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Newspaper Page TextCLOUDY CITY EDITION (Weather Report, Page 1-C) HOME NEWSPAPER. 89th Year, No. 80 TWO SECTIONS 20 PAGES Eugene, Oregon, Monday, March 21, 1955 phone 5-1551 Price, 5 Cents XANE COUNTY'S JUL. V ""4. FX T n Ida VdMy. ' . . ( (Photo by Dale A. Kelley, Wiltshire engraving) FIRE HALL BURNS Members of the Veneta Volunteer Fire Dept. aided their col leagues of the Western Lane Fire Patrol Sunday afternoon when a crew house of the fire patrol caught fire. The house, about a quarter-mile south of Veneta on the Ter ritorial Road, received about $2,000 damage in its upstairs section. The fire was thought to have started from a defective chimney while members of the patrol were away from the building. The Calendar Spring's Here Spring came to the Emerald Empire at 1:36 a.m. Monday, but its first few hours couldn't stack up with the sunny spell of winter's last days. The weatherman, asked if Mon day's clouds and trace of rain were the end of the sunny days of last week, said "not necessarily," but that's as far as he would go without his 5-day forecast which was due for release Tuesday. The last day of winter in the Emerald Empire was a Sunday for picnics. Parks in the Willam ette, McKenzie and coastal for ests did a land office business. Along the Willamette from the Ferry Street Bridge in Eugene to the bridge at Springfield, kids shed their shoes and braved the icy water for some wading. Fishermen, impatient for the first day of trout season, unlim bered their casting arms by stalk ing bass in the sloughs along the Willamette and at Fern Ridge lake. In Eugene Sunday a lot of lawns got their first trimming, a few houses were getting repaint jobs and some gardens got spaded. But people who are prone to take "official openings " seriously, were Cautioned thai the 1:36 a.m. spring opening, is something that comes straight from the .slide rules of astronomers and mathe maticians. They would do well to heed the advice of a Eugene oldster who swears the Emerald Empire doesn't have spring, just winter and summer, and summer some times doesn't arrive until August, when a fellow can pretty weli count on going downtown without his overshoes. Unified Command LONDON liP Russia and her satellites have decided to set up a unified military command, the Soviet Foreign Ministry an nounced Monday. U.S. Steel Chairman Cites Need for Investor Confidence WASHINGTON GH Benjamin Fairlcss of U. S. Steel said Mon day the steel industry hasn't done right in the past by its owners American investors. His own company has been try ing "by every proper means" to build investor confidence, U. S. Steel's board chairman said in testimony prepared for the Sen ate Banking Committee's soon-to-end stock market hearings. NEW CONTROVERSY The inquiry chined up a new political row over the weekend. This latest issue: Did or did not n nrpvinnc n-itnocc Hai-varr! economist John Kenneth Gal bruith. praise communism in a pamphlet he wrote in 1949? , 4f airless told the committee that "year after year" steel prrsfc its have been Mow the average mon stock for every share now of leading manufacturers. outstanding-is intended "to en- I am not going to cry on any- lr0Urage a wide? distribute of nne s shoulder pjjftut it, he said.Hese shares, antUto make them I am merely going to point out!more rcieily available for invest that in vi!Vnf the heavy capital j menwiurposes." nr$ds which we face in the iu-!,.. Tr:TInvv tuFtOthe rehabilitation of inve PRE I0LS TESTIMONY tor confidence in steel issues hat and major importance.' EXPANSION FUNDS Fairless, one of the nation's highest-paid industrialists, said a 194j pamphlet by Gailbraith the steel industry's problem ini"praiu communism." Capehart is - ft ariy Big 4 Meeting Urged by WASHINGTON HV-Stale De partment officials say a call by Sen. George (D-Ga) for a top level Big Four Meeting is in line with the thinking of the Republi can administration. But, like George, they said cer tain conditions should be met in advance of active efforts to O&C Changes Held for Probe PORTLAND OH A Western Forest Industries Association spokesman said that Interior Sec retary Douglas McKay has agreed to withhold final approval of pro posed revisions in O & C road regulations pending a U. S. Sen ate investigation. Leonard Netzorg, WFIA attor ney, announced that Sen. James W. Murray, (D-Mont.) had noti fied him of McKay's decision. Murray told Netzorg that the latest controversy over O it C right-of-way roads had been as signed to the Interior sub-committee on public lands. ' Murray said staff attorney William H. Coburn had been as signed to the sub-committee for research and investigation. Co burn will also attend the next meeting of the O&C Advisory Board, composed of 18 Oregon ians headed by former Oregon