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Valley Rivers
Rise Rapidly
Vilh Rainfall
' No Major Flooding
Expected, Except
Upon Santiam
, Elver la the valley were
coaning aa again, Wednesday
rooming, renewed 1 1 e r at i
pouring la additional water la
all tributaries to add to al
ready high level.
-' No major flooding, except
at Jefferson, it expected at
thii time, barring heaviei rain
and a big runoff from the
(now in the mountain. The
amount of rain in the next
iiay or two li the answer to
the queition about a flood.
. The Willamette at Salem
wai gauged at 15. S feet Wed
nesday morning and wat due
to itart riling again. A peak
of 17 feet li forecast for Sa
lem by 6 a.m. Friday, although
any sudden change might
alter that figure.
Santiam Over Banks
r, The Santiam at Jefferson
was boiling over Its banks
again Wednesday morning, a
: crest of 17 feet due there by
midnight Flood stage Is 13
. feet at that point and the
gauge there Wednesday morn
ing read 14 8 feet '
Farther south, the upper
Willamette waa down this
7 morning but the waters were
-due to start rising again in
the Eugene area during the
Vday.
Nearly one-third inch more
"' of rain came down in Salem
over night .30 of an inch be
Mng measured In the 24-hour
period ending at 10:30 a.m.
.'Wednesday.
' (Continued en Fife , Column 1)
Ask New Agent
Umatilla Indians
Pendleton ) The trustees
of the Indians on the Umatilla
; Reservation want Supt Richard
i Butts removed.
The trustees charged in a
resolution that .Butts had tried
to interfere with tribal elec
tions and acted without proper
authorization in the handling
of tribal property.
Butts said there had been
, no issue of importance to cause
! the resolution, which went to
Glen Emmons, commissioner of
: Indian affairs, in Washington,
D.C. At the regional office in
Portland, L, P. Towle, tempor
arily in charge, said Wednes.
day that word would be await
ed on whether the Washington
office wants an investigation
and report on whether the
board of trustees represents
the thinking of the tribal mem
bers. Butts, who came to the reser
vation in 1951, said he had fol
lowed regulations which, in
some instances, were disliked
by the trustees. But he add
ed, they were federal regula-
tions and he pointed out that
the federal government was
willing at any time to discuss
withdrawal from its role of
caring for Indian affairs.
Russia to Ask
German Freeze
Bonn, Germany W) West
German government officials
predicted Wednesday the Rus
sians will call for a freeze
on present East-West boun
daries in Europe at the pro
posed Big Four foreign min
isters' conference In Berlin in
a supreme bid to kill off plans
, for European unity.
Competent officials said
Western acceptance of such a
Russian demand would leave
Germany disarmed and divid
ed, the Red Army standing on
the Elbe river and Western Eu
rope with little hope of either
political or military unity.
The Russians might even
link their proposal with a sug
gestion for a non-aggression
pact with the West these of
, xicials said.
German authorities are con
vinced the Berlin meeting, if
held, will make no progress
toward settling the German
question. They feel Moscow
will refuse to give up control
of East Germany and permit
unification of this divided na
tion.
The Soviet objective at the
four-power conference, they
believe, will be to divide the
Western Big Three power and
scuttle the projected European
army and European political
community,
t.,... .. . .
Reply Awaited
To Ike's Atom
Energy Offer
Vishinsky Says Time
Needed for Study;
U. N. Approves
United Nations, N. T. (
President Eisenhower's bold
new proposal for an interna,
tlonal atomic energy pool pat
squarely ap to Russia today a
fateful decision on cooperation
with the West
Andrei Vishinsky, chief So
viet delegate to the United Na
tions, said "it is necessary to
study" the President's propo
sal. U.N. diplomats declared;
that a favorable Soviet response
could greatly advance pros
pects for eventual control of
the atom while a rejection
would further harden the East-1
West deadlock on this issue.
