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THE WEATHER CONTINUED FAIR ,onll," Use of Cons in Harvesf Work Held Illegal Thornton Investiga tion Reveals Some Vi olations, No Penalties By JAMES D. OLSON Use Of Orponn - Ow" bUIMIVM 111 share-cropping with private land owners, a practice that has long peen in vogue in this state, is 11- in "sai, Attorney ueneral Robert Y. Thornton declared Wednesday. Thornton's declaration came in a report on an investigation made of reports of illegal use of con vict labor, an inquiry which he stated required 33 days of field iiivesugauon ana interview of 155 persons. No Penalties In Law 1 Although Thornton said the in vestigation disclosed some viola tions of the statutes, no penalties are attached to the laws allegedly broken, and therefore no prosecu- uuu coma De instituted. Thornton pointed out that the evidence gathered was largely hearsay but the investigation dis- ciusea: "1. There were several In. stances prior to Fehniarv. loss where so-called woodcutting op erations oy convicts appeared to have included a substantial amount ot land clearing. (Continued on Page 5, Col 4) Chicago Given Blanket of Snow (Br Tht Associated Press) A blustery storm spread a belt of deep snow from St. Louis to the urcat Lakes Wednesday and left Chicago buried under a paralyzing 12-inch blanket. The storm, worst in Chicago in 15 years, left hundreds of cars stalled on the city's lake front drives and side streets and blocked main highways south of the city. Snow plows worked throughout the night to rescue cars abandoned by motorists and get boulevards cleared for the morning rush hour. The storm spread eastward and tne u. s. weather Bureau in Chi cago issued a special warning of heavy snow for lower Michigan. Arctic air' chilled the Northern and Central Rockies, the Great Plains, the extreme upper Missis sippi Valley and the Northern Great Lakes region. The colder air was spreading eastward into the Midwest. Laramie, Wyo., reported -16 de grees; Cheyenne, Wyo., -10; Mi not, N. D., -9 and Dickinson, N. D.. -7. Sub-zero temperatures also were reported in Colorado, Montana and Nebraska. Several schools in the Pueblo, Colo., area, were closed Tuesday by heavy snow drifts that blocked side roads. Snow was 18 inches deep in the Bculah and Rye Moun tain areas southwest of Pueblo. Mild weather prevailed in the Atlantic States, along the Gulf Coast, and west of the Rockies. CSS Director Kiddle Resigns PORTLAND HV-Clyde L. Kiddle announced Wednesday his retire ment as regional director of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's commodity stabilization service, formerly the Commodity Credit Corp. Kiddle, 62, a Democrat, had held the position since July 1946. He joined the Agriculture Department in 1938 with the federal crop in surance setup. He was a state senator in the 1937 Oregon legislature from Union County where he was a rancher, merchant and grain mil ler. His retirement is effective March 31. Milk Imports To Lower Prices PORTLAND Wl Milk prices might be forced down by imports of milk from outside Oregon, Thomas L. Ohlsen said at a State Board of Agriculture hearing Tues day. Ohlsen, economist for the board, said there was nothing to prevent distributors from shipping in low er priced milk from Washington or Idaho. Should this threat arise, the Dion, in, roHneini! he prices of ' creasing ine g.5m..ui ...-.. On mim otoi T.t,s j - t c nm iaci r ri .Kri rioter marBin. and can i what they have much longer." The hearing continued Wednesday. ,o algal. M h,th 66th Puerto Ricans Indicted for Pisio! Attack Fanatics Held on 10 Charges Each for Shooting up Congress WASHINGTON UP) -Four Puerto Rican fanatics were indicted Wednesday on 10 charges each for Monday s wild pistol attack upon the House of Representatives. The iour Puerto Ricans were charged with assault with intent to Kill the five House members who were wounded, and also with as sault with a dangerous weapon. A federal grand jury, which heard six witnesses earlier in the day, returned the indictment be fore U. S. District Judge James W. Morris shortly after 2 p. m. Presentation of the case had taken the prosecutors only an hour ana 45 minutes. U. S. attorney Leo A. Rover and his assistant, John Conliff, thus made short work of telling the grand jury about the outbreak that left five congressmen wounded. one ot tnem seriously. Arraigned on Friday ' Rover said the four Puerto Ri cans will be arraigned Friday. At that time they will be called upon to enter pleas of innocent or guilty. Those indicted were the woman leader, Lolita Lebron. 