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2 (Sec 1) Statesman, Salem, Mansfield Search ... ( , i , Moves to Dayton, Portland Sectors 'r i I !.;. By JAMES BURR MILLER J , Staff Writer, The Statesman . " An evasive Kay Kermit Mansfield, 49, who crested quite a stir in the S:lem area Monday by escaping from the Oregon State Prison, remained at large Tuesday with search for him. centering in the Dryton ejea and into Portland. if! Manficld was, serving a total of 40 yean on ithree counts of rape, af-.nlt with Attempt to rape and burglary. He was sentenced Conservation Award Goes 1 o SDrague WASHINGTON -m Secretary of the Interior McKay announced Tuesday conservation awards to seven persons active in programs "for the wise use and preservation of the nation's natural resources." The seven included: . Charles A. Sprague, publisher of the Oregon Statesman, Salem, Ore., a former ; governor of Ore gon, and Davis T. Mason, Port land, Ore. Both liave been asso ciated with the; Oregon and Cali fornia Advisory Board which ad ministers valuable timber lands in Oregon. They were recognized for their outstanding contributions to forest conservation. ' Harry Pearson, Klamath Indian Agency, Oregon, for successful soil conservation practices. Pear son is an Indian. French-Reich Talk Proposed By Adenauer BONN UP Chancellor Konrad Adenauer moved Tuesday night to speed the unification of Europe by proposing new talks on French German differences. In a letter to ; the French gov ernment, the chancellor suggested he and French Foreign Minister Georges . Bidault meet during the next seven days to discuss a settle ment of the Saar question and other problems. The French-German deadlock over the future of the rich indus trial Saar territory is one of the maui roadblocks do trencn ap proval of the plan for a six-nation European army, f 1 , This plan one7" of the key stones of American foreign policy would permit the arming of German troops to' help defend free . Europe against the threat of So viet aggression.. ;. g First Model of Jet Airliner "SEATTLE The Boeing Air plane Co. Tuesday unveiled its 550-mile-an-hour challenge to Brit ain's claims to supremacy in com mercial jet planes. The company which : builds the giant, 8-jet B52 heavy . bomber save newsmen their first glimpse of the monster it hopes will serve as the world a airliner in 1957, meeting and beating the competi tion offered by the Comet, now being produced by England's de Haviland. Boeing was reluctant to talk in specific performance figures "be cause of the element of competi tion" but it would admit to these minimums. i A cruising speed of 550 miles an hour developed by four jet en gines, , each of which produces thrust equivalent to 10,000 horse power at sea level and 20,000 horsepower at normal flight level (33,000 feet and up). . Its carrying' capacity was rated at from 80 to 150 passengers with a huge cargo-carrying space in the lower deck. The passenger cabin is more than 100 feet long, housed in a giant 128-foot fuselage which looks much like the current Boe ing airliner, the Stratocruiser. About sixteen million dollars of the company's own funds are go, ing into, the 'development of the craft but William M. ADen. presi dent of Boeing, said the aerody namic "know-how", and manufac turing techniques which made pos sible the production of the inter continental bombers were utilized to the fullest extent Only one of the huge v aircraft now is in production but Weuwood Beall. senior vice president of the company, said no other airplane builder in the United States has progressed that far with jet-propelled airliners. The one being produced will fly in late August or early September. Commercial production, is expect ed to be under way by late 1957. Pancake) Supper a Pancakes,1 Bacon, Eggs and i Coffee. All you can eat 93 it .12 or under--49c .. Middle Grove School 5:30 to S P.' M.