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i ... II fin 1 lu Program Declared Designed To Force Red Recognition Whole GermQjri People Would Be Represented Geneva (U.R) The West rejected a "loaded" Soviet plan for Germany today, war ning that German unity must come before any other move to end the cold war. Geneva (U.R) Soviet Rus sia called today for establish ment of an "all-German Coun cil" to represent the German people while that country re mains divided. In an obviously "loaded" pro posal designed to recognize Communist East Germany, the Soviets urged setting up such a council composed of members of both Wes and East 'German parliaments. It would be consultative but could represent the whole Ger man people, the Soviet proposal said. This would be so not only in coordinating the political and cultural life of the divided na tion, but also in cooperation with other countries "in the consoli dation of peace." Seek Swift Showdown Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov unveiled the Kremlin plan at the fifth plenary session of the Big Four Foreign Minis ter's Conference this afternoon. It came shortly after U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay and British For eign Secretary Harold MacMil lan decidM to call for a swift showdown with Russia on the question of German unity. Their decision to force the showdown was reached at a Big Three western strategy session at noon at the villa of French For eign Minister Antoine Pinay. Verge of Deadlock The Big Four conference was on the verge of deadlock with the Western ministers unable so far to get Molotov to set forward ' a plan for German unity. Thus far his various proposals called for a permanently divided Ger many. Last night the West slapped down an East German effort to slip into the conference through the back doaS) with a plan for an "all-German council" an all- German government made up of Communist and Western leaders. Communist sources hinted that Molotovs plan would be on sim ilar lines but would call for a "United States of Germany." It was the same type of plan that brought the non-Communist gov ernment of Poland home from London after the war only to disappear into the red maw. All-German Council Molotov's' plan called for an all-German council which would Jeave East and West Germany with senates selected by their respective states in the same way as the American Senate. These senates would cooperate to ne gotiate for German unity. The Molotov plan would side step the free elections demanded by the West a move that would lead to immediate Western re jection. The West already was pre pared to slap down Molotov'9 new plan for a European secur ity treaty including West and East Germany jgrid an arms con trol buffer zone across Europe including both. 15-Yecr-Olcl Arrested Or Liquor Charge A 15-year-old Redway, Calif., youth was arrestedjby-sheriff's deputies Sunday for illegal pos session of intoxicating beverages at the Oasis in Eagle Pint, ac cording to officers' reports. A 17-year-old Eagle Point youth was involved in the case, and records of both have been turned over to juvenile authori ties. Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul Pat terson has designated the week of Nov. 6-12 as "American Edu cation Week" in Oregon. EDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 22 Pages DULLES SAID NO Soviet after U. S. Secy, of State John Foster Dulles (left) refused to leave his car for a formal pose for photographers following their meeting in Geneva. In car with Dulles are U. S. Am bassador to Russia Charles Bohlen (right) and Asst. Secy, of State Livingston Merchant' . Monterey, Calif. (U.R) A short, but strong earthquake rocked along the Central Cali fornia coast today at 11:40 a.m., spilling canned -goods from shelves and rattling dishes. There were no immediate re ports of major damage or injury. The University of California reported the quake registered 5.5 magnitude on its seismo graph, the same strength as the damaging shake which hit Wal nut Creek, Calif., several days ago. TID Drops Concession The board of directors of the Talent Irrigation district yester day morning withdrew from plans to sign a concession agree ment with R. M. Kent, its secretary- and manager. Plans for a formal agreement, granting him exclusive resort concession rights at Hyatt lake, were revealed last week when a landowner of the district, Col lier Buffington Jr., filed an in junction suit to bar the proposed transaction. Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna Saturday issued a tem porary restraining order against any such contract. At yesterday's meeting, the board heard a letter from the district's attorney, Frank Far rell, in which he indicated such a plan would not be permitted under Oregon laws. In a lengthy discussion of the proposal, the Strong Winds Lssh Norlhwesi Coastline By UNITED PRESS Strong winds lashed coastal areas of Oregon and Washington today as another rain-laden Pa cific storm moved toward the Northwest. The Columbia river lightship reported winds of 52 miles an hour early today and gusts as high as 50 mph were predicted for the Portland area by eve ning. More snow was forecast for the Cascades with mixed rain and snow east of the mountains. Storm warnings were flying north of Astoria and small craft warnings south of