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Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 24 Pages .JU15.UJM United Press Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY Price 5e No. 104 raDmw Challenges Hns?1 Ike in Dramatic Move To Prove Desire for Peace Bulganin Silent On New Proposal Geneva (U.R) President Eis enhower today challenged Rus- 'sia to exchange complete mili tary blueprints with the United States, in a dramatic bid to prove America wants peace. He also proposed complete freedom of aerial photography. The President threw in his startling proposals at this after noon's session of the Big Four summit conference which was considering world disarmament. Mr. Eisenhower suggested that his proposals be accepted as an immediate, practical step to build mutual trust between the United States and the Soviet Union. Conference sources said the Russians made no immediate reply. Complete Information The President's proposal was two-fold: 1. That the United States and Soviet Russia should give each other a complete blueprint of their military establishments, from one end of each country to the other. 2. That they provide facilities for aerial photography of each other's territory. The United States would provide such fa cilities for Russian aerial recon naissance with complete freedom for the Russians to take all the pictures they wanted for study by Moscow. The Communists would provide the same facili ties for the United States. Today's summit session for mally took up the disarmament issue after agreeing to postpone hearing a foreign ministers' re port on future study of the dead locked issues of German reuni fication and European security. French, British Impressed French Premier Edgar Faure, after hearing President Eisen hower's call for military infor mation exchanges, said he wished the peoples of the world could be in the conference room to hear Mr. Eisenhower's voice. If the people could have heard him, Faure said, they would have remembered July 21 as the day that something had changed on disarmament. British Prime Minister An thony Eden said he was "deeply moved" by the sincerity of the President's proposal. If it were adopted, he said, it would be a great step forward. There was no comment from Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. In his opening remarks, Mr Eisenhower said he had been searching his "heart and mind" for something to say to convince everyone of the great sincerity of the United States in the search for peace. Terrible Weapons He said he was talking mainly to the Russians, because it was they and the United States who . possessed new and terrible weap- r ons which gave rise to fears and dangers of surprise attack. Then he outlined his two-point plan to throw open both nations to free inspection from the air, and exchange of military blue prints. (See stories on Page 5) Blueprints: Aeri?r j Snap jgrapliiy i Air Secretary Requests Hearing In Own Business Torrential Rains Send Flood Waters Into El Paso, Tex. Damage Expected To Reach Millions i 'Special Partner' Status To Be Topic Washington (U.R) Senate investigators voted to hold a public hearing this afternoon . Air Secretary Harold E. Talbott's' business connections. ' SURPRISING OTHER BIG FOUR leaders at Geneva meeting, Russian delegation agrees to put German unification first on business agenda. Russian representatives in good spirits (from left) Marshal Georgi Zhukov, defense minister; Andrei Gromyko, first deputy defense minister; Nikita Khrushchev, Communist party chief; V. Molotov, foreign minister; Georgi Zarubin, ambassador to United States, and Premier Nikolai Bulganin. (International) Investigators for To Probe End of PUG Here SP Trains R.R. Brotherhood Hits Service Abandonment The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen has protested the aban donment of the Southern Pacify fc's passenger trains between Portland and Ashland, it was re ported today. K. H. Brandes, Portland, chair-1 man of a 200-man local of the organization, was in Medford and Ashland today getting in touch with railroad men and others interested. He said the Brotherhood has protested the proposal to the SP. It would af fect about 19 of the membership, Brandes said, in addition to six members of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Locomotive Engi neers. Hoped for Quiet Move Brandes said the SP apparent ly had hoped the move could be made quietly and with little notice. He had with him a copy of the instructions given to agents along the line regarding Washington (U.R) Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.) said a public hear ing on his bill for construction of John Day dam would be held July 26 before a House public works subcommittee. Baseball NATIONAL Milwaukee 5 8 1 Pittsburgh 3 3 0 Spahn and Crandall; Donoi so. Friend (9) and Shenard. L Chicago r 15 1 Brooklyn - 