afc (i)teit(SiiitEfefiali Book Week for Book Worms !, , f - 1 " ''!'" fi d 1651 - 104TH YEAR 2 SECTIONS 16 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman Salem, Oregon Monday Normbor IS, 1954 PRICE 5c No233 "l POUNDS . S , ' ' ' - Barbara Sierp, left, and ; Cheryl Bates, third grade pupils at St - Joseph's School, look over one of the 175 new children's books that are being placed on display in the Salem Public Library for National Book Week, Nov, 15 to 20. Children may reserve any of the books and take them out beginning Saturday.' (Statesman i Photo). : -l -8 '"li Mine Sealed to Snuff Fires; i5 Entombed FARMINGTON, W. Va.; (JP) Grim-faced miners finished the job late Sunday night of sealing up a blazing, explosion-wrecked coal mine the tomb of 15 men. J Three entrances to the mine were walled up with steel and BUT 1 Sometimes members of a House of Representatives have resented reference to the; Senate as the upper house." They con; tend that the two branches of the legislature are equal m stature, and so they are, save each has certain special powers: Revenue bills must originate in the House; the national! Senate alone ratifies treaties and con firms , appointments, j Terms, though, are different, those of senators being longer. t There is a natural ambition to move from the House to the Sen ate, both in state legislatures and in the Congress. In the next State; Senate at least 16, a ma jority, have had prior experience in the House. (Two more are to be named to succeed Sens. jAllVrwoF anit Rain a1wtt In other- offices, and they knay ' be former House members.) f One consequence of this is a steady drainage of talent from the .House. When one adds to this the depletion due toj unwill- again, or defeat in the elections, one discovers that while the Sen ate numbers many, legislative veterans, the House at each ses sion includes a large proportion of members without experience. Thus in the next State; Senatt 18 will nave had previous ex perience in the Senate, eight new senators previously served in the house. Two are new, (without experience in either body;: and two more to be named, f In the (Concluded on Editorial Page 4 IVavy Chief on Tour 1 Of Air, Naval Sites MvDRID. Spain OB U.'S. Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas, and his wife arrived here Sunday by plan from Port Lyautey French Morocco, fora four-day visit. Thomas i to confer with' leading Spanish and American authorities and viit sites of Amerikran aif, and navai bases to be constructed in Spain. ! ANIMAL CRACKERS mx WARREN OODRICH Tht Vldi ore totinj vf owt r house and homtl'f i i concrete. Then a crane .lowered steel plates over a ventilation shaft and an elevator portal, Concrete was poured on top.. Ml Officials hoped by sealing - the mine to cut on me -now ot air feeding a fire burning deep' un derground and snuf it out. None could even guess wnen they would be able to reopen the diggings to send rescue crews into the blast area. -1 : . ! End f Slim Hopes ; - S The grim decision to seal the mine ended I any slim hopes that any of those entombed might be rescued. j j One other man, working outside, also was killed in the violent ex plosion Saturday which wrecked one of the mine entrances and a ventilation shaft. t 1 The blast, followed by a raging fire underground, occurred about 1:45 p.m. (EST) .the No.! mine of the Jamison Coal And Coke Co., in this little North Central West Virginia community. 1 Cause Unknown 1 I State Mines Chief Frank B. King, who described the mine Sunday as 'a powder keg," and company of ficials said they had no idea what may have caused the explosion. A second blast late Saturday night sent flames roaring more than 100 feet into the sky above the ventilation shaft. No one ' was in jured because only security person nel! were in the area. . Vice President James Hyslop of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., which recently acquired the corporate stock of Jamison, said the explosion undoubtedly resulted from ignition of highly combusti ble methane gas. . , Test Shewed Clear He added that aa atmosphere test in the mine only 30 minutes be fore the first explosion showed the air was clear. ! "Something suddenly happened to release a considerable portion of methane," Hyslop said.; The decision by King to seal all the mine openings; concurred in by U.S. Bureau of Mines and com pany officials after mora than three hours of conferences, came about 2 a.m. Sunday. ?