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umu fl AL SAREHA LAIItfl UNLIKELY Washington (U.R) Congres sional investigators were .told yesterday that 15 timber-rich Oregon mining claims granted to a private firm "could not be mined at a profit." TMi report was given to a joint House-Speaker subcommit tee by George H. Holderer, a Senate Interior Committee staff extrt. The subcommittee is looking into the Interior Department's award of the claims to the Al Sarena Mines, Inc., o Mobile, Ala. The claims are located in Oregon's Rogue River national forest. Said 'Mining Timber Democrats have charged that the company is "mining" $250, 000 worth of timber on the land instead of minerals. The subcom mittee called Holderer to testify on the mineral worth of the property. He said that judging from ap plications for government loans and other assays he has seen, he believed it would cost about $20 a ton to recover gold and silver from the claims. . "Rarely have I seen a poorer batch of assays," he said. "Ob viously there is no prospect of a mining operation on that prop erty." ... Subcommittee Counsel Robert W. Redwine commented that the highest group of assays showed gold and silver content of slight ly more than $2 a ton. He con trasted this with Holderer's $20 a ton estimate. Rep. Clare Hoffman (R-Mich.) asked whether any law required that a claim had to have any given quantity of minerals be- Hedberg Named To Head Wafer Group C. E. Hedberg, branch mana ger and vice-president of the First National bank, has been named chairman of a new per manent committee on water re sources for the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, it was announced last night. The appointment was made by Chamber President Otto Ewaldsen, and announced last night at the annual dinner meet ing of the "chamber, 'heHatnie' Jackson hotel. Hedberg's com mittee will conduct a continu ing study of water resources, including flood control, water demand and other as pects. More than 100 chamber mem bers and .their wives attended the meeting, which featured a humorous talk by W. A. Dahl- berg, of the speech department of the University of Oregon, who was introduced as a "visit ing Swedish industrialist." Outgoing Chamber President John Pletsch introduced board members and committee chair men who had served during his term of office, and praised them for their work. New chamber officials were introduced by Ewaldsen. Group To Survey for Flood Damage Report Members of the Rogue Flood Control committee will conduct an immediate survey of flood damage between Gold Ray dam and Shady Cove, Harold L. Geb hard, committee chairman, an nounced today. - m The estimated amounts of the damage combined with esti mates from the Grants Pass area will be presented to Army en gineers and government officials in an effort to obtain emergency river bank erosion control work. ' Emergency channel work on the river would cut down future flood damage, Ebhard said. The channel threatens to change in several places, and if it does, it will destroy several ranches, he said. Seven members of the com mittee met last night in the Rogue Soil Conservation office, 33 North Riverside ave. Frightened Citizens Arm Selves After Killer of Six Princeton, Ind U.R) State police armed with sawed-off shotguns and tommyguns today guarded officials and witnesses who helped convict Leslie Irvin, the "Chinese execution" killer who slipped out of an "escape proof" jail Thursday. Victims Number Six Irvin had killed six persons before he was trapped, tried and condemned to death. Police said he probably is armed and won't hesitate to kill again since his own life is worthless. Authorities in olndiana, and Kentucky scenes of his crimes also were warned to be on their guard against Irvin, who became known as tha "Chinese PROFIT fore full title could be granted. Holderer said he knew of none. Hoffman also told Holderer that his opinion would be "worth nothing" if assay samples were not properly made. Democrats have questioned the last group of assays taken before title to the claims was granted. y''y;yyyty't'Wyy''yjr',-!y"yy"t SAM STEWART On Discussion Panels Tax Commissioner To Speak at Study Group Session Here Sam Stewart, Oregon state tax commissioner, will speak at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce legislative committee meeting at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Jackson hotel. The committee is studying tax problems and discussing recent increases of tax valuation in Jackson county. Frank Van Dyke is chairman of the commit tee. ; , Tax study meetings usually are held Friday morning, but because Stewart will attend the Southern Oregon-Northern Cali fornia Chambers of Commerce workshop here Saturday, the tax study group decided to hold the meeting Saturday. In Panel Discussion Stewart is 'on a panel which wiUjdrussChajnber,. pf. Com; merce activity in the" field of taxation" at the all-day work shop in the Jackson hotel. Van Dyke and B. K. Herndoh of Grants