4 5 0 Davis. Jeffcoat (8) and Chili; Bessent and Campanella. the posting of notices of the abandonment of the trains. The instructions,-over -the signature of L. R. Smith, division superin tendent, said: "Under no circumstances is any publicity to be given these notices. Post without comment A press release telling of the abandonment plans was issued by Bernal S. Quayle, district freight and passenger agent, on July 6, the date the posting was reauired to become effective Aug. 6. Used By Veterans Brandes, who has worked on the Rogue River trains himself, also pointed out that they are used by a number of disabled veterans in transit between the Veterans Administration hos nital in Portland and the VA domiciliary at Camn White. If the trains are abandoned, he said, many of the men are not able to ride buses, and would have to be transported by am bulance. The Brotherhood official pointed to the need for adequate service durmg times of fog and other bad weather, saying that at such times the patronage of the train increases greatly. St. Louis : 5 8 0 New York 8 9 1 Arroya, Lawrence (4), Jack son (8) and Sarni; Maglie, Lid die (2) and Westrum, Hoffman (9). AMERICAN (10 innings) Washington Cleveland Schmitz, Stone nathv (10) and 3 9 0 4 12 0 (9), Aber- Courtney; Houtteman, Mossi (9), Narleski (10) and Foiles. Incendiarism Suspected in Six Siskiyou County Fires Yreka, Calif. (U.PJ Six wr est fires had burned over some 260 acres in Siskiyou county by noon today and forest service in vestigators said they may have been man-set. About 100 men battled the flames. The fires, two of which were over 100 acres in size, were lo cated in the Scarface area about miles northwest of Gazelle in state forest land. Larry Kir ton, state forest fire dispatcher here, said they had been about 0 ner cent controlled. . ! Forest service investigators and sheriffs deputies who were oaiieri to the scene advanced the theory that the fires were set greatest damage The fires were reported aooui 11 a.m. yesterday and were found to have started in rough terrain in a 2V miles line about a auarter of a mile apart. Each fire started at the bottom of draw in brush and spread up the hillside. The fires were located on land covered about half by brush and half by timber. Kirton said valuable stands of. virgin timber probably were saved by the fact that the wind died down about an hour before the fires were reported, The largest fire had covered 138 acres and another 120 acres The others were confined to Two members of the staff of the Oregon public utilities com missioner visited Medford yes terday. They were gathering facts regarding the proposed abandonment of the Southern Pacific passenger run from Port- . Ashland Ashland's city council this week adopted a formal protest - against the abandoning by the Southern Pacific railroad of passenger service on the Siskiyou line. The resolution was offered by Councilman Harry Morris. The council directed that it be sent to both the railroad and public utilities commission. "In view of the large profits Southern Pacific has shown in past years on its operations here, I think the service should be continued," Morris said. Mayor Richard Neill added that he would like the city council to go on record pro testing the move. Ashland's action followed similar resolutions by the Jack son County and Roseburg Chambers of Commerce, and the Roseburg city council. Yreka Water Ration Plan in Sixth Day Yreka. Calif. (U.R) Water ra- tionine here was in its sixth day tndav and Assistant cniei oi Police Hank Watson said 14 per sons had been warned against using water for illegal irriga tion of lawns and gardens. Watson said violators were told if it happened again their water would be turned off and they would be arrested. Fire Chief Bernard Pollard asked residents who were-irri gating to shut off water when the fire whistle blows as heavy irri nation reduces DresSUT to the danger point. Rationing was introduced aft er a shortage was repui icu the citys five sources of supply. Mayor Adair Wilson said the city should take immediate steps to obtain water from the Shasta river if it wishes to assure itself of an adequate supply. The city council has discussed with a welldigger costs of drilling test wells south of town. Washington (U.R) Air Secre tary Harold E. Talbott today re quested that the Senate Investi gating Subcommittee hold a pub lic hearing on his business con nections "in view of rumors, publicity and discussion." Talbott madehis request to Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) of the subcommittee which has been looking into Tal bott's status as a "special part ner" in Paul B. Mulligan & Co., New York management en gineers. Talbott made known his re- auest after it was disclosed that the subcommittee has copies of letters and other documents pur porting to show he actively sought business for the New York firm. He has a profit shar ing interest in the firm. Official Stationery Some of the letters, circulated amone subcommittee memDers and seen by reporters, were written on Talbott's official sta tionery bearing the letterhead "Secretary of the Air Force." Talbott's statement requesting a public hearing said: "In view of the rumors, pub licity and discussion regarding my relations with Paul B. Mulli gan Co.;' management engineers of New York, I have asked Sen. McClellan, chairman of the Sen ate Investigating Committee (sic), to grant a public hearing as soon as possible, so that the public may have a complete un derstanding and the accurate in formation about this matter." Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D Wash.) a member of the subcom mittee, told newsmen just be fore Talbott's request was made public: Hearings Unavoidable "In order for the public to have complete confidence in any decision that is made, I don't see how we can avoid public hearings. I don't know that pub lic hearings will add anything, but because the matters that the committee were considering in private have been made public, hearings are unavoidable." Jackson said Talbott had been "candid and fair" in his talk with the subcommittee Monday subcommittee has been By UNITED PRESS Hundreds of persons were forced to evacuate their homes when a flood fed by torrential rains swept down on El Paso, Tex., early today. The water poured down off Mount Franklin in the northeast part of the city and got as high as window sills in the Mountain View area, a residential section of $15,000 to $20,000 homes. Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars. Residents Evacuated Soldiers from nearby Fort Bliss and National Guard units evacuated the residents by truck to the El Paso Coliseum, which was filled with cots. The Red Cross set up an em ergency kitchen in the coliseum Some homes in the exclusive Piedmont Hills area, with homes in the $35,000 to $40,000 brack et, were flooded and residents were evacuated in an area near the William Beaumont Army hospital. Roads and railroad lines in the area were impassable, and some highways were virtually torn up by huge boulders and debris coming down off . Mount Franklin. No Serious Injuries No serious injuries were re ported. But five-year-old Jackie Hickock almost drowned when he fell into a six-foot hole of water. A 14-year-old girl jump ed in to try to save him and two Fort Bliss soldiers had to pull them out. The rain was another of the downpours that have hit West and Southwest Texas for the past few days. The Rio Grande has risen about five feet since the rains came but was still in its banks. Eiiryciiini Qin s ISodly Foyimdl odd hollow G rove Berkeley. Calif. (U.R) I found, announced positive iden- Burton W. Abbott, 27, frail ac- tification after the ful body was counting student was charged uncovered s0 could gauge with murder today following ,, , . discovery in a shallow grave ""s aCTS " w near his family cabin of a body the victim's hair, police are convinced" is that of Officials Convinced Stephanie Bryan, 14, missing for We are convinced the body three months. is that of Stephanie," Coakley Despite Abbott's persistent de- . . nials of guilt, the charge of sus- ' mnvrl t picion of murder filed in Alame- Redding at request of S. Loquam, Alameda county pathologist, who will perform an autopsy there this afternoon. da county last night was chang ed to a straight charge of mur der at Berkeley. Dist. Atty. Frank Coakley of Alameda and Lt. R. A. Sherry, at the scene where the body was Youths Miss Cash In Daring Daylight Manhattan Robbery Abbott,, who has undergone more than three days of persis tent questioning including a lie detector test, told authorities he had visited the cabin on the day of Stephanie's disappearance. but claims he never saw the girl. Suspect Frail Authorities debated on wheth er to take Abbott to the shallow grave on a steep hillside about 250 yards from the cabin. Ab bott, a victim of arrested tuber culosis, is so frail that there New York (U.R) Two mask ed gunmen held up a moving New York Central mail train was speculation whether it was Wednesday night in a mid-Man- possible for him to carry a body hattan version of the great train up the hill. Homicide Inspector Charles O'Meara said Abbott's brother, Mark, 29, would bo questioned. robbery but missed the big money shipment and made off only with eight bags of cancel led checks. The brazen young bandits passed up eight more bags con taining $2,700 in coin, police said, apparently because they reasoned the lighter bags must be full of bills. The youths, described as in their 20's, confronted Railway Express messenger Thomas Ma son, 60, of Buffalo, N.Y., with fire in logging slash in Jamison land to Ashland, The men were assigned to the investigation by Commissioner Charles Heltzel. They are Robert R. Clark, auditor, and Thomas i mil W. Dench. rate analyst, y ester- day they called on a number of h fei mt Talbott's associa- : i : : J 1 ...U... UmrA Avrtroccan I inaiviauais wuu nav tinn with ihe. Ttfew YnrV firm. which specializes in clerical ef ficiency studies. 