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The-Weather TORCAST from S. weather bureau,. idcNary field. Saiera).: - , Early mormnf cloudiness today and'- Saturday., otherwise continued . fair and warm.' High today 86-St. low ' tonight 50-52; high Saturday ?- , Temperature at 12:01 a.m.' today was 54. SALEM FRECIPITATIOX . Sine Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1 TsOa Year Latt Tear " Normal 32 53 45.14 . 39.30 JflSni Yfli NDnb 1651 103th Year 4 SECTIONS-40 PAGES - Tht Ortgon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 22f 1955 PRICE 5c No. 117 Ike Offers to Military Blueprints with I Swap oiss Trucks Traverse Roadless Alaska To Set Up Radar i FAIRBANKS, Alaska P The militajy reported Thursday that a transport firm sent huge trucks 400 miles through roadless Alaska wilderness in a radar chain freight project that may set a new trend in arctic supply operations. ' Truckers built a crude highway from this interior Alaska city to the Arctic shore over a hitherto untraveled route in winter weather jwhen the temperature hit 68 below CRT mam The proposal made by President Eisenhower at the Geneva confer ence directly to the Russians was not, in my opinion, a bluff, not merely a tactical maneuver to win Russia on the spot, or a move on the chessboard of international po litics to score a psychological vic tory though it may have such re sults. It was, I am confident, a sincere effort on the part of the American President to break down the wall of fear which envelops Russia and casts shadow over the rest of the world He invited both the United States and the USSR to Join hands in the comradeship - of peace where once they were asso ciated in war. Eisenhower is not a schemer or a trickster. He is forth right and direct, and the great fa vor he enjoys in this country sprints from trust in his sincerity Previously he appealed to Marshal Zhukov to attest that he always spoke the truth. He hopes by build- in; on that confidence to convince the Russians that he is pointing a way to the peace which the Rus sians have been prating about con tinuously since the world war. It is granted there is some risk. So deep is the suspicion of Com munist powers in this country many; will be unwilling to accept any promise from them as to fu ture conduct. So overwhelming, however, is the eagerness for a termination of the cold war and for taking away the threat of atom ic warfare that there seems little doubt that Eisenhower would carry train, followed. congress ana me country wun mm if the proposal matures into defi nite agreements. The timing of the President's ad dress was doubtless carefully deter mined. German unification remain ed an unresolved question. The second conference topic was dis armament which had come so often to dead ends in (Continued on editorial page, 4.) and snowdrifts were 75 feet high , The precedent - setting trans port job was generally known here but details were withheld until publication, today of an article by Air Force Col. G. L. Curtis in the National Defense Transportation Journal in Washington, D. C. Alaska Freight Lines of Seattle sent 32 diesel truck-trailers and a giant specially-built "snowtrain" over the mountain-dotted wilder ness ra an operation planned by company President Alfred Ghezzi Jr. Restodying Program , Curtis said the- Air Force now Is studying the entire supply program in the light of the overland's pro ject's success. The feat was a gamble for Alas ka Freight to supply the new radar screen along the Alaska-Canada coast. It offered to build its own highway, provide equipment and guarantee delivery by air if the road didn't prove feasible. It was to receive no pay until final de- iivery. . There was a summer road far as the Arctic Circle, about 130 miles to the north, but it had been considered impassable in winter, Beyond that, no road existed. The lead tractor train left Fair banks and "blasted through" to the Yukon River in eight days, Curtis wrote. Then it crossed the river and beaded north,, . . - ' . ' ; Flags Mark Route Guides went ahead on snowshoes working with an Alaska Freight scouting plane. Red flazs droDDed from the plane marked the best route for the lead tractor, and the scouts, pilot and truck drivers communicated by radioteleohone. Two weeks later a second train left Fairbanks. It was riven the job of building the "Arctic High way, -, a roaa Z5 feet wide across some of the roughest, wildest terri tory in the northern hemisphere. The supply convoy of 32 truck and trailer units, and the big snow- Body Identified As Berkeley Girl; Charge Readied REDDING, Calif. (JP) J. Frank Coakley, prosecuting attorney for Alameda County, said Thursday he would file a murder charge Friday against Burton W. Abbott for the death of 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan. The body of the Berkeley girl, missing since last April 28, was f u n d Wednesday night in a shallow grave and was positively identilied here Thursday in an autopsy. Alameda County pathologist George ' S. Loquvam said she had either