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P 0 TEN MEDx ORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Decorat As leflug Cblufft, Calif. U.R) The () tirql, cnif tn4 tb orna ment ere lft behind in flood !ubS City nij evacuated (ftgryfvil, but the refugees frctb Cflifornii's worst .flood brouj.t with them plenty of the (5pJ?if e Christinas. rwJ ft the homelets wander ed Hbout Peking shelter they (jir Sot turned away from the -O th auditorium nor the ifMf home. ' typical of the attitude of the (i;acte, vSio do not know what Qbgy will find when the flood Ctet tcede and they can re 19 their homes, was the qjtfy Sirs. F. A. Tipton of 0?ifturtt, one of the first SMufcitis evacuated. "i&g had two Christmas tur keys running around the yard," sh musd. "I wonder what hap peid to them. I didn't bring any Christmfi ifts with me as we didn't hive any room. You see, ik brought the woman who lives i J T W ' - nU m ,y A ' ttnt& " come -ith us." tP?Ose "working with the refu gees expressed surprise that they (bad twrie away from home with (.oj little vf material value and riJ itiuch of spiritual. e'Jt was surprising how little 0y took.1" said Mrs. William Jloiiahan of Marytville. "There )8S jio attempt to load trailers 4iX (Almost ali t-car families cfftoJfc (.only- one ear. They could Gisjf taken more with two cars O 0t '1 seemed to prefer to $g the family together." Mr. .Geo; g a Stedener of G0 German war bride (tpmdlbg et firtt Christmas in e im .o it Rfgnlif Friecs mo 0 ON HIGHWAY IjljpM As Usual Today o mimrmi ... ii.mii .mil (I : ' MAKE YOUR RESERVATION NOW FOR NEW. DEAR'S EVE PARTY AND SPECIAL NEW YEAR'S DAY DINNER AT f,?0!l DESIR O Phone FlOrmandy 4-2513 Left Behind Take Spirit ions j the United States, said she had time only to grab two thing her bedding and her lucky rab bit's foot. In Colusa, a town which nor mally has 3,500 population but tops 6,000 today, there was little or no thought of family Christ mas Eve gatherings either. The townspeople are too busy making their neighbors welcome and snug since they can't be happy and gay. Compassion For Homeless The only thoughts are of com passion for the homeless, tinged with a slight embarrassment that the Colusans have this Christmas Eve what the evac uees so miss. But none will lack shelter and none will go hungry. The townspeople and the pas tors of the city's churches are organizing a prayer and Christ mas service at the fairground for the evacuated families. And a huge party for the children is Minor Damage From Jackson Hotel Fire Medford fire department dis patched three fire trucks at 1:46 p.m. yesterday, to a fire in the kitchen of the Jackson hotel. The fire originated on the grill and spread to the stove and ventilation ducts. Damage was minor. Fire trucks stood by at flue fires at the Kenneth G. Wond erly residence, 734 Palm st., and at the R. L. Burton residence, 1006 Sailing st. No damage was reported. i RESTAURANT 99 SOUTH Sunday, December 25, 1953 being organized at the grammar school. And many other families have been invited to be guests at the private celebrations in the homes of Colusa. Charles A. Burdick and Leo Miller of Marysville told typical stories. Burdick said, "Miller . and I worked all night helping sand bag the levees. Then they brought us to Colusa. I think they took my wife to Camp Beale. I feel sure she is okay. but I know she must be worried about me and I have no way of contacting her." "I have no wife," said Miller. "Nobody is worrying about me." Justice Department May Settle Hilton Case Out Of Court Washington (U.R) The de partment of justice is ready to settle out of court its anti-merger suit against Conrad N. Hil ton and his 5225,000,000 Hilton hotel empire, reliable inform ants said Saturday. A consent decree has been drafted which would close the case by requiring the chain, to sell valuable properties in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and possibly St Louis. Terms of the decree were dis cussed at lengthy conferences here recently between assistant attorney general Stanley N. Barnes, in charge of the anti trust division, and v William J. Friedman, Hilton general coun sel. Barnes declined to comment, and there was little revealed about the position taken by Friedman who flew here from Chicago for the talks. But in formed observers, said the set tlement "now appears immi nent." The justice department ac cused Hilton last April of vio lating anti-merger laws by buy ing out the Statler Hotel chain. The effect of this transaction,- it said, "may have" substantially lessened actual and potential competition throughout the ho tel industry A 1950 amendment to the Clayton anti-trust act pro hibits mergers which tend to create monopolies. Before the merger, Hilton con trolled 16,500 hotel rooms in 15 first-class U. S. establishments and 2,500 in subsidiary hotels in foreign countries. The $100,000,000 Statler pur chase added nine hotels with 10, 000 rooms to the chain's hold ings. - Barnes said the acquisition vir tually wiped out competition in the hotel conventiorf field in New York, Washington, St. Louis and Los Angeles He asked specifically that Hilton be forced to sell his Statler ho tels in those cities. May each Christmas candle add its light to the brightest, happiest Day of the Year for all our Rogue River Val