Capita
THE WEATHER
CLOUDY and continued cool. Snow
showers tonight, moatljr rain Tues
day. Low tonight, 28; high Toes
day, 40.
FINAL
EDITION
66th Year, No. 21 ?Z?."ZToZZ Salem, Oregon, Monday, January 25, 1954 (16 Pages)
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Deelz Defends
His Defiance
Of Milk Board
Hearing. Opens on'
Canby Dairyman
Prelude to Court Suit
Elmer Deetz, Canby dairyman,
answered the State Agriculture
Department's refusal to grant him
a grade A milk license Monday
by giving evidence that his milk
meets the bacteria standards set
up by the department
Deetz, who sells milk in gallon
jugs to his neighbors, also served
notice that he regards Monday's
hearing as a prelude to a court
suit in which Deetz said he would
contend that the department's
milk regulations are unconstitu
tional. The department, which ordered
Deetz to appear Monday to show
cause why Deetz' license should
not be granted, admitted that
Deetz did. meet the bacteria
standards.
Other Standards Not Met
But John D. Nichols, assistant
attorney general representing the
department, said Deetz did not
meet other standards, such as the
department's bottling and cleaning
of utensils, that Deetz doesn't have
windows of his milkhouse screened,
and that he doesn't have accep
table bottling and capping equip
ment. Deetz contended that as long as
he meets the bacteria count, then
he doesn't have to meet the other
standards.
Norman Easley, attorney for
Deetz, said that Deetz doesn't even
have to have a license, since he
doesn't distribute milk. The law,
he says, doesn't apply to those who
only produce the milk.
(Continued on Page 5, Col. 2)
City Transit to
Ask Fares Hike
EUGENE (UP) Another
Oregon mass transportation firm
today reported financial troubles
stemming from reduced patron
age. ,
The Eugene office of City
Transit Lines, which holds fran
chises for service in Eugene, Sa
lem and Springfield, said some
Eugene schedules would have to
be dropped unless business im
proves. Jack Foster, Eugene manager,
said City Transit here has been
sustaining a daily loss of more
than $800 since Jan. 1. Drastic
cuts in service will be made and
some routes discontinued en
lircly, Foster said, if income fails
to make a recovery.
Several bus lines serving the
Portland suburban area have also
reported patronage difficulties.
One of them went out otJuw
ness and another is on a 90-day
trial operation with new fare
schedules.
Under Attack
BOISE I - ReP- Bdge R
Idaho) says a new office building
now going up at Portland to house
the headquarters of the Bonneville
Power Administration is being
built as a result of machinations
designed to curcumvent the will of
Hfcnargcd in a letter to Rep.
Phillips (R-Calif.), chairman of a
House appropriations subcommit
tee, that the BPA arranged with
the General Service Administra
tion to have the building construct
ed alter BPA was unable to get
congressional consent to the pro-
BmlKe described the building as
an "elaborate ' structure,
....j,nnni,ni narkinc area and
"space for an assembly hall for
500 employes plus numerous and
varied conference and consultation
rooms." He placed the cost at $4.-
Bon.ono. . . ..
d..i n r AraHsrn. regional di
rector of the GSA said in Tacomaj
Wash., the miuciing woum u
for more efficient operation of
BPA in Portland. He praised its
erection as "the result of long
range planning."
Marilyn Back
At Studio Work
HOLLYWOOD i - Newlywed
Marilyn Monroe is reported back
In town by her studio and the
same source says her husband.
Joe DiMagsio. is in New York for
TV show.
The studio spokesman said ne
AA not know where the famous
couple spent their honeymoon or
when she returned to jionywoou.
Aiihnnoh the studio suspended
Marilvn when she leit a few weeks
ago. it relented after she married
ni Marino and extended a deadline
from Jan. 2" to today for her to
Mart on a film in which she has
the leading role.
Expansion of
Power Plants
NW Planned
Pearl Back From
Washington Outlines
' BPA Program
PORTLAND l Dr. William
A. Pearl, the new Bonneville power
administrator, said here Monday
that Interior Department officials
are "determined to encourage
power epxansion" in the Pacific
Northwest.
