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THE WEATHER. PARTLY CLOUDY tonight, Wednesday, with patches of morn, lie fog. Low tonight, 30; high Wednesday, 47. Dant Ship Calls Help Off Luzon Ten Portland Men Aboard Periled Freighter MANILA w The American ircighter Charles E. Dant was re ported listing badly and in danger of sinking Tuesday night in the South China Sea 30 miles of! the coast of Luzon, (he northernmost island in the Philippines. " But the Civil Aeronautics Search and Rescue Center here said the . motor vessel Isabel had reached the side of the Dant and was ... standing by waiting for daylight and a chance to give aid to the freighter and its crew of 47. Two Other Ships On Way Two other ships were speeding '? to the Dant the U.S. Navy ship Muskingum and the tugboat Mina. The freighter lctt Poro Point in San Fernando la Union Province early Tuesday with a load of cop per concentrate, bound for Ta coma, Wash. In Vancouver, Wash., officials of the States Steamship Company, whose flagship, the Charles E. Dant was in danger of sinking Tuesday in the South China Sea, reported about 10 of the 47 crew members from Portland Nand thq others from the Puget Sound area. Names were withheld, though, for fear of alarming the families, a company spokesman said. (The ship's captain is Richard P. Child of Portland.) Registered in Tacoma The Dant, formerly named Flv away, is a 1,292-tonner built in 1943 at Oakland, Calif., and oper ated by the States S.S. Co. Its port of registry is Tacoma. Across the island, Typhoon Olive was kicking up the seas with 70-mile-an-hour winds. Whether tur bulence of this typhoon was re sponsible for the Dant s SOS was not immediately explained. $28.8 Million Allotted Roads In Mid-State Plans were outlined by the Ore gon Highway Commission today to allot $28,800,000 for major improve ment projects on interstate, pri mary, secondary and urban routes in central Oregon. Most of the money will be fed eral aid funds. State Highway Engineer W. C. Williams said plans call for $18, 156,000 in projects on the Colum bia river interstate highway; $5, 551,000 in primary highways, $2, 935,000 on secondary highways and another (2,058,000 on urban routes. Williams, who earlier had given details of four and two-lane proj ects on the Columbia river high way, said the bulk of the work scheduled elsewhere on primary roads in central Oregon was planned on The Dalles-California highway U.S. 97. "The biggest single project on U.S. 97 will involve a 6.87 mile stretch between The Dalles and Eightmile. Acquiring rights-of-way and grading and paving on this section will cost about $1,956,000," Williams said. Other primary projects include $365,000 for paving a 20.8 mile stretch of the Central Oregon highway between Fort Rock road and Brothers; $890,000 for. grad ing and paving a 5.45 mile section between Willowdale and Lyle Gap on U.S. 97; $550,000 for grading and paving north of Madras: nine miles of grading and paving 'on Sherman highway between Grass valley and Kent costing $540,000. Wilson Gets Support for Senate Seat The name of Otto J. Wilson, Sa lem automobile man, has been sent to the Marion county Repub dican central committee as a can didate for the senate seat to be vacated by Secretary of State- elect Mark Hatfield. A committee presenting Wj ' vl. ;tn Ihie r,n icti a statement i holding him to be "eminently imum flows on Oregon streams, j Then State Knjineer Lewis A. Binford explained that fixing a TJmte,U0?h.XIV0r!lIC Prhv' qualified because he represent, " low. to be first Stanley drafted the text of the minlmum floPw would not al(fCt fh i! Albany P." . ; ' , . . . set on main rivers of the state, adopted motion, saying that "it vested water richts but would lcn.an cnurcn ai Aioany ana a President Eisenhowers new Re- under the terms of the motion, will will strengthen the work of my rtealX P?st P"f"' f the Albany pubhcanism." be preserved against further ap- office', control of .he stream, in Tub t n. Viilson is on the board of the propriation for purposes other than the state." quircmenl Surviving are the wife, Daisy Salem Chamber of Commerce, is domestic use, including domestic All members of the board . ," ... .. .. Merrill, Albany; a daughter, Mrs. a former president of the Salem Usc in municipalities and for live- seemed to be agreed on the gen- . "'or , 1. .,,.'"'; Juliette Fisk. Albany; and two United Fund and is a member of ,tock uses. oral Idea of establishing a mm- f0""1, ' "'''J.'" e"J. 