i t- Moefcrri State Hospital Wing ; . . 105th Year 2 SEaiONS-16 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, t October. 10, 1955 PRICE 5c No. 197 fharp modern lines feature the Bearing eempletioa this week. aorta side ef . Ceater street. OtP OTDLDOGH COLBY COLLEGE, Waterville, - Me. I must have brought rain -from Oregon to Maine. At any rate it rained here all night and ( through the day in a fashion '.quite characteristic of Oregon 7 a mild, steady downpour inter rupted with pauses for light mist, j The students at this college in central Maine seem prepared for J ' rain--slickers and so'westers. . A trip to Waterville from New York is like a retread of grade school geography. The texts I studied began their description , of the United States with the northeastern states, so many of the place names remain fixed in memory. Here, too, was the location of early industry alon? the streams which furnished water power. New England still is highly industrialized, but it has lost much of its, textile manu facturing to southern states. Waterville, a city on the historic 'Kennebec, recently lost through ' closure its principal mill, a tex " tile plant Management V and unions could not agree on terms ef a contract so the mill was permanently closed. Other indus tries remain, one being for the manufacture of Hathaway shirts the one, you know, worn by the man with the black eye-patch! Colby College is quite similar to Willamette in size and has considerable similarity in his tory. Baptists from Boston push ed up into Maine in the second decade of the 19th century to found the Maine Literary and Theological Institution.. It de- , veloped into Waterville College, its name being changed to Colby in 1867 in , honor of a Boston Baptist who gave generous finan- . cial assistance to th'e college. It has no sectarian ties, however. ' The student body is around 1100 and. the courses are in lib eral arts. Just before (Continued on editorial page 4) Cutters Battle High Seas to Rescue Tug SEATTLE ID Two Coast Guard cutters are bucking heavy winds ,. and high seas off the Oregon Coast in attempts to save a tug - boat and a 75-foot ' barge in un- related incidents. The Coast Guard at Seattle re ported the cutter Bonham is being lashed by winds and waves out J t side Coos Bay, Ore., while await ing moderating conditions. . Then the Bonham intends to es cort the waterlogged tug Saltair over the bar and into Coos Bay. Near Tillamook, the cutter Ya--cona is trying to find the unlighted : 73-foot barge which is carrying two large steel tanks. The barge was cut loose in heavy seas by the ' motor vessel Tanginn. - The Tanginn cut loose the barge r at 1:30 p.m. saying it was too rough to keep it in tow. Then the Tanginn set sail for San Diego. The Coast Guard says it to longer is in radio communication with the Tanginn. The Tanginn bad earner reported the hapless situa f tion of the tug Saltair. Later the Yacona was diverted ; to check reports of a two-masted i schooner wallowing helplessly in ' rough seas off Manhattan Beach on the Northern Oregon Coast. J The Coast Guard was somewhat skeptical about the report from a resident of the area. ANIMAL CRACKER? I I I I I j 1,11 11. ,UJ i villi "Somehow I cia't briar m- sell t call him Rocky. aew 5-story million -dollar-plus aew The above view shews the exterior . . . Features Spacious, Utilitarian Wards 1:7! - Sample of light, spacious wards ia -shown la this view of one of the de not close eat the light.' ', State School Conference to - Approximately 175 persons are expected in Salem today for open ing of. the 27th fall conference of the Oregon Association of Sec ondary School Principals. ' The two-day affair will get un- J der way with 8 an. registrations at the Hotel Marion. Both Gov. Paul Patterson and Rex Putnam, superintendent of public instruction, will make speeches of welcome to confer ence participants at a morning gathering. . Problems of junior high schools will be main topic at discussion sessions today. A highlight will be a panel discussion, with Dray ton E. Marsh, prominent educat or from Culver City; Calif., serv ing, as moderator. Other panel members will be Dr. Walter Sny der, superintendent of the Salem School District; Erwin Juilfs, Eu gene educator; and W. H. Dunn, educator from Vancouver, Wash. Marsh also is slated as featured speaker at the conference. The conference will, conclude at noon Tuesday. All sessions will be held at the Hotel Marion. Today's Statesman Sec. Pag ..ll.6, 7 Classified Comics Crossword II.. Editorials '- . I- Homt Panorama l Radio, TV ll Sports ; ll Star Gaitr !. Valley : l Wirephoto Pago 1 ; 2 . 3 . 