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Newspaper Page Textno in Mfo mum MEDF0RD4. United Fres Jr'ull Leased Wire 16 Pages Price 5c French Assembly Almost Certain To Reject First Bid fv. . Former Premier Again Tries Hand Paris (U.R) Antoine Pinay, a smalltown businessman ""who served as premier for eight months and 15 days and didn't like it, said today he hoped to form France's 21st postwar gov ernment by Thursday. 1 Pinay, 63, agreed Sunday night to accept President Rene Coty's mandate. But when the National Assembly voted him out of office two days before Christmas, 1952, he said, ,' won't' go back before that lion's den again." May Reject Bid Pinay began his drive for a new cabinet with a touch of the same brusquenees that wdn Pierre Mendes-France the nick name of "Mr. France" before he was toppled from the premier ship Saturday. But it was con sidered almost certain the Na tional Assembly would reject Pinay's first bid for. office so it could see who else would be of fered the job. ' J Pinay, a " businessman who married the boss' daughter and became owner of a tannery, held the job of premier in another period of crisis. He tried for political - stability- then - but - his plan to "save the franc" tumbled before the divided assembly. Pinay, after being asked by Coty to form a government, ac cepted "despite a previous denial earlier in the crisis. He talked to the leader of his own party, the National Center of Independents, then shortly after midnight told newsmen:, ' ' "I think it will be possible to present a cabinet to the National Assembly on Thursday at the latest." . Optimism Not Shared ' Few political observers shared his optimism. The general out look was bleak since France has ro government at time of . the Formosa crisis, it has no budget to pay its bill and it has no ministers to deal with new troubles at home and abroad German rearmament, nationalist resurgence in North Africa and a threatened political break down in .Indochina. ;'. i. Pinay's first act was to sum mon to Paris . the three .top French leaders in North Africa end to put off the departure of new Algerian Governor-General Jacques Soustelle. Mendes France fell in a vote of confi dence on North African policies. Portland School fore Investigated v Portland (U.R) Firemen to day roped off a section of the new Marcus Whitman" school here to probe a mysterious fire near' the school auditorium early this morning. . Fire Chief M. N. Knapp said the investigation would be con ducted by the state-arson squad. He said the fire occurred some 10 minutes after the district's two fire wagons had been dis patched to a truck fire some 10 blocks away. The chief said it was possible the truck fire was started as a diversion. He said he thought both fres were started by an arsonist. ' County police said damage at the school was between $300 and $400. Rancher Rescued by Firemen After Silo Wall Collapses Central Point Services of the Central Point rural fire depart ment are not limited to answer ing fire alarms. Firemen rescued a trapped rancher this morning. J Dixon Saltsgaver, West Scenic ave., apparently escaped serious injury, when the wall of his trench silo collapsed, Fire Chief Richard Krupp reported. Saltsgaver, who 'vas hauling ensilage, was caught " between the wall and his pickup truck. : i MEDFORD, OREGON, MuNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1955 yes Cpfeoinie lis ' WHiM $ ! A - r" H. H. MAYBERRY Shrine Leader Dies Henry H. Mayberry Dies at Ashland; ; Funeral Wednesday ... Henry Herman Mayberry, prominent Ashland resident and recorder of Hillah Shrine temple, died Sunday morning at Ashland General hospital following a brief illness. Final services will be conducte'd by Ashland Ma sonic Lodge 23 at Litwiller's Mountain View chapel in, Ash land Wednesday at 2 p. m. Mr. Mayberry held many high offices in southern .Oregon Masonry, including past master of Ashland Lodge 23, A.F. and A.M.; . past high priest, Royal Arch Masons, past commander of Malta Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar, and past il lustrious potentate of . Hillah Temple. -: . .v Mr. Mayberry was born at Gainsborough,' Tenn., August 9, 1894. His family moved to Cali fornia when he was a child, and on Nov. 1, 1913, he was married to Myrtle V. Young at Montague, Calif. For 44 years he associated with the Southern Pacific rail road, and