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Jourpnl : nzTTTZTi: 6Jo THE WEATHER MOSTLY CLOUDY with occasion al light rain tonight and Wednes day. Continued, low tonight, U; high Wednesday, SO. 4 SECTIONS (32 Pages) nest 66th Year, No. 290 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, December 21, 1954 KntM6 inmI natU si 5utm. Ortt. Britain Signs CHILLY HEROINE Capital A. Violent Uuane Jars Eureka Treaty with And Northern California West Europe Democrats Claim 48 Voles To Organize Long Illness of Sen. Kennedy Not to Affect Result WASHINGTON 0B The ex mmm Found Guilty Of Murder in 2nd Degree Dr. Sheppard Spared From Electric Chair; Given Life Sentence CLEVELAND OB Dr. Samuel Sheppard Tuesday was convicted o( second degree murder. The 30-yoar-old osteopath was convicted of a charge of second degree murder in the July 4 bludgeon slaying of his pregnant wife, Marilyn, 31. The convicton carries a penalty of life imprison ment with parole eligbility after 10 years. , The jury of seven men and five Women began deliberations at 10:13 a.m. EST, Friday. They finished at 4:13 p.m. Tuesday 102 hours later. Foreman James. C. Bird an nounced the verdict at 4:38 p.m. Judge Edward Blythin looked at four ballots which Bird gave the bailiff, then read the fifth one which said: "We find the defendant not guilty of first degree murder, but we do find him guilty of second degree murder." A buzzer signal indicated the jury was starting its return to the courtroom. There was some delay in bring ing the jury and Dr. Sheppard to gether in the courtroom while a search was made for defense at torney William J. Corrigan. Corrigan arrived in the court room at 4:29 p.m., a moment after the defendant. Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, the ac cused man, was charged with first degree murder in the bludg eoning death of his wife, Marilyn, 31, last July 4. He told the jury during the nine-week trial that he was asleep when a mysterious prowler attacked his wife. He said the killer knocked him unconscious when he ran to the bedroom where the murder took place. Carson, George State Senators PORTLAND (fl Joseph K. Carson and Harry George were named state senator? from Mult nomah County Tuesday. They replace Richard L. Neu bcrgcr. elected U. S. senator, and Jack Bam, elected county commis sioner. Both are Democrats as required by law since the offices were held by Democrats, and both are Port land attorneys. They were named by the Multnomah County commis sioners. Carson was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor in last month's election. He is a former Portland mayor and for mer member of the U. S. Mart time Commission. George, 54, has practiced here since 4930. He received a degree in agriculture from Washington State College and coached high school football here for a time in the early '20s. For four years be fore World War II he was on the staff of the National Labor Rela tions Board and in recent years he has represented a number of CIO organizations in accident and unemployment compensation cases. Injury Fatal To Leo Lepley Leo Lepley, 1311 Saginaw street, who was injured Saturday after noon in a fall from a stool while cleaning light fixtures in the kitch en at his home, died late Monday night at a local hospital. Lepley, a paper maker at Ore gon Pulp and Paper company for about 20 years, suffered a neck fracture in the fall and his spinal column was severed. He was al most completely paralyzed. Born December 11, 1899, at Gar rison, Iowa. Lepley had been a Salem resident since 1921, com ing here from Wisconsin. Surviving are his wife, Agnes Lepley of Salem; three brothers. Henry Lepley of Coos Bay, Bert Lepley of San Luis Obispo, Calif., and Claude Lepley of Minneapo lis; and a step-son, Wilmer John ton of Lebanon. Funeral services will be held at the Virgil T. Golden company chapel Thursday attemoon at o'clock. Use Christmas Tree To Loot .Wear Shop LOS ANGELES (TV-Two men, each carrying Christmas tree, knocked on the door of Jessie Alsup's children's wear shop be fore she had opened up yester day. She unlocked the door and they asked if they could leave the trees inde while they shopped. Mrs. Alsup ushered them in. They produced revolver-!, robbed her nf 5163 and then fled, leav ing thf trees behind. Joins Schuman Plan To Pool Coal and Steel Industries LONDON (UP) Britain signed a treaty today linking it with the Eu ropean coal and steel community the former "Schuman Plan" which is the first European fed eral institution with wide economic and political powers. Britain is tradtionally wary about shackling itself to any form of European federation but the at titude has softened with the com ing of the atomic age. Last sum mer Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden committed British troops to continental defense for the first time. The treaty was signed' for Britain by Duncan Sandys, now minister of housing. But as the former minister of supply he was largely responsi' ble for steering Britain into close association but not full membership with the community. Jean Monnet of France, direc tor of community "High Author- tv" signed for the organization, followed by the ambassadors of Germany. Italy, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg whose govern ments are full members. (Continued on Page S Column 7) Demos to Keep Hands Off Joe WASHINGTON Ofl Two Demo crats said today they expect their party colleagues to keep hands off any Republican move to un seat Sen. McCarthy (R., wis.,) as a member of the Senate Investiga tions subcommittee. Scn.