THE WEATHER
GENERALLY FAtt tonight,
Satarday. Little change la tern.
' Low Bif ht, 44; high
atnrday, . .
Denial Made
To Charges by
Bin Trucker:
Brief for Oregon
Operators Filed
With State PUC ,
By JAMES D. OLSON
Portland Charges by a bit
tracker rfuilution of whole
Mi tax evasion on the part of
Oregoa track peraton were
branded aa completely without
foaadatioa la fact, and erron
eous both In principle and In
detail.
The reply to the big truckers
charges were made in a brief
filed jointly by the state high
way commission and Public
Utility Commissioner Charles
H. Heltzel with the legislative
Interim highway committee
mceung in xne state office
building here Friday. - '
The original claims the truck
operator! In Oregon are de
frauding the state to the extent
of 3 J per cent of their tax
mileage was made by the West
ern. Highway Institute, an or
ganization supported by the big
truck operators using western
highways. , ,
The charge was allegedly
based on fact-finding study car
ried on by the institute at a re
ported cost of about $100,000.
Report! Misleading
The joint brief filed with the
committee repeated the charge
mad by the Institute which
read as follows:
The mileage reported to the
Public Utilities Commissioner
for gasoline - powered PUC
trucks and buses during 1951
was 384,422,622 miles and the
estimated gasoline consump
tion was 54,892,455 gallons. By
deducting the estimated gaso
line consumption of all other
types of vehicles from the total
tax paid gasoline consumed in
(craciaaea an rage a, wiums )
Foreign Aid Bill
Voted by House
Washington Wl The house
approved a $6,652,422,38 soiNkKertiaad now has only one net
elga aid bill compromise Fri
day 237-156. The bill, carrying
almost 700 million dollars less
than President Eisenhower
asked, now goes to the senate
for action.
A Senate-House conference
committee settled on the com
promise In the congressional
drive for adjournment.
There was also progress on
Eisenhower's request for a 15
billion - dollar increase in the
national debt limit the House
Ways and Means Committee ap
proved it 17-6.
However, the death of Sen.
Robert A. Taft left virtually no
chance the lawmakers could
wind up the session this week
end. The house, before accepting
the foreign aid bill, narrowly
rejected a motion to cut it still
further. An attempt to trim 211
millions out of it was turned
down by a vote of 200-192.
House Group
OKs Debt Hike
Washington, W President
Eisenhower's plea for a rise
in the federal debt ceiling
cleared one House hurdle Fri
day. But in the Senate there
was talk of putting off the
issue for a possible special
session in September or Octo
ber. By a 17-6 vote, the House
Waya and Means Committee
approved a bill to lift the debt
limit from the present 275
billion dollars to 290 billion.
Leaders were aiming to get
the bill to a House vote late
TriAy- . . .
On the Senate aide of the
eapitol, however, vereran Sen.
George (D., Ga.) taid key Sen
ate Democrats were in agree
ment on putting off the issue.
George is senior democrat
en the finance committee and
its former chairman.
He told newsmen he felt all
seven democrats on the group
were agreed on the view he
was stating and added he had
discussed it with the senate
democratic leadership.
Oregon Properly
Value Over $4 Billion-AW 22
The total cash value of all j Willys agency, is taking over
taxable property In Oregon tne Packard agency, shop
Is 84 138 574 322, the state tax equipment and service of State
Emission announced Friday. Motors, and will combine the
The commission also found Packard and the Willys fran
that utility companies have a chises.
,h value of $599,603,204. an ( Stan Baker Motors, operat
o 40 millions overjed 6y Stanley Baker at North
tart year. 1 High and Chemeketa, holder of
65th
3TopGenerals
Said lo Rule
Soviet Russia
Churchill Informed
Malenkov Called In'
, War Heroes
London W) Reports that a
trio of Russian war-hero mar
ahals nnder the famed Georgl
K. Zhukov has taken over real
power In the 8ovlet Villi
were studied her Friday
The Evening News said
Prime Minister Churchill had
been informed. The Foreign
Office declined comment '
Fearful that he could not
maintain his grip in the wake
of the purge of Interior Minis
ter L. P. Beria, the paper says,
Premier Georgl M. Malenkov
turned in desperation to the
professional soldiers of the
Soviet army who now are the
"power behind the throne."
