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Newspaper Page TextEkaDD Pfimdl A $ C iff ft (ST - M China Ignores United States in Friendship Offer Bandung U.R) Communist fered friendship to every nation in the world today except the United States and accused it of trying to overthrow the Peiping regime. - He had agreed a few hours earlier to meet with seven pro Western and neutral nations on the Formosan crisis but his bitter speech foredoomed failure of the meeting. Chou, premier and foreign minister of the second largest Com munist nation in the world, pictured Red China as a friend of all mankind before the Afro-Asian conference which had heard a series of hard-hitting speeches against Communist aggression. "China has no intention whatsoever to subvert the governments of its neighboring countries," he said in a speech that sharply dis agreed with those of delegates from nations bordering Communist China. "On the contrary it is the trying to subvert China." U. S. Ambassador Heart Accusation U. S. Ambassador Hugh Cum- ming Jr., was present in the meeting hall when Chou made it clear he regards the United States as Red China's implacable opponent. Chou said the Peiping govern ment is prepared to "establish normal relations with all Asian and European nations." He sin gled out Japan especially which is linked to the United States by a mutual defense pact. Chou, dapper and confident, also made it clear it was time Red China had a voice in world affairs when he said the desire of the Korean and German peo ple for unification is being frus trated his first real venture into a European problem. Came To Seek Unity Chou said Red China came to the Bandung conference "to seek unity and not to quarrel." "We are against outside inter ference," he said. "Why should we want to Interfere in the af fairs of others?" That question was answered earlier by Prince Wan Waithay akon of Thailand who told how Communist nations had threat ened his tiny country with infil tration and subversion "if not of aggression itself ." Chou's reference to "outside interference" recalled all of the past statements by Peiping Radio on the Formosa-issue; which Red China regards as an internal issue, not subject to debate. Would Air Formosa Issua Nonetheless Chou had agreed earlier to meet with seven other nations to discuss the Formosa issue although that meeting at first scheduled for today ran into a hitch. . Gen. Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines said he would have to check with his government before he could sit down at a Formosa conference proposed by Sir John Kotelawala, prime min ister of Ceylon. Full For Agenda Readied City Councilmen The city council will consider accepting $45,000 in government funds for improvement of run ways and taxiways at the muni cipal airport at its regular meet ing at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the city hall. ' Also on the agenda is a pub lic hearing on vacating Hamil ton st. between Mt. Pitt st. and Stewart ave., presentation of an increased street lighting pro 1 gram, airport leases and traffic recommendations. The council is also expected to hear recommendations for a pro gram to increase Medford's off street parking facilities, pre pared by a committee of the council and of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce which has been studying the problem for several months. Honolulu (U.R) David W. Eyre, former managing editor of the Oregon Journal in Port land, Ore., has ben named public relations director of the Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Company. Aerial HxainniDiiiiattDoiin Bartlett Uranium Enterprises, Spokane, ash., is expected to start prospeeting work on eight claims in the Evans valley re gion as soon as weather breaks to permit aerial examination of te properties. Dewey L. Bristow, one of the owners of the mining claims, said that the Bartlett firm plans to employ aircraft to pin - point "hot spots." The Grants Pass man was in Medford yesterday to record leases with the Spo kane enterprise at the Jackson county recorder's office. Bristow and his son, Richard W. Bristow, will receive royalties if uranium and thorium are mined. They also have been named agents in this area for Bartlett, a manufacturer of geiger count ers, scintillators and core drills. China's Premier Chou En-lai of United States of America that is White Will Appear For Plea Thursday; Grand Jury Meets Bernice Hampton (Tex) White, 37, of 228 Hartley rd., Medford, is scheduled to appear in circuit court Thursday at 8:30 a.m. to enter a plea to a first degree murder charge, according to Dis trict Attorney Walter Nunley. Three other men indicted yes terday at the first session of the new term of the Jackson county grand jury, are scheduled to ap pear at the same time for arraign ment. White is charged with first de gree murder in the death of Eu gene Raymond Birk, Phoenix, who died after being struck over the head by . a piece of lumber while working at a Talent mill. Three Indicted Those indicted yesterday were Clifford Quentin Gee, 29, Harlon, Ore., charged with burglary: and Richard Orville Rhoten, 24, and Conley Carl Rhoten, 34, both pf route 1, box 74, Rogue Ryer, cnarged with grand