Govt Charles A. Sprague. By an 8 to 4 vote, the O & C board approved sweeping re visions in the regulations and sent them on to McKay for final signature. But because of the developing differences over the revisions among large timber op erators, small lumbermen and other affected groups, the ques tion has been referred back to the board. getting new funds for expansion is due "in no small degree" to existing tax laws with "unwise and discriminatory double taxa tion of corporate income and divi dends." "But it is also partly due be yond doubt," he said, "to the fact that our industry has not, in the past, provided a fair and depend able return to its investors." Stressing his view that invest ors' confidence must be increased, Fairless said: "To this end we have steadily expanded our incentive program at every level of our operations. . . . and thus, with he marked upturn that has occurred in our business since then, we ftre able early this ygr to improve our dividend accordingly." Fairless said U. S. Steel's plan ned stock: split 2 shares of corn- The inquiry's latest row dcvel- omist whose testimony March 7 is said by some to have triggered the recent break in stock prices. Sen. Capehart (R-Ind) declared It Democrat bring together President Eisen hower and the chiefs of Russia Britain and France. . The department Itself had no official comment on George's suggestion. George, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, is influential in the de velopment of U.S. foreign policy, He suggested Sunday night a 4- power conference offers "the real hope of avoiding war." He said it possibly should be held this year. ' At the moment, a meeting of Big Four foreign ministers like that held in Berlin a year a go- seems more likely than a confer ence of chiefs of government. Sec retary of State Dulles and leaders of Britain and France have talked of this possibility in positive terms once German rearmament is approved. Prospects for American support of a top-level conference doubt less would be brightened should a foreign ministers' session produce constructive results. Expressing a belief a top-level conference would lead to "adjust ments moving toward a more nor mal world," George said in an NBC television interview: "I think that we have reached the point where we should try." He suggested a meeting be held "as soon as practical" but only after full ratification of agree ments to rearm West Germany as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the West ern European Union. After the broadcast, George said in response to a question he does not believe Red China should attend. State Department sources said the administration would want ad vance assurances a new meeting would produce results and would not become a propaganda sound ing board for Russia. said he would demand that Gal- braith be called back to the wit ness stand. "I want the American people to know his philosophy and his thinking," Capehart, senior Re publican on the Senate Banking Committee. Galbraith, recuperating from a broken leg in Cambridge. Mass replied that his 1949 pamphlet actually "warns of the dangers of communism." He said Capehart knew this perfectly well when "he aired the charge on an NBC tele vision program Sunday. SERIES OF DISPUTES The dispute was the latest to arise between Capehart and the Democrats, particularly Chairman fuionght (U-ArkT, in the Bank- in,Committee's about-to-end pub lic neanngs on tne state of the stock market. Capehart contends the "Jricnd- l.'ostudy" announced by Fulbright nas turned into a political at tempt to "harass" the Eisenhower administration. Fulbright accused Capehart and the administratSm generally of pumping politics in to a non-partisan search for facts. tee member, wa asked on anoth er NBC TV program Sunday wnetner tne neanngs are turning into "a political football." He re plied: "Srn. Capehart is doing his best to make them so. J 12Die,23Hurt As Airliner Hits in Field Plane Preparing To Land at Airport SPRINGFIELD; Mo..(JB An American Airlines plane tnreaaing us way tnrougn darkness and rain toward a landing field crashed Sunday night, killing 12 persons and injuring 2i. The twin - engine Convair crashed in a pasture about 2 miles north of the Springfield air port. Wreckage was scattered more than 300 feet. The plane carried a 3-member crew and 32 passengers.. All the survivors were injured. Jack Pripish, of Chicago,- the pilot, was the only member of the crew to survive. Stewardess Rita Madaj of Chicago and Co pilot Glen Walker of Chicago died in the wreckage. The airport control tower had given final clearance for the landing. As the craft approached Carl McCrary in the tower saw a flash. Then the plane disappeared and he gave the alarm. NOSE CRUMPLED Sheriff Glenn Hendrix, one of the first to reach the scene made