! i THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY tonight, Thurt day with considerable sunshine and warmer, Thursday. Low tonight, 85; high Thursday, 64. PUG Bill Up Again In-House 2nd Action Set on Probe of Utility Pension Cash By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. Associated Press Writer The Oregon House of Representatives, engaging in heated partisan debate, revived Wednesday a bill to permit the public utili ties commissioner to investigate whether utilities put too much money in their pension funds. The vote to reconsider the bill was 33-27. It had been defeated Wednesday 32-28. Now the bill will be on Thursday's House calendar. Purpose of the bill is to deter mine whether utilities place extra amounts of money in their pension funds in order to use these amounts as business expenses in determining the rate base, and thus make rates Improperly high. Racked by Union It is supported by union em ployes of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. They think the bill could lead to increased pen sions. The vote to reconsider was al most on party lines, although four Democrats joined the Repub licans in trying to block the bill. When the motion to reconsider was made. Rep. Wayne Giesy (R), Monroe, heatedly argued that the motion was out of order. His point was that the bill was indefinitely postponed Wednesday, in which case it would take a two thirds vote to reconsider. Speaker Pat Dooley (D), Port land, ruled that the motion to in definitely postpone hadn't been official because the vote wasn't officially anounced. Giesy appealed from the ruling, but the House sustained Dooley in a parly-line vote. 'High-Handed Tacllcs' Giesy then protested thai "if these high-handed tactics are con tinued, I'll have more to say about it. .-.... "I'm sure you will," Dooley re plied. ' ... The Joint Ways and Means Committee killed bills to buy $100,000 worth of library books for Portland State College, and to compel school districts to submit their building plans to the state Board of Education. The committee also buried a resolution for an interim commit tee to study migratory labor prob lems. -It approved a measure appro priating $250,000 to buy property for future state buildings in the Capitol group, and also voted to enlarge the Capitol Mall. The Senate approved and sent to the Governor a bill providing that when arsonists are released from state hospitals or the prison, the administrators of those insti tution must notify the state fire marshal, state police, and the lo cal police in the area in which the arsonist lives. 1 The House sent to .the Senate a $1,880,982 appropriation for the slate Forestry Board, up 2 per cent from the present biennium; and a $1,978,394 budget for the stale Board of Health, up 10 per cent. Dulles to Fly Next Week to German Talks WASHINGTON (UP) -Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will fly to Germany next week for important Allied talks on Mos cow's recent atomic threats and Britain's proposed defense cuts, it was learned today. ' Administration officials sa i d , Dulles plans to leave Washington On TllP.cHaV far Rnnn Hoi-mantr where the Norlh Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Council holds its spring m e e t i ng May 4-3-4. Moscow's recent campaign of atomic threats again (America's NATO partners gives extra im portance to Dulles' mission. His job will be to reassure this na tion's 14 NATO associates the United Slates will not forsake them in the face of Russia's threats. More Sunshine Due Thursday There was a bit of sunshine coming through the clouds oc casionally Wednesday, but the breeze was still on the chilly side in Salem. There is promise of "consider able sunshine" and warmer tem peratures in the forecast for Thursday. Up to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. 