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In Tuesday' column I dis cussed the content of the 14th amendment to the federal const! , tution whose validity was chal lenged in articles in the lis New World Report and new f.iper columns by its- editor, avid Lawrence.- Thij challenge was based on the historical lact that ratification hy the requisite three-fourths of the states was ob tained only under duress: All the stales of the southern Confeder acy save Tennessee had to ratify this amendment before being re . stored to normal status in the I'nion. The particular significance ol the reference to history was that it serves to confirm the posi tion of Southern states in their resistance to the Supreme Court order, based in larc part on the' 14th amendment, for desegrega tion. , . Since Tuesday I have done a nine nisie,ry sway olniy own as to the aclual effect of fhe 14th amendment in the near 90 years ' aince its ratification was pro claimed by Secretary of State Seward. From what 1 learn I do ' not think that the U.S. News or Mr. Lawrence want this amend ment pulled up by its roots. Their euno is certainly conservative-pro-business, one might say; and if the 14th amendment is erased a hce"A'asrstrucfiir'e"orTaw ("as Interpreted by the courts" in, which corporate business receives! (TmiinuH n editorial pace 4.) ! End to Vice Jury Probe SeeifToday PORTLAND I The Multno mah County grand jury probably wdl wind up its investigation of J'ornand vice Jriday morning. The jury foreman told Circuit Judge Alfred Dobson Thursday that it will make its final report at 11 am. The jury returned six more In dictments Thursday involving nine persons. Five were arrested short ly after. Elkins' Employe One Is Raymond F. Clark, an .employe of James I.lkins, Port - iana nigni ciuo financier who has . twice been arrested on grand jury Indictments, one for felony. Clark, whose tape recordings were the basis for tha series, of Oregonian articles that-led to the Investigation, was charged with "keeping and setting up a House of ill fame:" His wife. Jerry Rogers Clark, also was arrested n the same charge. Each was released oa $1,000 bail. " " The other' three were cittf po licemen each arrested on a charge of perjury in connection with brib ery accusations, lader ll.Mt Ball They are Robert W. Spraeue. 41; Jack R. Childers. 30: and Clin ton B. Parker. 33, Each was re leased on $1,000 bail. Earlier, four other city police mm had been indicted on perjury Charges. Also under indictment, on felony charges, are Dist. Atty. William Langley; Clyde Crosby, head of the Teamsters Union in Oregon, . and Thomas E. Maloney, Seattle and Spokane race track clerk. Four other persons have been Indicted for bootlegging. Fair Skies On Forecast Showers again peppered the val ley area Thursday, but forecasters predicted mostlv fair skies begin- ning tonight and continuing Salur- day McNary Field weather .station laid today will probably be partly cloudy with a high near 72 and a low tonight near 44. Rainfall of .11 of an inch was re corded at the station -Thursday. Maximum temperature in Salem Thursday was 63. Cool temperatures prevailed throughout the valley Thursday as an unusual . early August rainy ipell continued for the second day. Northern Oregon beaches will probahly be partly cloudy today : and mostly cloudy tonight. Kxpecl- ea nign is nu io m, me mw w to a. AIRLINERS COLLIDED WASHINGTON UfvA civil aero nautics board expert testified Thursday that evidence "estab lishes clearly" there was an air , collision between the two airliners which crashed into Grand Canyon. He said more work is needed to show how they struck each other. WILBERT ftps, 0' II ' . 106th Yaar Jehovah's Witnesses Open District Meeting Here j-.fi 'J' - ' Xr, - f :-:.-:.-i;:-..;:V - vrr,-----T-.----:-- V J Dalagatas to Jahovah'i Witnassas district assembly seated in stata fairgrounds grandstand watch opamng program of their four-day convention Thursday. Crowd It expected to swell! 