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idtiii Mm Ghanctillw Offers ResuoiatioD f w tena , . .. . . , - ; si nr n r A n n Adenauer Cabinet Divided on Issue Of Saar Agreement Arms Decision Left To France Bonn, Germany (U.R) Vice Chancellor Franz Bluecher of fered his resignation to Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer today in an open cabinet split over passage last night of the Paris arms treaties, a spokesman for Bluecher announced. The .West German lower house (Bundestag) passed the arms treaties by -resounding margins and thus put the fu ture of Germany's promised new 12 division army squarely in the hands of the temperamental National Assembly of France. - Open Rebellion But a related Franco-German agreement to put the coal-rich Saar under international control divided the nation and precipit ated an open rebellion in Aden auer's four party coalition. Bluecher is leader of the right wing of the Free Democrats which voted against' the Saar agreement. He voted for it him self, but two other FIP min isters abstained and one voted . against it in open rebellion against Adenauer. The tension between Aden auer and the FDP reached a new high yesterday when FDP Chairman Thomas Dehler launched a , bitter personal at tack against Adenauer and ac cused him of "lying" on the Saar question. Could Bring Crisis Informed sources said Blue cher's decision to quit was des ignated to touch off a show down inside the FDP and result in Dehler s ouster as party chief. But it could touch off a serious cabinet crisis since Aden auer threatened to oust from the government any parties failing to vote for the Saar pact. Bluecher, who doubles as min ister for economic cooperation and Marshall Plan matters in the Adenauer cabinet, sent his resignation in a memorandum to the Chancellor last night, the spokesman said. Adenauer himself had not yet replied. Soil Reclamation Eyed in Lake County Fort Rock (U.R) A new land rush, or at least a "pump rush" appears to be in the making in the northwestern Lake county region near here. ; Pumping companies have an nounced they are planning to get water for the dry region from an underground lake. Juice to pump the water onto the dry land' will come from a new 191 mile line the Lapine Rural Elec tric co-operative is building into the basin with a $1,000,000 loan from the U.S. government. Boosters of the project say the basin can be converted into a . garden spot ; growing grain, potatoes and sugar beets. Dulles in Saigon To Discuss Defenses Saigon, Indochina (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arrived here today to at tempt to strengthen, in talks with officials . of Communist threatened South Viet Nam, Southeast Asia's defenses against Red aggression. Dulles arrived . here - by air from Phnom Penh, the capital of neighboring Cambodia, where he discussed with King Noro dom Sihanook the training of a 55,000-man army for that na tion's defense. Dulles, showing the fatigue and strain of his whirlwind tour of Southeast Asia was scheduled to confer here with Premier Ngo Dinh Diem and other high Viet Nam and French officials. Oregon Jr. Chamber Favors Talent Project Coos Bay (U.R) Oregon Jaycees are on record as favor ing federal completion of the Talent Irrigation District in southern Oregon today, A resolution to Congress was passed over the week end here at $he annual spring board meet ing of Oregon Junior Chambers of Commerce. Ira Kaye, vice president of the U. S. Jaycee group, addressed the more than 400 persons at tending the three-day meeting, which ended yesterday. Weather FORECAST Occasional rain and fusty breeze - tonifht. Considerable cloudiness with a few snow flurries Tuesday. Continued cold. Low tonight 28. High Tuesday 40. Temp. Highest yesterday 43 Lowest this morning ...29 Prec. T 4:30 i.m. today .-trace r''"'' ' 4 ''' ' " " " $ THE AMERICAN WAY The United States plans to re turn seven Chinese fishermen to Communist China while at the same time broadly hinting that Peiping should follow its example and return 15 imprisoned American flyers to the U. S. Six of the fishermen, rescued by the U. S Air Force last May from a reef in the Paracel Islands, are shown at U. S. airbase in the Philippines where they have been cared for since rescue. The seventh is still hospital ized with injury received while stranded. 200 Skiers Trapped, Hig hvays B locked By Raging By UNITED PRESS The Far West's worst blizzard of the year trapped more than 200 skiers in mountain lodges today and blocked two trans' continental highways with mounting snow drifts. The storm raged through much of California, swept across the Rocky Mountains, and was still belting parts of Utah and Nevada today. Fog Cuts Visibility Meanwhile, fog covered much of the nation's eastern half, cut ting visibility to zero in parts of the eastern Great Lakes re gion. The murky weather was partially blamed for an Illinois plane crash which killed two persons and ior at least seven fatal auto crashes in the Chicago region alone., - ', ; v , -Uv In Utah, heavily drifted roads and a threat of - death-dealing avalanches made it impossible for an estimated 215 skiing en thusiasts to make their way down from four ski lodges iiigh in the Wasatch Mountain range. Danger of Avalanche Three of the lodges, housing 175 of