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JADl . AND wanner tonight,
fMa. Ui tonight. It; kick
rridir.it.
Year Delay on
Dalles Dam
Held Likely
; - Economy Order May
7. Effect Power Delivery
. v Says Lipscomb
WashingUn wy Aa admla
Istration economy' order will
" produce a one-year delay in de-
, uvery ol power from The
Dalle Dam on the Colombia
Mirer, Army engineers at
'Thursday, i
. v The project will be slowed
by the recently ordered cutback
' in expenditures for the engin
oen' civic functions program,
' ' the office of Sen. Magnuson, D.,
Wash., was told.
x Other Northwest projects
will be held up, said CoL T. H.
.v Lipscomb, engineer in charge
' of the Portland district, to the
r point of "a calculated risk of
: inadverteptly delaying schedul--..
ed dates for project effective
, aess." 1 ' .
' The nation-wide reduction of
; S23 million dollars in available
civil functions funds was order
. ed last month by Maj, Gen. 3.
E. Sturgis Jr., chief of Army
... engineers, who acted on direc-
tives front) the Budget, Bureau
and the Army. i
Beasons Listed .
' ' CoL Lipscomb's letter ' to
Magnuson did not give the
v specific amount the Northwest
' program will be cut back, but
i said the principal effect would
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.Coordinating
Board Named
J Denver, W President El
I senhower Thursday created a
new operations Coordinating
board under thei Nation Se
curity . Council to strengthen
"the security programs of the
United States if the world
struggle." ; .
The President Signed aa ex
ecutive order providing for
. abolition of tb old psychol
ogical strategy board within
60 days, and sfillting its func
tion to the new-unit.
"The main purpose in es
tablishing thenew board is to
provide better coordination in
carrying out, the security pro
grams of the United States in
the world struggle." a state
ment Issued at the summer
White House said.
The newboard will report
to the National Security
Council, of which the Presi
dent is chairman. '
Eisenhower named Under
Secretary tot State Walter B.
Smith chairman of the opera
tions coordinating unit.
Cooler Air for
Central West
(Br The Auoetttrd Ftmi)
A mass of cool air the first
welcome relief from the pro
longed heat wave moved into
the mid-section of the country
Thursday. n
But in the eastern quarter
the heat, and in some sections
humidity, held a vise-like grip
on the weather.
At least 114 deaths were at
tributed to the high tempera
tures, which set records almost
daily in every state of the swel
ter belt Millions of dollars in
crops were ruined by the sun
and lack of moisture. .
The cool air moved into Mon
tana, Wyoming and Colorado
Wednesday night Snow, sleet
and ice forced closing of an en
trance to Yellowstone National
Park. Temperatures dropped to
freezing and just above that
mark.
Rain and winds up to (0
miles an hour hit Denver Wed
nesday, dropping the tempera
ture from mid-80 to 49 degrees.
Part of the cool air moved
into the Dakotai and eastward
as far ts the Indiana-Illinois
line. Some rain , accompanied
the cooling breezes.
Weather Warms Up
For Fair Opening
The westher Is really
"warming up" for the week
nl nri nneninc of State Fair.
if weather reports run true to
schedule.
Th. nml forecast calls
for fair and warmer weather
tonight and Friday witn tne
maximum tomorrow to be
around 92.
Thursday came ss a near
perfect summer day. clear, and
enough breeze to keep It com
fortable. The maximum. Wed
nesday went to 80.
cm cntmhr has re
gistered no rainfall. Normal
precipitation to this time of
65th
TV
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f.v
n.
Condudors "
Calfoff Strike
Washington Wl The gov
ernment Thursday announced
the order of Railway Conduc
tors has cancelled a strike call
ed for Sept 10.
The National Mediation
Boardasaid that representatives
of the carriers and the Conduc
tors Union had agreed to post
poned negotiations on the is
sue until after Oct 1.
That is the date other major
railroad unions are expected
to file new demands for in
creased pay and improved
working conditions.
The Conductors Union.
which claimed 33,000 mem
bers, had pushed a demand for
new pay rates graduated to the
relative size of locomotives.
All the rail labor groups
are under a moratorium pro
hibiting contract demands until
alter Oct. 1. The conductors,
however, had maintained their
pay oemana- was a nangover
from previous negotiations and
they were entitled to press it
ahead of the Oct l deadline.
The union ' agreed to delay
the demands, however, until
after Oct 1.
Deadlock in
Phone Strike
Portland WV Negotiations
were deadlocked Thursday,
but the CIO Communications
Workers held out hope of an
early settlement of a contract
dispute with the Pacific Tele
phone Co.
