Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, August 21, 1953, Page 1, Image 1

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    Capital A-Jomr
THE WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY tonight,
Saturday, slightly man,
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F I JAL
EDITION
65th Year, No. 199
Salem, Oregon, Friday, August 21, 1953
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"... Kjawrc -
One Convict
Ruled Prison
Gladden Says
Warden Says Near
Genius Sold Liquor,
Dope and Key Jobs
Br JAMES D. OLSON
A prisoner with in Intel!!-
Power Roles
Control by
Interior Ends
' McKay Outlines ,
Policy at Common
wealth Club in S.F.
WOUNDED PRISONERS
0 . rS xtA,un wsn
5 MsmWi:
gene qnottent of It ruled the
Oregon State penitentiary with
an iron hand, Mid liquor and
narcotics, cave oat Jobe to eon
vlcts and astlfned lieatenaate
to key Jobf in the prison, ae
.eordlni to a statement by War
den Clarence Gladden to the
state emergency board Friday,
Warden Gladden made his
statement in support of a re
quest for 23 additional guards,
saying flatly details are still
not properly supervised be
cause of lack of personnel.
Drunkita Parties
"It was the custom, prior to
my taking over the prison" the
warden said, "for the prison
ers to go on a big drunk every
Saturday night. We have de
stroyed 400 gallons of pruno
since last April.
The warden said that he had
been told, and had every rea
son to give credence to the re
port, that $10,000 was collected
by this convict leader and
spirited out of this institution.
When asked if this leader
was still in control Warden
Gladden replied. "He's in a spot
where he can't control any
one. But he was one of the
smartest men I ever met, vir
tually a genius."
Gladden said that this con
vict leader even controlled a
deputy warden, not named.
TCentinned on Pace 5, Colamn 4)
CAA Criticized
By State Board
. Oregon's state board of aero
nautics criticized the civil aero
nautics administration yester
day for what one member
termed "false economy" moves
In closing Oregon activities.
Dr. W. M. Peare, a board
member from La Grande, said
at the regular weekly meeting
of the board that Oregon has
"borne the brunt of false eco
nomy moves by the CAA."
He referred to closure of the
airport traffic control tower at
Salem and the planned closure
October 31 of the communica-
tions station at La Grande.
"This was done in the guise of
economy," Dr. Peare said, "but
the fact is that the personnel
and safety sections of the CAA
budget were cut less than one
per cent."
He said congressional com
mlteemen had directed that the
reduction be made in the high
er echelons, not in the field.
The Board called for a "thor
ough investigation" of the CAA
by proper authorities of Con
gress and by aviation officials
"to the end of maintaining all
safety measures and services
and extending same."
AdlaiToTel!
Ike of Tour
! Chicago VP) Adlai Steven
son, home after a world tour
of nearly six months, apparent
ly will give President Eisen
hower a report on his global
tour.
' The defeated Democratic no
minee for President in 1952
Was asked by reporters if he
had been invited to consult
with the President.
"Before I left," Stevenson
said, "he (Eisenhower) asked
me to see him when I came
home. Every American re
sponds to his President's re
quests." .
The' former governor of Il
linois, who visited some 30
countries since last Msrch 1,
discussed his world tour
ind politics with reporters in
news conferences in New York
and Chicago yesterday.
He told the New York news
men he didn't know whether
he would be a presidential can
didate in 1956. He also told
them that Russia appears to be
in retreat in the cold war and
that the danger of a major
shooting conflict Aas eased for
the present,
ASK COOS BAY BIDS
' Portland () Bids will be
asked about Sept. 8 for dredg
ing the channel in Coos Bay
and Isthmus Slough, the Port
land district Army engineers'
office announced Friday.
Dredging will be to a minimum
depth of 30 feet in the channel
ind 22 feet in the slough.
San Francisco (Special)
Control of re-sala prices of
power by the Department of
Interior, a practice that has
been followed la the past, will
be discontinued, Secretary of
the Interior Douglas McKay an
nounced Friday speaking at a
nooa-day meeting of the Conv
monwealth clnb here. '
McKay said that In the past
the department, in negotiating
contracts for sale of electric
energy, has in most cases in
sisted upon elaborate contract
provisions for the control by
the department of the resale
rates of agencies purchasing
the energy.
"Especially this has applied
to public agencies, municipal
ties and cooperative organiza
tions which operate on a non
profit basis and for the benefit
of the users, and whose rates
fixed by the laws of the states,
McKay said.
