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Polk County Wife Mibiig Three Women Slain in State Woman Victim in Shooting ' ''1 I .'fe, DALLAS, Ore. Mr. Margaret Fanning, 41, (left) was tbot to death Sunday evening at her hense near Ballston, about II mile aorta of Dallas. At right is Bayless Gilbert Fanning, 57, Ballston area farmer who was arrested ia connection with the shooting. Fan ning will be charged with first degree murder Monday, Dial Atty. Walter Foster said. Air Force, Army Feud Healthy, Claims Solon WASHINGTON (-Sen. Francis Case (R SD) and Rep. Mahon Pj Tex i said Sunday they think a new outbreak of Army-Air Force rivalry is a "healthy thing." Case said "it keeps them from getting sloppy." Mahon said now that the dispute which "has been brooding under the surface" is out in the (j m all Americans have a part in the "historical decision ' tHDQXCH Voting at the primary election last Friday followed forecasts so closely there is little occasion for much Monday morning "quar terbacking." The few surprises were in the margins of the vic tors rather than in the fact of their victory. A few reflections, however, seem in order. Oregon Republicans till love Ike well toward 190,000 of them favored him; and over 32,000 thought well enough of Vice Prpcirlint Mivnn tn write in hie name, which makes Eisenhower and Nixon the Oregon prefer ence for President and Vice President. The presidential test which held national attention was won quite decisively by Adlai Steven son over F-stes Kefauver on the Democratic side. This rare was not nearly as close as had been anticipated. It puts fresh life in the Stevenson campaign and lets some (Minnesota! air out of the tires of the Kefauver bandwagon. Similar wins fnr Stevenson in Florida am) California will make him the odds-on favorite at the Chicago convention. Douglas McKay won the GOP nomination over Phil Hitchcock but the m.inrin wa much less than pre-election polls had indi cated. Hitchcock was under great pressure to withdraw when Mc Kav rame out with White Hoi'se sanction to run for senator to de feat 'Vayne Morse, and he showed real courage to stav in the race and make the battle. I believe it was a good thing for the Republican party that he did so. even though he met with de feat. And the competition was a good thing for MrKav too Now McKay stands as the definite choice of Oregon Republicans, not just the selection of a few men in Oregon and Washington The contest has livened up the Republican party in (Continued on editorial page 4.) Fair Forecast J In Salem Area Fair skies are forecast for to day, tonight and Tuesday, accord-' Ing to the McNary Field weather man. High temperature today is ex pected to be 74. low tonight 48. The predicted high Tuesday is 78. I Northern Oregon beaches will probably be cloudy this morning I but are expected to become fair I this afternoon and evening. Pre-: dieted high today is 60, low to night 45. "Don't tell me I've been feed ing you starch foods . . . you've been playing with my LAUN DRY STARCHI" WILBERT '. nehs -.;.-;srrn of what role each service should play in the future. Sen. Jackson (D-Wash said he didn't consider the rivalry a healthy thing. He said "taxpayers are concerned about waste of funds" which he contended result from efforts of the Army, Navy and Air Force to developcom peting weapons. Mahon, chairman of the House military appropriations sub-committee, was interviewed on a TV radio show (CBS-Face the Na tion). Jackson and Case appeared in a television debate 'NBC-American Forum) just one day after published reports pictured the Ar my as feeling that continued em phasis on air power can lead only to "national disaster.' Mont Unfortunate This public feud was termed "a most unfortunate business" by I Secretary of Defense Wilson, who I said Saturday he would look into! it personally. j Case said he was not disturbed by sharp rivalry among the serv- I !".but felt, on the contrary, that it strengthens the defense effort 1 y neeping me services on weir toes. Wanted Ff forts Jackson, howevpr, said this riv alry has produced "waste and duplication of effort," particularly in the field of missile develop ment, The Weather Mil. Ill ... K5 . 