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, A iMarag dpi. nn ' x no , I DCS 7DeVx7S Iscir4 Weed Washington 0J.R) Presi dent Eisenhower said today the United States should provide fighter escorts to protect Ameri can military . planes on proper missions near, risky areas. : Mr. Eisenhower told his news conference that he personally . approved the stiff American pro test to Moscow on the shooting down of an American B29- off Northern Japan by two Russian fighter planes. He said the United States be lieves the plant; had a right to fly in the area. . : . . Calm Altitud Shown Asked about fighter escorts, Mr., Eisenhower said that when they are necessary and when American planes are where they . have a right to go then we should use fighter escorts. - The President s v attitude on the latest plane incident in which 10 American airmen survived and one died was very calm. The' President said -there- was a dispute between .Russia and the United States oyer the .area where the plane was attacked. The plane was on a mapping mission over the northernmost ' Japanese island of Hokkaido. The plane was near Hanasaki peninsula. The Russians occupy the . Hoabomai . island group which is only three miles from the tip of the peninsula and is in the southern end of the Kurile island chain. Russia Conciliatory ,- Mr. Eisenhower said a war- . time agreement gave' the Kurile islands to Russia, but did not definitely define the Habomai island group. i The President also said the general Soviet attitude on this incident seems to be more con ciliatory than in some other in stances in the past He indicat ed that the Russians may have sent, a new note. Russia's first note said . the B29 opened fire first. '-x;v-Sr j V. " Other news conference re? marks: -Vr f--.-.-.---, 1. He said he was not going to say that Charles E. Bohlen, 'U. S. ambassador to Moscow, was wrong for attending a. Sov iet reception just after he had received , preliminary " reports Vets' Breakfasts, Parade, Scheduled During v Two breakfasts for veterans and a parade at 11 a.m. will be the principal observances of vet erans day tomorrow. The day, designated by con gress last year in place of Armis tice day and proclaimed as a le gal holiday, is in honor ox vet erans of all wars in which America has participated. 1 The American Legion is spon soring a breakfast at its club for all veterans, Legionnaires or not, from 8 to 10 ajn. The other breakfast for veterans, at the . Veterans of Foreign Wars club, also will start at 8 a.m. Most Medford merchants plan to open their stores tomorrow, except during the parade, which will start at 11 and be over by about 11:30 a.m. All federal, state, city and county offices, barbershops, both banks and the schools will be closed. The Mail Tribune will publish an early edition. ' - Parade marchers are "asked to assemble on Main st. between Hollv st. and Oakdale ave. at 10:30 ajn. Participating will be veterans organizations, Scouts and others. The parade will go east on Main st., north on Bart- lett and west on Sixth to Holly, where it will disband. Holiday Viet Minh Rush to Cut Off Fleeing Religious Refugees Saigon, Indochina 4J.R) The Communist Viet Minh has rushr ; ed two regiments to the North '.Viet Nam coast to cut off 20,000 "to 40,000 Catholic and Buddist refugees seeking to flee by sea from Communist terror,' it was reported here today. ; The Red move was, reported shortly after India joined Cana da against Communist Poland in rejecting ; Viet Minh protests against French naval aid being rushed to the panicky refugees who are fleeing by sea in make Sunday evening about the plane incident. The President said Bohlen got the bare news of the incident 30 minutes before the reception and he had to make up his mind on the spur of the moment. : 2. He denied reports that the United States had ordered Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek to bar Nationalist attacks on the Chinese mainland. He said the United States does not give ord ers to its partners. Meanwhile, military sources indicated U. t S. reconnaissance flights will continue. to operate off Communist Asia's borders end will be quick on the trig ger if jumped again by Russian jets. . : '.