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with nla tonight TaeaaUy.
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Law tonight, ; high Tuesday,
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alley Rivers
using Again
IfierSforms
; i Weather Bureau Pre
; diets Another Series
x Of Storms Looms
Valley riven were running
high Monday neraiac follow,
r . ' -. lag renewed ititni over the
? week-end, bat Be major flood-
; tags are la prospect bnmediate-
flj naleai more torrential ralas
f cone
. . f Monday morning brought
. . some respite from rain, but the
i weather bureau Is calling for
v another tenet of storms.
. f Colder temperatures were re-
ported as holding back much of
. the runoff from snow piling up
' in the mountains,
j' " To Crest Tuesday Evening
f '. The Willamette river at Sa
' lem measured 1S.T feet Monday
1.1 morning and ii due to continue
V riling slowly during the next
t 24 to 36 hours, a crest of 16 to
JT 17 feet due here by Tuesday
- evening. Flood stage is 20 feet
1 here. The high water Js due to
remain around the 16 to IT foot
level at Salem for a time.
The Santiam at Jefferson was
falling again Monday morning
aitnougn suit tiigntly above
flood stage. It topped 16 feet
were bunday.
Cascade Passes Closed "
Three Cascade mountain
highway routes in Oregon were
closed by snow, Monday Mt.
Hood loop, West Diamond lake
and McKenzie pass routes. It
is presumed they are closed for
the season. The highway de
partment warns chains are
needed in all ether pass routes.
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Bride-ioBe
Jilts Dempsey
New York () Mrs EsteUe
Auguste, who Sunday night
cancelled plans to marry for
mer heavyweight boxing cham
pion Jack Dempsey, left Mon
day by plane for Florida.
"I wish you would tell Mr.
. Dempsey I have left," she said
as she boarded an Eastern Air
Lines plane for West Palm
Beach. "I understand he want
ed to sleep until 10 o'clock.
Well, it s better this way, it's
easier to break an engagement
uian get a divorce."
The rich and pretty widow
appeared in good spirits as she
boarded the plane.
She announced the breakup
Sunday night with a statement
that "oil and water simply
won't mix." We're Just too
different," she said, three days
after she had announced she
would marry the former boxer.
4 Pilots Crash
To Insian! Death
Lawrenceville, Ca , ()
Four Thunderjets in tight for
mation shot through low-hanging
clouds near here early yes
terday and slamned into a
pine thicket, carrying their pi
lots to instant death.
Officials at Dobbins A i r
Force Base in Marietta, Ga.,
home base of the single-seater
planes, theorized that they got
lost in rough, rainy weather.
They crashed only a few min
utes before they were schedul
ed to land at Dobbins after an
sjtinstrument flight from Miami.
The pilots, all members of
the Atlanta Air - National
Guard unit, were identified as
Capt Idon M. Hodge Jr., 30,
Atlanta; 1st LI Samuel P. Dix
on, Chamblee; 1st Lt. Elwood
C. Kent, 28 East Point; and 2nd
Lt. William A. Tennent, 25, of
Atlanta.
Bodies of the pilots were
found several hundred yards
irora me wreckage.
Ask Industry
For A-Plarif
Washington MV-The Atomic
Energy Commission Sunday in
vited private Industry to Join
forces with the government to
finance construction of atomic
plant. .
An A EC announcement said
industry is being asked to sub
mit proposals for investment of
risk capital to build steam tur
bine and electrical generating
portions of the project previ
ously estimated to cost "many
tens of millions of dollars "
The AEC said it also is con-
siaenng private operation of
. the entire plant
The commission first told of
plans for an atomic power plant
Oct 22 in an announcement
which listed the Westinghouse
Corp, as the prime contrsctor.
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Public Works
If Necessary
Washington Secretary
of Labor Mitchell pledged on
Monday that the administra
tion will be ready to step in
with public works and other
measures to help maintain high
employment if the nation's ec
onomy falters.
- Mitchell addressed a confer
ence of the CIO United Auto
Workers Union called to study
plans for combatting growing
joblessness in auto and other
industries.
. The Eisenhower administra
tion is developing plans to help
keep the economy growing
steadily, he said, and the pros
pects lor continued prosperity
in 1054 appear good, although
there might bo some weak
Spots. r
"The present dip from last
springs peaks still leaves us
on a very high plateau," he
said. "It also leaves us in a
position for sound . economic
growth.
