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s:x MraroxD (okzook) mail tribune Wednesday, JlT 1955 Builds Oun Pouer f laHt Dke TJould Drop Oixon-Yates Project if Memphis Involvements of Plan Under Study; FBI Use Revealed Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower said today he would be willing to cancel the controversial Dixon-Yates proj ect if the city of Memphis, Tenn. can go ahead with con struction of its own power plant. Mr. Eisenhower told a news conference that Atty. Gen. Her bert Brownell Jr., and Budget Director Rowland Hughes are studying the feasibility and pos sible legal involvements of the Memphis plan before the ad ministration makes a final de cision. Um of FBI Meanwhile, it was disclosed that Brownell had sent FBI ocrontc to MemDhis to check on the city's power intentions. This prompted Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), a leading Dixon- Yates foe, to accuse tne aanun istration of "shocking misuse" M . I- C-DT At today's news conference Mr. Eisenhower was questioned ...osliullv nhnilt thp role Of Ul- vestment banker Adolph Wen- zell of tne rim iioswra vorp. who was a consultant to the Budget Bureau prior to final j.inn tVio nixon-Yates con- UlCUMM VM. tract. Wenzell's corporation sub- J V.ln. sequenuy arranged uuu-ires financing. Mr. F.isenhower has consistent ly taken the stand that Wenzell had nothing to do with actual planning of the Dixon Yates project. Shruos Off Politics He asserted again today that he thinks Wenzell's role was srooer. He shrugged off a capi- tol hill suggestion that this de cision to re-study the Dixon Yates contract was a political victory for the Democrats and that he was backing down. Senate Dixon-Yates opponents Tuesday abandoned one line of attack against the project. They dropped a fight to eliminate from a pending public works money bill a $6,500,000 fund to finance a transmlsion line link ing Dixon-Yates with the govern ment's Tennessee Valley Author ity. They contented themselves in stead with a committee-approved proviso that the money would be eliminated if Memphis does carry out its announced plans to uild its own municipal plant Not Investigation A Justice Department spokes man revealed, meanwhile, that the FBI in Memphis has con ducted a "fact-finding mission" to determine whether Memphis really intends to build the plant. He said the information was sought by Brownell and the FBI mission was in no sense "an in vestigation. In Memphis, utility chief Tom Allen said he and his assistants gave the FBI all available infor mation on the city's plans and assured them the city is "sin cere" in its determination to build its own plant. Sen. Lister Hill (D-Ala.), one of the contract's outspoken op ponents, said that action by Memphis will kill the Dixon Yates contract. Kefauver, In a Senate speech, said the admin istration is likely to drop the Dixon-Yates "hot potato. Poultry Workers Reach Two-Year Agreement Portland (U.R) Agreement on a new two-year contract was reached last' night by the Egg Candlers and Poultry Workers Union AFL and the Oregon Egg and Poultry Dealers Association, ending a strike which started June 23. The walkout had closed five poultry processing plants and af fected about 15 others in the state. Federal Mediator Bob McClel land announced that the agree ment had been reached after union members voted on a new offer. TO STOP CURFEW SIREN Vancouver, Wash. U.R) The curfew siren which has rung out at 10 p.m. nightly for years will be silenced. The city council decided last night to stop the siren but members said the ordinance which requires juve niles to be off the streets by 10 p.m. is not changed. Idaho Highway May Be Evacuation Route Lewiston, Ida. U.R) The possibility . of declaring the Lewis-Clark highway an evacua tion outlet for the Pacific Coast is under consideration, Sen. Henry Dworshak (R-Ida.), said today. Dworshak, in a letter to the Lewiston .Chamber of Com merce, said he and Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) are sounding out possibilities of the proposal. The Greater Clarkston Asso ciation broached the subject during the congressional hear ing here on Hells Canyon dam. It was suggested the unfinished portion of the road between here and western Montana could be declared necessary for evacua tion of civilians from coastal points in event of an emergency. Woman Testifies To Selling Ri To Casper Oveross Salem U.R) Mrs. Marion Zahler, now of Eugene but for merly of Silverton, testified in Marion County Circuit Court yesterday that she sold a 30-30 rifle to Casper A. Oveross on March 5, 1949, of the same type as the one which killed Ervin Kaser Feb. 17. The state has introduced in evidence a rifle taken from Pud ding creek near Pratum which it says is the gun from which shots were fired into Kaser