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m ro Soviet Delegation Leader Stricken By Heart Attack Medford United Pres FuU Leased Wire United Frew Full Leased Wire 49th Year 22 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1954 Price 5c No. 210 UN Meetings Suspended After Announcement ill" ,Hr i rTriif ! lit im J; uiTkJ M-'i' I L f sir' "22 iJr OH f in A fi" ' w & m r 11 i-j !-J ONE SENATOR TO ANOTHER At left is shown George W. Dunn, Ashland, the oldest former legislator in Jackson county, - and at right is State Senator-elect Philip B. Lowry, who will take office next January. Dunn, who served in the state senate . from 1923 to 1943, is 91. Lowry, 37, will have his 38th birthday three days before the next legislature convenes. Dunn first took office seven years after Lowry was born. The two met at Dunn's home last week to get acquainted and to discuss legislative mat ters.' The meeting was arranged by Linn W. Nesmith, Camp White, who as a sergeant-at-arms in the senate when Dunn was . serving. Lowry had no opposition, and received both Republican anc. Democratic nominations in the primary election last May. i (Hughes Photo Service, Ashland) LeRoy Starkey To Get New Trial; Decision Nullifies Sentence ; An order setting aside the verdict and granting a new trial to the defendant, LeRoy (Bud) Starkey Jr., 20, Eagle Point, in the Henselman stabbing case - was delivered to the district at torney's office today. ; The order was signed by Judge H. K. Hanna and dated Nov. 18. It briefly stated it sus tained the defense's motion for a new iriai ana set asiae me jury's guilty verdict on Sept. 24 and sentencing on Sept. 28 and granted a new trial. No basis . for the order was given by Han na and he could not be contacted today as he is in Portland where his wife has just indergone sur- . gery at St. Vincent's hospital, according to his office. Nunley Surprised ' District Attorney Walter Nun ley said today he was "surpris- the defense motion. He added t that he hasn't decided as yet kwhat further action will be tak en with the case. Starkey, who was found guilty of assault and robbery with a dangerous weapon on Philip Henselmen, Jacksonville, had been sentenced by Hanna to an indeterminate period not to ex ceed 10 years in the state prison. He has been out on bail since the sentencing . His attorneys, Edward and Bernard Kelly, filed the motion West Germany Will Honor Herbert Hoover Bonn, Germany (U.R) Former President Herbert Hoov- . er flew back to a 'booming, re surgent Germany" today to re ceive in person the thanks of a nation he helped' rescue from hunger, economic ruin and dis pair. .: . , He arrived at nearby Wahn Airfield and was greeted by , West German Chancellor K o n- rad Adenauer, U. S. High Com. missioner james a. uonant ana other German and American of ficials. . Adenauer invited Mr. Hoov er to visit West Germany again several months ago in apprecia tion of his work in feeding hun gry Germans immediately after , Xthe war. 'Air-Lifting' of Three-Cent Mail Starrs On Coast; Medford To Receive Benefits "Air-lifting" of three-cent let ter mail along the Pacific coast begins today, improving delivery time from 24" to 48 hours to scores xf cities in Oregon, Wash ington and California. Medford is one of the 19 prin cipal ; cities which will benefit under the experiment being car ried put by the Post Office de partment. First class mail will be moved by air on a space avail able basis by all, major airlines including United, Western and Northwest airlines. Others To Benefit ' ' Officials stated that hundreds of cities near the 19 points also will receive benefits from the service, with an estimated , 1, 000,000 pieces of first class and other priority letters going by air daily. A similar experiment in mov ing mail from Medford to north ern California cities by South west airways has been underway for some time and will continue, they added. ".' -. - " .. ; The coast-wide operation was likened by officials to the one for a hew trial on Oct. 4. The motion included an affidavit by Bernard Kelly. Misconduct Charged -The defense motion contend ed that there was "an irregular ity in proceedings" by the court when the jury requested furth er instructions and none were given, that there was "miscon duct of the district attorney in his closing argument as set forth in the affidavit," and that there were four errors in law by the court in granting, certain state instructions to the jury. The motion further alleged that Nunley's closing argument "prevented the defendant from having a fair and impartial trial by reason of matters being stated in said argument outside the ev idence." v : . '. ' A similar charge against John Munn Cushman, 24, Grants Pass, was dismissed during the trial to .allow him to testify as a state s witness. Cordon Officially Concedes Defeat Portland U.PJ U. S. Sen. Guy Cordon yesterday officially conceded his defeat to Senator elect Richard L. - Neuberger in the recent elections and sent a telegram of congratulations to his Democratic successor. The Republican senator's an nouncement was made just be fore he boarded a tram here yes terday afternoon to go to Wash ington, D. C, for the remainder of the special Senate session. Sen. Cordon's telegram