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U. S. Marines Again Slorm Ivo Jima -mm V i "OUNDBD 1C5!h Year 2 SECTIONS-H PACES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, February 20? 1956 PRICE S No. 333 J: IWO JIMA 17. S. Marines storm the beaches ( Iwe Jims during realistic maneavers ever the weekend Just 11 yean after I.OM Amerieaa fighting mei died to take the Island during Warld War II. Thousand! ; of Marinei and part ( the U. S. Seventh Fleet took part In the exercise. In background is shewn mountaia where lament flag raising picture was taken 11 years age. (AP Wlrephete) Young Romeo, 11, Girl Friend, 7, 4Elopc' in Texas ARLINGTON, Tex. U-A young Borneo and the girl friend he tweet talked into eloping with promises of fun and movies were found safe, cold and wet Sunday. Cindy Lou Sabatucci, 7, and Bobby Hughes, 11, disappeared from their homes at 4 p.m. Sat urday. More than 500 searchers gave up when rain started at 3:30 a.m. The carch was re sumed at dawn. A city employe. Mai H. Brog don Jt., found the children in a park where they had spent the night in the rain under a bush with their two dogs. The parents' reactions weren't recorded. Scientists Announce Discovery Of New 'Peace of Mind' Drug By FRANK CAREY (far than the two most widely used! one study at a Washington institu WASHINGTON UP Develop- tranquilizmg drugs for the mentj.1- lion for the aged, the drug has 1 1 Ml . ! ....... ment of a new "peace of mind , ,y "' Doctors, of me District oi uium- Vest Forces Lead Greek Vote; yictory Margin Narrow Tanks Loaded Despite Zionist Demonstration IT drug was announced Sunday The new drug, called prom azine," is described as being as ef fective and "apparently safer" so IP I bia General Hospital, describing experience with 500 patients, said promazine already has demonstrat ed an ability quickly to calm acute ly agitated mental patients, Al coholics and drug addicts. In that respect, they said, it matches the effectiveness of an other quick -acting tranquilizer called "chlorpromazine" but so far has shown none of the unde sirable side effects. Pressure Dropped Chlorpromazine, they said, can sometimes cause such things as a shock-like drop in blood pressure; jaundice; racing of the heart; rt- been employed in a long-term way without adverse effects for up to duction in disease-fighting," while with assault and battery in COCA PALMS, KAVAI. . IS LAND, Hawaii The name sug gests, I am sure, a South Sea aiou, wun ine winus wnisperuig through the palm trees, and calm lagoons and fugitives from the Temperate Zone soaking up genial sunshine as they lounge m the golden sands. Put a check-rein on your Inv magination, please, for the pic ture is out of focus. If my fingers are not too numb, I'll tell you the truth. The palms are here, and the lagoon and the leaf-thatched huts and the golden strand. But not the sun, and not the warm air of the tropics. Instead, heavy rains and (relatively) low tem peratures. There is no thermostat to turn up to induce some warmth though a brazier of briquets in the lobby did serve to fend off some of the chill. We flew over from Honolulu to this northwesterly island of the Hawaiian chain this (Thursday) morning (32 min.). Kauai is saHTmr .a j to be the wettest spot on the globe Oil til lllftrflrC(l -mean rainiau in me mountains over 400 inches per annum, maxi mum 600! J. Pluvius decided to put on a mild demonstration for our introduction. Between show ers we had a short launch ride up a river, then went for the usual motor tour along the island rim. The down pour which caught us streamed down the paving. Water poured from the sugar and pineapple fields In tawny cascades. At one point we come upon a bus load of school children looking down on the valley where their homes (Continued on editorial page, 4.) five months. Treatment was for patients having emotional dis Teacher Beat; School Board Member Held HILLSBORO I - Louis A Forrest, 24, is in jail here, charged tnn issued Marine From Corvallis Air Crash Victim OAKLAND, Calif. (JT- A Cor vallis, Ore., man was one of 40 Marines killed in an air transport crash near here Friday, the Ma rine public information office dis closed Sunday. He was Pfc. Charles L. Howard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. Howard of Corvallis. The sad task oi identifying the remains of 40 victims proceeded slowly Sunday while grim inves tigators probed for -answers ' to two urgent questions: 1. What caused a tragic mixup in manifests which resulted la re lease' of an erroneous casualty list at Camp Pendleton? 