there to Cape Blanco. s MEDFORD. OR: Foreign Minister V. M. Mnlotnv Father John A. Webber, Santa Clara University seismologist at Santa Clara, Calif., said the quake was recorded as of 4.0 magnitude on the university seismograph and was . centered G'O miles south of Santa Clara. The quake which lasted for a minute was felt generally along the coast from Monterey to San Luis Obispo, 150 miles south. It was recorded inland at Salinas, 25 miles east of here. In Paso Robles, 125 miles south, canned goods were spilled Plans for Proposal two members of the board who favored the plan, Henry Owen and Joe Meyer, and Kent dis claimed any intention of wrong doing. Homer Moore, president of the board,opposed the proposal at the last meeting Oct. 4, but it was tentatively approved by the other two members of the board. They rescinded that action yes terday, according to a report of the meeting. Lorenz Company Sale Effective Nov, 28 Klamath .Falls (U.R) Offic ials of the Lorenz Company of Klamath Falls and of Adsco In dustries of Buffalo, N.Y., said today that an agreement for sale of Lorenz to Adsco would be come effective Nov. 28. Neither firm would reveal the financial consideration but it was called a multi-million dol lar transaction. The joint announcement was signed by Wesley C. Lorenz and by J. L. McGara, executive vice president of Adsco. McGara said prchase of Lor enz was the second phase in Adsco's campaign to establish a Pacific coast network of appli ance firms. He said no major changes in Lorenz personnel was contemplated and that Lorenz operations in both Klamath Falls and Meefford would be ex panded. Several months ago Adsco ac quired Sid Woodbury Company of Portland. That firm has out lets in Portland, Eugene and Medford. T955 fnVhtt smiles and sTiniffs from grocery store shelves and train crews in the Southern Pa cific railroad tunnel just north of San Luis Obispo said it was "quite noticeable." Trains in the area were ordered' to proceed through the area "slowly" pend ing inspection for any track-bed damage. Second Quake in 10 Days It was the second strong quake to , rumble through Northern California in the past 10 days. A week ago Sunday night a 5.5 magnitude temblor shcok up the Walnut Creek area across the bay from San Francisco, leaving some million dollars damage in its wake. . Seismologist, however, said they did not believe today s quake was an aftershock of the Walnut Creek shake. The Wal nut Creek quake was on the Hayward fault, today's on the San Andreas fault, they said. This morning's quake was de scribed as , having a "rocking chair" motion, strongly rocking residents here and rattling dishes. Faure Requests Confidence Vole Paris (U.R) Premier Edgar Faure gave the National Assem bly its fourth chance in four weeks today to vote him out of office, this time on his program for special parliamentary elec tions in December. The vote of confidence was set for this evening but usually several hours of debate precede the actual balloting. Observers gave the premier a bare 50-50 chance of surviving the vote and saving France from another in ternational crisis. Faure's own Radical Socialist Party was split this time, with former Premier Pierre Mendes- France ranged solidly against him. Mendes-France, showing increasing signs of eagerness tP regain office, called his, first p?ess conference in many months for today. - Faure posed the confidence question Tuesday night over a one-sentence bill dissolving the current parliament Jan. 2 in stead of May 3. Its adoption would clear the way for a gen eral election on either Dec. 4 or Dec. 11. Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 191 Ike's Return To Capital Nov. 11 Being Considered Decision Slated During Week-End Denver (U.R) Medical con sultations this week end will de termine whether President Eis enhower can return to Washing ton Nov. 11 as he now plans. Mr. Eisenhower was walking more each day, having social callers at Fitzsimons Army hos pital, using the telephone him self and otherwise showing signs that he was on the recovery schedule estimated by his doctors weeks ago. Would Go To Gettysburg Next Sunday's medical verdict permitting, the President is ex pected to fly back to Washington Nov. 11, spend the week end at the White House to break the trip, then go to his farm at Gettysburg, Pa., in time to ob serve Mrs. Eisenhower's 60th birthday on Nov. 14. . He has been in Colorado since Aug. 14 and suffered a coronary thrombosis at the home of his mother-in-law, 'Mrs.' " John S. Doud on Sept. 24. Daily Business Schedule He has returned to a daily hospital room business schedule which today includes talks with Secretary of Labor James P. Mit chell, and Dillon Anderson, spec ial White House assistant for Na tional Security council matters. Mitchell is the eighth cabinet member to visit the President since his illness. Still unsched uled but likely were later visits from the two remaining cabinet officers who have not been at the President's bedside, Secre tary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks and Marion B. Folsorn, secretary of health, education and welfare. Mr. Eisenhower on Nov. 9, shortly before his departure for the East, will receive here for a brief conference President Car los Castillo Armas of Guatamala. The definite answers on Mr. Eisenhower's immediate future will" develop Sunday following medical consultations on the President's recovery led by Dr. Paul Dudley White, the Boston heart specialist. WEATHER FORECAST: Thickening 'cloudi ness with occasional light rain tonight. Showers Thurs day. Low tonight 38-40. High Thursday 58. Temp. Highest Yesterday ... .. 