Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 23, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texti Trail Froi 1 o ! I 1 jmiTT1 4K 4 ' jX?"I2 W?ZZ1'f'JT . - jg2!ErS Mr x " ;;ip3ZSS-i ia Ili'iwSi IE4 fMmB GETTING THE NEEDLE Mrs. Jack Lewis watches as her daughter, Roxy, receives an injection of anti-polio vaccine from Nurse Gossett. In the foreground, waiting their turn, are Mrs. Lewis' other children, Dusty and Scott. In the background, also waiting his Nehru To Stick With Plan To Redistrict Several Inida States , New Delhi, India (U.R) The government of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru decided today to stick to its decision redisrict ing Indian states despite a week of rioting in which 71 persons were killed and 550 injured. The government has refused to be intimidated by the vio lence and threats of further ter rorism in deciding to keep Bom bay as a centrally administrated city and redistricting several states. Return lo Normal Police reported "all quiet everywhere" in Bombay. Stores reopened, schools and colleges resumed classes and factories reported workers showing up on the job. The Working Committee of the Indian National Congress, the highest executive of the ruling party, passed a resolution today declaring that "no changes will be made in the - decisions already arrived at or that might be taken later in regard to the reorganization of the states." Before this decision was an nounced, violent new anti-government rioting broke out in the Eastern Indian state of Orissa. The new violence was as bitter as that directed against Britain in the -1930s, causing orders to be issued to the Army sending troops to the scene. Officials Beaten Mobs surged through the streets of the cities of Cuttack and Puri some 200 miles south west of Calcutta, burned rail way stations, attacked the government-owned radio station in Cuttack, and. beat government and police officials. The new rioting which start ed a week ago today in Bombay came as Prime Minister Jawa harlal Nehru's ruling Congress Party prepared to set out an iron-fisted policy to meet the government crisis. Most of the attacks in Orissa state today were directed at Policeman Freed After Making Deal Albany, Ore. (U.R) A police officer said today he was held .at gunpoint by two men but was freed after he made a deal with tnem .ine men were held in custody here. The officer, Kenneth Going, 23, said he went to a tavern last night to check a disturbance He attempted to arrest James Carleton Schulke, 22, and Wal ter Eugene Johnson, 25, both of W.alla Walla, Wash. But when he tried to put them in his patrol car, one of them shoved a .45-caliber automatic in his stomach and forced him into their automobile. Going said they drove him to the east side where they intend ed to handcuff him to a tree However, he said he made a deal whereby he agreed to let one msn go free if the other would accompany him to the police sta tion. Johnson took off and Schulke went back to the sta tion with Going. Going broadcast a description of Johnson s car and Corvallis police arrested him at 4:28 a.m today after he made a phone call from a pay booth to Albany police to if!nd out what had hap pened to his companion. San Joe, Calif. U.R) Mrs. Marjorie Smith, Portland, Ore., woman acquitted of the car- bombing murder of -her husband, Kermit, went into court today to try to win back her three-year-old daughter now in the custody of the slam man s sister, local officials for their inability to persuade Nehru to change his mind about transferring part of Orissa to the state of Bihar under an unpopular government plan of redistricting Indian states. The injured included Mrs. Malati Chowdhury, wife of the chief minister. She was hit by a tear gas shell while making an unsuccessful attempt to pacify the unruly crowd. it " ink CHARLES O. PORTER Candidate for Congress Porter Announces Congress Candidacy Eugene Charles O. Porter today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for congress from the fourth dis trict of Oregon. The young attorney was de feated for the same office in 1954 by Incumbent Harris Ells worth, Roseburg Republican. The district includes Linn, Lane, Coos, Curry, Jackson, Josephine and Douglas counties. Porter, 36, is a native Ore gonian. He attended Eugene schools and Harvard university, later serving in the Army during World War II. He is married and the father of four children. He said he was filing his candi dacy today. Porter said the campaign, "as it appears at this time," would center on abundant supplies of low-cost electric power, more timber access roads, an effective United Nations, an effective and fair security program, integrity in high administration officials, and flood control measures. Ellsworth has not yet filed his candidacy for reelection, but has indicated he plans