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0 Recommended 1 Tc AJLJ Weather Stories an pictures oa the United Medford Crusade, and on 11 people who received citizenship in ceremonies here, together with other stories of local Interest, appear on Page 12 o today's issue of The Mall Tribune. RIBUNE FORECAST: Cloudy llllsy morning, clearing; by noon. Fair and breezy Sunday after noon; partly loudy Mondav. , Cosier both days. High Sun day 75; low Monday 45; High Monday 78. Temp. Highest yesterday 86 Lowest yesterday morning 48 United Press Full Leased Wire AY, SEPTEMBER 11, 50th .Year No. 145 .MEDFOKDe.'; Mhstl ' united Kress hull Leased Wirt . q J 30 PAGES Price 5c MEDFORD, ORf IBig CaDiffornia IFire Threatening Timber On Southern (Oregon All forest and brush fires in Jackson county were out being mopped up Saturday, but a major fire just over the border in California was threatening to break over into Oregon. - However, radio reports from the fire Saturday evening re ported the situation as "fairly good, according to S. T, Moore, fire control officer for the Rogue River National forest. The fire control officer for the Klamath National forest was optimistic. about getting the fire under con trol today. Work on Firebreaks Jack Woodj supervisor of the Rogue River National forests, said Saturday morning that crewg and bulldozers were work ing to complete a line of fire breaks along the summit of the Siskiyou mountains, which gen erally is the dividing line be tween the Rogue River and Kla math National forests. The threatening blaze covers some 28,000 acres north of the Klamath river, ".and actually is a northerly extension of the huge Haystack fire which at one time got within five miles of Yreka. The fire Saturday was burn ing oh a divide south of Dead Cow and Beaver creeks, " with the northern fireline about 2V4 miles from the Rogue River for est ftcrder at. Condry mountain and about 4 or miles from the Oregon border. At mid-after noon Saturday, forest service sources indicated there had been nognaterial change in the fire- iines. Top Men To Arrive : J. -Herbert Stone, regional for regional fire control officer, bote of Portland, were to arrive by Torest Service plane at Med fonfl; airport Saturday afternoon to observe progress of the baftle, but smoke conditions prevented the plane from landing. They re turned (to Portland. Fire weather remained "se vere" Saturday, and Wood re ported the situation as "tick lish," toe worst he'd observed , since the time of the Tillamook fie in northwestern Oregon. Humidities, however, were slightly higher 'than earlier in the week. The main body of the threat ening fire lies in the Beaver creek drainage, Wood reported. Men and equipment were work ing on all sides of the fire, but it was far from being contained early Saturday, Wood said. Lines . Constructed The" work being done from the Rogue River forest side Friday and Saturday was the construc- tion of lines generally along the border between the two forests, which coincides with the Sis- kivou divide. The lines were built so that, if the fire "blows ud" toward the north the crews will beQ-eady to backfire with out daneer to timber further nojrth. '-About six miles of line in all were constructed, three of them in the vicinity of Donomore Meadows where the forest bor der crosses 'from California to - Oregon, and three more in the Siskiyou gap area of Oregon. Elsewhere along the line, glades break the solid stands of timber. The 900-acre Sterling moun tain fire, which was controlled earlier this week, lies in the area threatened from the south by the bigger fire. Rogue River forest crews, which had been fighting the northern perimeter of the smaller fire, Friday night took over the entire fireline with about 80 men to free Kla math forest crews for work on the other blaze. The Sterling mountain fire is about 11 miles due west of Highway 99 on both sides of the state border. Lindstedt reported Saturday that all fire on national forest land in Region 6 (Oregon and Washington) were under con trol, and Ted Maul, dis trict warden for the state for esty department) said all fires in state-protected lands in Jack son and Josephine counties were in "good shape." Cooperation Praised ; Wood reported Saturday morn ing that cooperation from all sources during the fire emer gency of the past jveek has been "magnificent." Supervisory per sonnel, who usually direct fire operations, were so busy with coordination of the work on 53 separate fires, that district rn?ers were placed in charge of most blazes, and given author ity for independent action. Among non-forest agencies participating in the fight the past few days have been amateur radio operators, who have op erated forest service radio equip ment as well as their own, in o' maintaining com