Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, December 01, 1953, Page 1, Image 1

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THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY. eecasieaal
showers tonight Wedaesdsy.
Increasing eleadiaess Wedaes
day, raia by afteraaea. C
tiaoed mild. Law toalfht, 44;
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65th Year, No. 286 E
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, December 1, 1953
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Plans for Hew
Hospital for
Aged Okehed
) Will Provide Care for
687 Patients Now in
Crowded Quarters
By JAMES D. OLSON
' Preliminary plant (or the
new S1.5M geriatrics bn lid
In at the Orel ea State hospital
were approved by the t a t e
hoard of control Tuesday at Iti
weekly meeting. Flaal plana
are. expected to be completed
In March with construction
r" scheduled to he(la In April of
154.
' The building will be five
itory reinforced concrete build
1 ing with alternate bids to be
portion of the exterior walls of
Z the structure.
Provides S7 Beds
' A total of 687 elderly patients
can be cared for In the new
hospital building which has
been designed and located so
that it may be extended In the
future and used as the main
hospital building. The plans
were drawn by Hollis Johnston,
Portland architect, who was
represented at the meeting by
Charles R. Kaufman and F. li
Shell
The new building will be lo
cated north of the present
Treatment hospital and could
be extended to "D" street if
future demands require, the ar
chitect said.
J, 18 in State Hospital '
Or. Charles Bates, superin
tendent of the hospital told the
board that the present popula
tion of the state hospital is
3,186 patients of which over
half was in what he termed the
"elderly class." While the new
building will not care for all
old patients. Dr. Bates said that
it would care for all the aggra
vated cases now crowded in
quarters located in the admin
istration building.
(CaoUaaed aracc S, Calama 4)
Some Oregon
Roads Closed
The Upper Columbia River
highway. U. S. 395, remains
closed from the Pendleton-Cokl
Springs junction to the Wash'
ington state line because of
hazardous settlements in the
road along the lake behind Mc-
Nary dam, the State Highway
Department said today.
The Willamette highway Is
open only to one-way traffic
between Oakridge and Oxiell
lake with gravel surfaces.
Because of bridge construc
tion, motorists may be delayed
as much as 30 minutes on the
Nehalem highway three miles
east of Jewell.
Slight delays because of con
struction may be expected on
the Oregon - Coast highway
three miles north of Gardiner
and between Port Orford and
Gold Bearh, and on the Med-
ford-Provolt highway two miles
wpst of Jacksonville.
Motorists should carry chains
because of packed snow at
Warm Springs Junction, Mc
Keniie Pass. Mracham and
Austin, the Oregon Highway
Commission warned Tuesday.
'.
Seek Snapshots
Of Flyina Discs
Washington u The Air
Force said today it has set up
"flying saucer cameras'' around
I lie country to clear up t h e
mystery of the strange objects
reported from time to time to
be flitting through the skies.
The cameras are designed to
analyze moving lights to deter
mine whether they are merely
insubstantial glows or come
from identifiable material ob
ject. The devices are "diffraction
grating cameras" which sepa
rate light into Its component
parts and register them on
film. Astronomers use similar
equipment to determine the
sources or unidentified lights."
An Air Force spkoesman said
the cameras were set up where
saucers have frequently been
reported in the past, here and
in California, Texas and else
where. "Flying saucers" have been
reported sporadically since
1(147.
P.HEE CITES JTH AIR ORCE
Seoul ( South Korean
President Syngman Rhee today
awarded a presidential unit
citation to the U. S. Jth air
force and Its supporting units
for "exceptionally meritorious
service from Oct I, 1952,
through July 27, 1851."
sti ... ft :
uaim KUHian
Mom Arsenal
Far in Siberia
' Returned Jap Premier
Says Slave Labor
Used in Building
By SHINOBC H1GASHI
Miiiura, Japan, 0J Russia
haa developed aa atomic arse
nal with slave labor deep la
scutk -central Siberia, a Ja
panese Just freed froos Si
beria, said Taesday.
