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- i n rws 3m SiuixivOTS 105th Year - 2 SECTIONS 24 PACES , . Tho Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, November 2, 1955 PRICE 5c No; 220 Plow Strains to Clear Santiam Pass Snow DC6B Wreckage Lies Scattered, Burning ers n S MO 6 fr (C LJ LJ LJ . y -V. L-l v r. L-J v w Aboard. 4 ' f Portland-Botind Craft ':-4 '- : V- , -.-.' fUNDID 1651 ' " Sobs End AllSM z r 'SPTES . . , : ( ) i'y 4 , uu rrrtD HDi3 A glance at the map of Africa hows the bis hump of land pro jecfinz into the Atlantic Ocean. A closer inspectioo will show the Gold Coast on the south side of the -. hump , fronting the Gulf of Guinea.- This has long been a Brit ish colony,-but now is becoming fully self-governing. Just east of the Gold Coast is Togoland which itself ; is , divided - into two parts, the western portion . adjacent to Gold Coast being , administered by Britain out of the Gold Coast, and the eastern part administered by 'France. The total area of the two Tozolands is some 38,000 sq. mi Their population is something over . a million. Their chief wealth is in production of cocoa to satisfy the tweet tooth of Americans and Eur opeans. The history of the Togolands is this: When the European powers were busy carving up Africa the Germans took Togoland. After the first world war Germany was stripped of its colonies. Togoland was put under the League of Na tions which for administrative car poses divided the two, giving the mandate for one part to - Britain and the other to France. - The League of Nations collapsed, and after the second world war United Nations succeeded to overall sup ervision of the two Togos but con tinued the administrative arrange ments with Britain and France. The status and the future of Togo land has (Continued on editorial page, 4.) YdutH Cited In Fatal Crash A Stayton youth was charged Tuesday with negligent homicide in the death of Fred Arthur Dennis, Salem, who was fatally crushed in a highway mishap east of Aumsville Saturday after noon. --. Held Tuesday- night under $2,000 bail was Lawrence Dean Pace, 28, Stayton, identified as driver - of another car " allegedly involved in the mishap. He was arrested Tuesday afternoon at his home following a complaint by Delbert L. . Dennis, son of the dead man: Dennis was driver of the auto in which the victim was a passenger. - Pace is scheduled to appear in Marion County District Court to- . day. . : " - . -. PO IT YDCRSaf s. Wen, tf 1 made this one. I ear -don't remember It r SANTIAM JUNCTION A State aear the junction after 27 inches had fallen la two days. Roads were kept opea bat chains were I repaired and some motorists were reported having difficulty staying ia the lanes oa the packed ' saow. Soow flarries continued Tuesday and mere were,expected. Snow plows were busy on all passes through the Cascades and McKenzie, with II inches of new snow Willamette, with ZZ Inches of aew snow. Men Arrested In Slaying of Chicago Bovs (Picture sec. 2, page 4.) LADYSMITH, Wis. m Two men arrested in an abandoned farmhouse near here . one of whom was said to have at first admitted, then denied be saw three Chicago schoolboys the , night of their brutal murder waived ex tradition Tuesday and were re turned to Chicago for continued questioning. Assistant State's Attorney Frank Ferlic identified the men as Ed Kline, 30. and Charles Driscoll, 19, both of Chicago, who came here last -Wednesday. -Their arrest was ordered after Driscoll' s mother told authorities they had been to gether from 5 p.m. till, sometime after 11:30 p.m. the night the three boys were strangled. s. The boys, Robert Peterson, 13, John Schuessler, 13, and John's 11-year-old brother. Anton, were mur dered Oct. 16. Their bodies were found Oct IS stacked in a forest preserve ditch. Traffic Rolls On Freeway - The Portland-Salem freeway was opened at its "Salem end without fanfare Tuesday at 1 p'.m., and minutes later auto were whizzing along its new length. Some 25 cars were waiting for workmen to remove the barriers shortly after noon at the Hayes ville interchange north of Salem, state highway officials said. Several ' state police were on hand but were not needed, officials said, as traffic smoothly turned onto the ' new - freeway. Opened