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FINAL
EDITION
63th Year, No. 299
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, December 16, 1953 24 Pages . - t 5c
Court Holds
Mother's Love
Best for Child
Supreme Court Re
turns 6-Year-Old
'Girl to Mother
By JAMES D. OLSON
The tender cue of a mother
fa more advanUg eons to a six-
year-old. child, than, confine
ment in a aursing home, Chief
; Justice Earl C. Latonrette ruled
ji reversing a decree by Cir
cuit Judge Joseph B. Felton of
Marion county,
The custody of Dee Ann
SUHer, the six-year-old child,
was involved in this case, upon
motion In the lower court for
modification. of a former order'
awarding custody to Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Wyant, who have
a license from the Public Wei-
fare commission to care for
children
' Parents Divorced
The parents oi the child, Al
' vin W. and Lois Adele Sui
ter were divorced August 24,
1949. Both parties have since
. remarried and both sought cus-
tody of the child.
"Under the clrcumsUnces of
this case," Chief Justice La-
tourette ruled "we believe the
. . tender care of the mother
would be more advanUgeous to
' the child than the nursing
- home of the WyatU. In this
', connection, we do not wish to
cast any reflection on the Wy
atts, as they are highly regard
ed in the community.
Foster Home Has Place
. . (ConUnaed m Pag . Coluaip t)
" Onion Growers
Can't Cut Crop
Ontario, Ore. W The fed
V eral department of agriculture
; has turned down a plan of
Oregon and Washington onion
growers to erase one-fourth of
the 1953 crop to halt a price
decline.
Joe Saito, OnUrio, president
of the two-sUte onion growers
...association, told a mass meet
ing of about 100 produeere he
' had been advised Tuesday by
the government that the plan
would conflict with federal
nt!tru laws, j
The growers also were told
that the crop reduction scheme
would Uke "some time" and
would have to be signed by
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
' Benson and all participants.
A suggestion to organize a
cooperative to control future
onion shipmenU ' will be
studied by the growers.
Quake Shakes
Northwest Area
Portland Wt A rumbling
earth shock, apparently center
ing in this metropolitan area,
rocked northwest Oregon and
southwest Washington com
munities Tuesday night.
The shock, which started at
8:32 p.m., was brief and no
major damage was reported.
v But it cracked plaster, rattled
windows and knocked glass
ware off shelves in some
homes. Telephone switchboards
at newspapers and radio sta
tions were swamped with calls
from alarmed residents.
The tremor was reported felt
as far as Kalama, Wash., about
40 miles north of here, and
Mill City, Ore., in Santiam
canyon, some 30 miles to the
south.
The quake appeared to have
been the sharpest to hit the
Pacific northwest since April
13, 1949, when seven persons
were Injured fatally, several
others hurt and millions of
dollars worth of property de
stroyed.
The Oregon SUU college
seismograph near Corvallis re
corded a "short but intense'
earthquake at 8:32:12 p.m.
Dr. Harold R. Vinyard, as
sistant physics professor, said.
Electric Power
Still on Increase
New York ( Electrical
energy distributed throughout
(he United SUtes . last week
rose to 8,661,131,000 kilowatt
hours compared with 8,382,'
459,000 the week previous.
Last weeks' toUl wss 6.2
per cent higher than the 8,140.
257.000 kilowatt hours distrib
uted In the like week last year.
All regions of the country
showed a oercenUge increase
over consumption in the like
week a year ago except for
the central industrial area.
which showed no change.
PercenUge increases includ
ed Pacific northwest, 27.2.
Kidnap Killers
Show No Signs
Of Cracking
Spend Time Read
ing and Working
Crossword Puzzles
Jefferson City, M 'UP)-r
The Greealease kidnap-klllers
spent part of their time today
readinf Wild West stories and
worklnr .crossword .pussies,
outwardly nonchalant a beat
their execution early Friday.
Carl Austin Hall. 34-year-old
playboy, and Bonnie
Brown Heady, 41, his para
mour, gave no outward signs
of cracking as their death in
ver court Ior.,h, ... .h.mhr hmma nnlv
. hni.
They pay with their lives.
side by side, a few minutes
mldnJgnt for killing
, 8.yeaM,d Bobby Green.
lease, which they planner1 to
gether even before they kid
naped him Sept. 28 in Kansas
City.
Mystery of Ransom
Still a mystery is what hap
pened to half of the $600,000
(Cantinae Pate . CMnma 4)
Cold Wave Over
Most oi Nation
Br Tht AlMelaLd PrMtl
Frigid air covered a huge
section of the nation Wednes
day.
