THE WEATHER
CLEARING TONIGHT and fair ,
Friday. Little change is tern
peratore. Low tonight 41; kick
Friday, .
Nine Interim
Committees to
Make Studies
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: Highways, Taxation,
Retirement, Welfare
To Be Studied
By JAMES D. OLSON :
In addition to the usual ln
; terlm committees on taxation
and highways, the 1953 legis
lature authorized seven other
p. important committees for Inter
im studv of the retirement m-
tem, public assistance, amend
ment of the state constitution
; and other subjects.'
Supplementing federal social
security 10 me state retirement
plan was accomplished by the
rcwni legislature out u was
recognized, that in so doing
there were a number of com
plex Ing problems that could not
.UU.TW. HUllUg UIV SGN4WU.
Therefore a committee com
: posed of one senator, two rep-
. resentatives and two citizens to
; serve as advisory members was
authorized.
wiin me auty 01 swaying me
. viaur 1 rAtfrnmont evatom ns It
applies to employes of fire and
reer employes, aisaouity Dene-
: fits as well as the scale of wa
ges paid to public employes.
Welfare Listed
' niDiic assistance ooin ai me
state and county level will be
studied by legislative Interim
committee composed of two
'-" senators to be appointed by the
president ox uie senate mm
three representatives to be
house.
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Plane Crashes
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avi HniithnjHt Waohiniflnn af.
ter oeing ananaonea . oy ns,
crew, crashed about 25 miles'
south of here Thursday after
noon. . ..
The State Patrol said the
crew bailed out after the land
ing gear would' not lower. It
was described as a C-97 Stra
tofreighter. . Most of the crew, were re
ported to have parachuted in
the Tacoma area.. The Coast
Guard said it dispatched boats
for possible pick-ups of men
from Puget Sound, If necessary.
The crash scene was described
' as east of Chehalis.
The patrol said the plane had
crashed In the Hanaford Val
ley northeast of Chehalis.
Cut Funds for
Reclamation
Washington VP) Oregon and
Washington reclamation pro-
000 if congress accepts recom
mendations of the House Ap
propriate Committee.
The recommendations, sub
1 mitted to congress Thursday,
eliminated money requested for
' the Klamath Project on the
Oregon-California border and
pared requests which the bud
get of former President Tru
' man had contained for the Co
- dumbia Basin, and the Roza
and Kennewick divisions of
the Yakima project In Wash
ington. The Truman figures
hid totaled $27,146,000.
The committee report gave
no reason for the cuts except
In the case of the Roza division
where it eliminated $778,000
asked to begin work on a pow
er plant for pumping.
Plans in Making for
Memorial Day Event
Members of the Salem Fed
eration of Patriotic Orders at
a meeting held Wednesday
night at VFW hall made pre
liminary plans for the observ
ance ol Memorial Day here.
Ihe group voted to have a
parade this year, rain or shine,
tnd plans were made toT "
memorial service honoring
veterans and servicemen who
have died the past year, will
be held the evening of Sun
day, May 24, at one of the Sa
lem churches. i
Representatives of ladies
auxiliaries of the various vet
erans organizations will meet
m Wednesday night at the
vfvf hall at 8 o'clock to make
plant for a memorial service.
House Slams
Interior Dept's
Power Policy '
Competition With
Private Companies
Brings Budget Slash
Washington, W The Boose
Appropriations Committee said
Thursday the Interior Depart
ment should quit competing
with private enterprise In the
field of power.
To put force Into Its rec
ommendation, it asked the
House to cut the department's
budget for the fiscal year
1994 by slightly more than
one-third of the amount for
mer President Truman asked,
The , recommendation was
embodied in a bill carrying
$404,863,239 to run the de
partment for the year starting
July 1. This is $202,473,161
less than Truman requested in
January and $137,874,262 less
than the department received
this year.
Deep cuts were made in
funds requested for - trans
mission lines and power plants.
Lays Down Future Policies :
The committee laid down a
general policy for future guid
ance of the department. These
instructions could be elimi
nated or revised by the full
(Concluded on Fate a, Column 4)
Klamath Power
' Klamath' Falls VP) The
Bonneville, transmission line
from Redmond to - Klamath,
Falls on which the House Ap
propriations Committee Thurs
day directed an immediate
halt, already has been built
south 33 miles from Bend. '
The right-of-way for the rest
of the route has been obtained
and equipment such at trans
formers are now in storage
here and at Chiloauin.
