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2-(Sec. 1) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Fri., Nov. 25, "53 Wife Prays for Hour by Bed of Errant Husband, Then Kills Hii LOS ANGELES W Arouse wife knelt praying for an hour be side her sleeping husband's - bed Thursday then killed him with a bullet through the temple, police reported. . i; . - . "AH during our married life, for more than seven years, it has been one girl after another." Mrs. NinaJ Sorensen, 39. sobbed to omcers. They quoted her as saying: She and her husband. William, 39, aircraft worker and, marine corps veteran, had been "having trouble for six or seven months because of another woman. They argued, then her husband went to bed. 'Today is Thanksgiving. Every thing is a big mess now.. I don't know bow I could have done it. We were supposed to go to dinner to gether. "I should have got rid of that gun long ago. Bothered by Headache "Last night I was bothered with a migraine headache, I've . been having 1hem for months and can't stand them. It come oa after my husband and I argued over that other woman. The last one. . ior the past year, and she's married and has children. "After my husband went to bed I sat and watched: television and prayed. I kept thinking of our troubles. I went into the bedroom. "I knelt down beside him and prayed for about an hour. I went Two Loggers Said Victims fj Of Drovning POWELL RIVER. B. C. (Jl Two of three loggers reported missing' a- week ago from their ramn on Desolation Sound 30 miles north of here, were victims of , "accidental death by drowning." i the RCMP said Thursday night j Autopsies on the bodies of Charles Haines, 34. of Portland. 40 , believed of Vancouver, B. C, showed they were drowned. Still missing is Uno Nylund, 54, ef Courtenay, B. C. The RCMP was reluctant to comment on a report that they questioned and released a man who walked into RCMP headquar ters in this pulp and paper produc ing town and claimed he killed the three loggers. They said how ever there was nothing to sub stantiate such a claim. The body of Haines was recov ered Tuesday and Jennings was recovered Wednesday after drag -ging operations near the Glen Le vitt Logging Co. camp at Galley Bay on Desolation Sound, where the men were employed. The three men disappeared last Thursday and it was believed they were drowned when their boat up set during a snowstorm while they were rowing from a floathouse to the mainland camp. A boat was found beached nearby. Awards Made To Cities, for Noise War NEW YORK ( Memphis, Philadelphia and Jacksonville were announced Thursday as win ners of national awards for their efforts to cut down on noise. They received the 1955 achieve ment awards of the national noise abatement council, an organiza . tion devoted to making ' things quieter in homes, streets, offices and factories. t It was a repeat performance for Memphis tabbed by the , council as "the quietest city in the United Staes and Jacksonville. Memphis has received the achievement award every" year since 1941 and Jacksonville has won it a number of times also. Scientists Ready For Sun Eclipse BOSTON Uh Plans for an in tensive study of a solar eclipse on Dec. 14 were outlined Thurs day by the Cambridge Center of the Air Research and Develop ment Command. The command said 3 scientists, technicians and airmen, represent ing a dozen agencies, will be sta tioned at observation posts stretch ing from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan across the Indian Ocean to the is land of Formosa to study the De cember annular eclipse : in that area. The Cambridge Research Cen ter, sponsor of the study, will co relate the findings. An annular eclipse, scientists ex plained, is one in which the sua ,S ZTln whtrh . Z the nioon. and one m hich a thin ring of the sun can still be seen at the midpoint of the eclipse. Honeymooners to Visit Denmark LOS ANGELES (Jl Fleur Cowles Meyer and her new hus band. British lumberman Tom Meyer, are en, route to Copen hagen Thursday to continue their honeymoon. . Meyer, 37. and his bride. 41, left last night via Scandinavian Air lines system's transpolar route. They will make their home ia Lon don, where she will be foreign edi torial consultant for Look Maga zine. , ' She obtained a Mexican divorce from Look . Publisher i Gardner Cowles recently and was married to Meyer here last Friday. to my dresser and took out my gun a .25 caliber pistoL) Prayed Agaii . "I went back to bis side. I knelt down again. I prayed again and then I shot him." She called police herself, and told officers the argument started V" ' ... . t - - ' : r " , " If- '''',: '.?' ft . ... : ' f - "" v At ii - ' i w V ss. ' I . y.. . ... v i v.... .. . . LOS ANGELES Mrs. Nina Sorenson, 29, sobbed to police early Thursday how she shot her sleeping husband, William C. Soren son, also 39, apparently because she thought another woman was breaking up her home. The couple had been married seven years and had no children. (AP Wirephoto.) CIO Official Says Union Merger Set PORTLAND IBChester Dusten. assistant CIO regional director for five states, said Thursday hejs to be regional director for Oregon and Washington in the merged CIO-AFL. , t i The change, he said, is to be come official after the two big unions merge formally in a New , He was to be Pauley's house guest York meeting in December. " Thursday night before flying to Se Dusten said- his assistant would ' attle Friday. Truman will return be Leo Flynn of Seattle, an AFL organizer, ne aacieu ne aia noi; know whether his : headquarters I to Seattle. Dusten. 