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0 O o 0 inad ' P3 C re a a a o a Iwrag CHINATOWN TOURTH OF JULY' The age-old Chinese dragon takes over San Francisco's Chinatown as thousands turn out to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China by Sun Yat-sen. Known as "Double Ten" because of the date, Oct. 10. the celebration is one of the most important of the year to anti Communist Chinese who still hope that there will be a free China. flake Labish Onion Growers Request Government Help By UNITED PRESS Onion grows in the Lake La- bish area north of Salem today sought federal aid after flood waters of the Pudding ', river . ruined much of a million dollar crop, as Oregon got a tempor ary lull from storms which have struck the state for several days, Most of the onions were pulled and drying in the field when wate? overran makeshift fences andflooded much of the crop, Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.), . telegraphed Agriculture Secre tary Ezra Taft Benson asking if disaster funds or other" federal money might be available to those who seek assistance. r . The weather bureau said a new storm front was approach ing the coast with winds up .to O 45 miles an hour expected late tonight. Rain as not forecast to : be as heavy as earlier storms. Heaviest rainfall in Oregon during the 24-hour period end ing early today was at New port with .42 of an inch. Three Bodies In Brush Near Carver Milwaukie, Ore. (U.R) The bodies of three persons were found in dense brush near Car ver, Ore., today and Clackamas county police were investiga tingwhat they termed a double murder-suicide. Coroner Leslie Peake said Le- roy Condray, 31, of Portland, apparently shot himself in the forehead with a pistol after fa tally beating 24-year-old Shirley T. Kompst, Portland, and her three-year-old son. Papers found on the woman's bodv identified her as the wife of Airman First Class Albert O. Kompst, address unknown. Police said she apparently had been living in a trailer house. The bodies were discovered at 7:45 a.m. today in brush off a lonely road one mile south and east of Carver bv Paul Scheef. Oregon City. Oondray's automo bile naa Deen iouna Dy scneei yesterday some 40 feet from where the bodies were Only 122 Pints of Blood Collected ' Only about half Jackson coun ty's quota of 240 pints of blood was collected during the month ly visit of the Bloodmobile yes terday. Red Cross officials said 132 p&ple signed up to give blood, but 10 of those were rejected, leaving atotal of 122 pints col lected. The Bloodmobile makes its monthly visit at the Elks temple on Central ave. Princess-Townsend Romance May Be Approaching Climax London (U.R) Group. Capt. Peter Townsend , returned to Britain today. Princess Margaret is due back ind-ondon tomor row. But thrg still was no answer to the question: "Is this the cli max to the greatest and most baffling love story since the war?" Townsend flew from le Tou quet, France, to Lydd airfield this afternon to start a month's vacaSbn from his post as British air attache in Brussels. Margaft, surrounded by 2V4 years of rumors of romance in volving the handsome flier, Medford Legion Convention Urges Withdrawal of U.S. From UNESCO Miami U.R) The American Legion called today for the United States to withdraw from UNESCO and for Congress to in vestigate that U.N. affiliate. Some , 3,00 delegates to the Legion's annual convention and their alternates shouted over whelming approval of a special joint report on UNESCO pre- Bear Meat Makes Up For Big Buck Deer Hupters Didn't Get , ' Ernest McCartney, Central -. Point, and Ralph Bales, for mer Medford man now living at Canyonville, - missed two shots at a big black tailed buck deer Sunday. But it didn't bother them much. They already had some 450 pounds of bear meal. McCartney and Bales were hunting in the Dead Indian area and had separated when McCartney came across a mother beat - with two large cubs. He shot the bid bear and went to get Bales. The two hunters then got the cubs, which weighed about 75 pounds apiece. The mother bear,- about two years old, weighed . .approximately 300 pounds.