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of v axi yzs y& r Medford united cress uJl ueaaed wae 50th Year 18 Pages Churchill's Heir Accepts Ppsiiion In Simple Rites, Easing of Royal Etiquette Expected London (U.R) Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden offic ially succeeded Sir Winston Churchill today as British Prime Minister in a simple ceremony at Buckingham palace. The silver-gray Eden, first di vorced man ever summoned to be her majesty's first minister, accepted with a solemn kiss of his sovereign's hand. The 57-year-old statesman ac cepted the seals of the nation's highest office from the Queen in an act of history that court circles predicted will mean an easing of royal etiquette. Broke Off Marriage Five years ago Eden took his political life in his hands by breaking off his first marriage after 27 years. Today the divorced diplomat rode, hatless and handsome, through the stone arches of Buckingham palace, not just to be received by the Queen who is Defender, of the Faith, but to be charged by her with the highest office she can confer. The glorious area of Winston Churchill ended when Eden bow ed and bent over the sovereign's hand an hour before midday. The 80-year-old Churchill packed quietly at No. 10 Down ing Street to make his last of ficial exit today from that res idence of prime ministers. He and Lady Churchill are spending Easter at Chartwell before flying to Sicily Tuesday for a rest. Eden is expected to call an election within three months to seek an extension of the Con servative party's mandate to rule is gone. under him now that Churchill He is expected to make few changes in the government pending the election. While Churchill has long groomed Eden as his completely trusted lieutenant and heir, the Laborite war drums sounding the election beat, started pound ing for his scalp this very day. (See Stories on Page 12) Hew York Bank Loses $200,000 To Robbers New York (U.R) Four men armed with revolvers and a machine gun held up a Queens bank as it opened today and es caped with $200,000, police re ported. It was the second big robbery of the day. The Woodside branch of the Chase Manhattan bank was held up less than an hour after three white-gloved bandits had invad ed a downtown Manhattan Jew elry firm and escaped with $75, 000 in uncut diamonds and $2000 in cash. The heavily armed bank ban dits herded 10 employees into the bank vault minutes after the bank opened its doors for business at 9 a.m. Weather FORECAST: Fair through Thurs day. Low tonight 35. High Thursday 68-70. Temp. Highest Yesterday Lowest this Morning 69 32 EH IS Five Petitions, With 682 Names, Filed; Protest Location of Freeway Through Park Five petitions protesting con struction at a Highway 99 free way along Bear creek through Medford have been submitted to the city, according to Mayor Earl Miller. The petitions, bearing 682 names, will be forwarded to the state highway commission, May or Miller said. He noted that the city also has received some individual letters protesting the proposed Bear creek site for the freeway. No letters favoring the project have been submitted to city officials. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNE HOSEH E II r ANTHONY EDEN Kisses Queen's Hand North Texas Area Hit by Storms; Buildings Fall By UNITED PRESS Winds, hail, thunderstorms and at least one tornado battered a 200-mile stretch of north Texas today, downing buildings and communications and power lines. It was the second day of stormy weather in the Southwest. Elsewhere, Northern Plains states were still digging out of snow left by a week end bliz zard. - r ... Oni Killed by Tornado The tornado killed at least one person and injured 22 others in Texas, where violent weather struck for the second consecu tive day. Weather forecasters said tornadoes could be expected during the day in southern Okla homa, extreme north Texas and southwest Arkansas, and severe thunderstorms in southeast Ar kansas, northern Mississippi, northern Alabama and northern Georgia. Buildings Collapse At Biardstown, Tex., nearly three inches of rain and hail fell in 30 minutes. A tornado went through the area of Sherman, Tex., and the nearby towns of Bells and Bon ham. A trailer camp, two homes, a bowling alley and a commer cial garage, were among the structures knocked down. Fire, perhaps started by power disrup tions brought on by the storm, destroyed a section of an old folks' home at Gunter, Tex., and 78 residents were given shelter in the town gymnasium. Sen. Morse Charges FPC With Prejudice Portland (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) issued a state ment in support of his bill for a high Hells Canyon dam today at a Senate interior subcommittee hearing in which he charged the Federal Power Commission is "prejudiced" against federal de velopment of the Snake river site. Morse said "the place to fight this battle is on the floor of Con gress and next year at the cross roads of Oregon." He attacked figures presented by Govs. Arthur Langlie of Washington and Paul Patterson of Oregon, saying they were fig ures of the Idaho Power Com pany which seeks to build three low-head dams on the Snake. The two governors opposed the bill at today's hearing. he declared State highway engineers have emphasized that a final decision on location of the new highway has not been made and will not be made for" some time. The freeway has been shown running down Bear creek sim uly because that is the only pos sible route for a high-standard, limited-access highway, if it is to go through the city itself, they stated. Final surveys may show that a route to the east of the city would be more feasible. 