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Hi MM fa (DiD iralsc t Medford united fr Jfall LeaMd Wire 49th Year 20 Pages House Turns Down Minority Report On John Day Dam NeubergerY Attempt Beaten by 34-26 Vote Salem (U.R) The House today defeated an effort of Dem ocratic members to substitute a . minority report on the John Day dam partnership memorial , to Congress. 7-w7 "77;; gs Members voted 34 28 against iReo. : Maurine Neuberger's at- tempt to kill the majority report of the House state and federal affairs committee which had fa vored a memorial including part nership proposals for construc tion of the dam on the Columbia . river." Defeat of her motion meant automatic adoption of the majority report. Final Vol Friday Final house vote on the mem orial itself will be taken to morrow. . . The measure calls for federal construction of the dam, but of fers an alternative suggestion that local agencies be allowed to participate in financing if the congress feels federal funds are not available. . ;;; J i The minority report, which was first up for debate as a substi tute for the majority report, was made by Reps. Walter J. Pear ion, and Mrs. Neuberger, Fort land Democrats who favor con struction of the John Day dam by the federal government alone. Supporting the majority re port were Reps. William W. Bradeen of Burns, chairman; Laron L. Stewart - of Cottage Grove, Al Loucks ; of I. Salem, George Layman of Newberg and W. W. Chadwick of Salem. Alcohol Commiile Meets; : ' In the Senate, the ; Alcoholic Traffic; committee : headed . by Sen. Carl Francis of Dayton, held a hearing yesterday " after noon on a bill by Sen. Robert D. Holmes , of Gearhart to abolish the Oregon Liquor Control com mission -- and replace it with a paid, full-time commissioner. Members of the OLCC serve without pay. ' 7.' Delegates V representing the Oregon Dispensers association sail that they though the pres ent commission is functioning well and no change should be made at this time. -; . Elsewhere in .the legislature, an employers' organization has objected to a new concept of un employment compensation that would make employers alone re sponsible for the maintenance of Oregon's economic stability. , Heard by Committee The objections were heard by the Senate; Labor and Industry committee last night at a hear . ing on the report of the Unem ployment - Compensation ' Advis ory committee appointed by the governor. ' . " J."!.',' 7.. The committee had recommen ded higher employee benefits and a higher claims base, plus expansion of the compensation law to include employers of one or more persons and to em ployees of political subdivisions. Almost Prohibitive a H. K. Merrill, representing Timber Structures company, of Portland,, which has an annual payroll of some $2,500,000, pro posed that the Legislature should require employees as well as em- " ployers to contribute to the com pensation fund. He claimed the increase in the employers tax rate proposed by the advisory committee would be almost pro hibitive for, his firm. He . sug gested an employee contribution of not more than one per cent of the first $3000 earned and asked' that the advisory commit tee's recommendation of an in crease in the claim base from $3,000 to $4,200 be eliminated. JCsr Award Jamjuef; Slated February 1 Otto Ewaldsen, ': young Med ford businessman, will receive the Junior ; Chamber of Com merce's distinguished service award at a banquet on Tuesday, Feb. 1, it was announced today. The dinner will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will be in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel. Dr. Elmo' Stevenson, . president of Southern Oregon college, will be the principal speaker - The public is . invited, - and those planning to attend are ask ed to make reservations with Chuck Jones, chairman for arrangements, by telephoning 2-9772. -J MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1955 Hope Abandoned For 40 Crewmen Aboard Trawlers Seaplanes Fly Radar Searches HuU, England (U.R) Two British fishing trawlers, trapped by a dread Arctic "black frost" were given up for; lost today with 40 crewmen aboard. Owners of the trawlers Lorella and Roderigo said they believe the two vessels capsized by the weight of ice deposited by heavy