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PARTIAL CLEARING, few
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Wednesday, partly deedy,
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65th Year, No. 119
2 Saltm, Ortgon, Tuesday, May 19, 1953
Delay Urged ,
In Hew Prison
Cell Building
': Gladden Wants Con
struction Finished to
Eliminate Hide-Outs
' Br JAMES D. OLSON
5 Delay at eonrtractloa of tat
prop cd mw cell Mock at the
tat penitentiary an til present
eoastnsctioa werk la completed
wae arged by Warden Clarence
Gladden at the weekly meeting
of the board of control Toes
day. - "At present there Is so much
debris laying about It provides
excellent hide-outs for toe
prisoners," Gladden said. '1 am
anxious to see the work under
progress completed as quickly
as possible and would oppose
the beginning oi any new work
at the Institution until this is
done."
Partitions Approved
The board approved pro
posal by E. F. Hauserman com
pany for the installation of
steel partitions in the class
rooms in the administration
building of the prison. The cost
of the partitions will total $40.
767. i Warden Gladden also said
that as soon as facilities are
provided he favored a change
In handling admittance of new
prisoners.
, The warden said that under
the procedure which has been
followed and which he wishes
to terminate as soon as pos
sible, new prisoners have been
given instructions by prisoners.
Weald Isolate New Men .
The plan favored by the war
den would Isolate the new pris-
oners from the prison popula
tion for 30 days and all Instruc
tions would be Issued by prison
officials.
- The new prisoners would
then know what they
supposed to do" he said.
(Centbraeg ea Page ft. Cabana t)
Civil Rights Bill
Areferendum attack against
the 1 1953 Legislature's civU
rights bill was launched here
Tuesday with the filing of a
petition with the secretary of
state.
If the sponsors get 23.375 slg-
natures on their petitions, the
bill would go on the Nov. 1954
general election ballot. Other
wise, the bill would become aw
next July 21.
The, bill makes It illegal for
public eating, lodging and
amusement places to discriml-
nate against any person because
of his race or religion.
Sponsors of the referendum
movement are members of the
"Civil Freedom Committee,'
apparently an organization cre
ated to fight the civU right
biU.
' Signers of the petition are
John E. Reynolds, Portland afc
torney; Elbert D. Rlddlck, Fort-
land, president of tnt commit,
tee: Wayne R. Leland, secre
tarv: Don B. Card, treasurer;
C. R, Weede, all of Portland;
and L. R. Hendershott, Aloha.
. It is the first referendum at
tack against any bill passed by
the recent Legislature.
Showers Predicted
For Next 2 Days
. Due to the heavy showers
of rsin through Monday, rain
fall for May is now above the
normal fall for the month to
date. 1.37 inches being meas
tired against a normal of 1.24
Inches for the period.
In the 24-hour period' end
ing at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, .39
of an inch of precipitation was
measured here. This added to
the .19 of an inch measured to
10:30 a.m. Monday makes a
total of .68 for the current
storm.
. The five-day forecast out
Tuesday morning calls for
showers through Wednesday
and Thursday, temperatures to
range in the 60s for afternoons
and in the 40s at night, and
Usher temperatures due the
latter part of tee week.
QUAKES RECORDED
" v.w York. MV-The Ford-
ham University seismograph
ih1m1 two "fairly sharp
.rth shocks Monday night
hmit 5.200 miles from New
York. The direction wa
determined.
foil Powerful
Aide Dial
Jars IScvada
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Brilliant Explosion
Rattles Windows
200 Miles Away
Las Versa. Nev. ( Am
atomic blast as pewertal as a
minor earthqaake flared over
the Nevada dessert belere
dawa Taeaday.
. It was the last conventional
shot before the long-heralded
firing of a -nuclear projectile
from a cannon next Monday
ends the 1953 spring series.
The unusually bright explo
sion rattled windows- in
Bishop, Calif., 200 miles away.
Microbarographic wave-re
cording machines there show
ed 12 distinct shocks follow
ing the detonation. Bishop
police said the flash and re
sultant ground rumbles were
the strongest ever felt there.
Buildings in this gambling
community 75 miles from the
atomic proving ground also
were shaken, but there was
no report of damage.
Cannon Firing Monday
The atomic energy commis
sion's test organization an
nounced after the blast that
the first atomic cannon shot
will be fired next Monday
from a 280 mm. artillery
piece. , .
