Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 23, 1955, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextM4L m Recommended Weather FORECAST: Fad throng Mon , day except lor moraine tot. Increasing high cloudiness Monday afternoon. High both days 70. Lew tonight 38. -. Temp. Highest yesterday 69 Lewest yesterday morning DFORD A story about a police of Hcen' pistol training coarse ap pear! on Pate 14 of today'! Mall Tribune. United Press hull Loosed Wire ull Leased Wire 50th Year Price 5c MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1.955 30 Pages No. 182 Me Talent Youth Dies In Hunting Mishap; Two Men Injured Donald A. Sommer fatally Wounded A Talent boy wag killed and two Grants Pass men hurt ja rmnrirttr arrirlpnts in Jackson county this week end. The youth was Donald Archie Sommer, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Sommer, route 1, box 548. Talent. He and his father arid brother. "Bean, 12, left their horme shortly after noon Fri day for a last-day deer hunting trip into the Grizzly peak area southwest of Ashland. Unsuccess ful, they returned to their pick ud truck at about 3 p.m., accord ing to Deputy County Coroner Gordon Hays. Gun Goes Off As they were unloading their guns, a .22 caliber rifle in the hands of Dean Sommer dis charged accidentally, the bullet striking his brother on the neck near the jaw, Hays" said. ' The boy was not killed instantly, so the father and brother put him in the pickup and took him to a doctor's office Jn Phoenix, but he was dead on arrival there. , The accident occurred only a few hours before the end of deer hunting season, at dusk-Friday. Obituary on Page 15. The first casualties of the pheasant season, which opened yesterday morning, were re ported to the Medford state po lice office at 7:18 a.m. Saturday. Hit By Blrdshot . William ' S. McConnell and Henry Willard, both Grants Pass, came to the office to re port they had been struck by birdshot while hunting along the Medco railroad right of way near the airport. McConnell was hit in the -Hand and Willard in the face, with one shot striking him near the eye and another going through his cheek into his mouth. The wounds were not thought , to be serious, police said, afld the men went to Grants Pass for medical treatment. Shortly thereafter, Charles Hewitt, 295 DeBarr ave., Med ford, came to the office to report . the incident. He said he and his father, Roy, of the same address, and an uncle, Harry Hewitt, were hunting in the same area. He said it was foggy. He fired tiish thrnush some brush, he told police, and saw no. one in the line of fire. Police believe that a few wild shots struck the Grants Pass men. Officers reported they are re ceiving the "usual number" of complaints from rural area resi dents of bird hunters ignoring rm-hunting signs and other types ol trespass. Police cannot make arrests on 'the unofficial "say so" of those calling, they said, but if complaints are signed, ar rests will be made. - Tn addition to officers reeular- ly assigned to game work, traf fic department men are under instructions to keep an eye out for hunting violations, it was re ported. ' Oregon's regular 1955 deer hunting season ended at sun down Friday but the death toll rose to 10 yesterday with the finding of a man who apparently died of a heart attack while shunting near Burns, Ore. f4 Foiy persons were dead from f bullet wounds, six from heart attacks and at least 16 wounded in non-fatal shootings. Found Saturday was Walter Denstedt, about 48, of Burns. He failed to return home last night from a wooded section north of town and searchers were called out. They found Denstedt's body near his pickup truck. Moroccan Party Refuses Any Part in Planned Government Rabat. Morocco (ufo Pre mier Edgar Faure's peace plans for Morocco appeared Saturday to be foundering on the memory of exiled Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. s The powerful Istiqlal (Inde pendence) Party which demands the return of Ben Youssef an nounced it would not take part in the new government planned by Faure. Announce Boycott ' The Istiqlal Party announced adboycott of Faure's four-man throne council, formed to replace Ben Youssef and the less popular Sultan QSidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa who also was ousted by France. . The immediate effect was that Premier-designate Si Fatmi ben Slimane balked at forming a Moroccan government which would not have the support of the Istiqlal. " -A - 1 BEST IN STATE The youngsters above are members of the Pathfinders club of the Medford Seventh-day Adventist church, which won the trophy for being the best unit in the state last Sunday at statewide Pathfinder fair in Eugene.' The club. has about 70 members, but only those shown were able to make the . trip. All are students at the Rogue River Academy, a parochial school of the church. The group, as a whole or in units, meets about four times a month, one of which is an outing into the. outdoors or to visit various industries or businesses. Other meetings are held at the church. The "MV" on