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V o 0 Offers Six raits i . - HARVEST WORKERS Two Reter Fruit company employees (upper photo) stand on the fruit line packing the endless line of pear boxes. The two in the picture are (left) Barbara Chitwood, route two, box 208, Central Point, and Marjorie Mee, 3585 Roberts rd. Below, George Bradbury, Hillcrest orchards worker, begins to strip a heavy laden limb of Bartlett pears. The three are among 4,000 persons employed In the fruit industry. (Brainerd photos.) N eg r o B oy M u rdered In Mississippi After Woman Said Insulted Greenwood, Miss. (U.R) Local authorities today planned an all-out murder prosecution in the kidnap-killing of a Chicago Negro boy who purportedly in sulted a white woman at a rural store. Sheriff George Smith of Le flore county said storekeeper Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J. W. Milan, definitely would be charged with murdering 15-year-old Emmett Till, a victim of polio. Bryant and Milan, both white, admitted kidnaping the boy but claimed they released him un harmed. The boy's nude body, shot in the head and weighted with 125 pounds of metal, was found in a river Wednesday morning. Immediate Angry Reaction News of the discovery of the body brought an immediate angry reaction from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and denuncia tions of the State of Mississippi. In New York, Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive secretary, said the slaying was a "lynching." In Chicago, Henry Huff, chairman of the NAACP Legal Redress Committee, protested to state and federal authorities. Mrs. Mamie Bradley, Till' mother, said in Chicago that she would fight to the end to see that justice is done," and added, "the State of Mississippi will have to pay for this.' The sheriff said he had su spected foul play as soon as he arrested 'Bryant and Milan on kidnap charges, and awaited only to find the body before prosecuting them for murder. Body in River Young Till's body, the head pierced by a gunshot and bash ed in by a heavy instrument, wa discovered partly submerged in the Tallahatchie river 25 miles north of here. ' Smith quoted Bryant - and Milan as admitting adbucting Till from the home of Moses Wright, an uncle Till was visit ing, after Mrs. Bryant said Till was the one who insulted her. But they claimed they after ward released Till .when Mrs. Bryant later said he was not "the one." Till, or someone, was said to have directed a "wolf whistle" at Mrs. Bryant during a visit of several Negro boys to the store and upon leaving said "goodbye" in a manner - that Bryant and Milan considered insulting. Glen Johnson Dies Of Blast Injuries Funeral services for Glen Her bert Johnson, 53, of 819 South Central ave., who died Wednes day will be held in the Conger Morris chapel 11 a.m. Sept. 3 with the Rev. E. I. Hiser officia ting. Committal will be in Hill crest Memorial Park, Grants Pass. ' He died of injuries suffered from an oil drum explosion Aug. 4 at a Riverside ave. trailer court. His wife died of burns shortly after the accident. Weather FORECAST: Continued fair and warm through Friday. Low tonight 50. High Friday 95. Temp. Sflighest Yesterday . 93 Lowest this Morning ; 30 Pear Harvest In Full Swing; May Reach Peak Soon The Rogue valley pear harvest is expected to hit its peak for the year sometime within ithe next 10 days, and continue heavy through September. . Actual picking began about Aug. 18 and will end near Oct. 15. ' ; The 1955 crop is termed by county horticulural agent "C. B. Cordy close to "average," with an estimated 4,000,000 boxes of pears to be handled. Though it is by no means a bumper crop, the yield this year is highly satis factory to orchardists who suf fered the disastrous freeze of 1954. Cordy said the present crop is double the meager harvest last year. . ' Bartleiis First v The two month harvest will average about 100,000 handled boxes per day. Bartletts, the crop mainstay, are the first variety picked, with seckel, anjou, bosc, cornice, and winter nelis follow ing in that order, sometimes overlapping. Of the 4,000,000 lugs of pears handled in the field, about 3,000,000 will survive culling to be packed or canned. Since vir tually all of the fruit is shipped out of the valley, the 3,000,000 box-equivalent of processed fruit will fill nearly 4,000 Southern Pacific boxcars. There is approximately one worker in the field or packing plant for .every boxcar of fruit shipped. Employment in the valley pear industry is split nearly in half, with about 2,000 persons work ing in the orchards, and