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o Tra Cominninssik ii r : aid n SDiroiau e Pe O O & 63 e pi h Medford United Pn Full Leased Wire 50th Year 16 Pages hungry Indians Protege if Marchers Into Anti-Western Character Taken By Demonstrations Guns, Tear Gas P Fired Into Mobs Bombay, India (U.R) Police s used guns and tear gas today in a battle with rioting mobs of tens of thousands of angry In dians, protesting the deaths of 23 or more "peaceful liberators" who attempted to march into $ Portuguese Goa.. f? Bombay newspapers said five lis, of the Bombay rioters were in- iured. Other unconfirmed re- ports said four persons were ! killed and six wounded by police o gunfire. Folic Stoned Center of the rioting was the Indian Secretariat in the heart of Bombay. Demonstrators stoned police and the secretariat and demanded that Bombay's Chief Minister Morarji Desai personally lower the Indian flag to half staff in mourning for yesterday's dead. After six hours ef rioting, po b lice Mid they had been unable f to disperse the mobs and the 0 demonstration began taking on ;0 an anti-Western character. Riot IP) ers began stopping all persons )o wearing Western dress and de- roanding that they strip off ties, j -v, hats and other typical Western h garb. O o V, Bombay police said the situa- j tion was "getting out of hand" ,,o as tens of thousands of laborers left their jobs and joined the of demon- growing throngs i strators. ? ; Gunfire and tear gas were ji used twice during the morning t to keep the angry mobs under f1, control. I' . The rioters stalled all bus t$ services in the city and stoned the empty and idled buses. All &n trains also were forced to a standstill and Bombay was vir tually paralyzed as "demon ic strators ranged the streets fore going shops and stores to close. Portuguese Action Protested ag The demonstrations began ear 'ly today when mobs began as sembling in front of the Portu & guese consulate to protest the 2 action of Portuguese border 'V guards Goa who fired on the unarmed "liberation marchers" vwho attempted to enter the Por tuguese enclave on India's West Coast. Authorities ordered 600 police Dp protect the Portuguese con sulate while a dispatch from Goa Said authorities there were rush ing reinforcements to the In dian border against Indian dem onstrators "using arms." Itehru Hurls Charge ;5In New Delhi, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said the In dian victims of yesterday's , clashes which took at least 23 lives were "fired at by Portu guese authorities seated on chairs." He accused Portuguese pelice of being "brutal and un civilized." o Nehru declared "this kind of acjtion has nd argument" and warned that the "Goa story will net endf, until our object is achieved" the union of the 400- (year-old Portuguese enclave syth the Indian government. Folk Singer Ninth 0 difficult Witness I New York (U.R) Lee Hays, e.Jthe Arkansas folk singer, joined & the chorus of silence today when ( House Un-American Activities j Subcommittee attempted to dis- jj (gover whether- his career had a aided the Communist party cause. The heftv. hiehlv nervous bass i:f invoked the Fifth Amendment ) repeatedly in refusing to answer c the subcommittee's questions, on ! ; the grounds that to answer might e'J tend to incriminate him. Ej Hays was the ninth uncooper (Stive witness in two days of hear- ings into Communism in the en- tertainment field. Hays testified he was a mem 0 ber of a well known folk song ,-, quartet, "The Weavers," from w 1948 until 1953, and he called that period "the most profitable 6 in my career." But the subcom 2mittee sought unsuccessfully to pin Hays down on details of pre- ij vious employment. MEDFORD, OREGON, AMERICA'S FIRST On view at Atoms for Peace conference at Geneva is this artist's conception of America's first full-scale atomic power plantf a pressurized water reactor pow er plant slated fpr erection near Pittsburgh in 1957. Previously classified details of plant were disclosed in technical paper co-authored by representatives of Westinghouse Elec tric Corp., Duquesne Light Co., and U. S. County Court Gives To Jackson-Klamath The Jackson county court yes terday agreed to join with Klam ath county in constructing a road from Lake of the Woods to Mc Allister Springs as a federal sec ondary road. If Klamath county concurs, the way will be open to construc tion of the 14 mile strip, with the federal government paying 60 per cent and the state 40 per cent of the cost. County Engineer Paul Rynn ing conferred with state high way engineer R. H. Baldock Sun Patterson Reviews Governors' Meeting; Road Program Urged Salem (U.R) Governors of Chicago last week, said a special the 48 states hope to develop a national highway program that will satisfy the lawmakers who rejected such a program pro posed by the Eisenhower admin istration at the recent session of Congress, Gov. Paul L. Patterson said today. Gov. Patterson, just back from the governors' conference held in County FFA, 4-H Fair Now Under Way The Jackson county 4-H and FFA fair opened at the fair grounds with a style review at 9 a.m. today. The show opens to the public tomorrow noon. Wednesday's events include: 9 a.m. Crops and forestry judging contest. 