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Newspaper Page Textdhiyc-dhoDI Tells Aemmp'S feir . ioieetiDEriig) Senator Knowland Reiterates Belief Tax Cuts To Lose Prediction Follows Breakfast With Ike t. f Washington (U.R) Senate Republican Leader William T. Knowland reiterated his belief today that the Senate will de feat a Democratic compromise income tax cut plan. The Californian repeated his forecast after breakfast at the White House with President Ei senhower. The breakfasts have become a weekly, early morning date between the two men. Routine Discussion Knowland described the meet ing as devoted to a routine dis cussion of legislative problems, including the upcoming tax bill. and various phases of the foreign situation. Democrats and Republicans laid down a new barrage of argu ments for and against the com promise income tax proposal. Secretary of the Treasury George M. Huniphrey issued a r- special statement denouncing the . Democratic compromise plan for a S20-S10 tax cut as "unwise political tinkering" that would hurt the "little people" the Democrats "talk so much about" by damaging the nation's busi ness economy. Irresponsibility Charged ,Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey CD Minn.) accused the Eisenhower administration of "irresponsibil ity" in tax legislation a charge both Humphrey and President Eisenhower previously had lobbed at the Democrats. The Minnesota senator also said Congress has to choose .be tween "the American people or big business corporations." Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-I1L), sional Economic committee, said the majority comment in the committee s annual report could be interpreted as specific en dorsement of the income tax cut compromise. The report was released today. FFA Leaders Here For State Conclave Members of the state execu tive committee of the Oregon association of Future Farmers of America were arriving in Cen tral Point this morning, to pre pare for the four-day state con vention which will start tomor row. Meetings of the committee were scheduled for this morn ing, ths afternoon and tomor row morning, to set up details of the .program for the rest of the week. The opening meeting of the convention itself is sched uled for 7:30 D.m. Tuesday with a public speaking and talent contest. Registration will begin tomorrow at 3 p.m.. The first business session will be at Crater High school at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Delegates from all parts of the state will attend. Death of Nepal King Brings Fear of Crisis Zurich, Switzerland (U.R) The death of King Tribhubana of Nepal brought fears today of a new political crisis in his little Himalayan kingdom which shares a 1.000-mile border with Communist-held Tibet. The 48-year-old King died Sat urday night in a hospital here where he had been under treat ment for heart disease. An nouncement of the death was de layed here so authorities could announce it first in his capital at Katmandu and in New Delhi. The Nepalese throne now goes in his son. Crown Prince Mahen- tra Bir Bikram, 34, who con ferred with the King only last month at Nice on a cabinet crisis in the nation of 9,000,000 people. Brother and Sister Winners Of Easter Basket Contest The brother-and-sister team of Ernest and Jeanette Jones, son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norville Jones, 1019 West Sec ond st., won first and second prizes in the easter basket con test conducted here Saturday. Both are students at Jackson school. Ernest's winning basket which won him a prize of $25, was displayed at Mann's De partment store, and his sister's, which won $15, was at Ad- rienne's. . j.,. The contest was conducted by the Medford Retail Merchants association as part of the pro motion for the spring opening. Third-place winner was Pen ny Sampert, Oak Grove school, whose basket was displayed at Acme hardware. She won $10. The $5 fourth place winner was Darelyn Huson, Roosevelt school, whose basket was in the window i. I STATE WINNER Mildred Ann Gail, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, C. N. Gail. Gold Hill, a student at Crater High school, has been named state winner of the Elks youth leadership and activities competition, the Elks lodge here was advised this morning. Miss Gail herself was notified last week. She will, be presented a $50 defense bond as local win ner during May day ceremonies here April 28 and will receive a S50 bond as state prize in June She is now entered in the nation wide contest, results of which will be announced in late April or early May, according to Elks officials. In local judging, Frank Bash, Medford High school, was the other top winner. In the con test, leadership counted 40 per cent, citizenship appreciation 20 per cent and sense of honor 20 per cent. General Motors, UAWEye Demand For Annual Wage Detroit U.R) General Mo tors met with the CIO United Auto Workers union today to set up the agenda for handling the union's demand for an unprece dented guaranteed annual wage. The demand