,The Weather
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Today's forecast! Partly
cloudy today and Monday
Scattered rhunderthewert this
aftomoon. High today 13,
low tonight 50.
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Tho Oragon Statesman, Salam, Oragon, Sunday, August 19, 1956
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Stassen Claims Nixon
In November; Bridges Counters With Opposing Poll
Vice President Given Warm Welcome,
LEIF KRK'KKOV
.SAM FRANClSCOV'i Vice
President Richard M. Nixon, sol
idly barked by major party lead
en for renomination, received a
2 Siletz Bay Boats
Capsize; 3 Drown
2 Rescued from Tidal Current
TAFT, Ore. AP)-A father and son and another sports
f inhuman drowned Saturday afternoon after two boats cap
sized in tracliermis tidal currents of Siletz Bay here. Two others
were rescued.
Dead were Boy Smith, shout 45, of nearby Cutler City;
his S-year-old son, Bonnie Smith, also of Cutler City, and
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Without so much as shifting in
their seats the American people
starting tomorrow will witness the
Republican national convention in
action in San Francisco. With the
closing of the Democratic show in
Chicago the networks loaded their
cameras and microphones and at
tendant gear, flew them and the
necessary personnel to the city by
tha Golden Gata to be ready tor
the GOP opening Monday.
Whether from aa entertainment
standpoint the Republican specta
cular will be as interesting as that
staged ay too Democrats is doubt
ful. WUh nominations pretty se
curely settled in advance, and
with aa harsh discord arising over
platform planks there is some ear
that the San Francisco event will
prove relatively dull for lack of
the suspense element. To offset
this, the managers no doubt will
contrive a sequence of events de
signed to hold attention. Confining
the sessions to four days will help.
W hat is sure to be the high mo
ment of the convention will be Pre
sident Eisenhower's speech of ac
ceptance on Thursday night.
Why is It that Mr. Eisenhower,
a general of the armies, with the
great honors accorded him as
leader of the victorious allies in
the greatest war in history, seeks
a second term, after two serious
illnesses? The answer is clear: he
thinks he owes this duty to the
American people. First, he is defi
nitely dedicated to preserving
world peace and at the same
time to sustaining the security of
iCeatisued Editorial Eage, 4)
Bees Resent
Invasion of
City Fireman
A Salem fireman was taken to
Salem General Hospital Saturday
afternoon for treatment of yellow
jacket stings after the aroused
wasps got inside his coveralls and
in his hair while he was cleaning
out a lot in West Salem. .
Joseph, Emmons, 2430 N. Church
St., told city first aidmen he was
becoming numb from the stings
when they picked him up about
12: IS p.m. Hospital attendants said
Emmons was treated and released.
Inmates Served
Creamed Lobster
1.0S ANGELES Ml Creamed
lobster that's what prisoners at
the city jail had for supper Friday
night. ,
The State Fish and Game
Commission had confiscated 1,000
pounds of illegal Mexican lobsters
, and turned it over to jail authori
ties. NORTHWEST LT.HC.i r.
At Salam IS. Trt-Cily
M Lowuton S-6, Eufena 0-8
At Spokane -, Yakima 0-11 . ,
PACIFIC COAST tCAOIH
At San FranriKO J. Portland S '
At Los Angeles 4, Vancouver I
At Sarrampnto 4, Hollywood 7
At San Dio S. Seattle 1
AMERICAN I.eACCR
At rhleaso 1, Detroit I -At
Cleveland S, Kanaaa Cllv t
At Baltimore 1-1. N.w York 4-S
At Boston 7, Washington I
NATIONAL l.r.AOt'R
At New York 1, Pitlhnrh t
At Philadelphia , Brooklyn S
At Cincinnati 1.1. Milwaukee 4
At St. Louis 1, Chlcaio S
warm welcome upon his arrival
on the Republican national con
vention ground Saturday.
But his foes opened a quick
firing of opposition and ' Nix-
t Wendell huhlman, about 40, De-
lake. Ore.
