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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.
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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
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