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65th Year, No. 289 EoSToS Salem, Oregon, Friday, December 4, 1953 20 Pages Price 5c
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Oregon's Weight-Mile
Tax for Interstate
Trucks to Be Studied
. Br JAMES D. OLSON
Legislatures ef 11 waters
states, lneludlnc Oregon, will
k asked to coaslder a unl
form formula of taxation tor
out-of-state tracks, wklek If
generaly adopted will elimi
nate the necessity of steles ea
terinr -late .negotiated .reci
procity agreements as at pres
ent Edward Geary, chairman of
the legislative highway inter
im committee, who recently
returned from a meeting in
Los Angeles of the Western
Interstate Committee on High
way Policy Problems, told the
committee that the new plan
4 would place a weight-mile tax
xor large irucn nsuicn uuu
state, similar to the
.taxation method utilized
all large trucks in Oregon.
(Continued oa Pat i. Column I)
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Foot of Snow
In Mid-West
Minneapolis Wl A storm
that dumped more than a foot
ef snow In some sections of
mid-America buffeted the Da
kotas and Minneapolis today
as it swept northward into Can
ada.
Nebraska, Kansas and east
ern Colorado also were hit but
the snow had all but ended in
these states.
Schools were closed, motor
ists were stranded and com
munications knocked out in
some areas.
. International Falls in Min
nesota reported 14 laches of
snow. A foot fell in the eastern
half of South Dakota. In
north-central Nebraska Lexing
ton also had a 12-inch total.
No large-scale traffic tieups
were reported in the Dakotas
and Minnesota but some tele
phone lines were severed ana
driving was hazardous. In
eastern South Dakota many
schools were closed.
Northwesterly winds caused
near - blizzard conditions in
parts of Colorado, Nebraska
and Kansas yesterday.
Communications were out in
the central Nebraska snow
area and in northeastern Ne
braska, which got freezing
rain. '
Just More Rain
5 Day Forecast
"Just more rain" Is the sum
mary from the five-day fore
cast for the valley from the
weather bureau. Friday.
As result of the rains through
most of the week, rivers of the
valley were higher Friday
morning, and further slight to
moderate rises are due during
the next 24 to 48 hours.
The Willamette river was up
to 9.7 feet at Salem, Friday
morning.
Rainfall in Salem amounted
to .41 of an inch in the 24-hour
period ending at 10:30 a.m. to
day.
From 10 to 20 inches of new
snow were recorded for Cas
cade mountain passes this
- morning.
The Oregon highway com
mission is warning all motor
ists to use chains in the pass
regions.
The snow plow was at work
on the Santiam pass this morn
ing with 12 inches of new snow
measured there. Flurries of the
white stuff continued during
the morning. Government
Camp reported 20 inches of
new snow this morning, the
Willamette pass. 18 inches.
Big Elevator
For Seattle
Seattle, W The Seattle
Port Commission disclosed
Thursday it plans to build a
4-million bushel waterfront
grain elevator as part of what
was called the most compre
hensive grain-handling facili
ty on the Pacific Coast. .
Plans for the elevator fol
low those suggested by the
Cargill Co., which holds a 20
ycar port lease on the Han
. fcrd property.
As an initial step, the com
mission authorized acquisition
of a 142,000-square feet Mil
waukee Railroad tank farm
north of the present elevator
Crew Refuses to
Handle Ads of
Struck N.Y. Dailies
New York UP) The Lang Is
land Star-Journal halted pub
lication Friday when Its stere-
otypers refused to handle news
and comics at struck newspa
pers in Manhattan which were
to be printed in the form ef
paid advertisements.
No material from the adver
tisers of the struck papers was
involved..
Stephen Rogers, editor of the
Queens afternoon paper, said in
a statement the stereotype,
who make casts for the adver
tisements, refused to handle the
ads, contending it was "struck
work."
In Violation of Contract
"This action by the stereo
typers union, in violation of our
contract, destroys a vital link
in the newspaper's production
line, preventing us from plac
ing printed pages on the
presses," Rogers said in a state
ment
"Under the circumstances,
the Long Island Star-Journal
could no longer publish and re
gretfully announces it must
suspend until the controversy is
settled."
(Continaed en rase S. Calunia I)
I Welcomed by
Jersey City's
Mayor to Quit
Jersey City, N. J. WV-May-
or John V. Kenny, who led the
movement which shattered the
Frank Hague democratic or
ganization in 1949, said Friday
he will resign effective Jan. 1.
Kenny told newsmen that
Public Safety Director Bern
ard Berry will become the next
mayor.