The negotiations were re
cessed by Federal Mediator
Bob McClelland because of
lack of progress.
Despite this, Arne Graven),
union director for Oregon, said
he felt another session would
break -the stalemate, explain
ing that both sides already
have agreed on pay boosts of
$1 to $3 a week.
He said the deadlock now
was over company proposals
to change clauses on seniority,
layoffs, arbitration and dismis
sals. McClelland said be would
call another session whenever
one side has some constructive
proposal ...
Gravem said baiiot-counung
had not been completed on a
union strike vote, but said
there was no doubt that the
union had voted to authorize a
strike if negotiators feel one is
necessary.
Cordon Defends Ike s
Public Pover Policies
Washington M Sen. Guy
Cordon today defended the
administration's controversial
power policy statement and in
sisted It Is in line with recom
mendations laid down by Con-
nu- - ...
The Oregon nepuoncan saia
the statement which has been
assailed by s o m e Democrats
and public power exponents,
reflects the thinking expressed
in reports of House and Sen
ate Appropriations committees
for the past 10 years.
"It to me wss an adminis
trative declaration that the
sound policies and programs
of Congress will be imple
mented in regards to power,"
Cordon told a reporter.
' The policy statement issued
by the Interior Department
last month, declared that the
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COLLECTS M TRAFFIC
Chicago Jerry Leverson (left) is hauled into Speeders
Court by Asst. State's Attorney Joseph Depka (center) and
State' Attorney John Gutknecht (right) -who testified
Leverson had collected 84 traffic warrants and had been
sought for more than a year. The judge fined Leverson
$5,349 after viewing warrants amassed under his own name
' and an assumed name. (AP Wirephoto) ...
Governor Cancels
Sale of Beer at Fair
Gov. Paul i L., Patterson
Thursday. reversed a decision
by the State Fair Commission
Wednesday to permit the sale
of beer af the State Fair
grounds this year.
The application for sale of
beer at the grandstand" of
Lone Oak Race Track dur
nig the fair has been with
drawn, and the license can
celled, Patterson said. ' ' .
Tne governor said the Siate
Fair commission, which is fac
ed with ttte problem of mak
ing the fair self-aupporting.
Ike Shifts to
Part Time Work
Denver, W President Ei
senhower shifted from a full
time to a part-time vacation
today. 4
The President returned here
late yesterday from week's
rest at the Colorado Rockies
ranch of his old friend Aksel
Nielsen, at Fraser on the west
ern slope of the Continental
Divide.
There he fished, worked on
an oil painting of the Rockies,
cooked for his party, and got
in a lot of just plain loafing.
The only interruption on the
business side aa week was to
make public a message assur
ing the Prime Minister of Iran
sympathetic American consid
eration of that nation's urgent
appeal for economic aid.
Eisenhower looked well
rested when he returned here
to the home of the First Lady's
mother, Mrs. John S. Doud.
He still complained a bit about
his bruised rght elbow he
bumped it in the White House
before leaving Washington
Aug. 8 but otherwise he ap
peared to be in excellent
spirits.
SWIM POSTPONED
Dover, England W Flor
ence Chadwick's bid to set up
a new record for the England
France channel swim and to
"see how far. I can swim on
the return journey" wss put
off Thursday until at least
mid-September.
r"primary
responsibility" for
supplying tne nation s power
needs rested with local private
and public groups.
Cordon, chairman of the Ap
propriations S u b c o m mittee
that passes on funds for hydro
electric projects of the Interior
Department, said any interpre
tation that the policy state
ment means no more multi
purpose federal dams is "damn
silly."
Cordon's view regarding the
statement brought him into
sharp conflict with his Oregon
colleague, Independent Sen.
Wayne Morse. Morse said the
statement was a "cover-up for
giving away of the public in'
terest and rights in the public
power facilities and potential
power projects of the cot
try."
TICKETS, FINED $5,349
had carefully considered the
request before granting the
permission to apply for a tem
porary beer dispensing - li
cense. .
Since it meant an added
source of revenue and a serv
ice to a part of the fair's visi
tors, the request was handled
as a routine matter by the
Oregon Liquor Control Com
mission, he said.
.. Governor Patterson said that
upon learning of this action,
he felt that the gains to be
attained did not Justify th
step being takes in change ef
policy whieh-nrprevalre"iot
many years. Ho further stated
that the fair is an Oregon In
stitution, designed to attract
all our people and particular
ly the youth of the state in
their 4-H and future farmer
projects.
