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Holdout Convicts
Herded in Cells;: -Buildings
Burned
Inmate Killed, Three
Hurt in Disturbance
Monroe, Wash. (U.R) Grim
guards and state police herded
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No. 131
LAST MINUTE SHOPPING Is hurried by Shah of Iran and his queen, Soraya, after he recelvea
word to return to Tehran where his loyalist supporter. Gen. Faatolla Zahedl (right), directed
overthrow of Premier Mossadegh' anti-Shah government 0 nUrnatummt SiautpMrtst
Streets of Tehran
Decorated for Return
Of Shah From Exile
Tehran. Iran (U.R) Ousted
Premier Mohammed Mossa
degh may be exiled instead of
tried for treason, well inform
ed sources reported tonight as
Jubilant Royalists prepared to
welcome shah Mohammed
Resa Pahlevi back to his capi
tal tomorrow.
Tehran, Iran (U.R) Jubilant
Royalists festooned Tehran with
flags and flowers today in prep
aration for the triumphant re
turn of their shah in streets
stained by bloody rioting only
two days ago.
Tanks and troops of new Pre
mier Gen. Fazollah Zahedi stood
guard at street corners of the
capital and across the nation.
But feahedi's authority was
virtually unchallenged follow
ing the arrest late yesterday of
Hearings Claimed
Same McCarfhyism
Los Angeles (U.R) Four
witnesses appeared to testify at
Sen. Joseph McCarthy's investi
gation of alleged Communist in
filtration of the Government
Printing Office today, including
William C. Taylor, 43, Negro.
Taylor emerged from the
secret hearings after 30 minutes
of testimony and blasted the
hearings as the "same old Mc
Carthyism." "They are trying to frighten
people with star chamber ses
sions about the alleged misdeeds
of government employes and by
spy stories," Taylor said. "Per
haps they are preparing to rail
toad a few more innocent people
to their deaths in order to in
timidate people from protesting
against war, the high cost of liv
ing and Jim Crow."
Taylor said he still is a mem
ber of the Communist party,
and had been ordered to reap
pear tomorrow morning at 10:30
for an open hearing.
Medford Man Killed ,
In Wyoming Accident
Roy L. Petre, 108 Florence st.,
Medford, an x-ray technician for
Sacred Heart hospital, was killed
in an automobile accident about
15 miles east of Lovell, Wyo.,
early today, according to a tele
gram received here from his
wife.
The telegram stated that Petre"
was driving a sports roadster
which overturned while round
ing a sharp mountain curve. It
was not known if Mrs. Petre,
credit manager for the Medford
hospital, was injured.
The couple have no children.
Veafher
FORECAST: Fair throat- Sat
urday with fame morning
cloudlnesi. Low tonight 55.
High Saturday SS.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday SI
Lowest this Morning 59
Grand Champion Steer Named at 4-H Fair;
Good Crowds'
A 1,050-pound hereford steer
owned by Clifford Bigham, Sams
Valley, yesterday was named
grand champion of the annual
Jackson county 4-H and FFA
fair.
Bigham's win continued the
fait tradition that no youngster
has ever displayed a grand cham
pion animal for more than one
year. ,
Other Winner
Reserve grand chimpion hon
ors went to a 1,020-pound here
ford steer owned by Doreen
Bohnert, Antelope.
"Very good crowds" have
been attending the fair, largest
in the history of the event, ac
cording to Rulus Cate Jr, county
deposed Premier Mohammed
Mossadegh, who was held and
guarded from mobs for trial as a
traitor.
Mossadegh Protected
Cheering crowds erected tri
umphal arches across the city's
wide streets where Nationalist
mobs angrily smashed statues of
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
and demolished picture of him
less than a week ago.
Mossadegh, arrested late yes
terday through a trick telephone
call, languished in a room at the
plush Tehran Officers Club
where Zahedi was living. Za
hedi told the 78-year-old former
premier he would be protected
until he is brought to trial for
plotting against the legal gov
ernment. Short Exile Ends
The 33-year-old shah, ending
one of the shortest exiles in his
tory, was speeding here from
Rome aboard a chartered Royal
Dutch Airlines passenger plane.
