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65th Year, No. 127
2' ' Saltm, Oregon, Thursday, May 23, 1953
mVlhvcnton 2 Driliih Ship!
LONDON'S NEWSPAPER ROW LIKE A FAIRYLAND
r
To Attend Dsn
Dedication
Many Notables to
Take Part in Detroit
Ceremony June 10
y J AMIS D. OLSON
Carried Troops
Of Red China
ip fin n to rv
700.
- Fits Mrtawwt geTeraen,
the chief f IM en of easl
inn together with amain ken
f thi Willamette River basta
eemmiasioa will Jola wltk Sac
rotary at the laterier DeaglaS
McKay ta tlx dedicatioa of the
fit mllliea Detrelt
Jane 1.
, Governor! who indicated in-
Mention of being present In-
- dude Arthur B. Langlle of
Washington, Len Jordan of
Idaho, J. Hugo Aronton of
Montana, C. J. (Doc) Rogers
of Wyoming and Oregon's own
Paul L Patterson. .
Army Hea Dm
Major General Samuel D.
Sturgii, Jr, chief of army engi
neer! from Washington, D.C.,
win take part in the dedicatory
- ceremony, marking the first
time that the chief of army en
gineers has been on the project
since dam construction was in-
. Mated in March, 1848.
-, With General Sturgis will be
, Cot Emerson C. Itsch, North
Pacific division engineer and
r'r.l T W T.lnummh Mmtrtr
I . engineer of the Portland dis-
; trict which embraces Detroit
" dam and other dam projects In
j the Willamette river basin.,
I . ' Many Ce-eperato . .
(Oeattaaa ea Pace S,
Forest Roads
f low Qucgrrares
: PrinevDle tff) Continuing
,. heavy rains have turned forest
roads into quagmires, halted
logging trucks and shut down
sawmills. .... - ; -
, Ochoco Lumber Co. and Hud
. p e t b - Pine, -lac-, rcawstod
Thursday that they- had shut
. down because ox lack 01 logs. ;
. Pine Products Corp. reported
closure of a small mill at Post,
. south of here, and said its main
. mill would be closed Monday
If there are no more logs.
Five hundred men will be af
fected by the clotures.
Rain in thii region In the past
10 days has totaled about three
- inches. ;
: Once the rains quit,, several
days will be needed to make
roads usable by trucks.
McKay's Policy
On Parks Stated
Washington U Interior
Secretary Douglat McKay laid
today the period of creating
big national parks is over, but
that he had no sympahty for
whittliifg down any of present
national park acreage. .
McKay said he believed the
more than 12,000,000 acres
now act aside in the form of 18
national parks in the United
States and its territories Is suf
ficient to provide American
v uriiti with the scenic won
ders and recreation for which
the lands have been preserved
by the federal government.
. However, McKay said it
would be up to the ttatet to add
new park acreage under their
. own park agencies, or even for
r counties wltnin states.
f Reynaud Fails
In Cabinet Bid
I Paris UK Wartime leader
Paul Raynaud failed in his
' comeback bid for the French
' nromiershlo today as the Na
tional Assembly rejected hit
drastic plan to cure a "sick"
vFrance. -
" The assembly refused Key
naud's request to become
France'! 18th postwar premier
by a 18 vote margin, leaving
France without t top adminis
trative official.
President Vincent Aurlol
was expected to turn next to
Georges Bidault, former pre
mier and foreign minister. In
an effort to end the govern
kaent critll which started a
week ago with the tall of Rene
Mayer's cabinet.
Weather Details
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State Department
. Confirms Reports
: From Hong Kong
Washington m The 8tate
Department eeaflrawd Thars-
day it has evideaee that tee
ships ewaei er pen ted by
British Heng Keag firms trams
ported Chlaaas Ceatmaaiit
troops aleag the Chlaa eeast
doling the Korean War.
It named them as the Peri
co, registered by Wallem and
Co. Ltd., of British Hong
Kong, and the Miramar, then
owned by Wheelock Marden
and Co., alto of Hong Kong. ,
; The report was msde pub
lic at a newi conference by
Sen. Mundt (R.-S.D.), acting
chairman of the Senate inves
tigations subcommittee which
had requested it
New TJp to Britain
Mundt said the report leaves
"the next iter up to the Brit
ish now." He said it answers
their contentions that prior
testimony concerning the ship
incidents was too vague.
