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The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, Saptambor 21, 1954
PRICE 5c
No. 17,
Start
$35,260 Starts
Campaign With
All-Time High
' United Fund pledges of $33,
260, . an all-time high for a
first-day report, were turned
in at the first report luncheon
of the 1958 campaign Thurs
day. The report wax more than $8,
000 higher than last year's first
day figure in a campaign which
collected $303,000 in leu than
three weeks. This year's higher
goal, $227,800, will be collected
in twe weeks, if possible, offic
ials said.
Four chapters turned in com
plete returns at the luncheon in
Marion Hotel. They are Blue
Packers, Allstate Insurance Co.,
Newberry's and Stevens Equip
ment Co. Highest divisions were
utilities, with 40 per cent of its
$8,600 goal; general gifts, with
30 per cent of a $28,490 quota:
and mercantile, with 24 per cent
of $45,000. , ;
The second report lunch will
be this noon in Marion Hotel.
(Additional United Fund news
a Page 5).
Hubbard Boys
Caught After
Vandal Spree
Two Hubbard boys who used
a stolen car as a plow and a bull
dozer in an eventful, property
damaging spree, were in custody
of the county juvenile depart
ment Thursday because one of
them atuttered.
One of the boys told Sheriffs
Deputy Amos Shaw that they
atole the car from a Portland
atreet after playing hookey from
school Tuesday. They had hitch
hiked to Portland in search of
a jolt and decided to take the
IK! Pontiac when they couldn't
find any work.
After driving around aome he
Mid they drove it into a farm
er's plowed field where they
were "squirreling" around until
they hung it up on the roots of
a filbert tree they had bowled
over. They then borrowed a jack
from a neighbor, freed the car,
ran out of gas, borrowed some,
bought some more, got a job at a
- farm and abandoned the car In a
graveyard before returning home
Wednesday night. They also dam
aged the car going around a cor
ner too fast
The auto, registered to Don J
Breck of Vancouver, Wash., still
had some $1,500 in photographic
equipment in the back seat when
recovered Thursday, Shaw said.
The field and trees belonged to
Wayne Bridge, Hubbard Route 1,
Box 196 who estimated damage
to the filbert trees at $250.
Shaw said the pair was appre
hended after the man who loaned
the boys the jack reported one
of them atuttered. Shaw said he
recalled an earlier talk with a
boy fitting the description and
when contacted Thursday morn
ing the youth admitted the es
capade. Group Planning
Suez Association
ame Suae
LONDON, Sept. 10 w -The
planned association of Suez Canal
users is having name trouble.
The current proposal favors Co
operative Assn. of Sues Canal Us
ers. It seems to owe its origin to
French Premier Guy Mollet. Trou
ble Is, the initials CASCU sound
like a rather vulgar French slang
word that means, roughly,' pest.
Nortli Howell, Woodburn,
Salem Heights Win at Fair
lltlfUMi Nfwi Srrvlrt
WOODBRN, Sept. 20 Organiza
tions from North Howell, Salem
- Heights and Woodburn walked off
with top honors today as the North
Marion County Fair opened.
The Little Garden Club of Salem
Heights booth won top honors in
the expanded floral department.
WILBERT
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Strike
Hits Swift
Packers
25,000 Idle
In 37 Cities
Across Nation
(Picture on Wirephoto page)
CHICAGO, Sept. 20 (API
Operations of Swift tt Co., the
nations largest meat packer,
were crippled today tv a walk
out of 25,000 workers in .37
cities. The striking union de
scribed the strike as "very ef
j fective."
Swift normally produces about
oae-fifth of the nation's federally
inspected meat, but the single
company strike raised no prospect
of shortages. Industry sources said
Swift's nonstruck plants and other
packing houses could boost their
production to meet needs.
The Federal Mediation and Con
ciliation Service, which failed in
an eleventh-hour bid to avert the
walkout, set another meeting with
the disputing parties tor 10 a.m.
