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Capital AJomrnal THE WEATJHEa MOSTLY CLOUDY with occa ilnnal rain tonight: partly cloudy with scattered showers .Sunday. Low tonight, 44; high Sunday, 60. 4 SECTIONS 52 Pages 69th Year, No. 76 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, March 30, 1937 8J0 ue8n3 '. Poland Might Receive U.S. Economic Aid Eisenhower, Dulles Making Final Study, Announcemen t May Come Next Week WASHINGTON (UP) - The United States is ex pected to offer Communist Poland some $75 million worth of economic aid, it was disclosed today. Administration officials said an aid program of this approximate size is up for final study by President terry Trill a 1 wo killed as Jet Explodes, Falls in Flames Two Others Parachute Into Farm Pasture, One Critical TULSA. Okla. Wl A giant B52 jet bomber, costing 8 million dol lars, exploded in a "bright ball of dame" yesterday, killing two crew members, as it crashed into a farm pasture about 15 miles north of here. Two other crewmen parachuted to safety. Both were hospitalized, one of them in critical condition. All Boeing Employes All were Boeing civilian em ployes on an experimental flight from Wichita, Kan. The dead were identified as: Boss B. Patrick, 37, pilot, Wichita, and John W. Mc Cort, 32, navigator, Mulvane, Kan. Charles P. Craven. 34. Wichita co-pilot, suffered critical injury to the brain. Earl C. Reed, 30, Wich ita, technical observer on the flight, had minor .lacerations. Debris rained over a two-square mile area. ' The plane exploded only a half mile from Skiatook, a f m a II northeastern Oklahoma community. The shock from the explosion blasted out half the store windows in downtown Skia took and broke dishes in homes. Biggest Jet Bomber The craft is the Air Force's largest jet bomber and is powered by eight engines. The immense size of the plane caused many to believe originally that two planes had collided. The two bodies were trapped in the fuselage and rescuers had to hack through torn steel and wires to free them. Hundreds of persons in an area reported seeing the plane explode. Those in Skiatook could clearly describe the midair blowup as a bright ball of flame. Harry Opposes Cabinet Plan NEW YORK W Former Pres ident Harry S. Truman declared with emphasis Saturday that "if you re President, you re Presi dent" and that he'd never let the cabinet determine a question of competency. "I know I wouldn't let the cabinet pass on my competency if I were President of the United States," Truman asserted. He added that "the hardest thing in the world is for a man to decide for himself if he's com petent" but said he did not be lieve in cabinet government. Truman's comment was made when reporters asked bis view on President Eisenhower's recom mendation that the Constitution be amended to permit the cabinet to determine when the Vice President should assume the duties of a dis abled President. Road Litter Brings Jail PENDLETON Ul Thomas Guy Turner threw a magazine out the window of his car on a highway west of here and wound up in jail. Turner, who gave his address as Dallas, was stopped by a state policeman for being a litterbug. The policeman radioed Pendleton to find out how much bail should be accepted. He was informed that a Thomas Guy Turner was wanted in Roseburg on a forgery charge. Turner was jailed here. Besides being held for Douglas County au thorities he is scheduled to appear in Pendleton justice court Monday on the charge of throwing the magazine from his car. Weather Details Ma-ctmtim VMteriUr. 5T; minimum tfldiv, . ToUl 24-hour precipita tion: for month: .: normil. 4 1. 9rtrn prrrlpiuttnn. nor mil, M.M. Rfvr hftrhl, 4.2 feet. (Re port by U. 8. Weather Bureau.) T.isennower ana secretary ol State John Foster Dulles. An announce- ment of the American offer may De made next week. $300 Million Wanlcd Such an offer would be only a fraction of the $300 million in aid the Polish government sought in talks', which began here Feb. 26. roland, which has been, seeking to loosen its ties with Moscow, wanted approximately $100 million worth of mining and agricultural machinery, about $200 million more in cotton, and more than a million tons of food grains. The Polish shopping list includes wheat, corn, barley, rye, fats and oils. U.S. officials were overwhelmed by the amount of aid Poland sought, and pointed out early in the negotiations that the $300 mil lion bid just could not be met foiand would pay, in one way or another, for all the $73 million in aid it receives. Planned In Phases As it now shapes up, the $75 million project would be started in carefully-controlled phases. This would allow the United States to cut off the program quickly if the Polish Communist regime moved closer to Moscow. American officials