William Olsen. 18. Cutler City,
and George Davidson, 19, Taft!lsfd er rsults ' Profession
wero rescued. They and y o u ng
Smith were fishing in the chan
nel entrance as the tide started to
ebb. Their 16-foot outboard-powered
boat, caught in the rushing
current, overturned.
The elder Smjth and Kuhlman,
fishing nearby irv, another small
boat, went to their aid: This boat,
too, capsized as it attempted to
cross the bar.
The operator of a nearby moor
age, Russell Bailey, saw their
plight and launched a boat at i
Bailey and Larry Cummings of
Kernville picked up Davidson,
Olsen and the elder Smith. The
boys were unharmed but Smith
died not long after being pulled
from the water.
Tha Coast Guard searched for
the two missing but feared their
bodies had been sweet out to sea
A Coast Guard craft towad a third
boat to tha safety of Depoa Bay
after tha fisherman had tied vp
ta a buoy 100 yards offshore rather
than attempt tha dangerous bar
crossing here.
Grass Fire
Spreads to
Four Farms
Statesman Ntwt Srrrlra
S1LVERTON A rural grass
fire spread to four farms before
it was controled Saturday but
damage was confined largely to
one small building that was de
stroyed. Fire Chief Larry Carpenter
said an authorized grass fire on
the J. M. Doerfler farm raced out
of control and spread to the ad
jacent Ward Terry, John J. Doerf
ler and Margaret Doerfler farms.
The chief said most of the
fields Involved had been har
vested. A well heuse was burned
on the Margaret Doerfler farm.
Another blaze summoned Sil
verton firemen when a trash fire
in the yard of Mrs. Robert Mai
lory's residence spread to the
Arthur Dahl property, burned a
garden seat and got within 20
feet of a house Dahl is building,
firemen reported.
Dahl is building the house to
replace one that burned several
months sgo.
Showers, Clouds
Expected Today-
scattered thundershowers are
expected in the Salem area this
afternoon, according to tha Mc
Nary Field weather station.
Skies will be partly cloudy to
day, tonight. and Monday, the sta
tion said.
Predicted high today Is 85., the
low. tonight 50. High in Salem
Saturday was 90.
Personal Income Climbs in U.S.;
Oregon Still Low on West Coast
WASHINGTON 1 - Almost
everybody made more money last
year, the Commerce Department
reported Saturday.
It said the personal income of
Americans rose to new records in
all regions and in most states in
1955. North Dakota had the big
gest percentage gain over1954
16 per cent. "
In only four states did personal
income last year dip below 1954.
These were Iowa, down S per cent;
South Dakota, down 6 per cent:
Nebraska, down 4 per cent: and
Kansas, down less than one per
cent.
The department said these tosses
were "traceable to a reduced
volume of farm income." In these
stales as elsewhere, total non
farm income set an all time
record.
For tha country as whole, th
Would Lose 4,620,000 Votes
in San Francisco,
on assured, cheering backers - In
front of his hotel, "we'll be in
there fighting." . . ' ,',
Harold Stassen, Presidential as
sistant on leave to oppose Nixon,
told a press conference Nixon's
name on the ticket would cost an
overall loss of 4,620,000 in Presi
dent Eisenhower's total vote.
Minutes after Stassen gave his
report on a professional poll, Sen.l
Styles H. Bridges told reporters
of a scientific poll showing 54.3
per cent of the voters for an Ei-
StlLunj; Cancer Claims Earl Lalourette
Holds Conference
Nixon proceeded to a confer
ence with Sen William F. Know
land and Gov. Coodwin J. Knight
just before a caucus of the 70-vote
California delegation
The delegation is expected to
give endorsement to .Nixon.
Stassen, after giving what he
I nationwide poll, said Gov.
Christian A. Herter of Massachu
setts has-done the right thing "for
the time" by asking that his name
be kept out of the convention.
But Stassen also said, "if the
delegates think this thing through,
I know they will conclude that
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32. Stories on page 2 and 3.)
