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Recommended A feature story on four reervoir iits available for future development by the elty of Medford appears on Paje 12 of today'i Inn of The Mall Tribune. Weather MEDFORD RIBUNE rOBKCART: Pair Snnday. Part ly cloudy Sands.- nigkt an Monday. High 7J-8e Sanday and Monday. Low Monday morning 40. - Temp. Highest Yesterday , .. 74 Lowest Yesterday Morning ....4 Pres. To 11 pjk. Yesterday t United Press r-ull Lapsed Wire United Prase Full Leased Wire 50th Year 28 Paget MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, M Price 5c No. 53 1 II US-RED CHINESE TALKS PREDICTED hithir go days New Delhi, India U.R) Direct United States-Communist China talks on Formosa within the next 60 days were predicted Saturday by high Indian govern ment sources as a result of the 11-days visit of India's V. K. Krishna Menon to Peiping. Talks Useful India's chief delegate to the United Nations left Peiping Sat- .Western Highway Shipping Almost Halted by Strike Los Angeles (U.PJ Frank Brtwiitr, president of the Western Conference of Team-' alert (AFL). Saturday night warned union members in 11 western slates that the current strike and shutdown in major long-haul trucking firms might last 60 to 90 days. Los Angeles (U.R) The AFL Teamsters' strike against three major long-haul firms brought western highway shipping almost to a standstill Saturday as union and employers remained stale mated in a wage dispute. Negotiations were not re sumed, but employers said their committees "are still open for discussion." One Firm Operating - Employers said latest reports Indicated "almost 100 per cent of the western long-haul truck ing industry has now ceased op eration." Only one major com pany, Pacific Freight Lines, con tinued to operate, it was re ported. - First skirmish, in the strike, which began midnight. Wednes day, was won by the union. Two subsidiaries of Pacific Motor Trucking, one of the three struck, reached an agreement with em ployers to meet union demands for an immediate 10-cent raise and eight-cent hikes for each of next two years. The subsidiaries haul new automobiles. Hold to Contention The California Trucking As sociation and its associates held to their contention that the strike against three companies was a strike against all. "The solid industry position today remains unchanged," a spokesman said. "We are struck as a whole." Portland, Ore. (U.R) Clyde C. Crosby, international repre sentative for the Teamsters union here, said Saturday the union has no plans for extending its picket lines. He said It had planned to strike only three firms in the coast-wide strike of long-haul truckers and leave other firms free to serve the public. Wendell Wyatt New State GOP Leader Portland (U.R) Astoria At torney Wendell Wyatt Saturday was unanimously elected chair man of the Republican State Central committee at an organi zation meeting here. Wyatt succeeds Ed Boehnke, Foigene, whose resignation of two weeks ago became effective yesterday. The new chairman is a mem ber of the law firm on Norblad, Wyatt and MacDonald and a for mer Marine. Following his elec tion, he told the group there has been a tendency in the party "for us to criticize each other and to do battle within our own camp." Henry Deugner, Portland at torney, was also elected at the meeting to succeed Lawrence Neault of Baker as treasurer. Gov. Paul Patterson said the unanimous election of both men showed that the party was head ing in the direction of "unani ity." The governor predicted "we can win in 1956 with un animity." Adequate Reserves Declared Essential Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Army Secretary Robert T. Stev ens said Saturday that an ade quate military reserve program like that contained in the admin istration's plan now pending be fore Congress "is essential to our security. urday after reporting that his Formosan peace talks with Com munist Chinese Premier Chou En Lai were "very useful and we can look forward with hope. Menon sent the "gist" of his talks with Chou, Chinese Com munist Chief Mao Tse-Tung and other Red officials to Premier Jawaharlal Nehru before he left the Red Chinese capital. Refuse Comment Official Indian sources refus ed comment on Menon's report But, a highly reliable source said that India and Communist China planned to seek a solution to the Formosa strait problem and Far Eastern tension within the next two months. On the basis of the report of Menon, who is Nehru's personal trouble-shooter, the source pre dicted U.S.