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Newspaper Page TextWeather Recommended DFORD FORECAST: Fair and through Monday. Hifb Sun day 95; low tonight 58; Ufa. Monday 90. Temp. Hifhert yesterday i Lowest yesterday Morning 4 Stories on the National Gtiard depot at Camp White and the Red Cross Disaster plan appear on pace 12 of today's Issue of The Mall Tribune. United Cress hull Leased Wire ull Leased Wire 50th Year 28 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, 6, 1955 Price 5c. No. 135 - Me . - United PrsM F Air Force Chief Clears Airman of 3'Guilt-by-Kinship' Quarles' Decision Ends Proceedings Washington (U.R) Air tjForce. Secretary Donald A. Quarles Saturday personally cleared Airman 3-C Stephen GBranzevich of Farrel, Pa., o guilt- by- kinship" security charges. . Quarles' speedy action In the case of the 22-year-old reserve enlisted man whose father was alleged to be a Communist, left the Navy and the Coast Guard with two similar cases to dispose of. - - End Proceeding The Air Secretary's decision ended Air Force proceedings to give the young airman a dis honorable discharge from the re- nerve. Branzevich was fighting the action. Quarles said the air man's continuation in the re- jjjrve is consistent with the in terests of national security. 0 When informed of the Air Sec retary's action, Branzevitch said tie was "very grateful to the Am- ican people, to the VFW, to the American Legion and to all 1 1 1 1 i jM inme neuuie wiiu iidu a uait 411 helping me." . . The yoifhg reservist told news men he planned to return to Ypungstown university night school at ' Youngstown, O., "to finish my studies." Branzevich said he had not reciived official word on his clearance but expected to be not ified at any moment. Uk Landy Case His case is similar to that of Merchant Seaman Eugetie ' D. Landy and Norman Pierre Gas ton, of San Francisco, Coast Guard apprentice seamen. They rtVe been refused Navy and Coast Guard commissions because of security charges involving their Esthers. i The House committee on un American activities has sched uled a closed meeting Monday to hear Mrs. Deborah Landy, mo ther of Eugene. She has said she once sBas a Communist but quit 8,her son's insistence. Stassen, Sobolev Discuss Arms Meet United Nations (U.R) Harold E. Stassen, President Eisenhow er special adviser on disarma ment, conferred Saturday with Sgrfet Ambassador Arkady A. SoDolev in preparation for Mon day's United Nations Disarma ment conference. (iterates of the United States, BSttain, France and Canada also rrret at the headquarters of the American U.N. delegation for nfftrly two hours, A U.S. dele gation spokesman said "there- was a completely harmonious discussion" of all facets of the dliiarmament problem. Sobolev called on Stassen at n&n in his Waldorf-Astoria hotel sifjte for a private conference. Sobolev will be chairman of the first session of the U.N. Disarm ament 'subcommittee which is meeting on the call of the Big Fcalr Chiefs of State. : Rc$yburn Pledges Tax Cut for 'Little Fella' Washington (U.R) Speaker Sam KayDurn, wno lost one tax e cute fight this year, vowed Sat urday that "the little fella" will . . . . i 1 IT . 1 " t nojj-jDe leit oui 01 any cui wmcn Cotjgress may pass in the 1956 election year. The Texas Democrat's promise way made as a tax reduction figW, which is certain to cross . political party lines, began shap ing?up months in advance of the next Congressional session. The issue was touched off by the adminstration's optimistic forecast Thursday that the bud get care and should be balanced in fftis fiscal year. Racing Accident Kills Spectators in Canada Carp, Ont (U.R) A speeding sports car hurtled off a race track at the Carp airport Satur day and ploughed into a group of spectators, killing two and injuring eight) others. Officials reported that the death car's steering wheel ap peared to lock shortly before it Mt the track roadbed and slammecP into person standing near the track at a point where there was no guard rail. The driver of the car, Victor S &les, 30, of Pembroke, Ont., wasTiot injured. The dead were a man and woman. The hospital did not re lease their names. r a 1 r kaaaBBBsaaaBBBBsssf FACES CHARGES Lt. CoL Paul V. Lies of Birmingham, Ala. faces charges of col laboration while a POW in North Korea. He is snown at Fort Lewis, Wash, with his wife and three children, Donald, 6 (left), Priscilla, 1, and Paul Jr. 8. 