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The Weather Today's farocsst: Cloudy, with rain thii morning an 4 showers this afternoon, t- night. High S4, low 42. (Complata Mport p.la f) 107th Year 2 Ousted Counsel Gives FCC File To Sen. AAorse WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (AP)-Bemard Schwartz, jurt-fired counsel to a House subcommittee, said tonight he has turned over to Sen. Morse (D-Ore.) his "working files" from a six month probe linking some top Republicans with influence al legedly exerted on federal agencies in behalf of big business. Morse is a strenuous foe of the Eisenhower administration. Sanity Test Ordered In Slaying SUteMuta Xtir Servtr. ALBANY. Fth. U-Two Sorina field brothers, confessed killers of an Albany man, today wera ord ered to undergo a sanity hearing and wera taken to Salem. , Una County District Attorney Courtney Johns said the pair, An drew, 8, and Phillip Wolfe. 20, appeared ia district court here. An official charge of first degree murder was placed against each at that time. The youths in represented by Lawrence Brown f Salem. Police arrested t h a brothers Sunday after the knife slaying of Walter C. Howell, 57. unemployed father of eight. The pair said their motive was robbery. State police connected the Wolfe boys to ,the crime wbea one of them sought medical attention for wounds suffered in the struggle. Funeral services for Howell will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. from Fisher Funeral Home with the Rev. Jesae Smith of Albany Church of God officiating. Burial will be ia Willamette Memorial Park. Vanguard Has Ground Test CAPE CANAVERAL, T., Feb. 11 ( The Navy hoisted another of its Vanguard rockets onto a launching pad today and ran a static test of Hs first-stage angina. Ia a static test,, the rocket is bolted down and the exhaust fire pours through vents in the con crete launching platform. The Navy has tried twice to put up an American satellite with the Vanguard. Lincoln U h i mpressed By One of Top Speeches By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -Tbe Library ef Congress has been given a letter Abraham Lincoln wrote his wife in which he com plained of the hard work in a "campaign and lightly passed over one of the greatest speeches he ever made. The gift waa announced today as a part of the ceremonies honor ing Lincoln, born 149 years ago tomorrow. It was presented by Lincoln's great-grandson, Lincoln Isham of Dorset, Vt. It wu written from Exeter, N.H., while Lincoln was on a swing designed to show that this tall, gangling country lawyer was a fit man for the presidency. Lincoln had alaved over the speech he was to make in New York City, rewriting, repolishing, going almost daily to the state library in Springfield to recheck facts. Salem's 73 ivy A heart atteek emergency call about 11 n.m. Tuesday started Salem first aidmen Gerald naU and Mnryle Mist off ea a heetle IS minutes which saw them both Injured when their first aid ear struck another yehlcle at Capitol and Union streets Intersection In the north- i east section ( Salem... v - J, o-. l SICTIONS - 30 PAGES acnwaru maae we statement to newsmen after an all-day wrangle with a Commerce subcommittee which demanded he turn over all files to it. The 34-year-old law professor charged earlier that most sub committee members have joined "aa unholy alliance between big business and the White House to obtain a whitewash" of a probe into six regulatory agencies in cluding the Federal Communica tions Commission. Cever-ap Charles' He charged there la an effort to cover up corruption charges in cluding ait alleged payoff to a member of the FCC. Schwartz also said the commit-! tee's firing him last night prevent- ea mm also irom revealing "the machinations of the White House ciique in controlling decisions oi these (regulatory) agencies." He named, as members of this grAup, chief presidential assistant Sherman Adams; White House counsel Gerald Morgan: Secretary of Commerce Weeks; Col. Gordon Moots, President Eisenhower's brother-in-law; and former New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. The subcommittee, now headed by Rep. Harris (D-Ark) after the resignation of Chairman Moulder (D - Mo) in protest against Schwarts' dismissal, questioned Schwartz most of the day about the record! he collected In a month investigation. Asked to Call Schwarts said be was asked last i Digui uy mwK arm uy ocu. n u- liams R-Del to call on them separately with his personal pa pers. He did so, he said, first call ing on Williams and then on Morse. I i... w I i... c tir:l 1 Both senators, SchwsrU said, expressed great interest in the documents, and, he said. Morse requested that the papers be left with him in the interests of good government and the best inter eats of the nation. Morse was not Immediately available for comment. And then, on Feb. 27, he de livered it at Cooper's Institute. It was a triumph, but that would have been hard to guess from the way he put it to his wife. After discussing family details, Lincoln turned to the problems of campaigning. "I have been unable to escape this toil," he wrote. "If I had foreseen it I