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THE WEATHER
M08TLT CLOCDT tonight,
Sunday, with a few showers
Sunday afternoon. Little
hang e la temperature. Low ta
ught, 45; high Sunday, It.
1953 Session
Hot One of
filler Debate
I Assembly Not Spec
ks tacular, but Impres-
sive Work Done
, By JAMES D. OL80N
! While it was - renerally
: greed that the majority of
; members of the 1953 legisla-
tare pot in more hours of com-
j. minee . worn ana were more
- serious in doing it than had
,any similar body of men in
I past sessions, there was a
J marked lack of spectacular
-;aeDaunr on the floor.
cor the most part there was
harmony and lack of any great
amount of personalities with
ssthe result that the ability of
.'.many of the members in floor
-oebate was not revealed.
' i However, out of the 90
! members of the legislature,
'President of the Senate Eugene
,E7 Marsh of McMlnnville stood
out as a man who, if he de
'sires, is destined to go far in
Oresnn nnllticn
fe. 5 Displaying absolute control
u . i i ... , .
,oi Dusmess in me senate iviaran
displayed a spirit of firmness
jwith fairness throughout the
-session, winning plaudits of
both Republican and Demo-
'craitc members.
i Stays In Limelight
i As the next in line for gov-
Pernor, and member of the state
emergency board, Marsh will
.remain in the limelight dur
ing the next two years, and
jwill doubtless add to the high
prestige for Integrity, ability
I and impartiality, which he has
.aureaay won. :
(Continued on Fare S, Column )
New Citizens
Get HST Letters
Washington WV-Hep. Ben
fct der (R.,' Ohio) charged, and
' 1 immigration service officials
J'l conceded, Saturday that newly
... ': naturalized citizens ; still are
j receiving , a v congratulatory
-. -, note signed by former Preel-
dent Truman. ' "," o '
' Bender asked In a statement
whether the service had heard
f about last November's election
-results. ' f : . i
, j New citizens, he said, are
.receiving" a full page letter of
congratulations signed ' by
.Harry S. Truman and echoed
:., jen another page by Attorney
'General J. Howard McGrath."
. . h, A spokesman for the service
aid letters bearing the names
.of Truman and of former At
troney General James P, Mc
:' .Granery, who succeeded Mc
Grath, are included in a
printed booklet Issued to the
:( new citizens.
Gold Smugglers
Ring Indicted
; New York UB A federal
grand jury has Indicted 19
Jewelers on charges of smugg
ling $25,000,000 in gold to
foreign black markets.
. The indictments culminated
at 26-month investigation into
Illegal gold operations by
Secret Service Agent Edward
F. Sweeney. He war praised
by U. S. Attorney Louis I.
Kaplan for turning in enough
evidence to permit prosecu
tion. : Among the jewelers indicted
. f allegedly dealing in black
'market gold were Joseph and
Morton Stack described by au
thorities as the largest coin
collectors in the country.
' ,' Also indicted was Charles
Benton Berry, 64, retired Min
neapolis real estate dealer,
who was arrested in New York
several months ago .with a
briefcase full of gold bullion.
Kaplan said the Stacks'
black market operations in
gold totalled several million
dollars annually.
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Showers Forecast
Sunday Afternoon
Temperatures continued
springlike for Salem and area
Saturday, although the skies
remained cloudy.
Friday's maximum tempera
ture went to 71 degrees and
little change in temperatures
is expected throughout Satur
day and Sunday.
There are some showers in
prospect for Sunday afternoon,
however. Even so, it is expect
ed many home owners will get
a lot of work done in their gar
dens this week-end. Rainfall
has been very light so far this
month.
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BROWSING
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Rent Controls
End July 31
Washington WV-The Senate
passed and sent to the White
House Saturday a bill to ex
tend rent controls to July 31
in areas which now have them.
Some 5,600,000 dwelling un
its are affented. Of these, about
4,300,000 are in communities
which voted last year to con
tinue the controls under fed
eral legislation. Another 1,300,
000 are in areas designated as
critical because of the growth
of defense activities. ..
The House had passed the
measure on Thursday. :
The Senate action .by voice
vote came after leaders agreed
to lay aside temporarily a sub
merged lands ownership bill
which has been under debate
for more than three weeks.
President Eisenhower is expect
ed to sign the rent bill prompt
' Present: authority .for rent
controls ends April 30 next
Thursday! ' - ' 'v '.T ;
The extension was asked by
Eisenhower to give state Legis
latures and other local bodies
a chance to enact their own
control measures if they want.