79 . 7 M ... 72 .. K5 .... 71 . 71 Mln. Preelp (Ml Salem Pert land Rsker Mfdford North Bend Roscduik San Francis, I.05 AnKrlts Chicago New York m Irare mi 114 no mi .00 It.ice trace 69 Willimett. R.v.r II forec ast ifrom v s weather i bureau. McNarv field. Salem I: r hit iiKd. uiniKni ano iuesa.iv Hifh temperature toriav 74. low to- meni . Mutn iuesrt.iv ,a Temperature at 12 01 , ,n today I sm fm prfcipitxtiov since suit of Heather vear sept, i i Thii Year I. at Year S4 74 30 72 .17.22 Two U. S. Navy Battleships . - i t an iriTT i , itf? r r .v-:.vf?r..v -.' y "t. dff ,';v-vr:' ' ml ;- X). '4 ' Ss' V A ? J I ! !r PORTSMOUTH, Vs. A section f the sew of the unfinished bcttleship Kentucky bangs from a giant crane at the naval shipvard here. The section will h fitted to the hMtleshie Wisconsin, whose bow was badly damaged 'n a collision with the destroyer Katon twe weeks ago. The Kentucky has been , la drydock at aearby Newport News, Va. Construction on her was stopped ia 1930. (AP Wlrephoto). Mate Held in Killing Two Women in Portland Die; 1 Hurt in Eugene By HAL NORBERG Valley Correspondent DALLAS, Ore. - A Polk County man was arrested Sun day night after his wife was found shot to death at the couple's home one mile cast of Ballston. The Polk County sheriff! office listed the man as Bayless Gilbert Fanning, 57. Dead was. his wife, Margaret, 41. Fanning was booked at the Polk County jail. District Attorney Walter Foster said Fanning would be charged with first degree murder Monday. The Ballston shooting was one of three shootings in tha state Sun day. At Portland a mother and a daughter were killed, apparently by the daughter's suitor. In Eugene a 60-year-old woman was critically wounded by another wo man s enraged husband. Long Time Resident Fanning has been a farmer in the Ballston area for about 40 years. Ballston is located about 10 miles north of Dallas. Polk County sheriff's office said Mrs. Fanning's body was found by her step-son, Milton Fanning, 29, whose home is located about 100 feet behind his father's. Milton called state police at Mc Minnville and an ambulance. ' State police said a .38 calibre revolver was found in a desk drawer in a room near where the body was discovered. Single Shot Milton reported he heard a single shot about 7:20 p.m., ac cording to state police. Two flashes were observed following the shot, he said. At his father's house he found Mrs. Fanning's body lying on the back porch he told police. His father was standing about a foot away, Milton said. Margaret Fanning was Fanning's second wife, his son said. His first wife died several years ago. Two Killed Mrs r.ertrude Chetnev. 74. and her daughter, Gladys, 31, were killed at Portland, the Associated press reported. The daughter re- cently had refused to marry Roy BredahL Witnesses heard the shots short ly after Bredahl had entered the house. One of them rushed inside in time to see Bredahl shoot him self twice in the chest. At the hospital attendants said he was in critical condition. j At Eugene 55-year-old John A. Emmlck went looking for his estranged wife with a pistol after he had been served with divorce papers. He first tried the home o( Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hunger. where he took one shot at Hunger i and two more at Mrs. Hunger ' Searched for Wife ! From there he went to the home of Mrs. Lena Irwin Poyfair, about go ; The enraged Emmick fired sev-' eral shots in the bedroom where r.1111111111 5 uiunig, urn ay- parently did not know she was there ,, , . , , , He then headed home. Police surrounded me place, ann entered aft(ir (jrn ga, jn,idp Tnpv found Emmick dead. i..s Pnvfair was shot in the shoulder and abdomen. luMiil 106rh Year Inl-Bomb Fury (UMeaslhiedl Scooter Wrecked While Elderly Owners Worship DALLAS, Tex. -AP A 3 wheel motorscooter is the only transportation of Albert D. Travis, SO, and his wife, Gallic, 76, who live at the edge of Dallas. He uses it to sell kitchen supplies and cosmetics door-to-door to augment their pensions. Sunday they went to church on the scooter. While they worshiped, vandals wrecked the