Ike'a Proposal Favored
Eisenhower, fresh from the
Bermuda conference, where he
got the backing of Prime Min
ister Churchill and French Pre
mier Laniel for his action, told
the U.N. General Assembly
late yesterday the United States
was ready to join immediately
in secret talks on setting up an
international atomic energy to
which qualified nations would
contribute atomic material for
peaceful purposes.
(Continued en Page i. Column 4)
German Issue
Up to Big Four
Washington W) The Big
Three Western powers have
formally asked Russia to dis
cuss the future of Germany
and Austria at a meeting in
Berlin next Month.
On the record, they neither
encouraged nor shut off the
possibility of a later session to
Include China.
Notes to the Kremlin from
Washington, London and Paris
were made public last night
They suggested, as had been
learned unofficially a day
earlier, that the Big Four talks
open Jan. 4. The suggested lo
cation: A building formerly
used by the Allied Control
Council in Berlin's American
sector.
The government employed a
200-word note, moderately
phrased, to reply to the 2,000-
word message from Moscow
proposing the early Berlin
meeting of the Big Four for
eign ministers.
Cold Weather
Hits Midwest
(Br Tht Auoclttoa Prtu)
Wintry weather, with snow
and sub-zero temperatures, hit
wide areas in western and mid
western states Wednesday.
In contract unseasonably
mud weatner prevailed over
most of the eastern third of
the iiation. The cold weather,
in the Rocky mountain section
followed snowstorms which
swept the region Tuesday.
Temperatures dropped to zero
or lower early Wednesday in
northwestern New Mexico,
northeastern Colorado, north
western Nebraska, sections of
Wyoming, northeastern South
Dakota and west central Mia
nesota. It was 7 below at Doug
las, Wyo. '
Snowfalls in the cold belt
ranged up to 8 hi inches at
Akron, Colo., where it was
zero. Light snow continued in
the northern Rockies general
ly west of the Continental div
ide. Light snow also fell in
southeastern Kansas while Dei
Moines reported freezing rain.
Young Republicans o f
2 Counties Praise Ike
Praise for President Eisen
hower's address before the
United Nations general assem
bly Tuesday, together with
pointed barbs at both United
States Senators Joseph Mc
Carthy of Wisconsin and Wayne
Morse of Oregon, are contained
in a resolution unanimously
adopted by the Marion-Polk
Young Republican Federation
at a meeting at the Senator
hotel Tuesday night
Copies of the resolution are
being forwarded to President
Eisenhower Wednesday.
The resolution pointed out
that the "dynamic, inspiring
nature of our foreign policy
and world leadership was point
THEIR CONFERENCE OYER
..--.
"It, 1
President Dwight Eisenhower bids fond farewell to
Britain's Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill at 'Ber- -muda
airport prior to boarding plane for New York to
address the United Nations General Assembly. "I thank
you very much, sir," Ike told Churchill, host for the Ber
muda Big Three Conference. "Take care of your health,"
(AP Wirephoto via radio from Bermuda)
Sabrejet Explodes
Hitting Lumber Yard
Sandpoint, Idaho () . A
speedy Sabre jet fighter plane,
roaring through clouds and
rain, smashed nose first into a
lumber yard at the city limits
Thursday and broke windows
all over this town of 5,000.
The plane, 'apparently from
Vels to Receive
1944 Dividends
Washington W The Veter
ans Administration announced
Wednesday it will pay a regu
lar dividend of ISO million dol
lars next year to veterans hold.
ing about five million National
Service life insurance policies.
A VA official explained that
somewhat fewer than five mil
lion individual veterans actu
ally will receive payments be
cause some have more than
one policy.
District VA officers win nan-
die the bulk of the payments
and the first checks will start
going out about 60 days after
the anniversary oaie oi uie pol
icies. The toD individual dividend
will be about $60. The same
payment scales will apply that
were used for figuring the
1952 and 1953 regular divi
dends.