' The other local project af
fected by the appropriations
cut-backs Is the Klamath re
clamation area on the Oregon-
California line. E. L. Stevens,
project manager, said some of
the new construction funds
all of which were eliminated
had been intended to make
some of the reclaimed land
available to homesteading. In
terior Secretary McKay some
weeks ago had directed that
this be done.
Lebanon Man
Pleads Guilty
Portland, VP) The second of
three defendants in the Indian
timberland fraud case pleaded
guilty Thursday, changing his
former plea. It was Fred M.
Marsh, Lebanon timber buyer,
who admitted his guilt.
Tuesday Clyde Flinn, ousted
Indian Service aide, had taken
the same step.
The only defendant still to
be tried is John C. Blanford, 57,
of Milwaukie, an employe of
Marsh.
Marsh, 54, entered his guilty
plea before Federal Judge
Claude McCollocb in a voice
that was barely audible.
All three men were indicted
on charges of giving false in
formation to the government
and with conspiring to defraud
in connection with purchase of
Indian-owned timberland.
House Group Slashes
Funds for Bonneville
Washington VP) The House
Appropriations Committee
Thursday recommended that
Congress appropriate $43,300,
000 for the Bonneville Power
Administration during the 12
months beginning Jul 1.
The figure is $19,300,000
below the amount recommend
ed in the budget sent to Con
gress by former President Tru
man. Bulk of the committee cut
came in construction items, re
duced $16,900,000. The re
maining $2,400,000 slash was
taken in operation and main
tenance. ' The committee report, sent
to Congress Thursday, express
ed concern "about the vigorous
efforts which have been put
forth by the Bonneville Pow
er Administration in . recent
years to sell its program and
its power anywhere that it
might conceivably build a
transmission line."
It said the committee "can
not read into the Bonneville
Act anything directing the ad
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Mystery Man
WorkedforFDR
Washington VP) Henry W.
Grunewald testified Thursday
he had conducted an Investiga
tion for the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt He re
fused to tell what it was about,
because . "I don't think the
President would want it done."
Grunewald, a 60-year-old
Washington mystery man who
had-Influential contacts in the
capital, also told a House ways
and means subcommittee -that
he:
1. Deposited almost $96,000
in 1949, all of which he said
was race track money.
2. Installed, an elaborate
$10,000 private telephone set
up in his Miami winter home
giving him direct communica
tion with various offices in
Washington.
- Grunewald volunteered the
Information about investigative
work for President Roosevelt
when he came under question
ing about the telephone Instal
lation. For Trial of Reds
' Seattle VP) Six men and
six women were sslected Wed
nesday for the jury which will
hear the trial of six mer and a
woman accused of conspiring
to advocate overthrow of the
government by force.
The last juror was the 77th
examined from the panel call
ed when the trial opened April
15. Four more will be seated
as alternates who will' serve If
a regular juror is incapacitated
during the trial which is ex
pected to last from three to six
months.
Government and defense at
torneys agreed on the final
juror after Federal Judge Wil
liam Lindberg had excused a
juror who had . been a target
of charges brought by John
Caughlan, an attorney repre
senting six of the defendants.
Mrs. Leona Whitchurch of
Everett was excused at - her
own request.
PLOWS CLEAR PASS
OF CELERY
Eugene, : Ore. Snow plows
were called out in Oregon s
Willamette Pass yesterday
but there wasn't any snow.
State police said a truck load
ed with celery overturned and
the snow plows were needed
to clear the celery from the
road.
ministration to build transmis
sion lines and related facilities
in a continuously expanding
area," and that it would "not
condone further efforts to ex
pand the geographical boun
daries in which the adminis
tration is operating."
Many of the cuts made in
the construction program, the
committee said, "were made
because of assurances from
non-federal power agencies
that they can and will build
faciliites in their respective
areas of operations."
Specifically deleted in the
committee's r e c ommendation
for construction funds were the
M c N a r y LaGrande, Snohomish-Kitsap
and Olympla-Ab-erdeen
No. 2 transmission lines
and proposed service in the
following areas: The Dalles
area, Southwest Oregon loop,
Quinault, Ilwaco-Long Beach,
Warden substation, Idaho pan
handle, Columbia Falls, Ice
Harbor Dam and the Valley
Way substation addition.