Pearl is just back from Washing
ton, D. C where he was sworn
into the post and conferred for
several days with Interior Secre
tary McKay and other department
officials.
"The people of the Pacific North
west can be assured that Secretary
McKay and his associates have no
intention or desire to diminish the
important role the Bonneville
Power Administration has played
and will continue to play in power
development of the Columbia Ba
sin," he said.
(Continued on Page 5, CoL 5)
Blizzard Hits
B.C. Mainland
VANCOUVER, B. C. UV-A Wiz
ard swept a wide area of British
Columbia Monday, piling drifts
four to six feet along highways,
and snarling transportation and
communication lines.
Four inches to a foot of new
snow fell on the B. C. mainland
with Vancouver in the centre of
the storm. Four to six inches of
snow swirled down on the city,
whipped by a stiff wind.
Reports from rural districts told
of similar conditions.
All schools were closed in Van
couver. Hundreds of schools were
closed in rural districts.
Planes were grounded and trains
were running hours later. Thou
sands of workers were late for
work in Vancouver, New West
minster, and suburban north and
west Vancouver.
Many workers were idle. Mills
closed and all outside work at
shipyards waj halted. .,; :
Water Cut Off
At St. Helens
ST. HELENS. Ore. IB A land
slide sheared off a hundred feet
of pipe, and left St. Helens cut off
water supply.
The break apparently occurred
Saturday. It was not discovered
until Sunday, but I here still was
time to warn the 4,700 residents of
this Lower Columbia River area
town to store water in tubs and
pans for emergency use Monday.
Pipe was being hurried to the
scene of the landslide, and repairs
were expected to be completed
later Monday.
The city's main reservoir ran
dry Sunday, and that led to dis
covery of the break in the pipeline.
A school reservoir was available,
however, to give householders a
temporary supply. Residents were
urged Sunday to fill tubs andothcr
wise store water for Monday.
Nation's Death Rate
Lowest on Record
WASHINGTON, UP The Pub
lic Health Service said today the
nation's death rate last year
equalled the lowest on record.
The 1953 death rate was 9.6
per 1,000 population, the same as
in 1952 and 1950. Last year's low
rate was achieved despite a "re
latively severe" outbreak of in
fluenza in January and rehruary
and an unusual number of deaths
during heat waves in June and
earlv September, the service said.
It estimated that 1.523,000 per
sons died during 1953.
Mare Ice and Snow
Predicted for Valley
By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER
Know and ice were back to
plague Salem and the valley sec
tions, Monday morning, ana me
weather bureau says more is likely
to come.
Snow started falling late Satur
day and some of it spit down occa
sionally, hunoay. me weainer un
real! recorded but .3 of an inch at
Salem, but on elevated sections oi
the city the fall stacked up to three
inches or better.
Below freezing temperatures
came both Saturday and Sunday
nights to make streets and roads
slick and icy. The Monday morn
ing minimum here was 30 decrees,
two below freezing.
Snow showers are In the offing
for tonight and the low tempera
ture is predicted for around 28 de
crees. The 'orocast calls for most
l'v rain Tuesday and Salem folk
are hoping it is not freezing Tain,
cither. Strong soutneny in sown
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Vole Favored
WASHINGTON to Secretary
of Labor Mitchell Monday told
Congress he thinks President El
senhower's proposal for a govern
ment-supervised secret strike vote
of employes whenever a labor dis
pute enters the strike stage "is a
sound one."
-Any such vote should be taken
before a strike is cauea, ne shiu
not after it has started. ......
-Mitchell, testifying before the
Senate Labor Committee, acknow
ledged under searching questions
from Sen. Ives (R-NY) ghat the
proposal "may be impractical but
should be tried. .
Th nrnnnsal was understood to
have originated with Secretary of
Commerce Weeks, in a speecn iwu
weeks ago Mitchell indicated Con
gress should give the idea careful
study DCiore aaopmig u.