- x Visibly moved and conceding that the step removed any slender hope that some of the men might survive. King explained that "there was just nothing else we could do." Lewis Endorses Move ; - The fire which followed, the first explosion sent fieavy black coal smoke curling from the mine's main portal, more than two miles from the explosion area. I ' . l Emergency crews hoped. In seal ing the openings, to smother the fire by cutting off supplies of oxy gen entering the mine. 'No one would sar, however, bow long that might take. t John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers Union, told King during a visit to the; disaster scene that the decision to seal the mine seemed proper. The UMW president said the sealing action appeared to be the only, way of extinguishing the firel . i , - ARCHBISHOP EXECUTED 'ATHENS, Greece tfJ The news paper Vima said Sunday! Chris to phoros Kissis, 71, archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church in Com munist - control Albania, has been executed after several year' im prisonment i Naguib Deposed JT TAT TTh " n inimsserma r Egypt Leadership By WILTON WYNN, I I CAIRO, Sgypt (JP) Egypt's governing Revolutionary -' Council Sunday deposed Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib as President and council chairman. It accused him of being implicated in a ?plot by the fanatic Moslem Brotherhood against the life of his rival, The action against Naguib was taken after an early morning clash in suburban Heliopolis between po lice and! a Brotherhood mob in which two civilians were killed and two policemen seriously wounded. . Maj. Amin Shaker, a govern ment SDokesman. said Youssef Ta- laat. leader of the Brotherhood's! secret order, was arrested and con fessed Egypt's 53-year-old Presi dent had approved the assassina tion plot against Nasser. ! Officials said Sunday's clash Started . when Tallaat's guards opened automatic fire and used hand vrpnaripc tn rlpnr an srarn ; -- - - - r route for him from the place he had been hiding since September. The government had offered a re ward of 2,000 Egyptian pounds ($3, 40) for information leading to his arrest. Nasser i Control The council's action Sunday left Nasser, 37, undisputed strong man of f Egypt. A government source said he wauld be acting President as well as Premier until a new chief of state is chosen. The action climaxed a long riv alry between the two soldier-politicians who had teamed up to de pose King Farouk in July,: 1932. Their clash burst into the open last February when Naguib quit as President and Premier. Popu lar outcry forced the Revolution ary Council to restore him as Pres ident', with the premiership , going to Nasser. Tease Situatioa Sunday's swift steps came in an atmosphere of tension and expec tancy. Moslem Brotherhood witnes ses made damaging statements re garding Naguib last week before a military court trying Mahmoud Ab del Latif. Cairo tinsmith and Brotherhood member who admit ted he fired eight shots in an un successful attempt to kill Nasser in Alexandria Oct 27. With Sunday's arrest of Talaat and his reported statement impli cating Naguib, the papers were al lowed to open up on the man who had been the idol of millions of Egyptians and the object of their cheers and kisses. Cairo's streets were quiet, but labor unions were expected to call pro-Nasser i demonstrations for Monday. j i Secret of Dancing Cows 'Shock' to Curious Farmer HENRHYD, Wales The mystery of the dancing cows in this North Wales hamlet was solved Sunday. For days the cows have been cutting all kinds of capers while out to pasture. Some superstitious villagers even feared they were possefsed by evil spirits. Back in the barn for milking, the animals became perfectly nor mal, r Bill Trevor's curioisity led him into : the field Saturday with a sheepdog. They went only a short way when the dog yelped and ran off howling. A cow fell down. Bill went over and pulled the cow's tail and got a shock. An investigation disclosed that an electric light pole had short circuited the swampy field, electri fying it up to 3,000 volts. ; TOSHIBA HEADS HOME SAN FRANCISCO tfl Prime Minister ShJgeru