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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.
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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.
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