Gov. Herter is the best available
man to run with President Eisen
hower." Stassen said he wouldn't dis
cuss any alternates. "in a rapidly
changing situation."
In sum, Stassen's poll "fi
nanced by Republican leaders and
contributions " were:
Running with Nixon, President
Eisenhower would poll 37,430,000
vote and Adlai Stevenson, as
Democratic candidate, 31,530.000
of a base total of 60 million votes.
The poll estimated 7,280,000 un
committed. Weald Ge to Adlai
President Eisenhower, running
without Nixon, would poll 29,760,
000 and Stevenson 21.300,000.
Stassen said 2,340,000 would not
vote Republican with Nixon. Of
these 2,280,000 would go to Ste
venson. Stassen declared, there
fore, the overall loss, with Nix
on, would be 4,620,000 votes.
Senator Bridges said the poll he
reported, showing a 54.3 per cent
preference for an Ike-Nixon tick
et against 23.7 for Eisenhower
Herter, said it was paid for sole
ly by the Manchester, N.H. Un
ion Leader and the New Hamp
shire Sunday News
Fact Finding Agency
It was conducted by Robert Ma
hew Associates of Washington,
which Bridges called a nationally
known fact-finding agency.
Asked whether the Republican
convention would be as open on
Vice President as the Democra
tic session, Bridges replied:
"It will be as open in theory,
but not as evenly divided."
Bridges said he expected the anti-Nixon
forces to be badly beat
en. Saturday night Peter Kirby,
chairman of the Eisenhower-Her-ter
Committee of San Francisco
said the Bridges poll contained
"obvious inaccuracies."
Kirby said:
"The poll reports that 98 per
cent of the Connecticut voters
would vote for Eisenhower-Nixon.
Even the most extreme Republi
can would never claim such a
landslide in Connecticut. The poll
DELIGHT TO POLITICIANS
PLATFORM. Ohio un Atten
tion politicians: Looking for a
Platform for your party? Then
look toward this southern Ohio
community near Irnnton, And as
for a Plank in the Platform, why,
thats just across the Ohio River
Plank, Ky.
303 billion dollars in personal in
come for 1955 was 7 per cent
above the 1954 total.
North Dakota's spectacular ad-
WASHINGTON (ft Ore
gon's per capita . Income ad
vanced 4 per rent in the past
year, but it still was Jnwest of J
the three Pacific Coast states,
the U.S. Commerce Department
said Saturday.
The state's per capita figure
rose from 11,762 in 1954 to
SI.X34 In , 1955. Washington's
climbed one per rent from II,.
964 t (1,987. California's rose
S Iter cent from 12,179 to 12,
271. vance was attributed to a strong
recovery In the state's' farm in
come following several years of
Promises to 'Be
further, claims. 71 ' per' cent for
Eisenhower-Nixon in Illinois,, 83
per cent in Iowa, 74 per cent in
New , York, -74 per cent in Penn-
sylvania, 82 per cent in Rhode
Oregon Supreme
Court Judge Dies
nmii,A.u (ai; r.ari i..
Coui t justice, died in a hospital
The death was the result of June cancer.
Ho, had undergone lung
l.ooc! bamaritan nosptial several
proving until about a week ago,
Succumbs
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IARL LATOUBETTK
Victim ef Lug Cancer
British Accept
Truce Offer .
ByCypriots
NICOSIA, Cyprus ( Field
Marshal Sir John Harding, gov
ernor of Cyprus said Saturday
the Eoka underground's truce of
fer could provide the opportunity
for making a a fresh start in ne
gotiations to' settle the island's fu
ture. But indications were the British
Intended to test over a period of
two or more weeks the sincerity
of the peace declaration before
making any move to return Arch
bishop Makarios, Greek Cypriot
leader and the chief'negotiator be
fore he was exiled last March.
Harding's official spokesman
accepted the Eoka proclamation
of a "supsension of operations"
made in leaflets scattered through
out the Island Thursday as auth
entic The general public Britons
and Cypnots alike did so too
British authorities announced a
slight easing of security restric
tions in the island's major towns.
