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in
London (U.R) Soviet Russia
disclosed today that six follow
ers of the late Lavrenti P. Beria
have been shot in the biggest
known blood purge of the sup
posedly tranquil Bulganin-Kru-shchev
regime.
"Tiflis Radio announced that
six former police officials in
Beria's home state of Georgia
were executed for carrying out
plots by the executed secret po
lice head, covering up his mis
deeds and framing his enemies.
In addition two others were
sentenced to prison terms, a
broadcast from Tiflis, capital of
the Georgia republic, reported.
It was the biggest purge since
Hatfield Denies
Solicitation of
State Employees
Salem (U.R) State Sen.
Mark Hatfield, who recently an
nounced his candidacy for sec--xetary
of state, denied today that
he or any of his campaign com
mittee had made any direct ap
peal to state employees for cam
paign contributions. "
He said his committee sent out
a mimeographed letter to all reg
istered Republicans in Marion
county, to their homes as record
ed in the Marion county clerk's
office.
Invitation To All
The handbill, signed by Stew
art Compton of Salem, Hatfield's
campaign manager, said in the
past many candidates had depen
ded on large donations from a
few people and this was an invi
tation to all Republicans to con
tribute whatever they wished.
Dave O'Hara, head of the State
Elections bureau, asked to com
ment as one of the state's lead
ing elections authority, said:
"Sen. Hatfield fell innocently
into a trap by using the complete
list of registered Republican VO'
ters in the addressograph files of
the county clerk's office.
Illustrates Danger
"This occurrence illustrates
the danger of using these lists
for political purposes. The lists
were never intended to be utiliz
ed by political activities."
O'Hara said use of the regis
tration lists was, a technical
violation of the election laws in
that it was logical that many on
the list would be state employees .
but said it was equally obvious !
that the violation was only tech
nical and not a conscious one on
the part of Hatfield.
County Officials
Back from Meets
County Judge Rodney Keat
ing returned last night from ;a
meeting with the Senate and
House of Representatives inves
tigating committee on forestry,
at the Department of Interior
building in Portland.
Keating, who acted as a rep
resentative of the Oregon and
California land grant counties
executive committee, presented
a statement of policy in regards
to access roads and marketing
agreements in O&C lands.'
County Clerk Bereth Hopkins,
returned Monday morning from
a meeting of the Oregon County
Clerk's association in Portland.
Suggestions about reporting vit
al statistics; changes in election
laws; rules governing tax levys;
and new welfare laws were dis
cussed. Paul Rynning, county engin
eer, returned Saturday from an
Association of Oregon County
Engineer's meeting in Portland.
General problems dealing with
T.Tuntv road construction and
maintenance were discussed.
Criticism Concerning Delay
Detention Home Site Said
There has been considerable
criticism of the length of time
it has taken the county court and
the juvenile advisory committee
to select a site for a Jackson
county detention home, it was
brought out at a meeting of the
advisory group's executive com
mittee last night.
The meeting of the executive
committee, in the courthouse law
library, was followed by a meet
ing of the full juvenile advisory
committee at 8 pjn. in the cir
cuit court room.
Juveniles in Jail
In pointing out the need for
early construction of the new
home, it was noted that about 16
juveniles were being held in
Jack'son county jail last night.
What Committee Chairman
' William Abbott termed "street
corner gossip" has been heard to
the effect that the county court
and the advisory committee have
not tried hard enough to find a
suitable location for the new, se
curity type home, committee
members said.
Abbott denied that this was
the case, stating that committee
members have been very active
in the search, for a building site
Beria himself was fired as Soviet
secret police chief early in the
reign of Georgi Malenkov and
shot in December of 1953 for al
legedly plotting against Malen
kov's government and the Soviet
Communist system.
Last December four Beria ac
complices were shot in a follow
up purge sweeping Georgia
hotbed of Beria men and home
of both Beria and the late Josef
Stalin.
