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o M n v JU U m)kCil. ' mnmmimmimmmmmmmmmmiiimiiii.lMAim!Li.imt .i..t..um. u.,j.t. mnii Medford United ITeu ruU Leased Wtro 50th Year 26 Pages European Security Plan Offered for German Unification Dulles Addresses UN General Assembly United Nations, N.Y. (U.F8 Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles today offered Russia an "overall plan of European security" in exchange for the reunification of Germany. In a major policy speech to the UN General Assembly, Dul les said international coopera tion could make the next 10 years "the healing decade of true peace " if the new spirit achieved at Geneva is carried out. MolotoT Joins Applauio Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, who will address the assembly tomorrow, joined in the rolling round of applause from 1000 delegates as Dulles concluded a 40-minute Ameri can foreign policy review." "The German people," Dul les said, "have now been forci bly divided for over 10 years. The perpetuation of this division is a crime against nature. For the most part, Dulles' address was a mildly worded re view of international develop ments and contained virtually no invective against the Soviet Union. Urges Arms Inspection . r The Secretary of State 'urged adoption of President Eisenhow er's "open skies" arms inspection plan as a beginning toward a comprehensive, scientific system of inspection and disarmament. He noted that all Big Four powers were committed to sup port Austria for UN membership and called for admission of a "most" of 20 other waiting ap plicants, without specifying "any by nane. He appealed for "favorable reaction" from . Israel and the Arab countries to his proposal to guarantee the Palestine fron tiers and saluted the Organi zation of American States for its action in helping solve crises in Guatemala, Costa Rica and the Ecuador-Peru boundary dis pute. '- He supported the move for a UN charter review conference, and noted that the veto power should be reconsidered in rela tion to membership. He said de velopments in atomic and dis armament questions might make it desireable to give the world organization greater authority in these fields. Guy Talbot Park Addition Authorized Portland (U.PJ Purchase of an eight-acre addition to Guy Talbot state park on the Colum bia River highway, was author ized today by the State High way Commission. The tract, to be bought from J. G. Dobing for $3000, is the first to be purchased under a program recommended by the Columbia Gorge Commission, a citizens' group appointed by the governor. It is located on the south side of the "figure eight" on the old Columbia Riv er highway. east of Crown Point. The commission authorized C. H. Armstrong, park superintend ent, to study a 65-acre tract near Coos Bay as a prospective state park. The property, known as Coos Head, is about half a mile west of Charleston. 200 Men Use 65 Tons Oregon State Game commis sion's chemical treatment of Lake of the Woods to complete ly exterminate its fish life was accomplished with hardly a hitch yesterday when 200 game men, summer home owners and southern Oregon sportsmen spread 65 tons of lethal roten one over the lake's 1,112-acre surface. The project, begun before dawn and finished in seven hours, was the major task in a project to restore the summer time week end . and vacation spot as a trout fishery. Trash and spiny-rayed fish, as well as trout, were killed in the oper ation. Rainbow trout will be re stocked in the lake late this fall or early next spring, whenever it is certain that the lake has lost its toxicity. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1955 Hunt for Missing Women Intensified Portland U.R) Search for two missing Portland women whose abandoned car was found on Larch mountain east of here intensified today after the base of a cliff revealed no signs of any heavy body falling over the 500-foot bluff. It had been believed that Mrs. Alvera E. Ferguson, 53, and Mrs. Bernice N. Sharkey, 73, might have fallen over the cliff on the northeast slope of the mountain. Bloodhounds worked by Norman Wilson of Dallas picked up a strong scent from the auto mobile yesterday which led to the top of a viewpoint and ended. Witness Says He Saw Negro Youth Carried to Barn Sumner, Miss. U.R) A wit ness testified today that 'he saw a Negro who resembled a photo graph of slain Emmett Till be ing carried to a barn shortly after his Aug. 27 abduction and heard "hollering" coming from the building. Willie Reed, 18-year-old Negro farmhand, was brought to the stand at the murder trial of white half-brothers Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam as the first of five "surprise" witnesses turned up by. the state of Mississippi. Follows Mother He followed Mrs. Mamie Brad ley, grief stricken mother of the 14-year-old Till boy, who said the body that came to her in Chicago, for burial was that of her son who had been visiting in Mississippi. . . ; Mrs. Bradley bowed her head and wept when Special Prosecut or Robert - B. Smith delicately showed