Salem, Oregon,
Orwaa
FREEDOM OPEN FOR
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tas
- This was the scene at Freedom Village near Munsan, '
Korea, during the second day's exchange of sick and
wounded prisoners of war as repatriated United Nations '
soldiers walk from ambulances to processing tents. , In .
front of each tent Is an arched sign "Welcome Gate To
Freedom." (A? Wirephoto)
Freed P0W Tell of
Torture and Epidemits
Freedom Village, Korea (UK)
Freed United 'Nations sol
diers told today - of fiendish
Communist tortures, of epi
demics that swept through pri
son camps and of an am
munition shortage on the West
ern Front V
Bishop Tells of
London 0J.B Dr. - Cecil
Cooper, Anglican bishop of Ko
rea recently released by the
Communists said today he took
part in a nine-day forced
march in North Korea with 700
American soldiers and 68 clvl
liana. The ,71-yejar-old , bishop tti(l)
a press conference that 9fl ot
tne war prisoners cuea on xne
march. - ... yJ
"That march was terrible)
There were some 705 Ameri
can GI's and something like 60
to 68 civilians, when we start
ed. Among the civilians was a
French priest over 80, several
others over 70, women and
children, while the Americans
were sick and wounded.
"The only food we had was
one ball of millet cereal in the
morning and another one in the
evening," the bishop said. ,
Nichols fo Head
Washington UJ9 Secretary
of Interior Douglas McKay
has picked Marvin C. "Nichols,
Ft. Worth, Tex.,, democrat
engineer, to head the U.S. rec
lamation bureau.
If his choice is approved by
President Eisenhower, as ex
pected, Nichols will replace
Michael W. Straus, ' who re
signed several weeks ago. Sen
ate confirmation is not requir
ed. Nichols, 56, Is a partner in
the consulting engineering
firm of Freese and Nichols,
which specializes in public
problems such as city water
systems. Former president of
the Texas Society of Profes
sional Engineers, he calls hlm
seld a "basically conservative
democrat" who voted for Mr.
Eisenhower last November.
Rent Controls
To End July 31
Washington VP) The house
Thursday passed a bill calling
for an end to the bulk of fed
eral rent controls on July 31.
The bill was passed by a
standing vote of 187 to 66
after the house trounced two
moves by a few democrats to
extend ceilings, to October 1,
and for one year.
Controls over some 5,600,
000 housing units in 32 states
will die April 30, one week
from today, unless extended
by congress.
The senate banking commit
tee has approved an extension
to October 1, but the senate
has not acted yet.
The compromise bill would
continue all present rent con
trols until July 31, to give
local governments time to re
place federal ceilings with lo
cal control if they wish.
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Thursday, April 23, 1953 A- J4 Pages Price 5e
REPATRIATES
2s
Tm s
A south Korean whose fin
gers rotted away while his
hands were tied behind him.
who was hung up by his heels
while his guards shook pepper
In his mouth and nostrils was
one who told his story.
Another South Korean, saw
1,000 men die in one camp. '
Woman Repatriated .
The first U. N. woman pri
soner repatriated, a South Ko
real Army cook, said the Chin
ese Reds beat her on two suc
cessive days with a steel stick
after her capture.
. Colombian Cpl. Osar Dur-
na, 20, told of the ammunition
shortage, speaking as one foot
soldier fighting from a bunker
against ovexwneunlng enemy
strength.
: Duma's unit was attached
to the U, S. Seventh Infantry
t ,The battle had teeii going on
vuvlston. . :.: : !
for 14 days, Durna said, when
one morning at 4 o'clock his
little group in a bunker started
running out of ammunition.
Position Overrun
"We ran out of ammunition
after a few hours," he said, ex
cept for a little which the Ut
ter bearers had,
Durna, wounded in the back,
leg and arm, was captured
ohen the position was over
run.
M. Sgt Kim Ka Sung of the
South Korean army told the
grimmest story yet of Com
munist, cruelty.
He held up his hands to show
only one thumb remaining. His
North Korean captors kept his
hands tied behind his back
with telephone wire for two
weeks, he said, until the fing
ers rotted away. A doctor am
putated eight fingers and one
thumb, he said, and dabbed
mercuro chrome on the stumps.
93Wet Backs
To Be Deported
Klamath Falls VP) Ninety-
three Mexican nationals were
in the county jail here Thurs
day morning as U.S. Immigra
tion service agents continued
their round-up ot illegal en
trants.
A special railroad car took
part of them south Thursday
morning. . In the past they
have gone to Portland for
processing but this year a
hearing agent came here to
check legality of their pres
ence in this country.
; Most ot them, called wet
backs because ot their habit of
swlmimng across the border,
were with , railroad work
gangs. 0
The current round-up has
been in two northern Califor
nia counties and Klamath,
Lake and Jackson counties of
Oregon.
