THE WEATHER.
MOSTLY CLOCDT with mcs.
atonal rmia teaight ad Situ
day. CmtiBBcd sails. Law to
night, 48; high Satarday, (9.
$4,000,000
Bridge Open
On Columbia
The Dalles Span Dedi
cated as Concrete
Is Poured for Dam
The Dalles, Or. (A Wish.
ington's Cst. Arthur B. Lsng
lle drove across th 4 million
dollar bridge spanning the Co-
J Iambi river here Friday, fol
1 lowed hv Oreton's Got. Piul
Patterson.
Then behind them moved a
caravan of hundred! ot can,
official and unofficial, marking
opening of the new bridge, the
fifth across the river between
the two lUtej.
That was after a brief cere
mony dedicating the bridge
which was built by Wasco
County, Ore. It replaces a fer
ry which linked the Evergreen
Highway of Washington with
Central Oregon and California.
The party moved across to
the Washington side for a sepa
rate ceremony marking the
first pouring of concrete in The
Dalles Cam. .
(Continued en Pase I. Celamsi t)
Jo Classify
Forest Lands
c County forest land classlfi
V cation committees will begin
-next month to classify grazing
p.'ands in forest areas. Deputy
i t a t e Forester Dwight L,
1 1Phipps said Friday.
, j When ths job is done, these
. grazing lands will have their
, -forest fire patrol assessments
dropped to five cents as acre,
' hi The fire assessments run I
i high as 18 cents an acre, but
'.4'the 19S3 legsilature fixed a
4 J maximum assessment of f 1 v e
if cents for grozing lands.
I The Forestry Department
protects 13 million acres of
state and private forest lands
Land classification commit
tees, named by the county
courts, have been appointed in
Douglas and Jackson counties.
Similar committees will begin
work in Coos and Curry coun
ties in January.
Josephine and other coun
ties with grazing lands are ex
pected to appoint their com
mittees in a few weeks.
McCarf hy Sees
Spies an Issue
; K Chicago W.B Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy (R., Wis.) said today
that communism will be the
' chief issue in the next political
; campaign because "politicians
of little minds and even less
political morals" have made a
' "screaming defense" ot com
munists. "McCarthy addressed a lunch
: eon meeting of the Executives'
: Club, the same group before
which Attorney General Her
bert Brownell, Jr., spoke sev
eral weeks ago when he made
hi charges against former
i President Harry S. Truman in
the Harry Dexter White spy
, ease.
'There is no valid reason on
God's earth why this life and
death struggle between free
; men and a communist brutali
: tarian dictatorship should even
ranotely be an issue between
America's two great political
parties," McCarthy said.
Unfortunatley, how ever,
, politicians of little minds and
even less political morals, by
', tiHir screaming defense of
communists, have made this
, not only an issue but THE
. Isse which must and will be
dsejded by the people of this
1 nation."
',reckage of
"lane Seen
ieyjaavik. Iceland U The
ckage of a U. S. Navy
ptune plane, missing with
men aboard, was sighted
by on the frigid slopes of an
tandic glacier and rescue
ts said there was evidence
Survivors.
4 plane from the 53rd Air
cue Squadron, based at
- flavik Air Base, said it had
ted the badly battered Nep-
m plane ol Myrdalsjokull
tier, about 100 miles south
4 of here.
Ae searchers reported there
' signs of survivors, but did
specify how many or whe-
they (ctually saw any of
missing men.
lie Neptune left Keflavik
ierday morning on train
! flight and was due back at
jn.
65th Year, No. 301
Indict Youths
In Cocktail
Murder Case
Admit Taking Part
In Bizarre Slaying
Of Parents of One
New York Wt Dreamy
poetry-quoting Barlow Fraden
and his writer friend, Dennis
Wepmaa, Friday were indicted
on first degree murder eharget
in the weird cyanide-champagne
cocktail murder of Fra
den's parents.
