Capital
jlJo
THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY with rain and
fusty wind tonight, Saturday.
Slightly warmer. Low (anight, 42:
high Saturday, 0. '
FINAL
EDITION
66th Year, No. 42 ZZ?,;' Salem, Oregon, Friday, February 19, IS
Price 5c
II
Inheritance
Tax Revenues
Sliow Increase
Unander Reorganiza
tion Brings Tax Pay
ments From Evaders
By JAMES O. OLSON
Through reorganization n
both the offici and field staffs
of the inheritance tax division
of the State Treasurer's office
by State Treasurer Sig Unander,
inheritance tax collections during
the 1933-55 biennium are expect
ed to reach $6,500,000 and pos
tibly a top of S7 million, 'ar
in excess of the anticipated rev
enue frcm this source set at
the beginning o" the biennium at
$4,465,000.
Treasurer t'l ander said Fri
day that for a long period only
Multnomah county and some of
the larger Oregon cities were
properly and completely investi
gated, leaving a ) rge section of
the state untouched by inspec
tion of county records, the prin
cipal sources uncovering trans
fers of property which had es
caped taxation. I these areas,
the inheritance division was de
pendent completely on the re
ported taxable assets as furn
ished the office. 1
Eases Tax Burden
In commenting on the expect
ed large increase, Treasurer
Unander calls attention to the
fact that an: of these taxes un
collected places an additional
tax burden on the general tax
payers of the state.
"Because of the loss of large
revenues n the past that did not
come to the attention of our
office, either through ignorance
ot. the part of the people or by
persons who were actually delib
ate in tax evasion, arrangements
(Continued on Page 5, Col. 6)
Senate to Pass
Air Academy Bill
WASHINGTON "B - Senators
considering legislation to create
an Air . Force academy Friday
exacted three commitments from
Secretary of the Air Force Talbott,
the measure. It has already pass- j
cd the House.
In a session with the Senate
Armed Services Committee, Tal
bott agreed to:
1. Accept recommendations of
a proposed commission as to a
site for the academy or else ex
plain to congress why he did not.
2. Put a ceiling of about 145
million dollars on construction
costs. Construction is expected
to be a five-year job. The bill
authorizes 25 million dollars for
tho first year.
3. Submit within a day or two
a proposal (or an interchange of
some graduates of service acade
mics among the Air Force, the
Army, and the Navy. The
thought is that unification will
be improved if some air academy
graduates serve in the Army or
Navy and vice versa.
Oregon Coast
Road Closed
The Oregon Coast Highway was
closed Friday, for the third time
this winter, by a slide at Jetty
Creek, north of Rockaway in Tilla
mook County.
A detour. 14 miles long is
available via the Miami River
Road.
The Highway Commission also
said that chains are required be
cause of packed snow on the road
from Government Camp to Timber
line Lodge, and on the East
Diamond Lake Highway.
It recommended that motorists
carry chains at Warm Springs
Junction, Santiam and Willamette
Passes. Austin, and Seneca.
There is sanded packed snow at
Government Camp. All other points
reported bare pavement.
Rain and Wind
To Be Expected
The wind and rain were back; to build Pelton dam on thc Dcs-
in good measure for Salem and j chutes river, the Ninth U. S. Cour
vallev areas, Friday, and from j of Applcas ruled late yesterday,
thc fivedav forecast it looks as 'of Appeals ruled late yesterday,
if this section will slosh around i Thc court threw out an FPC
for a few more days.
Wind was clocked as high as
40 miles per hour velocity in ' project in Jefferson county,
peak guts by the weather bu- In a 2-1 ruling, with Judge Wil
reau in Salem Friday morning, liam lleaiy dissenting, thc court
minute averages being 27 miles. held that the commission had ex
Tk. immobile forecast is for i cccded its jurisdiction and had
more guty winos lonigm nm,
Saturdav. !
Aloag with the rain, tempera-,
Hires are to continue mnn ra
the next five day, ,
As result of the renewen rains,
rivers in the va ley are sngnuy
now. At Sa-
.-
!cm i
1L. ,1' 1 Umnl lin 111 I .t
feet Friday morning.
Italian Senate
Opens Debate
Scelba's Plan
2500 Police Stand
Guard Against
Communist Riots
ROME (A5) A divided and an
gry senate opened debate Fri
day on Premier Mario Scelba's
pro-western program. A heavitly
armed 2,500-man police force
stood guard against possible
communist agitation.
