Capital jLJoiirnal THE WEATHER. CLOUDY WITH rain and occasion al snow tonight ; mostly cloudy with rain and snow showers, Thursday; somewhat cooler. Low tonight, 30; high Wednesday, 40. 4 SECTIONS 28 Page 69th Year, ISo. 8 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, January 9, 1957 .TVa'coV Price 5c , den Resigns British Pr6uiiersliip JO eueSng Post May Be Given To Butler 111 Health Given As Reason for Quilting LONDON Wi Sir Anthony Eden resigned Wednesday night as prime minister of Britain. He blamed bad health. The 59-ycar-old Eden stepped down after the failure of British French military intervention in Egypt and at a time of a strain in British-American relations. In Office 21 Months The 59-year-old English aristo crat had completed 21 crisis-rid den months in thi nation s .high est office. it was officially announced just before 7 p.m. that Queen Eliza beth II had accepted his resign a tion. Eden called on the Queen at Buckingham Palace just after fi p.m., following a 70-minute emergency meeting with his Cabi net and other government minis ters at No. 10 Downing St. Eden drove to the palace alone. He appeared choked up and on the verge of tears. The text of the Buckingham al- ace announcement: "The Right Honorable Sir An thony Eden, prime minister and first lord of the treasury, had an audience of the Queen this eve ning and tendered his resignation as prime minister and first lord of the treasury, which Her Ma jesty was pleased to accept. No Word on Successor There was no immediate indi cation as o who would succeed Eden. The Queen could ask another Conservative politician to form a Conservative government as seems likely, Eden's top lieutenants Lord Privy Seal R. A. Butler and Chan cellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan were seen as the most probable choices to lead a new Conservative government. Neither, however, commands the wholehearted support of all factions of the Conservative Party,, rent by controversy over the de cision to intervene in Egypt. Queen Elizabeth hurried back from Sandringham, her Norfolk home, unexpectedly Wednesday afternoon. Eden spent Tuesday with the Queen at Sandringham and pre aumably conveyed his intentions. Eden has been linger criticism iinee the start of the Suez crisis, which .split the country and his own Conservative Party. The invasion of Egypt shook the Atlantic Alliance. Even with pros pects of patching up British-American differences, Eden faced an economic crisis at Home growing out of the blockade of the Suez Canal. Eden took a three-week rest in Jamaica on the verge of a ner vous breakdown. On returning he said he would never apologize for the government's Middle East pol icy. Actress Denies Theft of Love SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Actress Vivian Blaine denied today she is the "other woman" in the broken marriage of bandleader Art (Cow Eyes) Engler. Engler's wife, Shirley, charged Tuesday that her husband walked out on her after confessing his love for Miss Blaine. Mrs. Engler filed suit for separation in New York. She and Engler have two children. "I feel like an idiot." said Miss Blaine, who is starring here in "A Hatful of Rain." "As far as the world is con cerned, I'm a woman involved. I have never been one before and 1 never had any intention of being one. "There is no great big romance Involved and I don't know what they are trying to prove, but they are handling it in a cheap way. a filthy way. and I refuse to handle it in the same way." DO YOU KNOW 3. Thai the FBI was organ bed nearly 50 years ao by President Theodore Roosevelt in his campaign against East ern business trusts and Western land thieves? Read The Story Sec. 2 Page 2 State Court Rules PUD 's Are Taxable By JAMES D. OLSON Capital Journal Writer Public utility districts In Oregon are subject lo taxation the same as private utilities, the Oregon supreme court held Wednes day. In an opinion written by Associate Justice George Rossman the court decreed the Northern Wasco County's People's Utility District was liable lor taxes assessed by the Slate tax commis sion against it for the years. 1950 through 1953. Justice Rossman said the statutes providing lor the taxes against the Pfe'D "are not arbitrary or unreasonable and are free from constitutional inllrmllies." Public Utility districts in the state have stoutly maintained they are exempt from taxation and the case at issue was in the nature of a test case. Circuit Judge M. W. Wilkinson of Wasco county held the 1950 levy was void but sustained the levies for the other years. The supreme court, however, ruled the 1950 levy, while made under authority of a void statue, was validated by later curative legislation. To this extent the decree ol the trial court was reversed but the remainder ol the findings of the lower court were confirmed. The high court also decided that the Oregon legislature had the power lo enact the tax statutes which the PUD challenged and that such statutes did not violate any constitutional restric tions and that accordingly, taxes for all the years were lawfully