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FINAL
EDITION
65th Year, No. 186
2 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, August 6, 1953
34 Pace " "ce
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300 Salem
Persons Buy
PlyvoodSlock
S & E Commission At
torneys Charge Fraud
In Certificate Sale
By JAMES D. OLSON
Approximately SO Salem ei
tliens have purchased member
ships in plywood corporations
Involved In the suit filed Tues
day by the Security and Ex.
change commission against
eight Northwest men and three
plywood companies, according
to attorneys for the commission.
Donald J. Stocking and John
N. Fegan, attorneys for the
commission, said Thursday that
fully 100 Salem citizens had
made full payments for Interim
certificates and receipts for
membership and another group
numbering in the neighborhood
of 200 Salem persons have
made part payment for mem
bership certificates.
Hearing Friday
Preliminary hearing on the
case is set for Friday .morning
in federal court in Portland be
fore District Judgt J. Alger
Fee when government attor
neys will apply for a temporary
injunction against further sale
of membership certificates and
probably apply for appoint
ment of a receiver f or the ply
wood companies involved In
the case.
Defendants in the case from
Salem include Edgar 3. Er
rion, Glenn R. Munkers, Dwlght
Holdorf, Archie L. Bones, and
Harold A. Shoberg, Charles W.
Williamson and James B. Carr,
Milwaukie, and Thomas A. O'
Connell of Eugene, Seattle and
Boise.
(Continued ea Page S, Celnmn I)
Crop Growers
Watch Weather
Although current weather
conditions, with showers and
high humidity, are causing no
great distress among agricul
turalists, me simauon nas lis
potentialities for damage
greatly prolonged, according to
persons capable of evaluating
conditions.
Damp, humid weather tends
to greatly increase the number
of aphids, especially on snap
bean vines. Such conditions,
too, create rust in the mint
fields.
In an effort to check the
aphids, some growers of snap
beans have secured the serv
ices of a helicopter to apply
the appropriate dust The
charge is $3.50 an acre.
Vetch hay in windrows may
scatter a considerable portion
of the seed when the sun comes
out. It is said the seed pods
break open with considerable
force, scattering xne seea. ine
harvest of grass seed may be
delayed to some extent
Owing to climatic conditions
this summer, barley may be
harvested in advance of winter
wheat in certain locations. Con
tinuation of rains might cause
discoloration of barley grains,
thus lowering its sale value.
On the brighter side, the
showers will have a tendency
to refresh pasture lands, par
ticularly those not under irriga
tion. Thunderstorms
Among Forecasts
Thunderstosrm are due over
much of western Oregon to
night and Friday, the weather
forecast says. The local pre
diction is for cloudiness with
scattered showers and thun
derstorms tonight partial
cloudiness for Friday.
A thunderstorm came to the
Salem area early Thursday
morning, the weather bureau
clocking it between 3:25 and
6:40 o'clock.
Rainfall In the 24-hour pe
riod ending at 10:30 a.m.
Thursday amounted to .08 of
an inch in Salem, bringing
August's total to date to .35
of an inch.
Higher humidities are due
along with the thunderstorms,
and the fire danger has less
ened considerably.
Ike OK Saturday
For Long Vacation
Washington ') President
Eisenhower will leave satur
day morning by plane for Den
ver, Colo., to spend a vacation
of at least three weeks. Mrs.
Eisenhower will accompany
him.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said the
i b. M th v&ratton also is
. ka fc Ihinkl it
wm b. at least toe. weeks.
14 on Bomber
Crashed at Sea
Still Missing
4 Persons Rescued,
5 Bodies Found,
Search Continues
London UJo The bodies of
two more victims of yester
day's crash of aa American
RB-38 bomber from California
were taken from the stormy
Atlantic today.
Four other of the 23 men
aboard the plane have been
rescued and three bodies were
found yesterday, leaving 14
still unaccounted for and fear
ed dead.
Some 21 planes and eight
ships criss-crossed a 40,000
square mile area of the North
Atlantic in worsening weatner
in search of these men.
Look for Yacht
Meanwhile, the British fri
gate Tenascious was diverted
to search for a 30 foot yacht
reported in distress in the same
area enroute from Boston to
Norway. It had. four persons
aboard.