poses a threat to the labor peace of the last five years in the automobile indus try. The talks were the first to be held since the union announc ed it wanted the guaranteed wage written into its new con tract. Contract Expires May 29 The General Motors contract with the union expires May 29. Unless the annual wage demand is resolved, the union may cati a strike idling hundreds of thous ands at either General Motors or Ford. The Ford contract runs out June 1." Ford will meet with the union Wednesday. Ford and General Motors em ploy 500,000 UAW workers and turn out three-fourths of all cars made and sold in the United States. The contracts between the union and Chrysler corpo ration and the three smaller producers don't expire until la ter. Contracts Reopened Once The talks scheduled this week will be the first major contract negotiations in the industry since the precedent - shattering five-year contracts were signed in 1950. The five-year contracts were reopened once by mutual agreement to freeze part of the cost of living bonus into the pay of the auto workers. But the talks will be the first full scale negotiations since 1950. Because of the union de mand for the guaranteed annual wage they vyll be the most sig nificant in history. Snow, Sunshine Mark Week-Bet ore-Spring " Snow flurries and brilliant sunshine alternated in the Medford area this morning, one week before the advent of spring. Partly cloudy weather is forecast for tonight and to morrow. Not enough snow fell at the weather bureau - to be meas ured. of Trowbridge and Flynn. Other winners, who received $1 each, and their schools and where the baskets were shown, were Alma Jean Nessecar, Elk Trail school, Medford Flower shop; Donald Huntemann, Roose velt, East Side market; Melba Graham, J. C. Penney Co.; Pam Watson and Teresa Thomas (joint entry), Oak Grove, J. J. Newberry Co.; Doyle Ann Stral- ton, Roosevelt, Leonard Elec tric; David Elgin, Washington, Hubbard Bros.; Linda Lou Gar ber, Central Point, Weeks- and Orr; Nicki Lynn Mears, Roose velt, Ginn's Flower shop; Nancy Picard and Judy Kerr (joint entry), Oak Grove, Modern Beauty shop. The baskets are still on dis play in the store windows, ac cording to the chamber of com merce. Medford United Presi Full Leased Wire 49th Year 14 Pages Morse Opposes Attempt To Stop Finnish Tanker US Has No Right Senator Declares Minneapolis (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse said the United States has no legal right to ord er the Seventh Fleet to stop a Finnish tanker bound for Red China with a cargo of kerosene suitable for jet fuel. Such an interception would amount to imposing a blockade on Communist China, the Ore gon Democrat said. He added" that he deplored the shipment of the fuel, but was opposed to aggressive action which could lead to an act of war. Addresses Conference Morsei made the remarks at a news conference prior to an address to more than 300 dele gates to the North Central Re gional conference of The United Jewish Appeal last night. Interception of the Finnish tanker has .been suggested by Senate Republican Leader JVil- liam F. Knowland of California. "The only hope of overcom ing the threat of Communism is to build up economic produc tive power in the areas of the world where standards of liv ing are now subnormal and where human dignity and the value of individual life now suf fers," Morse told his audience. Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) Nationalist newspapers demand ed today the Finnish tanker Ar uba be sunk if the navy is un able to seize it, before it can deliver 13,000 tons of jet plane fuel to Red China. The pro-government United Daily News urged seizure "even if it may cost us something," but demanded the tanker be sunk if the Communists pro tected it with military force. Escort Said Possible " Nationalist quarters had rais ed the possibility the Commun ists might escort the ship through the Nationalist blockade with planes and submarines, but military quarters thought such protection would prove ineffec tive. One high American naval source said it would be virtu ally impossible for the Aruba to slip throligh the blockade to Red China if serious efforts were made to intercept it. 'Theater in Polities' Disturbs Neuberger Delaware, O. '(U.R) Oregon's Democratic Sen. Richard Neu berger said here today that he was ':disturbed" by the intro duction of -"theatrical tech niques in politics. Neuberger particularly aimed a salvo at candidates who go be fore television audiences loaded with makeup. "If a politician won't let the people see what he really looks like, he won't tell them what he really thinks," declared Neu berger. As for the administration s proposed program to aid the na tion's crowded schools, the Ore gon senator said it reminded him of a remark once made by Presi dent Abraham Lincoln: '.'It is soup made of the shadow of a piglDn that has startved to death." . Committee Sets Hearing On Legitimate Children Salem (U.R) The House Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing tomorrow on a bill which would make all chil dren legitimate. The measure, introuced by Rep. Jean Lewis (D-Portland), would give legal status and the same rights to all children re gardless1 of whether their par ents are married. Companion bills would re move the word "illegitimate" from all Oregon laws. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York 4U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 industri als 391.36 off 9.72; 20 railroads 142.52 off 4.27; 15 utilities 62.17 off 1.06; and 65 stocks 146.59 off 3.65. Sales today were about 4,220,000 shares compared with 3,040,000 shares Friday. Seattle (U.R) A damage suit totalling about $200,000 has been filed in Federal Court here as an aftermath of the fatal col lision between a Navy LST and the fishing boat Santa Maria last Thursday. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY. South Viol mm Death m QTTK T " '" j - - - j .r I I II J ' 'lf -a MiyiJ ii. nnjj..j. ,l .1 ii mill i, ii q.iiMj.ui LIGHTNING HITS INDIANA CITY Looking like the victim of an air raid, this square block of downtown buildings in Union City was consumed by fire after oemg hit by lightning stroke during a tornado. Loss .caused by the tornado is expeaed to exceed a million dollars. Budget Preparation In Final Stages; To Meet Deadlines Budgets for the city, county and the Medford school district are in the final stages of prep aration for submission to budget committees, a check showed today;- -- Today is the deadline for com pletion of county departmental budget estimates. Most of the 38 estimates to be prepared had been turned in at the county clerk's office this morning. County budget meetings ten tatively have been set for March 23, April 5, and April 12. Now Being Processed All city of Medford depart mental estimates have been com pleted and are now being proc essed. It is expected they will be ready for the city budget committee within the next 10 days, according to City, Manager Robert Duff. The Medford school district budget is slated to be ready for work by the budget committee about the middle of April, E. H. Hedrick, city superintendent of schools, said this morning. Nixon Schedules Report To Nat i Los Angeles (U.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon will t report to the nation at 6:30 p.m. (PST) tonight on his recent good will trip to Latin America. His speech before the local World . Affairs council will be broadcast and televised nation ally. It will climax a week end visit of the vice-president and his wife, Patricia, to his native Southern California. Nixon's pre-speech activities were to include the dedication ial hospital and a talk at 1 p.m. of a new wing at White Memor before some 2500 California Re publicans at the Ambassador hotel.. AEC Schedules Atomic Explosion Tomorrow Las Vegas (U.R) The At omic Energy commission announced- today it has planned a 500-foot towe,r nuclear detona tion tomorrow morning, subject to favorable weather conditions. If carried out, it will be the sixth shot of the 1955 series. A final weather evaluation was planned for tonight. The AEC said 500 troops will be entrenched 3500 yards from ground zero and that about 100 aircraft will take part in the exercise. The blast.-was sched uled for 5:15 a.m. (PST). Corvallis (U.R) The Pacific Northwest Library Association has received a S60,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to study library needs in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. , 14, 1955 Terrorist United States Talks Pacific Defense Plan With Aussie Delegate Washington (U.R) The, Western Pacific as well. Austra United States and Australia be- lia is, tied to this country by a pan Wfiitn Tinnc taiw tnHnv nn Allied strategy , to .guard .Farr mosa, Southeast" Asia and -the Western Pacific against Com munist aggression. . The talks between President Eisenhower and Australian Prime Minister Robert G. Men zies were expected to take up in detail the touchy question of the Quemoy and Matsu islands off the Red China coast. Top defense "and diplomatic aides to both men were to sit in on the meeting and also attend a White House lunch. Favors Stout Defense Menzies made it clear in ad vance that Australia believes Formosa should be kept out of Communist hands. He also came out for a stout Allied defense system in the Asian. - Pacific area, and for the free world to hang on to its atomic superior ity over the Soviet Union. But the prime minister has let it be known Australia would hate to see the Quemoy and Matsu islands, coveted by the Reds and held by the National ists, be the cause of war. in the Far East. The implication is that the islands are not worth such a price. During, his three - day state visit, Menzies will get a first hand briefing on American pol icy toward the islands. Menzies will press the Pres ident and his advisers for. a de cision on what the United States plans to do in event of aggres sion in Southeast Asia and the Grand Jury Not Yet Called on Reindictment The Jackson county grand jury has not yet been called