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Capital AJo al THE WEATHER CLEAR AND fool tonight. Mostly tunny and warm Wednesday. Low tonight, 32; high Wednesday, 0. FINAL EDITION JO ? 66th Year, No. 45 V"..i".?,'"'o,','A" Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, February 23, i O ' v Price 5c Stale Officials View Prison Master Plan Minimum and Medium Cell Blocks Included In Plans for Future By JAMES D, OLSON A master plan for development of the state penitentiary, includ ing both a minimum and maxi mum security cell blocks was presented to the state board of control Tuesday by J. D. Annand, Portland architect. Annand also displayed a sketch of the nev guard tower, already approved by the board, to be located immediately in front of the present administra tion building. This building, to gether with a powerful 30-inch searchlight which will reach to all sections of the prison proper ty, is estimated to cost $20,000. The minimum cell block, as designed by the architect, is a three story building plus base ment. Approximately 170 prison ers could be housed in this building. Would Replace 'B' Block The proposed medium security cell block would replace the old "B" block, the oldest in the in stitution. When completed it is planned to move the prison hos pital, now located on the top floor of the prison to the first floor of this proposed building, where it would come under the scope of the control system in stalled by Warden Clarence T. Gladden some months ago. The master plan calls for lev eling of some ground at the Pris on Annex farm together with the construction of a new up-to-date milk house. Flax Payment Approveo The board authorized an ex penditure of $29,771.28 to cover the cost of thi second payment on the 19S3 flax crop purchased for use in the prison flax plant. Permission was granted to Tif. B. Clattcrbuck, superintendent of the State Deaf school, for hold ing the biennial convention of tl.e Oregon Association of the Deaf at the school on June 4 and 6 inclusive. A charge will be made to the delegates for room and meals and there will be no cost to the state in connection with the con vention, the association has held its convention in the school sev eral times in the past. Albany Store Robbed, $1115 ALBANY. Ore. (Jl A hold-up man. peering through slits in a black mask, made off with $1,115.06 in cash and small checks from the Paylcss Drug Store here Monday night. He carried a sawedoff shotgun which Police Chief Ray Maddy thinks had been secreted in the basement Friday night. James Englc, clerk alone in the store shortly after locking up Mon day evening, told this to police: He was counting cash prepara tory to putting it in the safe when the man came up from behind him. Speaking good English, and saying it was his first such at tempt. Hie man ordered Engle to lie down. Englc did. and the man scooped the cash and checks all cashable by forging the payee's name into a bag. Then he locked Engle in a closet and left. Englc soon freed himself and called police. Sunny Weather Ushers in Spring The Weather Man decided to become kindly, Tuesday, with re sult there was sunshine and warmer weather. The "expected" rainstorm just didn't come, veer ing off to the north. Furthermore ,thc forecast says the sunny and warmer daytime wcainer is uue iu tunuuuc through at least until Sunday. Nights will continue chilly, however. The minimum Tuesday morning in Salem was down to 30 degrees, two below freezing, and a freezing mark is due again tonight.' The Willamette river has start ed to drop again and Tuesday morning wa down to 11.3 feet at the local gauge. Chains Needed on Only 2 Highways Oregon's hiehways were bare Tuesday except for packed snow at Timberline Lodge and on the East Diamond Lake highway, the highway commission reported. ..H.!..inn pflnmmi.nrlrlt i tie miiiiiii.-'.-'n'ii i i-.