M THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY t a I f h t. Band j. Little causa la tern aerator. Law tonight IS; hire Sunday, 71. Growers Vole 7-1 for Wheat Quotas in '54 Oregon Producers Overwhelmingly Support Controls Washington ( The nation's farmers have voted over whelmingly to accept rigid control! on next year'! wheat crop in return for continued high government price sup port. The action, approved by a 7- l margin among the 'rrmers .voting in Friday's referendum, eased pressure on farm-belt Republican members of Con- gress facing campaigns for re election in 1954. Preliminary returns announ ced by the Agriculture Depart ment showed 381,302 growers voted for marketing quotas on the 1054 wheat crop. Only 53,- 252 opposed. The restrictions will cut production and sales about 20 per cent from this year's 10 per cent above nor mal crop. The returns showed a favor able vote of 87.2 per cenfar 1 above the 66 per cent re quired and the biggest propor tion ever piled up in a wheat quota referendum. The Agri culture Department said it ex- ; pects little change from that percentage when the final offi cial tabulation is made. Oregon 4841 to 385 Portland VP Oregon wheat growers Friday voted 4,848 to 385 to continue marketing con trols on the 1954 wheat crop. (Coo tinned n Par ft, Catena I) Heat Breaks After 94 Friday Clouded ikiei and cool tem perature! prevailed over Salem and vicinity, Saturday morn ing, an abrupt change, follow ing the wilting heat of Friday when the mercury hit a maxi mum of 94 degrees in the city, A trace of precipitation was recorded for the' city early Fri- day evening. . .. A flow of cool air moved in on western Oregon generally to bring relief from the intense heat of the past few days. In eastern Oregon, the warm wea ther is due to continue over the week-end. Scattered thunderstorms were reported throughout the mountain area over Friday night, and more of them are due in those areas through Sat urday. Forecast for the week-end for valley sections is for con tinued partly cloudy skies with no mention of rain. Tempera tures will continue about the same as for Saturday. The Dalles -had the top scorching mark for Friday, the maximum there being 105 de grees. Medford listed 98, down town Portland 98," Pendleton 88. Seek Settlement of Anglo-U.S. Dispute United Nations, N.Y. U Diplomats of the 16 countries whose troops fought for the United Nations in Korea met for three hours today, seeking to settle Anglo-American dif ferences over the forthcoming Korean truce conference. An' other session was called for tomorrow. As delegates left U. S. dele gation headquarters they in dicated that "a lot of progress" had been made toward settling the apparent rift between Britain and the United States on whether to Include Russia and India in the Far Eastern conference. ' Britain Won't Aid if Rhee Breaks Truce London UJ9 Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill warned today that Britain would uot support South Korean Presi dent Syngman Rhee with her fighting forces If he break the truce. At the same time, Churchill aid Britain would Join 15 oth er Korean Allies in resuming and extending the fighting should be Communists wreck the armistice. HELD FOR ROBBERY Klamath Falls UJS Stau po lice early today arrested Rich ard Bridwell Young, 23, Oak land, Calif., for the armed rob bery of the Unique market here Weather Details Mutmmm mHt. til atatana te St. H. Tatol S4-kMT TMiIUUa! tmm fw MM 11 Mi !. .14. Ma srarMuttaa, Ml rmtl. MM. amr ktltkt. -M law, (Braart k V. . WmUmt Bums.) 65th Estranged Hubby Bites Off Third Of Wife's Nose Los Angeles ( A man bit oft a third of his wife's nose last night, police report The woman is Mrs. Joan Sa vllle, 40, an insurance com' pany secretary. She told of ficers that her estranged hus- oana, culvert Hack, 37, a Cleveland, Ohio, television technician, grabbed her as she left an apartment building where she live. She said he dragged her into a vacant lot next to the building, bit the tip of her nose and fled. Officers H. L. Gavlin and W. M. West re ported. They quoted her as saying" the left her husband last April and that he had threatened harm when she re fused his repeated plea for her to return to him. The officer reported they could not find the missing nose tip. Police began a search for the husband. - Reds Seek to Pep up Strike Paris UJ9 