34. and three men Rafael Cancel Miran da, Andres Figueroa Cordero and Irving Flores Rodriguez. All gave new YorK addresses. Rep. Shafer (K-Mich) was listed as a principal witness. (Continued on Page 5, Col. S) Eskimos Starve At Bristol Bay BRISTOL BAY, Alaska. UP Dog teams and airplanes were carrying emergency rations to Eskimo villages near Bristol Bay, Alaska, where 300 to 400 natives were reported to be starving and another 700 to 800 were on skimpy diets. - The Anchorage - Dairy - News started a fund raising campaign and reported Anchorage residents so far had contributed $700. Delivery of emergency food supplies is handicapped by lack of communications and the wide ly scattered locations of the vil lages. Cecil Davis, San Francisco, Pa cific Area director of disaster ser vices of the Red Cross was ex pected to arrive in Anchorage to day to coordinate relief efforts with Harold Pomeroy, territorial civil defense director. Oregon Wafer Group Meets MEDFORD un State Sen. Ben Day of Cold Hill told the gover nor's Water Resources Committee Tuesday that a permanent water resources commission should be established for the state. County Judge Raymond Lathrop of Grants Pass also urged a per manent commission. They were among spokesmen for civic groups, wild life clubs, soil conservation districts and irriga tion and logging interests who sub mitted statements to the commit- ee. The water commission sugges tion has been made at almost all the committee's previous hearings held in other sections of Oregon last month. Other recommendations made Tuesday included: Regulation of stream now by small reservoirs; more emphasis on fish conservation: more fre quent rcseeding of federa' lands to prevent erosion; re-examination every five years of existing water rights: and state aid in fi nancing small water conservation programs. Salem Homes Opened To Rotarians of District By FRED Featuring a "Fireside Fellow ship" in which more than 30 homes will be opened to delegates, the annual conference of Rotary In ternational District 154. will open Sunday night and continue through Monday and Tuesday. Rotarians and their wives to the nurr.Der of more than 175 are ex pected to take part in the pro- Cisco, member of the executive - p.,,l I Patterson and Dr. ,i.. I Harrv L. Dunn, president 01 Lin- "nd DiSlriCt 1M gV' Plenary sessions win De ncia at the Elsinore Theatre; group conferences, tne comerence oau Year, No. 52 Inter u wtnA (till attUr t galea, Ortfa ike & $ w W?i P f ft 4, NLRB to Ban ' Union Raiding WASHINGTON Wl-The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has established new ground rules for labor unions trying to invade territory traditionally represented by rival unions. The new policy announced Wed nesday by the NLRB fails to go as far as either the AFL or CIO would like, but it does seem to aim at more peaceful solution of some union conflicts. Both the AFL and CIO have been trying to solve their own squab bles through an as yet unratified "no raiding" agreement and con templated arbitration machinery for fights between . unions within the AFL itself. It appeared that the NLRB's new rules and the pending AFL and CIO peace plans shoot generally at the same target fencing unions into their traditional organizing areas and trying to stop them from pirating members from each other. Vote to Curb Power WASHINGTON UP) - The House Labor Committee voted Wednes day to strip the National Labor Relations Board of its authority to try unfair labor practice cases. Rep. Holt (R-Calif said the committee vote, interpreted as a reversal for President Eisenhow er, was 14-13 and criss-crossed party lines. The proposal, one of four which the committee had before it. would abolish the NLRB as a quasi judicial agency and establish it as strictly an administrative body. It would continue to handle matters concerning representation, includ ing collective bargaining elections. However, all unfair labor prac tice cases would be referred to federal courts, with the complain ant having the alternative of pre senting his own case or having it presented for him by the govern ment through the district attorney. REDS TO BE AT GENEVA TOKYO VP) Communist China and North Korea announced Wednesday night they each will I .