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tad M tested m Wiliif feiitotem United Pr Full timil Wife MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1955 Price 5c Soviet's European Security Proposal Rejected by West Eisenhower Lunches With Rustic's Zhukov Geneva U.R - President Ei senhower and the Soviet dele gates to the Big Four aummit conference agreed today that they have reached a dead end on the issues of German reuni fication and European security. That decision was reached after the Soviets at today's brief summit session put forward a European security proposal that was unacceptable to the West. Yesterday's conference session results indicated East and West were unable to get together on German reunification. Plea for Peace ?rut in spite of these disap pointments. President .Eisenhow er told his Russian opposite numbers today that he believes the Soviets want peace as sin cerely as the West wants it. Both sides, he said, must find bridge to peace. The abbreviated session last ed an hour and 45 minutes. - It was devoted primarily to Russia's outline of a security plan for Europe that would re quire scuttling the North At lantic Treaty Organization, key atone of the Western defense ar rangement. Western delegates promptly called the Soviet scheme unac ceptable. It was agreed then that the problems of European security and German unification could not be discussed further on the summit level now. Further Study Ordered But the Big Four instructed their foreign ministers to get to gether to see whether it would be possible for the foreign minis ters themselves to work out methods which might lead to Mr. Eisenhower's "bridge to peace." Mr. Eisenhower wound up to day's session at the marble Pal ace of Nations by stating with deep conviction that he was cer tain the Russians share a com mon desire witi the West for peace. , ' President Eisenhower, who believes German reunification is the key to all other issues in volved at the conference, made one more personal effort to break the Soviet resistance to day in a private lunch with So viet Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov. The two were allies and comrades in World War II. British Prime Minister An- - thony Eden also made a person al appeal to keep the German re unification issue alive in earnest personal conversations with the Soviet leaders at dinner at the British villa last night. Confidential Chat Mr. Eisenhower and Zhukov talked intimately and privately at the President s lakeside villa near Geneva, without aides or other members of their respec tive delegations in attendance. Only interpreters were present The lunch get-together of the two men who have renewed their friendship of 10 years ago in such striking fashion here in Geneva came less than 24 hours after a dramatic personal appeal by Mr. Eisenhower to Zhukov at the conference table yesterday. The President urged the So viets through Zhukov to accept NATO as an instrument of real peace and to speed up German reunification. The invitation to lunch was jQtended by the President ear lier this week, but the Soviet marshal accepted only today. (See stories on Page 6) Klamath Man Killed In Evans Creek Mishap Dillard Wesley Hayes, 32, Klamath Falls, was killed about 1:30 p.m. yesterday in an East Evans Creek logging accident. Hayes was bucking logs on side hill, standing on the upper side of a log when he apparently last his balance, falling down hill, and the log fell on his chest, according to Deputy Coroner Joe Hosick and state police. Hayes body was discovered by Grant Carothers, Cave Junc tion. Sheriffs officers were call ed to the scene about 2:45 p.m. Conger-Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral arrange ments. Honolulu (U.B Only four of the 50 yachts that entered the transpacific yacht race were still at sea today. Baseball NATIONAL St. Louis New York 0 2 15 10 Poholsky and Burbrink: An tenelli, Monsant (6), Wilhelm (S) Gial (I) and Wastnun. 7. MODSBUri.. i L Swv -vfjSft On 'Day of Shame' yjjjjjjjBfSSSSJBM OPENING SESSION General view of the conference room in Palais des Nations as opening session of the Big Four conference got under way at Geneva, Switzerland. Presi dent Eisenhower made lead-off speech, call ing for a "new spirit" in East-West relations Mates The Medford city council journed abruptly last night when Mrs. Mariam Rose McCaskey, 410 Kenwood ave., fainted in the council chamber. Her appear ance there was in connection with a heated discussion on pav ing of Kenwood ave. between Second and Humphrey sts. Mrs. McCaskey was given emergency treatment in- the chamber, and later was released from Community hospital where she was taken by Medford am bulance. Signature Questioned She appeared before the coun cil upon request of Attorney George W. Rode, who represent ed opponents to paving the one block street, after the validity of her signature on a letter was questioned by Councilman Stan ley C. Jones Jr. The letter re quested that her name be with drawn from any petition for Ken wood ave. .paving, . ti Jones said there was no proof that the signature was actually hers. He said unless she appeared in person he