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Salem", Oregon", Monday, March" 18, 1957 Page 2 Section I ' THE CAPITAL1 JOURNAD ''I I: J ( i 8 8 Labor Probers Will Get Look AtTaxReturns President Signs Order Giving Them Such Authority; Inquiry Will Sjtart Up Again Tuesday WASHINGTON MV-The Senate rackets investigatnig com mittee Monday received authority to examine any tax returns lor the years 1945 to 1957. The ' White House announced that President Eisenhower has signed an order giving the com mittee power to look over federal Income, estate, gift, excess prof Its, and "certain other returns." The order stipulates that infor mation the committee obtains is to be kept confidential except that it j'may report information perti nent to its investigation to the Senate." Under general law, tax returns re confidential and congressional committees may not examine them except by express authority from the President. The White House described Ei senhower's action as routine, and in line with authority granted to various other congressional inves tigating committees in the past. However, it puts a powerful new weapon in the hands of the com mittee. Certain management practices as well as labor unions operations already are under inquiry, the in vestigators said. Robert Kennedy, chief counsel of the committee searching for evidence of racketeering in labor and Industry, said later hearings on alleged payment of more than $20,000 in Teamsters Union funds to Nathan W. Shcffcrman, a Chi cago management consultant, "will lead into certain com panies." He did not name the com panies. The first three weeks of the committee's hearings have dealt with an alleged plot by Teamsters officials to "muscle in" on vice profits in Portland, Ore. The hear ings resume tomorrow with more testimony from Frank W. Brew ster, West Coast Teamsters boss. Meantime, a federal grand jury was expected to finish today its consideration of bribery charges against James ft. Iloffn, reputed to be the real power in the giant Teamsters Union. Whatever ac tion the grand jury decides to take may not be known for several days. , . Hoffa, a Teamster vice presi dent and head of the union's Mid west organization, was arrested last week and charged with brib ing a lawyer (o join the staff of the rackets committee and feed him Information. Hoffa, free on (25,000 bond, has protested his innocence. Dave Beck, Teamsters presi dent, said in Tocoma, Wash., Inst night "I intend to ask" Hoffa about the charges. Beck, Inter viewed on television said he had not talked with Hoffa since Hoffa's arrest last Wednesday night. But, Beck snld in reply to n question, "I am not going to turn my back on any man . . . until he has his day in court . . ." Tho rackets committee' has giv en Beck until midday next Wed nesday to decide whether ho will comply voluntarily witli its de mand that he furnish his personal Dave Beck Admits He Borrowed Over $300,000From Teamsters TACOMA, Wash. Wv-Davo Beck aid yesterday ho had borrowed an estimated $300,000 to $400,000 from the Western Conference of Teamsters, without interest, while he headed the union's regional or ganization. The general president of tho In ternational union said the loans long since have been repaid. He said "I don't recall" when asked whether he bud written notes to the 11-statc union organi zation at the lime of tho loans. His acknowledgement and ex planation of the loans was a high point of his appearance on a na tional television program. Reek, waiting to appear before the special Senate committee in vestigating alleged rarkets in la bor unions, criticized sharply the conduct of the Senate hearing and the type of witnesses, and de clared, "The teamsters have nothing lo hide whatsoever." He said if Iho hearing were conducted by judicial procedures there would he no complaint." And he snld he would decide nt a Tuesday night conference In Se attle with former Sen. James Huff of Pennsylvania, his now counsel, whether ho would produce per sonal records, as demanded by (he Senate committee. Sen. Mc Clcllan (D-Ark) has set Wednes day noon as the deadline for Beck's reply with a warning a subpoena will be Issued If Berk refuses. In describing the loans from the Western Conference, Reek said they involved funds which were In non-interest-bearing bank ac counts. He said he borrowed the money for some of the real es tate deals that he said had earned him hundreds of thousands of dol lars. ' The Teamster leader Insisted the fortune he has built Is "in no way related" to union business or Union contacts. He declared he had borrowed nothing" from any union funds since becoming general president 4' years ago. j In the period of the union loans