(Cantnaed ea rase t. Catena 11
Find No Trace of
Lost Bomber
North Bend. Ore. (ft Search
planes were turned back by
clouds from the Salmon Moun
tain area south of herein their
quest Thursday fop a missing
Canadian borooer ana its crew
of 10.. . .. - ; .-
There was nope, though, that
the clouds would lift later in
the day and a score of planes
were poised to Join in the hunt
Among the search craft were
three Lancaster! from the mis
sing plane'! squadron. They
were ordered from their Co-
mox base on Vancouver Island
late Wednesday, .
. -j ue Dig ' uuisaum puum
were to concentrate on over-
water search pattern! while
lighter craft covered the dense
ly wooded wild! inland from
the southwestern Oregon coast.
A ground party returned
Wednesday night with a nega
tive report on its search for a
trace of the missing plane. -
Strike Closes
Portland Stores
Portland UP) A strike
nlnat one store chain led to
cloture Thursday ol scorei ox
grocery storei in Portland.
Others were operating with
skeleton crewi of lupervisory
employe!.
The AFL Grocery Clerkt
went on strike Wednesday
against the Fred Meyer chain
of 12 storei. Store owners
banded together In three em
plover associations began
sending their clerks home. An
employer ipokeiman said a
strike aealnst one store was
a strike against all. : ,
An estimated 200 storei
were involved. Including all
the chains, most of the larger
Independents and a number ol
the small ones also.
The key point was wages.
The union sought a 7 per
cent pay boost, and rejected a
$3 weekly Increase offered by
employer!.
Wounded Korean Vets
To Be Honor Guests
A special feature of three
Memorial Day services to be
held In Salem Saturday will
be a contingent of wounded
Korean veterans as guests of
honor who will also review
the annual parade.
First services will start at
a.m. . at the American Le
gion Circle in City View
cemetery.
This will be foUowed by
services and the dropping of
flowers into the Willamette
from a helicopter In a special
ceremony honoring navy and
marine dead. This ceremony
will be held on the Marion
street bridge by the Navy
Mothers club and the Marine
Corps Reserve and auxiliary,
At 10:20 the annual parade
will leave the Capitol Mall
and head west on Chemeketa
to High street and back via
State street for ceremonies on
the Capitol steps. The parade
r. 1
-at.
Family Practice
For Coronation
London () Queen Eliza
beth's mother and sister pushed
through crowds of cheering
rubberneckers around West
minster Abbey Thursday and
entered the gleaming interior
to practice their brief momenta
4a-the pageantry of .Tuetdfy's
coronation.
Queen Elizabeth II stayed at
home in Buckingham Palace,
getting ready to entertain 7,000
guests at a party in me pa
ace gardens later In the day.
Down in the Abbey, the
Queen Mother, Princess Mar'
garet and royal relatives re
hearsed their stately progress
up the aisle of the grey old
abbey, now transformed by
haneines into a splendor of
blue and gold.
That procession, shortly be
fore the young Queen arrives.
will be the only moments when
the spotlight rests briefly on
the widowed mother and the
queen'i younger lister. For
the rest of the 2 -hour-long
ceremony they will watcn qui
etly from a royal box.
McKay Due in
Portland Friday
Portland () Interior Sec
retary McKay will arrive here
Friday evening and go prompt
ly to Salem to visit with hit
familv until hit first public ap
pearance of the week-end the
Sunday commencement aaaress
at Willamette university.
Mrs. McKay now is at Salem,
havinc arrived earlier In the
week. The secretary wlU be ac
companied by his information
director. Larry Smyth, who is
on leave from the Oregon Jour
nal's political editorship.
will Include six bands and
several marching units from
the armed forces.
Ceremonies on the main
Capitol steps will begin at 11
and will include a speech by
a Korean war veteran and the
placing of wrer.thi.
Flowers and wreaths to be
dropped In the Willamette at
the 10. o'clock ceremonies will
be dropped from helicopter
piloted by Captain Dean John
ion of the Marine Reserve.
The' helicopter will hover
between the two bridge!
across the Willamette during
its part of the ceremonies,
The wounded Korean vet
eran! will be . guests of the
Federation of Patriotic Or
ders, sponsor of the Memorial
day observances, at a special
luncheon and will be guests at
an afternoon ball game at
Waters field between the Sa
lem Senators and the Trl-Clty
Braves.