-Chinese talks scon. Peiping radio broadcasts Sat urday said that Menon had met Chou a total of 30 hours on five days during his Peiping visit. Special Significance Western observers in New Delhi and Tokyo pointed out that it is unusual for so many top Peiping officials to meet at the same time with a foreign envoy. Therefore they said the Friday meeting was of special significance. Menon spoke to newsmen in Peiping before leaving, the Com munist radio reported. He said he saw Chou, who offered at the Bandung conference to ne gotiate on Formosa directly with the United States on May 12, 15, 18, 19 and 20. The subjects the leaders dis cussed were not revealed, Peip ing radio said. But the Indian government information service in New Delhi said that Formosa definitely was a topic of the dis cussions. Sen. Morse Favors Gore Road Program Newport (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon toured Lin coln county Saturday afternoon as part of his program of ac quainting Oregon people with current issues. He added frankly that he was building some politi cal fences, too. The Democratic Senator held a question and answer session near Oceanlake and stopped at Toledo and Waldport for dis cussions. In a radio interview at New port, he expressed support of more access roads between the Willamette Valley and the coast. He said he favored the Gore program, which favors federal, secondary and market roads to be considered with federal funds as opposed to the administration program which more or less con centrates on federal roads. Morse laid a strong road pro gram supported by federal funds was needed as a moral obliga tion" to the people for both eco nomic development and defense. 'Lincoln Brigade' Ruled Subversive Washington (U.R) Dr. Kathryn McHale, only woman member of the Subversive Ac tivities Control board, ruled Sat urday that the "Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade" is a Communist-front organization. If upheld by the full five-member board, her initial decision means that the group must reg ister with the Attorney General. Its officers must make an an nual financial accounting to the government, and members would be barred from federal employment, defense plant work or from getting passports. The Brigade was an organiza tion of about 3,000 American volunteers who fought on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil war in the late 1930 s. Dr. McHale said . the Brigade itself was Communist-run, and that its veterans organization, which is still active, is also a Red ven ture. Grand Jury Indicts Extortion Suspect Portland (U.R) The Mult nomah county grand jury Sat urday indicted Glen H. Colgan, 27, on a charge of attempted ex tortion. Colgan was arrested after an abortive attempt to extort $10, 000 from Fred Meyer, Inc., by threatening to explode a bomb in one of the firm's Portland tores. ' ' TEACHER OF YEAR VISITS IKE Miss Margaret Perry (left), selected "Teacher of the Year," brought along two of her pupils from Monmouth, Ore., when she visited President Eisenhower in the White House. The two 9-year-old, fourth grade students are Sue Moll and Dick Peterson who were chosen by their classmates to make the trip. Sue is holding a ball point pen and pencil set given to her by the chief executive. County Polio Vaccine Clinics Start Monday The program of Infantile pa ralysis inoculations in Jackson county will start as scheduled tomorrow morning, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel. Need for Delay Gone With the announcement in Portland Friday that Oregon has been assured of supplies of Salk anti-polio vaccine from Parke, Davis & Co. for the second series Experts Summoned To Vaccine Safety Standards Session Washington (U.R) The Gov ernment Saturday summoned top polio experts and vaccine manu facturers to a "safety standard" conference here Monday at which it will propose complete re-testing of all unreleased vaccine sup plies. The manufacturers were re ported by one high industry source to feel such a move is un necessary and would force at least a month's delay in the na tion's lagging inoculation pro gram. The Public Health Service an nounced that representatives of all six Salk vaccine producers, top polio scientists, and officials of the National Institutes of Health will attend the confer ence. To Review Findings It said the group has been called together specifically to "review the findings" of a team of government experts which has been making a plant-by-plant in spection of current vaccine stocks. However, the . high industry .source disclosed that the group will be asked to consider pro posed new federal safeguards in tha-testing and production of the Salk vaccine. It also will be asked for an opinion, he said, on the Public Health Service's proposal that unreleased vaccine supplies be completely re-tested even though it would throw a major new road block into the vaccination pro gram. He said some manufacturers concede the move might have a "good, public psychological ef fect." But he said the manu facturers don't think it would add to the vaccine's safety if the present tests are merely repeated. EFDSeir Crosses Nation Van Nuys, Calif. U.R) A "Sunday" flier set a new un official east-to-west national speed record Saturday as he streaked his flashy F-86 Sabre Jet back-and-f orth across the na tion in aviation's first dawn-to-dusk transcontinentl round trip flight. Breaks Record Air National Guard Lt. John M. Conroy, 