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Newspaper Page TextWEATHER FORECAST: Thlckenlnf cloudi ness this afternoon. Rain in valley and snow in mountains above 3.500 feet by evening and continuing tonight. Show ers and partial clearing Fri day. Low tonight 40. High Fri day 45. Temp. Highest Yesterday 50 Lowest this Morning Zi Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today 06 MEDFORD :bune United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 195 Price 5c No. 210 Noon Edition lA IT - Americans Abandon Cares To Observe Peaceful Holiday By UNITED PRESS Millions of Americans aband oned their workaday cares today and eathered close to home and family to celebrate a peaceful Thanksgiving. The traditional Thanksgivin; feast of turkey and all the trim mings lured Americans from all walks of life toward home, spur ring holiday travel to expected record hiehs. To many, the reasons for Thanksgiving were individual personal ioys. But President Ei , senhower set the overall tone by calling on all Americans to give prayerful thanks tor tne ahunrlance of our endowments." Crisp, clear weather covered most of the nation, with temper atures dipping below zero in some sections. Cold air pushed eastward across the Midwest and Ohio Valley and plunged southward into the Gulf States from Texas to Alabama. Temperatures dived below zero in ' Minnesota ana North Dakota, while most of the Midwest reported readings in the 9fi nnH 30s. To the East and' West, temper atures were in the 30s and 40s. Holiday Rush - t Homeward - bound travelers jammed rail, airline and bus fa cilities and crowded the high ways with the usual holiday rush. At least 30 persons had been killed in traffic accidents since the holiday got under way at 6 p.m. (local time) yesterday. The most Americans, however, the emphasis was on home rather than travel. President Eisenhower, recup erating from his heart attack, spent a quiet day at his Gettys burg farm, with Mrs. Eisenhow- Medford Woman Injured in Accident Mrs. Maxine Polski, 34, of 913 King st., was injured slightly in san automobile accident at the Big Y junction at 6:03 p.m. yes terday. The accident involved vehicles driven by George Richard Pol ski, and Donald Robert Roming er, 40, route 2, box 246, Central Point. I The Polski car was going north on Highway 99 when it was struck by the Rominger ve hicle traveling south on High way 62, according to state po lice. A traffic signal post on the south side of the intersection was sheared off by one of the vehicles, police said. Rominger was lodged in Jack son county jail on a charge of being drunk on a public high way. Mrs. Polski was taken to the Sacred Heart hospital by Med ford ambulance service. She was treated for an injured ankle and released. Another passenger in the Polski car, Robert, 5, was not injured. Dormitory Bomb Scare Said College Boy Prank Ames, la. (U.R) Panty raids are one thing. "Time bomb" .. scares are another. That was the consensus of eopinion among authorities today after learning that a "time bomb" scare in an Iowa State College girls' dormitory appar ently was a college boy prank. Authorities discovered yester day that the home-made "time bomb" found in the dormitory last Sunday contained phony dynamite sticks fashioned from some unknown substance. .Bend U.R) The Oregon Izaak Walton League will open its annual convention here tomorrow. Bill Placing Brazil Under State of Siege For 30 Rio De Janeiro (U.R) The Senate Justice Committee today approved a House-passed bill to piace Brazil under a state of siege for the next 30 days. The vote in the Justice Com mittee was a close 6-5 in favor of the bill which was approved by the lower chamber in a mara thon session early today and sent to the Senate. Senate approval of the state of siege, a modified form of martial law, was considered certain. A final vote in the upper chamber was expected this afternoon or possibly tonight. The move was taken at urging er; their son, Maj. John S. Eisen hower; his wife, Barbara, and the three grandchildren. Stevenson At Farm Adlai Stevenson, the man who ran against the President and lost in 1952, also was spending the holiday at his farm home near Libertyville, 111. The word Thanksgiving took on a new meaning for Marine Pvt. Nicholas Skorochod, 18. The youth, who was born in the Russian Ukraine, will cele- brate his first Thanksgiving day after spending much of his life in German concentration camps and French, English and Polish displaced person camps. He'll spend the day on leave from Parris Island, S. C, with his par ents at Newark, N. J. Curbs Proposed On Businessmen In Government Washington (UP.) The Justice Department has proposed that President Eisenhower place new curbs on businessmen in government . to avoid new con flict of interest cases that might embarrass the administration. This proposal, informed sour ces said today, is embodied in the draft of an executive order recently submitted to Mr. Eis enhower for his final approval. If signed, as expected later this week, the order would clamp new restrictions on the outside business interests of reg ular government officials as well as on the official conduct of "WOCS" industry leaders who serve on government' advisory committees without compensa