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Cons Cannot
Pick Crops on
Private Land
Attorney General
Holds 30-Year Prac
tice to Be Illegal
By JAMES D. OLSON
Attorney General Robert T.
Thornton Tuesday ruled the
tate board of control lacked
any Iefal authority to ntillie
penitentiary convicts in har
, vesting; crops, on privately
owned lands. .The opinion
had been requested by the
board.
It has been the practice ior
the last 30 years for the state
to buy crops froni owners of
. private lands, paying a fixed
B price, always below thr mar
ket price, less picking costs
using penitentiary inmate to
do the picking.
Occasionally, .. a g r t ements
have been made with owners
. for picking or harvesting fruit
or vegetables on a share basis,
the crop being picked by con
victs and divided on an agreed
basis between the owner and
the state.
Cite Authority " ;
In an opinion the attorney
general cites legislative au
thority for temporary use of
convict labor outside the con
fines of the penitentiary.
Such authority include! use
of convicts on public high
ways and in or about any state
institutions; use of convict in
any useful work in state lands
providing it doe not compete
with free labor and establish
ment of forestry camps and
us of convicts with minimum
' security classifications.
No Law Found
But the attorney general
holds that other than these
exceptions he is unbale to find
Implication in any one of the
permissive provisions of the
law giving the board author
ity to use convlctse to harvest
crops on private lands, or for
harecropping. . , . . ,.
(Cantlnnd n ran a, Column t)
Royal Couple
At Bermuda
Hamilton, Bermuda UP)
Queen Elizabeth II flrw today
to this holidaying pleasure isle
and a royal welcome for
the first official stop on her
round-the-world Common
wealth tour.
The young monarch and the
Duke of Edinburgh left Gan
der, Nfld. early today for the
1,265-mile flight in the big
American-built Stratocruiser.
Bermuda Gov. Sir Alexander
Hood headed the party to wel
come the Queen and her hus
band in an airport ceremony,
the first event of their crowded
one-day stay. The royal couple
will take off again tomorrow
for Jamaica to continue the six
month tour. They will visit
Australia, Ceylon, New Zea
land and 10 British possessions
and protectorates.
Highlights of their Bermuda
program included a tour of the
island, a speech of welcome and
response by the Queen at a
Joint meeting of the House of
Assembly and the Legislative
Council, the governor's garden
party and a state dinner at
Government House tonight.
Robins States 3
Dams Justified
Washington W A former
assistant chief of Army Engi
neers said Tuesday dams in the
Army- master flood control
plan for the Columbia River
Basin are Justified by the engi
neer on a power production
basis.
T. M. Robins, a retired ma
jor general, made the state
ment at a Power Commission
hearing on applications by Ida
ho Power Co. to build three
low level dams in the Snake
River between Idaho and Ore
gon. "They're all Justified by
power production," Robins said
under cross examination by
Mrs. Evelyn Cooper, attorney
for group favoring federal
construction of a high level
dam In Hell Canyon in the
same area.
This was in reply to a ques
tion a to whether Army Engi
neer evaluate project from
a multiple purpose point of
view instead of only a flood
control oasis.
Russia Told
To Cease Plots
Against U.S.
Must End Seeking
Violent Overthrow
To Win Friendship
United Nation. N. T. (Pi
The United State (aid Tuesday
the only way Russia can win
American friendship is to "give
np seeking me violent over
throw of the United States.'
Chief U. S. Delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr. told the U.N.
SO nation Political Committee
th Soviet Union "admits it is
plotting our destruction." He
said this naturally caused a
strong reaction among the
American people and press.
Lodge departed from the
prepared text of a speech in
which he urged the U. N. to
junk each and every part of
Russia s model peace plan to
make his tough charges against
the Soviet Union.
Persecution of Religion
He said the reason the Rus
sians are viewed with "some
thing less than affection" in
the United States is because of
their self admitted campaign to
overthrow the American gov.
ernment and way of life.
Another reason,. Lodge said.
Is communist persecution of re
ligion as exemplified in the re
cent arrest of Poland's Stefan
Cardinal Wyszynski. He said
"this has aroused religious peo
ple throughout the world.
(Continued on Fmt I, CMnmn 4)
Hunter Safe
Searchers Lost
Victoria, B.C. W A missing
hunter turned up safely Mon
day but three men who joined
the large scale search for him
became lost themselves, RCMP
said Tuesday.
The three men had not come
out of bush country in the
Cooke area 20 miles northeast
of here by morning.
