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San Francisco (U.R) Two
sailors were killed, three others
are missing and presumed dead
and four were seriously injured
when a series of explosions
recked the submarine USS Pom
odon at its berth in Hunters
Point Naval Shipyard, the Navy
reported today.
The three explosions, the first
of which took place about 9:20
p.m. Sunday, were followed im
mediately by a fire that caused
"a lot of damage" to the World
War IT sub.
Sailors aboard another sub.
the USS Catfish, and the carrier
f Philippine Sea, as well as civil
""ians, helped in rescue operations.
Many donned oxygen masks and
boarded the .burning Pomodon,
Two civilian fire fighters were
injured and three other persons
were treated for smoke inhala
tion. Four Removed Alive
The rescuers managed to re
move four men, three of whom
were later taken to Oak Knoll
o Hospital in Oakland, as well as
the two dead men.
Oak Knoll gave the names of
the injured as Lt. Lloyd Rud
asell While, San Diego; Bobby
Douglas Pulliam, a seaman and
sonar expert; and Carlin Joe
Cobb, an engine man.
The three missing men were
"presumed" to be aboard the sub
end to have succumbed to the
deadly hydrogen fumes.
Firemen managed to bring
the fire under control two hours
after it broke out, but the Navy
forbade anyone to go aboard
until the task of pumping the
hydrogen out of the hull was
completed.
Extreme Caution :
A Navy spokesman said the
pumping operations would take
anywhere from several hours to
several days. They had to work
with extreme caution lest the
least false move touch off an
other searing blast. ;
; Huge signs reading, "Danger!
area around, the Pomodon. Crew-
60C Anniversary
Observance Stated
The first anniversary of the
Medford Ground Observer corps
post will be observed this eve
ning at 8 o'clock at a meeting
to be attended by Air Force,
civil defense, county and city
officials.
; The meeting will be held at
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
hall, 42 North Front st., and will
be oDen to the public.
During the program, GOC
wings; will be presented to vol
unteer observers who have com
pleted 30 to 36 hours at the lo
cal post. Also on the agenda
will be presentation of a flag
to GOC officials of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars. :.'
Refreshments will be served
by a committee headed by Mrs.
Ray A. Daniels, social chairman.
Oregon College Head
Found Dead at Desk
Monmouth U.R) Dr. Roben
J. Maaske, president. of. Oregon
College of Education, was found
dead at his desk here yesterday
after apparently suffering a
heart attack.
. Maaske, 51, is survived by his
wife, Iola. He was president of
Eastern Oregon College of Edu
cation at La Grande before com
ing here in 1950. Earlier he was
with, the state department of ed
ducation at Salem.
Dr. Maaske's death leaves the
state Board of Higher Educa
tion with two presidential va
' cancies to fill, one to replace
Maaske and 'one for the newly
created Portland State College.
Washington (U.R) The
U.S. Air Force today named
Western Electric Co., Inc., to
build the warning radar net
which will wind for about 3000
miles across Northern Canada's
Arctic wastes.
Pol ice Showered With Ice Cubes During
Series of Riots at Mardi Gras Festival
New Orleans (U.R) One
of the most dazzling Mardi Gras
seasons in years erupted into a
series of riots early today that
injured six, caused 100 arrests
and subjected police to a bomb
ardment of ice cubes at close
range.
Things got started at 12:19
ajn. deep in the famous New
Orleans French quarter when
the police chased an automobile
theft suspect into the crowd.
Tha suspect shouted, to tha
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Missing
Explosive area," marked off the
men from the Pomodon who
were not on duty at the time
milled around silently. They re
fused to talk to newsmen.
The ship is commanded by Lt.
Cmdr. Charles Almy of San
Diego, who also declined to
speak to reporters.'
The Pomodon was just about
ready to go to sea after an
overhaul." Its batteries were
being charged, a process that re
sults in the creation of the ex
plosive hydrogen gas.