to do so. Unknown Amount Stolen In Talent Burglary An undetermined amount of cash was stolen last night from the Talent club, Talent, and a safe and pinball machines were damaged, according to John R. Burdell, club owner, and Joe Walsh, sheriff's deputy. Entrance to the club was made through a front window, officers said. A cannister and box con taining March of Dimes money, $25 from a cash register, and money taken from pin ball ma chines and a shuffle board was stolen. The safe was badly dam aged but officers had not been able to open it at the time the report was made. Chicago (U.R) Don Pryor, a member of a Washington public relations firm, has been appoint ed public relations director for the national Stevenson for Presi dent Committee. turn with the needle, is Jimmy Meesis while Bobby Gregory has a look of anxiety as he sits on the table. Mrs. Lewis is Medford chairman of the Mothers' March, a March of Dimes fund-raising event to be held between 7 and 8 p.m. on Jan. 31. (Brainerd photo) Lahorifes Seek To Embarrass Eden On Departure Eve London (U.R) The British Labor party sought today to thrust the United Nations trade embargo on Communist China into Prime Minister Anthony Eden's Washington talks with President Eisenhower. It was a hot political bon voy age for Eden who leaves Tues day evening, with the resurgent Socialists demanding he commit himself in advance on a number of tou'chy points before he boards the Queen Elizabeth for New York. The Socialists introduced for mal questions in the House of Commons for Eden to answer when it reconvenes Tuesday only a few hours before Eden's de parture. It was an all out attempt to embarrass him politically. Eden summoned his cabinet to a final meeting today to frame the answers. ... Laborite Harold Wilson said he will ask Eden "if, in his dis cussions with the President .v . he ""will raise the questions of the embargo on trade with China; and whether he will pro pose that restrictions on trade with China be put on the same basis as those on trade with Eastern Europe.' Left-wing Laborite Konni Zil liacus demanded that Eden raise the question of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' "brink of war" statements when he talks with Mr. Eisenhower. Zilliacus' question was: "What reply was made to the proposal of the United States of America for the employment of threats of force and the use of force against China in 1953 and 1954 ..." Other Socialists demanded in formation on Britain's lastest moves in the Middle East, includ ing an explanation of the sudden transport of -2,000 paratroopers to Cyprus as a "fire brigade" following the anti-Western riots in Jordan. Cool Weather Ends New Flood Threat Heavy rains over the week end, totaling more than an inch in Medford and more elsewhere, again threatened high water along the creeks and rivers of the Rogue valley. But colder weather and a decrease in the rainfall eased the threat Sun day. The Rogue river crested just below flood stage, creating some local high water problems, but reports indicated no families needed assistance. Civil defense workers watch ed the river's rise carefully Sat urday night, staying on duty un til midnight in the Shady Cove area and. until 3 a.m., Sunday in the Rogue River area. City Planners Approve Eastside Fire Station The Medford planning commis sion Friday endorsed the city council's authorization of the planned east side fire station. Preparation of plans and spe cifications for the station, to be located on Highland dr., near South Siskiyou blvd., were ap proved Tuesday night by the council, subject to the recommen dation of the planning commis sion. City Manager Robert Duff said that $28,504.92 is available for construction. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 462.35, off 2.05; 20 rail roads 153.97, off 0.55: 15 utilities 63.03, off 0.04; and 65 stocks 164.29, off 0.61. Sales today were about 2,720,000 shares, compared with 2,430,000 Friday. MEDFCF United Press Full Leaded Wire 50th Year 16 Pages Arizona Case Puis New Twis! on Use Of Wiretapping Immigration Laws Declared Violated Washington U.R) The Su preme court agreed today to de cide whether listening in on a two-way radio channel falls in the same legal category as tap ping a telephone wire. The court accepted for review an Arizona case that puts a new twist on the established legal doctrine that evidence obtained by wire-tapping cannot be used in federal trials. The case involves charges that Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. H. Sug den of Yuma, Ariz., violated the U.S. immigration laws by em ploying Mexican wetback labor ers who had crossed the border illegally. A radio monitor of the Fed eral Communications commis sion testified before the Grand Jury which indicted them. He said he overheard the Sugdens using a two-way radio to flash