came . to Ashland in 1922 as passenger agent. In re cent years he has been on leave from his S.P. post . due to ill health. . ''..':: ' Survivors include his wife, a son, Howard H. Mayberry, Port land, and a daughter, Mrs. John von Kuhlmann, Ashland. Active r pallbearers will be Henry Enders, Ashland; Elbert Lenox and Ray Frisbie, Medf ord; Eugene Tardy, Grants Pass; Don Kenyon." Klamath Falls, and Eu gene Flavell, Lakeview. Honorary pallbearers include Arthur Leavitt, Paul B. Rynning, Paul Winters. Cass Murdock. Chester Hubbard, Ronald Gan dee, Dr. George Guldager, Sam Jordan," E. C. Jerome, A. K. Cass, L. C. Taylor, Leonard May f ield. J qrgen Jor gensen, Lyndel Newbry, Kenneth Sprague and Claude Esselstrom.'- , . - - DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 409.59. off 0.17; 20 rail roads 142.95 off 0.42; 15 utilities 62.98 up 0.16, and 65 stocks 150.61, off 0.09. I Sales today were about 3,610,000 shares com pared - with -3,370,000 shares traded Friday. '. . Fresno (U.R) The ninth quadrennial business session of the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists opened here today . with ; about i 1000 church members in attendance. . Hollywood (U.R) A son was born to Mr. and Mrs'. Jose Ferrer today af St. John's Hospital in nearby Santa Monica. . The moth er's professional name is Rose mary Clooney. f : t ' " One of his legs was tightly pinned and the other also was caught ' . ,-' ;;: By yelling, Saltsgaver was able to attract the "attention of neighbors Cleo Young and C- E. Stevenson. , Young summoned rural firemen, who were sup plied with a cutting torch-and the services of. Welder Al Kor val by the Kincaid garage. Fire men, however, were able to jack the pickup away from the wall to release Saltsgaver. . . C I v w - la: United Oregon Automobile Mishaps Kill Four; 22 Persons Injured Head-On Crash Sunday Kills North Bend Man By UNITED PRESS At least four persons were killed in highway accidents in Oregon during the past week end, and 22 persons were in jured. , Thomas Cleveland Williams, 34, North Bend, was injured fatally last night in a headon collision between two automo ziles near Halsey. Williams' auto' struck one driven by Audey Wilbur Unger, 53, Albany, Unger, and his wife, Mavis, 33, were both injured critically. Their four -year -old daughter was unhurt. -Porilander Killed . , Milton David Knapp, 39, of Portland, was , killed instantly Saturday when his car went out of control four miles south of St. Helens and overturned in a ditch. . His companion, Marion R. Davis of . Portland received shoulder injuries. Orville Eu vene Fair cloth, 20, of, Weston, died Saturday when his car overturned and rolled 115 feet on highway 11, five miles south of Milton-Freewater. Three pas sengers Dudley Casper, 33, of Athena; Gerald King, 18, and Leo Mitchell, 17, of Weston were injured and taken to Walla Walla .hospital where they are reported in good condition. Crash with Tree Fatal Another . Portlander, 26-year-old Earl Thompson was fatally injured Saturday night when his car -went Out of control and crashed into a tree four miles east of Astoria on highway 30. Two of the four passengers in his car were injured. ; Eleven persons were injured, none of them seriously, in a four car smash-up at Oregon City Saturday. A trailer truck driven by Frank Abreu, 30, of Brent wood, Calif., jackknif ed coming out of a railroad underpass and three cars piled up around it. , Five persons, including the president of Linfield College at McMinnville, were .injured in a Saturday night crash in Port land. . President Harry Leslie Dillon, 46, was treated for a leg injury. His wife, Irene, was badly bruised. College Admissions Director Aubrey M. Baker suffered shock and internal 'injuries. His wife, Eloise, received internal injur ies and a fractured shoulder. Sheriffs deputies said Dillon's car was struck from' behind and jolted 130 feet into another car driven by Milton Patrick Bren nan, 56, of Portland. Brennan, who suffered face cuts, told po lice he didn't see the other cars. Preacher Conducting Gospel Filibuster West Richland, Wash. (U.R) Preacher Clinton Locy claimed the record for- the longest ser mon ever delivered : today and said he might extend his goal ot a 48-hour gospel filibuster. Locy. dean of the visual Bible training center, entered the pul pit at 12:01 a.m. yesterday and vowed he would continue