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THE WEATHER CLOUDY AND coaler, occasional Ihowen tonight and Friday; some -clearing by Friday afternoon. Low tonight, 48; high Friday, M. ;J0 9uan3 i FINAL EDITION ,03640 3 '" , 66th Year, No. 130 latent u mul Um atattar at taleaa. OrtiMi Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 3,. 1954 Trice 5c Cohn Blames Brovnell for 'Stacked Deal' McCarthy Aide Again Charges 'Blackmail' By Army WASHINGTON Wl Roy M. Cohn said Thursday that Atty. Gen. Brownell or his assistant "instigated" the Army-McCarthy hearings and that this constituted IKE GIVES TORCH FOR NORMANDY BEACH CEREMONY French Reject Red Peace Plans toEnd Indochina War Paying Salem By-Pass Road Under Way Hope Expressed Entire Project Can Be Com pleted by Next Fall By JAMES D. OLSON Paving of the north section of the Salem By-Pass highway, sit uated north of Salem, is going forward rapidly with a two-inch concrete base already laid from Ward Drive on the north, to State street oi, the south. Unless an extended rainy ses sion sets in Highway department officials expect that two-inch wearing surface will be laid with in the next week after which four-foot shoulders on either side of the highway will be paved. 32-Foot Road The present by-pass road Is 24 feet wide and with the shoulders the highway will bt 32 feet wide. Land has been acquired to en able the Highway department to make the Salem by-pass highway a four-way throughway when the volume of traffic justifies such . a move. i Recent rains halted work on the highway north of State street but work will be resumed as soon as the highway is dried out. 'Fortunately, the Warren North west . company, which won the contract for the paving of the entire length of the freeway, has some city of Salem work, so its paving crews can be kept busy around Salem, until the north section pf the road has been com pletely graded and surfaced for paving.: Weather. Important Completion of the Salem by pass is expected in t!ie fall, al though no exact date can be fixed at 'Jhis .time. The type of weather prevailing during the summer months will be an im portant factor in the completion of the work.' 1 ? (Continued on Page 5, Column 4) Trial Test for PORTLAND IP) Final tests were completed on the transmis sion line and substation serving the Hanna Nicker Smelting Co. plant at Piddle in 'preparation for turning on the power Thursday. Bonneville Power Administra tion reported that it and Cali fornia - Oregon Power Co. were ready for the start of service which is handled in this way: Copco, which has just finished a 125.000-volt line between Canyon ville and Riddle, will provide power for the BPA substation at the smelter; BPA then will re place this Copco power, deliver ing it to the private utility over the newly completed 230,000-volt Rcdmond-Kramath Falls line. The 25 million dollar Hanna plant is the first to produce fer- ronickel commercially in tne United States. It gets 65,000 kilo watts of firm power under con tract with Bonneville. Probe Tragedy On Bennington QUONSET POINT. R. I. Wl Early safety precaution ordered as a result of the Leyte explosion in Boston last October was in force on the aircraft carrier Benning ton at the time of the explosions on May 26, '.he carrier's catapult officer testified Thursday at the naval court of inquiry into the dis aster1, in which 101 have died. Lt. Maurice A. Somme of New Orleans said that most of these precautions designed to prevent explosion of the hydraulic fluid which operates the high pressure catapult mechanism were in ef fect even before the Leyte dis aster. ' V He ruled out the possibility that a mist, which occurs near a vent on the retracting side of the cata oult mechanism, and frequently is seen near the ward room on the vessel, was the same smoke mat he and other witnesses saw just prior to the first explosion. The entire catapult crew was killed in the explosion. Truman Cancels 2 Months' Speeches CLEVELAND Wi-Former Presi dent Harry S. Truman has can celed a speech he was scheduled to give next Tuesday at a luncheon sponsored by organized labor here. Expressing regret, Truman said last night he was calling off all his June and July appointments in order to catch up on back work on his memoirs for Life magazine. Because the speech was can celled, the Cleveland Labor Coin mitlce for Human Rights called nff tho Human Relations Institute, a joint ClO-AFL enterprise. The speech was to