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THE WEATHER FAIR AND continued warm tonight aid Thursday. Low loolfht, 41; high Thursday, 88. apital jLJou raal 2 SECTIONS (24 Pages) 67th Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, July 20, 1955 JO un3 8 5C SIGN LANGUAGE -r to Snap Deadlock On Security and Germany PeaceSlalemafele'sSfondon IMain Issue Sent Pacific Power Plans 5 Dams On Upper Lewis Water From 4 Streams To Be Dropped 2,175 Feet to Plants PORTLAND in Pacific Power and Liqht Co. said Wednesday it is Luusiut'i iii cuiiMrucuon oi nmnnouse education Committee head hydroelectric dams on (he Wednesday at which members de-tributaries of the Upper Lewis Riv-1 feated. 17-10.

a move to deny fed-er in Southwestern Washington, (eral school funds to states and lo-Application for a preliminary districts orartifinix raiMnl ma. NATO Backed By Senators WASHINGTON OK-Scveral sena-tors said today Ihe free world cannot abandon the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for any for-seeable agreement wilh Russia on German unification. President Eisenhower appealed to the Soviets at Geneva yesterday to accept NATO as a solely dc fensivc mililarv nnn.imtnc Hue. h.c tilr-A iU.Imi: 6 Federal Power Commission in Washington, D. C.

K. Robert de Luccia vice prosi- dent PIIU VtllCl CUglUCl-l ui mi' company, said the project would be one of the highest head sian Premier Bulganin conditional. lhe agenda of the summit confer-ly rejected the appeal. The Hus-i5nct- the heads of government sians haw maintained I'ATO must iided at Wednesday's session go as part of the price for joining I ha() as far as possible develoomenls in the United St: mci mini iuui an CUIUS utiuiu be dropped 2,175 feet through two power plants to produce kilowatts of Dower. The slnv.ms Back to Foreign Ministers Again GENEVA HI The Big Four sent back to their foreign ministers Wednesday the knotty problem of trying to iron out East-West differ.

Ku'opoan security and uni'lcaton of Gcrmauv. These are the main nrnhiAm. nn at present in discussion of the two questions. I lie ministers wri inW in what they could come up with cither in the next few days or the next few months. Thus the two subjects seemed destined to be.

come a matter for post-summit consideration a develop mcnt which was not unexpected. President Eisenhower told Wednesday's meeting he is convinced Soviet Russia has IhA im. desire for enduring world peace as the Western powers. me resident enmhas Ted arc the Rush, Curly, Meadows and wilh scek; Big Creek 10 destroy federal school aid Water would be impounded in by an anti-mountain meadow and marsh area I "legation amendment. A in the hiah country west of Mt.

Adams, about 55 miles northeast Premier Nikolai Bulganin and President Eisenhower appear to have found a common language ground during their posing session for photographers at Geneva. The president used an interpreter to clarify his remarks during the tete-a-tete. (AP Wirephoto) i oi r-ortianu. inc company calls In Europe Seems Soviet Program GENEVA in Soviet policy in the summit conlerence may be aimed at freezing the East-West division of Kuropc for an indefinite period of peaceful stalemate. Key Western diplomats say pri- vaieiy mis may well be Ihe com mon purpose running Ihroueh sev.

eral moves by Premier Bulaanin in inc ig four meetings to date. inese moves are: I. Bulganin's making clear ves terday that Ihe Soviet government is unwilling 10 reunuy ucrmany unless it has no chance of mililarv links with the Western Powers. nest uermany is now af member ol the North Atlantic Alliance and Ihe West wanls a united Germany to have the option of joining NATO. Bulganin's statement In Ihe Big Four discussion yesterday that lh Russians know it is.

unrealistic lo expect the Western Alliance with Bonn to be broken at this time. 3. His proposal in his opening speech Monday of a two-stage disarmament program, the first -tage of which could take years, to develop. in the first sloce. mililarv foreas in Western Europe would be frozen at their present levels and a non-aggression pact made between Ihe Eastern and Western blocs.

