4v
1 ill
1
THE WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY tonight and
Tuesday. Little chant In tem
perature. Low tonight, 15; hl(h
Tuesday, 41.
re Menaces
Wrvalory
l tit. Wilson
136 Cabins Destroyed
Forcing 2000 to
Flee Flames
L Angeles W Wlndwhlp-
jfUn.ts r- Tin out ol con
j trickled less than a mile
a iirotil Mt Wilson obser-
Monday after presnm
I, destroying 136 cabins and
tM more than 2,000 per-
Irom incir BBim.
ir large-scale evacuation!
, from residences in half a
tn communities along the
;nills 01 me loresuea Dan
jnel mountains some 12
:a east of here.
Menaced alon with the in-
Lable observatory is the four
lion dollar television trans
fer area wnicn adjoins it.
but one of the Los Angeles
I) ttlcvision transmitters are
uted atop s,87-ioot Mt. Wil-
Lod Fire Raging
tbout 20 miles to the east
uih?r fores fire burned out
control. It also is In the San
,-riel mountains and has
Ltd evacuation of 300 per-
the late season fires have
iiimed a total of more than
000 acres of timber and
pa,
rntinaed on race 3. Column 0)
5 Rescued in
olyoke Fire
Holyoke. Mass., VP) A pre-
Bnre raged through a
of apartments and stores
ay endangering the lives
7S persons Including many
(men and children before it
i brought under control.
Four hours after the flames
Isted through the four-story
Noctures four connecting
tidings forming a city block,
High Street all the occu-
aiti were accounted for.
Aproximately 35 were car-
led down laddars. Thirty were
ken to Providence hospital
tUtring from varying stages
moke inhalation. Doctors
lid none was burned seriously.
Police called the operators
ill businesses near the scene
toe lire to help wet down
bir respective locations to
tip prevent the spread of the
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Win Bi-partisan
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!lip Splits Apart
143 Rescued
Sew York, VP) Forty-three
ersons, forced to lifeboats
hen their ship split apart iu
lie storm-tossed Atlantic,
fere aboard two rescue vei-
'li Monday.
But raging winds still whip-
Ei the sea into such fury that
! of the rescue ships was
ible to proceed.
I Crewmen of the wrecked
Ktdish freighter Oklahoma,
fi drifted for hours in life
pti on the icy, rolling sea
pre being picked np Sun-
The freighter, split in two
puedgehamer ocean waves,
fa believed to have gone to
ft bottom. But the search for
' wreckage continued.
He dramatic rescue opera-
N hampered by a heavy
P. Werp rnmnletliH hv the
'S. Militarv Sea TransDOrt
p Bluejacket and the Fln
P freighter Orion.
Holiday Death
Toll Totals 712
(By Thi AuocUted Preu)
The nation counted a toll of
712 accident deaths during its
1853 Christmas holiday week
end.
The final tabulation Monday
listed 520 traffic victims, 81
who died in fires, and 111 vic
tims of all other types of fatal
accidents.
Lives lost on the streets and
highways exceeded a pre
holiday estimate by the Nation
al Safety Council. The council
had calculated that 510 fatall
ties would occur during the 78.
hour period between 6 a.m.
local time Thursday and mid'
night Sunday.
This year's traffic toll fell
short of the 1950 record of 545
for a three-day Christmas pe
riod. The greatest Christmas
traffic death total ever record
ed was 556 during 1952's four
day holiday. Nevertheless, it
meant one death every nine
minutes during the holiday this
year.
The rate of deaths In traffic
during the Christmas weekend
was more than 50 per cent
greater than the average daily
toll of 102 for the first 11
months of the year.
Idaho Slots on
Way to Nevada
Boise, Idaho W) With only
four days of legal life left in
the state, more than 700 of Id
aho's 3,600 slot machines were
reported Monday en route to
Nevada, their last refuge in
this country.
The State Supreme Court has
ruled the slots illegal and they
have been ordered out as ol
midnight, Dec. 31. Some coun
ties which clamped on an im
mediate ban were caught up in
legal controversies.
Operators in Bannock and
Bonneville counties got court
injunctions to prolong the we
of the slots until Dec. 31. Two
deputy sheriffs who raided a
slot club in Bannock county
were arrested. They said they
staged the raid before a copy
of the court order was received.