said: "The people of Oregon have spoken. You face an onerous task and a tremendous responsibility. I wish you success." ; , Cordon's concession came after the official canvess of the hard fought, election showed Neuber ger to have won by 2,482 votes. Cordon said he had no plans to ask for a ballot recount, and the state's Republican leaders have indicated the same feeling. Neuberger's reply said, , "al though we may disagree on spe cific policies and issues, I know we are united by a common Move of our country. Mrs. Neuberger joins me in wishing to Mrs. .Cor don and yourself personal happi ness in any future undertaking." in operation on the east coast between NewYork and Florida points and also to Chicago. Cities Listed The . J9 cities " between : which the air lift will operate are Med ford, Eugene, Salem, Portland, Klamath Falls and Bend in Ore gon; Seattle, Wash., and Oak land, Sacramento, San Francis co, Stockton, Merced, Salinas, Modesto, Fresno, Visalia, Bakers field, Los Angeles and San Diego, Calif. - PO members pointed out that the air lift does not mean that all first class mail will move by air in the regions affected. Essentially, the plan provides that first class mail is to move by air where the air-transit is faster, space - is available, and where flight schedules make it feasible. Affected mail will in clude that for California points from Oregon and Washington, and that for Oregon and Wash-' ington, originating in and mov ing through California. . .. . Major revisions and improve ments -of surface mail transit si mm Conference Would Follow Approval Of Paris Accord Premier Would Exclude Propaganda Maneuvers United Nations, N.Y. " (U.R) French Premier Pieree Mendes France proposed to the United Nations today that a Big Four conference be held next May, but only after the Paris agree ments rearming Germany have been approved. The Premier stressed, howev er, that ratifications was not the only condition for holding the East-West talks. The talks, he slid, "must be seriously and honestly prepared by full ex changes of views, excluding all maneuvers of pure propaganda which could only sow disagree ment, harden positions and fi nally compromise the success which we all hope." Mendes-France in a forceful policy declaration to the 60-na-tion General assembly, suggest ed the May meeting after ex plaining that by the time the Paris pacts will have been rati fied by; all countries concerned "as is certainly the case with France.", , Mendes, France,' whose atti tude on East-West negotiations had caused some concern in U.S. government circles,. sai&,:, , -' - and effective discussions in a conference of four except after the countries of West , Europe directly interested have ratified the treaty of Paris. To act oth erwise is to go into adventure; is to go toward a certain stale mate." 7 0.' ' The European agreements on defense and unity, he declared, could serve as "a pilot .project for large institutions which, we all hope, will tine day assure democratic control and interna tional cooperation and general disarmament simultaneous, regulated and controlled." Mendes-France after his May conference suggestion said "the French government is ready for its part to organize it at Paris, if that would be convenient to the other participants.' ' .'" The Premier declared that the conference must be preceded by attempts to create a climate of confidence and said settlement of one question Austria would be that step. ' He invited the Soviet Union to make "constructive proposals" to complete agreement on an. Aus trian treaty. ' DOW-JONES -AVERAGES , New York (U.R) Dow-Jones trials 379.47 up 1.46; 20 rail final stock averages: 30 Indus roads 129.97 up 0.25; 15 utilities 60.60 up 0.03, and 65 stocks 139.70 up 0.38. Sales today were about 3,000,000 shares compared with 3,130,000 shares Friday. - routes . in conjunction with the air lift are also included. Rail way postal services on Southern Pacific trains Nos. 9 and 10 south from Portland will be limited to closed pouch, or through mail, and a highway post office truck will serve post offices between Portland and Roseburg once each day. Railway post office service will be continued on other Southern Pacific trains. First in Portland , The first load of mail arrived at Portland's . International air port at noon today. Ceremonies were held at the airport, fol lowed by a luncheon at the Ben son hotel. Assistant Postmaster General Albert . J, Robertson and other high PO" officials ac companied the first load of mail from California points, stopping briefly at Medford. Their flight from San Francisco took three hours." ; Robertson, in - a - luncheon speech, stated that "this .is an historical day for .the West coast and for the Postal Service." ' '" (See Storr oa Page 16) im r-iri-a-i ry?? IF(mir eeftDimg odd William Governor Dies in Collision Des Moines ftl.R) Gov. William S. Beardsley of Iowa, an ardent leader in the drive for traffic safety, was killed last night in a highway collision. He was 53 years old. . Beardsley was injured fatally when his car rammed into the rear of a panel truck on High way 60 two miles north of Des Moines. His wife, Charlotte, was in jured but authorities at Iowa Lutheran Hospital said she was in "pretty good condition" and "resting well." Three persons riding in the truck were treated for minor in juries and released. Highway patrolmen said the governor was pronounced dead on arrival at Iowa Lutheran Hos pital but they did not know whether he died in his car or in the ambulance. "He fell over into - my lap when we hit," Mrs. Beardsley told hospital authorities. "I think he was dead then." Beardsley, who did not seek reelection in the Nov. 2 elec tion was just ending his. third two-year term.,r Atty. Gen.;Led A.' HbegK", also a - Republican, was elected to succeed him. Lt. Gov. Leo Elthon, Fertile, will take the . oath as governor today to serve out Beardsley's term. . ; . ; The Beardsleys had gone to Ames, 30 miles north of here, to visit their son, Dan, an Iowa State College student. " They were returning here when the accident happened. Iowa Governor William S. Beardsley, who was killed in an auto crash near Des Moines last Sheppard Witness Tells of Advice Cleveland U.R) Dr. Lester T. Hoversten, "mystery guest" in the Sheppard home, testified that Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard twice consulted him on "the pos sibility of considering a di vorce. ' Dr. Hoversten was the 11th state witness in its attempt to send Dr. Sheppard to the elec tric chair. The state contends the 30-year-old osteopathic-sur-geon bludgeoned his wife to death last July 4 after quarrel ing with her about his attentions to other women. Dr. Hoversten, a Glendale, Calif., osteopath, was a guest in the Sheppard home for three days prior to the murder. He left on July 3. On both occasions of Dr. Sam's talking about divorce,' Dr. Hover sten said, he advised him against iV However, he said, he never saw Dr. Sam with any other women than his wife. Work Expected To Start On Annex Concrete Lathe Work may begin tomorrow morning on ; reinforced concrete lathe construction at the new courthouse annex, 'according to construction officials. " The roof will be applied first, with work proceeding down ward to the ground, they said. The work has been held up pend ing union settlement on whether lathemen or steelmen will do the work. r Pouring concrete for the third vault also will begin-tomorrow, they said. The annex will in clude: three vaults, one in the basement, another on the first floor and one on the second. : Weather FORECAST Continued fair through Tuesday with valley, ' log asain Tuesday morning. . Low tonight . 32-34. B i f h Tuesday 58-60. ' . , .. v Temp. Highest yesterday J S3 Lowest this morning ...... 33 Beardsley, of night, visited here twice while his son, Blaine Beardsley, owned and operated Pennywise drug store. The governor, a Rotarian, also attended meetings of the Medford Rotary club during his visits here. The younger Beards ley sold the drug store last April and moved to Hillsboro. Democrats To Move For Tax Reduction Prior To Election Washington 0J.R) Congres sional Democratic leaders have a tentative plan to cut personal income taxes shortly, before the presidential election in 1956, re liable sources said today. The present plan, which is subject to change as conditions may warrant, calls for the new Democratic controlled Congress to study the board field of taxa tion in 1955. and to lower ner- scnalersonal income taxes in the presidential election year of 1956. . The tax reduction would be in the form of an increase in personal exemptions, or in a general cut in rates, or perhaps a "combination of the two, if the federal budget at that time can stand it. Personal Exemptions Democrats tried but failed in the last Congress to increase the personal exemption from $600 to $700. Their first move in a tax reduction program in the next Congress is likely to in clude this feature. ' Many Democrats .were critical of the ' Republican sponsored tax revision program pushed through Congress this year. They maintained that the GOP plan, which included a contro versial provision giving a spe cial tax break to persons with income from dividends : was weighted in , favor of the weal thy. . ;. . GOP Plan Defended Republicans denied the Demo cratic charges.' Rep. Daniel A; Reed (R.-N.Y.) chairman of the tax-framing House Ways and Means committee and principal sponsor of the Republican pro gram, : served notice last night that he will resist any efforts by Democrats to make any substan tial changes, n "I believe that the . Republi can tax revision program enact ed by the last Congres will with stand any Democratic attacks during the next session,", he said in a statement : i v Iowa. Western Development Outlook Considered Promising; No Commitments Gained for Work on Talent Project By R. ROBERT SMITH . Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The outlook for new federal reclamation develop ment the coming year is con sidered somewhat more promis ing by western members of Con gress who last week appealed directly to President Eisenhower for some "new starts." While the President reported ly told the group he had no ob jection to new projects being started, no commitments were gained for two possible new pro jects in the Pacific Northwest- Talent division of Rogue River project near Medford and Foster Creek project north of Wenat chee, both of which, were ; au thorized by Congress last sum mer. 1 T "- : . ; Advised Against Expecting In the White . House confer ence, Budget. Director Roland Hughes told -the groups xf -lawmakers that there. is ne stand ing policy against funds for all new projects. - Yet Bureau of Reclamation official say they Imm7 Knowland Expects Red China Offense 'Within a Year' Says U.S. Must Have Will To Make Issue Washington (U.R) Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland maintained today that Red China wil launcfi a new ag gression "within a year" and that the United States ."must have the will" to stand up against it. ' - " "I think the Chinese Commu nists will mov somewhere with in a year," he said. "The fact they are talking about Formosa doesn't mean it will be that. It could be Korea again or to the south." .. ' ' U. S. Should Make Issue Knowland said when an attack comes, the United States should make an issue of it. But he warned against a bluff "if we aren't ready to act." . "We shouldn't talk: unless we're ready to follow through," be said. "That only convinces the Communists, as it has in the past, that we won't act next time. That made us what they call in the Orient a 'paper tiger. Unless we are willing to sacrifice those people to Red slavery we must have the will to stand. SMakina For Self Knowland made 4the state ments in a question"! and "answer interview with Fortnight, a Cal ifornia . news magazine, which was made public last night. He emphasized he was speaking for himself rather than the adminis tration with which ' he is fre quently at odds on -foreign af fairs. - V " Keating Appointed ToO&C Committee County Judge Rodney Keat ing has been named to the O and C committee of the land grant board of the Association of O and C counties at a meeting held in Portland. : Keating will assume a posi tion held by Commissioner Rob ert Lytle of Jackson county for the past six. years. Lytle will end his term as county commis sioner on Dec. 31. , Lytle said that the committee meets several times a year and confers with the association's at torney on legal matters concern ing O and C matters in the 18 Oregon counties affected. '.' The O and C group met the day before the annual meeting of the Association of Oregon County? courts. All three local county court members attended the latter meetings, as did Commissioner-Elect Chester Wendt. Raymond -U.R) Carl F, Hei der, 55 - year - old deer; hunter, was shot and killed yesterday on Pluvius Hill, a popular hunting area 15 miles east of here. have been advised by the Budget Bureau against expecting to ob tain approval of funds to start new development work this com ing year." ; " . " A group of Washington state reclamation backers also called on Budget Bureau officials last week, in company , with Sen. Warren-G.-Magnuson (D-Wash.), to appeal for approval of suf ficient funds to keep the giant Columbia Basin project moving along at a rate of 50,000 to 60, 000 new acres annually. Also they asked from $3,500,000 to $4,000,000 to complete the Ken newick division of the Yakima project. r .: Cordial Attention - Both groups got cordial' and generally receptive . attention to their pleas, and the feeling gen erated among Bureau of Recla mation' officials as a consequence is that hopes are higher, but not too much;' for some new irriga tion work next year. --. ' Eisenhower,, and, Hughes, in formed sources explained, gave this sort of story to the delega - United Nations,' N.Y. (U.R) Andrei Y. Vishinsky, acid tongued head of the Russian del egation to the United Nations, died suddenly today of a heart attack. '. ':: . The 70-year-old Vishinsky, onetime Russian foreign minister who took a back seat after the death of Russian Premier Josef Stalin a year and a half ago, was stricken at his delegation's Park ave. headquarters shortly before. he was to have partici pated in further debate on Presi dent Eisenhower's atoms for peace plan. ' ; First announcement of Vishin- sky's death was made to the U. N.. General Assembly by As sembly President Eelco N. Van Kleffens of The Netherlands shortly- before 10 a.m. (PST). Meetins Suspended ' It was repeated by Chairman Francisco Urruttia to the Gen eral Assembly's Main Political Committee where Vishinsky was to have, appeared. All U. N. meetings were sus pended immediately. Exact circumstances of Vishin- sky's death were not reported immediately. Members of his own delega tion at first refused to admit that he was ill, and later would confirm .only that he had died. Polish Delegate 111 Another Communist diplomat, Polish delegate Jan Lubacz, also became ill suddenly today. Lu bacz, attending a meeting of the special Political Committee, com plained of feeling faint and asked for a doctor. He was taken to the U.N. Clinic where attend ants said they believed he would survive. Members of Vishinsky's own delegation attended U.N. meet ings as usual. Week' End Conference . ... The Soviet diplomat had taken a leading part in previous atoms for peace debate and engaged in week end consultations with U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. on the possibility of gaining a unanimous vote for the meas ure sponsored by seven Western powers to put the plan into op eration. .Vishinsky had offered a new amendment during the week end, reiterating Russia's demand that the Security Council should have veto power over the Eisen hower plan. ' Washington (U.R) - Presi dent Eisenhower declined com ment today on the sudden death of Russian Deputy Foreign Min ister Andrei Vishinsky. The President was tolrl of Vishinsky's death by White Hcuse Press Secretary James C. Hagerty. "We have no comment" Hagerty told reporters. The State Department also had no comment. 