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CITY EDITION COLDER (Weather Report, Page UA) LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER. 90th Year, No. 356 two sections-26 pages Eugene, Oregon, Friday, December 21, 1956 Entered at Second Cliu Hatter at the postotflce, Eugene, Ore. PHONE Dl 5-1551 Price 5 Cents Justice W. L.

Tooze Found Dead Negroes End Montgomery ii in hi in i i i. i i mm ammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmamm s- Friday Morning at Salem Home Carol Singers Perform Friday Approximately 200 voices will be blended in Christmas song Friday from 8 to 9 p.m. for the annual carol sing sponsored by the Eugene Junior Chamber of Commerce. Cascade Singers, 45 of them, will be atop Skinner's Butte while other groups will sing from street corners along Willamette St. Happy Day is the event chairman.

SALEM UI Supreme Court I til May. 1916. when ho entered Justice Walter L. Tooze, 69, died 'the Army as a captain in the 91st at his home Friday morning Division. He was discharged in July, 1919, and served 15 years in the Oregon National Guard.

Tooze, who was scheduled to become Oregon's chief justice next month, was found dead in Upon returning from service, bed when his wife tried to arouse: he practiced law in McMinnville him. until 1928. when he moved A member of the court since Portland. 1950, Tooze has been assist Justice Tooze was a Multnomah Bus Boycott Desegregation Starts Smoothly (Picture, Page 5A) MONTGOMERY, Ala. CD-Racial integration on buses started smoothly in Montgomery Friday, bringing to a dramatic close a tradition in public transportation dating back for decades.

Negroes, some of whom had refused to ride segregated city buses for more than a year as LA ant chief justice the past two years. The court had elected him as its new chief justice for the two years beginning next Jan. 7, and County circuit judge from 1940 to 1950, when he became an Oregon Supreme Court' Justice. He suffered a heart attack last summer, but recovered so that he resumed his full work load. He was a hard worker on, the court, writing more opinions than any other justice.

Smith will appoint his successor. Justice Tooze was reelected last month to a six-year term. He leaves a widow and four children, Walter a 111, Suzanne, James and Donald. Crews Ready To Tackle Canal Chore By LEONARD I.F.DDINGTON Of The Associated Press PORT SAID, Egypt Wl The last two items of unfinished the announcement was to be made next Wednesday. Born in Butteville, Marion County, Feb.

24, 1887, Justice Tooze attended schools in Wood-burn. He was graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1908, and was admitted to the Oregon Bar a year later. He practiced law in Dallas un- part of a mass boycott movement, frWi WALTER L. TOOZE Found Dead business before departure of British-French forces appar boarded the buses calmly, taking seats where they chose. Under the segregated pattern, Negroes were required to sit in the rear, white passengers occupied scats toward the front Segregation laws were knocked out by a U.S.

Supreme Court decision which went into effect here Thursday in this Deep South city of 120,000. Police Charge 1 3 True Bills Returned Demonstrators By Lane Grand Jury NO VIOLENCE (Morris photo) A PRE-CHRISTMAS FATALITY Bystanders and state police above examine the smashed 1940 Plymouth in which Wilfred William Bonner, 50, of Junction City, lost his life Thursday afternoon in an auto-pickup collision on River Road, about two miles south of Junction City. Four other members of the Bonner family, all riding in the auto, were hospitalized. The front of the smashed pickup can be seen at the right. Crash Kills Lane Man; 6 Die in State Mishaps ently were cleaned up Friday, These were an exchange of prisoners and an announcement that the British salvage fleet will stay at Port Said to help clear the way for traffic through the Suez Canal.

