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Religious Sect Swings Support To Anti-Red Viet Nam Premier Saigon, Indochina (U.R) The commander-in-chief of the Cao Dai religious sect ordered .his 25,000 Buddhist warriors .today to join Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in his battle to re .tain control of free Viet Nam. The surprise move by Gen. .Nguyen Thank Phuong as sured a victory for the Ameri- can-backed premier over the 'rebellious Binh Xuyen sect of former river pirates who rose "against Diem with a series of attacks that plunged Indo china into a brief civil war. Phuong's move deprived the rebellious sects of more than half their armed strength and Joseph Pulitzer Dies 10 Days After Seventieth Birthday St. Louis U.R) Joseph Pu litzer, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, died last night, 10 days after his 70th birthday anniversary. The world famous editor, whose newspaper sponsored the annual Pulitzer prizes for ex cellence in the field of journal ism, had not suffered a long ill ness. Pulitzer, apparently in excell ent health except for long failin eyesight, attended a party honor ing his birthday March 21. - Pulitzer died at 11:45 p.m. last night at Barnes Hospital here. Death was attributed to a rup tured blood vessel in the abdo men. Pulitzer set exacting standards for Post-Dispatch editors and re porters. Politically Independent The newspaper was fearlesly independent politically. It sup ported Democrat Adlai Steven ion in the 1952 presidential cam paign, but only yesterday came out in vigorous defense of Presi dent Eisenhower. . Pulitzer is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Pulitzer, his second wife; two sons, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., vice-president and associate editor of the Post-Dispatch, and Michael E. Pulitzer, a lawyer, Beverly Farms, Mass., and two daughters, Mrs. Elwood R. Quesada, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Louis Hempelmann, Ro chester, N. Y. There are eight young grandchildren. Military Pay Raise Bill Waits Signature Washington -4U.R) Only a Presidential signature was needed today for some 2,000,000 military personnel to start draw ing bigger pay tomorrow. There was no question that President Eisenhower would sign the $745,000,000 annual pay increase bill whisked through by the Senate and House Wednes day. But the big question m servicemen minds was when. : If the' President signs the measure today, the pay increase will go into effect Friday. If he iiavs a dav. the servicemen will have to wait until May 1 for the increased pay. The measure contains an aver age 6.7 per cent pay increase lor career servicemen. Washington U.R) The Army will draft 10,000 men in May, 2,000 more than in April, the De fense Department announced to day. The May draft call will bring to 1,898,430 the total of men drafted since the Korean War started. .'Bad Check Artist' Warning Given Here City police warned today that a bad check artist who has been working in the Grants Pass area is believed to be heading for Medford. Local authorities have no de scription of the man, but report that he is young. His method of operation is to go into a service station, wearing an apron and claiming to be from a nearby store. The man then uses the identi fication with the market to cash worthless checks. The Josephine county sheriffs office reports the trick was used successfully in Grants Pass on at least two oc casions. Nationalists Renew Battle Predictions Taipei, Formosa (U.R) Chin ese Nationalist military authori ties renewed their prediction to day that fighting will flare in the Formosa Strait with the coming of good weather within the next two weeks. ' At the same time a high Nationalist source said Red Chi na would not attack the Matsu or Quemoy islands if the United States gave clear indications it would defend the two island groups. He said the Reds would not risk a clash with the United States at the present time. cracked the ic-called unified Nationalist front. Until today the Cao Dai was allied with the Binh Xuyen and the.Hoa Hao religious sect. Phuong summoned Diem's representatives to his head quarters today after an uneasy night in which government troops and Binh Xuyen war lords agreed to a true after the first round of hostilities killed 26 persons and wounded 112. Phuong told Diem's repre sentatives: '.'The sects should keep out of politics. Today I and my 26,000 men rally behind Pre OnternaD GMffiicullfiies Ore KussSa ESeDieved Motivation for TaDlks London (U.R) Diplomatic sources said today that Russian internal troubles and the grow ing solidarity of the west had led the Kremlin to favor a four power conference now. The diplomats discounted talk of any shift in long-range Soviet strategy. They said the Soviet leaders were preoccupied with a power struggle among themselves and were anxious to avoid any ex ternal trouble until that struggle is resolved. Moscow also is anxious to di vert the attention of their satel lite nations to the outside world and away from the fight within the Kremlin, the sources said. The Russians, bargaining for more time, want to broaden the talks into a global review in which Communist China can participate, the d i p 1 o matic sources said. FARM PLAN TOLD London (U.R) Moscow Radio today announced a plan to shift thousands of top