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65th Year, No. 96
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Legislature
Ends Session
Vilh Surplus
Complexities in Tax
Structure Removed
By Set of New Laws
By JAMES D. OLSON
The 47th legislature wound
P its session In the black att
ar appropriating $196,790,-
' 306.23 from the g eneral fond
gainst' estimated revenues
earing the 1953-5S blennlom
of $19,127,46.06 . whleh
i would leave a surplus of $2,
117,639.83 at the end of the
lemtlnm.
This summary was announe.
.". ed Wednesday bv Carl Caver.
i chief clerk of the Joint ways
; and means committee, and
; marks the first ways and
i means financial report that
: did not report surpluses in one
fund and deficits In another.
"Tlx Packare"
Ht -in....... .1
ge" of numerous bills, based
on studies and recommenda
tion of an interim tax com'
mittee headed by Senator
Howard Belton, the complex!
; ties of "offsets In a property
reduction lund" were elim
inated by placing all income
tax revenues, both corporate
and personal taxes, into the
, general fund.
The budget covering state
department and activities de
... riving its support from the
- general fund and subject to
we e per cent Ilmltatoin of teh
states, as submitted by Gov
ernor Paul L.. Patterson, called
TAP B fatal AvnAnU.iH J
109,250,178.86, an amount
which was reduded by the
ways and means committee to
$107,818,642.14. The commit
tee, sustained by leelslatlve
action, also approved budgets
outside the 6 per cent limita
tion totaling $77,687,054.97.
(Concluded on Page 6. Column X)
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FINAL
COITION
Price 5c
Milk Rehearing
- The state supreme court
' Wednesday denied a petition
ex the state agriculture de
parture for a rehearing of the
Safeway Stores case against
the deprtment, with Justices
Hall S. Lusk and James T.
Brand dissenting. '
Some weeks ago the high
court handed down a decision
.In favor of Safeway Stores,
" holding that the milk market
ing division of the agricul
ture department could not
legally prevent Safeways from
purchasing raw milk in the
Salem " area, shipping such
milk to Portland for process
ing and returning it to the
Salem" area for sale and distribution.
Under the ruling of the su
preme court Safeway Stores
will be able to offer milk of
3.8 per cent butterfat to Sa
lem consumers in place of the
fluid milk of 3.5 per cent now
sold. No opinion was written
In the rehearing case, the
opinion being made orally.
The court also ordered the
Immediate discharge of Mar
tin Caswell Broom from the
state penitentiary on the
grounds that Broom has fully
served the only sentence ever
Imposed in a rape case.
Broom Instituted a habeas
corpus proceeding against
George Alexander, superin
tendent of the penitentiary.
' The question presented was
whether Broom could law-
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ing the decision of the appeal
from a decision of ' Circuit
Judge Rex Kimmell discharg
ing him in a habeas corpus
proceeding.
Justice James T. Brand,
who wrote the opinion, said
that "the Polk county circuit
court cannot vacate the sen
tence already served and can
not now Impose upon him any
ether sentence for that crime.
"Plaintiff Broom is entitled
to Immediate discharge from
custody)" the court ruled.
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School Bill.
Dies in Senate
" The Legislature's school dis
trict reorganization bill one
of the most important mea
sures of the session died in
the Senate Tuesday night.
The Senate, which wanted
school district consolidations
accomplished by majority vote,
was . deadlocked with the
House, which wanted to keep
the present system of letting
any district stay out of a con
solidation. ; - '
After three Senate -House
conference committees failed
to agree. Sen. Ben Day, Med-
ford, the strongest foe of forc
ing little districts into conoll
dations, moved to accept the
House change in the bill.
His motion was defeated 20
to 10, and the Senate then kill
ed the WLt.'VM'4',i?::
- Sen. Robert 0. Holmes, Gear-
hart, chairman of the Senate
Education Committee which
wrote the Senate version of the
bill, at the end pleaded for
killing the bill. - . r y.
Raps Zoning
Representative Harvey Wells, dean of the legislature ,
with 11 regular and four special sessions, and Rep. Henry
Semon, with 11 regular sessions to his credit, were given
the chairs they have occupied for many years as tin) 1933
session ended Tuesday night. Funds for the cost of the;
chairs came from the pockets of fellow legislators. From
left to right are Reps. Robert J.- Jensen and Richard F.
Deich with Harvey Wells whom they escorted to the front
of the house with his chair in the foreground. On the right
side are shown Rep. Semon and his chair and his escorts
Reps. Ed Geary and Alva Goodrich,' Speaker Rudie Wil
helm, Jr., Is shown behind the rostrum.
