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Newspaper Page Text- MEDFOPyTRIBUNE Or.ited Press f-ull Lapsed Wirt " United Prata Full Leased Wire 50th Year Gene Symonds, 29, Fatally Injured By Terrorist Mob Police Fail To Aid, Eyewitnesses Claim Singapore . (U.R) Gene ! Symonds, United Press manager f or Southeast Asia, died today from a savage beating inflicted by Chinese students who have terrorized Singapore for two days during a Communist-inspired transportation strike. A police constable and a 16- Washington (U.R) The United Stales today ordered an immediate investigation of the death of Gene Symonds. United Press manager for Southeast Asia, as a result of a savage beating in Singapore. The State Department said this government is "deeply distressed" over Symond's death. year-old Chinese student also were killed in the riots which began when truckloads of stu dents attacked police who had quelled a strike demonstration with water hoses. Scores were reported injured. Symonds, 29, Dayton, O.. was fatally injured at the scene where the news was breaking a roadblock thrown up by the government to halt the spread of Chinese terrorists. The mob dragged him from a taxicab and beat him with stones and clubs until he fell unconscious in the streets. A British armored regiment and tough Gurkha infantrymen patrolled the city today to pre vent further clashes but the strike appeared to be spreading and transportation was at a standstill. Violence that flared today was put down though the demonstrators still controlled a nine-mile square section of the city. Symonds, an Army veteran who had risked his life many times to cover the Korean war from the Pusan beachhead al most to the Yalu, had just re turned to Singapore from the Bandung African-Asian confer ence when the riots began. He sped to the scene to get first hand information and ran into the angry mob. Emergency Operation He did not regain conscious ness and died at 2:50 p.m. in a hospital despite an emergency operation and blood transfu sions. Eyewitnesses said a police van was parked nearby but that no attempt was made to aid Sy monds. Several other police cars later passed without stopping and Symonds lay unattended for half an hour. Later a police van rushed him to a hospital where it was found he suffered a fractured skull. United Press Vice President Earnest Hoberecht in Tokyo in structed the Singapore bureau to ask Singapore authorities for a "full explanation of this un lawful and uncivilized attack on a United Press correspond ent." The frenzied mob which roamed the strike area for hours, looting, turning over-European cars and stoning Europeans and policemen, beat Symonds so sav agely he suffered fractures of his left leg and right forearm. Salem (U.R) Next week, May 16-21, is chemical progress week in Oregon, so designated by Gov. Paul L. Patterson. Burmese Farm Set To Arrive Four Burmese men are ex pected to arrive in southern Ore gon Monday under the Interna tional Farm Youth Exchange program. While here, each of the four will live with a farm family. Two in County 1 Two of the four, Maung Thein Nyun and Ko Tun Oo, will be in Jackson county during their month in this area. Nyun will live at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don Minear, route 1, box 358, Medford. and Oo will stay at the home of Mr. and Mrs .John Ousterhout, Route . 1, Eagle Point. The other two Burmese will United Press '.. - By -StudBiit Bmoii 24 Pages Senate Democrat leader Sees Slim Chaoice off Big '4 Sellout Washington CJ.R) Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B Johnson said today a Big Four meeting can "lead to a sellout . only if this country is represent ed by stupid and unpatriotic men." He told reporters "some lead' ing Republicans" have expressed fear of such a "sellout" but that he does not thinkrPresident Ei senhower "plans to sell the coun try down the river." "I have enough confidence in the President that I do not think he is activated by any but the most worthy and peaceful mo tives," Johnson said. "I do not expect him to send a bunch of stupid men to an in ternational conference." The Texas senator commented sharply on recent attacks on the President and his foreign policy by some GOP senators. He did not mention the senators by name but Senator Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Calif.), Chairman Styles Brid ges (R-N.H.) of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, and Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) have vigorously criticized administra tion foreign policy. . Johnson said "it looks like the President had something when he talked about a 'cold war' with Congress," a dig at Mr. Ei senhower's campaign speech last Equalization Board Sees 110 Taxpayers The Jackson county board of equalization completed its first week of work this