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ifTP mom She-was only '30, but ibe bad drained th cup of life to iU very dregs. Caught in the web of um neai uenerauon she became its victim. Self-appointed "Flame of North Beach." San Francisco, who had pranced down the street in the nude, she was found, dead in a stub alley in the Golden Gate Park district, nude save for a bra and a merchant seaman is in jail, having confessed he strangled her to death when she resisted his advances. The death of this Donna Connie Sublette, fol lowing close!y..n the fatal fall of another of he Beat crowd in San Francisco, Paul R. Swanson, who is described as. "real cool" sax player, threw 'something of a chill in the "Beatniks" at their favorite rendezvous in the city that harbors them the off-beat intellectuals; the moral vagrants, the "enemies" of society who drain It and themselves of all Virtue. Donna's story,- up to a point, was not unlike that of other eirls who react as moth to flame. As Pat Lewis she, was an inmate at Hillcrest for a timej under commit ment from Portland, and later was assigned to a foster home. It was ia San Francisco that she picked up the pace ofUhe Beat Genera tion. One of her associates said: "She had stars in her eyes and wanted Jo go all the time;" also that death was dancing all around her." Her screaming and obsceni ties and. "scenes" when in her cups brought '.hexV eviction from joints where the- owed and beard ed devotees BCAJlen Ginsberg's 'Howl and 7 (Continued MitorUl page 4) More Heat on Forecast; Linn Fire Stymied Forest service and volunteer fire fighting crews' controlled Oregon's only, forest fire in Linn County 6aturday morning. Forestry offi cials were tense, though, as fire danger approached a high degree.. Today's forecast from U. ' S. Weather Bureau at Mcflary Field calls for continued fair weather through Monday. A high of 95 to a low of 60 is forecast. A high of M was reached ia Salem Saturday. One at 100 men that fought the lft-ecr blaze In the South gantiam River area of eestan Linn County died at hlshome.' as Sweet Hone after he was off tttst fire lines about a. Mure.? H John Benson. afwutS6V maintenance superin tendent for the Jinn County Fire Patrol Assn. He is survived by bis wife and four children. Temperatures J today were ex pected to hit a high of s degrees en both ' sides of the Cascades. Associated Press reported north era Oregon beaches are expected to have fair weather' through to night with temperatures of 74 to Doctors Fight To Sa ye Eye Of Salem Tot Sight in a Salem tot's eye hung in t balance Saturday night as a result of a scratch from a cat, but Salem Memorial Hospital of ficials said chances of saving the eye were good Mrs. Pauline -Augusta Brown, MS Cross St. SE; told police that her 23-month-eld eon Richard was scratched 'and bitten about the face and head by a neighbor's cat Thursday. Two stitches were re portedly taken in the eyeball. The owner of the cat was no tified to keep it confined for 14 days to check for rabies. Builing Purchased PORTLAND 'AP The Oregon Mutual Savings'! Bank Saturday said it has purchased the Broadway-Oak . Building :t in downtown Portland for mora than $250,000. The three-story,, building was cold by Mrs. Marguerite Sexton. Oscar Levant Provokes Sponsor, Loses V HOIXYWOOd" (AP)-scar Le vant lost his local television' show Saturday for sntag"oniiing a spon sor. . "it v .Tb pianist with the built-in sneer and add' wit was fired for what a-station spokesman de scribed as "Inexcusable conduct on the air by a, personality." Alvfh D.' Flanagan," general manager of KCQP Channel 13, raid Levant the--directed critical comments at , two rival television program - during : Friday night's flo, :v;r: .. . . . 108th Year $1.2 Million ft' .v 'J . tub- ..V. Y- fj V ' . . (V. CLEVELAND Pastor Chester L. Torrey, world treasurer of Seventh-Day Adventists, turns over portion of offering to taling 11,217,500 to expand missions activity of the church. Brink's guard is Irving Slattery. The Adventists' 48th Quadrennial World Conference is being held here. The offering was brought by delegates from 185 countries. (AP) " ::- - . Attack of 2 Youthful Thugs By JE1RT STONE Staff Writer, The Statesman A spunky Salem cab driver early Saturday morning after city limits in what was apparently a robbery attempt (f icture on page 5.) Cabby Fred Hockett told lunge enabled him to break from his assailants' clutches and flee his vehicle after - be was cracked on the head with a pop bottle. Hockett, about -55, said the in cident happened about 12:45 a.m. on Airport Road a few minutes after he had picked up the two young men 1st a market on 12th Street SE. Fruitless Search State officers conducted a fruit less search through Saturday for the youths, described as "about 17 or 18." The pair obtained no money from their victim. v Hockett, dazed but otherwise ap parently not injured by the blow, said the youth directed him to "drive out toward the Air Force Reserve Armory on Airport Road.'' "We