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FINAL
EDITION
65rii Year No. 98
Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 24 1953
20 Pages Price 5c
Voters Asked
NATO Asks for
Quick Action
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Legislature Submits
Five Constitutional
Measures, One Bill
Br JAMES D. OLSON
Five proposed constitution
al amendments and . one
statute were passed by the 1853
legislature ana referred to the
voters to be considered at the
general election in November,
The 1951 legislature refer
red nine measures to the
voter and nine laws passed
by the . 1951 legislature were
uojected to the referendum,
thus making a lengthy ballot.
While it is likely that
some measures passed by the
laoi legislature will be ref
erred by petition to the
voters, it is not believed' that
the sum total of measures to
. be voted on at the next sen.
eral election will be as large
as in tne last general election.
More Signers Required
- One constitutional amend
ment wmcn tne voters are
asked to pass upon would
require that petitions for a
constitutional amendment must
contain the signatures of 10
per cent of the legal voters of
at least three of the four con
gressional districts in the state.
The legislature in an effort
to better protect real property
from any future state taxes on
real property passed a pro
posed measure writing into the
constitution the six mill tax
base approved by the voters at
the last election. This measure
has been referred to a vote of
the people. -.
Another ' proposed amend
ment to the constitution would
implement the reapportion
ment measure adopted by the
voters at the last election by
creating legislative districts
from which senators or rep
resentatives could be elected
(legislative Pay Up
Alter several hassles over
legislative pay, which resulted
(Concluded en Page 5, Column 4)
Europe
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West German Parlia
ment Defies Ade
nauer; Votes Delay
Paris VP) Spurred on by
the United States, the North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation
formally requested five of its
members to come to a quick
agreement with West Ger
many to create the proposed
European army. : ,
Even as the allied leaders
acted, the upper house of the
West German parliament de-
fled Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer and voted to postpone its
decision on whether to ratify
the army treaty which would
put half a million German sol
diers into the two million-man
one-uniform force. 1,1
However, Adenauer said the
main sections of the law do
not require approval by the
upper house. He said he would
go ahead and hand the treaties
to the West German president
lor nis signature, r
Ask Early Ratification
NATO's request for early
raimcauon came from the or
ganization's top . council . the
foreign,, defense and finance
ministers of the 14-member
nations, in a secret session Frl-
day. It was their first action
during the second dav of
three-day meeting here. .
(Concluded en Face 5, CoL 7)
Knighthood
i Lwe Their Jobs
New York W) . Attorney
uenerai Herbert Brownell pre
f;H Per cent of the Justice Dennrt-
menrs personnel oy next year,
f This would mean replace
' ment of about 12,000 of the de
i partment's 30.000 employes.
: y Brownell told the New York
v I City Bar Association Thursday
H- i night that personnel records
' ' V Bow are under study to get rid
;f ; 1 of "the dissidents, the dawdlers,
S ; ' the deadheads." -.
, , ' . Kei erring to personnel car-
j ; ' ,! ried over from the previous ad
fi, X ministration, he said a survey
I- i indicated that "we inherited
' ' more than out fair share of ddd
I ; characters, log-rollers and mis
t " 1 fits." .
., rl He also said offices of the 94
I federal district attorneys which
J t represent the department
M throughout the country and
V'i territories "must be staffed by
J ' men whose sympathies if not
' V I loyalties lie with the political
f'( philosophy of the Eisenhower
- ." administration."
RndWoman
Strangled
2 North Bend, Ore. VP) A
former Portland woman was
: found strangled on her hotel
room bed here early i riday.
She was Mrs. Ethel Gladys
Moore, 40.
Held for questioning was
Rmlnh Wlllard Plant. 37. Dis
Jj trie Attorney John J. Pickett
said- Plant told him the two
i had been living together at
Portland for the past two and
t i halt years, and came here
; April 11.
-.' The body was found and
t police called at 1:05 a.m. when
f Mrs. J. F. McKee, proprietor
of the Tourist Hotel, admitted
;, Plant to Mrs. Moore's room.
' He had called on her for help
'when-there was no response
to his knock.
. Dr. Carl Albertson said she
apparently had been stran-
, sled .and Coroner Brewer
.' Mill estimated death occurred
between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.
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JCt NEW FIRE TRUCK
y Mt. Angel Mount Angel
JIty Council purchased a new
ype light fir truck Tuesday
. rem the Nelson -Equipment
:o., Portland, after receiving
dds at special council meet-
ig Monday evening.
London VP) Queen Elizabeth
it Friday conferred a knight
hood on Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill and invested
him with the Insignia of the
order of the garter. The royal
nonors aa not affect his stand
ing in the House of Commons.
