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Capital jJTouflial THE WEATHER MOSTLY CLOUDY, showery Bight; partly cloudy with scattered showers, Saturday. Low tonight, 44; high Saturday, 56. 2 SECTIONS 20 Pages 69th Year, No. 81 Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 5, 195 " " Price 5c Wind and Rain Lash Southeast 2 Dead in Georgia . Sfnrin? Wnnili Mail II VUI11V1 c:ii i? i . By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pounding rains and lash ing winds hit the south eastern section of the na tion Friday. Downpours drenched the South Atlantic states in the latest outburst in a five-day series of storms that have moved across the country from the Rocky Mountains to the eastern seaboard. Vicious, erratic windstorms uium utruigm rnuay ana uuring Two deaths were reDorted in Georgia. Mobile, Ala., has been doused by almost eight inches of rain this week, including a five-inch fall Thursday. , More Snow Snow brought more weather woes to the northern tier of states. A 10-inch fall was reported at Phil lipsburg, Pa., and a half foot at Danbury, Conn. Light snow fell in the eastern reaches of the Great Plains and the upper Mississippi Valley. But the U. S. Weather Bureau said "the threat of local blizzard con ditions and heavy snows is over" in that region. The automobile ferry "Vacation land," freed after 18 hours in an ice jam in the Straits of Mackinac between Lakes Huron and Michi gan, went on a .mud bank in a heavy fog. But the ice breaker "Mackinaw" was expected to uuug me icuy aim iu oo passen gers to dock later in the day. No More Tornadoes The tornado' activity appeared abating in Southern areas after causing widespread property dam age and deaths. The intense storm system which lashed most of the eastern half of the country moved northward. Heavy snow fell in the Central Plains and the eastern Dakotas and the storm spread into Minne sota, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. Falls ranged Up to nearly 2 feet in parts of South Dakota and more than a foot was expect ed in sections of Minnesota, with lesser amounts in northern Wis consin, Upper Michigan and Iowa. Two Silverton Houses Blaze SILVERTON (Spccial)-An esti mated damage of several thousand dollars was reported by officials at the Roy Ross home in the 700 block in North Second street Thursday afternoon by a fire that ran up the back porch walls into the second story of the building, and was difficult to control. The family was not at home. Mrs. Ida Cauficld, a neighbor, fainted at the scene of the fire and was revived at the Lewrence Larson home nearby. While the firemen were at the Ross home a second alarm was turned in from the Jones resi dence in the 300 block in McClaine street with only minor damage caused by smoke from light trash burning in the overheated furnace DiDes of the living room. Color crayons in the trash caused the fire. Weather Fare: Little Change It is going to be just more of the same for the weekend and for the next five days, some cloudiness and some rain. Immediate forecast for Salem area is for showery conditions to night, partly cloudy skies and scat tered showers Saturday. Recurring rains are due for the five-day per- ;j l... nr-1 ,a h. ion uui ncm nullum. Ma jorAssa Us AF 'Hush9 on Saucers PHILADELPHIA (fl A retired I Keyhoe, former business asso Marine Corps major says the Air date of Charles A. Lindbergh, Force has "hushed up" results of says his committee includes Gen. flying saucer investigations and Albert C. Wedemeyer, Adm. Del "gagged'' a United States sena-;mar S. Fahrney, and Gen. Will- inr. Donald E. Keyhoe. director of, the National Investigations Com mittee of Aerial Phenomena, made his charges in an interview over a Philadelphia radio station Thurs day night Keyhoe declared ne wouio. icr- mally ask the Air Force to turn haven't released a sighting report over to his organization the 97 per for the past three years, despite cent of the unidentified object re-1 the fact there has been a steady ports which he said the Air Force 'flow of such reports." says have been satisfactorily iden- Keyhoe said that Sen. Richard tified. Keynoe disagree with the;R0ssell (D-Ga. had been Air Fore statistics