But after Malenkov resigned
in February, a new era of blood
less tranquility seemed to dawn
in Russia under Premier Nikolai
Bulganin and Communist Party
Chief Nikita Khrushchev. To
WARMING THEMSELVES at piece of road repair equipment on capitol plaza, Eskimo
scouts Sgt. 1c Clifford Iknokinok (left) and Master Sgt. Willis Walunga, both of Alaska Na
tional Guard, tour Washington prior to special reception for them at Pentagon. Scouts led
rescue of 11 crew members of Navy patrol plane which was shot down by Russian jet fight
ers over Bering Sea last June 22. It's cold in Washington, too. (International)
Harriman Points To Shortage of
Teachers in
Eugene, Ore. (U.R) Gov. Ave
rell Harriman of New York said
today that "American educa
tion is slipping backward."
In a speech prepared for de
livery before a University of Ore
gon student assembly. Harriman
warned of a growing teacher
shortage and said some 700,000
children were deprived of full
time schooling last year.
"The U. S. must launch a nation-wide
program to raise the
standards of education if we are
to win the desperate competition
with Soviet Communism," he
said.
He said school construction
needs in the U. S. for the next
five years are estimated at about
$15,000,000,000.
Morse With Him
Harriman was accompanied to
Eugene from Portland by Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.). He said
he would lend the full weight of
his support to the reelection of
Morse.
Phoenix Youth Held
On Theft Charge
A 17-year-old Phoenix youth
was arrested by Medford police
late yesterday in connection with
an attempted theft of gasoline
from a parked car in a service
station yard at 618 East Main st.
Police said the youth and two
others were reported attempting
to steal gasoline. The apprehend
ed youth was charged with at
tempted larceny and lodged in
Jackson county jail, police said.
.. Two other youths, ages 11 and
12, were questioned in connec
tion with two bicycle thefts yes
terrday afternoon. Both bicycles
were reported stolen from Hed
rick Junior High school. The cas
es were turned over to juvenile
authorities.
and that the county court has
promptly Investigated all sites
which the committee has sug
gested. It was also pointed out the the
meeting that some people have
the mistaken impression that
planned construction of the new
$65,000 detention home has con
tributed largely to tax increases.
The tax rate to provide funds
for the home is 1.1 mills or S1.10
for each S1.000 of assessed valu
ation. Total funds for the con
struction of the home will be
taken from this year's taxes. Fu
ture tax millage, for the main
tenance ' and operation of the
project, will be about .3 mill.
No Final Word '
County Commissioner L. G.
Morthland announced that final
word has not yet been received
in answer to inquiries about a
possible site for the ' home on
the Crater Lake highway.
County Commissioner Chester
Wendt stated that anyone know
ing of possible sites should con
tact the county court. He added
that a one acre tract at the end
of Elm St., has been offered, but
that it probably is too small.
Three acres is considered a
day's Tiflis Radio broadcast
abruptly squashed any theories
that blood purges went out with
Malenkov.
Rather the new Georgia trials
served clear notice that Bulganin
and Khrushchev join Malenkov
in considering conspiracy with
Medford
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Speech at
Last night in Seattle Harri-1
man, who has been mentioned as
a possible candidate for the
democratic presidential nomina
tion, attacked the administra
tion's foreign policy.
Harriman said he would make
a major address covering the
Pacific Northwest's most vital
New Chief Ranger
Appointed for Park
John M. Broadbent, former
district ranger at Olympic Na
tional park, has been appointed
chief ranger at Crater Lake Na
tional park. He will assume his
duties Dec. 1. ,
' Broadbent replaces Carlock
Johnson, who was transferred to
the region 4 office at San Fran
cisco as a forester last August.
The position has been vacant
since then.
Broadbent served in the
Elwha district of Olympic park
f or t several years, which included
operation of the winter sports
activities at Deer park. -
He is a native of Granite Falls,
Wash., and was graduated from
the University of Washington in
1942. Broadbent has been con
nected with federal service since
1930.
