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Tirntaini (sanded IWmgk Soviet Eiitasv (Editor's Hot: A. Robert Smith tea aaws correspondents, tackled Monday. According to Smith, so mm before. Attar thay got lhair story, thay wmn t of a mind to spraad tha word until we'd moved our copy." but tho faw re porters who got wind of tho accomplishment wara noticeably sur prised. Smith said. Here is what thay got from their visit,) By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail-Tribune Correspondent Washington I walked into 43 minutes later walked out after I've got news for Premier Malenkov. The Soviet ruler's portrait doesn't hang among the more than 25 paintings that adorn the public rooms of the fve story, iron fenced embassy building in downtown Washington, D. C. There is Stalin, the dead leader whom Malenkov succeeded in March, whose portrait greets the visitor at virtually every turn. And there is Lenin, Soviet Communism's patron saint, whose por trait shares with Stalin's a place of prominence. But Georei Malenkov is nowhere to be found! This was the second surprise encountered by this reporter who with Bruce Jolly, Washington correspondent of the Greensboro (N.C.) Daily News rang the front door bell of the Russian embassy Monday afternoon and asked admittance. The first surprise was that we got in! Tor we were familiar with newsmen being turned away from the iron gate-like door behind which the white brick structure stands in a rather more solitary HitiiHA than it neiehborine Washington Post and National It was a dull day in the city lor news, we expiamea to me nlmn-faced man who opened the door in his shirt sleeves, and could a pair of American newspapermen look the place over? As he stood silently sizing us up, I reciprocated. His clothing was en tirely western in style, notably the short-sleeved sport-shirt which he wore with a necktie. I recalled where visitors are guided to officials with whom they have ap pointments by Royal Mounted Police (Mounties) in their brilliant uniforms, complete to spurs. In one uniform and everyone wore Our receiver indicated we were to follow as he walked briskly throuxh a long, red plush carpeted hallway to a small waiting room. He indicated he spoke little heels momemtarily. In a moment a press attache, Constantin Smirnov, a short, vmino man with a hi a r If mustache, hastened into the room yuuQj J - . .. -- . as though we surely were curiosities. We enlarged upon our re- ... . -It- A 1 1 .... quest, making it clear we expecxea no auaience wiw amummuui Georei N. Zaroubin and that we Smirnov departed. As we waited, we inspected the waiting .. . . . . - . . , i room only to una a zi-page iransiauon oi uMiennuv v last Friday to the Supreme Soviet apparently a Soviet-style state of the union message, which evoked during the last tnree pages eight bursts of "stormy applause" and four bursts of "stormy, prolonged applause." It was a reprint from Pravda. M.viru ih third atwretarv of the embassy, arrived to take charge. Again we explained. The youthful, handsome chap, .... . - , . I JX -J ...a nr... tall, slender ana Diona, saia u coma w uum, u . on our guided tour. From the first floor'3 mirror-walled hallway, we mounted a winding stairway, covered with beautiful crimson carpeting. It led to the main reception rooms on the second floor which are used annually for the fall reception in honor of the October, 1917, revolution which brought to an end the reign of the Czars. Prep arations are now underway for that event, we were told, which usually attracts over 1.000 invited guests. Ironically, this stout, ornate building was once the mansion of a capitalist of some considerable note, George M. Pullman, the sleeping car magnate who died in 1897. The Czarlst government bought the property in 1913. The Soviets have used it ever since they gained United States diplomatic recognition in 1933. I Myshkov explained that most of the furnishings were Russian made. They included oriental-style rugs, green and red brocaded wall coverings, gold statuette clocks on the marble mantelpieces, elaborate prism chanderliers. It was during our tour of these rooms that we were struck fay the absence of Malenkov s likeness. For the doorway leading into the main reception room was flanked by two huge portraits of Lenin and Stalin. In another room Stalin predominated in a painting called "Sunrise of Our Country" which