THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY with ion
occasional light rata tonight,
Friday. Little cbanct in tern
perature. Low tonight, 15; hifh
Friday, 45.
Capital JLJournal
JAN A
HO
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I $50
lew Year Eve
elebrations
o Top Record
Gayest and Biggest
Since End of World
War Planned
iBr TM AuoeUUd rrtui
ravest and biggest New
aft Eve celebrations since
Lend ol World War II were
luosnect in many of the
Lit cities of the world to'
Sot sparked by the hope
t perhaps peace will have
better chance In ISM.
'in Moscow, the sales of
lampagnc tripled in compar
,n to last year's holiday per
i. And from New York to
in Francisco, theaters and
iht clubs expected the great
i crowds of the postwar
an-
Along with the hoop-la,
my planned to gather in
urches for watch night serv-
a bidding farewell to the
i year and praying for the
ce, health and prosperity
at 1353 did not assure,
jghway Fatalities' Loom
And as America planned to
forth for its usual jolli
ut, the National Safety
iiincil broadcast its usual
nlinued i Pare S, Column S
ob Texas Bank
,000
Houston, Tex. W A slick
biman robbed the Houston
liional Bank of an estimated
11,000 Thursday and slipped
ay in a payday crowd.
it struck at 9:20 a.m. just
er the big downtown bank
i opened for business. A few
nutes earlier a large sum of
a had been delivered to the
ik. It's payday for thou
ids in Texas' largest city,
i the bank apparently had
ipared for heavy business be
ise of the long New Year's
ekend.
It was a smooth Jdb. Ho
ly saw the robber enter the
Ming, and nobody saw him
ve.
iank officials did not know
he got into the downstairs
ill room where he held a
ion Donny N. Allen, 19, and
prtd him to put stacks of
faei in a leather briefcase.
Tie money was mostly in 20,
mi 5-dollar bills.
The robber, about 28 and
vi, melted into the crowd
Itaout arousing suspicion.
California Fire
Inder Control
Us Angeles (VP) Firefight-
i were winning their battle
ursday against two forest
Ws which have caused six
n one-half million dollars
Image to the watershed in the
In Gabriel courrtains.
Observatory and television
t foliations atop Mt. Wilson,
eatened several times since
t broke out Sunday on Mon-
Peak, appear ,-d to be
h rangers said.
Pichard Johnson, U. S. For
f Service fire prevention of-
Ff. said crews hope to have
1 Naze under control Friday,
Mn the wind raises.
He also said the second fire,
ailes east in the Mt. Baldy
s, might be controlled
;rsday under the same con
'mt. The TV eauipment
I'Pllt. Wilson, valued at four
fion dollars, is vital to re-
won in Southern California,
lh Ywr, No. 311 jg.-ua-a Salem, Ofejor, Thirafay, Decembe. 31, 1953 14 Pages
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EDITION
Group io Draft
2 Measures
Flemming of Defense
Mobilization to Work
On State of Union
Augusta. Ga. (Pi pm..
Eisenhower Thursday enlarged
the group of top administration
officials who will work here
on his State of the Union mes
sage to include Dr. Arthur S.
Flemming, chief of the Office
of Defense Mobilisation.
It was Flemming's agency
which put into effect the con
troversial policy of channeling
more defense contracts into
areas of unemployment. The
controversy flared after Eisen
hower personally endorsed the
policy Tuesday.
Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty told news
men, however, that Flemming's
visit here has nothing to do
with that program.
To Arrive Tonight
"He is coming to work on the
State of the Union Message and
nothing else," Hagerty said.
Flemming was scheduled to
arrive from Washington late in
the day along with other mem
bers of a team of key Eisenhow
er advisers.
Eisenhower will deliver the
State of the Union message to
Congress in person Thursday.
He worked for 254 hours
Thursday morning on a pre
liminary draft of the document,
then went out for a round of
golf at the Augusta National
Club.
