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The Weather FORECAST', (from V. S. weather bureau. McNsry field. Salem t: Partly clouly - today, toiugnt and Sunday, witi high today near 73. low tonirht near SO. Temperature at 1Z.01 a.m. today VH 46. : 8ALKM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Tear Last Vear N'ormil 32 SI 4S.M 3J.J4 J05ii Ylilii fears Is the Growth ef Orefaa POUNDDD 1651 105th Ytr 2 SECTIONS-14 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon Saturday, July 30, 1955 PRICE 5c No. 125 Salem's Junior Firemen Man Their 7 Own Truck' .Nation to Launch First Ear til- Girding Satellite ".. , ' " . f ' -f - s M : . i L' 'J t y ' v . ' 1 ' - r ' ;v...'::.:.-.'.----.h y - - - :., . " . v : i J . . T f. . ' - J . i .'1 . I ' " in. .mil., mil II Hi il. i i i .in. ii "t I in ii li -- ,,. 933UQB TOLL01 At last one man shows up with courage enough to admit he is interested in the Republican nomi nation for the U. S. senatorship . next year. Hs'1s John C. F. Mer rifield, Mate senator for Multnom ah county, whose same was well publicized because of his recent trial on a drunk driving charge, in which he was acquitted. But Mer rifield does a 'you first, Alphonse," as he bows to give Governor Pat terson the preference. Why all this standing on the side lines .chewing one's fingernails waiting for fiie governor to say whether he will be a candidate or not? What the GOP needs.ls a good boss race for: the job. Instead, the possible candidates stand round first eyeing Morse and wondering -of anyone can beat him, then eyeing Patterson to see if he is going to run. What possible candidates ought to be, doing is getting out lining up support for themselves, testing the wind .currents, without waiting on Patterson or worrying about Morse. Competition, in the primaries would stir up; interest, do an ad- vertising job pn whoever won for the fall election. It might generate some ideas that had spark in them, and voter appeal. If the" nomination goes to Patterson or any one else byedefault he will enter the fall race "cold." It will warm up, to be sure, but the primaries serve as a good trial heat for candidates. When Merrifield was arrested, a gooJ many figured his political (Continued on editorial page, 4) Clouds Due Over Salem, on Coast r ItH be mostly cloudy today at northern Oregon beaches and light sprinkles are expected early in ine morning, weathermen say. Wester ly winds of 10 to 20 miles an hour are expected, and a temperature ranee of 55-65.; In the Salem area, partly cloudy skies with little change in temper ature were forecast by McNary weathermen. Today's high should be about 73. - McCAY DUE MONDAY Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay is due to arrive in Portland b. air Monday. He will fly there on a United Airlines plane due at ' 8:35 p.m. and will be driven to Sa lem, his daughter, Mrs.. Lester Green, said. . 'ANIMAL CRACKERS V IV WURIN OOORICH "I prefer TS'i more action.' if!!! "Hey, gang, it's a real fire engine," Billy Richards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Richards, 643 Marino Dr., shoots to his friends when he sees the latest addition to playground equipment at Bush's Pasture Park an outdated fire engine. The 32-year-old pumper was donated to the park by the fire department. The engine hasn't operated since 1950, and a chain has been welded to the front wheels to assure that the truck stays in the park. (Statesman Photo by John Ericksen) Sec. Talbott Denies . . . . . Resignation Rumor WASHINGTON (iP Two highly placed Republican senators said Friday the resignation of Harold E. Talbott as secretary of the Air Force was imminent'1 but true." The two senators, both members of the GOP Policy Committee in the Senate, declined use of their names In conjunction with the report. j Talbott, reached by phone at his is I home, said the report "wasn't true at all. It's just a rumor. I hadnt heard it before." ; . However, a later remark by Tal bott to a reporter indicated there was at least a possibility that he would resign. "I will do nothing at any time to embarass President Eisenhower, and I will do whatever the Presi dent wishes me to do," he said. 