G apit al THE WEATHER MOSTLY CLOUDY with occasion al rain tonight,' Friday. Little change in temperature. Low to night, 34; high Friday, 48. FINAL EDITION 66th Year, No. 41 ?JZ0Z Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 18, 1954 (32 . -rrt, rt. 4 More Errors Discovered in New Blue Book Use of Photo of Judge Who Died Last July Most Glaring Mistake By JAMES D. OLSON Four more serious errors have been discovered in the new Ore gon Blue bock, the most glaring being the use of a picture of a circuit judge who died in July, 1053, and making no mention of the successor who has been on the bench for more than six months. . The first error found in this book, compiled and issued by Secretary of State Earl T. New bry, was use of the late Justice Arthur D. Hay's name under the photograph of Associate Justice William C. Perry. Small slips carrying the name of Justice Perry were printed and distri buted to all who had been isucd one of the first 200 copies of the book. Present Judge Not In The newly discovered errors in clude the use of the picture of the late Circuit Judge Charles H. Combs of Lake county, who .died after hearing a case in Bend last July. Judge Charles H. Foster was appointed by Governor Paul L Patterson on July 7, 1953, to (Continued on Page 5, CoL 4) Freight Wreck At Yoncalla UOSEBURG MFl Fourteen cars of a Southern Pacific freight train were derailed north of Yoncalla, north of here, at 6:15 a. m. Thurs day. No one wa.s injured. Officials said it might take up to 20 hours to clear the track, which will hold up traffic on the Siskiyou line. The main line traffic into California is not affected. One hundred yards of track were torn up when a gondola car left the rails on a straight stretch . for a reason hot immediately deter mined and 13 cars followed. One of the cars was loaded with rails, which will be used in the repair. The Rudolph Wiley home beside the tracks wa.s narrowly missed by one car. The Wiley automobile was damaged. Mrs. Wiley said that last year a train hit a logging truck near the same place and a log sailed through the air and nearly hit the house. Chilly Weather Moves in Valley Chillier temperatures moved In on valley areas during the night, although Salem's mini mum for the morning was down to only 34. In some areas adjacent, how ever, there was a bit of ice with temperatures skirting the freez ing mark, and there was a light fall of snow in some of the near by foothills. Heavy snowfall in the moun tains over -Wednesday make chains necessary on most of the mountain passes, the highway commission reports. The greatest fall of snow in the 24-hour period ending at 8 am. Thursday was on the Wil lamette pass, 14 inches. The San tiam pass reported 12 inches. Forecast for Salem and vicin ity tonight is for mostly cloudy skies with occasional rain. Warren Hearing Again Delayed WASHINGTON iffi - A Senate judiciary subcommittee Thursday ; put otf until Friday a closed door; meeting for further study of Earl ; Warren's nomination to be chief i justice of the United States. ' Chairrran I.anger 'R-Md1, in announcing postponement of the meeting, reported he had received several more letters concerning the nominee. He told newsmen enc was favorabl to Warren and sev eral unfavorable. The group also will review a "limited" FBI report on the for mer California governor. NATIONALIST ASSEMBLY CONVENES TAIPEH. Formosa . Nation alist China's National Assembly convenes Friday with President Chiang Kai-Shek scheduled to ad dress the opening session. Weather Details Mailman tflrcUr. M: minimi"" In !. sf. total Sl-hiiir arrHatlMInn: ' , ..ml.: l; rm'i. ' HUM. . Irrt. iR'anrl I '"' Ham..) Bank Makes Realty Deal For Expansion United States Na tional Adds 71 Feet On South Commercial Announcement was made Thurs day by the United States National Bank of Portland that it has pur chased a 71-ioot frontage of prop erly on South Commercial street, adjoining the Salem Branch of the hank on the south, and will use it for expansion of the Ladd & Bush Salem branch. , In the transaction is the Sim mons building, a 25-foot frontage purchased from the Roy Simmons estate through Grabenhorst Bros. Realtors, and the adjoining 4o-foot building purchased from the Gra benhorst firm. The bank paid $125,000 for the two properties. The transaction gives the bank a