have been the main a "stacked deck" against the Mc Carthy side if perjury charges de velop from the hearings. Cohn threw out this charge in the 26th day of the Army-McCarthy hearings as Sen. Jackson (d Wash) pressed a series of "true or false" questions to Cohn. Bnownell, contacted in Los An geles, had "no comment" on Conn's statement, but said he may have something to say in his ad dress Thursday night before the Los Angeles County Bar Assn. . Cohn testified under oth it was "true" that the Army, filed its charges against McCarthy and him after failing in "blackmail at tempts" to try to halt the Mc Carthy subcommittee , investigation of the Army. True or False? Earlier, when Secretary of the Army Stevens' and Army Counse lor John G. Adams were wit nesses, Jackson had pushed a sim ilar "true or false" line of ques tioning. Jackson read the perjury laws to Cohn and reminded him that Stevens and Adams had testified the "blackmail" charge was false. (Continued on Page 5, Col. 6) 12 Jailed as Drug Addicts PORTLAND Wl Twelve per sons were arrested here Wednes day, night by city and federal nar cotics agents. A joint statement after the ar rests, which were .made at three houses, expressed the view of Po lice Chief James Purcell Jr. and Jack Merrill, narcotics agent here, that 'many addicts may now be expected to scatter to other cities in search of supplies. - - Three women and one man were charged with sale of heroin. They are Mona Parks, 56; Penny Maria Johnson, 27; Lucille Davidson, 49; and Donnie Jordan, 40. Jordan was reading a Bible when police arrived. He took it to the station and continued to read it there. . Others arrested faced varying charges of addiction and being drunk. Heroin, hypodermic needles and $800 in cash including $16 marked bills were among things confis cated. Commission USS Dealey BOSTON W The USS Dealey, the Navy's newest destroyer es cort, was commissioned Thursday at the Boston naval shipyard. The 314 - foot long vessel, de signed for anti-submarine warfare and convoy escort duty, is named for the late Cmdr. David Dealey. USN, of Dallas, Tex., a World War II Medal of Honor hero. Comdr. Dealey was lost at sea with his ship, the submarine USS Harder, after the vessel had sunk five Japanese destroyers. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. td- wma Vauter Dealey of banla Mon ica, Caiif.. and three children, Joan, 23, David, 21, am. Barbara 13. The Dealey was built at the Iron Works. Bath, Maine, and has a complement of nine officers and 140 enlisted men. Her command ing officer is Lt. Cmdr. Robert H. Russell of Brooklyn, N.Y. AEC Members Protest More Power to Strauss WASHINGTON (P) Three of the five members of the atomic Energy commission Thjrsday protested publicly against any in crease of power for the commis sion's chairman Lewis L. Strauss. The dispute, which is reported to have been simmering behind the scenes, flared into the open before the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee. Henry D. Smyth and Thomas E. Murray entered strong objec tions, to what Murray called the "present trend toward central ization of authority" in Strauss. Their statements were made to the committee in opposition to a clause of the pending atomic en erev hill making the chairman the "principal officer" of the AEC, A third commissioner, Eugene i M. Zuckert, did not file a state J 4 :,) ' vis - 1 v ; VM CD fit O n M Benson Warns Milk Industry CHICAGO Wl Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Tart Benson said Thursday that a continuation of rigid and high dairy price supports would have resulted in "further and further government control of the industry." "Dairying cannot afford to be placed in the . orbit, of a planned economy and subsidization," Ben son said. .'.. -i . "It, is a myth and a most dan gerous one that firm controls and high subsidies are better for the farmer than a free agriculture with a minimum of government intervention. What the government can give, the government can take away,,'.., ',:':(' ;"Any industry is In a perilous position when a significant part of its income is dependent upon an artificial economy that leaves its future open to the whims of legis lative process." , To Stock Pile War Metals WASHINGTON Wl The admin istration will ask Congress shortly for more funds probably less than half a billion dollars to buy and stockpile additional domestic met als in the coming year. High officials disclosed that 2 to 2 billion