(Continued on ran 3, Column 6)
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Indians Reopen Screening
Without Notice to Allies
135 Anti-Red
Jobless Center
Portland VP) An AFL offi
cial urged the federal govern
ment Wednesday to list Port
land as an area where unem
ployment is serious.
In. a telegram to the secre
tary of labor, James T. Marr,
executive secretary of the
State Federation of Labor, said
unemployment was the worst
since the period before World
War II.
The government has an
nounced it will place more de
tense contracts in areas where
unemployment is a serious
problem.
Marr said 9.3 per cent of the
labor force in Oregon was job
less, compared with a national
average of 3.2 per cent. He
listed more than 8,000 unem
ployed in Portland craft unions
and said that in addition there
was little construction work.
Sub-Zero Cold
In Middle West
(By The Auoclated Preul
The northern midwest shiv
ever again Thursday in sub
zero cold and some blowing
snow.
The rest of, the north cen
tral region also was on the chil
ly side and light snow fell
along the northern tier of
states from Minnesota to New
England.
It looked like a cold New
Year's Eve in most of the mid
west with another batch of
cold air headed into the region
on New Year's Day.
Coldest reading early Thurs
day was 21 degrees below zero
in International Falls, Minn.,
on the Canadian border. It was
-13 at Duluth, Minn., and
Grantsburg, Wis. Blowing
snow, with winds up to 35
miles an hour, hit sections of
northern and lower Michigan.
Florida reported the warm
est readings, topped by Mi
ami's 67 degrees.
Clear skies prevailed over
the central and southern plains
and from the central Rockies to
the Pacific coast.
New Law Hits
Glass on Autos
Windows and windshields
of motor vehicles must meet
standards established by a law
which goes into effect Friday,
Secretary of State Earl r.
Newbry said Thursday.
The new law covers safety
factors of glass used in win
dows and windshields, and
Newbry has prepared a list of
such materials which are approved.
Newbry said that almost all
new cars meet the standards.
Beginning Friday, it will be
These Maori, natives of New Zealand, are not being
disrespectful, but are merely giving Queen Elizabeth II
heir traditional greeting at the Auckland town hall re
cently. The British Queen is making a tour of her em
pire. (AP Wirephoto)
Petitions to Ask for
Vote on Street Grid
Initiative petitions to put
the one-way street grid ques
tion before the people will be
prepared for circulation.
This was announced Thurs
day afternoon by A. R. Mef
ford, one of the leaders in the
Meany Raps
Security Plan
Washington, W) The Curtis
plan for overhauling the en
tire social security system has
come under heavy attack from
AFL President George Meany,
who calls it a "morally dis
honest proposal."
Rep. Carl T. Curtis (R.,
Neb.), author of the plan re
torted that Meany Wednesday
"made a vicious attack on mil
lions of fine deserving old peo
ple." Curtis' plan, unveiled Tues
day, calls for extension of
benefits to all retired persons
over 63 and tax contributions
from all workers under 65. It
also would boost present bene
fits. ,
The Nebraskan estimated
that more than six million aged
Americans, children and
widows or orphans not now
covered would be brought un
der the Old Age Retirement
and Survivors' Insurance sys
tem. This would just about
double the number now on
rnll
against the law to replace ,
windows or windsnieius wun winusuks lmh
nv material not on the ap-: CherbouRh. France, im
proved list. 1 The Duke and Duchess of
The law applies to new cars i Windsor icii ior uie
hut tint fn . niaiPS inuiauaj awsiu "-
feezing Weather
onfinues Nights
Minimum temnerature for
-wi Thursday morning was
" freezing mark, 32 de
. nd only a slightly high
er due tonight
forecast still calls for
r' occasional lluhl rain, to-
PU and Friday.
daily highway report
r Mads remained in sood
"j throughout Oregon.