-elect Clifford Case R.- N. J..) has announced he will at tempt to keep McCarthy off the inquiry group McCarthy headed in the GOP-controlled 83rd Con gress. Case has said he will de mand a roll call on the question when Congress meets next month. Senators Monroney (D.-Okla.,) and Sparkman (D.-Ala.) said in separate interviews they regard McCarthy's committee assign ments as "strictly a Republican problem." They forecast that Democrats will support an re commendations the conference of all Republican senators makes. Monroney, one of the severe Senate critics of McCarthy's con troversial investigative methods, said that whether McCarthy re mains a member of the inquiry group "is not the business of the opposition party." Cold Weather Greets Winter Frigid temperatures of the past few days may have told you al ready winter is here, but winter docs not arrive officially until 1:24 a.m. Wednesday, says the weather bureau. At that time. officials say, the sun will be as far south as it Is going to go, winter will be on and then we can start looking forward to spring. Despite the cold, and the cloudy SKics, prospects ot a white Christ mas are dim. The five-day fore cast says nothing about snow. Temperatures are due to be slightly above normal, rainfall a bit below normal. Temperatures "warmed up" considerably over Monday. The minimum in Salem Tuesday morning was one above freezing, 33, six degrees higher than for the Monday minimum. Friday No State Holiday Says Gov. Patterson By JAMES Friday will not be a legal hol iday, Governor Paul L. Patterson announced Tuesday at the week ly board of control meeting. The governor said that if a legal holiday was declared, in stitutional help required to work on to keep the institutions in operation such a day would be entitled to overtime and the cost to the state would be approxi mately $37,000. He also pointed out that prior to last January the state civil service commission selected the holidays for 1954 and sent the list to the institutions with the suggestion if any changes were desired the board should be so notified. The list did not include December 24th. No suggestions for changes were made. "There is no provision in the law to allow stale employes off on Friday except through the power of the governor to declare MIAMI, Dee. 21 Seventeen-year-old Mona Paulsen, wno dove into the Miami River yesterday to save the life of Char les Puscy, 52, wraps herself in a blanket at her home after her experience and tries to get warm again. Detective Ncal Coston said Pusey, suffering with a nervous condition, evaded a friend to plunge into the river and Miss Paulsen, an excellent swimmer, dove after him and brought him to shore. (AP Wire-photo) Ike Seeks GOP Con trol By Middle Readers WASHINGTON On President Eisenhower is taking steps to se cure Republican Party control in the hands of leaders he considers "progressive moderates." Daddy Long Legs Year for Men LONDON Of) Tailor and Cutter, a magazine reflecting the thoughts of tailors who fix men's fashions, predicted Tuesday 1955 will be a "Daddy Long Legs" year. The leading tailors will "spot light the masculine leg" and the effect will be to make the leg look long and thin. To 'expose as much leg as pos sible jackets will be shorter, and, to achieve an effect of length, cuffs, on trouser legs will be dis couraged. Tailor and Cutter said shoulders of jackets will become more square, and that ar. effort will be made to achieve a "boxy" ef fect. Straight pockets will add to the boxy illusion. RIIEE BLASTS DAG SEOUL OH President Syngman Rhec today blasted U. N. Secre tary General Dag Hammarskjold's trip to Pciping to talk directly with the Chinese Communists about captured American fliers. Only advocates of "peace at any cost" would consider it wise, he told a news conference. D. OLSON a legal said. holiday," the governor "I construe that power to en able the governor to declare holiday for emergencies, such as the hank holiday," he continued Gov. Patterson said that in ad dition to the institutional work ers, highway maintenance men would be required to work Fri day to keep roads sanded where ice and snow is prevalent and declaration of a holiday would entitle these workers to overtime pay or time off in lieu of the hours worked on the holiday. Many state workers have re quested time off on Friday, the day before Christmas, and in some instances such employes who have vacation or sick leave time coming, may arrange with their superiors for tiran off pr viding the absenca s tt )ku per the work tnrnttt One step in that direction came Monday night at a White House stag dinner to which the President invited many of the men who help ed him win the nomination in 1952 and played a major role in his