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Joutmal THE WEATHiGt SHOWERS TONIGHT and Salur day, partial clearing with patches of fog tonight and early Satur day. Little change in tempera ture; low tonight, 34; high Sat urday, 48. ital 2 SECTQOI (16 Pages) 67th Year, No. 18 Salem, Oregon, Friday, January 21, 1955 :"."'.S9J0 jo xiBjaAiufl c Cap Salary Raise Proposed for Legislators Annual Pay of $2500 Plus $10 a Day Expenses Sought By JAMES D. OLSON An annual salary of 52500 plus $10 a day expenses for legislators while the assembly is in session is provided in a resolution sched uled for introduction in the sen ate early next week. The resolution to be introduced by Senator Gene Brown (R Grants Pass) calls for a constitu tional amendment to be submitted to a vote of the people. Sen. Brown doesn't think le gislators, at the current rate of $600 a year and no expenses, are being paid enough with the. re sult that many worthy citizens in the state refuse to run for legis lative seats. The subject of pay has always been a touchy one in the legisla ture and for years Oregon went along at $8 a day for a maximum of 50 davs even when sessions were regularly running 70, 80 and even 100 days. In 1951 the legislature submit ted the S600 a year proposal to the people and it was approved. Then in 1953 the lawmakers sub mitted a proposal which would give them power to set their own salaries. This was turned down by the voters. There are two distinct schools of thought in the legislature on salaries. One school of thought contends that only those who can afford to come to the legislature without counting the cost should run. (Continued on Page 5 Column 4) Two Dead by Gas Fumes Two men were found dead from asphyxiation at a North Salem motel Friday morning, ap parently accidentally gassed, city police reported. They were identified as Bu ford E. Conway, 49, and Denzel Weston, 28, both of Portland. Officers said the two men were found in their bed about 10 o' clock by Edward Gabriel, propri etor of the Cherry City cottages, 2500 Fairgrounds road, who said he had noticed lights on all night in the cabin and no sign of life during the morning. Jets on the gas range in the kitchen were on, officers said, but there was no indication of contemplated suicide. Apparently the jets had been accidentally turned on or had been turned on and forgotten before they were ignited, they said. City first aidmen said they had been dead 24 hours or more. The bodies were taken to the Howell Edwards Funeral home pending notification of relatives by Cor oner Lcston E. Howell. Chicago Fire In Tenement rmrAGO m A raging fire flashed through a West Side tene ment and trapped occupants on upper floors Friday. A deputy coroner first reported five persons were lost, then cut the figure to three. Three other occupants of the building were injured, in leaps from windows when escape by way of a stairway was cut off by flames. About 20 other persons who lived in the building fled safely to the snow-covered street. Firemen said all the dead were trapped on the fourth floor of the building at 622 Blue Island Ave. They estimated the three upper floors of the building were occu pied by about 30 persons. Louis Logisios, 50, a restaurant worker, who lives in a room on the second floor, told newsmen he discovered the fire upon arriving at the building at 6 a.m. Rain and Warmer Weather, Weekend Rain and slightly warmer tem peratures were in the valley's weather picture Friday, with in dications such weather would con- corning minimum in Salem was 39 dearees. The five-day forecast calls for temperatures near normal with recurring rains, total precipita tion to be heavier than it has been. The highway commission ad vised motorists to carry chains in traveling over all mountain pass routes. Travel on the Pacific highway in southern Oregon and northern California was impossible with out chains Friday, the highway report stated. Weather Details il Minimum li. 'Total 24-hour orer init- tton: M: fnr month: 2: normal, 3N, Rrton rfttpttation: IS M; normal. 