Addressing agriculture depart
ment officials, Harding said the
Eoka offer could prove a turning
point in the history of this British
ruled island "an opportunity to
make a fresh start."
Actor Buried in
'Dracula' Cloak
HOLLYWOOD un - Bela I.u
gosi was buried Saturday in the
black cloak he wore as the sinis
ter star in "Dracula" of the moV'
ies.
The widow, Hope Lininger, said
it was his wish that his body be
wrapped in the cloak. The Hungarian-born
actor died Thursday.
He was 74.
decline. A big increase in wheat
yields contributed to a 60 per cent
increase in North Dakota's n e t
farm incomer
Thirteen per cent increases in
total income were registered by
Alabama and Nevada, and gains
of , 11 'per cent were shown in
Maine, Mississippi, Georgia and
Florida.-;
Over the country as a whole,
per capita income amounted to
$1,847 in 1955, a 5 per cent in
crease from the previous year.
The range of per capita income
was wide, however. Delaware led
with $2,513 and Mississippi trailed
with 8!4.
Others in the top rank of per
Capita income were Connecticut,
2.499; Nevada $2,454: District of
Columbia, $2,324; New Jersey, $2.
311: California., $2,271: New York,
$2,263; and lUinois, $2,237.
in There Fishlm'
t Island, 78 per cent in Txas and
72 per cent in West Virginia. Sure-
ly even Sen. Bridges would not
claim this to be Sentiment of the
people in these states.
iatoureue, urcpon supreme
here Saturday at the age of 67.
surgery last March; He entered
weeks ago and had been in
his- physician reported, when a
I rapid decline began
The funeral will be held Tues
day afternoon in Oregon City, with
private committal to follow.
A lifelong Democrat and mem
ber of a prominent family, Lat
ourette was appointed to two
judgeships by Republican gover
nors. In 1931, Gov. A. W. Norblad
named him to the circuit bench
in Clackamas County. Nearly 20
years later Latourette was ap
pointed to the supreme court In
1950 by Douglas McKay, t he n
governor of Oregon.
Justice Latourette won election
to both offices following the orig
inal appointments.
Last January, judges and law
yers paid tribute to Justice Lat
ourette at a testimonial dinner in
West Linn Ex-Gov. Norblad was
among the speakers '
While at the University of Ore
gon he majored in economics and
gained regional fame as a football
quarterback. He -was graduated In
1912. studied law in his father's
office and completed a three-year
course in one year at the Univer
sity of Oregon school of law.
Admitted to the state bar in 1913,
he m.rrled Miss Ruth Sttiwer the
same year. .
(Addi details ea page I.)
Thieves Raid
Locker Room
Of Ball Club
Wallets, rings and watches- In
the locker room of the Salem
Senators were stolen during the
baseball game Saturday night at
Wllm tr,M
The players were at least part
ly reimbursed by a collection
taken V fans at the game. More
than $800 was contributed.
Value of the loss was not de
termined Saturday night, police
said, but many of the lost items
were irreplaceable because of
sentimental value.
The theft reportedly occurred
about 8:43 p.m. while the locket
attendant was out of the room
about three minutes, police said.
When he returned he found the
door barred from the inside and
had to gp outside the stand to
use s key on another door, they
said.
Hatfield ,to Serve
With Republican
Platform Group
State Sen. Mark Hatfield, dele
gate to the Republican national
convention starting Monday in San
Francisco, has been named to the
natural resources sub-committee
of the platform committee.
The 34-year-old former political
science professor and dean of men
at Willamette University, now can
didate for Oregon secretary of
state, also served on the GOP plat
form committee four years ago in
Chicago.
An Oregon legislator the past six
years, he has been a member of
the Senate committee on natural
resources, a subject expected to be
a major issue in Northwest elec
lions this fall.
Today's Statesman
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Crossword ITJi MrriV "
Editorials J... 4 I
Garden 24-25. ..III.