The Indictment came quickly
after only a half day of ques
tonlng witnesses before a Bronx
County Grand Jury.
Both youths, an esthetic, stu
dious pair who wear horn
rimmed spectacles, have ad
mitted taking part in the bi
zarre slaying. -
For four months, the deaths
were considered aouoie sui
cides or murder and suicide.
The 20-year-old Fraden wu
quoted by authorities Thursday
night as saying be murdered nil
parents because his mother con
stantly taunted him with being
a "fairy-
Bronx Dist Atty. George B
DeLuca aid the youth claimed
that "as long as he could re
call and before he knew any
thing about sex, his mother
called him a fairy-' This he
strongly resented."
(ConUnoed ea Page . Celoma SI
57 Film Actors
Off tor Korea
Hollywood UJ9 Terry Moore
and 56 other entertainers left
today to cheer servicemen ov
erseas but a USO spokesman
blasted as !a publicity stunt"
the shapely actress' anounced
plans to perform in ermine
shorts and strapless bra.
USO spokesmen at the air
port when the four entertain
ment packed j lanes took off
said Miss Moore's talent will
be kept under ordinary winter
gear wraps no bathing suit,
no short Just plain warm
clouting.
"There will be no strip tease
stuff in this show," said
Lawrence Phillips, executive
vice president of USO Camp
Shows.
Phillips added the reports
that the curvaceous Miss Moore
was all set to warm up Ko
rea's cold front with insulated
ermine "is nothing more than
an agent's publicity stunt"
The four big planes carry
ing the troupe took off from
Burbank Field shortly after 9
a.m., PST.
Racketeering
For Charities
New York m State prob
ers of charity rackets who
have heard revelations ranging
from pnonies soliciting over
the telephone from behind
closed doors to fake "nuns"
begging in public plan to of
fer control measures early in
the 1954 legislative session.
A Joint legislative investigat
ing committee wound up four
days of public hearings here
Thursday, and plans to hold
others later in various parts of
the state.
State Sen. Bernard Tomp
kins, the committee chairman,
expressed hope that the dis
closure of racketeering and
the bonanzas reaped by collect
ors In some charity drives
would not deter the public
from giving liberally to hon
est and well-managed charity
and weuare groups.
Trees Ordered Out to
Make Softball Ground
Six fir trees and 10 oak trees
standing in Englewood park
will be removed and replaced
by a Softball diamond.
The trees stand on a flat area
in the park immediately north
ot and adjoining the school
grounds. Their removal so that
a Softball diamond can be set
up in the park was recently re
quested by vote ot the. Salem
school board and was ordered
by the city park advisory board
Thursday night
It is not necessary for the
city council to take any action
in the matter. Nevertheless
City Manager J. L. Franzes
will inform the council about
it at the meeting of Monday
night, Dec 28. The removal
C apit al; A-JoMMal .
DESIGNED
U I I Mmmt l
. .-rt.ry."
i ;
I
St. Louis Cop
Held for Perjury
Kansas City ) Elmer Do
lan, suspended St. Louis police
men, Friday was indicted on a
perjury charge by a federal
grand Jury probing the miss
ing Greenlease ransom money
enigma.
Dolan, who appeared twice
before the Jury, the last time
Friday afternoon, was named
in a four-page indictment
which charged he made a false
statement about handling ot
suitcases containing the ransom
money when kidnaper Carl
Austin Hall was arrested last
October.
U. S. District Judge Richard
M. Duncan orderecTDolan held
under a $25,000 bond.
Action against the policeman
came less than 13 hours after
the kidnapers, Hall and Bonnie
Brown Heady were executed in
the Missouri prison gas cham
ber for the $600,000 abduction
in which they killed the vic
tim. :- ; ' -i-
... -f - f - y -.vV.-.
Denies Linkage
With Browder
Mahwah, N. J. UP) Miss Jo
sephine Truslow Adams denies
she ever served as a link be
tween the White House and
communist party leader Earl
Browder, as government wit
nesses have testified.