The young queen formally
touched the 78-year-old Prim
Minister on the shoulder with
a golden sword as he knelt be
fore .her at Windsor Castle Frl-
Ex-GI Christine
Stars on Stage
Hollywood U.R Christine
Jorgensen, the ex-GI who un
derwent surgery to become
woman . begins a nationwide
personal appearance tour here
May 8 to tell audiences about
'her own private life."
Christine will open at the
Orpheum theater In downtown
Los Angeles as the star of
variety-type, revenue, written
for her by top script wlrters
and song writers, in New York,
theater officials disclosed.
The officials said the 28
year-old ex-man and her
troupe have been In "secret'
rehearsals in New York "for
about three weeks." Part of
Christine's act will be to dis
cuss her private life, the offi-
aay night. . , . j tint rh.i..
Prom that moment canir-fttne, known s George before
able Sir Winston Churchill.'
knight of the garter, order of
meru, companion oi Honor, and
memoer oi parliament.
The order of the- carter.
founded by King Edward IH
in 1348. is the highest order of
British chivalry.
Headed by Queen Elizabeth
II, the order includes her hus
band, the Duke of Edinburgh.
ner uncles tne uuxe of Wind'
sor and the Duke of Glouces
ter, and 28 other members of
royalty and nobility.
Used Midget Radios
To Win af Gambling
Nuernberg, Germany W)
Three suave, middle-aged Ger
mans are. under arrest here
for cheating at cards with the
aid of midget radios concealed
under their expensive evening
clothes.
. Police said the men operat
ed in elite gambling houses
throughout West Germany
with phenomenal success, un
til the day they were caught
with their antennas down...
A sharp-eyed croupier at a
fashionable club here became
suspicious and called in police.
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17 on Saturday
undergoing surgery in Conen
hagen, Denmark, will receive
50 per cent of the box-office
take,, with a guarantee of $12,-
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Ike Presents
Plaque to Doug
Washington VP) President
Eisenhower presented Secre
tary of the Interior McKay
Thursday with a plaque citing
mm jor outstanding service to
physically handicapped.
The award was for what Mc
Kay did while - governor of
Oregon. He himself was seri
ously disabled in World War I
and spent most of a year in
hospitals. ' ,
The President's Committee
on Employment of the Physi
cally Handicapped witnessed
the ceremony in the President's
office.
Weather Details
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S7, St. Mai -aar TMlaltallon:
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BlTar tflrht, I let. (aapart kr U.S.
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May Queen at Willamette university for annual Mnv
week-end, May 1, 2 and 3, is Miss Dona Meats, center
above, senior from Roseburg. Her two princesses will be
Miss Marie Corner, at left, Bothell, Wash., and Miss Jane
Fooshee of San Leandro, Calif, at right. (Story on
Woman's Page)
Young S
alem Man Dies
In Cycle-Truck Crash
One young man was killed
and. another , was hospitalized
with both legs fractured and
possible head and internal in
juries Thursday when their
motorcycle crashed into the
side of an oil delivery truck
Washington (t A federal
grand Jury here Friday indict
ed Joe Adonis, once a blgtime
New Jersey gambler, on two
charges of perjury before the.
Senate Crime . Committee in
1950. ' '
Attorney General Brownell
announced the indictment. It
had two counts: - That Adonis
lied when he said (1) he was
born iniPassaic, N. J and (2)
that he was a citizen of the
United States.
Adonis is already in prison
at Trenton, N. J., after con
viction by the state on charges
of conspiracy to operate a
gambling house. Last Febru
ary Brownell announced that
the Immigration and Naturali
zation Service has issued a de-
ortatlon warrant against
Adonis, whose correct name is
Joseph Doto. ,
The government said he was
born in Italy.
on Boone road a half-mile west
of Sunnyslde road. '
Emmett Hoyt Henry,. 22, of
4780 Skyline road, was the
operator and fatality of the
ill-fated vehicle. His passen
ger, Leslie Gene Peterson, 19,
was treated by Salem Ambu
lance service attendants and
rushed to Salem General hos
pital where his condition was
reported as fair Friday.
The accident happened
about 3:50 p.m. as ' the west
bound Caldwell Oil company
tjuck was making a left (urn
into me. driveway at the Ack-
erson residence, 280 ' Boone
road, and was hit in the cor
ner of the truck tank fust be.
hind the cab by the eastbound
cycle. ..
