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From Muunan, Korea;
"The communists today accused
the United Nullum command ol
dclayum a truce in Koren hv re
tuning lu iicuotlata further on prla
oner exchaiiKO, North Korean (Ion
eral Nnm I) aaaerlcd Uila moril
Iiiii: 'Vnur so-called acreenlUK of
our captured ucraonncl Is abaurd.' "
When you'ro dealing with crooks
you have to expect either crook
ed deul Oil A l''iUHT.
Thai'i about the long and the
short of tho tlurean true buslneos.
Just a reminder; -. ,
II wo wnd the hjrut upon tens
ut thousands ol prisoner back to
the cotnmlra, we'll be nendliiK the
tulk ol llicin to firing miuu.iI, aleve
labor campa and varloua other Jtrla
Iv devlcca the communliiU uae to
W't rid ol non-cotiiiiiuiilnUi.
iti don't think America hai sunk
it low.
From Waahlnttlon: ..,.,
"Claiming testimony AU.EOINO
and DKNVINO wide acale grail
and malpractice at huge U.S. air
baaes In French Morocco wan
marked today lor Juatlce depart,
ment inveillKatlon . . . Senator
Johnson (Democrat, Texaai aald
hla senate preparedness subcom
mlttre will hand a transcript of
the testimony to the department
of Juatlce for 'appropriate action.' "
"Appropriate action" would be
Pi.t n ..Arlurv l,MrN In a lot
ol these cases and In thete (leva
of amoan and counler-ameara,
chargea and counter-chargea. Ilea
and counter-lies i wins wo utw
nt Int nf iwtrttirv trlalll
llow are vou going to have good
government It people can I oe mane
to tell Hie truui f
But what about the department
el juatlce In Waaiimaionj
it h.i kron mixed ud In ao much
amearlng and counter-amearlng
thai I wouldn't have any faith In
it tf It DID hrlng perlury chargea.
I'd feel Inatlncilvel that It waa
jtut aUacklng It enemies ana cov
ering UD Its friend
lan'l thai an awful way to feel
about your government?
I'm not the only one who feels
..... t II Unaltln In At.
uiai way wm . ir--...
bnny i Oregon) laal night. Governor
warren 01 v-amurm miu.
..-th.. .n.LHiki-rlnn i In Wnfthlnv-
I lie
ton! la worn out. old and has lost
lla vision ana tomi ui
responsibility. Instead of solving
problems, the administration Is
-....ifiitm tham on end for someone
else to aolve. which mcana thejj
are leaving inrm lot vyr
That's putting 11 mildly bul AC
aJCORATELY. . . . .. nt..n f rllirNA Is
uovenwr ttv.. ' ------
a candidate for lite Republican
nomination for president.
" lie la The kind of man who wouM-
n't ay as a canoraam "
wouldn't say aa private eltten.
What ha aya-a a dJ' "r
as a private cltlen-be MLAN8.
I'm for Elsenhower who. I feel,
hsa the world-wide nB,0'
nrrtence and knowledge gained at
. a i A . uaa maa VIAttJ A at VL'ft
Ural nanci TV ... . ih.r.
never needed it be ore. But If Uiere
ahould be a oeauioi.
ventlon and Governor Warren
ahould emeree aa Republican
candidal I'd certainly feel that
"r ldershlo la In
honeat. sincere capable hands.
Oregon BPYs
To Meet Here
Over 400 delegates, stale officers
and visitors are expected to attend
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Registration will be at Uie Wll
lard Hotel, bedlnnlng at 1 p.m.,
and registration for delogates who
will vote closes at 10 a.m. Satur
day. The convention opens with a
board meeting Friday 3 p.m. at
the Pelican Cafe, and Uie first gen
eral meeting will be a 7:30 p.m.
dinner at the Willard. Following
the dinner there will be an enter
tainment at the Veterans Memor
ial Hall.
IIKillMOIITH . ,
Borne of the highlights of the
tnogrum are:
lantmdny morning, new club pres
ident's breakfast nt the Pelican:
buHlness scsMona and olectlon of
new atnto officers.