showed the late dictator gazing into the distance as behind him electric power liies, farm machinery churning the fields and puffing industrial smoke stacks told their story. In another Stalin plots strategy in a World War II map room, a larger than life-sized full length oil. What about those reports from Moscow that Stalin's name had begun to fade out of the Soviet press after formation of the new Malenkov government, before the purge of Beria when the press was still singing the virtues of "collective leadership?" I asked Myshkov whether the change in leadership was still too recent for this far western outpost of the Soviet empire to have obtained appropriate portraits of its new leader. He replied, with the bland way skillful diplomats have of answering leading questions, that on the contrary they had a supply of portraits of all the high ranking political leaders elsewhere in the embassy. That would be in the working part of the embassy which Jolly and I could only imagine, for our tour ended at that point. The closest we got to this section, which is the Soviet GHQ in Amer ica was to hear the chatter of teletypes beyond the dining room through a door that was discreetly closed as we approached. The third floor, which we did not see, comprises the apart ments of the ambassador. Offices occupy the fourth and fifth floors and much of the first. We were struck by the lack of art with a party-line message to convey. Other than the Stalin "Sunrise" number, none could be placed in the propaganda category. Upon closer scrutiny we dis covered that a majority of the paintings were by 19th century ar tists, contemporaries of the poet Pushkin whose bust shared one end of the dining room with that of Lenin. The more recent paint ings portrayed Red Square lit by a V-E Day fireworks display, and another showing the square filled with gaily dressed men and women, mostly in western attire. The hemline of the women would have been right back in style, by Dior's new standard. The only hammer and sickle symbol I spotted was painted like a coat-of-arms on the fancy black and gold iron staircase leading to Zaroubin's quarters. Our affable guide spoke English well, although he said after learning our language in Moscow "as England would speak it" he could scarcely understand what Americans were speaking when he arrived here nearly four years ago. Myshkov said he has fre quently asked and been granted permission to travel beyond the 25-mile limit the U.S. has clamped on Soviet diplomats here, once going to Chicago, another time to New York. Soon he expects to return to Moscow where his wife is now vacationing, he said. Retracing our steps to the front door, we shook hands once again with our host, then with the grim faced doortender who by this time had put his coat on over the beige sport shirt. The door was unlatched and we walked out into the sunlight where Amer icans were hurrying past on the busy thoroughfare. We glanced back at the embassy, where the shutters are closed against that sunlight and those passing Americans but where inside the velvet glove of diplomacy was ready to receive two men whose only calling card was "We're American newspapermen and we'd lika to look around." VMW and Brae Jolly, both Washing- tha Soviet embassy for a story far as they know, it hadn't baaa the Soviet embassy this week and a guided tour of the place and the frequent accounts of capital buildings, the Statler Hotel, the Geographic Magazine buildings. visits to the Canadian embassy the Soviet embassy, we saw not western garb. English, as he left us to cool our would ask no political questions Memos United Preae 48th Year 22 Pages Moroccan Sulfah Ordered To Exile By Act of France Decision Fellows Threat of Civil War Rabat, Morocco (U.R) Na tionalist, anti-French Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Yousseff was ousted from his silken throne today and was flown with his two sons to exile in Corsica. The French government, al though pledged to support the sultan despite his bitter opposi tion to French rule, dethroned him at the demand of pro-French tribal leaders, a demand so clamorous that civil war threat ened. Leaves for Exile A few hours after his exile was ordered, the sultan and his sons left in a French Air Force plane for exile in Corsica, birth place of Napoleon Bonaparte, off the southeast coast of France. Under normal procedure, a