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Weather Recommended FOR EC T Fair throueh Mon day ftlth a chanrr o( after noon thunderstorms over the mountain. High Sunday !: low inndav night S5; high Monday 90. Temp. Highest vesterdav 93 Lowest yesterday S DFORD TONE A story by Conrad Prange, Salem, describing a ride on the doomed Rogue River passenger train appears on Page 10 of today's Mall Tribune. ull Leased Wire United Press f-uli t-jsed Wire d Pn 50th Year 26 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1955 Price 5c No. 106 Me Italian Envoy To United States Medford Visitor Visits Crater Lake With Gov. Patterson Manlie Brosio, Italian am bassador to the United States, was a visitor in Medford briefly yesterday. He arrived in Portland Friday evening for a five-day visit to Oregon, and flew via West Coast airlines to Medford Saturday morning as the guest of Gov. Paul Patterson. Mrs. Brosio ac companied her husband and the governor on the trip to southern Oregon. Has Luncheon Her The ambassador was guest of honor at an informal al fresco luncheon at the Rogue Valley Country club early in the after noon. Later he was driven to Crater Lake in Govornor Pat terson's car, and was to return to Portland by way of central Oregon. He is to speak in Port land Monday noon. There were no formal talks on his tour, and his first speech will be in Portland. But he has told reporters that he expects no change in the- cordial relations between the United States and Italy as a result of the formation of a new government in Italy. "The new government has many of the same ministers and officials of the previous admini stration," he explained. Ambassador Brosio said Clare Booth Luce, U.S. ambassador to Italy, as "a very remarkable wo man and well thought of in my country." The youngish-looking diplo mat, who is 58, is a veteran of eight years of service in Italian embassies in Washington, Lon don and Moscow. He said he senses "a psychological improve ment" in cold war tensions be tween east and west. The Rus sians, he said, are an intelligent people "who harbor no parti cular hatred for the west." In addition to his diplomatic duties, he has been an author, a lawyer and a member of the underground National Liberation Committee during the time Italy was occupied by the Germans. From 1944 to 1947 he served as secretary general of the Liberal party, as minister without port folio in the cabinet, and as vice president of Italy's defense or ganization. Group Attends Some 50 or more persons at tended yesterday's hurriedly-as sembled luncheon gathering in his honor. Among them were State Sen. Philip B. Lowry, State Reps. E. H. Mann and E. A. Litt rell. Mavor Earl Miller, County Judge Rodney Keating and Post master Moore Hamilton. Mrs. Patterson, who has been ill, was unable to accompany the governor and his guests. Three Band Concerts Scheduled This Week Three band concerts will be held in the old city park this week on July 27, 28 and 29, ac cording to I. A. Mirick, director of instrumental music for the city schools. On Wednesday, the summer Junior High band will present concert at 8 p.m. The all-city Grade School band will present a concert at 8 p.m. Thursday and the Concert band will per form their second and last con cert Friday at 8 p.m. The concerts mark the end of the summer band school sponsored by the city schools The public is invited to attend the concerts. There is no charge Maurine Neuberger Joins Railroad Service Protests By ROBERT A. SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington (Special) State Rep. Maurine Neuberger (D Portland) has joined other mem bers of the Oregon legislature in protesting "most vigorously" to the public utilities commission against the proposed abandon ment of passenger service by Southern Pacific over its Sis kiyou line into southern Ore gon. Obligations Implied Pointing out to Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel that SP "en joys a rail monopoly in south western Oregon," she declared: "A utility monopoly implies ob ligations as well as privileges." "I doubt if the public utilities commission should permit the Southern Pacific to suspend its last passenger train between southwestern Oregon and the metropolitan area in Portland, while at tb aarna time tba rail if. 3 LQEL CORDELL HULL 'Release From Ordeal' Cordell Hull, 83, Former Secretary Of State, Passes Washington (U.R) Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, father of the United Nations, died at the age of 83 Saturday as a new generation of diplo mats strove to achieve the stable world peace which was his goal in life. The solemn, grey-haired statesman who rose from a Ten nessee log cabin to