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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1953)
THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT and Wedaes day. Slightly wanner. Low to. ailbt, 43; Ugh Wednesday, 71. Chamberlain 110,000th Vel To Buy Home J Acquired Under State I 4 Percent Home I And Farm Loan I r," "By JAMES D. OLSON I Frank; M. Chamberlain, Sa t lent World War U veteran, be. came "the 10,000th veteran to I acquire a borne under the Ore , con state veterans' four per. 1 cent home and (arm loan pro J gram, H. C.-(Hub) Saalteld, director of the, Oregon depart- m e n t of veterans affairs an- nounced Tuesday. ' Chamberlain and his wife, , EUse, and their three small boys "moved into their newly ; completed home at 2281 Elec- trie avenue over the last week-end and the final Joan closing 'detail was completed by the " veterans' department Tuesday. i The Chamberlain home, a three bedroom structure with attached garage, was built at a ; cost of $8250 including the lot 'and appraised sufficiently high i, to warrant the present maxi- mum of $6000. ,1 Received Purple Heart Chamberlain re c e i v e d the , Purple Heart for wounds suf fered in Southern France in September, 1944, while serving v as a bomb salvage technician. I He entered the service on Ap ; ril 6, 1942 and was honorably discharged as a sergeant Sep t tember 28, 1945. He is a life- long Salem resident and Is ; presently employed as an up 4 holsterer in the Douglas Mc f Kay Chevrolet company. ; ;J The state veterans' loan pro- gram is expected to take a big I jump starting July 21 when the l increased maximum loans vot- I V d hV tVlA looieltttl.rA 4n1r. J .I effect, according to Ernest J. ' : Smith, department loan super- ! A visor. The veterans' department :.i lindpr thA r.pw apt will Via ait. . I thorized to make home loans up V ? to $9,000 and farm loans as high vi as $15,000. but not more than 75 per cent of the appraised value of the property., Loans Still 4 Percent J ' Smith emphasized . the fact that the state loan ia still made at four per cen,,4nterest ta qualified veterans, the. state program being unaffected by interest rates recently increas ed by the government on fed eral GI and FHA loans. " (Continued on Page 5, Column 3) Rain Makers Jo Be Licensed Gov. Patterson signed into law Monday the bill to direct the State Department of Agri culture to license rainmakers and others who try to change the weather. (The department ' also will keep records to try to deter- ; mine whether weather control ; is successful. , ' Other bills signed Monday wUl: Create a state committee to . study use of water for the next two years. ; ' Allow the Department of Agriculture to compel land- : owners to remove ragweed, a prime cause of hay fever. . Enact a conservation code ttor drilling of gas and oil. The sovernor has until ' Thursday- to act on bills. He was in Portland Tuesday so no action was expected until his late afternoon return. Cash in Blood Bank $2228.84 i Dr. Henry Morris, chairman - h pnmmunitv committee to raise $5500 for the Marion County Blood Bank to insure continuance after July 1, today ..,.Ari rpppint of S148 in the mail, making his mail receipts to date $416. This is in addition to $1671 n in rath and 3882.66 in pledges secured by Radio KG- AE in Its all day show Satur day, and also in addition to .noK iiimprt in bv the Sa lem Credit Bureau and $22.50 " Mnrth Salem Klwanis club. Dr. Morris asked all who - mnrip nlpdses IO (urn Iiavc r i I- icht awav. Total of cash in hand to date is $2228.84 and pledges soo' . t.i.i nf tail 1 50. assum .DO. It w ' Ing payment of all the pledges. U." m..i. pnri his committee . ...iinff fnr mail gifts to ?r.e.rr" -nlnnd." P.O. Box ue sen w , a.i.n. rirp.. and to organl- Mtions to take up collections at their meetings. Efforts are al so being made In other towns, as the blood bank is county wide. , ML 185avedr 2 Die In Plane Crash Prince -Rupert, B.C. (flV-A fast-moving flotilla of fish bnati rescued 18 nersons from a crashed Canadian racmc Airlines Canso in Prince Ru pert Harbor Monday but the itpwardesa and an RCMP con stable -both lost their lives. Dead -are Clara C. Langen, 26, oi Humboldt, Sask., and Const. Stephen K as per, about 26 of Allan, Sask.' Both victims were riding in the cockpit with the pilot and copilot when the twin-engin-pH amnhibian smacked own on the choDDV seas while landing. The stewardess' body