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C apit at jlJ6u rnal TIKE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY tonight. Sun. day, with scattered light shower Sunday. Little change In temper afure. Low tonight, 17; high Sun day. 52. FINAL EDITION 66th Year, No. 49 SXjX'0z Salem, Oregon, Saturday, February 27, 1954 Sen. Yeafer Running for Second Term Salem Man Seeks Re-election to State Senate By JAMES D. OLSON Sen. Douglas R. Yeater Satur day announced his candidacy for re-election to the State Senate, thus insuring at least a three-man race for the Republican nomina tion ior the two Marion County Senate seats. i Reps. Lee Ohmart and Mark Hatfield, previously announced intention to run for the Senate and thus far no Marion County Democrats have either announc ed or filed for the Senate. Yeater was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1940, serving in the 1941 session and was re-elected to serve in the 1949 session. In 1950 he was elect ed to a four-year term in the Sen ate, serving in the 1951 and 1953 sessions. In Oregon 19 Years He came to Oregon in 1935 and was district sales representative for the Portland General Electric company until 1938 when he es tablished his own appliance busi ness in Salem. "With the urging of my many friends and supporters," Yeater said, "I have consented to con tinue serving the people- in the State Senate. During the last eight years I have served two ses sions in the State Senate and two terms in the House of Represen tatives. With a knowledge I have (Continued on Page 5, Col. 4) Korea to Get Oregon Lumber WASHINGTON, UP Sen. Guy Cordon (R., Ore.) said today he had been informed by the Corps of Engineers that it plans to buy 9,074,000 board feet of lumber for replenishment of stocks used in Korean rehabilitation- work from U. S, firms. Cordon said the engineers de rision- to- purchase the lumber under the buy America act virtually assured that Pacific Northwest concerns would get the business. The Oregon Republican said he had learned earlier that the Army planend to order 21,278, 000 board feet of lumber with out taking into account the buy America act under which foreign firms must submit bids 25 per cent under American bids to win contracts. Plan Big Cut In Excise Taxes. WASHINGTON fUP Republi cans were reported lining up to-' day behind a $1.000,000.00q excise tax cut proposal aimed at taking the steam out of a cmocDratic effort to boost personal income tax exemptions. The report came as the GOP controlled joint congressional econ omic committee said the "current recession" may force changes in President Eisenhower's tax poli cies. The plan to cut excise taxes, sponsored bv House Speaker Jos eph W. Martin, Jr.. iR-Mass), is cxpccctcd to come up for discus sion at a secret session of the House Ways & Means Committee Monday. Work Completed The committee completed work on its big tax revision bill yester i day but did not put it to a formal i vote. The measure would provide about $1,300,000,000 in tax relief ' for business and individuals, some I $50,000,000 more than the President proposed. J President of Round-up Dies ? PENDLETON iff - Berkeley A. j Davis. 55, president of the Pcndle- j ton Roundup Assn. and vice president of the Rogers Canning J Co. of Millon-Frcewatcr. died suddenly Friday night from a i heart attack. -s He and his wife were driving ? their personal cars from Pendleton '$ to their home at nearby Adams j when she noticed him pull off to '? the side of the road. She took him '" to a hospital here but he was dead on arrival. k She said he had been suffering heart trouble for the past three vears hut that he concealed his ; illness from friends. He owned a wheat and pea ranch at Adams. 