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S-(Sec I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Tues., Dec. 6, 1955 Arrest of Negress May Provide Court Test for Segregation in Alabama City MONTGOMERY. Al. W)-The arrest of a Negress who refused to move to the colored section f a city bus msy brini a court test of segregated transportation in the cradle of the Confederscy. While thousands of other metropolitan Area for Gity Wins Backing (Story ilno on Page 1.) A Salem metropolitan district, legally established for joint fi nancing and control of public im provements by city and suburban '."V"; whoiGrsy and a former state prcsi represented Salem Chamber of Commerce and Marion County Planning Commission at a legis- lative interim committee bear-l ing. Similar proposals came from -several public officials at the meeting in Salem City Hall. The main "urban area prob lem m u. v wiura lor suuuruanue. wuu uu.i i , pay their share of taxes to sup-, Sort them, it was indicated by n. Salem Mavor Robert F. White in his presentation - ... I Of this CitV 1 recommendation to the Legisla ture, Beaa Preaidet The hearing was presided over by Ormond R. Bean, Portland city commissioner and chairman ?w Lw .h. -ISrSSw fXnV. mM. the fnnge .rea problem Some of the recommended leg - islstion his committee heard last nigni: Allow eities and suburban pre cincts to vote for a metropolitan district with power to tax fori16- w that point onward. bmic pup.ic uiipiuYrmcLUi, .u- itock market recovered itrong Ceited by McMullen. j- Rmd district! to force fringe: Monday the AP average gained area residents to help maintain '11.00 and closed at $181 .50, equal good roads connecting with city ; to in old historic high of last Sep arterisls: required sewage disposal tember. and provisions for joint financing j - ., . of disposal plants by cities and) fringe areas, both proposed by Mayor White. Oart Pewer Power for county courts to es tablish limited county toning with out vote of the people; authority for counties te enter contracts with cities; county court power to audit and coordinate small taxing district financing, all advocated by County Judge Rex Hartley. ' Annexatioff to cities by a major- roajerity vi? in both city and out- aide area, proposed by Salem Plan- - Bing Commissioner Robert JC Pow-: m . , . . Appwanceae sQ were nwae uj Polk County Judge Cal Bamhart, Yamhill County Judge R. E. - Renne,- Albany City Recorder W. D. Bollman, Salem Schools Super intendent Walter Snyder, League of Women Voters president Mrs. E. B. Daugherty, Realtors Board President Al Itaak, Labor Coun cil Executive Herbert Barker, Chamber of Commerce repre sentative Pert Woodcock. Legislative committee members at the bearing were Bean, Sen. Stewart Hardie of Condon, County Judge R. A. Lathrop of Grants Pass, John Misko of Oregon City, and secretary Robert Johnson, Sa lem. Rep. Al Loucks of Salem couldn't attend because of illness. 3 Released From Hospital Three of four weekend hospital cases were released Monday from Salem General Hospital Retained for treatment of ankle and foot fractures was Mrs. Dora TroxeL 2935 Sunnyview Ave., injured in a Sunday afternoon collision at Four Corners. Her. condition was " "good," attendants said. Released were Theresa Beckley, . of Rickreall, broken arm, and Mrs. Jean Hiebert. J580 Bluff Ave., both injured in a Sunday morning collision at Vista avenue and Com mercial street; and John Elkins. ' 1231 Franklin, Burt when he fell from his car Saturday night at Pine street and Portland road. Sublimity Fire Area Adds Schumacher SUtoaaua Nowa Sarvk SUBLIMITY Richard Schuma cher was named a new director of the Sublimity fire protection dis trict at a special election held here Monday. Twenty-five votes were east for Schumacher. He will replace John Bast, who did not seek reelection. i A v. . -If.. fl ( : (OVA o I r.v .iVU I Negroes ooycotted Montgomery City Lines in protest, Mrs. Rosa Parks was fined $14 in police court Monday for disregarding s driver's order to move to the rear of a