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Attempted Kidnaping Of
Child Taken
From Crib
In Darkness
Pursuer Finds Infant
Abandoned In Yard;
Snatcher Gets Away
CORVALLIS A 7-week-old
baby was found unharmed early
Monday, after she was taken from
a crib beside her mother's bed.
The person who abducted little
Winette Marie Pope escaped into
the early-morning darkness when
a pursuing policeman ran into a
V.othesline.
The child was found under a
tree on the edge of her yard. Po
lice said she was purplish with
cold, but otherwise unharmed.
Sheriff's deputy Wayne Yates
and C. V. Rue gave this account
of what they said was an at
tempted kidnapping:
Mrs. Howard Pope awoke about
2 a.m. and found Winette gone
from her crib. Her other child,
Gary, 18 months, was asleep in
bis bed.
Mrs. Pope called police and then
her husband, working at a ply
wood mill here.
Rue and Yates arrived and
began searching the area around
the house.
Rue said be heard a noise at
the edge of the yard, and then
heard the footsteps of someone
running away. Rue gave chase but
was knocked to the ground when
he ran into a clothesline.
Mother Craving Theorized ,
The other nerson was lost in the
darkness, but Rue moments later
found the baby on the ground be
npnth a tree.
Rue said the child was partially
covered with a blanket. Beside the
child, he said, was a pillow case
containing her bottle ana some
Hnthine.
Eight policemen and five armed
volunteers including the child's
father searched the area until
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Syria, Turkey Accept
Saud's Mediation Bid
BEIRUT. Lebanon Wl Saudi
Arabia's King Saud today kept up
his efforts to mediate the Syrian
Turkish crisis, but ant progress
he was making was largely ob
scured by conflicting reports.
The Saudi Arabian radio in Mec
ca announced that the two disput
ing neighbors had accepted Saud's
offer to bring them together.
Moscow continued repeating its
charges that the United Slates is
pushing Turkey to attack its
southern neighbor, which has been
under increasing Soviet influence
for two months.
An editorial in Izvestia, the offi
cial Soviet government newspaper,
implied strongly that Russia might
use nuclear rocket weapons if Syr
ia is attacked. Izvestia said Tur
kev has turned the Syrian border
"into a hotbed of military prova
cations." Pravri.1 the Soviet Communrt
party newspaper, charged British
rti
Prime Minister Macmillan will try
to work out a plan of aggression
against the Arabs in his confer
ences in Washington this week.
In Syria and Turkey there still
were no signs oi general aiarm
ti. iin AccnmMv nrpnnreH to
begin debate tomorrow on the I one-year sentence for a similar members of the British Common-Turkish-Syrian
crisis. ! crime obtaining property by wealth and of the North Atlantic
' false pretenses. He received the Alliance might be invited to join
. ... sentence Dec. 28, 1956 but was if the United States agreed.
NEW DELHI W Prime Mm- pla(,ed on probation. This was re-i For the United States to take
istcr Nehru sam jnonnay ne oe-
lieves the Middle fcast situation
has "eased down considerably ann nr(.env ,)y connjUonai vendee and
the possibility of war has faded. olta inirts property by false pre
"Arab nationalism is stronger ! tenses,
j than communism or anlicomrnu-1 Tne iatler cnarge is the one
S:'", ofnS M pressed-"e is accused of
countries rather tend to hang to-1 issuing a worthless $104.17 check
gether. For Syria or anyrab ' in payment for a bill.
country to be called Communist
is a great exaggeration
In The Pay's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Note of sanity in the news:
President Eisenhower plans to
propose to British Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan, this week a
broad scale POOLING of the scien
tific resources of the Western allies.
He will do this in a determined fo 'both.h .nd p .to rJTZZnlZ 'her
doveloDment and waceful re-: C,V'C Pr.,d V.d hsP'l,ll'ly' sted ' tape motorcade up Broad
development ana peaceful re-.0ne of its historic great greetings , i ;, un
search.
