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ManiaS ins Medford ".-,.' Onlud Preaa Full Uum win 49th Year 18 Pages Ike Pirom Chief Executive Lashes at Demos Dn4-Staie Tour Expanding Economy Said Result of Policies With Eisenhower U.R) Pres ident Eisenhower today promis ed voters a "growing prosper ity" if they elect a Republican Congress next Tuesday. He also lashed out at. what Republicans have termed a Democratic soft ness on Communism. , The President carried his fight for a Republican Congress to four states in a one-day flying political tour, with the four stops designed to help Republican con gressional ; candidates, particu larly Senate candidates. . A crowd estimated at 2000 per sons turned out at Cleveland Hopkins airport in Cleveland to greet the President, where rain forced his speech to be moved Indoors. In Detroit, at the second stop, a crowd estimated at 60, 000 jammed Cadillac Square in downtown Detroit. ; Red Herring Issue '. ' Later stops were due in Louis ville, Ky., and Wilmington, Del. The president in Cleveland to boost Republican Rep. George Bender's campaign to unseat Democratic Sen. Thomas Burke, lashed out at what Republicans call Democratic softnes to Com munism. He said his administra tion started out "tired" of replies of "red herring" by Democrats to charges of Communism in their .. federal: , administration... in ueiruji, wnere pen. nomer Ferguson, chairman of the Sen ate Republican Policy committee is seeking reelection, the Prest d e n t promised a , prosperity growing every day." Expanding Economy . , ' The President said .his admin istration's polices had resulted in a "strong, stable, growing, ex panding economy" and higher standards of living, He boasted the transition from war to peace had been made without a devas tating depression. He ridiculed what he called Democratic pro phets of doom" who had predict ed a depression seemingly "with some satisfaction." Mr. Eisenhower set out on the 'four-state tour after making a nationally televised and broad cast speech' here last: night in which he called for a GOP Con gress to prevent a "hopeless Jam" in government in the next two years, Bafhfub Voyager To Continue Journey Whidbey Island, Wash.-U.P) Bathtub Mariner Roy Bergo 'to day kept his unique vessel beached at Double Bluff on Whidbey island and made ready to resume his Alaska voyage on tomorrow morning's ebb tide. : The 50-year-old former prison guard said he was "working on the motor and balancing pon toons" on his sea-going galvan ized iron baby's bath tub. i Bergo first put the bath tub into the water at Edmonds, Wash., Tuesday and headed for Alaska, 1,200 miles away. .He made the 12 miles to here before trouble with his outboard motor stopped the voyage. Bergo an nounced Tuesday night he would go no further, but then quickly changed his mind. ' Stevenson Aids Democrat Candidates in New York New York (U.R) Adlai E. Steverfton threw . his political weight into New York's bitter election campaign today in an attempt to help fellow Demo crats break a 16-year Republi can grip on the slate. The 1952 presidential candi date arrived here from New Jersey Thursday night for a two-day campaign on behalf of h Democratic slate headed by Avcrell Harriman, nominee for governor. Accusms Republicans Campaigning on behalf of state and congressional candi dates in New Jersey Thursday, Stevenson accused the Republi cans with a ' frenzied outburst MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1954 Hearings Dated on Contested Claims . Protest hearings, requested by claimants on 88 unpatented min ing claims in the Union Creek area of the Rogue River Nation al forest, will be held Nov. 3 through 6 in the Jackson coun ty courthouse, it was announced today by Jack Wood, supervisor of the national forest. Claimants scheduled to appear at the hearings include the U.S. Mining Exploration company, known as the Kower and Young group, and J. M. Vassbinder. Bu reau of Land Management rep- Tax Bill Mailings To Start Tomorrow, Mailing of Jackson county tax statements will start tomorrow, it was announced this morning by Sheriff Howard Gault. Statements will be mailed first to property owners living outside of Jackson county. The second mailing will go to county residents outside of Medford, and the third to those living in Medford, It will take three or four days to complete mailing of. 