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balem, Of egon, Monday; January 9, 19ffi o o .December '55 oRain Heaviest Tor 18 Years 12:22InchRecorilpfl 5 Temperature. Slight ly Above Norm December 1835 was the wettest December in Salem since 1937, the total rainfall for the past month .amounting to 12.22 inches, the monthly report from the weather bureau reveals. In 1937, December brought 13.60 inches of precipi tation. The highest rainfall on rec ord for a December here came in 1933 when 17.54 inches poured down. With a monthly average of 41.1 denees, temperatures for this December came out .1 of a degree above normal. The mean maxi mum for the month was 47.7 de grees: the mean minimum, 34.S degrees. The highest temperature for the month was 62, recorded on December 21, the lowest was 21 listed lor December 31. The -great est 24-hour rainfall was 1.99 inches, measured on December 20-21. A trace of snow was recorded. There were but four clear days, 9 narllv rlmiriv ones. And 24 cloudv days. To add variety, there was even a thunderstorm on Decem ber 6. The month goes in the record as a bad one because, of the flooding conditions from all valley rivers, tt)e Willamel e at Salem going up to 25.(1 feet, flood stage here being 20 feet. Moderation set in in a hurry late Saturday. The morning had brought the month's low temperature, 21; but by mid-evening, rain was .com ing down, although a bit slushy on elevated .portions of the city at first. As a result of the rain com ing before midnight, the calendar year's rainfall for 1955 came up to 45.9 inches or 6.05 inches above normal. Prevailing wind for December was south. ,TlfE CAIJAL JOURNAL Section 2-t-Pare 9 ' 0 Gregory Peel And Ereuch Jounaltft Ijftrji on8 Lee Defended By Monroney WASHINGTON Ifi Sen. Mon roney (D-Okla) said Monday his mail shows "widespread opposition to the railroading of Frederick B. Lee by a railroad clique at the Commerce Dept. Lee was replaced as adminis trator of the Civil Aeronautics Ad ministration by his deputy, Charles J. Lowen, in a move which led Monroney to draft a bill to divorce ' the CAA from the Commerce Dept. and return it to Independent status. Monroney heads Senate Com merce Subcommittee on Aviation which will start hearings on Lee's ouster Wednesday, with Lee as the first witness. The senator contends Lee was forced to resign as part of a plan by Secretary of Commerce Weeks and Undersecretary Louis Roths child to "seize control" of the na tion's aviation and put over a "railroad-slanted transportation policy." Irish Woman to Get Fortune by Living in U.S.A. DUBLIN, Ireland I Mrs. Anna Lockhart will leave for Doyles town, Pa., at the end of this month still undecided as to whether she will make her home in the United States to qualify for a fortune. Mrs. Lockharts uncle. -93-year-old Russell Pickering, who died Dec. 7, left three-fourths of a half-million-dollar estate to her, but Imposed the condition that she must live in his old home near Doylcstown. 39 KILLED IN CANADA OTTAWA i At least 39 per sons were killed in holiday week end accidents in Canada from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday. Canadian Press survey showed 20 persons died in traffic accidents and 13 burned to death. Peck Marries French Writer LOMPOC, Calif. HV-Actor Greg ory Peck and French magazine writer Veronique Passani honey mooned today after being married New Year's Eve. They are ex pected back in Hollywood tomor row. The couple crossed up movie publicists, who expected them to slip away to Las Vegas, Nev., for the ceremony, and were married by Justice of the Peace Arden Jen sen at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Channing Pcakc, on a 1,300-acre cattle ranch 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The marriage is the first lor Miss Passani, 22. Peck's divorce from Greta Kon en Peck became final last Friday. They were married in 1942 and had three sons. LOMPOC, Calif. Actor Gregory Peck and French journalist Veronique Passani, 22, (above) were married at the ranch home of a friend near