muddy by an all-day rain, said: There was no fire. In the darkness I found it hard to find the plane and I lost my shoes in the mud as I crossed the farm field. Then I heard a woman call and I found her sitting on the ground. I gave her my coat and then I saw three persons walking around dazed. I finally could see the plane in the darkness. "Its wings were sheared off but the fuselage was intact except for the nose. The nose was crumpled -up like cellophane. Two ambulances came near the scene but got stuck in the mud. We started taking out the injured as other ambulances ar rived but it was close to 1 a.m. before we got them all out." The plane crashed about 10:30 P.m. r Robert Browning, 13, of Chap- oaqua. N. Y., an miured passen ger, said there was a "terrible vibration" before the crash. CAUSE UNKNOWN At New York, an American Airlines spokesman said: "Airlines officials emphasize that there is no way of knowing at this time what caused the ac cident." He said company officials had been dispatched to the scene and would join "in the investigation which will be conducted by the Civil Aeronautics Board." The plane was en route from Newark, N. J., to Tulsa,- Okla., and had made stops at Syracuse Rochester, Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. No Northwest residents were included on the casualty list Emma Jones, Waitress, Dies Emma Jones, head waitress at the Eugene Hotel's lounge since it opened 11 years ago, died Sat urday at a local hospital. She had been ill for 2 months. . She was born Feb. 23, 1899, at Lebanon, Kan., and came to Eu gene in 1939. Surviving are 3 children, Or- mund Jones of Eugene, Marjoric DiStanislao of San Lorenzo, Calif, and Feme Million of Portland There also are 6 grandchildren A brother, Harold Beardslcy, lives at Newberg. Two sisters live in Kansas. Services will be at 2:30 p.m Wednesday in Simon-Lounsbury Mortuary, with burial in West Lawn Cemetery. Russian Premier Fires Minister LONDON W1 Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin Monday fired Minister of Culture Gcorgi F. Alexandrov. The Moscow Radio said Alex androv was sacked on Bulganin's recommendation "because he failed to ensure the leadership of the ministry of culture." N. A. Mikhailov, ambassador to Poland, was appointed in Alex androv's place. INSIDE TODAY. Circus tent collapses on 400 people. Page 4A. Assassination trial opens in Panama. Page 3A. p Women s News . 6, 7A Editorials 8A Local News IB Sports 2, 3-B Theaters 9A Radio. TV SB Markets 5B Classifie-;. 6-9B (AP Wlrophoto) HAPPY REUNION Mr. and Mrs. George Wharton .smile happily over the return of their baby, Carol Sue, kidnaped 29 minutes after her birth Saturday in a Beau-1 mont, Tex., hospital. The infant was found in Houston and returned to her parents Sunday. Mrs. Pauline Marie Schulze is under kidnaping charges in connection with the abduction. ' ' Kidnap Suspect Says She Wanted Baby Girl BEAUMONT, Tex. dPI A wo man charged with snatching a 29-minute-old infant from Its hospital crib "wanted a baby girl worse than anything in the world, her father said. She has three sons. Officers found the little girl Sunday in the Houston home of Mrs. Pauline Schulze, 30, a for mer nurse's aide. The child was sped by police- escorted ambulance 85 miles back to Beaumont and reunited with its mother before she knew it was kidnaped Saturday while she was still In the labor Injured Man, On Crutches, Faces Judge William Grant Hardisty Jr., 23, of 1695 Elkay Dr., walking into district court Monday on crutches because of a recent gunshot wound in the leg, was arraigned on a charge of burglary not in a dwelling. Police bullets halted the bur glary suspect last week as Har disty tried to break through a ring of policemen surrounding a grocery store of 158 Washing ton St. . Hardisty's arraignment was continued Monday to give him time to determine whether he wants a preliminary hearing. Last Tuesday police were sum moned to the grocery store by a telephone call from a neigh bor who heard a window break. Four patrol cars brought half a dozen officers to the scene. One of the officers saw the prowler through the front win dow of the store and called to him to surrender. Instead, the man ran to the back of the build ing and out a rear door. Three policemen behind the building fired warning shots at the running man before 1 brought him down with a single bullet. The wound, inflicted by a .38 caliber slug, was not serious. Victors Plan Big Parade Eugene High School students Monday were celebrating in a big way their school's capture last week of the Oregon Class A prep basketball crown. A downtown parade was sched uled for 1:15 p.m., followed by a victory assembly at the school. Eugene defeated Mcdford 72 to 56 Saturday to win the state ti tle inthe finals, held at McAr- ,U... f . tu