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Weather Subscribers FORECAST; ConatdaraMa elond lnen Sunday morning; partly cloudy Sunday afternoon; fair Sunday night and Mon day. Cooler Sunday night. High Sunday 62; low Sunday night 33. Temp. Highest Yesterday ' 61 Lowest Saturday Morning ....44 Prec. To 11 p.m. Yesterday trac To report Improper or noo-Jeliv-ery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 pjn. daily and 10:30 am. Sunday. If regular delivery arrive rhort ly after you call please notify of- nee xnus eliminating special service. 30 Pages Price 5c MEDP JNDAY, APRIL 24, 1955 50th Year . No. 29 1 " United Prese full Uutd Wire - VL United Press full Leased Wire m Fa Morse tfroon High IFrais at - Dinner - C3ooioo- B7 ERIC ALLEN JR. ' Mail Tribune City Editor The fifth Roosevelt Memorial dinner, the big annual event of the Democratic party in Jack son county, last night sounded like the opening big guns of the 1956 campaign to return Sen, Wayne Morse to his seat in the senate. The senator's name was heard at least as frequently as that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and stirred the crowd of some 350 persons as few other references during the evening. Praised by Mitchell Stephen A. Mitchell, Demo cratic rational chairman during the successful Democratic cam paign of 1954, devoted nearly half of his talk to extelling what he called Senator Morse's honesty in breaking with the Republicans "w hen his con science would no longer permit him to stay in the company he was in. . . Mitchell used the example of Senator Morse in approaching his main theme that of party responsibility, and the necessity to stick with the party of one's choice, or to "break clean." Hs castigated men who, he indi cated, had neglected to observe a . sense of party responsibility, including Henry Wallace and Glenn Taylor, candidates for president and vice-president of the Progressive, party, in 11948; Gov. James Byrnes of South Carolina; Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas, and others. Criticizes President In the same vein, he criti- cized President Eisenhower for "Injecting himself into the Tex as Democratic primary last sum mer to help Governor Shivers win the Democratic nomina tion." "A few more years of this reckless self-seeking default of party responsibility and we will have in America more parties and less stable government than In France," Mitchell declared. The former party chieftan said there are signs that there is a trend away from the. type of thing he criticized. He cited a rerjeal of the Texas cross-filing law: the control of their own party by California Democrats, and the proposal of three new party responsibility rules which have been adopted by tne na tional Democratic advisory com mittee on rules, and which will be proposed to the 1956 Demo cratic convention. These, he in dicated, , would signal a trend back toward party responsibil ity. Predicts Convention Vote - "Only this week," Mitchell de clared, "I have predicted that at least seven out of 10 of the dele gates to the next Democratic con vention would vote against seat- ing Messrs Byrnes, Shivers, Ken- non and Morrow if they should seek to participate as delegates. It is my personal opinion that the rank and file of Democratic party members and leaders will not make the same mistake twice with these men," he stated. Changing a party, honestly and in good conscience, Mitchell emphasized, is not the same thing as trying to remain in it while seeking differing objectives. And he said the party is always open to men and women who seek honestly to follow its principles, its program and its policies. Praises Senators He paid tribute to such men as Sen. Charles McNary, Sen. Char les Norris, Sen. William Borah , and Sen. Hiram Johnson for their breadth and foresight, and compared them with Republicans of today who "couldn't even find the Columbia river and cer tainly not the Snake on a school boy's map." Hells Canyon popped up throughout the evening as a ma jor issue, and before Mitchell's talk . the assemblage (which in cluded a sprinkling of Republi cans) voted without opposition in favor of a resolution of support for Sens. Morse and Richard Neu berger in their Hells canyon fight Chairman MC State Democratic Chairman Howard Morgan, Monmouth, was master of cerenfonies, and in his opening "keynote" remarks, de-( In o-f FOR clared that the best way in which to commemorate Franklin Roose velt is to carry forward the prin ciples of the party into the elec tions of 1956, electing Democrats to office as president, secretary of state, attorney general, to four congressional seats, to the legis lature, and returning Senator Morse to Washington. The Democratic party is in the best shape it has ever been in, he said, and it "will give its best": in the fight to come. Present Program An hour-and-a-half long