12 29. Rivir h-lht. I fft. (Report by US. Ktithfr Burrin Senate Votes Portland Stale College Bill Extension Center Made Full Univer sity With Degrees By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. Associated Press Correspondent The Oregon State Senate vot ed 24 to 2 Friday to make the Portland State College independ ent, with authority to grant de grees, lhe bill goes to the House. Portland State now is an exten sion center of the state division of higher education, with 2,300 day students and 3,100 night students The only opposition votes were case by Sens. Truman A. Chase and Donald R. Husband, both of Eugene, which is the location of th University of Oregon. Sen. Rudie Wllhclm Jr., Port land, author of the bill, asked for its passage to supply the needs of Portland students who can t atford to go out of town to college. "We need more trained minds to meet the problems of the world," he said. Answering arguments that the bill might be unconstitutional be cause no institution can be located outside of Marion County without a vote of the people, Wilhclm cited an attorney general's opinion that it is constitutional This ruling held that Portland State is not a separate institution, but is a branch of the Board of Higher Ed ucation. Husband argued that the state can t afford another institution, asserting "there's plenty of room for more students in existing schools. The quality of the educa tion would be reduced because the money would be spread too thinly.' The Board of Higher Education, which supports the bill, estimated that Portland State might grow larger than either the University ol Oregon or Oregon State College. (continued on Page 5 column 6) Air Schedules Regular Again Salem's United Air Lines flights, which were disrupted Thursday with the grounding temporarily of the company's Convairs, were all back on sched ule and flights were being made by Convairs. First flight made in here by the Convairs Friday was south bound 374, which arrived at 9:45 a.m. United resumed operations of its Convair fleet in cities along the system at 6 a.m. Friday after a 32-hour voluntary and precau tionary suspension or all Convair flights. The suspension followed an emergeny landing of a Con vair in Iowa Wednesday after noon without injury to either the 36 passengers or crew members. J. A. Herlihy, vice president of engineering and maintenance for United, said a thorough investi gation of the plane revealed the Iowa accident was due to failure of a bolted connection of the ele vated control system. Herlihy said that government officials participating in the investigation concurred in the findings. The 54 other Convairs in UAL's fleet were re-checked to insure all control systems were in mechanically proper condition and that there could be no repi tition of the Iowa accident. The twin -engine 44-passenger Convairs of United have flown almost 34,000,000 miles without a passenger injury. They serve oHjhad reiuseo uenoeraiciy to an cities on the company's system. French Debate on Africa Postponed PARIS ft Jhe National As sembly voted by 519 to 100 (Com munists) Friday to postpone im mediate debate on France's North African problems and get back to I work, as urged by Premier Pierre Mcndos-France, the national budget. Boston Prison Rebellion Reported as Settled BOSTON 11 Four long-term .ncspcrauora wrrenorini .nvy ! State Prison, turning over their! I weapons to a civic committee, which gave them no "bargain or deal." The convicts at the same time released five guards and six fel low inmates they had held hostage in the solitary cell block since early last Tuesday, Edwin D. Canham. editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and:inz in an attempt to scale the prw- member of the seven-man com' nvltee. said the only thing prom- ised the rebellious convicts was to do "everything in our power to work with state oiticiais to cei something so tnat these convirts would have some hope for the fu- i ture The civilian commiitoe, tormea ( slrutlure marv rt,a,y for ccu. only Thursday night, met with the pSncy in Norfolk, 15 m 'f,om convicts early Friday morning and,Bosti. SCENE IN SUNNY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA I Action Delayed In O&G Case WASHINGTON W) District Court Judge Alexander Holtzoff Friday continued for two weeks a hearing on a petition by Clackamas County, Ore., seeking to force dis tribution of 7 million dollars to 18 Western Oregon counties. He acted after the government urged postponement pending dis position of a proposed application to the Supreme Court for dismissal of the county's suit. A. W. Laffcrty, Portland, attor ney for the county, urged the mo tion be granted. The action results from a suit seeking distribution of timber sale receipts impounded pending settle ment of a controversy whether 472.000 acres of Western Oregon timber land should be considered part of the Oregon and California (O&C) Railroad Land Grant or the national forest. As O & C land, the