warnings to their distant cotton fields to hide the wetbacks when federal immigration inspectors approached. No Federal License A U.S. District court in Ari zona dismissed the charges on the basis of the old rule barring wiretap evidence. But the Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed" the "lower-. courtrIt held that the wiretap rule didn't apply in this case since the Sug dens didn't have a federal li cense for their radio. Now the Supreme court will decide which finding is right. In other actions on a relative ly light decision day, the high court: 1. Agreed to review a lower court decision which cleared the way for thousands of the gov ernment's wartime "blue-collar" workers at shipyards and arse nals to file claims for extra pay for holiday work. On the basis of the test case now up for re view, more than 70.000 workers already have filed back pay claims. The government has more than 700,000 "blue-collar" workers who are paid by he day like industrial employees. Colorado River Case 2. Rejected a plea by Califor nia interests for reconsideration of a Dec. 12 decision in which the court refused to include Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming as parties to the dispute between Arizona and California over Colorado river water rights. 3. Denied a hearing to James Arena of Oakland, Calif., con victed in 1953 of lying to a Fed eral Grand Jury investigating the tax affairs of California liquor lobbyist Arthur H. Sa mish. Arena drew a three-year prison term for the perjury con viction. ' - The court did not act today on pending segregation and na tional security cases. Washington ' flJ.R) President Eisenhower meets with Sen. Wal ter F. George late today in an effort to patch up a bipartisan foreign policy split. Tiny Girl Survives Attack; Body Temperature Hits 60.8 Marshalltown, la. (U.R) Doc tors had high hopes today for a two-year old girl who was criminally attacked and left in a freezing house where her tem perature fell 38 degrees below normal. Vickie Davis' 60.8 degree body temperature was believed to be the lowest ever recorded in a human who survived. Neverthe less, her temperature climbed into the fever brackets and then returned to normal. Guard at Bedside Meanwhile, police posted a 24 hour guard over the bedside of the child's grandmother, Mrs. Fred Davis. The woman, whose body temperature fell to 74 de grees, has been in shock and has not been able to tell au thorities what happened. V M Agrees To le iw Listening as Evidence Is ;:5;:;:-:-.; HIGH WATER ON CAMP SITE Camp Lowe, long a landmark on the Klamath river where Highway 99 and the river come to gether, was virtually wiped out during the Christmas week floods. The picture above, taken during the second period of high water last week, shows the site of the former camp Five Injured In -Auto Accident at Crater Lake Park Five persons were injured at 3:30 p.m. Sunday when a car skidded into a snow plow about one . half mile from the south boundary of Crater Lake Na tional park, according to Thomas Williams, park supervisor. All passengers in the car, driven by Huber J. Sitton, Klam ath Falls, received injuries and were taken to Klamatht Valley hospital by a park ambulance and arr amtiltlance: from Klamath4Concexned Falls. Passengers ' were Sheryle Sit ton, 21, who suffered a broken leg; and Joan Sitton, ''22, John Classen and Dianne Classen, 24, all of Klamath Falls, who had cuts, bruises and possible chest injuries. Park rangers admin istered first aid." -The operator of the snow plow, Ben Pool, Crater Lake Na tional park, was not injured. Damage to both vehicles was heavy, Williams said. A one car accident one half mile south of Bellview cafe on Highway 99, at 5:50 p.m., Sun day, resulted in the injury of Evelyn Jean MacKay, 19, of 171 B st., Ashland, state police re ported. She was ta.ken to Ash land general hospital where she was treated for nead injuries and was reported in good condition today. The car, driven by Dean Ever ett Wilcox, 26, of 77 Highway st., Ashland, left the road and rolled down a 15 foot embank ment, according to police. Wil cox told officers that the acci dent occurred when he dropped a cigarette and was trying to recover it. Rogue Flood Control Meet Set for Tonight A meeting on flood control in the Rogue River basin will be held at the Faye I. Bristol residence near Rogue River at 8 p.m. today. Members of a citizen's all river committee for flood con trol will discuss further flood control possibilities and steps needed to speed action with rep resentatives of the U.' S. Army corps of engineers and the bu reau of reclamation. Mrs. Davis and the little Ne gro girl were found early Sat urday in the grandmother's four room house, shortly after the temperature at Marshalltown had hit 24 degrees below zero. Both Unconscious Both were unconscious and the child