total frontage of 172 feet on South Commercial. It already own ed 1G6 feet on State Street, so its Salem banking property now cov ers a little more than a quarter block. Drive-in Facilities The expansion plans of the bank will require a general reconstruc tion of the property. A drive-in entrance will be built on South Commercial and drive-in windows will be provided on the south side of the present building occupied by the United States National Bank. The project will be co-ordinated with the building plans of the C. L. Corporation which recently an nounced that-a new business and office building will go up in the block within a year. The bank will make off-street parking available (Continued on Page 5, Col. 4) Lost Diplomats Said in Prague BERLIN (UP)-The West Ber lin Telegraf reported today that Guy Burgess and Donald McLean, Britain's "missing diplomat," are living in Red Prague in a residen tial area reserved for government officials. The newspaper quoted unidenti fied "eastern newsmen" as the source of the report. Burgess, a former official of the British Embassy in Washington, and MacLean, head of the Foreign office's American Department, left England suddenly and without explanation on May 25, 1951. They were traced to France, but there the trail was lost. Last summer, MacLean's Amer ican born wife, Melinda. who had moved to Geneva, vanished with their children, i Repeated reports that the two men fled to Iron Curtain territory, and that Mrs. MacLean joined them there, never have been con firmed. Snowfall in t'ew England (By The Aorlatrri PreMt More snow fell in the northeast ern section of the country Thurs day but generally fair and mild winter wealher was in prospect elsewhere. The snowfall in New England diminished during the night and1 earlv Thursday continued onlv in! Maine, New Hampshire and Vcr- j mnnt. More than 9 inches of snow fgl in Caribou, Maine, since Wednesday. Skies cleared over Northern New York after two days of snow and rain had curtailed travel, broke power lines in six commu nities and closed many schools. iAiitlifrlv u-imlc cnnl larmop air w..u....v . ...V. over most of the Midwest while with a hammer at lamed Madam rre jimi m mild winter weather continued ; Tussaud's Museum Thursday. i about $30,000 to clean up affairs, over most areas westward to the i . While a party of schoolgirls I He said the Indians as well as Pacific Coast. Rain fell early Hooked on in horror, museum at-1 stale and county officials in Orc Thursdav along the West Coast i tendants grappled with the attack-, gon approved of full independence from Northern California into Ore-1 er and pinned him down until po- for the 60 small bands, tribes and gon. I lice arrived to arrest him. 1 groups of Indians living between Youth s Arrest Ends Town's Reign of Terror SILVERTOV -- This town's reign of telephone terror was ended Wcdncsdcy night with the arrest nf a juvenile joker, a 15-year-old high school student who admitted makin. the calls. "I just did it for fun and meant no harm,' 'the youth told Sheriff Denver Young when he was taken into custody. The boy was remanded to cus tody of Marion county juvenile nfliccrs and was brought before Circuit Judge Joe Fenton for a hearing Thursday morning. Arrest of the hoy came after nearly a month of phoney phone calls to residents nf Silvcrton, warning of bank robberies, order ing groceries and plumbing work at fictitious addresses and in one instance threats of death were made. CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR WELCOMES IKES TO CALIFORNJA n 1 Yn J - I O :fe; I ' v hn It- Imlah Wants To Die Soon Donald Dwaine lmlah, 19-year-old youth who is scheduled to die in the gas chamber next Tuesday, wants to die, he told in terviewers Wednesday. lmlah. who murdered Bruce Houck, Parkdale rancher, near Hood River, said he would rather die than get off with a life sen tence. lmlah said he doesn't want his lawyer to appeal to the Supreme Court, and that Gov. Paul L. Pat terson shouldn't commute the sen tence to li(p imprisonment. He was paroled last May from the State School for Boys at Wood burn. Houck took the boy into his home.