The coldest weather of the
season chilled the Midwest.
The thermometer sank to 33 be
low zero at the Plum Creek
ranger sUtion in northern Min-
nesoU,
Other low temperatures In
cluded 29 at Bemidji, Minn.
22 at International Falls and
Thief River Falls, Minn.: 24
at Fargo, N. D.; 20 at Alex
andria, Minn.; 17 at Delhi,'
Iowa; 7 at Minneapolis and
St. Paul.
It was 2 at Dubuque, Iowa,
1 at Bismarck, N, D., and
above at Chicago.
- Temperatures that reached
the freezing level at their low
point were common In a wide
area that recahed from New
York SUte to the Rocky
MounUins and extended as far
south as Texas.
The Weather Bureau report
ed frost at Jacksonville and
Tallahassee, Fla., and New Or
leans. 2-Headed Baby
Likely fo Live
Indianapolis W) A two-
headed, four-armed baby has
been given two names and doc
tors report he is making the
progress of a normal newborn.
The 3-dav old bov was taken
off the "critical" Jist yester
day and his chances of survival
were reported as good. Doctors
at the Indiana university med
ical center said he is Uking
nourishment in both mouths
and the intestinal tract is re
sponding normally. The 44-year-old
father said he gave
the name Donald Ray to "the
best one" and the name Daniel
Kay to the other head and
arms. There was no explana
tion to the reference "the best
ie."
There are two spinal cords
Joined at about the waistline.
As far as doctors have been
able to determine, there are
no duplications of internal or
gans. Dr. John D. Van Nuys, dean
of the medical center, said no
surgery is contemplated now.
$736,000 Yule Melon
Cut forStute Employes
A1736.000 Christmas melon
will be cut for some 16,000
sUte employes, according to
Secretary of SUte Earl T.
Newbry and Max Manchester,
executive secreUry of the
Public Employes Retirement
fund.
The unexpected windfall
comes for funds already paid
by. sUte employes into' the
retirement fund and Man
chester said that the sizable
sum represents the difference
in the smount paid between
July 1, 1931 and June 30, 1953,
under the old retirement law
and the social security Uw
for the same period.
In order to write the 16.000
checks before Christmas, the
accounting division of the sec
reUry of state's office utilized
the full capacity of IU divi
sion. The list of names and
IT
V.
Dean Arrives
At Honolulu
Honolulu Vft U. S. Envoy
Arthur H. Dean arrived here
Wednesday ' en route to Wash
ington predicting that the com
munisU would return to Pan-
munjom and negotUte for a
Korean peace conference but
"it'may Uke months."
"They'll come back," he told
reporters at the airport, "but
thv'r in na Kiiprv. Time it
the whole stock in trade of the
communists. . We must fight
them at their own game."
Dean, who broke off .-the
Ulks with the communist last
week af.tr seven weeks of fu
tile negotiations, declared that
"the American people nave got
to realize that this is a long
drawn out struggle for power."
Dean declared the commu
nists had used the preliminary
negotiations as "a forum for
their propaganda," adding, "It's
all part of their psychological
war."
.1
Agree on Some
Tax Slashing
Washington Wl Treasury
and congressional staff expert
today were reported agreed on
a restricted Ux cut for some
parenU who must pay child
care expenses while they work.
The proposed relief is so
slight, however a maximum
$300 deduction with strict lim
itations it seems cerUln to
run into strong demands by
lawmakers for more liberal
provisions.
More than 25 bills already
are pending to give a tax break
to millions of working mothers,
widows, widowers and others.
The plan Is part of a mam
moth proposal for revision of
almost all revenue laws. Some
70 staff experts from congres
sional committee sand the
Treaury have been working
privately on recommendations
for almost a year.
amount due each employee
were delivered to Newbry on
December 7. The last check
will be written on December
19. All of the checks will be
returned to the retirement
board for posting and pro
cessing. The checks will be distri
buted by the Individual sUte
departmenU to their own em
ployees. Harold Phillip, manager of
the acounting division and a
member of the retirement
board, said no refunds are
due employes who withdrew
their accumulated pension
funds shortly after passsge of
the new Uw. Phillippe also
pointed out that the refunds
to be paid during the next few
days are not subject to with
holding Uxes.
