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THE WEATHER
INCREASING CLOL'DINI I S
with nia toalgat, Saturday
seralng becoming ahowery
Satarday tlUrtMi. Lit II
. chant ia tracer tar. Law to.
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FINAL
EDITION
so-ai nest
JO aetfna
66th Year, No. 7 TZ?JZ?12Z Salem, Oregon, Friday, January 8, 1954 (H
Capita
Oregon Leads in
HiwayFinancing
In West Stales
11 Western States Ex
pected to Adopt Road
Use Tax on Trucks
By JAMES D. OLSON
Th itate ef Orefoa lead ia
the 11 western state ia leglsr
latloa deallnf with highway fi
nancing, Stat Senator Elm
Smltb told member of th
Oregon committee on lnter-gov-cramental
co-operation, meet
tnr ia the state ho rue Friday.
Member of the committee,
including Senator Smith, made
reports on a meeting of the
western conference of govern
mental relation held in Los
Angeles last November. Sen.
Smith said that the most for
ward action on the part of the
conference In relations to high
way was recommendation of
adoption of a road use tax for
Interstate blues.
Will End Arguments '
California and Washington,
Smith said, are expected to
adopt this tax soon, and when
placed in effect, much of the
argument between state on in
terstate bus taxation will be
eliminated. Smith said. ,
(Continued on Fare I. Column 4)
Not Guilty Plea
By Shoulders
KANSAS CITY W Former Po
lice Lieut. Louis Shoulders of St.
Louis, captor of the Greenlease
kidnapers, pleaded innocent in
Federal Court Friday to a charge
of perjury in connection with his
account of what happened to the
$600,000 ransom money in the
case. '
The kidnapers, Carl Austin Hall
and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady
whom Shoulders arrested in St
Louis, were executed Dec. II for
the kldnan-murder of 6-year-old
Bobby Greenlease, son of Kan
sas City multimillionaire, Robert
C Greenlease.
Shoulders' Innocent plea was
entered by hit attorney, Henry
r. unrli M St. Louis, at th
former police officer's formal ar
raignment before U. & District
Judge Albert A. Ridge. Should
ers was present but said nothing.
Need Chains on
Santiam Pass
The State Highway Department
today advised motorists to carry
haini at Santiam pass, where
- fmie Inches of new snow fell
overnight and at Austin, with
two inches. Plowing was going
on at both places.
Spots of ke wer reported at
rtnwrnment Camp, along with
two inches of new snow; at Tim
berline, with four inches; at Sis
kiyou, Bly, Ochoco Summit and
John Day. .
Packed snow was well sanded at
Warm Springs Junction, Wil
lamette pass, Meacham and
Senaca.
The East Diamond lake high
way had bare pavement in ex
posed areas but continued slip
pery conditions made chains a
necessity. Th coast highway,
closed by a slide three miles
north of Roekaway, may be open
ed late today, the department
said. Until then a detour is avail
able on the Miami river county
road.
U. S. Holds Key
Canadian Plans .
VANCOUVER. B.C. to The
keys to the strong box holding un
toiH vmlth in northern British Co
lumbia may be in we nanus
the United States. Canada may
ask the U.S. for corridors to open
new gateways to the sea through
the Alaska panhandle.
The corridor would open he
way lor the development of a fab
ulous treasure land of minerals,
power, and timber areas.
Canadian industrial and mining
Interests are behind the proposals
not for one corridor but for several
to provide access to deepsea ports
on the Pacific.
The plan has been discussed in
rut nA WachinfftOll.
The executive of the B.C. and
Yukon Chamber of Mines with
headquarters in Vancouver backs
the idea, supporting the industrial
and mining interests.
Beachcombers Out
In Force After Storm
TILLAMOOK (J-Beachcombers
, in fan- this week as the
recent series of storms uncovered
wreckage of the Norwegian schoon
er Emily Reed, which ran aground
In tW.
The vessel had ora num.
Reulher Laid
To Ganosfers
Racketeers, Not Gam
blers, Tried to Secure
Control of CIO
DETROIT to Wayne County
Pros. Gerald K. O'Brien (aid Fri
day that gangsters, who sought to
seu control of the CK) United
Auto Workers, were responsible for
the 1941 attempt on the Ufa of CIO
President Walter Reuther.