Reeks Big 4 Meet -
The article in Thursday
night'a edition of Lord Rother
mere's newspaper was signed
by its diplomatic correspond
ent, C. F. Melville, who said he
understood Sir Winston was
"so impressed by reports of a
take-over of power by a mili
tary pro-peace group that he is
about to redouble his efforts
lo get an early round-table be
tween the Russian and West
ern heads of government."
(Continued nPagal, Cahratn t)
TV Network lo
Come If Needed
The Northwest will have in
creased television network fa
cilities whenever the television
,tationg order them. F. A.
Dresslar, Portland, testified
Friday at the public util
ities commissioner' hearing on
the Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph Company's request for a
$3,966,000 annual rate increase
in Oregon,
Dresslar, a vice president of
the company, laid the coaxial
cable from San Francisco to
work channel.
But. he explained, additional
channels could be added when
ever the company receives or
ders from the networks or the
TV stations.
This means, he said, that all
of the national TV networks
could be brought to the North
west if the TV stations want
them,
Dresslar gave his testimony
on cross-examination by Alex
ander Brown, Portland's city
attorney.
Brown also asked Dresslar if
the company charges excess
legal costs against the custom
ers of any one state in its sys-
tem.
July Very Dry
Month in Valley
Just more of the' same for
the next few days no rain,
slightly below normal temper
atures and some cloudiness
that's the five-day forecast re
leased from the weather bu
reau Friday morning.
With only a trace of pre
cipitation for the month, July
goes out Friday as a very dry
month, but there have been
many other Julys like it in
previous years. Normal rain
fall for the month to date is
.31 of an inch.
The Thursday maximum
went only to 78.
Three Firms
In Business
By STEPHEN
Three prominent Salem firm I
names in tne motor vehicle in
dustry are concerned in ft gen
eral business change affecting
the east aide of North High
Street between Cheireketa and
Center.
State Motors, operated by C.
E. Welling at 34'J North High,
in the center of the block, is
relinquishing the Packard ag
ency and leaving the location,
and Wellinf will (fntfr him at.
Itention on his used car busi
ness at 078 South 12th
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Capita
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aim.
RULES RUSSIA?
Marshal Georgl K. Zhukov
Se6k to Svap
Atom Secrets
London W Britain made a
new bid Friday to the United
States for swapping atom
bomb secrets and implied she
could tell the Americans a
thing or two about atomic
matters.
Discussing the second series
of British atomic weapons
tests, to be held in the Austra
lian desert In October, Supply
Minister Duncan Sandys told
the house of commons. '
"We have made quite sure
the United States administra
tion are very wel aware of our
extreme readiness to have a
complete and frank exchange
of Information," on the tests.
The exchange, he continued.
"would not, in our view, be
by any means a one-sided af
fair." Sandya did not say specific
ally whether American ob
servers would be invited to
the British tests. They were
not bid to the first British
atomic bomb explosion, off
northwest Australia last Octo
ber. . -x.--- -
20 Drown in
Bus Plunge
Morrisburg, Ont. W
Twenty persons drowned Fri
day in the plunge of a bus
with 37 passengers, most of
them asleep, into the 20-foot
deep Williamsburg canal.
Most of the 17 pasenger sur
vivors escaped through win
dows and the emergency door.
The speeding Toronto-Montreal
bus struck a parked
truck on the main highway,
No. 2, between the two cities.
Both vehicles toppled 25 feet
into the canal, used by Great
Lakes shipping to bypass the
St. Lawrence river rapids.
Ten bodies were removed
from the bus and taken to a
funeral home here. The acci
dent occurred at 4 a.m. and
64 hours later the bus was
pulled from the canal with
10 bodies still in it. Others
were found on the bottom of
the canal.
The bus driver. Lome
Cheesborough, of Kingston,
Ont., survived, as did the
driver of the truck, Max Rood-
in of Toronto. Cheesbor
ough suffered shock but Rood-
man escaped serious injury.
Some of the survivors had
to swim 20 feet to safety. '
Involved
Changes
A. STONE
the Dodge, Plymouth and
the
Dodge truck agencies, is ex
panding, and will take over the
building occupied by State Mo
tors. The building is owned
by George Weller.
Welling of State Motors said
today he would keep the firm
name -but continur with used
car sales only at his South
12th street location. He has
been fn the automotive busi
ness in Salem in the same block
29 years, or since 1924. He
started with the Newton-Chevrolet
Agency. It was bought
by the Portland Motor Car
company in 1927. Welling took
the Packard agency in 1929.
