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TTi o TT st lira jttussia ley at quhi 1) Accepts We to Par w rr Hi it ; . " " - MHl 105th Year 3 SECTIONS-32 PAGES OtP 933JJ0S Last August the very placid organization of Girl Scouts was catapulted into the news when the convention of the American Legion condemned its Handbook as I unAmerican. The accusation really was belated because in re sponse to previous criticism by an "extreme right-wing propa gandist," Robert T. LeFevre, a Florida TV newscaster, the Hand book was undergoing revision. The Girl Scouts is a girls' wel fare organization, a counterpart of the Boy. Scouts. Like the Boy Scouts : (also Rotary Club, Ki wanis, Lions, and Christian Churches) it is international in character. The Boy Scout inter national jamboree is hailed as a great means of getting boys of different countries acquainted. But the axe of over-fearful pa triots fell on the unsuspecting Girl Scouts. . ; f What happened to the organi zation and to its Handbook is writen up by Ben H. Bagdikian in - (he j April Atlantic Monthly. He ! has gone through the latest edition of the Girl Scout Hand book to note the changes so it will escape censure as being too world-minded. Its founder in America, Mrs. Juliete Gordon Low, brought the Girl Scout idea back from England. (The Boy Scouts originated there.) That was in 1912. She designed it to be an organization promoting in ternational friendship - (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Vaccine Test WASHINGTON The White House announced Saturday it will release a voluminous report Mon day on the Salk polio vaccine pro- gram. j The mass inoculation of first and second grade school children be gan picking up momentum again. after a week-long suspension for new safety checks, as government " scientific inspectors moved into the second of five laboratories making - the serum. Enough vaccine for more than' a million shots was released by the U.S. Public Health Service late Friday as a result of their inspec uuu vi me 111 01 purni uii uie uai, Parke "Davis Co. of Detroit. The check and doublecheck team v Is now at the li Lilly & Co. lab oratories in Indianapolis. Other ! plants ' to be visited, though not necessarily by the same team, are Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis, and Sharp! k Dohme.. Inc.. and Wyeth, Inc. both of Philadelphia. The product of a sixth manufac . turer, Cutter Laborators of Berke- "ley, Calif.. ""has been withdrawn for a special check. The program is expected to pick ' np speed throughout the country again as more vaccine is turned loose from the five laboratories. Report Due On Monday i White House Press Secretary ' James C. Hagerty said Monday s report will be delivered to Presi dent Eisenhower at 9:30 a.m. by Secretary of Welfare Oveta Culp ( Hobby, and will be released to the public a, few hours later. WEST REICH ELECTION TODAY MAINZ, Germany Ul Pro Western Chancellor Konrad Aden auer and the opposition Socialists test their-strength Sunday in their first election battle since West Germany won sovereignty and Joined the Atlantic alliance. ' Super-Deadly Nerve Gas Now' In World's Warfare Arsenals By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON m Nerve gas is so deadly that a single droplet in the eye of a person can kill him, a military publication dis closed Saturday. ; This new clue to the potency of the silent, unseen, mass destruc tion weapon is contained in a I Chemical Warfare Service hand- book. The booklet outlines first aid treatment for laboratory workers who might accidently become ex posed to the material, which can have the form of either a gas or a liquid, ,v I . i Nerve of 'Gn gas now U in the chemical warfare arsenals of the United : States and other military powers. It could kill more people more swiftly than the heaviest dose of radioactivity from a . nuclear bomb. : i i The Chemical Warfare Service, in an earlier,- general discussion of the weapon, said nerve gas is "designed to destroy life with sud deness. The "G" gas is being produced at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal of the Army in Colorado. The first aid handbook was pre Tha Highway ; f. .. -.v -v- m tt "'- 4 . I ::-,.v-v;v:, ., .... Balldoiers and ther equipment are shows at work here on a new section of Highway 99E south of Salem. The site is just south of niahee Hill and the camera is facing north. When completed the work going on in the foreground will provide two additional one-way lanes to become a part of .the present highway (in background) which will also carry twt lanes one-way, according Franco - German Jet Expected to Cruise at Twice Speed of Sound WASHINGTON Uf) An avia tion magazine Saturday described a strange Franco-German "Flying Barrel" said to be capable.