Here is a fairyland scene typical of gay decorations cur
rently In vogue in London where on next Tuesday Queen .
Elizabeth II will be crowned. This view looks up Fleet
Street, London's newspaper row, from Ludgate Circus. (AP
Wirephoto) -
Long Range Bombers
Favcrcd by Bedford
: Washington iff) m A rim Birii
ford told the Senate ArmM
Services Committee Thursday
he considers the Air Force's
Fail To
Mount Everest
Katmandu. Nepal (V-Reli
able reports reaching this Him
alayan capital said Thursday
a British expedition failed in
its final attempts to push -to
the top of unconquered Mt.
Everest, the world's highest
peak. -
The report! said the climb
ers, who had hoped to put the
British flag atop Everest in
time for the coronation of
Queen Elizabeth, will start the
deicent from their base camp
the first week in June.
' There will be no further at
tempts this season, the sources
said, but they plan another as
sault on the 20,000-foot moun
tain when the monsoon season
just beginning is over.
According to the report,
which reached here by native
runner from the expedition'!
advance base bone-chilling
winds, nerve-killing snow
showers and an approaching
treacherous monsoon which
would make a return later
treacherous.
Grand Coulee
To Lower Flood
Portland W) Grand Coulee
Dam will save the Lower Co
lumbia River area about $230,-
000 in flood damage this year,
the water management sub
committee of the Columbia
Basin Inter -Agency Commit
tee believes. .
The committee in a meeting
here Wednesday directed that
the dam set aside storage space
for about 800,000 acre feet of
water in the Columbia'! an
nual freshet.
That will knock about a foot
off the top of the annual fresh
et, members estimated. The
same lob has been done u tne
past with Army Engineer!
Bonneville and the Reclama
tion Bureau co-ordinating the
work This will be the first
time the sub-committee directs
the lob.
The Weather Buret river
forecaster estimates the crest
will be about 20 feet In the
Vancouver, Waih.-Portland
harbor. Flood stage is IS feet
at Vancouver, IS at Portland,
Only minor damage to low
lands and docks results at the
20-foot level.
long range .hnmbars "most im-
portant" in protecting the se
curity of the nation.
He also assured the senators
that he had been able to agree
with top-ranking Air Force of
ficers on the key role of stra
tegic bombing in the past and
could do so In the future.
Radford. President Eisen
hower's choice for chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prom
ised he would forget his past
feuds with the Air Force if
confirmed by the Senate in his
new top appointment
His testimony, came alter tne
committee's only woman mem
ber, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith
(R., Me.), had described the ad
miral as "the leader of the op
position" to the B-38 bomber
(Continate ea rage s, wnu ei
British Bid on
Dam Low Again
Seattle UV-For the second
time, a British firm has under
bid Americans for a contract
for 10 electric power trans
formers for the Chief Joseph
dam on the Columbia river.
The district army engineer!'
office taid English Electric
Export & Trading Co., Ltd,
central figure of an Interna
tional controversy when Its
original bid wat rejected in
December, wai $442,751 un
der the lowest American firm
at the second bid opening
Wednesday.
Army rejection of the first
bid caused repercussions that
reached the floor of the Brit
ish house of commons. Some
British critics accused the
United States of not living up
to the administration'! "Trade,
Not Aid" program.
The engineer! said the sec
ond bid was 870,838 under the
first one while the lowest
American firm, Maloney Elec
tric company of St. Louis, was
$270 above Its original offer.
Clearing Weather
Forecast Friday
Little change in the weather
looms for this area through
Friday, although the report
does call -for some clearing
Friday afternoon.
Riven in the valley have
come up two or three feet, the
Willamette at Salem due to
crest around 8Vi feet Thursday
afternoon early. The river read
ing hers this morning was 8.8
feet
Only a trace of preclpltatloa
was recorded for the 24-hour
period ending at 10:30 a.m.
Thursday
East Germany
Lost to
Berlin r-Basata took Its
centre! aver Bast Germany
eat of the has ef the mili
tary Thursday. It eonld mean
withdrawal ef troops, eveat-
aally. ., ..
The announcement, said the
Soviet control commission is
abolished. Gen. VastUy L
Chuikov will handle only
troops henceforth, and Vladi
mir Semyenov returns to Ber
lin as "supreme commissar"
for the Soviet Union.