Let's take a realistic look at our
selves. We're good. We're AWFULLY
good. But we aren't necessarily
God's little chil'en. There are oth-
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The Weather
Fair this afttrnoon, tonight and
Tuesday, with night and morning
fog.
Highr temp. Ittt 24 hours (7
Lowest ttmp. latt 24 hours .. 1
Highest temp, any October .. . 64
Lowtst temp, any October .... 26
Precip. last 74 hours I
rrecip. trom uci. i J ;
Precip. from Sept. 1 5.26
Eucisi from Sopt. I 3.37
r . . ... E.ii
Sunrise tomorrow, e:35 .m
Billy Graham Knocked
Down Bluff By Ram;
Knee Possibly Broken
MONTREAT, N.C. Ufi A pet
ram butted Billy Graham three
times yesterday, knocking the
evangelist 50 feet down 'a rocky
mountainside and sending him to
bed with cuts, bruises and a pos
sible fractured knee. .
An X-ray examination of the
knee was planned in Asheville to
day, but Graham said he would
make his scheduled appearance at
the Polo Grounds in New York
City next Sunday "even if I have
to be carried there on a stretch
er." He is to leave his home here
Wednesday for a series of meet
ings which will followup his New
York crusade of this summer.
Graham was in a pasture to feed
apples to the three Suffolk sheep
he recently purchased as pets for
his children when the ram went
into action. The first blow started
Graham down the hillside. The an
imal followed and struck him twice
more as Graham tumbled down
the rocks.
Graham, who had an ax in his
hand as he was examining the
sheep, used the handle to hold
the ram at bay while he crawled
through the pasture fence to safe
ty. He was reported running a
a slight temperature last night, and
the leg was badly swollen. He was
treated at his home by his father-in-law,
Dr. L. Nelson Bell.
BOWLER Bus Eaton of Rose
burg novv holds the national
record for consecutive games
bowled. He turned the trick
late Saturday when he beat
the old mark of 261 games.
In the early hours Sunday
he quit after establishing ' a
new mark of 280 games bowl
ed without interruption. It
took the 35-year-old lumber
truck driver 49 hours and 15
minutes to establish the new
record on the 16th alley at
Roseburg Bowl. - (Details on
sports page).
Convict Returned Here
To Face Another Charge
Jackie Blansett, 20. Mvrtle
Creek, is being brought from the
uregon state i-enitentiary today lo entific effort through a joint plan
Douglas County to face a bad check njng directorate with headquarters
charge in circuit court. i jn Washington.
I Blansett currently is serving a!
voked in June following an arrest
in Klamath Falls on two counts.
Rousinf Welcome Given
0ueen Elizabeth, Philip
By N. Y. City's
, By FRANCIS STILLEY
NEW YORK iifi The Queen
j of Britain got a king-sized wel-! harbor, where an Army installa
come Monday from New York's ! lion is located.
millions.
,,' w . i0
the earmarks of a giant, gala pic-
Inin .n.H omiH (h Irmerinff skv-
i scrapers of a city determined to
outdo itself in cheery welcome.
Wl'IfUlllC.
For Elizabeth II. it was her first
visit to the metropolis linked so
closely by name and history to her
nu'n pmnirp
Cheering men. women and chil- vpmaie cars, unncu aim wavea.
dren lined the streets to bid her As the royal party passed his
greeting. Boats and ships in the toric Trinity Church at the inter
harbor looted a welcome in a section of Wall Street and Broad
cacaphony of sound. Hordes of way. the church bells pealed out
people jamming skyscraper win- "find Save the Queen."
dows on lower Broadway sent tons When the Queen's car rolled to
of confetti hurtling down during a a stop in front of City Hall.
traditional ticker-tape parade to
City- Hall.
Flliiabeth, followed by her hus -
band, Prince Philip, stepped off a
train from Washington at 10:11)
a m. onto a long red carpet at
Staplcton, Staten Island, across
; the harbor to the south of Man-
u i
hattan.
i She also received a 21-gtin sa -
Established 1873 12 PagesKOSEBURG, OREGON-MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1957 247-57
Fires In Four
States Erase
Lives Of 21
Victims Include 17
Children; Causes List
Wire Defect, Cigaret
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seventeen children and four
adults died yesterday in six fires
in Texas, Ohio, New Jersey and
upstate New York.
