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Newspaper Page TextIt T-v . ;v THE WEATHER AR"-Y CLOUDY tonight. m..U V sunny Thursday except for Mi high Thursday, 76. SECTIONS (24 Pages) ' 66th Year, No. 167 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, July 21, 1954 (nt.r KKtil Sc Say Untested CRUISE OF THE 'POOR MAN'S KON-TIKI' ENDS IN FAILURE )2ej0 jo jBjBAjun It Hike Features in Cease Fire Pact Radios Bough! :j C apitalA Jouraa Indochina For Air Force House Group Finds $100 Million Worth v '.f Of No Practical Use , WASHINGTON W - A House subcommittee reported Wednesday the Air Force ordered more than ' 10O million dollars worth ol radio i lets of an "untested model" which ". thus , far has been "so unreliable 1 as to be of no practical use." ' Some of the orders have since been cancelled. The sharply critical report said that, "during some periods of the Korean crisis numerous Air Force J ircraft were without long-range radio equipment" becaus of Air Force reliance on the untested : model, The report was filed by a sub committee on military operations ncaaea oy Hep. Kiehiman (R-NY) and approved by the full Govern ment Operations Committee. Contracted With RCA The subcommittee said the Air Force first contracted with the Ra dio Corp. of America in Decem ber 1950 for 307 "revolutionary" (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) Pickets Close Yreka Plant YREKA, Calif. Wl - Long-Bell Lumber Co.'s last Siskiyou County operation closed' Wednesday when AFL pickets appeared at the Ten Bant logging site. : More than a thousand have been employed by Long-Bell at its sawmills- and logging camps in the county. Tuesday pickets from the company's Oregon coastal opera tions showed up at Weed, and em ployes there refused to cross the picket line; shutting down the plant- at 1 p. m. The company's - small sawmill at Etna also closed Tuesday. The Wednesday pickets at Ten- i rant were identified as from the Weed plant. The shut-down is part of the Northwest lumber strike in which Jjoth AFL and CIO unions leek a way increase of 12 -cerrts-Wrtiour. jf At Dorris, Calif.. Wednesday two picket appeared at the Dorris Lumber and Moulding Co. plant and of 60 to 65 regular employes about 14 crossed the line and went to- work, Claude Olsen, manage ment spokesman, said. The pick ets, he said, were former employes of the firm at Sacramento where a full : crew is working behind an AFL picket line. tfOOjOGMor State Hospitals ' PORTLAND Ifl More than $600,000 has been tentatively allot ted Oregon in federal funds to as sist in construction of almost two million dollars worth of hospital . mihlic health facilities this year, says the state board of health. , Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, reported the funds are provided by the Hill-Burton Act continuing the hospital con- .imz-iinn nrnffram. Since 1947, the act has assisted in the building of facilities for 1.398 hospital beds in Oregon at a total cost exceeding $16,500,000. Dr. Erickson told the state ad visory council on hospital survey .h ncinictinn here Tuesday that Oregon still needs 2,111 beds for general care, 3.458 for mental pa ticnts, and 3.250 for chronic ail i ment cases. Beds available for tu- borculosis patients are aucqumc, he said. Showers Ease Corn Belt Heat nv THE associated press Showers eased a crop-damafiing icat wave in parts of the nation s jarched corn belt wconcsuay. c.i . .-.n tirln of torrid weatn -nnimoH across the south and cntral plains and the number of isat deaths in the natior since the irioin of the general heat wave July 7 rose to 298. Cooler air from Canada poured Into the Great Lakes region. The temperature at Chicago plunged from 98 degrees at 2 p.m. to 71 at ' Showers swept from Chicago southward across Illinois where drought and heat have damaged young corn seriously and killed thousands of chickens and pigs A farmer was crushed to death at Fort Wayne. Ind., Tuesday night when a rainstorm flattened his farm buildings. Two persons were injured by trees falling on automobiles. Weather Details t, in. T-i.i )! ,,w,;,.,",. .,; .i!M. -i.i it. '' " l- tl.ttli.r Btr.i.l . . ...'... i. .. . ..' .'.-. w ' . . .'. .. - , .. ' : . : ib rv:-; 'Sneaky' Raft Crew Rescued VENTURA, Calif. 'HI - Ended is the cruise el the "Sneaky," the raft of 100 inner tubes which sailed third of the way to Catalina Island with only one blowout and three slow leaks. ' Five wave- arid wind-battered young adventurers were hauled aboard the Coast Guard cutter Morris and the press boat Hawk Tuesday nd their' odd craft was broken apart. In 48 ft hours the "Sneaky." described at the poor man'i Kon Tikl and driven by a 15-horsepow-er outboard motor and tail, had puttered indecisively over heavy swells. She left here Sunday and ap peared to make headway during the day. but ner snipper, jonn w. Strobcl III, 22, a part-time disc jockey, said unexpectedly strong currents and adverse winds re versed the course of the 15-by-31-foot contraption during the