Weary Legislators A t
Last End 1953 Session
Weary but happy, Oregon's
legislators finished their 100
day session at 10:10 p.m. Tues
day night. :
The adjournment was order
ly,' with the closing minutes
Cain to Secure
Airport Rules
Eugene VP) The value of
federal airport zoning regula
tions was questioned at Tues
day's meeting of the Northwest
Airport Management Confer
ence here.
Joseph K. McLaughlin, di
rector of the Illinois depart
ment of aeronautics, said con
ditions carry at different air
ports and from day to day.
The solution is not in zoning
such as was recommended by
Gen. James Doolittle after a
series of crashes in the East,
he added.
Instead, McLaughlin said,'
airport management and adja
cent property owners should
try to straighten out their dif
ferences by discussion. That
will work 90 per cent of the
time, he said.
Washington W) t Former
Sen. Harry P. Cain's appoint
ment to the Subversive Acti
vities Control Board appeared
certain to win Senate confirm
ation after a committee hear
ing here Tuesday. :
The Washington Republican,
defeated for re-election to the
Senate last November, has
been named for a four-month
term on the five-member
board.
Washington's two Democatic
senators Henry Jackson, who
defeated Cain, and Warren G.
Magnuson told a reporter
they would not oppose Cain's
confirmation.
Two members of the judic
iary subcommittee which held
the hearing told Cain ' they
would vote for him. They were
Sens. Kefauver (D., Tenn.) and
J. M. Butler R., Md.
SEVENTH ARMY REBUILT
Washington VP) Robert Ste
vens, Secretary of the Army,
came back from a European
inspection trip Wednesday
with a report that the Seventh
Army there is being rebuilt to
normal strength.
Showers Forecast
Tonight, Thursday
The predicted rain came,
tatting In showers about mid
morning, Wednesday, in Salem.
; The forecast is for continued
cloudines and intermittent
tight rain through tonight and
Thursday.
However, rainfall for April
is behind schedule, only .39 of
an inch being recorded so far,
and the normal for the period
It 1.77 inches.
Option onMcNaryFarm
As Country Club Site
being given over to speeches
praising the fairness and com
petence of Senate President
Eugene E. Marsh and House
Speaker Rudie Welhelm Jr.
There was applause and
singing after passage of the ad
journment resolution. Then the
lawmakers went to a down
town hotel for a farewell party
given &y tii !hbvjirt..
'The Joint Ways nnd"Me&ns
Committee estimated Wednes
day the state would have a $2,-
337,639 surplus at the end of
the two-year budget period
which begins next July 1,
The Legislature appropriated
$196,790,306, and revenues for
the next blennium were esti
mated at $188,127,946.
Both houses operated at full
speed until the dinner hour,
and the evening sessions were
devoted to cleaning up the
odds and ends.
Theanti-plcketing bill, which
bans picketing of a firm unless
the union is the bargaining
agent, went through , both
houses.
So did the bill to appropriate
$230,000 to buy land for the
proposed mental hospital in
Portland. Portland legislators
made five attempts to boost the
appropriation to three million
dollars to permit immediate
construction, but all these ef
forts failed.
Legislative action also was
completed on the bill to make
state income tax exemptions
conform with the federal ex
emptions of $600 per person.
This will reduce taxes for par
ents of two or more children,
the blind, and persons over 65
years old.
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Allies Call for
Hew Meeting
Liaison Officers
Panmanjora, Korea (") The
V. N. command Wednesday
night called for a meeting with
communist liaison officers
Thursday, touching off specu
lation that the Allies might
again ask the Reds to return
more disabled captives.
The U. N. prisoners already
freed have told of many sick
and injured Americans and
other prisoners still in com
munist prison stockades.
, The : official announcement
said only that the meeting was
called "to discuss matters in
connection with the current re
patriation operations."
it More Americans
Tho session Is set for 10 a.m.
(3 p.m. Wednesday PST). an
hour after the Reds start turn
ing over 14 more Americans
and 88 other U. N. and South
Korean prisoners. The ex
change began Monday. ;
American and U. N. captives
in Japan on their way . home
neonesaay aaaea bitter new
accounts to the stories of death
In communist stockades and
on brutal marches. Associated
Press Correspondent Robert
Eunson said the figures add up
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(Concluded n Ttt t, Cohans I)
Dulles in Paris
For NATO Meet
Paris, Secretary of
auue . ijuiui foster, uulies ar
rived today f6r the" first North
Atlantic Treaty Council of
ministers meeting: since the
lied "peace" offensive besan.
