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C apit al AJomrnatl THE WEATHER. CLOUDY WITH occasional rain to night; partly cloudy with scat lered showers, Tuesday. Utile change In temperature. Low to night, 40; high Tuesday, M. 2 SECTIONS 20 Pages 69th Year, No. 60 Salem, Oregon, Monday, March 11, 1957 SETVST Price 5c More Aleutian Tremors Keep Pacific Jittery 5-Intensity Shock Probably Won't Cause Havoc; 2 Hawaii Villages Demolished by Earlier Wave ; By The Associated Press Two new strong earthquakes were reported todav in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands where' two severe shocks on Saturday rolled a damaging tidal wave across the Pacific. Fordham University seismo- rraDhs recorded the latest Quake at 2:09:49 and 2:17:29 a.m. PST from a distance of 4,200 miles northwest of New York City. The Rev. Joseph Lynch estimated the nev shock had an intensity of a, which he described as "destruc tive, but not a rip-snorter. " The Saturday quake which fanned a destructive tidal wave aeainst the shores of Hawaii, Ja pan and California, had an esti- i mated force of 8. Quake Last Night Father Lynch also reported that a quake, also with an intensity of 5 was recorded at 7:23:36 p.m, Sunday. A similar shock was re ported to have been recorded Sun- dav morning at 7:35:38 fit. Two persons lost their lives as an indirect result of Saturday's tidal wave in Hawaii. Sarah Park, 19, reporter from the Honolulu Star' Bulletin, and a pilot, Paul Beam, were killed when the small plane from which they were ob serving the tidal wave crashed into the ocean. Gov. Samuel Wilder King of Ha waii declared the north coast of Kauai Island a disaster area. Ter ritorial officials estimated the damage at "hundreds of thou sands of dollars." 2 Villages Washed Away The tidal wave washed away two small villages, destroying 30 homes and four bridges. Damage was slight elsewhere in the Ha waiian Islands but the beaches were littered with dead fish and debris. In Japan, waves two to three feet high hit the eastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan's most northerly Island, early Sunday. The tidal wave destroyed or damaged 145 homes and 18 boats. Reports of the tidal wave caused an alert up and down the California coast. Hours after the danger was thought to be over, a sweep ot water swept into San Diego Bay Saturday night, caus ing minor damage to five private boats and causing $5000 damage to floating wooden docks. SEATO Opens Third Parley In Australia CANBERRA, Australia Wl The SEATO Council of Ministers opened its third annual meeting today to intensify the eight-nation alliance's fight against Communist political and economic subversion in Southeast Asia. Representatives of the United States, Australia, Britain. France, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan met in the green-carpeted House of Repre sentatives chamber of Australia's Parliament Building for the three day conference. The council, top policy-making body of the alliance formed in 1954, was expected to: 1. Recommend that member nations keep their military forces up to present strength and inten sify measures to saleguard their internal security. 2. Lay plans to keep free Asian nations from linking their econo mies closer to the Communist LI.. 3. Initiate a multilateral cultural program to promote mutual un derstanding among the member nations. INiews in Brief For Monday, Marrh 11, 1957 NATIONAL Supreme Court Restores Indict ment Against UAW Sec. 1, P. 1 Dave Beck Returns 'to Face the Music' . Sec. 1, P. 1 LOCALS Area Scouts Plan Jamboree Trip Sec. LP. 9 Plumbers Set Meeting With Mediator ...Sec. 1, P. 5 STATE High Waler Closes Inde pendence Bridee Sec. 2, P. 3 FOREIGN Egvpt Moves to Take Over Gaza Strip Sec. 1, P. 1 SPORTS State Class 2-A Tourney Opens Here Sec. 2, P. 1 Stale Class A-l Bracket Sec. 2, P. 1 Shrine Grid Stars Chosen Sec. 2. P. 2 RF.Gl'LAR FEATURES Amusements Sec. 1, P. 2 Editorials Sec. LP. 4 Locals Sec. t. P. 5 Society Sec. 1. P. 6-7 Comics Sec. 2, P. 4 Television Sec. 2. P. 7 Want Ads Sec. 2. P. 8-9 Markets Sec. 2. P. 7 Dorothy Dix Sec. 2. P. 10 Crossword Puzzle Sec. 2, P. 4 OVER POLITICAL SPENDING Top Court Charge Against UAW WASHINGTON (IB The Supreme Court Monday reinstated, 6-3, an indictment charging that the United Automobile Work ers violated federal law by paying for political television broadcasts with money from the union's general fund. The broadcasts were made in Detroit in 1954. 