THE WEATHER DENSE night and morning fog or low cloudiness; partial sunshine Tuesday afternoon. Low tonight, 40; Ugh Tuesday, 50. Holiday Death Toll Soars to 5 12 in Nation 424 Die in Traffic Accidents, 83 in Other Mishaps By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least S12 Americans were killed in Christmas weekend acci dents -by mid-day Monday 424 of them in traffic. With a day and a half of the four-day weekend remaining, there were 88 non-traffic accident fatal- Minneapolis Hospital Fire Costs 8 Lives Yule Tree Explodes in Lobby; 5 Perish in Tenement Blaze MINNEAPOLIS (UP) The fire at Doctors' Memorial Hospital here Sunday claimed its eighth victim today. She was Mrs. Stein, 74, Minne . apolis, she died from effects of smoke inhalation. Four other patients and a nurse remained in critical condition at General Hos pital. The fire was touched (if by de fective wiring on a Christmas tree in the hospital lobby. Seventy-nine patients were in the hospital Sunday when the gayly decorated tree exploded in flames and set the lobby alire. Dense clouds of smoke billowed through Hie five-story building, trapping patients in their rooms. Firemen blamed the blaze on de fecti"e wiring -on the tree. They aid most of the victims died" of asphyxiation. Killed were Mary Balliet. 48'; Ella Mullin, 82; Mrs. Lydia Beck en, 86: Carolyn Vale, 72; Mrs. Sara Stone, 59; Clarence O. Green, 53, all of Minneapolis, and a 13-day-old boy, son of the Robert Basmussens of Excelsior, Minn, MERIDEN, Conn. (UP)-A tene ment fire snuffed out the lives of five members of a family late Sunday night while firemen were delayed by a train. The general alarm blaze sent four other members of the family to a hospital where one was listed in critical condition. Dead were Mrs. Eulalia Rios, SO. and her children Gladys, 17, Eddie 3, Eddie Nelson 4, and Isa bella 6. A medical examiner said all five suffocated. - Grease Frees Boy Pinned 5 Hours in Cave SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (UP) - A 16-year-old boy admitted today he was a "little scared" when he found himself trapped in an under ground cave for near five hours. The youth, Wilbur Earl Clark of Watsonville, Calif., was trapped Sunday in one of the caves that honeycomb the limestone slopes of Cave Gulch, about two miles northwest of Santa Cruz. Young Clark got stuck when he tried to crawl into a narrow crevice branching off the floor of the main cavern. The crevice is about 150 feet below the surface ! entrance.. His companions, Richard St. George and Anthony Berrocoso, both lfi, tried for an hour to free . him. Then St. George went to get help. A rescue crew of firemen and iheriff's deputies returned soon after. Using jackhammers, they tried to free Clark by chipping at the rock walls of the crevice. This method failed. Then they smeared him liberally with grease and pulled on a rope looped under his arms. He slipped out easily. Safe Taken in PO Burglary LEXINGTON, Ore. W The postoffice safe here was stolen some time Sunday night. An esti mated $500 cash was in it. So were (tamps of unreported amount. The postoffice at Condon a!o was entered but the safe, while b-ttered. apparently was unopen ed. The postoffice here was entered through a back door and the safe was taken out the front door. A postal inspector from Yakima was to investigate. The Condon postoffice burglary attempt was to be investigated by a Portland inspector. Make The Christmas Season Safe as Well as Merry Drive Carefully! ities including 27 deaths from fires. The National Safety Council re ported that unless drivers used greater caution during the re mainder of the period from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Tuesday (lo cal time), the council forecast of a record 660 killed on the high ways will be exceeded. . Look Out for Other Driver Council President Ned H. Dear born renewed his appeal for motor ing Americans to drive as a na tional emergency. He warned: "Look out for the other driver. Don't trust him." Last year's three-day Christmas weekend holds the present traffic death record of 609. The over-all accident total was 782 then, which was 23 less than the all-time holi day total set during a four-day In dependence Day period in 1955. The Christmas record toll is 789 for 1951's four-day Christmas period. A mixture of snow, fog, freezing drizzle and rain made driving con ditions hazardous Saturday and yesterday over much of the east ern portion of the country. Poor Weather, Drinking Safety experts cited the poor weather and drinking drivers as important factors in the growing accident list. A comparative lull in the slaughter was predicted by safety officials until tomorrow Christ mas afternoon when many trav elers were expected to end holiday visits and take to the roads. 