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Airliner, Private Plane Crash, Fall; " .!.. U A VJ .II V., 15 Persons Killed POUNDDD 1651 ' ' C By HAROLD BURLINGTON, Ky. JF) Fifteen persons died Wednesday on bleak snow-covered Northern Kentucky hillsides as a TWA Martin Sky liner and a privately owned OC3 collided in the air and crashed a half mile apart. There were no survivors to explain the accident The TWA plane had left the tog) nag CHICAGO. Jan. 10-Why are we all so weather-conscious? For the great majority, the state of the weather makes relatively little dif ference. Most folk work indoors at this season at least, where tem peratures are governed by ther mostats. The intervals of being outdoors, going to and from work, are short. For them we can dress according to our wishes: overcoats, rubbers. In spite of the fact that modern inventions and working habits have scaled down the im portance of weather, we remain keenly interested in weather changes. Weather news is indis pensable in a paper. Folk laugh or grumble at mistakes of weather forecasters regardless of the fact that either hit or miss will not make the slightest i difference in their routine. News broadcasts faithfully report the weather pre dictions, and many folk punctually listen to them, whether they have any plans for the morrow or not Not that weather forecasts are un important To an orange-grower prediction of frost means he must get busy with his orchard heaters, Warning of a hurricane prompts residents in its probable path to batten down until it passes. For the great majority however, the degree of interest in weather is quite disproportionate to its actual effect on their lmng and work. ' Which is a long introduction to the report that this was a nice day in Chicago, an unusually fine day, for January, the taxi driver said. Not that it made any special differ ence, to me or to thousands of oth ers. Still, we all do get a lift out of a : sunny day, particularly in wintertime. Whatever the weather may be currently in Chicago the winter Continued on Editorial .Page, 4) Blizzard, Gale Lash Britain, ShipStoktog LONDON (It Blizzards and free ing gales lashed Britain Wednes day, spreading deep snow over n Northern England and Scotland and endangering coastal ships. Two . trains were stranded in heavy snow in Scotland and dozens of villages were isolated. . Gales swept down the North Sea and Irish ChanneL The 1,575-ton Norwegian freighter Gatt radioed it was sinking off the Dutch coast Two small Swedish vessels called for immediate aid. One was off the Dutch coast and one off East; era England. A search for two Royal Air Force planes carrying 18 men was called off in the Atlantic. Three ships still stood by trying to spot life rafts, but hope for the men dwindled , aftr a 20-hour search in vicious weather. Freed Yanks Suffer From Liver Ailment BERLIN (J) U.S. Army doc tors said Wednesday two Ameri cans who were released after years of Soviet imprisonment last weekend are suffering from, en largement of the liver, apparently caused by malnutrition. The two Americans, John H. Noble, 31, of Detroit and Pvt Wil liam C. Marchuk, 30, of Norris- town. Pa., underwent physical ex aminations at the U.S. Army hos pital here. Noble told a news conference Tuesday that during their deten tion in the Soviet slave labor camp at Vorkuta the diet consisted most ly of cabbage and grain and some times fish. Noble, who was arrested in the Russian zone as a civilian in 1945, is under medical care at the Army hospital ' before leaving for his home in Detroit Marchuk is in Army custody and the judge advo cate general said he will be tried by court martial on a charge of absent without leave. He had been missing from his Berlin unit since February, 1949. ANIMAL CRACKERS V WARREN GOODRICH "X. . Jaha. I believe lav Imc engagements kww abt SaW trtay far tat wtdsagT" - CRT HARRISON neater Cincinnati airport only ; minutes before, bound lor Dayton and Cleveland, Ohio. It carried 10 persons and a crew of three. , The DC3, with two aboard, was being flown from Battle Creek, Mich., and was to have picked up Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Van Lennep in Lexington, Ky.. wealthy Detroit race horse owners. Mrs. Van Lennep is the former Frances Dodge. Lewis Reinbold of Pittsburgh, aviation safety agent for the Civil Aeronautics Authority, issued a statement 11 hoars after the acci dent, however, that: ''Preliminary