In Belpre, Ohio, a 36-year-old
mother and seven of her nine
children perished in a fire appar
ently started by defective wiring.
Found huddled around tne tele
vision set in the living room were
Mrs. Vivan Snider; her daughters
Linda, 14, Sheila. 11, Mona, 7, and
Reta Jo, 5 months; and her sons
Mickey, 9, David, 3, and Danny, 2.
Firemen said they died of suffo
cation. Mrs. binders husband
Lloyd, 40, a glass worker, and one
child were visiting relatives in
Vienna, W. V.a., and the other
child was in a hospital.
Four children were asphyxiated
in their frame house in Amarillo.
Tex., while their father, Airman
2.C. Aaron White, of Amarillo Air
Force Base, was taking a baby sit
ter home. His wife Lurine, 22 was
ill with influenza at the base hos
oital. Neighbors said the youngsters
were in the back bedroom of the
house when fire swept through the
living room and kitchen.
Dead were Kathy, 6, Aaron, 4,
Sharon, 2, and Stanley, 18 months.
Tenament Tragedy Scene
Four children in a Newark, N.J.
family died when flames trapped
them in the third floor of a tene
ment. Their parents and a fifth
child suffered injuries when they
jumped to the street.
As the three-alarm fire swept
through the six-family frame ten
ement, Godfrey Taylor, 34, think
ing his family was safe, jumped
to a second floor window ledge
and then to the street.
His wife, clutching her S-year-old
daughter Rita in her arms,
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Britain To Ask Nuclear
Policy Pool With U. S.
LONDON un The British gov
ernment announced Monday
Prime Minister Macmillan will
take three top nuclear policy plan
ners to his conference with Pres
ident Eisenhower in Washington.
This tends to substantiate re
ports Macmillan will propose at
the meeting a U.S.-British part
nership in nuclear and rocket re
search. He is said to have such
a proposal all shaped up.
under the reported plan, ine iwo
allies would coordinate their sei-
There was speculation that other
i part, Congress might have to re
peal or revise the McMahoh Act,
which sharply curtails the sharing
of atomic information, even with
friendly nations.
Macmillan s Conservative gov
ernment evidently feels the recent
forward strikes by the Soviet Un
ion may persuade Congress the act
should be changed
Multitude
Mute from cannon on Governor's
Island at the other side of the
Ten thousand New Yorkers
Police estimated 250.000 persons
, .. ..., ., ,inn
?n,m.e(l lne P"a route along
Broadway in the heart of the fi
nancial district to City Hal .
( t, , , ,, L- - j ,
Tr.,,"j . '."'1
market tapes fluttering down
The Queen and the Prince, in
crowds shouted greetings and
another 21-gun salute roared out.
! Reduced charges of powder had
been put in th guns so as lo avert
damage to windows
ISext on the program was a
motorcade up Park Ave. to the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for a re-
i ceptinn and luncheon tendered by
ilhe city.
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WIN CLOTHES CONTEST Suson Engdahl, 15, left,
and Juanita Spongier, 1 7, were winner in the Douglas
County division of the "Make It With Wool" contest.
They are shown wearing their clothing entries which won.
They will enter the state contest Nov. 8 In Portland. (Paul
Jenkins),
Two Victors In
Contest Eye State Laurels
Make It Yourself With Wool"
contest winners who will enter the
state contest in Portland Nov. 8
are Juanita Spangler and Susan
Engdahl.
Juanita, 17, was winner in the
senior division with an entry of
a peacock blue, white-flecked flan-
Hibdon Pleads Murder
Guilt In Second Degree
LAKEVIEW Wl Jesse Thur-
man Hibdon, 27, pleaded guilty to
second degree murder Saturday
morning in the shooting of Troy
Lawson, 60, during a holdup of
the Paisley postoffice, Oct. 10.
