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apit al AjJoiiir lial .
THE WEATHER
'AlHHIOH cloudiness to
"if nti Increasing cloudiness
Tuesday.' Continued warm,
low tonight, 48; Ugh TuesdsT;
FINAL
EDITION
65th Year, No. 106
Statarat as aaooad alua
aatwt at Salts, Onus
Salem, Oregon, Monday, May ' NOoa2 iio 9aSs
Price 5c
Ship Owners
Paid by Both
; Reds, Allies
793 Western Vessels
Made 445 Trips
To Chinese Ports
Washington An Investl
' rator for a senate committee
testified Monday that 19 own-
STEEL FOR SALEM STRUCTURES
She
ob buiib iiying nags 01
. Western Allies of the V. 8. are
taking money from Communist
China with one hand and from
the United States with the
. other. "
And a government transDor-
tation expert said there has
re nas
to halt
i firms
been no official policy t
U. S. business with such
although the National Security
council may come up with
one soon.
A Robert F. Kennedy, assist
ant counsel of the senate in
vestigations subcommittee tes
tified about the "dual trade"
something Chairman McCarthy
n wis.) called , inconceiva
ble, the "most inexcusable
thing I've ever heard of."
Iron Curtain Trade
Kennedy said he has dug up
evidence that 193 Western ally,
ships were trading with Red
China last year more than
half of them British and that
66 operated in trade between
ports behind the Iron Curtain
in Europe.
He said the 193 ships made
445 "provable ' voyages" to
Communist Chinese ports last
year and that he believes the
actual total was about 600 voy
ages. (Continued on Page 5, Column I)
Tax Exemption
Bill Signed
Gov. Paul L. Patterson sign
ed the bill i to make state in
come tax exemptions conform
with the federal exemptions.
It will main reduced taxes
for parents of two or more
children, blind persons, and for
persons over.,65 years old.
The federal, exemption T is
$600 per person. The-state-ex'
emptlon has been $780 for each
adylt, and $300 for each de
pendent child. '
Other bills signed by the
governor will give the state a
new corporation code, pay pen
sions to widows of Judges, in
crease salaries of appointed
state officials, permit seizure of
property where abortions are
performed, restrict the sur
gery practice of chiropractors,
and let legislative committees
administer oaths to witnesses
and to subpoena witnesses and
records.
Summer Time
Weather Here
Real summertime weather
descended over the valley,
Sunday and Monday, to bring
high temperatures of the year.
Sunday brought the high
mark of the season to that
date, 75 degrees, but Monday's
maximum was to be higher,
the mercury shooting past 77
degrees by 11 a.m. The last 75
maximum mark here was Oc
tober 19.
Continued warm tempera
tures are booked for Tuesday,
although there is to be some
high cloudiness increasing
It Mu 1 J.n
Southern Oregon cities had
higher marks, Sunday, Med
ford with 80 degrees being the
iunrm snot In the state.
For the first time for the
season, humidity readings be
gan to drop In southwest Ore
gon, a 25 per cent reading
being due to reach 30 today
and from 20 to 30 per cent in
eastern Oregon. Logging was
not expected to stop, however.
Czech Amnesty
Not for Otitis
Vienna (U.B Communist
Czechoslovakia today an
nminrcd an amnesty which
free a comoaritlvely small
number of criminals from its
crowded Jails.
But the decree broadcast by
Prague radio, apparently will
v.or. ii RpH Drisons barred
against the release of Ameri
can newsman William Oatis
and against Czech citizens who,
like Oatls, are accused of "po
lltiral crimes."
Oatis, an Associated Press
correspondent in Prague, was
sentenced to 10 years in prls-
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McKay to State
Policy on Dams
Washington (P) Secretary
of the Interior McKay announc
ed Monday he will hold his first
news conference Tuesday 11
a.m. and that he will "discuss
the department's position . on
Hells canyon and the Snake
River" power projects.
This could mean that McKay
and the Eisenhower adminis
tration have reached a deci
sion on whether the govern
ment will continue to oppose
an application by the Idaho
Power Co., for a Federal Pow
er Commission license for ; a
hydroelectric plant at the Ox
bow site on the Snake. ' .
. The case is regarded as a
key insofar as part of the Eisen
hower administration's policy
In the public vs. private power
issue is concerned. ;
. McKay's predecessor, former
Secretary Oscar Chapman, In
tervened in the power com
msislon proceedings to oppose
the Oxbow project. He con
tended Its licensing would pre
vent construction by the fed
eral government of a proposed
Hells Canyon power and rec
lamation project.
