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Newspaper Page Texttan u a Bad v- oseir rare Medford United fresa full Leased wui 50th Year 14 Pages Rebellious Convicts Hold Two Hostages In Nebraska Prison Rules Improvement Demanded in Trade - Lincoln. Neb. (U.R) Nine re bellious convicts held two guards hostage in the Nebraska peni tentiary today, and said they would release them only in trade or "improvement" in some prison rules. - But Gov. Victor Anderson, personally directing dealings with the rebels who seized two guards more than 24 hours ago, aaid there would be "no com promise until the guards are re leased unharmed." The rebels were armed with knives. The governor termed the con ditions, lowered by a rope to the ground from the small prison maximum detention building, as "reasonable." He promised a "personal fair and impartial in vestigation of all charges and complaints." Demand Improvements The prisoners' note demanded nine "improvements" in their treatment in the segregation area of the prison. They are in the special building because of violation of prison rules. Their requests included a "def inite segregation sentence," in itead of unlimited terms in the ward; three hot meals daily, acknowledgement of interviews, and "proper medical attention." The note also asked Anderson for "no reprisals." Lack of electric power cut off the radio which the men had used to listen to-news reports. Anderson had placed a rigid cen sorship on all news about the situation on grounds the con victs might become aroused by hearing news stories of the re bellion. Earlier today, the prisoners expelled three fellow convicts as "dead weight." Oregon Accidents Claim 11 Lives By UNITED PRESS A variety of accidents claimed at least 11 lives in Oregon dur ing the week end. Six died in plane crashes, four drowned and one was killed in an automobile accident. The biggest single tragedy was the crash of a Pan-American Stratocruiser in the Pacific off Cape Arago Saturday. Four of the 23 passengers and crew were killed. Two Prineville youths, Ralph Loveland and Ronald Rounds, were killed when their light plane crashed near Prineville Saturday. Frances Richards, 11, and Geneva Ogden, 12, both of Loon Lake, Ore., drowned Saturday when they fell from a log into a Twind. Henry O. Kihs. 57, con struction company superintend ent, drowned Saturday when his car plunged off the Smith river road and into the water. Ten-year-old Joyce Ann Clark of Portland drowned Sat urday when she slipped and fell into a muddy excavation containing about six feet of water. Mrs. Estelle Sherman died in a Eugene hospital Monday of in juries suffered in an automobile accident near Blue River on the McKenzie highway Sunday night. : Spring Here Too 'Little, Too Late Br UNITED PRESS Spring finally cam up with . soma warm weather today, but it was too little and too late. The season's first disastrous 'week had claimed more than 70 lives and more than $50, ; 000.000 in crop loses. The savage young season "still held parts of New Eng . land in a wintry grip following ' a mammoth snow which piled drifts 12 feet high in upper ' New York state, blocked roads. and stranded scores of motor? is Is and skiers. In the southland, warming ' r-sather came too late to save rs alii - million dollar fruit crops. Temperatures rose five to 12 degrees in the East and jumped even higher in the storm battered Great Plains. But it was still below freezing as far south as the northern portion of tb gull states. - MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1955 PRELUDE TO RIOT Students carry signs reading, -'The Country Says Not," as they parade in Louvain, Belgium, in demonstra-' tion against proposed government cuts of $10, 000,000 in aid to parochial schools. Thirty Final Snow Survey Of Winters Season Scheduled Shortly Preparations were being made today for the final wintertime snow survey in this area. Results of the survey will give Jackson county farmers and orchardists a good indication of how much irrigation water will be available to them during the coming sum mer. The results of the survey, and forecasts of the amount of water to be available, will be an nounced April 4 at a regional meeting in Grants Pass. Six agencies in Jackson coun ty are taking part in the snow surveys. They are the Forest Service, the National Park Serv ice, California Oregon Power company, and the Medford, Rogue River, and Talent Irriga tion districts. Rogue River National forest checks two stations in the Apple gate area Crater Lake National park checks a course near Park Headquarters and one near An nie Spring; Talent district checks two stations east of Ash land; Medford district takes sur veys at Fish lake and at snow courses at Four Mile and Billy Creek. The Copco reports cover the largest area, with 10 in the Klamath region, two at stations on the North Umpqua river, and two at stations on the Rogue river above Prospect. Copco sub mits two reports a month to the Soil Conservation service in Portland, while most other agen cies report only once a month. Carbon Monoxide Said Death Cause Mrs. Ruth Smart Pope, 45, was found dead this morning at her home at 2651 Table Rock rd., according to state police and Coroner Carlos Morris. Her body was found by her husband, Lloyd S. Pope, in a car with the motor running in a closed garage. Carbon monoxide poisoning was believed to be the cause of death, and Mrs. Pope