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OUTLINING CRITICAL relations between Catholic Church and
government of Argentina, Msgr. Manuel Tato (left), Auxiliary
Bishop and Vicar General of Buenos Aires, and his assistant,
Msgr. Ramon Movoa report to Pope Pius XII in Rome. Prelates
are exiled from Argentina by President Peron. (International)
Argentine Cabinet
Shakeup Forecast;
Lucero Junta Seen
Buenos Aires, Argentina (U.R)
A complete shakeup was pre
dicted today in the Argentine
cabinet.
Reports of the complete shake
up persisted although the navy
ministry vacancy left in the cab
inet by Rear Adm. Anibal OH-
Two Drowned, Two
Others Missing in
Detroit Reservoir
Salem U.R) Authorities
searching for a car which dived
off the highway into Detroit
dam reservoir today recovered
the bodies of two of the four
persons who were in the vehicle.
State police said the bodies of
James A. Jennings, 4-year-old
highway worker and his son
Leo, 16, were found today. The
bodies were found by officers
using grappling hooks near the
bank.
Two Slill Missing
Two others still were missing,
Jennings' 14-year-old son, Rich
ard, and John Wallace, 17. All
were from Detroit, Ore. The car
had not been located.
State police said the car ap
parently went through the guard
rail and plunged down a cliff
into some 40 feet of water. The
reservoir gets much deeper a
short distance offshore.
Jennings and the boys were
aeen last on Saturday evening
when they left Detroit to go to
Mill City. A highway worker
found the guard rail hole yes
terday.
Missed Curve
Police surmised they were re
turning from Mill City when
the car missed a curve, battered
down a concrete guard rail and
hurtled into' the lake.
The license plate, numbered
7E667, registered to Jennings'
car, and Jennings' billfold were
discovered between the point
where the car left the highway
and the water's edge.
High winds hampered search
operations yesterday.
LA Transit Strike
May Last for Week
Los Angeles (U.R) A Los An
geles Transit Lines strike, which
has crowded streets with extra
cars by forcing about 1,000,000
riders to seek other means of
transportation, appeared certain
-bday to last at least for the rest
oi ine wees.
Officials of the AFL Transpor
tation Union, which struck the
company at 5 a.m. PDT yester
day, said the 26,000 striking
operators and maintenance men
would be asked to vote Friday
on the company's latest offer.
Union members walked out
without actually voting on
whether to accept the offer, de
spite recommendation tor accept
ance by union officials. How
ever, union heads said it was an
official strike."
Summer's Arrival
Set This Evening
Summer officially will
ar-
rive at 8:32 p.m. today.
At that time the summer
solstice will take place, mark
ing the departure of spring.
It is the time when the north
pole is tilted more toward the
sun than at any other time of
the year.
The day of the summer sol
stice is also the longest of the
year.
Weather
FORECAST: Fair and mild
through Wednesday. Low to
night 52. high Wednesday 88.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 87
Lowest this Morning 51
vieri's part in the abortive revolt
Thursday was quickly filled by
the appointment of Rear Adm.
Louis Comes.
Junta Predicted
Diplomatic sources in Monte
video, Uruguay, said Gen. Frank
lin Lucero, the minister of the
army who heads the "forces of
repression" appeared to be . in
tending to set up a military junta
to rule Argentina with- President
Juan D. Peron as a figurehead.
This would be similar to ev
ents in Egypt in the 1953 revolt
against King Farouk when Mo
hammed Naguib was named as
president and the military jun
ta which overthrew Farouk re
tained power.
Person has not been attending
official functions, and his name
has hardly been mentioned in
Buenos Aires newspapers and
over the state radio which cus
tomarily lists the daily presi
dential activities.
An Argentine general who is
a personal friend of Peron's said
Peron has been too busy to at
tend to official acts.
'Just Busy'
He is neither sick nor detain
ed but just "plain busy,", the
general said.
- Peron- was absent yesterday,
for example, when the nation
celebrated Flag day. Lucero
named Gen. Emilio Forcher to
officiate at the ceremony.
Cigarette Tax
Petitions Filed
Three petitions with 119 sig
natures have been filed with
the Jackson county recorder's
office calling for a referendum
vote on the recently enacted cig
arette tax.