18 Persons Killed,
180 Said Missing
In Japanese Storm
Tokyo (U.R) A sudden
storm, packing winds of up to
90 miles per hour, buffeted the
Japanese islands today, taking
at least 18 lives before it blew
out to sea.
Police said 12 persons died
in the storm's gales and bliz
zards. The Coast Guard reported
six other persons lost at sea.
In addition, some 180 persons
still were missing tonight in the
howling gale which developed
in the East China sea yesterday
and lashed Formosa, Okinawa,
Korea and Japan.
Five Vessels Sink
The Japanese Coast Guard
said five vessels were sunk, 19
grounded, 17 damaged and hun
dreds of small boats wrecked
or beached. Twenty four vessels
still were missing.
Winds in the waters between
Okinawa and China had dimin
ished from 60 miles an hour to
a gusty 45 miles an hour. But
Japanese press reports said a
90-mile an hour blizzard roared
today through the Straits of Tsu-
garu where five ferry boats sank
in a typhoon last September
with the loss of more than- a
thousand lives, including many
Americans.
Distress Signals Sent Out
At least four large ships sent
out distress signals at the
height of the storm which struck
without warning in the China
sea.
All were reported out of dang
er although at least two Okin
swan passenger boats with more
than 300 persons aboard were
limping to port through heavy
seas.
Ike Calls Meeting
On Highway Program
. Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower unexpectedly
called : a Republican-Democratic
meeting at the White House to
day to discuss his multi-billion
dollar highway building pro
gram. .
Mr. Eisenhower is expected to
send his highway proposals to
Congress tomorrow and the pro
gram faces a rocky path in the
Senate at least.
The President invited Repub
licans and Democrats from the
House and Senate to meet with
him in the Cabinet room this
afternoon.
The White House ' conceded
that this was the first bipartisan
meeting called by the President
on a solely domestic issue.
Hood Slopes Crowded;
Lodge Ignored by Skiers
Government Camp (U.R)
About 6000 persons crowded the
slopes of Mt. Hood yesterday but
skiers stuck to the lower alti
tudes because of the shutdown
of Timberline Lodge.
The U. S. Forest Service lock
ed up the lodge Friday after the
Sandy Electric co-operative shut
off electricity to the inn for non
payment of the electric bill.
The Forest Service reported
that a few persons drove to Tim
berline yesterday to sight-see,
but the lifts and tows for skiers
were not in operation. -
There were no indications as
to when the lodge might open.
crowd "I'm a federal agent. The
police ; are putting me in jail
for nothing."
The crowd surged to his aid.
Within a short , time, a second
riot of no connection with the
first broke out in front of the
Dixie Music - Bar on Bourbon
St.
Then a third uprising flared
at famed Pat O'Brien's Bar, a
popular tourist spot in the same
block on St. Peter where the or
iginal trouble started.
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Payer, Dependent
Committee Ignores
Plea by Humphrey
Washington U.R) The
House Ways and Means . Com
mittee voted 15 to 10 today to
cut income taxes $20 a person,
effective next Jan .1.
The plan would give each tax
payer an additional $20 cut for
each dependent. Thus, a married
couple with two children would
save $80 in taxes next year if
the program finally were ap
proved by Congress.
The Democratic plan was ap
proved by the committee after
the majority ignored a two-hour
plea from Secretary of Treasury
George M. Humphrey not to
take action. :
Humphrey Objects
"This move is playing fast
and loose with the welfare of
160,000,000 Americans .. . ."
Humphrey said in a statement.
Fourteen Democrats and one
Republican voted for the tax
cut. Nine Republicans and one
Democrat voted against it.
The committee action ap
proved the tax cut as an amend
ment ' to an administration-
backed bill to postpone for an
other year a scheduled April 1
reduction in corporation income
taxes and certain excise sales
taxes.