Missing are Herbert Smith,
53, Ronald Knight, 30, and
George Bishop, 30, all of Vic
toria. At one time, eight mem
bers of the 1.500 man search
party seeking 30 year old Ron
ald Murray, were reported
missing. Five of them straggled
in late Monday night.
Murray was cold and hungry
but otherwise unharmed when
searchers discovered him. He
was brought to a hospital here
for a check up and later re
leased, Advocate Cut
in Foreign Aid
Washington UP) Two promi
nent Republicans, both having
first hand knowledge of Euro
pean affairs, say United States
financial aid to foreign nations
can and should be reduced.
Their reason: Western Eu
rope has recovered sufficiently,
with the help of the United
States, to maintain substantial
ly its current defense budgets.
The two. House Speaker Jo
seph Martin of Massachusetts
and director Harold E. Stassen,
of the Foreign Operations Ad
ministration (FOA), said they
believe U.S. economic aid can
be terminated except in a few
case.
Martin expressed his views at
a news conference Monday
upon his return from a two
month tour of Europe. He said
his trip led him to believe we
are going to have peace."
State Makes Gain from
Active Texas Gas Well
The State of Oregon stands
to possibly benefit financially
from a newly developed gaa
well in the heart of Texas, as
the result of a bequest under
the Brittana G. Fulton estate
probated some 15 years ago.
This became known Tuesday
when the state board of con
trol received a letter from the
Shamrock Oil and Gas Corpor
ation of Amarillo, Texas, noti
fying the board the company
had recently developed a gas
well on property on which the
(tate bas a portion of mineral
rights. The company (aid that
it planned to sell gas from the
well and asked the board to
execute an order for a division
of the royalties among the var
ious owner of tht mineral
right.
The Eastern Oregon Tuber
culosis hospital is the direct
vTwficfpry of the estate as U
the Children' Homo at Cor-
G aoit al A JOTimal
65th Year, No. 280 2St-JSToi: Wem, Oregon, Tuesday, November 24, 1953 20E Mti? U
I . JO AM4' " --
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Spy Interview
Not Prevented
New York UP) Foreign Sec
retary Lester B. Pearson said
Tuesday Canada would not
prevent American authorities
from questioning Igor Gouz
enko, the man who broke the
Canadian spy ring case of the
last war.
He said, however, Canada
can not guarantee to maintain
the anonymity under which
the former Russian embassy
clerk has been living, if he
wants to come to the United
States.
The senate Internal security
subcommittee headed by- Sen.
Jenner (R., Ind.) has been
trying to get Gouzenko to
come to Washington for ques
tioning on possible American
ramifications of the exposed
Canadian spy ring.
Pearson told a U.N. corre
spondents association lunch
eon Tuesday that Canada has
cooperated fully with the Unit
ed States in Inquiries into sub
versive activities In the past.
Aussies Swipe
Atomic Gear
Canberra, Australia UP) A
high government source said
Tuesday that "soveniring run
wild" resulted in the lifting by
Australian troops of secret Bri
tish atomic gear from the
Woomera rocket range in
South Australia.
The informant said that Bri
tish scientists at the site, where
Britain recently set off atomic
explosion, apparently had told
the Australian soldiers they
could have certain gear not
worth the expense of returning
to Britain. This included gen
erator and radio equipment
The troop Interpreted liber
ally the permission given them,
taking some secret electronic
gear, the Informant said, add
ing:
"You know how Australian
troops are. They made the most
of the situation.
"Britain did not tell Austra
lia that equipment had been
abandoned at Emu plains."
valli, both institutions having
been willed mineral rights
amounting to about l32nd of
the total royalty payments.
Roy Mills, secretary of the
board, aaid that the state had
been willed about 20 items.
including some stock and bonds
and real estate. All but two of
these item have been disposed
of, realizing approximately
115,000. Remaining Is a piece
of property on the Columbia
river which the army corps of
engineer is negotiating to
purchase. The other item is the
mineral right on a section of
Texaa land.
Governor Paul L. Patterson
suggested that further Informs
tlon be obtained before the
agreement I executed.
"Wo have little information
at band," Patterson said, "and
we don't know if we are sign'
lng for a few cent or thous
and of dollars, i beiievo that
(Cmunaad oa Pag S, Canon 4)
5
EISENHOWER HONORED
M'v '" iwyrw '"f,,7?tr
Washington President Eisenhower and Harry E.