had turned onto Airport Road." recalled the. Yellow Cab employe, "when they ordered me to stop and turn my lights out." "That's when one of them hit me with the bottle." Hockett said one of the pair then climbed in the front seat, grabbed him around the neck and held a finger across his throat with the threat, "I'll slit your throat if you try anything." Don't Get Rough' Hockett recalled telling the thugs they ould "have the money, but don't get rough, boys." Their only apparent weapon was the bottle. "When the one in the front went around to get in the back seat, I figured they were going to tie me up," recounted the veteran driver. "I knew it was now or never so I lunged for the door and guess I caught them' by surprise." Hockett said he sprinted from the cab toward the Air Force Armory and hid In the darkness. He told officers of hearing the youths Jump from the cab and how he expected pursuit But the approach of an other car about that time ap parently caused them to flee. . 1 An attractive girl had appeared on camera to do the commercial. She and . Levant chatted briefly. Then Oscar directed several cut ting remarks at her aid suggested she had been , on camera long enough. The flustered young woman, who had been Introduced as a beauty contest winner, retired without de livering the sales pitch. Within minutes, Levant said he had been advised the sponsor was cancelling its part of his program. Levant blamed frayed nerves 6 SECTIONS-56 PAGES for Missions iiiiim.i.n. iinyif nan -! H v r s Cab Driver escapes escaped from two young thugs being assaulted near the east state police a "now or never' 300 Broken Ash Trays Tip Off Theft Burglary of the Ranch night club, 3260 Portland Rd. NE, was discovered early Saturday morn ing when police found about 300 broken ash trays, strewn for miles on city streets. Officers said broken glass was found from the underpass on Port land Road south to Pine Street, west on Pine to Cherry Avenue and then north for about two miles. Employes of the Ranch said that about four cases of ash trays, valued about $86, were stolen from the back porch sometime after 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Police Skeptical, But Tiger Really Roaming Near Bar OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Police officer John A. Owen was Indul gent when a man rushed up to his patrol car near a bar early Saturday and exclaimed: Offi cer, there's a tiger loose here!" "Sure," soothed Owen. "No," insisted the man. "It's a real tiger. Look!" Owen played his spotlight and looked. Sharpening its claws on a fence outside 3637 Foothill Blvd. WAS a tiger, snarling. Owen called the SPCA, which sent attendants who captured the tiger with a long pole With a wire noose. At 8 a.m. a man telephoned po lice headquarters: "I've lost my tiger." - and a v last-minute change in the show's format for his tirade. "I was supposed to do the com mercial," he said. "Nobody told me until just before ' tHe show went on that someone else was going to do it." "I can read my own poetry which is better than those com mercialsso I thought I could han dle the commercial," Levant said the suspension left him in "a good-natured, outrage ous mood." ."Al Flanagan told me I'd be off GOP Yells For Scalp Of Adams Successor Hunt Talk Squelched WASHINGTON (AP)-Fresh Republican demands arose Sat urday night for the ouster of President Eisenhower's chief aide because of what National Pemocratic Chairman Paul Butler blasted as "the Sherman Adams mess." The White House stood firm be hind Adams, denying reports that Eisenhower is looking around for a successor to his No. 1 assistant. Interior Sec. Fred A. Seaton was a rumored possibility. Vice President Richard Nixon, who may become the party's standard bearer in 1960, counseled fellow Republicans to take it easy and Quit fighting among them selves. Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark), whose House Commerce subcom mittee investigation of federal alphabet agencies started the up-i roar, announced that the inquiry will go on through the summer and perhaps into the fall. Hot Words from Butler Hot words came from Democrat ic Chairman Butler in f speech prepared for a party dinner in Omaha. Butler said In his text the Eisenhower administration is set ting new records in corruption, wrongdoing, giveaways, and influ ence peddling. Unlike many other Republicans, Nixon was represented as feeling the Adams controversy will not have much effect on the Novem ber elections. One of those taking an oppo sing view was Rep. Richard M. Simpson, (R-Pa), chairman of the GOP. Congressional Campaign Committee. Simpson told report ers it was his own belief that the Adams affair "can only be harm ful" to the GOP at the ballot box this fall; Poll Reveals Sentiment Associated Press reporters in terviewed citizens at' random in 14 representative cities across the nation and put together this gen eral picture: About three fourths of 124 per sons questioned felt it was wrong for Adams to accept gifts from