the flag in the background stands for "Missionary Volunteers," the youth Peronistas Jailed In Argentina; Vast Plot Said Crushed , Buenos Aires (U.R) Police n the northeastern provincial capital of Corrientes discovered and crushed a "vast terrorist plot" this week, arresting a dozen supporters of ousted ex President Juan D. Peron, it was reported Saturday :. : Corrientes is a port oh the Parana river, 480" Iniles north of here and less than 30 miles from the border-of Paraguay, where Peron is living in exile. Factory, Arms Found Unconfirmed reports said po lice discovered a number of arms caches and a secret factory for the production of incendiary and high explosive bombs in raids on the homes of the plotters. Informed sources said persons arrested in connection with the plot included B. Callejas, former Peronist mayor of Corrientes, J. Obarziggi, former Peronist party comptroller in Corrientes prov ince, and a retired lieutenant 'colonel who formerly command ed the Corrientes garrison. Others jailed included five regional officials of the General Federation of Labor (CGT) and "several government em ployees, the sources said. Not Disbanded The CGT is the only major Peronist organization that has not been disbanded or drastical ly reorganized by the revolution ary government that replaced Peron last month. ' The Socialist party has urged provisional President Eduardo Lonardi to order a "thorough purge" of the labor federation, saying it was the "most import ant political weapon of (Peron's) dictatorship." The Socialists warned that the CGT will continue to be a dang erous "source of counter revolu tion" as long as its present lead ers are "recognized, encouraged and supported" by the govern ment. The Istiqlal decision was an nounced only a few hours after police opened fire on & 300-trong mob of Ben Youssef Supporters on the outskirts of Rabat, kill ing three and wounding four. .' The Istiqlal challenge -to the four-man throne council was coupled with a number of con ditions under which it said it would join the proposed govern ment. First, it demanded that the government be invested with a "high legitimate authority" such as Ben Youssef, or a council of Oulemas (doctors of Koranic law) who would draw up a proclamation making no ! refer ence to Ben Arafa. Second, it demanded that the government set up a negotiating body charged with working out new relations between France and the North African., protectorate. Break Relieved Near . 'V- Dn Chicago Slayings Chicago (U.R) Police of ficials, engaged in an all-out hunt for the slayers bf three young schoolboys, said Saturday night they may be on - the brink of Police Seal Off Frontiers of Saar Saarbruecken U.R) The troubled Saar sealed off its frontiers to the outside world Saturday and mobilized its en tire police force to guard against disorders in today's crucial referendum. . Leaders of both factions favoring and opposing thepro posed internationalization of the coal and steel rich territory came out with final passionate appeals to voters Saturday morning. Border guards slammed down frontier barriers at noon" even as the final campaign appeals were being made. . The barirers will stay down until Monday morning. Urges "German Vote' ' Dr. Heinrich Schneider, a spell-binding former Nazi Storm Trooper, urged his supporters to vote no "on behalf of Germany." Premier Johannes Hoffman reminded Saarlanders that West German Chancellor K o n r a d Adenauer had called for a yes vote. Authorities in West Germany. France, and Luxembourg, the three countries bordering on the Saar, warned travelers of "the planned frontier closing.' But even as the barriers slammed down at the stroke of noon, long lines of automobiles piled up especially on the German side of the border. Would European! Area Saarlanders are to vote on a statute drawn up by France and West Germany which would "Europeanize" the Saar until an all-German peace treaty is signed. Predicitions were that a ma jority would vote "no." Such a rejection, it was feared, would cause a new flareup in French German relations. On the eve of the elections, Saar authorities with the ap proval of the Neutral super visory commisison, imposed a number of '"precautionary" measures to guarantee against any possible disorders. The main action is sealing of the frontiers of the 900-square-mile territory for 42 hours. Alfred E. Stoehr Dies at Lakeview Alfred Eugene Stoehr, 1103 Reddy ave., Medford, died near Lakeview Saturday, according to Perl Funeral home. Stoehr was manager of the Johnson Truck lines here. ; Funeral arrangements are pending at Perl's Funeral home here. Additional details were not available late yesterday. ' group of the church of which the Pathfinders are a part. Shown above, left to right, rear row, are Joe Hoyt, a group counsellor; Harold Rowell, Billy Day, Charles Erainerd, Paul Klein, Jerry Yost, Lee Blank, Oral Tucker and Ronnie Archer; middle row, Rhoda Tooley, Mary Loun, Gloria 'Beltz, Phyllis Gregg, JoAnn Hoyt, Carol Sabo, Aura Lindgren, Lois Pike, Martha Thompson and Irita Snyder; front row) Darold