100 Men Hunt For Oklahoma Kidnap-Killer HINTON, Okla. HI More than a hundred officers converged on the Minco area of Western Okla homa Monday after it was report ed a heavily armed Negro, sought as the slayer of a Hinton man and kidnaper of his wife, was seen in the vicinity. Dead was Scott Smith, 37. a cotton farmer and father of four children. His wife, also 37, was released unharmed at 7:30 a.m. near her home after a night of terror in which she said she was threatened continuously. The highway patrol issued a pickup order for James Leroy Ncal, 29, of Bridgeport, Okla., a 200-pound Negro who was believed has predicted privately that spend to have six weapons with him. ing for purposes other than de Mrs. Smith sounded the alarm : lsc also will climb in fiscal 1958 after she was released Vi miles (bV Perhaps half a billion dollars south of Hinton near her farm. lor fore. She told officers that Neali Tns adviser pointed out that worked as a cotton picker on their I farm two years ago. At El Reno, Deputy Sheriff Bill Asbury said Ncal also is being sought there for the rape of the wife of the football coach at El Reno's Negro Booker T. Wash ington High School. He said this apparently started the string of events that ended with the kidnaping. Schrunk Picks Lang as Aide PORTLAND un Terry Schrunk, Portland's mayor-elect, Monday picked a former state policeman as his administrative aide and liai sonman with the city police de- F i He is Philip D. Lane, 27. current- ly an insurance claims invest.- boys in connection with the beat-1 gator. i jng ' , Lang majored in sociology at The parents or three "boys ar- 025 JAPANEsE (i0 H0,K Lewis and Clark College and rested in another attack Sunday! TOKYO W The repatriation served with the Air Force in Jap- night, told police they received ship Koan Mam left Nakhodka, an as a criminal investigator. He! phone calls threatening to harm Siberia, Monday with 1.025 Jap was a state policeman from 1953 'the boys if they were not kept atianese detained bv Russia since to 1955. (home. the end of World War II. GI Santas Outdo Selves Abroad; Yule Observed Joyously, Grimly Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ham. turkey, steak and pumpkin but they will be decorated like The appeal of Christmas was pjf There will be Christmas trees Western Christmas trees, felt throughout the world Monday :j services-and Dlentv of Grandfather Frost, the Souet as Christendom prepared to cele- (J;I0US ""'""-and P"l of version of Santa Claus. makes his. brate the nativity of the Prince of ' . I visits a week before the religious Peace. The attraction was noted Germany, who have ; observance of Christmas in Itus-1 even behind the Iron Curtain. , played Santa to millions of young- 5ia I The holiday promised to range if ' " "O "r H, outdid The peop,e of r.Vo1ution-bat-from the grim in Hungary to one themselves, giving toys and gifts ,erpd iIunB,.,rv dld ln(.jr ,! of record prosperity in the West. I W ton " h'IlcoP,er5' 'eps find a bit of cheer in the holiday. In South Korea, it already was even tanks Tuesday German Budapest was having a white a cold Christmas day w h e r e 'out W the hundreds will eat tur- Christmas. Shoppers queued up American servicemen played San- key as the guests of soldiers in for j5n and olhf.r foou.ffs r ta Claus to a record number of mess halls and of officers in their tn(. rad,i.onal Christmas Eve din Korean orphans. The 24th Division quarters. nr aione distributed candy, toys and In the Soviet Union, where I'aeued hy K.