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DO5 Rocket Wraps Removed Tlie Weather Today's forecast) Pair today, tonight and Thursday, except foe scattered early momlnf cloudiness. High today, IS low tonight, 43. (CmnpteM re perl page f) t0jso'n 333 raffia MUNDID 1651 106th Year 4 SECTIONS-24 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Slm, Oregon, Wednesday, August I, 1956 PRICI 5 No. 134 1 3&e(jS) matt Egypt's recently adopted con stitution makes a bow in the direction of (re press; but that doesn't prevent Nasser's polite trom interfering witn those gath ering and disseminating news Last week two correspondents of British papers got kicked out of the country, also the independent Cairo Misr Egyptian News agency was ordered to suspend its oper ations. ' This Is the provision of the new constitution on this subject: 'Treedum of th pre&a, publl - cation and copjriR-ht art afr guarded In tlie Interest of lh fiubhe welfare and within the imlt preacrtbed "by The law." That is merely a gesture to ward freedom of information. Recognition of press freedom is robhed in the final clause:. With in the limit prescribed by law." When the boss can write law -as he chooses, freedom goes out the window. The tnnoceht - looking words "in the interest 6f t he pub lic welfare,',;, actunlly may become a club for press suppression at the will of the ruler. , ' I am reminded of the time in 1952 in the meeting of the Third Committee of I'nited Nations (on humanitarian and cultural affairs) when a drive was made to en dorse a convention on the subject iffrwmwn"ntf'mtrnrmMfonTnat had been a topic for serious con sirieration since the birth-of the I'N. 'At Geneva in 1IH8 a com mission under the auspices of the Kcohomic and Social Council worked on a draft convention The longer they worked the wider the division became between those loyal to press freedom as we know it in this country and rep resentative of many other coun tries, finally our delegation in .subsequent meetings of I'N bod ies hacked away from any con (Conllnurd an editorial page i.) Ike Hints at New Plan for Disarmament WASHINGTON un - President Eisenhower Tuesday questioned Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's good faith in keeping agreements. He -urged Bulganin to rid Russia's foreign policy of the "evils'' of Stalinism. In a new letter to the Russian leader, Eisenhower also hinted that he may have new disarma ment proposals to make ' after present studies are completed. Eisenhower's letter, releaesd by the White House after delivery .in Moscow, was a reply to a note from Bulganin on June 6. At that the President that Russia had tie- ciderl to cut its armed forces by 1.200.000 men and was prepared to reduce forces in Germany. He suggested that cuts in' Russian and Western armed forces in Ger many could contribute to solution of the German problem. Eisenhower rejected the Bul ganin suggestion for this kind of an approach to the long deadlock over the division of Germany, say ing that the problem of -troops "cannot be dealt with as an iso lated matter." He then reminded Bulganin In the restrained tone which has characterized their year-old cor respondence that they had agreed In their meeting at Geneva last year that Germany should be unified by means of free elec tions. Eisenhower said the achievement of this unification was a responsibility of Russia, America, Britain and France. "Not only has this not hap pened." Eisenhower said, "hut I hear of statements from your side which seem to imply that your government is determined to maintain indefinitely the division of Germany." NORTHWEST LEAGl'E At Salem 1, Spokane J At Trl-Cltv 4, Eusrne lr At Weiutehre 2, Yakima 4 PACIFIC COAST I.EAGt'E At Portland 3. San Francisco At Hollywood .1. Loi Anselri 7 At Sralll 0. Sarraripnlo 2 " At Vancouver 7-1, San Diego 0-4 AMERICAN LEAGl'E A fhlrairn 5-4, Kama! City 4-J both 10 inninci At Octroi! 2 Cleveland S At Boston 1, New York 0 (I Only fames scheduled, NATIONAL LEAGl'E At Milwaukee 8 Chicago 1 At Brooklvn 3. PlMhiir"h 0 At Cincinnati 4. St. Loula ft At Nrw York 3-1. Phllaiirlitflia 4-3 WILBERT . "...And I don't wont any more jHesents, Indian giverl' " 1 11 .--" ; . J , - - ' . ' .:- :' .