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NW- Ores on s I I Si- PCUNC3D 1C5I ' . ' " 1 , 104TH YEAR 2 SECTIONS-IS PAGES Tho OrooB Statesman Salem. Oregon, Monday. December t, 1854: PRICE 5c No. 254 Off-Season Tornado Rips Through! South, Killing One By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Off-season tornadoes dipped into Eastern Alabama and Western Georgia Sunday killing one per son, injuring 47 and destroying scores of homes. "I The .black . funnelled clouds smashed into a dozen communities in Alabama where 29 were injured. Four Georgia towns reported 1 dead. IS injured. Thunderstorms and high winds were reported in many other areas. i ' An estimated 220 homes were demolished or damaged as the tor nadoes ripped through sections of Manchester, Richland. Blakely and Ellaville in Georgia. An 8-year-old Negro girl was killed near Rich land where 15 persons were hurt. The ! Alabama twisters struck hardest near Anniston, 63 miles tast of Birmingham, in the Ope- lika area about the same distance east of Montgomery and at Liberty City, 20 miles northeast of Mont gomery. : t 1 i ' I Wellington,. 13 miles north of An niston, was struck by the whirling winds. Cody Hall. Anniston Star reporter, said 30 houses and build ings including the Post Office were damaged, flattened or blown away. ; Storm debris halted the South erner, ' streamline! passenger train northbound from f New Orleans to New York, on the outskirts of Wellington. 1 I Alabama Gov. 1 Gordon Persons ordered National Guard troops in to Calhoun County to protect shat tered homes from looters. Gov. Persons said he understood trains of the Seaboard Air Lines and the Louisville And Nashville railroads had been blocked near Piedmont by j tangled wires and fallen trees. Red Cross and Salvation Army units were rushed into the affected sections to give aid. ' The Anniston area tornado struck -near Ohatchee and then roared northeastward toward Pied mont along a 23-mile path. Hund reds of trees were flattened . and two houses burned at Wellington when fire broke out after the tor nado passed. The Opelika area twister dam aged 40 to 50 houses and destroyed four as it i skipped along for 10 miles. In Georgia, the Richland area was the worst hit Several white persons and eight unidentified Ne groes were reported injured, some critically. Damage was estimated in the thousands of dollars. 933DQ6 Demos to Hit Eisenhower Labk of Capacity to Unite' History swings on very small hinges. A little more firmness in St Petersburg in 1917 and the small group of radical Bolsheviks under Lenin could have been liquidated and the course of Rus sian history and world history would have been greatly alter ed. (Recall the "whiff of grape shot" fired by a young artillery officer. Corporal Bonaparte, in Paris, and what it did to con- iinno wnm rrpnrn npvuiuLiiiii.i Victor Hugo in his graphic de scription of the Battle of Water loo emphasizes the effect of the light rain which delayed the en gagement and gave Blucher's army a chance to reach the field in time to join Wellington's . A 1 1 Mta A xorces: ana ine suaa.eu jmu which nroved a deathtrap for Tninv of the French . cavalry in its sallant charge. Thus did Na- TvtiMiv lose this decisive battle, fWir Handlin. professor of historj at Harvard, I raises the l: utt.MjtA iaefi'ffvv in an article on "Independence at r im flu Pitrrpnt At- vlantic Monthly. He relates how the Comte de Vergennes, minis- nf foreien affairs for Louis tvt whn had maneuvered the ' . . . Vrnrh alliance witn me reo- iifi 13 mlnnies. had concluded in 1781- to effect a! negotiated peace. This would have left the At 100-Year Mark Tuesday A 1 memorable; milestone will be reached Tuesday by Miss Roberta Cary, resident of the Salem Methodist Home, as she observes her 100th birthday an niversary, if Born on a farm near Scio on December 7, 1854, Miss Cary is reported to be in reasonably good health for a woman near- ing the centennial mark. ; A Tuesday reception .is planned in her I honor and ex pected to attend are a number of relatives from the Portland area and other Pacific Coast points. j Miss Cary was born in the Scio area of Linn County over four years