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G 50th Year Medford 24 Pages MEDFORD, 'A 0 ",JJ IP 'fl CORf' SHELTER GOES UP IN SMOKE Passersby and C20-UAW strikers watch fire destroy m unoccupied house in front of the Perfect Circle Corp. plant at New Castle, Ind., as 1200 demonstrators dispersed after a gun battle between union and nonunion employes. The house was being used as a shelter for police on duty in front of the plant. Two Injured in Auto Accidents On tity greets ' Mis Ernestine Mariorie Conk lin, 23, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Conklin, of 2875 Lone Pine rd., Medford, suffered back Injuries about 7:25 ajn. today when the car which she was driving went out of control and tore down about 50 feet of fence at the Cal-Ore Machinery com pany, 944 south central ave. i She was taen to Osteopathic hospital by Medford Ambulance service, but extent of her in luries were not known at noon today. Her' condition was de scribed as good late this morn ing. 0 Car Jumped Curb Police said she apparently lost control of the vehicle, which was traveling south on South. Central ave., and jumped the curb. "She was alone in Tthecar. In another accident today, Miss Mary Janne Martin, 17, of 1002 Maple Park dr., Medford, suffered minor hand injuries when, the car in which she was riding collided with one operated by Alice Ree Davis, 618 West Second 4 Miss Martin was a nasseneer ft a car operated W Gordon Ray Munden, 1052 Oak it., Medford. The accident happened at the corner of Fourth and Fir sts. about 8:30 aVm. today. Dxivr(ited Police issued a citation to Alice Davis for failure to yield 5height of way to through traf fic. Miss Martin was taken to Community hospital by city police for treatment of an in jured thumb. About 2:45 p.m. yesterday, ve hicles operated by Frank Wal lace, route.2, box 227E, Medford, and Edward Jeferson Turvey, of Lemon Grove, Calif., collided at the intersection of Sixth and Fir sts. Jury Uames Drawn for Marjorie Smith Case Mwtinnville (U. The Yam hill county clfrfc today drew" 40 additions name for Circuit Court jury duty as the' court - readied its ctltndar for the Oct. 20 trial of Mr. Marjorie Smith, Portland, in connaction with the car bomb defth of her husband last April. , The clerk' office said expect ed close questioning of prospec tive jurors wa likely to ex haust the normal list of venire men. Though Olive Kermit Smith was slain in Portland, trial of his widowQfor complicity in his death was transferred to the "Yamhill county court of Judge Arlie G. Walker. V Freight Train Derails; No Injuries Reported Connell, Wash. (U.R) Nine cars of a Northern Pacific freight train were derailed four miles east of here yesterday but NP officials said no " on was hurt. A spokesman said' a wheel flange of a car near the back of the train apparently broke, causing the derailment which temporarily closed the mainline track. He said damage was "not too bad." - Portland (U.R) An agree ment to acquire Bice Truck Lines of Laurel, Mont., for a total of $414,000 in common stock and cash has been announced by Con solidated Itcightways. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER XT Shortage of .- .'5 X I': l- B-'Sii': Still Plaguing Area Jackson county lumber opera tions continued to be hard hit by the railroad boxcar shortage today. Although some firms have re opened, on "a very curtailed basis," others are closing, and most lumber manufacturers con- Sen. Morse Talk Open fo Public A Democratic-sponsored din ner honoring Sen. Wayne L. Morse will be held at the Jack son hotel Saturday, Oct. 15. The senator is expected to make a 'major address," according ; to County Chairman I Robert A. Boyer. The meeting will be open to-thepiiWic;-' " ; Tickets for the 6:30 p.m. din ner may be obtained at the Boyer office, 30 North. Oakdale ave., or from De Wayne Mitchell, gen eral chairman; Attorneys. Wil liam Deatherage, Robert Dun can and James M. Main; Mrs. Edward C. Kelly, Lamports and the Labor Temple, all in Med ford; Dr. Arthur Kreisman, Pro fessor Al Miller and Mrs. L. Peers Wilmeth, Ashland, Mrs. Dee Newton, Valleyview; Larry Sheehan; Rogue River, and Mrs. Albert Straus, Sams Valley. Kite Lite Motel Sale Announced Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor, until recently of Mullan, Ida., have purchased the Nite Lite mo tel on South Pacific highway. The former owners,. Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Kidd, left here for Oakland, Calif., and now are visiting relatives in Virginia. The Taylors formerly operat ed a hotel at Mullan and before that he was a commercial fisher man in Alaska for many years The Kidds came here from Fair banks, Alaska, though the two couples were not acquainted there. McKay Asked fo Lift OSC Sale Ban Portland (U.R) Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay was asked today to lift marketing restrictions on O and C timber sales in the Smith river area in southwest Oregon. Frank Sever, attorney for the Association of Land Grant Coun ties said timber sales in the area are cohditioned by demands that the first stages of! milling the lumber must be by mills in the area, which restricted sales to the mills there. The association wants this changed. Sever said there is much blown down and fire damaged timber in the area and that this would speed up its salvages. - - ' - -' . - The timber is located along the new Smith river road which runs 60 miles inland from tide water near Gardiner. Sever said, the $6,000,000 road was built by. funds put up by O&C counties out of their reve nues from timber sales. It is nearing completion with first sales scheduled in November. Nixon Presides , At Cabinet Meeting . Washington (U.R) Vice-Presi- dent Richard M. Nixon presided at a 2V hour Cabinet meeting at which "a number of routine" matters wart discussed. - Price 5c Tribune 7, 1955 No. 169 Boxcars tacted this morning indicated the situation is no better than it was a week ago. . Kogap Lumber Industries shut down its sawmills yesterday "for an indefinite period." Officials of the firm said Kogap, which ordinarily ships more than 100 carloads a month, got out only 83 carloads during September and increased its inventory by some 750,000 board feet. ; Kogap will continue to oper ate its planing ' mill, and ship ping operations, .will be. con ducted as cars become available. Ross Lumber comany's White City and Prospect mills are still closed. The company will con tinue to work its shipping opera tions as cars are available. Eugene F. Burrill Lumber company at White. City is still Closed. '. ' ' ' Mills Reopened - r--- Magnolia Lumber company, Rogue River, reopened its mill Wednesday, but the company's planer will not resume opera tions until Monday. Loading crews are working as boxcars are obtained: DeArmond Brothers Lumber company, Rogue River, which also reopened its mill Wednes day, is also shipping as cars are available. Officials of the firm said this morning that they re ceived three cars today and none yesterday. . They believed that the shortage has been re lieved a little. Double Dee Lumber Com pany, Inc., at Tolo, reopened its mill yesterday on a curtailed basis. However, Double Dee spokesmen said the shortage doesn't look any better there. They received no boxcars yes terday. Medford Corporation, which has been closed for a 'routine two weeks vacation period, will reopen Monday. 1 Boxcar Travels Two Tracks at Same Time Portland (U.R) A freak acci dent in local railroad yards yes terday resulted in a boxcar traveling on two tracks at once and then smashing into a parked automobile and a power pole. Engineer Albert B. Towne said he backed a string of 15 freight cars to clear another switch--in- side Spokane, Portland & Seattle rail yards. But when he ' started forward again, the front truck on one of the cars followed the engine and the rear truck headed down another track. For about 50 yards the boxcar traveled down two tracks. But the distance between the two tracks widened and the boxcar jumped from both, striking the car and then the power pole. No one was hurt. Guardsmen To Stay in New Castle Until Threat of Further Strike Violence Over New Castle, Ind. (U.R) Na tional Guardsmen kept "lim ited" martial law clamped on New Castle today and Mayor Paul McCormack said the troop ers would stay until the threat of more bloody strike violence has passed. A recurrence of the wild gun fight at the gates of the strik bound Perfect Circle Corp. foun dry Wednesday is a distinct "possibility" if the plant tries to resume production, IcCor mack said. Nine persons were wounded, eight of them shot, in the fight between striken and. non-strik Foreigr Parle ied ill' erful' he White . today that Presiu. jwer's recuper ation from irt attack is pro gressing sufficiently to permit him to have a business confer ence here next Tuesday with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Mr. Eisenhower wanted to talk with Dulles concerning the Oct. 27 meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in Geneva. Dulles has not been in direct contact with the President since before Mr. Eisenhower was stricken here Sept. 24 with a coronary thrombosis. The latest medical bulletin on the President's condition at 10:45 a.m. (MST) said he con tinued to progress satisfactorily without complications and had a good night's sleep last night awaking "refreshed and cheer ful." 1 Nixon Due Tomorrow Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and Sherman Adams, the assistant to the President, will fly here tomorrow with Dr. Paul Dudley White, the' Boston heart specialist. Nixon was expected to confer briefly with the Presi dent sometime before the vice- president flies back to Washing ton Sunday afternoon. Press Secretary James C. Hag- erty emphasized that the:con- ierences on me recuperaung President's schedule naturally depended on his continued pro gress and above all, the final de cision of the attendant physic ians. The' White House said Dulles would discuss with the Presi dent the topics . to be covered by the foreign ministers, at Gen eva. Dulles lo Speak At the Big