larceny.. Two other indictments, both secret, were returned by the grand jury. Members of the grand jury in clude ..Russell W.. Roseborough, Frances Semple, Patricia Zahler, John D. Stewart, and Jeunesse Butler, all of Medford; Austie Barron, Ashland, and Dale Bart ley, Central Point. Moving Day Near For Footlighters Two .outside wings of the building being used by Foot lighters, little theater group, at the Jackson county fairgrounds are being removed preparatory to removal of the building to a new site, fair board members said today. The building is being moved to make room for the proposed Jackson county armory building. It will be cut down to one story and placed on a site approxi mately 500 yards east of its pres ent location. The structure will continue to be used by Footlight ers. Another small building on the armory site already has been torn down, and plans are under way for removal or destruction of several other buildings in the area. Rogue Valley ballroom is now operating on a month to month schedule, but the opera tors have been given no dead line for moving. Petition To Put Ike On Ballot Circulated Portland (U.R) What may be the first official move in the na tion to put President Eisen hower's name on the ballot in 1956 w,as reported here today. Petitions to place the presi dent's name on the ballot were distributed last night to Repub lican committeemen and women from Portland's south district. Mining claim locations of the two Bristows are in an area which has been termed one of the most likely spots in Oregon for finding uranium. R. C. Bart lett, president of the Spokane business, reportedly has told the two Grants Pass men that their claims have the best showing on the surface of any he has seen. The six Uranium King claims filed by both Bristows and the two Thorium Queen claims lo cated by Dewey Bristow are in sections 7 and 8 township 35 south, range 3 west of the Wil lamette meridian. This property is in Murphy gulch some three miles east of Wimer and on the south side of Evans creek. The claims are on 160 acres, the elder Bristow reported. He said that six other claims are being staked. Medford united Press full leasea wire 50th Year 20 Pages Russia Calls for Five-Power Talks On Austria Treaty Envoys Would Meet In 'Nearest Future' Moscow (U.R) Russia today proposed a five-power conference in Vienna in the "nearest future" to conclude and sign a state treaty restoring Austrian inde pendence. . The proposal called for the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union, United States, Britain and France to meet with Austrian representatives. Call Made in Notes The Western powers earlier had suggested a "clarification meeting at ambassadorial level, London diplomatic quarters said, The Soviet call for a foreign ministers conference was made in identical notes handed to U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, British Charge d'Affaires C. C, Parrott and French Charge d'Af faires Jean Leroy. They were handed the notes by Soviet Foreign Minister V, M. Molotov in his Kremlin of fices. Notes Review Question Well informed sources said the notes reviewed the entire Aus trian question which came to a climax last week when Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab reached an agreement with Russia on the terms they would seek in a state treaty. The sources said the Soviet notes to the Western allies em phasized the importance of guar anteeing Austria's independence and compared Austria's position with that of neutral Switzerland. Suit Asks Order In Water Dispute Arthur F. Dressier and others have brought suit in circuit court here against Roby L. Isaacs and others for damages and a restraining order con cerning use of. water from a spring in the Jacksonville area. The suit concerns a spring on property owned by Isaacs from which the plaintiffs declare they have a right to obtain water. The complaint charges the plaintiffs "wrongfully, unlaw fully and without right," de stroyed a pipeline from the springs to the plaintiffs' prop erty. The complaint asks damages totalling $12,000 and seeks an order restraining the defendants from interfering with operation and maintenance of a pipeline from the spring to the plaintiffs' property. Plaintiffs, represented by the Medford legal firm of Roberts, Kellington and Branchfield, are Arthur R. Dressier, Bessie Dres sier, Jesse Dressier and Gert rude R. Dressier. Defendants named in the complaint' are Roby L. Isaacs, Anna E. Isaacs, Nate H. Smith and Iris Smith. Arrival Date for Salk Vaccine Still Unknown Portland (U.R) Just . when the first shipment of Salk polio vaccine wil arrive ' in Oregon was still pretty much up 'in the air today. Dr. Samuel Osgood of the State Board of Health said he has been informed by the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis that the date of shipment of vaccine to Oregon is indefinite. The first shipments of the Salk vaccine are going to southern states because the polio season begins earlier in those states than in the rest of the country. 