-Mrth S Oro.. Wd March 3, 13S4 ; irom Marion lpbiit uitcuii Court in September, 1952. The convict was believed to have gotten out of the prison about 2:15 p.m. Monday by se creting himself between , flax bundles on a truck travelling from the flax mill inside the wall to the flax warehouse outside the walL Mansfield was employed as a truck loader at the flax tnilL Warden Clarence T. Gladden charged "very evident negligence on the part of the officer respons-' ible for the truck" and said there was an investigation underway to determine why the escape was made. The warden reconstructed the getaway: this! way: He said the bales are stacked on a truck bed in alternate stacks of three 'bales, two bales and one bale so that the load can be tied down easier. This load is then towed by tractor to the warehouse. Apparently Mansfield took advantage, iof a time when the guard was not looking to hide aniongst the bales. it- . ixaas inecsea The warden said a guard is upposed to check every load carefully before 'allowing it to be taken outside the walls, "but this apparently wasn't done Monday, he pointed out The load was hauled outside the wall and in side the warehouse where an other officer is ion duty, but ap- f parently while his attention was distracted Mansfield came out of the load, mingled among other convicts in the; warehouse and then slipped away. It is believed that he walked along the warehouse to the creek which he followed to nearby rail road tracks. Two freight cars were parked nearby and the war den said it was bis understanding that these cars (were checked by guards. However, these cars were hauled to Dallas that afternoon about 3:15 o'clock and it was in a freight car at Dallas Tuesday that the convict's prison shirt was found. This is not a regularly scheduled train' run, the warden explained. i Considered Dangerous Warden Gladden said the pri soner, , whom j he considered a dangerous roan, was wearing a pair of coveralls while working as a loader at j the flax mill and could have had other clothes on underneath the working attire. ' Monday night a report by an East Salem farmer that he'd seen man,-' who lit Mansfield's de scription, running across a field. touched off a concentrated night search in the area by a total of 75 prison guards, State police and city officers. This search was in tensified when a 10-year-old girl told her mother that she d seen a face in a window and her de scription sounded like Mansfield. Phoned for Dog Another farmer in the .area. bearing of the search, telephoned his brother in Eugene and asked mm to send his bloodhound here by plane. "I don't want any con vict plodding around my back yard, he said. f However it; wis reasonably es tablished Tuesday that the es- capce had gone the opposite di rection whenj the prison shirt. bearing his convict number, was found in. Dallas. Also, at least two drivers identified a picture of Mansfield! as a man they'd picked up as; a hitch-hiker Tues day morning. I One of the drivers told state police that the last thing the man asked about 8:30 aon. was, "Which way is it to Forest Grove?" The next identi fication came from a truck driv er who said he took the man as far as Dayton, i . Capt Ray Howard of state po lice, said he bad a great number of men on the search and road blocks were j set in the-' Dayton area. Also he said there was some indication that the man might have made, it as far . as a ihiuuu: auu iuctc irwnu wnc being checked Tuesday night He said nothing; was found in the East Salem search Monday night Mansfield is believed to be wearing j a sweat shirt and levi trousers 1 and is "bareheaded. He is described as 3 feet 4 inches: 145 pounds; blue eyes, greying and thinning 4rown hair, ruddy complexion, blind in the left eye ana a oroxeq nose He was arrested in 1952 in con nection with; attacks on three Sa lem : women,! one of them a 56-year-old! grandmother and one a 20-year-old- woman, less than two months after; his release from pri son alter serving a 14-year sen tence xor burglary. 4 Charged With Reckless Driving Four i Salem residents in two separate incidents involving the same intersection at Marion and North Cottage Streets were ar rested Tuesday night by city po lice on charges of reckless driv ing. All were cited to court roiice identified the young men as Lawrence Richard Sipes, 453 Shipping St; Danny C Fred- rickson, 2515 SUverton Kd.: By ron Jack Weekly, 2880 Ward Dr., and Donald William Weber. 