I
i
THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY with few
Mattered light skewers t
eight; ffufawiil raia Taeaday.
Little change la teanaoratnxe.
Law tonight, 31; high Taeaday,
41.
Stale Courts
; Cannot Issue
T-H Injunction
Top Tribunal
Rules Federal :
, ' Power Supreme .
- ' Wuhlortan Vh Sine courts
". are barred from Issuing injunc-
Uoas te enforce state labor
lawi which parallel the Tart-
Hartley Act, the 8upreme
Coart ruled unanimously Mob
day. Justice Jackson, speaking for
' the court in rejecting the ap
peal of a Pennsylvania truck
ing firm from a State Supreme
Court ruling, wrote:
m "When federal power consti
Itutlonally is exerted for the
protection of public or private
Interests, or both, it becomes
the supreme law of the land
and cannot be curtailed, cir
cumvented or extended by a
state procedure merely because
It will apply some doctrine of
private right."
Rests With NLRB
"- Jackson'thus sided with the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
view that Congress intended
it a union activity might be
held to be an unfair labor prac
tice under Taft-Hartley, the
power to determine that ques
tion and to act should rest sole
ly with the National Labor Re
lations Board.
The state court held this is
necessary to develope and en
force a uniform national labor
policy in cases affecting firms
which do interstate business.
The case had its beginning
when Central Storage and
Transfer Co., of Harrisburg,
Pa., granted a county court in
junction against picketing by
the AFL Teamsters Local Un
ion No. 776. The pickets car
ried signs urging employes of
the transfer company to join
the union. .
(Cn tinned on Pare 8. Column t)
'Jehovah Child'
Trial Set Jan.
Wallace, Idaho Wl Judge
A. J. Graf has set Jan. 4 to
hear the appeal of Mrs. Harry
Brandt, the self-styled "Je
hovah's Child" who has been
convicted of contributing to the
delinquency of her four chil
dren. Mrs. Brandt's appeal had
been scheduled for bearing
Monday but was postponed.
She maintains that parents
must teach their own children
and that to force them to at
tend school "is against the law
of God and hence unconstitu
tional." Probate Judge Peter Du-
fresne sentenced Mrs. Brandt
to a 60-day Jail term but sus
pended sentence on the condi'
tion she consult a psychiatrist
She appealed and won a stay of
; execution.
$ Officers said Monday the
? Kellogg woman still hasn't sent
. the children to school and they
I are powerless to do anything
ii until the appeal is heard.
Ben Gurian
Settles in Negeb
Tel Aviv () "Goodby Tel
Aviv and let thy sons follow
me and setUe in the Negeb."
This was the farewell mes
sage of Israeli Premier David
Ben-Gurion to hundreds as
sembled outside his Tel Aviv
residence when he left Monday
for the tiny Negeb desert set
tlement of Sdeh Boker Cattle
man's fields.
In the desert home, Ben-Gu
rlon expects to meditate, rest
and write after five years as
this new country's only prem
ier.
After Ben-Gurion entered his
limousine, 11 other cars filled
with high government officials
and personal friends formed
behind and the convoy moved
off.
Scattered Showers
Forcast for Week
The new week has started
out a bit cold and with occa
slonal rain booked.
The mercury dipped to 31 de
grees. Sunday, one below freez
, ihg. The outlook calls for more
scattered showers and little
change lif temperature, al
though the Monday minimum
did get up to 37.
The highway department re
ported Monday morning all
highways are clear except those
, closed for the winter.
ine Willamette river con
tinues to drop slowly, the Sa
lem gauge reading 13 feet even,
Monday morning.
Long Strike in
Sabrejet Plant
Held Settled
. 33,000 CQ Workers
Return to Jobs oh
Terms First Offered
Los Angeles W) Settlement
of a maitimilUoa dollar strike
which has crippled production
f America's fast Sabrejet and
super Sabre planes was an
nounced Monday,
North American Aviation,
Inc., spokesmen said the terms
were the same the company
offered before 33,000 members
of the ClO-United Auto Work
ers walked out October 23 at
plants in Los Angeles, Fresno,
Calif., and Columbus, O.
That means a Christmas
present wage increase of 4 per
cent, or 8 to 20 cents an hour.
Wage scales before the strike
ranged from $1.42 to $2.32
hourly. The union originally
demanded 26 cents an hour,
then dropped to 10 to 20 cents
hourly.
Terms of the settlement are
subject to approval of the
workers at union mass meet
ings, which negotiators said
would be held soon.
