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66th Year, No. 240
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 21, 1954 Z?jr&L rnce 5c
No Politics in
Ullman Case
Johnson Says
Real Estate Commis
sioner Promises
Speedy Decision
By JAMES D. OLSOX
Ragnor Johnson, state real es
tate commissioner said Thursday
that he would not disregard a re
sponsibility under the law because
a political campaign is in progress
or because one of the principles
in a case happens to be a political
candidate.
The commissioner made his
statement in relation to the pro
ceedings initiated bv his office
against a real estate firm in Baker
In which Albert Ullman, demo
cratic candidate for congress is a
partner involving purchase of
property by a veteran through use
of a state veterans' loan.
The statement was obviously in
reply to criticisms directed against
him by some democratic leaders
who contended that the case was
brought in order to embarrass Ull
man and Injure his candidacy.
Firm Started Publicity
Johnson declared that the pub
licity given to the action of the
Real Estate commission with re
spect to the firm of Curfman and
Ullman resulted by the firm's own
choice,
"This commission made no an
nouncement of the complaint filed
and would have none in line with
its policy on such investigations,"
Johnson said.
He pointed out that the hearing
scheduled for October 27 is man
datory under the law after a
formal complaint had been filed
by Ferrin M. Wall on October 11.
Decision In t Days
"A decision in this case may be
expected within two days after the
hearing is concluded," he said.
In explanation of the commis
sion'! action in the case, Johnson
said that the property sale in
question was the subject of cor
respondence by Al Crose, former
(Continued on Page 5, Column J)
Go-ahead Given
Priest R. Dam
EPHRATA, Wash. (- The
Grant County PubUc Utility Dis
trict received an off icial "go
ahead" Thursday for preliminary
studies for the Priest Rapids Dam
on the Columbia River.
The PUD received a wire over
the signature of Leon Fuqua, sec
retary of the Federal Power Com
mission. The first word of the commis
sion decision came Wednesday aft
ernoon from Sen. Magnuson.
There still was no official an
nouncement Thursday from the
FPC in Washington.
The preliminary permit gives
the PUD a clear field for two
years to proceed with studies and
tests for the project, estimated to
cost more than 350 million dollars.
The preliminary permit does not
Involve the right to actually build
the proposed dam. The FPC must
decide later whether the PUD or
some other agency should get a
license for construction.
$105 Million
Pakistan Aid '
WASHINGTON W - The United
States has promised Prime Min
ister Mohammed Ali a 105 million
dollar economic aid program for
Pakistan in the year ending next
June 30, and a speed-up in aeuv.
eries of military equipment.
A communique issued upon the
conclusion of All's week-long visit
here said the new program will
embrace loans as well as the usual
outright grants.
The figure was described as be
ins "five times last year's aid."
The communique said "it in
cludes funds for technical assist
ance, flood relief as previously
agreed upon, consequent to the
disaster of last August In East
Pakistan, and funds for develop
mental purposes . . . also a sub
stantial amount in the form of
agricultural commodities.
Ali had etc 4th graf ta8
Nearly Inch of Rain
Fell During Nioht
Vaarlv tn inrh nf rain was
dumped on Salem durin . the
storms through Wednesday, the
24-hour total to 10:30 a.m. Thurs
day amounting to .97 of an inch.
More of the same is in pros
pect for tonight .nd Friday. Tem-
peratures continue comparative
ly mild.
Coastal areas were hit by more
evert storms, and in a 24-hour
period at Newport. 24 inches of
rain were measured.
As a result of the rains, rivers
ire sli'htly up in the valley re
gions, but still below the minus
stage at Salem.
Russia Asks
UN lo Upset
Red China Ban
Committee Delays
' Debate on Alleged
U.S. Aggression
UNITED NATIONS, N Y. Wi
Russia sought the General Assem
bly floor today in a last-ditch at
tempt to upset two U.N. rulings
involving her ally, Communist
China.