here. Justice of the Peace Arden Jensen performed the ceremony in the livingroom of Mr. and Mrs. Channing Peake, friends of the actor. Peake acted as best man for the 30-year-old Peck and his wife was matron of honor The bridal couple are shown as they were photographed several days ago. (AP Photofax) Hague, Former Boss Of Jersey City, Dies MRS.Maynard, 104, Succumbs McMINNVILLE, Ore. 11 Mrs. Fidelia Grover Maynard who cele bratcd her 104th birthday anniver sary last Sept. 25, died at a rest home here the last day ot 1955. She was born in 185110 years before the start of the Civil War in Wisconsin and was married there in 1871 to Daniel Wright. He died in 1905. In 1920 she married Hiram J. Maynard at Sandpoint, Idaho, and they moved to Oregon that same year. Mrs. Maynard moved to the Newberg, Ore., area after her sec ond husband died in 1933. A great-grandson, Blair Kurd, who lives in Idaho, is the closest survivor. Led Unbeatable Organization 30 Years NEW YORK (AV-Frank Hague, 81, former political boss whose Dower was rooted in Jersey City, N.J., and reached to high levels of national Democratic politics, died yesterday. For aome 30 years Hague head ed an unbeatable political organi zation in Jersey City. For one of his eight terms as mayor, the ma chine gave him a fantastic vote of 110.743 to 6,798. " From his Jersey City bailwlck, Hague controlled the Democratic party in New Jersey and for years was the party's national vice chair man. Hague, who retired as mayor in 1947 and gave up his national party post several years later, died at his Park Avenue residence. At his bedside were his wife, Jennie, his son Frank Jr., and an adopted daughter, Peggy. . The son said Hague had died of "pneumonia and complications." He had suffered several heart at tacks recently. Hague was born in Jersey City's rough and - tumble "Horseshoe section, one of eight children of I $vt:?r?r--- - a, i. t . V rs i I - Deaths Vcy Edward chastain Late resident of 1393 N. Commer cial, at a local nursing home, Jan. 1. Survived bv wife, Mn. Mary Z. Chastain, Salem; daughters. Mrs. Rella Thurman. willows, Calif.: Mrs. Greeta Havnea, Willows, Calif.: Mrs. Ethel Hayncs. Willow?. Calif.; Mrs. Genevieve Thurman. Willows. Calif.: Mrs. Goldie Vogt. Salem; and Mrs. Mary Rcdinger. Salem: sons. War ren Chastain. Salem; Frank Chas 1am fi.lem- Karl Chastain. Lebanon: Ralph Chastain. Lebanon: and Leon, ard Chastain, Salem; brothers. George Chastaln. Salem, and Larkin Chastain. Sweet Home, Ore.: also 35 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren. Services will be held Tues dav. Jan. 3. at 1:30 p.m. tn the Clough-Barrlck chapel, Rev. Hoy Fergerson offlctaUng. Interment, Rosedale Cemetery. Frank M. Hoyt . Of Santa Rosa. Calif.. Thursday, Drcemher 2P. Survived by daugh ters, lima Klouse of Portland. Ore.; Mrs Anna Woodward ot Salem. Mrs. Lois Carlisle of Salem. Mrs. Tran ces Stanley ot Santa Rosa. Calif. Two sons. Robert Hoyt of Portland. Cre lilt Hovt of Helena. Mont. Twelve grandchildren. Services at Virgil T. Golden Chapel Tuesday. January J. 1956, at HI 30 am. Inter ment lelcret Memorial ' Park. Rav. Graara officiating. 1. ea It (Kit fitv. Jan. I. lHt. it tha era of M vaftra. Ltjto reasaanl af law CM it. urvlvil y ife. Lara Knaup.- SotlK of earr.ii attar y Ul VT. T. Ridon Co. tlM . StrUtoa l ata resident of i So. Collate In lh!a city frldrtvDec. JOUs. Su. Services for N. E. Chastain Tuesday at 1:30 Funeral services for Noey Ed ward Chastain, 81, North Com mercial street, who died Sunday at a Salem nursing home, will be held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at Clough-Barrick Chapel. Rev. Roy Ferguson will officiate and burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery. Chastain had been a Salem res ident about 30 years. He was born November 9, 1874, in Jefferson County, III. Survivors Include his widow, Mrs. Mary Z. Chastain, Salem; six daughters, Mrs. Reita Thurman. Mrs. Greeta Haynes. Mrs. Ethel Havnes and Genevieve Thurman, all" of Willows, Calif.; and Mrs. Goldie Vogt and Mrs. Mary Red ingcr. both of