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f H V. -i - : . . 7 j' ' ' Brings Record Northwest: Freeze Power . OutjDut 3rd : Sub - Freezing " i Olt V The third tub-freezing day in a j. row is forecast for today, with the temperature expected to -.climb to a high of about 32 de . frees. .- - . ' r ... And early today it was expect 5 ed to Jail to about 10, which r would make it the coldest Novera '. ber day on record." The former . November low was 12 degrees in ,133i. Midnight temperature was .14. , .- Monday morning's low of 15 was the coldest in three years. The last.' time it got that cold ; !wa Nov. 28. 1952. : . It never did break 30 Monday, "struggling to a high of 29 before .starting' its ' downward 1 plunge. t High temperature Sunday was 32.C 1 also below freezing. Pay Aldermen Sewer Block Bus Cutback Major sewer extensions for South Salem and West Salem were proposed Monday night by Salem City Council which .also killed off a move by City Transit Lines to shorten its night routes. . Although bus service will remain unchanged for the present, Mayor Robert F. White said be expected the bus company to' apply loon for elimination of all night service except on Monday and QtP tU 03 COOU ra a As expert a job in social surg ery as we have seen in literature in many a day was done in the essay for, the last issue of LIFE gazine 1 by -cieveland Amory. e writer used the incident of s shooting of William Wood - t wv: : .v. .t ma The ward Jr by his wife .as the texf for a critique of the social order In which the Woodwards lived and moved and. had their being. Amory came well equipped for the tasfc; In his novel "The Pro per BostOnians" and in his period piece :VThe Last . Resorts" he J bowed both at intimate familiar-, ty with the milieu of the time 1 andan unnsual stance of detach ' ment In this essay for LIFE he writei again with intimacy yet with a frankness and objectivity which is chilling.'. ' The thesis which Amory de velops is that the old Society (with a capital "S") which meas ured its prominence by its reti cence and exclusiveness has been overwhelmed by what he calls Publiciety. with its race for the headlines, for being noticed at .the swank nightclubs, at the races, at the resorts here and abroad- Mrs. , William Woodward 5r, he rates as a dowager of the old New York Society, belonging to the day when the name of a . lady of quality appeared in the public prints only three times: " when she was born, when she was married and when she died. That social world was afflicted with its snobbery, .but .it was "a'princ- , lpjea world" witn "a recognized code of. weights and- measures, standards and - values, ground , rules and foul lines."" - The hew social world is one : that glories in publicity: "It is a crazy jumble . of publicity-be-cause-of-prominence or promin-epce-because-of-publicity, one is never' sure of which." That was ' ,the world of Mrs. ' . i (continued on Editorial page, 4) Admits Killing SAN FltANCISCO in Arthur Ross Brown. 30-year-old tough guy who once said he never would be 'taken alive, was held here Mon- day- night for the kidnap-murder of a wealthy Kansas City woman. FBI agents and police arrested him quietly in a San Francisco residential district early Monday - as he slept in a stolen automobile with two loaded weapons by his aide.. - ,;: . - An FBI agentrwnose name was withheld, testified before U.S. Com missioner Joseph.. Karesh that Brown had confessed to the kid-nap-slaying of Mrs. Wilma Allen, wife of, a Kansas City automobile dealer, early last August Reports from Kansas City re lated that' Mrs. Allen had been raped before her nude- body with its hands tied was tossed into the, field - ' CrtiHirt? aosscuTi YftarVARtow? ' Tough Guy ' - ! t ; i Forecast , Don Rasmussen, county agent, said he has had no reports of damaged crops.- He' said, how ever, that cauliflower and what ever apples were left would have been damaged, and possibly broc coli; cabbage, trees and whatever walnuts were left Fuel dealers were kept busy Monday and power companies re ported record outputs. Salem Electric broke the record set in February. Portland General Electric Co. bettered its previous record of the dark, rainy, windy Halloween Oct 31. , Packed snow was reported on Santiam. McKenzie and Willam ette passes and motorists were advised to carry chains. I Friday nights when some stores are open. . . "Well have to meet that prob lem when .we come to it," the mayor added. Conference Held Mayor White and the aldermen conferred with bus officials last week on economy measures that could be taken to keep the line from losing money. Bus finan cial picture was considered gloomy by both bus and city officials. New sewers for two areas now; Propos Extensions using septic tanks in the