think I would not have come east at all. The speech at New York, being within my calculation before I atarted, went off passably well, and gave me no trouble whatever. "The difficulty waa to make nine others, before reading audi ences, who have already seen all my ideas in print. "Kiss the dear boys for father. Affectionately, A. Lincoln." Passably well, indeed! Lincoln couldn't have known that the New York Tribune reporter, Noah Brooks, exclaimed after the talk: "He's the greatest man since St. Paul." First Aid The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, February Results Speak For Themselves Everybody including their own members have Toastmasters Clubs associated with the manly art of throwing bull, but who 'would come right out and asso ciate it with sometimes-dignified Salem Planning Commission? Take a look at results of Sa lem Toastmasters Club annual speech contest Tuesday night: First, Lloyd G. Hammel, a city planning commissioner and as sistant state attorney general; runner-up, Wesley J. Kvarsten, planning engineer and secretary of the Planning Commission. Hammers trophy: Standing figure of a brawny man with a bull, slung on his shoulder. Premier Chou Quits Foreign Minister Post (Picture aa p.ge HONG KONG. Feb. 11 -Chou En-lai stepped down as Red Chi na's foreign minister today and a close associate, tubby Vice Premier Chen Yi. took his place. Chou remained on as Premier with his high standing in the gov ernment apparently as firm as ever. Peiping radio said the change wa recommended by Chou him- ; al part of a shakeup in min istries aimed at streamlining the Communist machinery for the start of the nation's second five- year plan, Westerners here felt the move frees Chou to concentrate on in ternal problems and to bolster his position within the Communist party. At this stage, foreign af fairs take a back seat to the mighty task of making backward China an industrial power. All of Chou's recommendations for reorganization of the many government ministries were ap- lx i proved by the Chinese Peoples' I Congress as H wound up its ses ! ion. The Congress also approved mjaitra far Ih fiv.vMr nlnn iihi . io h,,w "---- One Look Kills Abstract Art For Airport PORTLAND, Feb. 11 Ml Com missioners took one look at the ab stract painting and firmly reject ed it as a possible mural for the new Portland airport terminal building. "It's modern, but what is H?" asked one commissioner for the Port of Portland, which operates the airport. "People want cows or horses, or timber, or mountains, or airplanes something they can recognize." said Commissioner Luke Roberts. Said the artist, Louis Bunce, "I tried to create a mural which would be as modern in concept as air trafel and the building itself . . . without specific type ref erences such as airplanes, people or buildings ... but incorporating a sense of space , and movement . . . something handsome as a dec oration and yet reflecting these other things. Public Offices to Mark Lincoln Day Lincoln's birthday today will be noted by city, county and state employes in the Salem area with a day off. Otherwise, businesss will go on as usual. The post office, schools, all federal offices, banks and park ing meters are operating and po lice and firemen will be on duty. Salem schools have planned no extra programs, officials said. Gar in Smashup as Emergency Riih. POUNBID 1651 Salem Alderman Offered British Snuff Salenv Aldennan Rossell Bones teele (at right) takes an experimental sniff of pinch ef snnff offered by British actor James Robertson Justice. Bonesteele refused the snnff, but rep resented Salem officialdom at press luncheon honoring Justice Tuesday noon at Marion Hotel (Statesman photo) British Actor Visits in Dislikes By CONRAD PRANGE SUff Writer. The Statesmaa You won't get much information about Hollywood movie making ffftn British actor James Robert- i. Justice who visited Salem Tuesday. First of" all, be says, he doesn't sea many movies. Secondly, he intends never to go back to Hollywood for movie mak ing. Thirdly, he doesn't like Cali fornia. "A colorless, dried-up place," he calls it. The southern part, anyway. But the big (250 pounds.) friendly rumpled, bearded Scot, one of the British-American movie industry's top flight actors, likes the Pacific Northwest. "Best part of your country," he told a group of Salem people at a luncheon in his honor Tuesday. 'Oregon and Washington used to belong to the British crown. Shouldn't have let them go. Some idiotic politician gave them away." A man who is an actor "chiefly because of the money in it," he Today's Statesman Ann landers ..... Classified Comes the Dawn Comics . Crossword Editorials . 'arm Pago Homo Panorama Markets .. Obituaries ladio-TV . Sports - Star Gazer 14 11 11,12 II 7 I 13 II Valley News . Wirophoto Pago u: ii M J - . mt sW ' rage Sec. I ,17-l..ll 4 I , ..14 II 17.M .uZTii I 17 H 17 n Momenta later aidmea Hall (left) and Mke, disregarding their Injuries, we r! out ef the wrecked aid esr and help- Ing Injured motorist Mrs. Ruth Swart, 5, of 3111 River Rd. NE. 12, 1991 PKICI f, - .