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-Thi Strtaiman. Sflert Oregon. Sunday. April 9, T 1950 Ballet Dancer Niiinsky Dies After 3 Decades of Insanity Ap Kidnap LONDON, April &HffVVasTv Nijinsky, the greatest ballet dancer of all lime who went mad three decades ago, died in a London clinic today of nephritis inflammation of the kidneys. He was 60. The brightest star of the Imperial Russian Ballet had lived in a world of melancholy fantasy since his mind began to break in 1917 under constant brooding about the future. He was only zv years oia tnen and at the height of his career hailed as "the man of whom the gods are jealous." Two years later he was pronounced insane. He suffered from schizophrenia, commonly called a split personality-. He was without peer as a dan cer. His tremendous leaps mat seemed to defy gravity and his easy grace were best shown per haps in his rove in Scheherezade that of a half naked slave driv en to furious passion by a lustful oriental princess. Debut Successful His debut at New York's Met- J fiVkhm.r frnwicnct of sex mis- tremendous success. In "Spectre of the Rose," thousands of rose petals floated like red rain about him as he danced and leaped with an agility no other ballet star has yet matched.. He appeared in Fans with the Immortal Pavlova. There his dar ing "the Afternoon of a Faun" was a sensation. He came to England in 1948. ac companied by his wife, the former Hungarian actress and dancer Romola Pulszky, who had nursed him devotedly through years - of illness and hid him from the nazis during World War IL Treatment Helpful Twelve years ago there had been hope that Nijinsky might emerge from his twilight exis tence and dance again. He had undergone treatment that appear ed beneficial, but the impact of the war drove him back into the shadows. He fell ill last Monday com plaining of headaches, and was taken to the clinic Thursday. A relative who was at his bedside when death came said: "Vaslav suddenly seemed to get better. He made the sign of the cross and held out his hand to me saying, 'goodby, Paul," and .then he was gone. Girl Rescued i : 1 After By Sex Pervert CO VINA, Calif., April 8 -UrV A terrified Covina high school -girl. Dulcy Nelson, 17, returned safely to her home today after being kidnaped for a horrifying five-hour experience of sex mis treatment. , I Sheriffs officers said she was snatched from hr boy friend as they sat in ' front of her house Jtast night and driven into the lonely hills by a youth who sub jected her to sex perversion but not rape. "I hadnt expected to lee her live he kept her so long," sohbed her mother. Mrs. Homer A. Nel son. We are lucky, very lucky. Someone else may not be so lucky.". ' "It will take her awhile to get over it." said , her father, a 43- year-old school equipment sales man. "It was quite a shock." A physician examined the girl, Eave her a sedative and smt her ome. but he declined comment ' about her condition. Sheriffs in vestigators previously said she was apparently unharmed but ter ribly distraught The gunman accused of taking I and mistreating Miss Nelson was I caught, still with her. He gave his name as Vance Smith, jr., 20, of West Covina. He was booked on suspicion of kidnaping, theft of an automoDiie ano) sexual perver ' ' sion. ('-...' Records showed that Smith, charged with burglary and rob bery three years ago at Burbank, Calif., was placed on probation, then last June was committed by his parents to Patton state (men tal) hospital,' being paroled to his .parents last January. Mormon Cricket Time Approaches CORVALLIS, April 8 -(JPy- It's almost Mormon cricket time again In Gilliam and Morrow counties, ! the Oregon State college extension service warned today. The extension service said farm ers were not worried, however, ' since ' control measures already nave been planned. Board Studies artments Zone Change The proposed change of zone for a South High street apartment house site was assured Saturday of going through at least on more city planning and zoning commission meeting before reach ing the city council, which has the final say. The commission is to meet sometime Monday to check over latest findings by the city engin eer in the issue, where owners of affected property in the area are divided almost equally over approval of the change, according to Robert F. White, chairman. Earlier it had recommended the change, but cannot do so if pro ponents of the change fail to gain support of a majority of the af fected property, within 300 feet of the site. Without a majority, the commission can only forward the petition without comment. Although a majority was claim ed once, it was disputed. A Satur day conference of petitioners, ob jectors and city representatives left the former apparently about 700 feet short of the required 50 per cent backing. It was claimed, however, by the petitioners, that the plat of the area was incorrect, since it show ed some property in residential use that was dedicated for street purposes and was not known to have been vacated. The dispute concerns a propos ed $1,500,000 apartment house at High and Kearney streets. The change from residential to apart ment zoning is sought by William E. Healy of Salem and .Paul Mur phy of Oswego. India. Pakistan Envoys Sign NEW DELHI, India, April t-(&) The prime ministers of India and Pakistan today signed an agree ment aimed at ending the com munal fighting between Hindus and Moslems that has- plagued both countries since they won in dependence from Britain in 1947. "It will be presented simultane ously to the India parliament and to the constituent assembly of Pakistan on Monday, April 10," i communique announced. .,' Details were not officially dis closed. HOW! You Pay Ho More For Revolutionary .. ras I II it n fTT n "9"sl V Mrs she bm exciting nag ever offered at saediiua price! TMafc at ill Yarn Js press a bot tom for the exact cooking best yom wsat. "Tslkiag colors' show yoa w hick) bonoa to pras. It's the saoat talked-aboot ad tacssaeot ia electric cooking lace the louodnctioa of Hot polafs amaxiag. Calrod Hess LgUaJts, rHutpaini: Cawed IMh start fast, cook with efficiency built to Ust! Ova TVm permits cooking entire meal J while yoe are away. Klti mtmiir makes it easy to time cooking oa surface units. 