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State Mishaps Kill
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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.
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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
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'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
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,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
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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