the same number in the packing plants. Neuberger Leading Eisenhower Supporter Washington U.R) Rich ard L. Neuberger led Oregon congressmen in supporting Pres ident Eisenhower during the recent congressional session, ac cording to recorded votes. Neuberger, a Democrat and sharply critical of the Presi dent's administration, voted 62 per cent of the time in favor of presidential policies. Right behind him was Republican Rep. Walter Norblad, with a 61 per cent mark. The remainder of the Oregon delegation was tied at 56 per cent. That mark was made by Sen. Wayne Morse and Rep. Edith Green, Democrats, and Reps. Harris Ellsworth and Sam Coon, Republicans. Morse opposed the President on 40 per cent of voting oc casions, which made him a lead ing opponent of the administra tion. ' . Ike Will Breakfast With State Chairmen Denver (U.R) The White House announced today that President Eisenhower will have breakfast here Sept. 10 with the Republican state chairmen of all 48 states as part of a GOP cam paign clinic. The 48 GOP leaders and Re publican National - Chairman Leonard W. Hall will fly here by chartered airliner from Wash ington for the Saturday morning breakfast Session next week. The GOP leaders will be at tending a campaign clinic and training school- in Washington next week and will return to the capital after the brtokfast. Chrysler,. Or Employees Granted Same Guaranteed Wage as Ford, GM Settlement Comes Six Hours After Deadline Detroit (U.R) Chrysler Corp. and the CIO United Auto Work ers union agreed today on a new three-year contract giving 139, 000 striking employees the same guaranteed wage benefits that Ford and General Motors grant ed earlier this summer., The settlement came a little more than six hours after a mid night strike deadline sent work ers streaming out of 61 Chrysler plants in seven states. The union said the settlement automatically signalled the end of the first major Chrysler strike since its plants were shut down by a 100-day walkout in 1950. Emil Mazey, UAW secretary treasurer who has been pinch hitting for CIO President Walter Reuther as head of the union's bargaining team, said the union would do everything possible to "get the workers back on the job as quickly as we can." Settlement of two key issues paved the way for agreement on the new three-year Chrysler con tract, a union demand that white collar workers be included in the jobless pay3 plan and the question of the effective datevof the contract. - The union . scored a victory when the company agreed dur ing the post-deadline to include 8000 office workc in the "guar anteed semi-annual wage" plan. Both sides gave in on the effec tive date problem. They agreed that the effective date would be Sept. 1, 1955, but yearly pay in creases would be moved up to April 1 next year and to June 1 in 1957. Contract Like Others Chrysler plant workers under the new contract won the same guaranteed wage benefits as Ford and GM workers. The plan guarantees laid off workers up to 65 per cent of their normal take-home pay during a half year of unemployment. The Chrysler workers also won six-Cent hourly pay in creases 'for each of the next three years, inproved pension, medical and insurance plans, and an additional eight-cent hourly increase for skilled workers. Today's settlement brought the last of the auto industry's. "Big Three" producers into the guaranteed wage fold. Still re maining were the "Little Three," American Motors, Studebaker Packard and Kaiser-Willys. Polio Incidence Increases in State Portland (U.R) An in crease in the statewide incidence of polio was noted yesterday by the State Public Health Depart ment as Oregon entered the "po lio season." Total number of cases in Ore gon so far this year was 154, with 18 of the cases reported last week. There were 131 cases a year ago, and health officers said the average for the same period was 121. Six new cases were reported in Portland, and four in the rest of Multnomah county. Portland has had 34 cases to date this year, compared to 15 for . the same period of 1954, while Mult nomah county had 16 cases to date. ' Eleven of the state's polio cas es reported last week were para lytic. Coos County Unable To Enforce Timber Tax Lien Salem (U.R) Coos county will be unable to enforce a tax lien against timber which has re verted to the ownership of the United States, in the opinion of Attorney General Robert ' Y. Thornton. However, Thornton said in an opinion requested by District At torney John J. Pickett, Coos county may request federal of ficials to honor the lien, and if the lien is rejected the only