3 The government contended the Tempers Flare At Hearing on Pardons Probe Solons Shout at Each Oilier; Rep. Giesy Gaveled Down Br JAMES D. OLSON Capital Journal Writer A stormy session of the Oregon House committee on federal -and state affairs ended Monday with Republican and Democratic mem bers shouting at each other. One Republican was gaveled down by the chairman. The group was talking over a bill calling for investigation of the governor s powers to grant re prieves, commutations . and par dons when the dispute arose. Giesy Reads Reports Rep. Wayne Giesy (R), Monroe, who had been the first witness, returned to read copies of medical reports made on Otto Cahill, whose one-year sentence was commuted by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. "We have those copies," Chair man Norman Howard (D), Port land, said. As Giesy attempted to explain that the medical reports had been made months . ago, Howard slammed his tgavel down, arose, rushed to the committee room door and called in witnesses on another bill. Veteran Republican Rep. Her man Chindgren of Clackamas county objected to what he termed "horsewhipping witnesses." 'Never Seen It Before' "I've been here a long time," Chindgren said, "but I've never seen anything like this before." "Well, I don't like to see you Iry to horse - whip the governor either," said Chairman Howard. Giesy, Reps. Fred Meek and Graham Killam, all Portland Re publicans, told the committee they had no objections to extension of the investigation to cover any acts by governor. But they contended (hat the committee amendments were not in line with the facts re- laling to medical reports on Ca hill. (Continued on Page 5 Column I) FIRST OF. SERIES Russian Revolt Born EDITOR'S NOTE: -Four decades ago the Russian people over threw the Czar and stood in freedom, a freedom soon lost to the Bolsheviks. Why did they lose II? The answer perhaps lies In the character of the people themselves. William L. Ryan, Associated Press specialist on Russia, explains what that character it In this first of a scries of four articles. ' By WILLIAM L. RYAN (AP Foreign News Analyst) Forty vcars ago tomorrow a spark of freedom burst into bril liant flame in the dark of a Petrograd morning. It brought Russia lo the edge of what might have been a golden age. Si mm Rcvnlt Target: Czar Nich olas II reviewing Palace Guard Just prior to March revolution. BOEING'S 707 SPANS U.S. IN 228 MINUTES BALTIMORE (UP) A Boeing 707 Jet ilratollner, averaging 612 miles per hour, flashed across the United States today In three hours and 41 minutes. The distance lor the flight was 2,330 miles. The time trimmed 10 minutes from the three-hour, 58-minute crossing from Seattle to Washington, D.C., Oct. 16, 1955. The time was measured from takeolf in Seattle at 10:06 a.m. EST until the second the plane, America's first jet transport, checked in over Baltimore at 1:54 p.m. EST. Descending at 10,000 feet a minute the sleek craft landed at Friendship air port here at 1:56 p.m., EST. The plane was pushed along x by 100 mile tailwinds. Reinstates broadcasts were in support of par- ticular candidates for Congress and the payments thus violated a section of the Corrupt Practices Act. Judge Frank A. Picard of De troit ruled the payments were not within the .meaning of the word expenditures as used In the act. He dismissed the indictment. Ap pealing directly to the Supreme Court, the Justice Department asked reinstatement of the indict ment and trial of its charge in the district court. Justice Frankfurter delivered the majority decision for himself and Justices Reed, who heard the case argued before his retirement, Burton, Clark, Harlan and Bren- nan. Justice Douglas wrote a dis senting opinion, joined by Chief Justice Warren and Justice Black. Frankfurter said Picard, in dis missing the indictment, had made an erroneous interpretation of the act which prohibits labor organi zations and corporations from making contributions in connec tion with federal elections Frankfurter's 25-n age ooinion dealt at length with the history of congressional action on political contributions. For the dissenters, Douglas said Monday s ruling abolishes First Amendment rights on a wholesale basis. Douglas said the decision "greatly impairs" such rights as freedom of expression and free dom of