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r - t n t F CkiooQ. 11 , Salrra school district vatrrs Will I U the polls la 17 school voting placet today to deride he:hcr the city U U start caa tirartlaa af two new Junior high schools this year. At issue is a tt.SOO.OM bond measure which would finaaee ronttructioa ( the two l.MO-pupil kmildlnrj, aad provide money tor rcnmtioa ( the district's pres ent junior high facilllies at Par. riih and Leslie., FUns are already underway for the buildings which would be Jo--cated oa site la northeast Salem kcar Washlagtea Grade School and la the Liberty-Salem Heights district south of the city. Polls will be open from t p.m. Fireman Victim of Frozen Lake Durina RecriitT Trv w.. ..WWVVBW , . . . PORTLAND A fireman died Sunday in taking part in the rescue of a father and son from an ice-crusted lake. , Fellow firemen worked two hours in an attempt to revive Warren L. Nott, 40, before doctor pronounced him dead. Michael Dailcy. 13, 7115 S.E. 35th Ave., Portland, was skating hen thawing ice gave way on Kellogg Lake near Milwaukie. 3CP 3LMDQB Thus far no report has come from the opening of the tomb of Sir Thomas Walsingbam, dead these three centuries and more, which was permitted to the group ! looking for evidence that Christo pher Marlowe, 1564-1593, of whom Walsingham was patron, was the author of the plays commonly at tributed to William Shakespeare. By odd coincidence however a play i producer has "exhumed" Mar- j lowe's first flay, "Tamburlaine ' the Great" and is presenting it ; In a New York theater. The pro-1 ducer is Tyrone Guthrie and the players, with one exception, are irom me restivai company oi Stratford, Canada which presents plays of Shakespeare there. Marlowe got a good education at Cambridge where he won both B.A. and M.A. degrees. This play was written about the time he was fin ishing university, in 1587. It claims this distinction: Marlowe was the first to use blank verse in dramatic composition for public perform ances and Tamburlaine was the lirlavDeilonBjML style. The performance in New ; York is the first time it has been done professionally on the Amen- can stage, and draws this "faint praise" from Brooks Atkinson, drama editor or the New York Times: "it is a play that the thea tregoer can afford to see once every 369 years." I thought as long i this exhum ing of Marlow was in progress I might do some of my own, so I drew the volume of Marlowe's "Dramatic Works" off my shelf. Perhaps I may be permitted a personal anecdote. I bought the book years and years ago when, a college senior, (Continued on editorial page 4.) Seattle Couple Found Slain In California BAKERSFIELD. Calif. I - A Seattle couple were beaten to death with a hatchet and then run over by their own automobile 18 miles north of here early Sunday and. sheriffs officers sought all hitchhikers in the area for ques- tioning The bodies of James Askew, 50, of Seattle, and his wife, Mary, 43, were found by a farmer on a lone ly road a mile west of U.S. High way, 99, about 18 miles north of here early Sunday. Coroner Stanley Newman said the couple had been struck several times on the head apparently with the butt end of a hatchet and that their throats had been cut with the blade. No weapon was found at the scene, Newman said. , The couple left Seattle last Wed nesday morning with a young Bismarck, N.D., companion and a "wad of bills" estimated to con tain $1,000. Detectives H.L Arnold and Herb Swindler said the slain couple were accompanied by Donald Wyciskala, 22, who came to Seattle from Bis marck to seek work. Fire Kills Woman, Five Youngsters UPPER MARLBORO, Md. Ifl ' A woman and five children were burned to death Sunday night when fire levelled two-story . frame house pn a tenant farm. The woman was Identified as Sadie Windsor, 45. who lived near by. She was an aunt of the chil dren. They can't da this U sae! I i - aut af season! gdeso uoday to I p.m. at voting places located at Highland. Waihington. Grant, Englcwood. Richmond, Leslie, Morningiide, Four Corners, K fi ler, Hayesville. North Salem, Garfield. Roberto, Liberty, West Salem aad Brash schools, and at the school