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if mim, PRESIDENT CONCLUDES SPEECH-MAKING TOUR OF EASTERN STATES Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower returned here today from a hand-shaking, speech making, doorbell . ringing cam paign swing into the East. Republican leaders hailed Mr. Eisenhower's first swing into New York and Connecticut as just the tonic to pep up the GOP campaign and bring success at the polls in the Nov. 2 election. Mr. Eisenhower had some work piled up on his desk to ' dispose of before taking off for 'iojriviiiu lumurruw iur uiurc pre-election politicking. Whirlwind Tour In a whirlwind, two-day trip into Connecticut and New York, the President delivered two major speeches, gave GOP candi dates some personal puffs, and made an almost unprecedented doorbell-ringing and hand-shaking tour of housing, hospital and highway project in New York ' City. . New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said today that the trip ments of this administration." He also believes it helped win votes. Sen. Irving M. Ives,. GOP candidate to succeed Dewey, de clared that the trip "accomplished a great deal."' But Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr., New York's Democratic mayor, pooh-poohed this view. He said "President Eisenhower's swing through the East will have no effect' on the local election . . . this will be a Democratic year." In a conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel yesterday, Mr. Eisenhower personally renewed his warm endorsement of Clif ford P. Case as the COP- candi date in New Jersey's hot Sen atorial race. -More Conflict ' ; Rep. Robert W. Keane (R-N.J.) said today he believes the visit helped Case and GOP Con gressional candidates generally in New Jersey. But Rep. Harri son A. Williams Jr., (D-N.J.) said the effect of the President's trip was "entirely neutral." i Mr. Eisenhpwer wound up his .two-day tour , , with,.- a ,ma jpr speech last night at the Alfred Vishinsky Wails Kremlin Orders United Nations, N. Y. (U.R Russia's Andrei Y. - Vishinsky awaited final instructions from the Kremlin today on the Soviet Union's position on world dis armament plans. The veterans Soviet diplomat, under mounting western pres sure to join in sponsoring a reso lution to refer all plans for arms reduction to private discussions by a five-power subcommittee of the United Nations Disarma ment Commission, postponed his last major speech on the subject until Monday's meeeting of the General Assembly's political committee. Informants said he was waiting for Moseow'i clear ance. . The stage was being set for a major showdown in the 60 nation committee Monday when Vishinsky, top spokesman for the Soviet bloc, United States Delegate James J. Wadsworth, keynoter for the West, and In dia's V. K. Rishma Menon, bell whether of the "neutralists" all were listed for final speeches. Farmers Not To Expect Price Squeeze Letup Washington (U.R) Govern . ment economists told the na tion's farmers today not to ex pect a letup in the price squeeze next year and predicted both in come and expenses wquld edge downward again. Top State Political Figures Called To Testify in Baker Portland (U.R) An investiga tion of the price paid for a mod est home in Baker today prom ised to become a political spec tacle when Howard Morgan, Oregon Democratic Central Com mittee Chairman, announced that some of the state's top political figures, Including the governor, would be subpoenaed to appear before the State Real Estate Commission. Paiiarson, Cordon Called ' Morgan said Gov. Paul. Pat serson, Sen. ' Guy Cordon, and Rep. Sam Coon, all Republicans, would be required to testify un der oath at the hearing in Baker Oct. 27. ' The hearing before State Real Estate Commissioner Ra g n or Johnson will investigate the charges of an agriculture de partment employee that he was influenced to report he paid E. Smith memorial dinner In the Waldorf, Astoria. He announced he would push hard next year to get Congress to approve his controversial health re-insurance program. . . Iu the process, he lashed out at "bureaucratio extremists" who would place all responsibility for the care of the sick and un fortunate on the federal govern ment. Men are "deluded" with "fantasies," he said, if they thing "labor or pain or sacrifice" can be removed from life. Morse Says High Hells Canyon Dam Victory in Sight j Joseph, Ore. , (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse told an audience here last night that victory is in sight for proponents of a sin gle high federal dam