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President Would
Summon Congress
To Obtain Money
Citizens Urged To
Give To Red Cross
Hartford, Conn. -4U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower said today, he
would call a special session of
Congress "if necessary" to get
federal funds for disaster relief
ffin the flood-stricken Eastern
states.
Grimly and forcefully, the
president pledged the full facili
ties of the federal government
during a conference with gover
nors of six hard-hit states at
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks,
Conn., near here.
He met with the governors im
mediately after landing in
gloemy weather following an
early morning aerial inspection
of the flood-ravaged areas. His
view, however, was partly
spoiled by soupy weather and
low-hanging clouds. Mr. Eisen-
w Th Jackson County chap
ter of the American Red Cross
today received a telegram
fjcm National Chairman E.
" Roland Harriman appealing
for funds to aid in the north
eastern states flood disaster.
The national organization is
appealing for $5,000,000 from
county chapters throughout
the country.
hower made the flying survey
after a night flight from uenver,
where he has been vacationing.
Promises Federal Aid
His face reddening and his
voice rising with feeling, Mr.
Eisenhower said in a statement
for press, radio and newsreels
trrtit he will ask congressional
leaders immediately for author
ity to spend as much as needed
tS)help the flood areas.
2He said he hopes a way will
be worked out so the money can
be obligated now and appropri
afcd when Congress reconvenes
January.
cjBut "if necessary, I will call
aQ special session to get the
rweney," he declared.
E. Roland Harriman, chairman
at, the American Red Cross, and
Federal Civil Defense Adminis
trator Val Peterson flanked Mr.
Eisenhower as he sat at a plain
table in a cavernous aircraft
hangar on the gloomy, overcast
' nirfiplfl
The governors of Massachu
setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania and other omc
ialsdtat at the table or clustered
behind them as the President,
Harriman and Peterson spoke.
Anneals for Donations
Mr. Eisenhower said the Red
Cross appeal "is a chance where
each of us can tise to an emer
gency and prove that the Ameri
can neonle. reeardless of gov
ernments, regardless of the limi
tations on them, can meet an
emergency and do it well.
Peterson estimated it may
take $75,000,000 in federal aid
fnr tht pishfcstates in which ma
jor disaster areas have been de
clared by Mr. Eisenhower, uniy
$11,500,000 are available now in
the President's emergency fund,
he said.
Envoys of U.S., Red
China Meet in Geneva
QGeneva s U.P.) Envoys of
the United Slates and Commun
ist China met for 27 minutes to
day to discuss release of 41 Am
efican civilians detained by the
Reds.
ut there was no indication
ot) progress when the 10th ses
sion of the talks adjourned with
agreement to meet again to
morrow. V brief joint communique said
only that agenda item one, the
roiurn of civilians of both sides
to their respective countries were
discussed. The session opened
the fourth week of the talks.
Pendleton (U.R) The Pen
dleton city c3uncil has hired
Walter E. Cook to be new city
ntgnager here. He will take over
his duties' here Sect. 29.
MEDFORD, OREGON,
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Charleston, S.C. i(U.R) A C-119 Flying Boxcar faltered on
takeoff, crashed into a Negro residential area near the Charleston
Air Force Base and exploded early today, killing nine persons and
injuring 11 others.
The Air Force announced that five of the 11 members of the
plane crew died in the flaming ruins of the plane. Four Negro
civilians were killed when the plane demolished the structures,
and five others were injured.
Dark Hollow Home,
Contents Destroyed
By Evening Blaze
A large, modern ranch style
home, owned by George E. Lo
gan, route 1, box 421, Medford,
together with all its contents,
was destroyed by fire which
started shortly before 10 p.m.
yesterday, according to state
police.
The only people present in the
house at the time the fire broke
out were Mr. and Mrs. Logan's
two small children, aged three
and five, police said. The young
sters were rescued from the
building by Gordon Logan, their
uncle, who lives next door.'
Logan is working somewhere
between Kansas and Texas as
a-rodeo announcer, according to
police, and Mrs. Logan was tem
porarily away from the house.
The house was located . on
Dark Hollow rd. about two miles
west of Coleman Creek rd. Two
Medford trucks and a state for
est patrol truck were dispatched
to the blaze, but the Medford
trucks were unable to get on the
fire because it was located out
side the Medford territory.
State forest patrolmen stayed
on the fire until about 2 a.m.,
and were sent out again this
morning for a final check. Cause
of the blaze had not been
determined.
AFL Meat Cutters
Reach Agreement
Portland (U.R) A new
agreement with some 600 AFL
meat cutters and wrappers in 14
Oregon cities was revealed to
day by the Safeway store chain,
giving them a 40-hour week for
the first time outside Portland.