re sort to enforce the lien for taxes would be to the courts of the United States. Several New Salem (U.R) The Oregon State Fair, opening Saturday for an eight-day run, will have sev eral new features. i One will be the showing for the first time in the Pacific Northwest of the Aberdeen An gus breeders' futurity. The event is bringing 150 of the top Aber deen Angus cattle from 10 west ern states. The futurity entries 50th Year MEDFORD 26 Pages MEDFORD, Driest Year On Record Here Ends; Rain Totals 8.89 Talent District Ends Irrigation Season The driest agricultural year on record for the Medford vicin ity ended at midnight last night following a rainless August. Medford station of the U. S. weather bureau reported that a meager 8.89 inches of precipita tion fell during the "growers year" which began on Sept. 1, 1954 and ended Aug. 31, 1955. The total was 9.26 inches below the normal of 18.15 for this area. Previous Dry Year Previous driest year was 1923 1924 when precipitation, totalled 10.58 which was 1.69 inches more than fell in the year just ended. The past year's skimpy rain fall contrasts to 29.28 inches in 1942-1943, Medford's wettest year on record. jTwo comparatively wet years preceded the all-time driest one. Precipitation amounted to 22.52 in 1952-1953 and 22.33 in 1953 1954. This year has been a hard one on farmers depending on irriga tion. Irrigation EiQls Today marked the end of e irrigation season in the Talent Irrigation district. All irrigation water from district sources was to be turned off today. Officials of Rogue River Val ley Irrigation district said this morning that they expect to get through the season all right with careful allotment of remaining water supplies. However, they warned that, in the event of an extremely dry fall, the situation would become very critical by the end of this month. Medford Irrigation district of ficials were out of town today and could not be contacted con cerning the situation in their dis trict. ' ' ' Q , Teacher Housing Lists Requested Medford city schools officials today renewed requests that housing available for teachers be listed with the city schools of fice as soon as possible. They noted that the present listings include plenty of rooms, but added that furnished and unfurnished apartments and houses are urgently needed. List ings are running far behind those for previous years. All teachers must be in Med ford by Sept. 13 for start of in service training, and housing is needed well in advance of that date. Schools officials also" request ed that those who have listed housing which since has been rented gotify the schools office so the listings of available quar ters can be changed. The city schools telephone , number is 3-3683. Hunnicut Burned in Gas Tank Explosion Robert Hunnicut, Jacksonville, was badly burned this morning when the gas tank of a car on which he was working exploded. Hunnicut was cutting the car body with a blowtorch in the Forest creek area about 9 a.m. today. Gas fumes from the auto's tank ignited and exploded. Hunnicut managed to climb into his own car and drive to Legg's Shell service in- Jackson ville. Archie Legg, station man ager, rushed the injured man to Sacred Heart hospital. Umatilla (U.R) The last bucket of concrete for the 286 bucket of concrete for the $286, 000,000 McNary dam was poured this week. Features Due will be housed in the fair's new beef barn adjacent to the live stock pavilion. The land products show has been enlarged. Big pumpkins, corn and sunflowers will be fea tured along with other land prod ucts to compete for more than 500 cash prizes. The garden and flower show, which has proved one of the OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER i; 1955 No. 139 : ; Israeli Jets Down 2 Egyptian Planes Tel Aviv, Israel "(U.R) Israel today announced its jet Air Force shot down two Egyptian jet fighters over Israel territory, and Egypt in a surprise move returned to the U.N. border confer ence with Israel in an urgent attempt to avoid open warfare. Egypt had walked out of the talks 10 days ago. The air battle, which Israel said occurred deep lside Israeli territory, was the second of two major warlike incidents within 12 hours. ' In Cairo, Egypt made no mention of the air battle, but did announce that two of its fighter planes "crashed near Gaza after colliding in midair." Earlier the Israeli Foreign Office announced that Israeli troops stabbed into Egyptian-held Gaza during the night to wipe out an Egyptian army headquarters. Israel said the raid wm in retaliation for a similar invasion of her territory by