1 THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY tonight. Fri. day. Few showers tonight. Lou1 tonight, M; cooler Friday, high 0. FINAL EDITION 66th Year, No. 47 I,,"; Solem, Oregon, Thursday, February 25, 1954 (32 Pages) . . Price 5c Cf. .ilGh 11 ffllil . HnvU vv ir II it ii ii vr ii ii mm v ji w u u Stevens Angry Overcharges Of Surrender Secretary Excited Oa Interpretation Of McCarthy Deal WASHINGTON Ufi Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens was reported Thursday to be steaming wilh anger over interpretations of ms agreement with Sen. McCarthy tR-Wis) as a "capitulation." His office and the White House ac knowledged they had had tele phone exchanges on the matter. sievens denied, nowever, a re port that he was asking a public expression of .support from Presi dent Eisenhower and was prepared to resign it he didn t get it. this report came from a source close to the secretary. When an Associated Press dis patch to this effect was shown to Stevens he authorized an aide to deny it "categorically." The source of the original report could not be reached immediately. He is in a position to know what has gone on behind the scenes. Denies Report Correct Stevens was closeted with a group of top advisers when the AP dispatch was sent in to him. John F. Kane, a civilian aide, came out and told reporters he was authorized to deny "categor ically that tne report was correct, (Continued on Page 5, Col. 5) Tax Receipts Down 8 Percent Oregon's state income tax re ceipts are down about eight per cent because of reduced corpora tion income tax receipts, the State Tax Commission reported Thursday. , The commission said total re ceipts in the seven months ended Feb. 1 were $28,892,435, compared with the all-time record figure of $31,583,380 in the similar period a year ago. - Corporation tax receipts dropped from $11,586,881 to $9,059,977. Personal income tax receipts were $19,832,458, a drop of only $164,000 from the 'similar-. period a year ago. There were 2,562 corporation tax returns filed during the period, a gairi of 425. The number of person al income tax returns was 35,085, or 3.200 less than a year ago, and 7,000 less than the peak in 1950. 2 Children Die In Cabin Blaze GRESHAM (AP) Fire swept throuch a two-room cabin east of here on the Mt. Hood Loop high way Thursday morning, killing two children and putting the mo ther and another child in a hos pital with critical burns. A fourth child had just gone to school and the father was in Port land. The victims, children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Kemery, were identified by Sheriff's Deputy Wal ter Jahn as Alice May, 3, and Charles C, 4. Mrs. Kemery, 33. apparently was burned in her rescue of Wade, 22 months, who was taken to the hospital with her. Jahn said until Mrs. Kemery could be questioned details would be obscure but this appeared to be the sequence of events: Kemery, who works for a farm er, Willard Henry Johanson and lives on his land, had gone to Portland to sell a load of potatoes. Mrs. Kemery saw their eldest child, Sherry Ann, , olf on the school bus. Then it is not clear, Jahn said, whether she saw flames, rushed into (he house, and brought out the your-rcst child, or whether she had gone into the house be fore the fire broke out. It if presumed, he said, . from stories given by neighbors, that she rushed into the fire in a res cue effort. Oregon Parole System Studied . The Oregon parole and proba tion survey advisory committee is meeting In Salem this after noon to study a probation asso ciation. The national association was asked to make a study of the Oregon system of parole and probation and to recommend any changes it deemed advisable. Justice James T. Brand of the Oregon supreme court is chair man of the advisory committee. The report from the national as sociation recommends several changes in Oregon's system of parnle and probation. Weather Details Matrmam mtrritf. Ml tnltilmara In dat. .11 Talel S'.hiwr are IHUtlim: i far mania: .' aarinal. 