He Weather ,
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Bureau. McNary iield. Salem):
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trend today and Tuesday; high to
day near 44, low tonight Rear 35;
high Tuesday near 70.
Temperature" at 12:01 a.m. today
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The Communist counterpart of
the western NATO wis formally
constituted Saturday at Warsaw,
Poland when the USSR and its
seven satellites Poland, Czecho
slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bul
garia, Albania and East Germany
signed treaties of mutual se
curity. In a I further effort to
consolidate its position in Europe
Russia is sending Premier Bui
ganin and Communist party head
Nikita Khruschev to Yugoslavia
on a mission of friendship. For
eign observers hint that Russia's
new purpose is to build an outer
belt of neutralized states from
the Baltic to the Mediterranean,
thus giving it added insulation
against western attack. This
neutral belt would include Swit
zerland, already a neutral; Aus
tria, which is becoming one;
Yugoslavia and, if possible, West
Germany.
The key here is West Germany.
Chancellor Adenauer has said he
would refuse to make any deal
which made neutralizing of West
Germany the price of German
unification. He diagnoses the
resulting situation thus:
, "Such a solution would involve
a strong shift in the world bal
ance of -power and would not
serve the cause ' of peace and
freedom."
Premier Faure of , France
which has greater reason to fear
German aggression than Russia
does not favor the neutralizing
of Germany. That would, indeed,
leave France exposed in Europe.
In the theory of pacifists,
balance of power became a
discredited .
(Continued on editorial page 4.)
German State
Votes Support
For Adenauer
MAINZ, Germany to Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer's Christian
Democrats (CDUfc trounced the
anti-rearmament Socialists Sunday
sight in an election testing the pop
ularity of his pro-American for
eign : policy. ..
Voters in the state of Rhine-
land-Palatinate gave Adenauer's
party an absolute majority in the
new loo-seat Parliament, v
This insured firm control of the
federal Bundesrat (upper house)
during the crucial period when
Adenauer will submit for its ap
proval legislation for- the arming
of 500,000 West Germans in the
Atlantic alliance. :
The states name the Bundesrat
members. . Adenauer- needed this
state's four Bundesrat votes to
keep his two-thirds majority there.
Official results announced by the
State Election Bureau gave the
Christian Democrats 51 seats to 36
for the Socialists and 13 for the
right-wing Free Democrats (FDP).
In the outgoing Parliament, the
CPU had 43 deputies to 38 for
the Socialists and 19 for the Free
Democrats. f
Adenauer's CDU has ruled Rhine-
land-Palatinate in a coalition with
the Free Democrats since 1951.
This state, with its two million
eligible voters, was the first to
hold an election since West Ger-
many became sovereign and joined
the Atlantic alliance.
Communism and extreme right
Ism were rejected decisively. Neith
er the Nazi-like Free Voters' Assn.,
which had waged a costly cam
paign, nor the Communists won a
single seaf
Car Crashes
Bus; 12 Hurt
, s
0XNARD, Calit I - The Cali
fornia Highway Patrol reported at
least 12 persons were injured Sun
day night when a Los Angeles
bound Greyhound bus and an auto
mobile collided five miles east of
here. .
The bus careened across a ditch
and landed on a railroad track,
tipped at an angle. It was carry
ing 34 persons.
Five ambulances carried the in
jured to St. John's Hospital here
Rockaway Fire
Kills Two Tots ;
GARIBALDI, Ore. tfl Two
little girls died in a fire that de
stroyed their parents' home at
Rockaway early Sunday.
They were Sherry, 5, a nd
Andrea, 6. daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Leuthod, Their bodies
were found in the charred ruins
of the house.
Their mother escaped unharmed.
-The father was away from home
at the time.
Firemen were delayed getting
water to the blaze as the nearest
hydrant was five blocks away.
ANIMAL CRACKERS
: Y WARRKN OOOORfCH
"Woald TM care to ig pe
tition abolishing eats? I've got
ILK signatures already!"
