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wojrotos Umg Russian Tanks Move On Rebel Stronghold BUDAPEST, Hungary, Nov. 2 (AP)- Russian tanks and troops encircled Budapest today and swept west in an appar ent drive to seal off Hungary ! frontier ,with Austria. They blocked a highway six mile's from the Austrian border. Premier Imre Nagy senrHthree notes'to the Soviet Embassy protesting the rising Russian threat to .this nation ravaged by DTT 3MD0a r-lt -M. -tempting ,4a -aU - Adlal Stevenson's address Thursday niht political, an effort to Jalvage as much gain' as he can out of the" arresting - developments i.broad. It would be better, how ever -to - examine -hi statements jnyei; how valid they are. He asserts that American policy or lack of policy in the Middle jpartor a regrouping in Hungary. Last has resulted 1 two Commu-lxhe Soviet forces began streaming nist victories, first, the establish- int0 Hungary two days ago. L ment of Russian influence in the; va,v DrotesteLthaLtheSoi;iet Middle East. the-giratT)rC7ai's Tor troops still were entering Hungary, centuries: and second, the break- Nagv informed U. N. Secretary down of the western alliance. General Day Hammarskjold the As for the "first, Stevenson ig- Russians were confiscating rail mires one fact: Modern Russia, way lines, railway stations and He is copying the Republican argu- 'jignal installations, l.. ment of 1952 Twhich thi column 'Arnrared Trains -i never supported i that the United; Nationalist sources reported two 'States 'through its inept or Com-'Soviet armored tfains crossed the --munist ridden stale department Hungarian frontier at Zahonj .Jri- "lost" China to the Beds. That day rfiorning.it This is' a rail point argument ignored the fact of ag- at the Hungarian-Russian border, p.essive Russia and Its dynamic - The Russians took over this rail ideology. i . j line leading from Zahony to Nyiri- Ever since the Truman doctrine i ghaza, 30 miles to the south, of 1947, American policy has been There were unconfirmed reports t ) contain Russia and Russian of attacks on Hungarian towns. Communism. It has met with auc cess in some areas, defeats in others. Our methods were economic (Greece and Turkey and other' countries', . and military when war was forced as in Korea. Modern Russia as a fact iust can not be ignored in the Middle Last or -elsewhere, .'- - - The only penetration which Rus- sia has made in the Middle East was its supply of arms to Egypt.; . We could hav prevented that MP,,nm!n Jn vvsf furnishing arms foTEgvpt which i rCIIlICI lluHy Secretary Dulles refused to do. , . V' Secretary Does Mr. Stevenson think we should have furnished the arms, giving Egypt the means to attack Israel? As for the breakdown of the west ern alliance, that could hare been (Caatlnnrd edltarlat page, 4.) U-S. Shuts Off ArmsFlowto Egypv WASHI.NGT0." urwThe United States has banned all weapons shipments to Israel and Egypt Up to now, it has been -allowing small amounts to go to Israeli, and very little to Egypt. The United States also has blocked development of new eco nomic aid programs for these two warring countries, as well as neighboring Syria and Jordan. The State Department an nounced these twin steps today leu than 10 hours after the United Na tions Assembly urgently appealed for an end to the (jve-day-old fight ing in the Mideast, Press officer Lincoln White said . the arms ban was in keeping with an American-sponsored resolution calling for all countries to "re frain 'from introducing military goods in the area." Top government officials were reported split over whether to be gin a program of economic pres sure against Britain and France for their attack on Egypt. Israel Blizzard Whips Plains Area; Traffic Snarled DENVER. Nov. 2 I A blrz- xard thrashed the western plains r today. ItgAj-fflnablftJoritl least one death and (seven per sons were missing in western Neb raska.. - , ' .- The atorm, worst fince 1949 and first big one of the season, struck Colorado. ,Wyoming and parts of Kansas and Nebraska, It closed schools,! snarled traffic and im pelled stranded motorists as it Family Gar : ByWallyFalk "I ad a flat tire, dear, t H should be okay, I dreve all the way boms la lew gear." ' JUJi revolution. . Nagy 'also sent a plea to the United Nations urging quick action on his remiest that the U.