would consider the petition asking for paving to contain signatures of the own ers of 53.8 per cent of the front footage. He said, after an ordinance ordering paving was adopted, that if "the person appears per sonally, we may rescind our present action." Petition Submitted During the public hearing on the proposal, Rode submitted a petition opposing paving. He noted that Mrs. McCaskey's sig nature was on the petition, and produced a letter from her ask ing that her name be withdrawn from "any petition for paving Kenwood avenue," and saying she was "opposed to the paving at this time." Her letter, along with the op posing petition, was submitted to the council. Both the letter and the opposing petition were dated later than the petition ask tag for paving. Public Works Director Vernon Thorpe told the council that if Mrs. McCaskey's signature was withdrawn from the petition re questing paving, enough signa tures remained to represent only 49 per cent of the front footage, 50 Per Cent Needed Signatures of property owners are necessary from owners of at least 50 per cent of the front footage if street improvements are to be assessed to property owners. .Thorpe - estimated . the cost of paving at about $7 per front foot, and the total cost of paving Kenwood ave. at about $7,500. Councilman Donald . Hansen moved that the council order paving on Kenwood ave. The motion was seconded by: Jones and passed 6 to 2, with Council man John Snider and Jack Fitz gerald voting against it. Rode declared the council had assumed that owners of 53.8 per cent of the front footage favored paving. He pointed out that city officials said the percentage droDDed to 49 with Mrs. Mc Caskey's signature withdrawn, Should Check All 'If it's a matter of challenged signatures," Rode said, "then each signature should be checked.' Mayor Earl Miller assured Rode that signatures on the peti tion requesting paving had been checked against Jackson county records. Rode said he believed the council was "ordering paving to dispose of the matter, because it has been here so often." (The Kenwood ave. paving project has been delayed several tunes this year because of changes in signa- and proposed eight-point plan to bring about a cold war armistice. Around the table, clock wise (starting with British, at right fore ground) are: British (backs to the camera); French, Russian and the United States. IFaiis as Paving ad-ltures which affected the number of property owners favoring pav tag.) "To ignore the signature," Rode said, "is not my idea of a demo cratic way." Mayor Miller as sured Rode it was not the policy of the council to ignore any re quest, x Councilman Snider asked City Attorney Frank Farrell whether or not the city could order pav ing with less than 50 per cent of Safe EHown pen M 2 Suspects The big walk-in safe at the Mason Ehrman & Co. warehouse and office on Sage rd. was blown open and robbed last night. Two men, brothers, were ar rested shortly thereafter, and are being 'held in connection with the crime. Between $800 and $1,000 in currency was taken, but has been recovered. The men were apprehended by the combined efforts of state and city police and sheriffs dep uties. One shot was fired before the men were arrested, but no one was wounded. Salesman Makes Report The crime was discovered when Elmer Dowery Hampson, 911 Dakota st., a Mason Ehrman salesman, returned to the office late in the evening to slip some sales: orders through a slot in the office door. He saw smoke in the office, and the open safe. Hampson returned to North Central ave., and telephoned of ficers at 11:50 p.m. State police immediately dispatched four of ficers, and notified city police, who were just changing shifts and sent seven men, and the sheriffs office, who sent two deputies. The officers surrounded - the building. The two men, appar ently seeing the patrol cars ap proaching, went up on the roof of the building. Police said they were armed with a .22 caliber rifle, but did no shooting. Shot Fired in Air An officer fired one shot in the air as the men ran when police approached. After that they gave up with no further re sistance. They were taken into custody at 12:42 a.m. They are being questioned 200 Laying Hens Die In Eagle Point Fire Eagle Point About 200 lay ing hens were burned to death when a chicken house owned by Wilford Davies was destroyed by fire Monday night. The fire apparently started from unnoticed sparks in grass around the chicken house, which was burned off to protect the building from fire. Both the Central Point Rural Fire department and the Oregon Forest patrol assisted in extin guishing the blaze. Central Point Rural department officials said they answered the call with one small truck because , they were not sure whether, or not the fire was in the district when it was reported. Officials said the fire was out side the district, but gave" what assistance they could . before leaving. Lisbon, Portugal J(U.R) Bil lionaire oil man Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, one of the world's richest ' men whoL vowed he would live to be 108, died today at the age of 88. Gouncil : Project the front footage