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230. WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 30, 1953. PRICE SEVEN CENTS SPOKANE, WASH. EX-POLICE OFFICER CHARGED WITH PERJURY IN KIDNAP CASE led lay nal vas po, a tri's 12, h.

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MON RAPS "UNFAIR" PROBERS Story About Ransom Cash, Called Untrue in U. S. Grand Jury Bill Federal Agencies to Start Surveys of Real Property He Also Lashes Out at "Slavish" Type of Ex-Red By Associated Press Cer4 1 littoow, ..4, lit" ly ti 1......,.. A 1 By Associated PITIOS KANSAS CITY, Dec. Shoulders, who played a hero's role when he caught the kidnap-killers of little Bobby Green lease, today was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury.

The jury declared Shoulders, for. mer St. Louis police lieutenant, lied SUSPENDED JUDGE when he told his story of the arrest and recovery of $300,000 of the record $600,000 ransom. The missing half of the ransom money never has been found. TO SAIL FOR 8 1 et the i nhgircdt mDun Ran, i rite; answered the phone soon after the Jaunty Jurist Says Shoulders was not at home.

The indictment was returned. said United States marshal's office in lit He Bloody but ceived word of the indictment. St. Louis said it had not yet re SUSPENDED JUDGE TO SAIL FOR It Jaunty Jurist Says He's "Bloody but Av; :1 ift elpt 4.1: ,42,, iji Lilt 1 -1P 1 lb 11.15 yo ill I 4 i i 16,,,....:,, '47 4. 17:1: wl e5, i4443 JL, ik-----'-' ,4 Unbowed" By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Dec.

29.The government today launched a program at getting rid of all possible federal real property. Administrator Edmund F. Man-sure of general services and Director Joseph M. Dodge of the budget bureau jointly announced that immediate action was being taken In determine what property can be sold. They said this would result in putting such property back on local tax rolls and also eliminate maintenance costs the government now pays.

Recntly the United States conference of mayors urged the federal government to make pay, ments to cities in lieu of taxes now lost to them on land occupied by defense production plants owned by the government. Public Domain Lands Exempt "The surveys will Involve all federal real properties, intluding lands, buildings and other improvementsexcept domain lands such as national forests, national parks and other areas obtained and retained under law for purposes of conservation of natural resources," today's announcement said. Mansur and Dodge wrote heads of the major land-holding agencies calling for a "a thorough review of the real property holdings of your agency and an examination of those holdings In relation to the needs of your agency in order to determine excess holdings." Francis Colton Hammond of Alexandria, Va. (above) a navy hospital corpsman, has won the medal of honor for heroism that cost him his life in Korea, the navy announced in Washington. He was fatally wounded while administering aid to wounded marines last March.

(AP). 1 ATOMIC ISOTOPE SECRETS TRADED Perched by a "pip" on the Spokane filter center's main plotting board is 8-month-old Tommy Ferdinandi, son of SSgt. and Mrs. John F. Ferdinandi, W1228 Eleventh, garbed in the traditional New Year's costume.

The let tered pyramid is used in plotting operations to tell the time received, altitude, type of plane and number of aircraft in a "flash message." Sergeant Ferdinandi is an air defense unit instructor. (Wolverton photo.) Industrial Uses Not Included in Data Given Allies WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.D I Edward Condon. president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said today there are "elements in congress who have shown that they have little respect for American principles of freedom and fair play." Condon was termed by a congressional un-American affairs committee a few years ago as "the weakest link" in the chain of atomic security. He made the remark In criticizing a type of ex-communist who, he said, leaps "from slavish adherence to the communist dogma to the equally violent and passionately slavish adherence to authoritarian anticommunism." "It is these people," the onetime head of the United States bureau of standards said, "who are doing so much harm in today." "Duty to Dissent" Apparently referring to congressional interrogation of scientists and other professional people on loyalty matters, Condon at another point criticized "the kind of political misbehavior which is being these days overdignified by calling it anti-intellectualism, and which really represents nazi-type pressures against independent thinking and toward conformity to authoritarian doctrines." Condon, now research director for the Corning (N.