He held both the Packard and
the Hudson agencies until
1944. and since them has had
the Packard only. He said he
was making the change for per.
sonal reasons.
(CanUaued m rag f, Calassa I)
is -
Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 31, 1953
Ma
East German
Police Seizing
U.J. Gift Food
Mass Confiscation
Of Parcels Under
Way at Potsdam
Berlin (AP) Communist po
lice Friday began mass confis
cation of U.S. gift food parcels
which hungry East Germans
are bringing back from free
West Berlin. -
The confiscation campaign
began at the big rail terminal
in Potsdam, southwest of Ber
lin, where the Red police in
tercepted hundreds of persons
returning with the food. The
Potsdam station was surround
ed by police, and the food bear
ers were herded into an empty
room and stripped of their
gifts.
West Berlin police immedi
ately began broadcasting warn
ings to East Germans to avoid
the Potsdam station and try to
get home by other routes.
Million Parcels -
The confiscation began just
as West Berlin officials an
nounced they had upped their
target to three million free
food parcels for the East Ger
mans. Food stations in the
Western sector braced for a
week-end invasion from the
east that was expected to boost
the first week s distributions
to two million.
(Centianed an Part I. Calumn t)
Salmon Loss
Due to Poachers
Portland (je Poachers have
been taking "a very consider
able number" of salmon that
have been prevented by Meri
dian Dam from completing
their migration up the Willam
ette River's middle fork south
east of Eugene.
Irvine French, superintend
ent of hatcheries for the Ore-
ffnn Flah Commission. . made
th rhnrffr Vrirlsv and added
that while state police had
checked cars of 'worker and
others leaving the dam now
under construction no one
had been caught.
He estimated that from 5,000
to 6,000 spring Chinook salmon
had been held vp by the dam
and said that of these, "poach
ers have taken a very consid
erable number."
The commission had planned
to place racks some distance
down stream from the dam to
check the salmon, but had
been prevented by high water
from completing the worn, as
a result, the salmon bunched
in a pool below the dam, he
sale
Drop 27,000
From Reserves
Washington, () About 27,-
000 reserve officers will hang
up their uniforms during the
next 11 months a the services
trim down to the manpower
levels for which Congress pro
vided money.
The Air Force will return
the greatest number to civil
ian life about 12,500 who
must be dropped to make room
for hew lieutenants from the
Reserve Officers Train
ing Corps.
The Army said Thursday
about 8,000 reservists would
go off active duty in addition
to those finishing regular
tours. The Marine Corps set
Its figure at 500. The Navy
has made no official estimate,
but an informed guess is 6,
000. The officers will be allow
ed to return voluntarily to ci
vilian life or, if necessary, will
be separated involuntarily. Ar
my selection boards for the
purpose meet next month,
paying . special attention to
first lieutenants. Decisions are
expected by mid-October.
Some specialists, such as
doctors and engineers, will not
be allowed to go voluntarily
on inactive duty.
Final Shot for Navy
Fired by Si. Paul
Yokosuka. Japan " The
heavy cruiser St. Paul fired the
final shot by an Allied war
ship only two minutes before
the signing of the Korean truce,
the Navy said Friday.
That projectile was auto
graphed by Rear Adm. Harry
Sanders, commander of Cruis
er Division 1.
The St. Paul also claims the
distinction of being the last ma
J or U. S. naval unit to fire I
salvo at the home Islands of
Japan In World War II.
JLJcrttMa
mm
HIS Seasto
Russians Shoot
Down US Plane
In Japan Sea'
Washington ) The United
States Friday protested te Mos
cow against the shooting down
ef a U.8. B5 plane la the Sea
of Japaa and called oa the Rus
sians to release survivors it
"presumed" were picked up by
Soviet vessels.
One of the plane's crew of
17 Lt. John E. Roche of Wash
ington, D.C. was rescued by
an American destroyer and was
quoted by the U.S. Far East Air
Force as saying Russian fight
ers attacked the B50.
The plane was shot down
Wednesday. On Thursday, Mos
cow charged the B50 violated
Soviet territory, fired on Soviet
fighters arising to intercept it.
and disappeared in the direc
tion of the sea.
Deny Violations
Gen. O. P. Weyland, com
mander of U.S. Far East Air
Forces, said: "No American
airpli ne has violated Soviet ter
ritory." .
Roche was picked up by the
USS Picking 40 miles off the
Siberian Coast. He had spent 11
hours in the water and another
11 in a boat dropped by a
search plane.
