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T7 o o o o o o o CO 0 o o o o o o o o o O o 13 aw y rr O Washington OJ.R) Newly published documents on tHg 19i5 Yalta conference today.-pro- vided further evidencqnpf SovieJ trickery tyfe the Russians erf pretending friencitfiip with t&air wartime allies. It was contained in son 40 additionally alt documents made public by the State De partment.' Thp newly relead papers were a'lihost certain to add more fuel to the long Demo cratic - Republicait-1 contrs over the1945) mQtin? of the late President Rooseveltpfbrmee Jirst Step ; flood mmm mm y Soil districts The first organize j) t ward seeking flood control, (Jpl- loping last week's aisaiteous flood in Jackson county, wa taken Iastfffcight by a jointsjoii conservatioii flood cont?gt fojn mittee. , The committee foi.A Iron the Sams Valley- Be? and Rogue Soil tricts, metto discuss possible remedial artion, according f -a HaraJd qgbhard, CentraOPn. , committee chairman. It was pointed oidc,tha(!several(f'ncis w are working to take iere or& gency needs, but that so fr rid ( known organnwo action had been fakeno obtain atjstance on Sends Appeal As a result of the meeting. the committee sentoout an ap peal to all residents or the county to report, as soon as possible, all flood damage. The informa tion will be used as evidence in support of flood control pro- grams, Gebhard said. The committee is taking steps to get aerial photographs of the river areas to determine river changes and soil loss since the (fast official aerial views were lg made in 1952It also decided to publicize it objectives, and ask all people living or own ing property on the river to Photograph damage whenever possible, and to send in pictures and statements of losses of build ings, machinery, fences, land or businesses. Gebhard said this information 3 will be compiled and summar ized, and used as supporting evi- I - ... dence or justification in request-. ing federal assistance for stream channel and bank work. , He also stresses that the com mittee is desirous of hearing from organizations or people representing the various commu nities along the river and major creeks who may have helpful information, or who would work with the committee in promoting an effective flood control pro gram. ; g. Flood damage information and pictures may be sent or brought to the flood control committee, in care of the Ttcgue Soil Con servation district, 33 North' Riv erside ave., Medfd. q d Beside Gebhard, tf&se attend ing last night's meeting were Francis Krause, Aoplegate; Bill Jess and Dr. James Luce-Eagle (D Point; Tom Parker, central Pointgpiem Ault, s1 conserva tion service technician, and Don (ilinear, Medford, chairman of the Rogue district board. From Grants Pass, it was-i, Roads, BridgeBeini Repaired In County Upper Applegate fSld was opened yesterday by county road crews who replaced the ' Squaw creek bridge washed out by recent flooding, according to County Engineer Paul Rynning. j JSi temporary detour around I sugar Pine reek bridge on Elk creek road has made that area accessible, and repairs on the south fork of Little Buttfjcreek have made that roadj safe for V travel.- Q Crews began ctructionof a bridge on Cottonwood creek nea the California border, which was washed out last week, andhalso started repairs onCAnti- och roadpn Evans creek, Ryn ning said. O ) gRed Blanket road between Proipe and Butte Falls was pened earlier this week. Minor re(gir work is underway in all parts of the county. G rs ' : Babs6n Forec&s&in MaiiTribune Sunda mger "MB Babson's Business and Financial forecast for 1956 will appear in the MaS)'ibune (g) on aunaay, jan. i. q- Mr. Babson, (rnationaUyiLfernal revenue service office, lown business conirtealator 33 North Riverside ave. The of $) and investment adviser, wnose column appears (sleekly in the Mal Tribune, has an accuracy of 6.5 percent of bgsihess (S) forecasts made during the past 17 years. HisJ.955 forecasts were 84 per centMfojjrect. H' weekly iSleases are used by over 400 newspapers and his financial rer ports by 20,000 corporations arm estates. ail DtcMs SrSisS-Prisi Minister Winston Cfturehill and the late Soviet Premie Josef Stalin. Or.e r the new documents Showed that at almost the time of the Yalta meeting, Averell Earfiman, wartime ambassador o Moscow, was finding evidence that U.S.