Glass works, spoke at a luncheon marking the award of Westinghouse prizes for excellence in science writing during 1953. Asserting that a "critical questioning attitude" typifies science at its best, Condon said all people have a "duty to dissent" and to utilize their "critical faculties" with regard to ideas and conclusions of all typesor else they have not discharged their responsibilities of democratic citizenship. He said that, in this connection, it is instructive to consider "young Americans who have for a time been in some degree associated with the communists." "Emotional Reaction" "There are some," he said, "who showed an interest in the mid-30s, and I think it, is a good sign of a good inquiring mind that they did so. "I respect them for It, more than some of those who never had a lively enough spirit of inquiry to do so. "Then they soon became ac-, quainted with the rigid authoritarian boundaries of its doctrine and pushed it away from themselves as a thing of no value, and I respect them for this, too.

"But then there is another type of ex-communist," he said, "who never as a communist had an inquiring or critical mind, but followed the comrades in blind faith until they happened to be disillusioned. Then, in a wild, emotional reaction, they leap to authoritarian Dulles Replies to Criticism of Troop Withdrawal Plans BIG EST EEO IN U. Major 'folders Listed The major holders of real property were listed as: The commerce, defense, interior, justice, postoffice, state, treasury and welfare departments; housing and home finance agency; general services administration; atomic energy commission; veterans admin. istration; Reconstruction Finance corporation; Tennessee valley authority; American battle monuments commission and the Panama Canal company. The letter said that prompt disposal of all properties excess to --resonrnment needs in addition to eliminating maintenance costs and putting the property back on local tax rolls would "bring needed funds into the federal treasury from sales." Sweeping Changes in Social Security Sought Hall Had $590,000 Shoulders and Patrolman Elmer Dolan, who was indicted for perjury two weeks ago, arrested Carl 'Austin Hall, 34, the money-road kidnap killer, last October 6.

This was eight days after Hall, and his drunken, divorced sweetheart, Mrs. Bonnie Heady, had seized the 6-year-old son of a Kansas City millionaire, and shot him to death in a Kansas wheat field. Hall and Mrs. Heady were convicted and put to death, side by side, in the Missouri penitentiary gas chamber December 18. But both Insisted they knew nothing of the disappearance of the missing half of the ransom.

Hall said he had more than $590,000 with him in his hotel room when Shoulders and Dolan arrested him. Only minutes before the lethal gas snuffed out his life, Hall told federal officers he could give them no further clew to the missing money. Shoulders and Dolan both appeared before the grand jury that indicted Hall and Mrs. Heady. They said they took the suitcases containing the money to the police station promptly, and intact.

Other persons testified they saw no suitcases or money brought into the police station at the time Hall was Drought in and booked. Teatimony Called Untrue 1 It was this testimony on which today's indictment was based. The 12-page indictment said this in its key paragraph: "The testimony of Louis Shoulders, as he then and there well and believed, was untrue and false in that the suitcases containing the ransom money were not taken into the police station at the timit and in the manner alleged in the testimony of Shoulders." This same story brought about IShoulders' resignation from the St. 1Louis police department. A police started an investigation of the arrest last October.

Shoulders resigned in anger after testifying before the board. Be said his reputation as a police officer had been destroyed. He had told the board that he brought Hall and the money to the Newstead station, booked 'Hall, and then left for about an hour while he took his automobile to the home of his land-'lady, Miss June George. Shoulders Keeps Silent Other testimony, from policemen and visitors in the station, said they. saw no suitcases brought in with Hall or prior to the Shoulders departure and return.

Dolan also testified that the imoney suitcases were brought into the station with Hall. He said he 'took one suitcase in and Shoulders carried in the other. Only a matter of a minute was involved in the transfer from the arresting car to the station was involved, he said. Shoulders, whose wife has since sued him for divorce, has said he intends to marry Miss George. After they had testified before the grand jury in October, they made a i surprise trip to Honolulu for a 'vacation, and to visit Shoulders' By Atiaociated Preos PARIS, Dec.