(Continued an Pare s. Column f )
Faamnnjom (U J9 The com
mnnlsts return ed 41 Americans
today and promised 17 more
lor tomorrow as the United Na-
tlons proposed that the ex
change of all In r prisoners be
continued until the Koreas
war ends.' ;
Both sides nave now imwd
to deliver more nrlsonen than
tney iirst promised under the
current exchange agreement.
The U. N. Dronoaal tn
tinue the exchange for the du.
ration of the war will test the
trutn or falsity of the Commu.
nists' claim that they now mean
to return "nil" sick and wound.
ea prisoners in their hands.
Tell of Forced Marches
loose G.I.'s who passed
through Freedom Gate today
told of the death of more than
753 American! on forced
marches or in prison camps in
vria urea.
It brought to nearly 3,000
the total of U. N. nr lumen ra.
ported dead as the, result of
communist brutality. -
"About 1,200 Americans
started out on the march after
we were captured," said Marine
Pvt. Paul E, Clements, of In-:
dianapolis, Ind. "Close to 400
did not make it I heard other
Americans were killed.
"Death Valley" '
"There were 300 ta nn n .,.
in our march north." aM w
Ambro W. Vampran of Mauro
pas, La. "I would say 100 Amer
icans died of illnesses during
those early days."
(Canduded n Page $. Qehsmn I)
ul Publicity
For Interior
Five Salem Places Get
Liquor-by-Drink Okay
Applications of five Salem
establishments and one each
at McMlnnvllIe, Stayton, Mt
Angel and Lebanon, to sell li
quor oyuie arink, were ten
tatively approved bv the State
Liquor Control Commission
rnursday. They were:
In Salem. Senator Hotel Cnf.
fee Shop, The Ranch, Colonial
House, Shattuc's Chateau, and
Marion Hotel.
Brlggs Food & Drink. Me.
minnvuie; tm Gem, Stayton;
Hotel Cafe, Mt Angel; and
Uub Melody Lane. Lebanon.
The decision on when tn al
low liquor to be served bv the
drink in Oregon may come out
oi a meeting in Salem todav.
The Oregon Liquor Control
Commission will confer with
Gov. Patterson on whether to
allow already approved bars
to begin serving drinks May 4,
as originally scheduled, br
wait until June, when more
applications will have been
handled.
In a meeting in Portland
Thursday the commission gave
tentative approval to 202 ap
plicants. Thfc approval is ten
tative in that applicants also
must get approval from local
city councils.
The commission also eaied
its regulations on advertising
u mat piaces approved now
may use the words "bar" and
"barroom."
Still winder ban, however,
are these words: saloon, tap
room, club-room, club nrivt.
leges.
Television stations were told
they would have to set an.
proval on liquor advertising.
The commission removed a
regulation that not more than
10 per cent of an advertise
ment can relate to sale or con
sumption of alcoholic bever
ages.
The commission also decid
ed that pictures of women and
families would be all right In
liquor advertising, but contin
ued a prohibition against Pic
tures of a person drinking. It
will be all right though, to
show pictures of a person hold
ing a drink.-
(Concluded en Pag (, Column I)
Washington VP) The house
appropriations committee Fri
day proposed a cut of more
than 80 per cent below pres
ent levels in funds for infor
mation and editorial em
ployes in the Interior deoart-ment.
The committee wrote into
the bill to provide funds for
the year starting July 1 a
top limit of $100,000 on spend'
lng for all department infor
mation and editorial salaries,
including publications except
tnose of the National Park
Service.
' A department official In re
sponse to Inquiry said it was
estimated that about $503,000
is being spent this year on
such activities.
Partly Cloudy for
Week-end Forecast
Bright sunshine and blue
skies featured most of Friday
in Salem and the valley, but
the weather man had to damp
en the prospects by calling for
partly cloudy skies tonight and
Saturday.
No rain is in sight, however,
and temperatures are due to
remain comparatively mild.
The five-day forecast calls
for considerable sunshine
through next Wednesday and
temperatures to be slightly
above normal. If there la to be
precipitation it is to be light
in the valley.
Oppose Lower
Farm Supports
Washington VP) Chairman
Hope, R., Kan., of the House
Agriculture Committee has put
a damper on administration
proposals that Congress act
soon to lower farm price sup
ports. v
He told a meeting of the
Newspaper Farm Editors Asso
ciation Thursday night that
farm leaders in Congress have
no idea of changing a price
support law providing for high
level, rigid supports for major
from products through 1954.
Hope made this comment
after. Secretary of Agriculture
Benson had told the same
group demands for lower sup
ports are coming from "grass
roots" farm groups, particular
ly livestock feeders who have
suffered from recent sham
price declines.