Final committee approval of
the bill was put off until tomor
row. This will permit the com
mittee to send to the floor a
new "clean" bill ; incorporating
the tax-cutting amendment, J .. ,
-Humphrey -told newsmen he is
not prepared to say" whether
President Eisenhower would
veto a tax cut if one is enacted.
Loss of Revenue
Humphrey told newsmen the
tax cut plan would result in a
revenue loss of about $2,300,
000,000 a year and would "just
about wipe out" an estimated
$2,800,000,000 in revenue which,
he said, could be expected from
the corporation-excise tax ex
tension. . .
Mr. Eisenhower, in his budget
message to Congress last month,
ruled out any tax, cuts this year,
but left open the possibility of
one next year, which is election
year. ' , . '
The Democratic plan is aimed
at beating. the Eisenhower ad
ministration to the punch on
any tax cutting. ,
(See story on Page 10)
Premier-Designate
In Search of Backing
Paris (U.R) Premier -designate
Edgar Faure, 46, turned
today to the Socialists for sup
port before making a formal
decision 'on whether, to try , to
form a cabinet and end France's
17-day-old government crisis.
Faure, a Radical Socialist and
foreign minister in ' the fallen
government of Pierre Mendes
France said he expected to give
his answer to President Rene
Coty by tonight or Tuesday mor
ning. Faure already had won quick
right-wing support which boost
ed his chances higher than any
of the three other men who have
tried and failed to replace Men-des-France.
It was the right-wing
that toppled Mendes-France. ;
Pear Festival Group
Schedules Meeting
A breakfast meeting has been
set for 7:30 a. m. tomorrow for
the- general committee of the
Pear Festival association, accord
ing to committee members.
The meeting will be held in
the Medford hotel and all mem
bers were urged to attend in
order to hear festival progress.
In addition to the normal
flood of Mardi Gras visitors, the
French quarter was loaded with
additional thousands last night
for NBC's national network tele
vision coverage of the festival.
The show had been over, for
several hours and the valuable
equipment safely out of reach
when the rioting started.
Six injuries, 100 arrests and
an uncounted number of bump
ed heads resulted before order
was restored at 3:45 ? "ix
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1955
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FIREBALL RISES into sky as first atomic device in 1955 series
of tests explodes over Yucca Flat, Nev. In picture taken .from
Angels Peak, 55 miles away, infra red filter is ussd to cut out
most of daylight and silhouette blast.- (International)
NUCLEAR CLOUD forms from fireball while steam is sucked up
toward cloud in first explosion of "Operation Teapot," atomic
device tests conducted at Yucca Flat, near Las Vegas, Nev. The
device used in first blast was dropped from plane. (International)
Nationalist Airmen Sink
Unidentified Submarine;
Red Build-ups
Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) The
Nationalist Chinese air force an
nounced today it had sunk an
other - unidentified - submarine
near the Taishan Islands. The
Taishans aie the scene of a mas
sive 'Red buildup for an antici
pated, attack either on Nanchi
or Matsu islands north of For
mosa. . "
". It was the second unidentified
submarine claimed sunk by the
Nationalists in the last four days.
Submarine ' Disappears
The air forced which ,has kept
Red troops and "artillery-1 posi
tions on Tishan under incessant
attack since Friday, said it found
the submarine surfaced near
Taishan today and immediately
bombed and strafed it.
It ' said the submarine dis
appeared beneath the waves and
was presumed sunk.
At the same time the National
ist press reported 11 submarines
sighted in or near the strait by
intelligence sources. -The semi
official Chinatone News Agency
reported the underseas force had
moved from Hainan Island
bases into waters patrolled by
the U.S. 7th Fleet . Y
Spotted At Anchor w
Chinatone said Nationalist
agents spotted four of the sub
marines at anchor in the Pearl
river near Hongkong for re
fueling. Others were seen off the
Chekiang coast, in .the vicinity
of Taishan Island.
