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1 THE WEATHER MOSTLY FAIR tonight and Satur day. Warmer daytime tempera tures. Lw tonight, 43: high Sat urday, 75.' 7-3 Fl N A L EDITION 66th Year, No. 119 ."JT"', Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 21, 195 j Price 5c rll II Transcripts of Phone Talks in Democrats Want Anything Relevant to WASHINGTON 11 - Democrats on the Senate investigations sub committee took a stand Friday the public is entitled to hear anything "relevant" to the McCarthy-Army dispute in transcripts of moni tored telephone calls. They put themselves on record with a stipulation sent to acting Chairman Munat (K-bU) author izing use on that basis of any transcripts there may be of their own telephone talks. , Their action came as the sub committee staff prepared for re - opening of the hearings next Mon day and ben. McCarthy blasted at the Eisenhower administration's secrecy order as "taking the fifth amendment. Quelling speculation he might never goes back to the hearings, McCarthy said, "I'll be there Mon- day. , Oft to Wisconsin But, just before leaving for Wis consin on a speech-making trip, McCarthy told a reporter he plans in the next few hours to give a lot of thought to "what we may do Monday if they (the White House) keep this secrecy order in effect. McCarthy is to speak at a Cham ber of Commerce function in Ft. Atkinson, Wis. Saturday night. He ings" and possibly announce "what we 11 do on Monday. (Continued on Pago 5, Col. 8) Triplets, Girls, Born at Hospital Triplets, all of them girls, were born Friday morning at Salem Memorial Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Maitland Carter of 1120 Hood street. '- The little girls, the two small est of which are identical twins, were no surprise to the Maitland family, for they were expected, - though premature, arriving at sev en and a half months. There also is a record of twins on both Mr. Carter's and Mrs. Carter's side of the family. First of the little girls arrived Friday morning at 8:49 o'clock, with the second coming at 8:52 a.m. and the third at 8:58 a.m. The largest of the babies weighed three pounds and nine ounces and the other two, two pounds and five ounces and two pounds and two ounces. All are in incuba tors. Mr. and Mrs. Carter have two other children, a daughter, Shar on. 9 years of age, and a son, Steve, 4. Both also were born in May. The grandparents are Mrs. C. A. Brevick and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bornholdt. The Carter triplets are the first born at Salem Memorial hos pital since May 17, 1944, when triplets were born to a family named Thompson. The Salem General hospital said Friday mor ning that as nearly as could be determined from their records triplets had not beer, born at that hospital for 15 years. Kidnap Jury Unable to Agree - EUGENE Wl - A hung jury voting 6-6 after nine hours of deliberation was dismissed early Friday in Lane County's first kid naping trial Robert Lee Morris was defendant.. Morris was enarged with abduct ing a service station attendant last January after first holding up the station. He also was charged with armed robbery in the case and the district attorney's office said it hadn't been determined Friday whether to move for a retrial or shift to the robbery charge. When the jury reported at 1:45 a.m. it could not agree, Judge R. J. Green dismissed it. Little Change Seen In Valley Weather Onlv a trace of rain was record ed for the Salem area over Thurs day, despite threatening skies that looked as if rain might just pour ' down. The five-day forecast calls for little change in the weather, near normal temperatures due with possibility of light showers Sun day and again probably Wednes day. Temperatures were decidedly cooler Thursday, the maximum coins only to 63. The immcdaite forecast Is for mostly fair weather tonight and Saturday with armcr daytime Russia Offers 5 Point Plan In Indochina Britain and France Accept Proposal u .Fftr..Xi5CMSSWn.. GENEVA Wl Russia was re ported to hae proposed a new five-point plan for an Indochina armistice late Friday. Informed" quarters said Britair and France accepted the planas a basis for discussion. The Soviet plan was said by a reliable diplomatic informant to have been submitted to the nine party conference on Indochina by Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov near the end of a four-hoi'r secret