1616 Slightly Warmer ; Weather .Forecast 1 :-' ' i ' ? Slightly warmer temperatures ranging ; from 63 to 33 degrees were expected for Salem today, according to predictions by 1 the U.S. Weather Bureau at McNary Field. Weathermen predicted scat tered high cloudiness, but other wise "fair today. Temperatures ranged from 57 to 27 degrees in Salem Tuesday, r I - i r-'-l 2,000 Seek Donations To Red Cross I Donations to the Red Cross 'be gan coming in this week as nearly 1,000 volunteers throughout Mari on County pushed into the fund drive for $49,000. j i Advance Gifts Chairman Earl Gooch said about 75 per cent of his division's $10,000 quota has been raised. 1 f Other' divisions win check their progress later" in the week. Especially active! the first two days were the 600; women under taking solicitation of the residen tial areas. Headquarters for the fund raising effort; is at the Mar on County Red Cross chapter house. ( j j ' ' George Goferth is campaign chairman. I f f j . ; ; , :. li ters Collide, Crash; 6 Men Killed KEY, WEST, Fla.i UPi Two heli copters on an j anti-submarine training exercise collided in flight Tuesday and crashed in flames, killing all six Navy men aboard. The whuiybirds were only 100 feet off the round when the acci dent occurred after a mile from downtown Key West ; One of the helicopters appeared to slide into the other while making a turn just above Felming Key. . There was a loud crash and some ground observers thought they saw flames engulf both i air craft. Then the helicopters plunged to the bleak Coral key. j The wreckage was a mass of flames by the time two Navy foam tanks and two Navy pumpers reached the scene. A derrick had to be used to get! at some of the charred bodies, i i H Navy officials said the dead included T. J. Bignan, chief elec tronics technician.: of Rock, Rapids, Iowa, whose brother, James Mich ael Bignan, lives at Portland, Ore. His parents also live in Portland. Senator Asks Bricker Vote Reconsidered WASHINGTON ( - Sen. Len non (D-NC) served notice Tues day he wiU ask the Senate to re consider the action by which it defeated, on a single vote mar gin, a propqsal to amend the Con stitution to curb treaty powers. - Lennon was absent last Friday when the Senate recorded a roll call of 60 votes for the proposal and 31 against it The 60 votes were just one vote shy of the two- thirds required for approval. He filed a formal re-consideration no tice. I : i ' j- Any senator can call the motion up at any time, but unless some senator shifts ! position 1 there seemed little likelihood of any change in the result f Water Pistol Menace9 Stirs Police Action SWIFT CURRENT. Sask. tfl The kids in this southwestern Saskatchewan city, says Police Chief Roy Hart, have become menace with their water pistol raids. ' j Hart's office looked like a dime store munitions plant Tuesday after a number of pistols were taken from teenagers. The chief said teenagers have been riding: up and down city streets in cars with windows open. When they pass another car with its windows down, the kids let fly with their water pistols. I Fun is fun. Hart said, but any one caught cutting loose with a water pistol in the future is going to be charged with assault Djakarta, capital of Indonesia, is 7,640 miles from San Francisco by the nearest sea route. In Silvcrton Wcd.Har.3rd Swiss Yodelsrs Swiss Family Fraunfelder Yodelers of Stage, Screen, - Radio and Television . Hoar Them In Concert ' "ECHOES FROM SWITZEillAnD" 8 Pf.V PALACE THEATRE Ada. 125 Tax IncL - Sponsored by Silvertoi : Lions dob , Helicon Competition At Spelling Contest Toimh r . . . (Story also on page 1) KEIZER It was no easy chore for Pauline r Kuenzi and Sharon McKimmey to win their way to the Grand Finals of The States-man-KSLM Spelling Contest, set for Parrish Junior High in Salem, Wednesday night, March 24. Pauline; from Willard School, and Sharon, from Hazel Green, placef one-two in a semi-finals at Keiief School Tuesday night. Mary Olson, host