Nationalist bomber pilots who
have carried but non-stop raids
on Communist troop buildups
in the Taishan for four straight,
days claimed destruction of big
fuel dumps at Taishan today and
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Bombarded
heavy casualties among Com
munist troops.
The -Nationalist air attacks be
gan in the early hour of morning
amid new reports of Communist
invasion preparations going on
at full speed in Fukien Province
facing Formosa." ' -
Tabulation of Funds
For Heart Drive Set
Donations made during- yes
terday's Heart ... Sunday . drive
were scheduled to be tabulated
this? " afternoon, : according . to
Dwight Houghton, Heart Fund
treasurer. The ' campaign was
the - first Heart Sunday drive
conducted in Medford.
Volunteers from nine local wo
men's organizations took part in
yesterday's drive.
Those who were not contact
ed yesterday and who wish to
contribute to the Heart Fund
may mail their contributions to
the Medford postmaster, and
they will be forwarded to the
Heart association.
Willamind Drug Store
Loses Narcotics, Liquor
Willamina (U.R) The New
bry drug store here was broken
into by yeggs early , yesterday
who. made off with narcotics,
liquor and $683 in cash. '
Police said entry , had been
made -by boring through a rear
door and that the safe had been
punched. The thieves also took
a number of ; Oregon Liquor
commission tax . stamps.
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Thailand Urges
SEATO Countries
To Create Army
Plan Eyed to Halt
Communist Activity
Bangkok,' Thailand (U.R)
Thailand today urged the eight
Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza
tion nations to create a standing
SEATO army during this week's
conference here, to halt increas
ing Communist activity in South
east Asia. 7
Premier Phibum Pibul Song
gram said Thailand would sup
port such a military force, cre
ated along the lines of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
force in Europe.
Aggression Increasing
The Premier told a press con
ference that Red aggression is' in
creasing in Southeast Asia. He
claimed Red China is training a
20,000-man army of Thai expa
triots in Southwest China under
the guise of a "Thai autonomous
state" for use against Thailand.
He predicted the Chinese
trained forces would be used to
open Communist aggression
against Thailand.
Phibum said he would wel
come SEATO air, land and'naval
bases on Thai soil to protect
against such developments.
He said the Communists also
have made several moves against
the Indochinese state of Laos in
violation of the Geneva truce
agreement. ...
But he said the greatest Red
menace continued to be Commu
nist subversion rather than out
right aggression. ,
Pact Already Signed - --
' He said Thailand will discuss
at the conference which opens
Wednesday, the advisability of
forming a NATO-type fighting
force for this area of the world.
The three-day conference, is to
consider means of implementing
the mutual defense pact for
Southeast Asia, formally ratified
in Manila last Saturday.
Atomic Explosion
Scheduled Tuesday
Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) The
Atomic Energy Commission has
tentatively scheduled the first
"granddaddy" shot of the 1955
A-bomb test series for tomorrow
but in the meantime readied a
substitute nuclear device in case
unsatisfactory weather prevails.
AEC officials said there would
be two shots ready for tomor
row's scheduled test, marking
the first time a dual capability
operation" has been put into ef
fect during the current tests on
the Nevada proving ground.
Plagued by bad .weather and
able to set off only one' blast in
the first week of the tests, the
commission hoped to " see , the
series get underway again.
The ''big shot"' was postponed
for the sixth time Friday be
cause of wind and cloud condi
tions which created a potential
hazard for radiation fall-out. over
populated areas. H
The giant blast, equivalent to
detonation of 50,000 tons of TNT,
originally was scheduled for last
Tuesday before dawn from a 500
foot 'tower at Yucca Flat, 75
miles northeast of here.
Clerks, School Boards
To Meet Tomorrow
A meeting for all clerks and
school boards of the Jackson
county rural district has been
set for tomorrow at 8 p.. m. in
the Howard school, according to
Alf Mekvold, county school sup
erintendent. '
; The same group held a meeting
on Feb. ; 14 and decided on the
second meeting. There was some
discussion of the "possibility of
organizing a local school board
association for common problem
discussion, and also possible
membership in-the state school
boards association.