51 Lowest this Morning 36 Date Set for Hearings on Annexation of Two Areas Public hearings on two annex ation proposals will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, in the Medford city council chambers. Ordinances calling for the hear ings were adopted last night. One parcel of land includes blocks seven through ten in Sis kiyou Heights extension which presently is a county "island" surrounded by city limits. The "island" was created recently by annexation of property along Richmond st., closing off a "pen insula" of county land. RVCC. Hospital Area The other parcel of land is an area southeast of the present city limits which includes Rogue Valley Country club, Rogue Val ley Memorial hospital site, and a subdivision around Barneburg hill. The western boundary will go north along Ellendale dr. to south of Barnett rd. and west to -Ja- 1 - " i- HONEYBEAR ELOPES Nina (Honeybear) Warren, above, 22-year-old daughter of Chief Jus tice and Mrs. Earl Warren eloped with Dr. Stuart Brien, 33, Bev erly Hills, Calif., surgeon, and was married at Las Vegas, Nev., lat night. It was the first mar riage for both. The bride tele phoned news of the marriage to her parents in Washington but refused to say how they react ed. Miss Warren was stricken with polio in 1950 but has since recovered. Three American Scientists Win Nobel Prizes Stockholm (U.R) -Two Amer ican scientists won the 1955 Nobel prize for physics today and a third won the prize for chemistry. Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud of Cornell University was awarded the chemistry prize for discov ering a process to make synthe tic hormones. Prof. Willis E. Lamb of Stan ford' University and Prof. Poly karp Kusch of cCblumbia Uni versity won the physics prize for their work in nuclear re search. King to Give Awards Awards will be made by King Gustav Adolph of Sweden in Stockholm Dec. 10. Du Vigneaud, a 54-year-old bio-chemist who lives at Scars dale, N. Y., heas the biochem istry department of Cornell Uni versity Medical School in New York. Lamb, 42, lives at Palo Alto, Calif., with his wife. Reached at his home, he said he was "de lighted and pleased" to receive the ' prize. Kusch, a German-born natur alized citizen, lives in New York. Lamb and Kusch's work made it possible to stabilize the basic theories of the components of the universe, matter and radia tion. Micro-Wave Study Lamb said the only specific thing for which he could be hon oredwith the prize was his work in the general field of micro wave spectroscopy of the hydro gen atom which was published in494t DOW-JONES AVERAGES' New York (U.R) Closing Dow Jones averages: 30 industrials 454.92 up 0.03, 20 rails 149.98 up 0.40, 15 utilities 63.88 up 0.15, 65 stocks 162.02 up 0.19. Ap proximately 1,610,000 shares changed hands today, compared with 1,590,000 yesterday. Bear creek. It will follow the creefo north to the present city limits. Elections probably will be held in both areas proposed to be annexed sometime after Jan. 1, 1956, and Councilman Don Hansen reminded residents in the areas that only registered voters will be eligible to vote. Map To Be Published ' A map indicating the proposed annexation areas and more de tails on the annexation plan will be published in the near future. Hearings on annexing Calif ornia Pacific Utilities property orfeGroveland ave. and property owned by Benton Smith and Odell Larson on Murray ave. .at Columbus ave. were continued until next meeting because legal documents had not been Com pleted by the city attorney fast night. (See Stories on Page 14) Longmont, Colo. U.R) A UnitSl Air Lines four-engined. DC-6B airliner crashed in a flaming explosion on a farm 30 miles east of the Rocky Mountain foothills on Tuesday night, killing all 44 persons aboard. " Among the 39 passengers who lost their lives were at least one child and 14 women besides the crew. The plane, United's Flight 629 en route from New York to Set tle, Wash., had taken of? from Denver's Stapleton Municipal air port for a 1,075-mile non-stop flight to Portland, Ore., less than a half hour before it crashed at 7:10 p.m. (MST) in a sugar beet field eight miles east of here. Searchers Find Bodies in Littered Wreckage Three hours after the crash, searchers had accounted for the bodies of all the victims among the littered wreckage, which was scattered over a two-mile area. There was no immediate explanation of the tragedy, the second major airliner accident in less than a month. The other, on Oct. 6, also involved a United Air Lines planes, a DC-4, which smashed into 12, 005-foot Medicine Bow peak in southern Wyoming killing 66 persons in the nation's worst civil aviation disaster. The Wyo ming crash site is about 100 miles northwest of Longmont. A United Air Lines spokes man in Denver said today its in vestigators had not beenable to confirm reports that the plane exploded iffi mid-air before it crashed. A United spokesman said all bodies had been removed by 8 a.m. to a? make-shift morgue at the National Guard armory in nearby