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Newspaper Page Textif rvnn 0' ji p ' j MEDFORDTRIBUNE ErSSSSn 2 Unite Pre-Full Leased Wire United PrewTuU Leased Wir ' Ljr U 11 U j) M 49th Year .18 Pages President Mixes ork and Play in Quiet Holiday ' Traditional Turkey Feast Due Tonight Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower mixed work and play todav to iuietly ob corvine? Thankseivina Day at the famed Augusta National Golf Club. He eot the work out of the way early, doing paper work in a special office over the club's pro shop. . Mr. Eisenhower sent tele grams to relatives of 13 Ameri cans held prisoner Dy nineu Reds, assuring tnem mai uie government is doing everything "feasible" to secure meir re lease. ' Railroad Dispute He also named the three mem bers of an emergency fact-finding board in a wage dispute be tween conductors and brakemen and most of the nation's rail roads. f " .The President then stepped onto the golf course for a round of his favorite - sport. Before starting to play the 18 holes, he Sharpened up his, game with some practice shots under the guidance of Ed Dudley, the club pro. ; The weather was perfect for golf, sunny but bracing with the temperature in the 50s. . Turkey Tonight j . Mr. Eisenhower planned to top off the day with, the tradi tional dinner of turkey and all the fixin's this evening in the . trophy room of the main club house. He assured his guests that . will do the carving on the large 43-pound turkey brought from Washington. White House Press Secretary James C. Haaerty conveyed to reporters and news photograph; ers accompanying Mr. Eisen hower here an invitation from the President to play the Mas ters course tomorrow. - It will be the first time that reporters have been permitted to play the course while Mr. Eisenhower was there. This is his sixth vacation at the club -since he became President. Oregon Dampened By Pacific Storm : . Br UNITED PRESS : A high pressure ridge which had been protecting Oregon from rain flattened tut last night. As a result the state got some show ers today from a storm system movinff in from the Pacific. 2- Portland got more than half an inch of rain during a six-hour period starting shortly after mid fiieht. Astoria had .60 and New port .30. Light amounts of rain fell in central Oregon. Precipitation was heavier up north where Seattle had 1.08 inches and Tatoosh Island 1.41 inches. ? The storm front ended, for the most part, the heavy fog that has blanketed Oregon this week. Only Medf ord was reported cocked in this morning. How ever, more fog is expected in some areas by tonight. . 1 Owosso, Mich. U.R) Gov, Thomas E. Dewey of New York arrived today for the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Anne Dewey, who died in her sleep Tuesday night at her home. Fog Halts Regular Flights; MF Takes Two to Portland "Resumption of scheduled flights at the Medf ord munici pal airport was expected -today after the local field had been closed for more than 36 hours by heavy fog. Mercy Flight Only plane to leave Medf ord yesterday was a Mercy Flights, Inc., air ambulance plane which took two infants to Portland for treatment there. Because of the "fog, Pilot George Milligan land ed the plane in-Ashland on the return trip. Patients on the flight were Frank William Lewis, 10-day-old son of Mr. and -.Irs. S. B. Lewis, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1954 Fatal Tmffie teifate Mount By UNITED STATES A sudden spurt of fatal traf fic accidents today dampened hopes that the nation was on its way to a safe and sane Thanks giving. A United Press survey since 6 p.m. last night showed 26 per sons had died in auto accidents. No other types of accidental deaths were reported. An early lag in accident re- norts encouraged experts to hope the nation's drivers were practicing life-saving caution. But the toll climbed sharply during the early morning hours. Three auto crashes accountea for 13 of the deaths. Two headon collisions in Illinois killed five and four persons, respectively. Four more persons were killed in an Indiana smashup. Train Leaves Tracks A far greater tragedy was narrowlv averted when eight cars of the crack Sante Fe Chief jumped the tracks in the Mojave Desert 50 miles from .Needles, Calif., last'night. Police and am bulances rushed to the scene, but officials said there were no fa talities or serious injuries. Thousands of motorists jam med the highways as they journeyed to join their families in the traditional turkey dinner and to give thanks. The weather was lair, ana driving conditions were good in weather made travel 'hazardous most oiioe natwuv?i))h r . 