i. , . . The school Monday was buzz- ing wUh excilpment. Principal Moan W f liLVilurait e-ifH wn Dean W. Mickclwait saidt "We managed to keep the students under control during the morn ing, but we had to do something to let them work off their en ergy." Eugene High School students Deanna Davis and Donette Lopu son, who were Injured Saturday night in the celebration that fol lowed Eugene's winning the state high school basketball champion ship, were back in school Monday morning with only a few bruises to show for the experience. The girls were hurt when more than 500 students surged onto the basketball floor after the game. room. The news had been kept from her. Doctors said the baby was in good condition. Its navel was tied with a shoul der strap from a woman's slip. KEPT SCREAMING Mrs. Schulze was charged with kidnaping and jailed here. Offi cers said she kept screaming during long hours of questioning, "It s my own 'baby." They said she . apparently had an over whelming desire for a fourth child and claimed the baby was born to her at home. Footprint records Identified the child as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wharton, of Beaumont. Examinations of Mrs, Schulze confirmed she has not given birth recently, doctors said. ' The 30-year-old brunette re fused to talk to newsmen. Sho threw a shoe at photographers taking her picture when she was brought here. DISGUISED AS NURSE Her father, 71-year-old pension er J. M. Taylor, said at Houston Sunday night: ' She and her- husband had all the boys they wanted three of them . . . She wanted a baby girl worse than anything in the whole world." Officers said Mrs. Schulze, treated in the same Beaumont hospital in 1951 and 1953 after nervous breakdowns, had been surgically sterilized and could not bear a child. Her father con firmed she is sterile. The baby, who weighed 6 pounds 10'i ounces, was kidnaped from its bassinet at East Texas Baptist Hospital here early Sat urday afternoon by a woman dis guised as a nurse. Pravda Denounces Release of Papers MOSCOW Wi Pravda has ac cused the U. S. State Department of trying to smear the 1945 Yalta conference by publishing "by no means authentic" documents. 'Attempts to discredit the Cri mean conference led only to dis crediting the United States," the Communist party paper said. Ruling circles in the United Slates once again exposed them selves as the enemies of peace and international cooperation. Their actions have given rise to new suspicions among the United States' partners in NATO and have increased contradictions among them." Britons Believe Churchill Really Will Quit This Time LONDON m Britons took It, for granted Monday that Winston churchiI1 stepping down as rime minlsler w lhjn week-But ' . . no one expects him to go into retirement by the fireside. 'Only the 80-ycar-old states man's political enemies seemed to harbor any suspicions the im petuous Churchill might change his mind at the last minute. The authoritative, (indepen dent) Times which seldom deals In political speculation said Monday; "It now seems increasingly likely that he (Churchill) will resign about Easter" and that Queen Elizabeth II will call on Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to form a new govertncnt. But the anti-Conservative Daily For Tax Measures House OKs Emergency Clause Bill By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. Of The AuocUtrd Preu SALEM (fT) Despite Democratic opposition, measures to transfer the state motor vehicle division from the secre tary of state to the governor and to allow emergency clauses , on tax bills won approval in the Oregon Legislature Mon day. The transfer of the motor vehicle division was voted 23-6 by the Senate and sent to the House. The House voted 35-24 for the Senate-passed resolution to let the Legislature add emergency clauses to tax bills, and thus make it impossible for groups to attack them by the referendum. As the reso-" lution would amend the Con- stitution, it will be on the general election ballot in No vember of next year. Thirty-one Republicans and 4 Democrats supported the emer gency clause measure, while 21 Democrats and 3 Republicans voted against it. x FULL RESPONSIBILITY Republicans supported the emer gency clause measure on the ground that the Legislature should be given complete responsibility of adopting a tax program with out having It referred to the people. But Democrats, who fear it would lead to a sales tax, opposed the resolution as undermining the initiative and referendum system. Democrats predicted the people would kill it. In the Senate, 22 Republicans and 1 Democrat voted for the motor vehicle transfer, while 5 Democrats and 1 Republican op posed it. Sen. Paul Geddes, Koseburg, sponsor of the measure, argued that the vehicle- department should be placed under the