dollars may be spent over the next several years under the new "long term" program an nounced by President Eisenhower in March. The start will be modest, how ever. Possibly only lead and zinc will be purchased at the outset, informants said, and a "very few" others will be added during the fiscal year starting July 1. Arthur S. Flemming, director of the Office of Defense Mobilization (ODM), is preparing a directive to the General Services Adminis tration (GSA) authorizing the start of purchasing, primarily from do mestic producers. GSA does the actual buying. NEW SUPPORT IN PAKISTAN DACCA, Pakistan Wl New sup port rallied in troubled East Paki stan Thursday for the central gov ernment at Karachi. Despite Sun day's ouster of the anti-Karachi state government and widewpread arrests, no disturbances were re ported. ment on the issue but told re Dorters: "Any addition to the power of tha .(.airman ic Hnn0l.rnil In thp commission." Chairman Strauss and Joseph Campbell, both appointees of President Eisenhower to the commission, favor the new word ing, according to congressional informants. Campbell declined to tell reporters what his posi tion is. Murray, in a prepared state ment, said any shift from the present equality of authority in AEC toward a "one-man commis sion" would be dangerous. He said he was "seriously concern ed" lest the present tendency to concentrate power in the chair man would "jeopardize the effec tiveness of the commission form of organization which is so nec essary in the field of atomic en ergy." WASHINGTON, June 3-President Eisenhower hands to Lt. Gen. L. T. Gerow, former Fifth Corps commander, a. torch to be lighted in France at ceremonies Saturday marking the 10th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. Gerow and Lt Gen. Manton S. Eddy, center background, commanded troops in the landing and will take part in the Saturday ceremony. . (AP Wirephoto) . . --,. Puerto Means On Trial For Shots at Congress WASHINGTON Wl The gov ernment's first witness, a -coffee shop, waitress, Thursday, picked out four Puerto Ricans - as the rather untidy" persons, she helped serve on March 1 shortly before they shot up the House of Representatives, v a (; Mrs. Catherine Scnull, a niue- eyed redhead, testified she saw tne tour rueno mean, Nationalists, in the concourse coffee -shop -f Washington's Union Station near the capitol, :: , Mrs. Schull was called as the first witness after a jury of seven men and five women was selected in just under an hour. U.S. Dist. Atty. Leo A. Rover told the jury the four defendants "had not the slightest reason or Young Wins Central Fight NEW YORK Wl Robert R. Young won another round in his fight for control of the New York Central Railroad Thursday when railroad attorneys agreed to dis continue a court suit involving 800,000 shares of stock bought by Young supporters. The railroad's action came just a day after election inspectors counting proxy votes cast in last week's stockholders' meeting at Albany, N.Y., approved unanim ously the voting of the disputed shares. The shares are owned by Sid W. Richardson and Clint W. Mur chison, both Texans. Prior to the stockholders' meet ing, the Central had sought a tem porary injunction fron State Su oreme Court Justice James B.M. McNally in an effort to block the proxy voting of the disputed stock. Testimony on Snake Dam Out WASHINGTON un Portions of the testimony of two public power witnesses were thrown out of the Hells Canyon hearing Thursday. Examiner William J. Costello granted motions by Idaho Power Co. lawyers at the Power Com mission hearing on the company's applications to build three dams in the Snake River between Idaho and Oregon, where the federal I i Posea Hells Canyon project has been pro- He removed from the record portions of the testimony of Clyde T. Ellis, executive manager of the National Rural Electric Coopera tive Assn., ana samuei Moment, Bonneville Power Administration economist. Both testified for the proposed federal dam. Idaho power attorneys ooieciea to testimony by Ellis concerning the company's "unfriendly" atti tude toward rural electric co-operatives and power purchase pref erence rights given to co-opera tives. Power Commission lawyers joined in some of the objections. INDIA TO Tl'RN OUT AUTOS BOMBAY Wi India will soon start turning out the Fiat 1100, her first home-produced auto, Dr. F.C. Gricciole, Fiat representative,' an nounced Thursday. justification"' for '"this murderous plan." Five congressmen were wound ed when the- four Puerto Ricans, led by Mrs. Lolita Lebron, . 