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Newspaper Page TextWeather Recommended FORECAST Closdy wkh chance of light rain or showers . early today; some clearing by soon. Monday, fair and a little warmer. High today 48; low tonight 30; high Monday 52. Temp. Highest yesterday . 40 Lowest yesterday 89 A story on the county elvil .defense organization appears on Page 12 of today's Mall Tribune. United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 26 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1956 No. 271 9 T -M.-Mfe-.M-.-'-e- A MIIHAlllll Given Rigid Price Support Program Group Votes 8-7 For 90 Per Cent Parity Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Agriculture committee ap proved tentatively. 8-7. last night a return to riged price supports of 90 percent of partity fnf fiTTD Vasi -farm rrnns this year and next. The committee also approved tentatively , a $925,000,000 soil bank plan and a two-price system for rice. rL These were the main pro- -' visions of an omnibus farm bill which the committee drafted tentatively in an 11-hour ses sion. - , The committee will take up its tentative bill next Tuesday and then vote on it finally Thursday. Faces Tough Fight - Despite the committee vote, the restoration of 90 percent price supports faces a tough fight on the Senate floor. In 1854. the pommitt.ee also ap proved the 90 percent supports by the same close margin. But the Senate voted, 49-44,, for the administration - sponsored . flex ible supports of from 75 to 90 percent instead. The House last year approVed a return to rigid, high-price supports by a narrow margin. Committee Chairman Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) expressed con fidence that the Senate this time iwil back up the committee. He also said he does- not , believe .president .-.lsennower w o u i u veto the measure because it in cludes the soil bank, which was a major point in the adminis tration's new farm program for this year. The 90 percent supports would apply to wheat, cotton, corn, rice and peanuts. Tobacco prices already are' supported at 90 per cent of partity under a separate law. . ' However, as for wheat the 90 percent supports would be only for high quality-wheat suitable for milling to make flour. Poor er qualities would be supported at feed-grain equivalent price .'levels.; ' Ladejinsky Fired From Federal Job Washington- -(U.R) Wolf L,adeiinskv. .controversial gov ernment land reform expert, has been fired for action "contrary to conduct expected of any fed eral employe," it was announced Saturday. The International Cooperation Administration, L a d e j i nsky's employer, said it asked the Russian-born government official to resign because he was guilty of "conflict of interests." The ICA said Jadejinsky, who was serving as a foreign aid expert in Viet Nam, purchased stock in a Formosa manufactur- ing company which was receive ing - financial aid from the United States. ICA did not ident ify the firm. The agency said Ladejinsky was fired for violation of reg- ulations but that his action . did fnot violate any , United States law. Therefore, no further ac Q.tion is planned. V Ladejinsky was ousted as a U.S. agricultural attache in Ja-. pan late in 1954 on grounds he was a security risk. This' action was based on his connections in the 1930's with the Russian Amtorg Trading Co. and be cause he has two sisters still living in Russia. Slide Blocks Pacific Highway In California Santa Monica, Calif. U.R Police said Saturday there js no evidence that any cars were trapped under a massive land slide which suddenly rumbled down a cliff and covered a 600 foot stretch of the six-lane Pa cific coast highway. Engineers said it would not be until today at the earliest before its is determined definitely that no one was trapped in the ava lanche. The 'slide occurred late Friday afternoon during heavy traffic on Highway 101. An estimated 50,000 tons of dirt and rock crumbled across the highway and onto the ad jacent beach. It reached heights of 70 feet in some spots as it fell from the 350-foot cliff. The area has "had many slides, usually during or after heavy rain si.rms. Previous slides did not approach the size of Friday's. Authorities used 40 pieces of heavy equipment in clearing the area. European Storm (ills 133; Hundreds Homeless In Floods London (U.R) The worst European cold wave of the cen tury Saturday froze a "hot" at omic reactor and caused the Da nube river to overflow, leaving hundreds , of Germans homeless and threatening an Austrian dam. i ' The numbing air from Siber- SPEAKER Former Colorado governos, Dan Thornton, will speak at the Lincoln day dinner at the Jackson hotel Feb. 7 . at 7 p.m. The event is being spon sored by the local Lincoln