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Newspaper Page TextWEATHER FORECAST: Mostly cloudy and cooler. Showers Sunday. Snow flurries in the mountains. Partial clearing and decreas- - ing showers Monday. High, both Sunday and Monday, 45. Low Sunday night, 35. ' Temp Highest Yesterday 52 Lowest Yesterday Morning .'...41 Prec. To 10 pan. Yesterday 1.37 A story on Medford's par RIBUNE ticipation at the League of Ore- ion Cities convention appears on paf 14 of today's Mail Tribnne. United Press Full Leased Wire AY, NOVEMBER 20, 1955 Price 5c No. 206 j nn I . United Press Full Leased Wire - JJ . . v . 50th Year 32 Pages MEDFORD . HST Gives SuDDort To Nominee: Anyone Might Chicago (U.R) Former President Harry S. Truman threw the race for the Demo cratic presidential nomination wide open last night by declar ing that any one who wants to be president has a "perfect right to run." He said, he has "always liked variety" and that he will sup port "whoever is the nominee of the Democratic convention." Mr. Truman spoke at a giant Joe Yillie Leaves Hospital; Family Returns to Calif. Eleven-year-old Joe Willie Haynes walked ' out of Sacred Heart hospital yesterday, climb ed into the family car, and left for his home in Corcoran, Calif. Joe Willie is the little Negro boy who suffered dangerous head injuries last Oct. 19, and who lay unconscious between life and death, for about a week at the hospital. Until yesterday, he had been hospitalized con tinuously since his accident, just one month to the day, His condition, and sympathy for his family, aroused a num ber of Medford families and or ganizations, who provided a place to live, assistance for the "grown-ups" and a temporary job for Joe Willie's father. Appreciate Help The father, before he left Medford yesterday, again stat ed that he simply does not have the words to express apprecia tion to the many people whrr treated them so kindly during the month they were in Med ford. He said' the family wants everyone to know how much they appreciate it. The youngster was saved by what some people call a miracle of brain surgery. The youngster gained consciousness about a week after the accident, later gained the use of his hands, and for several days now has been walking around in the hospital corridors. It is reported he will be able to return to school soon after the family gets home. Struck on Highway The accident in which Joe Willie was injured occurred when the family car stalled on the highway near Gold Hill. and the group was pushing it in the pre-dawn darkness. Another c?r, the driver of which could not see the family, struck the boy. USAnnouncesPlans For Baghdad Pact Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States, in a strategic move perhaps influenced by the Czech Egypt arms deal, announced Sat urday it will establish "military and political liaison" with the five-nation Baghdad pact. The five nations are joined in a defensive alliance along Rus sia's southern frontier. Members are Iraq. Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Britain. Saturday's announcement was regarded as 'possible first step toward eventual full-fledged U.S. membership in the pact. Egypt has opposed the pact, primarily because Iraq an Arab nation is a member. This independent step by Iraq amounted '.to a challenge to Eevpt's Arab leadership. U.S. officials admitted that the whole problem of American re lationship with the Baghdad -act countries is a thorny one. The United States risked some Arab displeasure by aligning it self with the five nations be cause of Egypt's opposition to it. But Egypt now has made a deal with Communist Czechoslovakia to obtain arms. Republican Senators Challenge Campaigns Washington (U.R) Two Re publican Senators Saturday challenged the political cam paign work sponsored by labor organizations and one oi mem asked for a Senate Committee investigation. The two were Barry M. Gold- water (Ariz.), chairman of the Republican Senatorial campaign committee and Carl T. Curtis (Neb.). m m Savs 10 Run fund-raising dinner in the Inter national Amphitheater which al so brought together on . the speaker's platform the party's three top possibilities for presi dent, Adlai E. Stevenson, Gov. Averell Harriman of New York and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. . Blast Administration All four blasted the Repub lican administration in a pre view of the 1956 campaign and predicted a sweeping election victory next year. Mr. Truman said "I am sure the Democrats are going to take over the White House and Con gress and everything else." But the party's elder states man mdae it clear he will re main on t h e sidelines in the expected battle for the presi dential nomination. So far Stevenson, the 1952 nominee,- is the only avowed canidate for 1956, but Kefauver is expected to toss his hat in the ring next month and Harriman is regarded as a possible entry also. Full Blown Rally The Democrats put on a full blown political rally, complete with bunting and blaring band, as 2,800 party faithful paid $100 a plate for their dinner. They gave Mr. Truman