The prisoner was among 811
former Japanese soldiers and
civilians captured by the Rus
sians in World War II who re
turned from captivity Monday.
Their release was arranged
by the Japanese. Red Cross.
The source, a woman, said
she had talked with a Rus
sian worker who helped to
I build an atom bomb plant in
the Angara River area, west
of Lake Baikal, in south-central
Siberia. -
She was the only one of the
laughing, waving repatriates
who told of an atom plant in
the region although there have
been frequent report previ
ously that atomle Installations
have been built far Inside Si
beria. - ,
(Centiaaed ea Para S. Calarna 41
Fluoride Case
Before Court
The right ot a city to add
fluoride to Its water system
was - challenged today ' before
the Oregon Supreme Court on
grounds such action violates
both state and federal const!
tutiona.
The matter came before
Oregon's highest court on ap
peal from Deschutes county
after the city of Bend ordered
the addition of fluoride to Its
water system. Ordinarily, the
case, which was before the
Deschutes county Circuit
Court, would be filed, on ap
peal, at the Pendleton quar
ters of the Supreme Court
But because of the widespread
interest in the case, involv
ing the pojer of any munici-
pality in Oregon to add fluor
ide to its water supply, the
high court agreed to transfer
the case to Salem, and is ex
pected to set a date for hear
Ing after all briefs are in. If it
had remained in Pendleton,
the case would not have been
heard until May.' '
A restraining order barring
the city of Beud uom adding
fluoride to Its. water supply
was sought by William J.
Baer, as a taxpayer who said
he was bringing the suit on
behalf of other taxpayers.
New Clue to
Ransom Fund
Jefferson City, Mo. U.n
Authorities indicated today
they may have a new clue to
the missing $300,000 Bobby
Greenlease ransom money.
The possible new clue lay in
a detailed signed statement
given to officials yesterday by
Carl Austin Hall and his ac
complice, Mrs. Bonnie Brown
Heady, in their death row pris
on cells.
Circuit attorney Edward L.
Dowd and St Louis Police
Chief Jeremiah O'Connell took
tne statement to learn more
about a "mystery man" men
tioned in Hall's original con
fession. The two officials said the
new statement would be taken
to St. Louis for comparison with
"other statements" .
K Docknien Strike
When Criminals Barred
New York V- Many long
shoremen refused to go to work
Tuesday and police were alert
ed that a "general strike" on
the waterfront might start
within hours.
The' work stoppages began as
a new law aimed at ridding the
docks ot racketeers went into
effect.
All divisions of the police de
partment were alerted at 1:30
p.m. (EST) that the old Inter
national Longshoremen's Assn.,
ousted from the American Fed
eration ot Labor, was expected
to start a "general strike."
Capt William V. Bradley.
who recently replaced Joseph
P. Ryan, as ILA president de
nied, however, that -such a
move was in prospect "1 havej
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Lipman, Wolfe
Starts Work
A crew is at work today tear
ing down the building at 285
North Liberty, formerly occu
pied by the Gevurtz Furniture
Company, where the new
building of Lipman, woue c
Co. is to be erected.
Another crew is excavating
at the southwest corner of
North Liberty and Chemeketa,
an area that also will be cov
ered by the new building.
; The company took out two
permits. one for the tearing
down of the old building and
the other for construction of
the new, the cost figure on the
latter being placed at $579,-
596.
The new building is expect
ed to be ready for occupancy
by the big department store by
the middle of 1954
The two permits are' taken
out in the name of the Libc
keta Corporation.
Jeiferson Fires
3 Professors
'Philadelphia (1 Jefferson
Medical College Tuesday an
nounced the discharge of
three professors following an
investigation by the school's
loyalty board.
The college's board of trus
tees, on recommendation of a
five-man loyalty committee.
said it fired the men "in the
best Interests of the Institu
tion."