Yoshida of Ja pan left San Francisco Internation al Airport at 11 ajn. PST Sunday for Honolulu and Tokyo. ' ' Close Harmony Group By DAVID AVERILL Staff Writer, The Statesman ' Some people like to sing in the bathtub. . . Others exercise their musical tendencies by whistling while they work or by tapping their feet when a i band marches by. Cultured music-lovers go to the opera- Low brows' listen to hill-billy music on the radio. , Here in Salem, a new outlet has been established for men who want ta do something about an itch for music. The Senate-Aires, a group of 30-odd amateur vocal ists who share a common interest in clo harmony, gather every Wednesday in the basement of the Marion Hotel for two hours of four-part choral work. Meetings are opes to anyone who's interested, including those who like to sing and those who just want to listen, i The Salem songsters won official recognition last week when they were gran led a charter making the group - a member of the Society for the Preservation and Encour agement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, i The Senate-Aires were the 616th chapter to join SPEBSQSA, all of whose 23,000 members can rattle off tha jaw-breaking name with or . . . . War Crimes j Code Junked! ! . , " 1 BylLS.Body UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. The U. S. delegation disclosed Sun day it has junked another Truman i . . . aflminiStratlOn project here I and will oppose drafting a new inter national "code of offenses against peace," based on the war crimes trials at Nuernberg and Tokyo, . Charles Mahoney, UJ S. delegate who is a lawyer and insurance executive in Detroit, will voice the U. S. opposition at Monday's meet ing of the Assembly 60-natioit Le gal Commjttee, a delegation spokesman said. ' , This is the third such proposed treaty Ae Eisenhower administra tion has turned its back on Last year Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, U. S. delegate to the Human Eights Commission, told that group the United States refused to go along with proposed treaties defining human rights. s ! The United States originally asked for the draft "code of of fenses against the peace and se curity of mankind" in 1946, when it still looked as if the world! war allies could work together. ' It was to be based on the prin ciples developed first at the Nuern berg war crimes trials against German Nazi leaders and ampli fied at Tokyo war crimes trials of Japanese leaders. North African TUNIS, Tunisia tfl At least 31 persons were killed in North Africa Saturday, 21 in the protectorate of Tunisia and 10 in the heaviest Al gerian fighting since the rebellion broke out two weeks ago, French sources reported Sunday. I j Of the dead, 20 were Tunisian Nationalist guerrillas who fell in a violent clash with French forces at Djebel Garbou, in Eastern Tunisia. The biggest fight in Algeria came at Djebel Uchmoul, in; the Aure Mountains of the Southeast. A detachment of French parachut ists lost two men and found I five bodies of: guerrillas on the battle field. ) : ) It was thought the retreating Al gerians took some 'dead; land wounded with them. Mamie Marks 58th Birthday WASHINGTON W This j was Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower's; 58th birthday, and her pastor wished her - "many more 1 days of good health and helpful service." s , The White House observance was a quiet one. It started Satur day night with the President hold ing a surprise reception tot his wife, attended by members of the Cabinet and the White House staff and their wives. i S A few relatives and close friends were invited in Sunday night for supper and slices of birthday cake. out pausing for breath. Represen tatives of Portland and Eugene chapters of the society took , part in the charter program Wednesday night . ; j - Although the group's primary aim is to keep the old-time barber shop tunes in existence, president Don Foster .says practically? any kind of musical activity is okay aa long as the members have a good time. . . ' , j . i Foster, a Salem dentist 1 who warbled his way through college and dental school as a member of professional quartets in Southern California, says the society pikes to have each member take part in quartet singing but also boosts choral singing and participation in community