Egyptianiorces. Unoffi cial Sources said the Israelis "left at least 14 Egyptian dead and scores wounded" in the raid. Peron Followers Told To Shoot To Keep Him in Power Buenos Aires (U.R) The fol lowers of President Juan D. Peron today were under orders to engage in a campaign of vio lence, to keep him in power. Peron, who yesterday offered to resign in the interest of po litical peace, withdrew the offer last night in response to (in spired . demonstrations of pro test. And he told his Peronistas they were authorized to kill any one who hereafter "takes part in any anti-demonstration. Said Contrived Scheme Political observers and Argen tine refugees in Montevideo said the proffered contrived scheme designed to whip up new en thusiasm among ; his followers and reinforce ' his waning hold on thnation. Some sources sug' gested he had emerged from the dramatic maneuver "stronger than ever". .. A general strike called by the 6,000,000 member General Con federation of Labor (CGT) to protest his resignation was call ed off today and Argentina be gan returning to normal. Strong police reinforcements guarded key points but no trouble was reported. Freak Train Accident The only casualties were seven persons killed and 31 in jured, victims of a freak train accident aP the village of Tu cuman. The victims, railroad workers en route to Buenos Aires to at tend the mass rally for Peron at the Plaza de Mayo, were sitting on the roof of an overcrowded train. The high tension wires of a trolley line decapitated some of the victims when the train passed underneath it and flung others against big adver tising posters lining the track. Los Angeles Mercury Reaches 110 Degrees Los Angeles (U.R) The all time heat record for Los Angeles was smashed today when the mercury shot up to 110 degrees at 1:30 p.m. The record of 109 was set 64 years ago on July 25, 1891. The heat wave started sud denly yesterday when a 101 was recorded. So far one death was attributed in part to the heat. The area got an unexpected break, however, when an early low inversion was dissipated by winds and almost complete re lief from smog was reported. San Pedro reported an unoffi cial high of 109.5 degrees at noon. (See Story on Page. 14) NO PAPER MONDAY In order to allow Us em ployee to enjoy the Labor day holiday. The Mail Tribune will not publish on Monday, Sept. 5. at State Fair most popular attractions of the fair, will occupy some 50 per cent more space this year. Major departments at the live- stock end of the fairgrounds will include dairy cattle, dual pur pose, beef, draft horses, sheep, goats, swine and poultry. Future Farmers and 4-H youths will con tribute to the competition as well as adult farmers. SDOITD Price 5c RIBUNE g , In London, Britain said she has warned both Egypt and Is rael for a second time against "the dangers of a policy of re taliation." A British spokesman said the United States, Britain and France have been "in con tact" on the explosive situation in the Gaza area. He said the contacts were continuing. Today's meeting of Egyptian and Israeli representatives was held in a tin hut in the Gaza border area. It was in this area that Israel made it powerful "retaliatory" raid last night. The air encounter and the Is raeli thrust into Egyptian terri tory came on the heels of a U.N. effort to arrange a cease fire in the Gaza area. Egypt agreed, but Israel insisted she could not ac cept the U. N. arrangement un less Egypt first assumed all responsibility for recent inci dents and gave a separate pledge not to engage in further aggres sive acts. Successful Season For Festival Plays The final performance last night of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," brought to a close the 1955 and 20th annual Oregon Shakespearean festival. Manager Bill" Patton said this morning that in every respect this season has been the most successful and that attendance rose above 20, 000 for the first time in history. Attendance at the open-air theater this . year was stimulat ed by fair weather which pre vailed every day throughout the month-long season. Closing Ceremony Last night's audience, number ing about 900, warmly applaud ed the players and the tradition al closing ceremony. In this the entire cast, bearing lighted candles, circled the audience while the old English folk song, "Greensleeves," is sung and the final speech of "The Tempest" which begins "Our Revels now are ended" were spoken by H. Paul Kliss, festival director-actor, to close the season. Post-festival . work including 'striking the set . last night and today by technicians and men of the company and today will see many company members de parting for their homes in all parts of the nation. Manager Patton also slated that first plans for the 1956 sea son have already been made at staff and board meetings during the past few days. Year's Sentence For Driving While Drunk Jack Randolph, 36, of 1063 Court st., has ben sentenced to one year in Jackson county jail on drunk driving charges. Randolph pleaded guilty to driving while under the influ ence of intoxicating beverages and was sentenced ffli district court Aug. 30. Baseball NATIONAL St. Louis 6 8 Pittsburgh ...... 