Bigger, Linda Archer, Dale Barnard, Jimmie Gregg, Tommy Tucker, Mrs. Robert Gregg, the club's director who is holding the coveted trophy, Forrest Bigger, "deputy director, Melvin Hackworth, Keith Kendall, Delbert Cline and Ella McCarty.: - - breaking the case. They said they based their hopes on a youth who told state police that he has been the vic tim of a "group of men" who frequently hold sex orgies in the Robinson Woods . Forest Pre serves where the bodies of John Schuessler, 13, Robert Peterson, 13," and Anton Schuessler, ; 11; wtreiound-JTuesday afternoon. Lieutenant Confident "' '" Lt. Edward Stanwyck, head of the state police inyestigation, de clined to. identify the witness, but said, "as far as I am con cerned, this is it." Stanwyck said -the youth was picked up Saturday and has sup plied names of the men who have held the Woodland sex parties. Stanwyck said he hoped to an nounce the arrest of the men shortly. . ' ' The three boys are believed to have been- the victims of sex deviates who may have tortured them before ending their lives and dumping their nude bodies in a ditch. - . Stanwyck's a n n o u n c ement brought top police officials con verging in a rush , to the state police station on the western fringe of the city. Large Manhunt The youth was arrested as the search for the slayers gained momentum during the day and became the largest manhunt in the Chicago area since 1946 when police sought the kidnap-killer of little Suzanne Degnan. In addition to -the large regu lar force of five law enforcement agencies, some 250 policemen combed a populous northwest side neighborhood on their off day time in search of clues. County Assessor Says Tax Commission's Orders Would Force Violation of Laws Somewhat frustrated, and con fused by recent Tax Commission news releases, ' County Assessor Robert G. Fowler declared Sat urday that he is being- forced to violate the law by the state tax commission. Fowler said the county assess ment roll should have been turn ed over to the sheriff by Oct. 15 for collection of taxes. He has been unable to do so, however, because of his obligation to fol low orders of the tax commis sion. No Order Received - Correction of the assessment roll, apparently being planned by the tax commission, can only be made after an order authoriz ing such corrections has been received from the commission, he said. Fowler stated that no such order has as yet been re ceived. The tax roll cannot be turned over to the sheriff until after the assessment roll is cor rected and approved. "The papers are coming out with the statement,". Fowler said, "that I have- received an order from the state tax com mission in regard to orchard as sessments. I have never receiv ed arty such order." A total of 190 corrections in the assessed valuations of Jack Cpl. Bayes Found Guilty on Charge Of Collaboration San Francisco (U.R) Cpl. Thomas Bayes Jr., . 32, of Flat Lick, Ky., was found guilty by a court martial Saturday of col laborating with the Chinese Communists while a prisoner in the Korean War. He was sen tenced to five years at' hard labor. ' . v ' ; irThe- seven-officer' Presidio court-; also, found ..Bayes .guilty of an additional , charge of "speaking against American par ticipation in the Korean con flict" but , acquitted him of charges of promoting disloyalty among fellow POWs. The sentence, subject to re view, included a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances. The court could have returned .a life sen tence. Bayes received the . verdict stoically. His wife, Fondei, 32, sat in the front row of the almost empty hearing room, directly be hind her husband. Following announcement of the verdict, Defense Counsel Col. Max W. Hazelhurst urged that the sentence be light, noting that Bayes had received a meager education and that "anyone would have a breaking point" under Chinese , Communist tor ture and brainwashing. : Chancellor Adenauer Reported Recovering Bonn, Germany (U.R? ' Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is "making further promising pro gress" ; in his recovery from an attack of bronchial' pneumonia, an official West German spokes man said Saturday. son county orchards were made as a result of hearings held here recently by representatives of the state tax commission, acting in place of the county board of equalization, according to news( stories originating in Salem. According' to State Tax Com missioner Sam Stewart, Fowler will be ordered to change the existing individual valuations to conform with those found by the commission. . , Fowler declared, however, that he has not received the cor rections nor the order authoriz ing him to make corrections. Affidavit Filed V An affidavit filed by Fowler Oct. 15 with the county clerk's office states that the tax rolls were ready to be turned over to the sheriff on that date and explains , why he was unable to dO SO. . . ' The controversy between Jackson county fruitgrowers and the tax commission goes back to last spring, when the commis sion first ordered the value of orchards be included in the tax