tion. Approved by Brownell ----- - It was learned that the pro posed executive order was drawn up several weeks ago by Assis tant Attorney General Stanley N. Barnes, chief of the Anti-Trust section, and approved some time later, by Attorney General Her bert Brownell Jr. It was drafted as the result of an inquiry launched by Barnes last summer, shortly after Sen ate investigators questioned in open hearings the official con duct of Adolphe Wenzell, a principal figure in the Dixon Yates controversy. Wenzell, president of the First Boston Corp., had served as a govern ment consultant on the contract. Housewife Prays Before Killing Mate Los Angeles (U.R) A 39-year-old housewife, who said her home was broken up by "another woman" knelt and prayed at her husband's bedside early today before killing him with a single bullet through the temple. Police booked Mrs. Nina Sor- enson on suspicion of murder af ter she admitted firing a shot from a .25 caliber pistol through William C. Sorenson's head as he slept at home. Mrs. Sorenson said "we had been having -trouble for six or seven months because of another woman. After . he went to bed last night I started thinking how happy we had been until all of this came along." The woman said she took the pistol from a dresser drawer. After kneeling beside her hus bank and praying a long lime, she said she fired the shot through his temple. "You had better come over, she telephoned police. "I've just killed my husband." Sorenson, 39, a former Mar ine, was an aircraft mechanic. ' The couple had no children. Days Passed of the armed forces which feared elements loyal to ailing Presi dent Joao Cafe Filho would overthrow the legal govenment in an effort to prevent President elect Juscelino Kubitschek from taking office Jan. 31. - Sen. Nereu Ramos, the acting president, placed the bill before a special session of the Chamber of Deputies Monday night and action was begun immediately. But opponents forced a delay by introducing a total of 39 amend ments which had to be debated separately. The Chamber of Deputies fi- Portland Bank Robber Escapes In Rush Crowd $1019 Given Up by First National Teller Portland (U.R) Police today searched for a man who robbed a teller at the main branch of the First 'National Bank of Port land of $1019 shortly ' before closing time yesterday and es caped in the rush-hour crowd. A suspect was taken into cus tody shortly after midnight to day, but police later released him. Just Lose Money The robber entered the bank just before 5 p.m. and thrust a note demanding money at the teller, Mrs. Gertrude Dunford of Canby. "I gave him just the loose money, not the bound bundles," she said. Mrs. Dunford told police the man motioned for her to open some drawers but ' when she turned the man fled. She said he had put the money in a manila envelope. What the robber left behind was some $20,000 to $30,000 in currency in bundles which was in Mrs. Dunford's cage. Perry Miller of Vancouver, Wash., a clerk in the bank's note department, noticed something was wrong and followed the rob ber out and up S.W. 5th ave. to Washington' st. When, they reached Kelly's Olympian res taurant at 521 S.W. Washington, the bandit shoved Miller inside the door and told him to stay out of trouble. Miller said he abandoned the chase. He told police the man was carrying a brown shopping bag. Mrs. Dunford said she was not threatened with a gun. Miller also said he did not see a gun, but the man's gloved hand could have concealed a weapon. Ike Frolics With Grandchildren flPttvshure. Pa. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower romped with his three grandchildren today in a Thanksgiving Day frolic at his farm and gave 7-year-old uavia a lesson in pony driving. "Mr. Eisenhowe' supervised a ride the three youngsters took in a two-wheel wicker pony can. David was driving. A few feet down the gravel ro ad.David pulled up sharply on the reins to halt the pony. The President gently repri manded him. "Always remember," he told David, "that a horse has just as tender a mouth as you have. Be very careful. "I have to be tough with him so he'll know who's driving him," David argued back. The President laughed and turned to reDorters. witnessing the lesson: . "David is a riding master," he said. Portland Traction Investor Identified Portland (U.R) Jack Barde, a Portland steel and machinery dealer, has identified himself as the previously unnamed investor ready to put $250,000 into a locally-owned Portland mass transportation firm. The city council recently indi cated, it would not renew the operating franchise now held by the Portland Traction Company, a firm largely owned by San Francisco interests. The council said PTC could not hope to con tinue its Portland opeations un less it were reorganized to pro vide local control. PTC has made no such reorganization move. Barde said that his offer to form a local company would be the onlv alternative to renewal of the PTC franchise under pres ent terms. by Committee nally voted 178-91 in favor of the government bill and sent it to the Senate A solid block of Social Demo cratic, Labor and Social Progres sive party members who back President-elect Kubitschek bull ed the siege measure through the House over the opposition