- f &m i Li & Ad WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND-Allhough high winds pro vented scheduled firing, newsmen and military observers got a good look at this upper-air -research rocket, the "DAN" or "Nike-Cajun," a two-stage high-velocity vehicle planned for - use in the 70-1 OO-mile range above tea level for the Inter national Geophysical year and for military studies. (AP Wire photo). ... Desegregation Plank In Demos' Platform Urged by Stevenson " CHICAGO (APj-Adlai E. Stevenson said Tuesday night the Democratic platform should "express unequivocal approv al" of tlie Supreme Courts segregation. .- - - It was Stevenson s strongest statement on the most con- troversial issue building up for Verdict Due Today in Polk Murder Trial . Sutramaa Nwi Servlrt DALLAS, Ore A verdict is ex pected at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of Bay liss Gilbert Fanning, 57-year-old north Polk County rancher who has pleaded guilty to slaying his wife. Judge William Wells, who heard the one-day trial in Polk County Circuit Court Monday, indicafed that he would hand down a verdict on Wednesday. Wells dismissed a panel of jurors at the request of Fanning'j attor neys and will personally decide the rancher's fate. District Attor ney Waller Fos.ter has recom mended life imprisonment in the event Wells returns a verdict of first-degree murder. Other possible verdicts are second-degree murder or manslaugh ter. ISJieej Missing From Siinnyside Twenty sheep vanished front her premises early .Tuesday evening, state police were informed by Mrs. Frances McNcrney, Salem Route 4, Box 197. The woman said the flock ap parently wandered through a hole in a fence on the property, located in the Sunny-side area. Fury of Woman Shorn Vented on Mate. Police (Picture en Wlrrphnle Page) VAN NUYS, Calif. UP - Hell hath no fury like a woman shorn. Police revised the old saying Tuesday after capturing a young bride who shot up her h o m and neighborhood because her husband tired of seeing her hair up in curlers gave her a butch haircut. The husband and a dozen of ficers were, fortunately, near 'misses. The officers finally routed blonde Mrs. Barbara Mihich, 2.1, bride of only four months, with a well lobbed tear gas bomb into her home. By that time, her captors said, she had sprayed a tntal of nearly 50 rounds from two shotguns, a ,22 rifle, and two automatic pis tols. An expensive picture win dow In the home next rinor looked like a Swiss Jmpnrt, and a gar age across the street had been perforated at least four times. Officers said iht wrecked much decision against public school next week's Democratic Na- -sw4j4nvn(n i iniy. Stevenson, leading contender for his party's presidential nomina tion, previously - had said he thought it was unnecessary for the platform to mention the high court's ruling, although he added his belief that such a reference was inevitable. Pulled Away Rug On this one prime topic, at least, Stevenson's statement served to pull the rug from under the contention of Gov, Averell Harriman of New York that Stevenson is (oo much of a po litical moderate. Only a short time before the TV interview. Harriman's camp had blasted at Stevenson on this "moderation" theme and drew a dressing down from Democratic National Chairman Taul M. But ler. It was an almost unprecedented action on the part of the party chairman. Butler tossed aside his mantle of official party impartiality long enough to say it was "about time Democrats started pulling togeth er and talking about the Demo cratic party instead of each other." I'reat Ttunaer By all counts, Stevenson is the front runner for the nomination next week and lately has been gunning for a first ballot blitz. But Lloyd Benefield, director of llarriman-for-President headquar ters, laid claims Tuesday to mod est gains for his man. Here is the way the claims of the opposing camps stack up now. with 6861! votes needed to clinch the presidential nomination: Benefield says Harriman can count on 3fiS to 376 votes. He pre viously had claimed 341. of her own furniture and fired , several shots through their squad : ear behind which her husband, I Wflliam, 35, had taken refuse. Surrendering, Barbara claimed it was all William's fault. j "He told me he'd trim my hair j .because he was tired of always seeing it up in curlers," she said. I "lie trimmed it all rigid, and' how! He went liogwild and gave, me a butch haircut." 