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am I J Ik I ili JUUXJZAX State Mishaps Kill 3.4; G. Pass Wreck Claims Four Lives By UNITED PRESS Fourteen persons died in Ore gon weekend accidents, seven on the highways and seven by drowning. There were two acci dents thatgesulted in2ur deaths each. James William King, U, Low ell, drowned while swimming in Fall creek east of Eugene late Sunday, according to Lane Coun ty Coroner Fred Buell. ihe treacherous waters of Win chester bay at the mouth of the Umpqua river in Douglas county overturned a pleasure craft Sat urday and four men drowned. The vSctims were identified as Clifford Kenneth Flory, 51, Suth erlin, whose body was recovered and Cecil Haig, Sutherlin; Rob ert SaiQlau, Oakland, Ore.; and Royce Bowman, Reedsport. Res cued were Albert Lewis, 2Q, ReedspQ-t, and Lloyd BaJn tine, 40, Sutherlin. Medford Man Truck Drig A convertible and a dairjg truck collided near Grants Pass Saturday resulting in death to four persons. The victirrQ were Califorrjian Nabs Top Rogue Roundup Award As Ail-Around Cowboy Bob Woolery, a California rider new to Orebn rodeos, won the Gibson saddle for being the best "all-around cowboy" during the Rogue River Round up, which ended here yesterday. Woolery nosed out local com peion before one of the "big gest crowds the Roundup has ever had," according to Jm Henry, captain of the Jackson courtfy mounted sheriff's posse. Woolery amassed a total of 90 Oints, 10 poigs ahead of his nearest rival. Clown Injured Saturday night, rodeo clown Karl Doering received a broken arm when he stepped between a rushing brahma bull and a down ed cowboy, Henry said. Doering vas taken to a local hospital for treatment and appeared again in the Sunday show. Marlin Wilson, 21, Sprague River, was also treated for minor injuries received during the show. Both were taken to the hospital by Medford Ambulance service. Bill Herrara took first place honors in the ireback bronc riding event. G. WiPkerson won in the bull-dogging contest. Nor man Goree garnered first in the saddle bronc contest. Bob Wool ery, Roy Wilson and BilPSteppe earned? first in the calf roping, bull riding and steer stuping Canadian Girl Fails To Set Swim Record Dover, England (U.R) Vet eran swimmers blamed a grind ing cross tide today for 17-year-old Barilyn Bell's failure to break the women's speed record for swimming the treacherous English ChannQ. They said the freckle-faced blonde schoolgirl from Toronto, Ont., despite her amazing finish--4ng sprint yesterday, was unable to make up the two hours she lost battling the powerful cur rent which swept her westward for five miles in mid-afternoon. Although she missed the rec ognized record by 42 minutes, Miss Bell became the first swim mer this year to beat the 20-mile grind and the youngest in his try. Laurelhurst FamttSqs Welcomed Into City Eighty-one families who re, cently became residents of Medford through the annexa tion of Laurelhurst addition were welcomed irp the city today by Mayor Earl Milled In a personal letter sent to each of the 81 families. Mayor Miller said "...you are now a full-fledged citizen of the city of Medford with all the rights and privileges of all other res idents. "Please use the services the city has to offer. The officials of the city will be. glad to ad vise with you and outline pro cedures for obtaining street, water and sewer improve ments. In the matter of pub 'lic safety, call our excellent police and fire departments." Annexation of the addition was approved at an election held July S. Mrs. Leonard Blair; two sons, Douglas, 5, and Dennis, 2 and Pearl Baker 18, a friend of the family. Driver of the car Leonard Blair, was taken to a hospital along with three other Blair chil dren. Robert Ivy, 32, driver of the Jorgensen's Dairy truck, was uninjured Two PrMieville men drowned in the turbulent Crooked river near Madras yesterday when their riber boat upset while they were boating downstream. The victims were Jerry Battles, 32, and Martin Martinson, 46. Found EJSd in Car Phillip A. Glahn, 48, Portland, was fouf dead in his car last night after it plunged down a 300-foot bank northeast of Esta cada. The body was found by a fisherman trolling in the Clacka mas river. James E. Benson, 16, killed when a car struck the Pudding river bridge near Wood burn Sunday. e Floyd Holmes King, 22, Inde pendence, was found dead fihis wrecked car at the bottom of a slough near Monmouth. - events, respectively. Young Clint Gibson managed to hang on long enough to be come "top man" in the Kid's Calf event, limited to contest ants 12 years or younger. Dick Swinney, in the 12-18 group, placed first in the saddled-steer ride. Big Audience Seen For Shakespearean festival Opener Ashland The 20th year of the Oregon Shakespearean