Schultz of New York, smile a they pose with the 10th
annual ' America's Democratic Legacy award" which
was presented to the Chief Executive by the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B.rith. Mrs. Eisenhower and Philip
M. Klutznlck of Chicago, left, president of B'nai B.rith,
look on. Schultz who Is chairman of the Anti-Defamation
League, presented the award for the President's "leader
ship in the. great crusade to bring about elimination of
Nazi tyranny over the oppressed people of Europe," (AP
Wirephoto) .
Death Row
On Missing
Jefferson City, Mo. Pfl
Chief of Police Jeremiah
O'Connell of St. Lous will get
One last chance to quit con
demned kidnaper killer Carl
Austin Hall and Bonnie
Brown Heady about the mis'
Ike Visits Son i
At Ft. Benning
Ft. Benning, Ga. () Pres
ident and Mrs. Eisenhower
arrived here Tuesday , at noon,
en route to Augusta, Ga.,
where they will spend Thanks
giving week.
The presidential plane, the
Columbine, was met by MaJ.
John D. Eisenhower, their son.
who Is stationed at Ft. Ben
ning, and Ma Gen. Guy S.
Meloy, Jr., commanding offi
cer of the Infantry center.
The party went to MaJ. Eis
enhower's home on the post
for a brief stay before resum
ing the trip to Augusta. Mrs.
John D. Eisenhower and the
president' three grandchil
dren, Dwight David II, Bar
bara and usan, planned to
accompany the presidential
party to August
The president s ton will re
main here to have Thanksgiv
ing dinner with the men in
his outfit and wil join his
family in Augusta Thursday
afternoon.
U.S.Court Hears
Gateway Case
Omaha UP) A three-Judge
federal court Tuesday was to
hear arguments of the Inter
state Commerce Commission
and opponents of an injunc-
tion in the Ogden Gateway
freight rate case.
The Union Pacific railroad,
ordered by the ICC to estab
lish through routes and joint
rates with the Denver and Rio
Grande Western railway, is
seek'ng the injunction
Attorney for a number of
intervener in on the side of
the Union Pacific Monday
told the court, in effect, the
proposal doe not serve the
public interest but rather the
interest of the D&RGW.
One of them John H. Car
kin, representing the Oregon
Public Service Commission,
declared the Joint rate pro
posal "could not but adverse
ly affect the economy" of Pa
cific Northwest states.
PREMIER-DESIGNATE
NAMED
Jerusalem (4?) Israel' larg-
est party, th Hapai Labor, ha
nominated Foreign Minister
Moshe Sharrett as premier-des
ignate, if approved, the 57,
year-old Sharrett will succeed
David Bcn-Gurinn, who is re
tiring next month.
Interview
Ransom
lng ransom money in the
Bobby Greenlease kidnaping
case.
Thomas E. Whit ecotton.
tate director of corrections,
told newsmen Tuesday the St
Louis chief of police would be
granted permission (or th
death row interview. But he
did not know when It would
be held.
The pair are to die in the
gas chamber at tho state peni
tentiary December 18, a week
before Christmas.
Chief O'Connell asked per
mission Monday to question
Hall and Mrs. Heady about
(Continued an Par S. Column 4)
British Writer.
Jailed in Egypt
Cairo, Egypt iP) Egyptian
police have arrested a British
journalist, Tom' Clarke, in Al
exandria. He was the third Brit
ish subject picked up by the
Egyptian within a week.
Clarke was arrested yester
day but the British Embassy
here said it had not been In
formed of the charges against
him.
The embassy said the British
consulate general in Alexandria
had protested the arrest to the
Egyptian government but no
results of the protest had been
reported.
Clarke, a resident of Egypt
for more than 20 years, is cor
respondent for several foreign
newspspers. He formerly was
Alexandria correspondent for
the United Press as well as Al
exandria editor of the Egyptian
Mail, a Cairo English-language
daily.
McCarthy On
New York W.B Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy will lash back at
former President Truman s
Nov. 16 indictment of "Mc
Carthyism" tonight from 8
to 8:30 PST on the nation's
major radio and television
networks.
The communist-hunting Wis
consln republican demanded
and obtained the blanket, n(
tionwide radio facilities of
ABC. CBS, NBC, and MBS and
the TV networks of ABC, CBS,
and NBC to answer Truman's
television and radio charge
that McCarthyism is the "cor-
ruption of truth . . . the aban
donment of 'due process' of law
. . , and the rise to power of
the demagogue."
McCarthy said the networks
owed him th same privilege
they had given Mr Truman In
the course of presenting hi
dde of the Harry Dexter White
case to th nation. It will cost
th nwnrr n estimated
I30C.000 to giv McCarthy
th choict spot.