- , , 'Dried-Up confessed he hadn't even seen his newest picture, "Campbell's King' dom," a highly-rated British Rank production coming, to Salem. He is touring this area in behalf of the picture and the Rank Organization. In answer to a question con- GOP Drive Linked With Gas Measure WASHINGTON. Feb. II I President Eisenhower and the Re publican National Committee re fused today to touch any money raised in a party fund drive in Texas that was linked to support for the natural gas bill. The drive, which upset the na tional GOP leadership, stirred up the Democrats, and possibly spoiled chances of the bill becom ing law, was engineered by H.J. (Jack) Porter, Republican nation al committeeman for Texas. Its machinery was a $100- -plate "appreciation dinner" at Houston Monday night for Rep. Joseph W. Martin, the House Republican leader. Martin spoke at the dinner. He didn't even mention the bill, which would ease federal control over natural gas producers. However, a Jan. 30 letter by Porter booming sales of tickets to the dinner came to light and set the political pot to boiling. Porter's letter described Martin as, a friend of Texas oil and gas industries and a battler for the gas bill. Meade Alcorn, the Republican national chairman, issued a statement of disavowal which Hagerty said had the approval Eisenhower. , Jtr. : . t ' ' A ; -j: aaaasawsawiSM No. 322 W M t " '''dt4; "tit' i t i' 0 Salem, California cerning the superiority of some British films over American movies. Justice, wagging his shaggy head like a friendly bear, answered: "For one thing the British don't depend on the star system as much as does Hollywood. In Hollywood the star of the picture is usually the thing and the rest of the cast sort of shifts for itself." A scholar, philosopher and amateur scientist, a keen sports man. Justice lives on the Black Isle of Inverness in the heart of the Scottish Highlands. v He doesn't like cities and says that, at home, be seldom watches television. He'll fly back borne to Scotland soon. There on tne zotn ot wis month he will be installed as re ctor of Edinburgh University. There also he'll see prince Phillip of England and hand him an invitation to be relayed to Queen Elizabeth to attend Oregon's Rose Festival and centennial cele brations this years. The invitation from Gov. Robert D. Holmes was given to Justice Tuesday by Thomas Wright, governors aide Army Redstone Missile Fired CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 11 A fire-belching Redstone ballistic missile the workhorse of the American space weapon ar senal - blasted off its firing pad-j tonight. The Redstone, first-stage back bone of the Jupiter-C rocket which hurled the first U.S. satel lite into orbit around the earth Jan. 31, roared up into a black. overcast Florida sky at 7:53 p.m. Sc H : Z2 " t ) 1 ." - . Howard Durbln. 46, stricken with a heart attack at May- flower Dairy, 2155 Fairgrounds Rd. NE, meanwhile waited until Hall (above) could be rushed to his side by Patrol- , man Marlon Browne .. . Ike Seeks $2 Postal To Bolster Economy .7 Million Join Jobless Rolls in January v WASHINGTON. Feb. 11 CAP)-A rwo-billion-dollar nrocram to modernize th nnvsirl clant of the postal service was described it as a move to bolster the national economy. "The proRram," a White House statement said, "will involve rehabilitating, enlarging of replacing 2,500 government-owned post office buildings, replacing or remodeling ; 12,000 leased buildings, and providing mail-handling equipment for all postal facilities." , '.' Earlier the government re port e d 1,120,000 Americans were added to the unemploy ment rolls in January. It was the biggest monthrv increase since the end of World War II and it led to renewed de mands from Congress for faster and more comprehensive efforts to restore the nation to fuU pros perity. Total unemployment reached 4,- 494.000 last month, the Commerce This p7esenTe7 Srilhe cMbm and Labor Departments reported. working force, a smaller percent age than in previous post-war slumps. T. Cnsl RecesdM James C. Hagerty, the Presi dent's press secretory, was asked whether the post office moderniza tion trif rim could fairly be called part of the administration's program to combat the business recession. I think it would be fair to say About 75 per cent ef the money for the program, however, would come from private investors. And the government s share of the cost would be contingent on Congress approving a 5-cent letter rate for inter-crty mail. Under the modernization pro gram, rands irom private inves tors for construction of new post offices to be occupied by the gov ernment under lease would be in the neighborhood of 1H billion dollars. The White House estimated the government's capital investment at 175 million dollars annually for the duration of the . three-to-five year program. This money would be spent on mail handling devices and other modern equipment for the leased buildings, as well as for some remodeling costs. Ta Oatliae Pragrasm , At the President's request. Post' master General Summerfield has arranged to outline the new pro gram before the Senate Post Of fice Committee tomorrow morn ing. Sen. Douglas D-M contended the government's figures did not give