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EDITION
Truckers Gel
Invitation lo
Prepare Bill
Theories at Hearing
Have no Weight
With Committee
By JAMES D. OLSON
"- Representative of big truck
operators in Oregon have been
extended an invitation to pre
pare a bill amending the
weight-mile tax law for con
sideration of the legislative
highway Interim committee.
, The invitation was, extended
to the truckeri by Rep. Ed
Geary of Klamath Falls, chair
man of the committee, who
stressed that the committee
was not interested in theories
or argument, but wanted a
legislative bill to consider.
A similar Invitation was ex
tended to the truckers by the
1951-53 legislative highway in
terim committee but repre
sentatives of the truckers fail
ed to present any proposed,
change in the law, even though
ttiey have contended that the
law burdens the truckers with
excessive highway use taxes.
Charge Not Proved
The offer to the truckers,
made with the blessing of the
entire committee membership
came at a hearing in Portland
Friday, after members of the
committee frankly stated that
the truckers had failed in prov
ing previously made charge
. that there was a 32 per cent
evasion of truck, taxes in 1951.'
Jen N. Rosenberg, general
counsel for the Western High
way Institute of San Francisco,
an organization which carries
on research work for western
truck organizations, in sum
ming up testimony declared
that he felt both the Public
Utility Commissioner of Ore
gon and the state highway de
(Concluded on Ptt$. Column I)
Goon Terrorism
In Kansas City
Washington Iff) House In
vestigators reported Saturday
they have turned up evidence
of "appalling violence" and
"gangster tactics" in a labor
dispute in Kansas City. The
House members recommended
that the federal government
study the record for possible
criminal prosecution.
The report was filed by a
House labor subcommittee
headed by Rep. Wint Smith
(R., Kan.). The unit's hearings
followed a long squabble . in
Kansas City which idled as
many as 25,000 workers for
nearly two months.
- The subcommittee blamed
"jurisdictional demands of the
Kansas City Teamsters," an
AFL afiliate, for bringing con
struction, both private and de
fense, "to a complete nait."
Reporting on hearings con
ducted in Kansas City June 29
to July 3, the House group
said:
"This committee and the
Congress should look with deep
concern at this sordid account
of free men, afraid to work
terrorized by the gangster tac
tics of those to whom the Con
gress itself has given privilege
and authority."
Senate Delays
Debt Limit Bill
Washington, W The Sen
ate Finance Committee Sat'
urday put off, at least until
later in the day, any decision
on President Eisenhower's re'
quest for a 15 billion dollar
Increase in the national debt
ceiling.
The committee met for three
hours and then recessed for
lunch. Chairman Milikin (R
Colo.) said no vote had been
taken yet and that the mem
bers would be called into
session Saturday afternoon.
The time was uncertain be-
cause some committee mem
bers must meet with House
conferees in an effort to break
a deadlock on a bill to ex
tend the ' reciprocal trade
agreement nroaram.
There had been some lainj
of a compromise on the poli
tically touchy issue.
One committee member. It
was learned, showed up with
a compromise proposal of a
temporary five billion dollar
increase in the ceiling. This
would run only until June 30,
1954.
FILBERT MF.ETINO
Portland The Depart
ment of Agriculture will hold
a hearing here Tuesday on
proposed changes In the federal
marketing agreement for fil
berts grown in Washington and
Oregon.
65th
Tall Funeral
In Rotunda of
U.S. Capitol
Congress and Top i
Officials Invited for
Monday Services
Washington MV-Sen. Robert
A. Tatt will be honored with a
state funeral in the canitol
Monday, with President Eisen
bower and other dignitaries
Joining In the service.
The Senate, in which Tafti
served as majority leader, in-1
vited the government leaders
to take part and the White.
House said the President, "of
course, will attend."
The services wlU. be in the
rotunda, at 11 a.m., EST.