In her denial Thursday night,
Miss Adams said she was "an
obscure and humble aritst" and
"not a communist" or "a mys
terious cloak and dagger fig
ure." Government witnesses nam
ed her Tuesday at a Washing
ton hearing by the Subversive
Activities Control Board. John
Lautner, one time communist
party functionary, said he
knew Miss Adams "as a mem
ber of the communist party"
and as the link between the
presidential office and Brow
der. $100,000 Loan for
Elgin Lumber Mills
Washington 0IJ9 The Small
Business Administration today
approved a $100,000 loan for
Western Stud Mills, Inc., at El
gin, Ore., to be used as work
ing capital and to retire exist
ing loans. The agency said the
loan would benefit the whole
eastern Oregon community
through the use of small di
mension logs from cutover tim
ber lands on 60 to 70 ranches
as well as aiding forest con
servation practice.
will be in accordance with an
ordinance enacted by the coun
cil in AprU, 1SS2.
Plans for the Improvement of
Englewood park were recently
drawn for the park advisory
board by Arthur- Erfeldt of
Portland, landscape architect
but did not include provision
for a softbau diamond.
The softball ground will be
under the administration of
the recreation program main
tained Jointly by the city of
Salem and the Salem school
board.
It is expected that some pro
test from the public will be
made at the removal of the
trees.
SZ Salem, Oregon, Friday, December 18, 1953
TO TRACK DOWN AND
! mi I I WWIM
IT
1
' This Is the Nike, an antiaircraft guided missile, faster
than ound, designed to track down and destroy invading
enemy aircraft. And here, in action against big target
plane at White Sands-Proving Ground, N. M., it does that
with fine efficiency. The Nike comes in under the wing,
top, and then hits the target plane, bottom, and explodes.
The smoke coming from wing ot plane itself at top was
set there to enable photographers to follow the action.
(U. S. Army photos via AP Wlrephoto.)
Wraps Taken Oft Army s
Bomber-Hunter Wke'
By ELTON C. FAY
UP Ulllurr AlIMn Btperttr)
Washington ! The army
took some of the secrecy wraps
oft its uncanny bomber-hunter
guided missile last night and
said the first battery of an
ventual national system of
uch antiaircraft weapons is
being ernplaced.
Man Hunt On
For Mad Killer ,
t Tulsa, Okla. VP) City, rqun,
ty, state- and federal authori
ties were combing areas near
Alsuma today searching for a
"mad dog" killer they believe
is responsible for at least three
brutal shootings.
Tulsa Police Chief Joe Mc
Gulre said somberly, "We've
got a mad dog killer on our
hands and we want to find him
before he kills more."
The prima suspect Is Qulncy
O'Neal, 33-year-old Negro
wanted on charges of murder
ing his wife and federal flight
to avoid prosecution. His wife
was shot August 3, 1952.
Officers disclosed yesterday
a slug taken from the body of
Mrs. O'Neal was tired from the
same .45-caliber pistol used in
the shooting Sunday of Vol
Dayle Royster, 24-y e a r-old
Tulsan, and Henry Unruh, i
Dewey farmer, November 10.
Era of Colored
TV Ushered in
Washington U.I9 Television
networks and manufacturers
went full speed ahead today
with plans for ushering in the
era of color TV.
CBS expects to be present
lng its regular programs in
color by the end of 1954. NBC
said ita plans to convert to
color are "well ur.erway" and
that it will hold color pre
mieres in the next few months.
The go ahead signal came
late yesterday when the Fed
eral Communications Commis
sion after long delay approved
compatible color system that
will enable millions of view
eia lu receive pictures in black
and white wMhout modifying
their present seta.
Color Broadcasts
Minutes after the ruling,
color images flashed out over
major TV networks. NBC
signed on the air with red,
blue and green chimes. CBS
presented a 13-minute variety
show in color.
