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. ,
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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
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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
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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
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