2. Why did the military transport unexpectedly ' smash into the treacherous hills while descending for a landing at Alameda Naval Air Station? Sunday morning the public in formation office at Camp Pcndlc- a corrected list of 34 i .11 M - AO I , .r . ' jpv . i a - t- 1 1 1 x . . f i 1 NEW YORK Oie of the V. S. tanks la the off again, on again arms shipment to Sandl Arabia U lifted aboard freighter James Monroe at a Brookljm pier Sunday. Zionist youth demonstrated at the scene but no violence was reported. The controversial shipment was halted temporarily Friday bnt the export license was reinstated by the State Department. (Picture also on Wirephote Page), (AP Wlrephoto). blood cells; and a condition re sembling shaking palsy. Also, there is pain at the site of injection and irritation of tissue if chlorproma zine is administered by needle. Like chlorpromazine, the new drug - is . quicker-acting than the second widely used drug v in . the tranquilizing field, reserpine. And so far, the new drug has shown none of reserpine'i unde sirable side effects Including the possibility of inducing marked de pression with suicidal tendencies the researchers reported. Shert-Term Treatment They stressed that to date ex perience with the new drug has largely been limited to short-term treatment , of "acute" cases prin cipally alcoholics and narcotics addicts. It's quite conceivable, the. doc tors reported, that unwanted side effects might show up in long term treatment of chronic mental conditions, such as schizophrenia. However, they reported that in With Shooting In Portland PORTLAND I A Los Angeles youth was charged Sunday in the public restroom . shooting of an elderly man a week ago. Homer Burl Thomas. 17, was held for attempted robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Bail was set at 112.000. - , . Detective Michael O'Leary said Thomas admitted he broke into a compartment and fired two bullets after Olaf Faleide, H, resfsted his demand for money. One of the bul lets struck Faleide in the chest, but the wound was minor. O'Leary quoted Thomas as say ing the first shot went off acciden tally, when Faleide lunged at him. but that he shot a second time to "try and scare" Faleide. Also arrested was Gary Roland Phelan, 19, Portland. O'Leary said Phelan admitted he was with Thomas when the robbery attempt was made. Phelan was charged with attempted assault with a deadly weapon. , ..,, , Thomas and Pelan were arrest- beating of a school teacher. Forrest is a member of the school board at Scofield, in west ern Washington County. He is ac cused of injuring Mrs. Essie Rob ertson, 54, as the aftermath of a feud over administration of Sco field's one-room school, Forrest will appear before a grand jury Monday. ? , County Judge Harry Seabold asked the five school board mem bers Thursday to resign after a preliminary hearing for Forrest All did. or said they would, except Forrest. Mrs. Robertson was beaten last Tuesday.. Her doctors say she suf fered a broken jaw and possible skull fractures. Dist. Atty. Jams Gardner said the beating followed disagreements between Mrs. Robertson and For rest's aunt, Yullah Fellas, another school board member who also is a cleanup woman at the school. Mrs. Fellas asked Gardner sev eral weeks ago to file charges against the teacher, saying Mrs. Robertson had beaten her. Gard ner refused to do so. It waa reported that the feud is so bitter that in recent weejes, the school's enrollment has dropped from 24 to 14.. . . . "It is a terrible problem,'' Judge Seabold said Sunday night. "Some of these people seem to have for gotten there is law and order in Oregon. It's time they remem bered, if only for the sake of the school kids who are suffering." the; dead Marines from-that station. The other six aboard were from El Toro Marine Air Station near Santa Ana. Issuance of the erroneous casual ty list Saturday, after next of kin of the supposed victims already had received telegrams from the Department of Defense, immedi ately resulted in full investigations being ordered. Other victims from the Pacific Northwest included: Pvt. David R. Kendrick. son of Mrs. Marie M. Kendrick, 913 S. E. Ankeny, Portland, Ore. Pvt. Glenn I. Newton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Newton, Route 1, Beaver Creek, Ore. Barn Burns NearGervais lUttimiB Newi Itnrlrt GERVAIS A large barn on the farm of Carl Prantl, three miles east of Gervais, burned Sunday, taking with it a quantity of hay and a power sprayer, Loss was not estimated Sunday night. . Fire Chief Nick Theis said the ham contained eiffht to ten tons of hay. The fire also des- 'd with Gary Wayne Mericle. 