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One Dead, 3? Hurl In Third Outbreak At Missouri Prison Disorder Described , As 'Race Riot' Jefferson City, Mo. (U,R) A msjor riot at the Missouri pent 't,tentiary took the life of one con Vict, left 37 others injured and . touched off , a "brief flareup" , Saturday night at the women's , prison a half mile away. , It was the third serious dis- turbance within a month at the penitentiary. Officials described It as a "race-riot" with Negro .;. prisoners involved for the first time. Both outbreaks were quelled ; rapidly. Controlled Quickly. Prison guards, reinforced by . heavily-armed Highway patrol men, got the penitentiary riot "under control" at 3:15 p.m., an hour and a half after it erupted in the dining hall. About four hours later, the woiqen inmates staged their dis turbance. That demonstration was halted within 20 minutes. Officials said about 20 worn . en prisoners,: apparently in a state of excitement because of .the riot at the men's prison, started screaming and setting beds afire. i -Damage Minor Night Matron Luella B. Short er said ' "everything was put under control within 20 min utes." Only damage was burned beds. The women's prison ; is located on a hill a half mile West of the men's establishment. A clash between Negro and White convicts touched off the Mt.tVivaol. tha man's mi-lenn ""-Warden Sarph-Eidsort - saicMhat one white inmate was killed, shot by guards, and he listed the 3V injured as being 24 white and 12 Negro convicts. Two were ' described as in - "very serious" condition, Mendes-F ranee Gets Invitation foU.S. Washington J(U,R) The Uni ted States has Invited French Premier Mendes-France to pay an official visit here despite dip lomatic ups and downs Between this country and his government. The White House has an nounced that Mendes-France will come here Nov. 15 for meet ings with President Eisenhower. SATURDAY FOOTBALL WEST Oregon 26, San Josa St. 7. UCLA 61, Owgon State 0. Southern California 29, Cali fornia 27. Stanford 13, Washington 7. Idaho 10, Washington State . 0. .- Nebraska 20, Colorado 6. Brigham Young 19, Mon . tana 7. " ' ' t Utah 14, Wyoming 7. i. SOUTHWEST ' 'N 1 Southern Methodist 36, Kansas 18. Texas Christian 20, Penn Stale 7. -Baylor 20, Texas A&M 7. Bice 13, Texas 7 Arkansas. 6, Mississippi 0 Oklahoma 21, Kansas State 0. : MIDWFST Ohio Slate 31, Wisconsin 14. Michigan 34, Minnesota 0. Purdue 27, Michigan State 13. Marquette 14, Fordham 14 ' (He). , . , Iowa 27, Indiana 14. Illinois 34, Syracuse 6. Missouri 32, Iowa State 14. SOUTH " Mississippi State -12, Ala bama 7. Tennessee 14, Dayton 7. Kentucky 13, Georgia Tech 8. VPI 6, Virginia 0. North Carolina 14, Wake Forest 7. Georgia 7, Tulan 0. Auburn 33, Florida State 0. EAST Dartmouth 13, Harvard 7. Boston College 42, Spring field 6. Holy Cross 14, Boston U. 13. Pittsburgh 14, Northwestern' 7. Army 67, Columbia 12. Yale 13, Colgate 13 (tie). Navy 52. Pennsylvania 6. Cornell 27, Princeton 0. West Virginia 40. VMI (. Reds Call for Big Four Moscow U.R) Soviet Russia offered Saturday to "reconsider" Western proposals for free all German elections and called for a Big Four foreign ministers con ference next month to discuss the problems of reunification of Germany. .-,!,.-:" ; . Identical notes delivered to the ambassadors of the United States, Great Britain and France marked the opening of a major Soviet diplomatic offensive de signed to block the rearmament of West Germany. Handed to Big 3 ' ' Soviet-Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov handed the Soviet notes to the Big Three diplomats here shortly before the Western Pown ers and their allies began sign ing the documents in Paris which -r- Youth Found Dead; No Sign of Parents Dallas (U.R) The body of 14-year-old Harvey Hoff, who dis appeared with bis parents in th'e Fanno mountain' area south of here- Oct. 9, was found by blood hounds Saturday. ! ' . . New Barrage Fired At Harriman in Hoi N.Y.Xampaiga! New York (U.R) - Sen. Irving ,M. Ives fired another oarrage at Avereu Harriman. his Democratic opponent for the New York governorship Satur day, charging that Harriman used union-busting techniques in firing nearly 30 workers on his dairy farm in 1947. Harriman, campaigning in western New York, declared he was "revolted" by the tactics the Republicans have used against him in the past few days and predicted " a continuation of these smears and distortions with increasing recklessness" until election day. Promises Answer At the same time, he promised to answer "insofar as is possible in the limited time available the charges his opponents have made. He said that "the 'facts in each case will be made available by me or my associates." Harriman's campaign head quarters said the GOP candi date's charge "adds up to an other lie on Ives part." Union