4.11- Sra.an wlaltallaa. U.ttt aarraal. Klaer hrtt M. l. tart. cHaarl !' Waalhar flaraaa.) Confirmation Of Warren to Come Friday .Knowland Predicts Overwhelming Vote of Confidence in Senate WASHINGTON (UP) Quick Senate confirmation of Earl War ren's nomination as Chief Justice was virtually assured today fol lowing bizarre and belated com' mittee aproval. . Senate Republican Leader Wil liam F. Knowland said Mr. War ren s confirmation will- come quickly, probably tomorrow, and expressed belief the ex-governor of California will get an over whelming vote of confidence." The delay occurred in the Sen ate Judiciary Committee, which finally approved the nomination, on a 12 to 3 vote yesterday puncturing the only complaints raised against Mr. Warren. Three Dissenters Even the three dissenters, Democratic Sens. Harley M. Kil gore (W Va.), Olin D. Johnston (SC) and James O. Eastland (Miss.), did not subscribe to the acusations made against Mr. War ren by another Califorman, Rod erick J. Wilson of Hollywood. Neither did chairman, William Langer, (R-ND), a central figure in the nationwide furore about the committee's handling of the nomination. "There's nothing to those remarks," that Wilson made, Langer told newsmen. While nominally under arrest as a fugitive from California jus tice, Wilson testified more than two hours behind closed - doors yesterday, telling why he thinks Mr. Warren is a "captive" of a corrupt political machine." (Continued on Page 5, Col. 3) Battle Rages For N.Y. Central CLEVELAND Ul Clinton W. Murchison. Dallas oil and eas mil lionaire, and Sid W. Richardson, of Fort Worth have bought the 800,000 shares of New York Cent ral shares owned by the Chesa peake and Ohio Railway, the C&O announced Thursday. ; Murchison is reported to be 'a friend of Robert W. Young, now engaged in a battle for control of the New York Central system. The sale price was given as $25 a share. A brief announcement by Walter .T. Tuohy, the C&O president, said the sale represented a profit of approximately 2.4 million dollars. Tuohy said ".the stock was sold at a profit to C&O shareholders. We have no further comment." Murchison has extensive hold ings in oil and gas but also is interested in banks, utilities, chemical companies, life insurance compani s and holds several mil lion dollars worth of securities in the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The 800.000 shares are the largest single block of New York Central shares. They have been held in trusteeship by the Chase National Eank of New York, un der a ruling by Uie Interstate Commerce Commission. Tuohy's announcement said the CiO directors meeting here Thurs day approved the sale of the en tire block of shares. It was the first board mootinr since Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland financier became chairman. He was named chairman in Jan uary when Young and his asso ciates in Alleghany Corp. sold their C&O stock to Eaton and divorced themselves completely from the C&O. This was a move to enable Young to initiate a new battle to acquire control of New York Central. New York Central stock closed Wednesday at $24. Prisoners Who Tried to Dig Out of Jail lino wn Two prisoners who attempted to dig their way out of the coun ty section of the Salem city jail were tentatively Identified, Sher iff Denver Voung reported Wed nesday. In individual interviews of the 14 prisoners of the large 15-bcd cell, Douglas James Hamilton, 20, Grand Island, Nebraska, ad mitted being involved in the it tempt to tunnel a way through the brick wall of the jail, Younj sail'. Hamilton also im plicated Leo Collins, Jr., 32, Ce res, California, ac the second person involved in the attempt, Young rcpTtcd. Hamilton was awaiting trans fer to the Oregon State prism where he is to serve a five-year sentence for the burglary of Mc Dowell's market, 1190 South 12lh street- Collins is charged with the urglary o' a Salem home and is being held for trial In lieu of 2,500 bail. He was re I V-.,V. V fYo spirit, ,Jf if) -V AjW Split Report On Postage Hike WASHINGTON I Seven Dem ocrats and one Republican dissent ed Thursday from a House com mittee's formal endorsement of a 240-million-dollar postal rate boost, calling it an "Unconscionable bur den . . contrary to the public in terest." The minority report from the 25- memben Post ' Office Committee denounced the. Eisenhower admin istration's.' bill for higher 1 mail rates as an added "tax"" and a "radical departure from the con cept of public service whlcb is the keystone of our postal establish ment." : . The committee majority, on the ' other hand, urged adoption of the rate bill and said there is need of