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Weather Recommended C O o 8 3 FORECAST: Foe or low cloud Sunday morning;; partly sunny Sunday afternoon. Monday, Increasing cloudiness with chance of rain. High Sunday 52. Low Monday 37. Temp Highest yesteruay 51 Lowest yesterday morning ....42 Free. To 1 p.m. Yesterday 04 DFORD RIBUNE A feature itory about a for mer German army general ap pear! on paje it f today's Mall Tribune. United Press Full Leased Wire : United Press Full Leased Wire 50tf? Year 30 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUN 1955 Price 5e No. 212 Me Rogue River Forest ining Case Enters earings Portland, Ore. (U.P.) A con troversial mining claims case was reviewed Friday by a joint congressional subcommittee studying federal timber sales policies. The so-called Al Serena case Involves a mining patent grant ed by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay to an Alabama family, for a claim in the Rogue River National Forest. The patent in cluded title to timber on the land, under mining laws then in effect. Sen. W. Kerr Scott (D-N.C.) said Congress "needs to know One Killed in Raid On Police Station; IRA Denies Action Belfast, Northern Ireland iU.P.) One man was reported killed and a policeman was seri ously wounded yesterday when raiders from the Irish Republic stole across the border and bombed A police station. The Irish Republican Army denied that any of its men were connected with the raid and run ning gun battle with Northern Ireland police. A doctor reported he had re fused to sign a death certificate when the body was brought to him after the raid which oc curred before dawn yesterday. Constables Aroused Several constables, aroused ' from their beds above the sta tion, beat off the raiders in a furious gun battle. One policeman was shot seven times during the hot exchange. It was not 5own" whether the) raiders suffered any casualties. Authorities said the daring raid, on a lonely barracks just a mile from the Irish border, had all the trademarks of the IRA, which is dedicated to the use of violence to force the withdraval of Britain from Northern Ireland and secure unification of the Irelands under one government. The IRA denied it had any connection with the raid, how ever. A statement issued in Dub lin by the "General Head quarters of the Irish Republican Army" said no member of the IRA was involved. The state ment, circulated to Dublin news papers, was signed "D. Macdi- armada, Adjutant General. Police said part of yesterday's 10-man party stood guard on a nearby hill while other raiders planted a bomb that blasted a huge gap in the barracks wall "and split the two-story structure from base to roof. Before the smoke cleared, po lice said, the raiders swept into the station and shouted for the surrender of the six-man garri son. Negro Says He Was Shot by White Men Belzoni, Miss (U.P.) A critically wounded fighter for -sjgro rights said Saturday that white men shot him down only a few blocks from the spot where another Negro was slain seven months ago. Gus Courts, a member of the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, told doctors from a hospital bed in the all-Negro community of Mound Bayou that three or four white men rolled up to his store about 8 Friday night and shot .him through the window as he sfood at the cash register. Sheriff Ike Shelton, however, quoted two witnesses, Courts' wife and a woman customer who was in the store, as saying there was only one man in the car "a white man or a light skinned Negro." They said the attacker fled the scene after firing two or three shots with a shotgun. Shelton said his investigation was hampered by the fact that Courts' friends .rushed him out of this delta farming town to Mound Bayou, almost 75 miles north of here "without even let ting a doctor here see him." Carson City, Nev. (U.PJ A letter surrending gambling lic enses for Club Cal-Neva in Reno and the Tahoe-Biltmore at Lake Tahoe was accepted Saturday by the state gaming control beard from Sanford Adler and his associates. On Timber if the people of America are entitled to know what the facts are in connection with this case which was finally decided at the highest level of the Depart ment of Interior." Hearing Held On Case Pierce M. Rice, lands officer for the Bureau of Land Man agement, said he had held a Portland (U.R) A top Ore gon Republican party official has termed Friday's session of a joint Congressionel subcom mittee "conclusive proof" that current timber hearings are Intended to discredit the Eis enhower Administration. State Central Committee Chairman Wendell Wyatt of Astoria, said "the dragging into the testimony of the dis credited Al Serena mining case is 'political demagoguery at its very worst." He said the case was one of mining law "and completely out of the an nounced scope of the present hearings." hearing in the Al "Serena case, but the attorney for the patent applicant had offered