day club and the Jackson County Re publican . Central committee. (See story Page 2). . ' Stevenson, Estes Attack Conduct Of Foreign Policy Fresno, Calif. U.R) -Adlai Stevenson and Sen. Estes Ke f auver kicked off their cam paigns for the Democratic pres idential nomination : Saturday with a blistering attack on the Eisenhower administra tion's conduct of foreign policy. In a direct bid for Californ ia's 68-vote convention sprize, both men accused Secretary of State John . Foster . Dulles of frightening America's allies and neutrals by "intemperate" re marks. Speak at Convention Stevenson and Kef auver spoke from the same rostrum three .; hours apart before ( the convention of the California Democratic council. The coun cil is made up of Democratic leaders 1 who -play key 'roles in the state's June 5 presidential primary election. ''Although vying fort the na tion's third biggest convention delegation, neither Stevenson nor Kefauver mentioned the oth er in their speeches. Both con centrated their fire on the Re publicans. .- . Stevenson attacked Dulles' now - famous "Brink of War" quote and said it "scared the daylights out of friends and neu trals the world around." i "If the Eisenhower adminis tration has to do more bragging. it would be better to boast about resolute marches to the brink of peace than the brink of war." Kefauver accused the Repub licans of "furthering the cause of neutralism" and frightening our -allies by such concepts as "massive retaliation, go-it-alone and brink of war." j- Reports Of Mysterious Sub Spread Through South Seas Apia, Fiji Islands (U.R) Re ports- of a mysterious submarine spread through the South Sea Islands Saturday, threatening to disrupt inter-island trade after two ships in the area disappear ed mysteriously. -. - , Islanders were quick tp link the reports of the ' submarine with the fate of two small miss ing schooners the Joyitaand Arakarimoa. .'. The 52 persons' aboard both ships also are miss ing. Sailors said the mystery sub has made several unexpected appearances, only to submerge without a trace. Under a. headline "Pacific Mystery," the Afternoon" Mirror of Sydney, Australia, .said" "the report of submarines- alarms is land traders." "Whose turn is next?" the ar ticle asked. ; .' The Mirror accused official sources of wrapping a blanket of ia, which gripped the continent for the fifth straight day, claim ed at least 133 lives, 42 of them in France alone. No relief was in sight. Still another freeze was headed toward Europe from the Arctic. Danube waters backed up by an ice jam in Bavaria swept ov er the village of Vilshofen near Passau, forcing 1,200 persons to leave their homes. Authorities compared the flood to the- 1954 disaster which killed 14 persons in Vilshofen alone. Great ice cakes which rammed houses and rescue boats made rescue operations difficult. Op erations were being carried out by German border police and U .S. Army engineers. Damage is estimated in the millions of dollars. The rose and carnation flower crop in France was ruined. Fires caused an es timated $5,000,000 in damages in Sweden. - - Ships were plagued with ice floes in the rough North- sea. Coastal islands were being iso lated by ice in some areas. London Has Smog London, which had a .. brief thaw, developed a smog to go with it.. . .' The French Atomic : Energy commission said the G-l, atomic pile at Marcoule, in central France, got so cold that several pipes burst. Officials said the pile kept working, but nobody could remember a hot atomic pile' getting that cold before. . It turned so cold at Neuchatel, Switzerland, that eggs being sold in an open air market froze and exploded like - miniature bombs. Newspaper cartoons began to sprout with pictures showing the cold wave- coming from Rus sia in the cold war. It was just as cold or colder in the Sov iet Union. Radio Moscow report ed, a temperature. ;pf 23 : degrees below zero and "no change expected." Milk Program For Schools Approved Washington (U.R) The Senate Agriculture committee approved unanimously Saturday legislation to increase the school free milk program by $25,000, 000 a year. .' , The program, which now costs $50,000,000 a year, would be authorized for the next two fis cal years. . '.