The Soviets were expected to ask
a special Assembly session to over
ride:
1, The Steering Committee's rul
ing to delay debate on two explo
sive Russian charges of U. S. ag
gression against Red China until
the crucial disarmament debate is
over. '
2. The Credentials Committee's
decision to accept Nationalist Chi
na's qualificatons as a U, N. mem
ber. Little Chance of Success
The Russans had faint hope of
reversing either decision. But ob
servers said today's special As
sembly meeting to receive the re
port of these committees gave the
Soviets a chance to air their views
again.
In challenging the ruling to
accept Nationalist China's creden
tials, the Russians were expect
ed to demand a roll call vote to
find out how many powers now
favor bringing Communist China
into the U.N. Over the past three
years, the Russian representa
tives have never been able to mus
ter more than seven votes in
favor of the Chinese Reds.
There was consideVable specu
lation that India's V. K. Krishna
Menon would take an active role
in the debate on China's creden
tials, and perhaps the aggression
charges as well. ,
Condon Again
Off Security
WASHINGTON Uh The Navy
Thursday suspended the security
clearance given to Dr. Edward
U. Condon, former chief ot the
U.S. Bureau of Standards.
Condon is now director ot re
search and development at the
Corning Glass Works. His firm
said Tuesday he had received a
clearance by the Defense Depart
ment for access to government
secrets. Later, the Navy here con
firmed the clearance.
Secretary of Navy Thomas said
a statement he had reviewed
the action of the Eastern Regional
Industrial Security Board grant
ing Condon limited access to in
dustrial security information. As
a result, he said, he had "de
termined there is sufficient evi
dence to warrant my requesting
a complete reconsideration of this
action.
Thomas added that he was "or
dering a suspension" of the se
curity clearance for Condon and
that the Navy has no classified
contracts at this time with the
Corning Glass Works.
FHA Windfalls
Worst Scandal
DALLAS. Pa. MV-Postmas(er
General Summerfield says the
housing situation that developed
from excess FHA loans was "the
monumental and vicious scan
dal this country has ever known."
In a speech (n this eastern .Penn
sylvania town yesterday. Summer
field said there were an estimated
225 major scandals in the adminis
tration of former President Tru
man, "22 of them originating
among the 'palace guard' Presi
dent Truman's own White House
staff."
He asked that the people "com
pare that sorry record with 1'0
months of clean Republican ad.
ministration."
Cochran Resigns as
Manager of Chamber
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Clay Cochran, who has been
manager of the Salem Chamber as president of the Salem cham
of Commerce since 1942, a period ber and wanted to see Salem in
of 13 years during which the dustrialized. And this happened
Salem chamber has made the i during the earlier years that
greatest growth in its history and I Cochran was manager,
become a more effective com- While at Corvallis he worked
munity organization than ever ! valiantly with the government to
before, resigned Wednesday
nignt.
In a brief letter to the execu
tive committee, which was read
at a meeting of the board of di
rectors, he gave no reason for
the resignation, but it is under
stood he has plans for future ac
tivity that will be less arduous.
As manager of the Chamber
of Commerce at Corvallis for
nine years Cochran had attract
ed attention, and mainly respon
sible for bringing him to Salem
was Carl Hogg who was in the
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Photo Alaska
For Disney Film
FAIRBANKS, Alaska WI A
pair of famed wild life photog
raphers, Herbert and Lois Crisler,
have emerged from the isolation
of the arctic wilderness with film
for a planned full length Walt Dis
ney movie.
The couple from Washington
State and Colorado spent nearly
three years on the Disney assign
mentin a strange land of vast
spaces and many hardships.
From last April until last week,
when a chartered plane lifted the
Crislers from their - wilerness
camp, they had seen only four
human beings. Their most con
stant companions have been the
wolf and the caribous.
The Crislers packed their sup
plies endlessly on their backs oft
er being supplied by air. iney
lived in tents or "crackerbox"
shelters . made of plywood and
plastics. They lived and worked in
40 below ierd cold for the first
time in their lives.
Beetles Infest
500,000 Acres
SEATTLE UP More than 500.
