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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1954)
2 (Sec 1) Stat man. Sclein, On, Monday,: Doc 13. 19S4 U.N. Officials Anxiously Await Reply By A. I. GOLDBERG t UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (Jl -! U.N. officials spent Sunday in anxious waiting for an ' answer from Red China on Secretory Gen eral Da HammarskjoM's request for a meeting in Peiping soon after Dec. 28 to discuss release of It American fliers and other, U.N. military personnel. - I1 At 6 p.m. EST)r 4 hours had paired since the secretary gen eral's cablegram to Communist China's Premier Chou En-Lai was confirmed received in Shanghai. But a spokesman for Hammarsk jold said it was too soon to be gin thinking about any deadline to mark failure of the mission given the secretary general by the U.N. Generay Assembly Friday..? ? Over Soviet bloc objections, the Assembly adopted a resolution con demning Red China for violation of the Korean armistice agreement from Chou Millions Vote In Russia on 1-Party Ballot MOSCOW un Under the cus tomary Communist slogan of "most democratic election: in the world," million of citizens in Mos cow and 10 of the Soviet Union's 1 republics turned out Sunday to elect judges of the people's courts. As usual, it was a one-party bal lot.. These are the lowest judges in the Soviet judiciary, equivalent to American justices of the peace They are chosen every two. years. Balloting in the remaining six re publics will take place next sun The current elections are dis tinguished by the fact that the Rus sian press has been demanding for 'months that judges of better quali ty and greater honesty be elected to the people s courts. j In recent months the newspapers have exposed several judges as grafters or drunkards. The press also complained these courts have been lax in enforcing their own verdicts in such cases as alimony and bigamy, j- s ;' Writing in London, Eddy Gil more. Associated Press cor respondent in Moscow ' for many years, commented: Russia's nationwide elections of i judges may be a prelude to the promised and long awaited changes in the country's criminal code. Pravda. in an editorial broad cast by Moscow radio, said the judges were being elected "at a time when the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the gov ernment are undertaking a number of measures to strengthen Soviet legislation." A British government ' official, familiar with Soviet policies, said he interpreted this to mean the U. S. S. R. is getting ready to announce changes in criminal laws. Sunday's broadcast from Mos cow added: "These measures are aimed at safeguarding the unassailable ob servance of the laws of the Soviet state, the great and firm rights of the citizens of the U. S. S. R., inscribed , in our Constitution which is the most democratic in the world. Students of Soviet affairs here say the changes in the criminal code, when and if they are an nounced, may even go so "far as to liberalize the system by which so many Russians have been sent to concentration camps. j I in 'declining to return amea mili tary prisoners. "The! Assembly asked ! Hammarskjold to go wnat he could to get them; released. Hammarskjold sent his cable gram late Friday; in i effect ask ing the Peiping regime, whether he would be allowed to; come there to plead the U.N. case personally with Chou. Saturday- night. 24 hours after it was known the cable had reached Red China, he made the text public. ( f Without mentioning the condem nation, feature of i thtf resolution, Hammarskjold informed Chou he felt a special responsibility in the case and asked him to set the date far meeting if Chou agreed to let him take up. the matter personally. it was also hinted here that what ever I appeals could. ; could be made' through Sweden and India to get a friendly answer? from Peip ing would not be overlooked. Ham- rnarskjold's nephew, Peder Ham raarskjoM, is Swedish Charge d' Affaires in Peiping. India has an ambassador, there-. i But at a late hour Sunday there was do direct 1 answer from the Communist regime, . no sign of an answer through diplomatic chan nels. ' not i a significant word I on Peiping radio which often tips Communist China s actions. Diplomatic sources! in Washing ton said they thought Hammarsk jold's bid would succeed and that he might even win release of the fliers, whom the Communists ac cuse of being spies, j Mrs. English Euphrasia M. English, 4, long kaowa as the Salem City Coma dTa most faithful follower, who died Saaday at her home here. ! Gty:Counca 'Most Loyal' Follower Dies Faces Diruiik Cliarge After Wreck WEST, LOS ANGELES tf -i- Po lice arrested actor