10,000 Rebels Qui. On French Casablanca, Morocco (U.R) An estimated 10,000 rebel tribes men surrendered with their arms and families to French troops Saturday but thousands of other nomad warriors fled deeper into central Morocco izi defiance of capitulation orders. Saturday's surrenders brought to 20,000 the number of tribes men who have bowed to French force in the wake of the North African uprisings that took . toll of more than 2,000 killed, Friday Deadline The hold-out nomands have un til next Friday to lay down their arms and pay allegiance to the French. The French were using et fighters and heavily armed troops to hasten the surrender of the rebels.' Record Audience Of 1,137 Crowds Festival Theater The largest audience in the 20-year history of the Oregon Shakespearean festival, some 1,137 people, saw the final per formance of "All's Well That Ends Well" last night at the Elizabethan theater in Ashland. More than 100 others were turn ed away at the doors. Actually, last night s audience was 38 more than the theater's seating capacity of 1,099, and some of the spectators were seated on the grass at the rear of the open' air theater. Previous Mark 1.064 The festival's previous record attendance, of 1,064, also was set this season at the Aug. 13 performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." . The size of the audience last night came as a surprise to fes tival officials, who had not ex pected "All's Well" to draw as well as some of the other plays, and had scheduled it for only six nights. The festival continues tonight with "Henry VI, Part 3." "Tim- on of Athens" is scheduled for Monday night, "Macbeth" will be Tuesday night, and the sea son will end Wednesday night with "A Midsummer Nights Dream." Search Under Way For Murder Suspects Palm Springs, Calif. (U.R) A statewide search was started Saturday for an ex-convict and his wife wanted in connection with the brutal, robbery-slaying of Palm Springs city building inspector Donald E. (Dutch) Gra ham, 60. Sheriffs deputies identified the couple, parents of four chil dren, as Robert K. Miers, 29, a bakery truck driver,- and- his wife, Michel, 26, of Baldwin Park, Calif. . . Police Chief August Kettman said it was believed the couple was with Graham at a night club here the night before he was slain. ' : Mild, Earthquake Reported at Eureka Eureka, Calif. (U.R) A mild earthquake occurred here Sat urday but no damage was re ported. Observers said the quake was "very slight and hardly felt." The temblor" registered at 12:01 a.m. on the University of California Sesimograph in Berk eley. Seismologist W. C. Marion said it was "moderately strong" and lasted 10 minutes. I ""F ' 9 V wmzmzmm Morocco Gen. Andre Franchi, comman der of the French punitive ex pedition, issued the eight-day ultimatium Friday" night after granting pardon to 10,000 Smaala tribesmen whose war riors massacred 88 French citi zens in an orgy of rioting. ( Smaala chieftains assured Gen. Franchi with tears in their eyes they would compel all their clans to lay down their arms before he unleashes his 3,000 man task force and planes against their hut villages. Pledges Terrible Justice, Franchi told the chieftains their men were "stinking jack els" and promised them "my jus tice will be terrible." ' Despite the French retaliation that cost the nomads at least 700 dead, some 3,000 to 4,000 Berber tribesmen refused to bow to the French ultimatum. ' Armed with.- outdated rifles, they withdrew into the waste; lands of the middle Atlas moun tains. This was despite the for mal orders of their chief who promised the French: "if anoth er of your men is killed by one of our men then let the French bolts fall on our heads." Ike Approves Plans For October Meet Denver (U.R) President Eisenhower approved plans Sat urday for an Oct. 25 conference at Washington to map further steps toward eliminating racial and religious discrimmination in government contracts. - Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell announced the confer ence after a 40-minute talk with Mr. Eisenhower at the summer White House on Lowry Air Force base recently. He said Mr. Eisenhower was 'Very pleased" with plans for the conference, which will bring together government contract ors, labor officials and the Pres ident's committee on govern ment contracts. Mitchell is vice chairman. Mitchell also reported to the President oh his department's role in the flood disaster relief program in the Eastern states. The labor secretary told re porters at a news conference la ter that as much as $1,000,000 a week in federal - state unem ployment insurance may be paid to workers thrown out of work by flood damage to industrial plants and businesses in the east. Dolly Beach, S. C (U.R) The FBI captured fugitive killer El mer Francis "Trigger" Burke in the wan glow of a streetlight here Saturday night as the self professed New York killer head ed towards town "to get supper and a bottle of beer." (C::, -'i'lLwH Mm A Reports of Imminent War in Middle East Said Behind Ike's Offer of Guarantees Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower was prompted 1 to make his dramatic offer to guar antee the security of Arabs and Jews by intelligence reports that the middle east might go up in the flame of war, officials said Saturday. -Threat of War They said recent reports spoke disturbingly of the threat of an outright war. Fear was expressed that re curring boarder clashes between Egypt and Israel might spread quickly to other Arab nations. The bold U.S. proposal, an nounced by Secretary of State John Fottar Dulkt with tt per V Excavation Work At Four Mile Lake Said 'Well Along' Excavation work on facilities for the Four' Mile lake reservoir are "well along!" John Hatch of the Bureau of Reclamation's Medford office stated yesterday after a visit to the project. Hatch said that at the present time work consists of removing the