-N. guarantee ,. Hungary's Inde pendence. Austrian army , officers at the border said the frontier was sealed once more. No tfavelers were per mitted to cross from either side. Russian tanks were seen moving toward Gyoer, rebel headquarters in western Hungary, the officers, said. Takea Rfllways Nagy charged Soviet" Troup fiad occupied railway installations and encircled the Hungarian capital. He protested the movement of So viet troops westward from Buda pest toward Austria. I The Soviet ambassador told the government Thursday theSoriet In Budapest, several Wirsts of machine gun fire were heard. Trigger-happy guerrillas were be lieved to be celebrating victory. A report from Szolnok, 60 miles east of Budapest on the Tista Riv er, said large units of Soviet tanks and armored cars were moving ;west. About 2O0 tanks were report-1 ed aug in around hiolnok, where Hungarians were in control. Asks U.IN. Aid Ill Invasion "UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.. Nov. 2 US Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy appealed to the U.N. tonight to order negotiations immediately on the withdrawal of ail Russian troops from Hungary. - The appeal was the second' re ceived here in two days from the hard-pressed leader who is trying to break away from Moscow domi nation .andestablishthe .neutrality of his country The message was made public just as the U.N. Security Council was ending a three-hour debate on tne Hungariarraitti ported once again that new Soviet troop units had crossed into Hun gary and said they were occupy ing vital railway lines. The message, addressed 4o the president of the Security Council, contained -this appeal "I request your excellency to call upon the great powers to rec ognize the neutrality of Hungary and ask the Security Council to instruct the Soviet and Hungarian governments to start the ncgotia uons on troop withdrawals im mediately. Hungary Reports Polio Epidemic, Pleads for Help MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 2 ( Radio Free Europe reported to night its monitors have picked up a plea from a Hungarian broad casting statioQfor aid for polio victims. - - . headed into the Dakotas, Winds up to 75 miles an hour heap? dLajmiu Jniiu-drifta. , three and four feet deep. Scores of snow plows were immobilized. Many places reported snow more than a foot deep on the level. Visibility dropped to zero in some spots and scores of high ways were closed. , The Colorado highway patrol said all highways east of Denver were barred to traffic. Hundreds of cars were stalled or in ditches. However, the patrol said aU mo torists had reached farm homes or walked to small communities; J. Lee Belcher, 29, a lineman for the Lamar, Colo., power com pany, was electrocuted while re pairing a - wire felled by the storm, ."' . .. .. A bus en route to Lamar from Amarillo, Tex., was stranded for several hours but reached the city late today. 'The driver and 20 per sons aboard suffered no discom forts. ' t; Cheyenne, Wyoming's capital, was virtually an isolated . city as drifts were stacked up along high ways by winds which hit 70 m.p.h. Extreme cold did not accom pany the -blizzard ' a break for the heavy cattle population. Tem perature in Denver was 29. It had not fallen below 2S in western Nebraska.. . ... . . . , ' 1 106th Year A 1 Angio Victorious Cv o r; - h;-l-3'' fry ' J. v."' South Salem High School fans scream thrif ipproval at the final gun of Fri day night i traditional "civil war" football game between South and North Salem high schools. The South Salem Saxons handed their cross-town Armed Bandit Firm of $325" By JERRY STONE ' .. .Staff Writer. The Statrsmaa A bandit held up and robbed a downtown- women - apparel store of about $325 just prior to closing time Friday niRht. It was the sec- jrmwl rnhhery in the City in less than a week. The robber, described as "dark hairefi and 35 to 40," pulled the stickup at the Cover Girl, 190 N. Liberty St., after entering the firm about 8:50 p.m. Some J250 of the loot was in cash, the rest in checks. Mrs. . Aleck Cohen, partner in the store,' told city police she was ordered to clean out a cash register "but take only the bills." She said the robber, pointed something at her with a hand held in a topcoat pocket, but at no time actually displayed a gun. Also in the store at time of the holdup was the firm's other part ner, Mrs. Edna Phelps. There were no customers present. Mrs. Cohen told police the bandit left by the front door after warn ing her to "wait five minutes." He was last seen turning a corner and walking east on Court Street. Last Saturday night an undis closed but 'apparently small amount of money was taken in a holdup at tlLeSafewayJtQreall 13th and Center streets. Police were not Inclined to link the two stickups because descriptions did not match. (Add. details page 2.) POLICE GET SHOCK TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 2 UTh Police got a shock when they checked Tel Aviv's air raid shel ters to be sure theyf were useable in the current atrife with Egypt. They found locks had been broken and4 shelters used as warehouses for smuggled goods, narcotics dens and hideouts for fugitive criminals. ' - 1,500 U.S. Citizens Evacuated From Middle East Battle Area WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 Wl-The Navy, with a "hearty well done, today Saluted the successful evacu ation of more than 1,500 .Ameri cans from Alexandria, Egypt. The evacuation was reported by