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(Sec. I) Statesman. Salem, Ore., Sat., April 7, Vm Acid-llurling Thug' May Have Escaped If ARTIIl'R W. EVERETT NEW YORK UB - A (hug who hurled sulphuric acid Into th eyet ef tabor eohimnlst Victor Ilieacl may have fallen into poltc hands Immediately after lit at tack, then talked his way free. Thti was Indicated Friday In a Try for Quick End to Fong Trial Fails . PORTLAND ( An effort to negotiate I qukk end to tht Ways Fong murder trial appar ently failed her rrlday and tht detenu opened H caw In the aft ernoon, following morning long recess. , . Defense attorney John P. llan Don called hii first witness at 1 Ji m., .after flurry of rumors hat Fong at considerlnf plea f guilty to manslaughter In bid (or a short prison temv Th S7- year-old Chinese , li accused of having i part Id the slaying of Diane Hank, II. Portland high Khooi girt who wa a frequent baby titter for the Feng. Th (tat contend! that Tang was Involved In a narcotlct racket and that th girt cam to know too much about it. She disappeared arly la IM4 and her body rat found tevra weeks later, trusted In a blanket alongside a road near w'ashougal. Wash. ... Fong i wife. Sherry, was eon vktcd of socond-degre murder last December. Sh hu appealed. Both were convicted la an earlier joint trial but this verdict wat let atld and new trials ordered. , The trial, which earlier was ex pected ta go U th jury Friday. bow will go Into an overtlm ses sion Saturday morning. Father Mixup Case Studied In Eugcn,c( :: EUGEMt tP- the; ca of thrMwrMniwhaeuninthevme a defrauded by a man they bclievrd , to b their fathr. was btinj i ttudied by Circuit Judge William Fort Friday. Th ess involve tht eslat of Mrt. Corrtn Wllsk Phillips, mother ef th three. The plaintiffs, Mrs. Thelma Cordon, Portland; Carl F. WUsk Jr., Roseburg. and Gerald N. Wilak. Eugen. con tend that Edward J. Phillip in duced them to sign waivers to th.1 na4 In It..! nulW. They said they were brought up believing that Phillips was their father. They discovered after their mother's death, however, that their real father la Carl F. Wllske ef Champaign, HI., and that their mother had run away with Phillips la the late 1920s. Tht thrt claim th estat is Worth from $50,000 to 1100,000. Judgt Tort I hearing th cat without a jury. "Aurr.svilla Darn Pavilion" Dancing Saturday Nights Wtittrn By Urry end HIS r Ccscdi Rsn:a Ridsrs awf Arlut THE Jolly Cowboy Ak. $1.00, Inc. Tax DANCE TOIIITEI ; DAYTON IECION HALL " MutI by IYLE tnd th VYESTERNAIKS Ivary Sat. NlgSt 9:30 to Adm. l.H (Tag Cotfonwoods Every Sat. Night Jack Kizziah Antl Hit lIIswTexas : Ramblers i Adm. 1.00, tix Inc. 1 ': ; IltrtafKSLM ; Ii30-4i00 P. M. 1130 Inc.) W 1 Vak-4 report hy an Unnamrd policeman ftiiw .om f"""R ........ running from th scene of the as-1 tault at about Ui Urn lUwwl was se upon. , ' The man told the cop he was running from two Puerto Rlrans who had tried to hold him up. The ofllcrr let the man go and went In search of th Puerto Rtcans, but without finding them, Drwrlptlont MUrk Th polieman'i description of thx maa tallied with descriptions of th acid hurltr wh confronted Rlesel early Thursday as he left Llndy's restaurant at Brcadway and Slit St. Riesel, facing posslbl loss of his eyesight, attributed the vicious assault to a radio broadcast ear lier In which he had attacked racketeers In th International L'nloo of Operating Engineers Newspaper and radio circlet, aghast at th intimidation implied In th attack, joined with other agencies In offering rewards to'al Ing mor Wan $30,000 for appre hension of the acid Hurler. Ne ..papers as far away as Mi ami and Omaha offered rewards, tl. 101 Reward And a fl.OoO reward was of fered