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to - Kremlin (Sa&os Romulo Doclares San Francisco U.R) Phil- tions of a panel of newsmen on ippine Ambassador Carlos P. Romulo, substituting for Soviet Foreign Minister Vvacheslav M. M. Molotov, told a national tele vision audience yesterday that a 'rift" in the Kremlin is the cause of a change in Soviet tac tics. Romulo answered the ques- Nurserymen Gather For Convention; 100 Expected Here More than 55 out-of-town nurs erymen had registered by mid morning today for a convention ff! the Oregon Association of Nurserymen being held in Med ford with headquarters at the Jackson hotel. J. Vernon Marshall, conven tion chairman and business agent for the local nurserymen, said that more than 100 are expected here in addition to those attend ing from this vicinity. The group made a tour of the Bear Creek Orchards packing plant this morning and met at the Jackson hotel, convention headquarters, for a 1 p.m. lunch eon. A business meeting was scheduled for 2 to 5 p.m., with Mayor Earl Miller welcoming the visitors. Speakers Listed ' W. P. (Pete) Nuffer of the state association is here to speak, and Marcel LePiniec of the Gar den center nursery, had as his subject, "Native and Rock Plants of Southern Oregon." Miss Han- ley, president of the Oregon Federation of Garden clubs, is also to be one of the main speak ers. A group discussion was planned on the subjects of south ern Oregon nursery activities and problems. A banquet and entertainment to conclude the meeting is planned for this evening at the Pioneer room. Adenauer Opens Rearmament Fight Bonn, Germany (U.R) Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer today opened the battle to win ap proval from a divided and angry Parliament for his program to rearm West Germany on the side of the West. The Chancellor selected blunt spoken Defense Minister Theo dor Blank to command the first parliamentary skirmish in the campaign designed to push the "volunteer law" through the Bundestag in time to permit the first volunteers for the new West German Army to be sum moned to the colors before au tumn. Blank opens the two-day re armament debate in the lower house. He will attempt to ans wer the criticisms of members of all political parties that the gov ernment has been pursuing a "secret" program for rearma ment. ' Beaver Marsh Project Hearing Commences Eugene (U.R) A hearing on the proposed $7,000,000 Beaver Jarsh hydroelectric project opened here today, sponsored by the Federal Power Commission. Opponents of the proposed dams include outdoor and rec reation groups, who contend the structures would damage fish life and, deface the region and muddy the upper McKenzie river. The Eugene Water and Elec tric Board, which plans to build the dams, claims the project would have a minimum effect on wildlife and recreation while furnishing much-needed power to the region. The state engineer held a sim ilar hearing earlier this month on the project, which includes three low-head dams on the up per McKenzie in the Willamette National Forest. The dams would produce 30,000 kilowatts of power. U. 5. Expected To End Case Against Bridges San Francisco (U.R) The government was expected to wind up its case against Harry Bridges today with testimony from possibly one more witness and discussion of some legal details. After that, the proceedings against Bridges will be recessed at least until Thursday and pos sibly until July 11. The reason is a three-day judicial confer ence of all federal judges in the Ninth Circuit, opening tomorrow. ff Change Face the Nation," a CBS tele vision program that had sched uled Molotov as its guest yester day until the Russian diplomat backed down rather than answer impromptu questions. The fiery Philippines ambas sador said he was "pinch hit ting" for Molotov. The former U.N. General As sembly president told panelists on the program that he believed a "rift" exists in the present Sov iet regime, and was a primary motive in Russia's new "ten gal lon hat stratgey." New Strategy "I have always felt since this new strategy has been offered by Soviet Russia that there must be some strong, powerful, in ner complusion in Moscow to compel them to change tactics," Romulo said. He said the inner compulsion might be "this rift that they have." Romulo said he believed there was a fight going on in the Kremlin for power and that if someone wins, the world might again see a change in Russian tactics. Asked what he thought the themes of the U.N. commemora tive meeting were, other than peace, Romulo said: Yearning for Peace "Well, listening . to these speeches you find, first of all, the yearning for peace. Then I was struck by the unanimity of the chief delegates when they discussed the admission of mem bers. There is an implied desire to eliminate the veto of mem bers, not openly expressed, but you could see it in their speeches. v: "Then the emphasis on the specilized agencies ... in the technical assistance phase. "Then again ... a preponder ance of