The three arc Drs. Robert
J. Rutman, assistant professor
of biochemistry; William H.
Pearlman, associate professor
of biochemistry and Irving H.
Wagman, associate professor
of physiology.'
Vice Adm. James L. Kiuff
man, president of the college
and its affiliated hospital, said
investigations showed the
three had been associated in
the past with Communist ac
tivities.
WORKMAN PUNCHES
INTO COINS
Sealy, Tex. A workman
digging a foundation for Frank
Koy's new garage punched his
post-hole, digger down into a
half-gallon glass Jar containing
$322 in gold and silver coins
dated from -844 to 1902. Koy
gave some of the money to
workmen around the Job and
said he hoped the rest would
pay for the new garage.
Weather Details
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called no strike for any time,"
said Bradley. "On the contrary
I am trying to get the men back
to work."
The earlier work stoppages
were scattered' but affected ma
jor New York harbor piers ex
cept those on the East River
One of the numerous picket
line stretched for a full mile
from Canal to Chambers SI.
The pickets were led by men
who had been refused work
permits by the new New York
New Jersey Bl-State Water
Waterfront Commission.
The permits were refused in
cases where men either had
criminal records or were being
investigated for possible cri
minal connections or using
false names.
STARTS ON LIPMAN
.1 vt
Tuesday morning Salem Sand and Gravel company
moved their portable crane to the new Lipman store
site at the southwest corner of Liberty and Chemeketa
streets and started wrecking structures recently used as
a sales office for a used car lot and clothing alteration
and repair shop. Ultimately all structures shown in this
picture, through to the towered Eldridge block erected
. in 1888 on Commercial street, will be removed to make
way for the new store and- its adjacent parking area.
Perle Mesta Returns,
Talks About Russians
New York Mrs. Perle,
Mesta returned from a trip to
Russia Tuesday and said, "It is
the strangest place I have ever
been in my life."
. "The people there are dif
ferent from the' people of the
Western world," the former
minister to Luxembourg told
Mrs. Taber to
Get Hearing
Portland, (IP) Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Taber, 81, was to
go before U.S. Commissioner
Robert A. Leedy here Tuesday
afternoon err a charge of try
ing to rob the Bank of Ore
gon at Woodburn last Friday.
The destitute mother of
four boys was armed only with
a note that she passed over to
a teller; and when told "no,"
she turned and left
She was jailed at Salem un
til decision was reached to
bring here here to face a fed
eral charge.
L. H. McMahan, Salem at
torney, was to represent her
at the arraignment.
Her sons, ages 6 to 13. arc
being cared for in a foster
home.
Detroit Doctor
Shot by Mistake
Detroit, Dr. Edward D.
Spalding. 60. a noted heart
specialist, left his office in De
troit and stepped into the busy
street.
A few minutes later he lay
dead on the pavement, police
said, shot by a former mental
patient who got tne wrong
man.
Barely half an hour later,
two rookie patrolmen grab
bed John Sherback. 51, a few
blocks away. In Sherback's
pocket was a list of persons
he had condemned to death,
they said. Spalding's name
was not included.
Police said the list included
"all the orderlies and one
nurse in a building at Eloise."
a mental hospital. Sherback
looked dazed when he was
told the man he had killed was
Spalding.
He said that he had meant
to kill Dr. William T. McAl
onan, who he claimed had
mistreated him McAlonan was
still in his office at the Profes
sional Building at the time of
the shooting.
Midnight Masses
Set by Papal Decree
Vatican City W Pope Pius
XII has authorized celebration
of midnight masses on the
opening and closing days of
the Marian Year, which begins
on Dec. 8.
In a decree issued by the
Vatican'i Sacred Congregation
of the Sacraments, the Pope au
thorized bishops to permit cel
ebration of such masses In ca
thedrals, parifh churches,
chapels and Marian shrines,
beginning half an hour after
midnight on the night between
Dec. 7 and 8.
