Journal THE WEATHER, MOSTLY CLOUDY -with few showers tonight. Tuesday. Little change In temperature. Low t Bight, 4t; high Tuesday, 72. 4 SECTIONS 24 Paget 69th Year, No. 112 Salem, Oregon, Monday, May 13, 1957 . entered aa second elaia . matter at Salem. Oregon Price Sc Caoital m Fruehauf Loan to Beck Told $175,000 Assist 'Wasn't Pistol At Head Deal' WASHINGTON (AP) R o y Fruehauf testified Monday his firm "indirect ly" loaned $175,000 to Dave Beck, Teamsters Union president, in 1954. But he denied it was a "pistol at your head" deal. Fruehauf, president of the Frue hauf Trailer Co., of Detroit, told Senate rackets investigators this was a year after Beck had come to his rescue with a loan of 1V4 million dollars of Teamsters Un ion funds during a proxy fight for control of the Fruehauf firm. He said his firm loaned $175, 000 to Brown Equipment Co., which, in turn, loaned the money and $25,000 more to Beck. 'HIGHLY RESPECTED' Fruehauf under questioning by the committee counsel, Robert F. Kennedy, said he regarded Beck at the time as "a highly respected gentleman" and had no informa tion that Beck was seeking the loan because income tax agents were investigating him. Sen. Goldwater (R-Ariz) a com mittee member, asked Fruehauf whether the loan to Beck was a "pistol at your head" deal, in which he perhaps feared that Beck "would cause you economic difficulties if you didn't" make the loan. "No, sir," Fruehauf replied. In advance of the session, the committee said it intended to question Fruehauf and A. M. Burke, head of the mortgage loan department of the Occidental Life Insurance Co., of Los Angeles, about what the committee termed "demands' by Beck for favors. LOAN SINCE REPAID The story of Beck's 14 million dollar loan to Fruehauf was brought out earlier in the com mittee's digging into Beck's finan cial affairs. The loan has been re paid with interest. Chairman McClellan (D-A r k) has said the committee's evidence Indicates Beck turned some $320, 000 of union funds to his own use, and began repaying the union when income tax investigators got on his trail. Kennedy asked Fruehauf why his company's loan was not made di rectly to Beck instead of indirect ly. That, Fruehauf said, would not have been "good business" prac tice. He said his company never had direct business dealings with Beck. He denied he had any idea of trying to prevent other members of his company's Board of Di; rectors from learning the money was to go to Beck, as Kennedy suggested in one question. (Continued on Page S Column 6) U.S. Protests To Russia on Travel Curbs WASHINGTON Ml The Uniled States Monday protested to Rus sia that "road blocks and other forms of police action" arc re stricting the travel of Americans inside Russia. A formal note of protest was handed the Soviet Foreign Min istry by the American embassy in Moscow. It was made public in Washington. The note complained that, in practice, the Soviet government restricts American travel beyond the rules Moscow has proclaimed publicly. This contrasts, the note said, with a situation in the United States where the American gov ernment "has never interposed obstacles to the free use of travel facilities by Soviet personnel in the United States." The note inquired what steps the Russians would take to make practice confirm with the rules laid down in June and Novem ber. 19S3. The American note complained: "When members of this U.S.) embassy have visited open Soviet cities in open areas, they have frequently been prevented by road blocks and other forms of police action from moving freely about the city or to its environs when these environs are in open areas beyond the city limits." Gloomy, Cool 5-Day Outlook Gloomy cloudiness, cooler tem peratures and some showers made up the weather order, for Salem and the valley Monday. And from the looks of things, such conditions will go right on for a few days. The five-day forecast calls for showery and cool conditions through Saturday. The rain held off through Sun day, but showers came in the evening. Up to 10:30 a.m. Mon day, .13 of an inch was measured In Salem. Maximum tempera ture for both Sunday and Sauir day was in the 603. BODY GOUGES ROOF Plane Splits Apart; Salem Youth Killed Investieation is under way Monday to determine the cause of a plane's break a Salem pilot plummeting to his death Sunday tnrougn