Holders of term policies who
are less than 40 years old the
group holding the major num-1
ber will gel ou cenia per
month on each $1,000 of insur
ance for each month the pol
icy was in force during the
year ending on the 1954 anni
versary date.
Arthur Murray
Robbed of Jewelry.
New York U.R Four men
wearing halloween masks rob
bed millionaire dance instruc
tor Arthur Murray and his wife
of $25,000 in jewels and cash
last night at their Park Ave.
aoartment
The men with drawn pistols
forced their way into the 14th
floor apartment and forced
Mrs. Murray, who stars on her
husband's television show, to
open a bedroom safe and hand
over her Jewelry.
ed up by President Eisenhower
in his universally applauded
address to the United Nations."
The resolution opened by
stating "an egocentric" and pub
licity seeking United States
senator has requested the pub
lic to write President Eisen
hower giving its views on the
President's handling of foreign
relations.
It was then resolved that the
Young Republican Club of
Marion and Polk counties go
on record for a continuance of
the administration's foreign
policy that keep and attracts
our allies as friends rather than
drives them Into the arms of
our enemies.
(Ceaunawd ea Page s. Cehuaa I)
r
Geiger'air force base at Spo
kane, was blown into a thou
sand piece by the explosion.
Bits of the pilot' body were
found scattered around. .
The plane crashed in the L.
D. McFarland Co. pole yard in
the northwest section of the
city. The Sandpoint airport is
only a block away.
The F86D Sabre came
through a heavy overcast in
light rain and letf a hole 12
feet deep and 25 feet in diam
eter. . t , , . ..
Windows In the - Lincoln
grade school three-blocks away
were broken but no one was
reported hurt Classes were
dismissed for the day. The vio
lent explosion shook the court
bouse a mile away,
(Continued oa fare , Column t)
Victims Sought
In Vicksburg
Vicksburg, Minn. (Pi Tor
nado-battered Vicksburg took
on an air of normal life Wed
nesday with more stores re-opening,
but crews still faced the
task of probing debris in sev
eral areas for more victims.
The death toll stood at 31
and several section could con
tain more bodies, covered by
the debris which can't be dis
turbed until weakened struc
tures are pulled down to pre
vent caving in on work crews.
The 25-milUon-dollar disas
ter Saturday left the main
business section, the warehouse
district and several residential
areas in ruins.
Most of the business section
was cleaned Tuesday, when the
Chamber of Commerce praised
Army Engineers for having the
city "with the cleanest main
street in its history." Some
1,500 engineers helped with the
cleanup.
Several drug stores and cafes
reopened and the Vicksburg
Hotel, the city's largest, had
lights for the first time.
GE to Fire All
Communists
New York W General
Electric Co. announced Wed
nesday It will immediately fire
all admitted Communists, spies
and saboteurs and suspend em
ployes who refuse to testify
under oath before "a competent
government authority" on such
matters.
In a formal policy statement
the company termed the
present government security
program for defense plans
"good" but "not fully adequate
in the present condition of
world affairs."
The company railed upon
the government to set up an in
dependent security agency
which would give suspended
employes a chance to be clear
ed and reinstated. .
The Senate permanent Inves
tigating subcommittee, headed
by Sen. McCarthy R., Wl., re
cently ha been looking into al
leged Communist infiltration of
defense plants. Including some
operated by General Electric
Heavy Guard
Shields Nixon
On Iran Visit
Veep Making Last
Formal Call on Glob
al Trip at Tehran
Tehran, Iraa WW Vie Pres
ident Richard G. Nlxoa arrived
Wednesday in Tehran. Bis
plan was ander tighter assart
and the airport itself was sur
rounded by the heaviest secar
ity guard since Premier Fuel
lab Zahedl took over control
of this turbulent nation frost
Mohammed Mossadegh. .