of the National Democratic Union Party. It was the first time such dras tic laws had been put in force under the 1945 constitution and it was the culmination of bitter party and political strife that spilled into military circles over the presidential succession. PACE QUICKENS Presided Eisenhower steps from nis car on arrival at his office. in Gettysburg, Pa., for a meet ing with Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelli gence Agency. Following the meeting the Chief Executive left for nearby Camp David to confer with the National Security Council. Recuperating nicely from his heart at tack, the President was reported in fine shape. Guards Return To Perfect Circle Plant As Violence Erupts New Castle. Ind. (U.R) Armed National Guards clamped 'modified" martial law on this strike-torn, citv today to halt new outbreaks of violence. Guardsmen were ordered into the citv to deal with new attacks on the Perfect Circle Corp. foundry and the home of non- strikers. The violence erupted sporadically following the witn drawal of guardsmen just one wppIt 'a en after seven weeks of patroling-tha-cityv r Cannot Be Tolerated r,nv. Oeoree Oaie ordered the National Guard to return yesterday, saying "the continu ing unrest in New Castle cannot be tolerated." He acted after Mayor Paul McCormack re quested that troops be reas signed to the city. Thp order came after rocks were hurled through 10 windows at the foundry, and windows were shot out in the homes of three non-striking employees. A plant guard said ne saw about eight people" throwing rocks at the factory Tuesday night. He scared them off by firing his gun into the air. In ordering 90 guardsmen from Escapee Terrorist Seized in Missouri Mountain "View, Mo. (U.R) A posse of state troopers and sher iff's deputies from two counties conversed on a farm house in rugged Ozark country near here today and captured an armea nrison escanee who had held captive and terrorized a family throughout the night. David L. Coffman,. 22, armed with three pistols stolen from the Ozark county snerm, was captured at the. Floyd Correll home following a farm to farm search. He surrendered without firing a shot. The Highway Patrol took Coffman to the jail at West Plains. Coffman escaped from the Ozark county jail yesterday, stpalinff three hand weaDOns. The escape took place shortly before he was to be taken to the state prison at Jefferson City to begin a five-year term . for armed robbery. The patrol said Coffman knocked on the door at the Verl Freeman home at Gainesville shortly after his escape, tie forced Freeman, at eunooint. to drive him to an area north of Mountain View. When the desDerado permitted Freeman to return home. Free man notified authorities wnere he- had left Coffman . and the manhunt started. Thp natrol said the Correll family was unharmed. but frightened. Coffman forced them to feed him. Break-in Reported At Eastside Market The Eastside Market, 608 East Main st., was broken into last night, but nothing was missing, according to Medford police. A city policeman on a routine check discovered the break-in about 3:40 a.m., today. The front door apparently had been pried open, police said. Connersville, Craig said "I will insist that law and order be maintained. Bloody Violence . The Perfect Circle- plant has been the scene of labor unrest since CIO United Auto Workers called a strike there and at three other Perfect Circle plants in Hagerstown and Richmond July 25. It erupted into bloody vio lence Oct. 5. when non-strikers inside the"New Castle plant en gaged in a gun battle with strik ers and sympathizers outside the plant. Nine persons were wounded. Washington Gets Timber Hearings Portland U.R) A joint con gressional subcommittee investi gating federal timber sales pol icies moves north to Aberdeen, Wash., to resume hearings on Monday. The committee, under chair- manshiD of Rep. Earl Chudoff (D-Pa.), concluded the Portland phase of its hearings yesterday. One of the final witnesses to testify was James F. Doyle, area administrator of the Bureau ot Land Management. Doyle, who had heard a long line of wit nesses criticize sales policies of the bureau, agreed with earlier testimony bv Charles A. Sprague of Salem, former governor of Oregon, that the government should go easy on any increased logging program. . Dovle said to increase allow able cuts means that pressures would build up to allow still more cutting. A. W. Lafferty. former con- gresman from Oregon, urged the committee to consider a proposal for a revolving fund to build ac cess roads in the ll western public lands states. US Airman on Trial For Slaying in France Bouloene-Sur-Mer, France (U.R) U. S. Airman 3C Jose Montigo, Phoenix, goes on trial for voluntary manslaughter to day before a French jury at the Boulogne assizes. The 24-vear-old airman has been in a French jail since mid May for the alleged stabbing of Andre Mallet, who died of wounds received in a street fight. Under the status' of forces agreement . NATO nations may try servicemen of other nation alities for off duty crimes com mitted in their territory. Montigo is charged with vio lation of the French penal code. The code refers to causing the death of another person through voluntary action but without in tention