3 larf ifru.n Snwtw hare roaaded corners to aiake cltsaiag tttji U.S. Priest in Moscow Kept . , M. From Duties PHILADELPHIA. April 8 -UP) A Philadelphia lawyer disclosed today . that the Soviet Union has refused an American priest per mission to celebrate Easter Sun day I mass in Moscow tomorrow, The attorney. Michael Francis Doyle, said he received his in formation from the U. 5. state department In Washington, the state department affirmed that its last report from Moscow was that the only American priest there had not received permis sion thus far to conduct religious services in the Soviet capital. Doyle is an international law yer who devotes consiaeraDie time to protecting the rights of American Roman Catholics under terms of the Soviet-United States treaty of 1933 in which the U. S. recognized the Soviet Union. The treaty was signed by the late President Franklin D. Roose velt and by Maxim Litvinoff, then Russian foreign minister. Doyle said that the only Roman Catholic church in Moscow where priest has been permitted to officiate is the St. Louis Francais church. He said that it has been the practice of the Russian lead ers to permit, an American priest to celebrate mass at that church on Easter Sundays since 1933. Instead, tomorrow, the mass will be celebrated by the Rev. Canaille Thomas of France. Willamettd U. Chorus Wins Beta Contest Early Photo graphs Identified at founty Historical Society Meet ' Early Salem history was uncovered Saturday night when persons in some 75-year-old photographs of local schools were identified for the first time. i I They were identified at the first regular meeting of the newlv- organized Marion County Historical society in the Salem public library's fireplace room. The pictures were brought to the meeting from the state library by State Ar chivist David C. Duniway. Duniway was named president of the new society at the opening meeting. Other officers named in cluded: Lowell Brown, Silverton, vice-president; Hugh Morrow, Sa lem, secretary; David Eyre, Salem, treasurer: and Mrs. Frank Oettin ger, Turner, Marguerite Looney, Jefferson, and Murray Wade, Sa lem, all on the board of directors. A fourth director will be select ed .by the board. The nominating committee included Bryan Goode nough, Mirpah G. Blair and Ernest Rostel. The gavel used at the first meet ing was passed on to the group by Julia Webster and was once used by the late Judge Daniel Webster of Salem. : xewis juason Drought a sex tant to the meeting which his grandfather used to test the com pass with-which he layed out the streets of Salem. won top contest of PORTLAND, April -(JP)- A 16 member a cappella chorus from Willamette university honors in the annual Beta Theta Pi fraternity here to night. It was a third straight win fop the Willamette fraternity and carried possession of I the trophy. The Salem school s group also captured the fraternity's Spokane award for scholarship and the Walla Walla award for campus activities. j Robert Paul Durin, Oregon State college, was named the fra ternity's outstanding, senior for 1950. ! : ! Competing in the chorus event were groups from chapters at the University of Oregon, Oregon State, Whitman college, Univer sity of Washington, I Washington State college. The Oregon State chorus placed second; trura. Whitman's More Homes Endangered by Ruhr Mines Halt Export to Russian Zone Bullet Wound In Throat Kills Finance Expert OREGON CITY, April 8 -UP-Clackamas county officials said today they were investigating the death of George W. Davidson, 47, Tnrflartfl financial xiir-ve-olw frirA dead in his home at Lake Grove ! arrived Daughter Wed As Father Dies ROCHESTER, N. April 8-(P) Today was Barbara Louise Mills wedding day and her father, Stan ley F. Mills, escorted her down the aisle of St Stephens Episco pal church. Halfway to the altar Mills col lapsed. He was dead of a heart attack by the time an ambulance Thursday, District Attorney Leonard Lin das said Mrs. Davidson reported finding her husband dead in a pool of blood on the bed. David son had been subject to throat hemorrhages, and at first his death was blamed on natural causes. An undertaker reported, how ever ,he found a 22 caliber bul let, wound under the chin. The in vestigation began. Lindas said a bathroom in the home appeared to be spattered with blood. A rifle was found in the corner of the bedroom, 15 feet from the bed, the district at torney said. Resul of an autopsy are not expected before Monday. - Davidson was vice-president of the American Business Credit Corp of New York and was in charge of the firm's office in Portland. Ship to Leave Shanghai If China Reds Relent HONG KONG, Sunday, April 9 -P)-j- The little steamer Anking will sail this afternoon for Shang hai If communist officials send word it can take off some of the 1,6001 foreigners