1 L' 1 Y? in the Northern Midwest ana parts of the Northeast. Wind-whipped snow iiurries swept the area west of the Mis sissippi river and north of the Ohio river.; Boston naa .ox. inches of rain and a snow blan ket covered much of Wisconsin and Minnesota. '- Fog shrouded much of the Pa cific Coast area, cutting visibil ity to zero at Los Angeles and to one sixteenth of a mile at oaK- land, Calif. Further north, ram pounded Western Washington, Sprague Named To Fact-Finding Board Augusta, Ga. (U.PJ Presi dent Eisenhower today named the three members of an emerg ency fact-finding .board which he set up' Tuesday to study a wage dispute between conduc tors and brakemen and most of the nation's railroads. They are Judge Edward M. Sharpe, Lansing, Mich., chief justice of the Michigan supreme court; Charles A. Sprague; Sa lem, Ore., newspaper publisher and editor, and John T. Dunlop, Harvard economics professor. Acting under the railway la bor act, Mr. Eisenhower prevent ed a strike for at least 60 days from establishment of the board. The board has 30 days from Tuesday to report its findings and the union, the order of rail way conductors and brakemen. is prohibited by the law from striking for another 30 days. Eureka, Calif. U.R) Two major Humboldt county lumber mills employing some 2100 per sons scheduled shutdowns today as a result of the strike against the Northwestern Pacific rail- 1 road. Jr., Rogue River, and the 11- month-old son of a Mr. and Mrs, Doss, of Glendale. In Oxygen Tent The Lewis infant was sched uled to undergo nasal surgery at Portland, and the Doss child, who made the flight in an oxy gen tent, is scheduled to receive treatment for a blood ailment. Fred Hale, of Grants Pass Air service, who made the trip as co-pilot, brought the babies to Medf ord from Grants Pass ' by car. The children were the 301st and 302nd patients carried by the non-profit air ambulance service. and it was drizzling in Eastern Washington and Northern Calif ornia. ' . In New York City Thanksgiv ing Day .dawned cloudy and cold, snow flurries expected to whip northern suburbs. ' However, ' thousands of chill ed youngsters turned out - to watch the 28th annual Macy's parade down Broadway. The traditional giant balloons and spectacular floats filed by. Heavy Fog Blamed For Numerous Auto Crashes in County Heavy fog, which cut visibil ity to less than 50 feet at times yesterday afternoon, was blam ed for numerous automobile ac cidents in Jackson county, state police reported this morning. Most serious of the accidents was a five-car collision on High way 99 just north of Ashland at about 5:15 p.m., police said. It involved a pickup truck operat ed by Dorman Ray York, Mon tague, Calif., a coupe driven by Lavina Wiggins, Ashland: a se- ri, -neraterf " hv .Tav Cochran. A,Bnland, and two other cars which left the scene before the - . state police arrived. Stopped To Turn All of the vehicles - were northbound, when one of the unknown drivers stopped for a left turn. The Wiggins car stopped behind it, and the pick up truck struck the back of the Wiggins car, pushing it . ahead into the first vehicle. The Coch ran car struck all three, and in turn, was sideswiped by the fifth vehicle, whose driver was not listed. . : Mrs. Margaret Cochran, a pas senger in the car driven by her husband, and their three , chil dren, Karen, Diane and Steven, were taken to Ashland General hospital by Litwiller ambulance for treatment of cuts and bruis es. Woman Injured - In another accident, Mrs. Mar gie Busbee, Lorenzo, cam., re ceived neck injuries, and was hospitalized .overnight at Ash land General. She was a passen ger in a car driven by her hus band, Lloyd, who received minor face cuts. Their three children were uninjured. Busbee was the driver of a car . which went out of control south of Ashland on Highway 99 and slid broadside into a vehicle operated by Rob ert Lewis Ferguson, Hilt, Calif., at about 10:40 p.m. A Talent school bus operated by Bruce 'Hitt Jr.," Medf ord, was involved in a collision on High way 99 south of Talent at about 4:30 pjn. Police ' said' the bus stopped to discharge passengers and was struck from the rear by a coupe operated by William H. Stabler, Ashland. There were no injuries, and only minor dam age was reported A fourth accident involved a sedan operated by Carl J. Koes- ter, Portland, and a vehicle driv en