Bm
sfii Fire Forces
fornians So Flee
fi 'if) 75) (.feTrTrTi $1 Till N
cm
4 Square Miles Burn Near Burbank
- SUNLAND, Calif, tfl Desert
winds up to 42 miles an hour
fanned a ' smoldering fire into
roaring life Monday. Firemen
said 420 school children and some
families were evacuated from
residential ' La Tuna Canyon.! i
Capt. C. W. Howard of the Los
Angeles Tire Department conv
- munications division said six or
seven structures, including seve
ral homes, burned and other'
-Jiomes were singed. He estimated
the number evacuated. -
The Ere has blackened a 4-square-mQe
area, Howard said,
and 11 firemen have been injur
ed, one seriously? It died down
late lh the day, but new winds
Prowler Admits Being
On Roof as Shot Fired
:; "'. "'- ;,- . -
! MINEOLA, N. .Y. (V-A prowler admitted Monday he was
Uundering noisily atop Mrs. Ann Woodward's bedroom roof at the
very moment she shot her husband to death. She had blamed a
' strange noise for her panicky gunfire. ;
The prowler, Paul W. Wirths, was quoted by police as saying
he "broke' a tree branch, wrestled noisily with a door and dropped
01P
933J3B
to 03318
In this business of holding high
public office the incumbent often
finds he has to do things he
would prefer not doing. 1 sus
pect that was the feeling of. Sec
retary of State Dulles when he
made his call on Tito last week
end, likewise when he visited
Generalissimo Franco in Spain
the previous week. Such calls
now go with the job. Since the
USSR had sent several of its very
highest (post-Stalin) officials to
Belgrade Khrushchev, Buleamn
in an attempt to woo Yugo-i
sizvia Dae uuo communis!. so-;a
c eiy. me u. a. couia naraiy noia
of one ; merely of ambassadorial
rank.-?.'. . '
And there were "things to talk
about": What about the captive
satellites? what about the Greece
Turkey Yugoslavia conccrd in
view of the fuss over Cyprus?
what about the Arab-Israel dis
pute? , Were these questions an
swered? Of course pot. (clean!y
and sharply.' They - were . dis-;
cussed, "views were exchanged" i
as the later communique stated.
The nearest to a-positive agree-:
ment was with respect to the So
viet satellites (of which-Yugoslavia
was once "tnej the two were
"of common accord". in recogniz
ing the. importance of independ
; ence for these states." ' "
. That no bargain for joint' ac
tion was signed and sealed does
not prove the conference was fu
tile. The call itself showed cour
tesy to the country, and to brash
President Tito, and may -have
taken off some of the sting of
u. s. opposition to Yugoslavia (in
favor of the Philippines) as mem
ber of the UJi. Security Council.
Times indeed have changed
Secretary Dulles has been as busy
as a brush salesman. He has trav
eled by air over a hundred thous
and miles .
(Continued on editorial page, 4)
Ex-Wife Faces
Charge in Polk
Shooting Case
Statcsmaa Ntws Servfec
DALLAS, Ore. A 55-year-old
Airlie area woman has been
charged with assault with intent
to kill after an investigation into
the shooting of her ex-husband,
it was announced Monday by
Polk County District Attorney
Walter Foster. ;
r oster said the charse was
filed against Mrs. Ethel Story.
She was released on $5,000 bail :
Meanwhile, the ex-husband,
Frank Story, 60, was reported re
covering in Dallas Hospital from
a gunshot wound in the chest
Authorities said the man was
shot with a .25 calibre pistol last
Thursday while at the farm of
; his ex-wife's son in the Airlie sec
tor. ' .
Jack Benny
Wins Tax Suit
HOLLYWOOD W The U.S. Tax
Court in Washington has ruled in
favor of comedian Jack Benny
m a 7-year-old tax case involving
aoout one million dollars, ,
Attorneys John B. Miluken and
Loyd Wright President - of the
American Bar Assn.. said they
received tne ruling on behalf of
their client from the tax court, ;
rW IT YOWBSF V-n
- i
l SAD K call you backl
Tuesday may send it back out
of control. "
Flames broke out Sunday in
tinder dry brush along La Tuna
Canyon road in the Verdugo
Mountains, " between here'., and
Burbank. By Monday afternoon
the fire was racing toward the
heavily populated Shadow Hills
area, the southern part of Sun
land and the northern edge of
Burbank. '
The fire licked into the back
yards of eight blocks of homes
on the south side of the canyon
road before firemen turned back
the flames.