been beaten to death or strangled. Abbott, a' frail 27-year-old University o2 California stu dent, insists he knows nothing of the girl or how she met death. (Additional details page 4, sec. 4.) Pay, Spending, Production Set U. S. Record WASHINGTON Iff Americans this 'spring made and spent more money, produced more goods and held more jobs than ever before. The President's Council of Eco nomic Advisors, in the July issue of its "economic indicators," re ported that national production in the April-June quarter reached the terrific rate of 383 billion dol lars a year. That compared with the 364H billion dollar rate achieved in the previous most prosperous year, 1933. , Personal income, the presiden tial advisors said,, exceeded "the 300 billion level for the first "time in the history" as industry rehired laid-off workers, added new help, and yielded large pay increases to major unions. Of the estimated $300,300,000,000 personal income rate, some $267,- 000,000,0000 was classed as "dis posable? meaning, available for spending after taxes were taken out. - Consumer spending, usually in terpreted as a reflection of public confidence in the economic out look, reached a new peak in the second quarter also, but not as markedly as income. Spending gained $3,700,000,000, to an annual rate of $249,500,000,000. It might have gone higher, ex cept for an evidence of consumer caution. Some 6.6 per cent of dis posable income was tucked away in savings or investments. . Congress Leaders Support President WASHINGTON l ; A number of congressional leaders Thursday sprang to the support of President Eisenhower's proposal for en ex change of military blueprints. f There were some scattered objections from both Republicans and Democrats and even some of those applauding the idea seemed to think little would come of it. .. . Democratic leaders of the Senate and House warmly endorsed the President's plan, but Sen. ; ; Knowjand of California, the ' Re- j wi: c k. Look for 'Aluminum Glitter1 publican Senate leader, said he . -I 4 ArAct iH 1 rac would "wait until 'the President! J JL U1CSI JL 11 Cd Burn in State returns here and makes his report to the nation on Geneva before I'll have something to say." , His counterpart in the House, Minority Leader Martin of Massa chusetts, said E;senhower's pro posal "could well be the first step in more cordial relations" and "it might be the step which would lead to peace." Advance Word Democratic leaders in both By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Three small forest fires were burning in Oregon Thursday, but none was big enough to be re ported to the regional fire control officer of the U.S. Forest Service in Portland. Guy Johnson, fir control offi- iVo.nnrtAa orttiV itiait horl rAAAiuar I rfvnrp rnrrl .lon with the R- cer-. expressed no great concern. Polk Escapee Gets 18 Years For Robbery EUGENE UTI Alfred Peterson, Salem man who has spent more than half his 46 years behind bars, drew another 18-year sentence Thursday. He was one of three men who early in July fled the county , jail at Dallas and held a Lane County farm family at gunpoint for hours while the three proyisioned them selves. Arrested soon afterward, he pleaded guilty. His tompanians did not They await grand jury action. It Was on an armed robbery charge that Peterson was sen tenced, stemming from the farm family robbery. The others held here are Burton Bryson. 20, Junction "City, and Raymond Lowe, 22, Everett. Circuit Judge Frank Reid sen tenced Peterson. Before him was a record showing that in 1931 Peterson was sentenced to 40 years on his third forgery convic tion and was paroled in 1954 after serving 23 years. 24 Hours Per Day Day and night," Curtis wrote, "the 'Cats kept punchine into the north, with the big diesel truck trailers right behind. Tempera tures hit 68 below and engines had to be kept running 24 hours a day to prevent freezing. Drifts 50 to 75 feet high were common- P The original plan was for the ! Ike Acceptance irui-M ana trailers io go only to the Arctic Circle. There cargo was to be transferred to the snowtrain for the last lap to the Arctic Ocean shores. But the truck-trailer opera tion worked so well these units were kept rolling to the radar outposts. publicans, that - the President planned to make his dramatic of fer at the Geneva Big Four meet ing. . . - Commenting on the proposal. Sen. George (D Ga), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said: . - "We certainly have nothing to lose from the military viewpoint, because we live in a fishbowl. This is manifestly so because matters in a free country cannot be kept secret, whatever their nature cr character may be." . Pentagsa Plaa - WASHINGTON ) The Penta gon is known to have provided the basis for President Eisenhower's offer Thursday to swap military blueprints with Russia and to per mit the two nations to keep track of each other s strength by aerial patrols. ' ' . " Top officials said, the Elsenhower plan, unfolded before. the summit conference, followed essentials of a "position" paper prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and approved by Secretary of Defense Wilson. This paper was carried to Geneva by the -President's party, y : Weeks before the Geneva con ference opened the Pentagon was asked to come up with an answer to the question of arms control. Particularly it was asked to solve the problem of inspection and polic ing or which any genuine control program would have to be based. saying, "There are bound to be some." He said that with frequent lightning storms, some sleeper fires can be expected to burst out when dry weather arrives, A 10-acre fire 20 miles northwest of Medford was controlled early Thursday. It was in the Pleasant Creek area of Jackson County A small blaze of undetermined size spread into timber from a burning home on Two Mile Creek between Charleston and Bandon ' The largest, also in the Bandon Charleston area, burned some 20 acres on South Slough. It was a permit fire that got out of hand and went into an old burn - r - -. . i..X -U- -.'-, . T. .(Tex) Perry, on whose Rosedale area farm deposits of bauxite have been found, is shown above squinting at a sample of the aluminum bearing ore brought up from one of the test holes drilled on his property recently. Perry says,. "You can tell if it's good bauxite by the way the stuff (aluminum) glitters ia it." (Statesman Photo by John Encksen.) Of SI PaV Floor Said Indicated Miss Universe Field Narrowed LONG BEACH. Calif, tfl Judges Thursday night pared the Miss Universe candidates to 15 semifinalists, who are the Misses Argentina, Belgium. Brazil, Can ada, Ceylon, El Salvador, Eng land, Germany, Guatemala, Hon United States and Venezuela. The fifteen will go through a rugged three-hour judging session Friday night during which the list will be narrowed down to five and finally to the winner. Miss Uni verse. - WASHINGTON l Administra tion acceptance of the $l-an-hour federal .minimum wage voted by Congress in place of the 90 cents an hour recommended by Presi dent ' Eisenhower was indicated Thursday by Secretary of Labor Mitchell. Mitchell told a news conference he would recommend that Eisen hower sign the legislation after the Senate and House resolve their differences over whether the meas ure should become "effective next Jan. 1 or March 1. The bill is now in conference to adjust this sole remaining conflict. Enactment of the measure would mean an increase of 23 cents -an hour for about 2.100,000 of the 24 million workers in interstate com merce who are covered by the present 75 cents-an-hour minimum wage law. . Billy Meets With Soviets, Queen Mother LONDON (& 'American evange ist Billy Graham was a guest Thursday night of Russian clergy men here for a meeting of the Baptists - World Alliance. He hurried to meet the Russians informally and privately after at tending a garden party at Buck ingham Palace where he chatted with Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. "I should appreciate the oppor tunity to go to Russia on an evang elistic mission nd we talked about the possibilities," Graham told re porters.' He did not elaborate. On arriving in London Tuesday after a round of evangelistic ral lies in Europe, Graham said he was eager to conduct a crusade in Rus sia if he could go there without any strings attached. " POSSIBLE POLIO VICTIM Cathy Crouser, 5, 2280 Silver ton Rd., was brought to Salem Memorial Hospital by Willamette ambulance Thursday as a pos sible polio victim, her physician confirmed. He said her right arm and leg-were paralyzed. She wis not a recipient of anti-polio shots, he said. ANIMAL CRACKERS V WAJtRKN OOOmCM mi aassl Tor him life at Just one long coffee-break.'" Merrifield Innocent of Charge, Jury Decrees State Sen. John Merrifield, Portland, was found innocent Thursday of a charge or driving while intoxicated, following a Marion , County District Court jury triaL Th six-member jury brought In its unanimous verdict after 30 minutes' deliberation Thursday afternoon. Testimony had been heard from 14 witnesses Wednes day. Prosecution and defense at torneys spent all Thursday, morn ing presenting closing arguments, The charge from which Merri field was acquitted stemmed from arrest of the state senator June 18 by State Patrolman Floyd S. Morrill on Highway 99E where Merrifield bad stopped his car near Gervais Junction. v In his argument, Defense Attor ney Peery T. Buren contended the state's evidence did not show Merrifield's driving was influ enced by drinking and that the arresting officer . "got everything fouled up." , He referred to "conflicting tes timony" by Officer Morrill over what attempt was made at time of the arrest to confirm Sen. Mer- t 1 1 " A" i! V . V v Insp This is one of three drills now making test holes ia the Rosedale area in an effort to determine If bauxite deposits there are of sufficient quality to be of industrial value. Drilling is being done by the Salem Sand and Gravei Co. for Canadian aluminum interests. Many property owners In south ern Marion County have optioned their land and given permission for