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f M II ' A0ml sf mm Washington, the nat!on capital, li Just recovering from an unusual ly bad winter. Snow and cold hung on into spring, and rains and cool weather persisted. The cherry blos soms lor which, the city Is. famed were pretty well washed out this year, but the first of this week the dogwood, white and pink, and oth er flowering shrubs were bloom ing, and Jail yellow tulips lined the walk leading to the White House entrance, like soldiers in files. Summer will not be far behind a foreshortened spring. ; -" I wanted first to check with Sen. Neuberger on his progress with the Seatori bill to modify the law on termination of federal adminis tration of the Klamath tribe. This bill would change the present law Which requires the: management Ipecialists to sell off at public sale, Without conditions, assets of the -ibe to satisfy the shares of those electing to withdraw- (over 77 per tjent). The Interior department bill ffered by Secretary Seatoa spefi fles that -sales must be made at fertaln prices and purchasers must agree to manage the forest lands fender sustained yield plans. If pur chasers do not buy on these terms then the government is to acquire jhe lands at those prices and they would become part of the national forests. Senator Neuberger dropped his own bill calling for direct gov ernment purchase and is the prin cipal backer of the Seaton meas ure. , ..- Tuesday the Senate committee on interior and Indian affairs met and (Continued ea editorial page 4.) Slayer, Pals Nabbed After jail Escape EPHRATA, Wash. (Jl Three jail escapees, including a murder er sentenced to hang, were re ported captured at a road block near this Central Washington town late Thursday night. Grant County sheriff's deputies said they understood all three men were caught and were being taken to Moses Lake, Wash. They had no other details. The three escaped from ' the Adams County Jail at Ritxville, Wash 5 milts to the southeast, after overpowering a deputy and Uklnf tut fun. ' The Stat Patrol reported later th trio offered no resistance) when stopped at the road block. They were traveling in a car stolen at Rltzvllle, patrolmen said. Sheriffs officers identified the escapees as Henry Griffith, 21, Spokane, who had been convicted of the murder of a Lind, Wash., oil -distributor; Stanley Rezey of Ritzville and Floyd Weese of Moses Lake, Wash. ' Both Rezey and Weese were serving short terms, officers said. to Customers Bring Own Bats To Horror Movie Preview HANCOCMich. ( They're I dents and carried little bags, and till trvine tn fflurk the hata from the third balcony area of the staid old Kerredge Theater Thursday in the case of the horror show that came to life. It began when the movie pre views, advertising "House of Liv ing Death" and "Dracula," said it would get so creepy that bats will permeate the atmosphere of this theater. So fetching -were the previews that when the show opened Mon day night some 800 people were in the theater, built in 1902 as - an opera house in this old mining community. Oddly, recalls theater manager Ranee Mason, many of the cus tomers were Michigan Tech stu- Sunshine, Balmy Air ft Willamette University students John Sweeney (left), Los Angeles, and . Truman Baird, Woodburtv brought card table land Adding machine ; outside Thursday 10 they could do their accounting homework end still enjoj the laiubine. . 4 Attorney I08th Year Rules Centennial Cost Check Legal Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton ruled Thursday that Sec retary of State Mark Hatfield Oregon Centennial Commission pense statements.. As soon as the attorn v Hatfield outlined what specific Ketch Grew Arrested In Pacific HONOLULU tfl Four paci fists sailed defiantly out of Hono lulu Harbor en route to the mid- Pacific atomic test zone Thurs day only to wind up a few hours later in jail here on contempt of court charges. They accepted jail rather than go free on bail. The 30-foot ketch Golden Rule and its four-man crew were inter cepted by the Coast Guard shortly after leaving for the Eniwetok area despite a federal court in junction, Their aim: a dramatic protest against atom bomb test ing. A cutter stopped the ketch about a mile and a half offshore and took it jn tow. The four spurned bail when ar raigned on the charges. They were taken to Honolulu's 100-year-old city jail to await a hearing next week the exact day depend ing onthe court calendar. They were arrested by a U.S. marshal and two deputies as they stepped off the boat at Honolulu. The penalty for violating a fed eral court order is at the discre tion of the court. The arrest was based on a fed eral court order restraining the Golden Rule and ' its crew from leaving Honolulu and