' School superintendents in
Jackson county met at 2 p. m.
today in the courthouse to dis
cuss new social study plan adop
tions and cadet teaching on the
secondary level, among others.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York U.R) Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 indus
trials 411.28 off 0.33; 20 rail
roads 148.11 up 1.50; 15 utilities
63.03 iip : 0.28; and 65 stocks
152.92 up 0.51. Sales today were
about 3,010,000 shares,' compared
with 3,660,000 shares traded Fri
day. .
Weather
FORECAST: Fair with consid
erable high cloudiness to
night and Tuesday. Low to
night about 22. High Tuesday
52.
Temp.
Highest yesterday 53
Lowest this morning 21
Glass Eater Loses
Touch; Finds Beer
Glasses Undigestible
Portland (U.R) A man
who said he was a former
carnival glass eater was dis
charged from St. Vincents
hospital here yesterday.
Daniel Colville of Portland
tried demonstrating his trade
on some beer glasses in a local
tavern Saturday night, but he
must have lost his touch be
cause he found the tumblers
both undigestible and uncom
fortable. He was rushed to the hos
pital emergency ward where
his stomach was pumped.
Rescue Teams
Remove Bodies
From Crash Scene
Albuquerque, N.M.- (U.R)
Ground rescue teams today re
covered five bodies from the
shattered wreckage of a TWA
liner which plowed into a rocky
crag 15 miles east of here Satur
day, killing 16 persons.
V State police said the bodies
were so badly disfigured that
identification was not immediate
ly possible.
Found in Scorcbsd Area 1
The bodies were recovered in
a scorched area apparently
burned out when the . fuselage
caught fire after it struck the
Needle Peak, 9000 feet above sea
leveL The Air Force meanwhile
rushed 12 pack horses into the
area to aide in removing the
bodies... :;':::S'':'y'..:': r
The ground party reached the
scene shortly before dusk yes
terday and radioed state police
there were no signs of survivors.
But the search for bodies was
delayed until dawn today.
Crash Shortly After Takeoff
The airliner had left' Albu
querque on a 20-minute flight to
Sante Fe from where it was to
have departed for Baltimore.
But minutes after the takeoff
in a blinding snowstorm, the
plane slammed into , the jagged
southern Rocky Mountain, peak
which juts out about 8,700 feet
above sea level.
Concern for Rescuers V
During the night, authorities
expressed concern for the res
cuers themselves. Only four of
the team came equipped with
sleeping bags and other over
night camping equipment.
The crew built bonfires at the
disaster scene, trying to keep
warm in what the: weather
bureau predicted would be .15
degree below, zero temperatures.
Attempts . by , military . : and
civilian planes to drop supplies
failed. Equipment packs fell , as
far as two ' miles " from ; their
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Offices To Observe
Holiday Tomorrow
Federal, state and county of
fices, with the exception of law
enforcement agencies, . will be
closed tomorrow for the Wash
ington's birthday holiday. ;
City employees will work as
usual. Washington's birthday is
not one of the city holidays set
by ordinance, and no special ac
tion has been taken. by the city
council to establish it as a holi
day. .;v
The three Medford banks, the
U.S. National, First " National
and Rogue Valley State bank,
will remain open for business
tomorrow, as will most other
business establisHments.
Impoverished
Child, Heads
Bryte, Calif. (U.R) The
short impoverished life of little
Katela Ann Doyle ended in a
pauper's grave here today.
The little girl, daughter of an
unemployed Fresno, Calif., la
borer and his wife, Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Doyle, - became sick two
weeks ago. She was taken to a
clinic and pronounced not ser
iously ill. "...
But the Doyles didn't have
money to give proper shelter to
the family and last week start
ed out ; with hopes high for a
lumbermill job in Medford, Ore.