bus last Thursday. Negro passengers ride in the rear of buses here; white passen gers in front under a municipal segregation ordinance. Along with the bus boycott, there "were other threatened acts of retaliation by Negroes. A mass meeting was scheduled Tuesday night at a Negro church to con sider "further instructions." Boycott Organised The boycott was organized aft er Circulars were distributed in Negro residential areas Saturday urging "economic , reprisal" against the bus company. Mrs. Parks appealed her $14 fine and was released under $100 bond signedy Negro Atty. Fred Ctvlro l?iallr ij,UCK!S I 1111 " inecovcr rrom licit i i iicii;iv NEW Y0RK , Wan street's .. . ... . , ..w. i jJICCIicai UUII niai net til o."vo,r.Ilt XVJUI DIJUUUA IU111UCU 1U U1C ' " ., , - I P?"?1 h,stor.,c milestone """"X- 1 nM. maoe UP . I k M ..nil wm In., . .h. Wan U1U1UU UVllHia (UM 1U UIC Uip" tember-October crash. Using The Associated Press av erage of 60 stocks as the yard stick, here is the big picture. Last Sept. 23 the AP average stood at $11.M highest level it the 'government's liability is limit ever had reached and substantial-1 -h tuimn tr .rh H-.th ly bov i 1929 highs. - Then the news of President I Eisenhower 'a heart attack hit the I mi-ketpl.ce. Stocks tumbled with , . .,:. ..u.ri th.t k.h b.eQ geen tinct 1K9 de. bade. On Oct. 11, the AP average : raarhoH It lnw fnr thm raartiin BlazeFights Back; Woman Shot in Ankle CORVALLIS I Fire broke out in the house, but Mrs. Phillip Saner, 52, didn't get burned. She was shot. :,sh-,;5b"n " home 10 miles south of here fT "Wl. when a bullet, stored I in the house, became overheated 'from the fire and exploded. A mrltl .-.---. lHad in her ankle. ..There was no water supply, to quench the flames, and the house burned to. the ground. Rickreall Pageant Tickets Offered tuusaua Ntwt Strrlrt RICKREALL Tickets for the 15th snnual Community Christ mas Pageant Dec. 10 and 17 will be given out Tuesday here and in Salem and other nearby towns. Admission to the widely-known pageant Is free. But crowds have been so heavy in recent years tickets are necessary to reserve seats and to "equalize" the au dience over the two night pre sentations st the Rickreall school gymnasium, sponsors said. Tickets are available at Hen ry's Photo. Service in Salem; at the Rickreall Farm Supply here; at Haas' Drug Store in Dallas; Gray's Drug Store at Independ ence, and st Monmouth and Brunk's Corner. mow oy-le-dorte Imerevad smooth rvnninf , cletor cvttinf hvr. lafordlot ef eee, condition, or woke wet a1 ye Hp eolta r yew eid "Tie Diamond STATE jJjCHMSTMAS ) 7 for 2 Yo vr Old t n f VltEMJNGTON "60" p ipf DEIUXI SHAVER ' n dent of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, . D. Nixon, Gray and Charles Langford, another Negro lawyer represent ing the 42 year-old department store seamstress, refused to say whether they plan to attack con stitutionality of the segregation laws affecting public transporta tion. V But Gray told the Associated Press that "every issue will be Supreme Court Holds Airline Liable in Crash WASHINGTON t The Su preme Court ruled Monday both the federal government and East ern Airlines are liable for dam ages in a 1949 air crash here which took the lives of 55 persons. In Three separata actions, the court closed out a long, bitter le gal battle over the 'question of li ability. The disaster, occurred when a four -engine Eastern airliner and a PS8 fighter flown by Bolivian Pilot . ... ' :. . . air, I'aaalmous Verdict In one action, the court unani mously agreed with decisions of lower federal courts that the gov ernment is subject to liability. In another, it agreed with the ,TS . rnlir( A ihat This is on the ground the gov ernment's negligence occurred-in the control tower of Washington National Airport, which is in Vir ginia. Virginia limits damages for a death to $15,000. Another Declsioa lfl another decision the court ruled 6 J that a state may fix "reasonable time limits" for as serting f t d e r al constitutional rights. It did so in denying new1 trials for three New Orleans Negroes un der death sentences for the rape of a white woman. The court found the Negroes failed to meet a Lou isiana time limit for challenging the makeup of the grand juries which indicted them. They con tended Negroes were systematical ly excluded from the grand juries. 