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estimony Ties WtatKermon Says: Scattered iboweri ccaslwullr" mixed with snow and brief pe like Box Sales riods of partial clearing through Wednesday. High temperatures 40-45; low tonight 30-M. 12 PAGES -fiy CENTS Violence jo Gang WASHINGTON (UPI-A The Albany Democrat-HeraW Vol. LXXXXI, No. 119 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1959 The Albany Herald, Vol.

LXXXII, No. 1 10 zzical Patient testified today that his company had to use gangland poiinections to fight violence with violence in order lo sell its machines. The witness was Milton Hammergren, former vice resident of the Wurlitzer Co. He told the Senate Rack- 4 1 Tornado Slams Into St. Louis; 22 Killed By STAN MOCKLER United Press International ST.

LOUIS (UPI) A "sleeper" tornado with winds up to 110 miles an hour smashed into St. Louis early today, spreading death and destruction first at the southwest edge of the city and then in the central area. Shortly before 10 a.m. p.s.t., the known dead at the city morgue reached 22. Of these, 19 were identified and three were unidentified.

Hospitals reported more than 320 persons were injured. The two city hospitals Itt Committee that racket kering and violence, including murder, was a pattern the music box industry. 4 "We didn't like it but we (till lad to sell juke boxes," he said. He said Wurlitzer would not fcowingly have permitted any England killings in the promotion i its machines, but he said that tat "one of the liabilities of the jsiness. 'Hammergren said he revamped be Wurlitzer distribution force af-er taking over as sales manager 1939 from Homer Capehart, now Republican U.

S. senator from adiana. He said he got help from i Intimate friend named Al Gold-ierf who had underworld connec-fcn. JHe described how Goldberg's fail led to Capone aide Jake Greasy Thumb) Guzik in Chica-jb, to gambler Meyer Lansky in few York and Philadelphia, and aigelo Meli in Detroit among there. Top HoodMms Involved 'Hammergren testified after com-iittee counsel Robert F.

Kennedy fmmented that just about all of te nation's "top hoodlums" have j4 yr: i I treated and released 270 persons and kept another 55 for additional treatment. In suburban Brentwood, the 300-foot transmitting tower of radio station KXLW was brought down by the winds. Chief engineer Jim Mitchell of the station said the tower was built to withstand winds of 100 miles an hour. The tower sheared off part of the room Mitchell was standing in when it came down. "Two more feet and it would have got the five of us," said Mitchell.

Another transmitting tower, that of television station KTVL was flattened in southwest St. Louis and it crushed two residences and three parked cars when it fell. No one was injured. Came Unexpectedly At Kansas City, Donald House, supervisor of the U.S. Severe Storm Warning Center, said that severe storm warnings were out for the area, but "while a twister in the storm was not totally unexpected, we certainly didnt expect one of such intensity to drop down on St Louis.

The heaviest blows of the storm were rained on a 7-by-30 block area in the heart of the city. Bounded by Euclid on the west, Vandeventer to the east, Chouteau to the south and Natural Bridge to the north, it is a predccninantly Negro neighborhood. A rooming house was almost leveled and police and rescue workers worked feverishly by the tea the coin machine busing month in a row. This reflects a Is. He mentioned Frank Accardo, slowdown in the rate of job retook Costello, Abner (Longie) covery from recession lows, the Willman, and Carlos Marcello of report said, few Orleans.

Year Ago Comparison Hammergren. who gave his Unemployment hit a post war "Is this accessary, Doer Sneh aeeme to he (he expression on this Welsh pony's face Veterinarian Francis Kaiser 'examines him with a itetheseope. The pony and six other arrived in Albany yesterday after a 1 trip by ship and track from their original home In Wales, Trawler Missing With 17 Aboard TORBAY, Nfld. (UPI) -Planes and ships scoured the stormy seas off southern Newfoundland today for a 300-ton fishing trawler missing with 17 persons aboard. The Blue Wave radioed Monday she had been "set on her beam ends" by a 60-mile an hour winds and was in danger of sink- ing.

Her position was given as 65 miles southwest of Cape St. Mary's, and 100 miles from the famous Grand Bank fishing grounds. Fishing vessels and freighters arriving in Halifax described conditions in the North Atlantic as the worst weather of the winter. Ships arrived in port with their superstructures burdened down with ice. Integration Continues ALEXANDRIA, Va.