administration Build- in. Voting Is expected to be heavy a the issue which has been sub- F Ject of a busy campaign by f parents' groans, school admlnis- , trators aad a cilitens' committee. Til lMlln Kill b lh tint la Salem sine the nature ml a law I by the State Legislature requir ing voters to sign the poll book as certification that they are resi dents of the precinct where they are casting their ballots. I south of here. Clarence Dailey, 47, nis father, saw it. happen from shore, several hundred feet away, and took out after him. When Dailey reached the spot the ice collapsed under him, too. Monroe Sweetland, Oregon's Democratic national committee man, who lives on the lake front, saw the boy go under, called fire men and went out with neighbors In two rowboats. It Willamette Student . !? C. Girard Davidson Portland attorney and a former assistant secretary of interior, acd Keith Burns, a Willamette University law student, used pipe and a car den hoe to hack a path for the front boat through the ice. They had to go about 500 yards Sweetland said Davidson and Bums pulled out the boy. who he estimated had been in the water 30 minutes, and were trying te rescue Dailey when Nott. a Mil waukie city fireman, came running out from the other shore with a ladder. "Nott lowered the ladder and Dailey hung on," said Sweetland. "That wa the only thing that aavea vauey. out jusi as mey were getting Dailey out the ice Droxe unaer noil. , Threw Rope Fellow firemen threw rope out; and one of them. Robert Matthis, also crashed through to the water. He was rescued but Nott was not able to grasp the rope. Sweetland and another boatman, Cliff Walstrom, Oak Grove, Ore., pulled out Nott with a grappling hook. He was taken to a lake shore residence but first aid efforts failed. . Dailey and his son were taken to a hospital here. Attendants said they apparently suffered nothing more than shock and exposure. Adlai Notes 56th Birthday (Picture on.Wirephoto page), LOS ANGELES or Adlai Ste venson quietly observed his 56th birthday in his native city Sun day by attending church, building .... ... . a political fence or two. and an- pearing before television movie cameras. . The Democratic candidate for I the presidential nomination, des cribed by a member of his staff as a combination Unitarian Presbyterian." attended Immanuel Presbyterian Church, several miles from the home where he was born on Feb. S, 1900. Later in the afternoon, Steven son put in a couple of hot hours . (of telev. Filmcraft Production Studios in Hollywood. The Weather Max. Mln. Prrcip. n 1 1 7 .02 4 , trace 36 tract" 42 .04 35 .OS 44 00 45 trace IS .00 33 - 02 Portland 3S Baker Mrdlord . : North Bend .... 32 49 . .. Roteburs SO San Francisco 55 Ix Anxelei U Chicago :.41 New York 44 Willamette River 15 feet: FORECAST (from V. S. weather bureau, McNary field. Salem): Night and morninj fog and partly cloudy afternoon! today and Tues day, with a hish today of 44 and low tonight of 34. Temperature at 12.01 a.m. today wa .14 sai.fm mrrtrrrATio Since Start of Weather Tear Srst. 1 Thia Vrar Lat Year Normal 41.IS 1H 01 24.H1 Astronomer Claims Eight, Not Nine Planets in Solar System WILLIAMS BAY, Wis. ui - Dr. Gerald P. Kuiper. one of the world's leading astronomers, said Sunday there are only eight genu- ine planets in our solar system instead of nine as commonly be - lieved. "The heavenly body we know as Pluto " Dr Kuiper said in an in - terview "in reality is only one ... . .... oi Neptune s satellites or moons which broke away untold millions of years ago " rw v..i,.'i. . ...h , Dr. Kuiper is a research profes - .1 Va.Ita. nhanitn kr. AVJ,TJTJ"r. . ' rL Hard' the Lowell Observatory i sity ot Chicago, t raislaft - Ariz., Dr. Kuiper t. .Scientists first recognized Pluto lifted the following as the reasons as a planet in 1930.-Too small to,piut0 , . runaway moon and not be seen with the naked eye, It isj, genuiM panei. ninth In distance from the sun. j L piuto'a orbit is not one In, "Wt know that Neptune the I eighth planet in our system bas 105th Year Saved From Death in Blizzard in Texas Panhandle ' I .... ', - """ ) . - it .., urn- ,i .