-is-vhortacs. Wevt clothing lo 4.000 Korean boys and Christmas is observed in the Rus- ern Europe was Iivm2 it up. using girls. sian Orthodox church on Jan. 7 carefully rationed luel supplies for Three thousand Americans, because of calendar differences. Christmas visits to friends and more remote from home than any 312.000 Christmas trees ailed relatives or holiday trips. Traffic others, tried hard to feel the spirit New Year's trees were promised jams blocked streets and high- of Christmas in Antarctica, where the children of Russia's southern : ways. Travelers in record num-j they are ensaged in Operation republics by the people of Siberia. ; bers packed trains, planes and Deepfreeze. The cooks prepared, They are called .New Year j trees,. ihu. j Capital jkjJoum 1 uc??J0 J 68th Year, No. 306 We at the Capital Journal wish you and your loved ones a joyous holiday season as 1956 draws to an end. The Capital Journal will not publish a news paper Tuesday, Dec, 25, Christmas Day. This is in line with a practice started in 1918 which en ables employes to spend Christmas Day with their families. If you drive a car tonight or Christmas Day, DRIVE SAFELY. We're sure you would rather be a live subscriber than merely another name in our obituary files. Again, Our Very Best Wishes, The Capital Journal Record Peace Budget Of $72 Billion Likely Ike Will Seek at Least 2 Billion Arms Boost WASHINGTON Wl President Eisenhower may be obliged to send Congress next month a rec ord peacetime budget calling for spending of something in the neighborhood of 72 billion dollars in fiscal 1958. This would approach former President Truman's biggest budg et of $74,300,000,000 in fiscal 1953 which reflected -the peak of Ko rean War spending. Most of the pressure for great er spending in the new fiscal year the 12 months ending June 30, 1958 comes from the military. Secretary of Defense Wilson in dicated in October that military costs might go Hi to 2 billion dol lars higher than this fiscal year's estimated 36'4 billions. Some officials report privately now that two billions may be the minimum increase required. France and Britain moved into Egypt after Wilson made his pre diction. Middle Eastern tensions heightened, and U.S. forces face an indefinite period of alert. Fur thermore, costs of military pro curement are rising. A two billion dollar increase in military outlays would bring the federal budget above 71 billion dollars. Spending in fiscal 1957, which ends June 30, is officially estimated at $69,100,000,000, and some informed officials believe it will go higher. One high administration adviser nsln! Prlccs. rls,n8 cs of terest payment on the national debt, and the anticipated higher outlays on several old and new Teener Beats Portland Man PORTLAND in - A 43-year-old man was beaten by a teen-ager here Sunday night as Portland re corded its third outbreak of ju venile violence in three days. Marvin P. Brocker told police a "6-foot boy" beat him on the face after his auto was involved in an accident with a car load of teen-agers. Earlier, Barry Cort, 14, was beaten and kicked in an attack on a Portland slrppt. Jtivnnilo mrwiin haw 0rrctH Salem, Oregon, Monday, December 21, 19567,,"," ma5 government programs almost cer tainly will push up the general costs of government. Putting together the known and the probable cost increases, it is obvious that it would take sharp hatchet-work at the White House and Budget Bureau to hold the new budget significantly below 72 billion dollars. Smith Due to Appoint Judge ByWeek'sEnd By JAMES D. OLSON Capital Journal Writer . Appointment of a successor to Justice Walter L. Tooze who died last Friday will probably be made oy Governor Elmo Smith later this week. The governor first announced that he would make the appoint ment between Jan. 8 and Jan. 14, the day he relinquishes his office. so that there would be no legal question mat the appointment would be valid only to Jan. 7. Thornton Gives Opinion However, Attorney General Rob ert Y. Thornton declared in his opinion appointment of a successor who would legally be entitled to the office through the term the judge was about to enter regard less of whether the appointment was made before or after Jan. 7. However, the position will be up for election in 1958. The governor has no intention of consulting with "Governor-elect Robert D. Holmes, who was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that on major appointments such as the stale supreme court, "I think I should be consulted." The governor does not agree, having said that he did not think the- governor-elect would consult him after Smith was out of the office. He also pointed out that Holmes would be on sol: J ground in rela tion to appointments to any top position