Two petitions were filed by
Fred W. Conrad, 304 Medford
Plaza, and one by Donovan Fos
ter, 12 North Riverside ave. Medford.-The
petitions are being
circulated state-wide by the Ore
gon Tobacco Distributor's asso
ciation of Portland.
Petitions with more than 200,-
000 signatures of qualified reg
istered voters will be necassary
to have cigarette sales tax bill
put on the general election bal
lot in 1956. The bill, passed by
the recent legislature, becomes
law unless referendum petitions
are in the secretary of state's of
fice by August 2.
The tax bill provides for a tax
of three cents on each package
of cigarettes.
Ex-Inmate of Hospital
Reportedly Discharged
The state hospital in Salem
has notified local police that
William Luther Adams, 42, Med
ford, has been discharged, and
did not. escape, as reported to
police last week. . ;
According to officers here,
Adams telephoned his wife here
from Longview, Wash., Sunday.
Police relayed the news of his
whereabouts to the state hospi
tal on the basis of a report re
ceived last Thursday that Adams
had escaped. The hospital wired
back that Adams had been dis
charged.
Adam s Medford residence is
1090 Waverly ave.
North Korean
Training Plane To Freedom
Seoul City Airport, Korea
(U.R) Two North Korean airmen,
one of whom said he had re
ceived MIG fighter-plane grain
ing in Russia, flew a Soviet-built
Communist air force plane
through Red and United Nations
defenses to freedom here today.
A U.S. Air Force spokesman
said he could not explain how
the plane, with huge Red stars
on the fuselage, could fly across
the demilitarized zone and near
ly 30 milei into South Korea in
Union Leaders Seek
Settlement Bids by
U.S. Steel Rivals
Bethlehem, Republic
Reply to Demands ,
Pittsburgh U.R) The CIO
United Steelworkers, promised
a still unspecified wage increase
by U. S. Steel Corp., today
sought competing bids for a
speedy contract settlement from
"Big Steel's" two biggest indus
try rivals.
Bethlehem and Republic Steel
corporations, second and third
ranking producers, returned aft
er a nearly two-week bargaining
recess to hand USW President
David J. McDonald their reply
to demands for a "substantial"
pay boost.
Will Reveal Proposal
U. S. Steel told the 1,200,000
member union Monday it will
be ready Thursday or Friday to
tell exactly how much it is will
ing to pay to satisfy USW con
tract demands ahead of the June
30 strike deadline for 600,000
steelworkers in the industry. By
then, McDonald expected to
have offers from Jones and
Laughlin, Youngstown Sheet and
Tube and Inland Steel, sched
uled to meet USW. negotiators
here in separate sessions Wed
nesday. That will complete the lineup
of the "Big Six" producers
group, which employs two
thirds of the basic steelworkers
involved in the industry-wide
negotiations. Their contract set
tlements will set the pattern for
smaller , firms, whose contract
wage provisions also run out in
nine days.
Ideas Differ
McDonald expected the Steel
industry's initial offers at least
to match the 7V4-cent-an-hour
wage increment . in the CIO
United Auto Workers guaran
teed annual wage settlements
with Ford and General Motors.
But the steel union leader was
understood to be thinking in
terms of a 12 to 15-cent offer
as a minimum settlement be
cause USW contracts bar him
from making a GAW settlement
a strike issue this year.
: John A. Stephens, U.S.-Steel
vice-president, opened the cru
cial second round of wage nego
tiations by stating his company
would offer its employees an
increase based on "consideration
of their loyalty, cooperation, and
increased productivity."
Hobby Said Backing
US Health Service
Washington (U.R) Adminis
tration officials said today that
Health Secretary Oveta Culp
Hobby is backing . the Public
Health Service "to the limit" in
its handling of the polio vaccine
problem.
They insisted she was being
technical rather than critical
Monday night when she told
newsmen the service must bear
the responsibility for operation
of the government's vaccine
safety program.
The statement, made during
a radio interview, was inter
preted by some as an implied ef
fort to shift criticism of the gov
ernment's vaccine policies from
Mrs. Hobby to Surgeon General
Leonard A. Scheele.
