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3 Salem U.P.) Marion County
u Circuit Judge Val Sloper Satur-
day enjoined State Public Utili-
3 ties Commissioner Charles Helt-
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'Riot Charges Made After
Row Over Beaverton Baby
Beaverton U.R) Charges of riot were filed against Mr.
and Mrs, Charles Remington and four other persons Saturday after
a long court battle for the custody of a nine-month-old baby cli
maxed in violence Friday night.
Stage Battle Royal
Sheriff's officers said the child's parents and foster parents
staged a battle royal over custody of David Martin Casteel, who
w (Jyas put up for adoption three days after his birth.
Participants in the battle were Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Casteel
d Aloha, Ore., and the child's foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
O Remington of Beaverton.
The Casteels were given temporary custody of the child Fri
day wflile an aDDcal bv the Reminetons was nendine in circuit
court. But Friday night the Remingtons and two brothers allegedly"
forced their way into the Casteel
its crib.
Woman Grab Gun
Mrs. Casteel said she grabbed
them" but one of Mrs. Remington's brothers wrested the weapon
O from her.
She said they knocked down her three-year-old son and cut
q his face, in the process of the battle.
n District Attorney James Gardner of Hillsboro said he will
oask the court to decide Monday or Tuesday which family was to
retain the baby. He said he would file a writ of habeas corpus "to
:end this game of football with the child."
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Past Riips Tanker;
two or More CCiDDed
..San. Francisco U.P.) The
-Norwegian motor ship Tancred
''Saturday was ripped by an en
gineroom explosione 120 miles
'West of here, but her plea for
help went unanswered for nearly
two hours.
The freighter radioed that two
of the trapped black gang were
killed in the blast "four badly
fburned and one apparently near
Mistrial Ordered
In U.S. Court Case
q Federal 'judge James Alger
Fee ordered a mistrial Friday
f afternoon in the case of Nancy
J. Copeland vs. Montgomery
(Ward company.
O The jurywas given the case
just before noon and while de
liberating discovered one of
their number, William H. Zehr,
was a former employee of the
Montgomery Ward store in
Grants Pass. They reported it
t the judge who declared a
Omistrial.
9 The case was a personal in-'-jury
suit involving the com
pany's branch in Roseburg. The
trial was reset for the next fed
eral district court term here.
James Landys represented the
plaintiff, Philip Lowry the de
fendant. ' The court began hearing
testimony in the Mildred Bald
erson vs. O. D. Rasmussen auto
accident suit Friday afternoon,
Cnd will continue the case Mon
day, at 9 a.m.
First new case on the docket
.for next week is a damage by
'fere suit, Pacific Engine and Ma
chine vs. John C. and Ruth V.
Rogers, of Del Norte Laundry.
George W. Mead is attorney for
4he plaintiff, and H. B. Collins
-for the defendant.
Alt Force Developing
Supersonic Bombers
San Francisco (U.R) The Air
Force revealed Saturday it was
developing atomic and chemical
ly powered bombers capable of
supersonic speeds and unpre
edented range.
3- The disclosure was made by
Ifcvo of theAir Force's highest
ranking commanders following
-a secret meeting of industrial
delegates to the Air Force asso
ciation convention here.
Gen. Edwin W. Rawlings, air
material command chief, and
it. Gen. Thomas S. Power, head
of the Air Research and Develop-
5ient command, said progress
was being made with parallel
projects on nuclear and chemical
Jy povwred bombers.
q'J They refused to discuss the
projects further because of mili
tary security.
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reduced scneauie Deiween x-ort-
land and Oregon city.
Asked whether his decision
1 might have a bearing on the sus
home and took the baby from
a gun "and I would have shot
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death. Need doctor immediate!
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S3 Aboard Ship
The motorship was reported
carrying a crew of 42 and 11 pas
sengers. The badly damaged ship final
ly got through a distress message
after several attempts were crip
pled by weak signals. The explo
sion apparently knocked out the
Tancred's. power and it had to
rely on an emergency battery
transmitter.
The Coast Guard immediately
dispatched rescue units to the
scene when positive identifica
tion of the ship and her position
were established.
A four-engined patrol plane
reached the stricken ship within
an hour of confirmation of the
distress signal. The aircraft com
mander radioed the 9,700 ton
freighter was "lying very low in
the water and we can't establish
radio contact."
The rescue plane said the ship
had a "large opening aft of the
stack caused by the explosion."