10-Acre Forest Fire is Controlled Twenty loggers and. seven state forest patrolmen were mopping up today following a Downfown Property an interest in the matter, and had lunch with members of the board of directors of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Compiling Facts The puc officials pointed out Purchased by Company that their trip here was pureiy j,e property fronting on Fir investigative, and that they are st between Main and sixth sts. compiling facts for the use of has faeen purchased by Crater tne commissioner a uu the matter comes before him formally. A formal complaint, alleging the SP has given inadequate pas Lake Motors, it was announced jby Hugh Coleman, head of the firm The property includes the used rnr calna Int. nnprated bv Crater senger service in inis area Lake motors, abutting the Val protesting tne aDanauiuiiew, ney Fuel co., and the Mobiloil all passenger service to soutn- service station operated by western Oregon, wasnaJ.e Charles F. (Chuck) Risse, abut- been filed wixn me ruw i" Aem- Hardware store week by . state senators Coleman said that for the pres- Jackson, Josephine ano uougi ent nQ chans will made) counties, uepenaing on """ and that the service station will legal action the SP takes after u operated by Risse on a rental ine comDiauii is urai, ter .may come to a pu No price on the transaction mg, or may go oirecuy mvu wag divuiced cuuris. DvMAa Uaavl During discussions with cham- make note oi tnese views, ana Merchant Plans Coupon Mule Train Albany (U.R) Unredeemed food coupons by the mule-load will be dumped in the laps of the General Foods Corp. at its annu al stockholders meeting in New York, July 27. Earl Dickson, owner of Dick son's Corral supermarket here, said he would attend the meeting in an attempt to dramatize his long battle with firms that have refused to redeem thousands of dollars worth of food coupons he accepted in lieu of cash from his grocery customers. He owns a few shares of General Foods stock. Accompanying Dickson will be his sullen mule, named Jim, and several sacks of coupons. Dickson contends the compa nies refused to-redeem their own coupons because "I over-promoted their promotion." Medford Man Arrested On Bad Check Suspicion Robert Johnston Smith, 801 Newtown st., was arrested last night on a warrant issued by District Judge Rawles Moore, according to city police. Smith is charged with ob taining money under false pre tenses, police said. It is expected that he will be arraigned today. He had been charged with pass ing bad checks several years ago, police added. He is being held at the city jail under bail set at $1,500. drawn pistols near 42nd st. shortly after the 11-car train pulled out of Pennsylvania sta tion bound for Albany. They wore white handkerchief masks, Mason said. Threaten Messenger "If you open your, mouth, we'll kill you," Mason quoted them. "They asked where the money was and I told them 'it's in those bags over there.' " Mason said. Mason said he was alone in the next to the last car when the two youths confronted him. At first I thought they were gulch at the head of pleasant creek, in northwestern Jackson county. Patrolmen said that the blaze started from a power saw in the Churchman logging opera tion which is subcontracting to Lewis brothers. It covered about 10 acres. Crews of 20 patrolmen and 40 loggers from the Churchman, Lewis Brothers and Ford log ging firms battled the fire and had it under control between 5:30 and 6 p.m. High wind ham pered fire fighters and the blaze kept jumping -the iire line. How- fooling with me that they were ever, the area was reported In iust a couple of wise kids, ne gooa snape roaay. Weather FORECAST: Tait thromb Friday.- slifhtly cooler Friday. Low tonight 55. Hifh Friday gg. Temp. HJgheit Yeiterday 3 Leweit this Mormiag ber board members yesterday noon, Dench and Clark heard a variety of views with regard to the SP's plans, most of them pro testing strongly on a variety oi grounds. These included, briefly, in- would continue the investiga tion, which was undertaken by Heltzel on his own motion. The SP has claimed the commis sioner does not have authority to order it to continue service, but Heltzel has taken the posi- iflantioAV rt carxri rn 9111 the be- tion that he does. It may have lief that if better, quicker and to be determined by the courts, nw,fnrt-his ann rnnrieous I it was uuuucu uuv. II1U1C tUUllUl I , J'.