O'Brien discounted previous re
port that gamblers had mad
Reutner shotgun target because
of his successful campaign to cut
down gambling by worker in auto
plant.
The prosecutor, top man la po
lice investigation of the attempted
assassination, a a i d racketeers
came within an eyelash of gaining
control of the UAW prior to Reuth
er' election as president of the
auto union in 1M7.
O'Brien said Reuther'i election
eliminated a lot of the racketeer
operations within the union.
Th prosecutor aired his views
at a press conference. It was the
first official revelation of the line
the prosecution will take in it ef
forts to convict the accused would
be assassins.
O'Brien reported the mass of
evidence gathered painstakingly
since the shooting, April 20, 1948,
indicated that the gambling issue
merely served to bring together
labor leader and racketeers and
set the stage for ensuing events.
The real objective, O'Brien said,
was to get the power to force man
agement to agree to deals that
would be far mora profitable and
respectable than gambling operations.
More of Same
In Weather
SEATTLE to The best the
weather forecaster can offer the
Pacific Northwest for the next five
days ia: "It looks lik more of
the same."
There was a bars of rsrs sis-
shine when he said it' Friday
mornine. but he renorted more of
the type of storms that brought
rainfall records for th first week
of January are on the way. The
sunshine was too good to last.
The prospect was for rain to
start Friday night west of the Cas
cades and continue intermittently
over the next five days. The fore
cast along the coast is for S to 5
inches, for the west side interior
1 to 2 inches, and for the East
Side fraction of an inch;
The first storm center was about
700 miles west of here over the
Pacific Friday morning. Another
was about 1,000 miles farther out
The forecaster said they prob
ably would hit at intervals of about
24 to X hours "preceded by rain
and followed by showers."
Mild temperatures are expected
to continue. There are no violent
windstorms in prospect.
3 Oregon GIs
Listed as Dead
STATE OF THE UNION
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Atomic Pact Talks Monday
WASHINGTON 0J.I9 The Ar
my today announced the names
of three Oregon soldiers who
have been missing in action in
Korea for more than a year and
are now "presumed dead." They
are:
Sgt Billy W. Beaverson, friend
of Judge Walter Tooie, Mult
nomah county courthouse, Port
land. i Pfc Doyl G. Brown, son of Mrs.
Mary Ann Brown, Myrtle Creek.
Sgt James D. Murphy, son of
John Murphy, 2600 Highway,
Coos Bay.
Also listed at "presumably
dead" was Capt Ward O. Neville,
husband of Mrs. Eugene K. Ne
ville of Gold Hill, Ore., and Rich
mond, Calif.
Potino Heiress
Honeymooning
EDINBURGH. Scotland W)
The honeymooning young Golds
smiths dark-eyed former Maria
Isabel Pstlnoand her husband
Jimmy came out of hiding Fri
day 'to report they had reached
an understanding with her multi-millionaire
daddy, who tried
to block their elopement
But details of the understanding
were secret The smiling 11-year-
old bride, looking a bit wan be
cause of a bad cold, cut off all ques
tions on the subject Jimmy, 20-year-old
son of a wealthy London
hotel man, would tell newsmen
nothinc more than:. ....
' There has been a reconaiiauon
and we are very happy to have this
amicable solution."
Th romantic young couple had
managed for dav U mhuU wrt-
n and the orivate sleuths Bo
livian tin baron Amenor rnun nan
hired in vain effort to track
down hi runaway daughter and
talk her out of marrying nntil aha
was older. 1 ,;
Strike Spreads
At Richland
RICHLAND, Wash. u. A
wildcat strike by UOO AFL car
penters and millwrights caused
more layoffs at the Hanford
works today, and officials said
the entire work force of about
9,500 would be sent home by the
week end unless contract nego
tiations brought a settlement of
the five-day dispute.
Spokesmen for the 110 con
tractors 'and subcontractors in
volved did not give detailed fig
ures on the number of workers
idled by the strike but said it
was more than 7,000. Workers
were being sent home as their
work caught up with that al
ready done by the carpenters.
