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apit al AJ 011 mal THE WEATHER. FAIR TONIGHT, Increasing cloud. Iness Friday with few light show, era by late afternoon or evening. Slightly warmer. Low tonight, 12; high Friday, S4.

4 SECTIONS (48 PAGES) 67th Year, No. 64 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 17, 1955 9J0 us8ri3 JUL FINAL DINNER OF THE YALTA CONFERENCE Publication of Secret Yalta Data Foments Controversy hurrhill fov 7uce Chief Disclose Stalin's Blames Israel For Massacre Threats Forced US Concessions Yalta Data Not Oilicial Report UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. MV- IS Peterson Tells Government's Farm Policies Former Oregon Official Blames Artificial Prices By JAMES D. OLSON Development of the broadest attainable markets and the highest attainable income lor farm products is the principal aim of the United States Department of Agriculture according to E. L.

Peterson, former stale director of agriculture and now assistant secretary of agriculture. "In the past we have built up-Unneeded stocks of farm products while shrinking our markets," Peterson said. "Continuation of artificial farm prices has got us into the present farm difficulties." The former state official said that his department is endeavoring to balance farm productions with usable and attainable markets, adjustments that will require some time to accomplish. "We will need the price support mechanism but we must not use those mechanisms in such a fashion that we stimulate a con The U.N. Palestine truce chief was reported ready to place full blame today on Israel for the re cent Gaza batt'e in which 38 Egyptians and eight Israelis were killed.

Informed sources said the head WASHINGTON Publication of long-secret Yalta papers failed today to still the controversy that has raged for a decade over the wartime Big Three meeting. The half-million-word American record of the historic session was made public last night by the Stata Department, reportedly over the. objection of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. of the truce supervisory organization, Maj. Gen.

E. L. M. Burns of Canada, also would call on the V. N.

to strengthen his group's machinery for its watch on the tens i-Arab-Isracli borders. LONDON Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons Thursday the Yalta papers released in Washington were "of course the American version and in no sense an agreed official record of the powers concerned." Churchill said; "I have not seen anything but the extracts which now are appearing in the press. Even these disclose some serious mistakes." The Prime Minister, who was answering legislators' questions, indicated his displeasure at Washington's publication of the decade- Mir 1 1 iiiiiiin Secretary of State Dulles had Burns was scheduled to give his said only Tuesday that the 834 pages of documents would not be made public now. personal report on the Gaza incident and his rccommendaitons at a meeting late today of the 11-na-tion Security Council. The papers disclosed that Pre The general arrived In New old documents by saying: mier Joseph Stalin had made a'-veiled threat of "difficulty" in taking Russia into the war against "If tins became an established Japan unless President Roosevelt practice it might hamper the free exchange of views at future conferences.

In any case, it would The Yalta, Crimea, conference of the Big Three, details of which were revealed when the State Department released the long-suppressed papers, ended with this final dinner in 1945. The late Joseph Stalin, the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winstor Churchill, left to right in center of table, were flanked and laced by their aides. The late Edward K. Stettinius, then secretary of state, lifts his glass at left.

At right is V. M. Molotov. (AP Wirephoto) York Tuesday afler making a personal investigation of the Feb. 28 clash at Gaza, on the Egyptian-Israeli frontier.

He brought with him a resolution adopted by the Egyptian-Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission holding Israel agreed to sweeping concessions. Active Training For Air Reserves tinuation of unbalanced produc Roosevelt did agree, giving Riu- seem a good thing to consult to tion," Peterson said. "To do that," he continued, "would mean in order to bring sia new strategic positions in the -northwest Pacific and a powerful hand in Manchuria. gether on the text of any publication during the lifetime ot the individuals concerned." productions and markets into The record disclosed also that The 1945 Yalta conference in the WASHINGTON The Air Force Thursday cave notice to balance we would have to take Steam Plants Produce Power SEATTLE Steam generating plants in Seattle and Portland areas began producing 120,000 kilowatts of power Thursday to stave off threatened shutdowns of aluminum pot lines. Bonneville Power Administration announced Wednesday a 35 per cent cutback, effective Monday, in the interruptible power supplies of industrial plants which it serves directly.

Puget Sound Power 1c Light Co. acreage out of production under about w.uoo reserve officers that Gunboat Sunk Crimea was attended by President Premier Stalin and Churchill. The 80-year-old British leader is the only survivor of the ine acreage allotment piuKidiu, with the result that income of Plans and Pledges of Yalta Parley Listed Roosevelt told Stalin and Churchill it was "very embarrassing" to-him to yield to another Russian, demand for Ukrainian and White' Russian membership in the United-Nations giving Russia three votes, -in the General Assembly. thcy must take active training, accept retirement if eligible or resign their commissions. The Air Force said the action is a part of a program to revitalize the farmers would be further Shrunk." (Continued on Page 5 Column S) Big Three.