additional revenues to offset chron ic deficits in post office operations. The majority contended that al though the cost of mailing out-of-town letters would go up from 3 to 4 cents, mail users would still be getting a bargain at the higher figure. House Group Cuts 3 Budgets WASHINGTON UB A 12 V4 per cent cut in the combined budgets of the State, Justice and Com merce Departments and the "Voice of America" was recom mended Thursday by the House Appropriations Committee. . Moneywise, the committee said, those agencies should get along on $1.146.9,18.000 instead of the $1,- 313,920.960 recommended by Pres ident Eisenhower for the 13-i5 fis cal year which starts next July 1. Most or the $166,932,960 cut would be borne by the Commerce Department, big slashes being in appropriations lor the federal aid;" nignway system ana ior payment of air mail subsidies. The com- mittee conceded that Congress : might have to pump more money I into both these programs before the next year ends. I The committee s actions were embodied in a bill to be debated next week in the House. cently returnee to the jail after spending a time under observ ation at the Oregon State hos pital where I., was sent after two Jnc dents at the jail in which he drank some poison in sect spray and later incurred several wr'a-t cuts, apparently self-inflicted. Repairs ,to thej ail were ex pected to be rlnishcd Thursday, city police Captain Glenn Bow man said. Two layers of bricks and mortar in an area about two feet by three feet had been re moved, leaving two more layers of brick between the prisoners and a hallway in the city hall just oi'tsidc the fire chief's of fice and leading to an outside door and windows on the north side of the building. Used in the escape 'ttcmpt were a spoon handle and Iwr pieces of heavy wire police said. , (Continued on Page 5, CoL S) MARILYN HOME SAFE BUT SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25 Marilyn Monroe, bundled snugly in a mink coat and the arms of hubby Joe Dimaggio is shown arriving here late last night. Marilyn was suffering from what doctors in Honolulu described as a slight case of bronchial pneumonia, apparently caught while on a four-day tour enter taining soldiers in Korea while Joe was teaching baseball in Korea. At left is Mrs. Frank "Lefty" O'Doul and her son Jimmy who was on hand to greet his mother and "Lefty", (AP Wire photo) . Washington Case on Hells Canyon Remains WASHINGTON UP, A motion to throw Washington Stale's1 case out of the Hells Canyon hearing was denied Thursday. William J. Costello, Power Com- Hells Canyon Gobbledygook WASHINGTON, P) The Hells Cayon hearing slowed to a snail's pace Thursday as other lawyers protested they couldn't under stand questions asked by Mrs. Evelyn Cooper, public power at torney. Frequently the official reporter was asked to read questions back during Mrs. Cooper's cross-examination of Early D. Ostrandcr, Bonneville Power Administration comptroller, at a Power Commis sion hearing on applications to build dams in the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon. R. P. Perry, attorney for Idaho Power Co. which seeks licenses for three dams, objected to one question with these words: "I move to preserve that ques tion as an exhibit an example of ' double talk gonblcdygook, which is entirely vague and meaningless." Mrs. . Cooper demanded that Parry's remark be stricken from the record, saying he understood question and "didn't want it 6 Forest Chiefs To Be Shifted PORTLAND IB Six supervis ors of national forests in the Pa cific Northwest will be shifted in mid-year, when John R. Bruckart retires as supervisor of the Willamette National For est in Oregon. The changes were announced here by Regional Forester J. Herbert Stone, who said Robert Aufdcrhcide, now head of the Umpqua Forest in Oregon, would succeed Bruckart. Bruckart spent his forest serv ice career in tho Northwest. He began 45 years ago as a guard in the Snnqualmie Forest in Washington. Aufdcrhcidc's post in the Ump qua Forest will be taken over by Vondis E. Miller, now super visor of the Ochoco Forest in Central ' Oregon. Cleon Clark, who heads the Malheur Forest in Southeast Oregon, will move to the Othoco. J. Malcolm Loring will take over the Malheur. He now is su pervisor of the Chelan Forest in Washington. Chester E. Bennett, who supervises