Ives termed the proposal
interference" with I
internal conduct of unions.
UP Passenger
Train Wrecked
WALLACE. Idaho W A Union
Pacific passenger train coming in
from Spokane jumped the tracks
at 30 miles an hour Sunday. Two
trainmen were slightly injured and
seven passengers shaken up.
The locomotive ran into a snow
bank and turned over on its side.
Eginecr Charles w. Mcvaoe aim
William G. Bozarth. the fireman.
were trapped for a time but es-
captcd in a cloud oi nissing aiewn
with minor injuries. Three other
crew members were shakn up.
The two passenger cars, a mail
and baggage car left the tracks
hut remained upright. The track
was torn up for more man iuu
feet A broken rail was blamed.
Th. Hprrailment occurred in the
west city yards.
The Northern Pacific freight line
east of here has been stalled since
Jan. 16 when a steam engine push
ing a rotarv plow through heavy
snow jumped the tracks. The rota
ry plow trying to get it out was
derailed baturaay.
easterly winds were moving in
Monday over the valley.
The weather bureau says an in
tense low pressure situation, simi
lar to the one that brought the
snow 10 days ago, has centered off
the north Washington coast, bring
ing snow or mixed ram and snow
for the western areas.
In some parts of the state slides
were hampering highway traffic
and part of S.W. Terwilliger boule
vard in Portland was still impass
able because of a slide.
Below freezing temperatures
were general, Monday, and in east
ern Oregon section they were
really cold. At Klamath Falls the
mercury dropped to 3 degrees be
low zero this morning. At Bly, it
was 14 below.
The highway commission warn
motorists to be equipped with
chains for most of the mountain
pass rcgiqns.
READY FOR BIG FOUR
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, left, walks with
Andrei Gromyko, right, Russian ambassador to London, and
an unidentified aide, on arriving for today's opening session
of the Big Four foreign ministers conference at Berlin's Allied
Control Authority building. (AP Wirephoto via radio from
Berlin)
Eastern Industries
May Locate in Oregon
By JAMES D. OLSON V
The Oregon Development com-
mission is negotiating with sever-
al eastern industrial leaders in -
terested in establishing specialty
industries utilizing Oregon 'lum
ber, -according to -Lawrence 'JL
Teeple. chairman.
Teeple, speaking at a confer
ence in Governor Paul L. Pat
terson's office Monday, when the
Oregon unemployment situation
was under discussion, said that
Urges Speed-up
On Hells Canyon
WASHINGTON W) Examiner
William J. Costello Monday urged
the lawyers involved to try to
speed up the Hells Canyon power
dam hearing which has been going
on off and on since July
He said at the opening of Mon
day's session that outsiders had
criticized the pace of the Power
Commission hearing on application
by Idaho Power Co. to build three
dams in the Snake River between
Idaho and Oregon, where a fed
eral Hells Canyon dam has been
proposed.
'Costello didn't name the outsid
ers. He asked attorneys to speed
up questioning of witnesses if pos
sible and to think about extending
the hearing hours. They now are
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with an hour
and a half for lunch five days
a week.
R. P. Parry. Idaho Power Co
attorney, said longer hours would
be agreeable to him.
Hoover Urges
Red China Ban
NEW YORK Wl Former Presi
dent Herbert Hoover urges every
American to join a petition cam
paign against seating Red China
in the United Nations.
The campaign is being conducted
hy the Committee of One Million,
which Is headed by Warren R.
Austin, formerly U. S. ambassador
to the U. N.
Hoover said In a statement yes
terday that he has opposed rec
ognition of Communist China by
the United Slates and its seating
in the U. N. "from the day the
Communists conquered China four
years ago.
"Any and every effort that we
as Americans can make to prove
to our friends overseas just where
we, as a nation, stand, Is of enor
mous value," he said.
Dr. Verne Miller
Officer Oregon Dads
EUGENE I Gordon E. Wilson
of Portland is the new president of
the University of Oregon's Dads'
Club.
Among those named lo the execu
tive committee at the club's meet
ing here Saturday were: Dr. Verne
Miller. Salem: Manning Barber.