Representatives of the strik
ers and the eastern Washington
chapter of the Association Gen
eral Contractors met in Spokane
in an effort to break deadlocked
negotiations. A meeting Wednes
day ended when contractors of-r.-.l
ovon-rent hourly wage
increase and union men stuck to
their demand lor a zu-ccro wwou
TRAFFIC "FATALITY IN
wnttTI. AND
PORTLAND (UP) Edward
L. Miller, 38, of Portland, last
night became the second traf
fic fatality of the new year in
Multnomah county outside
Portland. He was killed in a
car-truck collision on South
east Division street about half-a-mlle
west of Gresham.
President Eisenhower has a big smile as he delivers his State
of the Union message to a joint session of Congress in Wash
ington. Seated behind the President are Vice President Nixon,
left, and House Speaker Martin of Massachusetts. (AP Wire
photo.) v
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Couplets as Well as
Grid Come Under Fire
Salem'
street couplets on the state
highway street, a well a the
newer downtown grid system.
came under attack at a meet
ing of business men at the Sen
ator Hotol Friday noon, l
The attack on th two-year-
old couplets came from, the
Capitol Shopping Center,
which had Joined Friday with
the downtown merchant in the
By STEPHEN A. STONE
original one-way . light on the grid system,
J. F. Causey, representing
the Capitol Shopping Center,
moved, that the by-laws of the
anti-grid group be amended
to include the couplet in the
demand that the one-way sys
tem be abolished. He made
the motion after Bill McMann,
another representative from
the Capitol Shopping Center,
has aaid he would like to see
t couoieu abolished, t
Cauaey'a motion was not
voted on, but even a it was
hanging ltre anothef motion
was made that an executive
committee of five be appointed
to carry on with the fight until
another meeting is called. This
motion carried and the com
mittee is to be appointed.
McMann first asked Mayor
Al Loucks if throwing out the
grid would also throw out the
original couplets. The mayor
replied that the question was
hard to answer, since the coup
lets were made by agreement
with the State Highway Com.
Ike Faces Fight
For Program
In Congress
WASHINGTON ID - President
Eisenhower today was right ia th
middle of a fight for the program
be laid down yesterday and en
which he stakes the success of his
Republican Party.
On Dec t. (peaking of Novem
ber' Congressional elections. Ei
senhower said the Republicans did
not deserve to retain control of
Congress unless they put through
a "progressive, dynamic pro
gram." Applause Interrupted him 45
times during hi S4-minute state of
the anion message to Congress.
And afterwards leaden of his
party expressed the usual, expect
ed praise.
Although bo mad It abundantly
clear the menage was only an out
line of hi program, and that he
would fill it in rapidly with special
messages, a tiny handful of mem
bers bitingly dismissed It as a
"hodge-podge" full of "platitude."
But It was the opposition ex
pressed, even by member of his
own party, on ome major point
in hi program, that served him
full notlc b must assert leader
ship to get it through.
Last year, a period of learning
hi job and preparing th program
h produced yesterday, he may
have lelt h could alford th com
promise on many issues.
This year, if he compromise
when the opposition isn't strong
enough to defeat him, then he can
be accused of abdicating leader
ship for the sake of being liked.
(Continue' en fate S. Celoaaa ()
On Global Trip
Washington u. vice
President Richard M. Nixon
today agreed to give the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Commit
tee a first hand report on his
46.000-niile round the world
tour.
Chairman Alexander Wiley
(R., Wis.), announced that
Nixon would be invited to ap
pear. The announcement fol
lowed a closed door meeting
of the group yesterday at which
Secretary of State John Foster
Duljes briefed members on the
general world situation.
The vice president said he
would appear at any date that
can be worked out. The sug
gestion that Nixon be heard
came from Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey (D., Minn.), who
was present for an Informal re
port by the vice president at a
private party earlier this week.
Wiley said Dulles told the
committee he does not think
the Communist plan to re
sume hostilities In Korea de
spite report the Reds are stag
ing a military buildup in North
Korea.
Some Early Moving to
New County Building
By FRED ZIMMERMAN
Although the new Marlon
county office buildinr is not ex
pected to be fully completed un
til next May, the county court
plans to mov some departments
Into the structure the first of
February.
