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FINAL
EDITION
65th Year, No. 269 SSI
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, November 1 1, 1953 22 Pages Price 5c
Obligation of
Citizenry to
Country Told
Col. McKenney De
scribes Significance
Of Armistice Day
By MARGARET MAGEE
Salem observed Armistice
Day Wednesday with a parade
and a program at the capitol
at which CoL Alfred E. Mc
Kenney, chief of the Oregon
military district, waa the
peaker.
The colonel, vrteran of over
85 years of military service, in
opening his speech . reminded
that it was almost 40 years ago
that World War I inflamed
Europe and that those hostili
ties were suspended by U
armistice, effective at 11 a.m,
Monday, November 11, 1913.
McKenney recalled, "Great
was the hope that day. Great
was the rejoicing. "This was the
war to end all war.' "
Noting that "the barriers of
civilization had not fallen and
the great freedom we enjoyed
preserved," the speaker re
minded that 25 years after the
war there was a greater war
from which ''we learned that
preparedness only Is the watch
dog of peace."
"The world today demands
that we have large standing
forces," he said. After men
tioning the places where we
had men in uniform, he con
tinued:
"Yet the nation is above all
things a peace-loving nation
one that wants no large stand
ing army or huge fleet. We
wan the active service to be as
small as possible."
(Con tinned en Pais t. Column 4)
Munitions Barge
Grounds in Surf
Astoria VP) A barge carry'
lng 700 tons of explosives was
aground in heavy surf a mile
and a half north of Long Beach,
Wash., Wednesday.
It was presumed the cargo
was ammunition destined for
the Umatilla ordnance depot,
although definite word was
lacking in absence of the port
security officer.
The barge was being brought
into the Columbia river under
tow of the tug Columbia Queen
when the line parted at 11:15
p.m. Tuesday. By the time the
tug could bring in its line and
turn, the barge had drifted
north and aground.
The coast guard vessel Ya
cona stood by with the tug for
a time then headed back for
its berth leaving salvage ef
forts to the commercial opera
tors. The tug is owned by Tide
water - Shaver Transportation
Co.
On Sept 24 another barge
loaded with ammunition and
towed by the same tug was
struck and capsized by the
freighter Hawaiian Planter.
The salvage of that cargo of
700 tons is being completed
this week.
Think Marsh
Killed in Crash
Clinton. Ky. lPi A penni
less hitchhiker killed in an au
tomobile collision apparently
was Thomas John Marsh,
whose name figured in the
Greenlease kidnaping case. .
O The victim went under the
name of Billy Stars of Mexico,
Mo., but his identification tal
lied almost exactly with that
of the ex-convict once named
as the killer of Bobby Green
lease. The exception was this:
Marsh's name was tattooed on
his right forearm. On Stars'
right forearm an old tattoo had
been obscured by a fresh one.
The FBI hoped to establish
positive Identification through
fingerprints.
Stars was killed Saturday
night near Clinton. Later an
unidentified woman tele
phoned a funeral home, inquir
ing about tattoo marks on the
"body and expressed belief that
Start and Marsh were the same.
Rock Bottom Hit
In Film Indusliy
Hollywood, ) Rock bot
tom has been reached in
the decline of movie produc
, tion, the directors of the AFL
Screen Actors Guild predict.
The guild, representing 8,000
actors, pledged at its annual
meeting yesterday to wage a
continuing fight against the
Inroads of run-away picture
production and to do all in
its power to promote addition
al production in this country.
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Wreath Placed
By Eisenhower
Washington W) The United
States, keeping an uncertain
truce in Korea, remembers to
day another armistice 35 years
ago.
President Eisenhower a r
ranged to go to the tomb of
the Unknown Soldier of World
War I, there to place a mem
orial wreath at the base of the
white marble block on a hilltop
in Arlington National Ceme
tery. The Chief Executive, himself
a soldier by profession, thus
planned to symbolize the na
tion's tribute to the dead of
that earlier war.