The bishops
are given the
same right for the same day
In 1954,
STORE SITE
newsmen aa the liner United
States docked. -
"They have penetrating eyes
they look straight through
you."
She said that Russian places
as well aa Russian people are
strange, but that many ot the
people "rre all right and
they're friendly." .
To a question whether peace
could be achieved with Russia,
she replied:
I "Yes, If they leave us alone,
It's all up to them if they let us
alone. II they don't try to dom
inate the world, we can live in
peace with them."
Mrs. Mesta spent almost
three months In Russia and
traveled 12.00C miles there last
summer. She has been travel
ing in Western Europe since
then.
She said some Russians
rould say "well, we don't like
your system of government
and that she woul reply:
Of course, we 'don't like
yours either it's 50-90."
The liner docked in the
midst of a longshoremen's work
stoppage.
Cobra Venom
Cure for Polio
Miami, Fla. UP) A few
human polio victims" have re
covered after treatment with
a preparation made from cobra
venom, the University of Mi
ami announced Monday.
It was the first official dis
closure that human patients
have been given the venom
preparation with which Dr.
Murray Sanders and his asso
ciates . have been experiment
ing for nearly five years.
Dr, Sanders, who announced
last August that the prepara
tion has been shown to have a
blocking effect on the develop
ment of polio virus in monkeys,
said the use in humans "was to
serve research aims only."
A few persons were studied
here for possible 111 effects fol
lowing injection of the toxoid,
the University of Miami state
ment said.
'While no complications
arose and all treated persons
recovered, mere samplings can
not establish the efficiacy of the
taxoid in human cases," the re
port said.
Indochina Red
Offer Rejected
' igon. V o-China ' -Em
peror Bao Dai. chief of state of
Viet Nam, today rejected a
Communist call for negotla
tions to end the Indo-Chinese
war.
After a lengthy conference
with U. P. Ambassador Donald
Heath, the emperor issued a
counter call urging the Reds to
abandon Communism and rally
to the government banner.
Communist leader Ho Chi-
minh, in an interview pub
lished by the Swedish newspa
per Expressen, urged Sundsy
that the Communists and the
French get together to discuss
a settlement of the eight year
war.
Bao Dai rejected the propo
sal in a communique indicating
that he has accented the view
of his Cabinet that the proposal
is a sign of Red weakness.
Dulles Stores McCarthy for
Criticism of Foreign Policy
Vishinsky Says
Atrocity Tales
United Nations. N. T. St
cassia's Andrei . Vishinsky
Taesday branded V. 8. eaarges
ui hw airoei'iea IB Hare a
flagrantly concocted falsifies-
tola."
The fiery Soviet deleaate
told the 60-nation U. N. Gen
eral Assembly that charges de
nned Monday by Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr.. of the United
States were brought out to "dy
namite" peace negotiations in
Korea.
He pulled out all stom in
calling the Lodge report "cyn
ical," "cowardly,1 "a maneu
ver to cover the Worst crime
of all perpetrated by the Am
erican military circles 4n Ko
rea," and "redolent of slan
der." .
Sheer Mockery"
Vishinsky was the first
speaker at Tuesday morning's
session, called to debate the
American charges that some
38,000 persons were victims of
atrocities committed by Com
munist Chinese and North Ko
rean soldiers.
Vishinsky accused the Amer
icans of deliberately throwing
in tne zuo-page document con
taining the details ot the atroc
ity charges only two days ago
so the delegates would have no
time to examine it before the
debate started.
(Centiaaed aa Pag I, Cahuaa 8)
Buganda King
Sent Into Exile
London Wv The deposed
King of Buganda, Muteaa II, ar
rived by plane in Britain Tues
day a few hours after the
British colonial office had or
dered him into exile and de
clared a state of emergency In
his equatorial African prov
ince. '
A second plane brought in
Sir Evelyn Baring, governor of
strife-ridden Kenya, next door
to Uganda protectorate of
which Buganda is a part .