evidently took her own life, ac cording to the. coroner. Morris said Mrs. Pope report edly had been despondent and in ill health for some time. Funeral services for Mrs. Pope are pending at Conger - Morris funeral home. Mr. and Mrs. Pope had no children. Italian Premier Here For High-Level Talks "Washington (U.R) Italian Premier Mario Scelba today op ened an official three-day visit with conferences with President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the Atlantic alliance and proposed big power talks with Russia. Vice - President Richard M, Nixon and other high officials greeted Scelba when he arrived late at National Airport Sunday from Otawa after his plane buf fered winds up to 75-miles-an- hour enroute. Scelba was to call on Dulles for an hour's conference with the Secretary of State prior to a lunch in his and Signora Scel ba's honor by President and Mrs. i Eisenhower. - - united Congressional Action Covers Many Subjects By UNITED PRESS Here is a roundup of news made today in Congress: Trade: Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) regarded as sympathetic to President Eisenhower's foreign trade bill, has warned the White House and other administration officials that the bill needs help. As chairman of the Senate Fi nance committee, Byrd must manage whatever version of the reciprocal trade measure that emerges from his committee. --Aidr Foreign Operations Ad-j ministration Chief Harold E. Stassen asked the Senate Appro priations committee today to vote $8,000,000 to pay for this country's share of the U.N. tech nical aid program. He said that because of the program in the past, the free world is now "bet ter fed than at any time in this century." Henry Cabot Lodge, ambassador to the United Na tions, warned that if the United States fails to support the pro gram it would leave that field open to the Soviet Union. Agriculture: Agriculture Sec retary Ezra T. Benson was the chief target today as House Re publicans and Democrats opened debate on the $878,625,391 asked to run the Agriculture depart ment next year. Roads: Sen. Francis Case (R. S.D.) who co-sponsored Presi dent Eisenhowers $101,000,000, 000 road building program, said today he would introduce a sub stitute for the bill. His action ap peared to have killed the slim chance that Congress would ap prove the administration meas ure. Gasoline: Congress started an investigation into complaints that service station operators are being coerced by big oil compan ies into carrying only certain lines of auto accessories. Smith: Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R.-Me.) back from a round-the-world trip to 13 capi tals, said she was convinced the free world "is slowly gaining strength in its struggle against the Communist threat. Moreen, France (U.R) . A French-built electric locomotive set a new world's record when it reached a speed of 198.8 miles an hour on a stretch of -track south of Bordeaux today. Conservative GOP Starting Renomination of President Chicago (U.R) President Eisenhower faces a personal challenge as a drive got under way to dump him at the 1956 presidential convention in favor of GOP "conservatives." . The drive, in the form of a series of state seminars, was an nounced yesterday by Edgar C. Bundy, president of the Abra ham Lincoln National Republi can club. The club has mailed 2,000,000 blanks for membership through out the country, Bundy said. He said the club now has about 1,200 members in 25 states. Bundy, a former Air Force intelligence captain and support er of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.), said "this is not a third party movement at all." "It is a fighting force," he said, "a spearhead to return con trol of the Republican party to conservative. And. w bppc to Tribune Press Full leased Wire Price 5c No. 6 thousand marching Catholics defied anti-demonstration decree and locked in running street battle with the police who mounted a cavalry charge and opened up with fire hoses to put down the mass disorder. Yalta: Sen. John J. Sparkman (D.-Ala.) predicted the adminis tration would never repudiate the Yalta agreements. But Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R.-S.D.) describ ed the Yalta conference as the "greatest, diplomatic blunder in American history." Veterans: Chairman Olin E. Teague (D.-Tex.) of -the House Veterans committee rejected nine of the 11 recommendations of the Hoover commission for changes in veterans medical care anchbeoefitsitHe'said all but two unworkable ror unfair to ex servicemen. First of House Tax Proposals Passed, Sent to Senators Salem (U.R) The first of the major revenue bills in the Legis lature's tax program won over whelming approval in the House today and were sent to the Sen ate. Departing from calendar order to consider the tax program to gether, the House voted to im pose a corporate income tax on corporations dealing in interstate commerce and now exempted from the state's corporation ex cise tax. Also approved was a bill elim inating the exemption from taxes' now enjoyed by real estate firms and utility corporations. At Full Rate So-called skyscraper firms which derive most of their h come from property rentals would be taxed at the full cor poration excise tax rate of 8 per cent. Utilities would be taxed at a 4 per cent rate. Rep. Loren Stewart (R.