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By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Oregon's two
o senators in the new 84th Con
gress, Wfyne Morse and Rich
ard L. Neuberger, are expected
to be projected to the forefront
a of the dominant political fight
o now shaping up as far as the
entire west is concerned fight
for control of Hells Canyon and
the future of western reclama
tion development
This is assured by the out
come of a secret meeting held
lier last week by the incoming
Democratic chairman of the
o Senate and House Interior com
mittees, Sen. James E. Murray
of Montana and Rep. Claire
Engle of California.
Murray and Engle agreed on
O a plan to tie together four big
irrigation-power projects into
one major reclamation omnibus
bill. Hells Canyon dam, as long
designed by the Bureau of Rec
lamation for construction in the
Snake river, is one of the pro
jects. .
Seek United Front
Object of the Murray-Engle
agreement is to gain as united a
front as possible among western
solons for legislation that would
include projects which in them
selves might never be authoriz
ed separately due to sectional
strike concerning them. 0
Neuberger and Morse, who
are the stoutest advocates of a
high federal dam instead of three
low head dams as proposed by
Idaho Power Co., in Hells Can
yon, have already announced
they have planned a joint drive
to get the big dam approved.
Congressional authorization of
the project would block the
Boise power company from get
Soviets Expected To
Free Two Americans
Without1 Any Strings
Moscow U.R) A U.S. Em
bassy spokesman said today he
expects the Soviet Union to free
two jailed Americans momentar
ily without any strings at
tached. The spokesman said the So
viet Union promised to inform
the embassy as soon as the men
John H. Noble, 31, Detroit,
Mich., and William T. Marchuk,
38, Brackenbridge, Pa. are re
leased. In informing the embassy last
Thursday night of its intention
(to free the two Americans, the
Soviet Union brought up the is
sue of 11 children held by
American e authorities in West
Germany and the United States.
Condition Not Listed
Release of the children, who
the Soviets claim are of Russian
nationality, was. not listed by
- the Soviet Union as a condition
for the release of the two jailed
Americans. e .
Three of therchildreri now live
in othe United States. They are
the children of an Armenian
who was deported by the Soviet
Union. A New York court ruled
recently they should not be sent
back to Russia because they are
American citizens.
O The embassy spokesman" said
the Soviet Foreign office said in
b note that "there had been a
favorable decision in the cases
of Marchuk and Noble and that
they would be released in Ber
lin." Cases Brought Up Previously
During the past year the
"United States has brought up
the cases of Noble, Marchuk and
b thir jailed American, William
A. Verdin of Starks, La., five
times.
The embassy spokesman said
the Soviet note said there was
"no information" available on
Witnesses Refuse
McCarthyTestimony
u Washington (U.R) Several
balky witnesses refused to testi
fy today before Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy's Permanent . Investi
gating Subcommittee.
McCarthy held.an all-day hear
ing in what he termed his "swan
eong" as chairman of the sub
committee. The Wisconsin Republican told
cne of the witnesses he thought
it was another attempt to "de
lay" the work of the subcommit
tee until Democrats organize
the incoming Senate later this
week.
McCarthy and Sen. John L.
McClellan (D-Ark.) who expects
to succeed McCarthy as chair
man, promised that the group
will consider contempt action
against Edwin Garfield of All
Eton, Mass.
Cases Continued
Garfield did not appear but
telegraphed the subcommittee
that he had been unable to ob
tain an attorney.
Two other witnesses appeared
and made the same plea.' At
McClellan's suggestion, both
were continued tinder commit
tee subpena.
ting the license it seeks fromtposal in 1950, too near the end
the Federal .Power commission
for the low dams.
Besides high Hells Canyon
dam, the projects agreed on by
Murray and Engle, who are now
the two most powerful members
of Congress in their field, are:
Conservationists Object
1. Upper Colorado storage
involves power and irrigation
development for Utah, Colora
do, Wyoming, New Mexico and
Arizona. Has support of admin
istration and Republican solons
of mountain states, despite big
fight from conservationists who
oppose Echo Park dam which
would partially flood Dinosaur
National Monument. Even Sen.
Eugene Millikin (R-Colo.), out
going chairman of Senate Irri
gation subcommittee, could not
push the bill through this past
Congress.
2. Trinity river-San Luis com
bined project involves pro
viding added water for Calif
ornia's Central Valley project.
Like Colorado project, it has
wide GOP backing but moun
tain states Republicans say they
won't support it unless Californ
ia gets behind their Upper Colo
rado project.
