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Medfokd.&Tribune Weather Recommended e A feature story on a new track loading device invented by a local man appears on Page 12 of today's Mail Tribune. . Forecast: Considerable cloudin ess and occasional showers Sun day and Monday. High today 65; low tonight 45; high Monday 62. Highest yesterday 71 . Lowest yesterday morn. 45 United Press hull Utdsed Wire United Prasa Full Leased Wire 30 Pagss Price 5c MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY OCTOBER 9, 1955 50th Year No. 170 IFoiire IF V 0 0 o n n n r mrob L t w mm 7 u Off RATION PULL Tow trucks jockey gasoline tank trucks to safety as a $250,000 ' fire destroys four gasoline storage tanks at the Blue Oil Co. plant in Flint, Mich. Too 3 close to the flames for drivers to enter them, trucks were towed to safety with long lines hooked to the bumpers. Several other trucks were lost in the blaze. Nixon, President Confer; Ike Still Has Long Way To Go Denver "(UP.) Vice-President Richard M. Nixon confer red with President Eisenhower late Saturday and assured the ailing chief executive that he has "time to make a complete recov ery" and "does not have to rush." ' Nixon flew to Denver from Washington and met with the President for 15 minutes as Mr. Eisenhower passed the critical two-week recovery period fol lowing his heart attack Sept. 24. Ike Looking Well ' Nixon said afterward that "I was sipriseffto?e'e 'Tfow'weTl 1 he looks . . . I had heard that I would be pleasantly surprised and I certainly was. His spirit was tops." However, . Nixon endorsed a Earning earlier Saturday by the White : House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty that "there is still a long way to go" m the President's total recovery. His remarks last night indica ted that he agrees with doctors that th President's recuperation period should not be rushed. Must Not Hush T told him he had time to make a complete recovery and did not have to rush," Nixon said in a news conference. He held the press conference at Lowry Air Force base,' the temporary White Houses head quarters. Hagerty said earlier that the President's condition during the first ten weeks since he was stricken has "progressed satis factorily without complications" but "there is no intention of re moving him from the hospital for some time." ... 40 and 8 Puts Off Secession Decision Miami (U.R) The govern ing board of 40 and 8, the Amer ican Legion s Frencn-navorea fun-loving group, branded the J5 parent organization "dictators" - Saturday but put off for a year a decision on secession. Tho 9ftn memhers of the SOV- i - .ww w erning board Shouted down a quick move to secede trom me Leeion. Thev adopted a suDsti tute motion which postpones the snlit for at least a year. , The action will beetaken be fore the 40 and 8's full conven tion which opens at 2 p Jn. today one day ahead of the big Am- ' erican Legion convention. Sports Bulletins Milwaukee. Wis. U.R) Rookie Quarterback George Shaw, supported by a rookie cast, led the Baltimore Colts to a two-touchdown lead in the first period Saturday night and the Colts held on for a 24 20 victory over the Green Bay Packers.' . '" St Mary's high of Medford took over lone leadership in Jackson County B League foot ball by trimming Talent 39 to 20 in a battle of offenses here last night. Quarterly scores were 0 to 0, 14 to 6 and 33 to 13. ' La Grange Eastern Ore ' gon college defeated ' South ern Oregon 21 to 20 in a foot ball gam placed her last night. Molotov Admits Bad Blunder About Extent Of Russian Socialism Moscow (U.R) Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molo tov confessed Saturday that he had committed a "theoretically mistaken and politically harm ful" blunder by understating the extent of Russia's socialistic pro gress. The 65-year-old foreign minis ter, one of the last of the "Old Bolsheviks" to survive the Stalin era, made his confession in a let ter published in the magazine "Communist," which is the of ficial theoretical organ of the Predict Ouster (In Washington, diplomats pre dicted .that Molotov will bow out soon. Some diplomatic quar ters said Molotov's "resignation" Carrier Saratoga Christened in NY New York (U.R) The World's mightiest warship was christen ed the U.S.S. Saratoga Satur day. The giant five-block-long sup er aircraft carrier, the sixth naval vessel to bear that illus trious name, was hailed, as a symbol of the power of' the American people, splashed with campagne, sea water and a light rain, and saluted by ever ves sel in the nation's biggest port. The ship will cost about $19, 000,000. The new -60,000-ton "Sara," said to be 70 to 80 per cent completed, will add something new in the way of comfort for the crew as well as atom-age