before Oregon re ceived its statehood. Her father, Robert Cary, came to Oregon in 1852. ... . j. i A spokesman at the Methodist Home said Miss! Cary regularly gets down,, to meals and never misses vesper service. Her eye- U I I By JACK BELL ! NEW ORLEANS (JP) Paul M. Butler, Democratic national chairman-elect, asserted Sunday that President Eisenhower has shown "a lack bf capacity to unify the country and Democrats intend to emphasize this contention in pre-1956 campaigning. "We intend to call to the at tention of the American people President Eisenhower s lack of ca pacity to govern and to unite the people, Butler said. Agrees With Rayburn "The responsibility is with the President to see that the nation is united and there is ever-increasing evidence of his lack of capacity to do it" Butler, wno spoke out at a news conference, agreed with Rep. Sam Rayburn of Texas, incoming speak er of the House, that the Demo crats do not plan to attack Eisen hower personally as they said their own previous Presidents had been attacked by the Republicans. Honors Stevenson Rayburn told a breakfast of Tex- ans that "we dtf not intend to follow the mean and gruesome example set by the Republicans and some called Democrats of hating President just because he belongs to another party." The breakfast was in honor of Adlai E. Stevenson, the 1952 Demo cratic presidential nominee who wound up a party rally here Sat-1 urday night by urging the Demo crats to Become tne "loyal opposi tion to, the Eisenhower adminis tration; Butler and the retiring party chairman, Stephen A. Mitch' ell. Given a royalty deed to "four square inches of oil land" in Tex as, Stevenson quipped that after the experience of the 1932 cam paign, when he lost the state to Eisenhower, "This is about as close as I've gotten to the heart of Texas. British in control of the seacoast I sight and hearing reportedly are cities from Charleston io new -jair. York, and cooped the youthful United States between the coast )1 Attsz&ftrsZi State Blames to early extinction. The stub- i-v , J (Continued on editorial page, 4.) jp(j JQI" TV Audience Sees Delicate Heart Surgery NEW YORK OB A delicate medical operation was shown to a nationwide television audience Sunday night, with a group of skilled surgeons performing an ar terial transolant through a new surgical technique. Thex patient, George Chisum, 43- year-old oil worker ot urangei lex, was placed in a "deep freeze." Then a section of his aorta was rut out and replaced by a - non- diseased artery taken from a don or who had died a few hours before the operation took place. ' Chisum had suffered from what is known as an aneurism of the aorta, a condition which threatens to cause a sudden rupture of the aorto and normally results in death. Si;' . - ?, : Span Collapse Singer to Quit, Devote Life to Adopted Sons TEL AVIV, Israel,! Jo sephine Baker told newsmen she will retire as an entertainer next May and devote herself to the; ed ucation of six adopted sons. The St Louis-born Negro sing er and dancer, who admits to 48 years, said she will also "continue to fight against racial discrimina tion wherever it manifests itself. ANIMAL CRACKERS Y WMRIN OODM1CH It's the opinion of state highway engineers that a lumoer trucx was responsible for the collapse Saturday of a bridge spanning the Snake River near Nyssa, reports Chief Engineer R. H. Baldock. i Baldock said investigation indl cated the truck -was carrying its trailer "piggy back", in the man her of logging trucks. The chief engineer said evidence is that the jutting tongue of the trailer struck overneaa bracing on portais ot the bridge. ' I The truck, driven by Bill Mc- Carver, barely missed falling into the river when one span of the bridge collapsed J i Baldock recalled that a Tualatin River bridge collapsed some eight years ago after bracing was struck by the tongue of a ?iggy back' trailer. " i ! Baldock said he planned to con suit with a State Highway Com mission attorney! about any action that might be taken in the case of the Nyssa bridge. More Rain Due foil Valley Rain beat upon the Salem area through a major portion of Sun day and more of it in the form of Showers is