Leaving his beautiful empress,
Soraya, behind until conditions
here become more settled, he
took off for Baghdad, Iraq.
There he plans to take off for
Iran in the same private plane
he used to flee his country last
Sunday.
He was scheduled to arrive in
his capital late tonight or early
tomorrow.
The army general staff said
the government was in complete
control of Iran after crushing
scattered resistance in the prov
inces, particularly at the oil re
fining centers of Abadan and
Shiraz.
French Strikers
Returning To Jobs
Paris OJ.R) The united front
of French labor, which for 17
days had defied the economic re
forms program of Premier Jo
seph Laniel with a crippling se
ries of nationwide strikes, crack
ed wide open today.
Laborers, by the tens of thou
sands, began streaming back to
work in nationalized industries
and civil services in defiance of
Communist pleas for a continua
tion of the work stoppages en
forced by 2,000,000 workers. At
their peak, last week, the strikes
affected 4,000,000 men.
The collapse of the strike fol
lowed an agreement, reached' at
dawn today, between non-Communist
union leaders and repre
sentatives of Premier Laniel's
cabinet.
$137 Missing Affer
Land Firm Burglary
The Roeue Vallev Land rorVi-
pany was robbed sometime last
night or this morning, city po
lice reported today.
Police said the thief, who got
away with a monev bag con
taining. $137, broke a window in
the back of the building, un
locked it and crawled through.
The filing cabinet that con
tained the money had been
broken open. The burelary was
discovered at 8:25 a. m.
Attending Annual Event
agent for 4-H club work.
Today's program will be high
lighted by a livestock auction,
scheduled to get underway at
the fairgrounds at 7:30 p.m. A
total of 178 sales including 205
animals have been scheduled.
To Be Sold
They include 60 individual fat
lambs and seven pens of three
fat lambs; 47 fat hogs and five
pens of three fat hogs; 55 fat
beef steers and six feeder beef
steers, and the champion pen of
market poultry.
Col. A. H. Dudley will act as
auctioneer. A special seating sec
tion will be reserved for buyers.
Other beef winners announced
by tht county agent's olfice to
Suspect in Murder
Confesses; Other
Man Is Implicated
Duane Albert Hall, 40, has
confessed to taking part in the
murder of a man on Mt. Tamal
pais, near San Franciso, last
June, and has implicated Ray
mond C. Hodge, 37, District At
torney Walter Nunley was told
this morning.
Hodge and Hall were arrest
ed by Oregon state police June
19 near Phoenix, and were held
in the Jackson county jail until
a few days ago.
According to the United Press,
Hodge has been arraigned on a
charge of first degree murder
at San Rafael, Calif., and was
to be brought there today from
San Quentin prison, where he
has been held, to enter a plea.
Victim of the murder was Roy
V. Kapphahn, a Salinas cement
finisher, whose hacked and beat
en body was found by picnickers
shortly after his death June 14.
Nunley said the California prose
cutor described Hall's confes
sion as telling of one of the
"most hair-raising, cold blooded
crimes" in his experience.
The confession told in detail
how the crime was committed,
with the victim being beaten
over the head with a wrecking
bar, stabbed with a screw driver
and finally having his throat
cut witaiTJ2knife.
Hall said Hodge suggested
they kill Kappahahn for the
$295 he had with him. The three
men were in Vallejo and plan
ning a trip east together. Hall
said Kappahahn fell asleep in
the back of his car, and Hodge
drove to Mt. Tamalpais where
he and Hall killed him.
Hodge was returned to Cali
fornia last week, after waiving
extradition. A week ago last
Sunday he was foiled in an at
tempted escape from the Jack
son county jail when he met
Jailer Reuben (Smitty) Janzen
in the jail corridor and was sub
dued. Hall was returned to Califor
nia last Monday after extradi
tion proceedings were complet
ed. The two men were arrested
here when two state officers
spotted the car they were driv
ing and recognized it as one
wanted by California authori
ties. Veferan Grants Pass
Businessman Expires
Grants Pass Frank Mash
burn, 85, veteran Grants Pass
businessman, died at his home
here yesterday. He had been in
ill health for a number of years.