no testi mony or evidence in the hear ing and refused Rice's ruling. Rice said . he recommended against the application because there was not sufficient minerals in the area. However, Secretary McKay had a survey made by a Bureau of Mines employe who reported that a "prudent oper ator" could profitably mine. The definition of "prudent" was criticized earlier by Loran L. Stewart, ' president of the Bohemia Lumber Company of Eugene, Ore., who "said mining laws are too lax and there is no sound definition of a prudent : man. : - . - i Tepe Recording Made A small commotion was caus ed at the session when subcom mittee members discovered a Bonneville Power Administra tion employe making a tape re cording of testimony. Congress men finally said they had no objections, but insisted the em ploye should have asked their permission first. - The extra day's session in Portland was scheduled by sub committee chairman Rep. Earl Chudoff (D-Pa.), who said there were "a number of serious mat ters" about the timber business not yet explained satisfactorily. Soviet Boss Offers World Compeition Bangalore, India (U.R) Soviet Communist Party Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev offered Saturday to compete with the world "with out war." The Russian leader said his country already had offered the west a "gentelmen's agreement" to forbid atomic war. He said the west would not agree, and Russia, therefore could not cease making atomic weapons. He added that Russia would never be the first to use the atom bomb. The Soviets would be happy to "let them lay," he said. In a speech at a civic recep tion honoring him as Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulgarnin, Khrushchev also said that Presi dent Eisenhower's proposal for arms inspections would lead to an arms race. Helicopter Pilots Brave Strong Winds To Rescue 21 Men From Battered Ship Halifax, N. S. (U.R) Two helicopter pilots braved buffet ing 50-mile-an-hour winds Sat urday to pluck 21 men from' a grounded, blizzard - lashed freighter being dashed to pieces against huge rocks. The seamen were rescued after clinging for 28 nightmarish hours to the vessel as it was lashed by heavy seas to within 25 feet of the rugged cliffs on the north eastern tip of Cape Breton. A helicopter ran a mercy shuttle between the helpless Li berian freighter Kismet II and an emergency rescue station on the snow-banked shore. Drops Four Times While rescuers stood tensely atop the cliff, the helicopter dropped to the deck of the Kis met four times, and returned each time with a load of weary, Tribesmen Kill 17 French Troops; 10 Wounded, Ambush Premier Named to Form Firm Government Rabat, Morocco U.R Rebel Tribesmen sweeping down from the mountains near the Spanish Morocco frontier killed 17 French troops and wounded ten others in an ambush, officials disclosed Saturday. At the same time, Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef named one-legged Si Bekkai Premier in a race to establish a firm gov ernment before revolt breaks out. As fighting raged in the wild Riff mountains, and open ter rorism menaced the cities the newly restored Sultan named his faithful follower Morocco's first head of a modern cabinet in its march toward independ ence. Called to Palace As the result, the Sultan called Si Bekkai to the Palace Saturday and asked him to form a cabinet, which will be Moroc co's first representative govern ment. The Sultan's decision ended a week of uncertainty. But the pos sibility of serious trouble re mained. Brown - robed Riffi Rebel tribesmen swept down from the hills near the Spanish Morocco frontier late Friday and killed the 17 troops in an ambush. Ten more French troops were wound ed. Convoying Ambulance Army trucks were convoying an ambulance, containing a wounded soldier, when the rebels opened fire with sub machine guns. Before the rebels scattered into the hills, the French army had suffered its most serious casualties in a single engage ment since newly-restored Yous sef was ousted in 1953. A rescue column which set out after nightfall to support the convoy was itself ambushed. Yesterday French mobile troops supported by planes stabbed into the Riff hills in search of the rebels. Goldstein Appointed Judge Prolem Here Barnett H. Goldstein of Port land has been appointed circuit court judge protem for Jackson county. He will hold court start ing Monday in the absence of Judge H. K Hanna. The appointment was made by Chief Justice Harold "Warner of the state supreme court. Judge Goldstein has held court here previously. Judge Hanna will go to Port land tomorrow for medical at tention. Denning Transferred To Iowa City Hospital Camp White Ruben H. Den ning, assistant manager at Camp White, has been transferred and promoted to the position of as sistant manager of the Veterans' Administration hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. Denning's first assignment as assistant manager was to Camp White Domiciliary