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0 lifes of M aissasrel lissiiingiriis FmM k; i.f if-. n BLUE CRUTCH D A Y Jerry Lausmann, right,! county March of Dimes chairman, is shown above pinning a Blue Crutch on Jerry Russell, young polio victim. The little crutches, symbol of the fight against polio, will be sold on streets of towns throughout Jackson county tomorrow with all f unds to go to the polio campaign. Young Russell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W, Russell, 647 J st., was strick en with polio in Junction City in September, 1953, and was cared for by the Lane county chapter of the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis. In July, 1955, the family moved to Jackson coun ty and. the, local chapter has care for him since that time. - i . l. McMurray photo)' Fafwt Plate Amendment Favored Salem flJ.R) The section : of the motor vehicle code dealing with issuance of farm plates should be amended to eliminate illegal use of such plates, the Legislative Highway Interim Committee was told today.' ; A report to the committee by H. G. Maison, superintendent of state police, said the department had issued 130 citations during the past year for farm plate violations. Objects lo Requirement Earl McNutt, Eugene contrac tor and farmer and former mem ber of the Legislature, objected to one requirement for farm plates, that of making the major part of one's livelihood from the farm. "I own ? and operate a farm but I get my living from other sources too," he said. "However, I don't think a farmer in my fix should be penalized." He suggested the requirement for farm plates should be that the vehicle is used in farm work, regardless of what other sources of income its owner might have. Robert Gile, head of the mo tor vehicle division of the sec retary of state's office, which issues farm plates, said that the farm plate section of the law was the most difficult to enforce. He told the committee headed by Sen. Warren A. McMinimee of Tillamook that the depart ment had 97 cases of violation under investigation and that about 30 holders of such plates had returned them when it was Soiii? Elected Head Of Local UN Group LawTence Solin was elected president of Medford chapter, Oregon United Nations associa tion, last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Bosworth Jr. Solin has been serving as treas urer. Bruce Manley is retiring president. Other officers elected were Mrs. Bosworth, vice-president; Mrs. George Rode,, treasurer, and Miss Mary K. Davenport, secretary. Retiring officers will make up the. board of directors, with Manley as chairman. ' .Miss Noreen Kelly spoke on a European tour last year. She said' she found approval of the United Nations among younger people of Europe, but that older people were reluctant . to give up prejudices and hatreds brought on by past events. Code found that the department had evidence of illegal use. Wilbur Seeley of Woodburn cited several cases to the com mittee in which trucks using farm plates were hauling in com petition to trucks with PUC plates.. The latter pay a weight mile tax which the farm plate trucks do not. . Local Officials in Klamath Falls Today Several Medford mci were in Klamath Falls this afternoon," meeting" with members of the state interim committee on local government, which plans to hold hearings in both Klamath Falls and Medford soon. County Judge Raymond Lath rop, Grants" Pass, a member of the committee, arranged the meeting as a planning session for the hearings, which will be held on consecutive days in the two cities. The hearings are to gather information about local problems dealing with fringe area growth on which to base recommendations for needed leg islation at the next session of the legislature. Among those attending today's meeting were County Judge Rod ney Keating, Mayor Earl Miller and City Manager Robert Duff of Medford and others. Eugene (U.R) George Hostet ler, Redmond, has been elected president of the Oregon Dairy men's Association. Three Fridays Fall On the 13th in '56 Feel unlucky today? It's Friday the 13th. but if you get through it successful ly, don't congratulate your self too proudly. There are two more Friday the 13ths ahead in 1956 one in April - and another in July. -Thirteen has been consid ered an unlucky number for centuries. Friday was consid ered the luckiest day of the week by ancient Scandinavi an but ever since Christ was crucified, on Friday, many people have had a supersti tion against it. Friday- was - also known as Hangman's day because it was once the day . chosen for execution of criminals. Chance Remote Fifth Survived Indian Attack One Man Decapitated, Radio Report Says Quito, Ecuador (U.R) The bodies of four massacred Ameri can missionaries have- been found in the "green hell" jungles of eastern Ecuador, and there is only a "remote chance" that a fifth survived a savage