afternoon,, af ter meeting with more than 110 property taxpayers since the ses sions opened on Monday. The board will not be in ses sion tomorrow, and no meetings are slated for Tuesday, Wednes day or Saturday of next week. Apopintments are coming in rapidly for Monday, Thursday and Friday of next week, and it appears that the board will have to be in session during the fol lowing week. The board is authorized to make such changes in real prop erty assessments as are required to bring about equalization. No decisions will be made until all taxpayers desiring interviews have been heard. The board is composed of County Judge Rodney Keating, Arnold Bohnert, and Ralph Cook. Marine Manpower Cut Target of Democrats Washington (U.R) Demo crat on the Senate Appropria tions Committee drew up their battle lines today to reverse the administration on manpower cuts in the Marine Corps. Both the Marine Corps and the Army are scheduled for cut backs under President Eisen hower's new defense budget. But the Democrats concede there is little chance Congress will re store the Army strength. Instead, Senate Democrats are concentrating on reversing the scheduled 22,000-man cut in the Marine Corps. But they face an uphill battle in view of the House's overwhelming endorse ment of Mr. Eisnhower's plan to cut overall military strength jto 2,850,000 men by mid-1956. Exchangees Here Monday live in Josephine county farm homes. They are Maung Nyi Nyi and Maung Thein Lwin. Both Nyun and Oo are mar ried, and both speak English fairly fluently, according to in formation received here. Oo owns a 20-acre farm and Nyun at present is an accountant, but has had farm experience. Study Plan The Burmese will study fam ily life and youth group activi ties in Jackson county. One of the principal purposes of the In ternational Farm Youth Ex change of ideas between young people from all parts of the world. , , -OREGON, ..ager trato SEN. . LYNDON JOHNSON ; Confidence in President fx, year in which he pleaded for a GOP Congress to avoid a "cold war" with Capitol Hill. Johnson said Mr. Eisenhower's Budget Vote Dated In 20 School Areas Residents of 20 Jackson county second and third class school dis tricts will vote Monday on in creasing the county rural school district equalized tax levy for the coming fiscal year by more than six per cent. Reason for increasing the levy, according to Henry Padgham Jr., rural board chairman, is that the rural district tax levy base is only $323,520.64, compared to a proposed budget of $1,599,895.53. The amount of tax proposed to be levied in excess of the base is $1,276,374.89. Notices of time and place of the election have been posted in each of the county's second and third class school districts. White Paint Being Used on Crosswalks Medford public works depart ments crews are painting city crosswalks in white paint to con form with the Oregon highway department's change to highway center lines of white instead of yellow. Crosswalks also formerly have been yellow. The highway . department changed to white center lines to conform with surrounding states. City Manager Robert Duff said crosswalks on newly-paved Cen tral ave. probably will be paint ed soon, and city crews will re paint traffic lanes in other city streets .to conform with the change. Court house Completion Due Late in Summer Work is progressing satisfac torily on the annex to the Jack son county courthouse, and it appears the structure will be ready for occupancy in August or early September, county com missioners said today. Plaster work on the interior of the buildings is approximately half done and a large part of the work on elevator machinery and elevator shaft has been complet ed. The heating and plumbing system also is nearing comple tion. Some work has been done on installation of marble siding on the outside of the building. Birth of Twin Sons Makes Family of 12 Mr. and Mrs. Winford Bail ey, 922 Boardman St., Thurs day became , the parents of twin sons at Sacred Heart hos pital. The infants weighed pounds 10 ounces. - and 7 pounds 10 ounces. The couple, now has 10 liv ing children, five boys and five girls. They also have an other set of twins. Cecil and Cecelia, age 14, who attend Medford Junior High school. .. Bailey is a mechanic for the Valley Fuel company. The twin boys have set yet kmiuui - 5. 