Left to States
"It is desirable that govern
ment energy should be resold
at rates which are reasonable
and nondiscriminatory, but we
see little . reason to presume
that the department of the in
terior is better equipped to
maintain this standard than
are the officers and managers
oi outer public agencies.
"Therefore," McKay declar
ed, "the department will not
hereafter Insist on controlling
the retail rates of power which
it sells to public bodies and co
operatives.
However Secretary McKay
said that in contracts with pri
vately owned utilities, a clause
will be included to safecuard
the interests of the customers
of these utilities.
(Centmned so Pace 5, Cehuan f)
Group for Use
OfA-Bomb
Washington (ff Leaders of
the politically-powerful Air
Force Assn. urged Friday the
Immediate use of atomic bombs
against any future Korean
type aggression.
The association's executive
committee presented recoi
mendationi in the form of
proposed statement of policy
to some 1,000 Air Force veter
ans and Air Force personnel at
tending its annual convention.
The proposals will be voted
on Saturday.
The committee, headed by
nnnur r . a.eiiy oi lxs Angeles,
urgea esiaDiisnment of a na
tional policy to "unleash th
full force of atomic air power
againsi armea lorces of aggres
sion in any future Korea."
"If there should be another
Korea, let us not put handcuffs
on tne.Air Force," the commit
tee said.
One Oregon POW
Freed on Friday
Munsan () The official list
oi American prisoners of war
returned Friday in the 17th day
of the Korean armistice POW
exchange Included one Oregon
man:
Charles E. Cargile. Pfc. Co.
M, 31st Rgt 7th Dlv.; mother,
tinei l. cargile, 522 S.E. Jay
St., Grants Pass. Ore..
Constitution Must Be
Submitted to Voters
No proposal for a new state
Constitution can be submitted
to the people except by a con
stitutional convention, Attor
ney General Robert Y. Thorn
ton ruled Friday.
The ruling was in an opin
ion to State Representative
Mark O. Hatfield of Marion
county who had naked if the
legislature could submit an en
tire new constitution to the
people without using the pro
cedure of a constitutional con
vention.
"The legislature has author
ity to propose amendments to
the constitution," Thornton
pointed out "It can not val
idly resolve itself into a con
stitutional convention and
submit a whole new organic
document"
Thornton told Hatfield that
the committee for constitution-
UAL Protests
CAB Favoritism
Seattle" (ff United Air
Lines asked the Civil Aero
nautics Board Friday to re
consider its order denying the
company's request for authori
ty to operate non-stop service
between Seattle - Tacoma and
Spokane and Portland . and
Spokane.
In a statement released
through United's , Seattle of
fice, W. A. Patterson, company
president, said "this decision
places the private interest of
Northwest Airlines above the
public Interest of the citizens
and communities of the Pa
cific Northwest."
Patterson charged the board
showed favoritism when it
gave added rights to North
west and at the same time de
nied United's application
which he said was supported
by the four cities involved.
United's petition for recon
sideration contends the full air
needs of the Pacific Northwest
have not been met v
The petition pointed out
that only one carrier is al
lowed to operate directly be
tween Spokane and Seattle
Tacoma and restrictions on
United prevent it from provid
ing non-stop service between
Spokane and Portland.
No Rain in Sight
Until Next Week
Little or no rain Is in sight
until next week, the five-day
forecast calling . for possibly
some showers by Monday or
Tuesday. The period will bring
about normal temperatures.
Salem area missed out on any
more showers through Thurs
day night The maximum for
the day was a cool 73. Slightly
warmer temperatures are due
through Friday and Saturda, a
high of 85 being called for to
morrow. The Willamette river contin
ues to drop gradually and the
local gauge measured -3.4 feet
this morning.
af study appointed by the last
legislature "can not be deemed
a commission with power
equal to that of a constitution
al convention."
In view of the fact that this
committee was created by reso
lution and such a resolution is
not a law "it Is clear that the
legislature had no other pur
pose than to obtain the advice
of the committee," Thornton
said.
"It did not contemplate that
the findings of the committee
would appear in any form oth
er than a report to the 4Bth
legislative assembly. In any
event no proposal for a new
constitution can be submitted to
the people except by a consti
tutional convention celled as
provided by the existing con
stitution of Oregon."
Two prisoners wounded in riot at Washington State
Reformatory in Monroe last night being guarded by
State Patrolmen and Deputy Sheriffs after they were .
brought out of the prison yard. Nearly 300 inmates started
rioting during recreation period and set fire to five build
ings. Some of the rebellious prisoners went back to cell
block but 161 are still milling about the prison yard.
