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FINAL
EDITION
I
65th Year, No. 287
2 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, December 2, 1953 22 Pages lP"" ?? f
Widow Wins
j Against Bank
In Trust Case
State Supreme Court
Dissolves $20,000
Trust Fund
Br JAMES D. OLSON
The state supreme court
Wednesday rerermed a decision
by Circnlt Judra Forrest L.
Peters at Baker who ruled in
favor of the rirst National
Bank of Baker in a contro
versy over the construction of
the wlU of James H. Nichols,
a former attorney of Baker.
Nichols left a trust fund of
$20,000 to a daughter, Eliza
beth J. Nichols, the income to
be paid to her annually, after
i age 21. On August 27, 1951, the
daughter, then married to
James Filer, was killed in an
airplane accident, together
with her husband two sons.
Bank Loses
Mrs. James H. Nichols, the
widow, claimed that there was
no longer any reason for the
bank to retain the fund in
trust and held she was en
titled to the money. The circuit
court dismissed her case and
held in favor of the defendant
bank.
Chief Justice Earl C Lat
ourette reversed the decree and
in so doing, stated:
"It is inconceivable to us
that the testator, an attorney
of high standing in the Oregon
bar, intended that bis widow
should be deprived, under he
circumstances and exigencies
of this case, of the full enjoy
ment of the trust fund, and
that the same should at her
death devolve to unknown or
unthought of heirs.
(Cantlnatd an fare , Column 4)
Truman Gets
News From AP
New York, Former
President Harry Truman cur
tailed his usual morning stroll
Wednesday to get his news
first hand in the headquarters
of The Associated Press.
He also pitched in briefly
on photo desk operations
Where he got on the nation
' wide wlrephoto to announce
a picture transmission and
threw in a bit of adlibbing.
Truman dropped in at the
AP headquarters in Rockefel
ler Center after commenting
during his stroll that he hadn't
beer, able to keep up on the
news because of the current
photo-engravers strike which
has stopped publication of New
York City's seven daily news
papers. .
"I didn't expect to see you
this morning," he greeted As
sociated Press suffer Richard
Feehan as he stepped from an
elevator in the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel to go on his morn-
lng walk. Only one other re
porter, a magazine correspond
ent, and photographer were
on hand to Join him in con
trast to the dozen or so usual
ly waiting.
Liquor Stolen
At Mt. Angel
Mt. Angel Fourteen cases
of liquor and $75 worth of
narcotics were taken in the
burglary of the Worley Drug
Store here sometime. Tuesday
night or Wednesday morning.
State police and Marion
county sheriff's deouties in
vestigating the break-in said
the entry was made by break
ing a window on the side of
the building next to the alley.
The liquor was taken from
the state liquor agency in the
store and the narcotics from
the drug store supply A lock
was forced to get at the nar
cotics, officers said. The type
of narcotics taken was not re
ported pending completion of
the investigation.
Police said they did not
know if there was any connec
tion between the break-in and
the burglary of the St Paul
Market and the Copeland
Lumber company in St Paul
two weeks ago In which 41
cases of liquor, 20-10 cartons
of cigarettes and numerous
hand and power tools were
taken from the two establish
ments. At present there Is
nothing to link the two, they
stated.
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Refuse to End
Newspaper
Strike in tl.Y.
Photo-Engravers
Reject Arbitration
Plea by Union Chief
New York UV-AFL photo-
engravers refused Wednesday
to cad a strike which has
closed all of New York's ma
jor newspapers.
By a vote of 2S9 to 47, the
strikers rejected a plea by
their international union chief
to accept arbitration on four
major issues.
The government also had
asked the union to submit the
issues with six New York pub
lishers to arbitration or to a
decision by a neutral party.
The strike now is in its fifth
day. There was no indication
immediately what steps now
will be taken to end the dead
lock.
The shut down of the news
papers hit the city at the be
ginning of the Christmas sea
son buying rush.
(C tinned an faff 8. Calnaut I)
Strike Closes
Tin Can Plants
Pittsburgh W) CIO Unit
ed Steelworkers struck early
Wednesday the American Can
Co, and the Continental Can
Co., employing 33,000 USW
workers in 68 plants in 30
states and five plants in Can
ada. The strike was called at
midnight and one by one the
plants began shutting down.
Some closed at 12:01 ajn. oth
ers shut down after the 11 p.
m. to 7 a. m. graveyard shift
Pickets were on the job. No
violence was reported.