Monday.
Around-the-clock picket lines
were set up at most of the affected
plants. The two striking unions
the Amalgamated Meat Cutters
and Butcher Workmen, and the
Waited Packinghouse Workers-
said a check of their locals at mid
morning showed the walkoot was
"highly effective."
The unions, which have been
seeking a "substantial" pay boost
ol an undisclosed amount, and a
union shop, accused management
of making a "sheer sleight-of-hand"
wage offer.
Company spokesmen said they
had offered 22 cents an hour gen
eral wage boosts in a three-year
contract with 10 cents' effective at
once.- another 6 cents on the first
anniversary and another 6 cents
on the second.
Rocket Plane
X2 Flown to
126,0d0.Feet
WASHINGTON. Sept. 20 UP The
Air Force has flown the Bell X2
rocket plane the world's fastest
aircraft to an unprecedented al
titude of 128,000 feet.
Although Defense .Secretary Wil
son and Pentagon officials today-
declined to release the informa
tion, responsible sources else
where confirmed it.
Wilson told a news conference
today only that some very re
sponsible people had said that the
X2 had set new speed and altitude
records "and I think 1 could say
that it has flowp higher and faster
than any other aircraft."
Capt. Ken C. Kincheloe. a Ko
rean jet ace, reportedly (lew the
plane to an altitude of almost 24
miles at the Edwards Air Force
Base, Calif., flight test research
center, more than two weeks ago.
The previous known aircraft al
titude peak was reached by the
Bell X1A. a sister ship, at more
than 90.000 feet, or about 17 miles,
in 1954.
Air Force Lt. Col. Frank K.
i Pete) Everest Jr. flew the X to
a new speed mark of 1.900 miles
an hour almost three times the
speed of sound July 23.
COMMANDER NAMED
PORTLAND, Sept. 20 liPl-Har
lan W. Barnes of Portland today
was named national commander
of the Veterans of World War I,
an organization promoting a $100-a-month
pension for veterans of
that war.
North Howell's booth topped
eight entries in Home Extension
Unit competition, and Woodburn
Grange' won the blue ribbon for
community organization booths.
Fairfield Grange, probably ex
hibiting a booth at the fair for the
last time, was awarded second
place. The projected Air - Force
Naval base in that area will take
the land of most grange members
in that area.
The number and quality of farm
and garden products "surpasses
everything in the 15 year history
of the fair, without exaggeration."
Fair Secretary J. F. Lacey told
The Statesman as exhibits opened
to the public.
" The exhibits will continue on dis
play Friday from a.m. until late
evening and again Saturday. Free
entertainment at Settlemier Park
will be repeated Frida yat I p.m.
' Other major winners , today in
cluded: (
Flower cluba: 2nd, Woodburn
Garden Club: 3rd, South Hills Gar
den Club, Salem Heights; 4th,
Beauty and Utility Club, Scotta
Mills.
Extension Units: 2nd, Keizer;
3rd, Gervais.
Community booths: 3rd, North
Howell Grange; 4th, Hazel Green
Farm Bureau,
JJD
Egypt Studies Canal
Users Plan Closely
By WILTON WYNN
CAIRO, Sept M (Pt-Egypt-:
iana are taking a hard look at
the Bars Canal nsers' associa
tion, plan adVanced ia London
today and hinting it may be
close ta what might have been
acceptable.
But well informed sources
aaid they regarded chances of
acceptance slim now because ef
resentment aroused by the way
the plan was first presented.
These sources said the details
are still being studied. They
added that It seemed Secretary
of State Dulles now had made
it dear no .plan would be im
Twelve Nations Support
Dulles Proposal for Suez
LONDON, Sept. 20 (AP) - The free world's main sea
powers lined up tonight behind the modified Dulles plan to
win back from Egypt a share in control of the Suez Canal.
Twelve nations at the 18-power conference here announced
support for a Cooperative Assn. of Suez Canal Users (CASCU).