29.William Clark, suspended chief justice of the United States court system in Germany, stepped jauntily off a plane from Spain today and told newsmen he is "bloody but unbowed" by state department measures to force him home. Clark said the United States consul general in Madrid, Robert Hale, picked up his diplomatic passport while he and his wife were vacationing in Spain's Canary Islands. Hale substituted a strictly limited regular passport. The new passport Is good for just one direet trip to the United States. Clark declared Hale told him he ran the risk of arrest if he refused, to make the change.

The state department in Washington denied, any jail threat was involved. Refused to Return The wealthy jurist from Princeton, N. was suspended December 9 when he refused an order to return to Washington for consultations prior to dismissal January 8 for what the department called, economy reasons. A critic of United States high commission policies in Germany, Clark charged the real reason for the recall was his re-, fusel to take state department or-, ders and his attempts to uphold an Independent judiciary. Spurning the return order, he and his wife took off for the Canaries for a vacation.

"The consul general came down to see me," Clark said today, "and told me I had to surrender my diplomatic passport and if I didn't the police would be advised and I'd be put in jail, so naturally I surrendered the passport." The state department's action blocked Clark's plan to return to Germany and continue sitting as a judge despite his suspension. "Drastic In Bonn, the president of the Association of American Lawyers in Europe criticized the passport shift as "drastic action." He said "That's no way to treat a man in his (Clark's) position." A high commission spokesman In Bonn said Clark was "no longer entitled to a displomatic passport as he is under suspension and traveling for pleasure contrary to department of state instructions." Clark was met at the airport here by his son, Blair, a correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System. "I am Judge Clark, gentlemen," he called out as he stepped from the plane. Then he described himself as: "Private first class, state department, Clark, his head bloody but unbowed, and any further comment will have to await his arrival in New York." Clark saki he will sail for the United States Thursday on the Queen Mary. His wife will return to Germany to wind up their affairs there.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. UP) did not question the "good Secretary of State Dulles said to- of the Eisenhower administration, day American power to strike dev- but voiced concern "despite. assurastating blows against any ag- ances that this (troop withdrawal) gressor in the Far East is being will not reduce our retaliatory strengthened despite the projected power." withdrawal of two United States "I fear that the withdrawal of divisions from Korea. our divisions without some corn-Replying to Democratic critics parable and well understood build-who have President IT of South Korean strength will Eisenhower's decision on the troop a most certainly enable the Chi-withdrawal issue.

Dulles empha- nese communists to send the sized that the change will mean equivalent of two or more of their no slackeninr of American re- divisions to Indochina to help the sponsibility in the Orient. communist forces there," Douglas Dulles spoke out as Democrats said. pressed the attack and Senator "That country is already exMonroney (D-Okla.) called for a posed to critical danger from the full-dress investigation of United communists and this action will States defense policy when con- increase it. gress returns in January, "The fall of Indochina would be ro tt A 11 -1, 4 .1 i STATUE DRAWS THRONGS 7 Republicans almost solidly Indorsed the President's decision. Senator Know land of California, senate GOP leader, expressed full agreement and said it is "advisable to reduce our forces overseas" as soon as world conditions permit.

Senator Douglas (D-III.) said he even far more fatal than the fall of Korea, for it would carry all of southeastern Asia with its millions of people, its irreplaceable tin and rubber and its other raw materials, and it would probably also lead to the fall of India." Build-Up Before Armistice Dulles told newsmen the decision to pull two divisions out of Korea resulted from three factors: By Associated Press WASHINGTON, Dec. Hickenlooper (R-Iowa) disclosed today that the United States already is exchanging some secret atomic information on "materials' processing" with friendly nations. The' exchange has dealt with atomic isotopes, he said. Some isotopes, or twin forms of certain elements, are used for medical treatment and scientific experiments. Industrial uses of atomic energy were not included in the exchange because of restrictions in the law, he said.

Hickenlooper; vico chairman of the senate-house atomic committee, said that amendments to the atomic energy law would be required to carry out President lEisenhower's proposal for international pooling of atomic energy materials for peaceful uses. Act Is "Opened Up" He said the present exchange of atomic data with other free nations, is possible because of a revision of the atomic energy act during the last session of congress. "We opened up the act a little bit for exchanging of certain information with regard to materials processing," he said. Hickenlooper did not say what countries are benefiting from Amer. lean research in this field or from what sources the United States is receiving information.

