THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY tonight aad
Friday, few scattered showers
tonight Little change in tem
perature. Low tonight, 55; high
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FIN A L
EDITION
65th Yeari No. 204 S?-.
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, August 27, 1953
. rages Price 5c
Employment
In Hon Farm
Jobs Increase.
Summer-time Unem
ployment Well Above
Comparable Periods
By JAMES D. OLSON
Increases i a construction.
food processing and metals
manufacturing -resetted in
bringing non-farm employment
in the state to an estimated
479,200 in July, about 3.200
higher than a year before and
a gain of 11,600 from Jane, ac
cording to a report of the state
unemployment compensa t i o n
commission Thursday.
Wfth the number of lumber
and logging jobs remaining
about the same as the previous
month, 86,800, durable goods
industries r e m a 1 n e d about
3,000 below last year's figures.
Furniture and fixture plants
also reported little change
from the previous month and
remained about 600 behind
1952, according to the esti
mates made in cooperation
with the U. S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics. .
Service Jobs Up
Various service lines also re-
ported Increases over last
jcat employment, me report
pointed out, but again and
losses in trade circles about
cancelled out each other. Fi
nance, realty, machinery,
transportation, utilities, paper
mills, printing and publishing
reported only minor Job ad
justments.
Increase in employment in
food processing was due main
ly to the delayed harvest sea
son for berries, cherries and
peas. - -. .
Harvest Employment Lag
- Summer-time unemployment
continued well above compar
able periods since 1949, the
report said. Late harvests, par
ticularly in beans and fruits,
brought a lag ir farm activities
and claims for insurance from
covered workers were higher
for any August in the past four
years.
(Continued en Pare S. Col una 7)
USIAlo Fire '
2000 Employes
Washington W) The United
Stats Information Agency
Thursday announced it is cut
ting down on its global' oper
ations and dismissing more
than 2,000 employes because
of reduced appropriations.
USIA operates the Voice of
America, overseas libraries
and other programs designed
to tell the American story
abroad. .
It said dismissal notices are
going out Thursday, Friday
and Monday, to 1,300 citizens
of foreign countries employed
abroaS, 300 Americans on for
eign assignment, 200 Ameri
cans at headquarters in Wash
ington, 200 with the Voice of
America office Jo New York,
and 70 with the motion pic
ture service n New York.
Theodore C. Streibert, di
rector of the information
agency since it became inde
pendent of the state depart
ment on August 1, announced
that its future operations will
be devoted to the most impor
tant overseas activities while
desirable but less essential ac
tivities will be discontinued.
Surcharge Costs
Told at Hearing
Cost of capital to electric
companies and theories of rate
regulation were discussed by
J. Rhoads Foster, rate expert,
testifying in the surcharge
hearing before Utilities Com-
misioner Charles H. Heltzel
Thursday.
Foster, a former nrnfennr
New York University and now
a consultant on rate and regu
latory matters, was brought t
Oregon by the Pacific Power A
Liffht Comnanv nrt h Mnnn.
tain States Pon ("Vimnanv
two of the defendants to the
complaint filed by State Rep.
and Mrs. Monroe Sweetland.
The Sweetlands have attacked
the surchage imposed by the
power companies Last fail a:
both unreasonable and Illegal.
Foster in his toatimnnv r
prcsed the view that the rate
oi return to a public utility
snouia oe relatively stable and
should not vary with the mood
of the stock market
Foster was expected to com
plete nis testimony late Thurt
day aftr which it is planned t
recess the hearing until Monday.
Lavyers Guild
Listed Among
Subversives
Brownell Describes
Group Legal Mouth
piece for Reds
Bestea W) Atty. Gen.
Brownell said Thursday he
proposed to put the National
Lawyers Guild which he de
scribed as the legal mouthpiece
for the Communist rarty on
bis list of subversive organisa
tions.
Brownell made the an
nouncement in an address pre
pared for the American Bar
association (ABA) in conven
tion here.
There was no immediate
comment from the Lawyers
Guild.
The attorney general said he
had served notice on the Guild
of its proposed inclusion on the
list which the government uses
in checking the affiliations of
federal workers in relation to
their loyalty and security.
10 Days for Bearing
The notice means the Guild
has 10 days in which to ask
for a hearing if it desires to
present evidence on why the
organization should not go on
the list.
The ABA House of Delegates
earlier adopted a resolution de
claring that Communists should
be barred from the legal pro
fession in this country.