Four meeting in Switzerland in July, the prin cipals instructed their foreign ministers to meet late this month to discuss German : uriificatioivf European security, disarmament and increased East-West contact. Dulles has a speech scheduled in Miami, Fla., Monday. The presidential plane, the Colum- bina III,- will pick up Dulles in Miami in . the early afternoon Monday and fly' him to Lowry Air Force Base here; Dulles will not see the President until the next day. SOC Registration Reaches New High Ashland Registration for fall quarter at Southern Oregon col lege has reached an all-times high for regular students at the college, according to incomplete registration figures. Hugh Simpson, college public information man, said that as of Oct. 6, there were 802 students, 492 of them men, 310 women, not including 17 who are audit ing classes. This compares with a previous high total of 797 reg ular students in the fall of 1950. Registration continues through Saturday, and those wishing to enroll must do so no later than the first meeting of their class after the Oct. 8 deadline, both for night classes and regular daytime schedules. Man in Baby Bathtub Cruises Puget Sound Olympia (U.R) Roy Bergo, the rub-a-dub man who likes" to cruise Puget Sound in a bath tub, left here at 9 a.m. today, putting along at three to four miles an hour through a down pour of rain and before a stiff southerly wind; Bergo's sea-going baby bath tub is propelled by a three horsepower outboard motor. He expects to reach Tacoma at 4 p.m. today to complete the first leg of his planned trip to Van couver, B.C. ers. An attempt to arrange a truce in the bitter dispute failed late yesterday and union lead- Lers-warned more battles might break out if "strikebreakers" en ter the plant. Therefore, McCormack said, the 600 troopers are here for an indefinite stay. "The guards will stay in New Castle and the plant will remain closed until the danger of vio lence is over," the mayor said. "And there's no telling when that will be," he added. Earlier, McCormack had said New Castle would remain under military rule at least through the mm Fir mm Socialist Party Refuses to Back Reform Policies Fall of Cabinet Appears Certain Paris (U.R) Premier Edgar Faure, fighting for his political life in the National Assembly, today mustered two former pre miers to help lead with support ers who were deserting him. The powerful Socialist party with 105 votes in the Chamber of Deputies, refused to back Faure's North African reform policies, virtually assuring that Faure would be ousted as 21st postwar Premier. Leaders Buttonholed . But Foreign Ministers v An- toine Pinay and Paul Reynaud, both former premiers, were re ported busy buttonholing leaders of their own 53-vote Independ ent party to try to get them to reconsider yesterday's decision to desert Faure. Informed sources said some of the Independents were changing their minds and deciding to stick with Faure. The Premier now must get the Socialists, Trance's largest poli tical party, to abstain when his policies come to a vote, probably tomorrow. Otherwise, his gov ernment will fall. Lines Already Drawn But whether he could stave off defeat and save his crumbling cabinet appeared doubtful. The lines already were drawn against him and speculation al ready had begun on the name of his successor. - Faure's downfall would, hit hard in international diplomacy. It would almost certainly force postponement of the Big Four foreign minister .conference scheduled to begin in Geneva three weeks hence. Refused To Quit.',., .,.. Faure rejected demands from his deserting supporters to quit how and demanded the full dress debate . on the Moroccan mess. His parliamentary majority was down to a hairline as he began to fight for the premiership. The 47-year-old premier went before the assembly Thursday night and called for a united French stand against the foreign interference he said threatened Morocco and Algeria. He had won some support last week-end when he recalled the permanent French delegation from the United Nations because the body voted to discuss the Al gerian problem a problem France considers strictly an in ternal one. ' Since then France has accused Spain of harboring rebels in Spanish Morocco a charge offi cially denied by the Madrid gov ernment this morning. French Reservists Defy Morocco Call Rouen France U.R) Some 500 French Army reservists re called to fight in North Africa barricaded themselves in their barracks today and defied riot squads to oust them. - This was the second mutiny in a month by a group of French reservists recalled to active duty because of the outbreak of vio lence in North Africa. - Last month, another group of about 500 Air reservists refused to board trains in Paris for the start of their trip to - Morocco, They finally were rounded up, held in Paris barracks over night and flown to North Afri ca the next day. The group involved today had been- recalled for servica with the 406th Anti-Aircraft and Ar tillery Regiment. They were to be flown to North