. One unofficial report said 50
families had left their homes.
I a loaded shotgun over Mrs. Wood
ward's bedroom early on the morn
ing of Oct. 30. , ,
His, revised story appeared to
support Mrs. Woodward's claim
that a noise in the night led to
the accidental shooting of 33-year
old William Woodward Jr4 multi
millionaire owner
race horse Nashua.
Herd Roar
of the great t
( "
Detective Inspector . Stuyvesant crimes occurring before their dis
Pinnell ' quoted Wirths as saying , charge. I
I v I Al r J ! ... ... 1
ne neara me roar oi Mrs. wooa- The ruling, with potential lmpu
ward's ' shotgun. The 22-year-old ! cations to millions, specifically ap
German refugee added: I plied to Robert W. Toth of Pitts-
"It sounded like a cannon. I : burgh. As a result, the Air Force
didn't wait. I got the hell out of 1 cannot bring Toth. an honorably
there
Mrs.; Woodward said her nerves
were on edge because of her "fear
ful dread" that the prowler would
return and invade her home. He
already had broken into a swim
ming pool cabana and the. six-car
garage on the Woodwards' 60-acre
Oyster Bay, N.Y., estate..
Fires Blind' ; '
The heaiitiful 34.vpar.AM hlmufo
told! police she fired blindly inlojville, Tex. are now held by the
darkened hallway outside ber1
bedroom when she awakened in
uic uim aim uniu m misc.
Woodward was standing nude
and 'unarmed in the door, of his
hprfronn, flir.fiv. ,rnc. .i-.
hallway from his wife. One charge
from the shotgun caught him in
the head and killed him.
40th Malheur
m
Hospitalized
BOISE OB A three-year-old
Ontario. Ore., girl, Malheur Coun
ty's 40th polio case of the year,
was in a Boise hospital Monday.
She Was identified as Susan
Gould, daughter-of Mr. and Mrs.
LeRoy Gould, The hospital said she
was admitted Saturday night, while 1
a week-long antipolio inoculation j
program was being completed at.rence wno got nun a joo iiu uic
Nyssa, Ore V V.
Dr. Kayo- Sunada. U. S. Public
Health service doctor assigned to
Idaho, said tests had disclosed
Type 1 polio virus in two of the
Nyssa cases. This is the most viru
lent strain and is the strain which
prevailed in Idaho's outbreak ear
lier this year. -
An emergency clinic at Nyssa
was dismantled and borrowed
equipment returned Monday fol
lowing a six-day campaign against
a polio epidemic. Twenty-nine of
Malheur County's cases have oc
curred in the Nyssa area. Three
teen-agers in the area died of the
disease.-
Doctors gave close to 3,000 gam
ma globulin injections at the emer
gency clinic. . ;
The Weather
Max. Mia. Preeio
1 4 trace
60 42 .00
42 ' 33 .00
67 35 .00
M 46 .00
71 40 .00
81 47 .00
87 49 .00
i34 25 trace
Sales
Portland
Baker
Med ford .Jl-
North Bend
Roseburg
San Francisco
Los Angeles .
Chicago
New York .J M 39 M .
Willamette River 4.9 feet
rORECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary Field. Salem ) :
Mostly cloudy with tome rain to
day; partly cloudy with scattered
showers tonight and Wednesday.
Little change in temperature with
ttte highest today near 60 and the
lowest , tonight near 40.
Temperature at - IS ill a.m. today
WU 48.
1 SALEM MECIF1TAT10?J
Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1
This Year . Last Year v Neraul
t 10.77 . v 9.3S . : A1
A-Flash Gould Change
Eye Fluids Into Steam
WASHINGTON I The flash
of an Atomic bomb at distances
up to at least 13 miles could con
vert certain eye fluids "to steam"
and . literally cause an explosion
of part of the retina, an Air Force
doctor said Monday. '
1 And even up to at least 42 miles,
lesser burns inside the eye could
impair vision to Some degree. Col.