Salem; five sons, Warren. Leonard and Frank Chas- FRANK HAGUE nists" aimed at "overthrowing the government," lost the case .ind his law was declared unconstitutional. Public viewing of Hague's body was scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday at the Lawrence Quinn Funeral Home in Jersey City. Fun eral services will be held there Thursday, followed by a High Requiem Mass at St. Aedan's Ro man Catholic church. Burial will 56Opens Tension Note Around Globe Cold and Hot War Want" ingg Come From Many , World Leaders By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New 1956 rolled along today Monday i with the tensions circl ing the globe still underscored. Statesmen and d.plnmats buck ling down to the tasks facing them in the new year found the outlook shrouded in tlte same grim lines of the year just ended. In France, voters went to the polls to elect a new National Assembly. Violence continued in Algeria- French trouble spot and French spokesman there charged a diary found on a captured Al gerian rebel showed the insurgents were using both Egypt and i.ibya as bases for their uprising. The worlds Communist leaders eased off on belligerent state ments for the holiday weekend but from many tense areas came cold and hot war warnings. On Formosa, Nationalist Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek de clared the time was approaching for the people of t ie Chinese main land "to rise against the Commu nist traitors in a mighty revolu tion." Cyprus heard a warning from its British governor, Sir John Harding, that the days of the is land's anti-British guerrillas "are numbered." The rebels oft the Mediterranean island are" seeking union with Greece. King Paul of Greece issued a statement calling the Cypriots brothers. Britain's high commissioner for the Federation of Malaya, Sir Don ald MacGiUivray, urged in a New Year's broadcast that "Commu nist terrorism" there be crushed by the end of 1956. In another troubled area, Com munist East German Premier Otto Grotewohl again said there is no chance for German unification ex cept on Communist terms. Hungarian Premier Andras Hegedus said in an interview the chief aim of his government is "peaceful coexistence. But he termed President Eisenhower's Christmas message expressing concern for the liberty of the So viet satellites "gross interference m the internal matters of the peo ples democracies." In the Soviet Union, the Kremlin leaders celebrated the new year with a big party .-.nd invited west ern diplomats to attend for the first time. Soviet President Klementi Voroshilov left for East Berlin to attend the 80th birthday celebra tion of East German President Wil- helm Pieck and issued a statement saying he hoped 1956 would he a year of still greater relaxation of tension and "growing friendship among a 1 peoples.' Many people were winding up the long holiday weekend Willi an other day off from work, and rest and recuperation from parties and celebrations. Thousands In the United Slates headed for traditional football games. A million persons were oxpecieu to see the Tournament of Roses Parade at Pasadena, Calif., under sunny skies. In Philadelphia, 12.000 Mummers welcomed the new year with their annual parade. tIiclrfgan State Float in Rose Tournament 3 i 0 rlP "V... , si uu-a. J," PASADENA, Calif. The Michigan State float moves majestically past thousands of spectators at today's Tourna ment of Roses parade. Riding the float, which commemorates Michigan State University's 100th aniversary, Is the school's queen, Rhosan Dobben. (AP Photofax) - ho at tho Hnlv N.imo Tomoinr-w Irish-born parents. His first job rit j jersey City, the age of 16 was on the Erie i J Railroad but he quickly shifted to politics. He first was a ward constable, then court clerk, sergcant-at-arms of the State Assembly, custodian of the City Hall, street and water commissioner, director of public safety and finally mayor. By coincidence Hai?ue died tin New Year's Day, a day when, be fore his retirement, he tradtionnal lv held open-house at City Hall and tnousanas