-"":' The bill also would provide an extra $10,000,000 to ; buy school' milk during the remain der of the current school year. President Eisenhower has said some states are ' running out of funds. Another provision would pro vide $2,000,000' more for the present program to combat bru cellosis or bang's disease, in cat tle. The bill also would increase from $15 to $20,000,000 the amount spent- on this program during the two fiscal years. The school milk legislation was part of President Eisenhow er's nine-point farm program. Sen. Edward J. Thye (R-Minn) said he expects the senate to ap prove it next week. . , Cleveland, O. (U.R Califor nia Gov. Goodwin Knight said Saturday he feels there is a "better . than 50-50 chance'' President Eisenhower will seek re-election. secrecy around the disappear ance of the Joyita and the Ara karimoa. The submarine, which so far has been claimed by no govern ment, was sighted twice in 24 hours,., the Afternoon Sun at Sydney said. The paper said the mystery craft sailed along the island trader Kowawai near Suva for three hours . and then vanished. " J Natives of Fakaof a atoll in the pTarawa islands also reported hearing an unconfirmed radio message saying that a Russian submarine had sunk an Amer ican fishing boat. - "If this message could be traced to its source, it might solve the recent mystery sur rounding the missing ships - in the Pacific that traders claim," the Afternoon Sim commented. A maritime commission open ed an investigation of the fate of tee Joyita yesterday. Pickets, Police In Demonstration At Electric Plant Asks National Guard For Assistance Lima, O. U.R) Westinghouse pickets and sympathizers from other unions Saturday fought with police and non-strikers at tempting to return to work at the strike-bound plant. Sheriff Clay T. Cotterman at one time appealed to Gov. Frank J. Lausche to call out the Na tional Guard to quell the demon stration, one of the largest in the 111-day old strike which has idled about 55,000 men across the country. The. demonstration lasted from about 7 a.m. until the day shift "went home at 3:30 p.m. ' : The sheriff said the 43 officers on duty could not curb the demonstrations. Lausche refused to send out the troops, saying local officials could handle the dispute. He said there was no order from the courts to limit picketing. " Two Persons Injured C The sheriff said two persons were' injured. Several cars were rocked, and one was overturned as non-strikers drove through the picket lines. .",'." The Ohio highway.; patrol charged. Bill T. Leffler; 33, Lima, with reckless driving. His car hit Deputy Sheriff Victor Baker and two pickets when he drove through the line to work. Baker was treated for arm injuries. The pickets did . not require treat ment. Earlier, a company super visor was injured; when hit by a pipe thrown through a window. "- The demonstration reached its peak when 34 cars went through about 300 pickets massed at the north gate this morning. ' ."' ! Pickets massed this afternoon when: the first shift ended. The sheriff arranged for employees to leave through a seldom used gate, thus averting any incidents. Ask Injunction " i ; Company attorneys announced they would ask for an injunction Monday, speciiying tne. jumDer of pickets allowed at the plant.' A court order issued last October allowed unlimited picketing but required pickets to . maintain order.- ,' . :;' v3v7-': The fighting occurred at three gates but most of -it at the north gate, where the employees at tempted, to return to work after being blocked at the main gate. Smith To Preside At First Meeting Salem (U.R) - Gov. Elmo Smith of John Day; will preside at his first state meeting here Tuesday when the Board of Con trol meets to discuss several rou tine matters. -A -'.--:.-'. . . The governor is chairman of the board. Meanwhile, the governor and his wife were expected to start house hunting. They have been living a't the Senator hotel. Gov. Smith said he has not yet ' determined o whether he would base the family, airplane at Salem or John Day. He shares an. enthusiasm for flying with his son, Dennis. . " The Smith's daughter, Janice, will attend school in Salem. ' ' The governor said business of the state executive department hi.3 been confined to emergency matters since the death of Gov. Paul L. Patterson Tuesday night.-; v ' He will confer with state of ficials Monday. ;"-... Radio Moscow Comments On Ike-Eden Statement Loifdon (U.R) Radio Moscow said Saturday this week's Eisenhower-Eden communique indic ates the West, scorning Soviet smiles at the "Summit," is pre paring to renew the cold war. The Red radio also said that British leaders are running dan gerous risks in an effort to com promise differences with t the United States. ; . SATELLITE PREDICTED The Alsop brothers, Jo seph ' and Stewart, 'who write a column regularly published in The Mail Tri . bune, have reported the United States has started a project io get a military satellite into the sky within a period of five years. It would be a "spy" vehicle, sending informa tion to this country about things all over the world, viewed by special instru ments, the Columnists claim, ' ,i Their column about the satellite appears on today's editorial page. - - Appeals