Mashburn had been affiliated
with Golden Rule stores in the
western states for a number of
years and was founder co-owner
of the company's store here for
48 years. He actively managed
the local store from 1905 until
1916 and since that time has
maintained his interest in the
store but has been in semi-retirement
He was one of the
original stockholders and a past
president of the Oregon Caves
Resort company.
Survivors include his wife,
Dora, Grants Pass, and two
brothers, Charlie and Marvin,
both of Boise, Ida.
day included Dale Smith, Cen
tral Point, and Verity Day, Sams
Valley, firsts in the hereford di
vision; Grace Gail, Gold Hill,
first in the shorthorn division;
Robert Hayes, Antelope, first in
the angus division.
Other Events
Events still on the program in
clude livestock showmanship
judging. Style review champions
will be announced Saturday
night.- They will compete for
state honors next month at
Salem. .
Some 450 county 4-H club
members of the Central Point
Future Farmers of America club
are taking part in the
fair.
Festive Morocco ,
Greets Appearance
Of Hew Sovereign
Franc Attempts To
Quell Riot Threats
- Rabat, French Morocco (U.R)
Morocco's new sultan received
homage amid dazzling Moslem
splendor today while France
made a show of strength to keep
down threatened riots by Na
tionalist supporters of the de
posed ruler. '
New Sultan Sidi Mohammed
Moulay Ben Arafa, 64, made his
first public appearance leading
prayers of the faithful in the
French protectorate's biggest re
ligious festival, Aid-El-Kebir.
Thousands of loyal Berber
tribesmen in age old costumes
gathered at the dazzling palace
and the mosque of Marrakech to
fete the new sovereign, and slit
the throats of new born lambs to
give thanks to Allah.
'Lat Blood Flow'
Europeans evacuated their
homes in the native quarters of
Moroccan cities when inflamma
tory leaflets appeared during the
night despite a strict shoot-at-sight
curfew.
"Do not be afraid to let the
blood flow," the leaflets de
clared. The leaflets, signed by the
"Brotherhood of the Faithful"
called on anti-French Nationalist
and Communist factions to turn
the feast marking Abraham's
Biblical sacrifice into a day of
national mourning and protest
over the removal of the old sul
tan. He was described as a "martyr
to French colonial domination."
Judge Dismisses
Bad Check Charge
A charge of drawing a check
with insufficient funds, made
against Jack Swayze, Ideal court,
was dismissed in district court
yesterday by Judge Rawles
Moore, he said this morning.
In a written opinion. Judge
Moore said "It has been uni
versallly accepted by the bar . . -for
many years that a check
given in payment of goods al
ready purchased is not a check
given 'with intent to defraud
because the drawer of the check
can only inconveniece the
payee, not defraud him, where
he has already got possession of
the property. The drawer owed
the debt before he wrote the
check, and he still owed the debt
after he drew the check."
The state contended that
Swayze acquired two tires from
OK Rubber Welders Nov. 1,
1952, and said he would bring a
check to pay for them. On Dec.
15, 1952, the state charged,
Swayze drew a check for $67.74
on the First State Bank of Eagle
Point and give it to OK Rubber
Welders. The check was re
turned marked "not sufficient
funds," the state asserted.
Dismissal of the charges came
on a motion by Hugh Collins,
attorney for Swayze.
Government Quits
Power Rate Dictating
San Francisco (U.R) The fed
eral government has given up
its right to dictate retail rates
for federal power sold to public
agencies, Interior Secretary
Douglas McKay said today.
McKay made his announce
ment of the major switch in In
terior Department policy in a
speech before the San Francisco
Commonwealth club.
"It is desirable that federal
energy should be resold at rates
which are reasonable and non
discriminatory, but we see little
reason to presume that the De
partment of the Interior is better
equipped to maintain this stand
ard than are . . . other public
agencies," McKay said.