Indian attack, it was reported today. An -unconfirmed radio report from the jungle said at least one of the slain men had been de capitated recalling the Auca Indians' grisly practice of shrinking the heads of their vic tims. Only one of the murdered missionaries had been positively identified so far Nathaniel Saint, of Fullerton, Calf., the only member of the party who was wearing khaki clothing. Mutilation made it impossible to identify the other three bodies. The vmen who flew into the jungle with Saint Sunday were T. Edward McCully Jr., Wau watosa, Wis.; Roger Youdarin, Billings, Mont.; Peter Fleming, Seattle, and James Elliott, Port land, Ore. Sighted From Helicopter A U.S. Army helicopter man ned by Capt. Robert B. McGhee and 1st Lt. James E. Claunch, based at Fort Kobbe, Panama Canal Zone, . sighted the four bodies yesterday in shallow water along the banks of the rain-swollen Curacay river. Also aboard the craft was Maj. Mal colm L. Nurnberg, who is air craft maintenance officer for the U.S. Air Force mission in Quito. Abraham Vanderpoint, an of ficial of the Protestant mission that sent the five men to con vert the A u c a s, reported by radio from the jungle that "there is a remote chance the fifth mis sionary is still alive, but hope is fading with the passage of time." Two men sighted early Thurs day near the scene of the mas sacre 'and tentatively identified as survivors turned out later to be friendly Jibaro Indians who guided- searchers to the : mis sionaries' radio set. Meanwhile, examaination of the reports prepared by the mis sionaries before their last, fatal trip into the jungle indicated they probably were slain by Aucas they had not met on pre vious trips. Relations Were Friendly The five men had established friendly relations with the In dians who lived near the river beach. They had won the In dians' confidence to such an ex tent that a few of the bolder savages came close enough to shake hands, and one even went for a short hop in the, mission plane. "The Indian gave yells of happiness while in the air," Saint said in his report of the day's activites. A week ago today, the mis sionaries set up a prefabricated hut on the river bank without drawing any protest from the Indians. On Sunday disaster struck, and the last report radioed by Saint indicated it was . the re sult of the arrival of strangers on the scene. "Here come some Indians we have not met before," he said. "Everything OK. Will contact you again at 4:30 p.m." Knowland Asked To File in Wisconsin Milwaukee U.R) A 20-mem-ber Wisconsin committee today asked Sen. William Knowland (R.-Calif.) to enter his name in the Wisconsin Republican presi dential primary election this spring. The Knowland for President Planning committe, which was organized here today, sent a telegram to Knowland in Wash ington. It was signed by Ashland Editor John Chappie, who or ganized the group. "I urge you to enter your name in the Wisconsin presi dential primary," Chappie wrote. "As we see it, the issue is American foreign policy, and the fate of our nation and our civilization is at stak.e. On this issue we are firmly united in your support." DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 481.80 unchanged, 20 rails 160.68 up 0.57, 15 utilities 64.01 up 0.10, and 65 stocks 470.58 up 0.22. Sales' today were about 2,120,000 shares compared with 2,310,000 yesterday. Salem (U.R Byron D. Mc- Bride, Lake Grove, has filed "his candidacy for Democratic nom ination for state,, representative from Clackamas county. MEDFORr United Press Full leased Wire 50th Year 20 Pages ih Reason Behind 'Hurry' in Sarena Case To Be Probed Decision Said Made Prior to Reports Washington (U.R) Sen. W. Kerr Scott said today his joint congressional subcommittee will try to find out next week why the government was in such a "mighty big hurry" to hand pub lic lands in Oregon over to pri vate ownership. The North Carolina Democrat said the Interior Department was in such a hurry it handed down its 17-page final decision in the controversial Al Sarena mining claim case before the field reports reached Washing ton. IS Claims Involved The case involves the grant ing of full title to 15 mining claims beneath 300 acres of na tional forest to Al Sarena Mines, Inc., of Mobile, Ala. Democrats say the title was sought for the timber. Republicans charge an attempt to "smear" the adminis tration is underway. Scott, chairman of a Senate and House subcommittee looking into the case, said yesterday rec ords show field reports on the claims were mailed from Spo kane Jan. 5, 1954. But, he added, the final decision was handed down "the" very next day." Concrete Evidence The dates, he said, are "very concrete evidence that the In terior Department, for some as yet undisclosed reason,; was in a mighty big hurry to hand over these public lands to private ownership." The claims are in the Rogue River National