machine. Idaho River Level Tops Flood Stage BONNERS FERRY, Idaho W The level of the Kootenai River rose two feet above flood stage here Sunday and Gov. Robert E. Smylie declared a state of emer gency. The troublesome Kootenai, fed by a heavy mountain snowpack, reached 33.6 feet Sunday after noon in the wake of a heat wave but there was no immediate flooding. Flood stage is listed at 31 feet but dirt dikes protecting this North Idaho town of 2,000 can hold back water up to 37 feet. Dikes around 40.000 acres of rich farm land are 35 to 37 feet. The governor's declaration, made through the state civil de- fense agency and relayed here by telephone, started federal help on the wav. I An Army convoy of 500 infan trymen and engineers left Ft. Lewis. Wash., late Sunday for Bonners Ferry. The convoy in cluded 4 huge cranes with shoves, 40 dump trucks, 13 bulldozers, 20 radio-mounted jeeps, and 10 elec trical lighting sets. The Army es- tlmatca it would take 17 to n hours to cover the 350 miles from I Ft. Lewis, Dayton Farm Home Burns " vl DAYTON The farm home of Luther Poe, located about one mile north of here, was partiallv destroyed by fire Saturday night. The blaze apparently started from an exploding hot water heater, firemen said. Flames spread quickly through the house. reported indicated Most of the household furnishings were lost. Davton and McMinnville fire departments answered the call. , No estimate of damage was made Make One II.. II XI V 2 SECTIONS-14 PAGES Giant Jet Bomber Drops Hydrogen Bomb I- t. ' .re,.- .. ? -. v ..: - USS MT. McKINLEY, Off Bikini Ung awaited kydrogea bomb air drop, first by it U. 3, wan suc cessfully accomplished early Monday ia Pacific test area by giant B51 8 trato bomber similar tn one shown above. The luge Jet was piloted by MaJ. David Crltchlow of Sacramento, Calif. Bomb's force was estimated equal to II million tons of TNT. (AP Wlrepnoto). East Side E-R Plan Wins in Close Ballot PORTLAND ( A hot fight between east and west Portland over a proposed eight-million-dol- lar iports center ended Sunday with a narrow decision for east Portland. Not until the last precinct was counted from Friday's election 1 could the result be determined. There were 128.011 Dailots east and the east side won by only 406. The count was M,20 to (3,- lS. The city is divided by the Wfl- lamette River. A mayor s com' mittee had picked a site on the west side, next to the downtown business center. Protesting east side residents put the matter on the ballot. The measure that passed says the sports center, also planned as a convention hall, must be built on the east side. Debt Increase Sets Record WASHINGTON' AP Net pri vate and public debt in the United States increased by 51 billion dol lors last year the largest dollar increase on record for any peace time year, the commerce depart ment reported Sunday. The gain of 8'i per cent brought the total net private and public debt to t5A billion dollars as of last Dec. 31. The percentage rate of increase was less than in. 1950 after the outbreak f Korean hostilities. The department said the large volume of new 1955 borrowing largely reflected an upsurge in gross private domestic investment, This included outlays of 24 billion for producers' durable equipment, 16 billion for non-residential con struction, 16'i billion for new residential construction and 3 billion for inventories. In addition, consumers spent 35 billion for automobiles and other durable goods, the said. Train-Car ("rash Costs Eight Lives ELYRIA, Ohio ufl - Eight per sons were killet' when the auto mobile in vhich they were riding was hit by a New York Central passenger train at the west edge of Rlyria Sunday night. The State Highway Patrol reported. l Mt paum rhiu a si-dun was , , ... n... being conducted along the tracks j crats Sunday asscr,ed I) n:laS in the vicinity of the crash for : McKay will go into the fall dec ninth person believed to have been 1 tion as a minority Republican in the car. ! candidate to oppose Democratic The victims were not identified ; immediately. mm NoSTHwrsT Xf. err At Trl-Clty 6. EufeiM 7 At Wtrutchte 15-3, Yakima 2-9 At L-rwuton 10-IS. Spokane