cityjuight, said Western Washington would cost an estimated $5.000, " cco-rdin? to City Engineer J. H. Pfcavis recommendation of ! h PJ w "cepted by the . ICnuncH Of thit tntal th vitv' counci1;. Of this total, the city's , share of cost would be $6,200 and benefiting property owners would be charged the balance." - ; Approval Given 4 - ; The larger of the two 'sewer projects received approval of the aldermen." This is the proposed $43,500 project to serve Granada W ay, Missouri Avenue and other areas to the, south of Candalaria Heights, where a low-level resi dential district long has used septic tanks. Alderman , Russell . E. Bone Steele said immediate attention is needed there because some of the septic tanks are overrunning on the streets. Councilmen indicated favor but delayed action on the other project, at- the request of Alder man Walter White who ' wanted to study the proposal. This one calls for $12,600 worth of sewers north of Glen Creek Road on or near Alpine, Tay bin, Valley View and Dorval Avenues. .(Additional Council news See. 1, Page 4.) Racketeer Chooses Exile - WASHINGTON Racketeer Joe Adonis Monday chose exile in i Italy. over "! n the U.S.A. , His lawyer, William H. Collins, announced Adonis has promised the government to leave the coun try, voluntarily by Jan. 1 and go to Italy, where the. Justice De partment claims be was born 57 years ago. - . . Adonis, once a power in the New York gambling world was given the prison sentence in April, 1934. for swearing' falsely before the old Senate Crime Investigating Com mittee that be was an American citizen. (Story also, in sec.. 2, Pae 5- teachers Get 11 Fr I Over 50i school teachers saw at close hand the operations ef S2 basinets firms Monday ea Business . Edacatiea Day. Scenes like the above .were common during the day as teachers were shew areaatW ; Here, E. T. Beyer, sales representative for, Lanner Transfer and Storage Ce., is telling Mrs. Laura Eaton, Engleweod teacher,, (center) and Mrs. Suzanne Juha, West Salem teacher, about eat ef the coanpaay vans. (Statesman Phete). (Stery and additional photos Sec 2, Page 3). Near Capa Top city, BPASays Sub-Zero Marks Set; 8 Deaths in British Columbia By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bonneville Power Administration Monday night reported a record high hourly peak for generation in the federal power system as the Pacific ' Northwest's cold wave continued unabated. BPA said that power customers used 4,362,000 kilowatts of power between the hours of 5 pjn. and S p.m. That is an all-time record high and neared the peak capacity of the federal system. In addition to power generated in the region's hydro-electric proj ects, some 183,000 kilowatts of steam generated power were hooked into the system. Additional steam power can be provided if necessary. John Jolliffe, BPA chief of operations, said. Jolliffe said the recent cold weather has not yet had much effect on power generating stream flow in the region. Monday Night -.''. Jolliffe said that the peak de mand in the region always oc curred on Monday night between the hours ol 5 and 6 p"m- Tues day's peak demand at the same hours usually is somewhat lower. ! Elsewhere in Oregon new rec- eastern Oregon's Blue MounUinsiP 2 below. Other sub-freezing tern peratures in the state included: Redmond 2, The Dalles 9. Klam ath Falls 13. Salem 19. Portland. Eugene and Astoria 21, Medford 25 and North Bend 28. Wanner. Weather - Th VtPRtwr Rnrpan in Seattle. in in 1 a. m. forecast Monday WOuld warm up somew hat Wed- nesday, with the high that day ex- pected to be 28-35. ' i.. . . )fht VANCOUVER. B C. Wl The ; almost unprecedented "big freeze" in British Columbia was blamed Monday for eight deaths, closing of schools, fires that left 27 homeless and for heavy damage to vege table crops....... . . One additional person was re ported missing. A father and bis two young daughters died in the flames that consumed their home at the inter ior city of Hazelton during the weekend. . . . Two frozen bodies were discov ered during the weekend, one ' at ChiUiwack and one at Surrey. The bodies of three persons were chopped from the ice-encrusted hull of their seiner, found Monday on Saturna Island, 40 miles south of Vancouver. A fourth person was missing.