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Q O THREAl FLOOD-AREA JV Q O O. -. mitt f'ln T o s ft h wr A- t J? i " P RAMPAGING RIVER eats away foundation of Southbridge, Mass., home toppling it into stream. Death toll is 97, damage estimated in billions of dollars. (International Soundphoto) O I : ' fossae-1 !s2b3sJ Ml " , FIREMAN IN breeches buoy rescues baby from third floor of Hartford, Conn., home when raging torrent traps occu pants. Thousands are homeless in 7-state area.f International) Eisenhower To Fly Over Flooded States On Inspection Trip Denver (U.R) President Eisenhower will fly East tonight for a firsthand look at flood dam age in six Eastern states and meet with governors of the af fected areas at Hartford, Conn., tomorrow morning. The President will leave by a?r about 8 p.m. (PST) tonight for an overnight flight East, swooping over the six affected states before landing at Hartford about 4:30 a.m. .(PST) tomor row. He invited governors of all flood-stricken states to meet him ere or send representatives. Appeals for Money Mr. Eisenhower will fly to Washington .from Hartford, ar riving tomorrow afternoon. The President coupled his dra rnatic announcement with a na tionally televised plea for the American people to contribute to the Red Cross special flood Ssaster fund. "The heart of America is not going to stand still while other Americans are in distress and in need of help," the chief exec $ive said. , . Mr. Eisenhower made the an nouncement at his summer White jfouse headquarters at Lowry Air Forcbase. O He previously had planned to take off tomorrow morning for Washington for a scheduled speech Wednesday before the American Bar association con jntion at Philadelphia. The President will fly over the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachu setts, Rhode Island and Connec ticut. Park Pool To Close for Season Sept. 5 O Hawthorne park swimming jol will be closed for the year on Labor day, Sept. 5, accord ing to Park Director Darell Hu son. The pool has been open from lto 9 p.m. seven days a week suice it was opened on June 10. ffle second largest attendance on record was noted July 13, when 901 people, including 78 adults, used the pool. The all tSne high of 915 was set on July 1952. A total of 365 persons were taugit to swim this year during the summer swimming instruc tion program at the Hawthorns nark dooL The President's plans for the Philadelphia speech and his re turn to, Denver Wednesday night were not changed. Federal Help Ready In his television talk, Mr. Eis enhower said he hoped that pub lic response to the Red Cross appeal would be sufficient to meet the goal by tomorrow night. He made the plea in response to a request from E. Roland Har riman, president of the American Red Cross, who said, that the $2,000,000 already earmarked by the organization is not nearly enough. At the same time, the Presi dent gave Civil Defense Admin istrator Val Peterson a virtual blank check in determining how much federal money should be dumped into states designated as major disaster areas by the White House., The White House also an nounced that the Small Business administration is setting up em ergency branch offices in the six flood-stricken states to speed the work of disaster loans. OSC Coeds' River Trip Seen at End Salem (U.R) The father of a water-logged Oregon State college coed said today he doubt ed that his daughter and her four companions would complete their proposed trip from Corval lis to Portland down the Wil lamette river in innertubes. The five started their journey early Saturday at Corvallis. Louise Hartmand and Jerri Keene got as far as Independ ence before their innertubes sprang leaks. Dorothy Gather coal, Lyn Hemingway, and Kath ryn McFadden were fished out of the chilly waters at 11 p.m. by a government tug. Dorothy's father, James Ga thercoal, said he believed the girls had discovered their stunt was not worth the . discomfort and would abandon their plan to float to the mouth of the Wil lamette. Weather FORECAST: Fair throujth Tues day. Low tonight 47. High Tuesday 92. Temp. Highest Yesterday 93 Lowest this Morning 49 Two People Hurt In Jackson County Auto Accidents Two persons were injured yes terday in a flurry of minor mo tor vehicle accident in Jackson county. Walter Lee Clary, 48, of Jack sonville, was reported "resting comfortably" this morning after receiving minor injuries in a one car accident on Little Applegate rd. State police were called to the scene at about 5:30 p.m. They said Lee's vehicle had skidded into the bank on a curve when the steering gear locked. Medford Ambulance service took the injured man to Commu nity hospital. Woman Injured Nora K. Casey, 62, of Prine