technical improvements and push-button jet plane launch ings. , ' From garbage disposal nits in the galley to semi-private bunks equipped with fluorescent read ding lights, from automatic po tato peelers to softly decorat ed lounges with plush overstuff ed chairs, the ship was designed to boost crew morale along with battle efficiency. : With navy officers and men and a crowd of onlookers stand ing at attention in the rain, Mfs. Charles S; Thomas, wife of the navy secretary, smashed a bottle of champagne against the ship's bow. - U.S. Starts Work on New Airtight Plan For Disarmament; Leading ' United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) The United States Saturday began work on.a new airtight dis armament plan with the aid of recalled ' American World War II heroes and prominent indus trialists and scientists grouped into eight "task forces." Competent Authorities Presidential Aide Harold E. Stassen described, the "task force" leaders as the "most com petent authorities in American life," including such retired mili tary leaders as Gen. James H. Doolittle, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith and Vice Adm. Oswald S. Colclough. The civilians and scientists in cluded Benjamin Fairless of the United States Steel Corporation; Walter S. Cisler,' president of the Detroit Edison Co.; Dr. Ern may come at the Communist party congress next February. There was also some feeling he will step down before then.) In a speech last February when George M. Malenkov was fired as premier, . Molotov said that "the foundation of a social ist society has already been built" in this Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ' "This mistaken formulation leads to the incorrect conclusion that allegedly a socialist society has not yet been created in the Soviet-Union," Molotov:;.: said; "that only the foundations of a socialist society have been built." . " 'Built in 1932' Actually, he said in his letter, it had been stated in 1932 that the foundations had been com pleted and further successes in building socialism have brought the Soviet Union to a new state of development. -; This new state of development, Molotov said, is that of gradual transition to a Communist soc iety. . ... , (The Communist conception is that the Soviet Union is now a socialist community. This first stage is to be followed by evolu tion into a fully communist one.) Diplomatic circles at once re called the rumors which swept Europe several months ago that Molotov might resign. Westerberg Predicts Milk Price Increase Portland (U.R) Dick Wes terberg, president of the Oregon Milk Producers associations, said Saturday that producer prices for milk will go up 42 cents a hundredweight Oct. 15 in Eu gene and Roseburg. He said the result would prob ably be a one-cent, a quart hike to the consumer. Similar increases were on the way for Grants Pass, Medford and Corvallis, he said. New prices to producers will be $6.24 a hundredweight for 4 per cent butterf at milk. Milk prices to consumers in Medford and Roseburg are now 22 cents a quart. In Eugene and Grants Pass the price is 23 cents. est O. Lawrence, director of the University of California Radia tion Laboratories; Dr. James B. Fish, of the Bell Telephone Lab oratories; and Dr. Harold Moul ton of the Brookings Institute. "Open Sky" Plan t Stassen reiterated to the United Nations Disarmament Subcommittee that Washington believes firmly President Eisen hower's "open sky" arms in spection plan is the best means of insuring disarmament. . All five nations represented on the subcommittee issued long statements at Friday's session, the last until after the Big Four foreign ministers conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Oct. 27. Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev repeated the Moscow position on disarmament and said French Security Guards Fight Off Attacks by Mob Communists Lead Rioting Workers Rouen, France U.R Black- uniformed Republican Security Guards fought off repeated at tacks by a howling mob of 1,500 Communist- led workers and forced the surrender early Sat urday of some 500 . French sol diers who had mutinied against service in North Africa. Fifty members' of the tough riot squad, formed in 1947 to combat Communist-led demon strations, were injured when the rioters attacked repeatedly with bottles, bricks and paving stones. The police units fought back with tear gas and clubs. Ten rioters were reported hurt. The trouble started late Fri day when the young reservists, recalled from civilian life for rlutv in North Africa, rebelled while they were being loaded aboard trucks for a trip to an airnort and a flieht to Morocco which is aflame with native in surrection. Barricaded in Barracks They yelled