8 Injured as Bus Overturns MADRAS. Ore. UTI Eight per sons were injured, none seriously. when a bus skidded on frozen slush and overturned near here Monday. The accident occurred on High way 97, some S miles north of this Central Oregon town. The Grey hound bus, operating under a Trailways franchise, was being driven by Stanley Younger, 56, of The Dalles, Ore., when it skidded into a power pole, reversed its di rection and then overturned. Mrs. Cecil Day, 48, of Yakima. Wash., who suffered a fractured shoulder and other Injuries, was the most seriously hurt. , Thief Returns for Rest of Equipment A thief who took a cutter attach ment for an electric drill a week ago apparently came back over the weekend for the machine to make it go. Theft of tht electric drill valued st $16, from the George E. Allen Hardware, 236 N. Commercial St., was reported Monday morning to Salem police by Crover Welty, clerk at tht store. He said the circular cutter and other small tools, total value 911.10, had been taken a week ago. Store of Salem" AND LIBERTY raised that I think is necessary to defend my client." No hearing on the appeal has been set in circuit court Police Powers The Negro woman was first charged with violating a city ordinance which gives bus driv ers police powers to enforce racial segregation. But at the request of City Atty. Eugene Loe, the warrant was amemjed in court to charge violation of a similar state law. Passed by the legislature in 1947, the state statute authorizes bus companies to provide and enforce separate facilities for white and Negro races. Violation is punishable by a maximum fine of $500, Meanwhile, other Negroes by the thousands found other means of transportation or stayed home Monday in an organised boycott of City Lines buses. State Police Recruits Set Training Stint Thirteen state police recruits started two weeks training Mon day at the Salem Army Reserve Armory. Classes include first aid. laws of arrest, traffic control and criminal investigation. Instructors include Capt. Irving Larson. Capt. Ray C. Howard, Capt. Walter Lansing, Lt. Farley fc-.-Mogan, Sgt. Wayne Huffman, Sgt. Byron W. Haielton and Sgt James Darby, all of the Salem district office; L. G. Johnson of the state bureau of identification; and other officers from the' Mil waukie office. A dozen sergeants also starttd training in lesson planning, train ing aids snd examination pro cedures under Instructors from throughout the state. Instructors from Salem are Sgt. Chady C. Weems and Sergeant HazeJton. Buster Keaton 'Critically 111' HOLLYWOOD uB- Buster Kea ton, frozen-faced comedian of si lent movies, is in "very grave" condition at a veterans' hospital from a gastro-intestinal ailment, a hospital official said Monday. - The (0-year-old actor was ad mitted to Wadsworth Hospital in West Los Angeles Saturday with a sever hemorrhage, the official said. "He is considered critically 01." added the executive. "The hemor rhage has been stopped. The ail ment could be an ulcer, but an exact diagnosis has not been made." FOR YOUR TOYLAND, In the Capitol TONIGHT AT OREGON'S L mil in Tuesday Night Specials 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Golden Trumpet, Reg. $3.98 . . . . . Spec $2.88 Giant size plush Bears end Pandas, Reg. $4.19 Spec $2.88 Musical Bears and Pandas, Reg. $3.98 . . Spec $3.29 Deluxe Tinker Toy Set (vymotor) Reg. $9.95 Spec $5.88 Famous Crow Shoot Game, Reg. $2.19 . . Spec $1.66 Davy Crockett Getar, Reg. $1.69 . . . Spec $1.29 ' Famous Battery Train (follows cable) Reg. $2.98, Spec $2.44 Character Dolls by Bechler, Reg. $1.98 . . Spec $1.29 z Musical Tops, 7 Cords, Reg. $ 1 .98, .. . . GAMES . : . v What's My Line, Reg. $2.98 Topography, Reg. $2.50 ... Down You Go, Reg. $2.98 Beat The Clock, Reg. $3.98 AMERICAN FLYER IT In The At The Theaters Today1 T elsinoks THI TINDERTBAP at; i.OO and 10 31 THE GUN THAT WON THE WEST at: , CAPITOL VIEW riOM POMPEY'S HEAD at: 1 00 4 13. 