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Favored by Nixon Wtathermon Says Mostly sasny Thanaar; high M-M; lew tonight FIELD 1 1 LODGE LEADS-" 12 PAGES 5 CENTS The Albany Democrat-Herald, Vol. No, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1960 The Albany Herald, Vol. LXXXIII, No. 250 I Divers Recover 'Bodies After Rescue Attempt Fails OF VEEP' HOPEFULS CHICAGO (UPI) The last wispy trace of opposition to Richard M. Nixon evaporated today and the Republicans prepared to shout him into nomination for president at tonight's climactic fourth session of the GOP National Convention.

Only the question of Nixon's running mate remained to be settled and there was little doubt he would be Nixon's own choice Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The choice of a vice presidential candidate had been planned for tonight after the presidential balloting. But senators who conferred with Nixon today said the vote for second spot would go over until Thursday. It had been Nixon for -mjon Dua.iaiat, 0 -5 Mark Asks Open Race if.

rv "iv president all along, but supporters of Sen. Barry Gold-water of Arizona, most vocal spokesman of the party's conservative wing, had planned to put him in nomination. Today Goldwater said no. He asked the Arizona delegates to keep him out of it and to cast their 14 votes for Nixon. Hs said he couldn't muster enough votes for a real contest 7 11 Tit 'xftim V'i ail still dressed In the sogry clothes he was wearing during the rescue attempt was one of two men who tried unsuccessfully to pull the drowning pair to shore.

ty Coroner iobert Burnt, left, pronounced both of the victims dead. L. W. Vearrier, Albany, in the picture at lot, points ont to William Lang the point in Bryant park where he plnnged into the river in an effort to save the pair, Vearrier, The body Mrs. VloU Swarm Uken from the WilUmette river after Taesdajr's doable drownint tratedy that als claimed the life of her daughter, Betty Jane Swarm, I.

The mother died In a vain attempt to rescue the little girl. Depu Freak Storm Starts Fires in Willamette National Forest ti 1 in 1 i 1 I 3 Rj (ajmj Mother, Girl Skin divers retrieved the lifeless bodies of a mother and her daughter from the Willamette river within an hour after they drowned together off the Bryant park shore here Tuesday. Nine-year-old Betty Jane Swarm and her mother, Mrs. Cecil Swarm, 42. drowned not more than SO feet from shore after attempts of two men to fescue them failed shortly before I p.m.

yesterday. The Swarm homers at 143S Maple I Ml The victims were part of a swim ming party that included ibout eight persons. Current Catches Girl The little girl was paddling off shore in the Willamette near the mouth of the Calapooia river when drifting currents carried her to deep water. Her mother, noticing the child was in danger, ran fully clothed into the river in an at' tempt to save her. Seo McCuiston of 2505 E.

Queen was floating on an inner tube up stream when he saw the struggling pair. He swam to them, and held them up until a second man jumped in the river to help. The second man was L. W. Year rier, a State Industrial Accident inspector.

McCuiston was ex hausted by his attempts to separ ate the daughter from her moth er's grasp, and Vearrier was un able to hold the pair above the surface. The state inspector re turned to shore, removed his (CwrtlituMl Clma I) Five Bullets Hit Castro Follower CARACAS, Venezuela (UPI) Unidentified assassins early today shot and seriously wounded An dres Cova, chief of the Fidel Cas tro 26th of July movement in Caracas. 'Five bullets hit Cova. His condition was reported as critical at the Central University Hospital. The assassination try cam less than 12 hours after violent out breaks in downtown Caracas between rival groups of pro-Castro and anti-Castro sympathizers.

Police arrested at least 90 persons in an investigation to determine responsibility for the incidents which ranged from fist fights to exchanges of gunfre. I 1 259 located. Two airplanes, one in the southern part of the forest, one over the north portion, were attempting to locate fires today. Besides the fires in the north part of the forest, there were two Crews Check in By United Press International Firefighters who have been battling the blazes in Eastern Oregon for a week now, took a deep breath today and renewed the war, after more lightning storms touched o(f a dozen new fires. But there was a cautious note of optimism.