-Russian relations were heading for trouble. ttarriman, now governor of ISiew York and a candidate for ' h e Democratic presidential nomination said in an April 2, 485, message to the President, ifef he Jiad noticed six weeks ward O G learned that a meeting was to fee held there today under the auspices cf the Grants Pass Chamber cf Commerce to ex plore ways and means of pre- -enting future floods. Some peo ple from this area were planning 16 attend. In Portland, the Army en gineers sent out a call for pic tures of the flood areas for use in compiling a report on flood Qamage. The engineers are the agency which builds federal Jod crX)trol dams. Two men from the Portland j(ffjic Bi Axrr3$ engineers, Fred L. rag,rm and JLtoyg, L. Sfltilli, sgfcnt Wednesday in Jackson county checking conditions with County Engineer Paul Rynning, Civil Defense Director Maj. Gen. Joseph Hicks, and Red Cross officials and county agents. Eisen tower Lists Oregon Flood Areas s o o As Major Disaster o President Eisenhower yester day designated flood stricken sections of sotfthwest Oregon to be a major disaster area, and made funds available to meet the emergency. In a telegram to the JVIail Tribune, Representative Harris Ellsworth said the program will be carried out through the state director of civilian defense under the direction of Governor Paul Patterson, - who mitiated the emergency fund request for Oregon. Estimate Damage An estimate of damage to property o.ther than personal property was forwarded to Gov. Patterson late Wednesday. Damages was estimatedyt $364, ,120, according to a survey by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hicks, civil defense administrator, County Engineer Paul Rynning and civil defense officiate in Rogue River and Shady Cove. An estimate of about $500,000 has been made for damage to homes, businesses and personal property by local Red Cross officials- 0 O The Red Cross announced strfiy tnet Jackson county suffered more flood odamagre than-anjr ottke Oregon eoenty. According; o "coserv?iv" estimate praparedby John Dis mufces, assistant mmager for fhouset destroyed, 930 damaged. 50 mall businesses sffected snd 65 families of 400 affected re quiring rehabilitation aid. I;n Josephine county eight hoiise were destroyed, 192 dam aged, 20 small businesses af fected: and 65 families will need rehabilitation aid1. In Douglas county, 40 houses were damaged, 125families af fected and 28 families will need rehabilitation aid.1 . Enqinaar to S alara " Gov. Patterson said he 'has been advised the regional civil defense agency was tendinjj an engineer, Charles H. Beal, to conduct a survey to determine Oregon's needs. - Co In addition, the Small Busi ness administration has opened TJffices in 10 Oregon counties for low interest loans. The counties j include Josephine, Jackson and Douglas. The Federal Housing administration said mortgage credit-curbs;: had been relaxed" and that special loans for home rebuilding and repairs would be madr All possible assistance in fill ingout income-tax forms will De given to flood victims, offi cers of the loeal branch of1 the internal revenue service said todaV. o Contact Office O O Members of the local depart ment said flood victims having auSstions -should contact the in- fice will be onen on Mondays during 1956. rather than Friday p. Those suffering floocPdamaee wijj ue aoie lo aeauci me amount E the actual Idas from their total income. In cases where the loss was greater than the total income for the past vearvthe balance will be carried hack t(j 1953, and if Greater than 1953 income, to 1954. just after the Yalta meeting ed States. earlier which would have been "Aside from the major ejues that the Russians were curbing tions which are causing concern their cooperation with the Unit- in our relations with the Soviet Cailad Prm full Lcutd Wine ' g 50th Year 18 Pages Russia To Spread Hatred, Trouble, Dulles Declares Cabinet Members Issue Predictions Washington U.P) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned today the Russians will do anything short of war to spread" hatred and trouble throughout the world next year. Dulles1 said in a New Year's statement that he expects the Russians to try to "exploit sit uations where free world coun tries seem divided by historic disputes." But he said he foresees rib open Russian aggression despite a west Soviet arms buildup. ''Fop the time being it seems fhe Soviet leaders will seek totfc pursue their ambitions tby the (means other than the use of trie threat of open force, he said. "To be a merchant of hat red is, perhaps, some , degree less than to be a merchant of death." Dulles and the nine other members of President Eisen hower's Cabinet issued year end reports and. predictions in a spe cial "election year report" pub lished by Nation's Business mag azine, o Farmers Costs Higher Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson: Farmers will refuse to be "wooed" with political promises of a return Qto rig?d price supports. They will have to "cut corners as never before" because they are squeezed by higher costs. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson: The ability of the United States to launch a "re taliatory" attack against any ggressor is "unequalled in the wona ana we pian to Keep n so." Secretary of Treasury George M. Humphrey: "At long last we are on the way . to a balanced budget." Secretary of Commerce Sin clair Weeks The Bureau of Public Roads is preparing for a b!g new highway program. The Commerce " Department plaSs to carry forward in 1956 the "greatest program in his tory" to improve the hurricane and tornado warning systems. Natural Resources Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay: Mr. Eisenhower's "part nership plan" for the develop ment of power and natural re-' sources will be continued. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr.: The Justice De partment next year will launch a "sustained attack" to elim inate the huge backlog of crim inal and civil case in federal courts. -1 Postmaster General Arthur I. Summerfield: Moderate in creases in first, second and third class mail rates are needed to wipe out the postal deficit.' Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell: Legislation will be in troduced to amend the Taft-Hartley law, extend the fair labor, standards act, promota indus trial safety, and improve con ditions on government contract work. ' Road Conditions Highway S2 at Prospect, SS oar Siikiyoui, and IS ova Green Springs. Spots of ice and packed snow; sanded. High-way 101 Opaa be tween Bandon and Coquilla. Highway 38 Closed b causa of slides. Three Dionne Girls Return Home Callander, Ont. (U.R) Three of . the Dionne Quintuplets, Yvonne, Annette and Cecile, ar rived home early today and were affectionately greeted by their parents. - Oliva Dionne Jr., 19, called foiP his three sisters at their Montreal apartment last night on his. way home from a week end leave from the RCAP sta tion at St. Hubert, Que. Happf T fte Horn He said the girls were happy to be home and warmly ex changed hugs and kisses with their parents. The parents were glad to see the girls and had been waiting for them, he said. The airman said he didn't know what the family plans GO '-t koti "Fur MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER he More Withholding Tax Due Next Week Salara (U.R) Beginning next weak, Oregon employers must start withholding two per can! ef their employees paychecks for stale income tax purposes. Employers now hold bsck one per cent for the state. The increase was part of a plan to spead income tax col lections when legislators fear ed the state faced a fiscal defi cit A- Chinese Bombard Isles in Apparent Invasion Prelude Taipeh, Formosa U.R) The Chinese Communists were re ported today to be bombarding both ends of the Nationalist off shore island chain in an appar ent prelude to an invasion of Matsu, Quemoy or both. Heavy Nationalist Chinese air and naval partols were reported in the Matsu area where several naval skirmishes have taken place in the past week. National ist sources believed an attempt was more likely against Matsu or its satellite island of Kaoteng Duels Continue Sketchy reports received here told of continued artillery duels between Nationalist and Commu nist gunners at Quemoy Island, southern anchor of Chiang Kai- shek's island defense chain just off the" mainland. "with" the Reds pumping in 700 shells yesterday alone. Sporadic Communist shelling was directed against Kaoteng in the Matsu Island group 150 miles up the coast. Kaoteng is five miles from the nearest Commu nist position and serves as an outpost for main Matsu Island. Theye were widespread pre dictions in Taipeh the Commu nists were ready to rekindle the Formosa crisis and ' one news paper predicted an attack against Matsu within a week. Other sources believed the Reds would attack in mid-January. Two Are Sentenced in Circuit Court Ralph E. Fennemore, 39, a transient, was sentenced to twa years in the state penitentiary in circuit court today on a charge of larceny from an of fice. He was charged with tak ing a briefcase belonging to James Armson, juvenile depart ment councellor, Dec. 9. Frank Pat Lee, 21, Washougal, Wash., received a two-year sus pended sentence on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses.- Jimmy Hahn, 21,' who was ex tradicted from Virginia, plead ed guilty to a charge of lar ceny of livestock. The case was continued pending receipt of a Federal Bureau "of Investigation report. He is charged with the theft of a calf belonging " to Harry White, Gold Hill, May 23. COW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 48B.40 up 3.84, 20 rail roads 163.29 up 1.14, 15 utilities 64.16 up 0.18, 85 stock 178.73 up 1.17. Sales today were about 2,820,000 compared with 2,190, 000 yesterday. " -; -t were for the week end and that he had to be back at bas Tues day. Sneak Out of Apartment The warmth of the family greeting indicated that while the girls hurried home for. New Year's to face their angry papa and "get it over with" he may not have been as "angry with them as they thought for assert ing their newly found independ ence in Montreal. They sneaked out Cof3 their bachelor girl apartment, there last nighyo go home. Early yes terday, -they-were reported plan ning to sta in Montreal until their father's anger cooled off, but tfeex later announced through: a spokesman they bad changed ther i Union there has been an accu - mulation of minor i incidents which started some six weeks ago, Harnman laid. r rb'f President Flatly Denies Charge of Europe Meddling Dim View Taken 4 Russian Utterance Key West, Fl. (U.R) Presi; dent Eisenhower toflay fturled back at the leaders of Commu nist Russia" a flat denial thahe is an exponent of interference in MiddlQ Europe. The President said Soviet Communist leader Nikita Khrushchev was wrong in his analysis of American for eign policy. In the face of new blasts from the Russian political high com mand, the President refused to change pogition and took a dis tinctly dim- view of what the Russians had been saying in re cent days. Mr. Eisenhower said this coun try would not retreat from its foreign policy encouragement of Middle European peoples to de fect from Soviet control. Remains U. S. Goal "The peaceful liberation of the captive peoples has been, is, and, until success is achieved, will continue to be a mSjor goal of U. S. foreign policy," the President said in a statement re leased by his press secretary, James C. Hagerty. Khrushchev, the boss of the international operations of the Communist party, said in an im passioned ! spe'echo'yeste'rday to the Soviet Presidium that the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had commit ted "crude interference" in Communist East Europe by their Christmas broadcasts to the Eu ropean peoples. The vacation White House at first refused to comment. But after Hagerty talked with Dul les this morning and the Presi dent had a chance to go over the latest dispatches from Mos cow, the White House issued this statement: t Recalls Genera Statement . "Mr. Khrushchev is reported to have said that the Christmas messages of President Eisenhow er and Secretary of State Dult les to the peoples of Europe were "in no way accord the spirit 'of Geneva.", "It was 'made abundantly clear at Geneva to the , Soviet rulers that the "spirit of Gen eva' could not involve any re laxing of the peaceful purpose of the United States to achieve liberty and justice for the op pressed peoples of the world. "In his opening statement at Geneva, President Eisenhower said: "There is the problem of respecting the right of peoples to choose the form of govern ment under which they will live, and of restoring soverign rights and self-government to those who have been deprived of them. The American people feel strongly that certain peoples of Eastern Europe, many with a long and proud record,, of na tional existence, have not .yet been given the benefit of this pledge of our U. N. wartime declaration reinforced by other wartime agreements." ' "The peaceful liberation . of the captive peoples has been, is, and, until success is achieved, will continue to be a major goal of U.- S. foreign policy." their minds. - . . 