1 ' j Mrs. Mihich said she tried to , get her hair off her mind by go ing out to a bar with friends. But when she came home before down, I'aflaire hair flamed anew. "He beat me," she said. "Then 1 went frir the heavy artlUery." Police hooked her on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Her husband was inclined to be forgiving, ' "She wasn't shooting at me," he said;, "She was just shooting off her temper.' William is nn barber. He's a sewer contractor. Prison Plans Okehed "First Drawings Of Keformalory Win Approval ' The State Board of Control Tuesday gave itsapproval to preliminary plans for construc tion of hrst halt ot the 5.1 mil lion stilt reformatory on State Hospital property cast of Salem. .,'' The board has 2,!00,000 avail able tor construction and mem bers said first half could be built' during the current biennium end ing July 1, 1957. The Legislature will be asked for another $2,500,- 000 to complete the project. 300 Inmates First half of the Institution will twttsr'Ufe tnwtes"atr(t--whVi- eom- pleted . accommodations will be availabie for 600 Inmates, most of whom will be youthful offenders. Bids on the first half will be asked as soon as the working plans are completed. J, D. Annand, architect who completed the preliminary plans, said first half of the project prob ably would be finished by July 1, 1957. Admission of inmates is ex pected to begin about Jan, 1, 1958. ZO-Aere Tract Architect Annand told Board of Control members that plans have been approved by the Federal Bu reau of Prisons. - ; . The new institution will stand on a 20-acre tract and will in clude an industrial building, chapel, school building and num ber of smaller structures in ad dition to inmate and administra tion quarters. Plans originally called for the institution to be located near St. Paul, but situation of the new Air Force base in that vicinity forced a change in plans. . Capitol Dome Werk Other action by the Board of Control Tuesday included author izing employment of an architect to prepare estimates of the cost of. repainting the Interior of the Capitol dome. The interior hasn't been painted since the Duiiaing was opened a 1939. , Also approved was purchase of a building Just off Capitol Street in the Capitol Mall from Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Sommer-et a cost of ,buildjpg-from, the jttate at a base $30X0. TheSommeri witfreWtftf rate of $212.50 a month. Truck Crash Fatal to Two THE DALLES. Ore. i Two men were killed and two others ininrorl Ttirsdav when a fully lnaried cattle truck and an auto mobile collided at an intersection half-mile east of The Dalles. The dead were identified as Rnhert Welborn and John Strick- ler, 51, both of The Dalles. Injured were Charles Sanders. 38. and Henry Tripplett, 40, also of The Dalles. AH were occupants of the mitnmnhile. The driver of the truck, Ronald Baker, 18, Hermiston, Ore., was not Injured. He was driving for Johns, Smith & Beamer, an Athena, Ore., firm. Both the dead were pinned under the truck when It tipped over on its side. Forty-five head of cattle in the truck scattered after the crash and ran off down the highway. Body of Girl Found in Bay NEWPORT BEACH. Calif. W The body of a little girl who had been missing since Sunday was found in Balboa- Bay Tuesday afternoon police reported. The body was sighted when it came to the surface of the bay. Police began an intensive search Monday- for- 5-yeaF-ld Barbara lilasier, who recently came to southern California from Waterloo, Iowa, with her father. All day yesterday lifeguards and officers dragged the bay. Police also con ducted a house-to-house search. When last seen Barbara was playing on. a sandy beach on the bay front in this resort area. Po lice chief John Upson said it was as if she "disappeared in thin air." Ho said there were at least 70 persons in the vicinity at the time.' Doctors to Honor IIoovTll'ii'fai.or 'PORTLAND iA Physicians of Oregon Friday will honor 'he lale Dr. Henry John Minlhorn, b country physician who broucht up former President Herbert Hoover. A portrait of Minlhorn. pninlAl by Oregon artist Sidney Bell, will be unveiled at tho Minlhorn home in Nrwhrrg, Ore. The home, where' llnmrr spent his boyhood years, is maintained by Kewbcrg is a. shrint, ' yevasrattoimg CdlombicBVCi Wrong Turn Blamed