'Hot? Uraunaiuiiiii Areas Two of the claims presently located are on solid quartz moun tains, Bristow stated. There are quartz outcroppings over the area and he spoke of one having dimensions of 600 by 300 feet, the outcropping shows yellow, red and green, indications of uranium oxide, thorium and copper. Bristow said, that the hand work done on the claims has shown black, evidence of pitchblende, mineral containing uranium. All of the work so far on the claims has been by hand, accord ing to Bristow. The Bartlett firm is to begin core-drilling opera tions within 30 days. Crewmen are expected to utilize strong in struments in the aerial pin-pointing, using a man m plane flying about 1,500 feet above the MEDFORD, OREGON, mt e Coalition Party Leaders Arrested To Avoid Revolt New Uprising Said Plotted by West Berlin (U.R) The Commu nist dominated East German gov ernment announced the arrest today of 10 government coalition party leaders in a new purge aimed af heading off another workers revolt against their Sov iet masters. Hans Luthardt, member of the leadership of the National Demo cratic party oi tne Red-run na tonal front" which dominates East Germany, said the party leaders were arrested in the Leipzig and Chemnitz areas. He said the Western powers had "smuggled" agents into the party to plot a new uprising sim ilar to tne one which flared on June 17, 1953. This revolt, was put down by Red Army tanks. ' Western observers ,said the new purge apparently was an effort by the Soviet zone govern ment to strengthen itself for worker protests against plans to raise work quotas again. Gerhart Ziller, Communist party economist, said in a speech released today that these quotas must be increased to boost out put. He said the work norms of all miners in East Germany were raised April l. He said 97 per cent of the miners accepted the increases as justified. f Ziller said the camoaien to raise work norms now must be extended to other industries ' But growing resistance .'of e workers in these other industries was obvious from the new wave of arrests. Say Revolt Plotted In announcing the' seizure of the party leaders, Luthardt .said a grOUP in the C.hpmnitT ana 'formed an agents eroun whirh had the goal of organizing a new june 1.7 in our republic. The purges extended the mem bers of two of the largest right wing parties in the Soviet zone's coalition government as they moved to rid themselves of "en emy elements" said to'be plotting UP Writer Beaten By Viet Nam Police Saigon (U.R) The Internat ional Press Correspondents As sociation protested to Premier Ngo Dinh today against" the ar rest, beating and imprisonment of . United Press Correspondent Louis Guilbert. Viet Namese nolice euardina the restricted zone around Diem's presidential palace stopped Guil bert last night when he was on his way to the French general commissariat. They examined his credentials and then refused to let him bo. Two more carloads of police ar rived shortly afterwards and hauled Guilbert into jail under the threat of submachine guns and clubs. He was beaten, kicked in the kidnevs and his clothes were torn. Police kept him in jail for three hours before releasing him early today. Salem -(U.R) The House has passed a memorial to the mem ory of the late Harry Seymour of Corvallis, a long time 4-H club and youth worker in Oregon. ground and another man on the ground carrying a walkie-talkie radio. ' Bartlett workmen will draw from experience on its wide lea ses in Washington near Spokane. Shipments of uranium ore are now being made from that area to the atomic energy commis sion. - . The president of the Spokane firm told a Portland newspaper last week that high readings have been obtained on the Bristow claims and that prospects for dis covery of uranium are excellent. Samples of the ore were being prepared for chemical analysis. - While most prospectors and miners have shunned "publicity, Dewey Bristow indicated that he would like to see more uranium hunters come into the Evans TUE;. APRIL 19, 1955 IV mm EXPELLED Ailing Hugarian Premier Imre Navy (right) was dismissed from office uid expelled from liis Communist Party posts. Nagy was accused of putting consumer goods ahead of heavy industry, same charge that brought about downfall of Soviet leader Georgi Malenkov. Succeeding Nagy was Andras Hegedues (far left), former agriculture minister. Above, the latter listens as Nagy delivers inauguration speech at Budapest in 1953. i Officers for Diocese Elected This Morning At Episcopal Conclave Officers were elected this morning by delegates to the . 67th annual convention of the Episcopal church's diocese of Oregon, meeting here at St. Mark's church. Among those selected were eight delegates to the triennial general convention to be held Sept. 4, through 15 at Honolulu, and officers of the diocese women's Sclp!ABwigers To Meet Tonight The first full consideration of the 1955-56 budget for School District 49, including Medford, will be given tonight by the dis trict budget committee. . The meeting will be at the school superintendent's office at 7:30 p.m. Members of the school board have given preliminary study to the budget proposals of the sup erintendent's . staff , and tonight will join with other members of the citizens' committee for the budget study. Board members include Mrs Eve Nye and Mrs. Eva Hamilton, Otto Ewaldsen, Frank Bash and Ed Branchfield, and