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o o I '.Eugene. J 51 Escapees . 7 ' ... i .9 n MAP PLANS D. S. State Secy. John Foster Dulles (left) meets with French FoTeignMin ister Antoine Pinay (center) and British Foreign Secy. Harold MacMiUan at the French o Foreign Ministry in Paris. They met to plan for forthcoming Geneva talks with Russia. MAT Alliance (Lends Support o PacEtage Plan off Paris U.R) The NATO alli ance threw its full support today behind the Big Three package plan for peace at the forthcom ing Geneva conference with the Soviet Union, - The foreign minister of the United States, France and Brit ain outlined the planned West ern strategy to the members of the NATO council in two secret meetings, held in the Palais de Chaillot. Plaas Presented Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles presented the plan for German reunification and European security. British For eign Secretary Harold MacMii lan discussed disarmament. French Foreign Minister An toir Pinay made proposals for more East-West contacts. The details of these proposals were drawn up by a committee of experts in recent months and were endorsed by the Big Three ministers yesterday. The smaller members of the NATO alliance spoke their minds about the clans and asked for more details. This brought about two sessions today instead of one, and forced the Big Three foreign ministers to scrap plans for talks this afternoon on the explosive Middle East. But when the second NATO . council meeting ended,, a British spokesman said: "There was complete agreement." The package plan for reunifi cation of Germany and assuring the security of Europe was agreed on at a 5Vfe hour, meeting among Dulles, . British Foreign Seoretary Harold MacMillan and French Foreign Minister An toine Pinay. Full Agreement Cited A conference spokesman said there was "full agreement" on the four points the foreign min isters will tackle when they sit down with Russia's tough-bargaining V. M. Molotov in Geneva Thursday. These points are Eu ropean security; German reuni fication; disarmament; and in 42 Ordered Arrested In Drugs Crackdown "Washington (U.R) The gov ernment ordered 42 persons ar rested today in the start of a sweeping, nationwide crack down on the illegal sale of "goofball" drugs to truck driv ers, youngsters, and others who don't need them. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. announced that bench war rants have been issued charging 3 individuals with the illegal saie of stimulant drugs tp truck drivers. - The action followed a year long undercover inquiry by in vestigators of the Food and Drug Administration. Officials said it is just the beginning of a nation wide effort to enforce laws which restrict the use of the drugs. The 42 individuals were named in 22 criminal actions filed in six states, Virginia, North Caro lina, Georgia, HUinois and Indiana. JYlar jorie Smith's Al leged Lover Tells of Murder Plan McMinnville (U.R) -Victor Laurence Wolf, 45-year-old ac cuser of Marjorie Smith in slay ing of her attorney husband, told a packed courtroom today a story of love and intrigue that he has claimed eventually led to the at torney's death by a home-made bomb plafited in his car. Tells of Making Love Wolf told of making love to Mrs. Smith. Speaking calmly and with slowness, he said she first suggested killing her hus band while , the two of them played a game of scrabble in the living room. He testified he told her he was opposed to the idea and that she asked him to think it over and give her an answer the next day. Mrs. Smith was obviously un der great strain u sha sat ia th creased contacts between East and West. . Dulles won support from Ger many and France despite a Saar referendum that threatened to reopen their ancient enmity. He asked the sa'me support from the smaller powers. The Big Three plan offered Russia a security pact but only in exchange for a no-strings re unification of West and East Ike Takes First Steps Since Heart Attack Denver ' (U.R) President Eisenhower passed an important milestone in his recovery from a heart attack today by taking his first steps and being photo graphed in his suite at Fitzsim ons Army hospital.. It was the first time he actu ally had walked since he was stricken nearly four. and one half weeks ago. And it also was the first closeup picture taken of the President in his room, although a few long range photo- Office of U.S. Marshal Reopens; Hanlin To Return The U. S. Marshal's office in Medford has been reopened and Deputy Paul Hanlin is being transferred . back here, t was announced today in Portland by U. S. Marshal Harold Sexton. Hanlin was transferred to Portland after the recent an nouncement of ' closure of the local office. The Southern Oregon Bar as sociation and other groups