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m 105th Year 4 State Ur m Penalty as Trial of Mrs ,12 Jurors Seated Tentatively in Murder Trial of Portland Widow . ; - 4 (Photo in sec 2, page 6.) McMINNVILLE, Ore. (Jf) A nervous Mrs. Marjorie Smith, 34, heard a state prosecutor demand her life Thursday for the dynamite slaying of her attorney husband in Portland last ApriL ma. oumu, uu icpcaicuiy uas insisted sue is Demon Dan oniy because of the "terrible lies" of a handyman, picked fretfully at her white gloves as jury selection began for her first-degree murder The city commission of Port- land voted unanimously to refuse a renewal of the franchise of the Portland Traction company which Will. , j. Au . A Vn .... - 4 1 j.4 5 rin in Ynir nn .Tannnrv 51 ct ! next; I wonder if the commission has thought this, matter through soberly. Suppose the company lays up its buses on Feb. 1st and Port land; is left without city transit service and the company's 800 em ployes are left without jobs isn't this a logical expectation from the course the commission - has pur sued? ' Commissioner Boody admits con cern over the welfare of employes but thinks, a new franchise is need- ed and says it is paramount that it be granted to local interests. ! Very well, where are the local in-: terests which will come forward and take on the franchise? When the street car system was a subsid iary of the old Portland Electric Power Company the trustees of the latter were eager to dispose of the system. Did any Portland cap-. jtalisti come forward to buy it thoueh the .street car- system had been quite profitable through the war years? They didn't, but a group In San" Francisco did, and paid a good price for the property. In view of the well publicized dif ficulties of street transit operations in Portland and ' everywhere else what'iope is there that local cap ital now will make, the investment required -and Uake. on the head aches? - There Is another angle - which doesn't look: good, and that is the (continued on editorial page,' 4.) Study Class Popular. . CORVALL1S tfl A spare time class at Oregon State College, just for the fufrof i.lrew nearly 300 students standing room only. " The subject: Hints on how. to study.- -v - - " ' First Marion County Tax Statements Mailed I r-t ' : 1 : j r First of More' than S0,OO0 Marion County tax statements were mailed Thursday night as preliminary work in the county tax collectors of flee at the conrthonse seared completion. Shown checking sev tnl hundred ( the completed statements are (from left to right) Mrs. Patricia Savage, Mrs. Rath Wood, Howard Evans, chief deputy county tax collector, and Mrs. Sydney Nelson. Bulk of 'the state Keats will ke mailed today, according ta Evans.: (Statesman Photo). " - '.-v . ' poundod 1651 : " ; SECTIONS - 40 PAGES Death . Smith Begins i trial. ' By night f ill 12 jurors had been seated tentatively. Still to go are two alternates. Any of them may yet be dismissed, for the state and the defense have not used up all challenges, although they r a n through 39 names : Thursday be fore the 12 were seated. Six women were selected, five housewives and a widow. There also were a farmer a barber, two insurance salesmen, and two re tired farmers. The . trial was shifted to this ' fariminir a roo An mUoc ffvnr, Tai land teT th'e defense charged a fajr Hal imnnscihi in Pr. :land c pubUcity given the I case there. Smith was slain by a bomb blast when he opened his car door at a Portland coun try club. Defense Atty. Bruce Spaulding did not drop this matter of pub licity.. He asked each prospective juror about his feeling toward the Portland newspapers, which circu late in this area. When one woman said she had no particular feeling, Spaulding snapped. "I do." Willis West, chief prosecutor, told the first prospective juror that the state intended to seek the death penalty (Additional details. Sec. 1, Page 4.) Sheridan Mill Closes; 70 Idle SUtetmaa News ferric SHERIDAN The McCormick Lumber and Manufacturing Com pany was closed Thursday amid speculation as to , when it would reopen. Seventy workmen were idled... - ' ; - ,The Sheridan - Sim Thursday quoted ' H, " F.' McCormick, presi dent of the corporation, as stating that he hoped to reopen the mill in the spring. l - . - The mill. Sheridan's largest in dustry, was rebuilt a year ago following , a- $200,000 