contestant from Keizer, was a close third, and Susan ' yan, Fruitland, was just as close fa fourth. Then came two boys. Michael Mills v Clear Lake, and Jerry Seims. Central Howell, in fifth and sixth place, respectively. But any one of these six could have been first They were still in the running when the official list of 325 words was exhausted and the word caller was forced , to resort to words generally unfamiliar in oraer to aeciae tne contest Official Wards End Staying in the running longest while the official word list was still being used was Karen Man tie. 12. n the 8th grade at Prat um, who finally slipped on ''exhil arate" the 322nd word, called. Billie Lou Jones, 13, an 8th grader at Lake Labish, missed "competent" the 285th - word and Jerry Nolan, also 13 and . in he 8th grade at Brooks, stumbled on i "paralysis" the 281s word. Elizabeth Keyser, 11. in Mac- eay's 7th grade, stayed hv. until she .met "elevator"-the 149th word, and Richard Bartsch, 13, in the 8th i grade at North HowelL went out two words earlier on religious, Dean Westling. 12, a 7th-grader : Labish Center, had trouble at with "argument" the 124th word. and 'recognize," the 121st word stumped Jewel Sharp, 15. an 8th- grader at Chemawa. William Dez otell, 12, from Bethel's 8th grade, tripped!; on "foreign"-rthe 86th word in the contest. Previous Contestants Four of the 14 contestants had competed in the semi-finals a year ago the first- and second place winners and Karen Mantie and Billie Lou Jones. Three of the contestants, be cause they are now only in the 7th grade, will be eligible a year nence Micnaei Aims, tuzaDem gent a message asking for a post Keyser and Dean Westling. ponement until he can attend. Host principal was Carmalite weacie ana master of ceremonies was wave Hoss, manager of KSLM.t Who presented the first place Webster's New Collegiate top three spellers. Word caller was Wendell Webb, managing editor of The States SUaljf! ?mas Wright, Statesman news staff. Nearly 300 nersons witnessed the 'close contest. n Talks Of Building Jet Air Force TOKYO Of) , Japan's govern- ment proposed Tuesday to create a jet air force, set up joint chiefs of staff and boost military man- power; to safeguard "against di- rect and indirect aggression." Prime Minister Shiseru Yoshi- da s cabinet approved drafts of two defense bills, an action linked with the impending signing of a mutual security nact with the Unit- ed States. Informed niirrM uirf th. nrohahlv will h iimoH uvirt.tr following a cabinet meeting. The immmt wnuM rail fnr T.n to take over more of her own de- tenses using u.s. material equip- ment, and technical advice. The cabinet - approved bills. which are expected to be present ed to the current diet ' session, would Establish a defense board and a "self-defense force." . Boost the national safety forces from' 120,000 to 164,000. Establish a joint chiefs of staff under the defense board. Add a new air defense force to the present land and coastal safe ty forces. v Expand the responsibility of the' forces, now limited to cracking down on large-scale internal nots. to that of safeguarding the nation against aggression. ESS Starts Today Open 6:45 Adults .50 Children 3M RvsseiL s vt - J .-...Jr..- Japa k 4. .v aW !l Blonaesj mmimM na i i i l i, t i in I -i: - .- FLVS- " Rescued w - t ; - ' " ' ' - ; ?j J 4 ,: :J v. It i iiM PHILADELPHIA tSeventeen-year-old Ruby Mosley Is carried by firemen from ne of the buildings leveled by an explo sion after she was trapped six noun In public phone booth. Five persons, among them three children, were killed and twen ty others Injured, i Two build ings collapsed in the densely populated section of South Phil' adelphla. Caase f the initial blast was not determined. (AP Wirephoto ; to The SUtesmaa.) Joe eet - With Stevens (Story also on page one.) " WASHINGTON ur Sen. McCar thy announced Tuesday night his tentatively scheduled meeting with Sec. of the Army Stevens to discuss what McCarthy j hasN termed "con tradictions" in Army handling of alleged Communists will be de layed, j I'M He and Stevens had tentatively agreed to talk it