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i . - " " y ''' - 1 . ..... - ' " ' ., '.'h.imi , hi, .iiiiiii. !,!., , , ,,,,,1,, F - - . V : ' - " : ' ; ' ' - -' 1 - 'I' I: I: 1, , Knora V. weather " ureau, McXary field.-. Salem): . Tog and low cloudiness thi room- ' log. GcncnllT - lair thum afternoon -and tonight. High today naar 66; low tonight near 33. - Temperature , at tt.-0l i.ni. today was 48. " i - Willametta Birar -l.i feat. r " SAJUEM FKIXIFrf AXION i Sine Start of Wtathr Ytar Sept 1 This Year Last Year Normal ..: '4.73 445 . , ' 5.37 mrim Geared t the Crowta f Ortgoa ! I :. PCUND3D tZ3i 104th YEAR 12 PAGES Tha Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Hovember 2, IS 54 PRICE No. 223 Both F 8 Mopefel of Vie Sit Pi rm LXAJJ Tor the voters of America this Is another day of decision. Election day is. a legal holiday, and usually , a quiet day, rather solemn, as men and women file into election booths and mark, in privacy their 'choices. This rite is also a right, hard-won, still de nied in many lands or destroyed by Official compulsions. ! One should give thanks as he i exer cises his voting franchise for it is the symbol of the individual's sovereignty, full independence of action. .v" i' ' We have had in Oregon , and across the - nation a hard r cam paign, a bitter campaign, many call it. "Smears," "lies," how often these and other objurga tions have been hurled back and forth. In view of the extremes one might be concerned lest the country 'fly apart Fortunately this bitterness is chiefly politician-deep. The great American public Is not. riven so badly "as the competing politicians who battle for place and power. Nor mally elections prove decisive and -winners bridle their tongues - and losers let' their wounds heal. I am not so sure this will follow today's elections; for this election is just a preliminary heat on the 1956 presidential campaign. No matter which ' party wins today, the contest will continue; as riv als seek to set the stage for 1958. An editor gets caught in the crossfire too. I have saved a few . of ,the reader reactions which have come to my desk: r ft "1 wonder how a man like you can support a man who , " s "If you are determined, to mis lead the electorate, we suggest that . . " - 1 ! ' Another signed, by typewriter, A Former Admirer": "People have overlooked many pf i your eccentricities, believing you were a Christian first and a Republi can second. But after your hearty endorsement of . .lYou are no longer a young nuu auu .uiuai soon face your Maker . . etc. So I can only quote: "To err is hunlan, To forgive, Divipe" Tacheji Isles Pounded by Red Bombers i ''f'-':. J s M ! '. :S :.. ; TAIPEH. Formosa () ;The Na tionalist Tachen Islands ibe lieved marked for Ked-invasion: were pounded Monday by nine Russian-built bombers, official ad vices said. .11. - " - . The Tachens, s Northern (.anchor of- Nationalist bases 200 miles north of Formosa - never have i been bombed before although Refd jets have been making frequent recon naissance flights over them re- cently.- :. . V ' A ! -1 - " " The Defense Ministry said one of the raiders was .shot down, but did not make clear whether it was a bomber or, one of the jet and propeller-driven . fighters which flew escort . The number of fight ers on the raid was not given. (Peiping radio said its planes "heavily bombed" ' the Tachens, sent many military targets up in flames and hit ..and set. ablaze a waj'ship anchored . off lhe: islands. It ' asserted all planes , returned safely despite "thick rings of anti aircraft fire.", , 1 Benson Names Pendleton Man As Assistant i WASHINGTON (UP) -Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T- Benson Monday appointed Milan O. Smith, . Pendleton, Ore., frozen food com- pany official, to be his executive v assistant, effective Dec. Li;' I Smith. 35, succeeds Lorenzo N. . 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' : Avoiding downtown Salem traffic, Monday morning after ttfo years' work and $2,600,000 expense. reduced by about one-half the Salem Bypass Now Op 1 toehtd Motor Traffic Salem was wiped off the pigfc iy map Monday for several.hun- map Monday for severalihun- dred long-distance motorists as the new Salem bypass went! into its first day of operation. j : 1 Truck drivers who traveled the new limited-access route east of the city reported that making the 9 -mile trip took about half as much time as covering the 4ame distance by way of downtowjr Sa lem, ; - . .,- State police estimated tha 170 to 200 cars an hour traveled over the bypass Monday at speeds averaging between 45 am -50 miles an hour. . ' . : , No accidents were reportc d on the new stretch of highway, and only two tickets warning! for expired license tags were issu ed by the patrol that was a: sign ed to The bypass. , . Highway crews are still at work completing' approaches, at both ends of the bypass, which' c; rties traflic from a point imme'diately north of Salem to a junctiort sev eral ' miles - south' of the city ! Temperature For November 1 ' ' ' The weather. was ,up to isome new tricks in Salem Moriday. on the aftermath of a mild EaBo- ween weekend, and the. city was- treatea to its secona warmest No vember day in recorded history. McNary Field. weathermenust ed off their, books and. ', reported it had been 27 years . sinc '.the city: got so warm during Nfvem ber. Back in 1927, the mercury worked its way up a notch ihigh er on Nov.