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owe WDOHS Flames CSaze Six .Califoraija FactooesWairelJ' 'sis Homes Threatened As High Winds Fan $2,500,000 Blaze Four Firemen Injured; Glow Seen for 35 Miles FuUerton, Calif. (U.R) Fire, fanned by high winds, swept through six factories and ware houses in a two-block area early today and caused en estimated $2,500,000 damage. Four firemen were injured fighting the flames. In addition to the six business structures destroyed, a half dozen private homes were threatened by the fire which broke out only a block from the main Fullerton shop ping area. Glow Seen 35 Miles Away Firemen from eight neighbor ing communities helped battle the fire. Its glow was visible for 35 miles. The fire broke put shortly be fore dawn at the American Fruit Growers' packing plant. Winds spread the flames quickly. They jumped to a garment factory, . from there to a soft water com pany and then to the Eadington Citrus Co., which packs "Minute ' Maid" and "Real Gold" orange juice concentrates. Also hit by the fire was a cold storage com pany warehouse. Area Roped Off Authorities roped off an eight block area, which was endanger ed by falling debris from the razed buildings. The injured firemen were Dave Smith, assistant fire chief of Fullerton; C. E. Heard, .Santa Ana; Charles Day, Fullerton, and James Farrell, state Division of Forestry. Temperature Drops To Two-Year Low ' The Medford vicinity this morning experienced its cold est temperature in more than two years but a warmer, trend was foreseen for tomorrow. ' The reading at the weather station at the Medford airport was 16 degrees above, zero. That was the coldest since a 15 de gree temperature on Nov. 28, 1952. Today's low was reached around sunrise at a little after 7:30 a.m. Temperature dropped to 17 between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m., rose to 20 around 5:30 a.m. then dropped again, the weather bur eau reported. Slightly warmer temperatures are foreseen for tonight and Thursday with a low reading of 22 to 25 predicted. Considerable high cloudiness forecast for to night is expected to thicken and lower tomorrow. Eisenhower's Former Math Teacher Dies . , Norristown, Pa. (U.R) Fun eral services will be held itomor row for Mrs. Elinor Seymour Perry, 80, a former teacher who taught mathematics to President Eisenhower in summer school at Abilene, Kan. . Mrs. Perry, a native of Chica go, died at her home in Perkion menville Saturday. Boy Admits Burglary While On Leave From State School State and city police were checking today on a Medford burglary and a larceny on High way 99 south that occurred over the week enjd. A 15-year-old Medford boy ad mitted to city police yesterday that he burglarized a residence at 815 Pine st. of clothing items Saturday evening. He said he entered the resi dence of Ida M. Bryant and took a small suitcase which he filled with seven dresses, five blouses and one small doll, all valued at not over $25. Admits Entry Earlier, the youth, accom panied by his mother, appeared . at the police station and admit ted an illegal entry in the resi dence at 330 Edwards st., from which nothing was reported missing. The mother reported that the boy was on vacation from MacLaren Training school for Boys at Woodburn. . State rjolice arrested two men yesterday and booked them in the county jail on a charge of larceny. The charge involved theft of candy from macnines and tools from the Kogap Lum ber company early Sunday. The men, described as transients, were Luther Clayton Baker, 57, formerly of Shelby, Mont., and Frederick Joseph Nettekoven, 43, no address. A specific charge will be filed against them in dis trict court later, state police said. Plans Investigation In other criminal matters, Dis trict Attorney Walter Nunley Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 49th Year 12 Pages McCarthy Presses Two-Prong Attack On China Policy Washington U.R) Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy (R - Wis.) pressed a two-pronged attack to day against the administration's policy toward Red China. In his first public statement since breaking with the adminis tration Dec. 7, McCarthy: 1. Renewed his demand that U. S. aid to nations which trade with Red China be. cut off and said he will do a "lot of public speaking" to win support on this point. 