Man Denies Charge Harriman's spokesman also issued a statement from Fred A. Conrad, president of the union involved, Local 338 of the AFL Brotherhood of Teamster, deny ing the charge that Harriman was anti-labor and saying that 'this union is supporting Mr. Harriman 100 per cent" in the New York, gubernatorial cam paign.. Ives broadcast containing the anti-union charge was labeled "Chapter Three in the Life of Averell Harriman." He also re newed two earlier charges that Harri.nan headed a firm which paid $250,000 to a crooked judge and was involved in a mining promotion that cost American investors $5,000,000. a .. (S Story on Page 8) - Washington (U.R) Federal Judge Luther W. Youngdahl Sat urday rejected U. S. Attorney Leo A. Rover's demand that he disqualify himself as presiding Judge at Owen Lattimore's forth coming perjury trial. Ike Endorses He May Not Gettysburg, Pa. U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower, claiming the rights of an ordinary citizen," urged Pennsylvania voters Satur day to support the entire stat Republican ticket in the Nov. 2 elections. . ' It was the first time in this year's torrid political campaign that he had given blanket, per sonal endorsement to a slate of GOP candidates, t . Speaks at Rally ' Mr. Eisenhower's swing to the forthright endorsement tactics which many GOP, political strategists have been wanting him to use, came at pep rally will restore IVest German sov ereignty and authorize creation of a 500,000-man German de fense force. . ' Germany, split between East and West since the end of World War II, could not be unified "for a long period of time" if the new western agreements came into force, the notes said. The Soviet notes outlined a three-point alternative plan for German unity and European se curity. Not "Peaceful" They warned that West Ger many cannot be considered a "peaceful" state if it rearms in accordance with the Pans agree ments. - The note? were blunt in the!r attack on the new nine-power agreements. And the note to F. M. Henderson, Polk-Benton district forester who was with the search party, said the boy's death was apparently due to exposure. The Information was relayed from the remote area by walkie-talkie radio. Parents Still Missing Henderson said no sign was found of the boy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Zeiszler of Newport, Ore. The three missing d?er . hunters had been sought since Oct. 15, when .their car was found parked on a lonely mountain road. ,. Henderson sal d the blood hounds, which were taken into the area by their owners Nocman-L Wilson of Las Gatos, Calif., pick ed up the dead youth's scent at the spot where the family's car had been parked. ... Headed Into Brush Within three hours the dogs led searchers to the boy's body, .which was about two and a half miles northeast of the car near Riley's peak. Henderson said the boy was headed into thick brush, instead of toward open country, when he collapsed. The bloodhounds were used Friday and Saturday, and their owner said they would be rested today and would not rejoin the search crews until Monday. The ground search for the boy's par ents was to be continued today, concentrated in the area -where the boy's body Was found. McCarthy Seeking To Query Watkins Washington (U.R) Sen. . Jo seph R. McCarthy made his first open . counter attack Saturday against Senate censure recom mendations by seeking to cross examine 'Sen, Arthur V. Wat kins (R-Utah). ? Watkins was chairman of the special Senate committee which proposed the Wisconsin Republi can be publicly reprimanded by the Senate for his conduct in office. : McCarthy "Invited" Watkins to appear before his Permanent Investigating subcommittee some time before Nov. 8 when the Senate will reconvene to con sider the Watkins committee's recommendation. McCarthy said he wants to learn why the committee said Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker was not responsible for the hon orable discharge of former Ma jor Irving Peress. Peress, a New York dentist had refused to tell McCarthy whether he was Communist. : GOP Candidates; Indicates Go After Reelection in 1956 for some 200 Pennsylvania GOP leaders and candidates at his farm here. Before joining the GOP lead ers for lunch and politicking, he met a group of his future neigh bors on the Gettysburg battle field and told them that he and Mrs. Elsenhower are "going to be citizens of Pennsylvania soon, we hope." .... , , i It was the second time this week that the President ' had dropped an apparent hint that he does not intend to seek re election in 1956. Wednesday, at West Point society lunch in New York, be commented en the France carried a specific warn ing that the agreements violate -the Franco-Soviet t: treaty. : of friendship. r By agreeing tor rearm -Ger-many "France will find