session. ' " ...'' British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault immedi ately said they were willing to proceed with discussions at the next meeting on the basis of the Molotov plan. -Next Session Monday The next session will be Mon day afternoon, after Eden and Bi dault have conferred with their governments. They are going to Paris Saturday and Eden plans to go on to London Sunday. One diplomat who was present at the session said "important progress had been made. (Continued on Page 5. Col. 8) Convicted of Taking Bribes 'OLYMPIAN Samuel Em- manuel, former secretary of the Siate Land Board, was found guil ty Friday on two counts of asking for bribes in connection with state timber deals. - , A Thurston County Superior Court jury of nine men and three women returned their verdict shortly after 10:30 a. m some 18 hours after they were given the Case ;: : ' -. Emmanuel termed .the Verdict 'preposterous." His attorney, Lee Olwell, said he will move for a new trial. The" jury found Emmanuel guil ty of soliciting bribes from Charles Hovey, Vancouver timber buyer, and Don McEachern, Longview logging operator, for using his in fluence to help them obtain state timber. Two other bribery charges against Emmanuel were dismissed by Judge Charles T. Wright be fore he gave the case to the jury at 4:29 p. m. Thursday afternoon. Approves Dike At Tillamook WASHINGTON (UP)-Rep. Ho mer D. Angell (R., Ore.) today an nounced approval by the Bureau of the Budget of a $1,500,000 em ergency project for construction of a sand dike on the Tillamook- Bayocean peninsula. The project will be transmit ted by the Army Engineers to Congress for possible inclusion in the omnibus rivers and harbors bill. , Angell said construction of the proposed 1.4-mile sand dike would protect the inner bay and ent rance channels and preserve the port for navigation. Storms have eaten away so much of the pen insula that the whole harbor is threatened, be said. The proposed dike would be constructed on an alignment ex tending generally between Pitch er Point and the town of Bay- ocean, Angell said. Weather Details Maximum yesterday. Kit minimum to itr. 4'i. Total SI -hour vreclpltatlon: tram fur month .IBt narmal, 1.36. Season precipitation, 41.11 1 normal, Si.tft. Hirer height. -.1 f loot. (Report r V. ft. Kidnapers Get Prison KANSAS CITY tfl - Two St. Louis policemen who captured lit tle Bobby (ireenlease s Kidnapers were sentenced to prison Friday for lying to a federal grand jury about what happened to a record $800,000 ransom. Former Lieut. Louis Shoulders, a veteran of 27 years on the police force was sentenced to three years. Rookie Patrolman Elmer Dolan was given two years. District Judge Albert A. Ridge, who sentenced the pair on charges of perjury, said he made the dis tinction because Shoulders was the dominating man, who had the di rection and supervision over Do lan in the case. The two arrested little Bobby's kidnap-killer, Carl Austin Hall, in a St. Louis hotel last Oct. 6, short ly after Hail and his accomplice, RUSSIAN AGENT TESTIFIES 1,1 - ' ' n' i?i.t wj! j ?"92fy jj . ! i , - -r - ' ' " JSSS? - r i . r , A ' ? r&& - A , - H-.V :i - ---... .jj. f .''-' :' """"- M.: : WASHINGTON, May 21 Nikolai Khokhlov, Russian secret agent who recently balked at carrying out an assassination assignment, is on the witness stand today before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee. Chairman Jenner (R.-Ind.) said it was believed that Khokhlov would be "the first MDC official to testify publicly in this country." (AP Wirephoto.) Russian Agent Balked On Murders Ordere d WASHINGTON lH A Russian agent says lie delected to the free world rather than carry out a murder order tqld Senate in vestigators Friday that his reason was "religion and conscience. Blond 31-vear-old Nicolai Khokh lov told his story to the. Senate: internal, security subcommittee Costello Plans Aid to Farming DUBLIN. Ireland M Associates of John A. Costello said today the coalition leader will give top pri ority to improvement and mod ernization of Irish agriculture when he takes over as premier. Costello's control of the govern ment was assured last night when final returns from Tuesday's gen eral elections gave the group of parties headed by him a majority in the new Dail (Parliament). Out going Premier Eamon de Valera conceded that his r- lanna i an (Men of Destiny) party had been defeated and the opposition could form a new government. The Dail is