Capital A i Tirvnn THE WEATHER koocu nest JO Pue'fng OCCASIONAL RAIN tonight, and . Tuesday. Slightly warmer. Low tonight, 40; high Tuesday, SO. FILIAL. EDBTION 66th Year, No. 44 L".."" Salem, Oregon, Monday, February 22, 1954 (24 Pages) Price 5c ,ffiy, f VA Court to Hear Baum Appeal Wednesday Speedy Decision Looms on Reappor tioment Amendment Oregon's legislative reappor tionment amendment, which the people put into the Constitution in 1952, will be argued at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, before the State Supreme Court. The court will try to give a speedy decision, because legisla tive candidates have to know the outcome betore the March 12 deadline (or filing in the May primary election. The new amendment, chal lenged by Rep. David C. Baum of I.a Grande, provides for changing legislative districts for the first time since 1910. The case is on appeal from Marion County circuit court, where Judge Rex Kimmell ruled the amendment is valid. Districts Changed It changes the districts to con form with changes in the popula tion pattern. The- amendment also provides that the legislature must reap portion itself every 10 years, after each federal census. If the legis lature refuses, then the Secretary (Continued on Page 5, Col. 5) Conscies' Issue Before Board The State Board of Control may hear protests against employment o conscientious objectors at the Oregon stale hospital when it meets tomorrow. A protest against the hiring of the conscientious objectors re cently was filed in Portland by an AFL union group headed by Leo Butts. He said conscientious objectors were taking the place of more deserving workers, for pay less than that received by other state employes in similar pnsitoins. Dr. Chirles E Bates, superin tendent if the hospital, said the conscientious objectors were hir ed at a time when it was impos sible to obtain other workers be cause of the labor shortage. He said they were ;ccciving the same pay as other state employes in the same civil service classifica tion. Forrest Stewart, executive sec retary of the Oregon State Em ployes Association, said his asso ciation conducted, an investiga tion at the time the conscientious objectors were employed and agreed to the program. He also said they received the same pay as other state workers in similar posts. More Showers Loom for Valley Salem and the valley regions were enjoying a bit of early spring weather, Monday, rain and wind tapering off over Sunday. Some occasional rain is in prospect for tonight and Tuesday, although temperatures arc due to be slight ly warmer. The sun came out at mid-morning to dispel a fairly heavy fog hanging over the city earlier. The minimum temperature dropped to the ireeezing mark, 32 degrees, Monday morning. Following the rains of last week, rivers' of the lower valley arc still coming up, but nothing alarming ly. At Salem, the Willamette was tip to 12.1 and is due to continue coming up through Tuesday. the weather bureau at Portland said a new storm was on its way, but indications wcrc it would be farther to the north. Washington to get more of it than Oregon. 2 Escapees at Eugene Caught EUGENE IT1 Two prisoners; sawed their way out ot jail here ; lale Sunday night but had only a few hours of freedom. Paul B. Mnran, 22. awaiting trial j on charges of armed robbery and j parole violation, was found by police three hours later asleep in a car at the house of a friend, lie told oflicers -he was just taking a nap before catching a bus for, Portland. Victor Glen Clanin. 26, who had been held for auto theft, was cap-, turcd by state police about 13 j miles south ol Salem as he drove i a car stolen in Eugene. He was halted about 6:30 a.m., less than I an hour alter the car theft had ; been reported. I Moran and Clanin refused to say where they obtained the live hack-1 saw blades with which they sawed through four bars of their cell. They got nut ol jail by cnmoinc up a drain pipe lo the top of a 30-foot wall and lowering them selves on a rope made from torn bedshects. Magsaysay -Puts Curb on Asiatic Slogan Needs of National Welfare Cannot Be In Straightjacket " MANILLA un President Ramon Magsaysay Monday night put the damper on the "Asia for the