6 Open Today Ike May Quit Hospital Within '4 or 5 Weeks' DENVER Of The eminent iheart specialist. Dr. Paul Dudley White, said Sunday President Ei senhower ! may get out of the hospital in four or five weeks but it i might be the first of the year before be can go back to work at the White House. Speaking for six of the physic ans who are keeping tab on Eisen hower's heart conditon. White said that it is impossible to say at this time whether it would be physi cally possible for Eisenhower to ion for a second term next year. This is so. White said, because ; replied quietly, "not 100 per cent." it is loo early to know for sure j The elderly Boston physician whether the chief executive will , said that there had been no corn make a complete recovery. , j plications to date and complicat- White talked to newsmen at the ions rarely occur after the second temporary White House after a; ,eries of weekend medical exarru- nations of the chief executive. The news conference, which out J lined plans for gradually increas- Oregon SUte Hospital building. ef the building, located ea the the new Oregon State Hospital floors. Note half .walls which . ; , , - , ; New Building Needs 'Finishing Touches' The new 676-bed building at Oregon State Hospital is being readied this week for occupancy later this month. Costing $1,500,000 the modern-type building . is . practically completed except for last-minute finishing touches, E. J. Ireland, state board of 'control secretary, has announced. t - It will house the "general run" of patients, with a large per centage being elderly, said Dr. Russell Guiss, assistant superin tendent at the hospital.. Facilities also are included for "specialized" cases including children and segregated patients, he added. Modern Care "This building," he said, "will provide us with modern, im proved equipment for up-to-date care of elderly patients. It also will relieve some of our over crowded conditions here." Official inspection of the new wing, prior to acceptance by the state, is planned for Oct 13, Ire land said. The structure is lo cated on the north side of Center street and to the rear of the recently-completed receiving hos pital. Infirmary Condemned To be vacated is the 75-year-old infirmary, which has been condemned. Patients from there plus those from the old, over crowded, main building will easily fill the new five-story building. ; : 1 "We won't have any surplus beds," said Dr. Guiss. Wards range in size from large multi-bed wards to four- and two bed wards. Each floor will have nurses' and attendants' stations. Patients will eat in dining rooms and served .from serving kitch ens. 'Food will be sent in from the central kitchen. -' "It is a very utilitarian build ing," said Dr. Guiss, . "with no unused space." ing presidential activity, ol abater regained consciousness and personal and official, nature, also calls for help were heard by near followed two meetings between by householders. They summoned Eisenhower and Vice President ' id - Nixon. : Nixon said Eisenhower had ask ed.and the doctors have approved, a schedule to bring more Cabinet officers and more officials to Denver in the next few weeks. Eisenhower completed Saturday the first two weeks of recuperation since his .heart attack, the period of greatest danger, asked whether it can be said now the chief execut ive is out of danger. Dr. White week of a coronary thrombosis. And in the President's case, he said, complications now are "un likely." (Story also on page 2, sec. 1.) ....... Personal Valet ' Klitler's Bb dy Burn' (Picture on Wirephoto Page) BERLIN to Adolf Hitler's per sonal valet said Sunday he helped pour gasoline over the body of the dead Fuehrer and watched it burn outside a Berlin air raid shelter 10 years ago. The roaring blaze also consumed the body of Eva Braun, the dictator's longtime mistress and bride of one day. The story of Heinz Linge, wboj returned Saturday . night from ' i decade of Soviet captivity, was the first eyewitness account, of Hitler's death. With the previous report by Hit ler's personal pilot. SS Gen. Hans Baur, that he knew the two .were dead, it should remove any lin gering question of whether Hitler may still be alive. . building, soon to be occupied, is permit semi-private sections, . but Mickey Cohen Leaves Prison (Picture on wirephoto page.) STEILACOOM to Mickey Cohen stepped off a launch from the McNeil Island. Wash., federal Penitentiary fo freedom Sunday, and immediately started running. Cohen, whose name has popped up frequently in connection with rackets in Los Angeles, raced for two blocks before he finally stop ped to catch his breath and talk. His first words, addressed to three unidentified men who lagged behind a swarm of