1 His son, Berkeley Lowell Davis ot Adams, also survives. t Weather Details ! Miifmntn tHUtdH, Mi m In Imam U day. J. Tlil ?l-hnr rwlBilaltofi: trarvi fr month: ft, Mi narmil. ft?. 1 fff-ftftfi Jrrf IvIUtUn. a.V3fli nrml. W.H. " imrr Mtfht. VI lt. tRprt f V.. . niihr Rama.) Victory for Ike Seen in Defeat Of Bricker Bill Vote of 60-3 1 Loses Amendment Curbing Treaty Power . WASHINGTON Ul - President Eisenhower won a major victory in the Senate's vote last night kill ing proposals to amend the Con stitution to limit treaty powers. The vote was 60-31, one fewer than the required two-thirds of those balloting. The proposal that lost was one by Sen. George (D Ga) which had emerged as the final of several versions the Senate has been debating since Jan. 20. The President has said he has no objeetion to an amendment on would declare no treaty or inter national agreement could override the Constitution, but he has op posed various specific proposals tie said unduly rcstricted.the execu tive's right to handle foreign affairs. Balked by 31 Votes In the final vote, 31 senators balked the will of 60, just as a minority may do on the ratification (Continued on Page 5, Col. 7) Stevens Stays As Secretary WASHINGTON UP) A source high in President Eisenhower's administration said today Robert T. Stevens will continue as secre tary of the Army, despite the crit icism levelled a his conduct during his quarrel with Sen. Mc Carthy IR-Wis). This source, who declined to be quoted by name, said some of the administration s top advisers had counselled Stevens against taking on McCarthy at a televised hear ing. The source said they were now satisfied that, whatever loss of prestige Stevens may have suf fered because - of an agreement widely interpreted as a surrender. he still would have been made to "look worse" if the hearing had taken place. Body of Slain Girl Identified VANCOUVER, Wash. (UP) The badly decomposed body of a girl found yesterday in a a brushy spot near wasnougai on the Evergreen highway to day was identified by police as that of 16-year-old Diane Agnes Hank of Portland. The body, trussed with ropes arid wrapped in two blankets and a sheet, was discovered about 2 p.m. yesterday by Albert Striek er, highway department flag man. The Washington state pa trol and Clark county sheriff's office were notified. Sheriff Clarence McKay, two deputies and Coroner Paul Mylan exam ined the spot where the corpse was found and returned the body to Vancouver. A preliminary autopsy was performed by Dr. Homer Harris, pathologist at the University of Oregon Medical School. He was to complete his examination of the remains today. Officers said eight or 10 loops of rope were tightly fastened around the body so firmly the knees were drawn up into a position so the body could fit into the back seat or trunk of an automobile. Clark County, Wash., and Mult nomah County, Ore., sheriff's dep uties and Portland police picked up a woman and two Chinese men for questioning in the case.' They were Mr. and Mrs. Wnync Fong, at whose .southwest Port land home the Hank girl was baby-sitting the night before her disappearance was reported, and Min Yec, 38, who lives with the Fongs, ' The men were picked up at the Fong home early Saturday and the woman was picked up when she arrived at the house later. President Asked to Drop Loan Program WASHINGTON (JPi March, des-1 sion can be avoided" but it ad- ignated b President Eisenhower as an economic wcauier tanc, w at hand today amid fresh reports ot rising unemployment and a rise in farm prices. Eisenhower told a news confer- ered two weeks' ago that the gestcd in an unprecedented unan administration would go into ac- imous report that the administra tion if March failed to bring an j tion put off plans to replace the anticipated upturn in the nation's , prcsen farm program embodying economic activity. I rigid, high-level price supports for Administration spokesmen have I basic crops with a new support insisted the country has been going I through no more than n readjust ment in the wake of the end of the iorcan fighting. But some Demo crats have contended the nation already is in a recession. Just yesterday, the Scnaie-House Economic Committee said It is sure "any serious further rcces- F 7Z I, Al) q f$g Army Suspends Annie Lee Moss WASHINGTON W - The law yer for Annie Lee Moss, an Army Signal Corps employe named by Sen McCarthy (R.