This is incorporated in the prop-am outlined by Secretary of
Estes Plans
Short Stop in
Salem Today
A tightening campaign schedule
will shorten today's Salem stop for
Democratic-Vice Presidential Can
didate" Rates Kefauver to IS min
utes and his arrival lime has been
set back to 2 p.m. at the Salem
Airport.
Sen. Kefauver, and his party of
some 40 including J. Howard Mc
Grath. . attorney general in the
Truman administration, will ar
rive at the airport from Klamath
Falls in a chartered VC4 airlines;.
He will leave by Linn County mo
tor, caravan for .Albany at 3;2S
p.m. after a 10-minute talk.
At Albany Kefauver is scheduled
to address a Democratic rally at
the Linn County Courthouse at 3
p.m. and de p a r t for Corvallis
where he speaks again at the Cor
vallis Hotel at 4:30 p.m. His eve
ning scheduled calls for a press
conference at Eugene and a speech
at Springfield.
State Senator Robert D. Holmes,
candidate for governor on the
Democratic ticket, will introduce
Kefauver for his airport talk. He
will be introduced at Corvallis by
Jason Lee, candidate for congress
man from the 1st District.
Atllai Critical
Of Ike's Talk
SILVER SPRING. Md.. Sept. 20
Adlai Stevenson accused Pres
ident Eisenhower tonight of telling
the public "only half the facts"
about world peace prospects and
of avoiding mention of "ominous
tensions'' in the Middle East and
Africa.
The Democratic presidential
nominee appeared before a cheer
ing crowd that overflowed a sub
urban Washington, D. C. high
school gymnasium. He took the oc
casion to answer Eisenhower's radio-TV
address last night.
Stevenson drew sharp issue with
Eisenhower's implied criticism of
his stand that the United States
should take, the lead in trying to
ban further hydrogen bomb tests
and should consider the possibility
of ending the draft.- (Add. details
an page .)
Sun Forecast
After Clouds
The weather picture will remain
about the same in the Salem area
today and Saturday with morning
cloudiness giving way to partial
afternoon sunniness, according to
McNary Field forecasters.
" Morning clouds brought .03 of an
inch of rain to the area Thursday.
High temperature reading, was 71
and today'a figure is expected to
be about the same, with a 'low to
night of around 46.
Forecast for the beaches is par
1 1 a 1 cloudiness through tonight,
with some showers in the Coast
Range.
Moderate fire danger ia expect
ed in Western and Central Oregon
through Friday. ,
NATIONAL LEAOUR
At Pituhunh a. Milwaukee I (10
Only fma schsduled,
AMERICA LEAGUE ,
gamae echadulad.
scajpee's LSody
posed Egypt. '" -
. They stated that If the nsers'
association plaa had first keen
presented as Dulles outlined It
in London yesterday and today,
Egyptian officials would have
at least given it careful consid
eration. They asserted British Prime
Minister Eden virtually killed
chances, for Egyptian accept
ances by the way he presented
the plaa to Parliament in Lon
doa Sept. 13. The term users'
association became synonymous
with sword rattling to the
Egyptian and Arab ' peoples,
they said.
State Dulles as being based on
justice with peace
The 12 include th. five countries
that control 75 per cent of the
world's shipping: Britain, Norway.
France, Italy and the United
States. The others are Australia,
New Zealand, Netherlands. West
Germany, Portugal, Spain and
Turkey.
No matter what decisions are
made here, final decisions still
rested with home governments of
all the 18 envoys. . .. .
Twin aims of the association
would be a working agreement
with Egypt for unrestricted pas
sage of members' ship and a
permanent settlement based on in
ternational control. The nations in
it would stand ready to coordinate
their maritime, economic and po
litical policies toward Egypt in
peaceful resistance to Egyptian
control.