The agreement affects meat
cutters and wrappers in Safe
way stores, instead, will receive
an $8 weekly pay boost to be
followed by a $2 increase next
year.
Amos Buck, secretary of Local
143 of the union said other con
tract improvements would be
equivalent to a total gain of $13.-
50 for men per week and $11.50
for women.
Negotiations between the un
ion and independent meat mark
ets .were continuing under the
direction of Bob McClelland, fed
eral mediator.
Construction of Four
Atomic Subs Slated
Washington (U.R) The Navy
notified senators today of the
assignment of ship construction
and reconversion work, includ
ing four new atomic-powered
submarines, to Navy yards and
private shipyards.
One atomic submarine will be
built at the Mare Island, Calif.,
Navy Yard, and one at the
Portsmouth, N.H., Navy yard.
An atomic submarine and an
atomic radar picket submarine
will be built at Groton, Conn
Competitive bids will be ta
ken for another Forrestal class
aircraft carrier to be built in a
private shipyard.
Weather
FORECAST: Fair tonight and
Wednesday. Little change in
temperature. Low tonight 50,
high Wednesday 92.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 91
Lowest this Morning 50
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23,
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The six survivors, the Air
Force said, were not critically
injured.
The big troop carrier "hit
three houses," the Air Force
said.
"The aircraft was demolished.
Only the tail section remained.
It wasn't very high and had
some kind of trouble almost im
mediately after takeoff."
The crash occurred at 2:05
a.m. in liberty Park,' one mile
southeast of the Air Force base
and 200 yards west of a dual
lane highway.
The plane was taking off for
a routine night mission from the
Charleston base when the acci
dent happened.
Newsreel cameraman Bob
Kennedy of station WCSC-TV
said "The only part of the plane
remaining is about 20 feet of one
tail assembly. The damage is
complete. One house is leveled
to the ground."
Flier Released
By Red Captors
Kirisil, Demilitarized Zone,
Central Korea (U.R) Second
Lt. Guy H. Bumpass walked to
freedom today with his injured
head swathed in bandages and
said the treatment he received
by the Communists who shot
down his plane was "O.K., con
sidering the circumstances.". "
A few moments , later the
Reds handed over a wooden cas
ket containing the body of Army
Capt. Charles W. Brown of West
Louisville, Ky., who was killed
a week ago when "trigger hap
py" Red gunners shot down the
light plane piloted by Bumpass.
Bumpass, 23, of Jackson,
Miss., arrived at this lonely ex
change spot in- a white ambul
ance. He stood wearing the flight
suit in which he crashed, two
Communist nurses at his side,
while the United Nations Com
mand negotiated the final details
of his release.
Bumpass' return to freedom
was delayed ten minutes while
the U.N. Command insisted that
the Communists turn over the
wounded man before delivering
the casket of the dead Army
captain.
Because of the lieutenant's
physical condition, the Ameri
can officers said, he should be
returned first. The Reds hesi
tated a few minutes and then
agreed. They indicated earlier
Bumpass had suffered a frac
tured skull.
Ringleaders of Riot
Facing Prosecution
Tacoma (U.R) It may become
necessary for the Washington
state Attorney General to prose
cute ringleaders of the two re
cent riots at the penitentiary at
WaPa Walla, State Sen. Neil
Hoff, chairman of the Legis-
Hoff( chairman of the Legis
lative Interim Subcommittee on
Institutions, said Walla Walla
County Prosecutor Arthur Haw
man had the names of the ring
leaders of the Aug. 14 riots for
at least a week, "but he has
done nothing about it."
Hoff said Warden Lawrence
Delmore Jr. advised him yester
day that the names of the ring
leaders were given to Hawman.
Salem (U.R) The State High
way Commission's program to
build a wider, straighter high
way between Salem ' and Mill
City will be furthered at its
Stpe. meeting when bids will
be called for grading another
nine miles of new road for the
North Santiam routs. , -
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. Aid
The Dalles Dam
Worker Killed as ,
Wood Panel Falls
Seven Hospitalized
By Construction Mishap
The Dalles (U.R) One man
was killed and seven others hos
pitalized here this morning when
a piece of wooden panelling
weighing from three to four
tons fell from a crane onto about
12 men working at The Dalles
dam.
Officials of the Atkinson Aus
trander Construction Co. declin
ed to identify the dead man pend
ing notification of next of kin.
Used as 'Concrete Form
The accident occurred at the
upstearm entrance of the east
fish ladder of the dam where a
"whirly" crane was swinging the
wooden panel into position as a
concrete form. Workmen were
standing atop the existing con
crete to bolt the panel into
place.