a stand ing ovation as he arose to speak. The former president lit into the Republicans with his ac customed vigor, accusing them of costing "us every friend we had in the world. Mr. Truman said the Demo cratic party was the only "safe" party to run the government. He said the domestic situation under the GOP was "in an awful fix" and that foreign policy "has never been in politics as it has been , since 1952." t Stevenson was the major speaker because the affair was on his home grounds, drawing 30 minutes of time that was broadcast and televised. Kefau ver and Harriman were allotted 15 minutes each. Kefauver departed from his prepared text to make a refer ence to the 1952 convention in the Amphitheater when he was rebuffed for the nomination after waging a strong battle in the primaries. Grand Hotel Sold To Medford People A new firm, the Grand Hotel Co., of Medford, filed articles or incorporation in Salem last week, and records at the Jack son county clerk's, off ice showed the hotel has been sold to the new company. The hotel, located at the cor ner of North Front and Fifth sts., was sold about a year ago to Otto and Ruth Schulz, and Harry Schulz, Portland, by E. B. and Hazel D. Serruys, who had pur chased it a few months earlier from August Zattlin. The transaction last week in eluded property in Lots 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 of Block 23, city of Medford. The consideration involved was not announced, but federal tax stamps worth S66 were placed on the deed, indi cating a purchase price of ap proximately 560,000. Signers of the incorporation papers were W. V. Deatherage, Dorothy F. McOuet and Evelyn C. Copinger, all Medford, but it was understood the majority stockholders are Robert Beatty and Verne Johnston, both of Medford. Beatty had no comment on the transaction when queried last week. Overhaul of Timber Management Asked Eugene (U.R) A general overhauling of O & C timber management was recommended here Friday by witnesses appear ing .before a joint congressional subcommittee looking into fed eral timber sale policies. Seventeen witnesses told the committee of two U.S. represen tatives and one senator that there is urgent need for more access roads, an increase in the allowable annual cut and a step- Ding up of reforestation work The committee, composed of Reps. Earl Chudoff (D-Pa.) and Clare Hoffman (R-Mich.), and Sen. .Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.) moves to Portland thi i weekend lor a mree-oay series lef lie-nags. ' Palace Brawl Fatal To Caliph Of Fez; 5 Injured By Mob Caliph's Bodyguard Killed In Morocco Rabat, Morocco (U.R) The caliph of the holy city of Fez was stabbed to death by an infuriated mob Saturday in the courtyard of the imperial pal ace when he came to make his peace with the returned sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef. The caliph's bodyguard also was killed and five of his fol lowers wounded two critically in the palace brawl between followers of Ben Youssef and his ousted predecessor, pro French Sidi Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa. Vent Down Fighting The caliph, a pro-French pro vincial official who was a back er of the former sultan, went down fighting when the mob at tacked his group in a demonstra tion of fanatical loyalty to the re-enthroned Ben Youssef, just back from exile. Caliph Mohammed Bernadi had a jeweled dagger in one hand and a pistol in the other when he went down with a fatal knife wound in his back. The red-pantalooned Negroes of the imperial guard finally succeeded in restoring order. Only Moroccans were involv ed in the murderous outburst of violence. There were no .French troops or officials at the palace when the trouble flared up at 11 a.m. The "battle at the palace" was one of several bloody fracases reported Saturday in Morocco. Policeman Burned In Marrakesh a mob burned a policeman to death after he had killed a man and wounded a woman in a riot that beean when he manhandled a youthful suspect. At least four persons were kil led and 45 injured when police I fired into. a, mob of several thousand Arabs that attacked a six-man suburban police post near Meknes. Officials said po- tce were forced to fire into the crowd in self-protection and a military patrol was called out. Bernadi was one of the most prominent Moroccan officials who sided with the French when they deposed and exiled Ben Youssef two years ago. He made thousands of ene mies by supporting Mohammed Ben Moulay, the aged uncle of Ben Youssef who was enthroned in his place when French au thorities shipped him off to Madagascar in 1953. Ben Moulay was ousted in his turn a few weeks ago, and sent off to the international city of Tangier to make way for his nephew, who was restored to the throne this week by French authorities. Morse Plans to Sponsor Aid to Education Bill Salt Lake City (U.R) Sen TIT r ,. . v ayne morse UJ-urej an nounced last night that in the next session of Congress he will re-introduce a bill providing federal aid to education that was sponsored by the late Republican Sen. Robert