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"Iff 003 CGX1 Angler Tl I mmsxi POUNDBD 1651 January U named after the Roman god Janus, the one that faced two ways. That it the cus tomary time for business to look both backward! and forward. Really though each month, or each week, even, In 1957 hat been a January of aorta, a casting of the eye backward! and forwards. Bus iness Just can't quite make up its collective mind which way it is headed through 1957. Is inflation ahead? Or is it going to be the bust of deflation? Even the professional economists are hedging their prog . noslticatlons. In recent days Wall street seems to have got the' whiffs of better times: at least the prices of stocks managed to forge ahead after a considerable period of uncertainty or decline But much of this gain has been among the international oil stocks which took a beating over the Sues events of 1956. With the canal open and the pumpers nd pipelines and tankers working oil it flowing again. Fact is the international oil companies report ed Dig gains in profits lor the first quarter of the year what they may have lost on Middle East oil stoppage was more than gained in expansion of other operations. Countering this sign of optimism are the minus figures , on first quarter comparisons for many lines of manufacturing and trade. Foul weather and late Easter hurt retail trade over most of the na tion and the April i putt failed to CCeathmed a Editorial Page 4) Solons'Can Prove' Beck Stole Funds WASHINGTON. April 26 Un Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel for the Senate Rackets Investigat ing Committee, laid today there "is no question that we could prove" Dave Beck stole 1320,000 in Teamsters Union funds. ' Kennedy made the statement in an NBC - TV radio interview "Meet the Press" in answering questions , about the allegations made against Beck ' when the Teamsters president testified be fore the committee. Chairman McClellaa D - Ark) hurled the charge then of theft against Beck, Beck in interviewi said he "bor rowed" the money from the un ion. He refused to answer ques tions about union funds under oath before the committee. Kennedy aatd the , committee plans to recall Beck for further questioning despite his refusal to answer question jn .big. ling, ap pearance; .,.. ' , Kennedy . Mid the committee was "not going over the tame stuff" in its new quizzing of Beck. This, he said, would involve an in quiry into companies in which Beck, his wife or bis relatives had a financial interest and which had dealings with the Teamsters Un ion. Interest In .this field, Kennedy ' said, was the reason behind the committee's search . for four key witnesses who "have disap peared" for, several weekt. Throe were identified yesterday as Fred Verscbueren Sr., top Teamsters Union auditor; Dave Beck Jr., and two relatives of the senior Mrs. Beck, Joseph McAvoy, and Norman Gessert, a cousin. Furniture Plant Struck by Blaze PORTLAND, April 26 (Jf) A fire broke out in the B. P. John Furniture Corp. plant ' in the southwest industrial district of Portland today. Twenty pieces of fire equip ment, Including fireboats, sped to the scene and managed to confine the blaze to the south section of the four-story : structure. There was no immediate esti mate of damage. Today's Statesman '. 'age Sec. , Ann landers ........6.... I Classified 12, 13 .11 Comics II. II - Crossword 10 II Editorials ........4... Home Panorama ..I.6.. I Obituaries .......S..r.. I Radio-TV 1 1L.II "Sports ... 10 II Star Oaier .6. I Valley News . M ...II Wlrephote Page .l 1.ll Cancer Cells light Up Like Neon' in New Test , By RENNIE. TAYLOR AP Science Reporter LOS ANGELES, April 21 Uf Cancer cells light themselves up like neon signs in a procedure de- scribed here today as a possible quick, simple method of detecting malignancy. The fast-growing diseased cells glow a brilliant orange. Neighbor ing normal cells also glow,, but lest brightly. The difference can be detected even by persons un trained ia laboratory techniques. This procedure probably can be developed into a new kind of can cer test. Mid Dr. Ludwig Von Bertalanffy. of ML Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles. He described it to the California Medical Assn. ' .The tfcnniqui is somewhat S f . . - 107th Tear SECTIONS-.; PAGES Tha Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, April 1, ltS7 PRICI l No, 33 Jordan King Rejects Plan for Diplomatic TieupWith Russians By TOM AMMAN, Jordan. April thumbs down today on diplomatic ties with Soviet .Russia and thus disposed of an issue that helped spark the Jordanian crisis. While his security forces pressed a roundup of Communists and other elements suspected of promoting unrest, theyoung monarch got around to rejecting a resolution adopted three Action Due On Taxes, Rail Laws By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor, The Statosmaa Taxes and railroad regulation provide two hot issues