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o o 50th Year 26 Pages MEDFOP' XSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1955 Price 5c No. 222 MedfordTribune United Press Full Leased Wire ""t ' United Press Full Leased Wire " I --re 3V H - - v i ASSUMES COMMAND First. Lt. Oran Chastain (left) assumes command of company A, 186th infantry, Oregon National Guard, replacing Captain Roy L. Huson of Medford. Capt. Huson has O been appointed adjutant for the first battalion. Lt. Chastain served as commanding officer of Headquarters company here until he retired to the inactive guard in 1951. (See story page 5). e (Birchfield photo.) Stevenson Bids for Labor Support With Taft-Hartley Blast New York (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson, unsuccessful cham pion of labor in the 1952 presi dential elections, made another bid for its support today with a blast against the Taft-Hartley Act and the so-called right-to-work laws effective in IV states. Stevenson, an announced cari didateCJor the Democratic presi dential nomination again in 1956, touched on all aspects of the Eisenhower administration that have become the whipping posts of labor in a speech to the in augural convention of the merged AFL-CIO. He said the so called state right-to-work laws, which pro hibit the union shop, were not of air "To the workers,, to the employer and to the public." Law 'Unworkable' "And there has long been .agreement that many of the pro visions of the Taft-Hartley Act are inequitable or unworkable," he said. "They must be changed Oor removed." Stevenson told the delegates represerrtiny the 16,000,000 mem bers of the new labor organiza tion that he had not planned t6 make a political speech but pro posed, "nevertheless, to speak bluntly against what appears to be a design to play the ugly pol itics of group hatred." He made it plain thathe farm policy would be an issue in 1956 when he accused Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson of "an attempt to blame the farmer's current depression on the city worker's wage." For More Social Work He called for expanded pro grams in housing, schools, medi cal care and Social Security and he said that "unemployment compensation must be extended and its benefits made more real istic." o Stevenson was the second Democrat of national stature to . address the convention. The con vention gave enthusiastic sup port earlier to New York Gov. Averell Harriman when h e blasted the Eisenhower adminis tration Tuesday for policies , which he said were designed to "crush labor. Resolutions Criticize Policy The AFL-CIO indicated possi ble support for the Democrats in 1956 Wednesday when it adopted a number of resolutions criti- Bloodmobile at Elks - Temple This Afternoon O Only 105 persons had made appointments up to mid-morn ing today for the regular Blood- mobile visit, Red Cross officials said. The Bloodmobile will be at the Elks temple until 5 p.m. The quota for thft visit is 240 pints, and officials urged Jack son county residents to volun teer. No appointment is neces sary, they pointed out. e Two months ago 122 pints were collected, and since then about 250 pints have been used in Jackson county. Weaihef FORECAST: Cloudy with fre quent showers tonight be coming partly cloudy with widely scattered showers Fri day. Low tonight 40. High -. Friday 45-48. Temp. HigheJTi Yesterday 43 Lowest-'this Morning ' 36 cizing administration policy. One accused the administra tion of. making only "grudging, piece-meal and belated efforts" to correct abuses in the security program. Another urged the United States, Great Britain and France to enable Israel to obtain arms and other materials. The new union went far to ward eliminating discord within its ranks Wednesday in the for mation of the 700,000 member Industrial Union Division with Walter P. Reuther at its head. Walter F. Britlan Of Medford Dies Walter Fawcett Brittan, 72, Table Rock estates, died this morning at a Medford hospital. Mr. Brittan, who had lived in the Medford area for about five years, was retired. His ac tive years were spent in a variety of enterprises including the oil business and in wheat op erations. He was at one time af filiated with the National Re publican committee, and was a party fund - raiser, traveling throughout the nation in- this work. Survivors include Mrs. Brit tan and a step-daughter. Funeral services have been tentatively arranged for 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Perl funeral hoirfe. The family requests flow ers be omitted. Further details will be announced tomorrow, friends of the family said. Jackson Among 18 Oregon Disaster Areas Washington (U.R) The Small Business Administration today designated 18 counties in Ore gon as disaster areas as a result of a damaging freeze Nov. 11-14, that caused Josses to the nursery industry. The