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F I N A L
EDITION
M003HO IlOOM .
65th Year, No. 298 2S?JS'oL Solem, Oregon, Tuesday, December 15, 1953
Intermediate
Sites Rejected
Board of Control to.
, Study Methods of
: Sentencing Offenders
Br JAMES D. OLSON
Twelve olfe.i o( land for the
new Intermediate institution
wera rejected Tuesday by the
tat board of control because
of the opinion of Attorney
General Robert Y. Thornton,
appropriation did not provide
apecif ically for the purchase of
land.
Governor Paul L. Patterson
declared that the need of de
termining numerous questions
in connection with the new in
stitution, the time lapse prior
to commencement of construc
tion, could well be utilized by
members of the board.
Questions Involved
These questions Involve the
method by which offenders
would be sentenced to the in
stitution, the governor asking
If the courts would be given
the power to sentence prison
ers directly to ihe institution
or whether this would be left
to a parole board or similar
group, aa is done under the
federal system.
Delay Not Serioui
"Suggestion has been made
that wa institute a test court
case so the supreme court
might rule on the questions
raised by the attorney general"
the governor said. "However,
the timetable is such that if we
brought such suit we could
not expect a decision before
next spring and that would
probably preclude building
next year.
(Centlnntd en rage B. Calomn f )
Klamath Indians
Incorporate
Indians of the Klamath Res
ervation formed an association
Tuesday to take over the at
fairs of the Klamath Indians
when and if they are freed
from federal control.
The U.S. Bureau of Indian
Affairs will submit to congress
next month a bill to give them
their freedom.
The new organization is
called the Klamath Agrlcul
tural Association, with head
quarters at Klamath Agency.
The incorporators include
Wade Crawford, William D,
Hess, Mary Nan Reyes and
Wilbur Eggsman.
Other new corporations in
elude:
Owyhee Development com
pany, Baker, $250,000. W. J.
Matthews, Jack Sullivan, Paul
and Claude Van Arsdale.
, Coos Bay American Legion
Convention commission of
1954, Coos. Bay. James B.
Bedington, Jr., Felix C. Duke
and R. G. Kurtz.
As GOP Chief
Portland W) Robert A. El
liott will resign Jan. 10 as
Oregon's Republican Central
Committee chairman. His suc
cessor is expected to be named
at a Jan. It meeting.
Elliott, here at the home of
his brother, said Tuesday that
nis business affairs in Medford
he has an insurance agency
were expanding to the point
he could not devote enough
time to the party chairman
ship. He said that notices for
the Jan. 16 meeting were in the
mail.
T. Lawson McCall. active
GOP worker and radio com
mentator, said Monday night
that Elliott was going to quit
and that leading candidates for
his position would be Ed Boe
hnke of Eugene, who sought
the chairmanship two years
ago, and Wendell Wyatt, Astor
ia attorney.
QUAKE IN PERU
Lima, Peru 0JJ9 Last Sat
urday's earthquake Ui North
ern Peru killed seven persons
snd .Injured 50 in the Tumbes
srea, official reports said to
day. Two hundred homes and
a hospital in Tumbes wera destroyed.
Nixon Reports
Certain Phases
01 Globe Tour
Tells Mayors and
Security Group
About Far East
Washington. ) Vice Pres
ident Nixon reported to the
Tuesday on a "certain spe
cific phase" of his world tour
National 8eearlty Council
after giving U. 8. mayors an
account of Far East conditions
which some of his audience
described as generally optimistic.
Following the session with
the Security Council,, the vice
president sat in on a Cabinet
meeting. During the afternoon
he had a date to tell State
Department officials about his
45.000-mile trip through the
Middle and Far East.
Nixon, who returned with
his wife from the world
girdling flight Monday, would
not tell newsmen what phase
of his observations he discus
sed with the Security Council.
Asia Hungry for Peace
He said he reported only
briefly to the council and
would give the members a
fuller account next week. The
Security Council, headed by
President Eisenhower, is the
administration's top planning
agency in correlation of for
eign, military , and domestic
policy. ,
(Cenunaed aa Parr?. C stoma 4)
4 Lost in Navy.
Launch Sinking
Norfolk, Vs. The Navy
reported Tuesday that four
members of the crew of the
cruiser Pittsburgh are unac
counted for in Monday's sink
ing of a liberty launch which
dumped upward of 65 of the
ship's officers and men into the
waters of Hampton Roads.