in the Legislature today at Oregon's Ct' pilot. The lawmakers are heading for final action on their toughest problems in hopes they can ad' journ their long session by about May IS. Today. , is their 106th day in session. House debate Is scheduled for this morning on the two main planks of the Democratic tax program announced 10 days ago, House Bill 1 would revise personal income tax at about the current Legislature Today ! ft J a.m. Senate local gov ernment committee considering SB 418 on off-street parking fa cilities for cities, Room 301. ' M a.m. House and Senate meet; 105th day. ' 1 p. as. Senate game com mittee hearing on SB 440 and 461, regulating poisons and traps, Room 300. . . ' ... '; -i I p.m. Senate education committee considering HB 161 on school district reorganisation,' Room 410, : I , m. Senate highways' committee- hearing on SB TO to increase Highway Commission from three to five members. Room 30. " - - ' rates but with full withholding, House Bill 790 would raise an esti mated $6,000,000 more- from cor porations and utilities. With the strong Democratic ma jority in the House and no counter plans in sight, the bills are expect ed to be passed speedily on to the Major Debate Te Senate will have a major debate today, too, on Senate Bill i to allow the public utilities commissioner to regulate mini mum railroad freight rates. PUC authority now covers maximum rates but not the minimum!. The Senate also win act on several major appropriations bills, including $0 million for the State Hospital, which were pasted last week by the House. - In the House today, a calendar of some 20 bills up for final vote will Include the once-controversial relative responsibility act amend' ments. As now recommended by the Senste, the bill (SB 01 will orobablv oats. It would eliminate about three-fourths of the persons now required to help support par ents receiving welfare aid. Repeal Advocated 1 Repeal of the entire law was advocated by many, but the Sen ate instead scaled down the re quired payments drastically. The House also will act on the urban renewal -legislation which was defeated but brought back for reconsideration. . The hottest education bill key district formula for distributing state school funds to local dist ricts has been scheduled for debate in the House at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday. - . After it was passed by the Sen ate, this measure was overhauled by the House education commit tee in a compromise designed to meet the strong opposition of Portland and Eastern Oregon. (AddlllMat details oa Page 4.) more accurate and much simpler than the famed Papanicolaou smear test for cancer of the cer vix or mouth of the womb. Dr. Berthalanffy , reported. Like the Papanicolaou test, it is used on smear of excretions from sus pected tissues, but it can be used also oa .almost of any kind of specimen, dead or alive. , A kind of dye' called acridine orange is used to baths the speci men, j. Ultraviolet light thrown on the specimen then causes the glow. It gives a green tint to one of the principal components of the cell nucleus called desoxyribonucleic acid. To another Important com ponent, ribonucleic acid, which ex ists in the cell but outside the nu cleus, it gives the orange glow. ImMsIEBSON 28 (AP)-KJne Hussein turned weeks ago by the government of leftist Suleiman Nabulsi for an exchange of envoys between Am man and Moscow. Hussein fired Nabulsi April 10, shortly after the resolution came out, and set off the chain of events which now finds the desert king dom quiet under martial law. The King had asked Nabulsi 's govern ment to launch an anti-Communist propaganda campaign. Parliament Saspeaded A Jordanian radio broadcast beard in the Israeli sector of Jeru salem said King Hussein decreed immediate suspension of the extra ordinary session of Jordan'! Par liament Sunday. Communications lrom Amman were subject to cen sorship and delay. 1 - Military authorities, directed by Defense Minister Sulieman Toukan eased considerably what once was a nearly total curfew; No incidents have ' occurred since martial law was imposed Thursday and the Arab Legion, the King's loyal and predominant ly Bodouin army, started arresting Communists, other left-wing; lead en and extreme nationalists.' Cabinet AkeUaked The powerful Police Steering Committee has been abolished by the Cabinet of the new Premier, 09-year-old Ibrahim Hashen. The committee was composed of rep resentatives of most of Jordan's political parties and was generally considered to be dominated by leftists. A great number' of Communists and "other elements who tried to spread chaos1 and disturbances' was reported arrested.' Youths on Raft Visit Salem Two youths oa a raft apparently made of boards supported by old innertubes floated into Salon Sun day afternoon on Willamette River. They gave their names as Jim- mie Kellogg and Gary Reno, both of Albany, and said they started their