was removed from the wreckage through a gaping hole in the side of the nose. Dragging nneratiom were resumed at dawn Tuesday for the body of Kasner who was thrown clear by the impact. Most of the passengers man aged to clamber out on -the wine- of the half -submerged plane and were taken to safety by the crews of the fishDoats which were at the scene with in minutes. AUSTRALIAN ELECTION SvHnpv Australia UP) Lat est returns from Australia s senatorial election last week end appeared Tuesday to as sure the Liberal-Country par v pnalltlnn envemment a tWO- seat majority in parliament's upper chamber. . Weather Details , Mlm yntniir, 11 atalanm t- ItlUllon, Mll ntrmil, ' W" hilihl, t. Ink (Bepn J " Birtms.) Balanced Budget Hoped For Washington W Treasury cAnrv HumDhrey sam TwsrtBv the budget cannot be balariced now but "1 hope we can do it during tne iiscai year" ending June 30, 1854. by "reduction every monm. Humphrey told newsmen the administration wouia De ...u in oivp conaress defi nite tax recommendations and a complete statement oi ex pected income and expendi tures by the end of next week. He said he hoped to have spending and income in bal ance by June 30, 1954, ,and said he would not rule out the oossibillty of making enough reductions to bring the hiirtupt Into balance lor me full fiscal year.' His statement conflicted with his own reported testi (Tl Mfli&i iiiii ' ;f rail V... IJ. l n mu tth Wn, DESTRUCTIVE FORCE 7j 4 4 C A i1 - fTI ' A A the northwest section of the city, damaging Lake View High School and wrecking houses. Remains of three houses shown in foregrond with high school in background. No children lh the school were killed, but eight bodies were taken from: the homes., Below, scene at nearby Waco.' Driver of auto at right was one of many motorists caught -when the tornado struck the downtown area. Autos at left were parked at the curb. The Red Cross Says at least 92 were killed iA the storm, (AP Wirephoto) v v More Effective Weapon New York () A Senate subcommittee. Tuesday was given secret plans to make the Vnirp nf America a more effec tive weapon in the cold war. Julius Ross, acting chief of the Voice's engineering divi- Dulles' Egyptian Turin, (U.R) Annrv nress at tacks on the United States and a fiery denunciation by Prem ier Mohammed Naguib of Brit ish policy today wigmea nopes that Secretary of State John truster Dnllps. here - on a trouble shooting mission might ease mid-Eastern tension. The Egyptian press accused the United States of joining Britain in a "conspiracy of evil" against Egypt. Naguib, in a policy state .nt Hppiarpd F.ffvrjt's inten tions to throw the British out of the country at all costs. , The double-barreled attack was an advance rejection of Dulles' plan for general with draw! of, British forces from Egypt and retention of the Suez Canal Zone as a Western defense base. Next Year mony at the capitol last week and with Mondays statement by Defense secretary wnson ihot thp hudeet could not be balanced until mld-lvoo. Asked about this. Mumpn o utiri he did not asree with WiWon's statement and said his own testimony was only that the budget could not be bal- nrpd "now." : f . Humphrey made his state ment after leaving a closea door meeting with the house foreisn affairs committee. He was quoted earlier as saying at a White House con ference with congressoinal leaders that spending and in come might be just about in balance by July 1. 1954. President Elsenhower has aLsd repeatedly that a tax cut must be deferred until a balanced budget is in sight. Salem, Oregon, OTMM f n i 1 3 1. I !.. .i sion, presented the plans in five documents ' wmcn were not made public. He said that any nlnn fnr future nnerations must consider the probability that "ine coin war wm ohiuuue with no lessening tension for the next five to 10 years." ' He told the Senate foreign affairs subcommitte that radio pnnld pnntlnup to be the onlv medium of mass appeal BDie to pentrate regularly and fre quently tne physical Dounuaries of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Leo Lowenthal, chief of tne Voice evaluation staff, told the aiihrnmmittee Monday that a conservative estimate of, the agency s effectiveness is tnat half of the people behind the Iron Curtain are "fairly regu lar listeners." Ross said that in "a hot war the tremendous Soviet jam mlno svstem" would have great value in disrupting American and Allied civilian ana