In all, the two firms employ
more than 80,000 persons.
Half of these are represented
by other unions. Officials at
these plants report no sign tt
a sympathy -walkout yet.
American Can operates 38
plants in 16 states and one in
Canada with 20,000 USW
members. Continental has 32
plants in 14 states and tour in
Canada, with 33,000 USW
workers.
N. Y. Dockmen
Return to Jobs
New York () Longshore
men went back to work on the
New York waterfront Wednes
day after a one-day work stop
page led by opponents of a new
law aimed at dock racketeer
ing.
Operations were reported
normal on the luxury liner"
and other piers idled Tuesday.
"I think the honest long
shoreman has won," comment
ed a spokesman for the newly
established New York-New Jer
sey Waterfront Commission,
The hiring of longshoremen
now Is done through centers
supervised by the commission
as against the old system
whereby union hiring bosses
decided who would work.
The commission hires only
those men to whom it has is
sued work permits. It has de
nied permits to those with seri
ous criminal records among
them a number of old hiring
bosses.
These former bosses set up
picket lines Tuesday and the
men with permits declined to
cross through them.
Klamath Back in East,
Hood River in West
Klamath County was put
back in Eastern Oregon Wed
nesday by the Oregon State
Tax Commission, and Hood
River County was put in
Western Oregon.
The commission's ruling
means that under the 1853
forest fire law, Klamath Coun
ty logging operators will pay
a tax of 4 cents per thousand
feet on their cut timber. Hood
River loggers will pay 8 cents
a thousand.
This 1933 law provides for
the 8 -cent tax in counties west
of the summit of the Cascades,
and a 4 -cent levy In Eastern
Oregon.
But it also says that coun
ties "bisected" by the summit
of the Cascades shall Da in
the 8 -cent country.
The commission ruled that
since the summit of the Cas
cades goes through Hood River
County, the logging operators
CHURCHILL LEAYES FOR BIG THREE
j-.
U. S. Engineers
Favor 3 Dams
Washington VP) A witness
at the Hells Canyon hearing
Wednesday quoted Army En
gineers as saying they probably
would have recommended con
strution of three 'dams in the
Snake River, Instead of one, if
they had made a thorough .in
vestigation. Robert DeLucia, an Idaho
Power Co. engineering consul
tant, testified that Army En
gineers at Portland, Ore., told
him several months ago, they
had recommended the proposal
for a federal dam in Hells Can
yon Dam after only a prelimin
ary investigation. . .
DeLucia gave this testimony
under cross-examination at a
Power Commision hearing on
Idaho Power's applications to
build thre dams in the Hells
Canyon area of the Snake
River betwen Idaho and Ore
gon.
Snow and Rain
(Br TM AuwUUd Prui)
More wet weather, mostly
rain, was in prospect for most
of the central part of the coun
try Wednesday.
Clear skies and cool weath
er prevailed over most of the
eastern third of the nation.
Temperatures generally were
on the cool side with readings
in the 30s extending into the
deep south and in the 40s into
Northern Florida.
Showers spread from the
plains states across the Missis
sipi into sections of Illinois
and Wisconsin during the
night. Falls generally were
light.
The Rockies reported tem
peratures in the 20s, with snow
in the northern and central
sections. Only other wet spot
west of the Rockies was in the
far Northwest where rain con-
i tinued.
there should pay Western Ore
gon' 8-cent tax. There wasn't
much argument about this one
The decision also holds that
nobody knows for sure where
the summit of the Cascades is
in the Klamath area. It says
"there is no clearly defined
summit" In that region, and
that "the Cascade Mountains
spread across or blot out the
northwest comer of Klamath
County."
The commission also said It
thinks the Legislature meant
for Klamath County to be in
cluded in Eastern Oregon.
So the Klamath County
timber operators win a big
victory, paying a 4-cent in
stead of an 8-cent tax.
The Legislature made the
tax In Western Oregon twice
as much as in Eastern Oregon,
because it costs about twice
as much to fight fires In the
Western part of the state.
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Sir Winston Churchill, cigar in mouth, walks to plane
prior to leaving England for Bermuda today to attend the
upcoming Big Three conference between his country,
France and the United States, Other unidentified. (AP
Wirephoto)
Churchill Rides Storm
To Land in Bermuda
Tucker's Town, Bermuda ()
Prime Minister Churchill
rode out an Atlantic storm
Wednesday and landed in Ber
muda's sunshine for the Big
Three conference opening Fri
day.