- of "speed-of-sound vertical takeoff and cruising at twice the speed of sound. - Aero Digest said the so-called circular-wing aircraft is "the big- Women Jail Inmates Riot In Tennessee FAYETTEVILLE. Tenn. ( A jail riot by 25 women strikers sub sided here Saturday night when the Serbin Garment factory workers posted $500 bonds they had earlier refused. Lincoln County Sheriff Eugene S. Barnes had earlier called for help from the state capital when the women, arrested for alleged viola tion of an injunction regulating picketing, started smashing win dows and breaking soft, drink bottles. A crowd gathered outside the jail during the rumpus. Barnes said he didn't know what influenced the women, members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, to abandon their "No bond" stand. They earlier re fused bond offers from their hus f bands. . The sheriff said the women ac companied him to jail voluntarily Saturday afternoon, forming a pa rade across the town square. He said he called for help 'from Gov. Frank Clement but the governor was out of the state. f State Safety Commissioner W. W. Luttrell declined comment and state troopers in the area refused to act without orders. pared at the laboratories of the Army Chemical Center, Edgewood Arsenal, Md. In discussing various ways in which-the deadly material can be absorbed, the handbook warns that rapid absorption is possible into circulating blood through the struc ture of the eye. ' ' "Without treatment even a small droplet of agent in the eye may represent a fatal dose." the hand book said. Nerve gases (there are several types) are a group of organic est ers of phosphoric acid derivatives, virtually colorless and odorless. The handbook gives a timetable for death from nerve gas when a man inhales a heavy dose of the vapor. In 5 to 15 minutes the circu latory system ; would collapse, bringing death. The antidote emphasized is atro pine, either injected ' or taken by tablet Atropine is a common drug (related to belladona) used to re live spasms and pain and to di mmish excessive secretions, such as. saliva. NDID 1651 Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Expansion Being Carved in lllahee Hill gest jolt since jets to modern aero- dynamics." It said the Flying Barrel has been wind-tunnel tested, but so far as is known has not yet actually been flown. It added that the craft has' potential value as a transport and "immediate significance" as a fighter plane. ' ' Aero Digest described the flying barrel in these terms: The machine, known as a coleop ter, resembles a barrel open at both ends. It stands on end for ver ticle takeoff like, a rocket, then gradually arcs over to fly horiz ontally. -. j The pilot's compartment , and power-plant are inside the barrel. The pilqt and crew occupy swivel chairs that ' keep them upright whether the craft is flying vertic ally or horizontally. The power plant can be either jet or piston engines and is near the rear open ing of the barrel. ' : Thus the barrel is in effect an "annular wing" a ring or tube of metal around the plane, serv ing as a wing. 1 Aero Digest ' said the cokopter was designed by an Austrian en gineer, Helmut Graf von Zborojr ski. and is being built, in collab 0SC Mothers. Elect Officers CORVALLIS UT) Mrs. S. W. McHugh of Corvallis Saturday was elected president of the Oregon State College Mothers Club. - Other new officers are Mrs. Spencer Alexander, Springfield, vice president; Mrs. Emmett Rog ers. Salem, secretary and Mrs.. Bertram Dick, Portland, treas urer. ; Seventeen students received full tuition scholarships. They include: Nancy Eileen Clark. Salem Ron ald A. Shrock. Hubbard Freder ick G. Rogers, Salem and Vaughn Willoughby, Springfield. MacBeth Performance Given in Sign Language WASHINGTON (UP)-Gallaudet