105th Year
Thrills; Spills Mark Season
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Handreds of watchers lined both
for a benefit regatta featuring
spills marked the events which
Austrian Church Bells Ring Out
4 Joyous News' of Independence
VIENNA, Austria ffl Austria's
freedom was signed and sealed by
the Big Four Sunday as the bells
of thousands of churches rang
joyously across the Alps.
Jubilant Austria had waited for
this day since March 13, 1938,
when Adolf Hitler annexed her to
Germany. The new treaty declares
her "sovereign, independent and
democratic" after occupation first
by the Nazis and then by the war
victors.
Troops to Leave
Within 90 days after the treaty
is ratified by . the United States,
Russia, France, Britain and Aus
tria herself, 70.000 Russian and
Western troops will .be leaving.
They already are preparing' to go.
The Iron Curtain "wjfl be rolled
back. Austria will be neutral like
Switzerland, her neighbor.
The thick, leather-bound treaty of
hrtlependence promised Austria as
long as 1943 was signed in Vien
na's Belvedere Palace by the for
eign ministers of the five nations.
Russia's V. M. Molotov was first
to sign, with a gold pen from a
red leather case. He was followed
Mrs. Miller,
Early Pioneer,
Dies at Albany
SUtesmaa Newt Servic
JEFFERSON Miss Louisa
Miller, 09, passed away Saturday
evening. May 14, at the Albany
Mennonite Home for the Aged.
Miss Miller, daughter of pioneer
parents, Charles and Nancy Mil
ler, was the oldest and last of
the family of six sisters and one
brother.
She was born near Jefferson
April 18, 1856 and lived her en
tire life in this community until
three years ago, when she enter
ed the rest home in Albany. She
was an early-day school teacher,
and a talented artist
Surviving are nephews and
nieces, Charles Hoyt of Silverton,
Chester Miller of Albany and
Herbert Looney, Mrs. Paul Mc-
Kee and Mrs. Mack Hamby of
Jefferson.
She was a member of Jeffer
son Church of Christ
Funeral services will be held
in Christian Church in Jefferson
Tuesday at 2 p.m. . Mervin McGill
will officiate. Commitment will
be in the Jefferson Cemetery
with Fisher Funeral Home of
Albany in charge.
BRODIE TWIN UNCHANGED
CHICAGO UN Rodney Dee
Brodie, 3V& years old,, first head-
joined Siamese twin to recover
from a separation operation, re
mained unchanged and still
in
critical condition Sunday.
Supersonic
In Final Nuclear Test
LAS VEGAS. Nev. m A mighty
crack, bang and rumble" lust
before dawn Sunday wound up the
1955 atomic test senes. Supersonic
planes participated for the first
time. - .
The 14th and final nuclear shot
at 4 a. m. PST lighted the western
sky. It appeared as strong or
stronger than the preceding, civil
defense test 10 days ago.
That one was rated at about 33
kHotons the equivalent of 35,000
tons of TNT, or more than one and
a half times as powerful as the
blasts that raked Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
The faster-than-sound planes
making their nuclear-test debut
were two North American F100
Super Sabre jets. They simulated
bomb deliveries just ahead of the
explosion.
Altogether about 90 aircraft from
Edwards Air Force Base at Muroc,
2 SECTIONS 16 PACES
banks of the Willamette River
professional outboard motorboat
included racing, water skiing
by British Foreign Secretary Ha
rold MacMillan, U.S. Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles and
France's Antoine Pinay in that
order.
Roaring Cheers
At exactly 11:30 a.m. Austrian
Foreign Minister Leopold Figl af
fixed his name to make the treaty
legal. Not many minutes later, the
roaring cheers of a half-crying,
half-laughing, flag-waving crowd of
Public Okeh
On Big 4 Meet
VIENNA,' Austria W) The So
viet Union publicly stamped its ap
proval Sunday on the Western-pro
posed Big Four meeting "at the
summit' signalling a new phase
in the foreign policies of the Com
munist world, i . '
Using the platform which the So
viet Union helped to build for the
signing of the : Austrian indepen
dence pact, Foreign Minister V.