in December, 1953. A replacement for him has not been appointed as yet. He will be accompanied to Iowa City by his wife, Ruth, and children, Richard and Marilyn. He was active in Methodist church and other activities in and around Medford. storm-soaked men. The helicopter reached the 2,800-ton vessel at is was inched closer and closer to. the rocks at the bottom of the cliff. It landed on a small area cleared on the deck and 45 minutes later every crew member had been removed. Capt. Anast Maniatis of Ath ens, Greece, told how he and his men were rescued by the Royal Canadian Navy. He said that for a time all aboard feared they would be dashed to death against the rocks. "Our troubles started early Friday when we moved close to the Cape Breton shore because we were in danger from a viol ent storm," Maniatis said. "But our steering gear became dam aged and while we were repair ing it our ship was dashed on RUSSIAQ D'F ALL Terrorists Throw Bomb Into Ballroom Of Cyprus Hotel Action Follows State Of Emergency on Island Nicosia, Cyprus U.R) Ter rorists defying a death penalty imposed by new emergency reg ulations hurled a bomb into a crowded ballroom at the Ledra Palace hotel last night. One man was injured. The hotel, most luxurious on this British Mediterranean is land, is tenanted largedly by British officials. The Caledonian (Scottish) society was holding its annual ball when the bomb was thrown. Make Escape The terrorists were believed to have made good their escape. The bomb burst only a few hours after British authorities had proclaimed a state of emer gency on the island, making the possession of a bomb or the firing of a gun by unauthorized persons punishable by death. The State of Emergency order was issued by Field Marshal Sir John Harding, governor of this strategic British colony. The or der banned all meetings except religious services, movies and theatrical shows. The decree said sports con tests could be held at the discre tion of local commissioners. Five Soldiers Killed The firm tightening of British Seeuritv holders followed the death of five British soldiers in the past week at the hands of terrorists. There have been daily incidents of violence by cypriots demanding an end to British riule and . union of this island with-i Greece. ,l Harding also ordered that any one caught committing sabotage against water supplies, electri city lines or communications sys tems would be sentenced to life imprisonment. British Security forces Satur day seized 11 cypriots of Greece origin on suspicion they were supporting the wave of terrorism in Rhia Mediterranean island. Two of those seized were, members of the Ethnarchy coun cil nf Oreek Orthodox Archbish op Makarios, fiery leader of the movement for union wim Greece. French Communists Withdraw Support Paris (U.R) France's com munist party withdrew its pow erful support of Premier Edgar Faure Saturday and pushed his tottering government toward seemingly certain collapse. Without the backing of the 94 red deputies which carried him through his last two con fidence votes, Faure appeared to have little chance of surviv ing the new National Assembly confidence vote Tuesday.- French newspapers of all po litical shades openly predicted a government crisis and turned ,their attention to speculation on a new nrimier. Jacques Duclos, communist party floorleader, announced his party's about (f ace to newsmen in the assembly lobby. the rocks by a 50-mile-an-hour wind. There was also heavy fog and later blinding snow. Shut Down Engines "We shut down our engines as the engine room became flood' ed. That left us without heat in sub-freezing weather." . The captain said his entire crew was "magnificent," acting "in the finest traditions of the sea." On the first trip, the helicopt er took four men. Then it sue cessively rescued six, six and five, leaving the ship abandon ed. All the men were reported to be in good condition. Rescuers who had reached the cliff edge with the aid of snow plows and the rescued men them selves watched in awe as the Sikorsky H04S completed the rescue. i IQUfJCE -HYDROGEN 'BOMB .E PICK WINNERS A committee of four pick winners in Medford Safety council's Safety Slqgan contest, which is being held as part of the council's membership drive and its "Partner In Safety" program. Seated are Medford Police Chief Charles Champlin (left)' and R. L. (Bud) Palmer of the safety council. Standing are Medford Police Sgt. Clyde Fichtner (left) and Don McNeil, manager of Jackson County Cham-, ber of Commerce, Winning slogans were sub mitted by Ethelyn Wilson, Central Point, "Have a prayer in your heart, when you have the wheel in your hands;" Mrs. M. E. Ball, 923 Mur Federal Grand Jury Many Finish Inquiry Into Tax Scandals Washington L-U.R) The St. Louis federal grand jury which has been investigating tax scan dals in the Truman administra tion, may wind up the inquiry next week, informed sources said Saturday. Whether there