Arrival of the two men
showed how urgently the col
onial office is moving in trying
to control native unrc. sweep
ing through British East Af
rica. Mutesa, who is 29 and Cam
bridge-educated, is called the
Kabaka by his native follow
ers and Freddie by his British
trlendS in East Africa and Lon
don's swank Mayfair.
Britain booted him out Mon
day after he had insisted that
a date be fixed for granting his
Kingdom independence within
the British commonwealth.
2 More Oregon
Youngsters Winners
Chicago W Two more
Oregon youngsters won awards
for acomplishments at the 4-H
Club Congress here.
Doreen Bohnert, 1, Central
Point, was selected one of the
top winners In the meat animal
program sponsored by packer
Thomas E. Wilson.
Donna Pierson, 15. Hood
River, won an award for beau-
tification of home grounds. The
award waa sponsored by Mrs.
gnanes K. Walgreen, Chicago,
Ex-Russian Spy Says
World War HI Near
St. Louis Wi Igor Gouzen-
ko, former Russian Embassy
clerk who disclosed a Russian
spy ring in Canada, told The
Post-Dispatch Tuesday he be
lieves World War III is near.
Donald Grant of The Post-
Dispatch, In a copyrighted dis
patch from Toronto, reported
Gouzenko "does not believe
the atomic bomb provides any
real security for the West.
"He believes it Is deathly
important tor the Western Al
lies including the United
States and Canada to stop
bickering and stand together,"
Grant reported.
The Post-Dispatch reported
Gouzenko's wife was present
during the four-hour interview onto Telegram that he had de
al an undisclosed location. Gou-; cided not to be Interview by
zenko. the former Russian code the Jenner subcommittee of the
clerk, has built a new life underj U. S. Senate.
Quiz Begins
Of Pro-Red
PWs by Allies
Panmunjom lff Allied war
prisoners who haven't come
home tomorrow begin consid
ering their big choiee de
mocracy or communism.
Plans were completed to
day tor U. N. interviewers to
tart talks with 30 of the 328
South Koreans who have not
returned.
After the South Koreans
are finished about 11 days ot
interviews the Allied teams
will face the important prob
lem of trying to win back
22 Americans and one Briton.
The Communists wooed
back only about 3 per cent of
the 2,500 Chinese and Koreans
they have interviewed a hu
miliating propaganda wallop
ing.
"We want all of the prison
era listed as pro-Communist
to get freedom of choice," a
U. N. Command spokesman
said.
Reds Tried for
Negro Revolt
San Francisco UP) A former
Los Angeles community party
oinciai told the House Un-American
Activities committee to
day that the Reds In 1932 tried
to stir American Negroes to re
volt and set up their own So
viet Republic In the south.
The witness was Louis Ros
ter. 47, himself a Negro.
Rosser said he was a party
member and official from 1932
to 1944. Re was the first wit
ness called by the committee
as it opened hearings Tuesday.
tiosser said that 'at a- com
munist school in 6an Francisco
he was taught that the commu
nist party slogan was "Nation
al liberation of the Negro peo
ple; smash the landlords and
plantation system: set up in the
south a Negro soviet republic.';
This was part of a larger
communist scheme to help Rus
sia in case of war with the Un
ited States; a scheme to "fo
ment a revolution where, if the
people of America went to war,
they could turn it into a civil
war and smash the government
of the United States." ' .
Nixon Calls on
Nehru in Delhi
New Delhi Pi U. S. Vice
President Richard Nixon paid
a formal zo-mlnute call on
Prime Minister Nehru at the
Foreign Office today. The
American leader said he would
get down to the brass tacks of
American-Indian problems at
another meeting with Nehru
tomorrow. .
Nixon told newsmen on his
arrival yesterday from Madras
that he had no specific diplo
matic assignments for his five
day visit to India but expected
to discuss all problems affect
ing both the United States snd
India.