'Z' " A,ban'- nd the board of trustees of Willam- Board members Wayne E. Phil- imum flow in streams "to keep j"3" ,.8 . " , ' nJ' z- K- Merrill, Jr., Portland, ette university. lips, Baker, and Fred Mcrryfield, the streams alive" hut Foley and r-m,P i Funeral arrangements will be Among others mentioned for the Corvallls, voted against the mo- Phillips pointed out that many 1 " mt"' under the dirrction of the Fort senate arc State Representatives tion while Chairman H. E. Maxev, streams in Eastern Oreaon dry "on Lane. M;m;' secretary of n, Cr-Krederioksen Mortuary at Robert L Elfslrom and W. W. Snrinsfiold: Vicc-Chnirmnn I., fi. up in the summer and said "the ,ne "'". called attention lo the Ahanv Chadwick former Representative John Stee'lhammer and Sidney W. hiintr frmr rhsirman of the Marion County Republican Central committee, all of Salem tfiH R V rnnk tt-hn ran tor tne . "tination for congress from district and Harry Car N of Silvertoo. Police Catch Eugene Bank Robber i An alert Oregon State policeman, Lt. Farley Mogan (right), was. credited with spotting Charles Simmons (right), who Tuesday morning confessed to robbing the West Side branch ol the Eugene First National bank of $2000 Monday afternoon. Mogan displays some of the $20 bills Simmons had In his possession when picked up. (Capital Journal Photo by Jerry Claussen) Bank Robber Nabbed Here By VICTOR B. FRYER Capital Journal Writer A man accused of the Monday armed robbery of a Eugene bank was arrested in Salem Tuesday as he was en route with his bride-to- be to get married. Charles Edward Simmons, 46, a Springfield, timber faller, has ad-1 mitted being the gunman who fled I from the West Eugene branch of the First National Bank of Port land, according to Capt. Ray How ard of the Salem district office of state police. Also under arrest in connection with the robbery is Don Howard, 23, Amity, identified by Howard as the driver of the getaway car. Howard was arrested . at his par ents' home in the Hopewell area northwest of Salem. Both men will be charged with bank robbery by the U. S. District attorney s office in Portland, Capt. Howard said. , Mogan Given Credit Credit for breaking the ense goes to Lt. Farley Mogan of the Salem j hc' . wUh casc- CoP'' Howard office, Howard said. Mogan wassaL(l- ' ,, , , dispatched to Eugene Monday morning to coordinate Investiga-1 u"man were aispa enco 10 ine tion efforts in the robbery but did-1 Hopewell area where they arrested n't get much beyond the Salem I Howard shortly before noon and re city limits before hc started the '""J hlm,t0 sflcm- - , , . chain of events that broke the case. I w!" turn?.d vcrto fed: As Capt. Howard and Lt. Mogan ! reconstructed the case: Mogan 'left about 10 a.m. for Eugene but had gotten onto the freeway east of Salem when he spotted a northbound Springfield cab with a man and two women as passengers. Suspicious, he radioed : lor a patrolman to stop the car and , turned to follow It. It was stopped 1 Russia Tuesday in a turbulent at the Hayesvillc junction where it session marked by a rightist dem was found to contain Simmons, a onstration. The fouK i,grcements woman identified as Maudic Hon-1 noi. go to the upper chamber. State Water Board Votes 4-2 to Set Minimum Flows on Streams By JAMES D. OLSON Capital Journal Writer After a full hour's argument. Monday afternoon, members of ,ine uregon waier resources ooaru a four to two vole auoplef- a IIIUUU1I Ul UIMIUUIIli: d (Jldll, dt lilt eirliocl u.IM. In liv min. ' Bintoro, roniano: .innn u. Davis, Stayton, and Robert H. Foley. Bend, voted for the minimum flow motion Binford's introduction of his pre-1 viously publicized motion to fix for much more water appropria minimum flows on streams "to ' tions while the board was attempt provide for pollution abatement, ing to fix the minimum flows on recreation, wildlife, and fishlife," 1 the various rivers of the state. Capital - jLJoiim at 68th Year, No. 283 eyman, 25, Rt. 1, Springfield, Sim mons' fiance, and a 17-year-old niece of the woman. Going to Vancouver Under questioning, they said they were en route to Vancouver, Wash,, where Simmons and Honeyman were to get married. Further ques tioning revealed that Simmons had nine $20 bills in his possession. The cab driver, Ewald Graf, 41, part. owner of the Springfield Cab Co., had three more bills of the same denomination that he said Sim mons had given him for the trip. The money taken in the robbery was all in $20 bills, Capt. Howard said. The four were taken to headquar ters for questioning by police and FBI agents. Simmons finally ad mitted the robbery, implicated Howard as his partner. Howard drove Simmons' car to and from the holdup, he said. The gun used