Communist Administration Tax Bill Passed, Signed Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower signed last night a bill continuing corporation and excise sales taxes at present rates for another year. The House Wednesday, after noon gave it final congressional approval and rushed it to the White House. The bill cancels a scheduled drop at midnight to night of taxes on corporation in come and liquor, beer, ciga rettes, gasoline and automobiles. House approval was by a roll call vote of 366 to 8. The Senate already had ap proved, at President Eisen hower's requet, the one-year ex tension of the present tax rates to avert a $2,830,000,000 loss in revenue. The House originally voted to include in the extension ''bill a Democratic-sponsored proposal to cut income taxes by $20 per person. But this was killed by the Senate and its sponsors Wednesday weren't in a mood to fight about it. The measure extends for the second time the higher tax rates imposed on business and sales in 1951 to help pay for the Korean war. It will keep corporation in come taxes, scheduled to drop to 47 per cent, pegged at 52 per cent through March 31, 1956. Portland (U.R) A possible strike at the mail order house of Montgomery Ward and Com pany in Portland was averted today by a nation-wide agree ment between the AFL Team sters and the firm. Squirrel-Lovers Outnumber In Talley of Dick Neuberger's Letters By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Squirrel lovers ran better than 2-to-l ahead of President Eisenhower's defend ers in conveying their reaction to Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) after a week's develop ments in Neuberger's "Save-the-White House-Squirrels" crusade. The senator's mailbag of let ters and telegrams showed that Americans got hot under the collar over the issue after Neu berger touch it off by calling on Eisenhower to stop the trapping operation of White House squir rels that had been kicking up divots in the president's putting green some getting burned up at Neuberger and some at Eisen hower. A reporter's count of Neuberg er's mail this week showed 190 correspondents on the side of Neuberger and the squirrels and 84 on the side of the president and his golf game. Neuberger was addressed by some bitter opponents as "Dear Squirrely" or simply told "Nuts to you!" A Cottage Grove con stituent sent him a cellophane sack of nuts labeled, "Squirrels of the World Unite." But a Portland voter who said he voted for Eisenhower and would do so again, declared in mier Diem. I support him totally." The sudden about-face by the Cao Daists, a mixture of Buddhism and Christianity, dealt a blow to Saigon's large Communist under ground which had expected the grow ing war to make free South Viet Nam fall into Communist hands without a struggle. Saigon remained calm. There were reports of "some firing" during the night de spite the truce, but no serious hostilities were reported. The French High Command had warned that the truce might not be respected. party members to farms in a massive attempt to improve the Soviet's seriously lagging agri cultural production. The author of the plan is party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev. The Moscow broadcast out lined the "new look" Soviet agricultural plan which Krush chev unveiled yesterday at Voro nezh in Russia's soil-rich "black earth" region. Khrushchev lashed lagging farm production and served blunt notice that a' whole new cadre of leaders was on the way to run Russia's sprawling col lective farms. NEHRU SEEKS TALKS New Delhi, India (U.R) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Ne hru said today the international situation is "growing worse," and called for big power talks to avert a catastrophe. "We have been hearing for a long time about such talks," he said. "Therefore I suggest they must negotiate at the earliest possible time." He said the only alternative to co-existence was destruction. "I am interested in the peace of the world," he said in a ma jor foreign policy address to Parliament. "I tell you plainly we will not go to war whatever may happen." Nehru said India could not escape the consequences of a war and "therefore I am inter ested that there must be peace in the world." Subject of Meeting One of a series of meetings on a metropolitan sanitary district proposed for this area will be held at 8 p.m. today in the pub lic health office in the county courthouse. Among those to be present will be A. D. Harvey, Medford en gineer who was the originator of the metropolitan sanitary dis trict plan. Copies of Senate Bill 434, sponsored by Jackson Coun ty Senator Philip Lowry, which would provide for sanitary au thorities, will be available at the meeting. Assault Charge Filed Against Minister Oregon City (U.R) A charge of assault with intent to com mit rape was on file today against the the Rev. David Schulheer, 37, Newberg. Police said several women had identified the minister as the man who several months ago called at their homes, and after asking to use the telephone forc ed some of them to disrobe. Bail was set at $2500. favor of squirrels this time. "I like your spunk," he wrote Neu berger. An Oregonian from El gin said, "With you all the way." Actress June Havoc sent $10 to help "save the squirrels" and said: "I admire your stand so much. I wish there were more people