reporters, were: "Where in the hell have you guys been?" .' The quartet dashed to a , blue 1954 Cadillac with Illinois license plates before Cohen reluctantly told reporters: Tm going back to Los Angeles. I have no further comment Cohen has been in McNeil since 1951, serving a five-year term for evading $156,123 in federal taxes. La Grande Train' Switchman Loses Legs in Accident LA GRANDE W Virgil R. Weir, a switchman in the Union Pacific railroad yards here, lost both legs when he was run over by a train Saturday, night. The right leg was severed in the mishap and the left foot was badly injured. Doctors at a La Grande hospital later removed the left leg below the knee. ' Details of the accident were not learned. Weir blacked out after he was struck bv the train. Hp The Weather Salcm PorUand Baker Medford .. North Bend Roseburf San Trancisco Lot Angeles Chicago New York : Willamette River 3.S feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Most ly cloudy with occasional showers today and tonieht; partly cloudy ear ly Tuesday with rains by Tuesday night. High today 5S-60; low tonight 40-43. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today wai 51. SALEM PREC1P1TATIOV Sine Start f Weather Tear, Sept. 1 Thit Year Last Year Vrtrmxl .47 - - I M , . , . S.23 2! I J ' i ; Max. Min. Preelm. , M 51 l.? ' 6 50 .04 ; M 31 .13 i .SO 49 3.99 , 85 .87 .17 , , 45 .00 1 , , 1 59 m ' 75 : 47 ' .CO ! 73 53 .00 ; Linge told an interviewer that Hitler and; Eva Braun committed suicide in their underground oou doir in the 'massive concrete bunk er in the chancellory garden. Took Poison 1 r "They were alone . . ., Linge said. "Hitler shot himself, Eva Braun took poison. ' "I carried ; his body out of the junker, and then helped pour gas oline over it. We watched it burn for about five minutes." Linge aid he carried Hitler's body into the shell-strafed garden which lay above the bunker. Hit ler's chauffeur was tj bring up Eva Braufls body, but: failed. Eva Too Heavy It1 was too. heavy for him. Linge smiled. He said Hitler's SS adjutant. Otto Guensche, - finally managed to get the body out of the bunker, i ) Linge thus became the first man to give the; world an eyewitness account of the Fuehrer's fiery end. The . ex-valer said he personally procured about 50 gallons of the gasoline used to burn the; bodies, but additional gasoline was re quired. The Russians captured htm with some I other members of the Nazi elite guard May 2, -1945. Testimony ; Seen : There is a good chance that both Linge and : Baur. who returned to the West Saturday night, will be called to testify before a Berchtes-! gaden court which is still busying itself with I the problem: Is Hitler legally, dead? The court has al most finished its research, and is expected to issue a death certi ficate this ' month. - The fact ' that Hitler's ' passing was surrounded by mystery is blamed on: Russia. U.S. Planning New A-Tests At Nevada Site WASHINGTON W ' The gov ernment was reported Sanday night to be! planning a new, small series of atomic tests at the Ne vada proving ground next month. At the conclusion of a series last May observers were given to un derstand that no iurther experi ments were planned- for the ron- tmentai proving ground for this year.'- . ' 4' V: ; Reports on the plan for the No vember series gave rise to specu lation that they might involve either further studies of radioac tive fall-out or changes in some existing devices. ". The November experiments' In Nevada could be in preparation for a new Series or thermonuclear explosions at the mid-Pacific prov ing -grounds in the Marshall Is lands next j spring or fall. I In this connection, either one or both of two reasons might lie be hind ; the Nevada preliminary work: . L To, make further analyses of radioactive fallout. ; 2. Word last spring that no fur ther tests were planned during the calendar year at Nevada indicated that field tests of trigger mecha nisms for fusion (hydrogen) bombs had been completed. However. computations and lab oratory work since then may have resulted in! a decision to include in the reported November ests some changes in designs of trigger devices. SI PLOT NIPPED BUENOS AIRES Ml Police an nounced Sunday night they, have nipped a plot by Peronista ele ments in the City of La Plata to create disorders Oct 17 previ ously celebrated as a "day cf loyalty" to Juan D. Peron. Pipe-Smoking Songstress Serenades Ike NORTIIRIDGE, CalifMrs. Dens lulls President Eisenhower la o .";- with her husband, Danny, U show their son Jaa, J, a letter she received from Mrs. Eisenhower thanking them for the tape recordings they sent the President Danny,! once an arranger for the late Ciena Miller writes