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Atomic Energy
Harnessing Seen
Within 20 Years
Atoms for Peace
Congress Convenes
Geneva (U.R) The first in
ternational congress on peaceful
usfj of atomic energy opened to
day with a dramatic prediction
that man will harness the hydro
gen bomb within 20 years and
make available the limitless
power of the sun itself.
And, the United States an
nounced that it is ready now to
sell atomic fuel for use in peace
ful research.
The two announcements under
scored the vast strides already
made in harnessing the atom and
the limitless possibility that lies
ahead.
Adm( Lewis L. Strauss, chair
man of the Atomic Energy Com
mission, told newsmen here that
lSe United States is ready to sell
or lease enriched uranium, the
stuff that runs atomic power
plants, for research purposes. He
said the Atomic Energy Commis
sion will announce a price list
shortly.
The prediction that the vastly
greater power of the hydrogen
bomb will one day be harnessed
was made by Dr. Homi J. Bhab
ja, distinguished Indian physi
cist who is president of the con
ference. In a message to the opening
session of the congress, President
Eisenhower reaffirmed U. S. de
termination to find ways by
which "the miraculous invent
iveness of man shall not be dedi
cated t3 his death but conse
crated to his life."
Bhabja's prediction of the fu
ture of hydrogen bomb power
meant that the atoms for peace
congress, bringing the first
cracks in the Iron Curtain of
atomic secrecy, was outdated be
fore it really began.
Klamath, Lake
Fires Controlled
KUmath Falls (U.R) A total
of 18 forest fires in Klamath and
Lake counties were reported
under control today by John
MacDonald, supervisor of the
Fremont National Forest, and
QHal Ogle, superintendent of the
Klamath Forest Protective Asso
ciation. The Klamath county fires,
mostly on private land, totaled
200 acres, Ogle said.
The largest blaze was still be
ing fought by 100 men. It was on
the property of the White Pine
Lumber Company in Lake coun
ty between Yokum and Green
River. The fire had covered some
200 acres and was man-caused,
MacDonald said.
Fiv of the Lake fires were
caused by lightning, MacDonald
said.
Lake County Clerk Zane Gray
said if the fires continued, min
ers on uranium claims might be
forced to leave the area until the
i-e danger is over.
Winners Listed in Jacksonville Jubilee
Parades and Contests During Week End
Jacksonville The Medford
Lions club float in the Grand
parade of the eighth annual
Jacksonville Gold Rush Jubilee
yesterday won the grand prize
of $75. A float titled "Golddig
gers of 1955" won in the Kid
dies parade, and Mrs. A. E.
Reinking, Vearing a blue 1880
dress, won in the Old Fashioned
parade.
Hot weather during the two
day event kept attendance down
from what it was last year, ac
cording to Ike Dunford, general
chairman of the jubilee, .but he
added he was satisfied with the
number of people who turned
cut.
Other Winners
Other winners in the grand
parade yesterday included the
Eagle Point Teen Age club's
float, best float; the sheriff's
posse, best riding individual or
group; Roxy Ann Grange, best
costumed individual or group,
and Elmer Parker, oldest person
riding on a horse.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDA.
irofimed cat dresceonft Ci4y
LEAVING New York for tour
of Europe, Margaret Truman
boards SS United States. She'll
meet her traveling companion,
Gurie Lie, daughter of Trygve
Lie, in SalzburgXlnternational)
Lightning Strikes
Mountain Lookout;
Two Fires Put Out
Lightning yesterday afternoon
struck the lookout station on
top of Soda mountain, according
to the state forest patrol.
Mrs. Thelma Sims, Jackson
ville, the veteran lookout who is
spending her sixth or seventh
year on the mountain, which is
lpcated south of the Green
Springs highway, was uninjured.
The cabin-lookout station is
equipped with a lightning pro
tector, and the only damage was
to the telephone system, which
was burned out.
Two Fires Set
The recurring and scattered
thundershowers over the week
end set at least two fires in the
Grizzly prairie area near the
Dead Indian, but both were con
trolled by state forestry depart
ment crews last night. At least
two other fires were thought to
have been set by lightning, but
they had not been located this
morning, and they may have
been put out by rain which was
fairly general in the south and
southeast portions of the county.