10:30 a.m. Livestock judging contest. Noon Open to public. 1 p.m. Beef fitting. 1:45 p.m. Beef showmanship and sheep showmanship. 1-8 p.m. Home . economics contests and demonstrations. 9 p.m. Show stops. Ike on Golf Course Prior To Fishing Trip Denver (U.R) President Eisenhower cleaned up his work in a hurry today and got in a round on the golf course before leaving by automobile for a five day sojourn in the Rockies near Fraser, Colo. Mr. Eisenhower arrived at his summer White House headquar ters at Lowry Air Force base at 8:06 ajn. and was on his way to the Cherry Hills Country club less than an hour later. He planned to leave for Fraser about 2 p.m. and will be joined there tomorrow by his seven-year-old grandson, David. . , TUESDAY, Portuguese ,Goa mi "I''X day. Baldock made the sugges tion that it be designated a "fed- eral secondary county road." Actual construction, Rynning said, will not begin until the project can be included in the federal budget the next bienni um. Have Pushed Completion Rynning stated chambers of commerce of Jackson, Josephine, Lake and Klamath counties have pushed completion of the road by the state highway commission for the past several years. The highway commission, how- committee was appointed to work on a draft of a bill, which is likely to include some financ ing on long term bonds and some pay-as-you-go taxation. Resolution Passed The conference adopted a res olution, Gov. Patterson said, urging the federal government to spend a greater portion of the $2,500,000,000 it now collects an nually from the auto industry for highway construction. Of this amount, collected in excise taxes, gas taxes and other levies on motorists, only $900,000,000 a year now is spent for road con struction. Most of the governors assume that President Eisenhower will stand for reelection. But in what they consider the unlikely event that he does not, such names were mentioned for Republican nomination as Vice-President Richard Nixon, Paul Hoffman, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., United States delegate to the U.N., and Gov. Goodwin Knight of Cali fornia. Stevenson Prominent Names most prominently men tioned for the Democratic nomi nation were Adlai E. Stevenson, Gov. Averill Harriman of New York and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. But despite the talk of politics, the governors devoted consider able study to mental health and what steps that could be taken in cooperation in coping with this growing problem. Eugene (U.R) Robert Finlay son, city manager, has reported that Eugene was seeking rights-of-way for survey operations along the Amazon creek channel. Portland (U.R) Gov. Paul Patterson has launched a month long educational campaign in an ticipation of Oregon's Red Hat day, scheduled for Sept. 23. """"" A? Si iiUNE Jnited Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 125 Shooting Atomic Energy commission. Cutaway build ing above shows location of atomic reactor which provides the heat, and the heat ex changers, which generate the steam. Both re actors and exchanges will be underground to protect operating personnel. Connected to the right of building is the maintenance building, switchyard containing transformers and cir cuit breakers, and the transmission lines. Approval Road Plan ever, has felt that traffic in the area did not justify construction of a road to state standards. By placing it under the new desig nation, the counties will be able to build the road below state standards, and at a reduced cost. Under the new program, the counties will not share in the cost of constructing the road, but will obtain rights-of-way and supervise maintenance. The state will assimilate the strip as a part of the state high way system providing the traf fic increases enough to justify such a move. Will Follow Stream 1 The road, when completed will follow the north fork of Little Butte creek from McAllis ter Springs to Fish Lake,' and continue to Lake of the Woods. Actual distance involved is about nine miles in Jackson and four or five miles in Klamath counties. The new route would shorten the Medford-Lake of the Woods distance about 10 miles. Rynning also reported this morning that paving of some four miles of Dead Indian .road was being completed today. The county crew is moving to pave the same length of Butte Falls read from the foot of Rocky Hill west, Rynning stated. A new bridge over the south fork of Little Butte creek, about four miles southeast of Lake Creek post office is also being opened today, the engineer said. The bridge is constructed of cre osoted timber. Annexation of Recommended Annexation of four pieces of property was recommended to the city council by the Medford planning commission last night. The commission recommended that several acres, including the new Jefferson School site and property owned by Ed Stevens, south of Stewart ave., between Holly st. and Oakdale ave. be annexed. Orchard Not Included The area does not include an orchard owned by Bear Creek Orchards, which is north of the school and Stevens' properties and between extensions of Holly st. and Oakdale ave. Don Root, a member of the commission who with City Man ager Robert Duff contacted Dav id Holmes regarding annexation of the orchard, told the commis sion that Holmes was not inter ested in having the orchard an nexed at this time. A discussion as to whether the property recommended for an nexation was contiguous to the city arose, but several commis sion members and'Manville M. HeiseL attorney for school Dis Weather FORECAST: Fair through Wednesday. Low tonijht 50. High Wednesday 90. Temp. Highest Yesterday . 