levied. . COMMITTED TO HOSPITAL Reppeto Confesses Lebanon Slaying By MIKE FORBES Capital Journal Valley Editor ALBANY (Special) Furious anger because his stepmother usurped his task of lighting a fire in the fireplace caused Thomas Richard Reppeto, 21, to beat her to death in their Lebanon home Saturday. This was confessed by the youth ful former inmate of the State Fairview home Tuesday to Dist. Atty. Courtney Johns during rou tine questioning. Young Reppeto previously denied any knowledge of how the woman, Mrs. Mary Hattie Reppeto, was killed. As a result of the confession the defendant, who is charged with first degree murder, has been placed in the Oregon Slate hospital Hunger Strike Ends After Six Skip 26 Meals A nine-day hunger strike, staged by 20 convicts, characterized by Warden Clarence Gladden as hard ened criminals, ended when the last six partook of dinner Tuesday night, the warden announced. The last six to quit the food strike had missed 26 meals al though prison authorities arc cer tain that some of them consumed Christmas candy during the early part of the strike. The number of food strikers, starting a week ago Monday orig inally 20, gradually dwindled until Tuesday morning only six stood fast. But they weakened when the evening meal was served and with out comment or demonstration accepted the food trays and gob bled up the food. Prison authorities said they believed that the striking convicts had hoped to last out until next Monday, when Governor elect Holmes is inaugurated, in order to call his attention to them. But Holmes is only one of three men, having jurisdiction of the prison and other state institutions, and he alone could not remove Warden Gladden, which is believed to have been one of the striker's aims. State Senate Deadlock Eased by Agreement on Committee Picks PORTLAND tfl Democrats I and Republicans will each name their own state Senate committee members, two party leaders de cided late Tuesday. One Republican leader said this "brines us closer to agreement on organization" of the Senate. Still unsettled, thrugh, is the question of whether a Democrat or a Republican is to be president of the Senate, which is split even ly with 15 members from each party. Presumably this will not delay inauguration of iov .-elect Robert D. Holmes on Monday, however. Unless some unexpected legal bar is uncovered. Senate leaders ex pect that a temporary chairman if the president still is not named by then could provide the necessary organization to go ahead with the inauguration. The two men who want In be Senate president, republican Sen Warren Gill of Lebanon and Dem - for observation to determine his mental condition. The order was signed by District Judge Wendell Tompkins. In his new version of the slay ing the youth explained that the task of lighting fires in the fire place had been assigned to him. "That was my iob." he said, ac cording to Johns. He added that on the day of the slaying he brought an armload of wood Into the house for the fireplace and his mother asked him to get some pa per to start the fire. When he returned, young Rep peto said, he found that his mother already had lit the fire. The youth said he became angry be cause that was my job, and struck his stepmother knocking her down. Her head struck the wall, Reppeto said, and then he beat her with a heavy slick of wood, but quit when he heard his father returning from a walk. When arrested after the slaying young Reppeto said that he was chopping wood in the back yard and knew nothing of who killed his stepmother. He said that blood on his clothing was smeared there when he placed a towel under his stepmother's head. Funeral services for Airs. Rep peto were held in the Yost Fu neral Chapel Wednesday morn ing. Committal will be at Belle vue, Wash. Shift of Cargo Perils Vessel HONOLULU (UP)-The freight er Charles E. Dant struggled through heavy seas toward Hono lulu today with a shifting cargo of iron ore which was "flowing uke water. The Coast Guard said it was alerted by the Dant, which report ed that the iron ore had broken through its wooden retaining wall in the hold. The Dant reported it was mak ing about 10 knots and was about 600 miles northwest of Midway Island. The Weather Bureau said the vessel was still in the midst of storm, but should enter calmer waters later today. ocratic Sen -elect Walter Pearson of Portland, conferred at length Tuesday and settled a number of other points in contention. They agreed that each party shall name its own committee members, regardless of who is elected president, tamer utmo- crals Oliereo a plan wnereoy inoy would control the Ways and Means. Taxation and Kducation committees, with the Republicans .nlmllinn fhc.n nthnr- fnmmil. ri ih. n-mrai. ant.