The vice president began his
first full day I.i New Delhi to
day with a trip to the site of
the cremation of famed Indian
j leader Mohandas K. Gandhi,
Nixon laid a wreath there as
President Eisenhower's re pre
sentative.
an assumed name In an Ontario
village for personal security
reasons.
In the Interview, Gouzenko
said "he most definitely does
not believe In a preventative
war against Russia."
"What he does believe," the
article continued, "is that com
munism must be fought seri
ously and well by a West that
is strong, vigilant and morally
right ...
"Gouzenko said ho Is inter
ested In catching Russian spies
not In 1945, or at any other
date In the past, but now, be
fore it ia too late."
Gouzenko said Monday in a
copyrighted article written for
The Post-Dispatch and The Tor-
Ike Approved
Cast igafion of
Wisconsinite
Waahiagtea lire Secretary
f State Joha Fester Dulles,
with . President Eiaenaewer's
blessing, ted ay lashed oat vig
orously at Sea. Joseph R. Mc
Carthy's critic ism el the ad
ministration's foreign policy.
. Dulles opened bis weekly
news conference with a pre
pared statement clearly de
signed as an answer to the aU,
tack McCarthy made last week
in a nationwide television-ra
dio broadcast -
Since I met with you last
week," Dulles told reporters.
nnere has been a widely publi
cized criticism of this adminis
tration's foreign policy. .
Treatment ot Allies
"The burden ot that criti
cism was that we spoke too
kindly to our Allies and sent
them 'perfumed' notes. Instead
of using threats and intimida- .
tion to compel them to do our
bidding. - ,
. "I welcome constructive
criticism. But the criticism I
refer to attacks the very heart
ot U. S. foreign policy."
li.mlu K 1 i v In iratln at- '
lies as friends rather than sat
ellites," and added: .
These fundamentals of our
foreign policy were agreed on
by President Elsenhower, and
me before I took my present .
office. These principles still
stand." ....
McCarthy's Charges
It waa at this point that Dul
les said Mr. Eisenhower . was
aware of his. statement and
that h had conferred on it
with the president
. The statement was the first
answer 'from any. top ad min
istration, leader, to McCarthy'i.
criticism. .'.,- v. ' -
(Cantloaed ea Par I. Cehuaa l '
For Big 3 Meet :
London VPi Prime Minister'
Churchill leavea by air tonight
for the Big Three conference
in Bermuda determined to
press for quick acceptance of
Russia bid for an East-west
meeting in Berlin.
Churchill, Foreign Secretary
Eden and their retinue of ad
visers will make the flight in
the same Stratocruiser, Canop
us, which last . week carried
Queen Elizabeth II across the
Atlantic on the first leg of her
Commonwealth tour. - -
French Premier Joseph La ri
le! and his party are sched
uled to arrive on the Atlantic
holiday Island Thursday and
President Eisenhower Friday.
Edem made it clear In the
House ot Commons yesterday
that In spite of American
doubts of Soviet sincerity.
Britain wants to get Big Four
talks under way as soon as
reasonably possible.
It was believed Churchill
and Eden would urge Laniel
and Eisenhower to join In ac
cepting Berlin as the site and
proposing mid-January as tha
date.
All M Y. Dailies
New York W) A union of
ficial Indicated Tuesday New
York's newspaper strike will
continue at least another 24
hours. - -
Denis M. Burke, president of
the striking Local 1 of the In
ternational Photo Engravers
Union, said a membership
meeting of the union to consid
er publishers proposals hat
been set for 11 a.m., EST, Wed
nesday. Burke said no agreement be
tween union negotiators and
the publishers can be effective
until it Is ratified by the tin
ion membership.
The union membership al
ready has rejected arbitration
which the publishers had pro
posed. The strike of the 400 photo
engravers haa resulted In a
shutdown of the seven major
newspapers in New York for
the first time In the city's pub
lishing history. Other news
paper unions have observed
the engravers' picket lines.
Representatives of the en-'
gravers union snd the publish
ers were scheduled to resume
talks Tuesday.