pro gram preceded the "main speak ers, including introduction of longtime county party workers and notables, an invocation by the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, songs and a reading, and talks by Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton and State Sen. (and Democratic national committee man) Monroe Sweetland. A gift of myrtlewood book ends was presented to Mitchell by Frank DeSouza, party trea surer here. . The evening ' concluded with the reading of telegrams from a number of prominent Democrats, including Sens. Esteff Kefauver, Paul Douglas and Richard Neu berger, all of whom had words of praise for Morse; from Adlai Stevenson, Ex-President Harry. Truman, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and Senator Morse. Bulganin Supports Top-Level Talks Moscow (U.R) Soviet Prem ier Nikolai Bulganin indicated Saturday night he is ready for top-level talks with President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Anthony Eden. ' Bulganin, attending a recep tion for visiting Polish Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz, was asked by Western correspondents: ."When will you meet with President Eisenhower and Eden?" The Soviet leader replied: 'Ask Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Eden when the date will be. I have already made my position clear..' Bulganin nodded in agree ment when asked if he meant that he still takes a "positive attitude" toward a meeting of the heads of state of Russia, the United States and Britain. But . British diplomatic ob servers in London said the West almost certainly will hold out for a meeting of foreign minis ters with Russia before embark ing on a top level meeting. Klamath Falls (U.R) A 90- year lease for use of Klamath Falls airport as a jet interceptor base has been returned here after being. signed by government of ficials. The lease is the official go-ahead" for reactivation of the airport as a jet base. Morse, Neuberger Split Over Echo Park Provides Conversation Piece for Gallery By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The split be tween Sen. Wayne Morse and Richard L. Nuberger on Neu- berger's fight against Echo Park dam in the Senate was the con versation piece of the press gal lery this past week. It was not the first time Ore gon's Democratic senators had been found on opposite sides of an issue in this congressional session, but it was considered the most dramatic issue, made so by Neuberger himself. And Morse let him down, easily but flatly. . ..... The climax came in the Sen ate as voting began on the upper Colorado River reclamation power projecta $1,600,000,000 authorization for federal . con struction of dams and irrigation units , in four Rocky Mountain states. As a member of the Sen ate Interior Committee that heard testimony on . the" b il 1, Neuberger voted in favor of sending it to the floor, with one reservation ;. against the . single POLICE TO THE RESCUE Policeman John J. Brodley, trying to take off his coat, dashes into the swollen Merrimack River at Lowell, Mass., to rescue Paul Kish, 14 (right arrow). Two other policemen (left arrow) are swept downstream after futile efforts to reach the ooy clinging to submerged limb of tree. The youth fell off a rait in vain attempt to rescue his dog. The pet was not found. Estimated 10,000 See Pear Blossom Festival Parade The largest parade crowd Medford police officers can re member estimated at as high as 10,000 people watched the an nual Pear Blossom - Festival pa rade yesterday afternoon. .... ; Only' a few light sprinkles -of rain fell not enough to. mar the fun of the" big crowd nor the hundreds of people who lined Main st. to watch them go by. 93 Entries Judged Long before the scheduled starting time, 1 p.m., Main st. was crowded, and by the time the parade started, about 10 minutes past the hour the slight delay was caused by the diffi culty of judging the 93 entries in the line of march), the spec tators were two or three deep. Three floats won $25 grand sweepstakes awards. They were those entered by the Medford Lady Lions, for best design; Royal Neighbors of America, for best theme portrayal and orig inality, and Medford Jaycees, for best comic float. . Big Appropriation For Welfare Okayed Salem (U.R) A bill appro priating $31,150,032 for public welfare was passed by the Ore gon House Saturday with only one dissenting vote. The largest appropriation bill to reach the floor of the House this session encountered the ob jections of Rep. G. D. Gleasfin of Portland who said it provided only enough money for "general starvation." Salem (U.R) An appropria tion of $1,576,000 for Oregon Technical Institute at Klamath Falls was approved by the Ore gon ' House Saturday without argument. . Echo Park dam that would par tially . flood . Dinosaur National Monument on the Utah-Colorado border. Going beyond the