55 Hearings Set May 3 On Three Subdivisions Annexation Proposals The Medford city council last night set May 3 as the date for public hearings on annexation of three subdivisions to the city. No elections would be necessary on any of the three proposed annexations. The subdivisions are Vista Heights, east of the IOOF ceme tery and west of Highland dr.; Wilson Park, south of Stewart ave. at the end of Hamilton st., and an area adjacent to West Side Heights west of an exten sion of Columbus ave. Not in Big Program The three previously had been excluded from an over all annex ation program Vhich would bring in some 3,000 acres to the south and west of the present city limits. City officials have noted that the reason the three are being treated separately is that they are ready at the present time to be brought into the city limits, while some delay will be neces sary before the over all program can go into effect. City Manager Robert Duff re ported to the council last night that he expects to have a report on the over all annexation plan for the area south and west of the city by the next meeting of the city council, which is sched uled for April 19. Election Necessary Because of the large rea in- Three Men Charged In District Court Three men were arraigned in district court yesterday on fel ony charges, according to court records. V They were Richard Orval Rhoten, 23, and Conley Carl Rhoten, 34, both of route 1, box 74. Rogue River, and Paul Ron ald Holteen, 22, Winston, Ore. The two Rhotens were arrest ed yesterday morning on a grand larceny charge involving logs owned by Robert Dollar com pany. The logs were taken from alongside a company road in the Graves Creek area. Both waived preliminary hearing and coun sel and were bound over to the grand jury under $1,500 each. They were jailed in lieu of bail. Holteen is charged with as sault and battery of Leila White, a waitress at the Richfield Truck Stop cafe, where he is alleged to have struck her with his fists while she was attempting to quiet a dispute. He was brought here from Roseburg to face the charge. Holteen waived counsel and preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury under $500 bond. He was com mitted to jail in lieu of bail. Death Sentence Imposed In Hood River Slaying Salem U.R) The Oregon Su preme court ruled today that Donald Dwairie Imlah must die for the murder of Bruce Houck in Hood River county. The death sentence was im posed by Circuit Judge Malcolm W. Wilkinson of Hood River county. Imlah was convicted of mur der in the first degree with no recommendation of life impris onment. He appealed on the sole ground that the verdict was not the unanimous verdict of the jury. ' A strong protest movement against use of the Bear creek route for the freeway has been based cn the contention that such a route, elevated above the ground, would destroy the esthe tic values of Hawthorne park and other Bear creek property possible for future park use. Mayor Miller said the peti tions would be taken into consid eration at any hearing on the matter. (Other council stories Page 1 and 3) on (IBUNE Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 14 volved, it would be necessary to have an election before the 3,000 acres could be incorporat ed into the city limits. Elections may be dispensed with only when 100 per cent of the prop erty owners in the tract involved favor annexation to the city. This was the case for the three tracts for which public hearings were set last night. (Other council stories on Pages 1 and 3) Patterson, Langlie Join in Opposing High Federal Dam Portland (U.R) Govs. Ar thur B. Langlie of Washington and Paul Patterson of Oregon to day joined Gov. Robert Smylie of Idaho in opposing a bill to au thorize federal construction of a high dam at Hells Canyon on the Snake river. Both Republicans testified to day before a Senate Interior sub committee which is winding up three days of hearings in the Pa cific Northwest on a bill to au thorize a high dam. Some 500 persons attended the hearing, Smylie expressed his opposition at a hearing in Boise Monday Lsnglie said that"viewed from the standpoint of logical power development the high head dam appears to be a phoney." Money spent on a high dam, he said, would be a monument to govern ment error. Langlie Cites Figures ' The, Washington governor cited figures to show that total plan investment of a high dam would be $397,800,000 compared to a total investment for three low-head dams, proposed by Ida ho Power company of $181,000,- 000. He said the excess of annual value over costs on a federal dam would be $3,050,000 . compared