II-IS Faciiic coabt lraove At Portland S-J. Sin rnnciwo 1J-1 At Hollywood 4-3. Los Anieita i-o At San Ditto io-3. Sacramrnto 5-0 At Stattle 6-3. Vancouver 1-1 NATIONAL I.EAOir. At PltUburgh S-S Mllwaukr 3-0 At Philadelphia 1-S Cincinnati 8-4 At New York t-b St, Uiuia 0-1 At Brooklyn S-S. Chicago 3-3 AMERICAN I.RAr.ir At KanMS OH i New York 4 At Chlrain S-l B .Jton 12-2 Al Cleveland -S Baltimore t-1 At Detioit 4-7. Waarunfton 2-1 Tha Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, May 21, ' y Narrow Margin Passes Park Maintenance Tax A 135,000 annual special tax for park maintenance apparently has received the blessing of the city's Sunday as primary election tabulations were received from the last two of the city's 53 precincts. Complete but unofficial totals with (.652 in favor and 6,573 against. Last precincts from which tabulations were received were 20S and 22. When returns from the final two precincts came in Sunday 'the measure led by 79 votes. Close Vote Apparently defeated was the $700,000 park bonds tenure for new parks and improvement of present parks. A total ol (,909 votes were cast against this measure compared to 6446 in favor, according to figures from S3 precincts. Favorable Vote Results rom 45 precincts in dicated three otber city money measures got a favorable nod from voters. These were a $3 750,000 bond issue for a new water supply line from the North Santiam River; $140,000 worth of new concrete bridges; and a $188,000 widening program for Fairgrounds Road, Market and South 12th Streets. Precinct' 22 (Parrish Junior High), last in the city to finish work, completed its count about 6 p.m. Sunday. This board's task was complicated, by exhaustion which forced two workers to drop out. Some members labored 28 hours with little more than a 30 minule break. Among measures apparently rejected according to returns from 45 precincts Were fluorida tion, and airport, library and fire men's tax issues. Also given the axe was a $65,000 bond proposal to finance a fire alarm system. Final Count Meanwhile, County Clerk Hen ry Mattson and his staff wiil i complete the tabulation of the (vote in Mariort County's 127 pre cincts today. The count this far holds up the trend established in tabulations ,k:.k ;--!.. a. a n,,ti.i ri ... . in some cases, complete in oth- ers, from nearly every precinct Hnrtmn!in (he county right after the UtpamilCNl oolls closed rriday nignt i K ' , , . , . The city count under direction of City Recorder Al Mundt also i will be finished today. Oregon Demos, GOP Wrangle Over Significance of Primary PORTLAND Oregon Demo- Sen. Wayne Morse "The most significant result ol Friday's primary election was that a clear majority ol regis tered Republicans voted against ' Doug McKay for United States senator, whereas only a tiny frac- twwtf -about one out of-! Ptmn- crats voted for Sen. Wayne Morse's opponent This is a very food omen of Sen. Morse's vic- tory in November." said Monroe ix tla.j Henwralie national eeliana, uemmrauc national 1 committeeman for Oregon I With returns almost complete ; in Oregon. McKay. Interior De partment secretary who resigned t to seek the Senate nomination, had 118.105 votes compared to a combined total of 121. VII for his .three opponent. The Wrongest j McKay opponent was Phil Hitch I cock, church leader and former KUNDID 1651 t n . " . . . f 0'. - ' ' ' r voters. That was the indication had the measure narrowly winning Porpoise in Panic nearly Drowns Diver MIAMI, Fla. W-A panicky porpoise, snarled in i diver's air line, yanked the man s helmet off with near-fatal results Sunday in front of spectators at Miami's seaquarium tank. Kenneth L. Brown, 32, was rescued oy raaicj aurr Deing scraped aiong me suu.uuogaiion tank's jagged coral bottom by the thrashing porpoise. The wa ter is 16 feet deep. Brown, revived by artificial respiration, was placed in an ox ygen tent at a hospital which listed him in good condition. He suffered possible rib injuries as well as near-drowning. Brown tried to struggle through milling sharks and other fish to the surface but his weight ed suit drsgged him down. Pope Confers With Truman ROME Ofv Harrv S