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Thornton, GFTP son KUNDBD 1651 105 th Year 2 SECTIONS-24 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, SaUm, Oregon, Wednesday, August 24, 1955 PRICE 5c No. 150 Patter Youngstown, Ohio is famous as i steel manufacturing center. It lies in the Mahoning Valley, midway between Cleveland and Pittsburgh, in a complex of heavy industry. One of its old churches is St. John's Episcopal church, "reputedly weathly and conservative," but it has recent ly dedicated 12 clerestory win dows which depict in stained glass, not the commonly portray ed Biblical scenes, but the story of the working life of the com munity. The inspiration for the themes may have come from, the rector, the Rev. John Harris Burt, him- he If a former textile union mem-4 ber. ror the dedication of the, windows the Rev. Mr. Burt wrote: The 10 clerestory windows dedicated today are fashioned in the great medieval tradition of stained glass which frequently depicted in religious dimension the daily task of the tradesman and the artisan. Because steel has built this Youngstown region, the vestry felt that God's concern for Man in the job of making . steel would be a most appropri ate theme for our contemporary , expression of this old tradition." , Included in the series are 1 ' strip steel mill worker, shovel! operator in ore pits, coal miner,, riveter, engineer, maritime em ploye on ore boat and a collec tive bargaining scene. (This last may have made some of the old er members of the congregation! cringe). Each window carries a1 quotation from the Bible, the (Continued on Editorial Page) Voters Elect New Governor JACKSON. Miss. (J) Missis sippi voters elected Atty. Gen. J. P. Coleman their new governor Tuesday. He held, a 40.000 vote lead with most of the precincts reporting in the Democratic run-off , primary election. " ' The unofficial total just before midnight, with 1.583 of 1.850 pre cincts reporting, gave Coleman 173.750 votes. Atty. Paul Johnson of Hattiesburg had 133.767. The farm boy who worked his way through college , and up the judicial ladder grabbed the lead when the first scattered, votes came in. ; . The top-heavy rote gave him victory in his first statewide race. . It was the fourth statewide de feat for the. 39-year-old Johnson, son of - a "former Mississippi gov ernor.. This was his third bid for the governorship. He ran once for the. U.S. Senate. The run-off Democratic primary election makes Coleman the Demo crat's nominee for governor and In Democratic Mississippi, that means election. Republicans sel dom run for state offices and none has said he will oppose Coleman. Both candidates staged : bitter campaigns but agreed on one thing: Negroes must be kept out of white schools. Vote Approves Hospital Work At Newberg . Itatetmaa Nwi Service NEWBERG Citizens of New berg have voted to complete the hospital they started .five .years ago. ' . Complete returns showed Tues day that a $160,000 bond issue for completion of the hospital was ap proved by 709 to 234. The total vote was considered unusually large for Newberg, a city of approximately 4,000 per sons. The Newberg Community Hos pital building has stood partially finished since original financing plans bogged down. Salem-Mill City. . Road Work Bids Begin Next Month The State Highway Commission, at its September meeting, will ask bids for grading , nine miles of highway between Salem and Mill City. State Highway Engineer .R. H. Baldock said Tuesday. It eventually is expected to com plete this new. highway between Mill City and Four Corners, a few ' rules east of Salem. To complete the project,- Baldock said, will re quire additional funds. The stretch of roadway on which I grading bids will be sought: ex tends from the Gun Club near Sublimity to the junction of me new Mehama-Mill City highway. Animal crackers V WAMRIN OODRICM . lf y leave me. Wilfred.' commit tewkMe: m Mississippi Oregon City Honors Trucker From Salem Whose Ride to Death Spared Bystanders I I-. .' '' 'fl J 1 .."'I 7 1 W .t'...u. . . .... 1'. , m '1,' J ' . 