voyage about 5 a.m. "near Eugene," Robert Hulletto of Sa lem Yacht ft Boating Club, who questioned them from a passing boat, reported. They arrived at Wallace Marine Park about 4 p.m, On the Brighter Side Salem Zoo High School art classes taught by Donald Walton. Student James Wilson is pictured hold ing a near lire-sized Kangaroo. The figures will be presented Ister te children's wards in both Salem hospitals, - High yater Forces San Antonio Family SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April wades to safety here today from flood waters that took 3 MacLaren Youths Halted By Gunfire THE DALLES. April St ( - Three 16-year-old boys who ran away 'from MacLaren School at Woodburn Saturday were captured tonight in The Dalles by city po licemen who chased them for one half mile and fired two shots into the car in which they were riding. The boys were listed by state po lice as Ronald Dicinuo, Tigard; Darrel J. Wilson. Cave Junction; Robert Mayfield Jr., Klamath Falls The Dalles Police Sgt. Bill Esson said police spotted the boys ap proaching the city and fired one warning shot- into the air as they gave chase before firing twice into the car. which later was found to have been stolen from Oregon City. TbJoy were Jke)4 ml chaifft of auto theft, ha said. Mayflower Halfway To Azoit Islands PENZANCE, England, April 28 if) The Pilgrim replica ship May flower II, bound for the United States, radioed today it is halfway between Lisbon sfnd the Azores. She was sailing in a moderate northerly wind and skipper Allan Villiers reported "all is well." V r. Everything from bowlegged cowboys te long-necked giraffes Is Included In this disnlav of naoer mache figures constructed by Parrtsh Junior 28 This unidentified family after, they had been rescued , over their home. They, were: Drenched Texas Faces More Floods; 2 Drown DALLAS, Tex., April 28 raked Texas from the Panhandle to the Gulf today; sending new flood threats surging over the water-logged state. Two persons were dsowned at Dallas and, others, were reported missing over the state. ( . Reports from stricken areas since the floods started last Theft Charge Results From New Car Tags . SUtesawa Mtwi service'-' SILVEKTON, April JS A Salem man was charged today with driv ing a car with stolen license plates when a SUverton police officer be came curious about where be got new plate on Sunday. Charged was Dwight Junior Crowder, 1946 N. Commercial St., Marion County sheriff s deputies said. Officer Harold Kattre, who said he had called Crpwder's at tention to the fact that his tabs had expired early this morning, stopped Mm. again this afternoon on notic ing that he had new .plates. He found that they had been reported stolen, he said. Crowder was scheduled to appear in District Court in Salem Monday. John Ericksen Hi rescued by a neighbor in the area who pot hit boat into service and brought several families out. Many of these home bad to be evacuated three ef last lour days. (AP) (AP) - Violent rain and hail storms weec indicates: ai least s,ow per- sons had been evacuated from or had left their homes because of the high water.. New severe thunderstorm warn ings were issued this afternoon in the wake ef torrential downpours of up to 7.20 inches that lashed sections of the state earlier ia the day. Overnijht - rains of up to six inches and hail storms that piled stones as deep as nine inches bit the state. Town Isolated .!". :.j Graford (population 653) In Palo Pinto County fat reported iso lated this afternoon after 7.10 inches of rain flooded the town. A1 doctor was sent by helicopter from Camp Wolters at Mineral Wells after the town sent out a call for medical aid. Graford is roiuthly SO miles west of Fort Worth. The town of Braxos, between Weatherford and Granbury, was reported isolated.' Four inches of rain at Brecken- ridge forced evacuation of a dozen families after the rain-swollen Gonzales, Creek started flooding homes.' - t,N May Flee High, w'ater from the flooding Guadalupe forced evacuation of at least a score of families at Vic toria. A heavy rise was reported on its way and officials estimated 2,000 persons might have to be evacuated by noon tomorrow, Cloudbursts dumped five inches of rain in the Victoria area. About 20 blocks were reported under water. . Clarendon in the Panhandle had hailstones ranging ' in size from marbles to golf balls piled up nine inches deep. Road graders were used to clear the highways. Baby Born High Over Swiss Alps In Helicopter SION, Switzerland. April W- A Swiss dpepr s wife gave birth to a baby boy in a helicopter high above the Swiss Alps today. The baby, who arrived two months prematurely was placed in an ox ygen tent at Sion Hospital imme diately after the helicopter landed, but died four hours later,' The mother,, Mrs. . Romaine 1 EL- ener, lives in the remote village of Fafleralp, at an altitude of 1,000 feet, where her husband. Franz, is the village doctor. Dr. Ebener ur gently summoned a Swiss glacier pilot te take his wife to Sion Hos pital, and was with her Jn the heli copter when the baby was born. He said the baby died only be cause it was premature. Nortkwrat Vn mm AC nurm i, Yakima T At Tri-Cllv IS, Ltwlifaa I At WeulchM S, SuM I rarlflr CMit Unh ' ' S-t At Srrmf 4.1, Lm Aaftlai S-! 