Appearing in the Circuit court
of Judge Charles Foster, Hibdon
admitted the charge and asked
that an attorney be appointed for
him. Judge Foster assigned Rob
ert Welch as counsel.
Hibdon was captured after al
most a week of search in the vi
cinity of Paisley. He was appre
hended at a motel near La Pine,
more than 100 miles north of
Paisley.
Lawson was killed when he hur
ried to the post office in response
to an alarm. He was armed with
a .22 caliber pistol. He was un
aware that one of the robbers was
in a car narked at the'post office
door. Just as he reached the front
of the building he was hit in the
stomach by a blast from a shot
gun fired from the car.
Another man arrested in con
nection with the holdup altempt,
Donald Ferguson, 35, was car
tured shortly after the holdup. He
was wounded in the arm by a
member of the searching party.
Hibdon waived grand jury hear
ing in entering his plea of guilty
to the second degree charge. Lake
County Dist. Ally. Julian Hern
don said a life sentence is manda
tory. Hibdon will be sentenced on
Monday, Oct. 28.
Ferguson still is being held in
the Lake County jail on a charge
of assault and armed robbery. He
is scheduled for a grand jury ap
pearance. Minor Hurts Received
By Sailor In Car Upset
Minor injuries were suffered by
Dale Everett Sanders, 20, when
he overturned a 1950 sedan on the
North Umpqua Road early this
morning.
Sanders, home on leave from the
Navy, lists his address as Rt. 1 Box
306, Roseburg. He is in Community
Hospital where he is receiving
treatment for lacerations to h i s
scalp and lip and for shock.
According to stale police. Sand
ers was travelling east when he
ran off the road about a mile
from Roseburg. The car apparent
ly ronea over once, ponce siaieti,
and received heavy damage to the
right front, top and rear deck.
Canyonville Man Faces
Two Criminal Charges
Two criminal charges face a 23-
'ear-old Canyonville man being
year-old Canyonville man being;
brought to the Douglas County
J"'1 ,oday from Orcgun City.
Howard A. Bethea. taken into
custody by the Clackamas County
sheriff's office, faces charges of
defrauding an innkeeper and tak -
ing and using a motor vehicle wilh -
lout the owner's consent.
Baby Thwarted
County Wool
nel suit with a waist-line length
jacket. She is a graduate of Doug
las High and the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Loyd Spangler of South
Dillard. .,. . .; ,
Junior division winner Susan
Engdahl entered an oatmeal beige
dress. Susan is 15, a sophomore at
Koseburg High, and the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. V. fingdahl.
The two girls, with Mrs. Charles
McCord, county director of the
contest will go to Portland Nov. 7
for the state contest at the Oregon
Wool Growers convention. The
girls will model their entries at
Lipman Wolfe and Co.. Nov. 8.
The two state winners will be elig
ible for the national contest at
Phoenix, Ariz., later in the year.
Camas Girl Winner
Taking first place in the sub-deb
division was Maxine Dancer of
Camas Valley who made a light
blue flannel skirt. Other sub-deb
entrant was Mary Lou Engdahl,
Roseburg. Entering in the senior
division were Barbara Short and
Claudia Whitten, Sutherlin. Junior
division entrants were Lauretta
Abbott, Yoncalla; Beverly Butts,
Joyce Cook and Carol Duyck,
Douglas; and Rose Jennings and
Janet Weikum, Roseburg.
Judges were .Mrs. Jesse Reed,
Roseburg; Mrs. Hopo Tacchini,
county extension agent, and Mrs.
Zelpha McAllister, Dillard. Mrs.
Donald Matson was fashion com'
mentator.
Legislative Session Fight
Due Over $42 Million Gap
In Rival Tax Slash Plans
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM ( The inter-party
struggle in the legislative special
session, which opens a week from
Monday, involves 42 million dol
lars. That is the essential difference
in the tax relief programs of the
two parlies.
With an estimated general fund
surplus of S69.605.650 as of next
June 30, Gov. Holmes and his fel
low Democrats want to reduce tax
es about 17 million dollars in the
current biennium.
The Republicans want to out tax
as by 59 millions.