old spillway. He added that the work looked satisfactory at the present stage but that ft was "too early to forecast" when the job would be finished. ' 120 Days Allowed 1 The project, being done by R. K. Construction of Roseburg, has been allowed 120 days from the contract's ratification date to be finished. The work con sists of replacing a concrete spill way and the construction of a parapet wall along the crest of the dam. Fish lake work, also included in the 120-day contract, consists of riprapping. the -upstream face ' of the 7 earth" and rock fill -dike, and a new con crete spillway. The Fish lake work has not been started yet, Hatch stated.' A 10 - hour, six - days-a-week schedule has been ' ordered by the company in order to com plete the two-lake work before the time deadline and the setting in of bad weather. A small crew of not more than 10 men and a bulldozer, steam shovel, com pressor, drills and other equip ment was thought to be present ly employed by the construc tioners, Hatch added. Other Projects The Four Mile and Fish lake projects are only two of those now under construction or plan ned by the Medford and Rogue Valley irrigation districts. These and other extensive rehabilita tion projects will cost the two districts a total of $1,712,001 which will be paid in a 40-year period. The various projects will take over six years before their final completion. Blaze Causes Damage At Tillamook Hangar Tillamook (U.R) Fire . at the Diamond Plywood company plant located in a hugh former blimp hangar at Tillamook Air Base here was brought under control at 2:50 p.m. Saturday after a IVi hour battle. Large quantities of lumber and some manufacturing equipment was damaged. There was no injuries and no immediate damage estimate was available. Firemen from as far away as Forest Grove answered the call. They reported the biggest prob lem was the mangar's 250-foot-high roof. The firefighters said they were not able to reach the blaze until powerful pumpers arrived. sonal endorsement of Mr. Eisen hower, drew prompt support from Britain and generally fav orable comment from United Nations officials. Welcome Proposal Foreign office circles at Cario, Egypt, welcomed the American proposal. They also expressed gratifications at efforts to im prove the fate of Arab refugees. However, Egyptian defense of ficials noted that the Arab states had rejected earlier the principle on any joint defense system that would include Is rael. Some Israeli officials gave Mutious approval to tb oiiar. alls for if NoV.no Attack On Foreign Policy Accuses Eisenhower Of Misrepresentation French Linck, Ind. (U.R)- Former President Truman called on Democrats Saturday night not to attack the Eisenhower admin istration's foreign policy. : He said it is proper for cam paigners to tell what they plan to do in the field of international relations, but they, should not criticize ' the opposition's - pro gram. .. . Crowd of 1300 Hears HST Mr. Truman took the hands off foreign policy stand at a news conference preceding what was billed as a "give ' 'em ! hell" speech. A sellout crowd of 1,300 Indiana Democrats assembled to hear him. In his speech, Mr. Truman ac cused President Eisenhower of "misrepresentation and demag- oguery." Mr. Eisenhower, he said, "has never missed a change -to be fuddle the real issues in, every speech he reads." . , - . Mr. Truman, in the first of his "give 'em hell" speeches, leading into the. 1956 campaigns charged that the Republican administra tion is "dominated and con trolled by big business which it allows to plunder our natural resources." The GOP . adminis tration, he said, is "infiltrated with servants of the special in terests those who put the in terest of the few ahead of the welfare of the many." A . sell-out crowd of 1,300 packed the French lick springs hotel for Mr. Truman's banauet speech before the Indiana Edi torial association. Reminiscent of 1952 Mr. Truman's attack on the President was reminiscent of his 1952 . campaign speeches which led to an open break be tween She one-time close frerjdsr He charged that Mr. Eisenhow er "went so far as to use misrep resentation and demagoguery in his messa.ee on. the state of the union in January, 1953." Then, he said, the GOP Administration and Congress "began tearing down the New Deal and Fair Deal wherever they dared and as fast as they dared." . ,The President's . Administra tion, he said, "has contributed little to the art of government excent perhaps in its use of Pub licity and advertising tech niques.'' . ' Midair Crash Kills Pilot Hear Salem Salem U.R) " A pilot was killed. Saturday afternoon when two private planes collided and crashed. The, dead man was thought to be Gordon King, address un known, although his body, was so badly burned that identificar tion was difficult. Two occupants of the other light plane, Shelby S. Sullivan, Bellvie, Wash., and 21-year-old Nancy M. Nordstrom, a University of Washington stu dent, were slightly injured. Witnesses said the planes col lided over a wheat field and that the King plane crashed first and broke into flames. Sullivan's plane bellied in about 800 feet away. George Douglas, State