The British-French handed over 386 Egyptian prisoners of war to the U.N. force shortly after noon Friday. The Egyptians surrendered 450 British civilians to U.N. troops, who conducted them by train into the buffer Some Negroes took front seats Friday and white passengers sat JOHANNESBURG tfl Police charged with clubs drawn into a crowd of 400 demonstrators Four secret indictments, 13llace Dwaine Arre, 100 River true bills and two not-true bills Eugene, receiving stolen proper- behind them. were returned by the Lane County Thursday outside the building ty; Charles Seymour, Deadwood, There were no reports of vio grand jury in circuit ourt Thurs larceny by bailee; Helen Craw lence, but four carloads of white where South Africa's mass treason trial is being held.

Five Afri day afternoon. men and others in a pickup truck ford, 2075 Springfield, assault with a dangerous weapon; The two not-true bills cleared cans were injured. stayed close to a downtown bus near El Cap, south of Port Lorcn Graff, no address, obtain Frank Batey, 215 S. 22nd It was the third day of demon stop with the occupants paying close attention to the historic Said. ing money and property under Springfield, of assault charges; strations and violence arising from the trial of 153 persons, false pretenses; Gene L.

Johnson, and Herman Simpson Fricks, Rt. 1, Salem, of larceny charges. obis McKcnzie Springfield most of them known opponents transition to integration. One unidentified white man, watching a Negro board a bus, shouted to nhntoffranhers. "Go A Junction City man was killed was in good condition.

Janice forgery; James Nichols Rt. 4, acing further action in circuit of the government racial segre Eugene, entering a motor vehicle and four members of his family I18, was in good condition. And gation policies. They are accused BRITONS VOLUNTEER Vice Adm. L.

F. Durnford Slater, commander of the British-French naval task force, announced Thursday night that hundreds of the 1,100 men of the British salvage fleet had vol court, however, are the following persons, and crime with which of the family auto, stated he didn't know what happened, all he could remember was the pickup in front of him, according with intent to steal; WnitaliroH ftpr nn.r Pat Joanne, 13, was in fair condi- Horman Uhcad and get that black of trying to establish a Commu tion. Haas, 323 W. 10th Ave they are charged: cugenc, 'a Negroes standing collision between their auto and nist-type regime of South Africa. HEARING ADJOURNED entering a motor vehicle with In- nearby let the remark go unchal- Occupants of the pickup truck Charles William Lauderbaugh, 1296V4 Hwy.

99 Eugene, rape; to state police. IN DEEP SHOCK tent to steal; Gary Gene Irwin, llenged. They had been coached 2838 W. 11th Eugene pettylhv their leaders to refrain from- unteered to continue work under yy im iumu were not hospitalized. They were two miles south of Junction City! the driver, Mrs.

Judy N. West- Officials announced the hear Nye Stanley Skaggs, Philomath, the U.N. flag and U.N. protec ing had been adjourned until Jan. Officers reported they were grand larceny, William Donald I larceny; Clarence George Irwin, violence and to ignore such inci.

late Thursday afternonn. Iphall, 20, of 4127 River Rd. tion. The crews included 450 men unable to talk to Mrs. Westphall Henderson 1BR3 43rrt Ave 2836 W.

11th ConCeallng rinnU. of the royal navy. Junction City, her 3-year-old daughter, Judyrae, and two sons because she was in deep shock mere nas oeen no ueiaueQ in- Eugene, larceny of livestock; Wal- sioien property; ana nicnara wj- Ncgr0 ministers rode the buses, There was no immediate indi formation on accusations against noy uienn, mx uosnen, rape. loo. sct examole for their of Gordon Frost, same address, 5- following the accident.

The investigating officer theo cation from Cairo as to how the the. defendants from inside the Identity of those charged in the people. Three of the clergymen year-old Richard and 6-year-old Egyptian government would re courtroom set up in Johannes-1 secret indictments will not be rized that possibly both drivers the Rev. M. L.

Kind the Rev. Secret Bill Victor. State police said Mrs. known until the persons are ar hit the brakes at the same time ceive this arrangement. The previous position has been that the burg's drill hall.

Bail was granted the Ralph D. Abernathy and the Rev. W. J. Powell said bus drivers Westphall is the housekeeper for the Frosts while the family is in rested and charged with the and both pulled to the wrong ciitt ih nA Eigypuan government oiq noi od- crimes.

