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o o o o o G O Me V.itea Press Full L.sed -50th Yer essDmi If AssembQ T Cpe Wifth Mrev y ' yprisoinig Inferior Minister Asks Six Battalions Be Sent To Algeria Too Many Concessions Fearisd by Deputies Paris (U.R) Rightwing mem bers of Premier Edgar Faure's Parliament majority revolted to day and demanded that he call Parliament back from its recess to consider the bloody uprisings in French North Africa. The hostile right wingers de manded the emergency recall of the National Assembly of Faure who had flown here from urgent ('Conferences at Aix-les bains with Casablanca, Morocco (U.R) ( French troops today hunted (down die-hard Moroccan and (Algerian terrorists under or ders to "shoot first ask ques tions later." reliable sources reported. Tank and plane supported French security forces launch- ed a big mop-up operations (7uesday against the fanatical rebels who have bathed the (French North African empire in blood. And France today began calling up reserve troops to help crush the last vestiges of the revolt that has. claimed more nan 1.500 lives since Sat urday. (? Moroccan political leaders and members of his Cabinet Watching Situation The 17. S. Embassy here was watching the situation closely. Some 1700 persons were killed in the bloody weekend uprisings in North Africa and the future of Faure's government rested on a (Satisfactory solution to the whjle difficult problem. Interior Minister Maurice Bi9rges-Maunoury asked Faure, intjoday's Paris talks, to send sixHnew battalions to Algeria, to ex?nd the state of emergency to ihe whole country and to bet (ftr1 arm the police there. The rebellious deputies, who fear Faure will make too many concessions to Moroccan Nation alists, claim to control 208 depu ties in Faure's coalition. Their desertion could shake and even topple six six-months-old government. France announced that 60, 000 reserves will be called up to help stem the bloody North Afri can outbreaks which have cost more than 1500 lives in Morocco (nd Algeria. Faure will discuss details of nQhe new call-up of reserves with French" military leaders before returning to Aix-les-Bains to night. ..Salary Revision Acceptance Lauded Salem (U.R) Charles W Terry, state civil service direc tor, said today he was highly gratified at the almost unan imous acceptance of a new pay plan for state employees put into effect July 1. Terry said that complaints that normally might be expected after such a change have just about been missing. "Pay increases for state em ployees in July were restricted to those whose pay was below the minimus set up in the plan plus those whose anniversary date for a merit salary increase fell on July 1," Terry said. I5-Yar-Ofcf Tes Of Larceny Cases A 15-year-old Medford boy was released to the custody of his parents yesterday after in terrogation by a deputy of the county sheriff's office and a city policeman revealed that the boy had been involved in several larceny cases in and around Med- ford, according to department o records. The boy implicated four other youths in his admission. He re portedly has stolen clothing, fish- , ing equipment, cokes, "22" shells and various other miscellaneous rticles from several large Med (fbrd stores, police said. His case is presently under jurisdiction of (She local juvenile office. Medford DFORD Wire 22 Pages wn"fliW 7 w - 'p' ' J M 4 - II nit 1? ' fr gj .Jw CSS--'-- ' -tki ' IIM DARK HOLLOW FIRE Shown above is all that remained of a large, modern ranch style home owned by George E. Logan after the building was destroyed by fire late Monday. The blaze, on Dark Hollow rd. about two miles west of Coleman Creek rd., was report Patterson Called in 7 1 Wildcat Strike Ends; Dock Crews New York (U.R) Longshore men ended a wildcat walkout at most Hudson river piers today but threatened a full fledged strike if their grievance against the Bi-state Waterfront Commis sion ''is not straightened out in two weeks." The wildcat walkout started Oil Right Leases Signed by Property Owners at Meeting Several five-year oil right leases were signed by property owners in the Shady Cove-Trail area at a meeting in the Shady Cove VFW hall yesterday. The leases will be deposited in a safe deposit box along with leases for 12,000 acres of land in northern Jackson county. The leases will be held until Natural Resources association of San Jose, Calif., obtains an oil com pany willing to start explora tory drilling. Area Outlined The Shady-Cove-Trail oil ex ploratory development includes the land on both sides of Crater Lake highway north to Trail and up Trail Creek rd. to the county line, an area which is several