assembly, guaranteed un der the First Amendment to the Constitution. Month's Rain At 4.71 Inches March continued its rainy ways with the start of the new week, a total of .40 of an inch more of precipitation in the 24-hnur period ending at 10:30 a.m. Monday being added to the total. Rivers continued to run fairly high in the valley, although read ings were slightly below the Satur day ones. At Salem, the Willam ette was measured at 15.6 feet Monday morning. Showers over the weekend amounted to .70 of an inch in Sa lem for the 48 hours to 10:30 a.m. Monday, bringing the month's total to 4.71 inches. The five-day forecast calls for more showery conditions, A revolution, nrsi 01 iwo Krcat 1017 upheavals in Russia, exploded Monday, March 12, at the height of a cruel European war. To his Inrv it was like a flash of lightning across a sky black with oppres sion. The following November It was lo vanish in the thunder of a Bolshevik betrayal. The first Russian revolution of 1917 the "February revolution" by the old Russian calendar had nothing to do with Bolshevism. Bolshevik leaders played no part in it. It was what they chose to call the "bourgeois" or middle class capitalist revolution, a rising of all the people from nobles to peasants. Had it been permitted to live and develop, the February revolution which overthrew Czar Nicholas II might have produced a new Rus sian, freed from his fear and sus picion of Ihe West, his ages old superstitious ' reverence for . abso lute power. Instead, a Bolshevik counter-revolution in November in stalled totalitarianism by force. With 40 years to develop, that re volution produced what tit Krenv Dave Beck Will Face TheMusic Teamster Chief in Seattle; Will Go To Quiz Soon WASHINGTON (AP)- Senate raekets investiga tors prepared Monday to subpoena Teamsters Union President Dave Beck and seize his financial records unless he agrees quickly to be coopcra tivc." Beck indicated he would comply with their requests before being subpoenaed. The teamster chief returned un heralded from Europe yesterday, dodged reporters in New York refused to be interviewed in Chi cago, and flew on to his home in Seattle. Won't Wait for Subpoena Arriving there. Beck said "I don't think so" when he was asked by newsmen whether he would wait for a subpoena. He said he expected to go to Washington "very soon." Beck declined to answer any other questions. Beck's Teamsters Union the nation's biggest has been the focus so far of a special Senate committee's search for evidence of racketeering influences in labor and industry. For the past two weeks, the committee has received testimony that West Coast teamster officials were linked with underworld fig urcs and some public office hold ers in efforts to take over vice and gambling operations in Port land, ore. The committee has said it wants to question Beck about charges that union funds were used to pay some of his personal bills and about the activities of some of his lieutenants. Informed of Beck's return, Sen. McClellan (D-Ark), chairman of the rackets investigating group, told a newsman: "I just assume he (Beck) will get in touch with the committee now that he s back. - Other committee sources said a subpoena was' being drafted to summon Beck before the commit tee and to seize his personal finan cial records if he does not agree within a day or two to be co operative." Wyatt to Give Up GOP Helm At Month-End ASTORIA (UP) Wendell Wyatt, Astoria attorney, today announced his resignation as chairman of the State Republican Central Commit tee effective March 30. In a prepared statement Wyatt said that the committee would be called to meet in Portland at 10 a.m. March 30 to act on his resig nation and name a successor. He said a threetmcmber com mittee composed of E. Stanley Goodell, Robert T. Mautz and Mrs. Collis Moore had been formed to insure that there arc one or more qualified candidates for the post. He said the three would not act as a nominating committee, how ever. Wyatt said he had announced prior to the general election that he would retire from the political post but had delayed handing in his resignation because of the GOP campaign deficit that remained. lin today calls the "new Soviet man." Ivan, unready for freedom, suc cumbed to his perennial habit of submission. The "new Soviet man" is the image of the ancient Rus sian. Strong, tenacious, enduring and long suffering, he is