Republicans argue that most of
the surplus which is the biggest
in the state's history should be
given back to the taxpayers in or
der to keep the Democrats from
spending it.
Gov. Holmes contends that to re
turn anything like 59 millions to
the taxpayers would cripple the
1959 legislature and make it im
possible to provide such things as
new state institutiona and college
buildings. Ha says that if the Re
publican program is approved,
tha tpKiinn wntiM ha InrnnA
, increase taxes in order to pro
vide essential state services.
The governor's more modest tax
reduction program probably will be
approved by the House, where the
1 Democrats have 36 to 24 control
l Rut in the Senate split 15-15
i between the two parties it might
' be impossible for either plan to be
High Court
Again Hits
Segregation
Review Refusal Death
Blow To Virginia's
Placement Statute
WASHINGTON I The Su.
preme Court dealt a death blow
Monday to Virginia pupil place
ment act.
The tribunal did so by refusing
to review a decision in two school
segregation cases in which the
state's 1U56 placement law was
declared unconstitutional.
The decision, dealing with pupil
placement act tests in Norfolk
and Newport News, was given by
U. S. District Judge Walter E.
Hoffman of Norfolk and was af
firmed by the U. S. Circuit Court
in Richmond.
The refusal to review the de
cision lets it stand unchanged.
The Supreme Court's refusal was
announced in a brief order which
gave no reason and made no com
ment. School officials of both Norfolk
and Newport News, joined by the'
state s attorney general, had ap
pealed.
In the Virginia placement law
test, the Virginia officials contend
ed the action of the lower courts
"makes even more difficult of so
lution the most difficult social
problem presented to the people
oi tnis country m eigm aecaaes.
Chan To Bar Ended
The appeal said Judge Hoffman
acted "with undue impetuosity"
and said the cases gave the Su
preme Court an opportunity "to
lead a large section of our country
out of the chaos into which the
(1954) decision (against compul
sory school segregation) has
plunged it."' The appeal added:
"The time has come for the
Supreme Court to recognize and
exDound the practicalities of life
in these areas and to establish
a framework within which public
education can continue.
The Virginia pupil placement
act removed power to assign pu-
nils from local school boards and
division superintendents and con
ferred the authority on a pupil
placement board. The appeal said
the board Was authorized to act
on stated bases, "none in any way
involving race or color.
The Circuit Court said the act
provided no adequate remedy to
Negroes because of the fixed pol
icy of Virginia school officials on
segregation ana necause anotner
act of the Legislature calls for
closing of schools and withdrawal
of state funds upon any departure
from segregation.
CDUF Donations Reach
About 15 Pet. Of Coal
The Central Douglas United
Fund today reached about IS per
cent of its goal of $64,444.
Don O'Neill, executive secretary,
said that the total pledges and
contributions turned in amounted
to $9,281.60 this morning. The re
port is thought to be incomplete,
since many division chairmen
haven't turned in their solicitations.
.The lumber division, headed by
Lloyd Crenshaw, was credited with
donations of $3,800. Second was the
department stores division, led by
Lowell Khoden, with $1,145. Vie
Bakala's automotive division turn
en in $967. 50; Al Parr's utilities
$685; and Howard Peterson's fi
nance, $600.
passed. Consequently, it looks like
the tax reduction may he aome
where between the two plans.
Basis School Aid At Issue
The Republicans also want to re
peal the law under which the state,
whenever other revenues fall short,
could levy a 6-mill slate property
tax. Most Demoorata, including the
Governor, want this law retained
in case of emergency.
Oregon hasn't had to levy a state
properly tax since 1940.
Part of the Governor's plan la to
reduce property taxes by increas
ing basio school aid to local dis
tricts to $105 per school census
child per year. The 1957 Legisla
ture increased it from $80 to $95.
$120 basic school fund apportion
ment, and they will demand that
the leigslators approve it at the
special session. '
The effect of the Governor'a plan
would he lo cut property taxes
sbout S per cent, and to reduce
income ttfxes about 6 per cent.
Neither party has come forth yet
with detailed proposals on how to
achieve income tax reduction, that
is, they haven't decided which
classes of taxpayers would get the
most relief.