"This administration is com
mltted to the use of every use-
iui measure, public and priv
ate, to roster economic stabil
ity and rising living stand
ards." Shoulders Asks
Police Guard
St Louis (ff) The police of
ficer who broke the Bobby
ureemease Kidnaping case
wants police protection.
I. A. Long, president of the
St. Louis Police Board, said
Sunday Louis Shoulders has re
quested protection because of
threats he has received.
He said officers would obtain
detailed statement from
Shoulders on his reasons and.
if justified, protection would
be given.
Shoulders submitted his res
ignation during a Police Board
inquiry into the arrest of the
kidnap- tlllen of 6-year-old
Bobby Greenlease and the re
covery 4 about half the $600,
000 ransom. The Inquiry still is
it progress.
The inquiry followed reports
of discrepancies in police . ac
counts of Shoulders' arrest of
Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. Bon
nie Brown Heady, the doomed
kidnap-killers and recovery of
part of the nnsom. More than
$300.000 still is missing.
Weather Details
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Court Upholds Firing
Of Disloyal Workers
Washington UV-Nothin l
the Taft Tartley labor laws bars
the firing of workers for "dis
loyalty" to their employers, the
supreme court ruled Monday.
The 6-3 decision annlini
Charlotte, N. C, television
technicians who had distributed
leaflets critical of their sta
tion's TV programs.
Justice Burton, writing the
majority opinion, said: 'There
is no more elemental cause for
discharge of an employe than
disloyalty to his employer."
Justice Frankfurter wrote a
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TORNADO
Vicksburg, Miss, Dee. 7 This is what is left of a section
of the downtown area after it was hit by a violent tornado
last night Over 25 persons were reported dead and hun
dreds injured in this Mississippi River city as a result of
the storm. (AP Wirephoto)
30 Killed, 230 Injured
In Vicksburg Tornado
Vicksburg, Miss. wD Res
cue gangs worked in freezing
weather Monday in a grisly
hunt for additional victims of
Saturday's vicious tornado
that took at least 30 lives.
The temperature dropped to
31 degrees in the heatless city
Candles Used
By Hotel Guests
Vicksburg, Miss. W) Guests
at the tornado-blotched Vicks
burg Hotel were given candles
Sunday night to light their way
to oea tnrougn the shambles
of a half million dollar wreck'
age. j
Most considered themselves
lucky to have a place to sleep.
The 11-story hotel, VIcksburg's
largest, was side-swiped by
aaturaay s Dounaing tornado.
It was accepting no reserva
tions, except from Army high
brass with VIP status.
Guests already registered for
the week-end and permanent
residents were allowed to stay.
Some were shifted to other
rooms on the less damaged side
of the house.
Many of the 250 rooms had
nu wiutluws. Some had no fur
niture beyond a hastily in
stalled day bed and carpet of
crumpled plaster.
There was no electricity, no
hot water, no elevators, no
room service.
Hoodlums Beat
Man to Death
Los Angeles (UJ5 Two teen
agers were charged with mur
der today in the death of
wealthy manufacturer William
D. Cliff who was attacked bv
a hoodlum gang when he went
to the aid of two Marines dur
ing a street brswl.
Arrested and booked on
murder charges were Richard
venegas, 18, and Robert Mar
quez, 17. An unidentified
third youth also was taken
into custody.
An autopsy will be held
today to determine eaiua of
death, police said.
dissenting opinion in which
Justices Black and Douglas
joined.
Burton" was joined by Chief
Justice Warren and Justices
Reed, Jackson, Clark and Min
ton. The critical hand bills were
passed out during a dispute at
Station WBTV over a collec
tive bargaining contract. They
attacked the quality of the sta
tion's programs and facilities
but did not make any reference
to the labor dispute.
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and frost covered lawns and
other open ground in outlying
areas. '
National guardsmen o n
guard duty built fires from
the debris that littered the
streets.
The two latest victims died
In hospitals Monday and au
thorities said at least eight
other persons remained on the
critical list ,
Dawn brought the noise of
steam shovels, bulldozers, and
shovels after a heatless, shiv
ering nijht fof the 28,000 res
idents. Seventy to 73 of the 230
injured were crowded into
Vicksburgs' four main hospi
tal, xney were warmed by
blankets and electric- heaters
from the city's homes.
