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Flaming Cross Found in Yard Los Angeles (U.R) A sev en foot high cross was erected and burned on the front lawn of meat dealer Nelson N. Soil, 44, who offered to help a Negro facing execution in Louisiana. Soli, father of three children, reported to police that the cross, made from two inch lumber, flamed in front of his house early yesterday morning. Soil volunteered to help fi nance legal aid Saturday for- a former Los Angeles resident, Al ton Clifton Poret, who adver tised in a local newspaper that he was condemned to die in the Southern state for a rape offense he did not commit. The classified advertisement placed by the 28-year-old pris oner last Thursday read: "I am without funds to fight for my life. I swear I am not guilty. Won't someone please help me?" Soli said he wired Poret at Parrish Prison, New Orleans, that he could help and to send him the history of the case im mediately. He has not received an answer yet, Soli said. Defeated Candidate May Protest Vote Washington U.R) Demo cratic Rep. Samuel W. Yorty has charged that he lost his Sen ate race to Sen. Thomas H. Ku chel (R.-Calif.) because of "de ception" and warned that his election "may" be protested., Yorty said last night that the Democratic organization in Cali fornia may protest the seating of Kuchel in the 84th Congress. If made, he said, the protest would be based on letters circu lated to Democrats that were "designed to give the mislead ing impression they came from the official Democratic organiza tion and that the organization was supporting Kuchel." "There is no doubt," Yorty said, "that enough Democrats were fooled by this deception to affect the election result. Kuchel defeated Yorty by some 275,000 votes. Any protest has to be made to the Senate it self. ' Yorty in a statement also criti cized Kuchel for voting against the condemnation of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.). Services Tuesday For Mabel Roberts Ashland ' Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Dec 7, at 3 p.m., at the Litwiller Mountain View chapel at Ashland for Mabel Anita Roberts, who lived in Ashland for 38 years. Inter ment will be in the Hargardine cemetery at Ashland and the Rev. Jim Jondrow will officiate. Pall bearers will be members of the Knights of Pythias lodge from Medford. Mrs. Roberts was the widow of L. A. Roberts, Ashland attorney and justice of the peace for sev eral years. He died in 1940. Survivors include a daughter, Rowena Myers, Ashland. Mrs. Roberts was a member of the Ashland Presbyterian church; Medford Pythian Sisters; Eastern Star; Rebekahs; Neighbors of Woodcraft; Women's -Relief corps; Daughters of Union Vet erans and Women's Civic club, Ashland. She came to Oregon in 1891 from Iowa and was married to Mr. Roberts in 1892. They moved to Ashland from Myrtle Point. Two Auio Accidents Reported in County Two one-car accidents were reported in the Medford-Ashland area yesterday and this morning, . and slick pavement apparently was responsible for both, accord ing to state police. The first mishap, reported at about 6:25 p.m. Sunday, involved a car driven by Rex Merle Cog gins, Dark Hollow. Coggins' car went out of control on Phoenix Jacksonville highway and over turned after going over an em bankment. He received minor in juries, police said. - Early today a car operated by Noble Day, Phoenix, went out of control after hitting slick pavement at the foot of Billings hilL north of Ashland, on High way 99. The car went over an embankment, but Day was not injured, according to investigat ing officers' reports. Livestock Production Increase Seen Possible Lincoln, Neb. U.R) Forest Service researchers in the U. S. Department of Agriculture say scientific management may increase-livestock production on the 950,000,000 acres of range land in the nation. The experts say that by reduc ing competing plants and then seeding at the proper rate and depth, ranges now dense in sage brush can be made to yield 10 to 20 times more forage. They also found that moderate grazing produced an average in come per section of $1,238, or $255 more than obtained under heavy grazing. r 1 gr i LATEST PICTURES OF POPE PIUS XII, made when he returned to Vatican from summer pal ace at Castel Gandolfo indicate weakened condition due to recurrence of hiccoughs and gastritis from which he suffered last year. He is confined to bed on orders of physicians. (International) Emergency Ferry Spans Snake River Nyssa (U.R) An emergency ferry service is being operated across the Snake river here by Nyssa merchants today following collapse of the interstate bridge between Oregon and Idaho. One section of the 170-foot bridge collapsed Saturday under an unloaded logging truck. The truck and its driver reached safe ty. The ferry service, operated without toll, was set up to ac commodate Idaho residents working at the huge Amalga mated Sugar company plant at Nyssa, and at other Oregon firms. Some 300 passengers were car ried by the 10-passenger ferry Saturday afternoon and evening. and it is expected to handle 600 persons a day until a temporary bridge span is completed. Oregon and Idaho highway of