UsS. Agrees to ComMerGra&ualExifof GIs From: Japan (Story" in Column 4.) Two Heads Prove Better Than One in Contest NUNDI 1651 105th Yir 2 SECTIONS-20 PAGES t , The Oregon Slitesnun, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, September 1, 1955 PRICE 5c No. 158 I !-. " -'!- ? , U .. .v. T-.v. X -w W -rk X ! . J aK. yflf I : : . .I ! IT TV " ' ' - 'f I V r E - ' c 'I JLTcUllct Paroled Blazing Clothing Carried From City Firm 22 Freed; 7 Top . WarCriminals Remain in Prison WASHINGTON Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shige mitsu obtained a promise from the United States Wednesday to consider, "the progressive with drawal" of American ground forc es .from Japan as that country builds up its own military power. The agreement was announced in a joint statement with which Shigemitsu and Secretary of State Dulles wound up three days of conferences. . White the agreement -set na far-! 7w Beaded Giants" mixed up their sports a bit when they appeared at Salem Golf Course j Wed nes- get date , for withdrawal, which f m pij a round oi gun, mum ciurr iiic inuum itvuihu 9 uicwup isaj ivuicgiA - jv aiugeiuit.au icpuiieuijf wuutu uave water ky is Mrs. Frank NiehoDs and Mrs. John H. Johnson, and the golf player, Mrs. Owen liked, it was learned that Japanese- MUier and Mrs. James K. Phillips, i Additional pictures and story on page . lamtmin rww . , , , - ' i 4 ' ' By all odds the Ford Founda tion is fhe richest single, indepen dent, non-profit, agency in the country, It operates primarily by making grants to other bodies for specific projects. It did set up a new agency however, ;The Fund for the Republic which had . as jts special assignment the topicH ft ; mMrn inatim nf ' roetfipfi'niic freedom of thought, inquiry and expression in the United ; State;. The Ford Foundation gave the Fund for the' Republic $15,000,000 and cast it loose to hoe its own American consultations on a time schedule will open soon in Tokyo. Dulles and ' Shigemitsu also agreed, the communique said, that a formula should be established for "progressive reduction" over several years of Japan's financial contribution to the support of U.S. forces there. Sought Release of tM Dh11p alsn nrnmiuxl in Vpn "oin. DETROIT (JFh-A strike among Chrysler Corp.'s 139,000 em-lj-- -,;,,. arut amr ployes began early Thursday after negotiations failed to produce ination" Shigemitsu's plea to re a new contract agreement by a midnight strike deadline. - , . lease more 200 Jaoanese con- 139,000 En 1 1 Chrysler ployes Strike I Midnight shift workers at virtually all of Chrysler's fill plants in five states walked out! when they goMhe green light from CIO United Auto Workers officials in Detroit Workers at Chrysler's West Coast plant at Los j Angeles walked out at 10 p. m.l 'FDJ. . Negotiations were jrecessed shortly after midnight but were resumed at 1 a. m., ESTL Company and ,union sources in dicated that the new session might go on for hours.' One source said it might take as much as 24 to 48 hours to iron out all remaining issues,-even though general agree- Hcppner Jury . Labels Woman -- r - t - - As Murderess ment has been reached oh a lay. HEPPNER, Ore. CP A jury of i off pay plan of the FordGeneral Morrow County ranchers returned Motors Dattern. " ! road. It did one thing more: it.'a verdict of second-degree murdcri Contract. DiUv gave th Fund Robert M. Hutchnr?, 'against Mrs. Ann Whitney Aventi Both ides agreed lhat Ithe big lormer chancellor of the Umver , Wednesday. gest remaining question is the ef She was convicted of shooting I fective date of a new cohtracL" Dellmore Lessard.; Portland attor-, Emil Mazy, UAW secretary ney, in a Heppner cafe where she was employed. The jury deliber ated almost three " hours before Lannoiincing its verdict. Lessard had gone to the cafe to discuss custody of Mrs. Avent's aity " of Chicago, who had been erving as executive for the Foun dation, as president and active ex ecutive Jot the -Fund. (Some were . unkind enough to to say that this was the way of getting rid of Hutchins). President Hutchins has just- published the report of the treasurer, said the issues pf retro activity means . $12,000,000 to un ion members. j . Top negotiators