Truman.! former President of The United j States, spent an hour and a half a 30-minuie audience with Pope Pius XII. Then he went to Protest - t services . i Truman, an advocate ot renewed , stinlnmalif rnlotinne with the V nl. , js (he flrst s chK,( of Ktate to he received at the Holy See either in office or alter for 37 years. President Woodrow Wilson paid a formal visit on Popo B(,m,djct xv jn ,,, drjnc World yVar I peace talks The Inited 'States has had no diplomatic re- '.Jl. 1S7II '"" " ' "'"" ,,..... Truman was alone with the pon-; At the instant of release, the (jf( (()r s mlmllp, ln nis library,! B52, piloted by Maj. David Critch - after being introduced by Bishop ikw of Sacramento, Calif., banked Martin J. O'Connor of Scranton. stale "senator who polled W.94.1 after arKiiinj; ne coiiki sums a number of votes away from Mnrse in a tail campaiun. Morse piled up 191.1.19 to 39.221 for Woody Smith, a politically un known sirvKe station operator (rom Hood liiver Republicans eran from Portland, announced said this represented a sizeable his withdrawal from the race he protest voir acainst Morse's cause ol a heart condition, switch to the Democratic Party When Holmes emerged with a With only a handful of precincts margin of only about S.oufl votes unreported Adlai S'evenson main- in the 200 000 cast, there was tfiinrri h't '': """i'" Kstes Kefauver in their write-in campaign for presidential nomina tion Steviiisiiii captured Oregon's 16 delegates tn the Democratic na tional convention, hut his support ers said even more important miiiht he vntmi: wil California :he effect the Orejun hate tin Florida and pr muni's in the near future !l:trh, . k from '!" K.i ik in i mini ies awav all in the ncrinil areas upstate tural and Vrl The late returns also confirmed, mmm 195 NIC! Bon hw rp Explosion Equal to 10 Million Tons of TNT (Map en Wirepheto Page) By ELTON C. FAY USS MT. McKINLEY. OFF BIKINI (AP)- Amcr- ica's first air-tlronncd lion tons of savage fury, burst above a Bikini atoll tar ' get island in the black pre-dawn Monday. I At nrnicAlu tllA Crh3r1lt1w1 fnctanf Clf 5v!?l Sl.TTl. (9:51 a.m.,) Sunday, (PST), the darkness just above the Even through the almost opaque filter of high-density goggles, the swiftly-growing, unearthly brilliance of the ex panding fireball was daztling. An observer, taking a cau tious, quick glimpse over the rim of his goggles, quickly put them back on. Swelling swiftly, the fireball raced out to what seemed more than a 3-mile diameter In a mat ter of seconds. From its initial silvery-white brilliancy, the fireball began dim ming Into a creamy white, then into orange and red as It started to shrink.' Up from the dark rim of the horizon rose the point of an ama zing brilliant red arrow of lighted cloud, ascending at a speed of hundreds of miles an hour. Mnshroom Forma It pointed a finger at tha mush room beginning to take shape over head. Down over the target island of "Namu, at the northwest end of Bikini Atoll, a "base surge" dev elopeda broad, low-lying bank of dirty clouds made up of dust and moisture drawn into the air as ine hot gases o' the mushroom cloud mounted above it. By 11 minutes after detonation, the too of the mushroom had reached an estimated altitude of 25 miles. The width of the mushroom as It flattened out was Bearing 100 miles. The observer ship Mt. McKlnley. with 15 correspondents and a score of civilian defense observers on board, was 34 nautical miles (39 land miles from the target. Ware The shock wave reached the ship 2 minutes, 43 seconds after the explosion. It came as a prolonged, deep-toned, grumbling roar. As the mushroom cloud rose above the dark bands of natural clouds, touches of brown appeared in it. This was evidence of oxides of nitric acid produced by the explosion. A few seconds after the burst, a half dozen small, brilliant points of light were noted close to the (arming cloud. These were not Im mediately explainable. Ranging outward were some of the other 33 planes assigned to cover the explosion. j The exact height of the burst j v?s a military secret, but the, angle above the horizon suggested j it must have been not lower than! 10.000 feet. First unofficial study of the cloud suggested it was moving . 