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wwmst of ISi tmfi MM lova Farmers Find Russian Food Good; Photographers Bother Traveling Soviets Editor's Not: A ctoud of 12 Amer ican farmeri U tourinr Russia. The termers have talk with Russians, seen Mosrow sights and attended an agricultural exhibition so far. One of the Americans. Ralph Olson of Ells worth, Iowa, (Ives his Impressions In the following dispatch. By RALPH OLSON Written for United Pratt "' Moscow U.R) So far our food has been good and plentiful, but of course not what we'd eat at home. We've had lots of fish, but not one of us has found a steak. Why, this bunch of 12 farm people out for dinner anywhere else would all have had steaks for dinner. The fish was good though breaded whitemeat chicken filet. And a novelty for us yis the tea, the best I have ever drunk. At the mammoth agricultural , fair, we were given lots of fresh fruit, including apricots, apples, plums, grapes and some of the best peaches I ever ate. In the Hotel National Restau rant, however, we were offered only preserved fruits, canned ap ples in juice and cherries and . plums. I hear from people who live here that oranges cost between 80 and 90 cents apiece in Ameri can money, and eggs 40 cents each. I paid $9.50 for a bottle of wine that wasn't the best. I bought the wine because Ameri cans here worry about tap water, although some drink it. Most Rus sians seem to drink bottled soda water, when . they want water. People don't seem to smile much, at least the people you see on the streets. They seem very sober faced, but maybe that's their nature. They've had a pret ty serious existence and some hard struggles. In my opinion, the materials don't seem to be the best quality, although I guess they are ade quate, -s ViMe Evtedleir Trial Mearag CoGocDcasDOGii; rSDc5ac3 The trial of Bernice Hampton rTtex White, accused of the first degree murder "of a fellow, mill worker March 2, was.expectea to go to the jury this afternoon. rvniv rinsing arguments re mained after the defense rested its case at 11:30 a.m. White is charged with first de gree murder in the March 2 killing of Eugene Raymond Bine, Phoenix, during an altercation at a Talent mill. White has not denied killine Birk. but has based his defense on temporary insanity. This morning the defense railed a final witness. Dr. John Waterman, Portland psychia trist. The court session was de layed one hour due to the inabil ity of Dr. Waterman to be pres ent until 10:30 a.m. Examined Defendant : -Dr. Waterman is director of the mental health section of the Oregon state board of health. He examined White on June 23 at Defense Attorney Robert Dun can's reauest. He testified that the information he obtained from examination of White left m doubt in his mind that the de fendant was an enilentic. , Duncan then described White's medical history. Based on this, and on his examination of White. Duncan asked the doctor what the medical probabilities were that White was in a "psycho motor eeizure" at the time of the attack on Birk. Dr. Waterman answered, "There is no absolute proof that he was in a seizure. There is a probability that he was, but it is not too great." Remembered Details . District Attorney Walter Nun ley, during cross-examination, told Dr. Waterman White had re membered and related in detail events leading to, during, and following the attack.. Dr. Water man testified that the ability of the defendant to remember the events so clearly "would indi cate that he didn't have a seiz ure." He added information he had received, plus his examina tion findings, made it his belief that the "medical probabilities are that he (White) does not have a psycho-motor type of epilepsy." . The doctor stated that only two things the defendant's de nial of having repeated- 'Til kill him, I'll kill him" at the time of the incident, and his inability to Baseball AMERICAN -Baltimore 3 0 7 '2 Chicago Wilson and Triandoa.' Smith (6); Fornieles. Martin (6), Howell (8) and Lollax. Des Moines, la. -flJ.R) Twelve Russian farmers kept smiling to day but made It plain they were more than a little upset by the flock of newsmen and photogra phers tagging along on their tour of Iowa's tall-corn country. "Because of the lenses, we can't see the cows," complained delegation leader Vladimar Matskevich, although he kept smiling when he said it. The Russians, accompanied by three Soviet newsmen and some 100 American newsmen and photographers, toured the 160- acre farm of Richard Alleman near Slater, la., north of here. Their main .purpose was to learn how America builds up huge food surpluses while So viet production lags. The Russians expressed keen interest in Alleman's farm and jotted down copious notes. But Matskevich kept firing a series of barbed comments in the di rection of newsmen and photog raphers.' The Soviet farmers went to the Alleman farm after an enth siastic welcome .by Iowa resi dents and officials upon their