-' While returning from the hunting trip they saw one of the biggest black tailed deer they had seen in this area. But, they weren't too disap pointed when they failed to bag him. Hunt for American Fishing Boat Resumed Vancouver. B. C. (U.R) Search for an American fishboat missing off the British Columbia coast with three men. aboard was resumed today in the air and on the water around Milbank sound, 200 miles northwest of here. . The boat, the 74-foot Joseph Balestrieri II, radioed early yes terday that it had struck a sub merged log and was in danger of sinking. The RCAF co-ordination center said no further contact had been established with the vessel. The three men on the craft, all Americans, were not immed iately identified. The boat was registered to the Bucona Fortuna Fishing Co. of Eureka, Calif., owned by Joseph Balestrieri of San Francisco. MINOR FIRE Two Medford fire department pumper trucks responded to a minor fire in Room 210 of the Medical Center building at about 12:40 p.m. today. The blaze, be lieved caused by an electrical short, caused slight damage. leaves Aberdeen, Scotland, to night for an overnight train ride to London. "The double arrival is signifi cant," the London Daily Sketch said. Then it asked if this was the climax to the reported romance. Buckingham Palace for days has been reported ready to issue an announcement-to clear up the situation. Originally, it was expected this week. But latest reports indicated a statement would not come before next week. t y Townsend again refused ' to discuss the issue today. Stores Will Remain Open pared by the committees . on Americanism and Foreign Rela tions. There was no floor debate as had been expected on the hot issue of the U.N. Economic, Sci entific and Cultural Organiza tion whose support has been part of United States foreign pol icy since it was established in 1946. The legion got around to the hottest potato thus far in its four day convention after relatively minor issues dragged out to throw the convention far off schedule. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, who told the Legion his department's job services for veterans should be continued "in definitely," barely made his train out of town because of the upset schedule. Weather Blamed The weather, which picked the convention dates to loose a sus tained tropical downpour, was largely to blame for the slow down and for the tempers that grew sharp in debate-earlier in the day. on matters of Legion ad ministration. Nixon and Cabinet Members Hear Dulles - Washington (U.R) Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and two Cabinet members got a personal report today from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on his bedside conference with Presi dent Eisenhower at Denver yes terday. Dulles met for about one hour at the White House with Nixon, Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey and Atty. Gen. Her bert Brownell Jr. None would comment later on details of Dulles' report. Nixon also conferred at the White House with Dillon Ander son, special assistant to President Eisenhower on security matters and other National Security Council staff members on sub jects to be discussed at tomor row's council meeting. . . . Bernarr MacFadden Reported Near Death Jersey City, N. J. (U.R) Bernarr MacFadden, 87-year-old physical culturist, was reported near death today at Jersey City Medical center. A hospital bulletin said Mac Fadden was on the "danger list" and "sinking." The aged health faddist was said by a friend to be suffering from a "blocked pancreas." He was taken to the hospital Friday after he had fasted himself into a coma in a hotel room in an effort' to cure an attack of jaun dice. Salk Vaccine Age Group Broadened Up to 14 Years Washington (U.R) The gov ernment today broadened the age group to be given priority on Salk Polio vaccine inocula tions. , Starting immediately each state may set its own priorities within an age range from birth to 14 years. Up to" now, children from 5 through 9 years were given pri ority on vaccine supplies because this age group generally is most susceptible to polio. . Salem (U.R) John S. Bran dis of Corvallis has been named chairman of the first annual con vention of. the Oregon Horse man's Association, to be held here Dec. 3-4. Me: United Pren Full U 50th Year 26 Pages Oregon Proposals For Superhighway Network Approved Principal Cities Would Be Bypassed Portland U.R) Federal highway planners have approved Oregon proposals for a network of "super superhighways" to by pass principal cities in the state and provide a net of highspeed routes to handle traffic increases expected in the next 20 years. The Bureau of Public Roads accepted plans that include a new Columbia river bridge at Portland, an eight-lane bridge across- the Willamette at Fre mont ave., and bypass routes around Portland, Salem, Vancou ver and Eugene. For Distant Future Highway officials pointed out, however, that the proposal rep resents planning for the distant future and that it could not be realized without heavy increases in federal appropriations. Oregon State Highway Engi neer R. H .Baldock said federal approval of the plan was a sig nificant step toward completion. The Eugene-Springfield area would be reached? from a by pass known as the Q st. route from new sections of highway passing west