pro tested to Federal Judge Claude McColloch, . who wired the ad ministrative office of the U. S. courts in Washington, D. C, pro testing inconvenience of the closure. The reply said the office, which has jurisdiction over U. S. marshals, had not made plans for immediate closure of the office although the "matter had been considered." ' Sexton was quoted by United Press as saying "I sincerely re gret there has been a misunder standing regarding my efforts for economy and efficieny in operation." Sexton announced in Septem ber the office would be .closed 'for economy reasons" on Sept. 30, and ordered Hanlin to Port land. Hanlin has been U. S. deputy marshal here for the past 17 years. Bobo Olson-Robinson Title Match Postponed Chicago-j(U.R) The Bobo Olson-Ray Robinson middleweight championship fight scheduled for Nov. 4 has been postponed until Dec. '9 due to ankle injury suffered by Robinson, the Inter national Boxing club announced today courtroom while Wolf began his story. Wolf testified that it was just after Mrs. Smith first suggested that her ex-husband, Oliver Ker mit Smith, was "worth more dead than alive," that he made love to her. Gave Money for Wedding He said Mrs. Smith made plans to remarry her husband, whom she had divorced earlier.1 "I gave her $80 for the wedding which she used to buy flowers and champagne," he testified. ,He. said he got to. know. Mrs. Smith when he boarded at her rooming house in Portland. Mrs. Smith broke down yes terday and cried when pictures showing the remains of her 34-year-old husband and his bombed car were shown at her triaL Big Three Germany. The new Germany would be free to, choose its own allies. The Western plan would draw a demilitarized buffer zone down the middle of Europe on both sides of the Oder-Neisse line now dividing East Germany and Poland. It would offer an all European non-aggression pact to calm Soviet fears of aggression from the West. graphs have been made of the chief executive on the terrace outside his eighth floor room at Fitzsimons. Eleven photographers and one reporter, Jack Horner of the Washington Star, were . in the group that went upstairs to Mr, Eisenhower's suite 'shortly be fore 11 a.m. (MST) to take the pictures of the chief executive The picture taking session was held on a terrace outside the President's room. The President looked "very healthy" . for his first formal picture. He looked "almost as well as he did before he went-into the hospital," United Press Photo grapher Stan Tretick said.-. Earlier, the President's doc tors had reported in their mid morning medical bulletin that Mr. Eisenhower had taken his first few unassisted steps today. An easy chair was moved near his bed. The President got out of bed alone and walked what Hagerty described as "one or two steps" to the chair. He repeated this performance several times during the mor ning. Meantime, the latest medical bulletin continued to report sat isfactory progress. He was given an electrocardiographic examin ation this morning and the re sults showed a stable pattern." (See Story on Page 14) Work Under Way on $41,000 Warehouse Alberts Milling company was issued a city building permit yes terday for construction of a $41,- 000 warehouse at 330 North Fu st. The structure will be the new location of Medford Feed and Seed company, a subsidiary of the Albers firm. Work is underway at he con struction site. Frank Fairweath er, Medford, is general con tractor. The feed and seed firm is now located at 224 North Fir. George Barr, manager of Med ford Feed and Seed, said it is hoped to have the grand opening at the new site around the first of next year. The building will be of concrete block. The feed room will have about 7,000 square feet of floor space and the sales room about 1,600 feet. The permit was one of five is sued yesterday by the city building superintendent's office. Total value of projects was listed at $56,400. Godfrey Terminates Services of Aides New York (U.R) Arthur Godfrey has "terminated the ser vices" of Larry Puck, co-producer of the "Talent Scouts" pro gram who recently married Marion Marlowe, a former sing er on Godfrey programs. . ' - Godfrey also released the musical conductor of the "Talent Scouts" program, Jerry Bress ler and announcer George Bry an. Weather FORECAST: Variable cloudiness with scattered light showers 'tonight..' and . Wednesday. Cooler. Low tonight 42. High Wednesday 62-65. Temp. Highest Yesterday 1 Lowest this Morning 35 Missing Persons Checked To Learn If Hostage Taken Corvallis Man Shot; Condition Critical Corvallis, Ore. (U.R) Police said today a 23-year-old escapee who terrorized two families at gunpoint and critically wounded a man here might have- seized one or more hostages and fled in a car. Bloodhounds early today tracked Martin