be soldier, lawyer, judge, representative, senator and secretary of state longer than any other American, died quietly at 9 a.m. EDT (5 a.m. PST) in Bethesda Naval hospital after several hours in coma. Blessed Release' His death was, in the words of Miss Will Harris, his secretary for 43 years, ' a blessed release" from a 10-year ordeal of illness during which he suffered sev eral strokes and heart attacks, high blood pressure, stomach ail ments and respiratory infections. Word of his passing was flash ed immediately to the Big Four summit meeting at Geneva, where President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were carrying on the struggle for peace in which Hull spent his strength during it turbulent years as head of the State department. Flags were lowered to half-staff in the cap ital. Funeral Tuesday Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Washing. ton Cathedral, by the side of his beloved wife. Rose, and near the tomb of another great fight er for peace, Woodrow Wilson Hull, who had been honored in life with a Nobel peace prize, received in death the highest tributes from national leaders of both parties and from others throughout the world who re vered him for his massive in tegrity and his untiring efforts to promote the cause of interna tional understanding and coop eration. Washington 4U.R) President Eisenhower and other present and past government officials Saturday paid warm tribute to Cordell Hull as one of the great statesmen of American history. Mr. Eisenhower, in a state ment issued at the Big Four sum mit meeting in Geneva, said Hull's death "is mourned by millons of men at home and in the far places of the earth by reason of his integrity of pur Dose, his hiah sense of obliga tion and his long and fruitful labors in the cause of peace. (See Stories on Page 2) road company continues to prof it from the operation of a rail freight monopoly in that region Mrs. Neuberger said. "The peo pie of southwestern Oregon are entitled to some rail passenger service from a company which benefits from the valuable freight business in southwestern Oregon." She said it was her under standing that "this is one of the most profitable operations in the Pacific Northwest." pointing out to Heltzel that "shipments of lumber in this area are so ex tensive that the railroad is fre quently short of the necessary freight cars at the time of heavy lumber orders in the sawmills. "For these reasons, I urge the public utilities commission not to permit suspension of the last railroad passenger service on the Southern Pacific between Ash land, Medford and Portland,' she declared. Vanguard of State Labor Federation Delegates Arrive Convention to Last Five Days First of more than 500 ex pected delegates representing Oregon labor organizations have started arriving here. They will stay for five days for the 53rd annual convention of the Oregon State Federation of La bor, to be held in the Craterian theater. Mayor Earl Miller will open the conclave at 10 a.m. Monday with a welcoming message. Charles Champlin, Medford chief of police, John Pletsch, president of the Jackson Coun- I ty Chamber of Commerce, and Howara uaun, jacitson county sheriff, will also speak in open ing ceremonies. Oregon Federation President D. McDonald will make his annual report following the ceremonies. To Receive Award Stan Culy, 21 Washington st., valedictorian of this year's Med ford high graduating class, will be among three state winners of S500 scholarships to receive their awards Wednesday mor ning. The first three days will fea ture a variety of speakers, with action on federation business resolutions to come Thursday and Friday. As a highlight of the event, four labor lawyers will form a Tuesday evening panel to dis cuss the Oregon anti-pi cketing L J A 1 41 A siaiuie anu uie recent aidie su preme court decision concerning it. The decision upheld one clause while declaring another unconstitutional. The federa tion has openly condemned both sections. A 33-page report of Executive Secretary J. T. Marr, will be in the hands of delegates Monday It deals with the federation's activities during the past state legislative session, and with other topics of national and lo cal labor interest, Finances Growing Federation membership and finances are growing, the re port shows. Total cash balance for the fiscal year ending March 31 was $24,291.29, with an ad ditional $40,230 invested in US savings bonds. Marr puts heavy emphasis on taxation, anti-picketing legisla tion, Hell's Canyon dam pro ject, and the guaranteed annual wage developments. He covers briefly some of the 300 bills introduced in the Ore gon House and Senate he con siders most