THE WEATHER
il Land Issue
Tossed Bach
To Thornton
State Board of
Control Replies to
Attorney General
By WILLIAM WAEEEN
The State Board of Control
today tossed back to Attorns
faeneral Bobert Y. Thornton
me controversial question coa-iPloyes and pay damares total
I'fftoK so-called tidelands .11 ill $122,50 to seven others.
bUl passed by the 13rd Con-1 All of them American citi-
wT. they were llred because
That bill quitclaims the fed- they refused to answer US
eral government's title to the vernment questions snout
uuuicrgea unas offshore the."ue8 communist ties.
Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf
stales. ,
Thornton, a Democrat, re
cently wrote the hoarH
bers, Gov. Paul Patterson, Sec
retary oi oiaie JSarl T. Newbry
and State Treasurer Sig Unan
der all Republicans leaving
1 It up to them whether he
; snouia join the attorneys gen
eral of five other states in test
ing the constitutionality of the
act giving the offshore lands
i to the bordering states.
i ; Letter to Thornton ;
; ; Today the three Board mem.
bers sent a joint letter; to
"we note that you state
some figures as to the supposed
values of the lands involved
ana the possible value of Ore
gon's share if these fanciful
values were realized. You do
not comment upon the effect
of the loss to the state of Ore
gon of the 676,000 acres which
we gained by the law, which
lie under the sea, or the 400,
000 acres under the bays and
navigable streams. Neither do
you comment upon the some
$30,000 estimated return that
Oregon now receives from the
' lands that it now owns, nor
i upon the probability ci Oregon
obtaining created reveuUe
: through future development of
these lands."
(Continued en Pat 5, Column 1)
Ho Penally for
Looting Estate
Klamath Falls VP) A
charge of embezzling $6,500
. against W. Iamar Townsend,
S3, Klamath Falls attorney,
was dismissed in circuit court
here Tuesday after the district
attorney said Townnend's al
leged actions were not a crime
tinder Oregon statutes.
Townsend was executor of
the estate of his late friend,
Dr. Joseph M. Cronin, Kla
math Falls surgeon, who died
May 25, 1950. Last July
four Indictments were return
ed against Townsend, each
alleging embezzlement from
the Cronin estate. These
were dismissed and a single
indictment alleging embezzle
ment of $6,500 was returned.
District Attorney Frank Al
der son said he had found that
Oregon's, statute does not
cover embezzlement by ex
ecutors or administrators of
estates, therefore Townsend
had committed no crime. Cir
cuit Judge David R, Vandcn
berg dismissed the charges.
Alderson said:
"It appears there is a seri
ous defect in the Oregon sta
tutes, in that there is no pro
vision to cover such a state of
facts as alleged in this indict
ment." v
Negro Leader of
Reds Testifies
Seattle, VP) Paul Bowen,
described by the government
as leader of the Communist
"Red movement" among Ne
groes in the Northwest, testi
fied Tuesday he Joined the
Communist Party because he
felt its program was aimed to
"help" his people.
Resuming the witness rand
at start of the 20th week of
government's anti-Communist
trial Bowen described as "ut
terly false and untrue" the
government's charges that he
and five other defendants had
conspired to teach ana aavo-
catc overthrow or tne govern
ment. . .
"It (the Communist Party)
was concerned with the force
and violence exercised for 300
years against the Negro peo
ple." he said. ;
"It had a program to miti
gate this force and violence,
.. it w this program I ac
cepted." He Joined the party in
March. 1943, om
when he was drafted because
it was "strict policy' nat
members going Into the armed
forcei should disaffiliate them
selves, be testified.
65th
Un ordered to
ReslorcJobslo
Fired Clerks
Tribunal Also Imposes
Heavy Damages to
Suspected Reds
United Nations, v.v fs
n umwa nation hirh trl.
I bunal ordered the U.N. Tues-
day to restore Jobs to four .
The four-member interna
tional board, highest appeals
court for the U.N. staff held
for an employe to invoke the
U.S. Fifth Amendment in re
fusing to answer such ques
tions did not violate any U.N.
staff rules.
Upholds Firing of Nine
But the tribunal upheld the
firing of nine others seven
involved in Communist In
quiries and two for non-political
reasons-because they
were "temporary Indefinite"
(Continued en Pare s. Column 2)
cum jweuersx
In Humid Heat
(By Tin Auoelatad Fnu
The summer's longest heat
wave continued mercilessly
Tuesday, and at least 28 deaths
were attributed to the wither
ing, oppressive weather.