her a photograph of the body that was removed from the Tallahatchie river Aug. 31 and asked her if that was her boy. Considered Important Her identification of the pho tograph of young Emmett was considered important for the prosecution because Sheriff H. C. Strider of Tallahatchie coun ty had raised the possibility earl ier that the body taken from the stream was not that of Till. She also identified a ring taken from the body as one that belonged to her late husband, the boy's father, who was killed in World War n. When her boy left Chicago Aug. 20 for a visit with his uncle, Mose Wright, in - the Money, Miss., community, she said, he was wearing the ring. Winged Rockets Seen Within Next 10 Years . Los Angeles (U.R) A rocket expert says crew-carrying wing ed rockets can be built within 10 years which could reach alti tudes of 85 miles above the earth and be the first real step toward interspace travel. . : Kraft A. Ehricke, who worked on German' V-2 rockets in World War II, said the rockets "satel- loids" could carry one or two men at a speed of 17,000 miles an hour on sustaining rockets, circling the earth 60 times in a three-and-a-half-day period. "I believe that such a project is feasible now," he said at the American Rocket Society meet ing. "If the funds were made available; I think we could put such satelloids over the earth in 10 years." Portland U.R) Rogers Con struction Co., Portland, is low bidder on a million-dollar-plus highway project in eastern Ore gon. - .- V Crews manning 80 outboard motors and three big, powered barges had clear, bright, sun ny day for the mass poisoning but withstood early morning cold and fog, a biting wind and some rough water. Coordination - Bi ologist John Dimick described the big task as "routine" and "very satisfactory." As nine species of dead and dying fish surfaced and began to drift ashore, Dimick declared, "we fully expect it to be a complete success. . As game men had predicted, the treatment produced compar atively few trout. But more rainbow surfaced and were sal vaged than were taken at Dia mond lake a year ago in Ore gon's biggest fish poisoning oper ation. Dimick estimated that 400 to 50tf trout were picked up XWXf JL 111 ;-c . Up' jy v Searchers found some broken brush near the top of the cliff, leading them to believe the women might have fallen over. But sheriff's deputies searched the base of the bluff today and said this possibility seemed slight. The two women were last seen Sunday when they left for a drive in Mrs. Ferguson's auto mobile. Three more units of the sher iff's reserve joined the search today along with regular mem bers of the sheriff's office and 15 volunteers. Wilson said the scene which ended at the lookout point is the oniy one his bloodhounds had discovered. The trail first led to the moun tain shelter owned by the Trails club. It has beds, bedding and firewood. But it apparently had not been entered, even though one of the doors stood unlocked. Joe Martin of the forest serv ice allowed himself to be low ered over the brink of the view point by rope and called back that "something went down there recently." He reported that a limb had been broken from a tree, moss was disturbed and there had been rock slip page. Chief Ard Pratt of the. Mult nomah county sheriff's office Ordered searchlights brought , to the viewpoint which overlooks the Columbia and Bonneville dam. The edge of the lookout area is protected by a retaining wal land low chain. 1 The gorge below is some 500 feet deep. Five City Schools Get Safety Honors Five, of the Medford public schools have been named to the National School Safety honor roll, according to information received from the National Safety council. Receiving the honor for the fifth consecutive year were Jack son, 1 Lincoln, Roosevelt and Washington elementary schools. Named to the honor roll for the first time this year was Med ford Junior High school, the present McLaughlin Junior high. Both Jefferson elementary school and Hedrick Junior High school are in operation for the first time this fall, and were not eligible for consideration on the honor roll. Only other school in Oregon named to the honor roll was Bailey Hill elementary school in Eugene, selected for the first time. Local Attorneys Reach UMC Goal With the United Medford Cru sade only three days old, 100 per cent of the city's attorneys have given or pledged their con tributions, Tracy Crum, attor neys' section chairman, inform ed UMC headquarters today. Exact amount of the contribu tions was not reported but the amount was said to be $250 in excess of the amount given by lawyers in last year's drive. of Rotenone To Exterminate Lake of The Woods Fish along ' the shore or were re trieved by boat. ' Carp and stunted perch, drift ing to the shore by thousands, prenominated in the kill. Bull head catfish, punkinseed and blue gill sunfish and warmouth bass, also stunted, surfaced in great numbers and several hun dred big mouth bass were taken from the lake. Roach and crappies also were expected to be found. Carp had survived the