freezing mists in the Arctic cold off Iceland. No Hope for Survival . V " The owners said there appear ed to be no hope for the survival of the 40 crewmen in those icy waters. It was too cold even to abandon ship. - Three twin-engined SA16 Al bratross seaplanes from the 53th U.S. Air Force Rescue squadron at Keflavik, Iceland, flew radar searches through zero visibility yesterday and today in vain res- cuse missions off the frozen north cape of Iceland. -Radio Reports Received It was in that area .that the last desperate redid reports were received from the two: vessels late yesterday: '. ."Black Frost," the messages said. "We are overturning. We are overturning."-. V u - The owners said; that black frost is an enveloping,, freezing cold of mist and fog thafwraps a heavy cocoon of ice : around everything it contacts. . ' 'rt The 559-ton Lorella radioed that it had heeled "over in the "black frost," and the 810-ton Roderigo went to her aid. - . Then the Roderigo radioed a distress message before losing contract. . : -" ' " Third Ship Recovers vv The Coast Guard station at Lerwick in the Shetland islands said that in such weather sur vivors of a capsizing would have "no chance of living through the icy ordeaL . A third ship, the 498-ton Ro sellaTalso sent out an SOS but later radioed it had recovered. 3 "Unable to abandon ship," the Roderigo's last message- said. "Hurricane and freezing gale." British, French, German, Ice landic , and Norwegian trawlers were searching for the missing ships. - Child Beating Case Enters Second Day : Oregon City (U.R) The trial of 21-year-old Horace Crowley of Dayton, charged with beating a four-year-old boy," entered its second day in Clackamas coun ty Circuit Court today with further testimony by police offi cers and other prosecution wit nesses. C r o w 1 e y "specifically is charged with assault with intent to kill in the beating of Rickie Lightle, son of Mrs. Mildred Lightle. Mrs. Lightle, her son and a daughter, had been living at the Crowley home in Dayton. Liar in Public on Washington U.R) Three Republican congressmen today denounced "a liar in public de bate" on the House floor. . The three Republicans said it "was shocking" ... unwarrant ed . .Van all-time low in a smear campaign of personal vilifica tion." .'.; -. Reps. Oliver P. Bolton of Ohio, Craig Hosmer of California, and Alvin M. Bentley of Michigan made the charge in statements inserted' in the Congressional record. They replied to a speech by Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calil), during the " debate Tuesday on the President s request' for au thority to fight, if necessary, to protect Formosa. - -7;-7 Holifield said in his : speech that Mr. Eisenhower has now "admitted" that he told an "un- "ruth" two years ago .when, ne said former President Truman had directed the Navy , to ZZLr United iTev iro&fo Shops Ti Plai SIT A New York . architectural firm has been retained to de sign Medford's proposed new $1, 700,000 hospital, and a Medf ord engineer will be associated in the project, it was announced today. J. F. Butler and C. H. Sim mons, of the firm of Rogers and Butler, New York City, have been in Medf ord for the past four days, discussing details of design for the proposed new hos pital, and aiding in the examina tion of various possible sites. The firm has had extensive hos pital design experience in the east and mid-west. Engineer Chosen A. D. Harvey, well-known Medford engineer, a member of the firm of Harvey and Watkins, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers,, has been selected as the engineering associate and local representa tive of the- architectural firm. The contract, details of which were not announced, was let by the board of directors of -the Medford Hospital association, which operates the Community hospital for the Episcopal dio cese of Oregon, owner of the in stitution. The new hospital is for Community, hospital Long Planning Announcement ' of the design and engineering l job ' awards ; is the culmination of long prelim inary planning, according to members of the hospital board, The need for a new hospital has been recognized for a number of Mercy Trip Saves Washington Man White Salmon, Wash. (U.R) The state patrol rushed blood plasma over 65 miles of fog cov ered highway and was credited today with saving the life of Henry MacDonald, 55. v MacDonald, a resident of near by Bingen, was taken to Skyline hospital here for treatment of internal bleeding. Transfusions quickly used up the hospital's supply of his blood type and an emergency call was placed to a Portland blood bank. : .