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THE WEATHER CONTINUED FAIR tonight. Fri. aiy. Little change In temperature. Low tonight, 19; high Friday. CO. Ike or Dulles Said Marked For Shooting Fanatical Puerto Ricans Plan Death Present to Leader By MERRIMAN smith . Washington up Fed eral authorities fear Puerto Rican Nationalists may try to usinaie President Eisenhow er or Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as a "death pres ent" for their ailin? lenrlei a high government source report- cu muay. Pedro Albizu Campos, brood ing head of the Nationalst Party, lies seriously ill in Puerto Rico. Although he is not considered in immediate danger of death, offi cials believe his declining health could be very explosive. If Albizu's fanatical followers feel he has liitle longer to live, the government source said there , is a definite fear here that they may make another suicidal at tack on U. S. leaders as a final , "present." Assassination Plot This grim report followed pri vate advices to the United Press from Puerto Rico that the s,hoot ing of five congressmen here Monday was part of an ambitious Nationalist plot to rock the gov ernment by slaying Mr. Eisen hower, Dulles and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 6) Open Fight for Hawaiian Bill WASHINGTON (UP) The Senate plunged into what prom ises to be a weeks-long fight to day over an administration backed bill to make Hawaii the 49th state. Democratic and Re publican leaders steered clear of flat predictions on the fate of the bill which passed the House last year. But both sides agreed the issue would keep the Senate busy for a number of weeks. Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland .said the measure "might" pass if it doesn't become mixed up with statehood for Alaska.' Democratic leader Lyn don B. Johnson said Democrats would try to fasten Alaska's statehood hopes to the Hawaiian for the Pacific re sort islands is no new issue. Dat ing from 1903, Hawaii has peti tioned Congress no less than 15 times to be made a full part of the Union and 33 bills to ac complish this have been intro duced since 1920. Bricker Blames Defeat on Lobby ATLANTA W Sen. Bricker (R., Ohio), declared Thursday that "furious lobbying" by the While House and State Depart ment brought about the hair line defeat of a constitutional amendment on the treaty power last week. But, he added In remarks pre pared for a regional conference of the American Bar Assn., the Senate vote tost Friday was only "round one" in "a fight to pro tect our constitution against abuse of the power to make treaties and executive agree ments." The next rounds, Bricker said, will involve: 1. A consideration of the 60-dl vote by which the Senate reject ed the proposed amendment. This tally was on a version by Sen. George D., Ga. greatly modi fier! from Brickcr's original plan. The Eisenhower administration opposed both. 2 Reintroduction by the Ohio- i an amendment designed to accomplish his orig na. u, , tives but rcviscn in the lessons learned in me week Senate debate. Only 93 File fcr State Offices With the deadline for filing ft primary election candidates orty eight days away, the number of candidates stood at only 93 Thurs- About 300 more candidates are expected to file. FUmg . 1 be accepted until 5 p m. March 12. rninss .... r,.-,. je(f B. Harrison r " rrat.f jrf'. terewent vas'- -"i Co "t". A'i-e r-.". ", .,. ,-rt' f'f ' " Wa :i ' ' . rl .. ., .,...,,. ., D.st .ui. ftt""" ... Hood River lion OM C. Gibbs, Lakevicw. (or cir cuit judge. 66th Red Cells in Returned PW Held Possible Bachelor Says He Can Not Elaborate Because of Security SAN ANTONIO, Tex. I - Cpl Claude Batchelor says that it is "quite possible" there is an or gan I z e d group of Communists among returned war prisoners. The former Korean POW who chose first to remain with the Communists but later changed his mind, landed at international air port here Wednesday night to re port to Brooke Army Hospital for a medical check-up. In answer to the direct question, "Is there an organized group of Communists among the returned Korean War prisoners," he re plied: "That's quite possibly . true. I don't know for sure. I can't elabo rate further because of security." Red Conferences