and insists "gagged.", Keyhoe said Russell that almost 20 per cent of the sightings must be classed as un- Identified WEEK& DARE ACCEPTED Committee Ts Budget Cuts Pass Billion By FRANK KUEAZER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (IE The House Appropriations Committee today slashed 26 per cent from the budget of Commerce' Sec retary Sinclair Weeks who had "dared" Congress to cut it. If approved by the House,, the reduction will push over the $1 billion mark the total cuts made by the House in President Eisenhower's record peacetime spending budget of $71.8 billion. ' The committee approved $591,387,060 to run the Commerce Congress Nips Mail Crisis by 17 Million OK House Committee Will Consider in Week Further Funds . WASHINGTON W The House Appropriations Committee Friday informally approved a 17-million-dollar extra appropriation for the Post Office Department and agreed to consider next Friday a request for 30 millions more. Implied in the committee s ac tion was an understanding that the department would not put into effect Saturday sharp service cur tailments which Postmaster Gen eral Summerfield had said would be ordered if extra money was not provided at once. The department has requested Congress to give it an extra 47 million dollars for the next three months. An appropriations sub committee approved 17. millions of the request last Wednesday, Summerfield said that was in adequate, and announced that starting Saturday he would order such steps as to halt city and rural mail deliveries on Saturdays and stop selling money orders. He has said unforeseen expenses stemmed from increased mail vol ume and the need . to serve ex panding residential areas. When the Appropriations Com mittee met Friday to consider the annual money bill for the Com merce Department, most Republi cans and some Democrats favored immediate action on the Post Of fice funds, but a motion to con sider the matter was ruled out of order. Finally, however, after a report edly tempestuous session, the committee agreed to notify Sum merfield he could count on at least 17 million dollars and that the committee would consider how much more, if any, to give him at a meeting next Friday. Fair Director Offers to Stay State Fair Director Leo Spitz bart said Friday morning he had written John H. Travis, Hood River, chairman of the new Ore gon State Fair Commission, that he would be "happy to remain until April 15." After learning of the com position of the fair board, ap pointed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes Thursday, Spitzbart sent the let ter to Travis recommending a board meeting as soon as possi ble. He pointed out there were but 21 weeks remaining before the event and premium lists and other details would have to be worked out before final arrangements could be made for the frir. Spitzbart was appointed fair di rector by Gov. Charles Martin, a Democrat, in 1935. Weather Details Maximum vrsterdav. SI: minimum today, 49. Total 24-hour precipitation: .H: for month: .IS; normal, .44. Sea- 1 ion nrer ioltatl on. 27. IS: nnrmil 3j.9l. hirer h.itht. 4.4 lt. (Report oj v. o. v rauir r nurrau.j iam S. Kepner. The committee. he said, has been set up to eval- uate saucer sightings and publish some answer to the question. "I frankly don't expect the Air Force to give us the reports," he said. "They have hushed up re sults of their investigations and i had seen a flying saucer but had been told by the Air Force not to .disclose any uuormauon. Department in the next year in. stead of the $803,709,000 requested by Weeks. It also trimmed the budget for a group of independent commerce agencies from $50,075,000 to $45, 649,400, and for the Panama Can al from $17,648,000 to $16,648,000. All the cuts added up to $217,- 827,940. Labor and Health They pushed to $1,039,245,740 the total reductions imposed so far by the committee or by the House itself in acting on administration appropriation requests totaling $14,302,812,601. The total cuts amount to about 7.3 per cent of the amounts sought. The deep committee cuts in the Commerce budget followed House passage Thursday night of a lightly cut $2.8. billion appropria tions bill for the Labor and