important. The legislature passed a mea sure reducing' personal and de pendency allowances from $600 to $500 and added a 45 per cent surtax. However, Marr said, the reduction was a "negative" vic tory, in that heavy pressure was brought to bear for a reduction to $300 instead of $500. Cooperation Asked Furthermore, Marr states that the net tax increase (state and federal) is not as great as it would have been had more strin gent state propospals been ad opted. Marr calls upon labor men to work closely with the feder ation in obtaining a repeal of the "drastic and one-sided anu- picketing law. The measure s constitutionality was challeng ed in a state supreme court case, Gilbertson vs. Culinary Al liance, last March 30. The court held one section was unconsti tutional. It prohibited picketing by any person or organization not certified or recognized as the bargaining representative of employees of the place picket ed. However, the court upheld section 16. This paragraph makes it unlawful for any per son to compel, intimidate, coerce or discriminate against any em ployee in his free choice of se lecting his union, and whether to belong to a union. It prohib its picketing for the purpose of compelling, intimidating, coerc ing or influencing an employee of any employer to join a labor organization. 1 AFL President Quoted Marr quotes AFL President George Meany's comment on the "sluggish decline of unemploy ment." He points out that Port land was put in employment category D by the U. S. Labor ripnartment. Cities are rated A through F in order of increas ing unemployment. Marr censures the "financial and business interests which dominate the administration from the cabinet down" and which "express the economic philosophy of the president and the administration.' "I'LL GET OUT" Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott shown in Washing ton as he told a Senate In vestigating Committee he would quit his outside busi ness activities if such action would aid the Air Force. Talbott Business Dealings to Get Public Hearing Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Investigating subcommittee, with its Republican members crying "smear," voted Saturday to hold full public hearings on Air Secretary Harold E. Tal- bott's priva'te business dealings with defense contractors. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) announced that open hearings on the "Talbott mat ter" will begin Monday after noon. Names of the leadoff wit nesses were not disclosed. Week of Wrangling The decision topped off a week of partisan wrangling over the proprietv of Talbott s continued association with Paul B. Mulli gan & Co., a New York engin eering firm. Talbott has ack nowledged receiving an income of about $50,000 a year as "special partner" in the firm which has been employed by a number of big defense contract ors to do clerical efficiency studies. But Talbott denied there was anything wrong in his writing and telephoning industrial ex ecutives, from his Pentagon of fice, to promote new business for the firm. He told the sub committee Thursday he would cut his ties with the firm, necessary, to place himself "above suspicion like Ceasar's wife." Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said Republican and Democratic members of the sub committee agreed at a meeting Saturday that the subcommittee has no authority to advise Tal bott one way or the other on whether he should pull out of the Mulligan firm. McClellan also said he per sonally shares "the assumption that Secretary Talbott is inno cent of wrongdoing," as GOP members of the subcommittee vigorously contend. But the Arkansas Democrat said a thor ough airing of the matter is "in the interest of both the public welfare and Secretary Talbott himself." Khrushchev Silent Delegate at Geneva Geneva (U.R) Communist Partv Chief Nikita Khruschev hasn't opened his mouth in the Big Four conference meetings This fact, emerging Saturday from behind the closed door of the summit meeting, added to speculation among westerners as to who is the true power in Mos cow. Is the real boss of Russia the tubby, rumpled Khruschev? Or is it well-manicured Premier Nikolai Bulganin, the Red Army marshal who couldn't keep in step when he inspected a Swiss honor guard? During the Soviet pilgrimage to Yugoslavia this spring, it was Khruschev who pushed to the fore. Bulganin quietly, stood on the sidelines. But Geneva has been Bulgan in"s show, according to western ers who kept their eyes on such thines inside and outside the Palais des Nations here. Santa Cruz, Calif. (U.R) A school of playful killer-whales put in a rare appearance batur- dav close inshore at Seabright Beach, sending scores of