THE WEATHER CLOUDY WITH skewers f snow rain mhtt Uaigkl; tHk der; ecaUeres saw Harries late tealgM, Sanaay. Im tonight. Hi it. 5 Inches Snow Covers Valley In First flora Fr.t.. U 1.L-. Creates Icy Slush on Highways & Streets By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER First meuurible mow of the winter and the heaviest fall of it here since in February, 1952. MUMil I -. I 1 1 1 "'nw oaiciu aim vaiicy regions Saturday morning. Nearly five tones of the stuff was measured n Salem, 4.8 inch es to be exact, by this morning. The snow started drifting down we cuy in earnest aoout 7 p.m. Friday. There was mixed ' snow and rain from 4 p.m. on. By midnight, better than two inches of snow were measured. The "real mess" looms ahead lor tonight and Sunday, how ever. Below freezing temperatures re due to move in tonight, the forecast calling for a low of 26 in Salem and that means an icy glaze and treacherous going lor cars. The snow is very wet By mid morning Saturday the streets downtown and the roads adja cent to the city were a mass of slush, slowing up traffic consid erably. Last Since' In '52 The last big snowfall in Salem was In February of 1952 when 4.3 inches came down in 1 24 hour period and the month's to tal was 5.8 inches. The "big snow" winter is recent years was that of 1949-50. Ir that year, 32.8 inches of snow were measured for January. All of the lower valley was mantled with the current snow fall, Saturday morning, causing considerable disruption for pow er and communication lines as well as making travel hazard ous. And the forecast calls for more mixed ram and snow to night and snow flurries through Sunday. Road crews were out in force Saturday tn all sections of the i me vailey, clearing road, and sand- ing slick spots. Portland Hsrd Hit ! Portland area was harder hit ' than some of thi Valley sections. Strong easterly winds drifted the anoW in places, Portland report ed six inches of snow in a 12 hour period starting at 7 p.m. Friday. Chains are necessary for all travel on mountain roads and pass regions, the Oregon High way commission report said Sat urday. (Continued on Page 5, CoL 6) Arctic Air in Central West By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A mid-January blizzard whistled across the northers "bins and Wyoming Saturday as the season's coldest weather headed for wide areas in the mid-continent. Arctic air extended over wide areas of Montana, the Dakotas and parts of Minnesota aid Wisconsin. It headed south and eastward and bone-chilling weather was in pros pect for the central part of the country over the weekend. Temperatures early Saturday were near 30 degrees below zero in parts of the cold belt. Fresh falls of snow were in prospect for many areas. Cold wave warnings were issued for many central states. It was 28 degrees below zero Saturday in Cut bank. Mont: -24 in Minot, N.D.; -22 in International Falls. Minn., and -7 in Minneapolis. In contrast, temperatures in the Gulf region and in the southeast were in the 50s and Ms. Storm Strikes BELL1NGHAM Iff- The south end of Bellingham wis bl-cked out for several hours Friday night bv an overload on a powes testation and by falling trees. The weather buresu wss un able to forecast any general end to the storm although most areas had some respite during the day. One of the hardest hit cities wss Seattle where ice and snow covered streets snarled traffic when the storm first struck. Four high school basketball games were postponed slthough the University of Washington went ahead with its game with Oregon State and played before 8.000 fans. Coldest point in the state was the reported S degrees below zero at Okanogan, in eastern Washington. West of Washington's Cascade Mountains where snow is still a novelty, Port Angeles reported 4 to S inches of snow; Aberdeen. 24 to 4 inches: Forks. 7 inches: Tecoma, 1 inch: Seattle. to S Inches: Longww. 1 inches. 