9th Bomb-Wing Back
To Mountain Home
Tokyo axn The Far East Air
Force announced today that the
97th Bomb Wing at Briggs Air1
Force Base, El Paso, Tex., has The state highway commis
replaced the 9th Bomb Wing sion reported spots of ice on
which returned to its Mountain highways in several mountani
Home Air Force Base in Idaho,
The 97th wing, equipped
with long range B-50 medium
bombers, will be In the Far
n lor approximately tnre spell likely is over for the win
months of training, jter.
DESTROY
i Sill WIIJII
On the basis of official dis
closures, an army motion pic
ture and other informaiton
available, it may be said the
guided missile, named Nike,
can:
1. Streak at an enemy bom
ber at a speed ot probably 1,-
500 miles an hour.
2. Locate and track the
plane, despite evasive action,
and destroy it in flaming
wreckage even though the mis
sile contacts only an outer
part of a wing.
, 3. "Knock-down a Jet-pow
ered aircraft of any known'
capacity" in speed or maneu
verability. I
The first Nike unit is being
set up at Ft Meade, Md., head
quarters of the Second army,
Nik missiles can provide pro
tection for an area embracing
the nation's capital, Balti
more s big industries and port
facilities and a number of mili
tary installations In the Chea
peake bay and Potomac rver
region.
The army calls the Nike "the
first guided missile system to
defend American cities against
aerial attack."
Canada's Radar
Fence Success
Ottawa W) Canada's de
fense research board said Fri
day that the "McGlll Fence,"
a Canadian-designed early-
warning radar device to detect
enemy planes striking across
the Canadian north, has been
tested successfully.
The board's annual review
said the hush-hush barrier,
which eventually will supple
ment Joint Canadian-American
radar chains in the Far North,
was the outstanding accom
plishment of the board in 1953,
.Its details are secret.
"Summer trials confirmed
the value ot the device as
warning system that can be in
stalled economically In terms
of money, materials and man.
power, and all component parts
can be manufactured in Can
ada," the review said. "De
velopment work and further
trials are proceeding."
The project uji developed
by the board with the -assistance
of the Eaton Electronics
Research Laboratory of McGill
University, in Montreal, and
the National Research Council.
Rain Forecast in
Five-Day Outlook
Continued rainy spells and
mild temperatures are the five
day outlook In the weather, re
ports the weather bureau.
A heavy shower or two fell
in Salem late Thursday, pre
cipitation for the 24-hour per-
iod ending at 10:30 a m. Friday
amounting to .32 of an Inch.
pass routes, rridsy.
I A new series of storms, is
reported forming oft th coast.
proving any extended dry
24 Pages jopxuo niacin
5 Aiojcrr wo
Taxes andtieht Limit en
Ike's Conference Agenda
Laniel Leads
For President
Versailles, Franc VH
France's badly divided parlia
ment tailed again Friday to
elect president of the repub
lic In an anprecented third
roand of voting. None of the
three candidates left in the con
test got anywhere enough votes
for election.
Premier Joseph Laniel
wealthy industrialist, wound up
with 353, Socialist candidate
Marcel-Edmond Naegelen 313
and Radical Socialist Yvon Del-
bos 223. Foreign Minister
Georges Bldault withdrew Jusl
before the third round of vot
lng began.
The Joint session of Parlia
ment cast 28 votes for a varied
assortment ot men who were
not officially candidates. Thui
the number of votes needed tor
election was 462. -Fourth
Ballot Necessary
A fourtn ballot is now re
quired to try to break the dead
lock. ,
Naegelen led with 2S9 ot the
923 votes cast by members ol
the National Assembly and
Senate in the second ballot
Thursday night Laniel had 276,
Delbos 183 and Bidault, ot the
Catholic-dominated P o p u 1 a I
Republican Movement 143.
(Cn tinned en Pas a, Column 4)
30,000 Votes
Washington 0MB The Sen
ate Elections Subcommittee
voted on straight party lines
today to . recommend that
30,000 votes east in last No
vember's New Mexico U. 8.
senatorial election be thrown
out ror violation of secrecy
laws.