surf bathers scurrying out of the water. ongress Pressures For Adjournment; House Has Log-Jam 'Must' Legislation May Be Pushed Aside Washington (U.R) Congress turned on the pressure for ad journment Saturday with the prospect that additional legisla tion once labeled "must" will be shunted aside in the rush. The adjournment goal set long ago for next Saturday night by general consent was being dropped back a week although congressional leaders still were contending the lawmakers can get out on time if they work long and talk short from now on. Log-Jam Worse in House The legislative log-jam, which usually is worse in the oratori cal Senate, for a change was confined to the House. The Sen ate, except fqr what it can't do until the House acts, was about ready to go. The House calendar was still fat, however, and mounting con troversy posed new threats to passage of two key measures highway and school construction. There were reports the contro- ersial upper Colorado river project, passed by the Senate and approved by the House In terior committee, would simply be dropped from the House agen da. New public housing authority sought by President Eisenhower remained pigeon-holed by the House Rules committee. But the word was out that it will be cleared to the floor early in the week. GOP leaders were said to have turned pressure on some of their reluctant members. The president's Compulsory Military Reserve Bill, consider ably watered down, and his Minimum Wage increase, up from 75 cents to $1 instead of to 90 cents as he wanted, were all but ready to send to the White House. Vaccine Purchase Approved Authority for the government to help buy Salk polio vaccine has been approved by the Sen ate and will be passed by the House next week. Mr. Eisenhow er wants $30,000,000 in cash to make good on this and probably will get that too. The House chopped Mr. Eisen hower's foreign aid appropria tions heavily, and the Senate put the money back in. A hot fight is ahead on whose version will finally pass. The House is ready to do battle for its cuts. The powerful House Rules committee, which at this point in the session has life-and-death powers, announced Saturday it would put aside other scheduled business Monday to consider the hotly-contested highway bill. Air Force Academy Funds Back in Bill Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Appropriations committee Saturday restored $79,527,000 for construction of the new Air Force academy at Colorado Springs. The academy construction money was put back in a sup plemental appropriation bill to taling about $2,000,000,000 which had been gutted in the House through a series of unusu al parliamentary objections on the floor. The Senate committee also re stored most of the money that the armed services had asked to finance a long list of military construction projects at instal lations both in this country and abroad. The committee also approved 860,000,000 for free distribution of Salk polio vaccie. The admin istration had asked for $30,000, 000. A total of $270,800,000 was approved for atomic plants and equipment. MM Woodworkers Baof On Plan to End Strike Portland, Ore. (U.R) Strik ing workers of M and M Wood working company plants in Ore gon and Northern California were balloting yesterday on proposal of the Federal Media tion service to end a walkout that has idled the plywood plants since July 1. The voting will continue to day. Federal - Mediator LeRoy Smith did not reveal details of the proposal but it presumably called for reopening the plants while negotiations continued. The AFL Plywood Workers union asked for a renewal of its old contract while the firm sought changes in contract clauses other than basic wage. p Nixon ike Has Won Friends Among Russians Two Major Points Seen From Conference Washington (U.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon said Saturday that President Eisen hower has won friends among Russian leaders and cleared the atmosphere for progress in fu ture big power negotiations. Nixon, who has seen confiden tial Big Four reports from Gen eva, gave those conclusions to newsmen as part of his personal appraisal of the weeklong Gen eva conference. Two Major Points He said he believed two major points have emerged. First, he listed his conclusion that the conference gave the United States its first "adequate forum" since World War II 'from which to counteract the propaganda that the United States is a warmonger and a potential aggressor." Second, Mr. Eisenhower's per sonal contacts with Russian lead ers have convinced them of "his personal sincerity and his per sonal trustworthiness." Atmosphere Cleared Acknowledging that one meet ing "doesn't convince