af causing death. As is provided for in the NATO agreement, a representa tive of the U. S. government will be at the trial to observe and make an official report. He is William Paul Thomas, legal advisor at the Paris office of Air Forces in Europe. jssia Loirgesft iinnib ESleisft Russia Calls Upon Big 4 To Pledge No Nuclear Attack Disarmament Group Hears Soviet Proposal United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) Russia, which recently staged its biggest hydrogen bomb explo sion, called upon the Big Four powers today to pledge "not to be the first to use atomic or thermonuclear weapons against any country." Soviet Delegate Arkaday A. Sobolev made the proposal to an extra-ordinary Thanksgiving day session' of the UN . Disarmament Commission. Rejecting Western disarma ment plans and accusing the United States of "side stepping" the problem of arm reduction, Sobolev repeated the views put forward at Geneva earlier this month by Soviet Foreign Minis ter V. M. Molotov. - Russia, Sobolev said, is ready to consider President Eisenhow er's "open skies" inspection pro proposal "favorably" if it is in corporated as a basic part of an overall disarmament program. Eisenhower Program But, he added, "we note that the proposal of President Eisen hower side steps the question of the reduction of arms and the prohibition of atomic weapons. If such a proposal does not con tribute to the solution of the problem, it means it does not eliminate the danger of a new war." -The President's proposal made' at the Geneva meeting of the Big Four heads of government last July, calls for an exchange of military information by Rus sia and the United States and un impeded aerial inspection of each other's countries. Sobolev made no mention of the hydrogen explosion in Russia reported by the Atomic Energy Commission yesterday with an indication that it involved the Soviet Union's . biggest . bomb. But he said: ' "The Soviet government pro posed at Geneva and we are pro posing here that the Soviet Union,' the United States, the United Kingdom "and France adopt a pledge not to be the first to use thermonuclear weapons against any country." British Answer "The peoples of the world do not wish to reconcile themselves with a continued armaments race and a threat of a new war. A practical solution to the problem of disarmament cannot stand any further delay." Sobolev's charge that the west had "gone back" on its previous disarmament stands brought a sharp reply from British Min ister of State Anthony Nutting. The Briton said Russia's refusal to explain how far it would go on the problem of controlling any arms reduction system was the block to agreement on dis armament. "We have come closer together on ultimate objectives," Nutting said, "but we have still to break through the Iron Curtain on con trol." . Nutting suggested that the Disarmament Commission finish its debate quickly and pass the problem to the General Assem bly so that the views of as many nations as possible could be heard. 28th Seattle Plane Crash Victim Dies Seattle -(U.R) Cpl. John S Thomas, 19, Philadelphia, died here yesterday from burns he suffered in the crash of a non- scheduled DC4 airliner near here last Friday. Twenty-seven persons died in the crash. Thomas had been in critical condition with third de gree burns. He was one of 66 soldiers just returned from Ko rean duty who chartered the flight for a trip home in time for Thanksgiving. In all, 74 per sons were aboard. Meanwhile, the Civil Aero nautics Board reported it was investigating engine trouble the plane had prior to leaving Bill ings, Mont., en route to Seattle to pick up the soldiers. The plane was owned by Peninsular Air Transport Touches Christmas Decorations Start Going Up Friday Public works department crews will start putting up Christmas decorations on five downtown Medford streets to morrow, Vernon Thorpe, pub lie works director, has an nounced. The decorations, which are furnished by merchants, are expected to be up by Nov. 30, when local merchants will hold their grand opening of this year's holiday season. Streets which will be dec orated include Main, Sixth, Central ave.. Riverside ave. and part of Barilett si. Merchants make arrange ments for electrical connec tion. Egypt Accused of Using Commandos Against Israelis Jerusalem (U.RK-Israel today accused Egypt of sending "do or die" commando squads across the border in a planned cam- p a i g n of guerrilla warfare against Israel in retaliation for the bloody battle at El Auja in which 40 Egyptians were slain. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Egyptian troops had opened fire 21 times during the last three weeks on Israeli border posts and charged that Egyptian planes had invaded Israeli terri tory 12 times. At the same time, the Foreign Ministry said, "Fedayeen (do not die)" commando squads have crossed the. border from . both Jordan and ' the Egyptian-held Gaza Strip to raid Israeli settle ments. - -UN Protest Ordered The government instructed the Israeli delegation to the United Nations to lodge a strong protest with the Security Council against the "Egyptian aggres sions." In other Middle Eastern de velopments: 1. Iran formally notified Syria that it is willing to take part in any effort to settle diferences between Israel and the Arab states. 