by Frank Joseph Hart, At lanta, Ga. Both " were, south bound on Highway 99 at Talent junction at about 9 p.m. when the Hart' car slowed down and was struck from behind by Koe- ster's car. There were no injur ies and damage to the vehicles was said to be minor. . Two minor crashes were re ported by city police, and state officers said numerous cars were reported in ditches. Most of these mishaps involved little or no property damage and no in juries, they said. Weather FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with. m few showers this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight and ; . Friday.' Low tonight 35. Huh Friday 35. . Temp. -Highest Yesterday . 43 Lowest this Morning 35 Prec. to 4:30 .m. Today -.i Price 5c No. 213 1 . j KufD Commission Said 'Stacked;' Solon Not Surprised Idaho Power Wins First Round in Fight Washington. U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse today attacked a Federal Power commission law yer's recommendation for pri vate development of Hells. Can yon water power, saying it fits in with i Eisenhower administra tion proposals for "a giveaway of the people's power resources to private combines." : The Oregon Independent said the FPC is "stacked" and he ex pressed no surprise at commis sion counsil John C. Mason's arguments that the Idaho Pow er Co., and not the federal gov ernment, handle power and wa ter development in the vast can yon on the Idaho-Oregon bord er. ' . , - " The power company a private. ly owned utility, won the first round in the , politically explo sive fight to see who will devel op the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake river when Mason filed his opinion yesterday. Commission To Decide Mason, who represented the commission in the year - long' Hells Canyon hearing before one of its examiners, submitted a 200-page legal brief recom mending a license for Idaho Pow er "to builcf three low dams in. the reach. He opposed a single, high, federally financed dam; ad vocated by the National Hells Canyon association, Inc., and other public power bodies. Idaho Power and the high dam advocates also filed briefs. Reply briefs are de Jan. 10 and a final brief by the power company on Jan. 31. Then hearing examiner Wil liam J. Costello must make a recommendation to the commis sion, and the commission itself must make a decision. Mason's views, the first formal endorse ment of the private project by a government official, undoubt edly will carry weight with both Costello and the commission. Congress May Act - Three Congresses already have kicked around the various pro posals for developing Hells Can yon, and the new Democratic controlled 84th Congress may do some more. , :" Mrs. Evelyn N. Cooper, rep resenting the high dam interests, said Idaho Power's plan would deprive the Pacific Northwest of "a block of power equivalent roughly to the output of ' the Bonneville Dam," and would jeopardize the comprehensive de velopment of the entire Colum bia River Basin, t She said the commission should ask Congress to author ize the. high dam. : ' - Idaho Power's brief agreed with Mason's findings. Widely Viewed as Test The Hells Canyon case has been widely viewed as a test of the Eisenhower administra tion's public power policy. Mr. Eisenhower has said repeatedly he favors more participation by local and private, groups in de veloping the n a t i o n's water power. Early in his adninistration Interior Secretary Douglas Mc Kay withdrew the Interior De partment's opposition during the Truman administration to the Idaho Power Company's applica tion. The long and heated FPC hearings on the case followed. Kerr Gifford Firm Announces Merger Portland 0J.R) Merger of Kerr Gifford and Company, pi oneer West Coast grain firm, with Cargill, Inc., of Minneapo lis, has been completed, accord ing to Thomas Kerr, president of Kerr Gifford. , Kerr said the Pacific Coast nnerations of both firms have been merged into the new Kerr Gifford division of cargm. Kerr becomes manager - of . the new division. " All Kerr Gifford capital stock was acauired by Cargill in June, 1S53. Watkins Declares Petitions Not To Influence Censure Public Opinion Not To Guide Conduct Washington (U.R)-- Sen. Ar thur V. Watkins (R-Utah) said today he is not paying any at tention to the battle of petitions for and against censure of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Watkins, chairman of the spe cial Senate committee which rec ommended the McCarthy cen sure, said he does . not intend