test drilling, while others are now negotiating with a Salem real estate firm. Three geologists from Montreal, Canada, are supervising the drilling. (Statesman Photo) . -:. rifield's explanation that his driv ing was impeded by actions of an alcoholic woman he was driving to Salem for self-committal to the State Hospital. Buren reminded that various witnsses had testified the sena tor was sober in Portland before he left with the woman and in Salem about two hours later, fol lowing the arrest. Prosecutor Harold Adams, dep uty district attorney, in his clos ing-argument declared that the case boiled down to Merrifield's word against that of the two state police officers as to what hap pened on the highway the eve ning of the arrest He said testi mony on events following the ar rest didn't indicate the woman passenger was , acting violently enouht to interfere with- driving. Presiding over the case was District Judge Edward O. Stadter Jr. The jury was composed of Ar thur B. Bates, Salem, foreman; Miss Bernice EtzeL Stayton; Mrs. Tena Anderson, Silverton; Joan Flfier, Mrs. Betty Eubanks and Mrs. Gloria Mae Asher, all of Sa lem. - Adams Skips Senate Probe WASHINGTON (A Sherman Adams, the President's right hand man, refused Thursday to testify in the Dixon-Yates probe and a Senate subcommittee promptly blasted his- attitude as "tanta mount to suppression of evidence of possible crime and corruption." . One reason given by Adams for steering clear of the inquiry was "my official and confidential re lationship" to President Eisenhow er. A subcommittee headed by Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn) fired back a let ter saying "We can see no justifi cation for your refusal to testify" and strongly urged him to recon sider. , Newport Tugboat Explodes; Man Swims to Safety NEWPORT. Ore. L. C Huber of Corvallis swam safely to shore near here Wednesday night after his tugboat, the Stella H., exploded and burned. The boat was caught in the surf and carried ashore. The breakers SDlit the tug's seams and extin guished the fire. The explosion occurred when Huber added fuel to the boat's stalled motor and pressed the starter. The accident occurred off Beverly Beach, about five miles north of Newport. SP Service -Halt to Affect 25 Workers MEDFORD or) A union spokes man said here Thursday that about 25 railroad workers will be affected by the Southern Pacific's proposed abandonment of the Portland-Ashland passenger run Ant. 7. K. H. Brandes, Portland com mittee chairman of the Brother hood of RaikOad Trainmen added his protest to those already made by several communities on the line. He said about 19 members of his union- will be affected and about six firemen and engineers. The state Public Utilities Com mission is investigating the need and demand for the service. Com missioner Charles Heltzel has said the PUC has the power to order the run continued if the need war rants it. The Southern Pacific has main tained that the PUC does not have jurisdiction. The railroad said it is ' abandoning' the line because it has operated at a loss for several years, averaging fewer . than 20 passengers a day. NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Salem . Wenatchee 1 At Lewiston 10, Yakima 7 At Tri-City 10, Eugene S (14 inn I COAST LEAGUE " At Portland 2. Sacramento 3 At San Francisco 1. Los Angeles t At Holly-wood 3. Oakland V , At Seattle 1. San Diego S NATIONAL LEAGUE 1 At Brooklyn 4. Chicago 1 At New York . St. Louis S . At Pittsburgh 3. Milwaukee S At Cincinnati 3. Philadelphia S AMERICAN LEAGUE At Chicago 9, New Ytork 6 At Cleveland 4. Washington 3 (10 innings) ' At Detroit 1. Baltimore 0 At Kansas City 3. Boston 4 Forecast Sees Continued Fair Continued fair skies and fairly high temperatures can be expected here today end Saturday, accord ing to the U.S. Weather Bureau at McNary field. A high of 87 is ex pected today, 79 Saturday. ' At northern Oregon beaches. skies should be fair through Friday except for night and morning clouds. Northwest winds of 5 to 15 miles an hour are expected. The temperature range should be be tween 54 and 66 degrees. uggests ect By Air' GENEVA President Eiseii. bower offered Thursday to pin point American military establish merits and let them come under the eyes of Russian aerial inspection teams in return for reciprocal ar tkn by the Russians, This proposal that the world's wo greatest powers exchange "a complete blueprint of military es tablishments" and ease the fear of war was made in n dramatic f ternoon session of the summit con ference. The President said he suggested the plan in order to convince every one of the great sincerity of tho United States in approaching this problem of disarmament," His statement was directed straight at Russia. Eisenhower asked that this step of restoring- mutual confidence between the two great nuclear weapon powers bt taken immediately. Accounts Conflict , Conflicting accounts came out of the conference room on the Soviet reaction. White House press spokes man James Hagerty said the Rus sians listened, but