2. Israeli authorities expressed fear that Israel might become the victim of a Middle Eastern Mu nich, being forced to give up ter ritory to get peace with the Arab states. - 3. The United States announc ed that, for the present, it would not join the Baghdad Middle Eastern defense pact but did not rule out eventual membership. 4. Russia charged that the Baghdad pact "furthers the ag gressive plans of the West" and that the United States played a decisive role in its creation. Adenauer Returns To Government Control Bonn, Germany U.R) Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer, smil ing and in high spirits, took over direct control of the government today for the first time since he suffered an attack of bronchial pneumonia seven weeks ago. The 79-year-old West German leader wished a cheery "good morning gentlemen" to the mem bers of the staff who welcomed him at the main door of the Chancellory on his first appear ance since Oct. 7. He made no statement but walked at once upstairs unaided to his second floor office. Oregonians Have Much For Which To Be Thankful By UNITED PRESS Oregonians today sat down to the traditional Thanksgiving feast of turkey and all the trim mings and everywhere through out the state most persons had much for which to be thankful. For one thing, the weather man was kinder than he had originally promised. The snow which was supposed to fall on northwestern Oregon, particu larly the Portland area, failed to materialize and the region was bathed in a warm rain. All major highways were open to traffic and Oregonians trav elling to grandmother's for Thanksgiving had free and easy access in most parts of the state. So fax, no traffic fatalities Congressmen See Necessity for US To Remain Strong Announcement Indicates New Devices Employed Washington U.R) Con gressmen said today that Russia's explosion of its . most powerful hydrogen bomb yet means the United States must remain strong despite Communist peace talks. The Atomic Energy Commis sion disclosed last night that the Russians have set off another nuclear explosion. The AEC said the blast was "the largest thus far in the USSR." The AEC's comment on the size of the Russian blast went beyond its usual bare statement that a Soviet explosion had been touched off. This indicated that the United States now has de vices which not only detect Soviet nuclear blasts, but also measure their strength. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) said the latest Soviet explosion shows the Russians "are preparing for war with every energy they have" despite their peace campaign. He said it is time for the State Depart ment to face up to the "stark facts of the international situa tion." Must Seek Peace Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.) said the Russian blast "serves notice on us of what we are up against." We've got to do two things," Sparkman said. "Remain strong and at the same -time., try 'with, ; all the nations of the world will- ing, to work out a plan for last ing peace." ' AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss said the Russian blast, latest in the 1955 test series, "was in the range of megatons." A megaton represents the explos ive equivalent of 1,000,000 tons . of TNT. Strauss did not pinpoint the size of the Soviet explosion with a specific number of megatons. Estimates of the size of this country's H-bombs - have run from 12 to 20 megatons. But the fact that the AEC an nouncement referred to mega tons strongly indicated that the . United States now has ways of detecting Soviet explosions other than by picking up radioactive particles in the atmosphere.' The new devices might measure energy waves travelling through the atmosphere or shock waves travelling through the ground. Earthquake Reports Before the commission issued its announcement, the Weston College Observatory seismo graph at Weston, Mass., record ed a "strong" earthquake about 5300 miles northwest of Boston, possibly in the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia. A Weston spokesman said the shock was recorded at 1:41:27 a.m. (EST). At Fofdham Univer siay, New York, the seismograph recorded a 'quake' coming in two shocks at 1:41 a.m., and 1:51 a.m. The AEC did not say when the Soviet blast occurred. - Russia announced some time ago that it had successfully test ed a hydrogen bomb. The AEC had disclosed on Aug. 4 that Russia had under taken a new atomic test series despite its call for a ban on all atomic and hydrogen weapons. A second explosion was reported Sept.- 24 and a third on Nov. 10. , have been reported in the state, although at mid-morning the na tional toll stood at 30 dead. It also has been a fairly pros perous year for most Oregonians. Unemployment in the state is less than it was a year ago and more people were able to afford . a heaping Thanksgiving table. , For the less fortunate, how ever, the charitable organiza tions were providing an ample Thanksgiving dinner. And at the state prison and jails throughout the state, inmates also were be ing treated to a special repast. In most, communities, special church services were offered, and extra - full Thanksgiving baskets were gathered for the poor. 1 v.