- ;- i . f , wiA - ' . t t-i -i - I i-l' 1 ; ii : 1 ! -v TVCUMCARI, N. M. Passengers In the Texas Panhandle east of Southwestern Sijows Ease; 23 Lives Lost Br THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A five-day blizzard that took at least 23 lives subsided Sunday in Texas and New Mexico. An island of cold air with a mix ture of snow and freezing drizzle persisted from Northern Texas through Oklahoma and into South ern Kansas. . But the blizzard, described In Texas as the worst snowstorm in a half century and in New Mexico as one of the worst In the stale's history, apparently, had ended. The icy rain and , snow- was spreading to Arkansas and Mis- souri while warmer rain pelted the ' Gulf states. The weather, in the rest of the nation was generally" fair," With widely scattered areas of precipi tation. A few patches of snow drift ed over western and interior New York state and occasion light snow or flurries developed over the Rocky Mountains. Showers and thunderstorms con tinued along the Gulf Coast which bad one to two inches of rain dur ing the preceding 24 hours. The eastward and northward moving storm brought- freezing moving siurm uiuukh- ,CT:i"'S rain, drizzle or snow through the Carolina. Tennessee and Ken- lain, ui uw vi mww iniwuii n. --i: . t j v all through the East up into New England. Europe's Deep Freeze Ends; Death Toll 147 LONDON Of The great thaw set in Sunday over much of shiver-1 ing Europe but the tail end of the century's worst cold wave brought, continuing hardship to millions of families. The known death toll climbed to 147 on the sixth day of the now subsiding Siberian blasts which wreaked millions of dollars in dam age across Europe, even down to the sunny Mediterranean. ' The deep freeze persisted in France and Italy. Moscow report ed sinking sub-zero temperatures and primary school children there were warned to stay home. In thawing Britain the loud noise was the drip, drip, drip of water seeping from burst frozen pipes into thousands of homes. Only the plumbers seemed to.be benefiting from temperature readings which soared into the upper 40s during the day. two genuine satellites," Dr. Kuiper said. "One of these is Triton and the other Nereid. Highly Irregular ' Both of these are highly irregu- . lar in traveling their orbits around Neptune, much different from the Satellites belonging to Jupiter or ' Saturn' Dr. Kuiper believes the DSCnc 01 riuio as a satellite , wi fMnntiinai taiiCA that nvaArtii1fie " '"F'- - travel because every other satellite , in the solar system belongs to a 'well-organized group. . , ,. ,, " J,v l j. " -""J""-llMH Willi wn K uuire byJETS. Merle Walker.and Robert which a planet could form from I its gaseous mass because it actual 2 SECTIONS-14 PACES i J:. from a bus stranded la a blixzard I here debark after being brought I 16 Rescued From Snow-Stalled Bus TUCUMCARI, N.M. UTV-Sixteen passengers were rescued Sunday from a bus stranded in a blizzard after the heroic driver fought his way on foot through 12 miles of snow drifts seeking help. Three New Mexico highway patrol cars crossed into Texas fol lowing a path broken by a road grader bucking waist-high drifts, to save 14 adults and two children stranded in the drift since early British Give Second Glance To Reds' Visit LONDON Iff) Russian attacks on British "colonial policies are gfv- Ing Britain second thoughts about its invitation to Soviet Premier Bulganin and. Communist Party chief Khrushchev to visit London in April. ' A government source said that unless Moscow's propaganda cam paign is toned down .the Soviet visit, heralded as a good will tour," might be cancelled. , Moscow Radio's persistent need ling of British Empire interests is beginning to rankle Britons .and the Eden government's attitude toward the Kremlin is hardening. British fppi:ns, aio- have been hruiwd hv ?. hva'Jn , Pri ' 5.1 respondenre with President Eisen hower. The attitude of the average Eng lishman has changed since Moscow launched its campaign against Bri tish Empire interests. Until Bul ganin and Khrushchev opened up with an all-out .attack on British colonialism during their Asian tour, many Englishmen felt the Ameri cans