-Wis.) in his- charges of Army "coddling" of Communists, said. Saturday she has been suspended from her job. George E. C. Hayes, the law yer, told a reporter that Mrs. Moss received notice Friday that she had been suspended, effective the day before, ."pending the ad judication of her case." Hayes said he thought this meant pending the outcome of the probe by the Senate investigations subcommittee headed by McCarthy. Mrs. Mary inarKwaru, a iu.... VATICAN CITY - In a Lent undercover worker fur the FBI, en m ,c t0 parish icsls o told the subcommittee last Tues-RomCi p pius x Saturdav day mat an Annie uce ius men -i") ........., " j the 1940's. but the witness said sue was "; -"i lain whether this was the same woman now employed by the Sig nal Corps. Oregon Rabbi Protests to Ike PORTLAND lUPt An Oregon Jewish leader today asked Presi dent Eisenhower to halt any con templated surrender to "Mc farthyism." Rabbi Julius J. Nodcl wrote the While House asking the nation's chief executive. "How long will you wait before the constitution also is surrendered to McCarthy?" The rabbi cited the feud between Army Secretary Robert Stevens and Sen. Joseph McCarthy IR-Wisl and said the president had given McCarthy "permission to again make loyal Americans his helpless witnesses." He said Mr. Eisenhow er's endorsement pf Stevens yes terday "merits the admiration of every American, if it had not come too late. ho read his letter j Rabbi Nodcl, w to his congregation at Temple Beth Israel last night, said an Eisen hower McCarthy showdown was inevitable. "Why do you not choose your battleground now?" he asked. "An entire nation is fearful and waiting. vised "timely and courageous" i aii's iu sur uusiiiuas iiiveMinriu i and consumer spending. , The committee, which has been ' studying the President's recent j economic recommendations, sug- system based on flexible props. The 14 committee members, both Republican and Democratic sena tors and representatives, said the change might "actually place the farm family in a worse position" in the months to come "when the threat to our economic stability is so generally recognized." RETURNS TO U. S. SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 27 Cpl. Claude J. Batchelor of Kermit, Tex., is interviewed by reporters upon his arrival at McCellan Field, near here today. Batchelor was one of 21 Americans who chose to remain with the Reds, then he changed his mind. (AP Wirephoto) Ex-Red P0W Wants to Aid Allies If Possible TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif, iff) Army Cpl. Claude J. Batchelor arrived here Saturday enroutc to his Texas home and declared, "I would like to do some thing to make up for what I did for the Commies." Lenten Sermon From Pope Pius warncd ..mpn jn njgh p,accs who , ignore or deny God that they "will bujd cvcn more prccariousy tnan at present. "There is no oilier solution for humanity," said the Pope, "but to build the world anew in the i spirit ot Christ. The Pope was reported slightly improved Saturday as Roman Catholics flocked to Rome's chur ches for special prayers for his full recovery. Vatican sources said the Pontiff, suffering for 33 days: "The whole story would be al from a gastric ailment, again had: mnst a book. It s far too long a spent "a fairly restful, night As in past lentcn messages, the Pope urged fuller observance of religious duties during this Lent en period. Lent begins this year on Ash Wednesday, March 3. the day fol lowing the Pope's 78th birthday. Delay Aid to Single Men PORTLAND I The Council of Social Agencies Friday asked the Oregon Public Welfare Com mission to grant relief to unem ployed single men. But the com- mission deferred BC,ion on lhc rc' Mrs. I.oa Howard Mason, wel fare administrator, conceded that many sucn men were unanie io, WASHINGTON ) The Nation find work. She said, however, that a Advisory Board Council for the the problem might be Solved by I u,,,,.,, r i ua M.Mmmpi r. increasing efforts to find more . employment. i She added that such relief had proved costly in the past, citing j March. '.919. when the slate paid out $87,768 for relief to single un-1 employed men. Members of the commission said they hoped that a community pro-1 gram of providing temporary jobs for the unemployed would solve the ; problem before it comes up for consideration at the next monthly j meeting J.llri, UAV. Hrnnr nerCUrY Mere UrOPS ' Under Freezing Level Below freezing temperatures moved in on Salem and vicinity Saturday morning, the mercury dropping down to 30 degrees for the morning minimum in the city. Considerable sunshine marked the fore part of Saturday here, but the forecast