Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 10, 1955, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textv ' "i fi ffS if vSfc,, ?Cj uL f4B -' 1 1 dh p I , , ft' 7 is-l "'. -- A'- 4 iVv'v;. -k . W&-y':? - "va, V-"; - ' JfTSr CRASHING AGAINST MOUNTAIN, United Air Lines plane is demolished with loss of 66 lives. Top arrow indicates point of impact against Medicine Bow peak, west of Laramie, Wyo. Middle arrow points to ledge where most of bodies and large part of debris came to rest Bottom arrow is where wing and three bodies were found. Circled is tire hurled from plane when it struck 200 feet below the. mountain peak. (International Soundphoto) Climbers Remove Bodies From Scene Of Plane Crash Laramie, "Wyo. (U.R) . Mountain climbers hope to bring out today the last of the bodies of 66 persons who were killed last Thursday when a Un ited Air Lines : plane crashed against Medicine Bow peak in the worst disaster in the history of U. S. commercial aviation. The mountain climbers, uni versity students for tne most pari brought out 24 more bodies yes- rope and pack horses. The 24 brought down yesterday raised the total recovered to 36. ' All of the remaininng bodies except 10 have been sighted. These 10 may be under wreck age, though it is possible that some were disintegrated by the explosion after the crash and pan never be found. Recovery work is slow, be cause it is cold on the mountain, the air is painfully thin and night comes about 3:30 p.m. in aaai tion to that, the workers are constantly endangered by pieces of wreckage and stones shaken loose by the wind. More Than 100 Here for Conclave More than 100 delegates had registered up to noon today for the ioint conventions of the Knights of Pythias, grand lodge of Oregon, and the Pythian Sisters. The conclave is the 71st an nual convention of the Knights, and the 59th for the Sisters. At a ioint session this morn' ing, Walter Gleason, Portland, rrnd secretary, reported on the Oregon - Washington Pythian home in Vancouver, wash, mis afternoon business was to , in clude plans for conducting the 11th annual national speaking contest on highway safety, spon sored bv the KPs,eand an out line of the grand chancellor's program, by Deputy Supreme Chancellor Nelson L. Leland, Bend. Several social events started the convention festivities yester day, and a banquet will be held in the Elks temple in Ashland this evening, followed by a ball. -Concluding sessions will be held tomorrow. High Court To Rule On Communists' Jobs , Washington U.R) The Su preme Court today agreed ' to hand down a sweeping ruling on the job-rights of Communists in private industry. The high court accepted for re view an appeal by the independ ent Bio-Lab Union . of Cutter Laboratories, Berkeley, Calif., from a state court decision that employment of Communists is "against public policy." The high court will soon schedule arguments on the case and later hand down an opinion The California Supreme Court upheld last January Cutter's fir ing of Mrs. Doris Walker, presi dent of the Cutter union, in vio lation of a collective bargaining agreement. . - - 'i i i ii maf i j V . 's f , Neuberger To Study Diversion o. Canada - , Water To Portland (U.R) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said today he would undertake a study for the Senate Committee on In terior and Insular Affairs on the effect of possible Canadian water diversion on Pacific Northwest power and irrigation projects.: . , .. Inquiry Authorized : -.Neuberger. a. member , of the committee, said he had received instructions from Sen. James E. Murray, committee chairman, to make a preliminary inquiry into "Canadian plans for storage and upstream diversion of Columbia basin water." Murray told Neu berger that "these reported plans, coupled -with fact that negotiations for additional water storage across the international boundary are stalemated, would have a major impact on legisla tion now before the committee." Neuberger said he planned to talk informally with govern- Fa lire Maps Strategy On Algerian Policies Paris U.R) Premier Edgar minister today to chart strategy on his Algerian policies. Faure survived a vote of confidence Sunday on his handling of Morocco but he was harassed by a wave of violence by Algerian nationalists in France and a 24 hour strike by French colonists in Morocco. . Defense Minister Pierre Bil lotte made a flying inspection trip to 'Morocco and flew back to Paris for today's meeting with the premier. Billotte brought, with him the welcome news that he did not think it would be necessary to order further recalls of reserv ists to fight the outbreak of guer rilla warfare in Morocco. It was good news for France where 500 angry draftees .mu tinied in Rouen when the army tried to ship them to North Africa and where resentment was fast