to $17,800,000 on the low dams. The average cost per kilowatt on the high head dam would be 4.35 mills compared to 1.93 mills on the low dams, he said. Neuberger, Dworshak Argue Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.), acting as chairman today, and Sen. Henry Dworshak (R Ida.) got into an argument over whether witnesses could be cross examined. Dworshak said his un derstanding "was that this would not be done so as many witinesses as possible could be heard. But Neuberger pointed out that Sen. James Murray (D-Mont.) had ruled at Pasco yesterday it was within the province of the com mittee to do so. Neuberger asked Langlie if the figures he had quoted came from private power company studies. Langlie said they came from neither private or public studies. He said the state of Washington had its own engineers and was using its own figures. Patterson Lists Reasons Patterson emphasized that he was not opposed to future devel opment of the Hells Canyon site but he believed other projects should come f irt. He listed them as completion The Dalles and Chief Joseph dams on schedule and a start on the John Day dam. Patterson said there. was no provision for assurance that if the dam were authorized, it would be constructed. "We need power and we need it now," he said. Big Three Stick Up For Austria in Treaty Washington (U.R) The United States, Britain and France put Russia squarely on notice to day that they will not agree to a treaty for Austria which does not guarantee that country "full freedom and independence." The special declaration by the Western Big Three apparently was designed to forestall Russia from trying to sell Austria an unsatisfactory treaty during next week's Moscow talks between Soviet Foreign Minister "V. M. Molotov and Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab. Demand Made for Prosecution of Foreign Aid Chief Stassen Just Smiles As Accusation Hurled t Washington (U.R) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today ac cused Harold E. Stassen of "per jury" in statements before the Senate Permanent Investigating Subcommittee. The Wisconsin Republican de manded that the foreign aid chief's testimony be sent to the Justice Department for possible prosecution. Stassen just smiled at McCar thy. McCarthy said Stassen "lied under oath" when he told the subcommittee that two subcom mittee staff members in 1953 made transcripts when they con ducted preliminary questioning of staff members for the Foreign Operations Administration which Stassen heads. Question Contract The flare-up came as the sub committee questioned Stassen about his agency's handling of a contract for grain elevators in Pakistan with U.S. funds. Stassen had just told the sub committee he will reject all bids on the disputed contract and start over again. It had been charged that the bid had been awarded to the highest of five bidders. When Stassen insisted that transcripts were made of pre liminary questioning during the subcommittee's 1953 investiga tion of East-West trade, McCar thy charged that Stassen "has just perjured himself ... No transcripts were made." "His case should be referred to the Justice Department even if he does hold the position he does." Stassen Stands Ground - It was then that Stassen smiled. "It should be referred to the grand jury for indictment," Mc Carthy later demanded. Stassen stood by his charges in a newspaper interview that the. subcommittee staff mem bers, Fsancis D. Flanagan and Robert F. "Kennedy, made' trans cripts when they questioned his subordinates in 1953. Flanagan was then subcommittee general counsel and Kennedy an assist ant. Kennedy is now chief coun sel. McCarthy accused Stassen of "smearing" Flanagan and Ken nedy and said they should be called to contradict his testimony. Twining Says Reds Could Double Strength Washington (U.R) Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air Force chief of staff, said today the Communists could double or triple their Far Eastern air strength overnight. ; Twining, testifying before a Senate, Military Appropriations subcommittee, said the armed bloc, particularly their strength improved" in the past year. He said the Russians are not in the air, has expanded and only building up their own forc es but are "contributing to the airpower of Red China." "This buildup, which includes many jet aircraft, is particularly significant in light of the pres ent tension in the Far East," Twining said. Money Said Missing' From Bend Local of IWA Bend (U.R) Some $7,288.43 is missing from the office of the Bend local of the International Woodworkers of America, Tim Sullivan, head of the IWA's Klamath basin council said to day. Sullivan said an audit has been completed on the union's books and forwarded to the in ternational office in Portland which will relay it to a bonding company. Warrant Issued For Marilyn Monroe Hollywood (U.R) A judge is sued a new warrant for the ar rest of film star Marilyn Mon roe today when she failed to ap pear in court on a five-month-old traffic violation charge. Municipal Judge Charles J. Griffin of Beverly Hills also or dered forfeited $100 bail put up for the