-;-. Milk Prices Here Generally Down At Retail Level . Whole milk prices at the retail store level appeared to , have dropped generally in Medford to day, with wholesale reductions by the two major dairies. Whole milk was down by one cent and non-fat by two cents. Jorgensen's dairy reported that it had dropped its whole sale prices. Retail outlets in gen eral were passing the reduction on to the consumer. " ' r John Snider of Snider's dairy stated today that Snider's prices "will i be consistent with the prices of other dairies and it is our endeavor to ma in tarn a price structure equitable for both the dairy farmers and consumers." Plan Reduction ; ; ;? ' ' v Les Gilmaa of Oilman's dairy,' whose business is confined to retail route sales, . announced that his firm is working out a scale reduction plan based on the amount of consumption. It will be announced within a few days. William Auel, manager of the Milk . Producers league, was in Klamath Falls .today and un available for comment. -The Groceteria Super Food market joined those reducing re tail prices yesterday afternoon, according to Manager Melvin Hall. : :i . ' 1 Medford oateway stores re ported this morning that there has been no change as yet in their milk prices. La Grande &J.P.) The price of milk in Union county dropped from 22 to 21 cents a quart at re tail outlets today. Home delivered prices also were reduced to 22 cents from one to 30 quarts per month; 21 cents for 31 to 60 quarts, and 21 cents for 61 quarts and above. Irrigation Districts Name Hew Directors . Leonard Freeman was elect ed to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Rogue River Valley Irrigation district in an election yesterday. In an other election, Albert Ei Hue- ners was named to the board of the Medford district. No election was necessary in the Talent district, for the in cumbent and nominee for re election, Henry Owen, had no opposition for the post. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York 01.PJ Dow- Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 371.88 ud 0.81: 20 railroads 124.95 up - 0.94. 15 utilities 60.31 up 0.45, and 65 stocks 136.57, up 0.64: Sales to day .were about 3,070,000 shares, compared with 3,240,000 shares traded yesterday., shift boats. The three nations are members of the interna tional armistice control commis sion overseeing ; the truce in Indochina. Today's vote marked the first lime India backed Can ada . against the Communists since the commission began its duties. .; v Seven French warships are steaming to pick up natices re ported fleeing seaward from Communist-controlled ; North Viet Nam in the second mass mi gration from ' northern Indo china. Medford United Prcaa Full Leased Wii - V . 49th Year 18 Pages Work by Firemen ited; Other Buildings Saved L E. Edmonds Unsure . Of Rebuilding Plans The L. E. Edmonds Lumber company sawmill on the south Pacific highway burned to the ground last night in one of the most spectacular blazes in s the valley in years. . There was no firm estimate this morning of the amount of damage done, but Owner L. E. Edmonds said a "good guess" would be somewhere between $250,000 and $300,000. About 50 mill " employees and ; 20 men working for the company in the woods were thrown out of their jobs by the fire. . . : Spectators Attracted The blaze, which was visible for miles, attracted swarms of spectators who hampered fire men in getting to the scene of the fire, and kept state police and sheriffs officers busy keep ing the traffic moving. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cars con verged on the area. . Edmonds and cither witnesses said the job of firefighting done by the Medford and Central Point Rural fire departments was . "superb." The fire, which was blazing throughout the en tire mill structure when firemen arrived, was prevented - from spreading, and the mill's green chain, office buildings, lumber piles and log deck were saved. Five Trucks Used v Nearby Bear Creek Orchard packing houses and warehouses would have been threatend by the flames if they had not been rapidly "surrounded" by the 21 Medford. and 15 Central Point firemen, who used five pieces of equipment. . The Central Point rural fire men, all of them volunteers, re sponded to the alarm under the mutual aid agreement, and were escorted through Medford by city police. Standby protection for, their district was provided by the Central Point department. Had it been necessary, Ashland could have been called upon for aid, also. r ' V ' . First alarm was, given at 6:50 p.m. by a city police car driver, who saw the glow south of town, and within seconds after that, 15 other alarms had been called in. Cause of the fire is unknown, but 'Fire Chief Gordon Barker said today that it probably was a spark from the mill burner which stood nearby. The wind was in. the right direction, he said. ; - , - . -Firemen Delayed Off-duty firemen who were called to the blaze had consider able difficulty getting there be cause of the heavy traffic, which also hampered the trucks arriv ing later. Both the highway and other roads in the area were jammed with the cars of spectators.