(AP Wirephoto) .
Non-Red Unions Go
Dock to Jobs in France
Paris () Non-Communist
unions ordered thousands of
workers back to their Jobs Fri
daythe lint break .in the
Save of strikes that has strut-
ed France for 16 days.
But the back-to-work trek
was slow. Unions were meeting
all over France to discuss the
terms of settlement.
The Socialist Workers' Force
Prize Winner
Newsman Dies
Denver (ff Pulitzer Prize
winner Bert Andrews, 52, head
of The New York Herald Tri
bune's Washington bureau,
died here suddenly Friday.
He was hospitalized Wednes
day with a heart attack.
Andrews had been in Den
ver covering President Eisen
hower during the chief execu
tive's Colorado, vacation.
Andrews was the author of
"Washington Witchhunt" a
book in which he hit at what
he called political hysteria in
Washington.
He won a Pulitzer Prize In
1948 for distinguished report
ing. The work that won the
prize was a series called "The
Case of Mr. Blank," dealing
with loyalty and security mea
sures in the State Department.
Seek End to
St. Louis Strike
St Louis OP) The Federal
Conciliation Service Friday
took steps to bring about a
settlement of a strike of 93,000
CIO employes of the South
western Bell Telephone Com
pany but the strike appeared
certain to continue into next
week.
As the six-state walkout
moved into its second day, the
conciliation service announced
it is inviting company and un
ion officials towesume contract
talks Monday. Both sides said
they would accept.
No violence has been noted
and picketing was reported to
be orderly in the firm's terri
tory of Missouri, Kansas, Ok
lahoma, Texas, Arkansas and a
part of Illinois near St. Louis.
The company said its latest
offer provided for pay increas
es ranging from f 1 a week in
the lower brackets to $3 ' a
week m the higher schedules.
The old wage schedule ranged
from $35 to $95 weekly.
Weather Details
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m arMs.l
(FO) and the Christian Labor
Federation (CFTC) reached
agreement with Premier Joseph
Laniel's government early Fri
day for postal,.. telegraph and
telephone workers to end their
strike. Other government work
ers were expected to join the
back-to-work movement.
But attempt) to put in tele
phone calls to other cities in
France still were fruitless Fri
day afternoon. The communi
cations services were not ex
pected to be back to normal be
fore Monday in any case.
On other strike 'fronts there
was little perceptible change.
Only a few railroad trains were
running, though Socialists and
Catholics ordered their rail
men back to work.
The Paris subway and bus
system were still partially para
lyzed. Coal mines were still idle.
Furthermore, a 4 8 h o u r
strike of metal workers called
by non-Communist union began
Friday. Thousands of workers
were reported idle at steel mills
and other factories in the na
tion. But the management at the
big Renault automobile plant in
Paris said only 2,000 of Its 16,
000 workers failed to show up.
Belgian Congo
Junket Planned
Washington, Vf) A project
ed field trip to the Belgian
Congo drew a small group of
lawmakers here Friday, each
equipped with "clothing for
rough, but-of-door wear. '
. The congressmen, members
of the Senate-House Commit
tee on Atomic Energy, began
assembling for a month-long
Inspection trip on which they
leave Sunday.
A committee aide told news
men the lawmakers were ad
vised to pack heavy auty
shoes and clothing for their
visit to South Africa's gold
mines and uranium extraction
plants.
The party will Include three
or four atomic energy commis
sion officials, si well as Sens.
Cordon (R., Ore.) and Rus
sell (D., Ga.), and Rep. Cole
(R., N. Y.); Kinshaw R
Calif.); Van andt (R., Pa.),
Hollfield (D., Calif.) and Price
(D., 111.). Sen. Hickenlooper,
(R., Iowa will join them in
England.
BRIDGE CONTRACT LET .
The State Highway Depart
ment Thursday awarded a con
tract for construction of a
bridge over the Little Deschutes
River, north of Lapine in Des
chutes County, to C. E. Blak
ley, Klamath Falls. He submit
ted the low bid of 115,547.
Shah En Route
Home Stops at
Iraq Capital
Baghdad, Iraq, The
8 hah of Iran, triumphantly a
route from exile In Borne,
landed here Friday.