2. Called on the administra tion to give Chiang Kai-shek a free hand in attacking the "soft underbelly" of the China mainland. Nationalists Need Action McCarthy said Chiang's Na tionalist forces will "wither on the vine" if they are not allow ed to see action in assaulting the mainland. He said such an attack would have good chance of success without American manpower. "I thought it was wrong un der the Truman administration and I think it's still wrong," he said. "I don't think the change in administration has changed the morals of the situation." Referring to the 11 U.S. air men jailed by Red China on spy charges McCarthy said, "The question is whether we have the same duty to our uniformed men as they owe to their country. If so, we should not be supply ing the economic sinews of war to their captors." ' Britain 'Chief Offenders' McCarthy said that while he had no statistics at hand," Brit ain is the "chief offender" in trading with Red China. He add ed, however, that . there also were other "major offenders." He did not identify them. McCarthy attributed the al leged recent increase in ship ments to Red China to an agree ment reached with Britain and France last summer by Foreign Operations Administrator Har old E. Stassen. It provided for the removal of certain goods from the strategic list. Effect Being Felt McCarthy said that while the agreement had been in operation for some months, the, "real ef fect is being felt now Natur ally, I feel very strongly about He said the Battle Act, intend ed to penalize countries which ship behind the Iron Curtain, is being administered "veryt very badly." The act provides for a cut-off of U.S. aid to such na tions unless the President deems a continuation of aid in the na tional interest. said today that Lyle Vernon Doty, 16, of 1125 Maple Park dr., would not appear today in court on a charge of assault and robbery while armed with a tiangerous weapon. Nunley rer ported he would investigate the case further, before continuing court action. " The youth was arraigned Fri day. The charge involves hold ing up Wallace Stearns, Grants Pass merchant, and taking his delivery truck at gunpoint. Doty is in jail in lieu of $7,500 bail. On Friday, David E. DeLong, 35, of 227 Meade st., Ashland, was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of assault while armed with a dangerous weapon, according to ' district court records. He1 was committed in lieu of $5,000 bail. Waived Counsel DeLong had appeared on Wednesday and vas given until Friday to obtain counsel, which he waived Friday. - He is al leged to have committed an as sault on Albert Baker with a whip while a pistol was in his ( possession. The complaint was signed by Herbert Hays, acting Ashland police chief. Alex James Heagle, 36, Cot tage Grove, charged with obtain ing money under false pretenses, was arraigned Friday on the charge and was given further time today to consult with an at torney before further appear ance. He is alleged to have cashed a $35 check at the. Tri angle market, Phoenix, on Dec. 3, without funds in the bank. Bail on the charge is $1,000. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1954 LITTLE THE WORSE FOR after "covered wagon" trip Riggle, who sits with wife. Formal Opening of New First National Building Jan. 10 Formal opening of the new building for the Medford Branch of the First National Bank of Portland has been set for Mon day, Jan. 10, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., it .was announced today. The, new . $500,000 building, now-neafing completion, is lo cated .on. Alain s.t..-at-Eronti1&t a half block west of the old bank building. The new structure is more than three times the size of ' the '.' present branch bank quarters in Medford, and in corporates modern banking features. . Features Listed These . features include two drive-in banking windows, a large parking lot at the rear of the building, additional tellers windows, more safe deposit boxes in a larger cault and mod ern rift oak fixtures throughout. Plans for the all-day open house , include flowers for wo men visitors, and refreshments' for all guests. Organ music will be played from the lobby of the bank by Mark A. Green, organ ist at Rogue Valley - Country club. , . The new building is of rein forced concrete construction, finished in Roman brick veneer and dark granite. It was con structed by Reimers and Joli vette, Portland contractors, and plans were prepared by Church, Newberry, and Roehr. President Sets Date To Submit Budget Augusta, Ga. tfJ.R) President Eisenhower