Saturday night, formal bnnqucl.
The guest speaker will be Miss
Hazel Palmer, Scdnlla, Mo BPW'a
nntlonnl public affairs chairman,
film Is ah uttorncy.
Sunday morning, past presidents
will bo honored, now officers in
itialled, citations and awards made.
Hon. Phil Hitchcock will bo tho
principal speaker.
. The convention will dcbnle on a
proposed new legislative platform,
which Includes tho subjects of reg.
iNtratlon and draft of women for
the armed services, support of uni
versal military training, equal pay
laws, Jury servlao for women, and
en equal rights amendment to the
Constitution,
NEW PRKHIDENT
MIhh Forn Trull of Ornnts Pass
Is Iho nominee for noxl atalo presi
dent; Laura York of Modford for
first vice president,
Mrs. Cocelln . P. Onley, Bweot
Ilnnic, In president of tho federa
tion now, and Mvn, F:diu Alhiecht
president of the Klamath Falls
BPW. Tliere are 5 clubs In the
2,800 total membership,,
Mrs,. Isabellc Brlxncr,. Is general
convention chairman, plhcr com
mittee leaden nro:
Rulh King, publicity! ' Ruth Lo
bnuuh. music: Wanda Elliott, Fri
day dinner; Beth OiIkks, Saturday
bahouet: Calhorlno Bi'iimbaugh,
Sunday bronkfivst; Dorothy Lowell,
hospitality; Blanche Fctroff, trans
portation; ImOReno Boothby,' ses
sions and election; Avis ' Mecon
ium, board meeting Riid'tea; Lyra
vl)ie Fish, registration; Mary
Backcs, Friday lun irhl. -,v.,(
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Graft Probe
On Airbases
Gets Hotter
WAHII1NOTON 11 Clashing
wlilo-si aln gralt and malpnictlce at
huko U. B. alrbasea In French Mo
roccci waa marked Thursday for
Junllco Depurlmcnt luvontlKatlon.
Ben. Johnson (D.-Tox.) announc
ed his Hrnute I'reonrednrss sub
eoinmlltee will hand a transcript of
the leatliiiony to the Justice De
partment "for appropriate action."
Johnson's grouu is exnlorlng
charges that corruption and mis
nianiiurmcul have added lens of
minimis to the co.it of the bases,
alartod aa a rush nrolrcl during a
war ii are In early days ol the Ko
rean fighting.
COST .
The five buses, rallmatrd lo col
between 300 and 413 million dol
lars, ultimately will be handed over
to the French government.
Thev were built bv Atlas Con
atructora. a combine of five con
tracting firms.
Two contractor bosses of the
big project accused four recent w)t
mroic of having given false testi
mony that corruption waa big-scale
and the Job grossly mismanaged.
J. 11 Bnnnv of Kllrnnburg. Wash,
and Lyman D, Wilbur, tho bosses,
denounced the four and also ol
leclrd to tratlmonv given bv E. V.
Hilgglns, assistant secretary nf the
Air Force, and Lt. Gen. Lewis A,
Pick, chief of Army Engineers.
CIIAI.I.KNtiKH
Thev described Muggins and
Plik aa mlalakrn. but challenged
the "veracity and credibility" of
Col. Ralph Reed, chief of Armv
audit: William J. Cassldv. a civil
ian auditor for the Armv: Joseph
Connolly, a former Inspector on
the Job. apd John W Leahv. whom
the contracting group had fired as
a minor official In I ho policy dis
pute Johnson ssld all six would have
a chance lo reply under oath.
Hnny vice president ol Morrl-aon-Knudsen
Co., Boise, Idaho, waa
one ol the principal witnesses dur
ing a heated committee aessinn
highlighted by charges Ihe congres
sional Inveatlgalora were "headline
hunting" to promote Johnton lor
President.
Bonny said he agreed with the
charges "In general" but later
withdrew Uie statement and apol-
OglMHl.
Johnson ralaed Ihe Issue when he
produced a copy ol Ihe Morrison
Knudaen Co.' house publication
and (Minted to an article which
charged Uie Alias Constructors had
been made "aeatlerehpt tarRcta" of
riolltlcal attack In congressional
nvcatlgatlona.