-3 to set an al-time November record of 70 degrees. Monday was the eighth straight day of sunshine 1 in . SalemL the forecasters ' said, - and the mild weather should continue at least through- today. Morning-.iog and, afternoon sunshine are predicted, with an afternoon high of 59 de grees.. ' . , J.. j -. - The warm temperatures. ouol- ed with drying .east -winds, have creaiea aanger wnen lire isi usea in the woods. Gov. Paul Patterson warned Mondayin Salem. He said all forest fire regulations will re main in effect until heavy, -au tumn rains amve. - Mia. Sit. 44- SO . 31 49 JSj 48 . 'SI 3S :s Saleam. ' y -Portland ,, Mediorf North Brid Roeeburg .,. San Francisco Chicafo New York Loa Angclca JDO .00 ! trace -.00 JDO .11 M M ' Max.. c 6 J : . 71 - 54 - ; -59 as ; , JO , -6JS : I'- Speeds Along New Bypass motorists speed along the new time .required to. drive through Salem. (Statesman Photo.) Saxons Get a . v Roses From Student Fansl . -; - . : By BARBARA BONIFACE ! Statesman School Reporter ''Roses to our' football team. They've done it again.? " " r This is a familiar speech to all South Salem High School- stu dents. Every Monday morning to date Principal Carl Aschenbren ner has opened the school's pub lie - address announcements - with this tribute to the undefeated Sa xon football .team. , ; ; 1 1 ' A group of students taking one of the chartered buses to . a re cent football game decided their team should get real roses. Chip; ping in money, they succeeded in getting enough for roses for the football team. i . ; , Monday morning 'the football team was awarded individual rose buds by J members of the contri buting .bus crowd., , , t , In keeping with the high school spirit over .the .victorious Saxons, CarVAschenbrenner has also prom ised to get a crewcut- in- front1 of the i entire student body if the team goes unbeaten "in 'their foot ball season.: So far they have ful filled ithat requirement ' 5 If . they succeed in winning against North S a 1 e m Friday, their 'principal1 will go- through with his part of the bargain. "- EVANGELIST .TO REST, V HOUSTON, Tex. LB Evangelist Billy Graham : arrived here Sun day night fof a five-day .rest.-;; State Asks Juror Removed In Osteopath's Murder Trial ! CLEVELAND . W - The state Monday asked that James R. Man ning be -thrown. 'off the jury sworn to tiy Dr.,SamueL H., SJieppard. for the slaying of his wife. It said Man ning failed to' reveal a crime in his past. . t. . , j f The ;'defense; immediately lodged a challenge not an objection and said it wanted' proof that Manning Was a sex offender -11 years- ago at the age . of .a. . . - f With the "defense prepared to "go all out on the legal issue, the trial was recessed' ever election day un til Wednesday ,x ' - i Defense attorney .William J. Cor rigan, said, he did not think. Man ning, could rightfully be unseated, but refused, to say. whether -he would ' press ' 1 1 taislrial if he is. i Corrigan didn't say he wouldn't, however.: '; j A mistrial would hold things' up for. weeks and 'require the draw iag of .a' whole new jury panel. . Informed sources' however, dis counted -the possibility of a mis triaL It ws believed, the court would refer to the following Ohio statue in deciding on the Manning question: ''.; '-.' - 1 : ". i. If before file final- submis sion of the case to the jury, a juror ' - ' . Salem Bypass, which was opened Truck . drivers said the bypass North Africa Nationalists Stage AttacKs i ALGIERS. Algeria (ft ;Arab Nationalists and terrorists' attacked more -than 30 ! points m . French North Africa over the weekend The toll f pitched battles and po litical assassinations for the bloody weekend .-was at least 24 killed and more than a dozen wounded. : j These were the casualties:" i In Algeria Nine . policemen French 'soldiers, and watchmen killed : when - lArab ; Nationalists struck 3a points in .concerted at tacks. ' : . 1 4 , ! 