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1WI me uv 4- o German Bundestag Approves Relations M Soviet (Union Bonn, Germany U.R)-i The West German Budestag today unanimously approved establish ment of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. It was an unusual vote of con fidence in West German Chan- cellod Konrad Adenauer on his Mission to Moscow. Surprising Suddenness The vote came with surprising suddenness after less than .two Hid half hours of debate dur ing which spokesmen of all par- tics announced endorsement of e agreement signed by Ade- Juer with the Soviet leaders. But opposition Socialists, hile supporting diplomatic re lations with Russia, stated speci fically that their approval did - not constitute a "blank check" . for Adenauer's foreign policy. In addition they leveled bitter charges at the chancellor, for damaging prospects of German -Unity. Socialist party ehief Erick Ol- lenhauer charged that the estab lishment of, diplomatic ties with Moscow has "hardened the divi sion of Germany." Neutral Germany He suggested that the Soviet Union be approached on the idea of ajrpnited Germany included in Pear Harvest Over Half Completed Harvesting of anjous pears and start soon . on picking bosc pears indicated the Rogue valley fruit harvest is more than half completed today, according to Don Berry, assistant county hor ticultural agent. ' Bartlett pear picking is com pleted as far s commercial har vesting is concerned, Berry said, and anjous picking is in full swing. ' - , Berry said picking will start m tapering off soon when various scattered varieties are picked, but harvesting probably will con- tmue well 1nto"October- The bulk of the peaches have been picked, although there re mains some late varieties to be picked. Remaining to be picked are apples, with red and golden delicious and newtowns being the main fruit which will be picked next month. Dougfcrs Fir Rail Ties -Will Be Sent to Egypt Salem (U.R) Congressman Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) said to day he had been advised by the International Co-operation ad ministration that procurement by that office of 500,000 ties by the Egyptian republic railways would include those manufactur ed from Douglas fir. Norblad earlier had been ad vised that these ties were limited to oak and southern pine, which could be purchased in southeast- ern. United States. He protested that this was a discrimination against the Douglas fir industry of the Pacific Northwest. Shortage of B oxca r s Wo r se n i n g ; SP Offers Little Encouragement Salem (U.R) A boxcar shortage so severe it has forced the closing of the Coquille ply wood plant at least for the week end is threatening the closure of some lumber industries, Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel said today. He said his office is checking the situation in northern Cali fornia and in western Washing ton to see how that compares with the situation in Oregon, and his office is keeping the gover nors emergency transportation Firm Leaving Medford Area Blames Shortage of SP Cars Thwiffht Johnson, originator and designer of the nationally famous Kom Pak trailers, an nounced today the company making them has been forced to leave Medford. Move To Boston . He said laek of cooperation from the Southern Pacific rail road, in not providing adequate numbers of cars, is the reason for the move. A new plant will be opened soon in Boston, Mass., and others may be opened else where in the nation, Johnson said. Denver, Colo., and St Paul, Minn., are under consideration as additional plant sites, he said. Johnson said he will leave for Boston within the next two weeks to complete arrange ments for the move. Ralph Wood, Boston, has purchased a major share of stock in the cor poration, it wu reported. - a European security system al lied with neither the Commu nist nor Western pow.er blocs. Russia has long sought a "neu tral Germany" patterned after Austria which won its freedom only when it gave in to such a Soviet demand. Moscow, how ever, wants such a neutralized Germany outside of any secur ity system. Mystery Deepens In Disappearance Of Portland Pair Portland (U.R) The disap pearance on Larch mountain of two Portland women grew into a deepening mystery today as fresh searchers hunted new leads to their disappearance. Mrs. Avra Ferguson, 53, and Mrs. William Sharkey, 75, haven't been seen since Sunday when they left Portland for a drive. Their car was found on Larch mountain. No Further Leads A pack of bloodhounds that has been successful in several manhunts in the Oregon wilder ness picked up a strong scent Wednesday night but that, too, proved to be a dead end and no further leads have developed. The dogs first led a party of searchers to the brink of a 500- foot high - viewpoint where the trail ended abruptly. A group of sheriffs officers, fearing that the women had plummeted over the cliff, conducted a search of the perilous cliff , face and reported later there was no sign of bodies at the base of the precipice. To Call Volunteers Sheriff Terry Schrunk said he would call for volunteers to re lieve the exhausted members of the first search parties and he promised the brush and under growth . throughout the . area would be combed. A sheriff's pa trol car was kept on roads In the- vicinity of the