believe the program would provide enough aid, as a starter to let Poland's 20 million people know there is hope for them if they tighten their tics with -the West und remain aloof from the Soviet line. There is some doubt whether Poland will accept the $75 million aid proposal. Bomb Explodes During French Demonstration PARIS m A bomb exploded on a crowded sidewalk of t h e Champs Elysccs Saturday during a demonstration by about 3,000 persons demanding a tough French, policy in North Africa. One or two persons were injured. The demonstrators shouted such slogans as "Mollct to the gallows" a reference to Premier Guy Mollet and asked for stern measures to obtain the release of a French captain taken prisoner by Moroccan guerrillas. The first reports said two per sons were hurt in the bomb blast and that the marchers were pro testing the appointment of Ger man Gen. Hans Speidei to a NATO post. Heavily armed security troops. who were lining the famed boule vard, quickly cordoned off the blast area. Shortly afterward, police and the demonstrators clashed briefly. Some blows were struck on both sides. A small car was set afire. At about the same time there were clashes in the crowd that lined the avenue. Some Commu nists and rightwingcrs exchanged blows. First Convoy Completes Trip Through Reopened Suez Canal PORT SAID, Egypt m Thejing the night at the Great Bitter first two convoys to transit the Suez Canal since war closed the waterway last November sailed into Port Said harbor Saturday. This marked a major step toward resumption of normal operations. The first convoy to enter a five-nation, nine-ship party was stalled by a severe sandstorm and had to anchor overnight on the voyage from Suez, at the 103-mile waterway's southern end. This convoy moved in just ahead of a small one five ships which left Sut later. They were the first convoys to pass throueh the canal since the debris of war stoppered the canal. after the British. French, Israeli, attacks on Egypt. Some individual ships have transited the waterway since lim ited operation was resumed. Both convoys entered the canal on strictly Egyptian terms, pay ing tolls to the nationalized Suez Canal Authority. The nine ships the largest among them only 7,064 tons resumed their voyage after spend- He Was a Shown above running toward the McCulloch Stadium broadjump pit for a practice leap is the University of Oregon's Martin Pcdigo. Th'is photo was taken an hour before today's Willamette Relays were due to get under way but the Oregon competitor wanted to be good and Army Reduces 1 raining lime After Service WASHINGTON tfl The Army has cut by more than half the length of time youthful reservists must continue training after active duty. It also reduced the total service obligation of draftees and regular Army volunteers. The changes in requirements for reservists, ,and National Guards men were announced yesterday. They become effective next Mon day. . Under the new program, below dralt-age youths who volunteer for six months' active duty training will be required to serve three years instead of the present T'i in the ready reserve, subject to immediate call on active duty. The ready reserve obligation for Army draftees was reduced from five years to four. Draftees spend two years on active duty, and the reduction means they now will slay in the ready reserve an ad ditional two years instead of three. Likewise, the total obligation for regular Army volunteers was re duced from five to four years. Men may volunteer for three, four or more years. A three-year vol unteer henceforth will be required to spend only one additional year in the ready reserve. The Army did not give reasons for the reserve modifications, but spokesmen said the changes ob viously were designed to make the reserve program more attrac tive. TB Rate Falls To Record Low PORTLAND Wl The slate Board of Health said Saturday that last year's tuberculosis rate was the lowest in Oregon history. Its bulletin lists 593 new cases of the disease during 1956. That was a rate of 34.2 cases per 100, 000 estimated population. Lowest previous rate was the 37.7 record ed in 1955. Dr. Ambrose Churchill, head of the board s tuberculosis section, said the 1956 rate was only about a third as high as those recorded during the early 1920s. Lake near the canal's southern end. Four of the ships were Ita lian, two Russian, one Greek, one West German, and one Romanian. Tonnage of the second smaller convoy ranged from 313 up to 6, 213. A U.N. salvage team planned to remove the last major obstruction from the canal Monday or Tues day. It is the 1, 461-ton Egyptian frigate Abukir, sunk near the southern entrance. In Cairo, a source close to the Egyptian government said Egypt soon will announce it will accept canal tolls