investigation has disclosed that the DC3 aircraft de parted from Battle Creek, Mich., at 7:33 a. m. (EST) for Lexington. The pilot did not file a flight plan or make any . contact with the CAA's facilities enroute." Reinbold's statement said the TWA plane had received "routine instrument flight clearance to pro ceed from Cincinnati to Dayton at a cruising altitude of 4,000 feet He said no other aircraft was reported in the area at the time. Reinbold said, emergency search ers first found the DC3 and then the airliner. C Woodrow McKay, chief con troller at the tower, said he saw the transport plane head southwest for about two minutes, make a right ! turn and then disappear. Seconds later he saw a flash and then smoke. The TWA plane crashed into the side of a gully approximately a half mile from the nearest road. It bounced back and wreckage was strewn for 150 yards. ' The DC3 appeared to have hit nose first about a half mile away. ount Dag's Mission 'May Succeed' HONOLULU Ml Dag Hammar skjold. refreshed by a midwinter swim in warm Hawaiian waters and wearing a bit of sunburn, Wednesday night resumed the homeward flight from his Peiping mission to free 11 American air men. ! v. The U.N. secretary general left at 5:57 p.m. (7:57 p.m., PST) in a big Air Force.. Constellation.. - Signs mounted that Hammar skjold's mission to Red- China was not in vain. While the United Nations secre tary general - remained silent, a personal aide, Per Lind, told re porters in Tokyo the families of 11 U.S. fliers jailed as "spies' must : "nave a utue more pa tience And in London, the British For eign ! Office - endorsed - a U.N. spokesman s statement that Ham marskjold had not failed in his flight half way around the world for talks with Premier Chou En Lai of Red China. In response to reporters ques tions in Honolulu. Hammarskjold said that this , was "not the time or place" to comment on his mis sion for a 'fairly obvious" rea son, i Wrecks Kill 3 Portland PORTLAND m This city's 1935 traffic fatality toll stood at sue Wednesday after ' three deaths within. 12 hours. Robert J. McCann, 23, Portland died s in a hospital Wednesday morning a few minutes after, bis motorcycle collided with an oil truck. Several hours earlier, Victor G Fong, 39, Portland, was injured fatally when the car in which he was riding crashed into . another and rammed into a power pole Seriously hurt were Herman R. Chinn. 36. driver of the death car, and John B. Jung, 41, another of Chum's passengers. Glynn Bristol, 67, Portland, died in a hospital from : injuries suffered when struck by a car as be crossed a street FAMOUS TRIO LEBANON. Ind. tf) Herbert Hoover. Mary Livingston ; and Jesse James have obtained their 1955 auto licenses here. The three drivers with names of the famous are residents of this county. SiaisM Combined Industrial, Chamber Manager Gets Tentative Okeh One managership for both the Salem Chamber of Commerce and the Salem Industrial Development Council won tentative approval Wednesday at a session of repre sentatives of both groups. - Chairman Carl Hogg said a six man committee win be named by each of the groups to work out details of the administrative or ganization including a division of its costs. The plan would -call for one executive overall with an assistant whose duties would be primarily with the Industrial Council , Agreement on the plan was reached at a morning meeting of the Industrial Council at which Elton Thompson, sew president 2 Road Test Proves Point, Lad Fined For Loud Muffler MANKATO, Minn. (AP) A youthful hot rod enthusiast brought into court for using an overly-loud muffler tried to reverse the usual judicial pro cedure by tossing a book at the fudge. Roger Taylor cited in his de fense a hot rod magazine ar ticle on behalf of throaty muf flers called, "How Loud Is Loud?" : Judge Leslie Morse studied the article, then ordered a road test of the car with the judge as a passenger. His verdict: "The noise al most broke my eardrums." The fine: $2. ause Power Failure enter A temporary power outage black ed out section of downtown Salem Wednesday night as 35-mile-an-hour 'gusts whipped through the city. -. V t: . ! Portland General Electric work men were called out about 10:30 p.m. after a transformer supply ing power to two downtown movie theaters was put out of commission by a short-circuit apparently caus ed by wind-blown wires. The' theaters were without elec tricity for 45 