the music and his wife writes the lyrics and sings all the vocals. (AP wirepbota.) , . Ike Touches Off Laughter Gales With Pa j ama .Tie j DENVER WV-President Eisen-; nower. in a rougish mood, touch ed off gales of side-splitting laughter in his hospital room Sunday by snapping a bright bow tie into place on his gold colored pajamas, i Vice ; President Nixon told .newsmen about the hilarious in cident, and added: ' ' i "Mrs. Eisenhower . said that when she went into the room this morning and saw the bow ' tie, she practically rolled on the poor." ' J.Nixon quoted Eisenhower as saying that he the chief execu tiveand his morning nurse had been planning the prank for the last; three, days to surprise the first lady and they sure did. ns Blast WASHINGTON OH Senate In vestigators sharply ' criticized the Defense Department Sunday ' tor 'Misleading' ' Arms Figures I . : O 1 ! what they tM-ymil. 1 formation" and multimillion dollar ' errors in its reports on the nation's 100 largest, defense contractors. 1 I Calling for an overhaul of Peniai gon reports in this field, the Sen ate document said Congress and the. public are entitled to "a com plete and accurate picture of these awards.' . . -, J The blistering report was prer pared by the staff of the Senate preparedness investigating sut committee and signed by Chair man Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the Senate Democratic leader, j I From 1 1951 to early in 194 the Defense: Department issued re ports every six months on the 100 largest defense contractors on a cumulative basis since 1950. The department stopped them more than a year ago .in an economy move, i; ' I Early this year the Senate Bank ng Committee and a House Small Business Committee asked that the reports be brought up to date. The department then issued a new type Report covering- an" It-month " pe riod from July 1953 to December 1954. ..; : ., ,,. ) The Senate-preparedness group, a branch of the Armed Services CommiUee. complained that this f'ineonsistenUy" eliminated the cumulative totals and presented a distorted picture. . Voters Spurn Adenauer's lArms Plea BREMEN, Germany.-) The West German Socialists, foes of rearmament, trounced Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's three coalition parties Sunday in a Bremen State election testing the popularity of lis pro-Western foreign policy. . Bonn's membership in the North Atlantic alliance, and plans to build a new West Germany army were big issues of the election, called to fill 100 seats in the state Parli ament. . J j Balloting on a grey, misty day, the voters largely spurned a plea by the Chancellor's Christian tiemocratic Party CDU) to "show the world Bremen also supports Adenauer." j Instead they gave the Socialists, bitter opponents of his policies, the biggest majority the Socialists ever received in this state. At the same time, the voters repudiated communism and the Nazi-tainted Refugee Party. t Gaglielmt, pipe smoking singer his Denver hospital room, takes Kecord Br encli . Downpour Dumps 2.76 Inches oh Salem Sector in 24-Hour Period ; i . By RUSSELL BIERAUGEL ,,l . Staff Writer, The Statesman The heaviest October rainfall on record at the McNary Field Weather Bureau and the biggest 24-hour downpour since the flood of February 1949 raised the Willamette River four feet in 24 hours Sunday but no serious damage was reported in the area. - SUte police reported cars stalled in mud and water Sunday evening in the Hayesville underpass at the site of new construction on the Portland-Salem Express-1 way. Travel was resumea wnen a clogged catch basin was clear ed 'by the contractor. Several minor collisions, clog ged catch basins and one up rooted tree were reported in Salem. ; ' ; The rain let up Sunday eve ning and forecasts from McNary Field and other stations near the f coast indicate only showers today, The storm hit a wide area of the Oregon Coast and .Willamette Valley. , One of Portland's major traffic arteries was blocked more than an hour Sunday when a huge fir i tree, loosened by rain, crashed onto Canyon Road, ac cording to the Associated Press. A clump of mud bounced free from the tree's roots and pushed an automobile off the road, but with only minor injuries to the driver and slight damage to the car.- . -; - - . - . : . , 2.7 Inches The steady downpour deluged 2.78 inches of water on Salem in the 24-hour period ending 4 p.m. Sunday, according to weath ermen at McNary Field. The total was 3.47 inches in the 40 hour storm between 6 a.m. Sat urday and 10 p.m. Sunday. The top 24-hour figure was .4 inch better than the previous Oc tober .record of 2.36. inches in a 24-hour period la 1947, the weather bureau reported. ' " River Surges .; - ---.