the skiers, were in the Alta' region. Forty more skiers found refuge in a lodge in the Brighton area, where 30 inches of new snow was reported. ' Forest Rangers said the ava lanche danger was so acute around Alta that road equipment could not run the risk of trying to clear the highway. Mean while, rescue crews temporarily gave up their flight to reach the Brighton lodge. Elsewhere in the storm-batter ed area, wind whipped drifts forced the closing of highways 40 and 50. across the Sierra Ne vadas. The Feather River route, the only other east-west highway in the region; was closed to cars without chains along a 25-mile stretch. Serious Traffic Jam Skiers poured helter-skelter along these highways as" the storm hit, causing such a traffic jam on a 65 mile stretch of Highway 40 in California that it Transcontinental Flight Record Set Omaha, Neb. (U.R) A Strat egic Air Command B47 set ; a new transcontinental bomber speed record of 641 miles an hour on a routine training flight Feb. 25, SAC headquarters here said today. The plane started from March Air Force Base in : California and covered 2090 statute miles in three hours; 19 minutes and 35 . seconds. ' - The best previous time was set by another SAC crew which averaged ' 622.8 miles per hour over a similar course in Jan uary. ' ' -The Stratojet was part of the 301st SAC Bomb Wing stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. Atomic Explosion Planned Tuesday Las Vegas U.R) -The Atomic Energy Commission said today at a weather briefing that pres ent conditions may permit de tonation of an' atomic device tomorrow at 5:35 a.m. (PST). : The commission said, how ever, that the must postponed "granddaddy" shot originally slated to open the test series will not be fired. Blizzard had to be closed so snow-remov ing equipment could get' through. In Nevada, meanwhile, the snow was so deep that three ski tournaments were cancelled be cause, roads were blocked. And in California's Feather River region the Western Pa cific's west-bound Western Zephyr from Chicago was de layed for . two and a half hours. The storm did surprisingly lit tle damage in California even though it lashed parts ; of the state with 65 mile per hour gusts packing driving rain and snow. Radio Reveals Shuffle it London (lf.R)-Moscow 'HadiOT tonight announced a new gov ernment shuffle , in ' the Soviet Union in which Anastas Mikoyan, ousted as minister of trade a month ago, was ; made first deputy premier. x Two deputy premiers, M. Z. Saburov and M. G. Pervukhin, also were promoted with Mo koyan to the rank of first deputy premiers. :- '. . The promotions , placed them along with two - existing first deputies, V. M. Molotov and L. M. Kaganovich, in a broadened top-level presidium. Counting Premier Nikolai Bul ganin as a part of it, this new presidium become . a six-man group, replacing the narrow gov erning team of Bulganin, Molo tov and Kaganovich. . Party secretary Nikita Khrush chev . still ' is considered . by ob servers to be the real power behind the new Russian govern ment. Prineville Accident Fatal To Truck Driver ' Prineville (U.R) Ralph Parrish, 34, a truck driver for Hudspeth Pine, Inc., was killed instantly Saturday when his car went out of control on Lamonta road, Vi miles northeast of here. Another occupant of the car, Cleo Keanney of Prineville, was treated for injuries at Prineville medical clinic. X Parrish, whose car apparently skidded on the snowy highway, was Cook -J county's first traffic fatality since Oct. 4, 1953. By A. ROBERT SMITH , Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington When. "Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) was in Oregon last week to register as a ' Democrat; he was called up short by a constituent who was dead set against members of Congress increasing their own salaries. - '.'v : ; It happened after Morse and his party ran out of gas en route to Eugene and : limped into a small roadside ) filling station. Morse tells the story like this: "The station was one of , those little family gas stations which husband and wife operate in conjunction with a small gro cery store or a few tourist cabins. The proprietor, a man in his sixties, said, "Well, senator, I see that you are about to: vote yourself, a nice, big, fat salary increase." I said, 'That is" very doubtful. . Gave Some Reasons ' "Well he said, 'the bill just passed the House.' I said, Yes, but it has not passed the Senate yet. It may be that it will, but Artillery Aimed At Every Corner Of Chiang Bastion Only Airstrip No Longer Immune Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) The Chinese Communists have ringed Quemoy Island with Soviet-built artillery of the type that shat tered the French defenses at Dien Bien.Phu, military sources said today. The artillery can reach "every corner of the heavily-defended island outpost with devastating fire for the first time, the sources said. They called the threat a critical one and pointed out Quemoy's only airstrip had been "immune" to Red guns in the past. i Chiang's Largest Base Quemoy is Gen. Chiang Kai shek's largest off-shore island base. It is about four miles from the big port of Amoy which it blocks and at one place is only 2,000 yards across open water from a Red-held island. Quemoy, with a peace-time population of 50,000, is