Pass also are on the pan el, discussion on which starts at 3:10 p.m. Stewart was born in Portland, and is a graduate of Lewis and Clark college. He is a veteran of World War II and served in the Pacific theater for 30 months. He was admitted to the Oregon bar following his graduation from Willamette university col lege of law in 1949. -He has served as assistant to the attorney general assigned to the state tax commission and was appointed as tax commis sioner in October, 1952, by Gov, Douglas McKay to fill the unex pired term of Robert D. Maclean. Stewart is now in charge of the valuation division, which super vises local property assessments and taxation, and passes public utility property. Second Woman Struck By Car in Two Days Clara Axie Smith, 56, of 522 North Riverside ave., became the second Medford woman to be struck by a car in two days when she was hit at the inter section of East Jackson st. and North Riverside ave., about 5:14 p.m. yesterday. She received bruises, abra sions and possible back injuries when she was struck by an auto driven by Ramon George El bert, 655 Pine st., according to city police. Elbert was cited by police for failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian. Mrs. Smith was taken to Com munity hospital by Medford Ambulance service where she was treated and released. Persons Escapes Jail execution" killer because he made his victims kneel before sending a bullet through the back of their heads. The escape of Irvin terrified citizens of Evansville, home of two schoolboy members of the Junior Sheriff's patrol who had linked Irvin's car to the murder of three Kentuckians and led to his capture. Citizens Buy Weapons Frightened Evansville citizens bought practically every avail able gun in town. Store owners had to set up waiting lists .and there were angry complaints at a state law requiring finger prints and a one day waiting pe riod for gun purchases. Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 20 Eisenhower Slates Appearance To Help GOP Fund Raising Chief Executive To Be Main Speaker Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower makes his first ma jor public appearance since his heart attack tonight to help the Republican Party raise millions of dollars for the 1956 campaign. The Chief Executive ' will be principal speaker at one of hun dreds of "Salute to Eisenhower" dinner rallies being staged by the GOP National Finance Com mittee from coast to coast. The occasion is the third anniversary of Mr. Eisenhower's inaugura tion., Mr. Eisenhower will not at tend the eating part of the Wash ington dinner. But he will motor to the Sheraton Park Hotel in time to address fellow Republi cans across the county by closed circuit television and over the radio networks on a 30-minute program beginning at 10 p.m. (EST). Fall Campaign Effort The President probably will devote most of his eight or 10 minute speech at the end of the program to encouraging a highly active effort by Republicans in the fall campaigns and to thank ing the rank-and-file GOP mem bers for their support during the past three years. Mr. Eisenhower was not ex pected to disclose his own 1956 political intentions. If he dis cusses his personal future at all, he probably will not go beyond the highly general terms he has employed in news conferences. The series of "Salute" dinners promised to be one of the most successful one-shot money rais ing efforts in political history. Party leaders estimated that the dinners, $100 a plate in the major cities, would raise in the neighborhood of $5,000,000, half of which will go to the national committee and the rest to state and local GOP organizations. Special Radio Circuits - .:Ibea. elosed.-.circuit''Ty 1 portion" of the program will be carried to 49 dinners in major cities; four metropolitan dinners will hear the president over special radio circuits. "Hundreds" of smaller dinners also wefe planned. The biggest dinner will be in New York's Madison Square Garden where 16,000 Eisenhow er adherents will eat box sup pers of cold lobster and cheese cake, watch an ice show and listen to six choral groups of 1,000 voices. The Chicago crowd was ex pected to top 4,500 persons at the International Amphitheater. The Washington party was set for the largest ballroom in town and probably will draw more than 2,000 persons. , Radar Being Used by Police on Highways Traffic citations through the use of radar are being issued in this district by state police, ac cording to Capt. Paul Parson, police detachment commander. . Radar equipment, installed in a regular patrol car, measures the speed of passing vehicles and registers the miles-per-hour on an instrument in the patrol car. The radar-car radioes to a sec ond patrolman the speed of pass ing motorists. Numerous citations have been made in recent days through its use, Captain Parson said. . The newly-equipped sedan is in the Roseburg area at present, but will be back in the Medford area soon. Although it is not necessary to