-Cot tage Grove) chairman of the Tax committee, said the 4 per cent rate was adopted because the full corporate rate would impose a financial loss amounting to $3,900,000 at the county level the first year of the new law's operation. He said the committee felt the shock to the counties should be cushioned with the lower rate at the outset. gain control of the National Con vention at San Francisco next year." He called the movement "the first major break in Republican ranks between Eisenhower lib erals and the so-called conserva tive wing of the party." Bundy said he expected sup port from SensJ McCarthy, Wil liam F. Knowland (Calif), John W. Bricker (Ohio), William E. Jenner (Ind.), Styles Bridges (N. H.) and Herman Welker, (Idaho). He said the seminars are scheduled to stir up interest and will feature prominent Republi cans as speakers. The speakers will include Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah, Sen. George W. Malone (Nev.), and former Congressman Kit Clardy of Michigan, he said. Washington (U.R) Anti Eicenhower Republican! secvod Weather FORECAST: Generally cloudy with occasional rain through Tuesday. MUd temperatures. Low tonight 40. High Tues day 58. Temp. Highest yesterday 63 Lowest this morning . 43 Free. To 10 a.m. today 50 Far Eastern Policy Debate Engages Leaders' Attention 'Irresponsible Talk' Cited by Demo Chief Washington U.R) Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson today accused Senate Republican leaders of putting pressure on President Eisenhow er and indulging in "irresponsi ble talk" in the Far East crisis. Johnson also told reporters he is optimistic about the prospects Pittsburgh (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) declar ed here last night that the United States should defend Formosa "to the hilt." but he warned against trying to de fend Quemoy and the Matsus. He said the United States should "defend Formosa to the hilt until the United Nations exercises jurisdiction over the sovereignly of Formosa." He said this country has the "duty" to fight for the island because the Japanese peace treaty did not settle the For mosan question. Morse warned that a de fense of Quemoy and the Mat sus would cause all Asians to look upon the United Slates as an aggressor. And he as serted that the use of atomic weapons would destroy our reputation in Asia for "5,000 years.;' of developing a "positive" for eign policy program when Mr. Eisenhower and congressional leaders confer at the White House this week. Meanwhile, administration of ficials said that Mr. Eisenhower is being urged 'to consider stiff U.S. retaliation if the Chinese Reds make an all out assault on Quemoy and the Matsus. These officials indicated clear ly that some top defense and dip lomatic leaders believe a major Red strike at the offshore islands undoubtedly would be a step to wards a later stab at Formosa. The dangers of an early Chi nese Communist attack on the Quemoy and Matsu islands are scheduled for top consideration at President Eisenhower's White House meetings with congres sional leaders Wednesday and Thursday. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Adm. Arthur W. Rad ford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Adm. Robert B. Carney, chief of naval opera tions, were reported in the fore front of those who favor a stiffer American attitude toward Red China. These three men have visited recently in the Far East and Southeast Asia. Washington (U.R) Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy demanded to day that President Eisenhower say publicly and immediately whether the United States will defend the Quemoy and Matsu islands. The Wisconsin Republi can charged that the President "is deliberately inviting what may be an unnecessary war" by not making known the adminis tration's intentions on the islands off the Red China coast. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 412.91 off 1.86; 20 rail roads 150.79 up 0.53; 15 utilities 63.94 off 0.27, and 65 stocks 154.09 off 0.34. Sales today held unchanged from Friday at 2,- 540,000 shares. Drive Against Eisenhower notice that they will attempt "to return control of the GOP to the conservatives," Leonard W. Hall, GOP national chairman, who said he assumes Mr. Eisen hower will be the 1956 Repub lican presidential candidate. He released the names of key "We Like Ike" convention commit tee appointments Sunday night. Hall picked Gov. Theodore F. McKeldin of Maryland to head the powerful rules committee McKeldin nominated Mr. Eisen hower at the, 1952 GOP conven tion in Chicago, Albert K. Mitchell, GOP com mitteeman from New Mexico, was named to a committee by Mr. Eisenhower to draw up the administration's farm policy. William W. Spear, Nebraska GOP chairman, was picked as chairman of the committee on call. Hall himself will head the eommitte on arrangement. John Marshall Harlan Becomes 89th Justice Of U.S. High Court Washington (U.R) John Marshall Harlan, distinguished New York attorney and former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, took his oath of office today as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. The solemn swearing-in ceremony in. the Court Chamber gave the high tribunal a full complement of nine justices for the first time since last October. The judicial oath, in which Harlan promised to administer jus tice "faithfully and impartially," was administered by Court Clerk Harold B. Willey. Earlier, in a private ceremony in the Justices' Conference room, Chief Justice Earl Warren had administered the constitutional oath which is common to all federal office holders. Harlan, whose grandfather nearly 60 years ago was the only Supreme Court justice to dissent from a Supreme Court decision upholding the separate but equal doctrine of racial segregation, took his place on the bench in time to take part in the forthcom ing hearings on enforcing the court's historic decision last year outlawing segregation in public schools. . Harlan, the 89th man to serve on the nation's highest tribunal, succeeded Justice Robert H. Jackson, who died last October. 