Deadly Arrow
Impales Young
Store Clerk
LOS ANGELES. Sept. 20 u-
A mysterious archer, firing a
deadly crossbow from ambush,
shot a steel-tipped arrow through
a young liquor store clerk last
night.
William Edward Allen, 20. im
paled under the right shoulder by
the -16-inch feathered shaft, is in
critical condition.
The aniper's crossbow, a mod
ern, deer-hunting adaptation of the
medieval weapon, was found in
bushes across the alley at the
rear of the liquor store, along with
four more arrows.
The arrow was shot from about
50 feet away. It had sped through
an open rear door of the store as
Allen walked toward the front
with a case of beer.
Clutching the part of the shaft
that protruded from his chest, Al
len stumbled to the street and
called to a friend, George N. De
renia, 22, Maywood, to whom he
had been talking.
"Pull it out, George! Pull it
out!" -
Dcrchia told sheriff's deputies
he yanked the broad-tipped arrow
out and with it came a terrifying
gush of blood.
The crossbow was found cocked.
Sheriff's Sgt. Ray Hopkinson said
the crossbowman apparently had
intended to shoot Allen again but
panicked and fled.
Allen could offer no explanation
for the attack. His mother. Mrs.
Anna Allen, 47, said he had no
known enemies.
Hopkinson said the crossbow
was bought at a downtown sport
ing goods store.
Dorm Regulation
Not Too Strict
SAN MARCOS. Tex . Scot 20 I
Men students checking into Say
rrs Hal at Southwest Texas State
College today found this regula
tion in the book "Report your
overnight guest and have her aign
guest book."
Someone. forgot to rewrite the
regulations of the former girls'
dorm.
U.S. Men
By FRANK CARET . .
' AJV Scleac reporter
ATLANTIC CITY. N.J. Sept. 30
i-A perfume chemist said today
that "although he would never ad
mit it," the average t American
male uses MORE perfumed prod
ucts today than th ladies. .
Dr.- Oliver L. Marton,- chief per
fumer ot Shulton,,Inc. Clifton,
NJ reported tht men's pur
2 Saved
After Fish
Boat Sinks
83,000 Catch of
Tuna Lost 60 ;
Miles Offshore
NEWPORT, Ore, Sept. 20
(AP) Two tuna fishermen,
heading for home with about
a $3,000 catch, were snatched
from the sea far offshore today
after their hoat suddenly sank
from under them.
"1 . was scared, like anybody
else would be," said Dan Jackson,
26, crew man on the 40-foot-long
boat, Al Jr., after he and skip
per Dick Altree, 30, reached
shore aboard the boat that had
rescued them. Both are from
Reedsport, Ore.
. Altree and Jackson managed to
inflate a rubber raft, and apent
about two hours bobbing on I
choppy sea in the raft before day
break enabled the skipper of the
Santiam, A. L. Sibley, 46, New
port, to find them about to miles
offshore.
Heard Radio Call
Sibley, also had been fishing in
the tuna area 100 miles offshore,
heard the first distress call Al
tree and Jackson were able to get
out when their boat began rill
ing with water.
When he thought he was at the
place, he stopped and waited for
daybreak. The first light dis
closed the two,' paddling toward
him. . " .
The crowd waiting at the dock
for the rescued men. speculated
that a ea cock, had- .rusted away
and allowed the tea to pour into
the Al Jr.
Hard ta Steer
Altree aaid the first indication
of trouble was that the boat, car
rying about 11,000 pounds of .tuna,
became hard to steer. Then be
discovered the boat filling rapid
ly. "We were less than 30 feet away
from the boat as it went down,
stern first," Altree said.
In the crowd waiting at the dock
were Altree's wife and their
blonde, 3-year-old daughter, Mona,
and his mother.
They lost all their gear even
their shoes, which they took off in !
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iif raft
uituoiwivh aws juii'r" v..w
British Hang
CypriotTrio
NICOSIA, Cyprus, Friday, Sept.