Vktor A. Byrnes told reporters at
the 62nd annual convention of the
Assn. of Military Surgeons of the
United States. -
Byrnes, stationed . in the office
of the air surgeon, -described the
flash ' potentialities in : amplifying
on a paper he had prepared for
delivery at the convention,; whose
theme is "Medical Defense in the
Nuclear Era."
Byrnes said tne cast of "bilat
eral central tcotomaU" a blind
105th Year
CoilT
egreg
Decision to
Affect Fate of
3 Turncoats
(Picture in sec. 2, page 3.)
WASHINGTON ( Ex-servicemen
cannot be subjected to mili
tary trial for crimes committed
while in service, the Supreme
Court. ruled Monday.-
Rv a ft-3 vnt the court ittnirlr
.1 aown a Key provision ui uic iotv
' j it : e il ineA
m-j t " i
lt itt d the armed force8 to
put civilians back into uniform and '
court-martial them lor serious
discharged veteran, to trial for the
slaying of a South Korean civilian.
The decision was expected to
have a direct bearing on the fate
of three turncoat GI's arrested at
San Francisco last July 29 under
the code of military justice.
The trio Otho G. Bell of Hills
boro. Miss., and Olympia, Wash.,
William A. Cowart. of Dalton, Ga..
and Lewis W. Griggs of Jackson-
Army at f ort Bauer, cam,
r,tr far Rd
... . , i
6 Tt al. Ly I
PTT u ,!r '"u u
while held prisoner were said to
have betrayed this country by in
forming and aiding the enemy in
exchange" for favored treatment.
They later rejected the Reds and
came home. . : i
When the three first elected to
stay in Red China. Secretary of
Defense" Wilson designated. thei
as deserters men, in January,
1954. 'Wilson ordered them dishon
orably discharged. . ;. . j, - i
aril Trials
The decision left the way f for
Congress to provide for civil, in
stead of military trials in cases
such as that of Toth. Such legisla
tion, however, could not be made
retroactive to include ! offenses
which took place before its pass
aged ' ; -
Toth and his family ' went to
to' veterans organizations who
helped him financially in tne legal
battle and to Mayor David Law-
city a year ago.
Toth and his family ; went to
Lawrence's office to thank him
personally. Lawrence, scanning
Toth's record as a laborer in the
City Water Department, ordered
him promoted to a mechanic at
$4 ,270 annually. Toth. was being
paid $13.48 daily.
Hugging his wife, the happy ex
GI was near tears when he left
the mayor's office.
Con Shot as
Razor Held on
Social Worker
PHILADELPHIA I A prison
er at the Holmesburg jail held a
razor blade at the throat of a so
cial worker for more than . two
hours Monday in a desperate out
unsuccessful plan to escape.
When the convict refused to heed
the pleas of prison officials to re
lease the hostage, a policeman shot
him in the mouth the bullet
flying over the head of the help
less social worker. ; .' j
The shot was fired through an
opening in the cell door no more
than eight inches square.
The convict. Charles Savage,
was taken to Philadelphia General
Hospital Doctors there i said the
bullet crashed through his mouth
and lodged in the back of Savage's
head but that he probably would
live.
v
or dark spot in the visual field
of both eyes was reported among
the survivors of the : Hiroshima
bombing as a result of this phe
nomenon. But Be said it is pos
sible that there were more. If the
bomb had been exploded at night
there . certainly would have been
more; because the eye, .with the
pupil wide open to see in the dark,
would be more susceptible to such
burns, he added. ; v
This energy absorption," Byrnes
told ; the military doctors, "pro
duces coagulation of the. tissues
and mechanical destruction of the
choroid and-retina by converting
the. 'tissue fluids to steam and
thereby exploding the retina.!
The choroid , and retina are pig
mented layers . beneath the eye's
surface.