paid into a bank in some neutral country, probably the federal bank of Switzerland. This arrangement would be for shippers who do not want to pay inside Egypt. Hitherto. Egypt has said only that the tolls must be paid in ad vance to the Canal Authority in Egypt or its nominees. Report ed terms of Egypt's plan for ope rating the canal, not yet an nounced officially in Cairo, said Egypt has authorized the Nation 'Bright and Early' Competitor at Relays Police Official Declares No 'Improper Acts' in Ike Drive (Earlier Story, P. 4, Sec. 3) WASHINGTON Wl The While House Saturday quoted the super intendent of police in Montgom ery County, Md., as saying he found no "improper acts" on the part of President Eisenhower's limousine driver while going to Gettysburg Friday James C. Hagerty, presidential press secretary, told reporters he had received a telephone call "which I did not initiate' from Col. James S. McAuliffe, superin tendent of poljce in nejghboring Montgomery County. Newsmen Flagged Down Hagerty quoted McAuliffe as saying that "in all fairness to the President" he was calling to re port on an inquiry he made of two county officers who flagged down cars carrying newsmen who were accompanying Eisenhower to his Pennsylvania estate. The reporters said Eisenhower's Salk Vaccine Supply Down WASHINGTON (UP) Surgeon General Lcroy E. Burney reported today that supplies of Salk polio vaccine in the 48 states dwindled to a low of 3.2 million shots this week. But he held out hope that in creased shipments from manufac turers will soon begin to case the shortage. Manufacturers expect to produce 35 million to 40 million more shots between now and July 1. BULLETIN Bill Dcllltifter, the ex-Unlvcr-slty of Oregon distance ace now running under the banner of the U.S. Air Force, won the fea ture mile race of the Willamette Relays today In the time of 4:14.3. Outclassing a field of collrge runners. Dcllinger led nearly the entire distance. Finishing second was Mark Robhlns of Oregon. Jim Senko of the Uni versity of Portland was third. al Bank of Egypt and the World Bank to accept tho tolls. Attention was concentrated also l the Egyptian-Israeli dispute over the Gaza Strip. U. N. officials in Cairo said they had no knowledge of any buildup of Egyptian military police in the strip, as charged in Jerusalem Thursday. A usually well informed diplo matic source at U. N. headquar ters in New York said Hammar skjold and Nasser had agreed that Arab Police and U. N. troops in the Gaza Strip would work to gether to prevent any raids Into Israel by anti-Israeli commandos. The Moscow Radio, in a broad cast heard in London, accused the West today of "playing a danger ous game with fire'' in pushing Is rael "toward new military provo cations. It added: "The unleashing of a new ag gression against Egypt would create a dangerous situation and the direct threat of a broad mili tary conflict, with grave conse quences for the cause of peace." I'. warmed up for his event in the meet. In the background can be seen the stadium stands with a few scattered spec tators already on hand for the gigantic track and field show. (Capital Journal Photo) car, driven by a Secret Service man, traveled at speeds up to 70 miles an hour. The police officers Cut Made for Down Payment On FHA Loans WASHINGTON - -Ml Builders ana Housing officials were cheered today by President Eisenhower's restoration of 5 per cent down payments on home purchases fi nanced by government - insured mortgages. But they predicted stronger medicine will be needed to cure the housing slump of the past 18 months. Eisenhower yesterday ordered the Federal Housing Administra tion (FHA) to cut the down pay ment from 7 to 5 per cent on the first $9,000 of the value of a new or old home bought with an FHA- insured mortgage, and from 27 to 25 per cent on the balance up to $20,000. Union Rumblings on Beck Proposal Heard WASHINGTON Ifl Teamsters president Dave Beck's million dol lar campaign to clear himself of charges of misusing union funds was threatened Saturday by pow erful rumblings from within his own union. Beck, who wouldn't tell inquisi tive senators anything about his own finances, insisted Friday he has secured "overwhelming ap proval" for a million dollar truth fund. Tells of Approval The rolund teamsters chief, bounced Friday from his AF1, CIO executive council post pend ing a May 20 hearing, said the million dollar item was approved in a telephone poll of the team sters executive board. But John English, teamsters secretary-treasurer, a b o a " d member and popular figure with the rank and file membership. said he had not been consulted about any such plan and was not in favor of it. In St. Louis another teamsters board member, Daniel J. Murphy, said no one polled him about it either. 