in the robbery belonged to the Hon eyman woman but other than that, there is no known connection of ..asls- Dyron l'ra " 11 ?' ""'. "I"- said. (Earlier Story on Page 10, Sec. 2). DIET OKAYS PEACE PACT TOKYO tf) The lower house of Japan's Diet (Parliament) unanimously approved Ihc new World War II peace accord with Icamc In for immediate attack. I Foley contended the purport of i Binfdrd's motion wont beyond the powers of the board as defined in me siaiuie crraung n. rony sub- gested an amendment that didn't ((VI Id, , VtllllC UIIIIUIU S II1UMUII In.loH In Oct --nnr minimum now would tic zero. Board member Davis said while he favored the general idea he had fears that the task would take so long that filing would be made - J ' XT' : tXvi , 05 ? , ii Business Zone Change Up for Action Tonight '-..i - ' zone change to permit a shop ping .centcr in the Northgate area will- again be bcioro tne saiem planning commission at 7:30 p.m Tuesday. Following a second public hear ing on the matter at a meeting two weeks ago the commission postponed action on the request bv Howard Olsen. There had been no objection to the proposal at Ihc first uearing on the matter held by the ptonnins commission this summer but when the proposal was before the city council, which has final say in zone changes, some of the resi dents claimed they had not re ceived notification of the hearing and that posted notices had bc-n torn down.' The council referred the mat ter back to the planning commis sion where some 30 persons were on hand to voice objections two weeks ago. At that time the commission delayed action on the matter. Three public hearings are on the commission agenda f"r to night. These include a request to change to a business zone a seven-foot strip at 694 North Church St.; a change lo R-2 resi dential a tract cast of Colton addi tion on D street and permission to construct a two-family home at the southeast corner of Jclfcrson and North Fourth streets. Fire Destroys Klamath Club KLAMATH FALLS m ' Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the 97 Club, old-established night spot on the outskirts of Klamath Falls Monday night. City and suburban fire depart ments battled the flames for two hours. Damage was estimated at $20,0110. Binford. in support of his mo tion stated that 80 per cent or more ol the ttreams In Oregon are noriin 'he continued to fill until his appropriated lo a point wh. re if an rignis were cxercisea auring f low water period, insufficient water MUUIU LK aVdlldUIL IUI MIC U5l9 L..I...J I. h m.l!.. '"""" requested the board to guarantee repair work on bank protection projects which Ihe engineers had installed. The slate constitution prevent ed such a guarantee.. Lane said, as the state is not allowed to "lend the credit of the state." Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, November 27, . 1956;EV 25 Die in Venezuela Air Crash Connie' from N.Y. Hits Peak Near Flight End . CARACAS, Venezuela Ml A Venezuelan airliner on a nonstop flight from New York crashed in to a cloud-snrouaca mountain less than two miles from the Caracas airport Tuesday. All 25 persons aboard were killed. The wreckage burned. The plane, a Constellation of the Linca Areopostal Venezolana, carried 16 adult passengers, 2 in fants and a 7-member crew head ed by the pilot, Marcel Combalert, 34. . Ruins Found Search parties found the black ened ruins high in 6,000-foot moun tains in an area known as Boea Chica, between Galipan and Paa eelon peaks. The last radio message reccivea from the Constellation, at 8:05 a.m., reported it was about 10 minutes from a landing at the air port here, lt had left New York s Idlewild Airport at 10:10 p.m. last night and was due in Caracas at 7:30 a.m. Clouds covered the peaks. Search parties used a cable car systeni built last year lo the top of Ml. Avila on the way to the crash scene. The hunt was led by Col. Abdcl Romero, president of the government-owned line. 11 Victims Listed Without nationalities or other identification, the line's Caracas office listed 11 of the passengers as: Robert Bernard, Found el Es- raqui, Carlos Franco, Juanita Her nandez, Maria Rios, John Zlock, Enrique Cubas, Hildcgard Fabra, Edward Gulbenkian, Ben Kegsn, and Evan Tomas. The line's New York office said 10 United States citizens were among the victims, lt did not have their home addresses. The Amer icans were listed as: Robert Bernard,' Benjamin Re gan Evan Tomas, : Helen a M. Storm, John Zlock and five persons of a single family name, Charles Pcelc, Nettie C. Pccle, Deborah Peete, Kenny Pcelc and Karen Pettc, the latter two