by th very union local Rii se: has bitterly atlacked-Loog Is- T" F . : 'T.' r..m Y"""-'1' r land Joca. of th. Operating tlS!S Engineers. Some newspapermen- expressed hope that a quick arrest and pun- Ishment would put such attacks oa working owsmea in th urn cat- egory as so-called "cop killings." By tradition, police seek . harsh and soeedv Justice for anverlmln-! at who kilU on of their number. I Salem Seabec Unit Ranks High in Exam Thirteenth N.vJ Dl.tlrrt In- ipectors Indicated a high score for Salem Reserve Seabea Di vision 13-0 In in all-day inspec tion Friday at the Training Cen tj ; ter on Airport Rotd. criticism.; criticisms, pna le 33 member el asrifUaBfifUtaw ' They made no commented that the mad a "very good appearing I" personnel Inspection Friday insptruon raiinus ar rx pected in about three months. after completion of Inspections of th 13 divisions In th district Inspector! were Ctpt H. W. Rlsteen, district engineer; Cmdr. J. R. Croat, Ens. R. T. Hart and Ens. D. W. Richardson. All ar from district headquarter at Seattle, Wish. Lava Boils On Slopes Of Mt. Etna CATANIA, Sicily I Three matter would still give the people fiery rleert of boiling lava poured , chanceto lnltlat repeal or to down the flanks of towering Mt. i vote out of offices thos represent a Etna Friday as the ancient vol- uVet with which they did not agree, cano threatened to explode into j c,,!., ... 0DDOricnt! GtorfC its most Violent eruption in recent years Experts from Catania's volcano Institute said th situation was "worsening." But there were no Immediate threats to the small villages clustered at the foot of th nearly two-mil peak emit ting a brilliant glow at night and a towering plume of smoke by day. Bend Area Crash Fatal BEND, Ore. I An automo bile ran out of control on t'.S Highway 20 about five miles north of here Thursday night, killing the driver. He was Sgt. Harold H. Chaney, 21, formerly of Pocatello, Idaho, a member of the Bend air defense filter center staff. He wag a Ko rean War veteran. Chanr-y's car plunged off the highway,, hit a rock and then rolled tti feet down a hill, Stat Police tald. Good Music Big CMwdi Sat. Nite Crystal Gardens SV'UBIMSIt'IIStSSBeS'SM'SMSUKntaWSSt U , "', s tattk. NO CHAtOI II Uel T 1 DIC ISO SBi,,H Dies i i J . i I ' - - n , ' ' 4) ' SAN Ql'ENTIM, Cal Robert 0. Pierce. 27, went kicking and trreamlag I drsih la the gss chamber here Friday for the murder at a Oakland cab driver. (Story oa psge one.) (AP Wlrepbot) Sales Tax Sentiment Up At Meet Here (Star? else aa page 1.) Aa average tax Increase of $. 140 a vear Tor the lower 73 per cent of the taxpayers under a sales tax m A sraiiiau Btt ah tianni. of Commerce. The prediction came from Robert Hall, chairman of the Po"Jan,, Chamber of Commerce Tax Coro-i mlt- no u,i ,he fo,vi""ed " 'alettax becaus U would provld a broader bas of Uxatloo and, Hall, chairman of the Portland strengthen the eenomy of Oregon. Considerable sentiment wat voiced. at th session for a talet tax patterned after th California systerri which incorporate a com bination of tax basis Including a t , per cent sale tax. Food Items ar j in conjunction with the second an exempt under th California plan. ' nual Oregon Broadcasters Confer Considerable Stady ' (net. Sen. Ue Ohmart laid th Interim Mount tucceedt PaulE. Walden, Tlx CommlttM wai devoting con-1 mnr of , W . I n an it a nnuininiv ai oiiiiiinv i at a possibility of offsetting th 4S per cent surtax on Incomes voted by the IKS Legislature. Under present laws a sales tax would be referred to the people ' "? Pa- . . , ! Cf n! a Tsisr nnrrrVniailnnA VatTi State Tax Comroivsloncr Sam Stewart reminded the group that j incom uxe were oeieaieo i or i time befor they