- Portland Man Leaps, Dies as Police Plead PORTLAND () While police pounded. on his door,' a man who faced a bad check charge and possible deportation jumped from a . fourth-floor hotel room to his death Monday. ... A detective on the street below saw Fred J. Hansen, 52, climb into the open window. When Han sen gave signs he was going to jump the detective, Joe Hochmuth, shouted to him not to do it, and urged him to remember his wife and five sons, all in Portland. "I'm coming, look out, I'm com ing," said Hansen,, and jumped. He was killed outright ; CEMETERIES LIKE COFFIN PONTE VEDRA BEACH, 'Fla. UP) The Florida State Cemetery Assn. elected Clifford S. Coffin as secretary Monday. , First-Hand View of Business 105th Year 2 SECTIONS Son Admits Rilling Mother, 43 Others on Airliner Witt Bomb Expansion of Marine Park Scheduled With ' a big boost from Salem Boat Co. and two property owners Salem City Council agreed Mon day night to enlarge Wallace Mar ine Park by nearly 20 acres. Extension of the ,Wesfr Salem riverside park on the downriver end is one of several major de velopment steps, since the original park site was left to the city' by the late Paul B. . Wallace. These are the participants in the latest expansion: Carl R. Staats, proprietor of River Bend. Sand.lt Gravel Co.. L . ...I ..1J W -;.. k Imlnk us ',v"ba":k " and gave certain adjacent prop erty to the city. . Sold Property Mrs. Walter- Musgrave, , widow of the late alderman and park booster, who sold a simUar-sized piece of property to the city lor $7,000. . ' ' : ' Salem Boat Club, which through boat races last July 4, raised $3. 161 for parkland acquisition at the ZZZ Tuk Tt La-Ito rnJ)d chairman of WaUace P a r roroJement Committee improvement wtmm lice. riverfront site. . This money was alon? with a boaters' check of $121 to be used for ramn and float improvements. Agree U Pay" , .The City Council, which appro priated $330 from' the emergency fund to go with- the. boat club money for down, payments on the properties and which agreed to pay the remaining balance and in terest (about $8,000) by Feb. 1, 1957. - -.. v .'..---;'. j - Soviet Travel Permit Sought By Bob Hope HOLLYWOOD to Bob Hope Monday '-made formal application to visit Russia for the purpose of filminz a television show over there with Russian stars and said: : "Maybe we can laugh the Iron Curtain away. I understand there are some very good comics in Mos cow, pantominists like the French man Fernandel. - I'd like to film some of their. ballet, too.. , His application, - delivered Mon day td Alex L Zinchuk,- first sec retary of" the Soviet Embassy in Washington, asked for visas for ten people. The U.S. State Department already has cleared Hope for the trio. ' I believe that' the feeling be tween the Rdssian and American peoples . can be - strengthened by such a show," the application read. The comic said . he would also like to Dlav Moscow's Bolshoi Theater which he described as a combination of the Palace and Carnegie Hall.. - LONG "OUT OF DATE REDDING, Calif. W) The Scott Lumber Co.'s chief .forester, Irvin E. Toler,. bluntly told a congres sional hearing Monday that many federal Forest Service policies. regulations and procedures were 1long out of date. - - . - - V j 3 - 24 FACES The Oregon Log Truck Rips Open Side of 1JL6.,- I DALLAS, Ore. Thirty Salem Academy children were riding la this trailer reach rippea epea left side behind drivers seat. Police Chief Paul Kitxnuller here points te damaged bus-Three girls are in hospital as result of accident. 3 Dallas Girls Hurt In Truck-Bus Crash . ... StatMBua Kiwi Srrlc DALLAS, Ore.? Three Dallas girls were injured Monday morn- iag when a logging truck's empty trailer ripped open the aide of a school bus taking 50 students to Salem Academy. " . :, The accident happened on Ellendale. Avenue, opposite the North Dallas Truck. Shop about 8:30 a.m. . Three girls among the bus passengers were reported in good condition Monday night at Dallas Hospital None of the other children, was reported hurt. The injured: Broken Leg Karlene Halstead, 12, daughter of , Mr. and Mrs. John Halstead, with , broken . left leg - and abra sions. . , . . , Sharon Reimer. 13, daughter of Mr and Mrs. ' Sam Reimer, with broken right leg and cuts. Donna Kliewer, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kliewer, with abrasioos and shock. Police . Chief Paul Kitzmiller, who investigated -the crash, said the log truck was being backed out, of the truck shop by Lloyd W. Jones, Salem, as the school bus came up the opposite side of the street after ' picking up some children at the corner. Behind .Driver's Seat ' The trailer reach ripped into the left side of the bus just be hind the driver s seat at about floor level Edwin J. Schroeder, Academy principal, was driving the bus. Neither driver was hurt The only other student taken to the hospital was Donna Kliewer, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kliewer, Dallas, who had abra sions and symptoms of shock, but' was released shortly after wards by the hospital - i ! The police chief issued ' no citation for driving violations. In Argentina BUENOS AIRES (Afl Argenti na's provisional government mass ed troops and tanks in key indus trial areas of the country to meet the. threat