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Unable to Sail
San Francisco UP) Pickets
marched past the liner Aleu
tian Monday as officials at
tempted to reach a compromise
between two rival unions that
would allow the passenger ship
to sail on Its maiden voyage to
Hawaii.
The Aleutian, center of a bit
ter jurisdictional dispute that
flared into waterfront violence
Thursday and Friday, was
scheduled to leave Saturday
but she was tied up because of
the labor trouble.
Hugh Bryson's Independent
National Union of Marine
Cooks and Stewards began
picketing after the Hawaiian
Pacific Lines contracted with
Harry Lundeberg s AFL Ma
rine Cooks and Stewards to
man the Aleutian.
Harry Bridges' indenendent
international Longsnoremen s
and Warehousemen's Union,
backing Bryson, was scheduled
to go to court Monday seek
lng a permanent order barring
any union other than the ILWU
from loading the Aleutian's
stores.
Strikers Call
For Meeting
New York ( Union pho
to engravers Monday called a
membership meeting for Wed
nesday in their 10-day-old
strike against six major New
York City daily newspapers.
Denis M. Burke, president
of Local 1, AFL International
Photo-Engravers union, an
nounced the call as he arrived
for scheduled talks with the
publishers and federal media
tors. Burke said the meeting, the
first membership session in a
week, would be held "even
if only to make a report to the
members."
At the meeting a week ago
the union membership reject
ed arbitration for a second
time, but scaled their demands
down from a f IS to $7.50 week
ly pscksge.
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17,629 Wires
On McCarthy
Washington W The White
House said shortly before noon
Monday that 17,620 telegrams
and an uncounted volume of
mall had come in as a result
of the appeal by Sen. McCar
thy (R.. Wis.) thst the public
ask President Eisenhower to
halt U. S. aid to free world na
tions which trade with Red
China. 7
Assistant White House Press
Secretary Murray Snyder said
he understood Western Union
has a backlog of telegrams pos
sibly totaling 1,700 or more.
Snyder told reporters the
telegrams have come in so fast
it has been impossible to break
them down into those which fa
vor McCarthy's China trade de
iiud and those who support
u president s stand. :
raeanwue, Republican con
gresslonal leaders maintained
discreet silence in the Eisen.
bower-McCarthy controversy.
Crippled Plane
Lands on Island
t Honolulu ) -Forty six pas
sengers ana crew aboard a
four-engine Stratoliner sweat
ed out 350 miles of wobbly,
tense flight to a tiny Pacific
Island Sanday after an engine
explosion crippled their huge
airliner.
The passengers hurriedly
donned life jackets and sat
calmly for almost three hours
the big Fan American plane
iimpea to safety at Johnston
Island, 700 miles southwest of
Honolulu.
The Queen of the Pacific was
at 10,000 feet 350 'miles north
west of Johnston when a blast
shattered one propeller and
ripped through its engine.
The airliner was flying from
San Francisco via Honolulu to
Tokyo Hong Kong and Kara
chi. A number of Chinese and
Japanese were among the pas
sengers. The big plane finally
snuggiea aown to a safe land'
lng at 5:33 A. M.
Bells Ring in
Marian Year
Vatican City UP) A Joyful
noon-day pealing led by the big
master bell of St. Peter's Ba
silica Monday marked the start
of the Marian Year to honor
the mother of Jesus.
One by one, the bells of
Rome's nearly 200 churches
Joined in the 13-minute med
ley.
Catholics throughout the
world will observe the Marian
Year to honor Mary upon the
100th anniversary of the dogma
that proclaimed her immacu
late conception.
This established as Catholic
faith the belief that Mary was
born without the stain of orig
inal sin to which all other men
are heir because of the dis
obedience of Adam and Eve In
the garden of Paradise.
In midnight services here
and in towns, hamlets and ci
ties everywhere. Catholics
Monday night will begin a
year-long crusade of prayers
and pilgrimages.
WINDSORS IN PARIS
Paris, 4JB The Duke and
Duchess of Windsor returned
to Paris todsy from a visit to
London.
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Join in Atomic Control Plan
Red China Asks
UN Repudiation
Of U.S. Policies
Tokyo, WW Red China Mon
day called ea the United Na
tions to repudiate what.it
termed a "criminal" Ameri
can policy In Korea that It
said has led to "the present
critical sitnaUoa."