$1,800,000 for
Welfare Here.
Marion county was allotted
$1,800,000 for welfare for the
fiscal year 1953-1954 when
the State Public Welfare Com
mission met In Portland yes
terday. Multnomah county was al
lotted $13,500,000, and three
other counties allotted a mil
lion dollars or more were
Clackamas, $1,500,000; Lane,
$1,300,000; and Jackson, $1,
200,000. The total welfare budget of
the state was set at $31,200,
000, which is $1,200,000 above
that of the year about to close.
Administrator Loa Howard
said the county budgets were
trimmed only slightly.
Of .the total budget $12,-
280,000 will come from the
federal government, $13,770,
000 from the state, and $5,-
160,000 from the counties.
Weather Details
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far month! Ml naraaj, 1.97. Scaian
prMlpltatlaa, S7.1SI normal, M.4S. (Ba
part br V.S. Weather Bartam.)
Rumors of Big Plants
Coming Here Denied
Persistent rumors that two
large industries had purchased
or were about to purchase land
near Salem for expansion pur
poses are quashed by informa
tion reaching here direct from
their head offices.
One of the rumors had it that
the Boeing Airplane Company
had quietly acquired several
hundred acres in the valley
north of Salem for establish
ment of a branch manufactur
ing or assembly plant.
The government had told the
company, it was said, that it
must, for security reasons In
event of war, divide its opera
tion into different location, and
that it had selected the Willam
ette valley in preference to the
middle states. Further, it was
reported that the company had
transfered one of its key men
from Seattle to Salem prepara
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SHEEP IN ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY
V
Odd Fellows cemetery in
has been fenced into four sections by county and city
effort and 100 head of sheep are now browsing there on a
i crop of grass and wild pea vines. Shown at the right of ,
center in the photograph is one of the more historic tomb
. stones in the cemetery. It honors Capt. Charles Bennett
, who died in defense of his country during Indian warfare
in 1855 and proclaims that he was the discoverer of gold .
in California. ' : . . ,
tAorse Breaks Record
Talks Over 22 Hoars
Washington . UP) Opponents
of the state - ownership submerged-
lands bill' scored a
temporary victory Saturday
following a record-shattering
marathon spech by Sen. Morse
(Ind., Ore.).
Majority Leader Ta ft (R.,
Ohio), reversing his previous
stand, moved to lay aside 'the
Delay Hearings
Washington (U.F9 Secretary
of Interior Douglas McKay to
day asked the. Federal Power
commission to postpone for an
additional 10 days hearings on
the proposed $23,000,000 - Ox
bow project.
Idaho Power Co., Boise, has
applied for EPC authority to
build a low dam on the Snake
river on the Idaho-Oregon bor
der. Former Secretary of In
terior Oscar L. Chapman op
posed the project on grounds it
would prevent construction of
the Hells canyon project on
the site by the reclamation
bureau.
The, EPC previously post
poned the. hearing from April
13 to May 13 at McKay's re
quest. An interior department
spokesman said McKay asked
for the additional - delay be
cause "he needs more time to
complete his story" of the Hells
canyon and Oxbow projects.
Airforce Jef Pilot
Among 13 POW
Panmunjom W One of
the 13 American prisoners
scheduled for freedom here
Sunday is believed to be an
Air Force jet pilot. He would
be the first Air Force officer
to come back.
Reports filtering from the
Communists' advance base at
Kaesong say the flier is a cap
tain and pilot of a jet fighter
bomber. tory to starting developments
here.
A letter to the Capital Jour
nal from Norman Allen, assis
tant to President William M.
Allen of the Boeing company,
says:
"There is no foundation to
the rumors . . . The Boeing
company has no fixed plans for
plant expansion and has decid
ed upon no single location
should such expansion become
necessary in the future. Nor Is
a representative of the com
pany being assigned to the Sa
lem area."
Another rumor that has been
much bandied about was that
the Southern Pacific Railroad
company was about to start an
extensive building project in
volving shops and roundhouse.
(Concluded ea rage 5, Cebusa I)
Salem, Oregon,
Salem, overgrown and seedy,
submerged lands bill for not
to exceed an hour to permit
the Senate to pass a bill ex
tending rent controls due . to
expire April 30. ' '.
Actually the respite was only
36 minutes as the Senate went
back to the submerged lands
measure. But it gave a lift
to the opponents when Taft
wielded in his oft-repeated as
sertion that he would not
agree to set aside the bill for
any other legislation. '
President Eisenhower gave
a boost to supporters of the
bill, however, with a request
tor prompt action and arr ex
pression of deep concern over
the delay of his legislative pro
gram in the Senate.