-nH mremtaUvr, in th Anril 26 Geneva conference on Korea j and Indochina. Weather Details Mail mum ytsttrdar, 8?l minimum to 4my, M. Toll! 34-haur prcrlvllatlon: Dt fr month: fit nsrmtl. .40. Sfmoti pr. t-lpltttion. Jtt.SOi normal, Rlvtr ntltht. t.S tttU (Report br L'.ft. Wcath tr RarrBH.) ZIMMERMAN and dinner at the Marion Hotel and luncheons for women at the ' Senator. 1 The committee on conference organization, headed by Joseph A. H. Dodd, has spent several weeks in Its efforts to work out a com prehensive program from the time registration begins at 1 p.m. Sun day, through adjournment set for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. A reception and buffet will be held in the Gold Room of the Marion Hotel from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, followed bv a vesper hour at the f irst Methodist Church were Ralph Klecn, president of the For est Grove club will give a medi tation on "Living Our Good Inten tions." (Continued on Page 8, Col. S) Salem, Oregon, PRESIDENT FACES NEWSMEN WASHINGTON, March 3 President Eisenhower faces report ers and photographers at his news conference today, just before the start of the question-and-answer session. (AP Wire-photo) Downtown Merchants Launch Special Events Salem Downtown Merchants As sociation, as a Spring Festival fea ture, will Friday night launch a program that carries with it the distribution of thousands of dol lars worth of prizes and the selec- Hotel Robbery Laid to Soldiers PORTLAND (UP) - Two Fort Lewis soldiers were arrested at nearby Vancouver, Wash., today as suspects in the earlier robbery of a downtown Portland hotel where the night clerk was stabbed with a pocket knife. Billy Gene Wicks, 23, and Allen Herman Lucas, 24, were returned here and booked on charges of assault and robbery while armed. with bail for each set at $5,000. Detectives said they admitted being in the Edison hotel at the time of the robbery, but denied they committed it. Night Clerk Paul D. Sims, 41, was taken to Good Samaritan hos pital fcr examination of the knife wound below his left chest. He said he was stabbed when two men he was escorting to a fourth floor room suddenly began beat ing him. They fled down the stairs and apparently took $61 from a cash drawer as they left. A tip by a Portland cab driver led to the arrest of the two Gls at Vancouver. Year's Plan to Rob Bank Fails PARIS, Tenn. UP) A year's planning went astray as police swiftly caught a gunman who robbed a bank at nearby Henry, 5"J" ' ' a Z I T aZlJ izcd anoticr amily in a SCtaway iP'.J"" Held in Henry County jail here Wednesday in default of $5,000 bond was a man identified as George Scgars, about 30, of Ander son, S. C. He was charged with kidnaping, bank robbery and car rying a pistol. All except $19.1 of the $4,130 taker from the Henry branch of the Commercial Bank & Trust Co. of Paris was recovered. Scgnrs said he had planned the robbery for a year and was "very much disappointed" at the take. He told officers he had expected to find between $35,000 and 540.000. Scgars was caught by state pa trolmen after his getaway car was ditched and a stolen truck became overheated. Second Quake in South Australia ADELAIDE, Australia, (P) This capital of South Australia, which becomes host to Queen Elizabeth II on March 18, was chalrnn Inrlav hv lt lAennH Itarth. quakc in tnrco dav, The townspeople got a scare as the tremor rocked houses be- tweer the Adelaide hills and the sea, but no damage was reported. A quake Monday, the most violent in this region in 50 years, cost thousands of dollars in toppled masonry, cracked walls snd shat tered windows. Wednesday, March 3, 1954 (20 tion of a "Miss Downtown Salem" from a field of 25 candidates. For five successive weeks, start ing Friday night of this week. there will be a colorful and cheery program, to be climaxed Saturday night, April 4, by the selection of the ruling and very fortunate young lady fortunate, because the grand payoff will give her a com plete wardrobe and many other valuable prizes. If you want to speculate, on whom