K.ugene: and Don Helliwell, Rose-
hurg.
CONFAB
the commission after months- of
study had come to the definite
1 conclusion that Oregon's greatest
need is diversified industries,
The governor- reviewed the
present unemployment situation
in the state, atating there were
aproxfmateiy 64,000 persons un
employed in Oregon at present
However, he said in 1950 at the
same period there were approxi
mately 94,000 unemployed on the
lists.
If you are unemployed these
figures will bring no comfort,'
said Governor aPtterson, "but I
bring them out to show that the
conditions are not nearly as bad
as has been pictured by some."
(Continued on Page 3, Col. 4)'
Monty Doubts
1 Atomic Arms
. WASHINGTON W-Field Marshal I
Bernard L. Montgomery says the I
effect of atomic bombs Is an
imponderable" and that it is too
early to say how they will affect
the size of ground forces needed
to defend .Europe.
"Nobody can say that the atomic
weapon has proved that we can do
with less forces," the British offi
cer said in a copyrighted interview
with the magazine U. S. News and
World Report, published Monday.
"There have been no atomic
weapons used in the active theater
' of war today Korea, Indochina,
Malaya where fighting has been
going on.... How will military forces
be affected by the progress of
science? It will affect the balance,
you see how much must exist in
peacetime, always ready, and what
can come along after war starts...
"but there's nothing yet to show
that the total force you want has
been made less because of the
progress of science. It might."
Tariff Cuts to
Be Sidetracked
WASHINGTON MV-Several key
Republican congressmen were re
ported today to have advised Presi
dent Eisenhower to expect little or
no action hy Congress this year to
lower tariff barriers against for
eign goods.
This was the reported stand of
Republicans who have fought tra
ditionally for tariffs high enough
to protect American industry from
competition at home from cheaper
foreign goods.
Tariffs are taxes Imposed on
foreign products as thry enter the
United States, in effect raising
their prices here.
Eisenhower received over the
weekend a 102-page report from his
17-man Foreign Economic Policy
Commission, headed by Clarence B
Randall of Chicago, Inland Steel
Co. board chairman.
The report, sprinkled, liberally
with dissents from vanis mem
bers, especially Republican con
gressional members, urged thai
the President be given power to
lower tariffs by S per cent a year
over the next three years.
Eisenhower Appeals For
4-Vears Public Housing
Big 4 Outline
Views to End
Cold War Ills
BERLIN Ifl The Soviet Union.
Britain and France laid down their
views Monday on how to cure Eu
rope's Co d War ills and the Big
Four foreign ministers conference
then recessed until Tuesday. The
nrsi aays session lasted nearly
four hours. . ,
U. S. Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles presided as chair
man of the first session. He re
served the views of the U. S. gov
ernment for Tuesday.
Closeted in ; the locked main
chamber of the old four-power Al
lied Control Authority building in
the American sector - of - divided
Berlin, the top statesmen of the
East-West world heard:
Plea for France oh Germany
A plea by France to negate Ger
man militarism by enveloping a
united country within the frame
work of a peaceful western com
munity of nations- And suggestion
that German and Austria prob
lems be settled before any discus
sion of Asiatic questions.
A proposal by Britain to search
for further, fresh guarantees to
Moscow that she is safe from any
rumored or imaginary aggression
irom tne west.
Russia's master of diplomatic
shadow boxing, v. M. Molotov,
brought up the rear with the final
declaration of the day.
(Continued on Page 5, CoL S)
Court Frees Top
Red Chieftain
PITTSBURGH (UP) T h
Pennsylvania Supreme Court in
a. 4 to 1 decision today -voided
tne sedition conviction of Steve
Nelson, Communist party leader
under a zo-year prison sentence.
The decision quashed all state
cnarges against . the 31-year-old
native ol Yugoslavia and long
time leader in the American
Communist movement.
However, Nelson still faces
five-year sentence imposed by
tne u .s. District court on
charges of violating the Smith
act by advocating and teaching
the overthrow of the govern
ment
The mjtority opinion of I he
high Pennsylvania court held
that it was this federal statute
which barred proceedings against
Nelson under the state's ancient
sedition law.