Held The 23-year-old Kcrmit, Tex., soldier said that just prior to oper ation Little Switch (the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners) there were a large number of con ferences called by Communist leaders and "a lot of prisoners went out (were repatriated) that shouldn't have gone" after these meetings. Batchelor answered with a "no" when he was asked if he was given names of other prisoners to con tact in this country or was told to contact them with the purpose of setting up Communist groups. The Texas prisoner admitted that he was one of the seven pro gressive leaders in his prison carnp but said: (Continued on Page 5, Col. 4) Strike Ties up Atomic Plant RICHLAND. Wash. ! Close to 500 electricians remained off the job Thursday for the second day in a jurisdictional dispute at the Hanford atomic works expan sion project . j i .. .:. - The dispute is between the AFL electricians and AFL millwrights over installation work on genera tors. It was close to the 50 mark In the number of work stoppages over jurisdictional disputes on the 110 million dollar expansion pro gram. The construction project has been under way for about two years. The walkouts do not affect the actual plutoiiium-producing opera- tions in existing plant facilities. The electricians are employed contractor. The main construction contract is held by haiser Engi neers. There was no report Thursday of any meetings being scheduled in an attempt to end the present stoppage. Sack Hearing Expected Today PORTLAND W - George F. Sack, 57, accused of suffocating his wife last month, was to be brought to court Thursday after noon (or a preliminary hearing on a charge of first degree murder. ; The woman, sirs, uoiaie b.ick, i SR. was his third wife to die vio lently. The oilier two died in the 1920s in Chicago the first in an apartment fire and me sccono oi a gunshot wound. Sack was accused of first degree murder in Uie shooting but was I found insane ana commiiica io n;s mi ln hAinill Kin U'1( ; Illinois mental hospital. He was released in 1932. In 1939 Sack was held 10 days and questioned about- the disap pearance of J. C. Young at Seattle. Young has never been found. Sark has denied any knowledge nf how his third wife died. Her - g d o(!saidi -either alcr or just before of por,and a day after reported her missing. I J I Unemployed in Oregon Shows Drop Oregon had 63,818 unemployed persons who were seeking jobs on March 1, a decrease, of 9.641 from the previous month, the State Un employment Commission laid Thursday. The unemployment total on March 1 was 16,250 more than it ufi, a year ago DurnJ Kebruary the number of 8,yM benefits -id jnn io c.6S. . llrl- e ery section of the .:-lv. fewe- neroni lo 'k- inu fur kibs than early last ' mnn.h tne commission said, 'ex cept for small increases in L Grande, Lakevicw, Baker and Ontario." Capital JbJo Year, No. 53 SSfJMSASZ Salem, Oregon, Socket! Freed By Court Order VALE Wi Indictments charg ing County Clerk Harry Sackett with misuse of public money were dismissed Wednesday by two judges sitting here. The dismissals were based on the recent Oregon Supreme Court decision directing that Bonnie Lee Kuhnhausen be freed from prison because she did not get a trial in Clackamas County I in the . first available court term after indict ment ' .. .. ... J V, Sackett was indicted last spring and was tried on one of tour indict ments last October. In that trial there was a hung jury and the trial was reset for next week. However, Judge E. H. Howell who presided at that trial, said Wednesday at the hearing on dis missal of the indictments, that there could be no trial fpr the Su preme Court decision in the Kuhn ;..,,,, ensc made dismissal here mandatory , .M M . Ri lnok . mo. .. " .. ... ;j;,, j signed the dismissals without com ment Huge Profits On Race Track X-t-llf VADi: i C.nnraa Mnr. OLii 1 vim n I Ion Levy, counsel for Roosevelt ' Racewav. has told state harness track probers that stock he bought at $2,500 for the daughter of for mer GOP national committeeman J. Russcl Spraguc was sold last fall for $150,000. The sole witness Wednesday t the Mnreland Act Commission s 0pen hearings probing the state's j ti-ott n2 tracks. Levy tesunco ne i bought Nassau Trotting