But Mrs. Hobby explained
later that her remarks "should
not be interpreted in any way
as criticism of the surgeon gen
eral or the Public Health Ser
vice." Second Anti-Polio
Shots Continuing
Salk anti-polio shots will be
given at Lincoln and Jackson
schools tomorrow for first and
second graders who received
their first shots .the week of May
23.
Shots will be given at the
cafeteria in Lincoln school,, and
in the Jackson school gymnasi
um between 9 and 10 a.m.
The second series of shots will
be completed Thursday at Wash
ington and Roosevelt school and
at Phoenix for Talent and Phoe
nix children.
Airmen Fly
daylight without being detected.
The North Koreans landed the
Russian-made YAK18 training
plane at this South Korean air
force headquarters base shortly
after 1 p.m. and surrendered to
U.S. and South Korean officers.
Lt. Gen. Roger M. Ramey, 5th
Air Force commander, happened
to be at the field and he and his
intelligence officers questioned
the North Koreans for more than
an hour.
Following - the. interrogation
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Medford
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Maples Combed tor US Robbers
Naples, Italy (U.R) Na
ples police searched water
front dives and hangouts to
day for four men and a wo
man believed to have master
minded the record $305,000
robbery of a New York bank
last April 6.
Flash Warning
Interpol, the 38-nation in
ternational police agency,
flashed a warning to Naples
authorities the group of five
was believed to have reached
Naples from France and be
seeking passage to a foreign
country to evade the police
net.
Police knew the names of
21 -Item Agenda
Faces Councilmen
At Meeting Today
Three public hearings and sev
en reports by City Manager Rob
ert Duff are on a 21-item agenda
for the city council at its 7:30
p.m. meeting today.
Hearings will be held on pav
ing requests on Oak st., between
Second and Jackson sts., on East
Jackson st. between Bear Creek
bridge and Genessee st., and on
a sanitary sewer on Oregon ave.
between Oregon Terrace and
Keene Way drive.
Reports Slated
Duff will report on bid pre
qualification statements of San
Jose Steel company and Rogue
River Paving company, on bids
opened Friday on four street and
airport paving projects, the
South Bear Creek Sanitary Sew
er district contract, and on ease
ments for Copco power lines
through Camp White area. .
A report also will be given on
a federal government grant for
work during a two-year project
at the municipal airport. Five
reports on traffic proposals will
be given, in addition to one on
appraisal of a proposed east side
fire station site. .
Two planning commission rec
ommendations will be consider
ed. They are vacation of a north
south blind alley in Edward
Place subdivision, and rezoning
property north the YMCA from
multiple family use to a com
mercial district.
Red China in U.N.
Forecast by Nehru
Moscow " (U.R) India Pre
mier Nawaharlal Nehru told a
cheering crowd of' 100,000 at a
"friendship rally" in Moscow's
huge Dynamo Soccer Stadium
today that "we shall soon see"
Red China in the United Nations.
Soviet Premier Nikolai A.
Bulganin, speaking after Nehru,
said Russia had agreed to attend
the Geneva Big Four confer
ence to contribute to "relaxation
of tension."
"The Soviet government has
agreed to take part in the four
power conference," Bulganin
told the rally. "We base our
agreement on the assumption
that the conference should con
tribute to relaxation of tension.
"We shall make every effort
in this direction and hope that
others will be prompted by the
same motives."
Spokane (U.R) An Atomic
Energy Commission official said
today that ore taken from the
Daybreak Uranium, Inc., mine
in Spokane county is of commer
cial quality.
Russian - Built
at Seoul
Ramey left the field, telling re
porters he would say "absolutely
nothing" about the incident. He
did say he would report to
higher headquarters.
The two fliers identified them
selves as Capt. Lee Woon Yong
and 1st Lt. Lee Eun Sung, both
24, of the North Korean air
force.
They said they took off two
hours earlier from the North
Korean air force headquarters
at Mun-su-Ri in Pyongyang, capi
tal of Red Korea.