viewpoint in case one of the women should make her way out of the woods. Alan Homes Named Second Deputy DA Alan B. Holmes of Gold Hill has been appointed Jackson county's second district attorney deputy, Walter Nunley, district attorney, has announced. Holmes,- who was admitted to the Oregon Bar last Friday, cime to Oregon in June from South Bend, Ind., and took the bar examination in July. He is a graduate of Valpariso college, where he received both his bachelor's and doctor's de grees. He served with the mer chant marine and hi the army during World War II. ' ' Nunley said Holmes will as sist he and Gene Piazza in gen eral prosecutions. Heltzel said the western Ore gon freight car shortage was more severe last week than at any other time this year. He said lumber shippers on Southern Pacific lines in western Oregon were able to get only 67 per cent of the cars they ordered. Only about 51 per cent of the cars requested were delivered on the Mill City branch of the railroad, 64 per cent of the East side line via Silverton and 61 committee informed . up to the minute with its findings. . . . ' The transportation problem here nearly put the firm out of business, Johnson said. "We can get our materials into the valley, but we can't get the finished trailers out," he declared, and explained that it takes a particu lar type of car to ship the trail ers. He blamed lack of coopera tion on the part of the SP. Orders Turned Down "They have not refused to ship them," he said, "but simply do not get the cars here." He has had to turn down orders for several car loads. Johnson made it clear that he does not want to leave Medford. "It's not what we want to do; it's just what we have to do," he stated. Several of his key em ployees will go east to set up the new plant, he said. The firm has employed more than 20 persons her. - ' - - - Peron's Successor Takes Office Oath In Argentina Cheering Throng Greets Lonardi Buenos Aires (U.R) Gen." Ed- uardo Lonardi took the oath of office as provisional President of Argentina today. The 59-year-old Army veteran took the oath succeeding ousted President Juan D. Peron in the White Room of the Casa Rosada, Argentina's Government House, Lonardi, who has promised to render Peron harmless from now on, took the oath of office shortly after he arrived by plane from the provisional capital of Cor doba. One of the most enthusias tic welcomes in Argentine his tory greeted him. Rights Guaranteed His accession to the presidency on a program pledged to guaran tees of civil liberties and politi cal freedom climaxed a success ful revolution led by the Army and Navy. The revolt toppled Peron's re gime after 10 years of dictator ship and sent the former Presi dent fleeing aboard a Paraguay an gunboat in Buenos Aires Har bor. Lonardi rode in triumphal procession from the Buenos Aires Airport in company with Adm. Isaac Kojas, wno was a com mander of the . revolutionary fleet which played so vital a part in the revolution. Streets Jammed Outside Government House, from which Peron ruled this country for so long, the streets of Buenos Aires were thronged with more than 300,000 persons who cheered the new President Earlier, other thousands cheer ed wildly when Lonardi arrived at the city airport in a DC3 plane, accompanied by three Gloster Meteor jet fighters and a Lincoln bomber. 6th County Polio Patient Reported .A. 29-year-old Medford woman. was being treated for polio at Community hospital today, ac cording to county health offi cials Her case is the sixth re ported in Jackson county this year. The woman was taken to the hospital last night by Medford Ambulance service. Dr. A. E. MerkeL county health officer, said this morning that she was suffering from "a mild weak ness" in one leg. Earlier, Richard Prevell, 23- year-old Southern Oregon col lege student from Bellingham, Wash., was taken to the Eugene Polio Treatment center by Mer cy Flights Air Ambulance serv ice. Attendants said he was suf fering from partial paralysis. Prevell, an SOC football play er, was the 400th patient carried by the non-profit air ambulance service. The twin Cessna plane was piloted by George Milligan and John Childers. per cent of the Westside line via Dallas. ' Southern Pacific officials in San Francisco offered little en couragement. J. W. Corbett, vice president in charge of operations, and W. G. Peoples, vice president in charge of traffic, telegraphed Stan E. Sherwood, president of the governors' emergency trans portation committee here: "Box car supply is becoming worse. In discussing situation with Washington authorities to day am told this deterioration on our railroad is in step with situa tion nationally and obtained very little encouragement from any source for immediate improve ment. Therefore necessary to go to prorating box cars on basis 70 per cent." Clifford W. Ferguson, advi sory counsel to the governor's emergency - transportation com mittee, telegraphed the inter state commerce commission in Wasnington: "Personal conferences (Wed nesday) held with the office of the superintendent of the Port land division of the Southern Pacific serving western Oregon, disclosed boxcar shortages now ranging between 350 and 400 cars short daily. Percentage wise, shortage is nearly 50 per cent. Situation desperate. Only indicated relief thus far is tele gram from