decided today to submit his new budget to Con gress Jan. 17. He will send his report on the national economy to the House and Senate Jan. 20. i As these decisions were made the President kept close touch with the' voting today in the French Camber of Deputies. He talked by telephone with Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles. The chief executive spent most of the morning in . conference with Dr. Gabriel Hauge, his per sonal economic adviser, and Dr. Arthur F. Burns, chairman of the Council of Economic Advis ers. liny Li pari Islands Shaken by Earthquake, - Messina, Sicily . u.R) A sustained and violent earthquake rocked the tiny Lipari Islands off the north coast of Sicily to day, collapsing , houses and spreading panic among the pov erty ridden inhabitants. First reports said at least 20 islanders - were injured and scores of. Bouses partially de stroyed.' ' DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York . (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 393.88 off 3.27: 20 railroads 143.84 off 0.92; 15 util ities Bl.37 off 0.14, and 65 stocks 147.03 off .98. Sales today were about ; 2,970,000 shares ' com pared with 3,310,000 shares Thursday. Qi' WEAR, these Ohio State fans arrive in Pasadena for Rose Bowl game from Columbus in. 35-year-old Model T Ford. Driver is C. Malcolm Passengers are J. Alfred Shuman and Mrs. Shuman. ; (International) weeK end Claim Seven Lives On Oregon By UNITED PRESS At least seven persons were killed in Oregon in highway ac cidents, during the, Christmas holiday week end and one died m a triffic mishap in. southeast ern. Washington. - ' ' Icy pavements -were blamed. for six of the Oregon fatalities, including four persons who died when their automobile plunged down a 800-foet canyon in the Hart : mountain wildlife refuge in Lake county. . . . The victims in Oregon's worst single ' holiday tragedy were identified by Lake county Cor oner Leverett Osterman : as Jerry Barry . Sr., : 59, a Plush rancher; Mrs. Charlotte Reich ert, 48, Lakeview; Mrs. Gene Miller, French Glen, and Mrs. Miriam Colford, 42, Burns. Bodies Found r Sunday The party had left Barry's ranch .Christmas morning for a drive which ended when their car skidded - on - the ice-glazed road and plunged down the can yon about 55' miles from Lake- view. The bodies and the de molished automobile were not found until Sunday, aftern6on by Norman Minnick, an em ployee of the refuge. Howard Lionel Magness; 24, Newberg, died about 3 a.m. Sun day when his car skidded into a power pole on- Highway 99-W about a half mile .west of Six Corners. The pole , was severed and service to some customers in the area was interrupted for a time. . Mrs. Grace Evans, 45, Tier nan, was drowned Christmas morning when her automobile skidded off the road and plunged into the"' Siuslaw river about 11 miles east of Florence. Her body was recovered Sun day. .... ' Clarence A. Eakln, 59, of Bridgeport, Wash., was drown ed and his wife injured when their car skidded ' off the Pa cific highway clown a 100-foot bank -and into a drainage ditch in north Kelso. Mrs. Eakin was taken to Cowlitz General hos- Codf Weather Delays Annex Concrete Work Freezing weather,. was delay ing pouring of concrete for the floors of the new courthouse an; nex today, according c to ' the building inspector. The floor slabs, which are rel atively thin compared to other concrete work, cannot be pour ed in freezing weather because of cracking danger. I Steel workers were busy to day completing stud wall work. Weather FORECAST: Considerable high cloudiness tonight, thickening and lowering Tuesday; Slight-. . ly: warmer.-. Low tonight 22-i 25. High Tuesday 42. - , Temp. Highest yesterday 39 Lowest this morning 16 NE -if ed Wire No. 240 acci Highways pital in Longview where at tendants said she suffered from shock and a broken arm. The Eakins formerly lived in Salem. : A pedestrian, Loren M.. Mor gan, 68, Portland,, was . .killed early ChristnwsaySwhehe Was struck by ahaOTnobile'ih an area. - yr; '- Onetime County Jailer Convicted Mario J. Martina, a former Jackson county jailer, has been convicted of second degree mur der in the hotel room slaying of Florence Hopkins, 75, in S a n Francisco on Sept. 1, Sheriff Howard Gault has been inform ed here. " ; Martina was employed as jail er here for three months ' in 1948. , r-. . ',-, The sheriff's office here furn ished handwriting specimens and other information on