Hundreds of police and
troop patrolled the desert sur
rounding the airport as Nixon
arrived. It was his last formal
call of a global trip a an em
issary of President Elsenhow
er. Nixon plans to confer with
Zahdi and Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlevi.
The road from airport to the
shah's marble palace was lined
by soldiers. They stood at at
tention at every 100 feet As
the cars neared the city limits
troops interspersed with blue-
coated police watched for any
sign of a demonstration. But
only scattered applause greeted
Nixon and his wife as their
party neared the city itself.
190 Officials Greet Nlxoa
Nearly 100 officials and dip
lomats, including Premier Za
hedi, greeted Nixon at the air
port which was decked out in
traditional Persian splendor.
The hangar was covered with
thousands of dollar worth of
rare Persian carpet, festooned
with laurel and decorated with
the flags of Iran and the United
State. And atop the decora
tion were twin plaque of the
American eagle and the ancient
lion, sun and (word of Iran,
(Continue oa faro s. Cehnaa I)
Strike on Stores
In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh WV-AFL drivers
have widened their pre-Christ-
mas strike against Pittsburgh
department stores.
About 150 members of the
Teamsters Local 249 employ
ed by United Parcel Service
walked off the Job Tuesday In
a wage dispute, curtailing
merchandise deliveries of
Boggs & Buhl and Jonssson's,
department stores, and sev.ral
specialty lhops.
This brought to some 1,100
the number of AFL and CIO
union members striking
sgainst steel city stores.
Of these about 1,000 belong
to Teamsters Local 249. Over
all the strike picture Involves
12,000 worker in 15 unions.
Most of them, chiefly clerks.
continue to work while union
and management discuss ne
gotiations. Enjoins Cut in
Rail Oil Rates
Portland ) A reduction in
rail rates for hauling petroleum
between Spokane and Portland
was halted by court order here
Tuesday.
Federal Judge Claude Mc
Colloch signed the order only
one dsy before the new rates
were to have gone into effect.
The injunction was ssked by
river barge companies snd
truck firms which said the re
duced rail rate would damage
their business.
The present rates will remain
In effect until a three-judge
court rules on the matter. No
date has been set for the hear
ing. Morse to Vole
Washington MV-Sen. Wayne
Morse of Oregon Tuesday reit
erated his decision to vote with
the Republican Party on organ
ization of the Senate next Jan
uary. The Oregon senator, who
bolted the Republicans to be
come an Independent, said he
nad been receiving letters urg
ing him to vote with the Demo
crats so that "certain" Repub
lican committee chairmen
would be replaced by Demo
crats. ...
Morse Indicated that Sea.
McCarthy (R-Wis) 1 the com
mittee chairman that some ef
th letter writer Want re
moved. McCarthy is chairman
of the Government Operations
Committee and it investiga
tions subcommittee.
Morse said that the proper
place to make changes In Con
gress was at the polls.
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Power Tail to
Stop Wagging
Reclamation
Eugene W) The federal
government is la the reclame
tie kasiaeas to reclaim hud
and develop new water sap-
plies and it I going to step
letting "the hydroelectric tall
wag the reclamation dog," the
Willamette Basla Project
Committee was told at its an
nual meeting here Wednes
day.
The speaker was W. A. Dex-
helmer, commissioner of rec
lamation. He said that "some
where along the line In the
last 20 years," sight wss lost
of the primary purpose of rec
lamation and it became secon
dary to power production,
The reclamation bureau, he
said, will continue to recog
nize the importance of hydro
power as a byproduct of mul
tipurpose reclamation devel
opment but primary attention
must get back to the chief pur
pose "if the west is to continue
to grow."