the roof of a Portland home. (See picture on Page ft Sec. 1) WILLIS A. WOOD Court Upsets Conviction for Harboring Red WASHINGTON Ifl -On grounds of illegal search and seizure, the Supreme Court Monday set aside the prison sentences given two men and a woman for sheltering a fugitive Communist Party lead er in a California mountain hide away. The vote ordering a new trial was 6-J. The three were convicted in federal court in San Francisco of harboring Robert Thompson, who disappeared after his conviction in New York for plotting to advocate violent overthrow ot tne govern ment. The court's decision was an nounced in an unsigned opinion which noted that Justices Burton and Clark dissented. Justice Whit- taker took no part. FBI agents captured Thompson and the others on Aug. 27, 1953 at a cabin in the Sierra Nevadas near Twain Harte, Calif. Thomp son later got four years sentence for criminal contempt, added to the- original three-year . sentence given to him on his Smith Act con viction. The others were given these sentences: Sidney Steinberg, New York Communist Party leader, three years; Samuel I. Coleman, New York party functionary, three years; Mrs. Shirley Kre- men, left wing student leader from Los Angeles, one year. Weather Details Milmiim yrstrrilay. 6"; minimum today, 4i. Total 24-hour precipitation: .13; for month: 1.49; normal, .81. Srason precipitation, 30.51: normal, 36.K0. River helKht, .2 or a foot. (Re port by U.S. Weather Bureau.) County Schedules 20 Miles of Road Oiling By FRED ZIMMERMAN Capital Journal Writer Hard surfacing of approximately 20 miles of road will be under taken this summer, according to announcement Monday by the Marion County Court. Actual work will begin early in July or as early as weather conditions permit. In an effort to determine wheth er road construction can be done at less expense by private con-' tractors rather than by county crews, the court opened bids Mon day for approximately 2Vi miles of road. This road extends between the Fairfield road and the St. Paul highway, a short distance south of St. Paul. PROJECT LOW BIDDER Low bidder on the project was Stevenson Construction Co., Sa lem, which offered to grade, grav el and place a priming oil coat for $25,541. Other bidders were Miller Construction, Inc., Roseburg, $26, 016.80 and A. L. Harding, Inc., Stayton, $27,833.70. The bids were referred to the engineering depart ment for consideration. It is pre sumed the road will be hard sur faced in 1958 or 1959. The county commissioners and Engineer John A. Anderson have agreed on 14 road surfacing proj ects for this year, including the one that will be contracted. The longest single project is the one that extends between the Par- kersville area to the highway, a distance of three miles. Another is improvement of Mon roe Avenue for a mile east from - up in midair which sent Impact of the fall of Willis Allen Wood, 21, an Oregon State College senior, tore a hole in the roof of the home and smashed a chair only a few feet from where a man and his 9-year-old daughter were work ing a crossword puzzle. THOUGHT HOUSE BOMBED The first thought that struck me was that we had been bombed and I thought maybe more were coming. I jumped up . . . and then I saw this body lying right beside me," Fred Thompson, 35, owner of the home, said. My wife came in from the kitch en and looked at the television set. She thought the picture tube had blown up although the set wasn't on. Then she saw this boy's body. We were all so shocked we'couldn t say a word," he said. Just what caused the Mooney Mite, a plywood and fabric plane, to come apart and scatter debris throughout the area has not been determined. The .weather was re ported calm and clear. Earl Snyder, director of the state board of aeronautics here, said the investigation is being conducted by the civil aeronautics administra tion. He explained that while the state group would make no formal investigation, he would also make an inspection of the wreckage as an interested spectator. EITHER THROWN OR JUMPED Wood, the son of Dr. and Mrs. John R. Wood, 1515 N. Fifth St., either was thrown from the plane when it began coming apart or jumped. He was not wearing parachute. Persons who witnessed the trag edy agreed that the plane did not explode in tne air. Several said they heard the en gine sputter and then