Semyenov thus become! ci
vilian boss of affairs for 18
million East Germans. He
served here before as political
adviser to Chuikov.
Ckaikev to Leave
Gen. Chuikov, hero of Stal
ingrad and lifter of its block
ade, undoubtedly , will not re
main here long merely to di
rect 300,000 occupation troops.
mtgm be, allied sources
said, that his last lob in Ger
many will be to "take Ivan
home." .
Western circles heard last
February that the Russians
had fixed June 1 as a target
date to withdraw troops.
The selection of Semyenov
to be top man in East Germany
Is In some respects an Imi
tation of the western powers
who have chosen ambassa
dors" to West Germany, As
toon as the European defense
treaties are ratiaed by.
all
(Oetiaaea ea Page i,
On Idaho Dams
Washington (! Power Com
mission consolidated hearings
on Idaho Power Co. applica
tions for three power projects
on the Snake River-to begin
here July 7 amid a general ex
pectation that all three will be
approved. .
The commission Wednesday
consolidated two new applica
tions from the Idaho company
with an earlier bid for approv
al of its Oxbow project The
new applications are for proj
ects at Hells Canyon and
Brownlee. All are on the Snake
River between Idaho and Ore
gon. .. ., . . ;
The general feeling that ap
proval will be forthcoming
stems from Interior Secretary
McKay's withdrawal of his de
partment's opposition to the
Oxbow project That project
had been opposed by preced
ing Democratic administrations
which favored a big federal
project at Hells Canyon and
had Intervened in the Power
Commission proceedings on
Oxbow.
McKay withdrew that inter
vention.
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Foot and Mouth Disease
Reported in Vera Cruz
Poza Rica, Mexico W Offi
cials have reported a new and
violent outbreak of foot and
mouth disease at OJlte, bor
dering on the rich livestock
area of Boca de Lima, Carrizal
and other Vera Cruz points.
Army
JulwHs
Flood Control Program
Cut Severely by House
Washington WV-If the El
senhower administration'! first
flood control and waterway!
program ia to be expanded in
any appreciable degree, the
senate will have to do it the
House hat flatly declined.
The House Wcdnensday beat
back amendment after amend
ment which tought to add a to
tal of nearly 41 million dol
lars to the civil functloni bill.
As pasted by the House, the
bill carries a total of 8418.381,-
000 for the year starting July
1. Of this 8380,284,100 it for
flood control and navigation
projectt.'-
Former President Truman
recommended 8681,824,100 for
flood control and navigation In
his budget last January. Presi
dent Eisenhower la April re-
Chinese Reds
Stage Biggest
Year'sAttack
Seoul (V The Chinese Reds
sent 4,800 troops smashing into
western outposts near Pan
munjom Thursday night after
8,500 Communists seised five
hills in Central. Korea. - .
In one of the biggest attacks
of the year the Reds struck
behind . thunderous artillery
fire in the west, hitting out
posts Vegas, Carson, Elko, East
Berlin. Berlin and the Hook
The Hook and Vegas, two of
the most bitterly f ought-over
hills in the west, took the brunt
of the Chinese attack and ap
parently held firm.
The Hook, one of the major
positions guarding the Inva
sion route to Seoul from the
northwest, was hit by , three
Red battalions, nearly 8,000
men. In three- assaults. The
main blow was parried but
fighting still . was going on
early Friday.
An officer at the front.
where earlier attacks by the
Reds had been reported stall
ed, said the skies over the
Hook were lit continually by
the fierce artillery Barrages.
Defense Unhurt
By Cuts Soys Ike
' Washington ( President
Elsenhower said Thursday he
can give his personal assur-
I budget cuts will sot reduce
I MM VEUWHU W UMH
g. i America s aexensea oeyooo a
: I margin of safety. V
I Tha ouaatUA una un at Ma
news conference in the -wake
of aheap debate at the aapitol
which raised - critical que
tlons about his defense spend
ing plans, v
A reporter told the presi
dent that some republican sen
ators would like- his personal
assurance, based on his long
military career, that the pro
poed budget cuts would not
reduce American defenses be
low the safety point
Eisenhower tald he certain
ly could give that assurance
of this moment, the assur
ance, he went on, that the
cuts do not Jeopardise what
he called this country's rea
sonable posture of defense.