The last state funeral held in
the capital was for Gen. John
J. Pershing, July 19, 1948.
Jack Martin, administrative
assistant to the late Senate
leader, announced the decision
for a state funeral was reached
at a conference in the office of
J. Mark Trice, secretary of the
Senate.
Lists of Guests Noted
A little later. Sen. Knowland
(R., Calif.) the acting ma
jority leader, offered a resolu
tion scheduling the memorial
service and it was immediately
approved unanimously by the
Senate.
(Can tinned Pat a. Column 5)
Marines Pay
Homage to Dead
Western Front U.B A bat
talion of grim-faced Marines
stood at stiff attention in a
crude open air theater last
night to pay homage to their
dead and missing comrades of
the final three weeks . of the
Korean War.
The depleted ranks of the
Second Battalion, Seventh Reg
iment, First Marine Division
stood as statues during the sun.
set ceremonv. Last call and
taps were sounded for the 25
members who died fighting off
the overwhelming Chinese as
saults against Outpost Berlin
Seven other Marines were list
ed as missing in that action,
also.
A chaplain called upon the
men to rededicate themselves
to "the things for which our
comrades gave their lives."
Taps sounded. A final rifle sa
lute was fired and the men.
quiet and with heads bowed,
filed away.
Surplus Food
Bilj Sent Ike
Washington W) The Senate
completed congressional action
Saturday on President Eisen
hower's request for authority
to send surplus food to friendly
people abroad, relieve famine
or meet other emergencies.
After a brief explanation by
Sen. Aiken (R., Vt.), it unani
mously approved a compro
mise bill allowing use of up
to 100 million dollars worth
of surplus until next March
15.
The House passed the bill
Friday, 143-15. Before the
House took up the measure, a
Senate-House conference had
eliminated a provision to limit
the total sent any nation to 20
million dollars.
Moving Old Parsonage
Scheduled Next Week
An agreement between the
city of Salem and the Marion
County Historical Society for
removel of The Parsonage to
Marion Square for its preserva
tion and restoration was signed
Friday afternoon by Hugh Mor
row, president, and Herbert J.
Salisbury, secretary of the
society.
It will be signed by Mayor
Al Loucks and City Recorder
Alfred Mundt for the city.
The house will be moved by
the firm of Bales & Brady
some time next week from its
present location on 13th street
to Marion Square
Signing of the agreement by
the historical society was au
thorized at a meeting of the
board of trustees Thursday
night It provides for a one
year trial effort by the society
to make the house financially
independent of city aid. If an
adequate financial program is
not achieved by that time the
house will be turned over to
the city for disposal. The agree
ment is renewable at the end
Year, No. 182
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Ike To Fly to
Seattle Meet
Washington W The White
House announced Saturday that
President Eisenhower will fly
to Seattle, Wash., Monday to
attend the annual governors
conference.
The President will leave
Washington shortly after at
tending state funeral services
for Sen. Taft at the. capitol
Monday morning.
The departure time will de
pend on the length of the ser
vices, but Eisenhower is expec
ted to get away from National
Airport about 12:30 p. m. EST.
The trip to Seattle will be non
stop. White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said the Pre
sident will attend some of the
roundtable discussions at the
governors conference Tuesday
morning and would , attend a
luncheon that day.
The president will make no
formal address, Hagerty said,
adding that he is expected to
have some informal remarks to
make.
The President will start back
from Seattle Tuesday afternoon
or evening and will be back at
the White House in time for
his daily, work schedule Wed
nesday.
Portland Host
To Governors
Portland U. Portland
played host to nine of the na
tion's governors today in a
stopover while en route to the
annual governors' conference
in Seattle.
Gov. Johnston Murray of
Oklahoma was the first to ar
rive last night, followed by
Gov. John S. Fine of Penn
sylvania and Gov. Norman
Brunsdale of North Dakota.
Gov. Paul Patterson of Ore
gon invited the governors to
Portland and is leading the
party on a tour of the Colum
bia river gorge and Mt. Hood
today.
