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FINAL
EDITION
V '0 8BCI I'
65th Year, No. 270 SSfASSiSS Salem, Oregon, Thursday, November 12, 1953 34 Pages
Pay Boosts for
Stale Prison '
Guards Asked
Board of Control to
Have Civil Service
Make Check, Repel
By JAMES D. OLSON
After member of the SUte
Board of Control war Impor
tuned to reeommend salary in
creases for penitentiary guards,
the board decided to request
the Civil Service Commission
to make a report on the sub
ject and also discuss the mat
ter with Warden Clarence T.
Gladden.
Leo E. Butts, representative
of the Oregon Public Employ
es council of the AT L and
Mrs. Clare P. Argow, of the
Oregon Prison association made
the pleas for increased pay and
higher Qualifications for the
prison guards.
Big Turnover
Butt declared that prison
statistics showed an eight per
cent monthly turnover in
guards, and contended that
with such a large turnover,
guards were in no position to
attempt to "change the entire
course of men's lives" in the
rehabilitation program.
"Guards must have sufficient
tenure of employment," Butts
said, "to become intimately ac
quainted with the men if they
hope to rehabilitate them.
(Continued on Pas 5, Column I)
Europe's Press
Raps Subpoena
London () West Europe's
editors trotted out their big
black headlines again Thurs-
day to tell readers the latest
developments on the subpoena
of ex-President Truman in the
Harry Dexter White case
But the only extensive edi-
torial comment Was In Britain,
where papers of all political
shades declared that the sum
mons for Truman to appear be
fore the House Committee) on
Un-American Activities will
blacken the name of America
in the court of world opinion.
One or two continental
papers blamed President Eisen
hower for what they called a
new Republican attack on the
former President.
Communist papers cited the
subpoena to show the "hys
teria" In the United States.
In Paris, the leftist but non
communist paper Combat at
tacked President Eisenhower
for "lifting the brake on ex
treme right-wing Republican
ism."
Golden Era
For Medicine
Chicago (Pi The president
of the American Medical Assn.
said Thursday that society is
"passing through a golden era
of tremendous medical ad
vances' and is "headed for a
future In which the doctor of
medicine will devote most of
his time to disease prevention."
Dr. Edward J. McCormick of
Toledo, Ohio, told delegates to
a convention of the National
Society for Crippled Children
and adults:
"Research workers are mak
ing magnificent progress in all
fields. Spectacular devices such
as the mechanical heart and
lung and the mechanical kid
ney demonstrate man's ability
to ferret out the long-hidden
secrets of the human body. Op
erations upon the heart, the
brain, the lungs and the stom
ach and other vital organs, im
possible 25 years ago, are now
being accomplished with safe
ty and success."
U.S. Gets First
Turbojet Engine
Washington UPi The Air
Force said Thursday the United
States has its first Jet engine
"with an official rating In the
10.000-pound thrust class."
It is the Pratt tt Whitney
J57. which powers the Air
Force's eight-engine heavy
bomber, the Boeing B-52, and
its new supersonic fighters, the
North, American F100 Super
Sabre and the Convair F102.
At East Hartford. Conn., Wil
liam P. Gwinn, general mana
ger of Pratt & Whitney aircraft
division of United Aircraft
Corp., said in a statement the
JS7 is "at least two years in
advance ol any other engine we
know of in the turbojet field,"
including British ones.
City to Ask
Drop-Arms at
1 1 Crossings
. Wigwags Demanded
At Others On
SP Main Line
By STEPHEN A. STONE
What the city of Salem will
demand of the Southern Pacific
company la protection at the
If trade crossings on Its mala
line throurh Salem was oat
lined Thursday at a conference
in the office of City Manager
J. L, Franaen.
The demand will be made at
a hearing before the State Pub
lic Utilities Commission De
cember z. included will be a
contention that drop-arms and
their accompanying warnings
should be installed at no less
than 11 crossings, and that
some type of moving warning
signal should be installed at
others.
Women Investigate
The background of the move
ment for safer traffic is an In
vestigation and report made by
the Salem unit of the League
of Women Voters, which has
been In the hands of the city
administration for some time.