usual dis sent, often registered by sen ators, Neuberger wrote a lengthy dissenting report in which he warned that approval of Echo Park dam would breach the historic inviolability of the national park system; and he suggested this would lead to in vasions of , C r a t e r Lake and Olympic parks by-timber, graz ing or other interests. During his recent trip to Ore gon, Neuberger announced for mation of a committee of con servationists to fight the Echo Park project. He returned to Washington I with both barrels loaded. ':' As debate on the big bill opened, Neuberger jumped in with his amendment to knock out Echo Park dam but leave the remainderof ' the bill in tact. Next day he followed up with a long verbal blast at the project and .was challenged by , ''f fJeiv Extortion Threat Reported in Portland Portland U.R) Harried police Saturday investigated an other extortion threat here in which a telephone caller de manded $20,000 and menaced by implication youngsters of f o u r families Jncludjtog.fypse ,of .Jcw.Q officials, of the Meier & Frank Department store. . : . Mrs. Smith Denies Part in Slaying; Victor Wolf Held Portland (U.R) Mrs. Mar jorie Smith, 35-year-old widow of the Portland attorney who was blown to , bits by a bomb Thursday night, stuck steadfast ly to her: denial of any part in the crime Saturday despite in tensive questioning by county detectives. The attractive brunette was taken from Rocky Butte jail by Detective Capt. Howard Kelly for more questioning yesterday, but their whereabouts was un known. Confessed Killer Held Meanwhile, Victor Lawrence Wolf, 45, confessed killer, was being held in the county court house jail. He told police he and Mrs. Smith planned the slaying to collect $20,000 insurance on her husband, 35-year-old Oliver Kermit Smith. . The pair have been charged with first degree murder by Dist. Atty. William B. Langley. Smith was blown to bits Thurs day night when he stepped on the starter of his car. following a "stag" party at the Columbia Edgewater Country club. mountain state senators. After three days of debate the Sen ate voted down his amendment 52-30 and galloped on to pass the. bill, 58-23. - ... " i ; Through it all Wayne Morse sat : silently,1 chatting amiably with colleagues, sometimes with Sen. Arthur Watkins (R-Utah), who pushed as hard as anyone for the project. Not until after Neuberger had taken his lick ing . did - Morse arise to "com mend" his colleague's efforts but to state that Neuberger just didn't have the law on his side this- time.. Morse said if Neu berger's argument had had any merit, he would have supported it.-' - " ' . Reportedly, there was more to it than that, for there was heavy pressure from pro-Hells Canyon backers to head off the Neuberger move in order to win some mountain state votes for' Hells Canj-on bill when it comes up. That is, the argument was being pressed that it was more important to court good will among Republicans such as , - . Mrs. Herbert Winfree, wife of a Portland attorney, said a man with a low-pitched voice called her about 5 p.m. Friday' and said she . was- to have the money by Monday: The caller said she would receive additional instruc- nuns over ine weeit enu. Children Threatened By implication, she said,' the anonymous "caller tnreatened to harm her three children. Also in eluded in the threat were the children of Richard Frank, Jack Meier and Police Chief Jim Pur- cell Jr., all of whom live in the Sylvan school district. Mrs. Win- free is president of the Sylvan school PTA. It was the latest in a series of threatening calls to persons and schools in the Northwest since a week ago Friday when a bomb exploded in a third floor rest room of the Meier & Frank De partment store in what police said was a $50,000 extortion plot. Police said they could not assume the calls were the work of pranksters. Started To Get Shaky Mrs. Winfree said "I thought the thing was crazy and I told him this sounded like another one of those bomb hoaxes." She said the caller replied "Not with the Meier, Frank and Purceil children in your school, it's no gag." Then, Mrs. Winfree said, "I started-to get shaky." Police promptly put the Win free home under surveilance. Police also reported that bomb threatening calls were made to the Sunset Fuel Company and the J. J. Newberry- store yester day. Earlier in the day, Lincoln high school was evacuated while authorities hunted a bomb a caller said had been placed in the cafeteria. : . 