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THE WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY with let
tered light showers tonight,
Thursday, tittle change In
temperature Low tonight, 35;
Ugh Thursday, It.
FINAL
EDITION
65th Year, No. 101 SSSUUTUS Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, April 29, 1953 24 f oges V Price 5c
Blazing B-29
Crash Fatal
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5 Parachute to
Safety in Texas
Budget Calls
$5.8 Billion
ACCIDENT AT CHEMAWA CROSSING
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San Antonio. Tex. VP) A
ry- B29 bomber limolatlnf com
bat caught tire and 'crashed
' r. aix miles south of its home
base Wednesday killing 10
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:'' Five parachuted to safety,
; A witness, Charles Smith,
Jr., said he saw the crash
from a mile and a half away.
" He said one engine in the
right wing was afire. The big
four-englned bomber wobbled
s j crazily, nosed down into a
sMit near somersault and plowed
. ;,..' into the ground, c -
Wreckage was scattered
over a wide area.-; 'Nine bodies
1 ' y were found in and' hear the
i : T debris when rescuers reached
the scene. Later "etf 10th body
.- was found under a tall section,
: I From Randolph Base
' - The B-29 was from Ban
s'' dolph air force base here. Au-.-
thorlties there withheld names
V of the dead until next of kin
. - could be notified.
The B-29, the giant of World
'i, ' War II and first plane to drop
:;? the atom bomb, normally car
X ' rles crew ol 11. Four in
structors were aboard the
; ; plane, Wednesday, checking
the regular crew's proficiency
4 ' as they took the big craft
i, through combat maneuvers.
" The B-29 was within two
;. miles of an auxiliary air field
$- when it went down.
I Five Use Chutes
v ' The Randolph radio tower
j; received ; a call at 8:35 a.m.
:- that the plane , was on fire.
' That was the last word from
i .-. it.- V , ;
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Weather Rules
, ; The chilly spring weather
' continued for Salem and area,
f Wednesday, with more rain in
tight. . .,
Only .08 of an inch of rain
was measured in Salem in the
24-hour period ending at 10:30
. a.m. Wednesday, but skies con
tinued cloudy and. tempera'
tures not too v arm. .
: Some reports came in of
snow showers in the mountain
regions. Eastern Oregon sec
tions also have wave cold
temperatures, Bend and Baker
each reporting a low of 23
this morning.
Rivers are up slightly as re
sult of the recent showers, the
; Willamette at Salem measur
ing 4.3 feet Wednesday morn
ing. Slight advances are book
ed for the next 24 hours on all
streams.
Hit Midwest
(Br The Auocleted Freii)
Stormy weather whipped
across wide areas of the cen
tral part of the country again
Wednesday in the wake of
Tuesday's tornadoes and thun
derstorms which resulted in
the death of five persons and
injury to several others.
Texas was the hardest hit by
the blustery spring storms.
Five persons were 1 killed at
Ktfgore when lightning ex
ploded an oil storage tank,
spreading flaming oil over a
city block of 15 homes.
. Tornadoes struck at two
small Texas communities, at
Helotes near San Antonio and
Smithvllle, in the central part
of the state. Eight to 10 per
sons were reported injured at
Helotes and three at Smith
vllle. Several . houses were
damaged.
Rain and strong winds con
tinued from the Dakotas to
the Gulf. Rain also fell along
the eastern slope of the .Rock
ies from the Canadian border
to Southern Wyoming.
Churchill Is for Peace
Through Strength
London VP) Prime Minister
Sir Winston Churchill said to
day Britons must "stand by
the cause of peace through
strength."
Churchill told a convention
of conservative women "we
must indeed look forward
without fear to the trials of
the future, confident we shall
stand by the cause of peace
through strength and of free
dom maintained against all
threats."
Foreign Aid
Approved by Ike;
Truman Asked for
At Least $7.6 Billion
Washington () The Eisen
hower administration is report'
ed drafting a foreign aid buds
et calling for about 15,800,000,-
too in new money from con
gress for the next fiscal year.
Former President Truman had
suggested at least 17,600,006,
.000.
Officials who disclosed, this
to a reporter Wednesday said
the National Security Council
tentatively approved a program
of this size at a White House
meeting Tuesday.
A few hours earlier, these
same officials had said the fig
ure would be between $6,100,
000,000 and 86,300,000,000 but
that the specific amount was
yet to. be determined. The' of
ficials asked not to be identi
fied by name.
