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MEDFORD (OREGON MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN Monroney Charges House ression of Renort on TransDortation Thursday' January 5, 1958 White I i o""' ' , '"s&vt h, $m fsbCi Tk I 'WE RESTORED ORDER About 2000 striking pickets stacked cement blocks across entrances to Westinghouse plant in. Columbus, 0., and armed themselves with clubs. When police tried to clear entrance into the plant a riot broke out. Wrecked and over turned autos (above) stand as mute evidence. Before order could be restored, nine persons were taken to a hospital, one of them dying of a heart attack. Ninety strikers were arrested. - Man Tells of Being Forced by FBI To Rejoin Communist Party Albuquerque, N.M. (U.R) A 45-year-old former Oakland, Calif., laborer charged today the FBI forced him to rejoin the Communist party here to serve as' an undercover agent and to help expose a local Red cell. The FBI denied the charge. Cleve Owens said in an affi davit that Communists are, or have been, interested in keeping close touch with employees at top secret Sandia Atomic Base here which manufactures the trigger for the atomic bomb, or at Kirtland Air Force Base, whose planes drop the A-bomb. Sisirt Harassed Owens' statement followed the resignation of two sisters, Miss Mannie Gallegos, 22, and Mrs. Iola D. Ellis, 24, from their jobs at Sandia base. They charged they were harassed because they had associated with a former Communist. The former Com munist turned out to be Owens, a half-brother. Owens made his statements in an affidavit for the Albuquerque Journal, which first had ex posed the charges by the sisters. D. A. Bryce, agent in charge of the Albuquerque FBI office, issued a .terse denial. Owens said he joined the Com munist party after the local union to which he belonged while driving a cab in Oakland Man Sentenced To 90 Days In Jail Oscar E. Self, 38, of route 1, Ashland, was sentenced to 90 days in the county jail today after he pleaded guilty in dis trict court to contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was charged with aiding and abetting the theft of gaso line by a 17-year-old. Cecil Roy Wood, 52,' Long- view, is held in jail under $1,500 bond after arraignment in court yesterday on a charge of obtain ing money under false pretenses. The case was continued until Jan. 6 by Judge Rawles Moore. Also arraigned yesterday was G. E. Peterson, Camp White, who was bound over to the grand jury and jailed' under $1,500 bond. He is charged with cashing a check with no funds. Use Tribune Want Ads fell into receivership during a strike in 1949 and the War La bor Board refused to hear the drivers' complaints. In 1951, . he said, he decided to get out of the party. He and his .wife came to Albuquerque when doctors advised them to take their child to a higher and drier climate. Claims Threats Made Owens started working a milk delivery route. But he said the FBI approached him and said they "needed my cooperation." He ignored the requests, and two days later they met him in the officers' housing division of San dia Base where he was deliver ing milk. This, he said, was in 1953. "At that time one of them (the FBI agents) jumped out, threw his coat back as if he would use his gun if necessary, shoved me into the car and said 'Now, we're not fooling around with you. We want your cooperation'." , Owens said the FBI warned that for the welfare of his two half-sisters, he had better agree to do what it wanted. He said the agents threatened him with arrest by military police and with exposing his "whole background." gives you I Is? - Si pONicCARN H j 5 Here is chili con came that tastes like the finest homemade kind! Not too hot . . . not too bland it's just perfect Dennison's Chili is slow-cooked the old fashioned way to keep in all the extra good ness of these choice ingredients: Tender good beef big home-style pieces of juicy lean beef. Plump rich beans-tasty and tender as your own home-cooked beans would be. Nicely .spiced sauce slow-simmered the home-cooked way to keep "hot" and "bland" in perfect balance. Try Dennison's Chili Con Carne with Beans in the economical family size or con venient regular size look for Dennison's Plain Chili, too. Both delicious because both give you real home-kitchen flavor! Anti-Aviation Slant Said'Raw;' Lee Ouster Probed Washington U.R) Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney charged today that the White House has "sup- Dressed" a section of a cabinet level report on transportation because it is so raw m its anti-aviation slant. The Oklahoma Democrat said his Senate Commerce subcom mittee on aviation will try to "flush out" the report to prove the existence of a ground clique" in the administration. Part of Investigation The subcommittee's interest is part of its investigation into the ouster of Frederick B. Lee as civil aeronautics administra tor. Monroney has claimed that Lee was "railroaded" out of the top CAA post late last year by a "ground-minded clique head ed by Commerce Secretary Sin clair Weeks and Commerce Undersecretary Louis S. Roths child. Lee, a Vermont Republican, was called back before the sub committee today for his second day of testimony. The subcom mittee wanted details of his conversation with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams pre ceding the White House an nouncement of Lee's resignation Drafted by Committee The controversial transporta tion reDort. released last April was drafted by a cabinet-level Transportation Advisory Com mittee to the President, headed by Weeks. The report encount ered bitter criticism from the trucking industry for its major recommendation that federal regulations be liberalized so as to give railroads a better chance to compete with trucking and water