M. Molotov said:
1. The purpose of the Big Four
meeting "to . achieve an interna
tional relaxation of tension" cor
responds "completely with the
peaceful policy of the Soviet Un
ion." 2. The Soviet Union is convinced
that "other states, also will follow
the pattern" of Austria in choos
ing neutrality.
The Soviet Union "attaches great
significance to the Austrian decla
ration that the country will net
join any military alliance and will
not permit foreign military bases
on its soi
Fresh from the Warsaw confer
ence of the world's Communist
states, where Communist policy
was reviewed. Molotov'a 13-minute
address at the solemn ceremony
of signing Austria's independence
treaty was accepted here as on?
of unusual import
Molotov appeared to be forecast
ing an effort by Soviet Premier
Nikolai Bulganin to persuade Pres
ident Tito of Yugoslavia to follow
Austria's example in neutrality,
during his forthcoming visit to Bel
grade.
Neuberger MoTie
Version Underway
.NEW YORK m Work is un
derway on a film version of the
career of Sen. Richard Neuberger
(D-Ore. Walter Wanger, an exec
utive of Allied Artist Productions,
reported Sunday.
Wanger said the film would be
named "The Man ' from Snake
River."
Jets Used
Calif., took part
As in the May S Survival City
test, the firing was from atop
500-foot tower on Yucca Flat
The blast vibrated buildings In
Pioche, Nev. (100 miles),' was bare
ly heard in Las Vegas (75 miles)
and was a "rumble and light
crack" .in Bishop, Calif. (135
miles).
The mushroom cloud rose rapid'
ly to mere than 37,000 feet and
moved eastward.
Twenty-five "major associated
experiments were conducted with
the blast
The explosion ended the longest
and most diversified test series yet
held in Nevada. The. 14th atomic
shot of the series was the 45th in
Nevada and 46th in the continental
United States.
The total number of nuclear and
thermonuclear ' explosions by the
United States is now in the 60s.
Stamp
Opening of Willamette River
at Salem Sunday i It was the first
racers. Several which funds from
and aquaplaning. J tional picture and
18,000 Viennese rang in the ear;
of the (ive. m
The great bell of Vienna s St
Stephen's Cathedral pealed the
news "Austria is free" and, from
the valleys to the snowy Alp?,
churches and chapels took up the
refrain..
Huge crowds followed the for
eign ministers and Austrian Chanc
ellor Julius Raab to the palace cf
Austria's 80-year-old President Dr.
Theodor Koerner. While the roar
ing throng and the foreign minist
ers officially told Koerner all was
settled, he received these words
from President Dwight D. Eisen
hower: .
'Proud and Happy'
The American people are proud
and happy at the prospect of Aus
tria being able to play its full part
in world affairs with dignity, self
respect and freedom."
When , the midday excitement
was over, the crowd celebrated
again in different ways.
In a drizzling ram, thousands
went to Vienna's stately Ring-
strausse to waltz on the streets to
the Viennese music of city bands-!
playing at almost every corner.
Confederate
Vet Feted on
W9thBirtliday
FT. BLACKMORE. Va.
John B. Sailing got a birthday cake
Sunday much like any other
birthday cake but his had 109
candles on it .
The cake was only one of sev
eral surprises Virginia's only liv
ing Confederate veteran received.
The three-tier cake was given to
him by a Bristol bakery.
The old gentleman also received
a hat one with a wide brim
like he wanted from a Bristol
department store. He is rarely
seen without a hat, something he
says has helped keep bis hair
II w
Diacs. tie aiso says he "never
washed it4' and claims that helped
too.