Graph Records
Mexican Quake
Pasadena. Calif. 0JJB1 Seis
mographs at the California In-1
stitute of Technology today re
corded earthquakes at 7:56.54
a.m. and 7:58.06 PDT and sci
entsis said the shocks were
strong enough to cause "some
damage" in populated areas.
The shocks, strongest in a
series of quakes recorded, were
centered about 300 miles from
here in an undetermined di
rection, Cal Tech authorities
said:
Strongest magnitude regis
tered was 5. Earthquake in
tensity is rated on a scale of
10.
A Cal Tech spokesman said
he "guessed" the quakes were
centered in the Gulf of Califor
nia but no accurate information
was yet available on the loca
tion.
.
Youth Legislature Set
For Session This Week
By DAVID
On the heels of Oregon's
legislature, boys and girls of
of the state will be in Salem
next Thursday, Friday ana
Saturday to show how they
would make laws.
About 168 delegates will
comnrlse the sixth annual
Youth and Government pro
gram sponsored by the YMCA
and will conduct a regular
session in the legislative cham
bers. Nary an officer is from Sa
lem this year las there is a
system where the offices are
passed around to the various
sections of the state.
With all the formality of a
regular Oregon legislature,
the two-day session will open
early Friday morning with an
Paul patter-
the union
"
V
.rpr , - r i
Last shipment of steel for construction of new Marion
county courthouse (top) arrived early Monday morning.
Shipment will consist of ten truck loads of beams and
columns from fabricators in Seattle. Lower: Beams re
cently Installed by Moore Drydock company, subcontrac
tors, in their undertaking to raise spans of the Center
street bridge. The east or long shore span weighing 854,
000 pounds will be lifted 11 feet. Other spans to be lifted
weigh 830,000 and 617,000 pounds each. Beams shown
form a pivot between the second and pony spans.
Tariff Barriers Aid
Reds Asserts Dulles
; Washington (P) Secretary
of State Dulles said Monday a
tightening of U.S.. tariff bar
riers . against imports would
push other tree nations toward
trade with the Communists. -On
that basis, he bluntly urg
ed the House Ways and Means
Committee to kill a bill by Rep.
Simpson (R.-Pa.) which would
bolster tariff protection for
Farm Controls
Loom in 1954
Amarlllo, Tex. (U.B Howard
H. Gordon, head of the Pro
duction and Marketing Admin
istration, said today the gov
ernment may be forced to
clamp mandatory controls upon
farmers in order to hold down
mounting surpluses of farm
commodities.
"Nobody likes this type of
regimentation," he said, 'But
there may be little we can do
about it until there is an op
portunity to work out sounder
and more flexible ways of in
suring agricultural stability."
"In facts" he added, "the ab
sence of such controls, under
the conditions we face now,
could result in building sur
pluses so big that they would
eventually break down the
whole program of agricultural
security."
- Gordon's statements, made
in a prepared speech before a
convention of the Panhandle
Grain and Feed Dealers' Asso
ciation, was a strong indica
tion that the administration
will impose acreage allotments
and marketing quotas on the
1954 crops of cotton and wheat,
the two most troublesome sur
pluses at present.
BLACKMER
speech by Boy Governor Kent
Hotaling of Eugene will fol
low. Then the young lawmakers
will adjourn to House and Sen
ate to hash over 25 prepared
Hcuse bills and 30 Senate bills
will get under way.
Thursday night pre-training
session will be held for the
officers ' to familiarize them
selves with the various pro
ceedings used by the regular
legislature.
Many Oregon ' legislators
vill be on hand to assist the
youths in their efforts to learn
about state government.
Officers for the sixth annual
session are Kent Hotaling, Eu
gene, governor; Stewart John
son, Grants Pass, president of
the senate; Johnnie Johnson,
(Continued en Page 5, Column 1)
American industries against
competition from cheaper for
eign goods.
Dulles said adoption of the
Simpson bill "would have seri
ous international repircui.
Jions" and would be "injurious
tO the best interests and wel
fare of the United States."
"It would be taken, through'
out the free world, to forecast
U.S. trade policies which would
make it Impossible for them
(U.S. Allies) to live without
increasing association with and
dependence on the Communist
world." Dulles said.
His bald attack on the Simp
son bill opened a wide schism
between the Eisenhower ad'
ministration and some leading
House Republicans.
Simpson is chairman of the
Congressional Campaign Com
mittee the group that will
work with Eisenhower to try
to hold and strengthen Repub
lican control of the House in
the 1954 elections. ' '
Court to Rule
On Lobbying
Washington (U.R) The Su
preme Court agreed today to
decide the constitutionality of
the 1946 federal lobbying reg
istration law which one fed
eral judge has ruled invalid.