The dapper, 60-year-old ma
yor said he will continue as
democratic leader olHudion
county, a post held by Hague,
one of the last of the old time
party bosses, for almost three
decades.
Kenny told reporters that his
resignation "has nothing to do
with my health. I've Just had
my fill of the rigors of office.
I can't take it any more, espe
cially the antics of crackpots.
"Why should it take all that
for $8,000 a year?
Kenny, a former Hague lieu
tenant who broke with the
once-powerful party kingpin,
said he will fight for the nom
ination of his supporters in the
primary next April.
Water Storage
Needed by Basin
Seattle W) The new chief of
the Army Corp of Engineers'
North Pacific division says the
Pacific Northwest's biggest
problems in future develop
ment of the Columbia River
system is to provide 28,000,000
acre-feet of water storage.
Ending a tour of Northwest
power and reclamation proj
ects, Brig. Ccn. Don G. Sliiiig-
ler pointed out Thursday only
about 7,000,000-acre feet of
storage, principally behind
Grand Coulee Dam, is now
available.
Shinglcr said more water
storage is needed both for ef
fective flood control and to as
sure better utilization of pow
er plants during low water pe
riods. Most dams now under con
struction, he said, are run -of -
the river projects, without stor
age.
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Strike Violence
Again Resumed
At San Francisco
Egyptians Fire
On U.S. Vessel
Cairo. Egypt W An Am
erican freighter carrying 9,600
tons of gift wheat for Arab
refugees from Palestine was
fired on In the gulf of Aquaba
Thursday. Her owners in New
York said there was no dam
age or casualties.
An Egyptian official here
said an Egyptian shore battery
fired what he called a warning
shot at the freighter, the Al
bion, because she failed to heed
an order to bait for inspection.
The American embassy here
had reported the incident ear
lier.
The Gulf pt Aqaba is east of
Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The
Albion is scheduled to unload
at the Jordan port of Aqaba at
the head of the gulf Saturday, j
Ceremonies are planned in con
nection with the arrival of the
gift wheat.
Dry trans. Inc., of New York,
owns the 7,255-ton ship. Her
master is Capt. James H. Has
sell of East Williston, N. Y,
Renews Attack
Upon Benson
Washington ) Secretary
of Agriculture Benson Friday
came under a new crossfire of
criticism and praise touched
off by his reorganization of
the Soil Conservation Service.
Carrying on the attack be
gun -Thursday before a house
government operations sub
committee, the National Asso
ciation of Soil Conservation
Districts accused Benson of
bad faith and demanded Jetti
toning of the plan pendir
further study.
But in another prepared
statement, the American Farm
Bureau Federation approved
the "broad plan" of reorgan
ization and exressed "whole
hearted" belief that Benson
should have an opportunity to
carry it out.
The house subcommittee
called Benson and others be
fore it in hearings to air the
controversy over the reorgan
ization, put into effect No
vember 2 as part of revamp
ing of the agriculture department.
John P. Hanson, AFL union attorney, attempts to rise
after being beaten to the ground by a mob of International
Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union pickets. The
Longshoremen, who were having a work stoppage in
Protest of Rep. Velde's un-Amerkan hearings, were mill
ing about the San Francisco pier where marine cooks and
stewards of two different unions were fighting over the
right to serve aboard the passenger ship Aleutian. (UP
Telephoto) '
Hammond Selects CofC
Special Committees
Some new standing commit
tees of the Salem Chamber of
Commerce may be created, and
some of the old committees dis
continued, William H. Ham
mond, new president, aaid Friday.
Holy War on
Israel Looms
Jerusalem, Jargon Section W
A "holy wsr against Israel
was threatened yesterdsy at
the opening of a Moslem
"Conference for Palestine's
Salvation from Israeli Occupation."
Thirty-four leading Moslem
personalities from all Arab
countries, as well as from Pak
istan, Afghanistan snd Indo
nesia, took part.
Mohammad Mahmad Elsa-
waf, secretary general of the
Iraqi Salvation committee,
said in a speech that "the day
will come when we are going
to declare a jihad holy war
for the salvation of Palestine."
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Thornton Restricted
In Grand Jury Probes
AWOLCoburg
Youth Captured
Louisville. Ky. Vn Olen M.
Mowdy, the 18-year-old pri
vate from Coburg, Ore., who
has cost the army $30,000 so
far, is back in custody again.
This time he is going to be
prosecuted by the FBI on a
charge of assault and rnhhery.
