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Senate Passes Bill Authorizing Atom-Powered Merchant Ship WASHINGTON The Senate Wednesday passed a bit) author- IzinR construction of an atomic- powered merchant ship. j The cost is estimated at 37 mil-' lion dollars. The administration has been pushing for quick action on the bill, saying that other na tions Vere making plans to get Into the field and that the United Stales should, for prestige reasons, be tirst. The legislation now goes to con ference with the House, which passed a similar bill! last July. Sen. Anderson 1D-NM1, chair man of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee, expressed fear In the debate that the bill might bf a disguised attempt to revive President Eisenhower's atomic "peace ship" proposal. Ejected by On Vote This was turned down by one vote in the senate last year. But Anderson said the administration, particularly Chairman Lewis L. S'rauss of the Atomic Energy. Commission, never had given up hojie of getting it through. ' "If they are given the go-ahead , on an atomic ship through this bill, it will end up as the floating i playhouse." the New Mexico sen-. ntor insisted Serve as Prototype But Sen. Magnuson D-Vash, floor manaccr of the bill, anjl Sens. Brickcr 'R-Ohio and Hick enlooper ' H-Ohio 1 . two adminis tration sookesmen on atomic mat ters, assured Anderson that the bill coverd only a merchant ship designed as a prototype for eco nomically feasible vessels which could serve on shipping routes. h Anderson finally said he was Joblessness v. At Ford, GM 'On Decline' DETROIT, Mich. Of - Ford Motor Co. ant! General Motors Corp , two of the nation's big three atltn makers, said Tuesday unemployment at their plants had reached ils peak and is on the decline O'deials nf the two firms ex-prr- "H thrir 'cv M a roofer C'U.' e' invrrnmi'i't. h"s'ne-s nnd I ilv-r nlfir'n'- Cll'r fl to (isnrs unemployment in the aulo indiis- tr- ' ; Latest fiuiirrs of the Michigan 1 Emplnvmenl Serurity Commission! show 2f)7.ooo now idle in Michigan lone. 133.000 in the Detroit area, motor capital of the world. The fiprre Is more than seven per cent of the state's labor force Harry W Anderson. CiM vice president in charge of industrial relations, said his company has ( called hack 2.200 workers since : the low point in employment last ; ni'nili. We anticipate further rehires eai li week f'r the balance of the 10V; morlel run." he said "With the introduction of new l!i"7 mod el'; in the fall of th's vrar we ex pect to recall the balance of the Itn.wifl Kurt off seniority employes In Michigan available for work " A"rirrsnn said 1 he (inn's total employment in Micigan is now 1non compared with a peak nf 230.000 in 105'. Nationwide. CM had a total employment of some S'lO.oon during peak production last year j John S Bucas. Fnrr! vice presi dent in charge of industrial rela tions, said current unemployment conditions "at worst, are about what they were in 11114" I "But." he added, "there is een less reason than there was in 19.'4 for pessimism "As a matter nf fact, within the. last 43 hours, we hae found it' necessary at Ford to increase our production schedules nf 19V! mod els," he said Porcupine-Killing Contest Planned T.AKF.VIKW LP - There will be another porcupine-killing contest in Lake County this year The Lakeview Elks Lodge de cided to put it on again after 19 contestants killed 2.210 of the nimals in 195.V Porcupines dam age young timber stands. This year's contest is open to children lfi or younger. It will be held .lime 25-Oct. 31. with the list of prizes topped by a rifle. Hollywood Bowl SALEM Friday, June 29 8:30 P. M. Adm. $1.50 Kids 30c SIDE-CAR MOTORCYCLE RACING COMPETITION IN 28 STINTS . Teams from England, Australia, Germany, Mexico, Canada. V. 8. A. KIDS ARRIVE EARLY, RIDE MOTORIZED ELEPHANT FREE Benefit U. S. Olympic Fund satisfied that the legislative his-; tory established that only a mer- chant ship was intended. , The Senate bill directs that the Atomic Energy Commission have On Your Guard, Hollywood t ! ; ! . '. . . i . '' j LONDON Whea America's movie capital opens Us doors ( Britain's Diana Dors, they'll find no shrinking violet on the threshold. Eng land's answer to Marilyn Monroe, waving to fans at the London pre miere of ber latest film, Wednesday announced she has yielded to Hollywood offers but on her own terms. "Already," says