Wallowa Whitman National Forest Supervisor Jack Smith said the firefighting picture in the. Forest "looks encouraging" except for the threat posed by the new lightning strikes. The dozen new blazes resulted from a lightning storm over the Blue Mountain area west of Baker and La Grande. The largest was a SOO-acre fire west of La Grande in the Starkey area. It was reported under control this morning.

To the. south, other but smaller fires were manned -in the Baker area, and in the Unity area south of Baker. Some of these, including one at the south edge of the Umatilla National Forest, were not yet considered under control, but were being All but one of the lightning strikes Tuesday were to the southwest of the Anthony Lakes fire, largest and most troublesome fire in the Pacific Northwest, touched off by an earlier lightning series a week ago. The Anthony Lakes fire is not yet considered 'under control, but higher humidity eased the threat and the firelines were being held. Supervisor Smith said the fireline at the Anthony Lakes area' would be 40 to miles long when the encircling action Is Some mopping up work has been possible in the Anthony Lakes area, but firefighters were keeping their fingers crossed and their equipment oa the ready in case of new flare-ups.

hard core of well known Communist sympathizers and "Yankee-baiters" led by Jacobs Arbenz Guzman, exiled former president of Guatemala whose pro-Red regime was overthrown in 1964. Ernesto (Cbt Guevara, chief of Cuba's National Bank, was scheduled to address the first business session of the congress in Havana Thursday AO Cuban Roman Catholics were asked to boycott the meeting, which the church last week flatly labeled 'Communist" Castro's speech Tuesday night was' viewed as a direct caQ to his many Latia supporters to force their governments. int an opes break with Washington. MfniiiA 'WOT fntimti JL Soviet Jolfs Neutralists UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UPI Neutralist members of the United Nations were reported upset today at the Russia refusal to permit a check of the facts in the RB-47 incident.

Western diplomats said a number of delegates who have supported some Soviet positions in the past were plainly concerned that the Russians would not even let International Red Cross representatives see two survivors of the plane, shot Juilvj. "On tod U. S. Ambassa dor Henry Cabot Lodge spread on the record evidence of Soviet spy flights near Alaska and trawler activities off the East Coast to demonstrate the "hypocrisy" of Russia's charge that the RB-47 arctic flight constituted "aggression." The Soviet Union used its 88th and 89th U.N. vetoes in the Se curity Council Tuesday night to block international investigation of the incident and prevent Red Cross representatives from visit ing the survivors.

The council killed a Soviet res olution calling for condemnation of the United States for the flight. on all three proposals the vote was 9-1. Russia only support came from Communist Poland. Even Ceylon and Tunisia, traditional cold war "neutralists," voted against the Russians instead of abstaining. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V.TCuznetsov said Russia would consider requests of relatives to see 1st LL John R.

Mc-Kone of Toneanoxie, and 1st LL. Freeman B. Olmstead, of Elmira. N.Y., who survived the ill-fated light, But he made no promises. Teenagers Sight 'Ghostly1 figure No sign has been found of a ghostly figure reported in the Con-ser lake area Sunday night, Sheriff George Miller said this morning, but his office is continuing to investigate the matter.

A group of teenagers said that they bad seen a stoop-shouldered figure, nearly seven feet tall, which made eerie noises. The figure was said to have run away when a flashlight was turned on Miller said that the reports differed on how the figure was dressed, but that all the witnesses agreed it was ghostly in appearance. Bodies of Seven Climbers Found CORTINA d'Ampezzo, Italy (UPI) Alpine rescue parties to day found the roped -t bodies of 'seven inexperienced mountain cumbers who plunged 2.61 feet to their death on a glacier Tuesday. Four men and three women, all Italians between the aged, of 21 and 28.. set out with little equip ment to climb the lower glacier of 10.70Moot ML Antelao, second highest peak in the Italian Dolo mite.