In conference which lasted
late into the night, the amount
apparently was scaled down to
around $5,800,000,000. Foreign
Aid Director Harold Stasen
apparently lost a last-ditch bat
tle in favor of the bigger
amounts because of the admin
istration's determination to
economize in foreign aid spend
ing.. on
Auto Insurance
yState - Insurance Commis
sioner Robert : Taylor said
Wednesday he has taken no
action on the application by
mutual insurance companies to
reduce automobile insurance
rates..
"We just got the informa
tion from the mutual compa
nies last Monday. It's very
complicated, and will take us
some time to make heads or
tails out of it," Taylor said.
The rate reductions would
be: . ..SVV ','.'. ;:
,. Twenty-five per : cent for
cars driven for pleasure, "less
than 7,500 miles a year, and
only' by two adults both of
whom are at least 25 years
old.
Twenty per cent for family
cars driven principally by
adults but With the children
permitted to drive up to 25
per cent of the mileage. .
Youthful drivers without
family ties would, under the
proposed rates, pay 30 per cent
more than at present.
Calpac Buys
SP Building
The Southern Pacific com
pany has sold to the California
Packing corporation the build
ing which the latter has occu
pied for several years immedi
ately east from the passenger
station.
This was revealed in the re
cording of a deed with the
county recorder, carrying
$53.90 In U. S. revenue stamps.
This means that the sale in
volved $49,000.
It is. understood the price
does not cover the land that
lies east of the plant extending
to 14th street.
Other recordings, involved
the right of way for Southern
Pacific company tracks that
serve California Packing Cor
poration, Honeywood, Inc.,
and the line that extends east
ward to Geer.
Court Upholds Will
Of the Late Verd Hill
Persons who try to challenge
the wills of dead persons got
a warning from 'the Oregon Su
premo, Court Wednesday to go
slow.
The court, upholding a Polk
County decision in which the
will of the late Verd HiU was
sustained, decided that Hill
was mentally sound when he
gave a big share of his $87,000
estate to Constance J. Hender
son, a niece.
Verda Frances Hill, a daugh
ter, sued the niece in an effort
to break the will, charging the
niece - exercised undue influ
ence on Hill, who died Dec. 18,
1950, at the age of 74. She also
charged that her father was
mentally unsound.
Justice Harold J. Warner
wrote the opinion, saying:
One who ventures to at
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superficial injuries in a collision between the truck shown '
above and an early morning southbound freight train at
the Chemawa crossing today. The rear end of the truck was
hurled across Chemawa campus to stop 100 feet from the
accident. Witnesses said Muzzey was driving west, and
that after the accident said he didn't see the train. Vision
along the track is considerably obscured by trees. Muzzey ;'
was owner of the demolished truck. :
Churchill Touches Off
Commons' Uproar
London, VP) Prime Minister
Churchill touched off a House
of Commons uproar Wednes
day by backing a War Office
decision to let "Desert Fox"
Gen. Erwin Rommel's former
right-hand man inspect some
of Britain's newest military
equipment.
Dulles Pleads
Aid for Laos
' Washington () Secretary
of State Dulles said Wednesday
the extension of Communist
led attacks in Indochina to
Laos has "created a serious new
problem which disturbs all
peace-loving peoples."
He told the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. Chair'
man Wiley (R.-Wis.) reported,
that the problem of how much
additional material and equip
ment can be diverted to Indo
china is getting serious consid
eration by the State and De
fense departments. -
It is a spearhead the free
free, world cannot afford to
lose," Wiley commented after
Uhe
closed session at which
Dulles also reported on the re.
cent North Atlantic Treaty
Council meeting in Paris.
In this connection, Wiley
said, Dulles testified that 'the
emphasis In the NATO program
for the next year will be to
ward bringing NATO's 50 di
visions up to greater combat
strength rather than' creating
additional divisions. . -
Dulles will testify next Tues
day before a joint session of
the S e n a t e Foreign Relations
and the House Foreign Affairs
Committee on the long-awaited
foreign aid bill for the fiscal
year starting July 1.
tack the validity of wUl as
sumes a heavy legal and moral
responsibility. Win or lose,
family skeletons must be un
abashedly brought forth from
their secret closets for inti
mate exposure and the inspec
tion of all who may be curious.
'Even though the court may
find the charges untrue, as
here, there still may linger a
shadow of uncertainty as to
the mentality of some previ
ously esteemed person who
may thereafter be remembered
as weak instead of strong in
character or in mind, with con
sequent embarrassment and
heartache for those who bad
cherished his memory." -
The opinion upheld Circuit
Judge Arlle G. Walker of Polk
County,
Lansing avenue, received only J
Churchill drew sharp labor
protests by backing the deci
sion to invite Lt. Gen. Hans
Speidel to Britain next week,
' Speidel, who after the war
was West Germany's represen
tative in rearmament negotia'
tions with the Western Allies.
is one of 160 Western military
men ' Invited , to- -inspect . the
latest British military equip
ment for the next two weeks.