2 SECTIONS-20 PAGES
BanvMili
o
ation
Little Girl Faces New language, New Home,
. v : .rill " j I
It was the first day of school Monday for Rosellada Cosco, a C-year-ld
Italian girl who arrived in this country only last Friday. The
child has bee adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Franc Cosco, Salens
schoolteachers and ftrt-ngkt to this country with Franco's mother
. Genoveffa Cosco, who raised the abandoned girl from, an infant.
Evidence in
UAL Crash
Hints at Bomb
DENVER J The Civil Aero
nautics Board's chief investigator
confirmed Monday night evidence
has been found of a "bomb-like
explosion" in the United Air Lines
DC6B that crashed near Longmont,
Colo., last Tuesday, killing 44 per
sons. James N. Peyton said investiga
tion shows something "foreign"
exploded in the plane. Asked what
he meant by "foreign," Peyton
said he meant something "not a
part'' of the plane. He earlier had
reported no malfunction pf the. air
craft had been found.
Peyton said whateven, exploded
shattered the rear luggage com
partment He said the luggage
stored in the No. 4 compartment
had an acrid smell, "like gunpow
der, or an exploding firecracker.
Bomb-Type Explosion
Earlier an industry publication,
American Aviation Daily in Wash
ington'' said investigators have
found "evidence of a .bomb-type
explosion in the No. 4 cargo pit.
Woman Held
In Poisoning
Of Two Boys
NEW ORLEANS UD Police
said a woman who promised a
mother she would "get even" vtas
booked with murder Monday night
in the poison deaths of two New
Orleans boys who died after eat
ing food scavenged from garbage
cans.
First district police identified
the woman as Mrs. Mary Moss
Falcon. 27, of Violet, L.
The two boys William Baugh
man Jr., 7, and his 6-year-old
brother. Lawrence, died within
hours of each other Oct 13.
The Orleans parish coroner ruled
the boys died of poisoning.
Police said Mrs. Falcon, whom
they said also used the aliases
of Mary Jackson and Mrs, Willia
Hart, had a squabble with the
boys mother in September.'
Police said Mrs. Falcon told Mrs.
Baughman at the time, "in get
even with you somehow. r .
The Baughman family was in
dire financial condition and neigh
bors said the boys scavenged from
garbage cans. -
Flu Hospitalizes
Rep. Edith Green
PORTLAND (J) Rep. Edith
Green (D-Ore) was hospitalized
Monday for treatment of an illness
which her physician described as
a flu."
She is expected U remain in
the hospital for saver si days.
U .
POUNDDD 1651
Tho Oregon Statesman, Salom, Oregon, Tuesday; November
Illegal in
McKinley PupHs Welcome
Recent Arrival From Italv
By CONRAD FRANCE
Staff Writer, The Statesman .
The fact that she doesn't speak English didn't prevent a small
Italian girl from having "a. ball"
school here Monday. '"
Newest pupil and most popular
at McKinley School is Roselinda
is being adopted by a Salem schoolteaching couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Franco Cosco, 2460 S. Commer
cial St. , - ;
Students at - McKinley knew
Roselinda was coming. They had
cut her picture out of the news
paper and had it posted on the
bulletin board.
"Seven of the children have
been chosen as special helpers
to Roselinda," said Esther Long,
primary teacher in whose room
Roselinda was enrolled Monday.
"Catch On Fast"
"The fact that she doesn't
speak English poses something
of a problem, . of course," she
smiled. "But we don't anticipate
any difficulty. Children catch on
fast. The other pupils are tickled
pink to have her here."
The small, wide-eyed little girl
arrived by plane Friday night
She had been flown from Italy
to New York accompanied by her
adopted Grandma, Genoveffa
Cosco, her new Daddy's mother.
They had stopped over in New
York for about 10 days with
Cosco relatives., j
Picked Up Doll j
Meanwhile, at McKinley School
Monday morning Roselinda was
a little shy at first but soon
opened up. She picked up a
playmate's doll. i
"This is a beautiful doll." she
told her mother softly in 'Italian.
"Yes," said Mrs. Cosco. "But
you had $ doll like that back
home." '
"Not nearly as nice as this
one," said Roselinda.
(Additional details in See
Page 7.)