'Should Go Asked for comment at the White House, Presidential Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said: "there is nothing before us." One senator reported several Re publican members of the Senate have told the ' White House they thought . the acknowledged "mis take" Talbott made in promoting a -profitable outside business in terest from his Pentagon office "made it advisable that he should go- This informant said Talbott has now decided to relinquish his Pen tagon post "I am told that the rn nouncement of his resignation is imminent, he added. Chairman Bridges (R-NY) con firmed that the Policy Committee had discussed the question of wheth er Talbott, a personal friend of President Eisenhower's, should re sign, but be said the committee had reached no conclusion. . Profit Told An inquiry by the Senate investi gations subcommittee disclosed Talbott, in the 2 Vt years he has served as civilian head of the Air Force, has received $132,032 in profits from a partnership in Paul B. Mulligan k Co., a New York management engineering firm. Talbott's announced willingness to give up his profitable partnership apparently hasn't satisfied some Republican members of Congress. Metal Magnate Reynolds Dies RICHMOND. Va. UP Richard Samuel Reynolds Sr., 73, chairman of the board of Reynolds Metals Co., and builder of a giant industri al empire, died Friday night at his home here. Reynolds had been in poor health since he became 01 with pneu monia last winter while visiting in Jamaica. Members of the faimly said he died of a heart attack. . He was a native of Bristol, Term., and a nephew of R. J. Reynolds of the large tobacco con cern. '. ,..'" -.'--- MORE VEHICLES Oregon motor vehicle registra tions are running approximately six per cent higher than a year ago, officials of the State Motor Vehicle Department said Friday. The registrations represent both new and used cars. ' Talbott. himself said that "wasn't : -, -. ..''..- ' " ' ' ; ' ' ' Convict Flees Work Detail; Soon Captured - M. ' An Oregon State Prison inmate Friday afternoon fled a Cottage Farm cherry-picking detail but was caught a few hours later in downtown Aumsville after blood hounds twice sniffed along his trail to points where he got rides. The prisoner is Millard Raymond Williams, 19, serving a 30-month sentence for larceny. Sentenced from Deschutes County, Williams would have been eligible for pa role in four months, Warden Clar ence T. Gladden said. Prison Lieutenant Hoyt Cupp said Williams was caught about 9:45 p.m. by a prison guard posted in Aumsville as he came into town along the side of the road. State police Sgt Wayne G. Huff man said Norman Wilson's forest service hounds first sniffed con- vict Williams to the city dump where k was presumed he caught a ride on an outbound truck. Taken to the Sanitary Service Company's truck left near the ball park, the bounds picked up the trail again and led state policemen east on Lower Turner road. Oregon Traffic Sets New Record Travel on Oregon highways' in June set an all-time record of 645 million miles, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry said Fri day. The mileage is based on the fact that 56,392,767 gallons of gasoline were purchased during the month. That is five million more than sales in June, 1954. BALANCE REPPRTED PORTLAND UP The State Welfare Commission ended the 1953-55 fiscal period with a balance of $305,887, Mrs. Loa Howard Ma son, welfare administrator, re ported Friday. NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Salem J. Tri-City S. At Wena tehee U. Lewiston I . At Spokane 20, Yakima 8. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At Hollywood S, San Franciaco S. At Seattle t. Sacramento 3. At Oakland X Lo Angeles X. Only fames scheduled.. NATIONAL LEAGUE At St. Louis 4. Brooklyn S. At Milwaukee S. New York 2. At Chicago 4. Philadelphia 6. At Cincinnati 18, Pittsburgh 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE At New York 3. Kansas City 2. At Washington 1, Chicago . At Baltimore 1. Cleveland 7. At Boston 5. Detroit 0. Hopes Die for Fast Congress Adjournment "WASHINGTON W Any chance of Congress completing its work Saturday and adjourning for the year disappeared Friday night with an announcement by Majority Leader McCormack (D-Mass) that the House will meet Monday. j Legislation will be considered that day, McCormack told the house. The drive for a weekend adjourn- Ee lip hmi apparently was stalled by passage Friday of a pub lic housing bill which eliminates all the low rent home construction requested by the Eisenhower ad ministration. Since the Senate has voted for 135,000 new housing units annual ly for the next four years, a com promise now has to be worked out by the two chambers. There is gen eral agreement that some sort of a housing bill must be passed be fore Congress quits. The House will meet earlier than usual Saturday for a rare Satur day session in which it will dis pose of odds and ends of legisla tion. Clear Lake School Bond Issue, Voted Utetmaa Newt Service CLEAR LAKE Voters Friday approved 44 to 31 to issue $25,000 in bonds to build two additional rooms onto Clear Lake School. Board Member Clifford Orey said bids on construction would be call ed immediately. - Clear Lake's board recently met with the Salem School board on consolidating the smaller district into the Salem system. The school, which serves egiht grades, is about 2tt miles north of Keizer. The district which has a teacher apiece in its three school rooms, recently hired a fourth teacher. Legal Battle With Thornton May Cost Three State Liquor