Overtoning the addresses of
national leaders who spoke
throughout the country was the
theme of a quest for enduring
peace, which World wars I and
II failed to win.
Ask Hold-up of
Power Policies
Washington (A") Sixteen
public power groups Tuesday
asked the administration to
hold up plans to revise the na
tion's power policy.
A petition sent to President
Eisenhower and Secretary of
Interior McKay said any
changes should be suspended
for a year, or until consumers
and others affected by the
the changes can study and dis
cuss the changes with the sec
retary. The gioup said the petition
I was directed af recent actions
hv th nHmini-tratinn -iifh ac
signing of contracts with pri
vate utilities for long term
sale of electric energy and
withdrawal of the Interior De
partment's support for a Hells
Canyon dam
County Fairs Urged to
Fight Diversion of Funds
By JAMES
Members of the Oregon
Fairs association, meeting in
annual convention at the Mar
ion hotel, were urged at the
opening business session Wed
nesday to fight to the last ditch
any attempt to place pari
mutual receipts now allocated
to county fairs into the state's
general fund.
The appeal was made by
Kenneth Fridley, of Sherman
county, chairman of the legis
lative committee, during a re
view of the work of his com
mittee.
IN ARMISTICE
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Above, one of the American Legion and Auxiliary color
guards that appeared Wednesday in the annual Armistice
Day parade. Below, reunited members of Capital .Post's
famous drum corps that won a national championship.
Twenty-five members marched and played drums and
bugles in today's parade.
Traditional Pomp
Armistice Day Parade
The traditional pomp and
color ef the Armistice day pa
rade was displayed in full
Wednesday morning as
schools, patriotic organiza
tions and other groups march
ed before goodly crowds from
the Capitol Mall to town and
back to the Capitol again for
the annual ceremonies on the
Capitol steps.
White House
Diplomats Host
Washington (P) President
Eisenhower's first reception of
the social season Tuesday night
drew 1,400 diplomats, includ
ing what one White Hquse aide
called "more Russians than
we've ever had."
Soviet Ambassador Georgia
N. Zaroubin and his wife,
dressed in blue, turned out for
the gay and brilliant event. It
was the first of five state re
ceptions on the 1953-5 social
calendar. The first of six state
dinners, held last Tuesday
night, honored Eisenhower cab
inet members.
All moved smoothly Tuesday
night. To music by the red
coated Marine Corps orchestra,
Eisenhower moved unsmilingly
through the foyer to the Blue
Room and shook hands with his
guests for 2 hours and 10 min
utes. The President and Mrs. Ei
senhower stood before a bank
of white chrysanthemums and
ferns. '
D. OLSON
"If the money now allocated
to the county fairs is placed in
the general funds," fie said. "It
will mean that every county
fair association will be requir
ed to appear before the ways
and means committee of the
legislature and the result will
be that the funds will become
a political fooball."
It was reported that approxi
mately 90 per cent of the mem
bership are opposed to transfer
of pari-mutual funds into the
general fund.
(Cm tinned ta Pag it Cehuna i)
DAY PARADE
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A full dozen bands' furnish
ed martial music for the pa
rade. A large number of
members of the old Capitol
Post No. 9 Drum Corps that
won the national American
Legion drum corps champion
spih in 1932 were on hand to
show that their old skill had
n't been frogotten. Salem
area schools and military units
furnished most of the march
ing musical groups. The Al
Kader Shrine band was there
in its colorful outfits. Patri
otic organizations furnished
numerous other marching
units. Members of the Gov
ernor's Guard, the Salem Sad
dle club and the South Salem
Junior Saddle club formed a
mounted unit.
(Concluded on Par 5. Column 5)
Mrs. Roosevelt
On White Case
Seattle VP) Mrs. Eleanor
itoosevelt says she believes
both former President Tru
man and Gov. James F.
Byrnes, secretary of state dur
ing part of Truman's' term,
are telling the truth "as they
recall it" about, Harry Dexter
White.