saw the wings begin coming off. Some said the engine was still operating when the fuselage crashed. . .; . The fuselage landed about two blocks away from the Thomson home in a yard between two houses The plane in which Wood was flying had been rented from the Kreitzberg Aviation service at Mc- Nary Field here Sunday afternoon. Wood was reported to have flown to Vancouver, Wash., to get plane parts. - SECOND CRASH The crash Sunday was the second in six weeks for Wood. He bad been slightly injured March 28 in Cor- vallis while landing a Cessna 120 belonging to the Salem Pilots Assn. in a heavy ground fog. Wood had lived in Salem since 1946 when his parents came here from Yankton. S. D He was a Salem High School graduate. While at Salem High he was on the golf team. He had also been on the Oregon State golf team but the injury from the early crash had prevented him from playing in recent matches. Surviving in addition to his par ents arc a sister, Mary Wood, 18; a brother, Robert Wood. 14, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Allen. Yankton, S. D. Funeral services are pending from Clough - JJarrick Mortuary here. Lancaster Drive. Also included in the program is the oiling of Kap phan Road, west off Pacific High way for two-tenths of a mile. ROAD JOBS LISTED Other roads included for oiling are: County road No. 401, two miles leading to the Newberg bridge; No. 505, north of Woodburn. 0.9 mile: No. 552. extending north to the Clackamas county line. 06; No. 628, closes gap between Brooks and Hazel Green, 0.7; No. 646 be tween Market Road 18 and County Road 644, 1.5 miles; No. 809, up the hill from Roberts, 0.5; No. 924. Parish Gap. 1.6; No. 933, Greens Bridge district, 1.2; No. 938, between Market Roads 87 and 67, 1.05; Market Road No. 80, near Victor Point, 0.4. Canada Plane Wreckage Found VANCOUVER, B.C. m Wreck age of a Trans-Canada Air Lines plane which crashed with 62 per sons aboard last Dec. 9 was re ported Monday to have been found on a peak 70 miles east of here. A TCA official confirmed that a piece of wreckage bearing a serial number had been found during the weekend near the top of 8.200-foot Mt. Slecse, 20 miles southeast of Chllliwack. The TCA official said the piece of wreckage "had been checked Flood . Waters Sweep House DALLAS, Tex. Remains of a house lie in Cedar Creek at the Moore Street bridge here last night after it was swept off its foundations by flood waters. Rainfall, up to 5 inches, caused raging waters to carry $300,000 STATION KSLM-TV to Go on ' Air If FCC Agrees By DOUGLAS SEYMOUR Capital Journal City Editor . v ; " Salem' radio station 'KSLM owner-Glenn McCormicir an nounced Monday that he will tion in Salem which will use channel 3, "at an early date." ' The "early, date" is premised, McCormick said, on Federal Communication Commission approval of his application to establish the transmitter on a site on Bald Mountain, south- ! ivest of Salem. Newsmen Get Guarded Look At Atom Plant RICHLAND. Wash, tfl The government lifted the lid of the highly-secret Hanford Atomic Works Monday to give newsmen a guarded look at some of the sec rets of America's atomic bomb and allied weapons. For the first time since the multi-billion dollar plant was built here in 1942, newsmen represent ing wire services, newspapers and radio stations were taken on a guided tour of laboratories that manufacture Plutonium, main in gredient of atomic weapons. But the 40 newsmen making the tour were given only quick glimpses behind the security cur tain erected by the Atomic Ener gy Commission to hide its sec rets. The tour took them through cer tain laboratories where atomic products generally already de scribed to the public by the AKC and General Kiectric Co., the prime contractor, were turned out. But the newsmen were not per mitted to see the reactors that produce plutonium and similar closely guarded AEC secrets. 