Weather
Feature atorict en a local
: woman lraudinc her own house
and . a . reporter's quest for a
photo of white iwuu appear
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FORECAST Continued fair
- today. ' Increasing -: cloudiness
tonight t and Monday. - High
today 55, low tonight 25.
Temp. '
Highest yesterday 49
Lowest yesterday - 20
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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1955
49th Year No. 287
Recommended
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Midwest Lashed by
Savage Storm; 19
Reported Killed
Snowslide Hits Bus;
Passengers Escape
Chicago U.R) A savage
winter storm abated Saturday
after dumping a blanket of snow
on the Rockies and Great Plains,
marooning scores of motorists,
At least 19 persons were dead
in the widespread storm area,
t f t ' a i 3 c4-..
WHICH spread easiwaiu oaiui-
day to the Mississippi and
southward into Texas.
In addition, 16 persons were
missing on a ' trans world " air
liner, more than 10 hours over
due in snowy weather. The
plane was en route from Albu
auerque to Santa Fe. With dark
ness having closed in, there 'ap-
peared little chance that the
plane's fate would be known be
fore Sunday at the earliest. The
plane was flying over mountain
ous country.
Mailman Safa
A rural mailman, Charlie Ow
ens, who had been missing in a
mountainous section of Colora
do near Craig since Friday, re
ported in safe late yesterday
He had been marooned at a
lonely highway maintenance
station, unable to send out word
of his whereabouts.
Fog blanketed the New Or
leans area and a plane carrying
three men from Indiana was
down in Lawe Pontchartrain.
Snowdrifts at Aspen, Colo.,
were so deep that skiers had to
rescue a St. Bernard dog.
The storm struck its most vig
orous blows in Colorado and
Wyoming Friday and buffeted
Nebraska and South Dakota
Saturday. "''
Bus -DriverjDrville ...Ramsey,
and his seven passengers nar
rowly escaped death on a moun
tain highway between Durango
and Montrose, Colo., when a
snowslide hit the bus broadside
and shoved it 75 feet off the
road. . ' :
The vehicle came to resi on a
pile of rubble from an abandon-
ed mine. On eitner siae oi me
mine dump, 25 feet wide, there
was a sheer drop of 1,500 feet
to the floor of the Animas river
canyon. , .
Three other busses were stall
ed in Colorado and Wyoming
but passengers managed to stay
comfortable until relief vehicles
shuttled them to railroad sta
tions. ' ; .
Aboard one of the busses, 19
persons were stranded for more
than 24 hours at the continental
divide bus station on UJ5. 30
before snow plows rescued them
and led them into Rawlins,
Wyo. r :-
Three Arrested in
Jewel Theft Case
" San Francisco (U.R) Fast-
moving police Saturday arrested
three ex-convicts on charges of
committing Jfnaays $.suu,uuu
4wel robbery. One of the sus
pects implicated a prominent
credit dentist and a steel broker
as the "fences" in the crime.
Only a comparatively small
amount of the stolen gems were
recovered from the ex-convicts.
Police believed the bulk of the
mall uncut diamonds were
placed in a bank safe deposit box
which, because of a time lock,
cannot be opened until 8 a. m.
Monday.
The dentist, Dr. James Brum
back. 55. fainted when confront
ed by police in his Market street
office.
Capt. of Inspectors James Eng
lish said Brumback later admit
ted putting a 'quantity of dia
monds" from the robbery in a
safe deposit box at the Bank of
America.
Weather Forces Delay
jn Nevada Atomic Test
: Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R)
The Atomic Energy commission
remained the prisoner of the
weather Saturday and was forc
ed to postpone until next week
all further nuclear tests in the
week-old 1955 testing series, r
Continued winter .winds from
the north set up such a potential
hazard for radiation fall - out
over populated areas that the
AEC called off Saturday's sched
uled "Big Shot" until next Tues
day, Washington's birthday.
Sports Bulletins
Medford's Black Tornado
lashed Ashland high 82 to 57
here last night for its 10th
consecutive Southern Oregon
Conference basketball victory.
The Tornado had period ad
vantages of 21 to 12, 36 to 30
and 61 to 40. Larry Copple of
Medford was top scorer of the
evening with 20. Gene Parent
canned 16 for Ashland.
Pullman Wash. (U.R)
The Washington State college
Cougars squeeked by Oregon
State college here last night,
68 to 66, to hand the Beavers
their first loss of the 1955
Northern Division basketball
season.