'all state ments, Gault said. , Deadlines Told ' : The deadline for ' taking a three per cent discount for full payment in 'advance ls. Nov4!la, Those paying three-fourths of their total taxes by that date will receive a two per cent dis count, and a one per cent dis count will be given those paying half of their taxes by Nov.. IS. Taxes also may be paid by quarters, but without a discount. Any statements bearing a post mark to midnight, Nov. IS, will be honored for discounts. Taxes for the first quarter be come delinquent after Nov. 15 and the deadline for each subse quent quarter is three months, six months, and nine months thereafter. Delinquent taxes draw two-thirds of one per cent per month or fraction thereof. Asks Mail Payments Gault pointed out that it will take weeks to process the mail, and it will be some time before all tax receipts are sent out. He urged that payments be sent in by mail to alleviate the con gestion which usually builds up in the tax office in the court house. Jackson county this year is changing to a machine code method of preparing tax state ments. The machine system al ready is in use in most counties of the state, Gault said. Barbershop Concert '. Slated Saturday Night A number of the Pacific Northwest's top quartets, includ ing the House Brothers of Kla math Falls, will appear at the annual Barbershop Quartet' con cert to be held at 8 p.m. Sat urday in the high school audi torium. The event is sponsored by the Medford chapter of the Soc iety for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in Amerioa, Inc. Among the groups coming here is the Roseburg barbershop chor- of smut, smear and slander." He said Vice-President Rich ard Nixon and. New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey were respon sible for the Republicans' swing away from President Eisenhow er's declaration that the 1954 campaign would be fought on the record of the GOP. congress. Shrill Chorus "Instead, as the' campaign ends," he said, "the image of democracy is defaced by a fren zied outburst of smut, smear and slander with the vice president of the United States, if you please, and the governor of r.ew York leading the shrill Republican chorus of defama tion and denunciation to the In glorious and bitter end." v United IPirospeirn-Q:v resentatlves will conduct the hearings, which involve some 14.070 acres of land. Others Invalid In May, 1953, claims on 2,880 acres of mining claims near Union Creek were rendered in valid by BLM officials following similar protest hearings. . In addition to the claims to be heard next week, 247 other claims involving 39,520 acres near Union Creek also have been contested. Claimant P. L. Yar brough and J. F. McKee failed to request hearings on claims covering 34,770 acres of that group, and' they were Invalidat ed. The remaining acreage will be scheduled for future hearings. The claims included in next week's hearings, together with those previously invalidated, constitute the majority of the claims in the Union Creek area, according to Wood. "More than 56,000 acres were covered by claims in that region. May Be Contested Under existing ' mining laws, unpatented mining claims on national forest land may be .con tested for cause by the federal government. Claimants are noti fied officially of contest, and are allowed 30 days in which to request a hearing. The hearings provide oppor tunity for claimants to disprove contest charges. .Failure to re quest a Hearing or lauure to ap pear at hearings constitute ad mission of contest charges ard claims become'Su'bject ttf'lrivall dation, according to Wood. Powell Given Year in Jail Washington (U.R) Federal Judge F. Dickenson Letts today found Clyde L. Powell; 58, oust ed federal housing official, guilty of criminal contempt of court and sentenced him to a year In- jail. Powell had refused to answer questions in a federal Grand Jury investigation of nationwide housing scandals. Letts said Powell "wilfully, deliberately and contumacious ly" refused to answer questions although ordered Dy tne court to do so. Powell, former assistant fed eral housing administrator, was fired last spring as housing scan dals unfolded. Letts refused Powell's plea for bail pending an appeal to the U. S. Court of Appeals. ' Powell if one of the chief targets In an investigation of the FHA housing scandals. Squirrel Expensive To Have, Man Finds Raymond Harold McCoy. 