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CONTINUED CLEAR tonht.
Plans for New
Service Bldg.
Approval
State Board to Call
For Alternate Bids on
$450,000 Structure
By JAMES D. OLSON
Tentative Diana for tha urn.
Posed Mrviee building (or the
Department of Finance and De
partment of Veterans Attain
were approved Tuesday by the
state board of control.
On recommendation of James
L: rayne, architect for the
building, which will face on
Ferry street and border on
South 12th street, bids for this
building and tor a garage build
ing for a state automobile pool,
. will be called for at the same
time.
Thus if a contractor wishes
to submit a bid on both build
ings he can do so, probably at
"savings of costs to the state,
board members said.
Likewise, the board decided
to call for alternate bids for
the new service building, one
bid to cover a partial second
floor to the building and the
other for a complete second
floor.
Fear Costa Too High
The architect told the board
that he was fearful that a full
second floor on the building
would bring the cost of the
building estimated at $450
000 in excess of the appro
priation. Installation of windows in
the second floor on the north
end of the building- facing on
South 12th street, was decided
on by the board, in place of a
blank concrete wall which
members of the board felt
would not blend with buildings
on Willamette University cam
pus, directly across the street.
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Rescue Youth
From Sanfiam
David Umphress, 14-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs, Charles
Umphress, narrowly escaped
drowning Saturday morning
when he fell In the Santiam
river at MiU City, while fish,
ing with an older brother, Ro
land.
The boys were fishing -near
a small dam on the river and
David lost his footing and fell
in while walking on the "ap
ron" of the dam. Neither he
nor his brother could swim and
Roland ran for help, calling the
Mill City Fire Department.
However, before they arrived
Paul Janke, who lives nearby,
saw the boy in the water and
swam out after him.
He and several other neigh
bors got the boy on the river
bank and started artificial res
piration, as he was unconsci
ous and had swallowed consid
erable water.
Members of the fire depart
ment under the supervision of
William Green, continued re
suscitation measures until the
boy started breathing norm
ally. He was taken to his home
where a doctor was called to
check him over. After a few
days rest he will be able to re
sume his normal activity. Da
vid is a newsboy and his par
ents own and operate a Shoe
Repair Shop.
Where's Your
Summer? Here
Salem folk Tuesday
were
not asking "Where's our sum
mer weather?"
It was here, and apparently
is due to continue for a day
or two.
Temperatures were htgh and
humidities down in all Ore
gon, Monday. At Salem the
day's maximum soared to 93
degrees, one degree below the
July 17 warm day when the
maximum was 94 degrees.
Tuesday was due to be as
warm or warmer. High in the
state for Monday was Medford
with a reading of 97 degrees.
Dry winds added to the for
est fire danger, but no major
serious blazes were listed
Tuesday morning.
The five-day forecast out
this morning calls tor con
tinued clear weather tonight
and Wednesday, locally, slight
ly cooler temperatures Wed
nesday and Thursday, but with
little or no prcciptation in
sight
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Ike Calls on
U.S. Depis.
ToCutCosIs
Avoid Special Ses
' sion, President
Asks Today
Denver UJ9 President Eisen
hower today asked govern
ment department heads to cut
expenditures as much as pos
sible to head off the need for a
special session of Congress this
fall to raise the federal debt
limit
The President, from his sum
mer White House headquarters
here, sent a letter to all de
partment and most agency
heads calling for an Immediate
economy campaign, plus "sub
stantial reductions in their
planned expenditures for fiscal
1955.
Results Uncertain
Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty said the President's
letter was an effort to avoid
having to call a special ses
sion onhe debt limit this fall,
but he said the White House
was "by no means" certain that
sufficient economies could be
put into effect to avoid a spe
cial session.
In tne letter to each depart
ment nead, the President said:
"It is absolutely essential
that you begin immediately to
take every possible step pro
gressively to reduce the ex
penditures of your department
during the fiscal year 1954.
1955 Budget Estimates
. "In addition to this action,
you will be expected to make
substantial reductions in your
requests for new appropria
tions and in the level of your
expeditures for the fiscal year
1&55, beyond those already in
dicated, for the fiscal year
1954."
The White House disclosed
at the same time that Budget
Director Joseph W. Dodge to
day notified all department
heads that they were to sub
mit their 1955 budget estimates
to him by Oct, 1. -.