blonde actress by a cham paign, HI., bondsman. Morse Sees Island Defense Suicide Step Portland (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said last night that if America should defend Quemoy and Matsu islands off the China coast it would not only be a "violation of international law, but the first step toward military suicide." A A By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Sen. Wavne Morse is mapping his forthcom ing campaign for reelection on the presumption that his chal lenger will be Gov. Paul Patter son. And unlike most orthodox campaigns staged by political in cumbents, which call for ignor ing the challenger as long as possible, Morse is beginning by a frontal attack on Patterson long before it is certain in the .Republican camp that the gov ernor will be the GOP candi date. Morse and his associates have been carefully setting the stage for the first round in this ag gressive campaign for this week, when Morse and Patterson are due to meet in public hearings Anti-Aircraft fissile Exploded High in Sky Over Desert in Nevada Las Vegas (U.R) The Air Force opened the age of atomic air defense today by exploding an anti-aircraft air to air missile six miles in the sky with a mighty nuclear blast powerful enough to knock down a dozen enemy bombers even in a near miss. It was a "baby" blast as atomic explosions go. But its force slap ped 75 miles through the sky into Las Vegas to quiver the plate glass windows in the Atomic Energy Commission of fice. An orange-white metallic flash, temporarily blinding to Local 4-H'ers Win Livestock Awards San Francisco Bob Fisher, a 4-H club member from Jackson county, Ore., today was rated the highest individual livestock judge in competition in the Jun ior Livestock Exposition at the Cow Palace here. As a, team, Bob Fisher, Dale Smith and Charles Elmore plac ed third in the same contest. Six Jackson county 4-H mem bers were rated as qualified showmen. They were Tessie Ragsdale, Dale Smith, Bobby Hayes, Linda Malloroy, Ken Bit terling and David Woolf oik. The last two competed in the expert showmanship competition, and finished among the top 15. Picketed Auto Dealer Tries Picketing Too Portland (U.R) Portland auto dealer Joe Fisher began "picketing" the Labor temple here yesterday afternoon, car rying a banner which read "Un fair to Joe Fisher.' ' Fisher's garage is being pick eted by the AFL automotive council. The dealer explained that his employees had no dis pute with him. "I have no dispute with the labor temple either," Fisher elab orated, "so I thought I'd picket them awhile." DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York -(U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indust rials 416.42 up 0.52; 20 railroads 152.50 up 0.51; 15 utilities 63.73 off 0.27, and 65 stocks 155.21 up 0.14. Sales today were about 2,500,000 shares compared with 2,100,000 traded yesterday. . Tacoma (U.R) Marcus Nalley, founder and chairman of the board of Nalley's Inc., has announced he will sell his ma jority stock interest in the firm tc its employees and other stock holders. Spokane (U.B) Arley F. Rost of Idaho State college, Poc- atello, has. been elected presi dent of the northwest unit of the association for student tea ching. Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Dr. Henry J. Vaux, former profes sor of forestry at Oregon State college, has been named dean of the University of California school of Forestry. at Portland on the Hells Can yon issue. Last week . at The Dalles Morse publicly challenged Pat terson to take . a stand pn the question of the high federal dam in Hells Canyon. Later in the week it was disclosed that the governor would be called as a witness in the hearings being staged by, the Senate Interior Committee on Morse's bill to au thorize the high dam. Whatever the outcome of the Hells Canyon battle in Congress this session, the senator has un hesitatingly declared that the public issue of federal versus private dams which the Hells Canyon debate symbolizes, will be a major plank in his reelec tion platform next year. While it is being observed with satisfaction in the Morse Las Vegas observers who were not wearing dark glasses, her alded the test firing of America's newest anti-aircraft weapon, a guided missile that can be fired from intercepting warplanes into formations of invading planes when they are still 1,000 miles or more offshore. Launched by Bomber A 24-man group of official ob servers from Great Britain and Canada watched this first test of an atomic anti-aircraft missile, which puts nuclear fission into the airborne , defense business. The compact missile, secret as to details bat probably encased m a six-foot:long skin, was launched from a B36 interconti rental bomber 30,000 feet above the Nevada Proving Grounds. It sped, apparently under rocket power and electronic guidance from the "mother" plane, toward a pattern of smoke trails laid down by six F86 Sabre jets two minutes before scheduled blast time. It burst on schedule at 10 a.m. (PST) but appeared to have de tonated above the smoke trails, which were laid down as photo graphic measuring sticks of the blast