(Continued en rage (, Column 4)
McCarthy Wires
Favoring Ike
Washington m The White
House reported Wednesday
that "the point of view of the
administration Is slightly
ahead" in telegrams received
as a result of Sen. McCarthy'
"write-or-wire the President"
appeal, and the Wisconsin sen
ator' view "l ahead" in let
ters,. , ,, ... , t , . ,
Press Secretary . James
riagerty, giving this sum-up,
said there are about 25,000
telegrams and 25,000 letters in
all. -
they resulted from McCar
thy a appeal of last Thursday
that citizens let President Eis
enhower know if they s greed
with McCarthy that the United
States should ban aid to coun
tries trading with Red China.
Wilson Orders
Cuts in Forces
Washington, U.B Defense
Secretary Charles E. Wilson
has overridden service protests
snd ordered the Army, Navy
snd Marine Corps to take
manpower cuts of about 10
per cent in fiscal 1955, It was
learned today.
The services, the Army fore
most among them, had argued
against the reductions, but
Wilson was said to have stood
firm.
His decision will mean a
saving of one billion dollars
or more in military pay for
the 12-month fiscal period be
ginning next July 1. Informed
sources said many millions
more in secondary costs, such
as for supplies, etc, will be
saved by the nation.
The Air Force will not be
required to reduce Its strength.
Board to Ask City for
More Recreation Funds
The Salem school board
contemplates adopting a reso
lution urging the city adminis
tration to channel mora money
Into the recreational program.
This was indicated Tuesday
night when the directors au
thorized Supt. Walter Snyder
to work with Prof. Lestle
Sparks, member of the city-
wide planning council on parks
and1 recreation in drawing up
the necessary resolution. -
Sparks and Vernon Gllmore,
the latter recreational director
for the school-city program,
pointed out that the school dis
trict was providing all of the
facilities snd half of the cost
of personnel pay.
A recent conference with
City Manager J. L. Franzes
on the part of Sparks, Gllmore
and Supt. Snyder uncovered
a plan put forth by Franzen
a few years ago which called
for the construction of a num
ber of neighborhood commu
Nevj Trial fer
snaona
Reds Deadocfc
Conference on
Korean Peace
Psnmunjom OR U.S. envoy
Arthur H. Dean threatened to
day to break off the tottering
preliminary Korean peace talks
ss progress is made in a
reasonable time and mean
while, - the Allied delegation
prepared to head home for
Christmas.
It ia apparent that ' the
American delegation will be out
of here before Dec 20," one
high source said. "Our boys are
packing.
Communist Insistence on
Russia attending the peaoe con
ference aa a neutral observer
rather than aa a voting parti
cipant has stalemated negotia
tions to arrange the peace talks.
Dean told the Reds he would
not be bullied into accepting
Russia as a neutral and warned
that he would continue the ne
gotiations only as long as there
is a "reasonable chance' of
success.
Stale Bureau
Suspends Clark
Frankfurt, Germany (
Chief Justice William Clark of
the U. S. court system in Ger
many was suspended from his
job by the state department
Wednesday.
He declared he would ignore
orders from the state depart
ment employes he described aa
"cookie pushers."
' "You know what cookie
pushers are," he told reporters,
"they are these state depart
ment people who wear striped
pants and sit around drinking
tea and pushing cookies back
and forth. " ' .
"They fired me because
would not take their orders.
I'm going to remain and hold
court as usual."
He made public a cable
from Walter Bedell Smith, un
der secretary of state, suspend
ing him for "insubordination''
snd ordering him home at once.
Indochina Reds
Cut up French
Hanoi, Indo-Chlna 01.19
Communist led Viet Minh re
bels cut off France's two main
defense bastions In Western
Indo-China today In a stepped
up offensive. - .
The Reds' cracks Sloth Di
vision, supported by mortars
and heavy artillery, seized the
village of Tuan Giao, halfway
between the Isolated French
outposts of Lai Chau and Dien
Bien Phu.
French Union officers said
there was no wsy of knowing
whether the Reds would turn
north sgainst the Thai capital
of Lai Chau in the Black River
Valley or south against 'dien
Bien Phu.