between about 1947 and 1952, he I Mao Invites Japan's Aid To Oust U.S. By SPENCER DAVIS WASHINGTON m The leader of a Japanese military mission to Pclping said Monday Communist China's leader Mao Tse-ttung urged that Japan and China join hands to expel the United States from Asia. Former Lt. Gen. Akio Dol said in a copyrighted interview in the magazine U,b. News St World Report that the proposal was mado by Mao during a recent two hour meeting with 15 onetime Japanese officers, Dol was inter viewed in Tokyo. Dol said Mao told him: "Japan is occupied 'and our (Taiwan) Formosa is still held by the Americans. So Japan and Red China should join hands to expel the United States from our terri tories. Tho people of the Afro Asian area and Latin America have been striving hard to throw out tho American, British and French Imperialists. Doi, described by the magazine as having had long experience in both China and the Soviet Union, said the Japanese military group "could not accept at face value" Mao's contention that the United States "must necessarily follow a policy of Imperialism and aggres sion" while the Soviet Union does not. Tho former general made these other points: 1. The Chinese Communists want first of all to eject the United States from Asia and finally "to communizo the United States." On the road to cither goal, the. Chi nese may offer t o establish friendly relations with the United Stales, but this is simply a tactic. 2. Mao thinks tho expulsion of the United States from Asia could bo accomplished "without going to war" by stirring up anti-American and antl-cnpitnllst feelings among tho Asian people. financial records for Iho 1949-1055 period. There hnvo been allegations that union funds were used to pay somo of Beck's personal expenses. Asked last night whether the union paid somo $25,000 or $30,000 to remodel his homo In Seattle, Beck replied: "They most cer tainly did not. ... It most def initely was out of my own pock et." Beck told his interviewers he had borrowed $300,000 to M00.000, interest free, in union funds some years ago, but that "every cent . has been repaid." said, he also was borrowing from bunks and insurance companies. He said the cxecullvo bnnrd of Iho Western Conference "elected that no interest should be paid" on his union loans. "If they change their mind," he added, "I will gladly pay." Asked If ho had hud collateral for the loans, ho replied: "I bad plenty of collateral. 1 must have iwid to borrow from the banks." But he did not say ho had posted any for the union loans. "I know there was an adequate guarantee to satisfy the board," ho asserted. "I know they were suio t lie money would be repaid, and the best proof is that it was repaid." lie expressed the belief "there is nothing wrong" with such loans il the board feels sure of repay ment. But he replied lo a later ques tion: "As a general rulo, 1 ques tion whether it is good practice." adding "there are exceptions to all rules." NOW at Your ALSO I! A Warner Bros Keaturette "CHASINfi THE SIN" In Warner Color HENRY FONDA ""7 VERA MILES tyfa h Ike Attends Chapel Services 1 I Mu" "H c ' ' '1 ' n' - W,i i i i4 4 ill: : w i I If -1 ' . k 1 - l President Eisenhower (left, chapel services aboard the heavy cruiser Canberra yester day as he cruised toward his March 21 Bermuda meeting with British Prime Minister Macmlllan. The altar Is fram ed by the eight-Inch guns of the warship on the open forward deck. (AP Wirephoto) 3 Missing Found in GATLINBUItG, Tenn. Three Boy Scouts, missing overnight on a hike in the rugged Great Smoky Mountains, were tound Monday huddling in a shed on 6,693-tool Mt. LcConte. The bovs. members of Greene vlllc. Tenn. Troop 94, were found by a rescue squad near a lodge which stands atop the peak, one of the highest in the Smokies. Victor Thorno Jr., 13, and eld est of the trio, said they reached the lodge about dusk Sunday after hiking from Newfound Gap, eight miles distant. "I know enough from iny Scout training to stop at dark," Victor MORE DOCTORS CHICAGO (UP) A record num ber of students entered medical schools In tho 1955-56 academic year, an American Medical Asso ciation survey showed. The AMA said 7,6(15 students were enrolled. Seventy-five per cent of this num ber, or 5,753, had had four years of' college education. Beck also said that "in my opin ion, a number of other union offi cials also borrowed" Western Con ference funds. He added that "in my opinion, some others also were without Interest." Beck said his loans were listed in union audits. In supporting the justification for the loans, Beck said he had given "thousands of hours" of ex tra time to union affairs beyond the call of duty. In discussing another phase of