Peoples, Corbett, Southern Pacific, indicating they are willing to equalize operation division to 70 per cent. Word indicates many lumber mW closing in Oregon." Added Reserve Unit Three More Groups Seen for Medford In Near Future Additional Space For Training Needed Additional U.S. Army Reserve units will soon be activated in the Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass, and Klamath Falls areas, according to tentative plans re vealed here today by Head quarters , Sixth Army, Presidio of San' Francisco. ' Additional space for reserve training centers will be re quired in each of the four areas, the announcement said. In the Medford area, from 9,000 to 11, 000 square feet of space will be needed in addition to that pres ently occupied. Facilities are needed here for classrooms, storage space, of fices, locker rooms, and as sembly rooms. The Army Re serve is not included in plans for the proposed Medford armory. At the present time, Medford Army Reserve units include the 304th logistical command, 6402nd logistical command, headquarters and headquarters detachment, 382nd quartermas ter battalion. In addition, Army Reserve here hopes to have in the near future 417th engineer aviation brigade, commanded by a briga dier general; headquarters com pany, second battalion, 413th in fantry, and Company G, 413th infantry. '-' In the Grants Pass area, ap proximately 5,000 square feet of space, including facilities for offices, storage, lockers, and toilets, will be needed. Grants Pass now has headquarters com pany, 304th logistical command, and hopes to get Company E, 413th infantry. Grants Pass area people who have space available for lease to the U.S. Army are being in vited to contact the unit adviser at 33 North Riverside ' ave.Y 'in Medford, or by telephoning Medford 2-9295. . Six Men Sough! in Canadian Wilderness Prince Albert, Sask. (U.R) Royal Canadian Mounted Police planes searched the barren tun dra of the Arctic Circle region today for a party of five Amer icans and a Brazilian who are a week overdue on a 900-mile ex pedition by canoe. Clear weather aided the air search for the men who were believed to have been lost or de layed on a 600-mile trek which they began June 29. They had planned to explore with color movie cameras an area that has not been visited by white men since 1893. The missing men: Arthur Moffatt, 35, Norwich, Vt. George J. Grinnell, about 22, New York City. Bruce le Favour, 20, Amster dam, N. Y. ' Peter Franck, 18, San Mateo, Calif., a Harvard student. Fred Pessl Jr., Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. Edward Lanouette, Sao Paulo, Brazil, a Dartmouth junior. Florence Chadwick Fails In 2-VVoy Channel Swim Calais, France (U.R) Florence Chadwick, San Diego, long dis tance swimmer, today abandon ed her attempt to set a new rec ord for a double channel swim crossing. She had been in the water 12 hours when heavy rains and ris ing winds forced her out of the choppy waters a ' little over a mile from the French shore. ' iaseball Boston (U.R) The Boston Red Sox temporarily halted the New York Yankees from clinching the American League pennant today when they beat the league leaders 8-4, in the opening game of a day-night doubleheader. The Yankees still could clinch the pennant, tonight by beating the Red Sox. New York 4 4 1 Boston 8 11 1 Byrne, Konstanty (3), Wies ler (6), Sturdivant (8) and Berra: Brewer, Delock (3) and While. . .. . NATIONAL Philadelphia 5 9 0 New York 1 5 0 Rogovin and Seminick; Go mel. Giel (7), Wilhelm (9) and xtu - - 50th Year Medfob 26 Pages MEDFC Eisenhower Inviteu To Fish Grants, Pass, Ore. U.R) The wild riffles of the Rogue river may be the lure to coax an answer from ardent fisher- . man Ike Eisenhower on .whether he will or will not run in 1956. The lure has' been dangled on the president's desk . by Glend Wooldrige, 59-year-old pioneer guide and Whitewater ' man of the Redwood empire. He has invited Mr. Eisenhow er for a week's fishing trip in Remodeling of Two Courthouse Offices Said Progressing "Remodeling two third-floor of fices in the Jackson 'county courthouse to house district court . and juvenile offices is progressing nicely, county com missioners said today. District court facilities will move from the first floor to the third floor to space formerly oc cupied by the county school su perintendent's office, and the juvenile office wQl move from space adjacent to circuit court chambers to space formerly oc cupied by the county engineer. Two Offices Moved , " Both the school superintend ent's office and the county' engi neer's office have moved: to the new annex. When moves are complete, the present district court offices will be utilized as 'additional! space for the Jackson county health department, which pres ently is located across the hall. The present juvenile office will be used for witness rooms for circuit court. Originally, rooms occupied by the juvenile department were planned for witness rooms. Supplies for the clerk and re corder's office have been moved into space on the second floor of the new annex, and the record er's office is expected to move from the basement to the new annex some time next week. The present recorder's . off ice in the basement will revert back to an auditorium.. Temporary walls were installed in the audi torium to make facilities