The group's 11th meetins
opens here tomorrow with for
eign, defense and financial
experts of all 14 member na
tions attending.
Dulles arrived by plane from
wasnington at 9:30 a.m. with
Mutual Security Director Har
old Stassen, Secretary of the
Treasury George M. Humph
rey, Carl W. McCardle. assist
ant secretary of state for pub
lic afairs, and 'members of
uuiles' staff.
"We have great faith in
NATO," Dulles told reporters
after shaking hands with top
u. s. ana rrencn officials who
met his special plane. -
Although Dulles would not
answer questions on whether
the U. S. delegation was carry
ing specific proposals for the
conference, he said "perhaps
we have a few new Ideas on
how to make an even greater
success of trie meeting which
we will discuss with our col
leagues."
Over 1500 Amsricdn
Prisoners Said Brutally
CCilled in Red Prisons
Bridaes Cells
Fuii-rlea'ged
Tokyo () A slow-talking
sergeant from Oklahoma
said tonight American soldier
were -punched with bayonets.
clubbed, with rifle butts and
ten to cue" by their Commun-
Sabres Smash
SouthKorean
Points
Seoul UP) V. S. Sahru Into
flew double duty as flchteri
and bombers today as th 1SS.
mile battle line remained rela
tively quiet for the third
straight day.
The U. S. Fifth Air Force
said one group of Sabres swept
north to the Yalu River hunt
ing for Communist MIO lets
while modified Sabres smashed
a Red supply center on the
Haeju Peninsula In fighter-
bomber strikes. i
The fighter Sabres louilit
three high-altitude duels with
MIGs but made no claims of de
struction or damage, the Air
Force said. '
Marine Panther lets destroy.
ed 20 buildings and a heavy
weapon position northwest of
Suan. ,
Before dawn, B26 bombers
reported destruction of 77
trucks and a supply buildup
area five miles south of Won.
san, en Korea's east coast. Pi
lots said gasoline tanki went
up in a chain reaction of explo
sions . that,' lit the sky with
orange uameirry
Hi-
Living Cosfs
A group of Salem men has
taken an option on 140 acres
of the . scenic McNary farm,
"Fircone," north of Salem in
the hope of converting it into a
country club and golf course
for the people of the commu
nity. William S. Bell of Pasadena,
president of the American So
city of Golf Architects, and
designer of the Tamarisk
course at Palm Springs where
Ben Hogan is pro, will arrive
In Salem Thursday afternoon.
He will be here several days
in consultation and Is expected
to offer expert advice on what
can be done.
The announcement was
made by Chandler P. Brown
and Kenneth Potts, two of the
Interested persons.
They explained that plans
are tentative. The option has
been received from members
of the McNary family, and ten
tatively it is suggested that the
name of the club be McNary
Golf club. ,
No organization has been
perfected and no list of pro
spective members made. Brown
and Potts explained that mem
bership would not be exclusive.
"We want to make it a com
munity enterprise," they said.
"Further, we hope it will, if
the project goes ahead, have a
family appeal. Golf would not
be the only diversion. We hope
to have a pool, and a teen-age
dance hall with soft refresh
ment bar. A club such as we
have in mind could, we think,
be a social center for the peo
ple." The McNary residence on
the farm would not be the
clubhouse, according to plan.
A new clubhouse Is in the ten
tative plan, and an architect
has been consulted.
No figures have been reached
in the investigation. The gener
al financial plan is to establish
the cost of ground, golf course
and clubhouse, and from that
find out what the cost per
member will be.
Any subscription money re
ceived will be put in escrow,
so that it can be returned in
event the plan does not go
through.
The location is on North
River road about a mile north
of Kelzer.
Senate Group
OKs Kuykendall
Washington VP) The Senate
Commerce Committee unani
mously approved Jerome K.
Kuykendall for a five-year
term on the Federal Power
Commission.
Approval of the nomination,
which now goes to the Senate
for expected confirmation,
came after Kuykendall pledged
to put the "public interest"
first on all issues.
Kuykendall, now chairman
of the Washington State Pub
lic Service Commission,
pleased all members of the
Senate Commerce Committee
with his frank answers to their
controversial questions at a
public hearing on his appointment.
Chairman Tobey (R., N. H.),
at one point, told the 43-year-
old lawyer that he should be
"marked 100 per cent" on his
answers to touchy questions.