1 ' In Tunisia - Eight Nationalist guerrillas and one - soldier . killed and several other persons wounded in fights between guerrillas and se curity forces at' DjebeliHellal.s a few miles northeast of Gafsa," Sat urday and Sunday. I - ; r In. Morocco4Six dead and 11 wounded in a weekend of scattered political murders. I j' , ' i Tunisia and Morocco are French protectorates. Algiers ' is.' constitu tionally '. a . department'' of .France. The Nationalists -want -more' self government, and some factions are willing to .spill blood to win. their way, 4 - ' - fl .: ; Planes bearing 600 heavily armed police reinforcements were ordered to 'Algiers Jrdtn' France5 Monday and "threebattalions of parachut ists wefe due. to be. sent to cope with what the! Paris newspapers headlined the , f 'sudden . flareup of terrorism." ', becomes incapacitated: or disquali fied, he may be discharged by the Judge. -J J.:-- . - ,i 3 . ..SheppardVi 30;yearold osteo path, is accused of beating bis wife, Marilyn, 31 J to death last July 4. He faces the electric chair if con victed. She was four months preg nant with her second child. ; ' . -,- In maintaining his innocence. Sheppard claimed -a bushy; haired stranger lulled his wife id - their, bedroom' and left, hira unconscious. Manning's pastor, the. Rev. G. P.. Naumann, said the . dapper ' real estate agent ; was .anxious to get off the jury "without any commo tion, jf that can be done with as little difficulty . as possible. , Rev. Naumann was asked why Manning1 never1 revealed his back ground under Intense questioning by the state and defense before be was sworn ,inJ -;. - - "He figured by the time it got ax far as it did, it didn't matter." the clergyman told newsmen. - Rev. Naumann came to court to see Judge Edward Blythin on the matter, but ' said afterward that nothing was settled. Manning has been unable to givs his - side of , the - story, - under the court's injunction that none of the jurors axe -to discuss the case. Last FlareuD Heard j ) -w Officials Ask Early Vote to Aid Counters "Vote early", instead of "Vote for Joe Doakes" became the theme at "headquarters of major parties today as nearly 600,000 residents of Oregon prepared 'to write finis to the 1954 political campaigns. -.,: The early ' voting was- being urged to assure that not too many voters put off casting their bal lots until too late,-Polls are open from 8 ajn. until 8 p.m. In Salem, 1 state, county and city offices, as well as liquor stores, will be f closed with the exception of the' city clerk and county recorder. Federal offices, the postoffices and banki will re main open as usual. Bars will be closed until 8 p!m.f. , In Marion County, it was ex pected 30,000 to ' 35,000 of the county's 50,000 registered voters would indicate their choices. Off presidential years normally do not bring more than a 70 per cent turnout, but more than usual in terest has been generated by the senatorial: contest between Sen. Guy Cordon (R) and Richard Neuberger (D). . Other state-wide contests, for governor 1 (Gov. Paul Patterson, R, vs. Joseph K. Carson Jr., D) and labor commissioner (S. Eu gene Allen,' R, and Norman O. Niisen, V). ! In the first 'congressional dis trict, Kep. waiter Norblad K) is opposed by ' Donnell Mitchell (D). ;! ; In the Marion v County , sena torial .'.district,! there are .three candidates for: two posts Cecil J. Fames (D), Mark O. Hatfield (R), and Lee V. Ohmart (R). Five Candidates- In the Marbn County state rep resentative district, there are live candidates. for. four posts Eddie Abrens (R), W. W. Chadwick (R). Robert L. Elfstrom fR). Guv W. Jones (D),'Alfred W. Loucks (R). , , .. t - . . 1 . - E. L Rogers (R), county com missioner; is opposed for another terni by A. Mj Vislica,(D). Coun ty , Assessor JIarold Domogalla (R) and J County Recorder Her man W. Lanke (R) are unop posed for: re-election. . ' There are five candidates, for the 'circuit court post now held by jWalla.ee Carson. .. They re Charles W. Creighton, James B. Daniels, Eugene E. Laird, Val D. Sloper and Edward 0. Stadter Jr. County Zoning . , . ' Eight statewide ; measures - and one for Marion County (county zoning) -also are on the ballot, and in Salem there are city meas ures . (water and sewer . assess ments, repeal of one-way traffic and water fluoridation). .. Voters Jn the three Salem pre cincts 'Which are in Polk County also will 1 vote on the.; four city measures'.'