Britons generally were shocked and angered by disclosures in the documents particularly President By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TAIPEI. Formosa Nation Roosevelt's suggestion that Hong And they disclosed long arguments by Roosevelt and Churchill with Stalin over their demands for creation of free governments in postwar Poland and other liberated alist warplanes Thursday attacked the reserve and that letters to individual officers will go out in a a fleet of more than 200 Commu hong be turned over to China. The Churchill government disclosed Saturday that it had dis nist craft near the Matsu Islands, few days. Hurdle Cleared For Tax Statute A Senate-oassod resolution to Eastern European countries. tailed in the American record made public Wednesday night, and as kept.

The 1945 communique pledged: 1. "Nazi Germany is doomed" by Big Three harmony in arms. 9 Riff Thrpp will nrrnnv fter. Each reserve officer who is not started its Shuffleton steam plant at nearby Renton, and Thursday The Big Three reached agreement at Yalta ten years ago to conquer Germany, defeat Japan, create the United Nations and cooperate closely in peace thereafter. Here are the plans of the United States, Britain and Russia as an approved a u.

s. suggestion for publication of the Yalta record. (Continued on Page 5 Column 6)' sinking one small gunboat and damaging seven others, the Defense Ministry reported. this plant was producing its full (Continued on Page Column now taking an active part in organized training will be told he 4) A communique ventured no spec capaiuy ui ou.uuu Miuwaus. mium- ulation as to whether the fleet of permit the Legislature to put' has 30 days to respond to the let- many, with France inyited as i Dulles Silent gunboats and wooden craft was emergency clauses on tax bills fourth occupying power, to Labor Deserts bent on invasion of the offshore ter.

Officers who. fail to reply or who' indicate inability to elect any of the three options offered will nounced when the conference ended Feb. 11, 1945; as further disclosed March 24, 1947; as de- out Nazsm and 1 tar sm. islands 100 miles northwest of' For The power is being sold to alum A reparations commission, mosa. OnYoltaPoDeis inum plants through the Intercom sitting at Moscow, to fix Ger It said the concentration ot elint pany Power Pool, a group ot priv Glen Taylor gunboats and mora than 200 wood be told their cases will be referred to a special board to determine their fitness to remain on reserve rolls.

Of the 175,000 air reserve officers Lost Hunter ate power Bonneville said Its cutback re en craft was sighted in Funlng many penalty. 4. A conference at San Francisco in April, )945 to draft a U.N charter. v. Bay, 45 miles north of the Matsus.

cleared a hurdle Thursday in Oregon's House of Representatives, which rejected 34 to 26 a recommendation that it be defeated. The House is expected to vote Friday for the resolution, which would go on the November, 1956, general election ballot. Oregon is the only state that denies thf Legislature the right to put emergency clauses on tax measures. This denial lays all tax bills subject to referendum, thus There were three gunboats of WASHINGTON UB secretary, of State Dulles angrily refused to answer and stalked away Thursday when a reporter asked why he released the controversial Yalta papers at this time. BOISE Wl Idaho labor leaders have told Glen Taylor that he will get no mora moral or financial suited from peak demands caused by cold weather and low levels in reservoirs which furnish water for 5.

Earliest possible free and 100 tons each and five of 50 tons, not now on active duty, the Air Force said about 78,000 are taking secret elections in the East Euro Reported Found The first wave of Natlonaliso planes reported two gunb.oats of hydroelectric plants. support from them, Elmer, Mcln-tire, secretary of the Idaho' State some part in reserve training. Among the number who are tak pean countries freed from Nazi domination, with special emphasis on settling rival contentions in 100 tons and three of 50 tons were Federation of Labor, said Thurs Darwin Dodge, 26 year old Hoi lev area resident who becams ing no part are about 17,000 who have an obligation to continue Earlier he had told newsmen he expected the controversy over Yalta "will go on through the ages." This was In response to a ques damaged heavily. day. lost while hunting in snow covered A second wave destroyed a 50 "Were not putting any more Poland and Yugoslavia.