Rescue teams said their bodies were still linked by 120 feet of Lightning touched off 15 forest fires in a freak storm that covered much of the Willamette National Forest Tuesday, according to David Gibney, forest supervisor. He said that none of the fires covered more than a quarter acre, and that forest crews hoped to have most of the fire out before temperatures reach a peak in the forest today. Three fires, and possibly a fourth, were in the Cascadia area uf the forest, tJttmey rahl.One of the three has been extinguished, one has not been located, and the other two are manned, he said. Two of the lightning strikes started fires in the Mill City area of the Willamette National Forest, and four started In the Detroit Ranger Station area, Gibney said. Rains Cause Worry Light rains that accompanied the storm caused more worry than relief among foresters.

Gibney said that rains measured at about .03 of an inch in the Cascades was not enough to dampen the ground or reduce fir danger, but it might cause forest visitors to be lax in handling fire. "We hope campers don't become complacent, the danger is still critical," Gibney said. "Practically Done of the rain reached the ground, it landed on the trees and evaporated. It Just amounted to a heavy fog for a while." Adding to the critical danger, tie said, was the drain on firefigbi-Ing manpower by eastern Oregon fires. "We have sent 75 of our top people to eastern Oregon, so we're running shorthanded," the forest supervisor said.

Some rangers from the Willamette forest have Rocky Joins Nixon Drive CHICAGO (UPD Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon today got Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's agreement to campaign for Nixon from coast to coast in the forthcoming campaign. Nixon, assured of nomination for president at the Republican National Convention tonight, met with Rockefeller and the New York delegation this morning.

Rockefeller, wearing a big "Nix on for President" button, emerged from the meeting with the vice president and said he would campaign for Nixon's victory in November. Nixon interrupted to say he wanted Rockefeller's active backing not only in New York but in other states. In California?" a reporter asked. Yes, certainly in California," Nixon replied. The New York governor added: 'In California and in any state.

It will be a pleasure." Nixon wrtit on to face southern delegates from Alabama, Florida and Louisiana. He conceded that southern delegates may be unhappy about the revised GOP platform but told them their choice was that or letting more liberal Democrats "take over control of the country-" Nixon started his day at a breakfast ot the ualitorma dele gation. He was introduced by Sen. Thomas Kuchel, (R-Calil.) and greeted by former Sen. William F.

Knowland and former Gov. Goodwin J. Knight. Nixon called California a "key state" in the coming election, which, ha said, will be the closest of tht century. He urged the dele gation to Jet precinct workers know that they are the most im portant element of the campaign, and "we will do a job in California such as never has been done before." Fautus Triumphs In Demo Primary LITTLE ROCK.

Ark. (UPD- Gov. Orval E. Faubus early today won an overwhelming victory in the Arkansas Democartic pri mary assuring him an unprece dented fourth term as governor. With 2,226 of 2,327 precincts re porting, unofficial totals gave Faubus 211,182 votes.

His closest opponents were Joe C. Hardin with 56,000 votes and Bruce Bennett with 52,825. H. E. Williams polled 29,218 votes and Hal Mill- nap Jr.

-Faubus, whose popularity In de fying the federal integration order in 1957 carried him to a third term victory in 1051, combined a carryover from his integration policies with the record of his ad ministration in securing-W per cent of this year's vote. Hardin, who finished second, was considered an integration moderate. Bennett was the-state's attorney general for two terms and formulated most of the anti- integration legislation passed dur ing Faubus tenure. Both Hardin and Bennett along with college president Williams failed to concede defeat Spirited Session HELSTON. England UPI -Police disclosed Tuesday that when they raided a ghost-watching session at the Blue Peter Social Club the only thing they found was illegal spirits.

deroui ovation when be was Introduced. And there was a catch in his voice as be joined the delegates in singing "Lot Ms Call You Sweetheart' to Mamie at tha end of the evening. sUctnws Lame Duck With the cartaia presidential nomination of Nixon by the convention tonight, Eisenhower be comes truly a lame duck President, but there was no suggestion of that Tuesday when all Chicago joined Is "Ike Day." An estimated on million per-son, visiting delegates and just plain citizens, jammed Chicago's loop to smother the President in confetti as he paraded slowly from a small helicopter port beside Lake Michigan te the GOP convention hotels. Eisenhower called tht receptioa CHICAGO (UPI-The Republican vice presidential nomination should be open to all comers, Oregon's 22 vote delegation decided today. Oregon Gov.