The President's new econO'
my campaign was disclosed as
he conferred here with Adm.
Arthur W. Radford, incoming
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Cops Battle
Race Rioters
Chicago W Some 300 po
licemen early Tuesday drove
an estimated 1,000 persons
from a 26-acre South ' Side
housing project which had ad'
mitted its first Negro tenant.
In breaking up the jeering
assembly, police occasionally
were showered with bricks and
bottles which they said were
thrown by teen agcrs.
Five persons were injured,
none seriously, as roving bands
stoned autos of Negroes who
drove near the scene.
Twelve persons reportedly
were seized by police after one
group smashed windows of a
neighborhood tavern which
served Negroes..
The apartment of Donald
Howard, a mail carrier and the
first Negro resident of the Chi
cago Housing Authority's
Trumbull Park homes project,
was the target of the crowd.
Windows in the apartment
which Howard occupied last
week, were smashed.
GREECE THREATENS ITALY
Athens, Greece W Greece
threatened Tuesday to confis
cate Italian property if Italy
doesn't cough up a 5000-ton
merchant ship. The vessel was
built as war reparations by an
Italian company and then seiz
ed by the same firm.
Property Owners May
Get Cost Estimates
A report signed by City En
gineer J. H. Davis and City At
torney Chris J. Kowitz con
vinced the city council Monday
night that it would be imprac
tical to inform all affected pro
perty owners, before expiration
of remonstrance time, of the
cost to each of a proposed
street improvement.
However, they said that any
one making Inquiry could be
informed. That is being done
now, they said, but suggested
that In the future notices of in
tention to improve contain in
formation that the cost esti
mates may be obtained at the
engineer's office.
The council indicated it
would approve the report and
directed
the two officials to
bring in an ordinance diu em-
J bodying their suggestions.
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Paris Railroad
Traffic Snarled
Paris, W Rail traffic was
snarled throughout France to
day m a new Communist-or
dered transport strike began
to creep across the nation.
Once more the workers fought
Premier Joseph Laniel s eco
nomy decrees. -
Other walkouts threatened
and it appeared that France
faced a second gigantic tie-up
like that last week when two
million workers in state and
municipal services and government-run
industries quit
their jobs.
The new tieup was launched
by the Communist-led CGT
National Confederation of
Labor which called its 270,-000-member
railwaymen off
their jobs. The con-Commu
nist Socialist Workers' Forces
went along on the walkout,
Most of last week's walk
outs were for 24 to 48 hours.
This time no limit was set by
CGT.
The FO and the Christian
Trade Federation (CFTC) con
trol the rest of the country's
440,000 railway workers. Thus
far, there was no indication
what the CFTC would do.
5 Burn fo Death in
Tex. Car-Truck Crash
Texarkana, Tex. W) Five
persons burned to death in the
flaming, twisted wreckage of
their car and a truck after the
two vehicles collided and ex
ploded late Monday night 27
miles west of here.
All five victims were
burned beyond recognition
and their identification had
not been established. The
driver of the truck escaped
with minor injuries.
The large trailer truck,
loaded with canned goods, was
traveling east when the col
lision occurred. Officers said
the gasoline tanks of both ve
hicles apparently were explod
ed by the impact.
Davis and Kowitz had been
directed by the council to find
out and report to the council
whether it would be possible
or feasible, before expiration
of time for remonstrance, to ad
vise affected property owners
of the probable share of the
cost of the improvement that
would be Imposed upon the
owner's specific property.
"We do not believe it prac
tical to work out in advance
a complete statement of esti
mated cost of assessment as ap
plied to each particular lot,
part of lot, or parcel of land,
as that would greatly increase
the work of the engineer's of
fice and would probably nects-
sitate employment of addition-
ai neip," tne report said.
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BUSINESS AS USUAL
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Andrei Vishinsky, Russia's permanent delegate to the
United Nations has handwive greeting as he arrives
here today aboard the liner Queen Mary for special session
of the organization. To questions from newsmen covering
his arrival his stock answer was "I don't know." He
amplified, this only by saying "there is nothing unusual."
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State to Get
$84,000 More
On Land Sale
A seven months delay, some
investigation, and calling for
open bids fof sale tracts of
land in Lincoln county
brought an $84,000 profit to
the state land board, it was
revealed Tuesday.