Engineers said a "structural
failure" caused the panel to drop
from the crane hook. It plum
meted onto the perch occupied
by a dozen men, knocking them
off scaffolding and tossing some
of them about 40 feet into the
concrete fish channel below.
Others who were not knocked off
the scaffold were injured by
pieces of flying debris.
Ambulances Called --- '
Several ambulances were rush
ed to the scene to take the in
jured to a The Dalles hospital
two doctors said it was too early
to determine the extent of all
the injuries.
The fatality was the 11th dur
ing construction of The Dalles
dam. Two others have died on
adjacent relocation projects.
Oil Lands Meeting
Set at Shady Cove
Oil exploration and develop
ment in the Shady Cove area
will be discussed at a meeting
starting at "5 p.m. today at the
Shady Cove VFW hall.
The meeting is in connection
with possibilities of developing
oil in the Sams Valley, Beagle,
Ramsey Canyon and Meadows
districts. A landowners commit
tee from those areas recently de
posited oil right leases in a safe
deposit box pending arrange
ment for exploratory drillings.
The leases were obtained on
12,000 acres- of land prior to
Natural Resources association,
San Jose, attempting to" obtain
a major oil company to start
exploratory drilling.
Several landowners in the
Shady Cove area have expressed
an interest in exploring oil pos
sibilities in that area.
Nixon Plans To Visit
Near East and Africa
Washington (U.R) Vice-President
Richard M. Nixon will visit
the Near East and Africa, prob
ably during November, the
White House announced today.
Nixon's trip is being made at
the request of President Eisen
hower and Secretary of State
John .Foster Dulles.
Tennessee Train-School Bus Crash Fatal
To 10 Children; Governor Orders Probe
Spring City, Tenn. (U.R)
Gov. Frank Clement today or
dered a three-way investigation
of a freight train-school bus col
lision which killed 10 small chil
dren and injured 30 others at a
Spring City grade crossing.
Children Scattered
The speeding train Monday
plowed into the side of the yel
low bus toward the rear, tearing
it into a twisted' mass and scat
tering the killed and mangled
children for 300 feet.
Among the slightly injured
was the driver, Raymond Moore,
38, who said he saw the train and
"prayed I would make it" but it
was too late.
Clement promised . stunned
FLOOD AFTERMATH Main-st, Winsted, Conn., is completely demolished by high
flood waters. Two store owners work their way through roadway which was flooded
over eight feet leaving only broken water mains and sewer pipes.
40-Acre Forest
Fire Controlled
In Prospect Area
Jackson county's largest forest
fire this season was brought
under control early this morn
ing, and mopping up operations
were expected to start before
noon.
About 40 acres of forest serv
ice land which recently was cut
on a timber sale burned over in
the Mill creek area north of
Prospect during the night. The
fire started about 4 p.m. yester
day, and about 80 men worked
all night in controlling the blaze.
80 Men Fight Fire
The 80 men included forest
service personnel, state forest
patrol men, and employees of
Elk Lumber Company.-
Tractors, pumpers and tankers
were used in surrounding the
fire, which forest service offic
ials said probably was caused
from a fisherman or hiker in the
area. Water from Mill creek was
used in controlling the fire.
Officials' said a few trees re
mained burning within the line
around, the fire today, and at
tempts were being made to ex
tinguish them.
The blaze was potentially dan
gerous to Douglas Fir stands in
the national forest.
Cut Over Area
The fire was in an area which
recently was cut over in a tim
ber sale, and piled slash, which
was to be burned this fall, added
to the fire, officials said.
Officials said there was a lot
of crowning and spot fires dur
ing the night.
A larger forest fire about 600
acres was expected to be con
trolled today in the Fremont na
tional forest. The fire threaten
ed virgin stands of Ponderosa
pine six miles northeast of Bly,
and about 100 men were on fire
lines today aided . by tractors
from Weyerhaeuser Timber com
pany. Harvester Firm
Target of Strikers
. Chicago (U.R) About 40,
000 CIO United Auto Workers
went on strike against 18 Inter
national Harvester . Co. plants in
six states today, but negotiations
to reach a settlement continued.
The nationwide walkout be
came . off icial early today when
the old five-year company-union
pact . expired. Almost 30,000
workers had already jumped the
gun and walked out at nine of
the farm machinery company's
plants.
The plants involved are lo
cated in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Calif
ornia. Some of the biggest con
centrations are in the Chicago
area, where four plants employ
17,000 workers, and in the Il
linois quad-cities region, where
there are two plants.
parents of Ideal Valley, where
most of the children lived, that
the state would "leave no stone
unturned" to prevent a recur
rence of such a disaster.