Seattle (U.R) University
of Oregon's Ducks clinched at
least a tie for second place in
the Northern Division basket
ball race last night by defeat
ing the Washington Huskies,
60 to 59.
Berkeley, Calif. (U.R)
UCLA's Bruins defeated Cali
fornia, 84 to 76, here last night
to clinch the Southern Division
basketball title. The Bruins
will meet Oregon State for the
Pacific Coast Conference
crown.
Crater 54, Phoenix 42.
Eagle Point, 58, Illinois Val
ley, 48.
Portland State 51, SOC 39.
County Receives
$815,047 Check in
O&C Disbursement
- Jackson c o u n t y treasurer's
0 f f i c e .- Saturday morning re
ceived a check for $815,047.88.
- .The- payment - from - the i De
partment of Interior's Bureau of
Land Management O and C
account represented the county's
share of a $5,171,623.59 dis
bursement from the Oregon
and : California controverted
land fund. Checks were issued
to .18 Oregon counties by the
Treasury Department, ending a
land dispute which had existed
39 years. The fund had been in
dispute since 1916.
Funds Not Earmarked
County Commissioner L. G.
Morthland stated Saturday that
the payment to this county has
not been earmarked for any spe-
sific use. He said that t will be
up to the budget committee to
determine how the money will
be' allocated. The committee,
composed of three members of
the county court and three lay
members, is scheduled to con
vene on or about March 15.
It is expected that some of the
funds will go to road construc
tion and equipment for that
purpose. ,
The check was deposited in a
local bank Saturday to draw in
terest at A3A per cent for six
months.
Payment to the counties was
made under Public Law 426 pas
sed last year by the 83rd Con
gress. The legislation was
pushed by Oregon Senator Guy
Cordon and Congressman Har
ris Ellsworth and was Known
as the Cordon-Ellsworth contro
verted lands bill.
From Timber Sales
The funds are from sales of
timber and have been held in
the treasury awaiting settlement
of the dispute. Argument began
when Congress declared that the
Oregon and California railroad
had violated terms of its land
grant and title was revested in
the United States under the De
partment of Interior manage
ment. The Forest Service under
the Department of Agriculture
maintained that certain of the
revested lands came under its
jurisdiction while Interior said
they were part of the original
O and C grant.
The disbursement require
ment brought into the distribu
tion computation not ' only the
474,000 acres of O and C lands
in the indemnity strip within
the national forests but some
232,000 acres of other O and C
lands which were not assessed as
of 1915. r These lands had not
been surveyed before that time.
Oregon Congratulated
For Oppenheimer Stand
Eugene (U.R) Irving Dil
liard, editor of the editorial page
of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
congratulated the? Oregon State
Board of Higher Education Fri
day for sticking to its plans to
invite Dr. J. Robert Oppenheim
er to speak at three Oregon col
leges this spring.
Searchers Called
In; Have Little
Hope of Survivors
Plane in Distress
Reported by Indians
, Santa Fe, N. M. (U.R) An
airliner carrying 16 persons on
a 20 minute flight from Albu
querque to Santa Fe disap
peared in a snow storm Satur
day over rugged north , central
New Mexico. Searchers said last
night there was little hope any
of the 16 survived.
Upwards of 50 planes and
hundreds of men searched the
area all day for some sign of
the plane without success. All
were called in for the night ex
cept for one plane which was to
search for possible flares and
campfires. The temperature was
expected to drop to five degrees
Saturday night.
Blizzard Blowing
The twin-engine TransWorld
Airlines Martin Skyliner took
off at 7:02 a.m. MST with 13
passengers and a crew of three
for the 60 mile hop to Santa Fe.
At that time the tailend of a
blizzard was blowing light snow
over the area.
Group after group of volun
teers and Civil Air Patrol
ground parties . streamed
through Santo Domingo Indian
Pueblo at sundown, shivering
from freezing cold, and living
evidence of the suffering from
exposure any survivors of the
plane would be undergoing.
None of those returning re
ported any sign of the plane.