of the twin cities. Salem access would be provided from Hayesville along Broadway from the north. The Portland bypass would fol low a route between 30th and 39th aves. from the expressway across a new six-lane bridge spanning the Columbia two miles east of present and proposed in terstate bridges. Surgery Seen Unlikely for Ike Denver (U.R) Doctors at tending a heart specialists' con ference here said today they doubted that President Eisen hower needed an operation as proposed by two Cleveland sur geons. The latter, Drs. Claude S. Beck and Bernard L. Brofman, recommended the possibility of a heart scraping operation for the President to afford him long er life expectancy and to im prove his capacity for work. Beck and Brofman said such an operation reduces the chances of sudden death and eliminates the pahf'in nine out of 10 cases. They suggested in Washington Monday that the President "be evaluated for operation in six months. But two coronary experts at tending the Western Cardiac conference here said they could not agree that such an operation would be necessary or feasible in the President's case. Dr. Maurice Sokolow of the University of California Medi cal school said the so-called Beck operation would not seem necessary except in "cases of extreme, recurrent pain." "We have been assured repeat edly that the President has been suffering no pain since the initial attack," Dr. Sokolow said. Helen Bowers Heads Local UCP Association Helen Bowers was elected chairman of the Medford chapt er of the United Celebral Palsey association at an organizational meeting at the Jackson hotel re cently. Robert Boyer and Roy Huson were elected vice - chairmen, and Gene Piazza was selected secretary-treasurer. Some 15 persons interested in organizing the Medford chapter attended the meeting, at which county needs were outlined and discussed. No regular meeting date was set, Piazza said, but meetings will be called regularly. Weather FORECAST Fair through Thursday with variable high cloudiness Thursday. Low to night 37. High Thursday ST. Temp. Highest yesterday S4 Lowest this morning 47 MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1955 1 Cassia Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower is making a new appeal to Russia to support his plan to swap military blue prints and arrange aerial survey flights over , both countries, ad ministration officials said today. Officials said the new bid for Russian support is an important part of the President's "interim" reply to Premier Nikolai Bul ganin's Sept. 19 letter on dis armament. . The reply to Bulganin was drafted in final form during Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' conference in. a Denver President Awaits Brothers Visit; Enjoys Sunshine ' Denver (U.R) President Eis enhower, "refreshed and in a good mood" after a full night's sleep, enjoyed a brief outing in the October sunshine today as he : looked forward " to a visit from his youngest brother, Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, at Fitz simons Army hospital. In their 11:15 a.m. (MST) medical bulletin the President's physicians .said his condition continues to "progress satisfac-torily,-,without-K complications" and" thai :lie awoke feeling .re freshed and in a good mood after a good night's sleep of eight hours. Another Step Forward The visit from his brother, one of his chief advisers, was another step in the President's increased pace of official work, but members of his staff said the pace would have to remain within a time range of an hour a day for some weeks to come. Mr. Eisenhower was wheeled out into the sunshine shortly after 11 a.m. (MST) as the presi dential plane, the Columbine III, neared Denver with his brother. Aside from Mrs. Eisenhower and the President's son, Maj. John S. Eisenhower, Dr. Milton Eisenhower is the first member of the chief executive's1 family to come to his bedside. Astoria Inventor Sues Film Company Portland (U.R) An Astoria inventor today sought more than $20,000,000 from 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, claiming the trademark "Cinemascope" used by the firm was invented by him and is his property. Harvey C. Rones also asked special damages of $130,000 in the suit for expenses he said he incurred in advertising and pro moting the Cinemascope device. He claimed he received a patent for Cinemascope in 1939 and in vented it in 1936. He asked for a temporary injunction during pendency of the litigation enjoin ing the defendant from using the trademark. Hobo Jungle Beating Reported at Klamath Klamath Falls (U.R) The vic tim of a brutal beating in a "ho bo jungle" here today was in critical condition at a Klamath Falls hospital. State police and sheriff's .offi cers said