the citizen members of the committee in clude Hugh Coleman, appointed this year, and holdover mem' bers William Barker. Dr.. Lee Mellish, Herb Grey and John Dellenback. ArnoldBohnertNamed Ag Council Chairman Arnold Bohnert, Central Point, yesterday was elected chairman of the Jackson County Agriculture council for' a two year term. He succeeds A. E. Brockway, Medford. Other new officers of the or ganization are Don Nichols, who was elected vice-chairman, and W. B. Tucker, who was reelected secretary.. . . , Eighteen council members at tended the meeting, which was held in the courthouse auditor ium They also heard and adopted subcommittee reports on land use, farm crops, dairy, horticulture, livestock, poultry, weeds, home extension work, and 4-H club work. Slated valley area. He said that there is "good prospecting country" east of his claims toward Sams Val ley. Bristow spoke of the coun try as rather rugged but easy to get into, although it means some walking. It is an old gold mining region. The Bristow -claims are around 11 miles from the town of Rogue River. The two men have been work ing in the area since the first of the year. Dewey Bristow has been in the contracting business in Portland and at one time was a mortician. He was born on Powell creek near Grants Pass and has prospected much of his life. He has purchased property in the claims area as a possible mill site. Richard Bristow pre viously was in the commercial fishing business near Coos Bay. TRIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 25 auxiliary. . , Convention Delegates Elected at Session Clergy delegates to the Hono- luluconueirtioniU; ..included Dean Joseph O'Rillion, Portland; the Rev. Alfred S. Tyson, Rose- burg; the Rev. Hal R. Gross, Ore gon City, and the Rev. Louis B Keiter, Portland. Lay delegates will be Dr. Dean Brooks, Salem; John ' Vassie, Portland; Frank Cooper, Port land, and Austin Dodge, Myrtle Point. . Elected president of the auxil iary for the coming year was Mrs. P. L. Herbig, Eugene, who defeated Mrs. Earl Gardiner, Portland. Mrs. Herbig was nomi nated from the floor. Mrs Gar diner was the selection of the nominating committee. Mrs. Herbig succeeds Mrs Blaine B. Coles, Portland,, as president. Other Officers Other newly elected officers are Mrs. Henry Garnjobst, Cor vallis, first vice-president; -Mrs Oscar Revell,. Roseburg, record ing secretary; and Mrs. . J. B Caldwell, Oregon City, educa tion secretary. Elected to serve on the dio cesan council were Mrs. Vesey Gardner, Hillsboro, and Mrs. Henry Atkins, Portland. Auxil iary delegates to the Honolulu convention will be Mrs. Herbig, Mrs. W. A. Hessel, Gresham; Mrs. Douglas Ellfott, Portland; . Mrs. Gardiner, and Mrs. J. A. Moore, Coquille. . . , Clergymen named to serve on the standing committee of the diocese were the Rev. Mr. Gross, Dean O'Rillion, and Dr. Lansing Kempton, Portland. Laymen elected to the standing commit tee were Alan Fletcher, Port land; Hobart P. Vermilye, Port land, and Alf Johnson, Hillsboro. The convention-this morning heard a report on the committee on the aided parrish. .The report was referred to committee for later action. The convention was to con clude following this afternoon's business session. Luncheon ses sions for clergy and lay dele gates were .held at noon. .... (Sec story on Pag 8) Orchards Heated Here Briefly Last Night Orchards were heated through out the Medford area for a few hours last night and early today, according to County Agent Don Berry. Clouds which moved over the area starting at about midnight allowed most orchardists to stop heating by about 2:30 a.m., Berry said, although some kept heaters going until about 3:30 or 4 a.m. ' Temperatures in the coldest places fell to about 27 degrees before the clouds started to move in, with a resulting increase in temperature. No damage was ex pected from the cold, Berry said. Weather FORECAST: Cloudy wit occa sional showers through Wednesday. Low tonifht 35; high Wednesday 52. Temp. Highest Yesterday 50 Lowest this Morning 33 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today .02 Hammarskjold Says Nothing New In Flier Efforts United Nations, N.Y. (W.R) Secretary-general Dag Hammar skjold said , today there were new moves being made to free American airmen jailed in Red China. The U. N. chief executive told a news conference the world organization was "in consistent pursuit of a-certain-planW win freedom for the airmen, but ne said there "definitely is no new approach. : Compared To Chess He apparently referred to a statement made yesterday in Washington by Sen. John L. McClelland (D-Ark.) that a "new approach" was underway for the release of the prisoners, But Hammarskjold compared negotiations for their release to a game of chess. He said, "time and time again there will be new moves, without making a new approach." Asked for comment on pub lished speculation that some of the imprisoned fliers might be freed in the near future, Ham marskjold said: "I have no indication to justi fy any precise judgment of that type." No Reason for New Interest He added that there was "nothing new in the situation."' "It is just one of those cases where interest suddenly flares up he said. There is not any reason