who cared about preserv ing the beatuies that are left to us in this world." A Portland businessman wrote to inform the freshman senator that he had become "the laugh ing stock of all Portland." And an Albany school teacher said it was hard enough to impress her students with the important work and responsibilities of members of Congress, without Neuberger standing up for squir rels on the Senate floor. "The squirrel double-cross is a rotten shame," cried another voter who backed the senator, while ano.ther called Neuberger "one of Oregon's great men" and pleaded with him to help stop the slaughter of deer in Oregon. A San Diego fence manufac turer wrote saying he would send the White House a fence to enclose Ike's putting green, but a Portlander suggested "any fence in that area is just one more item to straddle." Sanitary Medford united fres full Leased wire 50th Year 24 Pages Berlin Aiding 2 Water Resources Bills Pass House; Adverse Vote Small Cigarette Tax Gets Committee Approval Salem (U.R) Major re visions in Oregon's water laws won approval in the House to day after Rep. C. Allen Tom (R Rufus) told members they would remember their votes on' the two bills before them as the mile posts of their legislative careers. The two water resources bills attracted only scattered opposi tion on the floor and one passed with six dissenting votes and the other with four . The water package, which now goes to the Senate, would establish a seven - man board with comprehensive powers over water uses in the state and would eliminate the present Wil lamette River Basin Commis sion and the Upper Columbia River Basin Commission. The proposed board would take over some of the functions of all other state boards and commissions now dealing with water use problems. Bills Said Constitutional Tom predicted the bills would become a model to other state governments in attempting to conserve dwindling water sup plies and ground water tables. He promised the board would function with a small staff, uti lizing administrative machinery already available. Rep. Walter Pearson (D-Port-land) raised the question of con stitutionality of some of the powers that would be granted to an appointive board but voted for the bills after Rep. Harvey De Armond (R - Bend) assured him attorneys had eliminated all constitutional questions from the first draft of the bill. Rep. Maurine Neuberger (D -Portland), in explaining her ad verse votersaid she-was opposed' to such strong powers for a state board and that the bill was so long she had been unable to become conversant with it. Cigarette Tax Okd Salem (U.R) The House Tax Committee voted 8 to 1 yes terday recommending passage of the 3-cent cigarette tax measure despite the threat of a referen dum if the legislature should pass such a bill. Only member to vote against the bill was Rep. Walter Pear son of Portland. R. A. Bradley of the Oregon Wholesalers Association said three large retail dealers had informed him they favored a ieferendum on any cigarette tax measure. The cigarette tax bill is one of the largest single revenue bills in the House Tax Committee's tax package. It is designed to produce more than $10 million. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jcnes final stock averages: 30 industrials 409.70 off 0.43; 20 railroads 150.32 up 1.10; 15 uti lities 63.57 up 0.19 and 65 stocks 153.15 up 0.31. Sales today were up about 2,680,000 shares com pared with 3.410,000 shares traded yesterday. Ike-Lovers A Lebanon citizen said "I am sending nuts to you" and another at Coquille was "sick at heart" over the whole affair. A Port land Republican felt the effects elsewhere, saying: "Morseburg- ers give me indigestion. Squir relburgers give me a pain in the donkey. I like Ike." From Stayton came a dollar to help build a squirrel cage "for some of the two-legged squirrels around there." And a Salem cherry grower said "I think the same as you do." A Hillsboro resident was "very ap preciative of the job you are do ing." Also on the side of Neuberger after the ball got rolling was the Senate Democratic leader ' ship, who urged the Oregon new comer to pour it on. The senator got the White House to explain it had trapped only three squir rels and wouldn't do it again, particularly in view of an old District of Columbia statute which carries a 30-days in the workhouse penalty for molesting squirrels. "My grandmother used to say, 'Always leave a party while you still are having fun,' " said Neu berger with a smile, as he ended his squirrel crusade while still evidently ahead. MEDFORD, Or ATOMIC SUB'S INTERIOR Shown above is one of the first pictures released by the De fense department of the interior of the new atomic-powered submarine, USS Nautilus,, which has successfully completed her initial trials. The picture shows crewmen in the control room. At left is an Oregon man, Chief Electrician's Mate Robert R. Dunn, Manzanita. Salaries Paid DAs Hearing Subject; Local Men Attend District Attorney Walter Nun- ley and County Judge Rodney Keating appeared before a sub committee of the legislative joint ways and means committee in Salem yesterday on behalf of House Bill 132, according to Nunley. The proposed measure deals with compensation of district at torneys and the number and compensation of deputy district attorneys in counties throughout the' state. The two