Later, a new European security system and permanent disarmament would be put into effect. (Continued on Page 5 Column 1) Prevent Break At Walla Walla WALLA WALLA. Wnsh. Extra guards rushed lo the Washington State Penitentinrv day after authorities heard arson threats from convicts, but Warden Lawrence Delmore Jr. said he be- lieverf ihp silii.ilinn -vac imHoi- nnn Irol Delmore MM CM, Here's Lift for Boys Wanting to be Firemen East-West differences on the two great stumbling blocks must be worked out.

He said the Big Four must show the wnrlH House Group Defeats Ban on School Funds Fisticuffs Staged in Committee Over Segregation WASHINGTON Fists fw a name-calline in rogation. Members, who declined to be quoted by name, said tempers al- iyuuy maae eagy by the segrega. Hon U'Mno nvnL hiv n' "eP- i to "counts of the uvu, acasiuii, cuiruuoraiea st'vera committee sources, ln ensuing exchange, the wurd "lie" was passed and Bai- up ana swung on Pow- ell. Informants said Bailey landed one or more blows on Powell before other committee members separated them. Accounts by committee witness.

pmuaiiy lUiuiKCa Oil balance before Rep. Kellev ID-Pal and Rep. Perkins i'D-Kv) seized Bailey, and Chairan Bar- uen iu-nu and Rep. Landrum (D-Gal got to Powell. (Continued on Page 5 Column 3) Bombers Start War on Hoppers COLFAX.

Wash, Tu, BI8 bombers will take off early Thursday to make war with aerial spray against hordes of grasshoppers that have invaded southwest ern wnitman County. The converted twin-engine bombers, used early in World Wnr are from the Ace Flying Service hi naiem and they will spray 50,000 acres of rangeland. The cost is estimated at not more than 60 cents an acre. The federal government and the stale are each paying a third, the county and the landowners the other third. Harold B.

Busdicker of Pullman, a representative of Ihe United States Department of Aq-riculture, said the planes will operate out. of the Lacrosse. Wash, airport. He said he expects the spray will stop grasshopper egg-laying for several years. The 'hopper infestation is the worst in Whitman Countv since ana i43.

Jobless List Diminishing Job placements bv Ihe state em. Idoubled Tin last hrci mo reaching S.987 in June for the hiohl lest total in nearly three vears 1 on blocks and made available for me iticuuuws project. 4 (Continued on Page 5 Column 2) French fo Oust Morocco Sultan CASABLANCA, Morocco in-Top French officials today were re-'-, ported working to oust Sultan Moulay Ben Arafa as a step to-4 ward satisfying rebellious nalion- alists in strife-ridden Frenfli Mo- rocco. Sources close to Gilbert Grand- val, new resident general, said he intends to push a political program of moderation toward Nationalist- minded Moroccans despite the re-Tt cent bloody rioting and threats of new violence. Grandval has met bitter opposition from many of Morocco's French colonists.

Comparative quiet continued In Year, No. 165 jArmy Reserve Bill Agreed On WASHINGTON (tf Senate and ouse members were reported Wednesday 19 have given tentative approval to a reserve bill that would force reserve duty on all men who go on active military duty after the bill becomes law. The Senate-House conferees also reportedly were agreed on fixing six years as the minimum period of time to which all Americans of draft age are to be made subject to military duty. This would include time spent both on active duty and in the reserves. Announcement of the tentative agreement was made by Chairman Russell ID-Gat of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Chairman Vinson -iD-Ga) of the House Armed Services Committee.

They declined to divulge details. However, other conferees gave out some information. They said, for instance, that the conference committee had rejected the Senate-passed provision that would allow a $200 special reserve enlistment bonus to veterans who volunteered for three years in the re serves after completing regular active duty. The Pentagon had asked that all service veterans of draft age 13 to 2fi be made subject to duty with the reserves for a peri od that would bring a total of eight years of military service. Lewis Resigns From Airforce WASHINGTON The White House Wednesday announced the resignation of Roger Lewis as an assistant secretary of the Air Force and designated Dudley C.