Churchill told the House: "I
do not know of any reason why
the former chief of staff of
Gen. Rommel should be under
any exceptional disability. On
the contrary, in the height of
the war I paid my tribute to
Rommel's outstanding military
gifts. I regard his resistance
to Hitler tyranny which cost
him his life as an additional
distinction to his memory."
Laborite I. O. Thomas de
nounced Churchill's tribute as
'an affront to the men who
fought in North Africa" and
termed Speidel "doubtless a
member of the German officer
caste who made themselves
willing partners of the Nazi
regime."
Churchill snapped back: "If
Mr. Thomas' line is to be
taken, there would be no peace
possible between these great
branches of the human fan
ily."
To Quiz Bradley
On Shortages
Washington VP) Gen. Omar
Bradley, now in Europe, may
be asked to supply final data
for a Senate investigation of
ammunition shortages in Ko
rea.
Sen. Byrd, D., Va., said he
had asked Bradley, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to
supply as soon as possible any
documents indicating a belief
that the Korean war would
end before June 30, 1951.
He nasn t received the docu
ments, Byrd said in an inter
view, and he understands
Bradley now is touring mili
tary installations in Europe
and plans to return May 8 or
Byrd, who has been active in
the investigation by a five-
member Senate Armed Serv
ices Subcommittee, Is particu
larly interested in evidence
that top level military and
civilian officials believed dur
ing the first few months of Ko
rean War that it would be
brief. The fighting began in
June, 1950.
IF THEY HAD THE CASH
Berlin W) Berllners drank
an average of 17 quarts of beer
each in 1952, city records show
ed today. In West Germany, the
per capita intake was 65
quarts. Officials said the Ber
llners drank less because they
had less money.
Indochina Reds
Raid Soldiers'
Training Camp
Hanoi, Indochina VP) Com-
mnnist-led V i e t m 1 n h troops
raided a Vietnamese soldiers'
training camp In the heart of
the Red River Delta Wednes
day and kidnaped S00 Vietn
mese recruits. y1
" The young Vietnamese' had
been mobilized for a two-week
military instruction course In
the Nam Dinh camp, 50 miles
southeast of Hanoi. '
A French Army spokesman
said the raid, after midnight,
apparently was carried out by
the Communist-led Vietmlnh
with "complicity of the civilian
population" of Nam Dinh.
Government Troops Kidnaped
The Vietmlnh troops were
believed to have belonged to
the enemy's Division No. 320,
long concentrated on the outer
fringes of the southeastern rim
of the vital Red JDelta.
The Vietnamese seized were
part of those mobilized in the
Vietnamese government's drive
to put 54 commando battalions
into field against the Vietmlnh
by the end of this year.'
Reds Bombard City
Vietmlnh raiders were re
ported to have remained within
the Nam Dinh area for some
time. They pulled out around
dawn, then fired mortar shells
into the city of 50,000 people,
located in the heart of the Red
River Delta's rice marketing
and textile producing district.
French forces immediately
took up the hunt for, the raid
ers. '., :.'-i'.'
' In the Laos sector, meantime,
the . French announced Viet
mlnh invaders have captured
the post of Bannambac, 40
miles north of the royal capital,
Luangprabang. ;::; '
France to File
UN Complaint
Paris U.R Authoritative
sources said today that France
is seriously considering bring
ing before the United Nations
the latest communist aggres
sion in the Indochinese king
dom of Laos.
It also was disclosed by
France's minister for the Asso
ciated States that the military
command In Indochina is to be
organized.
A decision' on a possible
protest of the Red Invasion of
Laos before the United Na
tions may be taken at a meet
ing of the cabinet, called to
day to discuss the critical sit
uation. Government sources were
described as concerned that
the Laos invasion will become
a first-class disaster,
Several ministers were re
ported to be for immediate
"internationalizing" of the
Laos Invasion by an appeal to
the UN. .
Power Policy
Meet May 25
Washington W A Federal
Power Commission hearing
which may reveal part of the
administration's basic public
power policy was postponed on
Tuesday until May 25.
The hearing is on the appli
cation of the Idaho Power Co.
to build a hydro-electric pro
ject on the Snake River, in Id
aho and Oregon.
Secretary of the Interior Mc
Kay requested the postpone
ment. He said additional time
Is needed to complete a thor
ough review of the case.
The power company's appli
cation for the Oxbow project
said a series of five or three
low hydro-electric dams would
be constructed on the Snake
River, if a license Is granted.