1 93 inches of rain had been meas ured In Salem for the month to dale, hitting the normal mark exactly a reminder to the weath erman that no more showers are wanted lor the present. r ive-aay iurn:an calls lor i (bowers about Friday. J Newsmen Offered First Looklnkide Hanford A- Works WASHINGTON tgi Newsmen Wednesday were offered their first look inside the Atomic En ergy Commission's big Hanford Works at Richland, Wash., and a tour of facilities at Idaho Falls, Idaho, for development of civilian uses of the atom. The invitation from the AEC rp pa'rently constitutes, at least in effect, a partial response to mounting demands at the Capitol for more information - and more congressional control on the ci vilian atomic program. At Hanford, the AEC said, the tour will not cover plutonium pro duction facilities. It will be limit ed to laboratory and test units. At the National Reactor Test ing Station in Idaho, the commis sion said, the news representa FOR MURPHY CASE U.S. Delays Okay of Dominican Diplomat WASHINGTON W The United States has delayed for al most a month action on a Dominican Republic request' to approve as ambassador to Washington Manuel de Moya, who made a controversial speech in San Francisco. AEC Conducts First of 1957 'Safety' Tests MERCURY, Nev. (UP) - The Atomic Energy Commission early loday conducted the first in its 1957 scries of nuclear "safely" tests, an explosion of a nonnuclear device near atomic weapons to see if concussion will trigger nuclear oombs. The AEC's usual brief announce ment said only that the 6:27 a.m. PST test was "successful." In a similar test last year, -the concussion set up a radiation read ing- among -the weapons thatT'in- dicated sharp blows on atomc weapons could stir radioactivity. There was no report of any ex plosion of a nuclear weapon dur ing last year s safety test scries. The AEC is conducting these lests of storage and handling of nuclear weapons during the sum mer months at times when the test site on the Yucca Flats Proving Grounds is not being used for the regular nuc 1 e a r experiments scheduled for this year. Today's test came on the 14th day after it originally was sched uled. Delays were caused by ad verse winds, rains, and snows. Eugene Jurors Weighing Fate OfWachsmuth EUGENE (fll The fate of Al bert Wachsmuth, 65, was in the hands of a circuit court jury that heard his first degree murder trial. He is charged with killing state policeman Charles Sanders in a shooting at his home norlh of here Feb. 22. Testimony and ar guments were completed Tuesday and the jury returned Wednesday for instructions and the start of deliberations. Wachsmuth pleaded innocent by reason of insanity and by reason of temporary insanity. But his at torney, Mark Weatherford of Al bany, repeated in final arguments Tuesday a contention the defense made throughout the trial that another policeman shot and killed Sanders. Dist. Atty. Eugene Venn chal lenged the theory. He said that if it were correct, it meant that po licemen at the scene had con spired to conceal the fact that one of them accidentally shot Sanders. "I work with these men," Venn said. "I know them. They are clean, decent men." Ways-Means Favors Extending Capitol Mall North to 'D' Street By JAMES D. OLSON Capital Journal Writer The joint Ways and Means Com mittee Wednesday recommended the Capitol Mall be extended north to "D" Street by approving a bill authorizing the Board of Control to purchase available property in the area. The Capitol Mall, if this bill is approved, would embrace all land lying in the area bordered by Capitol and Winter streets on the east and west and from Court south to "D" street on the north. Union Street Was Border Heretofore, the Board of Control was restricted in the purchase of property in the mall area to Union street on the north. t . The joint committee also recom mended passage of another bill appropriating 1250.000 to the Board of Control to be used during the 69th 'Year; No. 96 tives will get a chance to see six different testing and experimen tal facilities now in operation. The announcement said the tour "will demonstrate progress made in the commission's civilian pow er and industrial development pro grams." Still, movie and television cameramen will go through '.he Hanford plant May 8 and 9, and newsmen will make their tour May 13. The cameramen's days at Idaho Falls will be May 13 ajjd 14, and the newsmen's May 16. Both tours will be limited to accredited cameramen and cor respondents of U.S. citizenship. They must give advance notice to the Hanford and Idaho opera tions offices of the AEC. REMARKS State Department officials de- clined comment Wednesday when asked if approval was being de layed because De Moya had de nounced as Communist inspired suggestions linking the Dominican government with the disappear ances of Oregon flier Gerald Mur phy and New York scholar Jesus de Galindez. Government Accused Rep. Porter (D-Ore) has ac cused the Dominican government of having some role in the death of Murphy, a former Eugene resi dent. The Stale Department