East Washington Police
Search for Bank Robber
Spokane (U.R) Law officers
in eastern Washington were on
the lookout today for a young
bandit described as a "cool cus
tomer" when he held up the
First Avenue branch of the Old
National Bapk here yesterday
and escaped bn foot with $1,315.
in Getting
Not Justified
minimum for the security type
home, in order to allow for pri
vacy, outdoor activity, and possi
ble future expansion. Water and
sewage facilities and distance
from the courthouse are also fac
tors considered in the selection
of a location.
It was announced at the exec
utive committee meeting that a
site near Camp White had been
rejected because of the animosity
of residents to the construction
of a detention home in the area.
Two Turned Down
Two sites, one located near
Medford Gun club, were turned
down because of the difficulty
of obtaining water. City owned
property near the airport was
rejected because a clause in the
deed stated that the property
must be returned to the federal
government if a need should
arise for it.
A movie entitled "The Head
of the House," pointing out fac
tors in a child's home which con
tributed to delinquency, was
shown to the group. A discussion
period following the meeting
was moderated by the Rev.
Thomas McCamant
Beria to be a shooting offense.
The broadcast did not make
clear whether the eight newly
purged Beria men were convict
ed for old activities or whether
they may have been carrying on
the strong man's activities after
his death.
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESD.
Eugene
resource hydroelectric power-
at a Democratic rally and dinner
in Milwaukie, Ore., tonight.
In his Seattle speech Monday,
Harriman called the administra
tion's foreign policy a "classic
in the history of bungling."
Experiments and Slogans
He accused the Republicans
of conducting a program of for
eign relations based on "Ill-coiV-ceived
experiments" and "flashy
slogans."
The result, he said, has been
three years of 'incompetence
and short-sightedness" with
great gaps between "official
words and official actions."
Harriman said "We Demo
crats" will be talking about
many issues during the next 12
months, including Republican
policy regarding farm prices, de
velopment of natural resources,
labor, big business, housing and
"Dixon-Yateism."
Harriman charged that "na
tional policies are confused and
uncertain" because "for a gen
eration the Republican Party has
been split on foreign policy.
"The Democrats long ago
achieved unity on the funda
mentals of foreign policy," he
said. "Not so the Republicans."
Theater Job Costs
$10,000 to $20,000
An estimated $10,000 to $20,
000 in work on the Shakespear
ean theater in Ashland will be
required to make the building
safe for actors and workers.
The figure was incorrectly
quoted as being from $100,000
to $200,000 in yesterday's issue
of The Mail Tribune.
Wiring in dressing rooms is
faulty, according to William Pat
ton, general manager of the
Shakespearean festival. He quot
ed the state fire marshal as say
ing the wiring will have to be
relocated and expanded.
The fire marshal's report also
declared that additional stair
ways are needed, the concrete
foundation needs reshoring, and
switchboard and sound equip
ment should be relocated in a
building behind the audience.
Probe of Charges
Against Cain Asked
Washington (U.R) Attorney
General Herbert Brownell Jr.
formally asked the Subversive
Activities Conrol Board today to
consider "bias and prejudice"
charges against former Sen.
Harry P. Cain (R-Wash.), a mem
ber of the board.
In making the request, Brown
ell made it clear that he thinks
Cain should be disqualified from
presiding over a Communist
front case now underway in
Seattle. i
It was the first time since the
Subversive Control Board was
founded that the qualifications of
one of its members had been
officially challenged by the Jus
tice Department. Cain has been
an outspoken critic of the admin
istration's security program for
government employees.
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Beria entrusted the accused with
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Medford Offices,
Stores To Close
Thanksgiving Day
Most Medford retail stores,
government and state offices, in
cluding the post office, will be
closed Thursday, Thanksgiving
Day, Nov. 24.
All . Jackson county schools
will close tomorrow, for teach
ers' institute, and will remain
closed for the rest of the week.