Forest. The congressional investigat ors have -called on-Forest Ser vice officials to determine whether Al Sarena got a $110,000 windfall out of the .deal. One source said Al Sarena al ready has taken $110,000 in tim ber from the land and still has $140,000 left. Another said only $77,000 worth of timber-was on the claims originally. The hearings resume Tuesday. Columbia Utilities Buys PT&T Property About 40 suburban party line telephone subscribers in the White City area were trans ferred recently from the Med ford exchange of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany to Columbia Utilities com pany exchange, D. O. Hood, president of Columbia Utilities, has announced. The sale of certain telephone territory and outside plant fa cilities for $6,000 cash was granted by Oregon Public Utili ties commissioner to the PT&T last month. The price did not in clude telephone instruments. Hood said "'the transfer in cludes stations along Crater Lake highway between Four Corner and Gregory rd., Sticky lane, Corey rd., Foothills drive, and Gregory rd., an area gen erally continguous to the White City exchange. Housing construction under way in the area is expected to ultimately increase the total subscriber stations by about 200, Hood said. Extended area toll free serv ice between White City and Medford, and between White City, Central Point and Eagle Point was established last year. Eisenhower Expected To Consent To Nome Appearing on New Hampshire Ballot Washington (U.R) Sen. Styles Bridge (R-N.H.) said to day he expects. President Eisen hower to csnsent to his name being placed on the ballot of New Hampshire's March 13 presidential primary. Such consent would not neces sarily mean, however, that Mr. Eisenhower had decided definite ly to be-a candidate for renomi nation. Bridges' statement to reports echoed a similar one from Gov. Lane Dwinnell of New Hamp shire. Dwinnell announced yes sy-& , - United Press Fall Leased Wire . V II Ike Call s M eeti i n g On Atoms ffoir Peace Washington (U.R Presi dent Eisenhower today sum moned five top advisers to find a way to breathe life into his bogged - down atoms - for - peace program. Although Mr. Eisenhower un veiled two years ago his dra matic plan to put the atom to peaceful use for all men, ground so far has not been broken for even the first atomic reactor en visioned under the program. . The President called these of ficials to confer on the prob lem: Secretary of State John D'Autremont Case Extension Granted District Attorney Walter Nun ley this week was granted an ex tension of time to Feb. 6 in which to consider motions filed in "circuit court requestng dis missal of five indictments against Hugh D'Autremont. The motions were filed late last month by Attorney Edward C. Kelly. D'Autremont is serv ing a life sentence in the state penitentiary for first degree murder. He was conviced in con nection with the robbery and dynamiting of a Southern Pa cific mail train in the Siskiyous in 1923. Hs brothers, Roy and Ray D'Autremont, also were con victed of the same crime and are still serving life sentences. Kelly seeks dismissal of the remaining indictments against Hugh D'Autremont on the basis that the period of time elapsing during which the charges have not been brought to trial is too great. - - HEW Gives Sanction To Valley Hospital The federal Health, Education and Welfare department has given preliminary approval of the proposed Rogue Valley Me morial hospital, Rep. Harris Ellsworth and Sen. Richard Neuberger informed the Mail Tribune today. In a telephone conversation shortly after nopn, Ellsworth said he was notified today of the preliminary approval, which includes a grant of $563,960 in federal Hill-Burton funds. On the basis of preliminary approval, they said, the board of directors may proceed with plans and specifications, and fin al approval will come after plans are completed. ! A general fund raising cam paign is now under way in Jack son county to raise part of the estimated $1,900,000 necessary for construction and equipping the 78-bed hospital at the corner of Barnett and Murphy rds. The federal grant previously was recommended by the Ore gon State board of health. Copper Released to Flood-Ravaged States Washington U.R) The gov ernment announced today it will release 4,200,000 pounds of cop per for use in rehabilitating flood damaged areas in Califor nia, Oregon and Nevada. The supplies will be taken from inventories maintained for defense production. terday that petitions will be filed Monday to enter Mr. Eisen hower in the state's primary. Dwinnell said he expects to get approval from Washington. He pointed out that Mr. Eisen hower could consent either in the form of a public statement or by mere silence. . Under New- Hampshire law, petitions to enter candidates in the presidential primaries can be filed from today until Feb. 1. When ths is done, the