were finally ap proved In Oregon. Most consideration Frfday went to a Senate Joint Resolution 4 (SJR-4) which would repeat th provisions requiring the Legislature to refer all new tax measures to th people 4or approval. Slreag Plea Ohmart, former Stat Sen. Eu gene Marsh who was chairman of the clinic. Hall, William E. Bade and Lousi Humphreys of th Ore gon Tax Research all Joined a strong plea for removing what they termed "ahacklet" on the legis lature In tax considerations. They said giving the legislature emer gency clause powers over money BrDwn Portland labor leader, and Rep. Pat Dooley of Portland, said giving emergency powers to the legislature on tax measures Is Just a way of getting around the will of the people. Brown said the only reason for approval of SJR-4 is to establish i . . ... ... f 'T ,no ' ln" lraia)aiui w uvtiiru. aav oeaivi u wo conceivable that the legislature could past a sales tax in 1857 under the plan, that II could not be re pealed by Initiative until November 1958 and the legislature could re establish it early in 1959. Reason Denied -pooley-denleaaUtheJcasoiWBA; tKNvm sovcm sales lax diiis nau always uevn defeated in the past was because It was presented as an additional tax, not as a substitute tax. He said the 1948 tax had appeared as an offset for existing taxes and iuL)(n -i:n ii.. j.r..,.j aoa.nu. Mill BUUIIUIJT UUICUICU. In the end the 350 representatives from nearly all Oregon counties gave overwhelming vole to a motion for adoption of SJR14. They also adopted a resolution to author ize appointment of a steering com mittee to guide sentiment of those attending to ill areas of the Kate. IOWA GOP BLESSES IKE DKS MOINES I Iowa Re publicans picked a zn-member na tional convention delegation Fri day in a harmonious state con vention which endorsed President F.lsenhower for re-election and had kind words to say for Vice President Nixon. . FLEET REJOINED BREMERTON. Wash, t - The t'SS Franklin D. Roosevelt, sec ond In size only to super-aircraft carrier Forrestal, rejoined the ac tive fleet at recommissloning cere monies here Friday. Theatre Time Table n.siNoae "Oim MIL! HHOOKt'l 4:11 and 1 Is and 1 u ' I la.aX JUNGU"! 1st IOS ' CAriTOI, "NOT A A N'l HANGER"! t 00 ant i anil 10 II mm r.nr.i.v Yovni'i i n ami 7 M MUI.I.VWOIID "BOTTOfc, or 1 UK BOTTLE'I 1:0V a. id 10 IS TIIK 'HOWhTON ITOR.Y 1 I Bl ' wnnTn tAt.tM naive w J.ihn Wavna A, UuifO Harall In Til.OOfl Al.t.IY" Jannllar ion A Hlrt aiarli In "GOOD MORNING, MISS UOVf Car Topples Light Pole A pedestrian "walkM light pole was knocked down by a car Fri day night when the auto'i brakes apparently failed to hold. Maxln Alley, Mottlson, JM Wayside Terrac, ioiq por ""land not advantage! of th area. accident about 1:40 p. m. on Fairgrounds Road at Highland Avenue occurred when Iter brakes failed to Uke effect. Al there were care slopped la front of her for th traffic signal, sh attempt ed to stop her car by rubbing thi wheels against th curb, she said. Th car. which cam to rtst against a power pole after knock ing down the pedestrian light, was ....Haraiaiu entenaotin nn in stsiici Ifrnl,, llss - 71 ,,. Tfce JlQCl llOSS M ,w. . fp Tltfyl, Pnct lO 1 tISl EUGENE i - Jame Mount,! manager of radio station KGW In! Portland. Friday wat elected , resident of (he Oregon 5 t I t t I Broadcasters Assn., meeting here ST," .OT ddS w and Carl 0. Fisher, manager of KUGN la Eugene, il secretary- treasurer, Irwin :dams. manager of , Johnson, manager 01 KMED.' MeHford. were named to the hoard ji a . i nf Hireinr xne conference close Saturday. 