Assn. stock in 1!H for Mary Maude Sprague 1 Adams. I Lcvy sajd he Dought 2.500 shares at $1 per share, and listed it in hij name avoid complications, Q (hat pcoplc wouldn't think uwncd no stock The witness said that Mrs. Adams' husband. Boris, became ill after war service and was under medical treatment and that "they" wanted to make sure of a future income. Mrs. Adams sold the stock, Lcvy the appointment of this commis- won." , Last Month There were 22,500 unemployed in Portland last week, a drop of 500 from the previous month. Hillsboro and Oregon City report ed 20 per cent reductions in un employment. The Dalles, Tilla mook, Astoria, Coos, Bay, Toledo, Corvaltis, Eugene and Lebanon also had substantial reductions. Payments of unemployment ben efits in February totaled $3,708,343. This was SI9I.749 more than in January and February of 19.10. The commission said that 6,449 persons have exhausted their bene fits, meaning they are no longer eligible lo get lid. I SOLDIER BEFORE INVESTIGATORS r -. sW VvaSHinGtuN, Marcn 4 Pfc. Marvin S. Be.'SKy, a doctor who said he has been denied an officer's commission, appears today before the senate investigations subcommittee. Belsky assigned to the Army's Murphy General Hospital at Waltham, Mass., refused to tell whether he is or was a communist (AP . Wirephoto) . Battle Opens in Senate Over Ike s Farm Bill WASHINGTON ( The Eisen - hnwer administration's new farm nrnirram wmild count Drescnt bie surpluses of cotton, wheat and com in fashioning future produc tion . control programs for . -these commodities, a spoxesman torn Coneress Thursday. Only in determining future price support levels under a iiexmie One of 10 Most Wanted Caught OAKLAND, Calif. Wi Basil Kingsley Beck "a youthful and bad-tempered roamer" who made the FBI's "10 most wanted" list on his 21st birthday Monday was picked up by stalking FBI agents Wednesday night in nearby San Pablo. Beck, charged with murder and other crimes in three states, had been working in San Pablo at odd jobs under the name of Charles Wright. He offered no resistance when agents surrounded his car as he pulled to a stop. He was un- .- armed. The capture resulted from an anonymous tip received by the FBI. Beck had lived in San Pablo briefly last June. Beck was sought for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for burglary on Sept. 5, 1953. He and tBree other prisoners overpowered guards and escaped from a county tan ai uswego. Ran wncre nccn was held on charges of burglary and larceny. Europe's Press Divided on Ike LONDON lift Western Europe's press divided Thursday over whether President Eisenhower's latest statement on Sen. McCarthy was a sharp censure for the Wis consin Republican or a mere "slap on the vrist." Nearly all comment was con tained in the headlines over the story. British newspapers were almost unanimous in expressing disap pointment that the President's news conference statement Wednesday was i.nt stronger in his criticism of McCarthy's Red hunting tactics. ' ' "Scarcely slap on the wrirt," commented Lord Beavcrbrook's independent Daily Express in its account oi the President s state ment. But West German newspapers headlined the story with such words as "sharp censure." "rep rimand" or "blow in the face" for McCarthy. Weather Details Mailman ?rtrriar. All minimal t 4a.. 1A. Tatal K-haur rrlDltallnn: i ixiation. u.Mt narmai. n.v -mar naiahi. i t imi. caaaati .r t . '" Thursday, March 4, 1954 1 'system would a part of the sur Dluses be excluded. Those Mints were made by dersecretary of Agriculture True D..McrSc in an analysis of the pro- aram Prepared for a Senate Agri' culture Committee hearing. The session opened tho administra tions uphill battle to win congres sional approval of its farm pro posals. The main controversy centers on the provision for a variable price support formula under wnicn price floors fur basic crops would be high in times of shortages to en courage production and ' low in times of surplus to encourage con sumption and to discourage over production. This plan would re place a present system of rigid high level supports, which expires at the end of this year unless Con gress renews it. In his message to Congress out lining the program, President Ei senhower said