hundred acres in size. Ralph James, chairman of the landowners committee, and Paul Langworthy of the resources as sociation presided at yesterday's meeting. Another meeting will be held next Tuesday at the VFW hall in Shady Cove. Leases for 12,000 acres of land in the Sams Valley, Beagle, Ram sey Canyon and Meadows dis tricts are now ' on deposit in a safe deposit box. Jet Fighter Pilot Parachutes To Safety Spokane (U.R) Capt. N. C. Christensen parachuted safely from his F96 jet fighter plane today before it crashed and ex ploded in a pasture north of here. Christensen, a Marine Corps reservist from Spokane, suffered only a minor leg injury. The pilot was flying a routine training mission from the Naval air reserve facility at Geiger Air Force, base here. Stores Will Remain Open MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, hornton rand Jury Probe Threaten on the- Grace Line's Pier 57 Monday after the commission re voked the work permit of an ex- convict longshoreman. It spread up the Hudson piers yesterday, tying up more than a dozen ships including the Cunard Liner Queen Mary. Plea Answered Longshoremen refused to re turn to work at the 8 a.m. whistle today. But Capt. Wil liam Bradley, president of the Independent International Long shoremen's Association, con tinued to plead and shortly be fore 9 a.m. the men returned to work at all except the original ly affected pier and adjacent Grace Line docks. "Go back to work or you'll blow our union sky high," Brad ley roared at the milling long shoremen. "We are doing our best to straighten out this problem," he said, "and if it is not straight ened out -in two weeks we will be down here to lead you." Against Commission The strike was directed, not against employers but against the Waterfront Commission set up by the states of New York and New Jersey, to police all aspects of dock operations. The commission last week revoked the temporary registration of a longshoreman on the grounds of a criminal record dating back to 1924. aseball NATIONAL Chicago '.. 5 9 4 Brooklyn 8 11 2 Hacker, Hillman (5) and Chiti; Meyer, Tremel (7). La bine (8) and Campanella, Me- Cullough (7), Cooper (8). Cincinnati ... 2 6 0 Pittsburgh 4 10 0 Nuxhall, Minarcin (6), Col lum and Burgess; Hall and Pet erson. AMERICAN Boston 0 7 0 Cleveland 2 8 1 Sullivan and White; Garcia and Naragon. Baltimore 18 0 Chicago 14 20 1 Wilson, Shallock (4). John son (5) Gray (7) and Smith; Pierce and Lollar. 5 X c4 ed at about 10 p.m. and state forestry depart ment crews stayed on the fire until 2 a.m. The Logans' two small children, only occu pants of the house at the time the fire broke out, were rescued by their uncle.. (Charles Birchfield photo) WIN Be Officials To Be Early Witnesses In Controversy Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson is going to Pendleton tomorrow night to dedicate a new armory provided a suddenly-developed trip to the Multnomah county grand jury in the Liquor Commission con troversy doesn't upset his time table. Multnomah County District Attorney William M. Langley indicated he would call Gov. Patterson and Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton as early witnesses in the grand .jury study of charges by Thornton that the governor has not re leased all the evidence and in formation uncovered by Port land Attorneys Robert Maguire and Howard Bobbitt in an in vestigation to charges of irregu larities on the part of certain Liquor Commission personnel. Gov. Patterson says Thornton has all the information the gov ernor's office has. Others have pointed out that George S. Woodworth, Liquor Commission attorney and Thornton's own as sistant attorney general, has been advised in all phases of the investigation. . Files Amended Petition As a new phase in the con troversy that has brought a sharp exchange of words be tween the governor and the at torney general, i Thornton filed an amended petition in Marion County Circuit Court late yes terday demanding : that he be given all records of the investi gation into charges of alleged briberies and pay-offs concern ing Liquor Commission person nel!. The filing means a new hear ing in the case by Judge George Duncan, who ruled last week that Thornton's mandamus ac tion was not the proper way to force an investigation. Thornton said the amended petition makes more definite some of the allegations in the original mandamus request. He charges that the commission is obstructing his investigation and further charges that the docu ments he wants to see have been in possession at all times of the commission or the men who con ducted the investigation. RIBUNE Price 5c Government Speeds Relief Program For