Riot police and carabinicri na
tional police blocked off all trap
fic in a 10-block area around the
Palazzo Madama senate building.'
The precaution was taken in
the wake of violent communist
scenes in both the senate and
chamber of deputies Thursday
night when the Red-hating Scel
ba preset ted the program of his
8-day-old government to parlia
ment. The chamber session
broke up when communist and
fellow-traveling socialist deputies
walked out.
Tense but Calm
The opening of Friday's sen
ate session war tense, but calm.
(Continued on Page 5, Col. 5)
Bill to Hike Tax
Exemptions
WASHINGTON ( Sen. George
(D-Gal introduced a bill Friday to
raise the individual income tax ex
emption from $600 to $800 this year
and to $1,000 in succeeding years.
He described it as a move to ward
off a serious economic downturn.
George is the senior Democrat
on the Senate Finance Committee
and a former chairman of that
group which handles tax lcgisla-
, Two other Democratic members
of the finance committee Sens.
Kerr of Oklahoma and Frear of
Delaware joined George in spon
soring the bill.
The technical staff of lax ad
visers to Congress has estimated
that an increase in personal ex
emptions from the present $600 to
$800 would cost five billion dollars
a year in revenue.
Sex Slayer Dies
In Gas Chamber
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. UP)
Henry Ford McCracken, convict
ed of the sex-murder of a 10-ycar-old
girl near Santa Ana, was
executed Friday for thc crime.
Warden Harley O. Teets said
the condemned man "went very
quietly." The gas was turned on
at 10:05 a.m. Physicians reported
McCracken dead at 10:14 a.m.
The killer, onetime hill-billy
musician, appeared quite com-;
P0On.v a few minute, before his j
,on 'ZnTrC
s las, appeal to the
McCracken
courts was rejected.
McCracken was convicted of
thc May IS, 1951. murder of 10-year-old
Patricia Jean Hull.
Airport Light Panel
Now in Operation
The new light panel for Salem
airport, installed in thc Weather
Bureau offices, is now in opera
tion. One box controls thc instru
ment landing system lights. An
other controls thc high intensity
lights for the runways and all
other lights on thc field.
The panel, originally estimated
to cost about $2,500 was actually
done for about $300.
Appeals Court Cancels
Pelton Dam License
SAN FRANCISCO (UP) - The proval to the project as a whole.
Federal Power Commission in-, And we do not doubt that it has the
,u r n,.i.iu. . nrmiiv lii-mw
vadrd the sovereign rights of thc
state of Oregon in granting Port -
land General Electric Co. a license
license wnicn wouio nave permmea
I construction ot tne nyorociccinc
imrM,..i. "
1-,ws 10 Prolecl salmon- lroul and
other hsh
iiM : "
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a '
"0? Oregon"
i The opinion read in part:
! f.j.Mrfi th mmmitsinn
I L WUUIJKH'J
has the legal right lo give iU ap -
Imlah Not at
All Interested
Donald Dwaine Imlah, 19-year-old
Hood River slayer, wasn't in
terested Friday when Warden
Clarence T. Gladden told him that
Imlah's attorney had appealed Im
lah's death sentence to the State
Supreme Court.
HlnHHen who advised Tmlah nf
the appeal Friday morning after :
Retting olficial noiice of it, quoted
Imlah as saying:
"Oh, is that so?" Now I suppose
I'll be around here until next Oc
tober." '
Gladden said Imlah was unemo
tional, and shrugged his shoulders.
The youth, who had been sched
uled to die in the-gas chamber
next Tuesday morning, had told
reporters he wanted to die, rather
than face life in prison.
if Imlah's lawyer proceeds with
Ihc appeal, it might be a year be-
fore Imlah would be executed, if!
.ouici De cxecuiea, u,
thc high court affirmed thc con-!
vicuon. 1
The high court probablv would
hear thc appeal next October. ,
when it holds its fall term at.
Pendleton.