Mark Hatfield, who tried unsuccessfully to get Nelson A. Rockefeller in the No. 2 spot, said nominations should not be limited. Hatfield will nominate Richard M. Nixon for president at tonight's session.

Hatfield told the delegation of a United Press International dispatch that Nixon wanted United Nations Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge as his running mate. One spokesman for the Oregon delegation said Lodge "is not the choice of Oregon unless he's the choice of the vice president." Ike Advocates 'MiddleRoad' CHICAGO (UPI) President Eisenhower warned Republicans in an informal goodbye speech to day to stay out of the political "gutters" of right and left. Speaking with deep fervor, Eisenhower admonished his party to ficht for "middle of the road government." The President spoke at a break fast meeting with GOP leaders and officials as the Repub lican National Convention pre pared to adopt, its I960 platform and nominate Vice President men ard M. Nixon for the White House. Eisenhower breakfasted with member of the Republican Na tional Committee, GOP senators, representatives, and governors, and members of his Cabinet.

It was a farewell meeting with the party leaders before his departure with Mrs. Eisenhower for Denver. It was his last message as President to a Republican He reminded the Republican leaders that he would be President for another six months. He said they should take this into consideration in drafting their platform because "You cant put out a platform saying what the Republicans are going to do until there la some effort to ten what I'm going to do." This was a good natured ref erence to GOP platform ditier-ences, now apparently resolved, which the President said were examples of healthy party action in forging a common policy. He went on to say that from what he knew of the newly revised platform, there was nothing in it that did "violence to my beliefs." Strike Halts N.Y.

Garbage Hauling NEW YORK UPI)-Ten thousand day workers of the New York City Department of Sanitation walked off their jobs today, bringing to a bah garbage and refuse collection and street cleaning operations. S. Member of the Uniformed San- itationmen's Association voted the work stoppage early this morning as a result of a deadlock in contract negotiations. Thousands of shouting men marched on City Hall and set up a picket line. "astonishing." but the big Jolt was still to come.

When he en tered the convention amphitheatre Tuesday night and gazed again upon the scene of his first nomi nation eight years ago, a mignty thunder of tribute shook the building. Sure, a lot of It was prearranged, like the girls who distributed strip of red. whit and blue cloth to the delegates before the President arrived; th signs saying "Well done. Ike and Ma-mi" and "We like Ike" had to have been painted well ahead of time. Dia Rack Building But when the waving cloth turned the arena into a fluttering riot of color and when the men and women thronging the aisles with signs began to leap up and down la shnii excitement.

A was and that he was afraid his certain defeat would be taken as a defeat for conservatism. Ledge Appears Certain GOP National Chairman Thrus-ton B. Morton of Kentucky appeared to be the only man with even an outside chance to getting the vice presidential nod over 1 Lodge. But Nixon wants Lodge and President Eisenhower wants Lodge. The vice president said, however, that, he wouldn't make his final choice until he consults with 25 or 30 party leaders after his own nomination tonight.

This made it possible that the vice presidential nomination might go over until Thursday. But morion said the convention would try to wind up this aspect of its business tonight as scheduled, In New York, Lodge and his wife were all packed and ready to fly here by jet airplane late today. As he cleaned up United Nations work. Lodge refused to say whether he thought he would get the vice presidential nomina tion. AH he said was that be had not asked for it.

Will Adopt Platform i 'The way also was cleared for adoption of the 1960 platform with its civil rights, defense, and for eign policy planks reshaped to meet Nixon demands. The overhauled planks did not go all the way to fit the pattern set by Nixon and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller in their secret negotiations last weekend. But Nixon's headquarters Indicated they wen satisfactory, and Southern; leader abandoned their battle against them.