In a caustic, free-swinging
aitaca, roreign Minister Chou
En-Lai . charged the United
States with ''attempts to
wreck the Korean armistice
agreement to forcibly retain
prisoners of war and to ob
struct the peaceful settlement
of the Korean question for the
purpose of maintaining inter
national tension.
mou's charges came in a
message to the U.N. General
Assembly in New York, which
was broadcast by the Red
Peiplng radio.
He warned the UJT.i
"If the . . , General Assem
bly should evade Its responsl
bilities . . . and condone the
actions of the U.S. govern
ment the seriousness of the
Korean 'situation would be in
creased and the UJ4. would
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in
Vladimir Jail
Tokyo W) A Japanese pris
oner of war recently repatri
ated from Russia said today he
saw "American prisoners" in
a prison southeast of Vladimir.
- Tadashi Maeda, 88, a former
Navy captain and military
attache, made tb state
ment in toslimony befura th
Repatriation Committee of Ja
pan'a House of Representatives.
Maeda is one of 811 Japan-
ess returned from Russia last
Tuesday.
He reported the Vladimir
prison, from which ha was re
leased, confines only "foreign
convicts.
"The largest population in
the prison was Germans, fol
lowed by Japanese, Finnish.
Polish, Turks, French, Britons,
Dutch, Estonian and Ameri
can prisoners of war," be said.
ne gave no details.
2 Killed in Riot
By Iran Troops
Tehran, Iran W) Iranian
troops fired into a crowd of
anti-British demonstrators at
Tehran University todsy. kill
ing two persons and wounding
anouier.
It was the first public vlo.
lence in Iran's heavily patroll
ed capital since Premier Fa-
zollah Zahedl announced Sat
urday that his government had
resumed diplomatic relations
with Britain.
inirty demonstrators were
arrested.
Following the announcement
the powerful Moslem leader.
Ayatullah Kashani, threatened
to order a campaign of "na
tional mourning" the wearing
of black arm bands, display
ing of black flags and shout
ing of anti-British slogans
to protect the action.
UN Asks Reds to Permit
Search for
United Nations, N.Y. )
The General Assembly asked
the Soviet Union end Red
China Monday to open their
doors to a speclsl commission
searching for hundreds of
thousands of prisoners from
World War II.
In a resolution, it noted a
report from this commission
setting out thst these coun
tries plus Albania, Bulgaria.
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Po
land and Romnais had with
held official Information on
German, Japanese and Italian
war prisoners they are believ
ed to hold. The resolution
was approved by a vote , of
46-5 with six nations abstain
ing. It was sponsored by the
United States, Britain, Austra
lia, Brszll and Thailand. The
Soviet bloc voted against It
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Ike's Atomic
Issue Address
'Sensational'.
United Nations, N.Y, (?)
President Eisenhower will out
line dramatic new proposals
concerning the issue of atomic
energy in his speech to the
U.N. Assembly Tuesday, a
high diplomatic source at the
U.N. said Monday.
This source said the speech
will be the most important
made In the U.N. on the
atomic problem in years. ' He
would not disclose any details
of the speech but promised
that It would be "sensation.
President Eisenhower will
address the Assembly only a
few days after lt instructed
the disarmament commission
to make a new start on the
problem of atomic control and
disarmament
Dean and Rhee
In Conference
Psnmunjom () The chief
U. S. delegate unexpectedly
skipped today's negotiations
with the Reds on a Korean
peace conference and instead
met with South Korean Pres
ident Syngman Rhea at Seoul,
possibly to talk over the drag
ging talks.
As Ambassador Arthur H.
Dean talked with Rhee. aide
Kenneth Young sat in for him
at Psnmunjom in a meeting he
termed "a move forward."
' Young said all points of the
negotiations were discussed by
both sides but gave ne indica
tion of any concrete progress,
Before Dean met with Rhee,
he talked with EUU O. Brigss,
U. 6. ambassador to Korea, en
what Young termed Urgent
business. Young declined
revest the subject of discus-
Withdrawing;;
FroopsatTriesfe
Udlne. Italy () Yugoslav
and Italian troops pulled back
Monday from their emergency
positions along the Yugoslav
Italian border in a new move
to ease tension over Trieste. !