Martina's identity and description. : These efforts provided the first leads which resulted in. Martina being picked up in the case, Gault re ported. .Gault's . office alsb did considerable . investigation in this area - on ,the man's - back ground, . ; . Thomas C. Lynch, district at: torney for San Francisco county and city,' notified Gault of the conviction."" cw-i-- Winnie Said Planning To Call oil Eisenhower ll Washington U.R) Uncon firmed reports circulated in dip lomatic quarters here today that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is ; contemplating a visit to Washington next month. A State Department v spokes man said the; department had "no information whatever" to support the report. A In London, a British govern ment spokesman also denied knowledge of any Churchill plan to visit the United States:1 The report circulated here said that Churchill, had talked to President Eisenhower, at Au gusta, . Ga., ' via transatlantic telephone, about the possibility of coming to the White House in January. End of Dalles UAL Slop Recommended Washington (U.R) Civil Aeronautics Board Examiner Thomas L. Wrennr today rec ommended that United Air Lines be permitted to drop The Dalles, Ore., from its schedule. i . V ; United requested this because it said there were not enough passengers to and from The Dalles and little prospect of more. " i Wrenn's recommendation auto matically becomes an order if not appealed in 10 days.. - - 1 A dents 370 Dead Counted In Traffic Mishaps On Nation's Roads Death Toll Matches Pre-Holiday Estimate By UNITED PRESS ' Traffic accidents during the Christmas week end brought death to 380 persons, exceed ing the prediction of safety experts and hitting a new record high v for a two-day Christmas period, a final count showed today. By UNITED PRESS The number of dead in Christ mas week end traffic accidents hit 370 today, exactly matching the pre-holiday estimate of safe ty experts. With reports- of deaths still coming in, a United Press tabu lation showed that 370 persons died in highway crashes during the period from 6 p. m. Friday to midnight Sunday. - Fires Claim 51 - Fifty-one others died in fires, two in airplane mishaps and 44 in miscellaneous types of acci dents to give the nation an over all total of 467 accidental deaths. California renorted 35 fatal. ities in traffic, Texas 31, Illinois and Pennsylvania 22 apiece, Ohio 20, Michigan and New York 19, and Florida and North Carolina 15 apiece. - Safety Council President Ned H. Dearborn said his organiza tion "got a Christmas , present it didn't want when, the nation's drivers and pedestrians proved the council's pre-holiday esti mate or. avu tratfic deaths so tragically accurate." - Bloody Celebration '"This is a bloody way to cele brate a , holidav dedicated in peace on earth, good will to- wara men, . ne said. "We can only hope that the shock of this toll will result in greater care,, courtesy and com mon . sense in : traffic over the New Year's holiday." The traffic toll recorded to day was the worst on record for a two-day Christmas week end since the council began keeping records after : World. War H. . More. Automobile - . However. a council spokesman pointed out that ' the previous mark v df;..286 was set , in 1948 when : the post-war automobile fewer cars on highways and streets. ' .;. . : v-' - Few parts of the nation had a white . Christmas, and the gen erally . mild ' weather -hplrWJ crowd Jhe. highways with holi day . travelers. . Temperatures Frigid: East of Cascades : . Portland (U.R) It was cold in western Oregon last night, but it was frigid in eastern Ore- gon. 'y:---.-,-v- Coldest temperatures of the season so far were recorded east of ;the Cascades with Baker lead ing the iceberg parade with 12 degrees below zero. It was one below at Burns, 4 above at Klam ath Falls, 5 at Bend and 7 at Redmond and Ontario. -Lows of 10 below zero: were forecast for tonight in some high valleys. v In western Oregon the ther mometer dropped to 16 above at Medford, .27 at Eugene and 28 at Salem. It was 32 in down town Portland. . . ' " ; 'j Forecasters said the weather wbuld moderate in western Ore gon as a new Pacific storm moves toward the state. Many Millions! Realized From Oil Land Leases, Secretary McKay Says Salem (U.R) The federal government already has realiz ed many millions of dollars from the lease of submerged oil lands and it stands to realize billions as it collects royalties and