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1 1 The Weather Off Deported Fin lander Today's forecast: Partly cloudy with afternoon, eve ning showers tonight and Thursday. High 56, low 34. (Complete report pafe S) seph Swing' authorized. Heik POUNBBD f55f to the conclusion that an error In SECTIONS 20 PACES PRICE 5c Tho Oregon Statesman, Sslem, Oregon, Wednesday, April 23, 1931 by Poce Examine Scene of Fatal Shooting WOODBURN Scene of slaying near here Monday night Is his mother. A neighbor youth Tuesday admitted the (hooting and told police it was an accident resulting from playing with a gun.

(Statesman photos) indicated by county and state police. Body of John Edward Manning, 15, was found lying in foreground (blanket) by 1 WASHINGTON Iff The govern-ment, after hustling William Heik-kiia off to Finland, conceded Tuesday it acted too quickly 'and said he can come back to continue his 11-year fight against deportation. The 56-year-old draftsman was nabbed by immigration officers as ne emerged from his office in San Francisco last Friday and was whisked away by Diane to Canada. He arrived in Finland Tuesday in a snowstorm minus an overcoat or bat and dressed in a summer suit Heikkfla said he had been kidnapped. He had no luggage and complained he had not even had a chance to say- goodby to his wife or get) a toothbrush.

1 Immigration Commissioner Jo- In typical stalling Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko has refused to meet ambassadors of Britain, I France and the United States as a 'group to discuss preliminaries on a summit conference. Instead he insists on seeing them separately. Just what his percentage is on that is not clear. If the show is to go on representatives of all participating powers will need to get together at the same time and place. Some one asked me where this term "summit" meeting originated.

If my memory serves me right it was one of Winston Churchill's apt terms. About the time President Eisenhower entered the White House Churchill, then Prime Minister, talked about a conference "at the summit," meaning there should be a parley of the heads of the four big powers. Eisenhower didn't take kindly to the suggestion. Instead there followed a conference with Sir Winston at Bermuda which didn't yield much fruit. That put the phrase "summit conference" in circulation, and periodically it has been agitated ever since.

One such conference was held at Geneva in 3955 where an attempt was made to settle troubles in the Far East. That did result in the division of Vietnam and paved the way for release of a good many Americans held by Red China. Nothing was accomplished to compose differences on European questions. Americans are chary of conferences. Maybe they accept the dic-(Contlimed ea Editorial Page 1) Plane Hunt Hampered PENDLETON, Ore.

J) An aerial search handicapped by now, rain and Jog failed Tuesday to turn up a trace of a private plane missing on a flight from Fresno, to Spokane, Wash. The single-engine plane, carrying Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Davis of Fresno, vanished in this Eastern Oregon area Monday. About a dozen planes here took part in the search Tuesday and they will go into the air again Wednesday if weather conditions permit.

Meanwhile, a new search will get underway at daybreak Wednesday in the Mitchell, area southwest of here. It was at Mitchell Tuesday that Jim Huddleston said he heard a plane circling in clouds Monday. JtP 00)010 Missing kila return, with the government paying bis way. He said after studying the VI have come 1 Statesman News Serrtc TURNER At a meeting Tuesday night 'members of southern Marion County school hoards voiced disapproval of a suggestion that Stayton Union High, Cascade Union High and Jefferson School districts be combined into one administrative district-' The meeting was-called by the Marion County School District Reorganization, committee, is working on, a five-year project of reorganizing Hhe county't school districts, The meeting 'showed (hat there seems to be lack- of knowledge of workings of a larger administrative district; said Loren Hicks of Turner, and a member of the com mittee. 7.

i't ys, J. The meeting also pointed out that most rural people' are against losing local control of their schools. Most of boaids attending -the meeting suggested grouping grade schools with high schools, but having no more, than' one high school per district said Hicks. Members of 'boards' from Cas cade Union High School, Stayton Union High oo 1, Jefferson Schools, Sublimity Grade School, Aumsville Grade School, Stayton Grade School and Turner Grade SchooJ districts attended the meet La a Facing DamagqUit In Knife Death LOS ANGELES- $750,000 suit was filed against Lana Tur ner and her former husband Tuesday on behalf Stompa-nato's aotu The suit charged' that parental negligence on behalf of the actress and Crane led to the deathTBf Stompanate at the hands of the aaugnter 'PT' The suit witbout elaborating, alleged Stempnfrajbbed while lying ori "IWvRsbti Lana and the girl have 'toto authorities Stompanato- was slain walk ing toward CheryL -r The suit was fiiedby: TV direc tor Jack Harris, guardian, for. Sfompinato's son, John, 10, whose mother, Sarah lives in Hammond, Ind.