For Collision of Ships NEW YORK If! - A d I i p u t arose Tuesday ever blame far the July' 25 colllsloa betweea the Swedish motorship Stockholm and Ibe Ualiai liner Andrea Dorla. The Swedish-America Lis said the Dorla made a rerkleis Ml tura without warning Inte the m W the Meoknolm, The Italian Line replied thai it was a sharp, unslgnalled right tura by the Stockholm that caused, the crash. The opposing statements were preliminary t court actions la which blame for the colllsloa will ,,Imj. rffsrtl..ACiaB. MtjiMm.vrxJw -t!l)kJt.49!!inSJH!!. oi annari in carnage claims.. Fifty-two persons are dead or aarcounled for la the rolllsioa off Nalurket Light ii the Atlantic Ocean. The Dorla sank but more than -l.iot were rescued Jv one et the most spectacular operations Nasser Plea to U.N. Against Force Seen ,- " (Picture en page J.) LONDON (AP)-L'cvpt's President Nasser Tuesday niclit promised a statement of ."great worldwide importance" next Sunday. f Egyptian sources predicted lie) vcmild ask the U. N. Securi ty Council to step in and forbid any Western use of force against his seizure of the Suez Canal. Nasser has -called a news con ference in the main hall of his Revolution Council headquarters in Cairo at noon Sunday. That is just four days before the sched uled meeting of a 24-nation con ference called by the Western Big Three to discuss international con trol of the waterway. Ne Reply Nasser hat not. replied to Brit ain's Invitation to the conference proposed last week by Joint Brit ish, U. S. and French action. Nasser apparently is attempt ing to emphasize British and French military preparedness moves and to play down the con ciliatory side as expressed mainly by the I'nited States in promot- fflie 1hr LBilroWIKmrefrT In' Washington. U. S. Secretary of Defense Wilson said he hoped the Sues situation could be settled by a conference "rather than to wave .a big etick and threaten people." He called H "a relative ly small thing ... we can't flip up and down because of it. Families Evacuated But Britain went ahead with military measures in case she feels she has to use force to guar antee that the vital waterway re mains free of one-nation control. The evacuation of 900 women and children, families of British civil lans employed io maintain air bases in the Suez Canal zone since British troops were withdrawn six weeks ago, was ordered. Seme were being airlifted out, others were going by sea. 2 Policemen River Victims THE DALLES, Ore. IA1 Two city policemen drowned while boating in the Deschutes River Tuesday evening, about 12 miles east of here. The two, Patrolman Odell Nolan and Det. Sgt. James Eckton, both about 30,' were swept into swift current from a pool about 200 yards above a highway bridge. State police found a small boat which they sa.id the men appar ently had been using. An 'unidentified witness told officers he had seen the two policemen paddling kayak in the river. Sheriff's deputies and city police began dragcing the river for the bodies. The Deschutes empties into the Columbia River not far from the rcidonr scener Krkton's wife, who was on shore watching, said her husband and Nolan both were strong swimmers. F.cklon was the father of an infant son. Nolan was not married. Fair Weather Due to Remain Fair weather-will continue today and Thursday, except for . early morning cloudiness, McNary Field weathermen said. ,- High' lemperalure today Is ex pected In be about Ihe same as Tuesday's 84 and Ihe low tonight will he around H.'i, they said. DKMOS PICK FAMILIAR TI NE CHICAGO Democratic Head quarters said Tuesday it has rhns en an official campaign song, 'The Democralie March," The melody should he (airly f;imili.ir lo moM voters It's "The Yellow Rose of Texas." - la maritime history. The Stack holm was badly damaged, her bow smashed. t While there was fog la the area at the lime, the Swedish-America Line said the ranging lights f the twe ships were visible te each other whea they still were . .... two miles apart. The first ulright claim by either llne eoncernln the cause of the eollision came from G. H ti mer Lundberk, resident director ol (he Swedish-America a Line. He announced the filing 5 papers la federal court ine Italian i.ine, Gultrppe All, general manager here for the Italian Lines, said in a statement of reply thai the Swedish-American Line was" try ing "lo present the bent rase they ran for themselves." 