The former president has
said he did not recall seeing
FBI reports concerning
White's alleged activities in
behalf of the Russian govern
ment: Byrnes says he discuss
ed the reports with Truman.
Mrs. Roosevelt, here to ad
dress the regional conference
of the American Association
for the United Nations, said
in an interview, that lapse of
time since 1948 has changed
the perspective on the White
case.
An FBI report then, she
said, "was more or less rou
tine in appointments of that
nature, and in the climate of
7 years ago it might have
been glanced over hastily,
perhaps not fully read by the
president, and perhaps not re
membered."
FOG BLANKETS PARIS
Pari tl Fog blanketed
airports In Paris vicinity Wed
nesday so thickly that passen
gers leaving France had to go
by train to Brussels, or south
wards to the sunnier sections
of the country.
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Magsaysay
Seems Elected
- Manila (V Youthful Ramon
Magsaysay Wednesday took I
commanding lead over Pre si.
dent Elpidio Quirino in the
Philippines presidential race
and appeared to have unseated
the aging, ailing chief execu
tive.
Magsaysay has not claimed
victory and Quirino has not
conceded defeat. But a govern
ment spokesman said the Presi
dent might have an announce
ment later.
The first official returns
from Tuesday's election gave
Magsaysay 68 per cent of the
votes or 255,691 to Quirino's
118,938.
The unofficial count, running
far ahead, showed Magsaysay
1,612,071 and Quirino 681.478.
An estimated 4,760,000 votes
. a record . . were cast.
G.M. Purchases
Willow Run
Detroit VP) General Motors
now owns the 62-acre Willow
Run former bomber plant.
The world's biggest auto
maker purchased the property
Tuesday from Kaiser Motors
for 26 million dollars. Kaiser
will move all its operations to
Toledo.
General Motors announced it
will uie the property to con
tinue manufacture and assem
bly of hydramatic transmis
sions. What further use may be
made of the property was not
disclosed.
The purchase proba b 1 y
means GM will not rebuild the
Detroit transmission division
plant, destroyed by fire at
Livonia, Mich., last August.
GM's president, Harlow H.
Curtice said no plans have
been made at present to re
build the Livonia facility.
In taking over the Willow
Run plant GM acquires a plant
Kaiser-Frazer purchased from
the government for IS million
dollars some five years ago.
Polk County Buys
4 Voting Machines
Portland W Polk County
has contracted to buy four vot
ing machines costing $1,500
each. Gene Roaaman of Port
land reported Tuesday.
Rossman, who is agent for a
voting machine firm, said the
machines are to be used at
Dallas, the county seat.
The last Legislature approv
ed a bill legalizing voting machines.
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Truman in White Spy 'Probe
U.N. Agrees to
Debate on Red
POW Atrocities
United Nations, N.Y, VP)
The C.N.' Oeaeral Assembly
Wednesday agreed to air
American charges that Com
munists In Korea committed
BlunMlralil trtitiSS SaTi'StSt
U.N. prisoners.
The vote in the 60-nation
body was 53-5 with 2 absten
tions. The overwhelming ap
proval represented a resound
ing rejection of Russia claims
that the United States brought
the charges only to torpedo the
Korean political conference.
Chief Soviet Delegate An
drei Y. Vishlnsky charged the
United States was trying to In
flame public opinion with
"flagrant lies" about atrocities.
India, which heads the Neu-
t r a 1 Prisoner Repatriation
Committee in Korea, abstained
in the vote. However, India's
top diplomat, Mrs.. Vljaya
Lakshml Pandit, said the chief
U. S. Delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr, had "shown he had
Lodge, Jr., had "shown he has
case.
(Continual Pan I. Cehuaa t)
Malenkov Not
For Big 4 Meet
London VP) Moscow radio
Wednesday denied a resort
that Premier Georgl Malenkov
had Indicated willingness to
attend a high level Big Four
conference. .