able value of orchard properties in. Jackson county. They had never been so included before. The orchardists claim that the trees should not be taxed, any more than various other crops. Dulles Seeks Assurance from Italy Concerning HATO Stand Doctor Says Ike May Leave Hospital Between Nov. 5-12 Healing of Damage Now on Schedule Denver (U.R) Dr. Paul Dudley White, famous Boston heart specialist, said Saturday President Eisenhower should be able to leave the hospital and fly back east to his Gettysburg, Pa., home between November 5 and 12. Dr.' White told a news confer ence that it may be two or three months before the president's physicians can tell how com pletely he recovered from the heart attack he suffered Septem ber 24. Dr. White said that in all prob ability the flight to Gettysburg for convalescence will be broken by a day or two in Washington. Now On Schedule Dr. White also confirmed that the' President's heart healing was a little behind schedule dur ing the first part of his recov ery, but has now caught up. He said he considers it certain that rthe President will convalesce at his Gettysburg .farm However, during that period, he said the President should be able to attend meetings with the cabinet and other officials from time to time in either Washington or Gettysburg. The gray, mustached heart ex pert gave a detailed, up-to-date report on the President's pro gress at a packed press confer ence in the temporary White House, headquarters -'. at Lowry Air Force base. - ' , He was flanked by other members of the President's medi cal staff. Dr. White said Mr. Eis enhower "has done and is doing well" but that we will have to "wait another two or three months before we know how complete his recovery will be." . Dr. White flew to Denver early Saturday . to examine the President for the third time since his heart attack and to consult with Maj.- Gen. Howard Mcc. Snyder, the White House phy sician, and' other members of the medical staff at ' Fitzsimons Army hospital. 1 He said the President's recov ery at the end of the fourth week "is almost exactly on schedule." Mr. Eisenhower should be able to stand up and possibly take a few steps for the' first time today, Dr. White said. - : Plans Going Ahead For French Elections , Paris (U.R) Premier Edger Faure pushed ahead Saturday with his plans for December gen eral elections which he hoped would give France a new Nation al Assembly capable of dealing with the "serious issues" con fronting it Further, they maintain,, if orch ard trees are to be taxed, they should be taxed everywhere in the state (they say this is not being done), and add that a fair valuation must take many fac tors into consideration. The val uations placed on trees by the tax commission, the orchardists say, have been arbitrary and not based on" proper considerations. The situation is being further complicated by pending litiga tion. Last week a number of or chardists petitioned the state su preme court to issue a writ of mandamus ordering Fowler to deliver the assessment roll to the sheriff, after deleting the tree valuations placed thereon by the tax commission. The court has ordered arguments to be submitted by noon Monday. Other legal action by the fruit men is in the offing. It was unclear Saturday what ac tion the (tax commission would take" with regard to the assess ment rolls, now overdue in the sheriffs office so he can begin preparing tax statements.- First installment taxes are due on or before Nov. 15, little more than three weeks away. (A statement giving the orch ardists' position in some detail appears on Page 8). Sports Bulletin St. Mary's High school ef Medford captured the Jackson County B league title for the second consecutive year last night, with a decisive 46 to 6 victory over Jacksonville. Bill Carey made the longest touch down run for St. Mary's 91 yards. Jack Daley scored Jacksonville's only, touch down. ' St. Mary's halfback Laval Meunier probably was lost for the rest of the season when he dislocated an elbow on the opening kickoff of the game. Status of U.S. Marshall's Office Here in Question Is the Medford office of U.S. marshal open or "isn't it? Officials of the U. S. Depart ment of Justice ' disagree al though Paul Hanlin, deputy marshal, here for the past 17 years, has closed the office, moved to Portland, and reported for work there last Monday. ' U. S. Marshal Harold Sexton, Portland, announced in Septem ber the office would be closed for economy reasons" on Sept. 30, and ordered Hanlin to Port land. But on Sept. 28, Chief Judge Claude McColloch, of the Ore gon federal district court, wired a protest about the proposed closing to Henry P. Chandler, director of the administrative office of the U. S. courts in Washington, D.C. , , Chandler was out of town, but when he returned to his of fice he wired Judge McColloch that the S. attorney general's office has not closed the Med ford office. This was after Han lin had left Medford. S. A. Andretta, assistant to the attorney general, wrote a letter to Chandler's office, with a copy to Judge McColloch, on Oct. 