declaration makes it pos sible for nurserymen and other business suffering damage in the freeze to obtain low-interest dis aster loans from the small bus iness administration. The following counties were included: Clatsop, Columbus, Tillamook, Washington, Multnomah, Yam hill, Clackamas, Lincoln, Polk, Marion, Benton, Linn, Lane, Douglas, Coos, Curry, Josephine and Jackson. Abbott Defense Prepares For Cross-Examination Oakland, Calif. U.R) "De fense attorneys prepared today to cross-examine the crime ex pert who in effect placed Burton W. Abbott at the graveside of Stephanie Bryan. The expert Paul L. Kirk of the University of California, took the stand yesterday in an attempt to prove through science that Abbott kidnaped and mur dered the teen-age Berkeley school girl. His testimony appeared so conclusive that defense attorneys Stanley Whitney and Harold Hove asked Superior Judge Charles Wade Snook to recess the trial until Monday. Portland (U.R) The State Board of Higher Education will meet here next Monday and Tuesday. Ike, Advisers To Consider Delay in Making Tax Cuts Hold-off Until Spring Believed Necessary Thurmont, Md. (U.R) President Eisenhower met with his top money men today to con sider delaying any recommend ations for tax cuts . until " mid- spring. Mr. Eisenhower drove here from his Gettysburg, Pa., farm for a private talk with Secre tary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey and Budget Director Rowland R. Hughes in advance of the weekly meeting of the national Security council. .Informed sources said Humph rey and Hughes came to the meeting prepared to urge that Mr. Eisenhower omit any pro posals for tax relief from his messages to Congress in Jan uary. Seek Delay in Cut The two officials were said to believe that the administra tion should hold off tax cut pro posals until spring, at least, to make sure that a balanced budg et is in sight for the new fiscal year starting next July 1. Mr. Eisenhower arrived at his mountain retreat here at 8:45 a.m. (EST) and went into im mediate conference with Hum phrey and Hughes. Secretary of State John Fost er Dulles and Defense .Secre tary Charles E. Wilson, whose departments handle the foreign aid and military program that account for the biggest share of the budget, and Presidential As sistant Sherman Adams, sat in on the tax talk, which lasted for about an hour. Cold War Problem After the discussion on tax es, the President turned to cold war problems at a meeting of the National Security council. A priority topic for discussion at the secret session was likely to be the' new war of nerves in Berlin. Any delay in administration requests for a tax cut could be expected to set off a sharp pol itical debate. Both parties want quick action on a tax cut as a politically strategic move with the voters for the 1956 presi-J uemiai campaign. Tungsten Swindle Charges Studied San Francisco (U.R) The U.S. district attorneys office studied charges today that un scrupulous tungsten dealers have swindled the government out of millions of dollars. The swindle was disclosed yesterday by officials of the General Services Administra tion in San Francisco. The local GSA office has bought about two-thirds of the tungsten sold to the government in the past three years. According to Robert Bradford, regional chief of the GSA, the racket worked like this: A number of sellers of tung sten swore falsely that the Mexican tungsten they sold the government under the price support program was mined in the United States. This enabled them to collect $63 for each 20-pound unit of ore concentrate. Actually, they were entitled to only $33, the world price for the metal. ' Medford Ranked 4th In Retail Volume Medford ranked fourth among Oregon cities in the volume of retail sal ; during 1954, accord ing to figures announced by the census of business of the depart ment of commerce. Sales in 1954 totaled S49.424,- 000, compared to $40,000,000 in 1948, an increase of 22.3 per cent, according to the census. Retail sales in Jackson county totaled S78,081,000 last year, compared to S60,948,000 in 1948, an increase of 28.1 per cent. Portland, Eugene and Salem ranked above Medford in total retail sales in 1954. Mendes-F ranee Calls For Party Conference Paris (U.R) Pierre Mendes-France summoned fellow-leaders of his Radical Soc ialist party to an urgent confer ence today to decide what to do about Premier Edgar Faure's latest move to split bis follow ers. The party leaders were faced with the task of examining re lations with the Left Republican Rally (RGR) headed by Faure. US Authorities Seek Information On Yank Soldiers Refusal by Soviets Described as Strange Berlin (U.R) U.S. authorities asked Russian officials again to day for information on two American soldiers who allegedly were arrested in East Berlin for attacking a Communist night club