Fes tival opens here tonight, with in dications that attendance may go 10 per cent higher than in pre vious years. Opening night, with "A Mid summer Night's Dream," is a near sellout, although . a few more tickets are still available, according to Festival Business Manager William Patton. Cur tain time is 8:30 p.m. Speakers Listed ' The Rt. Rev. Lane W. Barton, Episcopal bishop of Eastern Ore gon, will open the festival to,r night."5 Dr. B. A. Cope, festival association president, and Angus L. Bowmer, founder and pro ducing director, will both speak briefly. The "atmosphere" of Eliza bethan England will again be maintained during the festival, with strolling musicians playing among the audience before the plays. Dinner Planned 2 Before "the play tonight, a group of radio, television and newspaper people, festival of ficials, city and county officials and other invited dignitaries, will gather at Tally Ho restau rant in Talent for a dinner. The plays will be given in ro tation. Others in the series, in order, are "Macbeth," "All's Well That Ends Well " and '.'Henry VI, Part 3," withTimon of Athens" given special pro ductions Aug. 23 and 29. The festival will continue each evening through August. Two Men Held Here Admit-Part In 140 Safe Delbert Lee and Glenn Eugene Crow, held in the Jackson coun iigjail, have admitted in signed statements that they are part of a seven-man gang that has taken part in some 140 safe jobs and burglaries in southwest Missouri. Total S500.000 Law enforcement officers es timate that property damage and value of articles taken by the gang is more than S5&0,000. The Crows were captured here by state and city police and sheriff's deputies while blowing the big walk-in safe at the Mason Ehrman & Co. warehouse north of Medford on July 20. They had taken between $800 and S1.000. Sheriff Howard Gault, with Sheriffs Glenn Hendnx and George Hickam, of Green and Jasper counties, Mo., are contin uing interrogation of the broth Civil OtfG Opening Session Arranges Agenda; To Resume Tuesday Gradual Recognition f)f Red China Feared Geneva (U.R) The United States and Red China agreed to day to discuss the release of 40 American civilians held by the Communists as the first order of business at the Geneva talks. This course was decided upon after Chinese Communist Am bassador to Poland, Wang Ping nan, announced that 11 airmen wasijwere being freed from Red China and will reacn Wong Kong Thursday. The surprise announcement b the Chinese Communists im mediately shifted the emphasis in the talks between Wang and the American Ambassador to CzecfioSlovakia, U. Alexis John son, to 40 civilians imprisoned or retained by the Red Chinese. Wang and Johnson opened their talks with a 45-minute sessicft to fix the agenda and put the American-civilians' release at the top. The meeting resumes toi3rrow. The Peiping announcement of the release of the 11 American airmen was another step in an unprecedented show of Commu nist cordiality which the Reds frankly hope would lead to a meeting at the foreign ministers' level and world recognition of the Red Chinese regime. It also was interpreted as a propaganda move which the United States had sought to eliminate in the Geneva talks by having them held in secret. Hovering on the outskirts of the sessions was India's roving ambassador, V. K. Krishna Menon, who had played a major role in their arrangements. But there were other issues of even more importance. The U.S. hope of ending the threat of war in the Formosa Strait; Communist China's drive to win recognition as a major power; the nervous dread of America's anti-Communist allies in the East that Chiang Kai-shek might be sold down the river; There also was fear in Wash ington the meeting would lead to gradual U.S. recognition of Red China. Communists Predict Success The Communists predicted success for the talks and said frankly they hoped the talks would lead to tafks at a higher level between Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Red Premier Chou En-lai. Louisiana in Path Of Tropical Storm New Orleans (U.R) The sec ond major tropical storm of the year roarejl toward the Missis sippi delta today at near-hurricane force. The storm, code-named Bren da, howled across the Gulf of Mexico in an apparent west northwesterly direction toward the Louisiana coast. The U.S. Weather Bureau expected the storm to grow slowly in size and intensity. The Weather Bureau located the storm center, packing winds of 50 to 60 miles per hour, in the Gulf about 90 miles south east of Burrwood, La., on the tip of the delta. Gales swept outward from the center for 80 to 100 miles. Jobs, Burglaries ers this afternoon. The Missouri lawmen arrived here Saturday. Glenn Crow, 31, is tagged the "brains" of the smooth running