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Capital AJomct af THE WEATHER. INCREASING CLOUDINESS to. night, cloud; with occasional light ' rain Thursday. Little warmer. Low tonight, 38; high Friday, 52. 2 SECTIONS 24 Paget ROBOTS JO eue33 68ihYear,No. 302 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, December 19, 1956 Snttrtd M Meon Aatur at Salem. Red China Miff Told jBy Nehru Chou BkTfor U. S. . Friendly Move Relayed By DONALD J. GONZALES Untied Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said today he has relayed to Pres ident Eisenhower "certain com plaints" by Red China against the United States. Nehru also told a news confer enfe that he believes "the people in the Soviet Union are not very happy about events in Hungary, to put it mildly." Nehru's remarks on China were the first official disclosure of what he and President Eisenhower dis cussed in their day-long talks Mon day at the President's farm at Gettysburg, Pa. Nehru also aid he found in his 1 man to man talks with President Eisenhower that American policy "is not so rigid as I had thought." In explanation, he added, "the general approach to problems ap pears to be governed by apprecia tion of the changing world." American Prisoners Nehru said he has talked with Chou about releasing the 10 Amer icans stili held prisoner in Com munist China, and will again. He said he "very much" wants them released and hopes they will be freed soon. After the news conference, the Indian Prime Minister returned to the White House to resume the talks with President Eisenhower which brought him across half a world for a four-day state visit. The Prime Minister expanded his schedule to talk with Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles and with Harold E. Stassen, the President's disarmament adviser, this afternoon. Chinese Complaints Nehru said he had not delivered to Mr. ' Eisenhower any formal message from Red Chinese Pre mier Chou En-lai, with whom he met before coming to Washington. But he said he conveyed to Mr. Eisenhower Chou's viewpoint on Asia, and explained Red Cht- ( Continued on Page 5, Column 4) r UL Quizzes Witnesses in PTTHearing '. Hearing on the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph Co. application for a 7 per cent increase in its Oregon rates resumed Wednesday . with cross examination of wit nesses. The hearing opened two weeks ago when company officials testi fied the company needs $3,200,000 more a year to finance a four year 15S million dollar expansion program. John R. McCullough, attorney for Public Utilities Commisioner Charles H. Heltzel, conducted the cross examination of F, A. Dres slar, Portland, Oregon manager for the company, and other com vpany officers. ' McCullough said his investiga tion upheld the accuracy of com pany figures, but that he conclud ed that the company doesn't need such a large rate increase to put it in a sound position. The company's rate of return now is 5.3 per cent of its invest ment, and the company wants a 8.75 per cent return. McCullough said that a return I of 6 to 6.2 per cent would be pro per. This would mean a rate boost of about 2 million dollars a year. McCullough said that to permit . a rate of less than 6 per cent might result in a court ruling that the rate would be too low. 70 Distraught Refugees Find Oregon Haven . PORTLAND un Some 70 Hun . farian refugees Wednesday be gan al new life in Oregon. Thv arrived here by chartered plane' Tuesday night from Camp Kilmer. N.J., where they were flown from Austria after escaping Communist oppression in their homeland. The refugees mostly men, but there were a few women and thildren appeared bewildered when they arrived at the Port land airport. They listened atten tively but without understanding as they were welcomed by the Oregon Committee for Hungarian Refugees. Frederic Littman. Port land sculptor, later translated the words into their native tongue. After this ceremony, the refu gees were taken to the Congrega tional Church for a dinner served by a Catholic women's organiza tion, and introduced to their spon sors, all of them from the Port land area. This is the second group of Hun garian refugees to come to Ore gon. A group of seamen who Jumped their ship at Lebanon In the Middle East recently found bivto her. Choir Well-Dressed for Kg J f . ..;. ,. -- . TVjJkV-'' Hungary Reds May Ask West For Huge Loan VIENNA UP) Hungary's Com munist regime is preparing to ask the free world