Capital ik. Journal
THE WEATHER.
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FIN A L
COITION
65th Year, No. 203
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, August 26, 1953 24 Pages Price 5c
HOME COOKING STILL BEST
Ada Radford
For Rcvicv of
U.S. Defenses
Chairman of JCS
Says Red H-Bomb
, Forces Realignment
Washington, lV-Adm. Ar
Dulles Urges
United I lalions
(lev Charter
10 M!
n i
USSl
thur W. Radford Mid Wedaes-
da; the Basslaa hydrogen ex
plosion ..reqnlre .that .the
' United SUtei review Iti de
tense against such weapon.
Tha new chairman ol the
joint chiefs of stall told a
newt conference that U.S. mil
itary leaders knew, however,
that Russia would achieve an
hydrogen explosion sooner or
later Just as the United States
had. He said the tact ol the
achievement has not changed
this nation's strategic plan
ning. . i
Radford did not elaborate
on his statement- that there
should be a review of U.S. de
fenses. His predecessor, Gen.
Omar Bradley, suggests in an
article in this week's issue of
the Saturday Evening Post
that there is need for working
out with Canada a more effec
tive all-continent defense com
mand. ;
(Con tinned Pace C Column 4)
Strike Ties Up
Atomic Works
Paducah, Ky, WV-The full
construction force of 15,000 to
16,000 worker at the nearby
atomic energy plant was off
the job Wednesday, observing
a picket line set up by union
carpenters.
An Atomic Energy Commis
sion spokesman confirmed that
the billion dollar project was
' "shutdown." t
The 1,200 to 1,500 carpenters
reportedly walked out over a
dispute with one or more sub
i contractors who haven't recog-
nized a new contract granted
: the union recently by F. H.
McGraw it Co., prime con-
( tractor. . .
The contract provided the
; basis for negotiations now in
' progress at Washington be
. tween union and management
. officials seeking a no-strike
' agreement for the project
. which has been hit by frequent
i walkouts.
Clues Found to
Missing Plane
Ketchikan, Alaska (P) Re
ports of an unidentified plane
' and an explosion pointed to
. Northern British Colombia
, Wednesday and in the wide
search for a New Mexico oil
wmu uu Him iuut paMcjiacxB
; on a flight to the states.
' Planes from the United
; States and Canada converged
on the Smithers area, some
200 miles east of Annette Is
land, takeoff point of Ellis
i Hall of Albuquerque on the
m-lated flight a week, ago
Monday.
The latest report came from
a Mrs. Wookley, who lives
north of Kisckio, B.C. The
. Coast Guard said she reported
hearing a plane about 8:30
ppi. the night the Hall plane
disappeared and again about
10 p.m.
An explosion and a flash of
light bright enough to illum
inate a room in Mrs. Wook
ley's home followed, the re-
: port to the Coast Guard said,
Malenkov In
Full Control ,
, Washington (UJ9 Russian
experts said today Premier
. Georgl M. Malenkov seems to
be slowly tightening his grip
on me reins of power In the
Kremlin.
They said Soviet army lead
ers, who might have over
thrown Malenkov in the back
stage power struggle set off by
Stalin's death, now appear to
be losing ground.
Nikita S. Kruschchev, who
didn t get on too well with Sta
lin at times, is edging his way
up and looks to be the No.- 2
man after Malenkov. His sta
ture has increased following
the downfall of Lavrenti P.
Beria, purged secret police
chief.
Foreign Minister V. M. Molo
tov. the '.Old Bolshevik" com
rade of Stalin, is still running
No. 3.
But Lt Gen. Vasilly Stalin,
son of the former dictator, has
dropped out of sight despite his
rumored marriage to Svetlana
Molotov, the foreign minister's
daughter. '
Pre-Aromic Age
Provisions Seriously
Inadequate How
Boston, VP) ' Secretary of
Setate Dulles said Wedaesday
the -"pre-atomlc age charter"
of the United Nations eon
tains ."serious .inadequacies'
and needs to anderge Impor
tant alterations.
'In a speech preparea for
the American Bar Association,
Dulles said he believes the ad
ministration can achieve a bet
ter world in the face of the
fact that man now has the
"power to destroy himself.
But i e said the VM. would
have to be changed to makeH
this possible.