HSTMayGef
Oil Strike
DENVER Ml Refusal of 32
AKL. CIO and Independent oil In
dustry unions to call an end to
their week - old :itrlke may send
the wage dispute to President Tru
man. Tie President told his news con
ference thai he Is working hard to
get the strike sallied and la hope
ful an agreement will be reached.
The oil case has not vet reached
the White House officially, but all
slims Indicate It la headed tliere.
Truman aald he It not now con
sidering use of the Toft-Hartley
Act with It provisions for delay
ing strikes In essential lndustrv.
Tile Wage Stabilization Board
called a meeting for Thursday and
It seemed likely the board would
decide lo send the dispute to the
President, Chairman Nathan P.
Felnslnger of the board asked the
union coalition Tueadav to send Its
striking members bnck to work.
Meanwhile, offects of the atrlke
were Increasing. There has been a
30 per cent slash In high octane
gasoline available for commercial
airliners and private planes. The
Air Force has reduced training
flight hours.
Filling atatlon sunnlles are dwind
ling In some scattered locnles, par
ticularly around Chicago and Detroit.
4a'
9 A.M. DAYLIGHT SPECIAL caught Jean Wright, 2122
Reclamation, and Emma Wyatt, 617 Lincoln, on their way
to work this morning for the U. S. National Bank and
Realtor Everett Dennis, respectively.
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AMERICANIZED Egyp
tian dancer Samia GamnI
looks like any American
girl as she takes in the
desert sun at Las Vegas,
Nov., resort. She caused in
ternational stir when she
'married Shepard King, Tex
as oil heir.
Newell Prison
Chief Named
Lemuel Fox who will be aupcr
Intendcnl o the Newell Prison
Camp. Is a veteran of 23 years
with Ihe Federal Bureau ol Pris
ons In various capacities.
He started as correctional of
ficer at the Atlanta, Ga., prison In
1B30, and during hi career w
frtallotfed at 'Atlanta, -federal de
tention headquartera at New York
City, federal detention neaaquar
ters at New Orleans National Train
ing 8chool for Boys, Washington,
D. C, the Federal Correctional In
stitution, Milan, Mich.
In the early part of his career
he was promoted to lieutenant hi
the service, and then to captain.
At Milan he was assistant war
den. Other heads of departments to
be stationed at Newell arc Ed
ward R. Slmlnskl. captain, from
McNeil Island: Frank J. Smith,
chief clerk, from the U 8. peniten
tiary, Tene Haute, Ind.; Lawrence
H. Brown, mechanical superintend
ent, from McNeil: and Leo S. Nor
en, culinary superintendent, from
Alcatras prison.
The remaining camp personnel
were transferred to Newell lrom
other federal Institutions.
The Newell prison camp' la lo be
located on the site of the World
War II Jap camp, and about 100
federal prisoners are to be sent
tliere to rehabilitate the buildings.
A detachment li expected at tho
camp sometime this month.
The prisoners are to be short
time offenders selected for mini
mum security Institutions such as
the Newell camp will be.
Eight other camps of this typo
are operated by the Bureau of Pri
sons In various parts of the coun
try. James V. Bennett is director
of the Bureau of Prisons.
In other federal camps of tho
type, Inmates are used for such
work as road construction, lumber
operations and maintenance of gov
ernment property.
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States Hit
SEATTLE I Operations of
Northwest Orcyhound Lines buses
were tied up early Thursday as 1,
1 400 drivers nd other employes
wanted on uioir jods in a pay dis
pute. The latent walkout added three
more states lo the seven already
affected by a strike of Paclflo
Greyhound employes and raised
the number of dim company work
era on strike In the Pacific Coast
I region to nearly 6,000.
Representatives of Northwest
Greyhound management and the
AFL Motor Coach Employee Un-
IN KLAMATH
The Greyhound office here Is
cloard during the strike, but the
Bus Depot Is open mornings and
afternoon while Red Ball and
Trallwaya buascn are arriving
and departing.