The Shah, Mohammed Reza
Pahlevi, is returning after five
days of exile caused by the
turbulent events In his oil-rich
land. He started his return
journey after Premier Moham
med Mossadegh was over
thrown Wednesday in a brief,
bloody royalist revolt let by
Gen. Fazollah Zrhedi, the new
Premier.
Mossadegh, clad In pink pa
jamas and deeply depressed,
shakily surrendered Thursday,
and is under heavy guard In
Tehran.
The Iraq crown prince, Ab-
dulah Hah, was on hand at the
Baghdad airport to greet the
smiling young Shah. t
Diplomats Sullen -
Also on hand were the Iran
ian ambassador, Mudhaffar
Aalam, and other embassy of
ficials, bui the young ruler did
not receive tnem.
The Iranian diplomats, be
holden to Mossadegh, gave
their ruler the cold shoulder
when he made a stopover here
Sunday on hi flight from his
country where Mossadegh po
lice were busily rounding up
royalists.
(Centlnned en Fate a. Celamo 1)
Offer $25,000
For Lost Plane
Ketchikan, Alaska. ()
Military " -planes from the
United States and Canada and
civilian pilots, who were spur
red on by the promise of a
$23,000 reward took to the air
again Friday on the fourth day
of a search for a New Mexico
oilman and four others miss
ing since Monday on a flight
to the states.
Reports of an unidentified
plane sighted Monday night
sent many of the searchers to
the west side of Prince of
Wales Island in the hunt for
the private plane flown by
Ellis Hall, 64, of Albuquerque.
The plane with Hall, his
wife and two daughters, and
17-year-old Patrick Hibben
aboard, vanished Monday after
taking off on Annette Island
on a flight to Belllngham,
Wash.
The Coast Guard said 23
military planes plus civilian
fliers who were after the
reward offered by Hall's bus
iness associates were slated to
take part In the search Fri
day. The Prince of Wales Island
report came from two fisher
men who said they saw a
strange plane over the island
Monday night. The island is
about 25 miles west of An
nette. BOND ISSUE SOUGHT
Washington ) Mountain
States Power Co.. Albany, Ore..
Thursday asked the Federal
Power Commission for author
ity to issue eight million dollars
worth of bonds. The issue
would be 4 W per cent 30-year
first mortgage bonds.
Warning issued on
Sources of Milk Supply
A report from the field that
one Oregon doctor has attrib
uted probably one-third of
childhood sickness to milk
from questionable sources to
day prompted the State De
partment of Agriculture to Is
sue some warnings about milk
sources.
Approved sources- of milk
are available throughout Ore
gon, the department said, and
if anyone has any doubt about
the wholesomeness of the milk
and cream he is using, all he
needs to do Is to aheck with
tile department at Salem.
Or, officials said, put it this
way:
If you want to know the
approved sources of milk in
your area, ask the department
for a list of the inspected and
licensed dairies in the specific
area.
750 American
POW Freed at
Panmuniom
Panmunjom lfl A rollick
ing 130 Americans, the largest
single-day delivery yet in the
Korean War prisoner exchange,
rode out of Red captivity at this
wayside village today.
Eager as youngsters, they
shouted and danced as they
were freed with 300 South K fl
ans.
The Americans were from
Camp 1 at Chongsong on the
Yalu River, the Red stockade
for "Mcorrigibles" who active
ly resisted Communism.
The repatriates said the first
group of Americans from a
fourth Red prison Camp 9
Kanggye arrived Thursday
night at Kaesong, the Red clear
ing site Just north of Panmun
jom.
The Reds said Saturday's de
livery would include 94 Ameri
cans 30 of them sick or
wounded 300 South Koreans,
23 British, 13 Canadians, 3
Australians, 2 French, 1 Turk
and 1 Colombian. -
New Plebiscite
New Deshl, India Iff) India
and Pakistan agreed today to
make a new try at arranging a
plebiscite In the disputed bord
er state of Kashmir. Tentative
plans call for the appointment
of a neutral plebiscite adminis
trator by next April 30. i
The accord was announced
in a Joint communique released
early today at the end ox four-
day talks betwen Prime Minis
ters Nehru of India and Mo
hammed AU of Pakistan. The
two countries each oecupy past
of the divided state.
The future of Kashmir and
its four million Inhabitants has
embroiled India-Pakistan rela
tions since the establishment
of the two nations following
World War II.
The United Nations previous
ly attempted to set up a plebis
cite to. determine which na
tion the Kashmir people wish
ed to join but India and Pakis
tan couldn't agree on condi
tions under which the voting
would be held.
