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Tht Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, November 7, 1955
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No. 225
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Cleaning a searchlight reflector is a big job, especially when the reflector is 60 inches high and the
light weighs 380 pounds. . Robert Wheeler, machinist at West Salem Machinery Co., is shown above
polishing his magnified -image in (he shiny reflector on a large war-surplus arc light The metal
mirror shoots a beam of light 36,000 feet into the skies. (Statesman photo by John Ericksen). (Story
in see. 1, page 4).
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: Three years tfgo George Turn
bull, former dean of the School of
Journalism at the University of, Wf-kkJmirri rg 'c
Oregon, wrote and published at W UUUM ciril
Blocked
No Agreement
Made on Major
Negotiations
By DANIEL DE LUCE
GENEVA LB Qashing views
between Russia and the Western
powers on the removal of cold war
barriers put a new damper Sun
day night on "the spirit of Gene
va." After three days of' secret ne
gotiations on development of East
West contracts. Big Four experts
have failed to reach agreement on
any major point, it was learned
authoritatively.
Soviet negotiators are pushing
or measures by which Western
scientists, engineers and agrono
mists would contribute their know
bow to Russia. .
Against Exchange
But the Russians are dead set
against opening up their country
to a freer exchange of ideas and
information except on technical
matters. The Soviet attitude is that
this would be "dangerous interfer
ence" in Russian internal affairs.
The Western experts in turn
have rejected a demand for end
ing the West's ban on sale of stra
tegic goods to the Soviet bloc, al
though saying they might consider
lifting their embargo on specific
items. -
They have refused to discuss a
Soviet proposal for "freedom of
the seas," which would have in
volved taking a
Attempt Made
To Break Into
Klaniatli's Jail j
KLAMATH FALLS Gf-Sheriff
Murray Britton said a man, clad
only in a t -shirt aad shorts, tried
to break into the Klamath Coun
ty jail early Sunday.
.The man, who got away, had
placed a ladder against one of
the jail walls and was trying to
jimmy a window, Britton said.
An unidentified person tipped
the sheriff to the break-in. .
Officers chased the scantily
clad prowler to a huge pile of
sawdust across the street from
the jail. There he disappeared.
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Detroit
Driver
Sec. Dulles, Tito Urge !
Liberty for Satellites
JPicture on Wirephoto Page)
BRIONI. Yugoslavia (JP) U.S. Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles and President Tito of Yugoslavia spoke out dramatically
Sunday night for the restoration of independence to Soviet Russia's
European satellites. !
Their call was the highbght of an unprecedented face-to-face
meeting of seven hours at this secluded island, retreat in the Adri
atic and later on the smaller near-
Full Team of
Doctors Chefck
Die's Heart
DENVER OB A full team of
specialists checked President 1 Ei
senhower's healing , heart Sunday
and left it to the chief executive
himself to decide Monday whether
to fly back to Washington Friday.
The top consultant on Eisen
hower's case. Dr. Paul Dudley
White of Boston, arrived, from
Chicago by plane at 2:10 p.m.
MST Saturday.
White told newsmen at the air
port he would .reserve any com
ments until . Monday.
Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty told newsmen
he hasn't changed his ideas that
the "best guess" for Eisenhower's
checking out of the hospital is
next Friday, Nov.. 11.
Originally Hagerty had said he
would be able to announce Sunday
afternoon whether plans for ending
the hospitalization period next Fri
st and against the day would go through on schedule.
Chinese Nationalist blockade of thel But that was changed Sunday
Estate Near
victory of George Putnam wheni l fY lllinn
editor of .the Medford Tribune 1 x V1A a!Aff
Editor's Battle for Freedom of the
Press. It was the. account of the
by island of Vanga
It made clear that Tito s views
China Coast.
Report Expected
The Big Four foreign ministers
set up the experts committee last
Monday and ordered it to report
back next Thursday with a pro
gram for carrying out the summit
conference's July directive for
more East-West contacts.
It was hoped the experts would
have an easy task despite the con
tinuing wrangle by their foreign
ministers over the issues of Euro
pean security and German unification.-'
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But the experts have been talk
ing at oross-purpose. quoting op-
drafted for them
(niL-arri ctMa. in V.rio ' P"Sing amentias
Europe were not changed by the j.,S)V,ct. FA0tn "fZ VL
visit of Soviet leaders to Belgrade ' M?,?,?v nd the Western
tod Tif-u r mmiiiers.