military communications. . Ross said he imdprstnd that every Russian division has asigned to it two electronic companies w 1 1 n equipment to jam radio com munications of its enemies. - Ross also told Sen. Hicken looper R., Ia., chairman, and Sen. Green D., R. I., that no magical machine now in exist ence in fullv canabie oi cancell ing the effectiveness of "the been set up by the Commun ists." Russell Raps Ike's Farm Plan Wa.Vilntffnn IIP Spn. RuS .eii m r.a Tuesday assailed President Eisenhower's plan to reorganize the Department ui Agriculture. n.pll mid itn aDoroval by pnnffress would be "the most xnmnlele ahdlpatlon OI lesisitt tlve responsibility ever made hv ihlt hndv." Russell swung the full weight nf hi influence against tne plan, the second sent to con gress by tne new presioem. Ho wm loinea dv aen. iumi ton (D.. S.C.) who said the nrnnnaosl renrffflnlZAtion WOUld a give tne secretary oi ngnvui- dire "nnhr rllea nower. The plan would authorize Secretary Renson to shift and reclassify the various agencies and functions oi tne Agncui ture Department. lm v Tuesday, May 12, 19 Clark Presents New Truce Offer On Prisoners Panmnnlom () Gen. Mark Clark arrived In Korea Tues day with a new truce counter proposal which a Sonth Korean official said might "modify or reject" the communist plan to pnt Poland and Cseehoslovakla on a prisoner repatriation com mission.' This official, in a position to know, said the Far East com mander's plan might be pre sented Tuesday and also would: 1. "Modify or reject" the communist proposal to bring into Korea armed forces of the five powers on repatriation commision. 2.' Reduce the period of mak ing "explanations" to the reluc tant Chinese and North Korean prisoners to 60 days. The com munist plan calls for four months. v v Counter Plan Offered There was no official con firmation of the report. The of ficial was described, however, as a reliable source. - The official . said Clark's counter plan for settling the prisoner issue, which' blocks the armistice was "rather sat isfactory." , (Concluded en Page (. Ctliunu 4) ROK Repulse ' Seoul- () One thousand Chinese Communists . early Tuesday overran Outpost Tex as and two other Allied, strong points in Central Korea, but counterattacking South Ko reans drive the Reds back to their own lines. i The battle shattered a week- long lull along the rain-soaked battie front ROK infantrymen said at least 175 Chinese were killed. The Chinese swarmed out of their bunkers and hit Texas and four other outposts behind a heavy artillery and mortar barrage, tne JSigntn Army said. The ROKs lost Texas and two other outposts In two hours of savage fighting, at times hand to hand. South Ko rean Infantryman still clung to the two other hills when the counterattack smashed the Red assault, the army said. The muddy battlefront was quiet alsewhere. Rain and overcast grounded most Allied warplanea. Renews Fight For Ice Harbor Washington, Ut) Rep. Hol mes (K., wasnj asicea con gress Tuesday to appropriate money to begin construction of Ice Harbor Dam. Noting that engineering studies indicate the Snake River power project could be completed within three years, Holmes told a House ap propriations subcommittee: It would necessarily zui part of the power gap that exists now and will continue to exist even in the face of construction of The Dalles Dam." He said Ice Harbor would in sure adequate and dependable ervice to the Hanford Engi neering works, independent of other Northwest needs. The congressman, who testi fied at a closed-door session of the committee, asked no -spe cific amount. Instead, ne hadopted what he called "the foot in the door" approacn in recognition that President Ei senhower's budget proposals includes no money for the project. Pope for Meeting Of World Powers Vatican City (U.BPope Plus XII called today for a confer ence of big world powers as an "indispensable first step to ward assuring world peace." He expressed hope they would get together for "f,rank" discussions. . The pontiff addressed 150 fore! an correspondents In the Vantican's Consistorial Hall. rw fjami i v. . : v Myes I ke Selects N ew Top Military Commanders For United States Forces Washington - W President Eisenhower Tuesday picked an entirely new top military com mand for the United States and tapped a Navy man Adm. Arthur W. Radford to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hawaii's Hope Gof Set Back