The ship was apparently making
way slowly. No other damage
was visible to the airmen circling
overhead.
The first distress signal was
picked up by the Monitoring sta
tions at 12:15 p.m. (PDT) (3:15
p.m. EDT) but the signals were
so weak a coast guard spokesman
said, it was not confirmed until
2:15 p.m.
The terse plea for help said:
"Explosion in engine room . . .
medical assistance needed im
mediately . . . position 7.40 longi
tude 124 west."
The Tancred's radio apparent
ly went dead following the mes
sage. 73 Italians Arrive
F,or Murder Testimony
Washington (U.R) Thirteen
Italians who may possess know
ledge of the bizarre death of
n American Army officer in
Italy during World War II ar
rived here Saturday and were
taken in charge by the Depart
ment of Justice.
The Italians are expected to
appear before a Federal Grand
Jury probably next week to
tell what they know of the
death Dec. 6, 1944, in northern
Italy of Maj. William V. Holo
han, then commander of a
small detachment of OSS men
on a cloak-and-dagger mission
near Lake Orta. Holohan's body,
with two bullet holes in the
head, was found in 1949 in a
weighted sleeping bag in the
lake. .
West Los Angeles, Calif. (U.R)
Police Saturday questioned
three mobsters accused of rob
bing a socialite of $26,750 in
jewels to determine if they were
part of an organized plot di
rected at wealthy guests of the
new Beverly Hilton hotel.
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ssory
pension by the Southern Pacific
railroad of its Rogue River line
between Portland and Ashland,
Judge Sloper replied in the af
firmative, but did not amplify
his reply.
Judge Sloper, in effect, held
that the PUC has the authority
to determine what is adequate
service in any given case, but
until that determination has
been made through a hearing, he
has no power to interfere with
schedules such as set forth by
Portland Traction.
The injunction was issued
pending a hearing of determina
tion as to the adequacy of the
interurban service. It overruled
a demurrer by the PUC ordering
a halt to the curtailment until a
hearing could be held.
Judge Sloper declared "The
court feels that' the legislature,
having clearly expressed itself
as to the commissioner's author
ity and powers, as regards rate
changes, and by failing to , ex
pressly provide the same powers
in regard to time tables, has left
the commissioner without au
thority pending a determination
of what is adequate service to
suspend the proposed new time
tables."
Can Conduct Hearing
Judge Sloper added, "It is the
considered opinion of this court
the commissioner has authority
under existing statutes, after
notice, to conduct a -hearing on
his own motion, or on complaint
filed with him, to determine
what is reasonable service and to
require the railroad in the public
interest to furnish what service
he determines to be adequate,
subject to review by the courts
as to the reasonableness of his
findings; and the railroad must
comply with his determination."
The utility's new schedule, ef
fective Aug. 14, reduces the num
ber of round trips between Port
land" and Oregon City from 37 to
27 weekdays, and from 19 to 12
each Sunday.
Radiation Possible
Cause of Cancer
Geneva (U.R) An American
surgeon told the Atoms for
Peace conference Saturday that
radiation may be a cause of
cancer.
Dr. D. E. Clark, professor of
3urgery at the University of
Chicago, gave this warning to
scientists studying the grim pos
sibilty that atomic power dan
gers may outweigh its blessings.
Clark said his observations
lend "support to the idea that
there may be a correlation be
tween irradiation given in in
fancy and early childhood and
the subsequent development of
cancer of the thyroid." '
His report was based on x-ray
treatment of children. But these
rays resemble those given off
by atomic piles and, ironically,
by the radioactive "istotopes"
now used in cancer treatment.
The study of the perils of
atomic power began Saturday at
the United Nations conference
and American researchers join
ed in presenting the possibilities.
Schmidt Confers With Una
Freed Airman Sees Son for
Nevada City, Calif. '. (U.R)
A "broken-hearted" but philo
sophical Daniel Schmidt parted
from his re-wed wife, Una,
Saturday with the comment "a
man would have to be awfully
big... to accept her back."
'Isn't My Choice'
The 23-year-old airman, who
returned Friday from' 2Vi years
in a Red Chinese prison, said "it
isn't my choice, I didn't have
anything to do with this. Una
will have to make up her mind."
Schmidt conferred early Sat
urday for three hours with Una
and her attorney in an appar
ently unsuccessful attempt to
straighten out their marital
tangle.