for Chrysler and the CIO United Auto Workers re cessed their talks at a Detroit of victed by U.S. tribunals and held as war criminals. Less than an hour before the communique was issued, however, the State Department announced that 22 of the Japanese were being paroled from Sugamo Pris on in Tokyo.. They did not include any of the seven top Japanese war criminals sentenced by an inter allied, court. Total of 200,000 . Shigemitsu and his delegation laid before Dulles and an array of State and Defense Department officials a plan for building up Japan's -ground - tacts ' fo -some 200,000 men v Vi t , 2 The UJ5. estimate u. that .before Japan could be considered capable of full self-defense it should have 350,000 foot soldiers in uniform. U.S. forces in Japan have been substantially reduced since the end of the Korean War. There are now fewer than 100,000 ground troops there. -V 4av- ? ' .':.-, w - -i r 3 Mil Racks f burning laundry are shown in front of the Salem Laundry Co., 263 S.' High St, after fire gutted the firm Wednesday night. The fire burned or damaged hundreds of pounds of clothes and also damaged expensive equipment. Total loss was believed near $50,000. . , j;; : . Fund covering tJie penod since, it; The attorney represented the fi building but they were ex- uF iu nj i Woman ex-husband, Fred, who "VT . . . - ; . . , .. was one of the last witnesses 1 .g 'nt'rom tte before the case was given to the I HI N II I Hllfr 1 W II Mllll M 114 1 1 VKII X ' - it still has nearly $14 million of it? grant. (Sometimes it is harder to get rid of money than to 'accumu late it, so it seems), it has made 65 grants for specific projects, ranging from S1000 to $259,000 in size. The grants have gone to universities,- to associations like 'American! library Association. . Southern Regional (Continued on. editorial page '4.) jury. -The husband testified he .had accompanied Lessard here, -but was afraid to confront his former wife. Washington Killer Escapes WALLA WALLA Ul A 30-year-old murderer from King County escaped from a tomato picking crew of state penitentiary inmates Wednesday night-. The missing man was James entered the bank at the stroke of Keener, sent up from King County -n without a word being spoken, 11 years ago for first degree mur- .tw0 of them covered the bank fler- , staff and four customers with pis- Warden Lawrence Delmore JrJtols while lhe ,.,1 vauited a said Keener was working near the; counter and scooped money into Oregon-Washingto border, - south a shopping bag. One. of the gun f Walla Walla and north of Uma- mpn timpH the notation nrec'iselv Bank Bandits UseStopwatcli For Precision VANCOUVER, B.cT -W Bank robbers introduced a new weapon here Wednesday the stopwatch. Three smooth-working bandits used a stopwatch in: timing their movement in a $10,000 . holdup of a branch of the Bank of. Nova Scotia. , The trio, all wearing sunglasses. peeled to resume shortly; A source close to the negotiations . indicated the talks could continue for an other day or more. j ' Union officials announced firm ly: "The strike, is on." , Rally Song I j They followed their announce ment by singing their uhi6n rally ing song. "Solidarity Forever," in the bargaining room. j . Both company and union repre sentatives said they 'had Received reports of walkouts at Chrysler plants in Detroit and elsewhere shortly after midnight. pine. Ore. Commercial Polio Vaccine Supplv Du5 for Oregon with the stopwatch. NORTHWEST LEAGUE At Salem 4. Wenatcltee 3 At Tri-City 16. Eugene 1 At Lewiston 2. Yakima f PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At Portland 0-4. Seattle S-Z At Loi Angeles 8, Hollywood 1 ' . At Oakland 5, San Francisco 8 At San Diego 5-6. Sacramento 0-2 I AMERICAV LEAGUE f At Chicago 4 Boston 2 At Kansas Citr 6. New York 11 At Detroit 7. Washington 41 At Cleveland 5. Baltimore 1 - NATIONAL LEAGUE ! At Brooklyn , Milwaukee 13 ' At New York S, Cincinnati jO At Philadelphia 13. Chicago! 1 - At Pittsburgh 4. SL Iouiz 3i Salem Youth Accidentally Shot in Leg - An accidentally- discharged gun sent a 12-year-old Salem boy to the hospital Wednesday with a wound in his right thigh and heel. y Danny Philpott. who lives with his mother at 483 Ratcliffe Dr., was wounded while a companion, Robert Martell. 