9-Year-01d Dies in Fire At Clackamas CLACKAMAS. Ore.' ufl - A t year-old boy died, apparently in bed. when fire destroyed a two story frame house here Thursday. Four others escaped. The fire was in the John Potter home, a landmark building erect- 1 i in 1867 end once used as hotel. Dead1 was Danny Potter. Hit mother, Mrs. John Potter, aaid she and her ll-month-old daughter ran from the house, and then she shouted to tha others inside to get out Mr. Arthur Vickert . Jr.. II, niece of Mrs. Potter, tossed down her 2'-year-old daughter. Bar bara Jean, from a second floor window -to- Mrt. Potter -th a a jumped. But Danny was trapped The fire was blamed on an over heated, wood stove. Fliers Escape Portland Air Base Crash PORTLAND tm - A C-47 plane carrying 14 officers and men crashed in the takeoff at the Portland Air Base just before noon Thursday. No one was in jured. The plane was piloted hy Capt 0. C. Asper from Paine Air Force i Base' near Everett. He apparently lost -control as it took to the air. The plane pan caked but did not overturn and there was no fire. Both landing gears and the left propeller were torn off, and both wings were damaged. The plane was bound for- Mo ""Ta 'r rorcp Baw- - Asper, ' from the University of Washing- Opt. G. B. Bliss, Paine Field, was listed as pilot, and 1st Lt. H. If. Richardson, Paine Field, as co pilot. A board is investigating the ac cident. BIG ESTATE LEFT PORTLAND I Hopkin Jen kins, long-time Jefferson High School principal who died July 21, left an estate valued at more thart one million dollars, attorney Rob- PT r Rankin estimated Thurs- day RAIN CUTS FAIR CROWD GRKSHAM i Rain sharply reduced attendance as the 50th annual Multnomah County fair opened here Thursday. Ex- WU Coed Flees Iraq Home To Escape Wrath of Husband A former Willamette U. student who married an Arab didn't fancy being, treated like one and will "never leave America again, ever, ever, ever," ' . ' She Is Helen Johnstone Sabbagh, 28, who arrived in Rome via plane Monday after fleeing from Bagh dad, Iraq., with her 22 months-old son. As Helen Johnstone, member of a prominent Palo Alto, Calif., fam ily, she resided at Lausanne Hall on the Willamette campus from the fall of 1947 until the spring of 1949. She worked part-time at the YWCA and friends recall her as a pretty red-head. ' The story, as recounted by The Associated Press and augmented 4 SECTIONS-32 Vanguard of Witnesses In Salem for Assembly "The purpose in assembling Is to worship Jehovah and to taie in accurate knowledge concerning his purposes," sev eral thousand Jehovah 't Witnesses vlio attended the opening of a four-day assembly, were told Thursday. j "Active worship is expressed by ascertaining God'i will for us, then doing it. Jt is Jby careful study of the Bihlft that Heir on Way, ! Grace Tells Tiny Monaco (Ptrture ea Wire parte Page.) MONTE CARLO - Tiny Mo naco burst with king-sized cele bration Thursday. The palace an nounced Prince Rainier III and Mj Hollywood princess, 'Grace Kelly, are expecting a child in February.' ' Flags, - bunting, champagne toals and Gallic "Oh, la, las' could hardly measure the joy of Monacans. who w;ant nothing more than the patter of tiny feet around the stone, and stucco palace over looking the Mediterranean. With the fidgeting over, Monaco prepared a celebration second only to the fanfare of floodlights and paeeantry civrn the wedding itself last April 18-19. The Prince and Princess prepared to flee the clamor by embarking on their yacht Sunday for ( cruise along the Italian coast. Another Cruise A royal heir is extremely im- portant to Monacans. By a 191S treaty with France. Monaco would become a French protectorate and Monacans subject to French taxes; and the French military draft if Rainier died without a child. eral hundred at Olinger Field The 4.000 citizens of this 3A0-1 pool Saturday morning at 10 o' acre principality pay no direct clock. taxes now and there is no draft, (Add. detiils, page 4, sec. 1) for citizens. The Monte Carlo gam-1 ' oung casino pays aooui iu peri cent of the annual three million' comes from a-government monop- oly on cigarettes, matches and the sale of postage stamps. The royal yacht Deo Juvante II, on which the 32-year-old Prince and the 26-year-old Princess spent their honeymoon, maneuvered In to position to take them on an other Mediterranean cruise before they depart Sept. 20 for a two month visit to the United States. The . Jittte prince . or princess would thus be born after the couple return to Monaco. REBEL UNIT SMASHED ALGIERS, Algeria Wi French troops early Thursday cornered and smashed a strong rebel, unit in the mountains of the Tlemcen region near the Moroccan border. The French killed 25. by the San Francisco Chronicle: Helen' Johnston was married to Abdul Jebbar Sabhagh on Dec 24. 