C apit at jfci omrnal .
THE WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY tonight,
Friday. Slightly cooler. Law U
aight, 41; high frlday, 64.
F I N A L
EDITION
65th Year, No. 282 EffA
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On to Explain Action
' By JAMES D. OLSON
Governor Paul L. Patterson
will call on Fred Cockell,
chairman of the milk market
ing administration and William
plain why a secret meeting of
the commission was held last
Tuesday night at which time an
order was promulgated increas
ing the minimum price of one
- cent a quart for J. I per cent
butterfat milk.
The governor said that while
there may be times when a
state board or commission has
matters that can best be dis
cussed at an executive session,
he strongly believes that when
a matter of vital concern to the
public is decided, it should be
done at an open meeting.
Proposes 'to Find Out'' -"I
do not know the circum
stances surrounding the secret
meeting of the milk marketing
administration Tuesday mgnt,"
the governor said, "but I pro
pose to find out. I am not a
fellow who believes in going
off in a corner under a tent."
The governor said that he
could not comment on the order
itself bemuse he was not fa
miliar with the facts that led
to the order.
Increase Monday
The order issued Wednesday
boosts the price of milk to 23
cents a quart, beginning Mon
day, the highest level In his
tory. in zone which includes
Marion, Multnomah, Washing
t o n, Clackamas, Columbia,
Yamhill, Polk, Wasco and Hood
River counties.
(Continued en Pas 6, Column X)
Day Observed in
Foreign Lands
London (ft Americans in
Europe civilians and service
personnel alike celebrated
Thanksgiving with prayer,
feasting and football games.
The American colonies in
Rome, Naples, Leghorn, Flor
ence, Milan and Genoa attend
ed special church services. In
'Rome, U. Sj Ambassador
Clare Boothe Luce read Presi
dent Eisenhower's Thanksgiv
ing proclamation at the Epis
copal Church of St Paul's
Within the Walls,
Americans in, The Hague at
tended a special service in the
British - American Episcopal
Church while at Leiden a
group of American scholars
assembled from all parts of
The Netherlands in the 17th
century Pieterskerk (Peter's
Church). The service com
memorated the 11 years the
pilgrims spent at Leiden be
fore leaving for America.
U. S. Ambassador Winthrop
Aldrich and Ma. Aldrich at
tended church , services in
London and then a Thanksgiv-
4M .linn-,, at tk I T G & i.
second turkey dinner Thuri
" rlnv niffht at an Aneriran So-
ciety banquet. '
a" I I IX
h i ow v uroro
i
Occasional light rain, cooler
temperatures and falling rivers
featured the weather teport
i Thursday morning, makiig
not too disagreeable fot the
- nonaay.
', The Willamette river at Sa
lem was down to 17 9 fed at
the morning reading. The
waters finally crested at 19
of a foot below the forecast
peak.
Rainfall amounted to .13 f
an inch In Salem In the 24
hour period ending at 10:31
a.m. Thursday, bringing
thj
8:43(
I of
month s total to date to 6
inches against a normal
S.01 for the period.
Immediate forecast is
cloudy skies tonight and Fri
day and cooler temperatures
for Salem area.
Flood swollen rivers were
dropping in all sections of
Oregon hit earlier in the week.
All major highways are
open except the strip along
the Willamette highway out
of Oakridge.
Many logging operations
were closed and much low
ground still was overrun with
water, but in general flood
areas were getting back to
normal.
Turkey Carved
By Eisenhower
For His Family
Parcels Out Dinner
From 39 Pound
Prize Gobbler
' Augusta, Ga. (ft President
Elsenhower, like the heads of
thousands of other American
families, honed a carving knife
Thursday for use on the tra
ditional Thanksgiving tnrkey.
In the president's case, he
was ready to apply the knife to
a 39-pound prize gobbler and
to parcel out shares with all
the trimmings to his son and
daughter-in-law, Ma), and Mrs.
John Eisenhower, and his three
grandchildren.
The president and Mrs. Eis
enhower deferred dinner until
7 p.m. because the major i is
having an earlier turkey feast
across Georgia at Ft Benning,
where he commands the 1st
battalion of the 30th Infantry
regiment.
The chief executive and the
first lady, vacationing here un
til Sunday, attended Thanks
giving services at the Reid
Memorial Presbyterian church.