(ConMaaei ea Page a, Cetaasa 4)
Pilot less Plane
Flies in Fireball
Las Vegas A A pilotless
Navy plane made the first suc
cessful flight into the turbu-
lent thermal envelope sur
rounding an atomic fireball to
day as the Atomic Energy Com
mission shot off the "jlnxed"
ninth blast in its current test
series.
The test, postponed four
times because of excessive ra
diatlon and unfavorable wea
ther, appeared to rank with
the strongest atomic explosion
ever set off on Yucca Fiat, as
miles northwest of here.
Its brilliant flash momen
tarily blinded observers at the
9.000-foot level on Mt Charles
ton, 35 miles away, and the
AEC said its jarring shock was
registered on seismographs at
Pasadena, Calif., 300 miles to
the west
THIS DEER BAGGED WITHOUT GUN
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Auto Kills Spike!
DeeratSuver
Dallas Try to find 'em
when you've got a gun. So run
the thoughts of Fred Daniels.
- Monday night about 7:45 he
was driving south on highway
99-W with his wife and aon,
when suddenly, about one mile
north of Suver, four deer start
ed across the highway.
Fred Daniel derived little satisfaction when he bagged
this velvet spike horned buck with his car near Suver
Monday night. The car was so badly damaged that it had ,
to be towed away and the carcass of the deer was turned
over to state police.
Washington (ff) Idaho Pow
er Co. asked the Power Com-
wIhIab nViaitaw 4tm at 1lnnest
In spite of evasive action, the K w ., AmmM
Daniels car collided with one taom the gn.ke Ri- at
,!.. YJ. total cost of $109,395,600,
age to the car ana permanent
damage to the deer.
Luckily, no other cars
came involved, and none of the
persons In the car. was injured.
The car was towed to Dallas
where state police took charge
of the carcass of the deer.
Idaho Power Applies
For Dams on
did
British Given
Seattle Ord:r
Floods Cut off
Louisiana City
New Orleans u Sullen
clouds hovered low over the
Gulf coast today as rescue
workers evacuated more than
2,300 families in the path of
boiling floods and counted at
least five persons dead in the
wake of a mighty storm. '
The Red Cross rushed emer
gency aid to Alexandria In cen
tral Louisiana where the city
of 35,000 was virtually cut off
by the rising Red river, and
flood waters of the Sabine riv
er reached record levels while
spreading over a width of al
most 20 miles.
Two Negro boys drowned at
Lebeau, La., when swept up by
flood waters as they walked
along a highway- yesterday.
Two other persons were killed
in a cave-in along the Missis
sippi river and another died as
high winds ripped Galveston,
Tex.
John
Roves atttcKay
Washington ) John I
Lewis says Secretary of the
Interior McKay'i plan to place
Tom Lvon of Salt Lake City
at the head of the Bureau of
Mines Is "a diabolical out
rage and political crime
against the whole mining pop
ulation." .
Lewis conferred with Mc-
London lV-A British firm1
has won an order fdr $101,600
worth of electric power cables
from fruttle-f City ugnt, oe-
partment, It waa wawnos
her Tuesday-
The Ktlfi Henley Telegraph
Works company of London said
it was awarded the contract In
comnetltlon with U. S. firms
"undoubtedly because ox tne
very favorable price and de
livery date quoted
The nearest American bid
to supply the 67,000 feet oi
cables was reported ; to be
153,076. ,
Considerable interest was
aroused here by the award of
Kay Monday and later tola the U. S. contract because ox
newsmen he had voiced the Department of Defense's
astonishment at the secretary recent rejection of a bottom
of interior . wanting human bid by the English Electric io.
blood of coal miners on his to supply electrical equip
ment for the Chief Joseph dam
in Washington State,
Kidnaped Boy
; Weather Details
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aiki. i '- ert w"
Found in ll.Y.
hands as may come from hsv
Ins the bureau headed by
comparative ignoramus."
McKay commented: "I i
lust as much interested in hu
manity and the welfare of the
miners as John L. Lewis.
A month ago McKay said
he had recommended Lyon to
the White House. Lewis con
tends Lyon, a geologist with Washington W A two-
metal mining experience, year-old boy found wandering
knows nothing of coal mining ,ione in a New, York zoo has
and that 88 per cent'ot aU been Identified as one of two
miners are coal miners. I children Dossibly kidnaped
from a Washington apartment
Friday night
I mmm IftAlrlntf fnr the
Albuquerque W A million i K.K . ..var-old
dollar fire, which started late ed and for , gap.