Monday was the 25 mile stretch between Salem and Wilsonville. The Wilsonville-Portland . section was opened several months ago. ' The connecting bypass of Salem was opened to traffic one year ago .Tuesday.' . ; MATURE LABOR RELATIONS FRESNO, Calif. (aVloseph F. Flnnegan of Washington D.C di rector of the U.S., Mediation and Conciliation Service,- said Tuesday labor relations on the Pacific Coast have reached the "highest degree of maturity in the country." The Weather lalei Portland Baker Medfard North Bend Rose burg San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago New Yora winamette River 4-i feet. : tdrecasT (from U. S. weather K..MH. McNarv Field. Salem): Mostly ciouoy. louowea oj ockm' mimmi ficht rain today, tonicht and Thursday; a little chant e In tem perature with the highest today near (3 and the lowest tonight near 40. Temperature at . 13.-01 a.m. today was 42. ; ... , . ' .itwuMimrriTinv' tiara atari mt Weather .Year Sep. 1 Tata Tra . Last Year . Kamal I . 4.73 - -. J1 ' Max. Mia. Fred .. ' si is .7 48 ' 40 .03 ? ' ' 37 ' M .14 ., 51 ' 37 "trace 51 40 M 5J .39 : .36 S3 44 .00 . a i OO , 54 43 .03 61 45 .09 Highway Department plow strains Ghur cli's Chimes Yield 'StiakV Sons , ROANOKE RAPIDS, , N.C. (JP A Halloween prankster, had the whole town hopping about 11:30 o'clock 'Monday -night when he played a recording, of "Shake, Rattle and Roll" on the chimes amplifier of the . First . Baptist Church. -"He turned the volume on full hlast and, boy, did be wake . up the whole town," 'said reporter Carl Churchill of the Roanoke Rapids Herald.. . Police have the recording of the jive hit They're looking for the prankster. ' Police List New York Tot As Kidnaped ;; EAST MEADOW, N.Y. The disappearance - of little '' Stephen Damman Tuesday .was listed as kidnaping by police after an in tensive search of a 20 square mile failed to turn up a single clue. The lad,' just two months short of three years' old, disappeared Monday. when his mother left him outside a supermarket for 10 min-f utes. . . He is the son of . Marilyn and Jerry Damman. The father. 26. is a Continental Air Command sergeant. Hundreds of his buddies at nearby Mitchel Air Force Base Joined police and firemen in a house-by-house, ditch-by-ditch hunt Mrs. Damman left Stephen out side the market to watch his sev en-month-old sister, - Pamela, who was in a baby carriage. .When Mrs. .Damman came out, both children and carriage was gone. Pamela was found unhurt in the carriage behind the super' market, r It was apparent that the boy probably could not have pushed the carnage there himself, because he would have had to cross a line of traffic, a driveway and rough ground. - Die May Leave DenverNov.il DENVER Wl - The ; Denver White House said Tuesday it is a good guess at this point that Pres ident Eisenhower will leave the hospital Nov, 11 for Washington. Presidential press, secretary James C. Hagerty told reporters the Nov. 11 date has been dis cussed among Eisenhower's doc tors and with the chief executive and Mrs. Eisenhower. He said that "it's a good guess" for the departure time but that a Onal decision will not be made un til Dr. Paul Dudley White Boston heart specialist, and the other phy sicians, have examined Eisenhow er this . weekend. (Additional ; de tails, sec. 2, page 7.) : ", BUS STRIKE OFF PITTSBURGH 1 The office of Mayor David L. Lawrence an nounced, at .1:38 a.m. (EST) Wed nesday that an impending strike of AFL bus and trolley operators against the Pittsburgh Railways has been called ofi. U clear snow from Saatlaa Pass reported Tnesday morning, and' Peak Passes Clogged With 'White Magicl Snow that had crept, down the mountainside to Gates and the hills east of Silverton was . retreating Tuesday but a new storm with rain and possibly more snow was on the way. j Plows were kept busy on all roads crossing the Cascade as 27 inches feu on Santiam Pass in two days and IS inches hit McKenzie in 24 hours. Willamette Pass' was almost clogged with 22 inches in1 one day. j Chains were still required on all passes Tuesday, according to the State Highway Department. 