Registered Hereford Bull
CorvaUls u.pj A registered
hereford bull brought a top price
of $1200 yesterday in the first
annual Oregon State college live
stock dispersal sale which netted
Former Congressman ,
Harold Knutson Dies
Wadena, Minn. (U.R) Former
Congressman Harold Knutson,
one of the most controversial fig
ures in the Republican 80th Con
gress, died today at Wesley
Memorial hospital Ha was 72.
lombs in
Turn Eyes To
Washington (U.R) The Soviet H-bomb and
A-bomb have destroyed much of the VS. atomic
stockpile's war-prevention power, informed offi
cials believed today.
From now on, these officials say, the United
States will have to bank less on its power to de
liver a crushing atomic counterblitz and put
more dollars and effort into military and civil
defense.
At the same time, many believe, the world's
leaders will have to try harder than ever to se
cure peace and bring atomic weapons under ef
fective international control.
Better Air Defense Needed
The "great debate" in the next session of Con
gress seems likely to center on defenses against
possible attack by H-bomb and A-bomb. Chair
man W. Sterling Cole (R.-N.Y.) of the House
Senate Atomic Energy committee already has
stressed the urgent need of improved air defense.
Paul H. Nitze, former chief of the State De
partment's policy planning staff, has said the
United States for the next several years should
spend $2,000,000,000 to $3,000,000,000 a year
more on civil and military defense than it is
spending now.
City Water Usage
About Like 1952's
All-Time Record
The use of water in Medford
this summer is running at about
the same level as during the
summer of 1952, when water
use set an all-time record for the
city, according to water depart
ment officials. -
Monday, July 6, has been the
biggest day of the year in Med
ford for water use, they stated.
The hottest day of the year so
far, August 11, when the tem
perature reached 102 degrees,
was second high.
Not Yet Needed
It has not been necessary so
far this summer to use water
released to the city by use of
the new Willow Creek dam res
ervoir, which was completed
last year. If the weather is "av
erage" until fall rains start, the
city probably will not use the
supply of spring water owned by
the Eagle Point irrigation dis
trict, which is "traded" for Wil
low Creek dam water.
The reservoir was filled for
the first time in February of this
year, and has remained at a
near-full level since that time.
Water department officials
say that their biggest problem
now is not supply, but distribu
tion and adequate pressure.
Present and proposed construc
tion of new water mains is ex
pected to remedy this problem,
they said.
Beating Charged
To Spreckles Heir
Newport Beach, Calif. -UK)
Sugar fortune heir Adolph B.
Spreckels H was arraigned to
day on charges he beat his beau
teous ex-wife, Kay Williams.
Prelimsaary hearing for
Spreckels, 41, was set for Aug.
26 on a felony charge of assault
with intent to commit great
bodily harm.
Attorney Daniel Schnabel, rep
resenting Spreckels, denied that
his client beat the 38-year-old
former actress, who was report
ed in fair condition at Hoag Me
morial hospital here. She was
suffering possible broken ribs,
head injuries and severe bruises
on her arms and legs, -the hos
pital reported.
People Must Qecide on
Constitutional Meeting
Salem (U.R) Attorney Gen
eral Robert Y. Thornton said to
day that the people themselves
must decide whether or not they
want a constitutional convention
called to bring Oregon's constitu
tion up to date.
Thornton wrote his opinion in
reply to Rep. Mark O. Hatfield
of Salem, secretary of the gov
ernor's and legislative constitu
tional committee.
Brings Price of $1200
a total ox $10,411
The prize bull, OSC Lionheart
No. B-28, was purchased by the
Buck & Doe Ranch, Deer Lodge,
Mont
Astoria (U.R) The Merchants
committee of the Astoria Cham
ber of Commerce has approved
a volunteer plan for Monday
night openings
Singapore (U.R) The U. S.
destroyer Erwin, Vodger, Pres
ton and Picking have arrived in
SiBgaport harbor from Korea
US
That the U.S.
the
Recently Captured
Prisoners Slated
For Early Release
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R)
The Communists released 150
Americans today, the most in
one day since "Operation Big
Switch" started 17 days ago,
amid reports that men captured
in the last days of the Korean
war may be freed tomorrow.
Some of the returning prison
ers said the Saturday delivery
of 94 Americans will include
men from camp No. 9. a com
pound the United Nations did
not know existed.