The project was opposed by
former Secretary of the Inter
ior Oscar Chapman who con
tended the dams would prevent
construction of the multi-purpose
Hells Canyon dam.
Weather Details
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Reds Suggest 50,000
Allied-Held Prisoners
Be Sent Neutral Nation
Mnnsan VP) - Communist
truce . negotiators . snggwrted
Wednesday that 50,000 Allied'
held war prisoners who do not
want to go home be sent to an
unnamed .neutral .nation .In
Asia. The Reds also agreed to
bargain on the time needed to
determine their future. :
South Koreans
Battle With
North Koreans
Seoul U.R) South Korean
raiders killed- 17 North Ko
reans and possibly many more
in a pitched battle during
driving rainstorm today at the
eastern edge of the watersoak'
ed battlefront.
The original adversaries of
the 34-month-old war fought
toe-to-toe for an hour and 20
minutes before the ROK raid
era withdrew under cover of
heavy artillery barrage. . .
They counted 17 Red bodies
in the mud and estimated they
killed five more.
Chinese Reds attacked
"Vegas" hill on the Panmun,
jom front of Western Korea
but got only part of the way
up the slippery slope before
United Nations defenders re
pulsed them with concentrat
ed f mall arms and artillery
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Stays, Portland
Portland (Portlsnd elty
emDloves will stav an utan.
dard time working hours this
summer. The city council
voted 4-1 Wednesday against
changing hours to live them
longer evenings.
state law forbids daylight
time lor Oregon, but manv
firms here renorted thev viinM
open an hour earlier and close
an hour earlier if the city
would take the lead ' and
change Its employes' worklnn
hours.
But With Onlv CommlMlnnar
Nate Boody differing, the
council decided to keep its
present hours. .
That was expected to rule
out any wholesale changes by
business firms. - There have
been some changes, including
at the Portland air force base
and the Albany Bureau of
Mines laboratory.
The Central Oregon Cham.
ber of Commerce meetlnff
Tuesday night at Redmond
heard a discussion of changing
work hours and decided there
wasn't enough Interest to do
anythins about it. So a re.
quest for the shift was tabled.
Bowdifch fo Head
United Stales C of C
Washington MP) Flrhnrrl
L. Bowditch, Boston industrial
ist who started as a "trapper
boy" in a coal mine 30 years
ago, weanesaay was elected
president of the U. S. Cham
ber of Commerce.
Bowditch is nrpnlHont nf C.
H. Sprague and Son Co., which
produces and ships coal and
oil. and the Snrasue steam
ship Co.
Television in Three
Dimensions on Screen
Los Angeles VP) Television
in three dimensions was broad
cast Wednesday in a demon
stration by the ABC division of
American Broadcasting-Paramount
Theaters Inc.
Part of a progress report on
3-D research to the convention
of the National Association of
Radio and Television Broad
casters, the Telecast out over
ABC's station, KECTA-TV. It
wss received on special projection-type
sets that threw the
picture on a 3x4 foot screen.
By viewing the screen
through polarized glasses, lt
was similar to that in watching
a 3-D movie although, like
"I think we made some pro
gress," said Lt. Gen, William
K. Harrison, chief U. N. nego
tiator. "At least they are not
adamant on the time prisoners
are to be held in custody." ,
When the nomination of
India was mentioned unoffi.
dally nearly month ago, of
ficial Indian quarters said they
were sure Prime Minister
Nehru would refuse because of
the past history of bitter vio
lence in Korea prison camps.
Bargain In Time J E.
At the end of a 84-mlnute
session at Panmunjom the
three major points of dispute
appeared to shape up like this:
1. The Communists indicated
they were ready to bargain on
the length of time needed to
decide the disposition of pris
oners refusing to go home.
2.' There appeared to be
room for compromise on the
Communist nomination ox an
Asian country as yet unnam
ed as the neutral nation and
the Allied nomination of Switz
erland. . .- '
Beds Stand-Pat a
3. The Communists showed
no sign of backing down on
their Insistence that unwilling
prisoners be shipped to the
neutral power. The Allies were
equally firm in their demand
that the prisoners be kept In
Korea while their fate is ae
cided. .-
On the last point, a possible
compromise was a suggestion
to ship Chinese prisoners to the
neutral nation and to keep the
Korean prisoners in Korea.
North Korean Gen. Nam II
said "We are prepared to nom
inate an Asian neutral nation
tor 1 the purpose of putting
under Its custody tnose prison'
ira nf war not direetlv rena
triaied and hold consultation
with your aide about this mat
ter."
