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Segregation of Railroad, Bus Riders Unlawful Washington (U.P.) The In terstate Commerce Commission ruled today that racial segrega tion of interstate railroad and bug passengers is unlawful. The ICC held that segregation of Negro passengers subjects them to "undue and unreason able prejudice and disadvant age" in violation of the inter state commerce act. Ruling Made in Two Cases "The disadvantage to a travel er who is assigned accomoda tions or facilities so designated as to imply his inherent infer iority solely because of his race must be regarded under present conditions as unreasonable," the ICC said. The ICC's ruling was made in two cases, one brought by the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People against a group of Southern rail roads, the other was brought by Sarah Keys, New York Negro beautician, against the Carolina Coach Co., Raleigh, N. C. Stop Order Issued The commission ordered 12 railroads, a rail terminal com pany, and the bus line to stop segregation by next Jan. 10. The decision was another in recent ones striking down racial barriers, the most notable of which was the Supreme Court's decision ending segregation in the public schools. The commission's decisions, in effect, discarded the separate but equal principle it set forth in former decisions. Prediction of SF Destruction Today by Quake Gets Dim View Claude Hoover Seeks Reelection to Post Central Point Claude Hoo ver is the only nominee for the lone vacancy to be filled on the Central Point Rural Fire Pro tection district board of direc tors. A petition for his candidacy for reelection was filed by the Nov. 19 deadline. The election will be on Dec. 5. Use Tribune Want Ads Low in Cost! San Francisco ftl.R) Two University of California scient ists scoffed at a prediction by a Mexican scientist that San Fran cisco will be devastated by an earthquake today. Walter C. Marion, assistant seismologist at the university in Berkeley, took a dim view of the prediction. "As far as we are able to determine by modern seismo logy, there is no scientific basis whatsoever for such a state ment," Marion said. "You can be very well as- Air Force Plane Sinks Off Coast Vancouver, B.C. (U.R) A Royal Canadian Air Force plane carrying 19 persons sank in rough seas off the British Co lumbia coast yesterday and three crewmen drowned. . . An Air Force spokesman said 16 Air Force personnel aboard were rescued by the fishpacker Western Challenge which was operating in the crash scene. The plane, a Canso flying boat, sank after making a forced landing in Seymour Narrows, 125 miles northwest of Van couver. The plane went down about 2:30 p.m. while on a flight. from Vancouver to Holberg, on the northern tip of Vancouver Is land. The crew of the Western Chal lenge threw a line to the crip pled plane which was wallowing in heavy seas. Three of the crew were still aboard when the plane sank. They were trapped inside the craft, a survivor said. Three other crewmen and one passen ger were injured. The Western Challenge took refuge from the heavy seas in a cove on Helmcken Island after completing the rescue to await a rescue plane which was to take the survivors back to Vancouver. The Air Force said the cause of the crash was not immediately known. sured tha't San Francisco will remain standing." Worst in History The prediction was made by Dr. Jose Mariano Ponton, an of ficial of the Mexican Communi cations Ministry and a professor at the National University in Mexico City. He predicted flatly that San Francisco will be hit by the worst earthquake in its history sometime today. "The temblor will surpass the intensity of the 1906 quake, which took 700 lives," he said. Ponton' based his prediction on the "study of the position of the sun, the moon, the planets and the different groups of stars." Barbara Amberson, another seismologist at the university, declared there was "no scienti fic way" to predict quakes. No Connection "No one has ever found any connection between planets and earthquakes," she said. "You can predict a quake in Califor nia in the indefinite future, but when you try to predict the exact day, that's something else again." ' Dr. Perry Byerly, head of the Driver Cited After Accident Yesterday Cars operated by Lorzo Leon ard Lown, 19, of 703 West 13th st., Medford, and Clifford B. Cordy, 17, of route 2, box 388A, Medford, collided on the Jacksonville-Central Point highway about 5:20 p.m. yesterday. Stat- Police said the Cordy vehicle was traveling toward Jacksonville just west of Cen tral Point when the Lown car, which .as going toward Central Point, attempted to pass another car. Police said Lown tried to pull back into his traveling lane, but struck the front end of Cordy's vehicle. There were no