7 11 4 Arroya, Gettel (3), Wright (7) and Sarni; Law, Face (8) and Shepard. Milwaukee . 3 11 4 Brooklyn ... 6 7 2 Crone, Johnson : (5), Jolly 6), Paine (8) and Rice; Craig Labine (7) and Campanella. Cincinnati . 7 10 2 New York 4 7 0 Nuxhall and Landrith; Hearn, Wilhelm (4), Giel (6), Monsani (8) and Kati. Hint Vitheld On Agreement To Inspection Plan Proposals Considered As Major Issues United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) Russia today asked the West to agree upon six points which the Soviet Union considers the major issues in the disarmament question. Soviet delegate Arkady A. Sobolev broke his silence in the U. N. Disarmament Subcommit tee to bring up the six points. But he gave no hint as to wheth er the Kremlin would agree to President Eisenhower's plan for air, (gi-a and land inspection of military instllations and an American-Russian exchange of military blueprints. e Sobolev asked the United States, Britain, France and Can ada, the Western members of the subcommittee, whether they would agree:. Manpoyer Limits 1. That the manpower levels proposed by the Russians in their disarmament proposals' of last May 10 should be the basis of the arms reduction program. These levels were 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 for Russia, the Unit ed States and China and 650,000 for Britain and France. S 2. That the mannower level for armed forces of others coun tries should be set at 150,000 to 200,000 men. , ' 3. That a ban on atomic, hv- drogen and other weaoons of mass destruction should become effective when the countries have completed 75 per cent of their agreed arms reduction. 4. That complete elimination of such weaponstrom national armaments should be achieved when the remaining 25 per cent oi the agreed arms reduction goes into effect. Nuclear Weapons 5. That there should be an immediate ban on the use of nuclear weapons except in de fense against aggression, 6. That, pending agreement on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, there should be a ban , on tests of such arms. There was little new in Sobo lev's questions. He had outlined this Soviet position in his open ing speech to the subcommittee last Monday and several of the points were included in a British-French working paper put before the subcommittee inLon don last April. American disarmament ex pert Harold E. Stassen stair? h. did not expect tha Eisenhower plan to be discussed in substance until next week. Red Cross Relief Fund Over Goal Red Cross disaster funds for the hurricane struck northeast , were an estimated 35 per cent over the goal in Jackson county this morning. Local chapter officials re ported Tag Day money raising efforts yesterday were highly successful. Tag Day totals will be announced later. Tag sale funds plus private contributions pushed the total about 35 per cent above the set goal of $1,650. Tag Day for the Ashland area is being held today, with money collected there boosting further. the county relief fund total. Miss Siegmund Leads Women In SOG Here Miss Shirley Siegmund, young Eugene player, carded a three- over-par 79 to take medalist hon ors ,m today's women's qualify ing play in the Southern Oregon Golf tournament at Rogue Val ley Country club. The score gives her No. 1 seeded position in matches which begin Saturday. Top card for the women, how ever, was a 75, one under par. by Miss Sue DeVoe, the defend ing champion. It was a practice score. She took her automatic No. 2 spot in the championship bracket and was not qualifying. Report Logging Death In Copper Area Today The Jackson county coroner s office was called shortly before noon today in connection with a reported logging accident death in the Copper area of southwest Jackson county. : No further de tails had been reported up to 2 p.m. today. Astoria (U.R) Tommy Luke, prominent Portland florist and civic leader, and three guests were rescued early today from Duke's 33-foot cabin cruiser, the Tyee, after the craft burst into flames. -. , .9
