Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 17, 1955, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextN J) Ml U UMJ U Vi7 Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 18 Pages oroccaii Premiership Aggpv n Princess Margaret, Townsend Run Into Possible Trouble q No Marriage Seen For Two Months London U.R) Princess Mar , garet and RAF Group Capt. Pe ter Townsend returned from a week end meeting in the country- today and raneinto a possible storm of trouble over their re ported romance. Margaret said a lingering goodbye to Townsend at the AI lanbay Park estate of her cou sin, Mrs. John Wills, and then "sped off to London and a busy week of social and official en gagements. Townsend Returns - Two hours later, Townsend drove his French sports car out ai the eraveled drivewav of the Wills' mansion at nearby Bin- field and headed back toward his London flat at fashionable 19 Lowndes Square. As the two principals in Brit ain's most notable royal ro mance in 19 years returned to the capital .other figures in the mounting drama also headed , back to town. , ' No Quick Marriage Queen Mother Elizabeth ar rived at Clarence House shortly before the3 arrival of Princess ; Margaret. Prime Minister An thony Eden arrived in town shortly before lunch. Queen Elizabeth II and her two chil dren headed in from Scotland later in the day, and the Duke of Edinburgh was en route from Denmark. - Margaret indicated that there would be no marriage for at least two months, since she an nounced acceptance today of in vitations to two officials func tions spaced out over November and a third on Dec. 7. ; The lines were being drawn for a showdown, possibly this week. Margaret had powerful support but some of the bitter ness contained just below the British surface began spilling over toward an open row. Signs of Trouble One of the first signs of trou ble ahead came in the influen tial Sunday Times which warn ed the princess she must re move herself and any children of a marriage with Townsend out of line for the British throne q if she marries the group captain, a divorced man and commoner. The Daily Express answered that today with a demand she hang on to her royal rights and "shun a "second class" marriage " that would relegate her and her husband to the role of ordinary man and wife, far removed from the throne. The tryst in the country was described as a "weekend of re discovery,'" a few days together to see if Margaret and Town send's love for one another had survived his two years and four (tnonths of exile. Cool Toward Romance : A friend of the Duke of Edin burgh said he himself has sug gested the week end together to see if they still loved one an other. But the Duke was report ed still cool toward the marriage and anxious to prevent it if pos sible. Salem (U.R) The Oregon Ele mentary School Principals As sociation opened a two-day con ference here today with some 400 delegates in attendance. .- Portland (U.R) Perry South, retired U. S. forester, died here Sunday. He was 79. Weather FORECAST: Fair through Tues day with patches early morn ing fog. Low tonight 40. High Friday 78-80. - ' . Temo. 9ighest yesterday owest this morning 79 42 MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1955 fffort To Curtail iloodstibv Ben Silmane Takes Post On Throne Council's Bid Rabat,Morocco U.R) Moderate Moroccan leader Fatmi Ben Slimane accepted the premiership of the new national government today, even before it was offered by the hours-old Throne Council. The four-men council, anxious to stop bloodshed in the troubled French protectorate, was following up its installation this morning with a meeting this afternoon to call on Ben Slimane. In Paris, the white-bearded Ben Slimane accepted in advance. "I accept in principle becoming the first Prime Minister of Morocco if the Throne Council decides to ask me," he 'said. "It now seems probable that the council will call me," he add ed after a meeting with Pierre July, minister of Tunisian and General Dean To Speak ai Reserve Activation Program Maj. Gen. William F. Dean will make one of his last public appearances in uniform when he speaks at reserve unit activation ceremonies at Medford High school auditorium at 8 p.m. Tues day. General Dean is scheduled to retire later this month. He is one of several speakers who will be present when the 417th Engineer Aviation Brigade, Medford, and Company E, 413th infantry regiment, Grants Pass, are activated in ceremonies here. Other 'speakers- include. Ore-, gon Gov. Paul Patterson and Medford Mayor Eari Miller. General Dean will speak on the new reserve program. He, Governor Patterson and others will be introduced by James Dun- levy, manager of radio station KYJC. Music will be furnished by Medford Senior High school band under the direction of I. A. Mirick. The ceremonies are open to the public. General Dean holds the Conr gressional Medal of Honor, and was. prisoner of the Chinese Communists for several months during and