his sermon until the same time to morrow. , After only 12 hours, he had comDleted ' the .Old . Testament. He figured the New Testament offered enough material to keep him: talking at least until" to morrow. ; Supreme Court To Probe Teacher Firings Washington (U.R) The Su preme Court agreed today to de cide whether New York City has the power to fire school teachers who refuse to tell congressional investigators whether they have ever been Communists. It accepted for review later this term an appeal brought by Harrow . Slochower, former pro fessor of German and literature at .Brooklyn college. He was fired 'after he balked at answer ing some questions of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in 1932. Tribune Presi Full Leased Wir 49th Year No. 276 by TlhuLoirlioy Modest Income Hit Hardest by State Tax Salem (U,R) The tax pro gram advanced by the State Democratic Legislative Policy committee would hit the man of modest income and benefit the man who makes $100,000 a year, Sen. John P. Hounsel (R-Hood River), said today. And he produced figures from the State Tax commission which he said proved his point. Hounsel has advocated the proposal of Gov. Paul L. Pat terson that $30,000,000 a bien nium toward an anticipated def icit of $45,000,000 be raised by eliminating the federal income tax offest from the state income tax. Surtax Propoied, The Democratic proposal is to raise the same amount by a 30 per cent surtax on state in' come taxes. But Hounsel claimed it would take a 42 per cent surtax to achieve the results desired. Hounsel said the budget that had been presented to the legis lature by the governor through his budget division was tight and realistic. He said there was very little fat that could be removed from the budget without cutting deep ly into things the people them selves had voted for like ba sic school support. So here's the way, dollar-wise, the net effect could be if the Legislature ad opts the governor's program or takes on the Democratic propos al. ' . , Comparison Given Assume that a man and wife have one dependent. 1 Here is the comparison on net change: With a salary of $3,000 a year, without federal offset, a net in crease of $3. With surtax, $4.89. Income of $6000 a year, without offset, $22. With surtax, $29.20. With $8000 income, without off set $42, with surtax $48.65. With $10,000 income, without offset $66, with surtax, $72.28. On $20,000 income, without offset, $197; with surtax $203.09. On $30,000 income, without offset, $349, with surtax $300.26.- On Woman Hit by Truckr Taken; to Hospital Elsie Lillian Hohensee, mana ger of the Greyhound Post House, was taken to Community hospital at about 11 a.m. today after being struck by a truck while crossing Bartlett st. near Fifth st., according to city po lice. . t She was taken to the hospital by Medf ord Ambulance service. Attendants indicated that Mrs. Hohensee would be released from the hospital later today. . Wayne Donovan Lemley, route 1, box 3, Ashland, driver of the pickup truck involved in the accident, was cited by city police on a charge of failure to yield right of way to a pedes trian. Officers said Lemley was released after posting $10 bail. Runaway Teen-Agers Arrested in Kansas Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Seven teen-agers who ran- away from school here last week to go to Los Angeles have been arrested in Wakeeney, Kan., on vagrancy charges. The three girls and four boys, aged 16 and 17, were last seen in a 15-year-old car Wednesday night. At first they were re ported to have headed for Los Angeles, but police later guess ed they would be found on an Oregon beach. ' Clark County, juvenile auth orities, who were informed of the arrests by the Trego County District , Attorney in Kansas, said the group had collected about $60 from the Red Cross, Salvation "Army and similar groups during the trip East by "giving them a sad story." Portland (U.R) Funeral services will be held at Forest Grove tomorrow, for Lotus Lee Langley, former Multnomah County District Attorney who died Saturday at the age of 79. FORECAST: Cloudy and mild tonight. Partly cloudy Tues day. Low tonight 38-40. High Tuesday 48-50. "'.''V. ;v"-.; Temp. Highest yesterday '. 47 Lowest this morning . 