There have been previous reports, however, of a fragmentary exchange of scientific information with Canada. It was also reported several months ago that the Belgians were working on a definition of their specific needs in the permitted area of exchange. Pool Is Proposed Industrial uses would be included under the proposal which Eisenhower made in a speech before the United Nations assembly December 8. He suggested establishment of an international atomic energy agency by the nations most concerned, including Russia. The countries would contribute some of their atomic materials to a common pool for peaceful uses.

Russia has indicated a willingness to negotiate on the proposal, and Secretary of State Dulles said today he hopes to discuss it infermally with Russia in advance of a Iproposed January 25 big four foreign ministers' meeting in Berlin. WAND TO HAIL THIRD PRESIDENT "MOST WANTED" FUGITIVE NABBED There was a large build-up of American strength in Korea immediately before the armistice, and that was one of the reasons why the communists agreed to a ceasefire. The two United States divisions are approximately the size of the build-up. The withdrawal is in line with one of the key reasons for seeking an armistice in Koreato get away from having American troops pinned down on the Asiatic By Associated Press WASHINGTON. Dec.

29.Chairman Carl T. Curtis (11-Neb.) of a house subcommittee today proposed a sweeping overhaul of the social security system to provide pensions immediately fnr almost all retired persons over 65. His program, proposing the most sweeping changes in years, would be financed by extending the social security tax to cover almost all workers under 65, and to all types of income. It would also raise the minimum pension of $25 monthly to $43, and ease retirement tests so that workers could make up to $1000 annually and still draw their pensions. Revenue Gain Cited This universal pension plan calls for abolishing the present federal program of direct welfare grants to the needy aged.

States and local governments could continue welfare grants. Curtis outlined his program in a statement and a subsequent interview. He estimated his proposal would add more than $3,500,000,000 to the cost of old age and survivors' insurance (OASI) next year, making the total $6.670,000,000. He predicted it would bring in revenue of about $7,300,000,000, thus adding a net of about 000,000 next year to the present $19,000,000,000 social security trust fund. He would let the social security tax rate jump from I.

per cent to 2 per cent of wages up to $3600 annually, as scheduled next Friday. Leaders Noncommittal Curtis heads a special subcommittee of the house way and means committee which has been investigating the social security system for months. It was learned he presented his new program to President Eisenhower and Republican congressional leaders in White House conferences two weeks ago. He also has briefed Chairman Daniel A. Reed (R-N.

of the full ways and means committee. All the leaders were said to be noncommittal so far, although the administration is not expected to go. along with his plan to abolish direct federal payments to the needy aged and bring recipients under the OASI trust fund MANILA, Dec. 30 (Wednesday). (ARamon Magsaysay, a staunch fighter of communism who promises to maintain close relations with the United States, will be inaugurated today as the third president of this republic.

The vigorous 46-year-old son of a blacksmith, who swept to victory over ailing President Elpidio Quirino on a promise to rid the government of "graft, inefficiency and neglect," takes the oath to uphold the constitution at noon. I lir VIKIM WAS 4u-yet1i -mu bUll M. a blacksmith, who swept to victory over ailing President Elpidio Quirino on a promise to rid the government of "graft, Inefficiency and neglect," takes the oath to up- hold the constitution at noon. WdlIE 100 PORTLAND OFFICE GETS a swa MOS Alli ILLNESS FAILS TO HINDER POPE ENTREVAUX, France, Dec. 29.

(A')More than 2000 persons jammed this village in southern France today hoping to see a miracle. A carved wood statue of St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, reportedly has dropped blood from a broken forefinger. The crowd, including many who had traveled miles, gathered despite a statement by Entrevaux's parish priest, the Rev. Cosme Jorchin, that he was skeptical of the report.

The statue depicting the saint with a child reading a book at her feet is owned by Jean Salote, 40-year-old proprietor of a hotel here. He bought it from an antique shop a month ago and placed it in his hotel restaurant. Doctor Called Night before last, Salote said, he was in a bad humor because he had lost at cards. He peevishly waved his fist and accidentally broke off a tip of the statue's extended forefinger. Yesterday morning, he said, he was amazed to find a red liquid dripping from the finger.