best in the lake'f crowded fishery. Few were lessthan nine inches long and they ranged in size up to the granddaddy lunker of the lot, a 36-inch long 19 pounds giant found on the shore by Dimick. Its age was estimated at more than 12 years. The trout were fair sized, ave (56 v quests Protest to Eaverman Pact Control of Berlin Approaches Disputed Bonn, Germany (U.R) Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer said to day he has asked the West to protest the new Soviet-East Ger man agreement that gives the Communists control of all ap proaches to Berlin. In a report to the Bonn Par liament on his recent mission to Moscow, the West German Chancellor also said he would consider it an "unfriendly act" if any Western nation establish ed diplomatic relations with Communist East Germany. Adenauer was emphatic in as serting that only the Bonn, gov ernment can speak for all of Germany as he started off Par liament's debate of the agree ment he brought home from Moscow a week ago. Approval Expected The Bundestag Gower house) was expected to give almost un animous approval to the agree ment, which conceded establish ment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in return for oral assurances that German prisoners still in Red hands will be freed. Immediately after Adenauer left Moscow, the- Kremlin sum moned East Germany's Premier Otto Grotewohl and Communist leaders to the Soviet capital. There they signed an agree ment giving the East zone re gime "full independence," in cluding the right to re-arm and the right to control land traffic and communications into West Berlin. Agreement Broken Adenauer ' charged the Rus sians broke the 1949 agreement guaranteeing free access to Ber lin. He' asked the Western Al lies to protest this move to Mos cow. Adenauer's report was 40 min utes long. In it he described de tails of his Moscow trip and ask ed for parliamentary approval of his agreement to establish dip lomatic relations with the So viets." The Bundestag will vote on this at the end of a foreign af fairs' debate starting tomorow. Allies Said Warned Of Red Intervention ' Tokyo (U.R) ' Walter A. Rickett who was released last week by the Chinese Commun ists, plaimed today he warned Allied source of Red Chinese intervention in the Korean war a full month before Red troops crossed the Yalu river into North Korea. . Rickett told the United Press he is "definitely not a Commun ist" and claimed he risked his life to supply information to the U.S. government. The former Marine intelli gence officer was released by the Reds Sept. 16 after four and a half years in prison. He arriv ed here from Hong Kong last night en route to his home in Seattle,' and reunion with his wife whom he hasn't seen since his arrest in 1951. Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul Pat terson will speak at a real es tate education conference at the Multnomah hotel in Portland 'Sept. 30. raging 15 inches long and rang ing up to 20. Game men picked up the largest bass, 19V& inches long and 17V inches in girth. Its weight was estimated at seven to eight pounds. The Lake of the Woods opera tion, second in Oregon in magni tude, followed the technique of the bigger Diamond lake proj ect and drew from the experi ence of the 1954 undertaking. Burlap bags of rotenone were towed by the outboard motor boats which spread and churned the toxic, suffocating powder into the three areas' subdivided by balloons into 20 sections. The barges, called subeaters, were manned by game commis sion personnel and worked the deepest portions of the lake. . Boats took to the lake at 5:30 and by 10:30 aun, toe Argentine Congress Dissolved in Act By New President Sweeping ReforWis Expected To Follow Buenos Aires (U.R) Maj. Gen. Eduardo Lonardi, provis ional President of Argentina, dis solved Congress today and an nounced he has "assumed the powers inherent In the Consti tution." Lonardi's action in dissolving Congress came in one of six de crees issued in his name from the provisional capital of Cor doba, 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Sweeping Reforms The decrees marked the start of sweeping reforms which are expected to follow in the wake of the ouster of President Juan D. Peron. When Peron and his vice-president and cabinet resigned, all Peronista senators and deputies also resigned in mass. But there still were 12 radical opposition deputies, so Congress remained legally in existence until ended by Lonardi's decree. Buenos Aires Trip Delayed In a speech broadcast over the government radio from Cordoba, where he put off' for 24 hours coming to Buenos Aires to take the oath of office, Lonardi said the revolutionary forces had taken up "arms in defense of the rights of the people." Additional high-up officials of the former ' dictatorship were falling into rebel hands but the man most wanted stayed just beyond their reach aboard the tiny gunboat Paraguay in Buen os Aires harbor. It was expected that one of Lonardi's first tasks wquld be to determine Peron's legal sta tus as a refugee. He will have to determine whether