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Mras M 9 MM HBO o A VIOLENT EXPLOSION rocks 20 mile area around Whiting, Ind., refinery of Standard Oil ' Company. Flames and smoke shoot up 500 feet as firemen and rescue workers evacuate 800 persons rom area where fire spread out of control. (International Soundphoto) Rain, Dampens Flareups Between Guards, Residents at Oil Blaze Whitingnd. (U.R) Rains today cooled off , flareups be- tween National Guardsmen and residents anxious to return to the blast-torn homes they evacu ated in the mammoth fire at the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana re finery. " AgSteady downpir, which began last night, ended what threatened to be a serious situa tion when many of 800 homeless -State of Paris (U.R) Premier Edgar FaureOclamped a "state of ur- eencv" on all Algeria today to ward off any more trouble there while trying to pacify Morocco. '- The state of urgency previous ly' applied only to the rebel-ridden mountain areas but today's official journal published a de cree extending the emergency to ail of Algeria while Faure works out final details of bis delicate MSroccan plan. : Faure won cabinet approval of the broad lines of his Moroc can plan but many points of de tail remained unsettled and the crisis remained. It appeared the cabinet had given in only to forestall the downfall of the gov ernment itself. The cabinet accepted secretly the resignation of Resident Gen eral Gilbert Grandval but there was no public announcement for fear one would touch off a wave of rioting throughout Morocco. Sultan To Lear The cabinet also a creed re luctantly .that Sultan Moham med Ben Moulay Arafa must leave the Cherif ien throne of Mo toppo. but it could not aeree on details and the actual ouster of the sultan awaited further con- ferences. Under the state, of urgency French security forces can .shut down newspapers and radio sta tions, clamp sudden curfew on danger areas, curtain 08 entire regions and break up meetings Involving two or more persons. Benson Tours British Agriculture Station London (U.R) U.S. Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Tipnson toured Britain's top- agri cultural research station at near by Rothamstead today. Benson and his wife arrived by train from Scotlid this morning to begin a two-day vis it. After breakfast they drove to the research station. - Embassy officials said Benson had asked that this afternoon and evening be kept free of of ficial engagements. They said it was "quite likeJ" he would mpt with David O. McKay, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, who also is visiting here. Benson is one of the 12 apostles of the church. . Tomorrow Benson opens taixs with British officials starting with A. R. M. Low, minister of state to the board of trade. He also will meet with Derick Heathcoat-Amory, minister of ag riculture and fisheries. Benson leaves for Amsterdam . Thursday. Missing Portland Boy found Walking on Street . Portland (U.R) Police to-' day found a 10-year-ofc Portland boy, missing since yesterday, as he walked along North Margin ave. toting a sleeping ag. Clinton J. Berg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger G. Berg was reported missing when he fail ed to return home last night from an agate-hunting expedi tion. -He appeared unconcerned about the widespread search launched for him and explained he had been Xpn a little camp fug trip." He was armed with a bow and "row. persons demanded that the guardsmen let them re-enter their houses in the inner "dang er" area. ' The guardsmen had orders to blockade the innermost points of a two-square-mile area until sewers were cleared of gasoline fumes and there was no further danger of the flames spreading. The rain apparently assured the protesting evacuees that these developments would take Urgency' Details of the bitter argu ments of the cabinet meeting here became public only today The meeting was so heated that Faure threatened several times to resign a drastic move that would have crippled France at this time of crisis. ' "Representative Government The major announcement to come from the cabinet session was that a "representative" Mo roccan government would be formed within 15 days, with Arafa to leave the throne even tually. The cabinet also decided to replace Grandval with Gen. Pierre -Boyer-de la" Tour, theJ present governor general of Tunisia, once Grandval's resig nation is announced. Hanging over the government was the problem of what to do with Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef who was ousted No Log Hauling on Saturday Afternoon Log hauling on Oregon state highways will be forbidden on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 3 ac cording to state police and the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association. L. L. Simpson, SOCTFA man ager, checked with the Oregon State Highway department per mit director and the Public Utilities commission office on the matter yesterday. State po lice had reported considerable inquiry. Under highway regulations Saturday afternoon log hauling is not permitted between May 23 and September 8. At the re quest of the timber industry, however, the Highway