for a $400 million loan to stave off economic disas ter, reports from Budapest said today The reports said Hungary had no hopes of receiving such a huge sum from the Soviet Union or other Communist nations and was being forced to turn to the United States and other Western coun tries. The appeal for funds would go through the United Nations, the reports said, and the puppet re gime of Premier Janos Kadar would be "broadened" to include a number of non-Communists and "Titoists." Broadcasts by Budapest radio concentrated on the theme that Hungary was approaching normal and that many workers were will ing to return to work. But it gave the situation away when it broadcast an ultimatum Tuesday to post office workers to return to work Thursday or be fired. The broadcast indicated a toughening government position. Clarke Named ICC Chairman WASHINGTON 11 The Inter state Commerce Commission Wednesday announced the election of Commissioner Owen Clarke as its chairman for the calendar year 1957. . Under the annual rotation sys tem, Clarke, a Washington State Republican from Yakima will suc ceed the present chairman, Anthony F. Arpaia, Connecticut Democrat, on Jan. 1. Weather Details Maximum ypnterday, S3; minimum today, 33. Total 24-hour precipita tion:. .01; for month: 2.40; normal. 4.22. Season prrrlpitatlon, 10.fr; nor mal, 15.49. River height, 10 feet. (Report by V. S. Weather Bureau.) RACKET VENGEANCE DA Hushes Probe of Oil Maps Thefts to 'Protect Informants' (Alio see story on Page 2) PITTSBURGH (UPi-A federal judge today ordered a federal Grand Jury into special session to consider indictments against suspects in the theft of invaluable secret oil field survey maps from the Gulf Oil Corp. U.S. Atty. D. Malcolm Anderson said he asked for the Grand Jury session because he fears for the "safety" o' Gulf Oil employes in volved in the multimillion dol lar industrial esninmr" racket. Four men arrested Tuesday in New York in coini-ction with the theft and sale of the Gulf maps will be brought to Pittsburgh to appear before the jury along with other individuals "who might be implicated." Anderson said he dropping - "shell of silence" over the in vestigation to protect Gulf em- Beautiful new maroon choir robes will be shown off for the first time by the Pnrrlsh junior high's 9th grade choir Wednesday night at the school's annual Christmas concert in the auditorium. Director Howard Miller, shown talking to accompanist Anne Kauf man about music, says Parrish Is oae of the few Junior highs in the state to have choir robes, (Capital Journal Photo) 3 CONCERTS SLATED Schools Open Yule Programs Tonight By PAUL HARVEY III Capital Journal Writer Both Salem public high schools, Parrish Junior high, and the Ore gon Blind school are planning spe cial night Christmas programs this week with three of them Francis Won't Join Demos to Snap Deadlock DAYTON, ORE. Ifl Republi can Sen. Carl Francis said here Tuesday he has no plans to vote with the Democrats to break a 15-15 party deadlock in the state Senate. He added however that he is interested in learning what his own constituents think. Francis' statement followed a proposal of the Yamhill County Democratic Central Committee that Francis be asked to vote on the Democratic side so organiza tion of the Senate could be speed ed. The committee in explaining basis for the proposal said Fran cis has enjoyed, heavy Democratic support in his several races for the Senate. It was pointed out that Francis ran unopposed in the last campaign for senator. . Francis, recently beaten in a bid for attorney general, said in his statement: "It has been gratifying that my liberal outlook has so frequently won me the support of both polit ical parties; that both Republicans and many individual Democrats have so often honored me with their individual votes. "But such individual action docs not of course place me, a Repub-j lican, under specific obligation toj the official Democratic Central i Committee." FEARED I ployes connected with the case and to iacilitate the continuing inves tigation by the FBI. Judge Herbert P. Sorg ordered the May 14 federal Grand Jury to convene here Dec. 27 for a special session expected to last "one or two days." Showed Oil Locations The stolen maps showed possible oil deposits in the Southwest. Can ada and the Middle Fast and de tailed areas having oil field poten tials ',s"orth "millions of dollars." In revealing the theft of the maps here Tuesday. Anderson