Side by Side
Sitting side by side with Tito at
the Yugoslav Premier's Dalmatian
limestone mansion, Dulles told
over local' officials who had him
indicted for criminal libel, dragged NEW YORK w The estate
off the train at Roseburg and con-! of sportsman William Woodward reporters:
fined in jail overnight until he Jt-. shotgunned to death a wekj 1. They "discussed the peoples
could procure baiL It took a de-jago by his beautiful wife, was re- of the states of Eastern Europe
cision of the state Supreme Court' ported Sunday to be nearly 10 mil-; and were of common accord in'
to clear him; but the victory gave j lion dollars. recognizing the importance of in-
Oregon editors a secure foundation Reporting - this sum. The New dependence for these states, non
for full freedom ."to publish with , New York Daily Mirror said most interference from the outside in
impunity truth with good motives : of it is left to the wife and the their internal affairs and the right
for justifiable ends though re-j two Woodward sons. j jto develop their own social and
fleeting on government, magis- Mrs. Woodward, who said she i economic order in ways of their
tracy and individuals" (in the mistook her husband foe a prowler
words used by Alexander Hamil- in their dark Oyster Bay home,
ton in defending an editor in 1804). still is in a New York hospital
Now.Turnbull has expanded that j suffering from shock. V
little volume into a fuller but by Nassau County Detective In
no means complete) account otthelspector Stuyvesant Pincell said he
editorial battles of George Putnam, (studied the will overjlhe weekend,
still active in Oregon journalism as , but he refused to discuss it in de
editor emeritus of the Capital tail.
" Journal. The title of the book is 1 .
An Oregon Crusader" and ' the
publishers are Binfords and Mort,
Portland. ,
The new book reprints the story
told in the 1932 publication ; and
adds accounts of Putnam's battle
with the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
and his struggle against the labor
goons in the 1930s. The latter two
were conducted as editor of the
Capital Journal which he pur
chased in 1919. The report consists
largely of selections from" Put
nam's editorials in those
(Continued on editorial page. 4.)
Ninth Convict
Surrenders at
Farmhouse
choice.
German Question ' '
2. That they had agreed "The
German question must be settled
graduplly, step by step."'
3. The two statesmen discussed
the deteoriorating Middle Eastern
situation with "particular regard
for the fact that President Tito is
going to Egypt to visit (Egyptian
Premier) CqL (Gamal Abdel) Nas
ser in December.
4. The Balkan alliance, linking
Yugoslavia. Greece and Turkey,
but strained by Greek and Turkish
disputes over Cyprus, also was
studied.
morning.
Fire Destroys
South Salem
Frame Home
WALUA WALLA UP He was
tired, cold, hungry. . .and he'd for
gotten his heart pills.
. So William Jesse James, 37, went t-
up to a farmhouse, and telephoned
police to pick him up.
Creek Claims
LakeviewTot
Death Claims
Noted Amity
Businessman
Statesman Newt Servlr
AMITY Stanley Pritchard
Allison, 68, long - prominent in
Amity civic affairs and one of
this town's leading business men,
dipd Saturday night at a McMinn
ville hospital. He had undergone
recent surgery and had been ail
ing for about a year. : '
Allison recently ' celebrated i his
44th year in the furniture business.
He operated business at Portland
and Goldendale, Wash., prior to
establishing the Amity Furniture
Co. and Allison v Furniture- Ex
change. 7
He was active in March of Dimes
campaigns, the Red Cross and the
Boy Scouts.
All Amity business houses will
be closed during funeral services,
which will be held -Tuesday, 2
p.m.. at Macy k Son Mortuary in
McMinnville.
A large frame bouse is which
Mrs. Esther Haugen lived alone
at 510 E. Ewald Ave. was de
stroyed by fire Sunday afternoon.
The -roof and second floor fell
in and only "charred walls re
mains standing after a three-hour
fight by Liberty-Salem Heights
volunteer firemen. t
Loss was estimated at $8,000
although firemen were able to
remove much of the furniture
and some appliances. Mrs. Hau
gen said the loss was partly cov
ered by insurance. "
- Firemen were told the j fire
started shortly after 1 p.m. in
potholders while Mrs. Haugen
visited a neighbor, leaving a fry
ing pan on the electric stove.