minutes and a pri mary line supplying power to other downtown buildings was closed for about i five J minutes. Among the darkened buildings was the Mar ion County Courthouse. Weathermen at the McNary Field station said the winds resulted from a low-pressure area that be gan passing over the city after 10 p.m. They said wind velocities will diminish today but that the day will be generally blustery. Partly cloudy skies are expected over Salem today, and scattered showers are forecast for today and tonight The temperature is ex pected to range from an afternoon high ot 45 degrees w a low m w. Woman1 Struck By Automobile Near Keizer A 66-year-old woman pedes trian! was i hospitalized with a probable fractured hip Wednes day night after she was struck by a car as she crossed North River Road near the Cherry Street intersection. The injured woman was Mrs. Elsa Fischer, 4360 N. River Rd. She was taken by Willamette Ambulance to Salem Memorial Hospital after the accident which occurred about 11 p.m. State police said the driver of the car, Gordon Zeldin, 34, Port land,! told; them Mrs. Fischer stepped out onto the highway in front of him and he was unaoie to stop. 1 Rain, driven by strong winds, resulted in poor visibility at the time of the accident police said. No citations were issued. : I Hospital attendants said early thisi morning that Mrs. Fischer was being treated for a probable hip fracture and bruises. Her condition was listed as satisfac tory, j Daily's Dallying Costly Mistake SEATTLE WV James Dally dallied in Portland Wednesday and it cost him $2,800 in Seattle. Dally was to appear in muni cipal court for trial on seven counts of bootlegging in a local night club. - His attorney, Euthe mios Carras, asked for a con tinuance, explaining that Dally thought the trial was scheduled for Thursday and was spending the day in Portland. . Judge John H. Neergaard said "No" and ordered the $2,800 bond forfeited. of the Chamber appeared. Thomp son indicated that the Chamber has an opportunity to employ a qualified executive capable in both industrial development and general chamber work. Neither the Chamber nor the Council currently has a manager since the resignation of Clay Cochran as manager "for the Chamber and release of Russell Dudley for the Council. Hogg said Wednesday he had been advised by the council s at torney Roy Harland that no word had been received on legal action being taken by Dudley to claim salary for the next two years which he says is dne him under a contract for the period, - 104TH YEAR busts t In City C SECTIONS - 16 PAGES Legislature Wayne, Dick - . : - r-v;t x(V Oregon's VS. Senators Wayne Morse and Richard Neuberger share - the cover of Time magazine this week. The accompanying story in the magazine brought the comment It s just awful" from Mrs. Neuberger who is serving as a state legislator in Salem. Besides the overall tone of the article, Mrs. Neuberger shown above with the magazine took issue with Time's statement that her husband made 530,000 a year writing. "How will I ever be able to rent an inexpensive place to live when Salem landlords read that?" she said; (Story on page 8, tec 2.) (Statesman Photo)- - . r Aircraft Guns Sprayl in ; By CARLOS ESCUDERojl P j SAN JOSE, Costa Rica VP) Mystery aircraft sprayed nine Costa Rican towns including this capital city with machine gun fire Wednesday. Fighting was reported at half a. dozen points. A' A government communique plane strafed Liberia, in Northwestern Costa Rica, and a boy and a 19-year-old girl were wounded Detroit Holds Farewell for S.T.Moore Statesman Newt Senrlct DETROIT, Ore. The North Santiam area, honored District Ranger S. T. Moore at a big fare well party Wednesday night at White's Santiam Cafe. Attendance was estimated at 170 by E. C. Kennedy, president of the North Santiam Chamber of Commerce. Moore and his wife were pre sented a television set and other gifts. A plaque also was present ed to Moore in recognition of bis civic activities during the 12 years he has been at Detroit Ranger Station. Moore and his family will leave soon for Medford where he will be a staff officer in the Rogue River National Forest Portland Police Report Capture of 'Shovel Burglar PORTLAND (A -A man charged with burglary confessed prowling 300 homes in the area in three years, Det Capt William Browne said Wednesday. . ' According to Brown. Rolland J. McDonald, 36, a fisherman, told this story after questioning: - He supplemented his income by burglaries, taking some $3,000 in three years. He wore gloves and stole only cash. 1 Police knew him as the "shovel burglar" because of a practice of using a shovel or a similar tool to open windows or doors, v Max. 41 4S 3S 40 v, - 51 Mln. Preeip. 