-H to appoint the Republican m - bers and the Republican balked at this The asreement settles this issue. Gill and Pearson decided the question of who would name the head doorkeeper by the flip of a coin. The winner was to name the doorkeeper and the loser the read me -lerk. Gill woji. The two confirmed earlier re ports that Mrs. Zvlpha Zell Burns. i Senate chief clerk since 1539, Action on 2 Grade School Additions Due Something definite concerning additions to the Liberty and Salem Heights elementary schools may come out of Thursday night's meeting of the school board. -Because of the rapid expansion of home building in the southern part of the district, facilities at Liberty and Salem Heights have become crowded. The directors have discussed the situation to some extent, but no definite com mitments have been made. The directors will also be in formed concerning progress being made in connection with the re vamping of plans for the proposed .Tudson and Waldo junior high schools. Kadar Indicts 11 Patriots in Terror Effort Intellectuals Face Trial For Distributing Free Newspapers BUDAPEST IUP) Dictator- Premier Janos Kadar opened a new campaign of terror against Hungarian intellectuals today by indicting H patriots for publish ing and distributing free news papers alter the Nov. 4 attack by the Soviet Army. Two of the nation s better known writers were among the 11 ac cuser', of- "counter revolutionary activities by publishing or dis-i tributing the paper. The two writ ers also were accused of inciting a Dec. 4 demonstration by Hun garian women against Russian tanks. Simultaneously, the Workers Council on the powder keg indus trial Island of Csepel in the Dan ube south of Budapest announced' it was resigning in protest against interference by the Kadar govern ment. The Csepel council, which de fiantly led the nationwide sitdown strikes against the Communist re gime, took extraordinary meas ures to ensure that news of their new protest reached the few West ern correspondents permitted in Budapest. ; Snow Arrival Delayed, But Still Threat By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Weather Bureau Wednesday said snow remained a definite threat for northwestern Oregon as a storm from the Gulf of Alaska moved south along the Oregon coast. Tuesday's prediction was that heavy snows were due if this storm moved into Oregon to link up with a mass of frigid arctic 1 air moving south from Canada. The bureau said the pattern has been delayed but snow remains a threat. Rain with some snow is fore cast for much of western Oregon through Thursday. East of the Cascades snow flurries are due in the north and steady snow in the south as the mercury dropped sharply Wednesday. Baker Wednesday morning re ported 3 below zero. Weather Details Minimum ynterilay. 42; minimum today, 34. TnUI 24-hour prenpita tlnn: Imrr; for month: 1.02: normal, 1.11. ftann prrrlpltatlnn, 12.-16; nor mal . 20. OH. River hHrht, 11 fret. (Report by U. S. Weather Bureau.) would be retained. Democrats will pick" the assistant chief clerk The Democrats will name the calendar clerk and Vera Drager will be retained as sergeant at arms. The two parties will split ip appointment of assistant door- ktfp,rj an( pagcs . -,, ,,,, c,,-,...,, :M Salem will try to decide who to be president. Members of the House, which is controlled by the Democrats i3'f ,als will caucus Sunday I(,P- Pa' Doop'. Portland, 1 is to be named speaker. Sen. Rudie Wilbelm, chairman of the Republican committee ne gotiating with the Democrats, said legislative counsel Sam Haley of Salem has expressed the opinion that a Senate president would not have to be named before the in- auguratinn. This question is now! under study by the attorney gen-1 cral, Wilhclra said. Ike Policy Substitute Supported Rayburn Says He Hasn't Given' His Backing WASHINGTON (UP) A pro posed 34-word Democratic substi-i tute for President Eisenhower's ! Middle East resolution drew cau tious support on Capitol Hill today. ! But Speaker Sam Rayburn said he has not endorsed it. j Rayburn said the substitute was submitted to him by a "very prominent man" formercly high in the government. He said it was neither former President Truman nor former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Flnletter Another? Speculation centered on former Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter as a likely author. Mr. Eisenhower has laid before Congress a resolution affirming U.S. interest in the security of the Middle East and specifically auth orizing him to use American mili tary forces, if necessary, to defend any Middle East nation which seeks our help in resisting Com munist attack. The administration resolution also would empower him to grant about $600 million in U.S. military and economic aid to Middle East nations over the next three years. Administration Silent The proposed substitute only by inference would authorize the President, on his own, to dse force in the area. It would make no mention of economic aid. It sim ply would state America's interest in independence of the Middle East nations and her determination to use force if necessary to main tain it. France Won't Yield Algeria, Mollet Warns PARIS 'UP) Premier Guy Mol let warned Algerian rebels and the I'nited Nations today that France 'will never abandon Algeria." Speaking to newsmen before making a radio and television re port to the nation tonight. Mollet served notice