post a notice of radar in op eration on-local roads, the law requires that it be posted on all highways entering the state. Roadblocks surrounded Evans ville, site of two of his crimes, and Princeton, but the manhunt appeared to be centering in Illi nois. Man Bolts Tavern A nervous man believed to be Irvin was seen in a Watseka, Til., bar late Thursday night. He bolted out the back door when a police car happened to pull up outside. Television station WC1A in Champaign, 111., flashed a Unit ed Press facsimile picture of Ir vin on its screen and Watseka bartender Joe Thornburg and his customers reported "that's the the same man who was in here." Pages nflrora 'Shoot on Sight' Order Issued in Bombay Rioting Police Officers Seek To Break Up Looting Bombay, India (U.R) City au thorities issued a "shoot at sight" order to Bombay police today when a four-day orgy of rioting began degenerating. into general, hooliganism -and looting. Police - opened . fire , at two places, killing one person and in juring two bthers as the officers broke up looting of a store and halted hoodlums who were hurl ing rocks at suburban trains. . The anti-government rioting over redistricting of Indian states already had spread to eastern India where mobs paralyzed rail traffic and burned homes -and shops of Hindu-speaking persons. The Communists, Socialists and Hindu Communal parties called a general strike in Cal cutta and the rest of East Bengal Saturday in protest against Pre mier Jawaharlal Nehru's decis ion to redistrict the Indian states. . , Some parts of Bombay began returning to normalcy today and the area of disturbance was con fined largely to the four centers which have been trouble spots for four days. Suburb Panicked One Bombay suburb was pan icked today by rumors of an im pending attack by an organized mob of 2,000 said to be hiding in the hills ready to try to cap ture . the suburb. The rumors were proved baseless and volun teers went around in cars trying to restore confidence. But more than 31 shops were looted in the city todajr. and an other mob tried to burn clown the Mazagaon police court. They were dispersed by a strong police force. Bombay police reported ear lier this morning that the mob fury which has taken at least 36 lives and injured 500 other per sons had spent itself after one last frezied rampage Thursday night rr.arked by pitched battles with police. Washington Youth Apprehended in Area A 14-year-old youth who told police he was from Spokane, Wash., was apprehended about 5 p.m. yesterday at the forest service scales north of Prospect after officers searched through the woods for him about five hours. Police said state highway de partment "crews notified them that a car had rolled over on the highway near Union Creek about noon. When an officer ap proached the vehicle, the youth ran into the woods. Police said they tracked the boy through the woods during the afternoon. Residents of the Prospect area later notified po lice as to his location. The youth apparently stole the car, police said, and checks are being made with Washing ton authorities to determine where it was stolen. Police said the boy told them he stole the car from several Washington cities. He is being held in the coun ty jail. More Rain Forecast For Western Oregon Portland - (U.R) Rain It won't come as much of a sur prise to anyone, but that's what the weather bureau says Ore gon can expect for the next five days. And if that wasn't enough, forecasters said the low pres sure center moving inland was expected to bring southerly winds up to 50 miles an hour to western Oregon this afternoon. The weather bureau said west ern Oregon could expect to get from one to two inches of rain during the five-day period with temperatures averaging above normal for this time of year. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 464.33 off 4.16; 20 railroads 154.49 off 1.04; 15 uti lities 63.07 off 0.15, and 65 stocks 614.88 off 1.18. Sales to day were about 2,430,000 shares compared with 2,500,00 shares yesterday. k t&JTRIBUNE 3 O MEDF -J CO on y jFireugin) POPE BLESSES BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT Brazfl's Presi dentelect Juscelino Kubitschek kneels before Pope Pius XII during a special audience with the pontiff in Vatican City. At the audience, Kubitschek wore the medal of the Pian Order, the Vatican's third highest decoration, which was conferred on him by the Pope the day before. -, Military Ship Hits Radar Island, Said 'Listing Seriously' Boston (U.R) The 5200. ton Sagitta, a Military Transport Service ship, rammed into the Texas radar island off Cape Cod today while attempting to un load supplies in heavy seas. The ship radioed it was "listing ser iously" and its 42 crewmen were "standing by the lifeboats." The vessel was reported try ing to make port despite a hole in her starboard side. .' None Aboard Injured An Air Defense , spokesman who contacted the' tower by telephone, some 100 miles off the Atlantic Coast, said that none of