ley friends and neighbors. May all the joys of the season be yours in fullest measure . . . may its. memories lift your heart and warm your spirit throughout a New Year, rich in good health and happiness. Julie and Alex Tummers RflOI&ESIR DINING INN CENTRAL POINT Dining Room Open 3 P.M. Army Takes Oyer Peruvian Town To Quell Revolution Arequipa, Peru U.R) The Army took over this south Per uvian "cradle of revolution" on Saturday with orders to quell a four-day-old "revolt" support ed by students. Maj. Gen. Ricardo Perez Go doy, commander of the garrison here, assumed control of the city and province of Arequipa in place of Gov. Ernest Pflucker, who resigned when the police lined up with anti-government forces. Several persons were injured Wednesday when police fired into the crowd at a pro-government mass meeting in the worst incident reported so far in the subversive upheavel. Commercial Activity Slowed No other major violence has been reported, but commercial activity in Arequipa was virtual ly paralyzed Friday by a general strike called to enforce rebel demands for the resignation of Interior Minister Alejandro Es parza Zanartu and the repeal of the unpopular internal se curity law. ; A "protest committee' of stu dents and union leaders also is demanding a blanket pardon for political offenders and reform of the electoral law before the June 3 presidential election. The rebels apparently were not satisied by President Manuel Ordia's promise two weeks ago that he will throw open the gates of Peru's political prisons' be fore the voters choose his succes sor. Perez relayed the committee's demands to Lima. He told a press conference here Friday he was awaiting orders from the capital. Reye's Attorneys File For New Trial Corvallis (U.R) Attorneys for Martin B. Reyes, convicted Dec. 13 of second degree murder, have filed a motion for a new trial in Circuit Court here. The 23-year-old Seattle gun man is serving a lite sentence m the state prison lor tne fatal shooting Oct. 24 of James, R. Applegate, 39-year-old Benton county posseman. Reyes' court-appointed attor neys, Robert Mix and John Fenner, listed 17 alleged errors at law they claim were permit ted in the trial. The motion specified, how ever, that if a new trial is grant ed, it is to be on no charge higher than second degree murd er. If it is to be on first degree murder, the attorneys ask that the motion be denied. Among the errors at law cited by the attorneys was permission to make available to the jury a recording of Reyes' statement to police the night of his capture. There is no legal authority for the playing of recordings of this type, the attorneys claim. Tug Goes Aground In Coquille Valley Coquille (U.R) The tug Lumber Kid, . freed from mud Friday afternoon after going aground early Thursday while attempting to aid flood -stricken residents of the Coquille valley. The Coos Bay lumber com pany tug went aground at Park ersburg, between Riverton and Bandon, when it attempted to take under tow a county-owned ferry boat to aid in evacuation efforts in the Coquille area. The tug returned here Friday. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday: otlier days 5:30 previous day CHRISTMAS TONIGHT (IMS US BALLROOM EAGLE POINT The Only Spring Floor in Southern Oregon o Dance to the Combined Music of Dick Spain,. Bill Lively and The Rogue Valley Boys! Featuring THE BEST IN WESTERN SWING! - o Tune in . . . Bill's Western Round-Up Time KWIN Russian To Face Charges Of Fraud Of Welfare Pay new York (U.R) .A 60- year-old Russian immigrant who lived for two years on tea and potato soup goes on trial for fraud next month because he didn't spend all of his modest welfare checks. George Ivanow is - charged with fraud because he failed to tell welfare workers that he had managed to save S924 of the S1997.50 in relief payments he received during the two years. Ivanow, who speaks no English, said they never asked him and he didn't know he was supposed to tell anyone. Ivanow said he came to the United States in ,1951 from Yugo slavia where he had played the piano in a dance orchestra. He worked in a New York hospital as a porter until 1953 when he broke his hip. . Ivanow applied for relief pay ments and said he stayed on the relief rolls after his hip mended because he couldn't get another job- due to his language diffi culty and his age. Was Looking Ahead The Russian-born Ivanow said he understood welfare workers to say he couldn't get relief for more than two years so he began to save his tiny relief money. Ivanow rented a furnished room for $8 a week and began a rigid but apparently whole some diet. He never lost any of his 120 pounds. He drank three cups of tea for Death Sentence Is Commuted By Ike Washington (U.R) The President has entered into the Christmas spirit early by grant ing 42 Christmas pardons and commuting one death sentence. He exercised his executive clemency after conferring for al most one hour Friday with At torney General Herbert Brown ell Jr. The pardons, the largest num ber granted in recent years, all went to individuals who already had served their sentences for federal crimes. The pardons will restore their citizenship rights, including the right to vote. Brownell said the death sen tence commutation went to John Vigneault of New Hampshire who was convicted