-.' ' ' - '' ' "' On July 7, 1953, Imlah shot and killed Houck. "I got the bright idea I was going to kill somebody and he was the nearest one," lmlah said. Imlah's mother said goodbye to ! her son last Saturday. Milk Trading Stamp Probe PORTLAND I The Slate Milk Marketing Administration in i tends to investigate a report that j a Klamath Falls firm is giving I trading stamps with purchases of milk and other food. Allien Nordquist, head field man I for the administration, said some ' nthnr Kl.im.-ith F.-ilU stores have ! cut the price of milk a half-cent ! to 24 cents a quart, in order to , I meet the trading stamp compcti- j ; tion. He said the price cut was legal, since the minimum price set for Klamath Falls was 21 cents. He added, however, that the giv ing of trading stamps is a viola tion "of the milk administration's code, The Klamath Falls firm reported giving '.he trading stamps with food purchases is Oregon Food Stores, which has three units there. WAX FIGURE OF CHURCHILL SMASHED LONDON iti The wax figures of Prime Minister Churchill and: two members of his cabinet were ; smashed to smithereens nv a man - . J At another t.mt the prankster ordered numerous residents to hoard their water supply because the main: wouk be shul off for 24 hours. One call informed a cafe operator that several cus tomers were suffering from food poisoning after eating in his restaurant. The boy was traced, accord ing to Police Chief Hell Main and Officer Martin Kasscbaum, when it was found thai most of the calls came when the hoy was absent from school. One call was received by the high school principal W o was subjected to profane abuse on Ihe telephone. The younger sisters of the boy an- to be ques'inncd by juvenile authorities to discover if they were induced to participate in the hoaxes. PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Feb. 18 California Governor Good win Knight stands beside President and Mrs. Eisenhower as the presidential couple greeted a crowd of 3000 which wel comed them to this desert resort last night. They arrived on the president's plane, spoke a few words to the crowd and then drove quickly to the Smoke Tree Ranch home of Paul Helms, a Los Angeles baking lirm head, where they will stay five days. (AP Wircphoto) ike Enjoys Vacation in California Sunshine PALM SPRINGS. Calif. UFI , The President and Mrs. Eisen President Eisenhower, warmly wel- hower arrived here last night for corned to this desert vacation re- sort, looked forward today to soak ing up plenty of sunshine much of it on the golf course. Teamsters to Keep Raiding MIAMI BEACH. Fla. (,fl The powerful AFL Teamsters Union Thursday refused to sign a pro posed AFL - CIO "no raiding agreement which has been re garded as an initial step toward i merging the two federations. ! Dave Beck. Teamsters Union ! president, said the union's general j executive board voted unanimous-1 lv ocainst going along with the ! plan to bar unions from one feder-! i ation from trying to take over j , members already organized by j the other federation. I Beck, at the same time, said the teamsters' board agreed with him that John L. Lewis' United i Mine Workers Union should be in : vited back into the AFL. 'The board unanimously sup- ....t.l my position that Lewis should be taken back into the AFL nm sliould be a party to any unity agreement arrived at," Beck said. iHeed Year for Indian Freedom WASHINGTON I It will lake at legist a year and maybe l'.i years before the government can step aside as guardian of Western Oregon Indians. So reported Morgan Pryse, the Bureau of Indian Affairs area di rector from Portland. Ore., at a Joint liousc-.cnaie innian nnoirs subcommittee meeting here Wed- nrsiwv. , . . the Cascade .Mountains ana ine ocean in Oregon. Pryse added that a few of the estimated 2.100 adult Indians had urged delay, however, until expect ed government funds are distribut ed to them. The funds are the re sult of judgments awarded them in settlement of their tribal claims to lands taken over by the govern ment years ago. Crime Prevention Proclaimed by Mayor Mayor Al I.oucks has rssued a proclamation marking the observ ance of National Crime Preven tion Week as being irom rcoru ary 14 through February 20. He urged the citizens of Salem to do their "upmost to interest them selves in this educational program and to support all agencies ami ef Inrts to put down crime and the breeding of crime in this commu nity." The national Exchange club ini tiated the annual observance