Departments to be moved In
clude the county school superin
tendent the county sgent nd the
4-H group.
All of these departments will
be located on th basement flow
of the courthouse and an early
move will mean a considerable
vm in rent
Countv School Superintendent
A onx Booth and her group of
live employes ar currently locat
ed in the Pacific building, where
comber, picked up many ef moved .hn-
scheduled for. February moving
are situated in the school admin
istration building.
Mrs. Booth's department will
be quartered la the northeast
corner of the ground floor.
where there win be much more
room not only tor office purposes
but for storage. She said Friday
that she was anticipating the
change with considerable enthu
siasm. County Judg Rex Hartley stat
ed that the move could have been
made at an earlier date except
for the fact that it is necessary
to turn off the heat from time to
lime. However, th contractors
have given assurance that there
will be coninuous best after the
first of February.
(CeaUsnrd a rag t, Cessna I)
(Continued on Page 5, Col. 1)
Claim Jobless
Picture Worse
WASHINGTON I The CIO
said Friday the unemployment pic
ture is far worse than the 1,190,000
Jobless figure reported officially by
the Commerce Department.
A statement by CIO Vice Presi
dent Emit Rieve, chairman of the
labor union organisation's econom
ic policy committee, said the oin
cia'. data faila to disclose an addi
tional 1.400.000 out of work.
Under Rieve's method of calcula
tion th total of those willing to
work but without Jobs would be
closer to 3.250.000.
The CIO lesder said the Com
merce labor force and unemploy
ment fieures for December, an.
nounced a few days ago. showed
ioblessness rose nearly 700.000 in
two months, including 422.000 in
December.
"This is bad enough, but the re
port doesn't begin to tell the full
story," he said. "The Commerce
measure of unemployment Just
isn't adequate to catch what really
has been happening in th Job mar
ket in the past six months." -
Resume Hearing
On Hells Canyon
WASHINGTON A Power
Commission attorney began pre
senting Reclamation Bureau wit
nesses st the Hells Canyon hearing
Friday, saying they will testily
n.- ; i i .. r.inj..iuH iih. I freelv and "witnut restriction
.. .d.m.iHl Fridav bv the i from the Interior Department.''
Flexible Farm
Prices Opposed
27 Red GIs
To Ge( New
ReturnChance
TOKYO 41 The Indian
command said today it would
give 21 unrepatriated Ameri
can prisoners another chance
return to their homeland
and families,
Lt Gen. K. S. Thlmayya, In
dian head of th prisoner'
commission, promised to eon
duct a "head count" of the
Americans, thus giving them
an opportunity to request re
patriation.
Th Indians' announcement
came at the earn time that
Lt Gen. William K. Harrison,
chief truce negotiator, made a
mystery flight from Tokyo to
Seoul, Indicating the United
Nations may try to reopen talks
on a Korean peace conference.
There wer other Important
developments on the Korean
front:
1. South Korea charged that
the United Nation was losing
lt battle with the Communists
by trying to negotiate a peace
ful settlement of the Korean
question. .
22,000 Face
Uncertain Fate
SEOUL W The Korean Repair!
ation Commission, caught in the
middle of an Allied-Red brawl, to
day faced what may b In most
critical problem ef Its existence:
What to do with some b.ooo un
repatriated war prisoners Jan. ax.
The commission has two weeki
until that day ol
To Confer on
Time and Place
For Conference
WASHINGTON m Secretary
of Stat DuUe and Soviet Ambas
sador Georg M. Zambia will be
gin preliminary atomic talks next
Monday, diplomatic authorities re
ported Friday.
The State Department pre of
flea for the time being announced
only that th talk will begin next
Monday, but Informed diplomats
aid Zarubin has an appointment
at the State Department at 10:1
am. EST Monday,
Th Soviet and American gov
ernment agreed - earlier la the
week that Dulles and Zambia
should confer on th time. plc
and other arrangements for mora
formal discussions on President
Eisenhower's proposal to create an
international . atomic peel for
peaceful purpose. 1
The Soviet sharply criticized
th Eisenhower plan on the ground
that it fail to de anything about
atomic weapons. They mad a
counter-proposal for a pledge not
to as such weapon.