2JL. FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1955 rs lira Singapore "cold war" seems to be with his own party. "We Democrats sympathize with the President in the heavy burden he carries," Johnson said. Knowland, in a speech at New York Thursday night, reiterated that a top level meeting includ ing Russia might result in "ap peasement" of the Communists if the U.S. is not careful. Bridges and McCarthy made their attacks on the Senate floor Wednesday. Communist Troops Triumphantly Enter Haiphong Saigon, Indochina (U.R) Communist . Viet Minh troops waving clenched fists thundered triumphantly into Haiphong to day in Soviet-built Molptof trucks and the Iron Curtain slammed down on Indochina's best naval base. France surrendered her last foothold in Northern Viet Nam to the Communist regime of Ho Chi Minh today under the terms of the Geneva conference. End of French Rule The French Tricolor was struck at dawn, signaling the end of 70 years of French rule over what was one of the bright est jewels in the once proud colonial empire. . . The crimson . Communist ban ner studded with gold stars was hoisted in bloodless victory over the city's citadel as it was over her sister-city, Hanoi, month ago. Jubilant convoys of natty black and g r e e n-clad Communist troops rumbled into - the once teeming port city on the heels of the retreating French troops. Praises Screeched The Reds moved into the blare of martial music and the din of sound trucks screeching the praises of Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minh. Red flags blossomed by the thousands in the native quarters and crowds shouting "Lone Live Uncle Ho" strewed flowers in the path of the advancing troops. Fruit and Vegetable Workers on Strike Yakima (U.RJ-r- A statewide strike vote by union fruit and vegetable workers began yester day, according to Cal Williams, secretary-treasurer of local 750 of the Fruit and Vegetable Workers' union here. He said the strike vote cov ered only processing plants and involved between 20,000 and 25,000 workers in the state, 7.500 of them in the Yakima valley. PEA FESTIVAL OPENS Milton-Freewater, Ore. , (U.R) The first pea festival to be held in Milton-Freewater since 1951 opened here today with judging of 4-H and FFA entries in agricultural exhibits. PRETTY PICTURE Brightening the Hawaiian scenery is actress Mamie Van Doren wearing the traditional flower lei. Mamie found time to entertain servicemen pa tients at Tripler Hospital dur ing island vacation. - Price 5c To;lBatli Dulles in Vienna For Formal Signing Of Austria Treaty Plans To Be Made For Big Four Meeting Vienna, Austria (U.R) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles flew to Vienna today to join the other Big Three foreign minis ters in signing the Austrian state treaty and to arrange for a later Big Four meeting of heads of government. Dulles, almost mobbed by pho tographers when he arrived from Paris, told reporters: Satisfaction Felt "I have traveled to many countries on many missions but I have never felt more satisfac tion than to come here to sign this treaty." He added that the successful completion of the treaty nego tiations which will set Austria free for the first time since 1938 was "a central goal" of Ameri can policy. He expressed admiration for the "courage and steadfastness of the freedom-loving people of Austria." Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold Figl greeted Dulles with a bouquet of blue and yellow spring flowers symbolizing the freeing of the province of Lower Austria which has been under Soviet occupation for 10 years. Freedom Restored Ambassadors of the United States, Britain, France and So viet Union. met today to initial the completed draft of the treaty restoring Austria's freedom for the first time since the . Nazis took Austria by anschluss in 1938 and ending ten years of four-power occupation. 'Buzzing' Blamed On Soviet Planes Wiesbaden, Germany (U.R) Two American airmen "positive ly" identified the planes which buzzed them yesterday over Dan ish territory as Soviet MIG 15 jet fighters, U. S. Air Force ofi cials said today. The American airmen report ed the Soviet planes came within 50 yards of their unarmed T33 jet trainer on a training flight 15 to 20 minutes before it arrived at Kastrup, Denmark. The Danish government was reported preparing a protest to the Soviet Union over the viola tion of Danish air space. An in vestigation was conducted by the Danish defense staff to determine exactly where the incident oc curred. The two Americans are 1st Lt. James S. Morison, Reno, and 1st Lt. James R. Mathews, Spring field, Colo. Klamath Railroader Killed Under Train Bend U.R) Edgar P. Sires, about 36, Klamath Falls, was killed yesterday afternoon when he was run over by a Great Northern freight car south of here. Sires, a brakeman for the Great Northern, was standing on the stirrup, on the outside of one of the cars during a switching operation near Lapine, Ore. A coupling jolt knocked him off the car and under the wheels. Childish Voice Threatens Bombing Portland (U.R) Geraldine Rosing, secretary of the Boise grade school in Portland, told police today the voice of a per son who called this morning to threaten a bombing of the school was definitely that of a child. The child warned that a bomb was in the building and "you'd better get out." NAMED DISTRICT AIDE Salem (U.R) Everett Butler of Salem was appointed assistant district warden in the Polk-Benton forestry district with head quarters at Dallas, State For ester George Spaur said today. Baseball AMERICAN Detroit ..... . 