She was the firsUof tompanato's three Crane was' the second of' Miss Turner's Jmates BASEBALL PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE At Portland Sn Dlrjo 2 At Phoenix' Sacramento At Vancouver); Spokane At Seattle S.Satt.Lake City 1 (13 Innings) AMERICAN LEAGUE At New York 12, Boston 7 At Detroit Chicago At Washington 2A Baltimore 4 At Kansas- City wlan NATIONAL'LEAGUE At San. Francisco St Louis I At Los. Angeles 4. Chicago 2 At Pittsburgh 2. Milwaukee (Only games schedule Schools District IV I Hit nan I ke Asks Congress to Back Loan to Railways WASHINGTON (AP) The Eisenhower administration 108th Year 2 By CONRAD PRANGE Staff Writer, The Statesman Maridn Countv District At torney office Tuesday beean investigating a complaint that anonymous mailing of political material attacking the candi dacy of Phil Hitchcock for congress violates Oregon elections code.

U.S. Rep. Walter Hitch cock's opponent in the First Dis trict Battle, telegraphed his Salem headquarters Tuesday from Washington admitting material was mailed to Republican party, workers at hia direction. He said he didn't know of the state requirement that the material should contain the name and address of the sender. The mailing complaint was made to Secretary of State Mark Hatfield through the state elections division by Thomas B.

Brand. Sa lem attorney and chairman of the Marion County committee for Hitchcock. Articles Mailed Brand said Republican precinct committeemen in First District were mailed copies of an editorial from the Sandy Post, a weekly newspaper, and an article from the Oregon Voter. Brand said the reprints were favorable to Norblad and violated! a law which requires that the name and address of the sender or circulator be placed on such material. Hatfield who administers the state elections laws said "it is regrettable if anonymous mailings in violation of the intent and letter of the statute have been made.

As election ''officer I have forwarded the protest to the district attorney for whatever investigation and activities seem appropriate. "Oregon elections have been not ably free of this kind of unidentified activity. Citizens should be re- reminded that literature advocating or opposing a candidacy must bear the name and address of the author and publisher." Requested by Norblad. HepT Norblad said "from Wash ington that the editorial and Voter article were reprinted by. him in Washington and "mailed to a group of Marion County women with the request they address and mail these reprints." 'Mailings obviously mine," he telegraphed.

He said he has directed all future mailings to comply with the law. Hattie Bratzel, "Marion County district attorney, said she would investigate the Hitchcock com plaint to see if "there is grounds for legal action." Forecast Has More Rain Mid-Willamette Valley farmers waiting for a chance to continue spring planting are not expected to get a break in wet weather for at least two days, U.S. weathermen at McNary Field said early this morning. The forecast calls for nartlv cloudy conditions with a few afternoon and evening showers tonight and Thursday. It will be continued cool with a low of 34 and a high of 56 predicted, weathermen added.

Campaign Violation Charged asked Congress Tuesday to help the financially hard-hit rail L.v.r. roads modernize and cut costs ot up to 7UO million dollars in loans. Stressing the need for speedy action, Secretary-of Commerce Weeks said this isn't the time to consider repealing the JOHN MANNING Gunshot Victim Pendleton Levees Hold But Judgment was made in not returning Heikkila from Vancouver, B.C., last Sunday." Restraining' Order It was at that time, that U.S. Dlst Judge George Harris in San Francisco issued a restraining order to block Heikkila 's deportation. Swing said Heikkila, "although legally deported from the united states, was still in the cus tody of Immigration officers.

Informed in Helsinki of the gov ernment decision, Heikkila said ne will return to the United States at once. "It is a most wonderful feeling. he said. "If I bad not already been in bed, I should have fallen flat on my back. "I would have liked to see Finland," he added laughingly, "but I have only one desire in my heart to return to my home ana my wue.

The deportation proceedings against, neituuia over almost 11 years have been based on charges that he formerly was a member of the U.S. Communist party. At one time, he lost an appeal to the supreme court. Contempt Action Flared Swing told a reporter he con sidered the government's action legal but he stepped to guard against immigration officials in San Francisco beine olaced in ieo- paray a contempt of court action. 'Well deport Heikkfla if it takes another 11 years," Swing added.