Monday nignt nq oiazeo oui wom,n in a red dress
of control untU early Tuesday, lh0 wu impromptu
Harry Poth, a power com
pany lawyer, told a reporter
the dams would take tne ptaee
of other previously planned
by the concern. It has been con
testing wita tne teaerai govern
ment for the right to harness
the mighty Snake. ; (
Proposals for construction of
a 560-million dollar Hells Can
yon project by the federal gov
ernment are pending in
freaa. .;, - ;
Secretary of the Interior
McKay earlier this month an
nounced' he was withdrawing
Interior Department opposi
tion to Idaho Power Co. a plan
to build a aeries of Snake Biv
r power pMnta, reversing
Truman administration a ta n
in favor of public instead of
private development.
Of the two dams proposed
Tuesday by Idaho Power, one
to be known as Hells Canyon
hydroelectric . devel o p m e n t,
would cost $45,800,800. It
would have two transmission
lines not included in the. cost
estimate to extend upstream to
Oxbow, a 323.400.00 project
for which Idaho Power has al
ready sought a license from
the commission.
The other project to be
known as Brownless would be
on the Idaho-Oregon line and
would cost $63,594,800. :
Poth said the eliminated pro
jects are Bayhorse, Sturglll and
Washington m Oea, Mat
thew B. Bldg var testified Taea
day that Western Europe can-
sot take ever Hi ewa defease
alone ia the foreseeable fa-
taiV '
The retiring commander of
North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation forces also told the Sen
ate Foreign Relatione commit
tee that the Russian "peace of
fensive" is putting brakes on
the military build-up of the
free world through Its effect on
public opinion in EuropA. .
Appearing in support of the
administration's 5,800.0t0,000
foreign aid program for the
year beginning July X, Bidg-
way said "it ia going to take a
long time to develop self-sufficiency
In the military field" to
that American troop can come
home. - ..':-u ' ' '"' 'J't '
Cent See Whea
When he was NATO com
mander, President Eisenhower
spoke hopefully of being sole
to begin U. S. troop with
drawals some time in 1934.
Sen. Gillette D., Iowa, asked
It the European Defense Com
munity could take over West
ern Europe's defenses an
when U comes into being or
shortly thereafter. , , . ,
(Oeatlaad ea Vaae i. Oelaani )
Assault by tXCCSS PrCHi
7600 Chmsse
Seoul F) . Poasibly 1,600
Chinese Reda struck la Central
and Eastern Korea Tuesday and
were thrown back with 400
casualties' in a flareup . of
ground fighting Just aa the hot
air war turned suddenly cold.
lllj
Waaahurtea m Presiaaat
Ilseakewer Taeeday dlaeleaei
tax
exeeas areflai
Republic of Korea troops 1 7rT7, .?7.,!l VvlZ
.M..V. .hhi, ladirldaaj - tacena taxe a
ZtZ, I rreeeat rate aatfl that daK
nnit' and it mw nnici HI program was laid
division that turned back the I01 COP congressional lead
heaviest onslaught In the east t.WWto House eonfer-
The 30th ROK division bat- ence ana immeaiateiy ran m-
tled the Conuiuniats to B I w important opposition.
standstill when 800 or morel' Chairman Reed (R N, Y.)
Reds hit west of the Mundanglof the tax-writing house vaya
Valley, then threw them back, and mean rommlttee told i
The veteran Sth ROK dm-1 porters "not a tMiur hano
Hon max win -coia steei tne ed at the White House i
second Communist attack by to change his determination
about 780 men on the scarred that the excess profits . tax
height of Sniper Ridge and must die- June 10. or hW be
itocxy roun on tot ventral l lief that individual
xros t.
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MILLION DOLLAR FIRE
ill
the "Old Brownlee."
Asks Action on
Power
jEppPrcniicr
Premier Snigeru Yoatuaa was
re-elected to- the house of rep
resentatives today and won
the right to form his fifth
postwar cabinet and his fourth
government in a row.
The 74-year-old Liberal
party leader defeated Mamoru
Shigemitsu, Progressive party
president and wartime foreign
minister, by a vote of 304 to
118, on the second ballot. ' "
Yoshlda was returned to of
fice when nearly one third of
the legislators abstained from
the voting in the hostile lower
house of parliament.
Left and right wing social
1st either abstained or cast
blank votes on the deciding
second ballot rather than sup
port either of the two conserv
ative candidates. - ' -
Despite his re-election, Yo
shlda lacks a majority in the
taxe ought- to be cut
than July 1 whea they
due under existing lav
drop about 10 per cent.