of trouble in a nation wide strike called Tuesday by the giant General Confederation of La bor (CGT). . - . i .The . strike - call was effective Monday midnight. i There was no immediate indica tion of the scope of the walkout. ordered by the CGT in defiance of ' - annnnnAmanf Kv - H I ' aavi iM,K,,,. M:m A wua v m aiuuufu m aiv vt . g feline. ... . . a. j that strike inciters would be jailed 1 don0i J"" 'ST tl and prosecuted. (Earlier story inlTlJ sec. 2, page 5.)v - ! Today's' Statesman . Sac Page 3 ? B-E Day Classified Comics t 7 j Crossword '.........Jl., j Editorials ;;t ) Homo Panorama - I. j Markets ..x. Obituaries . .11. Mj JL .11.. : Radio, TV I Sports 1.2 I Star Gazer , Vallay 10 6 ..II. Wirephoo Page II. poUndbd I65I Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, November 15, 1955 Ice-Encrusted Ship Yields Three Bodies VANCOUVER. B.C. The ice-encrusted hull of a 55-foot fish ing boat found aground on lonely Saturna Island' in the Strait of Georgia surrendered the frozen bodies of three crewmen Monday night The battered hull of the 55-foot seiner Westerner was discovered on the beach, its coating of frozen I sea spray gleaming white . in hricrht cunlicrKf Kv fu?A mntnrict 1 Jim and Bill Money.' 5 " The brothers climbed aboard the lifeless ship and started hacking through the ice. They . found the bodies of two crewmen. ! A Royal Canadian Air Force res cue unit called to the scene from Vancouver chopped through more ice and found the frozen body of a third crewman. Ike Arrives At Gettysburg ! GETTYSBURG, Pa., tffl Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower came to Gettysburg Monday to rest for a spell at their farm, and the towns people turned out by the thousands to give them a rousing welcome. I Eisenhower looking ruddy and fit voiced warm thanks to "my future permanent neighbors." (Additional details in Sec 2, page 4.) . Farmers Hear More Priyqte Enterprise ; Less government and more pri vate enterprise was the plea Mon day of Kenneth Hood. Chicago, as sistant secretary of the American Farm Bureau Federation, as he ad dress the Oregon-group in Salem. ! The Oregon federation, now in its Vuw- "1" mnTy Vl has reduced the number usually coming, .to .the meeting, officers said Monday, although an addition al 200 are .expected for tonight's banquet at Crystal Gardens. If the farmer is to be heard nationally,' the different commod ity groups must get together. Hood continued, as he explained that "this" is one of the big purposes of the Farm Bureau. Each com - modity group makes recommen dations, then we get together , as a wnoie to reacn some torm oi unity before we -present the mat ter to our congressmen. No busy senator has time to listen to dis putes between dairy and livestock groups.' seed and fruit groups, to him they are aQ agriculture.- Naw School Bus school bus Monday when leg track Dedth Claims or er INDIANAPOLIS WJ Daniel J. Tobin, 83, president emeritus of the AFL Teamsters Union and one time power in labor and politics. died Monday night. ; t 1 , Tobin, who beaded ; the . team sters from 1907 to 1932. died at St. Y'incent's Hospital, where he was admitted in late October suffering high . blood - pressure and heart trouble. Tobin made his home in Indian apolis Until he retired from his $30,000-a-year presidency. - When he became president em eritus and Beck became president, the union gave each of them salar ies of $50,000 a year,, and Tobin was given a $60,000 home in Miami Beach. Beck then moved the un ion's headquarters from Indianapo lis to Washington. " Tobin had "served as treasurer and vice president of the American federation of Labor. He was a member of President Wilson's .industrial conference dur ing World War I, and he was ad ministrative assistant to President Roosevelt for a few month in 1940. He studied labor conditions in Eng land for. Roosevelt in 192. The Weather Max. Mia. Prectp. Salrra' Portland Baker .. Medford North Bend Rosfburg San Francisco Los Angelei Chicago New York 2S IS trace -7 . 13 34. 41 '. - 38 51 - - 62 4S S It -a 32 29 17 44 51 39 . S3 trace trace .00 trace trace .01 .as " .09 .41 ,! Willamette River 3.1 feet . - FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary Field, Salem): -Continued cold today. .tonight and Wednesday; highest temperature to day neat XI and the lowest tonight near 10. t-t - - -Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today wa 14. ; f : SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start ef Weaiher Tear Seat. I Thii Year . I st Tear Narmal 10.94 . - ! ( U 7.S2 Plea for r tionally, most of our problems are similar. . : Hood ,then denounced . what he termed the trend toward social iced agriculture," adding that "only through a bold fight on all fronts can we resist the trend