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No. 321
(Eisenhower Vetoes
Gas Measure, Hits
Lobbyists7 Tactics
By WILMOT HERCHER 'w
WASHINGTON The natural gas bill died suddenly Friday
killed by a wad of $100 bills and a presidential veto.
With a slap at the "arrogance"' and "highly questionable activi
ties" of some supporters of the legislation, President Eisenhower re
fused to sign it into law. ,
He said he agreed with the basic objectives of the bill, which would
exempt natural gas producers
from direct federal regulation, but
he said that to put his signature
on it now would "risk creating
doubt among the American people
concerning the integrity of govern
mental processes."
The President left no doubt that
he was referring to the $2,500 cam-
nn;MH MA.;VtiitinM ion kill 1m
I pcugl! imili luuuuii u . nn miia ill
an envelope offered to Sen. Case
K-aui a lew weens Deiore me
Senate voted on the controversial
legislation.
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Christened With
Bootlegged Gin
DENTON. Tri. lTV-A half-pint
bottle of Kin, part nf the evid
ence, was handed ' to Denton
County Alty. Robert H. Caldwell
Jr.. ai he tried a hontlegging
case this week' la a new court
'room at the County Courthouse.
The bottle slipped and broke
aa the concrete floor.
"I know this U the first time
we've ased this room,'' com
mented County Jadge Jack
Gray, "but I never thought we
would christen It with a bottle
of gin."
Refused Donation
Hawaii, is having winter too its ;
winter". Low this week was 63 de-l
grees, artd people are noting the in a subsequent investigation a spe
coolness. Water is warmer, about 1 cial Senate committee traced the
Williams May
Enter Race
Europe
Again Hit
By Snow
Storms Heap
New Misery on
Are.a; Toll 616
For Congress
I tin onrl cnnthoacr Vn rt onrl ant
Bruce Williams, prominent 6 '.. " . I
LONDON ( Fresh snow
storms Friday night heaped new
misery on Europe, ice-locked in a
relentless 3-week cold wave which
already has claimed 616 lives.
Damage to crops ran into hun
dreds of millions of dollars. Fuel
shortages grew. Yugoslav army
artillery shelled ioe barriers
massed on the Morava River in
Eastern Serbia in an effort to ease
flooding.
Snow fell over London East Ang
Case refused the donation, and ""J
who has been
weatherman forecast "very much
colder weather.
74 degrees. Tonight s paper says
the trade winds are back on course
to it will warm up.
While plane travel has been
growing fast the island still is
geared to the arrival of the Matson
liner Lurline. It is due tomorrow
morning. Hotels, taxicabs, tour
managers all arrange their plans
to care for the crop of "malihini"
(newcomers).
Attended Rotary club today at
money to oil and gas interests fa
voring passage of the bill. The
committee is now trying to decide
whether or not the contribution was
offered in an attempt to influence
Case's vote.
But at any rate it was clear that
the $2,500 proffered by ardent sup
porters of the bill had boomer
anged and dealt a death blow to
the measure, in its present form at
activo in i-ivic anrl athletic affairs
in Salem for several years, said! Records showed Italy's 16-day
Friday niqht he is "seriously con- cold wave was the worst since
Isidering" entering the Republi-j l. The u. h. embassy announced
can race for Congress, and would a aoo.uoo American Kea cross do
reveal his decision' one way or nation to help Italian cold victims.
Smoking Wreckage of Fatal Plane Crash
! mt With Thump
Eisenhower's veto message wns
least. Nobody had any belief that
the Queen's Surf hotel over a j Congress would override the veto.
hundred visiting Rotanans. They
have the welcome ready with a
grass skirted Hawaiian girl to
drape a lei over your neck. i drafted at his vacation headqu.ir
Thouch a territory they take ters near Thomasville, Ga., and
national politics seriously over j delivered to the House, where the i he would run for governor. Salem
here. Secretary of Labor Jim Mil-i legislation originated last year. It' Attorney Jason Lee is a Dcmo-
chell is here tonieht to address a! hit Congress with a thamp. cratic candidate lor the ouice
the other in a few days.
Williams, who managed the late
Gov. Paul L. Patterson's cam
paign in 1954, said he bad been
conferring with party officials
throughout the district the past
few days and indicated favorable
reaction to the possibility of seek
ing the 1st District nomination.
If Williams enters the campaign
The U. S. Air Force wound up
its airlift from Germany across
the Alps to Italy after delivering
more than 700,000 pounds of sup
plies for Italian storm Victims.