successful campaign. Talk at the dinner reportedly did not deal with the big question whether Eisenhower will seek a second term. But the guests in cluded men like Leonard W. Hall, chairman of the Republican Na tional Committee, who have voiced confidence publicly that the Presi dent will run again. Others who were present are known to be convinced that Eisen hower, who has declined to discuss his 1956 plans publicly, will bid for another term. Emphasis at the dinner, how ever, was understood to have been almost entirely on Eisenhower's determination to build and main tain a Republican Party led by "progressive moderates." The President talked of that type of leadership at a news conference Dec. 8. At that time he said that if any Republicans wanted to split off and form a third party, "that will have to be their business. At his news conference, Eisen hower said. "I do know that so far as I can determine, the great mass ol the people of the united States want what I could call a group of progressive moderates handling their business. And that is exactly what I am working for." (continued on Page 5 Column 6) Ike Plans to Raise Cattle WASHINGTON OH - President Eisenhower motored Tuesday to an agriculture experimental sta tion near Front Royal, Va., to pick up some firsthand tips on cat tle breeding against the day when he may be just farmer Eisenhow er. Accompanied by Secretary of Agriculture Benson, the President left the White House for the 72- milc drive in brisk sunny weather to the breeding station run jointly by the Agriculture Department, Virginia and Virginia Polytechnic institute. The President is starting a beef herd on the Pennsylvania farm he has acquired near Gettysburg. The White House announced Monday that Eisenhower will not hold news conference this week He plans to fly to Augusta. Ga. on Thursday to spend the holidays Weather Details Wwlmnm yp.4frrUy. 4)1: minimum toftort, jj. Tot 24-hotif precipitation, 0; hot month, 3.37; normal, J.)0. Hca on pivlpMjtlon. 1.1.37: nownal. !.. 1" hrtrht, .1 irf a lon (Jttvvt pected absence of Sen. Kennedy (U-Mass) apparently wui not af fect Democratic plans to take over control of the Senate in January. Kennedy was discharged from a New York hospital Tuesday after a recent spinal operation and taken by ambulance to LaGuardia Field for a flight to Palm Beach, Fla. The hospital said in a statement that "it will be several months before he can return to his duties in Washington." Thus the Democrats will have to organize the Senate without Kennedy's vote, since no proxy ballots can be cast, it they nave all of their other members on hand, the Democrats will have 47 votes plus that of Sen. Morse (Ind-Orc) which has been prom ised to them. Thus they would be able to field 48 votes against 47 by the Re publicans. (Continued on Page 5 Column 8) Conviction For Cruelty Upheld AUGUSTA, Ga. W Brie. Gen. Francis Howard, Camp Gordon commander, has upheld the court martial conviction of a second lieutenant accused of cruelty to trainees. The case of 2nd Lt. Charles C. Anderson, of St. Louis, Mo., goes now to Washington where it will be subject to review by higher author ity. Anderson was convicted Nov. 19 on three of four counts and was sentenced to dismissal from the Army and forfeiture of all allow ances. Since the trial, he has been on some undisclosed "useful" duty at -Gordon, t The 24-year-old veteran of com bat in Korea was accused of mal- treating trainees. Among other things, he was charged with hang ing one private from a tree limb by his ankles, of forcing two train ees to take sand baths and of or dering the same two to climb a tree while clad only in undcrshorts and socks and shout obscene phrases. Survivors' Pay To Be Revised WASHINGTON OB A House committee said today there should be changes in the law which, in thousands of cases, provides a serviceman's survivors bigger benefit payments than the man earned while alive. In other cases, the group said in a formal report, survivors re ceive benefits "inadequate to meet their basic minimum needs," The committee is a special House group headed by Rep. Bates, (R., Mass.) It was created to study survivor benefits of arm ed forces personnel. It urged further study aimed at simplifying the law, noting that the government now maintains five distinct survivor benefit pro grams, with survivors being re quired to deal with five agencies. The Committee said there arc approximately 465,000 cases on the various death compensation rolls, with a normal peacetime ad dition of 7,000 cases annually and an annual cost of 365 million dollars. . Luciano Loses Naples Appeal ROME Of! Charles (Lucky) Luciano, who says he'd even go to Russia If people would just let him alone. Tuesday lost an appeal against a police crackdown keep ing him off Naples streets from dusk to dawn. National Police Chief Giovanni Carcatcrra said a decision of a Naples admonition board a month ago limiting the deported New York vice lord's activities had "been confirmed." After a 10-minutc session with an Interior Ministry commission, Lu ciano declared: "I don't want to stay In this country any more. I don't feel like an Italian. I