. - V .The statewide measures would let legislators set their own pay; permit sub-dividing of counties into election districts; allow the proposed,! mental hospital take care of ail ages; increase the number of signatures required to have proposed, amendments placed on the ballot: limit state property tax to 6 mills; establish daylight time; .close coastal streams ' to commercial fishing. and repeal, the state milk control law. - j White Unopposed ' r In addition to four measures; Salem will vote on a mayor (Rob ert F. White is unopposed), mu nicipal judge (Douglas L. Hay is unopposed), citys treasurer (How ard Brandvold' is .unopposed), and aldermen in five wards. Clayton Jones, E. C Charlton and Walter E. White are unopr posed for aldermen in Wards 3, 4 and 8, respectively. Chester I. Chase and Preston Hale are can didates for aldermen in Ward 6. No Opposition ' , i Two statewide offices to be filled without - contest are posi tions l' and 4 on the state su preme court Justices James T. Brand and William C. Perry have no opposition for the posts. Cir cuit Judge George R. Duncan also is unopposed for another term as Marion County circuit judge, - The Statesman as usual will gather4 and tabulate returns on measures-and all contested offices in Vhe valley area, and will serve The Associated Press with cov erage of this portion of the state. ESLM wQl broadcast returns di rectly from The.Statesman office. Ballot boxes are to be brought to the sheriffs office in the court house" by precinct board chair men tonight as soon as the counts are completed. 1 - of Charges, Congress: Control To. Vote for First Time at 93 I 1 V: f ' ' - .'T CORNING, Iowa Mrs. Alice Walker, 93-year-old woman from ! nearby Brooks, studies aa Iowa absentee ballot ia preparation for j casting 'a vote for the first time U her life In the Nov. 2 election. She was born In England, coming to the 11. S. when she. was 10. Her father told her when she was a Rirl, she said. that "it wasn't " safe for a woman' to vote. AP Wlrephoto.) . . . ; Long-TV issing; Worhari ' Red Arrested ; by FBI , I I " f . j i ' i 1 ' 1 -.-?', 1 I NEW YORK (JP The arrest of a woman Communist leader who forsook her family to go underground for the party in 195J was an nounced by FBI agents here Monday, . k i . . - . .. . .i . ii ' Martha Stone, 44, one-time state chairman of the. Communist Party in New Jersey, was arrested in a Bronx restaurant- 1 i 1 The woman, who had been active in Communist affairs since the age of 13, disappeared in the sum mer Of 1931. Since then, the FBI said,; she Iliad operated in the Communist. - underground : under assumed njames. So . jealously did she guard , her movemeats, the FBI said, that two crises within her family, within months of --. her : disappearance, failed to bring about her reappear ance.1 ' ' ' ' " , '.-' Sen Hit by Car ' " i ; . Her- 6-year-old son was struck by a.i automobile and hospitalized in November, 1931. 'And her father, Julius Stone, died -in the - same month. ; . . ' .The FBI said she neither 'visited her son nor attended the funeral of her father. ' Martha Stone (her married name was Mrs. Emil Asher) attended the seventh congress of the Com munist ' Internationale in Moscow in 1935. She was then 25 years old. She attracted some attention in Moscow by urging Communist leaders to give more attention . to the possibility of j spreading ' their doctrines: through women. . Returning to. New Jersey, she was' active as a frequent candidate for office 'and a party organizer until shortly' before ber disappear ance.. At that : time, she lived in Newark. , i . ' Force-or Violence- She is charged the FBI said, with being a member-of a group which teaches and advocates the necessity of overthrowing or . de stroying the government- of' the United States? by force or .violence. . Conviction could carry, a fine, of $10,000, 10 years imprisonment, or both. -. " . J- ! . ' The FBI said Mrs." Stone was not known to have had any employ ment other than with the. Commu nist Party. From 1937 through 1946 she ran unsuccessfully for the New Jersey State Assembly on the Com munist Party ticket. on seven oc casions." - f " ' Midwest Gripped By Cold Weather. By .THE 'ASSOCIATED PRESS I Wind-driven snow Monday whipped through. ' the Midwest, which was gripped by the season's; coldest weather.. " Light snow was reported south ward into Central Indiana and Cen tral: Missouri while one to two inches were reported on the ground from - Peoria.. 13., northward through, Illinois: land Wisconsin, f 0 -V ' k - ' r. '.4 New Strike i - Spreads Over 1 Londoii Docks LONDON (UP) A sudden new strike spread across the London docks Monday as 44,000 stevedores were ending a 27-day walkout that crippled eight British potts. , Four thousand stevedores who had just returned to work in Lon don .marched right back out. on strike in a j dispute over the hiring of. non-union truck drivers. i ' Elsewhere in Britain the situa tion was getting back to normal. Labor Minister Sir Walter Monckton, who was to have made ii triumphant speech in the House of Commons on his success in -end ing .the earlier .