forbidding it to enter Eniwetok atoll in protest of nuclear bomb tests there. Balmy Day on Area Forecast Fair-weather and balmy tern' peratures will continue for the rest of the week except for late night and early morning cloudiness, weathermen said early today. Temperature today was expected to reach about 70 with a low to night around 40. they said! Thurs day's high was 73 and the temper ature at 12:01 ajn. today was 46. DOxes. Midway through "House of Liv ing Death" the audience began shrieking. Hovering around the dark ceiling and swooping down in divebomber fashion as only they could, were some 100 bats. But the show went on and, with the exception of Mason and a few box carrying customers, most everyone thought it was part of the fare. When it was over Mason 'went bat hunting. He caught about half of them. Mason said he still has three bats in his theater . and "we are endeavoring to locate them. Obvi ously with the considerable space of this theater .that will take a while." I 1 'I S Vf. Ml: - 1. 1 1 MCTIONS - 40 PAGES General has authority to require the to be more specific in its ex general ruled. Secretary of State information he would requffeT with future Centennial Commission expense account statements. Hatfield recently criticized the commission for submitting expense accounts for large purchases of liquor and other items. , Can Ask Evidence Thornton ruled that Hatfield, who is state auditor, can require "substantiating evidence, includ ing certified statements" as to claims. 'He also held that Hatfield can disallow claims which he does n't believe reasonable. Hatfield . said he now would re quire the Centennial Commission to provide names of individuals entertained at public expense when the group is composed of 12 or fewer persons; indicate the nature of the group when the group con sists of more than 12; and indicate that the claims are in the best interests -of the state. Stake la Success Hatfield said "I don't wish to hinder with unnecessary red tape a single activity of the Centennial Commission. Every Oregonian has a stake in its success." v Hatfield also said he has re ceived numerous requests that he investigate all activities of the commission, but that he has re ferred those to the commission and the governor'! office. He said he doesn't want to make the commission a political football. Pupils Picked To Speak at Graduation By MARILYN SPARKS .. ' Statesmaa kneel Reporter Mary Ann Looney and Kent Lammers, North Salem High sen iors, will speak at the school's commencement exercises June 5, it was announced Thursday. The speakers were nominated by senior home rooms. Final seler tion was made by a student and faculty committee. ' (Pictures on Page 2.) Mary Ann and Ken will be the first student speakers in -many years to give talks at graduation. In the past an outside speaker has given the commencement address. Mary Ann has served as presi dent of the North High Girls' League organization and Julia Bri gand Y-Teens this year. She is a member of Latin, Civics and Ski Clubs, Sigma Lambda chapter of National Honor Society and the Viking annual staff. - Mr. and Mrs. Glen Looney. Sa lem Rt. 2 Box 442, are her parents. Honorary Rotarian for the month of May ' is Kent's most recent honor. He belongs to National Honor Society, National Athletic Honor Society and "S" Club. Kent is a basketball and baseball letter- man. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Lammers, 1825 Summer St. NE. Slot Machines Crushed HILLSBORO, Ore. m A big roadroller crunched 50 slot ma chines here Thursday. The slot machines were seized Wednesday night in a raid at a deserted school building near here. Bring on Severe Attacks of Spring Fever I, '.R Four-year-old Charles Johnson, Monmouth, gave little Karen Tarter, Monmouth, a stroll around Willson Park Thursday during the summer-like weather while their mothers sat on the griis enjoying tht fun. The Oregon Statesman, Registration for Primary Vote Sets New State Mark A record primary election reg istration of 8270 voters was reported Thunday by the State Election Division. The previous largest Oregoa' primary registration was 7SMSJ in 1954. The record for, any elec tion was 177,052 for the 195( fed eral election. Ia the current 'registratlea Democrats have the largest mar gins they have ever held, 42,682. There "" 430,137 Democrats reg Istered and 387,452 Republicans. Democrats had a margin of J7, 520 for the 1950 general election and 11,350 for the 1956 primary. (Add. details en page 17.) m Parade at Jefferson Due Today SUteunaa News Service JEFFERSONA mile of floats is expected r naay morning in Jefferson's community May Day parade. Business firms and organi zations throughout the area an-. nually enter the event., The parade and day-long