rent als from the private compan ies doing the drilling, Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay said today. , . ; .He told the Salem Chamber of Commerce .that- the first block of tracts for drilling off the coast of Louisiana last October at tracted bids from most of the major oil companies and from several individuals,-, and netted theV federal - government more than $121,000,000. A public sale in November-for a limited num ber of tracts off Texas netted another $23,000,000. " Drilling .Rights McKay stressed that $144,000, 000 was paid for drilling rights only Under the' law, the lease holders will also pay into the federal treasury ' annual rentals and royalties for any oil or gas which they take from the tracts. The areas leased, McKay, said, comprise only three per cent of the area mapped as potentially oil bearing, "so for drilling rights' alone the federal govern ment .will likely; receive,; more thaa a billion dollars." The law provides for a royalty Six-Year-old Gets No. I Bike License Six-year-old, Ralph T. Fuget, 914 Loiier lane, was the "lucky winner" today when he drew the No. 1 Medford bicycle license for 1955. - The annual drawing for thai first 100 bicycle licence num bers was held this morning with youngsters hoping for the prised numbers of one, 50 or 100, police reported. - Carole Jane Norwood, 1620 East Jackson sr., drew No. 50 and No. 100 was drawn this; morning but not picked up yet' by the small boy. Only about half of the first 100 numbers were drawn by 10:30 a.m., of ficials added. Police expect at least as many licenses to be issued in 1955 as last year's 2.108. Frank J. Newman Dies; Was Former District Attorney Frank J. Newman, 80, of Mer riman rd., who was Jackson county district attorney from 1936 through 1940 and a Med ford resident for 46 years, died yesterday at a local hospital. Mr. Newman had been in ill health for about two years. . Masonic funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at Perl Funeral home, with the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, rector of St. Mark's' Episcopal church, officiating. Interment, - which will be" private, will be at Siski you Memorial park. , : Mr. Newman was born Sept. 1, 1874, in Vernon county, Wis. He attended Fargo State college, Fargo, N. D., and was graduated from the University of Minne sota school of law in 1902. . A veteran : of ; the Spanish American war, " Mr. Newman served in the Philippine islands. On Oct. 11, 1902, in Brecken ridge, Minn., Mr. Newman was married to. Alta A. Beeson, who preceded ' him in death three' years ago. Mr. Newman was a 32nd de gree Mason, a past potentate of Hillah Temple of the Shrine, a charter member and past president- of Medford Rotary club; past commander of the Medford unit of Spanish American War Veterans, and a member of the Trtnt'n nfrnu wjgirf"' in Oregon, Minnesota, and North Dakota, and the American Bar associa tion. - Survivors.; include four, chil dren, Mrs.: Dorothy Patterson, Millbrae, Calif.; Mrs. Ruth Reich stein, Medford; Mrs. Marion Alexander, Springfield, Ore. and D. B. Newman, Grants Pass; a sister, Mrs. Reed Terdick, Rose burg; . a brother, Ed Newman, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.; ;', nine grandchildren, and one great grandchild: - - : Neubergers Leave J Portland (U.R) f United State Senator-elect Richard L. Neuberger left Portland yester day on the City of Portland streamliner for the first leg of his' trip to the national .capital. Following his 42nd birthday celebration Sunday, Neuberger went' to the station where rela tives, friends and supporters saw him off. , Neuberger , said most of his all-Oregon staff had already, de parted for Washington. He will be sworn in as Oregon's new junior senator January 5. of one-sixth the value of all oil produced." 