to guide his conduct by public opinion in this "judicial" kind of proceeding. ' Senators should settle the Mc Carthy question, on the basis of "the facts and the law," he said in an interview., .' McCarthy was expected to hve his Thanksgiving turkey at the Naval hospital in nearby Bethesda, Md., where he has been confined with a bad elbow since last week. Mass Meetings Called - Hospital officials said he would get the special turkey-day dinner prepared for all patients. : From his hospital, bed, Mc Carthy sent a message yesterday to one of the groups whose peti tions Watkins said he is ignoring. McCarthy - praised the group, "Ten Million Americans," for planning a public demonstration in his behalf next Monday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. ' . ' "... "Ten Million Americans," un der directorship of Rear Adm. John B. Crommelin (ret.), has been- circulating petitions throughout the country, seeking 10,000,000 signatures of persons opposed to Senate censure of the Wisconsin Republican. It also has planned other mass meetings in Chicago and Los Angeles next Monday; night. New - Organizations A- v. S -'- Another .new organization, "Citizens Committee to Inquire Into the Personal Finances of United States . Senators," an nounced it is asking all senators to answer 57 questions about their finances "before a vote is taken on the McCarthy censure resolution." One of the McCarthy censure counts cites his failure to appear before a Senate Elections Sub committee investigating his af fairs in 1952. - Symington Sees ,lnadequafer Budget Washington U.R) - Se n. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) said today Air Force Secretary Har old E. Talbott has apparently admitted the present budget level for the air force is "inadequate." i Symington, former Air' Force Secretary under, the Truman ad ministration, based his assertion on a major speech by Talbott yesterday calling for a bigger Air Force to bolster the- Ameri can deterrent to World War III. Symington said he found it "an interesting talk, especially the apparent admission during the question period, that the rate of present appropriations is inadequate." . t Spreckles Released From California Jail , ., Santa Ana, Calif . U.PJ Mil lionaire Adolph Spreckles .- H got out of jail today five, days early and drove away in a long black limousine to a Thanksgiv ing dinner. ' Spreckels, convicted of beat ing his ex-wife, Kay Williams, was sentenced to, 30 days and began his term Nov. 1. He got five days off for good behavior. Jailer Clyde L. Gathright said the sugar fortune heir was a "model prisoner." i Oregon City Woman Found Dead in Home Oregon City U.R) Nellie May Fisher, 82, was found dead in her home here yesterday by an alert newsboy who noticed smoke coming out of the wo man's residence, ilc .' -. Clackamas county coroner Lester Peake said the woman apparently died of natural causes while lighting a fire in her oil stove. The fire, which produced a great deal of smoke. was confined to the stove. Algiers, Algeria U.R) French warplanes hit a terrorist supply base with 100-pound bombs in the first full scale air raid of the Algerian rebellion, French author itie. said today. BENT STEERING WHEEL, shattered windshield,' are mute evi , dence of terrific Impact when car driven by Iowa's Got. W. S. Beardsley crashed into rear of pickup truck near Des Moines. He j was killed instantly, wife was seriously injured. (Intbmatimal) s1 0,000,000 Program Announced by Copco : The' board of directors of Cal ifornia Oregon Power company has authorized a $10,000,000 construction program for 1955, it was announced today by A. S. Cummins, Copco president. Cummins said that $5,000,000 has been allocated for focal ad ditions and improvements, and $5,000,000 for hydro plant con struction. Of the amount budget ed for plants, $1,275,000 will be spent to complete Lemolo No. 1, planned for operation by mid 1955, . and $3,665,000, will be spent in building- Lemolo No. 2, which will be ready for service in late 1956. ' . ; Expansion Program The proposed , 1955 expendi tures represent part of an ex pansion program started by Copco in mid-1945, according to Cummins. This program so far has resulted in expenditures of some $94,000,000 for additional generating capacity and other service facilities. Six units : of the company's projects on the North Umpqua river have been completed and are now in operation. Lemolo No. 1 is the seventh, and Lemolo No. 2 will be the eighth and last. First