21 W Three Greek Cypriot rebels
were hanged by British authori
ties, at Nicosia Central Prison to
day for violence and murder.
A police official came out from
behind the massive prison walls
and told reporters the executions
were carried out shortly before 2
a.m.
Long before the hour of the tri
ple hanging, Greek Cypriots went
on an islandwide strike.
There were new outbursts of
anti-British violence. PEKA. a
new underground organization,
said in leaflets the strike would
continue three days "in tribute to
three more heroes.
Construction at a royal air force
base at Akrotiri and a joint head
quarters for Middle East Forces
was slowed down by the strike.
The island's Greek and English
language newspapers were shut
down.
Today's Statesman
Pago Sac.
Benson Raports ... 32 ...IV
Business News . 32 .. IV
Classified 33-35....IV
Comes tho Dawn ... 4 ... I
Comics .........26 ...III
Crossword 37 ... IV
Editorials 4 I
Food 19-28....III
Home PanoramaM, 15.... (I
Markets ....
Obituaries
Radio-TV ....
Sports
Star Cazar
.32....IV
32...IV
It.... II
26... Ill
...29-31..IV
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Valley News
Wirephoto Pago ..26....III
Outstrip
chases of fragrance containing
preparations of various types total
three times as much as women
spend on "perfume, toilet water,
cologne, bath salts, bubble bath
and so forth." '
, He told the 130th national meet
ing of the .American Chemical
Society that American- men spend
more than a quarter of a billion
dollars yearly on before, during
and aiLer-ihavtag products alone
Corpse Found 15 Miles North of Salem
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Body identified at Dan C. Ott
shore of Willamette Rl?er, few feet from this ipet, ls miief north or Salenv Thursday.
Deputy Corner C. C Edwards ii openlBf bar to let, Una Sheriff Georfe . Miller (ettreme
left) try to identify remaiu. Others, from left, Marion Deputy Sheriffs Ernest Clark Jr
and Roy Lamb and State Policeman Lloyd Rlegef. (Statesman Photo by John, EricksenJ. n ,
Price
Battle
Area Plywood
PORTLAND. Sept. 20 -The
price of plywood was cut by one
ibii firm today to $67 a thousand
t iu j l . M
square iw, wurvru w w jwst-
square
World War II low.
One industry spokesman was
quoted by the Oregon Journal as
saying "this could turn into a real
, , . .
Grand Jury to Investigate
'Sex7 Parties in Silverton
A special grand Jury investigation into reports of three
Silverton area ?se-x" parties has been called for next Friday hy
District Attorney Xnncth E. J)rown and some 34 Marion ana
Clackamas County youths reportedly involved are being sub
poenaed to testify.
First reports of the parties came to light two weels ago
with the arrest of a 17-year-old
Silverton boy on a charge of
statutory rape of a 12-year-old
Oregon City girl. The youth is
being held in the Marion County
juvenile detention ward on the
charge and will be called to tes
tify. Sheriff's deputies began Thurs-i
day night serving warrants on the
34, ranging in age from 12 to 25
years. Most of those being sub
poenaed were listed from Silver
ton, but several Salem, Wood
burn, Mt. Angel, Molalla and
Oregon City youths were also in
cluded.
Preliminary investigation by
police has indicated three par
ties at Silverton area homes
where considerable j u v e n il e
drink and illicit sexual relations
reportedly took place.
According to deputies' reports
several other 12 and 13 year-old
srirls were also involved sexually
at the party though complaint
has been filed only in tne case oi
the Oregon City girl. Source of
the liquor furnished to underage
youths, responsibility for the all
night parties, and attempts to de
termine if other persons should
be prosecuted for statutory rape
will be the aim of the special
session of the grand jury.
A regular grand jury session
will meet next Thursday to con
sider several other pending cri
minal casea.