Home Pano
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Obituaries- 15... II-
Our Valley 7... I
Jedio-TV .... 32 ... IV
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Star Gazer . I
Valley News .6-7.. I
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Foam-Covered Wreckage of
fir if T"
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Wreckage of a Navy attack bomber rests against a rabbit house
on Liberty Road following a fiery crash Saturday nignt. mot
J. Playsns. parachuted to safety after the ship caught fire.
Paul Butler
AgainNamed
Demos Chief
CHICAGO 11 Two gTtjr-
haired, hard-working veterans
Paul M. Butler and James A. Fin
negan were chosen Saturday to
head up the Democratic m elec
tion campaign.
Tha slender Butler wss re-elect
ed chairman of the - Democratic
National Committee in a dramatic
scene that brought tears to his
eyes.
The stocky Finnegan was select
ed director of Adlai E Stevenson s
presidential campaign. .
They Joined Stevenson and his
running mate. Sen. Estes Kef an v-
er the quarter backs and tne
ball carriers on the rostrum
at a meeting of the national com
mittee. Butler told members of the
group that, in keeping with the
tradition of stepping aside after
the nominating convention, he was
offering his resignation.
"Nobody is indispensible," But
ler said. "I tender my resigna
tion." Stevenson praised Butler and
said he doesn't know anyone, "who
could have done a better Job.'
Butler, an intense man who
gave way to emotion when he of.
fered his resignation, sank down
in a chair and held a thin hand
over his misty eyes
Members of the national com-
mittee applauded Stevenson's re
quest that Butler remain chair
man.
A motion that he be unani
mously re-elected was adopted.
Finnegan, 49. was Democratic
chairman of Philadelphia from
1948 to 1952. During that time the
city elected its first Democratic
mavor in 67 years. He was secre
tarv of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania last fall when Stev
enson chose him to manage his
pre-convention campaign.
McCarthy Wolit
Be at Convention
Due to Bad Knee
WASHINGTON Wl - Associates!
of Sen. McCarthy R Wis said
Saturday he apparently will he un
able to attend the Republican
National Convention because of
trouble with a war-caused injury
to his left knee.
i McCarthy is in the U.S. Naval
Hospital in nearby Bethesdn, Md.,
for treatment and observation of
the injury he sulfered on Guadal
canal while helping to repair a
plane. Hospital officials have in
dicated his condition was not seri
ous but that surgery ight be
necessary to remove a steel
splinter which became buried in
the knee at the time of the mis
hap.' ' '
McCarthy himself could not be
reached fop comment but-associates
said they did not believe he
would be well enough to make the
trip to San Francisco.
ROOMING HOVSK Bl'RNS
PORTLAND iT) A 3 story
rooming house for men was dam
aged by fire here Saturday. A
number of tenants fled for safety
and a passer-by Identified ai
Anrly Hill of Oak drove rescued
an elderly man from the second
floor.
Divorced Woman
Assured Haircuts
DES MOINES unMri. Orpah
D. Hansen won a divorce in dis
trict court here Saturday along
with tha assurance that her for
mer husband wlU cut her hair
tree, whenever she needs it. The
free haircuts were agreed to in
a stipulation between Mrs. Han
sen and Hale E. Hansen, city
milk sanitarian.
Salem Girl, 14,
Dies in Pool
Near Sandy
SANDY I A 14-year-old Salem
girl died Saturday after falling
into a swimming pool at a church
camp near here.
The victim, Marilyn J. Robin
son, was sitting on the edge of a
pool at Trout Creek Camp oper
ated by the United Evangelical
Church of the Deaf.
Witnesses told police the girl
suddenly toppled into the water,
possibly after suffering a heart
siezure. Pulled from the pool the
girl failed to respond to artificial
respiration and a Sandy physician
pronounced her dead,
l Salem address of Miss Robin
son or her parents' names could
not be learned early Sunday morn
ing.) 2 Lads Injured
In Headon Crash
In Swimming Pool
Two boys received cuts in a
head-on collision Saturday evening
in Olinger Pool, first aidmen said.