With Pvt. Joe A. Laws, 21,
Harrogate, Term., he is accus
ed of everpowering two guards
at the Ft. Campbell, Ky.,
stockade and making off with
their shotguns.
The army estimates It has
spent 30,000 in man-hours
and transportation in finding
Mowdy on his AWOL expedi
tions.
The first one came last sum
mer. At first it appeared ne
was lost, snd a battalion of
men spent dsys trying to find
him. A month later he turn
ed up in Oklahoma City with
a sad story of hsvlng lost his
parents. He also posed as an
athlete, using another boy's
nsme.
Grand jury investigation in
any county of the state cannot
be carried on by the attorney
general except on order of the
governor, Attorney General
Robert Y. Thornton held In an
opinion Friday.
The ruling was requested by
Governor Paul L. Patterson in
connection with a request of a
group of Lincoln county citi
zens that the attorney general
conduct an Investigation pf
charges of gambling, prostitu
tion and corruption In that
area. Later two large groups of
citizens from the same county
appeared before the governor
and denied that the conditions
charged existed at the present
time, or had existed since new
county officials hsd taken of
fice last January,
"It is my opinion," the attor
ney general ruled, "that while
the attorney general has the
genersl power to make lnvesti- J
gstions and may make evidence
so attained available to the dis
trict sttorney or the governor,
the attorney general Is limited
in his power to present such
evidence to grand juries and
otherwise prosecute criminal
cases except in. cooperation
with such district attorneys un
der Oregon laws.
"This duty," Thornton con
tinued, "Includes the power to
compel by mandamus county,
as well as state officers when
charged with duties to the state
to obey the same.
(Continued eu Fag S, Colama t)
McClellan to
Be NAM Chief
New York Wl A minister's
son, who developed a broken-
down paint factory into a
flourishing enterprise, is the
new president of the National
Assn. of Manufacturers the
first Pacific Coast man to head
the organization.
Harold C. McClellan, presi
dent of the Old Colony Paint
& Chemical Co., Los Angeles,
was elected last night at the
58th annual Congress of Amer
ican Industry. He succeeds
Charles R. Sllgh, Jr., president
of the Sllgh Furniture compan
ies, Grand Rapids, Mich., who
becomes chairman of the board
,01 directors of the association.
Hammond announced the
personnel of three special com
mittees that were authorized
by the board of directors
Wednesday night, and one of
these, a committee on commit
tees, will make recommenda
tions relative to the formation
of the administrative groups.
The special committees were
appointed from the board of
directors, but, by a change in
policy voted by the board
Wednesday night, the standing
committees will be selected
from -tha .general chamber
membership outslqe the board.
For the committee on com
mittees, Hammond appointed
Kenneth M. Potts, chairman,
J. A. H. Dodd, Reynolds Allen
and Wes Stewart.
A special committee on audit
of chamber accounts is Judge
Joseph B. Felton, chairman,
Robert K. PoweU and A. H.
Flicker.
On a special committee on
revision of chamber by-laws
Hammond appointed Miss Hat
tie Bratzel, chairman, Lee Oh
mart, Roy Harland and Judge
Felton.
(Continued on rags S. Colama 1)
Admits Slaying
For Insurance
Denver (JPi A young sales
man and a co-worker were
held Friday after police said
they admitted a holdup-slaying
to collect Insurance on a pret
ty red-haired telephone operator.
Detective Captain Charles
Burns described the strangling
of Mrs. Evelyn Leick, 26, last
Tuesday night as one of the
strangest ever Investigated by
Denver police.
In custody were her husband
IRoy Leick, 30, and Gene
Dukes, 20, employes of the
same brokerage firm here.
Detective Capt. William E.
Fler said both signed state
ments admitting a plot to kill
Mrs. Leick but each blame the
other for throttling her. They
were quoted as saying It took
20 minutes.
Mrs. Leick was found dead in
the back seat of the family car
20 minutes after her husband
was discovered, bleeding and
semi-conscious from a beating,
in a downtown alley. His wife's
sister. Miss Vera Monroe, had
been pushed out of the car in
another alley, also after a beating.
San Fraaclsea ) New dis
orders occurred oa the water-
treat Irmay and two pickets
were arrested at the 8S Aleu
tian's pier.
Men Injured
Shoving and jeering started
second day of tension at Pier
39, seen of inter-union fight
ing Thursday in which at least
nine men were injured and six
were arrested.
Thirty-six AFL member
went through the picket Una of
the independent national Union
of Marine Cooks and Stewards
and boarded the Aleutian.