Other Issues May Arise
Gov. Holmes, when he announced
Aug. 23 that the special session
would he called, said the session
would hnlimited to lax relief. He
has stuck by his guns, even inform
Pleas To Place Teamsters
Union Under Receivers Nov
Being Heard By Judge Letts
WASHINGTON UP) Federal District Judge F. Dickinson
Letts refused .Monday to lift his order restraining James R.
Hoffa from taking over as president of the Teamsters
Union.
Letts then went ahead with a hearing on pleas to eon
vert the restraining order into a preliminary injunction
against Hoffa and to put the l'2 million-member Team
sters Union under court receivers.
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Bakery Union Head
Also In Racket Quiz
CLEVELAND 11 A national
conference of Bakery Workers
Union members, called by Inter
national Vice President Harry
Friedman of Cleveland, voted con
fidence Sunday in the union's
president, James Q. Cross of
Washington.
But outside the downtown hotel
where the conference took place
some 150 other members of the
union carried picket signs and
yelled in football-cheer fashion:
"Go, go, go Cross!"
Cross' conduct in his union
office has been investigated by
the Senate Rackets Committee,
and the AFL-CIO Executive Coun
cil has ordered the union's lead
ers to appear Friday to say what
has been done to remedy alleged
corrupt practices. An unsatisfac
tory answer could lead to the
expulsion of the 138,000-member
Bakers union irom tne Ar-uiu.
Anti-Cross forces, led by four
of the Bakers union s 17 vice
presidents, supplied the picketing
crews here Sunday. They said 40
to ' 45 large locals were repre
sented on the picket lines. A few
delegates, some of whom came
from points as distant as Fargo,
N.D., refused to pass tne pickets
to enter the hotel.
Douglas GOP Names
Candidate Preferences
Douglas County Republicans ten
tatively checked the direction of
the political wind Sunday at an
open house at party headquarters
in KoseDurg.
The names oi several men tne
county GOP members would like
to see as candidates for office next
November were made public aft
er a straw ballot.
If the wishes of the straw voters
hold true, then James B, Beding-
field of Coos Bay will run on the
GOP ticket for U.S. representa
tive. State Treasurer Sig Unander
will run for governor: Dudley C,
Walton for state representative
from Douglas County; and Don
Sanders for district attorney.
Robert G. Davis was named for
a non-partisan office that of cir
cuit judge. It's expected that the
circuit bench will be vacated at
the end of 1958 by Judge Carl E.
Wimberly. He sail) publicly about
two years ago that he wouldn't run
again.
Several other persons were
mentioned as possible candidates
for one office or another: Al Joel
son, Claude Esselstrom, Ray Doer
ner. Morris C. Bowker was liked
to succeed himself as county as
sessor. There was a scattering of names
for a second state representative
and for county commissioner, ac
cording to Russell C. Cary, who
aided in arranging the open nouse.
The open house was sponsored
by the Douglas County Republican
Club. Cary said the club probably
would make recommendations of
candidates for office later in the
year.
About 100 persons showed up at
the party headquarters, located at
819 SE Douglas Ave.
ing stale departments that thev
must not introduce bills on other
subjects.
Both parties have gone along
with this single-purpose idea in the
hopes that the session might be
finished in a couple of weeks. The
lawmakers feel they already have
donated enough time to the 4ite
this year in their 128-day ret&ir
session which was the longest in
nisiory.
The legislative leaders are set
ting up the machinery so that nuth.
ing can be considered except tax
rcnci.
However, there are demands for
consideration of other subjects. For
instance, U.S. Sen. Richard L. Ncu
berger and some other Democrats
want a state power commission
created.
Secrotary of Slate Mark Hatfield
wants authorization to build a slate
motor vehicle building on the capi
tal mall. And the Oregon Fann
ers Union wants a new law to pre
vent double taxation In some rural
school districts.
The special session will be an
other chapter of a tax dispute that
started in 1955, when the Republican-controlled
legislature passed a
45 per cent surtax on top of the
regular income tax.
