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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1957)
r P.! s:, i If - Vi, . I Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, April 10, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAE Section 1 Ptge T I K. 1 ''j'f: Seaman Drowns In Attempting to Jump on His Ship PORTLAND (A A 34-year-old 6cattle seaman, Roy L. Davis, ap parently drowned in Portland har fcor early Wednesday when he tried to jump from a dock to his hip. Police said when Davis and two companions returned to the ship one of, the others leaped from the dock to the vessel instead of using a gangway, Davis tried to do the tame thing but failed. He struck the side of the ship, the S. 8. Edison Mariner, and plunged Into the water. Harbor police recovered the body about two hours later. SHE WINS BRITISH FRIENDS Kate Roosevelt Acts As Embassy Hostess " By STERLING SLAPPE? Uohn Hay Whitney's stepdaughter. LONDON l-The reserved and ! She 's it, brown haired, and wears frosty representative of the Queen who calls, at the U.S. Embassy is apt to be met by a lovely young gin wno says: - "Hi; I'm Kate." " From that point on British American relations are on the up grade, for the man hardly exists who wouldn't like Kate Roosevelt. JlisB Roosevelt is Ambassador Brings Informality a - Vt ;' " r i.-s jxnn hi . .1 1 ''. k''JHM 'i r . ' T l If r j -. I fc Vv "M o 1 ft- tH f'-'pf- V -1 if' ' ' ., I-''v I ' f, ' .a in hi ii aaaaaaaiaaaiaaaiiaawpa blue jeans three or four, days a week. Recently she has been serv ing as embassy hostess while her mother, the former Betsey Cush ing of Boston, recovered from an operation. She is sure of herself In greet ing either a diplomat or the dust man, and she's fast becoming one of London's favorite people, Whitney is "daddy" to her and Franklin D. Roosevelt' is remem bered as "granddaddy." Her fath er is James Roosevelt, Mrs. Whit ney's first husband. When she calls herself Kate, or Katie, she gives the English a pleasant shock. Most English people are congen ially unable to be so informal themselves, but they like to see it when it Is well done. "It has gotten me a few odd looks," she says, but every word written about her in London news papers has been complimentary. t "I'm nfi-ait mmjilImM 1 mat. They always are asking you 'How ) do you like London?' 'I tell them, of course T like London and that I'm going to stay over here with mother and daddy for At lentt six mnnthjr" I She plans to take courses in I English literature and English history in part-time study at the University of London. "I don't want to sound melo-1 dramatic but I really want to do something with myself. 1 like tele vision work and I'm a real photo-' graphic bug. "But I don't know that' either would lead to anything when I go: home." . I She has "no particular boy friend. Boys Start Smoking in Texas Early FORT WORTH, Tex. W) Billic Smith has to take his thumb from his mouth before he can light up a cigar, puff on a cigarette or chew loDacco. That's because Bi Hie, who's been smoking and chewing for four years now, is still only 5. "He just has a craving for II," explains his mother, Mrs. Bill Smith. "He started out on chew ing tobacco when he was a year old, wanting bites off Daddy's Plug- "Then he'd want puffs off Dad dy's cigars. The next thing we knew, he was demanding his own cigars. You might say he's been smoking cigars all of his life, but he only took up cigarettes, eight months ago." Says his father: "Billie smokes a pack of cigarettes a day and about one cigar. Of course, 1 don't let him smoke a pack every Ike Will Use Helicopter in Defense Test WASHINGTON Wl The much discussed White House helicopters will be used to "evacuate" Presi dent Eisenhower in an emergency test drill in June, press secretary James C. Hagerty announced yesterday, ; Hagerty said, however, that there Is a possibility the President may wake , some use of the air craft even earlier. He did not say when or how. The flight by Eisenhower to secret headquarters will be his part in evacuation exercises ar ranged In connection with the an nual "Operation Alert ' program which tests the ability of the gov ernment to move key personnel out In case of a war threat to the capital. day. Cut him off about every third day, because that s pretty expens 1VC. The Aif Force has acquired from the Bell Aviation ' Co. two four-place helicopters for White House use. One has been assigned to the President, the other will be used by accompanying Secret Service agents. Eisenhower declared angrily last week that the craft were not being procured to transport him to any golf course. He made that remark when asked at a news conference whether he would be willing to give up the helicopters In the Interest of economy, Cheggman's Last Hope SAN FRANCISCO Ml Caryl Chessman and his attorney were agreed today that the May 13 hearing before the U. S. Supreme Court will be the showdown in his fight of nearly nine years to escape execution In San Qucntin. If he wins, there will be a new trial. If he loses, it's the gas chamber. General Nathan F. Twining, Chief of Staff of the V. S. Air Force, began his military career as an Infantryman, Meany Would Kick Out Beck ATLANTIC CITY to - George Meany, AFL-CIO president, told the United Auto Workers' conven tion Tuesday that labor is deter mined to purge itself of corrupt elements. , Meany mentioned no names but to a question afterward whether he meant Dave Beck,, president of the Teamsters Union, he said: "You read the papers. You can Identify him." Meany said in his address to the convention that although "tak ing the Fifth Amendment on the Question of personal corruption in connection with the handling of trade union funds, the refusal to give an account of the steward ship of those funds , , , may not be against the law, It is against the trade union law and no one has the right to. hold trade union office who takes" that position." Beck has been , suspended as a vice president of . the AFL-CIO. FREE BOOK! FILLED WITH FACTS VJ X..T7 CYCLONE FENCE FOR YOUR YARD Ta t this bk and fr fane animate, call Sllmonl 3-8103 400 N.E. 11th Avt. ff- Mir imihi mill mil ratroution mminnuu ckum riau Yakima to Levy Fees on Business YAKIMA Ul The Yakima City Commission Tuesday voted to levy business license fees rang ing from $10 )o $300 a year on firms operating In the city. The license fees, designed to raise some $50,000 a year to off set a growing city deficit, will become effective July 1 and will be based on the number of em ployes a business has. Pretty brnwn-halrcd Kate Roosevelt, 21, above, step-' daughter of U, S. Ambassador to Great Britain John Hay Whitney, recently has been serving as embassy hostess In London while her mother recovers from an operation. She's fast becoming one of London's favorite people with her informal greetings to embassy callers, Her father is -James Roosevelt, Mrs; Whitney's first husband.'(AP Wire photo) . ( ONE FOR THE ROAD KNOXV1LLE, Tenn. (UP) A judge dismissed a drunkenness charge against John H. Coggins, 40. Tuesday so he could return to I where he started ms tippling. I was just celebrating after spend- j ing four years In -prison," Cog- gins, : of' Thomasvillc, Ga., said. "If you'll let me go, I'll go on to Georgia where I started." j FUN, FAME AND FORTUNE for boys 11 through 15 in the 1957 Soap Box Derby! 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