like his ancestors impervious to misery around him but worried about Woody Start: Rcvnlt on the streets of Petrograd 40 years ago set In motion the historic chain of events which ushered communism Into world history. The March Egypt Gaza -s3 : h cfey Coaches of Oregon's best A-2 basketball teams Monday look a joint look at the trophy all will be competing for in three days ot state tournament action here. The hoop bosses Include (left to right) Jim Kabcr, Scappoosc; Cal Horsey, Cascade; Swim Champ Drowns Hunting Bodies of ACAPULCO. Mexico (UP) -Apolonio Castillo, Mexican Olym pic swimming champion was drowned early today while search ing Acapulco harbor for the bodies of two murdered New York tour ists. Castillo, 32, was one of several frogmen looking for the bodies of attorney Joseph Michel, 70,-ana Mrs. Edith Hallock, 63, who were killed and tossed into tho harbor by a Mexican travel agent and his illiterate handy man, t Castillo, who represented Mcxl i in the 1956 Olympics, was wearing an aqualung when he dis appeared. It was not known if his oxygen failed. Luis Fenton, 33, a hotel tourist agency owner, and Daniel Rios ad mitted Sunday they beat Michel and Mrs. Hallock to death villi a baseball bat on Feb. 20, after rob bing them of $80,000 worth of jewelry and about $160 in cash. The victims' bodies, hound In chains, were tossed from a glass bottomed boat. A Simple Boat Ride It was just a matter ot arrang ing a simple boat ride," master mind Fenton, 33, told police. Rios, 35-year-old father of five children, who worked for Fenton for $1.60 a day, said Fenton ot tered him 30,000 pesos '$2,400) to bludgeon Michel and the wealthy widow with a baseball bat. The fatal voyage in a glass bot tom boat lasted only 40 minutes, the murderers said, then they re turned to shore and calmly took 40 Years Ago misery far away. He will work unlil he drops for glorification of the Motherland. He is deeply pa triotic, but his patriotism is a mystic love of the soil rather than respect for a government or a system. "New" Man Stirring Today his government is more stale capitalist, in a harsh sense raw M Strip from UN Coaches All Hope to 2 Murdered Tourists another tourist couple out into the bay to fish until 1 a.m. Police took the confessed killers out on tho boat Sunday to re-enact the crimo a mile off this famous scenic resort. The men said Michel was killed first. Fenton held the struggling Mrs. Hallock while Rios knocked her unconscious, "Just like I was hitting out home runs," Rios said. "Michel never knew what hit him." he sniri. When Mrs. Hallock leaped to Barclay Qu its City Manager A idePost By STEPHEN A. STONK Capital Journnl Associate Kdltor Because of personal business ob ligations, Charles A. Barclay Mon day resigned as administrative assistant to City Manager Kent Mnlhcwson. He made tho resignation effec tive March 30, "or as soon there alter as possible." City Manager Mathewson, who expressed deep regret at Barclay's decision, said he had no ono in mind to fill Ihe ollice. Barclay submitted his resigna tion a year ago to join the man agerial ttalf of Mark Hatfield's campaign lor secretary of state and for personal business reasons. but tho resignation never became of the term, than it is Communist or Marxian Socialist. Its lopsided economy, bent on industrial and military might above all, faces new crises. The "new Soviet man" is stirring, not so much because of oppression as because of vague misgivings. His leaders, so long in replaced tyranny. Communism was (Cent, on Page 7, See. If, Col. 5) '1 revolt threw off ancient chains of oppression. Klght months later the Ilnlshc viks Installed tyranny worse than the ciari'. .'.SsJT.f 9-tS6Z i U038JQ JO AlSJSAJUf) ' Take Trophy Cliff Snider, Molalla; Ole Johnson, Madras; Ray Stratton, Drain; Ben Schaad, Dayton; Norm Olson, Itccdsport. Lorcn Thornton, Glide coach, hadn't checked in yet. Two games this afternoon opened the tourney. (Capital Journal Photo) her feet, Fenton grabbed her while mos hit her with the bat, accord ing to the confessions. "It was simple," Rios said. "there was no struggle. There was only one little yelp. I don't think they really knew what hit them. Rios told police ho did not hesi tate when Fenton offered him 30,000 pesos to wield the bat. I would die for 30,000 pesos, ho said. "It was just the same to I heard about the 30,000 pesos, me muraer or roDDery wncn 1 