At Senior High
The educational conference,
sponsored by county public
schools and Southern Oregon
college, will be held at Medford
Senior High school from 8 a.m.
until 2:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Principal speakers at the con
ference will be Frank Mclntyre,
assistant secretary and director
of public relations of California
teachers' association, and Dr.
John Richards, chancellor, Ore
gon state system of higher educa
tion. All courthouse and city hall
offices will be closed Thursday.
The post office will remain
closed and mail deliveries will
not be made.
Stores To Close -
All Medford retail stores wal
be closed for the holiday with
the possible exception of two or
three small grocery stores.
The Medford Mail Tribune will
go to press at noon. The paper
will be distributed about two
hours earlier than usual.
State liquor stores and agen
cies will be closed. Licensees of
the Oregon liquor control com
mission need not close unless
they wish to do so. Private clubs
which have master locker per
mits will not be allowed to sell
bottled liquor containing more
than 14 per cent alcohol by vol
ume, but other sales and service
allowed by club license will be
permitted.
Correction of Voter
Addresses Scheduled
Stamping of permanent name
and address plates to be used by
the election department in a new
addressograph machine will be
gin Monday, Nov. 28.
The new machine will be used
to prepare election material, and
especially all material mailed to
voters.'
It is very important, County
Clerk Bereth Hopkins announc
ed today, that all addresses be
correct; If the address on the poll
book is not the same as the ac
tual address, that person will not
be privileged to vote, according
to law."
Any one whose address has
been changed in any way should
notify the county clerks office as
soon as possible, Mrs. Hopkins
said.
France Pours Troops
Into Riff Mountains
Rabat, Morocco (U.R) France
poured in troop reinforcements
today to quell a new uprising in
the Riff Mountains and Sultan
Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef be
gan a race with revolution to es
tablish an independent Moroc
can government.
New violence also threatened
in Casablanca. Thousands of
grim Moroccans shut down their
shops and left their jobs in that
city to mass in a menacing
throng at the funeral of three
political prisoners slain in a
prison mutiny.
Nationalist agitators in Casa
blanca exhorted Moroccans 'to
stop work today in open defiance
of appeals from Ben Youssef for
peace and order in the violence
ridden North African territory.
At least 20 persons have been
killed in the wage of bloodshed
and terrorism since the Sultan's
return to the throne last week.
flsemih
Georgia during or immediately
after the Stalen dynasty.
Radio Tifflin, giving only the
first names, listed these six men
as executed by a firing squad:
Rabava, formerly Georgian
commissar and subsequently
commissar of internal affairs.
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U.S. To Reject Israel
Security Pact Plea
At Least Temporarily
Washington (U.R) The Unit
ed States will reject at least
for the present Israel's urgent
plea for a security pact with this
country, diplomats said today.
Irael Foreign Minister Moshe
Sharett issued a public appeal
for the treaty Monday in an ad
dress before the National Press
Club. . '
But diplomats said the United
States now considers the 1950
U.S.-British-French declaration
on the. Middle East adequate pro
tection for the Jewish state
against possible attack from her
Arab neighbors. That declaration
said the three would take action
consistent with their United Na
tions obligations to prevent bor
der violations.
Reaffirmation Said Needed '
Sharett said the 1950 declara
tion "purported to guarantee
against violent encroachment" of
Arab-Israeli borders.
"It is this guarantee that now
stands urgently in need of an
unequivocal and' emphatic reaf
firmationby meahsjjf a security
treaty," he said.
"The buttressing of Israel's se
curity would not only meet the
present emergency but would,
by discouraging counsels of ag
grassion, pave the way for last
ing peace." .
Boundary Agreement Sought
The United States meantime
is working to get both parties in
Month's Rest Due
For Marie Dionne
Montreal (U.R) Quintuplet
Marie Dionne has been ordered
to take a month's complete rest
because the cloistered life of a
nun was "too' hard for her frail
health," a spokesman for ' her
family said today.