Indians Saw. Planes
Several Indians in the area
told of seeing a huge plane circ
ling the area as if in distress
and two told the J CAP they
hear of ,a"vidlerit' explosion ''soon
after seeing the plane disappear
to the southwest. ; v
Pete Quintana, a rancher, ob
served a plane circling his home
southwest of the Domingo three
times, each time disappearing
briefly in a heavy . snow, only
to return as if searching for a
place . to land. He said the
plane's wheels were down. -
Medford Man Dies
In Auto Accident
Roseburg U.R) A Medford
man was fatally injured Satur
day afternoon when the car he
was driving, , plunged over an
embankment near the summit of
Canyon mountain, about 30
miles south of here on Highway
89. ;.
Raymond Leslie Johnson, 26,
of 819 South Central ave., Med
ford was found pinned under
his car shortly after noon. He
was rushed to the Forest Glen
clinic at Canyonville where he
died at 1:40 p.m.
State police were unable to
determine when the accident oc
curred, but thought that John
son had been pinned . beneath
the car for some time. Officer
Fred Jungwirth said it appeared
that Johnson had fallen asleep
The body was removed to the
Ganz mortuary at Myrtle Creek.
Johnson was the son of Mr
and Mrs. Glenn Johnson, 819
South Central ave., according
to officials at Conger-Morris
Funeral home, who are in
charge of local arangements.
Tension High as House Me
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The House of
Representatives is seldom the
scene of so much nervous anxi
ety, buffoonery1 and political
nose counting at one time as it
was this week when the law
makers plunged into the ques
tion of whether to raise their
own salaries.
They had made it. the No. 1
topic of conversation for days
in the Capitol cloakrooms and
restaurant, wherever two or
more congressmen were on hand
to ask one another how they
intended voting on the pay bill
and what they thought the re
action v would be in the grass
roots.
When the big day came, they
poured into the chamber to
await the verdict on 'whether
they would continue to draw
$15,000 or $22,500 and many
had even calculated how much
of the raise would be soaked up
by income taxes.
I lit i
hi
HEADS DOWN U. S. sol
diers huddle in their six-foot
deep trench where they wit
nessed an atomic detonation
about 4000 vards away in first
test of the 1955 series.
Coty Picks Radical
Socialist To Form
French Government
Paris (U.R) French presi
dent Rene Coty Saturday asked
Radical Socialist Edgar Faure,
who last month challenged a
leftwing newspaper editor to a
duel, to attempt to form a new
French government.
Foure, righthand man of de-
nosed premier Pierre Mendes-
France is the fourth man Coty
has asked to try to solve the
governmental-'crisis-vhich: start
ed 14 days ago wnen tne JNa
tional Assembly ousted Mendes
France. ' '"""
Confers with Coty
The Radical Socialist leader
conferred with Coty for one hour
and 25 minutes at the Elysee pal
ace. He said he gave the presi
dent his tentative acceptance of
the task of premier-designate.
He began immediate consulta
tions to determine whether he
can form a government accept
able to the National Assembly.
The 46-year-old Faure was
premier of France for 40 days
in 1952 before he fell while try
ing to push the annual National
budget through the assembly.
Last month he felt slighted by
an article in the leftist weekly
Express and challenged 31-year-
old editor Jean-Jacques Servan
Schreiber to a duel. He was tak
ing determined target practice
in a local shooting gallery before
Mendes-France cooled him down
and the matter was settled ami
cably. :
Coty turned to Faure after
leaders of the 11 political groups
in the assembly failed in an ex
traordinary session to agree on
a premier-designate.
Anchorage, Alaska (U.R)
A two-man Air Force .Para
medic team radioed Saturday
night thai there were no sur
vivors of the crash of a Navy
Neptune bomber on Mount
Susiina, 36 miles northwest of
here. ."" . .'-
All awaited the speech they
knew was coming from Rep.
Usher Burdick. (R-N.D.), the
roly-poly, white-haired story
teller who is unequaled in abil
ity to turn the chamber into a
monkey cage of knee-slapping,
guffawing congressmen. c
; ; Burdick said he was tickled
by the congressmen who said
they lose $400 1 per ' month due
to the high cost of living in
Washington, D. C. and t heir
present low salaries. - ' .
; "I've noticed one peculiar
thing about these congressmen,"
said . Burdick. . "When their
terms expire, they come right
back striving for another term
in ; which they can go still fur
ther behind."