in departments under the i"sdiction of the governor. No Motor Vehicle Appointment Gov. Smith plans no appointment of director of motor vehicles to succeed Warne Nunn, present di rector, who has been designated as assistant secretary of state by Mark Hatfield, secretary of state elect. Gov. Smith made it clear he was not discussing any appointee he might name, saying he felt "it was very poor taste to do so hefore the funeral of Justice Tooze." Egyptians Vent Hate On Statue , . Tip Canal Builder Figure; Salvage Hits Snag PORT SAin Fnvnt in T-v. cited Effvntinns tonnlpH a clntim of Ferdinand de Lesseps into Port SfliH Hnrhnr MnnHnv Ua i. Ih. Frenchman who directed construc tion oi tne Suez canal. The Egyptians, jubilant over the withdrawal of French and British forces from the city, tried twice to dynamite the statue they re gard as a symbol of foreign in fluence. They made only dents in the statue, hut the rrnwii finnllv man. aged to knock the figure from its Dase. Salvage Job Delayed The demonstration came as work on clearing the blocked 103-mile long waterway was delayed again by the question of use of British and French salvage crews. - A United Nations salvage fleet, including British and French ships, is ready to go to work, but has not received a go-ahead from Egypt. It was thought salvage opera tions could be started south of Port Said as soon as British and French troops completed their withdrawal from Egypt. The last of the soldiers left Saturday. Some British and French aal vage ships remained behind as part of the U. N. salvage fleet, with their crews wearing civilian clothes and the blue-and-whitc U.N. flag flying in place of their national pennants at the insistence of Egypt. Ships Use In Dispute But the fleet has not moved from Port Said harbor. An Egyp tian Suez Canal authority official torn newsmen a hitch remains on the use of British-French salvage crews. He said U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is expected to go to Cairo to talk over the use of the British and. irrnnnu .. u j iciu vcaaeia. j uere was no such announcement from U. N. headquarters. U. S. Lt. Gen. Raymond A. wneelcr, in charge of the U. N. clearance operation, said the sit uation regarding use of the ships was "in a very critical state at the moment." Wheeler said he hoped to move some salvage equipment into the canal today, but that he still had not received permission from Egyptian authorities. WeatherMild For Ore. Yule; 1 Road Deatli PORTLAND 11 Unalhar I. expected to be generally fair and niiiu lucsoay as urogon tamil- ics Bather fnr the annual sill mv. change and turkey dinners. By mid-Monday the holiday had been marred by only one traffic fatality on the state's roads. In Portland ax in Other Dr-sonn towns welfare agencies prepared j ineir annual present tor homeless men. The Salvation Armv Tiip.Hnv will serve its Christmas day din ner io more man 1,000 men who have no tables of their own to sit around. In a world at peace, state resi dents will give their thanks at hundreds of yuletide church serv ices, manv Of them trtintf Mnn. day afternoon. And in every community Christ mas trees glitter. Lake Oswego residents became so enthused with this venr". hnii. day they revived caroling from boats that have cruised around the lake the past few days. Santa to Find y aney a oggy Uut Not Kainy Santa Claus probabl will battle foe, at times dense, in making his trek tonight and early Christmas morning, says the weather bureau in fnrecasttnz the holiday weather for Salem and the valley. I Hut partial sunshine is due for ' L-.ristmas afternoon. Temperatures continue fairly mild and there seems to be little chance of rain for over ihe holi day. Five-day forecast calls for tem peratures to be near or slightly above normal through Saturday, with light precipitation occurring during thr latter part of the peri od. There ui!l be considcraMe val ley fog or lo-v ovrrc;i-t through drv'H;.y and pissibiy Thcrrfay. Mi'jh'vav rine-t nns are reported good throughout Oregon, hut mo tonl$ are warned to watch out for fog as well a ome icy spots at higher elevations. Fog this morn ing was hampering traffic slightly in the Portland Salem area as well as at several other points in south era and tutexa Oregon. Nixon Says Communism Dealt 'Mortal Blow' in Hungary, Can't Recover Churches I lam &S : J list I .!. A