1 , . "1 : yumwu'V" ill J I Injured U.S. Flier Returned By Red China ' KUMHWA Korea V The Communists ; returned an . injured U.S. Air Force pilot and his' com rade's body '. Tuesday, ' then shook hands with the Americans on this battlefield of bitter memory. The air of courtesy - contrasted strangely with the angry exchange which preceded the delivery of LL Guy H. Bumpass. Jackson. Miss., and the body of Capt. Charles . w. Brown, West Louisville. Ky. The Communists had asserted Bumpas was "reconnoitering" over North Korea when his light plane was shot down by Red guns Aug. 17. The . U.N. command angrily charged , that "trigger-happy" Reds shot down the plane over the neutral zone.' The Reds said Brown was killed in the crash. Was Questioned Before he crossed a tiny bridge to the Allied side. Bumpass was questioned by Lt. Col. Jung Thu Ko, who was trying to establish that the injured pilot was well treated. i "I was treated fairly wen," the listening Americans . heard Bum pass say, and when pressed furth er: "The treatment considering the circumstances was all right . ,as far. as I know I'm no doc torI seem to be getting along all right- I ' Eye Bandaged ' Bumpass, reported suffering from a concussion or fracture, had his head and right eye swatched in handages. , " . ' T "Our side is hoping your wound gets well," Jung said, i i " ' . i - ' ' ' Salem Tot Drinks Glassf ul of Bleach A 17-month-old Salem tot appar ently escaped any harmful effects Tuesday after swallowing a glass ful of bleach at his home, first aid men reported.) : ' Little Timothy Klinefelter, 532 N. High St.. was rushed to Salem Me morial Hospital after the 2:10 p.m. incident. His stomach was pumped out and he was later released, at tendants said. i. 9 Airmen, Civilians Die as C119 Hits Carolina Homes fHARLESTON. S.C. I AIC119 before it fell into the Liberty huee Air Force transport plane. " - - . . .. . i i orinnlml bv en ei ne trouble, crashed m flames into three small frame houses near .the uiarieston Air Force base before dawn Tuesday, exploded and killed at least. nine airmen and civilians. Fire spread in every direction and lit the sky for miles about Heat held back would-be rescuers. None of the victims -were irom tne Pacific Northwest.. ' . Five of ' the 11-member crew .-- traDDed and died in the C119 dying Boxcar which first hit a tree and broke into chunks of flam ing wreckage. ; The six surviving airmen and four civilians i were nospiwuzea. None was believed hurt critically. rh nlane burst into flame short ly after it' and a sister ship took oft on a routine mgni.uignu n. North Charleston fireman said he saw two flashes from the stricken I Robert J. Short (phote at left), Saturday in the crash of his logging truck at Oregon City, was buried here Tuesday afternoon with honors from grateful Oregon City residents and officials. An Oregon City National Guard honor unit tired a salute over the grave and stood guard, during funeral services (above) for the young truck driver wbe guided his heavily-loaded vehicle through downtown Oregon City after the brakes failed. (Statesmaa photo.) Short Given Hero's Funeral in Salem; Memorial Fund Begun Oregon City, with an assist frojn Salem, gave Robert Junior Short. 28-year-old log truck driver, a hero's funeral in Salem Tuesday. Short was killed Saturday in Oregon City because he stayed with his heavy runaway log truck as it barreled through busy downtown streets. Throughout the wild drive he sounded his 15 Killed in Argentina , Train Crash BUENOS AIRES. Argentina W A fast electric train carrying schoolchildren arid commuters. flashing out of a dense foe. crashed into the rear of a halted local train at a suburban station Tues day.. The Transport Ministry said 13 persons were killed and 33, in jured. However, observers at the scene feared the toll might reach 30 dead and nearly 100 hurt. Many of those injured were reported in grave condition. Identifications of all victims was not completed, but no Americans or other foreigners have been reported killed or hurt. The express struck the second train with a crash heard for blocks at Ciudadela, 10 miles from down town Buenos, Aires. The local had stopped to take on passengers. Too Smart for His Own Good A city police officer had good reason to life his eyebrows early Tuesday morning while arresting a man on a vagrancy charge. Asked why he was wandering about the streets at that hour, the man replied that he couldn't get a hotel room b e ca u s e "my brain waves kept everybody awake." The Weather Max. Mia. Preeip. Salem Portland 7J 47 - 71 52 .00 87 38 .00 81 51 .00 5 47 , .00 66 50 .00 75 61 .00 79 66 .00 86 11 trace Baker Med ford North Bend San Francisco Los Angelec Chicago New York Willamette River -2.9 feet. FORECAST Urom U. S. weather bureau. McNary field, Salem : Fair today, tonight and Thursday; high today 80-82, low tonight 43-45; high Thursday 82-84. Temperature at 121 a.m. today was 51. SALEM PRECIPITATION Sinre Start ( Weather Year Sept. 1 ThU Tear Lart Year Normal 2.91 45.34 39.66 Park community some 10 miles r .1 . r T 1 . irom uie center vi iianeaiun about 2 a.m Es telle Robinson, ran to the door of a restaurant as the plane sheared off tree tops in its descent. "My God." she cried, "It's my house." 