Sharp of Houston, as his successor. Wayne Hawks, acting assistant press secretary, said the nomination of Sharp, a manufacturer, would go to the Senate Wednesday. In his letter of resignation, Lew to the Senate WcdncsdaY In his of resignation. Lew- is said "Pressing personal consid- 8 ve Lanlornla and; president of the Curliss-Wright when Eisenhower picked ti, iu 1.. tun, ln FLOODS IX FORMOSA TAIPEI.

Formosa Torrent- lems can be solved. Ihe Big Four met for in hr and 45 minutes in their fourth ses- sion. They gathered after hower had a two hour Soviet defense minister. Simul. luncheon with Georgi K.

Zhuknv, soviet defense minister. Simultaneously, it was disclosed that Eisenhower has called some of his iop military advisers to Geneva. In the course of Wednesday meeting at the Palace of Nations nussia proposed a European se-curity program described as sub stantially the same as the one th Soviet Union presented at Berlin in February. 1954. it provides for an all-Europe security pact wih the United States participating to replace the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw pact.

(Continued on Pago 8 Column 4) East and West Germany Sen. Baikley (D-Ky) said the nest cant even consider abandoning NATO until there has been an air-tight world security agreement." The former vice president said the atmosphere at Geneva seems "propitious for some Dro- gress toward composing the world's difficulties" but that he does not look for any iron-clad agreements to come from it. Atomic Ships OK'd by Senate WASHINGTON Ifl The Senate Commmerce Committee Wednesday approved two bills each authorizing an atomlc-p merchant ship one carrying out President Eisenhower's peace ship idea and the other a Democratic rival plan. Both were sent to the Senate-House Committee on Atomic Energy which scheduled a closed. door session on them Wednesday uueriiuon.

Chairman Mannuson (D-Wash of the Commerce Committee said the Democratic measure was re. ported out by his committee tin-aniously. It would authorize construction of an economically feasible nude- ar-powcred merchant vessel S00I possible, wilh (he Mori time Administration in charee of Hie nrmwr Tl, LIS UlllllII.IU UUOn ivnceni ot son said. Tno President has asked Ihai Congress approve his atomic ship project before adjourning, even though it was rejected once in the atomic energy authorization bill. House Upholds Dollar Wage WASHINGTON in The House handed President F.iscnhower a legislative defeat Wednesday in voting down an administration effort lo raise tho federal minimum wage from 75 cents to no more than 90 cents an hour.

It defeated 188-145 an amendment by Rep. McConnell (R.Pa) to reduce the minimum wage proposed in a Democratic-sponsored bill from tl an hour to the 90 cents ligure sought by Kisenhowcr. The Senate already has approved the )1 floor. Administration forces came up with a compromise offer in the House, seeking a graduated increase starting at 90 cents Dec. J5.S1: normal.

nivrr hrltht. -I trt. Ilteport by U. S. Wrath.

lliir.au.) immersed in a large pool of water, was brought here for the international conference on peaceful uses of atomic energy which opens in Geneva Aug. 8. After looking over Ihe reactor, powered by mriched uranium 235, Vr. Eisenhower drove a few hundred yards to Ihe Big Four conference meeting place. One of tin? two Tass corresond- etits, Boris Novokiv.

arrived late for inspection of the atomic furnace and found Ihe doors lock. ed. But (he keeper solicitously tin. locked Ihe door and ushered the Russian into the conlrol room. if.

i Kroup o. officials in charge of the display United Stales had been ahle lo establish the reactor in Geneva for the Improvement ot world 1 i mit ana skviiocks nnnk-pninn. pod poles used in escape attempts rcii ui me prison Wednesday. Officials locked Wing 6, believed to contain the most troublesome convicts, and kept them there temporarily without food. Delmore summoned all off-duty guards and the State Patrol and Walla Walla officers afler getting up that hotheads among the convicts planned "to burn the place down." Wing 6, which normally holds more than 200 convicts, was locked without incident.

Prisoners of four other wings ate lunch without disturbance. Plans for feeding those in wing 6 were held in abeyance. Burma Premier For Red China TOKYO Ifl-Prime Minister. N'u of Burm i suggested today thai simultaneous admission of Red China to the United Nations and release of Chinese-held American prisoners would "relieve a great deal of tension." IJ Nu, who flew here after a the youngsters to play on. It may not be exclusively for the youngsters who go to Bush Park.

