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Newspaper Page Texto Adenauer, Russians Fail To Agree m off iireet tmlmt VMM o Medford United Pmm Full Leased Wire 50th Year 16 Pages no General Walkout Closes Ports From Canada to Texas Union Officers Claim Doublecross , New York --OJ.R) The presi dent of the International Long shoremen's Association ordered dock workers out on a "general strike today from Canada to Houston, Tex. ' Capt. William V. Bradley, head of the independent union, said in a telegram to all locals it was necessary to call a gen eral strike "to preserve the ILA." "You are hereby ordered and directed to stop work immedi ately in order to gain our objec tives. To be specific, this is a general strike order," his tele gram read. New York Port Tied Up Bradley and leaders of Atlan tic Coast locals were in a closed meeting when the general strike order was issued. The union has tied up most of the port of New York for five days in a dispute with the New York - New Jersey Waterfront Commission. The strike had been called off last night, but was reinstated at the 8 a.m. waterfront shapeup at Manhattan and New Jersey piers when union officers said they had been "doublecrossed" oa, a promised legislative investi gation of their grievances against the bi-state agency. Observers Speculate Dock workers on the Brook lyn piers, headed by Anthony : (rough Tony) Anastasia, were at work today and some observ erg speculated that the general strike order was issued to force his participation in the strike. The . unionQ faces possibly se vere penalties if the strike is still on at 4 p.m. today, when netitions for injunctions and damages are to be heard in Su preme Court here. Army Drops 47 Cases Of Collaboration Washington XU.R) The Army has dropped the cases of 47 for mer nrisoners of war suspected of collaboration with their Com munist captors in rvorea anu cleared six others, it was learned today. .. . The six were cleared by Army hoard action. The 47 cases were dropped for lack of evidence. The army now has 54 cases tiill pending under investigation or trial. ,,. 'l Of the 565 former POWs of the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps who were investigated for possible collaboration, 428 now have been cleared or their cases dropped. This number includes three Army men acquitted by court martial. Arson fnvesfigofors Probe Springfield Fires Springfield, Ore. (U.R) Arson investigators were in xne Springfield area today to study reports that a series of fires were deliberately ignited.. Three times this, summer a series of mystery fires has orig inated in the Culp creek-Diston Seas. Experts from the Eastern Lane fire patrol office and the state police headquarters were called to the scene following the latest outbreak last' Friday. Noreen Kelly, Fortier Pass Bar Examinations Noreen Ann Kelly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Kellv 906 West Fourth st., and 53d Roch Fortier, both of Med Sd have completed their staU bar examination,- according United Press. A total of 82.54 per cent of those taking the exami nation passed, which is a larger tfoan usual percentage, the ore: on Supreme Court said . Fortier has. Deen lucv"v - resident for about four y and at present is en route to Alaska where he will visit a brother. . 2 ' Hillsboro, Ore. (U.R)- A three-year, $22,000,000 construc tion program for West Coast Telephone Company facilities in Oregon, Washington and, north ern California hae been w aou&oed hera. - MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEA y Ulni Tour of Air Academy Impresses Ike; Sees More Education Need Denver (U.R) President Eisenhower, thoroughly impress ed by his first tour of the Air Force Academy, wondered today if the cadets had enough time to learn all they needed to know. After visiting the Academy's temporarly installation at Lowry Air Force Base here andt talk ing with its faculty Sunday, the Chief Executive appeared to be pleased with everything he found. Optimism Expressed But, Mr. Eisenhower express ed optismism over the educa tional setup in what he called today's complicated life." The President said that in his day, a "boy straight from the prairie" could learn eought in high school to handle the normal duties of citizenship. But now, Nile River Region Hit by Earthquake; At Least 18 Cairo, Egypt (U.R) A sharp earthquake jolted the thickly populated Nile River Delta region from Cairo to Alex andria today. Officials reported at least 18 persons dead. . The Ministry of the Interior said 10 persons were killed in Cairo and eight in the northern provinces during the 40-second temblor. Incomplete reports : reaching To Planning Group The- Medford Planning com mission at its 7:30 p.m. meeting today will consider a request for annexation of property owned by Benton Smith at the north east corner of Murray st. and Columbus ave. Also . on the commission's agenda is a petition requesting vacation of an alley in the Crowell addition, and a letter from the city council regarding