6. Big Three cooperation to pre serve peace. Neuberger Hits stopping them from going into cf-j their military training but are do terraine Wednesday, was found ton gunboat and damaged two olh money on dead horses," Mclntire tion whether he thought led until tne general election jng nothing about it. some 18 months after the Lcgisla-I Thursday afternoon- at 1 o'clock, era of the same size, iht com said. Secret agreements, which leaked tion of the voluminous record of' munique saior He was warning along a logging Mclntire said Taylor met with out and were confirmed in 1947: the wartime Big Three meeting road not too far from where he Hoover Report representatives of the AFL, CIO.

1. The French zone of in Germany would be carved would quiet the partisant political furor about what took place at the railroad brotherhoods and Inde disappeared. While somewhat weak he appeared unharmed. pendent machinists in Boise Feb. Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin meeting WASHINGTON The Hoover Norse Attacks out of the British and American zones.

Vandalism in Phone Strike 26, when the state Jefferson-Jack in the Soviet Crimea in February: ture adjourns. It is this provision that has blocked the Legislature from getting a sales tax passed. The people have voted five times against such a levy. If the people should approve the resolution, which would amend the Constitution, they still could repeal tax bills by initiative. of 1945.

2. German reparations in kind son dinner was held. "We flatly told him not to ex The incident occurred at the Mil-' Study Commission has a "meat-ax approach" toward such federal lending agencies as the Rural Electrification Administration, Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore) said Wednes pect any financial aid or moral Itarv Air Transport Setvice term Formosa Pact rather than cash: war potential facilities and holdings to be removed in two years for repara inal as Dulles was about to board support from us, Mcfntire said. HOLLEY Search is underway three miles north of here for a lightly dressed Korean war veteran who was separated from his brother Wednesday afternoon while hunting in heavy snow near here.

Lost is Dadwin Dodge, 26, Rt. 2 Holley who was dressed only ATLANTA GR The FBI, joined a plane for Ottawa and his first tions or for destruction; Russian day, We asked him to step out, but he said it's a little early to make BOSTON The United Stales union and company officials today state visit to Canada. He told the Senate that private use of German labor as a form of reparations; Russia holding out took an "untenahle" position in in probing a wave of vandalism With Canadian Ambassador decision. Labor gave Taylor Its open sup financing, proposed by the commission, "would raise by many in the four-day-old strike of South Arnold Hcency, Dulles took up a position before microphones and for a total of 20 billion dollars (Continued on Page 5 Column 5) completing a treaty with Chiang Kai-Shek, for it helps him impose a military government over six million Formosans, Sen. Morse ern Bell Telephone Co.

workers in port In 1950, when he lost the Democratic senatorial nomination to Worth Clark, and in 1954, when he won the nomination but was de cameras. The first question, from, CBS reporter Pcto Clapper, wast: nine Southeastern states. millions of dollars the interest rates paid by farmers on the poles, wires and transformers bringing electricity to their farms." Damage reports continued to in a tee shirt and light trousers and spent the night without a coat in the rugged Calapooia river -above here. A large force of men under the direction of Linn County "Mr Secretary, why did you re (D-Ore) said Wednesday. He told a Founders Day institute lease the Yalta papers at this Irish Parade feated overwhelmingly by U.

S. Boy Suffers Serious Burns In critical condition at Salem General Hospital is a 4-ycar-old Independence boy who suffered burns over more than half his body Wednesday when his clothing caught fire at his home. mount while negotiators tried to reach agreement on a new contract for the estimated 50,000 work time?" Sen. Henry C. Dworshak.

Dulles flushed, took a couple of The Oregon Democrat also said, "It would put our farmers again at the mercy of the banks and utilities which left them without lights ers affected by the walkout. Deputy Sheriff Wade Collins is searching the area for Dodge. If teps toward Clapper and thrust Taylor served in the Senate from 1946 to 1950, and ran for vice president on the Progressiva Party at Boston University that the action was "counter to the stated principles of self-determination for weaker peoples." The Oregon senator said the vote of senators on the floor for the For St. Patrick out his jaw. prior to the Roosevelt administra The FBf entered the picture after a cable serving several government offices in West Palm he is not found by 4 p.m., inurs-day efforts will be made to get tlCKCt in 1948.

NEW YORK (UP) The Irish Tm not going to stand here at this time (to) make a statement about Canada and have a question like that shot at me." tion. It appears that since the financial soundness of supplying the power needs of rural families has Richard Weston, son of Mr. and some 115,000 strong march up Beach, was cut yesterday. W. A.

Smallwood, district direct Formosan treaty was different than the "cloak room" vote, and he criticized those who voted ac Fifth Avenue's kelly green stripe been proved by HKA, those inter With that, he stalked away to today in the nation grandest St, or of the CIO Communications Workers of America, urged strik ward his waiting plane. cording to party dictates Instead of as their consciences directed. ests, which refused to finance farm service two decades ago, now covet the rural power ers to help prevent vandalism. "If a political official is to be Patricks Day parade. Millions more will crowd the avenue to view New York's traditional tribute to St.