The incident Is one in a long
series of clashes with the So
viets over shooting down of
U.S. planes. Moscow has insist
ed in each instance that the
plane violated Soviet territory.
The United States has contend
ed there was no violation.
In Russian Custody
This is the first time, howev
er, that there has been any
I suggestion that survivors were
taken into Russian custody,
a ueparwwm ma
saia ne aia not Know in num
ber of survivors reported to be
in Soviet hands. The protest to
Moscow said "information hat
. . . been received that . . .
survivors have been picked up
by Soviet vessels."
UN Delegates
OK'd by Senate
Washington ) The new
delegation to the United Na
tions, including Gov. James F
Byrnes of South Carolina
whose selection had stirred up
some differences among Dem
ocrats, won Senate confirma
tion Friday without discussion
on the floor.
Along with Byrnes, Henry
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts
was confirmed as chief Ameri
can representative at the eighth
session of the U. N. General
Assembly, and Reps. Francis
Payne Bolton, R., Ohio, and
James P. Richards, D. S. C, as
members of the delegation.
These alternates also were
confirmed: Archibald J. Carey,
Jr., Chicago, a minister of the
African Methodist Episcopal
Church; James D. Zellerbach,
San Francisco, chairman of the
board of the Fibre Board Pro
ducts Co.; Henry Ford II, pres
ident of the Ford Motor Co.;
Dr. Charles W. Mayo, Roches
ter, Minn.; and Mrs. Oswald
B. Lord of New York, a mem
ber of the U. N. Human Rights
Commission.
Ike Not to Sign
Film Tax Bill
Washington W) President
Eisenhower was reported by
a republican senator today to
have reached a reluctant de
cision not to sign a bill to wipe
out the 20 per cent movie ad-
mlsison tax.
Congress passed the meas
ure a week ago. It cost the
treasury an estimated $100
million a year in revenue.
Movie theaters have been
closing at the rate of 800 a
year since the end of World
War II. Theater operators
say the tax has discouraged a
lot of people from going to
the movies. Other persons
blame competition from tele
vision. Many theater owners
testified they would not pass
on the saving to ticket buyers.
A group of theater owners
who called on thu president
yesterday to ask that he sign
the tax repealer said he listen
ed attentively but made no
commitment.
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'MR. REPUBLICAN' PASSES
5
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Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, Republican Senate
leader, and candidate for the presidential nomination in
1952, who died Friday in Washington.
Ike Calls Taft's Death
Tragic Loss to Nation
Washington W President
Eisenhower called the death of
Sen. Robert A. Taft Friday "a
tragic loss to Am eric:"" -
Within an hour after an
nouncement of the Ohio sena
tor's death in New York, the
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
drove from the White House to
the home of Mrs. Taft in
Georgetown to express their
sympathy.
Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said the
President and the first lady ei
ther would leave their cards at
the Taft home or would express
their personal regrets to the
senator's widow.
, Eisenhower issued this state
ment: -
Loss to Nation,
Says Truman
Casper, Wyo. W Former
President Truman declared the
death of Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) in
New York Friday is "a great
loss to the country."
'I am sorry to hear of Sen.
Taft's death," Truman said in
a written statement.
'He and I did not agree on
public policy but he knew
where I stood and I knew where
he stood. His death is a great
loss to the country. We need
intellectually honest men like
Sen. Taft in public service. His
family has the sympathy of my
family and myself."
Truman is visiting Missouri
air national guardsmen under
going training here.
Hush of Mourning
Envelops Congress
Washington A hush of
mourning, more eloquent than
words, greeted the news of
Robert A. Taft's death Friday
in the Senate where he had
been so long a towering fig
ure. The Ohio Republican's law
making associates paid that
tribute to a lost leader before
they loosed a flood of expres
sions of grief that ran to such
words as "great 'American,"
"true statesman," "great
loss" and "friend." President
Eisenhower described Taft's
death as "a tragic loss to Am
erica." Party labels and differences
of views generally were for
gotten in the outpouring.
News of Taft's death first
was passed to Sen. Knowland
of California to whom Taft
turned over the reins of active
ir.iswiiisuwu (iCy
"The passing of Robert ' A.
Taft Is a tragic lou to America.
"The brilliant son of ' our
27th President, Senator Taft
served the people of Ohio and
the nation with distinction and
integrity.' ':' '
"He will be greatly missed
on Capitol Hill where his un
impeachable character and his
vast knowledge of the business
of good government - played
such an important part in con
gressional decisions over many
years.