Ion conferred right up to the mid
: night dradllne In Seattle last night
betrjre deciding they were hopeless
ly deadlocked. No further meetings
have been scheduled.
Tlie strike cut off bus transpor
tation lor thousands of paasenRers
In Washington and parts of Ore
gon, Idaho, Montana and Utah.
Borne 3,600 other employes of Pa
cific Greyhound, a separate com
pany, struck In California. Arizona.
Western Oregon and part of Ne
vada, Utah. New Mexico and Tex
as March 2. Negotiations to settle
that walkout still are being con
ducted In 8an Francisco.
Demands of employes In both
systems are similar, a company
spokesman said today. The work
ers are demanding a live day week
at the same pay formerly received
for alx days. Pay rale for em
ployes vary widely, depending on
Job, route and classification. Some
drivers receive $1.87 an hour, oth
ers are paid .0738 cents a mile.
Earnings vary because work weeks
route and mileage differ, accord
ins In J. n. Noelv. Northwest Grev-
bound Line spokesman. He said
h would- guas average .earnings
ranged around 1376 to (400
month.
PARALYSIS
The new atrlke paralyzes Grey
hound operations from Portland
to Belllngham, west to the Olym
pic Peninsula, east as far as
Butte, Mont., and to Seattle sub
urban areas. Most of these points
are served by no other bus line.
Also afleoted are Oregon Motor
Stages running mostly In the Wil
lamette Valley and Overland Grey
hound running between Portland
and Salt Lake City.
Pioneer Film
Producer Dies
NEW YORK William Fox,
73, a pioneer motion picture pro
ducer ana one - nine operaior oi
more than 360 theaters valued at
more than 100 million dollars, died
In Doctors Hospital Thursday.
Fox ran $1,600 Into a personal
fortune of 36 million dollars but his
moving picture empire crumbled
under the depression, creditors and
law suns.
He served a five - month term
In prison at the age of 63 on
charges of conspiring to obstruct
Justice and defraud Uie govern
ment. Ho was charged with giving mon
ey to a Pennsylvania Circuit Court
Judge to obtain favorable bankrupt
cy verdicts.
Tneda uara, me vampire, ana
Annette Kellerman, who made the
one-niece bathing suit famous,
wore among stars of his produc
tions
His own rags lo riches story was
as dramatic as any of Uie film
(let Ion ho presented.
Fox was born in Hungary. He
eniliniucd to the United States and
became a $17-a - week pants press
or on Now York's drab lower East
Side.
The refusnl of his boss to give
hi in a $3 rnlsc started him on his
tn unions movie career.
He quit the Ironing board and
bought a rundown nickelodeon in
Brooklyn wiUi his meager savings.
The dingy nickelodeon was the
forerunner of the Fox Films Cor
poration and the Fox Theaters Cor
poration. His first films were pro
duced at a studio In Fort Leo, N.J.
Later, his Hollywood studios pro
duced such well - remembered
films M "What Price Glory" and
"SevcnUi Hcavon."
Fair Trade
Laws Approved
WASHINGTON J,Pi The Hnuso
passed 1DB-10 Thuivdnv a nirnmira
giving federal sanction to state fair
iranc laws.
The measure now goes In the
Senate. ......
Tho bill nlvea federal approval
lo trade lawn of 46 slates which
permit retnllers and manufactur
ers to agreo on minimum selling,
prices for many fair-trade arti
cles.' .
The agreements bio binding on
non-signers as well as on signers.
The measure, sponsored bv Rep.
MoGiiire (D.-Conn.) was described
In testimony before House commit
tees alternately as a boon to small
business And an extortion on con-uumors.
s2k n
FIFTY CENT LIMIT Although only a few miles from
some of the world's largest oil refineries, Chicago gas
station attendant Peter Gaich limits sales to 50 cents as
the nationwide oil strike continues without a settlement
in sight. But, plane and auto travel has been sharply
reduced in the Great Lakes area because of the growing
gasoline famine.
