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AW rv . - : 9 SIM : A?r , ITT Medford United Pre Full Leased Wire 50th Year 20 Pages Prisoners Seek Conference Governor Russell Two Minor Acts Of Violence Reported - Carson City, Nev. CUJO Chilled convicts at the. Nevada State Prison basked in the early morning sun today determined not to end a more than 16-hour ritdown strike for better con ditions until they met with Gov. Charles Russell. The governor, who went to Las Vegas yesterday to investi gate gaming conditions in that mushrooming gambling spa, was en route back to the capital oy National Guard plane to take "whatever action I deem neces sary." He was expected to land at Beno and drive directly to the prison. Two minor acts o violence were reported, both of them be fore daybreak this morning. Break Into Shop Many of the 222 convicts tak ing part broke into a small cof fee and ice cream shop adjoin ing the prison exercise yard they have Tef usTtorieve 'dx&erfr terday afternoon and helped themselves to ice cream. Later they collected in a small recreation room and began mill ing around.. Prison personnel, fearing they might begin fight ing among themselves, fired a single tear gas bomb into the room to clear them out. - - In neither instance was there any evidence of rioting or de struction of fixtures. The convicts presented a list of 12 demands to Warden Art Bernard who called a regularly elected "grievance" committee into his office shortly after the prisoners refused to line up for dinner. Conference Key Demand The committee, none actively engaged in the "quiet" distur bance, said the key demand was the conference with the gover nor. "If they back down on that," one of them said, "they have lost their fight." The men, comprising more than two-thirds of the entire 358-inmate population, spent the night in the yard clad only in dungarees and thin T-shirts. None had jackets to ward off the chilly morning air as temp ratnres fell below the 50-de- gree mark. Bernard blamed recent prison disturbances' at Walla Walla, Wash., and Rawlings, Wyo., for the sitdown. He said the trouble had been brewing for "a couple of weeks." ' Portland (U.R) The Brit- hh miuer HMS Superb will dock here Friday for a six-day -visit. on ntt-lwini Rural Telephone Extensions Technical developments have permitted extension of dial tele phone service into- the east Sams Valley-Beagle areas, according to the Columbia Utilities comp any, which serves ...the- area. Work is now under way. D. O. Hood, president of the telephone firm, said that later, probably this fall, the company may extend its facilities furth er north to include the Meadows district, which has never had telephone service. Hood explained that recent scientific and technical improve ments have made these exten sions possible without the high costs which have been prohibi tive in the past. Only one pair of wires will be installed he said, and these will be connected to super-imposed carrier (or wired radio) circuits. Each circuit can serve a maximum of 10 subscnb- . itiv hvxnonie sfeciot MEDFORD, OREGON, s ditd Mother Protesting Drafting of Son Ends Four-Day Fast Miami (U.R) A "very religious", mother who staged a four-day . hunger strike pro testing the drafting of her son today gave her "consent and my good wishes" in his mili tary career. Mrs. Martha' Blumenbach, 12.. last night ended her four days of fasting. ' Her husband. Earl Blumen bach. well to do .appliance dealer at nearby Coral Gables, Fla.. said his wife "is a tick very sick woman." Blast In Irrigation Flume Investigated; Crops Endangered Jackson county sheriffs offi cers are continuing an investiga tion into an explosion last Thurs day which early left more than a thousand acres of farm land without irrigation water. The explosion was in Rogue River Valley Irrigation district's wooden flume which crosses Bear creek jrt McAndrews jrd.pff.i cers saicf malicious destruction of property by using dynamite is suspected. Sheriff ' Howard Gault . said several suspects have been ques tioned concerning the dynamit ing; without result as yet The explosion was reported by Harold Sexton, manager of the district, and was discovered by Charles O. Bousland, route 2, box 659, Central Point, an em ployee of the district. Blast In Evening - Sheriffs officers said the ex plosion occurred between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., and apparently one stick of dynamite was placed or floated into the flume about half way across the creek. They said the dynamite exploded about a foot below the water Llevel, doing considerable dam age. Recent repairs to the flume prevented more serious loss, which Sexton said could have been disastrous to crops. The north side of the flume west of the water gates was dam aged, causing a leak, and two check boards were blown out but were not extensively damaged. Publication of news about the explosion was voluntarily with held by the Mail Tribune during the preliminary investigation by sheriff s officers. Weather rOKKCAST