200 Girls Register for Baptist Meet More than 100 girl registered Friday for the 40th anniversary meeting of Oreion Baptist Fellow ship Guild at Calvary Baptist Guild at Calvarv Baptist Church. "Clouds of Witnesses" is the . theme of this first state convention In six years to be held at Salem. A play was presented by Whit ; Temple girl of Portland Friday , evening. Stale officer attending the meet- ing are Joann Holtan, Newberg. ' chairman; Marilyn Simonsen, as-' sistant; Lorraine Bagley, Salem, scribe; Delore Greenwalt, Helix, steward; Mary Ellen McCarty, Springfield, song leader: Judy Radmacher, Portland, editor, and Mrs. Roy Reed, Portland, direc tor. Albany to Vole on i Fluoridation Issue ALBANY. Ore. W Tht ques tiop of fluoridating Albany's water supply will be on the May 11 elec tion ballot. The City Council authorlied the : vote. FLINT, Mich. ( - Police In eastern Michigan Friday sought j three or four gunmen who staged j a daring lunch-hour hold-up of a! Flint branch bank that netted lea( (farbersliop nk THIRD ANNUAL ROTARY Barbershop Song P a f a (1 c" Saturday Evening, April 7, 1956 North Salem High Auditorium 8 P.M. M1UMHG: 9 of fftt) tVorfirwtsts Top Barbershop JO-Voice CiWvs or flie 5ofcm Stnatt-Airtt Sponsored by the Salem Rotary Club and the Salem Senate-aires for the Benefit of the YMCA Summer Camp Tickets Available at Stevant Farmer Files Suit to Halt OSC Articles EUGENE W! - A Fort Rock farmer's suit to stop Oregon Hint College from publiahlni articles that might discourage others from Investing In the Fort Hock area was filed her Friday, The suit earlier waa brought In Lake County, but was dismissed there as lielng in th wrong coun ty. Th suit filed her named th Stat Board of Higher Education as on of th defendants. The board's chancellor has his office and bom here.' Th suit was filed with Philip If. Pitman at plaintiff, seeking a restraining order In circuit court. The suit ir.ert( an article In an OSC publication, "Oregon'! Ajri cultural .'rogrest," wat a "ma licious attempt" to dlscourag de velopment of th Fort Rock basin in Lake County. Pitman said th ; aniC told only of disadvantage The .suit is aimed at stopping any similar articles in tha future. Baghdad Pact Confab Draws U.S. Envoys WASHINGTON OP - Tht United Statet announced Friday one of iti top dlplomati will head a dele gation of U. S. observers at th April II meeting of th Baghdad Pact at Tehran. He it Loy W. Henderson, deputy undcrtccretiry and veteran Mid dle East expert. Lincoln White, itat department fWiktftaimafi ajfiua wnmAm that . ..Wf irt ,,, pr.p,,. to .j. h,re to it (lh. .... , thll timt UawnHaisxnM mm U'kllaft ... at aiiiuvi nun, mo tv iisitj yt i9 "knows th Middle East area very well." Hit selection was dellber- ately decided upon by President Eisenhower and Secretary of Stat Dulles, it was learned, to demon strate U. S. support of th fiv nation alliance against commun ism, even though this country bat no lmmedltt plant for Joining it. v McKAV, SMITH TO TAiaK J! -fWJt Kay and Gov. Elmo Smith will b principal speakers at the annual . ........ spring convention of th Pacific Seedinen s Assn. here April 27-21. VVoodburn Drive-In Friday, Saturday and Suaday "WYOMINO RINIOADES" Phil Carey plua "THI FARMERS DAUOHTER" Loretta Young Opea :J9-Start 7 P.M. DALLAS M0T02-VU Dtllss Salens Hlwiy m. ut,suii. Riy Mlllsnd, Mary Murphy " maw ' Sec.ad Feature Richard Widmark, Msl Zefferllnf In "k mu Of 1010" PHONE 4-4713 20 50 Of - In Taay - THI IOTTOM OF THI bottle THI HOUSTON STORY Jhn Wyfi liirM lH BLOOD ALLEY Ufa hi a ChiaaM Sriiaa Camaj Th lua Daw "HaW Allay" ' Ca-faattaraj Jaka Waya lailh Oanaria SANTA FE PASSAGE WMi la CanwfM SHm Cabrfvl Drama ( rtia OM Waat Wa lavda Taa M Um Out Amala rarkiaf Satca al Halhwa eriainmeni I Son or from Rotary Club Member - All Seats Reserved Frozen Atoms Eyed As Help to Missiles WAblIINGTON W Govern ment sciential disclosed Friday experiments with frozen atoms that may contribute significantly to the nation's mlsallrt develop ment program. Using a tcchnlflt (hot pro duces (roien "flames," Ihcy said they bellev they hnv caught atomi ot hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen In solid form. Tht national Bureau of Stand ards said th studies by Its sci entists could b meaningful .In rich divers field is rocket pti. pulsion, solid-stale physics, basic chemistry and food iterliliuthn by rsdiatlon. 