Tale Frame-up
Washington () Christache
Zambeti, Romanian Commun
ist diplomat ordered expelled
by the United States, Thursday
denounced State Department
charges against him as "only a
frame-up."
Speaking out for the first
time on the charges, he bitterly
denounced "as a convicted
spy" Valeriu Georgescu, the
man who reported Zambeti
tried to blackmail him tnto
serving as a Romanian suv.
"it'i only a frameup. That's
the only comment I have," he
told a reporter who. telephon
ed him at the Romanian lega
tion where he hai been first
secretary. ;
Zambeti, obvioutiy angry,
tald hi! government will
"make an official answer" to
the charges against him.
vised this downward to $479,-
480.100.
The House Appropriation!
Committee last week trimmed
this to $388,884,100 a 40 per
cent cut from the Truman bud
get and a 17 percent cut under
the Elsenhower budget.
However, in trimming the
Elsenhower budget some 80
million dollars, the committee
ttid tne Army Engineers nave
80 millions In unspent fundi
they can use.
The House, except In one In
stance, went right along wlUT
its committee.
The exception wai to add
$400,000 to the bill for deep
ening the Gowanus Creek
channel at Brooklyn, a request
made try Hep. itooney iu., r
Y.) and supported pretty solid
ly Vf democrats.
Romanian Says
Present Fbs
StcndWilhlM
nKorccn Treie
Wasatagtea Mft PreaUearf
Etseaaewer tail "ae" today to -
Baa. Raeert A. Tail's sagges-
tlea that the United States "ge :
it alone" ta Korea If trace ae-
gettatieas fall. -
In his bluntest public differ.
ence with Taft since becoming
President, Mr. Eisenhower re
jected the Senate Republican
leader's theory that the United
States should "forget the Uni
ted Nation! as far as tht Ko
rean war is concernea'" if truce
negotiations break down.
'If you are going to go it
alone one place, you of course
have to go it alone every
where," the President told his
news conference.
Direct qaetatieas '
The White House, apparently ;
aware of the importance at
tached to his remark!, permit
ted direct quotations . about
two hours after the news con
ference ended.
This procedure it tmueuaL
Ordinarily, the, Presidaafs
news conference remarks can-
not be quoted
Mtv Eisenhower coiieeaaci
the existence of "conflicting
partisan consideration" among
nations and Individuals. He
taid Taft has a Tight to his .
own convictions. But the Pits .
ident emphasised be Is deter
mined that the "ga it alone
theory wUl not be permitted,
to deflect the United States
from its policy eg cooperating
with the U.N.
(Owttaaea ea Pese 8, Oieeaaa 1
Washington President
Eisenhower said Thursday ha
does not believe Red China
should be admitted to the
United Nations under present
world circumstances. '
', He added, - however,' it
would be a very drastic thing
to withdraw OS. financial
support from the UJf . If the
Chinese communist! became
members.
The y president's remarks
were at a news conference.
The senate appropriations
committee voted Wednesday '
to shut , off American eontri -
buttons to the U.N. If Red
China is ever given a seat ea
the U.N. Security Council.
Elsenhower said he had not
read of the committee's action,
He added that to far as ha '
know, tt never has been teri- ,
oualy proposed by anyone la
the U.S. government .that
communist China should sun :
plant the Nationalist govern
ment as China's - repretentar
five in the UJ.
Under present circum
stances, with Red China teem- '
ingly tinder the control of the ;
Soviet Union, Eisenhower
went on, he believes comma
nlst China should not be ad
mitted to the world organiza
tion. -
II. Rockefeller
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Aide to Hobby
Washington (ff) President
Eisenhower Thursday nomin
ated Nelson A. Rockeleller of
New York to be undersecre
tary of health, education and
welfare. -,
Rockefeller, 44, has been
serving at chairman of the
president'! sommlttee on gov
eminent reorganization.
As undersecretary, the
wealthy New Yorker would
serve under Mrs. Oveta Culp
Hobby who heads the new de
partment. Rockefeller has had a long
career in government service
going back to the Franklin D.
Roosevelt administration.
From 1840 to 1844 he was
coordinator of inter-American
affairs. He served In 1844
and 1848 as assistant secretary
of state for Latin American
affair.
In 1810 ha was chairman ef
the international development
advisory board, In connection
with the Truman administra
tion's Point Four program for
aid to undeveloped areas ef
the world.
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