'The Senate has lost one of
its leading members of all
time. The American . people
have lost a truly great citizen
and I have lost a wise- coun
selor and a valued friend. .
"Mrs. Eisenhow and I extend
to Mrs. Taft and the family our
heartfelt sympathies in the
personal loss that they have
sustained."
The President also' signed an
executive order declaring:
"As a mark of respect to the
memory of the Honorable Rob
ert A. Taft, late majority lead
er and member of the Senate
of the United States, it is here
by ordered that the flags on
the White House and the fed
eral government buildings in
the District of Columbia and
the' state of Ohio be placed at
half staff until interment."
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GOP floor leadership when his
illness first became serious.
Knowland immediately ask
ed a roll call of the Senate to
assemble absent members.
While the quorum call was on
those members on the floor
mostly sat silent, obviously
buried In their private thoughts
of past associations.
The hush spread to the gal
leries as solemn senators hur
ried in to hear the news offi
cially. In the House, at the other
end of the eapitol, debate on
foreign aid legislation was In
terrupted for announcement of
the senator's death.
The task fell to Rep. Jenkins
(R., Ohio), who told his col
leagues: ,
"Our Robert Taft is gone.
America's greatest stateman
has passed away."
F I N A L
EDITION
GOP Leader
to
Rapid Cancer
New York MV-Sen. Robert
A. Taft, a symbol ef repusllcaa-
n, died nuay ef cancer.
The end came peacefully for -
the (-7ear-eld Ohio reDubll-
ean, about lt hours after fee
had lapsed into a deep coma. .
At nis side were his four
sons.
Taft'a condition auddmlv hrf
become critical just four days
ago. Then, except for brief in
tervals, his strength failed rap.
idly. Not until the end did New
York hospital disclose ; the
cause.
"Sen. Taft's life came to an
end quietly and without pain
at 10:80 a.m. (EST), July 81,
1953," the hospital said. "His
death was the result of wide
spread, highly malignant, rap
idly growing tumors."
Wife Seriously 111 , , ,
Taft's wife, Martha, was un
able to be with him in his last
hours. , - ,
TJ , I ... II.
suit of a stroke three years
ago, she was at their home in
Washington, too sick to make
another trip. She had been
flown here for a visit Tuesday.
lail a deatn came in a nnr
and major chapter in his ca
reer the job of majority sen
ate floor leader in the first re- .
publican administration in. 20
years.
Hia illness, however, forced
him to give up the active lead
ership last June.
His death leaves the senate
for the time being with a
one-man democratic majority,
47 democrats. 46 rerjubUcana
and one independent. .
Urlm Fight for Life
In: describing the senator'
last grim fight for life, the hos
pital said: -vff
"The first symptoms . . .
were pains in the legs, later lo
calized in the left hip. These
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Sick POW to
Be First Freed
Panmunjom, Korea (UJ0 Red
China announced today that
the first group of Allied pris
oners to be exchanged here next
Wednesday will be non-Korean
sick and wounded, including
a good number" of Ameri-
Pelping radio said the group
of 400 prisoners will include
most of the French, Turkish,
Colombian, Philippine, Austra
lian and Greek POWs.
"A good number of Ameri
can and British POWs are also
among the first to be repatri
ated," the broadcast said.
The Allied POWs will travel
200 miles by train from Yalu
river camps to Freedom Vil
lage here where they will be
exchanged for 2,400 Chinese
and North Koreans.
Morse to Keep
GOP in Power
Washington Senator
Wayne B. Morse of Oregon said
today that he will vote to keep
the republicans in power after
the death of senator Tait, re
publican senate leader.
Morse, who quit the GOP
last fall during the presiden
tial campaign, said he will
work to defeat the Eisenhower
administration in the 1955
congressional campaigns. But
he said be will not take ad
vantage of a parliamentary
"emergency" to defeat the will
of the people as expressed at
the ballot box last fall.
Even before Morse's an
nouncement, Senate Democratic
leaders had said they would
not try to seize control of the
organization now or next year.
Morse's stand was in line
with the one he took at the
opening of the present session.
He said then he would vote
with the GOP on organization
because that party held the
presidency and a majority of
the House, and should have
full responsibility for running
the government.
A few Democratic acientees,
which would not be hard to
arrange with such opinions
prevalent, would be enough to
keep the Republicans on top in
any organization vote, even if
a lew Republicans were away.
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