The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, January 13, 1957, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextE-(Sec. I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., Jan. 13, '57 Blood Test Helps To Find Insanity ' By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE Associated Presa Science Rrporlrr CHICAGO. Jan. 12 -A simple itx-minute blood test it finding a peculiar chemical change among the insane, scientisti reported to day. . The discovery was hailed as "an important breakthrough" to- irH finHin rancaa anH nira fnr mental diseases. It may lead to a practical test to diagnose mental sickness, tell how sick person is, and how much he is recovering. Most important, it indicates a mental illness Is caused by a chemical upset in the brain, said Dr. Frederick A. Gibbs. Univer sity of Illinois neurologist, who called it a breakthrough. Actual Illaess "This would mean mental illness Is not due to 'wrong thinking' but to actual Illness o( the brain it self." he said. The illness could be a slight chemical change, just as things OOX OFFICE O TICKETS NOW ON SALE PORTLAND SYMPHONY Willamette Auditorium Jan. 15 t.li P. M. , CESAR! VAUETTI ; Willamette Auditorium i Jaa. 14 8:15 P. M. ST. OlAF COLLEGE CHOIR Willamette Auditorium Feb. 141:15 P. M. Store Hours 9:30-5:3 Every Day For Reservations Dial EM 4 2224 can go wrong chemically with the liver or stomach to cause disease. "And it a disease is chemically caused, it is potentially chemical ly correctable." Dr. Gibbs said. The hlood test was announced at the first annual scientific con ference of the Brain Research Foundation. I It was discovered hv Dr. Slig Akcrfrldt. 2fi. of the Nobel Insti tute. Stockholm, Sweden, who has ' analyzed 300 sick and normal per :sons. Dr. Akerfeldt, biochemist, reported personally at the meet-ling. Teals r (infirm Results His resulli were confirmed In tests upon another 1.000 persons here hy Dr. Leo Abood. Univer sity of Illinois biochemist, and Dr. Gibbs. The test adds a dyestuff, dim-ethyl-paraphenylene diamine, to a small amount of blond serum. Se rum is the straw colored fluid re maining after red cells are re moved. In normal persons, the serum remains yellow. But in most mental patients. It turns red. Red shows up in schizo phrenia, a maniac depression and senile psychosis. Hatfield Seeks Larger Locale for. Inauguration Rites Secretary of State Mark Hat field said Saturday he will urge the arrangements committee for the next gubernatorial inaugura tion to seek a larger place than the State House of Representa tives. With 6.T0 seats to start with, the House chamber will be almost filled Monday with 180 legislators and their secretaries, two gover nors' parties, a National Guard band, the Kugcne Gleeman and a number of television cameras, he pointed out. He said he had no specific sug gestions but felt that better ar rangements could be made for the 1959 inaugural if planning starts early enough. 558 Adults In Classes First week registration for Sa lem's adult education program has; reached the 558 mark, George D. j Porter, supervisor of adult educa tion, said Saturday. Another 209 adults enrolled in collegiate classes of the General Extension Division, j Business education classes make up the heaviest concentration of adults with over 39 per cent. Forty students are enrolled in bookkeeping, and elementary ac counting classes: 21 in business letter writing: 21, civil service preparation; 31, medical office personnel; 41, shorthand, and 55, typing. Enrollments in classes related to business education include: IS, English: 20, mathematics, and 15, public speaking. Registration will continue this week in rooms of individual clas ses, Porter said. The Adult Education Office. 