successor to the sultan would be chosen at a solemn meeting of the nation's cadis and pashas, the tribal leaders. Their choice would be confirmed by Moroc co's ulemas, the Moslem religious scholars. An early election conclave of the cadis and pashas was ex pected. Triumph for Enemies The action was a triumph for the sultan's declared enemies, led by tough old Thami Mez Ouari el Glaoui, pasha of Mar- rakech and ruler of 2,000,000 Berbers in the towering Atlas mountains and the wide Sahara. El Glaoui, who has been seek ing the sultan's scalp for years, charged the 44-year-old ruler, who also was the Moslem spiri- ual leader of Morocco, with"im- piety" and "modernism " He dis played pictures of the sultan's daughters in Bikini bathing suits to prove his point. 51 Forest Fires On Federal Lands Reported This Year A total of 51 forest fires, one more than the five-year average seasonal total, have been re ported so far in 1953 on the Rogue River National Forest, Verus Dahlin, forest service fire control officer, said today. The fires have burned over a total of about 15 acres, Dahlin stated,, but he added that the most serious danger of large fires will come between now and the end of the season. Twelve of this year's fires, same number as during the en tire 1952 fire season, have been man-caused. A total of 73 forest fires were reported on the na tional forest last year. A storm last night which swept across the Cascade moun tains north over the Klamath and Union Creek districts re sulted in several lightning strikes, but no fires caused by the storm had been reported in national forests this morning. A small fire was reported in the Union Creek district, but was believed to be a holdover from a previous storm. Forest service crews were engaged in mopping up the second of two 'ires on Mt. McLoughlin today. upplies were dropped to the fire fighters yesterday by plane. Smokejumpers h-a v e been used on three fires so far this season on the national forest. The blazes' include the first Mt McLoughlin fire, and those on Fish mountain and Lather moun tain. Planes used by the smoke jumpers .have also been used to guide ground parties in to fight fires, and to drop supplies. Two fires on state-protected land were caused by the storm, one near Moon Prairie, the other south of Soda mountain. Both were small, and the Soda mountain fire may have been put out by ram. A crew was in control of the other fire this morning, state patrolmen said. Oakdale-Main Traffic Signals Being Put Up New traffic liehta reaulatine: east bound traffic were being installed today at the intersec tion of Oakdale ave., and West Main St.. according to Vernon Thorpe, city superintendent of public works. The new lights will permit left turns with a red lieht hold ing back oncoming traffic In the through lanes, Thorpe said. A similar signal arrangement for west bound traffic has been in effect for several months. . . It was planned to have the new lights in oneration this af ternoon. Tull Charged With Plot To Form Illegal Iran Government Shah Plans Return From Exile Friday Tehran, Iran (U.R) The Royalist government announced today that ousted Premier Mo hammed Mossadegh has been captured and charged with plot ting to form an illegal govern ment. Wily Mossadegh had escaped from his burning home last night when troops and pro-shah civilians burst into it. Members of his family had been taken to an undisclosed destination earlier today for safe keeping. Shah Coming Homo Jubilant Royalists awaited the return of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who flew into a brief exile Sunday when a first Royalist coup against Mossa degh failed. News came from Rome that the shah plans to leave for Teh ran, by way of Baghdad, Iraq, late tonight and make a tri umphal entry into his capital tomorrow from Tehran airport. At the time of Sunday's coup, the shah named Gen. Fazollah Zahedi premier, ousting Mossa degh. When the army rose again yesterday Zahedi emerged from hiding and took over the prime ministry. The charge against Mossadegh of plotting to form an illegal government stemmed from his defiance of the shah's decree naming Zahedi in his place. Before the. announcement that Mossadegh had been arrested Zahedi broadcast a demand that he surrender. Zahedi acted upon instruc tions from the shah to seek the peaceful surrender of .Mossa degh. The new premier said his predecessor would be safeguard ed until the nation decided his fate. ' Mexican Nationals Arrive for Harvest A total of 90 Mexican na tionals have arrived in Jackson county to take part in harvesting the Rogue valley pear crop, esti mated at 5,000,000 boxes, it was reported today. More Mexican workers are slated to arrive here Aug. 28 and Sept. 2. By Sept. 5. all Mexican workers allocated to the valley, approximately 450 of them, are expected to be here. Picking of the pear crop is now underway on a limited scale in most sections of the valley. The harvest is expected to be "in full swing" by Monday, county agents said today. Baseball NATIONAL New York 0 4 5 Brooklyn . 