Morse spoke 22 hours and
26 minutes, keeping the Senate
in session all night and far
exceeding the previous Senate
records for long speeches.- .
He told reporters who crowd
ed around him after his speech
of- 22 hours and 26 minutes
that his primary purpose was
"to focus public attention" on
a bill to establish state owner
ship of oil-rich submerged
coastal lands. He opposes the
bill.
Morse took the stand that
the oil resources of these off
shore lands belong to all the
states not just the few in
volved., He did not spend all
the time on that .subject, how
ever, and dwelled too on such
subjects as conservation, edu
cation, rural electrification and
filibuters.
Farm Bureau
Wants Support
Washington VP) The Amer
ican Farm Bureau Federation
has joined a congressional
farm leader in tossing cold
water on suggestions that
high-level price supports for
corn and ohter livestock feed
grains be reduced next year.
Roger Fleming, director of
the Washington office Of the
bureau, said his farm organ
ization, while poposed to high-
level rigid supports, is content
to let such supports remain
in effect through 1054.
Fleming' statement came
Friday before a meeting of the
Newspaper Farm Editors asso
ciation. Thursday Secretary
of Agriculture Benson and his
press chief, John C. Davis, re
ported that strong pressure is
coming from livestock: farm
ers for a reduction in feed
grain supports.
Benson, while making no
forecast of possible action,
said it was possible that con
gress might lower feed grain
supports at the end of this
crop year in order to help
bring livestock production
costs in line with recent re
ductions in livestock prices. '
COURT BLOCKS STRIKE
Cleveland, O. (U.B A court
order halted today a threaten
ed strike by 2,300 members of
the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen against the Nickel
Plate railroad and its subsidi
ary, the Wheeling and Lake
Erie Division,
Saturday, April 25, 1953
U.S. Battleship
Shells Red Port
On East Coast
..Seoul (Jf) The battleship
New Jersey pounded Songjin
with the most destructive naval
bombardment of the war Fri
day, burying part of the east
coast .port .with .landslides
touched off by concussion of Its
16-lnch shells.
On the ground, V. S. infan
trymen Saturday hurled back
an onslaught by up to 750 men
on the central front with heavy
losses. f '. .
For eight hours the 45,000
ton battleship steamed off
shore hurling everything from
five to 16-inch shells Into
Songjin, some 135 miles south
of the Siberian frontier, the
Navy said. '"
I Bridges Destroyed '
Explosions shook the reeling
city, three railway bridges
across which supplies are tun
neled to the front went up in
debris, and about 40 yards of
track was ripped up by the
battleship's shells.
When the New Jersey pulled
away, part of the port was ob
served to be burled under land
slides, which had come roaring
down from the nearby hills.
In the central front fighting,
U. N. infantry with bayonets,
rifle buts and hand grenades
cut down about one-third of a
Chinese force that swarmed up
to mainline position near Jack
son neignts.
. Fifty Chinese attackers' who
jumped into the American
trenches were wiped out. In all,
nearly 200 Reds were killed or
wounded ' in- three . hours - of
bloody fighting, the
Eighth
,
Army. said. ;.. -; .
(PtnclBJed en Pare & Oohunn 5).
On Key Issues
Panmunjom UJD The Com
munists are expected to indi
cate today (Sunday) their at
titude on two key issues: :
1. The sincerity of their re
quest for "end-the-war" truce
negotiations.
2. The possibility of contin
uing the present short-term ex
change of sick' and woundedj
prisoners until Korean hostili
ties are ended.
The answer to the first Is
expected to be given in this
afternoon's resumption of full-
scale truce talks.
Red reaction to the Ameri
can proposal for continuing
prisoner exchanges probably
will be indicated when the
Communists hand over 84 ad
ditional United Nations prison
ers. Unless the . Reds agree
to an extension of the .ex
change arrangements, these
would be the last returned
under present agreement, 1
Seventeen Americans and
83 other Allied prisoners were
freed today. Thirteen Ameri
cans and 71 South Koreans
are to be freed tomorrow.
Seek 3rd Man
In Coos Slaying
North Bend VP) Police
sought a third man Saturday
for questioning in the Friday
strangulation death of Mrs.
Ethel Gladys Moore, 40.
Two men were held In the
county jail at Coquille as ma
terial witnesses and a John
Doe warrant charging first
degree murder was issued. -Ralph
W. Plant was one of
the men in jail and Louis R.
