Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 16, 1954, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textw DO mm f toriig Sprt 1. 'i r . Medford United Press Full Leased Win I 49th Year 20 Pages iulles Claims n n yi sves Extent of Participation In Tachen Defense Untold Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dull?s said today that any moves by Red China to carry out its professed i . a t-r t aienuon to . conquer r ormosa would involve hostilities with the United States. Dulles also told a news con ference that the Tachen Islands, where Chinese Reds sank a Na tionalist China destroyer escort, conceivably could be involved Southern Pacific Engineers Vote To Authorize Strike " San Francisco l!.R) Locomo tive engineers on the Southern Pacific . Railroad have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike in support of their de mands for changes in 27 work ing rules. ' The Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers announced in Cleveland last night that 2800 engineers of the SP have voted 97 per cent in favor of the walk--out. No strike date has been set. " Among the points affected by n SP strike would be El Paso, Tex.; Tucumcari, N.M.; Ogden, ' Utah; Portland, Ore.; San Fran cisco and Los Angeles. : A Southern Pacific spokes man said the strike vote was merely a "preliminary step" re . quired by the Railway Labor Act before mediation. " V " The spokesman said the Fed eral Mediation Board in Wash ington, D.C., has docketed the matter, but so far has not as signed a mediator. Before a strike can take place, the dispute must go through three phases: mediation, an offer to arbitrate and a final 30-day cooling off period. -The SP spokesman said the rules dispute was "similar in some respects'' to that which has tied up Northwestern Pacific?, but was much more extensive in the case of Southern Pacific. Solid Front Seen Against Red Proposal Washington U.R) -r Ameri can officials today predicted a solid Western front against Rus sia's new proposal for a 25-na- tion conference on European se curity latevthis month. They exphasized that no de cision has been made yet by all the Western' allies to reject the Soviet maneuver. But officials said they expect every Western power to turn down the bid after completing consultations on the matter. ' Council Sets Meeting; Officials in Portland Medford's city council will hold its regular bi-monthly meet ing tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the city -kail, according to city officials. City Supt. Robert Duff and Council President Earl Miller are returning this afternoon from Portland to attend the meeting. Mayor D. L. Flynn and other city officials are attending the League of Oregon cities state convention which ends Wednesday. irst Class Letter-Mail To Starting Monday, Post Off ice Announces All first class letter-mail along the Pacific Coast will be carried by air when space is available starting next Monday, it was announced here today. . D. D. McCort, Seattle, re search assistant in the Postal Transportation service, was in Medford today, briefing postal employees on the new system. He said it will result in virtual ly all first class letter mail mov ing by air, except where airlin er space is unavailable, or when weather has caused flights to be cancelled. ' ' Thfe present experiment will involve United, Western - and Northwest airlines, and will move mail addressed to Oregon, Washington, California and MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1954 Ked China Involve U.S. Would in the defense of Formosa. Dulles would not say outright that the U.S. Seventh Fleet should participate in the defense of the Tachen Islands where naval action has flared. He said he would not say under what circumstances the United States would participate in the defense of the Tachen Islands. Conflicting Reports While the islands are 200 miles from Formosa, he said they em braced an early warning system which would detect air raids from the Red China mainland. Dulles was questioned closely about a private lunch meeting he held in New York yesterday with Latin American delegates to the United Nations. Asked about conflicting reports on what he said, Dulles denied that he had predicted any increasing hostile action in the area. Dulles said he had said that the Chinese Communist profes sion of intentions to conquer Formosa, constituted a serious cloud on the horizon. He said this was. true because, if the threats were carried out, they would involve hostilities with the United States. Dulles also: : 1. Said all signs indicate that Russia is supplying Red China with naval craft of the type which destroyed the Nationalist destroyer escort. V Berlin Blockade 2. Said that any Soviet effort to impose a new blockade on Ber lin could have serious conse quences; ' Dulles said J he; had heard no such threats. But in answer to a question, he pointed out that the United States, Brit ain and France have made it clear they intend to - continue their present position in Berlin. 