Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, August 22, 1953, Page 1, Image 1

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F I U A L
EDITION
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65th Year, No. 200
Salem, Ortgon, Saturday, August 22, 1953
Price 5c
MONMOUTH GRAIN FIELD BURNS
150 Sullen
Convicts Sent
Back lo Cells
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Board Trims
Slate Prison
Guard Plea
Board Members Feel
$100,000 Will Cover
Needs for Biennium
Br JAMES D. OLSON
Despite revelations of Uck
of supervision in several divi
sions of the state penitentiary
due to lack of guards, the state
emergency board trimmed
Warden Clarence Gladden's
request of 143,92 to an even
5106,000 to cover employment
of additional prison guards.
The cut came after Harry
Dorman, director of the de
partment of finance and ad
ministration told board mem
bers that new guards were' put
on a two weeks' training
schedule and only 12 could be
trained at one time.
Inasmuch as it would take
some time to reach the goal of
23 new guards, board mem
bers felt that $100,000 would
be sufficient to cover the cost
for the present biennium.
' Table Bequest
But the board tabled a re
quest for a transfer of funds
from the prison capital out
lay fund to the penitentiary
industries fund.
This transfer was requested
by the state board of control
as a means of "straightening
out the bookkeeping" at the
prison.
The request for the transfer
and three other requests from
the board of control came in
late, and were listed on a sup
plemental budget which did
not please the emergency
board members.
Late Requests Banned
"Hereafter no matters will
be considered unless it is sub
mitted in time to be placed on
the regular agenda," President
of the Senate Eugene E. Marsh
and chairman of the board
said. "Members of this board
are entitled to study these re
quests before they come to the
meeting." ...
(Continued on Fife S, Column I)
World Quotas1
Fixed on Sugar
London VP) The Interna.
tional Sugar Conference, in a
final agreement announced
Saturday, assigned Cuba an ex
port quota of 2-million tons.
The conference fixed a total
world export quota of 5,390
000 tons and set the price range
at 3.25 to 4.35 cents a pound
for raw sugar.
Delegates to the 39-nation
conference will authenticate
the text of the long-awaited
agreement at a ceremony Mon
day. It will then go to the in-
dividual governments for re
view and final ratification.
Delegates of most of the lm.
porting and exporting countries
expressed themselves ' imme
diately as being pleased with
the final form of the agree
ment, which will govern practi
cally all sugar transactions on
the world market
There Is some uneasiness
among the exporting countries
about the possible effects of the
boost in the total world export
quota from the committee pro
posed 5,000,000 tons to 5,390,-
000 tons.
Find Clue to
Missing Plane
Ketchikan, Alaska, W
Two clipped treetops, two re
ports on a low-flying o.ane
and a report of a "ball of fire"
turned the attention of search
ers for missing Ellis Hall and
his four passengers to the
primitive area 30 miles north
of here Saturday.
Hall. 54-year-old Albuquer
que, N.M. oil man vanished
Monday after taking off from
nearby Annette Island on a
flight to Bellingham, Wash.
The passengers were Hall's
wife, two daughters and 17'
year-old Patrick Hibben.
Aided by the best weather
since Hall disappeared and
with $5,000 added to the $25,
000 reward already posted,
searchers from Alaska, United
States and Canada had these
leads to investigate:
Two loggers at camp on
northern Revillagigedo Island
reported seeing a ball of fire
that lasted about a minute
Monday night
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Kept on Baseball
Grounds During
Search for Weapons
Monroe, Wash. W) After
two nights and most of two
days In the open with little
or no food, 15 rebellious in
mates began the slow return
Saturday to their cells at the
Washington State Reforma
tory where they rioted Thurs
day night
Supt Paul J. Squler said
about half of the men had
passed by noon through the
strict search and identifica
tion posts at the entrances to
the reformatory s two cell'
houses. ' '
Clearance of the rest was
expected within an hour.
As soon as the sullen and
hungry rioters were taken in
side, they were given hot cof
fee and sandwiches.
Wolf Djwn Food
Squier said they "wolfed
down" the food.
"Everything was orderly,"
he said"and the men return
ed to their cells willingly.
Their dsposition was not one
of sweetness and light, but
hunger and the realization we
mean business subdued them."
No weapons were found on
the men when they were
searched. But the warden said
many were seen "digging
holes and burying things in
the yard as soon as the word
(Centlnned on Pare i. Column T)
Newspaper
Owner Slain
Charleston, W. Va. (IP) Mrs.