Hundreds of other persons
were overcome by the heat.
The high temperatures, rang
ing in many cases beyond the
100 mark, covered . wide sec
tion eastward from the Rocky
Mountains to the Atlantic coast
There was no immediate
prospect of cooler tempera
tures, nor of rain at least for
two days, and possibly longer.
In Pennsylvania, 17 deaths
were attributed to the heat
spell, now in its second week.
The New York City area's heat
left at least six persons dead.
Three died in Texas, and at
least one person in Chicago and
one in St. Louis.
The midday temperature in
Chicago reached 99 degrees. It
was the ninth straight day of
90-degree weather in Chicago.
Survey Will
Furnish ARP
At Airport
Salem's municipal airport,
McNary Field, is going to
have an ARP.
If you don't know what
that Is, it means "airport ref
erence point," meaning the
exact pinpoint on the field at
which longitude, latitude and
elevation will be determined.
At present these are deter
mined with reference to the
whole area of the field, which
is not considered an accu
rate method of determina
tion. Cecil Mclnnis and two
others representing the Unit
ed States Geodetic Survey
arrived in Salem today and
started a new survey of the
field which will result in es
tablishing the ARP. They ex
pect it to be here until Fri
day. It isn't Mclnnis' first Job
at the 8alem airport He
made a survey three years
ago, and In the present sur
vey will note changes In
building construction, tree
growth, etc.
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State Plans Re-survey
Of Prison Flax Industry
A revaluation of the state's
flax interest was asked Tues
day by Gov. Paul L. Patter
son at a meeting of the State
Board of Control here.
The board said the state
should get out of the flax
buiiness if it finds lt uneco
nomic in the face of falling
prices and increasing compe
tition from European flax
growers and synthetic fibers.
Flax processing Is the larg
est plant operation at the Ore
gon state penitentiary, wu-
liam Ryan, superintendent of
institutions, told the board.
At present it occupies the
Capital.
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Russia Explodes
Second H-Bomb
- Washington, VP) An Amer
lean atomic scientist suggested
Tuesday that Russia may nave
two separate atomic teams
one working on H-bomb de
velopment, the other striving
to improve A-bombs and
"presumably has more atomic
capability from the standpoint
of numbers of scientists than
we have thought"
Dr. Ralph Lapp, who work
ed on the wartime Manhattan
project which produced the
first American A-bomb said
he drew that Inference from
the Atomic Energy Commis
sion's (AEC) announcement
that Russia set off another ex
plosion of the hydrogen type,
on Aug. 23.
Noting the previous AEC
announcement of a Russian
explosion Aug. 2 a blast
which the AEC said had in
dications of involving a "ther
monuclear" hydrogen reaction
as a fission type.
Benson Talks
Farm Problems
Mineral Springs, S. C. VP) -
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son said Tuesday government
farm programs give the farm
er too little income and too
little security, yet at the cost
of too much dependence upon
Washington.
"I am sure you agree with
me that we should not pile up
huge excesses of food in stor
age when it could, and should.
go into stomachs," he said,
"that we should not accumu
late vastly excessive stocks of
fibers at the expense of the
public. Neither should we
price our products out of nor
mal markets.
"Where such conditions ex
1st, we should be derelict in
our duty if we did not seek im
provements. But let it be very
clear that seeking improve
ments in farm programs does
not mean seeking lower prices
or lower income for farmers.
greatest number of prisoners,
he said.
The board directed Ryan to
make a complete study of the
cost oi flax and report on the
possibility of finding new in
dustry to substitute for the
flax industry at the prison.
A proposal to change the
prison ration system to a
weights and calories ba.ii
rather than a cash allotment
per man basis was approved
by the board. The new plan
will be tested at the prison
and if successful will be ex
panded to other state institu
tions, Ryan said.
tCssUinosi ea rage K Cil 1)
SETS ALTITUDE MARK
Marine Lt. Col. Marlon E. Cart climbs out of the Navy's
Douglas Skyrocket research plane at Edwards Air Force
Base, Calif. The Navy announced in Washington Aug. 31
that Carl set a r.ew altitude record of 83,235 feet during
a test of s newly developed high-altitude flying suit on
Aug. 21. Carl is from Hubbard, Ore., and is stationed at
Quantico, Va. (Navy Photo via AP Wirephoto)
Carl Tells of World
RnenrA Altitiirln Slinht
mm m nit! tuw f
Los Angeles 4 Ur' Lt Col.