Gold tine; others thought it was all right or at least had no specific criticism. Those interviewed split about evenly on whether Adams should leave his Job. Sen. Richard Neuberger (D Ore) urged an inquiry to deter mine where the administration stands on accepting gifts from persons naving Dusiness Deiore federal agencies. Canby Man Dies Beneath Tractor CANBY (AP)-Andrew Kehrli, 68, was crushed to death beneath a tractor in a farm field near here late Saturday. Sheriff's deputies said it appear ed that Kehrli fell off the tractor as it was backing up. The vehicle then rolled over him. A passing motorist discovered the body. "We have one," replied the po lice. The man arrived and identified himself as Robert Ketchum, 31, a merchant marine boatswain's mate who said animal trainer trainer Clyde Beatty had given him the cub soon after it was born on a voyage to this country from India. He said the tiger, named Sirung a hindu word meaning boss man was of Bengali extraction and eventually would grow to weigh 800 to 1,000 pounds. It's only 40 now. "He's a wonderful pet," Ketch um said. "But he's getting hard to manage. He get restless." Sirung, confined to a garage, had escaped by smashing a win dow. until I was in better health," said Oscar, an admitted hypochondri ac. "1 told him I'd never be in better health." Later in -Friday night's show, Levant announced that he had de cided to adopt the philosophy of passive resistance. He asked his audience not to buy any of the irate sponsor's products until the com pany returned to his program. There was pixyish smile on Oscar's face as he muds the re quest, but later he repeated it, saying: "LeYf fight the power. FOUNDID 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Reprimanded QUANTICO, Va. Adm. Ar leigh Burke, chief of Naval Operations, was reprimand ed Saturday by Secretary of Defense Neil McEIroy. (AP) Navy Chief Rapped by McEIroy QUANTICO, Va. (AP) - Secre tary of Defense McEIroy said Sat urday Adm. -Arleigh Burke, the chief of naval operations, made a regrettable mistake in opposing some parts .of President Eisen hower's Pentagon - reorganization plan. 1 McEIroy coupled this public rep remand with praise for Burke, but did not fully foreclose a possibility that the admiral might be re moved from his post as the Navy's top uniformed officer. The defense secretary said he Is not recommending any change in Burke's status to President Eisen hower, who would make the final decision on any such shift. But McEIroy added to reporters that neither Burke nor anyone "could fait to be conscious of the degree of interest of the President as expressed in his quite emphatic language" in favor of his reor ganization plan. Eisenhower has described as "legalized insubordination" one provision of a revised reorganiza tion bill passed by the House, Burke did not join in urging the Senate to change it. At a news conference held at the end of the annual defense secre taries' conference at the Marine base here, McEIroy was asked about Burke's opposition to two of the changes which Eisenhower and McEIroy have urged the Sen ate to make In the House version, The secretary by implication left open the question of whether an angered Eisenhower might be considering removing Burke. Methodists Tell Plan for Hospital MILWAUKIE, Ore. (AP)-Ore- gon Methodist-Homes Inc. Satur day announced plans for a 24- milllon dollar hospital here for the chronically 111. The Rev. Edward Terry will supervise the construction. He was appointed the executive di rector of the organization by Bish op A. R. Grant following the close of the Oregon Methodist Confer ence Friday night. Today's Statesman Page Sec. 12 II 25-28 IV ....1-8 VI 25 IV 19 Ill 4...... I Ann Landers Classified Comics Crossword Don't Look Now. Editorials , Family Weekly ...1-20...... V Garden News ......9, 10 II Home Panorama. 15-21 III Obituaries - 5 I Radio-TV 11,12 II Sports ...23,24 IV Star Gaxer 12 II Sunday Quix 4... I Valley News .-.13, 14...... II (eo Snow game with the power game." The action against Levant marked the second time he had been dropped by- Channel 13. Months earlier; a panel show of which he was moderator, was dis continued by the station following public protests over assertedly vulgar remarks he made on the air. He returned to the station a lKtle more than three months ago. Oscar's 85-minuta show started out one night weekly, but its popular ity soon . extended it to - three nights. -v v : . '. . ' Salem, Oregon, Sunday, June Go dart's Decree SdaspeGnds Litth dock's Dimtegira'&Dn American Troops Use In Lebanon 'Unlikely' WASHINGTON (AP)-American officials said Saturday that any use of U.S. troops in Lebanon is remote and highly unlikely. This estimate was at some variance with the impression lett ty secretary o( state Dulles four days ago that U.S. military action would be taken under cer tain conditions to preserve Lcb-' anon's independence. The quesUons put to Dulles at his Tuesday news conference dealt i with U.S. troop use and possible ! military action inside and outside the frame of the United Nations. He replied: , "If there were a call made for us to participate physically in that effort, I think we would be inclined to go along with that. . . 