AMBASSADOR DEAN HEADS FOR U.S.
r
tsfij1
Ambassador Arthur Dean waves goodbye as he boards
plane at Tokyo's International Airport for first leg of
journey to the United SUtes. Dean, who broke off Ulks
with the Reds after prolonged efforts to set up a Korean
peace conference, will report to the U.S. SUte Department
after his arrival in Washington, D.C. (AP Wirephoto vU
radio from Tokyo)
Ex-Con Returns to See
Prison in Stolen Cur
By VICTOR FRYER
"I wanted to see what the
pen looks like from the out
side," an ex-convict told city
police early Wednesday morn
ing f tar his atrast on a charge
of auto theft, only four days
Blast Destroys
Vet Building
Springfield. Ore. fH An
explosion less than an hour be
fore preschool children were
due there, caused heavy dam
age, Wednesday to the Veterans
Memorial building here.
Stuart Barrett, about 60,
building employe, flicked a
switch in a basement room.
The blast which followed shat
tered wall and knocked off
doors.
The explosion brought a call
to the fire department at 8:47
a.m. At 9:30 the preschool
children would have been in a
basement room for a class
meeting. '
Fire Chief Harry Krieger
said he assumed gas had seep
ed into the building and had
been set off by an electric
spark from the switch.
Clayton Anderson, director
of parks, which operates the
building as a community cen
ter, atimated damage at" "sev
eral thousand dollars."
Barrett was released from a
hospiUl after treatment for
shock and minor burns.
Lewis Gives ILA
$50,000 to Fight
New York t John L,
Lewis was reported Wednes
day to have contributed at
least 830.000 to the old Inter
national Longshoremen's Assn.
for use in iU fight against the
AFL.
The move was seen as a step
by Lewis toward creating a
third big union to rival his
CIO and AFL opponent.
The New York Daily News
said in a copyrighted story that
Lewis has given the now inde
pendent waterfront union $50,.
000 and "reportedly will deliv
er more funds as needed."
The New York Daily Mir
ror said it learned Lewis "has
kicked in $75,000 cash" to the
ILA "with a promise of an
other $125,000 if needed."
Lewis, president of the Unl
ted Mine Workers (Ind ), said
he had "absolutely- no com
menU" when asked about the
reports at Hazleton, Pa., Tues
day night
Reports in recent months
have said the old ILA might be
incorporated Into a UMW div
ision for miscellaneous labor
unions.
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after his release from the prls
on after serving time on a sim-l
liar charge. .
. josepiu Marun Trapp was
arrested about . 3:13 a.m. by
cuy oiucer caivin steward
when he stopped the car Trapp
was driving for having no rear
license pute.
"I must have lost if some
place tonight," Trapp said.
He offered an expired learn
er s permit when asked for a
driver's license.
'I don't know who the car
belongs to," he confessed
frankly when asked for the
car registration. "I Just stole
it in Portland."
"Finding the. key In .the
car was Just too much tempU-
tion for me, the 22-year-old
remarked. "I Just got out of
prison Saturday morning and
I am broke. I walked the
streeU in Portland all night
last night (Monday) and if I
had walked the streets tonight
I would have been arrested for
vagrancy anyway." i
'I was Just driving around
looking for SUte street," he
commented. "I wanted to drive
by the pen so I could look at
it from the outside."
Trapp was Uken to the sU-
tlon instead, where a check
with Portland police showed
they had no report of a stolen
car. A call to registered owner
Anson S. Frohman, 630 Mead
building, found that he didn't
know it was stolen either but
soon checked to report that it
was missing. Trapp took the
car about 12:45, he said.
In the glove compartment of
the car, police found a hunting
knife, a sap and a bottle of
liquor. TJiere was no indica
tion that' Trapp had been
drinking, they a id, but he was
arrested on a charge of carry
ing concealed weapons. He dis-
claimed any knowledge of the
(CraUnaed n Para I. Celtunn 4)
Wont German
Reds at Meet
Berlin ") The Russian zone
proposed todsy that the rival
governments of divided Ger
many be given sesU at the
forthcoming Big Four foreign
ministers' meeting in Berlin.
Acting Prime Minister Wal
ter Ulbricht made the bid at a
special session of the East Ger
man Partliament
The veteran Communist
spokesman for the Kremlin de
clared that the parley should
deal with two points:
1. Conclusion of a Germsn
peace treaty.
2. Re-s'.ablishment of Ger
man unity "on a democratic!
tt4 hAatsaiif ill Kaaaia n 1
and peacuful basis
Officials of the Soviet High
Commission were present as
Uullbrirht spoke. Presumably
they approved hi aUUment.