(UPD-Nine Nesro children entered previously all-white schools without incident here today to make Alexandria the third Virginia city where schools integrated. Raymond Sanger, assistant to school Superintendent T.C. Williams, said the children entered Hammond High School and two eleinentarr'-'BclIooll Fleklir-alid without any demonstra tion. Sander said that the whits chil dren were "very quiet" and were described as well-behaved. Some of the nine Negroes were accompanied to school by their parents.

Sancer aaid the two as signed to Hammond High School were met at the door by Assistant Principal Maurice Nichols. Nichols took them to be registered for classes for the spring semester, which actually opened a week ago. Most of the white high school children already were in their Summer School Plan Proposed for Albany former juke box executive Jobless Tolal Up 616,000 WASHINGTON (UPI) -The gov ernment said today the number of jobless increased by 616,000 last montn to 4,724,000. The Commerce and Labor de partments also said in a joint report that employment fell 1,267,000 10 62,706,000, Post-Christmas lay-offs of retail store and postal workers and fur. ther cutbacks in outdoor work accounted for both changes, the report said.

It said job losses were "about normal for this time of year." The drop in employment was larger man the rise in unemnlov- ment because most of those per sons leaving holiday season jobs withdrew from the labor force in stead of seeking other work. The unemployment rate after seasonal adjustments remained virtually unchanged at 6 per cent of the labor force for the second peak of 5,437,000 last June. Last I month's jobless figure exceeded the January, 1958, total by nearly a quarter million, however, The report said that nonfarm employment including self em ployed, domestic servants and un paid family workers fell by during the month to 58 million. Nearly all of this was accounted for by cutbacks in retail tade, post offices and construction work, Manufacturing employment fell by 130,000 from December to January to 15,626,000 with substantial lay-offs in food processing and lumber industries. Producers of el ectronic and generating equipment reported a pick-up in the number of job while ateef and auto employment -showed' little change.

The number of worker! unem ployed for 15 weeks or more rose slightly to 1,375,000. Expert to Speak At City Forum A real estate consultant whose firm studies feasibility of business locations will speak at an Albany downtown forum here Wednesday. He is D. R. Eberhart, Seattle, assistant division manager with Larry Smith western division.

His topic for the noon luncheon meeting will concern the economics of downtown areas. Eberhart for the past 4tt years has been an analyst and production manager for Larry Smith ft Co. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1949, majoring in geography and with addi tional study in economics. Continuing his studies, Eberhart at- tended Northwestern university where he earned a master's de- gree. He completed Ph.D.

course work at Northwestern in 1951, Eberhart taught geography at Ohio State university at Columbus, Ohio and at East Tennessee State college at Johnson City, Tenn. He has also been employed in a professional capacity with one of the federal security agencies in Washington, D.C. His speech here will be the fourth in a series of forums aimed at eventual improvement of the downtown, a forum planned and sponsored by four civic boards concerned with business district problems. Twister Hits in Ohio BUXSBORO, Ohio (UP1V-A toraaio ripped a-naartee nille' swath through southern land Coanty and parts of Browa County today, Injuring five per-seas, ievelutf eld church, Search Fails To Find Plane LEBANON -Pilots here who1 had formed a ground search party to help locate a light plane missing of the missing plane. Searchers1 on the east side of the Cascades at Madras learned today that a report of smoke in the Abbott Butte area was a false lead in the continuing search for the single-engine plane, which vanished Friday on a flight from Prineviile to Salem.

Aboard the missing plane were the pilot, Jim Miller, 24, Ashland, and his 14-year-old twin brothers, Roy and Coy Miller of Turner. Lebanon pilots joined the search during the weekend, and made repeated attempts to scan the Cascades from the air. Bad wea ther and icing conditions forced the planes back to their base, and on Monday a group of Lebanon pilots hiked to the Detroit area. They found no trace of the missing plane. The search was continuing today.

Ken Hepner, manager of the Madras airport, said that eight volunteers from the Central Ore- con Pilots Assn. walked into the rugged Abbot Butte area this morning to check the smoke re port, hot they found th smoke hatt awe fiviii'a si'iw derifif tog, It was later determined that the fire bad been built by a surveyor who had stopped to sat his lunch. Snow, ice and low clouds have hindered the air search. Search officials said a. few planes went up Monday, but were forced down after a brief period of bad wea ther.

Porter Schedules Albany Luncheon Congressman Charles O. Porter will return to Oregon this week, and his tour of the Fourth Congressional district will bring him to Albany on Feb. II. Katberine Harris, chairman of the Lino County Democratic Central committee, said Porter will be at Christie's restaurant for about three hours to meet voters in the district. A no-host luncheon at noon will start Porter's visit here, Mrs.