15. 480 Qtatcliffe Dr.. was checking to see if there were any shells in a. .22 rifle. The mishap occurred shortly aft er noort. according to Sheriff Den ver Young. The boys, he said, had been target practicing a short time earlier. Young Philpott was treated by city first-aidmen and taken to Sa lem General Hospital by Willam ette Ambulance Service. The hospital said his condition was "fair" Wednesday night. Israel Blasts Egyptian Base, Refuses Truce ' JERUSALEM (P)-- Israeli armor and troops smashed across Egyptian lines Wednesday night and blew up an Egyptian military headquarters at Khan' Yiinis, in the Gaza strip. The Israeli Army announced the thrust and the Israeli Foreign Office followed with a statement that the attack was a defense move against Egyptian "active warfare." ' f .dsrael. charged this fighting- naa Medal j Pension Goal of HeiVs Supporters fPicture on page 3, sec. 1.) Gov. Paul Patterson Wednesday gave his backing to an Oregon City citizens movement- to obtain a Carnegie Foundation award for the late Robert Short, truck; driver hero. ' Short stayed with his log truck until death rather than let it run wild through street crowds at Ore gon City last week. Grateful citizens of that city are now applying to' the national foun dation, on behalf of Short, for a heroism medal and awidow's pen sion in recognition of the deed. Gov. Patterson wrote a letter to the foundation recommending that proper consideration be. given Short's deed. He commended the sincerity of the Oregon City citi zens' effort and wrote" that all re ports he had. received indicated Short's action had saved lives in that city. The Oregon City delegation brought the' widow and three young children of Robert Short to visit the governor at the Capitol yesterday. LEAVES ROLE NEW YORK m Paul Muni has been forced out of the starring role of the Broadway hit show "Inherit The Wind" because of a detached retina of the left eye. - ... j Spotlight on State Library Open House Tonight made the 1949 Palestine armistice between Egypt and Israel "virtu ally inoperative." Khan Yunis is the first major Palestine railway station of the Gaza-Cairo railway. The Egyptian army camp at tacked is near the city, six miles north of the" border separating the Sinai peninsula from the . Gaza strip. It is - a little over a mile in the sand" dunes .'west' of the Israel-Gaza strip armistice demar cation boundary. ' The IsraeljForeign Office aid the Khan Ynnis raid had wiped out a base Egyptian terrorists were using -to operate against Is rael. Egypt announced Tuesday night it was ordering a cease-fire in the Gaza area in comDhance with U. Si. requests. Israel held fast to its stand that it would not join in the cease-fire unless Egypt accepted blame for' border incidents of the last 10 days. - , . State Forests In Two Years PORTLAND im The State Health ; Department- announced ' Wednesday that-' Oregon will recejve 41,283 cubic centimeters of ' Salk polio vaccine which will be distributed through commercial channels. , The allocation is more than - double the amount the state had . received in previous distributions, and is part of . the 3,348,000 cc. . being released nationally ny r.u Lilly & Co., after approval by the U.S. Public Health Service. VAN) MAL CRACKERS V WAMRKN OOOKICH I . : i i ' V: II Taresl firta fcreak kJa heart" Floodlighted Oregom Sra Ubrary shone the Capital Mall; Wednesday Bight, reminding citizens that today marks thei ry'i 50th aaBiversary. la special celebration, the library official have in vited the public to an ftn aonse inspection of the building tonight from 7:30 to 9:30. Among dis tinguished guest will b John S. Richards, Seattle, preside of America Library Association, Work to Start OnAna rtments Construction of an $82,000 two- story apartment building at 1961 Center St, was authorized Wednes day, by the city engineers office. Owner and builder will be J. Aj Kitzke, Salem. , '.'' S Kitzke said the apartment will have eight units, four on each floor. The structure wiU be of block and stone masonry and will be mainly Spanish in design. Exca vation work on the. project will be gin today, according to Kitzke. ,The project is located on a lot ' formerly occupied by the Chris Kowitz residence. ..''