College for the Deaf presented a performance of "MacBeth Friday night, entirely in sign language. An interpreter sitting backstage spoke the lines for the benefit of persons in the audience with normal hearing. Today's Statcsr.zn Sec fag A. Robert Smith I. Classifieds II. Comics lin 6 Ml Crossword 6 4 Editorials Farm 1.10,11 Home Panorama 6 7; Our Valley Sports Star Gazer . TV, Radio . Valley - L. L .11 4 7 Sunday, May 15, 1955 ' 'v-,;- 'k ,'V"" ' to state highway department officials. When completed, probably early next year, the new one and one-half mile section will be the first link in a proposed four-lane expressway from Salem to Albany. The Salem-Portland section is practically completed. (Statesman photo.) . oration with a - French designing team, for the French aircraft firm Snecma." ' r It said the jet engine for an ex perimental model has been devel oped by another group of Snecma's German French designers under the former German aircraft design er Hermann Oestrich. Vehicle Hike Keeps Pace With People WASHINGTON ( The nation's motor vehicle population increased last year, almost as fast as its human population, according to a survey released Saturday by the Bureau of Public Roads. - the bureau said motor vehicle registrations increased in 1934 by 2,300,000 to 58,589.863 passenger cars, trucks and buses at the end of the year. This compared with a population increase of 2.823,000 last year, to a year end total of 163,930.000 peo ple. At the end of the year, conse quently Americans had one car for each 2.8 persons in the nation and in the armed forces abroad. The nation wound up 1954 with 48,498,870 registered passenger cars, 9,842,647 trucks and 248,346 buses. Americans drove their vehicles at the astronomical pace of 557 billion vehicle miles equal to 3,000 round trips to the sun a gain of 3 per cent over 1953. Billy Graham to Stay at Queen's Scottish Home LONDON (UP) American evan gelist Billy Graham will stay at Queen Elizabeth's official Scot tish residence when he returns to Scotland for a brief visit the end of the month, it was learned Satur day. Graham will be guest of the Duke of Hamilton at Holyrood House in Edinburgh when the evangelist goes north to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. The duke is lord high commissioner for Scot land. The exact date of Graham's two day visit to Edinburgh has not yet Deen announced. The assem bly will meet from May 24 to June Graham opened a week of re vival meetings in Weubley stad ium Saturday .night. Salem Woman Heads Oregon Mothers Club EUGENE? W Mrs. James Walton, Salem, was elected presi dent of the Oregon Mothers Club at the annual business meeting on the University of Oregon campus No. 49 B)nt 300 Take Part 4-H Exhibit SUtcsmaa News Service " DALLAS Over 300 4-H youngs ters and club leaders took part here Saturdayin the first annual Polk County spring exhibit con ducted by the state extension ser vice. Primarily a practice session for home economics clubs in prepara tion for the county and state fairs, the exhibit drew some 300 entries in foods, clothing and health. Tommy Hansen, a seventh grad er at Rickreall, won the major award of the day, the Polk County Tuberculosis and Health Associa tion trophy for personal health im provement and community better ment. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. N. John Hansen of Polk Sta tion.- . W. A. Wiest," association presi dent from . Independence, pre sented the trophy along wiui 12 other awards to 4-H Club mem bers. Health judges cr Mrs. E. K. Lettekin and Mrs. R. V. Carleson, both of Rickreall. Practice judging was conducted under the direction of Mrs. Malno Reichert, home extension agent, and Mrs. Helen Van Santrn. jerre tary of the county 4-H Leaders As sociation. Instruction in health posters was given by Mrs. Burton Bell cf Rick reall. The entire program, which was held in the Dallas Chamber of Commerce rooms, was super vised by John Grimes, county 4-H extension agent. , A welcome to the day's event was extended by Harlan Rohr bough,, local manager for Pacific Power and Light Co., sponsors of the noon luncheon. Rib!xr.s for al exhibitors were prov:ded by the Dallas Chamber of Commerce. Salem's Rainfall Measured at .68 ' Salem received more than a half-inch of rain