Asks Penalties
On Fired Reds
WASHINGTON, UP Sen Olin
D. Johnston (D., S.C.) today call
ed on Ttty. Gen. Herbert Brown
ell, Jr. to resign Immediately un
less he can prove he has brought
indictments against alleged sub
versives ousted from the govern
ment. Johnson said he suspect that
none of the 2200 security risks
the administration fired have
been prosecuted.
In a statement prepared for de
livery in the Senate, Johnston
accused the Eisenhower adminis
tration of "ugly, distorted and
premediated actions" and "decit
and demagogism" in reporting on
its program to fire risks.
Johnston, a high ranking mem
ber of the Senate Civil Service
Committee, said the administra
tion "claimed they fired 1458 dis
loyal employes ' and later raised
the figure to 2200 under a se
curity order whicfl he said "was
designed primarily to confuse the
American public."
McCarthy Gives up
One Man Rule of Staff
WASHINGTON (UP) Sen.i
Joseph R. McCarthy R-Wis.) To
day gave up his "one-man" rule
over hiring and firing staff em
ployes of his Senate Permanent
Investigating Subcotnmottee in
an effort to bring Democratic
members back to the group.
Three Democratic senators,
who resigned from the subcom
mittee last July In protest
against the rule, were present
at a subcommittee "conference"
when McCarthy and three other
Republican ' members voted
unanimously tn rescind the rule.
'Hereafter, the hiring and fir
ing will he done hy a majority
of the subcommittee," McCarthy
said.
Snow lakes
15 Inches Long
At Hood River
HOOD RIVER (UP) What's
this? Sncwflakcs 13 inches in
diameter.
That was the report that had
old timers here scratching their
heads : today, after huge flakes
struck a small section of the
valley southwest of here, cover
ing an area a quarter mile wide
and about Hi miles long.
Leroy Childs, who retired last
year after serving 40 years as
head of the weather experiment
station, said he had never seen
anything like it before. He theo
rized the flakes might have been
massed together by airplane pro
pellers flying overhead.
The light, flaky ball-like flakes
were not only found on the
ground, but on chickenhouses
and other buildings in the 1V
mile long strip. -
Pro-Red POWs
Kept in Custody
MUNSAN. Korea (UP) The
communists intend to keep 21 un-
repatriated Americans in the
neutral zone at I'anmunlom until
a Korean peace conference has
disc ussed their status, U.N. dip
lomats believed today.
It was believed that the Keds.
as a propaganda move, would re
fuse to take away the Americans,
one Briton an dabout 325 bouth
Koreans. They were expected to
insist that the "progressives" who
refused to go. home are technic
ally still prisoners.
The Reds hold that all prison
ers should have been held until
a peace conference had discussed
their fate for 30 days..- .
tion situation today Included: '
in. Americana wno reiusea re -
patriation accused an; Indian off!-
cer of "kidnaping" CpL Claude J.
Batcbelor, one of two. Americans
who decided to go home. The
spokesman for the Americana ac
cused the officer of being "a paid
agent oi the United Nations.
Crucial Battle
In Indo-China
Hanoi, Indo-Chlna (UP)
American built fighter-bombers
today blasted Communist troops
massing before fhe strategic
French fortress of Dien Bien
Phu and military sources pre
dicted the decisive battle of the
bloody Inrin-China war was im
minent. 1
French and loyal Viet Namese
forces, outnumbered four to one
by Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap's Viet
Minh Communists, prepared tn
meet any attack with a "wall of!
fire," a military spokesman here
said.
Giapo is expected lo use the
40,000 crack troops he has as
sembled opposite the fortress in
a bid to capture it and turn the
tide of the war, the spokesman
said.
Smashing Giap's forces would
give the French Union forces
their first major victory In the
war, now in its eighth year, ob
servers said after a high com
mand briefing.