Garland Taylor, about 49, Ho known address, was slash ed in the face with a broken winebottle and that he may have lost the sight of one eye. Arrested as a suspect in the beating was George Norton, who gave no address. Adenauer's Condition Declared Improved Bonn, Germany (U.R) Chan celor Konrad Adenauer's condi tion has "improved somewhat," the Bonn government announced officially today. The 79-year-old West German leader has bronchial pneumonia. for Shopping Until Appeal hospital room Tuesday with the ill President. Mr. Eisenhower also was ex pected to inform Bulganin that the Uhited States still is work ing on a broader disarmament program. Talked with Stassen ' . - It was learned that Dulles, be fore gqing to Denver, held -a conference here Sunday with Harold E. Stassen, Mr. . Eisen hower's special disarmament ad viser. The recommended letter to Bulganin and Dulles disarm ament statements at the Miami American Legion convention on Monday were discussed by Dulles and Stassen, it was said. Mr. Eisenhower's letter will be made public as soon as it is handed to Bulganin. It is expect ed to be conciliatory and indi cate American willingness to accept some features of Russia's proposed arms inspection plan jf the Reds will accept the Presi dent's offer on blueprints and "massive reconnaissance." -Pre-Disarmament Plan The President also was certain to emphasize that the blueprint reconnaissance plan was not dis armament in itself but an im portant step toward building confidence which could lead to disarmament. It has been tagged inside the administration as a "pre-disarmament plan." Bulganin, in his letter to the President, avoided acceptance or outright rejection of. Mr. Eis enhower's blueprint - inspection plan. He repeated Russia's fa miliar .. demand - for reducing arms first and prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons. McKay Attacks 'Giveaway' Charge Washington J.R) Interior Secretary Douglas McKay says "democratic gadflies" threw up a political "smokescreen" in making charges that the Eisen hower administration has been giving away the nation's natural resources. McKay made the statement yesterday in reply to the Demo cratic Digest, which called Mc Kay the administration's . "give away king" and said there is a "growing clamor" for his resig nation. The magazine, published by the Democratic National com mitte, said McKay as custodian of the nation's natural resources has represented "business and industry" instead qf the "public interest." McKay replied that the Demo crats could not "identify one missing national asset to support their old and .discredited 'give away' gag." Bones Found in Blue End Mystery of Long-Lost Hunter Walla Walla (U.R) The mystery of what happened to Donald McDonald six years ago was almost solved 'yesterday with the finding of bones in a thickly timbered canyon deep in southeastern Washington's towering Blue mountain wilder ness. A search party returned here yesterday with the 30-06 rifle the 18-year-old youth had with him on his ill-fated elk hunt in the winter of 1949. Parts of a skeleton and personal belong ings also were found in the same area. r Sheriff J. R. Cummins said members of the McDonald fam ily were convinced the remains were those of the youth, whose disappearance spurred one of the most intensive searches in 'this region's history. . . ' It closed the books on " six years of rumors, false alarms and speculation about the fate of McDonald. ' - ' : A coroner's inquest was con ducted in the mountains yester day afternoon and the jury rul ed that the youth met death from unknown causes. Tribune United Prem rull Leased Wire Price 5c No. 173 FITTING A 20-foot bronze statue of Christopher Colum bus, a gift fo the city of Columbus, 0.',, from the Deople of Genoa, Italy, is erected in front of the city hall at Columbus. Florence Chadwick Sets New Record In Channel Swim Dover, England (U.R) Flor ence Chadwick set an all-time England - to - France swimming record today,' an official observ er of the Channel Swimming as' sociation reported. Mrs. Kaye Law, the observer, reported the corrected time of the Chadwick swim across the English Channel. was. 13' hours and 55 minutes, which was 11 minutes better than the men's record established by Bill Pick ering Aug. 27. According to an earlier unof ficial clocking, the attractive 35-year-old San Diego, Calif., mer maid missed beating Pickering's mark by three minutes. But Mrs. Law. said that Miss Chadwick began her swim from St. Margaret's on the Dover Coast at 10:23 a.m. Tuesday and reached the French shore at 12:18 a.m. today. "The official time is 13 hours, 55 minutes and this will be put before the association,". Mrs. Law said. Miss Chadwick set the mark even though she was forced to fight her way through a school of jelly fish off the French coast. The thick grease coating was nearly worn off and provided no protection against the jellyfish. But she fought on and climbed out onto the French shore, shak ing with cold and covered with stings. ' "I think I'll quit the channel now and do Lake Ontario next year. It is time somebody got that record back for the United States," she said.' Two hunters, Roy Brookes and Paul Gallaher, stumbled across a scattered group of bones, belt, boots . and rotted parts of overalls while hunting in a canyon off Bisquit ridge, 12 miles southeast of Dixie. fV!