Chairman Frank A, Barrett
(R., Wyo.) told reporters the
30,000 votes included a "ma
jority" ot 10,000 for Sen. Den
nis Chaves (D., N. M.) who
defeated Republican Patrick J.
Hurley by 5071 votes.
Barrett said the 30.P00 bal
lots came from about one-half
of the total vote cast in the
election. He said the subcom
mittee staff had been directed
to investigate the remaining
votes to see if others should
be disqualified.
Barrett said the action, as
it stands, would change the
outcome of the election. But
he said half of the votes re
main to be canvassed on the
ballot secrecy question and
that other alleged irregulari
ties remain to be investigated.
Franklin Antiques I
Damaged by Fire
Portland (U.B A collection of
Benjamin Franklin antiques
was heavily damaged today in
a downtown Portland fire.
Firemen estimated the loss
at about $55,000 at th BenJ.
Franklin Federal Savings &
Loan association, with about
$20,000 damage to the build,
ing and $30,000 to its contents
because of the display of an
tiques. Capt. Henry Burns blamed
the flames on smoker's careless-
ness.
McKay Not Decided on
Successor to Raver
Washington () . An inter-
lor department spokesman said
Friday Secretary McKay "has
in mind a possible successor,
though the field might not
have been narrowed to one
man,": if Dr. Paul J. Raver re
signs next week as Bonneville
Power administrator.
Raver has been nominated
by the mayor of Seattle to be
superintendent ot the city's
municipal light system. This
Job would pay $13,000 a year
compared to the $14,800 he
now gets. Raver said he win
accept the appointment if the
city council votes him the Job
tor a tour-year term.
The council is expected to
act Monday, Pacific northwest
newspapers (ay it will eon-
firm Raver's appointment
The Seattle city council
members gav preliminary ap
PWsMayGet
Last Chance to
Change Minds
Panmunjom () Th toe
neutral officer in Korea indi
cated today that reluctant war
prisoners including the 22
Americans may get on last
chance to change their mind
after th explanation period
ends.
Meanwhile, hones dwindled
that Allied persuasion teami
will meet the Americans before
th deadline next Wednesday
midnight
The Neutral Nations Repa
triation' Commission put off
until Monday consideration oi
demands by pro-Communist
South Korean prisoners which
the Americans and one British
prisoner say must be met be
fore they will' attend inter
views. Lt Gen. K. 8. Thlmayya. In
dian chairman of the repatria
tion commission, said in answer
to written questions from news
men that he might "take up at
a later date" the possibility ol
screening all prisoners who
have refused to return to their
homelands.
Dean Prepares
Report on Korea
Washington W Special
Ambassador Arthur H. Dean,
evpresslng a personal view
that Korea will have peace,
i-d!ed sn official report Fri
day on his so-far fruitless ne
gotiations for a Korean peace
conference.
Dean came back from Pan
munjom Thursday night He
had walked out ot th confer
ence, called to set Ume.and
plac for peace pact meeting,
after protesting communist
charges that th United States
was guilty of "perfidy."
Alighting hatless and with
out an overcoat at the icy,
windswept airport, Dean told
newsmen:
"Based upon what I observ
ed and as a personal opinion.
am quite sure hostilities
won't be renewed."
He declined to go into de
tails prior to his report to Pres
ident Elsenhower and Secre
tary of State Dulles. ,
2 Families Wiped
Out in B-29 Crash
Washington (UJ9 The Air
Force today announced deaths
of a father and daughter injur
ed when a B29 bomber crashed
into their home in Guam.
The Air Force Identified
tnem as Mai. Gerald A. Orken.
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Or.
ken of Chattanooga, Tenn., and
nis aaugnter, Vivian.
Orken's wife and son. Steven
died instantly when the crip-
pira piane nit tneir Dome.
The Orkens were the second
family wiped out in the crash.