39 Said flew Pro $40,000 income without offset $486; , with surtax $362.94. On $50,000 without offset $579; with surtax $370.80. On $75,- 000 income without offset $908; with surtax $446.36. On $100, 000 income without offset $1100; with surtax $445.23. Figures Emphasized Sen. Hounsel emphasized the last two figures, to note that a man with $100,000 income would actually pay less dollar wise net increase than a man with $75,000 income. The lion's share of the antici pated increases in the budget are in six classes: Basic school support, $4,885,000; higher edu cation $5,103,000; public wel fare $5,215,000; institutions $1, 585,000; military $776,000, and forestry $654,00.0. . These were the only increases of more than half a million dol lars. Some of the other agencies actually showed decreases in budget demands so that the ov erall net increase of all state agencies besides those six would total only $268,000. Governor Given Emergency Power In House Measure Salem (U.R) The Oregon House today passed a bill giving extraordinary emergency pow ers to the governor. The measure passed with only two dissenting votes, f rom Reps. Walter Pear son (D'-Portland) and Loran L. Stewart (R-Cottage Grove).. The bill would empower the governor ' to declare an emer gency .. when he deems a war caused or natural disaster to be imminent and in an emergency he could seize personal property in connection with the "protecr tion of the civil population. Bill Endorsed The bill had the endorsement of the "Association of State Gov ernments, Rep. Lloyd Haynes (R Grants Pass), one of . the spon sors, said. --. The house today also passed a. bill that would bring under the state basic school support act: children living . under federal jurisdiction in Oregon. It would affect children now living on the Tongue Point Naval Reserva tion near Astoria and would eventually - affect those on fed eral posts at Klamath Falls and Chemawa. , The Astoria school district v would realize benefits amounting ito $250,000 if the bill 'is approved by the Senate and signed by the governor. Development Bill OK'd A ' bill requiring the Oregon Development Commission to ad vertise the advantages of indus trial locations in .the state was passed with two nay votes. Pear son, sponsor of the billM said it would , simply make ..the publi cizing of such advantages man datory on the commission. It carried no appropriation for the commission itself.. Fate of the agency established by the 1953 Legislature now is in the hands of the ways and means com- mittee V - , . Neuberger Asks Funds For Columbia Channel Washington (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger, Oregon Dem ocrat, today said he has asked Sen. Dennis Chavez, New Mex ico . Democrat and chairman of. the Senate Public Works Com mittee, for- funds to begin deep ening the Columbia River chan nel. v.- ' ' :.--.-'. u'---f. , 5 While Congress has authorized an estimated $8,500,000 for deepening the Columbia chan nel across the bar to a depth of 48 feet, the money . would not become available until July l. . Neuberger ; said he had re quested that funds be made im mediately available from the Senate appropriations subcom mittee on public works. Dosal American Planes;, 7th Fleet Cover Mass Evacuation Red Planes Disappear In Unofficial Truce London (UP) Communist China today warned the United States that if U.S. aircraft "con tinue to carry out mili tary provocations" they must "bear all the seri ous consequences arising therefrom." ... - Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) Troops and civilians began a bloodless evacuation of be leaguered Tachen Island today under an around-the-clock pro tective cover of hundreds of American fighter planes and the massed might of the U. S. Seventh Fleet. Red planes which only hours before ' had held complete air mastery over the island disap peared, seemingly in an unof ficial cease fire. Dead Silence Significant United Press Correspondent William Miller reported late Monday -night that, "The most significant thing at Tachen Mon day was the 'almost dead sil ence." " -' The only report of Commu nist activity in the Formosa Strait area came from far to the south when Red guns on the China mainland plopped shells : on Nationalist - held Quemoy. , t ' In Taipeh, a naval spokes man was asked about a report that Red anti-aircraft guns had fired on U. S. carrier-based jet planes. He said he had "no in- Bulletin Washington (U.R) A "substantial" amphibious task force : of the U. S. Seventh Fleet has now