After the meeting, Una im
mediately returned to second
husband, lumberjack Alford
U. 5. Readies New
'Code of Conduct'
For War Prisoners
Compromise of Views
On Behavior of POWs
Washington (U.R) The gov
ernment will announce soon a
six-point code of conduct for
Americans who some day may
become .war prisoners and face
Communist brainwashing and
torture, it was learned Saturday,
President Eisenhower himself
may proclaim the code which is
an outgrowth of disclosures of
cruel treatment of war prisoners
in Korea. American military
men, unprepared for the Red
tactics displayed reactions which
ranged from stout resistance to
forced confessions of germ war
Silent Treatment
It is reported the new code
emphasized as general policy
that war prisoners give- their
captors the silent treatment
that they are "required" to give
no more information than name,
rank and serial number. But
there also will be areas where
individual judgment can be
exercised.
The code apparently will rep
resent a compromise of stern
Army and Marine views on pris
oner behavior and the more
lenient attitude of the Air Force
whose officers were singled out
for special torture and indoctri
nation to force "confessions" of
germ war.
Controversial Report
The code, part of a bulky and
controversial report, was drawn
up by a committee of top mili
tary men and pentagon civilian
officials appointed by Secretary
of Defense Charles E. Wilson.
Wilson told the press last
Tuesday it is "an important docu
ment" and should be made public
in about a week. The state and
justice departments are under
stood to have approved it and
it is now under White House
scrutiny. ;
The code will indoctrinate
servicemen in the principle that
they must be prepared to die for
their country and must never
surrender "of their own free
will."
Blaze Destroys
Ruby's Kitchen
Ruby's Kitchen, a well-known
restaurant near S.iskiyou sum
mit on Highway 99, burned to
the ground at about ' 5 a.m. Sat
urday, state police reported. All
personal effects of the operators,
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Dickinson,
Klamath Falls, and equipment
were lost.
Police said the Dickinsons
awoke when the fire was going
up the walls and escaped unin
jured. The fire was believed
started from defective wiring in
the refrigeration unit in the base
ment. The building was owned by
Les Stanfer, Klamath Falls.
Irish Republicans Raid
British Army Center
Reading, England (U.R)
Some 20 Irish Republican Army
revolutionaries attacked a Brit
ish Army camp in the heart of
England before dawn Saturday
and escaped with an arsenal of
guns and ammunition.
Army and police authorities
throughout the nation were
alerted. All sea and airports
were sealed off to prevent the
raiders from escaping to Ireland.
Police captured two members
of the gang and a truck load of
arms. A third was arrested later.
A nationwide alert was out for
the others, described officially
as "armed, desperate and dan
gerous." Fine, whom she wed while
Schmidt was a Communist pris
oner. The Redding, Calif., airman
said he did not know if he
would ever meet face to face
with the man who has raised his
2V4 year old son, Danny.
Hasn't Judged Fine
"No, I haven't judged Fine,"
Schmidt calmly told a newsman
for the Sacramento Bee. "I
learned in prison you don't
judge men until you know all
about the situation, whatever
it may be."
At first Schmidt asserted he
had not been hurt by the re
marriage of his 20-year-old
childhood sweetheart..
"Nobody hurts me, the Chi
nese couldn't hurt me and this
couldn't hurt me."
9,000 sr mmsm beseibe
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WIND AND WAVES TAKE OVER The board walk is deserted at Carolina Beach,
N C, as Atlantic waves, whipped up by winds from Hurricane Connie, smashed
against a boarded up store front as fury of the storm struck the resort beach near
. Wilmington.
Mew Storm Wears Bermuda;
Connie Death Toll Reaches 42
Harrisburg, Pa. (U.R) Hur
ricane Connie, which killed at
least 42 persons, blew itself out
over Pennsylvania Saturday but
a secodn hurricane began pound
ing Bermuda.
Connie dissipated in a series
of squalls after its high winds
and heavy rains caused at least
$15,000,000 damage in North
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland,
Delaware, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania and Con
necticut.
Ship Loses Rudder
Connie s winds still were
powerful enough last night to
kick up big waves in Lake On
tario and batter a Canadian car
go vessel. The Coast Guard re
ported that the S.S. Red Cloud
lost its rudder in the storm and
a cutter was ordered to its as
sistance.
Even while coastal residents
cleaned up from Connie, hurri
cane Diane sent gale winas
into Bermuda. One woman was
killed on the island and a bat
tered ship was abandoned in the
storm. The hurricane is expected
to hit Bermuda full force by to
day. Jacqueline Bastm, 20-year-old
French bride of a Bermudian,
was washed off a rock into the
sea Saturday and drowned while
she was watching the storm come
in from the sea.