Warrants were issued by Follows Fatal were "exceptionally" courteous. California. The demonstrators cheered the each other. The pickup hit the ject to U. N.

'use of the ships and Judge Frank Reid following the King and Abernathy comment State police said little was defendants as they left. Police equipment, but opposed use of the grand Jury's report. Bonner auto in the right side ed after alighting from a bus known about how the collision 'made a charge with clubs, chasing crews. The Egyptian press nas near the door. Many of the Persons indicted by Auto Crash downtown, "that was a mighty gumiiuwu.

occurred. Robert Bonner, driver the demonstrators and using their protested that the British and i uio giuuu jiuy me Hireuuy in cus- T. Thursday night, a 57-year-old French were trying to keep mili clubs until they all scattered. tody of police agencies. Some were expected to appear fn cir- ADVISORS OS HAND Small groups of Africans remain- Robert C.

Farmer, 28, McKen- tary personnel in the Canal Zone bicycle rider was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital for outpatient treatment and later released af The pre-Christmas accident was one of several Oregon traffic accidents that resulted in six fatalities and injured nearly a dozen persons Thursday and Friday. Victim of the auto-pickup crash was Wilfred William Bonner, 50, of 720 Elm Junction City. State police said was dead when they arrived at the scene of the collision. An autopsy Friday morning revealed that death was caused by multiple internal injuries. Bonner was sitting on the right side of the auto, which received the full impact of the crash.

RUSHED TO HOSPITAL Four members of the Bonner family all passengers in the auto were rushed to Sacred Heart Hospital where they remained Friday. Bonner's wife, Leila, 51, was in fair condition. Robert, 16, driver of the Bonner automobile, cd on street corners shouting izie Bridge, was arraigned in Lane full nnnrt Vnrlnv mnrntna in hnnp I. An I I k. m-fiu a n.

a ifi 11 jiau an- civilian guise. MAINTENANCE WORKERS abuse at the police. viitun vuuii. riiuny illuming mi nri rlmonls and entpr Pas A rr. NATIONWIDE ROUNDUP The 450 British civilians ex a "uiiiiiiuc viitfi iu aiming from a filial accident on the would be made to have a.

minister or Negro civic leader on each bus during the first few days of the The defendants, most of them McKcnzie Highway in October. seized in a nationwide roundup Traffic Toll Estimated At 660 Lives By ASSOCIATED PRESS American motorists wheeled into the long perilous Christmas Earthquake Farmer was one of four indict two weeks ago, include a mein- ter his bike was struck by an auto near the Oakway Market on Coburg Road. The bicycle rider was George Irwin, 360 Harlow Rd. State police said the driver of the auto, Frank C. Beeson, Rt.

1, Box 2, Springfield, was northbound on Coburg Road at approximately ed secretly Thursday by the coun transition to integration. They said they hoped it would help changed were employes of contractors in charge of maintenance of British military bases in the Suez Canal Zone that were handed over to Egyptian military control earlier this year. The civili uci ui Brand Ue js t0 cn(er prevent possible violence. "iOff Canada newspapermen, among omcrs. an Wcdnesav.

meinl ernuns are renresented The Negroes ended their boy The indictment charges that he ans were interned by the Egypti Rioting broke out outside the is responsible for the death of SEATTLE Wl A strong earth- ans at the start of the seven-week hall while the hearing was being 30 miles per hour when the col Mrs. Lena L. Brown, killed Oct. I quake, recorded in seismographs cott one year and 16 days after it began. The boycott began Dec.

5, 1055, in protest against the fining of a war. I held. Police opened fire to dis- fi I t.vo..un Lv'iiiaiui, uuvfui act uss mi: UH11UI1, was IU lision occurred at 7:30 p.m. State police said Beeson stated that the bicycle rider suddenly All uiai remained uic una. i pei i.c a ciuwu ui micg cast of BU(, MvcT jhave centered early Friday near 10 Africans.