moved into po sition and will begin remov ing Chinese Nationalists from the Tachen Islands in the next few hours, a high Navy source said shortly after 3 p.m. EST 'today; ..V ;- - - formation" on the report al though he had asked Admiral Alfred M. Pride specifically to be sure to inform him of any such incidents. Naval headquarters in Wash ington said it also had received no such report. Poor Flying Weather I Miller reported flying weather for the history-making evacua tion of some 14,000 troops and 18,000 civilians, was far . from ideal, -li . "VV1':, ; But the only apparent ' Com munist military activity was a hustle and bustle at Red air bases near Ningpi, about 15 minutes flying time from Tachen. TJhis activity was picked up by fleet radar operators. " C i Miller went ashore at Tachen today from an amphibious com mand ship lying off the island. He saw Chinese soldiers fever ishly tearing down installations and securing heavy ; equipment for evacuation 'He quoted the island's com mander, Gen. Liu Lien Chi, as saying: - , Nationalists Bitter ;"If miy government wants me tq go, I go. , If they order me "to stay, I'll : stay. I would ' rather stay. I have been here six years and if I stay I will hold out to the last man and. the last round of ammunition." ;Many of the Chinese were bit ter at leaving, Miller said. ; Adm. Pride, commander of the fleet whose six carriers filled the skies with heavily armed planes, radioed that "up to now everything is according to sched ule." His was the first official word on the evacuation's success. ' Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson has appointed Rev. O. W. Payne of Coos Bay as a mem ber of the Coos county public welfare commission, . i . Springfield Radio Station Temporarily Bans ' SDrinefield. 5 Ore. U.R) A long playing record titled "The Investigator" : was temporarily banned by. Radio Station' KRG A here today pending an investi gation by the American Legion. The 45 minute disc is a trans scription' of ' a program played by the Canadian Broadcasting System and; debunks Congres sional investigations. v -Record Claimed Subversive jThe-Legion has charged that the record is "somewhat subver sive" because , it ridicules' the investigative activities of '' Sen.. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.). ; . ;Glen Stradler, station, manag er, said he would not play the record if the American Legion could back up its charges that money from the sale of the rec ord went to the Communist par- - I 1L.. I I MILES I I 'WiwwAM . I SSt2. I , , I TIDE POUS INTO W VT CtyjLTf?H NATIONALISTS F Vy L tlr!??ti 7X11 FLECT HANDS j USM- MSTSfl tVACUATK I; V' ' '"' ' " eA y:-:.:.:.:Trr?f Chiang's iomieks d tEDS SHELL . gfr-.- g?l?g I LAST IED sS putMOY from Ca f AyS-r:-:-;-; rsi :jgs iuilo-w s: jrjbfi SMALL U.S. HI S g:v"sf 'iisixsM ; , FORMOSA FIGHT SHAPING UP Newsmap locates de velopments in Formosa crisis as Chiang Kai-shek states Formosa has entered z "state of war." Nationalist-held Quemoy Island, where small American advisory group is reported stationed, is shelled heavily by Reds from Amoy area: One-million-man Red reinforcement from North China is reported pouring into broad arc facing Formosa. Nationalist bombers blast Red invasion fleet off the Tachens as U. S.' 7th Fleet stands by for call to execute evacuation of reluctant Nationalists. ! . Red China May Offer Counter Proposal in Formosa Cease Five Washington--U.R) Sen. Wal ter F. George said 'today Red China may . come . up with a counter proposal for a cease fire in Formosa. The Georgia Democrat, chair man of the Senate Foreign Re lations committee, told newsmen he thought the Chinese Commu nists "hurt themselves," particu larly with the British Common wealth nations, by the curtness of their refusal to take part in United Nations cease fire talks. As a result, he said, he does hot rule out the possibility of an eventual Communist counter proposal to relieve tension in the Far East where the United States has laid down a peace-or war challenge to Red China.. . . George also told newsmen he Boy Friend Quizzed In Girl's Slaying . New York U.R) Police ques tioned today a boy friend of Anne Yarrow, a New York uni versity co-ed whose mutilated body was found in the bedroom of a Greenwich Village apart ment. ; . Miss Yarrow's nearly nude body was sprawled across the mattress on the floor of the .sparsely furnished apartment.. She had been stabbed 40 times and mutilated from her neck to her ankles. Only her face was not disfigured. , - - Chief medical "examiner Dr. Milton Helpern said the 23-year-old honor graduate of a Quaker college , in North Carolina died as the result of "homicidal sex ual asault" An autopsy will be performed today to determine whether exact cause of death was "strangulation, multiple stab wounds or mutilation." Police brought ' in .