ville, was hurt when the car she was riding in collided with an other vehicle on Highway 62 six miles 'above Trail yesterday. State police said her husband, Jack Casey, was operating the car when it was involved in a sideswipe collision with a vehi cle operated by Donald Walter Harmer, 24, of Roseburg, about 3 p.m. yesterday. The extent of Mrs. Casey's injuries was unknown. She was taken away by private car. Har mer was charged with failure to operate on the right side of the highway. Four Cars Damaged A two-car collision on High way 99 yesterday resulted in damage to four vehicles and a nearby gas pump. State police said a car driven by Raymond Harold McCoy, 23, of Los Ange les, was attempting to make a left turn heading south when it was involved in a collision with a vehicle operated by Celo Val entine Harkey, 53, of Ashland, traveling north. The Harkey auto continued out of control after the impact, knocking over a gasoline pump at Graber's Union station and ramming two parked cars. There were no injuries. At 4:17 a.m. Sunday, Richard Wayne Imhausen, 22, of route 3, box 180, Medford, was driving his car north on Highway 99 when he fell asleep at the wheel and ran into a concrete curb at Kim's restaurant, police said. Johnny Kezer, 18, of 1103 West 10th st., was a passenger in the vehicle. No one was in jured. UMC 'Kick-Off Dinner Slated; Goal $109,000 An official dinner at the YMCA Sept. 19, will open the 1956 United Medford Crusade campaign. M. M. Huggins, UMC chairman, announced the ''kick off" dinner today and declared the crusade goal has been set at $109,000. Huggins will be assisted in the '56 drive by Ken McDonald and Boyd Budge, associate chair men. Division Heads Division heads appointed by Huggins include: Frank Benesh, William Prentice, Ray Johnson, Tom Shepard, Dick House, El liot Becken, Robert Duncan, Richard Henselman, Foster Hib bard and Lloyd Evans. The $109,000 goal, $8,000 over the 1955 quota, was determined by the Admittance, Budget and Quota committee, taking into consideration population trends, business conditions, and the needs of the agencies served. The aim of the United Med ford Crusade, Huggins stated, is to "give the best possible assis tance to its agencies. This it must do through an informed public which assumes its responsibility with gratitude for the services and facilities extended by its community." - . Klamath Falls, Ore (U.R) The 20th annual Rotary club sponsored Klamath Junior Fall fair opened yesterday at Kla math county fairgrounds and will oontinue through Tuesday Eight-State Death Toll Reaches 211; More Expected Many Factories May Never Reopen New York (U.R) Disea threatened flood devastated northeastern towns today. Mud, debris and shattered transportation, communication and utility lines were immed iate problems in hundreds of communities digging out under a bright August sun. Dead still lay beneath the receding waters, and it was feared the death toll may reach 300. Sanitation Problem Faced The toll stood at 211 in eight states at midmorning, 110 in Pennslvania's northeastern cor ner of industrial towns and va cation camps; 68 in the factory stilled river valleys of Connecti cut; 19 in Massachusetts; six in New Jersey; four in New York; two in Virginia, one each in Delaware and Rhode Island. Health authorities faced with a massive sanitation problem sped disinfectants to towns where sewers had run with riv ers through the streets. Water purification pills were dropped from helicopters to still-island towns. . Typhoid inoculations were ordered for all survivors. Factories Vanish And as they counted their dead and spread mud-soaked bedding to dry, the homeless and bereav ed "are wondering where their money is going to come from to eat," one Connecticut resi dent said. Whole towns in Connecticut's heavily industrialized river val leys watched their means of livelihood swept to destruction with their homes. There were fears that some factories would never rebuild. State and federal agencies moved, however, to alleviate the distress as quickly as pos sible. And the hardest hit were sparing of tears. "I have 13 people living in my house," said a Torrington department store clerk. "I don't know most of them and they don't know me, or at least they didn't before this flood. "We're having a fine timcj together, es pecially at our nightly cook-outs. That's the only time we can for get for a while." Fantastic Scene At Winsted, Conn., the town's biggest wedding of the summer came off almost as scheduled, in the midst of almost total de struction. But the reception's baked meats were given to an emergency feeding center. "The scene here is so fantastic that most of us even now can't believe it's happened," Thomas