'Overwhelming Approval' Beck had said the proposal had "overwhelming approval" of the board. His troubles mounted on the heels of the AFL-CIO Executive Council's action yesterday sus pending him as one of Its mem bers and as an AFL-CIO vice president. The council top command of the l.Vmillion member AFL CIO ordered a full scale in vestigation by the federation's Ethical Practices Committee into charges that Beck has brought the labor movement into di repute." This probe also would cover corruption allegations against several other high Team sters officials, some of whom are under indictment on various charges. Meanwhile, Senate Rackets Committee sources said they arc nnt "half thrnncfh" inrnel inatina Beck's complex financial deal ings, but may not call him back! uO3J0 told newsmen to stick to the 55-milc-an-hour speed limit on a di vided dual lane highway between Washington and Frederick, Md. No arrests were made. Hagerty quoted McAulilfc as saying the two officers concerned told him they did not observe any improper acts of any kind on the part of the President s or Se cret Service cars, that the press cars were caught in a traffic light and apparently were trying to catch up." Hngerjy, brought up the subject, recalling that when asked about the incident lato Friday, he had declined comment. Then he re lated the account of the phone call from McAuliffe. When a reporter asked whether Hagerty, while riding in the presi dential car or a Secret Service car, ever had noticed at any time Ihcy exceeded (he speed limit. Hagerty replied: "I have no com ment. Then Hagerly said he wanted to change that to: "Sure, there arc limes when I have and that's at the direction of the Secret Serv ice, and there arc limes when the Secret Service wonts to move the I President fast." for quizzing unless he agrees to talk. They said oilier witnesses and documentary evidence could tell most of the story. State Baton The new state baton twirling champion, Sharon Crane (upper left), and three oilier division winners were mighty happy about .their trophies after the Oregon champion ships at North Salem High Friday night. Miss Crane Is a 17-year-old senior from Cleveland High In Portland. Other win ilV&e Mounts That Rescue Nears for Captured Woman TOTAL NOW 1,700,000 Ha lf Million More Join British Strike LONDON (AP) - Half a million factory workers joined Britain's "snow ball" strike Saturday, bring ing to l,i 00,000 the number ot men idle m the gen eral machinery and shipbuilding industries. The progressive steps by which the 40 Confeder ation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions are extending the strike Saturday hit the London industrial area. About . ' w-. . a fifth of Britain's factory produc tion is concentrated in the area. Plants Near Halt About 1,000 plants were slowing (o a halt, and employers warned the country's exports will suffer a serious blow if a settlement of the wage disputes is not found soon. Most plants normally close Sat urdays, so the impact of I lie la Lost extension of the strike will not bo felt fully until Monday. Saturday's new walkouts in volved plants making aircraft. motor cars, electrical equipment, car accessories and many domes tic appliances. Not affected were the Ford Motor Co. and its big subsidiary, the Briggs body build ing plant at Dagcnham. They have separate agreements with the un ions. , Ship Builders Out About 200,000 shin builders in 70 yards have been out for two weeks. The yards havo 000 mil lion dollars worth ot orders on I their books. The strikers are demanding 10 per cent wage boost. Their av erage pay now is about $.16 week. ly, but the purchasing power is greater than that sum would be in the United States. Showers Seen For Weekend A mild weekend is in store for this area with Sunday tempera tures scheduled lo reach 60 de grees and the night's minimum indicated nt 44 degrees. However, there will be occasional rain to night and scattered showers Sun day, according to tho weather man. The Sunday forecast is for slighlly warmer than today aiding the blossom season.. Precipitation was almost n i 1 overnight with only a fraction recorded. The month is ending well ahead of normal rainfall figures wilh 7.46 inches measured to date as compared with tho average of 4.03 inches, but the seasonal pre cipilnlion continues to he under I he normal by seven inches since September 1. Champs Happy Light r ersons Killed in Two Auto Crashes WINSLOW. Ariz. (UP) Eight persons, seven of them California ans, wero killed today in two head on collisions on U.S. Highway 66. Six died when two California cars collided head-on five miles east of here. In an accident seven miles east of Ash Fork, Ariz., on U.S. Highway 66, two others were killed, one a Californian. The Ash Fork accident killed Fred Goldlooth, Scligman, Ariz., and Howard Oscar Schaeffer, Los Angeles. Schaeffer died this morn ing at Williams, Ariz, hospital. 