infants, Death Claims PPL Chairman Merrill at 75 ALBANY (Special) Z a d o c Ensign (Zed) Merrill, 75, chairman of the board of the Pacific Power and Light company, died at his home at North Albany at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning. He had been ill with a heart ailment lor some time. A native of Wisconsin, Merrill was born at Cambria, May 5, 1881. Graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor of sci ence degree in engineering, Mer rill entered the employe of the Milwaukee Electric and Light com pany as a construction ' superin tendent in June 1904. Two years later Merrill came west and- joined the Washington Water and Power company as a draftsman and from that time until the time of his death, with 10 brief exceptions, had been a resident of either Washington or Oregon. The exceptions were serv ice with the army in World War I and when he was on leave from the Pacific Power and Light com pany as receiver for Ihc Keystone Utilities company In New York in 1930-31. Merrill, who had been with the utilities industries in various ca pacities as an engineer, superin tendent, manager and general en gineer joined the Mountain States Power Company, which became the Pacific Power and Light com pany, at Albany as assistant gen eral manager in 192.1. In 1932 Merrill wos named vice president of the Mountain States Power Co. and in 1936 was named to the board of directors. He was chosen president in 1937 and served In that capacity until 1950 when hc wos elevated lo chair- u: r ,1.. ti,;. d(,aln ,,, h hc had hl.e j scmi. rotircrrtci)t because of the heart ! ailment. , . , Merrill W3S member Of ItlC Weather Details Miklmnm vritrrdiv.. 4: minimum lodly. 2t. Total 24-hntir prerlpiutlnn: : for mnnth: l:t); normal. S.23. Seiton prr-rlpltatlon, Ms; normal. I S2. River h'liht. .1 nf a foot. (Re port ar V. - Hrauirr Burtau.) Salt India, Ugypt Call for UN Probe of French Buildup Of Troops in Canal Zone Ike Statement Vows Alliance Not Disrupted Designed to Shore Up Shaky Anglo-French Relations AUGUSTA. "gUT (UP) - The While House said today that dif ferences between the United States and Great Britain and France over the Mideast situation should not be regarded as "a weakening or disruption" of a great and his toric alliance. The While House statomqnt, de signed to shore up shaky rela tions between this country and the Western Allies, was issued at President Eisenhower's vacation headquarters here after the chief executive' conferred by telephone with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Key West, Fla., and Acting Secretary Herbert Hoover, Jr. in Washington. Dulles will come to Atigusla next Sunday for a first hand review of the international situation with Mr. Eisenhower, preparatory to Dulles' departure for the NATO Minister ial Council meeting in Parts Dec. 11. The While House also reported today (hat the Iraq request for U.S. assistance against a reported Soviet arms buildup in Syria was before the President lor consider ation and discussed by Ihe chief executive this morning with Dulles and Hoover, Press Secretary James C. Hag erty also announced that- Sen John Sherman Cooper IR-Ky), c former ambassador to India, would leave for New Delhi Nov. 28 for talks with Indian Prime Min ister Nehru. After announcing Dulles would confer wilh the President here Sunday, Hagerty said that the President regarded NATO as "a basic and indispcnsablo clement of American defense alliances against the continuing Soviet Communist threat to the peace and security of the world. Ericksonllome Purchased for Church Manse The vestry of St. Paul's Episco pal church announced Tuesday that the home of Arthur Erickson at 1505 South High St. is being pur chased by the church as a rec tory. The property Is adjacent to the property on which the church is located. Arthur Erickson has purchased Ihe spacious new house built by Brad Burkland at 2795 Alvarado Tcr., which has been occupied by Ihe Burklands only a few months. The Burklands arc moving to Ida ho. Erickson will occupy the Alva rado terrace home in January and Rev. George H, Swift, rector of St. Paul's, and family will move into the new rectory the middle or latter part of January. The Swifts now live in a rented house on Scenic View drive. The South High street house which Is to become the rectory was built by Lawrence N. Brown in ; 1940. lt is of brick construction. Brown sold the house to Erickson, chain grocery operator, who oc- cupicd it when ho came (o Salem from Princville. WEIRD END FOR DAN DM AN Dorsey Death Attributed to Choking in Sleep GREENWICH, Conn. -Band