- The state patrol agreed to make, the emergency delivery, Dense fog however, hung over the highway, cutting visibility to a minimum and slowing traf fic t6 a crawl. The . squad car 'made the 65 miles in less than 90 minutes de spite the adverse conditions. Gunman Foiled in Bank Holdup Attempt ' "Redmond,- Wash. U.R)--A gunman '. followed the .cashier and assistant cashier into the Redmond branch of the Seattle First National Bank before' it opened today,: but. failed- in his attempted robbery. .It i Debate' "shield" the Chinese Communists from attack by Chinese Nation alist forces. '':yx''-'r::;r Holifield noted that President Eisenhower's., message . to . Con gress Mondays said the Truman administration in June, 1950, had directed the Seventh Fleet to "defend Formosa "from pos sible invasion, from the . Com munist mainland." yih jfcrf Duplicity of Messages "Thus, we see by the Presi dent's two messages by his own words the duplicity of his messages," Holifield said. Bentley j. denied ' Holifield's charge that the President has now "retreated" ' from the pre vious statement included ; in a message to Congress Feb. 2, 19 53. He said the President spoke the truth in both messages and accused Holifield of a "com plete disregard of the logic and the facts." - suuun. v xue , nospuai as was Robert Ellis Darrohn., 45, planned as a larger .replacfmentifctoTO.T-a., 2&aL full ceased Wire Price 5c ; No.-.-267- 11 irpppM HoieaKuuian n n w jl n m m- i w i ri tm rn nrsTii ii n-. - u - imyduiuiLSiu. ric OS years, but only in recent months has it become feasible to make definite plans. " A survey of hospital needs' arid possibilities in the Medford-area was conducted last fall by the Stanford Research Institute for the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, V and many private citizens have interested them selves in the project. The hosDi- tal is to be financed through pri vate contributions and several substantial gifts toward the pro ject nave aireaay Been made or pledged. Young Defendant Called as Witness ; A 16-year-old defendant in livestock theft case was called to the-stand as a witness for the state this; morning as the trial went into its third -day; V -Si The .16-year-old is a codef end- ant in the case. Also indicted by the -grand jury on the charge ; : The two v are ; charged with stealing a calf owned by V.' R. MathewSj route h box 650, Eagle Pointy oh Nov. 15, 1953. ' r . :; The trial was .recessed at 2 p.m. yesterday to .allow the state to serve a . subpoena : on i the . 16-year-old.- When he failed to api pear in court"at 4" p.m.,. the trial was continued until this morn ing. . ' The- two defendants are rep resented by Medford Attorney Edward Kelly. . District Attorney Walter Nunley : is representing the state. 4 New Bomber To End Dependence on Bases Washington (U.R) Gen. Na than F. Twining said today the Air Force is planning on an in tercontinental, ' . atomic-powered bomber which would end -U. S. dependence on overseas supply bases. - The Air Force chief of staff conceded that "many difficult engineering problems" still re main before an atomic-powered bomber is built. But he said "we believe that the advances ' we have made to date have given us the basic knowledge from which we can project practical appli cations ..." ' ' ' " 'vjvC-V ti 7" , ,- ;'i;i'-: " it : SHOWING STSAIN OF DECISION, President Eise'nhower wearily pots hand on trow after asking Congress to declare - "our read!-. ness to fight" to safeguard Formosa from Beds . (InUnatiuulj . Weather FOMCAST: Flr through Fri ' . flay. Patches - of -fox v and . , smoke in . alleys - Friday. ..-.: morninf.. Little , temperature change. Lew tonight 25. High Friday . . , , ". -. -. , Temp. . Highest Yesterday .-. 5 Lowest this Morning .... ,. ,,. -22 lure, Body Found Gagged In Disarrayed Room . New York (U.R)-r- Serge Ru binstein, 46, Rusian-born draft dodger and 'worldwide financial manipulator, .was found ; today bound,' gagged, and strangled, by a murderer who ripped his plush bedroom to' -r pieces . apparently without disturbing five"; other occupants of his swank Fifth ave: house..