transportation. Monroney said the aviation section of the report was "so raw that I understand the White House suppressed it." Weeks thus far has declined to appear before the subcommit tee, delegating Rothschild, who is in charge of transportation policy in the Commerce Depart ment, as his spokesman. Mon roney said the subcommittee will "re-invite" Weeks to testify and predicted the commerce sec retary "may want to come after we get all the testimony on the circumstances behind the Lee ouster." To Ask ExDlanation If Weeks does appear, Mon roney said, he will be asked for an explanation of Lee's state ment that there is a "high-level proposal", to sell the vast government-owned communications network of the CAA to Ameri can Telephone - Telegraph Co. or Western Union. i Changes In Properly Tax Forms Explained Changes in the current per sonal property return forms were explained today by Andy H. Hawver, personal tax deputy in the county assessor's office. A total of 5,400 forms were sent out by the office last week, and all must be filled out, signed and returned by March 2. Three basic forms, with en closures for form three, were sent to different categories this year, form one for merchants; form two for farm and ranch; and form three with enclosures for the remainder, including log ging, contracting, garages, mo tels and professional offices. Instruction sheets are enclos ed with each return. Hawver stressed that this year's duplicates, which are in cluded in each return, may be kept by the taxpayer. The as sessor 'will notify each payer of his property value prior to the board of equalization ses sion. He asked that persons seeking help at the office bring their forms. Slim Japan Majority Wants China Recognition Tokyo U.R) A public opin ion poll conducted by Kyodo News Service showed today a slim majority in Japan favors recognition of Red China and withdrawal of American troops from Japan. The agency said it questioned 2,500 persons throughout Japan and 52 per cent wanted diplo matic ties with Red China. The poll found 54 per cent wanted American troops withdrawn and 50 per cent opposed expansion of U.S. military bases. The training college of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Regina, Saskatchewan, has perhaps the only church in the world used exclusively by policemen. Edminton, Alta., in western Canada, has reached more than 200,000 in population. At the turn of the century it was a frontier trading post. Use Tribune Want Ads - Slayer of Airman, Girl Friend Sought Great Falls, Mont. U.PJ Air Force and civilian officers worked together today in an at tempt to locate the killer of an airman and his teen-age girl friend. The couple was killed Mon day night and Tuesday morning in Chinese-execution type mur ders, the young airman in a lovers lane west of the city and the attractive girl on an isolated road north of the -city. Bullet in Girl's Head The fully-clothed body of Pat Kalitzke, 16, Great Falls, un marked except for the bullet hole in the back of her head, was found yesterday afternoon by a county maintenance work er as he graded a road. The man spotted the girl's dress about 20 feet down an embankment along the road. She had been shot at the top of the embankment and her body rolled to the bottom. Found Tuesday was the body of her boy friend, A2C Lloyd Duane Bogle, 18, Waco, Tex., whom she had planned to marry. His body was found in the lovers lane with his hands tied behind his back by his own belt. The body was lying face down beside the car. No Sign of Struggle There were no indications of a struggle, Sheriff -D. J. Leeper said. He said the murder may have been committed by a per son known to the airman. The airman was apparently kneeling when shot through the 'back of the head. Robbery was discounted as a motive. The airman's wallet contained $5 in currency and an expensive camera was left in the car, which had been left in. gear with the emergency brake on. - Leeper said officials at near by Malstrom Air Force Base where holding an airman who allegedly argued with the slain youth on the eve of the shooting. "He is a suspect and that is about all," Leeper said. Chile Union Strikes Against 'Hunger Bill' Santiago, Chile (U.R) The Workers' Central Union Wednes day night called a strike of its 1,000,000 members to start mid night Sunday in protest against a government bill to freeze prices and wages. The Central Union said the measure approved by the Sen ate Wednesday was a "hunger bill which places the burden of the economic crisis on the workers." The . Wright - Patterson air force base has 7,900 acres and is one of the world's largest air installations. It contains more than 1,000 buildings and is. an important military center. INCREASING MOBILITY of infantrymen, this is new aero cycle being tested at Camp Kilmer, N. J. Pilot stands on plat ,form over rotor blades and guides 200-lb. helicopter by lean ing in direction he wishes to travel. Control mechanism is similar to motorcycle; maximum speed, 65 mph.(International) NOTICE!! Beginning January 1,-1956, and until the completion of our new building THE MEDFORD FEED & SEED will do busi ness temporarily in the old Co-op building at the corner of 4th and Fir streets. Across 4th Street from where we are now located. The telephone number will remain the same Geo. C. Barr, Mgr. Medford Feed & Seed 11th and OAKDALE imnmrnrvn? iTnnrmfSTl . " RomU Worrell's Sausage Rolls lb. pkg. Vitamin Packed NAVEL D Fill Up a Tote Bag for Qurooes', Crispy Bunch CARROTS 2 7C Guatemala BANANAS C 2 , 29c Crisp Firm LETTUCE 10e Standby Catsup 2-39 14-ounce Bottle Peas 303 CAN Pineapple Crushed, No. 2 Can Corn 2 - 39 29 0 Can 303 CAN Whole Kernel or Cream Style Open Week Days 8 'Till 8 Sunday-10 'Till 6 mmw mm We Give Northern Stamps IT - Get the large family size and save I