1 Her husband, Charlie,, was found dead inside it. The plane was in the 436th Troop Carrier Wing of the 18th Air Force. The Air Force said the crew members killed were: Capt. Robet L. McNeal, Wind ber. Pa., pilot; 1st Lt Francis L. McShane, North Charleston, S.C; 2nd Lt. James John Maher. Wilkes- Barre, Pa.; Airman -3.C. Keith Halls, Smoot. Wyo.; and Airman S C. John W. Glahn, Cincinnati, Ohio. The ' civilian dead included, in addition to Charlie Robinson, Sam Gibbs and 'his wife. Ella, and Elizabeth McCaH. 28 - year - old resident of 4230 Auburn Rd who died a hero's death truck horn and shouted pedes trians to safety. - The truck slammed into the concrete facing 'of the Oregon City pedestrian elevator. Short leaped from the cab just before the impact but was crushed un der the load of logs. A Robert Short Memorial Fund, to aid Short's young, hard pressed widow and three small children, was started by the Enterprise-Courier, Oregon City newspaper. By early Tuesday afternoon, a grateful citizenry had donated "services and cash totalling an estimated $1,000 in value. Con tributing funeral services were the City View Cemetery and Howell-Edwards Mortuary, "both of Salemfand the Hillside Chapel mortuary in Oregon City. Cash Donations "The cash came in small dona tions of SI to $15 from people on the streets here," said an Enterprise-Courier staffer. "Several hundred dollars are still to be picked up. Some businessmen and merchants also contributed." Members of the family said Short had been unemployed all last winter while living in Salem. He had only recently opened up a loggi.g operation on land own ed by his mother, near Yamhill. He was residing there at the time of his death, while his family lived in Salem. The load of logs he was haul- mg to an Oregon City mill Satur day was his second pay-load. Mrs. Short has been employed as an attendant at the Oregon State Hospital. Officials Attend A contingent of 'Oregon Citv and Clackamas County officials attended the Short funeral here Tuesday. An honor guard of Oregon City National Guardsmen was present. In attendance were members of the Clackamas County Court and sheriff's office. Oregon City and West Linn police and Oregon City Chamber of Commerce. Among those present was Clackamas County Commissioner Darrel Jones, who followed Short's careening truck on the wild, fatal drive. The truck's brakes apparently failed just as it was crossing the Willamette River bridge leading into Oregon City. Blasts Out Signal As the plunging truck gathered speed, Short, rode the running board blasting out a steady warn ing signal on the horn and shout ing to scatter traffic from his path. The truck ran through a crowd ed intersection and sped on a full block to the elevator at -the edge of a rocky clift Children were leaving the elevator as the speeding truck neared it and Short turned into the concrete wait" Survivors include the widow, Wanda,. 22, of 4230 Auburn Rd. in Salem; children, Richard, 4; Linda, 3, and David, 2; father, Lawrence Short of Grand Ronde; mother Mrs. Marguerite Hind man, Yamhill, and a sister and two brothers in Yamhill. Short served in the Army in the Philippines during World War 1L STRIKE VOTED CO EUR D'ALENE, Idaho UrV- Members of the International Un ion of Mine," Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind.) voted Tuesday night to strike the 20 properties of the "16 operators . in the rich Coeur d'Alene mining district. NixonPlans Africa Visit In November WASHINGTON UB Vice Presi dent Nixon and his blonde wife will make a good will tour of the Near East and Africa this fall, pr ably in November. The White House announced the trip Tuesday and said it was being made at President Eisenhower's request to improve American rela tions with countries of the area Although "Africa" was included in the scope of the tour, there was no mention of any visits to Al geria or the Protectorate of Mor- rocco, where the French are