Twenty policemen from out
lying precincts stood by in
case of repercussions of trou
ble between 1,400 members of
Harry Lundeberg's AFL Sail
ors Union of the Pacific, and
the independent National un
ion of Marine Cooks and Stew
ards backed by Harry Bridges.
Injunction Issued
Superior Judge Preston J.
Devlne issued an injunction at
the resquest of the Hawaii
Pacific Line, which is charter
ing the Aleutian, limiting pick
ets to five men of each union.
(Concisdo oa Pan a, Colama I)
30 More PWs
Reject Pleas to
Return Home
Panmunjom U. S. En
voy Arthur H. Dean told the
communists today that unrepa
trlated war prisoners will be
freed Jan. 22 unless a peace
conference decides tome other
course "and no human hand or
mind or debate can change It"
we are never going to agree,
under any circumstances, to a
change in that date," he declared.
Dean and communist diplo
mats huddled for almost three
hours on plans for a peace con
ference while a few mites away
30 more South Korean war pri
soners unanimously rejected
pleas to return home.
Dean said the Reds appeared
to be trying to block a peace
conference in an attempt to
hold In definite captivity 22,600
Korean and Chinese war pris
oners who have refused to go
back to communist rule.
Iranians Fight
British Parley
Tehran, Iran ff) Strong po
litical opposition mounted Fri
day against Premier Fazellah
Zahedi's reported invitation to
Britain to resume diplomatic
relations with Iran. ,
' Informed I r a tt la aources
said Thursday night a note ask
ing the resumption was on its
way to London. Formal an
nouncement of the action is ex
pected over the week-end.
Ayatullah Kashsnl, powerful
Moslem religious leader, de
clared Thursday that the dis
pute with Britain over her na
tionalized oil properties here
must be settled and the Iran
ian Parliament must give Its
approval before British envoys
are readmitted.
Dr. Mozzafar Baghaie, a So
cialist leader, blasted the con
ciliatory move In a front page
editorial in his newspaper
Shahed. He described it as "a
dirty surrender to an aggressive
enemy."
Ike's Left Hand
Cut by Pistol
Tucker's Town, Bermuda U.B
President Eisenhower arrived
In Bermuda today wearing a
bandage on his left hand.
Members of his staff said he
cut the palm of his hand while
cocking a pistol In his White
House suite.
They said the pistol was a
small caliber target pistol, and
that the President was showing
Mrs. Eisenhower how old time
heroes of the West "fanned"
their ancient .44s.
The President hit the ham
mer vigorously, they said, and
nicked the palm of his hand.
The injury Is neither serious
nor painful, aides said, but it
was bandaged by the White
House physician.
Pro-Red Gl's
Reject Bibles
Panmunjom, Korea tun
The 22 American war prisoners
who have refused to return
home have rejected New Testa
ments and asked instead for
communist newspapers, an In
dian spokesman revealed today.
The spokesman said the self
exiled GIs flatly turned dowa
a gift of 22 individually
wrapped New Testaments set
to them from the United State.
The snub of Christianity's
most sacred writings was re
vealed after South Korean of
ficers failed for the third
straight day to coax home any
nuK. prisoners. Young Korean
officer have talked to 90 pris
oners but all elected life under
Red rule.
Ask for Newspapers
The Indian spokesman said
the American prisoners, called
"pro-communists" by the Reds,
ssked Indian guards to give
them newspapers and books
from North Korea instead of
New Testaments.
British-French
Delegations
Tucker's! Town, Bermuda 11
President Eisenhower met
Prim Minister Wlastea
Churchill and Joaofk Lakiel
her for their Big Thro eea
fereae Friday with tha case
fldent aaoertloB their talks will
"result m better understand
ing among tha peoples trrolT-
ed." -
Tha President, host Church
ill and Laniel drove immedi
ately from the; airport to the
Mid-Ocean Club, where for
five day they will seek to
tighten the Western alliance
and step up anti-Soviet defense
arrangements a well as de
termine the next moves in rt
lations with Russia.
Secretary of State Dulles,
who arrived with the Presi
dent on his special plana
Columbine, British Foreign
Minuter George Bldault held
a pre-lunch - conference. The
critical Trieste problem which
Is splitting Italy and Yuso- -
ilavia was understood to have
been discussed.
On Scheduled Time ' 1
Elsenhower' silver four-engine
plane touched down at
Kindley Field at 11:12 a.m.
(EST) and pulled up at tne re
ception area on the dot of the
scheduled tune three minutes
later. .