He recalled that the charter.
was drafted ana signed in
San Francisco In early IMS
"when none of us knew of the
atomic bomb which was to
fall on Hiroshima on Aug.Nj,
1949," and added:
Provisions Inadequate
"The charter is thus a pre-
atomic age charter. In this
sense it was obsolete before it
actually came -nto force."
Dulles went on to say that
"as one who was at San Fran
cisco, I can say with confidence
that if the delegates there had
known that the mysterious and
immeasurable power of the
atom would be available as
means of mass destruction, the
provisions of the charter deal
ing with .disarmament and the
regulation of armaments would
have been far more emphatic
and realistic".
(Contained en Fate s. Cclsann t)
Rain Worries
Bean Growers
Persistent heavy showers of
the past two days are creating
considerable concern in the
ranks of snap bean growers as
wen as In the hop division of
seasonal crops. '
The rain has virtually halt
ed bean picking although' five
growers appeared at the em
ployment i office Wednesday
morning. They returned to
their fields with few pickers.
Another angle to the situa
tion is the possibility that the
rains, coupled with the weight
of the unpicked beans will flat
ten some of the vines.
The growth of the beans
means that growers will re
ceive a lower price for their
product and when picking is
resumed the demand for pick
ers will be unusually heavy.
Failure to get the beans off
the vines will slow work in
the processing plants.
(Continued en Pate . Column 7)
Fruit Growers
Face Heavy Loss
Corvallis P) Western Ore
gon fruit growers are faced
with the threat of heavy loss
from brown rot on peaches,
prunes and plums.
County extension agents in
many parts of the Willamette
Valley reported this week that
the fungus has been showing
up. Continued damp weather
will be costly unless a spray or
dust program is started imme
diately, Dr. H. J. O'Reilly, ex
tension plant pathologist at
Oregon State College, said
Wednesday.
Inequalities Found in
Grant Co. Assessments
By AMES D. OLSON
Startling inequalities In as-
sessmenU, were unearthed in
a recenlty completed reap
praisal of properties in Grant
county, according to Samuel
B. Stewart, state tax commis
sioner in charge of the assess
ment and taxation division
Wednesday.
Some farm land in the coun
ty was found to be assessed as
low as five per cent of its true
cash value while other farm
owners were paying taxes on
assssments of 240 per cent of
true cash value, Stewart said.
Timber and mining properties
show about the same variation
in ratios.
Importance of the revela
tions if the fact that the tax
commision is engaged in a
state-wide reappraisal pro
gram that will eventually af
fect every county in the state.
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French Strikes
In Collapse
. Paris, VP) France struggled
back to normalcy . Wednesday
after almost three weeks of
dislocation because of strikes.
The general back - to - work
movement encountered only a"
few islands of resistance.
Railway trains were run
ning again. Paris buses and
subways were back on sched
ule. Big bundles of mail were
being delivered after the long
tieup. Telephone calls could
be placed to most parts of
France, although traffic was
much heavier than normal and
delays somettimes were long,
I The two biggest holdout to
dustrles were the nationalized
gas and electricity works and
coal miners. Even here, there
was some improvement. Gas
and electricity were supplied
throughout the strikes' except
for minor disruptions. In some
provincial towns, the regular
workers were reporting back.
The strikes, which at one
time had about four million
persons off the job, developed
as a protest to proposed eco
nomy decrees affecting work
ers in government-run indus
tries. Premier Joseph Laniel's
government has not announ
ced its final decision on the
decrees.
Yacht Off to
Salvage Ship
Astoria UP) The 140-foot
yacht Caronia left the Colum
bia River Tuesday after taking
on stores at Astoria. It is bound
for Canton Island in the Phoe
nix group where it plans to sal
vage the President Taylor, an
American vessel grounded on a
reef there during World War
II.
The 11 men, 4 women and 7
children aboard' expect to be
gone about a year. The children
will attend school on Canton
Island 'during the efforts of the
crew to refloat the big passen
ger-freighter.
William G. Cooney, Portland,
majority stockholder of the
North Coast Company which
was formed for the salvage op
eration, is aboard.
Stewart said that the study
made In Grant county showed
that only SO per cent of the
tillable farm land was found
to be listed as such on the tax
rolls.
The study shows that farm
ing, timber and mining prop
erties were being assessed at
an average of 29 per cent of
the reappraised value. How
ever, Stewart, said, 38 rural
properties comprising 17.9 per
cent of the total, were assess
ed at or under 20 per cent of
the reappraised value and tS
properties, constituting 4S.S
pjer cent at or over 40 per
cent of reappraised value,
Twenty-seven rural properties
were found to be assessed it
more than 90 per cent of re
appraised value.