Sainte called the village doctor, Jean-Louis Monner, who pronounced the lige' blood but said he had not determined whether it was animal or human. Two pharmacists confirmed his judgment. Sable said the bleeding stormed after about 30 drops had fallen Into a glass at a rale of one a minute. Last night the dripping began again and 15 more drops were collected, tie said. FRENCH MINISTER FLIES FASTER THAN SOUND 1STRES, France, Dec.

29. secretary of state for air, Louis Christiaens, 63, today became the first cabinet minister in the world to fly faster than sound. He was flying as a pasenger in a swept-wing multipurpose twin-jet Vautour. The two-seater plane is one of France's latest secret jet fighter-bombers. NEW U.

S. ROAD CHIEF PORTLAND, Dec. 29. (A Frank E. Andrews will move up from assistant to become acting division engineer for the federal bureau of public roads here January 1.

He will succeed W. H. Lynch, who will retire then. The Portland office of the bureau administers federal highway work in Idaho. Montana, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.

Andrews has been assistant here since 1933, except for two years in World war II when he supervised work on the Alaska highway with headquarters at Whitehorse Yukon Territory. NEW YORK, Dec. 29. GPOne of the FBI's 10 most wanted men, an armed robber who has spent all but a fraction of the last 18 years behind bars, was arrested early today on a tip from an alert citizen. The FBI here and in Washington announced the capture of Charles E.

Johnson, 46. at Central Islip, N. in Long Island's Suffolk county. Johnson was arraigned before United States Commissioner Edward E. Fay in Brooklyn on a charge of violating the federal banks robbery statute and held in 825,000 bail for hearing January 19.

Johnson said he intended to fight removal to Greensboro, N. where the complaint was filed. He was sent to the federal house of detention in Manhattan on failure to raise the bail. Johnson, on the 10 most wanted fugitives list since last November 12, was picked up at Central Islip by FBI agents accompanied by local authorities. No further details were disclosed by the FBI.

Picture Is Tip-Off However. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said in Washington the capture was due to an alert citizen's spotting Johnson's picture in a magazine. The citizen was not identified. The complaint alleges Johnson, while not participating in the actual holdup, managed to receive part of the $50,000 taken in the robbery of a Leaksville, N.

bank on April 179 1952. Delay Disappointing A greater reliance on sea and air power, he said, would give the United States a greater choice in its military responses. Turning to other world problems, the secretary said: A crowd of more than 500,000 Russia's proposal for a three-was expected to witness the cere- week delay in the Berlin foreign mony at Luneta park overlooking 1 ministers meeting is disappointing. Manila bay. It was here that the But he indicated the United States Philippines' patriot, Jose P.

Rizal, would except the January 25 date was executed by a firing squad 57 since the west obviously can't meet years ago today for his resistance with Russian officials sooner than to Spanish rule. they say they will be there. Gun Salute Planned He hopes representatives of Today a 21-gun salute comes Israel and Jordan will meet, as from Philippine army batteries. Provided under terms of the armisThe United States cruiser Helena tire agreement, to try to eliminate some points of friction between them. It is not impossible that Russia proposed a delay in the foreign ministers meeting because of a re lationship betweel that session and the communist attacks in Indo- china.

The United States sees greater promise for atomic agreement in a modest beginning than in a grandithe ose plan for solving all atomic probstaff, lems at once. He added that he hoped the Soviet government would accept that view in any negotiathe tions on President Eisenhower's proposal to pool some atomic energy for peaceful purposes. VATICAN CITY, Dec. 29. um-Despite his first serious ailment since he became pontiff in 1939, Pope Pius XII maintained a pace during the year now ending that would have exhausted many younger men.

A resume of his activities during 1953, issued today by the Vatican press office, shows that the 77- year-old Pope received 381,584 people in private, special and general audiences. That was slightly less than in the preceding year, when he received 437,797. But this year, from January 22 to March 12, when the Pope's illness "held the entire Catholic world in anxiety," audiences were suspend. ed, the resume said. The Pope made 84 major speeches and radio broadcasts during 1933.