Officials Oregon's three Liquor Controll Commissioners may have to pay their own expenses in a legal bat tle with Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton over his efforts to in spect evidence collected late last year on commission employes ac cused of accepting money and gifts. A Salem attorney, George Knot- en, has been retained to represent the commission members, Lester Ireland, J. H. Sroufe and Lowell Seaton. A return will be male Monday in Marion County Circuit Court on Thornton's petition for an alternative writ of mandamus. Thornton said Friday he would not authorize a representative of his office to act as commission at torney in the legal proceedings because the commission had "de clined to perform a duty required of it by the law." Reds Promise; Part Pay for Downed Plane JERUSALEM W Communist Bulgaria has promised partial pay ment, at least, for the Israeli air- fner its gunners shot down Wednes day, a Foreign Office spokesman said Friday. The plane, which carried 12 Americans and 46 other persons to a flaming death on Red soil, was a Lockheed-built Constellation val ued at about a million dollars. What Bulgaria intends to do about compensation for the lives lost was not expressly stated. ' The Foreign Office spokesman said a note handed Israeli Charge d'Affaires Baurch Nir in Sofia Thursday and received here Fri day declared the Bulgarian gov ernment's "readiness to take .ipon itself the respective part of the material damage which has been caused, after it is duly estab lished." -Blame Shared part" suggested Bulgaria might' fllt,lZtn contend the El Al IsTael Akhesli.egoI!,entcaQ-andprob- crew, in crossing the frontier, shared blame with the Red anti aircraft gunners for what the Bul garians called "this deplorable ac cident' The, airline, owned in part by the Israeli government, Friday challenged Sofia's story that the plane was off course for 100 miles over Bulgarian territory, but an nounced a diversion of flights to avoid the Bulgarian frontier. Bulgaria's note to Israel again expressed regret. Ban Removed Further, a telegram from the Israeli, legation in Sofia - Friday night indicated a relaxation in the ban against an Israeli commisson that wants to conduct an nvestiga tion at the crash scene independ ent of the Bulgarian, inquiry. f Three of the six members of the commission will be admitted from Greece's frontier post at Koula at 9 a. m. Saturday, the teleeram said. The Bulgarians already have permitted Charge d'Affaires Nir to visit the site of the disaster. Advices from Athens said the Israeli commission went to the Greek border stronghpld of Istim bey Friday and inspected the charred plane wreckage through binoculars." Pony Express Fudging9 Say Rail Officials ROSEBURG, Ore. m Here it is a whole day before the pony express races a train from Eugene to Roseburg, and already the horsemen have gained eight miles. They did it by mapping out a route that cut the horse-distance between the cities to 67 miles. The rail route is 75 miles. Southern Pacific officials were indignant over this move by the men who assert rail service is so slow that even horses are faster. "That's not fair," said Vernal S. Quayle, Southern Pacific pas senger agent at Portland. "To be fair, the horses ought to run the same route, make the same stops and pick up and deliver express and maiL" Dr. V. J .Anderson of the Rose burg Chamber of Commerce chuckled and said, "That's all right with us, if the Southern Pa cific wQl change train crews every mile." That's what the pony express has in mind to change horses and riders about every mile as they carry a Jetrer from Eugene to Roseburg. The race is expected to start about midnight and end about 3 a.m. Sunday at Roseburg. Likewise, h approve empl he said be could not I ovine a private at torney at public -expense for the commission members. Thornton, who filed the petition earlier this month, maintains that the Commission has refused to let him see material gathered in an investigation of personnel accused of accepting money and gifts from distilleries and liquor license ap plicants. The evidence in question was gathered by Robert F. McGuire and Howard L Bobbitt, both Port land, who also were named as de fendants. - . The Attorney General stated in the petition that one reason for taking it to court was to obtain a court ruling on "whether a de partment of the state can refuse to permit the attorney general to inspect evidence obtained at pub lic expense." Bridges Freed in Deportation Trial SAN FRANCISCO (yP) Harry Bridges was cleared Friday of a government charge that when he obtained United States citizenship in 1945 he committed fraud by swearing he wasn't a Communist. Federal District Judge Louis E. Goodman who heard the civil action without a jury, handed down his verdict in a jammed court room. The black - robed judge com mented that the government had