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THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY with bier,
saltteat raia tonight and Tues
day. Little change ia temper
lure. Lew tonight, 41; Ufa
Taeedar, (4.
Italy Accepts
Proposals for
Trieste Parley
.Agrees Uncondi
tionally to, Big
Conference
Rente MV-The IUlian for
eign ministry said today that
Italy hae agreed unconditlea
ally to the Big Three propoaal
for five-power conference on
the future of disputed Trieste.
Previously, foreign diplo
matic sources had indicated
that Italy's assent to the .con
ference proposal had been
the Allies and the Allies' sug
gestion for a five-power con
ference was accepted."
In Belgrade, the official
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug
said yesterday that the condi
tional acceptance attributed
earlier to Italy appeared to be
along lines laid down prev
iously by Rome.
Yugoslavia Balks
Tanjug said any proposal for
a conference taking for grant
ed that part of the territory
would be turned over to Italy
was "completely unacceptable"
to President Tito's government.
(Continued on Pact ft, Column I)
AlliesinU.N.
Warn Russia
United Nations, N. Y. UPt
Britain warned Russia Monday
not to do any wishful thinking
about a breakup of the Anglo
American alliance.
"The friendship and unity of
purpose between the United
States and the United Kingdom
British governments is as
strong and as solid as it has
ever been," Minister of State
Selwyn Lloyd told the U. N
60-national Political Commit
tee. Although the pledge of con
tinuing Anglo-American unity
was made in full committee,
Lloyd addressed it directly to
Chief Soviet Delegate Andrei
Y, Vishinsky who was seated
on his left.
He said he also Intended it
for another non-Communist
"prophets of gloom on both
sides of the Atlantic."
Llyod was answering an at
tack Vishinsky made last week
on NATO, Western disarma
ment plans, American bases
abroad and tne forthcoming
Bermuda conference.
Smog Clears Up
In New York
New York. VP) A thick,
dirty haze that choked metro
politan New York for six days
cleared Monday, but . left
tragedy in its wake.
Sunday night, with the city
still shrouded In fumes, grit,
smoke and fog. a small private
plane crashed at LaGuardia
Field, killing five persons.
Three others died Sunday
and early Monday in auto
mobile accidents blamed on
the dense pall of mist and In
dustrial smoke hanging over
the city.
A steady rain in the early
morning washed the air com
paratively clean, giving New
j Yorkers their first heartening
breath of air in nearly a week.
Many had developed cases
of hay-fever-like sneezing and
irritated noses and throats
during the period of
pheric gloom.
atmos-
Butter Day
Gifts in Berlin
Berlin ( Thousands of,
cast zierilners flocked from the
Soviet sector into West Berlin
Monday to get a pound of but
ter each as a gift from the
American people.
An hour after the distribu
tion got under way, 2.000 aged
Germans had been given butter
and 4.000 more were in line.
No incidents were reported
in the early hours and officials
at the distribution point in the
British sector said things were
moving smoothly.
They said 236.000 pounds of
butter will be given to East
Berlineri In the next two
weeks.
RUNS AGROUND
Rotterdam. The Netherlands
" The 8 214-ton American!'0' tne P' " hs been
ireignier nurrtci I ran
aground in a twavy fog Mon
day In the new waterway ap
proach from the North Sea to
Rotterdam harbor. There was
no reported damage to the Two other men. already an
n'P nounced as candidates for the
Allies Agree
On Russia in
Peace Parley
As Participant on
Communist Side .
Instead of Neutral
Fanmunlom WV Allied nego
tiators today approved Russia
a member ef the Korean
peace conference but as a "full
participant" on the communist
aide rather than a neutral.
U. S. Ambassador Arthur
Dean again proposed that Rus
sia attend the meeting as a
belligerant after urging the
communists : to explain their
plan for neutrals to attend the
conference which he term
ed a "pig in a bag."
"You want me to buy it with
out being able to examine it,'
Dean told the Reds in a sub
committee meeting on the com
position and site of a Korean
peace conference. The Allied-
Red preliminary talks are in
their fifth week.
Approved by UN
Russian participation on the
communist side was approved
by the U. N. Aug. 28, when it
adopted its plan for the confer1
ence a meeting of the two
warring sides only.
