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C apitaljLJouriial- THE WEATHER. GRADUALLY CLEARING with patches o! Ule night and early morning log; becoming mostly lair and m tiny, Tuesday. Low tonight, 17; high Tuesday, 68. 2 SECTIONS 24 Page$ 69th Year, No. 72 Salem, Oregon, Monday, March 25, 19S7 Enttrod aa atcond clua matter at Salun, Oregon Price Se Salvage Clears Suez Obstacle Tug Raising Opens Canal to Ships Of 20,000 Tons; Dag Mission at End, Gaza Outlook Dismal CAIRO (AP) A U.N. salvage team today raised the sunken tug Edgar Bonnet, the last obstacle to passage of 20,000-ton ships through the Suez Canal. The 841-ton tug was to be towed away during the next several days but there was no official word yet when Egypt will open the 103- mile waterway to 20,000-ton ships. about 75 per cent of the canal's normal traffic before it was blocked during the invasion last fall. Can Skirt Frigate The 1,461-ton Egyptian frigate Abukir still partially blocks the southern entrance to the canal, but the 20,000-tonners can skirt this obstacle. U. N. officials have said the Abukir should be cleared by April 10 and that the water way will then be open to all ships that formerly used it. U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's mission to Cairo meanwhile, neared its end amid indications Egypt would make some concessions, on operation of the canal. But the outlook on the disputed Gaza Strip remained dark. The Egyptian Middle East News Agency said Hammarskjold and President Nasser had reached an understanding on the future of the canal. A spokesman for the sec- retary general warned that the report should be "treated with caution." He said the U.N. offi cial was in no position to make any formal agreement with Egypt since he was only the "bearer of good offices" and not a party to the canal dispute. Won't Sign Pact At the same time, informed Arab sources said Egypt was un- willing to sign any pact keeping the U.N. Emergency Force on the demarcation line unless Israel agrees to stationing of UNEF troops on her side of the frontier. Egypt is also demanding mat is rael quit the EI Auja demilitar ized zone, between the Egyptian Sinai Desert and Israel s Ncgeb, as provided in the 1949 armistice, (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) Pr osecution Winds Up in Cramer Trial KLAMATH FALLS (UP)- The slate, rested its case in the first degree murder trial of Guy Earl Cramer, 76, welfare recipient, to day and the defense announced its first witness would be the elderly defendant. The prosecution wound up its case after Circuit Judge David It, Vandenberg ruled against admis sion of a typed transcript of i slalcmcnt taken from Cramer and signed by him a short time after his arrest. ' The judge did allow June Hodges, secretary to District At torney Richard Beasley. to read shorthand notes she took of the interrogation of Cramer to t h c iurv. Cramer is accused of premedi tated murder in the death of Fred Peterson, county welfare commis sion chairman. Peterson was killed when Cramer drew a gun and opened lire during a commission hearing last Jan. 4. Two other officials were injured by the gun fire. In the interrogation notes read into the record, Cramer said he intended to kill Peterson. He said the gun had been lying around his house. for "a couple of months." Bennett Seeks To Leave State PORTLAND CP Clifford 0, Bennett asked the grand jury Mondav to excuse him two three days to take care of per- unnal affairs. He asked Asst. Stale Ally Gen Palnh Wvckoff Sunday to let him leave the state until Wednesday morning. But Wycoff said only the grand jury could excuse Bennett from his subpoena. Bennett has been under subpoena since last Monday after his arrest on a Crook County warrant cnarg Ing him in connection with pros titution in Prinevilie. Bennett operated the gamming establishment in north Portland uh.r. Mavor Terry Schrunk. then county sheriff, was accused of taking a S500 bribe for letting it operate. Both Schrunk and Ben nett have denied this. Wedther Details Mittfnnm t"!"T. Ml minimum nilj Toul M-hour prftlplu llon l: mnMh. .: nrml. j 41 Sriwm prfrtpiutlnn. 25.MJ rir mil, ii.li. Rlt nnht, ts ft (Rfport y V. . WMthfr Burtnu Crew Major NEVADA TRIPS DISCOURAGED Senate Votes Coolof f Period for Divorces By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. Associated Press Writer The Oregon Senate voted unanimously Monday for legisla tion providing for a cooling off Oregon's high divorce ratev At the same time, it approved Beck to Show Up in Capital, Duff Promises WASHINGTON (UP) Dave Beck's lawyer said today that the chief of the powerful Teamsters Union "positively" will appear be fore the Senate Rackets Committee at 10 a.m. Tuesday. But the lawyer, former Sen. James H. Duff (R-Pal, declined to say whether Beck will bring his personal financial records with him. "As his lawyer, I am not going to discuss anything about his records," Duff told the United Press. "And I can't tell you any thing about his present where abouts. But 1 can tell you that he positively will be there at- 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. There is no doubt about it. Any reports to the contrary are completely bunk. 