secretary of state must notify the candi date as soon as possible. The ,, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1956 Foster Dulles, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, Treasury Sec retary George M. Humphrey, Atomic Energy Chairman -Lewis L. Strauss and Dillon Anderson, the President's special adviser on national security matters. Mr. Eisenhower announced his atoms-for-peace plan in an his toric' address before the United Nations Dec. 8, 1953. He urged then that an international atomic energy agency be created and Dulles Backs Up . Statements About Threats of War Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to day stood back of his Life maga zine statements that only strong action by the Eisenhower ad ministration has prevented .war with Red China on three differ ent occasions. A storm of protest arose after Life quoted Dulles as saying the administration "walked to the brink of war" with Red China three times, "looked it in the face," and took "strong action", to avert it. " State Department ' Press Offi cer Lincoln White told reporters that lthe secretary has now read the Life article." "He (Dulles) feels the state ments specifically attributed to him do not require correction from the standpoint of their sub stance," White said., "That is all." The Dulles statement, how ever, did not settle one of the main points as to whether Brit ain had agreed to take united action in Indochina in 1954 if the Geneva truce talks had failed. The article said the British had a change of heart after Dulles had believed they would agree to intervention. However, this was not specifically attributed to Dulles. - i In the article quotations at tributed directly to Dulles were quite limited. The statements .attributed to Dulles which he said are correct in substance were that the Eisen hower administration had to look war "square in the face on the question of getting into the Indo china war, on the question of Formosa." "We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face," Dulles said.' "We took strong action." (See Stories on Page 8) Jackson Industry Due Ordnance Aid Oakland, Calif . (U.R) The San Francisco Ordnance District announced today it is extending its priority procurement pro gram into 12 flood-stricken coun ties of Oregon and six in Ne vada. Fifty-one California counties already have been certified by the Office of Defense Mobiliza tion for possible industrial re lief. The Oregon counties affected are Benton, Clackamas, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Jose phine, Lane, Linn, Marion, Polk and Washington. candidate, may withdraw within 10 days after receipt of the notice. The deadline for " Mr. Eisen hower, to pull out of the New Hampshire primary would fall two to three weeks before the scheduled final report from his doctors on his recovery from his September heart attack. Hence the President . might agree to let his name remain on the New Hampshire ballot while deferring until later a decision on whether to seek a second term. He said last Sunday he had not reached a firm decision. Price 5c No. 252 TMAL- PLANHED that the major atomic powers contribute fissionable material to an atomic bank run by the agency. The stockpile would be used for all kinds of peaceful pur poses, but especially for provid ing "abundant electrical energy in the power-starved areas of "the world." Despite favorable reception of the idea, no agency has been set up yet because' of Soviet stalling and other problems. The United States already has gone ahead with a program of its own to help friendly nations build research reactors and train nu clear scientists. Agreements have been signed with 19 nations and five others are pending. But although the first of these bilateral agreements was signed more than eight months ago, no work has yet started on con struction of a reactor. ids Asked on Four Area Road Projects Bids on four Jackson county road projects will be received by the Oregon State Highway commission in Portland later this month. , Bids for a 302-foot reinforced concrete deck gridder bridge over Applegate river about nine miles south of Ruch will be opened at 9 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 26. The bridge will replace, the wooden covered ' McKee bridge. Completion date is Nov. 30, 1956. . Two projects are along Crater Lake Highway. One is in the Casey Park section about six miles northeast of Trail for .24 mile of grading and oiling, to be -completed by July 31, 1956. The other is .68 mile of grading and paving in the Reese creek section about 15 miles northeast of Medford. Completion date is Aug. 31, 1956. The fourth project is in Ash land for structures overyAshland creek at Water st. The project calls for a 256-foot reinforced concrete deck girder bridge with approaches. Completion date is Sept. 30, 1956. Bids on the latter three proj ects will be opened in Portland at 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 27. Kefauver Loses Two Wisconsin Supporters Milwaukee U.R) A serious crimp developed in Sen. Estes Kefauver's Wisconsin presiden tial primary plans today with the withdrawal of two of his ar dent 1952 supporters. State Sen. Casimir Kendzior ski (D.