roughly seven miles across but in the past the Communists could shell only about half of it with their small artillery. ' Now they have been equipped with Russian 122 millimeter guns firing from new positions, the military sources said. Red Landings Beaten Off The island, about 140 miles west of Formosa, is believed to be garrisoned by 40,000 to 50, 000 crack troops. The garrison beat off several Communist land ing attempts soon after the Na tionalists moved their head quarters to Formosa. Chiang summoned members of the Kuomintang (government rul ing party) to a full-dress session Tuesday and it was understood the critical situation in the For mosa Strait would be discussed. The government faced two major problems the Commu nist menace to Quemov anH Matsu and a critical financiasitr uaiiori on " Formosa itself, with controls already clamped on some commodities in an effort to halt inflation. Musa Fails To Take ills From Committee Salem U.R) Rep. Katherine Musa (D.-The Dalles) failed to day in an attempt to take three bills embodying her tax pro gram away from the House Tax ation committee where she said they had been killed Without her knowledge. Mrs. Musa's motion to take the bills away from the commit tee and bring them to the floor for consideration of the full House was overwhelmingly de feated, with only four of her colleagues supporting her ma neuver; .'; v : The freshman Wasco county lawmaker told the House she considered the Tax" committee's action unfair to a member of the House. She said Rep. Loran L. Stewart (R.-Cottage Grove) chairman of the Taxation com mittee, had offered her a hear ing on the bills but that he had added the hearing would do no good since the three bills were already dead. ' . ! The three bills at issue would repeal the so-called skyscraper clause, eliminate the property tax offset in the corporation ex cise tax : law and remove the utility exemption, in the excise tax law. fells Voews AgaDDiist not with my vote.M gave him some of my reasons why I shall vote against the increase. "That gentleman said, 'I want you to know that in this com munity the people I have talked to, and many come through here during the course of a day, are very bitter about this proposal.' He said, 'I don't want to hurt your feelings, but we think the Congress as a whole just does not deserve higher pay."' Morse said he was inclined to agree with the man. Earlier Views Changed . "There was . a time when I leaned to : the idea of a salary increase," Morse said. "I have completely changed my earlier point of view on this salary in crease issue. I do not believe any substantial increase in salary can be justified at the present time." ..:'' Instead of backing a pay boost, Morse urged the Senate to increase its fixed allowances for office expenses telegrams, long-distance calls, air mail MedfordTribune United Press Full Leased wire' Ty: united fresa Full leased Wire 49th Year 14 Pages Western Oregon Buffeted by Wind Power Lines Down Coast Area Spared Usual Heavy Blow By UNITED PRESS Oregon was hit with blustery winds up to 70 miles an hour today in a forerunner to What the weather bureau said was "one of the strongest storms" of the season in the Pacific Northwest.- ; , , , ' The weatherman, . however, played turnabout,' aiming the heaviest blows at interior west ern Oregon, particularly in the Portland area where high winds caused widespread power out ages and a variety of other acci dents. Along the coast, where the winter's storms generally hit the hardest, it was "business as usual" weather. The gusty winds were felt" inland as far east as Ontario. Shipping on Schedule Coos . Bay reported stormy weather with offshore winds generally 20-40 miles an hour with gusts up to 50. No damage vas reported and shipping was moving on schedule. The situa tion was much the same at New port where the Coast Guard re ported southerly winds 25-30 miles an hour. It was gusty at Astoria but the only damage reported was a brief power outage on Pacific Power and Light Company's Knappa-Svensen line early Mon day. '" f- V ., In ' Portland, two 57,000-volt power lines were knocked out of service temporarily. One was between Portland and Ore gon City and the other between Estacada and the Lents substa tion. Other Power Failures A rash of other power fail ures, especially in the suburban areas southwest of Portland, caused much inconvenience to householders at breakfast time. . The Portland fire dispatcher said 28 runs were made within a four-hour period to investi gate reports of downed electric wires. Police were sent hurrying to several commercial establish ments where crossed wires or broken windows set off burglar alarms. A 60-foot tree was . uprooted by heavy winds in northeast Portland, causing considerable damage, to the side of a house. Another felled tree crushed a car. A huge tent housing the Portland Boat Show was blown down. No Major Accidents x Although the high winds and rain made travel . hazardous, Portland police reported ; no major accidents and no one was reported injured. The weather bureau said the storm was centered off the northern British Columbia coast and was moving southeastward. It was expected to pass over the Pacific .Northwest by tomorrow, bringing more strong winds and some snow. - .. -. :. stamps, stenographic