expected today, ac cording to McNary Held weath ermen, i ' Cooler temperatures are in the forecast with a low of around 32 anticipated tonight Rainfall in the area measured .71 of an Inch Sunday, including a heavy downpour early in the evening. $ Statcsr.rn SECTION 1 J Editorials-Features Society-Women's News . .6-7 "Mo, do yew went lo leem te ploy basketball?" SECTION t I , Sports News J ' 1-2 Valley tNews ' 3 Monday Radio-TV 4 Comics, Inside TV .....4 Star Gazer, Crossword Classifieds ' 6-7 A. Robert Smith Thief Raids Query Home Second Time A Sunday morning burglary at a Salem residence resulted in theft of about $22, city police reported, Entered was the home of Floyd Query, 1615 Nebraska St Query told officers the money was in billfold and his wife's purse; both resting on a bedroom dresser. The billfold and purse later were dis covered in a nearby alley with the money missing. Query said entrance to the house apparently was made through an unlocked rear door. The' burglary was believed to have taken place between midnight and t a.m. Sun day, r Query told police five books green stamps, worth 15, were taken from the house about a week ago. BACK SENTENCES MOSCOW (ff The Soviet Press Monday endorsed Red China' sentencing of 13 Americans on spy charges. Practice Up for Next Deer .7 '..'. ' ' 5 ! - - ' 1 L t I i Season : m . .. r ,. " ".at-., t K ' I I vr ... .-. Worst Crash ' . Fatal for Five: I . ' . V"-.' I - - . j ' . . ' -' . s-- ,ST. HELENS, Ore. (P Five persons were killed and 14 in- jured Sanday in a three-car smashup, the yorst in the history ot this Northwestern Oregon region. ; - i Three of the victims were children Joanne Thornton, 15, and ner sisters, uenevwve. 9, ami i Janice, t. They were believed drowned -when an automobile they were riding in rolled off the road after the crash and into a water filled drainage ditch. ' Eight la One Car Carl Reuner, St. Helens, who was ridiig in another car, and a woman tentatively identified as Marie Ainsworth of Vancouver, Wash., riding in a third car, also were killed. There "were eight other persons in the car which ran into the ditch, including the dead children's mother, Mrs. Birch Thornton, St Helens. There were six persons in the second car and two in the third. AH were injured. Not Enotgh Doctors The accident happened about five miles sovth of here at 7 p.m. Caring' for the dead and injured overtaxed the facilities of the town. Doctors were summoned from nearby communities and a number of the most seriously hurt were taken to Portland. Dictator Rules in LANE DRIVER KILLED EUGENE OD An unidentified man died Sunday night when his automobfle plunged off the Mar cola-Brownsville road into the Mo hawk River. He was alone in the car whei the mishap occurred at about 10 p.m. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras rump meeting of Congress broke1 up in a brawl among the Liberal deputies Sunday and Vice Presi dent Julio Lozano became -Hondu ras' virtual dictator. : Santiago Mesa, elected nresi dent of the rump session by the 26 Liberals, said he would no at tempt formal installation of Con gress, i j Legal Dictator I This meant that Congress would not be formally constituted by the midnight I deadline Sunday night and could not carry out its con stitutional function of electing a President! of the republic. " Vice President Lozano thus be came the de facto dictator, and under the constitution becomes the legal dictator at midnight with, all executive, legislative and iu- Benediction . . l W 1 v Broadcast by Eleven-year-old Robbie Norton and his dad. Bob Norton. 