20,be converted to crew cuts, police troyed a leanto shed after a frac-i1?8 Angeles. Thomas and Mericle I sajd. tor and small tools had been re-ia s0.were charged with three bur-i p0jc, advised her to con- idy moved by firemen. K'a"wl- u 7 saia 11 " one suit the city attorney, but they Neighborhood Hair Cuts Rile SalemMoilier Suicide Try Successful on 2nd Attempt EVERETT ( The Snohomish County coroner's office reported Sunday that apparently the des pondent, 55-year-old Axel E. Sand strom of (Route 1 Granite Falls wanted to commit suicide. So, the coroner's office says, Sandstrom connected a hose to the exhaust pipe of his automobile in his garage, awaiting the kiss of death from the fumes. But the car ran out of gasoline. So, the coroner's office continues, the persistent Sandstrom Took the i battery out of his car. He wired one or more sucks of dynamite to the car, battery and held the omer ena oi uie wire in nis nana. He put one or more sticks of dyna mite in his mouth. . .touched the wire to the battery and blew his head off. Salem police were confronted with a new problem Sunday when a woman called to report that two children sent to a neighbor to bor row clippers had returned with haircuts instead. , ' "Their hair is just ruined," she said, "and they were such pretty children." She said H was so bad she could not send the children to school today. - A pparent ly - the eh ildrefl were boys, an she seemed to consider seriously a suggestion that they The Weather Max. Mia. rrrclp. Mtltm .,. ti ll .11 Portland 'v..- 47 34 II Baker i. :. IS 10 trace Medford 44 .18 Nortti Bend 44 35 M Botbur 4 35 1 San Franrltow . it 40 1 00 Lot A !(! 60 44 AO Chlrafo .00 Nw York 4i M M rf tttavena n a It nfAin Im. iLl Four firetrucks poured water on ' tB3t a nearoy gas pump, tinmen muse and garage endangered by embers whipped by a strong wind. Fire trucks from Woodburn and Mt. Angel as well as Gervais fought the blaze. Some IS head of beef cattle in a corral connected to the barn broke a fence and took to the pas ture but all were believed rounded up Sunday night wounded Faleide. WlMamrttr River I X !M. FORECAST- I from U. 8 wather bureau, McNary field. Salem): Short periods of partial clrarlnl nthertM cloudr with occasional rain today, tonifrit and Tuesday: continued windy. Little temperature rhanfe with a hlfh today and Tue- 35-.I7 today ! was 4(i 4.V47, and a low lonlunt, Temperature at 12:01 am. said they doubted the city could j salfm rnrririTATWN Freighter Loads Disputed U. S. Tanks, Ready to Sail NEW YORK W The freighter James Monroe prcparod Sunday night for a dawn sailing after a crew dispute over bonus pay had threatened to delay shipment of II light tanks to Saudi Arabia. . Port Capt. R. H. Bennett said the matter was settled by giving the seamen an insurance policy of approximately $5,000. It will cover them in the event the vessel encounters trouble over the tanks. The tanks were released Satur day after a two-day embargo by the State Department. Thirty of the ship's crew of S3 Stalin Attack Shocks Reds IntoSilence By RICHARD R. ItASISCHKE VIENNA. Austria UP The. Com munist press and radio here and in the East European satellites are so shocked by the sensational at tacks on Stalin and Stalinism at the Soviet Party Congress in Mos cow that they'have not dared men lion the subject. The speech of Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, blasting econom ic and political theories in the books of Stalin and calling for their restudy and revision, inspired in the non-Communist press of Vicn na such headlines as: 'Kremlin Breaks With Stalin," "Sensational Revision of Commun ist Party Dogmas' and "Smash ing of Stalin idol." The Budapest and Bucharest ra dios so far have reported only that Mikoyan addressed the party meet ing and have given no details. The radio editors apparently were awaiting certified guidance from Moscow before treading on the once-hallowed Stalin. Israel Makes New Plea for l).S. Arms Aid WASHINGTON uB - Israeli Am bassador Abba Eban said Sunday every day that passes without ap proval of Israel s plea for Western earlier Sunday night signed a petii arm increases the "desperate ur- tion demanding a wartime bonus. One member of the group said the bonus demand was T5 per cent. Risk Seen The petition said in effect that the Israeli attitude of protest against the shipment constituted a risk to all personnel. Earlier Sunday, Zionist youth or Heavy Ballot Unmarrcd by Usual Violence By L S. CHAKAL" ATHENS, Crewe (AP) -Premier Constantino Karaman is' pro-Wostcrn party appeared assured early Monday of a ma I'ority in the new Creek parlia ment. On the basis of mounting returns from Sunday's general elections. ' Karamanlis' National Radical Un ion was expected to elect 1M dep uties in the 300-member Parlia ment, compared with 140 for a coalition of Nationalist and Com munist line forces who joined ia aa effort to defeat the Premier. Papular Vnte Lags The coalition was running ahead of the Karamanlis party in the popular vote but not in the dbtri bution of parliamentary seats. This was due to the complicated election law governing the allot ment of seats. The final outcome will be