for the recording department. Defense Rests in Till Murder Case Sumner, Mis. (U.R) Two ' white half . brothers were - as quitted today of murder charges in the "wolf whittle" slating of a Chicago Negro they accused of being fresh. Sumner, Miss. (U.R) The de fense rested today as the murder case against ' two white . half brothers, accused ' of killing a Chicago boy for whistling at one of their wives, neared a decision by a jury of ten farmers, a lab orer and an insurance salesman. The defense for J. W. Milam and Roy-Bryant closed out its case in a packed -second floor courtroom without allowing the jury to hear any testimony about the so-called "wolf whistle" that led to the pistol slaying of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chi cago Negro who was visiting his tenant farmer uncle. Ministerial Association ' Endorses UMC Campaign i The Medford Ministerial asso ciation has given its "whole hearted" ' endorsement to the United Medford Crusade, it was announced today, and "UMC Sunday" will be observed in par ticipating churches here Sunday. ; The Sunday observance will be under the chairmanship of the Rev. J. Thomas Dixon of the First' Methodist church, accord ing to the Rev. Thomas McCam ant, president of the association. ! A leaflet prepared by the as sociation will be distributed with church bulletins Sunday. It says: "The Medford Ministerial as sociation wholeheartedly en dorses the United Medford Cru sade, and 'commends it to the prayerful consideration and sac rificial support of their people." Sot Jse for CCudimqipedl aby . : - r?r-TTrzz . . .. . ilDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1955 No. 157 October, 1956, a month before the presidential elections. Wooldridge knows nothing of the president's future plans but he knows the steelhead ' trout will be running in, the autumn. "I'm trying to get the presi dent to spend a vacation on the Rogue with General Twin ing and myself," he said. "By that time my lodge in the heart of the river canyon will be ready for guests." ARTIST'S conception of the blonde woman sought for kid naping of newly-born son of Dr. and Mrs. Sanford Marcus, San Francisco. (International) Boxed Peaches Stolen From Valley Orchards Oregon State police reported today that between 20 and 25 boxes of Hale peaches were tak en from the Gleim orchard on Wagner Creek rd. some time last night. r . Police are investigating the theft, which occurred in the same general area as another case reported to Jackson county sheriff's officers last week Thomas M. Bryan, 4140 Cedar lane, Phoenix, : reported .that about 50 boxes were taken bom his orchard Sunday night, Sept. 11. He said someone entered the orchard and picked the peaches, then drove out. ' Glendate Plywood Firm Purchases Timber Tract The Multnomah Plywood cor poration of Glendale has pur chased timber in about a 41 acre tract in the Baker creek area in Northwest Jackson county for $110,000, according to revenue stamps attached to a deed in the recorder's office. The timber was bought from C. M. Williams, J. R. and Bertha Williams, W. G. Williams and F. T. Williams; and is located on the Gold Note No. 1 and Gold Note Extension mining claims near the Josephine county line along Baker creek. The deed specifies that the corporation has one year in which to cut and remove timber. Weather . FORECAST: Fair through In- dy except patchei of morn- ' lnjt for or low elondinesf. Low tonight 37. High Satur day S2. ., ' emp. HiCheit Yesterday : '. 7T Leweit this Morning , 41 ined for Area Price 5c Tribune Rogue River Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air Force chief of staff, is an bid hand on the river, but oth er Air Force brass have made the 120-mile boat trip to Gold Beach down the Rogue with .Wooldridge. They include Ira C. Eaker, Curtis Lemay and Carl Spaatz. If the president accepts the invitation, he probably will not run. No candidate for re election could vacation at the height of a campaign. , Eight More Diapers Reported Stolen From Clothesline ' San Francisco (U.R) The" fe verish search for the kidnaped Robert Marcus baby was intensi fied in neighboring San Jose to day with the report that eight more diapers had been stolen from, a clothesline. : Mrs. Lois Freemen t61d police that she saw a heavyset woman running from her home in San Jose at about 5:15 a.m. , Mrs. Freeman said she had gone to the backyard to get her laundry off the line and saw the woman, who appeared to be car rying a bundle, run to the street and around a corner.. The house wife said eight diapers were Missing from' theliheT' ' ' The Freemen home is about 1 miles from Mrs. Sue Fager"s house where . a buxom blonde woman, answering the descrip tion of the suspected kidnaper, was caught trying to steal dia pers yesterday. Searchers on Job A force of about 1500 police, civil defense volunteers, sheriff's deputies and firemen was imme diately shifted to the area after Mrs. Freemen made her report. Authorities were convinced the kidnaper and baby definitely were in San Jose. Chief of Police Ray Blackmore of San Jose vowed the search will go on until the 6-day-old baby is found. As far as I am concerned, they are here," he said. "We will find the child." . Meanwhile, the parents of the child, Dr. Sanford Marcus, 34, and his wife, Hanna, 29, . were kept under sedatives at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital. They were both near collapse from the strain.