000 acres of forest land in West
ern Washington has been infested
by the silver fir bark beetle, an
official of the Northwest Forest
Pest Action Co m m i 1 1 e e said
Thursday.
R. V. Dickhaus, of Bellingham,
chairman ol a subcommittee.
called for early construction of
additional logging roads to help
meet the menaace.
Dickhaus said most of the in
fested tracts are in the Mt. Baker
and Day Lake areas of Skagit and
Whatcom counties.
Because the beetle furrows in
the bark it cannot be sprayed and
early harvesting of invested trees
is the only effective control meth
od, he said.
Dickhaus said all forest agen
cies are rearranging their plans
to harvest as much timber as pos
sible. So far this year 140 million
board feet have been logged in
the- beetle area.
TURKEY" SEEKS GRAIN SEED
ANKARA. Turkey (JPI Sitki
Yircali, minister of economy and
commerce, said Thursday the
Turkish government is negotiating
with the United States for grain
seeds supplies to help piece out
this year's poor crop.
middle of three consecutive years
bring Camp Adair to this area,
continued his interest in the big
encampment after coming to Sa
lem, and was largely instru
mental in getting bus service
established between Salem and
the encampment.
In war days, when the govern
ment proposed to set up a pilot
plant to see if alumina could be
extracted from clay a committee
nf northwest men was named to
bring the project to this region.
Cochran was on the committee.
(Continued on Page i Column t
CAMPAIGN GOOD WISHES
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 President Eisenhower greets Republi
can gubernatorial candidate Sen. Irving Ives here today as
retiring Gov. Thomas E. Dewey looks on. Sen. Ives, apparently
facing an uphill fight against his Democratic-Liberal opponent,
Avcrcll Harriman, accompanied the president and Gov. Dewey
on a motor tour of the city shortly after their meeting. (AP
Wircphoto)
Ike, De wey and Ives
Tour New York City
NEW YORK (UP) President
Eisenhower turned on his warmest
campaign smile for Republican
candidates and the party today in
a surprise personal motor tour
College Riot
In Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ali. (.Dis-
gruntled students, b o yc o 1 1 e d
classes at Alabama State College
for Negroes here Thursday and
overturned furniture in one class
room where students had refused
to join 'the demonstration.
There were no reports of in
juries, however, and two hours aft
er the boycott started, there had
been no call for police protection.
The boycott greiV out of a series
of demonstrations and mass meet
ings over a list of 17 grievances
against authorities at the state
supported college, including de
mands for better meals at the j
school lunchroom.
The students also gathered out
side school President H. Councill
Trenholm's office and cried, "We
want justice." Across the street,
they demonstrated at the entrance
to a classroom building, but facul
ty members blocked the door and
the students left without trying to
force their way in.
9th Juror Picked
For Sheppard
CLEVELAND Ifl - The ninth
member of the Sheppard murder
trial jury was selected Thursday
as the trial began moving along
ai a swuier pdte.
The trial then recessed till aft
ernoon. Two housewives were named to
the panel Thursday. The latest
chosen was Mrs. Margaret E.
Adams, wile of a vice president
of a metal parts firm, .t that
point, five women and four men
had been selected.
Earlier. Mrs. Beatrice Oren
stein, wife of a postal clerk, was
named.
Continuing the pattern of the
first three days, defense attorneys
hammered at the jurors' views on
sex as attempts were pressed to
select a panel to try Dr. Samuel
H. Sheppard on a charge of beat
ing lo death his pretty wife, Mari
lyn, 31, last July 4.
Today's Index
Section One
Amusemrnts I
Editorials '
Locals $
.Society (.74--1
Section Two
Fabulous Friday 1-10
Section Three '
Food 1-14
Comic It
Television U
Section Four
Sport IM
Classified Ads 7-11
through crucial New York City
election districts.
With Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and
Republican gubernatorial candi
date Irving M. Ives beside him,
the President boosted the state ad
ministration as he toured housing
projects, highways and state hos
pitals in Manhattan, Brooklyn and
the Bronx all normally Democrat
ic boroughs.