known after tabulation of the big city vote which best reflects the way seats will be apportioned. But Athens newspapers already were giving Karamanlis IN seats to 140 for the coalition on the basis of incomplete returns from over third of the precincts. Wamea Vett Women, voting for the first time In Greece's history in a general election, were reported rallying to Karamanlis. For the first time since World War U. there was no pre-election violence, despite the bitterness of the campaign. The voting Itself was orderly. The turnout was heavy among Greece's more than four million registered voters. The opposition coalition Is com posed of seven parties, including the Moscow liners and three for mer premiers. , . gency of his country s situation. Eban declared the Elsenhower administration's reversal of its em bargo on Middle East arms ship ments Saturday . night served to aggravate his country's fear of Arab aggression. bpeaking on a television pro gram (CRS, Face the Nation), the gnnizations staged a demonstration ambassador described Prime Min again.st the shipment, singing istcr Gamel Abdel Nasser as Israeli songs and shouting "Stop "Egypt's dictator" and said Nas- Salem Baby . Born at Home A baby girl born at home early Sunday morning and her mother were reported in good condition Sunday night at Salem Memorial Hospital. . 1 Kathy Jane Ingalls, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Ingalls. 410 E. Madrona Ave., was delivered short ly after 3 a.m. with the aid of a grandmother. Mother and daugh ter were taken to the hospital by Willamette Ambulance. Ingalls had gone downtown to get sleeping pills for his wife. The baby weighed ( pounds It ounces. She has two sisters and a brother, hut she is the first to helping the Reds." The demonstration at the ship's Brooklyn pier finally was called off after loading of the tanks went ahead without Interruption. The tanks were on a barge near the vessel when the embargo came Thursday. Early Sailing The 7.200-ton vessel was expect ed to sail at approximately II a. m. Throughout the morning about 20 pickets quietly stood outside the pier as a special police detail pa trolled. Just before noon the picket ing group began growing swiftly until 2.V) men and women had formed a chanting, shouting line of march.' Police said the demonstrators represented Brith Trumpeldor and B'nai Akiva, young Zionist fratern al organizations. Most of the young men, police said, are rabbinical students. ' The demonstrators sang Israeli songs, shouted. "Stop helping the Reds" and carried placards, "Send More Arms to Israel.'" "No More Aid for Dulles" and "Where is American Justice?" ser might not be able to "resist the temptation" of using his newly acquired Communist arms against Israel Nasser told a graduating class of air cadets at Belbeis, Egypt, tliere were reports of an Israeli spring offensive against Arab U.S. May Ship Relief Food to Frigid Europe TIIOMASVILLE. Ga. f - Presi dent Eisenhower said Sunday 'he United States stands ready to make surplus farm commodities avail able to peoples of Western Europe suffering from one of the coldest winters in decades. Expressing concern over the states but declared it would "not j hardship there. Eisenhower said in be a real attack but a war of nerves." - Sen. Neuberger tD Ore) said in a speech at Newark, N. J., that shipment of the tanks to Saudi a statement he already has con sulted with Secretary of Agricul ture Benson regarding s relief program. "The United States." the Presi- Arabia "furnishes the warlike Rus-,d(,nl.aid. ",and r"?v to 'nak Today's Statesman i ! insist at such an earlv see nn rl- take any action as the neighbor "IV' J"t ' ? ''' T"" ing her own arithmetic, relatives 19 73 had not charged for his work. This Year I 42SS n.7o I said. Classified .... Comkt Crossword .. iditoriaii Home Panorama Obitvaries Radle, TV Sports Star Cater Valley Wirephoto Page World This Week Sec. Page II ... 4, 7 II... S .1.- S ..... I.. 4 6 II.. II... I II.-. 1-3 I... 3 I. 7 ll 3 II. .. 4 "These lines skew that yea are working at ems purposes - - wltk aae." Airman Faces Homicide Count In Traffic Death PORTLAND UP - A negligent homicide charge was Tiled Sunday against 8. Sgt. Donald Vogel, 23, Portland, whose automobile crashed into a city police car Sat urday night, killing two patrol men. $ Vogel's companion, Airman 1-C. Sylva Vysocky, 21, was held as a material witness. Both airmen, stationed at Portland Air Force Base, were under police guard at finals, of which nine are scheduled a hospital. They suffered serious are chosen from the 7th and 8th injuries in the crash. The patrol car was struck broad- ! side at a southeast Portland Inte rsection. The dead patrolmen were Vernon J. Stroeder, 31, and Roy E. Mizner. 37. Each was married and the father of three children. 