'I don't say I imagine he will be there," Duff added vigorously, "I know he will be there. You can take my positive assurance that he will be there. I can't make any other statement." ' Beck, who had played hard to get with the Senate investigators for weeks, played hide and seek with newsmen over the weekend. He originally was scheduled to arrive here from Seattle this morning aboard a United Air Lines plane. But late Sunday night, Beck's' secretary in Seattle can celled his reservation. There were rumors that he might have slipped into some other city, possibly even have gone to Canada, to catch a plane for Washington. U. P. Halting Its Trains in Denver PORTLAND W-Union Pacific's Portland Rose trains, which go east to Kansas City by way of Denver, are being halted at Den ver because of blizzards, the rail road's office here reported Mon day. The City of Portland, a Port land-Chicago train, is not affected as its route runs north of the most severe storm area. Not Bad ihh' ' f A '' '' ' ' ' "Quit Please" signs hanging outside House and Senate chambers erected those arriving early at the Capitol Monday morn ing. It could have been a misspelling, but the message Is itill appropriate. Vera LATE FLASHES JERUSALEM, Israel (ID Israeli sources tald today U.N. Secretary General Dag Harnmnr kjold had (ailed In his mission to Cairo and that the West now would hare to adopt a tougher attitude toward Egyptian Pres. Ident Gamal Ahdel Nasser. LONDON (UP)-fiupply Mln. Ister Aubrey Jones announced today that newspapermen will be allowed to view Britain's forth coming H-bomb tests It accom modations can be made avail able In time. This apparently was the government's answer to a number o( British press re ports that the British H-bomb Is not yet ready or not really an H-bomb. period that it hopes will reduce bills to discourage Oregonians from going to Nevada to get di vorccs, and to reduce trom six months to 70 days the period dur ing which divorced persons can't remarry. All three bills went to the House. The cooling off bill provides that a judge, except in emergencies, can't grant a divorce on grounds of cruelly or drunkenness within 60 days after the suit is filed, 'Cover Most Cases Sen. Jean Lewis (D), Portland lawyer, said "this bill will cover most divorce cases. It provides a real change to persuade people to change their minds about seeking divorces. This is a step toward proservation'-of families." In explaining the merits oi tne bill to cut down the remarriage waiting period, Mrs. Lewis said the present law that divorced per sons must wait six montns is ignored in many cases. .This causes each Legislature to nave to validate such marriages In order -to make legitimate the children involved. Won't Recognize Decree The third bill provides that Oregon won't recognize a Nevada divorce of a person who main tained a residence in Oregon. The Senate also sent to the House a bill to grant income tax exemptions of $2,400 a year to persons living on federal employe pensions. Sunshine Due For Few Days There's some sunshine due through Tuesday, but the five-day forecast then calls for more rain. Showers arc slated Wednesday with more general rain by late Friday and Saturday. There was little rain over the weekend, although skies were cloudy. In the 24-hour period end ing at 10:30 a.m. Monday, only .01 of an inch of rain was measured in Salem. Only new snow reported in the high mountains this morning was at Timberlinc, 2 inches being meas ured: on the Santiam Vi inches and lighter falls at Chemult and Seneca. Otherwise, the Highway Department said roads were in good shape and chains not neces sary. Spelling, Just Ike Briefs Solons on 2' Parley U.S. Will Supply Supply Guided Missiles To Britain (Also see story on page 2, sec tion 1) WASHINGTON (AP) - President Eisenhower summoned hp Democrats and Republicans m Con gress to a 4 p.m. briefing Monday on the uermuoa conicr- ence. The While House announced that the President, Vice President Nixon and Secretary of Slate Dul les will participate in the discus sions. It described them as aimed to ward bringing members of both parties in Congress up to dale on Eisenhower's meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan of Great Brit ain. Nixon Checks In Nixon spent 40 minutes Monday morning reporting intormaiiy to Eisenhower on his 22-aay gooa win trip to Africa and Italy. Eisenhower new nacK sunaay from Bermuda. A reporter said that some of those on hand at the airnort when he arrived thought the Chief Executive looked "quite fatigued. Press Secretary James c. na- eerty said ho