Marion E. Carl, who flew
rocket' propelled plane higher
than man had ever gone be
fore, says there would have
been "no limit" if he had car
rled more fuel.
Carl, a Marine Corps avia
tlon veteran, yesterday climb
ed to an altitude of 83,235
feet, almost 16 miles, for an
Carl Recent
Home Visitor
Hubbard, Ore. U.R The man
who has flown higher than
anyone else In the world has
little to say about his aerial
exploits when he comes home
to Hubbard.
Lt Col. Marion E. Carl spent
this weekend with his brother,
Manton Carl, two weeks ago
on the, farm where he was
born. Said Manton Carl after
the colonel had set a new
height record of 84,235 feet in
his Skyrocket:
"We had no idea he was go
ing after the altitude mark.
But then he never did say
much about his work."
Col. Carl called his brother
from Portland Sunday while
on his way to Edwards Air
Force Base, Calif., where he
expected to try to better the
world s speed mars oi mo
miles an hour.
Jobs at Record
Level in August
Washington (P) The Com
merce Department reported
Tuesday that employment
climbed to a record high level
In August and unemployment
dropped to a post-war low of
1,240,000.
With 63,408.000 persons
holding Jobs, the number of
unemployed dropped by 308,
000 last month to a level which
officials considered close to a
bare minimum.
By comparison, July em
ployment was 63,120.000 and
the number of unemployed was
1,548,000.
Releasing the figures gath
ered by the Census Bureau,
acting Secretary of Commerce
Robert A. Murray observed:
"Only 1.9 percent of all ci
vilian workers were out of Jobs
this August as compared with
2.a percent a year ago.
"Thus, with a current labor
force of 65 million, unemploy-
ment is barely over the one
million mark." I
Tuesday, hptcmber 1, 1W1 Wtagti Price 5c
unofficial world record. He
said he started with less than
three minutes fuel and that
there would have been "no
limit to the altitude" with
additional fuel.
He was carried to an alti
tude of 35,000 feet by a B29
plane before his Douglas built
Skyrocket was launched.
"I dropped down to 28,000
feet before I could get the
first rocket to start," ha said.
"utnerwise, ra nave gone
several hundred feet higher."
Carl said there was no sen
sation of speed or height dur
ing the flight.
'The only thing I noticed
was the fact that the sky was
a little darker, and my eyes
troubled me. The contrast be
tween sunlight and shadow is
much greater up there."
"I didn't have much time
to look around ... I was just
trying to. fly as high as possi
ble."
Carl said he was certain he
could have seen San Francis
co, 400 miles to the north, if
he hadn't been so busy check
ing instruments.
"I know I was going well
over a thousand miles per
hour on this altitude run," he
said, but added, "that speed
doesn't seem very fast up
there."
Carl, who held the world's
speed record of 650.7 miles
per hour in 1947, said he
would try for a new speed
record in the Skyrocket to
morrow. No Word Heard
Of Applegate
Washington UM It now
has been 164 days since two
American newsmen and the
crew of their yacht, were cap
tured by the Chinese Commun
ists off Hong Kong. So far, the
State Department has not been
able to find out where they are
being held, much less obtain
their freedom.
The international mystery
began March 21 when the 42
foot yacht Kert put out from
British Hong Kong for Portu
guese Macao, a distance of
about 35 miles. The British
Royal Navy reported the same
day that the vessel was seized
by a Chinese gunboat and tow
ed to Lap Sap Mel Island, five
miles southwest of Hong Kong.
This brief British report was
the last definite word about
the yacht owner, Richard Ap
plegate, 37, National Broad
casting Co. correspondent and
former United Press reporter at
Salem; Don Dixon, 25, Inter
national News Service reporter;
Ben Kramer, an American mer-
chant marine captain; and three
Chines craw members.
or
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Red Plot to Wreck German
Election Sunday Revealed
100 More GIs
Relumed From
Prison Camps
Psnm union (A The Koreaa
War prisoner exchange sieved
Into its fifth and possibly last
week today with lit mere
Americans returning te free
dom from North Koreaa prison
camps.
Riding happily into Panmun
Jon on open trucks today were
two high-ranking Allied , offi
crs, both with many months of
Red captivity behind them.
t Colonels Returned '
One was Lt CoL James P.