(Continued Pat . Column 1)
Kidnap Killers
Feast on Turkey
Jefferson City, Mo. 0M9
Kidnap -killers Carl Austin
Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady
spent the last holiday of their
lives today feasting on double
rations of Thanksgiving tur
keys.
The Infamous pair prepared
to dine in solitude within
sight of the gas chamber
building where they will die
in three weeks.
Turkey dinners will be
served to Mrs. Heady and Hall
in their death cells separated
by six empty rooms. The two
will not see each other to
day and probably will not
meet again until the day of
their execution.
On that day they will again
be served a feast If they re
quest it
It was revealed that both
Hall and his alcoholic para
mour will die penniless.
Crash Injures
4r Grants Pass
Grants Pass, Ore. (ft Two
cars crashed on a hill north of
here Thursday morning, block
ing Highway 99 for nearly an
hour and putting four travelers
in the hospital.
A Santa Monica couple, en.
route to Seattle to live, and a
Sacramento couple, released
from the navy at Bremerton
Wednesday, were in the two
cars.
Tom Shinn, 32, of Santa
Monica, in critical condition
with a brain injury, was to be
transferred to a Medford hos
pital for a specialist's atten
tion. - His wife Leslie, 21, was
not seriously hurt and their 4-year-old
son escaped hurts but
stayed in the hospital to be
with his mother.
Ralph Kimball, 20, the navy
man, was not seriously hurt
but his wife, Sylvia, 18, was
taken to surgery with face and
head injuries believed serious.
Cause of the accident was
not immediately determined.
RED CHINA
Tokyo (ft The Communist
!tPeiping radio said today the
new nnnisn minister to Red
China, Karl Johan Funstrom,
arrived at the Red capital yes
teday. Follies Nets
Memorial Hospital Fund
By MARIAN
A net profit of $6858.08 was
rfali?ri from th rMwnt hn.
or tit show, "High Fever Follies,"
Sponsored by Salem Memorial
tospital Auxiliary, and that is
te sum to be turned over to
be hospital to help in furnish
Ug the new wing.
The show grossed $10,044.
Ms. Kenneth Sherman, presi
dent of the auxiliary, Thurs
day released a breakdown of
f igjres to show where the
fuels were expended.
Die receipts showed $4139
resized from the program ad
vecising. $2860 from contri
butons from patrons; $3245
bo) ticket sales.
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Dutch Warn
Reds to Beware
United Nations, N.Y. UP)
The Netherlands warned the
Soviet Union Thursday that if
it tried to force its system on
the west, "our peace-loving
world would handle them in
the way it has handled the Kai
ser and Hitler."
M. J. De Kadt, a member of
the Dutch Parliament, said he
wanted to tell Andrei Y. Vi
shinsky personally that there
was no force strong enough "to
make us accept systems and
ways of living which we con
sider to be below human dig
nity and to represent abomin
able despotism.". , .
Vlshinsky, spexklng later,
said -the west "doesn't have
everything in the field of ato
mic weapons that the Soviet
Union has."
Vishinsky told the V.N.'s 80
nation political committee that
both the United States and the
Soviet Union had atomic and
hydrogen bombs and then went
on to claim possession of other
weapons.
Widow, Negro
Tried Together
Fairbanks, Alaska VP) Mo
tions for dismissal of a first de
gree murder ' charge against
Diane Wells and severance of
her case from that of Negro
jazz drummer Johnny warreif,
also charged with her hus
band's slaying, were denied
Wednesday.
Another motion In Federal
District Judge Harry Pratt's
court to transfer the trial to
a court in another district was
put over until Friday for
further argument
The pretty, 3 1-year-old
widow of Cecil Wells, wealthy
Fairbanks businessman killed
In the early hours of Oct. 17,
sought dismissal of the charges
on grounds of insufficient evi
dence.
The change of venue has been
asked because, her attorneys
contend, she cannot receive a
fair trul in Fairbanks. War
ren's attorneys are opposed to
the change.
$6858 for
LOWRY FISCHER
Expenditures included: Pro
gram printing, $685.63; ticket
printing, $30; express on cos
tumes, $175; director's hotel
expense, $190; auditorium
rental, $95; miscellaneous ex
pense in producing, $324.32;
stage hands, $26; spotlight
renUl, $10; to J. H. Cargill
company, producer, $1650.
In aprcciation to the auxiliary
the Salem Memorial Hospital
board Wednesdsy night psssed
a resolution, expressing its
thanks.