1953, in First Methodist Church at Palo Alto. She had met him while she was attending the College of Puget Sound. They went, to Iraq to live. "When wt reached Iraq, my hus band changed completely," Mrs. Sabbagh was quoted as saying. She described physical mistreat ment and said: "If I had been treated the way women are In America, it would have been okay. Rut Abdul seemed afraid of what other Arabs. would think If I was treated that way." ' Aftr Abdul recently threatened to-shoot her, her son and himself. Mrs. Sabbagh (aid, she decided PAGES 'to naar 5,000 by Sunday, demonstrations it Witnesses-decorated stage soon in background across fair, racetrack from, grandstand. (Statesman photo). we fill our hearts with the truth, i I tit worse than no knowledge at all." j said E. C. Kennedy, convention! chairman. Onlv a portion of the expected 4,500 delegates were on hand for the opening session Thursday af ternoon at the State Fairgrounds grandstand. But officials of the Northwest District Assembly said more would come in to reach the expected peak - on Sunday, the last day of the convention Wide Area The Salem assembly, drawing delegates from Western Oregon and Washington, Northern till Ifornia and other states. -is-onetrf , 20 being held this weekend over the nation. Purpose is to train memDers oi me laun in meir work. Thursday afternoon , and eve ning sessions were taken up with talks, demonstration, pantomimes and instructions on talking and reading correctly in ministry work. Today, as part of the training program, delegates will conduct house to house visits in Salem and in downtown streets, distrib uting literature and talking about their faith. Model Service A model service meeting will be held it 3 p.m. at the fair grounds. The service meeting is a weekly function of the Jeho vah's Witness congregation. Talks lnj instruction will make up the evening program tonight. a feature of the convention! will be the mass baptism of sev ff :.... l.,.,t iHUrijllillltl 1 Kill I ljclIluS 1 1 1 1 ISltOTO Musician in Jail . H1LLSB0RO OH A musician who said he planted some mari juana seeds in his yard this spring is- free under $250 bond while awaiting trial here. James Rudolph Smith, 25, first trumpeter in the Fortland Sym phony Orchestra, said he had never used marijuana and did not intend to sell it. He said he got the plant seeds from another mu sician in Los Angeles some years ago- When slate police arrested him Monday they, found three plants from three to eight feet tall. Smith has a wife and four chil dren. to seek help from the American consulate in Baghdad. Twice. Vice Consul James May was thrown out of the Sabbagh home when he tried to help her claim the baby, she said, but finally American authori ties got the Iraq Ministry of Jus tice to produce the boy. 1 . The two were whisked away to a train. Issued ' a passport and hidden by friends until they could board a plane. ' Mrs. Sabbagh and her son ar rived in 'Rome with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. The American consul In Rome has aided them since. "No American girl should ever marry as I dif," she told Amer ican authorities io Italy. . POtlNDBD 1651 Tha Oregon Statosman, Cantar of training talks and Nine Supreme Court Judges Asked in State The Oregon Judicial Council recommended Thursday that the number of state supreme court juainrs u a.i cascu u viu stiiu J" ., . . , . - . The council, which submitted f unanimous , report to Gov. tlmo Smith, consists ol all su preme and circuit judges in the state. It was created by tha 195& Legislature. The report pointed out that the last increase was in 1913, from five to seven members.' It also said that California and Wash ington each bare nine justices ' The increase - is Heeded, the council said, to help reduce the delay