entertainer. The request was the second made by the United States in 24 hours. The two soldiers were arrest ed yesterday by East Berlin po lice and turned over to the So viets Western officials feared they might be held as hostages in an effort, to obtain the release of a Russian officer who fled to the West. Refusal Said Strange An American spokesman de scribed as "strange" the fact the Soviets had refused thus far to give any information on the GI's. The East German Communist press hammered away again at the "corrupt" WesUBerlin gov ernment, and an official Com munist newspaper said the "whole regime must disappear to make Berlin free from scan dal and corruption." The newest threat was ac companied by renewed hints at blocking passage of Berlin's supply barges from West Ger many unless the Bonn govern ment knuckles under to the Red demands it negotiate as an equal" with the "sovereign" East Ger man government. ' Turned Over To Russians The two Americans were seized Wednesday by East Ber lin Communist police as "drun-, ken American gangsters" and turned over to the Soviets in ap parent respect of a four-power agreement covering such cases. Western officials said their early return would show Soviet good faith in abiding by the four power agreements. Identity of the Americans was still unknown. The Communist party newspaper Neues Deutsch land identified them today as "officers," but indications were they were enlisted men. Pic tures of them in the Communist press were too smudged for easy recognition. One day before the Ameri cans were seized and charged with knocking out the singing star of an anti-American politi cal cabaret in the Russian sec tor a Soviet tank officer fled to West Berlin. Mrs. Wayne Morse Joins Up as Democrat Eugene (U.R) An import ant supporter has officially climbed aboard the Wayne Morse bandwagon. Last February, the Oregon senator changed his registration from Republican to Democratic. This Tuesday, Mrs. Morse visited Lane county courthouse here and did the same thing. Rain, Snow Enhance Irrigation Outlook For Next Year, District Officials Say Irrigation prospects for the coming year look good so far, with seasonal precipitation above normal and 37 inches of snow on the ground, at Fish Lake, according to Jack Hoff buhr, secretary and manager of the Medford Irrigation district. Both Four Mile and Fish Lakes haVe less water in them now than they did at this time last year, but this is due to low precipitation last winter and the fact that the reservoirs were completely drained during the irrigation season, Hoffbuhr said. The lakes provide wateT for both the Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation districts. Lake Capacities Fish lake, with a capacity of 7,900 acre feet of storage, had 3,174 acre feet of water stored yesterday compared with 4,765 feet a year ago. Four Mile lake, with a 16,000 foot capacity, had 2-718 feet of water stored Dec. 1, compared to 8,150 feet a year ago. Total precipitation in the Fish lake area, from Sept. 1, to Dec. 1, was 16.25 indies, compared Salem Cop Has Way To Spof Drunk Man Salem (U.R) How do you fell when a person is drunk? Well, one Salem policeman pointed to these circumstances when filing a report on arrest ing a man for being intoxi cated: - v The man was weaving and unsteady on his feet. His speech was thick. His eyes were bloodshot. And his breath had a strong suggestion of al cohol. And besides, he was talking to a manikin in - a Liberty si. clothing store window. Officials Vorried Over Salk Apathy, Merkel Declares Portland (U.R) Oregon pub lic health authorities are "ex tremely concerned" over -public apathy toward the Salk anti polio vaccine program, accord ing to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jack son county health official. Dr. Merkel, in Portland for a three-day meeting of local health officers, called for in creased public support of the lagging vaccine program after conferring with both Oregon and Washington state health of ficers. Vaccine Demand Slow He said a spot check of drug stores throughout the state show ed that demand for Sails.. vaccine has continued slow except in "the downtown Portland area where there is a heavy concentration of physicians' offices. Dr. Merkel pointed out that Salk vaccine now is available at nominal cost for all children through the age of 15 and for pregnant women. No further mass vaccination clinics are planned. Eight to ten months are required to complete the se ries of three shots for maximum immunity from infantile pa ralysis. Dr. Merkel said no Oregon child who received two or more shots has had paralytic polio this year. But 1955 has been the sixth-worst polio, year in the state's history. Conditions Improve On Highway Passes Highway passes surrounding Rogue valley were almost back to normal today. Chains were re quired only in Crater