Marie, one of the four surviv
ing quints from Callander, Ont.,
left a convent of the Order of
the Servants of the Blessed Sac
rament at Quebec City last
Wednesday. She now is being
treated at the Notre Dame de
l'Esperance Hospital at St. Lau
rent, a Montreal suburb, where
her sisters Yvonne and Cecile
are student nurses.
The family's statement was
the first official confirmation
that Marie was in the hospital.
Hospital officials had repeatedly
denied she was there.
New Storm Front
Nearing Northwest
Portland (U.R) A new storm
front was expected to bring rain
and snow to the Pacific North
west today.
The weather bureau said rain
from the disturbance was report
ed this morning about 400 miles
west of Astoria and was expect
ed to reach the north Oregon
coast this afternoon. Precipita
tion will be mostly in the form
of snow above the 2500-foot level
with the freezing level between
2000 and : 4000 feet through
Wednesday.
A few snow flurries were ex
pected in eastern Oregon.
Temperatures in western Ore
gon remained above freezing last
night with 33 at Roseburg the
lowest. Coldest in' Eastern Ore
gon early today was 14 above
at Klamath Falls.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Rain tonight show
ers Wednesday morning, snow
above 3,000 feet. Partly sunny
Wednesday afternoon. Low
tomorrow morning 36, high
Wednesday 45.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 47
Lowest this Morning 33
Prec. to MidnlBht, 01
Rukhdze, formerly head of the
interrogation department of the
MKVD secret police (of the
Georgian Soviet, Soviet Socialist
Republic) and subsequently the
Georgian minister of security.
Tsereteli, formerly Georgian
deputy commissar of internal af
fairs and subsequently Georgian
deputy minister of internal af
fairs. Stavitskiy, Krinan and Khaz
ani, interrogators of the Georg
ian commissariat of internal af
fairs. Paramanov, also an interro
gator, was sentenced to 25 years
imprisonment.
A man named Nadaraia, and
not identified further, was sen
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the bitter Middle Eastern con
troversy to work out an arrange
ment settling boundaries. When
permanent boundaries are
agreed upon, the United States
will be willing to join a treaty
guaranteeing them.
Sharrett left the door open a
crack to meeting U.S. proposals
for agreeing on boundaries when
he indicated Israel may be will
ing to make some minor border
adjustments. But he flatly ruled
out any major territorial conces
sions to the Arab Nations.
Burglars Fail
To Crack Safe
Burglars entered the
Cleaners building, 324
City
West
Sixth st., sometime last night,
but failed to get anything al
though the safe was moved sev
eral feet to a rear door
-. Police said ; burglars entered
through-a -skylight after climb
ing a tree at the rear of the build-
ins. Thev removed the safe s
outer door by taking it off the
hinges in the office space. The
safe was then rolled into a rest
room, where they attempted to
break open the inner door.
Police sad the burglars then
rolled the safe to a rear door, fa-
fore they apparently were fright
ened away. .
Drawers in the office were
rifled, but nothing was missing,
police said. Drawers of the cash
register also were open, police
said.
County To Open Bids
On Buses, Tire Jobs
Bids will be opened at 10 a.m.
tomorrow for the recapping of
tires on all county vehicles,
County Engineer Paul Rynning
announced today.
Bids will also be opened to
morrow for two new 20 passen
ger buses which the county in
tends to purchase for the pur
pose of - transporting county
workers.
Six or seven bid invitations
have been mailed out to tire re
capping concerns, Rynning said.
Korea Vets' Insurance
Policy Deadline Monday
Washington (U.R) The Vet
erans Administration reminded
veterans of the Korean war to
day that they have only until
Monday to apply for two GI in
surance policies.
,It said they may apply for re
placement of World War I or II
term policies that expired after
April 25, 1951, either while they
were in active service or within
120 days after their discharge.
Five Jailed in
With Thefts,
Two Medford men and three
juveniles have been arrested and
jailed in connection with five
cases of theft and burglary in
Jackson county, according to
sheriff's deputies and city police.