A. Haggerty, 81, editor of the Winsted Citizen, said. "Winsted's main street, Hag gerty said, is a 10-foot deep gully for onet-hird of a mile. It looks as if someone fought a war here." At Torrington, where 75 per cent of the town's industry was crippled, the American Brass Company asked its workers to come back as quickly as possible, and please bring shovels. Federal funds for rebuilding will be available under the dis aster decree of President Eisen hower. Money for Jobless Connecticut's Gov. Abraham Ribicoff moved to alleviate im mediate distress. He ordered the Labor Department to cut red tape so the jobless may begin drawing unemployment insur ance immediately. And he' put a hold order on some $34,176,000 of scheduled state construction so that it will not compete with flood reconstruction projects. Massachusetts estimated dam age to its roads and highways alone at nearly $20,000,000. Morse Asks New Video Regulations Washington (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) called on the Federal Communications Commission today to speed new regulations that will give small communities the same television service that large cities already have. Morse said new regulations are needed to allow small com by short range booster stations, munities to receive TV signals "It is the responsibility of the commission to make television service available to everyone, and the citizens of small com munities should not be penalized because of the slowness of the commission in formulating a set of regulations," Morse said in a statement. BuDDetin Umatilla, Ore. (U.R) Three men held up the Bank of Umatilla here at noon to day, state police reported. The men escaped with an undis closed amount of cash. tJn 5" ,S dander jlled 0. In Algiers Crash - 834 Estimated Dead In Morocco Uprising Algiers (U.R) The commander-in-chief of all French forces in rebellion wracked French Morocco, was killed to day in an airplane crash in the midst of French military efforts to put down Nationalist upris ings throughout the French North African empire. The French commander, Gen eral of the Army Raymond Du val, lost his life while directing French forces who today began a series of military campaigns in Morocco and Algeria to stamp out the massacres, riots and other disorders which gave all North Africa a bloodbath over the weekend. French troops in Algeria de stroyed nine Arab villages de scribed as centers of the Nation alist uprising. Minimum 834 Dead French authorities set .the ten tative death toll in the weekend massacres, riots and disorders at a minimum of 834. They said 584 were known dead in Algeria, 249 in Morocco and one in Tu nisia. The destroyed villages were evacuated of all women and chil dren before the French blasted them to bits with shells and ap plied the torch. Fears were expressed that the death toll would rise well above 1,000. Some French newspapers placed the toll as high as 1,341 and officials admitted that sev ered telephone and other com munications had obscured the fate of many communities. Seek End To Fight Urgent talks were' begun at Aix-les-Bains, in France, be tween Premier Edgar Faure and native leaders in an effort to halt the carnage in North Africa. A government communique is sued in Algiers, capital of Al geria, said the nine native set tlements destroyed today had furnished most of the men for Nationalist raids on 14 points near Constantine in the surprise rebel offensive of last Saturday. $1,500,000 Blaze Destroys Lumber Mill at Rainier Rainier, Ore. (U.R) Fire swept through the Van Vleet lumber company mill here yes terday reducing the town's only major industry to ashes and causing $1,500,000 damage. Four fire departments fought the blaze. It apparently started from a spark from a welder's torch and quickly spread to piles of lumber awaiting ship ment by water. Firemen from Rainier, Kelso Longview and Weyerhaeuser fire departments were able to save the mill's lumber planer, a cargo dock along the Columbia river and 2,500,000 board feet of lumber valued at $200,000. Some Stacked Lumber Saved General manager H. W. Her miston said the entire mill was aflame 15 minutes after the fire started at 8:15 a.m. He valued the whole Rainier operation at $2,500,000. Part of "the stacked lumber was saved, Hermiston said, be cause there was no breeze and because mill hands and firemen pitched in to haul thousands of feet of lumber out of the path of the flames. State police from.Kelso, Wash, crossed the river to aid their Oregon neighbors. They said 10 firemen sustained minor burns before they had the flames under control at 10:40 a.m. The mill employed 150 men. Dorris Drug Store Destroyed by Fire Dorris,' Calif (U.R) Fire Sat urday