koreans reported many cases
of malnutrition among the sick
and wounded the Reds gave
back.
One returnee, Choi Duk
Sung, 38, told a Republic of
Korea general: "I am only
sorry that many of our friends
have died in the Communist
prison camps." Then he burst
into tears.
They try to show that they
treat the prisoners well," one
ROK officer present said of the
Communists. "They have re
turned all those well looking
ones."
Another ROK officer added,
"they may have killed most
of the Allied prisoners or just
let them die."
Pacific Coast
Soldier Freed
Vancouver, Wash. WV-Mrs.
Esther Shaw was so overjoy
ed she could hardly speak Sun
day when the Associated Press
told her that her husband had
been released by the commu
nists in Korea.
M-Sgt. Robert W. . 44,
was the only man fro Pa
cific northwest area rnea
over to the U.N. command as
a sick or wounded prisoner
in Sunday's exchange.
Mrs. Shaw, who Saturday
had received four letters from
her husband, said she hadn't
known that he was ill.
She had been watching tele
vision reports of the exchange
when the Associated Press
phoned her with the news. She
said she had just about given
up hope, "but I was going to
stay up until I saw every
name."
The Shaws' 16-y e a r-old
daughter. Delia Mae, was with
her mother. She, too, was
almost speechless.
CABELL CONFIRMED
Washington W) The Senate
confirmed Monday President
Eisenhower's nomination of Lt.
Gen. Charles P. Cabell of the
Air Force to be deputy dlrec-
I tor of central intelligence.
V