Timber Strike Fading,
Se veral Mills Settle
Four mills In California, repre
sented by the Pine Industrial Re
lations Committee, have resumed
operation on wage settlements
with CIO woodworkers local unions.
and tne war-Ad-co plant nere also
Is back In operation on at least a
partial basis,
Klamath Basin Pine Mills here
Profits. High
On.Munitiohs
ASHLAND Wl Sen. Wavne
Morse R-Ore) said Wednesday
lhat munitions makers now are
getting higher profits, even after
taxes, than they did in World War
IL
He told students at Southern
Oregon College of Education that
he would like to see such profits
taken out of war.
Morse urged mors funds for air
plane production. He said Russia
is building four or five Jet fighters
lor every one built In tho U.S.
He told the students that a
nationwide orimary would elimin
ate the evils of machine politics.
The primary has fieed Oregon of
such machines, he said.
"If political machines ran things
In Oregon I wouldn't be nominated
for precinct committeeman," he
said.
Forger Jailed
For Sentence
John Nelson Aday, 37, of Tule-
lake, pleaded guilty in Circuit
Court Wednesday afternoon to a
charge of forgery, and was re
turned to the County Jail to await
sentence.
He was charged with forging the
name of a Malin rancher. Wood-
row W. Cuddy, to a check made
out for $160.
Aday. nicked un by City Police.
said in a statement he had signed
Cuddy's name to four checks, but
haun t cashed them. He admitted
serving a reformatory sentence In
California for passing bad checks.
Trapped Boy
Found Alive
SEASIDE l.fi A five-year-old
boy was found nsleop and un
harmed here Wednesday, three
hours after he became locked Ui
slde an abandoned refrigerator.
Pollco said Uie boy, Clifford
(Chipper) Monk, was saved from
asphyxiation because the rubber
gasket around the refrigerator
door was worn, pormittlng air to
enter.
Clifford was playing hlde-and-seck
near his home with Ronny
Campbell, also 5. He spotted the
abandoned refrigerator behind the
Peter Hansen home and slipped
inside. Ihe door snapped shut be
hind Mm.
The boy told police after his res
cue that he yelled and screamed
and boat on the door until he was
cxhnusted. Then he cried himself
to sleep.
When his mother, Mis, Charles
Monk, missed him she called po
lice about 3 p.m. Clifford's play
mate could otter no ncip since ne
hadn't seen the boy hide. Police
searched a wide area.
When Mrs. Hansen lfeard of the
search about 8 p.m. she thought
of the abandoned refrigerator. In
side, cramped in a compartment
15 inches deep, IB Inches wide and
2G Inches high, she found Clifford
asleep.
' ,. mm i immi 3-m
remains down because of the strike
of CIO woodworkers, now nearing
the end of its second week.
The bUr Ralph L. Smith Lumber
Company at Anderson, Calif., em
ploying some 600 persons was one
of Uie four plants in California to
resume work today.
The plant management settled
with the local CIO union, giving
uie worxers a cent pay in
crease, three additional paid holi
days and a 3-cent night shift dif
ferential Increase. :
Other settling were, the Graeagle
Lumber Company. Graeaele. Calif -
Jarler-WebstersJohnson, Delleker.
cam.: and the Redding Forest
Products Company, Redding. All
were on the same basis. The four
mills employed a total of nearly
1,000 persons.
NO COMMENT
Neither the Car-Ad-Co manage
ment nor officials of the woodwork
ers union could be reached for com
ment this morning, but a reliable
source said that 69 men have re
turned to work at Car-Ad-Co. The
plant employes around 100. There
was no settlement.
Representatives of the National
Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
were in Klamath Falls today for
a meeting with union officials and
Car-Ad-Co employes at the Federal
Building.
Death Claims
Mrs. Victorin
Mrs. Elizabeth Victorin. one of
the original Czech colony which
settled Uie Malin area, died this
morning at Hillside Hospital. She
was 81 years old.
She had been in the hospital
for two days and had been bed
ridden at home most of the winter.
Survivers include two sons,
Frank and Tony, both of Malin.
Her husband, Joseph Victorin, died
in 1940.