to meet "an exacting standard" to cancel Bridges' citizenship "after 10 years of presumptively good and proper citizenship." Missed Standard He said the government "did not meet this standard by the kind of witnesses it produced. Particular ly is this so, after abortive efforts to prove the same issue in different proceedings and after the passage of many years." The government had three times before tried to imprison Bridges cr deport him to Australia, where he was born. Bridges, who is head of the In ternational Longshoremens and Warehousemens Union, celebrated his 54th birthday Thursday. He was ably will appeal. Judge Critical Judge Goodman was sharply cri tical of some witnesses for the gov ernment and for the' defense. He said Bridges, himself, "was not a good witness. . . He made mis statements and was at times eva sive. . . His denial of party mem bership and avowal of loyalty to the United States were, however. articulate and emphatic". Bus Driver Stalls Bandit In Holdup Try LOS ANGELES UP The bus driver on a Los Angeles - to - San Francisco run outwitted a would- be gunman Friday and turned him over to the sheriff in Bakersfield. Virgil E. Hull, 28, of Norwalk, Calif., recounted Friday night the details of the bizarre holdup at tempt which began as Hull headed his bus, with 23 passengers, down the steep Grapevine Grade on Highway 99 early Friday morning. A man officers identified as Per cy J. Hatch, 54, of Morton, Miss., walked to the driver's seat, placed a .38 caliber pistol against Hull's face and said: "This is a holdup." "It's a nice, morning for a hold up, but go back and sit down," Hull answered. The driver thought the incident was closed, but a few minutes later the man was back again. "Look, mister, this is for real," Hull quoted him. "Turn on all the lights in the bus and pull it off the road to a stop. Hull answered that it was too dangerous to pull off the road on such a steep grade. "I figured he planned to rob the passengers as well as me, so I started stalling for time by telling him the Highway Patrol would get suspicious and check the bus if I stopped," he said. "The fellow ordered me to drive on until-he thought it was safe to stop, and he finally demanded that I pull the buss off the road at Greenfield Corners, 25 miles south of Bakersfield." Hull complied but swung out of his seat at the same time, wrestled on the floor with Hatch. The gun was discharged but the shot did not hit anyone. Hull finally sub dued Hatch and three passengers helped hold him down until the bus arrived in Bakersfield. where he was turned over to officers. Hatch was booked in Bakersfield 'on suspicion of attempted holdup. The issue will come before Cir cuit Judge George R. Duncan Mon day at 2 p.m. Today's Statesman Sec Pag. ... 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Then, within minutes after they had cleared customs with their scanty possessions, the United States Army arrested them and took them in the back end of a truck to the stockade at Ft. Baker, across the Golden Gate from San Francisco. Charges against the turncoats could lead to a possible death sen tence for each. They knew it Al though obviously shaken, none ut tered a word of protest when Cant Walter R. Leahy of the 6th Army provost marshal's office, formally reaa on the charges. . Bell and Griggs had perhaps the most damning charge read against them "Soliciting a general officer of the United States Army to de sert. All three were charged with betraying their fellow prisoners. Boys Enact Video Show; Results Fatal CHEHALIS UP Three boys watching a television program de cided to re-enact the scenes Fri day and their results were fatal for one. Lewis County Pros. Atty. John Panesko said Richard Swayze, 11, his brother; Dale, 12, and Leslie Surface, 8, were watching the pro gram at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Swayze, six miles south of here. The parents were absent Pan esko said, and Dale Swayze got out his father's small-bore rifle. Aim ing from the hip at his brother, he pulled the trigger and a shot struck Richard just above the heart, kill ing him outright. Dale and the Surface boy ran to neighbors who called a doctor. The parents returned home a short while later. Heat Kills 15 In Midwest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Summer kept its burners roar ing in the midcontinent Friday. causing at least IS heat deaths and threatennng damage to the lush corn crop. j Most of the area has sweltered in the glaring sun and a 90 to 100 de gree plus heat range for more than a week. No immediate relief, ex cept for possible scattered thunder storms, was in sight. Sahna, Kan., had a sizzling 103 Friday: Topeka, Kan., 100: Kansas City. 99, and Oklahoma City, 96. Chicago which has had an all time July record of 17 days of 90 or higher so far, reported five deaths from the beat Four other heat deaths