- When doctors tried to feed Hanna, she cried, "All I want is my baby." She had to take nour ishment intravenously. Condition 'Very Poor Dr. Louis B. Goldstein, her obstetrician, said Mrs. Marcus' condition was "very poor." He said she "just looks at the wall." Meanwhile, doctors allowed one press photographer to take a picture of Mrs. Marcus in the hope that a photo showing the extreme agony she was under going might move the kidnaper to return the baby. Mrs. Marcus, her eyes closed in pain and her face covered with tears, lay in bed sobbing piti fully when the cameraman quiet ly snapped the pictures. Morse Puts 'Low Political Morality1 on Eisenhower Portland (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said here yesterday-that what he called the "low political morality" of the administration ' rested squarely on the shoulders of President Eisenhower. .. . , . . He told the Democratic Busi iness Men's Club here that the Democrats should make the "low. morality", an issue in the 1956 election campaign. Wants Ike. To Run - "Eisenhower can be defeated and Democrats ought to stop hoping for someone else to run in his place," Morse said. "I'm for taking the fight to him. I want him to run." The onetime Republican also predicted that if President Eis enhower runs for reelection he Molotov Demands Agreement on Armed Forces Cut Ike's1 Inspection ' Plan Under Study United Nations, N.Y. U.RV Russia called today for all pow ers to give up foreign bases and demanded agreement on reduc tion of armed forces without waiting for a disarmament treaty. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov told the U.N. General Assembly that the Kremlin is "engaged in studying" President Eisenhower's arms inspection plan. Molotov said the Soviet Union 1 regards the President's propos als "as an' expression of a sin cere desire to facilitate- the solu tion of the important problem of international control and inspec tion.", . No Hint of Acceptance ' But his 5000-word speech con tained no hint as to whether the Kremlin would accept the Eisen hower plan1. And he made no ref erence; to Soviet Premier Niko lai Bulganin's letters, presum ably concerning the disarma ment problem, to President Eis enhower, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden andPFrench" Pre fier Edgar Faure. Molotov went down the line for support of the overall dis armament proposals presented by Moscow last May 10 and re jected by the West because they lack adequate provisions for in spection and control. He . boasted that the Soviet Union had abandoned its bases at Port Arthur in China, and at Porkkala in Finland. Foreign Bases "The Soviet government,' he said, "has proceeded from words - to deeds. This gives us reason to call upon the government of oth er powers, and particularly of those which maintain numerous bases on foreign territories, to give up their bases. . . "Such a course would, un doubtedly, best meet the need to csll off the armaments race, build up confidence among na tions and end the cold war." Earlier in his SDeech. Molotov reduction of its armed forces by 640,000 men. "The Soviet delegation,'' he said, "expresses the hope that the other powers possessing sub stantial armed forces in their turn would take steps as a token of good will to reduce their armed forces without waiting: for agreement to be reached on the conclusion of an appro-. priate international convention." German Unity Molotov gave no direct reDly to the offer made yesterday by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles of an "overall plan of . European security" in exchange '. for the Kremlin's agreement to' unify Germany. - But he recalled that "the So viet government raised the ques- , tion of having an effective se curity system established in Europe and to that end pre sented an appropriate proposal. "That proposal," he saib0 'provides for the establishment with the participation of the U.S.A. of a collective security system in Europe based on the joint efforts of all European countries, irrespective of their social and political system. "The Soviet Union is willing. of course, td study any other proposals designed to insure European security . . . 'A for the German problem as a whole, the above makes it clear that under present condi tions it. will find its solution through the setting up of all-' European security system." V New York (U.R) Atlas Corp. has ' announced it will acquire financier Howard Hughes' con trolling interest in RKO Pic tures Corp., ending the long squabble over control of the picture firm. will be defeated by a bigger margin than the one that elected him in 1952, Morse outlined two other is sues which he said would be campaign material for the Dem ocrats . in 1956. One, he said, would be the "general welfare" . clause of the constitution The Democratic party believes in that clause and interprets it by, its actions in behalf of the peo ple," he asserted. Monopoly Issue ' Another issue, Morse told his businessman audience, would be "monopoly" and the "plight of small business." He claimed the record would show that there has been a trend toward monop oly in the administration far greater than in any similar per iod in the past 50 years. o