(Continued n Pare t. CohunB 1)
Sever Remains
Counsel for OrC
Portland W Frank S. Sev
er. Portland attorney, said
Monday that he will continue
as legal council for the Associ
ation of O & C Counties, al
though Clackamas County
Commissioners have decided he
no longer will represent them.
The commissioners of that
county directed Friday , that he
be denied authority to repre
sent Clackamas County in O &
C timber land affairs.
The Associated Press Incor
rectly reported Saturday that
the commissioners had fired
Sever as their counsel.
Sever pointed out he never
was employed directly by that
county, and the commissioners
were not In position to dis
charge him. He said he will
continue to represent the other
counties in the association.
The Clackamas commission
ers severed relations after a
difference of opinion over the
way to press claims on timber
sales of O & C lands, owned by
the federal government. Part
of the money from such sales
goes to the courities in which
the timber stands.
Clackamas County has insti
led a separate suit, claiming a
greater share of the money.
Rain and Snow
Falls in East
rnv Th. AumiiM Prtiit
Rain, sleet and snow pelted
eastern United States Monday
and a great mass of cold air
from Canada chilled the cen
tral plains as it moved south
ward.
The storm that was expected
to dump a heavy fall of snow
in western Pennsylvania and
New York already had dropped
up to .73 of an inch of rain in
the Carolina and Virginia.
Pennsylvania had varied fare
snow, sleet and rain. There
was rain and snow in the east
ern Great Lakes region. South
ern Missouri had snow flur
ries. Through the northern and
central plains, early moranig
temperatures ranged in the 20s.
The weather was pleasant on
the west coast, except for some
light rain in the northwest
Showdown
Hearing in
Hanoi, Indochina The
French high command said
Monday "everything is ready"
for a showdown battle with the
Vietminii troops closing in on
Dlen Bien Phu, France's last
big stronghold in the mountain
ous Thai country of northwest
Indochina.
The army spokesman said
Vietminh Division 316, the
threatening enemy force, was
still 12 miles northeast of Dien
Bien Phu's fortified plsin and
had made no move indicating
an attack was imminent.
French and Vietnamese sol
diers, aided by partisan fight
ers of the Thai mountain tribes.
continued wide reconnaissance
partols in the area and report
ed another light clash with the
Communist-led Vietminh. Loss
es were not announced.
Capital.
65th Year, No. 297 ZJ2ZiZ Salem, Oregon, Monday, December 14, 1953 24 Pc
. : FIRE
Dupont Cleared
Of Monopoly
Wilmington. Del. W) U. S.
District. Court Judge Paul
Leahy ruled Monday that the
cellophane operations of the
Du Pont Co.. was not a mono
poly or conspiracy in restraint
of trade as cnargea Dy uie gov
ernment
Leahv dismissed the com
plaint, filed six years ago under
the anti-trust laws by the U.S.
Justice ' Department. He said
that the E. L du Pont de Nem
ours It CO., inc. Amnwi
largest chemical-making firm
should hot "be punished for its
success." .-
Specifically the government
accused du ront ox: -
Controlling manufacture and
sale of cellophane, limiting pro
duction, excluding competition,
fixing prices, retaining tight
hold on patents.
The government asked that
Du Pont be required to divest
itself of some plants and fac
tories and establish a competi
tive industry in cellophane, and
caps and bands.
Du Pont denied tne cnarges.
Stereotypers
Sign NY Scale
New York W Stereotyp
ers employed on New York
City newspapers have accepted
a nackaee of $3.75 a week of
fered by the publishers, plus a
fact-finding arrangement
James J. McMahon, presl-
dent-of local 1 of the AFL In
ternational Stereotypers union,
announced that acceptance was
voted by a meeting of 300 of
the local's membership Sunday.
He caid the vote was taken
after he had recommended ac
ceDtance. The package, as specified by
the stereotypers. includes a
weekly wage increase of $2
along with $1.75 in other bene
fits. -
The stereotypers accepted
the same formula agreed on in
the strike of AFL photo-en-gravers
against six major news
papers. Battle
Indochina
French fighters and bomb
ers flew 90 sorties against the
rebel positions. .
Reinforced by 1,000 fresh
troops and cargoes of war
equipment flown from Hanoi,
200 miles to the southeast, the
French Union troops at Dien
Bien Phu were termed fully
ready and confident of smash
ing any Vietminh assault.
. The isolated, thatched hut
village became France's last
ditch position against Vietminh
troops holding most of the Thai
country when the French last
week abandoned Lai Chau, the
tribal capital,
As the opposing forces man
euvered for a possible fight In
the rugged country. Red lead
ers of the Vietminh mad an
other roundabout offer to nego
tiate an end to the 7-year Indo
china war.
