Capital AJ THE WEATHCT MOSTLY CLOUDY tonight, Taeeaay. Little change ta urn peratare. Lewtonigat (; high Taesday, It. p i n a l CDITIOH 65th Year, No. 207 Saltm, Or;c, Monday, August 31, 1953 14 Pages Prict 5e Employe of Amy Carries Con.niic Card McCarthy Says Wom an Had Access to Secret Information 2 Dig Strikes Ended, Others Threatened Bell Telephone and ' Firestone Workers Back Goons Busy Or TIM AihcUM Pnu 1 An 11-day strike by SJ,M CIO employes of the South ON YOUX MARK-GET SET i NOOIHO XN3DAI jo jpuAun msi i V "i 1 New York W Sea. Mc Carthy, WL, Wis., said Monday a womaa civilian employe ef the Army whe bad access I classified Information sad ad mitted the wai issued a Com nnnlit Farty memberthlp card. Emerging from-a closed hear ing Into pouible Red Infiltra tion into the military servces. McCarthy laid the woman not identified tint denied be ing a party member, but later admltted the received a mem bership card. "She claimed not to have understood fully that she was joining the party," McCarthy said. "However, she admitted having attended Communist leadership school.' Concerned Foodstuffs ' McCarthy, sitting as a one man Senate permanent investi gations subcommittee, said the woman had access to classified material concerning "the ship ment of foodstuffs to bases in Alaska, Korea and elsewhere abroad." - Such data, he said, "would give a good check on troop movements." (Cntincd Pt g, Cfttama 7) Bureau Still 24-Hour Basis Salem's weather bureau will continue to operate for 24 ' hours a day, though the length ef time that service will con tinue is still indefinite. The bureau here was sup posed to have been cut to 18 hour a day service the first of July, but before the end of June was given a temporary extension for July. ' The same thing happened for August and a telegram from the regional office in Salt Lake City has now order ed 24-hour a day service con tinued again. The cut in number of hours of operation a day war pro posed as an economy measure earlier and Harold Peterson in June was transferred to Ta toose Island, which is about one-half mile off Cape Flat tery in Washington. Peterson Sunday was trans ferred back to the Salem bur eau for duty, as a replacement for himself. Until Peterson's 'transfer back to Salem the bureau here had been short one man for 24-hour service. East Swelters In 95 Plus Heat at UBIU4.FRU) The worst heat wave of the year entered its second week today with little relief In sight as flooding Texas streams forc ed thousands of persons out of their homes. Weathermen forcast more BS plus heat today and tomorrow for the eastern two thirds of the country and only mild re lief tomorrow night, to be fol lowed by 90 degree weather for several days. No rain was in sight for the parched Midwest, and Iowa corn crops were in acute dan ger. In Chicago, every rise In the temperature meant a new rec ord being set Yesterday was the seventh consecutive day of over 80 degree heat The high for the day, a blistering 88 3, set a new mark. The East Coast sweltered along with most of the rest of the country as millions of per sons lammed New York state beaches. A high of 85.0 was reached in New York City, topping the previous Aug. 30 high of 92.1 set in 1945. As in Chicago, yesterday was the seventh straight 90-plus day. Meetings Continue In Phone Dispute Portland W Another meet ing between CIO Communica tions Workers and the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. was held Monday in an effort to reach a new wage contract Still under discussion is the company's latest offer for a wage Increase and modified contract proposals on senior ity and promotions. western Bell Telephone Ctv, ended Monday. Another walkout by 23,500 CIO unionists at the Firestone Tire It Rubber Co. ended Sun day night, after four days, with a 12-cent hourly raise package agreement Violence marked a strike by AFL Engineers at radio station WOR in New York Sunday when two men. one a company vice president were knocked down and kicked in front of the station's offices near Times Square. In the face of a walkout threat against the nation's rail roads by the Order of Railway Conductors, federal mediators arranged for a meeting Tues day between the union s presi dent and executives of the car riers. Railroad Strikes Loom Meanwhile, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers planned a drive for boosts total 8714 cents an hour for 73,000 of its members after Oct 1. . A verbal agreement in the 11-day walkout of CIO Com munications 'Workers against Southwestern Bell was an nounced jointly Sunday after a 18-hour negotiating session. Apparently there was no dif ficulty spelling out the terms signed Monday in a one-year contract calling for raises rang ing from $1.80 to $3 a week. Under the old contract, the scale ran from $33 to $95 per week. (Continued en Fage s. Colttasa I) Lost Canadian Men Rescued Churchill Man. UP) Eight Royal Canadian Air Force men told Monday of seven days of wilderness living on the edge of a lake in northern Manitoba after their four-engined Lan caster bomber plowed flaming into the shallow water. A week's search for them ended Saturday with the flash of a hand mirror. A Winnipeg aircraft sighted the men 18S miles northwest of Churchill. The search started August 22 when the aircraft was luted as missing, on a flight from Rock liffe Airport, near Ottawa, to ChurchiU. Search planes found the men when attracted by a heliograph mirror in the hands of Flying! Officer T. A. R. Stamers, 21. The Lancaster co-pilot, fly ing officer Joe Murray of War rington, England, and Missoula, Mont, said several navigational instruments went out of com- misison just before the crash. Oregon POW Aboard Transport ! San Francisco W Three Oregon men, recently released by the Communists in , Korea, were aboard the transport Gen. William E. Hase when it dock ed here Saturday. They are Sgt Thomas J. Eld- horn, Milwaukle; Cpl. Henry F. Williams, Medford; and Cpl. Jerry L. Oakley, formerly of Albany, but now a resident of Shelton, Wash. All are ex pected to be home by Tues day. I Auto Liability Rates On Insurance Revised New York vT) Leading in surance companies have agreed on new nationwide auto liabili ty rates cutting some costs for adult pleasure car drivers and increasing rates for many young people. The National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters and the Mutual Insurance Rating Bu reau, major automobile insur ance rating groups, announced Sunday night agreement on the new schedules by 213 com panies. A spokesman for the under writers said the rates would go into effect as soon as they can be filed with authorities In the various states. Under the new plan, the main revisions affect adajt Britain-Egypt Agree on Suez Cairo, Egypt Britain and Egypt -were reported near agreement today on evacuation of British troops from their big Suez Canal zone installation and future Western use of the base in the event of war. A high official source said "almost all" differences had been settled and the two na tlons so lone at odds were ex pected to- complete a final agreement late in septemoer. The source said Egypt in in formal talks here, had agreed If Britain pulled her 80,000 troops out of the canal zone. Egypt would make the base there available again to the West in case of war. But he indicated pouible use of the base in the event of an attack on Turkey remained the chief point at issue. He explain ed: - ' "Little Questions" still block- Ins; a formal agreement will be taken up, the source said, when Lt Gen, Sir Brian KODertson, Britain's top negotiator, re turns from London conierences around Sept 18. Fire Destroys Molalla Bridge Canbv UK Fire of unde- temined-origin today destroy ed a railroad bridge ana neav ily damaged an adjacent log sins bridee over the Molalla river between here and Mo lalla. Both scans of the railroad hrldse. located on the South ern Pacific branch line, fell into the river after burning for several hours. The blaze apparently spread to the log ging bridge, which firemen said was heavily damaged. The fire was reDorted about 3:43 a.m. by a newspaper car rier. By tne time tne ciacx amas county fire department reached the scene flames were shooting' high into the air. Firemen said the blaze appar ently started on the railroad man. but they- were at a loss to explain its cause. Firemen remained at the scene until 7:30 a.m. MRS. JENKINS INJURED Portland (1 Mrs. Catharine Jenkins, 73, the widow of for mer Portland police chief Leon V. Jenkins, suffered critical in juries Sunday in a two-car col lision at Six Corners, south- west of here. She and three others Injured in the crash were hospitalized at Newberg. drivers of non-business cars and young drivers under 23 years of age. Cars used for business remain classified a before with rates for this cate gory the base for determining other rates. For adult drivers, the new schedules take Into account the possible use of their ears going to and from work. The lowejf rates apply to those cars used solely for Measure driving. A slightly higher rate is fix ed for cars driven leu than 10 miles on a one-way trip to work; still higher rates apply for vehicles driven more than 10 miles to work.. Previously there was mo distinction for both pleasure driving and for traveling work. Thousands of East' Germans lin, ignored threat of Communist leaders, as the second phase of the "Eisenhower food fect. Above a group of East the food packages during