- : several friends of the dead girl for ques tioning, among them Ernest Jackson, 30,. a Negro. : , , Pope To Preside at Congregation of Rites Vatican City (U.R) Ailing PoDe Pius XII nlans to preside at an extraordinary meeting of the Sacred Congregation oi Rites,1 a high Vatican source said today. - It will mark the first time the 78-year-old pontiff has attended a church ceremony since his most recent ' illness began ' las November. bri Legion tv and that the record itself aided the ' Communists. ' ' ". The script for the recording was' written by Rueben Ship, of Toronto, Can., and produced by Radio Rarities Inc., of New York, N.Y. r 'it ' tells, the story ' of an un named investigator . who .was killed in a plane crash. In heav en he falls in with a bunch of rabble rousers and before' long has set up an investigating com mittee. Persons probed include Socrates, John Milton and Thom as Jefferson. Proof Not Yet Furnished Stadler said the Legion said it would furnish proof of the link between the record and the Communist party last Thursday, but had not done so by today. .. , Jack Larson, state vice-com EDS MASS FLEET AT YIKIAHGSHAN t believes the Senate will approve without any difficulty-the mu tual defense , treaty .with For mosa when it finally comes to a vote. But he said efforts may be made to write reservations into The foreign relations commit tee scheduled a closed door meeting with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today to consider the Formosa treaty. George said there is a slight chance for final Senate action, this week if the committee can approve the pact Tuesday. If floor action is not completed by Thursday or Friday, however, a final showdown will be delayed until Feb. 21 or later because of the "no business" agreement during the Republicans Lincoln Day speechmaking sessions this month. . : r;-:i,.:.;;..;-Defense Limits Expected . Sen. Wayne L. Morse (I.-Ore.) and others have indicated infor mally, they may offer reserva tions which would describe ex actly what territory . the U.S. will help the. Nationalist Chi nese defend. - Meanwhile, House Republi can leader Joseph -WU Martin, Jr., said Sunday night that the U.S. show " of strength around Formosa is the . "best guaran tee I know for peace." But if war should come, ; he said, "I wouldn't think Red China could hold out 30 days." ' Martin's views on chances for peace were echoed by Rep. Wal ter H. Judd (R.-Minn.) a member of the House Foreign Affairs . committee and a former medi cal' missionary in China. He said the ? Communists have "backed off' every ;time the free world took a firm stand. ' 126 Donors Reg isle red For Bloodmobile Visit Local blood bank officials in the Red Cross office reported this morning that only 126 don ors had registered by this morn ing to give blood for tomorrow's Bloodmobile visit at the Elks temple from 1 to 6p.m. i ; ; More than 300 donors are needed, to jreach the city quota of 300 pints, they added. It was pointed out that all donors should register as soon as possible, as the unit will be here on Tuesday, instead of the usual Wednesday visit. Dropin donors will be wel comed during the afternoon. The unit wiil be at the Ashland Elks temple,; Wednesday, from 1 to- 6 -p.m. ; to receive blopd from Ashland area residents. mander of the Legion, said the record was first brought to his attention at a dinner meeting in Salem between state legisla tors and members of the nation al Legion in Indiana. "I have not,heard the record' Larson said, "but our American ism committee was told to watch out for it." -Author Said Deported William Browne, a Portland policeman and chairman of the Legion's subversive activities committee in Oregon, said the author of the play had been deported because he was a Com munist. J J ' J Portland radio stations hava played, the recording, and re ported a mixed reaction, ranging from irate protests from pro-McCarthy groups to boredom.