3. Said the United States "can not be safe unless there is sub stantial unity" on fundamentals of foreign policy. In a prepared statement, he said that the Eisen hower administration has been prompting bipartisanship on for eign policy and both the Presi dent and he "welcome any pro cedures which will facilitate the practice of that principle. ;4. Asserted that the Soviet proposal for a 25-nation confer ence on European security Nov. 29 could not be physically set .up by that date. He said, therefore, Russia did not expect that its proposal would be accepted. Vancouver Hotel Destroyed by Fire Vancouver, Wash. (U.PJ -Fire starting in the basement of the two-story Clark hotel in down town Vancouver today virtually destroyed the building and re sulted in damage to five business establishments on the ground floor. ( Despite a brisk southwest wind, firemen from Vancouver and Portland succeeded in pre venting the flames from spread ing to nearby buildings. The shell of the hotel building was saved. 1 About 30 guests were removed safely from the hotel after the fire was discovered about 10 a.m. Fred F, Peters, who said he had recently leased the building, said the . blaze started when an oil furnace in the basement back fired, causing a flareup. British Columbia point, McCort explained. In Oregon, cities get ting the new service will be Portland, Salem, Eugene, Med ford, Redmond-Bend, and Klam ath Falls. A similar current experiment in moving mail from Medford addressed to northern California points by , Southwest airways will continue, McCort said. The only exceptions under the new plan will be those caused by space lack and weather, and where mail is addressed to points so nearby that nothing would be gained in using air transport rather than ground transport, McCort said. For instance, a letter mailed in Medford to Eugene, which Unit- LIONEL BARRYMORE Veteran Actor Dies more Dies at Age of 76 From Heart Attack Hollywood (U.R) Lionel Barrymore, 76, the crotchety and lovable head of the theater's "Royal Family", died Monday night of a heart attack. His last words were Shakespar's , im mortal lines about "the way to dusty death." The gruff-voiced old man known to millions through mo tion pictures, radio and : the theater for half a century was stricken at ' his home Sunday night as he sat in his favorite Shakespeare soliloquy-In it Mac beth says: And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle, Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. . The patriarch of American ac tors suddenly could not catch his breath. Mrs. J. E. Wheeler and her family, with whom Barrymoore had lived since his second wife died 18 years ago, helped him to the door for fresh air. . When he continued to gasp, they called his doctor, John Ewing, who rushed the veteran actor to Valley Hospital. At mid night he sank into a coma. Then he suffered a second heart at tack. He died Monday night with the Wheeler family and his doc tor at his bedside. His sister, Ethel Barrymore, was too shocked to comment im mediately .and withdrew into seclusion. . Barrymore's last , appearance before the public , was on his regular CBS radio show, "The Hallmark Hall of Fame," last Sunday. His friend, Edward Ar nold, will substitute for him next Sunday. Famous as 'Scrooge' Radio fans remember him best for his annual portrayal of the grumpy Scrooge on the CBS Yuletide version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." To movie goers he was the great star of the recent "Dr. Kildare" series and of such film classics as "Grand Hotel", "Dinner at Eight", "Ca mille" and ''Captains Courage ous". He won an Academy Award in 1931 for his perform ance in "A Free Soul." (See Story on Pag 12) Go By Air can go up over night by ground transport, would not go by air. But a similar letter to Seattle, where ground transport would take probably two days, would go by air. . , In the past, McCort said,' two types of airmail experimentation- had been conducted, the first for major points in the east, and the second with local feeder lines throughout the country, such as the Southwest experi ment. The new plan is in effect a combination of the two types of experiment. First flight cachets will b av ailable, and those desiring them should send their envelopes , to the postmaster, asking them to be held for the first flight Lionel Barry ?All 111 C'jV Wire No. 206 Safeway Stores To Sell Local Milk At Reduced Prices Price to Producers Unchanged, Firm Says Safeway Stores Inc. today started offering milk purchased from the Jackson County Milk Producers league at reduced prices to consumers, but at no reduction in payment to produ cers, according to George M. Mangan, Portland, Oregon divi sion manager. The reduced consumer prices are 22 cents for whole milk and 16 cents for skim milk, the same as those offered by other retail grocery outlets in the Medford area since repeal of Oregon's Milk Control law in the Nov. 2 general election. Under Lucerne Label Safeway is selling the locally produced milk under Safeway's Lucerne label. The milk is pur chased in Jackson county, and is shipped to Portland for pack aging before being returned here for sale. "Safeway publicly has pledg ed its customers that it would resist selling them milk at the new lower store prices