had been criminally assaulted. A fire in the stove in the house had gone out, leav ing them unprotected against the sub-zero cold. The house had been ransacked and was spattered with blood. There was no sign of forcible entry into the house, however. Police said early today that their main hope for catching the attacker lay with Mrs. Davis. The guard was maintained at her bedside in hopes that her memory would return. a, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1956 Stassen Accused Of 'Reprehensible7 Conduct by Washington U.R) Senate investigators today accused Har old E. Stassen, President Eisen hower's assistant for disarma ment, of "reprehensible" con duct. The Senate Investigating Sub committee, in a report filed in the Senate today, said Stassen was "most uncooperative" and "attempted to' hinder and im pede" an inquiry last April. With Contract - - The inquiry concerned a pro posed contract between the For eign Operations Administration which Stassen then- headed, and a Los Angeles firm to erect grain storage elevators in Pakistan. The subcommittee said Stassen "exercised poor judgment and used bad business practice" when he. insisted on pressing ahead with the contract with a firm which, the report said, was the apparent high bidder. But the subcommittee saved its strongest language for Stas sen's suggestion that there might be some unethical activity be tween an official of the low bid ding firm and an FOA employee. The FOA itself reported seven months later it could find noth ing to substantiate this. "Mr. Stassen's irresponsible and unsubstantiated implications in open hearing . . . were repre hensible for a high government official," the report said. Bender Refuses to Sign Sen. George H. Bender (R-O.), Some Relief Seen For Soaked Oregon By UNITED PRESS The weather bureau had a hopeful word today for rain weary Oregonians. It said that California was in a position to receive the brunt of oncoming Pacific storms with only 'fringe' effects expected in Oregon for the next five days except near the southern border. At the same time, tempera ture will be cooler. But an end to rain was not expected. As the weather bureau put it, showery conditions in Oregon "may be enthusiastic" in the northwest part of the state. There also will be periods of sunshine, forecasts said. During the 24 hours ending at 4:30 a.m. today, Roseburg had 1.15 inches of rain, Brookings 1.2, North Bend 1.09, Astoria .50, Medford .89, Salem .42, Eu gene .76, Portland .13, Baker .14, The Dalles .13 and Red mond .20. The main stem of the Wil lamette river from Harrisburg to Oregon City was expected to rise slightly but tributary streams were falling. Weather FORECAST: Variable cloudiness through Tuesday with occa sional shallow patches o f morning fog. Snow above. 3500 feet. Low tonight 32-35. High Friday 48-50. Temp. Highest yesterday 48 Lowest this morning 39 Prec. To 4:30 a.m. today 90 Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 260 08113 again inundated. The bridge across the river, which was damaged during the first flood, is just out of the picture at right. A house trail er and the lone remaining building of the camp can be seen just to, the right of the cen ter of the picture and only a foot or two above the water level. Probers refused to sign the report and in a dissenting statement called it "inaccurate and unfair." The subcommittee said it found "strong evidence of col lusion" between officials of the Agricultural Construction Co. of Los Angeles and Robert Pinner, engineer employed for FOA to handle the grain elevator project in Pakistan. It said this collu sion led to . a recommendation that '. the contract .' be - awarded to tfle Agricultural Construction Co. Train Wreck Victims Listed Los Angeles i(U.R) The list of identified dead in the Santa Fe train wreck last night: , Dorothy Lester, 36, San Deigo; Sgt. John E. Williams, 26, USMC, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; Patrick H. O'Neil, 20, USN, Gar dena, Calif.; Stanley H. Levitt, 30, San Diego; John Henry Breen, 40, El Monte, Calif.; Mrs. Marcelle C. Meyer, 60, Garden Grove, Calif.; Albert Warren Fenn, 50, Lakeside, Calif.; Mrs. May Goldberg, 48, San Diego; Kenneth L. Wallace, 60, San Diego; Mrs. Eleanor Hopkins, 60, Pacific Beach, Calif.; Mrs. Marjoe E. Ahmann, 28,! Sioux Falls, S.D.; William Koga, 25, San Diego; Sam Benn Siraton, 43, San Diego; Lt. (jg) Donald Lund, 40, USN, Culver City, Calif, (attached to USS Roches ter). Mrs. Thelma Buzzelle, 36, San Diego; Mrs. Eva Litpon, 70, EI Cajon, Calif.; Mrs. Annette C. Frazier, 17, Houston, Tex.; Ray Branvall, 12, address un known; Thomas Ferguson, 33, San Diego; Mrs. Eva Lipton, 70, 30, his wife, San Diego; Mrs. Marcy Fenn, 37, San Diego; Au drey" Foster, 25, San Diego; Charles Foster Jr., 23 months, her son, San Diego; Jeffrey Le vitt, 