Diana, "I have had lo tell Hollywood one or Iwo things about money." (AP Wlrephoto) Britain s Answer to Marilyn To Co-Star in By HAL COOPER LONDON Eye-filling Diana Dors. Britain's luscious retort to Marilyn Monroe, said Wednesday she has at least yielded with strong reservations to the seduc tive rustle of the big folding money in Hollywood. Miss Dors, a spectacular plati- num blonde, told newsmen she leaves tomorrow to star opposite television comic George Cobel in the movie "I Married A Woman." She sain she intend. In treat llnllv. wood as gently as possible, but firmly. "Already had lo I ell ' said Diana, "I have Hollywood one or two : things about money. When they ol k'red me the part, the terms sug gested were $40,000 for the film and about $250 a week for living expenses. Getting $75,000 "Now, from what I heard, $2.V) a week won't go very far out tilers and $40,000 is hardly a star's sal ary. So I cabled back asking what else they had to suggest Now I am being paid $75,000 for the film, plus $7.')fl a week expenses. "Next there was an ofler for nv lo appear on the Ed Sullivan TV show a top program there. Good publicity, they told me '1 thought it would be a good deal too until I found they were not proposing to pay me. 'Nothing doing " I said. 'I don't cross the road to appear for nothing, unless alesfjrjpftn ON THE YEAR-AHEAD CAR NEW 1956 CHRYSLER It's all yours for the cost of a fully equipped "low-priced" small car! Salem Automobile charge of building the reactor for the merchant ship. The hull and I the rest of the ship would be built ! by the Maritime Administration in the Commerce Department A."' i'. I American Film it is for chanty.'' Dumb Blonde Miss Dors made her mark in Brtisih films as a dumb blonde, usually clad to expose the greatest expanse of Diana commensurate with the qualms of Britain's rather liberal movie censorship. Recently, however, she got rave notices play ing the dramatic role of a killer condemned to hang In "Yield To The Night." "I am not going to Hollywood in need, of fame or fortune.'' said Diana. "It will he fun working there and I hope the film will help me to become an international star. But I have made my reputa ; tion and money in England, so I don't have to go begging to any one." Gives Impressions ' And now for some impressions ; of Hollywoodians she has already ! met: j "1 have met some of these Holly-1 wood stars here in Britain and at film festivals. ' The young men are fine beef cake boys and many are good ac tors. But they seem to have had: so little experience. They are noti as . . . well, worldly .... as our j best English stars. Some of themj might have come straight from serving petrol at a garage. "And many of the women don't seem to have any conversation be yond their last film, and their next." CHRYSLER WINDSOR V-l Co., lnc.o435N.Com1. St. 03-41 17 jFour Firms to JJandlePrit I EPIIRATA. Wash. UP - A iinal ! financial hurdle was cleared Wed- j nesday for start of the first major j I Pacific Northwest Columbia Riv-: j er multi-purpose dam not federal-1 i lv naid-for. I Steps to market to the public ' the first bonds under the agree ment reached by the Grant Coun ty Public Utility District and four New York and Chicago brokerage firms got under way. Shortly before Tuesday mid night, representatives of the firms 1 and the Grant PL'D initialed an agreement under which the firms; will buy 166 million dollars in bonds to ay (or the long-planned Priest Rapids dam. The signers said the bonds would go on sale through 192 firms over the nation at $990 per $1,000 bond. The dam. an 8.412-foot con crete and earth-faced Structure. will be at a site about 30 miles east of Yakima. Work to Start Initial construction work by Merritt - Chapman and Scott, of New York, whose bid of $91, 878, 62S had been accepted previously should get under way -shortly. PUD spokesman said. The big bond issue was de scribed by the principals as the largest ever authorized in the Pa cific Northwest. It will also pay ! the preliminary expenses for the companion Wanapum Dam, to be built later a short distance up the Columbia. Tuesday evening, as a final pre liminary, the Grant PUD com missioners reached agreements at Tacoma with the 12 other. Wash ington and Oregon public and pri vate utilities which will buy the dam's 630,000 kilowatts of power. Access Road The four bond houses handling the issue were