MEDr
the five but refused to give
additional details while the
chase was on. They would say
only that three of the men
were New Yorkers, that one
man was from Manchester,
England, and a 37-year-old
Canadian woman was involv
ed. Might Wreck Work
"Publication of the names at
this moment might wreck all
our work," one Interpol offic
ial said.
. Interpol said the five per
sons were believed to be the
desperadoes who held up the
Woodside branch of the Chase
Manhattan Bank for a record
Bill Barker Elected
Without Opposition
To City School Board
William A. (Bill) Barker, 2430
Hillcrest rd., proprietor of Bark
er's Men's clothing store, was
elected without opposition to the
board of directors of School Dis
trict 49, Medford, yesterday.
A total of 59 votes were cast,
all of them for Barker. He will
succeed Mrs. Moore Hamilton as
a board member. Mrs. Hamilton,
who did not run for reelection,
has been chairman of the board,
and a new chairman will be
elected soon.
In other first class districts, C.
Norman Gail of Gold Hill, the
Eisenhower-Signs
Bill' Giving Power
To Lower Tariffs
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower today signed a bill
granting him the power he want
ed to lower tariffs. But some
Democrats said the new law
actually will put him under "ter
rific pressure" to raise them.
It revives,' revamps and ex
tends to June 30, 1958, the re
ciprocal trade program launched
on June 12, 1934. The program,
previously renewed nine times,
expired at midnight, June 12.
Grants Request
The new law grants the Presi
dent's request for authority to
lower tariffs 5 per cent a year
for three years to expand world
trade.
But it includes provisions
which will make it easier than
at any any time since the 21
year program was launched for
American industries to press de
mands on the President ' for
higher tariffs to protect them
from injury.
President Eisenhower did not
recommend these provisions. But
the White House raised -no objec
tion when the Senate wrote them
into the administration bill after
it passed the House.
Some Democrats protested
that the President had yielded
to "protectionists."
Fire Fighters Shuffled
Between Two Blazes
Shuffling fire fighters from
one grass fire to another, late
yesterday afternoon gave volun
teers of the Central Point Rural
Fire district a new experience.
The department was called to
a five-acre grass fire west of the
Burrill - Lumber company on
Agate rd. in the White City In
dustrial area.
And a "split second" later the
department was called to a grass
fire totaling about 20 acres east
of the Medford city dump on
Table Rock rd.
Department officials shuffled
crews fronr one to another as
the need arose, and the only
damage listed was to grass,
which probably could have been
used for feed.
" Washington (U.R) Repre
sentatives of Southern and
Western pine lumber industries
argued today against any in
crease in the. federal minimum
wage.
Pendleton (U.R) . Ralph
Robertson, Portland, was named
yesterday to be new president of
the Oregon State Pharmaceuti
cal association. He succeeds Or
ville Corbett, Burns.
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ILL HELMED
haul of $305,000. They wert
known to have entered Italy
from France June 16.
A tip from Interpol said the
five were believed to be try
ing to catch one of the many
ships leaving here this week
for Gibraltar, Greece, Turkey,
Egypt and North African
ports.
Check Luciano
Police kept a careful eye on
the Naples dock area and con
tinued their "as usual" close
check on all doings of Charles
(Lucky) Luciano, New York's
one-time vice king who lives a
restricted life in Naples.
only candidate in School District
6C, was elected with 22 votes,
and Mrs. Mabel Stemple, with 41
votes was reelected to the Ash
land board. She also was an only
candidate.
Of 23 districts within the
county, results of the annual
elections in only nine were avail
able this morning, including
Medford, Central Point and Ash
land. Second and third class districts
elected three directors instead of
one as in the past, to comply
with recent legislation requiring
five-man boards instead of three-
man boards.
In Jacksonville, Floyd Wyatt
was elected to a three year term,
Russell Mclntyre to a four-year
term, and B. J. Christiansen to a
five-year term.
Others elected included:
Results Told
Phoenix J. Curtis Barnes,
three years; Allen Harris, four
years; and Merle Simmonds, five
years.
Eagle Point Leonard Brad
shaw, three years; Darrel Stan
ley, four years; Otto R. Tresham,
five years.
Lone Pine Floyd H. Baker,
three years; William'-G. Under
wood, four years; and Norman S.
