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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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)
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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.
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