3. Yellowtail dam a Montana-Wyoming
border dam de
signed to give central Montana
more irrigated farmland. Just
as Trinity river is Engle's pet,
this is Murray's favorite item
in the package.
Boosts Hells Canyon Chances
. Agreement to wrap Hells Can
yon up in this package bill is
expected to boost the chances of
congressional approval of the
high dam to a new mark. Iron
ically, the hifh dam was first
introduced in a package pro-
Verdin's case but that since
there was no denial that he was
being detained it was considered
possible he also may be released
soon.
Marchuk, an American sol
dier, was listed as absent with
out leave following his disap
pearance in Berlin in 1949.
Noble, a civilian, and his fa
ther were arrested in Dresden,
Germany in 1945. Noble's father
later was released by the So
viets. Solicitors Bilk
Farmer at Banks;
Charge Pending
Hillsboro, Ore. (U.R) Three
magazine salesmen who wrote
up a $493 subscription order for
a Banks, Ore., farmer who was
unable to read the check he
signed will probably be charged
with felony here today, accord
ing to Washington County Dis
trict Attorney . James K. Gard
ner.
Salesmen Named
The salesmen, who are being
held here for investigation, are
Thomas Edward Sanborn, 24-year-old
transient; Gene Allan
Davis, 22, Greenacres, Wash.,
and Richard J. James Artlip,
22, Grand Rapids, Mich. .
Police arrested the three in
Portland Saturday -night after
78 -year -old Albert Schwetzer
said he had been duped into
signing checks totalling $493 for
$4.93 worth of magazines.
Schwetzer said he purchased
the subscriptions from Sanborn
and Davis last Friday after they
told him they were Korean vet
erans. He asked them to make
out the checks since his eyesight
was poor.
Fraud Attempt Fails
Artlip approached him Sat
urday, Schwetzer said, and it
tempted to get him to sign a
$170 check for $1.70 in sub
scriptions. Artlip was, unsuccess
ful in the fraud attempt, but he
obtained from the farmer the
receipts given the day before
by Sanborn and Davis.
James L. Sterling, West Coast
representative of the Union Cir
culation Gpmpany who came to
Portland from Los Angeles, said
the $493 would be returned to
Schwetzer. He said Sanborn and
.Davis, whom he described a.r
r' 'mediocre salesmen," had cash
ed the checks and turned the
money over, to their crew man
ager. .
Ex-School Teacher Gives
Formula for Long Life
Rink'erode, Germany (L'.R)
Ella Esser, a former school
teacher who celebrated her 104th
birthday here New Year's Day,
revealed her formula for longevi
ty: "Three cups of coffee and a
shot of cognac, every day, rain
or shine."
Use Mail Tribune Want. Ada
Monday, January 3, 1953
of the 81st Congress to have any
chance of being considered by
both houses. It ran into a juris
dictional dispute among Demo
crats in the Senate. Also it was
handicapped by opposition to a
Columbia Basin account system
which was part of. the package
bill, and drew sharp fire from
Sen. Guy Cordon (R-Ore.).
It came up again in 1952,
when the House Interior com
mittee held hearings. But again
time ran out before a vote was
A Nkhol's Worth tf ...
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN
United Press
- Washington U.R) I got what
I've always wanted for Christ
mas, a Stanley Steamer automo-
1 This wasn't
a real one. it
was a 69 cent
3 iyioHpI vnn have
Hi tn PliiA togeth
er. A" sort of a
quick construc
tion kit. The
American
Automobile as
sociation head-
Harman Nichol quarters here
has some 25 of these tiny mod
els in a show-case in the lobby
of their new building.
My Steamer is a 1909 job.
Also in the AAA exhibit are
1903 Cadillacs, a 1910 replica of
the model T Ford, a 1911 Rolls
Royce, and cars the very young
among us never heard of, like
the 1904 Rambler, the 1910
Pierce Arrow, not to mention a
few others like .the . 1914 Stutz
Bearcat, the 1908 Buick. .
All are fine machines, of
course.
Not Too Handy
But mine would be the best
of the model lot if I could get
the plastic pieces assembled.
I'm about as handy as a left
footed elephant when it comes
to putting things .together. The
people who make tnese pieces
Pope Appeals for
True Peace Rather
Than Co-Existence
Vatican City (U.R) Pope
Pius XII appealed to the world
in a delayed Christmas message
today to work for a true peace
rather than aeco-existence based
on fear or error.
In his annual message .to the
world, the Pope asked the
statesmen of the free nations
to show greater confidence in
themselves.
He appealed again for unifi
cation of Europe in what Vati
can quarters considered one of
th most important speeches of
his 16-year reign.