power. Cloud Disappeared The flash was described by witnesses atop Mt. Charleston, an 8900-foot peak 50 airline miles from the explosion as "very, very bright for the mid dle of the day." The familiar mushroom cloud began to form, Mt. Charleston witnesses reported. But it im mediately was swallowed up'by a gigantic smoke ring, whitish yellow in color. Then, unusual in atomic experiments, the cloud dissipated within 12 minutes. Its blast was unofficially esti mated as packing a punch equivalent to some 5,000 tons of TNT, perhaps as much as 10,000 tons, putting it in the "baby" or "teen-age" class of atomic deto nations. But its "baby" first carried the destructive force of super hurricane winds' capable of wrenching aircraft apart at the seams within a radius of a half mile. Increase Reported in Objectionable Comics Cincinnati (U.R) The Cincin nati Committee on Evaluation of Comic Books has announced in its annual review that objection able comic books have increased 8 per cent from 1953 to 1954. Crippen Defense Charges Entrapment in Gold Case Portland-ttJ.R) Closing argu ments were heard by a federal jury 'here today in the trial of Stephen Gilbert Crippen, Med ford, who is charged with illegal possession of gold bullion. Testimony was completed yes terday in the first day of trial in the court of U.S. District Judge William J. Lindberg. The defense yesterday charged that Crippen was entrapped by a federal undercover agent working with W. C. Mitchell, a legless jeweler, who operates from a Eugene hospital. Mitchell, a witness for the prosecution, testified he visited Crippen at Medford two months before the defendant's arrest in Eye Fe camp that there is no visible scramble underway among Re publicans to take on the hard punching convert to the Demo cratic party, this is also a wea thervane which Morse and bis crew think points to Patterson. For, they ask, who else is there? Only One Appearance This question is coupled cur rently with the observation that during this Easter congression al recess, when many members of Congress take occasion to build new political fences in the grassroots, only one Republican in the Oregon congressional del egation planned public appear ances in the state. That was Rep. Harris Ellsworth, who had sev eral appearances in connection with his "partnership" bill for construction of Cougar and the Green Peter dams, all within his own southwest Oregon dis trict. Rep. Walter Norblad, who was regarded as a leading senatorial prospect by Republicans fast year in the event ex-Sen. Guy Cordon had decided not to run. is making it plain he has no urge to tackle Morse. His recess plans call for nothing beyond a personal visit with his parents at Astoria. Moreover, Norblad has discontinued a weekly radio broadcast which in recent years was carried by a string of sta tions, some outside his northwest Oregon district. Coon Not Traveling Rep. Sam Coon, the third Re publican, is sticking close to the capital during the spring vaca tion period. Morse, however, with frequent trips to Oregon from the capital, and more frequent radio talks, is seeking to build upon what he and his political advisors was a vote of confidence for Morse last fall in the election of Sen. Richard L. Neuberger. for, whom Morse campaigned. In short, though Republicans are uncertain who their candi date may be, Morse has become convinced it will be Patterson and he is off and running in perhaps the longest and tough est race of his 11-year political career. Girl's Condition Good After Air Rifle Injury Susan Muller. 6. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Muller. route 1, box 507, Central Point, was in "good" condition at Com munity Hospital this morning, at tendants said. She is being treat ed for an air rifle pellet wound in her back, according to state police. Officers said the wound was inflicted accidentally when the little girl's 11-year-old brother ' Richard Jr., leaned over the rifle at home yesterday after noon, and his belt buckle caught the trigger, discharging the gun. . The pellet entered her back. The wound is not thought to be serious. Blood Workers Hope For Quota Fulfillment Red Cross blood program wor kers were hopeful that the quo ta of 240 pints of blood would be collected during the bloodmo-, bile visit today. Donations are being accepted at the Medford YMCA building until 6 p.m. Nearly 240 persons had made appointments up to late morn ing. If there are enough drop-in donors to make up for the num ber of persons rejected for giv ing blood, the quota could be filled. . Portland last July. Crippen, Mit chell said, told him that he and Woodrow Wilson Atwood, also of Medford, could supply "quite a bit" of gold if a buyer could be found. Crippen admitted on the stand obtaining two gold bars valued at $4300 from Wilbur M. Walls, a former Jackson county hotel man. Crippen and Atwood were arrested by -undercover agent Kent Brown at a Portland hotel Atwood is awaiting sentencing on the charge after pleading guilty. Atwood once had asked the court through his attorney to change his plea and permis sion was granted but he did not appear to withdraw the guilty plea.
