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
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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
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fr month: fit nsrmtl. .40. Sfmoti pr.
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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.