Patrick Carl, 12, of 1350 N. 17th
St., received a chin cut, and Steph
en Beal, 9, of 1005 N. 13th St.,
received a head cut in the acci
dent which occurred about 6:30
p.m. as Patrick was diving and
Stephen was coming up from
under the water, first aidmen said,
Stephen was treated at Salem
General Hospital and released.
'Polite Bandit' Robs Argo
Hotel, Tics Up NightClcrk
A gentleman gunman swooped
in and out of Salem early Satur
day morning poiising lung enough
to scoop tip t"7 and two cartons of
cigarets from Hie Argo Hotel after
tying the night clerk to a bed.
Hill llalbert. 46. holel clerk, de
scribed the holdup man as "very
polite and apologetic," and a
looking "like a college student."
The incident occurred about 2:43
a.m., llalbert said, when a "neatly
dressed'' man in his mid-twenties
sporting horned-rimmed glasses
anil a crew Cut "t nterfd the holel
and registered ns James Stewart
of Salt' Lake City. Utah.
' "He paid for iiis room," llal
bert recalled, "then -went out to
get some luggage, returning with
a suitcase and a rainrnat over
his right arm and hand. As I
opened the door to his room 'on
the main floor next In the hotel
office i a .45 aulnmstir. was re-
venlerl
from beneath the rain-
coat."
Quietly Halbcrt was ordered to
Navy Bomber
J
on the C. M. Woods property
of me trail, ia. u-g-l uonata
. .
Loaded Truck
Topples, Kills
Young Driver
luitaau Maws Bervtee
WOODBURN-A M-year-eld
Woodburn youth was killed Satur
day afternoon when the truck he
was driving rolled over on the
Woodburn-Molalla road near Pud
ding River bridge.
Fred Charles Bftyeu Jr Route
1, Box !. Woodburn, died
instantly when his truck "1
failH Ia makff a etirvat aT
and plunged off the road, the Mar
ion County coroner's office re
ported, .
State police aald the truck, load
ed with chip wood fuel, landed upside-down.
The cab was smashed
down level with the bed of the
truck, officers said. The accident
occurred about 12: IS p.m.
Bilyeu's death raised the 1956
Marion County traffic toll to 14. It
was the 17th fatal traffic accident
in the Marion-Polk County area
this year.
The body was taken to the Ringo
Cornwell funeral home in Wood-
burn.
Plane Crash
Chaos Brings
Tito Mishaps
Two minor mishaps were report
ed in the confusion following the
crash of a Navy plane Saturday
night in South Salem.
Lloyd J. McFarlane, 17S Charles
Ave., was treated at Salem Mem
orial Hospital for an arm cut he
said he received in a fall while
running to the crash from his
nearby home.
The other, a lost flashlight, was
reported by the person who hss
the flashlight but cannot find the
owner. Ray J. Greene, 116 K.
Browning Ave., who saw the crash
from his nearby home, said he
borrowed the light from a boy
scout 10 or II years old who was
one of the first on the scene with
a Boy -Scout first aid kit.
enter and "get on the bed," where
his wrists were lied to the head'
hoard with two pieces of clothes
line taken from the robber's suit'
case. Then, taking the clerk's keys
and. wallet, the gunman went to
the holel cash drawer where he
found $ti2 In rash. He 'also picked
up two cartons of cigarets snd t'
moved the $15 Halbert had In his
wallet.
Several times during'the holdup
the man apologized for what he
was doing, llalbert said.
'-Picking ui his belongings. Hit
thief told Halbcrt he would be
right back. "Then he switched off
the light and slipped out rocking
the door behind him," Halbert
said. '
t'nable In free himself, Halbert's
yells eventually woke a man in the
next room, who notified hotel man
ager Charles Dobbins and city po
lice. Response from the police was
so prompt, "they arrived In lime
In rin the untying," Halbcrt
praised.