Mrs. Victorin was born at Mel
nick, Czechoslovakia, in 1871, and
came to the United States with
her husband In 1900. Nine years
later they settled at Malin. takuig
up an 80-acre homestead. She had
resided in this county 42 years.
Funeral services are scheduled
for Saturday, a p.m. at Ward's
Funeral Home.
COUNTING A VICTORY Senator Richard B. Russell of
Georgia (left), with Georgia's senior Senator, Walter F.
George looking on, counts returns in his Washington,
D. C., office from the Florida presidential primary. Sen
ator Russell gave Senator Estes Kefauver his first de
feat, winning over the Tcnnesseean by a narrow margin. ,
U.S; Planes
In Record
War Attack
SEOUL, Korea Ifl Dav-long
waves of American planes, In the
biggest air raid of the Korean War.
turned a major Communist supply
base "into billowing flames awl
smoke" Thursday, the U.S. Fifth
Air Force reported.
The Air Force said the dawn to
dusk rain of high explosives, roc
kets, lellied gasoline fire bombs
and machinegun bullets destroyed
1B5 supply buildings and damaged
CI.
American and Australian let
planes screening :he raiders shot
down two MIO-15 Jets and dam
aged another, the Air Force added.
LOADED
Target of the mass raid was
Suan 36 miles southeast of Pyong
yang, North Korean capital. Suan
is a feeder ooint to Chinese troops
on the Western Front. Air Force
photos had shown the area literally
loaded with trucks and military
supplies heavily guarded by anti
aircraft guns.
Jets and propeller driven planes
drawn from four wings made well
over 300 Individual attacks. Uie Air
Force said.
Thev "tore the Communist sup
plies to shreds," a communique
said. "Thousands of gallons of
fiery napalm (jellied gasoline)
were spread over the target, turn
ing piles of supplies into billowing
flames and smoke."
HARD HIT
F-80 Shooting Stars opened the
attack at dawn.
"We hit Uie enemy flak (anti
aircraft) positions and hit them
hard." said Lt. William N. Wright
of Sebring, Fla. "We just walked
right down their lines of tracers
with our machinegun bullets to
score hits first. A lot of their guns
suddenly cult."
Then came waves of F-84 Thun
derlets. more Shooting Stars, pro
peller driven Mustangs, and Mar
ine Pantherjets, Sky Raiders and
Corsairs.
'The'lead flight Set, roaring jBrea
and smoke really, po.ured up," said
lv Thomas b; ipgrassia, mun
derjet pilot lrom New Orleans.
'We followed that flight in and
plowed right through the smoke
columns to get at cur target."
Former Local
Woman Dies
Word has been received here of
the death May 6 in Roseburg of
Mrs. E. C. (Lu) Adams, long
time resident of Klamath Falls.
Mrs. Adams and Ami Lander.
now with LaPointe's, operated the
Empire Hotel in the late 20's and
later purchased the Gertrude Hat
Shop, doing business under the
neme Lu-Ann Hat Shop.
Mr. and Mrs. Adams lived for
many years In the Marion Apart
ments. Adams was a well known
Southern Pacific conductor. They
left here about five years ago.
She was born Lulu BeU Gilvin,
member of a pioneer Roseburg
family.
Surviving besides her widower
are a sister, Mrs. Kate Tvnan and
two brothers Harrv and Dick GU
vin. all of Roseburg.
Private funeral services Thurs
day were followed by cremation.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Mostly rloudy with a few showers
Thursday. Partly cloudy Thursday
night and Friday. Hi eh today 55,
llow tonight 35; high tomorrow 60.
Low last night 34
;Preclp yesterday 65
i Since Oct. 1 14.98
! Normal for period 10.46
'Same period last year 14.24
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POWs Hold
Commander
As Hostage
PUSAN, Korea, Friday, May
i.fl Red prisoners of war on
Koje Island seized the American
general commanding the prison
Wednesday and are stlU holding
him Inside the stockade.
In announcing early today the
capture of Brig. Gen. Francis T.
Dodd. 62. the U.S. Eighth Army
said another officer was seized at
the same time but escaped.