- ' . Edmonds was conferring today with an, insurance adjuster, to prepare estimates of the loss and to -see how much of it will be covered by insurance. He said he does not yet know whether he will be able to rebuild and resume operations. Office equip ment, which was moved last night to Bear Creek, was being replaced this morning. Building Burns Firemen also responded to an alarm at 2417 Springbrook rd. at 4:48 a.m. today, where a large chicken dressing building on the Wayne Higginbtttham farm burn ed to the ground. The alarm was not given until the fire was well advanced, firemen said. Another building on the same foundation burned three years ago. Cause was thought to have been faulty wiring. A fire reported by James M. Anders, 57, Quince st, at 6:20 p.m., was extinguished by An ders before firemen arrived. It was caused by a leak in a gas pipe connection. Little damage, was reported. Salem U.R) This week is Optimist Week in Oregon, so designated by Gov. Paul L. Patterson. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1954 &&-im&jL - 1 i t , v. Who SPECTACULAR MILL BLAZE Shown above is the L.' E. Ed monds Lumber company mill, near Bear Creek orchards on the . South Pacific Highway, during the early stages of the fire which last evening burned the mill to the ground.' The millpond is in the foreground, and to the right are lumber piles and other buildings which were saved by firemen of the Central Point -and Medford fire departaent. - :. ; , .: ' . ' - (Brainerd photo) FIREMAN BATTLES' BLAZE A fireman' in the foreground is shown fighting the fire which last night destroyed the Edmonds sawmill. The fire in the picture above is, in .the later stages, after firemen succeeded in saving nearby buildings and lumber piles, and .concentrated .in putting, out the mill blaze, 'Central Point and Medford firemen drew high praise for their work, although some were delayed in their arrival on the scene by heavy, traffic ; caused by spectators." ; ' S ' v " -r- (Brainerd photo) ,,v Two Crash Near Two women ' were fatally in jured in a twonar collision on Highway 99 about seven miles south of Ashland at about 10:20 p.m. , yesterday; ;. ' The dead are Mrs. ; Ardith Off ill, 42, of 1246 Northeast Sev enth st., Grants Pass, wife of one of the drivers, and; Anna Kath erine Person, 44, of . 54 West bound st., Astoria, a passenger in the other car..; Lights Went Out - - The. investigating state police officer said that a coach driven by , John . Vincent McKivergan, 46, of the same Astoria address, was driving south towing a two wheel trailer when it passed a truck and trailer.; As it did so, the driver apparently blinked his - lights. He either left .them off or they went out,, witnesses said.- ' ." . ; While he was in the passing lane, the - other . car, a station wagon driven by- Glen Mason Offill, 47, of the Grants Pass address, came from the other di rection, and the two cars crashed headon. . " , Taken To Hospital Those involved were" taken to Ashland General .'hospital. -In jured were Offill who suffered a broken jaw and left arm, lost a number of teeth, and had bad cuts and gruises; McKivergan, who had bad bruises on his legs, loosened - teeth, and cuts, and two passengers in the Offill car, Barbara Helen Offill, 17, bad bruises, and Roberta' Singer,. 28, of 1869 East N. st., Grants Pass, CANVASS DUE FRIDAY :. : County Clerk Bereth Hopkins reported today that the official canvass of Jackson county's Vote should be completed by Friday. Deputy clerks are working now to speed, up the counting in an effort to obtain the official count as soon as, possible. V, - Wome Catted - ? ;0 n in Ash la nd who suffered bad cuts and bruis es! OffiU's - condition was de scribed as criticaL r Litwiller and Perl ambulances were called; and are handling arrangements for shipping of the bodies . of the dead women - to their' home communities. . er Picks Up in Portland 0J.R)-Official elec tion counts from Multnomah county today ''gave - Democrat Richard L. Neuberger a gain of 210 votes" over :Republican Guy Cordon in last week's senatorial election.' - i ' ' - - - , , The official county gave Neu berger 107,672 votes !- to 90,884 for ; Cordon. This was 13 more for Cordon ' and 223 more' for Neuberger than the unofficial tally. - sh : The ' official count ; ; for - MrsJ Edith Green, -Democrat elected to the House of Representatives, was 103,976, compared to 94,368 for Tom Lawson McCalL' '. Si ate Completes Case In Trial for Assault . .The -state this morning rested its case in- the trial- of Jesse Floyd Dressier, 52, route 2, box 465, on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. : .. A?