Others arriving were Gov
ernors James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina, Francis Cher
ry of Arkansas, John Lodge of
Connecticut, Burton M. Cross
of Maine, Theodore McKeldin
of Maryland and Hugh Gregg
of New Hampshire.
FOUR KILLED IN BLAST
Taipeh, Formosa VP) Press
reports from Keelung, a north
ern Formosa port, said at least
four workers were killed and
about 30 seriously Injured to
day in an explosion as divers
were working on a sunken
steamer.
of the year at the discretion of
the city council.
At the Thursday night meet
ing Murray Wade, chairman of
the historic sites committee of
the society, on behalf of Dr.
Burt Brown Barker presented
a check for $500 to Miss Mir
pah Blair, treasurer of the so
ciety, as a starter for a finan
cial plan for preservation of
The Parsonage.
The society is completing
plans to place the building in
its natural setting of over 100
years ago. Large stones will
be used for an authentic foundation.-
Little or no concrete
.will be used. Murray Wade
has requested information
about materials which may be
used in restoring and refurnish
ing the house as a typical pio
ncer home.
Dr. Barker has discovered
that the old parsonage may be
the oldest house in Oregon,
and funds for moving it are
being raited from within the
society's small membership.
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Salem, Oregon,
Ontm
SHOT DOWN BY RUSSIAN FIGHTERS
Captain John Ernest Roche (left) of Washington, D.C.,
copilot and only survivor of an Air Force B-50 which
was shot down by Russian fighter planes 'over the Japan
Sea, tells his story in Tokyo to General O. P. Weyland,
commander of the Far East Air Force. Roche was rescued
after 22 hours on the open sea. (UP Radio-Telepboto)
Million Cast Germans
Get US Food Packages
Berlin, UPr Defying Com
munist arrests and confisca
tions, new masses of hungry
East Germans swarmed into
West Berlin today to snatch up
free Western food parcels.
Distribution of the -American
Union Sued by
Lumber Firm
Tacoma, Wash. HP) Damages
ol more than $500,000 were
asked by the St. Paul and Ta
coma Lumber company Friday
in a suit that charged a striking
union with violating a "no
strike" clause in a contract.
The suit was filed in U.S.
District Court against the In
ternational Woodworkers of
America (CIO) local 23-9 of
the union and officers of the
local. ' .
The lumber company asked
that it be reimbursed for dam
ages amounting to $20,000 per
day for the duration ol the
strike plus other special dam
ages "estimated at this time as
$500,000."
The strike started July 25
after a dispute over working
conditions.
The clause on which the suit
is based states that "during the
life of this agreement, no
strike shall be caused or sane-
tioned by the union and no
lockouts shall be entered upon
by the employer until every
peaceable method of settlement
shall have been tried."
Refugee Bill
Sent President
Washington W) The senate
passed and sent to the presi
dent Saturday an emergency
immigration bill providing for
the admission of 214,000 Iron
Curtain refugees and other
aliens in the next three years.
The compromise measure
was approved in tne senate
by a voice vote which over
rode arguments by Sen. Mc-
Carran (D.. Nev.), that it in
volved risks to the nation's
security. '
The house had approved the
bill Friday night by a vote
of 190 to 39.
Eisenhower had originally
asked for the admission of
240,000 immigrants in two
years.
Peach Growers
Lease Cannery
San Francisco UP) The grow
ers of California multi-mil-lion
dollar peach crop Saturday
appeared willing to act on a
proposal by striking cannery
workers that the growers lease
and operate struck canneries.
Already farmers at Kings-
burg, Fresno County, have ar
ranged to lease cannery facili
ties from the California Pack
ing Corp.
The union offered to man
grower-leased plants if the
growers agree to pay wages
agreed upon at current union
management negotiations.
Hope of a quick settlement
In the five-day-old strike faded
when a mediation meeting re
cessed at midnight.