"However." a spokesman
said,, "men who' were in the
launch and who knew them be
lieved that three of the four
men were not in the boat"
when it sank in the rough wa
ters 500 yards off the naval
base piers.
"Intensive effort is continu
ing to account for these tour
men," the spokesman said after
a muster of the . Pittsburgh's
complement.
Rear Adm. E. T. Wooldrldge,
commander of the Atlantic
fleet battleship-cruiser force.
has appointed a court of in
auiry. headed by Capt. Halle C.
Alan, Jr., commanding officer
of the cruiser Juneau, to in
vestigate the launch sinking.
$1,600,000 for
Access Roads
Seattle (UA About 1,600.-
000 will be spent by the agri
culture department for new ac
cess roads into beetle-infested
areas of Washington and Ore
gon national forests, Sen Hen
ry M. Jackson (D., Wash.) said
today.
Jackson said' positive action
had been promised by J. Earl
Coke, assistant secretary of ag
riculture, in answer to the sen
ator's request for additional
funds for the project.
Jackson said the seriousness
of the beetle infestation in the
Pacific northwest was indi
cated by the fact the depart
ment deferred road projects in
other parts of the nation to
concentrate available funds on
beetle-access roads.
DEAN GETS FAREWELL GIFTS
V " ft' - . . . ,: .
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NATO to Boost Warpkti
And Troop Strength in '5$
Heed Warning'
Eugene Plans
Power Plant
Eugene W) The Eugene Wa
ter & Electric board announced
plans Monday night to expand
into Mountain States Power
Co. area and to build new pow
er-generating lacilirles.
The municipal board, which
now serves Eugene, said it had
decided to take over the Wil-
lakenzie and Glenwood areas
adjacent to Eugene. The ap-l
proximate 2,200 customers in
that area now are served by
Mountain States Power Co. The
plans for new generating ia
cilities call for a new dam on
the Upper McKenxi River and
installation of generators in the
Cougagr Dam, proposed by the
federal government on the
south fork of the McKenzie.
This is a long-range plan with
costs estimated now at 18 mil
lion dollars.
The board said it plans to
take over the V'illakenzie and
Glenwood areas by filing con
demnation suits in circuit court
soon.
Ambassador Arthur Dean (right), gets farewell gifis
from Mayor Kim Tai Sun of Seoul, Korea, as Dean departs
for Tokyo, Japan, on the first leg of his trip to the U. S.
Dean is en route to Washington to report after breaking
v off negotiations with the Comunists after prolonged talks
seeking to establish a time and place for a Korean peace
conference. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Tokyo)
Dean Not to Return
Unless Reds Retract
Fired Officials
Washington ) Two mem
bers of the War Claims Com
mission removed by President
Eisenhower say they have en
gaged lawyers to. fight the
President's action.
Mrs. Georgia L. Lusk and
Myron Wiener, Democrats,
made public Monday letters to
the President saying they plan
ned action "to establish the im
propriety" 6. their removal.
Expanding on their conten
tion in interviews, they said
they considered themselves still
in office and that they under
stood the new Republican ap
pointees to the commission had
stopped payment of claims
"and intend to investigate what
the commission has done to
date."
The new 'Republican chair
man, Whitney Gilliland. said in
an interview certification of
claims has been halted tempo
rarily until' "the processes of
their approval" were checked.
Tokyo, 'UP U. S. envoy
Arthur H. Dean arrived today
en route to Washington after
bluntly rejecting a Commu
nist proposal for immediate
resumption of negotiations to
set up a Korean peace confer
ence. ,
The State' Department .en
voy who -for ., seven , weeks!
wrangled with the Red diplo
mats at Panmunjom said ha
won't return to the confer
ence table unless the Com
munists retract charges that
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Demand for Help Up,
A vailable Funds Down
By FRED ZIMMERMAN
The combination of increas
ing demand for assistance and
a rapid depletion of available
funds confronted the Marion
County Welfare Commission
when it met Monday afternon
to consider a situation which
appears serious.
After hearing Administrator
Kenneth Peterson's report, the
commission adopted a program
of seasonal general assistance
standards for December. The
program was adopted as a sort
of guide for those who are fac
ed on a day to day basjs of de
termining who shall or who
shall not receive varying de
grees of help. In the event needs
increase at an accelerated rate,
the schedule may be reduced. If
requests are not received at the
currently anticipated rate, it
may be that there will be a li
beraliiaUon of the schedule.