their defiance of trie nrriers. finned the badees of rank from officers and barricad ed themselves in the grey stone and red brick Richepanse bar racks. The Republican Security Guards were called up. They surrounded the 20-foot high bar racks wall, onlx to be met with a shower of bricks, roof tiles and bottles from the men who had been assigned to the 406th anti aircraft and artillery regiment. Before the Security Guards becan pouring. out '-factories and the docks of this city where Joan of "Arc was burned at the stake. With many of them sing ing the Internationale, they at tacked the police forces. Police Commissioner Wounded Police said seven of their num ber were wounded seriously, in cluding Police Commissioner M. Sant-Harcou. From time to time during the battle some of the mutineers tried to flee over the walls only to be captured by the police. Then shortly before 1 a.m. police sained the uDDer hand and sent in an ultimatum to the rebelli ous soldiers come out or be dragged out. The rebels talked it over and surrendered. They were herded into trucks and taken to another barracks for possible punish ment andJa quick flight to the Moroccan danger zones. The fighting appeared over but police reinforcements rushing to the scene were hit by a mob of 500 in the Rue Saint Julien near the barracks. This flareup grew in size until 1,500 workers were involved. Again police dispersed them. Freight Car Shortage Unchanged During Week Salem (U.R) The freight car shortage in western Oregon last week was at the same level as the week before, Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel said Saturday. He said Southern Pacific was able to supply only 59 per cent of the cars ordered last week by lumber shippers west of the Cas cades. " ; ' Shippers on the Siskiyou line between Eugene and Ashland were able to get only 47 per cent of the cars they ordered. Citizens Aid there had been some "rapproch ment" of the positions of the five nations since the talks began last spring. He said the Soviets had asked for clarification of Mr. Eisenhower's proposal. Both; the United States and Russia agreed that internation al confidence" was necessary for any -disarmament plan. Concealed Nuclear Weapons Lawrence will head . the nu clear .task force which will seek a scientific "breakthrough" to a means of detecting concealed nu clear weapons. Doolittle, who led the first bombing raid on Tokyo and is now vice-president and director of Shell Oil Co., will head the efforts to find improved methods for aerial inspection and report ing. .' ;' r 4se off Dmproved Outlook a, England (U.R) ster Anthony Eden Saturday that Brit-a- . its armed forces by 12 ent because of the im proved outlook for peace. -. Eden said 100,000 men and women will be dropped from the armed - services by spring of 1958. The British armed forces now number 800,000 men and women. Slowdown of Draft At the same time, the Prime Minister announced a "slow down" in calling up draftees. But he said the two-year draft Orchard Tree Tax Hearing Scheduled To Be Speeded Up Starting Monday, hearings on disputed valuations of Jackson county . orchard trees for tax purposes will be stepped up, it was reported yesterday. In addition to Donald Kvavle, tax commission hearing officer who has conducted hearings this week, two other hearings offic ers arrived here yesterday, and three separate set of hearings will be held during the week. They are expected to be com pleted by late in the week. Two To Join Al Thomas, an assistant attorn ey general assigned to the tax commission, was also here last week to get the hearings under way: He left yesterday for Salem but two other attorneys, Omar Halvorson and Leon Gabinet, are due to assist during the early part of the week. The additional hearing officers are Walt Taylor and Allan How ells. ' The tax commission plans to review the records of the hear ings and to issue orders based on them as soon as possible. The dispute over taxation of trees has been in progress here since this spring, when the tax commission ordered them placed l the- tax rolls for the first time. After considerable contro versy involving orchardists, the county board of equalization and the tax commission, the commis sion "stepped in" last week to assume the hearing function? 