-Burdick proposed that since
the bill would make , the pay
raise retroactive to the first of
this year, that it be made retro
active to 1934 when he was first
elected. While some solons near
ly tumbled into the aisles as
Burdick flailed away, others sat
1KB
Pemniocirate
All Taxes
Decision on Plans
For Cutting Budget
Beiton Warns Group
Against Quick Vote
Salem (U.R) Sen. How
ard Beiton (R-Canby), co-chairman
of the joint Ways and
Means committee of the Ore
gon senate, Saturday deferred
until Monday a vote on a budget-
slashing plan proposed by Sen.
Gene . Brown, (R-Grants Pass).
Brown proposed that the
joint committee and its subcom
mittees adopt as their policy on
budget requests cuts equivalent
to 10 per cent of the governor's
budget to achieve a savings of
$20,000,000.
Laden With Dynamite
Though the plan, which Bel-
ton considered too laden with
dynamite to vote on without a
second thought, would not solve
the problem of an anticipated
$45,000,000 deficit, it would re
lieve the mounting pressure on
Oregon's long vacation from a
state property tax.
Sen. John Merrifield (R-Port-
land- moved to amend Brown's
proposal to make it an arbitrary,
across-xne-ooara cut or. 10 per
cent on all budgets drawing from
the general fund.
Both the original motion and
Merrif ield's amendment were
laid on the table until Monday
morning, when Beiton warned
this is a very serious step you
are proposing and it's something
you r? gjing to, h,ave..to,live, with
ior tne next two ; years."
Might Ba Perilous ;
Brown conceded that approv
al of his policy might be politi
cally perilous for committee
members but he said he believ
ed it was an economy step the
voters would ultimately appre
ciate.
Brown objected strenuously to
Merrifield's amendment. He said
an arbitrary cut, across the
board, would reduce the Ways
and Means committee's work to
a stenographic job of retrying
the budget with no deliberate
process to temper economy with
justice. -The aim of the motion
was to furnish a goal that might
not be achieved, but would fur
nish a working policy, he said,
SEATO Defense Treaty
Ratified at Manila
Manila (U.R) The SEATO
nations ratified: their collective
defense , treaty of Sept. 8, 1954,
in a simple 23-minute ceremony
Saturday. . - 1 r :
Carlos P. Garcia, vice-presi
dent and foreign secretary, be
gan receiving the instruments of
ratification from diplomatic
representatives in, the main hall
of the new Department of For
eign Affairs building at 11 a.m
The powers presented , their
documents of ratification in al
phabetical order Australia
France, New Zealand, Pakistan,
the Philippines, . Thailand, Un
ited Kingdom of Britain and
Northern Ireland, and the Unit
ed States.
stone sober as though chilled at
the thought of Burdick's words
being used as campaign ammun
ition by their future challengers
for Congress. -.-
Louisiana's Rep. George Long,
brother of the late Huey,
matched Burdick from the op
posite point of view, by suggest
ing that all those who opposed
the pay bill should (1) not accept
the increase if it goes through,
and (2) go back-home and help
elect better men to Congress in
their home districts if they don't'
think themselves worth the pay
increase. '
In the end, as predicted, two
of every three congressmen vo
ted for the increase, which has
long been advocated by inder
pendent authorities in order to
avoid a growing., condition in
which the only persons who can
afford to run for Congress are
the well-to-do and the dishonest.
Two of Oregon's solons re
fused, to go along with the pay
bill, both of them relative new
Delays
SPIPf
IPDot Drive To Cut
fEffiTecftSve Jamiiuiairy t
Man Observes Funeral
Anniversary in Jail
Tenafly, N. J. (U.R)
James Scully observed the
first anniversary of his ' own
funeral a year ago in j a i 1
Saturday.
A body in a New York City
lodging house fire was identi
fied as that of Scully by mem
bers of his family last year,
and the funeral was in pro
gress when he turned up last
Feb. 18.
Friday night he was arrest
ed for drunk and disorderly,
conduct and was sentenced to
60 days in jail.
Nine Local Groups
Aiding in Sunday
Heart Fund Drive
Heart Sunday volunteers from
nine women's organizations will
seek donations to the Heart fund
at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It
is estimated that most Medford
families will be contacted for
their contributions , to the local
and national crusade against
heart disease by 4 p.m.
Miss Laura York, Heart Sun
day chairman, has expressed
confidence that the extensive
twO hour, house-to-house collec
tion will exceed Heart fund con
tributions from the Medford area
in previous years. This will be
the community's first Heart Sun
day campaign.
Start at 2 P.M.