This came 48 hours after the
two nations agreed to "normal
ize" their frontiers as the first
nearcfnl strn toward resolvlna
their lengthy feud over pos
session of the Trieste Free Ter
ritory. Italy was the first to an
nounce withdrawal and Italian
roads leading away from the
border were filled with troops,
tanks and other military ve
hicles. Tanjug, the official Yugoslav
news agency, announced the
pull-back of that country's
forces.
Premier Giuseppe Pella and
Psvle Gregorlk, Yugoslav min
ister to Rome, reached agree
ment on the withdrawal in a
Rome meeting Saturday,
In Belgrade Sunday, envoys
of Britain, the United States
and France met for SO minutes
with Foreign Secretary Koca
Popovic
War P0W
In the committee debste
lsst week, observers from
West Germany, Jspan and
Italy, which are not U.N.
members, gave their statis
tics on POWs.
These showed 102, .58 Ger
man ex-soldiers and 133,000
German civilians in Soviet
custody unreturned by Sep
tember 1, 83,000 Japanese
prisoners In the Soviet Union
and communist China unrepa
triated fir August 1 and 63,
000 Italian troops listed as
missing on the Russisn front
In reply, Soviet-bloc nations
said all POWs had been re
turned by 1SS0 except those
that were sick or were sen
tenced for or suspected of war
crimes. They said many in
the latter category had been
sent home since.
FINAL,
EDITION
Speech Planned
On World Wide
Tuesday
Tacker's Town, Bermada (I)
President Ksenhower fUea di
rect to New York tomerrvw to -deliver
a dramatic aew West
era challenge to Basala to tola
la working out a plan ef dla
amuunent and atomlo eeatrul
tor a world periled by the hy
drogen bomb threat.
With the backinc of Brit
ain's Prime Minister Church- '
ill and the French leaders here
for the Big Three conference,
Eisenhower in a major address
to the United Nations General
Assembly la 'xpected to sug
gest a fresh approach to the
knotty international atomic
problem which has been eauatt
in the vise of a Soviet-Western
deadlock for seven yeait.
Perils Confronting World '
The announced subject for
the speech is ."Perils that Con
front the World in this Atomta
Age." Major radio and tele
vision network in the Unit
ed States made plana to carry
un aaoress.
It is scheduled for 4 n. m.
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U.II. Plans for
Long Recess
United Nations. N.Y. UV.
India and tha Western now
ers agreed Monday on a plan
for an Indefinite recess of tha
U.N. General Assembly later
this week without a debate on
tha Korean peace conference.
Under tha compromise plan,
worked out over the week-end
tha prssictest, Mii. VXia
Lakshmi Pandit uat .India,
would be authorized to recoO
tolvene the Assembly,' with .the
concurrence of a maloritr
the 60 members, when aha felt
Korean developments i war
ranted actions ...;!
The new plan drops any- ref
erence to a specific date for
reconvening. An Indian-. res
olution submitted last weak
called for resumption ef tha
session on February . 0 or
thereabouts. t:s. L.- n
The Korean Question la tha
last item of business befora
the 60-nation political com.
mlttee.
French Beat Off
Hanoi. Indochina (At The
French army command said to
day its forces beat off a Viet
mlnh attempt to destroy Gia
Loc, a key French stronghold
near the highway linking Hanoi
with the seaport of HaiDhona.
The French claimed they in
flicted "extremely heavy loss-
" on the communist rebels.
The French acknowledged
however, that French and
Vietnamese troops manning the
post and the armored column
sent to their aid suffered "se
rious losses" in the five-hour
battle yesterday. No figures
were given. .
Crack Vletmlnh Reslmenl
42, reinforced by regional bat
talions, blasted the fort with
heavy mortar and machine gun
fire Just before dawn. An in
fantry assault followed.
A French relief column
fought its wsy through an am
bush on the road with the aid
of French fighters and bomb
ers. The Vletmlnh fled when
the column finally drove
through to the fort
Adenauer Approves
Big Four Meeting '
Bonn. Germany un West
German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer Monday approved
the text of the Allied note to
Moscow accepting a Soviet bid
for a four-power conference.
The draft of the Western
note, drawn un bv tha Bl
Three at Bermuda, was shown
to Adenauer Monday morning
by French High Commissioner
Andre Francois-Poncet It was '
submitted in accordance with
an Allied agreement to consult
Adenauer on ' international
move directly affecting' Ger
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