A. Taft. Morse addressed a rally of the United Steel workers of Amer ica, held to raise funds for sup port of union-endorsed candi dates in next year's elections. - The Oregon Democrat, who bolted the Republican party and for a time was an Independent, also charged that the Elsenhower administration is letting Idaho Power Co. "get away with scut tling the greatest multi-purpose damsite in the nation" on the Hells canyon stretch of the Snake river in Idaho. Copenhagen Narcotics Ring; Largest In Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark (U.R) Six Danish Boy Scouts turned "junior G-men" to smash a big narcotics ring that had been operating under the noses of Copenhagen police, it was dis closed Saturday. . Police said they have arrested an undisclosed number of per sons in a crackdown on the ring, described as one of the biggest ever to operate in Den mark. But the detective work was done by the Boy Scouts. They picked up a clue, then used every method they had read about in. mystery stories to get the goods on the culprits. Police Make Arrests When they had an airtight case, the scouts turned their evidence over to the professional detectives. The police checked Mail Tri' In Hor Deliv :k y ' Horn- , of the k the daily sewi, ivered en honebac Miss Gerrj ,lmore, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Elmore, and an eighth grade student in the Hornbrook Ele-, rr lentary school, has been the carrier for the Medford Mail Tribune for several months. She is a welcome and familiar sight to Hornbrook residents as she and her horse, "Smok ey," make their rounds each night delivering the papers. Easterners visiting in the area during the summer months were enchanted at the sight of Smokey trotting along, Gerry astride him, her papers under her arm, andher pony tail bobbing out behind. However, the short winter days, and Hornbrook's recent -8-inch snowfall, are giving Smokey a temporary winter vacation. Gerry is now being assisted by either her mother, or, very often, her grand mother, Mrs. Orson Coleman. But once the days grow long er again, Gerry and Smokey will be doing the job together again. Versions Of Plane Accident Related To CAB Officials Seattle, Wash. (U.R) The pilot of the non-scheduled DC-4 airplane which crashed into a southern Seattle suburb early Friday killing 27 of 74 persons aboard Saturday blamed "inabil ity to feather the prop on a run away engine" as the cause of the disaster. William McDougall, and his co-pilot, Fred Hall, both of Miami, Fla., told Civil Aeronau tics board officials their versions of the smashup. We absolutely could " not feather the prop on the number four engine, which ran away from us shortly after takeoff," McDougall said. Pulled to Right "The drag on the wing pulled us to the right and started us downward, despite our efforts to keep the plane level," he added. Hall confirmed this version and said he battled "desperately" to feather the prop on the num ber four engine. McDougall said there was no "overloading" of the plane, and the weather conditions (it was snowing at the time) were not the cause, adding: "Everything was in order when we took off. We had ob tained 135 MPH speed on take off and made 'our first power re duction when the number four prop ran away and we went to full low pitch. The RPM's in creased and the faulty engine began to whine. The prop flat tened out and the wing began to drag. It was all I could do to keep the plane from going into a tight spiral. National experts on aviation disasters were here to investi gate the wreckage of the plane to establish the definite cause of the crash. Survivors of the crash said it was a "miracle" anyone lived after the plane smashed into a snow-covered Seattle suburb, damaging a house near a shop ping center. The plane had been chartered by 66 soldiers just home from dutv in Korea. They were anxious to get home in time for Thanksgiving. Twenty - six of them were killed, along with a civilian pilot, who was "dead heading" a ride East with his wife and three children, who survived. ' Boy Scouts Help Smash Big it. found it accurate and moved in to make the arrests. The story, as disclosed Sat urday, began when one of the six scouts saw a shady character selling morphine to an addict on a downtown street. Several pa trolmen were nearby, but failed to spot the transaction. The. scout tailed the peddler to a coffee bar where other ad dicts and narcotics salesmen salesmen seemed to meet. That night, the scout went home, rounded up five of his troop friends, and they set up a daily watch on the coffee bar. The scouts lounged around the coffee shop for days, playing the jukebox and pretending to read newspapers and magazines. But all the while they were collecting a complete dossier on the ring members. BIO FOUR I m, rt ir'"5" ""-"f-- ...... nn t J1l. ... . l, . ' ,l COMPANY A INSPECTED Basic combat personnel of Company A, 1st battalion, 186th infantry, 41st division, Oregon National Guard, are shown above during a recent federal inspection receiving tactical training in patrol action. Lt. Col. H. T. Bynum in