encroachment on Evergreen st. where a local firm has request ed to construct a loading dock. A reDort on change of zone on Boardman st. will be heard by the commisison. - China Sees New Start In Relations With US Tokyo (U.R Communist China said today the Geneva agreement on release of Ameri cans held by the Reds "proves that possibilities do exist for solving other disputes oeiween the two countries. While pointing . out that tne initial success could be "a new start in the relations" between the U. S. and Red China, Peiping radio aso heatedly denied U. S. Information Service charges that the Communists still hold some 500 American soldiers.. The USIS said the U. S. sold iers serving with the United Nations forces in Korea had been captured by the Communists and had never been returned or otherwise accounted for by the Communists. f The government newspaper, Peiping People's Daily, called the charge "a shopworn article taken out of the U. S. Cold War arsenal by those Americans who fear a relaxation of the interna tional situation' Medforil Officials Guests at Ashland City 'Manager. Robert Duff, Mayor Earl Miller, and ex-Mayor and president of the League of Oregon, Cities Diamond Flynn will discuss the council - city manager form of government at the Tuesday noon luncheon of the Ashland Chamber of Com merce, j . , ..... . , ., The Ashland program was ar ranged by Judge P. H. Stans bury, who said the council-manager form 'of government may eventually have to be considered for Ashland. ; The council-manager form was initiated in Medford Jan. 1 this year. - Tie said, he had doubts that any one could get enough education in the same number of years to meet the "complications" of modern living. "I think the educational years may . have to be lengthened in view of the complications," he said. He said he thought - the average college education might be increased a, 'year to keep up with the busy and complex mod ern age, and teach today's youth all it needs to know. Conant Proposal His Merit Mr. Eisenhower said he be lieved a proposal by Dr. James B. Conant, former president of Harvard University, had a lot of merit. The Conant proposal calls for a two-year junior college in every locality to supplement the local high school. Killed the ministry listed 65 persons injured in Cairo and another 25 hurt in the provinces.. Unofficial reports from Alexandria said 20 factory worker and 10 students were injured when the tremor rocked the port city and resi dents stampeded out of buildings in panic. Seven houses were De ported damaged and a ; school was said to be so shaken it threatened to collapse. - Officials said nine of the 10 dead in Cairo were schoolgirls, killed on the first day of the new school term when their kindergarten in the Daher' area was damaged by the quake. Cairo appeared hardest hit. The city fire brigade was put on an emergency basis to help trapped victims. One official said 24 buildings were damaged. A Cairo museum official said a number, of small statues were toppled from their pedestals. Week-End Accidents Snuff Lives of Five By UNITED PRESS Accidents claimed the lives of five persons in Oregon . and northern ' California yesterday and today. At Roseburg yesterday, 19-year-old Gary L. Innerebner, driving a new 1955 sports car with a fibreglass body, apparent ly had too much speed to nego tiate a curve and crashed into a power ple north of Roseburg. He was killed outright end the car burst into flames, leaving nothing but the metal skeleton. Henry Kenney, 54, of Junc tion City, Ore., was believed drowned this morning in a grav el pit north of Monroe in Benton county. J. O. Coble, of Shafter, Calif., was killed about 11 a.m. today 12 miles north of McDermitt, Ore., ' on the Oregon - Nevada border. a In Portland, the six-weeks-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall W. Barnard apparently suffocat ed in his crib. And at Redding, Calif., Arthur Wood ot Vancou ver, B. C, was killed in a one car crash on the road to Burney Falls state park in Shasta county. Park Street Paving - -; To Sforf Tomorrow Paving of Park st. from Cath erine st, to Stewart ave. will begin Tuesday, according to Ver non Thorpe, city public works director, n ' . : Thorpe said the Park street project was originally scheduled to start Wednesday. Hamilton st. will be paved, from 1th st. to 106 feet south of 11th st., with co3nstruction beginning Wednesday, Thorpe said. v - Hollywood (U.R) Rita : Hay worth, reportedly in disguise, "'is en route to New York and Eu rope to take her daughter, Yas mme, for a visit with Prince Aly Khan. (. , . Portland (U.R) Trial of Wil lia L. Russell,, 22, who was ac cused of viciously attacking his two-year-old son, will begin in Multnomah County .Circuit Court tomorrow, ' II NE .ted Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 147 jTATED The cadets learned today of a traditional act by the President, which was greeted by the soon-to-be traditional acamedy "tiger yell." Mr. Eisenhower granted an "amnesty" which