for interest to flare-up now . . . for very natural rea sons, those people feeling con cern about the fliers feel an impatience which finds verbal expression. . - Turning to the Formosa crisis, Hammarskjold said-he say "no way in which the United Na tions at present could be useful." DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R)-- Dow-Jones final stock averages: 20 indus trials 427.88 off 0.54; 20 rail roads 161.18 up 1.41; 15 utilities 65.15 off 0.07, and 65' stocks 160.65 up 0.27. Sales today were about 2,700,000 shares compared with 3,080,000 shares yesterday. purse 10 Case of 'Missing1 Gibbon An hoys Los Angeles Police Hollywood (U.R) Annoyed police asked Hollywood today to keep its "monkey business" to itself, especially "missing" Gibbons. The pet Gibbon reported missing and on a rampage in fashionable Bel Air last night wasn't missing at all, a police investigation showed. The ram page, officers said, apparently was the fertile imagination of actor Jay Robinsons .press agents. - Residents in Tizxy -i But police admitted it worked well enough to throw some of the Bel Air residents, such as Greer Garson, Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas; into a tizzy. They locked their doors and called out their dogs while the 40-pound simian was "on the lOOSe." - Documents Given To N.Y. Paper Said No Security Breach Consent by British Received Day Later Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that Assistant Secretary Carl W. McCardle gave the se cret .Yalta papers to one news paper 19 hours before they were generally released. But Dulles said this "in volved no breach of securitv " He defended the planned leak of the controversial documents as "an exercise by Mr. McCardle of a discretion that was his." Dulles' prepared testimony on the circumstances surrounding sudden publication of the docu ments was made public by Chairman Walter F. Gorge (D Ga.) at the outset of a closed door hearing of the Senate For eign Relations Committee. The secretary's testimony showed that McCardle delivered the documents to a New York Times correspondent . Tuesday night, March 15, and that Bri tish agreement to permit publi cation was not received until the following morning. The docu ments were made public een- erally Wednesday night after White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty and several senators learned that the Times! had them and insisted that all of the press be given access to them. Authority To Declassify Dulles said McCardle had au thority to declassify the docu ments. He said he left the mat ter in McCardle's hands after James R. Reston, Washington correspondent of the Times, had "urged that it was of the utmost importance that the papers be published as a whole" and that only the Times would print the entire text. The secretary of state's testi mony confirmed what most cap ital newsmen had suspected since the papers were made public. But it cleared up for the first time conflicting statements about when, if at all, the British drop ped their objections to publish ing the papers. Sought Approval ' Dulles said he had first plan ned .ta make public the papers last fall but decided to hold them up because publication just be fore the congressional elections would have appeared to be po litically motivated. ' He told the committee he had been seeking British approval to publish the papers since Dec. 2, 1954, but did not get a final okay from Sir Anthony Eden, then British foreign secretary, until the morning of March 16, after the papers already were in the Times' hands. Dulles also defended the in clusion of ' "chit-chat" and per sonal conversation in the official documents a sore point with for mer British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Dulles said it was hard to know what to eliminate when the principals in the 1945 meeting, two of them now dead, did not indicate at the time what was to be deleted from their remarks. ; County Budget Work Session Due Thursday Work on the Jackson county budget is expected to b'e com pleted at a meeting set for Thursday, members of the court said this morning. The meeting, which had been set for tomor row, was set back one day be cause County Judge Rodney Keating will be busy with other business Wednesday. If the budget work in com pleted as expected, a date for hearing probably will be set at Thursday's meeting. The budget must be advertised twice before the public hearing. The budget as proposed, or with changes, will be adopted following the public hearing. , Investigation showed the Gibbon, quite to the contrary, was on the leash. "There's no question that this is a phoney," an irritated West Los Angeles police sergeant said. "A kid found the monkey and brought it back to the own er, but he told the youngster to shove off and bring it back later." Left With Woman Police said the Gibbon appar ently was left with Mrs. Laura Coughlin by actor Robinson who assertedly told her to "keep him until the story breaks ; . ." ' - Officers said one of Mrs. Coughlin's children found the animal and returned it. But he got the "brush off" by Robinson, police said, so he took the Gib bon back to his own .house where officers later found it tied up and well fed.