89 Lowest this Morning 51 Carolina, Georgia Residents Awaiting Hurricane Diane Heavily Populated Area in Storm Path Charleston, S.C. KU.R) Hur ricane Diane slowed down its rapid charge at the hastily bat tened down Carolinas and Geor gia coast today and threatened to swing on the northwesterly course followed by its destruc tive predecessor of a week ago. The mighty storm was moving at about 10 miles an hour toward the . heavily populated South Carolina coast, a decrease in for ward speed of four miles an hour, the Miami weather bureau said. Gales Whip Atlantic Navy and Air Force recon naissance planes located the "eye" of Diane 320 miles east southeast of Charleston with winds of 115 miles per hour over a small area near the center and hurricane winds extending 125 miles north and east and 70 miles to the southwest. Gales whipped up the Atlan tic 350 miles from the center of the northeast and east and 200 miles to the southwest. The sea rose in fury along the coast as the storm-moved toward the shore. Tides four feet higher than normal were reported early today. They were expected to grow steadily as Diane moved nearer. "Navy and Air Force have air craft in the hurricane this morn ing and are giving frequent po sitions of the eye," the weather bureau said. Seawalls Threatened The red and black hurricane flag fluttered from Fernandina, Fla northward to Wilmington, N.C., less than a week after Hurricane Connie smashed in land along the North Carolina coast, wreaking damage to sea walls which has not yet been fully repaired. Coastal residents braced hur riedly for the expected high tides, torrential rains and strong winds. Military air bases along the shore evacuated planes and Marine bulldozers pushed up sand dunes where North Caro lina's seawalls were damaged by Connie. Winds 50 Miles Inland Chief hurricane forecaster Gordon Dunn said at Miami that "a tropical storm of this inten sity should carry hurricane force winds about 50 miles inland. It will begin to break up rather rapidly during this time but will carry gale winds for another 100-200 miles." This historic porty city, par tially sheltered behind its famed battery, made preparations for the storm. Several shelters were readied and homeowners stock ed up on candles, hurricane lamps and other supplies in case of power failure. The Civil Air Patrol was ordered on duty here and at the resort town of Myrtle Beach, S.C. Astoria (U.R) Local fish packers reported substantial catches all last week as the Au gust commercial gillnet fishing season opened on the Columbia river. Four Pieces by Planning trict 49, believed the property contiguous. The property is di rectly connected by extensions of Holly st. and Oakdale ave., both of which are owned by the school district. John Pletsch, president of the Jackson County ' Chamber of Commerce who appeared in con nection with another annexation request, urged the commission to be receptive to chances for annexation. He said he believed the city. ought to take what ac tion it could so contaminated areas in fringe areas would not spread. Recommends Annexation The commission also .recom mended that property owned by California Pacific Utilities com pany at 303 South Groveland ave. be annexed. The property is almost surrounded by the pres ent limits. The request was sub mitted by M. E. Sands. Properties owned by the First Church of Christ Scientist and the ' Congregational churches just west of Medford also were recommended for annexation. Both organizations wish sewer facilities and future plane call Dulles Says Group May Be Serving Evil Purpose Korea Unification Progress Not Visible Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today the Neutral Nations Su pervisory Commission in Korea may be serving an evil purpose. He said that removal of the commission or restriction of its activities would be desirable. Dulles also told a news confer ence that he has seen no evidence from the Communists that pro gress can be made now toward unification of Korea. In the re cent Communist calls for a con ference on Korea he said the Communists have not indicated they are ready to accept a UN supervised election to unify the nation. He said no progress to ward unification can be made without that. Critical Situation The status of the supervisory commission has become increas ingly critical. South Koreans have been rioting, with the bless ings of their government, in an effort to drive the Communist Polish and Czech members of