Pope Pius XII gave a special bless
ing to Americans who worked on
the airlift.
Light snow fell over most
he will oppose William E. Healy, rrnc hov
recently resigned assistant ,ec. ered at the freezing point.
retary of state who switched from
the secretary of state race after
Rep. Walter Norblad announced
GOP $100 a plate dinner. His com
ments about Jack Hall, local I.u.
W.U. boss (that's the Harry Brid
ges union) stirred up a lot of at
tention here. Hall is one of the
Hawaiians in the Longshore union
convicted of Communist conspir
acy. The case is on appeal but
Hall ii heading the union in its
negotiations on sugar and pine
apple work. The union has voted
authority to call a strike in sugar,
which would hurt the islands' eco
nomy. Hall' offered to drop out
after Mitchell's blast but it is
doubtful if the unions will drop
him. '
Got away from Waikiki beach
by auto today, around famed
Diamond Head and up Nuuanu
canyon to Pali the sheer cliff
where defenders of Oahu jumped to
their death when King Kameha
meha came over from the Big
Island, Hawaii, to extend his con
quest. Everywhere lush tropical
vegetation abounds.
Couple
Killed
In Crash Near
Klamath Falls
KLAMATH FALLS UB A coti
pie was killed Friday and two stu
dents were Injured in a two-car
collision 20 miles south of here.
Dead were: Leslie Cook, 68,
P.O. Box 994 Quinc, Wash., and
his wife, Norma. .
Injured were Ron Harter, 22. the
driver of the second car. and John
Lee Gregory, about 16, Healds
burg, Calif. They are students
here.
Harter's address is 15 N. Adams
St., Eugene.
The accident haJpneed a few
hundred yards south of the Ore-con-California
border. The Cali
fornia Highway Patrol said the
youths' car, traveling south, ap
parently skidded on Icy pavement
into the path of the Cook vehicle,
headed north.
Harter received head and knee
Injuries. Gregory suffered shock,
facial cuts and bruises.
Senators who fought the bill, on
the ground that it would add mil
lions of dollars to consumer's gas
bills, made no attempt to conceal
their elation. "I'm dancing a jig,"
crowed Sen. Wiley (R-Wis).
Gloom prevailed on the other
side, which had argued the bill
would benefit consumers by en
couraging exploration for gas.
"I believe I would not be dis
charging my own duty were I to
approve this legislation before the
activities in question have been
fully investigated by the Congress
and the Department of Justice,"
the President wrote.
At the same time, Eisenhower
said legislation conforming to the
basic objectives of the bill is needed.
Ike Plays ?
Holes of Golf
THOMASVILLE, Ga. (Jf - Presi
dent Eisenhower "a little fright
ened" and a bit rusty played a
round of golf Friday for the first
time since his Sept. 24 heart at
tack. He tallied an 11-over-par 47
for 9 holes.
"Well, I have been looking for
ward U) this," Eisenhower said, a
smile on his face, as he stepped up
to the first tee at the rolling Glen
Arven Country Club course. A
light, misty rain fell the full 90
minutes he was out.
He was tense and quite obviously
somewhat nervous, and he stopped
short of really laying into his
drives with full power of old. And
at the end of the round he re
marked solemnly:
"It was awfully good to get out.
But I'm a little frightened not
Williams, who is 37, is a gradu
ate of Salem schools and Willa
mette University, winning a law
degree in 1948 after service in
World War II. He has practiced
law in Salem since 1950.
Detroit Reels,
But Icy Grip
On Salem Ends
Rising temperatures Friday
broke winter's icy grip on most
of the Salem area, but Detroit
noted new snow. Weathermen
said the mercury will continue on
the warmer side, with rain ex
pected today and Sunday.
Moderating temperatures de
livered a knockout punch early
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OAKLAND, Calif .General view ef the broken rear section f the four-engine Marine plane that
of I rrKil in mrreil hill ranntrv to mile northwest af hera Frida. All W Marin naiuenfert and
the crew f five died in the disaster. (AP Wlrephoto.)
Freight Car
Flips With
Auto Cargo
Some 200 feet of track on the
Southern Pacific mainline were
damaged Friday evening when a
moving boxcar loaded with new
automobiles overturned near
Pringle station in South Salem.
Extent .of damage to a shipment
of Fords in the sealed car was
not immediately determined.
