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65th Year, No. 103
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Salenv Oregon, Thursday, April 30, 195 Aao3
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Alexander
Strikes Back
AlO'Malley
McKay Asks
Restoration
Of Cut Funds
Senate Asked for $11
Million Slashed '
From Interior Bill
.. Washington M The Elsen
BACK IN THE U.S.A.
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Former Superintend
ent Says Prisoners
Ran Pen '
. By WILLIAM WARREN
(UnlU4 Pnu Corrwpondtnt)
; George Alexander, until tbli
week superintendent at the
Oregon state prison, today un-
leaahed s blistering attack on
VlrgU J. O'Malley, who sac
eeeded hint as warden of the
penitentiary a couple of years
ago.
The office, of superinten
dent, created when O'Malley
succeeded Alexander as war
den, rwas abolished this week
when Gov. Paul ' Patterson
signed a bill to that effect and
putting in a business adminis
trator at the prison answer
able to the warden.
O'Malley recently was fired
as warden by the board of con
trol, which put in Clarence T.
Gladden, retired federal pris
on warden, . in charge until
conditions are ironed out at
the penitentiary.
Turned Things Upside Down
v Alexander said today : ; -
"O'Malley practically turn
ed unrigs upside down at the
penitentiary." i.
, ; Convicts began telling the
guards what to do, and as a
consequence, Alexander said,
lax administration resulted in
smuggling of "dynamite, guns
and drugs" into the prison.
F Alexander said O'Malley
permitted , the prisoners to
','roam freely" between the
ell blocks and prison prop
erty suffered.
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Secretary Plans
Washington VP) Secretary
' of the Interior McKay an
nounced Thursday he plans two
" flying trips to Oregon in May
. and June.
They will be his first visits
to his home state since he came
.' here in January to 'enter) the
Eisenhower cabinet.-. McKay is
the former governor.
McKay will fly to Oregon
' May 29 to speak at commence;.
mem -exercises ai wuiameiie
university in Salem on May 31.
- He also will speak to the
Portland Chamber of Com
merce June 1. . -1
He will return to Washing
ton, go to Carlisle, Penn., to
speak June 7 at the commence
ment at Dickinson College and
. then fly back to Oregon.
He is to speak at the dedi
cation of the Detroit Dam on
June 10. He also will attend
meetings of the Columbia Ba
sin Interagency Commission at
Send and Prineville, June 11.
Patterson Signs
-Publicity Bill
i Oregon's public welfare lists
jvere opened to public inspec
tion Thursday when Gov. Paul
L. Patterson signed the welfare
publicity biU into law.
The bill, cause of one of the
legislature's biggest controver
sies, had an emergency clause,
so it became law when the gov
ernor signed it.
The lists including those who
receive old age pensions, aid to
dependent children and other
forms of public assistance, will
be open to the public in the of
fices of county public welfare
commissions.
Nine other states have simi
lar laws.
' It is illegal to use the lists
for commercial or political pur
poses. Picketing Bill '
Action Delayed
- Does House Bill 663, the
Legislature's anti-organizational
picketing bill, legalize the
closed shop?
Gov. Paul L. Patterson will
have to find out the answer to
that question before be signs
or vetoes the bill. He "plans to
act after he returns from Wash
ington, D. C, next Wednesday
night v
Reporters found out Thurs
day that, In the last hours of
the session, Section 19 was add
ed to the bill. It says:
"Nothing contained in this
act shall preclude an employer
-from making an agreement
with a labor organization re
quiring membership therein as
a condition of employment"
hower administration Wednes
day took a firm stand against
House trimming of the Interior
Department's appropriations
requests.
Secretary of the Interior Mc
Kay through an aide asked
a Senate subcommittee to re
store 11 million dollars slashed
by the House from the Eisen
hower budget for the Bonne
ville Power Administration.
The GOP administration had
asked $34,300,000 for the year
beginning July 1. The House
voted $43,300,000.
Eisenhower asked $47,200,
000 for construction and $7,
100,000 for operation and main
tenance. The House gave $38,
300,000 and $5,000,000 respec
tively. - - . . :
Raver Testifies
BPA Administrator Paul J.
Raver interrupted testimony
before a Senate appropriations
subcommittee to confer with
McKay on the slash. Raver was
(Concluded on Pace ( Colamn"4)
Banned as Red
Washington () Sixty-two
new. organizations,. Including
the Washington Pension Union
which is headed by an admit
ted communist, were listed
Wednesday by " Attorney Gen
eral Brownell as being added
to the Justice department's list
of subversive groups.'