58 Certified for Statesman-KSLM Spelling Contest Semi-Finals Starting Next Week; Public Invited Free Spelling champions of 5t schools in four mid-valley counties have been certified for 'the semi-finals of The Statesman-KSLM Spelling Contest, a re-check showed Sunday night. Another 25 are expected to be entered by the end of this week. Girls, trailing for a time as early entrants were received, lead 37 to 21 in the U certifications thus far. The contestants for the semi- flem, Thursday, March 22. A din ner for the Grand Finalists and their teachers is scheduled at Par rish the same night. ' First of the semi-finals will be next Monday night, Feb. 27, at the State School for the Blind In Salem at 7:43 p.m. It is open to the public without charge or collection, as are all the semi finals and the Grand Finals. , Other semi-finals are at Keizer (Tuesday, Feb. 28i. Dallas (Wed nesday, Feb. Mt. Angel 'Thursday, March 1, Mari-Unn Friday, March 2. Turner Mon day, March S). RickreaU (Tuesday, Amity T 'Wednesday. grades of schools in Marion. Polk, Southern Yamhill and Northern Linn Counties. The top two spellers in each of March the nine semi-finals will be eligible March I'. to compete in the Grand Finals at The Statesman-KSLM Spelling Parrisa Junior High School in Sa-i Contest ia la its sixth year, It is a community-service project with no entry fees and no charges of any kind. The top three spellers in each school are issued certifi cates of merit, with the first-place winner going to one of the semi finals. ' The top three spellers in each semi-finals are given special certificates, the top two qualify for the grand finals and the first place winner receives a Webster's Col legiate Dictionary. In the Grand Finals, $100. t.V) and $25 government bonds com prise the first three prizes. The 300-word lists for the semi finals are cho.en from the 900 which The Statesman is publishing at the rate of 25 each school day. la event the winner of any semi- sians with the excuse they have been waiting for to Intervene even more belligerently in the explosive Middle Eastern situation. Sen. Kefauver (D-Tenn), cam paigning in Minnesota for the Dem ocratic presidential nomination, said the action on the tanks "was unfortunate. The Communists have started an arms race is the Middle East and this adds fuel to the fire," Weathermen Forecast Wind supplies of agricultural commodi ties which we have in abundance available to relieving the distress of the people of those areas." Eisenhower issued the statement at his vacation headquarters here. He is a guest at the plantation home of Secretary of the Treas ury Humphrey. The President said it is too early to assess the damage realistically, but added there is every indira tion there will be need for VS. surplus crops. In response to questions, James C. Ilagrrty, White House press sec retary, said he did not know wheth er the crop supplies would be pro vided free of charge to needy coun tries. ' LONDON - New blizzards ravaged Europe Sunday. Febru ary's icy fingers disrupted ship pingr mad and. rail traffic, adding millions of dollars to the skyrock- finals is not yet determined when the 300 words are exhausted, un published words are brought into play. The Grand Finals swings into unpublished words after 250 of the published words are used. Close contests haye been report ed in competition in many schools. The contest is - conducted with the cooperation of county, city and individual school officials. School boards permit use of school facili ties for the aemi-finals and finals. It was started in 1050 after Dr. T. C, Holy, consultant to an Oregon legislative interim committee on education, reported this state's stu dents seemed somewhat below the national average in spelling. (Story also page 3, sec. L) Weather today will be about the same as Sunday, McNary Field weathermen said early this morn ing. They predict cloudiness, ot. aional . rain. . periods of - partial ..iin .nt f ih ..ntiv. -.r clearing, high wind from thesouth. i winter temperature rising to about 45 and; Th(. lhreeWeek death to sinking tonight to about 35 WinfJ'dm1lW, lo 6:ls Sunday reac hed a peak of about j - miles an hour, they saUI. , ROSERCRG WOMAN KILLED Travelers in Eastern OrMon .,,.,.,.,. ,, , . were having a . hard time J'it. : ROSKBl'RT. - Mrs Crystal however. Highway 30 was dosed Freeman, 58. well known between La Grande and Baker buMnT,1" oman j? th community. Sunday because of blowing snow. i ,k,lp1 m''nhl ,n highway Hotels and motels were crowded . "tt,ul"1 ,m,traJ' '"m with stranded motorists. Associ ated Press reported. .State police were allowing travel with chains on aa old route through Union but were advising motorists against it, the report said. 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