people for a lifetime," Nixon said he never theless believes the "atmosphere has been cleared" for future talks. "The world can look with much more hope for progress at the foreign ministers conferen ces and at the lower levels than ! when there were recriminations, charges and coutercharges and a complete lack of trust on both sides," he said. Nixon gave his informal ap praisal of the conference as most Senate Republican leaders main tained silence on Mr. Eisenhow er's revolutionary proposal of Thursday for a big power ex change of military information. Crack US Troops fo Be Shifted to Italy Washington (U.R) South ern Europe's defenses against Communist attack will be re inforced soon by the shift of 5,000 crack United States troops from Austria to Italy, it was dis closed Saturday. Diplomatic and military in formants said details of the shift were being worked out be tween Washington, Rome and Paris, headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty organizations. The formal announcement, one informant said, might be made in a few days. The United States and Italy are members of the 15-nation NATO, which is responsible for Allied defenses in Europe. The U. S. troops would be expected to go to Italy this fall or early winter, depending on housing arrangements. Eureka, Calif. (U.R) Work men Saturday cleared away the debris of two landslides which have delayed reopening of the Northwest Pacific railway's Al der Point tunnel in southern Humboldt county. Marshal's Office To Close; Hanlin To Be Transferred The U.S. deputy marshal's of fice in Medford will be closed, and Deputy Marshal Paul Hanlin transferred to Portland, it was reported Saturday. The United Press quoted Marshal Harold Sexton in Port land as saying Hanlin will re place a retiring deputy in the Portland office. Sexton, who on Friday said he did not know if the office would be closed in September as rumored, and "I don't think anybody else does," Saturday re leased the contents of a letter he had written to James M. Main, Medford attorney and as sistant secretary of the South ern Oregon Bar association. Need Now Non-Existant "The need for a deputy in Medford does not now exist, par ticularly since the state has as sumed jurisdiction of the Klam ath Indian reservation," Sexton's letter to Main said. The United Press story did not say when the move would be come effective. A session of U.S, district court, at which the mar t Conference Ends; anger Said deduced Sports Bulletins Jack Cooney tripled home the winning run in the 10th inning last night as the Med ford Cheney Studs nicked the Grants Pass Elks, 8 to 7. in a Southern Oregon League baseball mix here. Medford trailed 4 to 7 going into the bottom of the ninth frame. Portland (U.R) The Portland Beavers broke a two-game losing streak with Sacramento last night by downing the Sacs 7 to 3 in a Pacific Coast league baseball game. Seattle, Wash. (U.R) Aided by a brilliant bit of relief pitching by Bill Ken edy, Seattle defeated San Diego 5-1 last night to take a 2-1 edge in the series and increase its league lead over the second place Padres to two full games. Fossil Remains Of Thunderbeast Found in Oregon Eugene (U.R) University of Oregon announced Saturday that one of the most important pal eontological discoveries in the Western half of the United States has been made at Iron Mountain in sun-baked eastern Oregon. Dr. Arnold J. Shotwell, cura tor of the university's museum of natural history, said the dis covery was of the fossil remains of a brontothere, or thunder beast, estimated to be 60,000,000 years old. The fossil site, near Clarno, was found by Alonzo W. Han cock, amateur paleontologist. last summer. ' He turned ' his "find" . over to Dr. Shotwell, who has had a crew of paleon tologists working the diggings ever since. Bones of other fossils from the Eocene Period have also been uncovered. They include the Hyraochyus, or little rhinoce ros, the Titanotheres and Meta mynodons, or aquatic rhinos. Dr. Shotwell said the fossil, remains of the "bronto," first to be found west of the Rockies, were deposited when the barren, rugged region was swampland. Roseburg Speedway Race Driver Dies Roseburg (U.R) Lawrence Tucker, 29, Roseburg, died last night at the Roseburg Speedway. Tucker, one of the drivers at the track, had won two hardtop motor car races and was pre paring to drive in the main event when he fell to the ground. He was pronounced dead on arrival at a Roseburg hospital. Douglas County Coroner L. L. Powers ordered an autopsy to determine cause of death. First Snow of Season Reported in Canada Montreal (U.R) At least two places in Canada reported snow Saturday. It snowed at Resolute Bay on