(Continued nPaioi, Column 0)
Ike After Trout
In the Rockies
Denver VP) President Eisen
hower took his fishing gear, oil
paints and some old friends and
headed into the high Rockies
Thursday for six days of real
vacation.
Eisenhower and his party
left Denver on the 70-mile drive
to Fraser, Colo., on the western
slope of the continental divide.
There he will stay at the se
cluded ranch of old friend, Ak
sel Nielsen, Denver business
man. About 50 people, many of
them neighborhood children,
stood around the tree-shaded
home of Mrs. John S. Doud,
Mrs. Eisenhower's mother, as
the President departed.
Mrs. Doud went with him,
She said she was merely taking
the drive over 11,000 foot Ber
thoud Pass to see the scenery
and to look at the Nielsen
ranch.
Norblad Files
Wheat Protest
Rep. Walter Norblad (R.,
Ore.) said Thursday he has
filed protests with both Harold
Stassen of the Mutual Security
Agency and Ezra Benson, sec
retary of agriculture, against
the proposal to ship all of the
wheat for Pakistan from Gulf
and Atlantic ports.
Norblad said that approxi
mately 37 million bushels of
wheat have been committed to
this program and that none of
the shipments were planned
for the Pacific Northwest. '
In letters to bort Benson and
Stassen he pointed out that in
view of the Pacific Northwest's
historical export sales handling
of wheat, at least 25 per cent
of the shipments should be
made from these ports. He also
saia tnis would in a substantial
measure protect 'the local mar
kets of Portland, Astoria and
Seattle.
Alore Bean Pickers
Needed Here at Once
The available supply of bean
pickers was up a bit Thursday
morning but officials at the em
ployment office. South Cottage
and Ferry streets, report three
times as many as showed up
could have been placed to ad
vantage. Growers of beanl and other
agricultural products appeared
at the employment office in
large numbers but tew if any
of them secured their requirements.-
Due to the rain that delayed
harvesting, beans have grown
larger and larger with the re
sult that the producer will be
paid lower price. Then, too,
where under normal conditions
six persons could handle an
acre of brans, it will take 10
to 12 to take care of the situ
ation now.
"Salem folk apparently have
forgotten that this is pretty
much an agricultural commun
. VIEW DAMAGE AFTER AIR LINERS
1
57 On Airliners
Michigan City, Ind. VP)
Two commercial air liners,
carrying a total of 57 persons,
collided last night at 11,000
feet, but police landed them
safely and no one was injured.
The planes, twin-engine
Convairs from American Air
Lines and United Air Lines,
had left Chicago about a min
ute apart The collision over
Michigan City, about 60 miles
east, occurred about 25 min
utes later, -"It
was a very lucky situa
tion all around," said William
Whittacre, American chief of
flight operations for the Chi
cago region.
"We have no idea who did
what to whom. We don't say
which plane Jan the other
down, but it will be the sub
ject of an inquiry by the com
pany and by the Civil Aero
nautics Administration.
The collision rlpned a three
foot hole in the tail section
of the American plane while
the UAL airliner was punctur
ed on top of the fuselage be
tween the pilot's cabin and the
passenger area. ,
Hitch Hiker s -Kills
Official
Zanesville. Ohio m The
State Highway Patrol said
Thursday an AWOL soldier ad
mitted the fatal ahontinff nf
state oniciai who gave him a
ride in his car.
Patrol Cpl. C. E. Wells cap
tured Harold T. St. John, 25,
Dorchester, Mass., near here
shortly after the slaying of Jo
seph W. Harding. 53, assistant
director of the Ohio Industrial
Relations department.
Wells said St. John admitted
shooting Harding during a
struggle after a robbery at
tempt. ,-
The patrol said St. John
escaped from Camp Atterbury
Wednesday after disarming
two military policemen and
forcing them to drive him to
Indianapolis. -
Harding was killed a short
time after he left a farewell
part for his retiring chief, Al
bert A. Woldman. Gov. Frank
J. Jausche was reported con
sidering Harding as successor
to Woldman.
ity," said one employment of
fice worker. He urged that
those persons who get Satur
day and Sunday off from their
regular tasks help the farmer
who is facing a serious condi
tion. '
They all need help, and
propective pickers can find
employment no matter which
way they drive, it was stated,
Transportation is available for
those who require It
It is estimated that about 42
per cent of the bean crop has
been processed, leaving a big
balance yet to be harvested.
