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.
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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. '