Capt. F. W. Laing, commanding the special relief unit that steamed Into Alexandria harbor to remove Americans to safety. Laing cleared the harbor with hia passengers at 12:59 p.m. EST and reported this in a one-word 1 message: Outside. Vice Adm. Charles R. Brown, commanding tha U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, responded: . "Your one-word message is a liydlapesil:, Prove to.rAiuistirDaini u -' - - 2 SECTIONS 14 PAGES - raencii i roops jroisea to -mi Saxon Fans Scream Approval Adlai Outlines U.S. Policy ' Nixon Calls Stevenson Attack' 'Big' Lie' HERSHEY. Pa., Nov. 2 Vice President Nixon asserted tonight that the United Nations already had given "the rie"r by Wrwhelm" ing vote, to an attack made by Adtat-Stevenson- on President Ei senhower's foreign policy with re spect to the Middle East crisis. iixomnade the assertion in a hard-hitting speech prepared for a. nationwide television and radio broadcast (CBS) and billed in ad vance by the White House as a reply to a , speech last night by the Democratic presidential nominee. 'Doubt Removed' "If there was ever, any - doubt that Mr. Stevenson lacked the knowledge, the judgment and the experience to be president of the United States, he removed it by his speech last night on the Mid dle East situation," Nixon said. "He charged that the Eisenhow er foreign policy is an abysmal and catastrophic failure. I have no quarrel with his adjectives but he should have applied them to his own performance rather than to. the President's," Nixon said. . Nixon said Stevenson's state ments were "simply the wild swings of a desperate man who knows he is going down to certain defeat." " , Area Clouds On Forecast Cloudiness is the outlook in the Salem area today but further rain probably will hold off until Sunday, acctirding-to-McNary- Field-forecasters. Temperatures will climb slightly to weekend highs of around 56 and a night-time low of about 44. Motorists have been warned by the State Highway Department to carry chains in mountain passes nr the wake of the recent general snowfall. classic, .Your successful evacua tion of over 1,500 without fuss or feathers is an outstanding accom plishment. A hearty well done." There were no amplifying de tails here. However, news dis patches from Cairo said bomb at tacks hit Alexandria after a mo tor convoy of some 500 Americans reached -there from Cairo. Dis patches said no bombs fell near the harhor. Also, It was reported from Cairo that U.S. Marines at- Alexandria shepherded the Americans under protective. ' concrete dockside cov ering and later helped them load baggage into landing craft for em- - 1 1 - . fho Oregon 1 m feat previously Photo by John Advertising AwardGiven- (Picture on page 5.) ' An award for the best advertis ing campaign developed by a news paper salesman in the Pacific Northwest was given Friday in Sa lem to Robert Clark, Longview Daily News, Wash. It was presented at a meeting of the Pacific Northwest Newspa per Advertising Association after judging a display of retail ads on view in the Hotel Marion. The Tacoma News Tribune re ceived honors for the best promo tion idea; Vancouver Sun for best color ads, and Oregon Journal, Portland, for best overall exhibit. Over 50 advertising executives representing 30 daily newspapers in the Northwest are attending the conference which ends today. On Friday they heard Gerry Frank; manager of Salem's Meier & Frank Store emphasize the need for newspaper advertising depart ments and retail merchants to work together, to save downtown shopping areas. Later, Ross Johnson, classified! manager of the Eugene Register Guard, explained how classified advertisements solved the prob lems of. newspaper readers. (Add. details .a page S.) MAROONED MEN GET FOOD CASCADE. Idaho. Nov. 2 UWA x-.t .ra j.Tj-frj-.;r.-;1 shoes to stranded , miners and hunters in the back country east of here .today. But the hunters decided to wait until a road is opened into : the, ' snowbound country Saturday before return ing' to civilization. barkation on three U.S. Navy transports. The Navy in Washington said Americans evacuated from Alex andriaand from 'Haifa in Israel will be transferred to the transport-Gen. Alexander M. Patch in the vicinity of Suda Bay, Crete, and then be taken to Naples, Italy. The Navy said Americans flown from various Middle East snots to Athena, Greece, were being flown on to Rome. The State Department, In a sep arate set of figures, said , that 2.857 Americans have been evacu ated from the Middle East, and that some 2,500 remain. 