6th Fleet Watching "I'm aware of the fact that the 6th Fleet is watching the situa tion; some of its elements are close to the situation: that thev have on a rotating basis elements which could, if need be, respond to appropriate invitation." But informed officials sav he was not necessarily talking about sending U.S. troops into rebel-rid den Lebanon. They said "to par ticipate physically" could mean simply sending small arms. ieeDs. white helicopters and searchlights 10 u.n. observers alone the rocky Lebanon-Syrian frontier. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Pre mier Sami Solh said Saturday the Leoanese government vl not ask V. S.-British help unless a U. N. mission fails to stop the fighting in revon-snaum Leoanon. Team Insnfflcleit But Solh was reported to have 101a u. n. secretary General Dag nammarsKioia mat in govern ment of President Camille Cha- moun does not consider sufficient a u. N. team that limits its work to observing and reporting bach? 10 ine u.jn. security Council. The government Is known to want a guard force to seal off its borders and prevent the United Arab Republic of Syria and Egypt from continuing its alleged help 10 uiamoun s iocs. Hammarskjold left here Satur day after more than 48 hours of comerences, heading to Amman and Jerusalem for talks on the Israeli-Jordan Mt. Scopus dispute, and then to Cairo to discuss as pects of the LebaneseNsituation. NORTHWEST LIAGUB At Lcwiiton S, Salem 1 At Wenatche II, Eurrn S At Yktms S, Trinity 'i PACIFIC COAST I.EAGUf ' rortiana 7, Vancouver S At Sacramento 4, Phoenix S At San Dleso 7, Spokane S At Salt Lake City 2, Seattle I AMERICAN LEAGUE At Detroit 1, New York At Kaniai City I, Boiton S At Cleveland 7, Waihlnrton 11 At Chicago 1, BalUmore NATIONAL LEAGUE ' At FDIIadelpnla-gan FTanclico (poitpoaed, rain) -At PltUborrh II, Loi Angeles 1 At Milwaukee 1, St. Louie t At Cincinnati , Chicago 3 . '49ers Add 3 .t.-wwrV KEIZER Larry Himm (left) and ...... M W - 'f. . " s ' "Jj-- " ' 'ijp.i' " i ; 1 1 mmmrJPi, iiiyi- parade Saturday with an en try "complete with a burrow reminiscent of '49er gold, nth daya. (Story on Vallej Pajt 13.) (Stateimu Photo.) .ttteamau 22, 1951 Salem Tot Injured in Crib Fire A Salem tot was severely burned Saturday afternoon while she slept in her crib at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. G. 0. Boyce, 1870 Market St. fiE. Screams alerted the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lockwood, and they ran upstairs to rescue Vivian, about 13 months, from the burning crib. She was taken to Salem Me morial Hospital where supervisors said she received first and second degree scattered burns of the arms, face, legs and abdomen. Her condition was "f a i r" Saturday nighf, hospital attendants said. Firemen said the fire started about 2:45 p.m. when curtains be came entangled in an electric fan which caused the fan motor to overheat. The burning curtains then fell into the crib, firemen re lated. The crib . was destroyed and about $200 in damage was incur red to another bed. wall paper and iioor, firemen said. The Lockwooos. who are in the process of moving from Portland, were staying at me errandmother'a residence. Lockwood is a civil en gineer for the State Highway De partment. Their new residence is 1585 Saginaw St. S. Water Claims 2 Persons in State Mishaps OREGON CITY (AP)-One'man was drowned when ' a boat cap sized In the Willamette River Sat urday, pitching four men into the water. Police said the victim was Wil liam Winkley. 39. Orecon Citv. His body was not recovered im mediately. Police said the other men swam ashore. They were William Elliott, 50; Dennis Zimmerman, 30; and Donald Maclnnis, 35, all of Ore gon City. CLATSKANIE (AP) - Police Saturday found the body of Charles Godfrey in Columbia Slough. His rowboat had been found floating nearby several hours earlier. The se-year-old ' Godfrey" had lived alone on a houseboat near here. Flavor to Parade at Keizer f , , v f V---, ',.. Duane Sinford helped flavor PRICE 10c Gives Order LITTLE ROCIU-Judge Harry Lemley who decreed delay in school integration. (AP) Salem Miss Wins Trip to Girls Nation A Salem girl, Edith Brown, won first place in a speaking contest Saturday night at Girls State for the right to represent Oregon at Girls Nation next month in Wash ington, D. C. Edith, who was a North Salem High School Junior tlhmyear. i the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Brown, 170 19th St. NE. Second-place winner in the com petition which closed the week- long Girls State at Willamette Uni versity was Charlene Snider, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Snider, Portland. She also will be a delegate to Washington. Two alternates were chosen. First alternate is Joann Aldahl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Al dahl, Hood River. Second alter nate is Sherrie Fraser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fraser, Moro. . - , Twelve candidates, two selected by the 40 girls in each of six gov ernmental units in the mythical state, competed for the expense- paid trip with three- minute speeches. Judges were William M. McAl lister, associate Justice of Oregon Supreme Court; James Douglas, WU professor of English; Miss Kathryn Zorn, assistant attorney general; Mrs. Richard Petrie, wife of a WU official. (Add. details page () The Weather Today's forecast: Continued fair and warm, little change In temperature. High' today near 95, low tonight near 60. (Complete report paf 1) Keizer's annual "Western L.