completely destroyed the Drader Rexall drug store here despite the efforts of firemen who fought the blaze for two hours. Dr. C. R. Drader, the store's proprietor and the town's only physician, said the loss was 100 per cent. Firemen said they thought defective wiring was the cause. The only injury was fireman Alvin May who suffered minor cuts. Ma MEDFORD, OREGON, Thornton Charges Gov. Patterson Not Telling Whole Bribery Story Salem, Ore. KU.R) Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton yes terday charged that Gov. Paul Patterson had not told the whole story of a bribery investigation he ordered into the Oregon Liquor Control commission. "The governor says there are no secret documents in the hands of himself or Attorney Robert Maguire, who conducted the probe," Thornton said. "I do not Lowry .Requests Federal MioH Against SIP Line State Sen. Philip Lowry of Medford today charged South ern Pacific railroad violated an 1866 Act of Congress by discon tinuing its "Rogue River" pas senger line, and asked Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., to initiate court action against the company. The state senator said he had written the Attorney General making the request, charging that failure of the SP to con tinue its pasesnger service was "a deliberate open, flagrant and continuing violation of this Act of Congress. Lowry also declared that al leged losses sustained by South ern Pacific on the line, given as the reason for the discontinu ance, "would appear to be abso lutely immaterial." Residents Protest Passenger service on the line was discontinued Aug. 7, after a storm of protest from residents of the areas served by the train, dubbed the "night crawler" by its critics. Southern Oregon resi dents also staged a horse race with the train between Eugene and Roseburg, to point up the line's inefficiency, but lost the contest. In his letter to Brownell, Lowry pointed out that he and State Senator Paul Geddes of Roseburg and Gene Brown of Grants Pass had protested the SP action to the State fublic Utilities commissioner. "As of this date," he added, "the Southern Pacific has suc cessfully challenged the right of the state of Oregon to regulate the railroad's operations with re spect to ordering resumption of intra-state service until r. full hearing was conducted." Appeal Due The challenge was upheld by a Marion County Circuit court decision, which PUC Commis sioner Charles Heltzel has said he will appeal to the State Su preme court. Lowry also cited a federal dis trict court case of a decade ago in which the government sought to compel through service along the Siskiyou line of the railroad south of Ashland. The action was dismissed without prejudice by Presiding Judge James Alger Fee, but Lowry pointed out that Airport Paving Work Under Way Repaving of taxiways at Med ford Municipal airport started today. , City Manager Robert Duff said flights between 6 p.m. Wednes day and 8 a.m. Thursday have been cancelled by three airlines serving Medford so paving of the intersection may be done. He said that was the most conven ient arrangement which could be made between parties con cerned for paving the intersec tion. Paving of the main north south runway will start when taxiways and the intersection is complete, but flights are not ex pected to be interrupted. United Airlines, Southwest and West Coast Airliner, planes will use the east-west: runway during paving. J. C. Cpmpton company of Medford is paving taxiways and the runway with two inches of asphaltic concrete. The taxiway is 1,764 feet long and the run way is 3,580 feet. Medford's share of repaving will be $35, 271, and the federal government will contribute $45,000 to the project. MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1955 see how he can make that state ment." Thornton charged that no one had been permitted to see more than a couple of sworn deposi tions from the report and that he and Multnomah county dis trict attorney William Langley had only received a "general ized" report of the investigation. Saturday the Governor criti cized Thornton for "usurping" the judge, commenting from the bench, indicated that the suit had been poorly handled by the fed eral prosecutor. The 1866 law cited by the state senator was concerned with filing of land grants and the operation of services and fran chises. HEADS MOD Jerry Lausmann, above, of Medford , has been named by the Medford Lions club as chairman of the March of Dimes in Jackson county. The fund raising effort of the Nation al Foundation for Infantile Par alysis will take place in January. The Medford Lions club replaces the Active club as the sponsoring organization in the the county. The Active club withdrew