wuuiu ..c uH .u e- . burn arca ,or many vear, and he J . im,l,l r,r.Jnad llVed SalCm 5,nce "tiring . "" i ..about 30 years ago. casiur, ..us ue '" 'I He was born in Germanv June am he law. The phrase stuck to , iii,h , . j . i!,it u 15, 1871, and came to the United . "!.Ji;r,i,r 3 ,Z States in 1905. He moved to Wood- " burn from Montana. Hita to ilWta only survivor In the United 'had made the remark in handling I States is his widow Mrs. Lena Vm case of two juvenile delin- MP- ,Scr"ce. bc ann0""d five sons, 1 quents. . . . Convinced they were,")' " ' U IT til' I till trumisift ...u.. Ijnialz Kiiaun, Lonn; Resident Of City, Dies Ignatz Knaup, 84, long time resi dent of Salem and the Woodbtirn area, died Sunday in a Salem hos pital. He lived at 989 Oak Street. Knaup was a farmer in the Wood- Train, Truck, Taxi Collide A collision involving a train, a truck and a taxi was reported by city police Saturday afternoon. Carl Wilbur Honey, Fort Col lins, Colorado, driver of the truck, told officers he was north bound on 12th street and had stopped at State street when he heard the freight train approach ing behind him. He attempted to make a right turn onto State street to clear the tracks, he said, but the rear'ot the truck was struck before It got clear. The truck was bumped forward into a taxi operated by Bernard Arnold Stewart, 1490 North 24th street, which was stopped on State street at the intersection. The truck suffered consider able rear end damage, the car considerable left side damage and the train minor damage, po nce saia. uamage to the train was to the coupling and coupling roas on me iront oi the engine. No injuries were reported. Home Burns At Lebanon LEBANON, Ore. m Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson and daugh ter, Robin, 3, returned from a New Year's Eve party, and when he opened the front door "the whole house exploded into flame," Thompson said. The house, six miles west of here, burned to the ground early Sunday. The family is staying with Celebraler Guns Out Power Line MARIETTA, Ohio Wl Guests took a dim view of the party during watch night activities New Year's Eve at the Clarence Gal lagher home. At the first stroke of 12 o'clock, a celebrater went into the front yard and fired a shotgun blast at the sky. The rest of the party was by candlelight. He had shot down electrical wires leading into the Gallagher home. lain, all' of Salem: Earl and Ralph waiting until 16 jo leave Khool as ' r ; T nn,,,rns Chastain. both of Lebanon: two : required by the law. Hague stated, til H II1JJ IjUIlU I 11; brothers. Gcorte Chastain. Salem. and Larkin Chastain, Sweet Home, and 35 grandchildren and 26 greatgrandchildren. Here Thursday 1 aken r roin izili Street 1 rOjeCllllowcll-Edwards Mortuary.. vived by wife. Mrs. Belv. (9 atton. tpton. nTfn 3irton. Ralfm; i;fr Mr. Marthi Sa, Richland. Orel "Mm Hlldi Cirpr. Pwdlf Orf ; brolherj. Rlpi Stntton. Vilf. S-rrw Dick 5lr.tnrv Spoka. n frwrtrhlldrfn. Fon, Jitnny. o Ltrrv. svr Tipton bbie Tll ilUin-nrii.- i "In this case. I am the law He then got them jobs and later got them to go back to school, too. When Hague retired in 1947 he picked a nephew. Frank Hague Eg gers, as his successor. But the Hague power was waning and with in two years the once invincible machine was beaten by a fusion ticket headed by John V. Kenny, a former Haeue lieutenant. Hague neither drank nor smoked 'cavatim to warn traffic of the but was a dapper dresser and lived hazard, were taken sometime in a rich and comfortable style, i during the evening, C. E. Carl His obviously heavy spending at a ' son, superintendent of the Port time when he earned only a noml-llind Gss k CoKe company, told Jinal public salary brought on a officers. ; state legislative Investigation in ' ' - j fhe latt 1920 s. . . .. 