the Wallowa For est of Oregon, will move to the Chelan, and H. S. Coons, Whit man Forest supervisor, will take over the eonsolidatcd Wallowa Whitman Forest SICK mission examiner! relected a mo tion to strike" the testimony of Washington i lona witness from the record of the hearing on Idaho Power Co. applications to build three dams in- the Snake Kiver between Idaho and Oregon. The motion was - made in De cember by Mrs. Evelyn Cooper, attorney for groups favoring con struction of a federal Hells Can yon Dam in the same area. Wash ington opposes the federal dam. Mrs. Cooper said the witness, Holland Houston, power adviser to Gov. Arthur B. Langlic of Wash ington, failed to qualify as an ex pert witness and his testimony did not support the state's petition to intervene in the case. Costello said Houston was quali fied to testify on comprehensive river development although most of his testimony dealt with hydro electric power. Mrs. Cooper had argued Hous ton was not qualified because he had made no study of compre hensive river development. Commenting on Mrs. Cooper's statement that Houston's testi mony was "a eonglomcration of largely unsupported hearsay evi dence," Costello said "this seems to be a matter of how much weight should be given to the testi mony and it is certainly some thing to be explored during cross examination." Grain Storage Lack Stressed WASHINGTON Ifl - Secretary of Agriculture Benson Thursday urged farmers to start making plans now for storage of this year's crops lest lack of space at harvest time cause sharp dips in prices. Because of a record surplus of grains, the storage situation tins year could be very serious, he said, particularly should harvests again be large. The secretary emphasized that government price support aid can be extended only on commodities stored in acceptable facilities. He said the government did every thing possible last year to assist in the expansion of both farm and commercial storage facilities. He said It will continue such help this year. "The final responsibility, how ever, rests with fnrmers them selves," Benson said in a formal statement. "They should anticipate their requirements and make plans immediately to sec that adequate storage space is available when they need it." HUGH CABOT III DECORATED TOKYO A 24-year-old Bos Ionian who saw more service than any other combat artist In the Korean War, Hugh Cnbot HI. has been decorated by Ihe com mander of naval forces in Ihe Far East, the Navy announced Thursday. Egypi s Premier Naguib Out North Syrian Army Revolts Military Coup Follows Purge Of Opposition BEIRUT, Lebanon (UP)-Syrian rebels seized Radio Aleppo today and claimed an army revolt was sweeping all of Northern Syria against the regime of "people's hangman" President Gen. Adib Shishekly. Troops dispatched by Shishekly were reported rushing from Dam ascus to centers of the revolt. The radio said miliary coups backed by students and people of all classes took place early today in Aleppo, a city of 170,000,-and in Latakia and Deir El-Zor. It said the people and Army In Horns and Hama later joined the revolt. No Official Word The broadcasts . reported the streets were crowded with demon strators shouting their support of the revolution against the general who seized power in 1951 with army backing. The radio appealed to all Syrians to join the revolt. Damascus radio in the capital came on the air but did not men tion the revolt. Radio Aleppo broadcasts appeal ed to the people of Syria to throw out the "mean slave and agent of imperialism" and accused Shish ekly of attempting to impose a "fascist regime" on the country and of failing to carry out reforms pledged in his 1951 seizure of pow er. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 7) Safety Deposit Boxes Looted SEATTLE (VP) Growing t ports of losses in the looting of Seattle's oldest safety deposit vault indicated. Thursday the loss might be one of the' largest In the annals of crime here. The '. Pioneer Safe Deposit vaults withstood the big Seattle fire of 1889 but yielded over the Washington Birthday holiday week end to one of the most skill ful teams of safecrackers ever to drill a wall here. With most of the 400 looted boxes checked, the losses of cash were reported to total about $50,000. Officials said there is no insurance on losses of cash from the strongboxes, in which many prople had locked their savings. Officials said the cash loss total may go higher. The heaviest known loser was reported to be an unidentified Alaskan who reported he had been keeping $32,000 in his box. Silver Dollars Of Aluminum SPOKANE Wl An aluminum plant worker, arrested Feb. 9 after a mould for counterfeiting silver dollars was found in his home, pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to two .years In prison. Federal Judge Sam Driver pass ed sentence on Clarence D. Hart ley, 48, who admitted having the mould in his possession but denied planning to use it iiunuyr, niiiiMicy. ritmti!. r. laci, saiu inc mouici wan vi-ry crude" and suggested Ihe violation of the law was "technical." ' Judge Driver said Hartley had served four prison terms before and should have known he was "playing with dynamite" when he had the mould. Accuse Sack of Slaying Wife by Asphyxiation PORTLAND, Ore. mA white-: bond, afcr being buokcil as a haired, mild-appearing man, whose material witness bccHUsc a rcii first two wives died violently in dent of the area near the vacant Chicago in the early 1920s, was lot reported he had seun Sack's accused late last night of killing j outomohilo parked hc.-idc tho lot his third wife here. the night Mr?. Sack disappeared George F. Sack, who was convlThc woman's body was found in ! milled to a mental hospital seven years after being accused of shoot- Ing his second wife to death, was rhnrnnrf here wilh asohvxiatinB Goldic Goodrich Sack, j6, Jasl week. For six days medical expeiti had sought to determine the cause of death of the womnn. whose body was found in a vacant 101 acrofiiim: iunn . ,..'; town from the apartment house; from the car trunk Into the v ...ui-l t- i. 1 ni u,i.nM thii.rf.nt Int Wnilfl aiith uwni: an. wiMi-. niv - couple lived. Medical exports said tht rc were The. medical experts reported; no wounds. A preliminary rr Just beforo midnight that Ihe cause , port said thi.rc was some indie was "asphyxiation In a manner as Hon nf poison, but this never was yet unknown." Po'.ice at once took ! mentioned again. Later the mcdi out a warrant charging Sack with leal examiners said thiy found llrst -degree murder. i bruises on her wisls and ankles, He had been free on $in,0no! apparently made before death. : : Ike to Grant Military Aid To Pakistan WASHINGTON UB President Eisenhower announced Thursday he will grant military aid to Pakistan to help secure "stabil ity and strength" in the Middle East. The President ' made known this decision in a formal state ment. At the same time the White House made public a let ter to Prime Minister Nehru of India assuring him that "this step docs not in any way affect the friendship we feel for In dia.' "(Juite the contrary," the Pres ident said in the letter delivered to Nehru by Ambassador George V. Allen at 11 a.m. Wednesday, New Delhi time. "We will continually strive to strengthen the warm and edur ing i friendship between our two countries." The decision to give aid to Pak istan was taken under authority granted by the foreign aid law and requires no further congres sional sanction. . Close Poland's U.S. Consulate WASHINGTON tfl The United States Thursday told Communist Poland to close its consulates gen eral at New York, Chicago, and Detroit. ' " i Secretary of State Dulles sent a note to the Y onsn amnassanor, : Jozef Winlewlcz, saying the con-1 sular establishments ; "serve no useful purpose jn the conduct or relations neiween- uie u n 1 1 e States and Poland at the present time.' TJiere" have v been i complaints from Michigan congressmen and others that the. Detroit consulate eeneral was a center of Commu nist propaganda. . :;,... A State Department spokesman said the Michigan congressmen have been informed of the move. Dulles' note asked Poland to close down the three consulates, leaving only the embassy in Wash ington, and "withdraw the per sonnel of those offices within a reasonable period." Chief Joseph Dam Needed SPOKANE Wl - Rep. Horan (R-i Wash. I says the government will lose $7,900,000 in power revenues if Congress fails to appropriate tne full 30 million dollars asked for Chief. Joseph Dam in the next fiscal year. lluran. in a statement released here, said he told this to the House Appropriations Committee after the budget bureau cut the 30 