Har ris said. In a talk after the meal, the Congressman will discuss pros pects for Green Peter dam. "He's anxious to get the reaction to what legislators are trying to do for the Oregon economy," the Linn Democratic chairman said. Porter will set up his headquarters at Christie's restaurant during his visit here. The restaurant, ordinarily closed on Wednesdays, will be opened during bis visit The first session the Congressman's visit wiD be at Eugene on Feb.

15, when be will be the guest at an informal evening meeting. The Albany visit will be Porter's only stop in Linn county. After fus luncheon meeting here, Porter will got to Portland to catch a plane for Washington, D. I -Patsy Ragland, 14. and IwW.

mergency spotlights brother Janes. U-arrived at 1:35 "arching the ruins A power fall-a ure put regular lighting facilities Ime variously as Cross Lake and toneapolis, said be dealt Minneapolis with Morris Rois jr, whom be had known from Jildhood. He readily described ifcisner as "a two-time loser" ith "convictions on income tax id perhaps liquor violations. Rois-he said, "lined up" with Sam rant another man with a long jlice history, to distribute juke ftesv Hammergren said be regards Iran, now operating in Miami, "probably the outstanding mer- pn jser jne coin macume fss today." Francisco Lawyer San Francisco, Hammergren Jl Goldberg brought in Jake Ji, Hm- tJewiibeiras: a criminal lawyer in the in Francisco Bay Area. Erlich, tdd, brought in his brother and I believe Eclich' son," and oldberg himself acted as the dis-ibutor in the area.

The stage was set for Hammer-ren't testimony after Senate conv littee investigators testified that ike box racketeering has spread: rvtrv area of the nation spear- eaded by "hoodlum force" and captive" labor unions. Chairman John L. McClellan b-Ark.) said in an opening state-lent that the inquiry would show lat some labor unions "have een created for the sole purpose acting as an enforcement arm" or gangsters and trade associa- Thieves flit Miami Again MIAMI (UPD-Gentlemen jew-i thieves took an estimated fat gems from an exclusive icwelry shop Monday in the sec-ul major robbery in this resort ma within two days. Jewels worth $400,000 were stolen from a suite at the Americana Hotel in Miami Beach Sunday. i Police declined to link the two eases, but said both looked likJ the work of professionals.

i Two well-dressed, polite talking men held up Levinson's Jewelry Store Monday at gun point and in 'gentlemanly fashion took only 'jewelry that was insured. Five employes, including owner Harold Levinson, were bound with jtape and forced to lie on the floor 'while the two bandits looted the aft and jewel trays. They escaped with "between 1200,000 and $300,000," officers es-, timated, along with about $5,000 cash. However, detective Manon Mur- rah said they courteously left behind a ring worn by one of the (tore employes. One of the gun-aen asked the employe, Irving Cetz, if his ring was insured.

Geti said no, and the gunman replied: "Well, you keep it then. "At least they were gentlemen about the whole tning Murrah 1 said dryly. riu. wid robbery was "'eoineon FBI agents pressed their mvestiea'tion of the hotel suite ill Wf- TV tWelt hut witn Ulue suttras. victims in the earlier robbery were Mr.

and Mrs. Leon C. r.Mwiebaum and her sister, Mrs. Foreign Aid Cut Opposed WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Eisenhower warned the Dem ocratic-controlled Congress today against cutting foreign aid to off set increased spending for Domes tic programs such as housing and airports. The Presflenf' told a newt con ference that be could think of no policy that would be more destruc tive to America's best interests.

He said the nation gets the great est possible return from foreign aid spending. He said that If the Democratic leaders of Congress had any idea of in effect using foreign aid funds to finance domestic programs, then statesmanship was beginning to sink to a verv low level. The President's comments on the foreign aid program were prompt ed by a question about reports that Congress mieht cut foreign aid to offset Increased spending for bousing, airports and other domestic programs. On other topics, -the President: Made clear that be is not alarmed by the current increase in unemployment. But he said not for one minute would he accept 4,700,000 unemployed as a satisfac tory level.

He expressed confidence that there will be a pick-up in employment later this year. Sharply disputed arguments, advanced largely by Democrats, that federal spending on domestic programs should be stepped up in light of the faster growth of Russia's economy. He again pointed out what he considers would be the disastrous effects of inflation on the national economy. He said that he thought the bad effects of deficit federal spending would be greater than the good effects. He urged the American peo ple to pray for the early return of Secretary of state John Foster Dulles to bis duties.