(Ceattaotd an Face S. Calama 4)
6 Die, 35 Hurt in
Bus-Auto Crash
Hydro, Okla. VP) Six per
sons were killed and 33 injured
near here Thursday when a
Greyhound bus and an auto
pulling a house trailer crashed
on a bridge. Both vehicles
plunged into a ditch and then
slid 23 feet into a creek bed,
Dead and Injured persons
were scattered about. The
scene also was littered with
wreckage, bags, billfolds and
other possessions, of the bus
passengers.
The injured were screaming
for help with men, women and
children piled on each other
In utter confusion.
Trooper Art Cordry said the
bus driver, BiU Pratt 31, Okla
homa City, related that he at
tempted to pass the car and
trailer at the bridge. Pratt said
the car suddenly swerved.
The vehicles locked and
careened off the roadway and
shot into Deer creek. The bus
pinned the car to the embank'
ment.
Health Grants
To Oregon Cut
Portland () Cuts by the
recent congress reduced fed
eral public health grants to
Oregon for the present fiscal
year by $99,517, the state
board of health announced
Thursday.
Dr. Harold M. Erickson, the
state health officer, said he
received word of the long-expected
cuts in grants-in-aid
programs from the U.S. pub
lic health service office in
San Francisco. These will re
duce Oregon grants to about
$300,000.
The announcement was
made two days after a special
joint committee of the Oregon
Health Officers and County
Judges associations held a
meeting in an attempt to ad
just county health department
budgets to federal reductions.
Erickson said grants to
counties are expected to be
cut by about one-fourth.
1000 Less Old Agers on
Rolls During Past Year
A decrease of approximately
1000 old age assistance cases
in the state welfare rolls dur
ing the year ending June 30,
1953, was reported to the state
welfare commission at its last
meeting.
Liberalization of the old age
survivors Insurance benefits by
the federal government to
gether with the impact of laws
providing claims against estates-
and contributions from
relatives is believed to be re
sponsible for the reduction in
the old age assistance rolls.
Increase in general assist
ance activities in June, the last
month of the fiscal year, served
to reverse the downward trend
In public assistance payments,
characteristic of the summer
months, the report stated.
Year's Totals High
Assistance payment in June
were 1.1 per cent higher than
in May, touting 82,383,623 for
needs of persons In 35,279
cases.
Assistance payments In the
yr totaled almost $27
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Helping hands reach out to steady a returning American
prisoner of war, who, apparently in a state of shock almost
stepped off into space as he tried to get off the Communist
truck at Panmunjom during the second exchange of POWs.
(AP Wirephoto via radiophoto from Tokyo.)
Radar Detection Nov
Followed by Arrests
BT DAVE CROMWELL
The first arrest of a Salem .perlmenting
motorist detected by radar of
exceeding the speed limit oc
curred Thursday at 10:45 a.m.
in the 2000 block of North
Commercial street'
Salem officers have been ex-
NLRB Slashes
Pending Cases
Washington Of) The Nation
al Labor Relations Board says
it has cut its list of pending
cases to the lowest point since
the Taft-Hartley law went into
effect, f
While both unions and em
ployers complained of delays,
and Congress studied ways of
speeding up NLRB, the board
itself and General Counsel
George Bott have been quietly
streamlining.
Now they claim "spectacular
reductions" in time spent on
cases at all levels. NLRB gets
15,000 cases a year.
The backlog of cases now is
4,318, compared with 5,348 a
year ago.
The average time from filing
a petition for an NLRB election
to a decision after hearing is
now a record 54 days, compar
ed with 90 days required a year
ago.
SEXTON SWORN IN
Portland U. Harold Sex
ton, ex-sheriff of Wasco coun
ty, was sworn in here yester
day as U. S. marshal for Ore
gon by Federal Judge James
Alger Fee.
million, an increase of llVs
million from 1952. A total of
$18 million was spent for needs
of the aged, S4.2 million for
aid to dependent children
roughly 32 million for aid to
permanently and totally dis
abled persons anc $5 million
for general assistance.
Higher average payments.
with standards of assistance in
creased, were reported for all
programs except general as
sistance, although the average
payments for the latter class
increased $1.07 for each case.
Harvest Makes Difference
The commission expects' a
drop in the aid to dependent
children as summer harvest
work become available to these
children, over 14 years of age.
Payments of $28,063 for aid
to blind persons covered needs
of 357 blind recipients in June
with the average grant of
$73.01 as compared with that
of $70.98 in May. No new ap-
plications in this category were
filed during the month.