In hearing appeals. . . The proposal will come before the 1937 Legislature," which- has authority to make the increase because the number of justices is fixed by law. The council also recommended that adoption proceedings ' be transferred from County courts to Circuit courts, and that all ju dicial functions be transferred from courts having lay judges to courts having law-trained judges. Bill Aims to Cut Freezer Death Total WASHINGTON - President Eisenhower signed Thursday a bill aimed at cutting down, and perhaps eventually preventing en tirely, the tragic death toll of chil dren trapped in refrigerators. The new law forbids interstate shipment of any household re frigerator whose door cannot eas ily be opened from the inside. The ban takes effect two years from now, the delay being allowed to give refrigerator manufactur ers time to incorporate safety de vices under standards to be let by the Secreta:-y of Commerce The legislation sponsored by Rep. Roberts (D-Ala) was touched off by increasingly frequent re ports of children caught inside re frigerators and iceboxes and suf focated. Lalourelie in Hospital, Being Treated for Leg PORTLAND of) Justice Earl C-. Latourette- of the Oregon Su preme Court, 'who has been a patient at a Portland hospital for the past few days, was reported improving Thursday. Dr. John Raaf aaid the jurist was suffering from a pain in one of his legs. The. pain Is lessening and "we felt today that he was getting better," Raaf said. The pain is apparently due to an old football injury, the doctor reported. northwest i.rAcir At Yakima I. Wenatrhre At Spokint S1, Trl-Citv J- At Eugtna 4-10, Lewltton 1-1 PACiriC COAST l.T.hax r. At Portland Srrmfntn, rain At L Ansrlri 4, San FranrlrO 0 At VanrnuverHollywond. rain At titatllt-T-San Uicfo, ram NATIONAL I FAC.i r At FlrnnkKn .'1, Milwatlkpr A At New York 2, Cincinnati 10 At Pitlhuren S. Si 1.oui 7 Only same srhrdtilrd. AMFRICAV I.FAtil'K At Chirafn S. Wahin(on 4 Al Kana Cilv .1. Ballimnr 1 At .rwiinii .1, r.ot"n ts At Llivtland 4, Naw York mm Salami, Oregon, Friday, August Doe DDUgle Wreck ECii West Invites Russ, Egypt to Suez Parley By ARTHl'R GAVS1ION LONDON I The Western Big Three Thursday night invited the Soviet Union and F.gypt to parti cipate in a 24-nation conference aimed at setting up international control of the Suez Canal: This was announced as Britain and France, advising their nation als to leave Kgypt, moved toward a war Tooting ttf"ffieTirefflrerTSn-" ean. But a good authority said the United States had received assur- ances that military strength will not be used pending the Aug. 16 conference in . London . unless there are "provocative acts Ceollag Perba Thus a cooling off period of two weeks appeared to be developing. But Cairo dispatches cast doubt on whether President Gamal Ab- del Nasser, who seized the Sues last Thursday under a nationaliz ation decree, would agree to any sort of international action undo ing his Sucz-for-Kgypt plans Secretary of State Dulles, who met here with British and French leaders to draft, the conference plans, seemed somewhat relaxed as he prepared to depart for Washington. He called results of the meetings "very satisfactory." Natleaals Ordered Out While an undisclosed number of emergency reserves was recalled to military service by Britain, Bri tish Commonwealth countries also were understood to be advising tbeir nationals to leave F.gypt if possible. The British and French embassies stressed they had not ordered an evacuation of their cit izens, but only advised them to leave. In Washington, U.S. State Department sources said 1.700 Americans in Egypt were advised to stay out of crowds and avoid downtown Cairo. The Aug. 16 meeting will be at the foreign minuter level This means that Soviet Foreign Mwls - ter Dmitri Shepilov will have the chance to join Dulles, Lloyd and Pineau. Dulles probably will attend the conference, an informed source said, even though it likely will ov erlap the Republican National Convention where he is scheduled to appear as a foreign affairs ad viser. The GOP convention opens Aug. 20. LOGGER KILLED LA GRANDE WU Clarence Coles, 62, La Grande, foreman at the Roy Cameron lumber mill on