union financing. Beck snld the np plication of his business export ence to tho handling of union funds bad added nine million dol lars to the assets of the interna tlonal, which has more than 30 million dollars in its treasury. Beck labeled (he current Sen ate hearing as "largely a one-way street" because of the absence of cross-examination and court pro cedures. Much of the testimony before the committee had related to charges that some Pacific North Favorite Downtown Shows Conl. From 1 P.M. tt Attain Ml MIKE0 WHK &U0N IDJVU NTOH lnKM w ALSO I! Boy Ponton la "NKIWT BtlN(IS9 Willi (dltei Wlltar ctouo TONKMtT "HMT center, front row) attends Scouts Smokies id. "We couldn't get into the lodge because it was locked, so we went into a shed where wood was stored. "We kept fairly warm until about midnight, when the wind came up and it began hailing. Others missing with young Thorpe were Jimmy Grubbs, 11 and Mike Harmon, 12. The three boys were among 21 members of the troop who set out Sunday on a routine hike from Newfound Gap on U.S. 441 to Mt. LcConte and then back to the highway. Nine boys completed the trip and nine others turned back solely to Ncwtound iinp. Wolfson Might Sell Out AMC DETROIT (in President George Romncy of American Motors Corp. said Monday he would con fcr "this week" In Miami with financier Louis E. Wolfson, who has become the largest individual stockholder in the automotive firm. Wolfson confirmed a week ago ho has acquired 350,000 shares of American Motors stock and ex pects to make "certain sugges tions" to Romncy on operations. Wolfson, 45-yenr-olri ' one-time Florida junk dealer, said his sug gestions might "call for a trim ming, paring and pruning of cer tain unprofitable operations and possibly the expansion of others." Some published reports said Wolfson might recommend sale of American Motors' automotive division, which manufactures Nash, Hudson, Rambler and Met ropolitan automobiles and which has been a consistent money loser. The firm also makes Kel vinntor appliances. There were published reports Monday that sale of the automo tive division to Chrysler Corp.. which would continue manufac ture of the Rambler, was under consideration by Wolfson. Chry sler reportedly would pay in its stock, not cash. west Teamsters' Union figures tried to move In on rackets In Portland, Ore. M:l:lil-1 Only 50c-Kldt 20c Biitt LANCASTER Tony CURTIS Gina IOIL0BRIGIDA ALSO it "For Country" STA8T TMUMAAY mr - "lA)K' MHTERS" tosses AF Says Its Hawk Missile Super-Deadly It Plugs Defense Gap Against Tree-Top Level Attack By ROBERT EUNSON COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Wl Army Ordnance has plugged a hole in America's defenses with a new guided missile it calls the Hawk. Those who kaow say it is capa ble of destroying anything that flies, no matter how low. Yank airmen long have been saying that America's air defense was a sucker for tree-top-level attack. I hey base this belief on the fact that antiaircraft weapons in tnis country are designed pri marily for high-altitude work. What if the Russians hurled low-flying aircraft or missiles at American cities and Industrial areas from submarics off San Francisco or New York? Army Ordnance says the Hawk, details on which are yet to be released, is designed to stop such an attack. "They can send it right down the road," one Army officer said, and we ll kill it dead. This new missile, when it is released, will carry an atomic warhead, capable not only of shooting down the target it goes after, but destroying also what ever weapoo Iho enemy missile or aircraft will have on board. The Hawk will become part of the Nike system of the Army Antiaircraft Command when Ord nance is satisfied with its final tests In New Mexico. The Ajax and Hercules missiles arc designed primarily for attack against high-flying targets. The Hawk will take care of low-flying targets. Interviewed at his headquarters In Colorado Springs, Lt. Gen. Stanley S. Mickelsen, head man of the Army Antiaircraft Com mand, would only go this far: "We are perfecting a new weap on designed tor the most effective operation against low-altitude fly ing. His use of the word perfect ing is interesting. The Hawk already is a deadly. screaming missile, with electronic power to think for itself and to seek out and destroy once the target has been detected. As soon as Ordnance is satis fied the Hawk is ready for use it will be turned over to Mickelsen's men. Mickelsen's battalions of Nike antiaircraft batteries surround every major population and indus trial area in the United States, Thief Steals 1,000 Coins FromToyland A thief who stole more than a thousand coins from the Toyland store in the Capitol Shopping