to ward socialized agriculture and monopoly government." The speaker blamed '"too' long a continuation of 90 per cent par ity" for the agricultural surpluses. He suggested expanding ; foreign trade idto countries which do not produce the same products as the United States. But ' suggested avoiding taking : markets away "from pur friends." ' In a business session of the Farm Bureau Women, Mrs. Jack Tobin, Lab I Sacrisoh, Pilot Rock, was named WacViinninn f!nnntv 1 chairman to replace Mrs. Fredf !a - jRueck who served the past two ! years. Mrs. John H. uevereux. Bandon, was elected vice . chair man. The regional council is elect ed later by mail from each of the 12 Oregon regions, and the secre tary is then appointed by the of ficers. (Additional details in Sec - 1. page S.) PRICE 5c No. 233 Arrest Solves osion on UAL Plane (Pictures on wirephoto page.) ' DENVER IB A young Denver construction and restaurant work er told Monday night how he tied 25 sticks of dynamite together to ' make a bomb that exploded aboard a , United Air Lines plane near Longmont, Colo., last Nov.,1. All 44 persons aboard, including John Gilbert '(Jack) Graham'. mother were killed. -U. S. Attorney Donald E. Kelley said Graham, 25-year-old forger. had signed a "written admission." Graham said he set the bomb to earn his mother's $37,500 flight insurance. ' ' Timing Device ' Graham said he had collected parts of his bomb on Oct. IS or They included the sticks of dyna mitecomprised of 40 per cent ex plosives and 60 per cent packing a timing device, a 6-volt dry cell - noisnot . Dattery, and two dyna- mite capsk each connected to about eigntjieet of wire. He said he unpacked Dart of th contents of one of his mother's suitcases and replaced them with the bomb. ';. His mother, Mrs. Daisie E. King. 54. , boarded the plane here for f oniand. Ore. From ; there she planned to continue on to Anchor age, Alaska, for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Helen Ruth Hablu tzel. ' . . Graham's details of construction of the bomb . and Vii mannvr. ing of his family so that he could u : . i j r i iL. -i Expl iiiue uie uevice in u sulicase, were reported. Monday night by David Stolberg; reporter . for The ' Rocky Mountain Ne,ws. 1' s Drsve ta Airmort . I nrafiam cail Ki a nlxWJ ... V.-' month-old son. Allen, at a Denver garage, where ' Mrs. King had stored her car. and drove them to the airport. He said he dropped them off at the terminal and then Darked hi ear.- - . , At the parking site, Graham said he bound the large suitcase with web straps. He .said he carried all the luggage to his mother in the terminal, then waited about 30 feet away i while she checked it onto the ill-fated flight. "After my mother had finished checking! her luggage." Graham said, "my wife and I went with her to the passengers gate where we' told my. mother goodbye and watched her board the plane with the other passengers." -- . . Graham said he watched the plane taxi down the runway and took his wife' and son into the air- Mnfr. .1 i Told ef Wreck "We were in the coffee shop for approximately one hour and as wa were leaving I heard the cashier (say) that there had been a wreck of an airplane about 40 miles out of Denver." i Graham ' said he had put the Knmk m atari ol in a 1tnr r?Krt..l box and concealed it under a blan ket in the trunk of his car. He said he did not remove the bomb until "about 5:15 p.m. MST) on Nov. 1," after he -watched his mother, wife and son drive from their home to store the car.- i Graham said as soon as they had left, he transferred the dyna-- mite sticks, caps and wire to a paper sack. For 90 Miantea Graham1 said he set the bomb to explode in 90 minutes, the max imum time allowed him by the timing device. ; , He said that' when the 90 min utes were up, "I knew the circuit between the caps and the battery which was broken by the timer would be closed by the timer me chanism and detonate the caps,' which would detonate the dyna mite." . - Ne Reply: Give - ' Graham did not reply when asked whether he felt remorse over - , the crash. Graham waived a hearing on a "peacetime sabotage" charge and was jailed when he was unable to : supply $100,000 bond. The sabotage charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years ia prison and $10,009 fine. Kelley met with state prosecut ors to consider whether the slim, y o u t h f u I-appearing defendant should be turned over to them for prosecution en murder charges, punishable by death in Colorado. (Additional details, Sec. 2, Page 12, and Sec 1, Page 2.) snenu A-riucaiiy ill H1LLSBORO UH . Washington fount v Sheriff PlrViard H Rncrh " was reported in critical conditio in a hospital here Monday after t suffering a heart attack , at , hia home Sunday night, : : ... J --Busca ia as.--