-iiii.n ..... -. , that chains be carried at both State Files Brief Holding Baum in Error Thornton Contends Reapportionment Po litical Question ', The rights of Rep. David Baum ol Union county, who has made an attack on the constitutionality of the reapportionment measure passed by the voters at the gen eral election in 1952, are not in fringed upon by the measure. At torney General Robert Y. Thorn ton contends in a brief filed with the state supreme court Tuesday. The case is on appeal to the supreme court, Baum having filed an appeal from a decision uphold ing the validity of the measure in a decision by Marion County Circuit Judge Rex Kimmell. The supreme court will hear argu ments in the case Wednesday aft ernoon. No Rights Lost . "It is submitted that the com plaint does not allege facts suffi cient to show an infringement of any rights guaranteed to the ap pellant, as a citizen of the United States, under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Con stitution" Thornton declared in his brief. Thornton also contends that "in view of the well established prin ciple that the republican form of government guaranteed to the slates" questions arising under the constitutional reapportionment measure amendment approved by the voters arc political and not judicial in character. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 5) Seek Slayer of Tacoma Clerk TACOMA IB Police Tuesday were searching for the slayer of L. "r,aH0:HgrOCel7 , wh; "HriClCdJ.Ha SJ avc pit and her nude body thrown into a muddy pool. The mutiliad body of Flora E. McFarland was discovered Mon day afternoon by Isaac Lerew who passed the gravel pit and became curious about pools of blood on the narrow roadway nearby. Police said the woman had bcen run over several times by the wheels of her own car. The I car was missing. A blood-stained rock was found near the pit. Officials set the time of the murder at Sunday evening. Police were searching for Ar tell "Spud" Farley, 25-year-old roofing worker, who was last seen with Mrs. McFarland Sun day. Farley had come to' the apart ment of Mrs. McFarland Sun day afternoon, according to Miss Donna B. Miller, her roommate. Guide Drowns In Rogue River GOLD BEACH ifl Rucl Haw kins. 53. widely known Rogue Riv er guide, drowned in the river Monday after his boat overturned in swift water three miles up stream from Gold Beach. A passenger. James Norman, Gold Beach, managed to get ashore by grabbing brush. Norman said he was holding onto, a tree limb nvnrhanninif t hn iL-alnr and llnu;. kins was trying to start the boat nnninn uhon iho limh hrnto ' The boat was swept into swift water and capsized. Norman man- aged to escape the swift current. but Hawkins was caught and swept awav. He stayed afloat for loo yards, but then disappeared. I liawKins mane nis nome ai Ag- ness with his mother. I Navy Officer Refused to Con fess Despite Torture WASHINGTON ifl A Navv lieutenant testified Tuesday he was brought to his "wits' end" j by incessant Communist efforts to force him to make a germ war fare confession while he was a Communist prisoner of war in Ko-1 rca. Lt. UG Andrew L. Riker III,; 25. said he didn't confess. He appeared in a Marine Corps inquiry into the conduct of Col. Frank Schwable. a Marine flyer who did sign a false bacteriologi cal warfare confession. I The 45-year-old Schwable said i after his release that he was forced b; months of brutal mis-1 treatmert to sign the statement. Schwable was captured in July 1932 and Riker tne following Nov ember. Biker, whose home is in Man chester. Conn , said he persisted in his refusal to conlcss in spite . of ten hours a day of constant. hammering. "I don't know how long I could I stevens, McCarthy get medals, air views if v C Heavy Cuts in Taxes Rejected WASHINGTON (AP) The House Ways and Means Commit tee Tuesday brushed aside Demo cratic moves to (1) slash most ex cise or sales taxes by 50 per cent and (2i reconsider a previously defeated motion to cut individual income taxes by about 2'-4 billion dollars this year. Committee Chairman Reed (B., M V l nlA nctn- n U I A session that he ruled the excise l cutting move out of order be- cause of previous unanimous agreement that a tax revision project now before the committee would not involve changes in ma jor tax rates. Reed said his ruling "merely re affirmed that orderly procedure will be followed" and will not af fect any later action by the com- mittee on excise tax rales. Republican leaders are looking to President Eisenhower to help it Eisenhower to help bolster support or the adminis- tration's tar program Goldie Sack's Death Mystery PORTLAND IIP The cause of ' fe d Li Mrs. Goldie Sack's death remained more effective than 1 had anlici a mystery Tuesday, five