He noted that nearly 3,200
young people will be exhibit
ing at the fair as guests of
the state of Oregon. The fam
ily atmosphere which has al
ways existed at the fair there
fore should be retained, he
said.
Tualatin Faces
Project Delay
Hillsboro (V-The Tualatin
valley project cannot become
reality for years. Col.
Thomas Lipscomb, head of the
Portland district army engin
eers, said here Wednesday
night.
He made the statement in
the course of a . sometimes
stormy hearing on the feasi
bility of the $37 million proj
ect. The army engineers will
report later on whether they
believe the project worthwhile.
The project Is proposed for
flood control, irrigation and
to provide domestic water
supplies. The channel of the
river would be straightened
and deepened, and a storage
dsm would be built near Gas
ton. .
More than 500 persons
at-
tended the hearing.
Secrecy Lifted
From 'Scorpion'
Los Angeles W-B Secrecy
wss removed today from
Northrop's F89D, Scorpion, the
world's Heaviest armed fight
er plane, which can destroy
the biggest bomber with a
single rocket
Northrop Aircraft, with the
authorization of the Air Force,
revealed that its deadly fighter
can knock down any plane in
the sky with a direct hit by
any of its 104 folding fin
rockets.
The greet number of missiles
carried by the plane enables it
to mske as m a n y as three
passes at a single target or at
tack three different targets on
a ilnsl flisht
It also csn fly better then
800 miles and hour at well
above 43,000 feet and send a
spray of fire from Its two
winrtln nods over an area as
big as a football field.
m
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Record Fine in
Traffic Case
Chicago W Fines totaling
(.more than $5,000 were assess
ed against a motorist yester
day and tt judge said the
penalty was the highest ever
made for traffic offenses in
the United States.-
Jerry Leverson, alias L. J.
Borwen, 27, was fined $3,349
on 71 traffic violations, most
of them speeding. Police had
hunted him for more than a
year, but said he had eluded
them by changing homes and
jobs frequently.
Leverson, a car polisher and
father of three children, was
unable to pay the fines and
was taken to the city jail. He
races a sentence of more then
nine years if he works his
fines off at the rate of $1.10 a
a oay.
Municipal Judae Jtnii
Butler fined Leverson on each
cnargo end said-. "Ordinarilv.
when a man has-to serve a4oi
oi time in Jail I feel sorry for
mm, out this time it's a pleas
ure ....
"You have no respect for
the law, the police1, or the
courts. And I have no resoeet
ror you."
-1 - -
Seafon Named
Defense Aid
Denver () President Eisen.'
hower Thursday picked former
ben. Fred A. Seaton of Nebras
ka to be an assistsnt secretary
of defense,
The President gave Seaton,
a Republican, a recess appoint
ment which is subject to Sen
ate confirmation when congress
reconvenes in January..
- Eisenhower also appointed
Hugh S. dimming, Jr., a career
diplomat, to be ambassador to
the Republic of Indonesia. That
selection, too, is subject to Sen
ate confirmation.
Seaton, 43, served ss an ad
visor to Elsenhower during the
presidential campaign a year
ago. He is president oi the
Seaton Publishing Co, which
publishes the Hastings, Neb,
Daily Tribune and other daily
newspaper! in Alliance, Neb.;
Lead and Deadwood, S. D.;
Sheridan, Wyo.; and Manhat
tan, Winfield and CoffeyviUe,
Kan.
Warren Not to
Be Candidate
Sacramento (U.B Gov. Earl
Warren, California's only three
time governor, announced to
day he will not be a candidate
for re-election in 1954.
Warren's statement eon
firmed long standing rumors
thst the 82-year-old Republican
chief executive was preparing
to end his political career in
California.
But his announcement, ; a
brief mimeographed statement
of 280 words, ssid nothing
sbout the possibility of his win
ning an appointment from
President Eisenhower to some
important federal post
Raee Wide Open 1
"I will not be a candidate for
the governorship next yesr and
the people of California should
be the first to know thst fact
in order to have ample time
for the selection ef my succes
sor. Warren's formsl statement
ssid.
I LABOR DAY markets
I New York Financial
i and commodity markets
throughout the United States
land Canada will be closed
Labor Day, Monday, Sept 7,
,js 36 Pages Price 5c
POW Exchange
Completed on
Paamaajom The Cota-
saonlsts and the United Nations
command Thursday agreed to I
complete the arisoner ex
change by Sanday.
The Communists at a meet
ing of the repatriation commis
sion said that if for some rea
son they were unable to meet!
the Sunday deadline they
would notify the U. N. com
mand before noon Saturday.