Saturday, but the total rainfall is still below average for the first 14 days of May. Saturday's rainfall was .68 inch. Total this month is .91 inch against .97 average. The forecast by McNary Field weathermen calls for partly sun ny and a little warmer today and fair Monday. A high of 62-64 is expected today, and a low of 34 .36 tonight. . ; , -. Max. Mia. free! Salem . Portland , Baker ' Medford ..... North Bend Roseburf San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago SI 41 43 29 40 45- 42 44 M S4 JU .01 .03 .17 .19 .00 .00 .00 .00 44 SI .52 50 2 65 74 New York 59 Willamette River 15 feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem I: Partly sunny and a little warmer today with high of 62-S4. Clearing and cool tonight with low of 34-36. Fair Monday. - - Temperature at 12:01 a. m. today was 41 SALEM PRKCrFITATloy I lEYrt tIrYt" PRICE 10c Sw. ' v :m. 4&r - -1 In Polk County Big 4 Pact; I ToGr First Freedom In 17 Years By ARTHUR GAVSHON AND LYNN HEINZERUNG VIENNA. Austria m The Big Four foreign ministers Saturday approver .the terms of Austria s freedom- Joined by Austrian Foreign Min ister Leopold Figl for 80 minutes Saturday afternoon,, the. high dip lomats of Russia, the United States, Britain and France ap proved the text of the Austrian treaty of independence. With Figl they will sign the docu ment in Vienna's Belvedere Palace at 11:30 a. m. Sunday. With the cheers of thousands of happy Austrians ringing in their ears, the Big Four foreign mini- Jers took brief time out to confer ith their advisors, r Then they proceeded individual ly in police convoys to the home of U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn . Thompson Jr. There they discussed informally the Western proposals that Presi dent Eisenhower, Soviet. Premier Bulganin, British Prime Minister Eden and French Premier Faure meet in July. House Guarded The talks r were in strictest pri vacy. Only a few close advisors were present with the ministers. Thompson's house was heavily guarded. The agreement on the Austrian treaty may be the first step to ward ending the East-West cold war. For the Austrians it means the end of more than 17 years of occu pation by the Nazis and -later by the four allies. Blocked for 10 Years The capital was gaily decorated with flags for the happy event. The Russians had blocked the treaty for 10 years and then unexpectedly gave in. The 80-minute session where the 38-artide text was approved began with Figl calling for the Big Four to eliminate a phrase in the pre amble that would have perpetuat ed a share of the blame on Austria for starting World War.IL. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan and French For eign Minister Antoine Pinay agreed to drop the, war guilt stig ma at once. Soviet Foreign Mini ster V. M. Molotov then followed suit. . Observe Neutrality" Molotov i raised the question of the four powers joining in a declar ation "recognixing and observing Austrian neutrality along the Swiss model." The three Western fore Ira mini sters agreed in principle', but said they preferred to wait to see the draft of such a declaration and the precise formation of Austria's neu tral policy . Molotov then said he would cir culate a draft, while Figl said he would undertake to spell out' the request his country intends to make for j a Big Four guarantee of Austrian neutrality. . Coquille River Victims Found COQUILLE (I) The bodies of Charles G. McGrady, 19, Spring field, and his brother-in-law, Harland Wyric, 33, Myrtle Point, were recovered from the Coquille River Saturday near the point where their boat overturned April 24. The body of Charles' brother, Allen Richard McGrady, 18, Springfield was recovered Friday night. State police said it washed ashore seven miles east of Myrtle Point. j Search then started for the other two, and with the water low the bodies' soon were found. 