2 3 1 New York . 5 9 0 Gromek. Aber (6). Miller (8) and Wilton; Ford, Morgan (I) and Bena. No. 46 Embargoed Vaccine Release Expected Momentarily Double Check Said Completed Portland, Ore. (U.R) All Parke-Davis polio vaccine in the hands of health authorities in Oregon has been released for use by the U. S. Public Health Service, it was learned today. Washington U.R) The gov ernment is "likely" to release the first batches of embargoed polio vaccine this afternoon and resume the nation's stalled vac cination program, U. S. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele said today. Scheele told .the House Bank ing and Currency Committee that a double check of vaccine made by Parke Davis & Co., De troit, has been completed. "It is likely that word is now at my office regarding the find ings of the group which visited Detroit," Scheele testified, "and that we will be able to announce the release of Parke Davis ma terials as soon or shortly after I return" to the Public Health Service office. Scheele indicated that all, rather than , merely some, batches of v Parke Davis vaccine which has been under scrutiny will be released. However, he was not precise on that point. Release of any, or all, of the Parke Davis product would probably involve hundreds of thousands of shots, of the anti polio vaccine. It would clear the way for almost immediate re sumption of inoculations in areas which have Parke Davis vacoine on hand. Government experts have yet to doublecheck shots produced by four other firms. Therefore, full resumption of the nation wide mass immunization pro gram could not be expected immediately. . On May 7 Scheele recom mended that all inoculations be baited pending a double- check of existing vaccine stocks. . In his prepared testimony, Scheele also disclosed that the "first phase" of the investiga. tion of the temporarily banned vaccine produced by Cutter Lab oratories, Berkeley. Calif., has been completed. Investigators have arrived here from Berkeley with a "large volume of data, he said. This will be "subjected to de tailed scrutiny," he said, and "we are hot able to predict the time of the conclusion of these studies." He said it might be ne cessary to rrjieat some tests. The government banned dis tribution of the Cutter-produced vaccine on April 27 when a num ber of polio cases were reported after inoculation with the Cutter vaccine. It began an immediate check of the Cutter vaccine. - (See story on Page 14) Navy Unit Inspection Slated Monday Night Comdr. P. H. Dice will head the official party during inspec tion of the local Naval Reserve Electronics division at 8 p.m. Monday in the Federal building, 33 North Riverside ave. Assisting will be Lt. W. S. Lindberg Jr. Commander Dice is district reserve electronics program officer, and Lieutenant Lindberg is his assistant. Both have headquarters in the 13th Naval district.in Seattle, Wash. The inspection will be both personnel and administrative. ; The party will inspect the Grants Pass unit of the Electron ics" division Tuesday night. Atomic Bomb Test Delay Expected ' ' Las Vegas U.R) The Atom ic Energy Commission made pre liminary preparations today for firing tomorrow of the last shot of the 1955 spring atomic test series at Yucca Flat although a morning weather evaluation in dicated the test again will be postponed. County Mosquito Control Program Slated To Start Early A county ' mosquito control program will start early in June, with the exact date depending on the weather during the next few weeks, . county sanitarians . Special equipment is being constructed at the county shops for use in the control program. It includes a smoke-type genera tor and spray equipment The "smoke machine," ex pected to be needed first, is now nearing completion, they said. The equipment is to b mounted Taylor f jetted T SuccetHl Kidguay fis Ohidff of Army 'T'1. " ' " m mm & ix ml T&ks ami Lb 1 GEN. MAXWELL D. TAYLOR U. N. Commander Eisenhower's Choice Washington (U.R) Gen. Max well T. Taylor was nominated to day by President Eisenhower to be Army chief of staff, replacing Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway who will retire June 30. Taylor is now Far East com mander in chief of all U. S. and U. N. forces. He will be replaced in these two commands by Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer. Lemnitzer now commands Two Square Blocks Of Brooklyn Area Swept by Flames New York (U.R) One of the biggest fires in New York his. tory destroyed two square blocks of a Brooklyn industrial area in a three hour, rampage. Thursday night, injuring 15 men and iaus- in2 damage estimated at $2,000, C00. - . ' Apparently caused by ' spon taneous combustion in a saw dust hopper of the Varick plan ing and melding mill, the fire burned with such fierce heat that it melted a ton of nails in one of the plants. 