the truce inspection group from their territory. The secretary was asked whether anything could be done about changing the supervisory commission, and Dulles, a law yer, said he believed a doctrine which the courts apply to con tracts which have been frus trated should be applied. He called it the doctrine of rustra tion but said, wryly it is difficult to apply in international affairs. Dulles noted one good sign in the latest Communist calls for a Far Eastern conference to unify Korea. He said that was the Red statement that unification should be sought not by force but by peaceful means. Big Russian Army Dulles said Russia's decision to cut the size of its armed forces apparently means it recog nizes the "peaceful purposes of the United States and its Allies." He warned that even after cut ting its forces by 640,000 men, Russia will have more . men under' "arm's "than the United States. Nevertheless, he said the cut apparently reflects accept ance of President Eisenhower's declaration at .Geneva that this country "never will be a party to aggression." Informed sources, meanwhile, reported that the United States has developed a two-stage plan which eventually would abolish the Korean Neutral Nations Su pervisory Commission. Would Cut Freedom The U. S. plan, in its first stage, would cut down on free dom of movement of Commu nist and other truce inspectors but would not bar them imme diately from South Korean ter ritory. 'However, the United States hopes that after some months of the first stage all na tions concerned would decide the commission no longer is worth maintaining and agree to abol ish it. Fire Season in State Counts 2Vi Blazes Daily Salem (U.R) An average of 2M forest fires occurred in Ore gon every day of the fire season from April 1 through July 31, the State Forestry Department said today. This meant that a blaze in the woods was discovered, con trolled and extinguished every 9 hours in that period by per sonnel of the state forestry de partment and private forest associations. of Property Commission for church structures at each site. In other action, the commis sion recommended to the coun cil that a request for a zone change from residential to com mercial on West Jackson st. be denied. Root said he believed present undeveloped commercial property in the area should be utilized before additional prop erty is zoned for commercial uses. Set Back Change The commission recommend ed that a set-back of 10 feet in stead of 20 feet be granted Herb Morris at the east end of Reddy st. The street is a blind alley. Removal of a parking strip for about 70 feet west from Gen essee st. on East Main st. was recommended to the council. E. W. Brown submitted to the re quest. Mrs. Edith Eden and Mark Goldy were appointed a commit tee to survey and study a re quest from Mrs. Nora B. Leslie, 1036 Court st., for a zone change from commercial to light indust rial at the rear of 1036 Court st. facing Boardman st. Father Believes Son Shot Down Over Burma Alive in Soviet Jail St. Paul, Minn. (U.R) Wil liam G. Baumeister said today he has grounds for believing that his fighter pilot son, shot down over Burma in 1944, is alive and held prisoner by the Russians. He asked the State Depart ment to look into the case. Baumeister said his son, Wil liam G. Baumeister Jr., was shot Airport Repaying, Resurfacing Job Scheduled To Start Resurfacing and repaving of the Medford municipal airport should begin by Monday, Aug. 22, according to Vernon Thorpe, city public works director. The work, to be done by J. C. Compton Co., contractors, will get under way after the neces sary equipment, consisting of heavy rollers and a paving plant arrives. The supplies were expected to arrive in Medford today from Taft, Thorpe said. The project consists of two inches of asphalt concrete on 1,764 feet of a taxiway and 3,580 feet of the main runway, Thorpe said. The taxiway is 50 feet wide and the runway is 180 feet wide. Three inches of the blacktop" material will be placed at the southernmost 900 feet of the main runway, he added. Total Cost $80,271 The total cost of the project is $80,271, according to Robert Duff, city manager. This sum in cludes contract and engineering costs and an item for contingen cies, he said. The contract bid price was $61,874. The city of Medford will fi nance $35,271 of this amount, with the CAA sharing costs by adding $45,000, Duff said. Med ford received the government grant after filing a project ap plication to the Civil Aeronau tics Administration headquar ters in Seattle, he- added. The project is expected to be completed by the end of Aug ust, with the exception of 3,800 feet of fence along-Bullock rd. within the airport's boundaries. Sentencing Delayed Pending Inquiries Paul Eugene Peck, 20, Fish Lake, and Richard Putney, 33, Ashland, were held for sentenc ing pending psychiatric investi gation at the state mental hos pital in circuit court this morn-r-g. Peck was arraigned in court Aug. 3 oh charges of rape, and Putney was arraigned this morn ing on a sex crime charge. Others arraigned included Jackie Dean Anderson, 21, of E'ort