Walter E. Clark. 59-year-old
principal owner of the Charles
ton Daily Mail, was found slain
at her home here Saturday and
Charleston's chief of police
Shld "it looks like murder."
A maid and a caretaker
found the body 'when they ar
rived for work at the Clark
home.
Chief of Police Dewey Wil
liams announced his murder
theory after an Investigation
which lasted several hours.
Mrs. Clark was shot through
the right eye. The left eye was
blackened and discolored.
Williams said a search failed
to turn up the weapon with
which she had been shot
Indian Rights to
Hunt Upheld
Boise, Idaho W) The Idaho
Supreme Court ruled Friday
that a hundred year old treaty
gave Nez Perce Indians the
right to hunt game in the Nez
Perce National Forest any time
they please.
The decision affirmed a dis
trict court opinion issued in
freeing David Arthur, a Nez
Perce, of a charge of shooting
deer in the forest on Sept 26,
1951.
The court held that the In
dians were told by Isaac I.
Stevens, territorial governor of
Oregon at the Council of Walla
Walla Valley in 1855:
"You will be allowed to go
to the usual fishing places and
fish in common with the
whites, and to get roots and
berries and kill game on land
not occupied by the whites; all
this outside the reservation."
Russian Bomb Speeds
Arms to Free Nations
Denver CP) Foreign aid
chief Harold E. Stassen Satur
day called the indicated Rus-
sion possession of the hydrogen
bomb "an important factor" in
world security and reported to
President Eisenhower a big
speedup in U. S. deliveries of
military equipment to the
world's free nations.
Stassen, chief of the Foreign
Operations Adminis t r a 1 1 o n,
gave Eisenhower an hour-long
oral report on the aid program
during the first six months of
the new administration.
They conferred at the sum
mer White House at Lowry Air
Force Base.
At a news conference after
the session, Stassen was asked
whether indications that the
Russians have touched off an
H-bomb would make any dif
ference in this country's for
eign aid program.
"Yes, certainly," stassen re
plied. 'That is one of the im
Seek Policy on
A-Bomb Use
Washington W The Air
Force Assn. Saturday asked the
administration for a "clearly-
announced national policy to
unleash the whole force of our
air-atomic power against arm
ed forces and aggression in any
future Korean-type Communist
adventures.
The association of air force
personnel and veterans' organ
izations also asxea nauonai
Dolicy-makers together with
the United Nations if possible
to recognize that only the
threat of "immediate decisive
Soviet aggression.
The proposals were contain
ed in a lengthy statement of
policy adopted without change
from the form in which it was
submitted to the association
convention on Thursday.
The policy statement eropha
sized that "we cannot permit
our military resources, espe
cially the deterrent power of
strategic air command, "to be
neutralized."
Loggers Sign
Wage Scale
Portland UA Contracts
effecting 2534 men have been
renewed with no advance in
wages. Columbia Basin Log
gers, representing 42 operators,
said today.
The agreement was reached
with district No. 5 of the CIO
Woodworkers which represents
much of Northwest logging and
milling operations.
The settlement called for ad
justments In health and wel
fare clauses which did not in
crease employer contributions
to the union.
Crown Zellerbach's North
west Oregon operation was
among the operators. Employes
of the Longview branch of the
Long-Bell Lumber Company
meet at Longview this after
noon to vote whether to adopt
an agreement reached between
the company and CIO Wood
workers. The agreement calls for a re
newal of the 1952 contract
without a wage increase. It af
fects only the Longview opera
tion of the firm.
SOLVE $60,000 ROBBERY
Boston u.R A policeman
and a navy sailor were under
arrest today, charged with the
$60,000 safe burglary, at the
Qonset, R.I., Naval Air Station
two years ago.
portant factors in world secur
ity balance."
Stassen said the development
in the Soviet Union "makes the
combination of strength and
economy of the free nations,
which the Eisenhower adminis
tration is still building, of
greater importance."
Stassen made public for the
first time figures on U. S. de
livery of military equipment to
the free nations during the first
six months of this year. He
said the information was high
ly classified until Saturday.
From January 1 through
June 30, he reported the Unit
ed Slates delivered $2,363,000,
000 worth of military equip
ment to the free nations around
the world.
That compared, he added,
with $880,0000,000 in the first
six months of 1952 and with
$1,447,000,000 during the sec
ond half tf last year.
. Fire which was started by a combine, destroyed approx
imately 25 acres of vetch and oats on the W. Ray Adams
farm northwest of Monmouth Friday afternoon Firemen
from the Monmouth and Independence fire departments
'may be seen with their equipment in the smoke fighting
the flames. The combine was not damaged. Grain fires
also were reported on the Walter Muller farm near Salt
Creek and the Harold Stapleton farm near .Perrydale,
with small damage. Dallas firemen answered the calls.