34, spattered the House chamber with bullets from the' visitors gallery: Mrs. Lebron has said they were inspired by a fervent patriotism to Puerto Rico. - -v. . Rover, in his opening statement, said he would prove Mrs. Lebron and her three male colleagues were guilty of charges of five counts each of assault with intent to kill and five counts each of assault with a dangerous weapon namely, a loaded pistol. Rover told the jury tne live carried out a "preconceived plan. with the full' knowledge of its consequences" when they came to Washington from New York City on March 1 and fired on the House while it was in session. Mrs. Lebron and her three male colleagues Rafael Cancel Miran da, Andres Fugueroa Cordero and Irving Flores Rodriguez had pleas of innocent entered for tnem by the court at their arraignment March 5. Flying Pogo Stick Tested MOFFETT FIELD. Calif. Wl The Navy unveiled its Flying Pogo Stick yesterday in the first public demonstration of a vertical takeoff by a wing-type plane. The delta-wing craft made a tethered flight inside the Navy's huge hangar once used for dirigibles. Test pilot J. F. (Skeets) Coleman took the Convair XFY1 up three tunes and landed vertically. Safety cables prevented him from turning it into its standard horizontal flight position. The experiment al plane rose as high as 100 feet When the plane is fully de veloped, it will allow large ves sels to carry their own air cover, and give infantrymen cover from small cleared spaces right behind the front lines. Senate Passes Farm Funds Bill WASHINGTON Wl - An annual farm funds bill carrying $1,083, 351,971 some $109,103,978 more than President Eisenhower a'sked won Senate approval late Wed nesday. A voice vote sent It back to the House, which probably will send it to a Senate-House Conference Com mittee to adjust differences. These involve more than a score of Senate Increases totaling about 40 million dollars and two cuts of about I Hi millions in funds voted by the House.' Most of the Senate floor man euvering Wednesday centered around a 35-million boost in new loan funds for the Rural Electrifi cation Administration' (REA). That agency makes loans to extend and improve electric and telephone service to farms, chiefly through cooperatives. President Eisenhower asked only 55 millions of new funds for REA loans. The House upped this to an .even 100 million dollars. 5 Powers Seek Wider Basis in Asian Defense WASHINGTON Wl - Military representatives of five powers met Thursday to discuss Southeast atory talks which they said would be of use in "further conversa tions which may take place later on a wider basis." This language was used in a communique issued after the high ranking military chiefs and a half hundred of their assistants had met for an hour The reference to the possibility of further talks en a "wider basis" attracted interest in the light of the American view that the con ference should have been held at a higher level than the military representativs. More Than Military Secretary of Defense Wilson put. that view into direct words Wed nesday night with a comment that the problems are more political than military. The wording of the communique also pointed up the hope that more countries will be enlisted later. Ahead of the chiefs of staff or their representatives for the Unit ed States, Britain, France, Austra lia and New Zealand were five or six days of discussion of what might be done in a military way to save Southeast Asia, including direly threatened Indochina, from falling to Red domination. Discussions Limited But any. strategy, any further arms aid considered in these ex ploratory di-cussions was limited to existing or future decisions by the chiefs of state and diplomatic representatives of the five powers. The military meeting obviously was something less than the Amer ican Sate Department had hoped for. And this was reflected in Wil son's comment to newsmen who met him last night upon his return from a three-week trip to the Far East. The secretary said the people who had been in Washington knew more about the meeting than he, I will say that I understand the five-power discussions will be on a military level. I happen to think most of the problems are on a political level, he said. Briton Wants Oppenheimer LONDON Wl A labor mem ber of Parliament announced Thursday he would