At Hells Canyon on the Snake river. The Oregon Independent asserted that "the tide has turned." The claim was made at the second annual Tri-State Hells Canyon Association dinner. He indicated that the proposal of the Idaho Power Company to build a privately-financed dam at the' Hells. Canyon site could be defeated by electing Richard L. Neuberger- to the United States to "make the vision of plenty a reality." : Ptnies Cordon Claim Morse denied the claim of Sen. Guy Cordon that he had sub mitted the only Hells Canyon bill ever voted on the floor of the Senate. Morse said the Cor don amendment was offered on April 14, 1950, the same day as the O'Mahoney amendment was offered and voted upon. The lat ter, Morse said, included a "basin account" system which provides for accounting, proce dures under which costs and al locations would be made on a regionwida basis. Cordon voted against the., amendment,. Morse reported. "' Tells Reason for Vol The Cordon amendment in cluded an "interest component" feature which would require ap propriations for irrigation fea tures of reclamation projects. No senator from a reclamation state could have supported the amendment, Morse said. He add ed that he voted for it only be cause it would have authorized Hells Canyon. Accident Victim Said In Serious Condition Mrs. Zepha Woodley, 51, Dufur, Ore., is in "extremely critical" . condition at Sacred Heart hospital. She was taken there Wednesday morning after a truck dumped its load of logs on the car in which she was rid ing. Her husband, Earl H. Woodley, S3, driver of the car, and his father, Clark E. Woodley, 85, Grants Pass, died at the scene of the accident The accident oc curred near Cascade Gorge on the Crater Lake highway. Charles Skouras, Owner Of Theater Chain, Dies Hollywood (U.R) Theater Magnate Charles Skouras, 85, a one-time penniless Greek immi grant "who rase to become the highest salaried man in the world, died today. Skouras' life was a rags-to-riches Horatio Alger story of a lad who landed, broke, in New York in 1908 and wound up heading the largest chain of theaters in the country. $6800 for a house instead of the actual purchase price of $7730. The detail that gave the case its political flavor was the fact that the real estate firm charg ed With using improper Influ ence was that of Curfman' & Ullman. Al Ullman is Demo cratic candidate for Congress from the Second district He has asserted that the charge was brought at this time to embarrass him politically. Charge. Source Claimed Ullman, who is also president of the Idaho-Oregon Hells Can yon Association, claimed that the charge against his firm was en gineered by the Idaho Power Company which seeks to build private dams at the Hells Canyon site. Morgan declared that every person on the subpoena list has had relations with the Idaho Medford United PrM rufl Uwd Win 49th Year 20 Pages 11 th IPyiir1bojDccaini ESed Captured Secretary Genercl Of Parly Seized In Texas by FBI Conspiracy Charge Results in Arrest Edlnburg, Tex: U.R) Ramon Mirabal Carrion, 41-year-old-sec retary; general of the Puerto Rlcan Communist party, was ar rested by federal agents last night' at Hidalgo,' Tex., just across the Rio Grande from Mexico. - Mirabal Carrion did not resist as he was apprehended by FBI agents on charges of conspiring to advocate violent overthrow of the United States govern ment. ' 11th Member Arrested ! He was the 11th leading mem ber of the Puerto Rican Red party to be arrested in the past three days. The others were ap prehended in New York and Puerto Rico. ' FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said Mirabel Carrion disappear ed from his San Juan, Puerto Rico, residence last June 27 and entered the Communist party's underground network. What he was doing in Hidalgo was not revealed. Agents Quiet Scott J. Werner, FBI agent in charge of San- Antonio, Tex., district, refused to say if the Puerto Rican was leaving the United States or entering when arrested. Hidalgo and Reynosa, Mex., are Joined by an interna tional bridge. t Mlradel Carrion was arraign ed last night before U.S. Com missioner J. C. Hall of Edinburg, who set bond at $29,000. The prisoner signed a waiver agree ing to removal to Puerto Rico and spent the night in the Hi dalgo jail. ' , Werner said Mirabel uarrion would be transferred to Puerto Rico later, but he didn't know when that would be. Medford Man Dies In Bangkok Air Crash Bangkok U.R) Four men were killed and two others were missing today , following the crash of a Civtf Air Transport plane into the Gulf of Siam Wednesday. The dead included James Mc Carthy Jr., of Medford, Ore., two Trail policemen and one Chinese. Missing was a . third policeman and another Chinese. A search of directories, school records and other listings, plus checking with airport and other sources, iailed to reveal a Med ford home address for a James McCarthy Jr. Southwest Said Trying To Be 'Trunk Carrier" Washington (U.R) A United Airlines official asserted today that Southwest Airways is at tempting to convert itself from a local airline to a regional "trunk carrier." 