Jackson county of ficials appeared before the sub committee to request that Jack son county be given two state paid deputy district attorneys at an annual salary of $4,200 each. The state now provides one dep uty for Jackson county at a sal ary of $3,000, while the salary for a second deputy is paid by the county. No increase was requested in Nunley's salary. Salem (U.R) A pay raise for district attorneys was rec ommended at a hearing conduct ed by a ways and means salary subcommittee yesterday. It was pointed out that at pres ent district attorneys of some of the smaller counties are re ceiving salaries as high as those in much larger counties. District attorneys present at the hearing emphasized popula tion increases which during the past few years have brought in creases in criminal cases and other activities. They agreed that any salary under $4200 a year was inade quate and would fail to attract competent attorneys. Two or three speakers declared they were opposed to the present sys tem under which some district attorneys, mostly in smaller counties, were compelled to en gage in some private practice in order to make a living. Vacation, Hearing Draws Congressmen Washington (U.R) Easter recess and a Hells Canyon hear ing will draw most of Oregon's members of congress west this weekend. Sens. Wayne Morse and Rich ard L. Neuberger and Rep. Edith Green will participate in the Hells Canyon hearing in Port land April 6. It is on a bill to authorize federal construction of the proposed dam. Reps. Harris Ellsworth, Wal ter Norblad and Mrs. Gren plan to be on hand for atomic tests at the Las Vegas proving grounds. Ellsworth will then come to Oregon to arrange hearings on his partnership bill for Cougar and Green Peter dams. Norblad will return to Washington. Rep Sam Coon plans to remain in the capitol during the recess. Pasadena, Calif. (U.R). Seismographs of California In stitute of technology recorded a major earthquake today esti mated at 7000 miles distance from here. Officials at the laboratory said the quake was timed at 10:35 a.m. PST and had a magnitude of 7. Direction was not im mediately known. (, MARCH 31, 1955 iCrs in Etad 'Cold Others are Engineman 3c James French, Aurora, Colo., and Lt. (jg) David Boyd, Santa Barbara, Calif., at the diving station. Lieuten ant Boyd passes the word on the general an nouncing system, while Dunn prepares to vent one of the special ballast tanks. (U. S. Navy photo.) President (Gets EDemo Support for Dsflands uessing' Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower picked up some Democratic support today for the idea of letting the Communists guess where we might begin to fight in the Far East. He stood a good chance of getting even more at a White House lunch with the most pow erful members of the Senate. Chairman Walter . F. George (D- Ga.) of "the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Mr. Senate Committee OKs German Arms By UNITED PRESS The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today approved the West German rearmament agree ments. The Senate Is scheduled to take up the pacts tomorrow. Quick approval is expected. The committee vote was 94 to 1. The dissenter was Sen. William Langer (R-ND). Chairman Walter F. George (D-Ga.) said he hopes the Senate will ratify the pacts before start ing its Easter recess this week end. He said if action is not com pleted tomorrow, the Senate will meet Saturday. The United States is prepared to rush arms to build up West Germany as a bulwark against Communist aggression in Europe. Youngster Uninjured When Hit by Auto . A four-year-old boy was un injured, yesterday when he was struck by a car at the intersec tion of Sixth and Bartlett sts., according to city police. The child, Stephen Russell Fowler, 504 Austin st., was hit by a car operated by Edward Kriss, 1206 Stewart ave., police said. , No charges were filed against the driver. The accident occurred at about-1:15 p.m. Ronald J. Martin, 33 Lincoln st., was the driver of a pickup truck involved in a one-vehicle accident on Summit st., between Clark st. and McAndrews rd., at about 1 a.m. today, police said. No injuries were listed. Three Persons Jailed For Liquor Violations Two men and a woman who were arrested Tuesday by state police on charges involving liquor appeared in district court yesterday. All three pleaded guilty to the charges and were jailed in lieu of payment of fines. Alfred Joseph Hardy, 35, of route 2, box 241, Medford, and Robert Harry Farnsworth, 36, of the same address each were fined $20 and court costs on charges of being drunk in a pub lic place. Betty Mae Cannon Hardy, 36, of route 2, box 241, Medford, was fined $15 and cosfe on a charge of being drunk on a pub lic highway. Tribune united fress Full leased Wire Price 5c No. 9 tPoflicies Eisenhower was right in making no commitments about the de fense of Quemoy and Matsu off the Red China coast. . "Circumstances may force the President to make the decision, but the interests of peace will not be served by doing it until the decision is actually necei' sary," George said. Vinson Agrees- Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) of the House Armed Services Committee said he was "in com plete agreement with the superb manner in which they are handl ing a most delicate situation in Asia." Vinson was one of a dozen House, leaders who