GETS HELP
with the radar
equipment for over two
months, with warning tickets
being issued, but Thursday
waa the first tuna the equip
ment, had actually been used
in detecting and causing the
arrest ot a speeding motorist.
iThe officers had to wait 40
minutes after setting up their
equipment before Roman
Heine, 2999 Brooks street, was
shown by the radar screen to
be traveling 40 miles per hour
in the 25 mile zone. Orrin
White, the arresting officer.
said that Heine claimed he was
hurrying in order to keep a
doctor's appointment.
Heine would not have been
the recipient of the dubious
honor of receiving the first ci
tation issued by the radar team
if the team had finished set
ting up its "speed trap" min
utes sooner, as a motorist was
shown by the radar chart to
have passed by at 94 miles an
hour.
It was only seconds alter
Heine was arrested that Eve
lyn Franz, 4400 North River
Road, was pulled over to the
curb by Officer White. Mrs.
Franz said she thought the use
of radar to detect speedsters
was a "fine thing" but she
didn't like to be the one to be
caught by the device. She said
that as soon as she saw the
radar car she slowed down.
This was too late, however, as
the equipment picks up the ap
proaching car and gauges it's
speed a block before it reaches
the radar vehicle.
(Continued en Pi I. Column 41
Dick Haymes
Under Arrest
Los Angeles ) Crooner
Dick Haymes was arrested for
deportation to his native Ar
gentina as he drove a'long Hol
lywood's Sunset Boulevard
Thursday.
He is accused of illegal re
entry into the United States
aftrr a recent trip to Hawaii
where his supposed latest heart
interest. Rita Hayworth, was
i movie location.
Haymes and his attorney,
Robert Eaton, immediately
branded the Immigration
charge "a technicality" that
can be rectified. Haymes de
clined any comment about Miss
Hayworth or his estranzement
from his wife, the former Nora
Edlngton Flynn.
Haymes was taken to the
downtown immigration office
where he posted $500 bail
pending a hearing in about two
weeks. The Immigration De
partment said his re-entry from
Hawaii was improper because
he is an alien, having been
given relief from military serv-
jce during World War II as
a
(neutral alien.
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Dulles and Rhee
Sidestep Main
Issue of Peace
8 coal, Korea (UA Secretary
ot State John Foster Dalles and
President Syngman Rhee again
sidestepped the crucial issue of
the Korean peace conference
today.
A full dress meeting at
Rhee's mansion lasting nearly
two hours concentrated instead
on economic aid that the Unit
ed States will furnish for re
building the shattered South
Korean economy.
'Dulles said as he emerged
from the meeting that the Ko
rean unification plans, key Is
sue before the peace confer
ence beginning in October,
were not discussed.
"Economic problems were
discussed this morning," Dulles
told newsmen.
Army Secretary Robert Ste
vens did most ot the talking,
the secretary of state added.
Dulles explained the 3200,000,-
000 already earmarked for Ko
rean reconstruction by the V. S.
congress is being drawn from
defense funds saved by the end
of the fighting.
Dulles said a working level
committee will continue ne
gotiations on the U. S.-South
Korean defense pact It waa not
discussed at the meeting ot the
full delegations at Rhee s man
sion. ,
Hike in Phone
Rates Likely
Oregon customers ot the Pa
cific Telephone and Telegraph
Co. appeared likely Thursday
to have their phone bills in
creased an average of 4 per
cent
J. L. Kennedy, chief account
ant for Public Utilities Com
missioner Charles H. Heltzel,
testified at Heltzel's hearing on
the company's application for
a $3,966,000 annual rate in
crease that the company would
make a 6 per cent profit in Ore
gon if it were allowed a $1,
204,000 annual rate boost -
This $1,204,000 increase
would boost phone bills about
4 per cent Of that amount the
federal government would take
half in taxes.
The full increase would give
the company a profit of 7.5 per
cent. The hearing neared a close
Thursday, and Heltzel's order
on the increase is expected be
fore Oct 11.
Lightning Keeps
Firemen Busy
Prineville A spectacular
lightning storm kept Central
Oregon forest lookouts and
firefighting crews on the job
all night. They reported every
thing under control Thursday.
State foresters said there
were only two fires still going.
Both were In the Horse Heaven
area.
Ten fires were reported by
the Prineville Ranger Station
of the Ochoco Nationa' Forest,
but all were controlled. Num
erous lightning strikes were re
ported by the Ochoco Ranger
Station, but a rainstorm, fol
lowing' the lightning, apparent
ly extinguished all of them.
Seek to Rename
Refuge Finley
Portland m The U. S
Fish and Wildlife Service will
be asked to re-name the Mal
heur Bird Refuge in Eastern
Oregon for the late William
Finley of Portland.