counties would receive 75 per cent of the receipts. Only 25 per cent would go to them it tne lands were na tional forest land. McKenzie Tried For Contempt PORTLAND W A third man went on trial Friday, following the conviction of two others on con tempt of Congress charges for re fusing to answer questions at a House Un - American Activities Committee hearing here last June. It was the turn of John R. Mac Kenzie. former grocery store man aeer. Friday. Herbert Simpson, 33, former trucking company clerk, was con victed Thursday. Donald Wollam, 40, former dock worker, was con victcd Wednesday. Each time the jury was out only a few n George H minutes. Federal Jud2e!uPRC ,ne P'an- "l'r Kud'"" Pnllt nt T-jz-nma InlH jurors the only question for them to decide was whether the men swer questions auoui miil-ii: inv lived, worked or had gone to school. They face maximum penalties of a $1,000 fine and a year in jail. PANAMA SEIGE RELAXED PANAMA ii Panama's na tional assembly Thursday night i,.j ih. f imr,c,il24 million dollars worth of con- after the sla'vine of President Jose'mc'ion equipment declared sur- Antonio Remon 19 days ago But it authorized police to continue i making arrests without warrants I until Jan. 31. 1 again during the day. The second "I'V Six fellow inmates, who did not take part in the disturbance hut were held captive with the guards also were let out of the solitary con finement cell block. None of the guards of prisoners' was harmed. The four rebels sawed their way out of their cells early Tuesday j They seized the guards after fail- on walls by a hastily-fashioned, makeshift ladder. . In their early demands they asked for an automobile to take tnem to treedom. uaicr iney re;t eratcd many complaints about the ancient prison which has been ennucmneu many iiiurs uki ?wii will be replaced by a modern CAMP BALDY, Calif., Jan. 20 Several feet of snow has turned this vacation resort into a picture-postcard land fol lowing Tuesday's heavy storm which left most mountain areas and even the desert covered with a mantle of white. Sunny skies began to change it yesterday. Cars at left and right had been left parked beside a private road. Camp Baldy is about 45 miles northeast of Lo& Angeles. (AP Wirephoto.) Council Fight Edges In Bonesteele Favor The Ward 7 scrap for a seat on I the Citv Council, now deadlocked, i appeared Friday to be edging in I favor of Russell Bonesteele, and away from Lloyd Hammel. Inquiry from both sides Indi cated that the four members who voted for Bonesteele at the Jan McNeil Island Con Plot Fails McNeil Island Penitentiary, Wash, m David Leroy Lath- mans plan to use acting Warden L. T. Gollaher as a hostage in attempted prison break was foiled Thursday because Gollaher stepped out of his office. Richard D. Auerbach, special agent in charge of the Seattle Fed eral Bureau of Investigation of fice, told the story. Lathman, 22, serving time from Los Angeles for transporting a stolen auto across state lines, early Thursday slipped out of his cell house and joined prisoners in a work gang. He strolled away from the gang. telling a guard who questioned hin. he was assigned to the prison offices, Auerbach said, then made his first slip. The guard, not satis fied, followed and Lathman started to run. Auerbach said Lathman darted inti Gollahef's office brandishing a knife he had produced from his shirt. But Gollaher had stepped out and finding the office empty TlVeU, UlSarillfU L.UlMlllttll OllU It-'U nlm 10 ""' Israel to Buy Kitimat Junk VANCOUVER, B. C. m Two bargain hunters from the Israeli eovemment arc here to look over plus by the Aluminum Co. of Can- ana. The equipment was used in Al can's three-year project building a smelter-powerhouse development at Kitimat and Kemano, B. C, 400 miles north of here. Chanan Yavor, delegate of the ministry of agriculture and Major Aron leshem of tho pubic works department, will fly north to Kiti mat Friday. They said their country needs everything they've seen of the Miiilnmnnl rt f.nr Ami WOllId like to buv it ajj .., ,n prjcc right." If it's suitable. Major I,eshcm said, "we might take most of it. Major item of course is the con dition and the price. Self-Service by Robber Yields Cash KENNEWICK. Wash. Wl A man walked into a Kennewick supermarket Thursday night asked the manager scrve-vourself store? Is this With the aid of eun. he an swercd h rd himself $10 and Naimy, Pasco insurance salesman, was arresled a shcrt time later. Police said a quantity of money was roovercd. , o-.vn qn'stinn a d he P-, -.n a , ,nu ,r oe ; withdrawn,,, toward hrl, by air from the Nic a- f ,o a sack full of t .,, from each Pr " " bas"i.ne Mrarnguan frontier. Igaguan frontier and only about 10, ..h1":. . ..,.Jirfi iuS- r.'