Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, August 24, 1953, Page 1, Image 1

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    Capital AjJoiiriial
THE WEATHER.
MOSTLY CLOUDY with scat
tered showers tonight, Taesday.
Little change in temperature.
Lew tonight, St; high Tuesday,
F I N A L
EDITION
65th Year, No. 201
Salem, Ortgon, Monday, August 24, 1953
78 Pages Pnrm Sc
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DAYTON P.W. AFFECTIONATELY GREETED BY KIN AT S. F.
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Mossadegh in
Iran Jail Cell
Awaiting Trial
Shah Ready to
Accept Aid As
Treasury Empty
Tehran, Iran ) Official
sources announced that police
have transferred ex-Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh from
the comfortable qnaiten of
the Tehran Officers' Club to a
Jill eeU.
Mossadegh, clad in pajamas,
surrendered last week after a
bloody coop by supporters of
Sha Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
took over the government he
had refused to relinquish.
The wily and weepy old na
tionalist leader was interned
in the plush officers club to
await trial, possibly on charg
es of treason, for refusing to
obey the Sha's order a week
ago to hand the premiership
over to Gen. Fazollah Zahedi.
Following Mossadegh's ini
tial success inWking the roy
al order to get out, the Shah
and his queen flew to a brief
exile. . , , .
Trouble Not Over
The Iranian ruler returned
after Zahedi last Wednesday
led the royalist coup that fin
ally led to Mossaregb's down
fall. It was not disclosed in
what jail Mossadegh is held.
Even with Mossadegh a pris
oner the new Zahedi govern
ment's troubles were not over.
Small, scattered pro-Mossadegh
uprisings still were re
ported in outlying sections of
the country. And the Shah
told newsmen at a palace gar
den party yesterday his na
tion's treasury "is very empty.-
(Contained n rate 8, Celamn 5)
Roads Delayed
By Land Cost
' - Faced with the possibility
that they will have to allot
some $120,000 for right of way
purposes alone, members of the
Marion county court are won
dering just when reconstruct
tion of the South River road
from the Salem city limits to
Roberts can get under way.
. The distance involved is a bit
less than three miles.
The estimate of right of way
costs was made by A. D. Gra
ham, county surveyor, after he
made a check of property own
' ers involved and follows a sur
vey of the route by a state en
gineer:
The county court has been
pressed by property owners
along the route for a straighter
and wider right of way. But
with only about $26,000 set
aside annually to contribute
toward federal aid construc
tion, there is little prospect that
the court can see its way clear
to go-ahead under the most re
cent survey.
The court has on file what
is known as the Booth survey.
This survey made a few years
ago is considered reasonable by
the county court whose mem
bers believe a good road could
be constructed for about $50,-
oou.
The South River road would
be constructed on a basis of 30
per cent from the federal gov
ernment, 25 per cent from the
state and 25 per cent from the
county. However, the county is
required to secure all of the
necessary right of way.
The portion of the South
River road under consideration
carried a high volume of traf
fic, but the cost of right of way
may halt the project.
Light Showers
Sprinkle Valley
Light showers of rain de
scended on valley areas late
Sunday and early Monday,
bringing cooler temperatures
and easing forest fire danger.
In Salem, the precipitation
amounted to .13 of an inch in
the 24-hour period ending at
ju:ju a.m. Monday. August's
total rainfall to date is .48 of
an inch against a normal of .31
of an inch to this date.
Forecast for tonight and
Tuesday calls for more scatter
ed showers and little change in
temperature. Sunday's maxi
mum in Salem was 70 degrees
following a mark of 80 on Sat
urday.
.The week-end showers were
reported for all western Ore
gon, but varied from sprinkles
in some areas to sudden deluges
in some parts of Portland.
Truman Warns
OfWorldWar
Kansas City (U.B Former
President Truman warned to
day that if America does not
assume the responsibilities she
should have assumed after
the first World War, "we will
be in for another world war.
Mr. Truman said Hitler and
Mussolini were "second-rate"
compared to the Russians, and
"the only way to meet the
threat of the Russians is with
force."
He spoke before the Dis
abled American Veterans' na
tional convention here.