At the end of almost 13 hours
of negotiations, Federal Concil -
iator George Hillenbrand said
only "we are well satisf icd
wltht negotiations we had to -
A new session was scheduled
Saturday.
Saturday, August 1, 1953
financed gifts was due to pass
the 1,000,000 mark during the
day.
In the crowds, as the gigan
tic give-away rolled through
its sixth day, were the van
guard of a week-end of thou
sands of Russian zone factory
worker, using their day off
to "come and get it." They in
clude employes of the huge
Leuna synthetic gasoline re
finery and other large state
owned industries.
Many of these workers had
defied Communist police and
Russian tanks in the great
strikes and demonstrations of
June 17. Now they again
showed their defiance of Com
munist orders by accepting the
Western bounty.
By mid-morning the crowds
around the big Schoenberg
City Hall, relief station were
three city blocks long, with
standees four and six abreast,
The station, which had been
operating day and night,, had
to divert some of its clintele to
a hastily-opened subsidiary
"pantry in a nearby school.
West Berlin authorities an
nounced there would be
enough food for all who ap
plied. This could mean that
parcels would be made avail
able for all the more than 18
million inhabitants of the Rus
sian zone.
Reorganization
Goes Into Effect
Washington, W The last
four of President Eisenhower's
10 government reorganization
plans took effect Saturday,
giving him an unblemished
record of success on such pro
posals in this Congress.
The four plans:
1. Set up a new foreign op
erations administration to han
dle all of the foreign aid pro
grams now scattered in vari
ous agencies. It would get
policy guidance from the State
Department but be independ
ent. 2. Establish a new inde
pendent U. S. information
agency to take over the Voice
of America and other such
units now in the State depart
ment as well as the overseas
information offices of the Mu
tual Security Agency.
3. Increase the administra
tive authority of the chairman
of the Council of Economic
Advisers as part of a move
to reinvigorate that agency
which has languished since
Congress cut off Its funds four
months ago.
4. Transfer airmail sub
sidies estimated at about 80
million dollars a year, from
the Postoffice Department to
the Civil Aeronautics Board.
This is aimed at cutting into
the postal deiicit, estimated at
about 600 millions this year,
125 Dope Addicts
Caught in Roundup
Philadelphia (IP) Nearly 100 .
policemen and detectives in a
long-planned raid last night
arrested 125 suspected narcotic
addicts.
Police said it was the biggest
roundup of suspected addicts
ever undertaken in Philadel
phia. Four physicians were i
jhand to examine those arrested
in poolrooms, restaurants,
apartmenu .taprooms and other
p,acc, hllngouti for
I ddict- Pushcri nd '"PP""'
jot narcotics.
Exchange of
POW Begins
Next Tuesday
Panmunjom u.ra The war
prisoners exchange which will
bring. back to freedom 12,7(3
western fighting men, includ
ing 3,313 Americana who fell
into Red hands, will begin at
9 a.m. next Wednesday. 5 pjn.,
Tuesday PDT. -
Col. Lee Pyung II, North Ko
rean representative to the joint
committee for prisoner repatri
ation, said 100 men will be re
turned per hour to the United
Nations for four hour each
day, starting at 9 ajn., Aug. 3.
Want Healthy First
He also asked the United Na
tions to revise its schedule for
release of its prisoner to re
turn able bodied Red prisoners
before the Red sick and wound
ed are released.
The U. N. originaUy had
planned to return to the Reds
360 sick and wounded men
among the first group of 2,400
Reds scheduled to be handed
over on the first day. Col. Lee
said the Reds preferred deliv
ery of able-bodied men first
Exchange to Take Month
. The Communist Peiping Ra
dio said at least 400 of the
Communist-held prisoners in
cluding an unspecified number
of sick and wounded Ameri
cans, already have started mov
ing south on railway lines the
Reds repaired this week.