scheduled to convene June 2 to launch the new regime. While plans for formation of the government still were in an early stage, a friend of Costello said the Fine Gael (United Ireland) party chief believes the future of Ireland lies in developing her only major asset 12 million acresof arable land. Trustee Missing From State Prison Earl Edward Buckley, 39. trusty at the state prison farm, was missing Friday. Warden Clarence T. Gladden said Buckley, serving 10 years for mayhem in Klamath County, walked away from the farm Thursday afternoon. He entered the prison Sept. 21, 1951. Captors For Lying Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady, had collected the record J6O0.OO0 ran som from the child's multimillion aire father, Robert C. Greenlease of Kansas City. The boy had been abducted irom an exclusive private school in Kan sas City and shot to death on sept. 28. When less than half the ransom money was recovered authorities challenged the stories told by the two policemen about how they han dled the case. Shoulders and Do lan maintained throughout the pro longed investigation they had no knowledge of the missing $303,720 in $10 and $20 bills. Hall and Mrs. Heady wre con victed of the kidnap-siaying and were executed in the gas chamber Of the Missouri state penitentiary at jeticrwa uty last uec i. and identified himself as a former officer In . the MVD' secret police branch specializing, in terror., '. His account led Chairman jen ner (R-Ind) of the investigating committee to this conclusion: ' "His testimony that despite the persecutions of the godless dicta torship he once served, religious faith still survives even in the ranks of Soviet secret agents, may point to the Achilles heel of the Soviet giant." The story Khokhlov told was the same one he gave Western agents in Germany several weeks ago when he asked for asylum that he had been assigned to assas sinate an anti-Communist leader in the Western zone but instead had tipped off the intended victim and turned himself in. Jenner said "scores" of checks had proved the account valid. In particular he said it had been conclusively established" that the witness had been an agent of the MVD. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 5) Lumber Strike Being Voted On PORTLAND m AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers are voting strike authority for their negoti ators, the union newspaper, the Union Register, reported Thurs day. The strike vote is carrying by a substantial margin in the Willam ette Valley, Pugct Sound, North Idaho-Eastern Washington, Everett and Coos Bay districts, the news paper said. - The negotiators, who have asked a 12 H-cent hourly pay increase, would be authorized to set the strike date. Employers have of fered only to renew present con tracts. ; A number of locals still are to vote, including those al-Tacoma and Roseburg, where the balloting will take place this weekend. Senate Kills 18-YearVofe WASHINGTON If) - The Senate Friday killed President Eisenhow er's request for lowering the vot ing age front 21 to 18 years. It defeated a proposed constitu tional amendment to fix the mini mum voting age at 18 by a 34 to 24 favorable vote, far short of the two-thirds majority required for approval. Sen. Langer (R-ND) had led the floor debate for the change, say ing lB-year-olds ought .to have the right to vote for or against law makers who pass on such issues as drafting them for military serv ice, i Prominent in the opposition was Sen. Russell (D-Ga). Russell said in an interview ear lier that the proposal is an "in excusable infringement" on the rights of toe states. Axe and Fire Murders Laid To Ex-Captain Triple Slaying in Germany 8 Years ' ; Ago Charged FRANKFURT, ; Germany Murder charges in the ax-and-fire slaying of three American officers in Germany eight years ago were filed here Friday against James M. Leech of Lima, Ohio, former U.S. Army captain. U. S. Deputy Dist. Atty. William Canfield said he' was forwarding extradition papers seeking Leech's return to stand trial. . - Victims of the 'slaying were Maj. Everett S. Cofran, formerly of Washington, . D.C., whose widow s last known address was Seattle, Wash.; Capt.. Adrian L. Wessler of New Rochclle, N.Y.; and 1st. Lt. Stanley Rosewater of Omaha, Neb. -. Their charred bodies were, found in Cofran's house on the banks of the Danube, in Passau, Jan. 7, 1946. : Leech, Cofran's deputy as town commander of Passau, was