of National Crime Prevention Week seven years ago. five days of rest after a 9-hour nuubiup uigni iruin rvaMiiiiKiuu. A crowd of about 3,000 persons turned out at the' airport and cheered the couple as they de scended from their private plane, the Columbine. Smiling, the Presi dent flopped to "S battery of micro phones and declared: "We are delighted to be back here once again. We have been looking forward for a long time to this trip. We are delighted to be in this state." j The Eisenhowers together with the first Lady s mother, Mrs. John S. Doud were welcomed officially by California's Gov. Goodwin J. Knight. (Continued on Page 5. Col. 1) Reserve Officers Loyally Tests ! WASHINGTON A') Secre tary of the Army Stevens laid j down a policy Thursday that any reserve officer who refuses to i answer questions on loyalty data j "when properly asked" will for-1 fcit his commission and be dis- charged "under conditior.s other ' than honorable." I Stevens acted because of questions raised by Sen. McCar-j t!.; (R., Wis.) in connection with case of Maj. Irving I'eress. He disclosed his move by making public a letter to McCarthy. Percss, a dentist, refused at a hearing in New Yor Thursday to answer questiors from McCarthy as to whether he was a Commu nist while on active duty. Percss, a reserve officer, was given on honorable discharge from Camp Kilmer, N. J., Feb. 3. McCarthy has accused him of communism, and had suqcsted I to Stevens that Percss he court-1 martialcd. Mason Resigns Over Manion ! WASHINGTON 'l'1'i-A Repub- j lican congressman angrily quit President Eisenhower's Commis sion on Intergovernmental Ucla- ! lotions today in protest against White House dismissal of Chairman 1 Clarence Manion. i flcp. Noah M. Mason of Illinois resigned wilh a sizzling slatement that Maninn's ouster "smacks of I autocratic dictatorship." Mason's parting shot al the White House dramatized the bitter dispute within the Republican par ty over Ihe proposed Bricker a mcndmc.it on presidential treaty powers. Manion. former dean of Notre Dame Law School, an nounced yesterday he was fired because he supported the Bricker amendment. Ho said he quit at request of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. Mason, l GOP right winger, said he had come to regard Manion "as one of the biggest men in the coun try, a man big enough and capable enounh to be President of the Unt ied Stales." Big 4 Agrees to Far East Peace Meet with Red 'China Flying Hero Defends Germ Confessions WASHINGTON Ifl A decorated flying hero testified at the Marine Corps inquiry in the case of Col. Frank H. Schwable Thursday that there were reports in Korea some Air Force pilots were instructed to do more talking, if they were captured, than the traditional rules allow. The brief account, from Marine I Col. R. E. Galer, bore on a cardi I nal point of Schwable's defense l against criticism of his action in making a false germ warfare con fession ' under Communist pres ! sure. I Counsel for Schwable said Wednesday he intended to show that the colonel, in yielding to the Red pressure, had acted in accord with official directives. Witness Also Shot Down Galer, holder of the U. S. Medal of Honor and of the British Flying Cross, flew in Korea and like Schwable was 'shot down. But he was rescued in a short time. He is now a student at the Air War College. His Medal of Honor is for exploits at Guadalcanal in World War II. Galer, a volunteer witness, was not pressed for details on the re port of Air Force briefings. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 7) Tribal Leader Fears Freedom WARM SPRINGS. Ore. (IP) Fear that the federal government's ans to drill Hack to reliance on medicine men and midwives, was expressed here Wednesday night by a tribal leader,. ' Frank Supan, ''member N of the Warm Springs tribal council, said that was perhaps the biggest ha ard in plans to close a 22-bcd hos pital here. A three-man delegation, headed by Charles Jackson, council chair man, will leave Monday for Wash ington to offer suggestions. Jack son, in an interview, said this is the situation: I The local reservation hospital is viewed by the government as too expensive to operate and is to be closed June 30. Indians needing care will go to one of the several hospitals available in Central Ore gon towns. But. lie