This means the early ex
change of Maj. Gen. William
Dean, the highest ranking al-
uea captive in riea hands. He
now is at nearby Kaesong, and
it is believed he wlU be the last
prisoner exchanged.
Shortly after the agreement
was reached, the U. N. Com
mand announced that tne first
Chinese Communists to be re
patriated in more than two
weeks had left Koje Island.
Soma Held Back
The Communists had charg
ed that the Allies were holding
back some Chinese. The Allies
conceded some were withheld
to insure return of all U. N.
prisoners, but - the - number
never was officially disclosed.
A U. N. Command announce
ment said the Chinese were 14
officers, 90 enlisted men and
81 civilians. The command did
not say If other Chinese were
in custody. The Allies on Aug.
14 turned back the last of
3,802 Chinese, the total origin
ally promised.
The Reds after the three
hour meeting turned ewer a
roster ot eowffliimist ptlioaasa
they said etlll wen tn allied
stoekadea and demanded they
llext Monday
wrpea over atoro unaay.iweauter Dureeu-a atorn
(Contused oa ran a, Canaan I)
16 'Convicts'
Freed by Reds
Freedom Village, Korea IP)
Sixteen men sentenced to
prison by the Communists just
as the Korean armistice was
signed were freed Thursday,
apparently emptying a special
stockade for prisoners labeled
war criminals" by the Reds.
One returning POW said the
last man had been repatriat
ed from a camp outside Kae
song for prisoners given Jail
terms for crimes such as '"in
stigating against the peace."
Small groups of prisoners
who had been told they would
not be freed have been liberat
ed at Panmunjom during the
past few days.
The highest ranking officer
returned Thursday was Lt CoL
Aldrich Zscherle of Tacoma,
Wash, and Des Moines, la. He
said he was given a one-year
jail term without even the
formality of a trial.
His sentence was announced
the day the armistice was sign
ed at Panmunjom. The other
prisoners were told he would
have to serve it before being
repatriated. ,
Weather Details
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In alk! l ml, .It. Shim n-
ttluH, Si rsikl, .. aim htlgbt.
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Army Refuses to Give
McCarthy Loyalty Data
New York ) The First
Army Thursday flatly refused
to surrender loyalty osta re
quested by Sen. McCarty (R
Wis.), in his probe of Commu
nists in the armed forces.
Ths turndown obviously dis
mayed the Wisconsin senator.
He spoke of appealing directly
to Defense Secretary Wilson or
President Elsenhower.
McCarthy had asked for the
names of Army personnel who
gsve loyalty clesrsnce to civil
ian employes suspected of Com
munism. One such femsle employe,
not identified by name, had ac
cess to Army dsta on troop
movements and McCarthy la
belled her "100 per cent Com
munist" Col. Wendell G. Johnson of
the First Army Intelligence
staff wrote McCarthy In part:
Carl Fastest
Military Flier
In the World
Edwards AFB, Calif. M
Lt - CoL Marion E. Carl,
USMC, was acclaimed as the
fastest flying military pilot la
the world today after hurling
his Douglai Skyrocket at 1143 1
miles an hour.
The tall
ace, who only a I
week ago soared to a new
world's altitude record ot 8S,-
233 feet, also became . the
world's second fastest human
h, mmt uvtui . uv I
In breaking the military speed
mark yesterday.
Carl missed by only 98
,S Kcord-'uS.
! 1 k..U. .V -
miles an hour set by a civilian
test pUot, BUI Bridgman, in
Ik. 1--. . I
l""" .
The world War II see made
his speed run over the Air
at this Mojavo desert Air
Force base. :
His alim. needle-nosed nlane
was dropped from the bally
ot - a B29 at an altitude of
32,030 feet and then took oft
under its own rocket power,
Hurricane in
Open Atlantic
Miami, Fla. (n Hurricane
"Carol" developed 138-mfle
winds Thursday and began a
recurve which forecasters be -
lieved would keep it ever thei
open Atlantic, away from all
land areas.
"It la a small storm wrap
ped tightly around a tiny- can
II
tr only three muea tn laini
eter," acid v Grady .:itertosV
i chief forecaster In the Miami
ing center.
"But it has a real kick
it It is bending toward
more northwesterly course
and from present indications
will bypass the Leeward Is
lands and Puerto Rico. ...
Norton said the storm was
centered early Thursday M0
miles northeast of the Island
of Antigua, which is about
400 miles esst and slightly
south of Puerto Xlco.