fire which swept it on May 18, 1954. It had operated continuously since it re opened. ; The Sun story said the mill stopped buying logs Monday. It needed 83 loads of logs a day to i run and keep its cold deck stocked. v y:; y" ' : - rjy : Th Oregon Statesman, Parents 'Trade Places' With 7th r y -. . : - r-- -acr- ;. . ... i.t; A new idea in public school open houses was tried Thursday night at Leslie Junior High School. Parents attending over 250 of i them spent 10 minutes in each of their children's seven class-! rooms, while faculty outlined an class. Only parents of seventh Woman, 82, Struck by Car, Critically Hurt An 82-year-old Salem woman suffered critical injuries Thurs day morning when she was struck by i car at Chemeketa and N. Liberty Streets, city police re ported. Injured was Olive Inez Stev ens, a resident of the Argo Hotel and minister of the Salem Truth Center, 341 Chemeketa St, a re ligious organization. After treat ment by first aidmen, she was taken by Willamette ambulance to Salem General Hospital where attendants listed her injuries as a skull fracture, concussion and fractures of the pelvis and left leg. Police said they cited Donald Frank Moreland, 31, of 245 Boone Rd., on a charge of failure to yield right of way to a pedestrian after his 1950 Nash sedan struck the woman about 8:20 a.m. The vehicle reportedly was starting a left turn onto Chemeketa Street Miss Stevens is a sister of Mrs. Helen Anderson, Dallas. Salem, Oregon, Friday, October average day in that particular grade students attended last night. Man Held as Witness in Killing of Chicago Boys CHICAGO Police Thursday night seizid a man who said he slept in the forest preserve area where the bodies of three boys were, found Tuesday afternoon and that "the bodies weren't in the ditch that morning." Sheriff Joseph Lohman said the man is Edward Rohlfes, 47, of suburban Glen Ellyn. Lohman said Rohlfes is held without charge as a witness and will be given a lie detector test Friday morning. , The sheriff said Rohlfes was picked up . after a forest ranger saw his car and traced his license number. '- Rohlfes told police he drove to the area about t p. m. Monday, parked near the ditch; entered the woods and went to sleep. He said he had slept there many times in the past. When he got up at 6:43 Tuesday morning and walked back to the truck, Rohlfes said he went right past the ditch and he is positive there were no bodies there then. Rohlfes said he returned to the area in his truck with his daughter at 10 a. m. and, although they did not walk to the edge of. the ditch, he is sure that they would have seen the bodies if they had been there. Old Model Ford Driving out of the parking lot. Rohlfes said, he notied three youths drive up in a "faded blue Ford, old model". They were be tween 17 and 20 years old. he said. Lohman said he had a pickup order out on the car Rohlfes said he saw. The sheriff . said the li cense number was not known. Meanwhile, handpicked - detec tives made a door-to-door search for clues in. the brutal slaying, while a scientist deduced the youths had been given savage beatings by two or more grown men. Went to Priest Meanwhile, in Brookville, Ind., a 19-year-old girl who went to a priest to confess an automobile theft told authorities there she knew "who the fellows was'' in the Chicago triple slaying. Sheriff Lohman in i Chicago re served 'judgment on the possible lead. He said he had conferred by telephone with Sheriff James Hixon of Brookville and had asked Hixon to question the girl on spe cific points. The girl, held without charge in Brookville, said she : was in Chi cago over the weekend. Weathermen Say Some Clouds Due Partial cloudiness preceded by early morning fog patches is the weather prospect for the Salem area today, according to McNary Field forecasters. No rain is ex pected. Thursday's high reading was 67 and today's maximum will be about the same. A minimum of around 40 is expected tonight DIVIDEND DECLARED . PORTLAND U Portland Gas k Coke Co. directors declared Thursday a dividend of 22 Vi cents a share on common stock. The Weather Max. Mia. Prreip. Salra Portland Baker . Med ford 7- 41 64 51 .00 .00. .00 .60 .00 .BO .oo .00 M .64 ; 2S .70 43 ..S3 - 48 .64 42 North Bend Roseburg San Francisco .7. -87 .4 53 74 44 Loa Angeles . Chicago New York ... ...6J 51 Willamette River .4 feet. FORECAST tfrom V. S. weather bureau. McNary field.' Salem): Patches of -early morning fo. 