3 laches of Snow ' ;'-- Roadside snow on Santiam, Mc Kenzie and Willamette passes was reported at 30 inches Tuesday. It was snowing hard on McKenzie and one-way traffic was, reported in the' Big Cut Flurries continued in Santiam and Willamette passes. Three inches of snow at Detroit, Ore.', -was pretty well gone Tues day night, state police reported. Weathermen at McNary. Field ex pected the area of snowfall to con tinue receding .into the mountains but said an approaching storm may carry some more snow. 1 ' Hall, Sleet -. ; ; . ' There was some snow on the Coast Range ' and some coast re sorts reported hail and sleet, ac cording to the Associated Press. Showers bn Salem were negligi ble Tuesday but light rains are predicted later today and Thurs day. Temperatures are due for a little rise with a high of 62 pre dicted for today -and a low of 40 tonight ' " . . ' Thieves Loot ' Detroit Cafe ' luteinaa News Service . DETROIT. Ore. Burglary which netted an estimated , $170 and ten selected bottles of whisky at the Lake Lodge cafe and tav ern here was discovered .Tuesday afternoon, j ''' The loss was reported by Trude Russell, . proprietor, when she opened about 4:30 p.m. after the business had been closed since Sunday evening. . . , , -Entry was gained through a window, apparently-unlocked, to the ; women's restroom, officers said.- ' - ... Forest GroVe Man Homed Assistant : State Forester A new. assistant state - forester was appointed .Tuesday, in the per son of Edward Schroeder of For est Grove, who has been Oregon's district warden In " charge of the 1,674,000-acre Northwest . Oregon state forest district. Schroeder ..will head the: newly created state forests division, with headquarters in Salem, it was an nounced by State Forester Dwight L.. Phipps.' Schroeder started here Tuesday. : Of Widow T Always Loved Kermit,' State's Prosecutor! Told McMINNVILLE, Ore The state left Mrs. Marjorie Smith in tears as cross-examination ended Tuesday in the woman's iirst- desree murder tnal. ; She sobbed out ber final answers to prosecutor Willis West as he asked about the degree of love she bore for Kermit Smith, her third husband and the man she is ac cused of" helping to kill with a dynamite explosion in . Portland last Aoril. "You always loved Kermit Smith?" West asked. .. , ' "Yes." Hersey Meatiooed ; - "Did you love him while you were with Hersey in Miami?" conntinued West, referring to Mer rick Hersey, her first husband and the man she admitted going away with, six years after their divorce and shortly after she met Smith in 1951. That's entirely different. . One crowded out the other," said Mrs. Smith "Well, Kermit Smith had just C0Dieive? ,.chU.dMtiyou wer? conceived a child that J,""IU' UZU " ldn 1 know " at pe time' sh rePued t , nnc j uu in wvc wiui iuiii an lUluiiil 'That's a hard question to answer." she said "I Married Man. ' - "Yon lived with Hersey in San Diego for a time after you learned he was a married man?" "Yes. for a short time." she said, her voice dropping ; "Did you love Smith at that time" : ' ' "That Is a hard ' Question to answer. - - --" - "Is the love you had for Kermit Smith, when you were living with another woman's husband in San Diego, the same love you had for Kermit Smith on the night of Aoril 21, when he was murdered?" West asked , Mrs. Smith sobbed. "I just don't understand that . . r question," she said between sobs I loved my husband. t! ; "You may have the witness," West said to Bruce Spaulding, the defense attorney. ,( Additional de tails sec. 1. page 2.) : Ulness Fatal to Dale Carnegie NEW YORK m Dale Carne gie, 66, a once shy youth who rose to wealth and fame as a speech teacher and author of "How- To Win' Friends and Influence Peo ple," died unexpectedly Tuesday. He had been ill m his. home in Forest -. Hills for a month, but friends had not considered his con-, dition critical. They said, his ill ness started as a case of shingles and inflammatory skin disease. - The author and lecturer headed the Carnegie Institute of Effective Speech and Human Relations, which conducts courses in 750 Uni ted States cities and towns and in 27 foreign lands., f ' j ! His widow,'-Mrs. Dorothy Price Vanderpool Carnegie, said the in stitute will be continued under her direction. Carnegie's book, "How To Win Friends and. Influence People." published in 1936, had a sale of about four million copies. , .j; 90 Japan Mineifs 'A Trapped in Blast