4 Girls Enter Queen Contest Four South Salem High School girls are the first entries in the Willamette River Days queen con test. The four are Sherry Steens. De- anna Lee, Sandra Shorly and Car olynn Alsman. The contest is open to junior and senior class members in all valley area high schools. Application blanks arc available at the schools The girl chosen as queen wil rule over the second River Days fete here July 4-7. out" and confirmed as part of the m-tatcd airliner. The Vancouver Province said members ol a climbing party found the crash scene and recov ered a piece of twisted metal with the identifying serial numbers. Mounted Police said "that area is still heavy with snow. Sleese can be climbed only by exper ienced alpinists. It's a huge moun tain." The Province account said the piece of metal "was found by a l man and woman climber who i build a $300,000 television sta Under Hie proposed plan, the station would be designed to pro vide service to Salem and the Willamette Valley with additional coverage projected to the coastal areas, McCormick said. LATE' THIS YEAR "Providing we can get commis sion approval for our plans in the near future, we have every reason to believe we can place the sta tion in operation late this year," he promised. Studios and offices will be built adjacent to the pres ent KSLM radio facilities atop Kingwood Heights. Initial opera tion would employ 20 persons. M c C o r m i c k's announcement somewhat clears the muddied tele vision picture that has been swirl ing around the Salem area tne past two years. Last year, the FCC turned down an application by Storer Broad casting Co., which was owner of KPTV in Portland, to purchase the construction permit held by McCormick.' KPTV had planned to move the channel 3 station to Portland, then announced it would leave the station in Salem, but the FCC still turned thumbs down. NEGOTIATIONS TERMINATED Then C. H. Fisher of Eugene, who recently opened Salem radio station KBZY, applied to the FCC for a permit to channel under the name of Salem Televi sion Company. Fisher charged that McCormick was stillnegotiat ing with Storer even though the KSLM construction permit ran out March 27. KSLM applied for renewal of its construction permit and is awaiting decision on that now. McCormick said today in his announcement that all negotiations with Storer were terminated sev eral months ago. Last week, the FCC said that legal claim to Salem TV channel 3 still rests with the owners of KSLM radio until the commission takes further actitfh to determine who may use this important Wil lamette Valley outlet. (Continued on Page 5 Column ) were 'not quite sure where they were' because they were climbing the precipitous mountain in thick cloud. "The peak is a series of soar ing spires exceedingly difficult to climb, which has been scaled only about four times. The TCA North Star disappeared on a tourist flight from Vancou ver to Calgary and points east it carried 59 passengers and crew of three. The loss of the four-cngined plane and the 62 aboard was Can ada s worst aviation disaster, Into Brij the building from Moore Street into the nearby creek. The house floated against the bridge and disintegrated, carrying part of the bridge with it. No one was injured ill the incident. AP Wircphoto) Elkins, Clark Guilty; Face 7-Year Terms PORTLAND. (UP) . James B Elkins and his employe. Ravmond F. Clark, . today faced possible seven year prison sentences after their conviction on federal charges oi wiretapping. A jury of seven men and five women deliberated 3 hours and 25 minutes Saturday afternoon and found the pair guilty on all seven counts. Each count carried a nos- siDie one - year sentence and i $10,000 fine, REMAIN AT LIBERTY Federal Judge William East or dered a pre-sentence investigation after both defendants agreed to waive immediate sentencing. They remained at uoerty on ban. Elkins, who was a star witness before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee earlier this soring, did not take the stand in his own de fense. Neither did Clark. Elkins 1s expected to be a state witness in upcoming Circuit Court trials against several persons indicted by the Multnomah county grand jury. NEITHER COMMENTS Neither Elkins nor Clark had any comment after the verdict was returned. Waller H. Evans Jr., Elkins' attorney, said he wouldn't be able to say . until later whether an ap peal was planned. Inside: Sees The Cougar Isn't really alive, he's a stuffed member of the museum family at Oregon School for the Blind. Students like the one above learn lo know animals ? feel. For more about the Blind school turn to page 2, section X. (Capital Journal I'hoto) Enough GOP Heln . - a u jl aoo iii kJiiiaxc; 45 STORES WIPED 4 Die, 5 Missing As Flash Flood Rips Texas Town LAMPASAS, Tex. (AT A