ask the Chur chill government to invite Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, American atomic scinetist. "to place his. knowledge at the disposal of this country. Henry Hynd, a middle - ot - the road Laborite. said he would put his question in the House of Com mons June 15 to the minister of works, whose department handles atomic development here, in his question as drafted, Hynd said On penheimer's "services as atomic scientist are not required by the United States government." The announcement came as British newspapers of varied po litical hues discussed the 2 - 1 recommendation of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission's special security board that Op penheimer should not be cleared to handle American atomic secrets. CIO Lumbermen Strike Friday In Five Plants By The Asioclated Prexsl No break yet is in sight in the stalemated negotiations between employers and the Pacific North west's two big lumber unions. A big group of Washington and Oregon employers again told the CIO Woodworkers at Portland Wednesday that thev" cannot afford to grant any pay increase this year. The Woodworkers and the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Work ers Union are seeking a 12 -cent hourly pay boost. Meanwhile a local unit oi me Woodworkers scheduled a strike to begin against five Oregon plywood plants after failing to make pro gress in negotiations separate from the Portland meetings. Jack Ledbetter, business agent of ' local -8-436, sait. at Roseburg that the strike would begin Friday against the Evans Products Co. at Wilbur and the Umpqua Plywood Corp. at Roseburg, both in Doug las county. Associated Plywood Mills Inc., and the Campbell-McLean plant, both in Lane County: and the Willamina division of As sociated Plywood, in Yamhill county IndochinaWar Area Lashed By Monsoon HANOI, Indochina Wl Heavy monsoon rains lashed northwest Indochina today, bogging down the feverish movements of Communist-led Vietminh troops and convoys from fallen Dien Bien Phu towards the Red River delta. The heavy rainstorms also forced French warplanes to dis continue for the second day run ning their plastering of the rebel forces on the march. The most advanced Vietminh elements from the fortress still were around SO miles from the westernmost perimeter - of the French delta defenses. - French army sources said a ma jor Vietminh assault on the delta still might come before the end of June. But they still thought the. rains might force the rebels to de fer attacking untir the monsoons end in September.. . Vietminh Reds Scan Victories SAIGON,' Indochina Wl Three regular Vietminh battalions, strik ing in the coastal region of Viet Nam, have, wiped out 200 men ot the Vietnamese national army and mauled 100 more., the French High Command announced Thurs day. i ; The rebel battalions, part of a regular regiment which had been dormant nearly - two. m o n t n s. Wednesday ' hit two companies of the Vietnamese army wmcn naa dug in at Chung Son, on the coast 575 miles south of Hanoi.; The Vietnamese companies fought back, but were unable to withstand the overwheming odds represented by the 2,100 men of the three battalions. . - -The- ' action .was .the first big clash in mor than eight weeks in "Operation ' Atlante," launched by the French in that area some tune ago. U.N. to Debate Thailand Plan UNITED NATIONSL N.Y. Wl The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday over Soviet opposition to debate Thailand's request for a U.N. peace watchdog commission to study the Indochina war threat on Thailand's borders. - It was the first time the Indo china War crisis was put before the U.N. . Pole Sarasin, Thailand ambas sador to the U n i t e d 1 States, launched the council debate with a charge that the Indochina War nor only directly threatened his country but menaced the legal gov ernments of neighboring Cambodia and Laos. After Sarasin spoke, the council adjourned indefinitely to allow del egations to study the request and get instructions from their capi tals. - Only the Soviet Union opposed the Thailand request. That act foreshadowed a Soviet veto. RED YOUTHS TO BE HALTED BONN, Germany WV-The West German government says organ ized groups of Communist West German youth; who try to cross the frontier to attend a' Commu nist youth meeting in East Berlin this weekend will be stopped.. Altogether, about 1,500 men are involved, Ledbetter said. In the stalemated Portland