Each worker has been assign
ed to call on between 15 and' 25
families, and members of the
volunteer group will start ring
ing doorbells at 2 p.m.
Each, volunteer will identify
herself and present a brown
manila envelope, in which
contribution may be enclosed
and sealed by the donor before
returning it to the worker.. It
will not be necessary to disclose
the amount contributed unless
the donor desires a receipt for
income -tax deduction purposes.
If requested by the donor, this
information will be included on
the "thank you" slip which is
left by the volunteer.-
Will Leave Envelopes
At homes- where-, occupants
are away, envelopes will be left
so that contributions, may be
mailed to the postmaster, and
these in turn will be forwarded
to the Heart association.
At the present time, Medford
Heart association leads the state
since it already has received
$520 in campaign contributions.
Of this amount; $100 was given
from the Elizabeth McGlone me
morial fund ;by. her ? husband,
John Camarata, " Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Camarata suffered a heart
attack in Medford and later died
after returning to her Georgia
home. Three other local contri
butions in memory of Mrs. Cam
arata totaled $70. .
Washington- (U.R) The Fed
eral Housing Administration an
nounced Saturday that all build
ers applying f or FHA-insured
loans henceforth must - fill out
two forms designed to flush those
who allegedly have made-illegal
"windfall" profits in the past .
comers: Reps. Sam Coon, Baker
Republican, ?.. and Edith ; Green;
Portland Democrat. Rep: Watler
Norblad voted for it Rep. Har
ris Ellsworth was out' of town,
Coon said he probably would
have taken a different .: attitude
if the pay increase had been less
and if it had not been retroac
tive. He: said he couldn't "in
eood conscience" vote to in
crease his own salary just three
months after being elected,
when at the time of the election
it wasthought the pay? would
be $15,000.
Mrs. Green said she would
have preferred a more moder
ate increase in salary plus an
expense account, which she said
West Coast congressmen needed
more badly than others. She
opposed the amount of the in
crease in the bill as passed, but
said she hoped the Senate would
make the changes she favored
This is a position similar to. that
taken by Sen. Wayna Morse
d Oun Pay Hike
21
RED
$20 Slash for Each
Taxpayer Included
In Surprise Plans
Added Reduction Seen
For Each Dependent
Washington (U.R) Speaker
Sam Rayburn announced Satur
day that House Democrats will
launch a drive Monday to cut
everyone's income taxes, effect
ive next Jan. 1. '
He said the Democrats, now in
majority - control of " congress,
will back legislation to provide
each taxpayer with a cut of at
least $20, with an additional $20
reduction for each dependent.
Jumps Gun on Ike '
The surprise announcement
jumped the gun on President Ei
senhower on the tax relief ques
tion which is bound to be a main
. Washington (U.R) Here
is how the tax cut proposed by
House Democrats would work:
The cut would be the same
amount of dollars for all
classes of taxpayers, regardless
of size of income.
Percentagewise, it would be
equal "to a 100 per cent cut in
the lowest bracket (those
whose tax now is no greater
than the amount of the cut),
ranging down to a reduction
of less than one per cent in
the highest bracket.
Taxpayer with no depend
ants $20. Married couple
$40. Married couple, one
" child $60. Married ' coupler
two children $80. Married
couple, three children $100.
Married couple, four children
$120.
issue in 1956 election year poli
tics. Mr. Eisenhower said in his
budget, message earlier this year
that no tax cuts are warranted
this year but he "hoped"to be
able to recommend some next
year.
Secretary of 1 the Treasury
George M. Humphrey, restated
the . administration stand in a
Chicago speech Saturday. He
said the administration favors
tax relief in "the long run" but
not this year." , .
Rayburn made his announce
ment after meeting privately
with democratic members of the
tax-writing House Ways and
Means Committee. It represent
ed a sudden switch in democratic
strategy. Only last week key
Democrats told reporters they
had about given up hope for
early, tax cuts because of the
Formosa crisis. j .:-:
Planned as Amendment
Rayburn said the democratic
plan for across-the-board income
tax cuts will be offered as an
amendment to administration
requested legislation extending
for one year the corporation and
excise (sales) taxes due to drop
April 1.
The committee will begin hear
ings on this bill Monday.