35, Van Nuys, who builds Hollywood swimming pools for a living, roared from New York to Van Nuys in five hours, 28 minutes and 32 sec onds. He broke the official east-to-west record of seven hours and four seconds set in 1947 by Paul ManU in a North American, of shots, due seven weeks after the first, the last need for delay has gone, Dr. Merkel said. He pointed out that up to now, not a single case of polio has resulted in any case of anti polio vaccination when Parke Davis vaccine was used. The first injection is to be made by Dr. W. W. P. Holt, who has been practicing medicine in Jackson county longer than any physician now active. The event will be at Oak Grove school at about 8:45 a.m. Dr. Merkel said supplies of the vaccine how hand are ade quate for the first series of shots for all Jackson county first and second graders. The schedule published in The Mail Tribune last week will be followed. De tails of how the second series of shots will be given after sum mer vacation starts will be an nounced soon, he added. The inoculation program is also getting under way tomor row in most other Oregon coun ties, except in one or two, in cluding Klamath, where-it began Friday. Israeli-Egyptian Border Feud Flares Gaza, Egyptian-Israeli Front ier (U.R) Israeli and Egyp tian troops fought a two-hour battle Saturday with mortar3, artillery and machineguns near Kisufim, the scene of two clash es in the bloody Gaza strip earl ier this week. Egyptian and Israeli military spokesmen gave different ac counts of the battle, but both reported it was a duel with mor tars and heavy guns. Thursday the Israeli's attack ed and blew up Egyptian posi tions in the Kisufim and Deir El Balah area in what they an nounced was retaliation for the mining Tuesday of an Israeli patrol car and the death of three Israeli officers. The Egyptian spokesman said that Egyptian troops suffered no casualties in the gun duel Sat urday but that the Israelies were believed to have suffered some casualties. New Orleans (U.R)-Sen. War ren G. Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, proposed Saturday that the fed eral government help state and local governments modernize the nation's ports. F-51 Mustang propellor -driven plane. The fastest' cross - country flight was made in March by Air Force Lt. Robert R. Scott who, by refueling in the air, raced across the continent west-to-east in three hours, 44 min utes and 53 minutes in March in a jet. Only Minor Trouble After swooshing his jet to a landing at San Fernando Valley airport, Conroy said he encoun tered only "minor trouble" in his history-making flight and felt in "good, shape." His finish was clocked by Bert Rhine, official west coast timer for the Na tional Aeronautical association. Conroy, who roared to New V Diem Orders Arrest Of Four Officers On Treason Charge Troops Massing for Large Offensive Saigon, Indochina (U.R) Pre mier Ngo Dinh Diem Saturday ordered the arrest of four senior Army officers on charges of high treason in a drive . against en emies of his American-backed regime. The Catholic Premier acted as his government troops massed for a large-scale offensive against rebel forces trying to clamp a starvation blockade on the capi tal of Saigon. Want Bao Dai Fired At the same time, the power ful but unofficial "revolutionary committee" backing Diem sent a mesage to President Eisenhow er and other heads of state reaf firming its demands for the fir ing of absentee Chief of State Bao Dai. The committee expressed gratitude to Mr. Eisenhower for U.S. aid and announced its sup port for a South Viet Nam Re public "to effectively combat Communism in Southeast Asia." Crackdown Growing Diem ordered the new arrests Saturday in a growing crack down on followers of Bao Dai and the rebel armed sects who have plunged free Viet Nam into sporadic civil strife. One of those ordered seized was Gen. Nguyen Van Vy, for er Armed Forces Inspector Gen eral, who tried and failed to take over the army last May 1 on orders of Bao Dai. ".Diem put Vy to flight and accused him of trying to stage a coup. The others were Gen. Le Van Vien, Chief of the Rebel Binh Xuyn sect which has regrouped strongly in marshlands south of the capital; Gen. Nguyen Van Tranh, former Cao Dai sect leader, and Col. Nguyen Tu Yen, former commander of Bao Dai's Imperial guard. All four are at large. Others Charged In addition, the government charged Binh Xuyen leader Lai Van Sang,' former Surete Na tional head, and Lai Huu Tai with treason. South Viet Nam troops mean while massed for an offensive against Hoa Hoa Rebel units in the Southern Mekong basin, in the face of a rebel threat to blockade Saigon so tightly "not a single grain of rice will get through." The government gathered naval units and ground troops in the Lung Xuyen and Can Tho regions for a finish fight against Dissident Hoa IVo troops of the 31-year-old Gen Ba Cut. HST Gefs invitation From Royal Rosarians Portland-4U.R) Ex-President Harry S. Truman has been in vited to