'Separate But Equal' Doctrine Struck Down He arrived on the court before it had put into effects its order banning segregation in the public schools. That decision, announc ed last May, struck down the time-honored "separate but equal doctrine for segregating . the white and Negro races. In 1896, Harlan's grandfather also named John Marshall was the only- justice to oppose a decision that "separate but equal" facilities on railroad cars for Negroes are constitutional. The elder Justice Harlan said "our Constitution is color blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among In two weeks, the full, nine-man bench will hear arguments on how and when the states should carry out the decision. It may issue a decree as early as this ipring. The arguments had been postponed until Jackson's successor could take his seat. Harlan is the third Republican on the Supreme Court. He is the next to youngest justice. MrWarren and Harold H. Burton, appointed by former President Truman in 1945, are the other Re publicans. Justice Tom C. Clark is a Xew months younger than Harlan. The new justice's background he will take on the court. Jackson's death cut the so-called liberal bloc to two justices, William O. Douglas and Hugo L. Black. It appeared likely that Harlan, a life-long Republican, will take a more conservative position. Checkon O&C Roads dispute Scheduled By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The Senate In terior committee is sending a staff investigator to Oregon with in the next week or two to look into the ;. mounting - debate- be tween Targe and small timber op erators over O&C right-of-way road regulations. This is the latest move in a series of developments touched off earlier this year when the O&C Advisory Board, composed of Oregon citizens and headed by ex-Gov. Charles A. Sprague of Salem, adopted a new set of regulations and submitted them to the Bureau of Land Manage ment. The regulations pertain to the conditions under which loggers can obtain access to fed eral O&C limber when it is nec essary to cross intermingling pri- Diem Paratroopers Seize Prefecture Saigon, Indochina (U.R) Par atroopers loyal to pro-American Premier Ngo Dinh Diem seized Saigon's police prefecture from policemen of a rebellious relig ious sect in a bloodless blitz to day. ' Ousted police belonging to the Binh Xuyen sect of former river pirates withdrew without resist ance when Diem's troops rolled up to the building with tanks in another phase of the premier's crackdown on rebels. The so-far bloodless operation was carried out by a company of tank-led South Vietnamese paratroops brought to Saigon by Diem to reinforce th capital garrison ' against a threatened uprising by the Binh Xuyen, Cao Dai and Hoa Hao religious sects. The sects' "united front" was coming apart. Informed sources reported sharp disagreements among the war lords of the three sects as to whether to seek an open showdown with Diem. Rainfall Here Heaviest Since Early January Heaviest rainfall in the Med ford vicinity since early Janu ary was reported yesterday aft ernoon and this morning. Medford office of the weather bureau reported a total of .5 of an inch in the 24 hours up until 10 a.m. today. Rainfall before midnight was .32, and .18 ,was recorded this morning. Last heavy precipitation here this year was on Jan. 5 and 6 when about .75 fell. Previous high total was .72 on December 30. . . Precipitation was quite gen eral over the area, the, weather bureau said. Wet snow fall at Crater lake had ,56 of an inch of water content. Twenty-four hour total at Klamath Falls was .44 and at Grants Pass it was .38 . The rainfall still did not bring up to normal the amount of pre cipitation, for th month, P citizens." gives little clue as to what course vate and federal timberlands to reach it. ' Delay Granted v Although the regulations have since been revised bv BLM of ficials here, Secretary of Inter ior Douglas McKav has acceded to the request of the Interior Committee to defer their adop tion until a review of them can be made by the committee and its staff. William Coburn of the staff has been interviewing BLM of ficials here and is scheduled to go to Oreson to gather further information from officials in the field, as well as local timber operators and others involved in the disDute. The Senate commit tee looked into the question at the request of Sen. Richard Jb. Neubereer (D-Ore.). who said he is against revising the existing road regulations, which he said had been beneficial and had im proved competition among oper ators buying O&C timber. Neuberger Objects Neubereer said he objected to the new regulations after re ceiving complaints about them from many small loggers. Op position to the proposal has been led by Western Forest Industries association. Meanwhile, as the Senate com