calls for scatter ed light showers on S u n d a y. Tempcrstures ere due to be little higher tonight. The lanky, 23-year-old soldier, who led the pro-Communist Amer ican prisoners ot war, said he had been told he probably would not he court-martialed for his aid to the Reds. ' , "I knew before I came back that there,, would be a lot of resent. nient, but I had to come-back anyway," he said in an interview after he collected $200 in back pay from about $5,000 he had coming. "I don't know what to expect in my home town of Kermit. Tex as. My mother wrote to me and says everything will be OK. But I don t quite know. "All I can say about my future plans is that 1 would like to do something to make up for what I did for the Commies. I don't know yet what that could be. "The important thing is that Americans fight Communism. I have given the matter a lot of thought, but I don't know yet how it can be done the most effective way." Asked to explain why he origin ally went over to the Communist i Mill. Daicnc or sa u story to try to tell anybody now. "The Communists did very well in their indoctrination at the slart, but as time went on they did even better convincing us how wrong they were." After a checkup at Brook Army Hospital al San Antonio, Tex., Batchelor probably will be given the usual 30-day leave. He said intelligence ofdeers who interro gated him had told him they did not think he would be court-mar-iialed. ' "But that was just their unof ficial opinion," Batchelor com mented. 6LM Council Advises Policy inR district wound up a three-day closed meeting here Saturday alt-1 crnoon. The council advises flic bureau on policy matters of national scope relating to the adminislratinn of public lands. It is made up of two stockmen from each of the 10 Western stales that have grazing districts. Chairman A. D. Brnwnficld of Doming. N. M.. presided at the sessions. .wcrciary ni ine iniennr iviciay spoke to the council Thursday. BLM Director Edward Woozlcy isvc a Roneral progress report on t"c reorganization of the bureau ! ami nth.r mnttors nf wririt inlpr. fst to Ihe council. Other bureau of ficiols presened progress reports on soil and moisture conservation. grazing administration and other mailers. PORTLAND HHK PORTLAND W Damage from a grease fire in a kitchen vent at Mogul's restaurant here Friday was estimated at $5,000. One fireman was injured when a falling light fixture struck him on Ihe bark. And Nasser Prime Syrian Rebels Seek Purge of Old Regime DAMASCUS, Syria Wl The Aleppo military command, which forced President Gen. Adib Shis hekly into exile, called on the rest of the Army in a demonstration Saturday to clean out this last stronghold of the little dictators backers. Planes from Aleppo, the north ern commercial center that is Syr ia's largest city, showered down pamphlets as thousands of demon strators supporting the rebels swarmed Ihrouglr-thc bazaars de manding a purge of pro-Shisckly elements in parliament. The airborne pamphlets urged the Army to ignore any pressure exerted by what it called "a small number of officers of the mechan ized unit" still supporting Shishck- i.v. Appeal for Unity "We appeal to all officers, sub officers and privates of the Army to maintain unity," the pamphlets said, and prove to the world that it never has and never will act against its own nation." There were demands for the res ignation of interim president Ma ahmoun El Kuzbari, who was speaker of the house In Shishck ly's administration. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 3) Place Blame for Airliner Crash wAsniiNiiiuN m ine UVI1. Aeronautics Board Friday blamed mV lucrative laiiure oi engines, due to the lack of compli- ance with proper maintenance standards" for the crash of a Mi ami Airline DC 3 near Sclleck, Wash., last April 14. . , ine plane "Crasned against a mountain near Sclleck, killing out' right six of the 25 persons aboard. A seventh person died later of in juries. The CAB said the plane has to return to Chicago a few minutes after departure from that ciy be cause is left engine was not func railing properly. The CAB also said that despite more engine trou ble west of Chicago the pilots failed to have the difficulics cor reced. Award Given To Stevenson CHICAGO Ifi Adlai