Rebels V ! V l I I ; f l N I I I I IJ I V FeroBistas in mm v iirajft mm I!' - s7 ; ..A U A AV IN V : i U Buenos - - - Navy Ships Bar Escape of Dictator i Peron Aboard Paraguay Gunboat ! f .- . - " - .- . ' ' i v ' BUENOS AIRES (JP) Government troops early Wednesday bombarded the headquarters of the pro-Peron Nationalist Alliance in downtown Buenos Aires, setting the building afire. , . i! The military junta which took over the government after President Juan Peron resigned charged 400 or 500 PeronisU stal warts were inside the building with heavy arms and refused to ajFrOjoe UlD COQlH Back in 1865 E. L. Godkin founded a weekly publication in New York City which he called The Nation. He continued as its editor until 1899. In the interval he sold the publication to the New York Post which was con trolled by Henry Viliard and later by his son. Oswald Garri son Viliard. The latter disposed of the Post in 1918 but retained .The Nation and continued as its . editor until 1932, and as pub lisher until 1935. Freda Kirchwey succeeded him as editor in 1932 and took over as publisher in 1937. In the issue of The Nation for Sept 17 she announced her ' resignation as editor and publish er of this periodical which has been distinguished for its liberal Ism. In her statement she ex presses the confidence that the paper will be "as firm in its lib eral position and as rigorous in its journalistic standards as ever before, but stabler and with more vitality. . It can stand liberal doses of (financial) vitamins. Miss Kirch wey explained it this way: "The problem of financing The Nation, as many . readers know, has become more difficult with every year since the war. Costs have risen in some cases doubl ed or tripled and the operating deficit has risen with them." A group known as the Nation Associates was mobilized to help the paper meet its expenses, but the burden, as Miss Kirchwey ad mits, has absorbed "an enormous amount of effort and thought" "In connection with tbe paper's recent 90th 1 f - - (Continued on Editorial Page 4) Blonde Tracked in Case SAN FRANCISCO More than 600 policemen searched bouse-by-house in a 30-block asea Tues day around Mt. Zion Hospital for a three-day-old baby boy kidnaped Aionaay from tbe nursery by a buxom blonde,' believed motivated by a "mothering urge. The 6-pound 6ft-ounce son of Dr. Sanford Marcus was stolen at 3:30 pm. Monday and every passing hour dded to fears for the life of the breast-fed baby. Radios broadcast and newspapers pub lished a special formula that would keep the child alive. j There was additional concern be cause the baby had been circura cized only a few hours before he was snatched from his glass-enclosed crib. Police sought as the abductor a 34-year-old woman with a foreign accent One witness said she emerged from tbe hospital carry ing the baby "sort of like a foot ball." Another told of seeing her drive away in a car. - The child's 29-year-old mother, Mrs. Hanna Marcus, was in a state of collapse. She had to be admin istered sedatives.) "Both her parents and her younger brother died in Hitler's gas chambers, her, 34-year-old husband said. . "The doctors fear that this may be too much for her."' The Weather Portland Baker Medord Boceburf - San Francisco Lew Angeles Hew York Willamette River -1.1 feet. FORECAST (from U. 8. weather bureau. McNary field.-Salem): -- Partly cloudy today, moctlr ialr tonight and Thursday; continued cool, with highest today near 70, lowest tonight near M. , Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today was 49. AUK PCCIPITATTON lace Start of Weather Year Sep. 1 This Teat Last Teas Mental 1J , 1.2S JO ANIMAL CRACKERS .Ia't earrytag Ola " modesty fta to far. - Kidnap Max. Mto.. Predo. M 41 .M . S3 46 .00 , OS 42 " .09 , 74 1 .OS f SS JB m 63 4 .08 is 9 ..no L-S4 ' 91 ".04 Mire r s : evacuate it . ; " The Nationalist Alliance Is i strong-arm organization intensely loyal to Peron. - - j Navy ships off - Buenos Aires, meanwhile, .barred the escape of the ex-dictator aboard a Para guayan gunboat to which he fled Tuesday morning. The gunboat re mained, in Buenos Aires harbor, under orders from its government not to. move- unless it got a .safe conduct from the. rebels. ' ! j The alliance had provided the shock troops . to fight many j of Peron's street battles in times; of BUENOS AIRES W The anU-Peren rebel command la Ceatral Argentina early Wed-! esday announced formation f a national government with headquarters at Cordoba. ' j I An annoiiBcenieot from the Cordoba revolutionary com mand said Gen. Eduardo Lo ardi, the rebel commander there, heads the new regime. It advised all revolutionary com mands that hostilities could re sume at any moment - .