400 Fireman Used Fire Commissioner Edward F. Cavanagh Jr., said 400 firemen and 70 pieces of equipment were used to fignt the blaze, consti tuting the greatest concentration to fight a New York fire since the big Standard Oil fire in 1919. Eleven alarms brought equip ment from Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island fire stations. ' The fire, which for a time threatened a terminal containing 1,500,000 gallons of oil, leveled a wood milling plant, two lum ber yards, a paint manufactur ing firm and several small in dustrial plants. None of the injured firemen were badly hurt and all were treated on the scene. Spxeads Out of Control Three employees in the Va rick plant fought the fire with hand extinguishers after the sawdust hopper exploded but it soon spread out of control. By the time firemen arrived, the heat was already so intense it forced them back several times. 'The blaze was brought under control shortly after 9 p.m. (EDT) but the ruins continued to smoulder through the night. Four fireboats poured tons of water on; waterfront buildings several block? from the fire to reduce the danger from flying sparks. .. , , Weather FORECAST: Clearing and cool with freezing temperatures - tonight. Mostly sunny and a little warmer Saturday. Ex pected low tonight near 30. . High Saturday near 7. , Temp. Highest Yesterday ...... 6: Lowest this Morning 32 in June, Sanitarians Say on a pickup truck purchased re cently by the county for that purpose. This will be the third year of the mosquito control program in the county. A total of $6,000 has been budgeted for that purpose during the coming fiscal year. ; At the- present time, control work is being mapped in the Medford and Ashland areas, along Rogue river, and in the Applegate valley. However,, the sanitarians declared that control work , will b conducted any Army forces in the Far East and the Eighth Army. , The White House said Ridg way recently wrote Army Secre tary Robert T. Stevens, asking for voluntary retirement. Ridgway, who is 60, originally planned to retire in August, but when he made his formal request to Stevens, he advanced the data to June 30. Taylor, who will be 54 on Auf. 26, commanded the Eighth Army during some of the heaviest fighting in Korea. He was nomi nated for a two-year term. Change Long Expected . ' The change in Army command had been expected for some time. Reports became more frequent ' recently when Ridgway testified before congressional committees about President Eisenhower's proposed manpower cuts. i Ridgway urged Congress to keep the .jmy strong and "suit ably deployed" at danger points throughout, the world. Ke was the - lone member' of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to take a vigorous stand in oposition to the adminis tration's manpower ' reduction program. ; He said the cuts would jeopar dize "to a degree" the nation's security. Washington River Scanned for Children Goldendale, Wah. " (U.R) Search for two missing three-year-old Klickitat children con tinued today, but sheriff's depu ties said there 1 was a . strong feeling the tots had been swept downstream by the turbulent Klickitat river. ' The children, Terry Williams and her playmate, Walter Mark Greenfield, were last seen play ing on the river bank Wednes day afternoon. A hunt for the children was begun the same day. By late yesterday more than 300 per sons, aided by two pairs of bloodhounds brought in from The Dalles and Roseburg, Ore., combed the - weeded - rugged area. .: i The bloodhounds tracked the tots to the river's edge. -One hound had to be restrained from entering the water by his hand ler. ': ' ' :? - Hungry Burglars Enter Drive-In - -.J: ? Burglars with appetites broke into McDuffte's Coffee Pot Drive-in, 1132 North Riverside ave., sometime ' before' 1:35 a.m. today., and, apparently satisfied their hunger. Acording to police officers who investigated the burglary, nothing was missing except food, which was eaten in the drive-in. Entrance was gained through a. rear window, police said. . - A cigarette machine inside was pried open,' but police said neither cigarettes nor money was missing from the machine. place in the county where it ap pears to be necessary. . In addition to work with the "smoke machine" and spray rigs, , the county plans to do con siderable work in controlling mosquitoes in ponds. A few mosquitoes have hatched so far, but no major hatch in ponds can be expected until water temperatures reach ap proximately 70 degrees. Field mosquitoes usually hatch some what earlier than those in ponds, . the sanitarians declared.