These American soldiers in Korea clasp hands in antici
pation of possible soon returning to homes and families
after receiving news of President Eisenhower's announce
ment that two U.S. divisions will be withdrawn from
Korea. Left to right: Pfc Joseph Jech of Cleveland, Ohio;
Pvt. Murlyn Blue of Des Moines. Iowa; Pvt. Cameron
Breitung of Pepin, Wise; Pvt. Thomas J. Guthier of
Troy, N.Y., and Pfc. George Paich of Trafford, Pa., from
the 2nd and 25th Divisions. (AP Wirephoto via radio from
Tokyo)
GIs Cheer Withdrawals
But Koreans Gloomy
Seoul (F) South Korea's
President and foreign minister
conferred privately Monday on
U.S. plans to pull two divisions
out of Korea, an authoritative
source said.
Foreign Minister Pyun Yung
Tai flew to Chinhae where Pre
sident Syngman Rhee is vaca
tioning after voicing South Ko
artly Cloudy Skies
edicted for Valley
Considerable t n Sunday
rj u8ht rain during the night
"riy morning featured
"Hey weather to start the
' Week. Snma rnintv winds
Fjnipanied the rain.
"uuook for over tonight and
P! the rains abating for a
"t mow m rcnnrtMi for
h TnmtnialM ArtlMna All
f i new snow was record'
f Timberiine lodge.
QC blffhurnw MmmlHlMi M.
f U roads in good shape
t ate, although icy spots
P listed for some of the pass
L , Eastern Oregon report-
L.T. temperatures. Baker
' rcro.
PON'S FATBt-n
fSn
lL-n'x. Ariz. MV-Frank A.
C- uther of the vlce-pres-
kau. ,? 'onger is listed as
? ill at St. Joteoh'f
Augusta, Ga. (AW President
Eisenhower, seeking a bi-pir
tisan unity on foreign affairs
and national defense, will give
n.mn.Mll, MHMHI...I 1
ers a preview of his State of,g0.hmj.
With 22,000
Korean PWs
Panmunjom W A three
member majority of the Neu
tral Nations Repatriation Com
mission today turned back to
the U.N. and Communist com
mands the question of what to
do with more than 22.000 war
prisoners who have refused to
QUAKE SHAKES GREECE
Athens WV-An earthquake
shook Western Greece eariy
Monday. The island of Kep
hallenia Cephalonia, off west
ern Greece which was devas
tated by an earthquake in Au
gust, reported 10 violnt tre
mors.
Liquor Agents to
Be Disciplined
Portland W) Thomas J.
Sheridan, assistant administra
tor of the Oregon Liquor Con
trol commission, said Monday
disciplinary action will be tak
en against two investigators in
volved in a fight in a Roseburg
night spot earlier this month,
The investigators, William
Holier, Jr., and Dean O. Mor
ris, both 26 and of Portland,
did not appear for trial sched
uled at Roseburg last week and
Monday on charges of drunk
enness, disorderly conduct and
resisting arrest. Each forfeited
$100 bail.
Sheridan said he and the at
torney for the men told Rose
burg officials at a conference
last Monday that the men
would not fight the charges
and would forfeit bail.
It has not yet been de
termined what disciplinary ac
tion will be taken, Sheridan
said. The men were suspended
after the fight earlier this
month.
Douks Threatening
Dr. Emmet Gulley
Nelson. B.C. U.R) Emmi.'tt
r.ullev. former president of
George Fox college at New
berg. Ore., has been the latest
to feel the wrath of the Douk
hobor religious sect in British
Columbia, Nelson police said
today.
Officers said gasoline was
spread on Gulley's home but
that the arsonists fled before
igniting it. Two Doukhobor
suspects were arrested
rea s displeasure over the pro
posed troop withdrawal.
President Eisenhower's Sat
urday announcement brought
cheers from most American
soldiers here, and there were
enthusiastic speculations as to
which divisions would leave
Korea.
But Gen. Maxwell D. Tay
los, 8th , Army . commander,
stressed that "it can be safely
assumed that the departure of
these divisions will not take
place immediately."