1M. and 10 60 NIGHT FREIGHT at: 1:41, t U. and I OS GRAND NAKED AMAZON at: 1:14 and' loos THE BIO, CHASE at: S 3 HOLLYWOOD NOT AS A STRANGER at: TrOS and S IT . Salem Ex-DP Scoffs at Red Overtures' (Story also on page one) The Communists in East Ger many picked a peculiarly un strategic time to "invite" Ardo Tarem, Salem, back to his native Estonia to live behind the Iron Curtain. Tarem as id Monday he re ceived a batch of Red nrooa- rganda just prior to Thanksgiving as did some of his Estonian friends In Portland. The Tarem family was guest of the Portland friends Thanks giving snd Tarem pointed out that "it was a time when we all gave thanks that we were now Americans." Then the group collaborated in writing answers to the absurd overtures from Bulganin. Khrushchev snd under lings. The letter rejected the "invitation" home in terms that should make a lot of Red ears redder. The propsganda was aimed at Estonians and probably also Lat vians, Lithuanians and natives of other small countries who fled when their homelands were gob bled up by the Reds, Tarem said. Tarem added he learned the Soviets gained addresses to which to send their moutbings by pilfer ing subscriber lists from such anti-Russian newspapers as "The Fighter," printed in West Ger many snd subscribed to by many transplanted Estonians in the U.S. Literature received by Tarem included a bombastic, fictionized newspaper called "Peoples Voice" and two leaflets eandied up to make all appear flowers snd honey behind the Iron Cur tain. RayLafky,McCall Win Directorships SUUunan Ntwi Service KEIZER Ray Lafky was unan imously elected as a director of the Keiier fire protection district at a special- election held here Monday. FOUR CORNERS - Voters ef the Four Corners fire protection district Monday reelection C. C. McCall to a five-year term as a member of the board of directors of the district. .. 1146 Union St. OPEN SHOPPING CONVENIENCE Shoppina Center, is Salem's lor jest toy center. SHOP LARGEST ewlusire TOY STORE, TOYLAND . TRAIN SETS, 4 only, V 1 A 1146 Union St. Capitol Shopping Woman Suicide Raps World in Final Letter HENDERSONVTLLE, N. C. Ml Mrs. Florence E. Groves Carroll had everything in order Sunday as she departed "this mortal coil." She hanged herself from a ceil ing joist in her home after leaving ber few possessions to the milk man and drowning three dogs and two cats she owned. . j The M-year-old former Chicago I schoolteacher also left a 10-page : will and testament in which she said she decided years ago that "when I become a burden to my self and others I would shuffle off this mortal coil." She had lived along 20 years at nearby Dana Body Found Her milkman beneficiary, Jim my Marshall, found her body when he made his daily delivery. She left a letter for Marshall which coded: "And now as my ship Mils out into the great unknown, I am standing at the helm, still the cap tain of my fate. "Goodbye, fear-stricken world, goodbye." Assistant Coroner R.P. Freeman ruled suicide by hanging. Mrs. Carroll said in her will that she wants her body to be given to some medical school or clinic "then cremated and the , ashes thrown down some forest glade." Pine CoMla . And if .that isn't possible, she wanted her body "placed in a newly-constructed rough-hewn pine cof fin and buried in some out-of-the-way corner. "There shall be present at the burial only those necessary to per form the task. "There shall be no flowers, no singing, no preaching, no praying. Brooks School Polio Vaccine 'NotAdvisable' Sutriman Newt Scrrict BROOKS Polio vaccine is In advisable at this time for pupils of Brooks School, where a case was discovered last week, because it is ineffective after exposure to the disease. Dr. Willard J. Stone, Mar ion County health officer, said Monday in response to queries from parents. Meanwhile, the condition