It was estimated it will take
at least a month to complete
the exchange of some 86,000
prisoners, 74,000 held by tne
fUnited Nations and 12,783, in
eluding 3,313 Americans, held
by the Communists,
Neutral Group
Holds Session
Munsan, VP) The four-na
tion neutral commission which
will police the Korean armis
tice met at Panmunjom today
for the first time and heard
the Communists' chief military
armistice delegate wish it suc
cess.
Meawhile, the first group of
Allied prisoners was reported
on its way down the road to
freedom and the U.N. Com
mand prepared a full dress
reception rehearsal for Mon
day to speed their homeward
journey. The prisoners ex
change is scheduled to begin
Wednesday at Panmunjom.
The neutral commission offi
cer from Sweden, Switzer
land, Poland and Czechoslo
vakia were Introduced and ex
changed credentials in a for
mal meeting at the dusty truce
site.
The commission's chief
function is to watch for viola
tions of the armistice.
Maj. Gen. Blackshear M.j
Bryan, the Allies' senior dele
gate to the U.N.-Red Military
Armistice Commissions-introduced
the Swiss and Swedish
representatives. Lt. Gen. Lee
Sang Cho, Bryan's counterpart
on the commission, introduced
the Poles and Czechs.
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Congress Stays on Job
Until Debt Limit Action
Washington WV-Sen. Know-j
land (R., Calif.) said Saturday
Congress may be kept in ses
sion indefinitely until tne
President's request to increase
the national debt limit 13 bil
lion dollars Is disposed of.
The acting Republican leader
said the length of this session
could not be determined until
it Is known Just what the Sen
ate Finance Committee will do
with President Elsenhower's
request to up the debt limit to
290 billion dollars.
The House already bas ap
proved the increase in a debt
limit but there has been vig
orous oppostion to the proposal
on the Senate side, mostly from
Democrats.
Knowland and his Republi
can lieutenants had been aim
ing, at adjournment by mid
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RedCrossGets
Green Light in
North Korea
Munsan (ff) U.N. Red Cross
teams Saturday got the green
light from the Communists to
cross into North. Korea Monday
to ease the homeward journey
of Allied war prisoners.
The mercy teams will carry
comfort' packages and medical
supplies to U.N. men held cap
tive in bleak North Korean
camps.
The exchange of prisoners
begins Wednesday, two days
after the Red Cross workers
pass through the bamboo cur
tain to aid the captives.
This will be the first time
since the Korean war started
more than three year ago that
the Reds have allowed Ameri
can and other U.N. representa
tives to enter Red-ruled terri
tory on this peninsula.
All during the war, the all-
Swiss International Red Cross
appealed to the Reds to allow
them entry, but the Commun
ista each time snubbed the re
quests. GOP Senators
Caucus Tuesday
Wasliington UJ0 Senate Re
publicans called a party cau
cus today for next Tuesday to
elect a GOP leader to succeed
Robert A. Taft.
The call waa Issued at a meet
ing of the Senate Republican
policy committee. It reversed
earlier Indications that the
choice of Tatt a successor
would go over until January,
Sen. William F. Knowland,
Calif., policy committee chair
man and acting floor leader,
announced that all GOP sena
tors will meet for the election
at 2 p. m. EDT Tuesday, three
hours after Taft s burial in
Cincinnati, .
Knowland declined to say
whether he will be a candidate
for the leadership. He said he
would make no announcement
before Taft's burial.
Clark Flies to
New Orleans
New Orleans () Gen.
Mark Clark, United Nations
Far East commander, la sched
uled to arrive here today to
attend the wedding of his ton
to a New Orlans socialite.
The general and Mrs. Clark
arc to arrive by plane late
this afternoon from San Fran
cisco. The general's son, Maj. Wil
liam Clark, an infantry in
structor at Ft. Benning, Is
marrying Mrs. Audrey Claire
Loflin, attractive divorcee and
former amateur swimming
star, here Monday.
The general's headquarters
said he would fly to Washing
ton after the wedding to at
tend top-level army confer
ences before returning to
Tokyo about August 10.