Shah Heads off
Tribal Revolt
Shirax, () A special en
voy from Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlevl backed by a
show of force apparently has
averted a revolt by the power
ful Ghashghaies tribe and
staved off an invasion threat
to this historic Iranian city.
AU Heyat governor ef the
Fan region, who trekked into
the tribal area to consult lead
ers of the warlike people, de
clared yesterday that the sit
uation was "satisfactory' and
any hypothetical danger has
been averted."
The Ghahsghales were
strong supporters of ex-Premier
Mohammed Mosssdegb,
ousted by a pro-Shah uprising
Aug. 19. The tribal chief,
Mohammed Nasser, fled to the
surrounding hills. Army in
telligence reported he and his
200,000 warriors were pre
paring to invade Shlraz, a eity
ot 113,000 in louth-centrsl
Iran.
"It should be made as clear
as possible to tne committee
that the names of Individuals
responsible for the granting or
withholding of loyalty or se
curity clearances will not be
msde available to the commit
tee. This Is In accordance with
the presidential directive of
March 13, 1948."
The directive referred to was
issued by former President
Truman.
Said McCarthy as he finished
reading Johnson's letter to re
porters: "We are obviously not going
to let this rest. It is Just as im
portant tor us to find out who
gave clearance to a Communist
ss it Is to dig out a Communist
It a woman who has a tremen
dous Communist record can get
clearance, we want to know
what type of person granted the
clearance,"
F I N A L
EDITION
Arrest 7000 in
Seeking to Raid
Sunday's Vote
stoma, Germany
tnlllWft of Wast
() Fear
Germany's'
tfrded toflaj t battle
eommmm Invaders threaten.
uuj w apses ueir nauon s
erne is i parliamentary elec
tions Sanday. -
Police have nabbed over
7,000 sabotage-bent toughs
. . , , . . ...
"n,Vll
ed:.. . .....
A spokesman for. the Bonn
government announced, last '
-SL 1 J5JS
ganlcations have volunteered
to help combat what ha said
wss a Kremlin plot to sabo-
tin tt Kallntlt, K
V-. l ' T' ',rl
chaos.. The two volunteer
lh. o.,.- st ami.i
rw....t. itj
Tatlng Booths
The government has toned
up proof, the spokesman said,
that the troublemakers have
been ordered across the bor
der fat droves to raid voting
booths, steal ballot boxes and
beat up election officials. Cap
tured agents have even eon-
fessed assassination plans, of
ficials claimed.
Despite . tight frontier
cnecas, man arrests and an
emergency polio alert
throughout West Germany,
j thousands of the Red aganta
were oeuevea to nave evaded
I Puca bucks.
en Page
tef
a I Washington Secretary
of State Dulles Thursday da.
(nouneed continued nartltioa
- f of Germany aa "a scandal" and
("a crime. He said Russia was
I solely to blame for this. : -'
In a statement Dulles callad
on Aussla to attend a Biar Four
foreign ministers meeting, aa
proposed by the West, Oct -15
to discuss) the deadlocked Ger
man and Austrian problems.
The conference was propos
ed in a joint U.S.-Brltish.
French note to Moscow mad
public Wednesday night . .
It appeared to put the So
viets on a diplomatic spot and
simultaneously give West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer powerful campaign am-
munition tor Sunday' election
test
Adenauer, long regarded as
saunchly pro-western, was ex
pected during the last three
dsys of the pre-election battle
to hall the Western note as
proof this policy will Insure
German unification and back
ing for his insistence on free
elections throughout Germany
as the first big step. .
Wilson Pledges
Strong Defense
St Louis Vf) Secretary oi
Defense Charles E. Wilson told
the closing session of the Amer
ican Legion national conven
tion Thursday that In the fore
seeable future "we must not
again let our military strength
drop to anything like the low
level" that existed after World
Wars 1 and II. -
Wilson said the Korean in
vasion brought home to the
people the realities ot the sit
uation' that exists In the world '
today.
Since our military strength
ever a period of years is so de
pendent on . the economic
strength of the nation," he said.
it is especially important in
our military effort that we de
velop the best possible military
plans and thst we organize our
military efforts for maximum
effectiveness and euiciency
over a period ot years.
"In this wsy," Wilson said,
"we will 'get more military
strength for the effort we
make and the dollars we
spend."
SPANISH WAR VITS
Cleveland, UK John U.
Shroyer, Shamokin, Pa, was
Installed today as commander
of the 47,000 member United
I Spanish War Veterans, sue-
I seeding Dan ft, Hewitt of San
FTanclsc.. V
i
1
the month is .jo oi an imu.