-vl'WW-! VsHMsVsVMsVRTS Hiss Defends US Decisions Made by Roosevelt at Yalta New York (U.R) Alger Hiss, former Stte Department official convicted of perjury, de fended today U. .S. decisions made at the Yalta conference in 1945 by the late President Roosevelt. ' In his first article since he was released from , Lewisburg, Pa., Federal Peniteniary last Novem ber, Hiss asserted that Mr. Roose velt was neither physically nor mentally sick at Yalta and his lefforts were "alert and magnifi- cient." Hiss, who attended the -Yalta conference as a State Depart ment aide, later was convicted 9 o'clock Socialist Party Announces Vole A ! i Againsi roncy Plan for Algeria Declared,, Outdated Paris (U.R) Premier Edgar Faure'i government faced a pos sible collapse today when the Socialist party announced it will vote against the government's policy in Algeria. The opposition Socialists had : helped Faure survive a crisis last Sunday when he won Na- ' tional Assembly approval of his liberal policies for the French protectorate of Morocco. - Policy Said Outdated -., But in the course -of debate on turbulent Algeria. Socialist spokesmen have denounced as "outdated" Faure's policy aimed , at maintaining Algeria as part of metropolitan France. Alain Savary, floor leader of. the .130-metnber Socialist group in the Assembly, introduced a motion late today in which the party "refuses its confidence" tot the eight-month-old Faure gov ernment. A vote on the Algerian issue is expected late Thursday or early Friday and Faure hoped his "integration" plan would enable him to juggle his parlia mentary majority in an effort to keep in power. . . Moroccan Crisis Won. , He had the support of the So cialists and the Communists last week when he won a vote on fhe Moroccan crisis, but this time the lineup will be reversed unless he comes up with a satis factory plan. The left-wing parties Already have expressed disagreement with his integration plan and in dicated they will vote against him even though he has not yet made public its full workings. Algeria, legally, is part of metropolitan France and it was because of this the French dele gation left the U.N. General As sembly when the issue was put on the agenda for debate. But 3 left-wing groups in the French assembly believe there should be less integration and more home rule for the Alacrians. Might Save Cabinet - ; '-; A Faure vlrtnrv nn ilsari.-.. . -i was closely tied with success of his plan in Morocco. Should g? solve the Moroccan crisis by the time the assembly votes on Al geria, he might save his endan gered cabinet. . i While, the assembly debated Algeria, French troop reinforce--ments poured into Morocco. The j w. uki.i i a . -t liner Lecomte de Lisle arrived in Casablanca Tuesday with an other 1,000 soldiers and half of the 27th Infantry brigade left from Dijon, France. Budget Committee Meeting Scheduled The citizens budget commit tee of Medford will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in the city hall. The committee recently start ed holding monthly meetings on request of Mayor Earl Miller and the city council to acquaint members of the committee with financial problems confronting city administration and with needs of various departments. The committee meets for dis cussion df problems and to make informal recommendations to the city .council on budgeting needs. Mountains Yesterday, a search party found the rifle a few feet off the trail, about 125 feet from the bones. There was speculation that Donald was. gored to death by a wounded elk. for perjury for denying he gave official documents to a Soviet spy in 1938. ' Hiss' article, entitled "Yalta: Modern American Myth," will appear in the Pocket Book mag azine on Oct. 26. Fr"anklin Watts, editor, said he approached Hiss in February about contributing the article because he thought it would be interesting and con troversial. Hiss was paid $300 for his contribution, Watts said. Hiss wrote that the Russians, not the Americans, made "con cessions" at Yalta and that Po land and Nationalist China were not "sold out" as some quarters have contended since. Tonight t o.