Lake Na tional Park on the Annie Springs Rim rd. State police said pavement at Prospect on Highway 62, over the Green Springs on Highway 66 and the Siskiyous on High way 99 were almost bare with only spots -f ice reported. High way 99 in California was report ed normal. Skiing at Crater Lake park was reported fair. The present depth of snow is 68 inches. to 4.11 inches during the same period of time last year. Normal precipitation for the period is 10.84 inches. "The season looks good so far," Hoffbuhr said, "but it will take an .abnormal season to bnng the reservoir up to normal content." Emigrant Lake Emigrant lake, with an 8,200 acre foot capacity, now has 1,500 acre feet stored behind the danv considerably more than it had last year, according to Rob ert Kent, secretary-manager of the Talent Irrigation district. Hyatt reservoir, with a capacity of 16,000 acre feet, now contains about 1,000 feet. Snow pack at Hyatt a few days ago was 13 inches. All usable water was drawn out of Hyatt this year, Kent said, and only once in the" last 30 years when the reservoir was drawn down to the limit was it filled to its maximum capacity in one winter. Snow Pack The snow pack at Crater Lake measured 69 inches yesterday Naval Bomber Crashes at Sea Three Survivors Picked Up By Sub Honolulu (U.R) A two-engined Navy patrol bomber with a crew of 10 crashed at sea 26 miles off the shore of Kauai Island late last night and a sub marine picked up three sur vivors. An air-sea search was manned immediately for the remaining crewmen. The three survivors were iden tified as Lt. K. C. Guedel, Dover, O., the pilot of the downed P2V; Lt. (jg) E. F. O'Malley, and Lt. (jg) Robert S. Smith, Montgom ery, Ala. . Survivors Need Attention Two of the survivors needed medical attention and were re turned to Pearl Harbor. The plane crashed while on a routine training mission with seven submarines. A search be gan when it failed to report on schedule. An accompanying P2V sighted flares and the submarine Bashaw picked up the survivors shortly after. Other Fliers Sought The plane was stationed at Barbers Point Naval Air Station. Meanwhile, a search continued for two Marine dive bomber pilots lost on a routine training flight Tuesday., night- off , Oahu Island. One pilot was identified as 1st Lt. Todd L. AVyman, 25, of Winchester, Mass. The P2V crash was the eighth military plane accident in the Hawaiian area in the past two weeks. All other seven were Marine aircraft. Ewajdsen Elected CC Board President Otto Ewaldsen, manager of Swem's Gift shop, was elected president of the board of direc tors of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon this noon. He succeeds John Pletsch, and will take office Jan. 1. Other officers elected were Bob Root of Myron Root and company, vice-president, and Clarence Young of the Rogue Valley State bank, treasurer. All were named unanimously by the board of directors. Reed Students Picked For Rhodes Tests Portland (U.R) The Rhodes scholarship committee announc ed here yesterday that two Reed college students will compete in final competitive exams in Spokane for the coveted award. They are Bruce R. Voeller, Roseburg, Ore., and Paul Rich ards Burgess, Hyrum, Utah. compared to 21 inches a year ago. Total snow fall from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1 was 125.5 inches this year, compared to 35.5 inches during the same period in 1954. The water content of snow on the ground this year is much higher than it was a year ago. At Crater Lake, snow has a wa ter content of 23.67 per cent. Water content of the snow pack at the same time last year was only 9.9 per cent. Total precipitation since Sept. 1, as reported by the U.S. Weath er Bureau at the Medford air port, is 7.14 inches, 1.31 inches above normal. Little Runoff Robert Church, chief meteor ologist at the Medford weather bureau, pointed out that snow last winter fell on dry, frozen ground. When the snow melted in the spring much of it soaked into the ground rather than run ning off into irrigation reser voirs. This year snow fell on wet, unfrozen ground, which should contribute to greater supplies of irrigation water in the spring. for f ifers ssembly Votes roval United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) The United Nations General As sembly today gave overwhelm ing approval to a recommenda tion that 13 non-Communist and five Communist nations be ad mitted. The Assembly vote was 52 to 2 with 5 abstentions. The strong support for the admission of the 18 nations indicated by the As sembly vote puts heavy pressure on the 11-nation Security Coun cil to approve the entry of the whole group to the world body. The Assembly vote exactly duplicated the ballot in the Spe cial Political Committee, which yesterday gave preliminary ap proval to a resolution sponsored by Canada and 27 other coun tries