night. Strobel estimated the raft tra veled 80 to 90 miles, counting both directions, trying to get to Avalon Catalina Island, 71 miies irom here. Byrd Planning Antarctic Trip CLEVELAND Adm. Richard E. Byrd, now 65, said today he "is planning to return to the antarctic as soon as I can get together an expedition." He told the Poultry ana Egg na tional Board at a breakfast meet ing that further exploration of the South Polar regions is imporiam from both the military and eco nomic standpoint. "If the Panama canal were knocked out by an A-bomb, we would have to get our ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Strait of Magellan or between Antarctica and South America via Drake Passage, he said. "It would be essential, therefore, for this nation to have control of that part of Antarctica that is nearest to Cape Horn and of the islands between the cape and An tarctica. , HST TAKES AUTO RIDE KANSAS CITY li Former President Harry S. Truman took his first automobile ride yester day since leaving Research Hos pital, where he underwent sur gcry for removal of his gall blad' dcr and appendix June 20, Stronger Traffic Laws Urged in Survey Report By JAMES Although Oregon's traffic safe ty program ranked third in the western area last year, Paul Hill, western regional representative for the National Safety Council said Wednesday there is an ap parent need for stronger enforce ment measures, not only for vio lating drivers but pedestrians. Hill made his recommendation in connection with an inventory carried out by the Council which carted a number of suggestions for improvements in the Oregon safety program. A study of the traffic enforce ."r sr VENTURA, Calif., July 21 Adventurous crewmen of the "Poor Man's Kon-Tiki," an innertube raft, clamber aboard a small boat of the Coast Guard Cutter Morris (background) as , their cruise from Ventura, Calif., to Catalina Island, 70 miles off the California coast, ended In failure yesterday. The raft, skippered by a 22-year-old part-time disc jockey, left Ventura, home of the crewmen, two days before. It had blown way off its course and only a gallon of gasoline for the raft's outboard ' motor remained. (AP Wirephoto) Ike '$ Formal Stat em en t On Geneva Armistice WASHINGTON UP) Here is the text of President Eisenhower i for-1 mal statement, made, at his news conference here Wednesday, on the negotiated cease-fire in- the Indo china War: - , - . "I am glad that agreement has Airport Funds . WASHINGTON W A personal plea by President Eisenhower has given impetus to House action that would Grant White House fund -e- quests for airport construction and shipbuilding. The House tentatively approved the funds Tuesday, overriding the recommendations of its appropria tions committee. The President asked House leaders Monday to reject the committee advice. A request for an additional 22 million dollars for resumption of federal aid to airport projects was approved 157-61. The House re stored an extra 71 Vt million for shipbuilding. Seek to End Session July 31 WASHINGTON (fl Senate Ma jority Leader Knowland (R-Calif) Wednesday said Kepunncan ieaa ers still are trying to wind up Con gress on July 31. Knowland said Majority Leade Halleck (R-Ind) expects the House "to pass a sine die adjournment resolution for July 31 in a aay or two" and send it on to the Senate. Senate leaders probably would not fix an adjournmnt .deadline until they have cleared up a stack of must legislation. Threatenini! an all-night session if necessary, Knowland hoped to complete Senate passage Wedncs day of the controversial atomic en ercv measure. Next he slated action on the equally controversial farm bill, to be followed oy loroisn an ana so cial security legislation. D. OLSON ment program, Hill said, indicates that accident investigation activi ties need a great deal of strength ening both In accident coverage and in follow-up prosecutions for those drivers found at fault. Safety division officials saidj that legislation is being prepared amending the law dealing with arrests for traffic violations. If such legislation is adopted by the 1953 legislature, these officials feel much of the deficiency re ferred to in the Council's survey will be corrected (Continued on Page S, Column i) been reached at Geneva to stop the bloodshed lb Indochina, in which thousands ot brave men, while defending freedom, have died during the last aeven years. " The United Slates has not been a belligerent in this war. The pri mary responsibility for the settle ment in Indochina . rested with those nations which participated in the fiehline. Our role at Geneva i has been at all times to try to oe helpful where desired and lo aid Krance and camDoaia, Laos ana Viet Nam to obtain a just an hon orable settlement which will take into accoun the needs of the inter ested people. 