who have been trying to get out for months. Communist authorities still have; not given full approval to the evacuation plans, it was learn ed reliably. Astoria Slides ASTORIA, Ore, April 8 -JP)-More families prepared tonight to evacuate homes on Coxcomb hill where earth cracks hint of a widening of a slide; area. Since last; January, 17 dwellings have been abandoned. A few have been destroyed. H City officials reported the cracks were in the vicinity of ?2nd street, to the east of the 21st! street and Irving avenue sector already eva cuated. The moving, earth has rip ped holes in the patched 22nd street pavement. Continued rains this week were blamed. In the past several days, the city engineering department in dicated, the slide has moved eight feet a day. I . The families of Mrs. Wilder Packer and Steve Walluiis were planning to abandon their houses. A third dwelling was also threat ened by the new slippage. These were at the foot of the hill along Grand avenue. ' i A Red Cross committee is finan cing the moving of two homes about to be engulf ed,J These are owned by Mrs. Lucy Lyman and Frank Sorenson. j ( j About seven homes are threat ened by the cracks appearing in the 22nd street vicinity. Rehabilitation costs are now estimated at $40,000. The Red Cross expects to spend $25,000 for salvaging or moving homes that can be saved. The citv airo-v has spent $13,000 double its normal emergency fund outlay far work on the hillside aiea. : (Members of the Red Cross dis aster committee and city council held a special session List night to review the salvage situation. Movement of the homes involves crossing a city owned jDridge and the council has askfc( i" --- protection. The span is only a few years old and cost $40,0uu. BERLIN, April MiP)-The Ruhr coal mines have stopped deliver ies the the Russian zone of Ger many in a new dispute over meth od oi payment. , The coal embargo, coming on top of an embargo on steel, has infuriated east German trade circles. East and west negotiators who handle the interzonal trade held several stormy meetings this week without reaching a solution. U.S. officials, disclosing the sit uation today, said the west Ger man coal producers had demand ed letters of credit from the east ern buyers. The buyers were in no financial position to put forth such credit and the producers thereupon shut off shipments. The trade division of the US.4 high commission said the coal em bargo probably will be ironed out, since no fundamental disagree ment in policy is involved. The only problem to be solved is the manner of payment. Allied authorities indicated they are not too sympathetic with the west German demand. OneJ American autnority said that the western insistence on either let ters of credit in the Soviet zone or cash may be considered good business ordinarily but that it violates the spirit of an inter zonal trade agreement for ex change of goods. Noted Explorer, Anthony Fiala, Dies NEW YORK, April 8 -OP)-An thony Fiala, 80-year-old explorer, died today at his Brooklyn home. Fiala accompanied Colonel Theodore Roosevelt on his trip through the Brazilian jungle in 1912-1913 on the famous search for the "River of Doubt." The Roosevelt party charted the rower saw, Blades Stolen Larceny of a power saw and a set of blades, valued at a total pf $120, from an unoccupied Sa lem house was reported Saturday to city police. G. T. Moisan, 1890 N. 17th st. said the saw and blades were tak en sometime . f ter , 9 p xn. Friday from a house he owns at 1030 N. 16th st. The thief entered a locked basement room by using a pass key that hung by the door. Other tools in the room were not touched, Moisan said. Dulles to Tackle Jap Pack Issue as First Assignment WASHINGTON, April 8 - (jp) Republican adviser John Foster Dulles has held his first foreign policy huddle with the state de partment, on the tough problem of whether to press for an early Ja panese peace treaty. , Secretary of State Acheson sought the assistance of his new policy consultant, it was learned today, after Dulles had expressed an interest in the issue. The problem has been hotly de bated both within the Truman administration and among the big powers of the world. "He would have wanted us to go on," said Miss Mills. And the Rev. James A. Rock well performed the ceremony making her Mrs. Erick Lissfelt of Pittsburgh, Pa. 4 Boys Escape State School Four 16-year-old boys escaped Saturday night from the Wood burn Boys, school. None had been recaptured early this morning. The escapees were: Augustine Alouyisious Templis, Clatskanie; Darrell Hendrix Collins, Warren ton; Earl Lee Crawford, Trout dale; and Patrick Carl HilL Port land. " v Six other boys escaped Thurs day night. Two were captured by school officials shortly after the break and two more were picked up Friday by state police in a stolen auto in eastern Oregon. Wildon Boyer and John Wilson, both 14, are still at large. Nationalists Claim Reds9 Planes Downed TAIPEI, Formosa, April S-tfV The Chinese Nationalists announc ed tonigh that they shot down "several" communist planet in a series of dogfights over the Shang hai area today. At the same time nkval dis patches said Nationalist warships killed more than 1,000 reds in smashing a new communist at tempt to inva'e the big southern island of Hainan. A pursuit of fleeing communist junks was re ported still in progress. An air force communique said the Nationalist fliers suffered no losses in the Shanghai encounters with 25 "Russian" planes. 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