The British leader's Strato-
eruiser Canopus breasted bit
ter gales along the route -from
Gander, Nfld., to Kindley Field
Air Base here., British Over
seas Airways, operators of the
plane, said It changed route
Defense Plants
Short ot Goal
Washington W) Defense
plant expansion still Is short of
the government's goal in 68 es
sential industries, the Office of
Defense Mobilization (OIM)
reported Wednesday.
OIM Director Arthur S.
Fleming called on private firms
in these fields to apply for "cer
tificates of necessity" entitling
them to federal tax assistance
in building up defense-important
plants and equipment to
the point of mobilization read
iness. His invitation followed
ODM's announcement Tues
day night that 120 of the de
fense expansion goals have
been achieved, either by act
ual construction or by an
nounced plans for construc
tion. No more certificates will
be granted in these fields,
ODM said.
In 40 other industries, in
cluding those providing sev
eral major military items, is
suance of certificates has been
suspended pending study as to
whether greater capacity will
be needed.
Two Tornadoes
Strike in Texas
Ciddings, Tex. W Winds
leading a cold front through
Texas Wednesday coiled into
tornadoes that struck twice.
Seven persons were injured
but none killed.
Both twisters hit in South
Central Texas the first at
Seguin Tuesday ( night the
second at the Tanglewood com
munity near here early Wed
nesday. The cold front drove through
the West Texas plains Wednes
day. The Weather Bureau said the
front would lower tempera
tures to near freezing deep in
the interior of the state by
Thursday night but no really
severe weather was expected.
The tornado pounced on
Tanglewood at 6 IS a.m. It in
jured Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Frost
and Mrs. Birgie Albritton, all
elderly. They were taken to a
hospital at Rockdale, some 23
miles south ot Tanglewood.
CONFERENCES
once but then got back on Its
regular course. It flew much
ot the way above 20,000 feet
The plana landed at 12:31
pjn. EST, Churchill looked
cheerful as he stepped from the
plane with his 28-member par
ty, including Foreign Secreta
ry Anthony Eden. -
. French Premier Daniel Lan
iel is expected Thursday and
President Elsenhower Friday.
The President, according to an
authoritative source, hopes to
win France's ratification of the
European army pUtn with an
assurance the United States
then would maintain its pres
ent "combat effectiveness" in
Europe,
Churchill at 71 Is playing
host to the conference and has
expressed hope it will bring
closer the lasting peace he has
set up as the last goal of his
crowded life.
r
ion Stage
Token Strike
London WV- More than one
million engineering workers
today closed British auto and
aircraft factories, shipyards
and machine shops in a 24-hour
token strike for more pay.
It was Britain's biggest labor
tie-up since the general strike
of 1926.
From London to Glasgow
and Belfast the hum of machin
ery ceased. Work benches were
deserted.
The Confederation of Ship
building and Engineering Un
ions, an organization with 39
affiliates, called the "show of
strength" walk-out in support
of a demand for 15 per cent
wage Increase.
Industries Involved estimat
ed the production loss would
Teach 10 million pounds (28
million dollars).
Pickets guarded the gates of
factories throughout the coun
try as strikers gathered for
mass meetings and protest
marches.
Driver of Stalled
Bus Crushed
mi
Myrtle Creek The
driver of a stalled school bus,
returning from a high school
basketball jamboree at Suth
erlin. was fatally crushed by
another bus backing up to. give
aid, late Tuesday.
The driver was Samuel
Quinton Jones, 26. of Myrtle
Creek.
The two buses were travel
ing together and Jones' vehicle
ran out of gas. The second
started towing it but near the
edge of town the chain slipped
tree. Jones got out to re-fasten
it and was killed when the
first bus backed up and pinned
him to the front of his bus.
It was the 29th traffic death
ot the prear la Douglas county,
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Doubts Taxes
Can Be Raised
For Next Year
Washington (" Preslden
Elsenhower said Wednesday ha
doubts whether taxes next year
ean or should be raised above
the present level.
Eisenhower made the state
ment in reply to questions at a
news conference at which he
also supported Secretary ot
State Dulles in statements Dul
les issued Tuesday in criticism
of Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.) in
the field of foreign policy.
On the big domestic problem
of taxes and government finan
ces generally, Eisenhower said
that what the administration
can do to bring the budget near
to balance is to eliminate dupli
cation and improve efficiency
generally.