A small blaze in a sawdust conveyer at the Willamette
Valley Lumber Co. mill at Dallas was extinguished by
employees. - '
Moroccans Aclaim
New Berber Sultan
Rabat. Morocco C White-
robed tribal chiefs and Moslem
religious leaders gathered in
this sullen North African cap
ital city today to gree Moroc
co's new French-backed ruler,
Moulay Mohammed Ben Arafa.
The 64-year-old candidate
for the hill country Berbers
Bids Opened on
Portland (PH-Eighteen firms
bid on clearing the rigm-or
way for a Bonneville transmis
sion line in Linn county and
their offers ranged from a low
of $13,190 to a high of $102,-
442.
The Bonneville Administra
tion, reporting Saturday on the
bids for the Crabtree-Albany
section of the Detroit-Albany
230-kilovolt line, listed Mike B.
Porter of Salem as the low bid
der. Roy Zachary of Everett
was close at $13,940.
There were two other bids
under $20,000, eight between
that and $30,000, three between
$40,000 and $60,000 and two
above that with Brixner-Morri-son
& Abel of Seattle at the top
with $104,442.
Grand Canyon
Xopfer Rescue
Kanab, Ariz., 0JJ9 A 14-year-old
Boy Scout was re
ported in good condition today
after a helicopter rescued him
from deep in Grand Canyon,
where he lay striken with
asthma and unable to move.
A helicopter from Nellis Air
Force Base, Nev., rescued Ted
Diebold, Jr. yesterday. It had
to overcome dangerous down
drafts and storm winds to land
at a remote tributary of the
Colorado river
Church Council
Anniversary
New York. aj.B The World
Council of Churches begins a
week-long celebration of its
fifth anniversary tomorrow
with special observances In the
churches of 161 Christian de
nominations in 46 countries.
The council, which repre
sents the Protestant Angeli
cas Orthodox churches and
virtually all Christian denomi
nations with the exception of
the Roman Catholic, was of
iically constituted at its first
world assembly in Amsterdam,
the Netherlands, Aug. 23,
1948. Its ultimate aim Is to
unify all the churches of
Christ
In report on its first five
years, the- council expressed
special pride in the worV of
its department of interchurch
aid and service to refugees.
It said the department had
spent $21,071,560 and dispen
sed 24,362 tons of clothing
stricken Christian individuals
and Christian communities. .
was proclaimed Sultan yester
day after the French dethroned
his cousin, former Sultan Sidi
Mohammed Ben Youssef, and
sent him into exile on Cor
sica.
French officials would not
say whether the new Sultain
would parade through the
streets to the imperial palace
after his special train gets in
from Marrakech.
It still was feared the bold
decision : to switch rulers
might bring rioting among fol
lowers of the rival chiefs.
Strong French army and po
lice forces held Rabat under
tight military control. A cur
few clamped on the city fol'
lowing Thursday s ouster of
Ben Youssef has been lifted,
The Arab population remain
ed quiet but glum, as if in
mourning, although it was the
period of the big religious feast
Aid el Kebir and ordinarily
would have been time of re
joicing. ,
The loudest outcry so far
against the forced exiling of the
nationalist-minded Sultan, Mo
rocco's spiritual leader and
nominal ruler for 25 yeasr,
came from the Arab-Asian bloc
in the United Nations.
Phone Strikes
In Seven States
iBr The Auocitted Press)
CIO telephone workers in
seven Midwest and Southwest
states continued on strike Sat
urday as operators and other
phone company workers in
Maryland threatened a walk
out.
The strike of 53,000 CIO
Communications Workers
against the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Co.. in six states
appeared certain to continue
through the weekend. The Fed
eral Conciliation service said
it had invited company and
union officials to resume con
tract talks in St. Louis. Mon
day. The strike started Thursday.
Picketing was reported orderly
in the company's territory of
Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas,
Texas, Arkansas snd a part of
Illinois near St. Louis.
Algiers Rocked
By Earthquake
Algiers, Algeria U.B Med
iterranean earthquakes rocked
an area southeast of the Alger
ian capital today with three
sharp shocks. .
The Bouzareah observatory
seismograph recorded the three
tremors and fixed the center
of the disturbance at Aumale, a
small town in the Tell Atlas
mountain range.
No damage estimates were
available.
Observatory officials said
the shocks ran In northeast to
southwest direction.