Four white civilians, British -French withdrawal was Tllft nmnlainl nltnnne tl.of il. sl ll. Tln.ln rr Mnnn rnnmclmc, fn- rnffteinif tn nnlicpmpn m. nu.bvn mc nullum; uil.iltK1" atniiiniii-afl POUCemtn was drivine hiK 1O50 Car lha nnrlhnrn nrilich fnliimhin mnvn tn HlP rear nf a hllS. Mont- weekend Friday.

The National Safety Council figured that 45 million automobiles will be on the streets and roads at one time or another during the four-day holiday period. nonwhites and two were injured. Venn Makes MAN KILLED (Continued on Page 5A) recklessly, that he was under the coast. igomery's population of about influence of liquor, and that the! wiehinoinn'OOO includes about 50,000 No- The University of Washington 1 to put aboard the last troops and tanks holding a slim barbedwirc beachhead area. Just when this would take place was not announced.

The general feeling was auto had defective brakes, head- IHUIO na(l (lPICCllVC Ui Frank Neumann, grocs. seismologist, Om regon Mountains light and steering. Mrs. Brown, of estimated il ppnlprptl at spa. that Day" embarkation would Myrtle Point.1 nun nnrih nf Kp.iiiIp I be Friday night or Saturday 1 reated to onow was riding with her son and Ilc dcscribed it as "a very strong! 1 lUCker Injured 1 i and that they will roll up a total Pr)IV TQ 111 of seven billion miles of travel.

if The council has estimated that traffic accidents will cost a record Dist. Atty. Eugene Venn lied 660 ljvcs uncss drivers and pe. a 14-page answer Thursday to a "unpreccdent- $150,000 slander suit against h.m! morning. KiuiiuMJii wnu wimu I IMlll I1UIK Iritmnr U.

N. sentries were posted at At Train Crossing SALEM 11 Heavy snow fell nomc irom a oeer nunung irip lo in nmnnn'i mnnniiiiK rlnrino Orccon when the accident! It was recorded similarly at the the former British-French headquarters building. nH a are inloccurrcd. ilalnornia institute ol tecnnoio- MYRTLE CREEK (Al A South- I California Institute of Tcchnalo- i pv in I'nsaflpna. I he nrsl wave1 court on ern racinc ireiiu utiui cuiuum most of the high areas, the Orc- Farmer appeared Huey, local attorney.

recorded in Seattle at 1:00:36 with a loaded H4-ton feed truck 1 11C 1IUI1II1IJ uiuuii! lift lainui; counting purposes, begins at 6 liVifHii inrl nnHc at miri. re- crutches Friday. He had received Commission Two Refugees gon Highway ported Friday. a.m., 2 minutes and 50 seconds ncar hc raiir0ad's depot Friday, Venn alleged in the answer, that a fractured leg in the falal crash any statements mane Dy mm ht at Chains are required Plan to Marry thesc'The defendant is free on $1,000 ulc trapping the driver under flam- bail. Eucenc Attv.

Elmer Sahl-i qulvPr- ing wreckage of tTic vehicle. 1 nnintc PORTLAND Uf! Two of the Timhrlinp inches of new strom was appointed to represent' Neumann said the shock waves! Glenn Floyd Peterson, 52, the 12 Hungarian refugees who came to conunuua lor anoiu an nour anu driver ana Aiyriic ureex couiicu- snow; Warm Springs Junction 3, him. Oregon lo Begin new lives win Santjam pass lo, Willamette Pass I Hark the Yowl Of a Hound Dog Over the Town ALBANY. Ore. Wl Christmas carols sounded out over the business heart of Albany in the traditional manner Thursday.

One of them ended and when the next started, shoppers halted in dismay. It was Elvis Presley rendering that un-Christmas number, "You Ain't Nuthin' But a Hound Dog." By the time civic leaders reached the' location of the record player, the Presley number had been going out over the city some 10 minutes. The changer, which normally shifts from one record to another, had been jammed and the Presley record played over and over. There was no report of who had done it. dO It tOgcmcr.