22, of 339 Freeman rd Cen tral Point, found yesterday thai a silver gray squirrel is an expensive article to have around the house. v McCoy plsadad guilty in district court to possession of the squirrel during closed season and was fined $25 and court costs of $5, with $15' suspended. . There was only one consol ing fact about the whole thing, as far as McCoy was concern ed. The squirrel was not con fiscated, Deetz Predicts Repeal . Of Milk Control Law Canby (U.R) Elmer Deetz, the Gallon Jug dairyman who initiated the movement to repeal Oregon's milk control law, pre dicted today that voters next Tuesday would wipe out state controls over the production, sale and distribution of milk. He denied that chaos would result In the milk industry. He said the only result would be the elimination of what he termed "the economic monstrosities of milk control zoning and quota regulations. Washington 0J.O Prices that fanners received for their crops and livestock fell nearly two per cent during the month ended Oct. IS, the Agriculture Department reported today, , Tribune Fim Full Leased Win Pric 5c No. 191 McCarthy Sets November 15 To Question Watkins Hopes Information On Petess Available , Washington UR) Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy today set Nov. 15 for questioning Chairman Arthur V. Watkins of the Senate Censure Committee about state ments in . the censure report which the Senate will start de bating Nov. 8. McCarthy telegraphed Wat kins (R-Utah) that he hopes Wat kins has information about who promoted and honorably dis charged former Maj. Irving Per ess, an Army dentist McCarthy called "a fifth amendment Com munist." ' , Letter Acknowledge Unless Watkins has this infor? mation, McCarthy said, "your appearance before the commit tee will be an unjustified waste of our time." McCarthy's telegram to Wat kins acknowledged an Oct. 27 letter and telegram saying that Watkins would appear at any mutually agreeable time after the Senate began debate on the censure report Nov. 8. He said Watkins had said he could ap pear the morning of any day in the week of Nov. 15. Senate ses sions do not usually begin until nopn. ; .. . Repeated Demands ' McCarthy has been demanding almost daily recently . that Wat kins appear .for cross-examination ori a section -of the censure' report which dealt-with McCar thy's treatment of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker, who as com mander of Camp Kilmer, N. J., was Peress' commanding officer. The report said Zwicker was not responsible for Peress' dis charge and that McCarthy should have blamed those who were "culpable." 5 Three Men Given Terms in Prison Three men were sentenced in circuit court here this morning, and the case of another was continued after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge. ' ' Sentenced to three years in Oregon state prison, botn for violation of probation, were Charles Mattson Fender, 40, Grants Pass, and John Kay Smith, 26, Marysville, Calif. Fender was on probation on a charge of uttering and publish ing a false check, and Smith was on probation on a charge of burglary not In a dwelling. William Shanks, 23, of 3019 Buckshot rd., was placed on two years probation on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Charles Erwing Basey, 25, pleaded guilty to a charge of otbalning money under false pretenses, and his case was con tinued pending receipt of FBI records. With the sentencing of Fender and Smith, four men are now being held in the county jail to be taken to the state prison in Salem, and another is being held pending transfer to the Multnomah county jail. McCarthy Predicts Censure by Senate Washington U.R Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy predicted to day that the Senate will censure him. Most senators, he told news men, already have made up their minds on the issue. McCarthy faces a vote in a Senate session starting Nov. 8 on a special committee report recommending that he be cen sured. DOW-JONES AVERAGES' New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 352.14 off 2.42; '20 rail roads 117.69 off 0.93; 15 utilities 57.81 off 0.47, and 65 stocks 129.42 off 0.96. Sales today were about 1,900,000 shares compared with 2,190,000 shares yesterday. Salem U.f! W. H. Steiwer of Fossil has been elected chair man of the Wheeler county for est land classification .committee. Weather FORECAST! Continued Mr with lltUe temperature change uiAlrht and Saturday 'Low tonlfht 11. Illgh Satur- , day SI. . Temp: Rlrheit Teaterday ( Lowest thla Moraine 17 Minnesota Senator Plugs Cordon Here; Politicos Visit Heated Wind-Up Seen in Campaign . U. S. Sen. Edward Thye (R Mlmi.) yesterday praised the record of Sen. Guy Cordon and