munications with the fire camps. Operating in relays, they have kept open main stations in Med ford, Grants Pass, and along the Siskiyou summit, using forestry equipment and some of their own mobile units. About 20 "hams" of the area have par ticipated, several of them work ing around the clock. Other hams the full length of the Pacific Coast have been monitoring the frequencies used to warn other amateurs to leave the emergency bands free. Getting Upper Hand Meanwhile, elsewhere in fire- blackened Siskiyou county, fire fighters were gradually begin ning to get the upper hand on the huge fires which have burned tens of thousands of acres of trees and brush in the past week, destroying cabins and 1 homes, and at one time threatening Yreka with spot fires from flying embers. Klamath National forest offi cials ' Saturday advised that con trol of the big Haystack-Red Mountain fire was expected by Saturday evening. The Kidder creek and Scott valley fires were to have been controlled Satur day, barring unexpected develop- mens, and the Taylor creek fire in the Salmon river district was being held and was considered under control. The Six-Mile fire, also along the Salmon river, had grown to 4,500 acres Saturday morning, and control of it is not expected before Monday. The East Fork fire in the Happy Camp district is under control, and men were being released from it for work else where Saturday. Colorado Girl Nabs ' , -W . Title Honors; Miss Oregon in Top Five Portland (U.R) The dis appointed father of the girl who came in second in the Mist America contest said Saturday night "I think maybe Dorothy went into this contest a little too soon." Gust Johnson, father of beautiful runner-up Dorothy Johnson, explained "if she'd have had a year or two of college she'd have won." Atlantic City, N.J. (U.R) Sharon Way Ritchie of Colorado became the new Miss America tonight. The pretty 18-year-old auburn-hiired girl won over the other 48 contestants. Others in the top five were Miss Oregon, Dorothy Johnson, Miss Oklahoma, Ann Campbell; Miss North Carolina, Clara Arn old; and Miss Chicago, Florence Gallagher. The pretty new beauty queen of the nation not only won the title, but also a small fortune in prizes, a chance to make an estimated $60,000 in her year long reign and probably a movie contract. Hu Dramatic Hopes Miss Ritchie ' hopes to be .a dramatic star. In the talent sec tion last night, she did a dra matic reading of "The Murder of Lidice" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. She hopes to study at the famed Pasadena Playhouse, marry a good-looking man, and have children. But the marriage will have to wait at least a year, under the terms of the contest. She said to the nearly 19,000 persons present and to the mli- lions of others on television that "1 just can't tell you how .much 1 appreciate this honor. All can do is thank God for giving me the ability to- get where am." Security Guarantees To Russia Considered Washington (U.R) The Uni ted States Saturday was con sidering several security guar antees to be offered to Soviet Russia in exchange for agree ment on German unification. Openly pessimistic of getting even a tiny move toward unifi cation at the Russian-German talks currently underway in Moscow, American officials look to the Big Four Foreign Minis ters meeting in Geneva Oct. 27. Soviet officials gave what amounted to a brusque brush-off to Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer's plea in Moscow for quick steps toward Germany re-unification. Ike Gives Rousing Pep Talk, Bui No Hint of Own Plans GOP State Chairmen Hear Talk in Denver Denver U.R) President Eisenhower told Republican state chairmen- Saturday they should not pin their flag too "tightly to one mast" but most of the GOP leaders appeared confident he would run again in 1956. Mr. Eisenhower, in a rousing pep talk at a breakfast here with the party chieftains, oth erwise gave no hint of his plans for next year. Don't Depend on One "We don't believe for a min ute that the Republican party is so lacking in inspiration, high quality personnel and leader ship that we are dependent on one man,". Mr. Eisenhower told the 50 state and territorial GOP leaders. "We don't believe it for . a moment." "As long as we have a man in the leadership position, why of course as a party we are go ing to be loyal," he said. . Then he added: "But humans are frail and theyare mor tal. Finally, you never pin your flag so tightly to one mast that if a ship sinks you cannot rip it off and nail it to another." Believe Ike Will Run Despite the President's brief and unrevealing reference to his own plans, most of the state chairmen appeared certain he would be a candidate for re-election. National Republican party chairman Leonard W. Hall, who met with the President