en gaged in putting down insurrec tions. It is understood the tour will skirt such troubled territory and include only independent countries of the region. . The Nixons have teamed up twice before as good will ambassadors with results that pleased the Presi dent. They made a 45,000-mile trip around the . world in 1953 and a swing through the Caribbean earli er this year.' Picnic Days To Continue Picnics and other outdoor ven tures of Salem area folk should get full cooperation from the weather at least through Thursday, accord ing to the forecast from the weath er bureau at McNary Field. The prediction is for fair condi tions today and Thursday with maximum temperature readings of 80 or slightly above. The Tuesday mgn was 77. Today's forecast for the beaches is fog and low clouds this morning end sunniness in the afternoon. with a high of around 65. North west winds will range from 10 to 20 miles an hour.- Pacific Ocean Quake Strikes PORTLAND m An earth quake, believed centered in the Pacific Ocean somewhere off the Oregon- Coast, jiggled seismo graphs in the West Tuesday. H. R. Vinyard, Oregon State College seismologist, said the quake was "quite a good shock." He estimated its magnitude at 5 to 7 on the Richter scale of 10. He added the quake would have been easily felt had it centered in a populated area. 2 British Jet In London With Lunch in By SEYMOUR TOPPING LONDON tfl 'Two nonchalant British airmen breakfasted, in Lon don Tuesday morning, nipped over to New York for lunch and flew back home to dine with their wives Tuesday nighL ' They did it by Canberra jet bomber and the whole thing took just 'over 14 hours. Pilot John Hackett and navigat or Peter Moneypenny averaged 481.52 miles an hour on their trans Atlantic shuttle, and that included 35 minutes for a lunch of scrambled eggs at New York's Floyd Bennett airfield. As they climbed out of their sleek twin-jet at the London Air port they-were nearly mobbed by hundreds of cheering men and wo men who broke through a police cordon. Ike Calls ForFlood Area Aid Hints at Extra Congress Session To Solve Crisis By JAMES DEVLIN HARTFORD, Conn. UP Presi dent Eisenhower, grimly eyed much of the Northeast's flood wreckage from the air Tuesday and then voiced an emphatic pledge that ev erything possible will be done to ease the distress. , If necessary, he said, he will summon Congress back to Wash ington for a special session. Meantime he urged the rest of the country to make quick and generous contributions to the Red Cross. Will Sleep Better In my opinion," the President said in a broadcast to the Ameri can people, "everybody within the sound of my voice will sleep bet ter tonight if he turns in every- ming that he can spare to meet this great disaster. r - nea tross money, ne said, goes to people who are in need, to hu man beings, not just to cleaning roads and rebuilding schools but to people that are hungry, or cold or have no place to go." . Eisenhower also expressed de termination to see whether any thing ran be done toward prevent ing such flood havoc in the future, and to explore possibilities for greater industrial insurance. Efforts Planned As for workers thrown out of jobs, he said efforts will be made to "employ these people usefully." In Washington, Red Cross offi cials estimated they will need more than five million dollars for relief of the flood-stricken areas. Robert F. Shea, vice president in charge of operations, said less than two million dollars, is left in this year's disaster fund after al location of two million dollars to the Northeastern flood relief pro gram, i As shocked and stunned as any other American citizen by the great tragedy, in which 180 per sons lost their lives and property losses reached billions, the Presi dent interrupted a Colorado vaca tion to make his first-hand inspec tion. (Additional details on page 12, sec. l) i Bank Bandits At Umatilla Still Missing L'MATILLA. Ore. UP Law en forcement agencies Tuesday re ported no important developments in the widespread search for two or possibly three, bandits who robbed the Bank of Umatilla of $60,000 Monday. The bank was re-opened and its president, Roger Bounds, called back from a vacation in California, said. "They didn't get all the cash on hand although they probably thought they did." Two gunmen walked into the bank at noon and forced three women employes, who were alone, into a vault. Then, after locking them in, they