'of the board of equalization. May Appeal Rulings ) Appeals to the commission's valuation rulings may be made to the commission later on legal grounds, according to Tax Com missioner Sam Stewart. He add ed that rulings of the commis sion can also be appealed to the circuit court. V- Some 225 different orchard valuations are '.involved in the hearings. Search Medicine Bow Peak For Crash Clues Laramie, Wyo. U.R)--Govern- ment investigators . searched the side of Medicine Bow peak until darkness fell last night for clues as to why a United Air Lines pilot was 25 miles off course when his DC-4 crashed and killed 66 persons. . They hoped to find among the twisted pieces of aluminum and engine something that will tell them whether the pilot was blown off course, whether he got off course accidentally, or whether he was taking a short cut when he hit the 12,005-foot mountain Thursday. It was the worst disaster in U. S. civil aviation history. The investigators gave body recov ery workers careful instructions yesterday about handling the wreckage. They also indicated that they may keep some moun tain climbers on after the bodies are all recovered to retrieve pieces ' of wreckage that may bear a clue. Coast Guard Cutter Slates Rescue Attempt Yaquina Bay, (U.R) : The Coast Guard cutter Bonhom was on its way up the Oregon coast from Coos Bay 'Saturday night to the rescue of a 45-fbot tug boat which was reported taking water in stormy seas 35 miles west of her today. period would be maintained. Eden announced the cuts in his first speech as party leader be fore the annual conservative con vention here. A defense ministry spokesman in London said the major share of the cuts would be borne by the army rather than the navy or . Royal Air Force. Authoritative cabinet sources said NATO had not been con sulted in advance about the troop reductions because they will not affect Britain's contribution to the Atlantic Pact forces. He warned, however, that de Gen. Dean, Slated To Speak at Brigade Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, one of the heroes of the Korean war, will be among the speak ers here Oct. 18 at ceremonies marking activation of the 417th ; GEN. WILLIAM DEAN To Speak in Medford Engineer Aviation ! brigade and Company E, 2nd Battalion, 413th Infantry regiment, 104th Infan try division. Holds Congressional Medal General Dean, now deputy commander, Sixth army, was a prisoner of the Communists from Aug. 25, 1950, until Sept. 4, 1953. He was awarded the Congression al Medal of Honor for heroism in the battle of Taejon, which led to his capture. At the time of his capture he was commander of the U. S. 24th division, the first American troops committed in the Korean fighting. After his position was overrun he was able to avoid capture for a month. In 1947 and 1948, General Dean was military governor of the U. S. occupied area of Korea, and also served as commander of all U. S. ground forces in Korea. Among decorations which the general has received are the Dis tinguished Service cross, the Dis SATURDAY WEST Colorado 13, Oregon 6 Washington 7. USC 0 ' Washington State 20, Cal ifornia 20 COP 20. Idaho 0 v Colorado A&M 14, Wyom ing 13. , Air Force Academy 34, Den ver Frosh 18 . Denver 61, Montana 13 Lewis and Clark 47, Linfield 7 , ' - San Jose State 27, Arizona State 20 . SOUTHWEST Oklahoma 20, Texas 0 West Texas 20, Arizona 20 .. Baylor "25, Arkansas 20 MIDWEST Michigan 26, Army 2 Michigan State 38, Stan ford 14 Wisconsin 9. Purdue 0 , ' Minnesota 18, Northwestern 7 . " ''."..'' Ohio Slate 27, Illinois 12 Iowa 20, Indiana 6 Wichita 14, Oklahoma A&M 7 Kansas 7, Iowa State 7 . . Texas A&M 27, Nebraska 0 Kansas Slate 42. Marquette 0 spite the new "spirit of Geneva" he did not necessarily believe that Russia or the other great powers have "changed their pur poses." He said they are held in check by the fear of nuclear de struction, i ' In a sweeping review of. Brit ish policy before 4,000 cheering conservatives Eden also warned that Britain faces "formidable" economic problems. j He said he will soon announce priority, corrective measures to pull Britain out of the near crisis' caused by inflation and dollar shortages. Governor tinguished Service medal, and the Legion of Merit. General Dean makes his home in Berke ley, Calif. Also on the program for the activation ceremonies will be Oregon's Governor Paul Patter son, Col. Willard B. Carlock, chief of the Oregon Military district, and Mayor Earl Miller, Colonel Carlock will , be intro duced by Maj. Gen. Lamar Tooze, commander of the 104th division, The program, which will be held in the senior high school auditorium, will open at 8 p.m. Music will be by the Medford High school band. Accepting colors for the 417th Engineer Aviation brigade will be Col. W. H. Prentice, Medford, who will be commanding officer f, the . .new. or gapijatipn.. Colors. for Company E, a Grants Pass unit, will be accepted by Capt, James T. Cain, commanding of ficer. ; Activation' of the two units is being made under the Army's policy of revitalization of the reserve program under provis ions' of the Reserve Personnel Act of 1955, which was signed in August by President Eisen hower. - Officers and men of the two