said the surveys fell into the hands of a New York racket combine which sold some of them to oil speculat ors. Others were used by mem bers of the combine for speculat ive drilling on their own. he said. Anderson said earlier that "one or two" highly trusted Gulf em Concert scheduled for Wednesday night. The North Salem high r?hool music and dramatics departments will present their annual Christ mas concert, "Chants de Noel" at 8 p.m. Thursday. Dec. 20. There will be no admission charge for the program that will be given in the school auditorium. The program will open witn the playing of "Faith Shepherd Suite" by Handel, by the orchestra, under the direction of Richard McClintic. A Christmas play, entitled "A Certain Star" by Frank Cooper, will be presented under the direc tion of Jay T. Roricky Members of the cast include Dottye Jones, Ladell Anderson, David Patch, Nita Christofferson and James Hayes. Other program features include the singing of Christmas carols by the mixed chorus class; selec tions by the Girls Glee, with Howard F. Miller directing: the Salem Senate-Aires, directed by McClintic and the singing of six songs by the choir. Miller will direct. Soloists will include George Baker and James Hayes. The South Salem high music department presents its annual Christmas concert tonight in the Leslie junior high auditorium be ginning at 8 o'clock. The program will include num bers by the 45-piece orchestra, the girls' glee, Saxon gleemen, and the 50-member acapella choir. Lucille Wonderly Soloist The featured soloist for the choir is Lucille Wonderly, soprano, who will sing "So Blest A Sight." The orchestra's first violinist, Rodney Schmidt, will play a solo, "Le De luge." All three singing groups will combine for the finale, "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "Oh i Come, AH Ye Faithful." j Parrish 's program tonight begins i at 7:30 in the school's auditorium i Continued on Page 5 Column 21 ployes at the corporation's Pitts burgh headquarters were involved in the thefts. He said the maps apparently were stolen by some one who owed gambling debts and "got in too deep to pay off." No immediate arrests of Gulf personnel are planned. Anderson said. Names also were withheld for the moment. Fear For Safety "No one at Gulf is going to es cape us." he said. "They are not gn:ne to skip the country." But ht stressed the hush-hush I nature of the investication was a "matter of their safety." Anderson said he had asked that the scheduled arraignment of the four men held in New York, originally set for Dec. 27, be p'stponed. The suspects held there were charged with transport ing stolen property over state lines. VP Gives Help Vow In Austria Nixon Arrives for 3-Day Refugee Cheek-up VIENNA, Austria I Vice President Nixon held out the hope to Austrians Wednesday of addi tional U.S. aid in handling refu gees from Soviet oppression. The Vice President arrived by plane for a three-day study of the refugee flood created by the Hun garian revolt. Austrians would like the United States to take ad ditional refugees off their hands and to extend financial help in caring for them. , Carrying Ike Message Nixon said he hoped to obtain estimates of the financial assist ance Austria needs to deal with the problem, as well as accurate in formation "as to the number of refugees the United States should be prepared to receive." Nixon is bearing a message from President Eisenhower ex pressing thanks to Austria for helping fugitives from Soviet op pression. The Vice President was cheered as he stepped from the plane by a group of 72 Hungarian refugees who were waiting for a plane to take them to Camp Kilmer, N.J. Nixon said that his plane brought 1600 pounds of insulin and that he was carrying checks to talling $450,000 from American vol unteer agencies for the refugees. Can't Express Sympathy "However," he said, "no amount of money or material could pos sibly express the heartfelt sym- patny that all of our people have experienced in these days of suf fering for the courageous people of Hungary." Nixon told the U.S.