ficials, at an emergency meet ing here yesterday, said a tem porary span would be ready for use Friday. A new bridge is planned for next spring. Postmaster Asks Bundling of Cards Slips designed to aid handling of Christmas mail were sent to day to all patrons of the Medford post office, according to Post master Moore Hamilton. The slips read "The cards in this bundle are all for out of town delivery,'" and "The cards in this bundle are all for local delivery." Hamilton " asked that those sending Christmas cards bundle them according to local or out of town delivery and attach the proper slips to the bundles. Either string or rubber bands may be used to tie the cards to gether, as long as the bundle is secure, Hamilton said. If the bundles are too large for the regular letter boxes, they may be placed in the package drops, the postmaster stated. He pointed out that bundling the cards together with the proper slips "will greatly cut clerical work and costs." Additional slips may be ob tained at the post office or at local print shops and stores sell ing greeting cards. 'Bronchitis' Turns - Out to be Hardware Tokyo (U.R) Eight-month-old Kunio Shitae's mother said today she look her baby to a doctor recently when ho developed complications fol lowing an attack of bronchitis. Surgeons extracted 230 nails, screws and fish hooks from Kunio's tiny stomach in an hours-long operation. THRU-EXPRESS SEBVKE to . OS This is what you pay... -K K -c "Jc PLUS J 1 FEDERAL TAX from Medford Return Trip 20 LESS... on Round-Trip Tickets! J. A. Tomjack Agent 212 N. rmzo V (cir wa o uw SCIENCE AT WORK New York (U.R) According to Edmund Bergler, M.D., one way for the scientist to make enemies is to "explain anything that has been taken for granted." By "anything" he referred generally to human develop ment and specifically to the phe nomenon of artistic creative ness. Regarding the former, he quoted the German dramatist, G. E. Lessing, that "the great est miracle" is that "true and genuine miracles appear to us banal, every-day occurrences." "The miracle of individual human development is a case in point," he said. "We see the baby; a score of years later we look at the man, observe that he has become an adult, and as sume that he has 'developed,' taking the miraculous process quite for granted. There is a psy chological enigma here; how did the transition from passive, parasitic baby to active, provid ing man occur?" This, certainly, is an enigma worthy of scientific exploration, yet "explaining the 'self -explanatory' arouses resentment and uneasiness,' ne continued. " 'Aren't there enough riddles in life' the scientist is asked fret fully. 'Why make a mystery where there is no mystery by questioning the self -apparent" Psychoanalysis ' His point was two-headed. From parasitic baby to active, providing man hardly is a pro cess that is in any way self-apparent. Yet the one science which explains its intracacies and complexities that science being psychoanalysis. arouses more hostility than any other. Why it does is much more than an innate hostility to "ex plaining the self-explanatory," or, rather, there are cogent and hidden reasons in the minds of all of us for insisting that some mysterious and strange pheno mena are neither mysterious nor strange and so need no explain ing. ;- And this brings us to Dr. Bergt ler's specificity the phenome non of artistic creativeness. That it is a phenomenon has always been recognized - Dr. Bergler quoted Plato, "poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand." How did Shakespeare know more about man than most men have known before or since? He was neither scientist nor' schol ar but a poet. By "poet" Dr. Bergler meant the artistic crea tor unknowingly making use of mind-materials which we usual ly call "intuition" or "inspira tion." ' Book Re-issued These mind-materials can be defined, and the definitions are part of the meat of Dr. Bergler's book, "The Writer-and Psycho analysis" which . was first pub lished in 1950, went out of print quickly, but it is now being re published in a second edition. Medically Dr. Bergler finds creative writers tobe persons who have fourid "self-cures" for This is what you get... Choice of 4 daily Thru-Express Schedules.to Los Angeles Straight-Through trove!... No change of bus or baggage Choice of Routes ... Go one way, return another - Air Suspension Ride ' Scenery at its best - Bartlett Phone 2-2202 a. Hi' asr.. specific neurotic illness when the self -cures no longer work, the illness becomes active and its syndrome is "the writer's block." But his book has much j wider value it is one of the clearest existing expositions of the geography of the human mind. The emphasis is on the dynamics of the unconscious segments which influence the conscious even in the healthiest of minds. Dr. Bergler Is a psychiatrist and, of course, a psychoanalyist. His scientific standing is of the highest although, as he himself states plainly, some of his prem ises are not accepted by all his colleagues. The layman mis understands the controversies of psychoanalysis. They exist be cause it is a new science and many of its values are far from being fixed. But