setting up the package deal. United States Abstains Nationalist China and Cuba voted against the resolution. The United States, France'Bel gium, Greece and Israel ab stained. South Africa, boycotting the General Assembly because of its 8 r4ew Eden Said Ready To Make Many Changes In British Cabinet London (U.R) Prime Min ister Anthony Eden will make sweeping changes in his cabinet before he goes to the United States next month to visit Pres ident Eisenhower, authoritative sources said today. The reports said the changes probably would involve Chan cellor of 'the Exchequer R. A. Butler, now the No. 2 man in the Conservative government, and possibly Foreign Minister Harold Macmillan. Reshuffle Uncompleted The sources said Eden has not yet completed the projected re shuffle but that the long-delayed rearrangement would come sometime i between Christmas Judge Sets Hearing For San Quentin Man San Francisco (U.R) Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman today set Jan. 9 for a hearing pn convict-author Caryl Chessman's newest bid to escape death in the San Quentin gas chamber. Chessman, the so-called "red light bandit" of Los Angeles, appeared in court for his first day outside San Quentin's death row in ZVi years. The convicted kidnap - rapist who has drawn up many of the appeals that have saved him from execution in the past seven years, listened intently and un smilingly as his attorneys argued for as much time as possible to arrange for the hearing on a writ of habeas corpus. If granted, the writ would free Chessman whereupon "he probably would be tried again by Los Angeles authorities. Part of Human Leg Found in Portland Dump Portland (U.R) Author ities today sought an explana tion as to how a foot and part of a leg of a human turned up at a private dumping ground here. The remains were found yes terday. Dr. Homer Harris, path ologist, said they apparently were amputated and came from a female. Detectives said it is the practice of hospitals to burn amputated limbs. The remains were found at a dump near Port land Meadows race track. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones closing stock averages: 30 indus trials 487.80 up 1.45; 20 rail roads 165.00 up 0.06; 15 utili ties 65.99 up 0.06, and 65 stocks 173.80 up 0.33. for Flan tiers debate on South African racial segregation policies, was absent. Applause rolled through the Assembly hall as President Jose Maza of Chile announced the result of the vote. The . Assembly's action, how ever was little more than a "per suader" to the Security Council to recommend the admission of the 18 countries. Veto Foreseen o Under U. N. Rules, new mem bers are elected by a two-thirds vote of the Assembly only after the council has recommended their admission. Council approv al requires favorable votes of seven of the 11 members and can be blocked "hy the veto of any of the five permanent mem bers. Nationalist China, according to an official announcement, plans to veto Outer Mongolia in the council. Russia has announced that it will veto the entire plan if any of its five Communist candidates fails to gain admission. and New Year. The changes have been expected since last summer. The most startling report, and one not confirmed, was that Butler may be promoted to be come deputy premier and leader of the House of Commons. He has beerioreported "tired" of the burden the treasury has impos ed on him and since the death of his wife recently he has been reported anxious to make a change. The' difficulty in replacing Butler as chancellor of the ex chequer was reported behind the delay in reshuffling the cabin et. The post requires . expert knowledge because of the power ful control it exerts over Brit ain's economy. Macmillan Likely Candidate The reports said Macmillan might be considered as a pos sible candidate to succeed But ler. But MacMillan took over the Foreign Office from Eden only a few months ago and it was feared moving him might imply criticism of his achieve ments as foreign secretary. He has been criticized because con ferences on Cyprus and the Big Four meeting at Geneva ended in failure. Speculation centered on Sel- wyn Lloyd, the present minister of defense, as a candidate for . the Foreign office. Lloyd has risen fast in the Conservative hierarchy, moving from the jun ior post of minister of state to a seat in the inner cabinet. Myrtle Point Youth Picked by Neuberger Portland (U.R) Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore) today announced the appointemnt of 15-year-old Keith Schroeder, of Myrtle Point, Ore., to be a page boy in the 1956 session of the Congress.. The youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elton Schroeder, would be the third Oregon boy tc serve as a Senate page during the past 20 years. There are 28 pageboys in the Senate. --.Help Fight TB Buy Christmas Seals o