Health, Education and Welfare depart ments. The. committee acted after closed door hearings by a subcom mittee at which Weeks was asked to explain remarks he made about budget cutting on television March 17. Weeks was quoted as saying that "if Congress wants to start cutting," it could take 50 million dollars out of his budget, The committee voted to reduce the Maritime Administration's funds for ship construction from $94,500,000 to $3 million dollars, leaving only enough to replace some ships and for researeh. Fewer New Employes Funds removed from this section included $62 million earmarked for building a new super-liner to re place the S.S. America as a sister ship to .the S.S. United States. The committee also knocked out all funds for the controversial Of fice of Strategic Information for which Weeks sought $101,500. The Appropriations Committee said the Commerce Department and the other agencies sought funds to add 7,126 new employes. The amount approved by the com mittee would reduce this to 4,038. 1500-Mile AF Missile 'Close' To Operation WASHINGTON on Sen. Rus sell (D-Ga) quoted top Air Force officials Friday as predicting a 1,500-mile range ballistic missile will be "operational at a rea sonably early date." "It will not be a matter of days, it more likely will be a matter of months," Russell told newsmen after a closed briefing session of the Senate Armed Services Com mittee which he heads. Russell said Air Force leaders also reported important "improve ments in our B52 long range bom bers to make them a more ef fective weapon." RENO, Nev. P. W. Bnrge, contractor, pulls up beside the car of Betty Petersen for a chal. Burge said his broken left leg basn't kept him from driving. He re moved the door from his sedan and rigged Tax Vote Try Fails In House GOP Defeated in Bid for Surtax Repeal Test By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. . Associated News Writer House Republicans failed 21-34 Friday to force im mediate consideration of a bill to repeal the 45 per cent income surtax imposed two years ago. The vote followed assurances by Rep. Clarence Barton (D), Co quille, chairman of the House Tax ation Committee, that the surtax repeal would be included in the committee's major income tax bill, which is expected to be ready in 10 days. Rep. Charles Allen Tom K), Rufus. made the motion to take House Bill 1, which would repeal the surtax, away from the com mittee. 'Not Sitting On It' He said that Republicans on the tax committee have been unsuc cessful in their efforts to get Jie bill out of committee, and that the surtax must be repealed to keep campaign promises by both parties. Barton answered that the com mittee is not sitting on the bill, and that the surtax repeal would be included as part of a package. The committee, Barton said, "doesn't want to bring ' out tax measures piecemeal." Revenue that would be lost from the surtax repeal will be replaced by increasing the income tax rates. After the vote against Tom's motion, Rep. Wayne Gicsy (R), (Continued on Page S, Column 8) Defense Jobs Shuffle Given Solons' Stamp WASHINGTON W - The Senate Armed Services Committee Fri day unanimously approved a ma jor shuffle of top civilian and mili tary leaders in the Defense De partment. Chairman Russell (D-Ga) an nounced the committee action and said these nominations would be sent on to the Senate for expected confirmation early next week: Donald A. Quarles of New Jer sey, now secretary of the Air Force, to be No. 2 man in the De fense Department as under secre tary of defense succeeding Reu ben Robertson Jr. Gen.' Nathan F. Twining, now Air Force chief of staff, to be chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, replacing Adm. Arthur W. Radford. James H. Douglas of Illinois, now deputy secretary of the Air Force, to replace Quarles as sec retary. Gen. - Thomas D. White, now deputy chief of staff of the Air Force, to move up to the place vacated by Twining. Adm. Arlcigh A. Burke for an other two year term as chief of naval operations. Also approved was Fred A. Bantz of Minnesota to be an assist ant secretary of the Navy. 