arrival last night. - A crowd estimated at 2,700 persons waved and applauded the Russians as they arrived here by plane in ill-fitting suits but wearing broad smiles. A sign with "Welcome" spell ed out in Russian drew the big gest laughter from the Soviet delegation. The sign-bearer was Charlotte Graves, Des Moines, a young pretty Russian major at Bryn Mawr (Pa.) college Vladimir Matskevich, balding chief of the delegation and first deputy minister of 'Russian agri culture, beamed and waved. In a five-minute speech, he said he was "happy" to be mak ing the trip. . remember striking Birk the sec ond time allowed the proba bility of a psycho-motor seizure, Note Rejected ... Duncan offered, in evidence a note Dr. Waterman had written to him shortly, after examining White on June 23, but Nunley objected. After a conference be tween Presiding Judge H. K. Hanna, the two ' attorneys, the witness and the defendant in the court's chamber, Judge Hanna rulfd against the admission of xne note. In the closing minutes of the morning session Duncan read the defense's exhibit C, a U.S. Ma rine Corps medical report on White, who was discharged in 1939, a few months after he en listed, on the basis of the report which diagnosed him as an epi leptic. Oregon Students To Attend Boys' Nation Washington (UJ!) Two Ore gon high school students are scheduled to attend the Ameri can Legion's 10th annual Boys' Nation program here July 22-29, along with about 90 other youths from other states. - Oregon's delegation will con sist of Robert Wesley -Smith of Salem, and Gary Lee Sanders of Vancouver, Wash., a student at a Portland high school. The Boys' Nation group will hold mock congressional sessions, guided by members of the U. S. House and Senate. Sanders was governor of the recent Oregon Boys' State ses sion, while Smith was appointed to the state patrol." MasMSsaMaB s -3 - Funeral Set Wednesday For Girl Killed by Car Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Fednesday at Conger Morris funeral home for Eileen L o r e t h a Purkett, 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Perkett, Tiller, Vho was killed when hit by an automobile Satur day. The Douglas county coroner's office said she was killed at Tiller when she ran in front of a car driven by Leroy Eugene Nogle, 19, Medford. The accident -occurred about a mile west of Tiller. ' . V-v-; ; . Coos Bay (U.PJ The Coos Curry Electric Cooperative has disclosed plans to go ahead with preliminary studies for a $25,- 000,000 , hydroelectric plant on the Illinois river ,near Agness despite an adverse ruling last week by the State Hydroelectric Commission. YesM.es Democrat Senators Attack Ike's Move To Hold Up Funds Morse, Neuberger Join in Chorus Washington (U.R) A group of Democratic senators today de nounced President Eisenhower's decision to hold up funds for unbudgeted navigation, flood control and power projects. . The president announced last week after signing a public works appropriation bill that he would not allow a start on 107 projects added by Congress to his budget recommendations un til adequate engineering and cost studies have been made on them. Morse Gives Views Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D Wyo.) said the effect of the pres ident's decision would be to "transfer to the bureau of the budget and its anonymous as sistants the legislative power that . exists in the Congress of the United States." Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore) said the decision : was "uncalled . for and inexcusable." He challenged the president to go out" to the Pacific Northwest and "explain his statement to the people there." Joining in floor debate on the issue, Sen. Mike Manfield (D-Mont.) compared the "im pounding order with a Defense Department decision to impound extra funds voted by Congress for the Marine Corps. He said the "executive branch is saying it will hold up any funds it wants to." . Second Parliament The decision shows, Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) said, that the Budget Bureau is "taking on the aspect of a second parliament." And Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said it demonstrated that the administration ' "is unalterably opposed to vitally needed new water resource development projects in the Pacific North west." Sen. Henry M.' Jackson (D Wash.) called the decision a de nial of the right of the people of the Northwest to be repre sented by their senators and congressmen. He said the presi dent "will regret indeed such a course of action." PUC Has Power To Order Rail Service Salem U.R) The Oregon Public Utilities Commission has the power to order railroads to cancel plans for abandonment of service. Public Utilities Commis sioner Charles H. Heltzel said to-' day. '-;"" . ; A request from State Senators Gene Brown, Grants Pass; Paul Geddes, Roseburg, and Philip Lowry, Medford, that Heltzel order Southern Pacific to con tinue passenger train service