represented by signatures: Farrell said the council had that power, but that property owners cannot be assessed un less owners of more than 50 per cent of the front footage agree. If they do not, the city would pay for paving, he said. Mrs. McCaskey appeared later, after the council had disposed of other business. (See story on Page 3.) Nabbed this morning, and are lodged in the county jail. The big safe door was blown open with the use of dynamite powder. The smaller safe inside was "punched,"' that is, the dial was -knocked off -and -the" door opened with a sledge hammer. The suspects are identified as Glen Eugene Crow, 31, and his brother, Delbert Lee Crow, 33, both of Carthage, Mo. Sheppard Prepares For Life in Prison Cleveland U.PJ Dr. Samuel Sheppard prepared today to leave county jail for the Ohio Penitentiary where he will serve a life sentence for the July 4, 1954, bludgeon-murder of his wife, Marilyn. . Sheppard s final appeal was rejected yesterday by the Court of Appeals which ruled the de fendant did not submit new evi dence to warrant a retrial. The young osteopath's defense counsel described him aaready to begin his sentence. The three-judge appeals court used most of its 40-page opinion to discount "new evidence" con tained in an affidavit from California criminologist, : Dr. Paul Kirk. Kirk was hired by the Shappard family to investi gate the case' after Dr. Shep pard s conviction. Un-American Group Calls Broadway Actors Washington (U.R) Chairman Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) dis closed today that the House Un- American Activities Committee has subpoenaed actors from sev eral Broadway hit shows to tes tify next month at hearings on alleged Communist infiltration of the entertainment field. Walters said the hearings will be held in New York, probably Aug. 15 to Aug. 18. . - He said the investigation will cover a "broad field," including television and the legitimate theater. The committee wants to find out, among other things, whether entertainers are con tributing funds to Communist causes. No names were given. London (U.R) The Duke of Kent, 20-year-old ' cousin of Queen Elizabeth, is in the hos pital recovering from injuries received in an auto accident, the Daily Mail said today. Sports Bulletin Manila (U.R) Flash Elorde of the Philippines won a unan imous decision over world featherweight champion Sandy Saddler in a 10-round non-title fight at Rizal Mtmorial Coli seum - tonight before . some 8,000 wildly cheering fane. Several Americans Lose All Possessions Saigon, Indochina (U.R) Thousands of rioting South Viet Namese protesting the first anni versary of the "day of shame" when France approved the Indo china armistice pillaged and burned , the hotels housing the Internaional Truce Commission today. . First reports said no Ameri cans were injured. However, about 40 Americans lost all their possessions, Police reported that the wild mobs also sacked the office of Gen. Claire Chennault's Civil Air Transport Company, which was situated near one of the hotels. 50 Said Hospitalised Police and troops opened fire, sprayed tear gas and swung clubs to break up the mobs which pillaged the hotels Ma jestic and Gallieni. At least 50 persons were , re ported hospitalized. The demon. startors manhandled two Com munist Viet Minn members of the Armistice Control Commis sion. Police denied that two Viet Minh and one Indian truce ob servers had been lynched by the mob. Dozens of rioters were arrested. Order Restored Order was restored to the streets of the city before noon, The government charged that a planned "peaceful" demonstra tion of the "day - of national shame" had been transformed into a wild riot by Viet Minh troublemakers. Others blamed the dissident Cao Dai warlord sect for instigating the violence, and still others blamed the Revo, lutionary committee which backs Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Vote Discussion Proposed The Geneva armistice which split Indochina in half actually was signed on July 21J 1954. It provided that representatives of the North and South Viet Nam governments should get together to discuss the proposed elections on July 20, 1955, or shortly thereafter. The Saigon government re gards July 20, the day on which former French Premier Mendes France promised to bring the Indochina war to an end or re sign, as the "day of national shame." (See story on Page 6) Argentine Navy Seen Escaped from Peron Montevideo, Uruguay (U.R) Exiled Argentine Navy officers said here today the bulk of the Argentine war fleet appeared to have escaped from the control of President Juan D. Peron's government. The Navy officers based their statements on private advices from Buenos Aires. The officers said they doubt ed a communique issued by the Argentine Navy Ministry, in Buenos Aires that the high seas and River Plate fleets sailed to day for training maneuvers. - The officers pointed out it was midwinter in the southern part of the Western Hemisphere and that regular maneuvers are not held by the Argentine Navy at this time. Rocket Launcher Lack Hampers Air Force Washington. (U.R) The Air Force told House investigators today that