-.W'-,'.-'..! Comparison How does Salem and the? West Coast compare with the East and Deep South econom ically, socially and politically? Read the series by J. Wesley Sullivan, Statesman news ed itor just back from a year's study at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow, starting to day on page 4. No. 92 Breather Granted By Judge LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) "In the public interest, in cluding the interest of both Negro and white students," U.S. Dist. Judge Harry J. Lem ley of Hope Saturday granted Central High School a' breathing spell from racial integration. The veteran Arkansas jurist granted a school board request for a 2-year suspension of its gradual plan for public school de segregation. Under Lemley's ruling, the sev en Negro students still enrolled at Central at the end of the past school year would be barred from the 2,000-pupil high school this September. ; Wiley Branton of Pine Bluff, at torney for the National Assn., for the Advancement of Colored Peo pie, filed notice of appeal here ' and asked in a motion that Lemley grant a stay of execution of his order until the appeal is heard in higher court. High Court Action Branton said that if Lemley re fuses to stay the order, the' mo tion could be taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Lemley granted a hearing on the stay of motion for Monday. The appeal would be heard in the 8th VS. Circuit Court of Ap peals at St. Louis. A notice of appeal is a legal formality filed te let the court know that an ap peal to a higher court will be made. 'None of the seven Negroes en rolled at Central High could be reached for comment on Lemley's ruling and - Branton said they would make no statements. Gov. Orval Faubus, whose na tional guardsmen last September turned away Negroes seeking te enroll in Central, commented: "The Negro citizens of the com munity would do well te accept to day's ruling, which will do much to re-establish the normal and friendly relations which prevailed here before .... This is not ft final settlement of this problem, but it can prove a peaceful inter lude." 'Action Outrageous' In Washington, Chairman Eman uel Celler (D-NY) of the House Judiciary Committee called Lem ley's action outrageous. He said a subcommittee he heads will start hearings next Wednesday on civil rights, adding: "I snail cause care ful scrutiny to be made of the conditions out of which this deci sion arises." The school board last Feb. 28 asked the federal district court to suspend integration at Central High School until mid-Semester, 1961, on the grounds that incidents and tensions stemming .from the presence of the Negro students had adversely affected the educa tional prosess. The board said it could see no improvement in the situation if the Negroes were permitted to re turn this fall. Lemley, 74, heard .the case here June 3-5. In reaching his decision, Lemley wrote in a 35-page opin ion: "The. importance of maintaining education standards today is cer tainly no less than it has been in prior years; in fact it is more ur gent. And while the Negro stu dents at Little Rock have a per sonal Interest in being admitted to the public schools on a non-discriminatory basis as soon as prac ticable, that interest is only one factor of the equation, and must be balanced against the public in terest, including the interest of all students and potential stu dents .... Eliminating Strife There is also another public in terest involved, namely, that of eliminating, or at least ameliorat ing, the unfortunate racial strife and tension which existed in Lit tle Rock during the past year and still exists there." Lemley said the granting of the board's petition did not constitute a yielding to unlawful force or vio lence but that simply an exercise of equitable discretion and good judgment so as to allow a breath ing spell in Little Rock and pre serve education standards. . His decision was another chap ter in the Little Rock crisis which began last September when, on the eve of the first year of inte gration at Central High, Gov. Fabus surrounded the school with national guardsmen. On his orders, the state troops turned back nine Negro students who attempted to enroll at Central und r a federal court order ap proving a. Plan for gradual Inte gration. 3 T7":i,i