It was believed the camp was
set up for men recently cap
tured.. The returnees said the
City Checking Men
For Police Probe
Contacts have been made
through the League of Oregon
Cities leading to the choice of a
police department investigator,
Robert A: Duff, city superintend
ent, said today.
Duff said that two possibilities
are now being checked and he
expects to have more definite re
sults sometime today. The final
choice, he pointed out, rests with
the council, and should the leads
now being checked on turn out
to be good, a special meeting of
the council ' will probably be
called. A special meeting re
quires 24 hour notice to the
councilmen. ,
Near-Genius Convict Controlled
State Prison, Warden Declares
Salem (U.R) A prisoner
with a near-genius intelligence
quotient of 129 ruled Oregon
state penitentiary with an iron
hand, selling liquor and nar
cotics and giving jobs to convicts
and even assigning lieutenants
to key jobs in the prison, Warden
Clarence T. Gladden told the
State Emergency Board today-
Additional Guards Requested
Gladden made his statement in
support of his request for 25
additional guards. He said de
tails now are not properly super
vised because of lack of person
nel. He told the board:
'It was the custom, prior to
my taking over the prison, for
the prisoners to go on a big
drunk every Saturday night We
have destroyed 400 gallons of
ptuno since last April."
Potato Peelings Favored
"Pruno" is made up of any
thing that will ferment Potato
peelings are one favorite source
of the brew, and if the convicts
can get some yeast from the
kitchen, it gives a potent finish
to the product.
Gladden said he had been told
and had reason to believe
that $10,000 was collected by
this convict leader and spirited
out of the prison.
Asked if this leader was still
in control. Warden Gladden re
plied: "He's in a spot where he
can't control anyone."
But be added that because of
Inadequate supervision, both liq
uor and narcotics are being
smuggled into the prison. He
told the Board frankly that he
had not yet been able to put a
atop to this practice.
of teste
ieffesnses
atomic stockpile no longer pos-
war-prevention value it used to have
was emphasized today by Chairman Lewis L.
Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission.
In a letter to Chairman Alexander Wiley (R.
Wis.) of the Senate Foreign Relations committee
Strauss said frankly that:
"It is ... a fallacy to assume that a stock
pile of atomic weapons in' our own hands is in
itself any longer a complete deterrent to aggres
sive action." .
Power Balance Being Restored
.The U.S. atomic stockpile has been credited
in the past by statesmen of the caliber of Prime
Minister Winston Churchill with preventing
World War III.
But Russia, by adding mastery of the H-bomb
to her rapidly growing A-bomb stockpile, is grad
ually restoring the balance of power and at the
same time intensifying the possibility of civilization-crippling
war.
Former AEC Chairman Gordon Dean said re
cently, it is no comfort to be able to destroy an
enemy twice over if that enemy can destroy us
"just once."
camp No. 9 prisoners, many of
them sick and wounded, reached
the nearby Communist base at
Kaesong last night,
30 Litter Patients
Pfc. J. D. Britten, 22, of Sur-
goinsville, Tenn., said 30 litter
patients from camp No. 9 were
brought to Kaesong in "some
sort of dirty ambulances."
"One of them was captured
July 5, another on the 11th,'
Britton said. "One Tiad a leg
Diown on."
Prisoners returning to free
dom today were jubilant.
Some of the Americans were
so happy that their shouts of
"whoopee" could be heard while
the Russian trucks transporting
them to freedom were still half
a mile away.
450 Men Set Free
The Americans were among
the 450 war prisoners repatriat
ed by tne communists.
Their release brought the
number of Americans freed in
the big exchange to 1,465. The
Reds have promised to return
3,313 Americans along with al
most 10,000 other captives.
The road to freedom was a
one-way street today, because
the United Nations was unable
to return any of its captives to
the Communists. Storms at sea
during the early part of the
week made it impossible to take
Communists of Koje island. But
the U. N. announced it would
resume repatriation of 2,400 pris
oners daily, beginning Saturday.