Mr. Eisenhower set out on the
fast three-hour- tour, behind the
JfcVatatoMw
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nri nli mmn.,m wVk(, ,.
couldn't win if they didn't keep
smiling.
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UF Division Oyer
Top in Drive
Another division of the United
Fund Drive the residential division,
went over the top Thursday dur
ing the United Fund drive report
luncheon.
That division's contributions are
$12,032. Leading division are Mrs.
Jack Frisbie, Mrs. Lynn Wood,
Mrs. E. M. Page and Mrs. A.. A.
Schramm, who is a board mem
ber. Reports Thursday showed that
91 per cent of the total goal of
$194,608 had been received in con
tributions or pledges for a total
of $177,077.
In addition to the residential di
vision four other divisions have
previously exceeded their goals.
Those divisions and contributions
to date arc: Automotive and trans
portation, $15,926; educational,
$8,164; the state section of the gov
ernmental division, $21,057; and
tnc rural with 527.
Divisions not yet making their
quota and the amounts of their
contributions by the time of the
Thursday report meeting are: mer
cantile. $30,932; professional, $14-,
308: utilitiies, $7,525; contractors
and builders. $7,650: general gifts,
$25,289! county, city and federal
! Uon of governmental division,
$894; and industrial, $28,773.
Another report meeting is slated
for Friday noon and it is hoped
that by that time reports will show
the goal of $194,608 to nave neen
reached, with 100 percent or more
contributed.
Burglars Take $250
I From Paris Slore
I Burglars collected about $250
1 in cash in the burglary of the
Salem Auto Parts store, 356
North Liberty street, Wednesday
night, it was reported by city
I police.
I Entrance was gained through a
i rear window. Several drawers
were then pried open and the
money taken from the drawers.
Nothing else appeared to be
missing, store officials said, al
though they would make a more
thorough check to determine if
anything else had been taken.
COFFEE PRICES CUT
NEW YORK (UPl Three big
grocery chains today cut the retail
price of coffea four to six cents
a pound.
7 Nations Agree to Join
Western European Union
3 American
Doctors Win
Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Three American scientists were
awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in
medicine and physiology Thursday
night for developing new weapons
in the fight against polio.
Sharing the $35,066 prize are
Dr. John F. F.nders of the Har
vard Medical School; Dr. Thomas
H. Weller of the Harvard School
of Public Health: and a former
associate, Dr. Frederick C. Rob
bins, now at Western Reserve
Medical School In Cleveland. They
were cited for their test tube dis
covery of "the ability of polio
myelitis to multiply in tissue from
primates" that is apes and man.
Sixteen Americans previously
had won medical prizes from the
nine million dollar fund set up in
1901 under the will of Alfred No
bel, the inventor of dynamite, to
reward those judged contributing
most to the benefit of mankind.
The medical prize is voted by the
Caroline Institute of Medicine.
Others Considered
Among others considered for the
1954 award was Dr. Vincent du
Vigneaud, 53-year-old New York
biochemist who has determined
the chemical structure of two pow
erful hormones oxycitin and vas
opressin that help in childbirth
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Banker Raps
At Power Rates
WASHINGTON 11 An Arkan
sas banker testified Thursday the
Arkansas Power k Light Co, has
sought higher rates than he con
sidered justified and reasonable.
He said he tola. Us officials they
were "risking killing the goose that
lays the golden egg."- - - .
Arthur JS. Mclean, president of
the Commercial National Bank of
Little Rock, was a witness before
the Senate amimonopoly subcom
mittee at renewed hearings on the
controversial pr o p o e d Dixon
Yates contract.
McLean said his only motive in
appearing before the senators was
public service.
He related a story of long-time
personal differences with the pow
er company. In 1935, he said, he
had an office building air-condi
tioned and was denied a rate he
considered proper.
McLean told them he'd build his
own power plant if necessary, he
said, and Arkansas Power finally
agreed to a "reasonable rate."
Bing Asks Cut
In Income Tax
WASHINGTON (fl - Crooner
Bing Crosby has asked the U. S.