4" mm i"
HITS ALDERMAN FARMS ;
- Union vale Damage estimated at between $75,000 and
$100,000 was caused, by a fire at the U. S. Alderman
Farms in Unionvale Saturday night. Photos show two
views of the charred ruins. Three machine shops, a paint
shop and part of another building were destroyed, together
with six trucks and three tractors, one passenger car, and
five overhead irrigation systems.
Pro-Red CI
Mothers Plea to Return
Tokyo W) "Where did I
fail. . 4 . Oh, where did I f all?"
an American mother sobbed
Monday after learning from her
son that he will not leave the
Communists and return home.
Tears welling in, her eyes
Mrs. r-ortia nowe oi Aiaen.
Russians Failed
On Ml. Everest
Stockholm, Sweden (ff) A
Swedish mountain climber and
explorer says the Russians tried
to beat the British to the top
of 29,002-foot Mt Everest but
that six of the Soviet climbers
died in the unsuccessful try.
Anders Bollnder, 29-year-old
leader of a Swedish-Italian ex
pedition to the South American
Andes last year, told the Stock
holm newspaper Svenska Dag
bladet yesterday of the report
ed Soviet assault on the world's
highest peak. He said the ac
count came from two Tibetan
guides who fled to Nepal.
The Russians tried to reach
Mt Everest's summit from
headquarters in Communist-
controlled Lhasa, Tibet, in the
autumn of 1952, Bollnder said.
They gave up after six mem
bers of the 32-man party dis
appeared on the mountain s icy
nortnern slopes ana never ad
mitted they had tried, he claim
ed.
Train Crashes
Royse City, Tex. Wl
whistling diesel streamliner
slammed a station wagon off
its tracks last night, killing
hard-ol hearing father, h
wife, three children and their
maid.
The hurtling automobile
tripped a switch that derailed
the twin engines and 10 cars
of the sparkling red-and-silver
train, en rout from Dallas to
St Louis. Five rear cars held
to the rails.
Five train passengers were
sent to hospitals. An estimated
30 more were bruised or shak
en up.
The twin diesel engines plow
ed 200 yards past the demolish
ed station wagon and came to
rest leaning at sharp angles to
the ground. The baggage car
flipped onto- Its back, wheels
pinning in tne air. The mall
car tumbled onto Its side. The
other derailed .cars leaned at
crazy angles.
Weather Details
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reiltl., UVfli BOTHal. 14 It fr
U f4. Lty C L MltMr
Jeers at
Minn., held In her lap a two
page letter from her soldier
son, one of the 22 Americans
in the barbed wirit pto-Com-snunlst
camp at Panmunjom.
"I tfnow that you want to
taka & hctle with you, but I
have made up my mind and I
am not going," Pfc. Richard R
Tenneson wrote his mother,
who flew 7,000 miles in the
hope of persuading him to come
back:
His letter renounced life In
the United States and heaped
scorn on his country.
(Con tinned an Pas t. Column ()
British Guiana
Jails Mrs. Jagan
Georgetown, British Gulna
UPi British authorities have
arrested Mrs. Janet Rosenberg
Jagan, young American-born
wife of this South American
colony's ousted prime minister,
and will give her a hearing to
morrow on charges of holding
an illegal meeting.
The former Chicago nursing
student and nine other leaders
of the leftist people's progres
sive party (PPP) were taken
into police custody yesterday
at a town 15 miles from
Georgetown. They were later
released after posting bonds of
$73 ($44.50 U.S.) each.
Tne police said they were
using a loudspeaker to address
a gathering of 300 people in
defiance of a ban against pub
lic meetings without police
permission.
Mrs. Jagan claimed the
meeting was a religious gather
ing not requiring a police per
mit. Rail Strikes in
Britain on Xmas
London OP) Santa Claus
was key issue today in Brit
ain's biggest strike threat since
the general strike of 1926. -
The National Union of Rail
waymen (NUR) has called on
its 400,000 members to strike
next Sunday at midnight
A strike on the state-owned
railways would paralyze a na
tion looking forward to its gay
est Christmas since before the
war with plenty of food and
drink and unrationed goods.
But Santa Claus waa quickly
injected Into the dispute.
"Railway Scrooges," shouted
The People labor party mouth
piece, in a front-page headline
denouncing union leaders for
caUing the strike on the holi
day week.
"You'd almost think the
leaders of the NUR had no
children of their own and nev
er- believed In Santa Claus,'
said the Sunday newspaper.
KOOSH?'