Thames, five years.
Dewey Samuel Stevens, three
years; Tracy Crum, four years;
and Claude Hoover, five years.
Oak Grove G. W. Kellington,
three years; Roy C. Elmgren,
four years; and Edwin A. Olsen,
five years.
Howard Winifred Uridel,
three years; Jack R. Campbell,
four years; and Marion C.
Friend, five years.
Dog Racing Support
Voiced in Petitions
Petitions supporting dog rac
ing in Jackson county are being
circulated in Medford. Petitions
opposing the plan also are cir
culating, and letters regarding
the plan, most of them in opposi
tion have been received by the
county court.
Recently five Medford and
Ashland men appeared before
the county court to discuss pos
sibilities of approving licensing
a dog racing track in Ashland.
A public hearing on the pro
posal will be held in the county
court's office at 11 a.m. Friday.
GAIL ELECTED
Portland (U.R) Bud W. Gail
of Medford has been elected
president of the Oregon Federa
tion of Post Office Clerks at the
group's annual convention here.
County Assessed Valuation
Estimated at $80,000,000
The total assessed valuation in
Jackson county has risen from
about $61,000,000 last year to
about $80,000,000 this year, ac
cording to County Assessor Rob
bert G. Fowler said yesterday.
He estimated the current val
uation during a talk at the week
ly roundtable session of the Jack
son County Chamber of Com
merce yesterday noon. Fowler
said detailed figures on assessed
valuation will not be ready until
some time next week.
Not until the total budget of
Military Program
To Receive Added
Five Days of Study
Plan Sent Back
By 1614 Vote
By UNITED PRESS
A House committee rebellion
against rush tactics of its chair
man today stopped immediate
immediate action on a military
reserves program.
Members of the House Armed
Services Committee rejected by
a 16 to 14 vote a plea by Chair
man Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) for ac
tion today on what critics called
a watered down version of the
compulsory reserve 'measure, a
measure much weaker than the
one President Eisenhower re
quested. Vinson told the committee that
house leaders wanted it to act
today on the bill, which he had
introduced only yesterday, so
the House could take it up
Thursday. But the committee
decided instead to send the
measure to a subcommittee for
five days of study.
Other congressional news:
Social Security: The Eisen
hower administration tried un
successfully to persuade the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee to give a full and public
airing to Democratic proposals
to liberalize the social security
program. Mr. Eveta Culp Hobby,
secretary of Health, Education,
and welfare, said the Demo
cratic plan would cost more
than $2,000,000,000 a year.
Dixon-Yates: Gov. Frank G
Clement of Tennessee asserted
the Dixon-Yates private power
project was promoted under
"highly questionable" circum
stances. He told a Senate group
that Adolphe B. Wenzell, official
of the First Boston Corp., which
arranged Dixon-Yates financing,
was a consultant to the Budget
Bureau at a time when the bu
reau was discussing the project.
Marina corps: Democrats re
lied on public opinion to back
up a Senate vote for a Marine
Corps larger than the adminis
tration wants.
The Senate decided Monday
by a 40-39 vote to provide an
extra $46,000,000 to keep Ma
rine strength at 215,000 men for
the next year. The administra
tion had planned to cut the corps
to 193,000 mid-1956.
Pay Raise: Key senators Indi
cated they would support a com
promise pay raise bill of about 8
per cent for 1,073,262 govern
ment white collar workers.
Budget: ..Treasury Secretary
George M. Humphrey submitted
up-to-date budget figures to the
Senate Finance Committee in
connection with the coming re
quest for legislation to raise the
ceiling on the national debt. In
the figures, Humphrey sticks by
his prediction of a $2,400,000,000
deficit for the fiscal year begin
ning July 1.
County Development
Objective of Meeting
Representatives of communit
ies throughout Jackson county
have been invited by the cham
ber of commerce to bring sug
gestions for future development
to a meeting Thursday evening.
The session, to be in the Med
ford hotel, will start at 7:30 p.m.,
and will be open for discussion
of the future of Jackson county,
and any ideas anyone may have
on how development and pro
gress can best be obtained.