as he sat in his car in the driveway at his home near Silverton.' Mrs. Zahler was a bookkeeper and clerk at the Ames hard ware store in Silverton at the time she said she sold a rifle tn Oveross. Witnesses have testified that Oveross blamed Kaser for break ing up his home. Mrs. Edith Kaser, sister-in-law of Ervin Ka ser and twin sister of Ethel Oveross admitted to her she had pnrf nut with Kaser. Testifying also in connection with the reported sale of the rifle were Deputy Sheriff Amos Shaw, State Policeman Lloyd T Riegel and Norris Ames, owner of the store. Shaw and Riegel told of find ing the sales slips, invoice, letter and account sheets in the records of Carl Handy hardware store, the one owned in 1949 by Ames. Reward Offered for Atomic Bomb Smugglers Washington U.R The House voted unanimously yes terday to pay a reward of up to $500,000 to anyone who . un covers an effort to smuggle atomic bombs or nuclear ma terial into the United States. The measure, which now goes to the Senate for action, is aimed at protecting the nation against sneak atomic attack. Officials have warned that a single sabo tuer armed with a "suitcase" A bomb could cause untold damage. Detroit Salesman Held as Suspect in Slaying of Tvo Girls Reporter Gets Guided Tour Of Isolation Cells During Washington Prison Riot By FRED ZAVATERO Walla Walla (U.R) Now I know the difference between "the hole" and "the hole with bedsheets. California Woman Dies in Coast Crash Gold Beach, Ore. s (U.R) Berthe Perigot, 65-year-old Blue Lake, Calif., woman was injur ed fatally last night when tne car in which she was riding plunged off Highway 101 about two miles north of Pistol river, state police reported. The woman died in a local hospital about 3:30 a.m. Pasquale Cicchetti, who was driving in the other direction, said he saw the headlights of a car approaching and then dis appear around a curve last night. When he failed to meet the car he investigated and found it had left the highway. State police said the. dead wo man was riding in a car driven by Emile Gibouret, 71, Los An geles. Two other passengers were in the car, Pierre Perigot, a cousin of the dead woman, and Ferande Anne Gibouret. There was no report of injuries to other occupants of the car. Patterson Reappoints Engineering Examiners Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson has reappointed Ber tram G. Dick and S. C. Schwartz of Portland as members of the State Board of Engineering Ex aminers. Ralph G. Demoisy of Mapleton was appointed to the State Board of Engineering Examiners to succeed Charles B. Carpenter of Portland, whose term expired July 1. Gov. Patterson appointed Ken neth Davis of Portland to the Oregon Development Commission. ARAMUI JBLL-WBLI. OA: V Introducing my NEW : ft EufiCK CHEERS" i i m MSSfl -WKLI. OteLATIN j 1 QV Enjoy this a w luscious SAFEWAY I was one of three reporters who met on the second floor of wing 1 last night with about a dozen spokesmen for the 800 con victs now controlling half the Washington State Prison and the fate of seven hostages. One of the convicts took me on a guided tour past cells used for isolation purposes. Convicts call it "the hole" as compared with segregation which is termed "the hole with bedsheets." The question of isolation pun ishment was one of the major points in a two-page statement issued by the spokesmen last night. The men said then they ieu every man snouia nave a trial or hearing prior to being placed in isolation and . while waiting for trial, should be re stricted to his cell. J. saw little signs of damage. The convicts call this a "collec tive rebellion," not a riot. One convict claimed he had not had a shower for the past two or three weeks. "There's nothing but men with no hope here," said one of the spokesmen. "We listened to the officials last year when the convicts went on a four-day hunger strike and tried everything out and we were let down," one of the men told me. The men were very orderly and very tense. They unfolded their grievances and told us to come back tomorrow at three with an offer from the adminis tration. If that satisfies them, they said, the hostages will be released. Chessman Given Another Stay Washington (U.R) Su preme Court Justice Tom C. Clark today granted a stay of execution to convict - author Caryl Chessman, who was sched uled to die in SanQuentin pris on's gas chamber on July 15. Clark granted the stay to per mit the Supreme Court to review Chessman's trial. Chessman wrote the best-seller "Cell 2455, Death Row," in a cell at San Quentin. His case gained nation al prominence after publication of the book in May, 1953. Known as the "lover's lane bandit," Chessman drew two death sentences and two life imprisonment sentences after conviction on 17 charges in Los Angeles county court. From his cell in