Africa, ; but started their sitdown strike last night in the Richepanse Bar racks in Rouen. week-end. But he said today "there is no assurance" that the guardsmen will leave early next week. He also refused to make an estimate of when they would leave. Meanwhile, he said, "I'm go ing to keep trying to get these people together. It's the only way we 11 ever get this thing settled." ; The steel-helmeted guards men rolled into New Castle yes terday under orders from Gov. George Craig and took up posts at the small, three-story Perfect Circle foundry and at a larger Chrysler Corp plant. x-IPreinrtfers Lamar Tooze Run Against Morse Portland U.R) Portland Attorney Lamar Tooze announced today that he would seek the Senate seat of Democrat Wayne Morse on the Republican ticket if Gov. Paul Patterson should de cide not to run. In announcing his willingness to seek the Republican nomina tion, however, Tooze said he would support Patterson "100 per cent" out would stand ready to me to run. Gov. Patterson said he had Tooze's announcement. Tooze has twice been elected delegate to Republican National conventions. He is a veteran of both world wars and is now com manding general of the 104ih reserve division with the rank of major general. His brother, Walter Tooze. is a state supreme court justice. , New Charges Filled Against Turncoats San Francisco (U.R) Asst. U. S. Atty. Richard H. Foster announced : today that new charges of informiug on fellow prisoners in Red China have been filed against two of three ex-GI turncoats. Foster announced the new filings during the opening ses sion of a writ of habeas corpus bearing in federal court. Attorneys for Otho G. Bell, Hillsboro, Miss., William Cow- art, Dalton, Ga., and Lewie Griggs, Jacksonville, Tex., ar- French Parachute Food, Ammunition To Isolated Post Taza, Morocco (U.R) ; The French parachuted food and am munition today into the isolated outpost of Tizi Ouzli, which was cut off by fierce rebel Riff tribes; men. ' ,' "' ''"' As Trench planes from bases in Meknes and Rabat rained down hundreds of pounds of sup plies, official sources reported the outnumbered garrison near the Spanish Moroccan border un der heavy fire. Meanwhile, as a precautionary measure, American officials were evacuating all women and children from the U. S. radar post at Saidia to camp Sidi Slimane today. Saidia lies on the Mediterranean coast 30 miles north of. Oujda, almost athwart the Spanish Moroccan border. Precautionary Measures - There have been no - attacks on any of the 15,000 American servicemen and dependents sta-, tioned at four strategic air and naval bases in Morocco, and U. S. authorities emphasized that to day's move was. purety precau tionary. The latest crisis at Tizi Ouzli, which has been beleagured on and off for nearly six days, came when Arab warriors again cut the vital road to Aknoul. Tizi Ouzli, the French base at Aknlul to the south, and Boured to the west form a tri angle of French resistance to the rebel attacks. ; , Communist Candidate Leads Brazil Election Rio de Janeiro, Brazil U.R) Juscelino Kubitschek, Communist-supported candidate of the Social Democratic Party, took a commanding lead today in Bra zil's presidential elections. His victory appeared assured. J o a o Goulart, Kubitschek's running mate, also moved out in front in the separate race for the vice presidency. He, too, appear ed a certain winner. ' ' Returns, as reported by the s e m i-off icial Radio National, gave Kubitschek an e v e r increasing lead over his closest competitor, Adhemar de Barros, millionaire industrialist candi date of the Social Progressive Party. ' s Portland Banks Report Record High Deposits Portland (U.R) Three Port land banks reported record high deposits today in response to the Oct. 5 bank call of the comptrol ler of currency. Substantial gains were report ed by the Bank of. California, Portland Trust Bank, and Mult nomah Bank. Enterprise, Ore. (U.R) Al fred C. Sollom, 34, of Pendleton, was killed Thursday when his pickup truck left Highway 82 in Wallowa river canyon, struck a tree and then plunged 58 feet into tot Wallowa river. my 1 Wound if the governor should decline "nothing :j say" in regard to ' gued before Judge 'Louis E Goodmon that their clients should be , issued the writs be cause the alleged offenses oc curred after their dishonorable discharge from the Army. Civil Statutes ,, 1 The attorneys' also contended that the charges fall under the civil treason statutes, which must be heard in civil court. roster told the court that the new charges include one that Bell nit and kicked members of his prisoner squad, that Bell re ported fellow torisoners to the enemy for not working ani of reporting on a master sergeant who struck him. This report, Foster said, resulted in th mas ter sergeant being forced to stand barefoot on ice for two hours. Additional Charges Cowart. Foster said, faces ad ditional charges involving two other fellow rjrisoners who were punished several times because he "ratted" on them. Representing the trio were at torneys