Crow-McCarthy gang of the mid west sta. The seven, in the past years, have pulled 140 safe and burglary thefts in Missouri alone $7,000 Robbery Included in the gang's esca pades are a $7,000 jewelrytore robbery in Joplin, Mo., and a S3, 300 supermarket safe blowgig in Lamar, Mo. One of the seven is now in Folsom prison, two ar free on bond in Missouri, and two are still at large. Hendrix and Hickam said the gang always manages to eat and "drink some milk" while pulling a job. "Some lunch meat or an empty milk bottle are left at the scene," sheriff Hickam de ico'ini IPirisoiraeirs eimev Amr 4 sadoir Medf f United Press Full Leased 50th Year 14 Pa 'Night Crawler dges Pony Roseburg, Ore. (U.R) Res idents of this Southern Oregon community claimed a moral vic tory .over the Southern Pacific railroad's "night crawler" to day even though they lost a pony express race against the modern diesel train. Some 75 riders and their horses stationed a mile apart raced the S.P.'s midnight passenger-freight train early Sunday from Eugene, Ore., to Roseburg, a distance of 75 miles. Although beaten by a scant 10 minutes, the riders claimed the race proved their complaint that the "night crawler" a scornful reference to a fishing worm is fndeed a slow train. The race between the old and the new was Roseburg's pro- Five Spectators Hurt as Race Car Smacks Guard Rail alem (U.R) A racing car went out of control with its throttle stuck at Hollywood race track here Saturday night and struck a guard rail. Five persons were injured when struck by flying debris, one seriously. Four of the injured were spec tators and one was a city police man on duty alPthe track. Most seriously hurt was Rich ard L Ketchum, 21, Salem, who received head injuries. Others injured were Charles E. Emerson, 36; Mrs. Dale Collie, 29; Patrolman J. H. Sharp, 47, all of Salem Vid Daniel Van Brickman, 32, Silverton. They have been released from the hos pital. Driver Escapes Injury Driver Joe "Moose" Steier of Seattle, Wash., said the throttle on his hard top racer stuck and he hurtled into a guard rail and a fence on a turns All the in jured were struck by flying de bris. Steier escaped injury. He sjiid he shut off the engine and ap plied the brakes when the throt tle stuck but his speed was too great to control the vehicle. About 1800 persons witnessed the accident but only 730 were seated on the turn where the racer crashed. Boy Bruised as Boat Plunges Over Spillway Yakima, Wash. (U.R) Delbert Brasmer, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Brasmer, Vancouver, Wash., was being treated in a hospital here today for multiple bruises and cuts suffered yester day when he plunged over a spill way below Clear lake about 50 miles west of Yakima. Attendants said his condition was good. - The boy went over the spill way after he held a boat so that three other children could get out before it plunged over the dam. clared, "and I know it's them. Use Warning System The gang operates with a train of three or four stos, sometimes making several trips to cart away their merchandise. Delbert Crow, 33, is a radio technician and devised a walkie-talkie warn ing system. 9 He stands outside the place being looted and when a prowl car or beat policeman appears, promptly notifies his cohorts in side by radio. When all is clear, he gives tifenvthe word and they go back to work. The three sheriffs say that one of the two Crow brothers has been in on every one of the 140 burglaries, and both of them on most of the jobs. The two brothers pled guiltyJ to the theft Wednesday and await sentence from the circuit court. o .1 ,RD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1955 test against the railroad's deci sion to abandon its passenger service from Eugene to South- era Oregon points. S.P. claim ed it was losing $500,000 annual ly on the run. The Pony Express, using a fresh horse and 'rider about ev ery mile, carried a letter from Gov. Paul Patterson to Rose burg residents . congratulating them on their efforts to improve the service. The riders complained that the S.P. failed to stop in Win chester for the usual 10-minute layover, but they praised the train's crew for the race as "the most efficient in S.P. history." "If we had taken them by sur prise we could have beaten them by 30 minutes," rider Norval TURNCOATS ARRESTED MP R. Leahy (right) reads charges turncoat GI's in San Francisco after their arrival aboard the Jackson Named to Resources Group Washington, D.C. Glenn Jackson, prominent" JMedford businessman and vice-president of the California Oregon Power company, has been named to the natural resources committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, it was an nounced today. The committee's first meetingl wm oe in ai. juouis, mo., uexi January. The