The tax : relief proposed by
the Democrats would cost the
government about $1,400,000,000
a year. . Rayburn pointed out,
however, that -if the cuts take
effect next Jan. 1 the revenue
loss ' during the current 1956
fiscal year would be only half
that much, or about $700,000,
000. The fiscal year runs from
July 1 to June 30. '
West Skeptical of
Red Atomic Plans
United Nations, N. Y. (U.R)
The United States and Britain re
ceived with t skepticism Satur
day" Russia's latest proposal for
destruction of nuciear weapons,
but nonetheless decided to send
in a top team of negotiators to
meet the Reds at next week s dis
armament conference. .; ; j
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the
United. Nations and Anthony
Nutting for Britain will have a
chance to review the Russian
proposal . with : Russia.'s Andrei
Gromyko when they meet in
London next Friday. - -
The surprise stature of the
Russian delegate was a factor in
the decision to have the United
States' and Britain send top rep
resentatives to sit in on the Lon
don conference. , . .
nn
A
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Convoy Carrying
Chinese Troops Hit
Near Invasion Base
41 Craft Destroyed ,
In Two-Day Period r
Taipeh, Formosa U.R
Nationalist bombers sank or
damaged 20 ' more Communist
ships Saturday, trapping a Red
troop convoy for the second time
in 24 hours near the invasion
buildup base of Tai island.
Many of the 20 ships hit Sat
urday were heavily loaded with
troops as were the 21Red war-
ships and a submarine sunk or
damaged Friday in an air-sea
battle off Taishan,' 120 miles
north of Formosa.
Claims 41 Ships Hit, V,
The Nationalist Air : Force
now claims a total of 41 ships
sunk or damaged in Friday's
air-sea battle and Saturday's
uuuiuuig ana suauug. iuc
Force also claims to have
bombed and sunk a Commun
ist submarine off Taishan Fri
day.'. The air force communique
Saturday said only three of 23
Red warcraf t caught near Taish
an escaped into ; the open sea.:
The other 20 were bombed and
riddled with machinegun , and
cannon fire in the attempt to put
new Red troops on Taishan.
Little Tai island lies between
Nanchi and Matsu islands, two
of Generalissimo Chiang Kai
shek's island outposts and there
are growing indications that the '
Reds' next strike will be against'
one of these two islands.
21 Planes Destroyed .
Nationalist air and sea forces
"n. : j . l a m.
rriuay aesuroyea zl xiea war
craft in a daylong battle off Tai
shan. The air force claimed it
Domoea and macmnegunned a
enKm nflnA writ nV -w. Va-vta Uamm
Russian, but ;the Defense . Min
istry would not confirm or deny
the report -
urday was on its way from the
port of Foochow on the Red-held
mainland to Taishan from which:
the Reds would have to mount
their invasion of either Nanchi
or Matsu, military sources said.
The Reds apparently have)
been able to push through rein
forcements t6 Taishan despite
the Nationalist . attacks. Two
weeks ago the Communist gar
rison was estimated at 600 men,
today Nationalist sources said
there were some 2,000 Red
troops on the little island.
Victory Predicted
For Tariff Cuts
Washington (U.R) S e n.
Walter F. George (D-Ga.) Satur
day; predicted victory in the
Senate for President Eisenhow
er's tariff -cutting foreign trade,
program which has been ap
proved by the House.
The veteran senator, who has
steered several trade measures,
through the 1 Senate in past
Salem U.R) Tha Oregon v
Senate voted 20 to 10 Friday
in favor of a memorial urging
Congress not to pass a reso- .
lution ;. authorizing President
Eisenhower trX reduce tariffs.
years, conceded there would be
a sharp fight to restrict the pro
gram. However, he anticipated
final approval without changes.
"I don't think it will be as.
hard fought as it was in the
House," George told a reporter. .
- George - now - is chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations
committee. : Formerly, he was
chairman of the Finance com-
mittee which handles such re
ciprocal trade legislation.
The House voted 295 to 110
to approve the overall admini--stration
program. However, the
key test on -the controversial
measure came on a 206-199 vote
by which the House rejected a
strong bid by protectionist
minded congressmen to trim the .
president's tariff -cutting powers.
Wire-Tap Arrests "
Mnrlo In New Yerlr
New York (U.R) Three
men., were .charged.; Saturday
with setting up an elaborate
telephone tapping service on:
Manhattan's swank east side,
home of kings of industry, ft
nance and society. . - --.
Police said they knew of only
that the three had, the equip-;
35 lines that were tapped but
ment and' organization to listen:
in on thousands of conversa
tions., - -