participate in the Rose Festival celebration here and ac cept a knighthood from the Royal Rosarians, but extent of his participation is not yet known. Truman is scheduled to appear at a Democratic banquet here Saturday night, June 11, follow ing the giant floral parade. Prime Minister Leland F. Hess of the Rosarians recalled in his letter of invitation, Truman's ac ceptance of a similar offer in 1948 when he was president. However, the Vanport flood dis aster interrupted plans that year. TwBce m York and back in an Armed Forces day "Operation Boomer ang" demonstration promoting the Air National Guard, flew the 5,085-mile round trip in 11 hours, 26 minutes and 33 sec onds. He 'had hoped to make the flight in less than 11 hours. When Conroy's jet rolled to a stop on the San Fernando Valley Airport runway, a cheering crowd of aviation officials and spectators swarmed about the plane. ' His wife, Jeane, and his three children, Barbara 4, John 3, and Bill, 1, pushed to the front of the crowd. As he stepped from the sleek jet, Conroy's proud and excited wife leaped up and kissed him. He grinned and wav- t owe popped fee Air Force toeral Tops AFD Program At Medford Airport Maj. Gen. William T- Hafley, commanding officer of Sacra mento Air Materiel area, Mc Clelland Air Force base, Calif., will be principal speaker during Armed Forces Day ceremonies at municipal aiport today. General Hefley will speak at 2:30 p.m. following a musical program which starts at 2 p.m. Others on Program Also participating in the pro gram will be Colonel William H. Barlett, general chairman for Armed Forces Day, Mayor Earl Miller of Medford, Major Gen eral Roy V. Rickard, Major Gen eral J. H. Hicks and Commander Rodney Keating. General Hefley was graduat ed from West Point in 1928. His decorations include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and the Army Commendation ribbon. During World War II he served as deputy commander of the Eighth Air Force service com mand in England and since June, 1945, has been commander of air materiel area at Sacramento. The program in front of mun icipal airport terminal will start at 1:40 p.m. with an invocation by Dr. Raymond E. Balcomb, followed by an assembly of flags by veterans organizations, and girl and boy scouts., Music Slated" " ' Music will be furnished by Medford High school band, and the Sixth Army Bagpipe band of the Presidio of San Francisco. Activities for Armed Forces day will start at 9:30 a.m. today with a fly-over by several F-89 fighter interceptor planes from Portland Air Force base. The planes will not land. At least seven aircraft will be on display on airport taxi ways, as will military equipment from national guard units at Medford and Ashland. Other or ganizations which also will have displays include Civil Air Pa trol, Ground Observer Corps, American Red Cross, Civil De fense. U.S. Forest Service, and Veterans organizations. Tours of the control tower will be conducted throughout the afternoon. Armed Forces movies and training films will be shown in two hangers and the CAP buil ding. Theme for Armed Forces Day is "Power for Peace." Thieves Get $90 From Local Firm Thieves escaped with about $90 in cash from the Y Oil com pany, 1908 Table Rock rd., about 7:55- a.m. Saturday, according to state police. Roy Deutschman, an em ployee, told police he was serving gasoline to. an automobile and was answering directions asked by the driver while two other men went inside the station. Deutschman told police the men drove off on Table Rock rd. after paying for about $1.50 worth of gas. Deutschman noticed the money missing from the cash register when he went into the building, police said. The cash register drawer was left open, police said. (One Pay ed to the crowd. , "It's been a long day," his wife exclaimed. Drinking a glass of orange juice and posing for photogra phers, Conroy said he felt "pret ty good" in spite of the long, exhausting flight. . Conroy said despite the histor ic flight he was going to attend a National Guard dance with his wife Saturday night in Los Angeles. "I planned to go all along," he said. "I really felt bushed about halfway back, but by the time I got to Albuquerque I began to feel better," he said. "I guess I just suffered a little mid-afternoon fatigue." j . a MAJ. GEN. HAFLEY Speaker At Armed Forces Day Nation Displays Military Might on Armed Forces Day Washington (U.R) America Saturday' displayed her armed might a powerful array of weapons which may keep the nation at peace. Some : 5,000,000 - ' Americans trooped to air bases, army posts and navy installations to look wonderingly and reassuringly af tne awesome armadas. They heard, too, warnings from high military officials that in many cases this nation hold a perilously slim margin of su- periority over Russia in some weapons. The occasion was the third an nual observance of Armed Forces Day and its theme was the same as in the two previous years- Power for Peace." Wilson Sett Keynote Throughout the nation, mili