death row for the past six years, Chessman has con ducted most of his own legal work. . His current petition, one of many he has filed, was sent to Justice Clark in Dallas, Tex., for his consideration. Clark's de cision was announced by a Su preme Court spokesman here. SEAMEN PAY TRIBUTE ' Portland 0J.R)-i- About 1000 seamen of the International Longshoremen's and.Warehouse men's union gathered to pay trib ute to men killed in the 1934 strike. Harry Bridges, interna tional president, had been sched uled to speak, but was unable to attend. Charlotte, Mich. (U.R) A 62 year-old Detroit salesman, sus pected of the sex slayings of two young Michigan girls in re cent months, was scheduled for a lie detector test today. The suspect, Wade Caulder, was arrested yesterday for ques tioning about the slayings of Bar bara Gaca, 7, of Detroit, and crippled Jeanie Singleton, 8, of Kalamazoo. Caulder volunteered for the lie test after police questioned him throughout the afternoon and evening about the slayings. Transfer Scheduled He was held at the Eaton county jail here throughout the night and was scheduled to be transferred to the state police oost at either Detroit or East Lansing for the lie test. Caulder admitted having been in Detroit March 24, the date the Gaca girl disappeared while on her way to school, and in Kala mazoo May 23, when the Single ton girl disappeared while re turning from school Although he could not produce any alibi for the time he spent in the two areas, Caulder denied any knowledge of the crimes and asked to take the lie test, state police said Police posted a stakeout for Caulder at the local post office after a Detroit woman in whose home he had roomed tipped po lice that he may have had some thing to do with the crimes. She said Caulder had warned her never to leave her two young daughters alone with him be cause he "might harm them." Similarity Noted -.The similarity of the two crimes has led police to believe they may have been committed by the same person. The bodies of both girls were found in secluded "lovers lane areas about a week after they were first reported missing. Both had been strangled and raped al most simultaneously by a "sad istic sex fiend, widespread search before their mutilated bodies were found. Autopsies showed both had been raped, slain and dumped on the day they disappeared. Eastern Hall 01 Nation Bakes By UNITED PRESS The eastern half of the nation sweltered in a 100-degree heat wave for the seventh straight day today A mass of hot, muggy air kept the heat wave simmering from the Dakotas to Maine. Temper tures jumped over the 100-de gree mark in the New York area and Pennsylvania yesterday and threatened to do the same today, To make matters worse, there was no relief in .sight, at least for the next two days. At least two heat prostration deaths were reported in Michi gan and, New York City. In Man hattan, blonde actress Sherry North was put under a doctor's care after coming down with heat prostration. The heat was so bad in Chi cago that 126 workers went on a sitdown strike at the Ford As sembly plant because some em ployees had been disciplined for refusing overtime. The strike shut down the whole plant, idling almost 2,000 workers, Funerals Slated for Pendleton Polio Victims Pendleton (U.R) Funeral ser vices were scheduled today for Ronald Lewis, 25, Pendleton, a polio victim for the past three years, who died Friday, Lewis' death was the second from polio in Pendlton in the past two weeks. Mrs. Ray Eckles died June 21. Both were stricken in 1952 and spent the rest of Dependents To Join Soldiers in Japan San Francisco U.R) Long- awaited "Operation Gyroscope" became a reality at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation today for 366 Army dependents as they embarked on the USS Gen. A. E. Anderson for Japan. On Friday 365 women and children will board the USS Gen. J. C. Breckinridge to complete the Pacific Coast's first move ment of its kind in the post-war period. They are the families of mem bers of the 508th Regimental Combat Team (airborne) of Fort Campbell, Ky., which is being moved en masse under the unit rotation plan, to replace the 187th RCT (airborne) which is returning for permanent station at Fort Bragg, N.C. y telephone ( SEATTLE jn other rates from Medford I New York City ..... $2.00 ' Atlanta ..... . . . . 1.90 . I Denver. ......... 1.35 I Los Angeles , . 1.10 , I I I ' Station to station rates, not including tax, for 3 I V XfV minutes after 6 p.m. weekdays and all day Sunday - I pQ Save time call by number f Pacific Telephone works to make your telephone a bigger value every day J their lives in iron lungs. Phy sicians attributed death to pro- Both had been the object of a longed inactivity in the lungs. 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