days after I pated it would be," Ferguson said her body was found under a clump of brush cast of Portland Her husband. George F. Sack, 57. who in the past has been ques tioned about the death of two for mer wives and the disappearance of two other persons, remained free on $10,000 bond. Before his release Friday, he was questioned by police and bonked as a material witness. Sher iff Terry Schrunk said Sack denied any knowledge of his wife's death. He said he last saw her when she went downtown shopping last Tues day. An autopsy report, first expected Monday, and then Tuesday, still has not been delivered to police mcdiral experts from the State Crime Laboratory. kl --Unm fi-U W GaiflGl UelUllS Mntlmum vf!rriftr. M: mlnlmam l- ! . t-i,ut reriDiuiin: : ' '""' "' '' "'" , ,,, . lR,i i s. wih. tr Br,.g.) have kept it up." the tall, hand some young naval officer said, "lt only lasted a week or a week and a half." ' "Before this grilling was over," j KlKcr sain, i ornnc uown ciyiug I didn't know what to do." "I wouldn't be ashamed of that." interposed the president of the court, Maj. Gen. Henry D. Lin scott. The four-member tribunal is try ing to determine whether charges should be filed against Schwable. Riker said the Beds kept tolling him they knew the United States had spread disease germs over civilian areas behind the Commu nist l.nes and promised he would be taken to a I'OW camp and re lieved of further questioning if he would admit he had taken part. "1 didn't know anything about germ warfare." Riker said. "I didn't want to admit something 1 1 hadn't done. Maybe it was stupid i pride or something." I i r ) ' r- lAZZ I II Twenty-five miles apart 'but each in front of a backdrop of a Washington painting, Army Secretary Robert Stevens, left, and Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R., Wis.), speak after accepting gold medals and continued sparring over subpoening of armed service personel. Stevens spoke at Valley Forge at Freedoms Foundation ceremony while McCarthy appeared before the Sons of the American Revolution. (AP Wircphoto) Badock Has Solution For Westside Problem Large 'overhead signs put up by the State Highway Department to direct traffic into the proper lanes and solve a traffic problem Hoover Sees No Depression- WASHINGTON MV-Sen. Fergu son (R-Mich) said today Demo- cra'lc ,alK a Dusiness recession I s '' "' " "K' lo oe sioppeu. Ferguson, who heads the Sen ate GOP Policy Committee, spoke out after former President Hoover had discounted the possibility of a depression and Democratic Nation al Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell had said reaction of the pocket book nerve is likely to determine control .' Congress in November. "I don't think there is going to he any recession but I must say the propaganda for it is much in an interview 'All this talk is persuading some people not to buy. And when they don't buy an article, somebody who is making it loses his job." Hoover told the American Good Government Society here last night that as a man who had had one depression named for him he thought he could say with good authority there are no signs on the landscape of any big depres sion now. State Bureau Lets Out 5476 WASHINGTON W - The Slate Department reduced Us payroll Dy 5.476 employes last year, a 2! per cent cut, Congress was told in , testimony released Tuesday Donold B. Lourie. undersecre tary of administration, told a House Appropriations Subcommit tee that the cutback, to meet a lower budget, resulted in closing 20 consulates throughout the world. He said the department had few er than 20,000 people last Dec. 31, ! after reducing its, staff and trans- ferring i6.7.VI to the newly created ' Foreign Operations Administra- lion. Sunken Diesel Near Salvage MAUPIN (LT ) An SP&S die sel locomotive which plunged into the Deschutes river Jan. 31 carry ing two crewmen to their deaths was near salvage today on the east bank of the stream about two miles from Maupin. Fred Devine, Portland salvage operator, used dynamite on a rocky ledge in the river late yes terday and by nightfall the big engine had been tugged almost ashore. The width of a cow-catcher separated in from the east bank last ni;ht. The body of Knmneer Dernest H. Barton' of Portland has been recovered Irom I he engine, but that of Fireman Karl F. Sutton of Wishram, Wash., is still missing. II that has been worrying West Sa lem for months will be watched between now and March 22. If the signs are observed to be successful by that time they prob ably will remain. If not some other plan may be worked out. A letter from It. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, to Mayor Al l.oucks was read at the City Oetii'cit meeting Monday night oilwring the tlgiw at a solution The problem concerns right turn procedure from the highway into tclgewater street near their junc tion. The solution advanced in Baldock's letter is installation of targe overhead signs directing motorists to the proper lanes. Baldock says that he and F. B. Crandall. traffic engineer for the department, made a very careful examination of the intersection of Edgewater and the new highway along the river where, near the junction, a right turn would be made from the highway into Edgewater. "While this could he done fair ly cheap." writes Baldock, "it would alford only about 20 feet inside turning radius, which could be used for passenger cars only. (Continued on Tagc 5, Col, 4) Senate Debates Bricker's Bill WASHINGTON iTI - The Senate goes back to its lengthy debate on the Bricker proposal lo curb treaty Ivtunra Inrlav with lnarlnrc nroccint. I for final action on the thorny ques 1 tinn this week. The proposed constitutional amendment has been before the body for almost a mopth. although lail AciHp trniiMimrilv for tmf nlhrr h,,.in. (u-publican Leader Knowland of California told newsmen he thought u,. senate nnw rp.nlv in li- pose of the matter tomorrow or Thursday. He said considerable other legislative business is piling up. Up for consideration today is an amendment olfered by Sen. Brick er 'iR-Ohiol to his own original proposal, which drew strong oppo sition from President Eisenhower. 100 Americans I Held in China WASHINGTON (UP) The State Department has Informed Congress it rannnt find nut any- i thing ahout 100 Americans being held in Red China ; Assistant Secretary of State i Walter S. Robertson told a House I Appropriations Subcommittee in j testimony made public today j that, "We get nothirg hut run- arouni'.." "We m ke representations through the British." he said, "but we get no action and no satisfactory answers. "Kven the British, who rushed ; lo reeonize China hnvc not been I able to get I! eir personnel out," Robertson said. The State Department has pre viously announced that about 101 Americans re in China, 32 of them in jail. French Say Reds Abandon Seige of Indochina Capital McCarthy Says Army Kept Red Woman on Job WASHINGTON I - Sen. Mc Carthy (R.-Wis.t. pressing his charge of Army "coddling of Com munists, developed testimony Tuesday that a woman employe in the Pentagon communications center was a card-carrying-Com munist in the 1940s. McCarthy said the woman Mrs. Annie Lee Moss handles "top secret" messages in the code room. But at the Pentagon Army sources said Mrs. Moss is not em ployed in the coding room al though an employe of the Signal Corps Communications Center. A spokesman said there would be an Army statement on the case later in the day. In the course of a public hear ing by his Senate investigations subcommittee, McCarthy let fly another thrust at Secretary of the Army Stevens who has accused the senator of "abusing" Army of ficers in his investigations. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 6) Woman Won't Reply to Queries WASHINGTON Wl - Members of the House Un-American Activi ties Committee told a woman jew eler from New York Tuesday they had testimony linking her with Soviet spying activities, but she retorted: 'I ha definitely denied it time and time again, and I refuse to answer again. On that statement, buxom, 50- year-old Mrs. Victoria Stone stood refusing to answer more than 60 questions "on the grounds the committee ..tends to incriminate and degrade me." The committee, in a formal re port, had described Mrs. Stone as a member of an espionage outut interested in atomic developments. It said the head of the apparatus was Albert A. Adams, reported to have fled to Russia in 1945. Mrs. Stone replied to only two major questions Tuesday, testify ing she is not now and never has been a member of the Communist I'arty. U.S. Expanding