4! UasMio anrwufnllv defied the IMintV FTA (AUIICia Albert Barry Passes Sunday At Age of 51 J. Albert Barry, 1125 Columbia street, a Salem resident for 27 years, died Sunday night in a local "hospital at the age of 51 following a heart attack. At the time of his death, Barry was associated with the Reimann Sheet Metal & Machinery Co. here. A mechanical engineer, he was associated for about 20 years with the A. B. McLauchlan Co. lie was born August 4, 1904, In Yukon Territory. He was a mem- her of the Hollywood Lions club, Knights of Columbus and St. Vin cent dc Paul uainouc cnurcn. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Allrieda Barry. Salem: three daughters, Mrs. Ray Weslenhause, Eugene; Catherine Barry, Salem, and Sister Shawn Marie, Convent of the Holy Name, Marylhurst; anad six sisters, Sister Mary lu clla, Spokane, Wash.; Mrs. Kath erlne Sangster, El Paso, Texas; Mrs Ethel Morlarty. Salem: Mrs Edith Potter, Alberta, Canada, and Mrs. Grace Macklin and Mrs. Alice Rundquist, both of Eugene. Services win De announcea by Vandals with a macabre sense of humor stole 11 red warning lanterns from a ditch along South 12th street Saturday night, Salem police reported. . The lanterns, set along the ex ! probe and close associates tawl h imado hit money ea market tips from friends. la a 1M1 libel lurt he Itsa unfttfW ia teepinf kit private fioajscn la kisnttlf tttt. i rt (peeta W ewt order, listed his VA1 elth It 12,049,937.62. la the Utt 1930 s Hague'tried to l.rti the CIO out of heavily In- if1lifl1 Jersey city wy requir- Will llrar Mryorts Three Marion 'ciu'lly delegates to the recant White House confer ence on educatien aill give reports at the meetipg of. the Marian coun ty PTA council meeting in Jeffer son at the hif !t school at 8 p m. Wednesday? January. deporting win ne uonaio tut- Farmcn Hurt As Car Hits Power Pole A one-car accident resulted in the hospitalization of the driver and considerable damage to the car and a power pole early Sun day morning, state police said. Taken to Sanuam Memorial Hospital for treatment of a frac tured ugh ana otner injuries were LeJloy Farmen, Route 1, Jefferson, His car left the road ran into a ditch, rolled over and struck a power pole, officers said. Power in the area was dis rupted for a lime when power wires were knocked down in the accident, they said. Farmen was reported In good condition Monday at the hospital. A passenger in his car, Gerald Leland Cruse, Lebanon, appar ently was not seriously injured, police said. Mother Jailed In Tot Killing! PORTLAND (UP)-Mrs. NaideJl Filsinger, 32-year-old mother who" stranglcd her 16 - months old son"1"' because she got "the urge to kill him,-' was back in jail today, await. . -., ing arraignment on a first-degree " murder charge. . ,',.,- Police said the red-haired wom an, who also told officers she killed" her second son, probably will an-. pear in Municipal court lor ar raignment tomorrow. Mrs. Filsinger spent aeverarl--hours during the weekend at- Portland hospital where - she was examined by a psychiatrist. She'' was returned to city jail yesterday;' . ' The woman told police she had an "obsession" to kill her son, Donald Steven, for several months. She said she knotted her husband's pajama pants around the boy'i, neck and held tight until the boy stopped struggling. ' '"'' Father Flndi Body He was found lying on the floor?.'"' by his father, Air Force T-Sgt,' kd T !-... in.:-"" neighbors now. Thompson said the six-room house was not Insured. Richard L. Filsinger o( CorvaUls Ore., and Fred Barker, at whose) ' home here the Filsinger'a had bes)tv-. staying temporarily while enrout ; to Mcunora r- ieia near Tacoma, 4 wash. Filsinger tola ponce ut. . pajamas still were around the- boyls neck. 3 Funeral services for the boy will J be Wednesday at a local mortuary, Burial will be in Willamette Na- ; tional cemetery here. Mrs. Filsinger signed a slale.. ment after her arrest Friday night- that she also killed her other son, ', 15- day- old Michael Lawrence, by holding a diaper over his face un- . til he stopped breathing. She said she did this while her husband was stationed at Pepperell Air FortW Base, St. Johns, Newfoundland, last November. Casting Their Votes In French Election YhihIuIh Blamed for Fire Inside Vehicle Vandals were blamed for a fire that damaged the interior ot a car parked In a garage at the home of Mrs. Merle Kautman. 