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Retreat on Civil Rights Bill Becomes Rout 24 Days After Senator Russell Calls Foul Bt LYLE C. WILSON UniUd Pru Correspondent Washington W It is 24 day since Georgia's Sen. Rich ard B. Russell called a foul on the Eisenhower administration for what he regarded as dishon estly sharp practices in merch andising its civil rights bill. Russell spoke in the U.S. Sen ate on July 2. The burden of his indictment was this: That the administration bill was deliber atelyately and craftily written for such purposes as the forcible integration of southern schools, Jletels and swimming pools If teres ft was being presented te tie public as merely a bill 30 stake it possible for eligible (jttnthern negroes to vote. BtarztM Senate Vussell startled the Senate 'wTta his explanation of how the tsll would authorize a president to arder the army, navy and mil tt to enforce integration in all 'the public places of the south. Be allocked his colleagues with wl unqualified warning that ' would flow in any such )icen, that concentration Baas would have to come to told the overflow from southern Tee senator said he thought 9 President Eisenhower did not know all that was in his own civil rights bill. Subsequent news conferences indicated Rus sell was correct. At that point in the first week of July, the administration began a strategic retreat on civil rights. In the matter of three weeks Abatement Sought at Alleged Vice Spot Portland W1 Abatement proceedings opened Friday be fore Circuit Judge (pro tern) Franklin C. Howell here against a Portland restaurant for alleg ed gambling on the premises. The building, recently sold to Saul Friedman, a professional contract buyer, by Robert See gar, and in turn leased by Fried man to Mrs. Opal Dickson, was the scene of 68 arrests after a Feb. 10 gambling raid. Friedman and his son, David, a real estate salesman, said they knew nothing of the abatement proceedings until July 2. Defense attorneys for the Friedmans and Mrs. Dickson said all three were victims of the business transaction. since Russell spoke, the retreat has become a disorderly rout. The pending legislation, as now amended, more properly could be called a Russell bill for what is not in it than an administra tion bill for what it still con tains. The administration moved fast to check ihe senate trend against the bill, although not fast enough. Sen. William F. Know- land (R-Calif.) was leader of the Republican-Democratic coa lition which sought senate ap proval of the bill, which already had been approved by the house. Amendments Accepted Knowland and others quickly decided to accept a pair of amendments proposed by Rus sell, one to require senate con firmation of the person selected by the president to be staff di rector of the proposed civil rights commission. No. 2 was to remove from the bill authority for the proposed commission to accept the services of unpaid volunteers. This second amendment was to prevent representatives of such arganizations as the Nation al Association For the Advance ment of Colored People from volunteering as enforcers and I ''KtJJ REPAIR SHOP, SERVICE STATION This new facility for loggers, located at the state highway weighing station, adjoining the Vet erans Administration's Memorial field on Crater Lake highway, will be opened in the fall, according to Steve Wilson, builder and manager, who transferred his operations from Trail last spring. (Jerry Gamble Photo). Boy your new LEES carpet without leaving home Gates Furniture ttill COffle to YOU Don't let dost schedule force a postponement of that redecorating you're been thinking about. It's as simple as this. Jnt pick op the phone and call us. 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Provisions Defended The bill, substantially in the form it passed the house and reached the senate, was sent to congress by attorney general Herbert Brownell Jr. Brownell defended all of its provisions in public committee hearings. Un der pressure of Russell's attack, however, the administration de cided to retreat part way dn en forced integration in the south. Knowland and sen. Hubert H. Humphrey D-Minn.) teamed up in an effort to draft a compro mise amendment which would have forbidden the attorney gen eral to intervene with legal pro ceedings in behalf of southern in tegration except at the request of a local authority as, for ex ample, a school board. That re treat was neither fast nor far enough. Efforts to achieve com promise ended in failure. The senate this week axed the integration section, leaving the bill just what it originally was advertised to be a guar antee of the right to vote. Miss Oregon Choice Slated at Seaside Seaside IIP) Beauties from Springfield, Portland, Roseburg and Seaside went into the semi finals at Seaside Saturday night in the contest to choose Miss Oregon of 1957. Winners in the opening 'per formance of the Miss Oregon pageant Friday night were Miss Springfield, Dors Pilacznski, in evening gown; Miss Portland, Nancy Wenman, in swimming suit and Miss Roseburg. Judith Hensley, in talent. Miss Seaside, Sue Ward, opened the pageant with a welcominb speech to the audience. She introduced John nie Carpenter of Portland as master of ceremonies. The judges are Mrs. Robert D. Holmes, wife of the governor who is a former resident of Gear- hart; Del Moore, former head of the music department of Ore gon State college; Mrs. George Gray, past worthy advisor of Rainbow club for girls; Dan Webster, "Corvallis manager of Pacific Power and Light Co., and Dorothy Olson,- Pan-American stewardess. Pendleton Boy Saved From Burning Home Pendleton HP) A three-year-old Pendleton boy5 was rescued by city police and firemen after he was overcome by smoke in his parent's home Saturday. Pendleton police and firemen found Edward Miltenberger on the floor of the single-story home and rushed him to St Anthony's hospital, where hi condition was pronounced "good" after treatment. His mother, Mrs. J. D. Milten berger, told authorities who re sponded to an alarm that she had led three of her children to safety but