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Spreckels Heir
Beats Up Wife
Newport Beach, Calif. )
Sugar heir Adolph Spreckels
II was jailed last night on sus
picion of beating his fifth for
mer wife, actress Kay Will
lams, so severely that she had
to be taken to a hospital.
The beating took place Wed
nesday but the story didn't
leak out until detectives
booked the 41-year-old mil
lionaire. Neighbors said Miss
Williams, 36, suffered head
and body injuries when
knocked to the ground by
blows from her own shoe.
The actress, who divorced
Spreckels last year on grounds
of physical abuse, leased an
apartment here to be near her
children, Joan and Adolph III,
who are staying with their fa
ther In his nearby Balboa Is
land home, friends said.
Under state law, all dairies
selling milk and cream in Ore
gon are required to be licensed
by the department. Exceptions
are only those licensed by
cities having their own milk
ordinance and then these must
meet state standards.
Each milk source on the de
partment's approved list Is in
spected regularly for compli
ance with state sanitation
standards and the dairy cows
are tested regularly for bang's
snd tuberculosis, and two dis
eases which msy be transmit
ted to human beings if milk
is not properly protected.
Manpower, money and time
are devoted constantly to sup
plying wholesome milk to Ore
gon's population so there is lit
tle excuse for anyone buying
milk of questionable character,
department officials said.
t Killed end 3
Wounded in
Night Bailie
Monroe. Wash. (ffV Klotosjs
InmatM el the Washington
State reformatory set fir
building afire Thursday sight
la a violent outbreak la which
one of them waa killed aad
three wounded.
Quiet was restored during
the night, and ISO of the riot
ing inmates were still held on
the outdoor recreation field in
ir.ld-morning. Some ware
playing football, some played
baseball, some huddled about
two fires and some catnapped
on the ground. .41
All of the Institutions' 615
Inmates were still without
breakfast as the noon hour ap
proached, because the . kitchen
was wrecked during the night's
hours-long spree. However,
some of the inmates in the yard
got canned food from the burn-
ed cannery building for an out
door snack.
Kitchen Knives Stolen
Most of the kitchen knives
disappeared during the riot-
lnf, and the thorough search
for them was one of the factor
slowine ud the return of th
rioters to their cells. -
Only half of the inmates par-
Uclpated In the outbreak, pris
on officials reported, ' Half oi
the rioters were In one cell
block, which still echoed Fri
day morning to Intermittent
shouts and jeers; the other half
were still locked out of the
cell block. . -
(Ceatlaaed a Fag t. Cabana R
Asks Strategy
Washington ( Deputy De
fense Secretary Kyes called
Friday for a national strategy
1- .1 AM I TT 1-1 I .
should be somewhere between
the Ideas of "almost fanatical'
backers of one sort of prepar
edness or another, and those
of "the pacifist who would do
nothing."
"Air power la the keystone
make no mistake about
that," Kyes declared. He add
ed that air power would be
basic in the new look at the
nation's present military
strength. and future need be
ing conducted by the new
Joint Chiefs of Staff on orders
from President Eisenhower.'
James H. Smith, Jr., assist
ant secretary of the Navy for
sir, told the group that with
its new planes now coming off
production lines, operating
from modernized carriers as
well as from shore bases, the
United States "will have a na
val weapons system with the
highest mobility, entirely fit
for Its assigned mission."
Morocco Fetes
Hew Sultan
Rabat, French Morocco tut
Morocco's new sultan receiv
ed homage amid dazzling Mos
lem splendor today while
France made a show of
strength to keep down threat
ened riots by Nationalist tup-
porters of the deposed ruler. -
New Sultan Sidi Mohammed
Moulay Ben Arafa, 6r made
his first public appearance
leading prayers of the faithful
in the French protectorate's
biggest religious festival. Aid-El-Keblr.
Thousands of loyal Berber
tribesmen In age-old costumes
gathered at the dazzling pal
ace and the mosque of Mar
rakech to fete the new sov
ereign, and slit the throats of
new-born lambs to give thanks
to Allah.
Europeans evacuated their
homes in the native quarter!
oi Moroccan cities wnen in
flammatory leaflets appeared
during the night despite a
strict shoot-at-sight curfew. '
"Do not be afraid to let the
blood flow." the leaflets de
clared.
TRANSPORT DUE
S e a 1 1 1 o W) The Navy
transport Gen. Simon B. Buck-
ner will arrive here at 1:80 a.m.
Saturday with 1,659 passengers
from the Far East