.,- Blood Drawings Planned in Salem Todays Tonight Two blood drawings in Salem today will give Salem area citizens a chance to-catch up with their community's vital w h,o 1 e blood needs. -1 American Red Cross will have its mobile equipment for blood donors at the downtown Armory from imon to 4 p.m. and at the 'Naval Marine . Armory on Airport Road from 7 to 9 p.m. Goal is 230 pints of blood thii month.. In the past two months. Marion County hospital patients required 437 pints of blood, but blood donations in tht period total ed only 241 pints. Kidnap Killing Of Negro Boy Said Lynching . GREENWOOD, Miss. Ufi The weighted body of a 14-year-old Negro boy, kidnaped three days ago because he made "ugly re marks" to a white woman, was pulled from the Tallahatchie River Wednesday. ; Emmitt Louis Till, Chicago boy visiting his uncle at nearby Money, 'died of a bullet wound above the right ear. Sheriff George Smith of Le Flore County said f two -white men, al ready charged with kidnaping, would be charged with murder. They are Roy Bryant, money store keeper, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam of Glendora. Sheriff Smith said Bryant admit ted taking the boy from his uncle's home but . said Till was released unharmed. ; . Till's mother, Mrs. Mamie Brad ley of Chicago, sobbed: : ' "Someone is going to pay for this.. The entire state of Missis-, sippi is going; to pay- for this. "I can't think; I Just can't think. I'm frozen. He didn't do anything to deserve that." - .Till was visiting his uncle; ten ant farmer Mpse Wright, when he was kidnaped; Sunday morning. . Driest conditions in' two years exist in major Oregon forests after a total , of 32 days without rainfall. State' Forester' George Spaur said Wednesday. I , As of midnight Tuesday,, a total of 439 forest; fires were reported on state and private '.lands protect ed by the Board of Forestry. Orig in of 140 of the fires was believed to be lightning while the other 299 were man-caused, said Vance Mor rison, assistant in the protective division. 1: . - August bowed out Wednesday with but three damp days during, its 31-day run in the Salem area. And on those three days only traces of "rain were j measured, according to weatherman at McNary Field. Mean average temperature for the month was 64.5 2.05 below nor mal. The. metcury's top climb was to 95 on the 1 6th but it was 90 or above on twoiother days also. Cold est nights came on the 13th, 14th, 26th and 27th when 42 was register ed. The month, had 21 clear days. while eight were partly cloudy and two cloudv.. t . i Other thini , for morning cloudi ness, fair weather "will accompany the debut of September today. The mercury is expected to hit around BZ. i - . . Forecast for beaches is fair weather thrdugh Thursday, except 'Estimated at ! Near $50,000 By JERRY STONE SUff Writer, The Statesmaa Flames feeding on hundreds of pounds of clothing caused an estimated $50,000 damages Wed nesday night at the Salem Laun dry Co., 263 S. High SL . Firemen reported the fire ap : ' parently started about 9 p.m. m the laundering section of the con Crete structure and spread swift- i lly through equipment and-stacks 1 1 of clothing. . Spared were the dry 1 cleaning . department and the mam office housing safe, records and- packaged laundry ready for delivery. Some damage was done to the bookkeeping office. - . ' Loss Covered ; Van Weider, owner of tho ' firm, indicated the loss was cov ered by insurance. Damage was confined mainly te the . interior of the building and its stacks of clothing. When firemen' from central station reached the scene flames from the fasf-traveling blaze al ready were licking through win dows of the firm and chewing at a front marquee. ' The fire was reported under control about 9:43 p.m. - Dense Smoke : Dense, smoke on the interior added to firemen's problems and forced use of. oxygen inhalators. No injuries were reported though an element of danger was added when a transformer pole in the rear alley erupted in flame and sent two power lines dropping into the alley. The burning power pole caused firemen to request the Portland General