The specific project to which
the $6850.03 profit will be ap
plied for the new wing will be
announced later.
'IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS
HT;1' yaBBnct ma tamiiy iniem
i W68l000Cashftobhery
This family met in a happy - Thanksgiving reunion
through a window at Silverton hospital. Mrs. Joseph A,
Luthro, wife of the pastor of Trinity Lutheran church,
looks fondly at her two children, Melna, 4, and Kenneth,
S, as they blow kisses to their mother through the window
glass,, while their father looks on. Mrs. Luthro Is a polio
victim, but soon will be fully recovered and home with her
family. Rev, Luthro's Thanksgiving sermon topic was:
"In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in
Christ Jesus concerning you." Thessalonians 1:8:18. 1
Student, Infant Killed
In Grand Ronde Wreck
McMinnville (Jf) A carload i
of Willamette university stu
dents bound home for Thanks
giving skidded on rain-slick
Queen Reviews
Island Troops
Kingston, Jamaica Vf) Queen
Elizabeth II Thursday review
ed a military parade and greet
ed 2,000 school children In
colorful ceremonies marking
the second day of the royal
visit to this British rum and
sugar colony,.
The children waited four
abreast in 18 rows on the
length of the criket field at
Kingston's Sabina Park for the
Queen and the Duke of Edin
burgh.
Proudest youngster of them
all was Barbara Le Wars, 15,
who thanked the Queen "for
the great deligbt you have giv
en the children of Jamaica."
She presented an array of Ja
maican handicraft products to
the royal couple as a token of
the loyalty and affection
which all the people of this
island feel for you and his
Royal Highness."
At the parade the Queen met
the Island's top military figures
and their wives.
Tax Prosecutor
Also Accused
Washington W The Inter
nal Revenue Service Thursday
said that Garland H. Williams,
head of its tax frauds investi
gations division, resigned re
cently after "discrepancies'
were found in his own Income
tax returns.
James C. Rivers, informa
tion officer, said Williams re
signed about mid-August aft
er the matter was called to his
attention by Revenue Com
missioner T. Coleman An
drews,
Rivers said he could not dis
close the nature of the "dis
crepancies," but they were
not considered serious enoisgh
to warrant court action.
He quoted Andrews as rul
ing that the Irregulars were
"not consistent with Williams'
Important job as an enforce
ment officer." Rivers said
Andrews felt a person in
charge of tax fraud Investiga
tors should hsve a spotless tax
record himself. ' 4
Rivers said the "discrepan
cies covered a period before
Williams took the internal
revenue job last Jinutrjr L
pavement Wednesday, killing
two persons and injuring five
others.
Irvin Monroe Nicholas, 19,
one of four Willamette stu
dents from Newport riding in
one car.'tvaa killed as the car
skidded -end collided with a
car carrying Mr. and Mrs. Ar
chie Aldropp. both 26, Lan-
glois. Ore., and their Infant
daughter. ,
The daughter, 7 months,
died several hours later in a
hospital here.
(Continued on race S, Column 7
Adlai Deplores
Attack on HST
Baltimore (UK) A d 1 a 1 E.
Stevenson joined his sons for
Thanksgiving dinner near Here
today after charging that the
tree world has "lost much con
fidence" in the administration
because of Sen. Joseph R. Mc
Carthy's attack on former Pre
sident Truman.
The 1952 Democratic presi
dential candidate drove from
Washington to the farm of a
friend last night after a three
day visit to the Deep South.
He joined two of his sons,
Borden and John Fell, at the
farm but declined to identify
the friend because "I don't
want to cause him any more
trouble than he is having now,
Stevenson told reporters at
the Washington airport that
McCarthy s nationwide radio-
TV speech Tuesday night at
tacking Mr. Truman had hurt
the Eisenhower administration
in the eyes of the free world,
He said he hopd the adminis
tration would "move promptly
to restore" the confidence it
has lost.
Capital to End
Segregation
Washington tin The com
missioners for the District of
Columbia moved today to end
racial segregation and discrim
ination in the city government
of the nation s capital.
The commissioners ordered
heads of 23 municipal agencies
to take steps to end rscisl dis
crimination in city employ
ment, institutions and facilities.
Commissioner Samuel Spen
cer wrote President Eisenhow
er thst the new policy would
be 'another step forward" in
the president's pledge to "use
whatever authority exists in the
office of president to end segre
gation in the District of Colum
bia."