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lire s Atomic Energy Pool
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Ike to Keep on
Working tor
Atomic Control
Washington ) President
Elsenhower said Wednesday
he will keep right an work
ing for International eontral
of atomic energy even if the
Russians turn down his recent
share-the-atora proposal.
The president made the
statement at a news confer
ence at which he also said he
doe not Intend to ask any
change in the atomic energy
act which would lead to this
country's sharing scientific
processes or techniques ' for
building atomic weapons.
Eisenhower said he is by no
means giving up hope the Rus
sians will decide to accept the
proposal he recenlty made in a
speech to the United Nations,
that all the atomic powers
join in a limited program of
atomic research, with empha
sis on peacetime power devel
opment (Cantoned n Paga . Cahuna 3)
Ike's Right to
Fire Upheld
Washington UV-C. S. Dis
trict Judge Richmond Keech
ruled Wednesday the President
has power to remove govern
ment workers from civil serv
ice protection and summarily
lire tnem.
The ruling applied specific
ally to Leo A. Rich, a $10.
000-a-year Justice Department
attorney who lost hU Job last
July.'
Roth brought suit to get his
Job back, contending he could
not be summarily dismissed be
cause he had civil service sta
tus before a presidential order
placed him in an exempt cate
gory known as schedule A."
In ruling against Roth, Judge
neecn said:
"The court is aware that un
der iU decision the statutory
safeguard from summary re
moval relied on by a large
number of government em
ployes Is held not to exist. The
question of the desirability of
this situation is not a matter
for the court."
Arctic Linked
To Black Sea
Washington U.B U. S. navy
officials said today Russia has
"tremendously" increased iU
potential sea power by com
pleting a vast canal system
linking the Arctic ocean to the
Black sea.
They said the protected In
land waterway, stretching from
one end of Russia to the other,
apparently is capable of hand
ling submarines and destroyers
as well as smaller craft
By shifting warships back
and forth through the canals.
Russia could concentrate iU
naval strength In two.fleeU,
U. S. strategitu said.
In the past, U. S. estl.nates
of Russian naval strength
have been based on the as
sumption that the Soviet Un
ion must mainUin four dif
ferent fleets, in the Arctic,
Baltic Sea, Black sea and Pa
cific. The four fleets were all.
eacn otner, euner Dy geogra-
phy or Western nsval and air
Rocket Plane Driven at
1650 Miles Per Hour
Washington JP) The Bell
XI A rocket-driven research
plans has flashed to a new un
official speed record of 2Vi
times the speed of sound, re
ports current in aviation cir
cles said Wednesday.
The little plsne with the
short knife-like wings Is a
successor to the first Bell XI
which; passed the speed of sound
in 1947.
Presumably the new speed,
obtained In a test by the Air
rorce at Edward Base, Calif.
was at very high altitude.
...
Its
speed In that
case would h
about 1.650 miles oer h,
ine new record compares
with one of 2.01 Umes the
speed of sound, or around 1,-
Some Pro-Reds
Want.Return
Fear Stabbing
Panmunjom, Korea QU9 An
escaped South Korean prisoner
of the Communists said today
three or four of the 22 Ameri
cans held by the Reds want to
go home but fear their com
panions will sUb them to death
if they request repatriation or
make a break for freedom.
"They are afraid they will be
killed if they try," Kim Mun
Do, the South Korean, told of
ficers after scaling a barbed
wire fence around his Commu
nist prison compound and run
ning to an Indian guard,
Kim reported that the Com-
munisU were smuggling knives
into the compound holding the
Americans, South Korean and
one Briton, and pulled out a
dagger to back up his story.
It was confiscated.
Rhee Postpones
Sending Troops
Tokyo UJ Syngman Rhee
lessened the danger of renewed
Korean fighting at the end of
January by postponing indefi
nitely today his plans to
his tough young army across
the 38th parallel.
The South Korean President
had warned ' repeatedly he
might Uke "uniUteral action to
unify Korea "'If a political con
ference failed to do so by Jan.
27, 90 day after it was sched
uled to open Oct 28.
In a dramatic about face, the
aging Korean patrUrch prom
ised bis troops would Uke no
action until three month after
convening a peace conference,
whenever that may be. f
Rhee announced hi change
of policy in a press conference
before Korean newsmen; at
Seoul less than 12 hours after
U. S. Envoy Arthur H. Dean
left for Washington to brief
President Eisenhower on his
unsuccessful attempU to reach
Tr0ni 2Z
nlsU on convening the confer
ence.