The Reds have plumped for
n round-table conference, with
non-belligerents attending.
(Continued on Pat . Column I)
Red China Signs
Korea Treaty
Tokyo UJ9 Communist
China and North Korea signed
a 10-year economic pact today,
wiping out North Korea's en
tire war debt to China, a Red
radio broadcast announced.
The agreement signed in
Peiping promises North Korea
350 million dollars worth of re
construction aid for the next
four years.
The agreement cancels all
North Korean debts to China
incurred from June 25, 1950,
the day the Korean War start
ed, until Dec. 81, 1853, Radio
Peiping said. . ,
' The broadcast did not speci
fy what these debts were, but
apparently they were the re
sult of China's military aid to
North Korea during the war.
The communist broadcast
said China will give North
Korean reconstruction mater
ials valued at 350 millions from
1954 to 1957 inclusive.
Hiss Loses 2nd
Bid for Parole
Washington. () Alger Hiss
Monday lost a second plea for
parole from prison.
Dr. Paul Tappan, chairman
of the U.S. Parole Board an
nounced: "The Board of Parole today
automatically reconsidered the
parole application of Alger
Hiss and agreed there should
be no change In the previous
order of denial of parole."
The application of the for
mer State Department official
now serving a prison term
on conviction of lying when he
swore he did not give govern
ment secrets to the Commu
nists was first considered and
turned down Just one year ago.
Under board procedure, it
came up automatically for a
further look 12 months later.
Weather Details
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Steelhammer Asked to
Co for US Attorney
Interest was Increasing
Monday In the meeting called
for Tuesday by the Marion
County Republican Central
Committee to endorse a cand
idate tor U.S. district attor
ney with another Marion
county name or two being in
cluded in tne group of pros
pective candidates.
John Steelhammer, Salem
attorney and former speaker
of the house in the legislat
ure, has a group of supporters
invited by friends in the com
mittee to nttend the Tuesday
session. He stated Monday he
expects to attend the meet-
in g.
Capital ,A JoMTftal.
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Queen to Start
World's Tour.
London VP) Flying weather
fit for a queen was forecast for
the start tonight of the six-
month round-the-world Com
monwealth tour by Elizabeth II
and her husband, the Duke of
Edinburgh.
Security guards at London
airport kept a 24-hour watch
over the American-built Stra
tocruiser Canopus before its
takeoff for Bermuda.
It will be the ilrst transatlan
tic flight in history for a reign
ling British, sovereign though
Elizabeth, before succeeding to
the throne, made the aerial
crossing with her husband in
1951 for their tour of Canada
and the United States.
The farewell was planned as
a full state occasion, with mem
bers of the royal family on
hand to see the Queen and the
Duke off.
Bruins Named
For Rose Bowl
Los Angeles, VP) UCLA
was unanimously s e le c t e d
Monday to represent the Pa
cific Coast Conference against
Michigan State of the Big
Ten in the Rose Bowl at Pas
adena. The official vote by confer
ence members had been con
sidered a mere formality since
the Bruins won the undis
puted conference championship
with a 13-0 victory over
Southern California Saturday.
office, are Dean Seward P.
Reese of the Willamette uni
versity law school and Edward
O. Stadter, Jr., a former dis
trict attorney in Marion coun
ty. All persons from this coun
ty interested in the post of U.
S. district attorney are being
invited to meet with the com
mittee Tuesday and present
their qualifications. At the
conclusion of the talks with
the candidates the committee
expects to take a vote for its
recommendation to be for
warded to the Republican na
tional committeeman and wo
man from Oregon in support
of a candidate from this coun
ty. (Continued oa Page I, Colasaa (I
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Top photo shows backwaters of Santlam river south of
the Jefferson bridge crossing highway and approaching
new dwelling at left. Lower photo shows J. C. Bentley
standing hip deep in water by washed-out bridge, as
flood isolated his house, seen through trees, and barn.
At noon today ha had been unable to reach barn to feed
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Hal Asks Greenease
For His Forgiveness
Kansas City (P) Carl Aus
tin Hall has written millionaire
auto dealer Robert C. Green
loase asking forgiveness for the
kidnap slaying of Greenlease's
6-year-old son, Bobby.