out Thursday or Monday, depending on imitual con venience, behind the closed doors of McCarthy's : Senate investiga tions subcommittee. McCarthy 1 said Tuesday night mittee member who is' in Europe, SvminEton is exoected to return Saturday. Wasting Time vJ?1. .TrL "..rVJ, K "unless something unusual hap- inir"these argumenU with people who agree with me 93 per cent and disagree 5 per cent. McCarthy said he also has draft ed a letter to Secretary of State Dulles asking why the secretary stripped W. R. Scott McLeod. State Department J security officer and friend of McCarthy, of authority over personnel. Not Unfriendly" "It was pot an unfriendly let ter." McCarthy told reporters. One of them asked whether he had been correctly described as "disturbed" by news of the curbing of Mc- Leod's authority. I "I would say that's a conserva- tive statement," McCarthy ire- plied. - j ! . He declined to make public the letter, and said he will not decide until he gets a reply whether to conduct hearings on tne matter, He said he wrote as chairman: of I the Senate 'Government Operations Committee. I McCarthy also announced he will schedule public hearings here Thursday to hear testimony from ;two cooperative witnesses and J f our uncooperative ones" concern- M0 alleged Communist activity at r wcvwiuuur UoM laboratory at Nutley, N; J. FREE Accordian furnished for C weeks while you learn ; The Music Center In the Capitol Shopping Center 1 I ! cam WSUi MAKE .!..!. j. i Short Sub'rsch NEWS 1J McCarthy v w-v m Uelays 1V1 L JfciL , urn- ! warn Prices This Engagement: Adults . . . , Bids on Nine Timber Tracts At $258,747 '- Bidders offered a total of $258, 747 lor nine tracts included in a timber sale conducted in Salem by the Bureau of Land Manage ment Tuesday. Salem District Forester R. O. Fety, pointed out that the last four auctions have been for tim ber valued at, an average of a quarter of a million dollars per sale. The prices Lid for the 12,850f 000 board feet of timber averaged 25 per cent above the appraised prices, with all nine of the tracts- consisting primarily of salvage timber in the Tuesday sale. Largest Offering Largest of the offerings was the 7,560,000-boar feet Goose neck , tract in Polk County ' tor which Simonson Brothers - Log ging Cay Astoria was the high bidder, at $160,769. Three tracts in Yamhill County were purchased by Hadley Cho drik, John W. Flansberg, and Mendenhall and Fendall who bid $3,210, $401 and $24,099 respec tively. Washington County . Tracts in Washington County having high bid prices of $1,174 and $3,152 went to Ott and Zage low, and Matiaco and Hayden, re spectively. " " Leo Balcom was the high bid der at $15,426 for t tract in Clack amas County; Lulay Brothers Lumber Com pany offered tb.2 high bid of $17, 546 for a Lin. . County tract, I. P. Miller Lumber Co. was the only bidder for a tract of timber in Benton County appraised at $32,768. Substitute Handlers Needed At Post Office ' Salem Post Office is setting about getting a new civil service list of substitute mail handlers, The U. S. Civil Service Commis sion.has posted notices that appli cations are now being accepted from nersons who live within the area served by Salem Post Office, An examination will be held. Pay for the position which in cludes part-time, as well as more- or-less regular work, is $1,565 per hour. Postmaster Albert Gragg said s veral men of that classification are used in the daily operations of the Post Office here, along with the regular, mail handlers. He re quested a new register of names after the old list no longer left enough men to draw from. V V A Quakiat f d 4 CSXtttT ITISU TS Monday, March 151 Salem High Auditorium, 8:15 p. m. Reserved Seats, 2.40 3.00 j Unreserved Student, 1.80 r Tickets at STEVENS St SOS Wednesday Lunch At Norths 1 Virginia Baked Ham Dinner Sandwich In the Capitol Shopping Center Whipped Potatoes and . Cream Gravy kKt Cranberry Sauce Fast Service . . . Delicious Food Try Salem's Best ! ! Place to Eat! i wuess s THE STORY V OF A LOVE THAT MADE MUSIC 1 1 JAMES STEiVrVKT JUNE AIIYSON f -x fJ 'KM. f iHiflt J ' 6IMN MILLER STOEY i C0K 1CK KhW MORCM - ALSO $ ,v.;e,r , "THEY WERE CHAMPS" COLOR CARTOON $1.00 Solono Vote ; to Cancel Corporations Tax Cut ! WASHINGTON m -t The House Ways and Means Committee voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to cancel scheduled Jwo billion dollar an nual cut in, fcorporatioo Income taxes. -President Eisenhower has istrongly urged cancellation. 