Only three weeks ago the
loyalist French forces recaptur
ed 'dien Bien Phu, opium rich
agricultural center which
guards the invasion route to
neighboring Laos and is the
site of one of Indo-China's best
airfields.
nity centers. Each one would
be plsced so as to serve sn
area of a half mile radius. They
would contain space for fire
fighting equipment branch li
brary, small auditorium, gym
nasium and health service.
Firemen would be on duty at
all hours to see that there was
no vandalism.
The cost of each neighbor
hood house wss fixed at $185,
000 at the time the Franzen
plan was developed. The first
unit, In all probability, would
be located in the Englewood
district where the population
has Increased rapidly.
Gilmore said the summer
recreational program is serv
ing the city well, but added
there was need for the services
of a director who would de
vote his time to the job on a
12-month basis. - Furthermore
sdditional covered space is
badly needed to care for winter
recreational activities.
Conviction of
ThomOS BoUSe
u.ij
By JAMES D. OLcKMf '
The eenvktlon at Thasaai
Sytvanas Boas for the Ml
tab' murder of Bis wife, XtM
Leawlle oa October I, 1951 Is
Resebarg was reversed
Wednesday by the state to
The opinion oi the court If.
written by Associate Juitict
Walter L. Tooza held that if
verslble errors had been com
mitted in the trial and the cast
wai reversed for a new trial.
Judge Tooze, In his op
declared "the eonstitut
right to a fair and imi
trial ia a fundamental right. j
"It applies to all persons: t '
the guilty as well as to tha In . '.
nocent" the opinion declared i
The duty of seeing that tail 'VI
right of an accused person ii
proieciea ana preservca -inviolate
falls squarely upon ths
shoulders of the judiciary. Ig
the first instance, it Is the dots
of the trial court, but when 8
fails in the performance) there
of, it then becomes the duty at ; '
this court" j . j;
Errors la Trial Listed ; ' i
'As an appellate court, w t
are concerned only with ques
tions of law in a ease such at
this; we do not retry the facta,
The guilt or innocence of an ao
cuaed person Is a matter eaclu-
slvey for jury dtetennraatlen,
But where a verdict of guilty
has been returned in a trial
where there has been error at
law committed that la prejudi.
clal to the rights of the accused,
the verdict cannot stand as
matter of law." t
' Referring to the record of tbf
case Justice Tooza declared
that the substantial error com
mitted A the trial ivtrl folly
(OeaUaaed ea Page 1
PWBSMll ,
West Berlin
Set for Big 4
Berlin JP) West Berlin act
ed Wednesday like a man who
holds the winning ticket in a
multi-million dollar lottery and
is afraid somebody will declare
It counterfiet '
City officials, hotel men and
shopkeepers are keeping their
finger crossed, fervently hop
ing Moscow will acept the Al
lied proposal for a Big Tour
meeting In Berlin Jan. 4.
If that foreign musters con
ference comes off, the isolated
west sectors of Berlin will wal
low in a giant bonanza.
Authorities are already cal
culating in the millions of dol
lars. They reckon on at least
4,000 viators, including up
wards of 800 press and radio
men. -
Shops are taking a gamble
now, laying in post-Christmas
stocks of such high quality
German tourist bait a fntrfi
jewelry, toys,- souvenir and
haberdashery.
Ike's Proposal
Wins Approval
Washington UP) President
Eisenhower' proposal for an
international sharing of atomic
energy knowledge snd ma
terials for non-military uses
wss cheered by many lawmak
ers today as a bold stroke tor
peace. ,
But at the same time doubts
were voiced that Congress
would give its approval for
any contributions to a United
Nations atomic agency unless
there wss advance agreement
on foolproof International In
spection within participating
nations.
Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D.,
Colo.), a member of the Sen
ate-House Atomic Energy com
mittee, said in an Interview
he doubts the U.N. is in any
position to exercise necessary
controls over atomic energy in
formation.
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