They said the fire was burning in
the walls and a false ceiling when
they arrived. . - , -
A nearby house was threatened
but kept , damp with one of the
four lines run from the depart
ment's i tanker and a nearby hy
drint . . i
Ford Heirs to Yield
Control of Company
, ;NEW YORK VPy The Ford family Sunday decided to let tht
public in on ownership and management of the richest, most tightly
held -'closed corporation" in the history of finance, the Ford Motor
Co. Plans were announced for the sale of common, voting shares
in the company, envisioning; an eventual situation in which the
public could own nearly all voting stock. - -
Ford has been a family-owned
New Charges
Hurled Over
Gaza Fighting
the
his
late Henry
partners in
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JERUSALEM ( Jordan by H. Rown Gaithef Jr.
charged Israel Sunday with five f. the Ford Foundation
firm ever since
Ford bought out
1919.
With the sale of voting stock to
the' public. Ford will have to dis
close publicly its net income, one .
of its most closely guarded secrets.
As a family affair, it doesn't havt
to do this under federal regula
tions. r r
F?mily Control !
-The stcck sale was announced
, president
Wreck Hurls
Passenger, 89,
From Vehicle
aJtee liilis
Tragedy Uncovered When Salem Woman
Discovers Victim Floating Near Oil Slick
.''' ttm Newt Service
. - DETROIT, Ore. The body of a 42-year-old Idanha man was found Sunday in Detroit
Dam reservoir State police said he apparently died when his car plunged into the water
from the North. Santiam Highway late Saturday , night.
Officers said papers on the body identified the victim as James Brace Adams, Box 231
Idanha, an employe ot the Termite Lumber Co. at Idanha. . ,
The tragedy raised Marion County's 1955 traffic fatality toll to 22 and the total for th
MarionPo'k area to 32.
First knowledge of the acci
dent, reportedly came about
1:30 . p.m. Sunday when" the
victim's body was seen float
ing near an oil slick close to
shore by Mrs. Gordon Bowden.
Salem. The body was brought to
shore by state highway workers.
Police said Adams apparently
was alone in the car when it
a plunged over a 75-foot
C drc-p. about one-fourth
mile above Detroit Dam.
Water at the spot is believed
more than' 200 feet deep and of-
I ficers said the victim presumably
drifted free of the vehicle .after
the plunge, Death was attributed
to drowning, according to the
Marion County coroner's office.'
Seen Saturday Night '
Adams reportedly was last seen
alive about 8:30 p.m. Saturday in
the vicinity of Gates. The fatal
plunge apparently took place as
he was enroute to his Idanha
area home.
.The accident occurred near the
spot where a car plunged into
the reservoir last June, costing
the lives ot four Detroit persons.
Deep Water
Police indicated there was
small possibility of recovering
thef Adams car because of water
depth. The car and two bodies in
he previous accident were not
recovered.
Born Sept. 30, 1913, at May
field, Minn., the victim is be
lieved to have relatives living in
Wisconsin. The body was taken
to Weddle Mortuary at Stayton. ;
Traffic, Water
Fatal to Two
Near Eugene .
EUGENE Two persons
died in separate accidents in the
Eugene area Sunday.
Ralph L. Baker, 23, West fir, was
killed outright in an automobile
crash near Qakridge 40 miles east
of here. Three others were criti
cally injured in the crash.
Jack Quinn, 17, of Creswell, was
missing and presumed drowned
when he was thrown into the Wil
lamette River after a horse he
was riding stumbled.
Baker was a passenger in a car
driven by Eugene F. Vale, 19,
Westfir. Ralph W. Nelson, 24. also
Westfir. ,
State police said Quinn had been
riding in a rural area five miles
southeast of Creswell when he was
thrown, into the river by the stum
bling horse.
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lllVlaYo XlCCttl out of the Washington State Peni-a creek that runs past the family
J , tentiary last Thursday night was 'ranch near here. ;
"Tt 1 recaptured Sunday. ' The child, son of Mr. and Mrs.
ft OF 1 j?)tllTr) I The 37-year-old James, doing 20; Sidney E. O'Conner.' had been
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McKay left for Washington. D.Cj10 mfles west of here and sad The parens and a doctor from
Sunday after visiting in Oregon lhe-d ie to turn himself in. HelLakeview failed in their attempts
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Called to Oregon by the death
of his mother in Portland, Sec.
McKay also visited in Salem with
hit sons-in-law and daughters.
