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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.).
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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'
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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.
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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.'
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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.