Governor To Meet Parents
The governor announced Mon
day night in Knoxville, Tenn.,
that he would arrive today to
meet personally the parents of
the dead children and tour hos
pitals of four other towns where
the injured were taken.
Mayor Leonard Pack, an early
arriver at the scene, said the
freight train was traveling at full
speed along tracks through" the
heart of this town of 1,725 popu
lation and "burst the rear of the
Search Continues
For Bank Robbers
Umatilla, Ore. (U.R) A two-stale search was underway today
for three bandits who held up the Inland Empire bank of Umatilla
at noon yesterday and escaped with a shopping bag full of cash
estimated at $60,000.
Roadblocks along major Oregon and Washington highways
netted a young Oklahoma marine and his wife in a red convertible
at Kennewick, Wash., but they were later released when police
determined they were merely on vacation. Oregon State police
were tracking two cars following the robbery, but their leads fiz
zled out.
Police said only one man entered the bank while another stood
guard at the door and a third sat in the getaway car.
There were no customers in the bank when the bandit entered,
brandishing a revolver. He quietly told three women employees
"I'll have to put you in the vault. I'm very sorry but that's the way
it will have to be."
The polite bandit then herded Mrs. Frank Stewart, assistant
cashier; Mrs. James Rafferty. teller, and Mrs. Vernon Stewart,
clerk, into the vault and banged the door.
He then heaped his shopping
and tellers' cages. On the way out he just about ran into a cus
tomer, N. H. Ness. Ness heard the women screaming in the vault.
He summoned L. Waid De Vore, cashier, who was at lunch one
block away and they released the
Charles A. Roberts, Umatilla
shopping-baa was "all heaped up"
car was a brown Oldsmobile sedan.
Carole Jo Kabler
Loses in Tournament
Charlotte. N. C. (U.R)
Young Ann Quast of Marys
ville. Wash., eliminated 17-year-old
Carole Jo Kabler of
Roseburg, Ore., 8 and 6. in a
second round match today at
the Women's National Ama-"
teur Golf tournament.
Walla Walla Prison
Disturbance Quelled
Walla Walla (U.R) A minor
disturbance, created by the 18
inmates who triggered last
month's riot at the Washington
State Prison, was reported to
dav by Prison Warden Lawrence
Delmore. . ?
The warden said the prisoners
began pounding on their cells
and shouting Sunday afternoon.
Delmore said he told the pris
oners: ."If you be quiet, every
thing will be all right."
The prisoners, however,' con
tinued their demonstration and
guards were forced to toss a tear
gas bomb into Wing One, where
the so-called "hardcore" are
kept. The gas broke up the dis
turbance. - -
The 18 inmates previously had
protested their impending 'trans
fer to a maximum security ward
at Eastern State Hospital.
IBuDBetin
London (U."R) A British
Canberra jet bomber flew from
London to New York and back .
today in 13 hours and 56 mini
uies to complete a round trip
Atlantic crossing between
breakfast and dinner.
bus like a bubble."
Mrs. Sybil Hardaway, a news
paper correspondent, said that
when she arrived "the bodies of
the children were scattered over
the ground; all covered with
blood, all mangled."
Stunned Parents Arrive,
Paul Giles, engineer of the
Cincinnati, New Orleans and
Texas Pacific freight train, said
he was traveling at full speed
but that the warning light was
blinking at the crossing.
He said the bright yellow bus
moved upon the tracks when he
was about 450 feet from the
crossing and his Diesel engine
struck it about six feet from the
rear.
bag with money from cash drawers
women.
police chief, said the bandits
with bills. He said the getaway
Five Plead Guilty
In Circuit Court;
Wright Sentenced
William Eugene Wright, 22,
who gives his address as 77 Man
zanita st, Ashland pleaded guilty
to various crimes after arraign
ment in circuit court Jhis mor
ning. Wright, arrested by Ashland
city police, was sentenced to a
term not to exceed five years
for burglarly not in a dwelling.
All of the five appearing
waived grand jury indictment
and counsel and pleaded guilty.
Sentences were delayed pend
ing receipt of complete records.
Those who appeared included:
Jack Eugene Miller,' -18, of
Rogue River, charged with grand
larceny concerning car theft.
Ralph Ownby, Crater hotel,
charged with non-support.
Glen H. Upchurch, 51, of Los
Angeles, charged, with obtain
ing money by false pretenses.
William Boyd Harl(jw, 64, of
329 Apple st., charged with con
tributing to the delinquency of
a minor, involving a 9-year-old
girl.