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The M-member all-woman or chestra ia en route to Europe, where it will present concerts at Stockholm, Paris, London, Hel sinki, Oslo and Brussels as well as in uermany, Italy, Turkey, Greece and Morocco. Its major appearance will be at the tamed Bersen .Music Festival in Norway. Between June IS and July 18 it will entertain VJ3. servicemen at various overseas bases. , , It will be 'the third overseas tour for the group, most of whom are students at various Portland colleges.. Mouse Joins Kitten Litter For Lunch LOS ANGELES, April 2S () Chef Al Orozco was proud of the cat he got to keep mice out of the coffee shop storeroom. And happy, too, when Baby had a litter of four kittens. Then he discovered the intruder, A black field mouse had squeezed in amongst Baby's four new' kittens, and all five were nursing from the unconcerned mother cat. "What a cat," mused Orozco. "We have her to keep mice out of our storeroom and just look at her. She thinks more of that mouse than she does of her kit tens. Keeps the mouse spotless, always nuzzling and licking it. "And that mouse," the chief re flected, "I guess he never heard about cats." ' - "Baby knows what she's doing," commented one observer. "She's fattening it up." Light Quakes Jar San Francisco SAN 'FRANCISCO, April 28 Of Two light earthquakes joggled the Bay area early today. The first, at 4:11 a.m., was re corded at the University of . Cali fornia at an intensity of 1 on the Rkhter scale. Tbe second, at 4:05:24 p.m. was 2 on the seismograph. End to Poverty in U.S. Seen Within 10 Years LOS ANGELES. April 28 Ul - Poverty will be abolished in the United States within 10 years, a University . of Michigan professor predicted today. It's within our financial com petence to do It, and I believe we will," said Dr. Wilbur J. Cohen. 'But it will take -an organized program relying heavily, on uni versities, te do the research and turn out the trained personnel," be added In a press statement. Dr. Cohen, chairman of the Pub lic Health Studies Commission of Michigan and formerly director of research for the Social Security Administration, currently ; is a visiting lecturer at UCLA's School of Social Welfare. Fall From 75-Foot Cliff Near Coast Kills Willamina Youth Five persons diedfour by drowning and one in a f ali as the warmest weather of the year drew Oregon residents to streams and lakes to try their luck on the second day of the state's trout season, The Associated Press reported. . The 16-vear-old son of Willamina High Schools Drincfoal fell to his death over a while fishinc on ue nestucca Kiver near the coast. The Yamhill County coroner's of fice said the victim, Jerald Wayne Anderson, son of Anderson, had become from companions six miles east(of Blaine about dusk when the tragedy occurred. A search party found the body about t pjn. on a gravel bar at the base of the sheer cliff. Authorities acid a huge reek,, apparently loosened in tbe youth's fall, fell on him. Indications were that young An derson failed to see the edge of the cliff in the gathering darkness, Site of the tragedy was some 35 miles west of Willamina. Victunof Lake Ivan Haddix. , of Coquille drowned in Siltcoos Lake on the Oregon Coast Sunday. A boat from which be and Walter Combs of Co quille were fishing overturned. Combs clung to the upset boat and drifted ashore an hour later. But Haddix battled to stay afloat with a life preserver. Henry Jeske, St, of Eugene. drowned at the upper end of Look out Point Reservoir when a boat overturned. His wife and their daughter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Richards of Eugene, got to shore. John Ratman, IS, of Trontdale stepped into a deep bole while wading in the Sandy River at Troutdale. He was sucked under by the swift current and drowned The boy was to have celebrated his 14th birthday anniversary Monday. Sandy Toath Drowns Larry McDonald, 16, of Sandy drowned in a stock pond when he slipped from a log raft. The warmest temperatures of the year and a clear-aired view of distant snow capped mountains called mid-Willamette Valley res idents outdoors in their shirt sleeves Sunday, The vie ft) ro -was thai same throughout the Pacific Northwest McNary Field weathermen said another clear, warm day could be expected but there was a chance ef thundershowers tonight and a siege of cooler weather with show ers was due to move in Tuesday. 