10 II 1 Gomes. Kennedy, Grissom, Worthingion and Westrum; Calderone, Erskine and Camp anella. AMERICAN Washington , New York ... 0 7 t 7 10 0 Schmlrs, Lane Porterfiold. and Fitsgerald; Berra- Lopat and First 4-H Fair Clothing Contests; Event In First winners. in. the annual Jackson county 4-H club, FFA fair were announced today at the Jackson county agent's of fice. The fair opened yesterday with more than 500 county farm youngsters taking part. ' Special Contests Special contest winners in cluded Lois Farlow, Eagle Point, in wool sewing contest, and San dra McClanahan, beginners tew ing contest Cookery I blue ribbons went to Diana Gardner, Patricia Mc- Nabb, Dean Sommer and .Vir ginia Sisemore. " Clothing IB blue ribbons were won by Sandra Farlow, Barbara Bernardi, Diana Gardener, Dixie Jennings, Nelda Chapman and JoAnna MaUorey.- ' MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1953 a F$rrr- - 11 r 1 Ik?,' VV V-:' jJ o err zyOs-j&n : -j-iifinnimi i wMinoin n r -tT-WIii iiftH l - 1 1 in i , OPEN HOUSE SET An open house will be held Saturday afternoon at the recently-completed building of the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district, located on Highway 99 Just south of Central Point With the arrival of a new pumper, equipment is now complete. Shown in the picture above, in addition to the equipment, are, left to right, Al Thompson, chairman of Ihe board of directors; Davis D'Armond, board member; Scott Wickersham, Police Investigator Selection Expected Shortly by Mayor The city expects to have some definite information" by to morrow on an agency or individ ual to conduct an investigation of the Medford city police de partment, Mayor D. L. Flynn said today. Mayor Flynn contacted the League of Oregon Cities several times yesterday and today, and the league in turn is contacting various sources and obtaining names of agencies and investi gators, he said. Airy agency or Investigator considered for the Job will be personally interviewed, the may or said. Plans are to have City Superintendent Robert Duff go by plane to conduct such an in terview if those under consider ation cannot come to Medford on short notice. "We are looking for someone who will be unbiased and with good background, and who will be completely acceptable to the city council and the pub lic." Mayor Flynn stated. He pointed out that the LOC is giv ing full cooperation in the mat ter. Mayor Flynn and Duff are working full time on the prob lem of obtaining an investigator and are "extremely anxious to start as soon as possible." The mayor said a special council meeting will be called to auth orize expenditure of funds for the investigation "as soon as I am convinced that we have the right man." Bloodmobile Visit Scheduled Aug. 26 The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Medford on Aug. 26 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Elks club. Appointments to give blood may be made by telephoning 3-3813. Jackson county has had a high record of blood donations in the past With the great need for blood in producing gamma go- bulin to fight polio, the Red Cross is confident that the rec ord will remain high. Salem (U.R) A five-year spruce budworm control project in Oregon was completed July 23, with 3,154,000 acres treated. Winners Told In Cooking, Those winning blue ribbons in Clothing III competition were Sharon Goucber, Shirley Dun lap, Lucy Gardner and Grace Gail. - Clothing IV competition blue ribbon recipients included Catherine Carroll, Anita Kubli, Doreen Bohnert, Elaine So rum, Lois Farlow and Erma Childress. Clothinf Sandra Neill and Charlotte Messinger won Clothing V blue ribbons, and Allen Swearinger was the only blue ribbon winner in bachelor sewing. Blue ribbons in