injuries. Lown was cited for failure to operate on the right side of the highway, police said. university seismology labora tory, was unavailable for com ment. However, he recently said part of California lying along the San Andreas fault, which in cludes San Francisco, is due for a major earthquake. Byerly could not say when the quake is due. He pointed out that the earth has been slipping and that tensions have been building up in sufficient degree to warrant such a prediction. Red Leaders Link Lenin With Gandhi Poona, India 'CU.R) ; Rus sia's leaders flew to Poona in their tour of India today after telling a Bombay audience that Russian revolutionist V. I. Lenin had things in common with Mahatma Gandhi. Rusisan Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Soviet Commu nisty party boss Nikita Khrush chev boarded their special plane at Bombay this morning to end a two-day visit to that city over run by Communist-led riots earlier this week. In a speech to the state Legis lature at Bombay .yesterday, Bulganin said there were "cer tain points in common between Mahatma Gandhi and Lenin." He said they both "worked for and achieved a happy future for their people," although they stood for different political philosophies. The late Gandhi led India's fight for independence from Britain. Lenin, founder and guiding hand of the Soviet Re publics, was an organizer of the Russian revolution. Khrushchev, in his speech, made a scathing attack on the West. He likened the United States, Britain, France and Japan to "garbage," saying "They started the second World War. They sent new troops against our country, and these troops were the troops of Hit lerite Germany." Dr.' Joseph Antony Honored By Local Chapter Of AAGP The southern Oregon chapter of the American Academy of General Practice met recently at the Medford hotel. The group paid special tribute to Dr. Joseph T. Antony. Dr. Antony, an academy mem ber, was'honored by being desig nated a member emeritus in recognition of his 41 years con tinued service as a family physi cian. The AAGP is a nation-wide organization of physicians de signed to assist its members in keeping abreast of recent ad vances in medical science. One of the requisits for continued membership in the group is 150 hours of post-graduate study in each given three year period. Moved Here in 1944 Dr. Antony practiced medi cine in South Dakota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma before moving to Medford in 1944. He told the group about early experiences in the practice of medicine.' Dr. Wayne Roberts, Central Point, president of the local acad emy chapter, presided at the dinner meeting. Host for the evening were Dr. LeRoy Jenson and Dr. L. D. Inskeep. Dr. Harvey Woods, Ashland, presented a paper with illus trated slides in which he review ed fundamental aspects of Bal listocardiography. The ballisto cardiograph is an instrument used to supplement the electro cardiograph, x-rays, and physi cal diagnosis in the search for heart disease. Friday, November 25. 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Local Men To Attend Seed Growers Meeting Four local men have announc ed plans to attend the Oregon Seed Growers League meeting in LaGrande, Dec. 1-3. The three day meeting is de signed to acquaint growers with problems, new developments, marketing news, and scientific progress in the production of grass, hay and forage seeds. Otto Bohnert, Central Point, will give a report to the league entitled, "Don't seed grass plant it." Bohnert has done ex tensive work in planting new va rieties of grass seed in rowt'oii his Central Point farm Other men attending the meet ing from the Rogue valley are Wallace Rice, Grants Pass, Ar nold Bohnert, Central Point; and Charley Elmore, Applegate. Freeze Covers Plains States By UNITED PRESS Freezing temperatures covered a wide area from the plains states to the East Coast early Friday. A cold air mass extended from the upper plains southward to West Texas and eastward across the Midwest, Great Lakes and the Appalachians to the mid-Atlantic states and New England. Bismarck, N.D., recorded 14 below zero during the night. However, that was mild com pared with Canadian conditions in the middle of the cold air. Smith River, British Columbia, recorded 50 below zero. Snow fell across Minnesota arid the upper Great Lakes and in the Pacific Northwest. Some mountain areas in the Far West haje accumulated large snow depths for so early in the sea son, weathermen said. Mullen Pass, Idaho, had five feet of snow on the ground. While snow fell in parts of the i north, heavy rain pelted much of the southland from East Tex as to the western Carolinas and Tennessee. Dead line (or Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. 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