Reyes, San Fran cisco, to a schoolyard here and gave up the scent. Police theo rized there may have been an automobile in the schoolyard and that Reyes might have seized it, Missing Persons Checked A check was being made for missing persons. Police said the schoolyard was a favorite park ing spot for Oregon State Col lege students. Reyes and a companion identi fied by police as Jose Mitchell Benesa, 21, escaped last night from the city jail in Eugene They had been arrested on a sto len car charge. The man identi fied as Benesa gave his name as Sonny Shadd, 17. He was cap tured. ' As they were being searched, Reyes pulled a .45 automatic on Jailer Robert Lockard and Under-sheriff Nelson Whipps, The two locked Lockard and Whipps in a cell and escaped in the sheriff s office car. Medford Man Stopped At Junction City, Ore., they used the police car's siren and light to stop a station wagon containing H. H. Littlefield, 66 Medford, and his wife and three daughters, aged 2, 3, and 5. The pair pulled the radio equipment from the sheriff s car, locked the Littlefield family in, and fled in the station wagon, Police said Shadd balked at this point and Reyes slyt him in the.foot to force"' him. to continue the escape". The pair "got as fair as the edge of Corvallis business district where they crashed the car. Corvallis police closed in and captured Shadd. Reyes escaped on foot to the north end of the city where he accosted Jimmy Applegate, 39, or Corvallis, and his three children, Elaine, 16, Susan 9 and Dotty, 16, at a serv ice station. Gun Surrendered Officer William C. Bottemmil ler surrendered his gun to Reyes when he threatened to shoot his hostages. The fueitive then lined up the officer, Apple, and his girls m front of the service sta tion. Police said Applegate appar ently tried to rush Reyes and was shot three times. Reyes fled. Annleeate was taken to a Cor vallis hospital in critical condi tion. Lane and Benton county possees as well as all available city police were called in tcr aid in the seach for Reyes who was believed to be out of ammuni tion. Citv directories list the H. H. Littlefield residence as 222 Ash land ave., Medford. Mistrial Plea Denied In Sherry Fong Case Portland (U.R) Two defense motions for mistrial were turn ed down by Circuit Judge Alfred Dribson today as selection of a jury continued in the first de gree murder trial of Sherry Fong. Defense Attorney Irving Good man asked for the mistrials be cause of a reference of Prosecu ting Attorney Howard Lonergan to Mrs. Fone's previous convic tion, and one reference made to her "character." Judge Dobson directed pros pective iurors to disregard Lon- ergan's remarks and ordered them stricken from the recora. Bv noon a panel of 12 prospec tive iurors had been selected for Mrs. Fong's second trial for the slaying of 16-year-old Diane Hank. Driver Gets $255 Fine, ' Suspended Jail Term Claude Neal. 27, South Fort Smith, Ark., was fined $255 in district court yesterday on a rharce of driving while under the influence of intoxicating iquor. In addition to the fine Neal, who was arrested bv Phoenix city police Saturday, was sen tenced to 30 days in the county jail and had his driver's license suspended for 90 days. The sen tence is to be suspended during good oenaviour, upon payment ox ine une. 22 Pages Medford 50th Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER Imperial Valley In California Feels Earthquake 25-Mile Section Sways Light Fixtures Brawley, Calif. (U,R) The second earthquake in California in three days, a light "one jolt" rocker, shook a 25-mile section of the .rich agricultural Imperial Valley near the Mexican border today, setting electric light fix tures swaying but causing no damage. Temblors Unrelated It followed by two days a moderate quake that shook the San Francisco Bay area, seme 600 miles to the north, to the tune of a reported $1,000,000 in damages. The two temblors were unrelated in cause, however. They occurred on different fault lines in the earth's rock struc ture. A "rumbling like four diesel freight trains," preceded the mid-morning jolt, which ' was felt from Westmoreland to El Centro, a 25-mile stretch in a cluster of small farming cities stretching south' from the Saitoh sea to the Mexican border in California's "deep south." ' No Power Interruptions Seismographs in Pasadena, 180 miles distant, picked up the quake. Police received no immediate reports of power interruptions or gas line breaks. , . El Centro residents timed the jolt at 10- seconds and said it had "a sort of rolling action.1 "It came right through the chairs in the office," said a staff member of the El Centro Post- Press. "We felt it good." . San Francisco (U.R) Build ing inspectors continued their rounds today of structures. shak en by the San Francisco Bay