" new snow was listed for
W regions this morning,
highway rennrt states
! Place motorists need
" on the road from Gov
't Camp to Timberline
OOme irv nv,t. m Mat.
"t other past regions.
Weather Details
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' Mi asrmtl. ar.
"Mi n.rm.l. is.17. aittr
-J4'"'- aMcl V. S. WmUmi
sold in the state,
used car sales.
British liner Queen Mary.
Coon Hits Waste by
State Bureau Abroad
Judge Clark
In Angry Blast
Paris W) William Clark,
ousted chief Justice of U.S.
courts in Germany, left for
home Thursday, He accused
American officials in Ger
many, who changed the com
bination of the safe in his
Frankfurt office, of "Gestapo
methods."
Clark's latest angry blast
was in a telegram to U.S. High
Commissioner James B. Con
ant at Bonn. The judge dis
patched it just before board
ing a train for Cherbourg to
catch the British liner Queen
Mary for New York. The
wire said:
"Understand m y personal
and office files were tampered
with by your office. Shocked
at use of such Gestapo meth
ods."
In Bonn, a U.S. high com
mission spokesman said con
sulate authorities in Frankfurt
changed the combination of
the safe in Clark's office to
protect classified material.
The spokesman denied Clark's
telgrapehic charg his papers
had been tampered with.
Plan Alaskan
Newsprint Mill
Juneau, Alaska Wl The
Georgia Pacific Plywood Co.
has made written application
to the U. S. Forest Service reg
ional office here for national
forest timber for a newsprint
plant in the Juneau area.
Regional Forester A. W.
Greeley described the applica
tion as bringing a step closer a
long hoped for industrial tim
ber development in this part of
Alaska. He said the firm ex
pressed a belief that the area
is suitable for a newsprint mill
and expressed the intention of
launching on such a future
project.
move to uproot the grid sys
tem, and was the latest devel
opment in Salem's battle of
the grid.
Whether the initiative peti
tions are actually used after
they are prepared, Mefford
said, depends on whether the
City Council decides to act on
the informal petitions that are
being signed this week.
Mefford explaned that, con
trary to reports, the informal
petitions are not being with
drawn. They are for the pur
pose of sounding sentiment
and may be signed by anyone
inside or outside the city, and
will be filed with the City
Councl,
Initiative petitions for
ballot measure, which would
probably go to the May ballot,
would have to be signed by
over 2300 legal voters inside
the city to put the measure be
fore the people.
(Continued on Page 5, Column 4)
Mexican Labor
Pact Extended
Washington (U.PJ The mi
grant labor agreement be
tween the United States and
Mexico, which was to expire
today, has been extended to
January 15, the state depart
ment announced.
Under the agreement, Mex
ican agricultural workers
were admitted to the Untied
States for employment as
farm laborers.
The extension was arranged
in an exchange of notes be
tween the Mxican embassy
here and the state department.
"In order to avoid any in
terruption in the cooperative
arrangements which have ex
isted between the two govern
ments on this subject, the
agreement has been extended
for a period of time sufficient
to permit conclusion of the
negotiations now under way,"
the state department said.
Soviet Camps
Hellholes Say
2 Americans
Berlin (HI Two Americans
released by the Russians -after
years of Imprisonment and
forced labor said Thursday
Soviet detention camps are
"hell holes" where murder and
violent death are common
place.
Leland Towers, 28. a mer
chant seaman from San Fran
cisco, told a news conference
he had been a card-carrying
communist "but never again."
Pvt. Homer Cox of Okla
homa City, Okla., said he was
blown off the aircraft carrier
Yorktown before the Japanese
sank her in 1942 "and that
was a picnic" compared to
the Russian work camps.
The two men were turned
over to the Americans in Ber
lin two days ago, as a result
of negotiations between the
state department and Moscow.
Refused a Visa
Towers said he had tried to
go to the Soviet Union to see
what the mainspring of com
munism was like and had been
refused a visa. Then, he ex
plained, he crossed into Russia
over the Finnish border in
1951 and was arrested, con
victed and sentenced to three
years "for breaking in."