the Eisenhower administration during a talk before an audience of about 35 at the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel. Senator Thye was one of seven Republican senators who spoke throughout Oregon yesterday on behalf of Senator Cordon's re election efforts. The Minnesotan arrived . in. Medford by private plane yester day morning. Also aboard the plane were Republican Senators Frank Barrett, (Wyo.) and George Malone (Nev.) who were en route to other Cordon speak ing engagements in Oregon. -Payi Tribute Senator Thye paid tribute to Senator Cordon's work in the senate, particularly in confer, ence committee sessions and on te senate appropriations com mittee, on which the Minnesota Republican also serves.. "Cordon doesn't speak much, but when he does, his opinions are respected," Senator Thye de clared. "His service gives a cer tainty that the United States will progress as it has in the past, with a philosophy of free enter prise and freedom of man." - "Cordon is not a conservative" in regard to development of ad ditional electrical power, and aid to the lumber industry, Senator Thye state. "He is one of the most astute students of govern ment when it comes to careful consideration of appropriations." Cites Humane Work L Turning to the record of the J SUoBhovg administration, Sen ator Thye jtaid no congress has appropriated more money than the 83rd congress for cancer and heart research, and other slmllarJtnelr Job' projects. He pointed to assist ance given in construction of educational facilities, and said "No administration has had the humane thought of the Eisen hower administration." "Don't let anyone tell you we have destroyed our defense, or did not cut taxes," Senator Thye declared. "The Elsenhower ad ministration is trying td bring business into government be cause government is the biggest business in the world." In answer to "giveaway" charges levelled at the adminis tration, Senator Thye stated "We are not in a frame of mind to rob the nation of its resources, but to protect free enterprise." The senator also paid tribute to the work done in Europe by Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles at the recent London and Paris conferences. "This is an important elec tion," Senator Thye said, refer ring to the campaign between Senator Cordon and his oppon. ent, Democrat Richard L. Neu berger. "It is just as important as any election you've ever got ten into." TOP BRASS VISITS Portland 4U.PJ Some of the top Republican brass of the United States Senate was in Ore gon today, giving a pre-election boost to Sen. Guy Cordon. At the same time, Democrats sent in a flying echelon of Sena torial speakers to attempt to swing Tuesday's vote away from Cordon to Richard L. Neuberger. Result was one of the most in tensive campaigns the state had seen, touching even small towns and crossroads. Seven GOP senators appeared on a "truth panel" at Reed Col lege last night in Cordon's be half. Democrat Warren Magnuson of Washington spoke at Astoria last night and Sen. Henry Jack son, also a Washington Democrat, said he was in the state in the interests of Joseph Carson Jr., Democratic candidate lor gov ernor. Mom Hits Visitors Sen. Wayne Morse, who spoke yesterday in Eugene and Salem, told his listeners not to be im pressed by the imposing Repub lican roster of senators, claiming their number included some of the most reactionary members' of the upper house. Republican Senators included Frank Carlson of Kansas, Fred erick Payne of Maine, Frank Barrett of Wyoming, George Ma lone of Nevada, Edward Thye of Minneapolis, Herman Welker of Idaho, and Arthur Watkins of Utah. Most of the visitor were due to depart from the Portland air port today or tomorrow. if i v"7 m i ' rv L m II iL HEAD- MARCH OF DIMES Van Purdy, left, local representa tive of Monsanto Chemical company, and Bob Smith, of Central Supply of Southern Oregon, have been named cochairmen of the January March cf Dimes campaign in Jackson county. They were appointed by the Medford Active club, which annually sponsors the county campaign for funds to combat infantile paralysis. The cochairmen attended a session of northwest chair men in Seattle yesterday. (Landis-Shangle photos) Cabinet Summoned In London Dock Strike London (U.R) Prime Minister Winston Churchill called an emergency session of his Cabi net today , when a formula , for settling the nation's paralyzing dock strike' threatened to col lapse In a dispute over extend ing the London agreement to