Board of Aeronautics member at Sal em, -was reported investigating the tragedy. Manila, Sunday (U.R) Civ il Aeronautics officials today or dered the crew of an impounded DC-3 airplane, operated by Fleetway, Inc., of Burbank, to remain in the Philippines until the case is "satisfactorily clear ed." - However, they said a formal response would wait detailed study of the proposal. Says Nothing New . One high Arab source here, who asked not to be identified, said he found "hardly anything new" in the U. S. policy. He said it gave no indications of an Israeli-Arab neutral border line to be drawn, and he re garded that of paramount im portance. He indicated his country might react unfavorable. The Arabs regard Israel as an "in truder," and want nothing that would "preserve the status quo. Indiana Blast, Fire Loss Reaches $1 0,000,000 MarEi Wartime Priorities Invoked by ODM for Flood-Hit Industry Defense Plants To Receive Aid Washington (U.R The Of fice of Defense mobilization Sat urday invoked its wartime prior ity powers to channel materials, equipment . and 1 other items to flood-stricken defense industries. ODM Chief: Arthur S. Flem ming said the priorities will be used "only when voluntary ef forts fail to achieve desired re sults." -. , The priorities will apply to more than 200 industries which produce goods needed for de fense. Flemming also authorized the General Services administration to sell copper from the govern ment's defense production inven tory where it is needed for dis aster rehabilitation . work. The greatest use presumably would be in the reconstruction of power and communications facilities. The action will not affect the national stockpile of critical ma terials which is separate from the defense production inven tory. Flemming's action was an nounced after Lt. Gen. S. D. Sturgis Jr., Chief of Army Engi neers and coodinator of federal flood relief activities,1 warned flood stricken communities in the northeast that government aid is designed to supplement not supplant local self-help. Sturgis told them that the $100,000,000' federal relief pro gram does not mean Washington has accepted "all responsibility for- rehabilitation., work- ina fected areas." ,,, . . . An ODM Spokesman said gov ernment priority orders will be used when any defense or de fense - supporting industry can not get the materials, equipment or services it needs. Services in clude such things as power, water and transportation. Hurricane Expected To Miss Mainland Miami (U.R) Hurricane Edith swung its 100 mile an hour winds toward : Bermuda Saturday and the Miami weather bureau said the raging storm should pass close to the luxury resort tonight but veer away from the U." S. mainland. The weather bureau located Edith about 330 miles due south of Bermuda in a 6 p.m. EDT, advisory, moving at five to six miles an hour along a north northwest, to north course." . Top winds rof ; 100 miles an hour howled in squalls over, a small area near the center,, the weather bureau said, while hur ricane force winds extended out ward 100 miles to the north and northeast and 40 miles" to the southwest. The tropic blow flung gales 200 miles to the north and east and 100 miles to the southwest. B-36 Bomber To Carry Nuclear Reactor Aloft i Washington -MU.R) An Air Force B-36 superbomber has been altered to carry a nuclear reactor aloft for the first time to. test shielding against atomic radiation, it was learned Satur day. . . ' . . The reactor will test newly developed materials for protect ing crews of future atomic pow ered planes, . and will have nothing to do with actually powering the B-36. ' v But the experiment is regard ed as a big step toward atomic planes and fits in with current official optimism over progress toward nuclear propulsion. Sports Bulletin Pendleton UR) The West cam from behind in the fourth quarter to edg the East 7-6 in the fourth an nual East-West Shriners Hos pital All-Slar "B" football game here Saturday night. The victory gave the West a IsJ I . E. H. HEDRICK Longtime Superintendent New Junior High Named by Board For E. H. Hedrick Medford's two junior high schools officially have been nem- ed for E. H. Hedrick, longtime Medford school superintendent who retired recently, and for Dr. John McLoughlin, the "fath er of Oregon." . The new junior high school on East Jackson st. will be known as E. H. Hedrick Junior High school. Hedrick retired Aug. after serving for 30 years as superintendent of the Medford schools. ..; Easy Decision P''ThescfcooF' board's decision in naming the E. H. Hedrick Junior high school was an easy one." according to Edward Branchfield, chairman of the city school board. Branchfield noted that the board received many requests to name the school for, Hedrick. . "Hedrick's record with the local school system was a notable one," the chairman declared "During his long tenure, he di rected the building of Washing ton and Jefferson schools, the senior high school, and the new junior high school. ; "Hedrick also supervised the construction of one or more ad ditions on all of the other Med ford schools," Branchfield not ed. "His far-sighted policy through the years in securing additional school sites in antic ipation of future requirements has enabled the school district to have optimum sites at reason able costs, as needed." Recognition to McLoughlin ' Selection of the name of Dr. John McLoughlin for the old junior, high school "gives ad ditional recognition to one of the outstanding figures in early Oregon history," Branchfield de clared. - Dr. 