Addition, of the new group
brings to 254 the number of
organizations in which mem
bership . by a government
worker will be made the sub
ject of further inquiry as to
the fitness of the person for
federal employment.? -;
The original 192 were listed
during the Truman adminis
tration.- Those listed Wednes
day by Brownell will be given
hearings prior to their formal
addition to the list if they re
quest, the' attorney general
told a news conference.
William Pennock, one of
seven persons being tried on
charges of conspiring to teach
and advocate the overthrow
of the -government by force,
has been president of the Pen
sion Union- since its organiza
tion in Seattle id 1937.-
Ice Goes Out of
Tanana River
; Fairbanks, Alaska VP) The
Ice went out In the Tanana
river at 3:54 p.m. Wednesday,
a time picked by a number of
persons who will share a pool
of approximately $100,000. ;
Ticket holders on the win
ning time were The Eleven
Hopefuls, Juneau; Kathleen
Barrlcklow, Juneau; Earl Pil
grim, Bernice Hagberg, Den
nis Vanhorn, Emil Arne Pool,
City Electric Pool, all of Fair
banks; the Three-Twenty-Six
Club, the ACS Teletype mend
ers, Florence Rainier and the
Union Club Pool of Anchor
age, and Randy Williams of
Ketchikan.
The ice jammed at the rail
road bridge near the pylon
shortly before the breakup
and hundreds watched as the
ice jam moved out.
32 Percent
State Department
Washington UP) A 32 per
cent cut in new funds request
ed for the State Department by
former President Truman was
recommended Thursday by the
House Appropriations Commit
tee. The committee also called for
cuts of 25 per cent in funds re
quested tor the Commerce De
partment and 4 per cent in
those sought for the Justice De
partment. The three agencies' appro
priations for the fiscal year
starting July 1 are embodied in
a package bill sent to the House
floor Thursday by the com
mittee. The bill wiU be debated
next tfcckt
Its total' of $1,143,146,712 is
22 per cent, or $326,347,803,
below the amounts Truman re
quested In his January budget
and $147,911,303 leu than the
Some of the 35 repatriated prisoners who arrived at
Travis Air Base, Calif., from Japan walk off the ambulance
plane which brought them from Honolulu on the final leg
of their overseas hop home. (AP Wirephoto) -
63 More Freed POW
On Freedom Airlift'
' Tokyo VP) Two planeloads
of returning U. S. disabled xor
mer prisoners of the Reds took
off from Tokyo early Friday
for the United States.
" The second took off at 1:40
a.m. Thursday, PST, a few
hours after another big plane
carrying returned, prisoners
roared off toward home on the
freedom airlift.-
, The two planes are carrying
Gets 1 2th Mig
In Roughest1
Fight of War
Seoul Vf) Capt. Manuel
Fernandez shot down his -12th
MIG today in "the roughest
fight I ever had" to tie the
individual record for' destruc
tion of the Russian-built Red
fighters over Korea. ; j
; The scrappy 27-year-old jet
ace from Miami destroyed the
MIG in a fierce air battle just
south of the Yalu river. He
tied the mark set last month
by Col. Royal Baker of Mc
Kinney, Tex., who has gone
home.: ,
Ground fighting remained
light for the fifth straight day.
Fernandez, who asked for 25
more missions after flying the
required 100, has 14 left. He's
going after the over-all mark
of 14 Red planes set by Maj.
George Davis, who destroyed
11 MIGs and three propeller
driven planes before he crash
ed in Red territory In Febru
ary, 1952. ; ' ' v
Mau Mau Bombed
By British Planes
Nairobi, ' Kenya WP) Royal
Air Force planes bombed Mau
Mau terrorists for the first
time Thursday.
Three RAF Harvards, which
arrived from- Rhodesia recent
ly, dropped eight 20-pound
bombs on a suspected Mau
Mau hideout 10,000 feet up in
the Aberdare mountains.
Cut from
three departments received for
the present year. .
The committee gave no com
parison of its overall recom
mendations with revised money
requests made since President
Eisenhower took office.
Here's - what the committee
recommended:
State Department $102,
744,787, a cut of $48,403,803
from the Truman requests and
$30,290,092 below this year's
funds.