Motivation Cited 0
The Pope did not rule out
coexistence as an instrument of
peace but he cautioned it would
work only if it was motivated
by truth rather than fear or
error.
After detailing the great risk
of war entailed in . co-existence
based on fear or error, the Pope
turned to the third part of his
7,000-word message on "co-existence
in truth." .
Bridge of Peace Hoped -
"Although it is a sad thing to
note that the present rupture of
the human race took place, in
the beginning, between men who
knew and adored the same sav
ior, Jesus Christ, still there, ap
pears to us to be a well founded
hope that, in His name too, a
bridge of .peace may yet be
built . between the opposing
shores, and the common bond so
sadly broken, be reestablished.
"There is, in fact, some hope
that . today's coexistence may
bring mankind closer to peace.
"In order, however, that this
expectation be justified, such co
existence must, in some way be
a coexistence in etruth."
Military Ordered
To End Segregation
Washington (U.R) Military
officials vfere under orders to
day to use the quick rather than
the gradual approach to ending
segregation in schools for chil
dren of military personnel.
The Defense. Department said
it will push ahead with plarjs
to lift the color bar in all mili
tary post schools "as .soon as
practicable" and not later than
Sept. 1 despite Supreme Court
delay oji the overall segregation
problem.
The high tribunal has not is
sued a decree yet on how 05
when segregation of white and
Negro public school students
should be ended and has sched
uled new hearings on the ques
tion. , The Justice Department has
advocated a local approach with
fderal courts determining the
time and manner of integration.
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taken. During the recent. Repub
lican 83rd Congress, bills auth
orizing tKe high dam were nev
er dealt with by committees of
either house. If the. Murray
Engle plan -is implemented, it
would give Hells Canyon advo
cates the full two-year length of
the 84th Congress to carry
through with their drive for en
actment of the bill but they
are planning toturn on the
speed in hopes of heading off a
possible FPC decision in favor of
Idaho Power Co.
W. NICHOLS
Feature Writer
tell you fhat you can "easily
build one of these models in an
hour." It adds, I hope in fun,
that these "authentic 3s scale
inch cars of bygone ,days will
bring hours of fun for young
and old."
Here are some of the instruc
tions: o
Place wheels oh axles. Hold
axle carefully over an open
flanfe. I used a cigaret lighter
and overdid it. There went two
wheels.
Slide steering column into
slot in floorboard on right side
of body (see drawing). The
drawing didn't reveal much.
And for lack of a slide column,
which I didn't recognize on
sight, another operation was
lost.
Tougher and Tougher
Iasert rear axle in right side
of body. That shouldn't have
been too difficult, but somehow
it never got done. .
And so it went. From front
fender to left side of body to
position on right side while I
applied more and more glue.
Place steering wheels in the
hands of figure after paint is
dry, the instructions wound up.
I didn't bother to paint, so I
didn't fuss around putting the
steering thing in the hands of
figure.
"Now your model is complete
and ready for the den or office,"
the instructions say.
. Well, my model isn't ready for
anything. I have a few missing
parts, which I probably lost on
the way home. I also have a few
things like the rear axle and
the side lamps and the "uphol
stery" left over.
Agriculture Student
Trainee Jobs Open
United States Civil Service
uexaminers are accepting appli
cations for Department of Agri
culture student trainees in the
fields of soil conservation, agri
culture and civil, soil science,
and range conservation at sal
aries of from $2,750 to $3,175 a
'year.
Appropriate education toward
a bachelor of science degree in
one of the four indicated options
is - required. . Applicants must
have, reached their 18th birth
day, but must not have passed
their 35th birthday at the time
of filing their applications.
Applications must be on file
with the Executive Secretary,
Field Board of U. S. Civil Ser
vice Examiners, U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Seventh
Floor, Eastern Building, "515
S.W. 10th ave., Portland 5, Ore.
Furtfier information may be ob
tained from Chester W. Silli
man, local secretary for the
commission, at his offices in the
Medford post office building.
Added Scenicruiser
Service Announced
. Greyhound Lines, which is
now operating 8 Scenicruisers
from Medford to Los Angeles
and Seattle, announced, today
that effective Jan. 1, the "revo
lutionary motor coaches" start
ed operating with .increased
daily service between, those cit
ies. According to Greyhound, no
extra fare is being charged for
any of the Scenicruiser service
from Medford.
The Scenicruiser is a 43-pas-senger
motor coach with a rais
ed level for improved sightsee
ing through six-foot windows of
tinted, glare-resistant giass, The
40-foot length of the bus makes
possible the inclusion of com
plete lavatory facilities.