'oth erwise partly cloudy ttm afternoon, tonight and Saturday; high today 64 66. low-tonight 40-42. Temperature 'at "12:01 a.m. today was 47. - - SALBM'MECrPITATIOW' Sinrr Start of W father Year, 1 Tfcli Tear 1 - Last Tear NnnrtaJ 4.S2 1.31 - . 41 21, 1955 .PRICE 5c Grade Youngsters Next Thursday night will be for eighth grade parents, and the next Thursday for; Ninth graders. Parents of "A" band members are shown above listening t instructor Glen Williams' (left) in the band room. (Statesman Photo). Bike Wheel Traps Youth City first aidmen were forced to pry eight j spokes loose from a bicycle wheel Thursday in or der to release the left leg of Jacky.Marx, 8, of 2690 N. 5th fit. Aidmen said the boy suffered abrasions and1 bruises in the 3:50 p.m. accident, which occurred when his foot caught in the wheel while he was riding near his home. No hospitalization was required. Chiang Officer Found Guilty In Red Plot TAIPEI, Formosa UP) Famed, U. S.-trained Gen. Sun Li-Jen has been convicted of setting up a sec ret clique which was used by a Communist subordinate to plot an uprising in the Nationalist army. The report of a special commis sion was made public Thursday along with disclosure that Presi dent Chiang Kai-Shek would per mit Suit, his former personal chief j of staff, to continue to wear his stars and uniform. The commission said that Sun could not have been "entirely ig norant" of the conspiracy hatched last May by Maj. Kuo Ting-Liang, a trusted subordinate now under arrest as a long-time Communist agent. , Chiang, said, however, that in view of Sun's distinguished war record hetwjas the hero of the Burma campaign in World War II and because! he admitted guilt he would be "given opportunity to re deem himself and be subject to no further disciplinary action." RUSS SEAMEN IN U. S. SEATTLE m. Nine Russian seamen who lumped ship at For mosa arrived: here Thursday night as special immigrants to the Unit- The other will be handled by pri ed States, f I vale contract for the state. Defense Department Sending 2 Planes to Europe to Pick Up 3 Senators, Wives; Solons Deny Requests By GARDNER L. BRIDGE 4 WASHINGTON tf The De fense Department said Thursday it is sending two big f our-engined transport planes on special trips to Europe to provide transporta tion home (or three U.S. Sen ators and their wives, i But two of . the Senators said they had not asked for govern ment planes to fly them back. One of them said he is coming home on ."a! scheduled aircraft.'' .The estimated cost of the two special roundtrip flights outlined by the defense department ' is $20,000. j The first of the twoplanes, a DC6, took off Thursday for Ma drid and was due to pick up Sen ators McClellan. (D.-Ark.) and Stennis "(D.-Miss.y there Sunday. The 'second, a Constellation-type transport, is scheduled to leave here next Monday for Paris, wheretthe defense department said Sen. Chavez (D.-NM.) would be waiting. No. 20! Leslie Junior High Parents 'Go to School' ; Parents some 253 of them went to school Thursday evening at Leslie Junior High to see class room procedure as their children sec it. ; , It was all part of a novel idea hatched by 'school faculty In co operation with the Leslie PTA. The affair Was designed, said Principal Earl Hampton, to acquaint parents with JLJie inside of operations "and to familiarize them with the daily experiences of their children. 5 Turned students for a night Tuesday evening were parents of seventh graders. Next Thursday parents of eighth graders are scheduled and the following Thurs day the Leslie faculty will play host to fathers and mothers of ninth graders. The school has an enrollment of more than 1,300. Seventh grade parents had a chance Thursday evening to see the new educational environment into which their sons and daugh ters jumped after making the transition from elementary schools. They spent 10 minutes in each of seven classrooms ranging from physical education to physical sci ence. Members of the faculty ex plained an average day in class, told of subject matter, manner of grading and home work require ments. Principal Hampton conducted an orientation session and introduced the faculty prior to the trek to the classrooms. State Parking Lots Readied Some relief of the parking