to consider reindictment of Bernice H. (Tex) White, 37, of 228 Hart ley rdM according to District At torney Walter Nunley. A first degree murder indict ment, returned against White last week, was dismissed in cir cuit court Saturday morning on a motion by the district attorney. He indicated that the matter would be resubmitted to the grand jury this week. The first degree murder in dictment involved the death on March 2 of Eugene Raymond Birk, 32, Phoenix. Birk died of head injuries after being struck over the head by a two-by-four piece of lumber while at work at Talent Sawmill, where both men were employed. Portland (U.R) Multnomah Circuit Judge James W. Craw ford has overruled defense ob jections as to the validity of first degree murder indictments against Wey Him and Sherry Fong, accused of the death of Diane Hank more than a year ago. itlBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 306 overnor i tnree-way treaty, which in cludes New Zealand, and also y, t.i.ghtower . Southeast Asian pact. The United States may not be able to give all the answers at this time. Menzies also is expe6ted to raise the question of gaining some more American know-how in the field of civilian uses of atomic energy. Tax Classification Hearing Set Tomorrow A public hearing on fire tax assessments on various types of land will be conducted tomor row by the Jackson County Land Classification committee. The hearing will" convene at 10 a.m. in the offices of the Jackson county court in the courthouse, and will continue until all protests have been heard, according to W. B. Tuck er, county agent. . ' The classifications set up as the result of the hearings and the spot surveys by the commit tee or its representatives, will be certified to the county asses sor for assessment work in the coming tax year. , A. A. Lausmann, Medford, is chairman of the Land Classifi cation committee. PLANNERS TO MEET The . Medford city planning commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the council cham bers of the city hall. Items on the agenda include a discussion of the vacation of d'Anjou from Spruce st. to Cherry st. The sec tion involved is not used for street purposes at the present time. ' Young Ex-Convict Sought for Beating Of Lebanon Man Over Welfare Charges Lebanon (U.R) A state wide search was on today for Dale I. Hetland, a young ex-convict who is suspected of beating a'Lebanon, Ore., man and threatening his wife for her 'ex posure of alleged illegal receipt of welfare checks. ' Hetland, 22, is wanted for as sault on E. A. Gall, 65. Gall was beaten after his wife was threat ened for letters she had publish ed in a local newspaper claiming many persons were receiving welfare checks illegally. Photo Identified Police reported that Gall pick ed out. a photo of Hetland and identified him as his attacker. A warrant was issued for his ar rest and the statewide search followed reports that Hatfield had purchased a car in Salem late Saturday. Meanwhile, the Ways and Means Committee of the state legislature was. expected to ask Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday. Low to night 25-28. High Tuesday 48-50. , Temp. Highest yesterday 47 Lowest this morning 30 Prec. To 4:30 a.m. today 01 eseaines 'Attact Rigid Security Regulations Set On Religious Sect Powerful Time Bomb Explodes Under Auto Saigon, Indochina (U.R) Gov. Tran Van lam of South Viet Nam narrowly escaped death in a terrorist bomb at tack today and the government immediately clamped rigid new security controls on rebellious religious sects. ' High Viet Namese sources said the attack on Tran was a "last warning" from the dissident sects to Premier Ngo Dinh Diem to drop his plans to establish a Western-type' democracy and take away from the sects their many privileges. Bomb Explodes Under Car A powerful time bomb ex ploded under Tran Van Lam's car as he opened the door of the vehicle standing in front of his villa. The car was destroved but Tran and his driver were not injured. The attack occurred as the American-backed Premier was putting finishing touches to plans for sweenine reforms which would end the rampant nepotism and bribery in free Viet Nam and increase the regime's popularity before the 1956 all-Viet Namese elections. 24 Seamen Feared Drowned Oil Italy Taranto, Italy-U.R) Twenty- four seamen were feared drown ed today in a double disaster in which a Greek trawler sank off southern Italy and a British life boat capsized while pulling sur vivors from the sea. Italian officials said the 448 ton Greek trawler Iason carry ing a crew of 20 sank last night. The British Peninsular and Orient Lines steamer Stratheden picked up her SOS. It raced to the scene and launched a life boast into the stormy sea. The lifeboat from the 23,732 ton Stratheden picked up a heavy load of floating men and fought back almost to the side of its mother ship. Then it cap sized in the heavy seas. A spokesman for the P. and O. Lines said eight members of the Stratheden's crew drowned when the lifeboat flipped over. The Iason's