undermining Faure's position. Violence Erupts But resentment against the handling of Algeria legally an integral part of , France erupted into violence Sunday and police killed at least two rioters at the northern steel town of Douai. The Algerian nationalists, tightening the screw on the still shaky Faure government, staged organized riots throughout the nation and threatened others. Shoe Shine Booth To ; Aid United Crusade : The United Medford Crusade fund raising campaign will be aided Saturday, Oct. 15, when 20-30 club members will conduct a shoe shine booth on downtown Medford streets. The booth will be at the cor ner of East Main st. and Central ave., at the United States Na tional Bank building. Betty Mil ler, 1955 queen of the Catfish derby, will assist club members at the booth. The club annually conducts a shoe shine project to assist the UMC fund drive. . Northwest ment officials, members of the Canadian Parliament and other persons in western Canada, par ticularly in the vicinity of the proposed upper Columbia river storage projects on the Canadian side of the border. "This is a life-and-death mat ter to the economy of the North west," Neuberger said. ."Diver sion of the. upper Columbia river by Canada might leave our mul ti-purpose projects on ' the Co lumbia river virtually stranded. Can Increase Output "On the other hand," Neu berger said, "wise development of Canada's vast upland storage potentials can increase the pow er output of every federal proj ect on the American side of the boundary at a very, favorable cost per kilowatt-hour, with the best possibility of maximizing economic benefits for the whole Columbia river basin in t both nations. Faure called, in his new defense for a National Assembly assault . Medford Boy Killed In Auto Accident Dufur,' Ore. (U.R) Three-year-old Donald Lewis Palacios, Medford, was killed instantly early Sunday when the car in which he was riding plunged over an embankment two miles south Of here on highway 197 The boy was riding in a car driven by his father, Fernando Q. Palacios, who was not in jured. State police said the Pa lacios vehicle hit the soft shoul der, veered across the highway pavement and went over the bank. Fernando Q. Palacios is em ployed at Ross Lumber company in a planing mill. He was off work because of Ross Lumber company's close-down. His ad dress has been listed as 2520 Merriman rd. Atomic Tests Planned In Nevada Next Month Washington (U.R) the Atomic Energy Commission announced today that it will conduct a series of "safety" tests with atomic weapons at the AEC's Nevada proving grounds starting Nov. 1. Snow Slides Close Pass in Washington Olympia (U.R) Chinook Pass was closed to traffic today because of snow slides, but the State Highway department said it expected to have the route open again in a couple of days. Pi c c o o z PJ o United P 50th Yei 3 co P3 3 O 3 2 U.S. Wants To Be Sure That Others Are Dropping Arms Secretary of State Addresses Legionnaires Miami, Fla. U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said firmly today the United States will not disarm "unless we can be sure that others are doing the same." ., ' While emphasizing that he hopes the world is moving into an "era of peaceful change," Dulles said that nevertheless the United States does not "intend to be reckless" in respect to dis armament He noted that the United States had disarmed after World War I and World War II only to have to rebuild a third time for the Korean war. Wants Assurance "This time we do not propose to disarm .ourselves unless we can be sure" that others are doing the same," Dulles told the Amer ican Legion's 37th annual con vention. "That is not because the Amer ican people have gone militaris tic," he added. "It is because we have learned the hard way. The Soviet Union itself, in Korea, helped to teach us that disarmament, if it may prove to be one-sided, does not produce peace." To Compel Relaxation Dulles also said in his greet ing to some 50,000 American Legionnaires that the force . of world ' opihiorr'wiir -compel Rus sia to relax its grip on JEast Ger many and other satellites. He said there are skeptics who doubt that such changes could be brought about peacefully but said history does not justify this conclusion. He noted that Aus tria recently was liberated pri marily because of world opinion demanding such a step. The Legion's convention was confronted with the issue of "UNESCO." Eruption Expected Later An internal dispute over the United Nations Educational, Sci entific and Cultural Organiza tion probably will not erupt un til later this week but the fuse was already lit as the mammoth convention got underway with a round of welcoming speeches. Dulles came to Miami just be fore his scheduled departure for the foreign ministers conference at Geneva. He will