(Continued en Pat . Cemma t)
Big 3 After
4 Power Talks
United Ntoins. N.Y. C
The United States, Britain and
Franco have proposed direct
four-power talk with Russia
in an attempt to break the log
jam on disarmament and
atomic weapon control meas
ures, i
The suggestion was made in
a resolution submitted Wed
nesday to the U.N.'s 80-nation
political ' committee. There
was no Immediate Soviet re
action but Kremlin represen
tatives here have supported
similar proposals in the past.
The resolution suggested
that the 12-natlon .U.N. dis
armament commission spon
sor the talks. It urged the
Big Four to "seek in private
an acceptable solution and re
port to the disarmament com
mission."
Fatal Bomber
Crash in Italy
Naples. Italy W A U. S.
navy torpedo bomber plunged
into a house on the outskirts of
Naples Thursday, killing three
Americans and two Italian
children.
Dead were the pilot and two
American soldiers, passengers
on the plane bound from Rome
to Naples. The navy did not
reveal their names pending
notification of kin.
Two small girls, pulled from
the debris of the house, died
in a hospital. The plane's co
pilot and another passenger
also an American soldier, were
gravely injured. Four other
Italians in the house when the
plane crashed also were in
jured.
The plane, out of Rome with
mail and passengers, appeared
to be in trouble as it ap
proached the airport here.
Sawyer Made Member
Of Water, Power Group
Washington U.Robert W.
Sawyer, former editor and
publisher of the Bend Bulletin
and chairman of the Oregon
Capitol Planning Commission,
was named by former Presi
dent Herbert Hoover as one of
24 members of a task force to
study federal activities in the
water and power resources
field.
Mr. Hoover, chairman of a
new commission on govern
ment reorganization, announc
ed Oct. 20 that retired Adm.
Ben Moreell, board ' chairman
of Jones It Laughlinel Steel
Corp., will head the task force.
The power study Is consid
ered one of the more important
tasks of the new Hoover com
mission. Among other things,
it will cover developments in
navigation, flood control and
reclamation.
In a speech in April, Mr.
Hoover urged the government
to "get out of the business of
leneratitfc and diatrihutins-
power." He outlined a solution I
wnicD included creation of a
commission to reorganize the
whole federal power program.
in addition to those named
I above those chosen for the 1
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Ike and Mamie
Off to Ottawa
Washington UJ! President
and Mrs. Eisenhower leave by
train this afternoon for a three-
day trip to Ottawa where they
will be guests of Canadian
Prime Minister Louis St. Lau
rent
Mr. Eisenhower is scheduled
to address the Canadian House
of Commons Nov. 14.
The President told Ills news
conference yesterday that his
address will give him an oppor
tunity to pay his respects to the
Canadian people to whom
Americans feel so close. He
said it will be a general dis
cussion of problems common to
the two countries.
The President emphasized
that his trip was purely a social
call returning the visit last May
of St. Laurent to Washington.
30 Reported Killed
In Argentine Crash
Buenos Aires, Argentina W
A four - engine passenger
plane and a military plane col
lided over Santa Fe Province
Thursday . and first reports said
27 passengers and three mili
tary men were killed.
The crash occurred about ZOO
miles northwest of Buenos
Aires near the town of Maxi-
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letin selected by Herbert
Hoover on water-power In
vestigation task force.
power-water task force includ-
ed: J. Bracken Lee; Julian
Hlnde, Los Angeles; Albert C.
Mattel. San Francisco: Harry
w. Morrison, Boise. Idaho, and
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PAUSE IN PLANS
Washington, Nov. 12 Chairman Harold Velds' (R.,
. 111.), of the House Un-American Activities Committee
whose plans to question former President Truman and
others in the Harry Dexter White case apparently have
hit a snag, grins at his home last night as he chats with
newsmen who wanted to know who was going to testify
and when. The chairman said he would call a meeting of
his group when two absent members of the committee were
back in Washington. Three Democratic members of the
committee said they heard there will be no hearings this
week. (AP Wirephoto)
McCarthy Told Reds
In
Albany, N.Y. ) A mys
tery witness told Sen. McCar
thy (R., Wis.) Thursday, the
latter said, that the commu
nists had a man in the Gen-
Elect Hubbard
Spokane Bishop
Williamsburg. Va. W) The
Ht. Rev. Russell Sturgis Hub
bard, suffragan bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Michigan,
Thursday was elected bishop of
the Missionary District of Spo
kane, Wash.