The first Jar lasted 12
seconds and waa followed by
second one 12 minutes later
which lasted only four seconds.
The third and weakest shock
was recorded almost two hours
later.
Dr. Raver's BPA
Top Position to
Be Reclassified
WsshingtoB 0JJ9 Reclassi
fication of three top positions
In the Bonnevlllo Power Ad
ministration, including that of
Administrator Dr. Paul Raver,
makes it possible for superiors
to remove them at wilt
The three' positions have
been taken from civil service
classification and placed in the
Elsenhower administration's
new category of policy mak
ers. .
The move was made by the
civil service commission,
which had been asked by Sec
retary of Interior Douglas Mc
Kay to place some 400 posi
tions in the various agencies
under his Jurisdiction into a
policy-making category. The
commission has approved 62
positions and has rejected re
quests for 230. ,
Warn on Assumptions
An interior department
spokesman, however, said no
assumption should be 'drawn
from the action respecting the
tenure of Dr. Raver or any of
his Bonneville associates. Ra
ver is a holdover from the last
administration.
Reclassified with Raver
were his private secretary,
Inza McDowell, and executive
secretary, Harry M. Kenin. .
Decorations in
Korean War
Seoul VD The 8th "Army
said today it awarded 105,625
decorations for gallantry and
service to the 750,000 men who
served in its ranks during the
Korean war.
Purple Hearts given for
battle wounds were not
counted. They would add to the
number of decorations another
106,000 or more the round
number of Korean war wound,
ed.
Together, they mean a total
of about 210,000 medals for
750,000 men, or one decoration
for fewer than four men.
Marine and Navy decorations
were not counted.
Many awards still are under
consideration and will be made
later.
2,534 CIO Loggers
Agree to Contract
Portland VP) The Colum
bia Basin Loggers Association
an representatives of 2,534 CIO
Woodworkers agreed Friday on
new contract with no wage
Increase, an employer spokes
man reported.
Only change from the old
contract is a flat payroll deduc
tion for health and welfare
payments instead of the present
7 Is cent deduction for each
hour worked.
E. H. Crosby, manager of the
employers' association which
represents 42 concerns, said
the contract runs until April of
next year.
Top Industrialist Lost
Fishing In Canada River
Ketchikan, Alaska VP) A top
official of the WesUnghouse El
ectric Corp. vanished Thursday
while trout fishing In the swift
waters of an interior British
Columbia river, and compan
ions said Saturday they were
certain he drowned.
The missing man, Fred T.
Whiting, 62, Chicago, a West
inghouse vice president, has
been sought without success
since Thursday by members of
his party, Canadian Mounted
Police and volunteers in the
area.
WesUnghouse President Gwi
lyn A. Price, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
who was with Whiting, said
here Saturday there appeared
to be no doubt he was swept
sway in the turbulent Morice
river, ISO miles esst of Prince
Rupert, B. C.
Price said he, Whiting; S. A.
Montgomery, Chicago, and a
director of Standard Oil of In
diana; and Stanly A. Donough,
94 American
CrippledPOW
Freed by Reds
Panmunjom V Hobbling
and stretcher-borne American
and Canadian soldiers, some
still suffering from recent bat
tle wounds, were liberated
here today as the Reds made
the first deliveries from three
more North Korean stockades.
Many of the 94 American
and 43 other non-Korean re
patriates of the 18th daily ex
change were white-faced,
bandaged and too ill to rejoice,
in grim contrast to the rollick
ing British Commonwealth and
U. S. returnees of previous
days. , -i .
An American Marine. Cpl.
Steven K. Drummong, laid
some of the Americans came
from Camp No. 9, near Kang
gye. He aald it held only men
captured in the last five mon
ths of the war. This Indies tea
they apparently still were re
covering from battle wounds.
The rest of the 437 Aiueo
repatriates came from two
other camps, No. 6 near Pyok-
tong and No. 10 at uanpo.
Italy's Premier
Wins First Test
Rome WV-Italy's new pro-
western premier Guiseppe
Pella, Saturday won his first
parliamentary test, a senate
vote of confidence.
The vote was 140 to 86. Ten
of tho 237 senators abstained.
One was absent , .
Pella. 51. successor to vet
eran statesman Alclde de Gas
peri, now must fact similar
vote in the Chamber of Depu
ties. It probably will come
early next week.
Pella Is expeted to get over
that hurdle also and bring at
least temporary stability to
Italy's floundering govern
ment He has admitted, how
ever, that bis government
probably will not last long.