make a quick trip to Denver for talks with President Eisenhower on recent world developments before his departure for Geneva. Humphrey Raps Agriculture Pamphlet Washington (U.R) Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey (D-Mmn.) has called for an investigation of the Agriculture Department's distribution of what he called "pure, unadulterated political propaganda." Humphrey said Sunday that the Agriculture Department's nev pamphlet entitled "Facts Important to Farmers" contains "misrepresentations and half truths, improperly circulated at taxpayers' expense." The department distributed 3,000 copies of the fact sheet last Thursday to its regular mail ing list. A Hitler's Valet Tells of Burning Bodies Of German Dictator and His Mistress Berlin (U.R) A Nazi major who served Adolf Hitler as valet said today he himself poured gasoline on the bodies, of the self-slain dictator and his mis tress and watched their bodies burn. The day was April 30, 1945. Hitler's 1,000-year Reich was col lapsing in ruins between the Allied and Red armies. Berlin was ' in flames, shattered by Allied planes and Soviet artil lery. Mistress Takes Poison , The ruined dictator stepped into a bedroom of his under ground bunker and sent a bullet crashing into his brain which had conceived the 1,000-year Reich. His mistress, Eva Braun, Itook poison. RDjrRIBUNE .EDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1955 ; tats lisariaiiiiit mm: to taMs Imp Moiotov Believed Headed for Discard . By Soviet Triumvirate Washington (U.R) U. S. diplomats believe Soviet For eign Minister V. . M. Mololov may be on the way out as one of the triumvirate that has been regarded as wielding the most power in Russia in recent months. Diplomatic sources said Sun day that a new struggle for Russia's top leadership may be under way. They interpreted Moloiov's dramatic public "apology" as the latest step in a behind-the. , scenes battle to succeed the late Josef Stalin as Russia's No. 1 boss. Moloiov's "sin" was to say that Russia has built only "the foundation" of a socialistic system instead of following Communist dogma - that this goal already has been achieved. This could be a fatal error in Russia. Death-Free Days At Oregon City, Vancouver Ended By UNITED PRESS Oregon City and Vancouver, Wash., marked up their first traffic fatalities of 1955; while a three-year-old boy was shot to death in Prineville and a 34-year-old The Dalles man fell to his death in week end fatal acci dents. - Miss. Ella Hixon, 76, Oregon City' was' -pronouhced V dead "oh arrival at a hospital after being struck by a car during a heavy rainstorm yesterday evening in Oregon City. Police said she ap parently stepped into the path of a car driven by George David Hunter. Gun Kills Boy Larry Lee Turner was shot Saturday night in the bedroom of his uncle's home in Prineville while playing with a nine-year-old cousin, according to Crook County Coroner Merrill Drukee. Eldon Jones, The Dalles, plunged to his death yesterday, from a Bonneville Power ad ministration tower near Golden dale. Wash. vExact cause of the accident was not determined im mediately. He was working with a crew changing lines on the tower. Pedestrian Killed Oscar McCoy, 83, Vancouver, Wash., died in a hospital yester day after being struck by a car. Tolice said the driver was John J. Araway, 48, Portland. It was the first trafficfatality in Vancouver since Oct. 10, 1954. In another mishap, Howard C. Johnson, 61, ' Eugene, was found dead in the back seat of his parked car at Burns. Harney County Coroner Harold E. Olsen said Johnson apparently suffo cated from a fire in the trunk of the car and. had been dead several days. Police found evi dence of fire in camping equip ment stored in the trunk and theorized that matches in the camping gear somehow ignited and started a small fire which asphyxiated Johnson while he slept. Pasadena, Calif. U.R) A major earthquake somewhere in the South Pacific area was re corded today by seismographs at California Institute of Technol ogy. - "I can confirm to the whole world that Hitler is dead and that I saw his corpse burned," the Nazi major, valet Hans Linge, said in an interview.' Linge returned to West Berlin Saturday with other prisoners freed by the Russians and gave the world the first eye-witness account of those final hou . Sees Successor's Death He also said he had witnessed the death of the mysterious Mar tin Bormann, the man chosen by Hitler as his successor. The No. 2 Nazi burned in a tank as he tried ' to flee the Red armies, Linge said. The main story came from Linge and it began on- the eve ning of the 29th when shells were falling on the bunker and Picture Attempt From Helicopter Mars Porch Trip . Film Said Seized By Secret Service Denver (U.R) President Eisensowher got out of his hos pital room