SAPPORO, . Japan t A gas explosion trapped -W miners Tues day night in a large coal mine in Northern Japan. Police said the death toll might reach 60. Twenty bodies were recovered. Thirty miners were rescued or clawed through debris and choking fumes to the surface. Six of these were injured but reports did not say how seriously. i Press reports from the scene, 33 miles north of Sapporo, said the 40 miners still! missing were be lieved dead. I - The new - assistant forester, - an Oregon State College forestry grad uate, has been with the State For estry, Department since 1941. For five, years preceding he had been with Mill City Manufacturing Co. Schroeder now will have charge of. alf activities dealing with -administration of the 700,000 acres of state forest lands. This will include the forest rehabilitation program, under "which S million tree seed lings will be planted this winter. , . ,; -v j f - ' V- ;LONGM0NT,"CcJo Wreckage of a United Air Lines. DC6B lies strewn la the foreground and the ;re ,f t, fuselage burns in the background as people begin to gather at the scene of the crash Tnesday night that took 44 Uves. There were Be survivors. JAP Wircphoto. r . :' - . Newberg Coupl Peoble Dead; LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) - A United Ait Lines' DC6B crashed on they Colorado flatlands Tuesday night, killing 44- persons in UALY second major disaster in this area in less than a month. r ; i The New York-to-Seattle 4-engine plane smashed to bits on a farm about six miles northeast of here. i- (Listed among the faUlities were Dr. and Mrs. R. W. Van Valin, New berg, Ore. and several v"" " . k tjaii other Willamette 'Valley KIqVV PlatlS AtOITIIC FlCGt, people1. Complete list of i passengers,. Secv 1, ige'2.y:--;; ', . ;;V ; ; On Oct. 5 i United Air LLines crash killed 68 in .the . worst commercial air lines dis aster ia U history. TJhe plane s UfAltq LONGMONT. Colo. Scene of the DCCB crash Tuesday is Indicated fey aderiiaed dty aa map. (AP Map.) - , . . , i - smashed into, Medicine Bow Peak near Laramie,. Wyo..- . . Tuesday night's crash scene was east of the Colorado Rockies in the northeastern part of Colorado. There had been snow showers dur ing the day but the air had cleared at nightfall. - , ' A United spokesman said the plane . was flying on the normal course north- to Cheyenne, wyo., before heading west for a stop at Portland before going -to Seattle. Left Denver' Late ' , The flight had originated in New York at noon and; had made a stop in' Chicago' before landing in Denver. It left Denver 20 minutes late;. ". . " v-: - 1 ; Jim Matlack, co-publisher of the Longmont Times-Call, was - one of the first to reach the crash scene. He described it as a "terrible wreck bodies . were just scat tered all over. It took me just a few minutes to count , nine bodies. VTheewas just nothing we could do but cover up the bodies J mere rasn i a . sign oi uie. , , "The plane? - Well,' it was just one big . mass of wreckage. ' The biggest piece I spotted was a sec tion of the fuselage about the size of a small automobile. VI didn't notice that any of the bodies, were burned." t . MSwt of Exptosioa - Jack.- Heil, on whose land the plane crashed, told Matlack his family heard "sort of an explo sion."' ;' : ; ' ' ' '.'We looked at each other." Mat lack quoted HeO saying, "then we ran outside and 'it looked to us like a skyrocket It sounded ' like the motor was still running: after the first explosion. Minutes after the' plane hit: there -was 'another explosion.-We could, hear', it com ing closer,- closer and I thought it was going to hit the house." . Other, witnesses also confirmed the reports of an', explosion. ' ' Matlack -said Heil told him the crash wa& at exactly 7:03 pjn., Preparations were made to take the bodies .to Greeley mortuaries, about .17 miles east of the. crash scene.. ;4 '.,.-'. ; -; - r:v-'-'l t ' " V3 1 -J .r-.' i r ui Aits U ; ";;.". hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . w'f " . - . ' 7 e Amone mregon 2nd Crash in Area , A - - .. ' ' ' Adds Guided v ' (Picture on Wirephoto page) ' PHILADELPHIA, P The Navy put Into its fleet Tuesday the first guided missile weapon .ship forerunner 6f what it said would be "literally dozens" f others in the next five years. ; -And in- recommissioning the big cruiser Boston, Adm. Arleigh A." Burke, chief of naval operations, said also that within the next couple of years the Navy hopes to expand its nuclear engine pro-V Sherry Fong Mistrial Ruled - ..