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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 -.
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