unit to be completed Remington Death Probe Scheduled Lewisburg, Pa. U.PJ Auth orities made plans today for an extensive investigation behind the walls of Lewisburg Federal Prison to determine a. motive in the bludgeon slaying of William Walter Remington. ' ' Remington, a former $10,000- a-year government .. economist imprisoned for lying about his Communist associations, died yesterday, r two days after he was found dazed and bleeding in the cell he occupied as an honor prisoner.: Authorities said the fatal as sault on Remington may have been instigated through prisoner resentment over the scheduled release of Alger Hiss from the same prison on Saturday. Norman H. McCabe, . special agent in charge of the Philadel phia FBI office identified the al leged killers as George Junior McCoy, 34, of Grundy, .Va., and Robert Carl, Parker, 21, of Wash ington, D.C. ' t 1 Liberace Breaks With Night Club Girl Hollywood U.R) Liberace, who recently 1 professed his . af fections for night club show girl Joanne Rio, has stopped seeing her because ; of a , newspaper article she "wrote" on their ro mance, the attractive brunette said today. - - : - - v The "tell all" article, a three- part series whieh appeared in a Los Angeles newspaper several weeks ago, "embarrassed" the curly-haired piano player, she said. But, - Miss Rio said both Liberace and his agent had ap proved the story before it 'was printed.' .V '-' 'VV': Hospital Patients Get Holiday Feed ' Patients at the Medford hos pitals were served Thanksgiv ing day dinners of turkey and other traditional dishes for the day.- r ; ;-.. . The Gideons furnished Sa-' ered Heart, Community and Osteopathic hospitals with , place cards with an appropri ate quotation, for each of the patient's trays. ' At Community hospital fa vors for each tray were fur nished through . the hospital auxiliary project and youth work chairman. Devotions were held at 8, a.m. at Sacred Heart hospital and benediction will be held at 3 j o'clock this afternoon. Tray covers and napkins in the Thanksgiving day theme ' were used for patients at that hofpital, . , was Toketee, finished and plac ed in operation in March, 1950. It is located near a falls on the North Uumqua river, and the en tire complex of units takes its name from this falls. Toketee was followed by Slide creek, in July, 1951; Soda springs, in March, 1952, Fish creek in June, 1952; Clearwater No. 1, in June, 1953, and Clearwater No. 2, in November, 1953. For Dr. J.C. Hays Funeral arrangements are pending at Perl' Funeral home for Dr. James C. Hays, 72, who died about noon Wednesday at his home near Eagle Point. : ' He was born Feb. 7, 1882, at Shell City, Mo., and was gradu ated in 1904 from the University of Oregon medical school. Earlier this spring he was one of six doctors who were honored - at the school for 50 years pf prac tice: 1,- . . ' . -- Dr. Hays practiced in Portland from the time he was graduated until 1919 when he moved to Medford and practiced here un til several years ago when he re tired. He was president of - the Oregon State . Medical society for 1947. . . In addition to his widow, May, he is survived by three sons, Raymond and J a m e s, of the Rogue valley, and Robert, Sacra mento, .Calif.; and four daugh ters, Miss Mary Hays, at home, Mrs, William Ehrman, Mrs. George Smith and Mrs. Ralph Bockmier, all of Portland. A sis ter, Mrs. J. K. Pratt, Eugene, also survives. Perori's Drive on Clergymen Backed Buenos Aires. Areentura flJ.PJ P r o-government organizations called a mass meeting today 'to support President Juan D. Pe ron's drive against Roman Catho lic clergymen accused of med dling in political and labor affairs. . : - The call came as police1 an nounced that the Rev. Rodolfo Carboni has been sentenced to a 30-day jail term for preaching a sermon wnicn criticized re- ron's regime. .. Police arrested the Reverend Carboni three days ago after it was reported he contrasted Nazi persecution of German Catholic to present conditions in Argen tina. ; '': p Father Carboni'. reading of a oapal encyclical on Nazi per secutions and his subsequent comments on the Peron govern ment were said to have caused a ' disturbance in which three women were hurt. Ten GermansKilled When Struck by Train ' Baden-Baden, Germany (U.R) Ten . railway ; workers were killed near .here today when a passenger train ran -them down as they were filing to work in a heavy' fog. - Two other workers in the group jumped aside at the last moment and , were unhurt. : Services Pending 