had been unable to find Edward. , Police and firemen waded through the smoke and found the boy. Firemen said the blaze, con fined to the rear of the house, apparently was caused by the loose connection of an electric appliance. Three Fires Burn In Area Saturday Two grass fires occurred in this area Saturday afternoon one in Medford and one at Cen tral Point, it was reported. The Medford fire department reported that a carelessly dis carded cigarette probably caused the grass fire next to the Air port rd. It burned a patch 300 feet'long and 15 feet wide. Another grass fire was re ported occurring Saturday after noon at the H. C. Coffman resi dence, Rt. 2, Central Point, on Orr Drive. It burned approxi mately one acre before being brought under control. One pumper, a tanker and a jeep were used by the seven-man crew. The Medford fire department also reported no damage re sulted from the flue fire Satur day at 132 Vancouver St. Cause was blamed on trash burning in the fireplace. Owner of the house is F. O. Sutton. Guerrilla Bombs Kill Six Persons in Algeria Algiers W Anti-French guerrillas set off 10 bombs in Algeria Saturday, killing at least six persons and injuring eight others. Two innocent Arab bystanders were killed by bombs set off in the provincial city of Tlemcen. In Algeriers, two guerrilla dy namiters were killed by their own explosives. A third was lynched by an angry crowd in Oran. Terrorist Hunted In Kidnaping Case Marysville, Calif. HP) Yuba county authorities, helped by lew clues, Saturday sought a middle-aged terrorist who stop ped a young couple late Friday night on a lonely road, killing a man and kidnaping his female companion. The murderer pulled his car in front of the couple's vehicle and ordered its driver. Bill Wells Hale, 22, a telephone com pany employee, to get out. Hale was then shot through the eye with a 22-calibre rifle. His companion was - Patricia Hansen, 25, a Grass Valley beau ty operator and divorced mother of two children. She was forced into the killer's car, driven off and terrorized for nearly two hours. She said her wrists were bound with adhesive tape and she was threatened with a razor blade. When another car ap peared behind them in a coun try lane, Mrs. Hansen freed her hands, leaped out and ran to the approaching vehicle. Mrs. Hansen described her terrorizer as being 45 years old, six feet tall, wearing an orange plastic helmet and work fclothes. He appeared to be a construc tion or logging worker, she said. Highway 30 Crash Takes Two Lives. The Dalles HP) A two-car collision on U. S. Highway 30, 15 miles west of here Saturday took the lives of two persons and injured five others. Killed in the collision were Mrs. Maxine Gale, 31, The Dal les, and Merle J. Vanderyacht, 43, Astoria. Injured were John Joseph Gale, 32, husband of Maxine, and the four Gale children, Grif fith, 7; Debee Louise, 4; Virgin ia, 3; and Michael, 5. The husband is listed in criti cal condition in a Hood River hospital and Deebee Louise is listed as critical in a hospital at The Dalles. The accident occurred at 1:57 a.m., according to state police officers. Vanderyacht had pulled out to pass a hay truck on a sweep ing curve and struck the Gale car which was traveling east. State police officers said that both cars were demolished. Woman Assaulted In Family's Presence Sacramento ItPl A 28-year-old mother was raped in her motel room early Saturday in the presence of her husband and three children, police said. Mrs. Donald Beckett, Los Angeles, was ravished by a masked gunman who entered the room shortly before sunrise and demanded her husband's wallet. The assualt was carried out as her husband and three sons, aged 7, 6 and 4, were forced to lie face down on other beds in the room. Beckett said the gunman ap parently gained entry with the help of a key which Beckett had left in the door before re tiring. The Intruder wore a green and white scarf over his face, was about 35 years old and stood six feet tall. Police said his des cription and behavior was not similar to that of assailants in recent Bay area attacks. Emergency Relief Rushed To Japan Isle Tokyo, Japan (IP) relief ag encies rushed rescue teams, med ical supplies, food and drinking water to Japan's southern island of Kyushu Saturday to relieve devastation wronght by two days of floods and landslides. Japanese police officially list ed 478 persons dead, 298 mis sing and 3,646 injured as of mid night Saturday. They said more than 100,000 others were home less or otherwise in distress. Police said casualty reports would rise as communications were restored in the stricken areas. Japanese newspapers esti mated the final toll of dead and missing might reach 3,000. Sudden torrential rains dump ed 31 inches of water in 24 hours on the Nagasaki area of western Kyushu Thursday. Woman's Body Found In San Francisco Bay San Francisco (IP) The body of a fully clothed woman with several "knife-like wounds" on her arms was found Saturday floating in San Francisco Bay near Pier 22. The coroner's office identified the woman as Dorthea Johnson, 30. A spokesman said the cause of death had not been deter mined. An autopsy was to be performed tomorrow. The spokesman said the "slashes on her arms could not have caused death." He said the condition of the body indicated it had been in the water "only a few hours." Sunday. July 28. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Missing Boys Found In Blue Mountains Baker IIP) Two boys lost in the heavily wooded Blue Mountain area near Unity, Ore., 45 miles south of here, were found early Saturday by sher iff's deputies. The youngsters. David Gray, 8, and Richard Gray, -3, were found at 12:30 a.m. about three miles from the Orion mine where their parents were visi ting friends. They had wandered from the mine about 7:30 p.m. Friday. The boys were unharmed and repor ted in good condition. Superior National forest in northeastern Minnesota is the largest national forest in the United States. It covers "more than three million acres and has more than 5,000 lakes. 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