briefly after the breakfast session with the. state chairmen, said he was more convinced than ever that Mr. Eisenhower will" be a canj didate to succeed himself next year. . - - . T- " ' "I have proceeded always on the assumption that the Presi dent is going to be a candidate," Hall said. "I am going away from here strengthened in my previous assumption that he is going to be a candidate again." Air Force Bomber Crashes into Sea i Naha, Okinawa (U.R) The U.S. Air Force said Saturday that a B-29 bomber, missing for two days with 13 airmen aboard, crashed in the East China sea area Thursday night. The Air Force said the fate of the plane was determined with the positive identification of an unopened parachute fish ed from the sea as belonging to the missing craft.. No survivors have been found in a two-day search over a 20,- 000 square-mile expanse of ocean, Air Force officials said.. The Air Force said for the first time the Superfortress crashed . Thursday evening" shortly after it radioed its last message. . The U.S. bomber disappeared at sea 200 miles east of Formosa while oh a routine training mis sion. Its last radio message fixed its position but . reported ho trouble. c H t v O WINS FIRST QUIZ Mrs, Robert J. Pfaff, 647 Laurel St., Central Point, is the winner of the first in the series' of current events quizes, being conducted by the Mail Tribune in connection with its annual Bargin Days event. She is shown being presented with a one-year free subscription to. the Mail Tribune by her carrier, Martin Gilkey. The Pfaffs have been subscribers to. the Mail Tribune for 13 years. Mrs. Pfaff reports this is the first contest she has ever won. She called on her husband and fivechildren for assistance in solving the quiz questions, and aftex? seven hours, turned in a perfect score. Bargain Days will continue through Sept..l9, and by subscribing for a full year, readers can save $2.50 from the regular subscription price, equal to two full months at regular rates. (Landis-Shangle photo) MOSCOW GREETING Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin' (left) welcomes West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to Moscow for five days of talks aimed at establishing diplo matic relations. Adenauer flew in to discuss unification of Germany and the release of 200,000 German prisoners as part of his terms for dealing with Russia. 28 Congressmen Get Visas for Visits in Russia, Embassy Says Washineton (U.R) The Soviet embassv revealed Satur day that more than 28 members of Congress , have been.; given visas to visit Rusisa in an un precedented movement of Amer ican lawmakers benind tne iron curtain. A snokesman said 11 senators and 17 representatives had annlied for and received visas from the embassy here. Many others, he said, received visas from Soviet embassies in Eu rope. Most On Record - The embassv told the United Press that more congressmen have been given permission to travel in Rusisa this year than ever before. It apparently is part Sports Bulletins Medford high drove 83 yards to a touchdown in the final fourth quarter to break a 6 to 6 deadlock and tip Cleve land of Portland, 12 to 6, here last night in the opening foot-' ball game of the season for both schools. Dave Boi worth punched 14 yards for the score. Bosworth also went the final six inches for Medford's other touchdown in the first quarter. Dave Graham charged 16 yards for Cleve land's tally in the second pe riod. Portland (U.R) The Oak land Oaks shut out the Port land Beavers 3-0 in a Pacific Coast League ball game Satur day night to lake a 2-1 edge in their series with the. Bevos. km of Moscow's new sweetness-and- light program. The embassy said no visa applications have been turned .down. -i r'--...-- But Rep. W. R. Poage (D-Tex.) challenged this - statement... He said he applied to the embassy for a visa and was supposed to get it in Helsinki, Finland. But he said it never came. He voiced suspicion that his application was' turned down because of an anti-Soviet speech he delivered at the recent inter parliamentary union meeting in Helsinki. May Be Just Bungling "Maybe it was just bureau cratic bungling," he said, "but I suspect it was because of the speech I made. As far as I know I am the only member of Con gress whose resquest for a visa was turned down." The embassy freely supplied the information on the traveling congressmen. But the State De partment refused to supply any data. Officials , indicated they will not, as a matter of practice, discuss the activities of congress men. Moroccans to Get More Independence Paris (U.R) The French government has decided to give Morocco a large measure of in dependence under a -new pact safeguarding vital French in terests in the protectorate, it was announced Saturday. General of the Army Georges