on March IB. challenged an official Dominican report, on Murphy's disappearance and asked for a re opening of the investigation. Copies of a speech which Dc Moya made to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on Apr 1 5. as distributed here, described him as "Dominican ambassador to the United States." He is a former envoy to Wash ington, where he served in 1953- as. most recently ne nas been sec retary of .state without portfolio. Quick Okay Usual The Dominican government, a few days before the April 5 speech, asked the State Depart ment to approve Mm for another tour of duty here, replacing Dr. Joaquin Salazar. Such approval I normally Is granted within a brief period. Of ficials declined comment on Ihe reasons for delay in the case of De Moya. They said, in response to questions, that the department as a matter of routine and with out making a special request had received copies of the San Fran cisco speech. - Liberty School Plans OK Due Approval of plans and authoriza tion to call lor bids on the Liberty elementary school addition will be asked during Thursday night's meeting of the Salem School Board. The plans have been prepared by James L. Payne, architect, and call tor the addition of several classrooms to meet the growth of the area. A request by St. John's Lutheran Church to use the West Salem School gymnasium for church and Sunday School purposes will be sought on a rental basis. The board will meet with the 'citi zens budget committee at 8:30 a.rq. to inspect the financial pic ture for the 1957-58 school year. The board and the committee have been working on the budget for several weeks and it is about ready for final action. 1957-59 biennium in the purchase of property in the Mall aiea. This is a customary appropriation, under which the Board has purchased properties when offered for sale and a suitable price has been agreed upon between the property dwner and the state. After a lengthy discussion the committee tabled SB 369 pro viding for the retirement of state and county officials in a program described by Sen. Anthony Yturri, 'Ri. Ontario, as "monstrous." "This bill would provide for re tirement of county officials but no money to set up to pay retirement benefits," Yturri said. The committee passed out a bill eliminaling all state bounties on (edatory animals with a "do pass" ; recommendation. This action was contrary to a recomendation by i the House Agriculture committee apitat AjJonimal Mob Rule Try Fails In Jordan Pro -Egyptians Fail to Shake Khalidi AMMANTjordati (AP)- Stone-throwing rioters and a general strike failed Wednesday to shake Pre mier Hussein Khalidi out of office. Mobs of youths, apparently or ganized by pro-Egyptian leftists, swarmed through downtown streets for several hours demand ing that the government resign and that Jordan federate with Syria and Egypt. Then Amman quieted. The dem onstrators dispersed peacefully after suffering a few minor in juries. Troops Not Mobilized Large numbers of troops held key positions throughout the cap pital but did not participate in pulling down the riots. On Ihe orders of Khalidi to avoid serious bloodshed, police armed with clubs and equipped with straw shields trapped large sec tions of the rioters and prevented them from joining forces. The strategy worked. After the rioting stopped. Kha lidi went to the royal palace. The 70-year-old premier, named by young King Hussein to head a Cabinet mostly of independents only eight days ago, was reported to have told an all-party commit tee demanding his resignation that he would not quit. He said the party leaders sup ported him when he formed the Cabinet, and that he bad done nothing since then . to warrant their withdrawing their support. Meetings Go On Meetings of Cabinet ministers continued, however, in an effort to solve Ihe second political crisis in two weeks. The first crisis arose when King Hussein dis missed the Communist-infiltrated government of Suleiman Nabulsi. A general strike ordered by the Communists and leftists', gripped much of the country. In Amman- 90 per cent of the shops did not open. The stoppage was reported as effective in other towns, par ticularly on the west bank of the Jordan,, in Palestine tcrri t o r y Jordan occupied after the 1948 war. That sector is a leftist stronghold. Jordan's latest crisis was touched off by charges that per sons close to King Hussein were plotting with the British and Americans against the kingdom's