commis sion issued a memorandum lift ing the ban for this season after July 6. Nevertheless, the com mission declined to permit haul ing on Sept. 3 because of the anticipated heavy traffic over the Labor day holiday week end Federal Jurors View Property Hear Galice A federal district court jury resumed hearing the case United States vs. Zora Gallagher this morning. - The case involves condemna tion of property near Galice in Josephine county for a Bureau of Land Management road. The jury yesterday viewed the site, traveling by chartered bus and escorted by The deputy marshal. The case was put on the dock et by Judge James Alger Fee at the regular court session two weeks ago. Judge Fee heard the case Lawrence H. Newton vs. R. Drew Lamb concerning an alleged vio lation of a timber cutting con tract earlier this week. Explosion Set Off Beneath Peron's Window Pg 1 EXPLOSION 35 Buenos Aires (U.R) A small explosion charge was set off to day just beneath the windows oi President Juan Peron's office in Casa Rosada, the Government House in central Buenos Aires. Police said the explosive, thrown from a speeding car by unidentified persons, went off harmlessly shortly :bef or noon. place sooner than expected and they ceased their arguments of ficials said. The massive blaze, touched off when a 26-story cracking plant exploded Saturday, was under control and confined to two stor age tanks still afire and being allowed to burn themselves out. Two persons were killed and hundreds were injured in the explosion and fire. in Algeria two years ago and exiled "to Madagascar. Moroccan nationalists who de mand more home rule have given up hope of restoring him to the throne in face of bitter op position by French settlers and right - wing cabinet members. But they think he should return to Paris. iff in Creek Sets Opening of School Jackspn- county schooli; will start opening tomorrow .when Griffin Creek students attend a half-day session. Regular classes will start at Griffin Creek Thursday, Sept. 1, but school buses will run regular schedules tomorrow morning. Students at Griffin Creek will register and obtain books at to morrow's session. Six other schools will start classes Sept. 6. They are Ash land, Lone Pine, Applegate, Elk Trail, Shady Cove and West Side. Schols starting Sept. 9 in clude Eagle Point, Rogue River, Prospect, and Butte Falls. Schools at Ruch, Central Point. Evans Valley, Oak Grove, Pine hurst, Jacksonville and Howard will commence Sept. 12. Phoenix, Talent, Medford ele mentary and. junior high will start Sept. 19.. Japanese Minister Calls for Vigilance . Washington (U.R) Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shige mitsu called today for vigilance against "Communist peace of fensives which aim at creat ing difficulties and dissensions among the free nations." Shigemitsu noted a recent "hopeful trend" in the interna tional climate, but said this has come about largely as a result of the free world's "peace through strength" policy." . "Logic demands that we con tinue to pursue the same policy Li order to 'reap the harvest of perpetual peace'," he said. "We must beware of the Communist peace offensives which aim at creating difficulties and dissen sions among the free nations." The 68-year-old Japanese dip lomat said those offensives are now most noticeable in Asia "where the situation is still fluid and uncertain." Portland Girl Given Baby; Mother Disappears Portland (U.R) Portland poliee are looking for an uni dentified woman who yesterday stopped a 10-year-old girl on the street and gave her a baby to keep. The mother failed to re turn. The infant was given to Mar celle Everman who said she was playing on the street, when the woman approached her. Marcelle, said she was told to keep the child all night. Mrs. Everman called police and the baby was placed in Albertina Kerr nursery ' Bellingham, Wash. (U.R) A Freeman Seranous of Portland has been elected governor of the Northwest District Kiwanis at the District's convention here: Sfassen Seeks To Persuade Russia On Inspection No Indication Of Soviet Reaction United Nations - N.Y.OJ.R)- American disarmament expert Harold E. Stassen today took over the job of persuading the Soviets to approve President Eisenhower's military inspection plan. The five-nation U.N. disarma ment subcommittee was to open the second session of its current talks this afternoon. Thus far, there was no indica- tm of Soviet reaction to Mr. Ei senhower's plan for an exchange of military blueprints and aerial inspection of each other's terri tory by the United States and Russia. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. told a closed session of the disarmament subcommittee Monday that the United States was "prepared to put the. plan immediately into effect as be tween ourselves and the Soviet Union." Kremlin Position 'Reiterated Russia's Arkady A. Sobolev, reiterating the Kremlin's profes sed desire -to "strengthen peace and lessen international ten sion," urged the latest Soviet dis armament proposals on the sub committee and said: "The next step is now up to the Western powers." - Lodge moved into the back ground of the crucial conference after delivering a statement of the American position at the two and one-half hour opening ses sion and let Stassen, Mr. Eisen hower's personal assistant on disarmament, take the lead. Stassen and Sobolev met pri vately for the second time in three days at lunch Monday. It was not known what they dis cussed. Lodge put before the subcom mittee, composed of the United States, Britain, France, Canada and Russia, details of the Eisen hower plan, which was first broached at the Big Four Sum mit conference in Geneva. Under the aerial reconnais sance plan, he said, both the Un ited States and Russia, would be permitted to ,sehd their own planes over ' each other s terri tory in "unrestricted" flights. ' Each country would use its own planes and photographic equipment, and personnelVpf the country being inspected would be aboard every flight. Each country would provide one or more airfields as bases of oper ations for inspection by the oth er country's planes. The Soviet plan, outlined again by Sobolev, calls for stationing international inspectors at rail roads, road junctions, .sea and airports as a precaution against preparations for a surprise at tack. Aside from that, it includes the long-standing Soviet demand for immediate prohibition of nu clear weapons and reduction of all armed forces. Logging Truck Suction Reverses Car, Trailer Nehalem, Ore. (U.R) Suction created by a passing logging truck picked up the car and trailer of a California couple yesterday and reversed its direction of travel. No one was seriously hurt. Tillamook County Deputy Sheriff Dave Wilson said Hor ace Wright, 69. Whittier, Calif, and his wife, Irene, were driv ing south on Highway 101. Just as they passed Mansan ita Junction, the passing log truck lifted their vehicles, spinning them completely around. Mrs. Wright suffered bruises and was taken to a Wheeler hospital. Her husband was not hurt. Former Wife of Prison Guarded After Threat Seattle (U.R) A state-wide manhunt was being conducted today for two escaped mental patients and Seattle police guard ed the former wife of one after learning he had threatened to return here and "get" her. One of the escapees, Herman Salter, 23, was described as a psychotic. He was one of the ringleaders of the July 5 riot at the state prison in Walla Wal la. He had been transferred to Eastern State hospital in Medi cal Lake two weeks ago. Threatened To Kill Ex-Wife The other escapee was James Eiland, 35, a Tegular patient at the mental institution. Salter, prison authorities said, had threatened to kill his ex wife, Mrs. James Christie, if he gained his freedom. Police here twera guarding har and her mo MEDF0RP United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 18 Pages Final Decision on Funds for Hospital Still Forthcoming Chance for Favorable Action Appears Good A final decision on the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital's re quest for federal construction funds has yet to be made, but the prospect for favorable action ap pears good, it was reported to day. .-, . A spokesman for ,the hospital organization, which proposes to build a new institution to replace Community hospital, said he has been informed that the request has received tentative approval from an agency of the state board of health, one of the first steps in obtaining the grant. $586,533 Requested The hospital has requested a total of $586,533. The applica tion has been reviewed by the advisory council on hospital sur veys and construction, which ad vises the state board of health on grants. The state board has authority to apportion the feder al funds available to Oregon un der the Hill-Burton act. This year these total $776,082. The decision of the state board may not be known for some time, although supporters of the local project hope for early and favorable action. The advance gifts phase of a public drive for money to build the hospital will get under way the first of October. Estimated total cost of the hospital, to be built on Barnett rd. southeast of town, will be some $1,800,000. If the federal funds are available in full, it will mean early $1,300, 000 must be raised locally. Resignation Bares Chiang Army Strife Taipeh' (U.R) The sudden re signation of General Sun Li-Jen brought into the open for the first time the conflict which has been smouldering within the Na tionalist Chinese Army over the political officer system. General Sun, the brilliant sol dier trained at America's Vir ginia Military Institute and Pur due University, was perhaps the most fearless and outspoken op ponent of this little-known de partment of the Nationalist mil itary machine. Sun, and reportedly other offi cers, including some Americans, were particularly opposed to that part of the system which gave the political officers, assigned to every unit down to company level, the final say over promo tions. It was inevitable that Sun should clash with General Chin- ang Ching Kuo, the elder son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. Chiang Ching-Kuo, was the father of the political officer system in the Nationalist Army. Lake o' Woods Group Files Incorporation ' Salem (U.R) Articles of in corporation were filed in Salem today for the Lake o' Woods Re creation Association' with