to press rebel claims for Peron's return to face criminal charges or to accept the tradi tional Latin American "right of asylum!': by. which, political .ref ugees may take refuge in for eign embassies and later leave the country under safe conduct. President Studies Bulganin Letter Fraser, Colo. (U.R) Pres ident Eisenhower today studied an 11-page letter from Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin but the temporary White House said there will be no official com ment for the time being. Assistant Press Secretary Mur ray Snyder said the Bulganin letter probably will be made public simultaneously with Mr. Eisenhower's reply. He. did not know how soon that witi be. Although the White House would not comment in any way on the letter or reports as to its contents, it was considered sig nificant that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had seen its contents before his speech, to the UN General Assembly in New York today. :- The optimistic tone of Dulles' remarks indicated that there was nothing in Bulganin's let ter to discourage U.S. hopes for a slackening of the' cold war. Revenue Bureau Attaches Archie Moore's Purse New, York (U.R) The Inter nal Revenue Bureau served an attachment today for $64,000 ofJ Archie Moore s purse from the Rocky Marciano fight for past and "anticipatory" taxes. Both Moore and the Interna tional Boxing Club were served with the notice iof levy. Only $4,000 was for -back taxes due from J954. The other $60,000 was for taxes anticipated this year. ' smaller boats were finished. Cubeaters completed their areas by 12:35 p.m. and non-workers were then allowed upon the lake to reap what harvest was possi ble. Motor trouble," halting one cubeater 45 minutes, was the only difficulty encountere'd. Men in hipboots dragged sacks- of ro tenone across shallow spots. . Fish began to surface as early as 7:30 a. m. A half hour later they were coming up in greater numbers. By noon they rimmed the lake , and floated by the thousands. Numerous fish, in cluding trout, surf-.ced and then sank to the bottom where they will remain until they decom pose. ' '"- Dimick said that it would re quire about two days for the rotenone to settle and force fiab r 3muy ttP niSi, WOUHT BH MOCWTAL - r V ' Hteu 4. BABY SEARCH PRESSED San Francisco bay area police today pressed the search for the kidnaper of Robert Marcus, five-day-old son of Dr. and Mrs. Sanford Marcus, who was taken from a San Francisco hospital Monday. The the baby, made on hospital records when he was born. The lower photo shows the parents. (International). New H u rricajie Seen I n West I n dies Area Miami (U.R) Hurricane Janet generated 115-mile an hour winds today before she was ---24- hours old and- bore down on the Windward Islands in the West Indies with all her fury . - ; " ; ' The San Juan Weather Bu reau located the storm 140 miles southeast of Martinique. It was moving westward at 15 miles Need for 'Absolute' Security Plan Seen Washington U.R Sen. Ever ett M. Dirksen. (R-m.), said to day ; the Burgess-MacLean spy case in Great Britain offers "elo quent proof" of the need for an "absolute type" security system in this country. Guy Burgess and Donald Mac Lean are turncoat British diplo mats -who 'fled behind -the Iron Curtain. Both formerly served in the United States, and Mac Lean handled much classified atomic 1 energy information in the non-weapons field which was developed jointly by the United States, Britain and Canada. Dirksen said their' defection to the Communists also empha sizes why the United States should exercise strict care in ex changing secret information with other nations. Salem U.R) The report of a statewide committee on "prin ciples and policies governing the administration of elementary school athletics in Oregon" has been adopted by the State Board of Education. " up from the deeper section. Yesterday's work was rounded out when game ' men sprayed marsh areas at the ends of the lake. Three inlets, , Rainbow, Dry and Biliie creeks previous ly ' had been treated by crew men who had been at the lake a week preparing for the Wed nesday operation. , In one of two weeks the lake will be tested for loss of toxicity and .for. possible fish life. Gill nets will be used to determine whether live fish arejrtill in the lake. Boxes of live "trout will be place in the water to deter mine whether the rotenone is still effective. '... When there is no longer dan ger of fish being 'killed by the chemical, at least 100,000 rain bow trout will be stocked in the lake. They . will be fingerlingi 1 liiiiiliil above photo shows footprints of an hour.