-bound refu gees about his own children, and, with the assistance of an inter preter, wished them a Merry Christmas. The Hungarians shouted back their own greetings in Hungarian and rcnglish. Moscow Radio .broadcast a charge from Pravda that Nixon's visit was an attempt to stir up more trouDie in Hungary. Jt claimed the Vice President's trip violated Austrian neutrality. Austrian police said shots were heard from the Hungarian side of the frontier and only 534 refugees crossed into Austria Tuesday nignt. Cave-in Traps Portland Man; Rescue Nears PORTLAND UH A workman was trapped for hours Wednes day in a sewer ditch cave-in and rescue workers moved slowly as they sought to get him out un harmed. The trapped man, Al Moes, about 55, fell prone in the bottom of a 10-foot ditch as he sought to run from the falling walls. The earth caught him though, but timbers retained an air space around his head. Shortly before noon his head was fully exposed and cribbing was built around it as rescuers tunneled in to him. One of the workmen said that as Moes lay there he seemed unhurt "but he's sore from lying there with all that weight on him." Two other escaped just ahead of him from the ditch at S. W. 33d Ave and Capitol Highway, across the street from Multno mah grade school. Those directing the rescue said it was not possible to dig down from above without further en dangering Moes. and the rescue had to be by digging a tunnel around htm. Bccd College To Get Loan Of Uranium WASHINGTON Cfl The Atomic Energy Commission 'AEO said Wednesday It has approved a loan of 5.500 pounds of natural uranium metal, plus neutron sources, to Reed College, Portland, Ore. The metal will be in the form of rods enclosed In aluminum. The AEC said they will be used in a suhcritical assembly consist ing of an arrangement of uranium rods in a moderator such as graph ite or ordinary water. When the neutron source is In troduced, the announcement con tinued, nuclear fission is produced, but the reaction cannot be sus tained without the presence of the neutron source. Such asemblif-s do not require the complex control mThanis'n, expensive shielding or heat re moval equipment of nuclrar reac tors, and may be used for many laboratory exercises in nuclear engineering training. This Is the 13th loan of this type made by AEC to educational in ititutions. 4 Salem Business Houses Burglarized; Safe Toted Off, Near $1,000 Stolen Safe Broken H7T Orecon's Tax Receipts Soar To $45 Million More Than Double '55 Total Collections Of $21 Million Collections of the Oregon tax commission from all sources dur ing the fiscal year through Nov. 30. Mali, totaled W5,(i:ill,li!l'J.75 as mmnwA uHfl, tnlnl rwninlo rlu r. ing a similar period in 1055, of : .:ii ; ni'r.t r $21,844,297.01. Personal income tax collections during the present fiscal year came to $36,879,051.71 as compared to $15,512,674.16, a whopping in crease of $23,794,402.74, the tax commission report showed. Total tax collected under the corporate excise tax law also in creased materially, the f'lal for 1956 fiscal year being $8,193,879.06 as compared with $5,809,538.30 in the same period in 1955. In the month of November the total collections by the income tax division were $8,744,735.65 as com pared with only $2,702,310,49 in the five month period in 1955. Personal income payments in November totaled $7,929,746.03 as compared with $1,723,933 81 in UK- same period last year although collections- from corporations dropped from $897,304.29 in 1955 to $703,- 952.99 in the first five months of the present fiscal year. Rain Forecast Next Five Days Santa Clans is likely to be wear ing his rain boots, judging from the five-day forecast issued from the weather bureau, Wednesday. Precipitation is due to be heavier than normal for the period with frequent rains. Temperatures will be about normal, however. Cloudiness and some fog made Wednesday a gloomy day for Sa lem and the valley. Itainfiill for the month to date is considerably below normal, only . 2.40 inches being recorded to date against a normal of 4 22 inches, j SIIFI'ILOV SIIOUTKI) I TV N' :' teC.xIt Widespread Unrest Reported BERLIN 'UP 'The West Berlin newspaper Telegraf said today a wave of strikes and antigovern ment demonstrations has hit the Soviet Union. The newspaper said reports of strikes and worker antigovern ment rallies extended from the Donetz River Basin in the Ukraine to the Urals and to Moscow. It said students demonstrated at the universities of Moscow, Reval and Vilna and that Foreign Min ister Dmitri Shepilov was shouted down and hisserl when he tried to sneak at the I'niwTsltv of Mnwnw against counter-revolutionary tendencies It said other parly officials were ; stl0u.d down in meetings at the universities of Reval and Vilna The newspaper also reported that Mme. Kkatarina Furtseva, woman