salaries. He said he was forced to dip into his own pocket to meet such ex penses as these which now ex ceeded his allowance. . Funds Unchecked i Inasmuch as the salaries and expenses incurred by each Sen ate office are held confidential, reporters have never been able to check these funds. Whether they are adequate or not became a dramatic issue in the 1952 presidential campaign when it was first disclosed that .Vice President Nixon (who was then only the candidate for , that of fice) had defrayed certain ex penses as a senator through use of a special fund set up for him by California business men. Nixon explained in a national TV show that he couldn't meet all his obligations in - serving his constituents with the small fixed allowances given each sen ator. Morse immediately came; out with an , itemized accounting which showed that he had no MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1955 IpDerce A. C. Pierce, : president . and founder of Pierce Freight Lines, Inc., today announced virtual completion of negotiations which will transfer stock control in the pioneer motor freight company to other southern Oregon inter ests. - : . - ' To Continue with Firm Pierce, who has long held the controlling stock in the com pany, said that he and his pres ent associates would continue to hold substantial financial inter est in the firm for several years and that he would continue to serve the company in an advi sory capacity for at least a year. Acquisition of the Pierce stock is being made by the United De velopment Corp., of . w h i c h George P. Davis, Klamath Falls, is president, and George M. Rob- Emergency Clause Ban Removal Given Comiftee Approval - The legislative committee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce this morning went on record in favor of a proposed amendment to the Oregon state constitution, having to do with the so-called "emergency clause" for legislation., It urged the legislature to refer the pro posal to a vote of the people. The constitution now prohibts the use , of the emergency clause on tax legislation. (The emer gencyjclause . can te, placed, on all other" legislation' only oy a two-thirds vote of the legisla ture.) Can Be Held Up fc Without an emergency clause, which places legislation in ef fect immediately, any piece of legislation can be referred to a vote of the people by a refer endum petition bearing the sig natures of some 20,000 or so voters. In effect, this means that tax legislation can be (and, in practice, usually, is) held up for 15 to 18 months until the next general election. . ' By removal of this ban, the committee felt the legislature would be permitted to pass what ever tax legislation it feels nec essary, and the tax would go into effect immediately. It was pointed out that the people can still vote on the tax, through an initiative petition, but that the state would not suffer from a lack of revenue in the mean time. Passes Unanimously; The motion passed unanimous ly, ' and members of Jackson county's, delegation in the legis lature will be urged to vote, fa vorably on the proposal to refer the question to the voters in the general election of 1956. .' The committee also voted ; to oppose a bill which would re move the existing limit of $20, 000 on damages awarded for the death of ah individual. The ' group discussed a num ber of. other bills, but took no action on them. ' trouble conducting his office within the allowance, that" he was even saving the government money by not using , them all. He reported he had not used up his allowance for clerical help, for telegrams, long - distance calls or use of office space in Oregon. Fees for Speaking The senator said he did run short, however, about $700 per month paying for such expenses as printing copies of his speeches for distribution and taking con stituents to lunch (average cost: $4.50 daily). Morse said he made this up by accepting fees , for speaking engagements ; around the country. i This past week, Morse was joined by. Sen. Richard L. Neu berger in trying to stop the con gressional pay increase and to compel all federal officials earn ing over $10,000 annually to make a public accounting of the sources of all their income. After the public accounting pro posal .was ruled, out. of .order, the pay bill went through 62-24. l?ay Dmicirease FrelgKA Stock Aonimoaairocedl erts, Medford attorney, is secre tary. Names of other stockhold ers of the development corpora tion were not disclosed. Roberts has been a director of Pierce Freight Lines since it was incorporated in 1928 and will continue in this capacity. Davis was manager of the Lorenz com pany for many years, and for the past few years has conduct ed a business advisory service in Klamath Falls. Both Pierce and Davis, spokes men for the new interests, em phasized the fact that the stock transfer will have ' little if any effect on company operations or A. C. PIERCE . Pioneer in Field " policies- It' was. also pointed out that control of the firm will re main in. southern Oregon and that, personnel will be virtually unchanged. X; X . The company's founder, in an nouncing the transfer, of stock, said that he has had the pleasure of seeing the company grow, in 30 years, from a. one-truck oper ation to one operating . more than 300 truck and trailer