One of Puerto Rico's sportiest
golf courses has been developed
froi the moats and parade
grounds of a 400-year old Span
ish fort that guards the entrance
to San Juan harbor.
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Commodity Price
Rise Antedated
Wall Street Boom
New York (U.R) The com
modity price rise in 1954 ante
dated Wall Street's stock mar
ket boom by at 4east four
months.
Coffee, cocoa, cotton, grains
and metals spearheaded a rise
which culminated in a late sum
mer peak. Speed behind the
stock market rise developed aft
er the November elections.
?The commodity futures index
reached its peak in late July,
rising 10 per cent from the Janu
ary start, then gave up about
half of the rise in the late Fall,
when speculative attention
switched to securities.
Lessening, of immediate inter
national political tensions, and a
fading out of business depres
sions fears, cleared the picture
for the December analysts peer
ing ahead to the New Year.
Composite View
The composite view, of can
vassed market experts summed
up this way:
Without wars to inflate com
modity prices, and without a
business depression to deflate
values, "stability is likely to
hold on raw and finished prices
in 1955."
Deeper digging statisticians
emphasized the long period sta
bility in the Department of La
bor wholesale price index, meas
uring the trend of 1,900 commo
dities in the raw and finished
state.
That measure in the past two
years swayed within the narrow
range of 109.4 .and 111.1 (1947
49 100). Inference drawn from
the dial on the Bureau of Labor
Statistics gauge was ,that the
price level apparently has
weathered the risks of abnormal
inflation or reflation, and that
effective merchandising will be
the prime requirement for new
busness hereafter barring any
untoward international political
events.
Spectacular Year
For Building Seen
By Business Heads
New York (U.R) Predictions
that 1955 will be the moft spec
tacular building year in Amer
ican history, gave the nation's
business leaders a bedrock of
optimism as they entered the
new year. .
.Industry spokesmen said ex
penditures for new construction
might reach $40,000,000,000 in
1955, a figure equivalent to $250
for each man, woman and child
in the United States. ,
Shew of Strength
The dynamic construction in
dustry, a mainstay of the Amer
ican economy, put oh a brilliant
show of strength in 1954, a year
when some other key industries
were feeling the pinch of ad
justment. Construction expenditures in
1954, marking the ninth con
secutive yearly increase, rose
to a new all-time high of $36,
500,000,000. This was four per
cent above 1953's outlay of $34,
700,000,000. . These totals exclude expendi
tures for additions, alterations
and maintenance of existing
structures. Approximately $20,-
000,000,000 will be spent for
these purposes , next year, bring
ing 1955's total expenditures to
around $60,000,000,000, .accord
ing to the experts.
New housing starts in 1955
may reach 1,250,000 units to
rank as the second highest year
in history, trailing the 1,400,000
starts of 1950.
Harold R. Berlin, vice-presi
dent, of Johns-Manville Co., pre
dicted that spending for private
residential new construction
would rise to $15,000,000,000 in
1955; non-residential would re
main around. $12,500,000,000,
and public construction would
grow to $12,500,000,000.
Sixth of Expenditures
Berlin, said total construction
expenditures next year will ac
count for one-sixth of all the
money spent for goods and serv
ices in 1955.
. Thomas S. Holden, executive
vice-president of F. W. Dodge
Corp., construction news and
marketing firm, said 1954's rec
ord volume reflected "the
mounting demand pressures
from rapid population growth
and high productivity of the
economy."
"Current record-breaking con
struction volumes are no more
than keeping pace with current
demands for, most classes of
structures," he added.
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Crime Wave of 1954
May Be Statistical
Illusion, Article Says
New York The U.S. "crime
wave" of 1954 may be a statisti
cal illusion, Fortune magazine
reports after a city-by-city study
of crime records. '
Fortune states flatly that or
ganized crime has practically
disappeared in the U.S. within
the last decade or two. The ap
parent recent rise in "everyday"
crime may be explained by im
provement in police recording,
the magazine says.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover,
in his 1954 semiannual report J
noted that "major crimes had
risen 8 per cent over the com
parable period in 1953.
Reports Faked
"Mr. Hoover's statement was
based on crimes reported to the
FBI by municipalities," Fortune
says. "But local police frequent
ly fake their reports.
"In Philadelphia, Police Com
missioner Thomas J. Gibbons,
who assumed office in 1952,
found that for years records had
been distorted in order to mini
mize the ameunt of crime in the
city. One center-city district in.
one month handled o.uuu more
complaints than it had recorded.