Flooded Areas Special Session Of Congress Doubted Washington (U.R) The gov ernment today rushed plans for an 80 million dollar relief pro gram to carry out the "total war" President Eisenhower has ordered against northeastern flood damage. Mr. Eisenhower was to re ceive a personal report on the program's progress late today after returning from a speech in Philadelphia and before resum ing his Colorado vacation. He and his top officials map ped tentative plans for vastly ex panded disaster aid at a White House conference late Tuesday. They met after the President's dramatic flight over the flood stricken area and after his pledge to do "everything pos sible" even to calling a spe cial session of Congress if ne cessary to speed government aid to the area. Special Session Unlikely Congressional leaders general ly expressed doubt that a special session would be necessary to provide funds for the relief pro gram. But Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said it was still possible such a ses sion would be summoned. The White House began con tacting congressional leaders Tuesday night on plans for the relief program and asking for their opinions. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon ''3.. Johnson told re porters the President already has "considerable authority" to act in using funds for flood re lief without a special session of Congress. But he said he is sure that if more authority is needed, Congress would grant it. Rayburn's Endorsement Speaker ' Sam Rayburn said that "if the President, without calling Congress into session, wants to use emergency funds for relief of the disaster area, he would have my endorsement." The White House said govern ment aid would go mainly to the repair and rehabilitation of such public facilities as streets, water systems, schools and clearing of debris which might become a health hazard. Civil Defense Director Val Peterson, in charge of the relief program, said the President "has declared total war on the effects of the flood disaster, and we are trying to move with all of the resources of the government to alleviate this situation." Money Distribution He said state-by-state spend ing under the program probably would be as follows: Twenty five million dollars in both Connecticut and Pennsyl vania; $15,000,000 each in New Jersey, New York and" Rhode Island. This amounts to $0,000,000 but Peterson said the' final fig ure may be as high as $100,000, 000. (See story on Page 12) . Blaze Uncontrolled East of Eureka Eureka, Calif. .(U.R) A for est fire, which already has de stroyed more than 600 acres of virgin fir, blazed out of control today 40 miles east of here in the rugged Berry's Summit area. . Some 100 San Quentin prison inmates were being rushed to the area to augment a tired 300 man firefighting force. The blaze, which is spreading fast over the tinder dry area, was discovered shortly after 3 p.m. yesterday. Forest Service supervisors at the scene reported the fire apparently was touched off by a timber blasting opera tion. Radio-TV Highlights An address by President Eisenhower will be carried over station KMED (1440 kc) at 7:30 p.m. today and by sta tion KBES-TV at 10 p.m. for Shopping Until United Pres Full Leased Wire No. 132 Deranged Airman Kills 3, Hurts 8 In Wild Gunfight Hundreds of Bathers Terrorized by Chase Broadstairs, England (U.R) A deranged Negro airman today fatally shot two U.S. fliers and an RAF corporal, and wounded eight others in a wild gunflight and chase through a U.S. air base and this crowded beach re stort. The airman, identified as Na poleon Green, an air base ship ping room clerk, was cornered after terrorizing hundreds bath ing or sunning themselves on the beach, and ended his own life with two shots from his .30 caliber Army carbine. British police and hospital sources identified one of the American victims as Air Police man Nelson Gresham, Philadel phia, r Identification Delayed American Air Fore sources refused to identify the Ameri cans killed and wounded until notification of next of kin. British police said four of the wounded were American service personnel and three were Brit ish women employees of the air base. A British male civilian also was reported wounded. The British Air Force corpor al killed was identified by the RAF as Cpl. H. P. Grayer, and the third victim was said by Brit ish sources to have been a U.S. Air Force master sergeant. Green also struck and fired at a fourth woman employee of the air base, who escaped unharmed. Trapped on Beach After his march of death across the Manston base, Green slipped past guards at the gate, commandeered a car and forced the driver, at gunpoint, to