leader Tommy Dorsey, the be- Lspcctacled "sentimental gentle man of swing, Is dead at 51. A medical examiner said Dor sey choked to death about 2 a.m. Monday when he vomited while sleeping. ... Dorsey's third wife. Janie, who was suing him for divorce, was in the house when he died, as were their two childrin, hut it was 12 hours belore Die death was dis covered. His booking agent Vincent Car- bone, got no answer to a knock on Ihe hedrneui w,' at Dnrsov prowling. ('SYitrfM home, and went in through window. Both Dorsey and nls wli" slept behind locked doors, on .dvice of law yers. so they would not Jeopardize the divorce proceedings. Carhone fo-tnd the body of Ihe famed tromhonis sprawled over the bed. The rest of the family had uoSojo JO Ml'luO Olympic Beauty Shows Badge ' '' -'vv ' TfT" vj Dutch Olympics runner Puck Van Duyne Brouwen points lo her Karnes badge which she never got In use after the Netherlands . government called her and her Dutch team companion home belore the games started. Th former Olympic medal winner is staying with friends in Salem en route home. (Capital Journal Photo), ' . QUIT GAMES IN PROTEST Holland bp Arrives By MARGARET MAGEE Capital Journal Writer When (hc 1956 Olympics got un derway in Australia last Thursday, Puck Van Duyne Brouwen of Vloardtngen, Holland, who had trained for them for two years, was the "girl who wasn't there." Instead, on Ihc morning that the Olympics started, Puck was board ing a plane and heading eastward wilh her destination ultimately Salem. All of her years of training for (ho big event came to naught be cause of Russia's treatment of the Hungarian people. Holland, in pro test to the treatment, withdrew from the Olympics and Instead of spending Ihe money on the Olym pics is using it to help the Hun garian refugees. It would amount to about (25,000 In American mon ey. ; Visiting With Salem Family She Is now visiting In Salem with the Joe E. DcWitts of 2085 Mountain View Dr., and the Minnus Van Lith family, formerly of Hol land, whom the DcWitts sponsored so they could come to this coun try. Puck and three other athletes from Holland had been sent to Australia about a month before the games to prepare for them. On Holland's decision to with draw from (he Olympics the tour already in Australia and living in Olympic Village at the time Puck left there were about 1000 in the village, now they number about 4.000 were ordered home. The some 60 others slated to par ticipate were never sent from llol- land. Luckiest of Four "I was the luckiest of the four," said Ihc visitor to Salem who wos to hove been Holland's participant in the 100-meter and the 200-meter thought he was sleeping late, as lie oltcn aid. Dorsey's saxophonist brother Jimmy, two years younger, was in New York at the time. So was their mother. What made Dorsey III was not known. Ho ate a heavy Italian meal .with his wit- and molhcr-in-law, Mrs. Ruth New of Atlanta, in his homo tho nitiht before. Tino llnrzie, his personal manager, said Dorsey was (old recently at Johns Hopkins hospital in Haiti more that hc wjr developing an ulcer. A nolo Dnrsev irfv added to the mystery when ool'ri' refused to! comment nn the t ut Finally the text of the note was disclosed by Bnrzte. In the note iRarzie said Dorsey had a habit M leavir.g notes, often by the dozen.) Dorsey thanked his wife for Ihe dinner and added-. "1 am leaving early In the morn-. 2 SECTIONS 20 Pages rr i titer in Salem i...k .....I cu .l i . track events. She then i explained ., ,e ,,, , , ie group lor sho had already planned the . ....... u.,LLiV iu uuiidiiu visit to ialem. wil l her arr va dale to have been December 10 instead of last Saturday. European Champion But for Ihe woman athlete, who in Ihc 1952 Olympics took the sil ver medal for tho 200-meter event and who has won most of (he loo meter and 200-meler events In Europe, it was a big disappoint (Continucd on Page 5, Column 3) Witnesses Bid To Blast Quiz A public hearing into tho cause of an explosion that destroyed a Salem home and hospitalized its occupants last Wednesday has been set lor Wednesday after noon at 2 o'clock at the council chambers in the city hall. Robert DeArmond, chairman of a special investigating committee appointed by Mayor Robert F. While, has asked that all persons wilh information on circumstances surrounding the explosion at the Dennis Howarth home, 785 North 20th St., appear at the meeting lo tell what Ihey know. Meanwhile tests are being made of gas pipes and a (urnaco In stalled at the llowarlh home only alay or two before the blast, De Armond said. Mr. and Mrs, Howarlh anil