Catroux, special government en voy, said France plans to raise Morocco to the status of a "mod ern state." He said a new treaty would be signed establishing an "inter dependence" between Morocco and France, safeguarding the latter's economic, strategic, cul tural and diplomatic interests. Catroux's statement clearly implied the new treaty would supercede the 1912 pact estab lishing France's protectorate in Morocco. Booming Business Expected to Continue Washington (U.R) Econ omists in and out of the gov ernment predicted Saturday that business will keep on booming even if the administration suc ceeds in balancing the budget. They said a balanced budget can sometimes put a dent in a boom because it takes a lot of government spending out of cir culation. But they predicted m interviews that wiping out the present relatively small deficit will have little or no effect on the current unprecedented ec onomic activity.. ''X'y Arms Talks Appear Near Deadlock as Reds Level Charge United Nations, N.Y. (U.R) The United Nations talks on dis armamentappeared Saturday ,tpT be' heading'for a deadlock, and the Soviet delegate accused the Western powers ;.Of "trying to sabotage them. ' The Soviet charge was con tained in a broadcast by the So viet news agency Tass. It said Soviet delegate Arkadi Sobolev had accused the Westeri rep resentatives of having "in essence repudiated everything that has been done hv the snh- "committee earlier." No Agreement The disarmament subcommit tee, made up Of representatives of the United States, Britain, Canada, France and Russia, ad journed Friday until next .Tues day with no sign of even small agreement between the Soviet and Western positions. British Minister of State- An thony Nutting said Russia had not budged from its demand for acceptance of the Kremlin's May 10 disarmament proposals, al ready described by the West as "inadequate." Speeches made by delegates during the two-week-old session have been "secret" but Tass broadcast excerpts from a speech Wednesday by Sobolev. Navy Opens Hearing Into Landy Case New York (U.R) The Navy opened a special hearing Satur day to give Eugene W. Landy, Merchant Marine academy honor graduate, a chance to win a naval commission despite the fact his mother once was a Com munist. The three hearing officers, in cluding a Rear Admiral, flew here from Washington this morning for the closed meeting. The first session lasted from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. 1 and another session was scheduled for 10 a.m. today. Petitions Protest McKay's Labor Policies in Salem Denver (U.R) Two husky Secret Service agents Saturday prevented AFL machinists from handing President Eisenhower a printed copy of a petition pro testing labor policies of Secre tary of Interior Douglas McKay in his Salem, Ore., Chevrolet agency: However, the union men said, they already had sent Mr. Eis enhower a copy of the petition by special delivery Friday night. Severalt members of the In ternational Association of Ma chinists gathered in the hallway outside the Brown Palace hotel private dining room where Mr. Eisenhower had breakfast with Republican state chairmen. They handed copies of the z n n n ywiitas Chancellor Recalls Soviet Atrocities During Recent War - Meeting Erupts Into Name-Calling Session Moscow (U.R) A charge by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer that Soviet troops committed atrocities in Germany in World War II touched off a bitter clash Saturday between West Ger man and Soviet leaders that deadlocked their Moscow ne gotiations. The grim-faced 79-year-old chancellor made the accusation directly before the Soviet top leaders in a stormy three and one-half hour session of their conference. Remark "Offensive" t Soviet Communist party lead er Nikita S. Khrushchev snap ped back that Adenauer had made an "offensive remark" and the meeting broke out in an exchange of name-calling. In an attempt to break the deadlock and erase the bitter feelings of the morning's ex change, Adenauer invited So viet Premier Nikolai Bulganin to an urgent man-to-man talk Saturday afternoon in his coun try villa outside Moscow:. Officials of both nations took off their diplomatic kid gloves in a second-day session of the conference that was also high lighted by- these- developments: Other Developments 1. Bulganin flatly turned down Adenauer's demands for release of German war prisoners in the Soviet Union. He said the "so-called" POW's were really "war criminals. 2. The Soviet premier told Adenauer German reunification was not possible "in the near future" because of West German membership in NATO and the Western European Union. He said ' there was no point in further negotiations if the chan cellor tried to negotiate "from a position of strength." 