for the first time to day and enjoyed half an hour in the sun that was almost mar ried by a low flying helicopter from which camerament tried vainly to get pictures. i The helicopter, containing a Columbia Broadcasting System man, caused a furor in the tem porary White House and brought a heated denunciation from Press Secretary James C. Hagerty. . Secret Service men were re ported to have seized the film but- Hagerty ordered them not to keep it. The only CBS man iii the helicopter was Coy Watson, a cameraman from Los Angeles. .' There was not enough room for Andy Willoner, a sound "man who stayed at the airport. In any case, Watson did not get pic tures of the President, on the eighth floor sun terrace at Fitz simons Army hospital, because he had been pushed back inside. Hagerty . ordered the Secret Service to check on the helicop ter and find out if any aeronau tical regulations were violated. The aroused press secretary immediately summdned all news men at the temporary White 'House at Lowry Air Force Base and said he would not let public opinion be the punishment for jmyonewho.Jiies. to. disturb -the President's recovery in any way. Recovery Important "I think you and the people of the country and the world will agree that the recovery5 of the President is the most impor tant thing right now," Hagerty said.' He said Mr. Eisenhower would be deprived of his needed sun and fresh air if such incidents occur. - The health and recovery of the President are far more im portant than any sneak photo graph and I believe that the na tion" will feel the same , way," Hagerty said. - . Mrs. Eisenhower joined the chief executive on the terrace. Before the President left his hospital for the first time, it was announced that ; Vice-President Richard M. Nixon had postponed a projected good will tour to the Near East next month, r Only 23 Sign Up For Bloodmobile Tuesday Only 23 persons have made appointments to give blood dur ing the collection here " tomor row, the Red Cross said today. About 300 donors will be needed if the quota is to be met, they said. . ' ' . Appointments to" give blood can be made by telephoning Medford 3-3813 before the blood- mobile period, which is from 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Elks temple. : - : Drop-in donors will be wel come, and many of them will be needed if the quota is to be filled. Olympia U.R) Eight per sons died in Washington during the week end as a result of traf fic accidents. Russian -tanks had broken throuh to Potsdammer Plaza. All hope was abandoned and Hitler was determined to die, First he married Eva who had long been his secret mistress, Hitler said goodbye to the other bunker occupants and entered his suite with Eva at about 2:30 a.m. " ' Gasoline to burn their bodies already had been ordered." Waited in Corridor Linge waited in the corridor outside the suite.' He heard a shot and rushed into the suite. Hitler lay dead with Eva Braun, alongside him. "Before he killed himself he charged -me with burning his body and that of Eva Braun and I did it," Linge said. United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 171 i , OREGON COAST GETS DRENCHING Portland--(U.R The Oregon coast already buffeted by a week end storm, may be in for another serious blow tomorrow, the weather bureau said today, divers in western Oregon were rising but no flood crisis was expected. Southerly winds may reach up to 50 miles an hour along the the coast. More rain is expected. At Jefferson in the Willamette valley, the Santiam river rose to 13.9, nearly a foot over flood stage, and was expected to rise to 15 feet this afternoon.' At that stage, low-lying farmland is under water. The Willamette river at Salem rose 5.3 feet in 24 hours but the stream had been low. ;V J Slides were reported along some roads. By UNITED PRESS Drenching rains pounded the Pacific Northwest today and storm warnings halted U.S. "mercy lift" flights to flood stricken Tampico, Mexico. ' m - . ' Most areas in the Northwest got only a quarter inch of rain,: but North Bend, Ore., registered 3.99 inches over a 24-hour period. Salem, Ore., has 2.65 inches and Brookings, Ore., 2.57. , Skies were fair over most of the rest of this country, but a new storm was building up in the southern bulge of the Gulf of Mexico" and officials said it could "break up into deluges of rain" over pie sodden coastline. ." ' ; j Rain Reduces Fire Danger; Will Allow Slash Burning Soon ".. General ..rain, . measuring - up to more than two inches in high er altitudes last night, has great ly reduced the forest fire danger in southern Oregon. Lookouts from all forest serv ice and state department of for estry posts were expected to be called down-by vtbmorrow; but some stations probably would reopen in the event of an ex tended dry period. Burning Permits Ted