EJUh
Ike Urges Heed
To Prepare for
Atomic Attack
Waahington W) President
Elaenhowar aald Monday It is
practically Impossible to exag
gerate the aeed for American
cities te prepare themselves tor
possible atomic attack.
Elsenhower told an unprece
dented White House conference
of mayors there Is time, how
ever, to make such prepara
tions sensibly and without hys
teria, .
"Organized haste will save
you and panic will destroy
you," he said.
, The President addressed
some 173 chief executives of
the country's larger cities at
the beginning of a two-day
closed door conference, called
by himself, on problems of na
tional defense. '
Cities In Front Line
The White House made the
President's remarks public two
hours later.
In his address Eisenhower
said the American city has
moved "into the front line1
from Its historical "position of
support in the rear."
The stage has now been
reached, he said, "where the
matter of defense can no long
er be wholly handled by pro
fessional or organized military
forces."
( Continued an Para f, Calama 4)
PUDs on Snake
Ask Expansion
Seattle UV-Expansion of
the Columbia - Snake River
Public Power System to - In
clude all state public .utility
districts and municipal power
systems was recommended".
Saturday by the Washington
Public Utility District Assn.
A spokesman said the organ
izatlon would be formed "to
take immediate joint action on
maintaining a comprehensive
maximum river power devel
opment." Executive Secretary Ken
Billington said the Joint action
could include construction of a
dam or transmission unit
The Columbia-Snake River
Public Power System Includes
Franklin. Benton, Kickitat,
Clark, Pacific and Skamania
counties. A resolution passed
at the meeting asked all coun
ties to come into the group.
Another resolution opposed
what a PUD spokesman called
"artificial reasons as to why
Northwest power rates should
be arbitrarily forced up.
Mundorff Heads
State Circuit Judges
Portland, VP) Judge Low
ell Mundorff of Portland is
the new president of the Cir
cuit Judges Association of
Oregon.
Other oficers elected at the
organization's convention here
Saturday are: Judge O. J. Mil
lard, Grants Pass, vice presi
dent; Judge R. J. Green, La
Grande, secretary treasurer;
and Judge Ralph M. Holman,
Oregon City, and Rex Kim-
mell, Salem, directors.
Hall S. Lusk, associate justice.
May Commit Saiside Aleno
New H Bomb to Exceed
2 Million Tons of TNT
AP MMltUT Afiilri SimUrl
Washington () The hy
drogen weapon blast the Uni
ted States plans for the Bikini
atoll test this spring may ex
ceed the total power of all
bombs dropped by the huge
American air forces In World
War II.
That figure was slightly over
two million tons of TNT. Pres
ident Eisenhower said In his
speech Tuesday to the United
Nations general assembly that
"hydrogen weapons are in the
range of millions of tons of
TNTs equivalent."
The Bikini demonstration
weu may neip resolve any
doubts left after that speech
about the need for internation
al atomic accord, although the
test was not devised for the
primary purpose of giving the
IStU-l II y 1umOE3
. .: ,
Reds Demand
Resumption of
Peace Talks
Panmunjom U.S. spe
cial envoy Arthur H. Dead
leaves tomorrow for consulta
tions In Washington, leaving
his chief aide in Korea "to
see if the communists wish to
resume" the ruptured negotia
tions to set up a Koreas peace
conference.- ...
Even as Dean mad nlana lo
depart. Red China and North
Korea demanded 'through
Pelping radio that the United
states resume the talks "or
take the full responsibility for
destroying" the peace confer
ence.
"The North Korean and Chi
nese side Insist on the resump
tion of the conference," said
terse communique attributed
to the Red delegates.
Dean told newsmen- today
that his aide, Kenneth Young
of the U.S. state department
will have "fuu authority to
resume the talks ... if the
communists withdraw the per-
nny cnarges ana give some
sign they are ready to negotiate
in good faith."
22 Pro-Red
GIs Stall Quiz
Panmunjom . OrV Indian Lt
Gen. K. S. Thimayya aald to
day he believes the 22 Ameri
can prisoners of the Korean
war who refuse to quit the
communists are attempting to
permanently stall oft allied at
tempts to coax them home.
Thimayya aaid the Indian
command would make every
effort to get the explanations
started, but there was little
possibility they would get un
der way. in. less than four or
five days.
Time Is fast running out; the
explanation period ends De
cember 23.
Only hours before they were
scheduled to appear, the 22
balky Americans refused to
meet with interviewer.
McCarthy Raps
Silent Witness
New York W Sen. McCar
thy (R., Wis.) told a balky
witness Monday that his refus
al to answer questions "in ef
fect" branded him a spy and
traitor.