area's latest earthquake. They concentrated particu larly on the East Bay, which suffered the most damage during the Sunday evenmg temblor. Anthony Eden Dodges Marriage Question London (U.R) Princess Mar garet kept her secret today about whether she intends to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Prime Mmister Anthony Eden avoided a formal reply to a par liamentary question designed to smoke out the status of the ro mance. . Eden briskly answered a series of questions leading right up to loaded question No. -61 put by Laborite M. P. Marcus Lipton. It asked if the government intended to try to repeal or amend the royal marriage act of 1772. Eden got to No. 59, toyed with it tantalizingly, laid aside his loose-leaf binder, answered a few supplementary questions on the scope of the defense ministry, and then sat down without going to No. 61. ' . Something like a sigh went through -the House of Commons. DA Files Brief In Jensen Case District Attorney Walter Nun- ley's brief for the appeal of the James Norman Jensen case was mailed last night to the clerk of the supreme court in Salem. Jensen was convicted last year of the murder of Mrs. Fern Hile, Medford housewife, and sentenced to die in the Oregon State gas chamber. A notice of appeal, filed by defense attorney Edward Kelly, acted as a stay of execution. Kelly has said that he will ask for additional time to file a reply brief, probably 30 days. When all the briefs are in, the Supreme court will set a -date for the arguments. . WHO AM'I? Horseplay and fun, as well as the serious business of raising money, have marked the weekly report luncheons of the United Medford Crusade workers. At the last 'of the meetings yesterday, a "Who Am I?" game was played, in which each work er had a name pinned to his back, and to-get lunch he had to find out from others who he was, asking only questions answerable by yes or no. Left to right, above, are George McGill (Bre'r Rabbit), Cliff Ayres (George Gobel), both still puzzled, and cigar-smoking "Winston Churchill," (Frank Bash), who had discovered his iden tity. The 'UMC drijve topped 71 per cent yesterday. , (Landis-Shangle photo) 8th Grader Excused To Keep House for Hubby Prineville (U.R) The Crook ; county : 4 chool board : has - ex cused a 14 -year - old eighth grader from further, classes. She has to slay home to keep house for her 16-year-old hus band. All Corrections of Tax Rolls Not Here ' All of 190 assessment roll cor rections had not yet-been re ceived from the state tax com mission this morning, according to Robert G. Fowler, county assessor. ; The corrections,' made as a result of hearings held here re cently by members of the tax commission in relation to - dis puted orchard tree assessments, must be made on the tax roll before it can be turned over to the sheriff's office for collection of taxes. , The tax'roll should have been turned over to the sheriff by Oct. 15, according to law,' but the assessor's office was unable to do so because corrections had not been received. The first of the corrections were received yesterday. Fowler stated that he didn't know how long it would take to make the necessary corrections and rec omputations in the- tax roll. . London (IT.R) - Premier U Nu of Burma arrived today in Leningrad on - his official visit to the Soviet Union, Radio Mos cow reported. 11-Year-Old Accident Victim Critical Condition; Family Eleven - year - old Joe Willie Haynes, injured almost a week week ago in an automobile acci dent, is still in critical condition at Sacred Heart hospital. Hospital attendants said this morning that his condition is unchanged since he was taken to the hospital early last Wed nesday morning. He has been unconscious since that time. Hit by Car The child was injured when he was struck by a car on High way 99 near the Gold Hill over pass. At the time of the acci dent, he an& other members of his family were helping push their car, which had .stalled. . Lowell DuBois, Grants Pass, driver of the second vehicles, didn't see the Haynes vehicle m the early -morning darkness until he was almost on top of it. He swerved at the last min ute, but his pickup truck struck the boy, knocking him to the pavement; Jo Willie received bead tn- -. - Pleura Price 5c Tribune 25, 1955 No. 184 UMC Contributions Reach 71 Percent Of 5109r000 Goal Contributions to the United Medord Crusade now total $76, 979.06, or 71 per cent of the $109,000 goal, UMC workers were told a the last of a series of weekly report luncheons yesterday. The new total represents col lections of $12,214.03 made with in the past week, up from 59 per cent reported a week- ago. The Lion Hearted division of iuna drive workers, with Elliott Becken as chairman, again was leading with 92 per cent of its $7,500 quota collected. Low