prayer for a good 1957 was the theme In dozens of Salem churches Sunday as Christmas services were held. Here a trio of acolytes, Garry I.unda, Robert Falleur and Larry Lund a (left to right) bear reverently the cross and tapers In the beautiful altar of SI. Paul's Episcopal church. Their thoughts were prob ably also on (he following 48 hours when millions of American youngsters and their families figure to have the most prosperous Christmas ever. (Capital Journal Photo by Jerry Claussenl Christmas Eve Rites Set in City Churches A number of Salem churches will glow late Monday night when congregations assemble to observe Christmas Kve through the medi um of traditional candlelight serv ices. Other denominations will cele brate the anniversary of th? birth of Christ on Christmas day, al though in many instances formal programs were presented Sunday. Christmas Kve observances will include: 7:30, Calvary Baptist can dlelight communion; 7:30, St. John's Lutheran Sunday school program; 11 o'clock. First Con gregational candlelight commun ion; St. Mark's Lutheran tradition al program; First Baptist, tradi- tional; Westminister Presbyterian traditional; St. Paul's Episcopal , JURI S it. 1M SOUIIKH Only To Holy Slu nnes JERUSALEM. Israeli Seciion city and lo nethlehem. two miles im A procession of I.7H0 Christ- south of Jerusalem in Jordan ian Arabs from Israel crossed into Even as Christian pilgrims galh .lordun Mondav on a Yuletide pil- ered in Jerusalem, an Israeli irimi.Ko to Christendom's holy armv spokesman reported a raid Pla(l's. by Jordanian infiltrators. He said The aftermath of recent Mid- they wrecked a dispensary in a die East hostilities made this a village in northern Israel with a somber, almost sad Christmas in , time bomb, the Holy Land. j In Jerusalem, the divided holy The crossing began al dawn, and city where barbed wire fences by midmorning hundreds had separate Arab and Jew, Arab l.e passed through the Mandelhaum 1 gionnaires and Israeli soldiers (iate into the Jordanian old city maintained frontier watch from of Jerusalem sandbagged rooftops. Usually ?.0'i0 lo 10.000 make the For the first tune since the nik'rimn?c. But there u,n only state of Israel was founded eight a sprinkling of pih'nins fi'in for- years ayo. Jordanian authorities eicn lands. Tne annual influx of banned the trad.tional consular tourists, (hurehmen, scholars and corps procession Ironi Jerusalem others was all hut halted by the to llcthlehem along the biblical recent open warfare. route taken bv Marv and .Imenh Many of the pilgrims who made the crossing arrived in Jerusalem hy bus from biblical Nazareth. Jaffa and other Arab communities to Christian shrines to the old, can Celebrate Birth Holy Eucharist with candlelight processional; midnight, solemn high masses at St. Joseph and St. Vincent dc Paul Catholic churches Christmas Day: St. Joseph andi10. ,hc lrilsl,c. coal shortage and M. Vincent de Paul masses, 6, 7, 8, 9:15, 10:30 and 11:45 a.m.; St. Paul's Episcopal, 7:30 and 10 a.m.; Grace Lutheran, 10 a.m., St. John's Lutheran, 10:30 a m.: King wood Bible church, 10:30 a.m.; Central Lutheran and Christ Lu theran, II a m. Weather Details Maximum vulcrrlnv. SO; minimum today, 41). Iota I 24-hmir nrrrtitlt.i. Iln: .OH; tor mnnlh: 111: normal, 5 nrrrihiiaiinn. n.jj; aM: 1, 700 Trek The route was blocked by four rows of stone fence barricades! and a row of concrete "dragon s teeth'' at the border point on the outskirts of Jerusalem. 2 SECTIONS 16 Paget oc of Christ Hungary Gets Bad Economic Outlook News BUDAPEST OH - The Hungari an people, trudging hy hundreds of thousands through snow and slush to complete their Christmas shopping, got some more bad eco nomic news Monday. The official communist party newspaper predicted there will soon be 200.000 unemployed due ! uiiii-i vl-;jijiiiil' uiMucm lints inai followed the anti-Soviet revolu tion. The country's biggest Industrial center, the huge Csepel Iron and Steel Works south of Budapest, shut down production Sunday for at least 10 days and sent 17,000 workers home on half pay. Lack of coal has forced similar layoffs in other big plants. Half of the pre-revolulionary to- t.'ll of oo.ooo Hungarian miners h Hi ,ne ire,l , ""till T Ih, ng the unemployment problem and the sorry economic situation, the newspaper Nepszn- hadsng of Premier Janns Kadar's1 party