herself face to face with her eternal enemy German militarism and ... is aligning herself against the Soviet Union," the note said. The Soviet notes called for a meeting of Molotov, U, S. Secre- j TUTU , " SPEAKS TODAY Sen. Wayne Morse (I-Ore.) will speak at a meeting at the Medford High school auditorium at 2:30 p.m. today The public is invited to hear him.; The senator will be introduced by Joseph K. Carson Jr., Democratic candidate for governor, and the meeting is sponsored by the Jackson Coun ty Democratic Central Com mittee. ' SCD Convention in Echo Man Elected The sixth annual convention of the Oregon ' Association of Soil Conservation Districts concluded- here " yesterday. More than 150 persons attended. Tours of the Kogua and Sams Valley-Beagle Soil Conservation districts, the host groups, were conducted Saturday, morning, The concluding business sessions Friday afternoon included, com mittee reports and the election of new officers of the assopiatlon by the board of directors.; i Others Named Ralph Saylor, Ech, was named president; Ralph Wilson, Salem, vice-president, and Ben Christensen, Harrisburg, treas urer. Claude Meyers, Pendleton, was reelected secretary. Earlier,' delegates chose two new members of the board of directors, C. W. Jensen, Rogue River, succeeding Ray Nicker- son, Cave Junction, retiring pres ident of the association, and Leo Hammel Sr., Dufur, replacing B. L. Fleck, Redmond. Hold-over board members in clude Forrest Scrogglns, Union; Lloyd Gift, Bonanza, and Ernest Lindbom, Gresham. . Certificates Issued Tree farm certificates were awarded to five southern Ore gon farmers Friday. The 3-B Tree Farm, owned by G. W. Fitzgerald, route 2,' Gold Hill, was one, and the other" was the tree farm owned by the Sams Valley Irrigation association, of which Albert Straus is president. The other three were in the Cave Junction Soil Conservation district. Tree farm certificates are awcrded only to farms on tax paying, privately owned land. restrictions of the presidency and said; "Just give me a little time and I will be back in the crowd cheering for some other poor sucker who s up here. . . Mr. Eisenhower also east him. self in the role of a Pennsyl vania resident when he spoke to the GOP leaders Saturday. "I know, of no reason why I can't exercise the rights of an ordinary citizen when I am in Gettysburg and speak out in no uncertain terms in favor of these people," he said, with a wave toward a group of 30 Republican candidates for the House and six Candida tea for slate offices. 1 a. W-.J 46 '12 0, VYl X) Meet. 110 tary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden and French Premier Foreign Minister Pierre Mendes France in November to consider the Soviet proposals. (Western diplomats noted that the meeting presumably would be before France and the other western nations involved could ratify the agreements on German rearmament.) . " Ellsworth Slates Three-Day Election Campaign in Area Congressman Harris Ellsworth the Republican representative from, this district, will spend three days in southern Oregon this week in his campaign for re election. While he is here, his sup porters said Saturday, he will Charles O. Porter, Congress man Ellsworth's Democratic opponent, wlh be in Jackson county Tuesday for campaign appearances, and Joseph K. Carson Jr., Democratic candi date for governor, will be her Wednesday. . Carson is scheduled to ap pear at a Medford Lions club meeting Wednesday evening where Ellsworth alto will be, and Porter's supporters this week end were trying to make arrangements to have him stay over lor the same meet ing. be open - to-questlon rom all sources on his stands on various issues of the campaign. His first appearance will be at 1C a.m. in Rogue River, where he will visit the DeArmond Bros. Lumber company to speak to em ployees. The public is Invited to attend. At noon he will lunch with the employees of the Dou ble Dee and Table Rock Lumber companies, at Tolo, at the mill cafeteria. The congressman also plans to visit other mills in the area, meeting with their em ployees.0.''1. ' He will visit Shady Cove, Trail and Prospect in the afternoon, visiting with residents, mm workers and business people, and will make his first major talk in Medford at 8 p.m., when he meets with the Republican Central committee at the Med ford hotel. Tuesday morning he will drive to Ashland, stopping en route at Kogart Lumber company and Bear Creek orchards. He is to speak at noon to the, Ashland Chamber of Commerce, and at 2 p.m. to a Southern Oregon col lege assembly, later visiting lumber firms in the Ashland area. At 8 p.m. ne will spean to the Ashland American Legion post. ; He will visit in the Medford area until noon Wednesday, when he will speak at the Medford Klwanis club meeting at the Rogue Valley Country club. In the