Justice Department $179,
265,000, a cut of $7,885,000
from Truman estimates and $5,
028,000 from current appro
priations. . ;
Commerce Department '
$881,136,925, a cut of $270,
059,000 from Truman requests
and $112,593,211 from fiscal
1953 funds.
a total of 63 of the sick and
wounded who were exchanged
at Panmunjom by the Commu
nists last week, ;. '
The planes will make a 17-
hour flight to, Honolulu, stop
there briefly to let the prison
ers rest and then make a nine-
hour flight to Travis Air Force
Base. Calif. .
At the last moment, the Far
East command ordered a near
blackout . on details of the
flights. .' . '
It held up the news of their
departure nearly ah hour.
The command declined , to
give the' names - or "humber bf
men aboard each plane.
. Public information officers
at command headquarters said
censors considered the flights
a mass, movement of troops.
They thus applied restrictions
that normally apply only to
battlefield or support - situa
tions. - , . " . , ... .
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Washington WPJ East
Coast longshore boss Joseph P.
Ryan In a stormy Senate hear
ing today has ignored AFL
orders to throw -criminals out
of key jobs In his union.
' "It's not my business to drop
everybody that had a criminal
record when young," the husky
life time president of the In
ter n ational Longshoremen's
Association said. He appeared
before a Senate Commerce sub
committee investigating water
front racketeering.
Subcommitte counsel Dow
ney Rice said 60 per cent of
the ILA organizers in the New
York area have criminal
records.
Everybody sent men to the
docks that had criminal
records. That's the only place
they could get work," Ryan
said.
'Am I the one to say a man
don't get another chance?"
ityan conceded ne naa Deen
ordered by the AFL to clean
out the racketeers.
"Have you done it?" asked
Sen. John J. Pastore D., R. I.
"No, sir," saidRyan.
Rent Controls
Bill Signed
Washington CP) President
Eisenhower Thursday signed a
bill extending rent controls on
5,500,000 housing units in 32
states until July 31. The con
trols had been due to expire at
midnight Thursday.
The measure ' passed by
Congress last week was a
compromise on his request for
extension until Oct 1.
Under the new legislation,
the Elsenhower administration
must Investigate and certify
anew each critical defense
housing area, for purposes of
determining need for rent con
trol. And a new definition in
cludes only areas around gov
ernment defense installations
Those areas that meet the
new requirement an estimat
ed 600,000-unit totalwill con
tinue under controls until next
April 30.
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Expected Today
Panmunjom (U.FD The Unit
ed Nations will resume nego
tiations with the Communists
tonight on the exchange of sick
and wounded war prisoners, it
was announced today.
Whether there will be any
attempt to get more U. N. pris
oners released was not known.
- Rear Adm. John C. Daniel,
U. N. liaison chief, called the
meeting with the Communist
liaison officers. It is to start at
0 a.m. (6 p.m. Thursday PDT).
Daniel said merely, that he
wanted to discuss "problems
concerning, the exchange of
sick and wounded prisoners."
684 POW Delivered1 '
The U. N. already has propos
ed that the exchange of ailing
prisoners be continued for the
duration of the war.
The Communists completed
delivery of 684 U. N. prison
ers', including 149 Americans,
Sunday. The Allies are still de
livering Jheir quota of Com
munist prisoners. ' '
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London ) Prime Minister
Churchill Thursday. : rejected
Laborlte suggestions that he
complain to Washington about
the American offer to pay
Communist pilots who surren
der with their jet planes in Ko
rea. ..." .'- -' ' ' . :- !
"I am not going to make any
complaints to. the United. States
government upon the subject,"
Churchill told the House of
Commons.
The Prime Minister hinted.
however,-that there might be
doubt whether the offer was
well timed In view of the pros
pects for a truce in Korea. '
The United States has offer
ed to pay $100,000 to the first
Communist airman who sur
renders with a MIG-18 intact.
Laborlte George Wlgg asked
if the U.N. command in Korea
had consulted with the Brit
ish gflvernment about the offer,
The Prime Minister replied:
"There was no need for any
consultations and none took
place.'"
Roads Program
Washington (fl Authoriza
tion for a 125 million dollar
forest access road construction
program was urged Thursday
by Rep. Ellsworth (R., Ore.).
In a bill prepared for Intro
duction, the Oregon congress
man detailed procedures un
der which construction would
be financed by government
loans to the U.S. forest serv
ice and would be repaid from
proceeds of timber sales.
Ellsworth estimated , his
plan would bring 30 million
dollars in new revenue into
the treasury each year, per-
mit harvesting of more than
two million board feet of government-owned
timber "now
being lost," improve forest
management, and provide Jobs
by opening up overripe but
inaccessible timber stands.