But the high point of the day
for Sailing was receiving birthday
greetings from President Eisen
hower and Gov. Stanley that made
his day complete.
He wore a Confederate uniform
given to him several years ago.
bedecked with medals showing he
has been through a number of
tough campaigns, the reunions
of Confederate veterans he has at
tended.
Snow Storm
Hits Montana
HELENA, Mont. VTi A mid
day snow storm Sunday continued
its assault on Montana, disrupting
air travel and blocking highways.
The Weather Bureau issued a
storm bulletin at 3:37 p. m. warn
ing residents just east of the Con
tinental Divide that up to four
more inches of snow was expected
Sunday night. -
NOETHWXST LXAGTTK
At Salem 13-2. Spokane f-1
At Eugrae-Lewfeton, rain
At. Tri-Clty a, Weaatchc S
PACIFIC COAST LZAGCI
At Portland S-t Oakland 4-5
At San Diego 4-11. Hollywood 1-2
At Los Angeles 7-0. Seattle 5-5
At San Francisco 11-2. Sacramento
1-3
AMERICA LEAGUE
At Washington 0-4. Chicago 3-S
At Baltimore 44. Cleveland 1-J
At Boston 10-3. Detroit 4-1
. At New York 3-S. Kansas City 4-4
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At Cincinnati 1.11. Brooklyn 7-4
At Chicafo $-4, New York 3-1 .
At St Louis S. Pittsburgh 1
At Milwaukee S-2. Philadelphia S-l
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Tht Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, May 16, 1955
'"JTiXT 'Ctr TTV! TV
scheduled event of the season
the regatta will go for improvement.. (Statesman Photo). (Addi-
details on sports pages).
Chosen Patrolmen
Out of Luck, Too;
Nothing Located
COPENHAGEN, Denmark IS)
This message went out to
Copenhagen police radio patrol
cars Saturday night:
"Car No. 19 will proceed to
Vesterbrogade, where naked wo
man reported dancing around
Liberty Column."
After a brief pause the an
nouncer added:
"All other cars stay where
they are."
Car No. 19 had no luck either:
Found nothing.
Off er Rejected
By Teamsters
PORTLAND tf Portland AFL
Teamsters voted unanimously Sun,
day to reject an employers' wage
offer, Clyde C. Crosby, the union's
international representative, re
ported. Results of voting from other lo
cals in the state will not be tab
ulated until Monday morning.
Crosby said approximately 1.000
teamsters had voted in the elec
tion. Similar elections are under
way in 11 western states. x
Results of the voting will be for
warded to Los Angeles where ne
gotiations have been underway for
some time.
The union is asking a lo-cent
hourly wage increase this year
and 8 cents an hour for each of
the following two years.
Lew Cornelius, secretary of the
Portland union said the offer
which the local rejected was for
an increase of 9 cents this year
and five cents for each of the fol
lowing two years or for a five cent
increase for each of the next five
years.
Drivers
hour or 7
now receive $2.14
cents a mile.
an
Children See
Father Killed
COOK, Minn. W His eight
children watched in terror "Sunday
as farmer Harold Thornberg. 40,
crashed on the family farm after
he put a small airplane into a
shallow dive so he could wave to
the youngsters. "
The children, 4 to 14, ran to the
trees back of the farm house and
f found the crashed ship. The body
of their father was mangled in the
wreckage. Several of the older
children then ran a mile through
woods to notify their mother, who
was visiting at the farm of her
husband's brother.
Clouds, Warmer
Forecast Today
Partial cloudiness and slightly
warmer temperatures are in store
for the Salem area today and
Tuesday, McNary Field weather
men reported.