that the United Na tions should keep out of what France regards as none of its business. The I'nited Nations is consid ering a debate on Algeria later this month, and the rebels in that North African territory have in tensified their 26-month-old insur rection in an effort to focus world attention on their demands at a time of U.X. discussion. Mollet gave his warning in a 30-minule declaration to reporters at his official residence, before having it broadcast later over the government operated radio and television networks. The declaration was formally approved by the Cabinet earlier in the dav. It contained little that Mollet has not said before. But it was a formal restatement of the govern ment's intentions toward Algeria on the eve of the proposed U.N. discussion. Nixon Marks 44th Birthday WASHINGTON (UPl Vice President Richard M. Nixon cele brated his 44th birthday today with a heavy day of work and his wife away from home. The family's traditional, but simple, home celebration won't he held until Thursday because Nix on's wile. Pat, was out of town lor the day on a personal trip. Hut they will gather quietly then with their two daughters, I'atrjcia, 10. and .In lie. 8. for a little get together at home. County Fights Sign Vandals, Posts Reward Marion county will offer a re ward of $50 to any person who will furnish information leading to the conviction of one guilty of destroy ing road signs. This action was taken by the county court Wednesday at the suggestion of County Commission er K. . Rogers who said the cost of replacing signs was running around $260 a month. In some instances, said Rogers, signs placed one day are torn down the next. He added that it takes a crew f two men and a truck verl days a month to take care ti tty, icv 1 2 Negro Pastors Board Bus in Atlanta Ban Defy Slabs Lifted I Workmen lift a concrete slab fn place with a crnne at tHe new Western Paper Converting Co. plant now rising on Prlngle roaif. The project Is one of the Inrger tllt-up construction projects in the northwest with the completion dale set for April, The plant will contain 100,800 feet of floor spare and wilt he walled by six of the reinforced till-up slabs 20 by 25 feet. The walls are made by pouring cemrnt Into frames on the floor of the building. It hardens In a few weeks and Is plnced by the crane as Is shown In the above picture. E. E. Rntterman Is the con tractor of the Western Pnper Converting Co. project and James I,. Payne Is the architect. (Capital Journal Pholo) AS SAFETY MOVE Planners Ask More Sidewalks in Salem By DOUGLAS SEYMOUR Capital Journal Writer Step-up in sidewalk construction. particularly in the vicinity of schools, was recommended by the city planning commission Tuesday night. The action came as a result of study of recommendations recently made to the city council py me Citizens Advisory Traffic .Safety council. The council had sent the proposals to the planners for their opinions. City Council Can Order Construction of sidewalks is up to property owners but the city council has the power to order them put in. This was recently done in the vicinity of Auburn school after the parents group there had pointed o"t hazards in volved. Decision to advise the city coun cil to initiate sidewalk construc tion, came at Tuesday's meeting alter Commissioner U. S. Page said, "1 think the council should be urged to go forward with its sidewalk program. This is some thing often sidetracked and ne glected." Kequest that tho commission again go on record as favoring sidewalk construction one foot from the property line was made by Commissioner T. W. lowry. Present city ordinance calls for such sidewalk locations except in one northeast section of the city where curb sidewalks are author ized. Officer! Re-elerled Officers of the commission were re-elected at Tuesday's meeting. Robert Powell will again head the group with Stuart Compton as vice president and Betty Marsh, secretary. Powell and Compton were first named to their posts last summer after John Carkin re signed as president. Lloyd Ham mrl was sworn in as a new com mission member replacing Carkin, for Walls of whose term expired the first of the year. Decision was delayed on the re quest of Precision Builders to con struct a five-unit court on three lots on South 24th street near Simpson. Objection to the plan was voiced by Agnes Robertson, 'JO aouin 24ui m. The commission gave final ap proval to "Hilltop" addition which is located between Cunningham lane end Warren street a quarter milo west of Liberty road. The tract contains 18 lots and Com prises almost frve acres. New Jobs By Elmo 's Aides While Governor Elmo Smith has not announced any definito future plans, members of his office staff have all obtained positions both inside and outside of the state organization. As previously announced, Kdwin H. Armstrong, executive assistant to the governor, will become bus iness development representative for the First National Hank of Portland with headquarters in the Salem branch. Hack to OSC ' Fred M. Shidiler, executive as sistant in charge of press rela