independence. Khalidi denied the charges but the government ra dios in Egypt and Syria aired them over and over. Iraqi Troops Moving Near Syria Border JERUSALEM Wl Private re ports reaching Israel Wednesday said Iraq has moved troops to areas near her border with Syria. The reports lacked official con firmation here. Iraqi troops pre viously have been reported near the Jordan frontier. It appeared from reports here that tension is mounting among Ihe Arab nations, with Iraq lined up with Jordan against Egypt and Syria. An Israeli Foreign Office spokesman, Moshe Lcshem, said Egypt has now "come out in the open" in seeking overthrow of the Jordan government. The reports of the Iraqi troop movements reached here a short time after the government-operated Kol Israel Radio reported that Iraq had warned Egypt and Syria against attempting to bring about Jordan's collapse. The radio said Iraq had de clared she is ready to undertake a "widespread military opera tion" that would pit Arab against Arab if Syria or Egypt bring about a dismemberment of trie Hashemile kingdom. which had recommended bounties on cougars and bobcats. Federal Program Cited Members of the committee ex plained that the federal govern ment is carrying on a scientific program for the elimination of predatory animals with the result that state paid bounties are no longer necessary. A bill carrying a $100,000 ap propriation for purchase of books for Portland State College was tabled because sub committee members found there was no space in any of the present build ings at Portland State for a library in which to place the books. Another bill tabled would have required school districts to obtain approval of the State Department of Education before any building costing in excess of $5,000 could be constructed. nlni OKOfrnn WaAnncA AnH!1 Deputy An 2 Women Swear HeForced Them to Lie About Elkins . Hear Story Denounced by Deputy ft ; WASHINGTON Mrs. Kathleen Weeks, left, an admitted prostitute, and Mrs. Mary Childress, who Identified herself as a housewife, sit in the hearing room today as they hear Deputy Sheriff George Miniel ly of Portland, Ore., denounce their story as a "hoax." The women testified they U.S. Calls for UN Parley on Suez Question UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. m The United Stales asked Wednes day that the U.N. Security Coun cil meet Thursday afternoon "or as soon tncrcaltcr as may be con venient" to take up the Suez Canal question again. U. S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge filed the request with the council president. Sir Pierson Dix on, in a letter made public by the U.S. delegation. He asked that the council meet 'for the purpose of resuming dis cussion" on the canal question, on which it adopted a resolution last Oct. 13 embodying six basic re quirements for a settlement of the issue. About the time the United Stales was requesting the council meet ing Egypt disclosed in Cairo its plan for the canal calling for Egyptian collection of all tolls and the selling up of arbitration ma chinery for settling disputes. Georgia's Top Jurist Booked In Tipsy Crash ATLANTA ifi The chief jus tice of Georgia's Supreme Court was arrcsled early Wednesday on a charge of driving under the in fluence of intoxicants following an auto crash on Pcachtrce Street. W. H. Duckworth, B2, taken inlo custody at 12:20 a. m.. was re leased an hour later. Police Chief Herbert Jenkins said Duckworth was not required lo post bond pending a hearing on the charges. The justice declined to comment later Wednesday. Patrolmen T. J. Crutchfield and R. N. Hagan said Duckworth was charged wilh operating an auto mobile under the inliuenre of in toxicants, with being drunk on the streets and with failure to re main in the proper traffic lane. The officers said a car being driven on Peachtrec Street by Duckworth struck a parked car. They quoted witnesses as saying the driver backed up. started off again and hit another car 200 feet down the street. Woollier Details Maximum yestfrday. S9: minimum onay, m, iowi zi-nnur prerrpiiauon: .02: tnr month: 1.D3; normal. 1.93 Swon prrttpltatlon. 