'Watch Out for That jig sslj Six Die I.A.BarWith Holmes-Asked. Agency Clears Budget Hurdle Wjays and Means Backs Development Unit; to Tune of $286,900 By JAMES D. OLSON Capital Journal Writer A bill which would create a State Department of Planning and Development, one of the most im portant proposals in Gov. Robert u. Holmes program, cleared its first hurdle Friday. The Joint Ways and Means Committee approved the bill for inclusion of a budget. A Ways and Means sub-corn. mittee recommended that $286,900 be appropriated for the new de partment, which would replace the present Oregon Development Com mission. The old commission has S130.356 in its 1957-59 budget. Indications that the bill will en counter some opposition when it is returned to the committee were given by Sen. Howard Belton (R), Canby. This issue has been before the Legislature for 15 years," Belton said. "I am not going to argue against it now but wish to express my doubts, which will be further expanded when this bill comes back to us for consideration, Has Done 'Good Job1 Co-chairman Alfred Corbett told the committee that the Oregon De velopment Commission had "done a good job" but the Governor felt that even more effective results in bringing new industries to Oregon could be accomplished by the new department. i - ' (Continued on Page S, Column 5) Seaton 'Good' After 2 -Hour Back Surgery WASHINGTON Wl Secretary of the Interior Seaton underwent surgery Friday for the back ail ment which has incapacitated him since February. His condition after the two-hour operation was reported "good and Scaton's office quoted the sur geons as predicting full recovery after a "relatively short" conval escence period. The account relayed through the Interior Department said the oper ation disclosed a protruding car tilage in the lower spine which put pressure on the sciatic nerve extending into the secretary's leg. This resulted in what the doctors called "sciatic neuritis. The cartilage was removed and no other trouble was found. There was no need. Scaton's office said, for fusion of vertebrae, a tech nique employed to relieve some severe spinal troubles. Seaton attributes the ailment to an injury he suffered in "kid foot ball." Leg' up a platform for the leg to rest on. Since the leg dangles precariously nut into the opposing traffic lane, Burge dangles a red warning flag from (he casl. (AP Wire-photo) 10 ix Firemen Attend Mi. , . ... 'j vl. .H'rV Tt - jr , act " ir- . w- v. . , .- -A'V. U LOS ANGELES Firemen apply artifi cial respiration to a victim on the sidewalk in front of a neighborhood bar last night IN JORDAN, SYRIA Israel Worried Oyer 2 Red Grab Threats By UNITED PRESS Israel received reports today elements were about to seize control of Jordan and Syria in moves that could touch off another major crisis in the Mid- xIUiiliui itiviu oui'uui lull nua studying the reports closely for Is raeli sources have said any such drastic change in the governments of Israel's neighbors would be a major new threat to Its security. In Syria the dispute was be tween President Shukri El-Kuwat- ly, considered moderately pro Western, and Lt. Col. Abdcl Ha mid Serraj, Syria's 31-ycar old mystery "strongman" who is pro Soviet and anti-American. In Jordan the dispute was be tween pro-Western King Hussein (Continued on Page 5, Col. 7) Hospital Race Saves Life of Choking Man WILLAMINA (Special) Eldon Brccdcn of Willamina is alive to day because of fast action by two of his friends, George Churchill and Arvid Nylcen. An inflammation in Breedcn's throat cut off his breath. The closest ambulance was in Sheri dan, five miles away, so Churchill and Nylcen started to bring Breed en to the McMinnvillc hospital, while Mrs. Brccdcn called Willa mina Police Chief Robert Colton. Cotton radioed for state police es cort for the car. The Sheridan police escorted the car through Sheridan, and Glen Shipman, state police officer, met the car at the cast side of Sheri dan, leading it the 13 miles to Mc Minnvillc. As Brccdcn was bring carried Into the hospital, h i s breathing stopped, and the attending doctor made an emergency opening in Brerdon's throat, In the hospital corridor. Breedcn Is reported recovering. The three Willamina men arc all members of the Valley Aulo Rac ing association, and drive in hard