supposcd'all of those who took part in the conference feel a little tired. But outside of that, he said, Eisenhower is feel ing fine. Haeertv rencatcd that the pres ident has shaken off a head cold and ear trouble but siill has an occasional coughing spell which his doctors expect to continue "for a while." U. S. to Supply Missiles In their 11-point statement, Ei senhower and Macmillan yester day announced the United Slates will supply "certain guided mis (Continued on Page 5, Column 4) 2 Ex-Cons and Midget Blamed For Burglaries EVANSVILLE, Ind. HI Po lice today blamed a three-month series of safecrackings here on two ex-convicts and a 16-year-old midget they used to gain access to buildings by slipping througn small holes. Officers said statements admit ting the safecrackings were signed last night by Charles Whitsell Jr., 43-pound, 3-foot-3 Poscyville tarm youth, and two Evansville men, Charles Hale, 39, -and Charles E. Bodcll, 20. Detective Sergeants Jess Julian and Jack Weber said the teen age midget participated in 25 of the 40 safecrackings which the two men admitted. He squeezed through small openings cut in ceil ings and then opened a door for his bigger partners, the officers said. Hale and Bodell were to be charged today with one of the safecrackings, police said. The boy was to be turned over to ju venile authorities. Police reported they recovered only $300 of an estimated $18,000 taken in the scries of safecrack ings that began last December. The burglaries became so com mon that Mayor J. Vance Hartke canceled leaves and days off for all city policemen. Bad Joke Drager, Senate sergeant-at-arms, reads a sign with amusement before pulling It down. . Someone apparently put up th signs as a Joke. (Capitol Ammsi PfcoM Worst Y JL JXL O -mrp ,. , ,. fc.-wiwMiyjiv y fpi' n" nwmyyuttijH ji n.uLyj. m'mwiw mumyf tr p ,f'WH'T 'jXT JSifFWh.. i '.'.'-'i:' l ! ' 1 , " ,. " ' w 1 . v , . l, - !. 1 ' ' , ; 4 , '" . " " v ' t . . t . r i i I 1 i ' ' ( -i U ' J i I-i " , )' i 1 J v . 1 vll l'l I ) i ' i i 1 i i , - ( ' -1 " '"'',( Senate Group OKs Business Tax Extension WASHINGTON W The Sen ate Finance Committee Monday voted a 15-month extension of three billion dollars worth of an nual business, faxes after turning down proposals; for relief of small business. ' Also rejected was an amend ment by Sen. Williams (R-Del) to cut the oil and gas depletion allowance from 27W to 15 per cent. The present corporal ion income and excise tax rates would be ex tended through June 30, 1958 Und er the bill sent to the Senate floor by the committee. These rates will drop automati cally next Monday April 1 un less the extension measure is signed by the President before then. Eisenhower asked for a year's extension, but the administration agreed to go along with the 15 month period after Finance Com mittee members said tney wanica to put the tax law on the same basis as the government's fiscal year. The House previously passed a one-year extension, but its lead ers have notified Chairman Byrd (D-Va) of the Finance Commit tee they will accept the July 1, 1958, date. Netters Poise To Dip Smelt PORTLAND Wl Porllandcrs were preparing dip nets Monday (or their regular assault on smelt in the Sandy River. Din-netting will become legal Tuesday, after a 24-hour closed period. The first smelt appeared off the mouth of the Sandy just ahead of the closed period. Some Porllandcrs managed to get smelt in the Columbia, nenr the mouth of the Sandy, on Sun day. The Sandy River is the favor ite snot for din-netting, however. because the narrower channel there makes it ensier to get at the small fish from the banks. The tasty fish move almost yearly from the ocean up the Columbia River and into the Sandy and other spawning ground tnbu taries. There was, however, no run in the Sandy in 1055. The run varies, lasting from two days to two weeks. Netters can take up to 25 pounds of the fish after purchase of a special license lor 50 cents Conrad Flies Atlantie Solo SHANNON, Ireland, I Max Conrad flew through heavy icing conditions Monday during his 25th crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a light plane. The flying song writer from Wi nona, Minn., landed at Shannon Airport on Ireland's west coast after a 12 hour, 50 minute flight in a twin-engine Piper Apnrhe. He took off from Gander, Nfld. The 54-year-old veleran of 33.000 flying hours is delivering the lae to Gruner-Druck Co. of brmap ht yK&j In I aril. Sprir prm in 30 Still Lashes Plains Autos Snowed In AMARILLO, Texas Mr. J. B. Hill of Urbann, III., walks across snow covered cars In front of Tumblcwccd Inn and eating place as he was forced to stop over and stay In Amarillo until roads can be cleared for traveling. (AP Wircphoto) AT MISSION ST. CROSSING Salem Woman Killed As Train Strikes Car f A Salem woman died in the niglit after (he car '.vas struck crossing of the Southern Pacific Mrs. Florence Hinton Preston,- 64. 