-J - Members .of the: neighboring Nate Smith' family .appeared as state's witnesses this morning. Mrs. Smith signed the "original complaint against Dressier.. The defense began its case late this ' morning, and Dressier -was on theJstand at the noon recess.. ; Portland. (U.FD The board of directors of the Press Club of Oregon has announced .suspen sion of operations of the club at its present" location.' A : O' ' i , . RIBUNE Press Tull UmatA Wire Price 5c No. 201 ' -r Postal Pay ers By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Federal em ployee and postal worker rep resentatives are revising their strategy for making another driye on Capitol Hill for a pay raise during the forthcoming 84th Congress. . ; 1 The outlook Is . regarded as anything but clear, as they sur vey, the results of the Nov: 2 election. ":':t;-'--: : The pay raise legislation that won shouting ' approval in the last hours of the 83rd Congress was killed by a pocket veto ad ministered by President Eisen hower. Since the lawmakers had adjourned for the year, they had no opportunity to attempt to muster the . twoi-thirds vote by which a veto 'can be overridden. : . Here are factors that loom largest ' in the outlook for pay bills: - ; l" :; - There js expected : to be heavy turnover in the member ship of both House and ' Senate Civil Service committees, .for generally speaking this is an as signment of lesser rank which usually goes to newcomers to Congress. When openings occur on other committees of higher rank, they, usually seek a trans fer.. The makeup of the new com mittees and the attitudes of the new members could largely de termine the chances of positive action on bills to increase wages and classified - and postal em ployees. ' i 1 . ' : 2. While the rank and file membership is still in doubt, the new House chairman is expected to be Rep. Tom Murray (D-Tenn), of whom one . authoritative ob served said: 'He won't be in a hurry to have the committee act on a pay t raise bill ..for. either postal or classified "employees." Murray supported the - 5 per cent pay boost proposal in the last session on the basis of his belief that it was justified by liv ing cost increases since the last pay raise of 1951. But he is also firm in agreement with the Eis enhower administration in think ing that postal rates should be jacked up to offset the increased cost of salary rates in the postal service.. Failure of Congress to increase postal rates was one of the reasons cited by the Presi dent for his recent Veto. " "- 3. If the price of approval of a pay boost is to raise the charge for postage stamps from S cents to 4 cents tat, first class and from 6 cents to 7 cents for air mail, as has been suggested,' no one knows what to expect from the 84th Congress! : i ,: Politically speaking, this kind of package isn't very attractive to most members ; of : Congress who don't have a large govern ment installation in their areas, for. while satisfying a relatively small number of . constituents with the pay raise-they would be voting for higher postal rates ' SuDDorf - Cambai Weather FORECAST: Thickening clouds - thii evening with occasional , light rain beginning about midnight. Shower Thursdays Warmer tonight. Low tonight 42. High Thursday 44. Temp. - Highest Yesterday . 58 . Lowest this Horning 27 Prec. to 4:3i un. Today, Trace DLL Raise that would hit everybody .who uses the mails. The House turn ed down such a package this past session - before - approving the separate pay bilL ; 4. The legislator who had been counted on by employee groups to carry the fight for. the pay raise, .v Rep. Harold Hagen (R. Minn.) was defeated for reelec tion. He was the second ranking .Republican on the committee. Medical Plan Readied . i . Among ' the other legislative proposals expected., to. come up during the next Congress, a hos-pitalization-medical plan for fed eral workers is being readied by the administration to send . to the Hill. It is expected to follow the pattern of the low-cost life in surance program wmcn was started this fall for government employees. v :' Also ' retirement'. legislation that died In the 83rd Congress is in f orurther study, now that a special administration commu te : has completed a review- of this problem. . That committee has recommended in effect that the civil service' retirement sys tem be coordinated 'with the so cial security old-age and survi vors insurance. The administra tion hasn't deckled yet whether to go for this or not. France,; Russia Sign ilew Commercial Pad Paris (U.R)' Frsnpp tririav signed a new commercial tmitv with Russia, designed" to in crease trade .between the two countries. ., - The agreement provides for some. - $154,000,000- worth of trade in shins, railway eauin- ment, caviar and other items be tween Russia and France up to the end of 1955. - ; French