Yardmaster Homer Robinett,
who estimated track damage at
about $1,000, said the accident
fortunately occurred between two
siding switches. Ensuing rail traf
fic kept on schedule as it was
shunted to the sidings.
The boxcar, part of a slow
moving northbound freight train,
flipped over on the west shoulder
Friday morning to a driving snow of the tracks about 7:30 p m. ap
storm that came in on a south parently as a result of a broken
wind. Th tnrm nuirklw derjosit-: brake beam. In addition, to dam
Lion Strolls
Around Block,
Then Gives Up
ed a thin layer of white, which
vanished as the mercury climbed.
Last remnants of snow from an
earlier storm also disappeared
from the area Friday.
The storm of early Friday
morning struck more heavily in
mountain sectors. Electric and
telephone service was interrupted
and schools stayed closed Friday
at Detroit as heavy snow con
tinued all day.
By nightfall, the snow was
nearly two feet deep, about 13
inches of it bclng new. Snow
plows Kept the Santiam highway
open, but some motorists were
stuck on side roads.
aging rails and tics, it tore up a
switch on a spur line of the Mc
Donald Candy Co. Little damage
apparently was done to the car
itself. .
When the big car flipped, it
snapped couplings of adjoining
cars but an automatic brake de
vice halted the entire train. An
SP wrecking crew reached the
scene late Friday night to speed
track repairs and right the top
pled boxcar.
LADY CHURCHILL SAILS
LONDON I Lady Churchill
sailed Friday night for a holiday
in Ceylon, leaving her husband
in snowbound London. She re-
VISAS ABOLISHED ,
KARACHI UH Pakistan and ! cently has been ill. Sir Winston
Greece have agreed to abolish ' will return soon to his inter-
only of the strokes, but also I'm a i visas for travel between the two.rupted holiday on the French
little frightened of myself." I countries. I Riviera.
Diphtheria Germs Found in
3 State Blind School Girls
" Three Blind School pupils were placed in isolation Friday after
results of throat cultures indicated they had diphtheria germs.
"They are the healthiest kids in the school, too," said Walter Dry,
superintendent of the school where two deaths have already occurred
from the disease.
Positive results from the cultures on the three girls' from the school
do not indicate they have the dis
ease, health officials sakL only that
germs were present. All three re
portedly had close contact with
Mrs. Violet Fry, a housemother at
the school, who died of diphtheria
Monday.
The second death was 7-year-old
Christine Artiano, a pupil at the
Blind School, but who resided with
her parents at 715 S. 12th St.
Supplies Short
Immunizations, Schick tests and
cultures, accelerated by the out
break, threatened to exhaust avail
able supplies, but additional ship
ments were on the way. Dr. Wil
lard Stone, Marion County health
officer said Friday.
The health office, operating on
an assembly line basis to handle
the rush reported they had given
a total of over 600 boosters, tests
or cultures during the day Friday.
The office, normally closed on Sat
urday, will remain open this morn
ing because of the emergency.
Much Encouraged
Dry said "We are much encour
aged that there have been no new
cases to this time" as the average
incubation period for the disease
was passed. Normal incubation for
the disease is from 2 to 7 days.
Last contact at the Blind School
with either af the known cases
was five days ago. .
No new cases had been reported
elsewhere in the state, according
to State Board of Health in Port
land. Four known cases have been
reported, two of them the Salem
deaths. A possible fifth case in
volves a 2V4 year old Grand
Ronde child reported to have
symptoms of the disease.
M&M Firm
Sale Being
Negotiated
PORTLAND Wl Several major
stockholders In the big M It M
Wood Working Company are nego
tiating for sale of their shares to
the Simpson Timber Co., Clay
Brown, M A M president, said
Friday:
He confirmed reports that have
been widespread In lumber indus
try circles for weeks.
Brown announced that dickering
MEMPHIS (-A lion escaped at for sale of M It M. a family-con-
a circus performance in the City , trolled corporation with assets of
Auditorium Friday night, strolled 1 $45,000,000, is in a preliminary
out the front door, circled the i tace. He said necotiations mieht
block and was captured as it re- take 40 days.
entered the building
An auditorium employe, Ruben
Rock, said there was no panic
$35 Per Share
Simpson, he said, had offered
among the capacity audience of , $35 a share on the basis of equal
about 4,500 at the Hammon-Morton ( treatment to all stockholders, but
Circus. - no lecal commitment has been
Rock said the lion somehow got I made to buy or sell. The price i Naval Hospital, gathered at De
uui i a nig mac uuiuik a wumwas aimosi aoiiDie me dook vaiue coto to work through the brush to
No Life
Reported
At Scene
Rescue Party
Finds Disaster
In Box Canyon
OAKLWD. Calif. (F) A
I ! Marine Corps plane carrying
m Marines crashed and burn-
etl in the southern Alameda
County hills Friday, only nine
minutes from its destination at
Alameda Naval Air Station.