66th Vilriess Raps McCarthy And Is Thrown Out Suspended GE Em ployee Accuses Sen ator of Conspiracy BOSTON (fl - Sen. McCarthy hearing into subversion in industry was thrown into an day when Nathanial Mills, a sus- penuoo. general Electric Co. em ploye, stood in the rear of the courtroom and shouted: "McCarthy! I accuse you of conspiring with the comnanv anrf getting the jobs of General Elec tric people. Deputy U.S. marihali fnn-ihl. ejected the stoutly-resisting Mills who continued a tirade as the ma jority of spectators booed and shouted. 'Throw him out." A lew applauded. Mills is under suspension hv r.en. era! Electric for refusing to an swer questions concerning Com munists before McCarthy here last November. He invoiced the fifth amendment at that time. Refuses to Give Names Mills' ejection came hist n Al. exander Gregory, 64-year-old Lynn General Electric employe, refused to give McCarthy, sitting as a one man Senate investigating subcom mittee, the names of persons the senator described as "Communist conspirators" he mieht have known at Lynn. (Continued on Page 5, CoL 7) ' No Respite for Inland Empire By The Assaeiated Press Snowbound sections of the Inland Empire got no respite from the first really severe weather of the winter. Winds still were blowing in many areas. Highway crews were busy keeping the hiehwava dear of drifting snow, and ihe Empire's major roaos were open to traltic. near zero temperatures were reg- i,aHU4 . ... i SS. "7: ing the night. A low of eight above in Spokane was recorded by the weather bureau. About (Dree inches of snow has fallen since the storm started Friday morning, and more is on the way. High winds still were blowing, and more snow was falling in the Idaho Panhandle. Highways were plagued with drifting snow, but were open. Train Engineer Falls to Death SANTA BARBARA, Calif. W! The engineer of the Southern Pa cific train, the Lark, tumbled from the engine and was killed early Saturday while the train was speeding northward toward San Francisco. He was Mervyn D. McEvoy. about 65, "of San Luis Obisop. a Southern Pacific fireman and en etneer since 1912. Railroad officials here and at the ! jet interceptor plane which crash San Luis Obispo, gave this account i ed Friday near Quincy, Fla., were of the tragedy: McEvoy and Sween took over the double unit diesel engine at Santa Barbara when the train left here at 11:34 o'clock Friday night, hav. have not been recovered but the ing left Los Angeles at i o'clock, men are "presumed dead." At Arlight, northwest of here, j Grondahl is" survived by his wl McEvoy asked Sween to take over ; dow. Mrs. Eleanor Grondahl, Val the controls. The engineer said he ' dosta, and his parents, Lt Col. wanted to check something in the 'and Mrs. Sigurd Grondahl, Steila- second unit. coom. wasn. When he didn't reappear. Sween ' Smyda was from Rochester, stopped the train at Guadalupe. I N Y. about 30 miles north of Arlight. He Tne piane. on a training mission, couldn't find McEvoy but found a crashed into Lake Talquin, a re door open in' the second unit of mote swampy area west of Tal tbe dieseL : lahassee. Fla. Utility Service Out For Many in Valley Hundreds of customers of Pa- i cific Telephone Teilegraph com- city limits disruption was not seri ,, and Portland Genera. Llec- ous. In other parts of the va ey nnv and Portland Genera. Llec- pany ano ' "' "T. L"ccrpa"!?J"T."I"'poie; and wire7 mrt of which i saiuroay " ditions. whThwr with water. causi'-XHom The Friday night fall of snow ' . . ,. ,, ., . , ed a general crashing down ef tree . . iimht ntilttv wires ana Doles, and '" . . . hoth the telt(nia the power romnany rushed idl crt-v.inc.1 L " ',. . h.rikl. i.n ii Inlcss there is a furtner iau . snow ii i wtuc-tu uav v,-.- working throughout tonight, will have the services restored by late Sunday. The telephone company estimat- ed that 500 subscribers were with- out service in Salem, 300 at Dal - las, ISO in the Independence area. and 50 at Woodburn, while Detroit is isolated. Portland General Electric com pany reported trouble all over the Willamette valley area. Here and there were numerous Individual outages, and in other places were wider interruptions of power and Capital Year, No. M SALEM .'"'