Tax Court to referee a dispute
with the Internal Revenue Service
over claims for 17,710 additional
income tax for the year 1950.
The claims were filed agaiast
Crosby and the estate of his late
wife, wilma w. (Dixie Lee) Cros
by, who in separate returns for
1950 reported net community in
come of $1(12,434. They paid taxts
totaling J'JG.WWt.
The dispute aro.se over $lo0,000
which the Crosbys received that
year from a sale of stock in Dec
ros Corp., Bing's record-making
company, to Decca Records, Inc.
The returns listed this as capital
gain, but the Internal Revenue
Service contended only a portion
could be counted as capital gain.
It maintained the bulk of this in
come was payment to Crosby for
"personal services," taxable as
ordinary income,
Storm Calls Off Search
For 3 Lost Hunters
DALLAS Search for three
Newport huntTi missing in the rugged terrain and was taken to
Fanno mountain district near a Dallas hospital where his con
Valsetz since Oct. 9, was called dition was said to be good,
off by Polk County Sheriff Tony J Wednesday's search covered a
Neufcldt Thursday until weather (wide strip from the Valsetz air
conditions improve. 1 port to Fanno mountain road. It
Missing arc Norman Zoiszlor, j was handicapped by poor visi
23, Newport mill worker; hit ; hility limited at times to 20 feet
wife, Esther, 33, and her on, j by the fog and rain that soaked
Harvey, 13. Their disappearance the searchers,
was discovered Oct. 15 when ! The searching party was aug
their car was found abandoned i mentcd by the Dallas tank corn
on Fanno mountain road. I pany of the Oregon National
Heavy rain, fog and wind
forced the helicopter observation
unit from the mountains shortly
after noon Wednesday, and one
member of the National Guard . finding the three missing hunt
ground searching party was hos- crs alive, but will continue the
pitslizcd from exhaustion. .operation until the entire area
Pfc. Milton Reimcr, IS, col-has been Inspected thoroughly.
Iran Ratifies
Pact to Reopen
Big Oil Field
TEHRAN, Iran. (UP) Iran's
lower house of Parliament today
overwhelmingly ratified an agree
ment that will permit eight for
eign companies to put the nation's
oil on the world market again.
Deputies in the Majlis (House)
voted 113 to S. with two abstain
ing, in favor of the accord which
ends a dispute that began in 1951
when Mohammed Mossadegh, then
premier, nationalized the vast
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
The agreement will become law
after the Senate ratifies it and
it is signed by the Shah of Iran.
The long dispute over Iranian
oil approached the settlement
stage last Aug. 5 when the gov
ernment and the eight oil compan
ies initiated the agreement which
will give the country a minimum
of 420 mil ion dollars in revenue
during the next three years.
Pro-Red POW
Regret Decision
WASHINGTON (UP)-Some ot
the 21 American prisoners who
chose to stay with the Communists
in Korea a year ago now apparent
ly regret their decision, Defense
Department sources said today.
Very little has been learned about
them since they turned down a
chance to come home after the Ko
rean armistice. But some informa
tion has seeped through the
Bamboo Curtain in intelligence re
ports and occasional letters to rel
atives.
From this defense sources said
some of the voluntary exiles "ap
pear to ne somewhat disenchangca
with ' their lot" in Communist
China. It is suspected the men feel
disillusioned and homesick now
that the ideological and emotional
pressures that prompted their de
cision have worn off.
Thcro also are indications, th
sources said, that the Chinese Com
munists are losing interest in the
POW s now that their great prop
aganda value has slumped.
Red Frogmen
Land on Island
By UNITED PRESS
Communist Chinese frogmen to-
I day carried out their first opera-
(ions against Chiang Kay-shck's
Nationalists in the Taction Island
group 200 miles north of Formosa.
First reports from Taipei said
one unit went ashore at Hsiaopi
Island a second team tried to land
on Pishnn Island.
No further information was
available on the Hsiaopi landing
but the Nationalists said their
sentries turned back the team that
tried to go ashore at Pishnn, kill
ing one of the frogmen.