Bishop Hubbard, a native of
Philadelphia, is 31. He Is a
nephew of a former presiding
bishop of the Episcopal Church,
the Rt. Rev. James Dewolf
Perry.
Hubbard has a reputation as
an excellent preacher.
Throughout his ministry, his
particular interests have been
in the fields of Christian edu
cation and social relations, and
the home missions of the
church.
He was graduated from Har
vard University and Trinity
College of Cambridge, England,
and was ordained in 1928.
Hubbard's election took place
at a closed session of the House
of Bishops held in Bruton Par
ris Church.
Benson Seeks
To Serve People
Columbus, Ohio UP) Secre
tary of Agriculture Benson, tar
get of some farm leaders and
congressmen because of his
farm policies, declared today
he is not interested in "person
al popularity."
The GOP farm chief said he
is striking ahead in an effort to
develope a sound agricultural
program that would serve "all
of agriculture" and "all the
people."
In a speech prepared for a
meeting of the Association of
Land Grant Colleges and Uni
versities, Benson said it would
have been "comparatively
easy" for him to "yield to the
demands ... to go olf on a
round of patchwork program-
ming.
"There Is no easy panacea for
agricultur e." he declared.
There is no magic formula
that will set everything right.
Patchwork remedies quack
remedies patent medicine
remedies ire dime a dozen.
and that's all some of them are
wortn.
hJiddbdrattiw--
eral Electric company's super-
secret Knolls atomic power
laboratory near Schenectady.
McCarthy told newsmen
that the witness, whom he de
clined to identify, also named
13 employes of GEs huge
main Schnectady plant as hav
ing been members of the com
munist party last February,
No names were made public
by the senator, who Thursday
closed hearings on what he
termed "alleged communist
infiltration" of the GE works
in Schnectady. McCarthy,
chairman of the senate inves
tigations committee, is acting
here as a one-member sub
committee.
He described the mystery
witness as a young man who
became a dues-paying mem
ber of the communist party in
1949 and dropped out last
February, McCarthy said the
young man voluntarily came
here from Toronto to testify.
The senator said the witness
testified that a New York City
official of the party disclosed
to him that the Reds had a
man in the Knolls lab, oper
ated by GE for the Atomic
Energy commission. It is now
developing an atomic power
plant for U.S. Navy subma
rines.
Socket! Tries to
Buy LA News
Los Angeles ( The Daily
News, a Los Angeles morning
newspaper, said that It has
agreed to sell a substantial in
terest, provided certain finan
cial requirements are met, to
Sheldon F. Sackett, who oper
ates newspapers and radio and
television stations in Califor
nia, Oregon and Washington.
Robert L. Smith, president
and publisher of The News,
said Sackett came to him some
time ago and offered buy an
interest in the newspaper. No
deal has been completed.
The News said that Time
Magazine prints an article in its
Nov. 18 issue on the streets
Thursday saying that the news
paper is on the block, that va
rious prominent persons "rang
ing from Averill Harriman to
Jimmy Roosevelt have backed
away from purchasing the pa
per because of its heavy
losses.
The Time article.
say the
News, "conveys the impression
that Sackett has purchased The
News . . . and speculates on his
ability to raise the money to
purchase the property, this in
! Itself is something ot cqntra-
iOieuon.
Truman Rejects Subpoena
To Appem 'Before Probers
Vaughan Says
Doesn't Recall
White Report ''
Washington ) Harry H.
Vaughan testified Thursday he
had ne recollection of getting
any FBI reports on Harry Dex.
ter White. But he added that
if Atty. Gen. Brownell said
such reports were sent ta him
"I would not question it for a
moment."
Washington W Chair
man Jenner (H., Ind.) of the
Senate internal security
subcommittee said Thurs
day there wA "no doubt"
that derogatory information
. on Harry Dexter White was
delivered to former Presi
dent Truman.