At the same time, the high
bench put off for at least two
weeks more rulings on the new
appeal of doomed atomic spies
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
and on segregation in public
schools. The court's next de
cision day is May 18.
The test of the lobby regis
tration law stems from charges
brought by the Justice Depart
ment nearly four years ago
against the National Farm com
mittee and three individuals,
Georgia agriculture commis
sioner Tom Linden Ralph W,
Moore, Washington commodity
trader, and Robert M. Harrlss,
New York cotton broKcr.
Federal Judge Alexander
Holtroft of Washington, D. C,
ruled Jan, 30 that the law is
unconstitutional.
Burglary of Jan. 8
Cleared by Arrest
The burglary of the Indus
trial Supply company, 554
Ferrv street, on January 22,
was cleared with the arrest of
John Howard Payne, 1116
Nebraska street, Sunday morn
Inff.
City detectives reported the
recovery of two chain saws and
fnnr fishing reels with a total
value of over $700. All of it
but one of the chain saws was
recovered at Paynes home.
Payne appeared in district
court Monday morning and
was granted continuance until
Tuesday. He it'-belrtg held in
I lieu of $3500 bail.
Effort to Kill
Premier Nehru
By Bomb Fails
Bombay. India, (At An at
tempt to assassinate Prime
Minister Nehru by putting a
live bomb on the railway
track over which he was
traveling was foiled Monday.
The bomb was placed on the
track at Kalyan railroad hub,
35 miles from Bombay, a few
minutes before the Amritsar
Express, carrying Nehru from
Jalnaf, thundered along the sec
tion to Bombay. '
A policeman patrolling the
track fired on an unidentified
man believed to have placed
the bomb. His bullets went
wlBe. The policeman removed
the bomb, without recognizing
is as such at the moment, after
locating it by the lights of the
train it was suppose to have
wrecked.
Assassian Escapes
The man who placed the
bomb escaped 'In' the early
morning darkness.
(Continued on Page 5, Column S)
Reds Closing in
Loas Capital
Hanoi. Indochina VP) A dos
sible push by the Communist -
led Vietminh toward the Lao-
nan Kingo.onvs aaminmrauve
capital of Vietlane shaped up
today as French and Laotian
forces still awaitlnd a major at
tack on the royal seat of Laung-
prabang.
These forces, described as
"light elements," ' apparently
already were more- than 25
miles south of Xiengkhouang,
on Colonial Route 7. That
highway was the . principal
rout of Viietmlnh forces which
the other invaders from the
entered Laos from the coast of
Annam, in conjunction with
the tother invaders from the
north and northwest.
Vietlane. home of the Lao
tian government and a key
point on the Thailand border,
appeared the legical target for
these forces to the south. The
French have started strength
ening the town s defenses, but
they are not nearly so advanced
as those at Luangprabang, 140
miles to the north.
Mail Maus Kill
19 Pro-British
Nairobi, Kenya VP) The
anti-white Mau Mau terrorists
society sent some 300 men
swooping on a remote Kiyuyu
home guard outpost Monday
and burned and hacked to
death 19 members of the pro-
British unit.
Only one member of the Ki-
kuyu home guard post escaped
to tell the story. The others
were captured or died among
the burned ruins of their huts
after their last round of am
munition had been exhausted.
The Mau Mau men came out
of their forest hideout to sur
prise the home guard outpost
set up by a Kikuyu headman
named Stepano outside the vil
lage of Gatembire.
The survivor reported that
the home guard held the at
tackers off for a while but re
treated finally into a single hut.
When their ammunition ran
out, they were cornered there
and slaughtered by the Mau
Mau' long knives.
The lone survivor said three
home guard members may
have been taken prisoner but
the other 19 were hacked to
death with the Mau Mau pen
gas and then burned as the
raiders set fire to the huts.
Model Talked Out of
140 Feet Tower Leap
Santa Monlca.Calif ., (U.FDA
beautiful model, who perched
for seven hours atop a 140-
foot water tower until her for
mer sweetheart talked her out
of a threatened death leap.
goes to court today on charges
of disturbing the peace.
Police said 20-year-old Mrs,
Theresa Cundall McKinney,
divorced mother of two small
boys, will probably undergo a
five-day psychiatric examina
tion as welL
Pakistan Willing to
Serve as Custodian
Of Freed Korean POW
Karachi, Parkistan UP)
Prime Minister Mohammed
All said Monday he sees no
objection to Pakistan serving
as custodian for Korean pris
oners of war who won't go
nome.