after the Korean con flict. Westerberg Named Head of Dairymen Reno (U.R) Organization of the Western States Milk Pro ducers was completed here dur ing the week end by grade . A dairymen , representing produc ers in seven Western states. Richard Westerberg, Medford, Ore., was selected as the group's first chairman. Other offices are Bill Canepa, Reno, vice-chairman, and Lynn Bramkamp, Sac ramento, secretary. Westerberg reported the or ganization was formed to enable dairymen to discuss mutual prob lems. He said it is becoming in creasingly evident that the dairy men of the West are interde pendent. The group also selected an Executive Committee consisting of the three officers plus Lloyd Gardner, Salt Lake City; Dennis Wilson, Spokane, James L. Coop er, Phoenix, and Leonard Man waring, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Dominican Republic Struck by Hurricane Miami (U.R) Hurricane Katie slammed upon the Domini can Republic with winds of 115 miles per hour, heavy rains and dangerous tides today, and whirled across mountainous jun gles of the interior. .Lowlanders along the south coast had been given only a few hours warning to flee to higher ground as the small but vicious new hurricane sprang up in the Caribbean Sea and struck short ly after midnight. Katie, 11th tropical whirlcr of the year, was first spotted by reconnaissance aircraft yester day afternoon. Points in both the Dominican Republic and Haiti were hurriedly alerted. Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul Pat terson has designated the week of Oct. 23-29 as "National Child . ' .1 L T- J " TIT 1 t Acciaeni rrevenuon " eeit Oregon. in Moroccan affairs. Neither Side Pleased ' But these moves pleased neith er the Nationalists demanding outsright independence, nor the French settlers who want to crack down on nationalism. The throne council promised a new and democratic era for the terror-ridden protectorate and said its first task would be to form a representative govern ment to define the permanent links between France and Mo rocco. y While the 108-year-old grand vizier of Morocco was reading the proclamation in the imperial palace's hall of the viziers, acts of terrorism were reported throughout Morocco. Frenchmen and Moslems were still killing each other in the Riff mountains. Major Move by Faure Installation of the- throne council was .a maior- rnovp. bv Premier Edgar Faure td save' his ! government in the bitter Nation al Assembly debate at home wnich comes to a climax Tues day afternoon when Faure has posed a vote of confidence. - The North African situation was snarled further by a quarrel with Spain and a flat charge by Resident General Pierre Boyer de Latour that French troops were fired on last week from Spanish Morocco and that Span ish denials that Riff terrorists have come . from the Spanish zona go "against the facts." Nominates Medford Boys for Academies Three- Medford vnuths ha VP been nominated to fill vacancies at the Air Force academv at Lowry Air Force base, Colo., and xne in aval academy at Annapolis by Congressmen Harris Ells worth. Charles H. Hollis Jr., 510 Mae St.," Medford, and Wayne D. Bertelsen, 515 Dakota st., Med ford, were nominated for three Air Force academy vacancies allotted to Oregon. They will have an opportunity to compete with other : nominees in. final qualifying physical and mental examinations, and if successful will enter the academy in July, 1956. Pfc. Jesse F. " Dressier . Jr., route 2, Medford, was nominated an alternate appointment to the Naval academy. Nominations are based on grades learned by candidates in civil service preliminary exam inations, i Egyptian Forces ' Repulse Israel Raiders Cairo (U.R) A military spokesman said today an Israeli force crossed the border into Egypt and was driven off by Egyptian gunfire yesterday. The spokesman said the Is raelis approached the border from the El Auja demilitarized zone, accompanied by two United Nations truce cars, and ignored an Egyptian warning to stop. DECORATION , SHOWN Miss Clara Snerbourne, home economist in the northwest for Hotpoint, will be at the City Appliance store at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday to demonstrate achiev ing good interior decoration. Miss Sherbourne is expected to provide helpful suggestions on purchasing slip covers, draper ies and other household mate rials. Klamath Falls-J(U.R)Wendell W. Palmer, superintendent of the Klamath Indian Reservation since June, 1954, said he has been transferred to the Indian agency at Bimidji, Minn. TRIBUNF United Press Full Lease Price 5c High Court Bars Prosecution of John D. Provoo Delay Said Reason To Uphold Decision ' Washington (U.R) The Su preme Court today barred the government from prosecuting treason charges .against John David Provoo, former Army ser geant accused of collaborating with the Japanese while a pris oner during World War II. In a brief order, the high court upheld a lower court decision freeing Provoo on