CARRICK LOW BIDDER '
Portland 0). John Carrick
of Albany was low of five bid
ders for construction of control
and oil houses at the Albany
substation, the Bonneville Pow
er administration reported to
day. Carrick bid (30,647 on one
schedule and $50,497 on a sec
ond schedule.
Crown to Build
$8 Million Plant
San Francisco VP) The
Crown Zellerbach Corp. con
templates an 8 million dollar
expansion program for the St
Helens Pulp and Paper Co.
plant at St. Helens, Ore., if it
is permitted to purchase the
company, James D. Zellerbach,
C-Z president, said here Tues
day. Zellerbach made his state
ment to the California Corpor
ations Commission In seeking
its approval of the purchase
through a stock exchange plan.
The plan Is opposed by a
group of stockholders, headed
by George H. Buckler, Port
land, Ore., contractor, under
the name of the "stockholders
committee to keep St. Helen's
independent."
Zellerbach explained that
tho stock exchange plan would
require that at least 80 per cent
of the St. Helens stock amount
ing $342,744, be exchanged for
Crown Zellerbach stock and
that the St. Helens board of di
rectors had agreed to the plan
and assured him that amount
could be delivered. The ex
change would be on the basis
of 1 share of Crown Zellerbach
to 1 18 shares of St Helens.
Edge Upward
wasnington Vn The gov
ernment reported Wednesday
insi living costs edged up
fractionally between mid-February
and mid-March. This
revised a three-month down
ward trend. ,
The bureau of labor statis
tics said its consumer price
inaex rose two-tenths ef one
per cent ever the month. This
brought the index to 113.6.
ine inaex uses aversae
prices of 1847-49 as a base of
100.
The living cost level Is nres-
ently only about one-half of
one per cent off the record
established last November
when the index was 114.3,
District Attorney
Holds Against Vote
Holding of an election to de
termine whether the Fairfield
area will be annexed to the
Woodburn rural fire protection
district will not be necessary,
District Attorney Kenneth
Brown has informed the county
court
The district attorney pointed
out that it appears that most of
the residents of the Fairfield
district are opposed to the an
nexation and that the holding
oz an election was not practical.
1st captors on bitter 13-day
march through North Korea In
subzero cold.
' "I saw men that looked like
they couldn't go any farther
shoved over embankments and
left Uj die," said Sgt Odie Law
ley of Medicine Park, Okla.
"Lots of men , just dropped
while they were walking. The
Communists shoved them off
theioad and left them to die."
Associated Press Correspon
dent Robert Eunson reported
from Munsan that a prelimin
ary check of atrocity stories In
dicates more than 1,800 prison
ers perished on brutal death
marches and In Red prison
camps. -, ," ; : ' . ' i
Another young American re
leased from Communist acti
vity' Monday at Punmunjom
said Chinese Red guards haul
ed away to a labor camp, beat
up and once bayoneted Amer
ican prisoners who defied Red
rule. ' -i,
But, said CpL Donald K.
LeGay of Leominlster, Mass.,
prisoners who went along with
the . Communist line, "got a
Utile better treatment"
"We called them the No.
boys," Jie added wryly at a
news conference at Tokyo
Army hospital. He said about
"23 to30 men" In his company
of 220 men got special treat
ment :'::'; -';-' -
Odie, who is suffering from
malnutrition and other ail
ments, : told newsmen, "So
many men died of sickness at
the camps I was in that I. don't
have any Idea bow many died.
There was so many died I lost
all track of It ; ,
"We had five or six men
tried to escape but they caught
'em.- They, never got very far.
They brought 'em back and
kept 'em in what we called
Turnip Dugout away -from
the rest of us. They had to do
extra duty extra work. They
wouldn't allow us to see em.
Investigation
Released POW
Not Free Yet
Tokyo V- Some of the
American prisoners returned
by the communists still have
not achieved real freedom.
The gay, bright city of Tok
yo is completely beyond their
reach. .' ... t
An officer at a hospital
where 33 of the 63 repatriated
Americans are confined ex
plained: - i; . . . ' n
"Until they are completely
processed, they are 'held: in
communicado." .. ', y
Can the returned prisoners
get a 24-hour pass if they feel
well enough to see the cltyT
"Not a chance," he answer
ed. -
Col. James B. Stapleton of
Do than, Ala., hospital com
mander, said the men are un
dergoing physical examination
"from the top of their heads to
the tips of their toes."
"They are being examined
by specialists of all kinds .
It will be several days before
such examinations are com
pleted." '
Washington VP) Chairmu.