will be any indictments is up to the grand jury. It has been hearing testi mony for several months from one-time high-ups in the Truman tax hierarchy about an alleged "white wash." The government, when it launched its investigation more than a year ago, made it clear that it hoped to expose officials who allegedly conspired to per mit tax-fixing during the four years of the past administration. Investigate Reporls Specifically, the jury at St. Louis and an earlier one at Om aha, were authorized to investi gate reports that former Truman officials tried to cover up a 1950 51 investigation of the St. Louis Internal Revenue office. But officials here,, who would not be quoted by name, said the investigation has gone "deeper" than the authorization would in dicate. Democrats have privately ac cused the Eisenhower admini stration of "political motives" in pushing the inquiries. The earlier St. Louis investi gation resulted in an indictment against James P. Finnegan, former St. Louis collector who later was convicted of miscon duct in office. Three Men Appear In District Court Richard Dale Akin, 30, Can- yonvjlle, was arriagned in dis trict court, Friday, on a charge of grand larceny. Akin, who was released on $1,- 500 bond, was charged with stealing a tool used in well drill ing. A preliminary hearing will be held Dec. 2. John Richard Baylis, 71, route 1, box 511, Ashland, was fined $255 and sentenced to 30 days in county jail on a charge of driving while under the in fluence of intoxicating liquor. Baylis' driver's license was suspended for 90 days. The jail sentence was to be suspended on payment of the fine. Also in district court Friday. Donald Robert Rominger, 40, route 2, box 246, Central Point, was fined $30 on a charge of being drunk on a public high way. A car operated by Romin ger was involved in a n accident Wednesday at the junction of Highways 99 and 62, in which one person was injured. "''' w SATURDAY SCORES WEST University Of Southern Cali fornia 42, Notre Dame 2Q Colorado A and M 10, Colorado 0 SOUTHWEST Baylor 15, Rice 7 Texas Christian 20, Southern Methodist 13 Oklahoma 53, Oklahoma A and M0 Arizona 7, Arizona State 6 SOUTH " Miami (Fla.) 7, Florida 6 South Carolina 21, Virginia 14 Tennessee 20, Vanderbilt 14 Clemson 40, Furman 20 Georgia Tech 21. Georgia 3 Auburn 26, Alabama 0 Mississippi 26, Mississippi State 0 LSU 13, Tulane 13 ' -r EAST ' . Army 14, Navy 6 , ' . Boston College 26, Holy Cross 7 Poce Battle 200 In Stockton Riot Stockton, Calif. (U.P.) Thirty three police officers battled more than 200 person for 2Vz hours early Saturday in a dance-hall riot touched off when a teen age boy slapped a women in the face. - " The uprising finally was quell ed when a fireman sent streams of icy water into the mob. Four teen persons, including 12 of ficers, were hospitalized for minor injuries and ,14 rioters were arrested on charges of dis turbing the peace. School Census Shows 6,038 In District 49 This Year The 1955 Medford school cen sus, completed recently, has revealed, there are 6,038 people between the ages of 4 and 19, inclusive, in School District 49, it was reported Saturday. The total is a gain of 267 over the 1954 figure, an increase of 4.6 per cent from the 5,771 listed last year. 10 Year Comparison The 6,038 total this year also comparies to 4,143 in 1945, ten years ago. Other totals in the past ten years are, 1946, 4,189; 1947, 4,500; 1948, 4,719; 1949, 4,885; 1950, 5,143; 1951, 5,454; 1952, 5,441; and 1953, 5,605. In addition to the students living in District 49, which roughly corresponds to the Med ford city limits, the district also takes care of the education of both elementary and high school students in the Dewey and Ken wood districts, and a majority of the high school students from nearby non-high districts, includ ing Griffin creek, Oak Grove, 'MOST POW XPL0SI0N- ray st., "Be cautious a minute saved may be a lifetime lost;" Page Meyerding, 112 Medford Heights, "A flying spark, a glowing ember can put you in the cold this chilly December. Use a fireplace screen;" Mrs. Victor Kasser, 903 South Peach st., "That hand that lifts the cup of cheers, should not be the one that shifts the gears;" and Joe Whealdon, 515 Liberty st., "If your car has power plus take it slow or take the bus." Each will receive a prize. The final contest for larger prizes will be held during the next two weeks. (Brainerd Photo). (Sea story and picture page 14) ' Eisenhower Urges Bi-Partisan Policy Despite Victor Gettysburg.'Pa. (u,R) Presi dent Eisenhower Saturday en dorsed a Democratic Senate leader's plea to keep politics out of foreign policy in the 1956 election campaign. Through a spokesman, the President urged Americans to support ; a bi-partisan foreign policy no matter who wins the elections. Murray Snyder, White House assistant press secretary, said Mr. Eisenhower had read and approved this , statement made Friday by Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) to