added, it is standard practice of the hospitals, when an Indian appears for non-emergency care, to make a financial respon sibility study before admitting him. ; East Germans Forced to March BERLIN W One hundred and fifty thousand East Berlin workers marched under orders of their Communist bosses Thursday in a monster anti-West demnnsirntion. A rival "iltnt m.'irrh" nf nro. lest against Russian tactics in the Big 'our conference was due to start a little later. The East Zone marchers carried banners proclaiming support of So viet Russia's proposals at Ihe Big Four conference table and de fiance of the Western stand, no tably the American position, The mammoth narade and rally on snow-covered Unler den Linden got under way an hour alter the foreign ministers of Russia, ! sources saia tnc mounting air ai the United Slates and tacks n'adc it increasingly un- France Grcat Britain sal down to their likely' that Ihe Victminh would final session. ' try a fullflcdgcd assault on Dion No disturbances were reported. 1 Bien Phu. Claims He Saw Amelia Earhart in So. Pacific George Putnam of the Journal, who has been Capital getting mail intended lor his famous namesake, the lale George Palmer Putnam for Ihe past 40 years, today received an air mail spe cial delivery letter from an ex serviceman in Pittsburgh. I'enn.. who claims to have seen George Palmer Putnam's wife, Amelia Earhart Putnam living with na tives on a South Pacific isle dur ing World War II. The ex-service man wrote Put nam in the belief that he was Amelia Earhart Putnam's hus band. The noted aviatrix disap peared somewhere in the South I'acilic region while on a global airpl:.ne flight prior to World War II. Th? letter lo the Salem man ".as written by John Bnrizink, 5925 Locust street, Pittsburgh, 23. Pa postmarked Coraopolis, Pittsburgh. It follows: luhurn ol "While I was in the service of 45 Jets Refuel 20.,000 Feet Oyer Bermuda HAMILTON. Bermuda Wt -Forty-five American jet bombers racing toward Morocco replen ished their fuel tanks Thursday in a spectacular refueling operation 20.000 feet above Bermuda waters. The warplancs and the 22 ac companying tankers the tactical arm of the 301st U.S. bomber Wing took off from Barksdalc, La., Wednesday for a 60-day stay at Moroccan stations, 4,575 miles away. The speedy B47s began to ren dezvous with the tankers an hour before midnight, each taking up wards of 5,000 gallons of fuel. The tankers then landed at Bermuda to load still more fuel for planes still to come through. The wing the first bomber outfit to take regular station in the new U.S. built airfields in French Morocco is expected to take about 10 hours for the entire flight. It will carry out its first exercise from the Moroccan bases Friday when it takes off for a 4,000 - mile simulated strike at in dustrial areas of France and Brit ain. Italy's Reds Call Strike on Scelba ROME Iffi Italy's Communist labor bosses Thursday called for nationwide demonstrations Friday at a moment when the fate of Premier Mario Scelba's new gov ernment will be before parlia ment. ' , The Red-led General Confedcra- I of a series of municipal general strikes and demonstrations' that have, taken, live- lives, and,, left 2B jnjfared' In clashes with Scelba's tough riot police. Officially, the, strikes are bids for wage In' creases but Iheir major purpose , . , . .!,-- n. ., has been to embarrass the gov- ernment. Two-fisted, 52-year - old Scelba faced an aroused Parliament for the first time as Premier Thurs- day- Bitter debate over his gov. ernment and program is expected to start in both houses rriday, Indochina Reds Driven Back HANOI, Indochina I Crack j rebel Vielminh troops surround- j ing France's northwest Indochina fortress of Dien.Bien Phu moved still farther back Thursday to es cape baltlc-secking French forces. Gen. Itene Cogny s troops pushed three to five miles north and west of Ihe heavily fortified plain with out contacting any units of the Communist-led rebels. Cogny. French commander in north Indochina, for several days has been sending out 4.0110 to 5,000 ,rooPs troops daily in an attempt to draw major units of the estimated .16,000 Victminh soldiers into hat tic. The rebels have been cn entrenched around Dien Bien Phu for three months but have never attacked. French airmen in American -supplied warplancs