where such reductions are obtained simply by lowering producer prices," Mangan explained. "Lucerne is paying its Jack son county producers the pre- repeal producer price of 78 cents per pound butterfat, plus $3.16 per hundredweight. Neith er these new lower milk prices, resulting from store delivery economies, nor the repeal of milk control, need cause any re ductions to Jackson county pro ducers," Mangan said. Pledge Published ' . Safeway pledged in a state ment published Thursday in The Mail Tribune it would not "sell at reduced prices any brand of milk whose distributor purp6se ly disrupts prices by squeezing' reductions: out. of producers' pocketbooks." As a result the store will now handle only milk from dairies which have not lowered pay ments to producers, he stated. Roy DeAutremont In Mental Hospital Salem U.R) Roy DeAutre, mont, one of the notorious De Autremont brothers rwho dyna mited a passenger train and slaughtered members of . the crew while robbing the mails in 1923, has been permanently transferred to the Oregon state hosoital as a mental case. The transfer will remove De Autremont from contrql of Ore gon State Prison where he and two brothers have been serving life sentences since their Jack son county conviction in one of the West's most publicized crim inal trials. DeAutremont and his twin brother, Ray, are now 54. A younger brother, Hugh, 51, works in the prison print shop. If the brothers should ever be paroled from their life terms, they would face more Jackson county murder charges as well as a federal charge of mail robbery.: Control Board Names Ireland as Secretary i , Salem (U.R) The State Board of Control today named E. J. (Bill) Ireland, Molalla merchant and former legislator, as its new secretary. Ireland will succeed Roy Mills, who is retiring at the end of this month after serving as secretary of the Board of Control since Feb. 1, 1942. The Board of Control is made up of the state's three top elec tive officials governor, secre tary of state and state treasurer, and it directs the vast work of the state's several institutions. SNOW AT CRATER LAKE It was snowing hard at Crater Lake National park at 11 a.m., today, according to a report to state police. The road from Gov ernment Camp to the rim was temporarily closed, and plows were at work on the road, the re port said. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New' York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 379,39 .up 2.65; 20 rail roads 127.09 up 0.21; 15 utilities 60.33 up 0.09, and 65 stocks 138.70 up 0.62. Sales today, were about 3,260,000 shares compared with 3,080,000 shares. yesterday. ! , " ' '' ''. vsrt? i y 3 COUNTY FARM BUREAU OFFICERS Pic tured above are officers of the Jackson Coun ty Farm Bureau, host organization for the 23rd annual meeting of the Oregon Farm Bu . reah Federation, which opened here today. They are, left to right, rear, Al Lemley, past president (shown holding his smalT daughter) New Trial Motion Answered by DA in Stabbing Case Here ' District Attorney Walter Nun ley this morning filed a brief on a defense motion for a new trial for LeRoy (Bud) Starkey Jr., 20, Eagle Point. Judge H. K. Hanna indicated that he will reach a decision on the onotion "not later than tomorrow." Starkey was sentenced to 10 years in the state prison after being found guilty of assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon in the stab bing of Jacksonville artist Philip Henselman. His attorneys, Ed ward and Bernard Kelly, filed the motion for the new trial shortly after the verdict. Oiher Brief Due Soon Nunley indicated that Re will file a brief to a similar motion in the case of James Norman Jensen, 25, Larkspur, Calif., within the next two days. Jen sen, who also is represented by Kelly and Kelly, was found guilty of first degree murder in the hatchet slaying of Mrs. Fern Hile. He has been sentenced to die Jan. 7 in the state gas cham ber at Salem. Judge Hanna said this morn ing that he will reach a decision on the motion for a new trial for Jensen as soon as possible after the state's brief is received. , In two other cases pending here, governor's warrants for extradition were received here today for Sidney Paul Howell, 38, -of 1109 Niantic st., and for Jesus Rodriguez, 27, Ashland. Howell is wanted in Del Norte county, Calif., on an embezzle ment charge, and Rodriguez faces a non-support charge in Contra Costa county, Calif. Four men were arrested in Jackson county yesterday, and two of them have appeared in court. The four are: Four Arrested Clark D." Freeman, 22, Okla homa City, Okla., arrested and jailed yesterday by state police on a charge of burglarizing a house in the' Copper area. Neil Arlen Robbins, 20, route 1, box 479, Gold Hill, arrested and jailed by the sheriff's office on a charge of illegal possession of beer. Robbins appeared in dis trict court, where, he pleaded guilty and was fined $20 and court costs of $5. Robert Gibson Briscoe, - 36, Trail, jailed by state police on a charge of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liq uor. Briscoe appeared in district court, and was fined $250 and court costs of $5. He- received