top car races. Riesel Ahle m o f a l . I ft Snp I ,1 frill x" AJXjj,,!!. NEW YORK, W Victor Riesel, labor columnist blinded by an acid thrower a year ago this morning, disclosed Friday that he has re- gained some light perception in his right eye. It is a great dillercnce Irom the complete darkness alter 1 left clear just what sort of work would the hospital," Riesel said. "Now bring the party officials addition I have to turn off the light before al rewards. I so to bed. I can see a bright "Some people have the wrong light and moving shadows in front of it.' Riesel said the improvement was noticed about the time he went to London early this year to consult an eye surgeon to get the view of "another school of medicine." odiums Injured After 2 6 T h -try that overwhelmingly pro-Soviet Israel Warns Of Blowup If Ships Barred WASHINGTON Wl Israel was reported Friday to have cautioned the United States that any Suez settlement leaving Israeli ships barred from the canal would lead to another blowup like last fall's Sinai fighting. Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban was said to have made this clear to Under Secretary of State Chris tian Herter when they met a few days ago. Diplomatic sources said Herter was notified that Israel will send an Israeli flagship through the Suez Canal whenever other nations have clearly established the prin ciple of free and innocent passage, Israel expects the United States to take the initiative in leading other nations to establish this principle. At Cairo, the newspaper Al Ah ram said Friday U. N. Undersec retary General Ralph Bunche and Egyptian officials have agreed that no barbed wire barriers or minefields will be placed along the Gaza Strip's borders with Israel, The paper said the agreement was reached In negotiations on the functions of the U. N. Emergency Force in the strip. Nikita Would Apply 'Bonus' MOSCOW lin Communist par ty boss Nikita S. Khrushchev wants to apply the speedup In centive system to Communist par ty olficials as well as Soviet farm- ers ana industrial workers. The system goes by the name o( ..Sociaist C0mpCtit0n. i a speech to farmers and party workers in the Voronezh region south of Moscow Wednesday, Khrushchev suggested that party officials share in financial in- ccntives. Pravda, publishing the speech Friday, did not mane idea that a party worker should not be given premiums and that this allegedly is contrary to Com munist morality, the party first secretary said. "The argu- mcnt is that party workers are peoplt of high principles and can;plaust ana inouu u very looa. Gas . Bar Explosion after a makeshift gasoline bomb exploded Inside, killing six, Another victim lies In foreground. (AP Wirephoto) AEC Reveals i 1 Tl : Anoiner nuss Nuclear Test WASHINGTON Ifl - The Soviet Union carried out another nuclear weapon test W e d n e s d a y, the Atomic Energy Commission an nounced Friday. There was no further Informa tion in a brief statement from AEC chairman Lewis L, Strauss, except for identification of the blast as part of the scries which Russia began last August. The announcement said simply: "The Soviet Union on April 3, 1957, conducted another nuclear weapons test in its current series. Fridny s announcement was the first in more than a year in which both the U.S. and British gov ernments gave word of new Rus sian tests to the world simul taneously. It was on March 21, 1956, that the two governments last made such announcements at the same time. Woman Slain At Chiloquin CHILOQUIN, Ore. (UP)- Mrs. Frances Ball, 30, was shot to death here Thursday evening and police questioned three men they said were in the house at the time. Mrs. Ball died in an ambulance en route to a hospital. Police said she sullcrcd four .22 caliber bullet wounds. Being questioned were Mrs. Ball's husband. Osborn Ball. 41; Francis Kird, 50, and Clarence Ohlcs, 62. Police Chief H. C. Smith said police and a doctor were called about 5 p.m. wncn oiuccrs ar rived they lound Mrs. Ball lying unconscious on a sola. to Bigwigs get along without premiums. This is wrong. In our country not only party workers are high principled, but each Soviet citizen worker, collective farmer or intellectual is