3 The girls; end their mother reached Callander after a night ling 400-mile drive over ice and slush-covered roads, an ordeal the recently ill aMarie was un able to face. She remained be hind in their Montreal apart ment. c Dionna Lacks Sleep Dionne said he got only one and a half - hours sleep over Christmas because his famous daughters had failed to jome home for . the holiday. He" also complained the girls who reach ed 21 this year and received a $1,000,000 fortune had been treating their eight brothers and sisters with "contempt" i "The following are only ex- amyles: . . . Little or no prog- ress has been made in getting, I Soviet approval for our air BUNE -Pull Leased Wire G -?r Kin 91 n' RECEIVING CROWN IN six princesses. She will reign over 67th annual Tournament oj, Roses. From left: Yvonne Flint, Sue Anderson, Lelia McEachern, Queen Joan, GailShannon, Sharon Doty, Agnette Fredrickson. More than million people are expected to view parade. (International) PUCSuspends Bus Schedule Changes; To Call Hearing Plans by the Evergreen BS lines to discontinue service be tween, Medford and Ashland on Sundays 'and "holidays and to eliminate the 9:45 p.m. trip, have been suspended by the Public . Utilities Commission, pending a hearing on the pro posed change. The change . was to become effective Dec. 25. . Schedule changes between Medford and Camp White, to have . become effective Jan. 1, have been voluntarily suspended because of the coordination of night service between the Camp White and Ashland runs, com pany officials said. City Changes in Effect Schedule changes approved at the last meeting of the Medford city council will go into effect Jan. 3. These changes have not been suspended. Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 3, the East side' bus will leave tiown town 33 minutes after the hour beginning at 9:35, and will leave the Rogue Valley Country Club at 45 minutes after the hour. The bus will return; on the new Hill crest, Barneburg rd., East Jack son st., Academy place and East Main st. route.' On the Orchard Home dr. route, ' buses ' will leave down town on the hour beginning at 10 a.m., leave Orchard Home dr. at South Stage rd. at quarter past the hour and Stewart ave. and Thomas rd. at 20 minutes past the hour, five minutes later than at present. - There will -be no change in route or schedule before 9:35 a.m., officials said. - On two afternoon schedules the bus from Orchard" Home dr. will pick up ' children at St. Mary's High school and at Med ford Senior High, school- The bus. leaving" Stewart ave. and Thomas rd. at 2:20 p.m. will-fof-low the regular route to West 11th and South Oakdale ave. and continue easton West 11th to South Holly, then turn north on Holly to West Main. .9. The next bus, leavingc.the end of the line at 3:20, will follow the regular route to Peacfc st. and Dakota ave., then turn east on Dakota to the MedfordoSen ior High school, going north oh "J" st. to West 11th st, then, east on 11th to South Holly, picking up at St. dMary's - and turning north to West Main st. to eturn to the regular route. d CSalem (U.RJ The - Portland-) Vancouver metropolitan area re ported 760(P more jobs last month than a year ago and week ly earnings were up $3.76. o Weather 5 FORECAST: Considerable clou-" diness tonight and Saturday with a threat of a few light showers. Slightly warmer. Low tonight 25-28. High Sat urday 45-48. vTemp. Highes Yesterday , 35 Lowest this Morning 23 teams to visit Soviet controlled territory for appraisal of bomb damage or for our naval team to visit Gdynia. Both proposals were agreed to at Yalta." Another document from Act ing Secretary of State Joseph Grew to Secretary of State Ed Edward R. Stettinius Jr. at about the time of thPYalta meet ing cast light on a Communist falsehood about its designs on China. Grew said a message from ambassador Patrick Hurley from ambassador Patrich in China reported Sov in China reported Soviet For eign Minister V. M. Slolotov had O PASaSeNA Rose Queen Joan Culver sits for official picture with Seek Dismissal Of 5 Indictments Against Hugh DAutremont Five motions asking dismis - sal of five remaining indictmenfr against Hugh D,'Autremont "were filed in circuit court this week by Attorney Edward C. Kelly. ' D'Autremont is serving a life sentence in the state peniten tiary for first degree murder, growing out of the 1923 dyna miting of a Southern Pacific mail train in the Siskiyous. ' The remaining indictments in clude three charging D'Autre mont with first degree murder and two with attempted robbery of a train and attempted rob bery. Kelly . submitted memoranda of legal authorities in seeking RC Continues Flood Q Rehabilitation aRed Cross officials today conQ tinued distribution of iSod. cloth ing and bedding(jo flood victims and prepared to go into rehabili tation work more, fully next week. 0 .' (Supplementary items needed by families whg have already received "lev? clothing and bed ding may be received at theJ ; The Jackson county chamber of commerce, at the remipst. nf the Red Cross, is working witrF? retailers to secure minimum price figures oh essential items such as clothing, figpniture and major electrical appliances. . Survey forms filled out by the retailers will be returned to d Cross headquarters and will serve asn aid to. those receiv ing flood relief funds To enable budgeting fjindsoin order to ec qaire . essential ite)s. - Only, the - barest minium household requirements Tiave been listed on the forms, and retailers have been asked to co operate by filling, in their hig est and lowest prices for each item. O Yule Tree Pickup O Reminder Issued 0 - Residents of Jackson county wereQ reminded today of the Christmas ' tree pickup, , sched uled , Sunday . by members of M)se lodgg 178, which will kick off the January March of Dimes drive in this aa. Those Desiring the pickup serv ice are asked to jace their Christmas trees in the front yard or on their porches before 1 pQn. A contribution to the March of Dimes should be placed in an envelope and fastened to the tree. Contributions collected in each town in the county will be credited to the MD total in the town from which it wS col lected, Moose officials said. O insisted Russians are not supporting Chinese Communists, who are not Communists at all." The envoy said Molotov also claimed Russia waritedjio con cessions in ChinaV The new documents were ob tained from the Roosevelt col lection at Hyde Park, the State Department and other govern ment agenceis. State Department officials insisted they were of now major significance and did not change "the general picture as presented" when the original Yalta record was first published in galley form last March. 1 the dismissals, setting forth the constitutional rights of individ- .,-1 -T - . . . 7 MvyUJ bJ.J.l.- Included is reference to the recent' United States court decision in the case of Sgt. John David Provoo, charged with treason while a Japanese prisoner. Failure to bring the case to trial in six years was given by the court as reason for dismissal of the indictment. . There have been 116 terms of court since charges were filed against D'Autremont, and he has been in custody 29 years, during which time the charges have not been brought to trial, Kelly stated. Began Sentence in 1927 D'Autremont, who began serv ing sentence in 1927, was con victed . with his twin brothers, Roy and Ray. D'Autremont, of the spectacular dynamiting in tunnel 13 in the Siskiyous. All three have been confined, al though Ray is now a patient in the state hospital. They were arrested four years after the u,y udiiiiung wiuie xiugn was serving in the Army in the Phil lippines. The twins were apprehended in Ohio, where they were em ployed as sawmill workers. Trial was held in the old county court h&se in Jacksonville. Medford Police To Have Taxi Service ' Medford city police will pro vide rides .home for New Year's eyo celebrants who feel they shSsuld not drive their own car, chief of police Charles Champlin announced today. Anyone who feels he drank too much to safely drive may call the city police departmgpt and a police officer will drive their car home for themChamp-. lin said. ' " - -. . - nom city ana state police saia there will be strict enforcement of all traffic laws over the three day holiday. . , , q Capt. . Paul Parson, head of the ate police in southwestern Oregon, said the 20 men avail able for patrol in the Medford area will be on a three-shift i .- a l rr: a: 3 Ucibis, Willi uxxxueia cippui Liuxicu to times ' and places they will do the most good. All available men and equipment will be on duty, he said. Capt. Parson said that while sogse departments are offering "taxi" service for those who have had too much to drink, the only such service state police officers will give is a "taxi" ride to jail for those driving while intoxicated, or for those Suffi ciently under the influence to be hazards or a nuisance. Some Medford business estab lishments will serve free coffee to celebrants New Year's eve. G O r 3 O o o