1 "The Geological Survey esti mates that oil in the submerged lands amounts to 11,500,000,000 barrels," McKay said At today's prices, that means a return, of at least $5,000,000,000. The $6, 000,000,000 which will eventual ly find its way into the federal treasury is only a fraction of the financial benefits that will ac crue from these lands. "He msn-i tioned millions in wages and new machinery among the bene fits. - . - ' : :;:. . Alaska Railroad in Black McKay said the Alaska rail road, in the red when the Eisen hower administration took over, is now working in the black. He borrowed Frank .' E.' Balbaugh from the Southern Pacific. Bal baugh went to Alaska in the spring of 1953. In 12 months he made- changes "which : brought the line into the black and it operated at a profit of $750,000 in that period," McKay said. - McKay said the Bureau Of In dian affairs has undertaken a program to bring the opportun ity for education to all ' Indian children, including the : Nava- josV . - : . iv ' . "When the Eisenhower admin istration took, office,"- McKay said, "I found that 14,000 out of National Assembly. In Final Hours of West Europe Debate Outcome Hinges on Votes of Confidence ; Paris (U.R) The French National Assembly began vot ing on whether to admit West 'Germany into NATO at 1:30 -p.m. (PST). It was also a test vote of confidence in the gov ernment of "Premier Pierre Mendes-France. Paris U.R) Premier Pierre Mendes - France ; won important new support today in his all-or-nothing fight for approval of German rearmament. The National Assembly plung ed into the final hours of its . agonizing debate over West European Unity and German re armament with the outcome' hinging on three vote of confi dence in the Mendes-France gov ernment., : Mendes-France asked for a half -hour recess to prepare a speech answering his opponents.' When he returned, Mendes-' France' told the croWded, dead silent chamber: "You can still, approve the ratification, the aim of .which is to consolidate the Atlantic alli ance, to prepare for the Europe' of tomorrow and to affirm the peace. - - "If I had believed that final; negotiations with the Russians were possible before the ratifi cation, I would have first tried' to persuade the English and the Americans, who think the con trary, to hold a Big Four - con ference.' ." " 1 "To hold a four-power confer ence, it is first necessary that the three others are agreed to meet." Mendes-France made the vote . on German entry into NATO the decisive test of the whole ques tion of German rearmament. He told the .deputies that they could not admit Germany to NATO without later reversing ' their objection of the Western European Union. - ' The powerful independent bloc of deputies, with some 145 votes, announced it was urging , its members to vote for the Pre mier, or at least to abstain from , voting against him. Gen. ; Pierre de Nouyille, a follower of Gen.. . Charles de Gaulle, announced' that he was switching his vote from absten tion to approval. - , .. He said, however,, it would not mean "confidence i in the ; overall policy', of. the govern- ment" - . . ... It appeared that the tide was swinging in favor of the fight ing "Mr. France." : Loss of any of the confidence tests would mean his downfall, amid the wreckage of chances for West European unity- and the .hope for a united front against Communist aggression. -" Briefly, the . questions - on which the confidence , tests were to be: decided were: k lr German entry into NATO, . and a proviso that full details, of the Franco - German agreement on the Saar would be spelled out. in a simultaneous exchange be tween Paris and Bonn. 2. Mendes - France's demand for rejection of two amendments that would put off approval of German rearmament for at least a year in the hope for new and successful negotiations with So T viet Russia. T 3. A seversal of last Friday's decision rejecting WEU, the or-, ganization of unity and contror which is the heart of the whole ' defense plan. , . 28,000 children of 'school age on . the Navajo reservation had nev er attended - school because school facilities, were lacking and the teaching staffs were in adequate." Schools, trailer schools and dormitories were introduced both on and off the reservation and: ' "Ol the 14,000 children of school age who had never gone to schools before 1954, we now have 8276 of them in schooL An other 500 will be placed in a school next month and the bal ance over the next year. At the end of 1955 every child of school age on the Navajo reservation will have a chance to go to school." . ' ' - Affirmative Response - McKay, said the partnership program is meeting with "affir mative response." He said the Pacific Northwest is the proving ground for "this valuable pro-' gram." ; ; ' - , : "In my judgment, power de velopment here cannot be sue-' cessfully' carried forward exclu-" sively by the federal govern ment," the . secretary, said. ?Th; power policy encourages local interest-to playing an active and proper part in the development of the region's water resources." - i.'Kinnin " - J