'Accordingly, the United Staes has not itself been party to or bound by the decisions taken by the conference, but it is our hope that it will lead to the establish ment of peace consistent with the riehts and the needs ot tne coun tries concerned. "The aerccmcnt contains fea tures which we do not lik.e but a great deal depends on how they work in practice. The United States is issuing at Geneva a statement to the effect that it is not prepared to join in the conference declaration but, as (Continued on Page 5, Column 3) Lavenia Red Affiliation WASHINGTON HI- Thomas W. Lavenia, office manager of the McCarthy subcommittee, .from whom the Defense Department has withhold security clearance, said Wednesday he once was i vice president of an organization Sen. McCarthy K-Wis. nas termed an "affiliate" of Commu nist fronts. But Lavenia said he attended only one meeting of the organiza-j tion, the American Law Muaenis Assn., on the night of Dec. 2, 1939 when it elected him vice president. Lavenia told a reporter he was a student at the St. Johns Univer sity law school in Brooklyn, N. Y.. at the time, and added: "I went to the meeting as presi dent of the student council of the law school, and at the request of Dean George W. Mathcson and Vice-Dean John P. Maloncy." McCarthy, holly critical of the Defense Department for withhold ing clearance from Lavenia, told hi' Senate Invcstigatiens subcom mittee Tuesday he knows of no other reason on which the depart ment may have based itr decision. The Pentagon has refused to ex plain its reasons. Parks Airforca Base To Be Reactivated OAKLAND, Calif. W - Parks Air Force Base will be reactivated as the Western basic training cen ter for the Air Force on Stt.'7. Base commander Col. William F rnriuinl.r Tnixftav n.w airmen 'rnm California. Nevada, Colorado. Wyoming. Montana. An - zona. Oregon. Washington and I Utah would- be trained there. Shipping Bill Cuts Restored WASHINGTON Wl '-' Working with a last-minute appeal from the White House, the House-Tuesday override - its ADDronrinlions Committee and granted the full administration request for $82,600,-1 000 in ship-building money. I me committee had cut the re quest to $11,100,000, but Eisenhow er asked House leaders Monday to go back and. fight for the full amount and it went in easily, by a 123-41 standing vote. Because the item Is but a part of a catch-all supplemental appro priation bill, Its still is subect to a final vote on passage of the overall measure. The shipbuilding Item Itself could De set for a later roll call vote if enough members demand ed one, but normally the real test comes during an item s initial con sideration. FDR, Jr., Denies Housing Profits NEW YORK 0f-Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. says he is proud; of his efforts to get slum clear ance projects for New York City and has made no personal profit from them. The Democrat-Liberal Parly con gressman issued a statement on the matter Tuesday after the New York World-Telegram and Sun linked him with the projects, which the paper said are under congres sional investigation. The paper said no evidence of fraud was Im plied. ; The newspaper, however, said a Washington investigation had un covered what were described offi cially as "questionable practices" in connection with the proposed Manhattontown and Washington Square Southeast projects. Roosevelt said he and his law partners worked without fees for sponsors of the 37 ty-million-dollor Manhattantnwn unit, which would he located in his own congressional district. Suspect Held JOL1ET. III. W A M-ycar-o1d onetime mental patient was seized last night for the lover's lane slay ing nf an IB-year-old schoolgirl he reportedly had been dating secret ly for two years. The suspect, Anthony Stcfanish. was charged wilh murdering pretty brunette Doris Rngart. He (old po lice she was shot to death Sotiirdat night by three masked men whn slopped his car on a country rood. He said he drove her body around Ihe countryside fur two days without notifying the police "because they railroaded ire once before," when he was sent to a mental institution. Miss Bogart's body was found early yesterday sprawling out of Ihc door of Stefanich's car parked in a lover's lane near a .lolict area cemetery. She hod been missing since Saturday night. She had been shot twice, in the shoulder and In the heart. Scratches and bruises on her i body and the disarray of her blue 1 jeans and plaid shirl led oilit ers : lo speculate she was killc;! while resisting sexual sdvancci. Iron Curtain Falling Around North Viet Nam GENEVA m - France and the three associated states of Indochi na signed armistice agreements with the Communists Wednesday that extend the Iron Curtain around, north Viet Nam, a land of 13 million. The United States warned it would view "with grave concern" any revival of aggression violating the agreements. the warning was de ivered hv U. S. Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith at the closing session of the conference in the Palace of Nations after other dele gates had taken note of a final declaration wrapping up the vari ous, pacts to end the 7tt-yoar-old war.. It was taken as clear notice to the Asian Communists that the United . Slates intends to proceed with its old plans for establish ment of a security system in Southeast Asia. Threat to Security Repeating a declaration made three days ago that the United States would not use force to dis turb the agreements. Smith said it would regard any fresh aggres sion in the Indochina theater as "seriously threatening peace and security.'- tie said the united States would still seek United Na tions supervision of elections to be held in Viet Nam, though the Communists have rejected such supervision. (Continued on Page S, Column 7) Vietnamese Hopping Mad HANOI. Indochina (IV-Vietnam ese officials were reported hopping maa today at news the northern naif of their country Is being hand ed over to the Communists. But many anti-Communist civilians in Hanoi figured they had been re prieved because tnev have 10 months to go south. Instead of the maximum two they expected. -There were no demonstrations and mass expressions of rejoicing or sadness in either Hanoi or Sai gon today as the cease-fire agree ment partitioning Viet Nam was announced by press and radio. . Officials of the north Viet Nam government refused to talk to re porters. Informed sources said they were readying hot protests to the French. French army officials also were silent, pending receipt of official confirmation of the news. Anger, Relief Felt at Saigon SAIGON, Indochina MV-Signing of the armistice today in Indo china's long war aroused mixed feelings of anger and relief among the French and Vietnamese in Viel Nam's capital. But there were no demonstra tions and mass expressions of re joicing, or sadness as it became known the guns which began blaz ing in 1946 were to he ordered si lent at' last. A spokesman, for Premier Ngo Dinh Dicm's government termed the agreement lo divide Indo china's richest and most populous stale with the Communists "disas trous for the Vietnamese people. Ike Replies to Critics ol A tomic Energy Policy WASHINGTON iP President Eisenhower said Wednesday any body who accuses him of trying to destroy the Tennessee Valley Au- Ihnnty is In error to put it as mildly as possible. The administration's altitude to ward TVA has come under hot de bate in the Senate, revolving about an Eisenhower-endorsed proposal lor a new private power source in the Tennessee Valley. As for his legislative program in general, Eisenhower said he thinks it is coming along in good shape although Congress is not giving him everylhing he1 asked for. He spoke without rancor of Tuesday's House vote turning down his four ycar public housing program, and said simply he will make recommendations tn the next Congress aimed at meeting the housing needs which will exist at that time. On the TVA controversy. Eisen hower said the question Is a na tional and not simply a regional Reds to Free 6 Americans Held in Prison GENEVA I - The Chinese Communists have agreed to re lease six Americans held in Red China following negotiations in Ge neva, the U.S. delegation an nounced Wednesday. The United States announce ment said: ' "The Chinese Communist repre sentatives have stated further that the cases of other detained Amer icans are still under review." American officials here believe the Chinese Reds are holding in prison or otherwise detaining about 24 additional Americans. Those to be freed were named as Ernest Hoti, Reuben Lenzer, Linus Lombard, John B. Maye, Lawrence Mullin and Alfred Peter Pattison. ' American officials here notified the Peiplng regime that 15 Chinese students now in the United States. who have been detained, have now been told they are free to go. U.S. Halts All Indochina Arms WASHINGTON Ifl All ship ments of U. S. military goods to I lndocnina have been halted as a I result of the armistice agreement. Sen. Dirksen (R-lll) and Mal I Gen. George Stewart, in charge iiilHHiy am prugiuiiiB lur uic uf fense Department, told newsmen Wednesday orders have gone out to halt any cargoes ready for shlp - ment and divert ships already at sea. Dirksen said ships bearing mili tary cargoes have been ordered to put in at the nearest u. . con trolled or friendly, port - He odea that so decision been made on shipments not strict, ly military in character, - but he understands foreign Am director Harold Stassen U now studying this problem in the light of toe arml. '".,. .... -,.-.. '. u.. oinve avdi we unueu amies uuoi. n ;,,. - . . . , appropriated about 12,300.000.000 to "'jJ"''Pia"!Ah hpln flnano Fram-e .nd Velt Nam to fight the war against the Reds in Indochina. . Round Clock Work in Senate WASHINGTON tfl M a J o r 1 1 y Leader Knowland (Calif) called Wednesday for an around-the- clock session of the Senate, If necessary, to complete action on atomic legislation. He punctuated his slatcmcnt by directing the sergeant-at-arms to haul in cots from nearby cloak rooms and corridors for possible use. ' - "We're not going to have one or two votes. We're going to finish this bill If we have to stay all night to do it," Knowland said as the Senate began Its eighth day of debate on the atomic bill. Opponents of President Eisen hower's directive to the Atomic Energy Commission lo sign a con tract with a private utility group to supply power in the Tennessee Valley Authority area informally agreed lo a test vote on this key issue at a meeting late Tuesday night. 