were too uncompromising to ward the Russians. Now the British attitude is getting uncompromis- ing, too. The Soviet needling continues, The latest effort Is by Soviet his- torian Ilya Calkin, in an English language talk over Moscow Radio. He had this to say: - Ta nrta vt-wtrtatjl f K aft I In 4k nf revolution or freedom and inde - nenrlenre tn North America. It was Thomas Jefferson, and not any r - Communist." Reds Protest Ships Seizure by Norway MOSCOW Ul - The Soviet gov , ernment, in a mild note published Sunday, . declared the seizure by ! Norway of 16 Russian fishing ves- sels was a "regrettable misunder - j standing" and expressed hope they ' would be released promptly. ly intersects Neptune's orbit and even goes partly inside. This com- bination of intersecting orbits is un- 1 like any other in the system, Perfect Circle Z. Neptune a orbit la almost a perfect circle, much the same as earth's and other planets. Pluto, however, travels an eccentric orbit wim a nign degree oi inclination, I mt tima tkatta 19 1aiajm ......... 1 J. If Pluto was a planet we have a right to expect it to have a period of daily rotation like any i.-. Vv. ' VIIICI piani'l. lie roilil, IUI ample, has. a period of rotation every 23 hours and M minutes, Neptune's is IS hours. The most reasonable expectation for Pluto- if a planet-would be 1 hours. insleatd it is six and a half days. 4. The mass of Tluto is one- i thirtieth of the earth's too small - 1 for a enuine planet. I'! IS- The Ortgon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, February safely InU dvilixatioa Sunday. The foot through 12 miles of snow drifts Saturday. Bus driver John Herron, snow- blind, frostbitten and nearly hys terical, fell exhausted only about 100 yards before reaching help at the little Texas-New Mexico town of Glenrio, N.M. He had strength enough to whistle and his whistle was heard. . Three me Four ' "Three or four men came out and got me," Herron related from his hospital bed later., "I told them about the bus." It was rbout 11 p.m. Saturday night, about I h hours after he set out on foot from the stalled bus, that Heron staggered and stum bled to the edge of Glenrio. Not until a.m. Sunday did the high way patrol cars reach the bus 21 hours after it slipped into a roadside drift and stalled. The passengers, all In good con diton, believed their prayers for Herron may have helped. Constant Prayer "I prayed all the time." said Mrs. Henrietta Roosevelt of San Francisco, en route home after vis iting in Beaumont, Tex. "I prayed from the time we got stuck until we got here to the bus station this morning." (Picture on Wire photo page.) r,K,l T. i il,,, ThVv, food during the 21 hours. They m.i..,! . rfrinkin ,.rr The passengers were without 11 IV lit-U 0llivr w Mining n i . a i 'Backwoods Obstetrics9 Saves Baby HONOLULU lit) - "Backwoods obstetrics" at high altitude over the Pacific saved the life Satur day night of a premature baby girl h0" on th waY frwn Johnston Island to Honolulu. Mrs. John W. Gar net t, wife of a San Antonio, Tex., airman station ed on Johnson Island, started the flight toward an Incubator in Hon olulu after she began having pre mature labor pains. There is no incubator on Johnston . Island. Aboard the Military Air Trans' port Service stratocruiser was Lt. Col. John A. Nnrcross, Air Froce doctor from Silver Spring, Md., t who delivered the 4 pound 10 ounce child although the only in struments he had was scissors from a first aid kit. "It was strictly backwoods ob stetrics," said Norcross." The baby was seven-month baby and the problem was keeping it alive. It looked awfully blue , and couldn't breathe by itself. I gave lt arti ficial respiration all the way." . Norcross said he didn't even have time to notice whether 4t was boy or a girl. Bh mother ami child were re- ported "doing fine' at the Army s jTripler General Hospital Sunday. Today's Statesman Sm'i Pag ..4-5 Classified ... Comics Crossword II. Editorials I.-. 6 3 4 Homo Panorama .. I ... 4 Income Tax ......... II..- 3 Obituaries . ..... II . 