In brief, the bill provides
that when a road construction
program Is required to man
age a specific timber unit, the
forest service certifies to the
treasury that the road Is need
ed and that sufficient timber
will be cut and sold from the
unit to repay the loan within
25 years. ' .
All Northwest Power
Restrictions Lifted
Washington W-B The gov
ernment announced today that
all restrictions on use of elec
tric power in the Pacific
Northwest area will be revok
ed, effective today.
The defense electric power
administration said the regu
lations are being cancelled be
cause of "the end of crucial
water conditions . . . and upon
the recommendation of the
Pacific northwest advisory
committee."
80 POW in
Prison Camp in Good
Shape Reports Corporal
(By Ttu SuotltUd Vnu)
A young corporal just freed
by the - communists brought
fresh hope and encouragement
Thursday to relatives of Amer
icans still held ' captive In
North Korea. '
Oil Bill Lose
Washington W The senate
defeated Thursday what Sen.
Taft (R-, Ohio) called a "half
baked proposition" for federal
administration of the sub
merged continental shelf be
yond the three-mile limit.
Action came on rejection of
an amendment by Sen. Mon
roney (D., Okla.) to a bill to
establish state title to poten
tially oil-rich submerged off
shore lands within their his-
torclal boundaries.
The roll call vote was 59 to
22. ,::.! .-;.
These boundaries are claim
ed to extend out 10 M miles
Into the Gulf of Mexico in the
case of Texas and the west
coast . of Florida. Thus Mon-
roney's proposal would have
denied these two states seven
and - one-half miles of what
they claim. i ;,-.-,
' The amendment provided
that federal revenues from oil
and gas development in the
area - outside the . three-mile
zone would be devoted to re
tirement of the 264 billion
dollar public debt. i. .V:
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Washington UP) President
Eisenhower and the , U.S.
Chamber of commerce were
in accord Thursday on "trade,
not aid" in foreign policy, but
at odds over restraining- the
government's treat y-maklng
power.
Elsenhower told delegates
to the chamber's 41st annual
meeting Wednesday night that
healthy Internatiohal trade
"is the material foundation of
our whole foreign policy."
"We must trade with others
or we cannot exist," the pres
ident said In a nine minute
off-the-cuff talk.
He spoke at a dinner after
the delegates adopted policy
declarations.
Among these were a call
on the government to halt
foreign economic aid, not to
be confused with military aid.
But the delegates endorsed
a resolution, now pending in
the senate, to restrain the
treaty-making power.
QUAKE RECORDED
New York 0-R A strong
earthquake, probably centered
In the South Pacific was re
corded on Fordham University
seismographs early today, the
Rev. Joseph reported.
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4 Killed, Many Injured
In Blast at
Peabody, Mast. QU9 A ter
rific explosion wrecked a war
chemical plant here today and
police reported at least four
workers were killed and a doz
en Injured.
Police said four bodies had
been recovered from the blaz
ing rulnt of the main building
of the American Resinous
Chemicals Corp. plant.
J. B. Thomas hospital report
ed a dozen workers had been
taken there for treatment of
severe burns.
Ambulances Rash to Scene
Police said 22 persons were
at work in the main building,
a 250-foot-long, three story
wooden structure, when the
blast occurred at S p.m. EDT.
Other workers were busy In
Yalu River
Cpl. . Everett W, Ritenour,
21, Woodstock, Vs., listed some
80 prisoners and . said they
were in "pretty good shape"
when he left Red Prison Camp
No. 5 on the Talu River. Rit
enour, repatriated in last
week's exchange at Freedom
Village made the list public
in Tokyo, -m ' :--
Most of their relatives war
aware they ware captives but
the general comment was:
.fit's sure good to get soma
news direct."1' -. '1,r:"
At Baltimore, Md., T. L.
Ray, father of Pfc. Billy L.
Ray, said he had received a
letter from his son In. Febru
ary saying he had enough to
eat and warm clothes. "
"But we ' couldn't be too
sure because the letter had to
go through communist cen
sors," be added, . , , ,
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Hanoi, Indochina - () Com
munist . led Vietminh troops
sweeping toward the royal La
otian seat of Luangprabang
captured another French-La
otian defense post today this
one only about 25 miles north
of town. It was the third, re
verse suffered by the defend
ing forces In as many days,
The black-clad invaders of
Laos one of the three French-
associated states of Indochina
successfully stormed
ieasea at. Muongsung 'as -.tbe
possibility increased of an -stout
assault by the week-end
on the residence city of aged,
ailing King Sisavong Vong,
. The loss of Muongsung, In
the valley . of - the Namhou
River, was announced shortly
after a French Army spokes
man expressed cautious optim
ism about the general situation
in Laos. He even went so
far as to say "the situation is
looking better," but he did not
say why.