1309 Ferry St., should be contacted for bulletins listing and describing classes. Teen-Ager Slays His Sweetheart PHOENIX. Aril., Jan. 12 -A 17-year-old boy shot and killed his teen-age girl friend tonight, police reported. Barry Bruce' was quoted as saying: 'I shot her be cause she was going to leave me. I love her." Barbara La Pole, 18-year-old high school senior, was shot as she stood outside Bruce's car at a drive-in. Then, detective Fred Nichols said, Bruce shot himself in the forehead. Doctors said his condition was not critical. Witnesses told detective Bill Black that they heard at least five shots. Just before the shooting, wit nesses heard Bruce ask the girl: "Will you come back to me?" She said no, and, as Bruce later told the detectives- 'So I shot her." Grand Dragon Mm i - r Purse Snarcher Foiled An attempted purse snatching was reported to Salem police Sat urday night by Rita J. Fagan. 938 Shipping St. She said that while walking in the 700 block of Ship ping Street about 9 p.m. a young man tried to pull her pocket book from her right arm. but, unsuc cessful, he dashed away. Car Srolenin Salem Orval F. Horner, Turner Route 1. reported to city police the theft of his car from the 800 block of Hood Street Saturday sight. The auto, which contained an ac cordion, was identified as a 1950 Chevrolet two-door sedan, dark green. TALLADEGA, Ala., Jan. 12 The Rev. Akin Horn taid today that end ( segrega tion en Montgomery, Ala., buses "Is last concession we will make." Horn li grand dragon or U. S. Klana. (AP) Klan to Fight Integration With Ballots TALLADEGA. Ala.. Jan. 12 UV A Ku KIux Klan leader today said the organization plans lo wage its fight against integration with "ballots and not bullets." The Rev. Alvm Horn, once In dicted for murder in a night-rider killing, said "we ar dissatisfied with the integration en buses and plan to pressure our politicians to restore segregation." Horn said the klan'i weapon in the fight for segregation will be votes and education, not violence. "We will use ballots and not bul lets." he said. "We intend to carry the issue before our politicians. It is our plan to campaign for segregation j just as hard aa the Negroes are campaigning for integration." he 1 said. I- Murder charges filed against Horn following 'the 1950 night rider killing of Charlie Hurst, a white rolling store operator, were dismissed some 24 years later. He denied any part in the killing. ReicK Acts to Avert Ike-Adenauer Split WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 tfl West Germany acted swiftly today to blot out aigns of a split be tween Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer and President Kisenhower on the banning of atomic super-bombs. Ex-Con Sought In Sherwood Bank Robbery PORTLAND. Jan. 12 W Po live investigating the $19,500 rob bery of a bank at nearby Sher wood said tonight they are look ing for an ex-convict accused of taking part in the slaying of a San Francisco policeman Dec. 30. "They can't hang me any high er, the lone gunman was quoted by bank officials as saying in the course of the robbery of the Sher wood branch of the U.S. National Rank of Portland, 15 miles south of here, Friday. A photograph of George Edward Cole, 30. the man wanted in San Francisco, was shown to M. Lynn Judy, hank manager, who said it was a "close resemblance" to the gunman. The gunman's height and weight about 6 feet and 185 pounds also match closely with Cole's, said Sherilf Richard Busch of Washington County. Cole has been sought since Po lice Sgt. Joseph K. Lacey was killed while trying, to stop a San Francisco bar holdup Dec. 30. Police said Cole was believed to have headed north and to have cashed a check for $120 at Burns, Ore., on Dec. 31. The hank robber escaped from Sherwood in a stolen car and road blocks set up around the lit tle town of 1.R00 failed to net him. Ambassador Heini L. Krekeler advised Deputy Undersecretary of State Robert Murphy and then an nounced publicly that his govern ment "fully and strongly" backs Kisenhower 's view that nuclear weapons can be eliminated or controlled only with adequate safeguards against violation. Adenauer had told a news con ference at Bonn yesterday, in dis cussing the possibilities of solving Soviet-Western problems, that the "main effort" must be made toward banning thermonuclear weapons, meaning the hydrogen bomb. Various responsible U. S. offi cials felt that Adenauer's empha sis on this point and his failure to say anything about a system of inspection and control would be interpreted as a view closer The Weather Max. 