she may be, it is announced that all of the five contestants tach Friday, night for five weeks will be from the Oregon State Em. ployes Association. The contest each Friday night will be in the form of a quiz pro gram, with representatives of the three Salem radio stations as the quizzers and the girls as the quiz zees. The program will be at 9 o'clock on High btrcct in Iront of the Courthouse. The winner each night, five in all, will compete in the grand final at which she will receive prizes amounting to $2000 or $3000, including complete ward robes and accessories, jewelry, household goods, etc., in addition to the prizes received in the pre liminary contests. (Continued on Page S, Col. 0) Senate Group For Wool Doles WASHINGTON W - The Senate Agriculture Committee approved Wednesday the Eisenhower admin istration's proposal for production payments to domestic wool pro ducers. The legislation now goes to the Senate where it may touch off a scrap. Sen. Wclkcr R-Idaho said wool growers in his state arc op posed. Instead of the present system of piling up domestic wool under gov ernment price support loans, the new program would encourage wool growers to sell at market prices and then collect a produc tion payment to make up any dif ference below support levels. Import duties op foreign wool, which has met most consumption needs in recent years, would be used to make the production pay ments. Senate Favors Support Loans WASHINGTON lifl Sen. Aiken (R-Vti forecast Wednesday that the Senate will vote to boost by 1 xt billion dollars the Commodity Credit Corporation's authority to guarantee farm price support loans "because we have very little, if any, choice." Aiken, chairman of the Scnalc Agriculture Committee, said this in an interview as Sen. Knowland of California, the Republican Sen ate leader, called up a hill to in crease CCC lending authority to the 8 h billion dollar level asked oy ine tisennower aaministration. j The House Rules Committee j cleared similar hill Tuesday for early consideration In the House, CCC is the Agriculture Depart- ment agenry that carries out the government's price support operations. o&ejo jc.; AiejfAiun Ike Hits at McCarthy for Disregard of Fair Play Rejection ol Brickers Bill Pleasing to Ike By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON tfl - President Eisenhower expressed pleasure Wednesday that the Senate had re- jected a constitutional amendment to curb treaty powers. Last Friday night the Senate voted down 60-31 a constitutional amendment proposed by Sen. ijeorge (u-uai as a substitute for an already dead plan by Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio) to curb the Pres ident's power to make internation al pacts. The vote was just barely enough. to defeat the George plan. Now, the President said Wednes day, it will be possible to devote full attention to carrying out the administration's program to build a stronger America. Taxes Up to Humphrey un oiner points, Eisenhower: 1. Refused to take a Derscnal position on the tax issue specific ally wnetner he favors a ceiling of 10 per cent oil excise (sales) lev ies. He said Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey ,had issued a statement on those matters and suggested that newsmen study it. Humphrey's statement opposed sweeping reductions now in ex cises. 2. Declared he is not readv to say whether he favors outlawing the Communist Party in the United states. He ordered a study of that maucr snortly alter taking office, mo President said, and the law. yers apparently disagree as to wnetner such a step would be constitutional. 3. Emphasized again that he never has used the word subver sive in discussing the 2.200 persons he said had been separated from federal Jobs in his security pro- (Continued on Page 8, Col. 8) N.Y.C.MS, Probe of Young WASHINGTON 6B The New York Central Railroad Wednesday asKea me interstate commerce Commission to investigate recent activities of Robert R. Young and "his personal and corporate allies" in connection with Young's cam paign to seize control of the na tion's second largest rail line. ine demand followed an an nouncement from Alleghany Corp., holding company of which Youn2 is chairman, of the first seven names on the 15-member opposi tion slate of directors the financier will present