appointment was announced-toy Richard W. Smith, secretary and manager of the natural resources department of the chamber. The committee includes rep resentation from all sections of the nation and from the forestry, mining, oil and gas, water re sources and electric power in dustries. The group will keep the chamber headquarters in formed on resource matters and will make recommendations of policy matters. Frank E. McCaslin, president of the Oregon Portland Cement company, Portland, will continue as chairman for the third year. Adjournment Seen For Congress Tonight Washington (U.R) Members of the 84th Congress headed to ward this session's finish line tg day with high hopes of adjourn ment before the night is over. A deadlock over housing legis lation appeared to offer the only real threat to adjournment plans as congressional leaders worked feverishly to clear awag that ob stacle to ending the 1955 session. While a few other "must" bills remained ?n the calendar, they were scheduled to be acted upon with the same rapidity shown by the lawmakers Saturday in an overtime session in which the House unloaded 275 bills and the Senate 75. ' Senate-House conferees today agreed on a compromise housing bill providing for construction of 45,000 new public housing units in the coming year. The bill now returns to the Senate and House for final 'approval. IFiirsft Express in Roseburg Race Smith said after the race By careful planning, the Rose burg Chamber of Commerce laid out a 67 mile course, which brought a protest from S.P- Gen eral Passenger Agent Vernal Quale. Quale said the horses ought to run the same route, make the same stops and pick up and de liver express, and mail as the train does. Roseburg's Dr. V. J. Anderson countered that it would be all right with Roseburg residents if the S.T. streamlined its route, too. , Agent Quale reluctantly ad mitted the service wasn't all it could be, but said the ancient track and required stops handi capped the train. . Capt. Walter to the three immediately SS President Former Soldiers Deny Aiding Communists; Showing Nervousness San Francisco (U.R) Three turncoat ex-soldiers showed the first signs of nervousness today over the possibility of facing a court martial for their .actions in Korea. The turncoats, William G. Cowart, 22, Dalton, Ga.; Otho G. Bell, 24, Hillsboro, Miss.; and Lewis (SV. Griggs, 22, Jackson ville, Tex., did an about face and denied Army charges of co laborating with the Commun ists. Arrested on Arrival Thg Army took the three into,i CUStoay on rneir arrival ruuajr from Hong Kong. It charged them with informing on their fellow prisoners and helping the Communists, while prisoners in Korea. ; The three chose to go with Hedrick Retires as SchoolSuperintendent E. H. Hedrick, 503 South Oak dale ave., retired today after 30 yeajS as superintendent of the Medford public schools. He will be succeeded by Leonard May field, 1 Black Oak dr. Hedrick started teaching fii 1908 at a Douglas county rural school. .He was superintendent of schools at Central Point from 1919 to 1923. Hedrick came to Medford as superintendent of schools in 1925 after having served for two years in a simi lar position at Heppner. Mayfield has served as as sistant superintendent of schools for the past year after coming here from the Coos Bay public schools. . He previously served as principal of Medford High school. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 5 9 0 Chicago 4 9 2 Hall end Shepard; Misntr. Tremel (9) and Chili. Topic eeftiimg Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 113 , The Rogue River Line, was constructed in 1870 and was de signed for maximum grade curve speeds of 25 miles per hour, he said. The dispute between South ern Oregon residents and the "night crawler" dates back to the 19th century. Joe Goetz, an elder Roseburg citizen who has since died, walk ed the 75 miles from Roseburg to Eugene annually from 1895 to 1915 to protest the slow rail service. (.Local residents since then have continuously protested the three hours and 20 minutes it takes the train to wind its way over the 75 miles. They insist they need the service and have lodged repeated demands that it be speeded up. Cleveland from Hong Kong. Listening solemn ly are, left to right: Otho G. Bell, William A.. Cowart and Lewis Griggs. They are being' held at Fort Baker until their courtmartial." the Chinese Communists after the Korean war. Recently, they decided they had had enough of Communism and returned to the United States. When they left Red China on July 10, they indicated to news men that they were willing to accept any punishment meted out for, - their actions. At that time, they did not know this punishment might include the death penalty or life imprison ment, if the Army