City Manager J. L. Fran- zen said it might remain there for a time and then be moved to another park, and later, perhaps, to still another. The old pumper, which in Its heyday was able to throw 1000 gallons of water a minute on a burning building, is a veteran of some of Salem's most important fires, including the fire that flnctrnuori lh. nA u.

UWC JIUU3 111 since 1950 the -veteran has been at the airport where it did service for a time. But there reaiiv wasn't much lor it in tin there, so it begun' to show sifins of deterioration. It will be slick ed up before going into the park. The pumper is an American- LaKrance, purchased by the city in iwj, iiiiu lur siime years i was stationed at headquarters. In K.I.

station was set up it was placed in there. ln 1942 it was involved in an accident on Highland Avenue and had to be rebuilt before it went back into service. When it was taken to the airport it was replaced by a 1928 Seagravcs which the city, later sold. The old engine's first drivers were C. P.

Thrapp and the late Frank Freibcrt. 31 New Grants Polio Research NEW YORK (UP)- The long polio already Is at 835,1 ss' today, Announcing 31 grants totaling 'r polio research and support of respiralor centers. Connor said mat while the bailie 'm'r' "We that polio ian be defeated. "So long as there are patients who need care." he said, "the battle against polio can and mu.t continue. "We have come a long way in the last year and a half.

The greatest vaccine field trial in history has been completed. It showed that the vaccine developed by Dr Jonas E. Salk, properly manulac lured and tested, is sale and ef feclive in presenting oaralvtic polio." The 31 grants O'Connor announced included several new projects. One is the search for a drug to prevent or treat polio. Another the quest for a normal human or animal cell for breeding polio virus which would eliminate Ihe use of monkeys from the I ar East.

ii.t WlM Pfl Fftfifl ViWUIC I UUU (Prices Drop Again MW YORK 11 Wholesale food prices as measured by the to osT i4 years Tha nHa .1 i iiiuia aiwu at ao.ti inm. ure was the lowest since Feb. 3. when it was M.I3. The index represents Ihe lolil cosi ai wholesale ol one pound each 31 lOOOS in ffpnPrI ci.i.

tt i erations," which he did not cx-'today Dr. Samuel Shenoard! ui me nanon-ihe stale Unemployment i.i. ouiwhu nn fr intamiu prai. Small Salem boys who hope some day to be firemen, and most of them do, are going to get a real lift. One of the city's old fire engines, not in use now, is going to be placed in Bush Park, mounted New Hearing Asked on Lev imaiiuivjiu.1 aenaie in- ug.

lUuay ki ine jusiice Department and the Internal Rev- enue Service to study a hearing cusations against Harry Lev, wealthy Chicago maker 'of caps lor ine armed forces. Forgetful Lev told the Senate Investigations subcommittee yes terday he still cannot remember what he did with $20,000 in cash he acknowledged withdrawing from his Chicago bank in June and July vm. But he insisted that "not one cent" of it went to pay bribes to help him get government contracts. Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) cautioned Lev that such 'an answer "certainly casts a very strong suspicion on you" when considered in light of other testimony. Lev said it was the best he could do, but promised he will try again to remember.

Sheppard Loses Final Appeal 1 CLEVELAND w-Ncarly a year afler he was arrested, it appeared I motion for a new trial, and one 0f path feels he would get more cxer-j 'cise and privileges in prison than iic uurs in county jail. The motion denied yesterday was based largely on a criminology professor's allidavit that he found evidence a left-handed sex fiend iqu 4. inree-jUOge Court discounted the affidavit with such descriptions as highly speculative an (alia ciotis," "guess work" and supposition." 'sheer i Of '3-D' Parents l.ovnnv i a to.nn9 I LONDOV in A leading Amer ican woman Baptist warned Wed- nesday of the dangers of "3-D par-1 ents" doDe. drunkeness and di- vorced. Mrs.