Mr, and Mrs. Lester Green and
Mr. and Mrs. Wa,ne. Hadley.
Mrs. McKay, who had preceded
her husband to Salem, returned
with him to Washington. They
said they would return to Salem
lor Christmas. .
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Trip
An 89-year-old Corvallis woma
was thrown from the car in an
otherwise minor collision Sunday
evening at Lancaster .and Market
streets. . She was reported in,
"fair" condition early today , at
Salm General Hospital.
Miss Kate Preston required
surgery for a severe laceration
on her face, and others on both!
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nanus ana leu Knee, dui aonar-L-
ently had received no fractures,
hospital attendants said. She is
scheduled for X-ray today.
Drivers were listed by state, po
lic as Miss Preston's nephew, W.
F. Pyle, Corvallis, and Marguer
ite Gilles. 1740 Center SL Pyle
was cited by state police for go
ing through a stop sign.
California Man Dies
GAZELLE. Calif. UH Ira
Thompson. 51. of Mt. Shasta,
Calif., was killed and Robert Glen
Cnsler 22 of Medford. Ore . was
rsaritically injured in an automobile
Ttruck collision near here early Sat
urday.
armistice violations in the last 24
hours. The Israelis, in turn, ac-
cused Jordan of a dynamite inci
dent and the Egyptians of a new
raid near the Gaza Strip.
The charges and countercharges
came as u. In. truce supervisor
Maj. Gen. Edson L. M. Burns re
turned from conferences in London
and New York and a few days rest
at his home in Canada.
Burns held a hurried talk with
truce organization officials and
planned meetings with Israeli and
Arab representatives td discuss the
latest U. N. plan to stop the border
battles before they set off a Middle
East war.
Before leaving London Saturday,
Burns said he did not think a full-
scale war would erupt between Is
rael and her Arab neighbors.
Among the complaints piling up
on his -desk were Israeli charges
that Egyptian forces Saturday at
tacked an Israeli patrol and made
three invasion attempts. U. N. ob
servers'! were sent to investigate
all . the Incidents.
WASHINGTON I The United
States will "do everything we pos
sibly can" to aid any Middle East
nation Arab or Israel that
might be invaded. Asst. Secretary
of State George V. Allen said Sun
day. Allen, ' the State Department's
ranking Middle East specialist,
said .in ' a television interview
(ABC-College Press Conference)
said he -thought Israel and Egypt
"very well might" accept United
iNations peace proposals to relieve
tension in the turbulent area.
The foundation owns more than .
88 per cent of all Ford stock 'at
present, but it is non-voting stock.
The 172,645 shares of voting stock
and absolute control of the com
pany are in the hands of the Ford
family and its interests. '
The 52-year-old Ford Motor Co.
is a gigantic industrial empire that
ranks somewhere between General
Motors, Che biggest, and Chrysler,
in the automotive field. , v
Gaitber said it is hoped the offer
can be made . shortly after the -
first of the year.
Portland YMCA Buys
Site for New Branch
PORTLAND (fl The Portland
Young Men's Christian Assn. Sat
urday announced acquisition of a
site for a new $300,000 branch in
the southeast section of the city.
Construction on the new site; at
S. E. Foster Road near 61st Ave.,
is to begin next spring. . "
Official Hints
Of Sabotage
In Air Crash
LONGMONT. Colo. A Civil
Aeronautics Board (CAB) official
said Sunday investigation has un
covered "some things that appear
unusual" in the crash of a United
Air Lines DC6B near Longmont
last Tuesday.
James N. Peyton, chief of tho
CAB's Investigation Division, did
not specify what "things" to which
he referred other than to say:
"There's nothing outstanding, but
they do appear out. of the ordin
ary." ,
Peyton, saying We are investi- .
gating the possibility of sabotage, -told
newsmen authorities are satis
fied the plane was at approximate
ly. 11,000 feet and climbing when
the explosion occurred.
Wreckage - from the crash, in
which 44 persons died, was scat
tered over a five-mile area.
Peyton and other federal officials
concluded their investigation of the
crash site Sunday and returned to
Denver. They plan to continue
their probe there, studying pieces
of wreckage taken from the scene.