COFFEE SALES DROP
NEW YORK on Two retail mer
chants' associations report a drop
of 50 per cent in New York City
coffee sales as a result of recent
increases in the price, now more
than dollar pound.
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The Democrats, Sens. John L.
McClclian of Arkansas, Stuart
Symington of Missouri and
Henry M. Jaekson of Washing
ton, declined to say immediately
if they will rejoin the subcom
mittee. The Democrats asked for "a
couple of hours to talk over
some things," McCarthy re
ported. The Democratic boycott of Mc
Carthy's subcommittee flared
after J. B. Matthews, the group's
former chief investigator, wrote
a magazine article last summer
charging that the Protestant
clergy was Communist infiltrated.
Private Capital
Encouraged for
Cheap Homes
WASHINGTON (ft- President
Eisenhower Monday gave Congress
an eight-point program for revis
ing federal housing laws with the
declared aim of providing "good
housing in good neighborhoods" for
every American. . .
Eisenhower urged authorities, of
four more years of public housing,'
with 140,000 new units to be start-'
ed. The rate. 35,000 a year, Is the
one now authorized.
Low Income Homes
But this program, the President,
said in a special message to Con
gress, should be coupled with a
new and experimental" plan .la'.
encourage private enterprise to
meet the needs of low income
families. The government should
underwrite longer-term mortgages
wun lower down payments for
families left homleless by slum '
clearance, he said. '
The proposed, stem-to-tern over-
haul of the housing pro-gram
should be based,' Eisenhower said,
on "full and effective utilization
of our competitive economy."
ine rresident said: .
Government Must Lead
"The federal government must
provide aggressive and positive
leadership. At the same time ac
tions and programs must be avoid
ed that would make our citizens
increasingly dependent upon the
federal government to supply their
housing needs. ; - " ,
(Continued on Page 5, CoL 3)
Still Imports
Foreign Butter
I : '"NEW, YORK (VP) The federal,
, sim mc im-
Port of '707,000 pound of foreign
butler this yar in apite of its vast
proiram of buymg nrpnt Ameri
can butter lo reportarm price,
"e New York World-Telegram and
Sun reported.
The Scripps-Howard newspaper
said that although foreign imports
will be only "a dribble" compared
to federal purchase of 1,500,000
pounds of butter a day, merchants
feel nothing should be brought in
which will have an adverse ef
fect on domestic production, on
marketing storage, and on price
support programs."
U.S. customs figures show that
foreign butter is arriving at month
ly rates of from 50,000 to 100,000
pounds under quotas set by the
Production and Marketing Division
of the Department of Agriculture
last summer. Most of it comes
from Argentina, the Netherlanrii
and New Zealand.
Threats Made
Over Dickinson
WASHINGTON. (UP) An
Army colonel said today he has
received threatening telephone
calls since he announced the ar
rest of Cpl. Edward S. Dickinson,
the Korean War prisoner who
chose and then rejected Com
munism. Col. Norman E. Sprowl report
ed that three callers sharply criti
cized the Army's handling of the
case and made what he described
as threats.
"One man thought we bad
promised to free these men and
said he didn't like what we were
doing," Sprowl reported. "The
general Idea was 'we'll get you for
this.'"
Sprowl, public information of
ficer for the military district here, -announced
Friday that Dicken
son was being held for court
martial on charges of dealing with
the enemy and seeking "favorable
treatment" as a Red POW.
Plan Rewrite
Of Bricker Bill
WASHINGTON l President El
senhower may give congressional
leaders a go-ahead signal today for
efforts to rewrite In the Senate
the Bricker proposal to curb treaty
powers.
Sen. Knowland (R-Calif) said in
advance of a White House confer
ence he expects to announce later
the course to be followed by the
leadership on the controversial
measure now technically neiore we
Senate for debate.
li was obvious, however, that
the failure of Son. Ferguson of
Michigan, head of the GOP Policy
Committee, to agree with Sen.
Bricker R-Ohiol on the 'terms of
a compromise at a mcctiag yester
day left GOP leaders only the al
ternative of fighting the Issue mt
before the Senate.