'Andrew de Voursney, treas urer of United, made the state ment at a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner's hearing on Southwest's application for a permanent operating certificate. Will Be House Deal Power Co., the real estate com mission, or "with the Republican machine In Oregon, or with ac tive political campaigns now un der way." Others on the list released by Morgan include Ferrin M. Woll, former state patrolman and now an employee of the state depart ment of agriculture, the plaintiff In the case; John S. Horton, Harold Banta and David C. Sllve, Baker attorneys; D. W. McDonald, an auditor for the real estate commission, and Tay lor Treece, secretary of the Real Estate Board of Oregon. Conniving Denied - Commissioner Johnson has de nied the charge of political con niving and declared yesterday the bearing is required by law as the result of Woll's complaint gainst UlUnan'i firm. . . J ""'' MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBEk.v 54 State Water Policy Claimed necessary In Convention Talk There, is near- unanimous agreement that Oregon should have a state water policy with a central agency to carry it out, Don Lane told delegates to the sixth annual meeting of the Ore gon Association of Soil Conser vation Districts yesterday. Lane, executive secretary of the Oregon Water . Resources committee, is a former secretary manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. He spoke yesterday afternoon at the Crateriah theater. No Policy Now . Oregon does not have a state water policy at the present time Lane pointed out. He declared that it was recommended at a series of meetings . conducted throughout the state by the Wa ter Resources committee, that any agency set up to administer a state water policy should have authority to resolve conflicts. These conflicts can be expect ed to increase rather than de crease, Lane noted. Sources from which they may arise, he said, are a doubled agricultural need for water in the foreseeable future, increases in the state's population, increased per capita consumption of water, ' which now amounts to some 340 gal lons per day per person in Ore gon's 11 largest cities during 15-Year Sentence; Given Robber; Plea. Made by Dressier A man who held up the Sis kiyou Summit cafe last week, and stole some $70, was one of five persons appearing in circuit court today. Harold Franklin Brewer, 28, Martin, Ky,, was sentenced by Judge H. K. Hanna to a period not to exceed 15 years in the state penetentiary, for assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. He pleaded guilty on Wednesday. Pleads Innocent Jesse Floyd Dressier, 52, route 2, box 465, pleaded Inno cent to a grand jury indictment of assault with a dangerous weapon. The court appointed William Kellington as defense counsel, and notice was given that defense would ask Judge Orval J. Millard, Grants Pass, to be disqualified. Hanna has al ready disqualified himself. A trial date will be set by who ever is presiding judge, District Attorney Walter Nunlcy said. Dressier is now out on $2,500 bail. Kenneth Dale Peavler, 24, Vancouver, B. C, was sentenced to three years, and Jimmy Earl Spradley, 20, Fresno, Calif., given a three-year suspended sentence on a charge of larceny of a motor vehicle on Oct. 19. The charge involved a logging truck owned by R. R. Holzhau ser. Sentenced Suspended Norman Osmond Barnes, 36, Eugene, was given a three-year suspended sentence on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. It involved a $15 bad check al Hibbard's Hardware, 310 East Main st. Donald William Coggins, 19, of 27 Newtown St., pleaded guil ty to a charge of larceny from a building and the case was con tinued pending receipt of FBI reports. Involved wth the theft of money from the Medford High school band room last Friday night. - Los Angeles (U.R) Gov. Goodwin J. Knight today asked the oil Industry io dose down all refinery operations in Los Angeles county ftor "an adequate lest period" io determine their responsibility In thi area's serious - smog