spected the company in ranks and conducted a discussion with Guardsmen concerning Hope For Survivors Of Military Plane Crash Diminishes Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) A spe cial flight made over snow capped Mt. Charleston last night virtually wiped out a tiny spark of hope that any of 14 persons might have survived the crash of a military plane that slam med into the peak three days ago. Just before dusk, Jet Pilot Maj. R. A. Windoffer flew over the wreckage, 500 yards below the peak of the 11,910-foot mountain, and reported he "thought" he saw a "' bonfire "about 50 feet" from the crash scene with two persons standing by it. Following Windoffer's report, which still left officials "very, very doubtful" there was any life at the scene, Capt. Miles Baker flew a jet trainer over the wreckage on a special after dark mission. ' Baker reported there was "positively no campfire at the wreckage." Although it was dark and Baker was able to see only by reflection of "a little moon light," he said he saw "no other signs of life." At the same time, he said he plainly saw fires of the two rescue parties camped at points about five and 10 miles from the C-54 crash. Officials said Baker's report virtually killed any hope that might have been held for the 14 Air Force personnel and civil ians after the crash early .Thurs day. The plane - left Burbank, Calif, on a routine flight to groom Dry Lake carrying per sons engaged in . secret , work with the atomic energy commis sion, at AEC installations near here. One of the scouts, an amateur photographer, snapped a photo of the ringleader while he stood outside the bar. One scout stood behind the suspect while his fellow scout, pretending to take a picture of his friend, snapped a photo of the ringleader, as well. The six scouts finished their case by typing six sheets of the facts they had gathered. .Then they dumped them, together with the photos, into the lap of the police commissioner. Police said the ring had 50 or 60 customers who paid two kroner (28 cents) a shot. The arrests were made several weeks ago, but police refused to release any names because they are still trying to track down the source of the narcotics supply.' .H. 0 ON SCORES WEST Oregon 28, OSC 0 UCLA 17, USC 7 Washington 27, WSC 7 Stanford 19, California 0 Colorado 40. Iowa State' 0 Colorado A&M 35, Brigham Young 0 SOUTHWEST Texas Christian 35, Rice 0 Southern Methodist 12. Bay lor 0 Texas Tech 13, College of Pacific 7 Houston 26, Villanova 14 ( Oklahoma A&M 28, Kansas State 0 , Detroit 19, Tulsa 13 Louisiana St. 13, Arkansas 7 MIDWEST Ohio State 17, Michigan 0 Oklahoma 41, Nebraska 0 Michigan St. 33, Marquette 0 Notre Dame 17, Iowa 14 Minnesota 21, Wisconsin 6 Purdue 6, Indiana 4 Northwestern- 7, Illinois 7 Kansas 13, Missouri 7 SOUTH North Carolina 26, Virginia 14 Duke 14, Wake Forest 0 . Kentucky 23, Tennessee 0 Auburn 21, Clemson 0 Vanderbilt 21, Florida 6 EAST . , Yale 21, Harvard 7 Pittsburgh 20, Penn State 0 Rutgers 12, Columbia 6 Princeton 6, Dartmouth 3 Syracuse 20, West Virginia 13 Maryland 19, George Wash ington 0 Boston U. 25, Temple 0 Connecticutt 6, Holy Cross 0 Accidents Injure Two Here Friday Two persons were injured in accidents in Medford Friday, ac cording to city police. Miss Judy Ellison, 17, of 453 Haven st.,. Medford, suffered facial and knee abrasions and lacerations when the car which she was operating collided with one driven by Carl Willard Stone, 1103 DeBarr ave., Med ford about 2:30 p.m. Friday. Miss Ellison was. .taken by Medford Ambulance service to Sacred Heart hospital, where her condition was listed as not serious yesterday. The accident occurred at the corner of Third and Holly sts. Stanley James Steege, 25, of 401 East 12th st, Medford, was injured slightly when , he was struck by a car operated by Clifford Alton Branham, 1Z4 King st.. Medford, about 6:02 p.m. Friday in the 800 block of South Riverside ave. - He was taken to Community hosDital by police officers. His condition Saturday was de scribed as good. AMBASSADORS NEW training received during the past year. Dur ing the final hour of drill, several classes were conducted. Colonel Bynum praised the company's training, records and supply pro cedures. The official report from Sixth Army headquarters on the rating received by Com pany A is not expected for several weeks. (National Guard photo) Rogue Valley Back To Normal Fall; Some Streams Rise The Rogue valley, covered by unseasonal snow much of last week, returned to "normal fall weather" Friday evening. Heavy rain fell throughout the area, melting the snowpack rap idly, and causing many streams in the area to rise, none of them dangerously. The weather bu reau said there is a possibility of local flooding on smaller streams but no apparent danger of gen eral flooding along the Rogue river. However, it was reported that a "big fat surge" of water could be- expected down the river as rain and melting snow channeled downstream. State police reported that the snowpack on the Siskiyou moun tain pass went from 23 inches at roadside Friday night to about 