mittee is studying the issue, the BLM regional office at Portland is currently making a further studv of the experience BLM nas had over the last five years in making access road contracts with Oregon operators. This review was asked by R. T. Titus, executive secretary of the WFIA and a member of the O&C Advisory Board, snd also by request of Sprague, chair man of the O&C board. Meeting Cancelled Sprague, here in Washington, D. C, on other business, said he expected no further action would be taken on the regula tion question until the Portland study has been completed and made public. He said the board cancelled a scheduled March 16 meeting in order to allow for the continued study of the prob lem before it was taken up a pain The board adopted the regu lations Jan. 6 by an 8-4 vote. After being reworked by BLM officials here, they were return ed to the board for review Feb. 4. BPA Announces Cut . In Interruptible Power Portland U.R) Bonneville Power administration announced today that the cut in interrupti ble power service to 14 Pacific Northwest industrial plants would be stepped up immediate ly from 50 to 75 per cent. Bonneville said the interrupt ible power would be cut off en tirely from 6 a.m. to midnight daily. The 25 per cent available will be delivered to the plants from midnight to 6 ajn. The Bonneville announcement said there has been no improvement in water runoff and all resources are needed to meet firm power commitments. French Ratification Of German Arming Assists Position Officials 'Startled' By Soviet's Switch London (U.R) The West- -ern powers moved closer to a Big Four conference with the: Soviet today, convinced that Rus sia must show now whether it is ready to ease world tension or intensify the biggest arms ' buildup in history. French ratification of the Paris accords to rearm West Germany strengthened the Western posi tion immeasurably, despite Sov iet plans to build a satellite "NATO" and Communist East Germany's plans to build an army of its own. Officials Startled Western officials were start led by the Soviet's abrupt change in policy favoring a Big Four meeting but were leary of Rus sian attempts to stall German , rearmament with' another "soft" policy toward Europe. Before French ratification, Moscow said approval of the arms pacts would make another Big Four conference impossible. Then, with ratification assured, ' Moscow pulled a switch and Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin announc ed he took a "positive attitude" toward President Eisenhower's idea of an exploratory Big Four conference. Silent on Threats . Moscow Radio blasted ratifica tion again today but remained silent on its pre-ratification threats to denounce its treaties of friendship with France and Britain. The broadcast, quoting the of ficial Communist organ Pravda, followed the same comparative ly mild tone Moscow has follow ed since Bulganin's Saturday statement. It blamed French Senate ac tion on "Anglo-American threats and blackmail," and said "ruling circles of France prefer to bow to the dollar instead of defend ing men nue uauuiiai nuei-, ests.M But it steered clear of Mos- . cow's previous "unswerving" op inion that-ratmcauon made. Big Four talks impossible. A United Press Moscow dis- patch said diplomatic observers believed the quick about face in Soviet policy showed Russia's real concern at relaxing inter national tension, particularly the explosive Formosa situation which could touch off a major war. But some Western officials considered that French ratifica tion had called a Soviet bluff that Russia now might forget its threats. London (U.R) Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said to day that the United States, Brit- tain and France have opened consultations on "methods by which we can now go ahead" with a four-power conference with Russia.. Eden told the House of Com mons that in view of France's ratification of German rearma ment "we shall now be able to follow" the promised procedure of setting up talks with the Sov iet Union. "We are already in consulta tion with our Allies as to the methods by which we can now go ahead," Eden said. He said the procedure perhaps would be to start out with low level meetings of officials to chart plans, and then move on to a meeting "at foreign minis ters' level" and "other levels if all goes well." GAO Says Highway Plan Is 'Unsound' Washington (U.R) The General Accounting office said today that the administration's proposed manner of financing its multi-billion dollar road building program is unsound. Comptroller General Joseph Campbell reported to a Senate Public Works subcommittee that the administration's proposal, also is of questionable legality. 'Campbell, who was only re cently confirmed as comptroller general, centered his objections on the administration's proposal to create a federal highway cor poration. The corporation would be authorized to issue $21,000, 000,000 in bonds to pay for con struction of interstate highways. "We feel that the proposed method of financing is objection able because the result would be that the borrowings would not be included in the public debt obligations of the United States" Campbell said. Las Vegas (U.R) The Atomic Energy Commission today re scehduled its "g r a n d da d d y" atomic shot for before dawn to morrow at . 4:55 a.m. PST and planned an alternate air drop if weather conditions prevent the big on. y .