4 Radio, TV ; It.... 3 Sports ... II ...1, 1 Star Caier I.... 7 Valley II 3 Wirtphotw Paga Jl , 4 1 )l- rJ I U ' 1 ri heroic driver fonght his way on seeking help. (Ar wirepitotai Area Plagued By Dense Fog; More Forecast Fog that menaced driving early and late Sunday was expected to repeat today and Tuesday, McNary Field weathermen said. All stations in the area reported dense fog at times Sunday morn ing and evening, they said, as patches apparently roamed the mid-Willamette valley. It was reported extremely heavy Sunday night in the Salem area, with spots as far north as Wilson ville and to the east above Mill City, state police said. It was clear to the south, however, they said. .. '- . - v ". 7 A brief period of sunshine Sun day afternoon resulted in anxious moments for 11 McNary Field pilots as heavy fog rolled in under them shortly after they had swarmed into the air. All worked their way back to the field except for two who landed at Corvallis and one who landed on a private strip north of Salem, Allen A. McRae, assistant airport manager, said. Youth Killed By Stranger SACRAMENTO. Calif. 0 - Sev en-year-old Ronald Wendorf was I slashed twice in the throat and killed Sunday in a downtown mov . . ' K . .,.,,, e theater restroom by a strange strange man who followed him there from the auditorium The boy had been watching a Western with his two brothers, Bil ly, 10, and Bobby, I. He was the son of Eugene Wendorf, a truck driver. Thomas Lynn Johnston, a 74- year-old cmbalmer, was booked by city police on a murder charge. Police Capt. Michael Strazzo said Johnston told him he stabbed the boy because he wanted to see what he would do after his throat was cut. Volcano in Japan Menace to Crops KAGOSHIMA, Japan if) - Mt. Sakurajima in southwestern Japan shot up a 6,500-foot column of dense ashes and smoke Sunday in its 15th eruption this year. No casualties were reported but some damage to crops was expected in areas heavily strewn with volcanic ashes. I53I Tentative Approval Given Patchwork WASHINGTON UI - A boost of a billion and a quarter dollars or more In farm incomes this elec tion year appears likely if Con gress can reach agreement on a patchwork soil bank bill. The controversial measure got tentative approval late Saturday night in the Senate Agriculture Commitee after a 13-hoar session that climaxed weeks of cloted-door discussion. It contains most the features pro posed by President Eisenhower and Secretary of Agriculture Benson to halt the five-year decline in (arm prices and income, and it also con tains oi that they have vigorous- I) opposed for three years. This is a provision that would re store mandatory W per cent of par ity price supports on cotton, wheat, corn, rice and peanuts. Opponents blame high... rigid war time sup- ports tor tha present mulU-biluoa Ox 6, 1956 PRICE .Gearhart Man Joins in Race For Governor State Sen. Robert Holmes Asks Democratic Nomination for Post By THOMAS G. WRIGHT JIL n.-.: Staff Writer. The SUtesmaa State Sen. Robert D. Holmes became the first avowed can didate for governor Sunday, apparently with the blessings of top Democratic leaders in Oregon. Holmes' intention to seek the post, vacated by the death last week of Gov. Paul L. Patterson, was revealed in a statement prepared for release in his home district Astorian-Budgct to night The 46-year-old Lcmo- a a rxirlnr n( fnrhart. I v J - I near Astoria where he? is man ger of radio station KAST. A veteran of four legislative sessions as a state senator, Holmes was the first to announce for the race, thrown wide open by Patterson's unexpected death. Statement Made "The tragic and untimely death of the late Gov. Paul Patterson has made it imperative that both political parties give early atten tion to nominees for this office so that the people of Oregon may have a chance to scrutinize the candidates carefully and be ready to choose a new chief executive in November," Holmes said. Thouith Patterson had already announced his intentions to seek the Senate post of Wayne Morse the governorship would not have been open until 1S58. State Sen. Elmo Smith, a John Day newspa- riJl presidency, but Oregon law re quires an election for the office though Patterson had served only a year of his four-year term. Speculation Rash In