Reed ta Fight for Carb
Rer! la a key figure la the
matter alnce bis committee
normally must start, all tax
bill thro ugh eougreae. s"d it
wiuwu --lta roitlnua th uni wofHa
tax.
The committee can be by
passed by varioua parliaounv
Ml W .k IT-Hul 1 "
vu un ymmt l ternattres. - t
would Begin releasing iLoreHn
prisoners unless taa neoa
At present, tne united w-1n.t. f i a t tt . r
nons commana mui e.uvuiMW unk umj iMaa
nana ivonran ana e,auu react and Ppnvrt.
nese communist prisoners, wno I The excess profits
In Truce Tc!!(s
Hons unexpectedly extended
the Korean truce talk recess to
next Monday .today amid
illation that America's AUlee
eaten-vi- 'i'- -' HI
Isenhowef ' called h ;1
greaaloval leaders -t t ' I
C a xad.0 Mtrave t k la
'ttittf i
V) i
gutted the Sears, Roebuck and
company department store in
downtown Albuquerque. Po
lice investigated the possibil
ity of arson.
No Budget Action
Taken on Pay Hikes
By FRED ZIMMERMAN
Members of the Marion
county budget committee,
delving into statistics for the
second consecutive day, ad
journed at noon Tuesday with
out taking up the matter of
an Increase in salaries for ei
ther elected or appointive persons.
Without determination on
the salary issue, most of the
recomendatlons of the various
officials were left hanging in
the air except for non contro
versial items.
Loyal Warner who Joined
the committee Tuesday morn
ing, expressed the opinion that
the time was fast approaching
when ' political sub-divisions
would have to trim their ex
penditures so that they would
fall below the lawful elx per
cent increase allowed by law,
"What would happen if wt
babv sitter for a few minutes
before all disappeared.
The FBI said It was looking
into the case, because of the
possibility of violation ox lea
eral law.
The children are those of
Clifton Euiene Bradford, . a
Washington mechanic, and hi
wife. The Bradfords - said
they didn't know the woman;
the husband said he met her
in a beer parlor and took her
home with him,
Memorial for
Judge Arthur Hay
Memorial services for the
though Judge Hartley reminded U , Supreme Court
T17.M.. 4he, Anla arma 11 tusrw I UllaX IS. HbVF taa , w a-
centage of eligible voter turn- ta the Supreme Court chambers
ed out recently to psss Judg- bera Wednesdsy at 10 Jn.
ment on a school budget that Chief Justice Earl C. Latour-
antajHawl mftM than 1700.000 be- ette will preside.
vend the alx per cent llmita-1 Friends of tne jaie jurist
Uon. have been invited to attend.
Henry C. Mattson, county
the in-
which to provide
creases?" he asked.
Judge Rex Hartley replied,
"We would be faced with the
necessity of curtailing
ices." There was no further
discussion along this line, al-
PARIS TRANSPORT TIED CP
Pari (ff The Paris trans-
clerk, asked for a salary in
crease of 3800 for himself.
I I ft.,. I AAA m
, .rut taTrVV port tem-aubway .nd
1 - n. -Imhar. f M I busses wsi crippled again
.w eian and aaked Tuesday by a 24-hour strike.
.. v. u .ti hira a I The strike called by the com-
.n..h at tinnn a I munlst-rua General ' uoor
- - ' Federation.
Washington (fl Congress
was asked Monday to make an
early decision on plans lor ad
ditional power facilities in the
Pacific Northwest.
C. A. Erdahl. chairman of
the Pacific Northwest Utilities
Conference Committee, told a
Senate appropriations subcommittee:
"Let us know soon if you are
not going to continue with
these projects so that we can
get ready to take up the slack."
Erdahl said private and pub
lic power groups which make
up the Northwest power pool
will continue to oo an in men
power to provide for the area's
ro wine needs. But he said the
day is coming when loads of
Northwest Public agencies may
require the full output of exist
ing federal plants. '
In such event the federal
government will find itself with
no recourse out ine renegotia
tion of industrial contracts
should the construction of ad
ditional power generating fa
cilities be limited by lack of
appropriations."
Wilsonville Road
Contract Awarded
The State Highway Commis
sion, meeting in Portland Tues
day, took action on the West
Portland-Hubbard section
the new Wilsonville route.
The lob call for widening,
eroding and paving. 3.4 miles
on the Portland end of the
route.
Rogers Construction, Inc..
Portland submitted the li
bid of 481,885'
all powerful house of repre
sentatives and face a turDu-
Ient political future. .
