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66th Year, No. 167
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, July 21, 1954
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CRUISE OF THE 'POOR MAN'S KON-TIKI' ENDS IN FAILURE
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For Air Force
House Group Finds
$100 Million Worth
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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"
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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.
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'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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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..'
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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
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has
On McCarthy
WASHINGTON W-Oa other mat-
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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. ,
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