Lull in Rainfall Improves
Flood Conditions
Dulles Favors
Asking Canada
For Spy Quiz
Washinsion UP) Secretin
of State Dulles (aid Tuesday ha
uiought It waa entirely prop
er for congressional commit
tees to ask the Canadian gov
eminent for the privilege of
questioning Igor Gousenko.
Dulles also told a news con
ference he did not think the
Harry Dexter White case and
it repercussions has had any
significant or measurable ef
fects upon America' relation
with any country.
Aa to the requests to ques
tion Gouzenko, he laid he
hoped that Canada would reply
in the spirit of friendliness
which haa characterized rela
tions between that country
and the United State. Dulles
added that he believed such
relation would survive this
present incident
Former Embaaay Clerk
Gouzenko 1 the former Sov
ient embassy clerk in Ottowa
whose disclosures In 1048
broke a Russian spy ring in
Canada.
The senate internal security
sub-committee, headed by Sen.
Jenner (R., Ind.), and the sen
ate investigations committee,
headed by Sen. McCarthy (R.,
Wis.), both want to send repre
sentatives to Canada to ques
tion Gouzenko in connection
with their digging into alleged
subversive activities in th
U. S. government
(CanUnaed en Pat g. Column 4)
Flood Evacuees
Plan Return r
Coos Bay UP) Peopl who
fled their home Sunday in
the face of riling waters wer
hopeful they could start mov
ing back lata Tuesday and It
appeared many of them would
be able to.
As the rivers fell gradually,
the Coquilie at mldmorning
waa down 1.2 of a foot at Co
quilie from Monday's high
mark, police and coast guards
men prepared to aid the evac
uees in going back home.
Several score of families left
hurriedly in the rapid rise of
the coastal streams.
Workmen, digging away at
slides, got a number of roads
open to one way traffic. The
receding water began to open
up others, and it was thought
that by late Tuesday the Co-quille-Myrtle
Point road
would be open. It already was
open from Myrtle Ponlt to
Roseburg. Highway 38 from
Reedsport to Drain was re
opened. Abandoned Ship
Offered for Sale
Portland The Oliver
Olson, lumber schooner which
ran aground on the jetty of
Bandon harbor recently, was
offered for sale Monday,
Oliver J. Olson & Co., owner
of the vessel, advertised the
b'e In Portland newspapers,
The firm said bids to wreck the
freighter should be sent to Ssn
Mateo, Calif., where they would
be opened not later than Nov,
30. Two lift trucks on the deck
of the abandoned ship are not
for sale, the company said.
Greenglass Says Red
Spy Ring Still Active
New York UP) David Green
glass, confessed atom spy, tes
tified In writing Tuesday a
radar spy ring headed by ex
ecuted Julius Rosenberg "could
very possibly be continuing to
this very day."
A sworn deposition made by
Greenglass at th federal pen
itentiary at Lew is burg, Pa.,
waa read into th record at an
open hearing conducted by
Sen. McCarthy (R., Wis),
chairman of the senate perma
nent sum-committee on Inves
tigations. McCarthy called th hearing
ostensibly to support his
charge that an espionage ring
operated at the aimy signal
corps radar laboratory at Ft
, Monmouth, N. J,
in
Allies Seek
To Win Back
Pro-Red PWs
Panmunjom ( The Allies
revealed today tbey arc making
final preparation for effort
to win back 21 Americans, 1
Briton and 328 South Koreans
who have refused to come
home.
The U.N. Command disclos
ed It has been sparring tor two
weeks with the Korean war
prisoner repatriation commis
sion over how many Allied in
viewers will be permitted to
talk with the prisoners.
The Allies have requested a
total of 155 Americans, 5
Britons and 5 South Korean.
The commission bas set a
limit of five.
Meanwhile, AUied and Red
negotiator meeting nearby on
arrangements for a Korean
peace conference discussed
sites, but got nowhere again.
Reds Told of
Thanksgiving
Panmunjom (fl US, Am
bassador Arthur ' H. Dean
Tuesday told communist dlp-
lomata about Thanksgiving,
God, worship and prayer.
He asked that the diploma
tic talks to arrange Korean
political conference bo recessed
Thanksgiving day,
Dean told the Red about
the Pilgrim, calling them
God fearing groupw
He said ever since the day
of th pilgrims "it is our cus
tom to repair to out churches
and to give thanks to our
Maker for th numerous bless
Ings h ha been pleated to
vouchsafe to ua during the
year lat past" "
H ald, "on that date we
wish to go to worship with the
people of Korea and to give
thanks to Almighty God for
our manifold blessings and to
pray, for guidance in these
talks."