(Continued on Pace ft. Column 6
1 1 Americans
In Red Prison
Berlin VP) A U.S. soldier
freed by the Russians after
more than four years of im
prisonment and forced labor
said Thursday at least 11
other Americans are being
held in Soviet work camps.
Pvt. Homer Cox, of Okla
homa City, Okla., made the
statement at news and televi
sion conferences two days
after Soviet officials turned
him and Leland Towers, a 28-year-old
merchant seaman
from San Francisco, over to
American authorities in Ber
lin. Cox identified the Ameri
cans he ran across in the So
viet camps as:
Bill Marchuk of Bracken
ridge, Pa., and Andrew Ver
dine. of Starks, La., both U.S.
soldiers once stationed in Ger
many. Jack Hural, son of a dental
technician in Beverly Hills,
California.
Six soldiers from the U.S.
occupation forces in Austria.
Gs Missing
In War Listed
Among Dead
Washintgon UJ9 Tie Armv
and Air Force today wrote
presumed dead" across the
names of some 3650 men miss
ing in action in Korea.
For the thousands of fami
lies who have clung to the last
thin shred of hope that their
long missing sons or husbands
might still be alive, it was a
heart-breaking New Year's
message. It raised the U. S.
death toll in the Korean War
to nearly 30,000.
Formal announcements that
the men have been declared
officially dead will be sent to
the next of kin by registered
mail early next week. The
services deliberately held up
mailing the notifications in
order not to break the sad news
during the holidays.
The Army declared about
3400 missing men dead and the
Air Force about 250. All of the
men have been missing in ac
tion for over a year and a dili
gent search has yielded no in
formation that would indicate
they still might be alive.
French Force
Reds to Retreat
Hanoi, Indochina (P) The
French Thursday reported
their first sizeable clash with
the communist-led Vietmlnh
at Dien Bicn Phu the last
major French position in
northwest Indochina and per
haps the first objective of the
winter rebel campaign.
The French said patrols
moving out from their heavily
fortified position on the plain
just north of Iaos fought for
more than an hour with rebel
units they encountered. The
French claimed 54 Victminh
dead and said their own losses
were light.
Mobile artillery and fighter
planes finally forced the Vict
minh to retreat, the French
said.
The Victminh Wednesday
were reported active close to
Dien Bicn Phu for the first
time since French paratroop
ers grabbed the post and its
airstrip five weeks ago. Since
then the French have poured
men and arms into it.
Knowland in
Clash With Ike
Ike Looking up
With Farmers
Chinese Decide
To Go Home
Fanmunjom. Korea 0J.F9 Th.
Indian Custodian command
suddenly reopened the prison
er repatriation program today
without notifying the U. N.
command and announced that
ia anti-Communist Chinese
had decided to go home.
South Korea denounced the
action and Foreign Minister
Pyun Yung Tae said his gov
ernment "will have to take an
appropriate measure to cope
with the situation." Any re
sponsibility for "untoward in
cidents" will lie with the In
dians, ne said.
Further Screenings
Without advance notice, the
Indians started "screenine"
4385 anti-Communist Chinese,
most of whom already had re
jected repatriation during the
penoa or interviews which end
ed Dec. 23.
An Indian spokesman said
further screenings will be held
starting Saturday or Sunday.
The spokesman said the
screening would be continued
until all 22,000 anti-Communist
Chinese and North Korean
POWs have been processed. He
said he "supposed" the same
opportunity would be given
each of the 22 American, one
British and 327 South Korean
prisoners in the Communist
camp.
(Concluded on Pan 5. Column 5)
in
Atomic Work
Richland, Wash. W) The
Atomic Energy commission
said Thursday some 32,600 con
tracts worth more than 72 mil
lion dollars were placed during
1953 for the Hanford Pluton
ium works plant here.