7, son of Stanley N. Levitt, San Diego; .Wilson A. Larowe, 38, San Diego, sailor; Helen M. McNear, 29, Coronado, Calif.; Jeanette Grove, 36, Solana Beach, Calif., Jane Doe; G. G. Harvey, 18, San Diego, sailor. Two Men Jailed on Driving Charges Vista Burnsed, 40, Klamath Falls, was fined $255 in district court today, on a charge of driv ing while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. He also received a 30-day sus pended jail sentence and a 90 day suspension of his operator's license. Burnsed is in county jail in lieu of payment of the fine. A second driver, Robert Ed ward Findlay, 37, route 1, is con fined in city jail under $200 bail after he was arrested yesterday on a similar charge. Findlay pleaded innocent in city court this morning and hearing was set for Jan. 31. He was fined $5 for no operator's license. Engineer Tells Of 'Blacking Out' Prior To Wreck Full Investigation Of Tragedy Ordered Los Angeles (U.R) Police impounded the speed tape today of the ill-fated commuter train that hit a curve too fast during its engineer's "black out" and plunged off the track killing 29 . persons in California's worst rail tragedy. The crack San Diegan, loaded with servicemen and- week end ers homebound for San Diego, slammed into the curve "with undue speed" last night, the Santa Fe railroad announced of ficially. District Attorney Ernest Roll called for a "full and complete" investigation of the disaster; in which 142 persons were in jured. About 45 remained hospital ized today, many in serious or critical condition with amputa tions and bodies crushed when the diesel-powered train whip ped "off the curve and upset near downtown Los Angeles, grinding some bodies to shreds. 71 Miles Per Hour Charles Nerpel, a United Press photographer, on the scene to day taking daylight shots of last night's horror, heard train offi cials say that the tape, which keeps a continuous record of the train's speed and is required equipment, registered 71 miles per hour at the 10-degree curve where a 35-mile per hour limit is imposed. ' ' Police Chief William H. Park er ordered the tape impounded. to be turned over to the Inter state Commerce commission. Roll said a full report will be made to the Grand Jury. An inquest will be held next week. ICC fiafpfcv Tnsnppfnr TTrwnra E. Gilbert. Los Anseles. sairl investigators from the Washing ton omce probably will be assigned to an investigation "which will take about two to three weeks to complete." Bodies Unidentified Meanwhile, eight of the 29 bodies in the county morgue still remained unidentified. Three boys, 14 women and 12 men were instantly killed in the wreck and the mangled condi tions of the bodies made identi fication extremely difficult. Santa Fe President Fred Gur ley blamed the crash on "exces sive speed on a curve." "We are unable to understand how the accident occurred," he said. "There was a seasoned man at the controls and it is an incomprehensible thing." Separate Power Plants The two-car, self-propelled die sel units, . with ' power plants under each coach, were just minutes into their 125-mile, two and one-quarter hour run to the south. Both the engineer and his fire man, Homer Smith, were in the front control car of the Budd Co. cars, which are 80-foot long, 53-ton stainless steel carriers which have been in use for the last three years on the run. ihe jammed passenger cars shot around a curve at what the railroad officially termed "exces sive speed." The train swaved and pitched then crashed over on its side. Engineer Frank Parrish, 61, of San Bernardino, Calif., said he "just blacked out." "I remember passine the 35- mile-pear-hour block signal in the yard and then I blacked out. I came to as the train was flip ping on its side," he said. Scene of Terror A scene of terror followed as the surviving passengers tried to claw their way out of win dows that were high and small. servicemen aboard the train kept the panic from getting out of hand, survivors reported. The sailors, soldiers and marines called for quiet and with the dis cipline of a military operation they broke out flashlights, found windows they could open and be gan lifting out the injured. Police, meanwhile, flashed an alert terming the accident a ma jor disaster and calling for all available ambulances and doc tors. A temporary morgue was set up in a vacant lot a short dis tance from the overturned train. The bodies, some torn to pieces, were taken to the field to be tallied by Coroner E. A. Win- stanley and his deputies. The scene of carnage was un paralleled in Los Angeles his tory. Ihe tram had slid about 150 feet on its side before com ing to a stop and was a misshap en mass. Mrs. Frank Parrish, wife of the engineer, was a nasseneer on the train and suffered minor in juries. She was on her way to San Diego to visit relatives. (See Story on Page 5)