Barlow was the other. District
Attorney John Pickett said
Friday that Plant, who found
the woman'! body fully cloth
ed on her hotel room bed, told
him they had been living to
gether and that he found her
body when he returned from
a poker game.
Barlow, the district attor
ney said, was a friend of the
couple who disclaimed any
knowledge of the killing.
Sought for questioning is a
man reported to have been
seen In a tavern with Mrs.
Moore the day before she was
killed.
Coroner Brewer Mills said
he would decide Monday
whether to hold an Inquest. ,
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Powerful Atomic Domb
Explodes With Golden
Brilliance Over Nevada
' Las Vegas, Nev, VP) One of
the spring series most power
ful atomic bombs exploited
with golden brilliance before
dawn Saturday as 16 congress
men and 2,650 troops from all
over the nation looked, on, .
Part of Oregon
Sees Brilliant
Flash of Bomb
. Redmond, Ore., W The sky
above Pine Mountain, south
east of here, lighted up at 4:30
a. m. Saturday, the hour of a
brilliant flash from an atomic
bomb blast at Las Vegas, Nev.
Gordon Andersen, operator
on duty at the, Civil Aeronau
tics Administration airport of
fice made the report. He said
Vegas is over 600 miles from
this Central Oregon city, Pre
vious blast lights have been
seen in counties along - the
Southern Oregon border. "
Ladies' Day at
White House
' Washington (p) It was
sort of ladles' day at the capi
tal, with the accent of foreign
affairs and with President and
Mrs. Elsenhower adding their
lblt to the goings-on. '. -v
The Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution DAB, the Lea?
gue of Women Voters and some
1,200 Republican women held
separate meetings In Washing
ton Friday,
The DAR, several thousand
fold, filed through the White
House Friday as guests of Mrs.
Eisenhower, who was enrolled
as a member of the DAR dur
ing its annual convention this
week. .
The 'first lady shook hands
with 673 in the first hour and
kept at it for three hours more.
Railroads Keep
Standard Time
Portland VP) Oregon resi
dents who plan to take a train
or bus Monday don't have to
worry about the effect of day
light saving time in other
states. Trains and busses will
continue their runs at the same
hours and by the same stan
dard time clocks.
Planes, though, are a differ
ent matter. Schedules of some
flights will be changed but not
necessarily an hour. At this
time of year many airlines ad
just their schedules to the
changed traveling habits of the
public. So those people who
plan to take or meet a plane
somewhere starting Sunday
had better phone the airline
office first. They'll get the an
swer in local-city time. In oth
er words, in Oregon the an
swer will be given In standard
time.
More A trosity Tales
Told By Freed POW
Tokyo VP) ''Twelve of us
went to bed one night In a
little room like this," the thin,
blond soldier recalled. "The
rext morning ... I was the
only man alive."
Sgt. Albert L, Howard of
Nashville, Tenn., said other
allied prisoners rt camp No.
5 dug shallow graves and said
simple burial services for
those who died,
The Tokyo army hospital
room in which Howard was
interviewed was about 12x12
feet. The death room was in
a mud hut at a prison camp
near the Yalu river, where he
was taken after he was cap
tured November 4, 1050.
Many men died at the c.
of malnutrition, Howard said.
"On day I remember ex
Shortly after the blast,
touched off from a 300-foot
tower at 4:30 a.m., . troops
climbed from . their trenches
4,000 yards from ground zero
and advanced in a tactical ma
neuver. , '
- The shot, at the atomic en
ergy commission's Yucca Flat
test site 75 miles 'northwest,
was a thing of beauty as seen
from here. As it flared a sky
full of fleecy clouds, Invisible
In the darkness an Instant be
fore, were momentarily print
ed with gold.
Observers at the control
tower where the congressmen
were stationed, 10 miles from
ground zero, said the shock
wave at their vantage point
was the strongest of the series.
It broke light bulbs and win
dow panes in outbuildings. ;
. The flash was seen as far
away as San Francisco, 600
miles distant
- A navy . AD-2 skyralder
drone plane, flew into the
churning atomic cloud, crash
ed. Such craft carry instru
ments to obtain scientific data,
which is relayed to the ground
by radio. - - .
: Fifty-two aircraft, Including
six B-17 Stratojets and six
B-50s, were in the air on var
ious missions. '
rne army maneuver was
conducted " by two combat
teams of 1,200 men each. With
them in the trenches were
250 military observers. And in
trenches an undisclosed dis
tance closer to ground zero
were eight officer; volunteer
observers..,-
Top Probers fo
Meet With Ike
Washington VP) Three of
Congress' top probers for sub
version Sens. McCarthy R..
wis. ana jenner k.,. ind. and
Rep. Velde. R.. 111. will con
fer with President Elsenhower
Monday morning, along with
Republican congressional lead
ers. :
The White House anounced
Saturday these three and Atty.