Blanche Moore If Portland, president of Ihe American Council of Baptist Wom- en. ioiu ueiegaies 10 tne napust World Alliance Jubilee Conuress there no substitute for Cod and love in bringing up a family. 1 She told a stnrv nf a lit tin rhilH i I "Then one of Ihe great dot-tors nf ln, mm. ih. crib.

Then he wrote instructions a rhnrt 'Thia-hahv tn k. 0 nou DU routine this little mite who was not doing too well was picked is 2 Densation rnmmk.i. c.u ui fain, compeiieu nis acuon. isoon win start serving a lie peni- Sl Shp. 50.

has been president of, tentiary term for the bludgeon nine at aboul TnT fourTn a Mission slaying of his pregnant wife. of theleveTof Producers of oil field equipment. An Appellate Court yesterday ti since 1946. turned down his second and final Casablanca yesterday but violence continued in Fedala, 17 miles to the northeast, where fires set by mtionalist terrorists left hundreds of Moroccans homeless. Some French farm houses also were burned.

Unconfirmed reports said eslil natives bad been killed in Fedala. A Frenchman was killed last night in Ihe native quarter of Kanat, miles northeast of Casablanca. Uncle Sam in Red $4 Billion WASHINGTON in The government announced Wednesday it ended the 1955 bookkeeping year with a deficit of $4,192,000,000, or about SOO million dollars better than was forecast in January. Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey and Budget Director Rowland Hughes issued a preliminary report showing that rising incomes and profits boosted revenues about $1,300,000,000 higher thon was estimated. But spending, too, exceeded estimates.

Largely because of heavy farm price supports, government outlays ran a billion dollars above the anticipated figure. Receipts were $60. 303.000.000 and expenditures $64,494,000,000. "However, total spending for the year just ended was $3,300,000,000 less than spent in the prior fiscal year and almost 10 billion dollars less than spent in fiscal joint statement said. funds Voted for Civilian Airports WASHINGTON in The Senate: Wednesday enmnlelrH i al action hill designed 10 Inuch off a half billion dollar civil Ian airport construction program throughout the nation.

It did so by accepting House changes in the measure originally Sponsored by Sen. Monroney lb-Oklai. The bill now goes to the While Hous. It makes available 2.12 million In federal grants to states and cities over a four-year period starting with the fiscal year which began July I. To this is added 20 million for similar grants already appripriat-ed this session.

Ideal Weather for Summer Continues Ideal summer weather continued for Salem and area, Wednesday, ith prospect of more of the same through the week. The Tuesday maximum in Sa- Jem was 80, for ih host i 1 in several i ui I Jobless Dav claims are riinnino loss thin uiiiin a m-irn. i -Much of the employment rising nas been in basic industries with aemano growing lor sk ed and "ie cuiniiussion reported. Lumber and logging op-' Ike Dines Wilh MarchalZMov GENEVA in President Fison. hower and his wartime friend Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov, had lunch together Wednesday at Ihe President's villa.

It was tho first opportunity Ihe two conquerors of Germany had nau 10 taiK privately since they arrived hero last weekend for ilm Big Four summit talks. Only two interpreters an American and a Russian were wilh them Wodnes. day. Traveling without a security escort of any kind, the uniformed Zhukov sped- into Eisenhower's Lake Geneva villa four minules In advance of the 12:30 p.m. lunch-con hour.

Zhukov was accompanied only by the chauffeur of his black Zis limousine and an interpreter. Oleg Troyanovski. Charles E. Bohlen, U. S.

ambassador to Moscow, arrived a few minutes before Zhukov to serve as Eisenhower's interpreter. As was the case when Eisen- hower was host to Ihe Soviet delegation at dinner Monday evening, newsmen wero barred. Foreign Aid to Help of Big 4 WASHINGTON (AT Sen. Havden (D-Arizl said today President Eisenhower should be helped in tha Geneva talks by a Senate com. mitlce decision approving almost all he asked for foreign aid.