(Oeaclaaed ea Page it Celaau 4)
v -.xf'tv-r V ivi.fi
Cpl. Edward K. Clevenger of Unionvale. enjoys cake
-baked by his cousin, Mrs. Nellie Tbien, .left, upon his
return home from Communist prison camp in North Korea.
After a visit with friends and relatives Cpl. Clevcnfer
will return to Camp Stoneman, Calif., for discharge Sept.
23. . ' -.'.---;.-'
Clevenger Tells of
Hunger Among POWs
By MIKE
Unionvale Hunger was the
fifth columnist who. walked
beside United Nations prison
ers of war in communist prison
camps.
In Rio Grande
Roma, Tex. U. The Rio
Grande, international -river
that was so dry a month ago
children could walk across it,
crested at 144,000 gallons of
water a second . last night
There were reports today that
its tributary had gone into two
Mexican towns.
Hydrographer Charges Gil
mer of the international boun
dary and water commisison,
said the Rio Alamo, a tribu
tary, had gone into Cerrado
and General Trevlno, Mexico. '
Mexican officials told Gil
mer that Cerraldo had a "lit
tle damage," but no reported
(casualties.
Heavy rains In northern
Mexico and southern Texas,
which received a total of up to
seven . inches, were credited
for the torrents of water that
rose 9 or 10 feet at Roma dur
ing the crest. '
Owens Admits
Wife Murder
Roscburg ) Burt Owens
told state police he shot and
killed his full-blooded Choctaw
Indian wife Tuesday while his
four children were playing
nearby.
Officer Holly Holcomb said
the shooting at Owens' home in
the Riddle area climaxed a
long dispute between Owens,
45, and his wife Betty Jean,
about 30.
Owens shot his w'fe as she
was sitting in a rocking chair
on the porch of their home,
Holcomb said. Mrs. Owens' sis
ter, Willie Woolsey, reported
she had witnessed the shooting.
Holcomb said Owens had fil
ed divorce proceedings against
his wife last week and that
they had been in Roseburg
earlier in the day to arrange a
property settlement.
Mrs. Owens returned home
with her sister. Owens went to
the home of a half-brother, M.
L. Kirkendall, and borrowed a
shotgun, killed his wife, and
then returned the gun to the
brother, Holcomb reported.
Owens then drove to nearby
Canyonville where he turned
himself in to police.
riCCARD IN RECORD DIVE
Aboard the Corvette Fenice
off Capri, Italy W Auguite
Piccard, stratosphere balloon
ist of the early '30s, plunged
five-eighths of a mile deep Into
the Mediterranean in his bathy
scafe Wednesday. The success
ful descent was made after two
previous dive failed.
FORBES
That is the opinion of Cpl.
Edward E. Clevenger, repatri
ated prisoner of war, who is
now at the home of his father,
E. E. Clevenger, Unionvale
larmer.
"We were hungry all the
time," Cpl. Clevenger said.
And the food- we were given
was bad.
' That was as near as the re
turned prisoner of war would
approach the subject of the
"Progressive" American pris
oners who communists say
have elected to remain . in
China Instead of returning to
their homeland.
"Were there any progres
sives in your prison camp."
the corporal was asked.
' "I can't answer that ques
tion," he said.
General 'treatment in the
camp where Cpl. Clevenger
was quartered was fair, he
added. He said he did not
witness any brutality.
The prison camp in which
Cpl. Clevenger was quartered
was never bombed by U.S.
planes, he said.- The buildings
all were marked plainly. The
camp was at Pyktong on the
Yelu river.
The Chinese communists no
tified the United Nations pris
oners of war of the signing of
the armistice four hours after
the event, - according to the
youth.
Cpl. Clevenger is in the U.S.
Army Medical Corps. He en
tered the service in 1949 and
took his basic training at Ft
Ord, Calif. He was captured
in an engagement at Ansong,
November 27, 1950. . !
Since returning to his home
Cpl. Clevenger has been the
special guest at a round of
homecoming parties In the dis
trict. Tuesday night he was
the honored guest at a dinner
and party given by his cousin,
Mrs. Nellie Thien, at . Union
vale. i
Although he suffered from
hunger for nearly three years,
Cpl. Clevenger s appetite al
ready is becoming jaded with
homecooked delicacies. But
an angel food cake with choco
late frosting, still brings a
dazzling sparkle to hi eyes.