The Rogue River National for
est had received no reports of
lightning fires in its borders,
and rain was light and scattered.
Fire Danger High
The showers were not enough
to ease the extremely high fire
hazard general throughout the
forested areas of the county, ac
cording to the state patrol and
the forest service. Humidities
the past few days have been far
down into the danger area, run
ning between 15 and 20 per cent.
Anything below 30 per cent is
considered in the hazardous
class.
Continued fair weather, with
maximum temperatures in the
90s and low humidities is fore
cast through Tuesday.
Participants receiving honor
able mention were Ashland Kilty
band, and a four-horse team of
Sandy and Clara Smith.
Second place in the Kiddies
parade Saturday went to an
"Old Fashioned Family" com
posed of Mrs. Iris Chastain and
three daughters, and third place
went to a float, "Jacksonville
or Bust." Bliss Heine's Junior
baton corps and clowns received
honorable mention.
Old Clothes
An old suit, with an 1885 cane
and an 1890 watch and chain,
worn by Rollin F. Taylor of
Rogue River was second in the
Old Fashioned parade. Gayle Of
fenbacher, 9, Jacksonville, wear
ing her great grandmother's 90-year-old
dress, was third.
M. F. Pence of Jacksonville,
who is over 75 years old, won
the Old Fiddler's contest. John
Gritsch won the grand prize of
a beef on the hoof. Second prize
of a wardrobe went to Sue Bis
mark, and third prize, a coffee
jf 1955
Overturned Skiff
Found Off Coast;
One Body Located
Searchers Comb Beach
For Arizona Fishermen
Crescent City, Calif. (U.R)
Four members of a prominent
Phoenix, Ariz., family were
missing and presumed drowned
today after their light fishing
skiff was found overturned in
turbulent water off the northern
California coast.
Del Norte county sheriff's dep
uties identified the skiff yester
day as one rented early Saturday
by Dr. Fred W. Holmes, his fa
ther, Dr. Fred G." Holmes, and
two sons, aged 10 and 8.
A rescue party sighted a body,
tentatively identified as that of
Fred W. Holmes, late last night
and brought it in to the beach.
But rugged and treacherous ter
rain prevented the party from
bringing the body into town for
positive identification.
Three search parties of almost
a dozen men each combed the
beach for miles along the coast
south of here while a Coast
Guard cutter and a Coast Guard
patrol plane searched the chop
py, windswept ocean off shore.
The four fishermen, all of
Phoenix, disappeared early Sat
urday while fishing in a dense
fog near the mouth of the Kla
math river.
By UNITED PRESS
A 1 3-year-old . boy.. AncL. a 33-year-old
man drowned while an
other 13-year-old boy was saved
in separate Oregon water mis
haps during the week end.
Jimmy Steinborn, 13, Browns
ville, drowned in about 15 feet
of water in the Calapooya river
Saturday afternoon while swim
ming. Robert Fields, 33, Rose
burg, drowned in the North Ump
qua river Saturday night.
Craig Nasmyth, 13, Portland,
became exhausted while" swim
ming in the Clackamas river at
Haaten Beach park Sunday. Har
old Kaarhus, 9, Portland, swam
45 feet to reach him and when
he ran into difficulty, 16-year-old
Ellen Ollar of Beaverton
jumped into the water. The two
brought the boy ashore. He was
treated at an Oregon City hos
pital for shock.
Blood Donor List Still
Far Below Area Needs
The number of blood donors
that have made appointments for
Wednesday has not risen above
the 35 reached Saturday, Red
Cross officials reported this
morning.
The Red Cross office said
Medford's quota is 250 donors.
The need is particularly great
at this time, as Portland has in
formed this area it cannot sup
ply blood to meet any shortages.
Appointments, may be made by
phoning 3-3813 today and to
morrow. The bloodmobile will be here
from 1 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at
the Elks temple.
pot, went to R. Smith.