To Citizens To Stop Feeding Swan i Geneva, Switzerland U.R) The Municipal Swans com mission appealed io citizens to slop throwing food for the swans into Lake Geneva dur ing the current cold spell. The , swans were freezing solid after coming ashore from retrieving iidbits. Land Owners Favor Joining Rogue Soil Conservation Group Informal Vote Taken During Friday Hearing An informal vote of 23 land owners in the Evans creek area Friday indicated their desire that the 168,840-acre northeast ern section of 'the county be joined with the Rogue Soil Con servation district. The vote was taken ; during two hearings, Friday afternoon at Enterprise Grange hall, con ducted by Robert C. Baum, exe cutive secretary of the state soil conservation district, of Oregon. ; The " hearings were . called when two differing petitions signed by residents of the Evans creek area went to the state com mittee, one requesting that the area join the Rogue district and the other requesting it join the Sams Valley-Beagle district. The area is the only part of the county not now in a soil conser vation district. Only 23 land owners attended the sessions, acocrding to County Agent W;B. Tucker, although 34 signed the Sams-Valley-Beagle petition and 24 the Rogue peti tion. , Favor Rogue District j. A majority attending the hear ings, however, voted in favor of the Rogue district. ..'. . Tucker said a formal request for a referendum election, will beresented to the state poirimit .tee Feb:flrat which time it is expected an election date will be set.' A three-week period of noti fication is required prior to a vote. " ' : : "Anticipating the election, the group nominated James ; Martin polling superintendent; Ai. Bolt ter, judge; Mrs. Florence North rup and H. R.; Hill, clerks; and Mrs. Ketura Riis, alternate. ' Ballots will be mailed to a list of eligible, land owners secured from the assessor's office. Any one owning more than 10 acres is eligible to vote. Should an election j be . an nounced, polls would be open from 1 to 8 p.m. at the Enter prise Grange on the date : set, according to; Tucker. ; Dulles To Visit 10 Asian Nations Soon , Washington U.R) Sec retary of State John Foster Dul les will visit 10 -Asian nations during his trip to the Far-East next month. 4 ' ;;c Dulles is flying to Karachi, Pakistan, for a meeting of the Southeast Treaty Organization Council. The meeting, scheduled for March. 6-8, . will ; consider ways to combat Communist ac tivities in Southeast Asia. The State Department said on Friday Dulles also will, pay brief visits to India, Ceylon, Indon esia, Thailand, Free Vietnam, the Philippines, Formosa, South Korea and Japan. Dulles will leave Washington March 2 and return March 21. The tour is designed partly to counter the recent Asian tour by Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul ganin and Russian Communist party boss Njikita Khrushchev. Washington (U.R) The Navy reported last night that a Navy plane with seven men aboard is missing over the icy wastelands of the Antarctic. Crewmen Aboard Soviet Fishing Vessel Linked With Spy Ring, Officials Say Aalesund, Norway U.R) A crewman aboard one of the 16 Soviet ships seized for poach ing in Norwegian waters h a s been linked with a Soviet spy ring in Norway, authorities said Saturday. Norwegian officials identified the man as Arthur Oeyen.a So viet citizen of Norwegian ex traction. They said he figured in a spy case in Kirkenes, Nor way, in 1954. . . Oeyen has been acting as an interpreter for the detained So viet fishermen in Aalesund. His official capacity is supervisor of the Russian fleet's fishing fac I RIB"; E Unite..v . d Wire U.S. Tiu -Di " ' P, " " ADDRESSES HOUSE British Prime Minister Anthony Eden (center) received a standing ' ovation after addressing the House of Representatives during his visit here. On rostrtim behind Eden is House Speaker Sam Rayburn. He told House members the Dec laration of Washington which he and President Eisenhower signed "embodies our faith." Eden went to Ottawa, en. route home, Friday. Justice Depa rf men t Orders investigation Into Attempted Bribe . Washington U.R) T Ire Justice department Saturday ordered a full FBI investigation of an alleged attempt to bribe Sen. Francis Case (R-SD) in connection with the pending natural gas bill. . - i : -.. .