of murder while serving with the armed forces in . Germany. The Presi dent changed the sentence to 55 years in prison. E. M. Young Released From Federal Prison . Tallahassee, Fla., (U.R) E. Merle Young, convicted of per jury in the "Mink coat" inves tigations in Washington a few years ago, was released from federal prison Saturday after earning several weeks of "free time" for ''meritorious service." Young left the Federal Cor rection Institution a few minutes after midnight with another prisoner whose wife had driven up from Miami to get them. Young's wife, the recipient of the" $9450 mink coat which set off the investigation into the Reconstruction Finance Corp. when Young was an RFC exam iner, was not here to greet her husband. Book Store Cover Up For Bookie Business New York (U.R) Unniformed persons who think a bookie is a man who runs a bookshop were right for a brief time Friday. Police raided the Tremont Book Shop and found a thriving betting operation going on in the back room. breakfast, he said. Late in the afternoon he would have a large bowl of potato soup. Then, be fore retiring, he would have an other cup of tea and a tiny sausage. On Sundays he would "luxuriate" with 25 cents worth of lamb. Ivanow would buy bread and stretch the loaf out for days, he said. But he never bought any food other than these staples. European Death Toll Climb To Near 100 London - (U.R) The weath er death toll in Western Eur ope climbed toward the 100 mark Saturday despite a thaw which eased Christmas travel in most "of the southern countries of the continent. The drowning of seven Brit ons in a fishing boat that sank in a blinding snowstorm off Northern Norway Friday night and two traffic deaths in snow bound Sweden increased the toll of winter's first cold wave to 91 dead. Temperatures across Scandin avia were still well-below zero, but in most other West European countries the snow was melting. The only notable exception was "sunny Italy," which was still in the grip of freezing weather. One Dead 12 Injured In Oklahoma Blast Oklahoma City (U.R) One person was killed and at least 12 others injured Saturday when an explosion tore through a two story produce house in down town Oklahoma City. The explosion, apparently caused by accumulated gas, de molished the brick structure, and all but two or three persons in it were taken to "hospitals. At least 10 persons were taken to Mercy hospital where a nurse said "one or two or more" were in critical condition. Jury Awards Damages To Coos Bay Man Portland (U.R) A Circuit Court jury here Friday awarded $18,961 damages to Harvey M. Morton of Coos Bay in his per sonal, in jury suit against Ivan Karrieroff , a professional wrestler. Morton claimed he suffered serious neck and back injuries when he was struck by Kamer off, who jumped out of the ring at the Coos Bay armory April 16, 1954, and began swinging his arms in the crowd of spec tators. The jury awarded Morton $15, 000 general damages and $3,961 special damages. Zoo Director Gets Snakes For Christmas Grand Rapids, Mich. (U.R) Zoo Director Fred Meyer opened his first Christmas present Fri day two diamondback rattle snakes sent to him by a 'friend from Laredo, Tex. "They're real beauties," Mey er said. "I couldn't appreciate a Christmas gift more." Terrific . . . And featuring: TQM Four Men Get Money After Tying Couple New Orleans, La. (U.R) Po lice Saturday sought four thugs who gained entrance to a home on a Christmas-gift ruse and then stole the $16,400 life sav ings of. an elderly man and woman. The men ransacked the home after tying Mrs. Ernestine Bleake, 76-year-old semi-invalid, and Mrs. Harry Plique, 59, with electrical cord. The thugs entered the home carrying - Christmas packages which they said were for Leon Plique. Once inside, one of the men pulled put a gun and said "This is a stickup." Newspaper To Smell Of Christmas Spirit Marks, Miss. (U.R) Read ers of the Qutiman County Dem ocrat will get a whiff of holiday "spirits" in the Christmas edi tion of the newspaper even though the state is legally dry. Editor Henry Bums mixed a gallon of bourbon with the print ing mK when the edition was run off and had an employee squirt each codv with a hnnrhnn filled spraygun as it rolled off tne press. A MERRY CHRISTMAS Early Bird Show 5:45 P.M. Tonile! 8:00 A.M. MOM i So. ROAST YOUNG TURKEY OR BAKED HAM ........ Soup, Salad, Vegetable Potatoes and Gravy, Candied Yams Cranberry Sauce, Relish Dish Coffee Milk .Dessert Pumpkin or Hot Mince Pie SPECIAL CHILD'S PLATE Wishing All Our Patrons a Very Prosperous New Year. DECEMBER 25 Alvadean and Sandy THE COKER BAND The Melody Wranglers! PLUS De Ann Abbott . Barbara Kilpatrick Lavina Rae Dolores Darlene Ronnie Peyton Many More Local Artists SHOW STARTS PROMPTLY AT 8 P.M. Come Early To Be Assured of Getting a Seat! Brakeman Killed In uebec Train Crash Tring-Junction, Que. (U.R) A brakeman on a Quebeck Cent ral Railways passenger train was killed, and five others were in jured Saturday when a Qebec Central Railways train collided head-on with a freight train just north of the station here. None of the injured was in serious condition. They includ ed one woman on the passenger train. - Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 Dreviousday. 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