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Contract for
VV Irrigation
Water 0!ted
Willamette Basin
- 'Commission Ends
Long Negotiations
Final approval of a contract
for use of water in Willamette
valley reaervoirt wai announc
ed today by the Willamette
River Basin Commission.
Approval came after months
of negotiating between the
bureau ' of reclamation, 'sales
agent for the water; army engi
neers, builders of the dams and
storage reservoirs, and the Wil
lamette River Basin Commis
sion which acts as the agent for
the state In the sales.
Detroit Included
Basin project reservoirs af
fected by the contract are Fern
- Ridge, Cottage drove, Dorena
and Detroit. Lookout Point re
servoir is to be added shortly,
Under terms of the agree-
ment, landowners may con
tract for use of water available
for irrigation "which may be
applied beneficially in accord
ance with good usage."
Landowners will be respon
sible for "taking, diverting,
conveying and utilizing" the
waters. They will be Worded
equal priority and rate changes
will be authorized only after
consultation with the commis
sion. (Continued en Page t. Column 1)
Fluoride Use
Wins in Bend
Bend (ff) An Oregon Su
preme Court decision on whe
ther cities have the right to
add fluoride to their water sup
plies is expected as a result of
an action here Saturday by
Circuit Judge E. H. Howell of
Grant County.
Howell dismissed a temp
orary order granted last Feb
ruary restraining Bend from
putting fluoride in its water,
Craig C. Coyner, attorney for
William J. Baker, who obtain
ed the order, served notice he
would appeal to the State Su
preme Court. Judge Howell
said that if the court handed
down a decision in time, it
would to his knowledge be the
first State Supreme Court in
the nation to rule on the fluor
idation question.
East Swelters
In Heat Wave
(Br Tho Associated Praul
One of the summer season's
longest heat waves showed no
sign of breaking today. Sunny
skies, with no rain, were indi
cated for the week-end for
wide areas from the Rockies to
the Atlantic Coast.
The late August hot spell
continued to break tempera
ture records for the date in
many cities again yesterday.
The mercury climbed into the
90's in nearly every section
except the Far West and in
sections of New England. It
was hotter in some northern
Midwest cities than in Florida.
Readings reached 80 or high
er in many cities in the swelt
erbelt for the fifth straight
day and indications were for
a week-end of the same tem
peratures. In Newark, N. J., yesterday's
top was 100. Chicago sizzled
for the third straight day in
97 degrees, the 31st day this
summer of 90-plus readings as
compared to a normal of 12.
Fair Weather
Ends Long Rain
Blue skies and bright sun
shine were welcomed in Salem,
Saturday morning, following a
week of showers and cooler
temperatures. There was some
suggestion of fog early Satur
day morning.
The forecast calls for gener
ally fair weather tonight and
Sunday, except for some low
clouds or fog in the morning,
and warmer temperatures.
Rainfall for the 24-hour
period ending at 10:30 a.m.
Saturday amounted to M of an
inch in Salem, bringing the
month's total up to 1.65 inches
against normal of .40 of an
inch for the period.
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Reds Shifted to
Oilier Jobs by
U. S. Printer
McCarthy Charges
Gambling Ring
Operates in Office
Washington 11 The head of
the government printing office
(Gru) testified Saturday IS
employes alleged to have com
munist connections have been
ahlf ted to Jobs where they have
no access to secret material.
Public printer Raymond J.
Blattenberger made the dis
closure at a public hearing of
the Senate's permanent Investi
gations subcommittee, which is
looking into charges that red
tinged GPO employes may
have "leaked" secret data.
He said they have been trans-H
ferred to the Library of Con
gress and will stay there until
decision is mtde whether they
should be discharged.
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California Fires
Under Control
San Bernardino, Calif. W) '
Fire fighters, aided by fog and
mist, virtually won their bat
tle Saturday against a four-day
forest fire which menaced but
did not reach mountain cabins
in the Lake Arrowhead resort
area.
Officials said the lire was
controlled on the upper or
northerly side of scenic rim
of the world highway. The
real danger lay there, because
if the fire had progressed
northward it could have con
sumed about 490 cabins in the
Twin Peaks-Alpine area about
five miles west of Lake Arrow
head. One hundred fire fighters
were able to descend into Cold-
water Canyon, below the high
way, where the main remain
ing fire was bottled up. They
hoped to accomplish complete
control later in the day.