Runs Aground
The British ship Wynhwood,
which ran aground on a reef 10
miles off Bermuda, was abandon
ed even though a U.S. Coast
Guard cutter had freed it from
the reel. Diane's gailes made
towing impossible and the crew
was transferred to the U.S. Cut
ter Rockaway.
The 2500 ton ship was left to
the seas and began taking water
through a big hole in the bottom.
Hurricane Diane was located
by the Miami Weather Bureau
220 miles south of Bermuda. It
was moving west northwest at
10 miles-an-hour. Winds at its
center were estimated at 115
miles-an-hour and gales extend-
for 3 Hours;
First Time
But on reflection, the airman
who endured torture and soli
tary confinement with ten other
members of a B-29 crew cor
rected the statement.
Man Can Ba Hurt
"Well, that isn't exactly right.
Any man may be hurt I guess.
But what I wanted to say was
that it won't kill me. The Chi
nese couldn't and this can't." ;
Schmidt was liberal in praise
of Una for her care of their
child.
"She has done a terrific job'
with Danny. It isn't easy for a
girl to take care of a baby by
herself."
The youngster was present at
Schmidt's meeting with his wife.
Asked if he held his' child, the
airman replied "Sure I did."
(See Picture on Pag 9)
ed 300 miles out to the north and
150 miles to the southwest.
Bermuda rushed to , prepare
for the big blow.
Record rains pelted areas
from the Carolinas to New
York. Thousands of persons fled
from ' their homes. Electricity
was cut off in many areas. Re-
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inquiry Slated in Sinking
Of Ship; 74 Aboard Drowned
North Beach, Md. U.R) The Coast Guard Saturday ordered
an investigation into the sinking of an "unseaworthy" 64-year-old
sailing schooner which apparently cost the lives of 14 pleasure-
cruising passengers. '
13 Others Rescued
Thirteen others aboard, including the captain and three crew
members, were rescued when the
masted wooden vessel broke up in Chesapeake Bay Friday.
. The 125-foot boat capsized and went down when hit by ad
vance storms of hurricane Connie which brought death and de
struction in her last twisting . throes.
Bodies of 11 passengers were recovered and identified. Three
still were missing. All were on a five-day pleasure cruise to his
toric bay" ports.
Missing Listed
Still missing were Dr. Andrew Chesson, Raleigh, N. C; Louis
H. Sobel, prominent New York social worker, and a 13-year-old
boy. The wives of Chesson and Sobel were among the dead,
dead.
State Police Sgt. Wilton May said tonight that he saw no hope
that any of the missing would turnup alive. "If they were alive,
I believ we would have heard something by now," he told a re
porter. '
May quoted John B. Meckling, 39, captain and owner of the
ship, as saying -he set out on the ill-fated last lap of the journey
after being informed at Cambridge, Md., that the hurricane was ex
pected to miss this area.
Sports Bulletins
Portland, Ore. (U.R)
Carl (Bobo) Olson, middle
weight champion of the world,
fighting for the first time cince
he'd been repulsed in his ef
fort to lift the light heavy
weight champion Archie
Moore's crown, turned back
an eager but unable Jimmy
Martinet here last night scor
ing a unanimous decision in
a 10-round outdoor fight at
Multnomah stadium.
Hershey. Pa. (U.R) Adrian
Burk fired a pair of touch
down passe in the second
quarter Saturday night and led
the Philadelphia Eagles to a
21-6 victory over the Balti
more Colts in the first ex
hibition game of the year for
both teams.
Sacramento, Calif, -j- (U.R)
The San Francisco Forty Nin
ers swamped the Pittsburgh
Stealers, 60-14 Saturday night
in a fist-swinging exhibition
battle before a sell-out crowd
of 23,496.
Seattle, Wash. (U.R)
Second place Hollywood re
duced Seattle's league lead to
two games by subduing the
Rainiers 7-1 Saturday night
behind Red Munger's six hit .
pitching.
sorts were made uninhabitable.
The U. S. Weather Bureau
wrote Connie s obituary in a
final advisory at noon. But at
the same time it issued ominous
warnings against Connie's suc
cessor, hurricane Diane, moving
through the South Atlantic a.t an
ever increasing rate.