Communists la bor leaders today ordered member of their unions to stage sit-down strike in French factories Monday in an attempt to put new life into the week-long labor revolt against Premier Joseph anlel's economy program, --, . Socialist and non-Commu nist unions, which originally touched oft the chaotic strikes affecting 4,000,000 laborer at Thursday's peak, appeared disciplined to go along. They took advatnage of the lull cre ated by the long Assumption' day week-end to confer pri vately and unofficially with government representatives on a compromise formula. The Communist were de termined to prevent any cool ing off of the labor crisis dur ing the holiday. They instructed their power ful- Metallurgical union to be gin an unlimited "sit down" strike Monday in the Bouches- du-Rhone department That area include Mareellle, second city of France, stronghold of Red militants and frequently the scene of violent riots be tween worker and security forces. Tent City Will House 23,000 Anti-Red P.W.s Munsan, Korea VP) A huge tent city is being built near Panmunjom to house 23,000 North Korean and Chinese prisoners who refused repatria tion. ' Some 3,000 army engineers, working around the clock, are erecting 1,100 tents. They will house not only the prisoners but medical and Red Cross Units, guard troops, supervis ory personnel and Communist officers who will attempt to convince the POWs to return to their homelands. IKE SIGNS OREGON BILL Denver (U-B President Eis enhower today signed a bill giving Oregon's Gov, Paul Fatterson jurisdiction over criminal offenses and civil causes of action committed on Indian reservations within the state. . . , 1 Report Against Trade Street Opening to 12th The planning board of the city zoning commission will Tuesday night recommend against providing funds to ac quire right of way for the op ening of Trade Street through to 12th. Roughly the cost Is estimated r $45,000, an expense which the board does not think, would be warranted. The idea originated in the city council and the commiS' sion was requested to study the possibility of extending Trade from Winter to 12th to facili tate the movement of heavy truck traffic to the Trade Street area. The planning board does not feel," the report will say, "that this expenditure is feasible at this time for the following rea sons: . 'All Improvements would have to be borne by the city. "C o n s i d e r a b le property wcild have to be condemned and purchased by the city. 'The -expense of necesssry fills and bridge make the pro ject extremely expensive for the results gained." The report ad.is that no at tempt has been nude to study other alternative such as the Capital jOohfMI i rt ' Year, No. 194 23 New Fires Started in Slate Forests 68 Acres Burned Over South of Sandy; 10 in Southwest Area Twenty - three fires w e re started Friday in Oregon forest lands coming under the juris diction of the state forestry de partment with the largest one in the Clackamas-Marion dis trict Sixty-eight acres in size, this fire was three miles south of Sandy and was in a logging operation. It was brought un der control by 7:30 p.m. Fri day. Most of the 23 fires were from lightning with 15 baving been started by lightning, four from. logging operations and four miscellaneous fires. - Southwest Oregon had the largest number of lightning fires with a report luaiie to the department Saturday morn ing listing 10 lightning fires, and more lightning strikes ex pected in that area Saturday. Of the 10 tires, all that crews had reached had been brought under control.' Others were in fairly inaccessable areas but were small. ' Saturday morning the state forestry department sent the department's plane down to, that area for patrol work with Al Larsen piloting it, Larsen will also drop supplies to tne fire fighters if they are need ed. . - . A 20-acre fire was reported in Western Lane district No recent report has been received cn that telling whether it had been controled yet or not The Klamath district which had been expecting a number of lightning fires, reported only three fires. Eastern Lane dis trict had two lightning fires. Of the other fires reported two were in Northwest Oregon district and were small and con trolled; one was in the Polk- Benton district and controlled; one was in the Central Oregon district, near Kinzua, and was very small and controlled; and one