Ben Gold Plans
To Surrender
New York, Ben Gold,
charged with falsely denying
he was a Communist, will sur
render In Washington Monday,
his lawyer said Saturday.
Gold, president of the Inter
national Fur and Leather
Workers Union was indicted
by a federal grand jury in
Washington Friday. He was ac
cused of lying in a 1950 affi
davit swearing he was not a
Communist.
Gold, a well-known Com
munist for many years, for
mally left the party and took
a non-Communist oath to com
ply with the Taft-Hartley law.
Under that law the services of
the National Labor Relations
Board may be used only by
unions whose officers take
non-Communist oaths.
Gold's union, with a report
ed 100,000 members, was ex
pelled from the CIO on
charges of being Communist
dominated. NEW YORK HOT
New York, W) The tem
perature rose to 90 degrees
Saturday in New York City
the fifth day in a row that It
has gone that high. Sweltering
weather through the week end
was predicted.
Large Beans Bring
Bigger Pay to Pickers
The statement that "thar's
gold in them thar hills" might
well be applied to the bean
patches, judging by assertions
of farmers, employment offi
cials and packers of the suc
culent pod.
During a session of the Wil
lamette Valley Farm Labor
Council Friday, where grow
ers, from various parts of the
valley as well as representa
tives of processors and employ
ment services discussed the
critical situation, It was em
phasized that the novice could
make excellent wages, while
the more experienced harvest
hand could really strike it rich.
The rain, while delaying the
harvest of beans, has increased
the size of the pods. The pay
to the picker doesn't vary and
the big ones bring 2 cents
a pound. However, the grower
faces a sliding scale when he
weight in the larger beans
bring smaller price.
$1 Million Fire
Loss at Pueblo
Pueblo, Colo. UP) A million
dollar fire erupted In predawn
darkness here Saturday in the
heart of this southern Colorado
steel city, gutting three build
ings and killing one elderly
man.
The blaze started in a small,
second story hotel and hit
paint store below.
"The paint blazed up like a
blowtorch," a reporter said.
The flames spread into the
old five-story Central office
block next door on the corner
of First and Main.
The Fire Department listed
O. G. Pope as dead. His body
was believed trapped in the
mound of smouldering debris.
Pope was a retired Pueblo at
torney who maintained a small
apartment in the office build
ing. Firemen heard his scream
but were unable to rescue him.
Indians Avoid
.S.
New Delhi, India, W In
dian newspapers expressed dis
appointment Saturday over
India's vtithdrawl from the
Korean political conference
but avoided attacking the
United States for opposing In
dian participation. .
"The issue never was nor
is between India and the
United States," said the Hin
dustan Standard of New Delhi
and Calcutta.
"Thanks to the frankness of
U.S. spokesmen," said the
paper, "it has been shown in
sharp relief as a conflict be
tween two conceptions regard
ing the nature of the Korean
conference."
The Times of India, pub
lished here, In Bombay and
Calcutta, said "for the United
States the victory is moie in
the nature of a moral deleat.
The would-be picker may
find work along virtually every
road leading out of Salem. The
closer yards have been more
fortunate in the matter of help
and it is the yards that are out
a few miles that, face an ex
treme shortage.
The employment office at
10 Ferry street, where grow
ers drive in each morning to
pick up pickers, will remain
open Sunday from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. Families with their
own transportation may call
the office, 39288, and get in
structions as to where they
should go.
It is estimated that less than
50 per cent of the bean crop
has been harvested. Given bet
ter weather conditions and
large numbers of pickers, it
was pointed out that much of
the remaining beans can be
salvaged.
Salem, Oregon,
THERE SHE GOES!
Pueblo, Colo, Part of the North wall of the Central
Block at Pueblo, Colo., falls at about 4:30 a.m. in a $700,000
dollar fire' In which one man Is believed to have died.
The $700,000 figure applies to the Central Block only.
There were three buildings besides this one lost. (AP
Wirephdto)
Railway Conductors
Strike September 10
(Br TIM Al
Major walkouts by some 80,'
000 telephone workers . and
25,000 rubber workers, all
members of the CIO, continued
Saturday as a new strike was
threatened by- the Order of
Railway Conductors,' an inde
pendent -union with" -35,000
members. '
On the brighter side of the
telephone strikes, a walkout by
Bell system employes in Wash
ington, D. C, Maryland and
West Virginia ended after one
Marital Mix Up
Faced by POW
South Bend, Ind. () An
attractive young wife of a sol
dier she believed dead but who
was released from a Korean
prison camp says she doesn't
know how "this will work out
or how I want it to work out"
Mrs. Avis Meier married
Herald Kapsch of Mitchell, S.