flash flood swept through this central Texas town Sunday least four persons and leaving day bv Red Cross fieures. The flood virtually wiped out the business section of 45 stores and damaged 150 homes. At one time, the Red Cross listed 25 persons as missing, but most of these were found. A search was on for possibly more bodies. Homeless totaled 750 at one time. The dead were G. K. Gunder- land, a merchant, and Warren Doolittle, a scmi-1 n v a 1 1 d, who drowned, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Crawford, killed or drowned when their home collapsed on them. DROWNS IN BED Stanley Walker, former city edi tor of The New York Herald Tribune, said Doolittle, a Negro, drowned in his bed when relatives were unable to remove him from the flush flood. Walker now lives at Lampasas. County Red Cross Chairman Joe H. Bozarth said the flood didbe tween three and five million "dol lars damage to homes and busi nesses ifl this town of 5,000. New downpours struck Lam pasas and nearby areas Monday morning but eased up later. Most of the flash flood had receded but the new rains still were a threat. Tornadoes, tornado-like winds and heavy rains lashed parts of north Texas around daylight, but damage was minor, LEVEE BREAKS The flood hit when a levee broke undor an estimated . seven inches of rain. Water from Sul phur Creek poured six-feet high into the business section. Burle son Creek water Joined the flood Texas' first flood producing rains of the spring occurred April 1, and there has been- little re lief since. About 30 persons have drowned in floods, 9,000 or more have evacuated their homes at one time or another, and federal agencies estimated that at least 85 million dollars in damage was caused and this figure is expect ed to go much higher. Britain Okays Suez Transit LONDON Iffl Britain gave her merchant ships permission Mon day to use the Suez Canal again. Only two or three ships flying British colors have gone through the 103-mile waterway since the British-French invasion last fall. They did so against the govern ment s advice. Fourteen of the 15 members of the Suez Canal User's Assn. agreed last week that a govern ment ban on use of the canal would be virtually impossible to enforce. Only France held out. by Feeling Bill Promised ...... JL - Jr.v- OUT night, drowning or killing at five still unaccounted for Mon Hatfield Asks Parking Lots Development Secretary of State Mark Hatfield, whose office is responsible for parking regulations in the vicin ity of state buildings, said Mon day that he is asking Salem citi zens who have vacant properties in the area to consider develop ment of parking lots. Hatfield is taking this action following defeat in the Legislature of his proposal that the state ac quire property on the east side of the Capitol Mall and near the state buildings and make it a pay-as-you-go parking lot. MEASURE BEATEN It was beaten in the House Fri day night after passing the Senate and earlier receiving the endorse ment of the Capitol Planning Com mission, the Board of Control and the Joint Ways and Means Com mittee. , - ".. "The public wishing to do busi ness with the state," said Hatfield, "should not be deprived of easily accessible parking accommoda tions, and at the same time state employes should be able to park within commuting distance of their work." More restricted parking .enforce ment in the Capitol area has re sulted in a thousand overparklng citations in the past 40-day period in what amounts to four square blocks, Hatfield said. PLAN OPPOSED One opponent of his plan, Hat field said, suggested future build ing sites northward along the Mall be used for parking lots. Most of the future sites are now occupied by residences, he replied, which are rented at a better investment return thai could be had from a pay parking lot. IF IT TAKES 10 DAYS Holmes Bids Solons Reach Orderly End By JAMES D. OLSON Capital Journal Writer Gov. Robert D. Holmes said Mon day at a press conference that he favors an orderly end to the pres ent legislative session even if that requires 10 days longer. Both President of the Senate Boyd Overhulse and Speaker of the House Pat Dooley feel that the session can come to 'an orderly end if they go into a couple of days next week," the Governor stated. TWO WRONG GUESSES Gov. Holmes said he had prev iously made two guesses on the date of the end of the session and was wrong both times. He first selected May 4 as the date tor sine die adjournment and later picked May 15. 