said Hungary will impera tively need foreign loans, includ ing help from "the capitalist coun tries" to rebuild its economy. Firm Patron Dozes Hours Movie actress Anila Ekberg will probably he embarrassed If the hears this but someone went lo slrrp during a movie leaturing her here Sunday night. In fart, he went so sound asleep, he didn't wake up until 2 a.m. and had to be rescurd from the locked theater by city police. Officers sold they were di reeled to the Capitol theater about 2 a.m. alter someone heard Norman James Cavllee, Moniuoi-ih, pounding on the front do'tr nt the thratrr and ask ng for someone to open the duo. He was directed to a side door, which can be oprnrd Irom Ihe Ilde. olllcers said, The movie was "Hollywood or Bust," slarrinf Dean Marlln and Jerr Lewis. System ieus 'Exposed as Failure' WASHINGTON Wi Vice Presi dent Nixon said Monday "In ternational communism has suf fered a mortal blow from which it cannot recover" as a result of the sacrifices of the Hungarian people. Nixon made this comment at the airport here on returning from first-hand study of the Hungarian refugee problem in Austria. Nixon said he will make "specif ic recommendations" to President Eisenhower within the next week on "ways and means we .can do our full share" In finding new homes for -the 175,000 Hungarian! who have fled Hungary rather than continue to live under communist rule. 'Gigantic Failure' ' "I am convinced, as I return from a first-hand study of th situation," he said, "that the cour ageous people who fought for free dom in Hungary ahould be con sidered a problem only to the So viet Union. "As a result of their sacrifice, international communism has suf fered a mortal blow from which it cannot recover. It has been exposed as a gigantic failure." Nixon said "the whole world knows" now that communism can 'maintain its hold on the oemile it controls only by force. And his tory tells a regime based on forct alone can be temporarily success ful as it is in Hungary today, but in me long run lt ia doomed to fall." Nixon, who seemed fresh despite his six-day trip, declined to fay whether he will recommend to Eisenhower that (he i;nl(l Slates open its bordern lo mnrm than the 21,800 Hungarians It has already agreed to admit. Must Complete Task "Our efforts up to this time have been commendable." Ninon said at the airport,, "but it is an opportunity and a challenge for us to Join with other free nations to complete this task of seein that the refugees find new homci during this period when they are unable to return to their own land." White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerlv announced that Nixon will report to Eisenhower Wednesday. The Vice President will be accompanied then by 4wo ouirr government officials who went to Austria with him Denu- ty Ally. Gen. William P. Hogeri and John Hollister, director of the international Cooperation Admin istration (1CA). The Vice President in denouncine Hungarian communism noted that the regime for 10 years had "com plete control" of the nation, con centrating Its efforts on the In tellectuals, students and workers. 'However, it was these three groups who led the revolt against them.' Nixon said. U-Drivc Official Missing 10 Days PORTLAND un - The attorney for Hob's U-Drive automobile rental company here asked police Monday to search for Robert M. Fall, company vice president, who has been missing since Dec. 14. The attorney, Frederick D. Windsor, said that a company- , owned car also was missing. News in Hrief For Monday, Dec. 24, 133S NATIONAL Holiday Death Toll Heads for Record Sec. 1, P. 1 Ike May Send up Budget Of 72 Billion Sec. 1, P. 1 LOCAL Churches Set Services On Christmas Eve Sec. 1, P. 1 Dripping Wet Office Parties Slowly Fading Sec. 1, P. I Second General ion Uses Electric Train Sec. 1, P. 8 STATE Smith Due to Appoint New Judge This Week Sec. 1, P. I FOREIGN Nixon Says Communism Dealt Mortal Blow . Sec. 1, P. 1 GI Santas Busy Around World Sec. 1, P. X SPORTS Injuries Hit Both OSC. Iowa Sec. 2, P. 2 Prep Schedules Quiet Until Jan 2 Sec. 2. P. I REGULAR FEATURES Amusements Editorials Locals . Society Comics Television Want Ads . Markets .... Sec. 1, P. 2 .... S?c. 1, P. 4 ... S:c. 1. P. S . Sec. 1, P. 6.7 Sec. 2, P. 3 ... Sec. 2, P. 4 Sec. 2. P. S..7 ... See. 2, P. 4 Personal Problems Sec. 2, P. T 1 Crossword Fuula Sec. 2, P. I