'Gripes' Clear Obstacles on 12th Street Twelfth Street In the vicinity of the Capitol, declared "dangerous" and "almost Impassable" for pe destrians in complaints received by the city, was cleaned up con siderably Tuesday after City En gineer J. Harold Davis passed some of the gripes to the con tractor. Piles of sand and dirt and brok- en concrete were removed and the 4n4,IilaJl0Hy JMM smooth walks flush with curbs at street crossings. Davis . said . most of the com plaints came from stale workers who lived or parked their cars east of the street which is under going widening from the south city limits to Union Street. Traffic Summons Cause of Heart Attack, Man Says NEW YORK LB - A motorist filed a $300,000 claim against the city Tuesday on the ground that the 'way a traffic summons was given him aggravated a heart con dition and shortened his life ex pectancy. Eugene Douvan, 52, a real es tate man, contended patrolman Graham V. Fischer spent more than a half hour in issuing a tick et June 1 and that the policeman's manner was "dictatorial" and "malicious." Douvan said he was so upset he took approximately 20 nitro glycerin pills for his heart condi tion and had to go to a hospital. Mothers-tb-Be Practice on 'Model' Baby ... rr 1 if Instruction en care of babies, Red Cross mother-and-bsby "model" baby are mothers-to-be Mrs. Shirley Myers, Mrs. Fern Pedersen, Mrs. Nina lowry and instructor Mrs. Muriel Swerinyen, who demonstrates diapering technique. Clesses meet each Tuesday al 1:30 p.m. under auspices cf the Red Cron and Marion County Department f Health. .isjipiiosooins Motorist Can't Wait to Get on New Pavement FLINT, Mich. Police followed a car's tracks through 300 feet of fresh concrete to the home of Gordon Yelland,. 23. - Yelland admitted he drove around barricades and plowed through the newly laid , pave ment. "I was id a hurry to get home," he said., - Damage was estimated at" t-000.- Yelland was fined $107.50 or ordered to spend 90 days In jail for malicious destruction of 'property. Strikebound Firm's Offer Withdrawn Chances for a reconciliation be tween Oregon Pulp and Paper Company and its striking lumber division employes appeared to de cline Tuesday when it was an nounced the company's wage of fer to union- members 'had been withdrawn, t E. A. Linden, Salem division manager, said Tuesday night, "We have withdrawn our offer" of IS cents an hour to skilled workers and 10 cents to unskilled. The of fer was made in response to the Millmen Union's request for a flat 15-cent per hour raise for all labor classes. I'nlea Determined F. D. Van Sweringen, secretary of the union, appeared equally de termined not to compromise la bor's stand in the issue. "It's their (the company's) move," the union official declared, "we 11 be per fectly willing to talk to them, but we haven t heard a word." Asked about a rumor that the company may close the lumber di vision. Linden denied it ("I know nothing about any rumor."). Van Sweringen acknowledged having heard it. ' Ni Ceacera However, the union official ex pressed no concern over a possi ble company shutdown. The men wor otMr ocl" pianis. van Sweringen said, adding that 'there's plentyvif work to be found around here, and even more so if Oregon Pulp closes." There are 89 workers involved in the strike, 75 of whom belong to the Millmen's union. The others are chiefly teamsters and ware housemen who refuse to cross tht picket line. Age Waived on Warden's Job State Prison Warden Clarence T. Gladden was granted permission by the board ot control Tuesday to stay on his job. The law requires prison officers lo retire at 60 years of age, unless the board of control grants per mission to work beyond that age. The warden, who came here three years ago, is 62. The warden asked the board to grant the extension. This is one we 11 approve in a hurry," Gov. Elmo Smith, chair man of the board, said. mothers and problem fathers opened the weekly sessions ef the class Tuesday at Salem General Hospital. Gathered around a . Sabotage Blamed in Blast of 7 Dynamite , Trucks; Many Hurt CALI, Colombia (AP) Hundreds of persons were reported killed Tuesday in tremendous .explosions- and fires erupting from seven dynamite trucks 'parked in the heart of CalL The first official report called it political sabotage. - - The death. tull-still guesswork Tuesday niglit-wei eshV mated at fronV300 to- 1,(XX) or more. Many -ere injured: Call newspaper estimates put the death toll as high as 1,000 while searching for bod ies was far from complete. Funeral sen-ices for the vic- .!!Pi.,wp!?..l!.r.'ij!',.,r!.nK.''