events. - , ( During the charter program! last week, the audience also witnessed some instrumental interludes by Maurice Adams and -Mel Bedsaul. who played several numbers fas a clarinet-gullar combo. ' Both Instrumentalists are mem bers of the Chord Cats, which was tbe only Salem barber shop quartet to sing in 'the program. Adams, 'a teacher at South Salem High School, is a former professional musidian. He's musical director for the Senate-Airesv . ; f. Several other quartets are In the process of formation within the Riots Kill 31 Moose on Loose Vamoosed From Lighthouse Siege PORT ARTHUR, Ont (fP) An angry moose vamoosed from his lighthouse watch Saturday. ; He, gave . lighthouse keeper . J. Bradley a breather but is still on the loose. The moose, once a docile pet turned , nasty last ' week . and would not let Bradley out of his home on lonely Battle Island in Lake Superior. Bradley seat a wireless mes sage to conservation authorities, saying he couldn't get, ont to do i the chores because the moose rushed him every time he made a move. i p 1 James Scott conservation offi cer at Gerlaton, went to Brad ley's rescue. He shot at the moose as it scampered into the bash on the two-mile-long island. But he didn't hitit Scott returned to Geraldton Sunday. He said he will take more conservation officers and guns back to the island Monday to flush the moose into the open. Cordon i i - i ,ays Loss to Lack Of Self Praise PORTLAND m Sen. Guy Cor don explained Sunday why - he thought he had been beaten in the Oregon Seriate election. "I never have been in any sense a politi cian, he said in an interview. . He declined to comment on Re publican campaign I efforts and said he had never intended to seek re-election and had failed to keep his political fences I mended. "In ray 10'4 years in the Senate, I made : no attempt at self praise or personal advertisement. That is chargeable to me." ihe said. i"My opponent (Richard L. Neu berger) tad a solid 'year of cam paigning ' and I had two months. I covered 35 counties many times making as many as five speeches a day. But I didn't have enough time,", the senator .asserted. Criticizes 'Distortions' i !He criticized the pfeuberger organization-for what: he - said was distortion of issues. !'My opponent used an almost Machiavellian ex pertness to drum such misleading arguments as 'the preference clause means low j cost power.' That either is barefaced dema gognery or absolute ignorance of the facts,", he said, j i Neuberger impressed a great many votes with his repeated ac cusations of resources "giveaway" and newspapers aided him by printing the charges again and again in their news columns, Cor don said. ' Dobnts Morse Value j "He would make a charge and we would answer it and dispose of it Then, a week or ten days later, be would repeat it," Cordon declared. . , . i Neuberger, Cordon said, appar ently aimed his campaign at keep ing the Republican Party on the defensive and this proved success ful. ! i i He said he thought the efforts of Sen. Wayne Morse on behalf of Neuberger were of little value. f Cordon said he planned a goose hunting trip before returning to Washington probably at the end of the week. ' ; , ; As for his future plans, he said: "111 be practicing law,but I don't know whether it will be in Wash ington, D.C., or in Oregon, or both." I . QUAKE RIPS HOMES ! ENSENADA, Mexico UFi More than 100 persons (were reported homeless Sunday at the Lower California mining (village Act El Alamo, 70 miles south of here, as a result of an earthquake Friday. Scratches v r . j Giving their vocal chords a rest Maurice Alams (left) -and Mel Bedsanl g to work as a clarinet f guitar combo during a program of the Salens Senate-Aires. I The amateur choral group last week ; became a chapter of the Society for the Preservation aad Eaeonrage'ment of Barber Shop-Quartet j Singing ia America. j . choral group. Fester reports. They'll be en hand for a Rotary Club barber shop show in Salem next April ! t Although the quartets will have Biirglar, 16v.Ajdmits 1 - Slaying Elderly Man HILLSBORO OT) A 16-year-old youth, Jerry i E. Dodele, has ad mitted the fatal shootings of an elderly man; in a burglary at Timber, Ore., Sheriff r Richard Busch reported Sunday.:, j Busch said the youth, who will be 17 next week, had signed a statement saying he shots Peter Ribbers, 65. last Thursday with a borrowed rifle when Ribbers came home while Dodele was burglariz ing his house. . I ' Body Found Saturday ! The ' body i was - found Saturday by Ribbers daughter-in-law, Mrs. Laverne Ribbers, after she was notified that i he. had not reported for work. 1 I i .Dodele,' who lives with his mother and !i stepfather. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Neutzling, Timber, was arrested, late Saturday night in Portland ij at ' the homes of a friend. . i 1 -j Searching for Money Busch saidi the boy's statement gave this account of the shooting: On Thursday evening he bor rowed a .22 caliber rifle from a friend at Timber. He went to Rib bers' house pater that night and was searching for money j when Ribbers came into, the house: "I stepped; out of the bedroom with the gun at my side, pulled the trigger and shot. He fell, and N.Salem Grid Star Driver in 4-Way Crash Four cars ireceived varying de grees of damage and two persons sustained apparently - non-serious injuries early Monday morning when two vehicles collided at the intersection ! of Saginaw I and Washington . streets. T Allen Berg, 38, of 155 W. Browning Ave., was taken to Sa lem Memorial Hospital by Wit lamette ambulance. Mrs. O. M, Gokkins, 360 E. Lincoln St, a passenger in his car, suffered slight leg injuries." I Officers said a 1950 Chevrolet driven by Berg was traveling east on Lincoln when it collided with a vehicle driven by Terry A. Salisbury 17, of 1432 NJ 16th St Salisbury's 1947 Dodge was going south i on Saginaw, police reported. i -i ". The impact sent the Berg 'car careening through; the yard of P. L. Calvert 210 E. Washington St Berg reportedly was hurled out of the vehicle, which smashed Jown shrubbery in 'the Calvert yard and then crashed into the Calverts' 1934 Dodge, parked in the drive way. j i The Calvert car. in turn was bounced against a parked 1953 Ford owned by Dri Ralph Purvine. Salisburystar full back on this season's North Salem High School football team, and a companion, Constance Hammond, 10, of. 1880 Saginaw St, escaped injury, j Public School HolidayToday Students of Salem public schools will have a holiday today but most of their teachers : will be busy as i participants in the city's' firsti Business-Education Day. " , i ; Eighty Salem business firms will act as hosts for teacher groups, showing them how a busi ness is operated. Some 460 teach ers are expected to take part in the day's activities. i Salem 'Itch 'S V V to learn a lot of songs before they can put on a complete program using official sheet music furn ished by the , SPEBSQSA - one tuna they won't have Uo bother then I went out of the bouse and down the road-.popped the shell out of the gun arid threw the casing over the bank. I took the gun back; to Mark's (the friend) that same night and then went Chiang warship Sunk off Formosa ' - , ! i ' , . , By SPENCER MOOSA TAIPEH," Formosa (JP) Four Chinese Red torpedo boats Sun day sank : the Nationalist destroyer escort . Taiping formerly the USS Decker in a gun battle 215 miles north of Formosa. It was the first big naval triumph scored by the Communists, and the Nationalists warned that more such clashes could bo ex pected with speedy torpedo boats they described as Russian-built The clash took place 30 miles off the coast of Red China's Chekiang Province in the early morning i darkness. j Naval Plane, Search Craft Both Missing NORFOLK Va. A two-en gined Navy .patrol plane with a crew of five aboard crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about 46 mOes southeast of Cherry Point N.C. Sunday night i Three hours later, a Marine Corps Skyknight jet, instructed to search for the missing patrol craft while on a tactical mission from Cherry Point with two aboard; w2s reported missing in the same area and presumed down. I A spokesman at 5th Naval Dis trict headquarters here said the patrol plane radioed at 6:30 pjn (EST) it would have to ditch. 