their five year-old daughter, Deeann. arc all reported in good condition at Salem General hospital. When III ing. Kiss Susie tor me belore sne leaves for tchool. Susie was his six-year-old daughter Barzic said he planned to meet Dorsey In New York yesterday. Besides Susie, Dorsey leaves a four-year-old son Steve, by his present wife, and two grown chil dren by his first wife, tho former Mildred Kraft. Their children arc Mrs. lister Hooker of Richmond, Va and Thomas F. Dorsey 3rd,, in the Navy stationed at Hawaii. His second marriage was to ac tress Pat Mane His third wile. .Innie, sued or tlivuiee Inst ntonllt. charging intolerant,- cruelty Dorsey wns an lush Catholic, but as a twice dnorced person he cannot be buried ir the churcn. Services will be held Thursday 'n the Walter Cook E 72nd St. Funeral Home, New York City. Tommy will be buried beside his father In the hills of Shenan doah, Pa. - am One Regiment Said Landed AtPort ': UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) India's V. K. Krishna Menon, asked Secretary-general Dag Ham marskjold today to obtain immedi iatc assurances from France that It is not reinforcing its forces in the Suez Canal Zone. . Krishna Menon made the re quest after Egyptian Foreign Min- isler Mahmoud Fawzi read to the U.N. General Assembly a press report that French tanks were be-. Ing landed at Port Said in viola tion of the world organization's re peated demands for the withdraw al of British, French and Israeli forces from Egypt. "I ask leave to read a cable I have now," Fawzl said, "which says that the French Defense Ministry spokesman in Paris to day refused to confirm or deny mis press report." He attributed the Paris cable to United Press.: Published In London (The dispatch in question quoted a report in the Socialist Daily Her ald in London that a "complete French tank regiment" had land ed at the northern end of the can al. The paper said it was part of a nugc Angio-r ronch buildup. ' The French Defense Ministry refused to confirm or deny the report and tne British uetense Ministry said it naa no ' information on it. The' report did . not appear ln other,. Dnusn newspapers.! "My delegation," Krishna Men on said, "has no .desire to accept this news report as lacluaV but. oa the other, ihandf ' in view. oJ the history of this matter, a prima , facie case has been made by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in ap praising fho assembly of this very serious matter... "It is the request of my dele: ation "1al ",e secretary-general; communicate Willi the French gov-' crnmcnt immediately for cither conl rination or denial or dental of the tacts. ' . No Report On Hungary Hammarskjold. who had talked with Soviet Foreign .Minister Dmit ri T. Shopilov and Imre Horvath, foreign minister of Hungary's pup pet regime, was not ready to re port on his efforts to get Hungar ian agreement to send U.N. ob servers into the country. ihe assembly proceeded with ti general debate. LONDON (UP) - Egypt an nounced today it had placed all British and French national! under "restricted residence" be cause some Anglo-French nation als killed civilian Egyptian volun teers during the invasion of Port Said. ': Salem Cloudy; No Bain Seen There was not so much sunshine for Salem, Tuesday, but the weath er bureau makes no mention of rain over the midweek. Cloudy skies are due, along with some morning fog and continued cool temperatures. The minimum in Salem again was below freez ing. Tuesday, registered at 28. Another below freezing mark is due tonight. And for the sake of those worrying about Ihe matter, there is no snow in sight di spite Ihc cool temperature and cloudy skies. S News iu Brief : Tuesday, Nov. 27, 1936 NATIONAL i: Ike Renflirms Solidity Of Western Alliance Sec. 1, r. 1 Tommy Dorsey Death ' From Choking Sec. 1, P. 1 LOCAL Prisoners Use of Courts In Attempt to Escape Rises ...Sec. 2. P. 10 Y.MCA Installs Officers, Inspects New Facilities Sec. 2, P. t STATE 528 8 Million Allnled For Mid-Slate Roads Sec. 1, P. 1 Water Board to Set Minimum ' Stream Flows Sec. 1, P. t, FOREIGN , -UN Asked to Probe French ?. Troop Buildup Sec. 1, P, I China's Chou Seeks Better U.S. Relations - Sec. 1, P. 1 SPORTS ; Senators' Partnership Plan ' ' Gets Moving Sec. 2, P. I Yanks Win More Olympic Gold Medals Sec: 2, P. 9 REGULAR FEATURES Amusements Sec. 1, P. J Editorials .. Sec. 1, P. 4 ..... Sec. 1. P, 8 ....Sec. 1, P. 6-7 Sec, 2, P. 4 Sec. 1, P. S ....Sec. J, P. -9 Locals Society .... Comics .... Television Want Ads Markets ,.soc. 2, P, 7 Personal Problem! ...Sec. 3, P. t Crossword Puzzlo ....See. i, P,