- .. : - - . . " PORTLAND m The state's second attempt to convict Sherry Fong,. 24, .of first-degree murder, failed Tuesday. A third attempt will be scheduled, soon. Circuit Judge Alfred P Dobson declared a' mistrial, asserting that both the defense and the state had made ' prejudicial statements in questioning prospective jurors. Last' summer Dobson threw out a murder conviction of the woman and her husband. Wayne Fong, 24, on the. ground the jury did not give proper consideration to the evidence.' ' .. : Confidence PARIS m Staking his govern ment's future on the outcome, Pre mier Edgar Faure Tuesday night asked the National Assembly to give him a vote of confidence on his project for early parliamen tary, elections. . The "vote wul be taken Wednes day night The atmosphere of the Assembly Tuesday night was definitely un favorable to Faure If the ballot goes . against him. French parlia mentary procedure requires that he resign : ' Nyssa Polio ns NYSSA. Ore. tfi Health officials began giving- gamma globulin in jections Tuesday to try to "halt a polio epidemic . in Southeastern Oregon's Malheur County, where there have been 37 polio cases, including three deaths, this year. Dr. S. B. Osgood, state epidemio logist, . said he was pleased with the start of the mass inoculations. More than 400 persons had turned up for their shots as the first day of the program ended. " - Fowl Vaccinated AgaLnst'Leukeniia NEW -YORK UI--A scientist said Tuesday he has successfully vac cinated chickens against leukemia, a form of cancer.' ' ' ' ' Dr. Joseph W. Beard, virus ex pert 'and professor of surgery at Duke University, 'said the. findings offer no. immediate possibility of preventing , or ' treating cancer ' in humans., .; . - : But. be said., "the field is one of promise for , further work." Faure Seeks Begi k a Missile Ship gram for ships of many types in eluding guided missile craft, car riers and frigates, : - ' Symbolic of the pioneering posi tion of the Boston, a veteran .of World War II sea 'battles, which has been rebuilt into a robot weap- Mk skin fnt fifrfitintf htmv nlsnufi 1 is the huge numeral "1" painted on her . bow. . - . The function of the Boston and. other cruisers, destroyers and fri , gates to follow her, will be to pro-. ; vide anti-aircraft protection for a - carrier task force. t Official "briefers" said the' Bos- ton can put four "terrier' missiles s into the air in eight-tenths of a second.. Almost everything in the process of bringing the missiles up from deep down in an armored magazine to loading them is auto matic.'- ' The Terrier is a radar "beam : rider." Instantly upon its launch- ing from the rack, it moves intot the path of a radar beam, .which' has been "locked on"' an approach- ing enemy plane. When it has ridden the radar, beam to the cor- rect distance from the enemy air- -craft, a proximity fuse detonates I the warhead. It does not need -actual impact to explode. River Claims Lebanon Man CORV ALLIS V- David Cun- 5 ningham,'32, Lebanon, drowned in the Willamette River while on a duck-hunting trip Tuesday. . It wo In. frairth Hoth nf ih. bird-hunting season, the . eighth hunting ' fatality since the deer season opened a .month ago. ' Coroner Don Durdan said Cun- ningham was hunting with Franke Keesee and Wesley Veene, both of Lebanon, when he shot two ducks ; that landed in the river, about 10 -miles south of Corvallis. ' toe iwv tvuifaiuuns aoiu vuii ningham ran to retrieve the birds from the current of the river.- He i crossed a gravel bar, and then " stepped into a deep hole at the ' rivers -edge, they said. PORTLAND 'ALL WET PORTLAND Ln The past month was the wettest October in fiva years. The- Weather Bureau' re-" ported, rainfall totaled 8.98 inches, compared with the normal of 3.53. Today's Statesman S Fag Classified i.ll.. 9-U V : Comes the Dawn 4 Comics ...;..-.ll.. ; t , Crossword .-.ll 7 ; 1 Editorials 4 Homo Panorama .. I 6-8 ': Markets ..ll 9 Radio, TV . ;. :ll. 7 ! Sportt .. II .1-3 Star Caxtr j...ll ; 5 T Vafloy S VYirephoto Pago fl t ,