at the annual stock holders' meeting in Albany May 26. The proposed new directors, be sides Young and his old-time as sociate, Allan P. Kirby, include Clinton W. Murchison of Dallas and Sidney W. Richardson of Fort Worth. The Texas millionaires last, week bought 800,000 shares of Central stock owned by the Chesa peake and Ohio Railway Co. Young's renewed fight for con trol of the New York Central, long a cherished goal of the railroad tycoon, began last month after the road's board of directors rejected his demand that he be seated as chairman. Young expects to win by cornering proxy votes. New York Central said it had petitioned the ICC to determine: 1. "Whether Alleghany Corp. continues directly or indirectly to control the Chesapeake It Ohio Railway, of which Cyrus S. Eaton has been chairman since Jan uary." 2. "Whether C it O's purported sale lo Murchison and Richardson of 800.000 shares of Central stock failed lo comply with requirements of a trust agreement under an ICC order." 3. "Whether Alleghany has any voting stocks of carrier corpora tions that should be placed in trust and which have not been so trusteed." Cut in Excise Taxes Voted by House Group WASHINGTON ( The House I Secretary of the Treasury Ways and Means C o m m i 1 1 c c Humphrey said in a statement Wednesday overrode a late-hour Tuesday niRht the government Eisenhower administration plea could not afford now such broad, and voted for a wide range ol ex-! cisc tax cuts. But the committc did not com plete action, before a recess, on all the provisions in a bill by Chairman Reed (R-NY) which al together would cut excises about one billion dollars a year. The committee approved about u nf ,ne 20 proposcd cuts bcorc it recessed, It was to meet later Wednesday to take up the others. Approval of the Reed proposal seemed ccrlain. and the only question was whether even deeper excise cuts might be voted for some Items. Churchill's Big Budget Wins In Commons LONDON un The House of Com mons approved Britain's record peacetime defense budget last night 295 270. Prime Minister Churchill had asked its approval without a vote but the Labor op position forced a ballot. The budget, pointed toward a "new look"' buildup of British air and -atomic strength as a deter rent to war, provides for the spend ing of 1,639,000,000 pounds ($4,591,- 720,000) in the fiscal year starting April 1. It tops the announced out lay for the current year by 3.110.- 000 pounds. Churchill asked in debate lt night that the House accept the budget without a vote to keep the defense question out of the rough of party bickerings." He said "any weakness or disunity in Britain, when she is known to be working for peace, would weaken her strength out of all proportion to the money saved." Youth Party in Denmark Fails COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) Denmark's newest political fac tionthe National Youth party made its election debut yesterday in nationwide balloting for local officials. Us platform: "Investigations like those carried out by Mr. Mc Carthy in the United States Its total vote: 115. The Social Democrats Social ists, which have the largest bloc in Parliament and control the government, were the big win ners yesterday though the local voting has no bearing on the na tional Parliament or government. The Socialists gained 57 seats and now hold council majorities in of the nation s 104 towns and metropolitan Copenhagen bor-1 hour aerial giant has been taken oughs. 'I 'rom unflcr veil of secrecy by The big losers were the Single Tax party, who retained only S of ine 45 council seats they won in tne i50 elections, and the Com. munists. who won places on only io councils, No Break With Hord-up Mia WASHINGTON W - The hard facts of India's economic struggle served today lo discount specula tion she might spurn U. S. eco nomic aid in protest against American military aid to Pakis tan. Not counting help through the United Nations and private organ izations, the United States has sent India nearly 400 million dollars in economic gifts and loans since 1950. The Indian government depends so much upon such economic help that its five-year plan, with two years to go, leaves a gap between how much India expects to spend and how much it expects to earn. Outside economic aid presumably fills