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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,
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