pro gram is sponsored yearly by the high school. The parade will form on the high school campus and move downtown at 10 a.m. A horse show follows the parade, and will be held at the grade school grounds. Coronation ceremonies are planned in the high school auditor ium at 1:15. Martha Wynd, senior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wynd of Jefferson is queen. A softball game Is the conclud ing event at 2:45 at the, grade school, featuring grade teams from Jefferson and Marion school. The Jefferson parade and cere mony traditionally opens Oregon's summer long season of community celebrations and parades. Forest Fire Flares9 Briefly Near Drain ROSEBURG, Ore. (II A forest fire flared briefly Thursday as the humidity dropped dangerously low in parts of Douglas County. Some logging operations shut down as the- humidity dropped below 30 per cent in parts of this important lumber producing area. The fire broke out in slashings near Dram. It was controlled after burning over less than an acre. It was Oregon's first reported forest fire of the season. And it also was the first time in 1958 the humidity has dropped low enough to close down logging. Today's Statesman Page Sec. Ann Landers 20.... II Babson Reports ... 35 IV Business News 35 IV Classified 36-39....IV Comics - 30 III Crossword 40....IV Editorials 4.... I Food News 21-28 III Home Panorama ..13-15 II Markets .35..JV Obituaries .5 I Radio-TV 30 III Sports 33, 34....IV Star Gazer .... 5 I Valley News 31.. ..Ill Wirephoto Page ... 30 III fjh -a--! 1 V f '0I i r it' Wi"W ,vi,M.n . V Jhtst v .am IF test Salem, Oregon, Friday, May Guilt Plea Entered By Lifet D'Autremont Acts To Obtain Parole (Picture at right.) PORTLAND (AP) - A: man Thursday pleaded, guilty to a 35-year-old charge, that grew out of a train bombing for which he now is serving a life prison term. Hugh D'Autremont, 55, went into U.S. District Court here and said "I wish to plead guilty" to a charge of assaulting a mail clerk. D'Autremont was charged with assaulting Elvyn Friede, one of four men killed in the abortive holdup of a mail train in 1923. Norren Kelly, D'Autremont's attorney,' said the convict entered the plea "to clear bis record. No parole would be possible, Miss Kelly said, while any charge still faced the wispy, gray-haired D Autremont. Pre-sentence Investigation Judge Gus Solomon ordered a ore sentence investigation and D'Autremont, then was taken back to his cell at the state penitentiary in Salem. The penitentiary ' has held him since he was convicted of first degree murder in 1927. ' The murder conviction ' came four years after three gunmen stopped a Southern Pacific passen ger tram at a tunnel near Asn land. Ore. Three train employes were shot and killed by the gunmen. The mail clerk perished when the ban dits dynamited the mail car. The dynamite failed to blow open the car. The gunmen then fled, empty-handed., Hugh D'Autremont was taken into custody several years later while serving in the Army in the Philippines. Captured hi Midwest His twin brothers. Roy and Ray, were captured in the Midwest.. All were convicted of murder and give life terms. . " rf j Ray stm Is ta th-?enltenUary. Roy for several years has been an inmate in a state hospital. Driver Dres At Falls City; House Struck Stateihiaa Nw Servlct FALLS CITY-Mrs. Lets Fletch er, 64, apparently suffered a fatal heart attack Thursday afternoon while driving alone on South Main Street. She died almost immediate ly and the car continued, ramming into the Mack Hatcher home near the bridge approach over Little Luckiamute river. Her husband, Robert, died Wed nesday of a stroke. Funeral serv ices for the woman are pending at Bollman Funeral Chapel in Dal las. Services for her husband were planned for Monday at Falls City Methodist Church. She was born Feb. 26, 1894 in Iowa. Survivors include a eon, Alva Fletcher, Springfield: daugh ter. Mrs. Gertrude Harvey. . and brother, Ellsworth Jesse Melius, both of Falls City. Hotel Work Starts . PORTLAND l The Hoffman Construction Co. Thursday turned the first ground for a new Shera ton Hotel here. The hotel will cost I million dollars. I 'yi & 2, lSt PRKI.Sc Admits 35-Year-OW Charge ' . 7v:: ; . . 