The regulations strike hard
est at singles and couples with
no children. No assistance will
be given if employable al
though advanced age may be
a mitigating factor.
A person who is receiving
unemployment compensation
will, as a rule, not be able to
receive help from the welfare
commission. However, unusual
ly large families or special fam
ily medical needs may be clear,
ed on an individual basis.
Pending receipt of unem
ployment compensation, if no
credit is available, the agency
may issue a maximum of two
weekly food requisitions.
The schedule calls for strict
investigation in those cases
where families are seeking as
sistance in the matter of cloth
ing, fuel, rent, water and lights.
(Caatinaesl rag a, Cahnna 7)
Strike Forcing
Sale of Liners
San Francisco () Harry
Fishnaller of Seattle, president
of the new Hawaiian - Pacific
line, announced Monday night
that negotiations for sale of
the line are under way and
may be completed Tuesday.
Sale of the line may afford
the only way of getting the
steamship Aleutian launched
on its projected San Francisco
Honolulu passenger run, he
pointed out.
The vessel has been tied up
since early this month because
of a Jurisdictional dispute be
tween the AFL Stewards union
and the independent Marine
Cooks and Stewards union.
Purchasers, particularly if
they were members of the Pa
cific Maritime Assn., conceiv
ably could clear the dispute in
time for the Aleutian to keep
its next scheduled sailing date
on Dec. 20.
Either sale or acceptance of
our compromise proposals by
the unions could get the ship
on its way to Honolulu next
Sunday, Fishnaller said.
$268,692,130
For Building
Washington W) The De
partment of Defense Tuesday
had another 1268,692,130 to
carry on its military construe
tion program in tha absence
of protests by the Senate Ap
propriations Committee.
The funds were part of
$366,089,130 frozen by Con
gress in tha last session be
cause it was not spent in the
period for which it had been
appropriated.
Representatives of the De
fense Department recently
submitted justifications for a
list, of specific construction
projects to the House Appro
priations Committee and the
committee approved release of
the 258 million dollar portion.
Senate committee concur
rence was given Monday. Sen.
Ferguson, R., Mich., chairman
of the armed service appro
priations subcommittee called
no hearings on tha subject
but notified members last
week of the touse committee
action. In the absence of pro
tests or objections, Ferguson
okayed use of tha moqey,
Taylor Thinks
Reds Not Ready
To Resume War
Seoul W) Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor said Tuesday the Com
munists high command appar
ently la not preparing for re
sumption of the Korean War.
The commander of the Multi-
nation 8th Army told a press
conference that Red forces ev
idently were digging In and
preparing defensive positions
on their side of the demilitar
ized zone.
"They are doing the same
thing we do," he said.
Taylor said of his own plans
in the event war does . break
out:
You can assume we have
plans to go north, south, east.
west and up and down."
(Centuraei aa Pat f, Cahann 4)
Indian Fails
To Coax Baffcy As Uitimafum
the United States connived
with South Korea to release
27,000 anti-Red war prisoners
last June. -
Dean broke oft the talks
Saturday. .,
A Communist note delivered
early Tuesday suggested - im-
meoiata resumption of nego
tiations.: But an Allied
spokesman said the not also
repeated "the Red charge of
perfidy.
It drew prompt rejection,
"I shall not be with you . .
at any time until you make an
appropriate retraction or cor
rection of his insult In a man
ner satisfactory to my govern
ment," Dean wrote in his
reply.
He will leave Wednesday
for Washington to report to
the State Department and of
ficials of 15 other United Na
tions which fought in Korea.
(ConUnaed en Pat ft. Column 1)
Italians Stage
Another Strike
Rome Millions of Ital
ian workers threw another
sharp strike punch Tuesday in
their running battle for higher
pay, but In some areas large
numbers Ignored the call for
a 24-hour, nationwide walkout
or. industrial, construction and
utilities workers.
Police said they nicked up
"a few" people for causing
disturbances in buses but re
leased them later. Otherwise
no violence was reported.
It was the second nation
wide strike in five days and
the third of fall and winter
union offensive.- - The walk
outs only last 24 hours because
neither workers nor their
unions have money for a long
strike-
Both communist and non-
communist unions claimed the
strike wss nearly 100 per cent
effective, but many holes in
the labor front were reported.
Pro-Red GIs
Panmunjom 11 Indian Lt.