'McLoughlin was chief factor of the Hudson's Bay com pany during the period of early American migration to Oregon. On retirement in 1845, he set tled at Oregon City and became a citizen of the United States. Mt.- McLoughlin, east of Med ford, bears his name. Dedication of the new E. H. Hedrick Junior high school is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, Sept. 18. Ceremonies at the school auditorium will be fol lowed by an open house display of the school plant... Former AEC Employee Jailed in Colorado Grand Junction, Colo. (U.R) John Partoa Kellogg," a former Atomic Energy commission em ployee, was arrested Saturday on a charge, that he used secret AEC information to stake out uranium claims with a possible value of $9,000,000. Kellogg resigned his position with the AEC operations office here June 1, 1954. The U. S. at torney's office at Denver said that two weeks before that, he arranged to have 370 uranium claims staked in the White Can on area on the Colorado plateau, which he knew the AEC consid ered- to - be valuable uranium property. Shortly after he left the gov ernment post, the U. S. attorneys office said, the 370 claims, were transferred to his name. He then was employed as a geologist with Voltron Corporation of Califor nia. Homes Evacuated In 48-Block Area; Two Reborfed Dead No Lights, Smoking Allowed Due to Gas Whiting, Ind. U.R) A raging gasoline-fed fire touched off by an . explosion that sent jagged chunks of steel hurtling into surrounding' homes swept a refinery tank farm Saturday en dangering 48 blocks of homes and causing damage estimated at more than SI 0.000.000. At least two persons were kil led, one of them a child, as the chain reaction explosions filled the air with shrapnel-like chunks of steel. At least 24 persons, 11 of them children, were given hospital treatment. The Red Cross re ported that 35 persons were injured and Mayor Michael Bias tick said the injured could be counted in "hundreds" if minor burns suffered by fire-fighters and emergencey workers were included. . The original explosion, felt nearly 100 miles away, shattered a 26-story processing plant into an unrecognizable mass of metal and spread death and ruin over a three-acre area. Cascades oft flame soared a mile in the air as the fire jumped from tank to tank.1 Clouds of smoke, mushrooming 12,000 feet into the sky, appeared like a giant thunderhead to watchers in the Chicago Loop nearly 18 miles away. The flames roared through tha huge Standard Oil Company (IndO. tank farm in -a-series of "whooshing" " explosions, then iumned across 'a hiehwav into an adjoining field housing about 30 tanks of crude oil.. Firemen succeeded, however, in pushing the blaze back across the high way. Police said 48 blocks of nearby residential areas were ordered evacuated as the flames still raged out of control more than 17 hours after the first explosion. Thousands were driven from their homes. - Three companies of Indiana National Guard troops, about 220 to 240 men, were mobilized mainly to prevent' looting in the evacuated areas. Police said six men were caught looting in a residential section adjoining the plant. Fire officials warned that gas and gas fumes had seeped into Whiting sewers. They issued a general warning to avoid smo king or the use of electric lights. Dr. Robert E. Wilson, Standard r : l l 3 i : 1 here from Pennsylvania, said damage to the plant "will prob ably exceed $10,000,000." He said all plant damage in excess of $1,000,000 was covered by-in surance. He estimated about 10 per cent oi ue piani was de stroyed. At Washington, the Red Cross put its estimate of damage at more than $100,000,000. Wilson said the company would "act quickly" to compen sate families of dead and in jured and to repair plant dam age. The first explosion virtually demolished a huge, new proces sing plant known as a fluid hy drof ormer, where 1 o w-octane gasoline is converted to high. The blast hurled jagged chunks of steel hundreds of feet through the air. The steel 'went slicing into homes "like it was cutting paper." One huge fragment sailed about 350 feet, cutting a swath of ; destruction , through seven houses. 1 Another fragment crashed into another home, killing a three- year-old boy. The other victim was 'a company employee who died of a heart attack brought on by exertion in fighting . the fire. Many homes were knocked several feet off their foundations. One shaft of steel wrecked a garage and bounced an automo bile upside down onto what had been the roof. Rivers of flaming gasoline and oil flowed down the streets in the area, toward the homes. Sand dikes were thrown up around the area .to keep the flames from spreading to the homes, and to a nearby power plant which pro duces power for all the pumping units -.