Asks 26 Weeks
Jobless Pay
WASHINGTON UPI Secretary;
ha, wri ten all BorWriBi i
unemployment insurance systems
i be strengthened.
lie ashen mill inc si.uus prov lie
26 weeks of benefit payments uni-!
formly
Mitchell noted that thc Federal
Advisory Council on Employment
Security has recommended that in :
each state thc maximum weekly j
benefit should at least equal 60 to
67 per cent of the state's average
weekly wage. He said President
Eisenhower had pointed out too
many insurance claimants now get I
less than 50 per cent. of their rcgu-!
lar waf.es. I
Ml iL f a 'I
VeOtner . UetQIlS
Mklmnm ttftlrrdiv, 441 minima
t. i
'
dar. 411. Tolal ?l-hnur tirrrlpitillnn: .111
lr mnnth: l..1it nrmal. a-A'!. gtaian
prrriptlattan. All narmal. 1.;t. Rifrr
hHthl. 1.1 Iffl. Iftrporl pit I .8. Wfllhar
Rurcpp.l
1 right to grant a permissive license
1 for the construction of the dam on
! its own property." '
"But." the court declared, "thc
; commission has issued no pcrmis- j
j Sjve license. It has issued a license ,
.purporting to grant thc complete
; ieRa rjRht t0 the construction and
. operation of the project.
The judges said that, in that
respect, "wo think thc commission
has exceeded its legal jurisdicion
in that the ownership of thejxiwer
dam site docs not empower thc
U. S. government to use the wa-
1 ters of the Deschutes river .. con-
trary to Oregon stale law."
Th(, mm cnnchl((.(li u is our
opinion that the commission has
Irespassrd upon the sovereignty of
lhc rt8le Oregon.'
The FPC order had been ap-
j pealed by the state of Oregon and
the S ate rish and uame Lommis-
l.ionj.
GET TOGETHER AT CONFERENCE
, . i
. II if I '(- ' ' 1 :r,,-.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 Gen. Dan Thornton nf Colorado,
left; Gov.' Paul Patterson of Oregon, right, and Capt. W. L.
Groth of the Virginia state police headquarters at Richmond
got together yesterday at a session of the White House con
ference on highway safety. Thornton is chairman and Groth is
secretary of the public officials section of the conference. (AP
Wirephoto.) ;
Ike Appoints Group to
Reduce Auto Death Toll
WASHINGTON (P) A newly
created President's Action Com-
mittcc for Highway Safety Friday
assumed the guidance of a nation-
Republicans
Now Rule NLRB
WASHINGTON (UP) Republi
cans .look command of the Na
! tional Labor Relations Board to-
i day lor the first time m us la-year
history alter the senate approved
"'".' " "
a GOP appointee over nearly soim
........... Kn...,.
Albert C lieeson. lormcr wcsijjg ivc, ast ycar But yison
Coast business executive moves I ,)cd
"Ho '"e vacant seat on the live-;
; man board that now includes two .
I oincr m-iiuum-ciii awmuira u 0 Pennsylvania Avenue. J lie ted
I two holdover Democrats. c.at government can give support
int scnnie oy a 10 iz voiejand Jeaderslup uui local ouinuis
approved Beeson's nomination late
yesterday in the closest shave for
the adminislration in Congress this
year. It was also thc shakiest
majority the senate has given any ness. labor, public officials, agri
appointee of President Eiscnhow- culture, information media, civic
cr. land fraternal organizations, and
Beeson's confirmation, giving !
nhn three-to-.wo control of I
expected to signal I
d for what 0.PIl
i called "reexaminations" of past
. , j:; MnnriAPAj k.,
LSZL rf by
thc
Lost Paradise
In Crystal Cave
III Wl frfiMi
CRYSTAL CAVE. Ky. W
A
"lost paradise" of jaded coral can-
vons was discovered Friday in the
nrovinuslv unknown recesses of
Crystal Cave
the spectacle was stumbled upon
by accident by a group of five ex-
niorcrs who had wandered fur
hours through underground pass -
ages and had lost their way.
It is being proclaimed "the most
important find to dale" for the Na
tional Speleological 'cave study)
Society's week long exploration.
"Thc wall of one large cave
room was lined with fossil shells
and coral deposits pressed there
milllinns of years ago," the find-
l crs said. !
' Thc discovery occurred as ex-!
'plorers sought an answer tn the:
I 'e "i!JjSr" hLa'chr:
I 'h.a 1 P "l f"1 '"w Jh
' 'ace of the earth near Mammoth
Cave National Park.