Broderick Craw ford; Tor drunkenness Sunday after the rented car he, another actor and actress Abigail t Adams were in smashed into a fence. Miss Adams, the 1 other actor, Myron McCormick, 47, New York, and (Crawford, 44, were booked as plain drunk and later released on $20 bail each pending municipal court appearance Monday. Police said Crawford, winner of an Academy Award, was arrested with' Miss 1 Adams as they sought to call a taxi from f a Mandeville Canyon home. They said McCorm ick was arrested in the auto near by- j 5 I) ! Miss Adams told officers she was 37 and said her real name was Terra Hall. She was booked under that name. : I f i Officers said the trta told them they had attended;' ah all-night party, drove into Mandeville Can yon by mistake, and, were attempt ing to find their way out when the auto hit a fence, i I When arrested. Miss Adams was barefooted. Police said they found a pair of woman's shoes and a fur coat in the car. Renaissance Art Under Suspicion j LONDON If) Britain's Nation ? al Gallery was reported : Sunday J planning to make tests this week - to determine whether one of -its , Italian Renaissance paintings is a fake. Leonard Koetser. a London art dealer, says the painting is a copy and claims he has the original. j A spokesman for the National Gallery said no comment would be made Sunday. The picture, "Virgin And Child With An An - gel." . has been in the gallery for 30 years and is listed as the' original work of the16th Century master, Francesco Francia. " "My picture has been examined and so has the National Gallery one by several experts," said Koetser." and they all agree mine is the original." He said Sir Philip Hendry, di rector of the gallery, had ordered tests to determine the age of its pictures. Koetser says the gal lery's painting can be no older than about 150 years. Parents, 2 Others Die in Youth's Fire if, ? -: -i r ' HAVERHILL, Mass. JH Police Inspector Charles F. Turner said Sunday night that Richard E. la Plante. 16, admitted setting an apartment house fire in which four persons, including tus parents, per ished early Sundays Turner quoted the youth as say ing he set the blaze in the four- story wooden house because "1 1 don't like the place' and I told my folks" so many times. , Young La Plante J was booked on arson and manslaughter charges and held . for hearing j Monday morning in Central District Court. Victims of .the !early morning blaze were young La Plante's par ents. Alfred. 45, and Eva, 43; Fred: Bacigalupo, 63, and Mahloq Cutler. 44. , The younger La Plante was list ed as the discoverer of the fire. Turner i said conflicting stories told by La Plante to a newspaper reporter and to authorities led to intensive! questioning of the boy. 1 Haverhill Gazette newsman Russ Deilaire Said young La Plante told him Bacigalupo started the fire by : throwing away a cigarette. Later, Dellaire said, he asked fire officials "about it and they told him the .boy had j given them a different story. ' j Most of the '25 occupants of the building.! many of them old age assistance recipients, made their way to safety after the blaze was discovered.: ' Mrs. Euphrosina M. English, 84, who once was given an offi cial salute as Salem City Coun cil's "most loyal fan," 'died Sun day at the residence. 3150 E. Center St, following an extend ed illness. Mrs. English's faithful attend ance at council meetings over period of almost 40 years brought recognition in 1948 when then Mayor Robert Li Elfstrom pre sented her an orchid in a cere mony in! the council ! chambers. Ill health forced her to discon tinue her council visits last June. Always intensely interested in civic and religious matters, she was a precinct committee woman for many years and active as a layman in the Catholic Church. Born in Germany She was born in Baden-Oens- bach, Germany on April 13, 1870, the daughter of Valentine and Catherine Armbruster. At the age of IS she came to the United States to live with an uncle in Walla Walla, Wash. Later she moved- to Colfax, Wash., where she met! and married Frank A. English ! in 1893. Mr. English died in Salem in 1930. The English family came to Salem in 1909 and for many yean lived at 2680 Cherry Ave. Mrs. English was living with a daugh ter, Mrs.! James A. Garson, at the time of 'her death. . Church Member ! She was first a member of SL Joseph's; Catholic Church and later of $t Vincent de Paul Cath olic Church. .1 . lj Surviving In addition to the daughter in Salem, - are three sons, Dir. Pennbyer English of State College, Pa., Felix English of Walla Walla, Wash, and Bryan J.x English4 of Portland; two sisters, Mrs. Albert Lewis of Yakima, Wash., and Mrs. Christina Weber