D., last March, believing that
her first husband, Cpl. Ralph
W. Meier, had been killed in
the Korean War. Her marriage
to Kapsch, however, was an
nulled in June when Kapsch
said he learned that Meier was
still alive. The records show,
Kapsch testified he would
rather see their marriage g on
but they say we have to have
it annulled.
"I don't know how this will
work out, or how I want it to
work out," Mrs. Meier said yes
terday at the home of relatives
she is visiting here.
"I don't know what will be
in Ralph's heart and I'm not
sure what is in mine. I had
been told that after a soldier
has been missing for a yea' he
is presumed to be dead."
Mitchell Runs
Demo Dinner
Chicago, JP The main job
of directing plans for the Dem
ocratic fund raising dinner in
Chicago on Sept. 14 has been
taken over by Stephen A.
Mitchell, the party's national
chairman.
Mitchell took charge of ar
rangements for the $100-a-plate
dinner after John J.
Kelly, a Chicago attorney, quit
yesterday as chairman. He said
his ideas "conflicted" with
those of Mitchell.
Party leaders said Kelly's
resignation could not be term
ed a party rift but rather a
personal matter. ' Kelly re
portedly was miffed because
he was not named toastmaster
at the dinner at which t is
hoped to raise $250,000 to
pay off national committee
debts. Mitchell earlier had an
nounced that Sen. Guy M. Gil
lette of Iowa would be toast-
master.
Saturday, August 29, 1953
S
day. About 10,000 workers
were Involved.
The Order of Railway Con
ductors said Friday night It
planned a strike on some rail
roads at 6 a.m., local standard
time. Sept. 10. . The conductors
are seeking more pay.
Brotherhood officials said in
Chicago and Cedar Rapids, la.,
all conductors will not be call
ed out simultaneously. How
ever, they said they win con
sider expanding the strike un
til an agreement is reached in
the wage dispute.
The conductors are seeking a
graduated rate of pay, which
the National Mediation Board
said is an unsettled demand
dating back to 1949. Engi
neers and firemen already have
such a graduated rate, based
on the power of locomotives.
Gov. Phil M. Donnelly of
Missouri stepped into the strike
of 53,000 CIO Communication
Workers against Southwestern
Bell Telephone Co., now in its
10th day.
Donnelly said he would order
the State Board of Mediation
to meet and offer its 'own solu
tion If the two parties do not
get together on a settlement by
Sunday night
Trial Opens of
Slayer of 3
Perce, Quebec, W A burly
39-year-old prospector-woodsman
today faced trial on a
charge of murdering one of
three Pennsylvania hunters
whose bear-gnawed remains
were found last month in the
Gaspe wilderness bush.
A provincial magistrate's
court last night ordered Wil
bert Coffin, the last man
known to have seen the three
Americans alive, to stand trial
in the death of 17-year-old
Richard Llndsey, of Holliaays
burg. Pa.
Young Llndsey's remains
were found in the bush 65
miles west of Gaspe along with
those of his father, Eugene H.
Llndsey, 47, and a chum, Fred
Claar, 20, of East Freedom,
Pa.
The court's decision was an
nounced by Magistrate Joseph
Duguay following 12-hour-long
preliminary hearing in which
17 witnesses testified.
Heppner Flood
Washes Out Bridges
Heppner, (U.B Flooding
waters of Willow creek yester
day washed out two railroad
bridges, muddied several homes
in Lexington and temporarily
closed roads in the Lexing-ton-lone
area.
Police said no major dam
age or no Injuries to persons
in the area was reported.
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Pella and Tito
In Diplomatic ;
Crisis on Trieste
Rome UJB Premier Gal
seppe Pella sammoned the Big
Three diplomat envoys into
conference today and called
an emergency meeting of his
cabinet to consider a sudden
new diplomatic crisis with Yu
goslavia over Trieste.
Pella also conferred with
Gen. Efisio Marras,, chief of
the Italian General Staff. .