14m .ttaie street, over the week end, city police reported. The fire, which started In the front .seat, caused considerable damage to the interior of the car, it was reported. The headlights were also left on by tne vandals and the battery was run dead, Mrs? Kaufman sari. In previous vandalism to the car, watar has been poured in the gas rank and the car marked jip, sM saia. t FfcROV Pl.OTIEK NABBI3) BUENO AIRES. ArgcnUna UJi will at 1:) a Mr Fredfrie tawl 'i Portland, tnwta'a a 0 1 1 1 1 for thc .March of in fi. ! gon. who will be Itaiatr of thr dntf against pon will be Cilem for rnn iJSiSiVj ViLl of evenu Thursday. erson. assistant state superintend-1 Authorities of Chaco pwvlnce, ir. a. niirai ns-rmit fnr rliirihtitin pni nf tAmU- Garrlnaa Knann.' close to the Paraguayan border. i of le-.flets or public puhlW ftpey-ch-' member of Saleftl school board and announced Monday Aht arrest of maiH Several organizers wrer president of tt state school board a .pectcd ringleader t)d IS oth- arred and Hague's law was organiJsV.ion: and Miss Mairiilda er persons In a pro-Peron plot. iestttl"ln suits that finally ended ; CSftlcs. Richmond school icncipal The alleged ringleader was!. in tha It ilmrsms Court. land nresdent of the nail Oil e c- Co. .Marun Larios .-Harunci. an French Vote Extends Into . Remote Areas P Aft IS Wt Today's election will name 544 doiilics in metropolitan France. , Balloting is going on at the same time for 50 scjts in Central Africa, the Indian Ocean, the North At lantic, the Caribbean eand South America where French possessions are located. Premier Edgar Faure's decision to hold tN election caught admin istrators In tla South Pacific with ton little time to organirethe vot ing fnr today. V elections will he held In New Caledonia Sunda. , and In the Soiei'ty Islands Includ itK Tahiti-JaK. 29. One deputy Is elected from New Caledonia and cne from me Mocioiy isianns. Actor Jean Louis Barrault and his actress wife. MadeV Renaud, stand at ballot box at polling plane In Paris today vote in the national elections In France. Voters turned ou' large numbers to cast their ballots for France's third nsti assembly since World War II. Election officials at left unl tified. (AP Photofax by radio from Paris) In live villages. Candidates sometimes made their rallies coincide with market days and sent out the word by tm-tom. Andre Kitffer, head ing an Independent ticket, moved about his constituency with loud speakers which alternately blared his caatpaiga speech in the Chad dialect and mllitar music, which the natives seem to love. Militar;' planes dropped election supplies by parachute to desert areasin theCha ' One place where there la a seat open, but no vol' g, Is In India. When the outgoing Assembly was elected in lS'il, the hrench ing still floated over four Isolated lit tle areas In India., which elected one deputy for the whole lot.iow all of the settlements have Teen ceded to India, so there Is no need for the seat. There has been no dfO'ion as to reassignment of the ' 9 (8$ in Hani-, who tWtififd thathc I mcniary school principals a.tso-1 undersecretary fit political affalrsi Reports from Africa tell of an d.O'ion as to r"'n Cia was dominacfcby Commu-icuuoo. A tha Peioa lijima. Q iiucUv. campaign tha r pUca ia tha Awea-blj- i 1 a . o w "0 ) . m Nj elections are belnfcon- '.. Atgeria, either, beca listened linuing tcrroriim there J been " to disrupt voting. Algerited y ,' listed for '30 seats 1 and IS , the eight million Motnchmeft. ' by the one m,llionaK of in- ' There has been sor,ties in tha ' vlllng the Algerlanprovislually . old Assembly to k electitt to , In the new one I -day. g0 Andre Maf ' In the middle ' , arable vol ; swa la assureLcen de; since . alth ivgh he lj ,he me-ssiah of , 1942. Matswa c and his fol- a politlco-my-. ,te nc dead. '. lowers refusr" .,d or beini!-. B;? Fnch West Mric.-t elected frra r h d.eerous A ', can some'"' h . retm diss?' , senator l,m " one wife- P""!". V was that he had : ibabybiacotuutueul..,: i -