Dulles entered Walter Reed Hospital this morning for a hernia operation which will QMltllHM PM CdWM Schools Merge In Lebanon Area LEBANON Consolidation of Tennessee and Spker school districts was assured today when both districts passed the measure in a ballot Monday. Spicer students have been at tending the Tennessee school during this school year on a tuition basis, and the Spicer school has been abandoned. The merger will end this ar rangement, and the two will be come one district. Tennessee area residents voted 54 yes to 10 no on the consolidation, and the final count in the Spicer district had not been reported this morning. Four more Linn district will vote on similar measures next week.

On Feb. 17 Tallman and Gore schol districts will decide whether tbey want to combine, and on the same day, Lacomb and Green Mountain will vote on a merger. Ia tUn eases, the ballot will be at the school bouses from 2 to I p.BX tectural office of Annand, Boone, and Lei for a deposit of $50. In other business, the board accepted the resignation of Clayton Wills, vocational agricultural teacher, effective Feb. 15.

Wills has acctcted a position in Clack amas county with the- Oregon State College extension service. His unexpired term will be fill ed by Elton Cannon of Corvallis, who will assume his duties Feb. 16. Cannon, is a graduate of Oregon State College and has been work ing for his master's degree there. He has done substitute teaching in Cottage Grove High school and had done his practice teaching at Central Independence High school in Monmouth.

Assessor Backs Lien on Oil Well County Assessor Jason T. An derson Monday defended the county's action in slapping a tax lien on oil drilling equipment near Lebanon. Anderson said recent criticism of the action was unjustified. He said the tax hen was the only way of protecting the county against having the equipment removed from Oregon after the oil well failed to produce oil. The county has been criticized by Adolph Hildebrand, secretary of the Linn County Oil Development who said the tax lien was a reflection on the honesty of those who are seeking to find oil in Oregon.

Anderson said there had also been other criticism of the action. Denying that the action was an attempt to embarrass the oil drilling firm, Anderson said the tax lien procedure was established by law as a safeguard to other taxpayers. He said tt is used frequently. "I cant see where this office should make concessions to any person or Anderson said. "My policy is to treat all taxpayers fairly and equally in all respects." The tax lien was filed against the Sills Drilling Co.

of Bakers-field. which did the drilling here under an agreement with the Linn county firm. A three-month drilling effort which cost nearly $100,000 failed to produce more than traces of oil and gas at the welL Pool Cues Used in Bottle at Golf Club PORTLAND (UPI) Larry Al-den Gran berg, 29, a logger from Corbett, was jailed under $400 bail Monday night after police said he was involved in a struggle at the Glendoveer golf club involving four deputy sheriffs and several citizens. Officers said two pool cues were broken over his bead in the meelee before deputies arrived. They said the fracas started after the logger had been asked to leave.

The possibility of a six-week summer session at Albany Union High school was introduced last night by Supt. John R. Cox at a meeting of the district U-8 school board. Ha uid that If parents and stu dents showed interest in. thenlag.

an experimental program might be set up to offer remedial reading, make-up courses in English and social science for students who had failed those courses, and advanced English and mathematics for gifted students. Similar summer schools are now carried out at Lebanon, Corvallis, Eugene, Portland, Medford and Beaverton. If the summer session were instituted it would run for six weeks immediately following the regular school year, which will end June 5. 'Mornings Only Classes would meet in the mornings only, five days a week. Each course would entail two hours of classwork per day.

Students making up failures would receive credit, and advanced courses would carry honorary credits which are recognized by some colleges, the superintendent said. The school would be staffed by regular faculty members. For the next few weeks the school admiinstration will investi- ut gate to see siuaems wouio oe interested in such 'a session. No definite plans for a summer school can be made until funds have been allotted for the program, Supt. Cox said.

During the meeting the school board members examined blue prints for the planned addition to the high school. Bid Opening Due Sealed bids for construction of the adidtion will be received by the board March 5. Copies of the plans and specifications can be obtained from the Portland archi time limit has been set on how long the beard may be grown. Judging wiS take place during the annual Timber Carnival celebration In July. The number of beards in Albany and the rest of Linn County have increased considerably during the past few weeks.

Members of the Albany police department are also joining in the whiskery promotion for Oregon's Centennial, including Chief Ray Maddy who started his beard this week. Newspapers and radio stations throughout the state are helping promote the growth of beards. In Portland, a radio station is holding a contest of its own and one paper baa appointed a beard edi tor. Persons wishing to join the contest locally may sign up and pay their entry fees at the Chamber of Commerce office, Phil Small's Mens store and Albany Typewriter Exchange. and seriously damaging ether buildings.