captain reported that 11 of his crew were known drownc1 and five others feared lost. Chiloquin Youth's Body Found in Sprague River Klamath Falls (U.R) The body of 19-year-old Joseph El wood Wright of Chiloquin was found floating in the Sprague river yesterday afternoon near Chiloquin. State police said the youth apparently had drowned. His body was discovered by Eddie Cole of Chiloquin who told police he had seen Wright alive about 4 p.m. Saturday when he was fishing at the dam on the river. Cole said Wright's cloth ing had become snagged on a log. Mrs. Gall to testify on her claims of illegal check receipt. Hetland was previously con victed on grand larceny Snd ob taining money under false pre tenses. Salem (U.R) Mrs. Goldie Gall, whose husband was beaten by an unknown assailant in their Lebannon home after she had made disclosures about abuses by public welfare recipients in Linn county, conferred with At torney General Bobert Y. Thorn ton in his -office here today. Testimony Scheduled She will appear before a Ways and Means - Sub-committee studying the welfare budget Wednesday, Sen.' George Ulett (R-Coquille), chairman of the sub-committee, announced. Mrs. Gall told Thornton that the majority, of cases she dis closed were aid to dependent children in cases where the July Proposal To Kremlin Suspended 'For Time Being' Russia Said Friendly To British Proposition London (U.R) Prime Min ister Winston Churchill disclos ed today he approached the Kremlin last July to arrange a top level Anglo-Russia" meeting without the United States and found the Soviet reply "friend ly and encouraging." Churchill said he hoped the proposed Anglo-Russian meet ing might be the prelude to a wider meeting. But he later suspended the proposal "for the time being," he said, because "we must on no account let our earnest de sire to bring about a top level conference of great powers ex pose us to a charge of having thrown doubt and disarray into the ranks of NATO." The Prime Minister made his disclosure while rallying sup port to -defeat a Socialist mo tion censuring his government . for what the opposition termed a delay in arranging the Big Three talks on controlling the H-bomb. . Major Factor Churchill made it clear that American dislike for the idea was a major factor in the Brit ish decision to suspend the plan for the two-power meeting which he had envisioned "at some half way house such as Bern, Vienna or Stockholm." . Churchill recalled efforts made at the mid-1 52 Washing ton conference for a top level four-power meeting.' He said this was turned down. "The United States and France could only be brought to agree on a foreign ministers meeting on German elections, reunification and the Austrian treaty," he said. Sanitation Study" Group Will Meet Second meeting of a public health committee considering the sanitation and sewage dis posal problem in Jackson county will be held Thursday evening. it was announced this morning. Mrs. Janet Guches, president of the Jackson County Public Health association, and Mrs. A. C. Uridel, chairman of the sani tation committee, said it will be in the health department office in the courthouse at 8 p. m., March 17. City Manager Robert Duff end other Medford officials will dis cuss the problem from the city's standpoint, and will answer oups- tions about a study of the prob lem recently made by the city in regard to. possible annexation of affected areas. A discussion of the formation of sanitation districts as an aid in working toward a solution also will be conducted. One Hurt in Shooting At British Embassy Moscow (U.R) A well dressed young Soviet citizen shot his way into the British Em bassy last night and wounded a Moscow militiaman before being disarmed by British officials and turned over to reinforced Soviet police. British officials said the fur capped Soviet citizen, wearing better than average dark clothes, pulled a gun and opened fire when two Soviet militiamen tried to' prevent him from sprint ing into the Embassy courtyard. One of the militiamen was wounded in the chest. The gunman then dashed into1 the Embassy Building past a surprised British guard at the re ception desk and bolted up the staircase leading to the apart ments of Ambassador Sir Wil liam Hayter and his wife. fathers were capable of support ing the children. Thornton said abuse of aid to dependent children is the big gest leak in the public welfare system, and his interest in the Gall case confirms this opinion. The attorney general said he was willing and ready to be of aid to Courtney Johns, Linn county district attorney, if the latter desires his assistance. Would Be Prosecuted Any . legal action to recover wrongful payments from the public welfare fund taken by the Public Welfare C o m m i s s ion would be prosecuted by the at torney general's office, Thornton said. However, the district at torney can on his own initiative begin proceedings. Mrs. Gall said she is certain that the man who beat up her husband was involved in one of the welfare cases which she reported.