Bridges - (B.-N.H.) sammantd
top state and defense efflelaJsi
to the eapitol Wednesday far a
roll fledged Senate Appropri
ations Committee Investigation
ef atrocities against U.S. pris
oners fat Korea.
Bridges asked Gen. 'Walter
Bedell , Smith, undersecretary
of state, to appear with top ad
visers at 2:30 p.m. (EST), and
top ranking defense officials to
come in an hour later. . - '
: Bridges said the officials
would be questioned at a closed
session.
"We want to get all the infer.
matlon they have about the
Red atrocities against U.S. and
U.N, prisoners, all the back
ground we can get on such
treatment and what they are
doing about it now," Bridges
told reporters.
(OsBdaded ea rage . Osl 7)
Test Vote on '
Oil Lands Bill -
Washington UP) Majority
Leader Taft (R-Ohlo) told the
Senate Wednesday he will
move to force a test vote Wed
nesday night on state-va-fed-
eral ownership of offshore sub
merged lands.
Taft said he will make a no
tion, not subject to debate, to
"lay on the table" theSAitder-
son (D-NM) substitute provld
4 riff 4ft 4ttAmval .Nitnl.tuMu
"t -.ti-. """inreupaiw
of off-shore m leases.. ,
The republican senate leader
predicted a 20-vote margin in
favor ef sidetracking the fed
eral control proposal. Opnon-
cum uu uv, UilUUW HUM. DUE
said their debate will continue
on the bill "to give states own
ership of off-shore lands within
their boundaries.
The senate is in its 18th day
of the submerged lands debate
and Taft has been trvinf to mt
action Instead of talk. The lis-
enhower administration la
backing the state cwnenhin
plan, '
Critics flapped
Notting Hill Str angler
Confesses Murders
Vfeather Details
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London VP) A government
prosecutor said Wednesday that
John Christie had confessed
strangling his wife "to put her
to sleep" and to struggles with
three other women whose bo
dies were found in Christie's
house of murder on London't
drab Notting Hill.
Christie, 33, a mild-mannered
clerk, blinked through his
horn-rimmed spectacles as Pro
secutor John F. Claxton dis
closed in a courtroom for the
first time Christie's own ac
count of what took place in
the apartment whose walls and
floor hid the bodies of four
women. Remains of two oth
ers, still unidentified, were
unearthed in the garden behind
the house.
Christie is charged with the
murder of the four found in
the apartment. He was arrested
March 31 in the climax to' a
man hunt that rivalled the
search for the dread Jack the
Ripper.
Claxton gave a picture of a
sex-crazed killer who gassed or
half-strangled his victims be
fore hiding their bodies.
Claxton said the prisoner
confessed killing his wife, Ethel
Christie, on Deo. 14, but de
clared the three other women
died in struggles after they had
picked quarrels with him. Mrs.
Christie's body was found un
der the floor.
The bodies of three other
women were walled up in an
alcove. They were Hectorina
MacLennan, Kathleen Maloney
and Rita Nelson all in their
mid-thirties and well known in
Notting Hill night spots. All
three bodies showed evidence
of sexual Intercourse, .
London (ft Prime Minister
Church ill Wednesday heatedly
slapped down Laborite critics
who accused him of -letting the
United States call all the turn
in dealing with the Soviet woo
ing of the West. '
TM 78-year-old Bremler In.
dlgnantly refuted Socialist op
position. ' Insinuations in the -House
of Commons that he waa
taking a back seat in the last-
West developments and declar
"I do not think, looking back
over a long period in peace
and war, I have ever, so far
as I bad anything to say In the
matters, been willing to accept
complete Initiative from the
United States."
Churchill emphasized, how
ever, "I am most anxious to
work with them and It is vital
to the survival of the free
world that we should."
Churchill has already voiced
his "resolute and wholeheart
ed" support of the peace plan
put forward by President El
senhower. Korean Casualties
Now Total 133,787
Washington (U.B American
battle casualties in Korea now
total 133,787, an Increase of
324 since last week's report,
the defense department said
today. , 1 . ;
The . casualties include 23,
737 dead, 97,118 wounded, 2,
363 captured, 9,186 missing
and 1.3B4 previously massing
and returned to military con
trol. There was no' change
from last week in the last cate
gory. . . ! i
BPA CHEMAWA CONTRACT
Portland QUO Bonneville
Power admin tstrationbaa
awarded a 392,418 contract for
construction of the control
house and oil house at Chema-
substation to Charles B.
Schmledeskamp of Portlsnd.
t.