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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.