The Portland chaptei of the
Iraak Walton League has
named a committee headed by
E E. Averill, former state
game warden, to work for the
change.
Finley, a nationally known
naturalist was credited with
major part in creation of the
Malheur refuge nearly 50
years ago by Theodore Roose
velt, who was then president.
He sent Roosevelt proof that
hunters were slaughtering
birds in the MMheur Lake srea
to get plumes for women's hat
trimmings.
en
Communist Blockade on
West Berlin Free Food
Stations Begins to Crack
Berlin JP) The Communist I
blockade on rail travel to West
Berlin's free food stations was
cracking today under the pres
sure ot East Germany's hungry
millions. Thousands ot Soviet
loners were joining the throngs
of East Ber liners lining up for
food packages. Many reported
they had been able to buy rail
road tickets to Berlin for the
first time since Saturday, when
the East government clamped
its ban.
East Germany's government
made no announcement it was
lifting its ban, and in many
Soviet Troops
Move to Centers
Berlin U. Columns ot So
viet troops and armor were
reported moving toward in
dustrial centers throughout
rebellious East Germany to
day to put down rapidly
spreading strikes by workers
who defied a Red ban on ac
ceptance ot American "Elsen
hower food parcels."
Heavy concentrations of So
viet troops and armor were
reported being massed in East
Berlin a few miles from the
west sector distribution cen
ters where upwards of 1,600,
000 hungry East Germans
have collected free food sent
by the United States.
' The anticommunlst fighting
group against inhumanity,
which , has reliable contacts
throughout the Soviet zone,
reported Soviet troops In di
vision strength were moving
In many areas. Russian train
ed East German police also
were reported moving in on
trouble centers.
Soviet Council
Debates Budget
' Moscow (UJ5 The supreme
Soviet Council of Nationalities
convened today to debate Fi
nance Minister Arsenl Zver-
evs 530,500,ouu,oou ruble
($132,625,000,000 budget
Zverev presented the bud
get report to a Joint session
of the supreme Soviet, Rus
sia's parliament, after It con
vened yesterday.
He said expenditures would
amount to 530,500,000,000
rubles and estimated income
would total 543,300,000,000
($135,825,000,000).
Under provisions of the
new budget, the Soviet Union
expects to cut its defense out
lay for the coming year by
3.2 per cent, or 3,600,000,000
rubles ($900,000,000) below
that for the previous year.
Weather Details
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Corporal Helps Bury
1500 War Prisoners
Freedom Village, Korea W
An American Army corporal
freed Thursday by the Commu
nists ssld he had seen more
then 1,300 of his fellow U. S.
prisoners buried In the frozen
esrth of North Korea In two
months of the bitter winter of
1050-51.
Spl. Russell P. James of Au
burn, Wash., ssid he hsd helped
bury most of them.
James, an American Indian,
told with quiet noble dignity
of the horror and death, blood
and brutal whims of his North
Korean and Communist Red
captors. There was much to
tell.
"We had a burial detail of
about SO men every day. I
was on almost every detail,'' he
said.
"Every day there were from
25 to 30 American soldiers who
had to be buried. They died
ot their wounds we had no
POW Rood
places tickets reportedly still
Were not on sale. Relief of
ficials, however, reported that
people from farther reaches ot
the Soviet Zone said railway
employes had sold them tick
ets quietly at various stations.
The cracks in the blockade
became apparent last night af
ter railroad workers in Bran
denburg province which rings
Berlin slipped through 40,000
of their hungry countrymen.
Others got around the travel
ban by bicycling, hitchhiking
with trailer trucks or coming
by bus to stations near Berlin
and then on foot into the city.
Railroadmen also smuggled
through many parcels for their
families and friends.
At the close of distribution
last night nearly 160,000 par
cels had been distributed, de
spite bad weather and the tra
vel restrictions, to lift the 10-
day total to 1,600,000.
As further evidence that
Communist police control was
breaking down, a record num
ber of 51 men deserted front
the Eastern "people's police"
army and gendarmerie yester
day and last night This top
ped the previous daily record
of 48 set in June. -
Order General
Strike in France
Paris U-B . French trade!
unions, communist and non-
communist today declared eco
nomle warfare on the reforms
ox rremicr macpu mow ww
a series ot paralyzing strikes.
The four biggest unions la
France today called for a 48
hour strike of ail gas and elec
tric workers beginning at mid
night
A nationwide strike of all
post, telegraph and telephone
workers already has cut off 80
per cent of all these services.