Winners of the gold panning
contest were LaRue Morris of
Hidden Valley Ranch, Kessinger,
and Bob Mitcheltree. Leonard
Cookson of Medford won the
chopping contest followed by
Don Mayfield of Williams and
Burdette Holroyd of Medford.
Other Contests
Estle James of Ashland won
the ax throwing contest, with
Robert Kinsey of Ashland sec
ond and Cookson third. Johnny
Minor of Shady Cove won the
power saw over 40-pounds class
contest, James was second and
Cookson third. Minor, James
and R. L. Clowder of Phoenix
won the power saw under 40
pounds class contest in that
order.
Dannie Ashley of Los Angeles
won the pie eating contest, and
Jack Rich-arson of Medford was
second. Richard Griffin of Jack
sonville won the watermelon
eating contest, and Robert and
Tommy Ashton won second and
third, respectively. .
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Charges off Torture
By Released Airmen
fySay Go Before U.N.
Tachikawa Air Base, Japan '(U.R) Charges that 11 American
airmen were tortured and beaten by the Communist Chinese prob
ably will go before the United -Nations, informed sources said
today.
The world body will attempt to determine to what extent the
alleged brutal treatment was used to wring confessions from the
airmen, the sources said.
The charges may affect Red China's hopes of joining the United
Nations, the sources added.
The airmen, freed by the Reds last week after more than two
years in prison, told of their torture, beatings and solitary con
finement at a press conference Sunday.
In Geneva, members of the Red Chinese delegation meeting
with U.S. representatives denied the charges and said they were
"sheer fabrication."
Want Hometown Reunions with Families
The men are to leave Tachikawa Air Base Wednesday for
Travis Air Force Base, Calif., an Air Force spokesman said. The
men have asked that their families not be brought to the west
coast. They prefer to go home individually for reunions.
The airmen went through more rigorous physical examinations
today to determine if their health suffered during their forced stay
in Red China.
- One of the men, Daniel C. Schmidt, Redding, Calif., finally
talked by telephone with his 21-year-old wife who remarried in the
belief he was killed in Korea. The modern-day "Enoch Arden"
refused to disclose details of the conversation about their tangled
marital affairs.
Col. John Knox Arnold, leader of the airmen whose B29 was
shot down over North Korea in January. 1953, repudiated all
statements and "confessions" wrung from the men by Communist
physical and mental persuasion.
He fought back tears as he told how the Reds treated him and
his crew. His thin face twisted with emotion and his voice break
ing occasionally, the Silver Springs, Md.,' flier admitted he gave
the Communists military information under torture.
One Not Forced To Sign 'Confession'
All the fliers except, Map. William H. Baumer, LeWisburg, Pa.,
said Jth'ey made "confessions" of illegally invading Communist
China and in some cases espionage.
Baumer said he was not forced to sign, apparently because of
his physical condition. He was wounded in the foot when the B29
was shot down and later frostbite added complications and the
foot was amputated.
Capt. Elmer F. Llewllyn, of Missoula, Mont., navigator of the
plane, vehemently insisted they were well south of the Yalu river
on a leaflet dropping mission over North Korea when they were
shot down;
The other airmen were:
Capt. John W. Buck, Armathwaite, Tenn.: Capt. Eugene J.
Vaadi, Clayton, N.Y.; 1st Lt. Wallace L. Brown, Montgomery, Ala.;
T-Sgt. Howard W. Brown, St. Paul, Minn.; Airman 1-c Steve E.
Kiba, Akron, O.; Airman 2-c Harry M. Benjamin Jr., Worthington,
Minn.; Airman 2-c John W. Thompson 3rd, Orange, Va.
Talks for Release of
Prisoners Deadlocked
Geneva (U.R) The United
States and Red China became
deadlocked today in their nego
tiations for release of 41 Ameri
can civilians and China's de
mands for return of Chinese stu
dents, now in the United States.
Despite their failure to find
an acceptable formula, they
agreed to continue the talks,
which today entered their sec
ond week.
A U. S. spokesman said, after
today's meeting, that the Chi
nese and American ambassadors
have become stuck on the first
item of their agenda, the return
of civilians.