Gen. K. S. Thimayya failed
Tuesday in a personal appeal
to coax 22 balky American
prisoners to hear allied efforts
to woo them home. He said
afterward ha felt they never
would agree. -
Thimayya said he is certain
in his own mind that all pris
oners in the pro-Red camp, 22
Americans, l Briton and 328
North Koreans, decided to stay
with the communists because
of firm political beliefs.
Thimayya . pictured , the
Americans as suspicious and
hostile and pointed out that
any who wanted to go home
could do so easily merely turn
ing himself over to n Indian
guard. .. i , .
The Indian chairman of th
neutral nations repatriation
commission said the 22 Ameri
cans told him Tuesday that
after they are released some
plan to attend universities in
Peiplng and other cities. Oth
ers plan to farm in China or
visit Iron Curtain countries la
Europe.
Given by Dulles
Paris W) On the heels of
sharp warning fiem U, S. ,
Secretary at State DnUea of a
possible American "reapprais
al of Its European pollelea,
tha NATO Council of Minister
Tuesday voted to boost Its war
plan and troop strength la
1154. . : -v. 4 .., ,
The council, governing body
of the 14-nation Atlantic pact,
met as French officials were
reported furious over Dulles
statement that a shift In Amer
ican policies could follow any
French failure to ratify the Eu
ropean army part soon. Pari
newspapers termed it "blunt
untlmatum."
In London, British newspap- '
era of varying political com
plexions also blasted Dulles. ;
Logical and Natural'
In Bonn, however. Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer' Chris
tian democratic party hailed
his warning as "logical and
natural." A party statement
said "We have pointed out time
and again that there would
come a tuna when American
patience would end."
Approval of Increased force .
for tha alliance was retorted
I by an American delegate.
I The degate said tha ap-
I proved figures were those
Secrecy Tags
AFL Officials
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
Washington () President
Eisenhower's plan for yanking
some of the secrecy tags from
government documents went
into effect today with no signs
of any great outpouring of in
formation previously kept confidential.
The orders is svowedly in
tended to give the people "a
maximum amount of informa
tion" without endangering na
tional security.
It replaces a set of rules laid
down by former President Tru
man Sept 25, 1951, which Atty.
Gen. Brownell called repres
sive and capable of permitting
government i ' cials to cover
up mistakes snd "dereliction
of duty."
The new order emphasizes
realistic decisions as to what
security and national defense
information should be secret.
But officials still can bottle up
nonsecurity informstion by ad
ministratlve action. And the se
crecy of a lot more document,
such as income tax returns, Is
protected by law.
Cloudiness, Fog
Forecast 5 Days
Considerable cloudiness and
local fog, but comparatively
mild temperatures and only
light precipitation is the gen
eral outlook for weather in the
valley area during the next five
days, says the weather bureau.
Fog has bothered early
morning traffic and . night
traveling both Monday and
Tuesday.
Morning minimum in Salem
Wednesday was M degrees and
similar mark is due tonight
The Willamette river con
tinues to drop slowly, the local
gauge reading 11.2 feet this
morning.
Ike to Atlanta
Christmas Day
Washington W) President
Eisenhower will fly to Augusta,
Ga., Christmas Day or the day
after to spend several days
working on the State of the
Union message which he will
deliver to Congress esrly in
January,
Announcing this Tuesday,
the White House said the Pres
ident and Mrs. Eisenhower will
be joined st their new cottage
at the Atlanta National Golf
Club by their son, Ma). John
Eisenhower, his wife and the
three Eisenhower grandchil
dren. James C. Hagerty, presiden
tial press secretary, said that If
the President is unable to leave
Washington on Christmas Day,
he will depart some time Dec.
26.
Hagerty said it had not been
decided how long the President
will remain in Augusta, but he
Indicated the stay quite likely
will be through New Year's
Day.
Red Gl's Sister
Plans for Visit
. . mittee Monday,
Tokyo Th sitter ofl (C-Blt
ii American war prisoner wno
chose communism prepared to
day to fly to Tokyo, where the
mother of another unrepatria-
ted American waited on the
slim chance that ah would get
to see her son. Myrtle Elaine
Wilson of Urania, La., sent
radio message saying she was
coming to Japart In hopes of
seeing her brother, CpL Aaron
Wilson, one of 22 American
who stayed wtih th commun
ists. .
The message was addressed
to Mrs. Portia Howe of Alden,
Minn., who flew here last week
hoping to see and persuade her
son, Pfc. Richard Tenneson, to
come home.