strafed and bombed the Vielminh positions around the plain for the 62nd j straight day. French army the U.S. Army in World War II. in AT 4: SF and was docked on a ship in an inlet I was given per mission to explore the forests and jungles. I encountered a village of gross huts and a number of na - lives living there. I was positive I saw your lost wife, Amelia Earhart, living with the natives. She could not talk but stretched her arms out as if Iml taling an airplane, uttering "mill bird." She stared at me and raised her right hand above her head with the palm down. "While I was standing there with her. two large colored natives with a large club and a large knife gestured for me lo go on and quickly took the woman into Ihe grass hut. "I was alone al Ihe time and after walking about four or five hours l reaenca tnc snip, wnicn was docked, and told my fellow (Continued on Page 8, Col. if) Chance Offered Restore Peace In Indochina BERLIN I - The Big Four for eign ministers formally proposed Thursday night a Korean peace conference to be held at Geneva on April 26 and agreed that the problem of ending the Indochina War should be discussed at the same time. The announcement was con tained in a four-power communi que issued at the close of the 23 day Berlin conference. It stated . the purpose of the Geneve parley would be to reach "a peaceful set tlement of the Korean question." Participating in the Korean dis cussions will be Communist China,' North and South Korean govern ments and other countries which had armed forces in the Korean War and which wish to attend. Pciplng Regime Agrees The Pelping government has agreed to take part and the Swiss government at Bern has granted permission for the meeting in Ge neva. ' The four agreed "that the prob lem of restoring peace in Indo china will also be discussed at the conference, to which rcpresc'a tives of the United States. Fr the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Cm nese People's Republic and other interested slates will be invited. It was understood the other in terested slates would include the three Indochina states Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia and possibly some neighboring nations. (Continued on Page 5, Col 6) Court Martial WASHINGTON H) - The Army I Thursday ordered Cpl. Edward Dickenson to stand a court martial ... hni. Ih, h ;rnrmaA . fnnu, imrl- ... j collaborated with his Communist captors to gain "better treatment for himself. Dickenson was arrested Jan. 22 al Waller Reed Army Hospital hero and has been undergoing a pre-trial Investigation since Jan. 26. The Army said the general court martini will lake place at Ft. Mc Nair. Washington, on a dale to be announced later. The hearing will be open to the public except when matters concerning possible mili tary secrets are being discussed. Britain's Record Defense Budget LONDON (ifv Britain announced Thursday a record peacetime war prevention defense budget and warned Russia that Ihe free world holds Ihe superiority in atomic weapons. A government white paper sub mitted to Parliament said Britain was building up its atoipic air power with a force of modern bombers as r deterrent to "ad ventures on the part of the Com munist world as their aggression in Korea." Defense expenditure for I0.14-5.), the while paper said, will be 1, ain.0nO.0O0 pounds S4.591.720.000t. This compares wilh 1.6.16.760,000 pounds i$4.5BS.72B.0O0i allotted for i the 1953-54 fiscal year ending in i April. Coastal Waters to Be Closed March 1 PORTLAND (UP) - The State Game Commission said today that coastal waters will be closed to angling for two months beginning on March 1. Stcclhcad fishermen had inquired about continuing to fish in coastal waters until March 1 15 on the assumption that last 1 year's -cgulations would remain in i effect through the winter season, but the commission said rules adopted in January became ef fective Feb. 6 and supersede all others In other areas, with the exception of the Rogue and Urn qua rivers. Ihe winter season will continue through March and April, ending with the opening of trout season May 1. tVLST GERMANY (ONTHIIUTKS TO NATO BONN, Germany ' Wst Germany has agreed lu continue paying WW million marks $M2. nmi.oooi a month to help support the Allied armies here, the gov. ernment announced Thursday. ... h