grounds the Justice Department waited too long in bringing the 38-year-old ex-GI to trial. Right Said Denied Federal Judge Roszel C. Thomsen of Baltimore ordered Provoo released last March, holding that he. could not have a fair trial "at this late date." He said that Provoo had been denied his constitutional right to, a speedy trial. At the time Provoo had been in custody for 5Ji years waiting trial. Provoo, a former resident of Sausalito, Calif., was accused of seven treasonable acts, including a cnarge that, in 1942 he report ed a' fpllnw nricnnnr nf ir. Capt. Burton CThomsoiv. to! TfieXsi "u.i vx wai, Japanese as uncooperative and anti-Japanese. The government said this reuort was resDonsible for Thomson's execution. Convicted in 1953 Provoo was convicted of trea son in 1953 after a trial in the New York federal court and sen tenced . to life imprisonment. However, the U. S. Court of Ap peols in New York reversed the conviction, ruling there was im proper . ' cross-examination relat ing to homosexuality and that the government should have brought Provoo to trial in Mary land, where he had been sta tioned in the Army,-rather than in New York. Provoo then was brought to Maryland for treason last Oc tober. Five months later Judge Thomsen ordered him freed. Mrs. Pree Wins Chamber Contest Mrs. Bert Pree, of Bert Pree's Dress shop, today was announ ced as winner of the member ship competition of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. The membership contest has been under way for 4Vi months. Mrs. Pree has securd 28 new members for the chamber, and 32 renewals or reactivation of delinquent memberships, for a total of 60. The resulting in come to the chamber totals $2, 212.50. As leader in the contest, Mrs. Pree wins a free trip to Hawaii by air during the good-will "pears to pineapples" tour which will leave from Medford Nov. 5. , The chamber office said her membership activity is the bst on record in the chamber with; in the past five years. Eagle Point Man To Sail On Antarctic Expedition Eagle Point Franklin A. Mc Kitrick Jr., a Navy seaman, and son of Mrs. William R. Vance, star Route, box 29, Eagle Point, is scheduled to sail with a Navy expedition to the Antarctic this winter on the attack cargo ship USS Wyandot. He will, be 20 years old Nov. 26. Commonly known as "Opera tion Deepfreeze," The expedition includes eight vessels and ap proximately 1,800 men. It will reach Antarctic waters late in December to begin initial phases of a long-term program of ex ploration and scientific study in cooperation with other nations. The USS Wyando.willdeave in mid-November, carrying sup plies and equipment for building bases and outposts. McKitrick attended Lone Pine school and lived here with, his PLANE OF THE FUTURE Douglas Aircraft at Los Angeles offers this artist's conception by Ervin R. Heald, aerodynamic design spe cialist, for ths' company, of the combat jet plane of the future. At a recent meeting, Heald stated that a "jet capable of flying up to like JHIears Hagerly Briefs Chief Executive On Assistance Denver (U.R) President Eis enhower today received with sat isfaction a brief report on the ex tension activities of the federal government to provide relief assistance in flood stricken areas of New York, Pennsylvania, Con necticut and other sections of the East. Generalized Report The chief executive received a generalized report on federal storm relief work from his "press secretaryJames-CL.Hagertytis Mr. Eisenhower awaited the ar rival of Defense Secretary Charles EJ Wilson and Adm. Ar thur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plane bearing Wilson and Radford, who also were accom panied by the President's young est brother, Dr. Milton S. Eisen hower, landed at Lowry, 'Air Force Base here at 11 a.m. (MST). Radford and Wilson drove im mediately to Fitzsimons ' Army Hospital to see Mr. Eisenhower. No Pressing Problems The defense secretary told re porters who met him at the plane that he and Radford had "no pressing matters to submit to the President today." "I do have some appointments that require his personal approv al," Wilson said. "It isn't that we have any im portant decisions to discuss with the President," he added, "but rather that it is helpful that we both talk to him at this time." Dr. Milton Eisenhower, who is president of i Pennsylvania State University, said his visit was merely "a family affair. I have no business with the President." Sirnkins Concert For UMC Will Be Tonight Arthur Lee Sirnkins, ' tenor, will hold a concert at 8 p.m. to day at Medford High school au ditorium with proceeds going to United Medford Crusade Tickets are available at Bark er's and at the auditorium door. Medfprd residents who mailed ticket applications which were returned to them may obtain tickets at the door. On the same program tonight will be the "Oriental Magic" show with Chop Chop and Char lene. ; .