of 12- year-old Jack Lindsay, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Lindsay, was re ported unchanged at Silverton Hospital. His spine was affected but paralysis had not reached his lungs, attendants reported. Con stant watch was being kept in his room. Third and fourth graders at Brooks School were vaccinated against polio last spring! Young Lindsay, who first complained of a backache Friday, is a seventh grader. His brother. Petev . received a gamma globulin shot,' not the vac cine, effective in cases of exposure to the disease, but this is not recommended generally because of the high cost, $30 or more, Stone said. .:z.:Spec.$1.49r . Spec $2.39 Spec $2.19 Spec $2.39 . Spec $3.25 35M vcL, $19.95 Center I have tried" to make my life a prayer and if I have not done so. no palaver over the hu.sk will help the spirit that has flown." Mrs. Carroll wrote in her note: "I will not be sorry to leave a world so permeated with suspicion and fear and hatred, this 'land of the free' which has sold its soul for a mess of pottage, this land which bows down in absolute sub servience before .its idols, the dol lar and the machine, and yet calls ttseli Christian." Thief Got Out, But How Did He Scoot In? They know how the thief got out of the Erickson Super Mar ket at 3080 Portland Rd , but they cannot figure out how he got in. His loot apparently consisted of three partly filled boxes of cigars, about $1.50 in mutilated coins,' and possibly some cigarets. Mgr. Frederick R. Montgomery reported to police. A rear door was found open Monday morhfilg. But it could not have been the means of entry because it had been secured by three inch-thick bars Sunday night, he said. A possibility Is that the con fusion was caused by somebody who had been locked in the store Sunday night, Montgomery sug gested. KEFAUVER TO TALK PORTLAND W) Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn), who is expected to an-; nounce soon his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomina- tion. will speak at the Oregon; Young Democrats convention here. April 21. BIG MEMBERSHIP WASHINGTON GP-The Daueh- ters of the American Revolution report their membership is at an au-ume high. The figure now stands at 182,124. PHONE 4-4713 Olivia 4 HivitMd Rebort Mrfhw Frank Sinatra Gloria Grahanw "Not a$"a Stranger" Carroont Naw Waenor Choral Growa "NIGHT FREIGHT -STARTS TOMORROW - at rofcttti4to raiBR ana in. wolf mLrJfcJli.lljJ Imported Scotch -And It's Wonderously Funny! n Jill PAUL B0UGLAS ' vn ii rT ' Diabolical and RICHARD CONTE "CASE OF THE Firm Loses ! 82 Million in 4 Judge Ruling PORTLAND m-k federal Judja Monday overturned a jury verdict that had awarded an Oregon firm $2,138 753 damages from twer're frigerator companies. District Judge Gus J. Solomon said the Moist Cold Refrigeration Co., Inc., of Oregon had failed to prove its case against the Admiral Corp. and Amana Refrigeration, Inc., and the jury disregarded his instructions on the law. The Oregon firm had asked 10 per cent of gross sales of the two refrigerator companies in the pe riod from December, 1948, to Octo ber, 1953, claiming infringment on a temperature control patent. Fire Leaves 5 Homeless SWEET HOME Wi - An early morning fire destroyed a house and left a family of five homeless Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Don Carter; their children, aged 24 years and I months; and Mrs. Carter's sister, Mrs. Frances Stockmier, escaped from the flaming frame, two-bed room structure in their bed clothes. They were not injured. A cold rain was coming down at the time. Fire Chief Ivan Hoy said the Are apparently started from aa overheated wood stove. Nowl Open 6 45 r hi I i 4 i mm , DENNIS MORGAN AULA RAYMOND a cwwsia pmiuoj LAST DAY "VIEW FROM POMPEYS HEAD" and tMMIHW. j I Tender "Trap rTsTTi-rnrii 1 1 ii " M mHmmJgfd awvasi mil iiismvh ntma ADDED , "EMPEROR PENQUIN" A True Life Short Subject la Technicolor! STARTS TODAYI HERE IS RICH SLY FUN FOR EVERYONE! AtlV MACNSNZIC TOMMY MAMMA Cleverly Done! RONA ANDER.HOM RED MONKEY'.'