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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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)