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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, November 18, 1954 Moves Develop To Call Alger Hiss For Questioning C; Washington U.R) A dual move developed in Congress to day to call Alger Hiss for ques tioning when the former high ranking State Department of ficial is released from prison a week from Saturday. , The House Un-American Ac tivities Committee, headed by Rep. Harold H. Velde (R-I1L), discussed the question at a brief closed meeting today but post poned a decision until tomorrow. More Light on Spy Ring .Rep. Kit Clardy (R-Mich.), a committee member defeated for reelection Nov. 2, asked that Hiss be questioned again. Clardy said Hiss should shed more light about his part in the Whittaker Chambers spy ring, about his connection with the 1945 Yalta conference where he was tech nical adviser to President Roos evelt and about his work as sec retary general of the conference that set up the United Nations. Jenner May Want Hiss - Across the capitol, Chairman William E. Jenner (R-Ind.) told a renorter his Senate Internal Security Subcommittee probably also will want to question iiiss, possibly in a new field-alleged Communist infiltration of con gressional committees. ' r: Hiss was convicted of lying tinder oath when he denied be fore a federal Grand Jury that he slipped secret government papers to Chambers, confessed courier for a pre-war' Commu nist spy ring. . Top Notch Cafe Sale Announced rThe purchase of the Top Notch cafe, 27 South Central ave., one of Medford's best known', res taurants, by Louie J. Ruhl, was announced yesterdayl The new owner until recently operated the Holiday Inn motel and cafe on Worth Riverside ave. Travis Mitchell and Harry gitratman, former Top Notch owners, will continue to operate the business until Jan. 1.-Ruhl took possession Monday Nov. 15. .. No changes arev planned in policies or staff, the new owner Said. ' l - .- c;Mitchell and Stratman have operated the 'Top Notch for six years, the first ZVz years at the former location across the street on South Central ave., and for the past 2V years at the present address. - J Ruhl sold the motel to Mr. and Mrs. Allen Zell and Mrs. Rita Hegg, all from Cutbank, Mont. Ruhl had operated it for about IVz years and came here from Great Falls, Mont. ' , Large-Scale Search For Missing Hunter r Walla Walla UR) - A large scale search has begun for Or Ville Simmons, 26, Milton-Free water, Ore'., who has been lost since Sunday in the Toll Gate area of the Blue mountains in Oregon, dbout 41 miles south of here. r Simmons went elk hunting early Sunday morning and told his family he would be back the same afternoon. He was lightly dressed and carried only a cou- pie oi sanawicnes, ms rifle, a hunting knife and a few matches. - Heavy rains have hit the area the past several days and snow has fallen at higher elevations. TROUSER TROUBLE Sacramento, Gaif. 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