1645 Mill St.. was believed on her way fo work as a nurse's aide at the State's Fairvicw Home when the fatal accident occurred. According to invcstigaling eily police. Mrs. Preston was south bound on 14th street, which paral lels the tracks, and made a right turn to cross the tracks when her car was hit at 10:45 p.m. Dy the southbound freight train. Car Heavily Damaged The car was heavily damaged on the right side, officers said. The body was lying partially on the scat and partially on the floor when officers arrived. A deputy coroner declared her dead at his arrival a few minutes later. Both Mission and Stale streets were blocked tor anoui a nan hour by the freight on the cross ings, police said. Mrs. Preston, an employe at the Fairvicw Home for a number of years, was apparently on her way to work, authorities said. She was to go on duty at 11 p.m. Ninth County Death Her death was the ninth traffic fatalitv in Marion County this year and the first one in Salem Lumber Mart Getting Better SPOKANE un The president of the Intcrmounlain Logging Con fcrencc said Monday the North west lumber market has Improved a little in recent weeks and should get beller later in the year. Hut Burton W. Schmidt ot Greer, Idaho told 1,000 delegates to the 19th annual meeting here that the market is slill not good and that many woods operations have been closed down. Strauss Rales Atomic Plant Blowup Hazard as WASHINGTON OP The Atom - Ic Energy Commission AEC) told legislation under which tho gov Congress Monday the chances of crnment would provide liability being killed by an atomic power plant running wild would be thous ands of limes less than the haz ards of aulo accidents. AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss gave the House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee estimates ny scientists who. he said, ligured the "most pessimistic combinations of possibilities. Strauss said that if there were 100 large power reactors in oper ation in the United States, there would be "less than one chance in 50 million of getting killed in any year In a reactor accident." "By contrast, " the chairman continued, "there Is presenlly about ono chance in 5.0M ( get ting killed in any year by an auto mobile accident," ea0 at Amarillo Inn wreckage of her car Sunday by a train at the Mission street tracks, in more than nine months, police said. Survivors include a son, Fred Preston, Kansas City. Mo.; a daughter, Mrs. Willard North, Colorado Springs, Colo.; two sis ters, Mrs. Roy Riggs, Salem, and Miss Helen Ilinlon, Pomona, Calif.; two brothers, Ralph and Homer Hinton, both of Sclfrldgc, N. D.; and three grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are to be announced. The body is at the Howell-Edwards Funeral Home. (See Picture on Pago 8, Sec. 2) Traffic Toll 4 Over Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic mishaps killed four persons in Oregon over the week end. One car plunged into the Mc- Kcnzic Itiver near Springlicld Friday night, carrying Mrs. Mary K. Taylor, Springfield, lo her death. The car's tracks were noticed Saturday, but because of Ihc swift current and deep water, the car could not be located and raised until Sunday. Tho body was found Inside. Nancy Case, 15, Portland, was killed by an automobile that veered off tho street into her front yard Saturday. The driver, Hnrold E. Dcdlow, 28, Portland, was booked on a hit-run charge. A pedestrian, Ada Dockery, 81 Portland, wns killed by a car in Portland Friday night. An automobile and a train col lided in Salem Sunday night, kill Ing the lone occupant of the auto mobile. She was identified a! Mrs. Florence 11. Preston, Salem a nurse's aide at the Fairvicw Home. 1 The committee Is considering coverage for private operators of power reactors. At present such operators cannot get from com mercial insurance firms more than about 65 million dollars protection against possible damage suits. The hill would authorize the gov ernment lo supplement this cov erage up to a total of 500 millions. .Strauss said reactors have been operating since Dec. 2, 1942, "with a safety record belter than that of other Industry." Tho few acci dents that occurred, he said. In volved research reactors, caused not one single personal injury and no significant scatlermg of radio aclivity As industry nm inlo the field wMk IrroN InMaJWions, Strauss said, tit A&S a) reiruiring each .jv Court Forbids VirginiaDelay Of Integration WASHINGTON Ifl Tho Su- 1 nrpmn Cntirt Mnnrinv relented Virginia s attempts lo delay de segregation- of its public schools, The tribunal did so by refusing to review lower court orders di rect ng mo auuiissiuu oi iiugiui nunlls In nublie schools in Char- lottcsville and Arlington County. The orders, by U. S. District judges previously had been up- held by the U.S. Circuit Court in Richmond. They were appealed lo the high tribunal