Rockefeller Disappofnted Rockefeller issued an early morning statement saying he was disappointed with parts of the civil rights plank but was willing to go along with it. President Eisenhower gave the Republicans their cues for the I960 campaign Tuesday night in his appearance before the conven- iCMtlnvMI Pm Iihm SI Man Sentenced For Clubbing Harvey Kenneth Arnst, S5, Wald-port, the man who was accused of hitting a woman hitchhiker over the' head with an iron bar, pleaded guilty in district court to a reduced charge of assault and battery and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. i Arnst was arrested by state police near Eugene July 12 after Katharine Violet Schwab, 21, Riddle, said that he had stopped his car about five miles north 'of Harrisburg and struck her. She said that she was on her way to her parents in Wren and had accepted a ride from Arnst at Oakridge. Miss Schwab ran from the car after the incident, and Arnst turned and headed south.

Arnst originally was charged with assault, being armed with a dangerous weapon. He had waived preliminary hearing on this charge on July 18. was dismissed on motion of the district attorney and the lesser charge substituted. Arnst was' given credit for the time he had spent in jail already. He has been held since his arrest in lieu of $5000 bail.

Ike, Mamio the party saluting the hero who slew the Democratic in 1952. Tor eight minutes, the din rocked the building. Eiwnbowor stood in the center of the hich rostrum, the smoky sprt-lights stahbing down cn his sun-ruddy bald head. He grinnpd, he laughed, he threw his arms hizh over his head in a characterise; gesture cheered by millions from New Delhi to Santhicn. There was a brirf lull, he his reading from the breast pocket of his p-iford grey business suit, and pljicpj the text of his speech on the rns-urn.

The applause rr-uptH the President thc h. aH in amazement. He took his p' i -es and in th pn-M moisture rVar'v evui the corners of i Oregon Plywood Opens Production SWEET HOME Oregon Ply wood Corp. started production of green veneer Friday, employing some 30 men on a day shift. A night shift is expected to start soon, according to the firm president.

Flovd Van Horn. The mill has been closed since it burned in a fire last year on June 12. Hit-Run Said BROWNSVILLE -A 40-year-old Brownsville man, Shelley Littell, is in the Sacred Heart hospital in Eugene today suffering from injuries received in what appears to have been a hit and run accident. Litlell's attending physician said that he-has a possible spinal cord injury which has impaired the use of his legs. The hospital said that he is in fairly good condition and is being examined today.

Chief of Police Robert Kemnow said that he found Littell lying on Highway 228 about Vk miles east of Brownsville shortly after 7 p. m. Tuesday. He was sent to the area by two men who came to his office, Kemnow Littell told Kemnow that he had been visiting some friends when they got into an argument so he decided to walk home, A few hundred yards from the house, he said, something hit bim. At first, he was not sure whether it was a car but later stated that it was definitely vehicle.

Kemnow took him by ambulance to the Lebanon Community hospital where he was given first aid treatment and then transferred to Eugene. About two years ago Littell was Injured badly when he stepped from' a moving car near Lebanon on Highway 20. Local YMCA Gets Surprise Gift A Wisconsin man here on busi ness developed an interest in the local YMCA drive that led him to send a 11,000 personal check to the organization today. The surprise conrtibutor is Vic tor F. Braun.

president of the Ladish Co. of Cudany, Wis. Ladish a metals company, has an interest in Oregon Metallurgical Corp. When Braun came to Albany last weekend, his conversation with Stephen Shellofl, Oremet president, drifted to the Mid-Willamette Fam ily YMCA. When be learned of its objections, Braun expressed an in terest that he translated into a $1,000 donation.