was in the North Central Oregon district and controlled. The latter was a miscellaneous fire and was started from a burning building. Lowering of temperatures and the rise in humidity has eased the fire danger somewhat but the heat of the past few days dried the forest areas so much that there is still a Haz ard. Humidities in this area Fri day were low enough that log ging operations were closed part of the day. 2 U. S. Captains Land Behind Curtain, Held - Heidelberg, Germany (U.ID Two U, S. army captains, en gaged in field maneuvers near the Iron Curtain frontier, mis takenly landed their light plane in the Soviet zone ol Germany and were reported today as "missing and presum ed held by. the Russians." The names of the two men were not disclosed, pending notification to their families. MILWAUKIE MAN INDICTED Portland W A County Grand Jury Friday Indicted Wesley Leonard Mostert, 28, of Milwaukie,' on a charge of first degree murder. He -is accused of the fatal beating of John Ed- ward Krall, 60, on July 28. widening of Mill Street. The board consulted various interested concerns. It found that the Southern Pacific Company would prob- ably grant permission for the extension to pass over existing right of way. But Willamette University would not want the street im proved. One of Its planned classroom buildings will be very near, and the noise of a truck-traveled street says the report would be very annoying. The university, says the report, would be very reluctant to give the necessary ground at 12th Street for street purposes at this time. "A cursory examination," says the report "shows that the university owns property on both sides of the railroad right of way, making it necessary to acquire considerable ground to make the improvement prob ably by condemnation." In addition to the ground. says the report, it would be necessary to enlarge the bridge over the mlllrace at Winter, and to bridge the race between 12th and University for about 300 feet (Cmtiaaea a Face $, Cohraa t) Solem, Oregon, Serves Wife and Children, Then Loses Own Life . Chelan, Wash. ( A her oic father saved his wife and two children from drowning in Wapato Lake Friday night and then sank from exhaustion. - The victim was Fred Mar ie tte, 30. Manson. Wash. Marlette was fishing with his wife, Carroll, and two children. aged one and seven, when their boat capsized and threw the group into the water. The father brought his family to shore and then sank. His body was recovered and artificial respiration tried un- succesfully. Typhoon May Miss Okinawa Nana, Owlnawa W Trop ical winds shrieked over this key American military base Saturday night in an ominous warning of an approaching ty phoon, but the island may escape the full fury of the big blow. The typhoon, one of .the wildest ever recorded in the Pacific, may to -pass Okinawa if it remains on Its present course, said Maj. Maurice R. Fowler,1 spokesman for the Ryuky.us command. The storm's center, carrying 160 mile winds, may strike Formosa, weather observers said. Winds of up to 75 mile an hour lashed Okinawa Satur day night and were expected to increase to 100-140 miles' by morning. . . But the island was ready. In last minute preparations, farm ers gathered crop and strung ropei over roofs. American were housed in concrete shel ters. The big storm was last charted 157 miles from Okin awa, moving northwest at 15 miles an hour.- Allis-Chalmers Gets Transformer Order Washington W The In terior Department Friday an nounced approval of a contract for six 343,000-voIt transform ers which it said will be per haps tne highest capacity trans formers In the world. Allis-Chalmers Manufactur ing Co. of Milwaukee, Wis., got the contract with the Bonne ville Power Administration BPA with a bid of $2,005,378. The transformers will be used on a 345 kllovolt trans mission line of BPA to deliver power from McNary Dam to the Portland area.' Homes Endangered By Sheridan Fire Sheridan UJ0 A grass and grain fire yesterday threaten ed several homes in this area and destroyed fields of hairy vetch ready to be harvested. The Sheridan fire department said cause of the fire was not known. Fanned by a stiff breeze the blaze cut a swath a quar ter of a mile wide and two miles long in the Mill creek and Buell areas near here. Heaviest loss was suffered by Bob Guttry of Red Prairie. He lost 30 acres of ripe vetch, Firemen