'The date of the end of the ses sion depends a great deal on what the Senate does to the House tax program, he said. But person ally, I would not like to seo the session end in confusion with the danger of 'sleepers' going through." The Governor said his mam con cern was to make sure that the legislators don't go home without completing their job on the im portant bills before them. And he expressed hope that they would do this as quickly as possible. ANNUAL SESSION NEEDED The Governor said that the pres ent situation points up to the need for an annual session. "I have thought for several ses sions that we should use an annual session," Gov. Holmes said. "With the growth of Oregon and the num ber of bills that are introduced we cannot expect a session to end within 10 days. He said that wee tt ttng for business mo aad fafmws In w- main la Setea, aWlWfsQi ti 5M Republicans 'Agree to Act Each on OwnJ y PAUL W. HARVEY Jr. A Associated Press Writer Passage of the House bill to revise personal income taxes seemed certain Mon day in the Senate. Senate Republicans. meeting in a caucus, agreed that every Republican senator could voto for himself. Reliable sources said that enough Republican sen ators agreed to vote lor the bill to assure its passage when the Senate considers it at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. I he Senate contains IS Repub licans and 15 Democrats. Most of the Republicans bitterly oppose uie Din. SMALL INCREASES The bill incorporates the 45 ner cent surtax within the regular rata structure, makes small increases, and changes the 2 per cent with holding tax so that it would col-, lect the actual tax from salaries. Two Republican senators, who are bitterly opposed to the bill, said there is no doubt it will pass. Sen, Ben Musa (D), The Dalles, Is the only Democrat who has said he will oppose the bill. Thus, the votes of only two Republicans would seem to be enough to guar antee its passage. The other major bill in the, Democratic tax program in creasing corporation excise taxes was scheduled for Senate consideration late Monday. This bill, which has been passed by the -House, also appears certain to be passed. MAJOR ACTIONS BY TONIGHT ,' The Legislature began its new week Monday with action on the major legislative Issues . sched uled by Tuesday night. ' The Senate was to vote, lata Monday on the bill to Increase the maximum $35 weekly unem ployment compensation benefits from $35 to $40 a week. Employers have withdrawn their opposition. despllo the fact it would Increase their 17 million dollar annual pay roll tax to 24 millions. The Joint Ways and Means Committee plans to decide Tues- i dav- morning on the bill to in crease the basic school fund from (80 to $120, but $90 to $100 seems likely. The committee had planned to ' act Monday, but held up action until a Senate-House conference committee decides the faletof the "key district" bill to redistribute basic school funds to the local districts. REORGANIZATION UP Another Important school meas urethe House-passed bill to com pel re-orgamzatlon ot scnooi ois- (Continued on Page 5, Column 1) they could afford to spend two months each year in session. A House-passed constitutional amendment is now before the Sen ate providing for an annual ses sion of not more than 65 days. If passed, the measure would be sub mitted to a vote of the people in November, 1958. News in Brief For Monday, May 13, 1957 Texas Flash Flood Kills 4; 1 5 Missing Sec. 1. P. 1 Ike and Montgomery 'Refighf Gettysburg Sec. 1, r. 1 LOCAL Armed Forces Week Planned Sec. 1, F; 9 Soap Box Entries Incrcnso sec. I, r. 1 KSLM to Build TV Station Sec. 1, P. I STATE Holmes Lashes GOP Solons Sec. 1, P. 3 Republicans Hit Back At Governor bee. 2, P, 1 FOREIGN Rep. Cole Advocates A-arms For Neutralists sec. l, r . 2 SPORTS " Torrid Cincy Wins Two More ...Sec. 4, P. 1 State' next for 13 Local Trackmen ....Sec. 4, P. 3 REGULAR FEATURES - Amusements Sec. 1, P. J Editorials Sec, 1, P. 4 Locals .... Sec. 1, P. 5 . Sec. 3, p. l Society ......-. .Sec. 3, P. 3 Comics Sec. is, P, 2 Television .Sec. S, p. 3 Want Ads . See. 3( P. 8-7 Mankcte . ...Sec. Z, P, 3 ISojidthy UiS'u w.-Scc. J, R 1 - 5",'- f. W' ET-' 4 m I