prob lem around state buildings in Sa lem was promised Thursday by a report -from state officials that three long-planned parking lots will be ready soon. They will han dle 100 cars. , - These will be on property owned by the state within three blocks of the Capitol at the southeast cor ner of Marion and Summer Streets, on the west "side of Summer be tween Marion and Union, and at the rear of Glendora Apartments on North Winter Street. The - lots will be used by state employes. The city of Salem will grade and gravel two ot them The Defense Department ex plained that the senators, who have been in Europe on business of the senate appropriations com mittee, had said they could not wait for regular ' flights. The Washington offices of all three senators said, on the other hand, that they knew of no requests for special service; Reached in Naples tonight, Mc Clellan' said: "There is not a word of truth in it, There can't be any truth in it I have never heard of such a story. All I know is that . I made arrangements to go back on a scheduled aircraft and that is what is going to happen."- It Was not immediately clear wtiether McClellan meant by "scheduled . aircraft a commer cial airliner or: a scheduled mili tary plane. -The -plane en route-to . Madrid" . is - now a ''scheduled" flight, since it has been ordered to pick tip McClellan and Stennis.' Adlal Intent Stevenson 'Not Counting at All' on Backing of New York Delegation NEW YORK Adlai Stevenson made it virtually dear Thursday he will be a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. "I'm not counting on the New York delegation at alL" he told newsmen. They took this as a plain indication he would be in me race. w While this implied he expected Gov. Averell Harriman to be a rival candidate, at least in a fav orite son capacity, Sen Herbert H. Lehman D NY) came out a few hours later with a pledge of support to Stevenson. This presaged a split in the New York delegation. Split Indicated Carmine G. DeSapio, Democrat ic national committeeman, had been working for a delegation 100 per cent for Harriman. Lehman was the first major Democrat in New York to pledge support to Stevenson since Harri man'a name has been mentioned prominently as a possible candi date at the Chicago convention next year. Stevenson made his comment at Idlewild Airport before boarding a plane for Chicago. Asked About Report Newsmen had asked him about a New York Herald Tribune story that his supporters had started a j move; to keep the New York state delegation from giving solid back ing to Harriman. Stevenson, the Democratic can didate in 1952 and former gover nor of Illinois, replied: "I neither know of nor have heard! of such a thing. I'd be in terested but I don't think I'd ap prove. I'm not counting on the New York ! delegation at all." The! New York delegation will have j 90 votes at the convention, more' than any other state. Later Stevenson remarked: "I haven't even said I'd seek the nomination. However, as I said last July, I expect to have some thing to say about that in Novem ber; Martial Law Ends at Piston Ring Plants h INDIANAPOLIS tf - Martial law ended in the Perfect Circle Corpi strike areas Thursday. Gov. George N. Craig said he was as sured a reduced force of National Guard troops, operating under ci vil control, could maintain order, The troops on duty in the East ern Indiana area were cut from 330 to 150 by Craig's order. The governor called out the guard the night of . Oct 5 after eight persons suffered gunshot wounds in a riot outside the piston ring firm's foundry in New Castle. More than 1,200 members and sympathizers of the striking CIO United - Auto Workers Union marched on the plant. Shots were fired, from the plant and returned from the crowd. rf ' Craig imposed full martial law Oct.! 10. Atheist Asks Chaplain Ban MINNEAPOLIS JD Frank C; Hughes, 73. who identifies himself as an atheist, said Thursday he has started legal steps to force an end i to employment of chaplains in the United States armed forces. Hughes, a retired mechanical engineer who is acting as his own attorney, said he mailed a law suit; with this objective to Wash ington, D. C, for filing in U. S. District Court there. Named as chief defendant in the suitj he said, was Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, treasurer of the United States. Hughes contends