desire . . . for a confer ence to be held to revise the charter." Car Hits Tractor; Driver Hospitalized With Head Injury Hobert Ditsworth, 59, of 2596 Buckshot rd., was taken to Com munity hospital about 9:15 a.m. today by Medford ambulance at tendants after . the car he was driving on Crater Lake highway struck a tractor which was hitch ed to a truck, according to the ambulance drivers. He suffered possible concussion, according to his attending physician. Ditsworth's car received ex tensive damage on the left side and the tractor was badly dam aged and overturned, according to jstate police. Driving the truck pulling the tractor was Delmer Duahe Fjarli, 17, who was accompanied by his father,' Elmer J. Fjarli, 51. Passenger Hurt ' Conrad Lloyd . Morrison, San Francisco, was treated at Sac red Heart hospital Sunday eve ning for minor injuries suffered when the car in which he was riding, driven by Leo Ivan Zor rath, 401 ranch, collided with one driven by Rolland Leroy Breedlove, Effie st., Medford, ac cording to state police. He was taken to the hospital by Medford ambulance and later was re leased. Breedlove was cited by state police for failure to yield the right of way. The accident was at about 7:25 p.m. Sunday at Antelope and Agate rds. Other passengers in both cars were unhurt, according to police re ports. Portland (U.R) Most poultry processing plants in Oregon were closed today as a result of a five-day dispute between AFL egg candlers and the Ore gon Egg and Poultry Dealers' Association. Seattle (U.R) Russia's new way of talking" does not mean Russia has adopted a change of attitude, Henry Cabot Lodge told newsmen here today. Shakespeare 30 Per Cent Ashland Ticket sales for the Oregon Shakespearean Festival's coming season are running about 30 per cent ahead of sales on the same date last year, accord ing to William Patton, general manager. Patton said that sales are par ticularly heavy for week end performances, and for the first and last weeks of the season. The season opens Aug. 1 and runs throughout the month. A performance is given every night, including Sundays, and the four regularly scheduled playe are presented is rotation. IE United Press t-ull lodsed Wire 50th Year 18 Pages Eisenhower Opens Personal Campaign To Aid Maine GOP Turns to Serious Partisan Politics Parmachenee Lake, Maine (U.R) President Eisenhower, still teasing newsmen about his own political future, opens a strong personal campaign today to heal the wounds in Maine's ailing Republican party before next year's presidential elections. Turn To Politics The President put aside his trout rod today and returned to the serious business of partisan politics with "Operation Maine, a party effort to close tne breech in Maine's rock-ribbed Republicanism opened by a Democratic victory -last fall. Tonight, Mr. Eisenhower planned to fly back to Washing ton for an 11 p.m. EST confer ence with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The secre tary was to report on negotia tions between the United States and the Soviet Union on the American plane which was fired on and forced down June 22 off the coast of Alaska. The President planned to mo tor to Skowhegan today to ad dress a Republican rally at the state fair grounds. After the rally, Mr. Eisenhow er planned to drive to the near by home of Sen.' Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) for a clam bake. GOP fences Damaged "Operation Maine" was a tag line applied by local politicians to the President's bruising sched ule today. His activities obvious ly were designed to mend GOP fences damaged last fall when traditionally Republican Maine elected a Democratic governor, Edmund S. Muskie. Since Muskie's victory, the Maine GOP has been badly split and party leaders hoped the Ei senhower : personality would help bring the dissident factions together. Housing Program Extension Sought Washington (U.R) Congres sional leaders gave up hope to day of passing new housing leg islation before four major hous ing programs expire at midnight Thursday. Chairman Brent Spence (D- Ky.) of the House Banking Com mittee said he would call for speedy approval of a resolution to continue present programs temporarily. A Senate-passed bill to over haul present housing programs faces sharp House floor fights over its public housing provi sions and a segregation amend ment. The bill cleared the House committee last Thursday after drastic revision. Spence planned to urge the House Rules Committee to clear the housing measure for floor ac tion this week. But even if the bill should pass this week, a Senate-House conferences commit tee would have to work out a compromise between the House and Senate versions. Two Men Arraigned On Theft Intent Charge Jerry Yates Sparling, 26. of 724 Oak st( Medford and John Butler Childress, 25, of 430 De Barr ave., Medford, were ar raigned in district court today on charges of entering a motor vehicle with intent to steal. A preliminary hearing was sched uled this afternoon. The men were arrested