Taylor also warned that sol
diers with considerable time
left to serve in Korea will be
transferred to other units. Their
places will be filled by men
whose tours of duty are virtu
ally complete.
The armed forces radio ser
vice Monday broadcast hourly
(Continued on Pate S, Column 8)
Party Leaders
Reach Capital
Washington (IP) The Repub
lican and Democratic party
leaders of the Senate arrive in
Washington today for confer
ences that may largely decide
whether controversy or coop
eration predominates in the
1954 congressional session.
Aides said Senate Majority
Leader Knowland (R., Calif.)
and Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas, the Democratic leader,
will hold conferences in ad
vance of the congressional
meeting date, Jan. 6.
It is an election year ses
sion. Voting in November on
all 435 House seats and 35 of
the 96 senatorships will deter
mine party control of Congress,
Tension therefore is bound to
be greater than in 1953, when
Knowland and Johnson worked
Dewey Probes
Dock Election
New York, VP) State au
thorities, on orders from Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, Monday be
gan a round of conferences to
explore whether fraud and
force influenced last week's
waterfront election between
two unions.
Members of the State Media
tion Board went into session
first with officials of the old
International Longshoremen's
Association, ousted from the
AFL on grounds it was gangster-ruled.
The state officials, includ
ing Board Chairman Merlyn
S. Pitzele and Mediator Jay
Kramer, were to meet later
today with representatives of
the. new AFL-ILA, foe of the
old ILA in the recent election
A third meeting will be
with the New York Shipping
Association, representing ship
ping and stevedoring firms.
Police Commissioner George
P. Monaghan called a meet
ing of "those of my chiefs
familiar with the waterfront'
to plan action on Dewey's order."
the Union message Jan. 5.
Announcing this Monday at
Eisenhower's vacation head
quarters here, Presidential
Press Secretary James C. Ha
gerty said leading Republican
legislators also will sit in at
the Washington conference
then two days before Eisen
hower delivers the message to
Congress in person.
Eisenhower is working here
on that message and two oth
ers which will go to the capi
tol early next month. He also
is drafting a Jan. 4 television
and radio address on the ad
ministration's first year in of
fice. Consults Democrats
Earlier this month the Pres
ident conferred for three days
at the White House with Re
publican leaders. They held
preliminary discussions on the
administrations 1954 legisla
tive program.
At that time, some Demo
crats in Congress complained
that Eisenhower was seeking
cooperation of the Democrats
in putting through his program
but apparently was unwilling
to take them into his confi
dence in advance.
(Continued on Pare s, Column I)
An Indian command spokes
man said that if the two com
mands reach no agreement by
Jan. 23 "we do not appear to
Successor to
Dr. Paul Raver
By JAMES D. OLSON
Dr. Wlllara A. Pearl, director
of the Institute of Technology
at Washington State college,
Monday waa appointed Bonne
ville Power administrator by
Secretary of the Interior Doug
las McKay.
Dr. Pearl will succeed Dr.
Paul J. Raver, who resigned to
Ex-Spy Says Hundreds
Of Red Agents in U.5.
embassy at Ottawa. He smug
gled out documents which led
to the cracking of an atomic
espionage ring.
Since that time, he and his
wife and two children have
...... . . w,n iivins quicuj ii
A"?rrrv with T he ada, "umed name'
copyrighted interview with the government protec.
magazine
Washington W Igor Gou
zenko, whose testimony crack
ed a Soviet spy ring in Can
ada says he thinks there may
be hundreds of Red agents op
erating in the umwa
Mother Sees
2-Headed Baby
Indianapolis VP) Mrs. Mar
garet Hartley took her first
look at her two-headed baby
Sunday and decided to
take him home when he can
be released from Riley hos
pital. The 27-year-old mother and
her husband, Cecil, 44, have
three daughters, all normal, in
their small home on a back
road near Petersburg, Ind.
They range In age from 2 to 5.
The Hartleys came to In
dianapolis to see the baby and
were admitted to his room
alone. They showed no emo
tion when they came out in
a short time. The baby's con
dition remains satisfactory.