the New York Herald Tribune: "A Mature Nation" "We must assure the world that we are capable of having a non-partisan foreign policy and', regardless of who wins , or loses in 1956, our foreign pro gram will go on substantially as is. We must sBow.we are a ma ture nation." . Despite the President's urging and George's appeal, it was dead certain that foreign policy will play a great part in the cam paigning. - - Politics will be discussed by President Eisenhower Monday with Republican National Chair man Leonard W. Hall who will fly here for a frankly political confab. It will be the first meet ing of Mr. Eisenhower with his political lieutenant since he suf fered his heart attack on Sept. 24. West Side, Howard and Lone Pine. Of the totals this year, 118 of the girls and 20 of the boys, a total of 138, are married, which is 2.3 per cent of the total. There are 35 pairs of twins (15 sets of girls, and 13 of b o y s, and 7 "mixed" twins). Ten of the fam ilies contacted had six. or more children. Smith remains the most fre quent name, with 66 listed. There are also 57 Johnsons or John stons, 45 Joneses and 31 Browns. Places of birth include China, Saipan, Guatemala, Norway, Al aska, all parts of Canada, Ger many, England, and many others. Three of the youngsters were born on Feb. 29, and thus have birthdays only every four years, on Leap day. Census enumerators this year were Mesdames Minnie Bryant, Ethel Cope, Helen Fagone, El eanor Halsey, Jessie Howard, Ruth Parsons, Blanche Powell and Joy Sorensen. ERFUL Official Statement Says Blast Part of New Weapons Test Confirms AEC Report Of Nuclear Activity Moscow (U.R) Russia an nounced Saturday it has set off "the most powerful of all" hy drogen bomb explosions. An official statement said the Hi-blast was one of a series of recent explosions of "new types of atomic and thermo-nuclear (hydrogen) weapofis" by the So viets. It said the H-bomb was ex ploded at a "great height" in order to prevent the conse quences of atomic fall-out. Confirms Reports (The announcement confirmed the U.S. Atomic Energy Com mission disclosure last Wednes day that the Soviets had ex ploded their 1 a r g e st nuclear weapon so far.) "The last explosion of the hydrogen bombs was the most powerful of all explosions car ried out so far," the ' announce ment issued by the Soviet Tast News Agency said. (Speaking in Bangalore, India, touring Soviet CommSnist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev said the new Soviet bomb had the explosive power of 1,000,000 tons of TNT. He said it was de- -signed to get the maximum ex plosion from a minimum amount of material. (This week's announcement of AEC Director Lewis Strauss said the Soviet explosion was "in the range of megatons." A megaton equals 1,000,000 tons of TNT in explosive power. - (The official Soviet announce ment failed to specify whether its reference to "most powerful" applied only to tests carried out within Russia or also to tests known to have been carried out in the United States. (But informed s ou r c e s in Washington said the United States had developed H-bombs at least 10 and probably 20 times as powerful as the one tested by Russia. The U.S. bomb exploded at Eniwetok last year has been reported to have equaled from 12,000,000 to 20,000,000 tons of TNT.) Bolster Security The official Soviet announce ment said the recent nuclear tests were carried out with the aim of bolstering Russia "Na tional Security." It criticized the western powers for turning down Moscow's disarmament pro posals at the Geneva Big Four parley. In India, Khrushchev declared the Russians would never be the first to use atom bombs. He said the Soviets would be happy to "let them lay." The Soviet announcement on the nuclear tests said: "In accordance with plans of scientific research and experi mental work in the field of atomic energy, the Soviet Union recently carried out tests of new types of atomic and thermo-nuclear hydrogen weapons. "The tests fully confirmed the pertinent scientific technical re search which showed important achievements of Soviet scientists and engineers. "The last explosion of the hydrogen bomb was the most powerful of all explosions car ried out so far. In order to pre vent consequences of radio-activity fallout, the explosion vs made at a great height." Courtesy Driver Award to Roma Rice Roma Rice of Talent yesterday identified himself from the Med ford Safety Council's "Courtesy Driver of the Day" license num ber in the Mail Tribune .Friday. The license number of Sun day's courtesy driver: 5-J-6292 The owner of the license num ber should call 3-5643 or 2-2441 by noon Monday and identfy himself. Starting tomorrow, the anti jaywalking campaign will start with a Mr. or Mrs. Jaywalker walking on the streets of Med ford and other Jackson county towns. Cash awards will be pre sented to residents who approach jaywalkers and receive an af firmative answer to "Are you Mr. or Mrs. Jaywalker?"