Talking about conditions he
found when he took over as
warden, Gladden said he was
amazed to find that convicts con
trolled the leather industry at
the prison. He said:
"The convicts purchased the
leather, then distributed, per
haps at a price, to other convicts,
who used it to manufacture
leather novelties- It was a fine
business for them."
He added with irony: "Why,
last Christmas the convicts stole
11 turkeys."
Doubters Asked To Check
Milk Sources With State
Salem (U.R) A report from
the field that one Oregon doctor
has attributed probably one-third
of childhood sickness to milk
from questionable sources today
prompted the State Department
of Agriculture to issue some
warnings about milk sources.
Check SuggeWed
Approved sources of milk are
available throughout Oregon, the
department said, and if anyone
has any doubt about the whole
someness of the milk and cream
he is using, all he needs to do is
to check with the department at
Salem.
Or, officials said, put it this
way:
If you want to know the ap
proved sources of milk in your
area, ask the department for a
list of the inspected and licensed
dairies in the ipediic area.
convicts back to their cells to
day, ending a bloody, blazing
riot in which one inmate was
killed and three were wounded.
The holdout band of prison
ers, which huddled throughout
the cold night on the reforma
tory's baseball diamond, was di
vided into small groups and
marched -to their cells after
being fed.
Before the men were re
turned, a cell-by-cell search was
made for weapons.
Buildings Burned
The riot started at 6:43 p.m.
yesterday when the inmates re
fused to return to their cells
following an exercise period.
They set fire to a machine
shop, garage, brickyard, green
house, powerhouse and other
smaller buildings.
Damage was estimated at
about $1,500,000.
Killed by a bullet through his
head was Walter Thomas Lys
hall, 23, Seattle. Glenn M. An
derson, 23, also of Seattle, was
shot through the head and his
condition was critical.
The guards opened fire when
the rioters rushed the main yard
gate at about 10 p. m.
An estimated 200 law enforce-.
ment officials, including 90
state patrolmen, were called in
to restore order during the up
rising w n 1 c b Superintendent
Paul Squires said aDnarentlv
was the result of resentment
over the treatment of a Negro
prisoner.
Convicts Break Ranks
Squires said the riot started
at the end of the yard exercise
period about 6:45 p. m. He said
349 of the reformatory's 600 in
mates were in the yard at the
time. About half followed the
order to return to their cells.
Squires added, but the others
broke ranks and began setting
fire to the shop buildings.
Squires said the Negro inmate
whom other prisoners claimed
bad been mistreated had refused
to go to work yesterday morning
and was sent to "deadlock," a
cell in which a prisoner is con
fined and loses privileges and
has all meals taken to him.
Squires said the Negro had to
be put in the cell by force and
with the use of tear gas. Ho
said the man was not harmed
bodily.
Brahma Bull Gores
Clown at Rodeo
Sidney, lav (U.R) A rodeo
clown was in critical condi
tion today after being gored
by a brahma bull yesterday
at a performance of the an
nual Sidney rodeo.
Bobby Clark. Bakersfield,
Calif- suffered a severe con
cussion and Internal injuries
when one of the bulls charged
him, pinned him against a gate
and gored him before rodeo
workers could free him.
He said:
"And that was the reason we
had so much trouble in the
prison. Turnover of prison per
sonnel has been heavy." But he
said he hoped that once things
are straightened out in the
prison, guards will be more sat
isfied with their jobs and stay
there. He said:
"I have checked up and find
that we are paying our guards a
wage comparable to that paid in
other prisons and it is likewise
comparable to the wages paid
guards in federal prisons.1
Under state law, all dairies
selling milk and cream, in Ore
gon are required to be licensed
by the department. Exceptions
are only those licensed by cities
having their own milk ordinance
and then these must meet state
standards.
Sources Inspected
Each milk source on the de
partment's approved list is in
spected regularly for, compliance
with state sanitation standards
and the dairy cows are tested
regularly for bang's and tubercu
losis, two diseases which may be
transmitted to human beings if
milk is not properly protected.
Manpower, money and time
are devoted constantly to supply
ing wholesome milk to Oregon's
population so there is little ex
cuse for anyone buying milk of
questionable character, depart
ment officials said.