2f Above Normal - The McNary Field temperature held around S5 from about 1 to i p.m. Sunday. It was 20 degrees above normal for the date and the warmest April 2t in 10 years, weathermen said. Traffic was heavy, state police said, but no major accidents were reported. - Fishing spots were crowded but not as jammed as they had been the day before for opening; of the general trout season. Fred Snider, resort operator at Detroit Lake, estimated about 4.S00 trying their luck Sunday compared with (,000 Saturday. - British A-Tests Set LONDON. April 28 UW The San day Express said today Britain will start tests of its H-bombe at Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean"any day after May 16." The Weather Today's forecasts Fair, warm. Clouds late today, chance ef thundershowers tonight. High 2, tow 45. (Complete raport pas i) British Paper Grumbles at Queen's Interest in Horses By GEOFFREY MILLER LONDON, April 2S The mass circulation newspaper Sun day Pictorial grumbled today that Queen Elizabeth goes to the races too often. - A Pictorial -columnist "bet" that He suggested a three-point pro gram whereby universities might help the United States bdeome the "first country in history to abolish poverty." 1. Greatly increased research fo ascertain why people get into fi nancial and other , difficulties which make them dependent on the government. 2. Training ' of social workers skilled in aiding dependent fami lies become independent. - J. Medical research and the training of doctors and other med ical personnel to rehabilitate the disabled and make them financial ly independent and productive citizens. 75-foot cliff early Saturday evening r Giant furnace baears Sun's Temperature BALTIMORE, April OB- The Air Force announced today devel opment of a giant solar furnace to produce temperatures up to i, 000 degrees Fahrenheit 70 per cent as hot as the sun's surface. The Air Research and Develop ment Command and its physicists at Holloman (NJH.) Air Develop ment Center are designing the fur nace to harness the sun's rays. The announcement said It would be "more efficient than the lart est existing solar furnace at ML Louis in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain." The furnace it to be used br the Air Force. Army. Navy. At. omic Energy Commission, Nation al Advisory Committees for Aero nautics and various industries en gaged in national defense work. The ARDC said its most fre quent use would Be studying the effects ef rapid temperature changes on metals used in missile structures. . Cabinet Shifts Seen at End Of Congress 1 WASHINGTON. April 28 Iff President Eisenhower's Cabinet is likely to remain intact until Con gress completes its work later this year. That is the belief ef some ef the President's associates who are frankly looking for some changes to be made this falL These associates retard recent speculation on the possible resig nation el Secretary of the Treas ury Humphrey as prematura. They say. however, that Hum phrey may step out after Congress has completed its work en the Ei senhower budget and has had a look at possible tax reductions for next year. If Humphrey coes then, these associates say Robert B. Ander son, former deputy secretary of defense, is a food bet to take avar the Treasury portfolio. Although Anderson had been considered as a possible successor to secretary of Defense Wilson, former Secretary of the Air Force Donald A. Quarles has moved into that picture. There have been indications for some time that Wilson would want to retire after Congress quits. Young Stanley' to Follow Livingston -Trail in Africa CAMBRIDGE, England. April ' 26 A young Stanley will follow the old Livingstone trail In Africa. He Is Dick Stanley, grandson of Sir Henry Stanley, the Americas journalist who found Dr. David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer lost in Africa in 7L ," Stanley and three fellow stu dents st Cambridge propose to fol low the course of Livingstone's travels from Zanzibar on the east coast' to the Belgian Congo this summer. They will travel in two automobiles. the Queen's husband. Prince Phil ip, is' bored by her passion for horses. And he suggested many Britons disapprove of the Queen's interest in a sport connected with gambling. - . ; ., The article appeared after a week in which the Queen's horses won 10,000 pounds 128,000 -i ia prize' money and the Queen had been photographed sitting inform ally among crowds at the Badmin ton horse trials.. - , The pictorial filled its front page with pictures of the Queen and her party squatting on the grass at the. trials and the prince sitting at the far end of the line from his wife and looking distinctly bored. The pictures appeared under a banner headline "Odd Man Out, Columnist Red North wrote that the prince was in "a rather offish mood." "He seemed quite determined tb . linger in the background and ait by himscil," Norm added. "He al so staged a private sartorial revo lution by wearing an ordinary town lounge suit and st horsey Badminton. ' "Why? Ill have a bet Polo laying Prince Philip Is bored by the Queen's passion for borses and horse-racing.' - '