candidate member of the Communist party politburo, bad to Open at Coca This safe at the Sulem Coca-Cola bottling plant was the victim of burglars who Tuesday night broke into four business houses. Here Coca-Cola plant owner Snlnt Elmo Mnsscngalc looks where bur glars chopped out tho bottom ol the safe and made off with $730. (Capital Journal Photo) Allen Asks Transfer to 'Ncwbers . .. ...... lomenamg mat naaio station KOCO has violated regulations of the federal Communtotions cum- mission, a petition has been filed with the commission for transfer of the station ch: inel to Newherg. The petition was filed by Gordon A"Cn, OWn(T OI 1(3(110 SMIIOn KGAY by Haley, Doty and Wnl lenberg, Washington, D C. legal firm. Seeks to Find Ownership Allen said Wednesday that he is seeking a determination of the ownership and operational control of KOCO, contending that this is not now a part of FCC records, i If a hearing is called, Allen said, and a law infraction found it might block the transfer of ownership of the station to Carl Fisher of Portland, who has ap plied for its acquisition. If this1 occurs, Allen continued, it might permit him to obtain the channel and move it to Ne berg which has no radio station. It. Lor ing Schmidt said Allen's move "is an effort to deprive Salem of a radio station". He said he was associated with the Salem Broadcasting company of which Fisher is associated. Channel Reassignment Sought Presently KOCO has an appli cation for reassignment of its channel, a routine filing required eery three years. This petition asks the commis sion to conduct an investigation of the present and past status of ownership of KOCO and asks whether control of he channel was transferred, without consent of Uic commission to the Kingwood Broadcasting Co., incorporated July 9, V.m with Beal Bedford, Hoy Harland and Tom B. Gabriel listed as incorporators. Harland, attorney for the new corporation, said "Loring Schmidt is the owner of KOCO and always hid been. Papers wore filed for the Kingwood Broadcasting coin- puny, and it was contemplated that ownership of the station would be taken over, but the deal never DOWN in Russia be escorted by police from the Moscow Kaganovich ball bearing factory. A strike took place at the fac tory after the Hungarian revolt started and Madame Furtseva went there in an effort to counter demands tor higher wages, the newspaper said. "The meeting hall turned Into a scene of complete chaos when in answer to a shout from the aud ience she had to admit she earned 20.000 rubles a month (M.Dno at the official rntcV the newspaper Jairl "Police only with effort were able to rescue her from the fori ous workers." It said reports of strikes and, spontaneous protest rallies of workers had come from the Don etz Basin and the urals and that 'dissatisfaction is spreading rap idly over the entire Soviet Union." A- - Cola Plant for KOCO ... . o was consumated. As n result the Kingwood Broadcasting company never actually came into exist ence as a corporate body." White Assures Salem Heights Of Cooperation Salem's Mayor Robert White as sured members of the Salem Heights Chamber of Commerce at meeting Tuesday night of the complete cooperation of the city of Salem in solving your problems and finding any answers you may desire. Mayor White made a surprise visit to the Chamber meeting after the organization had previously gone on record of incorporating a new city m order to immediately get needed services, particularly sanitary sewer system. Myron Butler, South Salem's representative on the Salem Chamber of Commerce board of directors, suggested formation of a committee with 10 members from each group to study problems con fronting South Salem fringe areas. Don Gardner, nresidenl of the South Salem chamber, requested ' Butler to nominate 15 candidates ; from which the suburban cham ber's directors will select If). A. Freeman Holrner, professor of political science at Willamette, who was the principal speaker, termed trie Chamber's proposal to start a new city a novel one "but not necessarily a bad one." Holrner noted that most subur ban growth problems had been solved by annexation or formation of new districts. Civic interest in the area in gaining needed improvements is still active and John Anderson, Marion county engineer will dis cuss a proposed sanitary dit-ict for the area at trie Salem Heights community hall at 8 p.m. Wednes day night. Two Reindeer Lead Cops on Weary Chase PORTLAND