The witness was Albert Se-
eoi of Long Branch, N.J., a
slightly built bespectacled
man, aald he worked from
to 1847 at the army's
Evans signal laboratory, Ft
Monmouth, N.J.
The senator's subcommittee
is probing alleged espionage
at the army base.
At a public hearing, the wit
ness refused to answer ques
tions concerning espionage
and communism. He cited the
fifth amendment, declaring he
would not answer on the
ground of possible self Incrim
ination. "You are in effect telling the
country that you art a traitor,
an espionage agent, and that
you are indulging In treason.
declared McCarthy.
"You understand that?"
The witness ssid nothing.
world s citizens the "compre
hension of atomic warfare and
danger.
Planned long before Eisen
hower took office as president
lt will be another stage of the
progressive stcpup in hydrogen
explosions.
The test at Bikini will show
what could happen to the Uni
ted Suites as well as to Russia
sla in a war with hydrogen
weapons an awesome argu
ment for atomic peace.
The last atomic explosion at
Bikini probably will become,
by comparison, a puny little
pop. The two test bombs used
there in the 1946 tests had an
energy equivalent to about
20,000 tons of TNT. An air
burst sank ships, crushed oth
ers with a shock wave, set oth
er to burning.
FINAL
EDITION
Stresses Heed of
Ratifying Pad
ForUr.:!odAmy
Pari, Ml Secretary af
Stat John Foster Dallas win-
Nerth Atlaatic Treaty
Organisation eaaaell ' session
Monday that If European na
tion, decide to commit saletdt
by blundering into another
m tHhalr Maw havo to. MM
salt It alone." ,
His statement was ma da a
he outlined to new corres
pondents the attitude of Amor- ,
lea In event the European ,
army treaty Is pot ratified and
Germany and Tranot fall to
settle their age-old rivalries.
The declaration brought a
gssp from 200 correspondents
who bad assembled for tee
first full dress new eonfer
ence on the first day of th ,
session.
Unity Demanded
He said it wa the aim of
the European Defense com
munity to bring Germany and
France together and to pre
vent further fighting. Falluro
to ratify th treaty, he said,
will require America to make
"an angonlzing reappraisal1'
of its policies toward Europe.
"If th European nations
decide to commit suicide,' he
said, "they may have to com
mit It alone."
Dulles urged Franc and
West Germany to "create a
union that would make it "im
possible" for war to breaK ens
between th two eountrlea
again. . .... i .. - - .
ICanUnaa on Pago $. Cilasaa I)
South Korea '
II g d!
jigns UaXKcni
; . Seoul, Korea, (BJB Th Uni
ted Nations and South Korea
signed a $500,000,000 program
today to rebuild th war
wrecked country and combat
inflation.
The agreement wa signed
bv ROK Prime Minister Paik
Too Chin and C. Tyler Wood,
United Nation economic co
ordinator, after three months
of negotiations on how th
money should be spent '
The money, earmarked for
fiscal 1954, was contributed
largely by the U.S. govern
ment but some of It will com
from U.N. relief funds.
Almost half th total, $200.
000,000, was voted by th U.S.
Congress to meet on ox soutn
Korean President Syngman
Rhee's demands for signing
the Korean armistice. '
The elderly President balk
ed at ending th war, but U.S.
Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles, holding out
promises of economic assist
ance, convinced him he should
accept a truce.
The relief funds also in
clude $81,000,000 from th
U.S. Department of the Army
and $73,000,000 from . two
U.N. funds, civil relief In Ko
rea and supply from united
Nations.
The South Korean govern
ment is furnishing $122,000,.
000.
75 on Capsized
Naval Launch
Norfolk, Va, A 80-foot
launch carrying 73 Navy men
capsized Monday in the wind
swept choppy waters of Hamp-
(nn nnaHa IMA varHa off th
naval base piers.
The submarine rescue -esse!
Klttiwake plucked 93 of th
men from the water, and th
aircraft carrier Franklin D.
Roosevelt picked up "a hand
ful," naval spokesmen reported.
Several other ships in th vi
cinity picked up an undeter
mined number of men.
Two hours after th launch
capsized a spokesman for th
5th Naval District said "it is
believed all hands aboard th
launch were rescued."
The launch carried 68 pas
sengers and a crew of five. It
had left the naval base to carry
the men to their ship, th
cruiser Pittsburgh, which waa
anchored In Hampton Roads.
DOUBLE TAXATION ENDS
Canberra, Australia An
agreement eliminating double
taxation of Incomes and gift
between Australia and th
United 8tate cam Into fore
Monday.