The U.N. aUles have nomin
ated Pakistan, A formal in
vitation to serve is expected if
the communists accept the pro
posal.
Panmunlom. Korea UJ0
The United. Nations told the
communists - today to accent
Pakistan as neutral custodian
US Battleship
Shells Airfields
Seoul Korea. (U FO The bat
tleship New Jersey bombard
ed the east coast port of Hung-
nam today and United Nations
war planes dug deep craters in
lour major Red airfields in
North Korea. . . ,
Celebrating her first visit to
Hungnam since returnins to
Korean waters, the New Jer
sey turned her big 16-lnch
guns on the communist port in
a aay-tong assault.
1 The "Big J" destroyed an
electric power station, blew
up two ammunition dumca
and leveled 23 buildings.
B-J9 , Sunerf orta entered
(wo runways on the outskirts
of the north . Korean capital
of Pyongyang,: one of them
long enough to accommodate
J planes in- n emergency.'
P-84 Thunderjets hit the
Yonan airfield for the third
time in less than a week and
Marine Corsairs bombed an
other airstrip at Haeju
Duped by Reds
New York (U.R) Band lead
er Arie Shaw told the House
Un-American Activities
mittee today that he attended
four Communist party recruit
ing meetings in Los Angeles in
1946, but said he was not an
active member of the party.
The famed clarinetist told
the committee, headed by Rep.
Harold R. Velde R., III., that he
wished to "tell the whole
story" of his connection with
California Communists because
'suspicion of me is quite Justi
fied."
Shaw wept as he completed
two hours of testimony with
the admission that he had been
a dupe of the Comunlsts. He
said he did not believe in the
objectives of the Communist
party and did not intend to re
peat his "mistakes in judgment."
New Committee Works
On Moore's Bequest
Services of Thomas C. Colt,
Jr., director of the Portland
Museum of Art, have been ac
quired to assist in deciding
what type of memorial to Ore
gon pioneers shall be set up in
Salem through the Carroll
Moores bequest now held in
trust for the purpose.
Colt has been made a mem
ber of a new commltte that is
now working on the project
The other two members are
Chandler P. Brown and Charles
A. Sprague.
The Moores bequest, with
accumulated interest, now
amounts to about $30,000, and
is in the hands of the Pioneer
Trust company, which has re
quested the commltte to select
an artist to design the memor
ial. Colt is representing the
committee in the quest for an
artist.
The location of the memor
ial has not been decided on, but
some, at least, of those direct
ly Interested hope to see it as
part of the new Marion County
Courthouse Kent, With that
of Korean war prisoners or
face another break off of truce
talks.
Lt. Gen. William K. Harri
son, chief U.N. truce delegate,
earner naa offered a major
compromise by " nominating
Pakistan as caretaker country
for 46,000 Chinese and North
Korean prisoners unwlllinar to
return to communism.
Blunt Statement
Pakistan was one of four
Asian nations which the com
munists had defined as acceDt-
able neutrals, and when North
Korean Gen. Nam 111, head
communist negotiator, Ignored
the offer, Harrison became
blunt. . ,,
"The continued evasion bv
your side can only be consid
ered as inspired by motives
other than those of reaching
an equitable agreement," Har
rison told Nam. i -
Time Banning Out
"Time in these dlscuulom
is fast running out." Harrison
said. "Are you prepared to
accept Pakistan as the neutral
nation? If not. we have no
further issue to discuss with
you."
Harrison's offer came the
two aides renewed discussions
louowlng an unexplained two
day recess called by the com
munists last Saturday, ,
Returned POV
TooMadtoTalk
Pboenixville, Pa. (U.B
army psychiatrist said toda
he saw no evidence of com
munist sympathy among- liber- Ishartus on April 21. Afahar
ated war prisoners flown hero I tus was found strangled and
in tight secrecy amid rumors
their minds had been tainted
by enemy propaganda,
Lt. Col. Philip Smith of De
Pere, Wis., assistant chief of
th natiirnrwTOhlatri
mi Vallav rnrn annv tinanftal
backed up 13 of the prisoners
who aniriiv H.niof .
conference yesterday that they
a j a i '
Kjrneu wwaro communism
during their capitivity in
North Korea. I
bh. 41,. ,
Smith said the report that
the prisoners hsd fallen vic
tims to a communist "brain
washing" apparently stemmed
from "Inconclusive studies"
made in the Far East.