Carson, Colo., and Robert Dennis Brennan, 23, Gold Hill. Anderson was arrested July 29 on forgery charges and Brennan, Aug 16 on attempted burglary charges. Both cases were continued pending FBI reports. Red China Continues To Stall at Meeting Geneva (U.R) Authritative sources said Red China contin ued to stall U.S. efforts today to win freedom for 41 American nationals detained in Commun ist China. These sources said Chinese Ambassador Wang Ping-nan de voted most of today's two hours and 25 minutes meeting with U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis John son" to various maneuvers design ed to force the United States into at least an implied recognition of Red China's responsibility for and control over all overseas Chinese. An official U.S. spokesman said, following today's, session, that the day's discussion was confined to the question of re turning civilian nationals of the two nations to their homelands. He added that the next meeting, eighth in the current talks, will be devoted to the same stalled issue. Argentine Police Guard Against New Outbreaks Buenos Aires, Argentina (U.R) - Federal police guarded today against a possible new wave of demonstrations against the gov ernment of President Juan D. Peron. In Beunos Aires Monday night, police used tear gas to break up an anti-Peron demonstration virtually on the doorsteps of the presidential palace. Clashes also were reported in Cordoba. down Nov. 19, 1944, while fly ing a P-38 in a bomber escort north of Rangoon. Lt. Baumeist er was 23 years old at that time. The elder Baumeister recently saw a news story in the St. Paul Pioneer Press about the release of 250 Germans and Austrians from Russian prison camps. Some of the men released laid they had known several Ameri cans in Russian prisons, includ ing a man named William, Bau meister said. Baumeister contacted Robert Branson, United Press bureau manager at Vienna and asked how he could get in touch with the men released in Russia, t Branson sent Baumeister 's let- " ter and pictures of his son to one of the ex-prisonsrs, Karl Heinz Schleich, who had known an American named William or Billy in prison. Heinz Schleich, a German, at first wrote Baumeister "it it nec essary to use a certain amount of imagination to recognize Bil ly from these pictures. He did not look like these pictures any more when I knew him." Later, Heinz Schleich sent Baumeister a cable which said he was "sure" that Billy's last name was Baumeister. The father said he .believes his son was taken prisoner by the Japanese and was brought to North Manchuria, where he was later turned over to the Rus sians. . Baumeister contacted Sen. Ed ward Thye, (R-Minn.), who for warded the information the fa ther has collected to Under-Secretary of State Thurston Morton. Public Hearings On Council Agenda Two public hearings are among several items on the agenda for the city council ft its 7:30 p.m. meeting today. r Hearings will be held , on zone changes of several lots in Fruitdale" addition from mul tiple family to commercial dist rict, and in the Queen Anne addition from single family to single and two family resi dences. The council also will consider a request for annexation of property owned by the First Church of Christ Scientist in the extension of Siskiyou Heights addition. City Manager Robert Duff will report on requests from J. C. Compton company and W. H. Conrad company for extensions of time for contract work; re port on property owners ques tionaires regarding paving on Capital ave. between Valley View and Sunrise ave.; and on a recommendation from the planning" commission for zone change from single ad two fam ily to idustrial district for prop erty on the north side of Clark st. between McAndrews rd. and Narregan st. Jury Awards $17,500 To Mildred Balderslon A federal district court jury awarded Mildred O. Balderson $17,500 damages in an auto ac cident suit decision yesterday afternoon. The plaintiff had orig inally asked $75,000 from O. D, Rasmussen, defendant. The case involved an auto ac cident which occurred about three miles' south of Medford on highway 99 March 31, 1954. This morning the court was hearing testimony in a fire dam age case, Pacific Engine and Ma chine Works vs. John C. and Ruth V. Rogers of Del Norte Laundry. The suit was expected to continue through Wednesday. George W. Mead is attorney for the plaintiff, and H. B. Col lins for the defendant. Judge James Alger Fee thle morning excused all jurors who had been called for Thursday morning from all further duty at this time. Two Men Jailed, Third m Fined on Venison Count Two men were in the county jail today and a third released after paying a $75 fine for pos session of untagged venison. Melvern Boyd Stanislowski, 27, and James Alpheus Inlow, 25, both of 415 Berrydale ave., and Teddy Wayne Ruth, 25, ol 1502 Prune st., pleaded guilty to the charges in circuit court yes terday. Judge Rawles Moore fined each of them $75 and costs. Stanislowski and Inlow were committed to the jail in lieu of the fine. The meat was ordered confis cated and delivered to the Jackr son county jaiL ft. 0 0 O