a suspended 30-day jail sentence and his operator's license was suspended for 90 days. j Fred David Prettyman, 27, route 1, box 66, Ashland, jailed by state police on a charge of no operator's license. . He ; was ar rested for failure to pay a fine on a commitment issued by Ashland justice court. " Hit and Run Auto Leaves Clue at Scene An automobile struck the rear of a parked car at 324 North Front si. at about 6:30 o'clock last night, according to city police. ' Rita LaVonne Hout, who re sides at the address, told po lice there - was a loud crash and then she heard a' car pull- ing away. No description .was obtained of the hit and run vehicle. y However, police think may be they can find the missing driver. He left a license plate at the scene of the collision. Farm Bureau Session Delegates Arriving; Some 400 The first of an estimated 400 delegates to the 23rd annual meeting of the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation began arriv ing in Medford foday for the four-day convention. Headquar ters for the session in the Med ford hotel. The first full day of activities starts at 9 a.m. Wednesday with the seating of delegates in the social room of the Medford YMCA. Meetings of two , Farm Bur eau organizations were held this morning. Farm Bureau insur ance agents and the resolutions committee met at the Medford hoteL... - ' Only other item on today's agenda is a vesper service, plan ned for 8 p.m. at the First Pres byterian church. Conferences Tommcrw Commodity conferences are planned tomorrow, following the ODenine general session. These conferences, and meeting places, include dairy department, YMCA; field crops department, Rogue room, Medford hotel; livestock department, court house; fruit and vegetable de partment, mezzanine floor, Med ford hotel, and Farm Bureau wo men, basement, Medford hotel. These conferences will be in ses sion from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. . A social mixer, with the Jack son and Josephine County Farm Bureaus acting as hosts, is plan ned for 8 p.m. tomorrow at the YMCA. - -. Thursday's program includes an organization breakfast at 7 a.m., in . the social room of the YMCA, a general session at 10:15 a.m. in the Holly theater with the annual report by Executive Secretary George Dewey, Sal em, and an address by President Ben L. Robinson. . - -' " Short Will Talk A general session is planned, for 1:30 p.m. Thursday -at tne Holly theater, with talks by Jim Short, director of the state de partment of - agriculture; -E. W. Tiedman, director of the Ameri can Farm Bureau dairy depart ment, and Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college. The annual banquet will be held Thursday-at 6:30' p.m.- in the Ashland Elks building, with the address by; George Wilson, president of the California Farm Bureau Federation. Jen nings; Pierce will act as toast master. Johnny Lusk and his orchestra will provide music for the annual dance. . . ; ;- Friday's program includes the annual 'meeting of the house of delegates at 8:30 a.m. in the banquet room of, the Medford hotel. On" the agenda at that time will be considerations of resolutions, and election of two vice presidents.' t -y. : j, , ,T Tours Planned ' Arrangements have been made for buses .to take delegates to Jacksonville Thursday after noon for a tour of the historic town. Buses also will be provid ed to take delegates to the an- Weather FORECAST: Few patches of tog Wednesday morning, oth erwise partly coludy tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 36; high Wednesday 58. Temp. Highest Yesterday 59 Lowest this Morning 40 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today 13 and Chet Zediker, delegate to the annual meeting. Left to right in the front row, are Mrs. Lemley, county . secretary; David S. Blair, county president, and Mrs. Blair, coun ty women's chairman. John Kessler, county vice-president, was absent when the picture was taken. Brainerd photo) Expected nual banquet and dance in Ash land. The host Jackson county Farm Bureau was organized in Octob er, 1951. Tne county member ship now includes 176 families, with centers in Talent, Evans Valley and Eagle Point. The Farm Bureau is a family organ ization made up of people who make most of their living from farming. Destroyed Sawmill Won't Be Rebuilt . The L. E. Edmonds Lumber company mill, destroyed in spectacular fire last week, .will not be rebuilt, owner L. E. Ed monds said this morning. He said his log inventory, to taling some 3,000,000 board feet, and stacked lumber, more than 1,000,000 feet, will be sold. The loss amounted to about $225,000, he reported. He said that he had received a "good settlement" from the insurance adjuster, but that he did not feel it possible to rebuild and resume operations. About 50 mill employees, plus about . 