..., Th. ...,ion wa. at the eke of rmles hy the winding highway. I trim iiien as noocn . ioi idiHii.uuu tw wuu. v ... . - , - ..... ... uary 10 meeting were going to hang tough, while the other side, which also had four votes at that time for Hammel, was going to divide between Hammel and Cecil Lantz. It was said the lat ter would probably be nominated Monday night. At the January 10 meeting only Bonesteele and Hammel were nominated. The council will again vote on the office Monday night. Alderman Clayton Jones, who was on the Hammel side, was noncommittal on that subject, but he is going to be pretty busy on another matter Monday night in which he is interested, and which probably will not be a matter on which the council will draw fac tional lines. This is a readjust ment of the loading zone situa tion in the downtown district, with elimination of several obso lete zones. Jones first showed an interest in this matter several weeks ago when he blocked a move to have meters restored In front of the cleaning establishment of Glenn Burright at 198 South Church. Burright was against the meters. (Continued on Page 6 Column 5 Living Costs Reveal Drop WASHINGTON Ift- Tho gov ernment reported Friday that low er food prices in December brought the nation's living costs to their lowest level since May 1053. The report showed prices or liv ing cost items at the end of the year 1954 were one-half of one per cent below the level at the year's start. It was the first time since 1948 that the government living cost index had showed an ovcr-the-year decline. Substantially lower prices for eggs, pork chops and poultry led the December decline. The index kept by the Labor Department's Bureau ol Labor Statistics dropped three-tenths of one per cent to 114 3 per cent of the 1917-4K base period average. While prices declined generally during 1954, especially since July, the drop was gradual and mod erate. December's 114.3 index was about one per cent below the rec ord high level of 115.4 in October 1953. Self-help Plan For Dairymen j wASiiiC-TON W Rep. West land i It-Wash) Thursday intro duced his dairymen's "self help' plan under which the industry, in etteel, would subsidize itscn, He said the plan has the unani mous support of the National Milk Producers Federation and would "relieve the taxpayer of the burden of the price support program for dairy products andi na lnc same "mc MU a return to the dairy farmer. I .Under the hill dairy prices would - . be supported at lair icveis j geared to production, running high- er in time ol excessive surplus production and low when produc tion Is in line with demand. a sun. ne w i , ,,,. ,.u .... ;'- " ;,,,, , ..n,.!!,,.,,.! renorts that the American Highway little more than Red Lhina Invites Relatives Of 17 GIs to Visit Prisoners U. S. Frowns on Visits to China By Gl Relatives WASHINGTON Ml The State Department said Friday the gov ernment cannot "entourage" rela tives to visit Americans impris oned in Red China but it refused to say whether they will be per mitted to make visits. A statement issued by press of ficer Henry Suydam said that Red China is an area "where the nor mal protections of an American passport cannot be offered." The statement followed an an noucement through the United Na tions that the Red regime has agreed to permit visits by relatives of the 17 Americans imprisoned there. The agreement was offered to Dag Hammarskjold, U. N. Sec retary general, during his recent visit to Peipi!? seeking the men s release. The United Slates has no diplo matic relations with the Chinese Communists and for five years has enforced a policy of denying passports for travel there. Suydam's statement did not, however, say passports would not be issued in the present instance. It criticized the Peiping regime for not having released the Amer icans who. in the American view, should have been freed in the Ko rean prisoner of war exchanges. The Chinese Communists have placed "the families of these im prisoned Americans in a harrowing dillema." Suydam said. He apparently referred to the fact that the families know they would have to make any such visits without the protection that Ameri can citizenship carries in any coun- (Continued on Page 5 column 4: Congress to OK ikes Proposal iviKitmr.rnw m Ron II Aley. nnrW Smith (R.N.I) nred