The AEC, in a year end re
port, said $41,461,072 of the
$72,001,356 in contracts were
placed with business firms in
the Pacific northwest.
Firms in the state of Wash
ington got $31,012,524 in con
tracts, Oregon $10,363,860, and
Idaho, $84,686. The Hanford
plant also procured $4,184,732
worth of materials and services
from other government agen
cies in the northwest, AEC
said.
General Electric Co., prime
constractor at Hanford, placed
15.000 of the orders. Kaiser
Engineers 9,000, the Blaw
Knox Co. 2,600, and the AEC
6,000.
Big 3 Accepts
Big 4 Meet
Bonn, Germany tf) The Bis
Three powers will deliver to
Moscow late Thursday or Fri-
No Lynchings
In U.S. in 1953
Washington Wl Sen. Thyel
(R , Minn.) said Thursday the i
"Eisenhower admin istration
is definitely on trial with
farmers" at the coming session
of congress.
Thye, a supporter of Presl
scnt F.isrnhower and a mem
ber of the senate agriculture
Washington Of) Disagree- commmcc. saic, rarmcrs are
ment has broken out between S0'" .' "c waicning c osciy
President Eisenhorv-r and hi.-iw"f' 15 ao"c m ngm,s.
chief lieutenant in the Senate .. ."-. J"' day their notes accentinii Rus-
Sen. Knowland of California, lm miow.si. saia r,isennowerisia.s prolK)!lal lhat u )c Bj r
t mnmilfir nvnp with . ... a
over a new administration pro- - " , , .7 , , foreign ministers meet in Bcr-
gram to combat unemploy-, '" lin on Jan. 25. Allied officials
ment irr nuuui rcieni ircnaa.
Just a week before the open-1 "In general, there isn't the
inc of Conercss next Wedncs- 'ar in the minds of the farm-
Hav Knowland called the new r there was eight months
policy a disappointment and aK'i." he said "Pork prices i
said he would back legislation have increased, egg prices are
to modify it. He took that posi- solid and there has been 1
tion In the face of Eisenhow- ftrengthenlng of beef prices.
er'a statement two davs aitn de-: Official confirmation that
claring "complete agreement" i fa" orices had ended a four-
fleenne came wconcs-
with the nolirv.
Tuskegcc. Ala. ' For the. Whether the disagreement da im the agriculture de
second year in a row, there LniH fft Knnurlanri'a atti-. Dartment. which nut the in-
Greeley added, however, that were no lynchings in the Unit-1 tu(je toward other White House i crease for the month ended
even if the company presscs,ed Slates in 1953. Tuskegee In- policies could not bo foretold.l December 15 at 12 per cent,
forward for the project, and stitutc announced yesterday. ;
the necessary procedures move i But the famed Negro collcgs
smoothly, he does not believe said it is dropping its annual
said here Thursday.
The Western notes also agree
that the four high commission
ers in Germany ir their dep
uties should decide where the
conference is to be held in Ber
lin, these officials -.aid.
They described the Western
notes as "very short." Officials
of the three governments draft
ed the notes in Paris.
WashinEton (UJ0 Rep. Sam i mat recommendation of hit
r. (R Ore ) kicked up a fuss subcommittee wouio oe ui
hv over what he called the department get a better site
"shockini and ruliculous ' ex- in Marse-lles-.ne prefer.b y
ample, of waste and misman- in a section not overrun with
agement in State Department i prostitutes.
agemeut " . . ..-,.
installations overac- '
Coon who was one of three I MW living quarters at Bonn,
L. in conclude a r.rmanv. "as flush as a coun-
represeii-"-" , , . .
that actual plant construction i lynching report for a more re
could be expected in less than I alistic index to race relatoins.
two to three years. i Hereafter racial progress will
He said the company indicat- be measured with new for-
ed tentative plans for a news-imula using economic, political,
print plant of 1,000-ton daily
capacity. Georgia Pacific is one
of the nation's major operators.
educational and similar factors,
said Dr. L. H. Foster, Tuske
gee's president.