-' Oregon Indian Payment Bill WASHINGTON 141 A House Interior subcommittee will bold hearings next month on bill to bring about distribution of more than 2 W million dollars to certain Western Oregon indiais. PWilV-tiy Rep:-Ellsworth (R- Ore), would authorize preparation of a tribal roll to determine wbe should share in the distribution. w u t . " I wi uic nwoc iiuciiu, vuiuiiuur, has advised Ellsworth a hearing wiu oe nera reo. oj uie inaians i Affairs subcommittee. i ""'" .." iui.ii ure Court of Claims awarded to various ' J JL. ' - ""p uaiiug o. ncKcrn uregun inuiaiu n00n at D o'clock 10 consider the several years ago after the Indians purchase or lease of the build sought compensation for lands ins which the government took from . them. Congress appropriated the ' money after tne court verdict but no distribution has been made. Crash of Jet Kills 2 Airmen VALBOSTA. Ga. Crewmen of a Moody Air Force Base FS9 Wcnti ied Saturday as Cant Wil i acnuiieo aiuraa as tapi. wu- &SmTuSm Lt Josenh T Smvda radar ohvrver Moody officials said the bodies light service. Within the Salem ous. in otner pans oi me vaney ihm u. a u-Mlerinn of fallen : ,i( lr,hl. Tr- limh. caused service irounie. tree limns I l. j . i ii- i . . weixnira wiui snow lauing inio ine icirpniaie company exinrccu i to bout nalf (he re. w iiatc w""ui iieiii ii rr tiiit I r- . . --.. i i Mwreu oy Miuruay nini ano inr rest of it by Sunday night. The I , p1cknf up Umble P" " ' possible ,nd oarring unfavorable weather expects to have repairs completed over the week-end. Salem Electric, cooperative, re- 'potted some outages early Satur- day when two wires went down, but repairs bad been made by 1 noon. 1 Buses of City Transit Lines were unable to make the corn- plete Boone Rosd route, and were unable to complete the Candalaria Heights run until Just after noon. Traffic on Fairmount Hill was barred becsuse the area was blocked off snd converted In to a children's play area. 2 Salem, Oregon, SNOWY,' WET AND SLUSHY TODAY h2i. iat&ai Top: View of downtown Salem made from top of the Capitol showing wet and melting snow clinging to Willson Park trees and inches deep on roof tops. Lower: Snow shovellers were busy during Saturday morning removing slushy snow from sidewalks bordering the CapitoL Special Council Meet Called on JJDd!tig Should the City of Salens buy, the Capital Journal building at 444 Chemeketa Street recently vacated oy tne newspaper, plana are in mino tnat would involve a inif ting of city departments and some new building construction. Mayor Al Loucks Saturday is- Ued can .o me city council for , ,peci,i meeting Monday after- Red Insurance Front Banned WASHINGTON (P) The Subversive Activities Control Board Saturday ordered the In ternational Wordcrs Order, In., an insurance and fraternal or ganization, to egister as a eom- I munist front The board granted a motion by tne iut, -ep-rtment for a I ,,,, iMj.m., ,K default judgment on the ground . lnat ,ne organization several times failed to show up to de- fend itself. The order was the first by the board calling upon any organ ization to register with the jus tice department as a Red front under the internal security act The communist party itself hss been ordered to register, but has appealed to the courts to reverse the board and declare the act unconstitutional. Registr a 1 1 o n proceedings are pending against 11 other alleged Red fronts. Woman Beats Monte Carlo MONTE CARLO, Monaco iff Mrs. Edith Earie, an elderly Brit ish woman with a secret system In. ui.nin. ! II.. aamKlinff In. . . - -v"" oies. said Saturday sne is going u . "I.. Roll. (Mm. ' turn nf Ihe ceTturV Soan In dancer who 1 the rave nf the continent. i ; ,. , ,h. ,., - ,, . ,. u Bene mere, in-year-ma vr- " no' now lives m a smau ram in witw. Mr a , min. Jnr. UgiriC. W I routes i wiir . .. i irr visitor o nnnr rio, wnciw, she says, she w.ns 20 or 30.000 francs -S or 1115. a day. thanks . to a secret system Uught j her late husband, a mal her bvl mathemati-' cian ' j "Last yesr I won 3 H million francs 'HO.OOOi in three months," she said. "A Maharajah offered me five million francs 'IH2MI for my secret, but I refused." Un rrU mmiA ah was aolne to turn over all her winnings to La Belle Otero until the one-time fab- niMidv rifh hMuii ha a decent apartment While In Monte Carlo, lira. Earle lives in