Greeley. The weather was clear in the vicinity of Tuesday night's acci dent although it was cold about 34 degrees arid there had been light snowfall in the region in the afternoon. The plane's crew members were identified by United Air Lines as Capt. Lee H. Hall, 38, the pilot; D. A. White, 26, the first office S. F. Arthur, 28, the pilot-engineer; and stewardesses Peggy Peddicord and Jacqueline Hinds, all of Seattle. Mother and Child Among Victims A mother, Mrs. James Fitz- patrick of Batavia, N.Y., and her infant child also were among the victims. A farmer, Paul Knutson, 53, who lives about five miles south of the crash site, said he saw. a "ball of fire" traveling about 2,000 feet altitude across the sky and then heard the sound of air plane engines. He watched the blazing plane for at least two minutes before it disappeared from his view. The plane crashed near the home of Conrad Hopp Jr., 47, a farmer, who said he heard a loud explosion that sounded like Princess Margaret Returns To Duties ' London (U.R) Princess Margaret masked her heavy heart with a smile and returned to her royal rounds today but powerful voices were raised to break the bond of church and state that was blamed for the end of her romance with di vorced Peter Townsend. The princess, rested byoa day of seclusion after she said fare well to Townsend, joined in prayers of thanksgiving for a famed British humanitarian. The. death 50 years ago of Dr. Thomas John Barnardo was to be commemorated aPSt. Paul's Cathedral aftd Margaret was guest of honor. Barnardo found ed a Nationwide chain of or phanages. Salem '(U.R) Articles of in corporation have been filed here for Pyramid Investments, Inc., of Ashland. They were signed by Dale Williams, Leo A. Zupan and Alfred H. Lohrrian, Airport To Get New Name For One Day Medford's airport will as sume a new name Saturday, Nov. 5 for one day. By resolution, ihe Medford city council last night author ized the name "Medford Trans Ocean and International Air port" in honor of a flight orig-. inating here Saturday morn ing for" Hawaii the first of its kind in Medford's airport history. The flight wif? carry about 33 members of the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce, and 8 boxes of Rogue valley pears, to Hawaii. The pears are being sent as part of the "Pears to Pineapple" good will trip. The name "Medford Tr.ans Ocean and International Air port" will become official at 8 a.m. and remain such until midnight. Li Lf "bomb" and saw the plane ap proaching in flames. hashed in Beetfield Hopp phoned directions to po lice and while he was talking his son, Conrad Dale, 18, ran in to report "the plane had crashed in the beet field adjacent to the house. 1 Hopp said he got into his truck and drove out into the field trying to find someone who needed help, but everyone I came to was dead." He and his son said bodies were scattered everywhere in the field. The force of the crash left three big craters in the field about 50 yards apart, made by two of the plane's four engines and the nose section of the fuse lage. 'The pieces of the plane were scattered from this spot for about two miles to the south near the river where the tail section of the plane was lo cated. Dead were lying all along this grisly route. (See stories on Page 7) Wolf's Testimony To Stay in Recojdp Judge Walker Ruies McMinnville (U.R) Judge Arlie G. Walkr today denied a defense motion that all testi mony ,iven by Victor Laurence Wolf, accuser of Marjorie Smith in -the murder of the 34-year-old widow's husband, be stricken from the record. The denial, came as the state and defense prepared to give their closing arguments to the jury, which may receive the case late today or tomorrow. Woman Implicated Mrs. Smith is on trial for her life in connection with the April 21 bomb slaying of Kermit Smith. Wolf implicated Mrs. Smith in the slaying. John P. Butler, director of criminal information for the city of San Francisco, testified to day that a search of his city's police files showed no reference to a 1945 rape victim known as "Marjorie E. Hersey." He said he made a name search of his department's files for the period of March 15 to May 15, 1945 Marjorie Hersey was the married name of Mrs. Smith in 3945. She testified earlier she had been criminally assaulted in San Francisco in 1945 and bore a child in January, 1946, as a re sult of the attack. Originals Destroyed Butler admitted under cross examination by Defense Attor ney Bruce Spaulding that the originals of officers' reports for 1945 had recently been destroy ed. However, he said card index files covering these reports were not destroyed. Judge (JJValker also denied a. defense motion that the jury be instructed to return a verdict of acquittal and that Butler's testimony be stricken. Mrs. Smith ended her testi mony yesterday, sobbing she loved her husband. Kate for Accuser Told After four days on the witness stand, Mrs. Smith said she was "ashamed and embarrassed" to be seen in ihe company of Vic- 1 T xr - "1 r u ior Liaurence won, a to-year-oiu electrician who says he murder ed Mrs. Smith's husband at her insistence. Mrs. Smith told Prosecutor Willis West that she refused to look at her accuser, Wolf, "be- ' cause of the hate I have for him for what he has done." iedford Stores Remain 9 o'clock Open for Shopping Until Tonight