Benson said It was not in
conceivable that Congress
mignt provide for lower sup
ports on 1954 crops.
Circus Aerialisf
Faints on Cable
ate lllr
In Hospital
WarstiipsWih
Duel With Red
Army T
Seoul tuo Four V. S. war
ships fought and won a thun
derous dual with communist
shore batteries in Wonsan har
bor Thursday to evacuate
wounded from an Allied-held
island at the harbor's entrance,
The navy, which rerjorted the
cuon today, said the U. &
warships defied a heavy - Red
shelling to cany out the- dar
ing mission. . ' , .
A fleet of carrier planes loin-
v me navai rules of the cruis
er Manchester and the destrov.
era Owen, Henderson and En-
person to suence tne enemy ar-
uuery. . . . . s
The navy cave no further
details of the action and did not
say wnetner any of the Ameri
can snips were tut in the furi
ous exchange..; .w'-.;.
United Nations fnmea UtmmA
back 14 separate communist
attacks on the battlefront today
in air ana ground actktna that
gave the U. S. its fifth double
ace of the war. .
Trapp
Washington m Twirling
unconscious in the air 50 feet
above the center ring at a cir
cus,, a pretty young aerialist
was rescued by a fellow per
former Thursday night. i
Kitty Oriol, 24 -year -old
member of an act billed as Les
Idols of Denmark, blacked out
while hangin? on the end of a
cable held In the teeth of Dave
Oriol who was supended by his
knees from trapeze.
' She was held by a harness
about her head and neck when
she slumped into unconscious
ness. As spectators shrieked, Ma
th las Coronai of a Czechoslo
vaks high wire troupe raced
to a small rope ladder.
He scaled the ladder, un
strapped Kitty and carried her
unconscious to the ground.
A physician for the circus
sponsored by the Shrine as a
benefit for children said Kit
ty apparently fainted from the
heat ,
Hong Kong A Chinese
newspaper . reported Friday
that Richard Apnleeate. for.
mer oaiem, ore., news resort.
er, was being held by Chinese
communists on Shameen Ta.
iana at canton. .
With him are DanaM nivnn
of International New. Karvii..
Capt. Ben Krasner and three
i-ninese who were seized on
Applegate's yawl, the Kert
shortly after thev- aet nil
from here March 21, the news
paper sing xao Jlh Pao said.
ine newspaper says it has
an underground , correspon
dent at Canton, who renorteit
mat Appiegate, formerly Unit
ed Perss correspondent in the
Far East, became Ul last week
and was moved to tChungshan
university nospl.al.
Freinds here said Annl
nad suffered several malaria
attacks before starting the trip
"'".. ii was to nave been
the start of a round-the-world
cruise.
The newsDaDer alto M h
three Americans were accused
Informally of esplonaVe. but
no action was being taken un
til Instructions are reoelveri
from Peiplng.
Applegate's parents live in
Medford.
ed Bandit
Kills Himself
St Louis (A One hanilM
shot and killed himself, two
others were wounded and a
policeman was shot in the head
here Friday In an attempted
One bandit,' trapped in the
bank with capture imminent,
shot and killed himself as po
lice poured tear gas into the
building, About 20 persons, in
cluding employes, took refuge
In the basement; '
One bandit, drivint the let.
wy, w( escapea uninjured,
Two of the other robbers 'were
wounded, one In tne harir mnA
another in the foot The ronrfl.
uon oi one was reported seri
ous. ..?v.'i..-f I,::;-
The ' robbera. were . aurnrlawt
by two' policemen,, who were
cruising within a : couple of
blocks Of .the Southweat hank
In the 2300 block of buav
South Kings highway in West
St Louis."- . ' tv1. wr -,-. ,',-:
The two Dolicemen were at
... t .
uie Dana; . minutes . after an
aiarm nad been sounded. :
Ped Menace
Heart of Laos
Hanoi, Indochina Vh Three
Red spearheads continued to
menace the heart of Laos Fri
day and the French estimated
that Communist China has
tripled her supplies to the war
machine of Vlet-minh rebels
led by Ho Chi Minh.
Gen. Raoul Salan. French
commander-in-chief, said he
believed the Chinese Commu
nists had stepped up their sup
ply or guns, shells, bullets, and
explosives from 1,000 tons a
month to 3,000. He said Red
Chinese technicians and advis
ors with Ho also have been
increased. These may now
number 8,000 to 10,000.