cted to H. Onornsi: would anDrove anv request by President l-.'isenhower for authority to use u.. air ann Ifea power to assist in the possible evacuation oi some inincse na- tionalist islands. Eisenhower was reported last night to be considering such a re quest if Red Chinese pressure should force evacuation of troops from the offshore islands. The Reds this week captured the island of Yikiangshan, which hud been held by a small garrison, and they have stepped up attacks on the Tachen group, on which Chiang Kni - slick's Nationalists have some 20.000 men. Some American military men were said to believe that if Na tionalist forces were withdrawn from some offshore outposts, they might prolitably be deployed else where for the defense ol normosa. Collins Ends Viet Nam Visit SAIGON. Viet Nam 11 Gen. J Lawton Collins left for Washington Friday to seek approval of mili tary and economic aid programs aimed at shoring up south Viet Nam against encroachment from the Communist-dominated north. President Eisenhower's special envoy carried with him Vict Nam's compromise plan for reorganizing and training its 217,000-man army as well as proposals for organiz ing popular support lor ine gov ernment of Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Diem asked ine innra nia(es to take over full responsibility lor organizing and training the armed forces under the over all supervi sion of the French Far East com mander, Gen. Paul Ely. Collins' nnmnry objective is to net rnneressinnal and administra tion, approval of the military and economic aid programs wrm-n ic uuire American financial backing. Costa Ricans Capture Rebel Strongholds SAN JOSE, Costa Rica IK The Costa Itican general staff an nounced Friday the capture of the rebel stronghold of La Cruz and th.. nearhv town of Puerto Solcy on the Pacific Coast. It added that the rebels were now caught In a trap, with loyalist troops closing . ninrers from the north and Irom tne norm ..Lh The announcement came on the ine n..-wiy ,v ........ u.i..,Ai,n f 'Acio men ann iNirnra ... ,.. ..... . h.. Kiitixr .nn .'lien., pv. (ira ,,. ai ii". gua. Neutral ground and air ob-'hrilct abo six milf southwest servers ot the I n t e r Arr.erlcaif of La Cruz. Nationalists Sink 27 Red Ships on Coast TAIPEH, Formosa ft The Chinese Nationalists, fearful of new Red invasion moves after the fall of Yikiangshan, attacked ship ping along the China coast with waves of planes Friday, claiming at least 21 small cra.i sunk, anoth er possibly sunk and more than 12 damaged. Report by Nationalist air force headquarters of the new bkiws came after the defense ministry conceded that all resistance by 720 Nationalist guerrillas on Yikiang shan had been wiped out. This opened the way for the Reds to possibly strike at the near by Tachens 200 miles north of For mosa. Air force headquarters said fighters and bombers Friday: Destroyed more than 20 of BO motorized junks near Wenchow Bay southwest of the Tachens, and set fire to three others. Sank a 250-ton supply ship off Pingtan Island southeast of Foo chow. Damaged three 250-ton gunboats, one of which possibly sank, near Nanjih Island in Formosa htrait, and heavily damaged eight mo torized junks. , Russian Atomic Plant, Vorkuta BERLIN Ift An American soldier who spent six years in So viet captivity, said Friday the Rus- sinns are believed to bo building an atom-splitting plant nt Vorkuta, the notorious Artie slave labor camp just west of the Ural Moun tains. Pvt. William Vcrdine, 28, of Starks. La., said he heard this during hit 30-month stay at the camp. Verdine. released here by the Russians Thursday and placed In an Army hospital lor a medical checkup, Is under military arrest pending Investigation Into why no - failed to return 10 nix unu a. burg In February 19-19. His statements were reported by a U. S. snokesman who said he seems a little hazy about how many prisons he has been in. Vcrdine said he recollected being in six Soviet prisons in r.asi ucr- many, two in Moscow, two rcpai- riation camps and Vorkuta. List Nominees For Merchants Charles Ncwsome, manager of the Salem store of Montgomery Ward & Co., has been nominatcu for president of the Downtown Salem Merchants Association. The annual election of the as sociation will be held Monday niiihi nl the Marion Hotel, ine new president will succeed Ralph J. (Dick) Schlup. Other nominees listed by the committee on nomination headed by John Adlon, manager of Lip- man, Wolto & LO., cnairman, mc. Vice nresident. Virgil Duff, as sistant manager of