He said they agreed, how
ever, to continue their study of
that problem at their next ses
sion Wednesday.
Secrecy Maintained
Both sides have agreed to
maintain secrecy on the details
of their talks.
They issued a noncommittal
joint statement after today's
meeting which said only that
they have considered nothing
but the question of returning
civilians in the four sessions held
thus far.
The only positive results of
the meetings, the release of 11
imprisoned U. S. airmen by Red
China, was announced by the
Chinese an hour before the first
meeting was held.
The United States has refused
in the subsequent meetings to
yield on the principle of volun
tary repatriation of nationals,
a principle established in the
long negotiations for release of
Korean war prisoners.
Conference sources said the
United States retained unpleas
ant memories of Communist at-
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ature. Low tonight 55. High
Tuesday 95.
Temp.
Highest yesterday 9"
Lowest this morning 57
tempts in Korea to cajole Chi
nese prisoners in United Nations
hands to return to Red China.
There will be no repetition of
this on United States soil, the
sources said.
Chinese Students Free
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles has said repeatedly the
Chinese marooned in the United
States by the rise of Communism
must be completely free to
choose their own future.
The United States stood firm
ly on this principle during the
Korean negotiations, and the
peace talks almost foundered.
The issue arose when Re
China proposed a third party be
named to investigate the willing
ness of Chinese students to re
turn to mainland China. Peiping
apparently did not believe for
mal U. S. assurances they are
free to do as they please. ,
: The U. S. -Chinese talks last
week on the means of repatriat
ing 'some 41 U. S. civilians in
Communist China and Red
China's insistence that Chinese
students in the states wanted to
return to Peiping.
Chartered Boat Runs
Aground; 20 Saved
Netarts Bay, Ore. (U.R)
Twenty persons waded ashore
safely here Saturday after their
chartered fishing boat ran
aground and was pounded to
pieces on a spit at the south end
of Netarts Bay.
Harold G. Lantz, skipper of
the 50-foot Morning Star III, said
his boat ran aground in a heavy
fog as it was heading out to sea.
He valued the craft at $8500.
A Coast Guard lifeboat from
Garibaldi was called to the
scene, but found that salvage
was impossible.
The skipper and his mate, Paul
G. Graske, ordered the 18 fish
erman over the side in life
jackets and they waded ashore
through knee-deep surf.
Army Compounds
In Korea Cities.
Under Near-Siege
South Koreans
Stage Demonstrations
Seoul, Korea (U.R) U. S.
Army compounds in four major
cities were under near-siege to
day because of violent demon
strations by South Koreans
against neutral nations truce in
spectors. In Pusan, more than 2000
screaming Koreans ripped down
the main gate to the U.S. Army's
Hialeah compound where yes
terday they formed a bloody,
human bridge through 400 feet
of barber wire.
The U.S. Army denied Korean
reports that American soldiers
had bayonetted some of the dem
onstrators at Pusan and Inchon.
Soldiers Injured
The Eighth Army said at least
four soldiers were injured yes
terday and six more Americans
were hurt today when Koreans
threw stones and bottles.
Gas-masked GIs had to toss
200 tear gas bombs into the
mob and drench it with heavy
streams of water from fire hoses
before the demonstration was
quieted.
Some 5000 demonstrators
marched on the U.S. Army Com
pound at Taegu yesterday and a
live hand grenade was tossed
through the fence to a Korean
employee. The Army said the
Korean employee turned the un
exploded grenade over to a
soldier.
Cities Surrounded
Besides Pusan, U.S. com
pounds at Wolmi-Do Island at
Inchon and at the port cities of
Kunsan arid Hangnung were sur
rounded today.
Many of the demonstrators
carried banners and shouted for
the removal of the neutral na
tions truce inspectors, who act
as watchdogs of the uneasy Ko
rean armistice.
The outbreaks were the latest
in a series of demonstrations
against the Neutral Nations
Commission " whose" Czech 'and
Polish members the South Ko
rean government has accused of
being Communist spies.