Greenlease, disclosing receipt
of the letter Monday, said: "He
begeed forgiveness for his ter
rible crime, if such a thing as
forgiveness is possible.
Red Threat in
Latin America
Washington, WV-Sen. Hick-
enlooper (R., Iowa) said Mon
day there is a "very serious"
Communist threat in Central
America a problem he said
demands greater attention by
the United States.
Hickenlooper, just back
from an inspection tour of
U.S. information operations
in a dozen Latin-American
a dozen Latin-American
countries, said he found agita- ,tranger Hall said In his con
tionabout "Yankee imperial-! jes.ion he saw near his room
i"n " j after his arrest Oct. 6 by two
"There Is a basic respect for I St. Louis policemen,
us in these countries which! The St. Louis Police Board
we ran do a lot of develop
ing," the Iowa senator said
in an interview. "I am firmly
convinced as the result of my
trip that we should devote
more attention to bettering
our relationship with Latin
America. "We have been giving only
minimum attention to these
countries in dispensing techni
cal advice. I think we have
spent a disproportionate share
of funds for each service else
where in the world and we
should readjust that situa
tion." Prices Strengthened
For Thanksgiving
Portland i Prices
strengthened somewhat in pre
Thanksgiving trading in the
market here Monday.
Most seasonal fruits and veg
etables were in ample supply
although slides blocked some
highways to the south and de
layed California produce.
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Hall also assured Greenlease
in the letter that he does not
know the whereabouts of
300,000 in ransom money but
reiterated that most of it was
in his hotel room when he was
arrested in St. Louis.
He, said in a confession read
at his trial last Tuesday he had
made an inventory of the mon
ey just before the arresting of
ficers arrived.
Greenlease said he believes
Hall, who is awaiting death in
the Missouri gas chamber in
Jefferson City, Dec. 18, with
Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, his
confessed accomplice in the
crime, is telling the truth.
' "I no longer wonder if he
buried it before his arrest," 'the
aging automobile dealer said of
the missing money half the
'record ransom paid for Bobby's
release long after the young
ster had been slain.
"With certain execution fac
ing him, he has no reason to
lie," Greenlease added. "His
statement has the ring of
truth."
Authorities are believed to
h. itr.t.H in ilmri.r
h
has intensively questioned for
mer Lt. Louis Shoulders and
Patrolman Elmer Dolan, who
made the arrest. Both have
steadfastly denied any knowl-
edge of the missing money,
French Attack
Indochina Reds
Hanoi, Indochina VTl The
French air force unleased new
attacks Monday on communist
led Vietmingh divisions threat
ening French positions in the
Red river delta and northwest
Indochina.
French fighters and bombers
flew more than 100 sorties.
Chief targets were highway
No. 35 leading from outside
the northern rim of the delta
to communist China, and points
around Thainguyen, reported
ly the administrative capital
for rebel chief Ho Chi Minh.
40 miles north of Hanoi, and
Tuyen Quang. 85 miles north
west of Hanoi.
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3500 Isolated
In Southwest
Oregon Areas
1T Uu AlHtilM PTMl)
Heavy rains struck the Paci
fic Northwest aver the week
end and sent tame rivers op in
a rampage that Isolated l,54t
persons and took at least one
lite ia Oregon. The Weather
Bureau warned another storm
would strike Monday Bight
Those Isolated were mostly in
the Coquille Valley of South
western Oregon, where roads
were flooded. The residents
were in no Immediate danger.
A bridge over rain-swollen
Wolf Creek In Southern Oregon
collapsed under the weight of
a pickup truck Sunday night,
drowning Mrs. Chester Samuel
son, 28. Four others in the ve
hicle, including her husband
and daughter, managed to
scramble to safety.
Coastal 'Streams Affected
Most of the flooding came In
the coastal streams, which
swirled up under such rains as
8 V inches in 48 hours at Cape
Blanco and 9.9 Inches from t
p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Monday
at Mapleton.