Heikkila's 38-year-old American- born wife. Phyllis, has been fight ing in San Francisco for his 'return. She announced she had appealed to the Finnish ambassador here and to the White House. The White House turned it over to the Justice Department, which super vises me immigration service. Bora la Finland Heikkila was born in Finland of naturalized American parents and came to the United States when he was 2Vt years old.

He was never naturalized. In Helsinki, Heikkila said he re gards the United States as his nonrc ana wouia iignt to return. Sure, I was a Communist in 1929 to 1939 in Minnesota." he said. "But from the time I left there for San Francisco I have had nothing to do with politics. have not had the time.

I have just been working. I am a Demo crat." New Satellite Shot Believed Near at Hand CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. MV-Lights blazing around the Van guard tower indicated Tuesday that the zero hour is approach ing for the attempt to blast a fourth American satellite into or bit. The newest U.S. moon will be a 21-inch ball with instruments designed to measure radiation from the sun and broadcast its findings back to earth.

Lights were turned on part of the day as a gray haze settled over the test center, which is on a neck of sandy land jetting out into the Atlantic Ocean. In the light, technicians could be seen scrambling up and down the tower, working over the 72-foot rocket. The new Vanguard satellite is more than three times bigger than the first Vanguard moon, a 6.4-inch sphere now flying around the earth In an elliptical orbit that swings it between 400 and 2,500 miles out in space. Linfield College Fraternity House Damaged by Fire Statesman News Service McMINNVTLLE A fire believed to have started from a table radio caused between $1,200 and $1,500 damage to the Pi Kappa Alpha iraternity-house iereiuesday-af t-ernoon. Most of the fire damage was on the upper floor and roof, with water damage to the lower floor, said fraternity president Robert Ball.

Eight fraternity members living in the house have been moved to a dormitory on the Linfield College campus. Somr of the boys reportedly lost all of their belongings. Mill at Willamina Closes for Week Statesman News Service WILLAMINA United States Plywood mill has halted operations for a week. An estimated 320 workers are affected, it was revealed Tuesday by William W. Wells, manager.

The closure was due to poor business conditions and waning orders, Wells He added that operations will resume next Monday. The mill has been shut down since 3 p.m. Friday. Tree Shatters Train's Windows LA GRANDE, Ore! A falling tree broke windows in six cars of a passenger train in the snow-covered Blue Mountains of Northeastern Oregon Tuesday. Union Pacific Railroad said the tree struck its streamliner City of Portland as the train crept through the mountain area at five miles an hour.

IP: ,1 EDWARD FERSCHWEILER Admits Fatal Shooting Threat Feared National Guardsmen Tuesday appeared to be about the same were evacuated. 300 Attending Youth Session A record attendance of more than 300 at Tuesday afternoon sessions in South Salem Church of the Nazarene forced the 15th annual convention of Oregon Pacific Nazarene Young People's Society to move to First Church of the Nazarene for evening services. The group of 265 delegates representing 1,800 youths in 73 churches will gather again this morning and afternoon in the South Salem church at 565 Madrona Ave. SE for business meetings. The two-day convention will end tonight with a dinner at 6:30 in American Legion Hall.

Post Rejected By Neuberger WASHINGTON Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said Tuesday he had turned down an offer for a seat on the Senate Agricultural Committee "because I felt it was my duty to Oregon to remain on the Committee during crucial consideration of the Klamath Reservation termination issue." The offer for the place on the agriculture group was contingent upon leaving the other committee. Neuberger told the Senate majority leader that the impact on Ore gon lumber, industry and resource conservation might be disastrous if the Klamath question was neg- lected by Congress. No.

27 Declares Shooting Accidental By MERVIN JENKINS Valley Editor, The Statesman WOODBURN An ashen-faced 14-year-old schoolmate of slain John Edward Manning, Tuesday confessed to police he fired the fatal snot Manning's body was found at 11 p.m. Monday by his mother, lying in the backyard of the fam ily home. Mr. and Mrs. Alwln Manning live in the rural community of St Louis, about four miles southwest of here.

The parents had just returned from a Parents Club meeting at Mt. Angel Prep school where their son was a freshman. Edward F. Ferschweiler. 14, broke down and admitted the slaying after a few minutes questioning by State Police Sgt James Darby and Marion County Deputy Sheriff John Zabinski.