Maul, district warden for the state department of forestry, said slash burning will be per mitted as soon as there is enough drying. He urged loggers to get slash burning permits at the for est patrol office on Table Rock rd. All but four state forest pa trol lookouts have been called in. Two in Jackson county and two in Josephine county are expected to be called down to day or tomorrow, Maul said. Maul said chances are good that lookouts will not return to their stations, but he- warned that fire restrictions have not been lifted. Gov. Paul Patterson orders the fire season ended upon recommendation of the state forester. - United States Forest service officials said lookouts have been taken off Rogue River National forest "posts, but may return if there is another dry period. They said there still is some fire danger in lower altitudes. ' Showers are expected to con tinue through southern Oregon today and tomorrow, the. weath er bureau said, with another general rain probably starting tomorrow evening. Rainfall Varies Medford airport reported .92 inch of rain in the 24-hour period ending at 4:30 a.m. today, but amounts varied widely with heavier rains in higher Cascade altitudes and along the coast Maul ' said the guard station at Prospect reported two inches, and at Butte Falls, 2.4 inches Rain fell all night along the Green Springs. Union Creek re ported about an inch of ' rain, which was general over the Rogue River National forest Brookings reported 4.45 inches of rain; Sexton Summit had 1.1 inch; and Grants Pass 1.36 up to 8 a.m. today. Malenkov To Visit US At First Opportunity Moscow (U.R) Former Soviet Premier Georgi Malen kov said today "I shall go to America at the first opportun ity." - .. - Malenkov, who resigned as Premier eight months ago, was invited to "come to Texas" by Rep. Walter E. Roger (D-Tex.), attending the same reception. There will be time for that,' Malenkov said. The congressman repeated the invitation. .Rep. Oren Harris (D- Ark.), seconded it. , Malenkov smiled. . . "I shall go to America at the first' opportunity," hi said. ' Weather FORECAST: Cloudy and cool through Tuesday. Rain again Tuesday afternoon and night. Low tonight 43. High Tues day CO. Temp. Highest yesterday 66 Lowest this morning ,, , 58 Free. To 1 a-n. today - In Portland. Ore . a Viir i tree with a three-foot-thick trunk at its base, was , loosened by heaw rain and wind and rraetiAri into the middle of Canyon road aDout noon Sunday. Heavy mud irom tne tree smashed into a car driven by Ruben Hutchinson of Hillsboro, sending the vehicle crashing through 60 feet of mud and underbrush along the road. The car was damaged badly but nuicmnson escaped with a cut lip. It took an hour to clear the road. Food Lift Called Heavy seas were already hit ting the shore at Vera Cruz and Santiaeuillo. Naw hoiinnntora and small- boats-corVying vital food and medicine into Tampico were called in, and "mercy lift" flights by U.S. Marine, Air Force and Army planes were susnend. ed. Conditions were imnrnvSnw in Tampico itself, where flood waters were dropping steadily and electric and water were back in operation. But between 900 and 1000 lives had been lost thrnn trhnnt Mevico. Former Medford Man Dies In East Dunbar F. Carpenter, 77, a one-time resident of Medford and the father and brother of Medford men, died at his home in Winchester, Mass., yesterday morning, it was reported today. He was the brother of Alfred S. V. Carpenter, Medford, and Leonard Carpenter, formerly of Medford and now of Carmel, Calif., and was the father of Dunbar Carpenter, Medford fruitgrower vand rancher. A daughter, Mrs. Bernard van Home, Portland, also survives. Harvard Graduate Mr. Carpenter was born in 1877, and graduated from Har vard 'university in 1900, and from law school in 1903. He practiced in Colorado Springs, Colo., and Boston, for many years, and lived in Medford briefly around 1917. He had been retired for some years. Mrs. Carpenter died about a year ago. . ' Funeral services have been tentatively set for Wednesday. His son is leaving for Winchester this evening' ,- Drifting Barge Spoiled in Pacific Seattle U.R) The Coast Guard here said today a 75-foot i , : i l 1 j 3 Ditrge, pussiuiy luaueu wiui gaso line, had been spotted adrift about 40 miles off Newport, Ore., by a commercial vessel. - The cutter Yacona was en route from Astoria to take the navigation menace under tow. The Yacona was expected to come on the barge about noon today. The ocean-going tug Salt Air, meanwhile, was reported safe with its crew of four. The tug ran into heavy seas Saturday and almost sank, as the Oregon coast got its first big week end wind and rain storm of the sea son. Reports that an unidentified schooner was adrift off Man hattan Beach near Tillamook, Ore., also were being checked by the Coast Guard.