Four Airmen on
ransport
Crashed in Hills
Seattle, Two airmen ww
vlved a crash of a Florida
based transport slane am a
Cascade mountain ridge early
Thursday and two ware killed,
the Coast Oaaisl T ariai Vii.
day afternoon. - ti
The report was received hv
radio from four rescuers who
were lowered to the crash
scene by helicopter- .. .
-The identities of the iw.
vivors and victims were not
known immediately. The hell
copter was flying four stretch
er bearers to loin the three
para-medics and one "coast '
guardsman already - at - the
wreckage. i; , '
A truck also was being sent
up an old logging road to stet
aa close to the scene as pos
sible. . v;; ;
All From Florida , , "
Four civilian airmen were .
aboard the plane when it van
ished on a flight across the
mountains to Seattle early
Thursday to pick up soldiers
arriving home from the Far
East All four were Florida pi
lots tor tne airline, American
Air Transport, Ine. -
. The first report from a dvil
air' patrol search, plane told of
smoke rising from the scene.
Robert Nuber, search coordi
nator for the Washington
(Ceanlasid a page . Bahama I)
Plane Crashes
Af Sea, Killing 5
San tuego, Calif. ttV-JFive -
men were believed killed In the
crash of a navy plane just off
San Diego Thursday night The '
navy said Friday a 'grave and
a shoe were found among de
bris on the water.-
The .'glove was ' definitely
identified as belonging to -one
of the men on the two-engine
RD- transport Pacific -Fleet
Air; Headquarters reported.-
It, the shoe and several emp- -ty
life Jackets were found
among' wreckage debris -off
Point Lome, which jute out. at
the entrance of San Diego Bay. ,
- The plane was enroute from .
El Centra, Calif., to Alameda,
Calif., with a crew of three and '
two passengers.
There was no sign of the
plane itself, which apparently
went to the bottom while the
personnel gear of the occupaate
floated to tbe surface. '
Asks Grand Jury Probe
Of Use ol Prison Labor
State Democratic Chairman
noward Morgan asked Friday
for a Grand Jury investigation
of improper i use of convict
Moor at tne penitentiary.
ine cnarffe that nni,i.
laoor nao neen used Imnmn.,.
ly was first made two weeks
ago by Virgil O'Malley, dis-
niuuea prison warden.
"My party welcomes such
an investigation, and the deep
er it goes the better. We will
most certainly resist any at
tempt to conduct such an in
vestigation as a whitewash or
to hamstring it in anv iv."
Morgan said.
State Treasurer Sis tln.
der said in a speech in Leban
on Wednesday that prison
conditions are "more grave"
than the Board of Control
realized.
Morgan, asserting Unander's
statement "throws new light
on the personal tragedy of Vir
gil O'Malley," isld it shows
"how successfully the truth has
been hidden, even from hon
est men in a position to ob
serve if
Morgan said that Democrats
have been warning in the last
tnree legislatures that the pris
on trouble has been-caused by
the "incompetence and poli
tical intrigues of Prison Sunt
ueorge Alexander and his as
sociates in both parties.
"During that time Mr. Un-
ander has been an official of
the Oregon Prison Association
and head of the state's major
political party, yet his experi
ence shows - how successful
the truth has been hidden.
'His recent statement is a
tacit admission that the wrong
man was fired, and that the
demands of some of the lead
ing editors in the state for a
grand Jury investigation of
improper use of convict labor
are fully Justified." '..
London (f) A Salvation
Army commissioner, held pris
oner in North Korea for
years, said Friday communist
attempts to Indoctrinate Amer
ican GI prisoners backfired
when the dubious Yanks asked
too many embarrassing ques
tions of their captors.
commissioner Herbert Lord
said the North Koreans made
some ineffectual efforts tn in.
doctrinate American prisoner
wnn communist ideology. .
Because of his knowledge of
Korean, he was forced to trans
late the propaganda from Ko
rean and read it in English to
the prisoners. He said ha did
so poorly at impressing the
Americans that he was relieved
of his duties. .
"The Koreans told me I waa
a bad influence on the Ameri
cans." " ...
The propaganda said that one
could see the great benefits of
communism by looking about
in North Korea.
Out of Ammo
Blows up Red Dump
Seoul v-First Lt. Frank T.
Check of Seattle, flying a re
connaissance Shooting Star Jet,
blew up an ammunition dump
Friday even though his plane
is unarmed.
Check was flying reconnais
sance over a North Korean vll.
lage when one of his wlngtip
tanks developed mechanical
trouble. He dropped the tank
and it crashed through the roof
of a mud hut .,.- , .
The hut blew up with a great
roar. Check apparently had alt
a hidden ammunition dump,
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