were reported in downstate Dlinois. Missouri counted five heat deaths, four in St. Louis. Nebraska had one such death. WINS NATIONAL POST MILWAUKEE. Wis. UP Ray Smith, chairman of the Oregon State Tax Commission, Friday was named grand conductor of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at the organization's national convention here. The Weather Max. Min. Preelp. Salem 71 52 Portland 70 87 .02 Baker 84 40 .00 Medford 91 49 .00 North Bend 68 51 .00 San Francisco 75 52 .00 Chicago 76 00 New York it M trace Los Angeles (1 60 .00 Willamette Elver -1.7 feet Space Globes Expected by End of 1958 WASHINGTON UP President Eisenhower disclosed Friday that the United States plans to launch history's first man-made, earth circling satellites by the end of 1958. - Still not perfected, the satellites are envisaged by government sci entists as small globes, about the size of basketballs. They would be launched by rockets and circle -the earth once every 90 minutes at a speed of 18,000 miles per hour and a height of 200 to 300 miles. - - TVtAv fin ATTwptM in remain aloft for days and perhaps weeks, then spiral back down and disin tegrate as they hit heavier atmos phere. Scientific Purpose In announcing that President Eisenhower has approved the sat ellite project Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty em phasized that it is for "entirely scientific purposes. Scientists of all nations, includ ing Russia, he said, will be able . to observe the space objects and will receive all the scientific facts developed from the program. Some members of Congress im mediately objected to cutting Rus sia in on grounds it might provide the Soviets with valuable informa tion for the race to develop inter continental guided missiles. Tantastic Some applauded the project. Oth ers called it fantastic and said it challenges the imagination. I The satellites won t be in the nature of much-discussed space platforms that might be used for both scientific and military purpos es. But they are expected to pro vide information of practical val ue to mankind information, for example, that might lead to im proved weather forecasting and im proved radio transmission. Scientists taking part in the pro gram said that little is known about the regions beyond the earth's close-down, denser atmospheric layers, which act as a partial shield against light ultra-violet rays and cosmic rays from outer space, as well as meteorites. Supply Facts The big experiment may supply facts that will be helpful eventual ly in turning into reality the space travel yarns of science fiction. The sponsors of the project the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences, said in a joint statement that ob servations of the satellites will "in dicate the conditions that would have to be met and the difficulties that would have to be overcome if the day comes when man goes beyond the earth's atmosphere in his travels." The satellite program is planned as part of this country's participa tion in the International Geophysi cal Year, from July, 1957 to De cember, 1958. Some 40 other na tions, Russia among them, also will take part then in world-wide studies of the earth sciences. Details Unknowi What the satellites will look like. what they will be made of, wheth er they, can carry instruments, where they will be launched those are some of the details government scientists said must be worked out in the months ahead. Even the cost of the program is uncertain. Dr. Alan T. Waterman, director of the National Science Foundation, told reporters the "pre liminary, rough estimate is some thing on the order of 10 million dollars." Waterman said exploratory work height of 250 miles, supports the confidence that satellites not ret fully blueprinted can be launched by the end of 1958. 18.000. MPH Unlike rockets, which go straight up and come straight down, the sa tellites would be pushed to the necessary height by rockets, then would require a side thrust to get them up to 18,000 miles an hour and start them on their orbit around the earth. That speed is considered neces sary to offset the pull of gravity from the earth. Too much speed," something on the order of 25,000 miles' per hour, would keep them going into space. Because of low resistance in the rarified upper atmosphere, noth ing as great as nuclear power is expected to te needed to supply the side thrust Reflect light Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, a m ... m memDer oi me u.a. committee icr the geophysical year, said' if a sa tellite is basketball size, "you could perhaps barely see it at twi light with the naked eye certainly you could see it with binoculars." Like the moon, it would reflect light from the sun. Spilhaus said a satellite may or may not carry instruments, but even if it can't a lot of valuable A-usa itiauvu s such matters as density of the up per atmosphere.