talks eight committees of employers headed by H. J. Greeley, told the CIO that the lumber industry was faced with different conditions, and could not afford to make a pay increase as did the pulp and paper industry recently. Pulp and paper workers got a 2 per cent pay boost and other benefits. Union officials said further talks with the eight committees appear ed useless, but there was no men tion of a strike threat. The union once scheduled a strike for May 3, but postponed it so that further negotiations could be neia. The union met with Weyerhaeu ser Timber Co. representatives here Thursday, and scheduled a meeting with the Pine Industrial Relations Committee at Klamath Falls Friday. t The AFL union said earlier it would announce Friday the results of union-wide balloting o nwhether to arm negotiators with authority to call a strike. mini nupuMJi United Nations Take Charge . GENEVA Wl French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was re ported to have told the Indochina peace conference Thursday the Communist plan for policing .a ' ceasefire would lead to "quarrels , without arbitration, without end and without "lope." .',' Bidault spoke at a secret ses sion of the nine-party parley after , Viet Nam's foreign minister. Nguyen Quoc Dirvh, had assailed ' the communist proposal for a four-. nation . supervisory commission ' consisting of India, Pakistan, Po land and . Czechoslovakia.' . ' N Bidault was especially vigorous in- his- objections to Wednesday's . suggestion by Communist-led -Viet . minh that the international super visory body should have a lim ited role, with the mam policing functions being handled by mixed -French-Vietminh commissions. Completely Paralyzed Bidault took the position that the mixed commissions would be com pletely paralyzed b'y the commu- nists and, therefore, would be use- -less. He had suggested Wednes day, However, that he would not r object to having mixed . commis sions serve as local observation groups so long as they were con-' trolled by the international com- ' mission. ' Dinh suggested that ' the super visory body should be established '' py tne united Nations. He was re ported to have said: . (Continued on Page 7, Col.1?)' : GENEVA (, The United State and-. SO .other nitl&iii ehL lenged the credential Thursday of seven Communist ' countries employer1 delegates to -the current conference of ,.the. . International Labor Organization: - ' . . The . ILO constitution provides for tri - partitie representation from each country . two , govern ment delegates, one representing employers and ' the other rep resenting workers, lieaaing tne movement to unseat the Red representatives, U.S, em ployer delegate W. L.' McGrath of Cincinnati, Ohio, said behind the Iron Curtain the sovernm'ent is- the employer, and a Communist employer delegate therefore is "merely another government em ployee." . , . , "The same thing may presum ably be said of the so - called, worker delegates from Iron Cur tain countries," McGrath added in his complaint to the credentials committee. -"Since their labor un ions are captives of the govern ment, their worker delegates must likewise be subject to 'government dictation. , ,. , Senate Passes Housing Bill WASHINGTON Wl - The senate Thursday gave President Eisen hower a smashing victory by pass ing a housing bill liberalizing gov ernment housing aids and contain ing a public housing program. Passage came on a voice vote just after the Senate adopted, 66-16, Eisenhower's public-housing program of 35,000 units for each of the next four years. . The legislation now goes to the Senate-House conference commit tee to reconcile differences be tween the Senate version and the bill passed by the House last month.- . , t. ''' The House rejected all public housing authority. , Before final passage the Senate shouted down an attempt by Sen. Maybank (D-SC) . to kill . public housing. ; . .. '-.;..' By voice vote, the. Senate re jected Maybank's proposal to strip from housing legislation a public housing section put there by Sen ate Banking Committee. It' calls for 600,000 units over an unspeci fied number of years. Earlier, Senate Republicans agreed informally to support the Eisenhower program, apparently assuring its approval by the Sen ate. Weather Details NiilniM ytiUrdafi 111 mIhImm 3. Tttal 24-har reclittla, l at naraikl. .12. BtatM are- clpitatltn. 4?.3i naraiali 377. Rlvar htirM. .r f a ft.MReprt r O. B. Weather Bara- ..... vent.