units, and . was now looking ; forward to being relieved of his heavy responsibilities and of having more time at home and for other varied interests. . x- : : Pierce entered the trucking field in 1924. , One of his early associates was Leonard Carpen ter who, according to ; Pierce, made the . establishment of the business possible. A few years later, George M. Roberts, R. W. Frame and B. E. Harder of Med ford, and R. R. Condit of Port land, became financially inter ested in the firm and played an active part in making the busi ness a success. Holds Permit No. 1 The holder, of . Oregon Public Utilities commission permit No. 1, the company uses as its trade mark "Oregon No. 1 Carrier." As the first motor carrier au thorized to perform a complete and unrestricted service in the transportation of commodities generally between Portland and San Francisco, it has played an important role not only in the development of trade and com merce in southern Oregon, but in the entire . area ; west of , the Cascade range between its two terminal cities. . . ; . Pierce, in announcing the stock transfer, also revealed that the company had ordered a substantial number - of new trucks and trailers, and that de livery was expected early in April. Details will be disclosed later, he said. ? r x ? April Draft Call Slashed To 8000 Men 44 Washington (U.R) The De fense Department today slashed April draft calls to 8000 men, all for the Army. xX x , lx i The April figure compares with 11,000 for March and Febru ary, and 23,000 for January. - The Defense Department said "this call represents a moderate decrease from the previous esti mate because of a greater num ber of voluntary enlistments into the Army than had been fore cast.",: x - - "vix ' DOW-JONES AVERAGES X " New York (U.R) -Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 411.87 up 2.37; 20 ' rail roads 149.47 up 1.72; 15 utilities 64.05 up 0.27 and 65 stocks 153.54 up 1.09. Sales today were about 2,620,000 shares against 2,540,000 shares Friday. - Price 5c No. 294 i Slightly To Left In General Voting Alliance With West Confirmed by Ballots Tokyo (U.R) Japan shifted slightly to the left in Sunday's general elections, but confirmed by a nearly two to one vote its postwar alliance with the United States, final official returns -showed today. X: Prime Minister Ichiro Hato yama's Democratic Party, con-' servative but pledged to seek co-' existence with all nations includ ing Red Chona,; won workings control ; of parliament and the right to form a new government. Merger Talk Rejected - He immediately rejected talk . of merger or coalition with the " other conservative bloc, the Lib eral Party of former Prime Min ister Shigeru.Yoshida, and said he would form a xone-party cabi net.. ' ;--.x ";:xxx The House of Representatives. elected, in Sunday's record vote by more than 37,000,000 Jap anese 76 per cent of those eligible will elect the new prime minister about March 10. Final unofficial returns gave the Democrats 186 seats. Liberals 111, Left-Socialists 89, Right So cialists 67, Labor-Farmers four, communists two and others six. Revision Blocked The Socialists won just enough seats to block a threatened con servative move to revise the "MacArthur" constitution which bans full-scale rearmament and makes the emperor a figurehead. Constitutional amendments re quire a two-thirds vote in the '.house, and the Liberals and Dem ocrats combined fell 15 votes short of this. Judges Assigned To Circuit Court Two judges have been assign ed to . Jackson county's circuit court for the next several da vs. according to court officials. Judge E. H. Howell, Canyon City, i has returned for a 10-day period, and Judge Pro Tem Louis E. Starr, Portland, will be here for six days. . 'It has been tentatively aereed that Starr will hear an equity case for Tuesday and Howell will consider motions and de murrers how pending before the court. Judge H. K. Hanna. regular magistrate, is still resting at home after a recent illness. McKay Says Department May Soon Pay Own Way Washington (i.R) Secretary Douglas McKay told Congress today the Department of Inter ior soon 'may pay its own way. McKay told a Senate Appro priations Subcommittee the de partment will pay into the treas ury an estimated $413,259,000 this , fiscal year. He said last, year it repaid to the treasury $344,000,000, or $88,000,000 less than it cost to . maintain its op erations. " ' ; 1 ' . Speeding Mule Riders May Be Given Break By State Legislature Salem (U.R) Are ' you one of those rare thrill-seekers who likes to gallop on mule back at high, speeds, through rural areas? If so, you will be heartened by a piece of legis lation being readied ' for ' scrutiny by the Oregon Legis lature. . x, . -x .x:: At present , it is unlawful to ride a mule at speeds in ; ex cess of six nftles an hou?: through -unincorporated com munities of the state. But this law, and many others equall y outmoded, would be corrected under pro posals being prepared for in troduction in the assembly this week by Sen. Gena Brown (R-Gtants Pass), chairman of the Legislative Counsel Com mittee. Brown's resolutions would set up two interim s, commit tees with authority to draw up legislation lo eliminate out moded and conflicting statutes and to streamline the military code. " - - Japan Swings