Cornwallis Island, 1100 miles north west of Churchill, and on the Labrador Coast. Weather men said this was not unheard of but was "rather unusual" for this time of the year. shal here usually assists, is sched uled for Aug. 8. The Medford station of the marshal's office was established 40 years ago, and has been the only such station in the state outside of Portland. Sexton said only one action was filed by a southern Oregon attorney at the Medford station during the past fiscal year. , Hanlin, who lives at 806 West Main st., has been a deputy mar shal for 17 years. Suggestion Protested The Southern Oregon Bar as sociation has urged the station be kept open, and the Brother hood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen in Klamath Falls has protested the suggestion. S. A. Andretta, administrative assistant attorney general, re cently wrote in response to an inquiry that ". . . no change is contemplated in the near future. Moreover, such action will not be taken unless clearly to the best interests of the government and the people residing in the district." Foreign Ministers To Map Peace Plan At October Meeting Ike Sees Brighter Prospect for Peace Geneva (U.R) The big four concluded their historic confer ence at the summit last night, agreed unanimously they had reduced the dangers of war, and instructed their foreign ministers to meet again in October to map a concrete plan for peace. President Eisenhower in his final statement, said as a result of the conference decisions "the prospects of a lasting peace, with justice, well being and broader freedom are brighter." "The dangers of the over whelming tragedy of modern war," he said, "are less." No Solutions Th e summit conference brought forth no solutions for the most vexing problems of the cold war, and none had been ex pected. But in two secret sessions in its final hours, it averted a threatened deadlock and through mutual concessions, set a pattern . for continuing efforts to reach solutions to such issues as Ger man reunification. European se curity, disarmament and im proved East-West contacts. Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul- Washington (U.R) Pres ident Eisenhower will address the nation by radio and tele vision at 6:30 p.m. (PST) Mon day on the Big Four talks at Geneva. Switzerland, the . While House announced last night. ganin, in his final conference statement, agreed with Mr. Ei senhower that "the decisions taken here . . . will have a great importance for other coun tries and for universal peace. He said he regretted only that the conference had not consider ed such Far Eastern issues as Formosa, Red China's admission to the United Nations and Indo china. The Soviet Premier by-passed his last opportunity at the con ference to answer Mr. Eisen hower's bold challenge to Rus sia to swap arms secrets and permit unlimited aerial recon naissance as proof to- the world of the sincere desries of both nations for peace. In their directive to the for eign ministers for the October ministers' conference, the heads of government instructed them to take up three main points: 1. European security and Ger many. The ministers were told to study all plans advanced here for a European security pact and for German reunification. The di rective, in a concession by the West, sidestepped any decision whether these two studies should be carried on simultaneously as the West wanted. It provided for participation or consultation of both West and East German governments in the German talks, if the foreign ministers found this desirable. Disarmament Proposals 2. Disarmament. The direc tive turned over to the United Nations all disarmament propos als a concession by Russia which previously had insisted they be handled only by the foreign ministers. It proposed that the U.N. Disarmament Com mission's subcommittee next meet Aug. 29 at New York. 3. Development of contacts be tween East and West. The direc tive instructed the foreign min isters to name experts to study measures for lowering trade and communications barriers and bringing about freer contacts and exchanges between peoples. Washington (U.R) Official Washington and thousands of every-day citizens made plans Saturday to give President Ei senhower a rousing hero's wel come today when he returns from the big four summit confer ence at Geneva. Top ranking diplomats, mili tary and congressional leaders, and members of the cabinet were to be on hand when the president's plane, Columbine III, touches down at National Airport at 5 a.m., (PST). Los Angeles - (U.R) Mayor Norris Poulson celebrated his 60th birthday Saturday and said he had no intentions to retire from public office after his cur rent term.