The Coquille River blocked
all roads in its area, isolating
the towns of Coquille. Myrtle
Point and Powers in Southwest
Oregon. At Mapleton the Slue
law River Isolated about 30
home and forced the closing
oi sawmills and the school
there. :
(Contlaaed oa Fate i. Colama I)
Nixon Talks to
Manila Youths
Manila WV-U. S. Vice Pres
ident Nixon, told an audience
of 50,000 cheering youths Mon
day the "young people of Asia
are on the march and will de
cide the future of the world."
In his only public speech
In a four-day visit to the Phil
ippines, Nixon said:
"The young people, of Asia
are going to be the ones who
will decide the future of Asia
and, deciding the future in
Asia and southeast Asia, they
will decide the future of the
world."
Nixon said that .while the
world conflict today is mili
tary and economic, "the most
significant battle which goes
on in the world today is not
military or economic but It is a
battle for the minds, hearts and
souls of men.
'Who wins that battle will
rule the peoples of the world.
In the Philippines you have
made your choice on the side
of free nations as against slave
nations."
Central Oregon
Deluged by Rain
Prineville W) Even normal
ly dry Central Oregon was de
luged by the rainstorm that
struck the Pacific Northwest
over the week-end.
A record 1.95 inches fell In
Prineville in 24 hours. That is
20 per cent of the normal rain
fall for an entire year.
It was even worse elsewhere.
Bend got 2.4 inches, and the
Ochoco Ranger Station, 27
miles east of Prineville,
had
3.08 Inches.
Major Highways of
South Oregon Blocked
The major highways of
southern Oregon remained
blocked Monday by slides and
high water.
The commission issued this
summary at 9 a.m.:
Pacific Highway Closed at
Oakland by high water, trucks
going through 30 Inches of
water, light traffic going over
new grade on gravel surface;
closed south of Savage Rapids
dam by high water, truck traf
fic stopped, light traffic detour
ing via Provolt.
Oregon Coast Highway
Closed between Coos Bay and
Coquille; closed by high water
south of Coquille; closed south
of Port Orford by high water
and a washed-out bridge ap
proach; closed by slide south
of Gold Beach.
McKenzie Pas Highway
fcooauo aNaon3:
Wave Hurls
Log Into Group
Injuring Girl
Cannon Beach (ff) A storm-
whipped wave hurled a log into
a group of girls In the surf here
Sunday. It struck and seriously
injured Lile Eighler, 18, Port
land, who, with her back to the
ocean, was taking pictures of
her companions.
Other members of the party
Jumped to safety. Miss Eighler
was taken to a hospital where
her condition was Improved
Monday. , .
Along: the coast the highest
tides of the year were pushed
still higher by the strong week
end winds, causing damage both
in Oregon and Washington. At
Raymond, Wash., a 12-foot tide
was pushed up to the 14.7-foot
level, flooding- Highway 101
and isolating a number of
homes for a while. -.
Hundreds of persons went to
the Oregon coast to watch the
spectacular storm.
Rhee Consents
Unity Election
Seoul () President Syng-
man Rhee declared yesterday
he "would not stand in the
way" of free nationwide elec
tions in a unified Korea.
Replying to questions by
newsmen, he also said he
would step aside as president
so the voting papulation "may
choose a president freely"
as long as there is no outside
Interference." .
Rhee said he believed there
would be no opposition to him
president of the united
north and south except that
of the communists, who Would
want him to have nothing to do
with the government.
"' If Chinese troops were
! with-
drawn from the north, he add
ed, scarcely any communist
forces would remain.
The civilian population of
the north "is hoping and pray
ing that their brothers of the
south will come and save them
from death," he said.
AtomicWorkers
Back on Jobs
Oak Ridge, Tenn. W) Thou
sands of AFL workers streamed
back to their jobs on an atomic
plant construction project Mon
day to end a three-week-old
walkout
The men were ordered back
to work by the AFL Building
Trades Department in Wash
ington while a commltte studies
the request of the sheet metal
workers' union for travel pay
from their home to the job and
back.
The metal workers struck
Nov. 2 to support demands for
a 7-cents-a-mile travel allow
ance. A week later they put up
picket lines which other AFL
craftsmen refused to cross.
More than 8,500 workmen were
affected by the work stoppsge.