controversies do not destroy basic truths, since truth is indestructible. The basic truth of psychoanalysis is that there is an unconscious mind in all of us, and it is actively at work all the time for good or ill. TED MAY BE BACK New York '(U.R) Ted Wil liams is a good bet to be back with the Red Sox in 1955, Boston boss Tom Yawkey said today. The 36-year old Williams said he was "all through with base ball" when the season ended three months ago but Red Sox officials are making plans to have him back in the Boston out field next season.. "When the time comes, Ted will be sent a contract along with the rest of our players," Yawkey, here for the major league meetings, said Sunday night. DlSffilliOfllS- Sheppard's Brother Due Back on Stand Cleveland XU.R) Dr. Stephen A. Sheppard, the glib member of the Sheppard family, goes back to the stand toCay in his self appointed role of his brother's keeper for a rapping cross-examination of his activities when the brother's wife was mur dered. Dr. Stephen was under fire by Thomas J. Parrino, the assistant prosecutor who already has drawn from him the admission that he testified to something that was "not true." . . The trial of Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, 30, for the murder of his wife, Marilyn, 31, entered its eighth week with the first defense witness, Dr. Stephen, 34, still on the stand. It was his third day as a witness and he was expected to be at it until late today, when his wife, Betty, may be called. Innocent Pleas Made On Contempt Charges Portland (U.R) Three Port land men pleaded innocent in federal district court here Sat urday to charges of contempt of Congress. They were Donald M. "Wol lam, John R. McKenzie and Her bert Simpson. All are accused of refusing to answer certain ques tions put to them at a House Un-American Activities subcom mittee hearing here last June. The three refused to testify on constitutional grounds that to do so would tend to incrimmin ate them. Judge George Boldt, Tacoma, who is presiding in the cases, set Jan. 17 as trial date. Defense attorneys were given 20 days to file motions in regard to the in dictments. Strike-Bound Ship May Carry Yule Trees San Francisco (U.R) Mat son Line officials will tell strik ing CIO radio operators today whether the company will take up a union offer to sail a "Christ mas tree ship" to Hawaii. The American Radio associa tion offered yesterday to put a radio operator aboard the Haw aiian Packer, thereby letting it sail to Hawaii with 100,000 Christmas trees aboard. The offer was in response to a plea from territorial Gov. i . - , " ' .'---.''. ' v -,-.-.'.. T ' ' . - '. "' to drive America's most advanced NEW CAR Every dozen years or so it happens; a hew car is introduced that is really a head-turner. To see it is to want it at any cost to own it is to fulfill an ambition. ' 1955 Mercury is such a car. For years the country's top auto engineers, designers and decorators have been testing new ideas. Ways to lower a car inches without sacrificing comfort and readability. Bold techniques with full-length fender lines, full-scope windshields and dramatic head lamp hoods. 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He promised that politi cal barrages would be leveled at the Republican President and not just his party. "It has been apparent month-by-month that the Eisenhower administration and the Republi can Party have lacked the cap acity to lead, and unite the Am erican people and it will become more apparent in the next 24 months," he said. To Voice Differences "We shall speak out frankly where we differ but will support him (Eisenhower) openly and most enthusiastically when we agree." Butler, who was elected Sat urday to succeed retiring Chair men Stephen A. Mitchell, also told a press conference Sunday that the doors : were open for southern Democrats who bolted the party in 1952. Chief among the bolters were Govs. Robert F. Kennon, of Louisiana; Allan Shivers of Texas and James F. Byrnes of South Carolina. " Butler said he was pleased that the national committee which met here this week end ditched the controversial loyalty pledge that split the party in 1952. An expected fight between the north and south factions of the party did not develop after the rules advisory committee said no one should be required to make a pledge of loyalty. Even Sen. Hubert Humphrey Samuel Wilder King, who also asked the union to release the Hawaiian Craftsman. The union has made no decision on the Craftsman. . IT'S 1955 MOTORS mm (D-Minn.), one of the - sponsors of the 1952 loyalty pledge, came out against any similar oath for the 1956 party convention. Names Issues Butler said the proper solu tion of issues was more impor tant for elections than party or ganization and party know-how. Those issues, he said, were the Dixon - Yates power deal and the purported firing of thous ands of government workers for security reasons. .' The incoming chairman, who is a friend of 1952 presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, said he planned an early conference with former President Truman at Mr. Truman's convenience.. 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