Pella discussed with ' the
diplomat and Marras the pos
sibility that Yugoslavia might
try to annex Its Trieste occu
pation zone. Italian Inform
ants said be would move
troops toward the frontier it
any uch move were made
and that he told the Allied
diplomats he would take un
specified "counter measures."
Protests Aid to Tito
A dispatch sent out yester
day by the semi-official Yugo
slav news agency Yugospress
caused the crisis. It said that
Marshal Tito considered ar
nexlng "Zone B," the Yugo
slav occupation zone of the
Trieste territory area -set up
after World War IL The Unit-
(Crattnosd Page , Cannon I)
Manpower
Supply Short
St. Louis 1m MaJ. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, national Se
lective,' Service director, said
Saturday the supply of man
power for the armed forces
soon will be exhausted unless
men previously deferred be
cause of fatherhood or physi
cal disabilities a group num
bering almost S million are
drafted.
Speaking before a meeting
of the American Legion's se
curity commission here, Her
shey said there are few men
left on original manpower reg
istration lists other than the
1,100,000 men deferred because
of dependent children and the
1,800,000 men deferred because
of physical disability.-
Hershey told the commis
sion, meeting prior to the Le
gion's national convention
opening ' Monday, he favors
universal military training, al
though the armed forces do
not Under the present pro
gram of two-year enlistments
for draftees, he said, the armed
forces are building up a huge
secondary army of reserves.
Rebuilding of
Flint Started
Flint, Mich. (VP) Plumbers,
painters, carpenters, bricklay
erssome professionals, some
amateurs turned out by the
hundreds here Saturday to help
their fellow man.
The "good Samaritan" army
moved Into Flint's northern
outskirts at 8 a.m., Intent on re
storing in two days what a tor
nado tore down in minutes June
8 over 100 homes.
All that was asked of prop
erty owners by participants in
"operation tornado" was: Have
the material at the building
site.
Volunteers came in groups
from unions, churches, factor
ies and patriotic and fraternal
organizations.
Russia Rejects Big 4
Aleet on Austrian Pact
Washington Russia re
jected again Saturday a bid by
the western powers to bold a
four-power meeting to seek
conclusion of an Austrian in
dependence treaty. The session
had been set for London Mon
day. The Soviet had refused pre
viously to attend a meeting last
May 27 for the same purpose.
A note received by the State
Department and promptly
made public said the U. S. had
not withdrawn a proposed short
form treaty which together
with Britain and France it had
put forward more than a year
ago in an effort to break the
East-West deadlock over a
. a a . . .
Gen.Van Fleet
Impressed by
Chiang Forces
Talpeb. Formosa ) Gen.
Jamei A. Van Fleet, former
U. S. 8th Army commander,
said Saturday his visit to For
mosa Impressed him with the
"tremendous capability" of Chi
ang Kal-snek'g Chinese Na
tionalist forces. , - v
Gen. Van Fleet, who flew to
Hong Kong at the end of a two
day visit, added, however, "I'd
be very pleased to have them
better equipped."
"My heart la In Asia," lie
said.
"I'd Ilka to see everything
done to present a position of
strength." ,
Van Fleet, now connected
with a private American aid
group for Korea, , was Inter
viewed at Taipeh'f Sung shan
airport '
Told that an American col
umnist Robert S. Allen report
ed Korea's President Syngman
Rhee had offered Van Fleet
command of the South Korean
army, the general said:
"It's news to me. That's the
first I've heard of if
Only 2 POW
From Northwest
Panmunjom HV-Two men
from the Pacific Northwest
were among American pris
oners of war returned Satur
day in the 39th day of the
Korean armistice POW ex
change. They are Sgt IC. Ray L
Servatlus, mother, Mrs. Will
H. Servatlus, 1245 Billings St,
Clarkston, Wash- and Pvt
Lowell E, Snspp, mother,
Mrs. X. Snapp, Merrill, Ore.
, In Clarkston, Mrs.' Servatl
us said "This is the happiest
day I aa remember.".--- '-
The family had not heard
from the sergeant since Oc
tober 29. 1952, two days be
fore he was captured. But last
Sunday a n o t h e r released
POW, called from San Fran
cisco to say Sergeant Serva-
tius probably would be free
soon. .
The released soldier was
member of the Idaho National
Guard when called up May 7,
1951. . -.j- . .