Also killed was Lt Col. Ben
jamin L. Mills, hut wife and
three daughters.
Weather Details
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Sir. 44. TU1 tl-k (mlnutta: Ml
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proval to the Raver appoint
ment Thursday as they all set
m on a committee session.
However, they will not take
the formal vote until Monday.
The interior spokesman told
reporters McKay has In mind
someone to succeed Raver "If,
no wnen ne resigns, but add
ed does not mean the decis
ion has been narrowed to one
man. He declined to name any
names.
Speculation In th Pacific
northwest has centered on Dr.
William A. Pearl, professor at
Washington Stat college
Odell H. Johnson, Seattle at
torney; Clif ErdahL Tacoma
power executive, and Orren
Brownson, chief of general
services lor Bonneville.
McKay Is on his way to Or,
egon by train for th Christ
mas holidays.
FINAL
EDITION
Hammer Out
Program for
Next Session
Washington W) President
Eisenhower sad repablieaa
leaders ot congress tamed t
taxes, th national debt timtt,
atomic energy and foreign at
tain Friday in second reoad
ef Whit Hons conferences to
hammer out a new leglslativ
program. .,
Social security and aid to the
phaically handicapped, as well
a continuing discussion ot
national health problems, also
were on th agenda with Sec
retary of Health, Education
and Welfare Hobby presenting
her views at the morning's ses
sion. Eisenhower and key staff
members met with GOP con
gressional leaders and a suc
cession of cabinet members for
th second straight day, con
tinuing the process of deciding
what recommendation the ad-'
ministration will make to con
gress when it reconvenes early
next month. ......
Ik Issues Statement
At 9:30 cm. ST, an hour
after th. session began, Eisen
hower issued a statement tell- -
ing what was under discussion.
He .said Secretary of th
Treasury Humphrey would dis
cuss "taxes and the debt limit"
(ConUnaed a Pag 8, Cebsna 8)
Flexible Farm
Supports OX'd
Chicago V The American
Farm. Bureau Federation bat
endorsed flexjbla " farm prlo
supports after 1934, bat with
proviso that 90 per tnt prlc
floors can. b invoked for any
basio crop under certain con-
dltions.
Th federation, which ended
its 33th annual convention
Thursday, re-elected Allan B.
Kline, an Iowa farmer, to his
fourth term as president .
In the convention's final day.
delegates defeated a flat pro
posal that the federation seek
continuation of mandatory high
level price supports for major
crops through the 1956 crop
year.
The convention then fol
lowed president Kline's leader
ship in advocating flexible
price supports, which could be
increased in times of . crop
shortages and lowered in times
of surpluses to discourage
over-planting. . However, tho
convention made this sugges
tion:
That the 1949 farm act spec
ifying flexible supports, which
Congress has decided shall not '
become effective until 1955, be
amended to guarantee produc
ers of a basic crop 90 per cent
of parity Instead ot the flexible
floor during the first year they
vote production controls after
a non-control year.
AP Newsman
Rhee Adviser
Dallas, Tex. W O. H. P.
King, member of The Associat
ed Press staff who saw the
art ot Uie Korean War in
1950, leaves for Seoul Friday
to become a consultant and ad
viser to President Syngman
Rhee.
King resigned from The As
sociated Press to accept the
Korean government appoint
ment With Mrs. King, he will
fly from Seattle on Dec. 27.
The Kings were In Seoul
when the Communists launch
ed their Invasion in June, 1950.
Mrs. King was evacuated. King
remained to help cover the war
and the Panmunjom peace
talks. Vpon his return to the
United States 18 months ago
he Joined the Dallas AP bu
reau. Last month at Washington,
King was decorated by the Ko
rean ambassador, You Chan
Yang, with the Republic ot
Korea medal in recognition ot
his work in Korea.
King Joined the Associated
Press at San Francisco In 1949
and worked at Seattle before
going to Tokyo in 1949 ai'J
later to Korea.
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