Asians" slogan of his foreign of fice. ' "We must not try to fight many and changing needs of na tional welfare into a straight jacket of a slogan,"' Magsaysay said. It was the President's first public comment on the "Asia for the Asians" slogan which has caused heated debate in the Phil ippines and attracted litle sup port elsewhere in the Far East. "From the past administration we know you cannot govern, you cannot achieve progress by slo gans," Magsaysay said in an ad dress at the U. S. Clark Air Force Base during Washington s Birthday observances. Phrase Easily Destroyed "One danuer in expressing a policy through a slogan," he said. ! "is that it's so easy to distort a phrase. Already the slogan 'Asia f,... th Ac!-,,,.?' hiilnrt 1,11m. peted over radio Peiping and by communist propaganua enanneis elsewhere as a cry of hostility by our people towards the Amer ican people." "This is a lie," Magsaysay de clared. "I see nothing incompat ible between friendly and sympa thetic feeling for our Asian neighbors and continuation of our especially warm relationships with the United Stales." Adenauer Says Reds for Peace BONN, Germany LP Chancel- lor Konrad Adenauer expressed 1 the view Monday mai inc mvicv Union wants peace settlements in Korea anu lnoocmna. an(1 Womcn and small children In a radio interview. Adenauer j wno .t.r0 rPicasc(j by Hungary said "The Soviets showed at Ihc ' &n() who arrived here bv train Berlin conference that their goal hal( slarvc(. n,cir clothing in rags, is a settlement in Asia and that : their i,alre 0 Communism ,burn thev are not interested in a solu-1 jng 0ri"ht ti,V'TPCan Pr0blt'nr " 1 Spokesmen for the group said 'I he Big Tour nations plus Red u " or China will meet n Geneva on Apr. i sjt.k , work wcrc frCcd by 20 o discuss ending live n on hs of communists who captured stalemate in Korean armistice . . . -. . talks and the Communist-lcd rebel- j -unn he -civiwar 'Tdenauerlald Moscow wants to ! ""ind. doomed to s.nv- Aclon nrnliLmc lw..finci it ' tr does not have to fear repercus sions in its Europan satellites from such a settlement." Seek to Relax Berlin Controls ' BONN, Germany (UP) The United States, Great Britain and France proposed to Russia today that controls be relaxed on the movement of goods and persons in Germany. The relaxation would be ef- fective between the Allied and 1 Soviet occupation zones and be- j tween West Berlin and West Ger many. Berlin, where the west ern powers control the western part of the city, is an island in-, side Soviet held territory. The Allied proposal was made ' by the three western high com-, chiPf'Unconscious 'on the floor, missioncrs to the Soviet control . Miltnias was married but had commissioner in Berlin. , no children. He had been fire Toward the end of the Big ! chief here since January, 1946. Four conference in Berlin,, the i western delegates notified So- AnntUar rSanlle vict Foreign Minister Viachcslav ! VV CUinei UeiUIIS M. Molotov they would make the i M,x um .WA. M; minimum to proposal in hope of casing thci, jj toui ji-hnur precipiutmn, situation in Germany despite """ ;'" "' l-.1.., in ,,, ,,: sin precipitation. 35. 11; nwniil. J JJ. failure to agree on German uni- j Rlv,r hrl!hl 12 , ,K,port by . fication. New Yorkers Riot at Bargain Sale Stampede NKW YORK if Surging, titht packed ocean of people cngultcd a Manhattan department slorc Monday, shoving, shouting and tram.ing toes in a stampede to grab up bargain merchandise Women lost hats and shoes in, Ihn nntch At Irail tu-ft nf thpmlttnro frnm nnrnino its rionrS at fainted. Several fist fights broke out as a mass of more than lO.nooi people jammed around Hcarn's department store on 14th street. A policeman was shoved through a plale glass door, but was not hurt. Thousands converged on the store ling betore opening time, lured bv advertisements of Ml c h "George Washington Birthday" snorisk as S19!).i watrhes for MM and s.19 noarl ncrklaeea for $279.. Extra police detachments rushed fi Hiwaaa IBDDDDO DUnaa 7 i g Greek Slaves Appeal to U.S. VENICE. Italy (UP) - Hun dreds or Greeks held in slave la bor camps in Hungary appealed to the United States today to res- cue them from a seven year reign of Communist terror. ThPiP appciil was brought out hy ,2r1 sick and agort r;rct,k m,,n ! The evacuees said the men left behind asked them to tell their j story lo Greece, to the United Nations and " above all to the j fnited States. The dazed Hun-j garian populace looks only to a new world war to set them free, liicy added. Pasco Fire Chief Killed in Blaze PASCO (Pi Overcome by smoke while fighting a home fire, Pasco Fire Chief Larry Mathias died Sunday en route lo a hos- pital Assistant Chief Lyle Cooney said Mathias. 