34 ' , M 35 -. XO as joo , S3 M M 33 - - JBO - , 29 , .07 .24 .00 Salem Portland Baker Medford North Bend Roseburf SI San franc! icq . 52 Chicano n 32 New York 34 Los Aneele 44 41 M Willamette Kiver j. xeet FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McNary Field. Salem): , Mottly cloudy with scattered show ers today and tonight. Hirh ' today near 49: low tonixht near 32. Tem perature at 12:01 a.m. today was 44. 1ALEM ntCCIPITATION Sine Start of Wntkn Tear Sea. 1 This Year Last Year Nromal 1IJ3 .7I ' 30 J Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, January ' e. Share' Cover Costa said one person was killed when a by machine gun bursts at Canas. (The spreading hostilities in the Central American country brought a new turn of events Wednesday when the United States announced in Washington it will "make air craft immediately available to car ry out Pacific observation flights" over Costa Rica. Such action was requested earlier by the Organiza tion of American States (OAS), in hopes that thls would stop air raids reported by Costa Rica.) Towns reportedly strafed by a plane or planes were Sari Jose, Cartago, Heredia, Canas, Alajuela, Turnaiba, Zacero, Liberia, and Villa Quesada. i Suspends Civil Rights 1 Following Wednesday's air at tacks,. Figueres suspended civil rights. Airline flights out 'of I San Jose were canceled and : planes bound for -the capital were divert- ed.- r . "The U. Sj Embassy announced she engineers from the 'United States who have been working on the Inter-American Highway have been pulled "back to safety; Their families also, were evacuated from the trouble zone.- , j President Jose Figueres told the nation in a broadcast: "We don't scare with the splattering of bul- ICU. ' ' si '' i He charged President Anastasio Somoza of neighboring Nicaragua with unleashing an attack on this country. - 1; . Man-to-Man Duel f In Managua, strongman Somoza replied witrj a challenge to Fig ueres for a duel man-to-man at the border Jof the two countries. Somoza is an expert marjesman. A five-nation commission from the OAS arrived in Panama Wed nesday night and prepared to fly here Thursday to investigate the bitter Costa: Rica - Nicaragua dis- pute. p Ike Considering Filming News ; Meetings for TV WASHINGTON (A Press Sec retary James C. Hagerty said Wednesday the White House is considering ; filming President Ei senhower's news conferences for release later to newsreels and tel evision stations. r Hagerty made the announce ment after conferring with repre sentatives of the two media. He stressed that no considera tion - is being given at this time to .'live' telecasts of presidential new! 'conferences. When the ad ministration, took office nearly two years ago. Hagerty said he hoped "live" telecasts of the conferences would bt posslblf. ' I Top Piattersoh Tax Youthful Russians Use Food Money For Cigarettes LONDON (AP) Moscow radio urged the home folks Wednesday to keep cigarettes out of the hands of the kiddies. In a program beamed to Cen tral Asia and heard here, a speaker said: ' "Russian children often spend their luncheon money on a cigarette, which they smoke in secret and therefore in a hurry. "One should convince chil dren that smoke is bad for. them. After all, good athletes do not smoke." Ike Upholds Both Parties in Attache Firing WASHINGTON (JH President Eisenhower upheld Wednesday the right of officials to reach conflict ing decisions in the Wolf Lade jinsky case- a case in which he said he himself has formed no judgment. Eisenhower alo told a news con ference that without inquiring into all the circumstances,' or studying the other side of the question, he once remarked to Secretary of Agriculture Benson that a sum mary of the case would scare him the President. Yet he said he would uphold the right of Harold E. Stassen, for eign operations administrator, to hire Ladejinsky after - B e n s o n turned him down as a security risk. Stassen, he said, will be held responsible if his judgment turns outto be wrong. - - ' Ladejinskjr is a 55-yearold Rus sian, who became a : naturalized American. He was cleared for se curity by: the State Department and served