- - v family on Lone Pine rd.He joined the Navy nearly three years ago and volunteered for the Antarctic jrvice. He is a cook, and received his basic training at San Diego, Calif. McKitrick has a sister, Mrs. Neal Pratt, living in Medford, the wife of a Medford fireman. At least one other valley man, Paul K. Bowker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth- Bowker, route 1, box 68,, Central Point, also is scheduled to go on the expedi tion. He is a Navy radar elec tronics airman, and the unit with which he will serve received pre liminary training in Greenland. He has been in the air service since August, 1953: Bowker re ceived basic training ' at : San Diego, Calif. He was 20 years old last June 29. Flood Relief Report Hunting Accidents Claim Three in State By UNITED PRESS Three Oregonians died while hunting this past week end. Two of them, including a 14-year-old boy, were accidentally shot. A thn-d died of a heart attack after Four Arrested For Disorderly Conduct Four men were arrested Saturday night and early Sun day at the Veterans of Foreign Wars'. club,42 North Front st., andjailed . on - charges of dis orderly'cohduct. A vsrf ' William Leonard Hurst, 1125 West 10th st., and - Sherman Francis 1 Egger, Grants ' Pass, were arrested by Medford police for creating a disturbance at the VFW club- because the manage ment would not accept a per sonal check, according to police reports. Hurst was charged with resisting arrest as well as dis orderly, conduct. . . .- Both men pleaded innocent in police court today. Trial for Hurst was set for Nov. 10 and Egger's trial was set for Nov. 8. Roy Willard Atwood, 812 Broad st., and Myron Murphy Ray, 723 Oak st.,'were fined $25 each in police court, today, on charges of disorderly conduct.- The two men were fighting in the VFW club when arrested by city police. - ' . . Morse Gels Report On Salvage Problem Portland (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse - (D-Ore.) said over the week-end he had directed a re port on the Smith river timber salvage problem prepared by the joint committee on federal tim ber.. ' -' Morse said the report which was requested by himself and Sen. Richard Neuberger, made three major recommendations. First, the report recommended an increase in the Bureau , of Land Management's staff to en able the bureau' to operate the timber salvage program to bring out the most timber ' with a minimum loss of value. Sound timber, secondary ac cess road development was sug gested ,to make possible more speedy removal of salvage tim ber from inaccessible : forest areas and ultimate removal of ripe timber. Also suggested was the waiv ing of marketing area restric tions for the salvage program. Astoria Auto Collision Kills Tongue Point Man . Astoria (U,R) A head-on collision between two automo biles today took the life of a Tongue Point sailor and injured an Astoria resident. Police said the victim - was Charles '. Francis Acord, 28, whose home, town was listed as Eau Claire, Wis. Injured, but not seriously, , was Wayne Edmond Flues, Astoria., - Neuberger Leaves for ; Canadian Water Study Portland (U.R) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger left here last night to begin a study of Canadian di version and storage plans on the Upper Columbia river. six times the speed of sound at altitudes of 100,000 feet is not too distant." Resembling a guided missile, the craft will probably have : a lower vertical tail as well as an uppper. A long slim fuselage and horizontal fins, front and rear, in line. . . rescuing a woman companion who had shot herself in the ankle. Clyde Britain, 40, Roseburg, was shot about 5:30 p.m. yester day in the woods between Suth- erlin and Elkton. .'.',, Britain's uncle. Gene Steele, said the three-man party , was walking single file in rugged country when he noticed-his ri fle was pointing at 18-year-old Wendell Carter behind him. He said that when he shifted. the tifle from his shoulder, it dis charged and fatally wounded his nephew. . .v-:,..." , , ' ;. Heart 'Attack Fatal 4 - Britain was carried out of the woods alive but died en route to Community . hospital at Rose burg. ' A 37-year-old Lebanon hunter died of a heart attack yester day afternoon after running more, than a quarter-mile to get an ambulance for Mrs. Lewis J. Copple of Lebanon who had ac cidentally shot herself in the ankle with a .270 rifle. . Wayne Robert Wood was the victim of the heart attack. Dep uty Coroner Walt Huston said Wood was seized after putting Mrs. Copple safely on the ambu lance about five miles north of Lebanon. He was taken to Leb anon Community hospital where he was pronounced dead. ' Leg Amputated Mrs. Copple's left leg had to be amputated below the knee. The first gunshot fatality was James Robert Allen, 14, Eugene. He was shot Saturday while hunting with his 17-year-old brother, Creston, and Olaf Thingval, both Oregon State College studentf from Eugene. Creston told' state police he mistook his younger brother for a deer and fired in a clump of brush about five miles south west