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ill-fated and "hard luck" three-
Russians Pay Tribute
At Tomb of Lincoln
Springfield, 111 '(U.R) Five
Russian farm leaders paused Sat
urday to pay silent tribute at the
tomb of America's great Civil
War President, Abraham Lin
coln. ' -
The Soviet leaders made a
special request to be taken to
"the great emancipator's" tomb
on a wooded knoll in Oak Ridge
cemetery here.
They stood quietly in the cor
ridors of the stone tomb as two
interpreters read a biographical
epitaph which traced Lincoln's
life from his humble birth at
Hodgenville, Ky., to the Presi
dency of the United States.
They paused before a plaque
inscribed with the words of
Lincoln's famed Gettysburg ad
dress. They declined an inter
preter's offer to read the words.
16 Persons Killed
In Alpine Accident
Bourg St. Pierre, Switzerland
(U.R) A sightseeing bus with
25 persons aboard went over an
Alpine precipice near here Sat
urday. Police said they found 16
bodies and nine survivors at the
bottom of the 450-foot deep ra
vine. Earlier they said the bus car
ried 30 passengers and a driver,
but later revised the figure to
25, including the driver.
Mob Defies Rhee
After President
Delays Ultimatum
American MP Forces
Stop Crowd, at Gates
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Seoul, Korea, Sunday (U.R)
Nine thousand Korean dem
onstrators besieged a U.S. Army
compound in Pusan today in de
fiance of President Syngman
Rhee who postponed his get out
order to Communist truce team
members.
The mob stopped at the gate,
however, as American military
police stood ready with tear eas.
machine guns, water hoses, and
vicious battle dogs.
The men shouted, and banged
their fists on the gate in anger
but did not attempt to enter.
United Press Correspondent
Jack Russell, reporting from the
scene, said the crowd Was "ex
tremely stirred up."
Out of Nowhere"
In the morning, Russell said.
only about 75 demonstrators
were in front of the gate but the
huge crowd, "composed of war
veterans, suddenly came out of
nowhere."
It was the second anti-Red
demonstration at U. S. com
pounds since Rhee made an 11th -hour
postponement of his ulti
matum ordering Polish and
Czech members of the neutral
nations truce commission out of
Korea by midnight Saturday.
At Kangnune, a mob of 500
Koreans assaulted the gate in an
attempt to get at the Reds, .but
military police drove the mob
back with tear gas and streams
of water from fire hoses. The
attack came some' 30 minutes
after midnight. ,
Earlier heavily armed Ameri
can troops bolstered Wolmi is
land defenses with barricades in
anticipation of renewed South
Korean attacks against Com
munist truce team members.
Soldiers worked through the
night despite- President Syng
man Rhee's postponement for
"several days" of an ultimatum
ordering Polish and Czech mem
bers of the truce teams to get
out of Korea by midnight Sat
urday. ,
Shortly after midnieht. about
800 demonstrators milled around
the gate at beseiged Wolmi is
land off Inchon on the East
coast, but their number dropped
during the night. A unit of 10
fierce sentinel dogs, which won
fame during the Korean war,
were put to work patrolling the
beaches and rear areas.
Rhee's decision was announc
ed just a few hours before mid
night Saturday" (11:30 a.m. EDT
Friday), thereby averting a pos
sible bloody showdown between
Korean mobs and U.S. troops
pledged to protect the neutrals.
It came shortly after South
Korean demonstrators were
beaten back with tear gas and
fire hoses in three new attempts
to storm U.S. compounds hous
ing Swiss, Swedish Polish and
Czech members of the neutral
nations supervisory commis
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One attack was made on a
U.S. Air Force compound at
Kunsan, and two on American
held Wolmi island i n Inchon
harbor. Their aim was to seize
and oust the Communist Czechs
and Poles, whom Rhee's govern
ment has accused of being spies.
U.S. May Reveal Part
In Summit Conference
Washington (U.R) The
Eisenhower administration is
weighing plans to publish the
record of its part in the recent
Big Four Geneva "summit" con
ference, informed sources dis
closed Saturday.
Britain, France and the Sov
iet Union the other three par
ticipating powers were said
to have been mformed of the
plan.
The special papers, it was
said, probably will be published
soon, perhaps in advance of the
Oct. 27 meeting of the Big Four
Foreign Ministers at Geneva.
This session is intended to bring
something concrete frornr, the
preliminary peace talks last
month.
The United States is reported
to have suggested the other -three
powers might wish to pub
lish their records, also, thus ex
posing to full public view all
that went on at Geneva.
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