We tried disarmament,'
Mr. Truman said. "We offer
ed control of atomic energy
on an International basis. We
were blocked in every attempt
by the Rusisans.
"I am for a strong national
defense in your interest as
well as my own."
The former president ad
dressed some 1,500 delegates
of an expected 3,500 for the
weeklong convention.
President Eisenhower sent a
message to the convention in
which he said the DAV is the
"proudest proof of the value
Americans place on their citi
zenship. It is proof, Mr. Eis
enhower's message said, that
in a free land there is readi
ness "to risk our lives in, the
defense of our country."
FLOOD IN TEXAS
Laredo, Tex. JP Water cov
ered the streets om North Lar
edo Monday after a 5.22-lnch
rain in this city that was so
dry early this summer mass
prayers lor rain were held. I
JO Forest Fires Over
Week-end in Oregon
Ten fires were started over
the week-end in forest lands
under the jurisdiction of the
state forestry department.
Four of them were started
Saturday and six Sunday, but
all were under control.
Three of the four fires Sat
urday were in the Polk-Ben
ton area and were from mjs
cellaneous causes. The other
fire, also miscellaneous, was
in Western Lane. All were
about a quarter of an acre in
size. Local crews in the dis
tricts extinguished all of the
fires.
The Polk-Benton district
had two of the six fires Sun
day, with debris and slash
burning the cause.' One camp
er's fire was reported in the
southwest Oregon district near
Medford. It had spread to
about a quarter of an acre
when controlled.
Other fires reported Sun
day were from lightning and
were in the northeast Oregon
district near LaGrande. They
were about a quarter of an
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Cpl.' Edward Clevenger, Dayton, Ore., prisoner of war,
was affectionately greeted Sunday at Fort Mason, San
Francisco, upon his return on the Transport General Nel
son M. Walker from Korea. He is shown with one arm
around the neck of his father, Edward E. Clevenger, and
the other around his step-mother, Mrs. Edward Clevenger.
The woman at the right is Mrs. Leonard Clevenger, aunt.
' (Photo by Duke Downey, San Francisco Chronicle staff
photographer)
10 reinstate rcn
Charges Lattimore Case
Washington (fl) The gov
ernment today asked the U. S
Court of Appeals to reinstate
four perjury charges against
Owen Lattimore which' a lower
court threw, out as violating his
constitutional rights.
Neil A. Jacoby
Member of CEA
Denver VP) President Eteen-
hower Monday picked Neil H.
Jacoby, California educator, to
be a member of the Council of
Economic Advisors.
, Eisenhower gave Jacoby, who
is dean at the school of business
administration at the Universi
ty of California at Los Angeles,
a recess appointment to the
post. The action is subject to
Senate confirmation when con
gress reconvenes in January.
Selection of Jacoby fills the
second place on the three-man
council set up to advise the
President on how to keep the
nation's economy on an even
keel.
Eisenhower named Arthur T
Burns chairman of the council
shortly after the administration
took office.
acre in size and reported out
.Fires of the past week-end
brought the total for this year
to about 400 fires with slight
ly less than 1,000 acres burn
ed. Eastern Oregon forestry
men reported this week that
most of the grass in that area
was still green and that the
green cover tended to reduce
the number of fires. Central
Oregon district headquarters
at Prineville Monday morning
at 8 o'clock said they were
having a soaking rain, which
had been falling for about two
hours at that time.
Weather forecasts received
by the foresters Monday indi
cated that rains would be fall
ing over western Oregon Mon
day through Tuesday with oc
casional showers predicted for
the forest areas around Salem
and all of the western part of
the atate. Along with the
dampness there will be rising
humidities and a westerly
wind in the Columbia river
gorge Of from 10 tO 20 milI
per hour.
The appeal papers said U. S.
District Judge Luther W.
Bergdahl "misconstrued the
counts so as to create the new
and spurious issues of free
speech, conformity of ideas,
imposition of orthodox views,
et cetera."
Judge Youngdahl, a former
republican governor of Minne
sota, last May stripped down
the indictment against the
controversial For Eastern spe
cialist from seven to three
counts. I
Unless the judge is over
turned by high courts, the gov'
ernment will have to decide
whether to bring Lattimore to
trial on the remaining three
counts or drop the case.