of Eugene. Allen was struck in the chest and died in stantly. ' . Diplomats Move To Break UN Deadlock United Nations, N.' Y. (U.R) Diplomats maneuvered behind the scenes, today in an effort to break a ballot deadlock over a Security Council seat sought bV ;the Philippines, Poland and Yugoslavia. ; ' . Voting on the disputed seat was scheduled to resume tomor row. The delegates Igave up last Friday after six ballots failed to produce conclusive results. The Philippines, backed by the United States, led all the way but failed to get the re quired two-thirds majority. Rus sia, which had supported Poland from the start, 'unexpectedly switched its vote to Yugoslavia. Westinghouse Employees Walk Out in Dispute ; Pittsburgh, (U.R) . A strike of 44,000 CIO Westinghouse Electric Corp. employees began last midnight when negotiations failed to reach agreement on wages, time study and; the length of a new contract. . , Top officials of ' the Interna tional Union of Electrical Work ers (CIO) met with company bar gainers and federal mediators in daylong' sessions Sunday in an effort to avert a mass walkout at 28 plants of the nation's sec ond largest electrical manufacturer. Scores of Streams Slowly Receding As Toll Increases Latest Survey Shows At Least 48 Killed Hartford. Conn. (U.R) Flood waters of scores of streams in seven Northeastern states began slowly to recede today, leaving in their wake a mount ing toll of dead and damage that may total more than a half mil lion dollars. At Least 48 Dead The latest survey showed , at . least 48 dead in the . flood- ravaged area stretching from Maine to Pennsylvania where a similar disaster struck only one month ago. An estimated 25,000 persons were homeless and thousands were idled when in dustries, either inundated or without power, were forced to shutdown. Rain, which had fallen for four days, continued to pelt down on the stricken area and. the Boston Weather Bureau saw no respite from the cloudy skies until Wednesday. However, the Weather Bureau said swollen streams are slowly receding and . will continue to do so. Connecticut Hit Hard O Its forecast said that rainfall today and tomorrow would mea sure one to two inches or more and that if such a fall develop ed in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island there might be , further rises in streams in that 1 area. Connecticut, which bore ftie brunt of the August floods, was hardest hit by the newest dis aster, especially the eastern coastal area of the state where ' ' hundreds of homes and indus tries were inundated and water and food supplies' were threat ened. -Commuters Delayed Connecticut counted at least 22 dead. New York reported 10 dead, New Jersey 4, Pennsyl-O vania 4, Massachusetts 4, Rhode Island 3, and Maine 1. , Thousands of commuters who work in New York City and live in Fairfield County, Conn, were delayed in reaching their jobs this morning because of curtailed schedules on the New Haven Railroad and traffic jams on parkways leading into the city. . Troops Patrol Streets National Guard troops, called out by Gov. Abraham Ribicoff shortly, after he rushed here from a West Virginia vacation, patrolled the streets in a dozen Connecticut towns. Looting was reported in Danbury, Stamford and Greenwich. Several towns proclaimed a state of emergency. Danbury and Norwalk were without power. In the latter town, a power plant blew up early Sunday when flood waters poured over a gen erator. Evacuation also was still underway in Norwalk where the Silvermine river threatened a residential area. ' In some Connecticut areas, more than 10 inches of rain had fallen since Friday. The New York City and Long Island area escaped any serious flood threat. Atomic Tests Start At Nevada Grounds Washington U.R) The gov ernmeat began tests at the Ne-' vada Atomic Proving Ground today of weird airborne instru ments developed for gauging radio-activity in event of nuclear war. . The aerial radiological moni toring exercise, dubbed Opera tion Arme, will continue through Oct. 21. Some 31 per sons, including five' from the Atomic Energy, commission, 25 from state and federal Civil De fense groups, and one from the Defense department will partici pate. The exercise has no connec tion with experiments starting around Nov. 1 to determine the safety of atomic weapons iiw the event of accidents during handling and storage. Nor will any new atomic ex plosions be involved. " Utah Livestock Judgers Take Top Honors at PI , Portland U.R) A livestock judging team from Utah State College walked off with honors, at the Pacific International Live stock Exposition here yesterday. The Utah State team was named high in the intercollegiate livestock judging contest and high team in cattle, sheep and hog judging. . . x California Poly was second in livestock judging, Idaho third, Brigham Young - fourth, and Washington State fifth. Chicago (U.R) There were 2,620,000,000 .persons in the world last July 1, Rand McNally & Co. estimated. . .