1455 NJ 19th ;St, check their deer-hunting skill on a target at the new indoor range of the Ja&oenraixies, saiem archery club, which opened Sunday. Club argnea up new memoert ana neia open noose Sunday at tne arcnery range, located at 77 5. Lancaster ur. istawsman rnotoj. t i Chiang's Guns, Reds Duel on Island Bases , TAIPEH tf) Chinese Commu nist artillery Sunday raked both ends of Nationalist China's string of bases off the shores of the Red- held mainland. The Nationalists replied in kind both in the Tachen Islands, 200 miles north of here, and at Que moy, 350 miles down the coast. said the official -Nationalist Cen tral News Agency. , Island Shelled The Communists on Toumen (Headgate) b Island, one of the Tachen group, shelled . Yikiang shan (One River Mountain) Island, a Nationalist base 20 miles off the Red coast of Chekiang Province. The barrage began at t o'clock Sunday morning but stopped after an hour under strong Nationalist retaliatory fire, Central News said. Planes in Air ! A number of Communist planes appeared near the Tachens Sun day but did not fly over; it stated. No mention was made of casual ties or damage. At the southern extremity of the string of Nationalist bases, a sim ilar artillery duel took place Sun day between Reds on Amoy fend Nationalists on nearby Quemoy, 120 miles west of Formosa. ' The two islands are seven miles apart. Policemen Frotcn on Piggy Back Cycling The sight of one hoy riding piggy back", atop another on a motor, scooter stirred a city of- leer's curiosity Sunday and re sulted in a citation for the driver. The driver, a 15-year-old. was cited for ) having; no operator's license and was ordered to ap pear in municpal court this morning at 8:30. The boys were riding in the 900 block of Gaines street, at the time of the arrest. Rep. Veldc to Marry Former Secretary WASHINGTON UPi Chairman Harold H. Velde (R-W) of the House Un-American . Activities Committee and his former secre tary, Mrs. Dolores Anderson, are to be married in Baltimore Wed nesday, it was learned Sunday night. 'Draft Die' Move Predicted ;-'- ' i By GOP Senators for 1956 By EDWIN B. HAAKISSON WASHINGTON - Sen. Aiken (R-Vt) predicted Sunday that Re publicans will draft President Eis enhower for a second term "and he'll be reelected even if he does not want it now. Aiken a veteran Republican who usually is classed in the liberal or progressive wing of the party, said in an interview that Eisenhower "has been acting like a one-term President," "He has made decisions that would indicate he wants only one four-year term," Aiken said. "But that's just why the people will in sist he serve a second." Two other Republican senators. Duff of Pennsylvania and Mrs. Hazel - Abel of Nebraska, agreed with Aiken in separate interviews. Sen. Abel, who is serving the last two months of the term of the late Sen. Dwight Gnswold. said "We will have to draft him, that's the only way." The woman senator hinted at second term during a White House talk with the. President Saturday and she said he grinned broadly and said: fLet's take it step by Duff, farmer governor of. Penn sylvania, said be is confident that Eisenhower is the only presidential possibility who can be counted on to win in 1936. One of the original Ike-for-pres dent boosters. Duff said the Presi dent s popularity win continue an unbeatable leveL None of the three senators claims to know whether the Presi dent wants or is willing to seek another term. . i advancej plans, Voice In but his -nap upset the Socialists Win In Berlin Vote, join Adenauer BERLIN' Of! Anti-rearmament Socialists won an impressive vic tory m West Berlin s municipal elections Sunday. j : ;They immediately moved to join with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's second ranking cnristian Democrats to form a solid front city government against the common foeMoscow commu nism i - ; . j Narrow Margin j 1 Final official counting of ballots for the 127 seats in the city's Par liament which chooses the mayor and his administration gave the Socialists a bare lead with 44 per cent of the; total vote, compared with an aggregate 42.7 per cent for the combined Christian Democrats and Free Democrats! . . m t i The Socialists were well ahead of Adenauer's party 'with a count of 684,646 to 466,595. The Free Democrats got 196,845. j Reds Shut Oat I rnone ot uie otner parties run ning obtained the 5 per cent of tie total vote- needed to secure proportional seat in Parliament 4Tbe Communists were complete ly snui out tor iacK of the 5 per cent or tne tout needed to get i candidate seated, in the City Par liament "f i , i (They took a shellacking even in the workers' districts of the city such as Wedding, once called "Red Pasture,! a stronghold of commu nism even before World War IL Goos Logger