the edge of La Grande, was killed Thursday when hit by a rolling log and thrown into the mill pond. Actress Eyes V 4 f v t - f HOILYWOOD-Actress Cleo Moore tails newsman at prats conference Thursday she is thinking of jumping Info politics and becoming a "political Florence Nightingale." Miss Moore, a 27-year-old blonde, said she bought property in Louisiana two months ago and plans to run for governor of Louisiana In 1960. (Story page I, tec. 1). (AP Wlraphoto). , I, 195 Dim Coir Union Army's. Last Veteran Dies at 109 DCUTII, Minn., (APJ-Allx-rt Voolson, 109, the last of some 2.6 5,000 boys in Blue of the Civil Wan Lnion Army, died in a com ThiirsdayT T ' Voolson, who answered President Lincoln's call to arms aiul marched off to war as a drummer bov when he was 17, had been hospitalized for nine weeks with recurring lung congestion condition. Ite lapsed into a coma early Saturday and did not regain con sciousness. Since then, he had been fed intravenously and was given oxygen through a ' nasal rurxf.- Memberi of his family were at his bedside when he died in St. i Luke's Hospital. Military Services Full-scale military funeral ser vices will be conducted at the Na tional Guard armory here Mon day at 2 p.m. (CST). Burial will be in the family lot at Park Hill Cemetery here. Only three veterans of the Civ il War. all members of the Con federate forces, survive. They are W. W. Williams. 113, Franklin, Tex.: John Sailing. 110, Slant. Va.: and William A. Lundy. 108. Laur el Hill, Fla. Informed of Wool son's death, Lundy said "I regret very much the passing of Mr. Woolson." Woolson's last comrade of the Union Army, James A. Hard, Ro chester, N.Y., died la 1953 at 111. Laat Eacampmeat The Grand Army of the Repub lic officially died with Woolson, who was its senior vice comman der in chief. It was decided at the last encampment of the Un ion veterans in 1949 that the GAR would continue to exist technical ly until the death of the last mem ber. At Its peak in 1890, the GAR had 4n8,4t9 members. (Add. details Pag IS, Sec X) WASHINGTON If! - President Eisenhower said Thursday the death of Albert Woolson. the last I'nion veteran of tha Civil War, "brings sorrow to the hearts" -of Americans. ' f - - Blimp to Stop Here Today A relatively unusual light will draw Salem area residents' atten tion to the skies this morning. It'll be a Naval Air Reserve blimp. The blimp is scheduled to moor at McNary Field about 10 a.m. on a two-hour refueling stopover en route to the annual Seattle Scafalr celebration. The craft is from San ta Ana. Calif., and will be manned by reservists. This it the fourth year a naval blimp has made a stop in Salem. Governor Job r atj PWCI it Srimeishyps; Final Call DUIUTH, Mian. -Albert WooL sen, last Union Civil War veteran, dies at 109. (AP Wirephoto). Police Payoffs In Portland Aired by Paper PORTLAND tn Evidence pointing to vice payoffs and pro tection of illegal operations by po lice was presented to Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton some 10 weeks ago by The. Oregonian, the news paper laid in a front page story Thursday night. The paper reported that James Burr Miller, a police reporter, had gathered the information. Miller is an ei-reporter for the Oregon Statesman. "The evidence Indicated that payoffi were sporadic, o f t e n small, depending upon how' much activity was allowed in gambling houses, bootleg joints and houses of prostitution. Cash rewards for ignoring such activity were spread to patrolmen on the beat from aergrants, according to the infor mation gained by Miller," the newspaper said. The article reported (hat Pa trolman Jack F. Olscn became angered when he was given a pay off of $10 and told Miller about the matter. The reporter conferred with e ecutivei of the newspaper and they decided to turn the matter over to the authorities. Olscn. kept detailed records of payoffs made to him, the newspa per said, keeping Miller and others Informed. Tots Rescued From Grave In Sandpit CHICAGO OH - Alex North, 41, thought something was wrong as he operated hta bucket conveyor In a sandpit at a city asphalt slant Thursday. The conveyor seemed sluggish. "I fished my hand In the sand to see what