- . And . it was the . Suggest ram since 1.16 inches fell on Salem in a 24-hour period Feb 16-17, 1943, flooding ! city - streets and1 base ments, marooning several homes, damaging first floors and threaten ing Valsetz Dam. The .; level -of , the, Willamette River rose 4 feet in 24 hours Sun- day at the Salem Boathouse. It had come up .3 foot between mid night and 6 a.m. and surged to 1.1 foot over normal by 8 p.m. Salem i weather records at Mc Nary Field are complete back to 1900 and really start with 1892 with only a few omissions in the first 8 years.: v'- . Sewers Clogged Street department employes freed several catch basins clogged with fallen leaves during the day and evening. City police also pok ed several free in the .business, area wherever they saw lakes forming.; . City employes also were re quired to move a dragline shovel at Wallace Park where the rising river threatened to maroon it." - Tree Topples A small tree toppled in the soaked earth in the 500 block Patterson avenue in West Salem, police reported, but did no dam age. . . ' Rainfall in the 40-hour period 6 a.m. Saturday to 10 p.m. Sun day totaled 4.64 at Newport, 4.2 at North Bend, 2.53 at Portland and 3.65 at Brookings, Salem weathermen said. The storm was was moving into the Brooking area eariy uniay, mey auueu. whose voice it was disclosed Sunday time off from a recording session Rains Area Strike-Bound Piston Firm to Delay Opening INDIANAPOLIS (A - Officials of Perfect Circle Corp. Sunday promised Gov. George N. Craig not to attempt Monday morning to re-open the New Castle foundry ' where eight union sympathizers and non-strikers were shot and wounded last Wednesday. . The governor, made an -implied threat to impose martial law on the Eastern Indiana industrial city if necessary to avoid further violence at the piston ring company. . Both company officials and the striking CIO United Auto Workers agreed to maintain the status quo pending another session with the governor at noon. Eastern Stand ard time, Monday. , t A company spokesman said Per--fect Circle first felt that "status quo meant it could go ahead with its plans to reopen Monday morn ing. The management decided. however, not to try re-opening un til after the Monday meeting. Rmfe Wounds KillFormer BigLeeguer .SAN ANTONIO, Tex. m i- For. mer major league pitcher i Howie Fox, trying to clear his tavern of three young men, was stabbed to death early Sunday and his bar tender was .critically slashed. The three youths later went to city jail and surrendered. John J. Strickland, 20. a college student, was booked for investiga tion of murder and assault to mur. der. His two companions. Jack G. Allen, 21. and Martin Belto, 27, wfcre boaked as material wit nesses.! ! -No charges were filed and police said none would be filed until Mon day. " ' - Police said all three youths made statements about the stabbings, but officers would not release full details immediately. - The blg,! 195-pound hurler pitched i for San Antonio of the Texas League in the season just ended. He was with the Cincinnati Reds in 1944 through 1946 and again from 1948 - through 1951. He .was with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1952 . and te Baltimore Orioles in 1954. He was 34. Here is what happened as police put the story together: Fox ordered the three out of the tavern becausa. they were creating a disturbanc. putside the tavern, a fioht MuntivT PoHce reported that in the state- ment, Strickland said he went to a car and got a knife during the fight (Story also on sports page.) Science Notes it Of Butterfly CRISFIELD. Md. Just how far win a b ttterfly fly? , The. Royal Ontario Museum at Toronto has been trying to find . that out - this summer. j - Mrs. Emma Coulbourne of Cris field has been helping -with the answers. - " r i Thanks to her. the museum is able to report that, at least one ; butterfly flew exactly 569 miles from Meaford, Ont. to one of Mrs. 4 flniilhniirne 7innia I j That's only if the butterfly's . 1 1 flight was in a straight line, which ' Long Flial is highly doubtful, since butter flies in flight are notoriously er ratic. ' . The butterfly Mrs. Coulbourne noticed last Sept 9 on her zinnia - a monarch bore a band on its leg, She threw a net over the butterfly and learned where it had -come from.: : . , ; She Sent the butterfly and perti hent data back to the' museum, r The museum director, F.A. I'r-1' . t 4 1.IJ 1 qun-rii "n rr: . " . "It adds very significant infor-. " mation to our studies." CANDIDACY ANNOUNCED PORTLAND to Rep. Edith Green, congresswoman from Mult nomah' County, announced Sunday she would be a candidate for re election in 1956.