'Also recovered was the boat' engine. The three bad gone onto the river to test the engine, then new. , ve Nation Nebraska Motherof 5 Chosen Mrs. (Picture on page 7, sec. 2.) ' ORMOND BEACH, Fla. Mrs. Ramona Deitemeyer, a love ly blue-eyed blonde Nebraska Sun day School teacher, PTA president and mother : of five" became Mrs. America of 1956 Saturday. Her voice trembling with excite ment, one of ihe first things she said was: I want the title to mean two things:' First that the job of home making wOl be kept on a terrifical ly high-plane and next that my church can be part of the title." Mrs. Deitemeyer teaches ' the second grade Sunday School class in Christ Lutheran Church of her home town of Lincoln, Neb., where ber husband, i Carl, edits the Nc braska Farmer magazine and is chairman of the church congrega tion. She is president of the Holmes Elementary School Parent-Teacher Assn. - l For the first time in the 17 years of the Mrs. America contest there was no bathing suit . competition. It was all homemaking. The 35-year-old winner proved OUehs Austria To Sign Today Dulles to Report To Eisenhower, Nation on Tuesday WASHINGTON (fl See. of State Dalles wUI report U the atioa Taesday on plans for a Big Four meeting. President Eisenhower will serve as bis "aanonacer." " The broadcast, which will also serve as a report to the Presi dent, will be carried by all na tional TV networks between 3 and 3:30 p.m. (PST). The radio etworks will record It for later broadcast: ABC beginning- at 4 p.m., (PST), Mutual at. 5:30 p.m., CBS and NBC at C:30 p.m. Cabinet members and defense officials will be present at the re port, which also will disenss the Austria treaty. (Additional de tails oa page S, sec. 2.) Red Allies of East Europe Form 'NATO' WARSAW, Poland MJ The So viet Union and seven East Euro pean Communist states set up a unified military command Satur day to counter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization .(NATO). So viet Marshal Ivan Konev was made supreme commander, with headquarters in Moscow. The eight allies signed a 20-year mutual security and friendship treaty and a protocol grouping their military forces under a sin gle command. Konev, the deputy Soviet defense minister, has been a Communist Party member for 37 years. The treaty ceremonies took place lin a white and marble hall of Poland s Parliament building. Pre miers of the eight nations the So viet Union, Poland, Czechoslovak ia. Hungary, , Bulgaria. Romania. Albania and East Germany signed the documents.; Later, nearly 100,000 cheering residents of Warsaw jammed into Tzierdzinsky Square and heard top Communist leaders hail the new treaty as "a ; move " for world peace." . Sen. George Doubts Russ Air Buildup WASHINGTON (Jl Sen. Georre (D-Ga) said Saturday the Pentagon mav be trvine to influence Senate consideration of the new military budget by stressing increases in Soviet aircraft production. I don t attach too much import ance to it," George commented. Sen. Knowland of California, the Republican leader,' said he had no information on a stepup in Russian production of jet bombers ; and fighters, as reported by the De fense Department, but said Senate committees "will want ' to go into the situation." The Pentagon nut out a orvotic statement Friday, with White House approval, saying that Rus sia was cutting into this country's lead in the nrodurtinn of heavv and medium jet bombers. This was followed Saturday by reports that the Soviets have ' increased their lead in turning out suoersonic iet fighters. George who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee, recalled that Sen. Alfred M. Gruenther, NATO commander, re cently testified before the Foreign Relations Committee that Russia's air fleet does not measure im to this country's. AID CUT SEEN WASHINGTON tfl Sen. Mans field (D-Mont) said Saturday Con gress is likely to slice at least 10 per cent from the Eisenhower ad ministration's new 3-billion-dol- lar foreign aid program. her homemaking skill to the judges even before- she was picked as America's No. 1 housewife by win ning two preliminary awards: One for the best dinner menu and the other for keeping the neatest and cleanest, villa along Mrs. America drive. . v , Six entrants made the finals. The original field of 49 one from each state and the District of Co lumbiawas first trimmed to 19. This group included . Mrs. Doris McKean, 38, Portland, Ore. When the public address system boomed out the word all bad- been waiting for, the ones that meant $15,000 worth of prizes to the win ner, Mrs. Deitemeyer's knees weakened and she almost slumped down. But attendants quickly led her to a red carpet to the throne on thf stage built on the