made no com ment. A French spokesman, how ever, quoted Soviet Premier Bul ganin as saying: , We have all been deeply moved by the very sincere declaration just made by President Eisenhower on what is probably the most im portant question before the con ference. Complete Blueprint Eisenhower's offer, in his own words, is: To give each other a complete . blueprint of our military establish ments, from beginning to end, from one end of our countries to the oth er: Lay out the establishments and provide blueprints to each other.' Next, to provide within our countries facilities for aerial pho tography to the other country we to provide you the facilities within our country, ample facilities for aerial reconnaissance, where you can make all the pictures you choose and take them to your own country to study; you to jtfovidt ,i " exactly the same facilities for us and we to make these examina tions, and by this step to convince the world that we are providing as between ourselves against the pos sibility .of great surprise attack, thus lessening danger and relax ing tension. Bt a Beginning ' Likewise we will make more eas ily attainable a comprehensive and effective system of inspection and disarmament, because what I pro pose, I assure you, would be but a beginning." While the President addressed Russia, it was clearly evident that he directed this statement to the whole world: First, he allowed the text of his declaration to be used openly by correspondents. Second, newsreel and television cameramen had been alerted in advance to be on hand where the core of the Presi dent's statement was to be. read by Hagerty in the glare of lights at a news conference. Neartag Close It was the maior move ef tht day, and perhaps the most grip ping move of the conference, which is drawing rapidly toward a close. Eisenhower insists he must be home Sunday. . That leaves at most only two more days for the leaders of the Big Four nations to adopt mutual ly, if they can, some program lead ing toward a relaxation of world tensions.. The foreign ministers debated through a rainy morning on how . to reconcile, even a little, their clashing views on how to reunite Germany and provide an accept able security system for Europe. They couldn't do it Thursday. So they asked and received directions to try again Friday. (Additional details on page 2, see. 1.) Salem United Fund Increases Next Year's Budget by $8,213 BILL DEFEATED . TOKYO UH Japan's House of Representatives - Thursday, voted down the controversial anti-prostitution bill, 191 to 142. The Weather Salem Portland ... Baker Medford North Bend San Francisco . Los Angeles Chicago '. New York Max. Mln. Prectp. 8J , 41 .M llV 54 .00 . S3 , 4S . .00 7 5 .00 63 S3 .00 ... SI , .00 St S .00 S3 .71 .00 . n oo Willamette. River -24 feet. Salem United Fund directors Thursday approved a $203,111 bud get for the coming year's support by citizens of 11 local youth and welfare agencies and other 'state wide and national services. The overall budget is $8,213 high er than last year's, but all agencies were held to budgets of the same amount as they are now receiving from the United Fund. Biggest increase is in upping the shrinkage aUowance from $2,000 to $7,000. More default on pledges is expected now that much of the giv ing is on payroll deduction plans affected by employe turnover. Other increases are upping year round administration ' costs from $10,000 to $12,000; emergency fund from $1,000 to $1,500; adding one new aeency. the Salem Association for Retarded Children, with a bud get approved at $713. - Other local agencies supported Jby UF are Red Cross Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls. Catholic Chari ties, Girl Scouts, Legal Aid Clinic, Salvation Army. YMCA, YWCA, USO. , The Fund's budget committee headed by Loyal Warner had cut back many of the agency requests The original asking has totaled $224,262. Over $6,500 of the cut was in the amounts going to state and national Community Chest services. The Fund board of directors, meeting under chairmanship of vice president Herbert E. Barker, confirmed the fall campaign plans which call for an Oct. 4 starting date, campaign headquarters at 330 Court St., and the slogan: "Givt the United Way." The Salvation Army was granted a $f00 emergency appropriation to meet unexpected relief needs- Ne gotiations were authorized with the new Polk County United Fund, over distribution oi funds raised in West Salem. , , Goldfish Prove Hardy Breed The breeder goldfish in the Hollywood Aquarium's outside pool survived the broken light bulbs, boards, peat moss, paint and mange medicine that vandals lumped in during the night, it was reported Thursday by Mrs. R. B. Cunningham, who is oper ating the 1958 McCoy Ave. store during the absence of owner Roy Beardsley. . Today's Statesman - Sec Babsen Report TV Classifieds IV- Comks Ill Editorials l. Food .. .. lll Home, Panorama Louisiana page .. I. Markets . 1V. Sports ; IV Star Gazer I. TV, Radio Valley Jit Pag. . 3 .4-7 . 11 . 4 . l - 6-9 10 3 1,2 11 11 IL2,3