Black Gold Rush
Starts in Nevada
RENO (UP) A new gold
rush was on in Nevada today,
hut thc race this time was for
black gold, something new in the
state that has produced billions
nf dollars wort'i of gold and sil -
ver
The U. S. Land Office here was
swamped with hundreds of appli-
rants alter Shell Oil office here
annoi.nccd that oil in commer
cial quantities had been discov
ered in Pailrnad valley, 60 miles
southwest of Ely in Eastern Nevada.
wide campaign to reduce the auto
mobile death toll.
Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado,
one of the eight members so far
named, called the President's ac
tion "the greatest forward step in
years" toward reducing the haz
ards of tho highways.
For the first lime. Thornton
said, the permanent a ay i o r y
.group jiiilUprowdo a. "direct linB
ot coordination from the White
House to the grass-roots efforts of
the communities."
Vice President Nixon announced
Eisenhower's action late Thursday
to the White House Conference on
uinhuj-iv
Safety. Nixon said the
: t '
was vitally interested
in the accident problem which cost
,.Ths ;s a ,iril,icm which must
be s0vc(j on Majn Slrccl jsiPad
have to do the real job.
The reports of seven conference
task forces were presented to inix
on by the representatives of busi
women s groups.
A "Crusade for Safety" theme
lo be buirt around te signing of
where sponsors can be found,
(Continued on rage o, 1.01. hi
BriberyTales
Stir Japanese
TOKyo li - Japan's pres
Japan's press Sat-
urday bannered a reported brib.
j cry scandal involving top govcrn-
ment officials and declared it
' might topple Prime Minister Shi-
Keru Yoshida's cabinet. !
i There was speculation that if;
Yoshida s pro-Amerrcon aonunis-
1 1 ration falls, a new conservative
: coalition government might he
, formed by Mamoru Shigemilsu.
lie is me onc-icggcn uipiumui wuu
signed the surrender fur Japan
and served a term as a "war crim
inal." Kvodo News Service said testi
mony before a Diet investigating
committee allegedly linking top
government (initials to a shipbinlcl-
ing subsidy scandal "is now icarco
fatal to thc Yoshida government."
This view was echoed by the in-
nucnnai newspaper iimiii.
ILA Refuses to
j0jn With AFL
1.
! tional Longshoremen s Assn. say
' ILA delegates from 20 Atlantic and
j Gulf Coast ports have rejected a
i bid to join the AFL.
Brenner said the delegates of
the independent union made the
. decision Thursday alter hearing an
appeal from AI'l. President Geor-
ge Meany at a meeting in Wash-
ington
The API. ousted the ILA last
fr.ll l..p r-Mluen In miri'P Itself (if
crime and racketeering. The AI'l.
Z
control of waterfront labor.
South Korea (alls Wg 4'
Meet Victory for Soviets
Confessions of
Germ Warfare
Due to Torture
WASHINGTON im - Maj. Roy
Bley testified Friday he was
"mentally and physically broken"
by his Communist captors in ho
rca when he signed a false con
fession to engaging in germ war
fare operations.
I Bley, 40, appeared at his own
request as a witness in tne Ma
rine Corps court ot inquiry which
is determining whether his fellow
officer, Col. Frank H. Schwable.
should face a eourt martial for a
similar false confession.
Bley was named "an interested
parly" to the inquiry Thursday
after Schwablc's counsel, Col. Paul,
Shcrman, told Bley he was "sus
pected" of improper dealings with
the enemy after Schwable and
Bley were captured July 8, 1952.
(Continued on Page 5, Col. 6)
Reds to Choose
Punishment
DETROIT Ul - Six Michigan
Communists, convicted of conspir
acy against the government Fri
day were given the choice of
prison sentences ranging from
four to live years, or going to
Russia.
In addition, Federal Judge
Frank A. Picard fined each of the
defendants $10,000.
A jammed courtroom heard
Judge Picard deliver a scathing
criticism of the defendants in
passing sentence.
The defendants, Saul Wellman,
48: Mrs. Helen Winter, 45: Nat
Ganley, 48) Thomas B. Dennis Jr.
35; Pnilip Schatz, 39, and William
Allan, 46, expressed no emotion
JudK picard aeUvercd thc sen.
- L,CTC(1. - - - -
Mrs. Winter and Allan were sen
lenced to four year terms; Gan
ley, five years: Dennis, four
years, six months; Wellman, four
years and eight months; and
Schatz. four years and four
months.