14 inches Saturday morning as rain melted it down, and brought bare pavement on the highway. Showery conditions were fore cast for Sunday. Temperatures were in the 40s and 50s late Friday and Saturday and nearly an inch of rain fell up to mid-day Saturday. The California Oregon Power company reported the only inter ruptions of service in its area were in the Happy Camp and Chiloquin-Ft. Klamath districts, where there were brief outages. The service area as a whole had no interruptions. Copco Friday was called upon to furnish power for the entire southern Oregon Coastal region. A Bonneville Power adminis tration transmission line , be tween Albany and Detroit went out, curtailing power available to the Coos Bay area.. At the request of BP A, Copco assumed the power load for the area south from Coos Bay as far as Brook ings. The load was about 29,000 kilowatts, Copco said, and it said its facilities were adequate to as sume the heavy extra load dur ing the emergency. A Copco official said the com pany is pleased to have such a good start on a heavy snowpack for the winter, which is a good sign for a strong runoff for power generation next year. Striking Auto Workers Demonstrate in Indiana . 'New Castle, Ind. (U.R) Striking CIO United Auto Work ers union members demonstrat ed with an automobile blockade Saturday at the Perfect Circle Corp. foundry where National Guard troops were withdrawn only two days before. State officials in close touch with the situation said there appeared , to be no immediate need to recall the Guard. Authorities said about 25 automobiles circled the plant and harassed non-strikers going to their jobs. - Three Hour Meeting Called By Soviets To Discuss Problem Agreement Necessary For Council Session New York U.R) The Big Four United Nations Ambassa dors met for about three hours Saturday but failed to reach agreement on breaking a dead lock on U.N. membership. After the long' lunch meeting at the Soviet U.N. headquarters on Park Ave., the U. S. issued the following statement: "Representatives of the United Kingdom, France,, the U.S.S.R. and the United States met today to discuss the United lotions membership question. No agree ment was reached. The conver sations will continue." Soviet Invitation The meeting was at the invita tion of Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister V. V. Kuznetsov, ob viously for some high-level "horsetrading" on the admission Of 18 new members. Big Four agreement was need ed to break the membership deadlock and win approval for five Communist and 13 Western sponsored nations as new mem bers. O Informed sources said Security Fresident Nasrollsh Entezam has made it clear h will not call the meeting of the 11-nation body until the Big - Four reach agreement on membership. "If they agree today, the Se curity Council will meet Tues day," he said during the Big Four midday meeting. "If there is no agreement, there will be no council session." Kuznetsov was host at the lunch, but Soviet Ambassador to Washington G. N. Zrubin, Am bassador to Britain Jacob Malik and the U.N. Delegate A. A. Sobolev who recently returned from Geneva also were present. Drives to Meeting U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., accompanied by his political advisors, drove to the Russian headquarters in a wet driving snow storm. Head bowed against the snow Lodge pushed- his way into the Park Avenue building shortly after 1 p.m. (EST). He joined Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon and France's Herve Alp- hand, who was present even though his country has walked out of the U.N. The meeting considered a pro posal to break the five year freeze" on new U.N., members by admitting 18 nations. White House Tells Plans Of Meetings Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) The White House announced plans Saturday for a dramatic helicop ter airlift to ferry the govern ment's highest officials to con- ' f erences at the President s Mary land mountain retreat early next week. Preparations for the unpreced ented air shuttle were rushed while the President relaxed at his snow-boflnd farm, chatting and playing bridge with some of his closest friends. A wet, sticky blanket of snow kept Mr. Eisenhower indoors. Dr. Howard MCC. Snyder re ported the President had a good night's sleep and was in "fine shape" Saturday even though he did more official work this week than at any time since his heart attack Sept. 24. Airlifted to Camp Members of the National Se curity Council and Cabinet will be airlifted to Camp David, the President's Maryland retreat, Monday. The council will meet Monday afternoon and the Cab inet will assemble Tuesday, morning. Mr. Eisenhower will motor the 22 miles to Camp David early Monday afternoon and stay overnight for the cabinet session. It will, be his first for mal meeting with the council and cabinet since before he left for Denver, Aug. 14. " Carlisle, Pa. U.B Civil Defense workers and volunteers fought through a snowstorm' on desolate South mountain Sat urday in a search for a "mys tery" plane reported in distress over the area.