on the Portland-Ashland run had not reached Heltzel's office this morning. Heltzel declined to comment on the complaint until he had had time to study it. However, he declared that he has authority to call a hearing in such cases and to order service continued. He said railroads have recognized that right in the past. SP has announced plans to dis continue passenger service on the line August 7. ' Beer Bottle Thrown At Car; Two Injured Milwaukie U.R) A beer bottle was thrown against a car windshield Saturday night , re sulting in severe facial cuts to Mrs. Dorothy M. Vuoti, 29, Port land, and her . five - year - old daughter, Sharon Diane. The bottle was thrown from another automobile as the Vuoti family was driving on lake road, one mile east of here. 'Suspecf in Disappearance of Berkeley; Girl Will Submit To Lie Detector Test: Alameda, Calif. (U,R) Bur ton W. Abbott, 27, a University of California accounting stu dent, prepared today to submit to lie. detector and psychiatric tests in an attempt to clear him self of suspicion in the mys terious . disapperance M Stepha nie Bryan. Seven .'Hot' Clues Found "- Stephanie, 14, disappeared April 28 while on her way home from school. After an intensive' investigation, T police ' had to admit they were baffled until last week end, when seven "hot" clues turned up. ' " -: . .The, dues .were , articles be longing to the missing girl,: her purse, two library books, two notebooks, a book on the care of parakeets and her eye glasses. 7s?? "riniiiiiJu J II nr- r-1 1$"' ;::f r ' 4vfi Pf7 Ifef (A'ri V o I M f BIG FOUR START TALKS AT THE 'SUMMIT'-' ";re are rec summit." Left to right: Nikolai Bulganin, USF' ony Ede MEDF0r is? United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 14 Pap' (Sasafok (Pii Computation of Tax On Orchard Trees Getting Under Way ' Computation of appraised or chard tree values as determined by state tax commission , apprai sers started today, Jackson County Assessor Robert Fowler said. . , : . Fowler was ordered by the board of equalization Thursday to place on tax rolls the ap praised value of orchard trees, The order followed a recom mendation from the district at torney's office that the board comply with a commission order that the job be done prior to Aug. 15. Fowler said the total apprais ed value of orchard trees should be figured by the end of this week. Millage rates for Jackson county probably will not be ready for about ?a month, Fowler said. , Appraised values of pear or chards, Fowler, said, have been set at $300 for class A orchards and $225 for class B. Orchards less than nine years old are not assessed because commission ap praisers believed younger or chards did not have a substan tial value. Apple trees will be assessed $225 per acre, Fowler said, but he said he has not checked the commission appraised values for peach orchards. Fowler said he did not know what criterion commission ap praisers used in determining difference between class A and B pear orchards. Varied Beer Container Sizes Become Legal Portland U.R) Various sizes in beer containers up to 32 ounces became legal throughout the state today, . according to members of the liquor commis sion. , Previously, . b e e r containers were limited to 11, 12 and 32 ounces. Now six, seven, eight and 16-ounce containers are ex pected to be Introduced. Also found was part of a bras siere, but it could hot be im mediately identified as Stepha nie's. ' , The articles were found in the basement of the home, occupied by Abbott and his wifej Georgia, 32. It was Mrs. Abbott who found the purse Friday night with a card -inside identifying it as -belonging to the missing girl. She called police. Used by Voters. - .Officers began digging in the basement and turned up the other articles the next day. Abbott, submitted to volun tary , questioning, denied all knowledge of how the articles came to be in his house. He told authorities that the house was used as a polling place about a KEGON, Pirbe Don Ah Chicago (U.R) A coroner's jury today investigated an ap parently normal instrument landing of a Braniff ' Airways Convair plane that crashed Sun day and killed 22 persons and injured 22: others. ' - r'- ---y ' It was one of Chicago's worst plane crashes. The two-engined airliner roar ed out of a foggy and smoke hazy sky on a flight that started at Dallas, Tex., and clipped a filling station electric sign. The impact shot the plane into - a Newberg To Honor Hoover August 10 Newberg, Ore. (U.R).. The dedication of Herbert Hoover's boyhood home as a museum and shrine here on Aug. 10 will just be a hometown affair, in keep ing with the former president's wishes. Members of the Herbert Hoov er foundation said Hoover would arrive at Portland International airport and depart late the same day following the dedication. He will travel part of the 24 miles from Portland to Newberg along a boulevard to be named for him and dedicated on his birthday (the Tigard - Newberg portion