Harold C. Brown. George T. Davis t and Robert Hannon. Brown told the court the men were being held in custodv too long before being tried and that 11 proDamy would be six months to a year before they actually could be court martialed because the Army still has some 1500 witnesses to interview."' In face of "the lone imnrison- ment," he pleaded for the court to take jurisdiction. Income Gasoline Taxes Lead Revenue "Salem (U.R) An increase in receipts from taxes and license fees for the state of Oregon dur ing the fiscal year ending July 1, 1955, was reported today. The state budget division said Oregon collected $129,828,000 during the period, a gain of $2, 800,000 over, the , proceeding year. - , Highest source was personal income tax, with $42,795,359. Next in line was gasoline taxes, totaling $31,808,560. Other income included: Cor poration excise tax, $14,026,860; motor vehicle licenses, $10,608, 811; truck weight-mile taxes, $9,935,987; inheritance taxes, $3,407,645; insurance premium taxes, $2,347,647; business and occupation licenses, $1,763,920; hunting and fishing licenses $2, 613,046; motor transportation fees, $1,432,695, and liquor privi lege taxes, $1,209,380. Prineville Reports Major Caff le Sale" ' Prineville (U.R) A second major sale of central Oregon cattle has been reported here by the Hudspeth Land and Live stock Co. ' The firm said that it shipped about 1,000 head of feeder cattle to the Lost River Cattle Co, Redmond, ' and the Newhall Ranch and Farming Co., at New hall, Calif. Shipments started yesterday and were expected to continue through tomorrow. ' ' Bulk of the transaction con sisted of two-year-old steers sell ing at 17.75 per hundredweight. The balance was yearling heifers with no price disclosed. In a record sale two weeks ago, the Hudspeth firm sold 4, 000 yearlings to Wilson and Co., Weather FORECAST: Cloudy with show ers tonifht, becoming partly cloudy and cooler with show ers in mountains Saturday. Low tonight 4S. High Satur day C5. Temp. Highest Yesterday 74 Lowest this Morning 38 ll''" """',Nk"1 '"'"lM"TI I X?' CAPT. C. C. COOKE Pilot of Ill-Fated Plan PA1RICIA SHUTTLEWORTH Crash Kills Stewardess Conflict Develops By Crashed Plane ; Laranvv''; Wvo. fll.P1 rvn flict developed today whether a United Air Lines DC-4 was - within its normal flight pattern before it smashed into 12,005. foot Medicine Bow Peak killing all 66 persons aboard yesterday. A United Air Lines spokesman said Southern Wyoming's tower ing Snow Range of which Medi cine Bow is the highest peak could be considered within the plane's normal route, but a Wyoming official said he con sidered the plane about 20 miles off course. - - - Meanwhile, two teams of skill- . ed Alpinists, students from the Universities . of Wyoming and Colorado, began , the. dangerous1 job of bringing down the first bodies from the crash site on the mountain's sheer east face to a temporary' morgue a mile and a half away. - i Difficult Task . A 125-member rescue force struggled over the , icy, snowy slope immediately beneath the peak's topmost portion to lower the first bodies by rope to be hand-carried to the University of Wyommg's science camp,' a set of permanent frame build ings, where the morgue has been set up...,- ' Although there was snow on the ground and the rescue teams' wdrk earlier in the day had been hampered by ground blizzards, skies were clear. Temperatures stood at the freezing mark; -) Whether the plane should have been over the precipitous, mountain range developed the aspects of a c o n t r o v e r s y.: A United Air Lines' spokesman in" Denver said the range could be included within lhe DC-4s nor-." mal , flight pattern despite : the -fact that such aircraft have no. pressurized cabins that - allow them to fly much in excess of 14,000 feet altitude. - ' - . : t Can Skirt Mountains ' ' .' ; - But Wyoming Aeornautics Commissioner George Nelson, said it was his opinion' based on the study of normal flight routes ' that the plane" was definitely 20. miles to the west of where it should have been "although oc casionally . some planes stray over that way toward the moun tains." ...The range -rises abruptly up to the .west of the broad, flat Laramie River Valley plain. It is along this valley that most airways traffic is diActed, thus enabling planes with low ceil- . ings to skift the mountins. . Inspectors of the Civil Aero nautics Administration who join ed rescue teams at. the crash' site this morning declined to comment until they have com pleted their studies and made re- Iports to the .CAA Washington oaice. ' (Partial passenger list on page 14) Utah Governor Told To Pay Taxes or Quit ' Salt Lake City (U.R) The Executive Committee of the Utah Democratic Central Committee demanded today that Utah's out spoken governor, J. Bracken Lee, either pay his federal income taxes or resign. Lee has announced publicly that he will not pay taxes due next April in an effort to obtain a U. S. Supreme Court test of the federal government's right to give American tax money to foreign nations. - 1 J u