Slum Clearance
Law Held Valid
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Oregon's two-year-old ur
ban redevelopment law, un
der which the Portland Hous
ing Authority wants to carry
out a slum clearance project
in the Vaughan street area,
was held constitutional Wed
nesday by the state supreme
court.
The suit was brought by
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Foeller,
who own property in the
Vaughn street district. They
sued the Portland housing au
thority. .
Justice George Rossman,
who wrote the unanimous
opinion, said:
"The ultimate result which
the challenged statute seeks to
achieve Is to eliminate condi
tions which causes fires and
breeds vice, poverty or dis
ease, and to substitute for
them a use of the property
which will render impossible
future blight.
i "It may be that the measure
is ill advised and may prove
eventually to be a disappoint
ment, but the wisdom of en
actments is a legislative and
not a judicial question. The
legislature has the right to ex
periment with new modes of
dealing with old evils."
The decision upheld Circuit
Judge James W, Crawford of
Portland.
most early experimental show
ings, there were rough spots
when all did not go as planned.
ABC o f f 1 c 1 als emphasized
that further development would
be required before the method
would be practical for home
sets.
The telecast produced two
separate Images, each taken
from slightly different angle.
The one for the left eye was
projected from one viewing
tube, and the one for the right
eye from a second viewing
tube, with the projections pass
ing through polarized filters
and being superimposed on the
screen.
35 U.S. Soldiers
And Marines
Return Horns j
Travis Air Fore Base.
Calif. (AV-Tblsty-flve men re
leased from Korean prisoner
of war camps returned WeoV :
aesday to their homeland. ;
The giant air fore plant
that brought them from Tokyo
landed at this base at 11:30
a.m. PDT, after flight from
Honolulu. ' v..';vit-v;
It had been shower nc but
the sun broke through a the
big ship taxied dowu the long
runway, ' i :
1 '.'When j - Johnny -"Comet
Marching Home"' echoed
across the field as the air force
band struck up the. welcoming
tune. ' v v ' " v ' .' '
Several hundred '.' persons
lined the field, including rela
tives of some of the repatriat
ed prisoners. - ' ' ' - :
I Hours, 2 Minutes rSiHt ' ',,
The plane, riding strong
tallwlnd, made the flight from
Honolulu in 8 hours, 20 min
utes. The flight plan had call
ed for about 10 hours. The
boys were given t bit of sight
seeing as the pilot swung them
over San Francisco bay. .
(Centuiaed e ftge 1. Ostatsn t)
GIs in Camps; If
Tokyo W Some American
In communist prison campt
went berserk because of "con
stant pressure" from booming
loudspeakers and long lecture
In the hot sun, a young Cat
f oral corporal aaid Wednes
day. '''Vir'"'"''-''-'-''"'.
;i can't estimat how many
became mentally sick," CpU
Cecil V. Preston, 21, of Sau
salito, said at Tokyo Army
hospital. ; ,
. "Sometimes a man would be
walking along. He would see
a Chinese guard, or one of the
American prisoners we called
'Progressives', and would start
chaslns him. He would lost
control of himself because he
was so mad at the commu
nists." . v. ' - ' 'i '
Preston said the guards did
n't shoot because they realized
"they were sick." . - j
The Calif ornian said that of
200 in his prison company "20
or 30" fell for the communist
line. The other, prisoners call
ed them "Progressives,"; ht
said. . : ' -.
Sub-Zero March
Kills 300POW
Tokyo U.R) A liberated
American soldier said today
300 war prisoners dropped out
of a month-long march In sub
zero temperatures to .a North .
Korean camp and never were '
seen again.
Pfc. George W. Gray of Og
den, Utah told in a Tokyo hos
pital how sick, wounded and
under nourished prisoners sur
vived the long walk '
"We helped each other," he
said. "If you got tired, some
one would help you along."
Gray said about 4,000 to
5,000 prisoners trudged
through snow in temperatures
of 20 to 30 degrees below sera
with only "the clothes we had
on our backs." ! '
"We had no blankets and wt
were not allowed to build fires
to keep warm," Gray said,
The 22-year-old Utah soldier
who was captured Nov, 28,
1950 at Kunu-ri said the pri
soners tried to stay warm by
huddling together. ; ...
Safe Ammo Stations
Found in Northwest
Washington OUD Two Pac
ific Northwest ammunitions
centers have beea found to be
the safest in the nation and will
handle capacity loads in the
near future, Rep. Don Ma gnu
son (D., Wash.), aaid today.
Magnuson said the safety rat
ings of Bangor Ammunition
depot, near Bremerton, and :
Beaver Ammunition depot on
the Columbia river, were based
on the number of people ex
posed at any given time to any
possible explosion. (
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