Washington WV-The Senate Interior Committee voted Tues day to consolidate Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood bills and to hold hearings on the com bined measure. , ;. , The decision was a sharp set back to Hawaii's hopes for ear ly final congressional enact ment of legislation to make the islands the '49th state. A Ha waiian statehood bill already has passed the house. The motion to consolidate the bill with one to give Al aska statehood was made in the senate committee by Sen. Anderson (D-, N.M.). , It carried 8 to 7. ..... The - vote followed ' party lines, with republicans voting against the motion and demo crats lor it, except that Sen, Malene (R., Nev.) joined the democrat. In voting for the combined hearinffs. . v Sn Cnrdnn tnld ' newsmen uc wuiuu- kuguuk hearings "Just as soon as I can get mem set." ne aaia n nugm be as early as next week. US. Attitudes London (if) Clement Attlee, opposition leader in the house of commons, cnargea xuesaay "there are elements in the United States that do not want a settlement" in Korea. - These elements, Attlee said, want an all out war with Com munist China and against com munism in general. He also observed: "One often wonders who is more powerful, President Ei senhower or Sen. McCarthy." The former prime minster, leader in. the labor party, spoke in commons debate key noted by Prime Minister Chur chill's appeal Monday for a conference of world leaders aimed at peace. Attlee called for the seating of Communist China on the United Nations Security Coun cil an action the , United States has firmly resisted. Na tionalist China holds the seat now, with the -veto i power. Prime Minister Churchill, in tervened to say: "Not while actual fighting in Korea is go ing on." Attlee replied: "No; soon aft er the armistice." MRS. L. D. HUTT DIES Albany, N. Y. OP) Mrs. Lee Davis Hutt, 73, mother of Mrs,. Thomas E. Dewey, died Tues day in New York state's execu tive mansion after a lengthy illness; Treasury Rejects Bonds Fate Value Washington VP) Deputy Secretary of the Treasury W. Randolph Burgess Tuesday re jected a demand from 19 Demo crats In the House and the Sen ate that the federal reserve system be required to support government securities at face value. , The demand, presented In a House resolution, would, if ac cepted, bring about easier credit conditions which are the opposite of the Elsenhower ad ministration's ."hard money- policy. Burgess, in a speech prepar ed for the convention of (tie National Association of Mutual Savings Bank executives, said it is "the first rule of treasury policy today that the federal reserve system shall be free to Price 5c In the sweep, not to become fully effective until August Radford will take over the chairman's post from . Gen. Omar N. Bradley. He will be the first admiral to hold it. . Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway will turn his European defense command over to Lt. Gen. Al fred M. Gruenther and return here to-be Army chief of staff, succeeding Gen. J. Lawton Col lins. ', . ;.. . : . Adm. Robert B. Carney will succeed Adm. William B. Fech- teller as chief of naval opera tions. A shift in the top Air Force post previously had been an nounced. Last week, the presi dent nominated ' Gen. Nathan Twining to succeed Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg as Air Force chief of staff. The White House said the North ' Atlantic . Council al ready has approved Gruenther to succeed Ridgway as su preme commander of North Atlantic forces in Europe. (Continued on Pate 5. Column 5) ,.r.w, i. ,n t .t.i.ti. "i'.t'C I "' "':..-" . 1 v. 1 OmV DIOG. ' 1 " - r" . cAna Allpn .1 K.upnnp.r 1 L).. U. nd Harry F. Byrd (D., y. congress has no bust- ness. ?"nS MA2L-:5 is balanced.- Others raised "go slow" Warnings. -- The senate judiciary commit tee yesterday approved a bill which would give members of congress and most federal judg es a $10,000 a year pay boost at a cost of about f,uuu,vuv. year. -, . -t - The bill would also increase the pay. and set up a new com pensation system, for U. S. at torneys and prohibit them from engaging in private law prac tice. Attorneys pay would be set at the discretion of the at torney general between $12, 000 and $20,000 a year. , 7 Freed Americans Leave for Germany Moscow' VP) A special U. S. plane bearing seven Americans freed from North Korean in ternment camps took off Tues day for Germany, en route home