an early suspect in the case but was released. Killed by An Ax . Canfield, of Hampden, Mass., said two of the three victims had died of ax wounds and the third by fire. They died on the upper floor of Cofran s big house. Fire billowed from the house in the early morning hours, fed by several cans of gasoline stored in the attic. - i Canfield said the deaths of two of the men may have . been a ghastly error on the part of the slayer. The two were overnight guests of Cofran and one was oc cupying his bedroom when he was slain. This is now Canfield described what may have happened the night of the slayings: (Continued on Fage fl, Col. 6) Leech Says It's All NewsfoHim LIMA, Ohio Wl James M. Leech of Lima, accused of a post war murder of three American Army officers in Germany, said Friday "This is the first I ve heard of these charges and I'm not running away from trouble." Leech, former Army captain, was awakened at his home after working the midnight to 8 a. m. shift as a boilermaker at the Lima refinery of the Standard Oil of Ohio. Told that the triple-murder charge had been filed Friday in Frankfurt, Germany, Leech said: "I, along with a lot of others was investigated in - connection with the thing. "As a matter of fact 1 was in custody four months, two of which I spent in a hospital, incognito and under observation. "Nothing happened, and since my time overseas was up, they sent me home and I was dis charged. - Vote Volume Light at Noon A check of Salem voting places at the noon hour 'Friday indicated that 17 per cent of the regis tered voters had cast their pri mary election ballots up to that time. - - The percentage isn't far from the usual average vote at the noon hour in Salem on primary election days of the past, though at times it has gone as high as 25 per cent. Voting is heavier during the afternoon hours. To estimate a percentage today 10 of Salem's.-53 precincts were checked. In the 10 with a total registration of 4065 voters 720 persons had marked their ballots at the noon hour. The precincts checked, with reg istration at each and the number who had voted at noon were: Precinct No. 4, voting at state heating plant, 384 registered, 78 voted; Salem 6,' Coca Cola plant on South 12th, 487 and 66; Salem 11, Senator Hotel, 353 and 87; Salem 12, Memorial Hospital, 581 and 98; Salem 15, Hunt Cannery, 480 and 70; Salem 16, City Hall, 264 and 44; Salem 17, Marion Hotel, 294 and 54; Salem 18, Les lie Methodist Church, 474 and 96; Salem 23, Courthouse, 403 and 64, McKenzie Highway Cleared for Travel BEND Ml The McKenzie high way between Eugene and Central Oregon again is in use. Highway crews cleared it of the snow that had blocked the route since Dec. 4. and cars began moving over the route Thursday. The Dear L?ke route, connect ing the McKenzie and Santiam Highways opened for traffic a wees ago. Kootenai Breaks Dikes,80 Reds Assault Red River Delta Defense Posts HANOI, Indochina (fl Three little defense posts in the south eastern sector of the vital Red River delta battled fiercely Fri day to hold off encircling Vietminh forces as the defenders' of Dien Bien Phu tried to do. French Union aircraft parachu ted ammunition, guns, and food to Vietnamese , defenders1 with French noncommissioned officers in the posts of Yen Phu, Anxa, and Coquan. They have been under constant heavy mortar attack and machine gun fire for nearly a fortnight. Twice Anxa has thrown back big Vietminh infantry assaults. The de fenders are-- outnumbered about six to one. ... French fighters and bombers are heavily hitting the besieging Communist-led rebels. B26s have dropped scores of 1,000-pound de layed action bombs timed to ex plode to kill rebels when they launch infantry assaults nightly. Thus far the Vietminh have failed in all attempts to smash (Continued on Page 5, CoL 8) 159 Wounded Now Evacuated HANOI. Indochina' Wl' The French command says it has evac uated 159 wounded from captured Dien Bien Phu and hopes to fly out 100 more today. . Helicopters ana Beaver aircraft were making the slow but steady shuttle from. Dien Bien Phu to the royal Laotian capital of Luang Prabang, where the -wounded ar relayed to Hanoi by Dakota trans port. . - .. . .. , The evacuation was slowed down last night by violent monsoon rains which made flying impossi ble for several hours. As a result only 50 were, flown out yesterday instead of the scheduled 120. A high command spokesman said there still was no word