an "urgent" contract for 100,000 air to ground rocket launchers is running 75,000 be hind. Brig. Gen. Clyde H. Mitchell, deputy director of production at Wright -Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, O., told a House Armed Services Investigating Subcommittee that the shortage of rocket launchers is hamper ing the "capability" of Air Force planes. ' State Senator Faces Trial on Drunk Charge Salem (U.R) State Sen. John Merrifield of Portland was to go on trial in District Court here today on a charge of driving while under the influence of in toxicating liquor. Merrifield was arrested near Gervais June 18. He has pleaded innocent to the charge. District Judee'E: O. Stadter Jr.. was to preside at the trial, which will be heard by a six-member jury. Detroit (U.R) A federal Grand Jury indicted the CIO United Auto Workers Union to day on charges that its television shows supporting Democratic Sen. Patrick McNamara and other Democrats last fall violat ed federal election laws. The union was indicted under law which prohibits banks, corporations and labor organiza tions from making any contribu- Preparations Near Completion for Labor Convention Preparations are nearly com plete for the Oregon State Fede ration of Labor's 53rd annual convention, which will open In the Craterian theater at 10 a.m. Monday, July 25, and will con tinue for five days. Sessions are open to the public. Mayor Earl Miller will wel come delegates to the city at the ODening hour Monday morning. Charles Champlin, Medford chief of police, John Pletsch, president of the Jackson County Chamber of 1 Commerce, and Howard Gault, Jackson county sheriff, will also speak during the welcoming ceremonies. Federation President J. D. McDonald will make his annual report following the ceremonies. Scholarship Award Stan Culy. 21 Washington st. valedictorian of the Medfora High school class of 1955, will be among the three state win ners of AFL $500 scholarships to receive their awards Wednes day. morning. Convention committees will meet Wednesday . afternoon - to consider resolutions introduced in the first two days. Thursday and Friday will be taken up with convention action on reso lutions and conclude with nomi nation of officers. Transfer of John Day Planning Restudied Washington (U.R) A re- survey of plans to transfer plan ning operations from the Port land to the Walla Walla head quarters of Army Engineers was announced today by. the Corps of Engineers here. - Sen. Wayne Morse and Rich ard L. Neuberger, Oregon Dem ocrats, had protested the transfer because, they said, it would have involved the loss of some 100 jobs in the Portland district of fice. Brig! Gen. E. C. Itschner, as sistant chief of engineers tor civil functions, said transfer of the planning work to Walla Walla would not have involved that many jobs but he said the proposal would be resurveyed. Itschner said the decision to transfer John Day work to Walla Walla was made before an ap propriation for Ice Harbor dam was voted. He said that work would probably keep the Walla Walla office busy. Albany To Make Bid Far Legion Convention Albany, Ore.tU.R) Business men here today agreed to make a bid for the 1956 Oregon Amer ican Legion convention which would attract some 5000 . dele gates. This year's conclave will open in Redmond next week. STEVENS QUITS Army Secre tary Robert T." Stevens, above, a controversial figure in the Army-McCarthy hearings, was to steD down from his govern ment post today. He was to re ceive a Navy award in a noon ceremony and was to witness a farewell parade this evening ( (r tion in connection with any elec tion of a U.S. senator or repre sentative. The union immediately called the indictment an "un-American and unconstitutional effort of the Republican bosses of Michi gan John Keikens and Arthur Summerfield (the postmaster general) to deny working people the right to express their opin ions on issues and candidates through their union". White Trial Jury Unanimously Ms 2nd Bsgree Umim Bernice Hampton (Tex) White, 37, was convicted of second de gree murder by a unanimous jury of six men and six women at 9:42 p.m. yesterday. Circuit Court Judge H. K. Hanna set 9:30 a.m. Friday for sentencing. White, sitting next to his at torneys, received - the verdict calmly. His mother, father and wife, who had heard most of the proceedings and had been wait ing in the courtroom all during the jury's deliberations,' crowded around him in the hall with af fection but no great display of emotion. Out UVi Hours The jury had been out a total of 11 hours, 32 minutes. It was given the case at 10:10 a.m. Slightly over two hours of that were taken for meals, and about 15 minutes for two clarifications of the court's instructions... Shortly after the jury went out for the first time, Judge Hanna called them -back , to clarify a part of his instructions. At 3:45 p.m. the jury re-entered the courtroom at its own request and asked the judge to define again first and second degree murder. " Indicted By Jury . . White was indicted by a grand jury on charges of first degree murder in the killing of Eugene Raymond Birk, 32, Phoenix, on March 2. Birk died in