4 i But members said the commit tee also paved the way for almost certain approval Wednesday of a proposal opposed by the admin istration slashing many excise or sales taxevin half.' S : Chairman Daniel Af Reed (R- NY) introduced the excise bill Tuesday, predicting it would give h immediate boost to consumer buying and thus 'to the nation'! economy. He urged speedy , action by Congress. The bill would slice to 10 per cent all excise rates now above " i i ... i .I i , Executprs Take Over Operation Of Mausoleum Three joint execntors, Arthur R. Smither, Brazier C. Small and Magnolia Rigdon assumed opera tion of the Salem Mausoleum and Crematorium, Inc., Tuesday as a result of action in Marion County Probate Court in the Lloyd T. Rig don estate. Magnolia Rigdon, ! widow of Lloyd Rigdon, is bequeathed $5, 000 outright and the residue of the estate is then turned over to the joint executors for a period of 10 years. The estate is apprais ed in excess of $25,000. ACORNS FROM THE WITH Ott WLHt WAJCH IT, j ISAAC! Your waist-line's beginning to show! Know what he did? Isaae Stern, I mean. He went down to the Oak Room for dinner when he was here for hisconcert and he ordered a ten derloin. He asked if he could go see the cut made so the waitress took him outrto Phil, our chief cook, and Phil showed him just where his steak was coming from. Stern he looks at the meat and his mouth waters a little and he says, "Phil tell you wnat Cut me a DOUBLE one. That meat looks pretty terrific from where I stand." And then he ordered a big raw onion on the side. Wow could that man eat j But I'm missing my point What I want to get across is that we would welcome yon in the kitch en, too. Next time you're down. just say the word and Phil will give, you the same treatment It's kind of fun to watch your steak from start to finish! Remember in Salem it's the HOTEL MARION Phone 84123 STARTS NEVER SUCH SPECTACUE AND GRANDEUR! ' ''2 tX - 31 -' ( : : 1 j ?,"'T y .CmeinBStpiSaei ( Z r AeSpWor; A: 'J .o j Apt k:eht TAYLOR GARDIIER FERRER - : AllliE CRAtiFORD r STAtlLEY DAKEEl " Prices ThU Show, Adults JU5.aildrei 20c PLUS r ji Al . i l, J , LI 1 V i-l K ' II that Jev'el. except for liquor' and tobacco. It would affect : a score of jtems now taxed at from 5 It 15 per cent i ' ; " It was a two-edged proposition, cancelling cuts scheduled April 1 in some other excise! on liquor, tobacco, gasoline, automobiles, beer and wine., -t ;.. .J Under present law the top corpo ration income tax rate, now 51 per cent, drops to 47 per cent on April L j The committee voted 122 ! to S to extend the present rate for one more year, without change, j I. That marked a big but; gradual shift in sentiment. When Eisen hower i first a.4ced for the exten sion. Chairman Reed and other members publicly voiced opposi tion. Rep. Simpson (R-Pa) a key committee Republican, predicted a compromise at 50 per cent , But Tuesday, only two Demo crats Reps. Mills (D-Arkl. and Gregory (D-Ky) voted to let the scheduled reduction take ef feet. Rep. Camp (D-Ga) was ab sent All IS committee Republicans and seven Democrats supported ine move in a closed-door session. fr 1 :. 1 State Workers Hear Martin, Sheppard j The Evergreen Chapter 28, Ore gon State Employes Association heard A. Martin and Robert Shep pard of the State Civil Service, explain classifications within the civil service. In other business before the club, the name of Gor don Tomlin was placed in nomina tion for the March 20 elections for district director. I -J 1 - mows y . STARTS TODAY! GEE! But It's Great! 3 v f m. m w w m - wrr-j MflTTfTfTf: lit H.jij i O'CONNOR ALSO K Joan Fontaine j Jack Palance ,jnj 'Flight to ! Tangier' TODAY! ava - j Marry wWs of Wmdserand' Color Cartoon a. I r m court St