effective. He owns two restau rant businesses, one in Salem and nnotKcr In Lebanon, is interested in tho Western Security Bank and is the manager of some properties in Salem. Has Managed Airport His city duties Include manage ment of the municipal airport and being personnel officer for the city administration. "I had hoped," he says in his letter lo the city manager, "to be able to carry the responsibilities of this position without sacrifice lo cither Ihe best interests of the city or lo private business inter ests of my own. However, I find I hat this is not possible at this time. "My past seven yean employ ment with the operation of local government have been pleasant, interesting and most gratifying. The affairs of this city have been handled with integrity and care, and after having had the pleasure of your association these past months, I am leaving with the assurance that your ability, effi ciency and high ethical standards will provide the guidance for this city that the people will long re member. Wants to Remain Active "My hope Is to continue to be active in some phase of city gov ernment that lime and business will permit." In his reply City Manager Mathewson told Barclay that the resignation "is accepted with very real regrets on my part and I know your fellow employes and citizens will receive the news in the same spirit. Though our acquaintance has been short, I think that the reason you give for your resignation Is typical of the high plane on which you have con ducted your affairs with the city over the years, "I will not recount here the many ways you have so effective ly, energetically and unselfishly served the city over the past eight years often not knowing from one hour to Ihe next in which direction your next assignment would lead. Yet, I quickly came to know what was universally recognized before me that yon would take on any city assignment, large small, technical or social, wilh the most willing spirit and attitude of an expert. And Inst, but per haps most slgnifieant, no one has ever known the place or time that your sense or humor was missing, , Bet Picture a Paie I) Take Home Woman Victim Of Auto-Truck Collision Here Cur Collides Head-on With 41,000-Pound Iron Load A 38-year-old Clear Lake area woman was fatally injured Sunday night when her cor collided head-on on the Salem by-pass with a truck loaded with some 41,000 pounds of scrap iron. Mrs. Silvia L, McDonald, 1050 Marks Dr., died at a Salem hos nital about 4:15 a.m.. some m hours after tho collision iust north of tho Market street interchange. The McDonald car was carried""! Mediterranean. About two backwards some 40 feet by the heavily-laden truck. Scrap metal from tho truck was scattered over tho highway for a considerable dis tance, slate police said. The truck went into the ditch alongsido the road, whero It resisted efforts of two tow trucks to removo It for several hours, Traffic was blocked for a short time and then was opened to one way movement, which was main tained for several hours as men worked to clear tho scene and re move tho truck. Officers Charles Connway and Norman Johnson said the nature of the collision and statements of other drivers indicated that Mrs. McDonald had pulled out of a string ot traffic in an apparent effort to pass, and met the norlh- bound truck head-on. Both ve hicles were listed as total losses. Ted Daylon Wheelock, Corvnllis, driver of the truck, was not in- (Continued on Pago S, Column 4) Weather Details Maximum VMttrtliiy. 3S: minimum tndiiy, 4.1. Total 24-hour prf rlplutlon: .n; ror month, 4.71; norma, i.m. naon prrrlnliatlnn. 2.1.M; normal, .11. River nrliht. 15 feet. (Report hy U. 8. Wfathrr lliir.au. MUM ON REVUE RODEO Governor State Fair Criticism By MARGARET MACEE Capilnl Journnl Writer Gov. Robert 1). Holmes said Mon lav that he still leels the Oregon Slate Fair should place more em phasis on ngricullure, but he had no specific suggestions as to what should he eliminated in order to tnke away the growing "carnival air. he recently attacked. Holmes statement followed an earlier announcement that he fav ors removing the fair from the slate fair commission and return ing it to the state department of agriculture. A hearing on a senate bill aimed at this purpose is scheduled Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the capilol building. Actually, In a general way. I have long felt that