million dollars' request to 27 million. The lower figure would delay completion of power houses at the dam, he said. An Army Engineers' request for 58 million dollars for The Dalles Dam has been scaled to 34 million and Horan said Congress should appl.0priatc at least 45 million or I face delays that will cost almost mln , power reserve. RKI) MISSION SAIL IIOMK TOKYO un Eleven members of the unrecognized Russian mis sion here will sail for home late this month. Kyodo News .service said Thursday. lne lot acres.! town m ""T L' . . . a r ;,he sheriff said a resident of 1 Ih1- area then reported seeing a car be?ido the lot the night of Feb. It). Me wrote down the li cense number. The sheriff said it mulched Sack's license plates. The information al.-n raid he had seen the driver cairy sorr.Hhing heavy- Nasser, Strong Man of Regime. Installed Ruler CAIRO (UP) Egypt's Revolu tionary Council accepted President Mohammed Naguib's resignation today and put him under house ar- -rest. Naguib's posts as premier and head of the ruling Egyptian Rev olutionary Council were taken over by his right hand man. 37-ycar-' old Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, who actually has been Egypt s behind-the-scene "strong man" ever since King Farouk was ousted. Naguib's post as president of Egypt is to be filled later by a popular elec tion. ; The council which grew from the military junta that dethroned and exiled King Farouk 21 montns ago declared a state of emergency throughout the land after announc ing its action. Maguib Unavllable There were no demonstrations but wild rumors spread through out Cairo that Naguib had died of a stroke. Revolutionary Council sources categorically denied these reports. Naguib stepped down because the council refused to grant him dictatorial powers, an official com munique said. The general was placed under house arrest in his villa in sub urban Helmia and could not be reached for comment (Continued on Page 5, Col 4) Kaiser Plants u RICHLAND (UP) Expansion of 1 Raiser, projects in the northwest was predicted yesterday by Ed gar F. Keiser, Detroit, president of (he Henry J. Kaiser Co. ... . I Kaiser told newsmen here his firm was , making a nationwide survey of the aluminum fabrica tion industry. : He said the firm wanted to ex pand Its aluminum operation but was waiting fur results of the sur vey to determine when and where to move. He said expansion in the Northwest would depend on what the survey revealed regard-. ing power, resources and markets. but added "ultimately it couldn't help but come here." Kaiser will leave here tonight to return to Detroit after spending two days inspecting Kaiser Engin eers' 110-million dollar expansion program for the Atomic Energy Commission at the Hanford works. TV Priority List Discontinued , WASHINGTON WV-Fcdcral Com munications Commission (FCC) officials said Thursday the back log of work involved in processing applications for new television sta tions has been broken. Consequently the FCC Is discon tinuing the issuance of the priority list of cities which has governed the order in which applications for television stations are set for hear ing. The FCC said new applications now arc being processed as re ceived and hearings can be set as fast as applicants can qualify, un-. dcr FCC procedure, to appear. The priority system was set up in July 1953, when the FCC had a heavy backlog of applications be cause of the three-year ban on con struction of stations, lifted in 1952, The processing of non-competitive applications, without public hearings, has been on current basis since March 1953. Depression Talk Near Treason SEASIDE in Any attempt to destroy consumers' confidence in the future could lead to economic trouble. Gov. Paul L. Patterson said hero Wednesday night, and he added that talk of an approaching depression is "very close to trea son " Speaking at a joint banquet of luncheon clubs, ho said Ihe job sit uation in Oregon is not alarming, that jobs are picking up and that at no time this winter was unem ployment 3 bad as in 1050. "I do not want you to bo inis ied," ho tuid, "by statements Im plying a threat o! chaos and com ing depression." TWO AIRMEN KILLED RAU1.KTT. England vf A Brit'th Canberra Jcl bomber fait ercd on take off and crashed along a busy railway line near here Thursday, killing tho two airmen.