afternoon he will visit GOP headquarters here, then go to Lake Creek for a meeting with precinct workers and residents. At 6 p.m. he will appear at the Medford Lions club meeting at the Jackson hotel. Thursday morning he will move into Jose phine county to continue nis campaigning. . Veterans Day Parade Scheduled Nov. 11 A parade will be held in downtown Medford on Nov. 11, newly renamed "Veterans Day" instead of Armistice Day, ac cording to a committee of the Veterans Allied Council which Is In charge of plans. The committee pointed out that the day has been designated as a legal national holiday, and it is hoped that business nouses will elope. - All veterans are invited to participate in the parade, as 'are all patriotic, civic and fraternal groups. Those wishing to join may get in touch with M. A, Beneka at the courthouse, or telephone 2-5858. . The sponsoring council is com. nored of men who are individual ly members of' the various vet eran organizations. T BREAK DEADLOCKv-French (left), and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (right). Sat urday reached 'a dramatic last minute agreement on the future of tne coal-rlcn baar basin, on the border between the two nations. The agreement paved the way for the signing of a dozen historic documents which made West Germany a free nation. . . Von Neumann Selected To Serve in AEC Post Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower Saturday appointed Dr. John Von Neumann,, bril liant Hungarian-born mathemati cian whose computations helped speed development of the H bomb, to a five-year term as a memberjof the Atomic- Energy commission. ' i v, Dr. Von Neumann, 60, has been a professor at the institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N. J., for the past 20 years. There he has worked closely Medford Building Permits Up 74 Pet. Building permits . issued in Medford during the first nine months of 1954 represented an increase of 74 per cent in build ing values over the same period in 1953, according to statistics released last week. A report from the Equitable Savings and Loan association showed that building permit totals in the January-September period of 1954 totaled $2,109,919, compared to $1,213,291 for the same period the year before. . Permit totals in Medford for the third quarter of the year totaled $495,476, the report showed. Dwelling " building permit totals also were up, by 26 per cent, over last year,, the report indicated. The nine-month total this year was $787,000, and last year was $024,600. - ' 1 Throughout the Pacific Northv wett, the dollar .volume of con struction was the second highest in history, with only 1950 being higher. " ' " ' Sports Bulletin i Rio De Janeiro, Brasll (U,R) The United States team de-' fsated Canada, 59-37 Saturday night in one of the opening games of the world bssketball tournament, ' Tualatin River Body of Hillsboro Banker HillsborOf Ore. (U.R) Sur face crews dragged the Tualatin river about six miles south of hero Saturday while a diver searched among sunken logs for the body of William C. Christen- sen, 61-year-old Hillsboro bank president who disappeared from his home Thursday afternoon. Six boats manned by Washing ton county sheriff's deputies and state police worked back ana forth on a stretch of the muddy, rain-swollen stream near where Christensen's hat and raincoat were found yesterday on a clump of brush. Search Banks " ' Volunteers searched the river banks for signs of the missing executive. ' Christensen, president of the Commercial Bank of Oregon, , m ' i"iw"ni)i j ft Premier Pierre Mendes-France with the Institute's other world- renowned mathematician,- Prof. Albert Einstein. ' ' Sunnorted OoosnhelmsT ' Dr. J. Robert Oppenhelmeri whose security clearance ! for atomic secrets was .withdrawn recently, 'is head of the Institute. Dr. Von Neumann submitted a Statement in support of Oppen. heimer while the case was being reviewed by an AEC Security panel. ... Von Neumann has been . a naturalized citizen since Jan. 8, 1937. He told a reporter In Prince ton that he probably will take a leave of absence from the Insti tute, rather than resign. Dr.. Oppenheimer told a re porter that he had discussed the appointment with Von Neumann only briefly. He added that the usual procedure Is for Institute professors to take leave rather than resign when they are given such appointments. . Succeeds suckers ' Von Neumann succeeds Eu gene M. Zuckert, AEC member whose term expired last June 30, His appointment means that the AEC, for the first time in its history, will have two scientists among the five members of the governing commission. : . Sheriff Takes Jensen To State Penitentiary (Tames Norman Jensen, sen tenced to die on Jan. 7, 1955 in Oregon's lethal gas chamber, was taken to the state pentiten tiary at'Salem on Friday, Jensen, , 25, Larkspur, Calif., was found guilty on Oct. 15 of first deg.eo murder in the April 24 hatchet slaying of Mrs. Fern Hlle. He was sentenced last Tuesday by Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna. Sheriff Howard Gault, who took Jensen to Salem, said that Jensen was calm on the trip and on his admission to the prison.