They had called him out of class. Lives Nearby Ferschweiler lives on farm near the Manning home. Monday night he told police he heard considerable shooting along the road about 9 p.m., saw flashlights and then heard a car drive awayjr Tuesday he changed his story- He told police that after his. par ents left about 7:30, also to go to Mt. Ansel, he sot his father's .22 rifle and shells and went into the field across from the Manning house.

John Manning called him over, and togetner uiey wem De- hind a chicken house ana urea about 10 rounds of ammunition. Returning to the garage they were playing around when Man ning tossed the gun to nun, saying "catch," he told State Police Capt. Ray Howard. The ponce oi-flcer said Ferschweiler told them he thought the gun was empty, so whirled around, pointed it and pull ed the trigger. Near Instant Death The shot entered Manning's body on the rieht side lust below the armpit, emerging on the left side.

Death was almost instant. Police recovered the spent bullet in Manning's clothing. The youth told police he waa frightened and ran home, replacing the sun. When police arrived he had devised his original story. The bov has been released to hia parents pending an appearance before the Marion County grand jury either Thursday or Friday.

Earlier Theory Police at first felt the shooting may have been an accidental death caused by a stray bullet fired at distance. This theory was ais- carded in an inspection of the area when District Attorney Hattie Bratzel found a recently fired .22 shell casing at the scene of the slaying. State police said tests at the state crime laboratory Tuesday showed the casing found by Miss Bratzel bad been fired from the gun owned by the elder Ferschwei ler. In his confession, the Ferschwei ler boy placed time of the shooting between 8:15 and 8:30 p.m., police reported. 1 Had Called House William Manning, brother of the slain youth's father, said it waa his birthday and he called the house when he noticed tne parents return.

He lives only a short distance away and was talking to the father when the man began shouting over and over, "Johnny's on the ground." The brother said the parents had driven into the garage without noticing the boy's body lying about 15 feet away in the darkness. The mother had gone outside the house looking for him when she discovered he wasn't in bed. Coos Bay Man to Seek Presidency of Senate COOS BAY Un State Sen. R. Chapman (D-Coos Bay) nounced Tuesday he is seeking election to the presidency of the state Senate for the 1959 session.

Tuesday the House was asked to change the 57-year-old law to allow the Navy to serve margarine, which is made largely from soybean or cottonseed oil. But after more than three houra of heated debate, the margarine forces were turned back and the Navy's butter ration was nailed even tighter into the law. The House adopted 207-161 an amendment by Rep. Laird (R-Wia) to prohibit the Nary from making any purchase ofbutter substitutes as long as the government owns surplus buttes stocks. Added Rain PENDLETON, night patched and built levees in an attempt to further confine a flood-swollen creek that has forced the evacuation of GOP Leader Doubts Senate Control Likely WASHINGTON (-Meade Al- coroi Republican national chair man, said Tuesday "I just don't think its in the cards for the party to capture control of the Senate from the Democrats in the November elections.

Alcorn, who made the state ment to newsmen after conferring with President Eisenhower, predicted the Republicans will win the House by a bare majority. The Democrats now control both the House and Senate. The Senate division is now 49 Democrats and 47 Republicans. In the House, the lineup is 232 Democrats and 198 Republicans. There are five vacant seats three formerly held by Democrats and two by Republicans.

Alcorn reported to Eisenhower on the party prospects in November on the basis of a recent trip into several states. But the GOP chairman said in reply to a question that he did not tell the President about his belief the Republicans are not likely to win Senate control. Bandit Gets 50 Years DALLAS. Tex. UP) Nelson Cornelius Stott, 35, a stick-up man called the "Pants Bandit" because he made his victims doff their trousers was sentenced to 50 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to six armed robberies.

by providing federal guarantees excise tax on freight and passen- gers as the railroads have asked, He said the long-term ills of the railroads have been' aggravated by the business recession and de clared: "Special solutions are re- In a letter to Chairman Smath ers (D-Fla) of a Senate commerce subcommittee, Weeks made four long-term recommendations in ad dition to -urging the loan guarantee program as a means of pro viding immediate temporary re lief. The loans, made by private In terests and backed by the federal government, would enable the railroads to make cost-cutting im provements immediately, Weeks said. He conceded the other four administration recommenda tions, embracing rate-making and regulatory changes, couldn't have much effect for several years. The president of the Assn. of American Railroads, Daniel P.