4 .'f i i ( J j j : ,.; vj PORTLAND, Ore. Hugh -D'Autremont (center) walks from federal court Thursday where he pleaded guilty to a 35-year-old charge of assaulting a mail clerk. He is accom panied by two guards from the state prison in Salem where he is serving a life sentence for murder grow ing out of the mail train robbery. (Story at left) (AP) Park Penches Loaded as Belated Spring Welcomed By CONRAD PRANGE Staff Writer, The Statesmaa A sunny day in May is not so rare, but five days of flawless, golden sunshine are as welcome this time of year as tb - tax re- Balmy temperatures the past few days hare stirred emem area residents (dogs, people and flow ers) into lots of pre-summer activ ity. Ducks are nesting on Mill Creek. Azaleas, shirt sleeves and sum mery dresses are Blooming in street and garden. The dozers and dreamers are holding down Willson Park benches again. Speed boats are arrowing up and down the Willamette River these days. Green Thumb Crowd ' The green thumb crowd Is out digging, watering, planting, trans planting, mulching, mowing, trim ming and hoeing. It's fine weather for hanging clothes on the outside line. Sewage Bonds Okehed OAK GROVE Iff! A bond issue of $1,200,000 for construction of a sewage system here has been approved by voters for the second time. The first vote was voided be cause of technicalities in the offi cial publication. The second vote was 992-284. The Weather Today's forecast: Fair except for some late night and early morning cloudiness. High 70, lew 40. (Complete report pis S) it y : a im . 1 st fm-m V Empty park benches were hard to find Thursday as scores of people flood ertthe parks to soak up the sunshine and like (left to right) R. B. Baker, Albert M. Cook and Richard Johnson talk of politics, weather and squirrels. ... , . ' No. 36 The car radio always sounds bet ter on a sunny day in May. Classroom - bound school kids squirm through the last, hot days ol school. uesrc-Douna wmte-couar workers just sit and squirm, Shoppers are looking for gradua tion dresses. - Lawns around state baildincl, courthouse and post office never looked greener nor nowers ana shrubs brighter than this week, Salmon are running in valley streams. High school track teams are running over last years rec ords. And hay fever victims are running to drug stores. Bare-foot Youngsters Streets, which two weeks ago were filled with curb water, are now filled with ball-playing young sterssome bare-footed, nearly all bare-headed and bare-armed and bare-legged and some barely old enough. Weighty considerations of poli tics, space travel and the reces sion give way to topics that won't wait like fishing, loafing and sun burn. ' Iced tea and milkshake sales in restaurants perk up in weather like this. Workers in state and downtown buildings take their noon lunch breaks in the city parks. Garden Sales Soar Sales of tomato, green pepper, cabbage and flower plants, garden spades, trowels, hoes and adhesive bandages are booming. Merchants are pushing garden hose. The Willamette University stu dent who shook a coed's hand in greeting, last fall is holding it in pleasure in the May sunshine. Summer is just around the corner and May is giving us the green light. in Valley ft ' ' ) 4, 7 Dulles Utters To Cut Down Polar Flights Russ Reply to Affect Summit By WARREN ROGERS JR. WASHINGTON fAPKThe day to consider cutting down its H-bomb flights in the arctic if the Soviet Union accepts the U.S. North Pole inspection plan. Secretary of State Dulles made the proposal at a news conference. He emphasized that Soviet acceptance or rejection will affect the question of whether President Eisenhower goes" to a summit conference. Dulles' olive branch -mood matched that of Elsenhower at a news conference Wednesday. The President said then he felt more sadness than anger at Russia's derisive rejection of his arctic in spection plan and at Soviet out cries against U.S. nuclear alert flights in the area. Dulles disclosed new secret ap proaches to the Soviets, in Wash ington and New York, in an effort to sell the Soviets on the polar proposal. If accepted, he said. the proposal- could mark a turn ing point in the cold war and pos sibly- bring further disarmament agreements. FriendDy to Arabs While Dulles news conference dealt mostly with this issue, he also said: 1. The United States hopes to have normal friendly relations with the United Arab Republic that-U.S. release of 26 million dol lars in foreign Egyptian as sets was almost automatic when President Nasser reached agree ment on compensating former owners of the Suez Canal. 2. The U.S. eovernment has no legal right to prevent private U.S. citizens from fighting in Indone sia's rebellion; but the govern ment's own policy careful neu trality will be continued. 