the rash of political specu lation breaking out since Patter son's death, Holmes appeared to have gained the tacit approval of the state's official Democratic or ganization over Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton, previously considered the narty'j.most like ly' governorship timber Thornton, at his home In Sa lem, said he still had not made up his mind on the race, but in dicated a preference to stick wun his plans to seek reelection to the attorney general post tor which he has already announced. Early Move Holmes' early move to enter the campaign was seen as a pos sible effort to head oil any gen eral scramble among Democratic hopefuls for the party nomina tion in the May 18 primary, hev eral other persons, including Terrv Schrunk, Multnomah Coun tv sheriff, and Henry Hess, long time active in Democratic poll tics, had been mentioned as pos sible candidates. In his statement Holmes said he hopes his long experience in the legislature will give him "the necessary understanding of Ore gon's problems . . . " He said he has worked for a return to the "healthy, vigorous two-party ays. tern that has characterized this country's success. "The Democratic Party during the past decade has constantly strengthened its position in our state and today it is united as never before and has a positive urogram which I believe will has ten Oregon's progress," Holmes said. Education Legislation Holmes, active in education leg islation, was chsirman of the Sen ate Education Committee In 1S53 when the Oregon Education Assn. named him as its citizen of the year. He has been a member of the Committee for Interstate Co operation, and has served on the Ways and Means Committee and the Assessments and Taxation Committee. Though a native of New York, Holmes is a graduate of the Uni versity of Oregon. He and 'his wife, the former Marie Hoy, are the parents of, two sons, 20 and 17. Soil Bank Bill dollar surplus of commodities now in government hands Chairman Ellender (D-La.) said be "hopes the Senate will go along with" this section, which the com mittee approved by an 1-7 party' splitting vote. But Sen. Aiken of Vermont, sen ior Republican committeeman, pre dieted the Senate will vote for low er and flexible supports as it did in 1954 Both agreed. In separate Inter views, that other features of the omnibus bill could add well over a billion dollars to farm income this year Under the soil bank propoW: Co ton, wheat, corn, rice and tobacco growers could collect nearly a bit lion dollars by agreeing to under plant their 1936 allotted acreage J and to convert other crop land into grass-, trees, farm ponds or wilJ ' game xuugca. 5c No. 316 , , , , , ipf W Candidate .""..ced candidate far the governorship is State Sea. Robert D. Holmes, Gearhart, who will seek the Democratic nomination In the May 18 pri mary election. Woman Found . ;l, . . t .... Dead in Car Near Turner ' Btatenaaa Newt ttrvlet TURNER A 39-year-old Turner woman was found dead In her car Sunday morning on a road near here. The Marion County coron ers office said Mrs. Edith Wit- beck, mother of five children, may have suffered a heart attack but an autopsy was planned. Mrs. Witbeck s body was found about 7:30 a m, In her 1939 Buick coupe, which reportedly had be come stuck on a side road off the Turner-Salem highway a short distance north of here. Deputy Sheriff Amos Shaw said the body slumped behind the wheel was found by Mrs. William Jones, resi dent of the vicinity, with whom the dead woman reportedly plan ned to spend the night Nhprman Miller Tumor tnlrl Shaw he talked to the woman and off..ed his help about 2:30 a.m. after noticing the stuck car. Ef forts to free the vehicle failed and Miller said he left after Mrs. Witbeck told him she would stay with the vehicle. Mrs. Witbeck had resided near Turner with her parents, Mr., and Mrs. F. A. Koehn. Surviving besides the parents are five children. Lois Collier, Sharlene Boardrow, Eddie Board- row. Dixie Witbeck and Sandra Witbeck, all of Turner; sisters. Mrs. Sophia Schultz and Mrs. Irene Kendall, both of Salem; and brother, Arthur, Eugene.' 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