Cen ter Saturday night may have a little trouble spending them, city police reported. The coins were collector's items, officers said. They were taken from display counters and the store office. Also taken was about $30 in up-to-date cash from the store s cash register, according to Norman E. Shaw, partner in the store. ' A plate glass door window was broken, making a hole big enough for the thief to crawl through. police said. The break-in was dis covered about 9 a.m. Sunday by William Hamilton, shopping center custodian. The old coins were mostly pen nies valued at from 5 to 25 cents, although there were a few more valuable ones, including on 1675 20-ccnt piece valued at $40, Shaw said. Labor Chiefs Quit Reds ROME Ifl Two prominent Socialist Labor leaders an nounced Monday they have quit the big, Communist-led Italian Federation of Labor CCGII.). Giuseppe Delia Motta and Aldo Romella, both secretaries in in dustrial Genoa's CGIL organiza tions, said they had joined the Free Socialist Italian Labor Un ion (UILI. WRONG SPOT MT. CLEMENS, Mich. -(UP-Embarrassed city commissioners voted to transplant the recently installed "permanent" municipal Christmas tree after the Lions Club pointed out it obscured the World War II heroes' monument. ass OPEN 6:45 s FIRST RUN; Tto sloer el om min's 5riil inimt , tnt xindil malt- imn wlticli rtvtil H privatt hrts (i Van JOHNSON I Ann BLYTH Steve COCHRAN m M.G-JU't i'slunder'i , toiveiAi i LuitMMMMMJ'MilKtfHtJ Ovy Marion in "MPHISAL" MEET THE REP. STAFFORD HANSELL After turning over operation of his farm to his brother Bill, Stafford Hansell came to Salem from Athena, to take over the house seat vacated by the death of Rep. Irvln Mann of Adams. Rep. Hansell, Republican, was chosen by the Umatilla county court upon recommendation of the Unatllla Republican Cen tral committee. He is a native of Athena, born on a ranch near there on Nov. 23, 1913. He attended the Uni versity of Montana and Whitman College, graduating in the class of 1939. For nine years Rep. Hansell was a member of the Union high school board in his district and has been active in Parent-Teacher activities. He is a member of the Oregon Wheat League, the Oregon Pea Growers Association and the Athena Gun Club. Rep: Hansell Is married and has a son, John, 10. His prnlci pal Interests lie la agriculture, water resources and education. In this legislature he is serving on the Agriculture and Livestock, Elections and Reapportionment and Commerce and Utilities committee. Emmies Won by Two Youngs Ni-y rvrr-i HOLLYWOOD Loreita Young, whose aching foot caus ed her to discard her shoe, and Robert Young hold the television academy Emmies they won at the ninth annual award show tonight. Miss Young won hers for the best continuing performance by an actress In a dramatic series, while Young won his for the best continuing performance by an actor In a dramatic scries. (AP Wirephoto) vvs l! iinners Luncneon SERVED IN YOUR CAR! Fast Individual Sarvict if llih and CmiM If mI The LEGISLATORS REP. E. A. LITTRELL Rep. E. A. Llltrell, R MeJ ford, returned to the house for his second term, Is a quiet but well Informed legislator. "At" as he Is called by his friends Is a prominent business maa of Medford, heading a wholesale firm dealing in auto mobile parts. At one time he had five stores, one located In Cali fornia but now he is concentrat ing in the business In Medford. Rep. Llttrell Is also secretary treasarer of the Jackson Invest ment company, owner and oper ator of Medford business prop erty. During the years 1933-1934 he served on the Medford City Council. He is past chairman of the Defense Transportation Ad visory Committee and was presi dent of the Medford Lions club in 1937, He Is a member of the Masons, the Shrine, Elks, Rotary club and the Rogue Valley Coun try club. . Rep. Llltrell was born at Col fax, N.M. Sept. 21, 1900, later living at Raton, N.M. He Is mar ried and has four children. In present legislature he Is vice- chairman of Commerce and Util ities committee and Is serving on Highways and Commerce and Utility committees. NOW! I I. Specials a. ALL OTHER MENU ITEMS 0 n 1 DBtVMN mir( 1MNCH RW Twisters Texas By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rrnHMnliol rninc and. winds of hurricane force lashed the Texas r.nir pnncf vpcterHnv. At least one person drowned when heavy raias Hooded streets ana nignways ami a tornado injured several persons and caused scattered damage in the Galveston area. More than 10 inches oi rain leu at Texas City, where every street urae HinHnrf fnr a time hv knee- deep water. Several families left homes in low-flying sections. winds up to so mues per nour Couple Steals Cops' Pistols In Escape Try