The area had a rain measure
ment of .01 Sunday and a high
reading of 59. Today's maximum
is expected to reach 64 and
Tuesday's reading is forecast as
near 70. . f . '
Today's Stafesr.:n
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Classifieds , II 6 7
Comics ' ' 3
Crossword H 5
Editorials l 4
Home Panorama U 4
Sports ,11 t, 2
Star Gazer " 4
TV, Kad'io IL 3
ValJey L
Boat Races
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for Paul Wallace Marine Park to
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Nationalist
Jets in Gash
WithMIGs
TAIPEI, Formosa U) Chinese
Nationalist and Communist jet
fighters clashed Sunday in the
first such encounter over the red
held Taishan Islands, 70 miles
northeast of the Matsus.
The Defense Ministry said four
Nationalist F84 Thunder jets inter
cepted two Communist Migs off the
coast of Fukien Province and, af
ter a five-minute battle, two oth
er MIGs joined ethe fray. ;
There was no mention of either
side incurring damage. The min
istry said the Communist jets fled
after 10 minutes. They were de
scribed as grey and bearing Red
China's five-star insignia.
The MIGs were reported as dif
fering from the MIG15 of the Ko
rean War and possibly could have
been a later modeL , -,
Maj. Chang Chi-Yung led the
Nationalist jets. ,
It was the first appearance of
MIGs off the Fukien Coast since
May 4 when four Nationalist pro
peller-driven planes tangled brief
ly with four MIG15s 50 miles north
of the Matsus without loss to eith
er side.
The Migs evidently came from
Lukiao, Red air base 200 miles
north of the Matsus which was
completed April 2.
Earlier the Defense Ministry re
ported Red shore guns at Amoy
fired four shells at Little Quemoy
Island but caused no damage or
casualties. It was the first shell
ing there since May 5. "
Michigan Woman
Gives Birth to L
Siamese Twins
DETROIT, Mich (v- Siamese
twin girls were born to a 27-year-
old Detroit woman at Mt. Carmel
Mercy Hospital Sunday.
The babies, joined at the chest.
were reported in "fair" condition
but hospital officials said they had
one chance in 100,000 to survive'
They weighed a total of 12 pounds,
14 ounces.
The hospital said the twins, born
to Mrs. Nona Herring, were nor
mal in every respect except for
the joining. Preliminarjr X-rays in
dicated they had separate chests.
Dr. John H. Doran, who de
livered the. babies, said extensive
tests, will be made before any de
cision is made to suggest a separ
ation. i
Architect's Concept of Air Force Academy
COLORADO SPRINGS, Olo. Architectural concept shews style arrangements of key buildings of
cadet academie area of U. S. Air Force Academy aear here. Upper left is peaked, modern chapel.
Clockwise from chapel are: administration bnilding; cadet social center; cadet quarters; academie
. buildings and dining halL View looks northwest teward Rampart Range of mean tains. (AP Wiro
phote). CStory en page 2, sectiea 1). .
PRICE 5c
U. S. Releases
EliMly
Polio Vaccine
WASHINGTON WV-The government Sunday pronounced an
other big batch of Salk anti polio vaccine safe. Surgeon General
Leonard A. Scheele said it would permit the immediate inoculation
of 378,000 more children. '
Cleared after a recheck by U.S. Public Health Service inspect
ors were all previously released lots of vaccine manufactured by
Eli Lilly c Co. of Indianapolis.;
About 3,600,000 cubic centimet
ers were involved in the new clear
ance. Most of it already has been
used for initial injections, which
take one cc. per shot.
Plant Checked
' Scheele said the remainder is
scheduled for use in the immuni
zation programs of 16 states, none
of them in the Pacific Northwest
Release of the Lilly vaccine came
just one week after the govern
ment recommended a temporary
halt in the program to allow a
plant-by-plant recheck of manu
facturing and testing processes
Four other companies have been
producing the Salk solution. Scheele
said an inspection team will next
visit Wyeth. Inc.; in Philadelphia
probably Monday. Two of the 07
post-vaccination polio cases in
volved Wyeth materials. The re
maining S3 followed injection of
vaccine made' by Cutter Labora
tories, Berkeley, Calif.