Heavy Rainfall
Freshens Valley
Nearly three-quarters of an
inch of rain poured down on
Salem in the 24-hour period
ending at 10:30 a.m. Wednes
day, .73 of an inch to be exact
Forecast is for continued
scattered showers tonight and
Thursday.
Rainfall In August to date
totals 1.23 inches as against a
normal of .33 of an inch for
the period.
This August will turn out to
be the wettest one in 10 year.
In 1943, August brought 2.14
inches of rain. Last year but
.03 of an inch was recorded.
Reds Free 133
Jubilant Yanks
From Stockades
Panmunjom. Korea ll.n The
Communis ts freed IIS jubilant
American today and embar
rassed their own returnees by
mjecunr sex and military
splendor Into a reception cere
mony. . .
Much to the embarrassment
of the returning Communist
prisoners who tore off their
uniform as usual, the Red dig
nitaries produced two beautiful
blond Polish interprers. The
Keel prisoner covered them:
selves with their caps.
All of the American soldier
returning from Communist cap
tivity as "Operation Big
Switch" entered its final two
week appeared healthy.
Their elation over being lib
erated subsided at nearby Free
dom Village where many of
them recallfd such atrocities a
the murder of a nun on a death
march and the torturing of offi
cers to obtain "confession."
(Ceatlna face a, Cotama 4)
Costs of Living
Edges Higher
Washington VP) The govern
ment reported Wednesday that
living cost edged to a new rec
ord high in mid-July. The In
crease was enough to live a
million auto industry- workers
a 1 cent hourly pay boost '
- It was tha second straight
month that the government'
living - cost measurement had
hit a record. The index has ris
en now tor live month in a
TOW.': . ,s .. . -
Higher price for food, rent.
transportation and medical
care were the main item re
sponsible for the new hike in
consumer, costs, .
The Bureau of Labor Statis
tics said it index, known as
the . Consumers Price Index,
reached 114.7 per cent of the
1947-49 average. This is two
tenths of 1 per cent higher
than in mid-June, which wa
also a living cost peak.
The mid-July level was H of
1 per cent above a year ago
and 12.7 per cent above the
level at the start of the Korean
War.
450 Freed POW
Dock Saturday
San Francisco, tin The
second transport bearing re
turning prisoners of war will
dock at the San Francisco Port
of Embarkation Saturday with
approximately 430 released
POW.
The transport Gen. William
F. Hase Is scheduled to dock
at 9 a.m. Saturday with the
released prisoners and 1400
servicemen on rotation.
Three other ship with re
leased POWs aboard are due
here during the next two
week.
The hospital ship Haven,
with 104 lick cx-prisoners, Is
due about Sep'.. 4. The troop
ship Marine Adder, with 367
released prisoners and 1473
returning troops is due about
Sept. 8.
The transport Gen. John
Pope is scheduled to leave Ko
rea today with 428 ex-POWs
Iran Seeking Loan to
Head-off Bankruptcy
Tehran, Iran U Premier
Fazollah Zaheda appealed di
rectly to U. S. Ambassador Loy
W. Henderson today for im
mediate and substantial finan
cial aid to save Iran from bank
ruptcy, well informed sources
reported. .
Zahedl told Henderson that
oust ad Premier Mohammed
Mossadegh emptied the trea
sury before he was overthrown
last week in a Royalist coup,
Informant said.
It wa Indicated that Hen
derson would make an urgent
report to the State Department.
The Premier reported im
mediately to Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlevl on his talk with
Henderson. The Shsh promot
ed Zahedl, who ltd the Royalist
GIRL SLAIN
JEb
' The bullet-punctured and
partially burned body of
Mary Dl - Rocco, 14, (top)
was found In the cellar of
her home at Sommerville,.
Mas. A "very pretty" ste
nographer Mildred McDon
ald, 25, (bottom), confessed'
slaying her. Heavy motor
oil had been poured; over
the girl' body and news
papers and a - magazine,
placed around the girl, had
been set ablase. (AP Wire
photo) -i H. lirlfu i,- 1
New- York ft. A pretty
Massachusetts stenographer,
cobbing hysterically admitted
to police Wednesday she killed
the '14 1 year -old sister of
former boy friend who broke
on witn ner ana mamea an
other woman.