Loomis, called the government's proposal "distinctly disappointing to me railroad industry. (Economic Roundup on Page 2.) Taxpayer Asks Fop Special Mail Handling of 'Arm' There's one Oregon taxpayer who figures he's been through the wringer and doesn't want to go through H-cancelling machine, too. On an envelope containing one of the thousands of Income tax returns just received by- State Tax Commission was neatly printed this instruction to postmaster: Hand Cancel. My right arm is in here. John Ericksan firmly believes money grows a money tree Tuesday in the Politics on Parade Who's Running for Vhat in May Primaries On the Brighter Side 41 families.

The level of McKay Creek as last night, when the famines The danger of new rains, how ever, led the guardmen to prepare to evacuate an additional 35 families if the creek should rise further. The Weather Bureau said scat tered showers due through tomor row will cause added runoff, for the ground already is so saturated the creek can be the water's only destination. The 'majority of evacuated families lived in a south suburb of this Eastern Oregon town. Just south of that point the creek flows into McKay Reservoir. There also is flood danger below the reservoir, and that was where the new evacuation precautions were put into effect.

A possible new danger was posed by a huge snowfall up to 15 inches in some areas recorded through the night In the nearby Blue Mountains. Warm weather would send snow- melt jpouring into the creek. The WeatherTJureau saidT though, it expects cool weather. Boy, 10, Charged With Burglarizing Service Station A 10-year-old Salem boy charged with burglary of a service station was placed in a Portland detention home Tuesday by Marion County Juvenile Court. The boy was charged with burglarizing the Standard Service Station at 595 Court St.

NE, Monday night. He was placed in- a home be cause of a record of delinquency, city police said. A window to the station was found broken about 10:50 p.m. and officers said they found the' boy hiding in the station. Today's Statesman (Editor's Note: The Oregon Statesman's, exclusive Political Parade series Is written by or for the It Is.

presented as a public service, without cost or obligation, and may or may not be la accord with the editorial policies of this newspaper). W. GORDON ALLEN Candidate (D) for instate Senator (Marion) f' W. Gordon Allen, 38 son of an Oregon Pioneer is a graduate electrical engineer, active in the radio broadcast business in the Northwest', and is president 'of radio station KGAY in Salem. During World War II, Allen served in the U.

S. Navy as an electronics officer overseas, in' the Pacific. Before the war he was in the Boeing engineering department. For the last. 12 year Allen has been closely associated with the retail business- I i men of Willamette-land and it is.his'feeling Kin i.n.i..,!.

IIW.IDIII..W. V. --v v-f It) 1 "'r J. -J that through this relationship, he knows I their pVoblems as few individuals do; The sWi f4Mk I .,...) ioaceinn fcsle a a small cordon Alien ness and worker's recession 'with the Margarine Forces Fail; Butter Still King in Navy money lending groups Inx strong It is his feeling the state of Oregon in the next few years might well'have to use every possible method of strengthening'; these two hard hit groups. Government, he states, can be a big factor in making Oregon's fibonomy receptive to new; industry.

"Because of this background in the technical and business field I believe I can be of use and of service to the state in the senate," Allen adds. As vice president of Willamette Fibre and. Chipboard in Sweet Home, he is decidedly fa- miliar with limber industry problems. Allen at present is state financial chairman the' Demo cratic party. He is married, lives in Salem, and has two sons, Ricky, 11, arid Baron, 8.

He is a memberT of the EJks, Lions, Salem executives and various Willamette-land, community groups. (There are five candidates for nomination to Marie County's aeats in the State senate. Democrats have two candidates, of which the above Is the flrat to be In Next-John G. O'Brien. The three Republican candidates will WASHINGTON (1 House dairy forces scored a naval victory Tuesday in the latest battle of the bread spreads.

Outgunning a margarine task force 207-161, they turned back an attempt to rewrite the Navy's ration law to allow use of margarine in Navy messes. Congress" in 1901 passed the Na vy Ration Act which says every sailor and Marine must have at least 1.6 ounces of butter daily. The aim was to prevent scurvy in the days beiore modern Pago Sac. Ann Landers 8.. I Classified 17-19 II Cornice 14 II Crossword 7.

II Editorials 4 I Farm Pag 16 II Home Panorama 6 I Markets .,..15 II Obituaries 15. II Radio-TV Sports 11,12 II, Star Gazer 8 I Valley News 13 II Wirephoto Page 14 II i MonCV Tree UtQe Mary 855 Madrona St iviuucy ice on fttes, mi wltJi good reason. She saw lobby of the Commercial Bank. It was there to publicize national coin week April 21 to 27..