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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.
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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
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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."
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'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.
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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.
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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
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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. - -
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