tary officials made speeches. The observances got underway Fri day night when Defense Secre tary Charles E. Wilson set the keynote. He said the nation's "tremendous power" is being built in an unremitting effort to achieve world peace." Naturallyy air power drew most of the attention. Many of the military speakers in what seemed an effort to clarify the confusion over Russian versus American air power stressed the air theme. All contended that the United States has superiority over the Soviets but warned that Amer ica can not stand still in develop ment and planning for even bet ter air power. At San Angelo, Tex., Sen, Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) urged the government to start a "crash" project to develop an inter-con tinental missile in the quickest possible time. Such a missile with an atomic warhead, he said, will be "the ultimate military weapon, at least in our time." Simple Explanation For 'Flying Saucers' Los Angeles (U.R) J. W. Hershberger, of Glendale, Sat urday offered an explanation of "silvery" saucer-like ob jects reported seen in the skies the other night by police, sher iff's officers and townsfolk. Hershberger, who used pair of high-power binoculars on the unidentified objects, re ported they were pelicans. Sports Bulletin Seattle (U.R) The Seattle Rainiers defeated Portland 7 5 here Saturday night in a Pacific Coast League game twice halted by rain to take a 3-2 edge in their current series with the Beavers. Modesto, Calif. (U.R) Franklin (Bud) Held of the San Francisco Olympic club sea a new work mark in the javelin here Saturday night in the California relays with a toss of 268 feet 2.89 inches. Held had the old mark of 263 feet 10 inches.. Adenauer Attempts To Block Soviets' Neutralization Plan Chancellor Meets With Top Level Aides Bonn, Germany (U.R) Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer Satur day mapped an all-out drive to rearm west Germany quickly in an apparent effort to nip a Soviet campaign to neutralize Germany. The Chancellor was reported "deeply perturbed" about tho Kremlin's neutralization plan, which he believes would create a "power vacuum" in the middle of Europe.. -Meets Defense Chief Adenauer met for the second straight day at his Black Forest vacation retreat with Defense Chief Theodor Blank and his two top military planners, former Gens. Adolph Heusinger and Hans Speidel. , Informed sources said they de cided to rush the first West Ger man rearmament bills through the Bonn Cabinet and submit them to Parliament before tho end of May. Adenauer also met Saturday with Heinrich von Brentano, Christian Democratic Parliamen tary floor leader who is slated to become West Germany For eign Minister shortly when 4he Chancellor steps down from that job. The Chancellor's aides said the talks would continue throughout the week end in the forest re treat at Buehler Hoehe. To Map Plans Next week, , Adenauer hag scheduled a meeting with his am--bassadors to Washington, London and Paris. He summoned them back to map plans to block tho expected neutrality moves at tho forthcoming Big Four talks with the Soviets. Officials said the rhanwliw would instruct the diDlomats t warn the three western powers against toying with the idea of a neutralized Germany as part of -neutral belt" between the East and West blocs. Adenauer was renortd in such neutralization would be an open invitation to tho Soviets to march in and take over as soon as U.S. trOODS had been urith. drawn. U.S. Intelligence Inquiry Completed Washington (U.R) A sneclal Hoover Commission task forea headed by Gen. Mark W. Clark nas completed an exhaustive in vestigation of high-level United States Intelligence ooerations around the world, it was learned Saturday. The special inquiry board will . make far-reaching recommenda tions, most of them secret, to improve the gathering, proces sing and dissemination of vital intelligence information of many agencies, including the super secret Central Intelligence agency. It is expected to criticize over lapping of some activities and in many cases to recommend closer coordination. There is evidence the Inquiry is regarded by. those who shared in it as anything but a "white wash." The task force expects to sub mit two reports to the commis-. sion headed by former President Herbert C. Hoover. Gl Home Loan Status Said Cause of Concern Washington (U.R) Congres sional housing experts expressed some concern Saturday at early findings in their investigation of GI homo loans. They promised a full inquiry and corrective legislation if necessary. They said one worrisome as pect is that nobody knows how many of the 3,107,786 GI loans now outstanding still are held by the veterans in whoso behalf they were made. Lending interests have advised them, however, that from 20 to 30 per cent of the outstanding loans probably have been trans ferred to new hands, in most cases without the knowledge of the Veterans Administration which guaranteed them, mm 't:',. IS" Iflf ;. SB?;-; f.