-. : Police said -.the multi-million aire had been strangled with a piece of the same Venetian blind cord .with which his hands and feet were bound. His mouth had been sealed with adhesive tape His body was discovered at 8:30 a.m. by his butler, William Morter, who called police and the;' house handyman, . Jimmy Morse, before returning to the wildly disarrayed bedroom. Bed flipped Apart ' '."i Rubinstein's 78-year-old' moth er, Stella, entered the" . room shortly"; after "their return . and was reported in hysterics. : The short, swarthy .interna tional finagler-was-lying on his back onthe floor, clad in black pajamas,, police reported.- One of the twin beds was unmussed Thether had been riDned aoatt: ftfiPrsheetsprn "and'its mattress tipped to .the floor; Police Commissioner' Francis Wi ll Adams,'! who followed his tc ; ranking ' -officers to.r.the swanky . town - house, murder scene; said there v was ncC evi dence of forced: entry: to ! the house.;.; : Nor was there evidence of any violence to the priceless:, art ob jects and splendid furnishings in the rest of the five-story; white stone town house overlooking Central Park Ofhers in. House In addition to his mother and the butler, Rubinstein's 82-year- old aunt, Gema Forrestir, a cook and a maid were in the house through the night The handy- man, a. aay womer, naa arnvea shortly before the body was dis covered, z The Russian-born financier has been in trouble -with ,U. S. authorities since 1943, five years after 1 he ' entered : the; : United Stages from Canada on a Portu guese passport. , .Rubinstein was first; charged with : immigration fraud, was convicted of draft evasion in fal sifying dependency , claims, was indicted - while in Lewisburg Federal Prison and later acquit ted of a $3,000,000 stock fraud. He was ordered deported in 1952 but appeals are still pend ing. , 7 1 More Naval Units Reported En Route To Reinforce Fleet Carrier Midway Ordered To Straits : Taipeh, Formosa I (U.R) A full wing of 75 U. S. Sabre jet fighters arrived here today and more, naval units .were reported steaming . northward to - rein force the powerful Seventh Fleet for the defense of this Chinese Nationalist stronghold. ; The U. S. ships and planes also would be available to help possible evacuation of Nation alist forces from invasion threat ened Tachen Islands, 200 miles north of Formosa. ' i The big aircraft carrier; Mid way which had been scheduled to visit Singapore jOn a courtesy call in February, was ordered today to bypass that British port and sail directly to the troubled Formosan straits. - , " - Four VU. S. destroyers, 'the Brownstone, Roberts, ftoan and Royal, were ordered to cut short their present courtesy visit to Singapore. It was. believed here they also are en route to rejoin the powerful naval force stand ing guard over Formosa. ' Nationalist ; sources said the Chinese Communists had an in vasion fleet of -1000 junks car rying 120,000 men within ' 20 miles of the island outposts 200 miles north of Formosa. At the same time Peip'ing Radio pro claimed anew its defiance of the United States . -To Send Jet Bombers ' The U.S. Air Force announced in Tokyo-it also was moving nip "offensive units'? i- jet bombers to forward bases to cope with any eventuality as " the -18th Fighter-Bomber Wihg of 75 MIG killing Sabres flew to Formosa airfields from Okinawa and the Philippines. The F-86s ran up' a 13 to 1 victory over the.MIGS in Korea. .; "; .:;:N.V ) .7; Military observers- here saw the movement of American au strength as a firm warning to Red China that the United States was dead set . on : carrying out a successful evacuation, of Tachen when the final orders came from wasningwns -f-v-. , , Mtght Be Pertiiaded ' These observers said' the Unt ted States was bringing such powerful .military forces to bear in the . Formosa area, that Red China might be ''persuaded'.': to stand aside and allpw the peace ful evacuation of the 30,000 .Na tionalists in the Tachens.; i ; - Whether the Reds would, do that was a major question. Com munist r broadcasts' . said they would not be ' 'intimidated!' and Nationalist 