tions, will return, after a year's leave of absence, to resume regu lar duties as director ol informa tion and head ol the journalism de partment of Oregon State college. Clayton Powell, who has served as research secretary, will become assistant director nf public rela tions lor the state highway depart ment. Miss Leolyn Barnett, priwtc sec New Plant Judge Orders Wiretap Probe By Grand Jury PORTLAND tfl Federal Judge Claude McColloch Wednesday or dered a federal grand jury to in vestigate reports of illegal wire tapping in Portland. He said he had walled 'a prop er period of time for local author ities to act," and now considers it his duty to act tinder federal laws, 'It is a matter of public Infor mation." - the judge said, 'that there have been numerous charg es of wire tapping in the com munity." - The summer-long Investigation by a Multnomah County Grand Jury brought frequent references holh to recorded room conversa tions and to (he tapping of tele phono lines. The latter is forbid den by federal law. Five recorded telephone conver sations are in FRt possession, and presumably will be heard by the federal grand jury. Taken retary, will become secretary for Secretary of Slate Mark O. Hat field, beginning next Monday, Mrs. Conrad Paulson, of the gov ernor s secretarial staff, will he secretary in charge of the legisla tive office of the Pacilic Power and Light company and the Port land Gas and Coke company. Accepts Post Mrs. Lucile Pavlik. also of the secretarial staff, has accepted a position with the slate forest pro tective and conservation commit tee Mrs. Peg Smith, another of the governor's secretaries, will be with the legal department of the state department of forestry, while Mrs. Shirley Sonderman, on the sccrc tarlal staff, will return to full-time homemaking duties at her homo in Stayton. The exodus of the governor entire staff means that Governor- elect Robert D. Holmes must en Race an entire new staff after he takes office as chief executive, Vehicle Halts Whites Exit Quickly ATLANTA (UP)-Twelve Negro ministers boarded an Atlanta city bus today and sat in front seats ' in an apparent attempt to break down Georgia's bus segregation laws. Tho public vehicle, an electric ally operated trackless trolley, ap peared to develop power trouble just after the Negroes boarded and two mechanics were called to re pair it. AU but one of the five or six white passengers aboard got off. The Negroes remained. The first attempt at bus inte gration in the Georgia capital city occurred at a busy downtown in tersection, the corner of White hall and Mitchell Sts. The Ne- ' groes, members of the "love, law and liberation' movement, held a prayer meeting this morning and then went downtown to board buses. Gov. Marvin Griffin promptly blamed "outside agitators" for the integration attempt and said the Negro bus riders should be jailed. Plan General Strategy The integration move in the Georgia metropolis, a bedrock of Deep South segregation practices was made on the eve of a meet ing of bus integration leaden from other Southern states, includ ing tho Negro ministers who led movements to end segregated seat ing laws in Montgomery and Birm ingham, Ala., and Tallahassee, Fla. Tho group plans to map south wide strategy to implement the , Supreme Court decision declaring segregated bus seating unncon stitutional. A Negro organization in Ne Orleans announced today it will seek racial integration on city buses by "peaceful" means. The ' Ttcv. W. Scott Chinn. a spokesman for tho New Orleans Ministerial Alliance, a Negro group, said a petition will bo presented to the president of the New Orleans Pub- lie Service commission, asking that bus segregation be ended and that Negroes be given equal Job opportunily by the bus company. tiovernnr Hints Action One of the Negro ministers who at in the front of an Atlanta bus Ihis morning was the Rev. Martin either King Sr.. father of the leader of tho Montgomery inte gration drive. He said it was the first timo he had ever sat in the front of an Atlanta public convey ance. Gov. Griffin hinted at quick ac tion to nip the integration attempt in the bud. He said that his pow ers under Georgia riot statutes are very broad and added, "I am charged with the responsibility of preventing trouble." would call on these people ; to disperse and it they did not 1 would put them all in jail," the governor said. In Montgomery. Ala., where court ordered bus integration ha been in effect for some three weeks, a night-time curfew on bus operations will be lifted tills after noon. The curfew was imposed during the Christinas holidays in an effort to stop a wave ol shoot ings which wounded one Negro bus passenger. At Knoxville. Tenn., segregation ist John Kasper warned that a suit lo integrate Knoxville schools may lead to more "race riots" ano "possible bloodshed. News in Brief Wednesday, Jan. , 1558 NATIONAL Atlanta Negro Pastors Defy Bus Segrega tion Sec. 1, P. i Ikn Policy Substitute Plan Gets Backing. .sec. 1, r. LOCAL New Governor Hard Work- r. 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