about Dien Bien Phu's lone French air force nurse Miss Genevieve Galard Terraube. Nab Kidnaper Of Children CHICAGO Wl A 34-year-old man was summoned before a U. S. commissioner today on a charge of kidnaping a 7-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother in Beloit, Wis., 10 days ago and taking them to Illinois. Joseph McElroy, identified by the FBI as having a police record in Michigan and Indiana for mo lesting children and young girls, was seized by FBI agents and two Beloit policemen yesterday at a farm near Elwood, 111., about 50 miles southwest of Chicago. Guy Banister, special agent in charge of the Chicago FBI office, said McElroy would be arraigned on a charge of violating the Lind bergh law, which carries- a maxi mum penalty of death. - Banister said McElroy lured the girl and her brother into his pickup truck on May 11 by offering them chewing gum. The FBI agent said McElroy stopped the truck several tirr.es en route from Beloit to Rockford, III., and molested the girl sexually. Cordons 0& C Bill Approved by Senate WASHINGTON (ffl r- Sen" Guy Cordon's bill to put 472,000 acres of disputed Oregon timber land under Forest Service administra tion won approval of -he Senate Thursday. The bill now goes to the House. The Senate passed the measure on a voice vote after rejecting, 52-18, a move by Sen. Morse (Ind Ore) to put the lands under the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management. The BLM, which now manages some two million acres of timber land in Oregon, claimed jurisdic tion of the 472,000 acres. Morse said it would be "more sensible and efficient" to have the entire acreage under one agency. Cordon (R-Ore) said the 472.000 acres, which are part of the Ore gon and California railroad land grant reclaimed by Congress in 1916, now are under Forest Service administration, and should remain there. He said the Forest Service GO Acres flooded Rhee Winner In Election in South Korea SEOUL Wl Unofficial returns from almost 90 per cent of South Korea's 203 Assembly districts in dicated today that President Syng man Rhee's Liberal party won a majority of the one-house legisla ture in yesterday's election. Thirty-five unreported districts were in rural areas where Rhee's candidates were strongest. Unofficial returns give the ' Lib erals 88 of the 203 seats with Inde pendent candidates getting 64, Democratic Nationalists 14 ana Ko rean Nationalists 2. There were predictions that firtal returns would give the Liberals their goal of 110 feats or 8 more than a majority. The victory was at least partial ly a personal one for Rhee. His party did not control the last As sembly and he appealed to the people for a working majority in the next house. : - Egypt Ottered Concessions NEW YORK UV-The New York Times reported today the United States and Britain are preparing new concessions to Egypt for a Suez settlement. ' , A dispatch to the Times from London said .the U. S. government has indicated for the first time that she will share responsibility for safeguarding the massive Mid dle East base after Britain's 80,000 troops are evacuated. Under this arrangement, it was said, Brit ain no longer would insist she leave 4,000 uniformed technicians behind in the canal zone. This demand has, been a major sore point with Egypt, She consid ers it an affront to her sovereignty, According to the London re port by correspondent Benjamin Welles: The new proposal is now being drafted by the London government with Washington backing and Brit ish Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden will present it to Cairo after he returns home from the Geneva Far Eastern conference. Air Build-up By Red China WASHINGTON W) Red China's air command is reported to have concentrated a substantial force of jet fighters and light bombers along the mainland coast opposite Formosa, seat of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. ' That buildup apparently has been made since the Korean War's end allowed diversion of air power from Manchuria. The Red buildup in Chckiang province consists almost entirely of MIG15 fighters Although the shift fs receiving attention here, there was no indi cation today that officials were un duly alarmed over prospects of an immediate move against Formosa. The redeployment appears to have been gradual, a part of a broader program which has sent even larg er numbers of aircraft to fields in southern China, close to the Indo