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California Given Slap by Colorado River Commission Portland (U.R) The upper Colorado River commission took a pie-convention slap at Cal ifornia here Saturday in a reso lution proposed to the National Reclamation association. The resolution, while it did not mention California by name, urged that any state which has . objections to a project "is urged carefully to reconsider such ob . jections and to withdraw the same, if consistent with the pro jection of her long-range legiti mate interests, In order to assist her sister states of the west." California is reportedly vig orously opposed to the proposed - $1,000,000,000 upper Colorado river storage project. The NRA directors, in a pre-convention session, declined to consider the proposal. It was referred to the Resolutions committee. The resolution also urged the NRA to fight "more aggressive ly" for new reclamation proj ects. It was proposed by Geof frey Will, Denver, Commission secretary; George D. Clyde, Utah Commissioner of Interstate streams, and John R. Erickson of the New Mexico State Engi neer's office. : t The convention opens Mon day. Delegates from each of the 17 Western states will hold sepa rate meetings Monday morning, followed by afternoon talks by Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay and C. Petrus Peterson, Lincoln, Neb., Association president. Confused Policemen Shoot at Each Other -On New York Street New York (U.R) Two police officers confused each other as hold-up men Saturday and shot it out at close range on a street corner. Police said plaincloihesman Arnold Francis, 27, was hold ing a gun on two men he had caught beating a third when a detective, Clarence Brown, ap proached the scene to investi gate. Brown thought Francis was staging a hold-up. Francis thought likewise of Brown, and the two men fired a flurry of nine shots at each other. One bullet struck Francis in . the side and another hit a passerby. .Lawrence Taylor. 31, in the leg. Both were taken to a hos pital where their conditions were described as "not serious." Police held the two men whose capture precipitated the gun battle but were preparing to release them because the victim of their beating could not.be found. Two Shot While Thwarting Robbery Marysville, Calif (U.R) A Beale Air Force base soldier from Iowa and a bartender were recovering from gunshot wounds Saturday night after they broke up a violent attempted robbery. Two gunmen, one identified as Vincent Edmond Tero, 21, a former Oakland, Calif., boxer, entered a downtown bar here early Saturday. When Tero went behind the bar and scooped more than $400 from the cash register, Airman Howard Claypool, North Eng lish, Iowa, and bartender Dan ny Gatsos, rushed him. Hit By Gunfire Claypool hit Tero with a bot tle as the second gunman, as yet unidentified, opened fire. Claypool was hit twice in the chest with .38 caliber bullets but closed in anyway swinging a barstool. A third bullet hit Gatsos in the abdomen. A fourth and fifth slug hit a juke box and liquor bottles. The wounded Gatsos brought Tero to the floor. Police arrived in time to save Tero from irate customers who were pounding .him with feet, beer steins, bot tles and bar stools. Claypool's condition was described as "poor." Duck Hunters Find Missing Man's Body Pavette. Idaho (U.R) Four Payette, Idaho, duck hunters Saturday found a badly-decomposed body, believed to be that of a transient worker who was swept down the Payette River last May. Pavette sheriffs officers, said the body apparently was that of Roosevelt Powell, 45, who had been employed as a farm labor er near Ontario. Ore. He disap peared while swimming May 16 in the swollen river. The hunters, all of Payette, said the body was found in a clump of willows 12 miles up stream from here on a river is land which had been inundated during the highwater period. Payette coroner Gifford Shaf fer said he planned to call in Boise Pathologist Joseph Bee man to perform an autopsy. Roseburg Woman Dies Of Gunshot Wounds San Diego, Calif. (U.R) Mrs. Doris 'Jean Lane, 22, of Roseburg, Ore., died Saturday from apparently self-inflicted bullet wounds, police reported. Capt. Graham Aoland of the detective bureau said Mrs. Lane was believed to have shot her self Friday aboard a fishing boat owned by herself and her hus band, Kenneth, 54. Police releas ed Lane after questioning. The Lanes arrived here on their boat, the Sealanes 11, last Wednesday, police said. SAGE ADVICE Wast Warwick, R. I; (U.R) District Judge James W. Leigh ton fined 19-year old Edward Furgaso $5 and costs for driving with his arm around a girl and then offered this sage advice: "You need two hands for each of those jobs to do them properly." i Non-Prof it Clubs End Convention; Officers Elected . About 120 persons represent ing non-profit clubs throughout Oregon last night concluded the annual convention of the Oregon Non-Profit clubs, which repre sents 9l fraternal, patriotic, ath letic and other organizations in Oregon. 