- Dragged for was last seen about 4 p.m. Thurs day when he left his home pre sumably to keep an appointment at a Portland clinic. He failed to arrive at the clinic. His abandoned automobile was found Friday parked a few hun dred feet from the river. Snags Hamper Operation Sheriff's deputies said dragging operations were hampered by the large number of sunken snags and logs which fouled grappling hooks. The river in the vicinity of where Christensen's coat aqd hat were found is about 30 feet wide and eight feet deep with holes up to 20 feet deep. Two Portland harbor patrol men. E. O. Hicks and Henry Ojala, joined the search Satur day morning, bringing modern portable dragging equipment with them to the search scene. Historic Documents Must Be Ratified V ' .Pi.? . ft m by ritteen Nations Germany in Defense Program; Soar Solved Paris (U.R) The Western Allies Saturday signed a dozen historic documents which made West. Germany a free " nation with an armed force of 00,000 men. , : The agreements also made Germany a member of the North Atlantic defense organization. ' The treaties and protocols still must be ratified or otherwise ap proved by the 15 nations whose , foreign ministers signed ' the documents Saturday. Saar Agreement Signed . . ... ' In addition to the documents signed by the United States, Britain, Canada and 12 contin ental European Allies, France and West Germany signed an agreement on the future of the Saar coal basin. The Saar dispute had threat ened to block the signing of the ; treaties until French Premier Pierre Mendes-France and Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer reached uiaiutiuc iasi minute agree ment. U. S. Secretary of Statu' .Trn Foster DuUes, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Men- aes-r ranee ana Adenauer led the procession of foreign minlstera uw oa.v.vi wj uuuuiiienie in a two nour, ceremony in the grand dining room of the French tot eign office. . The 270 pages of treaties, pro tocols, conventions, annexes, let; ters and accords totaled 30,000 words'. Tout Years' of V,''ertf,"'''"',' They were the result of four years of Western Allied work to bring Germany, a former enemy nation, Into the Atlantio defense against the SnvM fhrw . . free, rearmed nation. The Big-Four first h documents freeing Germany. -- Nine minutes later the seven foreign ministers of the w..t.rn European Union took their places In the unventilated, uncomfort aoiy not room to sign another group of documents. Then all Ihn ninWan v,i.j over across the Seine river to the NATO quarters at the Palaia de ChaJIlot to sign the final four documents. Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak led the signing ceremony ! at NATO. The nation in in Alphabetical - order and eight - minutes after Sneak ucrsww his signature on the papers, Dulles signed his name to con clude the ceremony amid loud applause. The "diplomatic Backusa", signed Saturday provides that: Prorislons Listed 1. West' Germany becomes free nation with independent control of Its internal , and ex ternal affairs. It can raise an armed force of 500,000 men which will include 12 army di visions, a 1,326-plane air force and a small navy. 2. The Western Allied nine- year occupation of Germany is ended. But the Allies will keep armea iorces in Uermany with the consent of the federal gov ernment and as it '"guests." 3. The United States, Britain and France have the right to negotiate with the Soviets on a final- all-German peace treaty and any future unification of the free west and Communist East Germany. 4. West Germany and Italy are covered by the revised and expanded 1948 Brussels treaty signed by France, Britain, Bel--gium, The Netherlands and Lux embourg . as . an anti-German, anti-Soviet defense agreement. New Defense Union 5. A new seven nation alliance known as the "Western Euro pean Union" with a council and consultative assembly will form the framework for the develop ment of a united Europe. The alliance members pledge to come to each other's aid "Immediate ly" In the event of attack. 6. Britain in a revolutionary departure from tradition and policy will keep four army di visions and tactical air force on the continent as long as the al-' lied command may consider necessary. 7. A seven nation "Union" ' arms control agency will make certain no member produced more armaments than agreed upon nor turns out banned wea pons. West Germany "under took" not to manufacture in its territory atomic, biological and chemical weapons. '