that not all of the present surpluses should be con sidered as a part of the supply for the purpose of determining sup port levels because to do so would j cut price props sharply next year and not give a new program a! chance to get a fair trial. Eisenhower recommended that up to 2"i billion dollars worth of surplus wheat, cotton, fats and oils, and possibly dairy products, be separated or "frozen" from commercial supplies and thereby excluded for the purpose of set ting price supports under the flex ible scale. U.S. Ship Sank Turkish Vessel ' ISTANBUL, Turkey WwTurkish authorities held the 7,210 ton American freighter Volunteer Slate in port Thursday in connec Tucsday of a small Turkish Coast al vessel in which four men were lost. The ship's Istanbul agents. Gil christ and Walker, said the Turks had issucJ their "stop sail" order on "circumstinl evidence" that the ship was in the Sea of Mar- : mnra where the lflfl ton coaster ! Yavla sank early Tuesday alter a collision. The ship is operated by the State Marine ('orp. of Delaware ami sails out of New York. She had just unloaded an Amer ican military aid cargo at nearby Derience. on lh Gulf of Izmit. Bnri was about to sail when Tur- I iuRh rtolice boarded her just be fore midnight Wednesday night. They carried orders from the Turkish public prosecutor to hold the ship ' pending investigation. An inspection of the ship's bow for a possible collision mark was planned. I - 11(1.000 ANTI-REDS f HONtr KONG i The Com munist Party oran in East Kwang-,tung-the key South China prov- i ince facing Hong Kong has ad- j milled that 140,000 armed anti-Red juerrillas are operating in moun- tainous sections east of Canton. p-JO (40 Pages) Price 5c laud Ikes 'Fair Play tall: HA 'Carthy Defied by Doctor Belsky Denies Of Committee WASHINGTON I - Sen. Mc Carthy R-Wis) carried his search for Army Communists Thursday into a public hearing at which an Army doctor refused to tell wheth er he is or was a Red. The doctor, Pfc. Marvin S. Bel sky, said he has been denied an officer's commission He refused to tell McCarthy's Senate investi gations subcommittee whether he believes this-was because, as Mc Carthy expressed it, he was "a member of the Communist con spiracy." , Belsky challenged the subcom mittee's right to ask him any questions. "I am a soldier under the juris diction only of the President of the United States as commander-in-chief," Belsky said. "This commit tee has no jurisdiction over me." Rejecting that argument. Mc Carthy said President Eisenhower at a news conference Wednesday (Continued on Page a, col. 5) Tie Vote Strips NLRB Powers WASHINGTON Wl - The House Labor Committee Thursday kept in force, by a tie vote, its deci sion to strip the National Labor Relations Board of its biggest Job. Chairman McConnell (R-Pa) an nounced after a closed session that a motion by Rep. Bowler (D-Ill) to take another look at Wednes day s 14-13 action failed by a 14- 14 vote. . . The group adopted Wednesday a proposed . revision of the Talt- Hartley act which would turn over to the federal courts the task of handling unfair, labor, pr actice charges. ' "l "We are going ahead with the writing of the amendment, Mc Connell told reporters. "There will be no more votes until the lan cuaue. ix drafted " . Thtt .nmmidAA cnlll anrnct no,-. ty lines. . McConnell and eight other Re publicans joined five Democrats in voting for reconsideration. Rep. Bardcn (D-NC), senior Democrat member, voted with seven other Democrats and six Republicans against it. One of the latter was .Rep. Perkins (D-Ky) who was ab- sent Wednesday. Rep. Hoffman (R-Michl termed the action "was another defeat fer the Eisenhower administration." 