1 But Sen. Gore (D-Tenn), quar terback for this group, and Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) insisted they woulu prolong debate if they did not win the first round. one. He described nimseit as not bound forever by Jiis stand that private power should be fed into the TVA system as nc nircctea in a recent order. This order stirred up lengthy Senate debate which has delayed action on his atomic, energy pro gram as a whole. The President said he's always willing lo adopt a better course if one is shown to him. But in the TVA dispute, he said, it is a qucstitn of building steam plants to produce electricity. He said the problem is: it tne-icacrai government Is going to undertake the building of the plants, why not do It in such places as the Missouri Valley jefore doing it in the already developed Tennessee Valley region. He emphasized he was simply Irvine to find out the acts, to determine the best pol'cy, and he added with vigor that anybody who gets up and says there is any at tempt In destroy TVA is, lo put It as mildly as possible, In error. iPresident Holds Reds to Avoid War at This Time WASHINGTON I - President Eisenhower, commenting on the Indochina cease-fire agreement, said Wednesday he does not be lieve the Communists want war at this time. Eisenhower said in a formal statement at his news conference the agreement "contains features which we do not like but a great deal depends on how they work in practice." He said the United Slates is working actively with other free nations to organize rapidly a "col lective defense in Southeast Asia in order to prevent further direct or indirect Communist aggression in mat general area. Although the President said he didn't wish to discuss Indochina beyond the formal statement, be cause of the delicacy of the situa tion, he did say later on that if there is one good to come out of the settlement It Is this: Alarming to Free World It may get the free world to look facts in the face and determine what sacrifices it would be willing to make in the cause of preserv ing freedom. ' The President told newsmen this nation was putting out a statement at ueneva to the effect that It would not use force to disturb the Indochina settlement. He said the statement any. "any renewal of Communist aggression oMwould be viewed by(U as a matter..' " v.. - I askbo. wnetner n anaenea- any .: I signmcance 10 me apparent ibci Hhat for the first time In two dec- ades ' there Is. no war going . on somewhere in . the world, Eisen hower saio r.a never a.a leu tn tContinued on Page 5, Column 4) has On McCarthy WASHINGTON W-Oa other mat- lu"I. m"" f"" ""- . i"" "" f" "S"J"'S'" rc"" Flanders (H-Vt) fo censure the ae- " tivitics of Sen. McCarthy YR-Wis). He said he had voiced no opinion and was voicing none. 2. He has never implied to any one he has modified his views on the off-shore oil question, and any confusion that exists is in some-' body else's mind, not his. This statement was in response to a Texas newsman's question. Eisenhower recently reaffirmed that he thinks Texas should have the off-shore lands 10 H miies from its Gulf coast, rather than three miles as is -the case with most coastal states. A question has arisen, however, whether the Jus tice Department shares this view and the question is an Issue in Uil Texas primary election. Reds Say Way Seen for Korea LONDON Wl - Red China's Premier Chou En-Lal and Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov declared Wednesday night the Ge n e v a agreement on Indochina points the way for a similar set tlement In Korea. The Moscow radio broadcast statements made by the two Red leaders at the end of the Geneva talks. - "This gives new hope for the peaceful settlement of the Korean problem," Chou said Molotov hailed the Indochina agreement as "a stride along the path ol relaxation of tension in International relations," and add; cd: "As has been shown by the Ge neva conference, the path for ne gotiations (on Korea) between the states concerned could under cer tain conditions prod' ice -such re sults as are in accordance with the interests of nations and the interests of strengthening univer sal peace." Danube Flood Bursts Dam in Hungary GYOER, Hungary I Danube River floodwatcrs burst a vital dam near this industrial city of 70,000, forcing the evacuation of 5,000 inhabitants. Another 29,000 fled their homes In 24 nearby villages. : Hungarian and Russian troops are aiding volunteers Ir the fight tn stem the flood and pro tect districts where some ofHhe most important factories In this country are located. , 'ill M M m I 'ft V-.i. ; i ',' .': I . y ? i ii .. ,.1. v ' .