-.j crisis. Its diehard members re fused to quit when the Peron gov ernment fell. if At 2:25 a.m. 12:23 a.m. EST), tbe Argentine . state ' radio an nounced that calm had been j re stored. It added that the firing had been limited to the immediate vi cinity of the alliance building. Board Balks at Plan to Lower John Day Dam WASHINGTON (Jl The Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors balked Tuesday at a proposal to allow construction of tbe John Day Dan at . a height lower than originally planned. The board suggested a compre hensive flood control review .mi thm entire Columbia Basin. - f "We can't eliminate a positive flood control storage unless we find positive places it can be replaced with equal efficiency, we may wind up with a lot of power projects in .the Pacific Northwest with no more' flood control than we had in 1948 when the Columbia Basin suffered a bad flood,'' said Brig. Gen. ' William E; Potter, Missouri River division engineer. The Portland district and North Pacific division engineers, how ever, recommended a lower dam. storing a half-million acre feet' to prevent flooding of Umatilla, Ore., and other, port and riverfront sites upstream from the proposed 400 million dollar dam. ! 1 Brig. Gen. Louis H. Fo6ter:Port- land division engineer, said he was "confident that alternate storage is available," but conceded he was unable to pinpoint the ' specific amount and location. j j "It is inconceivable that a change in one individual project will require a complete review, of tbe comprehensive plan, ' Foote said. 1 The board received letters from the Oregon state engineer favoring the lower dam, from the Oregon Fish Commission opposing the proposed site, and from the Wash ington Fishery Department oppos ing the dam, .but favoring; tbe lower dam if any dam is to be built ! 1 Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE i ! At Washington 3-7. New York C-f. At Chicago J. Cleveland 3. j At Boston 1-4. Baltimore "3 7.i i At Detroit 7, Kansas City 3, -i NATIONAL LEAGUE 11 At Brooklyn -. Philadelphia" 3-1. At New York 11-14. Pittsburgh 1-a. At Cincinnati 0. Milwaukee 7.-! At St. Louis 3, Chicago 0. j ( Alsop Says Soviet : By JOSEPH ALSOP f WASHINGTON According to an official -report that has been Z presented to the National Security . Council, the Soviet Union is now overtaking the United States in the air-atomic weapons face. As of now, by this report's estimate, the frequently mention ed "American lead" may be ex pected to become a Soviet lead in the period 1960-1965. I I. The basis of this estimate Is -the expectation that in 1960-1965, the Soviets will enjoy a decided superiority in inter-continental rockets able -to carry A- or H bomb warhaads. at speeds of many thousands of miles an hour, -from Russian launching sites to American targets. (Tbe 'Washington report by Joseph Alsop on the status of the Soviet-U.S. arms race . brought a denial Tuesday from 'a presi dential aid, the Associated Press .reported. - . . . . . . (Murray Snyder, assistant - Whit House secretary,- was qwt- 105rh Year e sets Okehed Building Costs At $6,634,000;. IMop Expected, PORTLAND m The State Board of - Higher education ap proved $6,634,000 in new construc tion for state colleges Tuesday, but Chancellor .John R. 1 Richards warned that more money may be needed, Quickly.' He said enrollment in at least three of;: the state schools may go above the predicted I per cent increasejj and that would - throw budgeted finances out of line. The schools that may need the additional money because of sharp enrollment' . jumps are Oregon State, Pprtland State and Southern Oregon I College of Education, he said. Tbe enrollment figures will be known in about a week. Expenses Okehed