Damage Heavy
In Oregon Fires
By UNITED PRESS
Fires in Oregon Sunday claim
ed one life- caused an estimated
$100,000 damage to a grain ele
vator near Lebanon, heavily
damaged a Grants Pass lumber
yard and destroyed 1000 tons of
hay near Hermiston.
A man died in a fire at a Cas
cade Locks hotel which was
blamed on a cigaret. The flames
were confined to the victim's
room.
The sheriff's office tentatively
identified the victim as James T.
Plummer, about 35, Yelleville,
Ark.
Some 500 tons of stored wheat
and barley and a grain elevator
were destroyed yesterday five
miles west of Lebanon by fire
of undetermined origin. Fire
Chief Vern Reeves of Lebanon
estimated loss at $100,000.
At Grants Pass, a three-hour
blaze burned two storage build
ings of the Grants Pass lumber
yards with damage estimated at
$35,000. The offices and stacked
lumber were saved.
A brisk wind fanned a fire
near Hermiston in which hay
valued at $30,C00 was lost. Spon
taneous combustion was blamed
for the blaze.
Chandler Claims
Kentucky Victory
Louisville, Ky. (U.R) For
mer baseball Commissioner A.
B. (Happy) Chandler claimed vic
tory today over the state Dem
ocratic party machine in his bat
tle for the gubernatorial nomin
ation but his opponent refused
to concede. .
Chandler, Kentucky's govern-
nor 20 years ago, led his admin
istration opponent, Bert T.
Combs, be a 11,397 margin with
returns in from 1,861 precincts
of a total of 4,165 precincts when
the vote count halted at midnight
Saturday.
Chandler had 139,924 votes, to
Combs' 128,527, the combined
total representing more than 40
per cent of the state vote.
The Louisville Courier-Jour
nal, which opposed Chandler in
its editorials almost from the
outset, conceded victory to the
former baseball commissioner in
its editions Sunday.
Monmouth (U.R) Some 175
state educational leaders were
attending the seventh annual
meeting of the Oregon Educa
tion Association here today.
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SEEKING $10,000 prize, Bev
erly Jansen, Providence, R. I.,
is entry in New York "Miss
Exquisite Form" contest. She
measures 35V, 23, 35 from
north to south. (International)
Neuberger Calls
For Resignation
Of Douglas McKay
Washington (U.R) Oregon's
two Democratic senators have
accused the Eisenhower adminis
tration of "depredation" of natu
ral resources and "economic
rape" for its handling of power
development in Hells Canyon.
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
called for the resignation of In
terior Secretary Douglas Mc
Kay for the "depredation" of
natural resources under the Re
publican administration.
Morse Hurls Charge
Sen. Wayne Morse accused
the administration of "raping
the resources" of the nation and
pushing it toward "economic
fascism."
The charges were brought on
by the recent Federal Power
Commission's authorization of
the Idaho Power Co. to build
private dams in Hells Canyon on
the Snake river.
Neuberger said the adminis
tration's handling of natural re
sources was "going to be one of
fhe major issues, if not the ma
jor issue, of the 1956 campaign."
James H. Duff (R.-Pa.) coun
tered that the administration is
taking the position that the gov
ernment should not do what the
public can do for itself.
Decision" Reversal Seen
Morse predicted that foes of
private power development of
Hells Canyon will overturn the
FPC after a long court fight.
He said an appeal will be made
for an FPC rehearing, but fore
cast that what he called the
"rigged" commission will con
tinue to rule against public
power development of the Snake
river.
Baker (U.R) The Hells Can
yon Development Association
has appealed to the State Hydro
electric Commission to refuse
an application by Idaho Power
Company to build three low
dams on the Snake river.
The appeal was issued by Al
bert Ullman of Baker, president
of the association. Applications
by the company for the dams,
which would be located at the
Idaho-Oregon border, were pend
ing before the commission.
MEETING POSTPONED
The regular meeting of the
Medford planning commission
set for tonight has been post
poned until Monday night, Aug.
15, because of the death yester
day of .Mrs. Bertha May Wray,
wife of Commission Chairman
M. T. (Tom) Wray.
Heat Wave in East States
Broken by Thundershowers
By UNITED PRESS
Thundershowers broke the
back of a scorching heat wave in
the East today. But the price was
high.