The Appropriations Committee, which Ilayden heads, voted yesterday lo restore of the cut by Ihe House out of the President's (.1.266.641,750 foreign aid request. The bill carries money for military and economic aid lo country's friends in all parts jf the world. Administration officials have described Ihe program as essential to maintain the Iree world's strength and economic -well-being. However, the measure still faces a fight on the Senate floor and. if the Appropriations Committee is upheld there, in conference with the House.

Today's Index Section One Thpaters i Editorials 4 l.oral a Society 89 Section Two Sports Comies Television Classified 12 I 1 10-11 ed Mari in ShonnarH iniu erations hired 1.282 in Jiinn.Tn.ti. I (our of the United States, alsu 31, 19.15, and going lo $1 next year, (old a press conference that he I Karlier, the House beat down, backed the propoial of Primp a counter proposal by Rep. Minister Nehru of India for iDMinnl to boost the wage world conference on Asia prob- floor to $1.10. lems. "A world conference of all coun- a tries interested in Asia w.mld be VYCQinCr UOtOMS a very good thing," Sa Answering a nuestinn hp sanl "II Mlmnm Sd: minimum nnswLring a qutsiirin, ne saiu, "lon.y, Tnll M-hour nrrrlpliailon: would be very difficult if Red, lor month: normal.

.21. rion through the state mnW, tiro onmnnr a. i 72.1 in June of 1954. nui in Over filled in June. larm jobs were China did not attend such eon.

ference. I Merrifield Defense Takes Shape in Trial Ike Shows Off A tomic Furnace at Geneva rains different narts of T.iinei Cn.miv i Z' VL aZ, .7.. Z-1 I iransinir much damn tn mil ii ni-sii-i it siiuurn.s in inn (Several other districts were also inundated. B. FRYER at the time.

A woman in his car, reportedly "very drunk." was being taken at her request to state hospital for an alcoholism commitment, Buren told the jury of five women and one mon. He expected lo prove, he said, that the unruliness of the woman caused the defendant to drive erratically at me nme ne was seen by slate police. Merrifield had had but one whom Merrifield was heloins and mp was a mgnimare fWfir uikihikiiii. na urillJiiei) UMOCr inf influence of alcoholic liquor in his ooimon and that mH. rsi ii.

ii A .1. citation at the office he, said, bufi lai rains caused flash floods m'ki By VICTOR That Stale Senator John C. Merrifield was transporting a drunken, unruly woman to the slate mental hospital at her request and that her unruliness was the cause of his erratic driving at the time of his June 18 arrest on a charge of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liaunr is the apparent basis of his defense to the charge in Marion County District Court trial. The trial recessed at noon Wednesday after the state had! tiAm Karrnimen invn unm and George C. Simons.

Defem GKNKVA (UP)-Prcsldent Eisenhower today roudly showed off an American atomic furnace, set up on the grounds where the Big Four summit meetings are being held. His audience Included two Russian correspondents of the official Soviet news agency, Tass. The Russians watched as Mr. Eisenhower manipulated controls which put Ihe reactor Into full oeration They also heard him describe the furnace as evidence that atomic science could be Ihe welfare and not the destruction of mankind." L.1.J I i. day's high would be above inai i nd a high of 88 is called for Thursday.

Attorney Peery Buren was ex- Enough bree7e prevailed throuzhjpected to put his defense witnesses Tuesday and Wednevlay to make'on the stand early the afternoon, the weather very pleasant. Merrifield was arrested abou: Rainfall fur the mnnth atill 1 in tn Tn. 10 tk. I0ur wcnl hieher llininy American experts Irom thr 'Oak Ridge, Atomic Encrgy.that he was "very nlesied" the week: barley, hams, coffre and peanuts. Lower were flour, wheat, shead of normal, but the fall foilroad junction with the Pacific i tZa ih.

viy. Plant. The massive device, known as "iwimming pool" type of reactor because the atomic pile Is T' fondled and loved until he H. "fTrM Pointed could feel within his being the Highay. He was traveling south (Continued on Page i Column 1 ling-of being wanted." citation icorn.

rye. oats, beef, bellies, bird oil cocoa beans, peas eggs steers, hogs and lambs. a the season to date Is way short. scientific knowledge..