2S M: normal. M47. River height. .1 of a foot. (Re port by U. S. Weather Bureau. i OA nUrl as second matUr at Salem. ,Jft " "'if ) WASHINGTON Deputy Sheriff George Minielly of Portland, Ore., testifies today before the Senate rackets Investigating committee. (AP Wlrcphoto) A-Power Rated Cure For Pollution of Air WASHINGTON (UP) floss Gunn, a top meteorologist, said today atomic power offers the only sure cure for air pollution. "The only way we arc ever teo- ing to solve the pollution prob lem." he said, "is to have olomic power that doesn't dump ash and olher mailer into the air." Gunn, the Weather Bureau's dir ector of physical research, also told the annual meeling of the Na tional Academy of Sciences that air pollution threatens to change present rain patterns. While there would be no de crease in total rainfall, he said, indications arc that increasing air pollution will result in fewer and heavier rains. Gunn cited experiments with syn thetic clouds in a special m-foot sphere at Hitchcock, Tex. He said the experiments backed up Ihe (henry that foreign particles in polluted air result in sky moisture forming inlo minute droplets too small to (all. "If you dump enough junk into the air. you are going to decrease the initiation of rain, he said. Gunn also said that, although "there are a thousand variables." atomic contamination of the air dud Oregon .on 95 - JO euoang "-" J0 JO A" J6J94J.UQ V t - '-If. tflj.. - 'foil g'-1 -j j signed a "false" affidavit reflecting on a key Senate rackets investigation witness under threats from Minielly. He followed them on the stand at a public hearing of the special senate committee investigating racketeering in labor unions and industry. (AP Wlrcphoto) would have the same effect. He called for a worldwide ef fort "lo clean up the atmosphere as a whole" to prevent changes in weather patterns. GEN. OLD FORECASTS 35-HOUR GLOBAL HOP DAYTON, Ohio ( The gen eral who led the January flight of B52s around the world in 45 hours said here Tuesday nighl he sees no bar to a 35-hour globe circling flight. Ma. 'Gen. Archie J. Old Jr., the flight leader, was a speaker at a special Air Force program. Tho program marked the public unveiling of the '"New Orleans.'" a Douglas air cruiser that made history 33 years ago in an around-Ihc-world flight. The plane was presented lo Ihe Wrighl-Pattersnn Air Force Rase Museum by the Douglas Alrcnfl Co. Of the January flight, Gen. Old said Ihe Strategic Air Command i'SACi "could do it again tomor row, and in seven or eight hours 3 SECTIONS 36 Pages 656Z Hoax Affidavit Repudiated in Senate Probe as Having Been Wrung By MinieUy's Threats WASHINGTON (AP) - Two women testified .Wednesday' they signed a on a Key Senate rackets investigation witness under threats from a Portland, Ore., deputy sheriff. The deputy denounced the women's story as a "hoax." Deputy George Minielly took the witness chair af ter nenring the testimony ot tne- two womon and shouted: "This is the greatest hoax ever pushed on tne American public. Heard of Kaplan Threat Minielly swore too that "I never threatened anyone in my life." Ho said ne had been told Arthur Kaplan, deputy attorney gen eral of Oregon, had threatened both women with perjury charges if they didn't reverse the story given in the affidavit. The women repudiating the af fidavit in testimony to the Senate rackets Investigating committee were Mrs. Kathleen Uicillo coop er Weeks, an admitted prostitute and Mrs. Mary Childress, who identified herself as a housewife. The affidavits, made by Mrs. Weeks, a young blonde, and signed by Mrs. Childress as a wit' ncss wns offered to tho senators some week ago by Mnyor Terry D, Schrunk of Portland and Oro gon Teamtcrs boss Clyde Crosby, The Intention was to impeach the credibility ot James B. (Big Jim) Klkins, Portland - racketeer who had testified that some Teamsters officials ; had formed an alliance with some political figures to "muscle in" on rackot proius in roruana. ' - Narcotics Are Charged Tho affidavit accused Klkins of gelling money from organized prosiuuuon and of using narcot ics. He had denied that under oath before tho committee. Both Mrs. Weeks and Mrs. Chil dress denied in testimony Wednes day tho truth of the affidavit. Mrs. Weeks said sho had met Elkins only once and had no knowledge that he had accepted tho profits of proslitutcs or taken narcotics. In the sequence of Wednesday's hcuring, Minielly swore as the first witness that the affidavit was given him voluntarily by the women. They then testified that what they had said In the affidavit against Klkins was untrue and only given under threats of being jailed. Minielly, brought back to the stand, was asked by Chairman McClcllan (D-Arkl If he had any comment on the women's sworn testimony. Afler