Mac Shakes Up British Cabinet LONDON (UPI -i Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan today named the Earl rA Home, I7 foreign secretary a large-Kale cabinet shakeup that touched off a furious political storm in Britain. Home Is a shy, retiring Scottish aristocrat who is almost a political unknown. He succeeded SeJ-wyn Lloyd who had held the job since December, IKS, Injuiytarjse in the Lowell area, three at Rig-don, and one at Oakridge. The fires, in most cases, were snag blazes or tree strikes that spread to surrounding cover material, Gibney said. Thermometers Hit 96 Degree Level Temperatures- Tuesday reached within four points of the 100 degree mark here, according to local weather records.

The 98 degree reading marked the first time in seven days that the mercury had topped 90 degrees. Sultry skies increased the effect of the heat, but last' night the thermometer dropped, to a cool degree level. There was no precipitation, and the Willamette river continued to flow well below the low average reading. It measured feet, Three Injured in Mountain Crash SWEET HOME Three persons were injured in a two-car collision near the Mountain House, about 30 miles east of here, at 1: 13 p.m. Tuesday.

Still fair condition at Lang-mack hospital are Mrs. Betty Ferguson, Eugene and her son, Jeffrey Todd, months old. Mrs. Ferguson has facial cuts and the baby several bruises. Treated and released was John Jacob Jones, Cascadia, who had several teeth knocked out- State police said the accident occurred when Jones turned left into the path of the vehicle operated by James Robert Ferguson, of Eugene.

'Both drivers were cited by state police, Ferguson for having an expired driver's license and Jones for failing to drive to the right. The injured were taken to the hospital by Sweet Home ambu laiy floaters' Canoe Overturns A pair of adventuresome female canoe paddlers from Medford ran into a delay here when their boat overturned near Albany and dunk ed the women in the Willamette river. One of them lost, her billfold containing some 160 and her driv er credentials, she told state police, so the pair stopped here king enough to obtain a temporary driver's license for the car trip home. Undaunted by their upset, the women dried their canoe and clothing, parked their new luxury car here as they planned to re sume their river trip. Presumably the pair launched their boat again, and glided on toward Port, land, without leaving theif names with pot ice here.

FLY IN REFUGEES BRUSSELS UPI) A total of 31171 refugees from the Congo nave landed' at Brussels Airport smea July aboard 17 flights. Sabena Airlines announced Tues 1 gone to aid crews in eastern Ore- ami hut fintiA fit th M4M i I 1 i i stations were without rangers, Gibney said, and that all lookouts are manned. "We're relying on log-; ging outfits to back up the firev fighters," Gibney said. The lightning that ignited fires brought special problems in eating the trouble spot because there was no pattern to the storm. "It was an odd storm," Gibney said.

"It didnt come in on a front, but moved in from the south, flattened -out, and isolated storms within the big storm were cattered over the forest, The foresters are still not sure that all of the strikes have been Chicago Crowds, Delegates Hail astro Pushes Anti-US. Latin America Campaign By MERRIMAN SMITH Halted Press Ialeraatieaal CHICAGO (UPD-If it weren't for the 22nd Amendment. Richard M. Nixon would be running for vfee president again and Dwight D. Eisenhower would be nomi nated by the Republicans for a third term, even at the age of N.

That, at least, seemed to be the emotional message the party sent showering over the chief executive and his wife, Mamie, Tuesday night as the Republican Convention went on a sentimental binge cheering the man who broke the Democratic grip on the White House eight years ago. Eisenhower was a little emotional too, as he made his last appearance as titular bead of the party. There were tears ms eyes as he thanked the delegates in conveation ball for their ixa HAVANA (UPI) Delegates to a Red-tinged Latin American Youth Congress gathered in Havana today to begin work on a master plan for exporting Fidel Castro's anti-U S. revolution to their home capitals. The "symbolic" opening of the congress came during a massive Kth oi July revolutionary the Sierra Maestri Tuesday night, when Castro de-jpunced the United States as the nwom enemy" of all Latin people.

Young representatives from Peru. Venezuela. Argentina. Mex-ro and other South and Central American republics joined in denouncing MS. "aggression." Tbey were gathered around a I if T- a day.

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