Lattimore, a onetime State
Department consultant, was in
dieted last December. The
charges grow out of 12 days of
stormy testimony before the
Senate internal security sub
committee nearly a year ear
lier. Since his indictment, Latti
more has been on leave of ab
sence from Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, Baltimore, where he
has been director of the Wal
ter Hines Page School of In
ternational Relations.
No Favoritism
In Income Taxes
Boston UP) Commissioner
of Internal Revenue T. Cole'
man Andrews has gone before
the American Bar Association
convention with a warning that
business and professional men
can expect no special tax fav
ors from the Eisenhower ad
ministrtion.
Speaking at a convention
luncheon Sunday, he said the
racketeer and "the so-called
pillar of the church" will re
ceive identical treatment.
He said his department will
be especially harsh on unwar
ranted "entertainment expen
ses" for Income tax deductions.
Andrews pointed out that
working widows cannot, under
present law, deduct baby-sitter
expenses in their income
taxes, "so it is a gross injustice
when businessmen and others
abuse the entertainment ex
pense privilege."
He said his agents have been
alerted to watch for abuses in
country club dues, maintenance
of cars and yachts, travel for
personal reasons and vacation
visits.
On the other hand, he said.
"the news and media of public
ity have gone on without any
lr.li.ll - llxnnl in nnlir
'themseleves."
Dayton POW
Greeted by Kin
San Francisco The happiest
day of his life was the reunion
Sunday Tnorning at Fort Mason,
San Francisco, for Edward E.
Clevenger, route 1, Dayton,
Ore., when his son, Cpl. Ed
ward Clevenger, came off the
navy transport General Nelson
M. Walker with 327 other re
patriated American ex-POWs
from Korea. The returned sol
dier, who was healthy and said
his 32 months in the Commun
ist prison camp was "not too
rough," through one arm about
dad's neck, the other about his
his dad's neck, the other about
his stepmother.
- He was met by his father and
stepmother, uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Cleven
ger, and five-year-old brother,
Kenneth, who drove from their
home near Grand Island June,
tion. They said they would re
turn to Oregon Immediately.
-i
Search on for
Pendleton W Police of
four states were alerted Mon
day to look for a 15-year-old
girl overdue at Great Falls,
Mot, on a bus trip from here.
She was Barbara Puechall
of Echo, a town near here.
Her mother, Mrs. George Jef
ferson, said she put the girl
on a Greyhound bus here at
1:45 p.m. Friday. She was
due In Great Falls, where she
was to have visited a married
sister, Mrs. Eldon Browning,
at 5:15 p.m. Saturday but
never arrived.
Mrs. Jefferson said the girl
had a savings deposit book
and $45 In cash which she had
saved for the trip by working
on a ranch. She said she told
Barbara to . go to a theater
near the bus depot during a
five-hour stopover in Spokane
Friday afternoon.
R. J. Wilson. Echo town
marshal, and friends said the
girl was the quiet, steady
type. She was five feet eight
inches tall, 140 pounds and
wore a gray shirt, white
blouse, gold sweater and red
shoes. She was carrying a
gray checked coat
Widows of Judges
To Receive Pensions
Widows of Oregon's supreme
and circuit courfrjudges are el
igible to receive pensions under
an act of the last legislature if
their husbands were elisible
for pensions at the time of their
death, Atty. Gen. Robert Y.
Thornton ruled Monday.
He made the finding In an
opinion requested by Secretary
of State Earl Newbry.
CHILE STORM TOLL
Santiago, Chile UJ9 The
death toll in 'the storms and
floods that ravaged widespread
areas of central and southern
Chile was set tentatively today
at 32. ,
1995 American
POW Returned
Out of 3313 Due
Panmanjom m The Ko
rean prisoner exchange ap
proached the end of its third
week today as 151 Americans,
most of them captured late In
the war, returned from Red
captivity.
The communists said they
would return 136 more Tues
day (tonight PST) .which
would push the total number
of freed Americans to 1.995.
The Reds originally said they
neia 3,313 Americans..
Several repatriates spoke
lightly and jokingly of their
shorter experiences as cap
tives in contrast to the grim
tales told by other POWs who
suffered under Red hands for
two and three years.