The board approved plans au thorized! by the finance committee Monday! including these expendi tures: j Men's dormitory at Oregon State. $1,345,000; men's dormitory at University of Oregon, $1,170,000; administration building ; wing at Oregon $770,000; addition and re modeling of architecture building at Oregon, ' $530,000; remodeling of president's house at Oregon College: of Education, $8,500. For Portland State The board also authorized plan ning 'for a million dollar student center at Portland State, the money!; to come from a bond sale to be repaid by student fees. ' The i board accepted $421,438 In gifts and grants, nearly half of this coming from the federal Public Health Service for research at the medical and dental schools. The H hoard approved sale of 2.100,000 .board: feet of Umbel- on the Adair Tract,- operated by Oregon! - State. Bids ire- to. be received by Sept 28, with the stipulated minimum price. $47,200, , ,11" - : - Accident IGlls Mill Worker At lUUtui News Berriee AUMSVILLE A sawmill worker was lulled Tuesday when he was puueq; into a planer. George William Bracher Jr., 24, Scio as the victim of the accident at Willamette Builders Supply Co. where! he had worked for . five yearsi; ... Bracher apparently reached In to the! equipment, caught "his hand or fail sleeve" in the outfeed rolls of the planer, and was jerked into the machine, according to Giles Fowler, superintendent of the divi sion where Bracher worked. Death was attributed to a broken neck land other injuries. Bracher was pronounced dead on arrival at Santiam Memorial Hospital. .' The mill, which employs over 300 men, shut down following the 6 a.m. Occident. Fowler said the ply wood division was to resume work at midnight Tuesday, the door plant) Wednesday morning and the sawrrjill division at midnight Wed nesday. - Bracher, a former resident of this area, is survived by his wife, Rarpdna, and a son, Michael, both of S(io; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Georie Bracher Sr., Lyons; a bro ther, James Bracher, Lyons, and threej sisters, Jane Sledge, Lyons, Delia! Brown, Lebanon, and Patri cia Hollingsworth. i Services will be held at 2 p.m. Satuijday at Stayton under direc tum of the Weddle Mortuary. ..If (boueg Aurasville Security Council Lead in Air-Atomic ed fas saying, "The substance of the? story is inaccurate." V (Snyder declared an evalua tion of the report has not been completed.) The report that the National Security Council now has before jt also includes recommendations for; reversing this unfavorable trend in the balance of power. But these recommendations . will, be; difficult, if not impossible, to implement without upsetting the administration's present budget ary plans. Such, it can now be revealed, art; the essential results of the most 'important and intensive high-level study of the relative curves of Soviet and American armed strength that has yet been attempted. The study was made byi the Killian Committee, so called from its chairman, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. James R, Killian Jr. , 'The committee . was . given complete access to all tat huge 2 SECTIONS-24 PAGES nrvn V i iireat .'Babo' Back J -a. '3. i. I' A" blind dog named "Babe" was retnrned to her mistress Tuesday evening because of a story in Tues day's Statesman. "Babe is shows above with her owner, Mrs. Violet O'Brien. 194 8. High St., after being returned by William Aigeltinger, 273 Hazel Ave, who found the blind pet trapped in a window well near Mrs. O'Brien's home Friday night (Statesman Photo). . . ' ' , I Statesman Story Retinites Woman With Blind Dog "Babe," a blind dog. and her mistress,; Mrs; Violet, O'Brien of 1940 S. High SUwere happily re- united Tuesday 'as aVesu'lt of a- gencies, was passed by the Salem .tor, I,Th,' Ortioa Stali5!2S!! SSHSjlA Tuesday morning. " Babe ' disappeared last Friday and Mrs. O'Brien wrote The Statesman' asking aid in finding her. ; But Babe .had . not , been stolen, as Mrs. . O'Brien feared. She was lost She was found whimpering in a window well at the Phillip Ringle home at 2115 S. Church St not fat from Mrs. O'Brien's home, last Friday night by William Aigeltingeri 2473 Hazel Ave, ' while ' he was visiting