Emigh on Mission to
St. Mary's College
George Emigh, training of
ficer for Oregon Civil Defense
agency, left today for the fed
eral training center at Saint
Mary's college in California to
help instruct at a three-day
conference. -
Emigh, who has been with
the state agency for two years.
will teach a course called "Civ-
11 Defense Training Priorities." I since World War U.
do not wish to be repatriated.
Sources hinted the "final"
Allied plan, a reviled edition
of the 28-polnt . formula for
settling the war prisoner dead
lock which the Communist
Jected, closely resembled the
Indian proposal approved by
hte United Nations General As
sembly in New York last De
cember.
Iran Expels AP
Correspondent
Tehran. Iran 1) The gov
ernment announced Tuesday It
is expelling Marc Purdue, As
sociated Press eorrepondent,
for sending abroad what It call
ed "false and provocative news
against the Interests of Iran."
Hosseln Fatemi, foreign min
ister, said Purdue has received
notice to leave Iran within
three days. He gaveno details
of the government's charge.
Purdue is the latest of a
number of foreign correspon
dent to be expelled from Iran
since the government took over
the holdings of the Anglo-Iran
ian Oil company. He ha been
in this country since last Sep
tember. Purdue's home is In Evan-
ville. Ind. He has been a mem
ber of the AP's foreign staff
Last Red Invaders
Leave Laos Kingdom
Hanoi, Indochina Uf) The
last Communist Invaders of
Laos were reported on the way
out of the little mountain Indo-
Chinese kingdom Tuesday.
French-Laotian force were
said to be in pursuit, but appar
ently with no great prospect
of catching them.
French officials said the
Communis t-led V 1 e t m i n h '
crack 304th division wa mov
ing east and southeast, presum
ably heading for the coast oi
An nam and territory long held
by rebel chief Ho Chi Minn's
forces.
This was the route over
which the division, commanded
by Red - China-trained Gen.
Hoang Minn Tao, knifed into
Lao more than a month ago
In support of three other rebel
division driving into the king
dom from North Ylet Nam.
Vletmlnh force advanced to
within sight of the royal Lao
tian residence city of Luang
Prabang and then withdrew
without a battle. Mora thaa
week ago, the other three rebel
divisions quit Lao, pulling
back over the kingdom' north
ern frontier into the Black Riv
er district of Northwestern In
dochina.
French sources seeking rea
son for the surprising with
drawal have (peculated that
the Invasion may have been
called off on orders from the
Soviet Union and Red China
a a part of the Communist
'peace drive."
Other explanations advanc
ed have been the start of the
monsoon rain, with their crip
pling affect on military oper
ation, or a breakdown In the
long Vletmlnh supply chain of
thousand of coolie packing
supplies on their back
mountain and Jungle trail.
teat
brings the government about
2tt billion dollar a year. ..
( Capita d eai ae I, Cslaaia H
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Washington CJ The Sea
ate Tuesday voted down, 45 to
41, a proposal to give the Presa
dent power to freeze wages.
prices and rent for SO day ia
the event of a grave national
emergency.
The stand-by freeze author
lty bitterly contested by Sen.
Taft, R-, Ohio who said Presi
dent Elsenhower didn't want il
was sponsored by Sen. Cape
hart, R., Ind- chairman of tt
Banking Committee.
It was the first vote taken by
the Senate on a bill to extend
the Defense Production Act ta .
curtailed form.
The vote actually was on aa
amendment by Sea. Byrd D
Va to limit the President" a .
freeze authority to an actual
declaration of war or after a
concurrent resolution by Con-
greet. -.:
The Byrd amendment waa
adopted by the roll call vote
Winnie Ordersl
Talks Cabled
London WP) Prime Minister
Winston Churchill has ordered
full texts of hi own and oppo
sltlon leader Clement Attlee'a
foreign affair speeches to be
cabled to the United State to
avoid future transatlantic spar
ring matches.
He indicated in ta nous ox
Common the order ha gone
out a a result of criticism la
the United State of speeches
last week by himself and Att
lee. Newspaper report ox Ate
lee' speech aroused strong re
sentment in the united Btatee,
British sources blamed muca
of the ruckus on the fact no
on in Washington had the full
text
In hi speech AtUee said
there were elements la the
United State that did not want
a Korean settlement, and that
''sometime on wondered whe
ther who was more powerful,
the President or Sen. McCar
thy." In reolv. Sen. McCarthy OU
WU.) accused Attic of making .
aa "Insulting" speech aad said
the United States wu tntiUed
to aa apology
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