Jenner, making the state
ment at the conclusion of a
subcommittee hearing, said
he saw no reason for calling
Truman as a witness "be
cause the record speaks lor
itself." .. .
Brownell, in touching off the
explosive White case last Fri
day, said that reports showing
White was a Russian spy were
sent to former President Tru
man through Vaughan, his mil
itary aide.
(Oantlnned on Pare i. Column 1)
U.S.-Canadian
Trade Group
Washington W President
Eisenhower announced Thurs
day the United States and Can
ada are setting up a joint com
mittee to smooth out trade and
other economic problems be
tween the .two countries.
Member of the group, to be
known formally as the United
States-Canadian Committee on
Trade and Economic Affairs,
will Be of cabinet rank.
Eisenhower said the commit
tee will meet at least once a
year alternately in Washington
and Ottawa to consider "broad
questions affecting the har
monious economic relations of
the two countries."
Creation of the board was
first suggested by Canadian
Prime Minister St. Laurent
during a visit to Washington
last Mny. It would parallel, on
economic matters, the joint de
fense board which supervises
cooperation between the two
countries on defense matters.
2 Killed in Riot
For Mossadegh
Tehran, Iran UP) Two dem
onstrators were killed by po
lice gunfire Thursday as thou
sands of supporters of ex-Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh
took their ousted leader's case
into the streets.
Torrential rain and heavy
army and police guards com
bined to take most of the fire
out of a communist-backed ef
fort to promote a general strike
in support of the ex-dictator,
now on trial at Saltanatabad
prison.
About 20 demonstrators were
arrested in various parts of the
capital during the morning and
hundreds of shops whose own
ers back Mosadegh were shut
tered but little pro-Mossadegh
activity was in evidence be
yond the stealthy distribution
of communist leaflets.
German Heirs Lose in
Oregon Will Dispute
Lack of reciprocation be
tween Germany under Adolph
Hitler and the United States
will keep German relatives of
John Krachler from getting
the estate he willed them, the
Oregon supreme court ruled
Thursday.
A tut case was brought
against the state land board
by Herbert Brownell as Unit
ed States attorney general,
with George Hagmair of San
Francisco, a first cousin of
Krachlr's joining as interven
er and also as appellant.
The question before the
Oregon high court was wheth
er or not a resident and citi
zen of Germany could take
the property under the will
of a naturalized American cit
Indians Plan
For Screening
If Reds Quit
Panmunjora W) The Indian
command today worked on de-
tailed plans for screening
cntnese and Korean war pri
soners if the communists aban
don efforts to woo them home.
Red interviews with prison
ers refusing repatriation were
canceled for the eighth straight
day when the communists re
peated their demand to see 3S8
POWs who were skipped by
stalling persuaders last Thurs
day.
Official quarters said the
Red move appeared to be mere
ly a maneuver while the com
munist high command decides
whether to go along with new
Indian rules for running the
interviews or torpedo the ex
planation program.
Lt Gen. K. S. Thlmayya,
Indian chairman of the Neutral
Nations Repatriation Commis
sion, was ready for a trip to
communist headauarter a t
Xaesong whenever the Reds'
answer is ready.
There was no word from the
communists.
New Mail Given
Pro-Red POW
Panmuniom, Korea OJJD The
United Nations turned over a
new batch of mail for pro-Communist
American prisoners to
day in what might be a test of
their determination to stay
with the Reds.
Mall for all 22 ot the Ameri
cans still in Indian custody was
given to the Indian custodial
force today by the U. S, Army
mall officer, Lt. Robert C Her
bert, Macomb, III. '
... Three "leader'' of the 132
South Korean, American and
one British prisoner alleged by
me neas to prefer Communism
to freedom protested that the
last bundle of mall contained
material intended to "coerce'
them to return to democracy.
They demanded that the In
dians stop giving them "propa
ganda man.
Today's mall will be offered
to the men individually.
50,000 Koreans
Greet Nixon
Seoul vn An estimated
90,000 South Koreans braved
an icy wind Thursday to greet
U. S. Vice President Richard
Nixon on his arrival in this
battered capital.