Came, commander of the 1st
Battalion of Britain's gallant
Gloucestershire Regiment,
which was all but wiped out
when cut off in the Imjln River
battle in April 1951.
Came, puffing a pipe, hop
ped off a Red truck and told
Allied officers who greeted him,
-it reels great to be back." .
The other top-ranking repa-
triate was an American, Lt
Col. Paul V. Liles, a West
Pointer who spent almost three
years as a prisoner.
Tells of Bed Pressure
He told a crim tale of sys
tematic Communist pressure on
prisoners to make them sign
(Continued n rf i, Colama O
Army Employed
Indicted Men
Baltimore, VP) The Sun aald
Tuesday Army officials have
admitted top secret military
Information . has been going
through the hand of civilian
employe, who ii under Indict
ment on charge! of bribery
ana conspiracy to defaud the
government
The Sun cited the case of
Louis I. Fragala, supervisory
general engineer at the re
search and development sta
tlon of the Army Transporta
tion Corps at Ft. Eustis. -
He was indicted in New
York on July 30, 1952 and
pleaded Innocent about ten
days later. The case has never
come to trial.
The government charged
Fragala, together with several
other civilians and former
army officers, misappropriated
nearly $600,000 in govern
ment funds. They were ac
cused of getting "kickbacks"
for approving contracts for the
writing of technical manuals
and letting contracts for work
not needed.
A spokesman at Ft. Zustis
said Fragala has not been in
a position to receive secret in
formation for the last couple of
years.
Stock Market
Recovers Sharply
New York VP) The stock
market swung higher Tuesday
after establishing a new low
for the year Monday in a steep
tail.
Gains ran to between $1 and
$2 a share at the most Losses
were small.
The railroad section, which
has been notably weak in re
cent days, was mostly higher
Tuesday. Other higher divisions
included steels, utilities, oils,
coppers, chemicals, aircrafts,
air lines, and radio-televisions.
The motors were mixed.
Legion Stages Parade
Of Glory and Glitter
St Louis VP) Glitter and
glory the like of which St.
Louis never before had seen
surged through downtown
streets Tuesday in the Ameri
can Legion's parade of 100,000
participants.
For many Legionnaires it
was the big day of their 35th
national convention where ma
jor battles are shaping up over
Air Force budget cuts and this
nation's participation in the
United Nations.
A hot sun beat down as the
parade began. The tempera
ture was near 90 and expected
to press 100 by mid-afternoon.
That caused many of the older
Legionnaires, veterans of
World War I, to ride instead
oi march.
lint aid sUUoo were set uplwaidths U.N.
North Korean
Top Officials
Off to Russia
Tokyo () The Communist
Pyongyang radio said six -top
North Korean officials includ
ing Premier Kim H Sung and
Foreign Minister Nam n left
by train today lor Moscow.
The broadcast heard here
said the trip was made "at the
invitation of Moscow" but it
gave no indication why.
Kim is political boss of
North. Korea and commander
of the army.
Nam served as chief Commun
ist delegate during the long
armistice negotiations.
The Pyongyang broadcast
Identified other members of
the party as Pak Chong Ie, vice
chain an of the North Korean
Labor Communist party; Depu
ty Premier Chbng II Yong,
Chairman Chong Chun Paek
of the National Planning Board
and Minister of Railways Kim
Hoe H.
Tito's Charges
Denied by Italy
- Rome W) Italy has "cate
gorically" denied a Yugoslav
charge that Italian troops vio
lated the Yugoslav frontier
north of the disputed port city
of Trieste. An Italian Foreign
Ministry1 spokesman termed the
accusation "absurd and fantas
tic."
Though tension, apparently
wu lessening between the two
nations, reports from Belgrade
said President Tito's govern
ment would make a formal
diplomatic protest to Italy to
day over the alleged Incident
The frontier violation charge
was announced last night by
Belgrade radio after a week
end of stress sparked by Ital
Ian fears that Belgrade plan
ned to annex the Yugoslav etc
cupation zone in divided Trie
ste. Tito's government since has
denied an such intentions.
The broacast claimed that 23
Italian soldiers armed with
automatic weapons had crossed
about 164 feet into Yugoslav
territory near Nova Gorcia and
deployed in "fighting order."