REDS 8EIZE XMAS TREES
Berlin 0JJ9 Communist po
lice today held 8000 Christmas
trees which they confiscated
from a truck at Soviet zone
checkpoint on West Berlin's
city limits.
Closed at Nlmrod by high wat-
Willamette Closed by
suae above oakrldge.
Coos Bay-Roseburg Closed
between Remote and Bridge
by high water and fallen trees;
closed between Myrtle Point
and Coquille by high water.
Redwood Highway US 199
Closed by tilde at Patrick
Creek, Calif.
The commission said the Dia
mond Lake Highway, closed by
snow Sunday, was reopened
as the heavy rains washed off
the snow.
The rains also washed away
the snow in the mountain pass
es. The Wilsonville fery on the
Willamette river was closed
Monday by high water.
FINAL
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Oregon
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River to Crest
At 21 Feet by
4 P.M. Tuesday
By MAKIAN LOWKY nSCHB
Riven of the vslloy war
roartag, Monday, following tor
rential rains ever the week
end with flood levels due at
many points along the aula
step of the Willamette. (
At Salem, the Willamette is '
due to crest at 21 feet or slight
ly below that mark by 4 p.m.
Tuesday. Flood stage here 1
20 feet. .The river was up to
13.2 feet here this morning.
The Santiam at Jefferson
crestea at iu.b feet at 8 ajn.
Monday, 7.8 feet above flood
stage, and was due to fall slow
ly through the day. The San
tiam loomed up quickly follow
ing heavy downpours of rain in
the upper regions, 8.48 inches
of rain being recorded In the .
Detroit area during the down
pours from Saturday to Sunday
X.14 Inches Rale i .
A total of 2.14 inches of
rain was dumped on Salem la
the 48-hour period ending at
10:30 a.m., Monday, 1.28 inches
of that total coming down in
the final 24 hours.
Although the Willamette had
not flooded at Eugene, a key
point, the Willamette was out
of bounds at Harrisburg. The
river was up to 18.S feet there
this morning, 3.5 feet above
flood stage, and Is due to crest
at 18 5 feet at 8 o'clock tonight
The water is causing trouble
for highway traffic there. At
Eugene, where flood stage Is
12 feet, the river mark was 9.9
feet this morning and a crest
of 10.8 feet was due today,
(Coattouod fmro i. Coha I)
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waters Menace
CresplCitys
ZurekarCalil., UB Flood
rescue units here preparing to
day to rush to the aid of resi
dents of Crescent- City, Calif,
80 miles to the northi as tele
phone lines were down and
contact with authorities there
was being hampered by heavy
rains.
The West Coast Telephone
Co., reported that lines to Cres
cent City were down in three
places. The sheriff's office radio
here today said It was unable
to contact the Del Norte office
in Crescent City. - .
It was believed that power
to Crescent City's sheriffs of
fice may have been knocked out
by the rushing flood waters and
heavy rains.
Rosd contact with the town
of 1,689 persons was threaten
ed by the heavy rains and
slides. One bus driver who
made the run between Crescent
City and Eureka this morning
said it "was tough going" and
there was a likelihood the roads
would be closed later in the
day.
A heavy washout at Jordan
Creek Bridge on U. S. 101 north
of Crescent City closed the
road as did rains on U. S. 101
near Hunters Creek; U. S. 19S
near Grant's Pass, Ore., and
Highway 299 leading into Red
ding, Calif. v
Mossadegh to
Speak a Month
- Tehran, Iran ( Ex-Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh
said Monday he had changed
his mind and would spesk in
his own defense. He added he
would keep on speaking until
the court-martial trying him
on treason charges gags him.
In an interview the ex-dictator
declared: "I will go oa
spetking as long as they let me.
If they give me a month, thea
I will spesk a month."
Reminded thst he earlier
had told the court that he
would refuse to speak in his
own defense, Mossadegh
grinned and declared:
"That's only what I said."
Asked about reports that he
already had prepared a 100
p a g e statement, Mosssdegh
chuckled and said, "certainly
Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh can
talk more than 100 pages In a
month.'
Mossadegh has been shifting
his trial tactics in recent days.
Formerly he buried hit head
on his folded arms as prosecu
tor Brig. Hossein Azemodeh
read the Indictment and v.
jpanded on the charges.
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