When the Democrats won control
of the state government in 1956,
many political observers felt that
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Plaintiffs in the case are a
group of rank and file New York
Teamsters members. They claim
the recent Teamstera convention
which elected Hoffa to succeed
Dave Beck was illegal.
Letts quickly denied four mo
tions argued by Teamsters Atty.
mama u uunognue. ine motions
would have dismissed the existing
restraining order and put the case
down for trial on its merits.
O'Donoghue said Letts had act
ed improperly in granting the re
straining order last week after a
ciosea neanng in the court's cham
bers without notice to the union
and without giving union attorneys
a chance to be present. '
O'Donoghue said this violated
one of the canons of the American
Bar Assn. limiting issuance of re
straining orders without opposing
counsel being present only to the
most urgent cases dictated by dire
necessity.
Beck Still In Chair
Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) of
the Senate committee contend
more than half the convention dele
gates were illegally chosen. He
said one of the delegates who par.
ticipated in the convention actual
ly was not elected formally by his
local union as a delegate until a
week after the convention ended.
He did not name the delegate.
Dave Beck, the union's rplirln
president, also accused of corrup
tion in Senate committee tesli-
mony, has announced he is hold
ing up plans to step out in Hoffa 's '
favor pending the outcome of the
court cnauenge.
In an answer to the contentions
of the plaintiffs, the union had
challenged the right of the court
to intervene in the political affairs
of a private organization.
The Union rnnienHorl m,1.;ia
there may have been violations of
a number of union constitutional
provisions over electing and seat
ing delegates, this was cured by
a ruling from Beck waiving thpa
constitutional provisions under the
union president's power to inter
pret uie constitution.
Sputnik To Take
Three, Evening
Crossings Of U. S.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. If) The
United States Monday night
should get its best view of the
Russian rocket-satellite since it
was launched Oct. 4, Smithsonian
Astrophysics! Observtnrr offi
cials said Monday.
The rocket will be taking three
evening crossings of the nation
;ljt,ln.th8 East- "Sain in the
Mid-West, and finally in the Far
West.
Only 150 miles high, the rocket
will be comine from m,iiuri.
direction the opposite uf it's
morning orbit.
Dr. Leon Campbell, director of
moonwatch urainini in h.
United States, cautioned eager
viewers not to be misled by the
planet Venus, now brilliant in the
western sky aftor sunset. The
rocket will not only show un mi.rh
farther south tut will definitely be
in iiiuiiuu iiKo a mgn-iiying jet.
On its third swing, the 40th lat
itude crossing is over Elko, Nev.,
about 6:20 p.m. (PST).
On the passage, the rocket will
come in from the Pacifle Ocean just
norm oi Lot Angeles, cross Cen
tral Nevada and Eastern Idaho,
and leave the United States over
central Montana.
Tuesday's passage will be
roughly the same in all instances
nut about 100 miles west.
Dr. J. Allen Hvnek. associate
director of the Smithsonian Ob
servatory, said "Sputnik" the
spherical radio-equipped satellite,
is tagging behind its more spec
tacular third-stage rocket by al
most a half hour.
Andrew B. Ledwith. who has
been monitoring Sputnik's radio.
said It is still giving out a strong
carrier tone, like a whistle. It
lost its beep beep in the first
week.
Preliminary Hearings
Due In District Court
Two preliminary hearings are on
tap in district court this afternoon.
A hearing for Tom Lewis, 26,
Portland, accused of stabbing an
other S.P. section hand in an af
fray near Drain, is scheduled for
2:30 p.m. before Judge Warren A.
Woodruff.
Mrs. Hazel Caudill, 38. 1124 W.
Military Ave., charged with unlaw
fully obtaining public assistance,
will have a hearing at 4 p.m. She
allegedly was receiving welfare
cheeks although receiving money
from her former husband.
Levity Fact Rant
By L F. Reizenstein
To placate Southwestern
Oregon commuter I, the
Southern Pacific R. R. might
be persuaded to establish a
hand-car system on a propul
sion basis of do'-it-youfself.
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