units are from Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass, Glendale and sur rounding areas. It is anticipated that total strength of the units will be more than 400 officers and men. HST Denies Support Given to Stevenson - Albany, N. Y. U.R) Former President Harry S. Truman said Saturday' he had not pledged his support to Adlai E. Stevenson and . urged New York's Gov. Averell Harriman to be at least a "favorite 'son" candidate for the Democratic presidential nom ination next year, v ; In a press conference at which he was seated by Harriman's side as the governor s guest, Mr. Truman said he had no favorite candidate at this time. He said there were a number of promin ent Democrats he considered had "all the , qualifications" to be President. GRID SCORES SOUTH Maryland 28, W. Forest 7 . Texas .Christian 21, Ala bama 0 Tennessee 13,- -Chattanooga 0 .v."" v , ; Georgia 28, North Carolina 1 . : - South Carolina 19, Furman 0 Duke 47, William and Mary 7 !' - : ' Kentucky 14, Auburn 14 Penn State 28, Virgina 7 Florida 28, George Washing ton 0 ' ' Virginia Tech 24, Florida State 20 Mississippi State 14,-Tulane 0 Georgia Tech 7, LSU 0 ; Mississippi 13, Vanderbilt 0 EAST Princeton 7, Pennsylvania 0 Navy 21, Pittsburg 0 Boston College 28, Villa nova 14 V" Cornell 20, Harvard 7 Brown 7, Dartmouth 0 Yale 46, Columbia 14 Holy Cross 15, Colgate . West Virginia 47. VMI Syracuse 27, Boston U. 12 14 12 Premier Forced To Accept Motion By Socialist Group Risks Loss of Own Right Wing Majority Paris, Sunday (U.R) The Na tional Assembly overwhelming ly gave Premier dgar Faure. an implied vote of confidence on his Moroccan policies early today. By a vote o 477 to 140 the Assembly approved a motion by Taza, Morocco flj.R) French settlers threatened to sabotage Premier Edgar Faure's Moroccan home rule plan Saturday while he fought for his political life in Paris. The settlers demanded the Im mediate recall of Francois de , Panafieu, whom Faure sent to Morroc as a special envoy to help settle the home rule crisis. the opposition Socialists which the 47-year-old Premier accept ed as his own. Humiliating Move It was a humiliating action for Faure to do this. By accept ing the support of the 105 Social ist deputies,' the bluk of his official opposition, he risked the loss of his own right wing ma jority the next time a crucial issue comes up. ; But the Premier was bargain ing for enough time to carry out the Moroccan reforms which he had labored over so long and hard. He also wanted to prevent a cabinet crisis .before the big rour - forergrrTrrtnfstetsw confer ence in Geneva, Switzerland, later this month. Faure had demanded that the Assembly take up first a gov ernment resolution 'endorsing his Moroccan policies. But the chamber gave priority to the Socialist resolution. Withdraw Paragraph The radical Socialist Premier persuaded the Socialists to with draw from their resolution the paragraph which critized the goverment. With that para graph deleted, the resolution was similar to the one proposed by the government. Faure then stood up in the Assembly and declared he was staking the life of his eight month old goverment. on the altered Socialist motion. The deleted paragraph de nounced the government's "hes itations and weaknesses" in put ting its Moroccan reform pro gram into effect. . , Earlier in the debate, Faure won the important support of two former premiers, Pierre Mendes - France and Antoine Pinav ' ,s Premier Makes Appeal ' . Faure climaxed a day-long assembly session with an im passioned appeal to the deputi ses to stop bickering and decide on the government. He told the Assembly to males up its mind to reforms in Morocco or face further bloodshed in .the North African protectorate. "Your decision must be clear to enlighten world and domestic opinion," Faure told the dep uties. "A clear-cut solution is necessary to affirm the authority of the state." , He said "I want you to judge you will decide whether you want a throne council in Mor occo and a representative Mor occan government. "You must decide whether you want advancement over- seas. "You cannot run Morocco with a government without the Nationalists,". Faure said. "Be ware, wljat is still possible to day may become impossible to morrow. "Nothing serious can be done without the Nationalists. We must be frank and loyal with them and not seek to divide them." Faure warned the National ists were "our partners repre sentatives of the fledgling and extremely powerful racial and national aspirations." .' New Castle, Ind. (U.R) A decision to reopen the strike bound Perfect Circle Corp. foundry raised the threat of more violence Saturday and Gov. George Craig hurried home from a vacation to take personal com mand of the situation.