said hot weather and low humidities have increased the hazards of the harvest now in full swing here. Grain fields are tinder dry, they said. v . Disloyal Gls Face Treason Prosecution . Los Angeles WV-Atty. Gen Herbert Brownell said Satur day that American prisoners of war who collaborated with their Communist captors In Ko rea may face charges of tres son. Brownell said at a news con ference that the Justice De partment will "study applic able laws and ascertain whether we will be warranted in prosecuting these men." Nine More Returned P.W.s Reach Travis Travis AFB, Calif. U.P Nine repatriated war prisoners, in' eluding six stretcher cases and an amputee on crutches, re' turned to the United States to day on the second "freedom flight" since the Korean armis tice. ' Service hospital plane carry. ing the war -weary fighting men home after months of communist Imprisonment land ed here at 6:55 a.m. (PDT). WONT STOP NEXT TIME San Francisco UJ9 Senate floor leader William F. Know land warned the Communists today that if they renew the Korean War "neither this na tion nor Its allies" will remain south of the 38th parallel. Saturday, August i Nooano Naona ccjanis r.h ft.,. ; ,0 - . Victims Hash Frantic Colls Tremors Subsiding; Relief Need Grows; U.S.A.F. Helping Athens, Greece UJ9 Thou sands of homeless people iso lated by week-long earth quakes on the ravaged Ionian islands flashed frantic mirror signals for help today to American and British ships. The twinkling reflection from the mirror attracted the attention 'of men aboard ths ships and they landed with jeeps and helicopters to go to their assistance Victims of the vast trem- Mors that reduced the islands of Cephalonla, Ithaca and Zante, described in Homer's epic poem, "The Odyssey," wandered over the broken gut ted land or huddled in masses. The Athens observatory said the force of the earthquakes was declining and the last 10 shocks were light V But the tragic need created by the earthquake and fire disaster gave, rescue workers an almost impossible task. An estimated 1,000 persons are dead and whole town have been destroyed. At Wiesbaden, Germany, the U.S. air force ordered "all out air support" for the Greeks and began an airlift of 168,000 pound of supply to the shattered islands off Greece' east coast ' Radford Takes Over As Military Chief wasningion J-ra A new team of generals and admirals. headed by Adm. Arthur 7W. Radford, took over the mill tary high command today with the assignment of taking a new looK- at tne nation's en tire defense set-up. Only simple ceremonies at the Pentagon marked change over in the membership of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But from the change may come decisions revamping national defense policies followed for the past several years. New chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the first Navy man to noid the top military post, is the 58-year-old Radford who succeeds Gen. Omar N. Brad' ley. Sheridan Boy Lost In 5. Yamhill River Sheridan, Ore. VP) A 15- year-old boy drowned Friday while attempting to swim across the South Yamhill river, three miles south of here. He was Walter Foster, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Foster. The father and four younger brothers live at Mc Minnvllle, the mother In Port land. The victim had been liv ing here this summer. ' Lenora Wilkinson, 18. Sher Idan, saw the boy disappear in the water and tried to help him, but failed. It took two hours to recover the body, which was taken to Portland for funeral arrangement. 152 Japanese Dead, 800 Missing, Floods Kyoto, Japan UJ9 Japanese officials listed .152 persons dead and hundreds missing to day in a flood near this ancient capital city of Japan. Press re ports estimated as many as 300 dead and 800 -nissing. Unofficial police reports placed the number of dead at 232 with 132 missing. Police said another 276 were Injured Twenty -thousand Japanese homes were reported destroyed by the flood waters. Hurricane Passes East Coast, Little Damage Boston UP) Atlantic hurri cane B, for Barbara, swung out to sea Saturday after leav ing heavy rains, but little damage, in its wake as it skirted the New England coast. The weather bureau ssid the hurricane, the second of the season, was about 200 miles at sea by 8 a.m. EST and moving northeastward at about 27 miles an hour. LOOTERS WARNED Athens UPf Advices from the quake devastated Oonian Is lands said Saturday looters would be executed on the spot. An order to that effect was issued after arrest of two loot ers Friday. QPgTI VELCOMES .1. ., l,m,mt, r ; i . t ..f f ' .: r '- "i - , ,. - ' " MM L Lt Col. Thomas D. Harrison, Clovis, N. M, Just returned to Travis, Calif.,' Air Force Base from Korea following hia release from a -Communist prison camp, is embraced by hi wife, Doris. He lost leg in the fighting. Ike Vetos 3, Signs 15 Bills Denver (U-B President El senhower vetoed three bills and signed 15 today to 'com plete.