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Jan. 12 - The Portland Junior Symphony Assn. today said it has been given a $10,000 grant by the Rockefeller Foundation for commissioning six works for junior orchestras in the 'next three years. Big Wheat Cargo Set ASTORIA. Jan. 12 uP The Liberian freighter Atlantic Count esa is scheduled to leave here to morrow for Bombay, India, with 30 million pounds of wheat, the largest cargo load in Astoria'l history. Educator Succumbs KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. Jan. 12 I -Dr. Philander P. Claxton, U.S. commissioner of education for inj years and president emeritus of Austin Peay State College of Clarksville, Tenn., died tonight. He was M. n Tr"" 'll 'yw-' If Thcofiw ni Conducts miMMmm Tucsdii FEATIIDmi B'unetta Mazzol mi av,Janilary5 8 ' MOUSSOROSKY . PROGRAM M0AT : -p''ude to Khn,:... Mote "P. ..I.... . . .. nna """' Jubilata" fOOAlY .... WAMlW .... Symphony No. 4 AUSIATSRCSIRVio Mit, Mazzolini .DancA from Gal'an,. J Wazzolinl G Major, with Mi Tickaft IS. v"if.e,.r,.bM Mia. 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She le' her home yesterday to spend the weekend in seclusion on orders from her doctor who said she had "suffered a relapse." Miss McDonald had been de scribed as "emotionally upset after being found. She is staying at her Los An geles home of unidentified friends. A police guard has been posted. Tax Lien Faced By Worker Who Invested Sahry MILWAUKEE. Jan. 12 uB An inrnm (ax lien of SV.il .217 was filed in V. S. District Court yes terday against a packinghouse worker who said he made $80 to $90 a week. Mm r.r st.vear old employe of a Milwaukee meat plant, said that he had invested a portion oi his earnings in stocks, bonds and grain futures. The Internal Revenue Service claims Graf owes the money in taxes, interest and penalties for a four-year period. Graf said he couldn t estimate his total holdings now because Theater Time Table XSINORC (Cnnlinunui from 1 pn.) r n i it Nni.Y rsnsuASiON": 2 25. A IS. 10 IM "CRASHING LAS VEGAS"! 1:21, 8 11, S 01 CAPITOL (Conllnuom from 1 pm.) "KINO A FOUR QUEENS": M. 4 :20. 7:40, 10 57 "COMB NF.XT SPRING"! 1:47, 07, ( 77 . HOLLYWOOD "FIRST TEXAN": 1 :4S. 111. I 45 "BACK FROM ETERNITY": 3:11. S 47, 10:11 they would have to be. liquidated on a fluctuating grain market. "I've been saving and investing money all my life," he said. .01 .25 47 .04 . 45 .37 27 Todav'a forecaat (from U. S. Weath er Burtau. MrNary Flld. Salem I: Mnitly cloudy with Intermittent rain todav. Partly rloudv with scattered ahnwers tonight and Monday. High today 45: low tonight 54 Willamette River: 2 0 feet Temp. 12 01 am. today .IS. SALEM PRECIPITATION Slnre start of Weather Year, Sept. 1 To dale Lat Year Normal 1211 35 57 20 SS 'Wild Steer' Search Fails auteimaa Newt Sertrlr ROBERTS, Jan. 12 Marion County deputy sheriffs said they received a complaint about 5 p.m. today from Floyd Plank. Salem Rt .1, Box 900, that a "wild steer" of unknown ownership had broken a fence, trampled a garden and chased a man up a tree. Deputies said they were unable to find the beast because of ap proaching darkness but would re sume the search in the morning. Famed Boston Church Burns BOSTON, Jan. 12 liftFire today destroyed the century-old First Congregational church in a spec tacular midday blaze in the shad ow of historic Bunker Hill. Four firemen were hurt as the fire raged out of control for more than two hours. Fire Chief Leo Driscoll said the loss was about ll.SO.000. It was the fifth church fire ia the Greater Boston area In the j last month. State police Lt. Syl vester Meade, attached to the; state fire marshal's office was un-1 able immediately to determine cause of the tire. He said his on-the-spot investigation thus far had shown nothing suspicious. Car Stolen From Garage Stateiaua Ntwi Service MILL CITY, Jan. 12-An auto-1 mobile belonging to James Swan of Mill City was reported stolen from his garage thii evening, state po lice said. The car was described as a gray. 1952 Plymouth sedan. 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