Mparham 1 I I They are Miklos, 25. and Ter-1 b' haam 'uld bc carricd al Hungarian Tags a niin. 1 man, was rusneo 10 a iiuspuui. The Canadian Press corrc-j State police said his condlinn ap-spondent at Queen Charlotte Cily.ipeared to be "very serious," al-a village ncar the center of the Ihnugh full extent of his injuries islands, reported residents there had not been determined. Police did not feel any tremors during Chief Jim Haun said Peterson's Places: iOn Sale Saturday lur a liidiiidti; iii.t.-iiau aim r.nun1.nmnn 7 Hrppn "concerning Mr.

Huey are true. Hcavy homc-for-Christmas trav-Statements which the district at 'el, winter driving conditions, holi-torneysaid are for "a further and, day drinking and a of separate defense, and in mitiga- dayiisnt add up t0 a maximum tion of any damages make exposure l0 danger. up the remainder of the answer. police wore ready for thejr Huey's suit alleges that the dis- challenging task. Many states trict attorney slandered him while marshaled all available troopers speaking at an August debate in for highway patrol duty.

Some of Roosevelt Junior High School, i them have shifted officers from Atty. Elmer Sahlstrom, Eugene, 'desk jobs to road assignments, debated with Venn about the dis-j The prime targets are speeders trict attorney's jury tampering and drunks, allegations. Huey alleges that he lost busi-ncss, has suffered "great mental John AvCfin anguish" and that his name and lUCUlU rliSUH to he married at 4 Saturday1 Slmmil 3 Tags of "I Shared My Christ- and Clark College be the night. legs and feet were badly burned. in the Lewis Sisters 2.

Chemult 1. Austin 5. mas With a Hungarian chapel here i Thprn alcn wue nar-kivl enmv nn Sold on Street Corners in llnwll- Thoy used their last names roads town Eugene all day Saturday by Government Reports Slight there have been sanded. volunteer teenage and adult or- trani7.1t innc The money will go to the spe- 1. rial lied frnss camunicn tn raise InTTPRSR 1 V.OSt Ol LllVinf Plan Evaluated their application but asked that they not be reported for fear of possihle reprisals against reta-ti es in their Communist oppressed homeland.

Miklos said he plans to get a jo' as an electrician His wife- TAIPEI Government sour- mlief Over the nation the lied Cross is try WASHINGTON The gov-jluild steady or probably decrease reputation have been damaged as the result of the alleged state res said Friday that Nationalist China's second four-year plan, to Case Begins to-he said she also is looking (or hegin Jan. 1, will cost the equiva- ments. 1. hflinn cupH hv Cir. work.

ilent of 160 million U. S. dollars. ing to raise $5 million. Lane eminent Friday reported another during uccemner, January ana County's share has been figured slight rise in living costs one February.

He said a decline could at close to $4,000. lenlh ot I per cent during No-. he expected because of clothing Thus far in the Lane County ivemher. This took ils cost index sales during that period, ramnaicn $2,544 has been col- lo the fifth new peak reached in The November rise took the liv. Idaho 11 Paul I) "sr.

"lC .1, niH Moscow a freshman1 from growth of the same public Matouch. 20, Kollogn, was brought into court Both Rcid and Huey are also su 1956 climb lected. ing cost index to 117.8 per cent of the 1947-49 average, which is Portland 'nr preliminary hearing Friday ing The Orcgonian Al the same time the Bureau newspaper, charging the newspa By Ghostly Light of Lanterns Eastbourne Exhumations Begin bor Statistics said that net periou, 1 nis was i per of I of factory nove inc ngure 01 a year soendahle famines workers and their buying power on charces he set a University of Idaho dormitory fire that killed three students. Four university students teti-tig called a recess just before ting called a recess just before nonn. The proceedings were mov KASTBOURNE, England By 'physician is charged with murder-, body was cremated and the ashes per libeled them in printing an account of the meeting.