took the currency from the vault and tills. Police believe they may have fled in a car driven by a third man. The women gave good descrip tions of the iwo gunmen and police of several states and the FBI are looking for them. mmm NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Eugene 3. Salem 1 At Wenatchee 9, Spokane 3 At Yakima 12. Lewiston 1 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At Sacramento 3, Los Angeles 4 At Hollywood 0. Portland 2 At San Francisco 4-3. Seattle S-2 At San Diego 3, Oakland 5 AMERICAN LEAGUE At Chicago 6-3. Baltimore 2-10 At Detroit 7, New York 2 At Cleveland 3. Boston 8 At Kansas City 4. Washington 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE At Brooklyn . Chicago 4 At New York 1. St. Louis 2 At Philadelphia 4. Milwaukee 3 At Pittsburgh 1. Cincinnati 1 Fliers Eat Breakfast, Dinner "A routine' flight." reported Hackett to waiting officials. Both Hackett and Moneypenny, who work for a civilian airline fer rying cars across the Channel, looked fresh and happy and were full of smiles, j On the flight to New. York, the Canberra bucked 40 mile-an-hour head winds to cover the 3,457 miles in 7 hours 29 minutes and 56.7 sec onds. Th . average speed was 461.12 miles an hour, j With tail winds, coming back. she covered the same distance in 6 hours, 16 minutes 59.5 seconds. The English Electric Company, maker of the Canberra, announced it would ask official recognition of three records for the transatlantic shuttle westward and eastward crossings and round trip. Official records for these runs have not . -.. I To nn 1 Multnomah Grand Jury Session Thursday to Probe Liquor Board Gov. Paul Patterson and Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thorntonare sched uled to appear Thursday before a Multnomah County grand jury which is investigating the Oregor Liquor Control Commission, the Associated Press reported Tuesday night from Portland. Dist. Atty. William M. Langley Thornton's contention that Gov. Patterson was withholding "secret evi dence which was developed in an investigation of charges of bribery of commission employes. Gov. Pat terson has denied there is any such evidence. Gov. Patterson conferred at the Capitol Tuesday with a representa tive of the Multnomah County dis trict attorney but he had not been officially informed he was to ap pear Thursday, he said Tuesday night. Other Commitments If the Portland report is accurate. he said, a grand jury appearance will "take precedence over other commitments" for Thursday. He already is scheduled to attend a deaicatory lunch at a forest south west of Dallas at noon and to de dicate an armory at Pendleton that night. Meanwhile, a new maneuver in the lawsuit over the liquor contro versy was taken in Marion County Circuit Court by the attorney gen eral when he filed an amended pe tition demanding he be given all records of the investigation con ducted for the governor by two Portland attorneys, Howard Bob bin and Robert Maguire. The filing means a new hearing will be given the case by Circuit Judge George R. Duncan who rul ed last week that Thornton's man damus action wasn't the proper way to force an investigation. More Definite' i The amended petition filed Tues day, Thornton said, makes. more definite and certain some of the allegations in the original mandam us request. He charges the commis sion is obstructing his investigation and alleges the documents he seeks have been at all times in posses sion of the commission or the men who conducted the investigation. Thornton said Tuesday night he had not been informed he was scheduled to appear Thursday be fore the Multnomah grand jury but added. "If I am subpoenaed, I will naturally appear." Maguire also has been asked to appear before the grand jury. Town Repairs After Jaunt By Elephant TTFWFWirff Wash im Manv East Side home owners -here were!0" condition. t,,,o rv.oL-;nT renain nn their fences and lawns, damaged during a tour of the area Monday . I night by an elephant. The elephant apparently got urea of staying in his circus tent and decided to look the people of this town over.. He broke his chains, stomped out of the animal tent and "visited"' the residential area until he was .nmoraH hv ahnnt i.w pmnlnvps nf the Rinelinu Bros.. Barnum & Bail - ey Circus. He went back to his tent meekly. State Prison Inmate Flees A 25-year-old State Prison inmate escaped Tuesday morning while with a work gang