'sources said the Reds had massed .120,000 men ' in the Tachen area, 150,000 opposite Quemoy Island, 300 miles to the south and 50,000 at Matsu, mid way between. "'. ' -7"7:;7" Lt. Gen. Roger. Ramey, com mander of : the U- S. 5th Air Force- in Japan, arrived here; to supervise the deployment 3 of America's first armed forces to Formosa, a move described by top American military leaders as 'one - Vto- provide : U. S. Air Force power v at' any . place needed." ' " ; '- Paroled Convict Held In Woman's Slaying Marianna, Fla. (U.R) Police) said today-a 20-year-old paroled convict has confessed the brutal rape-slaying of an - airman's beautiful young - wife in : her home at Panama City, Fla. Sheriff M. J. Daffin identified the man as George Lowell Ev erett, .who - was picked up last night . in Dothan.v Ala.,,: and brought here for questioning. The nude body - of Mrs. Leu Ellen Jones, 21 former high schol beauty queen at El Reno, Okla., was found on a bed in the family's Panama City apart ment last Jan. 18. . - , Authrities said she had been raped and strangled. Ahti-Pvlosquiffo New equipment now on order by the county 'court is expected to give Jackson county the best mosquito . control program ..in history ; during the coming sea son, Dr. A. E. MerkeL .county health officer, said this morning. Truck And Equipment 7.7, The equipment' includes a four-wheel drive International pickup truck, and spray , and fogging aparatus which willtbe manufactured .at the county shops. . , : T- 1 The new equipment is expect ed to be "ready for use by the time the mosquito season starts in this, area, usually in April or May; Dr. Merkel said. The con trol setup will be based on a program an! equipment used fiuocessfulljby Lane county, he g8&aT 7X fKE WANTS O.K. TO US fCXCt TO DIHUO fCXMOSA, FBCAOCXES IS. t . 3c- . v, : , TROUBLE. AREA Newsmap locates areas of major import , ance in tense Far East situation. Pres. Eisenhower asked Con ' gress for permission to use force, if necessary, to defend For mosa and the Pescadores Islands from invasion by Commu ' nist Chinese. First civilian refugees from beleaguered Tachen ' Islands have landed at Keeluhg, northernmost Formosan port. U. -S. Seventh Fleet stands by, somewhere off the Tachens, ready to help evacuate Nationalist Chinese troops if necessary. I he Said CoEiiden Formosa Resolution 7 Washington -.R)-' President Eisenhower r feels . strongly that the Formosan resolution will not lead .to preventive war. Senate Republican : Leader William : F. Knowland said today. " ; The Californian disclosed the President's 'sentiments after 'a call at the "White House at which he brought the President up to date on the situation in - the Senate.- '-' -. .' ... Amendment Hoped ' Senate critics of the resolu tion which gives the President unlimited r authority; to defend Formosa hoped to amend it to forbid the U. S. forces to attack the Red China mainland. Several senators saw the reso lution as an active leading to preventive war. 7;7;;- - ;'" r7 . But Knowland reported there is "clearly no question in the President's mind" about the pur pose of the resolution He 6aid Mr. Eisenhower does not feel it will -lead to preventive war." . Knowland said there is . no "reasonable basis for anyone to assume that is the intent." Indications were strong that the; resolution will be approved as - originally submitted by the President when it comes up for a- fmal vote, perhaps ' tomorrow. It already Jias cleared the House. Ifo. Shootiag. ; . . . ' : Knowland said there would be no shooting on the part of Amer ican ; forces protecting Formosa unless they were attacked. ' 7 In event of attack, he said, no citizen expects "bur ships to be President To Stick Close To Washington Washington - (U.R) President Eisenhower has decided to stick close to Washington for the next few months because of the inter national" crisis and important business pending in Congress. For; the most part, the chief executive will stay within about two hours'- air time from the na tion's, capital for "the next two or ' three months." If he does go beyond that ' range, he ' will not remain away from Washing ton more than one night The self-imposed travel limita tion was announced Wednesday by Press Secretary James C. Hagerty. He said' the decision reflected, "no emergency" . and he did not want to encourage What he described as - "scare headlines." DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials- 402.60 tip 0.63; 20 rail roads . 