a small bote! where she cooks her own meals, in order to be afc'.t to give more money to I chanties. ... - n 11 11 rn 11 11 i 11 Saturday, January 16, 1954 -: s I a- li ill ilntfTlTillll I ' Acquisition of the Capital Jour- nal building, considered by tit city as nigniy desirable because it is in tne tame block as City Hall, is still believed to be con tingent on the sale of the city- owned property on Trade Street between South Commercial and South Liberty. Bernard Mainwaring, editor and publisher of the Capital Jour nal and owner of the Capital Journal building, has offered the property to the city for J75.000. The sale value of the city's prop erty Dn Trade Is roughly esti mated at $223,000. The city is in formed by a real estate broker that at least two nropscctive buy- (Continued on Page 5, Col. 4) Tax Secrecy Bring's Protest PORTLAND P)-A group of j bus ness men Saturday marie nub- business men Saturday made pub- lie a letter to the Oregon Tax: Commission protesting what they ! called a weakening of secrecy j tionalized International Air Trans provisions surrounding personal 1 port and business income tax returns, j Renewed efforts to reach a new They charged that commission agreement are expected to follow agents turned over information , tne latest Indian action. Two from tax returns to county as- American lines Pan American sessors wno used it to increase property tax assessments. They said that this is unfair because inventories often vary between Jan. 1. when reports to the assessor are made, and the time of the income tax reports. Among signers of the complaint i are F. H. Young, manager of Ore- gon Business and Tax Research Jack Lansing, Columbia Empire Industries, and Charles A. Ogle, secretary nf Associated Forest Industries. Marilyn Hides a a aa 1 iii s liitff UU 11 fjTOn nfll 1 1 If IIVI UWMMJ . , m.,,.,. - n' JL.I. I " WU1J 'in-mariiyii mini- j . niUaoffin were on . bM.w.,whr They left Peso Robles. about ... a. Qftm p-,- ; "yJ,r ff .n 'l'n weaning nixm in m nioici lm"- 1 neunr 01a anyone snow wnen ! tynwould return to her studio. ,"'T;'U" " KAf wiku Miv laiicu w mii wwi ; in ine Liuumuii river Damn in -ia", i.iin;,ii mr on "Pink Tights." lS2. plied more thsn ST per cent of Twentieth Century-Fox ssid she J The 16th snnual report sub-1 the total energy generated by ma demanded the righl to pass on the milled to In.erior Secretary jor Pacific northwest utilities I Tipt of h-r pictures, but there were reports that she wanted more ! money. rier x"ent. her attorney and the j tudio all professed Ignorance of the plans of Die nsn-vmooners. married Thursday in a civil cere - mony at Ihe sen Francisco City Hall. I f r man Prist. Worst Storm In Europe for Years Abates IANDON IH Galea howling across the British Isles and WestT era Europe quieted down Satur day, leaving in their wake heavy death toll and costly wreckage Four died in Britain and five in Germany. A blizzard the third in 14 days lashed Sweden but the worst ap peared over lor tne unush isles and continental Europe after a nightmarish night Austria, counting 130 dead in snow avalanches, was still digging out with many lonely villages cut off from the outside world in the great Walser "valley of death." American helicopters taking off in mercy missions were hampered somewhat by high winds sweeping uie mountainous ski country. (Continued on Page 5, CoL 8) Board Named For Rail Strike WASHINGTON (UP1 Presi dent Eisenrower today appoint ed three man emersencv board to investigate a threatened strike by about a million non-operating employes of 150 major railroars. The board is composed of for mer Chief Justice Charles Lorinc of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge Adolphe E. Wenke of the Nebraska Supreme Court and Martin Paul Catherwood, dean of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The dispute involves rules and regulations and fringe benefits such at vacation nav and health welfare matters rather' than wagea. ' " The board Is supposed to re port Jan. 27, But tne time may be menace n ootn parties to the anpwe agree. - . The law also' forbids" a' walk out within 50 days after themained up in the