in the St. Paul area. Warden Clarence Gladden re ported. Listed as missing was Richard E. Stidel, serving a three-year sen tence from Douglas County after being convictet of obtaining money b false pretenses. The inmate reportedly escaped about 10 a.m. while working with thr gang at the Williams and Hart farm, some six miles south of St. Paul. A search was conducted in thr area throughout Tuesday, night. Stfdel is described as 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing about 150 pounds. Shortly after the report of the escape, a citizen caused momen tary excitement at city police headquarters when he told of see ing a man walking a downtown street with faded State Prisonnu merals on his back. Investigation indicated it was not the escapee. New York City been entered previously. Although a round trip over the Atlantic in a single day was made in 1952, it was over a different route from Northern Ireland to Gander, Newfoundland and back 2.766 miles shorter than the Lon don-New York course. Hackett. 32, told an airport news conference: We expected it to go right and ; it did go right." Moneypenny, 31. said smilingly: "I don't think there was a tough time in it, thanks to the coopera tion we got from both sides. ' Hackett and Moneypenny to gether hold 15 unofficial Canberra records The plane they used is a photo reconnaissance version of the twin jet -Canberra bomber used by the Royal Air Force. tify es started the probe as a result of Living Costs To 1955 Peak WASHINGTON OT) Livin? costs edged up in July for the second consecutive month to the highest point in 1955. The index announced by the Labor Department Tuesdav showed a rise of three-tenths of one per cent in July, the largest increase since May,. 1954. A department spokesman noted the increases this year were mod est and said there still was sub stantial stability. Living costs rose two-tenths of one per cent in June. the first rise since Novemlvr. 1954. Government officials had ore- dieted the slight July increase, mainly because of higher food costs expected. July statistics showed higher prices for most fresh fruits and for such items as men's haircuts ana none permanent wave retm kits, Costs of housing, household op eration and medical care reached new record levels. The increase meant a penny an hour pay raise for about 50,000 workers of the General Motors and Ford Motor Companies who have wage rates geared to the fluctu ations of the index. . The July index figure was 114.7 per cent of the 1947-49 average. It was five-tenths of one per cent be low July, 1954. Woman Saved In Dramatic River Rescue YAKIMA W - A Yakima wo man was rescued from the Naches River on the Chinook Pass high way Tuesday afternoon when two men dove into the water to null her! out of her submerged car. Mrs. C. F. Barrows, 63, was treated for shock at the Yakima ' Hospital but later was reported in ieie ncit. xaKima irucK driver. old State Patrolman Harlan Rit- ter ne saw Mrs. Barrows car plunge into the river over an em bankment near American River. He stopped his truck and waved down another car Howard Roberts and Ervine Del orme. both of Yakima, also stopped, peeled off their clothing, dove into the water and swam to i the sinking car. 1 Roberts reachedv in through an i0" front,. window and felt Mrs Barrows slip from his grasp. Then 'he grabbed again and managed to j pull her through the window. The two men climbed onto the Icar's top holding the unconscious victim until a boat was put into the water and Mrs. Barrows was taken ashore. - Girl Speller at $16?000 Mark NEW YORK UP Little Gloria Lockerman, a champion speller from Baltimore, piled up her tele vision quiz show winnings to $16. 000 Tuesday night by spelling off this entire sentence: "The belligerent astigmatic anthropologist annihilated innu merable chrysanthemums. William Healy, State Official, Hurt in Wreck Assistant Secretary of State Wil liam E. Healy and his wife are re cuperating at their home here to day from shock, bruises and cuts they incurred Sunday in an auto accident. Their car, driven by Mrs. Healy, skidded off the Sunset Highway 10 miles west of Banks, overturned and plunged down an embankment. The car was badly damaged. The Healys at the time were en route home to Salem from Astoria where Healy had headed a delega tion of the Salem Cberrians in a civic parade. Today's; Statesman Sec. 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