brings them before a court martial. ' Cowart shrugged off accusa tions he took part in- a "kang aroo court" trial of a fellow prisoner and tattled on ' other soldiers "for the purpose of se curing favorable treatment." "I have no idea what a kang aroo court is," he said. For Own Protection Cowart added that anything he did was "for my own protec tion rather than to get favorable treatment." Bell denied he had prepared propaganda for the Commun ists, saying he "didn't have that much brains." He also denied signing a letter urging a "gener al officer of the U. S. Army to desert" or that he deprived fel low prisoners of food. Soldier Waives Counsel Held Under $1,500 Bond Jackie Dean Anderson, Fort Carson, Col., soldier, has waived counsel and hearing and is being held in the county jail on $1,500 bond on forgery charges. He was arraigned July 30 on a charge of passing a false $20 check. In district court Friday, Mor ris Hamilton, 45, Central Point, was found innocent of a drunk driving charge. The jury trial concerned the state's assertion that Hamilton was driving while intoxicated when arrested May 3. Attorney George Rode was counsel for Hamilton, and depu ty district Attorney Gene Piazza represented the state. Broadcast Says Men Should Reach Freedom Thursday Action Seen Effort As Propaganda Victory Tokyo U.R) Red China today announced the release of 11 U.S. Airmen held in Communist jails for two and one-half yean and said they should reach freedom in Hong Kong by next Thurs day. x , Announcement of ihe "im mediate release" of the airme wno had been convicted and im prisoned on espionage charges, was made by Peiping Radio barely an hour before the operfe ing of direct Chinese-American talkgg)in Geneva in which their iaie was tne top item of the conference agenda. Chinese Ambassador to Poland Wang Ping-nan, who is Peiping's representative at Geneva, said the freed airmen should reach the British Crown Colony at Hong Kong by Aug. 4. Crew of Superior! The 11 men were the crew of a B29 Superfort, shot down near the end of the Korean war. Red China's refusal to treat them as war prisoners and re patriate them with other Korean war prisoners had been - the source of maior tension between the United States and Red China. Today's unexepcted announce ment by Peinine Radio said the Supreme People's Court of Chi na on July 31 decided "to re lease these 11 criminals before the completion of their terms and notified the authorities in charge to carry out immediately the release procedures and to send them out of China." Propaganda Effort The Peiping broadcast, mon itored here and in London, was made barely an hour Before the opening of direct talks be tween United States and Red China representatives at Geneva in which the case of the impris oned airmen was scheduled to have been a major subject for discussion -. . . . i . ' . Red China's timing of the an nouncement was accepted by the West as a maneuver to achieve a propaganda victory in the Gen eva talks even before they be gan. Normally Americans and oth er Westerners who are released by the Chinese Reds are handed over at the British Crown Col ony of Hong Kong which has a frontier with Red China. The men to be relased are: Maj. William H. Baumer, Lewisburg, Pa.: Airman 1C Steve R. Kiba. Akron. O Air man 2C John W. Thompson III, Orange, Va.; Capt. Eugene J. Vaadi, Clayon. N. Y Col. John K. Arnold Jr., Montgomery, Ala; Lt. Wallace L. Brown. Mont gomery. Ala.: Ll. John W. Buck. Armathwaite, Tenn.; Airman 2C Harry M. Benjamin Jr., Worth ington, Minn.; Sgt. Howard W. Brown, St. Paul; Capt. Elmer F. Llewellyn, Missoula, Mont., and Airman 2C Daniel C. Schmidt, Boise, Ida. Good Prisoners The Communist broadcast said the imprisoned Americans had "observed discipline and be haved themselves fairly well" while in jail. "The authorities in charep sP reported to Jhe military tribunal of the Suoreme Peonle's Court and asked leniency for the men," the broadcast said. The 11 were the last of 15 U.S. airmen admittedly held by Red China Four others, all Korean war veterans, were ordered "deport ed" and released by Red China last May 31. Fresh Crab Meat Spilled As Truck Turns Over Oregon City (U.R) Some $35,000 worth of fresh crab was spilled on the Mt. Hood high way at Cherryville when a truck and trailer. failed to negotiate a turn and upset, sheriff's officers said today. Driver of the truck, Hugh John Andrews of New Westmin ster, B.C., . was unhurt, but a passenger, C. R. Gray of Nook sak, Wash., received a broken leg. . Truck damage was estimated at $18,000, while $10,000 of crab was lost. It took workmen 15 hours to clear the road. Weather FORECAST: Continued fair and warm through Tuesday. Low tonight 55. high Tuesday S2. Temp. Highest yesterday ; 9 Lowest this morning 57