There was no sign that the
U. S. defense department has
modified Its ban on trips to
Korea by relatives of the unre
patriated American war prisoners.
Pag a, Cabnaa 81
Reds to By-pass
French Forces
Hanoi, Indochina W French
Union troops dug in at the
broad plain of Dicn Bien ?hu
are expecting a big Communist
led Vietminh attack but the
possibility arose Tuesday that
it might never come.
French army sources report
ed that troops of Vietminh di
vision 316 were moving west
ward from points between VI-etminh-occupied
Lai C b a u,
abandoned capital of the pro
French Thai people, and the
Dien Bien Phu area.
The movement gave a strong
hint that the Vietminh might
by-pass the Dien Bien Phu
"fortress" to overrun the rest
of the Thai country and take
another invasion route into the
kingdom of Laos.
Federal Jury Probes
Ransom Money Loss
Kansas City ( A federal
grand jury Tuesdsy awaited
testimony from four St. Louis
policemen who wer on duty
th night Carl Austin Hall was
arrested In the, kldnap-kllling
of 6-year-old Bobby Green-lease.
A 17-year-old St. Louis
blond. Miss Barbara Cupp, also
was scheduled to testify. Sh
waa visiting at th St. Louis
police station where Hall was
taken after his arrest
The jury Monday renewed
its Inquiry into the case to de
termine whether any witnesses
called for it In a previous
probe committed perjury.
Th latest Investigation is
based on the disappearance of
about half of th $600,000 ran
som paM Hall and his accom
plice, Mrs. Bonnie Brown
Head, Th money never has
been recovered. Hall said he
was certain he had $592,000 In
his suitcases when arrested.
Monday a former hat check
girl, described as the mystery
woman in the probe, appeared
before the jury. She was Mrs.
Vila Freeny of St. Louis. Sh
told the jury she was sitting
in car outside the Town
House Hotel wher Hall was
arrested.
U. S. District Attorney Ed
ward L. Scheuffler declined
to say whether Mrs. Feeny saw
any baggage carried out of the
hotel at the time. Hall men
tioned, in his confession that
he saw blonde woman fit
ting in a car near the hotel
the night he waa brought out
by Lt Louis Shoulders and
Patrolman E 1 m r Dolan
Shoulders, who has resigned
from the force, and Dolan have
said they know nothing of th
musing saqney,
Wilson Talks to
NATO Delegates
."Paris Alio -a Defense Secre
tary Charles & Wilson- told th
North Atlantic Council of Min
isters today that the Eisenhow
er administration Is prepared to
ask Congress for legislation to
permit the United States to
share "pertinent information"
on nuclear weapons wth its
Allies. - -,
Other developments in a big
day of NATO conference in
cluded: - . i , . r.
1. Allied Supreme Command
er Gen. Alfred M. Gruentber.
said that the build up of his
North Atlantic treaty forces
has been "fantastic" and that
they soon will be given added
power in the form of atomic
weapons.
2. Canadian Defense Minister
Brooke Claxton announced in
behalf of the Allies that a two
year dispute over standard
NATO rifle ammunition haa
been ended with the adoption
of the newly developed Amer
ican 30-caliber cartridges as
standard. -
S. It was announced that th
14 NATO Allies have spent a
total of 65 billion dollars on de
fenses this year, an increase of
10 per cent over 1952. The
United States has spent 131,
860,000 of the total and Canada
$2,149,000,000
Russia Keeping
672 U.S. Ships
Washington W State De
partment attempts to get 872
lend-lease ships back from Rus
sia were no closer to realiza
tion Tuesday than a year ago,
after apparent progress went
up in smoke.
Under an arrangement dis
closed Monday, U. S. and Sov
iet representatives wer tup-
posed to meet Tuesday in
Washington to begin working;
out return of 188 of th vess
sels.
But State Department
spokesman said the Soviet em
bassy called off the meeting
after Ambassador Georgl Za
rubin paid a visit Monday to
Acting Secretary of Stat Wal
ter Bedell Smith.
Tit crux ot the disagree
ment seemed to be: Tha Rus
sians wanted to talk about their
whole lend-lease account, near
ly 11 billion dollars by U. S.
estimate. The United States
wanted to discuss only th 188
ships.
A state department official
said Zambia proposed taking
up uiv wooie situation, smno,
he said, did not reject this pro
posal but replied that he felt
negotiations should .go "step by
step