Police quoted petite Mildred
McDonald, 25, of Somerville,
Mass.. a laying she shot the
girl, Mary Di Rocco, on Mon
day after the child told her the
brother was happy with his
new wife. : -.
The girl had been shot five
times, her throat slashed and
her body partly burned in the
Dl Rocco home in Somerville.
A sharp-eyed policeman, Pa
trolman George F. Grace, spot
ted Mis McDonald near Times
Square Tuesday night and took
her into custody. He recognized
her from an Associated Press
Wirephoto he had seen in the
New York Daily New only
minutes before. ' '
For 10 hour, the blonde
stenographer protested ner in
nocence. Then near dawn
police said, she admitted:
"I shot her several time.'
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army coup, to the rank of a
full general.
An American Embassy state.
ment said that Henderson and
Zahedl began "working on ur
gent matter in the Interests of
their covernments.
The embassy pointed out
after the conference that Iran
is to get $23,300,000 this year
under the Point Four aid plan.
and possibly more for addi
tional projects. But Iran needs
more than this, and need it
a direct aid for tha treasury,
Informed Iranian sources
said that Iran might receive an
additional $30,000,000 under
the Point Four program,
The Shah Mid he would ac
cept money from any source,
a long a there were no con
dition attached.
Stenographer
Admits Slaying
Request
OnVesl'sSplit
OverSovistRoh
Cnitei Natioaa. N.T.
Wednesday ant K
qaarely to tha VM. to
decide whether tha Soviet
Union could attend the Korean
peace conference witheat be
ing lined ap on tha eemmn-
aiit side. ,
The new Soviet move waa
a challenge to, in unnea
States position that Russia can .
attend only If the communist
belligerent, North Korea and
Red China, del ire it Such
proposal is now before tha
U J, with United State back
ing. .......
Soviet Delegate Andrei Y,
Vlahlnsky, however, submitted
to tha general assembly 80-
natlon political committee
Wednesday ,, morning an
amendment atriking out ' tha
reference to "the other aide.''
Challtnnga U. S. Statue
This will bring into tha
open the western split over
Russia's role, in tha confer
ence. Britain, China and soma
other originally advocated
the participation of Russia
without any siring attached,
but the limiting provision
war Inserted on the. insist
ence of the United State.
(Oeatbned a Pace t. Cstaaui )
Bar
Boston - WV-The '' house' of
delegates of the American Bar
association ha adopted reso
lution ' condemning ' "book
burning' end pledging sup
port for lawyer who, though
personally anti communist, de
fend subversive a a matter
of public duty.
: "Freedom to read," the del
egates, voted, "is a corollary
of the constitutional guaran
tee of freedom of tha press."
The bar association ' com
mittee on individual rights.
which drafted the resolution,
aid in it report however that
there should be "no doubt that
the government may properly
restrict the content of librar
ies maintained abroad," and-
it added:
"There Is no good reason
why such librarle should in
clude propaganda against th
United State."
But when it comas to li
braries at home, the report
Mid: ". . . we are dealing with
a policy Involving the rights
of our own people and .' . . wa
believe that truth can be
counted, upon to prevail in
free competitoin of ideas."
Fresh Quakes in
Ionian Islands
' Argostolion, Greece, () A
Greek earthquake expert
warned the devested Ionian
islands today they may get
more "catastrophic" quakes
but probably not for 40 year.
. The predlctllon wa made by
seismology professor Angelo
Galanopoulos, who I touring
the stricken islands of Kefall
lnia, Ithaca and Zaklnthos,
where an estimated 130,000
made homeless in quake two
weeks ago.
Shortly before the professor
mide hi observation, the is
lands were rocked by new
tremors, the worst since the
first ones. Walls of partly de
stroyed buildings tumbled,
killing three Italian demolition
worker.
Greece' King Paul and
Queen Frederika continued
their tour of the disaster area
today, despite the new tre
mors. ' ;
Ike Leaving for
Trout Fishing Trip
Denver W) President Ei
senhower will leave Denver
Thursday for a few days of
trout fishing at mountain
locked Fraser, Colo., 71 mile
northwest of here. -
Eisenhower will stay at the
Rocky Mountain ranch of an
old friend, Aksel Nielsen, pres
ident of the Denver Chamber
of Commerce.