air. The V.S. board's report Is filed. India lo Cancel 2 lil Mines NEW DELHI, India, (P) India has formally notified the United States thst she wishes to termi nate a seven-year-old commercial agreement regulating Ihe opera tion of two American airlines here. The termination, requested yes terday, becomes effective at the end of a prescribed month period. The two nstions hsve tried un successfully for two years tn nego tiate a modification of the 1946 u.eaty. india ,0UgM to modify the r n e ,h,n.,h number , u.S. fliKht. ,nfURh the country, contending that the lines competed with her own na- World Airwsys and Trans World Airlines Inc. operate through ; '"o1- j ' i SEVEN KIM.Fn IN THKATRE FIRE OTARU. Japan iff At least seven persons, including three chil- dren. died Saturday in a fire which destroyed a motion picture theater here. Kyodo News Service-reported. More than 20 persons were list ed as injured. Bonneville In '53 Dropped Million PORTLAND 1,' - Dr. P.u, Raver, in his finsl annual report to the secrete, v of interior on , . . 0DCT,,lon! ,0' the Bonneville istratinn. revested today tnat gross revenues oi me toiumnia river power sysiem had dropped for Ihe lirst time ' Ce 1946. He attributed the de - ; creaie i rcnun iirtain Douglas McKay and made public today, showed RPA earned gross revenues nf $30,175,200 for a decrease nf $1,004,937 from fis cal 1952 j Net revenues after deduction 1 of all current expenses for op- I eration, maintenance, smintitra- tion. marketing, depreciation and Price 5c I M L7 MAM gm J0 waoSns .,ectea by Hull Asks Big Four To Nude Meet On Himalayas ALLAHABAD, Inuia J! The holiest of India's Holy nfffl sug gested Saturday (hat the world's Big Four leaders assemble nude on Himalayan heights and there seek peace for the people of the troubled earth. They believe India's Premier Nehru also nude should pre side at this proposed meeting of President Eisenhower, prime Min ister Churchill, Premier Malenkov and Mao Tzc-Tung. And If the lofty Himalayas are impractical they suggested an al ternative the burning ghats of Benares City where Hindu bodies are cremated. The proposal came from the Holy men known as Naga Sadhus who are regarded as having at tained human perfection by dis carding all earthy desires and pos sessions, including clothes. They are here to lead some 5 or 10 mil lion pilgrims in the month long Mela period oi Darning at the con fluence of the sacred Gange and Jumna Rivera. ... This is not the first nude con ference to be suggested by the Na ga aadnus. Three years ago lead er suggested that Truman and Stalin should meet naked in the Himalayas alto to talk peace. US to Oppose . Korean Debate UNITED NATIONS. N.Y P The United States with support of other big powers gave the cold shoulder today to India's! proposal to recall the U.N. Gen eral Assembly Feb.. 9 for debaUMU culd fight about alx days T XT, . u . -"v. .before running out of ammuiu , j?.- Yii3 Lk,Jnu Pmm". of tioo, if it didn't have United Ne India, the Assembly president,! Uon, support - , . . " rur wi week, asking for replies by Jan, thlng lor hom, consumption Z. - I aNirfW m Ik II 11 The United. States said It would not be able to decide; s date which meant that th VS. dido? want a aaaaiaa called while the nrisoner ouejtion and tho A rean political coiueranes talk mained ud in the air. The I left the door onen for a later meeting by adding It was keep - ing tne proposal under considera tion. Reportedly taking the same view were Britain. France. Aua - trails and the Netherlands all members of the V.N. Allied force I in Korea. . I No Buffer for Sale fo Soviets WASHINGTON UIPI-The Eis enhower administration made clear to Soviet Perimer. Georgi Malen kov today that he can expect no help in the way of cut rale U.S. butter in his bid for more solid popularity with Ihe Russian people. Since shortly after he succeeded the late Josef Stalin. Malenkov has been promising the Russian people better living conditions and more consumer goods, such as butter. But the adminlrtration has turn-' ed down a plan under which the Russians wmild have received about 3.000 tons of surplus U.S. .