wiped clean the slates of all cadets with more than 30 demerits. . This action, which gladdened the hearts of 29 cadets, is tradi tional when' a president visits West Point or Annapolis. Mr. Eisenhower looked , over the academy headquarters, the library, several classrooms and and a barracks. He then review ed the 296-maft cadet corps on the broad, green parade ground. While the future generals of the air lacked the colorful uniforms of West Point and Annapolis, they lacked nothing in precision or smartness. Anti-Communists Win All 91 Seats On Cambodia Ballot Pnom Penh, Cambodia KU.R) The anti - Communist party of former King Norodom Sihanouk swept every seat today in the first Indochina election since the end of the Indochina war. The stunnning ballot put little Cambodia squarely in the West ern camp in threatened South east Asia. The winning of all 91 seats in the National Assembly by the ex-King's Socialist Peoples .Com munity party was a smashing re jection of neutralism as fostered by Indian Prime Minister Jawa harlal, Nehru. - Neutralists Big Losers The big loser was the neutral ist Democratic party which had a majority in the old assembly. Party leader on Ngoc Thanh had sought to take Cambodia into the .neutrailst camp with India, Burma and Indonesia. ;- The Democrats immediately yelled foul and demanded that the International Control com mission set up by the Geneva conference ending the civil war investigate alleged fraud at the polls. ' ' Some , leaders of the . Demo cratic party were reported to have- gone underground and a spokesman for the group said there had been an order for the mass arrest of all Democratic leaders. ' 7v -w M-T QUIZ WINNER Mrs. W. W. Phillips, 535 North Bartlett st., is shown above receiving a free one-year subscription to the Mail Tribune from her carrier boy, Gary Blew, he is the second winner in the series of current events quizzes conducted by the Mail Tribune to call attention to its Bargain Days event, now under way,, when subscriptions to the paper may be obtained at a saving of $2.50. Mrs. Phillips has lived in Medford most .of her life. A 1916 graduate of Medford High school, she' taught school at Lost Creek and Sterling for several years. Her husband operates the Skeeters and Skeeters Machine shop under lease. Young Blew de livers 100 papers on Route 19, and reports that the annual sub scription plan saves him. work as well a saving his subscribers money. Both his brothers were at one time Mail Tribune carriers. They are Bruce, owner of a fleet of logging trucks and president of the Southern Oregon Truckers league, and Leigh, a Post Office mail carries. (Ludia-ShAogl photo) Weather Date. Sept. 12. 19SS FORECAST: Continued fair to night. Partly cloudy and a little cooler Tuesday. Low tonight 40-41. Hfh Tues day 80. Temp. Highest yesterday 84 Lowest this morning 41 Fire Conditions Explosive; County Blazes Controlled Klamath Fire Rages; 3 New One in Rogue The forest and range fire sit uation in Jackson county, while still 'explosive, remained under control today. "But in Siskiyou county to the south, several thousand acres of fires still burned uncontrolled, with between ,2,000 and3,000 men on the firelines, and more needed. No Great Concern .Three new small fires were reported in the Rogue River Na tional forest today, , but they were not causing any great con cern. All are in the Klamath dis trict of the forest, high in the Cascades. One was on the lower slopes of Mt. Thielsen, and men were on it by mid-morning. An other was in the Big Aspin area, and preparations were being made just before noon to fly in smoke jumpers from the Cave Junction airport. The Forest Service plane also was to do reconnaissance work in the mountains,' because visibility from lookouts was low. The third fire was in the Lost Peak region, north-northeast of Four Mile lake, but crews had been unable to locate it definite ly at noon today. ' Small Fire One i small fire, presumably started by picnickers, was re ported at the forest camp on the south fork of Little Butte creek. Steve Wilson, Eagle Point log ger, radioed the Forest Service that he was near and would put it out. Reports from the Klamath Na tional forest fire headquarters indicated that the northern side of the big Haystack blaze, which was withina..iew-miles of the Rogue River forest boundary, is being held. A line has been com pleted, and firefighters are hope ful it can be held. A secondary line of defense, along the Rogue River forest border, was com peted Saturday night by Rogue River crews, which will back fire if it becomes necessary. 