40, wai trapped in , the basement of the burning , home when smoke and flames drove other firemen outside. The firemen fought their way back into the building when they discovered Mathias was not with ll,nm I'uiniM mill nnrl fnnnH the i S. Walher Hurfiu 1 to the scene, as the elbow-gouging will he from Argentina, Kgypt, throng circled the block and j France, India. The Netherlands, spilled into the streets, blocking ' New Zealand, the United Kingdom crosstown traffic. Some stood i and the United States. Their sug atop stalled cars, yelling. gestions will be submitted to a 20- Police Inspector Joscpn t. wei don issued orders preventing the the scheduled time of 10 o'clock ; until 'reinforcements arrive i He said the "lives and safety of I these people" was involved, and that it would be dangerous to open die doors to the massed humanity 'until "the pressure outside is re- lu ved " Finally, an attempt was made In admit people gradually, 10 at a time But as one door opened, an avalutice of about 100 iKiurcd Ihrouth before it could he closed. j Once inside, people found they '.couldn't get out. NEW VIEW OF THE NEW COURTHOUSE This photograph of Marion county courthouse, now nearing completion, was made with aid of a strong filter to show marble texture and differentiate planes of the structure as they appear from the south driveway entrance on State street. Still Seek Cause of Death of Sacks Wife PORTLAND (UP) George F. Sack, Portland apartment house ownrr,"was secludod beyond the reach of newsmen here today as University of Oregon patholo gists pressed their efforts to find out what caused the dcatn ol Cyclone Strikes In Australia SYDNEY, Australia (UP) A cyclone which killed 18 to 21) persons, caused $2,250,000 in property damage, and brought new houtn wales us worst noons in history veered out to sea to- day The storm left thousands home less and in need of food and medical supplies. Telephone lines were knocked out. Kail and road transporta tion were cut. Sewerage, electric and gas fa cilities wcrc disrupted in places. All communication with the north coast was severed, with only amateur radio operators maintain ing contact from the stricken area. Hundred of thousands of square miles were affected. Homes were wrecked, bridges smashel, thou sands of head of cattle destriy. ed. and .many acres of valuable i grazing land ruined. 'f .us ",a . "ud army duck, to rescue hundred of stranded persons. Others waited patiently for places of he Royal Australian Air Force to fly in badly needed emergency supplies. Plan Study, of Food Surplus WASHINGTON - Kxpcrts from eight countries will meet here Tuesday to see if they can find a way to get food surpluses to hungry countries without caus ing Hicnetnr In nrirpc a rr.nr.wi.ntMiivns ilf thp 1 'niti.it 1 V;nii.n .mil Auririiltiirp ! Organization 1FAO1 they face the same problem on a global scale that U. S. farm officials are trying to solve nationally: How can mounting slocks of farm products be disposed of and farmers' in comes kept at a high level? The experts, many of them at larbed to embassies in Washington nation committee on commodity nrnhtfim Hmp trt meet in .tune. ' . . . . They are expected to work tor two or three weeks, most of the time behind closed doors Ql'KEN PI.F.ADS INNOCENT ON CORRUPTION CHARGE CAIRO Described as too ill lo appear in court, the queenhee of F.gypts' once dominant Waitlist Paity pleaded innocent in absentia Monday to corruption charges. A medical commission reported that I plump, 49-year-old Mrs. Zeinah F.l Wakil Nahas. wile of former pre- mirr Mustapha Ft Nahas, was suf. fcring from a nervous breakdown. his wife last Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.. Outwardly unconcerned about press reports in Chicago, Seattle and Portland linking him with investigations of deaths or dis appearances of five persons, the 57-ycar-old former Chicagoan fol lowed the advice of his attorneys and went into seclusion. He was freed late Friday under $10,000 posica oy oan uuhummi-h. Saturday Sack withdrew bonds and securities from his safety deposit bax and converted them into cash, police reported lie took a room at a downtown hotel and did not return to the Mont- gomery street apartment house wiiuii or uii. iii- i briefly as a material witness in connection with his wife's death which still was unexplained to day. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 3) Letter Barrage On Eisenhower PALM SPRINGS, Calif. Calif. Rackstairs at the traveling White House: This is fur the hundreds of peo ple who have been bombarding """rXai his faction hadquarters here. It does no good to send the Pres ident ol the United States a regis tered letter with instructions, "de- liver to addressee only No postman gets through to the Chief Kxeeutive. All registered let ters arc signed for by a secretary. The same thing applies to people who place person lo-pcrson tele phone rails. Not since the I!).'i2 campaign has the F.iscnhowcr staff been subject ed to such pressure as Ihc bar rage of requests hurled at them in Southern California. In aK seriousness, a school board chairman called the While House switchlmard to ask the President to decorate a salely patrol leader. Another caller want eil Mr. F.iscnhowcr. in person, to examine his uranium mining i iim. Rickreall harrner To Be Candidate DALLAS Joe Hiirlaml of Rickreall, a farm leader In Polk county, has announced he will be a candidate for the position of state representative nn the Re publican ticket in the coming May primary. Harland has been a resident of 1 nll. t,.w Ik. n.tl in vmri ' m; .... ,..... ; and operaates a large farm near i Rickreall .He is president of the Polk county agricultural planning council ,a member of the county rural school board, and a member of the county bud;;et committee. Qt' F.F.N' OPF.N'S PARLIAMENT IIOUART. Tasmania 'P Fac ing a portrait ol the young Queen Victoria and silting in a carved hy convict labor, (fiieen Elizabeth' I! opened the fifth srs - smn nf the Unih Tasmanian Par - liament Monday. Dulles Denies Recognition Of Red China at Gene va Nehru Calls for Cease Fire in NEW DELHI, India (A') Pre- mier Nehru called Monday for a j th parev si1Uu1i ease world ten-ccase-firc in Indochina "since it ; sj0n. would seem a tremendous pity ,.-' . , that this terrible war mould coiLjrh 'fh'B?c .1,.?1,,e, i're! tinue when a serious 'effort to s ''J',', J'rf,lnI!,elpinS meet and discuss this problem" j r1,! ' 1,0 v,01ce of Hed Cl,lna- , is scheduled April 26 at Geneva. llle. broadcast heard here quoted "It is desirable, I think, to HIH, IU have some kind of cease fire without any party giving up its position," Nehru told Parliament. The Associated Press, in a United Nations dispatch Saturday night, reported Nehru was plan ning such a step. Commenting on this dispatch in Washington Sunday, diplomatic officials said they doubted Nehru or anyone else could succeed in arranging a cease-fire in Indochina before the Geneva conference starts. French Sliy,at Intervention French Embassy officials have made it plain they do not relish Indian intervention. The Nehru government, they point out, docs not even recognize Viet Nam, one of the three Indochinese states fighting the Communist-led reb els with French help. In addition, diplomats ray, there is 'too little time between now and April 26 to get a cease fire worked out; and even if ll,nrn wiirp tliprf. iu nn Hpnrlif defined line along which to mark the combat zones of eachi side as there was in Korea. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 6) British Shippers ISfrike af Critics LONDON Ml British ship- owiuis uiM it'll uacK ouiiuuy iiim at American critics of thei? trade i i i i t. c I : u with fled China. Their association report charged the United States ha,( pos(e( armed guards aboard British ships while in American ttalt.rs shadowed them with naval cutlers and imposed other "almost incredible" restrictions, n Washint0Ili a us. Navy )okl,sinan rt!,0I,lV), -i e v e r ht,ar(, of j( , jU5l donH b(.it,vc i( hapIt,ned. An( i certainly would havu heard of it if it had hap- pence! The Stale Department added it also knew nothing of the al leged incidents. The British complaints were in Ihc annual report hy the Cham ber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, which the private but take up at a meeting next Thurs day. The report did not give details of its charge of U.S. "shadowing." Pakistan Asks Military Aid KARACHI, Pakistan I Prim Minister Mohammed Ali an nounced Monday that Pakistan has requested Uuilcd States military aid witlfin the scope of U.S. mu tual security legislation. lie added: "Pakistan made the request for the purpose of achieving increas ed defensive strength, a higher and stronger degree of economic .1 I , n r ... . i I M-.,... y . I-,,;.. . ii,,..-. - Wfln(1 2,fl mirs n(,rth of (hc bj tcrnational peace and security jus bas, , okinawa is crunljnR within the framework of,thc!and ,,cmjnR up clouds of ashes United Nations charter. Before I which have spread for 20 miles making mis lormat request, raki - Stan informed itself of the re- quircmonls of U. S. mutual so- curity legislation'and finds itself in agreement with them." Ike Refuses to Talk on McCarthy -Ste vens Ro w PALM SPRINGS. Calif i - President Eisenhower's vacation headquarters declined to say Mnn- day whether Secretary of the Army Stevens has the Chief r.x ecutive's personal backing in his controversy with Senator Mc - Carthy iR-Wis i. Stevens has accused McCarthy o abusing and humiliating an Army olficer who appeared at a Congressional hearing b e h ind closed doors. The Anny secretary said Sun day he was unwilling for the of hcet to "run the risk of further abuse" bv McCarthy. McCariiiv in turn" has accused Ihc Army of an "attempt to coddle liir.d promote l'oimunisls" and of 'claiming "special immunity from (legislative investigation and cx- Red China OK s Geneva Meet Of Big Four TOKYO i Communist China tonight put its stamp of approval on the Big Four decision to hold an Asian peace conference at niinniio .(.iHinn At.ril Ofl nnA cni4 an editorial in the official Peiping p . . iv-:,.. .-..; With. i,,,,, ',,,, : win. ti.iiMl. una .'-'Illl-IH VVHl gradually reduce international tension." Communist China will attend the conference, but U. S. Secretary of Slate Dulles has stressed that the invitation does not mean U. S. diplomatic recognition. ' . South Korea and Nationalist China both have assailed the Ber lin decision as a sell-out of their interests. Moscow Sees Peace Chance LONDON W Moscow radio said Monday the forthcoming Ge neva conference, including Com munist China, can help pave the way to a Korean settlement and the establishment of peace in I llldochina " I the Communist Ouoting Horn Party organ Pravda, the English language broadcast heard here suiu the Western foreign ministers at the recent Berlin conference "had to agree to holding the Ge neva conference with the partict- i patlon ot the Chinese Peoples Re public. U added: "There can bo no doubt that this conference can help to relax inter national tension and lo eliminate the difficulties blocking a settle ment of the Korean question and . .ul,,-. . Kh, "!llshment of pcac0 in ,n' Try Out Jefs First on Cargoes WASHINGTON iP - Civil Aero naulics Administration ICAA) experts have recommended that jet airplanes be tried out as cargo carriers before they enter passen ger service in the United Stales. That would provide the jet testing and experience required before they are accepted for passenger transportation, a CAA jet evalua tion team has decided. The CAA team has forecast the US-built' jet planes will go into airline use between 1957 and 1939. It also predicted that: 1. Jets will be used on domestic routes belorc they go into over ocean service. Other sources have predicted that the first U. S. use of jets would be on long uvcrwater flights. 