Johnie Andrew Hood, 24, of
217 South Riverside ave., and
two Medford boys, aged 16 and
17, were arrested on charges of
burglary.
Charged With Burglaries
According to sheriff's office re
ports, the men are charged with
two burglaries, Oct. 18 and Nov.
16, at Highland Grocery, 458
Highland ave.; a burglary Nov.
18, at Faber's Market, Central
Point; a burglary Nov. 18 at the
Ace Roofing company, 1150
Court st., and the theft of gaso
line from a pump located at
Swedenbuxg Orchards, Nov. 16.
tenced to 10 years.
The broadcast said the Presi-
dium of the USSR Supreme So
viet dismissed their appeals and
"the sentence was carried out."
Beria's purge came after the
death of Stalin when he appear
ed to be assuming joint leader
ship of Russia with Malenkov.
He was removed from office in
July charged with being an en
emy of the people. Execution
followed an 11-day trial in De
cember. Of the five Soviet secret police
chiefs since the 1917 revolution
only one, Dzerzhinsky, died a
natural death. One was assasinat
ed and three were executed.
Extensive Review
Of World Matters
Given by Dulles
Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) Pres
ident Eisenhower met with his
Cabinet for the first time in
more than three months today.
He warmly thanked Cabinet
members for "the perfection of
cooperation and coordination"
in carrying on the government's
business during his illness.
The Cabinet also heard an ex
tensive review of the world situ
ation from Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles.
The unusual Cabinet meeting,
which opened with a silent
prayer, was held in a rustic '
mountaintop lodge at the Presi
dent's Camp David retreat, 22
miles from here. Mr. Eisenhower
who had remained overnight at
Camp David, drove back to his
farm home here immediatelv
after the meeting, which lasted
a little more than two hours.
Cabinet members came to
Camp David by car and helicop
ter for the session, and returned
to Washington when it was over.
Dulles, who returned last
week from the Big Four foreJgn
ministers meeting at Geneva,
took up much of the Cabinet
session with a report on the Ge
neva conference and his side vis
its to Italy, Yugoslavia and
Spain.
French Walkout
Before entering the Cabinet
meeting, Mr. Eisenhower dis
closed in ' a conversation with
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles and U-N Delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr., that he has
been concerned about France's
recent walkout from the United
Nations.
Press Secretary James C. Hag-
erty was asked about published
reports that Milton Eisenhower,
the President's brother, had in
terceded to block demands . by
Republicans for Benson's Tesig
nation. Hagerty said he -knew
nothing of any such action by
the President's' brother.
Asked whether a previous
White House statement that Mr.
Eisenhower had not requested
and would not accept Benson's
resignation still stands, Hagerty
said, "of course."
The national Security Coun
cil and cabinet meetings marked
the return of Mr. Eisenhower to
personally active leadership of
government affairs.
After Monday's security coun-,.
cil meeting, the President con
ferred separately for half an
hour in his own quarters with
Dulles. Hagerty said he did not
know the subject of their dis
cussion. DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 indus
trials 481.91 up 4.61; 20 rails
161.67 up 2.17; 15 utilitities
$64.89 up 0.16; and 65 stocks
171.30 up 1.64. Sales today were
about 2,270,000 shares against
1,960,000 yesterday
Connection
Burglaries
A quantity of beer, canned
goods, and cigarettes were stolen
from Highland Grocery. Fifty
cartons of cigarettes, a radio
and flashlights were taken from
Faber's Market, and an electric
razor, a radio, and $20 in cash
were taken, from the Ace Roof
ing company.
Jerry Leander Stewart. 18, of
716 Pine st., was arrested on a
charge of , possession of stolen
property. A 17-year-old Medford
boy was arrested on a charge of
concealing some of the stolen
property.
Stewart was arraigned in dis
trict court yesterday. Bond was
set at $1,500 by District Court
Judge Rawles Moore. The hear
ing was continued until Nov. 23,
to allow, time to obtain an at
torney for the defendant.