3 Dam Project of Senate Watkins of Utah who are recla mation enthusiasts by backing Echo Park dam than to satisfy conservation groups by ' fight ing what was regarded in ad vance as a losing cause.' This caught. the Oregon sena tors in a heavy cross-wind, since both are backers of Hells Can yon and both regard themselves as champions of conservation. The directions in which they separately chose to travel sug gest their deepest inclinations. . With virtually every conser vation grouo in America op pos2d to Echo Park dam, Neu berger ran true to the form of his journalistic efforts of past years to take the lead against that project. With public power and Hells Canyon dam at the top of his list for presentation to the vot ers when he comes up for re election next fall, r Morse . went along with the comprehensive plan for development of the upper Colorado without drop ping the controversial Echo Park site. . . , : , HI.S. Waits Chiang DcucDiuidledl; Semi. (Seorsef avoirs Red China Premier Asks Negotiations On Formosa Crisis Says Nation Does Not Want War With U.S. Bandung, Indonesia (U.R) Chinese Communist Premier Chou en-Lai, in a complete re versal of his position, Saturday proposed direct negotiations be tween Red China and the United States on a settlement of the Formosa crisis. In a statement issued at the 29-nation African-Asian confer ence here, Chou said the Chinese Communists do not want war with the United States. Seeks to Relax Tension He said he was willing to sit down ' with American . officials and discuss the "relaxation of tension" in the Far East, and par ticularly in the Formosa area. The statement was issued by a Chinese Communist spokesman following an eight-nation meet ing bringing together Chou and representatives of the Philip pines, Thailand, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Burma and Indonesia. Abroad, Chou's offer was met with cautious optimism in Lon don and outright opposition in Taipei. A Chinese Nationalist spokesman . said the offer ap peared to be a ''trick" , designed to camouflage a Red military buildup. ., A Peiping government spokes man, questioned about the state ment, said Chou meant "direct negotiations" between the Unit ed States and Communist China, and not a 10-power conference as proposed by Russia. , But the spokesman threw a possible stumbling block In the way of such a conference when he said that Nationalist China should not be represented at the conference. Spokesman Questioned : The spokesman, public rela tions officers Kang Mao Chao, was asked whether he thought Nationalist leader Chiang Kai- shek should be at any such con ference. "I do not . think so no, no,' he replied. . It was the first conciliatory statement made by Chou toward the United States and he rep resented a sudden and startling change of form. , The Chinese Communists pre viously had spurned all efforts of the United Nations to arrange a truce in the Formosa Straits. They had even turned down Rus sian and Indian efforts to get them to open . negotiations on Formosa. , - . It was not known whether the Philippines, Thailand or Pakis tan, U. S. military allies who were present at the lunch meet- ing with Chou, would transmit Chou's offer formally to the United States. !r The Chinese Communist pre mier also advocated an immedi ate truce in the world arma ments race. He called for an agreement of the big powers on reducing armed forces., as well as arms, and a ban on production, stor age and use of nuclear and other mass destruction weapons. Conference sources said Chou also expressed willingness to join with British Prime Minister Anthony Eden in signing a joint declaration supporting '"prin ciples of co-existence." Ed Boehnke Resigns; State Republican Job .Portland (U.R) Ed G. Boe hnke, state Republican chairman and national committeeman for Oregon, resigned his state chair man post Saturday effective May 21. . - Boehnke, in a letter to the state central ' committee today, said "I find that I do not have the time and energy to continue as state chairman of the Republi can party. Therefore, please ac cept my resignation as of Satur day, May 21st." v The committee has been in- struced to meet on that date to fill , the vacancy. - : -.. ' . (: A ' pi 5 ft ; ) I ir ma . i i t CHOU EN-LAI Proposes Conference Radford Arrives in Formosa for Talks; Fighting Increases : Taipei (U.R) Fighting flared in the Formosa Strait Saturday amid preparations for t6p-secret""tatkV netween'Gene alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chair man of the U. S. joint chiefs of staff. . A Nationalist communique said patrol planes heavily dam aged five 50-ton ' landing craft and one . gunboat west of the mainland port of Amoy. All Planes Return The Air Force communique reported heavy anti-aircraft fire but said all Nationalist planes returned safely. -The Nationalist defense min istry said Red artillery -based at Amoy fired four rounds at Tatan Island in the Quemoy group. The communique said it was the first Red shelling of the Nationalist outpost since April 13. . .,. . - Radford and Assistant Secre tary of State Walter S. Robert son arrived in Formosa at 8 p.m. for important talks with Chiang on the Formosa problem. In formants said the Red Chinese offer to negotiate also would be