-h., . MnVin Minn . busi. ncMman. had propsed buying the butter from this government at 60 cents a pound for export to Russia. Last Tuesday, Commerce becre- tary Sinclair Weeks indicated he was looking with favor on the deal when he said the U.S. policy "has been, and still is," generally to approve export of nonstrategic goods to Russia and its European satellites except when it has an "adverse impact" on Ihe free world's security. Receipts , interest were MJKU or . j drop of more than 3 per rent I from the 1952 figure of $15.800, - 641. Dr. Rsver blamed both the ' lower gross an Increased costs uir generauon inn iraiiininiun mr me cui. i ur. never s report, compiles , shortly before he left to be-1 t "7"'" "' during the fiscal year ended t June 30, 1053. Alter meeting its 1 own commitments. Bonneville delivered dti additional maxi mum hourly iuddIv nf nearly 900 000 kilowatt, and about 3-8 billion kilowatt hours of energy to other members of the north- I west power pool, FINAL EDITION Ull Will Accept Prisoners; But On Own Terms .... ... PANMUNJOM (1 - The O.N. - Command said Saturday it will ac cept from the Indiana 23,000 unra patrtated anti-Communist war pris oners But not on India's condi- : lion that they remain prisoners. ' - - uen. John t. Hull, u.N. com mander, wrote the Indian com. mand that aa of Jan. 33 the U.N. wi'.i consider the prisoners "en titled to their freedom as civil ians." Hull's letter was the U.N. answer . to India decision to turn back to their captors all unrepatrlated war . prisoners starting next Wednesday. - However, Lt Gen. K. S. Thinv ayya, Indian chairman of the neu tral repatriation commission, said it would be an armistice violation if either side changed the status ot tne rows. , . (Continued on Page 8, CoL 6) ' ' Rhee to Acton Own After Apr 1 v TOKYO WV-Presldent Syng man Rhee's statement today that ne wouia. act oa his own after April 23 unless some decision . had been reached on the unifica tion of Korea is contrary to what be has been telling the United Nations command. - The impression around Gen. John E. Hull's Tokyo headquar ters is that Rhee wiu respect the armistice, aa he baa been asked to do and bad promised several U.. 8. representatives. ...... - 1 The South Korean army by it- Mn neonla hallava Rhea mand. Guided Missies 111 WASHINGTON Ph The Unit- I ed States is arming its force In 1 Germany with guided missiles I capabl. of carrying atomic war- heads hudnreds of miles into Red-held territory. I The Air Force announced ter sley last night that I will send two pilotless bomber squadrons to Germany this year. No details were given. This move seemed to fit Into basic U. S. strategy defined by Secretary of SUte Dulles in a New York speech Tuesday and affirmed by President Eisenhower at his news conference the next ' ' day. This strategy, Dulles ssid, is based on "massive retsiliatory power" to deter Soviet sggres sion. In this connection, the deci sion to sugment the fire power of Americsn forces helping West ern Europe immediately raised a question: Would this mesn fewer American troops in Europe? "No, not In itself," Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson told reporters yesterday. H didn't say more. Ike Confers on Atomic Uses WASHINGTON (JPl Presl dent Eisenhower conferred for sn hour Snturd.y with six gov. ernment official? an military ex perts interested in atomic pow er in war a nd peace. There was no immediate com ment from either the White House or the participants ss to whst specifically was discussed, but Ihe meeting presumably dealt with the president's pro posal for an international pool of atomic energy for peaceful uses. 1 Attending the meeting were Secretary of State Dulles, Roger M. Kyes, deputy secretary of e- lense who substituted for Secre tary Wilson: Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy commission: Vice Adm. Arthur C. Dsvis director of the office of foreign military affairs at the Pentagon: Walter Bedel Smith, undersecretary of stste, and C D. Jackson, White House spec ialist on psychological warfare. Weather Details ! Ma .trtr, ill tstatMata It ' ZtZZ&riiXi ' aiaMaue. ta.asi si.te. arne " n. a o. a. inii. M - i i ia 1 : i