Most Wanted
Fugitive Taken
At Las Vegas
WashUgtoa () The FBI
Thursday announced the arrest
In La Vegas, N. M., of on of
Its "ten most wanted fucitlres."
He was Identified as Thomas
Jacksoa Masslngale, ft, want
ed on charges in connection
with the kidnaping of a guard
during a Hutchinson, Kan., jail
oreaa.
FBI Director i. Edgar Hoov
er said "an alert citizen in
Wyoming whose identity Is not
being disclosed saw Massln
gale's photograph In the cur
rent issue of the Saturday Ev
ening Post and reported infor
mation which led to the fugi
tive's location in New Mexico
today."
Massinggale'i name had been
on the "most wanted" list.
sought fo.' unlawful flight to
escape prosecution for kidnap
ing a guard in a Break from the
Kansas State Industrial re
formatory at Hutchinson May
14, 1853.
I Continued ea Pat I, Column 1)
Canada Firm
4
On Spy Quiz
Ottawa, VP) Canada stood
pat today on its insistence that
U. S. officials may question
Igor Gouzenko about Soviet
spying only it the Dominion
government keeps complete
control over publicity of any
resulting evidence. -
That threw the international
tussle over efforts of the U.S.
Senate Internal security sub
committee to interview Gou
zenko into at least temporary
stalemate.
Oouzenko is the former code
expert at the RussUn Embassy
here who turned against the
Soviets in 1945, enabling Cana
da to uncover a vast Red es
pionage network which appar
ently branched into the United
States.
Gouzenko now lives under
an assumed name In a little vil
lage "somewhere in Ontario,"
under protection of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police.
Laniel Given
Even Chance
Paris UJ French Premier
Joseph Laniel was given a bet
ter than even chance today of
surviving tomorrow s crucial
vote of confidence test which
will determine not only the
fate of his government but also
France's part in the Big Three
conference at Bermuda.
As deputies sounded out
French grass roots on how they
shall vote, it was learned that
Foreign Minister Georges Bl
dault may seek a conference
within a week with German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
on the deadlocked dispute over
the coal rich Saar.
Bidault and Laniel felt that
at least a beginning of the long-
delayed Saar talks is an urgent
necessity before the Dec. 4
start of the Bermuda meeting,
White House Said Mad
About McCarthy's Talk
New York (ft The New
York Times said Thursday
that top White House staff
members were "hopping mad"
about Sen. Joseph R. McCar
thy's (R., Wis.) television-radio
speech.
A Washington dispatch to
the Times by Jsmes Reston
said the staff members would
not comment officially, but un
officially they made these
points about McCarthy's speech
Tuesday night:
1. He received time on the
air to criticize former Presi
dent Harry S. Truman and
ended up by criticizing Presi
dent Elsenhower as well.
2. H sought to make him
self, rather than President Eis
enhower s legislative program,
the central Issue In the 1954
congressional campaign.
3. Ha distorted the case of
John Paton Davie, career state
Thanksgiving
Sidetracks
Peace Efforts
Panmuniom (ft America's
traditional day of Thanksgiv
ing today took precedence over
work on plana for Korean
peace conference and the
stalled communist campaign to
woo noma prisoners ot war
who have refused repatriation.
The ponderous and compli
cated armistice machinery was
at a virtual standstill for the
Thanksgiving .Day holiday.
Diplomats trying to arrange a
peace conference took the day
off.
For thousands of American
troops. South Koreans and U,
N. forces there were prayers.
big turkey dinners and holiday
entertainment ,
There was something special.
too, for 22 . Americans and
others who have refused to go
home.
The Indian command, which
guards unrepatriated prisoners,
said the Chinese communists
supplied chicken,' eggs, fish.
pork, beef and candy , for
Thanksgiving dinner.
South Korea
Issues Warning
Panmunjom, Korea lull
South Korea warned today it
still expects the peninsula to
be unilfed by Jan. 27 or else.
Foreign Minister Pyun Yung
Tae cautioned the ROK gov
ernment "might do something
which the world will know
about if the delayed and still
uncalled Korean peace confer
ence tails by that date.
Pyun refused to reveal what
action his government may
take if Korea is still split by
communism and democracy on
the deadline date. However,
guarded ROK statements have
threatened South Korea may
reopen the war it the peace
parley tails to give the nation
on government by Jan. 37.