The radio broadcast thia
dispatch of Tass, the official
Soviet news agency:
"The French Press Agency,
referring to a British source
has circulated a report alleg
ing that a proposal has been
made to u. M. Malenkov,
chairman of the council of
mnisters of the USSR, to take
part in a conferene of the
heads of the governments of
the four powers the' USSR.
the United States, Britain and
France and that G. M. Mal
enkov has informed the Brit
ish government through For
eign Miniiter V. M. Molotov,
that he is prepared to agree to
the convocation of such a con
ference.
"Tass is authorized to state
that the above mentioned re
port in no way conforms to
reality and it evidently de
signed to detract attention
from the aims pursued by the
suggested separate conference
of the heads of the govern
ments of the Untied States,
Britain and France on Ber
muda Island."
Car Plunges From
Road Into Siuslaw .
Ma pie ton VP) A car plung
ed from the highway thre
miles west of here early Wed
nesday and was submerged in
the Siuslaw river.
A diver sought the body of
the driver, Frank L, Sandborn,
38, owners of Sandy's Cafe
here
A motorist reported that he
suddenly noticed the lights of
a following car had vanished.
A check showed the car had
left the highway and gone in
to the river.
Republicans Score
Victory in California
Los Angeles () Republi
cans have scored a solid vic
tory in Calilornia with the elec
tion of a congressional candi
date who aiked for a vote of
confidence in the Eisenhower
administration.
The substantial triumph of
38-year-old Glenard P. Lips
comb in the l!4th Congressional
District special election Tues
day was heartening to Repub
licans because lt came after a
string of sewn GOP losses in
congreslonal district campaigns
during 1953, the latest being
the upsets In Iew Jeresy and
Wisconsin.
Lipscomb, a public account
ant and . assemblyman in the
state legislature, defeated two
Democrats and a fellow Repub
lican to win the right to serve
the district for a year, the un
pMpoenator
POW Hearings
Cancelled for
Sixth Time
Panmunjom VP) Interviews
with North Korean and Chi
nese war prisoners who have
refused to go horn wen can
celed today for the sixth con
secutive day as the tottering
explanation program moved
nearer collapse.
s..in Ctiotvuuu command
almost automatically called off
Interviews scheduled for to
morrow after the Communists
insisted again on seeing 365
Chinese prisoners missed last
Thursday by stalling Red per
suaders.
Lt Gen. K. S. Thlmayya,
Indian chairman of the Neutral
Nations Repatriation Commis
sion (NRRC) stayed at his
headquarters here, apparently
ready to make a second trip to
Kaesong to talk with the Red
high command.
Armistice Day
Taut in Korea
Western Front, Korea J-B
Armistice Day 1953 was a day
of uneasy truce in Korea.
As on that first Armistice
day in 1918, the shooting bad
stopped. But here it may
start again.
United Nations troops of
the Eighth army hope for the
best and prepare for the
worst Their position are
dug and their weapons em
placed. They look to the
north and wait
Across a three-mile-wide
neutral buffer zone a giant
communist army also (its and
wait. .
The soldiers wait and the
diplomats talk at Panmunjom.
The summer warmth has gone
from the bleak Korean hills.
The chill of winter is here.
Men huddled in bunkers or
improved their entrenchments
along the 135-mile-front So
intense was the watching that
nerves were taut.
Marine Planes
Killed 13 61$
Tokyo VP) Get). John E.
Hull's headquarters announced
today it was planes of the U. S.
1st marine air wing that acci
dentally bombed a front line
artillery position in Korea Jan.
8, 1953, killing 13 American
soldiers and wounding nine.
It was the first official state
ment fixing responsibility for
the mistake bombing.
The Far East command is
sued a brief statement saying
a Joint investlagtion had found
marine planes were involved
in the nccident after U. S. army
headquarters in Washington
in a rebuttal of correspondents
criticism of military censor
ship in the Far East said the
report of the investigation was
available at Hull's public in
formation office.