and Soviet reoresenta- tives sisned the trade nart st the Quai d'Orsay. . : . - ; ; France will export some 26, 000.000.000 k francs - worth of ships, railway equipment, metal products and textiles to Russia. ' In exchanse. Russia will ex- port to France such products as caviar, rurs, canned crab and salmon in the value -of some 28,000,000.000 francs ($80,000,- 000,000). The 18-month agreement re places a previous pact that ex- r V " " Rifle of Missing Coos Bay Youth Found H Coos Bay U.R) A'search party yesterday found a 3.2 cal iber, rifle belonging to 13-year-old Robert Crothers of Coos Bay who has been missing on the Oregon coast since Monday. The Coast Guard said the wea pon was found in mud about 30 feet from a trail leading down the face of a cliff to the beach at small cove north of Shore- acres. -.., ' ' : Revising Strategy Failure To Uphold Oath Charged To WatkinsSaid Guilty Of Misstating Facts ' Washington :flJ.R) : Sea.' ' Arthur V. Watklns (R-Utah), ac cused Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today of failing to uphold his oath of office. '. - . - The Wisconsin Republican ac cused Watkins of "misstating facts." Thus began, in anger and heat,' the Senate's historic debate of. a resolution to censure McCarthy on two counts, contempt of a - Senate subcommittee and abuse of an. Army general. Watkins, chairman of a special six-man committee wlncn unanimously recommended that the Senate reprimand McCarthy, had introduced the formal reso lution of censure yesterday. Mc- . Carthy had released m advance of delivery a speech accusing the committee of making -itself the unwitting handmaiden ' of the . Communist party. Yields' For Question' Today Watkins, in a prepared speech, said the committee would . leave it up to the Senate whether to accept its recommendations. But he said the committee's find ings .were based "for the most -part upon uncontroverted evi- dence. - - V At the end of his speech, Wat kins yielded - for a McCarthy question and the battle was on. McCarthy hammered away at Watkins conduct - of the hear ings frdm which came the cen sure recommendations.' He con centrated at; the outset bn the Watkins committee's criticism of his conduct toward a, 1951-52 Senate Elections Subcommittee headed by Sen. Guy M. Gillette (D-Iowa), which investigated Me- Carthy's finances. . Watkins Flares Up : Watkins told . McCarthy the Censure Committee felt he "should have cooperated" -with .; the Gillette group and "that you could not fulfill your oath to de fend the Constitution by damn ing the Gillettee committee from the.y.ery.first;day.?Au'ISS' Vr; The J usually calm Watkins' flared up at one point when Mc Carthy referred to aides of the Censure Committee as "prose cuting attorneys.' "Just a minute, Sir, snapped Watkins. "I yielded for a ques tion. I did not yield for you to abuse the committee staff who cannot reply.". . : Sen. Herman Welker. (R-Ida.)f one of McCarthy's backers, broke in to ask Watkins if he thought the people of Wisconsin did not know McCarthy's record when they reelected him in 1952.; : Questions Impartiality ' .Watkins said,-'The people of Wisconsin apparently didn't have -all the facts." v u McCarthy7 questioned the im partiality of two members of the Censure Committee, Watkins and Sam J. Ervin Jr., CD-N.C). ; - He charged that Watkins, after shaking Jiands with him early this year, told a newspaper col umnist afterwards he hoped pho tographers had not taken a pic ture of the Incident because "I'd never be able to) explain it to newspapers in my state." ; McCarthy identified the col umnist as Cbnstantine Brown of the Washington Star. He said the -handshaking occurred in a Sen ate corridor during the Army-: McCarthy hearings. Says Committee Fair: V ; f'l don't recall any such inci dent iiJ. any statement of that kind," Watkins said. A moment later he flatly denied that he had made such a statement to Brown.: -- f - ;:. :v ;- Watkins told McCarthy that despite all . your charges" he had never served with a com mittee that had been "more fair" than the one that recom mended his censure. President To Dedicate Additions at Museum Washington U.R) Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower made a pilgrimage today to the chief executive's boyhood home at Abilene, Kan. At Abilene, the President will dedicate new additions' to a mu seum housing trophies and sou venirs of his military and polit ical career. , - - Grange Master Asks Price Reendorsement Spokane, Wash (U.R) Na tional Grange Master Herschel -D. Newsom today asked his or ganization to reendorse its two- price plan for wheat and said any "flexing" downward . ia prices "is unacceptable to us.' Stonrffll l mu ifeir I iieipliie ITU