head quarters in Klamath Falls. The H articles were signed by Oregon Speaker of the House Edward A. Geary, State Rep. Henry Smon and Elbert Stiles. The association will cooperate with the Forest Service in protection and en forcement of rules and regula tions. ther, Mrs. M. H. High, both liv ing in South Seattle. Prosser police, meantime, re ported that two men answering the escapee's' descriptions were seen in Prosser last night. One was wearing khaki trousers and the other carried what was be lieved to be the jacket of a hos pital uniform. They ran when challenged and escaped. Seen in Toppenish Another report said they were seen in Toppenish. Still another report said a maroon-colored Ford coupe they were accused of stealing near Spokane was seen crossing sthe Cascade Mountains at Stevens Pass. : Officers described , both men as "very dangerous" and Salter, they said was "one of the worst". The hospital supervisor, Dr. Myron ' D. Campbell, . admitted both Salter and Eiland had the MEP f To V Harry Dexter White as UN Delegate at SF Suggested By Roosevelt, Papers Show Concord, N.H. U.R) The late President Franklin D. Roose velt suggested Harry Dexter White as a "delegate to the 1945 San Francisco conference setting up the United Nations, according to a memorandum turned over today to a Senate investigation com mittee. State Atty. Gen. Louis C. Wyman, jn handing over the docu ment to the Senate Internal Security subcommittee, said Roose velt sent the memo to Treasury Secretary Henry. Morgenthau Jr., to whom White was an assistant. , White, who died in 1948, allegedly was a member of a Com munist spy ring which operated in Washington. He was assistant treasury secretary during World War II and was named U.S. executive director of the International Monetary fund by Presi dent Truman in 1946. - Crews Battle Two Fires in County; Firemen Save House Two fires were reported in Jackson county yesterday. More than 40 men were fight ing a fire this morning in an old slash area on the east fork of Evans creek, according to state forest patrol officials. The blaze was reported at about 2 p.m. yesterday. Twenty state men, 10 from Elk Lumber company, six from Timber Pro ducts, and crews from the Byron Coulter and Adams Brothers woods operations were fighting the blaze today. Equipment being used to fight this "fire included at least" one tread type tractor. . Central Point Fire Central Point Rural Fire pro tection crews battled a grass, hay ahd sawdust fire which threat ened a house for more . than three hours late yesterday in the Tolo district. District Chief Richard Krupp said high winds spread the blaze toward a house, from which Jim Mitchel had moved yesterday. Firemen were able to turn the fire before reaching the house, but were unable to keep the blaze from spreading to a nearby hill and igniting stored, lumber and timber. 100th Fire This Year The fire was reported about 4:30 p.m. yesterday, and fire men were at the scene until about 8 p.m. The fire was the 100th this calendar year, com pared to 83 during 12 months in 1954.' The fire was located in the Tolo district southeast of Table Rock Lumber company. Crews from the Double D Lumber com pany's planner mill assisted in extinguishing the fire. A large bulldozer from the Gulf Red Cedar company was used to build a trail around the fire, Krupp said. Weather rORECAS T:.. Fair, through Wednesday. Low tonight SO; high Wednesday 99. Temp. Highest Yesterday .... 8 Lowest this Morning 32 Escapee of Death "freedom of the entire ward." They said the two men escap ed after Eiland pushed an at tendant into a bathroom where Salter was awaiting for him. The attendant was tied with cord and adhesive tape. The two inmates took the attendant's keys and "simply walked out," Campbell explained. Officials 'Too Clinical' In Olympia, Dr. Thomas Har ris, state. Supervisor of Institu tions, said he thought hospital officials were "being a little too clinical instead of cautious." He reaffirmed orders to the hospit al today to "take no chances" with convicts placed in the men tal institution. Salter was charged last Satur day with kidnaping, conspiracy to kidnap and prison rioting. The charges, carry a maximum pen alty -of death. tSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1955 States Seeks End rael-Egypt Fighting Wyman gave the committee a carton full of documents and papers concerning White which he found at White's summer home in this state, but said he himself would not make them public. One of the papers, Wyman said, was White's credentials as a U.S. representative to the U.N. conference at San Francisco. Wyman said the credentials were signed by Alger Hiss, State De partment official convicted of perjury in another celebrated spy case. Another document, Wyman said, was a letter from a Secret Service official to White telling the results of an investigation into alleged theft of some papers at the U.N. conference. The committee went into exec utive session after Wyman de clined to make public the con tents of the documents. Two To Be Subpenaed In Ladejinsky Case Washington (U.R) Senate investigators said today they will subpoena two Agriculture De partment, officials who failed