12, which stated: "This is in . response to your letter of Sept. 29, inclosing a copy of Chief Judge Claude McColloch's telegram opposing the immedi ate closure of the deputy's office at Medford. While the matter of closing the Medford office has been under consideration, this is to advise you that there are no immediate plans to close that duty station." According to the Portland Oregonian, Marshal Sexton said earlier, last week that the Med ford office is no longer function ing, and had been - closed by authority of the attorney gen eral's office. He could not be reached for comment Friday after. Judge McColloch disclosed the information in his communi cations from the department of justice. - Judge McColloch pointed out the office had been located in Medford for 40 years, and that it has been of great convenience to the public and lawyers having business with the federal court. . "The " government has spent probablyv $500,000 on a federal court house in Medford,'! he said, "of which sum $300,000 has been expended for additions and betterments in recent years . . . Now that we have a full complement of judges for Ore gon's federal court, we will probably be able to try many more cases upstate, in keeping with long established policy in this district court to take our court . to the people and save them and their lawyers from 200 to 300 miles of travel. , ''The court requires time and opportunity to evaluate these and -othar factors before the Medford office is closed, and we are at a loss to understand why a matter so pertinent to judicial administration should be hur ried without consulting us." Federal district court in Med ford is conducted in a large court room on the 'second floor of the post office building. The deputy marshal's office was just across the hall from the court room. Before ordering Hanlin to Portland, Marshal , Sexton an nounced that he had accepted the resignation of Leo McLain, who had served for many years as a deputy in the Portland of fice. But McLain has contended that he was coerced into signing a resignation, ' and later with drew it, seeking an appeal to the civil service commission. He contends he was removed to make room for Hanlin in . the Portland office. . Conference Called Important Prelude To Paris Meetings Secretary of State May Visit Tito Rome (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Satur day sought assurance from Ital ian President Giovanni Gronchi that Italy will notswing toward Tieutralism" between west and east. The . American statesman met with Gronchi" for an hour and conveyed a message from Presi dent Eisenhower. He said the meeting was an "important pre lude" to NATO talks in Paris. which will precede the Geneva foreign ministers conference which opens Tuesday. Assurance Expected '- Italian leaders said in advance that Dulles would get every as surance tnat Italy would stand fast to its alliance with the North Atlantic Treaty oreanis tion and would not be lured by . advances from the Kremlin. ',. After the meeting with Gron chi, Dulles said "I had a verv agreeable and profitable ex change of views with President" Gronchi.' He made some verv valuable suggestions with re spect - to . some matters comine up at Geneva, i 'We discussed the importance of European integration and the close economic and cultural ties which exist between our two countries. I feel the talks were very useful and an important prelude to further talks which I will be having in Paris," Dul les said. May Visit Tito . A state ".'department "official travelling with Dulles said that there also has been "some dis cussion" Of a meetim? between Dulles and Marshal Tito in Yu goslavia next month after the Geneva conference. The disclosure that a possible meeting with Tito has been dis cussed took on special signifi cance. Yugoslavia has re-established friendship with the Soviet bloc. , SATURDAY SCORES WEST Oregon Slate 14, Waihing- ton State 8. : Lewis and Clark 28, Chico State 13. ( Washington .7, Stanford 7. Southern California 33, California 6. Wyoming 23. Utah 13. Montana 19, New Mexico 14. Montana State 20, Colorado Western 6. Colorado A and M 26, Utah State 9. SOUTHWEST Oklahoma 56, Colorado 21. Texas A and M 19, Baylor 7. Texas 32, Rice 14. . Houston 7, Texas Tech 0. ' Tulsa 21. Cincinnati 21. MIDWEST Tndiana 9ft. VrvtriMa 14. Michigan State 21, Illinois 7. .... , ; . Notre Dame 22, Purdue 7. ' Ohio State 26. Wisconsin 16. Michigan 14, Minn t sola 13. Kansas State 9, Iowa State 7. . Nebraska 18, Missouri 1Z. . Southern Methodist 33, Kansas 14. SOUTH Tulane 14, Georgia 0. V.P.L 17. Virginia 13. Wake Forest 25, North Caro lina 0. Tennessee 53. Dayton 7. Pittsburgh 26, Duke 7. Georgia Tech 34, Florida' State 0. Mississippi State 26. Ala-, bama 7. -2 Auburn 52, Furman 0. . Mississippi 17. Arkansas 7. Kentucky 10, Florida 7. EAST Navy 33, Pennsylvania 0. North Carolina State 34, Villanova 13. Maryland 34, Syracuse 13. Delaware 26, Connecticut 14. Rhode Island 19. Brown 7. Colegate 7, Yale 0. Princeton 26, Cornell 20. Army 45, Columbia 0. 1 " West Virginia 21. Pena Slate 7.