Sat urday night. They are accused of attempting to remove a radio from a car on a wrecking lot owned by Richard Korner at 2232 Biddle rd. Bail was set at $1,500 each by Judge Rawles Moore. - Festival Ticket Ahead of 1954 so that visitors to Ashland may see all plays by staying four days. All 'of the, outdoor theater's 1,100 seats are reserved. Accord ing to Patton good seats for all performances are still available. As festival officials expected, the greatest demand for tickets has been for ' performances of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Macbeth," but reservations for "All's Well That Ends Well," the second comedy of the sea son, and "Henry VI, part 3" are also moving rapidly, Patton said. Surprise el tbe eeeeoa im the DFOI log R Italian President Selects Segni as Premier Designate Land Reform Advocate May Head Triumvirate Rome (U.R) Premier-des ignate Antonio Segni, 64-year- old advocate of land reform, set out today to heal the split in his Christian Democratic party as the first step toward ending It aly's six-day-old cabinet crisis, Two Other Candidates Observers believed he would try to do this by luring two other candidates for the premier ship into his cabinet, Budget Minister Ezio Vanoni and for mer Premier Giuseppe Pella, in a move that would amount to rule by triumvirate. Segni, considered a moderate left wing Catholic, would rep resent the left wing of his party, Vanoni would represent the cen ter and Pella the right wing. But Vanoni and Pella are so power ful politically Italian political quarters already were discussing a three-man rule. President Giovanni Gronchi selected Segni, a six-times agri cultural minister under the late Alcida de Gasperi, as premier- designate in a 50-minute confer ence in the presidential palace. Segni accepted and Gronchi ask ed him to report back by Thurs day. Cut Up Own Estates Segni is a Sardinian lawyer who carved up his own estates to set an example for Italy's land owners at the outset of the country's land reform program ten years ago. A staunch Catho lic, he believes land reform the best weapon against Commun ism. He will try to put together the coalition of Christian Dem ocrats, Republicans, Liberals and Social Democrats, which crumb led with Premier Mario Scelba last week. Flash Flood Hits Towns in Wyoming Torrington, Wyo. (U.R) Na tional Guardsmen stood ready with boats and trucks today to evacuate Torrington residents endangered by a three-foot flash flood which swept through the town. ' Two other Wyoming towns, Fort Laramie and Guernsey, were also flooded by torrential cloudbursts which poured down 6 to 10 inches of rain Sunday night. . ' . ' The rain was still coming down over eastern Wyoming to day, but it was tapering off and some flood waters were draining into the Platte River, 20 miles west of Torrington. Torrington was under up to three feet of water in residential areas and curb-deep flood waters flowed in the business district. There were no immediate re ports of casualties. Washington (U.R) Two Klam ath County Commissioners were to return to Oregon today with Bureau of Indian Affairs approv al for a $916,000 road-building project on the Klamath Reserva tion. Nanaimo, B. C. (U.R) The 6000-ton Princess of Vancouver, newest ship in the Canadian Pa cific's West Coast fleet, ran aground early today near Nana imo. Sales Run Reservations box office so far has been the demand for tickets for the rare ly produced "Timon of Athens," which will be seen in special performances on Aug. 23 and 29. Heaviest requests for tickets are coming from the Medford, Portland, Eugene and Salem areas, Patton said. The box office at the theater in Ashland is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily except Sun day. The Medford box office will open July 5 in the lobby of the First National bank and operate during banking hours throughout the aeeaon. A, A D Attacking Aircraft Reportedly Flown By Russian Pilots U. S. Medical Officer Suffers Slight Wound Taipei, Formosa (U.R) Chi nese Communist MIG jet fight ers, reportedly p i 1 ot e d by Russians, today shot down a Nationalist jet patrol plane and riddled a commercial airliner carrying an American doctor on a mercy flight to Matsu Island. A Nationalist Chines Air Force communique said that intercept ed radio conversations between the Red jet fighters showed they were "entirely piloted by Rus sians." Orders from "the ground were also given in fluent Russian and intelligence reports recently have shown that the Chinese Red Air Force is controlled by So viets, the Nationalists said. On Mercy Mission U. S. Army medical officer Lt. John J. Goodrich, of Rayne, La., was slightly wounded during the attack on the Fooshing Air Lines amphibian flying him to Matsu to treat a sick American ser geant. The airliner was to remove the seargeant, who was not iden tified, from the Communist threatened island off the Red mainland. Goodrich was the only passen ger on the commercial airliner, a converted Navy PBY patrol bomber. The four man crew