LUMBER OPERATOR DIES
Portland U.fS Jefferson
Davis Cook, 88, long time Ore
gon lumber and mining oper
ator, died at his home yester
day. Cook came to Oregon
from Maine in 1890 and built
a shoe factory at North Dalles,
Wash.
expired term of Norris Poulion
a Republican, who resigned to
take over his new lob as mayor
or Los Angeles.
Lipscomb, backed by the Re
publican Party organization,
won the race with 42,880 votes.
Running No. 2. was George
Arnold, backed by the Demo
cratic Party organization, with
34,545 votes. This was on the
basis of complete semi-official
returns. The count for the
other Republican, State Assem
blyman John L. E. Collier, was
3,616 and for the other Demo
crat, Irving Markham, 1.138.
Lipscomb will have to run
again for the office la the
spring primaries, if he wants to
attempt to keep the scat for an
other two-year term beginning
in January Ot 1955.
Voices Faith in
Patriotism of
Ex-President
Washington P) Fred deal
Eisenhower declare- Wedaea
day he doeaat belUve fanner
President Tram an woald knew
ingly do anything to damag
the United States avd, person)
Xy, m Merer weald Bav. sak
poenaed the ex-President tB
the Barry Dexter White cat.
For 18 minutes. Elsenhower
talked at a news conferene
about the roaring political eon
troversy touched off by Atty.
Gen. Erownell's charge that
Truman promoted White, a
Treasury official, in 1946 after
the riii reported to the wnlta
House that White was a Rus
sian spy.
These points stodd out:
1. Eirtuiiuwer confirmed ba
had advance knowledge that
Brownell was going to talk
about White and the Truman
administration in -a speech at
Chicago last Friday. But, the
President said, Brownell did
not say in talking with him
that Truman personally had
knowledge of FBI report on
White when White was pro-
moiea.
Left It to Brownell ' .. , . ;
Further, Eisenhower laid ho
had told Brownell he would
have to follow his own consci
ence and decide what bis duty
was. White House Press Sec
retary James Hagerty had said
last Friday Eisenhower told
Brownell it waa his duty to re
port to the American people.
(Centlnaed en rage I, Cetsssa 6)
Probers to Go -
V k ' a ' Mm.
lololumbio
Washington ') Chairman
Velde R- I1L, of the House Un-
American Activities Committee
Wednesday wired Gov. Jamea
F, Byrnes of South Carolina
that a subcommitte would so to
Columbia. S. C. to auestion
Byrnes about the Harry Dealer
White case.
Byrnes had teleeranhed
Velde that he could not comply
with a committee summons to
appear before it in Washington
but bad offered to answer '
questions, under oath if desir
ed, in Columbia.
Byrnes took the position that
as a governor he could not be
required to leave bis state and
remain In Washington at tlM
pleasure or tne committee.
He said he would reply in
writing to questions, or would
testify before a subcommittee
In fftlnmnt ' ' '
Velde, in a telegram released
by his office, replied:
"Your courteous telegram is
more than appreciated. I feel
that your suggestion that a sub
committe come to Columbia is
an excellent one and will
undoubtedly be adopted by the
committee. A data mutually
convenient will be arranged at
soon as possible."
Trial Void Claim
Of Mossadegh
Tehran. Iran VP) Ex-dictator
Mohammed Mossadegh claimed
Wednesday ha has been hailed
before an Iranian military court
on treason charges In violation
of his own decree.
The 73-year-old former pre
mierdefiantly maintaining ha
still holds th-t post told too
five-man army tribunal he had
barred military courts from
trying civilians In a decree Is
sued under th' special dicta
torial powers granted him last
year by the Majlis lower house
of parliament.
Mossadegh, ousted by an ar
my-backed revolt last August,
is accused of defying Shah Mo
hammed Reza Pahlevi, trying
to overthrow the monarchy
and Illegally dissolving the
monarchy. The court iit now
concerned with whether lt has
the authority to try the aged
Nationalist leader. .
Mossadegh claimed Tuesday
no court could try him until the
Majlis through legislation nul
lifies the plenary powers given
him as premier.
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