The Reds also returned 300
South Koreans Monday. The
(Continued on Pare 5, Column I)
Reds to Turn
Over All POW
New Delhi. India HV-The
head of India's Korean POW
delegation announced today
that the Communists say they
will turn over to the commis
sion U. N, prisoners the Reds
claim do not want to go back
10 Auiea nanas.
Reporting, this, Indian For
eign Secretary R. K. Nehru
told a news ccnlereore the
Reds had iuv stated how many
ruws iney. would claim are
nonrepatriates,, ; , ,
"Since they the Communist
command have said throughout
mat ail prisoners should be re
patriated by both sides, they
say iney have not screened
their prisoners, Nehru ex
plained, adding "that process is
going on now."
Red Chief for
Withdrawal
Tokyo, VP) Premier Chou
En-Lai of ommuntst China was
quoted in a Peining broadcast
Tuesday as saying the with
drawal of all foreign troops
rrom Korea should be the first
order of business at a peace
conference. .
A Chinese language broad
cast heard in Tokyo presented
what said was a statement giv
ing for the first time Red
China's position on the forth
coming Korean peace confer
ence. As expected, Chou said he
supported Soviet delegate An
drei Vishinsky's proposal to the
United Nations general assem
bly Aug. 18 which called for
an 11-nation peace conference.
EXPENSIVE PICNIC -
Syracuse. N. Y. UP) Colum
nist Joe Beamish's house burn
ed Sunday Just as members of
the Herald-Journal staff ar
rived for a picnic. "It wasn't
a total loss," said Beamish.
The embers came in handy for
roasting hot dogs."
Reclamation Bureau
Reorganization Looms
Washington VP) The Rec
lamation Bureau Is undergoing
a study expected to result in
a drsstic reorganization. Re
ports are that at least two of
the three assistant commission
ers will be replaced.
Undersecretary of the Inte
rior Ralph A. Tudor said in an
Interview Monday that some
changes in the bureau could be
expected at any time now, even
while a survey team Is study
ing the setup to recommend
changes designed to increase
bureau efficiency.
Tudor would not comment
on reports that Goodrich W.
Lineweaver and Kenneth
Markwell, two of the assistant
commissioners, will be replac
ed, but Informed sources said
this was planned.
The status of the third as
sistant, Harvey T. McPhafl, ap
$728,679 in j
Back Pay for
Ex-Prisoners
San Francisco () After - a
total of thousands of months
behind Communist barbed
wire, 328 repatriated POWs
lined up at the Army paymas
ter's window here yesterday
and drew $728,879 back pay.
' The first shipload of former
Korean - prisoners had their
choice of being paid by govern
ment checks or in cash.
They set off for home with
$565,000 in checks, $163,679 in
cash. 'The largest amount was
$5,605, the smallest, $200. .
Ike Endorses
Freer Trade
Denver 0JJ9 President El
senhower today threw his sup
port behind a plan to liberal
ize American restrictions on
foreign trade, particularly with
the United Kingdom.
A five point program for "a
freer American trade policy"
was submitted to the President
by Lewis W. Douglas, former
ambassador to Great Britain,
who represented this country in
financial conversations with
the United Kingdom last
March.
Mr. Eisenhower then for
warded the Douglas report to
Clarence Randall, chairman of
the new commission on For
eign Economic Policy, hailing
11 as -a real- contribution to
thinking in the field of dollar-sterling
relationships.1
. Mr, Eisenhower recommend
ed the report .to the early at
tention of Randall's commis
sion.
South Korea
Balks on India
United Nations, N. Y. VP)
South Korea's foreign minister,
Y. T. Pyun, told the U. N. Mon
day it would be "next to Impos
sible" for . his government to
sit on the same side with In
dia at the Korean peace con
ference. Pyun took the floor in the
general assembly's 60-natlon
political committee for a short
time after Sen. Wiley (R., Wis.)
had appealed to India to with
draw as a possible participant
in the parley.
The fiery South Korean did
not actually threaten to boy'
cott the conference in specific
terms, but he delivered a bit
ing attack on India, charging
the government of Prime Min
uter Nehru was "trafficking in
communism.
"This delegation." ha said.