-action on all legislation passed by the adjourned Con gress. - i The three pocket vetoes an nounced at his temporary White House offices here in volved two private relief bills and one bill for the relief of the city and county of Denver, The President also Issued a statement explaining his sig nature on s bill giving Califor nia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ore gon and Wisconsin jurisdiction over criminal offenses . and civil causes of action commit ted on Indian reservations within the states. Promtos "Basle Equality" The President said he bad 'grave doubts" about some of the provisions of the bill but approved it because its basic purpose represented "still an other step in granting complete political equality to all Indian in our nation." - As the President finally cleared his desk of pending legislation, he approved a bill closing the tax law loophole which permitted persons work- ing' abroad for 18 months to escape payment of federal in come taxes on money earned abroad during that period. Numerous novie stars have taken advantage of this section of the Internal Revenue Code drlng recent years. .Under the new law a 820,000 limit was placed on tax exempt Income earned outside the country. 10 Die, 50 Hurt in British Train Wreck Manchester, England VP) - Two British train crunched into each other atop a viaduct 80 feet over the River Irk to day, killing 10 passengers and injuring 50 others. . One coach somersaulted into the river bed, landing upside down after ripping a 30-foot gap In the viaduct wall. j Unemployment in State Highest in Four Years Summer-time unemployment the highest in four years, the State Unemployment Com pensation Commission said to day. Unemployment continued at well above recent summer periods despite Increasing calls from late harvests, food pro cessing plants and other sea sonal line. Claims reported by local of fices for the first week of August totaled 12,311, com pared with 8371 a year ago and 7125 in 1931, New layoffs In plywood and furniture plants increased initial claims to 2177, highest at this time for several years. - Payments to those unable to find jobs last month were $678,602, third highest July In the 16-year history of the law. Last year's figure was $469,156 and in 1951 only $358,130 was distributed among the unem ployed. The number of jobseckers Price 5c P.W. HUSBAND N.W. to Get Million To Fight Forest Fire Portland 6U9 Oregon end Washington state forestry or ganization will receive more than $1,000,000 of federal fund to assist in control of forest fire during the current fiscal year, the U.S. Forest Service said today. The fund are an annual allotment under the Clarke- McNary law of 1924. , Oregon will receive I591,- 056 and Washington, $541,227, Forty-one other states and the Territory . of Hawaii receive federal fire control funds. Elemsnt-'X- - Just Table Soil Medford W "Element X1 the mysterious substance that two pilot have been dropping in clouds to prevent hall on the Rogue Valley fruit crop, was reported Friday to be nothing but common table salt Harvey Brandau and Eugene Kooser, two former Navy pi lots, who have been salting the clouds in the Medford area for five years, made the report They have kept their meth od secret all this time, calling the substance "element X." rney were required by a weather control bill passed by the last Legislature to identi fy the substance. The bill re quires the operator to state "the method and type of equip ment and type of composition of materials that the applicant proposes to use. """""" " t TWO RFC OREGON LOANS Washington W9 The Re construction Finance Corp. to day announced approval of two Oregon loans, one to a Portland firm and the other to an Astoria woman. An $11,000 loan went to Herbert J, Reimann for new equipment