the 82 officers and en listed men stationed at the radar observation post had been in jured. "There is no danger of the tower falling into the sea," he said. The Sagitta hit the radar sta tion while trying to unload fuel and water into the three legged tower on George's Bank. The accident occurred at 9:40 a.m. (EST). ' Shortly before noon, the Sa gitta radioed that she was start ing for Boston under her own power at five knots. The Coast Guard said the 153 mile trip in the heavy seas would take about 10 hours. How ever, it was expected the Coast Guard cutter Evergreen would intercept - the Sagitta and take her in tow. The Air Force reported the Sagitta was "listing, but there Safety Awards To Be Presented Tonight Awards to individuals and in dustrial concerns with outstand ing safety achievements during 1955 will be presented by the Medford Safety council at a din ner meeting starting at 6:30 p.m. today at the Jackson hotel. Mark Hatfield, state senator and dean of students at Willa mette university, will be speak er. New officers for 1956 will be installed. Woman Fined on Driving Charge Mrs. Betty Jean C. Mathey, 176 Winema way, was fined $255 yesterday in district court after she pleaded guilty to charges of driving while under the influ ence of intoxicating liquor. She also received a 90-day suspen sion of her driver's license. State police cited Mrs. Mathey Dec. 8 at Highway 238 and Wi nema way. FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1956 is no definite - emergency." Gash, in Hull The crash cut an eight inch gash in the hull of the transport and its No. 2 hold filled with water. The legs of the Texas tower are driven 48 feet into the sand of the continental shelf 110 miles east of Cape i Cod. The tower stands in 50 feet of water. . Each ' leg is protected by , a doughnut-shaped fender, one of which was torn away by wild seas that tested the tower last fall. The servicemen and civi lians putting finishing touches on the tower at the time were stranded there for four days last November with an Air Force in spection party. The platform of steel, housing living quarters and top-secret scientific equipment, sits a lofty 33 feet above the surface of the oceany 'Stacking' Charged To Portland Mayor Portland (U.R I Mayor Fred L. Peterson has been charged with deliberately choosing mem bers for the Exposition-Recreation Commission . who ' favor a west side location for the pro posed center. The charge was made last .night by Joe Dobbins, ' chairman of the Citizens for an East Side E-R Site ' Committee. Dobbins spoke at a meeting of some 200 persons gathered to open a cam paign to finance the fight for the eastsiders to have the E-R decision referred to the voters. R. L. Clark, president of the Pacific International Livestock Exposition, said his group would be satisfied with a location at Delta Park, the old Inverness I golf course or the Oaks Park. picked the South Auditorium site for the center. The eastsiders are trying to raise $5000 to $7000 for their fight against this location. Preliminary Budget Meeting Scheduled . A preliminary meeting to dis cuss the county budget for the coming fiscal year will be held in the Jackson ' county court office tomorrow morning. De partment heads, elected officials, and the board of equalization are expected to attend. , The preliminary discussion is the first of its kind held in the county pending preparaton of the county budget, accordng to members of the court. 'Price 5c Attacks n Dulles 'Reckless, Militaristic NY Governor Charges World Leadership Declared Declined Los Angeles XU.R) Gov. Averell Harriman of New York said today that U.S. foreign pol icy under Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has become "reckless and militaristic.'.' ....... Harriman, potential Demo cratic presidential candidate, told a Town Hall meeting at the Biltmore hotel that "American prestige and leadership in the world have declined drastically in the last three years." "The causes of this decline are many, but much of it can be traced to the replacement of substance in foreign policy with high sounding claims made for purposes of domestic politics,' he said. , "We have appeared militaris tic and reckless and Mr. Dulles doesn't help when he boasts in popular magazines about how he and the President led the world three times to the brink of war." Disaster at Geneva Harriman said the nation is still feeling the "disastrous con sequences" of the summit meet ing at Geneva. In the second major : address of his West Coast trip, Harriman pointed to what he called a weakening of the NATO alliance deterioriation of the Middle East situation and the "loss of confi dence we once enjoyed, among the newly free peoples of South east Asia." He . said the Eisenhower ad ministration also has failed the American people in the fields of education, agriculture, protec tion of free enterprise, develop ment of natural resources - and the war against poverty. . "The whole program's too lit tle, and too