4n experiments so far, th bu reau Mid, pieces of ' moiecluei thtt exist only for a brief instsnl In hot gtses and flames hav ten froirn solid at 430 degree below tero. Scientist bellev th toDota tory work ha produced . In a-iIKi form atomic nitrogen, oxygen, possibly atomic hydrogen tnd in "unstable" molecule consisting of an atom each of hydrogen and axvaan. These Komi art cilled unstiblt specie or "fre ridlcalt" t caus they ar not found under normal conditions, la a fraction iill ?" mUTMfOQOtSOOCP! Continuous From 4:00 p.m. ' rt V r Ma Broolcs" SS.GWWV - PIUS- rs I aw I rAitA. 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To keep them from rrcombtning, the atoms are sucked Into a ion where liquid helium plummets th tempera ture to lower than minus CO da greet fahrrnhclt or about 4 de grees abov absolut xero. 1 1 assasssaaaats jaw iM-wiWMaM fcl Ottot Opn :4S-Show at 7:00 ENDS TONIGHT "BLOOD ALLEY" AND "GOOD MORNING MISS DOVE" Plwti Big Kartoan Karnlvall STARTS TOMORROW Filmd Enllrtly In tht Beauty and Grndeur of tha Mtiitlc CaKadt Wondarlandl Sea tha True Beauty of Central Oregon I Tha Glorious Heart Capturing Dtchuts Rivarl Th Ever-Roaring Benham and Dillon Fillil Th aBtutiful Head Water of tha AAatolloui Rivarl And Many Others In This Dramatic Advcntura Story Thtt Tikes Its Stand Beside "SHANE", "HIGH NOON" and "RED RIVER", He Fought the Sioux as Fiercely i He loved one of Their Womenl KIRK - ELSA- DOUGLAS " " MARTINELLI The Indian Fighter IN CINEMASCOPE AND COLOR! ZNO HIT A Rvtlimj Intimate Story ... A Savage, Stinging Prformncl JOAN ; A. BARRY CRAWFORD " " SULLIVAN . ' ( Hi lueen Bee" mm w ajr.v;. i OMfTHtMS . israciAUT ot lUlL. Today at 12:301 Out at 4:05 MICKEY ROONEY ELIZABETH TAYLOR la Th All Tim Child Classic "NATIONAL VELVET" 1 - 3 COLOR nut-ON .a- SILVER DOLLAR QUESTION 'Sliver Dollsr Question IVY contestant! will be asked to continue until they I either miss or win top prise of 150.00: 'Danny Kobertsoa says he didnt understand his Question, ae he Is returning for a different SIS V 'question. if , fjludy Kolb tries for S5t) Question. Mlchele Or a- .benhorst tries for ISO Question. Hughle Jscobson V t" tries for 115 Question. Wstch Next Week for New Game, Where Every body can Play! Plus P.T.A. Approved Film and Three Color Cartoons! ttARTS TOMORROW! Top 2 Hits of the on the screen Admcd Done' J joyous rL STAGE SMASH! HENKST JACK W1I1TAM Cinemascope WinColor llu iltrrisi'BETSY PAIMU WAR0BON0 Firm to Raise Airliner From Pliget Sound TAC0MA W A Ticoma lug boat company Friday was give th green lliilit to raise 1 wreckage of a Hi million doll.tr Stratocmlser that lies deep In fu get Round. Frsnk MiKlveen. civil aeronait- lies ooara agent in cnarge, oia the lacoma lugooat linn wiu be gin Monday after television ram eras hsve probed the 111 fa ed craft from every angle. ' Four of th M passengers ar known lo be dead, A fifth is mint ing and presumed dead. HtW! r ' ! V Plut - CARTOONS STAor ends this week, and all a ' DOORS 12:30 LAST DAY "NOT AS A STRANGER" and "SINCERELY YOURS" , Year Together! TEENAGE TERRORS... on the loose, on the prowl! IT . V fiAl juisiwa DEfltl A i I k 'ii i I rJ 71P-'rr .TAMES V?l, -?V .NATALIE WOOD SAX MWIO