Fair a4 warm threafh Wednesday. Law te alfht SS; high Wednesday 91. Tern. Highest yesterday Lowest this morntng . Progress Allows equipment is being installed, so that each subscriber hears only one ring in additionto his own. In cases where no power ' line pole attachments are involved, no additional rings are heard, Hood said. Columbia Utilities recently completed a major project pro viding new dial telephone ser vice to the Brownsboro, Lake Creek, Salt Creek, Dead Indian and McAllister Springs commun ities. The new service replaces a "farmer line cooperatively owned system which has been out of commission for several years due to increased electric power voltage in line parallel ling the circuits. The carrier subscriber circuits were also used in this area to provide the service to most sub scribers. Similar installations are now in service in the McLeod- Prospect sections, Hood said. V TUESDAY, JUL. 5 fiirnke Ike's Stop Order May Apply Only To Few Projects Democratic Senators Denounce Statement Washington U.R) President Eisenhower's stop order on new water, navigation and power projects voted by Congress may apply to as few as a half dozen units, it appeared today. Congress added 107 projects to administration recommenda tions in passing a public works appropriation bill. The Presi dent, in signing the bill last Friday, said funds would be withheld for any of the added projects on which detailed en gineering and cost studies haven't been completed.- Democratic senators denounc ed his statement yesterday, call tog the implied fund impound ment a "usurpation" of congres sional power. They indicated they thought work couldn't be started on any of the 107 proj ects under the President's order. Later in ' the day, Budget Director Rowland R. Hughes said no funds had been. im pounded? Hngheslatement said: ! No Funds . Impounded "The President said IfoVini tiation of the added projects cannot be undertaken until the detailed engineering plans have been completed and we have : sound basis ; for the cost estimates. No funds have ' been impounded and no action r to impound any funds by the bill is contemplated." This came after Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) who handled tne appropriation bill in the Senate, said engineering is com plete on all but a half dozen of the added projects. If the Budget Bureau t hai the same estimate as Ellender only those would be held up. - llendersapparently was mak ing an estimate, and did not name the half dozen. Aimed at Democratic Projects One Democratic source said the President's statement was aimed at such Democratic spon sored projects as the Yellowtail Dam in Montana, for which Con gress allowed $4,000,000. -However,; until the Budget Bureau makes 'a more definite statement, all 107 projects added by Congress to the original budget estimates apparently are in doubt. Included are the following projects in Oregon: . ' Columbia river at mouth, 9730,000; coos Bay, $200,000; Cougar reservoir, $500,000; Hills Creek reservoir, $300,000; Til lamook bay and bar, $200,000. The presidential order did not affect the $150,000 in planning money voted for the Talent proj ect in southern Oregon. The order concerned only construc tion money. Move To Postpone Hells Measure Loses Washington U.R) The House Interior committee today rejected, 13 to 11, a move to postpone indefinitely further ac tion to authorize federal con struction of the Hells canyon dam. It was a party line vote with Democrats voting against and Republicans for. The motion, which in effect would have killed the authoriz ing legislation at least' for the time being, was offered by Rep, A. L. Miller R-Neb). ... . Miller's motion was to post- none indefinitely further com mittee consideration of a bill by Ren. Grade Pfost (D-Ida.), to let the federal government, rather than private power, develop the Snake river in Idaho through construction of a $350,000,000 IBUNE United Pre TuU Leased Wire Price 5c No. 102 Fate of Convicts In Walla Walla ; Beating Studied Inmates Declared . Too Drunk To Interrogate' Walla Walla (U.R) -4- Wash ington state prison officials opened an investigation today to determine what to jdo with two convicts who seized and beat two prison employees yes terday. ; Officials at St. Mary's hospital here reported that Arthur M. Thompson, one of the victims of the beatings, suffered - rup tures of both eyes. Thompson was going into- surgery today, hospital attendants said. ' Convicts Too Intoxicated Warden Lawrence Delmore said prison officials had to post pone questiomnmg of the con victs until. today because they were too intoxicated to inter rogate after" the attack: of the prison employees. :i The warden said the convicts, Robert J. Sheean and Thaddeus Dupuy, became intoxicated on a home-made liquor they ap parently concocted in the prison ice plant where they-were work ing. The assault on Thompson and John Bates, a prison repair man, followed the drinking bout. , Delmore said it had not been determined if Sheehan and Du puy employed