Judge Charles H. Foster, Lake
view, presided. Regular circuit
court judge, H. K. Hanna, is on
vacation.
Ike Makes Contribution
To Flood Relief Fund
' New York (U.R) The Am
erican Red Cross said today that
President Eisenhower made, his
own contribution to the organi
zation's flood relief fund at the
conclusion of his Hartford meet
ing today, handing it personally
to Red Cross Chairman E. Ro
land Harriman. -
The New York chapter quoted
Harriman as saying the Presi
dent's gift was "a generous one,
an example to others who have
not acted."
Freeway Will Not
Use School Property
Central Point The Central
Point school board received word
from the state highway commis
sion today that the route for any
freeway constructed through
this area will bypass the Central
Point grade school site.
Superintendent H. P. Jewett
had been notified last week that
a new highway probably would
take about four acres of land
recently purchased for construc
tion of a 12-room school at the
east' end of Manzanita st.
Rebellious Tribes
Target of Drive
By Tanks, Planes
Rebel Territory
Said Encircled
Casablanca, Morocco
Tank and air-supported French
army troops launched a general
offensive today against rebel
lious tribes responsible for the
slaughter of French settlers in
Morocco's wild interior.
Thousands of soldiers jumped
off at 5 a.m. along a 65-mile
front into the desolate reaches
of the Khenifra and Khouribga
region, where four Berber tribes
rose against French rule In a se
ries of savage butcheries that
brought death to nearly 1000 in
Morocco and Algeria.
Territory Said Encircled
First reports said the French
had encircled the rebel territory
at the foot of the Atlas moun
tains and moved off into the arid
rock-strewn hills to blast out all
resistance nests in a series of
systematic attack against the
Berber villages.
French forces attacked rebel
forces in Algeria in the second
day of the campaign there to
wipe out the anti-French insur
gents reported still fighting in
the. fourth day of bloody terror.
Today's offensive in Morocco
centered in the rugged hill coun
try 100 to 150 miles southeast of
Casablanca and to the north of
Marrakesh. It is wild mountain
country where savage Arab
tribesmen have lived for cen
turies. Area Devastated
Khouribga is a phosphate min
ing center devastated in the up
risings as if hit by a tornado.
It is near the town of Oued Zam,
scene of the bloodiest carnage of
the entire rebellion.
The security forces attacking
today were aided by Vampire
jet fighters and tanks. ,
Similar operations were car-
ried out in Algeria where French
troops Monday evacuated and
then destroyed nine rebel Arab
I villages in a series of dawn at
tacks. The attacks were against
outlaws who . had used the vil-- .
lages for their headquarters.
France Seeks Compromise
While troops pursued their;
quarry in the wastelands of the
Constantine area of eastern Al
geria and in the wrecked towns
and villages of the Atlas Moun
tains, French Premier Edgar
Faure and his top ministers met
with Moroccan representatives
for the second day in the resort
town of Aix-Les-Bains, France.
Their goal was a compromise -
that would retain France's hold-
ings in North Africa but would
grant enough independence to
meet the demands of Nationalists
who touched off the weekend
demonstrations to underscore
their determination.
Reformatory Inmates
Riot in Nebraska
Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Some
100 inmates of the Nebraska
Reformatory rioted last night to
cover up an escape attempt in
the third outbreak at a Nebraska
prison within a week.
However, the two would be
escapees were caught, and the
rioters were stripped of . their
clothing and quickly locked in
the reformatory jail or "hole."
The reformatory uprising fol
lowed a major riot and $100,000
fire last Tuesday night at the
state penitentiary, and a Satur
day night uprising at the peni
tentiary by 16 of the Tuesday
night rioters. The Saturday night
affair was quelled by guards wp
fired shotgun volleys atthe pris
on "hole." . .'
Reformatory . Supt. George
Morris said the reformatory riot
ers last night "thought they were
big penitentiary boys." He said
they would get out of the refor
matory hole" when "we decide
they want to be good citizens,
and we don't care how long
that takes."
Mississippi Negroes
Rejected at Polls
Jackson, Miss. (U.R) Missis
sippi' Democrats ',tfhose a gov
ernor today in a runoff primary
from which Negro voters were
excluded.
Negro voters were turned
away from the polls or their bal
lots were challenged over a
widespread area.
Atty Gen. J. P. Coleman and
young attorney Paul B. Johnson,
son of a former governor, aban
doned the segregation issue for
name calling campaigns to get
ready for the runoff. They were
the leaders in a five-candidate
first primary race Aug. 2.
Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul .
Patterson has appointed Mrs.
Robert F. Hamilton of Portland
to the State Furniture and0Bed-
ding Advisory Council.
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