attended a White House lunch with the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Wednesday. None of the seven Democrats at the lunch expressed any criti cism of the President or his poli cies. The conferences were set up in the midst of running Demo cratic criticism of administration Far Eastern policy. Scored Administration Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) particularly scored the adminis tration yesterday. He charged that powerful forces in the ad ministration apparently are "so eager for a war with China that they are becoming almost impos sible to resist." Kefauver told the Senate there should be more talk of neace, not war. He said U.S. foreign policy has degenerated "into rule by fear. . . Nobody in the State Department or Pentagon ever talks of good will or neighborli ness any more . . . They rattle their atomic bombs." Norblad Asks Overhaul Of Income Tax Forms Washington (U.R) Rep. Wal ter Norblad (R-Ore.) today urged a complete overhaul of the In ternal Revenue Bureau's "com plicated" personal income tax forms. Norblad told the bureau that "a major program of simplifica tion" would benefit both the tax payers, who must fill out the forms, and the government, which would "very probably" derive greater revenue. Importance of Cited; Forum A large turnout is hoped for at tonight's public tax forum at the Medford high school auditor ium, according to Elwood Hed berg, of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce forum committee. "With Oregon facing a multi million dollar deficit, the prob lem of taxation is one of vital importance to all residents of the state," Hedberg said. Both state and local taxes are to be discussed at tonight's forum, " which will start about 8 p.m. Principal speaker will be State Sen. Lee Ohmart, Salem, who will describe efforts being made by the legislature to solve Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Friday. Possibility ot a few light showers late tonight or early Friday. Low about 35. High Friday near 60. Temp. Highest Yesterday 52 Lowest this Morning 34 Blockade' Prohibitory Taxes Threaten Supplies To Isolated City Allies Seek Ways To Counter Action Berlin (U.R) The West Ber lin city government authorized loans of $250,000 today to truck ers to keep supply trucks rolling to isolated Berlin despite a Com munist "cold blockade" threaten ing the city's lifelines. In retaliation for prohibitory , taxes imposed by the Reds on trucks supplying West Berlin, the West German government broke off trade talks with the East Germans this morning. New Communist taxes on Beiy lin's truckers who supply nearly half the city's food go into effect at midnight tonight, seventh an niversary of the start of the crip pling Soviet blockade of 1948. Trucks Said Vital The city's Executive Council, or Senate, voted a grant of $250,- 000 as a "temporary measure after the West Berlin mayor said the city's 850 truckers must get through "no matter what the cost." But it is only enough to pay the Communists exorbitant tolls for two weeks. The action came as Allied High Commission officials met West German officials in Bonn in a search for urgent measures to smash or circumvent the "cold blockade." Senior Western Allied High Commission officials met at the West German capital in Bonn to decide what action to take to combat the $15-million-a-year tolls demanded by the Commu nists for trucks supplying food to West Berlin. May Draft Protest It was reported they might draft a stiff protest note to the Russians charging them with violating the 1949 four - power agreement guaranteeing free access to this cold war battle ground 110 miles inside East Germany. The West Berlin Executive Council, or Senate, met in an emergency session to discuss the highway situation. Council members already had appealed to the Western Big Three for measures to ease the economic blockade. February Traffic Toll Lowest Since 1950 Chicago (U.R) The nation in February scored the lowest traffic death toll for any month since 1950, the National Safety Council said today. The toll was 2270, seven per cent lower than for February, 1954. It was the lowest toll since February, 1950, when 2258 deaths were recorded. The toll for the first two months of 1955 was 5170, three per cent below the total for the safe period last year, the coun cil said. The council said that among states showing decreases in the toll for the first two months of 1955, as against the first two months of 1954 were: Arizona, 21 per cent, and Oregon, 20 per cent. The council said 307 cities had records of no fatalities for Jan uary and February, the largest of which was Seattle. (BuDletSn Detroit (U.R) Seven-year-old Barbara Gaca. who disappeared a week ago while walking to school, was found dead today in a field in neigh boring Oakland county, state police reported. Tax Problem Set Tonight Oregon s tax problems. Ohmart is a member of the state senate tax committee. The problems of taxation on a local level will be discussed by five county residents who have been named to serve on a panel for the forum. They are Bob Root, Jackson county orchardist and former state representative; Al York, of the Carpenters union; E. H. Hed rick, Medford superintendent of schools; L. B. Nutting, manager of Medford Corporation, and Moore Hamilton, Medford post master. Moderator will be Jennings Pierce.