Grand Jury Clears
Police in Shooting
Roseburg VP) Sheriff Cal
Balrd and 13 other police offi
cers were, in effect, absolved
of any blame In the Burgoyne
shooting after a three-day Dou
glas County Grand Jury inves
tigation. The jury completed its work
Wednesday without recom
mending that any action be
taken.
Sheriff Baird, who - earlier
promised a statement, said
Thursday he had changed his
mind and would make no comment.
U.N. to Charge
In POW Deal
Panmnnlom (U.F0 The Unit
ed Nations Command indicat
ed to day it may formally
charge the Communists with
cheating on their agreement
to reran all sick and wounded
Allied war prisoners.
V. N. officials gave high nrl-
orny luuay io we carexul as
sembling of all evidence of bad
faith by the Reds despite a
communist announcement that
more than 605 men originally
listed would be sent home.
An authoritative source said
United Nations protest oro-
bably will be made after offl.
cials have interviewed all re
turning prisoners.
Ambiguous Promise
The unexpected and ambig
uous communist announcement
that additional men will be re
turned was interpreted here to
apply principally to men re
cently, wounded and captured.
Allied officials said thev are
Inclined to believe, on evi
dence; suppl.ed by the early
exchanges, that a considerably
larger number of sick and
wounded men captured early
in the Korean war should be
coming back.
(Csnemded en Page I, Column )
United' Nations, N. (ft
The U. N. General Assembly
xnursaay voted overwhelming
ly for an Impartial ibvestiea-
tion of communist charges that
American troops waged germ
wanare in Korea.
The vote, 51-5 (Soviet bloc)
witn four abstentions came
immediately after the U. S. ac
cused Russia with "utterly and
completely iniquitous" be
havior for spreading the charg
es and called Soviet opposi
tion to the Investigation "re
prehensible In the extreme."
The tense atmosphere clear!
ed for a moment shortly after
wards as both Russia and the
U. S. joined in- support of a
Mexican resolution calling on
all countries to help Burma
get rid of 12,000 Chinese Na
tionalist guerrillas who have
been operating on her soil.
The vote was 59-0 with Na.
tlonalist China abstaining.
Fair Weather for
Friday Predicted
Fair weather is expected for
Friday, reports the weather
bureau, clearing due to start In
tonight.
Skies remained threatening
much of Thursday following .15
of an inch of rain measured in
the 24-hour period ending at
10:30 a.m.
Some high wind came with
the light rain through Wed
nesday and the night in west
ern Oregon, but temperatures
w comparatively miia. ..
Germ Charges
To Be Probed
r Westside Scores Again
With Industrial Shovi
The aggressive and pros
perous community ot West
Salem had its third annual In
dustrial Night Wednesday with
a dinner, display of its pro
ducts and some other very In
teresting features.
It was held at the West
Salem school and was attended
by 250 or more persons of
both the west and the east
sides.
Clyde Everett, manager of
Oregon Flax Textiles, was pro
gram chairman and master of
ceremonies at the banquet. He
gave the audience some signi
ficant figures.
The annual payroll on the
westside, said Everett, Is $2,
600,000, which is paid to 2,332
men and women who are em
ployed in factories and pack
ing plants of the community.
And the annual output of the
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5 Sabre jets
Score on 3
Red Mig 75s
Seoul (U.n MIG-kllllng
American Sabre jets scored
their first victories in five days
over the Red air force today
while South Korean raiders
slaughtered or wounded 100
Communists in their trenches.
The Sabres probably destroy
ed one MIG and damaged two
others in roaring dogfights only
five miles southeast of the
Communists' Yalu river sanctu
ary in Manchuria. ; .
Two pilots asked not to be
Identified. The third, 1st Lt.
George W, Jensen of Tacoma,
Wash,, got a damage claim.
: The South Koreans moved
silently Into the enemy tren
ches at four points, surprising
Chinese Communist units.
They killed or wounded 63
Chinese in two raids south of
Panmunjom and wrecked for
tifications with grenades and
satchel charges. , '
NATOWarned
By Eisenhower
Paris VP) U. S. Secretary ot
State John Foster Dulles said
Thursday night the NATO
Council of Ministers has -unanimously
agreed thai they
could not asume at the present
time there has been any change
In basic Soviet policy." - 1
Dulles' statement followed a
message from President Elsen
hower warning America's al
lies in the North Atlantic
Treaty Orsanlzatlon not to re
lax their rearmament effort
because of the, Soviet pea
campalgbi'?-6' W
Eisenhower said that "until
the conditions for a genuine
peace have been firmly estab
lished, it would be foolhardy
for us to delude ourselves about
the dangers confronting us.'