When a new central reporting
system was installed, the num
ber of 'crimes' went up from
16,800 in 1951 to 28,600 in 1953
on the record an increase in
'crime' of over 70 per cent.
Similar Situation
"In New York a similar, fak
ing had gone on for years. In
1950r the number of property
crimes reported by the police
Celebrant Yanks Phone;
Ends Up on Drunk Charge
Huntington, W. Va. (U.R)
Calvin L. Dillon, 25, of Brad-
rick, O., was stopped by police
Sunday as he walked down the
street carrying a telephone in
his hand.
He told police he disconnected
the phone, when his wife ob
jected to his going out to cele
brate the New Year and threat
ened to call the police if he did.
Dillon was booked on a
drunkenness charge.
First Los Angeles
Drunk Shows Up Early
Los Angeles U.R) Desk Sgt
Michael Sherry wondered when
the first drunk would be booked
in.
At exactly 12:01 a.m. New
Year's Day, Rex Moore, 42,
staggered through the precinct
doors shouting: " ''.'"
"Happy New Year! I'm "here
and I'ni drunk. You better put
me in jail."
Sherry booked him.
You may discover that your records are not
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IS YOUR INVESTMENT
PROGRAM GEARED FOR '55?
Your financial program does not necessarily
change.from day to day but your investments
do. They should be re-examined periodically
to see that they are in keeping with your invest
ment aims. Many securities have al
ready realized their expected growth
in price . . . while the price of others
has not yet begun to reflect their true -value.
You should never make a de
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We will be glad to analyze your
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Also offices in V; Portland. Salem Eugene Hood
was about half those investigat
ed by insurance companies. Fol
lowing a survey by police ex
pert Bruce Smith, a new system
of central recording was install
ed. In 1952 assaults rose 47 per
cent, robberies 73 per cent, and
burglaries 118 per cent over
1951 figures.
In the last three years the
Middle Atlantic States have
shown startling statistical in
creases for all major offenses.
But New York and Philadelphia
account for 53 per cent of the ur
ban population covered by the
reports Do we . then have a
crime wave, or a 'statistical re
porting' wave?"
Top Police Departments
On the basis of sound adminis
trative structure and efficiency
in their police departments, Cin
cinnati, Milwaukee, Detroit, Los
Angeles, and St. Louis are cities
with "the highest marks," For
tune says.
In general, progress is being
nade toward greater police
efficiency:
The reorganization of the
New York and Philadelphia po
lice, the management surveys
of police in St. Louis, Cleveland,
and Boston, to name only a few,
all indicate a healthy concern
and the introduction of more
efficient methods."
Rackets In Eclipse
organized racketeering in
America is "in eclipse," Fortune
asserts.
Today, there is some reason
to believe, there is not one
J or city wiln regularly operating
prostitution circuits. Prostitution
has not been erased, but as an
organized business (a chain
operation with protection) it has
largely gone out of U.S. life.'
The nationwide crackdown on
the use of telephone and tele
graph facilities to disseminate
racing information, and the in
tervention of federal agents, dis
rupted bookmaking from coast
to coast: "Perhaps the only large
city in the country-where book
making still flourishes relatively
openly is Boston. V.
Racketeering Decline!
Fortune calls the labor-racket
picture "pale" today compared
with two or three, decades ago,
pointing out that. although some
corruDtion has spread (as in
union welfare funds) racketeer
ing itself has declined.
In cases where racketeers and
extortionists directly dominated
unions the rackets have' been
busted and the union leaders
sent to prison. Fortune says that
.today there are comparatively
few "racket locals" that oper
ate by shaking down small em
ployers or signing "sweetheart
agreements" to keep out legiti
mate unions.
This is an appropriate time
to take a look at your
investment program...
present. .and future.
Y 1955 V
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Hooded Bandits Rob
Tavern Proprietor
Vancouver. Wash. (U.R) Two
hooded " bandits armed with a
sawedoff shotgun held up
Louie's Tavern on highway 99
east, just north of Vancouver,
early Sunday and escaped with
an undetermined amount or
money.
Tavern owner Louis J. Tisso
said one robber held the shot
gun while the other tied -him.
up and dragged him to a rest
room. After smashing several,
lightbulbs, the robbers escaped '
with Tisso's New Year's week
end receipts.
Tisso was alone in the tavern
when the bandits struck, but
finally managed to cut himself
free with a pocket knife.
CALENDAR BUSINESS GOOD
St. PauL Minn. U.R) An ad
vertising firm made the long
range forecast today that 1956
will be a good year for business.
Brown and Bigelow based its
prediction on advance sales of
nearly $9,000,000 worth of 1956
calendars.
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