58. was a logger and mill worker after coming to Oregon in 1923. He began his union career as president of the Vernonia local of the CIO International Wood workers in 1938. He was later a member of the IWA organizing staff and in 1942 became CIO field representative. In 1947 he became assistant regional director. Thornton Lauds, Condemns State Press Policies PORTLAND i. Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton told the Wil lamette Democratic Society here that Oregon's press has failed to show any editorial policy on "free liquor by the case, football blan kets and TV sets in the OLCC in Salem." He had reference to charges he has made of irregularities i n Oregon Liquor Control Commission matters. Thornton said the lack of policy was in marked contrast to that which the press displayed during the Truman administration on charges of gifts of mink coats and deep freezes. i He added, though, that despite editorial stands, the state's press is fair in its news coverage, citing the Neuberger-Cordon campaign. He said Neuberger was fairly treated in news columns despite lack of support on editorial pages. Doctor Found Shot to Death TORONTO 1 Dr. Rex Hylton, 57-year-old orthopedic consultant, was shot . dead Thursday in his office at the Ontario Workmen's Compensation Board hospital in .K., itu. nearby Malton. Police are holding Robert Mar tin. 49. a carpenter from Ottawa. They said Dr. Hylton was killed with a single shot by a man who walked into the office carrying a rifle under his topcoat. About 50 patients were waiting in a nearby office. l L Police said Martin was admitted to the hospital Sept. 21 for treat ment of an injured elbow and had been a patient off and on for three years. Hospital officials said the man who shot Dr. Hylton had been told Wednesday he was to be dis charged from the hospitaL Skateland 51 7th SUWeit Salem Com Skating Where It's Friendly Please Observe Dress Soles after Sorensen called her from the home of the other woman, then came home to "decide what to do about this situation." The couple had no children. Mrsl Sorensen. who declined to identify the other- woman, was booked on suspicion of murder. 7 ft I i t ' 1 s t v - -I Ex-President In California LOS ANGELES UP) Former President Harry S. Truman ar rived via airliner from Kansas City, Mo.. Thursday night for a series of West Coast fund raising dinners for the Truman Memorial Library at Independence, Mo. He - was met by Edwin' W. Pauley, former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. to Los Angeles for a $100-a-plate dinner Monday and go to San Francisco for a similar dinner Tuesday. Psychiatrist Denied Access To Graham DENVER Ufi Dist. Judge Ed ward T. Keating Wednesday re fused a psychiatrist's permission to enter county jail to examine John Gilbert Graham. The 23-year-old Graham is ac cused of murder in a dynamite plot that killed his mother and 43 others in the explosion-crash of a United Air Lanes plane near Longmont, Colo., Nov. 1. Judge Keating overruled an earlier directive by safety man ager Edward O. Geer in which Geer consented to let a psychiatrist examine Graham at the request of two attorneys. Keating described such consent as being "out of order" in the case. "The two attorneys have entered the case at their own request for one special purpose," he said, "and that is to obtain adequate defense counsel for Graham. Their actions are to be confined to that purpose only." Jerome Strickland and Frank Hays, who have represented Gra ham and his family tm other legal matters, previously announced they would not represent him in his pending murder trial. Graham's mother, Mrs. Daisie King, 54, was aboard the plane that burst to pieces over a beet field. He has repudiated in news interviews a report by federal of ficials that he admitted the bomb ing. THRONG SEES PARADE NEW YORK un A crowd esti mated by police at 2,500.000 per sons lined streets of Manhattan Thursday for the annual Thanks giving Parade sponsored by Macy's department store. The crowd was one of the largest in I history. PHONE 4-4713 toh Hop 4 Mu.'y Vitala "The Seven little Foys" Olivia da Havilaad- Gwga RoUna! That lady" Special Kkla Matiaaa tawarraw 1 te 4 P.M. 