late," he said. Economic Controls He said the Eisenhower ad ministration was "against a soil bank" proposal in July and September- when it was advocated by the Democratic party. "Last week the President proposed a soil bank plan," he said, adding that the GOP "may have changed its mind because an election is coming up." . Harriman' said he was "dis turbed" that mammoth corpora tions are getting a greater and greater power of life or death over thousands of smaller busi nesses." "If economic concentration goes too far, the public will de mand more governmental con trol . . . and the ultimate of that is one or another form of corpo rate state," he said. Weather FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with a few showers tonight. Rain Saturday morning becoming showery Saturday afternoon' and night. Continued mild. Low tonight 40. High Satur day 50-52. Temp. Highest Yesterday 48 Lowest this Morning 40 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 19 Senate Republicans Reject Part of New Farm Program Washington ' (U.R) Senate Republicans rejected part of the administration's new farm pro gram today. They scrapped an administra tion proposal to sell government owned surplus crops at market prices to help finance a soil bank program. Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.), ranking GOP member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said such sales "would nullify the purpose of the- whole," pro gram which is designed to bols ter sagging farm income. Aiken,; chief sponsor of the ad ministration legislation, said he did not know his bill contained such a provision and "it's got to be ' radically revised or elimi United Press Full Leased Wire No. 258 Bullion Stolen As Driver Coffee in Cafe Switzerland Police Set Up Border Guards Geneva, Switzerland U.R Police, sent out a five-nation alert today for a casual set of thieves who made off with a pickup truck containing $280, 000 in gold bullion while its lone driver sipped coffee in a restau rant. Theft of the 250 kilograms (550 pounds) of gold from the unguarded truck was believed to have been the largest such haul in European history. The robbery occurred m broad daylight on a busy street. Dragnet Spread Swiss police officials notified Interpol, the international police organization, and police of Italy, France, Germany and Austria set up screens along their bor ders with Switzerland to try and intercept the quarter-ton of bul lion. "An international dragnet has been spread in an effort to catch, the men who committed the crime," a Swiss police spokes man said. "We have alerted all border points.". - The truck, a simnle DickuD truck without armor, was recov ered in a Geneva suburb shortlv after the robbery. It was empty. The driver had been sent to the airport to pick up 10 heavy boxes which had been shipped by Air France from Paris yes terday to Geneva transport firm. oi i. Kitscnara. mtscnard was to deliver some of the gold to a local client, presumably a bank, and ship the rest elsewhere in Switzerland. ; Driver Unconcerned Geneva Chief 'of Police Charles Knecht said the driver knew that he was carrying a gold cargo, but had handled so many shipments "10 times, as large" that he had no reason to behave differently. The thieves struck during the height of the rush hour later Thursday but no one noticed them and they apparently left no clues. They simply got in the truck and drove away. The dri ver notified police of the theft' and they soon learned of the valuable cargo aboard. Truth Withheld, Democrats Charge Washington KU.R) Senate Demoncrats accused the admin istration today of failing to tell the American people the truth about the seriousness of the world situation. They also asserted that the Eisenhower administration has not produced a single major new approach to foreign policy in the three years it has been in power. Chief target of their attack was Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Sen. Mike Mansfield (D. Mont.) said the administration has "failed to make a single im portant contribution -to the for eign policy created by the Dem ocrats," that it has played "a political game" with foreign af fairs, that it has misrepresented the facts about the world situa tion. Salem (U.R) Ernest E. Schrenk of Creswell has filed his candidacy here for reeleetion as state representative from Lane county on the Republican ticket . , nated." Both Republicans and Demo crats had criticized the proposal under which the administration proposed to get about $1,000, 000,000 this year. The admini stration wants to use the money to pay farmers for shifting corn, cotton, rice and wheat land to the "acreage reserve" phase of a "soU bank." Congressmen also were resi tive on another farm front. The Iowa delegation, 100 per cent Republican, announced that it would confer with White House staff members Monday on de mands that the government step up its pork buying program. The program is designed to bolster sagging hog prices. - - Tiiwss O