Ladies in
exclusive of what they spend for
such "big toiletry items as hai(
tonics and deodorants."-
He did not list the Liter figure,
but declared the shaving products
outlay alone is almost as much as
women spend on "the entire cos
metic market which includes all
creams, make-up- bases lipsticks,
rouge, mascara and even com
parts." , The volume of after-shaving
7.1.1 8
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(Inset), reeent Albany : Jail escapee wo' found Thursday neat
price battle before production cuts
back to market demand." Others
said layoffs "are imminent."
Georgia-Pacific, one of the larg
est plywood producers, today list
ed the $67 price for quarter-inch
D index grade, sanded on one side,
trade sources reported, touching
Ike Replies
To Complaints
Of Farmers
BOONE, Iowa. Sept. 10 (Al
President Eisenhower said tonight
that "by golly, we're doing all we
can" for the farmers.
Eisenhower made his remark in
formally as he and Mrs. Eisen
hower arrived here at the end of a
triumphal 60 mile auto ride
through Iowa farmlands after
their plane landed them at Des
Moines.
Arriving at the home of Mrs. Ei
senhower's uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. Joel Carlson here, the
Eisenhowers were greeted by a
cheering crowd that massed about
their automobile.
As the President and his wife
passed down a receiving line,
Marlow Williams, Boone 'lawyer
and chairman of the local arrange
ments committee, told the Presi
dent "The farmers are still complain
ing. Mr. President."
"By golly," the President ex
claimed, "we're doing all we can
for them." ,
President Eisenhower will make
a short talk Friday at the National
Plowing Contest at Newton, . Iowa.
Use of Perfumery
lotion alone $27,000,000 Is bigger
than the total perfume market.
and la 60 per cent as big as the
market for all toilet waters and
colognes, he declared.
However, he said, women still
account for about three-fourths of
the annual American total of 11,
300,000.000 apent on cosmetics,
toiletries and perfumes of all sorts
-ItemtSrhlch would Include Aon-
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Industry
off emergency ' meetings by oth
er companies. -
The price dropped from $90 a
thousand to $72 the past summer
Georgia-Pacific officials were
not available for comment
Slack Market .
Recently the . entire Pacific
Northwest lumber Industry has
complained of . a slack market,
blaming tight credit which they
said was curtailing housing con
struction. A decrease in the price of ply
wood in the mid-Willamette are
appeared in the offing Thursday. '
The speculation arose as ply
wood manufacturing plants in this
area arose to challenge a price cut
by Georgia Pacific Plywood Co.-
Managers of most of the larger
plants in this area indicated they
would probably "have to go along"
with price cuts of their own.
Declsiea Today
"We'll probably decide today at
our plant how much, if any, of an
adjustment to make," said Paul
Morgan, manager of Willamette
Valley Lumber Co. at Dallas.
Guy Hartle, manager of M it M
Woodworking Co. at Lyons, said
he had heard rumors of the Geor
gia Pacific price slash and specu
lated that the adjustment - would
probably be met by other manufacturers.
Government1 Acts to Break
Housing Credit Bottleneck
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 W-The
government today took four simul
taneous actions to break the bot
tleneck in credit for new homes,
including a cut in the down pay
ment on low-priced housesT
The White House announced the
actions, proposed some weeks ago
by Albert M. Cole, administrator
of the Housing and Home Finance
Agency. Cole said today the moves
had been held up in fear that the
relaxation "might push the infla
tionary spiral still Higher."
Cole predicted the bundle of new
orders will have "substantial ef
fect" in stimulating the lagging
housing industry.
perfumed as well as perfumed
products, '-" - t.
While he declared mat mere nas
been a "spectacular upswing" in
relatively recent years in the sale
of perfumed products to men, it's
really nothing new.
Since the davi of the Pharoahs,
he said,, "much more money has
been spent by men than women
for beautifying or spirit-lifting lux
uries" in th toiletry ueio.