the fair has been moving away from tho ori ginal Intent of a show place for agriculture," he said Monday, No OpInloryOn Revue Asked if ho felt tho night rovue, horse show and rodeo and horse races should be replaced, Holmes said. "I don't know that I have any firm opinion on them. The proper person would have to make the decision. On the midway: "1 think that fairs will always have fun things and a midway." He said ho had no objection to tht tides, but Over Units New Crisis in Middle East Develops Egypt announced Mon day it is taking over ad ministration of the tension gripped Gaza Strip, Cairo appointed a military governor and directed him to assume his re sponsibilities at once. Since the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza last Thursday the strin has been under administration of the U.N. emergency police force. U.N. diplomats expressed fear the Egyptian action will plunge the Middle East into a new crisis. A Source close to Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold called the Egyptian move "regrettable." No order lo Withdraw But there was no order for tha U.N. force to withdraw. There were riotous demonstra tions in tho Gaza Strip Sunday by Arabs demanding a return of ' Egyptian administration. Monday Cairo announced that Gen. Latif has been named military governor of Gaza with orders to take over immediately. A protest was sent to Hammarskjold against action of the U.N. Emer gency Force in using gunfire and tear gas to break up Sunday1! ucmonsirauon. At the United Nations, informed sources expressed belief the U.N. General Assembly might be called DacK into session at once to deal with the situation. i Gangs Said Sent In Waller Evtan. director ennornl of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, ucmanaea cuecuve ponce action by UNEF to counter what Eytan saio. was Egypt's dispatch of fed ayeen gangs to attack Israel. "Israel has made it nerfnrMv clear she will not tolerate provo cations of this kind," Eytan de clared. , . , Gaza, formerly a part of Pales tine, was under Egyptian admin Istratlon prior to the Israeli at tack last fall. EgVDt has contend. od that under the provisions of the 1949 armistice agreement sh has the unchallenged right to ad- minister tho 26-mile slrip along thirds of its population of 300,000 are i-aiestine Arab refugees sup ported by U.N. relief. U.N. efforts to set up a tempo rary administration In the Gaza Strip continued to meet opposition from the Arab population. There were signs also that even a decision by the World Court would not settle tho oueslion of Is. raeli shipping through Iho Gulf of . Aqnba and the Suez Canal, as far as Israel and- Egypt are con cerned. U. N. Emcrecncv Forces re. sorted to tear gas and firing over tho heads of 300 Arab demonstra tors in tho Gaza Strip Sunday. The Arabs tried to smash the gates of UNEF police headquar ters, but were finally dispersed without casualties on either side. A committee of Arabs claiming to represent more than 1.000 civil servants said they would not work under a temporary U.N. admin istration unless Egypt gives a go ahead. An optimistic development in Ihe otherwise gloomy Middle East silualion came in an announce ment that the Iraq Petroleum Co. has started pumping oil for West ern Europe through its sabotaged pipeline across Syria. Reiterates (eels that (hey could be Improved. Holmes said that the depart ment of agriculture could do a better job on the agriculture part ol tho lair than Ihe slate lair board. "This would be possible because the agriculture depart- ment deals directly wilh agricul ture, he said. Reminded that alt livestock buildings were filled and 4-H club and Future Farmers had to di vide their livestock time at the fair because of the space short age. Gov. Holmes replied that they should expand as "far as they could." One plan to combat growing oacc shortaees would use the state fairgrounds as a centennial exposition place. Holmes said. This, he said, would give more ouildings to house exhibits, pos sibly by tho 1958 fair. Meanwhile, Fair Manager Leo Spitzbart said no plans have been made at this time for the 1957 fair. Most of the details are usual ly wound up by now, Spitzbart said, but he said he hasn't had authority to go ahead as yet. First step on the new authority will be started Tuesday when the senate hearing gels underway. (See other story on the fair) See. 1. Pag t) .