142.22 up 0.92; 15 utili ties 62.33 - off 0.22: and 65 stocks 148.74 ' up ' 0.32. . Sales today . were about 3,500,000 shares compared, with 3,860,000 shares yesterday. :77 7 7 Roseburg OJA Ira B. Rid dle,-84, son of pioneer 'parents for whom the : town of Riddle was named, : died . here r yester day. - - . . Equipment Ordered Here; Program Planned by Ccuntfy stated. ' Plans call for the spray and foggihgs equipment, to be. so set up that they can be interchanged on the pickup truck.; This ap aratus can s not .be . purchased, ready ' made, in the form . re quired.by. the county, land is to be . constructed at the county shops.. Dr: Merkel noted that it can. be made by the county, at a considerable saving. 7 ? ? 7 The mosquito problem usually starts in Jackson county ! around the middle of May, wfaerr the pond-type: - mosquitoes which may carry 7 steeping j. sickness start to -hatch out -'As this per iod approaches, county health officials will keep a close check on water temperatures so they will - know 'exactly-' when - to iiPiilillwiiiipSiiSi TAKJk OSS J shot at like sitting ducks and not return the fire." - 4 Knowland predicted the reso lution would - pass overwhelm ingly and without amendment. rea 7 Sams Valley A meeting will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the Sams Valley Grange to discuss possibilities of leasing lands for oil exploration in the Sams Valley-Beagle area. The area: involved includes 15,000 acres. , - The meeting will be conduct ed by representatives of the un identified company which is now negotiating for. oil leases in the area. The company has been represented by Paul Lane- worth, Los Gatos, Calif., geolo gist; who has told residents that he is 'quite sure" oil may be found -in-paying- quantities at about 8,000 feet depth, accord ing; to Mrs. Floyd Doland Sr, route 2, box 819, Gold ffni. Plans Discussed 774 : -The" company has been Inves--tigating the area ever since last summer, she reported. A plan is now under discussion by prop erty owners, ; under which all would, go together in a cooper ative movement to back the ex ploration. If oil is found, profit- sharing would be on an acreage basis for land-owners above the oil table. 7 ,-7 - -'; 7 ; No leases have been signed as yet by the ' area's residents, ' she. said. The : company hopes ' that exploration and . drilling can be completed in about 18 months, - she added.r The first drillihg has "been proposed on the Wes .McDonough ranch. Many Qu Signs-.. ' .;. Area residents have reported that . there have been oil signs in the - area for a number -of years. Natural gas. in water drill. ings, as well as various indi cative., mineral . deposits, 1 have long been noted, they said. . One resident reported that in dications in a well in the Beagle area . a ,. number of ; years ago prompted ; deeper drilling, but nothing resulted except "a very fine water well." Welfare Commission To Receive $95,000 Salem 0J.PJJ- The Ways and Means Committe of the Oregon Legislature , said, today it would release $95,000 to - the Public Welfare Commission. -." State Welfare : Administrator , Loa - Howard Mason, said " the money would have to be divided between.. Oregon's 36 counties and would not solve- the prob lem facing Multnomah county. Multnomah county "officials have announced a drastic cut in the size of welfare checks for the next few months. " start; the control program,' Dr. Merkel said. - . n , : r Also For Nuisance Type The new equipment also will make - it possible to control the nuisance type ; of - mosquito, which usually-hatches out later in the year, he noted. Excellent control results have, been ob tained in Lane county, which has had a greater problem than that which exists locally, Dr. Merkel stated.' t '; ;';'': :--The county health officer ex pressed the .hope that Walter Sutherland, who recently . re tired as county sanitarian, would be able to head the coptrol pro gram 'during' the coming year. Sutherland has done extensive survey and control work for the county during recent year. , Sams Valley A Oil Land Leasing V 3