3 AFL Leaders Cleared by Jury ST. LOUIS Wi Three of eight AFL leaders who were named in a labor racketeering indictment here last summer have been exon erated by a federal grand jury in a superceding indictment The new indictment, returned Wednesday, cleared Peter P. Hig gins Sr., former head of Team sters' Local 682, and John L. Law- Icr and George E. Scnton. both nusincss agents for steamtittcrs circling Vietminh hill positions, locals. They had been named with, The tanks pushed more than two the other five in an indictment miles cast of the fortified plain charging Ihcm with the extortion I and plastered the Communist-led of $28,000 from a construction firm ; rebels' positions for more than an on a crude oil pipeline near Mo- hour Wednesday altcrnoon. berly, Mo. I A headquarters spokesman said The five other AFL officials were ; the shelling destroyed a long re-indicted by the jury on similar string of Vietminh pillboxes and charges in the alleged shakedown, other entrenchments and undoubt Thrce of the five already have ' cdly caused heflvy casualties, been convicted in another labor I f lie rebels answered with mor rackctecring indictment and arc ; tar and rifle fire but finally were scheduled for sentencing Friday. forced to flee Rail Crossing Case nds;S.P. Withdraws lly JA.YIKS Thin rill nf K'i1fm orftilo rrnCfcilH' case aa)acx t,c Southern Pacific railroad before Public Utility Com - missioner Charles II. lleltzel came lo a close Thursday noon, with the railroad submitting no evidence Frank McCulloch, chief counsel for the railroad, told Commissioner Heltzcl that it was with regret that the railroad felt obligated to re frain from presenting any evi dence. The railroad attorney said that the city's action was taken under a statute enacted in 1S62 which does not provide for division uf costs ol protective devices at rail road crossings in accordance with benefits. In the hundreds of grade crossing cases heard in Oregon, he sa id tins was the irst lime this statute had been used "Inasmuch as the Southern Paci fic serves many communities in Oregon any action in this case 1 Negro Named Assistant of Labor Sec'y WASHINGTON WI President Eisenhower Thursday nominated J. Ernest Wilkins, Chicago Negro attorney, to be assistant secretary of labor. "This Is the first time, so far as we know, that a Negro has been appointed to a cabinet or sub cabinet post," White House Press I Secretary James C. Hagerty told newsmen. The selection of Wilkins is sub jeet to Senate confirmation. He would succeed Spencer Miller Jr., whose resignation, .effective March 10. also was announced by Hagerty Thursday. Wilkins, BO, is a native of Farm- j ington, Mo., He received his B.A. degree at the University of Illinois, his law degree at the University of Chi cago and a doctor of laws degree at Lincoln University in Missouri. Wilkins has been a practicing attorney in Chicago since 1921. He is a former president of the Cook County (Chicago) Bar Assn. This is the second time Eisen hower has called on Wilkins for government service. He is serving at present as vice chairman of the Government Contract Commit tee, which Eisenhower created last summer to sec to it that there is no racial discrimination in plants with federal contracts. Indians' Land Big Problem WASHINGTON W Indian Bu reau officials told Congress Thurs day that distribution of Indian property wit be the primary prob lem in the proposed termination of federal supervision ot Indians in California. ' : Rex Lee. associate commission er of -Indian Affairs, told, a. Senate House Subcommittee that the ques tion of land ownership on the 117 Indian reservations in California is the most complicated in the na tion. - , . The reservations, he said, range ' In 17P fmtH leiX than Hit RCTfl lo I one of 97,000 acres in the Hoopalfor Columbia River , communities vaney. In inme cases, he said, it is not clear for what group ol Indians tnc land was purchased by the gov ernment. In other cases, original occupants of reservations have moved out and entirely new groups have moved in. Leonard Hill, the bureau's Cali fornia area director, told the com mittee California Indians arc "gen erally competent" and ready to "go out on their own." About 95 per cent of the 31,000 California Indians, he said, already earn their living from sources out side the reservations. v French Destroy Red Pillboxes HANOI, Indochina Iff French army headquarters announced Thursday that tanks and infantry struck out from the northwest In dochina fortress of Dicn Bicn Phu in a heavy bombardment of cn- O. OI.HON iiniilrl ti rtd a iiiirliinl unit , Ihnt would cost the railroad mil- : linns ol dollars." McCulloch said. He explained that tho decision would he awaited after which the railroad would probably enter into litigation to attempt to bring about