A ground party, including sev
eral Navy doctors from Oak Knoll
Naval Hospital, reached the scent
north of Niles Canyon at 5 25 p.m.
There we$ no survivors.
Because of the rugged terrain
and dense brush it may be sevjnl
days before road can be bull
dozed into the area to remove tht
bodies, members of the party said.
At El Torn Marine Base.
spokesman said the pilot was Maj.
Alexander Watson, 33, whose wid
ow, Elizabeth, lives at Santa Ana,
adjoining the base. They had one
child, Susan, S.
No other names were released.
Wreckage Fauad
The wreckage was still burning
when discovered by Russ Reed,
Oakland Tribune photographer.
and his pilot.
It lay on a 45 degree slope In
a tight box canyon near Niles, 21
miles southeast of Oakland. Thert
was no sign of life.
Reed and his pilot flew three
times into the canyon alongside
the flaming, twisted wreckage.
The four-engine plane was car
rying 33 Marines and S Marin
crewmen from El Toro Marina
Base in Southern California to tht
Alameda Naval Air Station on Saa
Francisco Bay.
From Camp Pendleton
The public information officer
at Camp Pendleton said 32 of tha
plane's passengers were from
Camp Pendleton and one from El
Toro, as were the five crew mem
bers. The passengers all were be
ing transferred to new stations.
He said that all names would
be withheld pending notification
of the next of kin, and added that
might be "some job." inasmuch
as most of those being transferred
had their personnel records with ,
them and reports of the crash in
dicated the records probably all
were destroyed.
The Marine plane was an RD.1,
the Navy equivalent of $ DC. Its
passengers were all dressed in
dungaree!. '
Near Farmer Crash
The site of the crash is almost
identical with that of Northern Cal
ifornia's worst airplane disaster.
On Aug. 24. 1951. a United Air
Lines DC6B crashed into the hill
near Niles with a loss of 50 lives.
The Marine plane was last re
ported at 1:42 when the pilot re
ported to the Oakland Municipal
Airport that he was starting his
approach to the Alameda Navel
Air Station, 21 miles away.
The plane crashed and burned
1,300 feet up a wooded peak.
Rescue teams, with doctors and
ambulances from the Oakland
animal performance, walked outlnf M ft M's shares
the main door of the auditorium. nrn .ait (h. .nMlinr,m,nl
ri MWW II IUIU BIIH"IIH IIIVIH
went around the block, came back ;
"may seem premature but has
in and was captured by its trainer. :beeB forced by currfllt KpH:l)ation
Sioinach-Aclies
Waylay 700 at
Montana College
MISSOULA. Mont. (-School of
ficials are trying to find the rea
son for 700 stomach-aches among
the Montana University student
body Friday night. .
Dr. Harold A, Braun, director of
the student health service, said the
condition may have resulted from
a form of food poisoning which
produced abdominal pains and di
arrhea. He said a few itudentj were ad
mitted to the university infirmary,
but none was in serious condition.
Irish Setter Adopts Four Cub Lions
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Heavy Hauls
Still Banned
On Polk Roads
based on irresponsible rumors
He said M ft M stockholders
involved In the negotiations asked
the scene. Marines, sheriff's depu
ties and a coast guard helicopter
joined in rescue work.
The wreck was at least a mil
and a half from the nearest road.
him to issue the statement as ad- SySll I If If I Slllt
visor to other stockholders and VVUUOllll
the company's 2.060 employes. He
saw "no reason to believe that the
contemplated' sale would disrupt
the M ft M organization," he said.
Nothing ta Add
At Seattle, Stephen J. Hall, di
rector of industrial relations for
Simpson, confirmed Brown's an
nouncement. He said he had nolh-
Filed Against
Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON I - A $250,000
libel suit was filed Friday by Lew
Wallace, Portland, against colum
nist Drew Pearson.