"Under federal law, I can
change this sentence any time
within the next 60 days," Judge
Picard said, "and if any of you
should decide lo want to go to Rus-
I jjB wouM be giad to do s0
3 Arrested on
Check Charges
EUGENE Wl State police ar
rested three men driving between
Albany and Salem Thursday mgnt
alter Eugene and Albany mer
chants had reported receiving sev
eral bad checks.
Thc car was traced by a license
number noted by a merchant who
became suspicious of a man who
attempted to cash a check.
Thc three were identified as Lylc
Fleishcr, 24. Longvicw; Robert Al
len Welsh, 23. and Scott Jewell, 30,
both ot .vatllc. I hey were lo nc
arraigned here Friday afternoon on present because he was on a vaca
forgcry charges. I tion. But such a meeting was far
Altogether six bad checks were
cashed, most of them for $25 but
one (or $75.
Dl'I.I.F.S TO MAKE
RADIO KKI'OKT
NEW YORK Ifl Secretary of
State Dulles will report on thc
Herlin llig l-our contcrcncc in
a nationwide radio address
Wednesday Irom 7 to 7:30 p. m.
ipS'l'i. the major networks an-
, noiinrea rruiay.
The nniiiniiHfinenls from NBC.
CBS and ABC said the broadcast
would originate in Washington.
Ike Enjoys
AndMav Extend It
PALM Sl'Kl.NUS, cant, im''
President Eisrnhnwrr is enjoying
his vacation so much he may pro-
ion? it.
White House aides accompany
ing the President Indicated today
lhc President may stay nn at this
desert resort beyond Monday, set
originally lor his return to Wash
ington. Mi. Eisenhower arrived here by
plane from Washington Wednes
day niht. lie and thc first lady
are the guests at Smoke Tree
lliinili Lome of Paul Helms, pro -
prietor of a Los Angeles uakery
chain. Host with Helms h l'tJil C.;
!ll!mar l.o used to head the
government .foreign aid proKram,
oi inc ruiue -o y i.
JZ pi C
dcrbird course. But he was faced
IndianGuards
Board Ship
Unmolested
INCHON (UP) An Indian ad
vance party boarded the trans
port Jalogapal without incident
today, but in nearby Seoul for
mer war prisoners angrily de
manded the arrest of the "In
dian introudcrs."
The first group of 213 Indian
soldiers was sent here to load
baggage aboard the troopship.
The main body ot 1,000 troops
is scheduled to leave the truce
zone early tomorrow on the way
here.
Gen. Won Yong Duk," provost
marshal- of the South Korean
Army and leading opponent of
the free departure of the In
dians, said yesterday he is "not
interested" in the baggage party.
He hinted, however, that cx
POW's may oppose the sailing of
the main body of troops.
The advance detail come by
train from the neutral zone early
this morning. There were no in
cidents en route or at Inchon.
American soldiers armed with
machine guns mounted on jeeps,
rules and pistols, guarded the In
chnn port area, but passersby
paid scant attention to the dis
ciplined and unruffled Indian
troops.
South Korea
Slams Big 4
SEOUL Wl South Korea to
night angrily denounced the Big
Four agreement to hold a Ko
rean peace conference in Ge
neva and declared it "cannot
give anyone a blank check to
write a peace treaty.
Thc ROK government, In Its
first official reaction ,to the de
cision reached in Berlin, called
it "fundamentally incompatible
with the Korean armistice agree,
ment."
However, government spokes
man Karl Hong Ki did not rule
out eventual South Korean par
ticipation in a political confer
ence on terms agreed to by thc ,
United States. Great Britain,
France and Russia at Berlin yes
terday.
Although highly critical of thc
Big Four action, nowhere in his
400-wnrd statement did Karl say
South Korea will refuse to at
tend the April conference.
Mao Tze-Tung
Probably III
HONG KONG iff - Moo Tze-
Tung piay be gravely ill.
TkJ kL. r iiw, nL,.,.-,r.iH
Chinese Communist leader from an
extremely important meeting oft..4- ."ll-y ll,c empiy vote on
his party central committee tn
Peiping has raised speculation here
about Man's health.
The Peiping radio Thursday
night, evidently feeling obliged to
offer some explanation of Mao's
absence sa d thc leader was not
too important to be passed up,
even by Mao, for a holiday.
thc meeting normally would
have been the one at which the
Politburo, thc core of the party
which controls the central commit
li,n uai rlprtrtl Hill there was no
1 announcement of a new Politburo.