there. ' ""' ' Aigeltinger took the dog home to care -for it and told a neigh bor," Mrs. C. L. MacDonald, of his find. When The Statesman story appeared, they telephoned the newspaper's city desk which gave them Mrs. O'Brien's address and Aigeltinger 'promptly, took the dog. home. Comedian Collaps'es On Television Show :'-. . - : HOLLYWOOD tf Comedian Pinky Lee collapsed Tuesday while doing a 'commercial on his NBC television show, clutching his throat and murmuring "somebody help me!": , - Dr. Theodore Mainzner said, he believed the collapse was dud to exhaustion and nervousness, ; ' mass of Information ; available to the American government . In the end, rather more-than 'two months ago, the" committee laid before- the President' a ' unanimous report; with 00 sig- . ' nificant dissents. It was trans mitted .by President Eisen- '. hower to the National Security ' Council. The N.S.C. then' passed on the report to a nar- . rowly restricted circle of ' pol- icy-makers in the state depart ment, the armed services and the Central ' Intelligence Agency. The policy maker's comments and recommenda tions must now be returned to : the N.C where the issues ; raised will presumably be de - bated and decided when the President returns to Washing . ton. . , , , ' Three main factors are ' known to have led the Killiam committee to its somewhat bleak conclusion. " . ' The- first factor, which is al most old hat Toy now, was tht PCUNDSD 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Salem, emng in Familiar Surroundings 1 V i 1! ,1 City Pldritiers Curb Sidewalk Plan , A resolution strongly opposing where the type of terrain would curb sidewalks, except in iemer-l favor curb 'sidewalks.. - Tuesday night at citv halL ii The commission, in effect urges the city council to establish a policy of placing sidewalks back from the curb several feet. Excep tions to this rule would be only Red China Bid Loses in U.N. UNITED NATIONS, N.YJ Ml -The 10th U.N. Assembly Tuesday backed an American motipn and voted 43-12 to shelve the question tion of this session. It was the sixth straight year the Russians , have failed to get Peiping into the U.N. . Soviet Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov, present for. his first as sembly since 1946, demanded a seat for the Reds 12 minutes after tbe session began. He took! his de feat calmly. . , , .-'.,. ""'! : Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. U.S. del egate, was prepared for Molotov's move. Lodge put up a counter resolution. . . - - Lodze almost held the same vote as he obtained on the same; resolu tion last year. Indonesia switched from an abstention to as v 0 1 e against nostnonement Israel switched from a vote for postponement to an , abstention. Report Race: Denial. Issued 5 i continuous build-up of j the So- ' vet A-and H-bomb stockpile. Although by no means to great as the American stockpile, the Soviet "stockpile of weapons of absolute destruction is ;still be coming great enough to be decisive.--- " ; I i - - The second factor, long sua-.' pected , and finally confirmed ; by the so-called Moscow over ; flights last spring, was the ' massive Soviet production of .. high-quality . ong-and medium , range jet .bombers and night . and day Jet fighters. ; ; ' The Russian strategic air ' force is being rapidly Ire-equip-' ped with "Bisons" arid TBad : gers," capable of striking at American targets andij of neu-' trauzing overseas basesl By the ; same token, the rapid ire-equip-, ment of the Soviet Air; Defense - Command with the new Russian ( day and wght fighters, - the Farmer" and the -Flashlight, : is 1 proportionally reducing the " - American Strategic . Air Com Oregon,' Wednesday, September 21, 1955' Metals 170 1 h . ' Tuesday night s resolution was prompted by a petition from a group of home owners in the' big East Englewood area generally from 22nd Street to city limits be tween Market and D streets. . These residents strongly favored curb, sidewalks now and - in the future. They said such walks look better with ranch style houses, permit more- front lawns. ' They added that parking motorists have to walk through wet grass to get to the other Jype. of sidewalk. , The planning