John Nuvccn k Co. of Chicago and the New York firms of Halsey-Stuart, B. J. van Ingen and Blythe & Co. First step toward building the dam will be construction of an access road on the cast bank of the Columbia, PUD officials said. The actual building contract for the dam will be the largest ever awarded in the Pacific Northwest, they said. Other dams have been huilt at a greater cost, but through a series of smaller contracts, of ficials said chief Fum ll Ajiain Testifies In Viee Probe PORTLAND ' -Police Chief Jim Purcell testified for a second time Wednesday before the grand jury investigating vice in Portland. Clyde C. Crosby, International representative' for the Teamsters Union in Oregon, also made his second appearance, as did H. G Maison, superintendent of the Oregon state police. MOSLEM MEETING EYED KARACHI iT Pakistan is think ing nf proposing a meeting ol all Moslem countries to discuss the French - Algerian Nationalist con flict and the Kashmir and Pales line problems. Foreign Minister Hamidu! Haq Chowdry . said a place and date would be decided after interested countries are sounded out on the idea. eatTDum.' Always carry fast-acting; Turns for top-f peed relief from acid indignts tton.No water netded. No waiting. firtag O4l0t!otl FOITHITUMMT Schemes to Import Burmese Sapphires ,Export Halazone Fleece Californians Out of $100,000 SAN FRANCISCO UP - Employ ing imaginative schemes to im port Burmese sapphires and ex port war surplus halazone tablets to give Burma healthy drinking w ater, a 36-ycar-old Burmese fleeced California families of more than $100,000, police inves tigators said Wednesday. Police Lt. Edward Moody sair) Sydney Scott Bahoh, native of Rangoon, fled May by transcon tinental airliner to New York and then flew on lo London when vic tims of his quick profit schemes complained to authorities. Dist. Atty. J. Frank Coakley of Alameda County i Oakland ' said Bntstlfowt ' (M SISIPISIS-eQOSIXlD!! Plus rax en 4 tires It's not erery day we can bring you deal like this on brand new "First-choice" Goodyean the tires that car makers and motorists prefer. Check us and see how you can put new 3-T DeLuxe Super-Cushions on your car now at special isringi! Tubeless, Tube -Type 7 fit ff'rti that comt on America's ZLfintif '56 carjitT MORE PEOPLE RIDE ON GOODYEAR TIRES THAN ON ANY OTHER KIND FREE Whistle Pops With Every Gasoline Purchase While They Last the whole case, with the victims as witnesses, would be presented to the grand jury. Coakley said he would ask indictments on grand theft and bad check charges. No charge has been filed pending grand jury action. He said Bahoh's extradition frem London or Paris, where he has been reported, would be re quested if the jury indicts. Leaves Family Moody reported Bahoh left his wife. Carolyn, and their three chil dren in Berkeley. Moody, participating in an in vestigation of Bahoh's operations by San Francisco. Oakland and K gf . Set us for your entry blank now Nothing to buy 1 575 chances to vnn! 4 3p awi?3333a,f'T" 3? IIOMIO in both Black and White Terms as low as V5 weekly! No need to wait! MM to 12 bits J Pav $1500 (ASH CENTER AND COMMERCIAL MARION AND LIBERTY COURT AND CAPITOL CENTER AND LIBERTY KEIZER DISTRICT I Berkeley bunco details, estimated las much as 1 million dollars passed through Bahoh's hands in ithe past three years. Moody said much of the money was relumed as Bahoh used one person's money to pay back anoth er and "keep up a pretense of honesty " Bahoh, member of a once weal thy Rangoon family, first came to the United States in 1939 on a stu dent visa to attend the University of Redlands in southern Califor nia. He registered for several I semesters at the University of Cal ifornia at Berkeley to maintain ! his student visa while being natur GOODYEAR'S 3-T SAFETY SWPPPSTAUPCi r I Sidewalk on Sale! GIVEN DURING JUNE! GET YOUR MASTER MONEY Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thurs., June 21, 36 (Sec. II)-15. alized. Among Students Officers said he started his gem trading system on Berkeley cam pus students. Moody said Bahoh's basic gem importing pitch was that he needed $1,000 to get a shipment through customs quickly. He promised prompt repayment plus $100 profit. He delivered as prom ised several times is he built wider circle of investors willing to risk bigger and bigger sums. 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