Th Duues-Zarubla conversations
will be what the diplomats call
"procedural," which mean they
will officially be concerned only
with arrangements for subsequent
But ia fact U.S. officials hop
from these contact to find out
whether th Soviet government is
at ill seriously interested ia atom
ic negotiations at this time or Is
Just going through th nwueat for
propaganda purposes.
in
declsism when the! 1KB C ... I!
aUiea insist the POWs be roUHQl" of Bwatjatjl
Astoria Slide
Crosses Street
ASTORIA This city's slid
ing hillside crossed another street
Fridav. forcing two more families
to move and putting the total of
abandoned houses at 22.
Twenty-six families hsve moved
out of these houses. Five families
including two ol single persons
snd three couples still remain in
houses in the immediate slide
srea, now larger than It was
Thursdsy when eight families
moved.
WASHINGTON un-Dara
clouds massed ess the Cannot Hill
of the new farm program President
ienbowr wil plresent to
cress on Monday.
The President said In his mes
sage on the state of the union
yesterday that he would propose
that future (arm programs be ouut
on the principle of flexible price
guarantee.
Of more than 80 congress mem
bers who commented, only two
senators gave the flexible price
idea warm verbal support Some
were noncommittal; more voiced
opposition.
Sen. Aiken (R-vt), chairman of
the Senate Agriculture Committee,
said Eisenhower wants "to get a
farm program on a sound, long
range basis and away from emer
gency treatment." That was a ref
erence to the wartime origin of the
present fixed level price props for
major commodities.
under armistice urn. ; ... i wajnjTMGTON 4Jt Caatrmaa
No matter which coarse H Tabor 4K-NY) of tea Bene Appro
chootas. freedom or further can. nriattea fin? net as add Friday
tivity for the prisoners the saw rreaiasnt Ximtmmtt fortbeem
means protest and possibl vie- hig bodget weald be a exception
hnee, - e frem the nil But "every budget
Tne Jteas insist inn m prisoners
be kept in their neutral tone com
pounds until a Korean peace con
ference tains over meir we lor
30 days. Th conference is far
from a beginning even talk to
set it up are bogging aown.
Both Allies and Reds cita the
can be cut"
Tiber, leader of the House Re
publican budget-cutting drive who
Is often called "Meat Ax John."
declared ia an intertvew his pas
sion for economy doesn't follow
party lines.
we cut cat cooiidge and Her-
DeGasperiTalks
With President
ROME to Alcide de Gasperi,
Italy's postwar premier until last
summer, conferred with President
Luigi Einaudi Friday a the chief
truce document as support-but Hoover, " h said.
their Interpretations vary.
Astorian-Budget based on confer
ences with officisls, resident and
real estate men. at something un
der a half million dollars.
Friday's esrth movement finsuy
celled LouYs Q Puis m'engineer! President Eisenhower's State of
Thailand Makes
Up to Indochina
SAIGON. Indochina to New
political troubles bothered France
Friday In her Indochinese back
yard. Buddhist Thailand next ooor
was making overtures to the Bud
dhist Indochina kingdoms of Cam
bodia and Laoa. and the Cambod
ians at least were reported eager
for ties with the Thais.
A spokesman for Thailand's dip
lomatic mission In Phnom Penh,
the Cambodian capital, told I news
conference his government had
proposed "the group of Buddhist
countries. Including Laos and Cam-
of state continued his efforts tobodia," Join inauana in an aui-
resolve Italy's three-day-old polit- ance against indocBtna s tommun.
irl crisis 1 ist-led Vietmlnh rebels.
De Gasperi, 72-year-old leader French sources in Saigon showed
of the nation's biggest party the . annoyance at th suggestion, view
Christisn Democrats, may be ing it is I possible step toward
called to try once again to form , breaking Cambodia away from the
government. But he oecnnea to i French Union.
comment alter his uix wim tne '
president.
Tiber said be expected Eisen
hower to submit to Congress a
fight'-' budget one already sharp
ly pared from original agency rc
ouests for money.