The loss of 50 per cent of the
crop would prove a serious ft
nancial blow to the community
It was pointed out
The canneries have been
shifting their worker In an
effort to keep all of them em
ployed. However, the lack of
tonnage has meant the curtail
ment of employment
Chicago, Aug. 27 Francis Toiino (left) and Vincent
Samaska, American Airlines employes, view damaged
underside of their plane at Midway Airport here follow
ing mid-air collision last night with a United Airlnes
plane near Michigan City, Ind. Both pilots effected safe
landings after the bumping at 11,000 feet and no one was
injured: The planes, both twin-engine Convairs, had left
Chicago about a minute apart shortly before 9 pjn. (EST),
A total of 57 persons were aboard the two planes. This
plane returned to Chicago and the United Airlines plane
landed at South Bend, Ind. (AP Wirephoto)
Ike Commends Shah
On Success of Coup
Denver VP) President El
senhower has in effect congra
tulated Shah Mohammed Reza
Pahlevi of Iran on the royalist
overthrow of the government
of deposed Prime Minister Mos
sadegh. -,
Cement Trust -Suit
Dropped
Boston VP) Asst Atty. Gen.
Stanley N. Barnes said today
the Justice Department is
withdrawing its eight-year-old
antitrust suit against the Ce
ment Institute and 89 institute
members. ,
Barnes, who heads the de
partment's Antitrust Division,
made the announcement in an
address prepared for the Amer
ican Bar Association's section
on antitrust law.
Abandonment of the litiga
tion, he said, had been decided
upon because most of the pri
mary objectives of the suit had
been attained through volun
tary actions of the defendants.
The case has been pending
in the federal District Court at
Denver since 1945. Among oth
er things, it asked for dissolu
tion of the Cement Institute,
which disbanded in 1946.
Further, Barnes said, indus
try pricing and selling prac
tices assailed In the suit have
In recent years undergone sub
stantial changes.
Sanity Test for
Slayer of Girl
Somerville, Mass. U-B An
attorney said today he would
seek a sanity test for. Mildred
McDonald, 25 year old steno
grapher who said she went
"plain crazy" and killed her
former boy friend's younger
sister.
The attorney, Dwight L. Al
lison of Belmont Mass., who
was retained by Miss McDon
ald's family to defend her
against a murder charge, indi
cated he was considering the
possibility of an insanity plea.
Miss McDonald confessed in
New York yesterday that she
fatally shot 14-year-old Mary
di Rocco to death in the dl
Rocco home here Monday and
tried to burn the body.
TWO OREGON POW DUE
San Francisco u. The
Army said today two Oregon
men are among 437 former
prisoners of war scheduled to
return Saturday aboard the
MSTS transport Gen.-William
F. Hase. They are:
Sgt. Thomas J. Elchorn, Mil
waukie. and Cpl. Henry F. Wll
Uams, Medford.
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The summer - White House
Thursday made public an Ei
senhower message to the Shah
which took no note of the
young Iranian monarch's bid
for financial aid from any gov
ernment Russia included 1
willing to contribute. But it
was phrased in terms which
did nothing to rule out the pos
sibility of United States aid. -The
President's message said
"In the spirit of friendliness
which has always been the
basis for the relations of our
two countries, I offer you my
sincere felicitations on the oc
casion of your happy return
from exile to your country and
my continuing good wishes for
every success in your efforts to
promote the prosperity of your
people and to preserve the in
dependence of Iran."
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said the mes
sage was sent to the Shah "sev
eral days ago" through the U.
S. ambassador to Iran, Loy
Henderson. Hagerty added that
word it had been delivered "was
received by Eisenhower Wed
nesday. ,
Asked whether the friendly
sentiments expresed by the
President meant this country is
ready to respond to the Shah's
plea for funds, Hagerty replied:
I have no comment on that
Cabinet Meet
Held on Finance
Washington, VP) Revised es
timates of federal income and
outgo for the current fiscal
year ending June 30, 1654,
were discussed at a cabinet
meeting Thursday,
Pending release of the fig
ures for publication Friday
there was no official comment.
The cabinet session was the
first since President Eisen
hower left on his Colorado
vacation Aug. 8. It was pre
sided over by Vice President
Nixon and lasted nearly two
hours.
Secretary of State Dulles
also briefed the cabinet on
developments in the interna
tional field. .
Four departments were rep
resented at the session by sub
stitutesDefense, Post Office,
Labor and Health, Education
and Welfare. Th Budget Bu
reau and Foreign Operations
Administration also was repre
sented by other than top offi
cials. 2nd Fatal Shooting
In Roseburg Area
Roseburg, UP) A shotgun
blast In the stomach took the
life of Virgil Canfield, about
38, late Wednesday. He was
the second gun victim In this
area In two days.