problem. The oil industry has denied that it was the majos source of smog. (See story ea Page 44 - peak consumption periods, in dustrial expansion in businesses utilizing large amounts of water, and increased recreational use. Oregon streams, in general are over-appropriated, with more permits than there is water av ailable to furnish during low streamflow periods, Lane said. Stored water Is needed to meet the need in some areas. A good start has been made in some areas in control of flood waters, which now result in a loss of an estimated $20,000,000 each year in Oregon, he stated.. One of Oregon's most immed iate needs is a ground water code, according to Lane. He pointed out that there is no such code at the present time for the area west of the Cascade moun tains. There is also a need, he said, for a thorough investiga tion of the state's ground water supplies and the best uses to which they can be put. : The Water Resources commit tee has used several methods to obtain information which will be used for specific recommenda tions for the coordinated devel opment of the state's water re sources. ' . ; Lists Recommendations ; . They include (1) a series of meetings with those interested in water development; (2) a com pilation of pertinent data avail able from various - sources, in cluding libraries; (3) a survey of what has been done . In otner states along these lines, and (4) a series of 15 public meetings throughout the state at which suggestions concerning the most pressing needs were obtained! The committee, which will go out of operation July 1, 1955, is now working on recommend ations to be presented to the governor, Lane said. Kenneth Denman, Medford, In another talk yesterday, stressed need for "a program of extreme ly active cooperation" between the game commission and soil conservation groups to enable them to come to compromises on some of the conservation problems. He mentioned the problem of diminishing resourc es for producing and preserving game, the increasing total of hunters and fishermen and their demands for increasing the num bers of game and fish. ISO Attending About 80 delegates are regis tered for the convention, al though the actual number at tending is about double that. They come from soil conserva tion districts throughout the state. At a dinner last night, dele gates heard Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, discuss conservation practices on his own farm, and recount the volcanic origin of much of Oregon's soils. Bill Dawkins was master of cere monies at the dinner. Business sessions this morn ing, also held at the Craterian theater, were concerned largely with reports on various phases of soil conservation. Robert Baum, of the state soil conser vation committee, reported on the work of his group, and of .proposed changes in soil conser vation district legislation which may be proposed to the legisla ture. The changes are mostly of an administrative nature,' he said. Other Speakers Other speakers today were E. Harvey Miller, chairman of the Oregon agricultural stabiliza tion and conservation commit tee; H. R. Glascock, district for ester of the Industrial Forestry association, who was to present tree farm certificates to two Oregon farmers; Ellis Hatt, head of the engineering and water shed planning unit of the U. S. soil conservation service, . and Mrs. Merritt Parks, speaking on water problems. The afternoon was to be de voted to entertainment, commit tee reports, and the election of two new directors of the state association. The convention will conclude tomorrow morning with field tours of the two local isoil conservation districts, the Rogue and the Sams Valley' I Beagle. JBUNE Praw-fuU iMtti Win Price 5c . No. 1 85 UN SPEAKER Heberto Seln, above, an employee of the United Nations, will speak on.. 'The Worth of the United Nations to the Common Man" at a free public meeting at the Esquire theater at 7:45 o'clock this eve ning. Sein, who has been with the UN since it was formed nine years, ago, has had wide exper ience in various phases of the work of the international organ ization. His talk here coincides with the observance of UN day, Sunday, in the Medford schools. Political Figures Due Next Week for igning There will be a last, pre-elec tion burst of political activity in Medford next week. The general election is a week from Tuesday. Sen. Wayne Morse (I-Ore.) will lead the parade of four major political figures to appear here. The senator will speek at Public meeting at 2:30 p.m. Sun day at the Medford High school auditorium. He will be