(Continue ess tag t, Cohans 4)
Strike Concerns
Citrus Growers
Pittsburgh () Stalemated
contract negotiations pushed a
nationwide strike against two
top csn manufacturers Into Its
third day Friday, intensifying
the concern of the citrus Indus
try over dwindling csn sup
plies. Citrus canners in Florida.
hit hardest by the walkout of
33,000 CIO United Steelwork
era at 73 U. S. and Canadian
plants of American Can Co.
and Continental Can Co. pre
dict a major crisis If the strike
lasts much longer.
45,862 Listed
State Jobless
Oregon's unemployment pic
ture got darker in November,
with 46,862 jobless persons
listed by the State Unemploy
ment Compensation Commission,
There were 18,600 workers
Isid off during tha month, the
biggest monthly increase since
January, I960.
There were 20,000 persons
filing claims for compensation
during November, 60 per cent
of them being In the seasonal
lumber, food and construction
ifiduolrica.
The commission said hun
dreds of small lumber operators
reduced their activities because
of uncertain lumber markets.
Payments to jobless workers
totaled $1,437,638, seeond high
est November total on record,
and a 60 per cent increase over
the October total.
CHILE COPPER ON MARKET
Santiago, Chile W The
Chilean Senate voted Thursday
night to place the nation's
mounting copper stocks on the
world market but with Iron
Curtain buyers barred.
Tens of Thousands of
Koreans Killed by Reds
Washington W) Col. James
M. Hanley testified Friday
that anti-Red South Korean
civilians are killed by the tens
of thousands" by their commu
nist enemies.
Hsnley, who was the first
chief of the army's Korean
wsr crimes section, told a sen
ate Investigation:
"In some cases, they threw
lliem down mine shafts alive,
they buried them alive, they
burned them alive in jail, and
they shot them in groups of
hundreds.
Sen. Potter (H., Mich.), who
is directing the one-man sen
ate probe of atrocities, mean
while challenged Andrei VI
shlnsky and his associates In
,01 communist hierarchy to
try to disprove Korean veter
ans accounts of bestial bru
tal actions by Reds in Kores
Potter hss hesrd over
dozen accounts of atrocities,
performed against captured
military men, in the past two
days. Frldsy's testimony by
Hanley was the first In the
hearings relstlng to atrocities
against civilians.
No one csn ever know how
many South Koreans were
communist atrocity victims,
Hsnley testified, snd added:
"I don't think exact num
bers are too Important, wheth
er It was 30,000, 40,000, or
50,000.
"The fsct is that the com
munists committed atrocities
beyond sny shadow of doubt1
AskVishinskyto
Prove Denials
Washington (V Sen. Pot
ter (B-. Mich.) today ehal-
lenged, Andre4..Vunsky JM
his associate to try to disprove
Korean veterans' accounts of
brutal, bestial atrocities.
Potter, sitting as a one-man
senata investigations subcom
mittee has heard over a dozen
such accounts in the past two
days. On Mil today were 10
more witnesses to add detail
to the grim recital.
"It these esse are false,"
Potter said in an Interview,
it would be the best possible
propaganda In the world for
the communist to prove that.
If Vlshinsky and the commun
ists are not afraid of the truth,
why do they not ask an impar-.
tial United Nations Investiga
tion?
"They are afraid of the truth
and this gives the lie to Vish
lnikys falsifications." -
To Keep U.N. oh
Tap for Crisis
United Nations. N.Y.
The United States and Its IS
Korean war allies in the United
Nations were reported lining
up support today for a plan to
keep the U.N. Assembly on tap
after it closes shop next week.
It then could be recalled quick
ly If new trouble arises over
Kores.
Observers predicted the proj
ected call for an indefinite re
cess rather than outright ad
journment would meet oppo
sition on two counts.
The scheme, springing from
Allied feeling that Korea
should not be debated while
Special Ambassador Arthur
Dean 1 negotiating with the
Reds at Panmunjom, is expect
ed to run into Soviet bloc ob
jections. A source close to the
Russians said they want the
Korean Issue discussed here
snd now on grounds that it is
the most vital question before
the U.N.
900 Telegrams on
McCarthy's Stand
Washlnifton, WV-The Whit
House siild Friday approxi
mately BOO telegrams had
been received in response to
the public sppeal from Sen.
McCarthy (R., Wis.) that
citizens let President Eisen
hower know how they feel
about the senator's criticism
of allies who trade with Red
Chins.
Murrsy Snyder, assistant
press secretary, said the mes
sages, totaled for the first 24
hours tine the senator ap
peal, had not been broken
down to favorable and un
favorable. .
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