high principled.' Khrushchev recently laid down a program for reorganizing all Soviet production in a drive to catch up with and outstrip the United States economically In relatively short period of time He has been engaged in a cam paign of propagandizing the coun try for greater production eitort, with the principle emphasis on heavy industry to build up Soviet might, Khrushchev also discussed a re vision of the system ol honorary awards of medals such as "Hero of Socialist Labor," to tie the awards to definite quotas of pro duction. Pravda said his audience interrupted the speech with ap- Burn 'Bomb' Fire Set After Three Patrons Tossed Out LOS ANGELES (AP) A makeshift gasoline bomb turned a quiet neighbor hood bar into a funeral pyre for six persons shortly be fore midnight Thursday night. The coroner said six nersons died at the scene on a quiet street in south central Los Angeles. At least five others were injured. Police said the bomb apparent- : ly was thrown through the front door of the Club Mecca by three men who had been ejected earlier when they tried to dance with one of the cocktail bar's regular wom an customers. Slosh Gas an Floor Asst. Fire Chief R. A. Williams said the men sloshed a bucket of ' gasoline, or some other highly in flammable liquid, onto the floor and then threw a match in after it. "V. went up like a blow torch." said the bartender, Larry Fenton, 24, who escaped uninjured out the bac door. - , Others weren't that lucky. One male customer, apparently standing at the bar, bolted into a corner where firemen later found his blackened, charred body. , Two other ' bodies were found crumpled in one of the cafe's four booths. Bodies of two other cus-. tomcrs - were found in the rest room, apparently overcome by smoke. Inside, the small cafe was a blackened ruin. I Escape Through Gunfire . The three men who threw the lbomb escaped in a car amidst I barrage of gunfire from a Basser n- ie:n . p. un "oa nuuiiR Willi WIO H1ICC1 when he saw the men running. "I nulled out a .32 caliber auto matic which I carry for protection and fired at them. I think I hit one," he said. ; Miguel Martinez, 29, a student. said he was walking near the cafe when a car pulled up in front. Two men jumped out." he said. "One sloshed a big can of some sort of liquid into the bar." Then, Martinez said, the second man swung his arm like a soft ball pitcher and the cafe erupted ; in flames. Police said the man ap parently tossed in a match. Art Hartner said he was driving home with his wife Juanita when he saw the cocktail lounge belch flames onto the sidewalk. 'Wall ef Flames' "The whole place was a wall of flames and I saw a girl stumble out on the sidewalk," Hartner, a truck driver, said.- "She was all on fire, her hair. her clothes, even her shoes. "I wrapped her in my coat and ' tried to beat out the flames as she cried: 'Why did they do it? What about my children?' The woman, tentatively identified by police as Jackie McGinnis, in her early 20s, was dead on arrival at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. Police identified the 'other - vic tims as: .. Gilbert John Gonzalez, Harry L. Robinson, Tony Smaldino, Philin Crawshaw and a John Doe. Bar tender Fenton said all were regu lar customers. Another woman. Barbara Scan- clli, was reported seriously burned. Insisted She Dance Minnie Morales, 26, a typist. said the trouble in the bar began (Continued on Page 5, Col. 9) 1 Brief ews in Friday, April 5, 1957 NATIONAL Killed in L A. Gas Bomb' Fire . Sec. 1, P. 1 House Unit's Budget Chops Pass st Billion sec. 1, P. 1 LOCAL Blood Drawing Nets 120 Pints Here Scc. 2, P. 1 Weather Delays Flight Of Polio Patients ....Sec. 2, P, 1 STATE Additional Solons Bill Approved Sec. 1, P, 1 FOREIGN Canadians Assail - U.S. 'Smear of Diplomat .Sec. 1, P. 1 SPORTS Brenner Greets 22 Under Sunny Skies . Sec. 2, P. 1 Burke Claims He Defies -Jinx in Mailers . . . . .Sec. 2, P. 3 REGULAR FEATURES i Amusements Sec. 1, P. 1 Editorials ..Sec. 1, P. 4 Locals Sec, 1, P. 5 Sec. 2, P. 1 Society '..Sec. 1, P. 6-7 Comics Sec. 2, P. 4 Television Sec. 2, P. S Want Ads Sec. 2, P. 6-9 Markets Sec. 2, P. 6 Dorothy Dix Sec, 2, P. I I Crossword Pimla , .Sac, 2, P. 4 . 1