- -,.,;.., nrnvirind it would In ' response to a suggestion be better patronized; that serv- that a Southern Oregon inter- ice should be provided particu- conunmmj uausiwuu.. iai.iv when foir and otner mittee De organza w yico .1 ji,- nrpvpnt air- hetter SP service, tne commis- WCdUlCr UlHAAl.VJi , I " . , 1 nian anH huses eoine through; sion s representatives saiu u j u. v, cp .arn hii? reve- thev could not speak for the com- nues from the area and returns mission, but that in the past the in th wav of nassenser PUC staff has worked coopera service tively with such groups repre- said. "I wasn't frightened until I saw the guns." The gunmen handcuffed Ma son's hands behind his back with his own handcuffs, jammed his cap into his mouth to keep him from crying out and tied his feet with rope. One of the men emptied the bullets from Mason's gun as an added precaution, he said. Then they jumped off the slowly moving train with the mail sacks. Astoria (U.R) Astoria will host some 1500 convention dele gates tomorrow when the 24th annual Oregon Moose Associa tion convention opens. Medford Woman Gets ' 'Phone Call From Stranger in Ohio Don't ask her how It hap pened, butt Mrs. Thomas N. Billings, 524 Berkeley Way. this morn ing received a telephone call from a man in Ashville. Ohio a man she'd never even heard of before. He was equally startled to find out he was talking to Medford. Oregon, because he had placed the call to his mother in Urbana, Ohio. Mrs. Billings and the man chatted for a moment, and she told him she liked Oregon bet ter than Ohio, anyway. It also developed that Mrs. Billings telephone number is the same as the telephone number in Urbana. O., which the man was trying to call. The telephone . company, also, was at a loss' to explain how it could have happened. At first it was thought it could have been a mistake in dialing a long distance "code" number, but investigation showed this would not have been done on such a calL Five bulldozers were employ ed at the fire scene. Tug Man Uninjured In Motor Explosion Newport (U.PJ L. C. Huber, Corvallis, escaped without in jury' last night when his 38-foot diesel tug, the "Stella H," waa shattered by an engine explosion and swept into the surf at Bev erly beach, fives miles north of here. . Huber reported that the en gine died shortly after he had left Newport and that he had put starter fluid in the engine. When he touched the starter button, the engine exploded. The dis abled craft, valued at $8000, was swept Into the surf and Huber was forced to swim to shore. The Coast Guard here said wave action was pounding the hull to pieces today but that ef forts were being made to salvage the engine. Seattle (U.R) James C. Brl- zendine, 28, Seattle policeman. died at King County hospital early today shortly after being shot when mistaken for prowler.. MA ' Brattleboro. VL (U.R) X federal jury today convicted former Bethel selectman Man uel Miller of assault charges in connection with a 12-hour siege at his home last May 3 in which he held off authori ties who were trying to take his wife to an institution. Suspects in Safe Cracking Bound Over; denes OT Jimr, minor wnmw r"" Glen Eugene Crow, 31, andi his brother, Delbert E. crow, 33, both of Carthage, Mo., ac cused of dynamiting the Mason, Ehrman and company safe, have been bound over to the grand jury after waiving counsel and hearing. They are held on $5,000 bond each. The two were apprehended on the roof of the warehouse at 2595 Sage rd., Tuesday night aftr-hlowine the door off the big walk-in safe and taking be tween $800 and $1,000. A series of other minor crimes has nlaeued sheriff's officers and state police the past few days. Sheriff Howard Gault return- ed from Portland yesterday with a prisoner, Glen Delbert Dun ham, 34, Drunright, Okla., want ed here on charges of entering an auto with intent to steal. Dunham was arrested by Portr land police. Wendell Floyd Long, charged with auto larceny, was transport ed here Tuesday by U. S. Mar shal officers from Reno, Nev. Harvey Ray Buchanan, .35, is being held in the county jail as a California fugitive. He was arrested Tuesday by city police. and " is accused of obtaining money on 'false pretenses. Sheriff's officers received re ports Tuesday of a theft of between $10 and $12 from the Shontz Supply company, Gold Hill. James LeRoy Winslow, 18, Rogue River, was arrested on suspicion of the theft. North Riverside Tavern re ported an attempted break-in Tuesday night. Ira Dill Hardin, Rogue River, told the sheriffs office recently that sometime in the past month a pair of loading hooks, a crouch line, a clevis with fittings, and a brass water hose nozzle belong ing to him were stolen. Lowell Paul Welburn, 30. Ash land, was jailed Tuesday on charges of uttering and publish ing a false check. Yesterday, Wel burn pleaded guilty in district court to game law violations and was fined $25 plus $5 court costs, k 1 a Is IS J- fin. bv "someone who knew where . 1 A. Xhe PUC men said they wovua 1 senun uw vuu about on acre each. and how to aw io to uum
