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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.
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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. .
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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
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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.)
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. ... , . '
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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.
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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)
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