The story goes back to last
January when the C. O. John'
son Lumber company offered
to trade some timber lands
valued at $78,000 for the two
tracts owned by the state. This
trade was recommended by
the state department of for
estry. State Treasurer Sig Un
ander, who had just taken of
fice, became suspicious that
the state land was worth more
than the money offered and
requested time to investigate.
After consulting with some
persons familiar with timber
prices, Unander reported back
to the board with the sugges
tion that the lands be offered
for sale on sealed bids.
Tuesday two bids were open-
ed, the highest being submit
ted by the C. D. Johnson
Timber company for $162,194
for the 310 acres of timber
land.
The bid was accepted by the
board.
Governor Paul L. Patterson
chairman of the board. De
clared that this incident em
phasized the necessity of al
ways calling for bids.
"I think, too, that we owe
Unander a good cigar," the
governor concluded. Unander
doesn't smoke.
Thunderstorms Cool
Over Central States
(Br The AcBoetttrd PrtM
Cooler air moved into the
northern plains states and
northern Rockies Tuesday and
thunderstorms hit the fringes
of the cool area.
Showers were reported in
northern Colorado and from
Minnesota into Nebraska and
Iowa. Between these two sec
tions, early morning tempera
tures were in the 50s and high
40s.
Elsewhere in the northern
half of the nation, readings
were generally in the 60s.
Southern temperatures were in
the 70s and 80s.
200 Reported Dead
In Greek Temblor
Athens ttlB Reports reach
ing here said today 200 per
sons were killed and at least
250 Injured in heavy earth
quake shocks which rocked
the big islands of Cephalonla
and Ithaca off the western
coast of Greece early today.
The islands lie off the
mouth of the Gulf of Corin
th, about 155 miles west of
Athens In the Ionian sea.
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Ml Controlled
Western Oregon Tuesday
was having lire-feeding weath
er with east and northeast
winds, but no major fires to
feed.
L :Three fires were reported at
the state forestry headquarters
Monday night but au were un
der control.
The Gold Beach area had a
loggers fire, which was brought
under control at four acres. In
the Medford area there was a
fire of less than a quarter of
an acre and at Monument in
Eastern Oregon they had a grass
fire. This, like the one at Med
ford, however, was brought un
der control at less than a quar
ter of an acre.
State forestry headquarters
described the weather as bad
for fires, but looked for some
relief Wednesday. They said
that it was expected most of
western Oregon logging opera
tions, except for those along
the coast, would be closed down
Tuesday afternoon because of
low humidities.
Burns Fatal fo
Elderly Man
Albany Frank O. Shuck,
retired farmer, 82, died Sat
urday afternoon at the Wil
lamette hospital of burns re
ceived at his home that morn
ing. His nightgown caught fire
as he was lighting a trash
burner at his home. Funeral
services will be Wednesday at
1:30 p.m. in charge of the
Fisher Funeral Home, with
the Rev, Gordon Jaffe of the
Evangelical United Brethren
church officiating.
Mr. Shuck was born in Me
chanicsviile, la., Aug. 13, 1870
Before coming to Oregon in
1937 he had lived in Iowa, Ne
braska and South Dakota.
After 13 years in Philomath he
came to Albany three years
ago. He was a member of the
Evangelical United Brethren
church.
Mr. Shuck married Olive
M. Sutton at Sutherland. Ia..
March 25, 1896, and she with
six children, 11 grandchildren
and four great-gradnchildren
survive. Children are Harold
F. Shuck, Albany; Everett O
Shuck, Corvallis; Mrs Myrtle
Thoelke, White, S.D.; Mrs. C
M. Kline, Milbank, S.D.; Or
ville A. Shuck, Arlington, S.
D.; Warren J. Shuck, Clalr
ton. Pa. A brother Earl Shuck,
lives at Royal, la., and a sis
ter, Mr. Ida Taylor, at
Clarkston, Wash. There are
also several nieces and neph
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PORTLAND PLANTS
STRUCK
Portland, (UJ5 Two plants
of the Freightllner corpora
tion here were struck last
night by the AFL machinists'
unior. Pickets were to be
posted today at the two loca
tions of the firm.
iKLln
Against
Turned to Communism
Reds Arrest German
Farmers for Sabotage
Berlin W) East Germany's
Communist government was
reported jailing farmers today
for "sabotaging" the Soviet
zone harvest.