Patrolman Jack Stetnam af the Illils bore Police Department who saw the black funnel-shaped cloud, said the storm center seemed! to be at (he small com unity of Sugar Tree Ridge where am aid church was leveled. Several farmheases were damaged. Belfast School, south ef here, was severely damaged and two pupils wen Injured. re uss'; Many other rooming houses are in the area. Most of them were damaged.

"God knows how many people are trapped in those buildings," Deputy Fir Chief James Sauer-wine said. Little Looting Reported Roosevelt Hester, a truck driver who lives across the street from the hardest hit rooming house at Delmar and Whittier, said be saw the interior of the building ripped out and. deposited in the street "I was looking out the. window when I first heard the storm," be said. "I aaw the building go Just before I ducked.

Funny, the only sound I beard wsi the hail which came before the wind. Desnite wide open star fronts and vulnerable dwellings, police said there was little looting, two men were caught and handcuffed to a pole while police completed other duties but no others were apprehended, The arena, site of the coming welterweight championship fight between Virgil Akini and Don Jordan, was also heavily damaged, A tower hi the front of the build- Kwrtlmixl Pttt 4 tin Soviet Communist Parry Congress in which Khrushchev used very abusive language concerning the President and other American leaders. Eisenhower said tie would have to wait for a more official and persuasive invitation than that It was in this speech that Khrushchev referred to American leaders ss "dealers in blood." The President opened his news conference with glowing tribute to Dulles. He described Duties as the most valuable man in foreign affairs that be ever bad known. He said be long had urged the secretary Police Chief Russell A.

Hawes assigned 58 patrolmen to the three schools but there was no demonstration of any kind. It marked the first time that a Virginia elementary school was integrated, With the three Alexandria schools, there are now 10 desegregated schools in the state. Six at Norfolk and one at Arlington County obeyed court orders and Integrated quietly last week. Job Agency Bill Read in Senate SALEM (UPI) Creation of a State Department of Employment with a one-man commissioner to replace the- three-man State Unemployment Commission is provided in a bill read for the first time In the Senate today. The bill, introduced by the Senate Committee on Labor and In dustries, provides appointment of the commissioner by tne governor and also creation of an appeal board composed of the commissioner and two other members, also appointed by the governor.

tiara. Ha implied that be expects Dulles to be well by the time the meeting is held. Eisenhower said ther have been suggestions for a meeting with Russia at foreign ministers' level and such a conference would take some time to prepare. Rejects lavitatlea He said be believes Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev is more concenred with a heads of government meeting without an agenda.

Such a summit meeting, the President added, would take even longer to. Eisenhower made clear mat be has no intention of accepting Jaycees List Categories For Beard Championship Ike Lauds Ailing Secretary of State, Asks Prayers for Early Return to Job Ten classifications for Albany's i state-wide beard-growing contest were announced today by Jim Voetberg, chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce committee sponsoring the contest "Not only will we have 10 top prizes for each of these classifications, but we will also have a prize for everyone who enters the contest said Voetberg. The 10 divisions of beards will be judged on the longest beard, scraggliest. most vivid colors, a 1 mosi unusuu, mi hot mustache, best mutton chops, longest handlebar mustache, grey-1 est beard and softest Dearo. amount if the contest shows enough interest on the local and state tevel," he said.

Rules of the contest are simple. A man neeo omy nave a Dearo 'and pay a so-ceni entry ice. mo WASHINGTON (UPI) President Eisenhower today called on the American people to pray for the early return of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to his job. The President said America needs bin. The President spoke at a news conference about a half hour after Dulles entered Walter Reed Army Hospital to undergo a hernia operation.

The President said that so far as he knew, Dulles' illness would not interfere with preparations for western negotiations with Russia on Berlin. Germany and ether Eu- jropean problems. The President noted mat no matter what type of negotiations are held with the Russians, some time will be necessary for prepara- Arthur Cote, all wealthy New voetberg said the contest is as-Yorkers. sured of having a $100 top prize and "possibly we might triple this ALBANY WEATHER Mnndav's bieh temperature 47; this morning's low 35; precipes-1 tioo. .24 of an inch; River level If feet Willamette to take at easier and gee weu.

Away Several Weeka Eisenhower said be could not; KimiiS raw Khrushchev's for the President to visit Russia. The President noted that fhe invitation came in a speech to the v..