Action taken by the minis
ters on the first day of the
meeting underlined this atti
tude toward the Soviet Union.
The ministers signed contracts
for 550 million dollars for
planes to be turned out In Eu
ropean factories to bulwark
NATO's air arm.
Indonesia Reds
Push on
Hanoi, Indochina VP) A
communist spearhead pushing
down from the north reached
within 60 miles of the Royal
Laotian capital of Luangpra
bang Thursday. It ran into stiff
French-Laotian resistance at
Muongngoi in the Laos King-;
dom's mountain territory.
A French communique said
the communist-led Vietminh
was maintaining pressure at
Muongngoi but after repeated
attacks had failed to smash the
defending forces. The invading
column had pushed south from
DIenbienphu in the Thai moun
tain country, 180 miles from
Hanoi.
French and Laotian defend
ers clashed with a patrol of the
enemy on the Plalne des Jarres
in the heart of Laos, killing sev-
en of the invaders and captur-
ling one.
industries grosses $14,500,000,
he said.
The event was under the
sponsorship of the West Salem
Lions club. Exhibits numbered
26, and In addition the Salem
Police Department had an ex
hibit that featured such things
as weapons, traffic lights and
some samples of bogus checks,
and the state highway depart
ment showed models of Center
and Marlon street bridges.
There was a prize-drawing
event, presided over by Junior
Eckley of Blue Lake Packers,
in which 26 prizes were given
away.
Mayor Al ' Loucks, chief
speaker at the dinner attended
by about 150 persons, praised
the spirit of West Salem and
then Invited questions on city
problems "with no holds bar
red." (Concluded en fag l Cluma 4)
FINAL
GDITION
jSees Son:3fh:n3
Wrong in Sick
PW Treatment
' Washington VP) President
Eisenhower said Thursday ha
Is ready to do anything and
confer .anywhere .to .bring
about peace in Korea. '
The president told a news
conference, however, that lika
every one else he Is simply
waiting now to see how devel
opments go in Korea.
; His statements were in re
sponse to a question a to
whether he felt the chance
are good for a prompt true
in Korea.
' In reply to another question
the president said he has had
no reaction from the Kremlin
to the world peace and dis
armament plan he set forth
a week ago.
Studying FOW Exchange
He said the government 1
studying and - analyzing the
prisoner . exchange . situation,
and that obviously, from new
stories oi atrocities, something
is wrong. ---ii
He added that he a yet has
no full and complete report oa
tne matter ana so can't deter
mine - what the actual fact
are.
On other matter, the presi
dent: 1. Said he 1 confident de
fense spending will be cut for
the fiscal year starting July 1,
but that he 1 not ready to
estimate how much the sav
ings will be.
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CanBeTriood
Washington VP) President
Eisenhower said Thursday he
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wucvn we ucieuBe Dnarn cast
be cut but isn't prepared to say
yet by what amount
The chief executive also told
his news conference plan wiil
be sent to Congress .very soon
for reorganization of Defense
Department and the State De- '
partment Ha said these would
be in line with discussions ha
held earlier this morning with
congressional leaders and ad
ministration officials.
Sen. Taft R-, Ohio, told re
porters after the White House
meeting that there was general
discussion covering such pos
sibilities as:
1. Removing the Voice of
America and associated infor
mation programs from the
State Department and making
them an independent agency..
2. Transfer of the Point Four
aid program from the State De
partment to the Mutual Secur
ity Agency. This program aim
at spreading technical know
ledge to underdeveloped area
of the World. ; -
3. Reorganization in the De
fense Department to eliminate
certain boards and give these
responsibilities to civilian as
sistant secretaries. Taft : said
this Included the munition
board.
For Key Officers
Washington MV-The United
States will give training la
atomic warfare to key allied
officers in Europe starting
April 28, the Defense Depart
ment announced Thursday.
A statement from the head
quarters of Gen. Matthew B.
Rldgway, Supreme Allied com
mander, said that the courses
are designed to acquaint Allied
officers with the "use of atomic
weapons in tactical situations."
The brief announcement said
the courses will exclude any
information classified as "re
stricted" in the Atomic Energy
Act.
U. S. officers will conduct
the courses, which will be giv
en In the U. S. zone of Ger
many. I ti 1
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