5s: ; - ; Sheriff Deputies Search For Man Without Foot , Hillsboro (U.R) Washington county sheriff's deputies started a search today for a man missing a foot after two boys brought in a shoe containing a man's foot.-'".? -.vV;: . The boys said they made their grisly find near Bonney Slope while out riding. Sheriff R. N. Busch said the foot i had been severed below the ankle. The shoe was soggy and appeared to have been ex posed to the weather for some time. - V"; ' tion that called for greater rec lamation spending: The ' administration has no rigid policy of rejecting all new projects,-and it does favor con tinued , irrigation development under federal auspices in the West.- , But defense expenditures will continue next year to take a large bite out of the federal budget; ; And the " administra tion is determined to keep taxes from - being increased while avoiding further deficit spending if possible. ,x Rigid Boundary Lines ' That means there are rather rigid , boundary lines within which::; spending .for domestic programs must be fitted. And one program the administration wants to invigorate with more money is highway building. In short, the administration is sym pathetic to more irrigation work but is so: devoted to current fiscal consideration that the West cannot expect a greatly ac celerated spending program for federal projects. - Rep. Ben Jensen (R-Ia.), chair ANDREI VISHINSKY Sharp Tongue Silenced Vishinsky Gai ruiiuiai riuianc TTnitert Nations. N.'Y. U.B Andrei Yanurevitch Vishin sky, one of the last bourgeois, in tellectuals in high: Russian, position who died here - to day, was born In Odessa, the son of a chemist and a music teacher, on Dec. 9, 1883. . r He orosnered and survived as a major world spokesman for, if never a maker of, Soviet, pol icy despite both his background and an early "mistake." His "mistake" was that he was more moderate revolutionary than the Bolshevisks who won. , - Famed Prosecutor Although he started his revo lutionary activity early, achiev ing prominence in 1905, Vish insky, as a Menshevik,' took no active part in the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and remained aloof from the new government until he joined it in 1920. Vishinsky first gamed inter national prominence as prosecu tor in the famed purge trials of 1936-37. Prior to that time he had served as ' a government prosecutor for a time. He made a brilliant record, but then had been dropped from the . govern ment for several years. . In 1940, he joined the Foreign Office. .;i;..;',vi . i:....... , mere, visninsKy negouaiea the treaty with Czechoslovakia which gave Russia the right to liberate Prague after World War H. He later "meddled" in Ro mania, being credited with set ting up a pro-Russian govern ment there in 1944. ; " Permanent Delegate 1 : ' Vishinsky had been a princi pal Soviet delegate to every UN meeting since 1946. In 1949, he became Foreign Minister, suc ceeding V. M. Molotov. Within days after Stalin's death in 1953 Vishinsky was removed from that post and Molotov reinstated. Vishinsky was advised of the shift as he sailed for home. But he returned to the United States-' soon after as Russia's perman ent delegate to the United Na tions, and he brought with him his wife and daughter, a .privil ege not accorded Russian diplo mats of whom there is a slight suspicion. . ; v A dramatic orator, he was sharp in his attacks on Western policy. But he apparently never was more than an advocate for pohcies ' formulated in higher councils. " '. ' - COMMITTEE TO MEET " The advisory committee to the county juvenile court will meet .. tonight at 8 p.m. in the circuit court chambers to consider fur ther plans for the new detention heme adopted by the voters in the' general election. - Election campaign expenses for the home will be reported,' according to Mrs. Kay Crowell, juvenile pro bation officer. r" man the past two years of the House subcommittee on Interior funds, said he showed the Presi dent figures which he said repre sented the saving his GOP-con-trolled committee had made by slashing funds for transmission lines. : : t "i '- - . "L showed him . how most of what we have spent was on rec lamation," Jensen said after the White : House confab,' " "while most of what the Democrats spent was on transmission lines." Jensen To Step Down i. Jensen will be replaced : in that post in January when Demo crats organize the 84th Congre&j, presumably giving' way to Rep. Mike Kerwin (D-O.), who head ed the Interior subcommittee in past years. - JCerwin's sentiments, about the economy drive sparked -by Jensen and other Republican committee members - was sum med tip last spring when he told the House: . -: ': : ": "Another cut like'.this one in the Interior budget and we might as well close down the depart-' meat." Prominence Despite