Clothing IC competition were won by Verity Day, Patty Straus, Joan Dobrot, Beverly Sanderson, Carol Myers, Susan Johnston, Mayis Strom, Carol Maan, Janet Snod- Judge Orders Action On Pollution Halted; Will Review Records . Circuit Judge Orval J. Millard has temporarily halted legal pro ceedings against a Gold Hill as phalt plant which was charged with, polluting the air by the State Air Pollution authority. The judge today issued a writ of review whichA requires the authority to bring into court all its records and proceedings in the matter so the judge may re view them. He also ordered the Open House Slated By CP. Firemen Central Point An open house and dedication will be held Sat urday, Aug. 22, from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. to celebrate the arrival of the last piece of new equipment for the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district. The open house will be held at the fire hall just south of the city limits of Central Point. Fire men and representatives of the companies that made the fire district's equipment will be on hand to explain the operation. The fire district comprises ap proximately 85 square miles and is manned by volunteer help. (See story on Page 2 for a de scription of the history and pres ent organization of the district.) Progress Being Made On Airport Demolition Contractors are making prog ress on demolition of the old hangar building and tower at the Medford municipal airport ac cording to City Superintendent Robert Duff. Work on the project started Aug. 1. - The old control room was re moved from the tower yesterday, and Contractor David Chase ex pects to have the hangar and tower torn down to within 10 feet of the ground within a week or lOMays. The contract specifies that the work must be completed in 60 days from Aug. l. Chase was awarded the contract on a bid of $464 and use of salvaged ma terial. Second Day grass, Ann Buck and Deanna Doland. Winston Foley was the win ner of a blue ribbon in bee com petition. A blue ribbon in home beautification went to Bill Littlefield. Tractor Maintenance blue rib bons were awarded to Martin Heitkamp, David Woolfolk and Kenneth Bitterling. Fleece Judging In Medium wool fleece, class I, judging, winners were: (1) Rus sel Elmore. (2) Truman Elmore. (3) Charles Elmore. (4) Karen Nelson. (5) Gwen Krouse. Medium wool fleece, class II, winners included: (1) Charles Elmore. (2) Phillip Krouse. (3) Gwen Krouse. (4) Truman El more. (5) Carl Skyrmaa. United Preaa 1 miWMM of Crater Lake motors; Ray Wordon and Mel Aitken, Howard Cooper corporation; Claud W. Hoover, vice-chairman of the board; Hugh Cole man, Crater Lake motors; Mr. and Mrs. Nat Grishom, dispatchers; Harry Tonn, assistant chief; Gordon Carrigan, fireman; Richard Krupp, fire chief; L. C. Lisenbee, district chief; Jim Cain, captain; Harvey Tonn, fireman; Dick Grigsby, captain; Douglas Harsh, fireman, and Jim Scott, captain. authority to "desist from fur ther proceedings in tha mat ter ..." First Order Action started last week when the pollution authority, an agen cy of the State Board of Heal. issued the state's first abate ment order against air pollu- tion. It asked that an asphalt plant working on a Highway 99 paving project near Gold Hill be abated, because of complaints from residents of the area that fumes were causing health and property damage. Earlier this week the state attorney general's office filed a petition for a restraining order in Jackson county circuit court, cn behalf of the authority. Jurisdiction Questioned Yesterday, however, F. L. Somers, Medford, who with the Central Heating Co., of Eu gene, owns the plant asked through his attorney for a writ of review, alleging that the au thority acted outside its juris diction, and "arbitrarily and without cause and without any evidence or showing that the operation of said plant caused any injury to human, plant or animal life, or to property, abused their discretion in de claring said plant a nuisance." Under the terms of Judge Mil lard's order, the pollution au thority has until Sept. 14 to pro vide a certified transcript of all its records so the court may in spect them to determine whether the APA acted according to law. Hugh Collins, Somen' attor ney, stated the APA's hearing was held on only five days no tice, while law requires 20 days notice. Picketing Law Test Seen al Grants Pass Salem (U.R) Charges of unfair