BACA It 1)1 HEIR KIDNAPPED
SANTIAGO. Cuba ifl Thc
family reported Friday the kidnap
I I""
ping lor $50.(100 ransom ot ra-
cunilo Bacardi Bravo, 8. a mem-
her of the internationally known
I Bacardi rum family of Cuba.
Vacation
iwiin caicning up nn some iaii
: work before he could get out on
the links,
James C. Ilagerty, White House
press secretary, said a mail pouch
arriving from Washington would
keep Mr. Eisenhower busy for a
few hours. In the pouch were a
series of bills which Congress has
passed in the last few days.
The President tried out the Tam
arisk Country club course for the
first lime yesterday. He and Ben
llogan. the triple champion of
1 ma. plaved against Helms and
mm
..,., ,j,)h , fnr .. Mf
Ei,enhnwcr Mi, will, a grin lo
.. .
a difficult approach to the ninth
hole and then sink a three-foot
j;- Par four Hogan, the
. old maslcr, did no better.
See U.S.Moye
On Recognition
Of Red China
WASHINGTON (AP) South
Korea's ambassador. You Chan
Yang protested Friday that the
Berlin conference represent! "a
diplomatic victory by the So
viets." He said it produced a first '
move by the United States to
ward diplomatic recognition of
Red China.
Yang told a reporter he would
make this; charge in writing to
the State Department later Frl-
clay afternoon in a meeting with
Deputy Asst. Secretary Everett
Drumright.
The ambassador said the West
ern decision to meet Red Chinese
representatives at Geneva to dis
cuss Korean peace means "a com
plete change of policy.
The move, he asserted, "com
pletely bypasses thc United Na
tions and disregards a General
Assembly resolution sponsored
by the United States only last Au
gust."
Yang Acted as Ordered.
Russia's part in Korea as an
aggressor "will go into hiding at
Geneva" as a result of the soften
ing of the American-British-French
stand, the ambassador
said.
Yang, acting on instructions
from his government, contended
that the Far Eastern conference
was agreed to "without our or
South Korea's consultation or
agreement." .
"W pnnnnl tA nlhar than fnn-.
ful," he said.
"There will be no punishment
of thc aggressor, we feel, instead
Red China's invitation to be pres
ent can be construed by us only
as an initial step toward recogni
tion."
fCnnliniiari in Pacta ft Pnl A
Delay in Pact
PARIS (AP)-The Berlin confer
ence's promise of Indochina peace
talks posed a new obstacle, today
lo speedy French action on the
holly disputed European army
treaty.
Following Big Four agreement
lo meet again April 26 to discuss
prospects for peace in Asia, even
I lie supporters of the European '
Defense Community faced this di
lemma: 1. Press for the French National
Assembly to ratify the army trea
ty at once as the United States
wants and perhaps so anger Rus
sia that she would not use her in-
"."cc " finest tomrai.
" 5 ? ,,ne uLTT.'St eaaf"
: of the Victminh rebels to stop the
waJ Indochina; or
thc army treaty until after the
Geneva! conference on Korea and
Indochina, and run thc risk of the
American Congress cutting off all
important aid to France.
the final decision on when to
put the treaty before thc Assem
bly rests with Premier Joseph
Lanicl and his Cabinet.
Lanicl has been working toward
an Assembly vote during thc sec
ond half of March or early April.
It was not certain whether he
would yield under the new pres
sure for. further delay.
Thc Cabinet, awaiting the return
of Foreign Minister Bidault from
Berlin, may hammer out ils stra
tegy next week.
A new excuse for French delay
on EDC would hit the U.S. Con
gress just as it prepares to discuss
U.S. foreign aid appropriations.
Many congressmen already are
impatient at the delay.
Austrian Papers
In Mourning
I VIENNA. Austria W Austrian
non-Communist newspapers were
bordered in black Friday and car
ricd bitter denunciations of Mos
cow's refusal to give this country
independence free of foreign occu
pation. Thc Communist press not
in mourning blamed the West.
These were reactions to the fail
ure of th Big Four to agree at
their conference in Berlin to grant
this little nation of seven million
people the independence treaty
thev pledged during World War
II.
The right wing independent
paper Die Prer.so accused Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov
of being cy. icn' and said he will
have to "learn from history,
which has furnished numerous
examples in the past decades,
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