The Army said a note In Dodd's
handwriting had been received. In
dicating he was not harmed, but
Information In this provisional cap
ital of South Korea was that Uie
note was several hours old.
Its contents had not been dis
closed. The officer who escaped
was not identified.
The island prison Is 28 air miles
southwest of Pusan off the South
Korean coast.
VIOLENCE
Koje Island has been the scene
of two violent prison disorders this
year. On Feb. 12, 19 persons were
killed in an uprising by Red pris
oners In notorious "Compound 62."
On March 13, 12 prisoners were
killed when anti-Communist and
Communist prisoners engaged la a
rock-fight.
Dodd. who was deputy chief of
staff of the U.S. Eighth Army, took
command at noje alter uie 1-eDru-ary
riot.
The fact that the general had
been captured by prisoners was
known in tnis provisional South Ko
rean capital several hours before
it was announced.
SEIZURE
Correspondents were not allowed
to go to Koje to Investigate, and a
tight censorship was clamped on
the Island.
Soldiers (not otherwise Identified
in this dispatch) said Dodd and
his companion were walking near
Uie stockade when prisoners sud
denly seized uiem.
On AprU 26, Uie Army announced
that lt was moving all anti-Communist
or non-Communist prisoners
to six new camps on the mainland.
leaving only about 70,000 die-hard
Reds on Koje. Whether the move
had been completed waa not dis
closed.
Dodd was named deputy chief of
staff of Uie Eighth Army on Feb.
6, but only one week later was
sent to Koje to take command be
cause of Uie riot there.
Alter uie March riot, Gen. James
A. Van Fleet, Eighth Army com
mander, said the Reds '.'take ad
vantage of our good treatment."
PREVENTATIVES . - ." v ';.
steps had been taken to prevent
further disorders and that all polit
ical signs had been removed from
Uie Reds' camps. - . ,
The shift of non-Communist pris
oners to Uie mainland followed a
"rescreening" of those who did and
those who did not wish to return
to Communism in the event of a
Korean truce.
Deficit Said
Overestimated
WASHINGTON Wl Congres
sional tax experts calculated
Thursday that President Truman's
budget overestimated this year's
government deficit by two and a
half billion dollars and next year's
by $2,700,000,000.
Figures prepared by the staff of
the Joint Committee on Internal
Revenue Taxation indicated that
treasury receipts would be some
what lower than the budget esti
mate submitted In January, i
that actual spending would be down
even more.
As a result, the Joint Commit
tee looks for a deficit of $5,700.
000,000 in the current fiscal year
(ending June 30) instead of Uie
$8,200,000,000 estimated in the bud
get, and an $11,700,000,000 deficit
in the 1953 fiscal year beginning
next July 1, instead of $14,400,000,
000. -
For the 1952 fiscal year, Uie Pres
ident's budget estimated receipts
of $62,700,000,000 and expenditures
of $70,900,000,000; the Congression
al experts put the income at $61,
30,00,000 and Uie outgo at 67 bil
lions. For fiscal 1953, the budget fig
ured receipts of 71 billions and ex
penditures of $85,400,000,000; the
Jo nt Committee staff $68,300,000,
900 income and 80 billions outgo.
"The budget Is dominated by
the defense expenditures and for
some months these have been run
ning below the estimates," the staff
report explained.
It is highly unusual for Uie Joint
Committee Jtafl to guess Income
at a lower figure than tne trea
sury, which .nas consistently under
estimated total receipts.
The staff report said, however,
it was evident that the budget es
timates were prepared on a some
what higher level of national In
come than that used by the staff,
297 Absentee
allots Out
A total of 297 -absentee ballots
tor the May 16 primary election
had been distributed by the County
Clerk's office through this morn
ing.
Countv Clerk Charlie DeLap said
that no more would be mailed out
prior to the election, but that per
sons who are coins to be ab
sent from the county election day
may still vote at tne uierk s of
fice. MOCK CONVENTION
SALEM W Delegates from 12
Oregon collegts and universities
will attend Willamette University's
mock Republican convention, open- .
Irnr at 3 p.m. Friday with an ad
dress by Harold E. Stasscn.