2,
Tavern Fight
Proves Fatal
,.VANCOUVER, Wash. OBVerne
Davis Iredale, 26, of Vancouver
was fatally injured in a fight out-
siae a XNortn roruana tavern eariy
Monday and police spent the day
looking for the assailant.
DeL. Capt Eugene White said
the- fight occurred as Iredale was
leaving the tavern with ' several
other persons and his wife. The
wife. Betty, 24, had just said good
night to an unidentified man,
White reported,
The man, in the course of tbe'mendin? heart must! be "exDosed
fight, struck Iredale on the chin,
ftiyian saia an autopsy inaicaiea
Iredale died of a massive brnnlhi. "nhvsical future and whole
hemmorrhage caused by the blow
on the chin.
BISHOP BARRED
BERLIN tfft Communist au
thorities have barred Bishop Otto
Dibelius of Germany's Evangelical
Church from : East Germany,
church officials said Monday night.
ary Trials of Ex
!'
TON
Roselinda is shown above being introduced to her new -classmates
by McKinley first grade teacher Miss Esther Long (left), whUe
Genoveffa Cosco holds her hand .
her adopted grandmother speaks'
John Ericksen). ..
on ber first day in an American
girl on the primary
playground
Cosco, 6, late of Rome,
Italy. She
Mysterioi
Fresh Grave
Yields Dog
Reportedly "sinister" . aspects
of a fresh grave in
an isolated
sector east or Salem were quickly
cleared up Monday by Marion
County sheriffs deputies. A dc-g
was found in the grave.
The grave, situated near the
Macleay district, was! discovered
several days ago by Mr. and Mrs.
Archie Fochtman, owners of the
property. "Suspicious of the find.
they decided to report it to au
thorities.
Relatively small with sod pains
takingly replaced, the grave was
opened Monday by Deputies
Amos Shaw and James Painter
ana tne aog uneannea.
The Fochtmans later received
phone call from an .unnamed
man telling them he
had buried
his pet dog on the property
Clouds, Ram Forecast
In Salem A
rea
Today
Continued cloudiness with some
rain today and scattered showers
tonight and Wednesday were pre
dicted by McNary, Field weather
men.
Little change in temperature was
expected with a high of about 60
forseen for today and a low around
40 for tonight.
Decision on Ike's Ability to
Run Must Wait, Doctors Say
DENVER UH President Eisen
hower will leave the! hospital for
Washington Friday 4- but two of
his doctors said Monday it will be
"late January or February" be
fore he can decide on trying for
a second term.
Dr. Paul Dudley White and tfaj.
Gen. Howard M. Snyder told a
npwi rnnlmiu iK.ispnruiurM
to considerably matk strain" be
fore the President can decide on
iife."
That did not rule out the possi
bility that Eisenhower already may
have made up his mind on seek
ing, or foregoing another four years
ta the White House. But White and
Snyder said the President had
given them no inkling on that .
White, the eminent Boston: heart
PRICE
:
H H o
t, 1955
JTMB11C
New School
(right). Neither Roselinda nor
English. (Statesman Photo by
Istate Worker
v - m i
MAim sH iini-ti a
Ml UUJJ UllglUlC
For Raises
Some 1.600 state -employees be
came eligible for salary increases
with the approval by : the Civil
Service Commission and Gov. Paul
Patterson of salary adjustments
requested by the Highway De
partment and Public Welfare
Commission.
Highway Department adjust
ments affect employes from main
tenance man II up through the
series. Some re-allocations of posi
tions were made to adjust salaries
of equipment operators in line with
similar jobs in other state agen
cies. -!..
For the Department of Public
Welfare, adjustments j were approved-
for case workers, child
welfare workers,, public welfare
supervisor I and child welfare
supervisor I.
Adjustments are allowed on a
merit basis on the anniversary date
of each worker s employment. They
are not automatic.
The new plan, which was effect
ive as of Nov. 1, was the result of
several months study by the State
Employes Association with the
Highway Department, Public Wel
fare Commission . and Civil Serv
ice Commission. ' . . .