drive him to this popular beach re sort. Air Force officials said they had no idea what triggered Green's tragic act. He finally was trapped at the rocky tip of the Broadstairs beach by a posse of American and British air and civilian po lice, led by Col. H. B. Manson, commander of the American unit based at Manston. Green was armed with a .30 caliber Army carbine and a .45 caliber automatic pistol. He raced across the beach, crowded with hundreds "of wo men and children, as beach at tendants and police sounded an alarm and led the bathers to safety. Accidental Blast Disrupts Service About 75 people in the Buck shot Hill rd. area were out of water for almost four hours last night after the accidental blast ing of a 23-inch pipeline coming from Big Butte springs, accord ing to Robert Lee, assistant city water superintendent. The accident occurred at -4:30 p.m. when men working for Den Herder and Strobel, contractors, set a charge of dynamite too near the underground pipeline while installing a wter main for the Grandview water dis trict, Lee said. The line is locat ed on Buckshot Hill rd., between Springbrook and Brookdale rds. One of two 23-inch pipes bringing water into - Medford from Big Butte, the break re portedly was "very hard to con trol." Although ' the eight-inch split was repaired in 15 minutes, it took more than three hours to stop the water and then start it again. The full extent of dam ages is still unknown, Lee added. First Polio Case Reported in County Jackson county's first case of poliomyelitis has been reported to the county health office. Dr. A. Erwin Merkle, health officer, said a nine-year-old Medford boy has a mild, non paralytic case. The boy had been sick for about 10 days before the case was diagnosed as polio. The case is the first contracted in Jackson county this year com pared to eight cases at this time last year. Last year's total num ber of polio cases here was 13. Earlier this year a Ukiah, Calif., child received treatment for polio here, but the, case was not contracted in Ja c k s o n county. Soviet Subversion Not in Peace Plait President Asserts Philadelphia U.R) President Eisenhower said today the United States "can never accept" a divided Germany, Russian satellites and continued Communist subversion "as a part of the peace we desire and seek." He also said this nation must not, in its "eagerness to avoid war," make an agreement that would sell out "the freedom of men lor the pottage of a false peace." Mr. Eisenhower said the United States asserted at Geneva and we shall always hold that there can be no true peace which involves acceptance of a status quo in which we find injustice to many nations, repressions of human beings on a gigantic scale, and constructive effort paralyzed in many areas of fear." "The spirit of Geneva," if it is to provide a healthy atmosphere for the .pursuit of peace, if it is to be genuine and not spurious, must inspire all to a correction of injustices, an observance of human rights and an end to subversion organized on a world- wide scale," he declared. Cannot Accept Wrongs as Part of Peace " "The division of Germany cannot be supported by any argu ment based on boundaries or language or racial origin. The domi nation of captive countries can no longer be justified by any claim that this is needed for purposes of security. An international political machine operating within the borders of sovereign nations for their political and ideological subversion, cannot be explained away as a cultural movement. "In justice to others and to ourselves, we can never, accept those wrongs as a part of the peace that we desire and seek." The President's philosophy on peace was outlined in a speech prepared for delivery to the American Bar association convention. He spoke in front of Independence Hall as part of an association program marking the John Marshall bicentennial. Marshall was a noted chief justice of the United States. He was to return to Washington after his address for a confer- ' ence on the government's flood relief program and then depart for Denver to resume his Colorado vacation. ' Geneva, the President said, "spells for America, not stagnation, but opportunity opportunity for our own people and for people everywhere to realize their just aspirations." Enduring international Environment Mr. Eisenhower said that "the peace we want the product of understanding and agreement and law among nations is an en during international environment based on justice and security. It will reflect enlightened self-interest. It will foster the concentra tion of human energy . . . for the advancement of human standards in the areas of mankind's