the chaplain system denies the freedom of reli gion guaranteed in the First Amendment of the federal Consti tution. In paying income taxes, he said, he is "forced to pay a part of the cost of promulgating religious doc trines which he abhors, and is obliged to support, financially, re ligion entirely alien" to his own. Stennis was not reached imme diately, but Chavez said he bad "requested nothing. He de clined to say how he is getting home. Senatorial aides said the air force had known for weeks that the 'senators' would have to be back by certain dates to meet speaking or other engagements, and: therefore could have . ar ranged in advance to bring them back on regular flights. Robert. Tripp Ross, assistant secretary of defense for legisla tive and public affairs, said the Pentagon . had no alternative, but 'to order the special flights when, the senators said they could not wait two or three days for Tegular planes. ... i Ross said the defense depart ment "has. a duty to provide without question" transportation for members, of congress who, are traveling under statutory au thorization. i The three senators arrived in Shows toRnn UF Leaders See $175,000 Figure Today Salem United Fund director! ? expect to count upwards of $175,- 000 today in their campaign for $205,000 for the coming year'! support of 27 youth' and.welfara agencies. , , Chairmen of each campaiga f, division continued their close ' check Thursday of coverage in their solicitation. f Volunteer auditors at the UF campaign headquarters counted - $167,000 in pledges by late Thurv . day, with more coming in and -with much new money predicted . for the regular report session of ' division leaders today noon at the Marion HoteL Campaign Chairman Kenneth M. Potts has urged all UF offi- X rials to complete their soliciting ' work in time for a victory report next Wednesday. Salem Chosen one Warehouse Salem is chosen lor i. new warehouse and. distribution cen ter for North Electric Co., an Ohio manufacturer of telephone equipment, it was announced Thursday by D. C. Dye, manager of the new operation.' A half million dollar annual business is expected to be don out of Salem by the firm, selling equipment to some 350 inde pendent telephone companies of the nine Western states and Alaska. No manufacturing or assembly will be done here, and new em ployment will . be limited to a clerical office to serve Dye, a salesman in California and one in Washington. A " Storage - will be handled ' by . Capital City Transfer personnel in a part of its warehouse at 1325 Johnson St. in North Salem. Dye will have his office there. Opening date is set for Dec. 1. The: Salem installation s is the' first in the West for the electric concern. Four other warehouses are located at Atlanta, Ga., Dal las, Tex., Minneapolis, Minn., and ata Gauon, Ohio, where the north factory employs about 1,800. Dye . said Salem was selected for the distribution center after a study of many Western cities. "From here we can serve better the telephone industry," he said. Salem Chamber of Commerce helped the . company get estab-. lished here. GUARD DARFT URGED NEW ORLEANS UB The Na tional Guard Assn. Thursday urged Congress to pass laws drafting men into the national guard. ; Today's Statesman Sec. Pag Babson Report . H.. 7 Business Paga . . II 7 Classified IV4-7 Comes th Dawn I 4 Comics 10 Crossword III 11 Editorials ' . 4 Food LI!!.. 1-5 Horn Panorama I 6-8 Markets ' 7 Radio, TV 11 Sports ..IV 1-3 Star Gazer l 9 Valley i !! 6 Wirephoto Pago 1 1 10 London by air Sept 27 to begin a three weeks tour of American defense aid funds in Britain, Spain and Turkey. . . Chavez said on landing iij Lon don: "We are here to find out how much is being - spent and how much we need to spend to keep or defense commitments up to the mark. We may -not b spending enough either in Bri tain or in Europe." . A Pentagon spokesman, in ans wer to a question, said that regu lations permit the air force to purchase commercial transporta tion when air force facilities art not available. He added, however that this is. done only upon re quest and that no such' request was made in this case. . The com mercial airlines fare from Ma drid to New York is about $436; from ; Paris, about $420. Thus the cost by ..commercial, flight would have been less than $3,000 for the three senators and their wives. Teleph