Charged With Extortion Try t - ; COOS BAY A 25-year-old logger, married and the father of three children, has admitted at tempting to extort 110,000 from a Myrtle Point banker; the FBI re ported Sunday. . I jleld in jail here on a charge man Catholics faded slightly. Bui of violation of the federal extor tion statute was Junior Clyde Gemes of nearby Myrtle Point Joseph Santoiana, ! a g e n t in charge of the Portland, Ore., FBI office, said Gemes admitted mak ing anonymous telephone calls and sending two threatening letters to Harry Dement president of the Myrtle Point Security Bank. De ment was threatened with bodily harm unless he placed a package containing $10,000 in bills at a Kwie wee socio" i. Sale at Portlapd Baker Medford North Bead Roteburg . St ft Francisco Chicaf o ' New York Lot Anfeles , Max. Mia. -Jl 4 -41 44 -46 31 -61 33 -57 SO -52 44 50 32 . 36 4 .63 -39 -44 .64 Preclp. .71 M .00 .37 1.44 .64 M trac .00 Willamette River 1.5 feet TORECAST (from U. S. weather Mreau. McNary field. Salem): MotUy . cloudy with shower to day; partly cloudy . tonight and Tuesday: nighest temperature today near SO. cooler tonight with lowest oear 32. Temperature at 11:01 a.m. today was . -: .. l SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start ef Weather Year Seai. 1 rals Year Last Year - Koraaal . U.16 U.22 V Ailing Pontiff Bt FRANK BRUTTO VATICAN CITY ) Pope Pius XIC swallowed a few spoons ful of broth Sunday, took a long nap and j then appearing stronger than at i any time since his col lapse Thursday broadcast a bene diction by microphone from his sickbed to the people of Rome. lit was! "live" broadcast Vati can radio technicians had wanted I to makei a tape recording of the Pope's benediction several hours in Cadence Beset by the gravest ailment ol his 78 years, the pontiff was sleep ing when tne technicians gathered in his antechamber in early after noon and his physicians declined to disturb him. He awoke only a short time be fore his words were to be directed to a ceremony n St. Peter's Ba silica. So the microphone was held over his hps for direct relay to the basilica's loudspeakers and the Vatican radio. At one point the voice of the en feebled leader of the world's Ro- most ot cis oriel message was stated firmly and with cadence. Moved From Noise Mechanically, the broadcast was arranged to tax his strength as little as possible. A responsible source said the Pope's sickbed had been moved from his white- walled bedroom of 16 years to room farther inside the Vatican Palace to get him away from the rest-disturbing noises of St. Peter's Square. 1 rv-1: - r l t p n Santoiana said the first letter was apparently delayed in delivery and was not received until after the payoff was ordered made. An other demand was made by tele phone, ' but the package was not picked up. Gemes was arrested Saturday in the general area where a package was ordered placed in the third demand. Dement notified police immedi ately after receiving the first letter several weess ago.' rouce nere m it sv notified the FBI and agents have IIO V 1811. VSregOIl since. . Pope's words. Only four days ago, the pontifi was in grave peril, medical ex perts said. Hiccuping, nausea and fever took then toll in recurrence of an abdominal ailment He -was still critically ill Sunday, but he appeared no longer in inimin ent danger. New, Demo Chief 2S ABOARD PLANE PARIS (A The French News Agency said there -were 26 per sons aboard a commercial plane which crashed Saturday in North ern Laos, about 20 miles norm of Luang Prabang. It gave no in formation on casualties. ' PORTLAND m j Paul Butler of Indiana,' the new Democratic national j chairman, will ome to Oregon soon to meet with;. the state's party officials. That was the report Sunday Monroe Sweetland. Oregon Demo cratic national committee m a from the New Orleans meeting of the Democratic National Commit tee. . ' '' , - :l Country dicial authority, probablv for af least two years. i VS. for Health T President Juan Manuel GaWez: wbo would have been dictator, suddenly took a leave of absence! Nov. 16 to receive medical treat ment and is now in MiamL Fla:. eaving Lozano as actin? Presi dent