3. President Eisenhower has not yet decided whether to suspend nuclear tests after this summer's series in the Pacific, but the ques tion is being closely studied. Attack Feared Dulles said U.S. H bomberi have to maintain their arctic flights because the United States fears a possible Surprise bomber- missue attack ty the Soviet s across the North Pole. But he said there was a "natural solution that Is to have International in spection." UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. III - xbe soviet Union Thursday was unaer mounting pressure some com mi trem Mtamte natlontte avoid a fiat turndown of Presi dent Eisenhower's arctic military inspection plan. This was the situation in ad vance of Friday's meeting of the u.ri. security council, where ui dications up to now had pointed to a soviet veto of the U.S. pro posal. It aims to eliminate any threat of massive air attack across the polar regions. Pond Claims Eugene Boy EUGENE im David Norman Callen, 3tt, drowned in a mill pond in West Eugene, about one block from his home Thursday. The boy's body was recovered Thursday night, some six hours after he was reported missing. Police said the child apparently was playing in a field and toppled from a bank about 12 feet high into the pond. Politics on Parade . . . Who's Running for What in May Primaries (Editor's Note: The Oregoa Statefman's exclusive Polltleal Parade series is presented by the candidate themselves. It is published as a public service, without cost or obligation, and may or may not be la accord with the editorial policies of this news- paper.) GEORGE ROSSMAN Candidate for Position 7 Oregon Supreme Court The exceptional service which .Judge George Rossman has rendered as a member of the Oregon Supreme Court has been widely recognized. In the American Jar Association Journal, John H. Wigmore, textbook writer and law dean, ranked Rossman with 22 other judges who were "habitually writing mas terly opinions in the various Supreme Courts." Another writer said one of Judge Rossman's decisions "established for the first time the right of survivorship in joint bank accounts. Thus, was first recognized in Oregon this type of 'the poor man's will.' " That decision has saved for many npntile nrnbate charges and has enabled the family of the deceased to gain prompt access to needed money. Judge Rossman wrote the decision holding unconstitu tional our alien land law. Many courts had sustained con stitutionality of similar legislation. Judge Rossman's was the firsjt decision declaring the act invalid. After the de-, cision, a member of the U. S. Supreme Court wrote Judge ; Rossman as follows: "You have written a handsome and cleanly reasoned, opinion, a fine example of how the law van be adapted by . men of good will to the best instincts and aspirations of our people, It is work such as this which reassures us thatwe labor not in vain." Since his appointment to the supreme court, Judge Ross-, man has been one of its most industrious members. There i are seven1 Judges. Throughout his service, Judge Rossman 1 lias written more than . 17 of all decisions. Last year he ' wrote better than 15. The year prior to that better than 18. (Next: Dm Metheay) ' United States offered Thurs Jobless SM SF fay mil Approved ' WASHINGTON W With the help of Southern Democratic con-, servatives, the Eisenhower ad ministration Thursday won. smashing House approval of its emergency ' unemployment relief program. By a roll-call vote of 223-165 the House rejected a ltt-bllliondollar Democratic leadership plan, which critics called an outright dole in favor of a 600-million-dol-lar program backed by President Eisenhower. '. ' it then voted 370-17 to adopt 'the Eisenhower plan and send it te the Senate.' 'Without Mockery The substitution motion was made by a Democrat. Rep. Her long of Florida, who said the GOP - administration bill would provide a temporary extension of jobless pay benefit "in a sound way,, without making a complete mockery of the entire unemploy ment compensation program." Herlong's move climaxed two days of heated debate during which the bill backed by. Demo cratic leaders was denounced by Southern Democrats as well as by Republicans. Longer Extension This bill, drafted by the House Ways and Means Committee, would have provided It weeks of jobless pay at state rates to vir tually all unemployed, including those not covered by jobless in surance programs as well "as cov ered workers who have exhausted their benefits. The federal govern ment would have footed the bill. The admisustrstion bin adooted by the House would provide a M per cent extension of benefits but only to workers who have exhaust ed their rights under present federal-state programs. In most states this would mean a 13-week extension of payments. NORTHWEST LKAGIIK At WemtcBM 4, sum I At Lcwlitoa 1, Yiklma At rrl-Clty S, Iuin S PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At Sacramento 1, Portland e At Salt Lake City 19, Vancouver At San Diego 0. Phoenix I At Spokane 4, Seattl S AMERICAN LEAGUE At Washington 1, Cleveland At Baltimore 3, Chicago 4 " At Boston 1, Kanui city S . (Only gamea ichedoied) NATIONAL LEAGUE At Chicago 3, MllwauKee s At Los Angelei 3, Plttabnrgh t At San Francisco I, Philadelphia f (Only games scheduled) George Rotimaa am tteUa. HtUtMeal i