Accompanying storms killed
at .least 12 persons, terrorized
coastal dwellers and cut power
lines.
In Albuquerque, N.M., mean
while, heavy rains sent roaring
flash floods into residential low
lands and chased 25 persons
from their homes. The residents
were still digging out from un
der a million dollar flood which
struck when similar rains fell
last week.
Temperatures Drop
The cool air spread southeast
ward into New England, the
Middle Atlantic states and
fringes of the deep south.
Temperatures dropped from 10
to 20 degrees from the Northern
Trains Make Lost
Runs on Week End;
Court Order Asked
Attorneys Conference
Slated This Afternoon o
Southern Oregon todav was
without railroad passenger ser
vice for the first time since the
1880s, when the old Oregon and
California line was completed
through here.
The Southern Pacific railroad.
successor to the earlier line, Sat
urday night and Sunday conduc- .
ted what they maintain will be
the last runs of the Rogue River
trains Nos. 329 and 330 O
north from Ashland and south
from Portland.
Earlier they had instructed
station agents to accept Pullman
reservations after Aug. 7,the
scheduled end-of-service date,
but on Saturday announced the
trains would be discontinued as
announced.
In Salem. State Public Utilit
ies Commissioner Charles Helt
zel today sought a court order
to force the SP to resume the
service. Circuit Judge Val D.
Sloper, in whose court the action
is to be filed, catied a confer
ence for this afternoon for at
torneys from the PUC and the
railroad.
Announcement of SP's clan
to discontinue rail passenger ser
vice was made by the company
on July 7. after months of ru
mors and denials concerning the
plan, ine announcement was
greeted by immediate protests
from organizations, individuals,
and newspapers, and the state
senators from Jackson, Josephine
and Douglas counties filed a for
mal complaint with HeltzeL ask
ing him to order the SP not onlyj
to continue service, but to im
prove it.
Heltzel's order for the SP to
continue service pending a hear
ing was based on the senators'
complaints. The order was ig
nored by the SP in stopping the
trains. The railroad maintains
the commissioner does not have
authority to order continuance '
of service, without a hearing,
although it has scanted he does
have the authority to order re
sumption of service after it has
been stopped.
Among the protests d&inst
ending of th service has been
that of organized labor. The Ore
gon State Federation of Labor, at
its recent convention here an-
proved a strongly-worded protest
to the action.
Today. Mvrle M. Merriman of
the Medford Central Labor Coun
cil reported that he has been
named as a committee of one to
do what he can on behalf of the
council to enforce the passeng
er service to be resumed.
Merriman pointed out that the
council's action is based on its
concept of civic rAponsibility,
and that it is hoped the SP can
be forced either to "give back
the service" which it has gradu
ally eliminated over the years,
or be forced to open its tracks
to common use by other rail
carriers, who could provide the
service. .
Merriman declared that the
railroad has "not kept its bar
gain" made in the days when
it received alternate sections of
land in Oregon as a subsidy for
construction of the rails, a bar
gain which gave it exclusive
rights in this area with an obli
gation to provide adequate ser
vice. The union spokesman also said
that if through service. Portland
to San Francisco, were provided
on this line, it would be iust as
profitable as that over the Na
tron Ime completed in 1928, and
pointed out that populous south
ern Oregon would provide more ,
patronage, if this were still a
through line, than does the sec
tion east of the mountains.
Plains to as far south as the
Carolinas and the northern por
tions of Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi.
In the southeast, leery coastal
residents kept a close watch of)
hurricane Connie, which was
moving west-northwest past the
British West Indies.
'Sleeping' Weather O
The cool air brought the first
decent "sleeping" weather last
night to the midwest and east in
weeks. But it had its costly side
too.
Thunderstorms killed at least
three persons at Newark, N.J.,
and lightning killed a 23-year-old
golfer at Bethpage, N'&.
At Wolfeboro, N.H., Coun
Judge William E. Fuller, 57,
Fall River, Mass., was killed by
a bolt of lightning as he camped
in a tent.