the first phase of the food pro gram. (UP Telephoto) Lt Col. Carl World Altitude Record Washington () The navy said Monday Lt Col. Marion E. Carl, a Marine Corps pilot of Hubbard, Ore., set a new altitude record of 83,235 feet in . the Douglas Skyrocket re search plane on August 21. Fishing Trip For Ike Ended Fraser, Colo. U.B Presi dent Elsenhower may return to the vacation White House at Denver tonight Instead of tomorrow as planned. - Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced this un expected change in the presi dent's plans late yesterday after Mr. Eisenhower went fishing for the first time since his arrival here. The president forgot his sore elbow, bruised weeks ago at the White House, and ven tured into - St. Louis Creek which courses through the Byera Peak ranch of Kiel Nielsen, an old Denver friend. Mr. Eisenhower on his first cast hooked and landed a 12- inch rainbow trout - He then continued fishing until the sun set Earlier, the president made a leisurely tour through the nearby mountains. His big Cadillac limousine sought out narrow log trails and avoided the busy highways. Legion Tackles Hot Potato St Louis ( The American Legion met here today for its 33th annual convention with a political hot potato. Air Force budget cuts, the most Impor tant iuue up for debate. Some 50,000 Legionnaires planned the usual revelry and a big parade, but bitter debate was expected over the Legion's stand on such items as defense appropriations, the . Korean truce and continued United States participation In the United Nations. The L e g 1 o n's Executive Committee skirted the biggest iuue yesterday when lt pigeon holed a resolution criticizing Air Force budget cuts as "ill timed." Supporters of the resolution. however, were pledged to bring lt up again on the con vention floor Wednesday when the 3180 official delegates open debate on vsrious committee reports. The controversial resolu tion charged that administra tion cuts of S billion dollars in Air Force appropriations has had "catastrophic" effect on recruitment and morale In the Air Force. MOTORIST KILLED rhpvenne. Wvo. W An Oregon motorist was killed In Wyoming Monday. Jesse Paul Wordell, age unavailable, of Route 1, Box 145, Sutherlin, Ore., died in a one-car turn over six miles north of Daniel Junction, about 140 miles north of Rock Springs on U. f. 187. V In the Soviet zone of Ber- packages" ent into ef Ber liners make a dash for Breaks The Navy said the unoffi cial world mark was estab lished during a test of a new ly developed h 1 g h-altitude flying suit. The previous altitude rec ord was 79,494 feet set in the same airplane by Douglas test pilot Bill Brldgeman on Au gust 7, 1951. A Navy spokesman said Carl Is at Edwards Air Force base, Calif., for an attempt Monday or Tuesday on the speed mark of 1,238 miles an hour set by Brldgeman in the Navy D-558-2 Skyrocket Au gust 1.1931. As In Srldgeman's altitude and speed . record flights. Carl's runs are being made through aerial launching. The skyrocket is carried to an al titude of 30,000 feet or better by a B29 "mother plane," and then Is released. National Aeronautical asso ciation rules require that al titude record attempts be launched from the ground and that speed runs be made at specified altitudes. For these reasons, none of the Skyrocket records Is, or is likely to become, official. Some flying authorities have urged that official rules be re written to conform with mod ern developments in flying technique. Carl is from Hubbard, Ore and is stationed at the Quan- tico, Va., Marine Corps Air Station. He has been assign ed as assltant Marine Corps project officer for the na toinal aircraft show at Dayton next week-end. Five years ago Carl set a world speed mark of 830.8 miles an hour in the Sky rocket's Navy predecessor, the D-558-1 Skystreak. Stock Market in New York W The stock market fell abrutly Monday on heavy selling. It dipped to new average lows for the year. Losses ran to between $1 and $3 a share at the most with declines of around $1 rather frequent Railroads were In the fore front of the fall closely fol lowed by the Industrial seg ment. Monday's action represented a quickened phase of the stock market s adjustment to predic tions of slower general business this winter and n:xt year. All last week the market de clined with the railroads hit ting new average lows. When the industrial section of the market touched a new low Monday, traders quickly of fered their holdings at lower prices. Brokers said most of the trading was profeulonal with the public on the sidelines. Among lower stock were U. S. Steel, Chrysler, American Telephone, New York Central, General Electric and Boelpg, ALASKA INSPECTION Juneau. Alaska (V Arnle