'Texan Meets Calamity Jane" At The Theaters Today CAPITOL Liberac. Joann Dru In "SIN CERELY YOURS" and Dennis O'Keeie ia "THE. DIA MOND WIZARD" ELSINORE Jennifer Jones. Robert Stack in "GOOD - MORNING, MISS DOVE" and , "MAJOR STUDIO PREVIEW- . GBAKD Charles Lauhton in "HOB SON S CHOICE" and Joan Collins. Kenneth Mora In "ADVENTURES Or SADIE" HOLLYWOOD . Bob Hope. MiUy Vitale in "THE SEVEN LITTLE POYS" and OHria DeHaviUand ia "THAT LADY" . m Plane Crash; 16 Rescued VANCOUVER. B. C. UR Three persons were missing and believed dead Thursday following the crash of an RCAF Canso aircraft in Johnstone Strait, 130 miles north west of Vancouver,, the RCAF re ported." Sixteen of the 19 persons aboard the plan were saved by a tug boat, the Western Challenger. RCAF air, sea rescue officials said the Canso from the Sea Is land base here, made a forced landing on rough water. The tug boat managed to pass a line to the Canso and all but three of those aboard the craft were taken off when the big amphibious plane sank. Four of 16 persons rescued were injured. They included 'a civilian passenger. They are being treated ! at Courtenay. B. C. and Camp bell Riven; B. C, hospitals. Rescue planes from Vancouver flew the injured persons to Court enay and Campbell River. Reds' Trials Start in Paris t PARIS tfl The trial finally began Thursday for 21 Commu nists including the son of party leader Maurice Thorez and body guard of his dfcputy, Jacquest Du Clos charged with attacking po lice during the 1952 Paris riot when Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway arrived in France. Lawyers for the Communists pleaded that their clients were charged through various mistakes. They said they had not hit any policemen. There were more than 100 po licemen wounded that day. A num ber of them testified for 3' hours Thursday before the trial recessed overnight. " The riot "created a storm in France and the arrests included DuClos himself In whose car po lice found a club, a revolver and two pigeons. DuClos claimed the pigeons were for eating but the police thought they might be ear ner pigeons for messages. Also among the 700. arrested were DuClos' bodyguard and the younger Maurice Thorez. 28-year-old teacher son of the secretary general of the French Communist Party. DuClos was never brought to trial because the General Assem bly refused to lift his parliamen tary immunity. Many others -also were released. The Communists staged the riot in protest against Ridgway's ar rival to assume supreme command of the NATO military forces. Thiei Takes Thanksgiving Turkey, Cash LOS ANGELES OP) A heart less burglar ransacked the home of two sisters and fled with ?1,400 in cash, numerous stocks and bonds, and their Thanksgiving turney. Mrs. Loretta Whitmore, a de partment store buyer, and her sis ter. Miss Berdena Lorring. a tele phone company supervisor, ar rived home from work Wednesday night to discover the burglary. They told police the following was missing: the cash, stuffed in a paper bag; 200 government bonds and many stock certifi cates of undisclosed worth. Plus the bird they were going to have for dinner Thursday. Italian Minister to Visit Japan Emperor TOKYO UP) Italian Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino goes to the imperial palace Friday for lunch with Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako. The luncheon will be the social highlight of Martino's official state visit to Japan. The Italian diplomat arrived here Tuesday for a week of good will and Grade talks. - NOW PLAYING! TWO HILARIOUS RIBALD HITS1 CfiAHlES UUGIIGl 2ND HIT r3E 8 Korean Waifs Have First Thanksgiving CRESWELL. Ore Cfl There .were IS at. the table, every other ! seat a. highchair. as the family of j Harry Holt sat down at the j Thanksgiving table Thursday, j It was the first Thanksgiving dinner for the eight Korean waifs ;Holt adopted and brought to his jiarm; nere last moniru "Kto, kito, kito," they shrilled j as the family sat down. That ; means prayer. AH heads went down, and Holt gave thanks for their blessings i the laden table, their home and for the eight smalL children he was allowed to bring into the home to join Mrs. Holt and his other five daughters and a son. He added a special prayer for the "beys and girls in Korea- who do not even have a bowl of rice." Holt said later- he cannot get rid of the memory of the other orphans in Korea., particularly those of mixed blood whom the Koreans do not like. Those Holt adopted are all: of mixed blood, now gaining weight and responding Thousands See Santa Claus in Philadelphia , PHILADELPHIA (API Santa Claus, his nose like a cherry and his voice loud and merry, returned officially to Philadelphia Thursday for the 35th straight year. For a few festive hours reality turned to fantasy. Make believe and imagination were the heroes of colorful pageantry. Backgrounded by the shrieks and shouts and whistles o f thousands of boys and girls (and their parents, too) the fabulous old sleighnder from the North Pole galloped down: Broad Street in the galloped down; Broad