He spoke 34 times in Italian, 29 in French, eight in German, five in English, four In Latin, three in (Spanish and one time in Portuguese. These figures do not include the numerous times that he spoke briefly in five or six languages to people received in general a Rare Twins Weigh Exactly the Same SAN GABRIEL, Dec. 29. UPIA medical raritybirth of twins whose weight is exactly the samewas disclosed today. Doctors at San Gabriel Valley hospital said the 2-day-o1d daughters of Mrs.

Sally Gibbs, 19, both weighed 3 pounds 15 ounces at birth. Almost Invariably, the doctors said, one twin outweighs the other. One said such an event "will not occur again in this generation." in Manila bay will join in. The oath will be administered by Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Paras, five minutes after Vice President Carlos P. Garcia, 57, is sworn in.

Foreign diplomatic and consular representatives will witness the ceremony from reviewing stands. Adm. Arthur Radford, chairman of the United States joint chiefs of staff, heads the American delegation which includes Walter Robinson, assistant secretary of state for the Far East. A military review will follow the simple ceremonies. in Manila bay will join in.

The oath will be administered by Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Paras, five minutes after Vice 5 President Carlos P. Garcia, -7' is sworn in. Foreign diplomatic and consular representatives will witness the ceremony from reviewing stands. Adm. Arthur Radford, chairman of United States joint chiefs of heads the American delega- tion which includes Walter Robin- son, assistant secretary of state for Far East.

A military review will follow the simnle ceremonies. JAIL DOORS TO OPEN BELGRADE, Yugoslavia. Dec. 29. than 450 persons serving short prison terms in the Yugoslav republic of Slovenia will be released on New Year's eve under an amnesty announced by the executive council of the Slitvenian national assembly, the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported today.

FIRE CREW BE INCREASE IN WINO 1 Johnston Says Ike Aims to Reduce Friction in Near East en Dennis Doings of the water of the river, while; under the proposed plan she would get one-sixteenth. Israel wants' two-thirds of the water, but would get only one-third. Jordan wants1 all of it, and none of the Arab states want to do business with Israel, or to help her. Israel, or to help her. Got Stove! Unable to find a suitable wood or coal stove.

an essential prop for a school play. students of Flint Junior college in Michigan placed this Want Ad: "COOK STOVEWood or coal. wanted for junior college play production. Emergencyl. borrow.

rent or buy They got the stove they wanted in a short time. You can get what you want through the Want Ads, too, whether you want to buy, sell, rent, trade, hire or locate. All you have to do to start a Want Ad working for you is to phone MAdison 3321 and ask for a Want Ad taker to help you word an effective message like this: 1 of producing three crops a year. "Thus the 240,000 acres to be reclaimed would be equal to 750,000 acres, or in effect it would be more land under irrigation than will be irrigated in the first unit of the Columbia basin," Johnston declared. He explained that the cost of the project is estimated at $121,000.000.

Of this sum he said $38,000,000 for the power plants could be deducted, for they would be constructed by private interests. Another 000 would be deducted, since this amount would be appropriated by the United Nations, leaving the final cost of the project at 000,000. Johnston maintained that the accomplishments of the proposed program would decide the riparian rights to the river and avoid future conflicts over the water; settle the problem of the Arab refugees; begin the settlement of the problems around the demilitarized zone, and give the destitute Arab refugees a 21ared. He explained that the cost of the project is estimated at $121 Df this sum he said $38,000,000 for he power plants could be deducted, for they would be constructed by private interests. Another DOO would be deducted, since this would be appropriated by the United Nations, leaving the final cost of the project at Johnston maintained that the ac- complishments of the proposed program would decide the riparian to the river and avoid future conflicts over the water; settle the problem of the Arab refugees; gin the settlement of the problems around the demilitarized zone, and give the destitute Arab refugees a LOS ANGELES, Dec.