the real picture of total un employment. Taking into con sideration those whose working hours and paychecks have been reduced, the senator said, you would get the equivalent ot at least another million unemployed. Senators Humphrey (D-Minn), McNamara (D-Mk-h) and EOen- der (D-La) called for a program of tax cuts, public works and oth er steps to strenginen tne eco nomy, q More Rain ' On Forecast Clouds and rain will dominate the weather outlook for the Salem area through Thursday night, weathermen at McNary Field fore cast early this morning. Little change in temperature is expected today with tne highest near 54 and the lowest near 42, they said Salem area received al most an inch of rain Tuesday as every area in the state received precipitation except Baker. Northern Oregon beaches will have rain this morning, becoming showery with partial clearing in the afternoon and night, the Asso ciated Press said. Temperatures there will range from a high of 56 to a low of 40. Creates Own Emergency Construchbrt announced bv President Eisenhower today. The White HouM Numbing Cold Entrenched In Eastern U.S.; 52 Dead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . . A high pressure weather system stretching a third of b w ay around the earth kept winter's worst and longest cold spell firmly entrenched in the Eastern half of the nation yesterday. And no early Telief was in sight. - ' Subzero cold, swept in by stinging northwest winds, numbed! i parts oi the Eastern halt oi the Macleay Girl In Semi-finals Of Spelldown MACLEAY. Feb. 11 P a m e 1 a Hacek, 13 and in the 7th grade, will represent Macleay School in a a m ' 'Ml KSLM Mid -Valley Spelling Con- u OL. Ct.4. f.. J School far the U, Biina in naiem, Wednesday night, March J. Pamela, daugb- tV '4ter Mr "d A viJMrs. Robert Ha- vnt nw vie , Box 468A, Salem. was certified as Macleay spelling champion by her principal and teacher. Mrs. Margaret Loring. Her bobbies are cooking, horseback-riding and reading. Antionette Scissons, whose par ents are Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Scis sons, Route S, Box 7, Salem, took second honors in spelling. Third place waa won by Donna Brant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brant, Route t, Box 435, Salem. Mud Hampers Hospital Trip But Not Stork The baby wasn't early, the doctor wasn't late, but the ambul ance got stuck and an eight -pound son waa born at home to Mr. and Mrs. Dougles Smith, Rt 4 Box 14, Salem Tuesday morning. Dr. Charles D. Wood, Salem. said he got a call from the Smith's 14-year-old daughter. Dr. Wood called for Willamette Ambulance to bring Mrs. Smith to Salem Memorial Hospital where he would be watting. In the driveway of the Smith re sidence, the ambulance got stuck and before n wrecker could be dispatched the baby waa born. Dr. Wood, still waiting at the hospital, finally received word and rushed to the home. Card Players Lose DETROIT. Mich., Feb. 11 IA- Twentynin. card players told Re corder's Judge W. McKay Skill- man "we were just playing a friendly game of whist." 'Can any one of yon tell me how to play whist?" the J a age inquired. The only answer be got was 29 blank stares. "You lost that deal." the judge advised them as he meted out two $75 gambling fines and turned the others loose. Police told the judge it was poker, not whist. - ' fw Browne Is shown above ijVlnf first all i taJnrei Hau at the end of the franUe 15 minutes. No wn in- wived was In serious eondlttoa Tuesday Bight. (Story M Pa 7) (rtwtw j Joto VUUKq-.. "..ni-t B illcori , . nation for the s.xth day running. A vast mound of cold high pros sura air extended westward ao ross the United States to the low er Mississippi Valley, across west era Canada and the arctic and) into Siberia and China. . ' The U.S. Weather Bureau "It Wayhington described the weath er pattern as "a situation which male, thm mrtkwtk ttm inv mib4 ' change toward springlike wea& ' er quite remote." . - " , The mercury plunged to -37 erfj Newport, Vt., early yesterdasv Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., had -Mr Duiuth, Minn., -13; BismardC N.D., -12: Green Bay, Wis Albany. N.Y.. -t and Moline. IlC -3. Equinunk in northeastern Pent sylvania's Wayne County had an pwlficial low of -2s. The biting cold and anew and fleet storms during the wintry as sault were blamed for at least 52 deaths. Most of the fatalities were duo to overexertion in anesr or auto accidents on icy high ways. Overexposure to extreme cold accounted for a small per ceatage. ; Truck Hits Overturned I Car; 1 Killed t FOREST GROVE. Feb. 11 l An automobile skidded . into bridge approach, overturned and waa hit by a truck north ot hem today. Tne teen-aged driver of the ear wu VSOitrsvJflrAtitl 2 The victim waa Charles Let Beehrle, is,, of Portland. His coae. paniott, Ronald Goddard. also Vt Portland, suffered only mine hurts. ,,- The sheriffs office reported mat Beehrle's car went out of centrel just after paxting a truck from th Heavy Hauling Co., and it was thie truck which crashed into the ovet turned car. The track driver. Ned Richard Herghmd, 3a, AstorfC waa unhurt. 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