of Tikoa, Wash.; a brother, Valentine Armbruster of Germany; three grandsons. Dr. James Garson of Portland, Law rence Garson of Salem, and John W. English of West Palm Beach, Fla.; one. great-grandchild and many cousins. Recitation of the Rosary will be held at Virgil T. Golden chapel (Tuesday at 10 a.m. Interment will be at St Barbara's cemetery.! j Horror-Type Comic Books Up in Flames VANCOUVER. B.C. W - More than 8.000 horror-type comic books went up in flames here 'during the weekend in a rally which sur prised even the sponsoring Junior Chamber of Commerce. ; The Jaycees turned" over a bound historical, animal j or nature-lore book? for every 10 crime or horror comic book turned in during a Saturday ceremony at a downtown park. i Then, with the' comics ' heaped in a pile. Alderman Syd Bowman touched off the bonfire. , i "It may have been a slightly melodramatic gesture." said Len Wynne, head of the group a youth leadership committee, "but dras tic action seemed necessary to bring young reading habits to parents' attention" "It's careless parents who are responsible in the long run," he said of juvenile reading habits. He said the Jaycees hadn't ex pected more than 5,000 comics but that the youngsters, mostly in the 8-to-10 age group, surprised them. The bound exchange books were purchased by the youth group. Wynne said the spectacular pub lic bonfire had i no significance other than to draw attention to the wrong kind of comics. Chemistry Set Drink Leaves No After! Effects A young Salem girl drank chemical from a toy chemistry set Sunday night but she appar ently suffered no serious after effects, first aidmen reported. Aidmen were called to treat Frances Dotson, 9, after a report that she had drink the chemical at her home, 1212 Aiken Dr. The girl vomited the liquid almost immediately and that may have saved 1 her from serious harm, aidmen said. At The Theaters . Today - ELSINORS "GOLDEN MISTRESS." with John Afar "CROSSED SWORDS.- -With Errol riynn CAPITOL "BLACK WIDOW " with Via Haflin "SHANGHAI STORY." with Ed mond O'Brien GRAND ' "WOMAN'S WORLD." with Clifton Webb TERROR SHIP." with Wil liam Lundigan HOLLYWOOD "SUSAN SLEPT HERE." with William Powell and Defebia Reyn olds ALLEGHENY UPRISING", with John Warn Son's Rescue9 Leaves Woman With Cut Leg A Salem -mother, noticing that her small son had swallowed a fish bone, suffered a severe lac eration of the leg Sunday night while going to his aid. ! Mrs. Charles Cochran, 1645 S. Capitol SL, was treated by first aidmen after she cut her right leg on a broken piece of glass. The woman said she was rush ing to her two-year-old boy when injured. Aidmen said the tot suffered no ill effects from swallowing the bone. The woman was taken to Sa lem Memorial Hospital, where stitches were taken in the leg. John Snyder Mav Testif v In Tax Probe ST.- LOUIS m - The - Globe- Democrat said Sunday! night for mer Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder and former Internal Rev enue Commissioner George. J. Schoeneman are expected to be called as grand jury witnesses in a renewed investigation of the In ternal Revenue Service. The newspaper said present plans call for the ! two men to be subpoenaed in the current inquiry. A federal grand Jury 'at Omaha. Neb., investigating operations of the Internal Revenue Service, re cently indicted C. Elmer Brown, a Philadelphia official of the agen cy on charges he lied in testify ing he never did anything to ob struct a 1950 inquiry into the St. Louis internal revenue office. The newspaper said the time and place Snyder and Schoene man are expected to be called "are matters which either are be ing kept secret or have not yet been decided. !, A : Justice Department official said in Washington Saturday that James P. Fmnegan, (former St Louis collector now serving a two year sentence for misconduct In office, probably will be called be fore the Omaha grand jury next month. The jury is in recess un til Jan. 10. 1; Snyder was head of the Treas ury Department and Schoeneman headed the old Internal Revenue i Bureau. Si f Truman Favors Publication Of All Presidents9 Papers WASHINGTON - Because the private papers of so many presidents have been kept in hap hazard fashion, former President Harry Truman hopes the govern ment will some day publish : the papers of all presidents so they'll be easily available o the public. particularly to ; historians. Truman said ' many important documents of other presidents are missing and my never be recov ered. This is so, he said, because a president's papers traditionally are considered his private proper ty and are taken with him when he leaves office. j In some cases, he said, papers were