from the project, which it has under taken for several years, because of a dwindling membership. (Brainerd Photo) Eugene Notes Coldest August on Record By UNITED PRESS The 38 degrees recorded this morning at Eugene was the cold est August morning in the rec ords of the weather bureau there. Meteorologists attributed the unseasonal cold to extremely dry air and rapid loss of heat after sunset. Portland had a low of 47 degreees this morning and a Sun day high of 82. Forecasters predicted gener ally cooler temperatures around the state by tomorrow with some partial cloudiness. Boston (U.R) Sixty-eight new cases of polio were reported in Massachusetts today. Ike, Dulles May Tackle American Prisoner Problem Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles are expected to tackle the problem of American prisoners in Red China when they meet here Tuesday to review the world situation. Mr. Eisenhower is interrupt ing his Colorado vacation to make a speech in Philadelphia Wednesday. He will confer with Dulles during a brief stopover here. Not Optimistic American officials are hoping Russia's decision to free three U.S. prisoners will inspire Red China to do the same in the case of the 41 American civilians it holds. But they are not optimistic about any quick action. The ne gotiations with the Chinese Reds in Geneva are still very much Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 130 authority in the case which ho said properly belonged to Lang ley. Langley had announced he was ordering a grand jury inves tigation into charges against the OLCC. "The grand jury investigation is certainly in order," Thornton said, "but that does not go far enough." He said the "whole af fair" should be brought out in the open. North Korea Reds Will Return Flier; Body of Captain Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) Communist North Korea Tues day will return to the United Nations an injured American airman and the body of an Army captain whose plane was shot down by Red anti-aircraft fire. The Reds agreed at a meeting of the military, armistice com mission Sunday to return Air Force 2nd Lt. Guy H. Bumpass of Jackson, Miss., and the body of Capt. Charles W. Brown of West Louisville, Ky., at the vil lage of Korisal in the Neutral Zone. Will Risk Artillery Fire At the same time, U. S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Harlan C. Parks, senior u.W. officer, warned the Communists that they will be risking Allied artillery fire if their planes cross the border over South Korea. The Communists told the United Nations command that Bumpass "appeared to have a cracKett skull ' but was in a good mood, conscious and has a normal appetite." The plane' carrying "Bumpass and Brown, a T6 trainer, was riddled by Communist anti-aircraft fire as it flew over the neutral zone between North and South Korea last Wednesday. The U.N. said the unarmed Wlono t; . . - woa uii a luuune training mission and flew over the neu tral zone by mistake. The Communists claimed that Bumpass has denied this but Parks replied that "I don't be lieve he made such a statement." The Red claim could mean that Bumpass will be questioned under President Eisenhower's new "Code of Conduct" for pris oners of war, which forbids giv ing military information to the enemy. Pear Harvesting Near Full Swing Picking of Jackson county's pear crop will go into full swing this week, and major packing houses are expected to be op erating tomorrow. Don Berry, countv horticul tural agent, said most orchardists will be picking their crops this week. First pickings in some Bartlett near orchards started last week, and second pickings are planned for later. Berry said fruit size is a littli smaller than anticipated, but there still is a laree cron to be harvested within a short time of about three weeks. Some orchardists. Berrv said. have reported fruit dropping. He said dropping was because fruit matured quicker than expected and orchardists delayed using hormone sprays which holcL fr.iit on trees. deadlocked over Communist de mands for control over Chines students in this country. Some'U.S. diplomats have been discussing the idea of calling a recess in the Geneva talks to prod the Chinese into some ac tion. This may be one of the is sues taken up by Mr. Eisenhower and Dulles. Russia To Release Three The State department an nounced Saturday that Russia has agreed to release three Americans long held behind the Iron Curtain. They are Army Pvts. Wilfred C. Kumis, Ames burg, Mass.; Murray Fields, New York, and Frederick Charle Hopkins, a man nobody has been able to identify. The Russians said the men would be released shortly but did not specify when. They pre sumably will be set fre Ja Berlin.