29. (An Tired fire fighters, gaining in their battle against flames threatening famed Mount Wilson observatory and near-by multimillion dollar television installations, received an ominous weather bureau forecast today. Winds 25 to 35 M. P. H.

and even stronger gusts are anticipated early tomorrow. A slackening of winds today greatly aided the fire fighters. A federal forest service spokesman said headway had been made during the day but "we are fearful because of the wind forecast." Fingers of flame reached over the crest of Mount Wilson to within 200 yards of observatory buildings today before being beaten back by crews. Homes in foothill communities of the San Gabriel mountains, east of the Mount Wilson section of the fire, are believed to be out of danger. The blaze, with a 12-mile perimeter, has blackened 10,000 acres.

It started two days ago. And a second fire in the same rpngo, 99 miles to the east near Mount Baldy, probably will he controlled after burning more than 3000 acres. Development of the Jordan river valley could make It bloom as it never has In all history, and at the same time could bring peace and tranquility to the world, Eric A. Johnston yesterday told a capacity audience at the weekly membership luncheon of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. Speaking as President Eisenhower's special ambassador to the Near East, from where he recently returned, Johnston said the President's program has many facets but the most Important is that of establishing peace between Israel and the Arab world.

Paraphrasing Eisenhower's recent talk before the Gridiron club, he said the objective of his trip was to promote a friendship which comes only from understanding and confidence. "This is the program of the President of the United States. a program designed to promote a measure of greater understanding and greater tranquility in the Near East," he explained. Unless such a program Is adopted Johnston worni-d that a illitd world war could be started from the frictions which have inflamed the Near East, which he described as "almost in spontaneous combustion today." Admitting that the odds are one in three or four against the success of the President's plan, Johnston said the only hope of achieving agreement between the nations involved is through the adoption of unilateral agreements with the United Nations. It never could be accomplished through multilateral treaties, he said, because ef the many sources of friction.

Standing before an enlarged map of the Jordan river valley Janston pointed to the areas involved in the plan for bringing peace to that troubled land. He described the Jordan as a river flowing through 200 miles of dreary geography and 2000 years of dramatic history. Although three great religions of the world were founded in that area, and the Jordan is the most revered river in the world, he said they have brought nothing but poverty to the people. There now are refugees in the area, the number of which is increasing annually, he explained, the cost of which is $154,000,000 a year, with no diminUtion of the hatreds which have created this problem. In this international, cauldron of fear and distrust he said there looms the spectre of Russia, "less than one hour's flying time away by jet plane." Outlining the details of the proposed plan for the development of the Jordan, made without respect to national boundary lines but Only on how the water could be used most effectively, Johnston said the study called for the building of a dam In Lebanon to store the headwaters of the river.

The Yarmuk river, a tributary of the Jordan, also would be dammed, he said, and its course diverted to flow into Lake Tiberias, the Sea of Galilee, raising its level 7 feet. This would assure the Jordan a mean annual flow and no water would be wasted by flowing into the Dead sea, he explained. The program calls for the generation of 65,000 kilowatts of electric power, he said, but the important aspect of the project is that the land to be irrigated is capable The Spokesman-Review is offering prizes for letters describing the sayings and actions of children whose doings most resemble those of The Spokesman-Review's irrepressible comic character, Dennis the Menace. The following is typical of comments being received in Contest letters: "Last summer while playing In the yard he spied my new motorcycle. Liking the looks of it and wanting some day to be a rider, he decided to play at it.

The gas tank was nearly en1PlY so he decided to fill it wiln rolled oats and take off. When I discovered the new type of gas I asked him how I was to get it out and he calmly told me to turn it upside down and let it run out of its own accord." Undisma I these yed by the magnitude of ese problems. Johnston said he is preparing to return to the Need ast sometime in February to dis- 1 cuss the program with the nations, involved. He admitted it may be necessary for him to make several amount made. more trips before any progress is The population of this area was at its heighth about 450 A.

D. wheni it reached a total of about said. Today the pop-rights ulation is around 17.000,000 and the standard of living is the lowest in be-history. 1 "I will take 400 years to restorei the area to the productivity at the time of the Roman empire," he ad-1 stake in society. roittod, "bid tho land is replete ini But ho said nobody likes the pro-lhistory and it has extensive natural i gram.

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