-Milwaukee) and Fred Voigt said they were pulling out of the Kefauver campaign be cause they doubted his sincerity in dealing with his supporters. Voigt was executive secretary of the 1952 Kefauver for Presi dent club of Wisconsin. Kend ziorski was temporary chairman of the New Friends of Kefauver committee until a permanent or ganization was' completed this week. ' The two men said they felt the Tennessee senator had by passed them in dealing with Wisconsin Democrats in his cam paign organization. Road Conditions Highway 66, Green Springs Some snow and ice, traffic moving without chains. Highway 99,. Siskiyous Some snow and ice, traffic moving without chains. Highway 99, north Pave ment bare. Highway 97 Snow in places, motorists . advised to carry chains. Highway 101 Open to all traffic with some delays. . California highways Some icy conditions, motorists ad vised to carry chains. . Highway 62, Crater Lake National Park South and west " entrances open, chains advised; open Annie Springs to rim, chains required; skiing good; AVz inches new snow, 103 inches on the ground. Weather FORECAST: Thickening cloudi ness tonight. Rain and gusty winds Saturday. Low tonight 38-40. High Saturday 50. TEMPERATURE High Yesterday 54 Lowest This Morning , ... 35 PRE'CIPITATION To 4:30 a.m. Today District Attorney Seeks Indictments In Biggest Robbery O'Keefe Expected To Be Star Witness Boston (U.R) A Grand Jury today indicted the gang which allegedly staged the $1,213,000 Brinks robbery. Boston (U.R) The state moved swiftly today to prose cute the bandit gang that staged the $1,219,000 Brinks holdxip nearly six years ago. District Attorney Garrett H. Byrne went before a Grand Jury to obtain indictments. His star witness was expected- to be Jo seph (Specs) O'Keefe, 49, one of the alleged participants in history's biggest cash robbery. Byrne entered the Grand Jury room witlj two aides to make an. initial statement. O'Keefe was . scheduled to follow him. O'Keefe, his wrists manacled to his waist, was brought under heavy guard from East Cam bridge jail to the Suffolk county courthouse. He had been lodged at the jail overnight after "telling all" to Byrne. Say Crime Solved Grand Jury proceedings are secret. With information provided by O'Keefe, the FBI yesterday an nounced solution of the biggest cash holdup in history, five days before it might have become a "perfect crime." .The deadline for prosecution under the statute of limitations expires Tuesday, preventing the commonwealth from bringing the bandits into court. Six suspects were arrested yesterday. Two others, including O'Keefe, already were in jail, two were being hunted and one was dead. Authorities said O'Keefe ap parently had a "falling out" with his plans and decided to turn informer. Byrne said no deal was made with the gang ster. ' Attempt on Life In June," 1954, O'Keefe nar rowly escaped a machine gun ning by paid killer, Elmer (Trig ger) Burke, who now is under a death sentence in New York for a barroom slaying in that state. ' Police have theorized the at tempt on O'Keefe's life stemmed from friction among the Brinks gang. . None of the stolen money was recovered. The solution came as most law enforcement officers were about to give up their long investiga tion of the crime. The famous holdup occurred Jan. 17, 1950, and under Massachusetts law the statute of limitations was scheduled to expire next Tues day. Most constitutional authori ties believed a three-year ex tension voted by last year's legis lature never would have held up in court. In a dramatic move Thursday, the FBI announced it had taken six men into custody in commando-type raids in the Boston area. Six Being Held Held in total of $670,000 bail for a hearing Jan. 26 were Adolph (Jazz) Maffie, 44, of Quincy, Mass.; Anthony Pino, 45, Boston; Vincent Costa, 41, P'mbroke, Mass.; Michael V. Geagan, 47, Milton, Mass.; Jo seph McGinnis, 32, B,oston; and Henry Baker, 49, Natick, Mass. Police were ordered to pick up James I. Faherty, 44, a Bos ton bartender, and Thomas F. Richardson, 47, a Weymouth,- Mass., longshoreman. Already in jail on other charges were O'Keefe and Stan ley Gusciora, 33, of Stoughton, Mass. Gusciora is serving time in Pennsylvania. The dead gang member was Joseph S. Banfield, 41, of Bos ton. It was learned that O'Keefe had been brooding over his con- tit; ued imprisonment while other members of the gang went free. Salem (U.R) Mayor Robert F. White said he plans to ask the city council to consider an ordinance authorizing fluorida tion of the city water supply to improve dental health.