denouncing their tcslimony as a "hoax Minielly said, I stand on my record and my testi mony." . Signed m Witness Mrs. Childress told Ihe commit tee she merely had signed Mrs. Weeks' affidavit as a witness. She said she did not know wheth- thc stalcmcnls made were true. She also said sho didn't know Klkins and had no knowl edge of any of his activities. Mrs. Childress described herself as "unemployed and a housewife," f am married." she said. I am not a prostitute. Under questioning by commit tee counsel Robert Kennedy, however, she said she had been arrested for prostitution in 1M. It was just once," she said. She supported Mrs. W c e k s' story of threats by Minielly prior to the signing of the affidavit. Mrs. Weeks said she feared that she and Mrs. Childress were extradited from Mexico City to Portland In connection with a burglary at Ihe residence of May Clark, an aide to Klkins, which (Continued on P-ige 5, Column 3 less with jet tankers doing the refueling." And he added: "As a matter of fact, when they get the new KCI35 jet tankers. I can see no bar to going around the world in 35 hours." The New Orleans madf the 11124 trip which started from Seattle in 173 hours of rough flying through snow, sleet, rain, thunder storms and fog. Before it was over, the plane required eight en gine changes. Three other planes the "Seat tle." tho "Boston," and the "Chi cago" started out on the trip, but only Ihe New Orleans and tho Chicago made It. When first the New Orleans, and later the Chicago, returned the United Stales was the first nation to circumnavigate the earth by air. as "false" affidavit reflecting 2 Dead, 7 111 From Mystery Poison in Gary ' GARY. Ind. (UP)-A medical official said today "some sort of acute poisoning" apparently is re sponsible for an outbreak of mys terious stomach cramps .whlcu have killed two children and hos pitalized seven others. Dr. Samuel J. Bra dy, Gary Health Board secretary, said steel city residents nave become jittery as a result of the outbreak, and "I suppose everybody in Gary has cramps." Tho stomach attacks began dur ing the weekend when Joan Smith, 3, and her brother, Dwight, if montns, aiea ot tne ailment at Gary Methodist Hospital. Tho cause of .their deaths has not yel been- determined. ... The victims' four brothers and sisters, who also were stricken, am in' JT ChlrnOA fonenltnl .whArat nffinlfllK snv thev nra rcwvurArinff Avtv j,v,iiuuia ui uiu ennuis, Gregory McLoud. 7, and his broth er, Arthur, 14, were hospitalized with cramps Monday, and Alonzo Jacob, 9, who lives about a mil from tho Smith home, was taken to a hosptal Tuesday. Brady said it appeared the chil dren were suffering front poison ing. "It's possible it all stems from i single cause," he said, "but so far we don t know what it is." First Concrete To Be Poured At Priest Dam BPHHATA. Wash. HI The first concrete for the Priest Rapids Dam across the Columbia River will be poured in an official ceremony Thursday. Gov. Roscllini will handle the switch for the . first pouring for tho massive slructuro which, eventually will stretch more than a mile across the river. Sen. Jack son 'D-Wash also will participate . in tne oiuciai ceremony. The dam will he the first to he buill on the Columbia by a county public utility district. It is a proj ect of the Grant County PUD, wilh other agencies lined up In the power-sharing agreement. It is estimated as a lM-million-dollar project. The concrete will he poured he hind a cofferdam built to hold the river out of the initial construc tion area. More than two years will be required to complete the . project. , i Ihe pouring ceremony is set for 1:30 p.m. INewB in Brief For Wednesday. April !4, 1957 NATIONAL 2 Women Dope Addicts Accuse Schrunk Aide Sec. 1, P. 1 AEC Opens Hanford To Newsmen's Tour Sec. 1, P, 1 LOCAL Subdivision Regulation Hearing Planned Sec. 1, P. 5 Contract Let lor Slate Farm Regional Office . Sec. 2, P.' 1 STATE Strawberry Growers Plan Research Project . Sec. 2, P. 1 FOREIGN British Cool to Peace Notes From Bulganin Sec. 1, p. 2 SPORTS Senators Slate Final Workout Tonight Sec. 2. P. 2 North Salem Tics for District Lead . . Sec. 2. P. 3 REGULAR FEATURES Amusements . Sec. 1, P. 2 Editorials Sec. 1, P. 4 Locals Sec. 1, P. S Sec. 2, P. 1 Society Sec. 1, P. 6-7 Comics Sec. 2, P. a Television Sec. 2, P. 9 Want Ads Sec. 2, P. 910 Markets Sec. 2. P. 7 j Dorothy Dix Sec. 2. P. 12 l Crossword Puzzle ... Sec. 2, P. 0 Home and Garden ...Sec. 1, P. I