was blocking it," North said. He found a tiny tennis shoe. "I pulled and found a leg attached to it," North told police. His cries for help brought other plant workers to the scene. After IS minutes of frantic digging, two children, alive but breathless, were pulled from the pit. The children Frank Smith, 11, and bis step-sister, Verna Lee Jen son, 11 were treated at Illinois Research hospital and released. Police said they apparently had fallen Into the pit while trying to fill a small bucket with sand. Ex cept for the girl's-leg, they were buried completely, , Burma, Reds Clash; 10 Die KUNLONG FERRY, Northern Burma W Burmese troopj and Red Chinese invaders of Burma's border area have encaged in sev eral clashes, - including one six hour battle, a Burmese army com mander, teported Thursday, The offirer, Col. Chit Myaing, said one lied Chinese officer and nine soldiers were killed and three Burmee wounded ln--the six-hour rlmh. Several of tha Chinese- were captured, I r xmmmmmm s ' '"tmr imiii mum W ' ten ; LL:.j:J The Weather Today's forecast: Partly cloudy today, mostly fair to night and Saturday; high tt day naar 72, low tonight neef -44. (Compkta report I) No. 121 Cars Strike Headon Near ; Klamath Falls 4 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Six persons died in traffic accidents in Oregon Thursday1, five of them in grindinf! , J. II..; f i i... i7 ,1 nuiru wiiismii m iwu vcfui.re rn a u-Inciinir nwiiinhin hicrk. way west of Klamath Falls. , The dead were tentatively iden tified by Coroner Carlos Morris . as: Sam llallon. U, a Central . Pomt,- OF,-grer,.Bl his-wife;. - uaiav, vniwai ruini, aina his wife; and Charles I well Klaus, S5, Fortland. Klqua was alone in one car. Tha ' others were In a car driven by mauim. Killed OutrlcM State police officer Robert Wievesiek said all were killed out right in the crash except for Mai-. km who 'was pulled from the car by passing motorists, but died a few minutes later oa the highway, ; Wievesiek Said that Mallon, driv- temporarily by the setting sun. He applied the brakes and his ve hicle skidded feet before crash ing into the Klaua car, Wievesiek ' said. 1st Jacksoa Cauaty The mlshlD occurred at aHmit (:30 p.m. ea the Green Springs nignway, m milea west of the Klamath County line in Jacksoa County. ' At Portland, George C. Mackle, 48, was killed in a two-car colli, ion at the Intersection of Sixth and Bryant Street The other driver, Glen V. Jounson, IB, als oc roruana, was unnun. Enrages Man; Cafe Wrecked - vat Tennis - i ... bi a - derson, 4, objects to nil wife working at the Do-Nut Hole, a drive-in. Anderson drove into the place Thursday, ordered a cup of cof fee from his waitress wife. . Then, police were told, he: Threw tht coffe la his wife'i face, Jumped lata his truck and drove . it into the side of the building at "terrific speed." ''. Seized an Iron pipe and smashed all the windows and much equip ment. Owner Henry Miksch estimated ;. damage at $4,000 when he charged Anderson with malicious mischief. Shakespearean Festival Chilled By Light Rain ASHLAND III Sponsors of the Ashland Shakespearean Festival were hoping for better weather-' Thursday as they prepared ff. sccond performance. . Blanket wrapped patroka. shivered Wednesday night at the - opening play, Richard III, but - they gave lt an enthusiastic re ception. There was a light drizzle - right up until curtain time. -. y College students from over the : country, studying for the stage,'.; filled most of the roles. Gov. and Mrs. Elmo Smith : headed a list of dignitaries who t attended a festival dinner ia Lithla Park before the perform- " ance. Today's Statesman BONUS READING! "WhatJounc PeopU Tliink," a new feature ex elusive to The Statesman in this area, Page 12, Sec. 2. Central Oregon in pic tures, Pago 28, Sec. 4. . Page Sec. labson Report ..27....IV Business News 27... IV Classified 2?-31....IV Comes the Dawn ..4 I Comics 22 III Crossword 15..- II Editorials 1 4. I Home Panorama 9, 10. II Markets .... 27 IV Obituaries . 27.IV . Central Oregon Photos L..2I....IV ....22..lll 2S.27..IV 5.- I Radio-TV ..... Sports Star Gaier . Valley News ..7 I Wlrephote Page ..22....III What Young People Think il .11 Ds