by Ally. Gen, Lindsay Almond ot Virginia. Tho Supreme Court, in a brief order, said only that a request to review the cases had been denied. The order noted that Justice Whiltnker. who took his seat Mon day, did not take part in tho case. Judco John Paul had ordered the Charlottesville schools deseg regated as of last September. Judge Albert Bryan had ordered Arlington elementary schools de segregated as of last January 31 and high schools by next Sep tember. Bolh orders had been held in abeyance pending the ap peals. In slill a third public school case, tho Supreme Court Monday denied a hearing for Negro chil dren in Old Fort, N.C., who sought immediate admission to a white school in that town. Newest Judge Joins Tribunal WASHINGTON tn - Charles Evans Whittakcr Monday became associate justice of the Su premo Court. The 56-year-old Kansas City, Mo., Jurist succeeds Justice Stan ley F. Reed, who retired. Shortly before noon Whiltnker stood before Chief Justice Warren nnd swore to uphold and defend the Conslilulion against all ene mies. The justices then marched to their places in Ihc public court chamber, where Whiltnker took Ihc Judicial oath promising to give equal justice without respect to persons. Very Tiny reactor to have multiple safe guardssome human, some auto maticagainst acctaenis wnicn might release fission products from Ihc facility." Pulling together "some ot the worst possible combinations of circumstances that might con ceivably occur," Strauss said sr rntists D clured these imagin able results of a highly unlikely maior accident: Personal damage migni range from no deaths or Injuries to "an upper limit in the worst case" of about 3,400 killed and about u.mn in lured. Esllmntes of property damages ranged from one half million dol lars "lo an upper limit in the worst Imaginable case of about seven billion dlkws," assuming contamination, of lart HSiJ ffliliJJ active products, 7,500 in Cars, 400 on Train . Marooned By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ' The worst spring bliz- . zard in 30 years continued to rage m the Midwest . ' Monday, paralyzing trans portation and crippling communications in many sections of eight states. Ono major train, carrying 409 passengers, and an estimated 7,500 highway travelers were re ported stranded, but none were believed in danger. Five deaths were attributed to the storm. Mired In 18-Foot Drifts The train was the Union Pa. clfic's City of St.' Louis, west bound from St. Louis to Los An geles. It was mired in drifts rang-, ing up to 18 feet near Winona,'' Kan., about 50 miles from the Colorado line. Snowplows were 1 expected to reach it later Mon day. - ; Another train, the Rock Island's eastbound Golden State Limited, carrying 02 passengers, was reached by rescue parties early. Monday and all aboard taken to Meade, Kan. The train had been snowbound by drifts up to 15 feet between Meade and Plains, Kan.,-, since Sunday. Six coaches of the . train were reported covered com pletely by snow. The Weather Bureau at Kansas : City reported the storm was caus ing high winds and heavy snowl Monday morning m northern Mis souri and southern Iowa as It moved toward Illinois and Indi ana. Snow also , was stiU falling In parts ot Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Conditions had eased somewhat in Colorado, New Mex ico and Texas. , -frt c- Moro Smn F"" Forecasts for more heavy tnow we ,n e"e ?rorn noruieastern Kansas and neighboring sections- of Nebraska eastward into parts of lower Michigan and Indiana. Accumulations of from 8 to 10 inches were predicted for parts of Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri with generally lesser amounts expected over affected portions of Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and lower Michigan. North central In diana had freezing rain and snow. Tho snow belt was fringed to tho south by rain. ,' Dcspllo the immediate hard ships resulting from the three-day' storm, farmers welcomed the moisture. In some areas it was sufficient to bring expression of belief that the prolonged drought) had been broken. 1 Ranchers, however, feared huge livestock losses. Many cities were left without power or telephone service as the wind and heavy drifts snapped lines by the thousands. Not Too Cold . Temperatures were not severe generally only a few degrees be low freezing t h u s minimizing chances that serious injury would ho suffered by marooned travell ers. Estimates of stranded motor ists included 1,800. in New Mex ico, 1,600 in Colorado, 1.200 in Kan sas, 1,000 in Texas, and uncounted hundreds in Nebraska and Iowa. Omaha was choked by 14 inches of snow and the fall continued Monday morning in the teeth ot a 36-mile-an-hour wind. Lincoln, 60 miles southwest, had a similar sit uation. Schools in both cities were closed and some business houses failed to open. 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