Evictions for
Food Packages
Berlin 6J-B The Communists
threatened today to evict from
their homes any resident of the
Soviet sector of the city who
accepts an "Elsenhower pack
age" of free American food.
The Communist Party news
paper "Neues Deltschland" re
ported that "house committees"
on East Berlin's Stalin Allee
had recommended eviction of
apartment dwellers who col
lect American food in West
Berlin. Stalin Allee is a large
Red housing project.
The number of East Germans
visiting West Berlin to claim
the prized food packages
slumped sharply today under
the pressure of Increasingly
tight Red controls on traffic
and severe punitive measures.
FRENCH IN NEW DRIVE
Haonol, Indochina, Iff)
French union land, sea and air
forces launched a new drive
against the Communist - led
Vietminh Saturday southwest
of Haiphong.
regular Austrian treaty.
The Soviets had objected to
the abbreviated pact. They also
disputed the competence of a
meeting of deputies.
The State Department In re
leasing the Russian note, ac
cused the Soviet of "distorting
the expressed willingness of the
U. S. government to conclude
an Austrian treaty on the basis
which would provide for Aus
tria's political and economic in
dependence." The fact Is, a department
spokesman said, "the Soviet
government has once again
demonstrated that it has no
present desire to conclude an
Austrian treaty."
FINAL
GDITION
I- .,
22 Americans
Refuse Return
To t!ative Land
Panmanjom () The Com
munists said Saturday they
weald return all Allied pris.
oner wanting repatriation, In
cluding all those the Reda sea
ten cd to jail for offenkes al
legedly committed daring tiff
ttvlty. ; . . , -
The Reds also told the joint
Prisoner of War Repatriation .
Commission that "more than
300 Koreans and more than 20
non-Koreans" are refusing to
be repatriated. . - . ,
The Reda Continued:
"Owing to the fact that the
operation of repatriation la still
going on, our side shall con-,
tinue to persuade them to be
repatriated. .
"Therefore, there still will be
changes In this number." -
In Washington, a State De
partment spokesman comment
ed: - , .
Action Pleases U. S.
"We are gratified that the
Communists appear now to
have accepted the - consistent
position of this government
that the armistice requires the
return of all prisoners desiring
repatriation."
. At the port of Inchon, a re
patriated Brooklyn, N. Y. man.
Pic John J. McNeill, said he
had been told that 22 Amerl-.
cans and one British soldier
were among those either refus
ing or reluctant to be released.
(Centbuwd a Pas S, Catama I)
10,218 Allied
POW Returned
, Panmunjom W) The Com
munist have returned 10,218
Allied prisoners, Including l,
!ifi7 Americans, as nf Saturday
the 25th day of the great
Korean war prisoner exchange.
The Reds originally promised
to return 12,763 Allied soldier
3,313 of them Americans
but last week they said the
figure wpuld be Increased be
cause it did not list soldier
captured In the last days of -
the war.
The U. N. command has de
livered 50,117 North Korean
and 5,502 Chines.!.
The Allies said they would
return 69,000 North Korean
and 5,500 Chinese, in all, but
have already exceeded the fig .
ure for Chinese and have indi
cated they hold about 250
more.
Lord's Prayer
Revision Asked
Freedom Village OB
Freed American prisoners
said today the Chinese tried
to make them revise the
Lord's Prayer by giving
thanks to the Reds Instead of
God. - ' '
"They wouldn't lit us hold
religious services and banned
the Lord's Prayer because we
thank God for our daily
bread," Sfc. Richard Perez of
San Jose, Calif., said.
"They wanted us to say,
We thank the Chinese for
our daily bread," Cpl. Lew
Gelsendorfer, 25, of Denver,
said.
'Progressives'
In Red Plays
Freedom Village, Korea Iff)
Two liberated American
told Saturday of some fellow
prisoners who "disgraced them
selves, their country and their
uniform" by appearing In Com
munist plays while in North
Korean stockades.
The repatriates were Sgt,
Wllbert R. Esterbrook of Porta
land, Maine, and Sgt. Ernest A.
Fortune of New Orleans. -
Esterbrook said that in one
play "a prisoner come on the
stage wearing an American
army uniform with make-believe
dollars for buttons and
with an atom bomb over hi
shoulder."
Fortuna said another prison
er "played the part of an Am
erlcan army officer and spout
ed a lot of junk about impe
rialistic aggression and inhu
mane warfare."
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