Search Continues For Eugene Man the nhostlv light of dickering mg an 81-year-old widow, Mrs. scattered over tne r.nglish han Her nel r.onn six years ago. ing slowly Matnvirh, dressed in pink Dr. Adams was brought to court Thursday to hear the formal storm lanterns, graved iggcrs early Friday erh'imri the body of an aged, wealthy widow from a cemetery in this seaside resort torn sweater, white shirt and slacks. WASHINGTON 1 The Do- solemnly, holding his hand tn minican government and the nj, hpad much of the time apart by gossip of mass murder.

American embassy at Ciudad Tne ynuth is charged with first Tmiilln are continuing, without ripcrpp arson and first decree As the first pale light sifted INSIDE TODAY Nehru calls (or end o( pacts. Page 2A. First family presenls gifts. Page 5A. charge of murder.

He entered no plea, and the magistrate sct Jan. 14 for his trial. Scotland Yard detectives admitted the exhumations were connected with their investigation of Dr. Adams, who was arrested after a months-long inquiry into the deaths over the past 20 years Hotel Installs Curbside TV PORTLAND if. Portland finally cauchl up with Pendleton in easing the parking problem at hoirls: The Multnomah has put into use a curbside trli'visiun set.

Morris Temple, manager of the Temple Hotel Pendleton, who got the idea and put it in operation at his hotel, said it opens up about 10 parking spots which otherwise would be reserved for guests while regislel log. The curlisiile television permits motorists tn drive up, see and talk with the desk clerk and drive on without lost time it no rooms are available. moved to an all-time high, more than offsetting the rise in retail prices. Nel spendable earnings meaning take-home pay rose 17 rents over the month to $75 20 a week for a factory worker with Ihree dependents and to $67.79 for a worker with no dependents. Karh figure is about $2 30 higher than the comparable figures o( a year ago.

The rise in the living cost inilex will mean a wage increase o( 3 rents an hour for about 900.000 workers under union contracts jlied to living costs. Most of the iw-orkers whose wages are affected by this month's index change are in the steel industry. Kwan Clagur, commissioner of the statistics bureau, said he expected that living costs would CHRISTMAS STORE HOURS Most Huqena and Sprlnqfipld stores will be opon lonight and Saturday night until 9 p.m. STORES WILL CLOSE MONDAY, CHRISTMAS EVE, AT 5:30 P.M. i success up to Friday, tne searcn murder for the deatns ot the mrouen inc misi.

ine KraciiK-: for a Eugene man missing since tnrpe students in the blaze which gers lifted out the coffin of Mrs. Dec. 3. swept Hall on the campus Julia Bradnum. B5 year-old widow The State Department said that ast Oct 19 who died May 27, 1952.

so far there have been no solid The Gault fire was the last in At almost the same moment developments in the hunt (or a series that plaeued the camnus across Eastbourne, in another Gerald Lester Murphy, 23. a in October. Student guards had cemetery plot, gravediggers were former co-pilot for the Dominican been po-ted at various buildings exhuming the body of Miss Clara airine. after the first one broke out. Neil Miller, who died at the age The young man disappeared the Prosecutor Lloyd G.

Martinson of 86 in February. 1955. afternoon of Dec. 3 and his auto-said last month that Matovich The exhumations were ordered Biobile later was found abandon-'siened a statement admitting that in connection with an investiga-d on a street in the Dommicanihe et all the (ires on the campus, tion of Dr. John Bodkin Adams, capital.

including the one at Gault. The naj'y, 57-year-old bachelor Women's News 8, DA Editorials 10A Local News IB Sports 2, 3B Comics Theaters Radio, TV fiB Markets 8B Classified 7-11B of some 300 rich old residents of Kastbourne, most of them women. There has been suspicions that someone protited from the old folks' wills. Both of the omen whose bodies were dug up Friday were reported to have been Dr. Adams'.