Thousands of the hungry
victims of the Reds' agricultur
al breakdown, meanwhile, con
tinued to pour into West Berlin
for free American food par
cels. The resourceful food seekers
eluded Red travel controls by
mingling with thousands of
East Berlin workers who com
mute daily across the Soviet
frontier. West Berlin officials
Reds Seek U.S.
Pay for Plane
Washington (UJ9 Russia for
mally demanded today that the
United States make full com
pensation for a Soviet trans
port plane shot down over Ko
rea July 27, the State Depart
ment disclosed.
The department ' said U. S.
Ambassador Charles I. Boh-
len, when presented with the
demand In Moscow, stuck by
tne previous U. S. position that
the United States had no re
sponsibility for the lost plana
because it was In the war zone.
The Russians claimed the
plane was over Red China
when attacked.
This government replied
August 1 that the Soviet claim
was false. It said confirmed
information in. the hands of
U, S. military authorities
showed the plan was shot
down by an Air Force righter
plane over Korean territory,
Liberals Win
By Landslide
Toronto W) Canadians still
swear by Prime Minister Louis
St. Laurent and will have
none or very little of his
detractors. They made that
clear in the national elections
with a big tide of votes rolling
the Liberal party to an un
precedented fifth term.
The vote yesterday returned
the Liberals to power with a
House of Commons majority
just short of the record mar
gin they ran up in the land
slide St Laurent engineered
in 1949.
There were 265 Commons
seats at stake. The Liberals
needed 133 to maintain a ma
jority able to back a govern
ment. They won 171.
The Progressive Conserva
tive Tory party won 50. The
socialist CCF (Common Coop
erative Federation) was in
third place with 23 and the
Social Crediters next with 15.
The remainingn six were scat
tered. GUERRILLAS SEIZE SHIP
Taipeh, Formosa W In
formed sources on this Nation
alist Chinese Island said Tues
day the Danish freighter Hein-
rich Jessen was Intercepted by
seaborne Nationalist guerrillas
Sunday. i
Proposed Traffic Unit
Not Advised in City
Salem probably won't have
a traffic division within the
police department.
City Manager J. L. Franzen
and Police Chief Clyde A. War
ren recommended against it at
the council meeting Monday
night in a report on a resolu
tion previously Introduced by
Alderman Tom Armstrong.
The report wasn't adopted,
but was tabled for two weeks
at Armstrong's request
The report by the manager
and the chief was made after
a survey of the experience of
other cities, most of them in
Salem's population bracket,
but also including the city of
Portland.
In the smaller cities the sur
vey indicated that the traffic
plan hasn't worked, and that
city authorities get better re
Prisoners BMe? .
expected today's food handout
to approximate yesterday's
108,047.
In the two-week-old cam
paign, the West up to last night
had given 2,111,611 parcels to
East zone citizens. The pres
ent distribution system will end
next Saturday but a new plan
is to begin Aug. 27.
The U. S. State Department'!
newspaper Neue Zeltung re
ported the arrests of East zone
farmers. The paper said the
Red regime, enraged by delays
la bringing the storm-plagued
grain crop to market began
sending police out into the
fields last weekend.
The report said farmers and
farm laborers have since been
taken, into custody on charges
of "criminal slowness" In reap
ing- threshing, harvesting and
transporting the grain.' The
largest number of arrests were
reported - in Mecklenburg,
where the harvest lagged be
hind the other four Russian
occupied provinces. '
City dwellers also were re
ported victims of police action
because they failed' to volun
teer for unpaid weekend farm
service or had "spread tenden
tlous rumors about harvest
conditions.
The new Communist drive
against farmers repudiated the
Redt promise in June to treat
owner of small and medium-
sized farms better and retrain
from enforcing arbitrary de
crees with police brutality.
23,000 Men .
In Oct. Draft
Washington, OT-Tbe Armyl""' ..t.-i "v . Mla
Tuesday issued a draft call for
23,000 men in October.
The October quota brought
to 1,538,430 the total number
of men drafted or earmarked
for induction since the re
sumption of selective service.
The October call is the same
as previously announced for
the months of July, August
and September.