20 men working in . the woods, have been employed by the Edmonds firm. Students Protest Ousting ofllaguib Cairo, Egypt--XU.R) -Students in the neighboring Sudan staged a wild demonstration today in protest over the ouster of Major Gen. Mohammed Naguib as pres ident of Egypt. Sudanese police had to use tear gas to disperse . the mob which screamed "Long . Live Naguib." .The demonstration took place in Khartoum only a few hours before the Sudanese Parliament opened its new session. . i Egypt's ruling revolutionary council fired Naguib i Sunday after he had been linked to an abortive assassination attempt against Premier Gamal : Abdel Nasser." " ' ' . ' v " Told; Copco Tops All Others California Oregon Power com pany paid $423,126.84 in county property taxes this year, Sher iff Howard 'Gault reported this morning. It was the biggest county ; tax payment received, the sheriff said. ' Copifco's ' total tax bill was $436,213.49. -The firm received a discount of ' $13,086.65 for full payment in advance. . Second biggest payment re ceived by the county this year came from Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, which paid $161,085.62, up $6,000.26 from, last year. The firm receiv ed a discount of $4,981.99 for full payment on a bill of $166,067.61. ' The third tax payment to top the $100,000 mark was that paid by Medford Corporation. It came to $115,571.75, with a discount of $3,572.78 on a total bill of $119,144.53. ' Seven other companies have made payments of more than $20,000. The firms with pay- ment, discount, and total bill. Utah Solon Smarts Under McCarthy's Cowardice Charge Watkins Would Offer New Censure Charge Washington U.R) Sen. Ar thur V. Watkins (R.-Utah) asked senators today, for the good name of the Senate, to censure. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for "hit and run"attacks against his Censure committee "in your, presence." , ' Watkins, smarting from Mc Carthy: calling him a coward. bristled with anger and told the . en.ue.that if nobody else offers a nev censure charge against McCarthy, he will do it himself. Ii nobody else does it, the man who has been railed s coward. from Utah will dn if Watkins told his colleagues. ; , "What are you going to do about it?" 'Watkins challenged we nave UB manhood in the Senate to stand up to this? . I may be a cowarrf mt i don't compromise with this kind of attack and the indecency in volved." - -. The chairman of iho Smut. Censure committee accused Mc Carthy of piling "abuse hip deep upon abuse" against the committee. Unless the Senate him, Watkins said, "How can it hold lis head up in the free de- uoerauve bodies of the worlds"' iins spoKe out after Sen. Herman Welker (R.-Ida.) con tended that there is no basis in the Constitution for the censure charges against McCarthy. narge Said Not Covered -P?e defense of Mc Carthy, Welker emphasized that arble I of the Constitution spe cifies that each house of Con gress may "punish its members lor disorderly behavior" a charge which he saM i eled against McCarthy in the censure resolution intmrf,,,, 1 ... Dy watKins. Watkins accused McCarthy of firing off letters "from the safe ty of his office" instead of testi fying before a 1951-52 Elections subcommittee which wanted to know what happened to funds given him to fight Communism. , v"" "cpuuucan iaunchv i"1 of Sente n- by decIeiig that he wanted to be dispassionate about JfS? 55 I!1 y e r! HffiT'u ia'" 11 1 exercise a iitue human inHionot;- McCarthy's chariesTgatSnt Watkins had hardly launched wnat he said would h a speech when the Senate recessed for lunch. Earlier, Senate Re publican Leader Wiii,-. w - Knowland had said as many as ufciu&eu cnoices on the Ce2ff n5??? aw beinS drafted. .But Watkins told nmcm u fore his speech that any compro mise which does not . w - MMIIQUU outright censure of MrTrfh. will be a compromise with in decency." Watkins told the Sennt --. he is "more sorrowful than angry" at McCarthy's blast, be cause he said it "reveals the at titude charged against Sen. Mc- -Carthy for some time." "To be called a coward." Wat. kins said, "is a stigma that no real man relishes.". ; Reviews Record In answer, he began reviewing the record of the Elections Sub committee. One of the censure counts against McCarthy charges that he declined rerjeat- ed invitations to testify before ' the elections group about his fi nances, but . instead abused the subcommittee and its members. "The charges made against that committee were even worse than being called a .coward." Watkins told the Senate, recall ing that McCarthy called the onhPAmmiftaA - J,(.l.ATI.t)il ! said it was "serving the Commu nist cause. 's Biggest Taxpayers are: Southern Pacific, $93, 371.17, $2,887.77, and $96,258.94; Timber Products company, $64, 568.73, $1,987.93 and $66,556.66; Elk Lumber company, $57, 391.69, $l,776.90,nd $59,168.59; Bear Creek Orchards $36,104.49, $1,133.40, and $37, 237.89; Rogue River Orchard, $23,714.20, $694.57, and $24, 408.77; California-Pacific Utili ties, $22,922.12, $711.10, and $23,703,22 and Pinnacle Packing company, $22,849.34, $613.13, arid $23,462.47. Sheriff Gault said this morn ing that the general volume of payments appears to be approxi mately the same as in previous years. - . Clerks in the tax' department are now- working on a large backlog of mail payments which built up during the period in which personal payments were made. It usually takes about two to three weeks to complete checking of the mail payments, the sheriff said.