Canfield's wife, - Eva, was
held by state police who said
only that questioning brought
a report of a quarrel. The Can
field home was near Glide,
east oi here.
q$ Rehsei Urn
Including Three
'Convicts' Freed
Fanmunloin VP) One hun
dred fifty Americans rode
eagerly from Red captivity
Thursday three of the men
their buddies feared would be
kept behind In North Korea
after they disappeared mysteri
ously from their prison camps.
One returning prisoner said
45 more Americans sentenced
only a month ago to prison
terms were in the Red grouping
center at nearby Kaesong
awaiting release.
Freed Americans have told
of prisoners jailed by the Reds
In late July when the armistice
was signed on such charges as
instigating against peace.
Their sentences ranged from 1
to 3 years.
However, three who said the
Reds called them "convicts'
were I In Thursday's group of
250 South Koreans and 150
Americans. They were:
Cpt Chnrles C. Gutdettl, 32,
Philadelphia ;Cpl. Eugene R.
ReiUy, 21, New York City; and
Sgt. Guy T. Vadala, 38, Stone
ham, Mass, -
(Continued on Pas 1 Column 0)
Reds Shot at
'Chilling Pilot
Freedom Village VP)
U.S. jet pilot among Thurs
day's treed prisoners said the
Reds tried to shoot him while
he parachuted from his crip
pled plane. He also told of an
escape attempt,
- Lt Jack E, Henderson of
Clayton, Wash., was in a Shoot
ing Star jet which was shot
down by Red anti-aircraft fire
15 miles south of Sinanju Aug.
31, 1951.
Rifle and machine gun bul
lets whistled around him as he
floated down from 8,000 feet.
Three minutes after he hit the
ground about 40 Chinese grab
bed him.
At a Pyongyang interroga
tion camp for downed aviators,
he found himself in a mud hut
with an Australian, a Britisher
and Lt Col. Thomas Harrison
of Clovis, N.M., a pilot returned
on the second day of the ex
change. Firestone Tire
Union Strikes
Cleveland VP) The CIO
United Rubber Workers un
ion struck the big Firestone
Tire it Rubber company
throughout the nation today.
Negotiators failed to reach a
new wage agreement before a
midnight deadline.
Union and company repre
sentatives talked far into the
early morning and scheduled
another session today.
The strike involves 24,000
production workers In eight
cities, Including 10,000 in Ak
ron, Ohio.
Most of the union locals
went out about midnight local
time, with the first walkouts
reported at Akron, Pottstown,
Pa., and Fall River, Mass.
The other Firestone plants
are in Los Angeles; Nobles
viUe and Newcastle, Ind.;
Memphis, Tenn.; and Des
Moines, Iowa.
Red Rioters Attack
Berlin Food Stations
Berlin VP Riot police were
called out in West Berlin to
day to break up a demonstra
tion by 300 invading commu
nists against the distribution
of American "Eisenhower"
food packages.
Picked communist agitators
led a mob from East Berlin
Into the French sector.
Three strong riot squads of
West Berlin police were rush
ed to the spot With them
went one of the new police
water cannon used to break
up riots.
Today was the opening day
of the second phase of the dis
tribution of the "Eisenhower"
food packages,
SaysUOOPW
Killed by Reds
InPrisonCamp
Birmingham, Ala. 11 An
Army sergeant said last night
that 1.700 American. British
and Turkish prisoners died of
starvation or were killed by
brutal Chinese guards in the
prison camp where he was
held. - . '
. Sgt Ellis C. Jackson, who
survived a 326-mile death
march to Prison Camp 5 in
North Korea, told of being tor
tured because he refused to
sign statement that he be
lieved in communism.
Jackson is here to visit an
aunt. Later he'll go to Meridi
an, miss., wnere his mother.
Mrs. Mary . Jackson, and 11
brothers and sisters live.
The Negro soldier said bis
unit wu surrounded by the
Chinese and captured in No
vember 1950.
"Two hundred of the 800
American; British and Turkish
soldiers who made the march
to prison camp died from star
vation along the way," he said
Progressives
Inchon, Korea JP) Chinese
prison camp officials apparently
bad no further use for Ameri
can POW "progressives" after
the armistice was signed, a re
patriated American prisoner
said Thursday.
Pfc. Leo E. Dwyer, Law
rence, Mass., said a Chinese
POW camp interpreter report
edly told one of the "progres
sives" in Camp S:
"The war is over now and
we are done using you. You
sold out your own country tor
cigarettes and If we took you
to China you would sell out
China for cigarettes, too. . t
"And if you went to Russia,
you might sell the Russians out
for cigarettes: .