Nixon told top American and
Korean officials who met him
at the airp-Tt that Korea la
"the half-way point and the
high point" of his good will
tour through the Far East.
He said Korea was where
"aggressive imperialistic com
munism was stopped."
The vice president and his
wife repeatedly stopped the
motorcade which carried them
into Seoul to shake hands with
cold, shy school chilldren who
lined the street.
Koreans said Nixon's ges
ture helped to ease the hurt
resulting from President Eis
enhower s failure to make a
public appearance during his
hurried visit here last Decem
ber. Nixon conferred with Pres
ident Syngmsn Rhee.
izen, Krachler, who died In
Portland December 8, 1343.
In an opinion written by
Justice James T. Brand, said
this question was dependent
upon the existence of recipro
cal rights at that time between
Germany and the United States.
Justice Brand held that the
Hitler regime of Germany
permitted unjust discrimina
tion against American citizen
as- legatees and that on De
cember 8, 1943, reciprocal
rights did not exist within the
meaning of the Oregon law.
in the Multnomah county
circuit court, Judge James
W. Crawford ruled for Brown
ell a tn agent to convey the
proceeds of Krschler't estate
(Concluded en Pag t, Celaaui I)
Velde Puts Off
HST Summons
Indefinitely
New York () Former
President Harry t, Trumam
said Thursday he will set
heed a snbpoena to appear
Friday before the hens an
American activities commit
tee. .. ..
In a letter to committee
Chairman Harold H. - Velde
(R., Ill ) which Truman read
to a news conference Thurs
day, be said:
"In spite of my personal
willingness to cooperate wlta
you, I am constrained by my
duties to the people of the
United States to decline, te
comply." -,. 1 i
Shortly -before Truman
made public his letter here,
Velda announced that Tru
man's appearance before the
committee had been pottpaa-
ta inoeumteiy.
Called la While Probe V
The committee had called
Truman to hear his answer to
charges by Attorney , General
Herbert Brownell, Jr- that
Truman appointed Harry Dex
ter White, treasury aide now
dead, aa American director of
the International Monetary
fund, despite an FBI report
that White was a Soviet spy.
(CenUnoea en rax a, Cshmra el
Byrnes Replies
To Quiz on HST
Washington () James T.
Byrne told senators Thursday
rta t latlatiecl lormer fresi
dent Truman- would - have
stopped confirmatioii tt the lata
Harry Dexter White's) appoint
ment to the International Hon
etary Fund in 1946 had the
Senate not already approved
the-nomination, -
Byrnes, who was secretary of
state at the time, made the
statement In a telegraph reply
to question submitted to him
by the Senate internal security
subcommittee.
This added little to the pub
lic statement Byrnes made last
Monday when he said he talked
with Truman about an FBI re- -port
linking White to Commu
nist activities; suggested with
drawing White's nomination;
and that Truman made a tele
phone call and learned White
had already been confirmed by
the Senate.
Nab Red Agents
In LA. Harbor
Long Beach, Calif. U A
group of "nationally known
communist agents" infiltrated
a heavy security guard at the
Loa Angeles-Long Beach har
bor and were taught near a
ship loaded with "highly secret
cargo," the coast guard dis
closed today.
The diclosure was made by
Capt. Paul D. Kronk, coast
guard captain of poii, who was
hi charge of government law
enforcement at the harbor.
The FBI declined to com
ment on the disclosure, but
said Kronk was fully author
ized to report on the incident
Kronk said nine persons, fiva
ot them identified as "nation
ally known communist agent"
and "potential saboteurs,"
were caught in a security area
on a port wharf recently after
tney had eluded a heavy secur
ity guard.
The port captain refused to
identify the persons, but said
a check on flies in government
Intelligence and law enforce
ment agencies definitely estab
lished five of them as being
known "communist agents."
Douglas Fir Mills
Orders Increased
Portland W Douglas fir
mills have received Increased
orders in the last five weeks.
putting orders, shipments and
production in "good balance,"
Harris Smith, secretary of the '
West Coast Lumberman' asso
ciation, reported Thursday.
Inventories, he said, are only
a little above last yeer and the
unfilled order file 1 about the
same as a year ago.
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