other, strikebound ports. . . i Churchill summed his minis ters to No. 10 Downing St. on a few minutes notice after Minis ter of Labor Sir Walter Monck ton had informed Commons that the prospect of an end to the costly work stoppage was snag ged on a disagreement over ex tension of the London settle ment to seven other ports. Strike In Fourth Week Stubborn strikers insisted that the compromise truce on over time work bo extended to all ports .before labor peace can re turn to the docks. The strike, which has threat ened. British food supplies and e,xpQtkirnarkets.Bnd. has caused a sharp rise in unemployment, rounded out its fourth week to- day with , 43,000 dockers off Reds, Nationalists Exchange Gunshots Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) Com munist artillery fired 60 rounds on the northern anchor of Ta chen Island today and set off a cannon duel of "unprecedented" intensity. 1 The official Central News Agency said the artillery ex change between gunners on Na-tionalist-beld Yikiangshan and Communist Toumen Island was the heaviest at the northern end of the 300-mile "frontline" since hostilities re-opened last month. No damage was mentioned. The agency also said National ist 'warships sank one Chinese Communist ship and damaged eight others in a battle north of Tachen Island last Wednesday. Ashfand Man Arraigned On Charge of Larceny Samuel Eugene Bell, 22. of Clay st Ashland, was arraign ed in district court yesterday on a charge of larceny from a building, and was bound over to the grand jury after waiving counsel and hearing, according to court records. Bell was released from cus tody after $500 cash bond was posted by R. E. Bell. Samuel Bell is cnargea wun larceny of a .38 caliber Army special revolver from Fir Mill ing and Planing company in Ashland. The gun is owned by Richard Rcynen, according to the complaint State Highways To Have White Stripe in Center Portland U.R The Oregon State Highway Commission yes terday promised a major change in the state's roadway appear ance. It voted to change the color of the center stripe on all highways in the state from yellow to white. The change would conform to practices now common In most other states. Both the solid traffic lane stripe and the intermittent no passing stripe will be painted white, Highway Commission Budget Under '54 Figure Portland (U.R) The State Highway Commission said today its estimated budget for 1955 was more than $5,000,000 below the 1954 figure. The tentative 1955 figures, adopted at the commission's meeting - here yesterday, was 87,764,000. . CTX Diplomat, Wife Monckton said London's port employers : agreed that If the strikers return to work here no one would be penalized' for re fusing overtime work until the overtime issue is settled across the bargaining table. the strikers also agreed,, he reported. But they insisted the understanding should cover the other seven bis ports as well. The national Association of Port Employment refused. And so the strike continued. Battered Body of Little Halloween Celebrant Found Johnston, Pa. (U.R) The nude body of a six-year-old girl, apparently grabbed by a sex killer as she went from house to house on . a .Halloween "trick -or. treat" tour, was found early to day in a nearby hillside ceme tery.... . A paper bag with a few pieces or candy and an apple lay on the wet grass amid the shredded clothing of little Karen Mauk near the entrance - to St. Petka's Cemetery along a lonely road in East Taylor townshlp. s ; . Bruised and Bloody Police said the face of the first grade pupil, a curly . haired blonde, was bruised and bloody. Other marks marred her body, indicating she had been roughly handled by the killer. The girl, one of seven chil dren of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mauk, of Conemaugh borough, left ner home at about 6:30 p.m. last night to go "tick-tacking" with her six-year-old cousin, Paul Lindenberg. . Polling Place Changed Standby Workers Needed A change in polling place for Precinct 29A In the Nov. 2 gen eral election was announced to day by deputy county clerks. The precinct polling place will be Cullen Equipment company, 2232 Blddle rd. The county clerk's office today Issued -a call for volunteers to stand by election day for service on election boards in case of ni nes or inability to serve on the part of a regular member. Volunteers are needed for each of the county's 94 pre cincts. Those vdlunteering will not have to appear for work on the boards unless a vacancy