some sharing of costs. McCullough frankly stated that he was aware additional protec tion was needed at some of the railroad crossings in Salem, but that in some Instances, this need was brought about by buildings erected off the railroad right-of-way, obstructing the view of the tracks, for which the railroad is not responsible. He said, further, that the city j ll.clf would derive benefits from , a n y improvements instnnen through the facilities of traffic and reduction in accidents. The railroad was willing to do ill (Continued on Page 8, Col, 3) F I N A L EDITION Rebuke Seen to McCarthy From White House WASHINGTON Iff) - The White':' House reooited Thursday that President Eisenhower has re ceived "hundreds" of telegrams praising his call for "fair play" in congressional investigations a call widely accepted as a rebuke to Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis). James C. Hagerty, presidential ' press secretary, told newsmen he . . had no exact count but the total was "in the hundreds" and they ran nine to one in praise of the President. They are very much in favor of the President," Hagerty said. McCarthy, meantime, renewed hi riieoinD Inle what he patla Army "coddling of Communists" with a hearing at the capitol. Doctor Remlnr'ed When Army doctor called as a witness, Pfc. Marvin S. Belsky. questioned his jurisdiction, the senator reminder! him that Clean. hower had . said only Wednesday . inai army and government wit nesses should "willingly and cheer fully" give testimony so long as it did not endanger security. McCarthy, soon after rejecting presidential criticism in a crack ling statement of his own, said in an Interview Wednesday, "I have no fight with Eisenhower at all ... I hope the Issue of state ments back and forth will drop here." - niau ui iuc aueriiiiiui oi uie r.l- senhowcr-McCarthy exchange: White House Signs 1. There were signs the White House is seeking to strengthen lis ties with other Republicans on Mc Carthy's Senate Investigations sub- VVIIlLlllllW. luonunuea on Faea s. col - j I I I WASHINGTON tJti .irvilr..r.,nw ana industry t nursaay asked Con- Cress to authorize drerirsinr nf 48-foot channel across the bar at the river s mouth. Nearly a dozen witnesses ap peared before a rivers and har- bors subcommittee, chairmanncd by Rep. Angcll R-Orc. to urcc approval of the project. They said it is necessary to avoid costly de lays to shipping as well as to pre vent mishap to vessels crossing the bar. The project involves dredging of a half mile channel 48 feet deep at a cost of $2,898,000. Also en visioned for construction when deemed feasible is a $3,700,000 jet ty at the river's mouth. The witnesses, mostly from Portland, said millions of dollars worth of industry has been lo cated along the river and requires an adequate channel to continue. Army Engineers, scheduled to testily later Thursday, have esti mated total benefits resulting from improvement by the elimination of delays due .to storms, inability to load cargo and grounding of ships will average $374,200 annually over ! the next 50 years. Longer Favors AllJ 'II " ' MIIUlKlliy IKU WASHINGTON fP) Sen. Lin ger, R., N.D., publicly suggested Thursday that critics of the In terior Department's power policy should direct their fire at Pres ident Eisenhower himself and the Republican party. . "Why attack the hired man?" he asked. Clyde Ellis, executive manager 1 of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Assn., was testifying before a Senate judiciary sub- ' committee, and had objected lo power policies laid down by Asst. Secretary of the Interior Fred Annrlahl. Langer, chairman of the Senate group, broke in. "Why attack Aandahl?" Lang er asked. "Why not direct at tacks at President Eisenhower. Why attack the hired man when it was Eisenhower who made the promises to the people? "The promises were not made by Aandahl or Secretary of the Interior McKay. The man re sponsible is the President him self. He could correct the situ ation tomorrow himself." ALPINE VICTIM FOUND Plead Deeper MUNICH, Germany ifl The body of a 25-ycar-old German woman, Bavaria's sixth Alpine av alanche victim since Sunday, was recovered Thursday. The woman was buried under an avalanche Wednesday at Sonthofen. .'. t