china border. TAX STUDY MEET The Legislature's tax study committee will hold an all-day meeting next Tuesday at the State Office Building in Portland, Chair man Howard C. Belton, Canby, announced Friday. ' i also administers two other areas of O & C lands. The bill approved by the Senate provides that timber sale receipts on the 472,000 acres will be divided under the O&C formula: 75 per cent to 18 Western Oregon coun ties and 25 per cent to the govern ment. This differs from normal Forest Service administration in which 75 per cent goes to the gov ernment, 25 per cent to the coun ties. The bill also directs the Interior and Agriculture departments to ex change lands within two years to form cohesive administrative blocks, and thus increase manage ment efficiency. Morse argued that a recent de cision of the U. S. Court of Ap peals declared the 472,000 acres to be O&C lands. Ht said that meant they should be administered by the BLM. . Cordon said the court decision did not settle the administrative question. He added that the deci sion was subject toappeal, 2 More Bonners Ferry Likely to Escape ing BONNERS FERRY. Idaho W Another 5,000 acres of farm land was flooded early Friday as the Kootenai River broke through two more dikes, but it appeared this town of 1,800 might e s c a o e a soaking. The river had swelled to the 35,4-foot level at 5 a.m. when water smashed past the two dirt bar riers near Bonners Ferry. The re corded "flood stage" here is 31 tect. Strong winds, a new menace. kicked up waves on the ' surging river early Friday and threatened two more diking districts. Some 8,000 of the 40,000 acres of rich land in the Kootenai valley were under water as the battle against the Kootenai, bulging with runoii irom rccora mountain snow packs, neared the end of its first week. Still Rising Upstream ' The river dropped to 35 feet after the breakthroughs but was still rising upstream and was ex pected to crest at 36 feet late Fri day or Saturday morning. if the dikes hold. The town is surrounded by 37 foot dikes and Army . Engineers said it appeared they would hold. Frantic work on the levees went on all night. (Continued on Fage 5, CoL 7) Canada Floods MarkinjTime VANCOUVER, B. C. Wl Dike patrols kept 24-hour vigil at flood trouble points- throughout British Columbia Friday but the cascad ing creeks and rivers kept largely within their banks. - Cooler weather over the interior cheoked the rapid rise of small rivers and creeks - which have caused minor flooding in scattered localities. The major rivers, the Fraser, Columbia and Kootenai, continued to climb steadily but were still well below the danger ' point. Weary section crews completed emergency repairs to two major breaks on Canadian Pacific Rail way lines overnight and rail traf fic was reported normal through out the province. Repaired were washouts On the VPF. mainline near Revelstoke and on the Kettle Valley line 25 miles west of Prince ton. Public works officials at Victoria reported that the situation through out, the province was "fairly steady" during the day and no localities were in a serious posi tion. A special snow report issued by the government Thursday, con solidating surveys taken up to May 15, expressed cautious optimism, while warning that the critical period was still to come. U.S. Arms Aid For Honduras TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Wl The United States has agreed to ' give military assistance to Hon duras as part of the program for the defense of the Western Hem isphere. , A military agreement was signed yesterday by Dr. J. Edgardo Val enzuela, foreign minister fo Hon duras, and U. S. Ambassador W. A. Willaucr. , A similar agreement was signed recently by the United States and Nicaragua. Both Honduras and Nicaragua are between Red-tinged Guatemala and the Panama Canal. Philippines ' Congress Quits MANILA (VP) The' Philip pines' Third Congress adjourned its 100-day regular session early today with a $33 million public works bill still banging. President Ramon Magasaysay was reported considering a spe cial session to act on the mcas- ' The congress approved a batch of important bills during the closing hours, including the na tional budget of S2S0.322.936. Magasaysay had asked for $334, 134,930. National defense got $85,419,171, a record, and educa tion $85,054,395. . The congress also approved a $26,270,187 counterpart fund for U.S. mutual security aid. - temperatures. I. .3 r