Of the 25 repatriated pris
oners sent here for treatment,
only 13 talked to reporters
during the visiting period yes
terday. Of the others, four
were said to be so bitter about
the publicity surrounding their
return that they shunned fur
ther Interviews with the press.
Weather Details
BfkilatBai ftttiriir, 19i Minima ta-
17. 4. Trial Il-baar aratlallallra: II
far manlhi .Mi aarmal, .ft. Staiaa ara
IplUtlon, M.IH rail, Mil. BlTir
o.l.hl, t.a fait. (Baaarl kr C.s. Waalhar
Baraaa.)
mind, Pletro Bellusuhl, archi
tect of the courthouse is also
being consulted.
Chandler Brown was. chair
man, of a former larger com
mittee, appointed by the
mayor, which made an exhaus
tive report listing all types of
memorials suggested by citi
zens of the community with the
arguments for each. About IS
plans were listed, only a few
of which suggested statuary or
any other work of art. There
was a prevailing opinion, how
ever, that the late Carroll
Moores had a work of art in
mind when he made the be
quest.
One of the suggestions made
at that time was for a iype of
memorial that would improve
the Odd Fellows cemetery,
There is still some sentiment
that a memorial arch, or some
other object with historical sig
nificance, in that cemetery
would be appropriate.
Final decision as to the form
the memorial shall take rests
with the Pioneer Trust com-
lnlpany.
State of World
at
Washington VP) Governors
of the states and territories
conferred with President Eis
enhower and other federal offi
cials Monday in What the Presi
dent termed consultations "on
the overriding question of the
peace and security of onr coun
try." -
The first session, bringing to
gether the executives of 45
states and five territories, were
behind closed doors at the State
Department but the . White
House made public a ' partial
transcript of Eisenhower's op
ening remarks. It said:.
"As chief executives of the
state and of the nation, you
ana i nave a tremendous re
sponsibility for the security and
welfare of our people. It is fit
ting, lt seems to me, that wo
should consult on the overrid
ing question of .the peace and
security of our country.
cooperation Asked
"The conduct of foreign af
fairs and the business of war
and peace are under our Con
stitution the responsibility of .
the federal government But in
(ConUnoed on rage a, Cohma t)
General lahedi
In SanduaiY Y.-t
Tehran, Iran VP) Gn. Tm : :
zoVlah Zahedl,- leading ovpceV :
turn candidate to suoceee Fro
mlar Mossadegh, took amrt
ary in, the MalUa paxuamcitt
building Monday alter toe gov-
eminent "raquesteo." nun to re
port to military, hrarinnartera ..
Anl Zahedi had been in. hidinsT
since the disappearance of Po-
- Mice Chief Gen.: Mahmood Af-
J Mossadegh's regime, charged
I his murder was part of a
. scheme to overthrow the gov-
'. " communique Saturday,
UK government CtlMTBed that
(Zahedi's nephew, retired Brla.
I Gen- Nasrollah , Zahedl, had
I oeen a leaa jn tne.piot. Tlio
lmFe wa?,ajI.ed to vUit
Douce wiuun to noun. . , .
i - - - . -
I Iranian tradition prevents ar-
rests or seizures of fugitives
insiae ine juajus ouueung. juos-
rial,h hlm.if. h.. rln
sadegh, himself, has taken ref
uge there several times since
he became premier. .
38 More POW
Enroute Home
Tokyo VP) Two military
transport planes left tonight
bearing 38 repatriated Ameri
can war prisoners to the United
States. . .
The first plane left at 6:21
p.m. 4:21 a.m. est ana tne
second at 6:35 p.m.
Original plans called for all
the former captives of the Com
munists to fly in a single big
C9T Stratocrulser, but it de
veloped mechanical trouble
and two four-engine C94 trans
ports were called into service.
Only 14 of the 149 u. s. serv
icemen freed in the sick and
wounded prisoner exchange re
main here. Ninety-seven have
already been flown home 96
to the mainland and one to
Hawaii.
Ike Warns on
Foreign Aid Cut
Washington (WD President
Eisenhower will warn congress
this week that a 11,800,000
spending cut is all the foreign
aid program can absorb with
out jeopardizing world secur
ity, Informed sources saia To
day. They said he will send a spe
cial message to the house and
senate, perhaps today, request
ing $5,800,000,000 In new mu
tual security funds for tne im
fiscal year beginning July 1
This represents a cut of
800,000,000 from the former
President Truman's budget and
is the new administration's
rock-bottom estimate of what
must be spent to bolster Allies
, In Europe and the Tar East
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