Grassniaii of Year
Title Bestowed
PORTLAND in Lloyd Gift of
Bonanza, Ore., in Klamath Coun
ty, Monday was named the Pa
cific Northwest's "Grassmaa of
the Year" by Portland's Chamber
of Commerce. .
Gift who operates 6,000 acres
of . rough range land- with 800
head of cattle on it won $1,550
in awards. ' I
He. is the fifth to win the re
gional title. (Additional ' details
and picture in sec. 2, page 6.)
specialist, Snyder, Eisenhower's
personal physician, and other doc
tors who have been attending the
President since his Sept. 24 heart
attack appeared at the news con
ference after thorough, lengthy ex
aminations, of the chief executive
Sunday and Monday.
However hazy the political fu-
i tnr miPhr no Whit urn that h
' had "onlv" eood news aeain" on
- j Eisenhower's physical condition at
; this point. And he added:
We have all, myself included,
decided that Friday, in the morn
ing, Nov. 11, will be the time for
his takeoff here. So he will arrive
in Washington in the afternoon.
Then, he said, the President
plans to go on to his farm at
Gettysburg. Pa., next Monday to
celebrate Mrs. Eisenhower's 53th
birthday. .
No. 226
U.S. Supreme
Court Upholds
Negro Rights
WASHINGTON in -l The Su
preme Court Monday seemingly ,
sounded the' death knell for racial
segregation in all places supported .
by public funds. -
'In separate, unanimous actions,
the court affirmed a decision hold
ing racial segregation illegal . ia
public parks and playgrounds,;, and
ordered Negroes admitted to pub
lic golf courses.
f This, in effect, swept away what- '
ever remained of the historic "sep
arate but equal" doctrine as ap
plied to tax-supported facilities. -
Jnst 11 Words
Using only 11 words, the high
court affirmed a decision by the
U." S. Court of Appeals in Rich- '
mond, Va., that segregation in
public parks and playgrounds is '
illegal. All the court said was: :
"The motion to affirm is granted "
and the judgment is affirmed."
The Richmond tribunal had said
the separate but equal doctrine for '
whites and Negroes was dead.
The Supreme Court took only 58
words to reverse decisions by two
lower courts upholding segregation
in city-operated golf courses in At
lanta, Ga.
Molotov Hints
At New Reich
roposal
1
MOSCOW m Foreign MinSter
V; M. Molotov hinted Strongly Sun-:
day night he is bearing new Soviet
proposals on his return to the Gen
eva conference of foreign minis
ters., ; -
In answer to a question at a
Kremlin reception Molotov said: .
"I arrived in Moscow with good
baggage and I'm leaving with even
better baggage because I heard a
good many things here.'
A few minutes later Premier
Nikolai Bulganin was told how Mo
lotov made his "baggage" remark.
Bulganin commented with a broad
smile, "That is exactly right."
Concerning the prospects at Gen
eva, Molotov said:
"I think the prospects there art
improving." ( Geneva conference
storyr see. 2, page 6.)
Chevrolet Gets
8400,000 in
State Business
The State of Oregon will buy
$400,000 worth of Chevrolets in
the next' year, giving that com
pany all of its automobile and
light truck business.
The State Department of Fi
nance and Administration an
nounced that General Motors
Chevrolet Division submitted low .
bids on all classes for 300 ve
hicles, with the state having the
option to buy an additional 150
if it needs them.
It Is the first time that the.
state has accepted bids for a
whole year's business. In the
past, bids have been called for a
few cars at a time. J ,
The prices the state will have
to pay range from 1,105 for busi
ness coupes to $1,61,2 for 4-door
station wagons. Four-door sedans
will cost $105. ,
General Motors was the only
firm that bid direct from the fac
tory. Five Oregon automobile
dealers also bid. ,
The other bidders were Valley
Motor Co., Salem; Oregon City
Motor Co., Oregon City; Stan Ba
ker Motors, Salem . Francis Mo
tor Car Co., Portland; and Inter
national Harvester Co., Portland.
STUDY SOUGHT ':
LONDON 11 To guard against
another Burgess-MacLean case.
Prime Minister Eden aske! "fil
ament Monday to approve a study
of Britain's anti-spy precautions by
group of .elder statesmen.
Today's Statesman
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