Weapons in their assault or used only, their fists on Thompson and Bates. ' Attacked in Laundry , .;..,, Sheehan and Dupuy entered thUla-un4lry aHdr. .attacked Thompson, Delmore Said. Then they grabbed Bates and beat him before they were seized by other officers and locked up. Delmore said "as far as we know" Sheehan and Dupuy were not connected, with . the prison rebellion two weeks ago. Sheehan, is serving seven, and one-half years from Clark coun ty for robbery, the warden said, Dupuy is serving an eight-year term for robbery. f Paving, Zoning Matters Slated The city council wui hold a public hearing on paving Ken wood ave. at its 7:30 p.m. meet ing tonight, and will consider ordinances calling public hear, ings on two zone change re quests. . .' One request is from J. S. Good win that a section of Queen Anne addition be rezoned from single to multiple family resi dences, and the other is from Mrs. Dorothy Sneed for rezon ing East Jackson St., between Hawthorne and Genessee sts., from multiple family to commer cial. Also on the agenda are three reports from City Manager Rob ert Duff and a discussion of the proposed. South Bear Creek San itary district contract Reports from Duff will be on removing a crosswalk on South Riverside ave. : opposite Tabu restaurant; on a request from Mrs. N. B. Leslie, 1036 Court ft, for zone change; and on the East . Japk son st. right of way. - . The council also will receive a recommendation for change of set back for Homer J. Bringle on Eighth st' at Orange st. Ileuberger Opposes Beaver Marsh Project - Washington U.PJ Sen. Rich ard L. ' Neuberger announced his "firm opposition" today to the Beaver marsh power project on the upper McKenzie river in Oregon. '.:' ; He said in a letter to the Fed eral Power Commission that the project, proposed by the Eugene City Water Board, would mean a "loss in scenic, wildlife and recreational values on one of the most picturesque streams -. of North America." . 7 It not only: would imperil fish life in the aera but would dras tically reduce the value of the Koosak and Sahalie waterfalls, be said. . .. . , United States Never To Wage Aggressive l"Jarv Bulganin Told Geneva XU.R) President Eisenhower, in an earnest effort to remove Russian fears of a reunified Germany, today solemnly assured the Soviets that NATO was planned as an agency of peace rather than war and- that the United States never would wage aggressive war, The American chief executive addressed his assurances and his appeal for a more tolerant Soviet attitude towardNATO directly to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and his World War n ally and comrade, Marshal Georgi Zhukov now Soviet defense minister. Bulganin, responding to the President's strongly phrased reas surance, said he "trusted" Mr. Eisenhower's statements. But he argued the time is not yet ripe for German reunification. In spite of the Soviet objections to prompt reunification, the heads of governments agreed to instruct their foreign ministers to abandon their discussions of the conference agenda and plunge at once into a detailed study of how Germany might be reunited on a basis satisfactory to all. The foreign ministers were, instructed to begin .'their study at tomorrow morning's meeting and report back to the summit delegates tomorrow afternoon. Armed Troops Keep in Casablanca Streets Casablanca, Morocco (U.R) Thousands .of armed police and troops in armored cars patrolled the narrow blood-stained streets of the city, today enforcing an uneasy truce between the Euro pean colony and the natives. The major rioting and terror ism, in which at least 65 persons Yreka A Medford woman and her - Yreka companion left Casablanca after the cur rent rioting 1rok out. it has been reported here. Mrs. Clifford Aldrich. Med ford, who operates Miss Pat's' Dance studio,' and Karen Johnson, daughter of the Sis-- eourjtr recorder,; have? een touring . Europe an ; North Africa. In a telegram .to Mies Johnson's father, they , reported they arrived there shortly - before the rioting ' started. have' been killed appeared to have subsided under the guns of the tank-supported government forces. Night Watchman Killed The bomb-killing of a night watchman Monday was the latest in a series of violent deaths that have resulted from the race riots. Five days of murder, arson end pillage have followed the tossing Of a bomb into a crowded cafe last Thursday. At least 200 persons have been injured in the outbreaks. Unof ficial reports have put the death toll as high as 200, with the bodies of many more victims be lieved to be concealed in the winding back streets of the na tive quarters. Curfew in Force ' , Martial law and the curfew were still in force. The newly-appointed military commander of the city, Gen. Andre Franchi, toured the new and old Medinas Monday night with the Pasha of Casablanca, the city, highest Arab leader. : French Resident General Gil bert Grandval kept in close touch with Premier Edgar Faure at the Big Four conference in Geneva, advising him of