-Janet's present course would take her across the Cari bbean . Sea and ' into " Central America. The Weather Bureau raised hurricane warnings in the Wind ward Islands from St. Lucia to Granada and storm warnings north of St.. Lucia to Dominica and south of Grenada to Toka go. The powerful hurricane, dis covered by ships only last night, blasted Bridgetown; ' the capital of Barbados Islands, about noon. The site of discovery was far thest south of any' of Janet's 10 predecessors this year but not as far south as the origin of last year's Hurricane Hazel, which swept through Haiti, the United States and Canada. - The new storm's immediate predecessor, Hurricane lone, meanwhile .had . swept into the sparsely settled areas of south eastern Newfoundland from the Atlantic after its destructive, killing stab into North Carolina. Three Sentenced In Circuit Court V Three defendants were sen tenced in Jackson county circuit court today. Robert Lee Whisena'nt, 23, of 276 Hoyte lane, Phoenix, was given a : three year suspended sentence on charges of statutory rape; Floyd Harold Garman, 31, of route 2, box 192, Medford, was sentenced to one year in LOregon state prison on forgery charges; and Charles Edgar How ell, 31, of Medlin, Ore., was sen tenced to two years on a burg lary charge. if planted' this fall. . The Lake of the Woods opera tion failed to attract the wide spread public interest " which was evident at Diamond lake last year:- But several score' of fish hunters salvaged trout, bass, cat fish and' even carp from the shore and some 40 boats did their "fishing" on the lake. Ro tenone does not harm the edi bility of fish. The $80,000 project was ac complished with federal funds under the Dingle-Johnson act . Dimick praised the coopera tion of the sportsmen and home owners, saying the work could not have been done without their help. Turnout of the two groups was larger than expected and about the same size as work ad lait year at Diamond lake. - Author Fails To Keep Rendezvous To Pick Up Money Police. Suspect Letter Is Hoax San Francisco (U.R) A ran som note demanding $5,000 from the parents of the abducted five-day-old Robert Marcus was re ceived today but the writer ; failed to show up "when the father went to the designated rendezvous, point. ; ' In another late development, a woman answering the general , description of the . person be lieved to. have kidnaped the Marcus baby was seen attempt-1 ing to steal diapers from a clothesline early this morning. A letter addressed to Dr. San-. ford Marcus threatening death to his kidnaped child was turned up at the main post office at . Oakland, Calif., late yesterday.! A postal worker held out the special delivery letter because it ". was lacking three cents postage. Hf nntlPOl if irne nnnnA J w- auiucsacu I IF Marcus and immediately noti fied authorities. Possible Hoax Marcus complied with the writer's request to meet at an' Oakland street corner at R am today but after hours wait no one showed up and the dis traught father returned to San Francisco. Police said the letter mieht have been a "cruel and inhu mane" hoax but thev wer con tinuing to investigate it. The note, neatly printed in pencil onchean lined tablpt paner, said: , - "Dr. JIarcus? "We have v o u r halve hov. Don't "worry he is in fine health and is toeing takenogood care of. We want $5,000 in 5, 10 and 20 denominations, and the bills are to be unmarked. "Put the monev at the corner of 38th ave. and San Juan in Oakland at the northwest corner under the wooden plank. Below is a diagram. Violenr-o Tl.u.(.J O AMAWAVUVU V ..' aave the money there by 8 a.m. Thursday.. If you inform any law enforcement agency your son will be done away with. Also, if I'm picked up by the poiice while Dickins un the ransom my partner will do away with your son, as we have set a deadline for my arrival back. ' "After -we receive ransom under the above conditions we will leave your baby in some Oakland church with instruc tions attached as to where to re turn him. Goodluck. . The Kidnaper'." The woman who attemnteri t steal diapers answered the de scription of the kidnaper. Mrs. Sue Fager. 18. said she trying to take diapers fr6m her clothesline at San Jose. Calif.. south of here. The woman, described as heaw set. about" 40 vears old and with bleached hair, ran away before Mrs. Fager could summon Dolice. Authorities im mediately launched an extensive nouse 10 nouse searcn for the woman. Asked for Milk ' Mrs. Fager's iome is - only five blocks from the house of Mrs. Henriette Guerrero who re ported . a woman carrying a crying baby called at her home early Tuesday and asked her to heat a bottle of milk. The Fager residence also is near the home of Mrs. Nini Mag noli, who found an abandoned baby blanket in her ard yes terday. ! Debut of Autumn Scheduled Tomorrow Portland (U.R) Autumn makes its bow in Oregon to morrow, and the , weather bu reau says it will be a typical fall day cooler and cloudier. Officially, fall will be usher ed in at 11:45 a.m. The cooler weather will be caused by a storm front approaching the Washington coast. 1 It was generally chilly throughout the state early this morning with some frost report ed at southern and eastern Ore gon points Coldest minimum tempera ture reported was 22 at Ben. Baker had 25 and Redmond 29. It was 35 at Eugene, 36 at Epse burg, 28 at Salem and 4V; at Portland. Weather FORECAST: Fair through Fri day with variable high eloudinen. Low tonlfbt 3S. . High Friday TS-89. xemp. Hlfheit Yerterday Lowest this Morning -. SI