Wallace, a former Oregon Demo
cratic national committee man,
state senator and nominee for gov-
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DALLAS, Ore. Polk County
roads will remain closed to heavy
hauling for an indefinite period,
it was announced Friday by the
Polk Tniintv Pnnrt
County Judge Cal M. Barnhart i in to 8dd 9 u-
said that the court had hoped to' M ft M, with headquarters here,'
lift i ho han In Hpavv InaHs Fph is one of the nation's bin eest nrn-
tn kni fminH n nnnrariirai h,i rfnrer nf Dnnplfli fir nlvwnnri. It ernor, entered the complaint in
to current weather conditions. also manufactures doors and proc- U.S. district court. It alleged that
Barnhart declared that the roads esses Northern California Redwood Pearson "falsely and wrongfully
would be open to logging trucks lumber. published and broadcast" that
and other heavy haulers as soon1 Simpson, with headquarters at Wallace had urged President Eis
as possible. Anyone wishing to haul Seattle, has lumber and logging enhower to "exert pressure' on
must clear through the county interests in Washington, Oregon Interior Secretary McKay,
court, he added. and Northern California. i The suit said Tearson wnla
i ; ! that Wallace sent a letter to the
President In urge McKay to award
mining patents to the McDonald
family, owners of Al Sarena
Mines,' Inc.
This, said Wallace, was meint
to convey the impression he wis
, ' . .. guilty of conduct "unbecoming a
Rjr LILLIE L. MADSEN 1 the situation was 'still fluid . No wn0 h)1!l aj(,d p,lbic of(ll.e
Farm Editar, The Statesman I price is set here as this is a to- m tne past."
In anite nf amm confusion this operative. Plans indicated at the ,.'
week in the vegetable processing annual meeting was lor a alight . R River National Fnrt
industry, one Salem packing plant acreage reduction this year and VJXd There ha been
Joseph Stalin
Denounced by
Russ Regime
MOSCOW Of The Soviet Un
ion's entire propaganda apparatus
Saturday denounced the political
and economic work of the late
Premier Joseph Stalin.
For the first time, the denuncia
tion called Stalin by name. The
dictator died March $, 19:3.
The unprecedented barrage
acainst hitherto venerated actions
of Stalin appeared in the 'text of came out Friday with a consider-more action on the matter-has Democratic charges that Al Sar-na
a apeech made by First Deputy , abe increase in price offered in been taken, fiddmen said Friday ha$ done M mMng M fu
premier a. i. aimoyan ai me jn ; iean contracts over a year ago.! ;-uuiuh comj uiuiiii , PsiimaieH
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Salem Packing Firir. Hikes
1956 Bean Contract Prices1
Congress of the Soviet Union Com
munist party. It was printed in
all Moscow newspapers and broad
cast widely Saturday.
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This is the first 1950 price indi-1 tg per cent : cut ,n acreage as from thelan(,Si
$100,000 worth of
cation received here. Wnoi. However, inaicanons are
California Packing Corp. officials now mat not so mucn oi a cut
STATE OF SIEGE ENDS
- SANTIAGO, Chile I - The gov-
rnmAnt nnnnnnravl FrlHav it will
lift the state of siege imposed last1 Pce. Grade No. 2 is also bringing
month (by the end of March.
announced Friday morning Jhat
their plant is signing contracts with
bean growers in the Willamette
Valley at $17$ a ton for Grade
No. 1. This Is $10 above last year's
The Weather
PEORIA, 111 Contentedly mothering four male Ilea tubs at Glee Oak Park to here I "Lady,"
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moving very well this year, with
reports at the Northwest Canners
meeting in Portland a month ago,
indicating that all No. I s were
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sold out, that No. 2's were moving. Classified I.
$10 more a ton. or $150 this year, wen , ana mat me larger oeans
The company was offering con- e also moving, out more
tracU for $9S for No. J, only a l"Iy- t J u
$2.50 raise over iU 195$ price. anrT, Rumor had it out that D iles
$f5 for No. 4-or a $S raise. .had made pluns to add corn to,
rn iformprlv it's pack this year, but officials
Paulus Bros.t officials said, while, "aid Friday this wld probably,
their (ieldmen had been making; be done in 1937 Plans call for a
bean contracts with growers, they;mall increase here, In vegetable
were open contracis wim me . !
going" price to be written in.
Blue Lake fieldmen reported that
most of their acreage sign ups for
Other packers said Friday that
ther would hold their corn pack l
"about normal", increasing it only
1954 had been completed although ill additional orders came in.
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