of U.S. highway 99W). Before the dedication of his restored boyhood home, Hoover will attend a luncheon at George Fox college which he attended when it was Quaker Pacific academy. ' .. , i- . . The city's municipal park will also be dedicated as Herbert Hoover park. . ' FORECAST: Fair thronrh Toes day. Low tonight 4-S. Hl(h Tuesday S2-M. ....... Temp. Highest yesterday SI Lowest this moraine . S month after Stephanie disap peared and was visited by 150 persons. i ' - : On April 28, the day the, girl disappeared, Abbott said he was driving to Trinity county in far Northern California to go fish ing. ' i Suspect Field Open " He placed himself in Sacra mento about the time she was last seen. .Authorities checked his cabin, but found nothing of interest : : . ' ' " ; Capt. A. ; H. Fording of the Berkeley police said "Abbott is definitely a suspect, but every one who had access to that prop erty is a suspect." ? H "As a matter of fact, our field of suspects is wide open," he added. .v - ent pictures of the "Big Four'.' who today met for talks "at the n, Great Britain; Edgar Faure, France; President Eisenhower. JaliifiiJNE MONDAY, JULY 18, 1955 Oeiiiiiswiijisir Cvmb street bordering Midway Air port, through a fence and sent it bouncing in pieces into the airport. The wreckage caught fire, but flames were put out quickly which saved many from fjdeath.,-vr ------ -. ... There was indication of any trouble prior to the-crash. Pre liminary investigations showed the plane was making a normaj instrument landing according to schedule. All but one of the dead and injured was aboard the plane The exception is Mrs. Sara Ellis, 39, Chicago, who was thrown from an automobile by the force of the crash as the vehicle wait ed in the' street ? for a traffic light. She was treated for cuts and bruises in a hospital. - Mindszenfy May Be Under Surveillance Vienna (U.R) Communist secretiveness on the whereabouts of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty in dicated today, he still, may be under police surveillance in spite' of Red Hungary's claim he has been freed from prison. The Hungarian Justice . Min istry refused to disclose the Car dinal's whereabouts. A. 'telephone call to Mindszen ty's palace at Budapest brought the admission from its staff: "We don't know where he is." . When the United Press asked to meet or to speak with Minds zenty the Justice Ministry said such a request must go to the Interior Ministry, which ' con trols Hungary's Red. police net work, and its prisons. ' The implication seemed clear that the Cardinal still was not making his own decisions and was under police control, f i . "The Interior Ministry switch ed all newsmen's inquries from office to office with evasions and contradictions. - , ' : Laurelhiirst Addition Water System Started ' ; Construction of a water system for residences on Loal st. started this morning, according to Rob ert Lee,' assistant city water su perintendent. ' " ' The street is one of two located in the recently-annexed Laurel hurst subdivision that .will now have city, services. Sewer facili ties have already been installed, and the. area is already receiving police ' and fire protection, Lee added. ' The work, which is expected to be completed in approximately two weeks, is being undertaken by M. C. Lininger and Sons, con tractors. Sub-dividers are having the work done. ", Bandon (UJ1) Bandon voters Saturday " balloted . in favor of forming a hospital district here. The unofficial: count was 487 to 147. .. ;J:-y. United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 101 Resident General Casablanca, Morocco (U.R) France fired Casablanca's prin- pal police commissioner today in the wake of race riots that have turned the city into a bloody .battleground, v, . Resident General Gilbert Grandval, enraged at police in efficiency in dealing with the terrorism and violence, ordered the dismissal as part of a drastic shakeup of the police depart ment. At Least S3 Dead . The latest uprisings raised the total dead to at least 63 in four days. Unofficial reports set the death toll as high as 200. At least 125 persons have been wounded. Grandval also loaded two of the leaders of the French riot ers, Jean Cambiazo and Marcel Mattei, on a plane for France. They were accused of engaging in activities "dangerous to pub lic order." , ; French authorities, in break ing down for the first time the deaths caused by lynchings, shootingsknifings and club bings, said that at least 53 Mor occan natives and 10 Europeans have been killed. They added that there , are probably many more dead Moroccans in the na tive quarter not reported yet. Gendarmes Imported The French government, fear ful of the effects the race-riots may have on - Premier. Edgar Faure's position at the Big Four Geneva conference, brought in 260 fresh gendarmes aboard 11 transport planes. The new . troops strengthened government, forces around the city's old native quarter. where