want to -go some where where I'd be left In peace even in Soviet Russia if they want me. I don't care about politics or anything else. 1 Just want peace." Luciano said glumly he didn't have a chance to say anything to the board. Luciano was deported to his na tivc Italy in IMfi. following his release frtm prison In New York btate. Fronrli Mini German Army In Assembly PARIS France's great de bate on approval or rejection of German rearmament continued in the National Assembly today with a review of reports from the final six of the chamber s 11 commit tees. After the last of the committee reports five were submitted last night the floor was to be thrown open to general debate. There was chance, however, that a test vote might be posed on the De fense Committee's recommenda tion to postpone the debate. Should such a motion be forth coming, it was expected to go down to defeat in the face of Premier Pierre Mendes-France's demand for Assembly action before Christ mas on the Paris treaties to en roll 500,000 West Germans as uni formed soldiers of the North At lantic Alliance. Similarly it was expected that the Assembly would vote finally, probably on Thursday, to ratify the four treaties. Political sources said some of Mendes-France's chief enemies want the Premier to be held responsible in the fu ture for German rearmament, which those factions believe will prove a political liability. (Continued on Page i (joiumn t Smuggler Used Black Girdle 1 NEW YORK Or) An attempt to smuggle into the United States $10,000 worth of Swiss watch parts some of them hidden in a black girdle has been foiled by U. S. customs officials. Arrested on charges of conspir acy to smuggle were Mrs. Eliza beth Schmidbaucr, 44, of Munich, Germany, the purported girdle wearer, and Abraham Sontag, 34, of New York City, customs officials said Monday. The watch movements, totalling 952 of which 167 were reported to have been in the girdle, were dis covered last Tuesday when a cus toms inspector checked Mrs. Schmidbauer's luggage as she ar rived aboard the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth. She was taken into custody and temporarily released, officials said, in order to allow h contact man to approach her. Subsequently, Sontag was nabbed on Sunday. Customs officials said it was the first important seizure of watch parts since the United States im posed a double tariff on them three months ago. Fear Invasion Bv 2 Utilities WASHINGTON Or) A- Chatta nooga city power official testified Tuesday that the disputed Dixon Yates power contract would per mit two utilities to "invade" the Tennessee Valley public power area from two directions. States Rights Finlcy. general superintendent of the Chattanooga Electric Power Board, asked the Securities Exchange Commission to deny permission for the Dixon Yates utility group to build a new 107 million dollar plant at West Memphis, Ark. Finlcy said the contract would violate laws against an excessive consolidation of utility holding companies. Processing Charge on Colored Films Cut Out WASHINGTON Ofl Ally. Gen. Rrownell announced Tuesday that Eastman Kodak Co. has agreed to sell its amateur color film with out including a processing charge. The agreement settled an anti trust proceeding that the Justice Department had brought against the company. A consent judgment was filed in U.S. District Court at Buffalo, N.Y. It becomes effective in 90 days. Heretofore, Eastman has includ ce a processing charge in the sell ing price of its amateur film. Un der this arrangement, the buyer, once he has taken pictures, sends the exposed film to Eastman and it is finished without further charge. The Justice Department contend ed this prevented other photo fin ishers from competing with East man on the processing and was an illegal restraint on trade. The department said that the judgment entered at Buffalo also : Britain Tells Britain Tells Reds to Scrap 1952 Treaty LONDON Of) Britain Tuesday rejected the Kremlin's, warning that Soviet Russia will scrap their 1952 treaty of alliance if this coun try ratifies the Paris agreements to free and rearm Western Ger many. "Her majesty's government would much regret it if the Anglo Soviet treaty of 1952, to which they have always attached importance, were to be canceled or annulcd by the Soviet government," a For eign Office statement said. "At the same time, they deplore both the manner and the context in which that government now threatens such annulment. 