CAMDEN, N.J. Wl-A 27-year-old married man was wounded seriously yesterday when he and his teen-age girl friend stole a pair of police pistols and attempt ed a daring escape from detective headquarters in City Hall. The girl was nicked by a police bullet in the encounter. The couple, from Syracuse, N.Y., had been picked up earlier as suspicious persons as they walked across the two-mile-long Benjamin Franklin Bridge linking Camden with Philadelphia. They had just undergone ques tioning in the fifth-floor detective headquarters when in an unguard ed moment, George E. Murray seized a gun from a partially opened drawer and then another from one of the two surprised of ficers. Then he and 16-year-old Clara Wall pushed the pair into an anteroom and raced to an elevator down the hallway. Alerted by a call from Detective Anthony De Velio upstairs, a third officer, Dominic Palese greeted the pair with his own gun when the elevator reached the base ment. He told Murray to surren der but, Palese said, the gM shouted: "Shoot him, George. Shoot him ! " Palese fired and the first bullet hit the girl. The second dropped Murray. Clara suffered a flesh wound of the left arm. Syracuse police said the couple had been arrested together twice in the last year once in Milwau kee and once In Osweeo. N.Y. They said Murray, an unemployed aisnwasner, is married and has a child and that he lives across the street from the girl's family. The pair--:both -of whom wore dirty, ? mussed jeans and' plaid wool shirts told Camden police they left home a month ago and had been to Erie, Pa and to Florida before taking jobs on a south Jersey farm near Clayton. Clara was remanded as a juve nile delinquent to the Camden County children's shelter. Wife Held for Killing Hubby PORTLAND Wl Robert Wil liams, 53, a construction worker, was slain here Saturday night and his wife Elsie was jailed Sunday on a murder booking. Detective Al Vigna said she told him of a family quarrel in which, she said, her husband made a dive for a .38 caliber pistol under the pillow of their bed but that she beat him to it. "Marry me and you'll have everything you want: jewels, maids, furs ... and all your clothes cleaned by . , . UUeiAerd Salem Laundry Co. 263 S. High St., Salem, Oregon Your future looks brighter N Ixtra Chrg Um CiH . . . EM 3.9125 nip Coast knocked down power poles, un roofed homes and cut off tele phone and electric service at sev eral towns in Galveston County. The rains, however, began ta pering off along the coast early today. . - Twisters also were reported yes terday at Houston and near San Angelo. Lighter rains fell over most of east Texas and hail fell at San Antonio and Bryan. James J. Simpson, 45, of Texas City, drowned when his car went out of control on a rain-covered highway and careened into a cul vert filled with more than five feet of water. Mrs. Ernestine Martin was in jured when the twister swooped down near Port Boliver, blowing her home off its foundation. A drive-in grocery was unroofed and at least a dozen other build ings in the area were damaged. Several other persons were hurt. The turbulent weather came when thunderstorms rumbled across the state as moist air from the Gulf collided with a cool front moving down from the Texas Pan handle.' Only traces of rain fell in west Texas, however. , Dispatcher C. W. Whitman of the Galveston sheriff's office said the tornado struck on the C. H, Boyd ranch near Port Boliver, which lies across a ship channel from Galveston Island. He said it blew two homes 300 feet off their foundations. At nearby Arcadia, Tiigh winds damaged at least 12 houses and a garage The gales hurled a new wing of the First Christian Church into the air, spun it around and demolished it. Several homes were unroofed. Heavy hail and rain pounded San Antonio and Bryan. Deputy Sheriff Gordon Tavlor said he helieved a small tornado struck a Negro section of Hous ton. Heavy rain flooded streets and winds tore the roof off one home. THE CULPRIT DETROIT - (UP) - Police in suburban Birmingham spent two weeks searching for someone they dubbed the "mad denter" after residents reported a rash of car fender denting during the night. The search was finally abandoned when Lt. Merlin Holmquist decid ed the "mad denter" was probably one of the city's snowplows. In Salems' Easiest i ; Dning Room SHISH KAY-BOB 85 (A Regular Menu Item at) SLOPPY JOE'S DRIVE-IN 12th I Center Sts. Try Our Speedy Car Service Hsuri: 11 a.m. to Midnile wnen we clean your ciotnes. They're always returned tu you promptly, spotlessly clean for that priceless look of good grooming. And you don't have to marrv a millionaire to afford usl Bring It In By 10 . . . , P bt Up All... Baity 0