tanks, backed up Foreign Le gionnaires, Negro riflemen and federal police attempting to en force martial law. The -tank-supnorted units used machineguns and 37-mm. cannon Sunday aeainst' a arenade-hurl- ing Moroccan mob looting and pillaging Jewish , shops in the Arab quarter. ; ' Green Springs Area Closed by Fire Danger Fire danger has necessitated closure to unregulated use of a portion of .the ' Green Springs area, the state forest patrol has announced. : : The area is bounded roughly by Topsy grade road, the Cali fornia state line and Johnson Jenny creek. : Permits" will be needed to enter the area. They, may be- obtained . at Penny Springs and Lincoln Guard sta tions and Weyerhaeuser Camp 4. Excluded from the closure are Highway 66, Copco rd., from White Star to California, and Clover Creek rd. to lake O' Woodsv'vV ! ' Pendleton. Ore. flJ.B .Fred Hill, 43, Helix, has been named Umatilla county srassman of the year in a contest sponsored by to local Kiwaais club. . Enraged by Show Of Inefficiency Bulganin Climaxes Statements Yilh Cooperation Pledge Faure's Remarks Coolly Recti ved Geneva U.R Soviet Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin joined the Western Big Three heads of governments today by declaring Russia's intention to do every thing possible , to make the Ge neva summit conference a suc cess. " - : President Eisenhower, who lis tened attentively to Bulganin'a address closing the opening day's conference at the summit, expressed his satisfaction with the seemingly determined atti tude of all delegations present to "work for an honest pursuit of peace." To Do"AU It Can Bulganin climaxed the day of hopeful and optimistic state ments and of a cordiality un matched since World War n by assuring the other government chiefs that Russia will do "all it can to justify the hopes of all peoples waiting for a tranquil and peaceful life." ... Jle said the Russians "hold a different point of ; view (from the West) on some questions." Bulganin, in his address to the conference, proposed creation of a security system for Europe which would include all Euro pean nations and the United States. British. French Plans . Earlier, Britain's Prime Min ister Anthonv Eden auf seated a five-power non-aggression pact including a reunited Germany with arms limitation on both sides of a demilitarized, zone in Europe. -French Premier Edgar Faure injected the one element of the day which was disquieting to the American delegation. He pro posed, in far greater detail than he had ' discussed it with the U.S. representatives in advance, a French " plan for budgetary control of armaments and a pos sible European' security system in which the Soviets might join the West. . - Faure's speech was coolly re ceived by the American delega tion. President Eisenhower's speech, while challenging, was far from pessimistic.. And the eight-point program he 'proposed for a cold war armistice was in keeping with the cordial atmosphere in which this first top level confer ence since Potsdam's disappoint ments opened in the Palace of Nations. . Opening Speeches t , The -fiie Big Four, President Eisenhower, British' Prime Min ister Anthony Eden, French Pre-. mier Ed Ear Faure. Soviet Pr. mier Nikolai Bulsanin and their respective staffs of advisers and consultants assumed their seats at the conference table. Eden onened the afternoon session with a speech that flatty offered Russia the foliowtnff- . 1. "A security pact of which those around this table and united Germany might be mem bers." '2. Discuffiinni on "the total forces and armaments on each side in Germany and the coun tries neighboring Germany."' This, he said, would entail "re. ' clprocal control to supervise the arrangement. 3. "We should be readv to examine the possibility of a de militarized area between East and West." Russia Challenged Mr. Eisenhower, keynotinf the conference, called for a new spirit. ... Mr. Eisenhower franklv chal lenged Russia to "Improve the international, climate" by co operating with the West in workable program of disarma ment and the use of atomic en ergy "for constructive purposes. Eisenhowers Program His elKht-steD nlan for hrinav. ing an end to the cold war war . " 1. German reunification, fol lowing free all-German elections. 2. An East-West security sys tem in which a united Germany would be free to choose its own allies. : 3. Recognition nf th rlht n the Soviet satellites to' choose their own forms of govern ments. 4. Removal of "cammunifittia and human" barrier aenaraHn 5. An end . to' -international Communist subversion. 6. Limitation of armaments. ' 7. A higher standard nf lfm. ing for under-developed nations; . Development , of peaceful uses of. atomic energy. - Corvallis (U.R) Dr. Theo Yearin, r head of secretarial science and business education at Oregon State college, has been elected vice-president of the na tional United Education assoda tion, largest business-teacher or ganization in the country. - t -