The snowballing protest
strikes against Lanlel a efforts
to set French economy on its
feet threatened his recently
formed and unstable govern
ment The strikes were levelled
against government decrees
which ordered the firing of a
considerable number of
France's burdensome load of
4,000,000 government em
ployes, ' .
Gen. Mark Clark
To Retire Soon
Washington JPi Gen. Mark
W. Clark, Far East comman
der, announced today that he
plans to retire from the army
next Oct 31 after 40 years
service.
Clsrk made the announce
ment at a news conference here
where he has been holding con
ferences prior to returning to
bis headquarters in Tokyo,
He said he hoped his suc
cessor would be designated in
time for "an orderly turnover
in command so that he could
return to the United States in
September.
medlcsl treatment at all. They
froze to death. And they did
n't get enough to eat."
This went on for two months.
"The the treatment improved
and the guys stopped dying so
fast."
The scene was the notorious
camp known as Death Valley to
American prisoners of war.
James told of "playful'
North Koreans assigned to
guard him and seven of his
buddies after their capture in
December, 1050.
"We didn't get much to eat
A handful of grain every day,
We slept in cold Koresn hous
es. The gusrds would come In
snd pull off the doors just tor
the hell of it When we would
try to start fires, they'd stamp
them out and kick us around.
They got a kick out of it."
Only three of the eight men
lived through it, ha said.
BulFevHeallhy
Men in POW
In 'Big Switch'
Panmonlom, Korea 4tt
The eommamlsts premised ;
return 81 more "healthy"
Americana at freedom gat to-
day, bat the lay over t
return was dimmed fey
growing fear that
of other captured Aai
may never come back. . -
Three returning Americans N
now have told of fellow pris
oners being sentenced by tM
Reds on phoney charge el
endangering the live of oili
er prisoners or "instigating
against peace,"
The 81 Americans to be re
turned today will bring to 931
the total released by the Beds
In the first three days of "Big
Switch."
In Bad Condition
However, the condition of
111 and haggard prisoners.
their appearance reminiscent
ot victims of the nasi torture
camps of Dachau and Buchen
wald, will delay the United
States homecoming of tho tew
that are "healthy." ,
American officers at Inchon
said the Reds are delivering
so tew able bodied prisoners
that it may take tore weeks
or more be to re enough art
collected to make up a ship
load of 400. .. -,
Meanwhile, ' an American
warrant officer painted a
gruesome picture of North Ko
rea s "Death Valley" where
more than 2,000 American aoV
diers starved or froze to death.
in the bitter winter Of 1830.
- lTne mass Qraves
I Dwlght B. Cone, SO,
Calif., now awaiting shipment
home at Inchon, said mass
graves were dug by the Amer
icans tor their buddies as they
perished at the rate of five to
17 a day from starvation, dys
entery and exposure.
(Centlpmd ea rase 8. Ceiesasi T)
71 Senffo
Tokyo Hospital
Tokyo VPI Seventy on
gaunt sick and wounded allied
fighting men freed Wednesday
from Communist prison camp
arrived Thursday for medical
treatment before returning
home.
Although all of their names
were released in Korea, Includ
ing some who are litter patiants,
the army banned the use of
names here until relatives are
notified of their arrival In Tok
yo.
An army spokesman said the
liberated prisoners have been
given casualty status and their
names will be embargoed for
about 72 hours.
A giant C-124 Globemaster
flew the first group of prison
ers here from Korea.
Among the 71 were 21 Amer
icana, 22 Turks, 12 Filipinos, 7
Colombians, 7 French, 1 Bel
gian and 1 Greek.
Reds Hold 2000
More Prisoners
Washnlgton UB Gen.
Msrk W. Clsrk, Far East com
mander, ssid today the com
munists may hold from 2,000
to 3,000 more American pris
oners then they have agreed
to return as psrt ot the amis-
lice.
"We have certain evidence
indicating they, the commu
nists, have more Americana,'
Clark told a news conference
st the Pentagon.
The communists have
s greed to return 3,312 Amer
ican prisoners. '
Other Information
Clark said the communist
total Is "not far from the num
ber of American prisoners we
estimated the communists held
for sure." But, at the same
time, he said, the United
States hss "other information
that leads us to believe they
have more."
Clark said the evidence la
American bands Is not so cer
tain that this country could
make flat charges that the
communists hold more prison
en than they have admitted. ,