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Eugene, Oregon, Monday, March 21, 1955
phone 5-1551 Price, 5 Cents
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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
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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.
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