commission, how ever, opposes curb walks because! they make it difficult : to widen streets in the future, trees "and shrubs planted next to curb walks shut off motorists' views at street intersections and playing children run off the walks directly into the street The resolution wQl go to the city council at its next meeting for con sideration. The city now has a. standard policy of placing sme walks back from the curb and One foot, outside property line. But, the planning . commission says, too many residents are seeking curb walks where there is "no need for them. ' ' - - - (Additional details on- Page 2, Sec. J) . v; , UNSPENT BALANCES . WASHINGTON () ' Congress watchdog committee . on federal spending reported Tuesday govern ment agencies had $91,300,000,000 in unspent balances last May 31 mand's capability of striking at Russian targets. - . Finally, the third -and most important ? factor ' that influ enced the Killian Report was the presumed Soviet progress in guided missile development It is not excluded that the .United States will have an in ter-continental missile by 1960. The Air, Force's ATLAS proj ect for a true intercontinental ballistic mfssileror the NAVA JO project, " for a - long-range ram-jet missile, may-' well have produced, a prototype by', that date. , . s'ut after reviewing all the evidence- concerning - present . development curves, the 'mem bers of the Killian. Committee . concluded that we should ex pect the Soviets to enjoy -an inv ' porta nt predominance. in inter continental guided missiles tlrora 1860 to 196J. , , , . (Additional details Pagt 4 XCoprrilht 1955. N.T Enald. " rribuno Slap '. roresees .PRICE Mi llion m gotiatibns Governm By Dewey's The Dalles Plant Permit Given Due to Two-Year-Old Commitment WASHINGTON (JP) Federal officials revealed Tuesday, that they approved a loan guarantee and power contract for an Oreeon aluminum Dlant under threat of a multi-million dollar, 'suit against the government. " " They said Harvey Machine Co. of California," which, re cently obtained the pledge of a federal loan guarantee to build a long-delayed plant at The i Dalles, , Ore., had first I threat ened to sue the government for 70 million. - 4 ' (The ' Harvey Machine - Co. is the operator of the Alumina Pilot Plant on Cherry Avenue in Salem, Ore.) M ' - The; Harvey company's suit for alleged repudiation of contract was prepared by the New York law firm headed by lormer Gov. Thom as E, Dewey. -Had Good Case r The claim was waived after con ferences this summer between ! James E. Nickerson of the Dewey firm and officials of four govern ment! agencies. Administration lawyers decided Harvey had a case good enough- to cost the gov ernment "many millions' if taken to court - Mobilization Director Arthur S. Hemming told of the deal in ex plaining why Harvey obtained the federal guarantee, announced a week ago. for its private borrow ing to finance' the 75-muuonmollar plant . ' - Contrary' to Policy ' -7 Exceot tor crucial military Items like titanium, such pledges have been contrary lo government pol icy since the Eisenhower admin istration took' office. ' , "We are simply making- good on commitments more than two jears old,? Hemming said. "If the pro posal came in today we wouldn t touch it." i ' v , - 1 ': - Flemmingand other officials emphasized, however, that the con tract terms are advantageous to the government,, and that the Har vey i firm has demonstrated high technical ability. . - ' Tax Benefits -v - i . In the settlement the company obtained, in addition, federal tax benefits to help , its financing, " as agreed in December. 