was not wounded. The PBY pilot Chin Quock Ming, a Chinese-American who lived in Hartford, Conn., for several years, said the Red MIGs made four passes at his plane, firing each time. Crash-Lands on Island ; The airliner made a crash landing on White Dog Island,, one of the Matsu group. How ever, it was able to limp back to Formosa tonight escorted by four Nationalist jet fighters. The patrol plane shot down by the Reds was a T33 jet. It crash ed into the sea and the pilot was lodt, the Nationalists announced. Brakes Fail; Log Truck Driver Hurt William Rayburn, Myrtle Creek, an employee of the Legg Lumber company, Shady Cove, was seriously injured this mor ning when the brakes on the log ging truck and trailer he was driving failed about two miles below the summit on the Tiller Trail highway, according to Med ford ambulance attendants. He was taken to Sacred Heart hos pital. Extent of his injuries were not immediately known. Rayburn, according to a re port of the accident, jumped clear of the truck but was in jured in the fall. The trailer re portedly became unhitched and grazed the side of a car travel ing on the highway. Oil Committee Report Slated This Evening Sams Valley Findings of a committee organized to investi gate oil lease possibilities in northern Jackson county will be reported at a meeting at 8 p.m. today at the Sams Valley Grange. The committee, made up of Sams Valley-Beagle landowners, surveyed possibilities of oil ex ploration and development in the Sams Valley, ' Beagle, Ramsey Canyon and Meadows districts after at least two major oil companies expressed interest of development of the area. About. 15,000 acres of land is involved, according to reports. Landowners In the area are invited to tonight's meeting, at which oil and mineral leases will be rtiinmrdi C7 r RED- PLAHES SHOOT UP PATROL JET, AIRLIHER i i 1 , -C irizr . , ' United Prase Full Leased Wire MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1955 ARCTIC , BffitNG STfiAfT SIBERIA vr$JsV;LASKA : If lST IAWRBNCE KhZ INTERNATIONAL TENSION over shooting down of American patrol plane by Russian MIGi sparks United Nations commemo rative session In San Francisco. U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles presents "urgent request" for explanation of inci dent 'to Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. (International) Mes, Dike Conifer (LDn IPDaiie Dncidleiirt Washington (U.R) Secre tary of State John Foster Dul les flew to Maine this afternoon to meet President Eisenhower and confer on the .latest U.S. Russian plane incident. The secretary planned to fly to Dow Air Force base at Bang or, Me., a State department spokesman said. Mr. Eisenhower is scheduled to fly back to the capital tonight. More Time on Return The President and Dulles then will have more time during the return flight to discuss the shoot ing down of an American Navy plane by Russian MIGs last Wed nesday off Alaska. Steelworkers Draft Final Wage Demand Pittsburgh -4U.R) The CIO United Steelworkers Wage Poli cy Committee met today to draft "final" wage patterns which they will demand of the nation's basic steel companies to avoid a strike by the Thursday midnight dealine. USW President David J. Mc Donald said there was "still time" for settlement. But he and his negotiators already have rejected company proposals which would have raised wages by 6V4 cents an hour for sweep ers to 23 Vfe cents for highly skill ed workers. The 170-man policy committee will put the official stamp of ap proval on McDonald's drive for a husky boost for the union members. McDonald' Sunday rejected the latest wage offer in the cru cial negotiations, which have been underway here since June 7. Hack Saw Blades 'Found in Pie at Klamath Falls Jail Klamath Falls (U.R) Four hacksaw blades were discover ed by an alert jailer in a cherry pie during the week end in what authorities said was an apparent jailbreak at tempt. Held en a charge of aiding an imprisoned person to es cape were Zelda Pearson and Phyllis Hill. Mrs. Pearson, is the wife of Leoa Gale Pear son, who is under indictment on a manslaughter charge. Bail was set at $3500 each. The jailer, Fred Galsee, said Mrs. Pearson visited her hus band, Friday afternoon, and returned later with ice cream and a charry pie. After she left, Calsee discovered the hacksaw blades. A clerk in a hardware store identified the women as purchasers of the four blades '. They were to be arraigned in District Court today. " . OCEAN The Russians charged there was "an exchange of shots" be tween the Navy Neptune bomb er and the Russian MIG fighters. But ..a.. Defense Department spokesman said all reports here bear out the U.S. crewmen's or iginal statement that they "did not fire back." While admitting the incident could have been due to a mis take," Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov said Russia did not rule out the possibility it was "a result of the action of some representatives of the Am erican command who are not in terested in the prevention