Gen. Brownell would accom
pany the Senate and House
leaders who -regularly . hold
Monday morning conferences
with the President. 1
Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty said he had no in
formation on the reason for
adding McCarthy, Jenner and
Velde to the list of conferees.
General Van Fleet
Refuses Senate Post
Washington VP) Senator Fer
guson (R.-Mlch.) said Saturday
Gen. James A. Van Fleet has
turned down an offer to serve
as an expert for the Senate Ap
priations Committee on mili
tary spending.
Ferguson told a reporter he
talked with Van Fleet and said
the General had decided against
taking the assignment
"He told me he was plan
ning a long visit to Alaska,"
Ferguson'sald.
actly 37 died. I helped to
bury them."
He said every prisoner was
a member of the burial detail.
"A man would help bury
someone else one day, and the
next day he would be burled,"
Howard said. "The graves
were only a foot deep. We
said what services we could
for them "
He said the deaths were al
most all prior to June, 1851,
when the Korean armistice
talks began. After that, he
said, the Chinese communists
gave them more food.
Howard, 33, was captured
at Anju, North Korea, Novem
ber 4, . 1950, soon after the
Chinese communists entered
the war. He was a member
of the U.S. 24th division.
F I N A L
EDITION
Sharp Reply
To Ike's Offer
But Ho Abuse
By EDDY. GUMOSB
Moscow VP) The official '
newspaper of the Communist -Party
declared Saturday that
Russia is ready to enter into
"business like" discussions with
the West to end great world
controversies but made It clear
the Soviet Union Is not retreat
ing anywhere along the line of -foreign
policy.
The Russian reply to Presi
dent Elsenhower's April 16
foreign policy speech was
spread across the entire front
page of Pravda in an editorial.
At the same time the text of
the President s speech was.
printed on an Inside page. ?
The statement particularly
rejected what it said were pre-.
conditions laid down by Eisen
hower for such discussions. It V
declared , Russia was laying
down no such pre-conditions
and was ready for lots of dis
cussion, but indicated It would ;
have conditions to advance lat
er on. ,
Not Belligerent ' . ' . 9
The whole tone of the Pray
da reply was sharp and argu
mentative. But it was not vitu- .
perative or belligerent "
(Concluded on Pate S, Cohan 9
irsl 1
Step for Peace
Washington VP) The White
House said Saturday Russia's
new, peace statement may be
"a first step toward something
concrete" In settling cold war;,
problems. :r''-', I.'
"If so," an official White
House statement said, "the
free world will continue , to
wait for the definite stena
that must be made if the So
viet leaders are sincerely in
terested in a cooperative solu
tion to world problems." ' i ,
The statement was read to
newsmen by Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty as a com--,
ment on a declaration in the
communist newspaper Pravda
that Russia is willing to enter '
into "business like" discus
sions with the west, Pravda'a
page one statement made it
clear, however, that the Rus- r
sians are not backing down on
tneir foreign policy line.
NATO Rebukes
Paris VP) The 14 Atlantie
pact nations ' Saturday, told
Soviet Russia that she has not
yet displayed any fundamental
change in communism's threat
to the, security of the free
world. 7 i
In their final communiaua
on the North Atlantic Treaty
Council sessions here, the min
isters of the NATO members
said they would welcome "gen
uine efforts to reduce interna
tional tension."
They said that the Commu
nist attack on Laos In French
Indochina was only the latest
example of policies responsible
for aggressive warfare in sev
eral parts of the world.
The statement by the NATO
council, coming only a few
hours after a lengthy statement
of Russian views in Pravda.
appeared to challenge the Sov
iets to substitute performance
for peace hints in settling cold
war issues.
The communique said the
NATO nations were fully
agreed In their appraisal of the
current International situation.
Toll of Dead in DC-3
Transport Now 7 r
Tacoma VP) Toll of dead In
the crash of a DC-3 transport
plane carrying soldiers to Me
Chord Air Force Base April
14, roso to seven Saturday
with the death of Pvt. OatU
Fincham, Culpepper, Va. '
Madlgan Army Hospital of
ficials said Fincham had suf
fered a cerebral concussion in
the crash and had been on the
seriously ill list since.
The plane crashed near Set
leek with 25 persons aboard.
Six of them died in the crash.
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