ocean beach. With a tremor in her voice, she said: "I have only prayed each day to do my best, never expecting to win." , Vienna Talk Site Proposed By Molotov By ARTHUR GAVSHON VIENNA. Austria W) Russia's V. M. Molotov premised at a din ner meeting with Western foreign ministers Saturday night that the Soviet Union will join in a Big Four power conference at the 'sum--mif level in an effort to reach an East-West settlement The so-called meeting at the summit would bring together Pres ident Eisenhower, Soviet Premier Bulganin, British Prime Minister Eden and French Premier Faure some time in the summer. The four foreign ministers thus capped an accord reached earlier in the day when they approved in 80 minutes the text of a treaty restoring to Austria her freedom and independence after 17 years of occupation. It had taken 10 post war, years to negotiate the treaty. "General Agreement" An official British spokesman said early Sunday Molotov, Sec retary of State John Foster Dul les, British Foreign Secretary Har old MacMillan and French For eign Minister Antoine Pinay i reached a "general agreement on the purposes and methods of oper ation" of the meeting at the sum- t mit. . . ; The Western powers in a note last week suggested the meeting of Eisenhower, Bulganin, Eden and Faure. The spokesman said Molotov probably will send a note pos sibly this weekend formally ac cepting the invitation. . The time and place have " not yet been decided. Suggests Vienna Molotov was reported to have suggested Vienna as the site. Dul les was to have served notice he would oppose Geneva, Switzerland, a locale with a politically unpleas ant connotation for. some Ameri cans because of the controversial " Indochina cease - fire settlement reached there last year with Red. China sitting in.';;'., t -" Lausanne, a Swiss city 35 miles from Geneva, was said to have been discussed favorably, however. Discussion of the timing of the meeting ranged from - late". July ' through August To the surprise of his colleagues, - informants said, Molotov at no time pressed for Red China rep resentation at the conference. . Dulles said he would discuss the question of time and place with President Eisenhower in Washing ton in "the next day or two. No Agenda Discussed z At no tune, an informant said, - did the four discuss an agenda for the meeting. - The four ministers agreed that if they are all present at the 10th U. N. birthday ceremonies being organized for late June in San Francisco they would discuss fur ther arrangements for the con ference. Dulles. MacMillan ; and Pinay . were said to have reemphasized to Molotov that the top level meet ing would be too brief to reach any hard and fast agreements. They argued, however, that such a meeting would be useful in de fining future work of the foreign ministers and other four-power . groups that might be set up. The Western proposal called for a meeting of the four foreign min- ; isters at a neutral spot, .possibly in July, to prepare an outline of , the talks of their chiefs that would ? follow' immediately and last but a lew days. The chiefs of government would seek to formulate broad directives on the basis of which the foreign ministers and their deputies in , subsequent meetings would try to reach firm accords. Atom Shot Set This Morning LAS VEGAS. Nev. tfl The Atomic Energy Commission an nounced Saturday night that it wul make another attempt at S am. Sunday to fire the 14th and final shot of the 1955 nuclear series in Nevada. Probable wind patterns were re garded as favorable, but final de cision to shoot - awaited another weather briefing at 3:30 a.m. The much-delayed finale is an other 500-foot tower blast on Yucca Flat. It is expected to be one U the larger explosions of the series. NOBTRWin LIAGCE - At Salem-Spokan. rain. At Eugene-Lewiston. rain. At Tri-City-Wenatchee, rata. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At Portland S, Oakland 4. " At San Diego 10. Holly woof 1 At Lot Angeles 3. Seattle S. At San Francisco 2. Sacramento T. AMERICAN LEAGUE At Washington-Cleveland, rain. At Baltimore-Chicago, rain. At. Boston X Kansas City U At Mew York 7, Xetroit , national League At Cincinnati 2. Brooklyn IS. At Milwaukee . Philadelphia 1 At Chicago S. New York . At St. Loula I KtUbursa .