1 At that time two Navy destroy ers the Goodrich and the Turn er were in the area and im mediately began a search; using flares and powerful searchlights Two Coast , Guard patrol planes later joined the bunt from Eliza beth City, N.C . - : The missing jet an F3D. ceased radio contact i p.m. in me same general area. It had fuel, the Navy, said, for only another half hour of flight and when it was not heard from by 9:30 p.m was presumed lost K The patrol plane, a PB-2 sta tioned at Anacostia, Md., near Washington, was enroute to Ana costia from Miami when it went down. I ' i The Goodrich and the Turner ari rived at the crash scene shortly after' 10 p.m., the Navy said. Two submarines, the Burrfish and the Croaker, also were in the area nd joined in the search Prince Now Six SANDRINGHAM, England in - Bonnie Prince Charles, the boy destined to become Britain's King, celebrated his sixth birthday Sun day, surrounded by presents and close members of his family. Both his parents. Queen Eliza beth H and the Duke of Edinburgh, were on hand. j Today's Statesman section: 1 Stargazer ; 2 Society-Women's News: Valley News 7 Crossword Puzzle t SECTION 2 I ; Sports i News 1-2 j World This Week 3 Comics, Inside TV .-4 ' Monday Radio-TV 4 Classifieds 6-7 for Music1 V.V.- with is Sweet Adeline. Because of. its bar-Yoom connotations, the overworked tune about the pined for lady is unofficially banned by tha aociety. j r i home and went to bed," Busch quoted the statement as saying. Dodele hitchhiked to Portland Friday morning and remained at a . friend's bouse until his arrest Saturday night The :,800-ton Taiping went down with guns blazing 12 miles north of the Nationalist - held Tachen Islands, nearly six hours after she was torpedoed. 2 ot Crew Lost All but 28 of her crew of some 180 were rescued, most of them by another destroyer escort, the Taiho. Nationalist ships and planes continued the search for survivors. One of the rescued died .and ed in the battle. , Although it was the first sucb reported use of the torpedo boats by the Reds. Nationalist officials said they knew the Commun ists had them. There , have been persistent reports the Reds are massing naval craft in the Chu- shan Iilands. 100 miles north of the Tachens, outpost defenses for Formosa. - Peiping's account of ;the action said the Taiping was "on a nui sance raid." Convoying Junk i The Nationalists said she was convoying a motorized junk from me xacnens to xusnan island, 30 miles northeast when the phos phorescent wake of t torpedo was sighted. That one missed but three others headed toward the Taiping and one scored the fatal blow. The Taiping sank less than 12 utucs uviii vi iciugc ia ui li chens, i News of the sinking cams as a jolt to! Chiang Kai-shek's Nation alists. I This fir.nt asm ! eJ trmA boats by the Reds was regarded in Tiipeh as : introducing a new and dangerous element into the civil war. Police Officer Suspended For30Days A member of the Salem police force has been given a 30-day suspension without pay for con-' duct unbecoming an officer. Chief Clyde , A. Warren - an nounced Sunday. The action reportedly was tak en against Patrolman Gene ''Nor done, a member of the midnight to 8 a.m. shift and with the de partment for approximately four years. The suspension was ef fective last Friday, Warren said. The suspension was said to have stemmed from the claim of a Salem motel operator that the officer struck him with a fist The : incident reportedly took place over a week ago in the vi cinity, of the motet if Nordone denied that he struck the man. " Ducks Get Preference From Weatherman Weather in the Salem ! area to day will continue to be of the type preferred by ducks. Tbe prediction by the Weather Bureau at McN'ary Field is rain this morning and showers this afternoon and tonight. Percipita tion measured .36 of an inch in the area Sunday. Tbe bureau says temperatures win remain about tbe same. PREMIER ARRIVES QUEBEC ( French Premier Pierre Mendes-Franct landed Sun- Airport to begin his North Ameri cas goodwill tour, which will in clude ; a visit to President Elsen hower in Washington. Max. Mia. rreel. Silent Portland -53 48 .48. ' 3 Tract 47 j04 54 lit 4- M 47 .11 41 .00 43 M - SI M Baker -SO Medford North Bnd Rose burr 51 San Francisco Chicago New York Loa Angeles Willamette River IJ feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem : Raul this morning, followed by thowera this afternoon and tonight: high today near AS, low tonight near 40. Temperature at 12:01 : a.m. today was 50. " SALEM MECIPrTATIOie Since Start of Weather Year Srpt. 1 This Teat Last Tear Normal . IJ&S i.as T42 ft