400 Mopping Up The weather forecast is for continued low humidities. About 400 men are at work mopping up the 900-acre Ster ling mountain fire, near Siski- you gap, lorest . neaaquaners said this morning, i Hose and pumps were moved in last night. The state forest patrol report ed no new fires in areas for which it is responsible. About a dozen men are now on each of the fires controlled last week, mopping them up and watching them to prevent any new out breaks. - V Jy ! - BREAKFAST RALLY President Eisenhower (left) is shown at a breakfast rally with Republican state chairmen in Denver, where he gave the GOP leaders a pep talk on party organization that contained no hint of his own 1956 plans Following the meeting, National Republican Party Chair man Leonard Hall (right) said he was more convinced than ever that the President would run again. In the background is Bernard M. Shanley, appointment secretary to the President Klamath and Sequoia B lazes Continue To Rage Out of Control San Francisco (U.R) Fire fighters fought a nip-and-tuck battle today against four fiercely raging fires blazing out of con trol in the Klamath and Sequoia National Forests,-but other major fires in widely scattered areas of California apeared to be under control. Two of the most dangeraus fires burst into raging infernos in the Klamath National Forest near Yreka in northern Cali fornia Saturday and were still burning out of control late Sun day. Sequoia Blaze Jumps The other two blazes broke out Sunday in Sequoia National Forest near Fresno when 30- mile-an-hour winds blew sparks across well-established fire lines The new fires burned over a total of 3 00 acres . by Sunday night. ... .'- The - weather - man . predicted continued high fire hazard in most of the state with high tern peratures and low humidity, but possible thundershowers were forecast for the high Sierra.' Meanwhile, state officials were searching for an . arsonist who set 10 potentially dangerous fires along a road near Grass Valley in remove Nevada county. Arson Cited "There can't be any question it's arson," said John W. Tomb lin, deputy state foresterJ "One fire started right behind another along the road ' and all within five minutes of each other." All 10 blazes were " brought under control Sunday afternoon and Tomblin said Grass Valley, some three miles away, was in no danger. In Klamath National Forest, one fire on a six-mile ridge in the Salmon river area which had bnrned through 7000 acres of timber, continued to burn ' out of control despite efforts to throw fire lines around it. Fingers of fire kept licking down drainage ravines in the Westinghouse Corp. Workers on Strike , Pittsburghr-U.R) Some 44, 000 CIO electrical workers went on strike at 28 ' 5 Westinghouse Electric Corp. plants across the nation today to back a local's protest of a time study being made of day workers' jobs at East Pittsburgh. : Pickets began setting up their lines at 12:01 a.m. while top level .negotiations continued be tween the ; International Union of Electrical Workers and the company. The negotiators re cessed "for the night" at 2 a.m. but were to resume their talks at 2 p.m. ' . , IUE President J.ames B. Ca rey, said that the company-wide walkout at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) was caused by Westinghouse Vice President R. D. Blasier's refusal to reduce' to writing interpreta tion of i a truce agreement reached unday at the conference table. . , ' ' Blasier blamed the strike on Carey. " Morse Target of Poke In GOP Weekly Letter ; Washington (U.R) The Senate Republican policy com mittee took a gentle poke to day at Sen. Wayne Morse, (D Ore.) the Senate's champ ion marathon talker and breed er of prize cattle. . , Under the caption "many will be pleased," the commit tee noted in its weekly news letter that Morse, after an ex hibition at a Maryland fair, is going "to transport his prise bull out to Oregon." area, forcing firefighters to back away from established firelines to build new ones. Impassable Terrain . The other major blaze billow ed out of control in the Taylor creek section after firefighters had held it in check for two days. Lack of roads into the near- impassable mountainous terrain made it difficult to shift men and material from controlled fires to the new outbreaks. 'It is back-breaking work," ac cording to Harry Crebbin, U.S. public information official. "The terrain is very nearly inacces sible and we can't take in 'cats' or water to fight the fires. There rocky and steep and up-and-are no roads and the terrain is down. The fires are only 70 air miles from Yreka, but it takes five hours to reach the fires. A little wind can cause us a lot of trouble. - " Irrigation Stop Asked at Talent Talent The residents of Tal ent were today asked to stop all irrigation use of municipal wa ter immediately. Mrs. Nona McAbee, city re corder, said the well on which Talent depends for its water sup ply, is "drastically low," and that school started ' in Talent today, increasing the necessary consumption of water. Residents prior to this have been allowed to Irrigate their lawns and . gardens two days each week, but this will have to be stopped, Mrs. McAbee said, at least until the supply situa tion improves. Boxcar Lack Worst In Oregon, Midwest Salem (U.R) The freight car shortage in the United States affected Oregon and midwest states the most, Oregon Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel said today upon his return from . a meeting of the secial committee to study the national box car shortage in Washington, D.C. last Thursday. The committee was created by the National Association of Rail road and Public Utilities com missioners at the suggestion of Heltzel, who presided at the Washington meeting. "" " Commissioner Owen Clarke of the Interstate Commerce com mission, who heads the commis sion's bureau of safety and ser vice, attended ' the committee meeting at the invitation of Helt zel. Clarke brought with him staff members in charge of nat ional freight car service. New Demands Expected By Red China at Geneva Washington -r (U.R) The United States expects Red China to ask for a United Nations seat, diplomatic recognition, and the offshore islands now that the prisoner issue is out of the way at Geneva, o - The answer still is "No." Red China's agreement to free all American prisoners it holds cleared the way for discussion of these subjects as part of the second stage of the Geneva talks on peace in the Far East. Olympia (U.R) Ten small fires burned over about eight acres of state-protected land dur- State Forester L. f. Webster has reported, Russians Reject Continued Talks At Lower Level Soviet Asks Normal Diplomatic gelations Moscow (U.R) West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer and Russia's top leaders were reported today to have agreed on the principal of cofi tinuing direct contact between their governments. But they were unable to agree on the method. , Two solid hours of hard bar gaining between Adenauer and the Soviet delegation headed by Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev failed to provide an answer. A German proposal made at this morning's preliminary meet ing between Foreign Ministers V. M. Molotov and Heinrich von Brentano that the present Mos cow talks becontinuedata lower level was turned down by the Soviets. Deadlock Remains The Russians are still insist ing on their original proposal to establish completely normal dip lomatic rplatinn riVi change of ambassadors. But when the plenary session broke up this afternoon, Am bassador Felix von Eckhardt, spokesman for the German dele gation, said, "There is no change from this morning." Earlier, Adenauer was report ed to have told the Western am bassadors in Moscow that he and the Soviet leaders had agreed upon direct, continuous relations between their two countries. Informed sources said the Bonn-Moscow contacts will not be formal diplomatic relations at first, and their exact form has not yet ben set. The sources added that Ade nauer has agreed to join with East German in technical talks on the release of German pris oners held bv the Soviets. Th United States was reported to have no objection to the talks on this basis. Fail To Agree However, a German spokes man said that this mornine's session between Molotov and von Brentano "failed to reach agreements." They had met to work out plans for further con tacts between the two countries. ' A high ranking member of the German delegation disclosed that von .Brentano proposed to Molo tov that the current talks be continued by delegations at a level lower than those of head of government or foreign ministers. we cannot sit here forever." he said. But he said the Soviets reject- ' ed this proposal. Russia Said Planning To Relax Censorship Moscow (U.R) Smiling Rus sian leaders told five' visiting U. 8. Senators that the Soviet Union had made a start oa re laxing censorship. ! Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) said he brought up the subject of censorship during a two-hour chat in the Kremlin with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist Party Chief Nikita Krushchev. The other senators . present were J. Allen Frear - (D-DeL). George W. Malone (R-Nev.), Henry C. Dworshak (R-Ida.), and Milton R." Young (R-N.D.). Mrs. Malone also was present at the meeting. Kefauver said he "pointed out that there were, many U. S. press, radio and television men in Moscow, and that some of them had difficulties." Two Power Officials Subpoenaed To Testify San Francisco (U.R) Two Oregon public power figures have been suppoenaed to testify tomorrow before a House Opera tions subcommittee studying De partment of Interior power poli cies. They are Lee Wooden, presi- dnt of teh Oregon Rural Electric Co-operative Association, and B. R. Littie, manager of the Ben ton-Lincoln County Rural Elec tric Cooperative. The subcommittee headed by Rep. Earl Chudoff, held similar hearings last week at Idaho Falls, Idaho. Gus Norwood, ex ecutive secretary of the Pacific Northwest Power Association, critcized Interior Secretary Douglas McKay's regulations and rates for transmitting pri vate power over the federal grid. .i; ,'" .. OVER THE FENCE Salem (U.R) State police today were searching for Allen Parker, 23, who went back for long fly ball Saturday during baseball game between two Oregon State hospital teams. Po- lice said the ball didn't go over tthe fence, but Parker did.