Patrick, the We are striking on matters of Neuberger argued against "far- high principle and we desire in a free and responsible person, he must always remember all the bloodhounds into the area to am in the search. Included in the searching party are deputy sheriffs, state police, members of the Linn County Fire Patrol and Boy Scouts. Dodge became Wednesday after he had separated from his brother Clarence Dodge, also of Rt. 2, Holley, as they were hunting. Clarence Dodge could not find his brother and went to obtain help.

The search continued until midnight Wednesday and resumed Thursday morning. Hiss Opposed tensely to keep the strike on the same high plane," he said. saint said to have driven snakes from the verdant fields of re a i recommendations to change, curtail or abolish long-established national policies under Mrs. Henry Weston, was playing with matches at his home when the accident occurred, his family reported. He was at home under the care of his 14-year-old cousin.

Hattie who lives with the family, when he put on one of his sister's dresses to play in and went into the yard. He apparently acquired some matches somewhere, they said, and one of them set the dress afire. Hattie saw him and quickly rolled him in blankets to smother the blaze. She rushed him to neighbors, who called a doctor. He said the strike was "highly The weatherman promised "em Reds at Yalta effective." Company spokesmen disnuted this and said supervisory people he represents, those who voted against him as well as for him," Morse said.

"Watch nut for the politician who is afraid to be defeated. He's the one to heat. Too many men place election ahead of their erald-blue skies, perhaps somcJ the guise of furthering efficiency, and called such action "unwarranted intrusion into areas of important national policies." Today's Index Section One Amusement 2 Editorials 4 Local Society -7-S- Section Two Fabulous Friday 1-14 Comics 12 Section Three Sport 1-2-3 Television 6 Classified 7-S-i Section Four Food MO clouds, lots of sunshine, and fresh workers were handling jobs ot NEW YORK Alger Hiss union strikers. said Wednesday night that he unsuccessfully opposed Russian pro Ol'EMOY BOMBARDED Weather Details winds to keep the green banners flying. The grand parade will file for five hours past two official viewing stands.

From the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and other churchmen will TAIPEI, Formosa Ifl Chinese Communists on the mainland fired Says Stalin Boss He was bandaged by the doctor WANTS KREMLIN VIEWS posals at the Yalta conference to admit extra Soviet republics as independent members of the United Nations. VIENNA Wi Austria advised MiTlimim 14 shells at Little Quemoy Thurs- and rushed to Salem by Weston, who was called from his job at a aaw.nill. He was given a city po rA mnnth.

l.M: normii. 2.4i. day. the Nationalist Chinese de Sron precipitation, 22.2?; nnrmai, fense Ministry announced. No Of U.S.Commies watch.

And at 64th Mayor Russia Wcdnesay it would welcome a Big Four meeting on the Austrian state treaty but would like first a clarification of Kremlin views. Mii. 1 damage or casualties were caused lice escort through town to the hospital. The boy had third degree burns of the stomach area and second SEATTLE A Seattle steel- Robert F. Wagner, Gov.

Avcreh llarriman and hundreds of state and city officials will salute the marchers. worker testified at a House sub committee hearing Thursday that degree burns over most of the rest of his body, the upper part List Contrasting Views Seek to Strip Newbry Of Motor Division Asked about the Yalta documents, made public by the State Department, Hiss said he has considered that "my position at all limes was pro-American" rathe; than anti-Soviet. Hiss, whose role at the Yalta conference has been a controversial issue for years, clarified cryptic notes published ftj-fhe State Department as part of the Yalta documents. Hiss' notes, written in an ama- teur shorthand, concerned the agreement at the 1945 Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin conference to al a Communist functionary told him the late Joseph Stalin personally dictated orders to American Communist Party leaders in Moscow in 1928. Court to Act On Segregation Eugene V.

Dennett, av On Stock Market Boom of his legs and arms, doctors laid. He also suffered extensively from shock, but was reported recovering rapidly from the shock Thursday. He recovered consciousness Thursday night but was kept under sedatives to relieve the pain, they said. Doctors said Thursday his condition wrs improving but he must di ion wrs improving out ne mus By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.