President Galver has not an nounced whether he, would return io Honduras. The presidential election of Oct5 10 was thrown into Congress when the Liberal candidate, Ramon Vil- eda Moraes failed of an 'absolute majority over; two other1 candi-I dates. Nationalist Tiburico Cartas. lormer aicutor tor 20 years, who ran second, and Reformist Albert Williams, i who Iran third with the backing of President Galver. Lacked Quoram Frustrated liberals met Sundav 4n boycotted solitude. The National ists and Reformists refused to at- end, obviously aunmz At the ere. abon of l dictatorship by Lozano if they could not get the eld dic tator Carias back. The Liberals therefore lacked the - necessary quorum of 37 or 38 nee essary to formally constitute Con gress. H .-,-f ' , - - Since Saturday nieht TeraeiML' pa had been battened down 'tfruin tight by a government order pro hibiting automobile traffic in a move to prevent any sporadic shooting from speeding cars. The capital was filled with sol diers who roamed , the city and bottled up strategic points. 5 Youngsters ' Die as Flames Jweep, Home FRANKLIN. I Mass. (A Fiv children perished in their second. floor fasmhouse bedroom Sundav night but their heroic father suc ceeded in saving an infant Police said I the children. th oldest age 7. perished before their" father, Reginald de Baggis, 30; could reach i them. DeBaesis. burned seriously and cut by bro ken glass, was able to lead the baby and his wife to safety, t The children were sleeping in an upstairs bedroom; three in one. bed and i the other two in cribs, The DeBaggis were sleeping down. stairs with tne baby, j First reports! said the fire starU ed'on the first floor and swerf up a stairway to the second floor, blocking the entrance to the young sters bedroom. The fire apparently started from, a space heater in the living room, police said, j " - The mother j was' described by police as an English war bride FD7E HUKS KILLED 1 MANILA Wl ' Fwe Communist led Huk dissidents were killed Sunday in a clash with a Philip pine army patrol near Lucban, & town about 50; miles southeast of . Manila, the army' reported Mont day. ..v: 1 I . Reds Free Korean War Ace; 3 American ; , Fellow Prisoners of Jet Pilot Identified By FRED HAMPSON HONG KONG (JB j Squadron Leader Andrew R. : (Andy) Mac Kenzie; 34, the Canadian ace shot down in the Korean War, reached Hang Kong Sunday after two years' imprisonment in Red China. He told VS. and Canadian offici als some American -war prisoners are being held at his prison camp. Fbe Americans do not include any. of the 13 recently sentenced by the Communist . Chinese on ; spy charges, he said. ; 1 MacKenzie was credited with de stroying S 4 enemy4 planes while serving as a fighter pilot with U.N. forces in Korea. He crossed back to j freedom through the Jtamboo Curtain two years to the day after befwas shot down near the Yalu River while flying as an exchange officer -with the U.S. Air Force. The Canadian Foreign Ministry was notified informally by 1 the Peiping regime Nov. 23 that Mac Kenzie would be freed Sunday. MacKeftzie's only statement to newsmen as he posed briefly: for photographers at a Hong Kong pier was! "I am glad to be here and am looking forward to spending Christmas, with my family." j Mac Kenzie said he was under strict instructions not to comment further, en his imprisonment before he reports to Canadian authorities. ! Lt. C4L O. D. Simpson, Ui. Air Force attache in Hong Kong, gave newsmen this account of his interview with the flier: "I can confirm there are Ameri cans in the camp that MacKenzie was in, but i am not authorized to give any !j information as to names or numbers. I have forward ed this information to Air Forco headquarters in Washington." J (An Air Force casualty officer in Washington said that the fot lowing three Americans wer known to have been in the camp with MacKenzie: (Capt I Harold E. Fischer Swea City, Iowa: Lt Lyle Cameron, of Lincoln, Neb., an$ Lt Roland W, Parks, of Omaha! Neb. j . (Lt Col. R.W. Springfield, chief of the Casualty Branch In the Air Force, said it had been hoped that the three Americans would be released along with MacKen zie.) ! - . 7 4 - . - -r . - -