Intro duced by Joseph K. Carson Jr., Portland, Democratic . candidate for governor. Morse s talk will be given un der the ausices of the Demo cratic party. Ellsworth on Monday On Monday, Congressman Har ris Ellsworth, Roseburg, Repub lican candidate for .reelection, will arrive in Jackson county for three days of campaigning his first pre-election public appear ances in and around Medford. He will speak at a meeting of the Jackson County Republican Central committee at the Med ford hotel at 8 p.m. Monday, in addition to other talks here and in Ashland. On Tuesday, Ellsworth's Dem ocratic opponent, Attorney Charles O. Porter of Eugene, will arrive in the morning. He will campaign in Rogue River, attend a tea at 2:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. H. P. Bosworth, and make a television appearance in the evening. Carson will return to Medford on Wednesday for campaign ap pearances, but his schedule has not yet been fully worked out. Hillsbord Bank Executive Missing Portland (U.R) Washing ton county authorities today asked the help of Portland po lice in attempts to find a Hills boro. bank executive who has been missing since yesterday. The Washington county sher iff's office reported that Wil liam C. Christensen, 61, presi dent of the Commercial Ba'nk of Oregon, left his Hillsboro home about 4 p.m. to visit a Portland clinic. He did not reach the clinic nor did he return home, officers said. Christensen is described as 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighing 180 pounds. When he disappeared he was wearing a gray suit and a plastic raincoat. He was driv ing a 1953 Mercury sedan with Oregon license number 914-739. DOW-JONES AVERAGE New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock average: 30 indus trials 358.61 up 0.53; 20 rail roads 120.55 up 0.30; 15 utilities 58.79 up 0.15, and 65 stocks 131.98 up 0.26. Sales today were about 2.080,000 shares, com pared with 2.320,000 shares yes terday, . liiiie.iiiiiiMliiiiiiil.t..g'. A Utamsi Weather FORECAST:' Ffctr throuih Sat urday except for patches of valley lof Srturday morning. - Colder tonlfUt with freeatnr temperatures In the cold pott. Low tonliht IS. High '' Saturday near 19. Temp,' Highest Yesterday 19 Lowest this Morning 4$ Pree. to 4:30 a.m. Today ...... .03 Cordon Cites GOP Inflation Check; Lowering of Taxes Neuberger Requests No-Spending Pledge By UNITED PRESS Sen. Guy Cordon said in Port land last night that Republicans have halted inflation, and cut taxes without bringing on a re cession during their two years in power. coraons democratic .oppon ent, Richard L. Neuberger, speaking at West ' Linn, chal lenged the Republican senator to join in a no-spending pledge for tne remainder of the campaign: Defends Tax Bill Cordon spoke at the annual meeting of Columbia' Empire Industries at the Multnomah ho tel and defended the administra tion's tax bill against charges that it favored the rich. He said that historically it's been Dem ocrats who have Increased In come taxes. 'The American ceODle were being spent into debt at the rate of more than half a million dol lars per hour about $10,000 a minute," when the Republicans took over, he said. Charge Termed Absurd . : Neuberger, speaking on ' the subject "Fair Play." attacked the Cordon campaign organiza-' lion tor wnat tie called its charg es that large amounts of money were being sent to Oregon to finance Neuberger's campaign. He termed the charge "perfectly absurd . ... " Neuberger proposed that he and Cordon sign a pledge In the presence of reputable cer tified public accountants agree ing io stop all campaign spend ing errective J)'riday morning. He suggested that the only expendi tures to be made by the two for the rest of the camnaism Include just those for routine costs, such as travel. Gold Beach Hunter Killed Near Klamath Klamath Falls (U.R) Richard Blair Dunkelberger, 44, of Gold Beach, was shot and killed late yesterday in a hunting accident on Auger creek, IVi miles from the Dairy Creek guard station east of here. State police ' said another hunter, Fred Anderson, fired the fatal shot. The accident occured about 5:45 p.m. Dunkelberger'i death brings to seven the number of hunters slain during the 1954 deer hunt ing season. Wilson Criticizes Atom Bomb Rattlers Los Angeles U.R) Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson to day criticized Americans who are "trying to scare our own people and indirectly the people of other nations" by "rattling the atomic bomb." Wilson, in an address before the World Affairs Council, said he did not believe