Th communist agreed
to
the
Disarming of ;
Japs Mistake
Washington UP) Secretary
of State Dulles (aid Tueidsy
he agrees with Vice President
Nixon's view that the disarm
ing of Japan after World War
II was "a mistake."
Dulles told a news confer
ence the United States carried
disarmament programs for
both Japan and Germany
rather far. He noted some of
these disarmament project
have since been reversed be
cause of the communist threat
Those in charge of Ameri
can foreign policy at that time,
Dulles said, quite naturally as
sumed the world was entering
a period of lasting peace
where disarmament might be
possible.
Dulles made plain he, too.
believed this at the time and
noted that the San Francisco
United Nations' charter draft
ed In 1945 contained provi
sions calling for limitation of
armaments.
Weather Details
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Greenglass said that so far
as he knew, th Rosenberg ra
dar spy ring activities "never
stopped."
He is brother of Ethel Ros
enberg, who was executed with
her husband, Julius, In the
Sing Sing prison electric chair
for stealing atom bomb secrets
for Russia.
Greengals is serving a 15
year term for hi part in the
atom spy plot He hid testified
(gainst his sister and brother-in-law.
Greenglass, who had been
stationed at the Lo Alamos
N, M., atomic energy project
an army sergeant said he
learned more about the activ
ities of the Rosenberg ring af
ter he left th army.
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FINAL
EDITION
"alley
Crest for River
At 19 Feet Due
On Wednesday
By MAJUAN LOWBT FIBCBEB
Flood condition la tfca
Willamette Valley Improved
Tuesday morning with th
rain tapering off, and pro
dieted crests for th iivr r-
Most Willamette river areas
will come off lightly in th ,
current high water period"
compared to the flooding in
southwestern Oregon.
More rain is due later in
the week, however, and there
la possibility of mora high
water . troubles with new
water coming In before tho
swollen streams bav subsided
completely.
The revised forecast bow
puts the Willamete river level
for Salem at 18 feet by 1 a.m. .
Wednesday. That is one foot
below flood level. Previously
the prediction had been for
21 feet or (lightly below at
Salem. The river hero this
morning wa up to 18.2 feet
(ConUnd n Pag K Cohuaa I)
Coast Guard
Feed Isolated
laquuie uo uoan uuara
boat carried food and mail to
Isolated communities today as
floodwatera almost paralyzed
this southwestern Oregon area.
Heavy rain which nt
streams out of their bank let
up last night but the runoff
wa expected to be (low.
School her ind in tho Myr
tle Point area were cloud.
Moat Coos and Carrf aounty
roads were blocked, f armland
wa flooded and rive Utt of
water from th Coauill river
covered Highway 101 near
here. Soma persons war
stranded. Sawmills wer closed
and logging was crippled.
Elsewhere in Oregon, th
situation was reported oaslnc.
Th Willamette river crest wa
due in Albany this afteiuoou
and was expected to exceed tho
20-foot flood stage only slight
ly. But many roads in tho state
remained blocked.
Two drownings have been .
blamed on the high water.
Storm Parade
To Continue
Seattle UP) A continued pa
rade of storm systems moving
in from th North Pacific 1 in
prospect for the Pacific North
west for th rest of the week.
But you won't need to batten
Weather Bureau forecaster
says their intensity is decreas
ing from the level that swamp
ed Southwest Oregon over th
weekend.
The storm centers also are
expected to shift farther north
so they will pass over tho Brit
ish Columbia and southeast Al
aska coast
A new rain bearing storm
system or low pressure area
is expected to reach the
Washington and Oregon coast
Just about every other day. -
Rain I expected to total as
much as 3 to 4 inches along
the coast, with lesser rains
spilling over onto the east aid
of the Cascades. Moderate
temperatures are in prospect
5 Candidates
Voted on for
U. S. Attorney
Five candidate appeared
when the Marlon County Re
publican Central Committee
met In executive session at
th Senator Hotel Tuesday
noon to vote its prefercac
for United States attorney
for Oregon.
Th fiv wer Jason Le.
Seward P. Reese, Ed Oa
Stadter, Jr., John RUelhaJB
mer and Kenneth Thompson.
Th committee had not
balloted on th fiv at I sja,
although all had been Inter
viewed, Tbey appeared
for th eommltte by tnvi-
tatlAH.
Fifteen Voting members
t th eommltte war present,