Report Due Today
Reports of polio among children
inoculated with the Cutter pro
duct led to a slowdown and then a
halt in the nationwide immuniza
tion program. On orders of the
Public Health Service, all Cutter
vaccine has been called back for
a special study.
Secretary of Welfare Hobby is
scheduled to give President Eisen
hower a report on the entire vac
cination program Monday, along
with recommendations on such
matters as controls and distribu
tion: The Health Service is part of
her Department of Health, Educa
tion and welfare.
Distribution Attacked
Mrs. Hobby also has an engage
ment Monday afternoon with the
Senate Labor and Public-Welfare
Committee. Three congressional
groups have already started or
plan inquiries into the way the
vaccination program has been
handled. . ..
A number of lawmakers have
urged federal) controls to insure
distribution . to areas . and age
groups needing the vaccine most
East Oregon
Crash Kills 2
PENDLETON, Ore. () Two
men were killed and four persons
were injured in a headon collision
of two automobiles near here Sat
urday night.
Eugene P. Richards, 46, of
Richland, Wash., believed to be
the driver of one. of the cars, and
Louis P. Wright 37, Hermiston,
Ore., a passenger, were killed in
the crash. -
Another passenger. Spencer A.
Tuggle. 45, also of Hermiston. was
critically hurt.
Injured in the other car were
Henry J. Ott, 74, Hermiston, his
wife, Minnie, about 74, and Mrs.
Laura A. Linn, about 65, Hermis
ton. The accident occurred at about
10 p.m. in heavy rain 23 miles
east of here on old UJ5. Highway
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D.A Asked I
To Step Aside
In Kaser Case;
A request to have District At
torney Kenneth O. Brown dis
qualify himself as prosecutor In
the Ervin Kaser murder case was
reported here Sunday on the eye
of a grand jury session called
by Brown to consider evidence
against Casper Oveross. i
The request was reportedly -made
by relatives of Kaser who
have indicated they thought it
would be better to have a special'
prosecutor in the case because
all principals in the case, includ
ing Brown, are from the Silver-
ton area.
25 Witnesses
Brown has said he will call
some 25 witnesses today in ask
ing indictment of Oveross, 44-.
year-old ex-neighbor of Kaser. j
Oveross was arrested a few
days after the shooting at Kaser's
home, two miles south of Silver
ton on the Cascade Highway, and':
charged with first degree mur-j
der. The grand jury refused toi
indict him and he was released 1
a few days later.
A week ago a rifle was fished
from the Pudding River a few
miles from the murder scene and
crime laboratory ballistic tests
are reported to prove that it was
the murder weapon. This new
evidence is the principal basis
for the new grand jury request
Up to Brown
It will probably be up to Brown
to decide whether he will step
aside in favor of a special prose
cutor. Some 15 years ago a case
against the county treasurer and
the county court named a special
prosecutor for the case, Circuit
Judge George Duncan recalled
Sunday.
Brt)wn could not be reached
Sunday for comment
Grand jury consideration of the
case is scheduled to begin at 9:30
a.m. today in the Marion County
Courthouse. It was considered
likely the jury would arrive at
a verdict today.
Fuel Oil Loss
Costly Habit '
Loss of stove oil has become a
tiresome and costly habit for
Ernest Holman, 2265 Claude St -
He told city police Sunday about
200 gallons have been taken from
his premises in the past six
months.
Holman said the latest theft
occurred early Sunday morning
from a drum at the rear of his
home. A board framework pre-'
viously placed over the drum in
an effort to halt the thievery was
pried open and several gallons
syphoned out, officers were told.
Holman estimated his total -oil
loss from the series of thefts at
about S75.
PEDESTRIAN KILLED
PORTLAND un Charles B.
Kopp, 42, was fatally injured when
he was struck by an automobile
as he crossed a Portland intersec
tion Saturday night
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