Formosa Unafraid
There was little apprehension on
Formosa itself. American-trained
Gen. Sun Yi-jen, Chiang's mill
tary' adviser, said the Nationalist
armv was fitrontf enoucn to dcfcnd
Formosa wthout U. S. assistance.
Twin Submarine
Cable to Ketchican
WASHINGTON WI The Fed
eral Communications Commission
Wednesday authorized American
Telephone & Telegraph Co., to lay
a new $13,600,000 twin submarine
cable between Port Angeles,
Wash., and Ketchikan, Alaska.
The company recently reported
that present radio and land line
circuits for telephone service be
tween Alaska and the Unilcd
States are inadequate to handle
the demand.
I lapsed during the search over
Guard commanded by Capt. Stan
ley Singler.
Members of the searching
group have abandoned hope of
US and Canada
To Stand By to
Aid in Defense
PARIS m Seven European
nations, including a West Ger
many on the verge of all but full
sovereignty, Thursday agreed to
join a "Western European Union"
for common defense. The United
States and Canada will stand by
as partners and guarantors.
Foreign ministers of these nine
countries virtually completed the
task of rewriting the 1948 treaty
of Brussels to add West Germany "
nd Italy to the original five na
tionsBritain, France, Belgium,
Holland and Luxembourg.
They reached their decisions in
the Palais de Chaillot annex a
few hours after the American, -British,
French and West German
ministers agreed on terms to end
the Allied occupation of West Ger- -many
and restore, with a few ex
ceptions, complete sovereignty to
West Germany.
The foreign ministers of the
United States, Britain and France
took the action Thursday afternoon
in a brief session with West Ger
man Chancellor-Foreign Minister
Konrad Adenauer.
The four statesmen put the fin
ishing touches on a scries of
lengthy, detailed documents which
an to replace the two-year-old
treaty of Bonn, never completely
ratified. '
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A-Weapons for
Combat Planes
MIAMt. Fla. tfl Gen. O. P.
Wcyland, commanding general of
the Tactical Air Command, told
the National Guard Assn. Thurs
day that "every combat tactical
aircrait is or will ba equipped to
deliver atomic weanons."
rru- frnti.1 ll K J
... ' .... nvy
ports troops in the field and is
equipped with fighters, bombers,
fighter-bombers and troop car
riers. He told of the widespread adapt-
aoimy ot atomic weapons while
discussing "trends in tactics and
equipment." He said thera is an
urgent requirement for shorter
takeoff and landing characteristics
of tactical aircraft.
Crew Escape
Airliner Fire
CHICAGO (UP) An airline-
caught fire on the ground today
but nine passengers and a crew of
four walked off the ship without
injury.
An airport employe who was fuel
ing the plane was seriously burned.
The four-engine DC6 United air
liner was parked at a loading ramp
at Midway Airport.
The plane, flight 506 left Seattle
last night and was due to take
off for Cleveland and New York.
Harry Bnllingcr, 23, a fucler,
was rushed to Holy Cross Hospital
after co - workers tore burning
clothes from his body. He was not
expected to live.
When the fire broke out Capt.
Lloyd Treeccp, Brookficld, ill., the
pilot, took charge and ordered the
passengers to file out of the cabin.
The passengers were transferred
lo other east bound flights.
Bank Official
Stole $250,000
PHILADELPHIA tsV-A man de
scribed by the Girard Trust and
Corn Exchange Bank as "a trusted
employe for 26 years" has been
charged with approving fake loans
totaling a quarter-million dollars
and spending $15,000 of it on "wine,
women and song."
Officials of the bank yesterday
preferred fraudulent conversion
charges against Edward B. Mc-
Call, about 45. They said the money
was taken through a scries of faked
loans approved by McCall over a
period of 18 months.
The bank said the loss was cov
ered by insurance.
At his arraignment before Judc
Curtis Bok, McCall was held :n
Slo.ooo bail for action by the
grand jury.
It was testified at the arraign
ment yesterday that a routine aud
it of McCall's accounts in the
hank's loan department brought
the shortages to light last May.
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