Korean Army
Seoul, Korea QM Commu
nist China is building up Red
military strength in North Ko
rea, a South Korean diplomat
charged today.
Gen. Kim Hong U, envoy to
Nationalist China, said the
Peiplnf government Is ship
ping to North Korea "great
amounts of munitions. -
He blamed Russia for estab
lishing a n "International
army" in its satellite states
and although he did not name
North Korea he apparently
meant its army is Soviet-back
ed.
Kim, who returned to Seoul
yesterday from Formosa, said
Nationalist intelligence ' re
ports showed no indication
the Chinese . will withdraw
from Korea in the near future,
Weather Details
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prMlMMttos. II. 0i ra.sL ll-tt. BHatr
tMittit. ill fart, faOtoa. IUirt Or u..
department diplomat, although
he knew the fact In that case
as well as did Undersecretary
of Stat W. Bedell Smith, who
gave them to him under oath.
4. He demonstrated more
clearly than ever before that
he was not prepared to follow
the president's lead either in
fighting the communists at
horn or in th strategy against
them In communist China.
The story said on White
House aide described the
speech a "a declaration of war
against th president" It
sdded:
"Others put their criticism
mora mildly, but there teemed
to be general agreement that
the speech marked on more
crisis in the stormy relations
between the White House and
the Junior republican from
Wisconsin.'
Trio Accused of
Armored Car
TheltrMarch'52
Beaton (ft A former eeav.
Tkt, his wife aad their eel-
leg student son war amder
arrest .today .la cosuMetlea
with the second largest cash
robbery la the nation his
tory, the $6$1,M theft frasa
parked armored ear hi -
March, 195$.
The FBI identified them as
George D. O'Brien, 48: his
wife, Margaret, 42, and George
Jr., 20, a third-year student
at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
The father was charged with
the theft of property belong
ing to a Federal Reserve bank.
His wife and son were charg
ed with receiving stolen prop- -
erty. ;
FBI agents - arrested the
in their one-family bouse in a
middle -class neighborhood at .
Wollaston, Mass., a community
on Boston's south shore. The
son was arrested on the M.I.T.
campus in Cambridge, Mass, .
Armored Car Parked
The armored car. belonging
to the United State Trucking
company, was robbed on a
bright forenoon while parked
on a busy square In Danvers,
Mass.,: a residential town SO
miles north ot Boston.
(Cantlaaed on Page a, Cofanaa 41
Czech Officer
Shoots Himself
Inchon, Korea ift A Com
munist Chechoslovakian truce
Inspection officer due to return
to Red North Korea tomorrow
shot and seriously wounded
himself today. . i .
He was described a "con
scious and exhilarated" aboard
an American aorpi'H strip
where doctors said hi condi
tion was serious but sot criti
cal.
Czech LL Col. Vojtech Bagda
was found in his quarters early
this morning st this port city
where he was a member of the
neutral nations inspection team
set up - under the- armistice
agreement
There was small callbr
bullet wound in hi head. . , ;
An Army announcement said
"apparently the wound was
self inflicted."
Bagda was taken to the
American hospital ship Conso
lation for an operation.
Vishinsky to
Slam Allies :
United Nations. N.Y. JJ
Russia's Andrei Y, Vishinsky
prepared today, to deliver a
Thanksgiving Day diatribe
against the United State in fi
nal debate on the Soviet "peace
package" proposal.
Most of Vishinsky' remark
were expected to be directed at
American Ambassador Henry'
Cabot Lodge Jr., who blasted
the Soviet Tuesday in the same
debate for Its policy of religious
persecution and efforts to un
dermine the American govern
ment, Vishinsky will follow th
Philippines snd the Netherlands
on the speakers list today to
wind up debate on the Soviet
peace package. But Fernand
van Langenhove of Belgium,
chairmen of the General As
sembly's Main Political Com.
mittee planned to extend the
"right of reply" after formal
debate ends.
Voting on the Soviet peace
package will follow the replies.
possibly, tomorrow.
Chiang Fires Top
Policy Adviser
Taipeh, Formosa (ft. The
Chinese Nationalist govern
ment said today Wang Shlh
chleh was fired as Chiang Kai-
shek top policy adviser for
"abuse of power and other
Wang was ousted from the
powerful post of secretary-general
Nov. n.
- Today' announcement did
not elaborate.
There were rumor that he
wm ti rider tome form of house
arrest. .