7 ' Newspape , - - - Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, November 3, 1956 TTh as Gun Ends 'Civil War' rivals a decisive 35 to 0 defeat worst of the was 31-7 In 1954. (Add. details Ericksen). for Mideast DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 2 l-Ad-lai E. Stevenson tonight- came up with a four-point plan that he said ""ardetermined "American govern ment could" use "to stop the war and strike a blow for peace" in the Middle East. "Whatever the provocation," Mevenson said aggression can n6l07iEtT-;be-4elCTatd-ijjL tne atomic age. Stevenson flew here today after making a noon-day speech in Cleveland. And in each the Democratic presidential candidate bore down heavily on what he evidently be lieves to be the major issue of the campaign: How well has President Eisen hower handled this nation's for eign policy? Incredible. Blunders Stevenson said what he calls "the incredible blunders" of the Eisenhower administration could be solved if the "grand alliance upon which the fate of all free men depends" is restored. Then he laid down this plan for peace: "First, security must be re stored along the frontiers . dividing Israel from her neighbors. "Second, we should insist that passage of ships through the Suez Canal is a matter of international concern and that no single coun try, and especially no singleTnanr can wilfully sever the lifeline of Europe and Asia. Resettlement Problem "Third, we must launch an all out attack in concert with like minded nations on the problem of resettling the 900,000 Arab refu gees who now live in misery and hopelessness. -rtmrtn-. we- must 'in concert with other nations present a pro gram to improve economic condi tions in the Middle East for the benefit of the, people and not just to serve political interests." Total -Salem Gity Area Exceeds 10 Square Miles Salem's total city area has just passed the 10 square mile size, re ports C, A. McClure, engineer for Salem Planning Commission. He said the recent annexation of 20,88 acres of land in residential use east of Lansing Avenue and south of Silverton Road brought the total city area to 10.01 square miles. Of this total, he added, 332 acres (about a half; square mile) is wa ter area, , mainly the Willamette River. BIG OIL SALe'tOLD ' CALGARY (CP) - Sinclair Oil and gas properties and related Canadian and U. S. assets of Southern Production Co. incorpor ated .for about ' lins.ooo.OOO, Sin clair announced Friday. ' - - - - .1 tmmxt 1 three-year-old series.. Wont de on sports pages).. (Statesman ' . UF Campaign Misses Coal By 9 Per Cent Salems United Fund drive ended officially-Friday with-$205,134 re ported. The figure was rune per cent of this year's $227300 goal The drive was concluded at a final report luncheon in the -Holel Marion attended by -several hun dred volunteer workers. . - Campaign rhairmart.William H, Hammond, and drive president Herbert E. Barker, both expressed optimism that additional pledges will be turned in. Hammond also expressed his thanks to the 1,500 people who gave their time to the United Fund. Guest speaker yesterday was Jos eph A. H. -Dodd, who has been active in Salem's community af fairs for many years. He said the dollars needed to make the drive a success must be found. "How can you tell the Catholic Charities, Boy Scouts, Salvation Army and other groups that they must shave their budget?" he asked. "You can't because you have to help others and give back to the community what you re ceive. Otherwise," he added, "you first lose your friends and then you lose everything." (Add. details on page S.) 'Your Radioactive Station' Too Much ROSEBURG, Nov. 2 tfl - A listender sent a postcard to radio station KR.N'R,- whose slogan is "your redioactive station in Rose- burg." The card said: "My kids are all getting sick and we wonder if your radioactive DroaJcistTng is Hoing it. Please stop sending Thanks." out gamma rays. Linfield, OCE McMINNVlLLE, Nov. 2 Se lection of Evelyn Andrus, Salem, as Linfield College Homecoming queen wis an nounced bera tonight. . """" ,U.WPII'I)II1III II I' IJ III .IU IM ..:;:.;,.,.., .- y x - V it A 'v i , M mmmmm PRICE 5 TT i Israel Says Gaza? Sinai Fights Won ,L.uiNLUi, aaturaay, rsov. o At) Jintisn ana French troops were poised today to jump into Egypt The French Defense Ministry announced British French air forces" have "'Completed softening-up attacks. on kgypt and said all is set inet said late last night:" "A few hours from now Brit ish and French troops will be occupying territory in the canal zone. . - Egypt already has been in vaded and beaten in Sinai by Is raeL-Gaza, headquarter of the Egyptian-held Gaia strip, fell to Israeli forces. ... Israel claims control of all the Gaza strip and the Sinai Peninsula up to points within 10 miles or the Suez Canal. But a menace to Israel loomed to the east Radio Israel said troops are moving into neighboring Jordan from both Iraq and Syria. Ta Defy U.N. . An authoritative source said Bri tain and France wilt defy the United Nations Assembly's de mand of Friday for an immediate cease-fire. ; - Eden is expected to tell Parlia ment today that British and French troops will occupy the Sues Canal zone until the U.N. estab lishes an international police force to keep peace in the Middle East. The Prime Minister is making a TV address to the British people tonight. '. :. - British French headquarters on Cyprus announced Allied air raids smashing airfields and destroying planes had dealt a crippling blow" to the Egyptian air force. 