Electric Co, to turn off power temporarily.. Chief . Ellsworth Smith ordered out some dozen . off-duty, men to aid in clean up operations. Spot fires . which broke out on" the roof of tht laundry, complicated the task of firemen. for morning fog and clouds. British ;Medics 'Buy Warts' to Cure dliildreii i X LONDON tn - Two British medjeos said Wednesday they cured children's warts, by "buy ing" them for a few pennies each and telling the children the blem ishes would; soon disappear. And. believe it or not. Dr. D.G. Ait ken reported in the medical magazine," The Practitioner, they really do disappear. Now he wants to know why. "The result has been . quite as tounding," wrote Aitken, a gen eral practitioner in Cumberland. "Althoughi I have not kept com plete records;- successful response has been found in over 60 per cent of the case." . . , Todas Statesman V Classified Soc. JU Comos iho Dawn I Comics j. Pago .7-9 - 4 4 Crossword 'Editorials L... l-f Homo Panorama l-X.6,,7 mi ..t,t. it ? i- ff, I- ! Hiaio, i v Sports Star Gazer Valley -U.ll...-. ( Farm page will appear in i-ndays aratesman, j r rm , II A West Diplomats To Chart Course . - j s - . I WASHINGTON im. The West ern Big Three foreign ministers will meet for two days in New York Sept. 27 to chart the joint strategy that wul guide them," dur ing later talks with Russia's Vya- cheslav Moltov. - , . Secretary of State Dulles is re ported ready to insist that British Foreign Secretary Harold Mac Millan and iFrench Foreign Min ister Antoincj Pinay agree to' press the Soviets hard for specific con cessions in iCurope. j West Gertnany s ioreign - minis ter, Hejnricji Von Brentano would join the discussion Sept. 28 . Equipment Damaged - Damaged equipment in the laun dry section included such costly items as mangles, but it was in dicated these were not total losses Given as a possible cause of the fire was a short circuit, originating near the rear of the building. Since 90 per -cent of laundry is picked up early- in the week at the homes of customers, the plant was heavily stocked at the time of the fire, an employe said. - . Service te Continne The firm, which reportedly em ployes some 60 persons, was pre paring for State Fair week one of its busiest weeks of the year when the blaze hit. - ' Weider announced Wednesday night that his firm will continue iU regular customer service, arrange ments having been made for laun dering to be done at other firms. The fire was one of the costliest in downtown saiem ' in several years; , ; . . ' - , - Peron Quick to -j-Cancel Offer : Of Resignation BUENOS AIRES. Argentina (Jf President Juan D Peron said . Wednesday night he has with drawn an offer to resign and has decided to remain president of Ar- gentina. . v . . The President earlier - in the day had said he wonld quit if that would bring peace to his country.4. " The General Confederation of La bor' (CGT) called a "general strike and summoned workers to mass , demonstrations to insist that Peron stay -on. . ' ' . . ' - ... . The House of Deputies, ruled by Peron's party, had to cancel its , afternoon, sessions because the ma jority refused to. attend, until the president- withdrew his offer. Th entire membership of the senate all Peronistas declared they would -resign if Peron does. His followers had been clearly primed in advance to receive and reject his offer to resign and de mand he stay on the job he has held nine years. FONG TRIAL SET , PORTLAND - Re-trial of Wayne and Sherry Fong, convicted last spring of the. first degree slaying of Diane Hank, 16-year-old high school; student, was tentatively set Wednesday lor Sept. 2s. The Weather Salem " Portland Baker Max. Mln. Precis, it si .m y Medford North Bend Roseburg . San rrancisco. La Angelea J. Chicago 75 B9 S3 68 82 7 101 7S 1 59 41 47 53 56 48 65 55 71 .00 , ; .oo .00 " trace .00 .on .00 .on .02 New York Willamette River -3.0 feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): A little early morning eloudinem. otherwise (air today, tonight and Friday: high today and Friday 8-4, low tonight 46-48. Temperature at 11.01 a.m. today was 57. ALEM M ECIPITATIOK ' ' Sine Start t Weather Year Sept 1 Normal Tkta Teax 82.81 Last Year 45.N S3. SI