"But th pot is boiling for furth
er cuts and I think we will be able
to make them," b said. "We can
always find places for little more
economy, -
Weather Details
The crisis arose on Tuesday
when Premier Giuseppe feua. ,.4sr.
another Christian Democrat who.. . t-1 m' 'H"
succeeded De Gasperi alter the '.7-E-','. rlHSL
indecisive elections last June, quit lm j imi. nn v. a
after five months in office. Iwoiaw e.r...
Ike Revises Ban on
New Reclamation Work
WASHINGTON I A reversal
of the former Truman administra
tion's bsn on new reclamation work
officials and congressmen saio r n
day after a preliminary study of
who designed the proposed federal
Hells Canyon Dam, as in urn oi
about a down Interior witnesses
.fleeted the downhill side of Bondllo he herd t . Fowif torn
Street, which had been something
of a barrier near the bottom ot
the slide. One of the newly aban
doned house is on that downhill
side.
BENSON ON RADIO
NEW YORK, (UP) Secretary
of Agriculture Etra T. Benson
will outline the odministration's
farm policy in a radio address to
the nation Monday night the
American Broadcasing company
announced today.
sinn hear in f on Idaho Power to.
applications to build three dams in
the same reach of the Snake River
between Idaho and Oregon
Secretary of the Interior McKay
withdrew his department's opposi
tion to Idaho Power's applications
last year. The department under
the Democratic administration had
opposed the applications and asked
Congress to authorize construction
of the federal dam by the Rec
lamation Bureau. n Igency of the
.Interior Department
ihe L'nion message.
Undersecretary of the Interior
Ralph Tudor ssid he believed rec
lamation projects were among the
23 which ! Preaident said would
be started in th fiscal year be
ginning July 1.
But reporters checking the White
House, the Interior Department
and the Budget Bureau were un
able to obtain immediate confirm
tion.
a tmdeet official slid It "seems
to be i chsnge" in the Truman or
der which prohibited new starts
ecu Identified lo determine wheth
er there will be I new policy.
An Interior Deoirtment official
aaid he believed the President's
statement means the Truman or
der is being reversed snd Rep.
Ellsworth (R-Ore gave it Sim
ilar inlrnretatlon.
Ellsworth Slid he wis "very gild
the road blocks sgainst new starts
is listed. This country can't stand
still."
Tudor said Ihe Interior Depart
ment has recommended the White
House seek appropriations for a
number of new projects snd added,
he believed some are Included in
the budget
Tudor refused lo identify the
projects, but elsewhere It wis
learned they may Include phases
Oppose Hike
In Debt Limit
WASHINGTON ID A check of ,
the Senate Finance Committee Fri
day made clear President Elsen
hower and his lieutenants have a
big selling job to do on on of their
legislative proposals a raise ia
the national debt limit.
The President and Secretary of
the Treasury Humphrey must win
over four votes, on the basis of
the committee's lineup last sum
mer, to get the bill out on th Sen
ate floor. .
At th moment, the four vote
ar not in sight although then
are some good prospects among
the 11 members who voted to
shelve th measure at the end of
th lass session. Four favored it
then.
Eisenhower told Congress Thurs
day that progress Is being mad
in balancing th budget but that
deficit still is In prospect for
th next year. He renewed his
plea for n increase in the pres
ent 175 billion dollar debt ceil
ing. He did not g e figure, but ap
parently meant the IS billion dol
lar boost which was rammed
through the House last summer
but then stalled la th Senate Fi
nance Committee.
t
after the start of the Korean War. i of Yuma in Anton. Minidoka n
But he suggested waiting until the Idaho and Carlsbad and Middle
budget is relessed ind the pro)-(Rio Grind ia New Mexico.
Russia Insists Big 4
Meet in East Berlin
BERLIN, (UP1 Th Russian
have deadlocked preliminary ne
aotiations for the scheduled Big
Four foreign ministers' confer
ence by Insisting that all of It
sessions be held In Soviet Ber
lin, Informed sources ssid today. ,
The Informants said that it
yesterday's meeting of the four
commandants of this divided city,
Russia's Sergei A. Dengin refu.
ed to consider the western view
that at least three session In
four should be held in Berlin'
Western sectors.
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