Suomela, director of th Ore gon Fish Commission, has com pleted a three-month survey of the Alaskan fish industry. Reds to Free 500 Americans Above Listed Paamuajeat Another ISt American, mostly ser geants aad officers, were fred today .amid .Indications .th Communists may send back ap to mere Americana than the 3,313 originally promised. The Reds also released 250 South Koreans on this 27th day of the Korean War prison er exchange. The Communists promised to send 400 prisoners tomor row 100 Americans, 23 Brit ish, 20 Turks, 5 Australians and another 230 South Kore ans. One of the Britons to be handed over . Tuesday will be Lt CoL James P. Carne, top ranking British officer held by the Communists, Red newspa permen said, Carne, a commander of a battalion of one of Britain's great fighting units the Glau- cestershire Regiment -was captured In April, 1931, in me fierce Imiln river battle. Surrounded by Reds, most of the men of carne's 1st Bat tlion were killed or captured in a gallant stand against ov erwhelming forces. Only a few trickled back to Allied lines. The Communist Pelping ra dio said Monday that Carne was awaiting repatriation at Kaesong, the Red holding point just north of Panmunjom, and was in "splendid physical con dition." (Ceneladed ta Fag I, Column J) Last of 437 Oil for Home San Francisco V) The last of 437 returned prisoners of war were enroute home today after experiencing a 24-hour delay blamed on a late docking and "too many relatives." Some 150 of the men who ar rived on the transport Gen. W. F. Hase Saturday didn't com plete their processing until yes terday. There was plenty of plane space, but the men couldn't make takeoff times. "Most of the men who min ed their planes went home by train Sunday," said Capt. Ray mond J. Cochran, Camp Stone man public Information officer. He said all had cleared the base by last night "We had 80 people working but there were some problems we hadn't counted on," Coch ran said. "It will just have to be done faster next time and I think we can do lt." One returnee said six "pro gressives" prisoners who at- 1 e g e d I y accepted communist propaganda were "roughed up pretty bad" aboard ship. Lt Cmdr, Horace Wundram, in charge of the repatriated men aboard ship, delned there were any beatings. Weather Details MsihatM rwteffl,, mt iltrni ar, U. Total tOfcMr rtiiuui t for sntk, J.tti nal. .44. toatoa rlUUa. 44.MI aemaf, M.T9, Mm kiht, fact, (BeiMri tr V. S. wwtkir BwrtM.) No Airtight Defense For Hydrogen Bomb Washington tfV-Gen. Mat thew Rldgeway, new army chief of staff, said Monday that the nation could not af ford, and In any case couldn't get, a completely airtight de fense against the hydrogen bomb. The general made this comment in his first informal news conference just two weeks after taking over the Army' No. 1 spot Rldgeway said that certain vital points In the country must have minimum, reason able protection against air attacks but that current sci entific capabilities offer no complete auurance that at least one plane of an attack ing air fleet could not get through. ' Should that plane drop a hydrogen bomb, the general added, the target city would have had It. The general invited news men regularly covering the Pentagon to an Informal get together.. At the outset he Reds Assert Korean Union Up to Koreans Tokyo Ci The Reds' Pyong yang radio said Monday North Korean Premier Kim II Sung declared that unification of the war-torn peninsula "must be settled by Koreans them selves." The-broadcast, heard In Tok yo, said Kim listed that as one of two main tasks of the Ko rean political conference. The outer, turn said, is to "kick out America and its al lied troops from South Korea." The broadcast said Kim out lined hi stand In a one-hour speech before the North Ko rean Labor (Communist) Par ty's Sixth Central Committee." Kim declared 'North Korea will make "utmost efforts" for peace at the conference, the broadcast said, but ha warned that "others cannot intervene in our Internal political af fairs." Indians Arrive ToGuardPOW Seoul (A A six-man ad vance party of the 8,000 Indian troops who will guard Korean War prisoners who refuse re patriation arrived today from Tokyo. The group, headed by Brig. Gen. S. P. Bhatla, stopped briefly at Seoul airport, then went to Munsan in a helicopter. The Indian officers were heavily guarded here by Amer ican military police. The South Korean govern ment vehemently opposes entry of Indian troops on Korean soil. President Syngman Rhee, however, has agreed not to op pose use of Indian troops in the demilitarized (one. A spokesman for the advance party said 8,000 Indian troops are en route to the demilitar ized zone by ship and will ar rive at Inchon in a few days. They wiU be