E. Slev enson Friday night received Roosevelt College's annual award for "distinguished service to the principles of American democra cy " i Stevenson was introduced at the! annual dinner honoring the school's "outstanding citizen" as ! "the man who is going to be Pres-1 ident of the United States. "Perhaps I did run In the wrong year," the 1052 Democra tic presidential nominee said. Given a hronie bust of Franklin . Roosevelt, the former governor of Illinois quipped: "Nuw that I have his head, no telling what I might do. I only hope I don't lose mine." $50,000 ROBBICRY NKWARK. N.J. iff) - Three ban dits held up the Wiss Jewelry Store on busy Broad Street Satur day two minulcs niter it opened and fled on foot with an cstimat-1 cd $."0.0II0 in loose diamonds. 1 M an Jailed for A ttack On Silver ton Officers By VICTOR A charge nf assaulting twn Sll vrrtnn ollicers with a knife was lodged against a Salem iman Sat urday in Marion County District court and he was Jailed in lieu of $.1000 bail. ' Charged with assault with a dangerous weapon Friday night was Edward Leslie Kane. 41. 180 Kenwood Avenue, alter Silverton 1 Police Chief Hell R. Buck Main! and Oflicer Martin Kasscbaum, reported he pulled a knife and at tacked Main as they were return- j ing him to the scene of an acci dent near Silverlon. j Police said Kane's car had left the road and gone Into a ditch. . Witnesses told them Kane then left for town walking. The Sil-, vcrton officers and Deputy Slier-1 iff Lewis Walker were dispatched' to the scene and the Silverton! men saw Kane walking towards' town, they said. They put Kane In the palrol Russia Gives Crimea Area To the Ukraine MOSCOW Wl The Supreme Soviet announced Saturday that the Crimea has been transferred from the Russian S. S. R., largest of the 16 Soviet republics, to the Ukraine. The announcement, carried on the front pages of the Moscow press, said the transter was made because of the "territorial proxim ity and close economic and cultur al ties between the Crimean region and the Ukrainian and Great Rus sian peoples. The Crimea is a 10.000 square mile peninsula jutting into, the Black' Sea below the Ukraine. Prior to World War II It was an autonomous Soviet Republic. Many of its Crimean Tartar inhabitants were accused of collaborating with the wartimt German occupiers. After, the war the area lost its autonomous standing, and many Ukrainians settled there. Speeder Dies Evading Cop GOLDENDALE, Wash. I A police chase ended Friday when its object, a car traveling an estimated 100 miles an hour, left a highway and rolled 800 feet. The driver, John P. Nickles, 67, Yakima, died six hours later in a hospital here. . N. Pruitt, Washington state patrolman, said he drove after the speeding Nickles car after it swerved ino his lane, forcing him to swing to the wrong side of the i u. 1 A .,1 .J r.1 (ne car Tnc cna8C ended a(ter 20 miles when Nickles mi,..ri , curvc. Tne accldent oc- ,.,j ci-i uinhnM a .hn.it 21 miles west of here, Ask Rehearing For Bonnie Lee A pelitlon was filed with the State Supreme Court Friday ask ing lor a rehearing of the Bonnie Lee Kuhnhauscn case. The high court recently reversed the conviction of Mrs. Kuhnhauscn on a first degree murder chaige by a 4-3 vote and ordered her freed. The petition was filed by Dist. Atty. Winston L. Bradshaw of Clackamas i County, where the woman -was found . guilty and sentenced to death. The court said in reversing the conviction that she did not get a speedy trial as required by law. Bradshaw argues in his petition that her trial was not delayed beyond what was a reasonable : l'mc' Seek to Enlarge State Parole Board The National Probation and Parole Assn. recommends that the Oregon Parole Board be en larged in order to extend its ! activities. I The governor's advisory comrnl tec on paroles and probation made the report public Saturday. The national association report com mended he state board's work, and urged legislainn to extend ac tivities. More board members and an assistant hoard director were recommended. Recommendations of the advis- ory committee will be drawn up nt a meeting in Portland, March 27. R. FHYER car to return to Ihe scene when he drew a switch-blade knife and lunged at Main, the officers re ported. Kasscbaum saw the knife and pulled the chief out of the way in time and they jumped out of the car. leaving Kane inside. Thry were unable to get him out of the car. however, until Deputy Walker arrived. Then, working from both sides of the car, they managed to grab a leg end an aim and control Kane until the open knife could be taken Irom his coat pocket. He was handcuffed and his feet tied and he was transported to Salem for booking and jailing. He gave a Portland address at the lime nf booking, but Sheriff Denver Young said Saturday his true address was In Salem. He was granted a continuance of ar raignment to see an attorney upon his appearance before Judge Val D. Slnper Saturday. Minister Comeback Due To Popularity With Egyptians CAIRO, Egypt W - Gen. Mo- ' hamed Naguib returned to power as president of Egypt Saturday. Screaming crowds massed outside his home shouted "God save Na guib. We will not accept any oth er president." An Army officer from the head- . quarters of Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel ' Nasser had just announced that -Naguib was being restored to the presidency and that Nasser will be his prime minister. Guards controlled the crowds around Naguib's home, where he had been under house arrest since he was ousted Thursday morning. But he appeared on the terrace, grinning and wearing pajamas and a loud bathrobe. Everything as Before Above the house fluttered a red, white and black flag inscribed "God Save Naguib." It was taken down just after his predawn de position Thursday by Nasser, then vice premier. A spokesman at Army head quarters earlier had foreshadowed the swift change m events. . Naguib will return as chief of state, the spokesman continued, "and everything will be as it was before." Naguib seized power in Egypt with the aid of the Army in July 1952 and forced the abdi cation of King Farouk. He had been regarded as Egypt's "strong man irom that day, until this week. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 6) 20 in Burning Plane Escape SPOKANE UPI The 20 men aboard escaped safely early Sat urday alter the propellers o a big ' 10-engined B36 bomber struck the runway pavement on takeoff and set fire racing- through the plane. The 5 million dollar B36, world's largest bomber.' was ouicklv wrapped In flames and destroyed as fire got to 20,000 gallons of high octane gasoline and jet fuel. It was reduced to cinders and junk. Col. Jack Cation, commander of Fairchild Air Force Base,-said the plane was. at the end of the runway ready to leave on a train ing flight about 1 a.m. when he left landing gear failed. This dropped propellers against the pavement and ignited the fuel load aboard the plane with its six pison and four jet engines. Alaska Seeks Full Equality WASHINGTON W - A commit tee Saturday urged the Senate to pass a bill which "will enable Alaska to achieve full equality with the existing states, not only in a technical juridical (legal) sense but in practical economic terms as well." The Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee said in a report bill, as rcwrilen by the commit ce. would "make the new ttae master in fact of most of the re sources wihin its boundaries and provide appropriate federal finan cial assistance during what may be a difficult transition period." "After thorough hearings and careful study, the majority of the committee has found that our fellow Americans in Alaska merit statehood and that they desire it and that they are ready, willing and able to support it," the committee said. Boeing to Expand Jet Jesting Field SEATTLE UP - Flight test fa cililies costing ibout ll.2O0.0W) soon will he built at Boeing Field here for Boeing's new jet B52 Strato-fortrcss program, the Air Force announced Friday. Col. G. J. Eppright. Air Force representative at Boeings, said the Air Force will pay fort he facili ties, with Boeing acting as con tractor. Earlier, the Air Force an nounced a J 10.000.000 construcion program for B52 fligh cs facili ies a Larson Air Force Base, Moses Lake. Wash. STORM WARNINGS I'P pnilTI.ANI) IIIPI The we.ilher bureau ordered southeast storm warnings hoisted at 9 a.m. today from Tatoosh Island. Wash., to Newport, Ore., for southerly winds increasing to 25-40 miles an hour this afternoon nr evening.