"would like to make it clear
that the Republic , of Korea
finds it next to impossible to
collaborate with India on the
same side.
"If India openly stood on the
Communist side, it would be
different. W should then be
sorry to lose India like that
But we should prefer it to
having a betraying and schem
ing India on our side."
Weather Details
MftilM.M Mtttrdar. Ml Mfalarsk 4.
1t M. TUI M-kMf lrc4ltoUra: .lit
for ranlli .41 Hml, Jl.
KstIUtiwa, 4X.T11 rati, m.
parently is still under study.
ne is now on sn assignment in
Alaska.
All three of the assistant
commissioners have civil serv
ice status.
However, the Civil Service
Commission last week ap
proved removal of their Jobs
from protection under the com
petitive civil service system
and placed them in the new
"Schedule C."
This schedule is described
by the commission as having
been set up to cover policy
making and confidential posi
tions which properly could be
expected to change hands when
the national administration
changes.
It was Indicated that the
plan for reorganization of the
bureau Includes retention of
Lineweaver and MarkwaU, but
not as assistant commlMlonera.
Make Sweep::
to
Hamper West
Moscow. ) The Bevies
Union has saade sweeping
concessions in a new paet ltsi
Sat Germany. The Kremiia
agreed to exchange ambas
sadors with the Soviet ace
nation tone, end reparations
after Jan. 1, eat oeenpatlom
costs, provide additional ea
nomie aid and release soma
German war prisoners.
A Joint , eommuniaua an-.
nouncing the pact was issued '
yesterday at the end of a
four-day Conference between
top Russian leaders, Including
Premier Georgi Malenkov, and
an East German delegation,
headed by Premier Otto Grota-
woni. ... ;
Western observers In Ger
many viewed the agreement
as an effort to prop up the
wobbly Grotewchl regime. Its
prestige nas been at a low
ebb since the June 17 hunger
riots in the East zone. . .
To Undermine H
These observers also con
sider the pact an obvious Rus
sian attempt to undermine the
pro-Western government of
West German Chancellor Ken
rad Adenauer, now locked in
a life-and-death election cam
paign against the Socialists' in
preparation for the Sept 6
.-it.-.t .
The announcement of the
new pact closely followed a
personal attack on Adenauer
by Malenkov.- The Kremlin
chief declared in a radio
broadcast the West German
Chancellor, who has favored
German rearmament and clow
ties with the West was lead
ing his country down the road
to war, , ... (,..
Malenkov't speech and the
communique 'also renewed 8a.
viet demands for a provisional
all -German government to
prepare for elections and even
tual German unity.
Seven Major Points '
The communiaue. ittmst K
both Malenkov and Grotewohl,
disclosed seven major points in
the new treaty: .
ICeatmaed m Page . Cetasaa 4)
Bonn Defiant
Of Soviet Offer
Bonn. Germany UJ9 Allied
and West German officials
were confident today neither
the threats voiced bv Soviet
Premier Georgi Malenkov nor
tne "concessions' he granted
East Germany woulH rar m.k.
lie opinion in free Germany.
Malenkov. at a Kremlin din.
ner Saturday for East German
leaders who "negotiated" new
agreements with Russia, warn
ed West Germans they must re
ject Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer in the September elec
tions or risk permanent divi
sion of Germany and eventual
war.
At the same time Russia an
nounced a number of "conces
sions" to East Germany. Thesa
also apparently were aimed at
Influencing the West German '
elections as well as consolidat
ing the puppet regime of Pre
mier Otto Grotewohl as the
permanent East German gov
ernment Request India
To Withdraw
United Nations. N. Y. v
Sen. Alexander Wiley R., Wis.,
appealed to India Monday to,
withdraw her name as a pos
sible participant in the Korean'
peace conference.
In a statement. Wiley said
the Russians were trying to di
vide the West over the Issue
He said India's withdrawal
would "save a vote and defeat
the Kremlin game."
Wiley, who is chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations)
Committee, also said:
Wa are wondering whether
this truce is creating a breath
ing spell so that Communists
can make North Korea ready
for another battleground.''
His statement cam as South
Korea's fiery foreign minister,
Y. T. Pyun, wss reported ready
to make a strong declaration
opposing India's participation
in tbt paaco conferenca.