airlifted by heli copter to the demilitarized zone, thus avoiding landing on South Korean soil. Government ToSellWool Washington ff) The Agri culture Department announced Monday that government-owned wool acquired under the 1932 price support - program will be offered at generally lower prices to the domestic trade effective Tuesday. The revision, the department said, would bring prices more into line with the current wool market A spokesman said the price cut should encourage move ment of more of the wool into domestic trade channels at a time when It would have least effect on producers. Department officials said they were unable to give any definite figures on the reduc tion, due to the number of grades of wool and the fact that the figures probably would change weekly said that his remarks should not be attributed to him, but later he authorized Indirect quotation. The general reiterated state ments he made on the day of of his swearing in, August 13, In which he deplored the low ering of morale among mili tary officers and pledged un questioning loyalty to civilian authority. The chief of staff said he sensed widespread public crit icism of the armed services and that he would order a study to determine why the nation was not according the highest respect, if not affec tion, for the people In uni form. - Rldgway ssid he thought one reason for lowered morale among profeulonal military men was the way In which their fringe benefits, such as medical attention and com missary privileges, seemed to have been whittled away. Dirfurt::ccs At Polls SiaT.:':; Bean, Germany UN The rail of Commantst ageata fesuaiei . np ea anspietea at plettiag to create disorders la the West German parliamentary lee' tloa next Saaday has ileaa to . aboat !, goveraiaoat of ficials said Moeday, Most of them already have been hustled back to last Oar-, many. ' ( Federal and state police re ported they hauled about 1,000 off trains Monday, following the arrest of 2,000 over the week-end. Most of the group won stu dents and members of the Free German Youth, which is ban ned in West Germany. Officials taM those nested Monday were carrying 200 West German marks ($47.80) each, along with forged papers and big bundles of propagan da, y West German ' officials said the Reds intended to spread Communist propaganda and ' create pre-election and election day disturbances. Authorities admitted that hundreds of Red agitators pro bably still were at large and might try to stir . jp riots at election rallies or disrupt the voting on Sept 8. (Ceasladad ea Fag a, Cslassa i) - . Italy Plans to -Defend Trieste Rome 01B Three Italian warships lay at anchor today in Venice harbor, acrou the Adri atic Sea from Trieste, and post al officials said letters recall 1 lng army reservists to the -colon are awaiting dispatch m , event of an emergency. ' Italian officials seemed con vinced still that Yugoslavia may attempt to annex Its oc cupation zone of Trieste Free ' " Territory and they seemed ' ready to act if necessary. The government of Premier Gulseppe Pella was reported to be hoping that lt might receive some gesture of support from the United States, Great Bri tain' and France against any Yugoslav move. A British Foreign Offite . spokesman said In London that -the three Allied governments are consulting on the situation and authoritative sources there ' were quoted as saying that both Italy and Yugosalvla will be advised informally against making any "adventurous move." Seek Ban on Kinsey's Book Washington () As of now, the Post Office Department has no plans for assigning any of -its employes to read Dr. Al- ' fred C. Kinsey's "Sexual Be havior In the Human Female." That was the reaction of the department Monday to a sug gestion by Rep. Heller, D., ti. Y., that the book be barred from the mails pending a con gressional investigation of its content In a letter to Postmaster - General Summerfield last Sat urday, Heller described the Kinsey report as "the insult of the century" against woman hood. Summerfield Is away from Washington but a spokesman for the department noted that the book will not be published until Sept 14. He said the de partment has no machinery for advance censorship of material which might at some time get , into the mails. The procedure for barring material from the postal serv- ." ice Involves actual mailing of the material, followed by a formal complaint from some one that the matter is objec tionable," he said. 123 POW SAIL Inchon, Korea () The transport Cen. Black loaded 322 liberated American war prisoners today for return to the United States. The ship is scheduled to leave for the two-week trip to San Francis co tomorrow after taking aboard mora prisoners sent back today by the Beds.