The Defense Department
has emphasized its Intention to
continue draft calls at the
present rate until the Korean
situation is stabilized. There
fore, crrent schedules call for
a reduction of 4,000 monthly
in the draft until next July.
Gets Go-Ahead for
Court Apartments
R. O. Lewis got the green
light from the city council
Monday night and will go ahead
with his 21-unlt court apart
ment project on property 136
north of State Street between
21st and 23rd.
Involved is a change of zone
classification from Class I resi
dential to Class III-X restrict
ed business.
The application first went be
fore the planning and zoning
commission which recommend
ed it after a public hearing.
It then went to the council
in form of an ordinance bill
and last night a public hearing
I was scheduled before that body.
No one appeared to protest it.
sults by leaving the traffic re
sponsibility with all members
of the department. Medford
didn't like the plan. It was
found, and Eugene tried it and
dropped it
From Portland Chief of Po
lice Purcell advised against it,
but advised an officer training
plan for traffic control and
offered the cooperation of his
department which Franzen
and Warren recommend that
Salem accept
Should the plan be tried
here, the report said, it would
be necessary to add a police of
ficer to the force for each 4000
of population, which would
mean 10 men, and also it
would be necessary to add two
patrol cars. They didn't think
the expense was warranted.
FIN A L
EDITION
By FORREST EDWARDS
Panmnnjom W A krtta
of die-hard AmrrVana
back from their Bed
prison camp today vowing
vengeance am weaker eemrade
who tamed to rommairsm
under pressure.
They spat out "progreasive"
a a dirty word, and ware with
honor tha badge of "reaction
ary" fastened on them by Red
Chinese who clubbed and tor
tured them but did not break
their spirit. ' ,
One tough American bad to
be held back by force when
he spotted "progressive" at
the Freedom Village reception
center.
Til get hat s.o.b. when I
get home," be said.
One hundred Americans
came back from the North,
along with 24 British, 35 Turks
and 250 South Koreans in tha
seventh day of tha Korean War
prisoner exchange. ...
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n Honolulu
Honolulu UJ0 Seventeen
former war ' prisoners, thin
and weak but eager for tha
sight of home, rested here to
day waiting for plane to take
them on the last leg of their
flight to the United States.
Nurses traveling with tha
sick and wounded prisoners,
the first to' be released since
the Korean armistice, said tha
men were In good spirits and
anxious to hear the latest news
from home, .
Their departure from Ha
waii was tentatively sched
uled for 6 p.m. PDT today.
They will head for Travis Air
Fore Base, Calif, a flight that
usually takes from 10 to 11
hours, ''
' The former prisoners land-
ed hero last night ffter a flight
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way island.
All of the men were litter
patients, but a military offi
cer said they seemed to be In
exceptionally good spirits."
Say Yank Prisoners
Became Informers.
Seoul OPi The Army Tues-
day night said it will investi
gate charges that some Ameri
can prisoners turned informer
on fellow captives in North Ko
rean camps.
Spokesmen for the U. S. 8th
Army and Korean Communica
tion Zone, which is handling!
the return of Allied prisoners,
said the cas of every Ameri
can prisoner accused of collab
orating with the Reds would
be thoroughly probed.
The American uniform coda
of military justice provides for
sentences up to and Including
life imprisonment for military
personnel convicted of aiding
the enemy to the detriment of
men in prison camps.
Speed Identification
Of U.S. POW Deaths
Washington W) The Penta
gon is speeding the identifi
cation of Americans on tha
list of 1,050 non-Korean cap
tives reported by the Reds to
have died in Communist pris
on camps.
The list, supplied In accord
ance with the armistice terms,
reached Washington over the
week-end.
But the Defense Depart
ment said public Identifica
tion will be withheld and
even the total number of
Americans listed until ex
haustive checks have been
completed and all families of
the men notified.
Seattle Woman Found
n Her Refrigerator .
Seattle W) A SeattI busi
nessman's wife was found in
her latched refrigerator hero
Monday night and she ' re
mained unconscious Tuesday
at a hospital.
She is Mrs. Christina M.
Lamb, 55-year-old wife of Ed
gar A. Lamb, Seattle mana
ger for a movie firm.
Lambs brother found her
unconscious In the refrigera
tor after the husband had re
ported to police headquarter
that the waa missing.
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