developments in the situation. The violence was regarded as the worst in the North African territory in many years. ' Jail Escapee Found And Returned Here Floyd Earl Denno, 25, who es caped from Jackson county jail Aug. 8, 1953, was returned late yesterday from Soledad, Calif., jail where' he completed an 18 month sentence for second de gree burglary. ' ' Denno was convicted in cir cuit court here on larceny by bailee, and while waiting sen tence he escaped from jail. He was accused of renting a floor sander from Haggard Lumber company in Phoenix and selling it to a dealer of used articles. Denno was convicted of a sim ilar charge in California and completed serving time when he was . brought to Jackson county yesterday. Sheriff's officers said Denno has a record of renting or bor rowing equipment and then sell ing it. - Salem (OR) ' Gov. Paul Patterson ' has appointed Paul Brunskill, Tillamook, as a memb er of the State Board of .Phar macy . - . - UneasyTruce Conference in First Shirt-Sleeve Session Mr. Eisenhower's direct ap peal to the Soviet delegates, to listen carefully and to consider his remarks on NATO and Ger man unity came during the course of this afternoon's first shirt sleeve working session of the summit conference. Mr. Eisenhower repeatedly as sured the Russian delegation that the Soviet Union has nothing to fear from German, reunification, so far as the United States is concerned. - s He also appealed directly to his World War II ally and com rade, Soviet Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov, for a more toler ant Russian attitude toward the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion in the interest of speeding Germanreunification. i - The conference session was de voted to the problem of German reunification, which was given top priority on the conference agenda by agreement of the Big Four foreign ministers. t The President appealed direct ly, to - Zhukov Jo. obtain ..Russian acceptance of NATO as an instru ment of real peace. . Bulganin," in his opening ad dress to the conference yester day, had outlined a Soviet plan for European : security which would require the West to scuttle NATO, the key to West Europe's defense, in exchange for aban donment by the Communist East of the alliance of Russia's East European satellites. . . " How the Russians reacted to the American assurances and to Mr. Eisenhower's appeal for ac ceptance of NATO was not imme diately disclosed. ' But reporters noted that both Bulganin and Soviet Communist party chief Nikita ' Khruschev looked more serious on leaving the conference room in the old League of Nations Palace than they were when they went in at the start of today's session. President Eisenhower told Bul ganin there was no justification for any tendency to delay Ger man unification. (See Stories on Page 6) .. Nixon Calls Cabinet Meeting for Friday I Washington (U.I?) Vic President Richard M. Nixon to day called a . meeting of Presi dent Eisenhower's cabinet : for Friday morning at the White House. ... . It was learned yesterday that the Vice-President was planning to preside at the session in Mr. Eisenhower's absence. Nixon emphasized that there is no "emergency" about the session. It was described as a regular meeting. . Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Barbers here have hiked the price of - haircuts to $1.50 in line with a recent increase in Portland prices.;-' - Horticultural ; Fi?ld Day Slated Friday; Tours, Demonstrations in Fruit Work Sot " A horticultural field day, featuring demonstrations of pro gress, in 'various phases of fruit raising -and equipment, and tours of orchards, will be held all day Friday, July 22, it was announced' today. ", , The event is being held under the sponsorship of the Fruit Growers league with , the coop eration of the Oregon State Hor ticultural society, the state ex tension service and the ' South ern Oregon. Experiment station. Paul Culbertson, : president of the league, has invited all grow ers, their wives, and others in terested in the fruit industry to attend. : 'The day will start at 9 a.m. at the experiment' station at Talent. (Buses lor those wishing ' REAL COOL DOG. COOL As 100 at Dallas, Tex., a six-year-old Pomeranian took to a pan of ice-water, cocked a wary eye at the rising mercury. White Ma.? ase nMei 6 IPossSbDe The Bernice H. (Tex) White murder trial went to the jury at 10:10 a.m. today. Actual trial of the case was completed yesterday afternoon with the final statements of Dis trict Attorney Walter Nunley and Defense . Attorney Robert Duncan. The 40 minutes the court was in session this morn ing were - taken up with the judge's instruction to the jury. Claims Insanity White is accused of first de gree murder in the March 2 slaying . of Eugene Raymond . Birk, . Phoenix. White has not denied the killing, which was done with a two by four piece of lumber, but has pleaded tem porary insanity. Much of the testimony d u r i n gthe,;triai wBicn"Tegan a"week ago yester day, has concerned White's medi cal record, his