as U.S. agricultural at tache in Tokyo. When agricultural attaches were shifted to the De partment of Agriculture, Benson ousted Ladejinsky on security and technical grounds. In the midst of a lively row over the case - that reached into Con gress, Stassen took on Ladejinsky for a land reform assignment in Viet Nam. -. The chief executive said this was a case , in which honest men came up with different answers. Portland Invites . West GOP Meet EUGENE (A -Ed Boehnke. GOP chairman, said Wednesday the Western States Republican Confer ence has been invited to hold its 1953 session in Portland. Top Republican workers of the 11 Western states,. Alaska and Hawaii usually attend the confer ence. It is taken up with discussion of legislation affecting the West as well as party, matters. Today's Statesman Classifieds Comics - Editorials Legislative ... Markets Sports Star Gaztr Tax Facts TV, Radio Valley - Women's-Sociefy Crossword Farm Pag will appear in. Tomorrow's Statesman. Sec Page J....II 5-7 II .. 4 4 ...II .8 .II 5 : .111, 2 4 II.. 4 : . j 8 ..I....6, 7 ll 4 U.S. Agency Confirms Field; Wife Seek Asylum in WASHINGTON tfi The strange I case of Noel and Herta Field reached a new climax Wednesday night with an announcement con firming that they have asked Com munist Hungary to grant them asylum. ' j' The State Department said the American . ministers at Budapest, Christian M. RavndaL had re ceived a letter "purporting -to be from Noel Field" confirming that ha and his wife wanted, to stay in Hungary. . . i Asked why the department used the "purporting" language, press officer Henry Suydam said he was "just ' being superautious.M : Field, now 50. has been accused in the United States as a Com munist agent and in Europe as an American spy. ! He worked for the State Depart ment on West European affairs from 13 to 1338 and then went 13, 1955 PRICE Repeal of Incqm& Tax Deduction By HECTOR L. FOX . Associated Press Writer Opposition to Governor Paul Patterson's tax program was heard Wednesday from both presiding officers of the Oregon Legislature. Senate President Elmo Smith and House Speaker Edward A. Geary opposed the governor's plan to repeal the federal income tax deduction in state income tax returns, and to levy , a state property tax. The proposals seek to head off an impending state deficit of $65,000,000 .for the next bien-i nium. 'P'. ; " pp.; P;, : Geary said he fears a "taxpay ers strike and a grave school financing problem' if . the state begins collecting a property tax for the first time since 1940. It would be an immoral tax," Geary said in reference to the repeal of the income tax deduc tion. 'It would be a tax on a tax. Raising the income rates would be a more honest way of doing if v - . ;. "Harm Local Taxes' Geary added that imposing a state property tax . also ; would barm local taxing units by in creasing the delinquency rate. He explained that each county treas urer would have to. pay amounts due the state twice a year, re gardless of the amount that is left to pay local expenses. Smith was little less cool to ward the governor's recommenda tions. He said the governor's pro posals should be adopted "only as a last resort.' Neither leader said what kind of tax he prefers. They said they expect that the legislature's tax program would be referred to tLe -people at a special election soon after, the legislature .adjourns. . Bills Trickle' In' . Bills trickled in slowly .Wednes day; the Senate receiving five and the House six. v P p' Among them were proposals to provide civil aervice hearings for dismissed State Police officers, and making' school districts eli gible for gasoline tax refunds. - The House sent twd measures to the Senate. One appropriates $500,000 for legislative expenses, and the other would -put legisla tive employes' under State Indus trial Accident insurance. Both houses will convene at 10 a.m. Thursday. Friday, the legis lature will convene at 9 a.m. and after that session, adjourns until 10 a.m. Monday, v . p r Dams Continuation' The House State and Federal Affairs committee recommended passage of , a memorial ; asking Cpngress ta continue construction of Chief Joseph, McNary and f he Dalles dams on their present construction schedules.. . i It scheduled for Monday action on a companion memorial, which calls for early, construction of John Day, dam, either by the fed eral government or under a part nership plan. Both memorials were asked