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As Police Bullets
Cut Gunman Down
Vow Seals Doom
Of Triggerman
New York U.R) Assassin
Augusto Robles sealed his doom ,
the moment he took guns from
detectives and vowed: "You'll
never take me alive," police said
today. ;
The pint-sized triggerman, a ,
pistol . blazing in each hand,
stood off more than 200 police
Sunday in a gun battle called
the biggest in New York's his
tory of crime. .
Deputy Police Commissioner
James Kennedy said his men
were determined "to get Robles
one way or another," after the
desperado disarmed three de
tectives Friday and escaped.
As thousands of spectators
watched from the street and sur
rounding rooftops, Robles held
off, reinforced police squads
from a bullet-pocked, tear gas
filled flat in a dingy Harlem
tenement until he fell mortally
wounded from officer's bullets.
The outlaw touched off the
final ; siege when he wounded
two detectives closing in on
him and shouted: "I'll take as
many as I can with me. You'll
never take me alive, and I'll
take a few of you with me." ;
Squads of police rushed to
the scene from all over the city
armed with tear gas, machine
guns and emergency equipment.
The gun battle started at 3:30
p.m. (EST) and ended some two
hours later . when Robles fell
mortally wounded with a bullet
in the chest
Detectives who entered the
flat found the 41-year-old desper
ado lying on his back in a pool
of blood and water. He was
clad in an undershirt and trous
ers. Police Chaplain' Rev. Martin
O'Donnell administered the last
rites to the barefoot gunman.
Some 20,000 policemen with
"shoot-to-kill" orders had begun
a grim hunt for Robles last Tues
day for ; questioning in . the
"ride" slaying of Joseph Arono
witz. Aronowitz was to be a key
witness in a Baltimore robbery
case. -He . was found ' shot to
death in : front of a Brooklyn
casket factory.
The slippery gunman twice
had evaded police traps. On
Friday he disarmed three de
tectives who surprised him in
a girl friend's apartment and
escaped. Later he shot his way
out of a trap set by four de
tectives. Hunt for Silverfon
Ambush Slayer Grows
Silverton (U.R) Search wid
ened today for the ambush-slayer
of 5 Erwin Oren Kaser, a t
Silverton hop grower who was
killed Thursday night as he
drove ; into the driveway of his
home, two miles south of here.
Police were also concentrat
ing on turning up the murder
weapon, but admitted that - so
far "clues were very scarce."
Kaser, 49, was killed by some
one concealed about 75 yards
from his drive. Four shots were
fired into the car, one of them
striking Kaser and killing him.
Dr. Homer Harris of the State
Crime Laboratory said a ballis
tics test showed the bullets to
be .30 caliber. '
Police ruled out robbery as
a motive, but were still work
ing on the possibility ; that the
slayer might have been a former
employee.
Ontario Publisher
Heads Press Conference
Eugene (U.R) Donald Lynch,
editor and publisher of the On
tario Argus-Obesrver, was elect
ed president of the Oregon Press
conference for the coming year
Saturday at the final meeting
of the annual press gathering
here. ''
He suceeds Robert B. Chess
man of the Astorian-Budget.
W. Verne McKinney, co-publisher
of the Hillsboro Argus,
was reelected trustee of the Eric
C. : Allen Memorial fund, and
Carl C. Webb of Eugene was
reelected secretary-treasurer. :
Pair Buries
for Medford
Durine ; the . trip the family
slept in their car, one night in
this small community near Sac
ramento. The next morning the
girl was dead from pneumonia.
Katela Ann was buried In the
county plot of Woodland ceme
tery. Then the Doyle family
drove on to Medford.
Local agencies had no infor
mation regarding Mr. . and Mrs.
Earl Doyle, Fresno, Calif, couple
who were said to be headed for
Medford after burial , of their
daughter in a pauper's grave at
Woodland, Calif.
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