the rattlers of the atomic bomb were "doing our country and the rest of the world any service." "We can more profitably spend our time in analyzing our problems and doing something about them," he said. , 'Wonderful People1 Assist Cheering-Up Dennis Gregg Lira, 6-year- old grandson of Mrs. R. J. Collins, 315 Boardman st., knows that there are "a lot of wonderful people" In Med ford. . The youngster, given only a short time to live because he has leukemia, is in Stanford-Lane hospital in San Francisco. , Time has hung heavy on his hands, and his grandmother last week, through The Mall Tribune,, asked Jackson county people to write him colorful cards or cheerful letters. Mrs. Collins said this morn ing the response has been "Just marvelous." There have been Disagreement Threatens Plans For Europe Defense Eden Steps in To Act as Mediator . Paris J.RV French Premier Pierre Mendes-France said to day France and Germany are deadlocked on the future of the Saar and -warned that France will refuse to sign agreements for German rearmament and West European union until the dispute is settled. ' "The atmosphere, he said, "ii not -good." Disclosure of the depth of the disagreement which threatened to topple the free world's latest plana for European defense, was made following a tense two-hour meeting of the French Cabinet. Other Issues Settled The squabble over the postage-stamp sized territory on the border between the two nations ballooned Into a crisis which now overshadows Allied agree ments reached on all other major issues. ' ;.!.-.' - j----1"'. : British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden,, architect of the new European defense scheme, quickly invited Mendes-France and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to dinner to- night in an' effort to serve as mediator. Both men accepted. Only yesterday Adenauer had beamingly predicted that all the accords, including the ; settle ment on the Saar, would be sign- -ed tomorrow. All arrangements for the signing ceremonies were . completed. 1 :, Signing Due Tomorrow But today the traditional ene mies of Europe declared them- . selves far apart on the Saarland Issue less than 24 hours before the scheduled hour tor signing the series, of pacts to which Europe's defenses and United States and British policy in -Europe are pinned. ' German officials denounced several undisclosed French pro posals as "entirely unacceptable" and, privately accused the French, of attempting to blackmail Ger- . many by threatening to withhold . The big point at issue was said to be a German demand that the Saar hold new elections before a- referendum Is taken on any accord reached at Paris, and that pro-German political parties be given full freedom to participate. . , V - Missouri Prison Outbreak Quelled Jefferson City, Mo. .- (U.R) Guards and armed state patrol men put down a noon outbreak today in the Missouri Penitenti ary, where a month ago today four prisoners were killed in a multi-million dollar riot. No shots were fired today. Gov.. Phil M. Donnelly said "all Inmates are locked back in their cells and the disturbance apparently has been quelled." Col. Thomas E. Whitecotton. director of corrections, said that about 500 prisoners were in the dining hall when today's out break started. Some of them wanted to return to their cells immediately, he added. Whitecotton said a convict whom he described as a "hot head" but did not otherwise id entify started the commotion. He would not say what disci plinary action would be taken. Slash Burning Permits ' Available From State Logging operators who wish to burn slash may now obtain permits from the state forest patrol' for that purpose, patrol men said today. Permits are required before burning can be done, it was em phasized. A patrol spokesman pointed out that there has been a good general rain over this entire dis trict and that more rain is ex pected. He said that most of the slash is considered about right for burning. of Dying Boy many, cards and letters, A Brownie troop has "adopted" Dennis as a project, as has the first grade at Lincoln school. One woman is sending him a box of colorful sea shells she collected on a recent trip. An other, woman is going to send him some gay slipper-socks. This activity has done much to cheer Dennis up, his mother has told Mrs.' Collins. , She also reports that Den nis' time is getting shorter, and that the disease is caus ing him to get weaker. , Mrs. Collins asked The Mail Tribune to thank the "wonder ful people" who are making the little boy's last days happier.