to the United States. The liberated Internees are due to arrive in New York Wednes day. ' The newly freed Americans five Methodist missionaries, Catholic Maryknoll priest and a former State Department official arrived here Monday after a long train ride across Siberia. LUCE IN SOUTH ITALY Rome VP) U. S. Ambassador Clare Baothe Luce left Rome Tuesday for a three-day tour of Southern Italy. It is her first trip outside Rome since she took up her duties April 22. Support exercise its policy without In terference." The Democratic legislators said the tighter money policy should be reversed because it has resulted in rising interest rates, and, they said, will bring on spreading price declines, Burgess is deputy to secre tary of the Treasury Humphrey for department management, and, as such, is the chief archi tect for the lsennower admin istration's fiscal policies. Burgess said the administra tion's money policy is guided by House and Senate commit tee studies under Democratic leadership on how to bring about economic stability. One of the study groups was head ed by Rep. Patman D., Tex, who Monday introduced the resolution for a change in money policy. F IN A L EDITION MoreTornadoes Predicted for Areas in Texas Waco, Tex. (Pi Martial law was declared here Tuesday as the death roll from three Texas tornadoes reached 92. The U.S. Weather Bureau warned more tornadoes may occur in a 'wide Texas area later in the day. Rescue workers digging with bare hands and bulldozers into wreckage of downtown Waco buildings reduced to rubble by tornado Monday had found 61 bodies by late morning. Eight were dead at San An- gelo and three were reported killed, between Red Lake and Fairfield in East Texas. May Reach 100 In Waco The death list could climb to 100 in Waco. Fifty persons were reported missing, includ ing an estimated 20 still believ ed trapped in a pool hall from whose debris the bodies of sev eral young men already had been extricated.. A broken water line had flooded the basement oi the R. T. Dennis building here, one of the principal structures level ed, and rescue workers fought to reach the basement where some people were believed trapped, t ;-, , .,vi :-;, .:....'. Guards with carbine and .45 revolvers patrolled the down town business section where fantastic . mounds of rubble were probed. It seemed , that every time bulldozer took bite into the rubble more bo- 1 Atom J1m1a.aJ . . 1 A Baylor University protes- I 7. m . j . I - wile wer among th idcntiiii at dead. Their bodies were car. destroyed by bricks top. nlins from the Dennis building. Bodies ,of, thxeejmidentifie4 ,. girls of high school age were found in a parked car where they had been sitting. ? Cold, hard ram fell steadily at Waco and cannon-like thun der reminded rescuers of the Weather Bureau warning,, of "severe weather" and the pos sibility of more tornadoes, j' (Continued on Pare Column 4) in . Rescue Work ; Waco, Tex. VP) Hundreds of grimy, weary men used bare hands and giant bulldozers Tuesday In a grim race to cheat death. . i - . ' They dug into two horrible and grotesque mounds of rub ble the remains of what had been part of Waco's downtown section in hopes of finding life beneath. On one score they succeeded about dawn. Still unanswered was the question of how many people lay beneath the chewed wreckage and whether they were alive, dead or hurt. They succeeded at o:4S a.m. In freeimr Millie Matkln, who for nearly 14 hours was trapped the smashed and llattenea debris of what had been the five-story R. T. Dennis build ing in the heart of the business district of this city of about 90,000. i Miss Matkln bad been trap-- ped behind a divan a solid piece of furniture which proved a safety pocket when the storra, smashed the structure. Portland Woman Unhurt in Tornado ; Portland VP) An simateur radio message from Waco, Tex., to the Associated Press here reported Tuesday morn ing that Mrs. Gladys Last, Portlan, vice-chairman of the Oregon democratic committee, was uninjured in the Monday tornado. The message said "Myself and all of family safe." The office of the Oregon Democrat reported that Mrs. Last was visiting relatvles at Waco but just who accompa nied her from here was not known at that office. . WILL STEAL ' , TO PAY FINE Toronto u.B Emery Turner 48, fined $50 for drunkenness, told Magistrate F. C. Cullen lt wouldn't do any good. "Now I'll just have to go out and steal," he said. Hi r