picketing have been filed against Medford local 329 of the Culinary and Bartenders union by the operator of the Cave shop restaurant of Grants Pass, the first action under the controver sial House bill 663, so-called anti-picketing act passed by the 1953 Legislature. rred J. Scherer, recently ap pointed by Gov. Paul L. Patter son to the new $8000-a-year post of labor examiner, said today that this is the first case under the new law and his division is moving slowly. Labor, which was vigorously opposed to the measure in the 1953 session, also looks upon this as a test case, and regardless of the outcome, the case is expected to go to the Oregon Supreme court. Washington U.R) Oregon has been allocated more than $380, 000 in federal aid funds for wild life and sport fishery restoration and development. Weather FORECAST: Partly eloady to night maS Friday. A few Ufht nower tartly ever moun tains. Coaler. Law tonif ht ii. High Friday SS. . - Tern. Highest Yesterday SS Lawest this Maraimf e IBXJNB Full Win No. 130 Aug. 12 Explosion In Soviet Union Defected by U.S. American Tests In 1951 Disclosed Washington (U.R) Official confirmation that Russia has ex ploded an H-bomb today swept the world into a deadly new phase of the atomic arms race and brought congressional de mands for stepped up VS. de fenses. Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission announced shortly after mid night that the United States de tected an atomic explosion in Russia on Aug. 12. He said "sub sequent information" indicated the Russians had tested an H bomb. His statement followed by less than two hours a Moscow com munique which said that "one of the types of the hydrogen bomb was exploded" in the Soviet Un ion "a few days ago ... for ex perimental purposes " U. S. Far Ahead Strauss made it clear that the United States was far ahead of Russia in developing the awe some H-bomb, which may re lease up to 1,000 times as much destructive force as an atomic bomb. ' He disclosed that this country conducted H-bomb tests at Enl- wetok island in the Pacific in 1951, a full year earlier than had previously been shown. Until now, it was thought that this country's first H-bomb was set off at Eniwetok on Nov. 1, 1952. Eisenhower Silent President Eisenhower, who ap parently received a briefing on the Soviet test at a secret meet ing with Strauss in New York yesterday, declined to comment on the new development. The State Department was likewise silent Chairman W. Sterling Cole, (R-N. Y.), of the congressional Atomic Energy committee, promptly called for a speed up in defense preparations "to pro tect us against an attack by this most devastating weapon " Moscow (U.R) Russia an nounced today it had exploded a hydrogen bomb but assured tha world there was no need for elarm. A g o v e r n ment communique said scientists exploded the bomb "a few days ago" in an experi ment . "As a result of the explosion. a thermonuclear reaction oz great force was set off," the com munique said. "The experiment showed that the power of the hydrogen bomb is many times stronger than the power of atom bombs." AWOL Escapees Face Military Jurisdiction Military authorities have tak en jurisdiction in the case of a Marine and an Army man who escaped from the Jackson coun ty jail Aug. 9 while being held on AWOL charges. Sheriff How ard Gault said today. . The men are Marine George M. Edward, 20, of Box 73, Butte Falls, and Army Pvt Arnold Fay Grisham, 19, of Box 524, Jacksonville. Edwards was ap prehended in Los Angeles, and Grisham at Ruch, both on the day following their escape. Edwards told Los Angeles po lice that he fell two floors while escaping from the third floor Jackson county jail in the courthouse. He made the trip to Los Angeles by bus with two broken ribs received in the fall, he said. Congregational Pastor Will Move to Medford Portland The Rev. Thomas McCamant pastor of the Wav erly Heights Congregational church here for the past eight years, has resigned to open a Congregational church in Med-, ford, he has announced. His last services in Portland will be held Sunday, October 4, and he will arrive in Medford the following week. The Oregon Congregational conference has purchased the home formerly owned by Dr. J. W. Burba, 300 Oakwood dr., for the minister's residence. The property, formerly a private school, has a large studio build ing which will be used for church purposes.