'They cannot accept the argu ment used in the Soviet note." Tito Calls for Coexistence NEW DELHI India Wl -President Tito called Tuesday for "Ac tive coexistence based on an agreed settlement of the world's outstanding problems. The Yugoslav President spoke before a joint meeting of members of the Indian Parliament- Calling the formation of blocs along military and ideological lines "the gravest peril for peace in the world, Tito said: "In contradistinction to the pol icy of blocs and division of the world along ideological lines, we for our part see a real possibility in the coexistence of nations and states with differing systems." "What I have in mind is not sort of passive coexistence, but an active cooperation and a peace ful and agreed settlement of dif ferent problems, as well as the re movel ot all elements liable to impede broad cooperation botween stales. "Such coexistence Is moreover not only a practical possibility, but an essential if we are to avert a new world war, with all its ghastly consequences..." Big 3 Rejects Note on Austria VIENNA, Austria W The three Western powers Tuesday re jected Soviet charges that the United States had violated four- power agreements by keeping troops in Austria s French occupa tion zone. Russia had demanded their withdrawal. Representatives of the Big Three rejected a Soviet resolution pre sented at a special meeting of the Allied Control Council which would have put the body on rec ord as declaring the U.S. troops "represented a violation of the existing control agreement on Austria." U.S. High Commissioner Llewel lyn Thompson Jr. denied the charge. He said only a small American communication force was stationed in the French zone to "maintain communications from Italian ports to U.S. forces in Austria. STOI.F, HIS SANTA LOS ANGELES (UP) Police searched for a Santa Claus here today. George Fisher reported thieves stole a nearly life-size figure of the jolly old saint from his lawn when he wasn't looking. requires Eastman to cancel its fair trade contracts relating to the resale price maintenance of its col or film, and enjoins Eastman from entering into similar contracts to control the prices of its color film or print material sold to third parties. Kastman said in a statement is sued here that It denied it had vio lated the law in any respect but was willing to accept, the decree "because it expects that as time goes on the conditions contemplat ed by the decree relating to the processing of Kodak s still color films and color prints by outside processors in increasing amounts will become a reality." For the amateur photographers, the practical clfcct of the new arrangement will bt that Koda- chrome and Kodacolor films will sell without the simultaneous ad vance payment of a processing charnc. C W)kq0 fa;c 5 CWi 4) fii il rn. mamuill TOIIS, San Francisco. Also Shaken EUREKA, Calif, OH A smash ing earthquake the worst in 25 years jolted Northern California and Southern Oregon at 11:55 a.m. PST Tuesday. It appeared to have struck heavi- iest in the vicinity of Eureka, a seacoast city of 25,000 about 225 airline miles north of San Fran cisco. There was much damage here but apparently no loss of life. Chimneys toppled, windows were smashed, telephone service was impaired and bricks and concrete blocks from jolted buildings fell into the streets. There was no report, 20 minutes after the shocking jolt, of fatalites. Eureka fire sirens howled but apparently no serious blaze devel oped. Most of the buildings in Eureka. a town ol 25,000 on the coast, are of wood construction, and these ap peared generally to have escaped serious structural damage. The heavy shock was felt in Klamath Falls, Ore., and as far south as San Francisco. It was strong at Red Bluff, where it had an east-west swaying motion. There was no damage there. The quake was so violent it threw the Indicator off the visible seismograph at University of Cal ifornia, in Berkeley, 275 miles south of Eureka. That meant a Richtcr magnitude of 4 or better. By comparison the great San Fran cisco quake of 1908, registered 8.25. (Continued on Page 5 Column 5 Medford Feels Minute Quake MEDFORD (UP)-Resldents of this southern, Oregon town report ed a light "rumbling" quake short ly before noon today that lasted for a full minute. The quake was reported at 11:56 m. The Medford Mail Tribune reported it was flooded with phone calls from residents who had felt the tremor. .Light fixtures' in the newspaper building swung to and fro, and people standing on the top floor of the courthouse felt a sudden loss of balance. State police said the quake was also reported in Coos Bay. Its center was believed to be in the Eureka area in northern Califor nia. In Portland, amateur seismolo gist Bill Geitz said he had re ceived telephone reports of dam age at Eureka. He said his seis mograph was still registering the tremor at 12:20 p.m. No Damage in South Oregon KLAMATH FALLS VP) An earth shock was felt over a hundred-mile radius of the Klamath Basin of Southern Oregon and Northern California Just before noon Tuesday. There were no early reports ot damage in this area but people reported lights swinging, dishes rattling and window shades shak en. The reports of strongly notice able shock came from as far as 70 miles north of here Med ford reported a rumble but no damage. Morrison-Knudson Gels Mt. Hood Work PORTLAND OH The Morrison Knudson Co., Inc., Seattle, has been awnrded a $326,043 contract for road projects in the Mt. Hood National Forest, the Bureau of Public Roads said Tuesday. The work includes grading 2.9 miles of road, surfacing 9.2 miles, and constructing a 150-foot rein forced concrete bridge. Today's Index Section One . Amusement t Editorials 4 Locals 5 Section Two Society 1-2 Section Three Food 1-8 Section Four Sports 1-t Television 1 Comic 4 Classified S-7