The hospital indicated the
baby, born by caesarcan sec
tion December 13 at Washing
ton, Ind., may be released
ffnnn F v o rr Inol innc hatA KWm
'on' i periodic oxygen treatments
have been given because blood
circulation hasn't been normal
on the left side.
Each of the baby's heads is
set squarely on a pair of
shoulders, set at the normal
shoulder position on each side
of the single body. The baby
has four arms.
Claims Kremlin
On Defensive
Washington VP) Secretary
of State Dulles says the f r e e
world has put the rulers of Rus
sia "on a diplomatic defen
sive" and that "we are ready
to talk to the Soviet leaders
about any concrete points of
difference, wherever they may
exist."
In his report on the State De
partment, Dulles said, "our pol
icies are proving successful,"
He wrote:
"We have, you might say.
chased Soviet Russia across the
map of Europe and of Asia in
our efforts to get its rulers to
negotiate. Now it is beginning
to look as if we have caught
them."
Seattle Light department. Dr.
Pearl will take over the admin
istrator's office on January
IS, Secretary McKay said.
The new Bonneville admin
istrator has a long background
of mechanical engineering and
research experience, being a
registered engineer in Oregon
and Illinois. He owns a farm
in Oregon. Dr. Pearl ii grad
uate of Washington State col
lege and for one year he served
as acting president of the col
lege.
Noted Engineer
For ten years Dr. Pearl was
with the Whiting Corporation
of Chicago. He started there as
chief engineer in the Stoker
division of the company and
went on to become vice pres
ident in charge of manufac
turing. He returned to Wash
ington State college in 1946.
Simultaneously with the
Whiting service he was on the
staff of the Illinois Institute of
Technology as professor of
mechanical engineering and
director of the engineering
shop laboratories. He also waa
in charge of major projects at
the Armour Research Founda
tion.
(Continued on Fate 5, Column 1)
French Postal
Strikes Spread
technicians
up French
Paris J. A
strike which tied
aviation for a week ended to
day, but a communist led
postal workers strike thraten
ed to spread.
Control tower radio and ra
dar technicians were ordered
back to work after the Air
Navigation Union and Action
committee announced that
agreement had been reached
with the Ministry of Aviation
on wage demands.
The aviation strike
Koreans Told
Aid Continues
Taipeh, Formosa, VP) Adm
Arthur Radford, chairman of
the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff,
today assured Nationalist
China that American aid "will
be continued as presently
planned.
Radford and Asst. U. S. Sec
retary of State Walter Rob
ertson wound up conferences
with top Nationalist lenders
and left for Manila to attend
the inauguration Wednesday
of President elect Ramon
Magsaysay.
Government sources said
the statements by Radford and
Robertson tended to allay
fears that American aid to
Nationalist China would be cut
drastically.
Apartment Fire
Out in Portland
Portland. OJ" Fourteen
pieces of fire equipment and
the Jay W. Stevens disaster
car sped to an apartment
house fire in Portland's east
side early today None of the
caused occupants of the building was
U.S. News ana j ana
snnrt maae pubuci i
Monday, that the government
"make it worth while for some
of them to quit and come out
with their documents.
That Is what Goutenko him
self did in 1945. He was then
a code clerk in the Russian
The senste internal security
subcommittee is now arrang
ing to interview Gouzenko in
secret, in a search for leads in
its search for subversion in
the U.S. government
fContlnetd on Pago (, Colasan ll
heavy financial losses to
French and foreign air compa
nies, and all rushed to restore
cancelled flights and get serv
ice back to normal.
A walkout of postal sorters
which has piled up mountains
of mail at distribution points
since December 22 threatened
to spread to prevously unaf
fected local post offices.
injured
Firemen fought the stub
born blaze for 30 minutes.
They estimated damage to the
two-story structure and its
contents at $15,000. Six per
sons fled the building in their
night clothes after rooms were
filled with thick, pungent
smoke that hampered fire
fighter's effort.
have any legal right to hold come Tu"?rintendf nt '
them the prisoners."
The majority report was
signed by the Indian chairman
and by Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Switzerland and Sweden fil
ed a minority report saying it
was "appropriate" to refer the
prisoner problem back to the
two commands. But the Swiss
and Swedes said they could see
no reason for a formal report
at this time. They refused to
sign the 44-page majority docu
ment wnicn also charged South
Korean Interference in anti
Communist compounds and cri
ticized the U.N. Command.