'George. Goodrich, a Tillamook attorney and member of the Elks and American Legion, was elected president, succeeding George Brownr Prineville. Other officers named at Sat urday's business session were Verne Perrv. manaeer of the Multnomah Athletic club, vice- president, and Maynard Wilson, Cottase Grove, of the state Vet erans of Foreign Wars organiza tion, who was reeiectea, i e a Turner, Portland, was reappoint ed executive-secretary. At Two Clubs Convention headquarters dur ing the meeting were at the Medford Elks club and the Rogue Valley Country club. Bus iness sessions were held Friday and Saturday at the Elks club, and the Friday banquet was at the country club. The annual "President's banquet" was held at the Elks club last night, witn introduction of Goodrich to the delegates, a dance and a show. Ernest Scott, of the Elks club and George Harrington, of the country club, were co-chairmen for the convention. LISTEN This Morning and Every SUNDAYat9:45a.m.toan ACTUAL EXPERIENCE of , HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Tune in Radio Station KYJC, Medford, 1230 kilo. , November 7-"YOU CAN PROVE THE POWER OF PRAYER" Three Oregon Cities Vote Down Fluoridation Portland (U.R) A leader of a group against water fluorida tion said Saturday voters of three ' Oregon cities Tuesday turned down proposals to add fluorine to their water supplies. Mrs. Margaret Elhngwood, a leader of the citizens' council agamst water fluoridation, said voters, in Salem, Woodburn and Newport turned down the proposals. Embarkation Port Stays in Seattle San Francisco (U.R) The San Francisco bay area's hopes of regaining from Seattle ' the Army's main port of embarka tion for troops to the Far East were all but extmguished Saturday. Francis V. Keesling Jr., chair man of a "Save the Troopships committee here, received a let ter from the Defense department stating that the Army 4or good and sufficient reasons" would continue to move soldiers through Fort Lewis and the Port of Seattle. Thomas P. Pike, Assistant Secretary of Defense who made the decision, said the subject can always be reopened if new facts should warrant. Bay area business groups had waged a fight through to the Pentagon to make San Francisco the major military port on the Pacific coast. Phoenix High Plans Classes for Adults Phoenix Phoenix high school will offer evening classes for adults beginning Tuesday, November 9. Only a beginning typing class will be offered un less the demand for advanced typing is sufficient to justify an advanced course. Classes will meet every Tues day from 7 to 9 p.m., and will run for a period of ten weeks. Registration fee will be five dol lars which will cover all ex penses for the course except a small charge for typing paper if it is purchased from the school. Registration will be held in Room 7 at the high school at 7 p.m. on November 9. A mini mum class of ten will be re quired before the course can be offered. in IFTE At Your Favorite Restaurant It's MORE FUN LESS BOTHER when you ear out . . . and a delightful way to treat your family ... to dine with friends. These well known Rogue River Valley restaurants will serve YOUR favorite HEALTH BEVERAGE The Pick-Up That Never Lets You Down AT NO EXTRA COST! 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The Coroner said Robert told him this story: An older brother had placed the 30.06 rifle in a corner where the father kept it. John went into the bedroom and got bullets and leaded and emptied the gun about three times. Robert said he loaded and emptied it once and then loaded it again. "I thought he emptied it," Robert said. The boys were playing "soldier and enemy," Robert told the Coroner. Robert told Peake he stayed behind his father's chair and lifted the gun to the back of it while John tried to hide behind the stove. "I had it aimed at the stove; I didn't even touch the trigger it just went' off," Rob ert said. A sister; Susan, 7, was in a bedroom at the time. She and Robert went to a neighbor's house to tell about the tragedy. The shooting occurred about 11:15 a.m. Saturday. A-BombFall-Out Causes Error in Prehistoric Date Stanford University, Calif. i(U.R) Radioactive "fall-out" from A-bomb tests resulted in scientists in New York state mak ing a 1,000-year mistake in dat ing the earliest inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay area, ac cording to local scientists. The three-cornered mixup be gan in 1952 when Prof. Bert A. Gerow, Stanford University an thropologist, unearthed the rich est cache of ancient Indian burials ever found on the San Francisco Peninsula. He sent wood charcoal sam ples from these prehistoric graves to Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory at Palisades, N. Y., for tests by radioactivity to determine their age. The tests, called carbon dating, are the most