Red Troops to
Crush Strikes
Berlin U.B Allied officials
said today the communists are
putting Red "storm troops" in
East German factories to crush
workers' resistance.
Reports from East Germany
said unrest still wss sweeping
fsctories and millions of re
bellious workers are seething
with anger and resentment
against the communist regime.
Officials here said the Reds
are forming the storm troops
with hard-core partyliners,
pro-communist toughs and in
formers.
The units will be assigned to
break ud anti-communist dem
onstrations and ferret out
strike leaders.
Neues Ztltung, U. S. High
Commlslon n w s p a p e r, said
workers in numerous factories
staged protest demonstrations
ir. the last few days, demand
ing the release of Jailed ami
communists.
Seattle business executive, had
arrived at Prince Rupert Wed
nesday. They flew that day In Don-
ough's amphibious plsne to
Morice Lake, 150 miles to the
east, and set up csmp.
The next morning they head
ed for the lake's outlet the
Morice river, to try their luck
trout fishing. Whiting re
mained at the head of the riv
er, while the other three went
downstream.
Donough returned 10 mln
utes later and found no sign of
Whiting. His bag of fishing
tackle was banging from a tree
branch, but he bad disappeared.
The three men searched vain
ly for hours along both banks of
the river. Then Donough flew
to the nesrest settlement of
Burns Lake, notified the
Mounted Police and returned
with two of the Mounties.
An all-day search Friday
proved fruitless.
Expresses Joy
On His Arrive!
Frnm Rr !H
aw... arMyMis
Tehran, Iras W Tho tri-
mphaat young Shah of Iran
returned to Ma country Satur
day after an exile of six days
and overcome with tears de
clared "I cannot contain my
immense Joy."
His followers wept and -kiss
ed his feet in an emotion-pack
ed scene at Tehran's Jammed
Mehrabad airport The 33-year-old
monarch stepped confident
ly from the twin-engined pri
vate plane be piloted to per,
feet landing hero from Bagh
dad, capital of neighboring
Iraq.
, Special precautions were
taken to guard the Shah's Ufa
against any assassination at
tempt by followers of tho im
prisoned Mohammed Mossa
degh, who was kicked out as
premier in rioting Wednesday
that took 300 Uvea.
Met By Zahedl
MaJ. Gen. Fazollah Zahedl,
the new premier named by the
Shah, was the first to greet the
young monarch, "I want to be
the first to greet bint in our
land," Zahedl declared.
Twenty fighter planes from
the IraquI air force escorted
the plane here. .
Mossadegh's following, in
cluding the Communist Tudeh
Party, had been stunned by the
suddenness of Wednesday's
coup, but there were ominous
reports of revived activity Sat
urday. .
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East Germany
PpnnliTPrl
VIIMIIAVM "
Berlin UP) East Germany's
Communist bosses, exacting re
venge for the Jun 17 revolt
in the Soviet zone, recreating
a new class of "untouchables"
running into the thousands.
Party and union leaders are
stumping all industrial plants
hit by the rebellion and are
singling out the more vocal
participants of the dramatic
uprising. . .
In staged workers' rallies,
the scapegoats are named, ac
cused of treason to the "work
ing class" and the issue is put
up to the cowed assemblage.
The vote is always the same:
Throw the man out of the fac
tory. The verdict amounts to an
economic death sentence. Eaat
Germans with a record of be
ing ousted from employment
by the workers themselves
have virtually no chance to'
find a decent Job after that
The Soviet , zone press is
carrying dally articles of such
methods of "Justice" in major
plants from the Elbe to the
Oder. ,
Plan to Revise
Ull Charter
Washington. UP) The VS.
State Department has announ
ced support for a conference
to consider revising the Unit
ed Charter.
The question comes before
the U.N. general assembly in
1955.
The U.S. position wss made
known yesterday by Chairman
WUey (R., Wis.) of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Commit
tee when he made public an
exchange of letters with Sec
retary of State Dulles.
Dulles said what specific
charter revisions this country
will propose are not yet de
cided, but now is a good tune
to say the State Department
will favor the calling of a
charter review conference.
Church Merger Wins
Favor by Larae Vote
Lawrence, Mass. VP) A par
tial federation of the Unitarian
and Universailsts churches is
strongly favored a Joint con
ference of the two groups was
told Friday night
The Rev. William W. Lewi
of Portsmouth, N. H., chairman
of a commission which worked
out a proposed cooperative)
plan, aatd 88 per cent of Uni
tarian churches and 70 per
cent of the Universailsts voted
for federation.