Ifl Two reindeer explored northeast Portland Wed nesday morning, starting In dark ness and leading police on a wearying chase. They got out of a pen In which they were kept as a pre-Chrlstmas attraction and finally eluded po lice in the darkness and fog near Sullivan's Gulch. Reports came to police from scattered areas One of them said a mother getting her children readv lor school was startled to see the animal striding up tnrougn the fog 1 -Iim Green, an automobile sales ; firm employe, got a lariat w rk- ing and captured one at 10 a. m. A little more than an hour later a policeman radioed headquarters to call off the hunt, that the lec- Jond one alio wat roped. Tear Gas Bomb Set Off at 1 Place ny MM'IIKN A. STONE Capital Journal Associate Editor - In a rash of burglaries Tuesday night, four Salem business places were broken into, nearly $1000 in -money taken and one safe carried ; away. At one place the burglars set off ! a tear gas bomb that was at ' tached to the safe for protective purposes, but It failed to thwart -the thieves. 4 Places Hit Broken Into were the Coca Cola Bottling Co., 1220 South 12th, ; where the biggest haul was made; the F. R. Bailey Grocery Store, 405 South Winter; the Valley Fruit & Produce Company, 292 South Lounge, wnose sale was taken away, and Davidson Baking Com pany, 1210 South 13th. All the break-ins are believed to have occurred between midnight and Wednesday morning. At the Coca Cola Bottling Co. the burglary was discovered by John Ferguson, a truck driver: eariy wcanesaay mornifg. The burglars had scaled the fence at the rear of the storage yard and attacked an electrically operated sliding door overhead, breaking out one of its panels. mov nam Inside the building they re moved the 1000-pound safe, despite its tear gas equipment, from the central office to the loading room. The combination was knocked off with a hammer, but didn't open the safe, so they turned it over and pried off the bottom plate which admitted them to the con- icnls whlch they scattered over the floor. Money taken totaled $730.36, some of it in sacks. The safe evi dently was moved from the office with a hand truck. The burglars pried open the Coca' Cola machine and a small amount of nickels was taken, and three bottles of Coca Cola which were drunk in the loading room. i'.xit was made by a door on the north side. Before leaving the Ihieves moved a filing cabinet from the front office and installed it luhnr. (ho eata Uaii hnnn Driver Finds Break-In At the Valley Fruit 4 Produce Company the break-in was dis- -covered by Julius Hilfiker, a driver, about 3:10 a.m. It was ' evident that the burglars had first ; tried to enter by climbing to the top of a parked company truck to reach a high window. Failing- -in this, they entered by tho main office door at tho west end of Ihc building by breaking a glass panel. The office safe, weighing 450 pounds, was wheeled by a com pany hand truck from the office to a store room, then out through the main door where it was loaded aboard a vehicle. Contained Files The safe contained all of the nfflA fila. anrf m.nnl. Kf 7Q In cash and a quantity of blank com pany checks. That they had tried to open the safc was indicated by its combina- ,mn wnicn was louna on me - noor. a lypewnier ws also car- ried away. A suspected car is said to have been near the place at 11:30 p.m. The F. R. Bailey grocery store at 405 South Winter St. was entered by breaking a window on the south fide. Only $2 in pennies taken (Continued on Page 5. Column 41 News in Brief Wcdnrsiluy, Dec. 19, 1956 NATIONAL Oil Maps Worth Mil lions Slulen . . Sec. 1, P. 1, 1 '. 1.000 B47s Fly 8.000 Miles Fact) Nonstop Sec. 1, P. X LOCALS , Four Salem Business Houses Burglarized Sec. 1, P. 1 Democrats Plan to Re tain t I yxfivl'.litra Officers Sec. 1, P. 8 j. STATE f PL'C Hearing Resumes On PTT Rate Boost Sec. 1, P. 1 Francis Won't Join Demos in Senate Vote Sec. 1, P. 1 I FOREIGN inou riicKS lonvcyea to U.S. by Nehru ...Sec. 1, P. 1 -Nixon Arrives in - Austria Sec. 1. P. 1 SPORTS South Salem Gains Re venge Sec. 1, P. 1 i Prothro Gets "Coach of Year" Honor Sec. S, P. a Royal Goes to Texas Sec. 2, P. 2 REGULAR FEATURES Amusements Kditorials Sec. I, P. a Sec. 1, P. 4 Sec. 1, P. 5 ' Sec. 1. P. 6 - Sec. 2, P. : Locals Society (o.nics Television Sec. 2, P. 7 Want Ads Sec. 2, P. , 10. 11 ' Markets Sec 2, P. ' Personal Problems ...Sec, 2, P. S (Vurannl Di .--1 Cm 1 T) . Home and Garden ....Sec. 2, P. I