2. Turboprop planes 'jots com bined with propellers) may be introduced by the airlines virtually simultaneously with the pure jets. 3. A practical reverse jet thrust device may be developed in time paraded through Jakarta's streets for use in the first U. S. civil jet in observance of so-called Inter transport operation, but further j national Anti Colonalism Day. work will be needed on brakes and ! The crowd, composed of men other decelerating devices. JAP VOLCANO Kltt'PTS TOKYO OP A volcano on an 1 around, Kyodo News Agency said Monday. The volcano is on Suwa No. one of the Ruyukyu Islands south of I Japan. I posure of the malefactors." James C. Hagerty, White House press sccrclary. said in reply to mil!mi ol 9 n. rnnlnrpnrn that' Sevens had not been in touch with Eisenhower or anyone else ion his small staff here since the;' me , American aeicgauon ai President arrived In Palm Springs last Wednesday night Asked then whether Stevens has Eisenhower's personal hacking in the controversy with McCarthy, Hagerty laughed and told his ques tioner: "Try again." In reply lo another question, j Hagerty said he did mil know whether Stevens might have con suited in Washington with F.iscn hrwer) chief aide, Sherman Adams. Key Members Of Congress at Secret Parley WASHINGTON 7F Fifteen key members of congress heard a report from Secretary of State Dulles Monday on the Berlin Big Four conference and came away with such noncommittal com ments as "interesting" and "in formative." Beyond that, about all any of th.em would say to reporters was a statement by Sen. Ferguson ( R., Mich.) that he feels "certain" the Berlin agreement to have an Asiatic peace conference at Gen. eva in April, will. Communist Chinese delegates attending, does not implv diplomatic recognition of Red China. v : The agreement states specific ally that diplomatic recognition is not involved. Long Discussion Held Dulles invited the lawmakers to the State Departir cnt and spent an .hour and a half in discussion with them. It was the first round of his campngn to convince the nation he got the best possible results out of the Berlin sessions. Reporters were awaiting out side Dulles' diplomatic reception room when the meeting with the legislators brok-: up Senate Rcpi blican Leader Knowland, Calif., strode briskly by, telling them, "I have no com ment." (Continued on Pajfe 5,' Col. 5) Kremlin Boasts Striking Power LONDON WL Moscow radio said Monday Soviet armed forces have strengthened their fighting1 power and are now "in the posi tion to deliver a crushing blow upon an enemy." Quoting an unidentified speak er at a meeting honoring the 36lh anniversary of the Soviet army and navy, the Home Service broadcast said. "The fighting power of our armed forces has increased of late. "At present our armed forces arc strong enough to cool down those hotheads who have lost their senses and who might try to encroach upon our independ ence. "Our armed forces are in the position to deliver a crushing blow upon any enemy." Red Chinese Leader Mao Tze- Tung sent greetings to Premier Malnkov on the occasion. Rebels Warned By Indonesia JAKARTA, Indonesia OP. The government warned Communist front demonstrators Sunday that "severest measures" will be taken against anyone conspiring to. overthrow the young repub lic. . The warning was voiced by Sec ond Vice Premier Zainul Arifin to 10.000 demonstrators afler they hers of 14 Communist front organ isations, presented aopies of reso lutions opposing colonialism and a protest note criticizing alleged Dutch colonial actions in Indonesia to the offices of the prime min ister and the Dutch high commis sioner to Indonesia. Diplomat to Leave Korea SEOUL i.P With stalemated preliminary peace negotiations scrapped. L". S. Envoy Kenneth Young said Monday he will leave Tuesday for Washington, and the ! Communists will have to learn nf ! his departure from news reports. ! Young expressed belief that Ihc j preliminary Korean in ks at Pan- j munjom "probably (ncililattcd the H'S "" agreement to noia on i ASNIh PCICO COHlCrCnCC W OenCVd. 1 The Stale department Far East , pcrl said hi departure will close . ranmunjom. mic no plans to notify the Communist delegation. Young stood in for Ambassador Arthur II. Dean for three months after the preliminary negotiations were suspended. CHIANG SEES REVIEW TAIPE1I. Formosa Chiang Kai-Shek anil members of Nation ist China's National Assembly Mon.lav attended a review ef 30,- AiUl tMAn..B mnnii nt Iham flnnfliut i native Korwosans.