He said his officials are tak
ing a number of steps toward
this end: and added he is pre
pared to take credit in advance
for them.
SUent on nig 4 Meeting
Elsenhower ilso:
1. Declined to speculate cn
the prospects for a meeting of
Western powers with represen
tatives of the Soviet Union.
Asked about such prospects on
the basis of the latest Russian
note, the President replied it
is a matter which needs much
study and one on which he
wouldn't want to make real
guess.
(Cantlnned en Far 8. Column 4)
Bridges Tries to
Head Off Probe
San Francisco (--Ignoring
threats of Harry Bridges' long
shoremen for a stop-work pro
test march on lis hearing, the
House Un-American Activities
Committee Wednesday con
tinued taking testimony that
Communists are trying to In
filtrate this strategic area.
Chairman Velde (R.. 111.)
said the probers would turn
to Communist activity in the
East Bay area Oakland-Berkeley
site of important mili
tary bases and the University
of California's atomic research
laboratories.
Bridges' International Long
shoremen's and Warehouse
men's Union ordered a stop
work meeting at 9:30 a.m.
Thursday at city hall site of
the hearings- alter a friendly
witness identified several aides
of Bridges as onetime commu
nists. Forty ships stand to be
tied up.
The committee also heard
the first ot several witnesses
who are expected to refuse to
testify on constitutional
grounds. He was Donald .
Wheeler, Sequim, Wash., war
time OSS agent named by FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover in
senate hearings as a member
of a Red spy ring with Harry
Dexter White and others.
STRIKE CAUSES MAIL JAM
Tokyo VP) A partial strike
of Japanese communications
and railway workers haa cre
ated a huge backlog ot letters,
parcels and telegrams, rostai
authorities said there are 18
million letters and 130,000 par
cels at Tokyo's central post
office.
Ridgway Says Reds
Kept 8608
Washington (UJ9 Gen. Mat
thew B. Ridgway charged to
day that the communists in
Korea failed to return 8608
American prisoners known to
have been victims of Red
atrocities.
The army chief of staff told
a senste investlgsung suocom
mlttec that defense depart
ment figures show 13.239
soldiers, sailors, airmen and
marines were subjected ' to
"inhumsn" treatment Of
these he said, only 4631 have
been repatriated.
This "tragic void," Ridgway
ssid solemnly, "can be direct
ly attributed to communist
mistreatment of prisoners."
Ridgway was first witness
in a three-day series of hear
ing that will Include Cl's eye
Wles
olisv
30 SsKorean
POWs Choose
Communism
Panmunjom () Thirty pas
sive South Koreans unanimous
ly chose communism In today's
opening round ot Allied efforts
to win back 351 South Korean,
British and American war pris
oners who haven't returned.
The recorded strains of
South Korea's national anthem
played in the background as 87
men and 3 women listened qui
etly to ROK ofacers read a
plea to come homa. Then each
walked out the door leading
back to communism. -
It appeared possible the Al
lies drew from a stacked deck.
The first group was chosen by
the prisoners themselves in the
Communist-dominated camp.
Observers speculated each of
the 30 might be a confirmed
Red. .
Thirty more South Koreans
are to be Interviewed Thurs
day (7 p.m. Wednesday EST)
Meanwhile, in a negotiation
hut nearby, the Allies all but
rejected a Red proposal tor a
Korean peace conference after
a day of studying a Commu
nist plan offered Wednesday.
Indo-Russian
Treaty Signed
New Delhi, India WW India
and the Soviet Union today
signed a trade agreement, the
first between tne two countries.
The pact will run tor five
vears.
Under the agreement India
wlU export jute, tea, collee, to-
bacco. sheuae, oiacx pepper
and spices, wool, hides, skins
and vegetable oils to Russia
during the first year ot the
agreement. '
In return Russia will supply
India witn wneat nancy, cruae
petroleum and petroleum prod
ucts, timber, paper, iron and
steel manufactures, chemicals,
dvestuffs medicants. otrtlcal
goods, film, industrial ana elec
trical equipment ana agricul
tural machinery.
Iran Plans Oil
Note to Britain
Tehran, Iran WV The Iran
ian government which sup
planted Mohammed Mossadegh
was reported whipping into
final shape Wednesday a note
agreeing to re-establish diplo
matic relations with Britain.
An Informed source said the
resumption of normal British-
Iranian relations, broxen off
13 months ago by Mossadegh,
waa approved xuesaay ai a
three-hour meeting ot Premier
Fazollah Zahedi and leading
Iranians, including former ca
binet ministers, senators and
top businessmen.