(Associated Presi Corresppndent long time Communist Party member, gave the testimony to a subcommittee of the House Un-Amer Political warfare in the Oregon again, has made only a mild protest against the bill. WASHINGTON On Investment banker Ferdinand Eberstadt testi WASHINGTON Senate ap Kber.itadt's testimony won quick applause from Republican senators taking part in the stock market Legislature was in prospect Thurs- ican Activities Committee. Frank S. Tavcnncr commit proval of John Marshall Harlan The other two committee mem- low Russia three votes in the General Assembly of the United Nations, then being launched. Russia and still be considered on the critical CommMce voUd 5 to 3 list.

bers opposing the measure arc as a supreme touri ju.mi Sens. Carl Francis. Davton Rcpub-1 the way for new action by the lican, and Phil Brady, Portland the issue of school segregation. to strip the secretary ot siaic oi hi his Motor Vehicle Division, fied Thursday there is nothing much wrong with the stock market that can't be fixed by tight enforcement of anti-fraud regulations. "I see no need for any drastic new legislation," he said.

But CIO Secretary-Treasurer Democrat. Alter wenncsuay ii th. hilt It natterf about the the New York jurist, there also tee counsel, said Dennett's statement was the most direct the committee ever had received on domination of the American Communist Parly by Russian leaders. Dennett testified that Alex No-ral, described as then a top Communist functionary in the Pacific Northwest, gave him the report about Stalin in 1931. only power the secretary of state! was a call lor a prompt move to inquiry.

Sen. Capehart of Indiana, the ranking GOP member, told Eberstadt: "Your analysis coincides with my own analysis." And Sen. Bush (R-Conn) called the Wall Street figure's testimony "one of the most significant wc have received since we opened these hearings" two weeks ago. Carcv hit out sharply at Secre would have is ms eiecuons projutiu.o. nnwprt That Dears on an issue auditing divisions, and his mem James B.

Carey, following Eber which issues state motor vehicle license plates. The bill, which would place the division under an administrator appointed by the governor, was attacked by Sen. Monroe Sweet-land. Milwaukie. Democratic national committeeman, as an act of "political piracy." Swretland.

one of the three com got votes for While Russia and the Ukraine as well as for itself. Hiss, recently freed Irom prison where ho served a term for perjury, was Interviewed at his apartment here after the State Department issued the Yalta papers. Hiss, a State Department official, was assigned at the Yalta conference to keep records and advise his superiors on matters dealing with the U. N. According to the documents is stadt as a witness before the Sen Slightly Warmer Weather Forecast Weather forecasts still call for slightly warmer temperatures and possibility of light showers by late Fridav.

Meanwhile, below freezing marks and heavy rosts continued for the raised in hearings on Harlan's nomination where oppnn his views on international ale Banking Committee, declared stock prices have soared far out bership on the Board of Control. A bill increasing the $2,100 annual minimum salary for school teachers awaited only Gov. Patter- umi'i ifrnatir hptnrm hprnminff relations. of line with the rest of the econ But more immedia'ely affected SEA powKR WILL SHOW tary of the Treasury Humphrey's recent "word of caulion" to the omy. Carey said the Eisenhower administration seems to have mittee members who voted against law.

The House passed it 40-16 is the court's luture acii'in to pu Wednetdav. on the erounds it 'into effect its ruling that racial 1 I Inln BANGKOK. Thailand Thai "pnntnirpil tn lnrn nrir-M tin vailey regions Thursday morning. the bill, charged that Republicans its lirst view nexi us nrsi public schools is land will gci I. i.

a fields that might undermine con- would help solve the teacher short- segregation in minimum Know uiai ivx. iun.i week ol U.S. sea power available In Salem, the morning St lhpa Asi, Amcri- elected secretary of state next year, so they want to prune the agreement on one major point- emm'' that there are disturbing elements! He called that a confession by in today's market. They didn't Humphrey that administration sued by the State Department, the late President Roosevelt told Prime Minister Churchill and Mar shall Stalin that the matter of al. lowing Russia two extra votes was "very embarrassing to ine minimums wouin dc imu ichkimmm uwnpa i.

i. h.rrf the rmirt it can embassy sources sain wecnes- wa down to 26 degrees. The sunshine and blue skies were enjoyed during the day. however. It is due to continue fair tonight.

incrcaine cloudiness 1p coi.ie through Friday. lor icacners wiin oacncior nenrecs. (ii-mmis t-pt and 13.600 lor those with master's how and on what schedule schoo the aircraft carrier tScx and degrees. I systems shall he directed to put four destroyers will visit Thailand agree what these elements economic praicn-s om willUhe-wisj." powers of that otlice. Secretary of Slate Earl T.

New-brv, a Republican who is barred by the Constitution from running I art. I March 23 28. (Coounued on Page 1 Column 61 1 that decision in force..

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