the gap. American officials declined com ment on speculation, by the influ ential New Delhi Times yesterday, as to whether all Americans might be asked to leave India. But avail able figures showed what a heavy loss that would entail for India. POPE HAS 'GOOD NIGHT' VATICAN CITY I - Vatican sources reported nsain Wednesday that Pope I'ius XII passed a "fair ly good night" and that his slow improvement of the past several days continues. sweeping excise tax reductions as nronosed bv Reed President Eisenhower told his news conference Wednesday he is backing Humphrey in his tax stand. Asked whether he might veto a bill cutting excises he said he couldn't answer in advance. The President added with a grin that sometimes you have to take some castor oil along with a sweet cookie. He said he was leaving de I tails to Humphrey and lo Con grcss. The Rccd bill would slash al most all excises now above 10 per cent down to that level. F IN AL EDITION Admits Army Made Error in Peress Case WASHINGTON W - President Eisenhower Wednesday hit out at "disregard for standards of fair play" in congressional investiga tions. But he acknowledged the Army made "serious errors" in the case of an Army ' major whose honor able discharge aroused the ire of Sen. McCarthy R-Wis). The President said in a news conference statement that the Army was "correcting the proce dures to avoid such mistakes in ! the future, but declared: "In opposing communism, we are defeating ourselves if either by design or through carelessness, we use methods that do not con- -form to the American sense of justice and fair play.". McCarthy Fires Back McCarthy fired back in a state ment ot his own: : "It is important to remember that this silly tempest in a teapot . arose because we dared to bring to light the cold, unpleasant facts about a fifth amendment Commu nist Army officer who was pro moted, given special immunity trom outy outside . the United t States, and finally given an honor able discharge with the full knowl edge of all concerned that he was a member of the Communist Par ty. , "It now appears that for some reason he was a sacred cow of cer tain Army brass." . (Continued on Page 5, Col 4) ' Boeings Giant Jet a Challenge ' SEATTLE 1 tmK ' Icf-propell. 61 ed challenge to British and Amer lean planemakers a 350-mllc-an-' I lne toeing Airplane Co. The 95-ton swent-wina. four-iet airplane was shown yesterday as it neared completion in the sprawling plant of the company which also builds the Air Force's B47 and B52 jet bombers. It was know-how gained in building the bombers that made it possible for Boeing to be so near completion of the prototype of what it hopes will be the world's commercial carrier of the future. said William M. Allen, president of the company. But, he stressed, the 15 to 16 million dollars spent in dM'clop ing the 707 trade name for the airliner came from Boeing's cof fers and was a gamble made in the interest of "our own national welfare, both military and cpm mcrcial." Naguib Seeks Only Harmony CAIRO (UP)-Mohammed Na guib said today he bears "no ran cor" toward the men who man euvered him out of the Egyptian presidency temporarily last week. "I freely forgive everybody," naguib said. "My mission is a peaceful one," th President said. "I don't care a jot for myself. All I'm interested in is Egypt's good." Naguib said ho war "very afraid of trouble" last Saturday when agitation by cavalry officers re stored him to the presidency only two days afterthc ruling coun cil announced he had quit because he wanted too much power. Nominal Authority (An official spokesman for the Egyptian government said yosler day that Naguib would exercise only nominal authority and not supreme power in his return to the presidency). Russia Ships Gold to Britain LONDON (UP) A new wave of Soviet gold shipments in sizeable amounts was reported in European capitals today. Soviet gold shipped from behind the Iron Curtain to Europe be fore Christmas totaled an esti mated 200 million dollars. : More Russian gold is now reach ing Britan. France and Switzer land, sources said. There was no reliable estimate of the amount of the latest shipments but It was believed to be sizeable. f The new shipments indicate Moscow is acquiring foreign cur rency for a large-scale purchasing program in Europe.