Biggest Flying
Boat Launched
Sen Diego. Calif. W? A big
flying boat Wednesday became
the first airplane introduced
to the world as the second SO
yesrs powered flight sUrts.
The R3Y1 seaplane, trans
port, build for the United
SUtes Navy, was set for
Uunching at about the same
hour, hslf a century Uter, as
the Wright brothers' historic
first flight at Kitty Hawk,
N.C., December 17, 1903.
Consolidated Vultee Air
craft Corp. said the R3Y1 Is
the fastest flying bost In the
history of svUtlon.
It s top speed, which will
be tested In fllghU sometime
after IU launching In San Di
ego Bay, is figured at more
thsn SO mles an hour.
The top speed of the
Wrights' tiny wood and muslin
fabric biplane in that first
flight of 120 feet n 12 seconds
has been estimated at 30 to 35
miles an hour.
Weather Details
iw ik. .u h,hi, a., sm.
t'IlTL.1' "'T'."!
(sir?-)
307 mile an hour in the upper
ir, which was set Nov. 20,
That mark was set In a Navy
Skyrocket flown by a pilot of
the National Advisory Commit
tee for Aeronautics.
Engineers figure such speeds
in "mseh" numbers. Mach 1
represents the speed of sound
under whatever conditions ex
ist at the time of the flight It
indicates a speed of 761 miles
an hour at ser-level with a
temperature of 6B degrees Fah
renheit
Th snrd of aniinrf iImmiim
,
I WKn ,K"uo un" .00
and above It drops to about 663
miles in hour, varying some
what with temperature.
luerman Army
Held Essential
For Defense
Paris ( The 1 1 -nation
NATO Council of Ministers a
noaneed Wednesday that It
"warmly endorsed" President
Elsenhower' Initiative la pro
posing a worldwide atomic en
ergy pool.
The council reported its en
dorsement in a final commu
nique winding up iU three-day
sessions.
The communique also de
clared a European Defense
Community including German
miliUry power as essential to
the defensive alliance of the
West
The communique, (aid the
ministers noted with satixfao
tion the promise of the U. 8.
government to ask Congress
tor authorization to transmit in
formation on nuclear weapon
to the military chiefs of NATO.
Big4MeetOK'd
It said they also approved
the lnltUUvc Uken by the
governments of the United
SUtes, BriUin and France in
proposing a four-power confer
ence of foreign minister with
Russia.
(Cmtmaea s Pag g, CaUsu I)
Kaplin Given
Washington (ff) Senate in- ' -
vestigator said Wednesday f ' ;
that 20 FBI report wen cir- j
culated among top government jsr
officials on a federal economist"!
who was allowed to leave ofj f M
UU IfUfl B HIM V
health.'
The economist, Irving Xaf
lsn. later became a United Na
tion employ and refused at a
hearing of the Senate internal
security subcommittee last
year to say whether be) waa
SavM "Plonag agent
- WM .na,.tei fmr
He was separated from th
U. N. en May 29, 1953, shortly
after hit appearance before the
anbeommtttM. He left U. 8.
service in 1947. - 1
The testimony about Kaplan
was the main theme Wednes
day as Senate spy hunter re
sumed public hearings - after
temporarily putting off efforts
to interview Igor Gouzenko, .
former Soviet code clerk In
OtUwa, Canada.'. . if '
Fog Hampers7:
Morning Trflvel '
Fog continued to slow down
Willamette valley traffic last
night and early Wednesday
morning, but th sunshine pre
vailing much otthe fore part 01
the day was welcome, especial,
ly to the jhrongs downtown
shopping. '
The forecast calls for more
fog tonight and Thursday.
The general U.S. weather bu
reau at Washington, D.C states
Christmas may be a little less .
white than usual over much of
the nation this year. The mid
December and mid-January
forecast caU generally for
above normal temperatures in
tho western part of the county.
Ii the.sUte, the highway
commission reported today all
Oregon highways clear except
on some mountain highways.
where it spots slow traffic
and on the routes closed for th
winter.
Eugene Starts
To Buy Plant
Eugene W) The Eugene
Water It Electric board filed a
condemnation suit Wednesday
to get some MounUin SUtes
Power Co. distribution line
and it offered to pay $1,350,-000.-
The board reported Tuesday
that it planned to tile the suit
to get the private utility's line
in th Willakenzie and Glen
wood districts adjacent to the
city.
MounUin SUte Is expected
to take strong exception to the
amount offered, but whether
it will try to halt the entire
Ukfr-over remain to be deter
mined, tt has SO day to file
an answer.
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