by Gov. - Paul Patter son in his inaugural message. Most committees still ; lacked bills for .preliminary considera tion, but several heard spokes men fdr various state depart ments explain proposed legisla tion which may appear in bill lorm later. . , . Standardize Plates The state vehicle license divis ion submitted . drafts of nine pieces of legislation to the House roads and highways committee, headed by Rep. R. L. Elfstrom, Salem. They included proposals to standardize issuance of new automobile license plates to as sure motorists' a full 12-months' use before renewal; limiting a mechanic's lien for repairs to $100 on vehicles bearing only the registered' owner's name, and eli minating , the special - certificate bearing names of both registered and legal owners when shipping a vehicle by water, p- (Additional legislative news on page 8, sec 2). ' - to work for the League of Nations in Geneva.. In 1949. after having disappeared from public view, he was named in testimony during the Alger Hiss trial as . having ' been linked to Communist cells in Washington in the 1930s. The Communists sent him and his Swiss-born wife to prison on charges of espionage, but cleared them and released, them last No vember after - five years behind ban. . . .:-- Noel's brother Hermann, 44, was freed by Communist Poland 'last October after five years impris onment. Like Noel and Herta, Hermann was accused of being an American spy. Also, as in their case, these charges were dropped upon his release. . v .. Another missing member of the Field family is Erika Glaser Wal lach. 31. foster daughter of . the Noel Fields. She was last reported in a Soviet prison camp. - - Hungary No. 292 Plans Hit Lawyer-Solons t ose State in Court Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton Wednesday issued an opinion that might affect the law practices of the 19 attorneys now serving in the Oregon Legisla ture. Thornton's legal . ruling, ' re quested by State Sen. Harry . George (D), Portland,, was that George cannot represent clients before the State Industrial Acci dent Commission, any other state department or in any court on appeal of such cases. P The opinion is based on an Oregon constitutional provision that no state officer or legislator may represent as agent, counsel or attorney any person making a claim against the state. Sen. George told The States man . he did not agree with the attorney general's opinion, but he has not decided what he will do about it , ! , P - ' George,5 who said "he has sev eral cases pending against the SUte.Industrial.iAecident- Com mission, said he had queried his fellow senators who are attor neys and found all but one also had cases of a similar nature. The" Senate has 11 attorneys, among its 30 members the House, eight. . .. . v p -P . (Additional details on page 8, sec. 2.) .;; , 4 " Blood Record Set at Dallas Statetaiaa News Service DALLAS A record 163 pints of blood were donated here Wed nesday to the Red Cross blood pro gram. Previous high of recent record was:l4t pints in May, 1953. The visit to Dallas Armory of the Bloodmobile drew 202 persons, many of whom were volunteering for the first time. Henry Coleman, blood program' chairman for Polk County, said there were 39 rejects. He, credited the big turn-out to the recruiting efforts of many vol unteer workers. P The next Polk County visit by the Bloodmobile will be Feb. 23 at Independence. ; Klamath Man to Head State Economic Census WASHINGTON VI The Bureau of Census Wednesday named Roy Murphy. Klamath Falls. - super visor, of the Oregon area for an economic census. ( The announcement was made by Rep. , Coon (R-Ore). who said Edward Bates. Junction City, will be assistant supervisor. BEDS HEAR GERSHWIN VIENNA Uh George Gersh win's music is now permitted in Poland, a Polish newspaper reach ing Vienna Wednesday said. His "Rhapsody in Blue" was played at a New Year's Eve concert by the Krakow Philharmonic Orches tra. . In tho Interest Of Spelling! More than 3000 1th- and 8th- grade students of Marion, Polk, Lisa and Yamhill Counties are competing in the 5th . annual , Statesman-KSLM Spelling Con test Following are among words being studied: young' beyond astonish knowledge inseparable justified . imagination amiliaf headache gratitude furniture moisture mysterious prominent . separation regional privilege ordinarily nautical sanitary - quarrel radiator vicinity . ; stoalloto literature - 5c Can i V r