'Agents t Peace' The British radio on Cyprus said British-French military forces are "nol precursers of punishment of occupation" but "agents of peace bent on putting an end to hostilities and safeguarding tne canal from the consequences of a conflict provoked by Nasser. The Egyptians claimed a second time that the Suez Canal had been blocked this time by the sinking of a fishing boat at its southern entrance. But British-French headquarters said it was the Egyptians who were trying to block the canal. No Time Given . --r- The communique did not- state whether these alleged Egyptian measures actuallyTiadTnosed-the canal. Sources in London, however, said the canai definitely is closed. The French Defense Ministry said preliminary strikes by car rier and land-based planes to knock out the Egyptian air force and clear the seas north and south of the canal had been completed. "It can therefore be presumed that air and naval operations henceforth will aim at realizing the conditions necessary for tem porary occupation of the canal," a French communique said. Ex-Head -of Teamsters in Oregon Dies PALM SPRINGS. Calif. 1 Nov. 3 11 John J. Sweeney, 46, Seattle, secretary-treasurer of the West ern "Conference of Teamsters, died here today, apparently of a heart attack. Sweeney was here conferring with Frank Brewster, top-ranking man in the Teamsters Union on the West Coast. Sweeney was general organizer and international representative of the Teamsters in Oregon in 1953 and 1B54 beforo-i movini present position. ' Funeral services are "expected to be held at Oakland. Pick Queens MONMOUTH, No?: 2 tOCE students here chose Lois Smith, Albany as Homecom ing queen. Her selection was announced tonight. TOeir m The Weather , Today's forecast: Cloudy today and tonight with rain Sunday; high both days 36, low tonight 44. (CMnalct rtport past I) " . No. 221 ft JCigypic tor the leap. . Syria, Iraq Troops Mass Near Israel (Map Wlrepaoto Page.) BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nor, 2 v- Tank and armored car forces from Syria and troops from Iraq were reported pouring into Jordan to day on Israel's eastern front.' This may be a massing of Egyptian-led Arab world forces to open a second front and relieve Israeli military pressure on Egypt along tne sues canal. Egypt on Israel's western front and Syria on the eastern frontier are both equipped with arms from vallum uiv ji vu vui tain. - . Much of the material Is from Red Czechoslovakia through deal ings between Egypt's President Nasser and the Soviet Union. A report from Jordan said tha movements were confirmed thera but the number of troops and quan tities of arms pouring in wera not known. There hava beed recurrent re ports that Israel might move east ward (o tha Jordan River in tha event either Syrian or Iraqi troops entered Jordan. . ..... Israel's Premier David Ben-Gu- rion Said in mid-Ortdber that Is rael "reserves freedom of action" if Iraqi troops go into Jordan. These moves apparently mean that the Arab alliances led by Egypt are converging in Jordan to wage common war against Isra1 Sales Close Tivo Taverns- PORTLAND, Nov. 2 Ufl - The State Liquor Commission sus pended the licenses of two Port land taverns today, accusing them of pouring undrunk beer back into bottles and reselling it as fresh beer. H. J. Detloff, hearing super visor for the commission, said this was "getting to be a common practice" in some areas. He said inspectors bought beer in the taverns, marked the bot tle, left some beer in the bottle and walked ouLl Other inspectors soon came in and, upon ordering beer, were served tha marked bottle, filled to tha top and re capped,. - ......: The commission also refused a dispensing license tor the Cherry City Bowl at Salem. Chairman Bruce Williams Said juveniles were taking up bowling and that the commission does not favor li censes for bowling establishments. Siren Alarms Householders PORTLAND. Nov. J on A fire siren wailed in the early morning nours in me rarkrose district today, and alarmed house holders apparently thought it was an air raid alarm. Their telephone calls swamped switchboards in newspaper offices and at the police station. The Parkrose fire department sounded the siren for nearly a minute to call in its off-duty fire men to fight a house fire. The blaze damaged an unoccupied house and caused nearly 1 10.000 damage. Today's Statesman Pago Sec Ann Landers' ..... 6. I Church Nows - 7 I Classified . 12-14 II Comics -8. I Crossword .6 . I Editorials -4. I Homo Panorama .4 I Markets 11 II Obituaries II Saturday TV I ' Sunday TV 11 II Sports ......y,! 0..11 1 Star Gazer . S , I Valley Nows t Wirephota f , 1 - T ! I