3,000,000 Servicemen Feast Royally on Turkey Washington CJ.R) . Some 3,000,000 servicemen feasted royally today on dinners built around .the traditional turkey, but for most there was no pump kin pie. Just mince. Unification .came unstuck at the dessert line. The Army and Air Force followed the Penta gon's "master menu," striking pumpkin pie and: giving the troops just mince pie and ice cream. : ' ' The Navy let its commanders decide what holiday pie to serve and at last count had prepared ing Plan To Present Matter Before UN Several Possibilities Claimed Under Study Washmgton-(U.R) The Unit- ed States today considered ap- ; experts Muoy pealing to Russia for help to win . the release of 13 Americans im-' prisoned by Red China onr "trumped-up spy charges. ' Experts also were studying a - move to place the matter before the United Nations. Several Possibilities The two courses of action were - among several possibilities under study at the State Department snuh of Franklin C. (Viwpn. thm American consul general in; Geneva. The Chinese Commu- L nist representative refused to " meet Gowen immediately Wed nesday. , , - . Gowen had demanded a meet- ing with the Red official on. neutral ground to deliver a blis- tering protest again Red China's ; "tir r n n a 9 ,1 1 foAvi4-f 11 - American airmen and two civil- -ian employees of the Army. Pel- ping said Tuesday that the 13 had been sentenced to terms ; ranging from four years to life ' for espionage activities in Com-:' munist China. - Men Shot Down, U. S. Says , . f The united States claimed the ! airmen were shot down during ; u rr - rea but never were repatriated and that the two civilians, both emolovees of the Armv. had Kosn oeiieved lost at sea. The United Press in Tokyo ' loo nA4 fliat ;..:is ..u uia, uic L W LI VVJIItlllii John T. Downey, 24, and Richard ? G. Fecteau, 27 were hitch-hik-i : ers aboard an airplane which dis-' appeared two years ago between ' ' ' Japan and Korea. A U.S. .Far East Air Force spokesman - at Tokyo, said Downev and Fecteau boarded a x Civil Air Transport plane leas- : ed bv the. Air Force at Seoul.' The plane never was heard from after it crossed? the Korean east; coast. Attempt at Justification The Chinese Communists, in a flimsy attempt to justify im prisonment of the Americans, saia the laal , mutual security V.i11 z : j x it was designed "to organize sabo- -tage and subversion." ' WednesHav the R) fhl-na dio said it had either killed or imprisoned 212 Nationalist Chin- ese and 18 Americans since 1951 on charges of A spying for the United States. The 18 included the 13 sentenced to prison terms plus five who had been killed. Angry Outbursts ' , ' - The broadcast touched off angry outbursts from congress men. Sen. Milton R. Young (R- N.D.) suggested the possibility of blockading - Red China and sinking a few of their-ships." "The action by the Chinese Communist nation is one of the most damnable, contemptible and provocating thing's that has happened in recent . years," he said. Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D-Mass.) urged the State Department to warn Red China that National ist Chinese forces will be strengthened and unleashed for attajeks on the Communist main- . land unless the 13 Americans are released. - : ' "Voice" Takes Up Theme - The Voice of America picked up the theme and told its audi-; ences on both sides 'of the Iron Curtain a "wave of indignation and anger is sweeping America" , as a result of the Communist action. ; The State Department mean time declined to say what it would do if it failed to win . speedy action from the Red Chinese representatives : in Geneva. -y . Home Damaged by Blaze Wednesday A fire which originated in tne kitchen and extended to the back porch resulted smoke and heat damage throughout tne tinuce at the L. B. Nelson resi dence, 1720 Prune st. last night. ;ama i ' maiA tio4- V . - - started from a coffee not which was left on and which ignited a table, two trucKs were dis patched and firemen were called about 10:40 o'clock. . j 44,000 mince and 39,000 pump kin. The Marines had both. Statistics attested to the cele bration under way at military posts at home and abroad. The Navy dispensed 14 freight car loads of turkey, 25 tons ; of shrimp, 100 tons of'potatoes. The Air Force stuffed 600,000 pounds of turkey with 150,000 pounds of oyster dressing and,: gave its airmen 112,500 mince pies and 30,000 gallons of coffee to top off the repast. The Army, staid old senior service, toted up no figures.: