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FINAL
EDITION
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65th Year, No. 288 2
IS Soltm, Oregon, Thursday, December 3, 1953 34 Pages Price 5c
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Changes in
Operation of
Chamber Due
Parts of Lawshe
Report Approved,
Others Criticized
Br 8TEPBEN A. STONE
A stun change la the id
People Held
To Blame for
Tax Increase
Belton Says Tax Of
ficials not to Blame
For Upped Taxes
- By JAMES D. OLSON
Responsibility for ever In
SECOND WOMAN HELD IN EXTORTION PLOT IN RANSOM CASE
C I Vwa t . ..... .
Reds niroatiesin
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f nnrlarrrn
Korea
W"'4
ministration of the Chamber of
Commerce will be made the
coming year whereby chahr
mea of committees will be ap
pointed from outside the beard
of director.
Further, board members will
have little aervice on commit
tea other than for. liaison pur
pose between committee and
board.
Selection of chairmen from
the chamber membership out
aide the board waa one of the
recommendations by Ben
Lawshe of San Francisco, who
made a survey of the chamber
operation, and whose report
was received by the board
Wednesday night Adoption of
that recommendation was
urged by William H. Ham
mond,, the new president, and
was approved without opposi
tion. Not Closed Corporation
Hammond said he felt that
the past practice of naming
chairmen from the board mem
bership "makes us a closed
corporation." In selecting his
chairmen, he said, he would
like to have the help of the
board, and the answer to that
was a vote to have a commit
tee on committees.
(ConUnoed a Faro 11, Cehnaa 1)
Group Meets
Gov. Paul L. Patterson's
Commute on Indian Affairs
will meet here next Tuesday
to make plans for the expected
transfer of the Klamath and
Grand Ronde - Siletz Indian
tribes to state jurisdiction.
The governor said he called
the meeting so that the state
would be prepared when and if
Congress frees the Indians from
Inderal Jurisdiction. - ;
Attending tlwrTSWeting will
be state officials "who would
"have to help the Indians, such
as those concerned with educa
tion, health, forestry and wel
fare; Indian leaders, county of
ficials, and federal Indian Serv
ice officers.
Congress already has with
drawn the federal government
from law enforcement on all
Oregon reservation . except
warm Springs. The general
freeing of Indians from federal
jurisdiction is a separate mat
ter.
Study Oregon
Insurance Laws
Fifty-one Oregon insurance
men have been appointed to
eight committees to study Ore
son's Insurance laws.
The last time such study
was made was in 1917.
The committes were named
by State Insurance Commis
sioner Robert Taylor. They will
suggest changes to the 19S5
Legislature.
Each of the eight commit-
3 tees deals with a different kind
of insurance. Taylor and the
eight chairmen will coordinate
the enure project.
The goal of the study is
bring the insurance laws
line with modern-day require
ments.
creasing property taxes was
placed sqnarely apoa the peo
ple through a so of the ballot
box by Stat Senator Howard
Belton, Canby, chairman of the
legislative interim tax study
committee la a statement is
sued Thursday.
"Tax administrators and as
sessment officers are in no way
responsible for the Impact of
the tax burden," Belton said.
"That responsibility rests with
the people and finds its origin
in local budget-making bodies
and in the ballot box.
Reassessment Urged
"A complete reassessment of
all property," Belton contin
ued, "with periodic review, is
the only means of assuring tax
payers that they will be
charged with their fair share
property taxes, and no
more."
(Conuaaed on frag a, Cohuaa 4)
Wet and Dreary
n Middle West
(St Tht AMocUt4 Prtul
Another wet and dreary
day was the outlook Thursday
for wide areas in the mid-continent
and some Western
states. Fair weather prevailed
in the eastern quarter of the
country and over most of the
Southwest to the Pacific
Coast
Rain pelted areas from the
Rockies to the Ohio Valley,
but no heavy amounts were
reported. Rain fell from the
Texas Panhandle northeast
ward to lower Michigan and
southwestward through the
lower Mississippi valley. Thun
der showers were reported in
northeastern Texas, Okalhoma
and southeastern Kansas.
Snow tell in the West Cen
tral Plains westward to the
Rockies and as far south," as
central ' Mew Mexico. Snow
flurries were reported in Mon-
Rain in Valley
Snow in Hills
Good old Oregon rain con
tinued for valley areas. Thurs
day morning, a total of .24 of
an inch being measured in the
24-hour period to 10:30 am
and the drizzle continuing
through the day.
More snow in the high areas
was reported this morning
and the highway department
warned motorists to carry
chains if traveling the McKen
zie, Meacbam, Austin and Sen-
eca pass regions. Snow
packed on the highways
those districts.
Five stretches of one-way
traffic continue because
washouts in the Oakrtdge sec
tion of the Willamette high
way, and there is also one
way stretch east of Foster on
the South Santiam.
Riven were slightly higher
due to the increased rain.
. Thursday, the Willamette
Salem measuring 7.2 feet this
morning.
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Deadlock in NY
Dailies' Strike
New. York ( Publishers
have turned down a photoen
gravers union proposal cutting
demands about half, a federal
mediator announced, and the
city'a newspaper strike today
went into its sixth day.
Prior to the newspaper's ac
tion, a union membership meet
ing had rejected a proposal by
the publishers for arbitration of
four dead-locked issues, lnciua
ing wages and hours.
Negotiations were recessed
shortly before- mdinight. They
will be resumed late today,
Copco Power
Plant Operates
Roseeurg W California
Oregon - Power Company's
Clearwater plant No. 2 is now
in operation and supplying
power to Roscburg transmis
sion lines, Copco General Man
ager John Boyle reports.
The plant is high in the Cas
cades on the North Umpqua
River about 80 miles east of
Roseburg. It is part of a power
development carrier on by
Copco on the river for many
years.
Opening of the plant adds
26,000 kilowatts to the system.
At full load, the new plant is
capable of producing 30,000
kilowatts. Copco's six North
Upmqua project plants now
produce about 180,000 kilo
watts and two more dams are
under consideration.
SHIP OFFICERS STRIKE
Oslo, Norway. W Nor
wegian ship officers struck
Thursday in a walkout which
may tie up most of their na
tion s merchant navy, back
bone of its economy. The
deck officers complain they
are not making as much as the
men in the engine room.
sitfcit n'J
Philadelphia, Dec. 3 Mrs. Frances Keplin Fallaro, 30, of
Philadelphia, bites her lip as she sits in Federal Building
yesterday after hearing at which she was charged with
attempting to extort $25,000 from R. C. Greenlease, father
of kidnapped and slain Bobby Greenlease. Mrs. Fallaro,
mother of two children, was held in $10,000 bail. On Tues
day of the week Mrs. Betty Robbins, 25, was held in
$10,000 bail on charges of attempting to get $4,000 from
the elder Greenlease. (AP Wirephoto)
No" progress veE3i3tow Knoyl jH'Wlju. f&f 'steTyTtlM.'SoeY
ht," Federal Mediator Frank etihower. - v r' - t I statement ttai-'Secret
night," Federal Mediator Frank etihower.
H. Brown said.
Brown said representatives
of the six struck newspapers
turned down a proposal by
Local 1 of the AFL Internation
al Photoengravers Union for a
oackage increase of $7.50 a
week. He added that the news
papers, represented by the Pub
lishers Assn. of New York City
made no new proposal.
Dockside War
Holds up Ship
San Francisco, W) A flurry
of dock-side head knocking
erupted Wednesday night and
one man was arrested as the
result of a bitter union juris
dictional dispute over the pas
senger ship Aleutian.
The vessel, under charter to
the Hawaiian-Pacific line and
scheduled to sail for Hono
lulu Saturday, is the object of
an organizational tug of war
between the AFL Marine
Cooks and Stewards Union and
Hugh Bryson's National Union
of Marine Cooks and Stewards.
Bryson,- whose union holds
contracts with most leading
Pacific Coast shippers, charged
his men had been fired off
the Aleutian at Seattle Nov. 24
and were replaced by AFL
members.
McCarthy Sticks by
Wood Trade' Criticism
Tornado Kills
9 in Louisiana
And Injures 20
Alexandria. La. V A torna
do hopseotcbed across central
Louisiana early Thursday, kill
ing at least Bine persons, and
injured more than 3$ others.
Seven died in the storm's
fury at the rural community of
Leander, 20 miles southwest of
Alexandria. . . :
Two Infants were " killed
when the tornado struck Tul
los, 40 miles north of Alex
andria. .
Homes ripped Into firewood
marked the tornado's path.
The seven killed at Leander
were identified as:
Cozzie Wilson, 44,
Cleveland Smith. 58, his
wife, 42, and their daughter,
Joyce, 23.
Herman Batson, and his son,
Joseph, one year
Mrs. Ella Hughes, Batson's
mother-in-law.
Power Cut Off ! '
Mrs. J. J. Hughes of Lean
der, mother-in-law of Mrs. Ella
Hughes, rushed to the Batson
home after the tornado struck
at 5:30 a.m.
She found Mrs. Batson, crit
ically injured, sitting in the
rubble of her home. She was
holding her dead baby and
swaying to and fro. ,
(Coatlnuea on Faro s. Cotaaaa I)
Storm Kills 2
In Texas Areas
30MorePVs
From S. Korea
Prefer Reds
Panmunjom Wl A second
group of 30 South Koreans' to
day unanimously chose life
under the communists, giving
allied persuaders a total blank
for two days of effort to woo
home balky war prisoners.
There was no violence, but
many prisoners were more
talkative than the 30 who
yesterday listened passively to
ROK explainers, then chose
communism.
The U.N. command said 30
more South Koreans of 328
who refused repatriation will
be Interviewed tomorrow. .
There was no Indication
when 22 Americans and one
Briton who stayed with the
communists will be called.
Allied officers expressed
the opinion . that communist
leaders In the POW compound
probably had sent their most
thoroughly indoctrinated fel
low prisoners to the first in
Assembly Vole
42 to 5 With
Washington W Sen. Mc
Carthy (R.. Wis.) stuck by his
criticism of administration
foreign policy Thursday a ad
called on Americana who feel
as he doea about "blood trade1
with Red China to rotk l'lelr
He said he thinks Eisen
hower "is an honorable man"
and "will follow the will of
the American people if that
will is known to him."
And, in- further disagree-
3 More Red Suspects
Kept On in Treasury
Top Brass Seek
Higher Wages
Washington vF) A group of
generals and admirals called
today for a military pay boost
and other actions to halt what
they termed an alarming de
terioration in the career mili
tary service.
"Military service has lost
much of its attractiveness as a
caree," said a study committee
named by Secretary of Defense
Wilson last spring at the direc
tion of President Eisenhower.
"Unless the present trend of
career personnel leaving the
service can be reversed, most
serious consequences to the na
tional defense effort will result."
Asst. Secretary of Defense
John Hannah, in making public
the report of the five-man com
mittee, said It would receive
careful attention from the
military services, the Defense
Department and the Joint
Chiefs -of Staff. Hannah added
that release of the report Im
plied -neither Its approval nor
acceptance in every respect
Sawyer Warns
On Forest Lands
ment with the president, Mc
Carthy declared that commu
nists in government will be
an Issue in next year's elec
tions and "th most important
issue for . many years to
sons"- ,'i
in
statement lfiai- Stcretary of
State Dulles "reappraise, our I
whole policy" toward allies
dealing with communist
China, '.'.:,'.
But he declared at to same
time that any suggestion he
was challenuglng Eisenhow
er's leadership of the repub
lican party "is both ridiculous
snd untrue. He attributed
this idea to "our political enemies."
McCarthy replied in a pre
pared statement to the blasts
delivered at him in the last
few day by Eisenhower and
Dulles. Then, reading it for
TV and newsreel cameramen,
he added an appeal for Amer
icans who agree with him to
write or wire their views to
Eisenhower.
in
Washington ) Senate in
vestigators developed case
records Thursday on three more
former Treasury Department
employes who were kept on and
even promoted under the Tru
man administration after FBI
information they had Commun
ist ties was sent to the White
House and various top officials.
Data from the Justice De
partment on V. Frank Coe,
Solomon Adler and Victor
Perlo was read into the record
at a public hearing by the Sen
ate internal security subcom
mittee.
All three were associates and
subordinates of the late Harry
Detxer White and have been
named in public testimony as
members of a wartime spy ring
within the government.
In earlier hearings, the com
mittee has gon into th case
of White, who died In 1948,
and two other associates, Har
old Glasscr and William Lud
wig Ullman.
Ullman, who left the govern
ment in 1947 and is now in the
construction business in New
Jersey, was called as a witness
Wednesday. He refused to ans
wer questions as to whether he
had engaged in espionage,
pleading his answers might in
criminate Aim.
Atty. Gen. BrowneU touched
off the current aerie of hear-
ings when he charged on Nov. 6
thai former President Truman
promoted White In the face of
FBI report that White wa a
Russian spy.
Chairman Jenner (R., Ind.)
having accepted the Canadian
governments terms, is await
ing word as to a posible secret
interview with Igor Gouzenko.
Washlngton-On-1 h e-Brazos.
Tex. WV-Severe weather that
threw at least nine small torna
does at Texas took a farewell
fling Thursday before ripping
mw) Srfouistana. '
A thunderstorm with hltfh
winds littered -flhe street- of
Orange and Houston. A truck
shed was destroyed On the
southeastern outskirts of Hous
ton. ; ;
Clearing, colder weather fol.
lowed the storms across the
state. Snow fell in the Panhan
dle. ( ...
Two persons were killed and
22 others Injured in the storms
that began late Tuesday night.
At tne community of Tabor,
miles northeast of Colleee
Station, two persons ran out
of their house just before a
twister hit-it and escaped un
injured. But their farm home
was demolished, clothing flung
in trees and every chicken in
the yard left dead.
The deaths occurred at Wash-
lngton-On-The-Brazoa. just a
few miles from Navasota in
southeast Texas. : .
Washington U.BRobert W.
Sawyer, former editor of the
Bend. Ore.. Bulletin, charged
today (hat federal controls of
some public lands have been
undermined by insufficient ap
propriations for administration.
Sawyer told the Mid-Century
conference on resources for the
future that only the federal
government can protect the
forest and grazing lands, and
continued federal control Is re
quired to protect the land for
other uses such as hunting, fish-
ing and recreation.
Today the users have the
upper hand. Sawyer aaid.
"Private profit use rather than
public service use predomin
ates." Eublio control of the national
forest use for profit is "far
better established and main
tained," he said, but "influence
Gradual Change
For Defense
New York P Adm. Ar
thur Radford, chairman of the
joint chiefs of staff, says the
JCS favors a gradual not rad
ical change in the national
defense setup based on a long
term program.
- The admiral, speaking last
night before the American
Ornance Assn., did not men
tion the "new look ' ordered
by the Elsenhower administra
tion sifter installing a new slate
of member for the joint chief
organization.
The Russians, Radford .said,
are capable o touching off a
shooting war triggered by a
"small group of men in the
Kremlin."
He said the Soviet system In
cludes a three-pronged method
of gaining objectives: Politico-
economic, military, and psy
chological-propaganda. If one
of them is turned back, he
said, another Is used.
Stalemate on
Korean Peace
Panmunjom () U, S.
voy Arthur Dean warned today
that if the Communists want a
Korean peace conference they
must do a complete about
face" on demands that Russia
be invited as a neutral nation.
Dean told the Reds that
'sterile, nonproductive and un
cooperative" insistence on Rus
sian neutrality could stall the
conference "indefinitely and
perhaps forever." , :.,
Dean and the Communists
met for 3Vi hoots the longest
meeting so far in on week of
preliminary talk to arrange
lino peac conference,
rem said ha wa trying to
Break the deepening deadlock
and had received jia Instruc
tions to put a time limit on the
preliminary talks.
United Nations, N.T. 1
The U.N. General - Assembly
Tharsday expressed It "grave
n" at Bed atrocities ta
Korea and approved aa Ameri
can call for stiff condemnation
of such actions.
Over bitter Soviet opposition.
the United Nations Assembly
approved Western-sponsored -.
resolution of condemnation by
a vote of 42 to 5 with 10 ab
stentions. - y ..
The balloting followed three .
days of vitriolic debate in
which Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
of the United States accused
the North Koreans and Chinese
Communists of killing nearly
38,000 U.N. soldiers and civil
ians in Korea as a part of high
Kremlin policy. ; '
Soviet Bloe Votes No '"
The five negative votes were
cast by the Soviet bloc The 10
abstentions were mostly by
Asian and Arab nations. '
According to terms of th
resolution, sponsored by th '
U.S., Britain, France, Turkey ,
and Australia,' th Assembly
specifically:
"l. Expressed its grave con
cern at report and informa
tion that N orth Korean and
Chinese Communist forces
have, in large number ot in
stances, employed inhuman
practices against the heroio sol
diers of forces under the United
Nations command in Korea and
against th civilian population
in Korea. , ,
(ConUnw oa Paso a, flslasa a)
Tucker' .Town. Bermuda .
France's Premier Jbseph
Ielanived Thursday star tiso)
011 1 Dm pcriuuufl kvmcraiui
reDortedly determined to gassal
for new Jong term, eledge ot
-imnAvt In 11,1 S,,it HrUm In
The Communists today flatly I. ..1 h irnibvl fitmlr.
rejected Dean's latest plan for o-,--,. mii, rhi.n-hlll mnA
la political conference, but made Foreian Secretary Anthony
Bids for Turbines at
McNary Dam Called
Walla Walla () Bids for
the Installation of the last six
turbines in the McNary Dam
powerhouse will be opened
about Jan. IS, Col. F. S. Tandy
of the army engineers said
Thursday.
Eight turbine are in place
or in the process of being in
stalled in the powerhouse on
the Oreron shore of the Col
umbia river.
Each of the 14 turbine la
rated at 111,300 horsepower
wiin an nu-ioot head of water.
bach generator has a rated
capacity of 0,000 7kilowatts,
Seek to Clear Famed
Witches of Salem
Boston F) Th 1954 Mass
achusetts legislature has been
asked to clear those famed Sa
lem witches after, lo, these 2 14
centuries.
Two Essex county men filed
a bill yesterday to reverse the
1892 witchcraft conviction of
Ann Pudcator and other.
- Ann was hsnged on Gallows
Hill. Twenty-one other per
son also were executed or died
is st work to reduce the extend in jsil before the witch hunt
of th Forest Service control
lanlel lands
In
no specific mention of his pro
posal to soat Soviet Russia as
a third psrty, ..
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Indian Troops
Tired by Delay
New Delhi, India W Prime
Minister Nehru told a question
er in parliament Thursday the
Indian government "has no in
tention of keeping our forces
in Korea indefinitely."
Nehru said the question of
convening a Korean political
conference "as early as possi
ble" might be raised in the
U. N. assembly "if this is con
sidered necessary."
He added it was possible. It
it would be raised in in the re
maining week of the present
session "but there is a chance
an emergency session might be
neid later in any event '
The United States and her
U.N. allies In Korea have been
reported anxious to prevent
lurtner assembly debate on
Korea now on grounds it might
inieriere witn the attempt at
Panmunjom by U.S. Envoy Ar
thur Dean to arrange a poli
tical conference.
Xden were on hand at Kindle
Field to meet Lanicl, his For
eign Minister George Bldsult,
and a team of J 7. expert from
the French Foreign Office.
President Elsenhower will
arrive Friday for'the five day
ot conferences which open that
afternoon.
Laniel was reported: also
ready to tell .Britain and the
United State that France 1
prepared to examine any peace
offer made omciauy oy no
Chi Mlnh, the Moscow-educated
general who has been direct
ing the long war In Indochina
against the French.. ' ' ' ,'
$95 Million
For Basin Jobs
: I.
Harry Bridges Men
Attend Spy Probe
ended.
San Francisco W Extra
police were ordered today to
keep order during a threatened
march on Civic Center by Har
ry Bridges' longshoremen pro
testing House Un-American Ac-,
tlvities Committee hearings at
City Hall.
The protest, labeled a stop
work meeting by Bridges' own
Local 10 ot the left-wing Inter
national Longshoremen' and
Warehtusemen's Union, could
tie up 40 ships. It was called
at a meeting aUended by fewer
than 800 of the local's 9,500
member after several Bridges
aide were named as former
Communist by a witness be
fore the committee Tuesdsy
Rep. Harold Velde' (R-IU.)
denied ILWU charges that his
committee Is here to attack it.
He stated: "We will continue
our hearings against commu
nism and subversion wherever
we iind It."
-ine committee exoectni la
near today a friendly witness.
described by Rep, Donald L.
Jackson (R-Calif.) as a "former
member ot the fourth estate
the press." He was not identi
fied. , ,
Louis Rosser, 47, of Los An
geles, who said he was a disil
lusioned ex-Red, testified Tues
day these ILWU officers were
Communists: Louis Goldblatt,
secretary-treasurer and Bridg
es' No. 1 lieutenant; Charles
Chill D-iarte, president of Lo
cal 6; Richard Lyndon, secre
tary-treasurer of -I ical 8; Jack
Olson, ,'ormer Local 8 publicity
chief; and Paul Heile Local 6
business agent,
. Portland () Army engin
eers will Invite bida by next
June 30 on Columbia Basin
construction 'and equipment
items totaling more than $9S
million, Brig. Geru. Don G.
Shlngler, North Pacific divi
sion engineer said Thursday.
Estimated cost of projects to
be awarded by the Portland
district is nearly $89 million.
Shingler sadi- the. Wall Wall
district will examine bids ex
pected to tolar 2Vi mllioh.
The Seattle district total 1
expected to' be nearly S2
million. ... v
The bids will be on railroad
relocations, generator and
electrical equipment, dam op
erating machinery, excava
tions, levee knd revetment
wor, wire and cable and other
Items,
The Portland district will
invite bid on three project,
each -estimated at more than
$10 million dollars, In con
nection with The Dalles dam-
Opening of these bids are
scheduled for December 22,
June IS and Jun 29.
The Walla Walla district
will consider bid for work at
McNary dam, Lucky dam and
the Salmon) and Clearwater
rivers, ;
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