Soviet Envoy to
Iran Shoots Self
Tehran, Iran WW A high
Iranian official said today So
viet Ambassdor Anatoli Lav-
rentiev had shot himself but
other government sources and
the Soviet embassy denied the
report
Assistant Iranian Premier
Amidl Nouri said Lavrien-
tiev wu in critical condition
and receiving blood transfu
sions at the Soviet hospital.
A few minutes later the
Iranian propaganda depart
ment denied the reports and
the Soviet embassy repeated
Us denial of last night
Nevertheless, rumors swept
through Tehran that Lavrien
tlev, who had been recalled,
had attempted to commit sui
cide. Lavlentiev, who wu ambas
sador in Yugoslavia at the
time of Tito's split with Rus
sia, also hsd served as Soviet
minister to Hungary and Ro
mania.
along the two mile route
which Legion officials estimat
ed would be packed with pa
raders for 10 hours. A hospital
on wheels, staffed by six phy
sicians and eight nurses, scut
tled back and forth along the
route to care for ailing march
ers and spectators.
Legion officials estimated
there were at least 200,000 on
hand for the opening of the pa
rade. They expected 500,000
before the day was over.
Bands and drum and bugle
corps some 300 of them
set stirring tempo for the
marchers.
Put aside for the day were
the expected floor fights over
the Air Force budget cuts and
the United States' position to-
F I HA L
EDITION
Goons Sought
Destruction of
'Voting' Booths
Bonn, Germany- () The
West German government laid
Tuesday it has uncovered a
Communist plot to wreck next
Sunday's national election by
destroying voting stations
throughout the country.
' The Federal Press . Office
said top Red agents captured
in an attempted mass sneak in
vasion of West Germany dur
ing the last three days had ad
mitted the Communist plan. It
was to send squads of riot
trained toughs to attack elec
tion officials, destroy ballot
boxes and frighten away vot
ers.
The Communist "terror
plan" called for groups of 20
hardened Reds to descend on
each voting station, the press
office said.
Bed Agents Captured
The captured Red agents
were quoted as saying this was
the master plan behind the in
vasion of Communists from
East Germany.
Federal border police and lo
cal police have arrested 4,500
of these agents along the inter
zonal frontier separating West
and . East Germany. Most of
these already have been sent
back.- .
But hundreds slipped
through before police clamped
down strict controls on travel
ers from Communist East Ger
many, Tuesday the border po
lice said hundreds of . others
(CenttsmM ea Pate s. Coiunui W)
POW Released
. Panmunjom VP) - The names
of seven Pacific Northwest men
were on the list of American
prisoners of war released by
the Chinese Communists Tues
day. They were:
M. Sgt. Delwayne Codding-
ton, mother, Mrs. Vera Cod-
dington, Portland, Ore.
Sgt. 1. C. Lester W. Byers.
mother, Mrs. Tillie Byers, Mos
cow, Idaho.
Cpl. Harvey I. Rogers,
mother Ruby B. Rogers, Med-
ford, Ore.
MaJ. Alfred O. Ellis, wife.
Elizabeth N. Ellis, Tacoma.
Sgt Lewis Cook, wife. Caro
line Ann Cook, Tacoma.
Sgt. Dale K. Roarbaugh, fi
ance, Ethel Shanor, Tacoma.
M. Sgt. Otha E. Emert, wife.
Mrs. Annie M. Emert, Tacoma.
Mediators Act
In Phone Strike
(Br United Pnu
Federal mediators began
new attempts today to end
labor dispute involving this
nation's long distance tele
phone operators.
An "improved atmosjjhere
was reported in attempts to
end a 42-day-old Indiana
Bell Telephone strike.
Negotiators headed off a
threatened walkout by CIO
rubber workers against nine
Goodrich Rubber company
plants. The strike, set for
last midnigsK, was averted.
when a new contract was
agreed upon.
At New York, officials of
the U.S. Mediation Service
met with negotiators for the
long lines division of Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph
company for the frist time
since the CIO Communica
tions Workers threatened a
nationwide long distance tel
ephone strike involving 22,
000 workers.
64 Red Spies Held
y Korean Police
Seoul VP) National police
headquarters said Tuesday they
had arrested 64 Communist
spies, half of them students
and women posing as refugees
from Red North Korea.
Some of those In custody
were quoted as saying 28,000
North Korea men and women
especially trained as guerrillas
would be sent to South Korea.
Some of the agents slipped
in from Japan and Shanghai,
police said, but most came
down the west coast by way of
offshore islands with the help
of North Korean police
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