Manila Bases MANILA 'UP) - The United Stale Air Fnrrp and Navv are "Nu 'i'"""""iv" ui a nii- r,,th?ng con.,trueUn of mammotn ' blai projects that will turn their prcs- government loans, ent base; into major bulwarks of was the latest development defense in the Far East. in the boiling Japanese political n v .!., i , crisis which could overturn Prime str0uc,ionN7aPToJXfrrunway M'nljlcr Shiger. Yoshida's admin by dumping a mountain to Subic lslra,lon- Bav on the west coast of Luion, In a stormy session, the house is the biggest earth moving proj- voted 209-204 to permit the arrest ect since construction of the Pa- ' -liro Arita. who resigned .last nama Canl. It is being carried week as deputy secretary-general out hy a regiment of Navy's famed of Yoshida's Liberal Party. Seabces. Arita has denied that he had ' Work on the defense setup here passed along two 1-million yen slarted vith the outbreak of the Ko-: $2.78fli bribes from a shipbuild rean War and has been picking ling company to Transportation up speed ever since, with the 'Minister Milsujiro Ishii and State United States anxious to make the I Minister Bomboku Ono, and a 500, friendly Philippines a solid south-; non-yen bribe to Gengn Tsuboi, crn anchor tor its Asian dclensc chief secretary in the transporla chain. iwn ministry, who has been in- The fastest and most discernible ! (lit,t'(l- development in recent weeks has come al unrK north of Manila. Field, 55 miles 18 Men, 7 Corporations Indicted for WASHINGTON - Ally. Gen. ; Brownell announced Tuesday a , ledcral grand jury has returned five additional indictments charg-; ing 18 individuals and seven cor porations with diverse offenses in connection with the disposal of' surplus ships from World War II. I Among the individuals were for-1 mer Rep. Joseph Casey (I) Massi. The indictments. Brownell said,; were voted by a grand jury here) last April 23. but were kept sealed' until the government reached the conclusion that some of the de fendants, living abroad, are un likely ever to return to the United Stales. The indictments announced Tuesday, which are a part ol a series of such indictments, named Casey for a second lime during the scries. The ex-lawmaker, who once headed a group alleged lo have made immense profits in surplus ship transfers, was accused of Ike Plays Golf On Last Day Of Vacation PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (UP Fresident Eisenhower, looking tanned and refreshed after a week's vacation in the hot South ern California desert, scheduled a last round of golf today before flying back to Washington tonight. The chief executive and Mrs. Eisenhower, with her mother, Mrs. John S. Doud of Denver, planned to take off in the Presi dent's Constellation, the Colum bine at 8:30 p.m. PST tonight, reaching the Military Air Trans port Terminal in Washington ahout 7:30 a.m. EST tomorrow. The first item on the President's agenda in Washington was a re port on the recent Big Four for eign ministers conference in Ber lin from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Dulles will leave shortly for the Inter-American Conference In Caracas, Venezuela. Gen.Thiamayya On Way Home SEOUL W-Indian Lt. Gen. K. S. Thiamayya, chairman of the controversial commission which handled Korean War prisoner op erations at Panmunjom, left to day for home, his work finished. Thiamayya fLw to Tokyo with U. S. Ambassador Ellis Briggs and U. S. diplomat Kenneth Young for a short vacation. The Indian general was chair- man of the Neutral Nations Re patriation Commission whose work ended Sunday midnght un- dcr terms of the armistice agree ment. He saw tne last, ni nis o,-i 008 Indian troops put aboard the ! ship Jalburza today. An 8th Army honor guard, com- retary of State Walter S. itoucrt posed of American, South Korean aon nas told Congress the Chinese and other United Nations troops, Rcd. ln iust about the bloodiest put on a ceremony for the de parting Indian. No South Korean official show ed up at Seoul city air base for the Thiamayya departure. But Mayor Kim Tae Eoi and other Korean officials pointedly waited until the Thiamayyr ceremony ended before bidding Young good by, Japanese Face Cabinet Crisis TOKYO ifl Janan's lower house Tiicsday granted permission for the arrest of one of its mem bers accused of handling