3. Adenauer told the Rusisa ns he is not prepared to reach im mediate agreement with the So viet Union on an exchange of ambassadors. Appears Deadlocked The conference appeared dead locked at least temporarily with no success so far in bridg ing the enormous gap between the Soviet and West German positions. Today's formal ses sion ended with no set plans for a new meeting. - By evening, however, ruffled feelings had calmed consider ably after the " West German delegation and the Soviet lead ers - attended ' a masterful per formance of Sergei Prokofieff's ballet "Romeo and Juliet" at the Bolshoi theater. FIREMAN CALLED Medford firemen were called to 1317 South Peach st. at abouj 10:30 p.m. yesterday when a shed at the home of Fay Folda was destroyed by flames. Loss to the contents of the shed was not known immediately. - Paris (U.R) Allied supreme headquarters in Europe Satur day announced the establish ment of a new task force in Northern Italy, to be composed mainly of U. S. troops with drawn from Austria. petition to all who would take them. But when the President ap proached, the Secret Service warned the union members they would not be permitted to approach the President. Two of the agents personally blocked off a union member, Walter Colson of Denver, at the door. Colson made no effort to dis pute them. ' The petition charges that Mc Kay's agency, which the union struck recently in a wage and work benefits dispute, has been guilty of trying to break the union. It charged that McKay has tried to hire "scabs" and has personally violated a picket line. Chinese Students In America Given Chance to Leave Commies to Release Ten 'In Few Days' Geneva. Switzerland flJ.R) Communist China announced Saturday that American civil ians who desire to return home will be freed. In return, the United State. announced it would send home those Chinese students now in the United States who desire to put themselves under Red rule. An American spokesman said that under the agreement, reached after nearlv six weeks of negotiations, seven Americans now in jail and three held under House arrest will be sent to Hong Kong "within a few days" for repatriation. Others To Go Free An additional -1Q A -nr(nnn. will be released "as soon as pos- 1 sible," he added. The announcements w e r ' made by Chinese Delegate Wang ; ring-wan and American Dele- ' Eate " U. Alev5s -Tnhncon nrkn have conducted thi long and dif- iicuit negotiations. The first 10 Americans to bo freed include: Lawrence Robert Buol. civil air transport pilot. Stockton. Calif. Levi A. Loveereen. BantLst Missionary, of Seattle, Wash. waiter A. Rickett, Fulbright scholar, of 309 Maiden ave- Northwest Seattle. The Seven have been held in jail and three have been under House arrest. 41 Sought by TJ. S. In the negotiations the . Uni ted States sought the release of American civilians in all who are known to be in Chinese Red hands. Wang had announced four days aeo that 12 of the 41 would be permitted to go home. Saturday's agreement covered the remaining 29. - There were two items on the program for negotiation the prisoners and "other matters of interest to both $jdes." xne "other matters" will be taken ud by Johnson and Wane- next Wednesday, after they seek instructions from their govern ments. It is expected that Wan will seek to get the United States and other United Nations members to relax their embargo against trade to Red China. He also is likely to ask the admission of the Peiping government to the U.N. It was emphasized that the negotiations do not. mean that the United States is recognizing the Peiping government. But officials in Washington, commenting on the agreement, said it almost certainly will lead to a further relaxation of ten sion between the United States and Red China. Longshoremen Defy Back To Work Order New York (U.R) Long. shoremen defied a back-to-work court order Saturday in a port: w.ide $l,000,000-a-dy strike that left. 70 freighters idle at their piers and tons of cargo piled high on the docks'. Activity in the world's great est port was cut to a trickle by the four-day strike by more than . 20,000 members of the In ternational Longshoremen's as sociation (Ind). The union announced its in tention of continuing the walk out at least until Monday, and possibly longer. In the face of the tremendous backlog of freight piling up here the railroads were reported con sidering an embargo on all ship ments to the port of New York until the longshoremen get back to' work. . The strike was called to pro test against the activities of the New York-New Jersey Bi-State Waterfront commission. Oregon To Receive Lilly Polio Vaccine Indianapolis (U.R) Eli Lilly & Company has announced 46, 872 doses of Salk anti-polio vac cine have been shipped by air to Oregon for distribution through commercial channels.