-strike, was forced to make another appeal to end the newest walkout t Two other, local disputes broke out on the London, docks, but work resumed pending negotiations. In the major .snarl,, dockers refused to load trucks whose drivers Could not. produce union..cards or whose orners had maintained trucking operations during the strike, f Special License) Numbers - for Cars Out, Says Ne wbry 1 - - - - " i . Oregon automobile owners won't' be able to get special li cense numbers after next Jan. 1, Secretary of State Earl T. New bry announced Monday, f r After 'that date, Oregon will have ! a new .'license numbering system. Each license will contain a- letter, which will indicate the month in which ' the license ex- pirea,.':'!" - 't . ! ; The new system, Ne wbry said, fmakes the granting 1 of special tumbers a wasteful process.". ! ' --j . JOHN WAYNE WEDS - J i KONA, Hawaii Wl Johnj Vvayne, Hollywood's rugged king of the box-office, and tiny 'Pilar Palette, black-yed beauty from Peru, were married in a 90-second ceremony Monday against a beautiful Hawai ian ' sunset: in a romantic : tropic .garden here. . j Retorts at - i -j lite, Adlai Call For Bisj Vote Across Nation; WASHINGTON UrV-The 1954 bat tie for Congress ended Monday night in a last angry flareup of charges and retorts, and the finale is bein? counted with twrsnnal n. peals from President Eisenhower and Adlai E. Stevenson for; a big vote in Tuesday's national election. : As; the day' of ' decision ap proached, Democrats still forecast they would capture control of hnth bouses of Congress. But Republi cans ciaunea increasing hope of. bucking the usual off-year reac- ' tion and repeating their 1952 vic tory. ' - Tuesday In. 11- states except Maine.' which votes ahead of evprv. body else in congressional elec- ' if .... . . uons, lome miuion Ameri- . cans are exoeeted in malt their decision known at the polling plac- - es. . One -Elected Thirty-seven senators in 34 stktes are to be elected, plus a Nebraska senator to serve until the new Congress meets ' next Jam ; a. Maine already has reelected GOP" Sen. Margaret Chase Smith. -. In the House, 432 of the 435 seats are at stake. Maine already has' chosen three Republican represent atives. Finally, along with a host of oth er state and local officials, 33 gov ernors arsfc to be elected. There, too, Maine has spoken first pick ing a Democratic governor in its Sept. 13 election. In the closing, days of the 83rd Congress, Republicans, held a skuv of-their-teeth majority of one in the Senate, and a scarcely weightier margin of three in fee House. - The weather promised to be chil ly in most of. the country. The U.S. Weather Bureau said a cold , air mass from Canada is sending temp eratures down-toward the "early winter" level, with, no big storms 1 in sight but a chance of snow flur ries in some Northern areas and - occasional rain in . the East . v : Campaign Hot ; In general, the beat of the cam--. paign has ,- risen while the mer-i cury dropped.. .1 For weeks most neutrals foLcured the Democrats a cinch to win the House and quite possibly the Sen ate, too. The Republicans admitted they themselves - 'were ' running scared. But in the past week, or 10 days they started running ad bard they began to scare the Democrats. -Eisenhower himself ' plunged headlong into the campaign tour ing critical states by air, cruising tne streets of New York by ear. personally telephoning rank-end-. file voters in the nope of starting a chain reaction of - Ikudinff GOP phone bells. " 3. -- .. JJm Shoe Leather i Democrats countered wife what they called a "walkathon, urging their faithful to use shoe leather' instead of the telephone to get out the-vote. In the final hours 'of the cam-: paign, the politically meaningful -word "prosperity' was 'hurled about by both aides aa perhaps the top: i campaign issue the GOP promising ''prosperity without . war,'" the . Democrats hammering on unemployment in some sections of the country and predicting it will' get ; worse unless they are re turned to control of Congress; The ' Republicans were bitting hard,, too r on something Eisenhow er once said would be a dead is sue by election toe the Commun is ts-in-government question. : : Some irate Democrats felt the op-' position was gaining ground by its steady insistence that it takes Re publicans to ckaa the Commun ists v out of government' - - i Most . neutrals figured the,; Re-, publicans gained ground in ' the past 10 days. Whether they gained enough to retain ; their slippery hold on Congress, i only the elec tion will ten. - I . : ; GASOLINE BLAST FATAL ; PORTLAND J) . ; Burns suffered in an explosion of gasoline Satur day at St. Helens proved fatal Monday to Arthur : R. Stubbs, 23, Goble, . Ore. Gasoline he was si phoning from a tank exploded, and showered him. The widow and , two children survive. 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