examined, but .Nationalist spokesmen , have made it clear that Chiang will reject any ne gotiations on Formosa unless the Nationalists are represented. On his. arrival, Robertson said: "we came nere to taiK to a good -friend and ally about mu tual problems." Radford de clined comment. : Elk Sells Interest In Oregon Veneer George Flanagan, manager of Elk Lumber company, Saturday announced the sale of Elk's in terest in . the Oregon Veneer company, a recently-organized firm. , The new company was or ganized by Elk and the Medford Veneer and Plywood Corp., of which - Loren Haugen is presi dent. Announcement of the or ganization was made several weeks ago. ' Flanagan said Elk has sold all its interest in Oregon Veneer to Medford Veneer and Plywood Corp.; and-its interest in Med ford Veneer and Plywood Corp. to Loren Haugen. , Elk . Lumber company no longer has any interest in or any connection whatever with any plywood company or venture at White City. Neither does the Elk Lumber company have any obligation to furnish peeler logs to any such company or ven ture," Flanagan's statement said. He added that Elk still plans to construct and operate its own plywood plant on its own pond at Elk city, just as soon as, pos sible after completion of a stud mill now under construction. : , IPirarasall Influential Demo, State Department, Differ Over Plan Communists Challenged To Produce US Airmen Washington (U.R) Sen. Walter F. George. (D-Oa.) said Saturday night the United States should accept the offer of Chinese. Communist leader Chou . En-lai to negotiate a Far East ern peace settlement. The influential chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee made his suggestion only a few hours after the State Department, h a d rejected any negotiations with Red China un less Nationalist China were in eluded in the talks as "an equal." George, in an off-the-cuff address before the American So ciety of Newspaper Editors, said that when . Tied China shows a willingness to talk, "this nation should be big enough and strong enough, through its highest of ficials" to accept. Would Be First Step ' George said such a conference might not produce a final solu tion. But he said it would be at least a first step which could ' lead to further steps toward "solution of some of the prob lems of our times." : "It is time we are relieving . some of "tire tie n s i ons ottthtg I world, if we can,", he said. ' . ; George said he did not know how mucn sincerity was in the offer of Chou En-lai. But he felt the United States has a respon sibility at least to explore the matter. George made no direct refer ence to participation of Nation alist China at the proposed talks. But he did specify that the United States should know what its "friends think about the trouble spots in the Far East; we should not be unmindful of our friends." Calls for Release of Airmen , Aside from insisting upon par ticipation of Nationalist China, the State Department also chal lenged Red China to prove the sincerity of its offer by releas ing imprisoned American airmen and by accepting an invitation from the United Nations Se curity Council to participate in discussions to end hostilities in the Formosa area. The department's statement was issued after consultations with President Eisenhower, who was at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm. . The statement was in reply to Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai's offer to negotiate directly with the United States on the Formosa crisis and other Far Eastern tensions. Chou's : offer was made in a statement at the Afro-Asian conference in Bandung, Indonesia. George expressed belief that the Chinese Communists leadr ' . er's' proposal was prompted by the pro-Western attitude he found at the Bandung confer ence. Insist on Free China The State Department made it clear that Chiang Kai-shek's representatives would have to be included. "In the Formosa region we have an ally in the free Republic of China," it said, "and of course the United States would insist on Free China participating as an equal in any discussions con cerning the area." The statement said the United States always welcomes any efforts, if sincere, to bring peace to the world." But it sug gested Red China could take concrete action ' to provide its sincerity. ' - State Salk Vaccine Allocation Protested ' . Portland (U.R) The Stale Board of Health said it was protesting Oregon's allocation of Salk polio vaccine which it said was based on only 90 per cent of eligible children. Dr. Harold Erickson. state health ' officer, told county health of ficers by letter that Oregon's allocation is only 76,140 cubic centimeters. He said the health board figured a bare minimum would require 81,758 cubic centimeters. There was still uncertainty as to when the shipments would arrive. ' A y .1 I 1 i ! i i i! li 1 1 i I J; r