an Ashland hospital from blows to his head with a length of . two by four timber while at work at the Talent saw mill. White admitted the slaying but pleaded innocent by reason of temporary insanity. He was defended throughout the trial by Attorney Robert Dun can assisted by William Du haime. Yesterday, the judge called the court to session at 9:30 a.m. and instructed the jury for 40 min utes. He gave the jurors a choice of six verdicts: first de gree murder without recommen dation, making the death penalty mandatory; first degree murder with recommendation for len- Oil Fortune Comes To Portland Woman Portland flJ.R) A 29-year-old Portland divorcee who supports three children by operating an elevator in the state office build ing here, has struck oil. Last - spring Mrs. Katnenne Fortuny invested $100 in 100 shares of stock in a Canadian oil firm. Last Saturday, Mrs. For tuny reports, she was notified that Orecan Oil Co., Ltd., had struck a gusher bringing in 2600 barrels a day just north of the famous Williston basin in North Dakota. Mrs. Fortuny said she was in formed her share would amount to some $1000 a month.- But she has no plans . for quitting her job. She said she would wait until a fewtof those $1000 checks have arrived. Vancouver, B.C. (U.R) A Royal Canadian Air Force Canso flying boat plowed into a sand bar in the Eraser river near here yesterday a few minutes after taking off from Sea Island air base, killing two men and in- jurying two others, one seri ously. . ; . . Yeaiher rOEKCAST: CeatUMMt fair aa ; warm tfcrragk Theniay. Uv tonight M. Bisk Ikwsday SS. , Temp. Hlghcit Ycftereay , Si Lewail Otis Morulas 32 The indictment charges that the union spent 15985 of its gen eral funds to cover the cost of preparing and telecasting nine television programs over a De troit station for the benefit of McNamara and congressional candidates. McNamara upset incumbent Republican Sen. Homer Fergu son is one of the key elections which gave Democrats control of the Senate last fall. iency, second degree murder. manslaughter, innocent, and in nocent by reason of insanity. Trial Opens July 11 The trial opened Monday, July 11, with the choosing of the jurors. Actual debate began Wednesday morning. In the course of the proceedings, the . state called to the stand Richard Dale Blunc, William BushnelL and Harold Allen, workers at the Talent mill, Dr. A. E. Mer kel, county health officer, and.' Dr. Gerard Haugen, Portland psychiatrist. Dr. Christian P. Hald, White's family physician, the defendant himself, his moth er, wife, George Zickefoose, mill superintendent, Virg Snel- son, mill employee. Dr. James C. Luce, Eagle Point, a neurolo gist, and Dr. John Waterman, Portland psychiatrist, testified for the defense. Much of the testimony con cerned whether White was af flicted .with ."psycho-motor, seia- nres," a type which could rend er him temporarily insane. Both sides conceded the defendant is an epileptic. J , Report Entered The defense entered as -evidence a Marine Corps medical report in which White was de scribed as an epileptic, and a menace" to his fellow service men. Statements ' from the two . psychiatrists generally asserted that because White had such a clear memory of events, leading to, during, and after commission of the act, it was unlikely that he was in a psycho-motor seiz- ure. However, the door of pos sibility was left open by White's . claimed inability to remember striking the deceased the second tune, his denial of repeating the phrase, "I'll kill the . ." and the testimony of mill hands that he kept tying and untying his apron strings after the inci dent. Claims Attack In White's recorded testimony. taken two days after the slaying, he alleged that Birk had attack ed him and struck him on the arms and chest - "fouf or five times" just before the killing. White said that shortly before he was relieved for his rest per iod by Richard Blunc, he had been struck on the chin by a piece of wood flying up from the machine on which he had been working. He had complain ed about this to Birk, and the two started speaking angrily to each other immediately before Birk attacked him. White said. District Attorney Walter Nun ley attempted to show that be cause Blunc had not seen it, and because White bore no marks . or scars, there could ,have been no fight Nunley tried to show that a motive for the killing existed in a dispute between the, two men over the matter of White's relief for rest periods. White had several weeks before gone to the boss, Nunley said, to secure a man to relieve hjm on the machine for a rest period. Birk had resented this, the dis trict attorney alleged, and had remarked to' White, "So, you went crying to the Boss." -Typical Epileptic Telling the jury the state had proven. White to be no more than a typical epileptic Nunley, in the closing argument, stated that should they acquit the defendant, they were, in effect, saying that all epileptics might commit such an act of violence. ... Second degree murder, as de fined in Judge Henna's instruo tions, is murder committed pur posely and maliciously, but with no premeditation or delibeira tion, .-; --r i ; i : I (