Prisoners Put ;
In Wire Cages
Tokyo u.B American war
prisoners refusing to make
Communist , broadcasts were
put in three-foot wire cages
where they had to crouch like
animals, a liberated soldier
said today. ' ,, '
Cpl. Charles I. -Dick' of
Spann, Ky., said some of the
soldiers gained release from
the torture and humiliation by
saying they had seen the error
of their ways. -
"You could lie down only at
night," Dick said. "The longest
period I heard of was a man
who spent six months in the
cage. I was never there my
self." .
Most Signed Statements .
Dick discussed the Commun
ists' human zoo during an in
terview in the library of an
Army hospital. .
"Most of us signed state
ments and petitions," said
Dick, 21, who used to haul coal
in Spann. "I made a broadcast
myself to let my folks know
I was wounded.
Peabody
smaller outbuildings of the
plant. . . .
All ' available ambulances
were rushed to the scene and
fire apparatus was called from
a dozen nearby communities,
An hour and a half after the
blast, Its cause was not yet de
termined. Windows were shattered
over a two-mile radiut and
streets around the wrecked
plant were littered with brok
en glass. Half a dozen automo
biles parked nearby had their
roofs caved in by debris.
A numbr of persons living
in the neighborhod were slight
ly injured by shattered glass
and debris.
" Redudion
In Effective
Defense Plans
Washington VP) President
Elsenhower said Thursday ne
plans to ask Congress for $H
billion dollars less than former
President Truman asked for the
fiscal year beginning, Inly. 1,
The president told a news
conference however, that . he.
sees no possibility at this time
of balancing the budget for the
new fiscal year. - - v
And he declined to speculate
on whether the appropriations
reduction he mentioned might
open tne way for a tax cut.
The White House had said
In advance that Elsenhower
would i make a major pro
nouncement . on spending and
defense of the United States in
general. ; .-, ;- ' :v..
Beads Statement
The president read a nreoar- .
ed statement in which he said
he had told congressional lead
ers earlier in the day that al
ready ' "we can see our way
clear to ask Congress to appro
priate at least $8,500,000,000
less new money for fiscal 1954 '
than had been asked by the
previous administration."
The president added that the
saving would be realized with
out reducing the effective mili
tary strength of the United
States and Its allies
The appropriation reduction
appropriations which Truman
recommended to a new total of
$04,400,000,000. . ; ; 1-
New Appropriations
Elsenhower emphasized, how
ever, that he was talking about
new appropriations some
thing which is usually entirely
different from contemplated
spending.. .-'rV-:-i
The amount of spending In t
f fiscal year is determined at a
practical matter by appropria-
tions made over several years.
Truman's spending figure for
the fiscal year beginning July
1 was $78,600,000,000.
Eisenhower noted 'that the ,;
prospective deficit for the next ,
fiscal year was $9,900,000,000
under Truman's spending and
revenue estimates. ' ' '', -'
By Eisenhower
' Washington, VP) President
Elsenhower Thursday sent
Congress a . Defense Depart
m e n t reorganization plan
which would Increase the au
thority of the civilian heads of
the armed forces and limit
somewhat . the power of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. . 7
"I believe our defense es
tablishment is in need of im
mediate improvement," .the
President said in a special mes
sage to Congress.
The plan calls, among other
things, for appointment of six
additional assistant secretaries
of defense and for the aboli
tion of the Munitions Board,
the Research and Development
Board, the Defense Supply
Management Agency, and the
office of the director of instal
lations. . ;
' Elsenhower told the law
makers that in the case of the
office of the secretary of de
fense alon, a staff reduction of
approximately 500 employes
will be achieved. '
Ike Schedules
June Speeches
Washington U.R) President
Elsenhower will make a series
of speeches In five states, Min
nesota, the Dakotas, New York
and New Hampshire, In early
June, the White House an
nounced yesterday.
The President, traveling by
plane, will open his flying tour
of the upper Middle West oa
June 10 at Minneapolis where
he will speak at 2:30 p.m. to a
national convention of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
On June 11 at 10:30 a.m. he
will speak at Garrison Dam,
midway between Bismarck and
Mlnot, N. D.
The same day, the President
will fly to Rapid City, S. D.,
where he will apeak at 1:30
p.m. to a national convention
of Young Republicans. 1 .
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