? iff the Roman" "CaTHoIic caiHeoVal. ' Authorities withheld casualty lists but it was reported bo fewer than 300 victims would be buried in one common grave. . Authoritiative sources. Judging from inquiries received from rel atives on the fate of residents in the blast and fire area.- figured the death toll at more than 500. Over 4 Injure More than 400 Injured, most ef them in serious condition, were under treatment in hospitals, clin ics and emergency hospitals. A series of blasts and spreading tires levelled eight square blocks of the city of about 215.000. Colombia's President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla was the authority for the first official casualty fig ures. ' He said more than one thousand are dead and injured. In a message to Gov. Alberto Gomes Arenas of the Valle de partment (state) the President said: "The government win not rest until the intellectual and material authors of this treacherous and criminal attempt receive exemp lary punishment." The message broadcast ever a nationwide network said the dead and Injured are mainly "sol diers and humble people." Political Maaeaveriag in residents message re ferred to complicated political maneuvering as aa obscure cause of the great blast. n conoemnea political pacts that he said 'try te re-esUblUhN,e-i1-.' - iu.-.ki i. rwrafTrwwru reigned some years ago." mis was a reference to a po litical agreement recently signed at Benidorm, Spain, by former President Alberto Lleras Camar go, Liberty party leader, sjnd for mer President Laureano Gomes, Conservative party leader. Damage from the exploaioa and its consequence was In uncounted millions of dollars. Among the building leveled were a barracks housing a com pany of army railway troops and the Cali barracks of Colombia's national police. Cm try la Mearalag The site of the explosion Itself was a large crater. The old rail way station In the city's center was destroyed, and all buildings around the station plaia were lev eled. TRAIN CRASH KILLS t VIENNA. Austria Ifl A Ciech train collision killed I persons and injured 29 at Prerov in Moravia, Radio Prague reported Tuesday. A passenger train en route from Banska Bystrica in eastern Slo vakia crashed with a freight train. 1- -p.-sr-i if . - ; -j , , ' - ) '-A looses . ,, , , . Trouble Area CAll, Colombia-Call (A) Ken f devastating explosion. At Poriovlej, tcuedor (ft) r hellion flares. (At Wire, photo). Revolt Flares In Province, Of Ecuador I oittto . r.,.A im tv fi revott r Tuesday under leadership ef rebellious military garrison and defeated political leaders. - The Ecuadoran military high command issued an ultimatum de manding unconditional surrender of the rebel garrison In the river city of Portoviejo, the provincial capital of 20.000. The garrison is manned by 200 troops. Jorge Aeosla, subsecretary el the interior, said the entire prov ince of Manavi, which has Mi.ooo population, was involved in the uprising. He indicated the govern ment was in control of the rest of this nation of three million. Activities in Quito, Ecuador's cap ital, were normal. The government imposed cen sorship on newspapers and out going dispatches. Guards were sent to the offices of news serv ices. Dispatches from Portoviejo, a trading center 150 mile southwest of Quito, said the garrison . re belled Monday night and pro claimed the garrison's command er. Lt. Col. Arturo Devils, civil and military chief of the prov ince. Dsvila called on the na tion's other armed forces to Jobs ' the revolution. Police Raid Elks Lottee BEAVERTON I - Police Chief Charles L. McCarthy seized quantity of what he laid was gambling equipment in a raid on the Beaverton Elks Lodge as organization of which he is a member. Seized in the Monday rsid wera - two slot machines, three punch- boards and an electric gambling clock. Russell Lee Enck, manager of the lodge, was charged with unlawful possession of gambling equipment. 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