Dr. Foster said mob violence
is no longer a valid index of
race relations and that lynch'
Romania Told to Stop
Red Publications in U.S.
Traffic Death Toll
To Show Reduction
Oregon's 1953 traffic death
toll m.iy reach 385, giving the
state Us second-best record in
post-war years. Earl T. New
bry, secretary of state reported
Thursday. In 1952 460 died In
Washington, ij The State with a circulation of about; traffic accidents.
Department Thursday ordered 1 1,600 copies, the Slate Depart-! The traffic safety division of
the Romanian legation to stop ment said. finals said that the toll might
I I, U. Pi tm I ID ( .lnAA ku
.... race remuuiii fliiu ijikii- Mih ritinn ni npwuun-r ill u niu. uiwna asu.u ir imi tun,, unj. u,ii; uj
Germany, as flUSh aS a COUn-l r Jl; r 1 nholina I lnt Ihoir almifi- r- :.. mlinl Ihii mrolt mini. WHnlav .171 Bellini Heatha
rcHi" . i .- , nt half- WCUUIMlb w J "m Oiner Wirirriujin, juu,i,i"i-. - r j
recent inspection trip abroad in try club J,, J0' p'L.nd Prn DottertS Jotl 22!cnce",y,rd,lickoJr,cerf 'n the United States Immedl- ing publication in the United had been reported. The larger
19 countries and the Pacific is- empty warehouses in Paris, and f-rozen UCSSerrS Jan. ' laUonl because of "changes in " , istates of the Romanian week- figure was used to allow for
lands, dispatched news letter a t2,400 a year gardener for an , portlind fV-The state de- ,he ,utuf of the Negro and the i deD,rtmf n, statement said ' ly periodical, called "The Bo- the persons who may die
tn constituents, declaring that unoccupied house in nice, plrtment of agriculture Wed-1 development of other extrs le-1 . k - ,, News.1 months later as the result of in-
taxpavers would be saved more j prnCe. ncsday gave frozen desseri,gtl mMn, 0f control, such as j . , ne Rnmlnlan govern-1 A Stale Department spokes-1 juries sustained in 1953 mia-
than 10-million dollars during ne Orcgon lawmaker said,
the next few years because oI.howeveri u,,t the touring rep-
.....i.iich found "some high-
iy commendable example, ' ueld
-,.H m.nasement." specifical- The law
. ... r lavish living.
For one thing. Coon id he
rutn.rtmen I in
State Department ,nament
bought a lot n , , naming Hong Kong and AM-
manufacturers until January
ii io label as "Mellerine" let
and other frozen prod
uets made with vegetable fats
ga, i suit of the Romsnian govern-,
TSl'.Lf.!".''?'1 ,Umenf. banning of . monthlv
and Intimidation, etc.'
The Tuskegee president said
the study will likely compare
man said the banning of this I haps.
publication issued by the paper was taken because oi tin figures are yet avsiiaoie
American legation in Bucha- the Romanian prohibition ofjon total number of accident!
29. This publica- the American puoncation ana ior ine year, oui a sugni arop
. i" '. r..i nn tier
wamot immeoisw- wniie ano negro i..no..u.... , , r.uted t0 Brook,' from 1952 Is expected. Injuries
rTt Wtrict'of
as a lite for a I H,BrtmeBt -
lv enforced manufacturers four categoric, income reia-
' I. : n.HlflinallAH
use up i uonamp, ,,.,F-..wU
en ta inert. education, and employment.
uon, caueu ntw i-,n. . --- - -
Sa" and printed in Romanian,! protest. however, are expected to go
was first Isiued last October (Ceotiaaed eo Fag . Column II I Higher tn jujj.
flee buildim. B sam "