lost when heirs, hard up fi nancially, sold them for "their own private gain." "I have always felt . that the papers of the presidents should be historical documents available to all the country," Truman said in a filmed television interview with columnist Drew Pearson. That is why, Truman said, he is housing his own voluminous col lection in the Truman Library at Independence, Mo. This follows the . precedents of former President Herbert Hoover, whose papers are at Stanford Uni versity,, and the , late Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose papers are at Hyde Park, N.Y, Truman said i the papers of George Washington were the only ones published by the government and those of Thomas Jefferapn are being published by Princeton Uni versity. A great many presidential pa pers, about 16 sets, he said, are in the Tabrary of Congress, but these have never been indexed and are piled on the floor. scholars unlesshey want to go there and spend all their time try ing to find what ought to be acces sible immediately." Truman said. Accident Victim 'it Listed as Improved ! i STAYTON A Salem man, se verely injured in a recent high way accident near Mehama, was reported improving Sunday at Santiam Memorial Hospital. The injured mini Gerald Nett ling, suffered I multiple fractures and lacerations when be appar ently lost control! of his oar. The vehicle reportedly left the high way and crashed into a tree. For a Tasty Treat Try a j Haskins CHILI HOT DOG Only 20C Also Try Oar Fine Caramel Crisp and Pop Cora .HASKINS 2950 Sooth Commercial SL (Next to Golden Eagle Service Station) BIRD BOOK PLANNED PETERSBURG, Va. (aV-Dr. W. B. Mcniwaine. i a Presbyterian minister, has everything planned for his retirement two years hence. He'll write a book about birds. Since 1916 he . has been watching birds and keeping notes. He tries to stroll through the woods for an hour and a half dafly. , Strike Threatens New York Paper NEW YORK UB A CIO News paper Guild spokesman said Sun day night that negotiations with The New York Post are stale mated and plans will go ahead for a rt-ike at midnight Monday nrbt. i " . . , :t r Tie strike was authorized ear lier by guild members at the Post when management and union were unable to agree on matters of job security, severance pay and ex empt jobs. Til iiiness liiiaims !- R - John J. LesHer n I " i John J. Lesner.f S5, a longtime resident bl the Brooks area, died at a Salem hospital Sunday follow ing a lengthy illness. His home was at Brooks Route 1, Box 248-C Suvivori include the widow, Mrs. Martha Lesher of Brooks; and a son, George Lesher of Brooks. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Howell-Edwards mortuary. - Darkness Cuts Search I for i Fishing Buat HONOLULU j if) Darkness Sunday j night overtook a search for the "Brothers," a well-known Alaska and Puget Sound fishing boat wh:ch radioed Sunday morn ing she !was sinking 70 miles north west of! Honolulu. No trace of the boat or the two men aboard had been found but the search continued with surface ships and radar planes; The miss ing boat was; carrying a large life raft. i : The two men were the owner- skipper Arthur Otness. 37, whose mother Mrs. Ragna Otness lives at Seattle: ' and his cousin, John Otness, 39, of Tacoma. . Erlmg Oswald, skipper ot an other fishing boat, the Oceanic, which came to Hawaii from the mainland with the "Brothers.' said Arthur was a fair swimmer but that John could not swim. One' 'search ship found an oil slick Sunday but could not deter mine whether it was from oil dis charged by some passing steam er.- . Two destroyers, two planes, and three Coast Guard cutters hurried toward; the designated spot this morning when the Brothers report ed in a radio message heard by the Coast; Guard that she was sinkings Beth men aboard are veteran Pacific fishermen. RHEE OUSTS SEVEN I 1 ' : SEOUL Ji Seven men who balked :at a legislative move keep ing President Syngman Rhee in power Were kicked out of the pro- Rbee Liberal Party Sunday. NOW PLAYING! TtlASUai HUNT IN THI TtOMCSI rum f ncMMKOioa 13 ! : i 2ND ACTION HIT faWT alio- tSSED CINA lOUOSJUGOA LL L " " - ijJ l!0Y PlAYIl.'G! GINGER ROGERS VAN VlEFLIN f GENE TIERNEY GEORGE t RAFT UJ j" PUB "THE SHANGHAI STOftY Starring . Rath i Edmond ROMAN and O'BRIEN i'Cardal PALMIST psychic Rea yaur life Ilk aa apra aoak. Past - Present - fvtart - Lvr MarrUt - Biilatn - Stekaets. Brine aU yaar rsbltmu ta tail Ctfte4 Lady. , ( tj Hours: II to IS j , 3745 Portland Road 1 (Next Door ta Nick's) B9 'Susan Slept Here" Debbie Reynolds Dick! 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TO 7 P.M. mm 1 - mi . - FIVE $10 BIUS ) l; ; . : Salem Dov;n!ov;n Merchants Assn.