Street in the annual Gimbel Thanksgiving Day! parade, the nation's oldest and! largest toyland festival. More than 100,000 cheering people thronged the sidewalks along the five-mile parade route in sunny, sparkling weather a day made just for the kids with star-filled eyes. Many, many thousands more watched the colorful spectacle on television (CBS). Missing from the march was its perennial grand marshal, Edward L. Smyser. He was forced to pass up this year's toyland parade be cause of health. He had been head man since the first one i n!920. Harriman Back Home After West Speaking Tour . NEW YORK UP) Gov. Avere3 Harriman came back from the West Thursday and headed for a turkey dinner at his .Arden, N. Y., farm. Arriving at. La Guardia--FieM from Lewiston, Idaho, the Demo cratic governor paused long enough to tell newsmen the Re publican Party has tactly accept ed his critical view of events fol lowing the Geneva conference. He said: "The Republican high command, in trying to answer what I said in Seattle about foreign policy, obvi ously recognized the truth of my analysis since they, avoided any comment on the facts that I brought out that the Communists had gained, our cause had lost during the three months that the spirit of Geneva reigned. Colombia Flood Victims Rescued BARRANQUILLA. Colombia () Red Cross, navy and air force' rescue teams worked Thursday to! aid more than 15,000 persons driv- j en from their homes by the flood-' ed Magdalena River, Colombia's largest. Seventeen towns along the lower ' stretch of the 850-mile-long stream were under water and more than : 8,000 persons had been evacuated,; many of them by helicopter. The floods, worst in half a century, fol--j lowed many days of steady rain. Strictly speaking a palace is the residence of a sovereign or ruler, but the word is more loose ly applied to any exceptionally large and lavish house. 0 NOW PLAYING! t it -y kbit !n ' V' xciting . 1 - .v CO-HIT PCNNtS 0'KEEf! SHEUDAI I s 1 V r: M M m m I IS. aW, i 1 1 1 1 w I 1 I W iV I illl . 4 ' ' J I I I I 1 i 1 at Cresvell to the love they get from t he Holts. When blonde Christine crawled into his, lap he told how she was rescued by soldiers from a pack of Korean children who were beat- "When I saw her. she had been , crying for days, and she hit me right in the face. She hated every body, and I don t blame her. said Holt. Besides the eight Mr. and Mrs. Holt have adopted, they are spon soring the keep, at $10 a month each, of 20 more children in the Korean orphanages, and his child ren are sponsoring 13 more. Grand Jury to Prohe Slaying Of Woodward MLNEOLA, N. Y. J A Nassau County grand jury is slated to con vene in special session Friday to look into the shotgun slaying of millionaire - sportsman William Woodward Jr. last Oct 30. Mrs. Ann Woodward, bis widow, is expected, to be one of the wit nesses. Another witness may be the Duchess of Windsor. The Duch ess was guest of honor at a party attended by . the Woodwards the night he was slain. i Mrs. Woodward, now out of a hospital after a siege of shock and grief, has admitted firing the fatal blast. She has said she fired blind ly into the dark hallway of net home at Oyster Bay. panicked by the idea that a noise was caused by a prowler.. Youths, Hurt T A j - JjQ iVCCMlenlV Impro vin2. Statesman Nws Srvlra STAYTON Some improvement was reported Thursday in the conditions of two Stayton youths injured in a Sunday highway crash .near Tangent but attend ants at Portland hospitals said both remained on the "critical" list. ' His physician said Larry Freres, 19, showed, slight im provement Thursday at St. Vin cent's Hospital and reported gaining at Emanuel Hospital was William Weddle, 19. The two were hurt in a car truck accident which claimed the lives of two girls, Patricia Ann Roberts, 17, Aumsville, and Gay Lesley, 19, Stayton. Minor in juries were suffered by Doris Minden, 18, Sublimity. Freres, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted G. Freres, Stayton, is an Oregon State student and Wed dle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Weddle, Stayton, is a student at "University of Oregon. Police Officer Improving' i After Wounds State Police Officer John Mek kers was reported "slowly im proving" Thursday at Salem Gen eral Hospital from wounds suffer ed while investigating an armed robbery at a Rickreall tavern last Sunday. Mekkers was shot in the left arm and shoulder by bandit Wal lace Carlyle Cunningham just be fore Cunningham was fatally wounded by deputized Herscbq Greenwade, Dallas. Dairy Queen Thanksgiving Week Special Quarts DAIRY QUEEN STORES 275 S. Cammarciat 1400 N. Capitol NOW PLAYING! Orh Ctfvry-f 01 pnH 1 Jennifer Jones 1 -.good filomincf, miss. Dovej KMRYKOSTBt Vj STftf OPHOttC sowo Plus Gangland Thrills i Important Major Stu-. dio Preview Tonight. Outstanding Film of Top Best Seller Book. mm JL-1L 3 : O COME IN AND SEE! 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