"And if you went to some
other country you probably
would sell them out, too. -.
Dwyer said the interpreter s
statement got out in camp-
he did not reveal how and
that the "loyal American
POWs" taunted the progres
sives with the information.
Pickets Tie Up
Atom Plant I
PaducarC K., VP) Picket
ing carpenters kept work at
a near standstill on the billion
dollar atomic project near
here Thursday.
E. A. Wende, project man
ager for the Atomic Energy
Commission, said an early
count showed less than 1,000
out of a manual work force of
12,500 men were on the job,
He said the carpenters set
up an unauthorized picket line
to protest the failure of some
subcontractors to match a new
contract given employes of F.
H. McGraw & Co., the prime
contractor.
The unaffiliated carpenters
union called meeting to de
cide whether to officially sanc
tion the line.
Wende said 527 sheetmetal
workers, about one half of the
normal force, and 240 labor
ers, 12 per cent of full force,
crossed the picket line Thurs
day morning. There were no
teamsters, operating engineers,
electricians or pipefitters, he
ssid.
The communists in thetr
first move aga'jist the highly
embarrassing distribution put
Berlin "oft limits" to all East
Germans seeking to reach the
city.
Sale of railway ticket to
points within 50 miles of the
city was banned. -
Soviet troops were posted
on roads leading to the city.
These strict measures were
taken as the United States and
West German governments
opened the second phase of a
free food distribution program
in the American, British and
French sectors of Berlin, HO
mile behind the Iron Curtain.
UN Victory Vcn
Over Russia fay
United States
Tnlted Nations, N. Y. P
India failed Thursday to wia
sufficient U. N. rapport to give
her a seat at the Korean peace
conference.
She received a majority of
the ' votes cast in the flO-na-tional
political committee, but
fell short of tho two-thirc'j
majority required for approval '
by the general assembly which
acts Friday.
' The vote was 27 for, 21
against, 11 abstaining and In
dia not participating.
; It was victory for the
United Stages, who has split
with Britain and other west
ern allies over the issue and
fought vigorously against In
dia's inclusion. .
Only Fighters Seated ; :
The committee also:,
1. Recommended seats at
the conference for ail the Id
countries who . fought under
the U JJ. banner if they desire
to do so. The vote was 42-7.
with 10 abstaining and India
not voting. . .
2. Rejected a Soviet pro
posal that the conference be
made' up of six belligerent ,
countries and nine "neutrals."
The vote: 5-41, with U ab
staining and India not voting.
3. voted to Include Russia in
the parley "provided the other
side desires it' The vote was
65-2 with two abstaining,
(Continued en Page 5, Caiman 4)
Mrs. FDR Sees
Doric nc Virtnrc
WUal UaKIlVeVIJ .
New York WV-Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt says the United
Nations dispute over seating
India at the Korean peace con
ference means "a substantial
victory for Malenkov in his
drive to split, apart the free
world," ,.
- Mrs. Roosevelt speaking aa
honorary chairman of the pro
New Deal Americans tor Demo
cratic Action, said last night
In a statement that the India
dispute no matter how it is '
decided dramatizes "the self-
Isolation of the United States
from its closest and most Im
portant friends and allies."
"American self-isolation in
this particular instance," she
said, "Is due to the stubborn,
ness of our spokesmen and in
flexibility of our policy." -
VA to Discharge
1000 Workers
Washington VP) The Veter
ans Administration said Thurs
day it will drop about 1,000
employes from the operating
staff in its insurance division
here by October 16.
An official said the reduc
tion will leave "a hard core"
of about 1,500 operating em
ployes which he said lt is fig
ured can handle the work here.
The reduction in force does '
not affect 160 staff and 425
actual employes here and does
not apply in the field.
Workers who will be retain
ed have been advised, the VA
said. It added that separation
notices to "slightly less than
1,000" would be issued Sep
tember 15, effective October.
16, and that the redaction was
being carried out under civil
service procedure.
More Showers I
Expected Here
More than one-tenth Inch
of additlonarprecipitation wa
marked up for Salem through
showers over Wednesday night
and this morning, .13 of an '
inch being measured. ' .
Apparently the showery
weather is due to continue an
other day or so, the weather
man giving little encourage
ment .When the sun doe
shine, however, it Is still sum-,
mer weather.
So far this month, 1.18
inches tyive been measured In
Salem. The skies were very
threatening through Thursday
morning and some section of
the city reported real shower
or tain, then 4utt wtaki.