Gov ernor for reasons of efficiency. It would mean the transfer of the licensing of motor vehicles and drivers, gas tax collections, traffic safety and financial re sponsibility divisions. FIRST STEP IN PLAN Geddes declared that the bill "is no reflection on Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry, who has done an outstanding job of running the motor vehicle department. But, Geddes added, "a great deal of money can be saved Geddes said the bill Is only the first step in a plan to re-organize the departments regulating cars and trucks. The next step, he added, would be to combine the motor vehicle, public utilities commissioner, and that part of the Highway Commission that regulates motor vehicles, He said that only 7 states have their motor vehicle division under the secretary of state. Leading the opposition. Sen. Monroe Swcctland, Milwaukie, Democratic national committee man, argued that thi transfer would be more costly and said It undermines civil service by giving the governor absolute power to fill jobs. The depart ment would become a political dumping ground for the gover nors cronies." NO EVIDENCE Swcctland said there is nc evidence that Newbry is ineffi cient. Geddes answered that present jobs in the department would be protected, but not at "the expense of efficient government. The transfer would become ef fective July 1, 1956, or 6 months before Ncwbry's term would end He is ineligible to run for re election. Swcctland said that Newbry would lose 600 of the 800 employes in his department. Geddes also argued that the motor vehicle department would be brought under budget control. His office now is exempt by the constitution. Mirror, which for two years has!1 called Churchill too old for the premiership, said people "will not believe he has gone this time until they see the back of him." There were no political eulo gies being prepared, even by Churchill's closest supiiortcrs. Rather they talked more of his likely new role a sort of "elder statesman of the free wod." There was a general feeling the voice of Britain's greatest orator would still ring out, to reach the far corners of the world. There was talk in parliamen tary lobbies that Churchill also would keep his seat in the House of Commons. This would give him a platform and an official status, and would leave him available for any rignment as ' special government emissary. I Ike Disfavors Any Additions To Pay Raise WASHINGTON IAV-A $150 mil-. lion pay raise for postal workers headed toward a House vote Mon day. In advance of House action. President Eisenhower said he would view with "gravest appre hension" any further additions to the 7Vi per cent average increase provided by the postal pay bill. He noted that the postal in crease will set the pattern for 1,200,000 civil service employes. This bill is still in committee. The President's views, con tained in a letter Saturday to Chairman Murray (D-Tenn) of the House Post Office Committee, clearly implied a probable veto of any bigger increase. They also underscored a state ment last week by Chairman Phil ip Young of the Civil Service Commission that the government cannot afford more. It already faces the need of financing government-wide employe benefits totaling more than a billion dol lars a year, he said. The "House pay bill called for a minimum 6 per cent and an aver age 714 per cent raise. It also reclassified pay schedules, with higher new pay grades for some 300,000 carriers, clerks and mail truck drivers. The administration had pro posed a 5 per cent minimum and per cent average pay hike. But as the bill came before the House, strong opposition devel oped among members favoring among other things a 10 per cent figure approved by the Senate Post Office Committee. The Senate, in recess Monday, will consider its own proposal later in the week. Solons Take A-Sub Cruise GROTON, Conn. Wl Members of the congressional Atomic Ener gy Committee, returning Monday from an all night cruise aboard tho Nautilus, predicted that "the development of atomic powered submarines will radically change naval strategy and tactics. The committee. In a prepared statement handed newsmen who greeted it, said "the Nautilus Is the only submarine in the world that can completely circlo the globe at full speed submerged." The group also commended Rear Adm. Hyman G. Ricknver for his foresight and follow through" as being the person to whom "more than any other, the success of the Nautilus is due." Rickover. who was one of two admirals accompanying the 14 congressmen, played a prominent part in bringing about construc tion of the world's first nuclear, powered submarine. Rear Adm. Frank T. Watkins, commander of the Atlantic sub marine force was the other ad miral aboard. FAST BESULTS! 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