for hi steel-drum conditioning firm and a $2450 disaster loan went to Esther Elizabeth H. Junttl to repair flood damages. reported from 26 local offices on Aug. 1 was 24,565, about tfuu less man a month or two months ago. It was the highest at this period since 1949. Of the total 9361 were women, and in crease of 1519 from June 1. Unfilled job openings also fell off, from 1474 in July to 1290 this month, lowest in four years. More than 20,000 persons have filed claims since the start of the 1953-54 benefit year July 1. First payments already have been made tb more than halt the number. Both figures are about 30 per cent higher than a year ago. Of the 7343 claimants receiv ing compensation during the last week of July 1434 were logging and lumber, 1339 from food processing and 497 In con struction. Nearly half of the total were from the four-county area around Portland. Salem and Eugene each had about nine per cent FINAL EDITION I!c;c:n CrCwdS!:n:j Rd Priicncrj Violence Flares To day at Panmunjom; 50 Yanks Freed ' Panmunjom (5 The V. K. Command said today South Korean civilian (toned taunt ing Communist war prisoners moving north for repatriation yesterday, injuring 314 Red and tuna American, guard. The outbreak of violence) near Inchon brought no imme- . diate echoes at this dusty vil lage where 400 more Allied prisoner were freed . from Communist prison camp to-' day. ,. (Picture on Fat f) ' Fifty Americas!!, all of them apparently hale and hearty, were among the group freed on this, the 11th day of the great prisoner exchange. - Nine other prisoner Iberv . i ted earlier eight of them se- . riously ill or disabled were -due at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco today after ' a flight across the Pacific , The second ' troopshh) . to leave lor the United States) with liberated Americans was to sail from I nchon Harbor Sunday morning. Aboard the transport Gen. Hase are 43 T American repatriate and oth er troop en route home on regular rotation. The trio la expected to take about 10 day. The- U. N. Command said some - 3,600 : Red prisoners, flaunting banner and chant- - ing Communist songs, hurled boot and metal canteen at South Korean bystanders as they were being trucked to a rail station from Inchon Har bor. The South Korean respor-d-ed with rock. The U. N. POW Command laid 814 Red were slightly injured. Nine Ameri can guards also were hurt, two seriously. Saturday's liberated Ameri cans added to the (toxica of horror In Red POW stock ades. And Communist Peiptog radio continaedv the war of word over the withholding of some prisoner. . , Pelplng aid the Red had protested to the armistice re patriation commission against what It called "the forcible re tention of a number" of Com- ' munist prisoners due for re patriation, .,' . The broadcast accused the U. N.- Command of "brutal treatment and murder of Ko- ' rean and Chinese POWs." The broadcast said the oro- test were lodged Friday and that an "explicit answer" was demanded within three day. , Nixon Heads F.E.P. Group Denver U-B President Els enhower selected Vice-Presl- , dent ' Richard M. Nixon a chairman and eight public members. Including John Roosevelt son of the late dem ocratic president of the gov ernment contract committee, a newly constituted organization to combat employment dis crimination in plant holding federal contract. J. Ernest Wilklns, Negro at torney of Chicago, was ap pointed by the president a vice-chairman. The committee will meet with the president at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York next Wednesday morn ing. In addition to Nixon, Wil klns and Roosevelt the presi dent appointed: Fred Lazarus, Jr., Cincin nati, O., department store ex ecutive and vice-president of the American Jewish commit tee. ' George Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor. CIO President Walter P. Reuther. John L. McCaffrey of Chi cago, president of the Inter national Harvester company. John Minor wisdom,. New Orleans attorney and Louisi ana republican national, com mitteeman. Mrs. Helen Rogers Reld. chairman of the board of the New York Herald Tribune. NOTED NOVELIST DIES Gallup, N. M. UJ9 Funeral arrangement were pending to day for Gouveneour Morris, 77, noted novelist and g:eat-grand-son of one of the framert of the United States constitution. Mor ris died here yesterday after a heart attack. 'HI ! a !