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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1954)
; t Sec I) Statesman, Salem. Ore- Sun.. Sept. 13. 1954 Interracial Resort m m . '- .!:,; f - ' ' - i ' Rising in Las Vegas ' LAS VEGAS, Nev. tf On the vest side of this gambling town, far from the pleasure palaces on the fashionable "Strip," a : three million dollar hotel is rising. It will look much like the other gilded hostelries, but there's a dif ference: It will be interracial. Money Still Pouring In to nappy MT. -PEASANT. Mih. UP) The "n-Yvr-asted'-' Charlie Die bel tzmur b'gan a weekend re cess Srturc'av' from their nickel counting."but( the coins still poured in irom across tne nation. ; j Mrs. Diebel, a comely housewife whose television appearance start ed the small fortune in nickels, said that by Friday "night the sit'ts through the mails totaled $6,513. ' The young woman estimated that at least 103,030 letters en closing nickels and other, pieces ot money have been delivered to he within the past week. ; i i i Marfc'art Diclx 1, attractive. ! 26-year-old mother of two children. was ncked from the audience of ishow she the Garry Moore television Sept.-10, and Moore asked j were rich. When Mrs. Diebel laughing plied "no,' the television star sug gested that all h i TV pudienc? send a nickel to her home in Mi JKeasant. ! : i I y re Lawyer Named I i Nixon's Assistant ! - i'-i ' ST. LOUIS. Mo. fUP Vice President Richard M. Nixon Sat urday said he has appointed Robert L. King, 41-year-old vice president and general manager' of Southern Comfort, Inc , as his ad ministrative assistant. ! jp - King, a lawyer, was 1 supervisor of the Federal Bureau of Investi gation's anti-Communist 1 squad in San Francisco during World War II. Nixon described him as a, "per sonal friend." ; i ' When , completed the 200-room Moulin Rouge will be the only hotel where Nesroes are Welcome in Las Vegas, which even hometowners concede has one of the tightest col or lines in the West U ! ; ! Even the topflight Negro show people who entertain in cabarets along, the lavish strip usually stay in private homes, j : ? i ! The Moulin Rouge, due to be completed in February, will cater to them and to Negro tourists and townsfolk as well as persons of any other race. It will have a, casino, swimmihg! pool, and a large theater-restaurant. ; P Alexander Bisno, a white Los An geles rear estate man who heads a group of private investors build ing the ' establishment, believes it will be the first hotel in the United States to offer Negroes j luxurious resort accomodations. f Henry' Bisno, his brother and partner in a " Los Angeles real es tate firm, says the investors are both Negro and white businessmen, "frankly in business for a profit. Dut we're very pleased when our social ideas run parallel with our business ; ideas." . ! Henry -i Bisno estimates Las Ve gas has about 7,300 Negroes among its 50,000 population. Strip hotels employ much Negro help. ' Besides the Moulin Rouge two other interracial hotels are being planned here. The Continental and the Tangiers. will also be off the famed Strip, i I j Leaders of' the colored organiza tions from all over the nation are being invited to its grand opening Feb.. 12, Bisno said. i r , 4 Cars Derailed Near Vancouver VANCOUVER, Wash. IB ' Four cars of a! Spokane, i- Portland and Seattle Railway train were de railed in an accident here Friday evening. , - : An SP&S official said the journal box on the 29th car of a 49-car freight train broke, sending two cars over a 25-foot bank and de railing two others. j Crows can fly 60 miles per hour. Man Freed In Slaying . Jailed Again WELLAND. Ont. (UP) Bruce MacLean, acquitted by an all-male jury of the "American Tragedy- murder of his young wiie, was back in jail Saturday on a false pretenses charge. The jury deliberated a nours ana 14 minutes Friday before freeing the 23-year old steel plant book keeper on the murder charge. Jus tice R. W. Treleaven concurred in the verdict and said the jurors had given MacLean the benefit of doubt as you should do. : MacLean's wife, Betty i zo. drowned Aug. 23. 1953, in nearby Pike Creek during a canoe ride with her husband. It was consid ered an accident until last April when Silvia Davies, 20, a former girl friend of MacLean, accused himi of obtaining si.6O0 from ner under promise of matrimony. s Miss Davies, now Mrs. Raymond St. Louis, said MacLean had told her he deliberately upset the canoe and swam around his wife, a non swimmer, until she drowned J She said the handsome bookkeeper boasted to her that he had com mitted "the perfect crime" and would do the same thing to her if she sued for her $1,600. i MacLean. a former scout leader! took the stand himself during the four-day trial, admitted telling the girl he had drowned his wife, but said be-fabricated the entire story just to scare her. The drowning plot described by the former girl friend had resem bled the theme of Theodore Dreis er's famed novel of the 1920s, "An American Tragedy," in which an ambitious youth drowned his preg nant factory girl sweetheart to marry a rich guU President Asked to Visit Portland ! PORTLAND (UP) Mayor Fred L. Peterson has extended an invi tation to President Eisenhower to visit Portland while he, is in the state next Thursday for dedication of McNary dam. The Portland mayor said he had asked the President to stop off in Portland "if only for a few hours. Present plans call for the Presi dent to give bis dedication address at the dam and leave immediately afterward for Pendleton to board his special plane for a flight to Los Angeles where he will speak that night. , Flushed From Hills If . - , CARSON CITY, Nev Sullen Gene T. Liebig, 19-year-old kidnaper from Cambridge, Minn- walks slowly after bis capture a half mile from the Nevada State Prison at Carson City, from which lie and , tw others escaped a few hours earlier in a milk truck. Llebig was the last to be caught A guard, held as hostage, was lulled ! in the hail of bullets as other guards opened fire during the break for freedom. AP WIREPHOTO.) S ! 1 CARACAS, Venezuela (UP) -Charles E. Scripps, chairman of the board of the Stripps-Howard newspapers,' was received yester day by President Marcos Perez Kiminez. Charles Scripps Visits Venezuela President Scripps, who is on a tour of Latin America, also visited the Mara caibo , oil fields and was, a lunch guests i of U. S. : Ambassador Fletcher Warren. Tunisia Radio Station Raided TUNIS, Tunisia (UP) Terror ism continued to stalk this French North African protectorate Satur day, with the latest incident a raid by several armed men on the Radio Tunis station at Djedeida. The raiders fired at troops guarding the installation, but they fled when the troops fired back. i A civilian and a Spahi were kid naped by Nationalists Thursday night, while a second Spahi es caped. Friday, three men with army rifles robbed a Tunisian liv ing in the Gafza region of 20.000 Francs. i Sleeping Tablets Accomplish What Air Crash Couldn t LONDON (UP) London nr- eeons knew businessman Gerrv Fitzgerald of Los Angeles as "the man wno ought to be dead. He survived a 1946 cLane; rrach in the Swiss Alns that broke; vrv major bone in his body except his spine. In his eieht-vear battle for : sin' vival he underwent 38 operations and was told the next operation might mean the loss of one or both of his lees. Fitzgerald died Friday after tailing an overdose oi sleeping tab lets, isy nis side in his home in Chelsea his wife found a note sav- ing he had had "another sleepless night j and was in severe pain. The Library of Congress has a Japanese collection which totals 380,000 volumes. II 1 II When your Doctor bands yoa prescription, yo want It compounded promptly and precisely. 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