'The accident east of here, oc curred about 3:30 a.m., on a curve. One car was knocked back 26 feet from the point of impact, The dead In one car were iden tided as Vernon Charles Richins, 38, the driver, Monlie Louise Richins, 37, Orville Lee White, head, 30, and Mrs. Oliver Kings- worth, all of Sacramento, Calif, Driver of the other car was identified as Freddie -Leon Mor gan. 20. Ventura. Calif. A passen ger and also a fatality was Fred- crick Jewell, 43, Ventura. i Oliver Ellingsworth, of Sacra mento, passenger in the first car was critically hurt. Woman Killed In Crosswalk PORTLAND m One of two Portland women hit by an auto mobile in a crosswalk here Thurs day night died in a hospital Satur day. She was Mrs. Maude Hambur ger, 79. The other woman, Mrs. Agnes McKinnon, 6.1, remained in serious condition. The denlh increased the city's traffic falalily loll for Ihe year to 12. There were 17 traffic deaths at this time last year. After Wins. ners were Carol Mortensen (upper right), Abany, senior novice; Janet Vcndclln (lower left), Portland, junior novice; Bar bara Shcllhart, David Douglas High, Jun ior advanced. Story on Page 5, (Capital Journal Photo) Doctor, Nurse Rushed to Region TEHRANTlran, (AP) -Informed sources said Sat? urday night a doctor and nurse are being rushed to; Iranshahr "to stand by," rais ing hope here that Mrs. Anita Carroll has been, or is about ts be, rescued from her kidnapera, A thousand troops and police have been scouring barren south east Iran for a week in the hunt for roaming desert bandits and their captive. Iranshahr is in that region. The U.S. Embassy, however, re mained non commitial about de velopments. No one there would state whether they believed Mrs.. Carroll had been freed but other informed sources said "it looks quite hopeful.", Condition Not Known . The Embassy said "at this lime" there is no indication of Mrs. Carrols' condition, or if she is alive. Police and imperial troops are pressing their search for Mrs. Car roll of lssaquah, Wash., in rough. desert country in southeastern Iran. Outlaw tribesmen seized her Sunday night after killing her' husband, another U.S. aid official! and two Iranians. Rumors Denied The Embassy disclosed the po lice report in denying rumors that Mrs. Carroll had been abandoned by her captors. The report said- the searchers were following . a trail ot paper and clothing, pre sumably left by Mrs. Carroll, when they found her empty suit case and came across the wit ness. The Embassy spokesman said the witness "claimed to have sees a foreign lady on a mule, travel ing along with the women and children of the bandits in the desert toward the southeast Iran Pakistan border." The witness said the woman ha saw was not tied and was "not looking sick, adding: The blonde white-faced foreign er did not have any difficulty and had no signs of injury." Bridge Tract Selected for Sports Center PORTLAND Wl A 20-acre tract .' on the east bank of the Willamette River between the Broadway and Steel bridges was chosen Friday as the site for Portland s proposed eight million dollar sports center. Members ot the Exposition Recreation Commission, the city agency charged with building and operating the center, said they hoped the project would be under construction soon and in actual operation within two years. Twico Dctore tne commission has selected a site for the center, which was authorized by voters in MM. The first choice, Delta Park in the Vanport area north of Port-' land, was abandoned when the city refused to turn over title to the tract. 'The second choice was near tha Civic Auditorium, in downtown Portland. This was blocked bv voters, who approved a City site to the east side of the river. INews in Brief j For Saturday, March 30, 1957 NATIONAL . ' Interior Bureau Turns Thumbs Down on HC Sec. 3, P. 3) U. S. Consults Friends On Suez Plan Sec. 3, P. 4 LOCAL ' . Miss Crane Wins Baton Twirl Hero Sec. 1, P. 5 DcWiit Nelson Says Forests to Last ....Sec. 1, P. 5 STATE State Travel Unit Deluged Wilh Info Requests Sec. 3, P. 3 Senate Votes to Retain I Anti-Picket Law ....Sec. 1, P. J FOREIGN British Leader Resigns Over Cyprus Issue ..Sec. 1, P, 2 Reds Have Big Base In North Sec. 3, P. 3 SPORTS ' "( Dodgers Pull 2-on-a-Base Trick in Game Sec. 3, P, 1 Logart Wants Shot At Basilio Sec. 3, P. J REGULAR FEATURES Amusements .. Sec. 1, P. t Editorials .Sec. 1, P, A Locals .....Sec. 1, P. S Society ,..Sec. li P. t-9 Comics See, 3, P. Television .........Set;. 3, P. 3 ' Want Ads . ......Sec?. 3, P. 1-9 Dorothy Dlx .......Sed. 3 P 3 Crossword Fuzzls ....Sec. 3, P, 6 Church .......... Sro. , P, t - Y: - V 6' if