Pilot
'Chutes
Safely
Stricken Craft
Barely Misses
Three Houses
By LAKIT HOBAIT
BUff Writer, The Statesaua
A
(laming Navy attack
bomber craslw
lied in South Sa
Irm about 8:50 p.m. Saturday
night narrowly missing three)
homes. ; "
The pilot. Lt ( l.) Donald S.
Playans, 854 1 N. . Portsmouth
Ave., Portland, parachuted to
safety. He was taken to Salem
Memorial Hospital for treatment
of wrist and fare barns.
Playans was circling McNsir
Field at 3.500 feet awaiting landing
instructions whea fire broke out
in the single-engine plane fol
lowed by an explosion, a Naval
Air Reserve official said.
Playans apparently attempted
to bead the abip away from resi
dential areas and then Jumped,
the spokesman reported. Tha
pilot was picked up near Boyce'a
Sanitarium on Sunnyside Road
about 4 miles south of Salem.
Playans was scheduled to re maim '.
at the hospital overnight for eb '
servation.
Near Junction
The blazing shin smashed into'
the ground Mar the Junction of
Ewald Avenue and Liberty Road
and directly between two Salem
homes. It narrowly missed a third
house as It settled to tha ground.
Hundreds taw the llre-eitem
ship ea route to the ground and
hundreds more poured to tha
scene of the crash to view the de
struction. City and Navy firefighters es
tinguiihed the flames.
The plane smashed into aa
abandoned rabbit bouse of C H.
Woods, 3880 Liberty Road, about
30 feet from the couple's house.
The engine of the craft waa
throws shout 200 feet beyond the
fuselage. t
Misses Heme
Home of Sterling MeAlplne,
3B7S Senea Ave., is located about
73 feet from the crash site. The
plane passed within about 30 feet
of the Claude Henderson rest- .
dence, 210 Ewald Ave., just be
fore it settled to earth.
"I heard the plane but didn't
look out," Mrs. Woods said.
There waa an explosion and a
terrible eoncussion which shook
the house. I ran In toward tha
kitchen and saw flames out the
window. My husband ran outside
and I ran to telephone but of
course it was dead."
A five-foot section of aileron waa
found leaning against a wall of the
woods house in the backyard. An
other heavier section of the air
craft was lying in the yard.
Mrs. McAIpine was in the living
room of her home Just prior to the
crash.
Cemlag la Door
'It looked like it was coming la
the front door." she said. "It waa
a miracle it didn t hit the house."
Janet McAIpine first saw tha
plane from her bedroom window.
"The plane looked like a big ball
of flames. It looked like it headed
south and then circled around."
Janet rushed to the living room
to tell her parents. "I thought she
was just joking and then my wife
began to scream," McAIpine said.
I wasn t really aware of what was
happening until I saw a flash of
light."
Slid 2N Feet
The Navy plane hit approxi
mately SO feet from the Henderson
home snd slid about 2oq feet, clear
ing out srruo trees in its pain.
Small pieces of wreckage were
found near the steps of the Hender
son residence.
A Salem couple and their daugh
ter, drinking after-dinner colfea in
their yard, saw the blating plane
and watched the pilot Jump.
"We saw the plane catch fire
nd heard an explosion," Mrs.
Charles Taylor, 745 WUdwind Dr,
said. We thought we saw a para
chute. 'We were watching ana Just
praying that somebody would get
out, The plane turned and looked
like it was coming right for tne
house."
Mrs. Walter W. Wellard, 170
Charles St., said the saw the plane
circle twice after the flames broke
out. She. too, was afraid it was
heading directly for her house as
it descended from the east.
The downed bomber knocked out
lights and - telephone - service - tit "
parts of the South Salem area for
a short time Saturday night,
Naval Air Reserve said Playans'
burns occurred on his wrists be
tween his jacket cuffs and his
flight gloves and on his face
where he was not protected by his
helmet.
- The AdS attack bomber, a World -War
II plane, was on a routine
training flight. Playans wss the
lone occupant. When In service the
ship carries a crew of foot,
,