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Seen in Idaho
By CHARLES IRELAND "
Valley Editor, Tha Statesman;
An ; Albany - fail breaker!
body was recovered from" this
Willamette River 15 miles .
north of Salem Thursday, 1 13
days. after-,, quartet of potm'
tiaj lifers smashed out of- Jb
Linn County jaiL t u : ""; H
Th remains were "definitely -
identified" as those of Dan Cong
don Ott, 45, Idanha, according to
Coroner Leston D. Howell.
The coroner said death was
eaused by drowning, apparently .
"very soon" sfter the four des
peradoes broke out ot jail.
Ther were no marks of vi
lence on Ott's body, .Howell said,
But ther was immediate specu '
lation that the escaped victim '
bad met with foul play.
Discovery of Ott 'a body, dove
tailed with th most recent re
port of the escapees. A week Sgo
three men who abandoned a stol
en car near Idaho Falls, Idaho,
were "positively identified" ther
as members of the Albany escapf
gang. ,,--. t '
N Hot Leads
Tbero had been no hot leads
regarding any of the escapees
since the Idaho trail petered out.
Ott's body was observed float
ing in th placid waters ot tht
Willamette at 10:30 a.m. Thurs-'
day by George W. Workman Jr,
Salem,' a farm worker. . ,
The spot was a remote on,
four miles from the nearest eoun -ty
road but only 100 yards from
a cultivated field. - - '
Workman was looking for a
place to fish when he saw Ott 'I
body bunched up in a shallow
spot near , tha shore.
Badly Decomposed
Deputy Coroner C C Edwards
said the body had.probablv tresr
floating for a week after .uiae
ing. The body was badly decom
posed. , ,. ;! , f "
Th body could have drifted
from . Albany, where ths escapa
took place; from Independence,
where the escape; ear. was aban
doned near the river: or from
any way point). ifr '
Ott was described as "by laf
the least dangerous of . the four
escapees" by Linn County Sher
iff George Miller.;
Took Medicine ! ' ( ' ' "
The dead man was the oldest
of the four and had been taking
medicine in jail. Three druggist a
bottles comprised most of th
effects that were found on his
body. "
"It was my opinion from th
start that the other three would
not stay with him." Sheriff Miller
said. - - i ' y
Identificatio was based in part
vn m sa rs via vi itu u-iva
a thumb that was previously Miss
ing from hia body, Miller saict,
am latnn mm fiffff fa jf
Ott had been ia th Linn jaU
while appealing a 13-year prison
sentence for breaking into 'an
Idanha dwelling last May. He tad
been sentenced to prison four
times before snd was facing habi
tual criminal proceedings - that
could have sent him up for life.
WOMEN VOTERS LEAD -
PORTLAND I Women lead
men in voter registration of both
parties in Multnomah County.
James W. Gleason, registrars!
elections reported today. . .
- In taw York,' the president 'of
a leading ' mortgage brokerage
firm called the steps "inflation .
ary." ' ..-'': ri.""'
The federal actions were these:
i 1. The. Federal Housing Admin
istration reduced from 7 per cent T
to S per cent the minimum down
payment on FHA-lnsured homes ,
Costing $9,000 or less. On mors ex
pensive houses the down payment
ia unchanged 7 . per cent of th
first $9,000 of the mortgage and 27
per cent on the rest.
3. The Federal National Mort
gage Assn. announced It will mak
advance ' commitments to banks .
and - savings-loan companies i to
purchase residential mortgages at
H per cent of their face value. It
has been buying at 93 per cent..
The FNMA buys mortgages to
provide the lenders with cash for
further real estate investment. ,
3. The Federal Horn Loan Bank
Board increased th amount of
money horn loan banks may lend
to the 4,400 savings and Loan in
stitutions affiliated with the Dans
board, v -i
4. The FNMA rtducad tha
amount ot Us common stock which
a lender must buy when h sells
mortgages to FNMA, The new re
quirement is 1 sex cent, instead
lot 1 fr cant. ' u
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