'hi. ' the safe course predicted ! dropping whatever radioactivity 'it contained along a path directly northward from the Mr -hall Is- i an1 iiit in Iha omniv Afnn ""- ; Plane RflurB About one hour after the dctona- . I ion, ?ar Adm. B. Hall Ilanlon, t commanding joint Task Force 7, said his combat information ccn- ler aboard the command ship; Kstes. reported, "All aircraft in the area at detonation time got away Irom the shot, mis speciti - rillv inrhirf.wt thj. RV rirnn nliiu " , sharply in a 180-degrec turn. the surprisingly narrow victory nf Hubert D. Holmes. Astoria radio station manager, over Lew Wal lace for Democratic nomination for governor. Holmes had been expected to win by a big total because " allace. a political vet- "" Tpm'ffltion Wallace, might demand action because his name had been crossed out in advance bj some election officials Wallace q u i c k 1 y denied he planned any action. Holmes' opponent in the fall will i lie Republican Gov Klmo Smith who was second on the ballot only to I'resident Kisenhowrr. Kisenhnwer had 221.471 votes Smith had 217. 941 to 22 909 for his opponent, Karl Dickson, a politi in"v unknown Albany grocer. Fewer than i of the state's 2.519 frecincU wcxs unreported. Sc Ne, IS H-bomb, with at least 10 mil- a pinpoint of light pricked Public Views Launching of New Missile PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. If) The Air Force launched a Martin Matador guided missile here Sunday for the first time la public. The missile, resembling a Jet fighter plane in site and shape, took off before an Armed Forces Day audience estimated at J0.00 to 23,000 persons. , . t 5 A burst of flame from an orange-colored "booster bottle" attached beneath the tail sent the missile thundering into the air across the coastal highway from which all traffic had beta cleared half aa hour earlier. The silver-colored pilotless ; plane, flashing in the sun. streaked northeastward somewhat to the north of the customary mla sile-launchings from this area. I The instant it was under way a North American FN Sabre) tighter flashed across the airfield just above it to serve as "chase plane" and observe Its flight. ' - The missile accelerated to swift ly that it appeared to be fleeing from the tighter plana. To assist la the visual tracking, the Matt, dor had beea equipped with a purple dye to that It left a .beau tifui cherry-colored trail out across the blue water. ' . - It was the first missile launch Ing from this ease near neadquar ters of the Air Force missile teat center which operates the 3,000 mile aerial testing range extend ing from Florida into the Carib bean and out into the South At lantic. Although the length of the mis sile's flight was not disclosed, it reportedly was to fly about 35 miles before being dumped into the ocean. This would be accomplished by g fuel cutoff at a predetermined point on the flight. - The "Matador Is the first Air Force tactioal missile to go into operation. Two Matador squad rons, the 1st and the 69th art operating in Germany. Mayor Race Runoff Sure PORTLAND un -A runoff elec tion in the fall for mayor ot Port land became a certainty as final primary results were posted Sun day. The runoff, to be held at the November general election, win pit Sheriff Terry Schrunk against inclumbent Fred Peterson. Schrunk has 67,233 in the Bon- (partisan primary voting to $1,183 jfor Peterson. There were seven lkr. i. tk. n.M ik. .i.kJ nnu, n mt; nn up a combined total of about 33,- looo votes, keeping anyone from ! getting a majority. Schrunk came close. His total was 43 per cent of the vote. Today's Statesman ' Page Sec. Classified 12, 13 II Comits 14 II Crossword 11 l iditorials 4 I Home Panorama ,...6... I Obituaries 12 II Radio, TV 11 II Sports 9, 10 ...II Star Caier I I Valley News 3 I Wirsphoto Page ..14 II Sold Horn lit Day Ad appeared Suitdajf and brought five calls. Owner very happy. NfW 3-bearMm ti, fir. place, force air oil keat, tile katfe. lie. rm , rm , kltchea ainetU. atlUtT mom. BlaitereS SftfM. 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