material, intellectual and spiritual life." The Chief Executive said he believes this kind of peace is not out of the world's grasp. "At times it may seem hopeless, far beyond human, capacity to reach," he said. "But has any great accomplishment in history begun with assurance of its success? "We must learn to be firm but friendly," he said. "We must be tolerant but not complacent. We must be quick to understand an other's viewpoint, honestly assumed. "But we must never agree to injustice for the weak, for the un fortunate, for the underprivileged, well knowing that if we accept destruction of the principle of justice for all, we cannot longer claim justice for ourselves as a matter of right." He said that "in the search for justice, we can make our system an even more gorious example of an orderly government devoted to the preservation of human freedom and man's individual oppor tunities and responsibilities." World Opinion Trial on Two Systems He said the case of the American vs. the Communist system "is on trial before the' bar of world opinion," with each claiming it seeks, above all else, an enduring peace. out. me iinai judgment on xnem . . . wiu aepena as mucn on the march of human progress within their own borders, and on their proved capacity to help others advance, as on the tranquil lity of their relations with foreign countries," Mr. Eisenhower stated. The jury, he said, is made up of the hundreds of millions of "newly awakened peoples" that are now marching "toward oppor tunity to work and grow and prosper, to demonstrate their self-, reliance, to satisfy their aspirations of mind and spirit." ". . . the fruits of peace are manifold and rich," the Chief Executive told the lawyers, "particularly in this atomic age; be cause war could be the extinction of man's deepest hopes, because atomic war could be race suicide." Hero's Funeral Of Runaway Salem (U.R) Robert J. Short, who was killed after staying with his runaway truck to warn pedestrians in its path in Oregon City Saturday, was given a hero's funeral here yes terday. Short stayed with his runaway log truck as it barreled through busy down town streets in Ore gon City, and throughout the wild ride he sounded his truck horn and shouted pedestrians to safety. The truck struck the concrete facing of the Oregon City ped- Ramsey Clnyon Fire Being Mopped Up A fire in the Ray Offard log ging operation in Ramsey can yon was being mopped up this morning, state forest patrolmen said. The one-half acre blaze started yesterday and a crew of some 15 loggers had the fire under control when eight forest patrol men arrived. Three tread trac tors were used. Patrolmen said they were in formed that a battery short in one of the tractors had ignited a sweat shirt. The fire was put out and the sweat shirt discard ed but the flames apparently flared up again, patrolmen said they were informed. " There were two blazes at the scene with one spot fire hopping over the ridge from the main fire. Weather FORECAST: Fair this evening. Partly cloudy Thursday. Cloudy Friday morning. Low tonight 48. High Thursday 80. Temp. Highest Yesterday 88 Lowest this Morning $0 9 o'clock Tonight for Driver Logging Truck estrian elevator. Short leaDed from the cab just before the impact but was crushed under the load of logs. A Robert Short Memorial fund, to aid Short's young- wid ow and three small children was started by the Enterprise-Courier, Oregon City daily newspap er. The City View cemetery and Howell-Edwards Mortuary of Sa lem and the Hillside Chapel Mortuary of Oregon City con tributed funeral services. Members of the family said Short had been unemployed all last winter while living in Sa lem. Only recently he had open ed up a logging operation on land owned by his mother near Yamhill. He was living there at the time of his death while his family remained in Salem. The load of logs he was haul ing to an Oregon City mill Sat urday was his second pay load. Mrs. Short has been employed as an attendant at Oregon State hospital here. Officials Attend Rites A contingent of Oregon City and Clackamas county officials attended Short's funeral. And an honor guard of Oregon City national guardsmen was present. In attendance were members of the Clackamas County Court, sheriff's office, Oregon City and West Linn police and Oregon City chamber of commerce. Short served in the Army in the Philippines in World War II. Washington Prisoners To Face Charges of Riot Walla Walla (U.R) Walla Walla County Prosecutor Ar thur L. Hawman said today he would charge 20 inmates of the Washington state penitentiary with the crime of prison riot when the county's next jury term opens Sept. 26. o o'