de velops, Those unwilling to act as standbys may volunteer by tele phoning the election department of the county clerk's office. The telephone number is Medford 3-3151. The clerk's office will be open from 8 e.m. to 8 p.m. election day to provide election informa tion for those needing It. Nixon Convinced Democrats Will Vote for Los Angeles (U.R) Vice- president Richard Nixon, after two weeks of stomping in six Western states, felt convinced today that "ever-increasing numbers of Democrats will sup port President Eisenhower by voting . for a Republican con gress. Nixon voiced his optimism in a speech in nearby South Pasa dena, climaxing a day of cam paigning during which he ac cused Adlai. Stevenson of un intentionally ."spreading pro- Communist propaganda and Insulting the President of the United States." " The Vice-President said the Democrats have decided to give tha President Congress con - To Be Transferred Plans To Break Relations Denied Washington (U.R) The United States bowed today to Soviet demands that Mrs. Karl E. Sommerlatte, wife of an Am. erlcan , diplomat in Moscow,' leave Russia because of scuffle with Soviet police. State department spokesman' Henry Suydam said Mrs. Som- merlatte's husband, second sec' retary in the U. S. Embassy. at Moscow, is being transferred to Washington. Mrs.,' Sommer latte will accompany him, Suy dam said, adding that they will leave Moscow in the next few.' days. -i- Suydam said "It was clear that Mrs.. Sommerlatte had to leave the Soviet Union since the Soviet Foreign Office in-i - sisted that she Is persona noa grata." , . Ready for Transfer . Suydam said that Inasmuch as Sommerlatte's : regular tour of duty would have ended within a few. months, it . was logical -that he should leave Moscow, now with his wife. . Suydam emphasized that Som merlatte's transfer is no reflec-tlon-on him and that he is re- . garded as an exceptionally cap able foreign service officer. Meanwhile, other State De partment officials - said . the United States has no plan to; break relations with Russia de spite "serious", new friction be-. . -tween the two countries as a- result of the Sommerlatte and, other incidents. American Protest They made the statement In answer to questioning about a remark of Sen. Margaret Chaser - would not be surprised if U.S.- Soviet relations were . broken,) ''at any time by either side.' She had just arrived in Helsinki' from visit to Moscow. - The United States had pro tested in strongest terms and. Moscow liad -"-countered byv branding Mrs. Sommerlatte uno. desirable. f-.,-i ' London U,R) The Foreign" Office said today it had recalled, two members of the British Em- basy in Moscow because of "tVou ble" with Soviet government of' ficlals. , . . , Recall of the two embassy members . was announced after the London Daily Telegraph re ported they "knocked out" sev eral Russian policemen m a brawl that followed a party. ; The Foreign Office, In con firming the Telegraph's report, declined to disclose the names of the two slugging embassy staff members. Banker's Body Found In Tualatin River Hillsboro U.R The body of William C. Christensen, 61-year-old Hillsboro bank president, was found in the Tualatin river today,, the Washington county sheriff's office reported. - Christensen had been missing since Oct. 21. Earlier, hi auto mobile was found parked along' side the highway near the river. and his bat and coat were found by the river's edge. The sheriff's office said the body was found shortly after. 9:30 a.m. about 100 feet down stream from where bloodhounds owned by Norman Wilson of Los Gatos, Calif., traced Chris- tensen's scent to the river yes terday. . ,, , Christensen was president of the Commercial bank of Oregon, Klamath Falls (U.R) Pos sible expenditure of $916,000 for new road construction on the Klamath Indian reservation in the next four years has been reported here. Republicans trolled by members of his owri party because they realize "is sues are more important than party labels." He said Democrats in Calif ornia, where they outnumber Republicans, as well as in tha rest of the country, would re alize) that the issues of 1954 are exactly the same as in 1953 when they voted for President Eisenhower. "... The question is whether the Eisenhower policies , and program should be continued or whether a Democratic congress which has been committed by its national chairman, Mr. Mitch ell, to return to the policies of the Truman administration 'should be elected," he said. i.