PEDESTRIAN KILLED
Klamath Falls UP) Charles
Turner, who lived near Malin,
was killed outright Friday
night when struck by a car
as he was walking along a
highway near his home.
night Saturday night but he
discarded those plans Saturday,
telling the Senate a session de
finitely will be held next won
day.
The Finance Committee was
to meet Saturday afternoon to
thrash out the public debt Is
sue. It held a three hour ses
sion with Treasury Secretary
Humphrey Saturday morning
but took no action.
"We may be here for a
week, four days, two days or
whatever time Is required,"!
Knowland said after closed
door session of the legislative
strategy group.
He added that if the commit
tee decides to pigeon-hole the
request for this session, con
gressmen could leave town on
Monday or Tuesday.
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Plane Blasted
40 Miles From
Tokyo ( "It waa ' abso-
lotely an nnprovoked .attack,
4A mile from Russian terri
tory", said the eo-pllot of an
Americas B5t shot down at
sea In a Russian Jet attack '
off Siberia Wednesday.
Capt John E. Roche, today
directly contradicted Moscow -charges
that the big bomber
and ' Its ' 17-man ' crew were
over Siberia near the Red
naval base, Vladivostok, and
that the American fired first.
Roche told a news confer
ence:
We were definitely- 40
miles from Russian territory.
Our navigation 1 almost in
fallible. It was visual, Loran .
and Q13 radar. We weren't
any closer than 40 mile. " . .
Radar and Loran are elec-
tronic ranging and directional
device used fo plotting posi
tion.
Shot Off Both Winn
Roche, 28, said a Mig jet
with Russian Insignia flashed
in and blasted one of the '
bomber's four engines. Then, -so
quickly that lt might have .
been a different Mig, an en
gine on the other wing was
snot up.
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Soviet Protest
Rejected bv US
" asuingion wn Tne united
States Saturday rejected Ras-'
sia' protest that American pi
lots shot down a Soviet plane. '
Instead, the State DcDartment
said, Russia bears the responsi
bility for sending the plane into ,
The Korean zone of hostili
ties." . , ,-
The Russian protest, handed
to U. S. Ambassdor . Charles
Bohlen In Moscow Friday,
claimed the plane was destroy
ed and 21 Uvea were lost when
four U. S. fighters attacked it
over Chinese territory north of
the Korean boundary last Mon
day, about 10 hours before the
cease fire became effective. .
The United States replied
Saturday that the attack by a
U, S. fighter plane under the
U. N. command actually occur
red "inside Korean territory
approximately eight miles from
the Yalu river."
This it said, was in the Ko
rean combat zone.
The U. S. reply was contain
ed in note sent by messenger
from the U. S. embassy to the
Soviet Foreign Office in Mos
cow. The State Department re
leased the text of that note
plus an unofficial translation of
the Soviet note.
Dulles Oil to
South Korea
Washington W Secretary of
State Dulles will take off for
Korea Saturday without four
Senate leader on whose help
he had counted on concluding
a defense treaty with South
Korean President Syngman
Rhce.
Acting Republican leader
Knowland, of California, Demo
catic leader Lyndon Johnson of
Texas and Sens. Russell, D.,
Ga., and H. Alexander Smith,
R., N.J., announced late Friday
they felt they should remain in
Washington to work on Presi
dent Elsenhower's request for
an increase in the national debt
limit. They said this request
has delayed the adjournment
of Congress previously set for -
Saturday.
Dulles expressed regret that
the four would not be able to
accompany him. But he an
nounced that he had to leave
Sunday morning In order to
hold hi scheluded talk with
Rhee and return here before
the opening of the United Na
tion General Asembly at New
York Aug. 17. He said he hope
to get back to Washington by
Aug. 10.
PACT SIGNED
London (V) Communist East
Germany and Soviet satellite
Albania have signed a "cul
tural agreement" for 1953-84
in Tirana. Tirana radio report-
led today.
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