reported --" Charges to that effect were voiced in a Diet committee session Monday. Ship Frauds conspiracy to breach a purchase contract with the government by sales of stock in the purchasing company In others without ap proval of the Maritime Commis sion. Tuesday's Indictments similarly charged Julius C. Holmes of New York City, former United States minister to London, who was al leged lo have participated in the Casey transactions. Other indictments announced early this month named Casey and Aristotle S. Onassis, fabulously wealthy resident of Argentina who runs a worldwide shipping busi ness headquartered at Monte Car lo Those indictments charged them with conspiring to defraud the government. All of the indictments involve charges that surplus U.S. govern ment ships were purchased in the names n: Americans and illegally funnelled to aliens through cor porate transactions. Withdrawal of Rebels Forced By US Bombers SAIGON, Indochina tfl - Th French command announced Tues day night that the 18-day siege of Muong Sai, 45 miles northwest of Luang Prabang, the royal capital of Laos, has been lifted with the aid of American donated B28 bombers. The high command said elements ol Vietminh Division No. 308, which unleashed an offensive to ward Luang Prabang Jan. 30, has pulled back its forces from the vicinity of the capital as well as Muong Sai. The division is regrouping in th valley of the Bac River 50 miles northwest of Luang Prabang. The Vietminh launched its at tack towards Luang Prabang pri marily as a political maneuver. General Withdrawal To protect it the French sent in reinforcements I of the Foreign le gion and parachute units and, at the same time, pulled in troops from the scattered posts and gar risons of the Laos jungle. In the general withdrawal to ward Luang Prabang, the little garrison of Muong Sai held" fast. A few men were left isolated and menaced with destruction. The French command sent rein forcements to the harassed troops. The fate of the greatly strengh- cned garrison was in doubt for more than a week as an official curtain of silence descended over the fighting there. (Continued on Page 3, Col, 8) Millions Killed By Chinese Reds WASHINGTON tfl Asst. Sec- pattern that , the Communists have followed in any country in the world," have killed about IS mil lion of their own people since 1949.' Robertson, whose province is Far Eastern affairs, attributed this huge death toll to liquidations and government-ignored starvation. In testimony on the State Depart ment's budget request, made pub lic by the House Appropriations Committee today, Robertson said the department anticipates in Asia fnr (hp fnrpppah!j future "pmpfB. encies. crises and problems of the greatest importance and magni tude. Fear Indians To Lose Timber WASHINGTON Ifl - A possibil ity that most of the Klamath In dians' rich timber holdings might pass into other hands if turned over to the Indians was reported Tuesday at a hearing on a bill to free the Oregon tribe from govern ment supervision. K. Morgan Pryse, Portland, area director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, told a joint House-Senate Indian Subcommittee hearing: "Kxpcrience has shown that when Indians get title, they sell it." He expressed belief that most Klamath Indians would like to re tain their lands but that if indi vidual title was granted "most of It would pass out of Indian owner ship in a few years." The tribal forests, in excess of U of a million acres, are the tribes' principal source of income. Four Perish in Louisville Fire ' LOUISVILLE. Ky. i - Two persons burned to death and twn died in leaps to escape the flames as a spectacular fire engulfed a three story apartment building nea downtrwn Louisville Mnn dav night. Mrs. Edith Dalhow and Ernest Richmond. 52. died of burns. Fire men found their bodies on the third floor. Arthur Lee Chapman. 42, died from a fractured skull and leg fractures suffered in a leap from the top floor. James Devon. 33, succumbed to shock and internal injuries after jumping from a second-floor window. PUNJAB IRRIGATION PROJECT APPROVED KARACHI. Pakistan -Pakistan and the United Slates agreed Tuesday lo team up fnr a major irrigation project in Punjab prov ince. The project is estimated eventually to cost about 30 million dollars. places. v