J. C. I'enncy company, secretary, Lois Keeney, Peacock Cleaners; trVasurcr, Law rence Fisher, United States Na tional Hank. For members of board of direc tors, nine to be elected, Lee Cole man, I'av-Lcss Drug Store: Dick Cooley, Bishop's; Karl Hcidcr, Holder's: Alex Jones, Alex Jones' Men's Wear; Leonard Kremen, Roberts Ilros.; Ralph Nohlgren, Nohlgrcn's restaurant; Leonard Rowan, manager of Senator Ho ld! Jcrrv Schiplry, llarlman's; Vacuum Cleaner store- Douuhis Ycatcr, Y eater Appliances, and Irvin Young, Wonlworth's. Other nominations may be made from the floor. The meeting will be in the Capitol room of the Senator Hotel. f,..ire Commission were patrolling a belt III miles long in the area to keep the rebellion from touching oil a war between me iwu neign !wirin0 countries. Presumably the rebels were hit by a flanking group commnnded bv Costa Itican Col. hranx Marsn oil. A highly authoritative source r .k,. lnrhir column . '. Tk,,,,,! t . Cruz. rl.M.l strong point on the Inter- -,,-,, ,..,! - vv im inline, tn n i - : '"V " " 7:,:, " W:i I)ru:mala city and other strategic cen- Surprise Move With Overtures 01 Propaganda UNITED NATIONS. N Y. in Red China, in a sumrise move with overtones of propaganda, an nounced Friday the relatives of 17 Americans jailed there are wel come to visit the prisoners. Tho Americans were associated with U. S. armed forces in the . United Nations command that spearheaded the Korean fighting against Red China. Tho U. N also announced the offer, saying it grew out of the recent Dag Hammarskjold mis sion to Pciping. The U. N. secre tary general sought to free Amer ican prisoners held in China. Most of the relatives interviewed ' immediately after the announce ment said they were undecided or ' did not intend to accept the invi tation. However the Iowa parents of a jet ace said they will leave as soon as arrangements can be made. The announcement made hv Pel. ping and at the United Nations here said: "Premier Chou En-Lai. durinu his talks with Secretary General uag nammarsKjold, indicated that the government of the People's Republic of China would provide facilities for relatives to visit those United States personnel who have been convicted and those whose cases were under investigation, if they should wish to do so, and that the Red Cross Society of China would make all the arrangements necessary. -an i guarantee Safety Later, a U. N. spokesman raid Hammarskjold "has no doubt of the safety of those members of the families wishing to visit China to see ineir men. This statement evidently was made because the United States cannot guarantee the safety of its citizens traveling in countries with (.Continued on Page 5 Column 4 800 Other GIs In Red Prison CfnCAGO tfl Sen. Knowland (R-calif, says he believes Red China holds "something over soo other GIs" in prison besides the 15 American airmen they acknowl edge holding. In a speech to the Cicero Man ufacturers' Assn., last night, the Sennlo minority leader said: We have strong reason to bt licvo they hold moro than the 1.1 they acknowledge of holding." Ine men showed up neither In the little or big switch prisoner exchange , following the Korean truce in '1953, Knowland said. Names of the imprisoned Ameri cans, he said, were learned from Red propaganda broadcasts, other released POWs and Pentagon re ports. Knowland said a compilation of the various reports led him to the strong belief the Red Chinese held "several hundred other GIs in pris on enclosures." Ho later set the figure at "something over 800 oth er GIs." Martial Law In Guatemala GUATKMALA Ift The govern ment pushed a roundup of Com munists and supporters of ex-Prcs-ident Jncobo Arbeni Guzman to day afler beating down an uprising aimed nt unseating anti-Red Pres ident Carlos Castillo Armas. At least 100 persons already were un der arrest. Government troops held Guate- tcrs in on armed grip. Castillo Ar mas announced that 10 persons were killed and an undetermined mber wounded in a brief clash yesterday between loyal forces and rebels seeking to capture Aurora Air Force Base, outside the capi tal. He blamed the Communists and Arbcnz's supporters. The anli lted government In ot- (ice less than seven months promptly declared a state of seige modified martial law. uui au Ihorilies announced they were in control throughout the country. Machine nun-carrying . soldiers mounted tight guard on military posts and strategic points. A ID pm. curfew went into effect in the capital. 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