Indian Reds for
Peaceful Policy
Madura, India VP) India's
communist high command told
the first party congress in five
years yesterday that it must
Keep trying to win power
peacefully at the polls, rather
than through the terrorist tac
tics used until two years ago.
The Moscow-backed policy
directive was put forward by
the convention's steering com
I mittee headed by the party sec-
i retary general, Ajoy K. Ghosh.
Ghosh arrived in Bombay less
than three weeks ago after a
six-month visit to the Soviet
capital for medical treatment
This peaceful action program
continues a policy adopted in
October, 1951. The committee
said "experience has proved its
correctness."
The program rejects terror
ism which ousted Secretary
General B. T. Ranadive had ad
vocated as unsuited to India's
Gandhian tradition of non-violence.
The party committee
called for a "broad based unit
ed front able to establish a
government of democratic un
ity."
Uses Spoon to
Dig Out of Jail
Eugene, Wl The first es
cape from the 26-month-old
city jail here occurred early
Monday morning.
George Fenton Townsend,
18, awaiting trial on a burglary
charge, broke out of the maxi
mum security cellblock. He
dug a hole with a spoon and
an iron rod in the floor so
he could reach out and open
his cell.
Then he got out of the cell-
block by hacking a hole in
walls, riping loose a ventila
tion pipe and climbing to the
second floor from where he
walked out.
The youth's freedom was
short-lived. A city patrol
man captured him an hour
later after stopping him on a
routine check.
New Report on ,
Snake Dam Site i
Washington (IP) An army
engineers' report on recent I
surveys of potential dam sites
on the Snake r.vcr and its '
tributaries, including contro
versial Hells Canyon, is ex
pected next month.
Sen. Dworshak (R Idaho) .
said Saturday the Corps of
Engineers will send the report
to congress in January.
He told a reporter:
"For the first time, as a re
sult of these investigations of
additional .-"'3, it will be pos
sible for congress to have a
basis for comparison and to
determine which constitute
the next possible sites for de
velopment of the upper water
shed of the Columbia river
basin.
"It would be imprudent and
contrary to public interest to
concentrate on one site without
giving consideration to the po
tentialities of all possible sites
for multiple purposcp rejects."
French Air force Bombs
Red Invaders of Laos
Saigon, Indochina VP)
French fighters and bombers
plastered the Communist-led
invaders of Laos Monday and
French ground defenders of
the little Indochinese kingdom
155 Death Toll
In New Zealand
Auckland, New Zealand VP:
Authorities reported Monday
that 11 persons previously un
accounted for after New Zea
land's tragic Christmas eve
railroad wreck have been found
safe. The announcement trim
med the possible death toll to
153.
Officials previously had list
ed the probable toll as 166. The
revised figures on the disaster
now stand at:
Persons on the train 278.
Known survivor 123.
Bodies recovered 114.
Missing 41.
The announcement came as
New Zealand scientists said
measuring instruments being
erected on the summits of vol
canic peaks here may warn to
future disturbances like the one
believed to have- caused the
had lost two companies of their
own and North African troops'
iu the Victminh attack. The
scouting units reported, how
ever, they were rounding up wr(,t
soldiers of former garrisons in, Th ir.m ih w.iiinatnn.
hastily strengthened key bases, the area who had fled into thc Auckland Night express crash
The French were reported Jungle at the Vietminh ad-f1 ,fter , Ilood which swept
concentrating south of Viet- vance. .down a gorge from a crater
The Vietminh radio, mean- i,KP a(op 9,125-fnot Mt. Rua
while, claimed that the "great-j v... whed out a railway
of the Laotian troops DndKc.
minh-hcld Thakhek, on the
Thailand border. French recon
naissance units moving north
from their base at Seno report
ed they had been unable to
make contact with the rebel
forces who lunged across Laos
last week, cutting Indochina In
two for the first time in the
seven-year-old war
The French announced they
er part'
under French command had
deserted and joined the Red
force.
The radio claimed also that
the 100-mile invasion had been
carried out by the "Laotian na
tional liberation troops," but
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