was the plant chapter division, Wil liam Prentice chairman, with 63 per cent of a $41,428.43 goal. From cow on, leaders of the divisions will meet each week, in place of the luncheons for di visional workers. The meetings will be at noon Mondays at the Jackson hotel. . , . The luncheon yesterday was at the YMCA and was sponsored by the Elks club. . ' " Injured OSC Student In 'Good Condition' Salem U.R) James R. Law rence, 19-year-old Oregon State college student injured in an ex plosion in his room at Corvallis yesterday, was reported in "good" condition at Salem gen eral hospital today. ' Doctors said Lawrence lost a hand and; the sight of one eye. He had been conducting a chem ical experiment in his room. juries, and underwent surgery at the hospital. Meanwhile, the Haynes fam ily and others traveling with them have experienced consid erable difficulty in finding a place to stay in Medford. They are Negroes. - However, several private par ties have aided them. Three fam ilies took in , members of the group for three days until more permanent arrangements could be made. They are now living in a house provided by a Med ford man, who also has given them help in the form of food and money. ' Friends of a Medford woman who provided a home for mem bers of the group said that she experienced some 'personal abuse in the form of telephone calls, comments, and people driving by the house at all hours and yelling at her. Representatives of radio sta tion KBOY, which last week I broadcast an appeal for help for Meetis SeocfiDdirD Benson Announces Effort To Bolster Sagging Prices Move Gives Lift To Hog Raisers Washington (U.R) Leaders in the nation's hog belt gener ally applauded the administra-, tion's new pork buying program today but some said it is too little and too late. - Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson announced the pro gram late yesterday in an effort to give - sagging hog ' prices a boost and to give Midwestern hog raisers a political lift.' To Assist Farmers Under the program, the gov ernment will "as soon as prac ticable" begin buying about $85,- 000,000 worth of dressed pork and lard to "assist farmers in adjusting their , production to market demand." E. Howard Hill, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federa tion, said "I'm glad they're mov ing on it. This is a good move." But Fred Stover, president of the Iowa Farmers Union, called the action "entirely too little and too late." - Republicans Relieved ' Jake Moore, . newly elected chairman of the 12-state Mid west . Democratic Farm Confer ence, said "I'm. glad to see Sec retary Benson responded so. quickly in taking action that could have been taken by his department many months ago."-; Republican members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, in Minnesota on a grass roots survey of farm opinion, were reported relieved at Benson's an-' nouncement. Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) predicted the program will "stop the slide and start' prices upward." . , NLRB Hearings May Last Through Week A national labor relations board hearing on alleged unfair labor practices in the lumbering industry continued here today and it appeared that sessions would last through this week. The charges were filed by lo cals of the International Wood workers of America CIO, against Red Blanket Lumber 'company of Eagle Point and Prospect, the Pine Industrial Relations com mittee of Klamath Falls and four Central" Oregon firms. Charges arise out of strikes between June and October of 1954. Chester L. Irving, Klamath Falls, . PIRC secretary-manager, was the first witness called, and a large part of the time has been ' taken up producing PIRC rec-; 6rds. - Martin S. Bennett, San Fran cisco, is NLRB hearing examiner. Proceedings opened at the city hall yesterday and moved to tiie post office building today. Hear ing scene is expected to shift ' to Bend when sessions are con cluded here. , - - ' ' Still in Given Aid the Haynes family, reported this morning that offers of aid are' still being received. . Meanwhile, it was reported that Joe Haynes, the boy's fa ther, has obtained temporary, employment here and has a job waiting for him at his home uiq Corcoran, Calif. The local job is filling in for a man who is ill, and is expected to last for only a few days. A church group has offered to provide some aid in connec tion with medical expenses and . also has been active in other forms of help. Four members of the group are planning to return to Cor coran as soon as possible be cause of work waiting them there, and, a Medford fraternal group has provided help to make the trip possible. The Haynes family was re turning to Corcoran when the accident happened. They had been working in the hop harvest at Independence, Ore.