accurate means yet discovered to determ ine absolute age. Other Tests Made While the samples waited in the observatory's laboratory, other tests were taking place in the Nevada desert A-bomb tests. Microscopic specks of radioactive debris were blown sky-high and they floated clear across the North American con tinent, some settling on the pro fessor's charcoal samples in New York. . The samples were duly pro cessed and in March 1953, the laboratory reported to Gerow that his find was approximately 2,000 years old. He was puzzled. The artifacts, he believed, belonged to an earl ier era. So he sent the observa tory more samples. Meantime, laboratory officials discovered the contamination. Gerow's later samples confirm ed his doubts of the first test. The earliest known inhabitants now appear to have lived on the may shore near Palo Alto around 900 to 1200 B.C. Ed Johnson Calls For Program Change Denver (U.R) Sen. Ed. C. Johnson (D-Col.), Colorado gov ernor elect, said Friday the pro posed Upper Colorado river de velopment program should be reversed to provide for construc tion of small upper stream res ervoirs first, instead of big multi-purpose dams downstream. Johnson said the program, which calls for initial construc tion of 10 big dams and power projects at the lower end of the basin, would cost the upper bas in a minimum of 880,000 acre feet of water a year through silt collection and evaporation. GOOD RECORD Yukuhashi, Japan (U.R) A 78 -year -old amateur marriage broker celebrated his 50th anni versary in the business, boasting 164 marriages and no divorces. , . SIGN AGREEMENT Cairo. Egypt (U.R) The United States and Egypt Satur day signed an agreement pro viding for $40,000,000 American aid to Egypt for economic development. Sunday, November 7, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Wartime Protector Of Bohemia Freed From Spandau Jail ARRESTED Martha Stone (above), 44, described as the "underground" leader of the Communist Party in New Jersey, was arrested in New York City by FBI agents. President To Dedicate Wing of New Museum Washington (U.R) The White House said Saturday President Eisenhower will fly Wednesday to Abilene, Kan., his boyhood home, to dedicate a wing of the new Eisenhower Museum. The dedication ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, Vet eran's Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, at noon EST. The President, after taking part in the dedication ceremonies, also will inspect the rest of the museum, Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said. McKay Names Garrison To Conservation Post Washington (U.R) Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay Fri day announced appointment of Lemuel A. Garrison as chief of conservation and protection for the National Park Service. Garrison has been superin tendent of Big Bend National Park, Texas, since 1952. He has worked for the Park Service since 1932. Berlin (U.R) Baron Kon- stantin Von Neurath, Hitler's notorious wartime "protector of Bohemia," walked to freedom Four Held as Suspects In Colorado Kidnaping Las Cruces, N. M. (U.R) New Mexico authorities held four men here Saturday as sus pects in the kidnap-robbery of a Salt Lake City salesman near Antonito, Colo., Thursday night. The men were arrested Fri day after a Game and Fish De partment pilot spotted them hik ing across the barren country side north of here. Salesman Roy Boyack told officers four men robbed him, took his car and put him out at Manassa, Colo., near the New Mexico border. The suspects were identified as L. C. Scott, James D. Fenn, Henry H. Kever and Edwin T. Hamilton, all believed to be originally from Florida. General Eichelberger Receives Fourth Star Ft. Jackson, S. C. (U.R) Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger became a four-star general on the Army's retired list Friday at ceremonies attended by Defense Secretary Robert T. Stevens. ' In World War n Eichelber ger's troops captured Buna, New Guinea to score one of the first major American victories against the Japanese. U. S. PILOT HONORED Managua, Nicaragua (U.R) Three sets of Nicaraguan post age stamps honoring the memory of Capt. Dean L. Ray, Korean jet pilot, have been presented to American Ambassador Thomas Whelan by President Aanastasio Somoza. Capt. Ray, who flew 86 combat missions in Korea, was killed here last Jan. 19 when his plane crashed during a Latin American good will tour. Saturday from Spandau prison where he has been confined eight years as a war criminal. The 81-year-old aristocrat hob bled out the prison and rode to freedom in an automobile with his daughter, Mrs. Winnie- fred Von Mackenson. Von Neurath, now almost blind, looked tired and his-skin had the appearance of old parchment. He had served slightly more than half of a 15-year war crimes sentence which was cut short by sudden Russian mercy. Six Still Jailed . 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