Racer Starts Fatal Flight
Yankee Trumpeter Eyes Russ
to 'Preach Jazz Gosnel'
"Well. I don't know just bow I international affairs. When some
tight we fit in under culture, but j one told him the four foreign min
I figure out little ol' two-beat mu-;isters were in session in Geneva,
sic might make them Russian caU ' said:
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1 By EDDY GILMORB
"- GENEVA I Louis Armstrong,
the hot trumpet player, said Sun
day be is thinking of going to Rus
sia to preach the gospel of Ameri
can jazz. ""'"- : ' ' ' '
"Yes sir," said Satchmd. "I be
lieve I could warm up them cats.
! They ain't so cold but what we
couldn't bruise them with the hap
py music." :
Satchmo said playing Dixieland
music for the Russians was more
than a late autumn dream that
the Russians have expressed an in
terest in it
thaw out a little
.Asked if he thought the Russians
knew what jazz is, Armstrong re
plied: , ,
"Why, man, I ain't sure my
self." An American society woman
once asked Armstrong for a defm
itition of jazz.
"Lady," he replied, "if you got
to ask you II never know.
"Well, I ain't heard a four-piece
band in a longtime. I'd like to dig
em.
A friend explained the four for
eign ministers were' not a jazz
band, but John Foster Dulles, V.
M. Molotov, Antoine Pinay and
Harold Macmillan.
"What they trying" to do here?"
asked Satchmo.
"Unify Germany, build up Eu-
'We got the idea on the fire." he night with a
Satchmo hit Geneva Saturday . ropean security.
Your birthday is coming up, and
I want to maka something
ospodally nica for you
confided, "and before we finish up
here on the continent we may have
this Russian sleigh ride fixed up."
Told that the Big Four foreign
'ministers were discussing broad
ening cultural contacts between
East and the West, the 55-year-old
horn player par excellence said:
improve
six-piece band which West contacts and reach an agree-
Partly cloudy skies are fore
cast for today and tomorrow in
the Salem area by McNary Field
weathermen. Night ' and early
morning fog is also expected.-
Little change in temperature is
anticipated with today's high ex
pected to be near 60 while the low
tonight will be near 42.
The Weather
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people to the city's staid Victoria
Hall than the foreign ministers
have attracted in 10 days of delib
eration.
Strong on such subjects as jazz,
reducing diets and happiness,
Armstrong admitted he's weak on
"Unify Germany?" exclaimed
Louis. "Why. man, we've already
unified it. We came through Ger
many playing this ol' happy music,
and if them Germans wasn't uni
fied, then this ain't ol' Satchmo
talking to you.
New York :
Willamette River 5 9
FORECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau, McNary field. Salem): .-
Partly cloudy today, trnlght and
Tuesday with considerable night and
morning fog. MUd with high today
near 60 and low tonight near 42.
Temperature at ,12:01 ajn. today
waa 52. -l
SALEM PRECIPITATION
State Start f Weather Tear, Sept. 1
This Ytat Last Tear Normal
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Confederate
Vet Near 113
(Picture on wirephoto page)
HOUSTON, Tex. Walter W.
Williams began a week-long cele
bration of bis 113th birthday Sun
day by breaking in a- new rocking
chair.
"He's really been rocking up a
storm," said Mrs. Jeanette Cleve
land, a close friend. "He loves that
new rocking chair" , -
Williams, oldest of three living
yfterans of the Confederate Army,
held open house at the home of e
of 12 living children, Mrs. Willie
Mae Bowles. -
A hundred or more relatives.
friends and strangers called to
wish the spry, frail veteran a hap
py birthday.
- Williams will be 113 Nov. 14. The
annual family celebration will be
next -Sunday at Williams' farm
nome near r ranmin, miiea
nortnwest oi Houston.
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PHOENIX, Arlx- Jack McGrath of Los Angeles throws both hands
in the air as his race car spins out of control at the 100-mile Bobby
. Ball Memorial Race here Sunday. Seconds later he crashed Into
a heavy shoulder and was tilled. (AP Wirephoto )v (Story and
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Youth Practices
Fast Gun Draw;
Brother Killed
CANYONVnXE'. Ore. UP A
16-year-old boy accidentally shot
nd killed his 14-year-old brother
Sunday while "practicing hit
draw."
Marland Pheiss suffered a fatal
chest wound when his older
brother's Xk caliber gun acciden
tally discharged . as he 'practiced
pulling from a new holster.
- Marland died in a CanyonviUa
hospital.
The boys are the sons ef -Mr,
and Mrs. John Pheiss.
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