Invitations to a number of rep
resentative county people have
been mailed out chamber spokes
men said. The chamber's forum
committee is making arrange
ments for the meeting.
the county is applied to the as
sessed valuation can the millage
rate be figured.
Fowler also discussed the cur
rent dispute over the valuation
of orchard and shade trees as
part of the value of land, and
pointed out that a conference is
being held Friday in an attempt
to work out a solution.
Jackson county's assessment
ratio of 25 per cent is "about
in the middle" compared to the
ratios used by the other 35 coun
ties in the state, Fowler said, t
Proposals Would
Let Ike Preside
At First Session
Less World Tension
Chief Aim of Meetings
San Francisco (U.R) Sov
iet Foreign Minister V. M. Molo'
tov apparently has agreed to
proposal that would let Presi
dent Eisenhower serve as chair
man for the first meeting of next
month's "summit conference" in
Geneva, it was disclosed today.
The proposal was one of sev
eral submitted to' the Soviet for-
eign minister yesterday by the
foreign ministers of the Big
Three Western powers gathered
in San Francisco for the 10th.
anniversary of the United Na
tions. ,
The Big Four foreign minis
ters met last night to talk it
over. Sources close , to the Brit
ish and American delegations
said Molotov made no objection
to the proposals, and indicated
his government would find them
acceptable.
Ease World Tension
According to these source.
the proposals were:
1. The chief aim of the meet.
e w wvv cairn lUUVF
phere that would - help lessen
world tensions, rather than nego
tiate specific problems.
2. The Big Four chiefs of state.
will preside over the sessions in
rotation. President Eisenhower,
will be the first chairman, fol
lowed by French, British and
Russian chiefs of state.
3. The meeting should last four
to six days. The exact length
must be decided upon ahead of
time .
4. The chiefs of state should
outline in their onenins state
ments what they consider to be
the main causes of world ten
sion. 5. As the meetings progress,
the chiefs of state should sug
gest the procedures to follow in
negotiating these problems.
6. After the Big Four chiefs
of state conclude their meeting,
the Big Four foreign minister
should then take over and con-'
tinue as long as necessary.
Hear Molotov ' Views
Attending the mMtin wm
Molotov, Secretary of State John
roster uuues, French Foreign
luuuaier Aniome nnay and Brit
ish Foreien Minitr
MacMillan. '
Earlier vesterriav riniio. tjj
ay and MacMillan drew up a list
of proposals which they submit
ted to Molotov. Last night's
meeting was called to hear the
Russian's views on them. '
A source close to M.rMJii.-
said Molotov was "nerfwtlif
sonable" and merely asked time
io siuay tnem. However, an Am
erican source quoted Molotov as
saying there should be "no dif
ficulty." The Biz Four forelra mini
ters were in San Francis tn at
tend the 10th anniversary meet
ing oi me united Nations.
In his formal mmti Wmtm
the commemorative session Mac-
ivuuan made only a brief refer
ence to next month's "summit'
meeting and no mention of the
crucial foreign ministers talks
here.
"Within a few weeks the lo.rf.
ers of the four great powers will
be meeting together for the first
time since Potsdam." the Rritioh
official noted. He said although
we tensions between East and
Wo. 1 j ..
" oi. nave uxmea unenaing ...
recently there has been lift
ing of the cloud."
Ashland Loop Route
Opened To Traffic
Hie Ashland loop road,
which circles Mt AMawi
Wagner butte, starting near
Ashland and coming out In the
Applegate valley, was opened to
traffic this morning.
me office of the Rogue River
National forest reported the
loop road is being opened
earlier than usual this year, be
cause snow drifts have been
smaller. The last remaining
drift has been cleared from th
road.
The route is a favorite of pic
nickers and others who like the
spectacular mountain scenery of
southern Jackson county.
Cop's Word Choice
Jolt's Ike's Guards
San Francisco (U.R) A
San Francisco policeman's
choice of words jolted Secret
Service men guarding Presi
dent Eisenhower Monday.
Just before the President
stepped out of the St Francis
hotel en route to the United
Nations meeting, a policeman
with a public address ampl
fier on his car blared: "Yon
' people will have to men
across the street. You can still
get a good shot at the Presi
dent from there."