The source added that the
decision would be announced
Thursday or Friday unless a
last minute hitch develops.
Resumption of relations
would pave the way for new
talks on the bitter British
Iranian dispute over Iran's na
tionalization In 1951 of the
properties of the British-owned
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
Mossadegh, now on trial for his
life on treason charges, failed
Iran's envoys home after re
peated breakdowns In the ne
gotiations over compensation
tor the oil company.
Gl POWs
witness accounts and first
hsnd descriptions ot atrocities.
Although several television
csmeras recorded the testi
mony, there was no "live" TV.
The former U.N. supreme
commsnder resd to the sub
committee, hesded by Sen.
Charles t. Potter (R., Mich.),
a "staggering list" of atroci
ties he said were proved be
yond question. It included
"Deliberate shooting" of
wounded prisoners because
they couldn't march fast
enough," brutal mutilation" of
dead and wounded, "cruel tor
tures tor minor infractions of
prison rules," and the serving
of "maggoty food" which the
Reds knew would bring illness
or death.
Blast at
Carping
Unity of Free
tlations Only :
Survival Hope
Washington W President
Eisenhower, backing up Ses
reUryiof State Dulles blast at
Sea. "McCarthy (Bt, Was.), de
clared Wednesday that maitr
among free nations "la ear
only hope for survival.''
Like Dulles, Elsenhower did
not mention McCarthy by
name. But the president told
news conference ha is "In
full accord with the state
ments made yesterday by Sec
retary Dulles."
Dulles bad asserted that
criticism such as that tired
by McCarthy attacks the very
heart ot United States foreign
policy.
Elsenhower had anticipated
questioning about the matter,
and announced he bad prepar- '
ed his views in writing be
cause, he said, they would be
the only words be would have
to say on the subject.
McCarthy to Reply
The president then read the)
statement in which bo declar
ed: . . -
1 am in full accord with
the statements made yester
day by Secretary Dulles in hif
press conference."
McCarthy was handed a
copy of the president's state
ment in the Senate Office
building. He read it carefully.
then told newsmen:
"Perhaps I will watt and
give out a statement tomor
row morning." v -(
(Cantlnned ea ly t, Cvianss f)
Still Seek to
Quiz Gouzenlio
- Washington J Chairman
Jenner R., Ind. said Wednesday
one reason the Senate internal
security subcommittee wants to
question Jgor Gouxenko to to
find out whether he has inform
ation that might uncover now -spy
ring in government
The subcommittee deferred
until later in the day a decision
on what further steps, it any,
to take in its efforts to Inter
view Gouxenko, former So
viet code clerk in Ottawa who
tipped Canadian authorities la
1943 to a Soviet espionage net
work. ; r . -. i
There were some Indication'
the group would not press for
an interview with Ooutenko in
view ot his reported objections.
Jenner said Tuesday: "I don't
want him to testify it bo feels
It will endanger him and his
family."
-Tuesday, the subcommittee
disclosed the FBI reported la
November 1949 that informa
tion supplied by Gouztnko bad
enabled it to Identify wartime
science consultant of Fleet
Adm. Ernest J. King as a Soviet
agent
Urges Scalping
Job on Morse 1
Portland (ff) Sen. Karl
Mundt, South Dakota republi
can, had breakfast with Port
land GOP leaders before leav
ing for a speech at Coot Bay
Wednesday night
Mundt said he does not be
lieve there will be any real
break between President Elsen
hower and Sen. Joseph Mc
Carthy. "Each one needs the
other," he commented.
Mundt urged GOP leaders to
"do a scalping job" on Sen.
Wayne Morse, who bolted the
republican party last year to
support the democratic presi
dential candidate.
"You made a mistake," ho
said, referring to Morse's elec
tion as a republican.
"Now get rid of him. Wa
dont' want him In Washing
ton." Mundt will speak at Klam
ath Falls Thursday and in Ash
land Friday. He will address
the Izaak Walton league con
vention at Eugene Saturday.
ASSASSINATION RULED
Bangkok, Thailand (? A
Thai appeals court ruled
Wednesday that King Ananda
Mahldol, who died mysterious
ly In 1946, was assassinated.
The court did not name tbe
assassin. The 4 to 1 decision
condemned to death two royal
pages who were near the royal
beacnamber when the king
was shot.