to appear to testify on the contro versial Wolf Ladejinsky security case. "We don't want these people," said Sen. Olin D. Johnson. "We want to know why we have such dilly-dallying and jumping the rope with people's character and reputation." Johnston, chairman of a Sen ate Civil Service Subcommittee which is investigating ' the ad ministration's personnel security program, said he will issue sub poenas , for Security Officer J. Glen Cassity and for Milan D. Smith, assistant to Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson. Evans Valley Rejects $50,000 Bond Issue . Rogue River. Residents of Evans Valley school district yes terday rejected a $50,000 bond issue proposal to bring the dis trict school up to standard. The vote was 35 yes and 66 no. District board members called the election for the bond issue to finance construction of a two classroom addition and installa tion of first floor restrooms to bring the school up to standard. Rest rooms presently are in the basement. , Board members have not de cided yet whether to call another election in the near future. Evans Valley school is located seven miles north of Rogue River. 13 Day-Old Child Stricken With Polio Springfield, Mo. U.R) The smallest iron lung in Missouri, only 40 inches long, stood in readiness today for a 13-day-old polio stricken girl, but doctors are hoping they won't have to use it. . . r The girl is Connie Sue Peeples, who contracted polio Aug. 22, nine days after her mother, Mrs. Onnie Peeples, came down with the disease. Mrs. Peeples has been in an iron lung for two weeks and the girl was born two days after the mother contracted polio. Taipei, Formosa (U.R) Vice Adm. Alfred M. Pride said U.S. forces are keeping up with the Chinese Communist military buildup in South China opposite Formosa. Los Angeles (U.R) Mrs. Adele Strout, 76, widow of the founder of a nationwide real es tate company, was found dead today in her downtown hotel Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 137 Dulles Discloses Appeal Made To Bolh Countries Russian Arms 6ffer Declared Indicated Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles dis closed today that the United States has appealed to Egypt and Israel to stop fighting in the Gaza frontier area. He told a news conference that the appeal against using force to settle the border dispute was made in capitals of both countries within the last 48 hours. Soviet Offer Indicated Dulles also said, in response to questions, that there are indi cations, with some signs of re liability, that Russia is offering to provide military equipment to Arab countries. But he stressed that the Unit ed States has no official infor mation to support these reports and that there is no evidence that Russian equipment is now in Arab hands. Dulles said bluntly that any Soviet move to introduce mili tary equipment in the troubled area certainly would not con tribute to the relaxing of ten sions pledged by Moscow at the recent Geneva summit confer ence. Bloody Clashes - Dulles said the efforts of American diplomacy at present are being directed toward stop ping the fighting between Egypt and Israel in the Gaza area. There have been bloody Clashes on the disputed frontier strip for the past six days. To underline his statement that the immediate U.S. interest is to stop the fighting the secre tary flatly refused o elaborate on his offer of U.S. guarantees to Israel and its Arab neighbors against aggression by either side once agreement is reached on a permanent border. Dulles said the dramatic offer. made in a New York speech Fri day amounted to definite pol icy statements which were being studied by the governments di rectly concerned. Reaction Is Cold The next move on that front. he said, would develop when the reaction is in from Israel and its Arab neighbors. Unofficial reaction from Arab countries to the guarantee pro posal has been cold. Col. Anar El Sadat, a member of Egypt's ruling military junta, , said la Cairo today that the proposal was "unworthy of considera tion." Rep. Burdick Watches As Bride Dies in Fall Williston, N. D. -U.R) Rep. Usher Burdick (R-N.D.) watched as his bride of one month was killed in a fall from a horse yes terday. Mrs. Burdick, a no vice, rider, was thrown from a horse on the Burdick ranch near here when the animal made a sharp turn. She suffered a broken neck, a skull fracture, and brain hemor rhage. The 76-year-old congressman was following in a car and wit. nessed the accident. Mrs. Burdick, the former Edna B. Sierson of Bradford, Mass., was a Washington, D. C, secretary when she met her future husband. Roseburg Man Shools Self as Wife Dies Tonopah, Nev. -(U.R) Henry Hytti, 55, Roseburg, Ore., urani- lum prospector, lay down beside his wife and shot himself to death yesterday after she had been killed in an auto accident. Authorities said the accident occurred 19 miles north of here. The couple's pickup truck rolled over three times on a curve and caught fire. Mrs. Hytti was thrown from the truck and died instantly. " Police said that when Hytti saw his wife lying by the road side, he staggered to the burning truck, recovered his gufl, lay down beside her body and shot himself in the head.