epilepsy, and his "seizures," several of which have .taken place in the court room. . . . '.The defense has claimed the fatal attack took place during one such psycho-motor seizures, and that White has no recollec tion of parts of the action re sulting in the death of Birk, a fellow employee at the Talent mill.' ' Six Alternatives. Judge H. K. Hanna, in in structing ; the jury, gave them six alternative possibilities for a verdict. The first two are first degree murder, with or without recommendation for leniency.. A verdict without such a recom mendation requires the death penalty; otherwise life imprison ment is 'mandatory. Either of these two verdicts must be reached unanimously by the jury. ; The other four, possible ver dicts can be reached by at least 10 of the 12 jurors. They are second degree murder, man daughter, not . guilty,! and not 'guilty by reason of insanity. , DA Sees Motive In his closing statements yes terday, Nunley described the grand jury indictment, and de clared that motive for murder existed in the ill-feeling between White and 'Birk, arising from a dispute about rest period re lief at the mill. Birk, Nunley said, resented the fact that the defendant discussed the matter with the boss instead of the fore man, and said, "So, you went crying to the boss." Another time, the district attorney said, White was involved in a fight with another of the mill hands over the incident. - Nunley questioned what he said were discrepancies in White's transportation : will ' leave - from the courthouse at 8:30 a.m.) At the station there will be dis plays, demonstrations and ex planations . of soil moisture measuring equipment, miticides, insects, commercial chelate pro ducts, antibiotics, leaf color ex tracts and pear russet and in jury slides. Spider' mite control plots will be shown. . Morning tours, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 pjn. will be to the. Steve Nye orchard, the, Art Wilson' orchard and 'the Med ford Experiment station to view effects of chelated iron on lime chlorosis, and pruning methods, dormant spray, sod plots, .thin ning plots, russet plots and weed eontroL --At-l -pj-a picnic lunch will mm the thermometer hit an i to Mvy9 VeireHScfis testimony. He said that if Birk, just before the killing had oc curred, had attacked the . de fendant and struck him four or five times, as White ; testified, there should have been marks on White's body. He said that if the two had been fighting, Rich ard Dale Blunc, an edger picker, should have seen it Blunc had testified he saw the two men talking angrily, but not fighting. Claims No Evidence Nunley closed by saying that in the 23 years of White's medi cal history, there is no evidence he had ever had an psycho-motor seizure. Duncan, in closing for the de fense,, showed pictures of the mill, showing how White and Birk could have fought without attracting Blunc's notice. He also reierrea to tne Mann corps medical report which described White as an epileptic, and a "menace" to his fellow service men.' -. : : The defense attorney empha sized the fact that Blunc had re membered an "odd" smile on White's face just before the kill ing. This, Duncan said, was the same expression Dr. James C Luce, a neurologist, testified he had seen during White's seizures in his office. Cites Seisure Evidence ' Duncan stated that the inabili ty of the defendant to remember striking Birk more than once, his denial of repeating "111 kill the . V and the testi mony of mill hands that he kept tying and . untying -his apron strings after the attack, all were evidence that White had been suffering a seizure. ...' In his final rebuttal, Nunley asked the jury for "justice." He said the state had proven White to be an ordinary epileptic with out psycho-motor seizures or iciiijjuihi jr insanity, ana umh u the jury returned a verdict of in nocent, it was at the same time saying in effect, that all epilep tics are liable to commit such an act of violence. ? Forest Patrol Crew Puts Out Small Fire A state forest patrol crew this . morning' put out a snlall fire in the old Itoundtop burn near the head of the East Fork of Evans Creek, it was reported. . The blaze was in a logging op eration, and forest patrolmen are continuing an investigation. An inspector was in the .area and reported the fire, and a pump truck and , crew from Medford, and ' the' . Salt Creek warden, put out the'fire. : be served at TouVelle State park by the ladies of the Phoe nix Grange,' with the Fruit Growers league as hosts. A dis play of orchard equipment will be on view at the park. Between 2:30 and 5 p.m. tours will view hybrid pears, perma nent cover crops, sawdust plots and dwarf apples. Dr. Louis Centner and Dr. those explaining the - displays and experiments. Others attend ing will be Harold Bushue, Gresham, new president of the Oregon State Horticultural : o ciety, . and Dr. ' Spencer Apple, new head of the horticultural department at Oregon State col lege succeeding Harry Hartman, who retired July L I high lemel- dam. . f