of this sort of incident." Offer To Pay But Molotov expressed re gret in regard to the incident' and offered to pay the United States SO per cent of the dam ages. He insisted the U. S. plane was over Russian waters. The United States reiterated its stand that the incident oc curred over international waters, There was no loss of life but 7 of the 11 crew members on board the Neptune patrol plane were injured, three by shell fragments. Dulles, returning to the capi- tol Sunday from the United Na tions meeting at San Francisco and his meeting with Molotov, said he was "gratified" that the Soviet memorandum "expressed some regret, although it was not what we asked for." Chrysler Opens Talks With Auto Workers Detroit (U.R) Chrysler Corp. and the CIO United Auto Workers were scheduled to open contract talks today which were expected to lead rapidly to a settlement similar to one obtain ed recently by the union from Ford Motor Co. and General Mo tors Corp. A modified form of a union guaranteed wage plan, which posed the major stumbling block in the path of GM and Ford ne gotiators, was expected to be ac cepted almost matter-of-factly by the Chrysler negotiators. Most observers felt Chrysler, the last of the industry's "big three," would not be able to of fer much resistance to the union proposal because of the settle ment won by- the union from GM and Ford. Weather FORECAST: Increasing eloudi neu tonight. Considerable cloudiness and a little cooler with light scattered showers Tuesday. Low tonight SO. High Tuesday near IS. Temp. Highest yesterday f Lowest this morning 45 No. 84 County Court, Rules Proposal Against Interest ot Area Will Recommend Against License The Jackson county court to day refused to endorse a pro posal for the establishment of a dog racing track in the Ashland area. The court had been asked by a group of five Medford and Ashland men to rule on the pro posal favorably. Following pub lic hearing on the pros and cons of the matter last Friday morn- : . Ai i. i j i- lug, we court eariy mis aner- noon issued a statement in which they told of their decision to re fuse the request. On Association Track The proposal, which would have started dog racing on the Ashland Riding association track north of Ashland, at an initial cost of up to $200,000 or more, was made by W. D. Huber and Richard Watson, Medford, and Henry Enders, Robert Van Vleet and William Briggs. Eicensing of dog racing u a function of the state racing com mission, but the recommendation of the county court is understood to be a major factor in the com mission's decision on issuing a li cense. The action of the court in re jecting the proposal was unani mous, according to County Judge Rodney Keating, The preliminary statement on the decision said: "The court has unanimously rejected this request on the grounds that it would not be in the, best interests of the county. A formal statement giving in some detail the court's, position will be issued later this week." Rpsirips TCpa finer th niirf in. eludes Commissioners Chester Wendt and L. G. Morthland. At Friday's hearing, the court in an hour-long session heard statements supporting the pro posal by representatives of the group interested, which declared that it would be a tourist at traction. Opposition statements, many of them by ministers and attor neys, cited moral and economic reasons against the racing pro posal. Petitions and letters in large numbers, both for and against, have been considered by the court, as well as the oral agruments presented Friday. Stronger Defense CommandProposed Washington (U.R) The Hoover commission today pro posed strengthening the Defense Department's civilian high com mand and offered a new plan to cut "waste" in military buy irux The commission also recom mended that the department be allowed to hire top-flight execu tives without forcing them to liquidate their business holdings. In a report to Congress, the commission said its defense rec ommendations if carried out would save the government more than $2,000,000,000 a year. The commission recommend ed that Congress create a new and separate civilian managed agency in the Defense depart ment to make all non-military purchases for the Army, Navy and Air Force. Military brass would continue to make all pur chase of military hardware. Abandoned Infant Found in Portland Portland (U.R) A tiny baby believed to be only one or two days old was found abondoned on the front steps of a doctors clinic here early today. The newborn infant was taken to a baby home, where it was described as "normal and healthy." It weighs five pounds, five ounces and, according to police, has blue eyes.. Portland police said the baby boy might have died sometime during the night had it not been found at- 1 a.m. by a passing youth who heard it crying. It was in a cardboard box with the flaps closed, and police said the baby easily could have suf focated. The foundling was wrapped in a blue and white receiving blanket. Beside it in the box ' a bottle of milk. Price 5c