1952; plus a guarantee as agreed . in . May 1953 that the government will buy up to 270,000 tons of its early aluminum outnut-and if necessary nake advance payments on this output to help the firm finance construction. . (Additional details on page 7. seci 2J . , .. Family Left Homeless by Meliama Fire "- SUtexmaa. Newi Srrvlc MEHAMA A house and furnish- ings were completely aesiroyeu . A 1 Tuesday evening m a Mehama area fire which also caused cam- age to adjacent timber and slight m juries to a fireman. . ,- The Benny Pfund family report edly was-left homeless by the blaze which broke out about 6 p.m. in their rented frame house about a mile and a half west of .Mehama. The family, away at the time of the fire, had been .renting from owner Chester Blumb, Mehama. ' Firemen from . Lyons, Mill - City and Stayton, called to the scene by a 1 neighbor, extinguished . fire in adjacent timber; that. for, a time threatened to expand into a minor forest blaze: ' Fire Chief Ralph Hurst of Lyons suffered forehead lacerations when a window in the house exploded from heat He was taken to Santiam Memorial Hospi tal., i : - Firemen were hampered In fight ins the house fire by a shortage of water. Cause of tbe blaze was not known and it also was not immedi ately learned whether the damage was covered by insurance. - Pfund was working at Rhodod endron at the tune of. the fire. The family includes one son. : Weathermen Say Rainless Day Set i Rainless but coolish weather is on tap fot the Salem area for the next two days, according to fore casters at McNary Field.' . The mercury is expected to hit no hizber than 70 today and to night's tow will be around 36. Tuesday's maximum was only 66 ' Outlook, for beaches today is morning "cloudiness and clearing this afternoon, with Northwest winds ranging from I to 13 miles per hour. v ; - ' No. 171 Mt eht Big Air Force Project Blasted As'B onanza WASHINGTON W The Air Force announced, Tuesday, night the comptroller generaThits agreed to reconsider an order halting ne gotiations for - a $2,400,030,000 tew year communications contract de scribed on Capitol -Hill as a .bon anza" to private companies. . . ' Asst Secretary Lyle ; Garlock . 1 said the, ; Air . Force is "goinj ahead" with the contracts to have Western Electric, a subsidiary c-f , the American Telephone and Tele- graph Co., engineer and build the SAGE system of aerial detec tion. ? : .' ; V - ' r . This system would link the . far flung . sir raid - warning network with a semi-automatic chain "" de- - , signed to relieve possibly- thou sands of humans from- monitoring radar screens around the clock. Ask Inquiry V--.-' Earlier," Rep. McCormack (T- -Mass) had charged the Air Force made a '-'secret .'effort to bypass Congress"" and to create a situa tion "to say the least 1 that is shocking." He called for congres sional investigation. - . ' t Without mentioning McCormack, House Democratic leader, the Air Force, cited letters and testimony : given in. both houses of Congress to show it had been "very careful" to explaia the SAGE" , plan to -Senate and "House .committees. Private Finaaciog' ' " r . ; Garlock said neither., the Air Force nor - any other government agency is now putting any money into the project which' is being financed at this stage solely by the telephone companies. :' Tbe testimony . before. .Congress cited by the Air Force stressed that no federal funds . would, be required for at least two years and that there was an "urgent requirement" to ; complete the "SAGE" system for national de fense. .' ; '' r, " 1 .' : Ucks Aathority ' ' : ' The Air Force acknowledged the turndown by Comptroller General Joseph .Campbell, . the govern- ' ment's chief auditor,' because it lacked specific authority from Con gress, but. said tbe comptroller general, has , since ''agreed ; to a reconsideration of the matter." ' McCormack called it a "bonan za contract" and demanded a con- , gressional investigation of its ori- gins; : , -v.:;:.:' ' v Students Launch Scholarsliip Fund 5 With Made Firm Memorial to Girl V A total of $113 has been contri buted by the senior class at North Salem High School as a scholarship -in honor of Mildred Messmer, 17- ; 1 year-old Salem student, who was killed in an automobile accident in Salem last week. ' ' The fund will go to a worthy member of Miss Messmer' s class next spring to assist them toward a c 0 1 1 e g e education. Collections ' were made by senior members at v the school this week. "- Miss Messmer, active member of the class of 1956, was to have been a song queen at North Salem , this year. (Additional, school news on page 4, sec. L) , v. today's St3tcsn::3 . . ' ' See. Pag : Classified t-1 1 Comes the Dawn l.Jl 4 Comics ...ill.-. 5 Crossword Editorials .IL I. Homo Panorama 1. 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