-'It moved in after Senate. Dem ocratic ' and Republican leaders announced they will act Monday to set up a special investigating committee to look into - Case's sensational charge that an . un named lawyer tried to contribute $2,500 to his campaign funds, after ascertaining that, Case favored the controversial bill. Defies Ultimatum .Case himself defied an ulti matum from Senate leaders that he identify; the lawyer before a resolution authorizing . the in quiry is brought before the Senate Monday. But he said he would "welcome an investiga tion by any properly constituted authority." ... . Acting Attorney General Wil liam P-. Rogers announced . that the FBI, acting at his request, had "interviewed" Case. Case indicated he gave the FBI the names of the lawyer and all other persons involved in the affair. r He would not say directly what he told the FBI, but re minded newsmen that he . had promised to cooperate with "any responsible . agency." Legally, Case could, have re- Parking Meters Used On Legal Holiday i ,The city of Medford received about $175 in bonus parking me ter income Friday when un knowing motorists paid the me ters on a legal holiday. : City Treasurer Darrell Huson estimated the amount from the monthly average meter income of $6,000. January and Febru ary are "light" parking months, Huson said, and some shoppers did remember the fact.that Fri day was declared a legal holiday and day of mourning for the late Gov. Paul Patterson.., 'Many motorists.' do ',. it every holiday,, police 'said, and some even pay the meters on Sundays. tory equipment aboard the fac tory' ship Tambov. The 8000-ton Tambov was one of the 16 Russian fishing boats intercepted by the Norwegian navy for violating Norway's four-mile territorial limits. The Soviet fishing fleet, numbering up to 80 vessels, moved in Mon day and continued operations for the next four days despite Norwegian naval action and pro tests to Moscow. , - ' All radio transmitters aboard the captured .boats were sealed by police Friday night after it had been ascertained they had fused to answer FBI questions The constitution stipulates ihat Senators are not required to ae count, outside the Senate for remarks they make on the Sen ate floor. .. , rr. . . ..? . ;. Rogers said he had instructed the FBI. to ."conduct such other investigations as may be neces' sary" to enable the Justice de partment to "determine whether there has been a violation of federal laws." A Justice department spokes man said the FBI investigation was Rogers', own idea, and was not . requested by any member of the Senate. 90 Appointments For Bloodmobile .Red Cross volunteer workers reported Saturday donor ap pointments were increasing for the bloodmobile ' visiting Med ford; Wednesday, Feb. 8. Some 90 appointments had been made Friday night. The quota is 250 pints. V They praised Shady Cove and Prospect a r e a residents- who have over-subscribed pledges to donate blood when the bloodmo bile visits there on Tuesday, Feb. 7. ., Mrs. .Wilsort said a group of Medford businessmen h a v e pledged to donate S750 to the March of Dimes campaign if the Red Cross reaches its quota of blood... , - ;Mrs. Joseph. Burba, chairman of the bloodbank service, pointed out that 1,530 pints of blood have been used in the ' county since April, 1956 and only 1,194 collected. , She suggested .that those wKo are past the age limit, or for other reasons cannot give blood should be responsible for one new donor.' "The population in the county is rapidly increasing," she said, "and we trust that newcomers appreciate the security provided in this field of most extreme need and will share the responsi bility.' ' Appointments can be made by telephoning 3-3813. continued to send messages. The remainder of the Soviet fleet still lurked outside of Norweg ian waters. The, Kirkenes spy case broke when a fugitive Soviet officer informed police of the operation of a Soviet spy ring among far mers living along the northern Norwegian-Soviet border. Police swooped down on the isolated area and made a numb-' er of arrests. During the trial, several of the defendants identi fied Oeyen as the contact man between the Russians and Nor wegians. However, no warrant was issued for his arrest. WOD Results Of Talks Said 'Compromise' Or Trade Issue Asked Relaxation On Curbs Of Allied Trade Washington (U.R) The United States has turned down British Prime Minister Anthony Eden s proposal for sizeable re-' laxation of curbs on Allied trade with Red China, diplomatic of ficials disclosed Saturday. -iiumiea sourcses saia al though President Eisenhower argued against a major change in- Allied . trade controls, - he agreed' to look over relaxation of trade in rubber, some light uiawjiiic tviuo, oiuau ujuamuo, thin metal sheets and some other- commodities. ' Informants said Eden got something" but less than he had wanted on the trade issue. ; The results of the Eisenhower- Eden talks were described as a compromise. Talks Exceeded Hopes Eden left Washington Friday for Ottawa, Canada, en route home. He said his talks with the President had exceeded his hopes and had resulted in a "very wide range of agreement. Mere mention of trade with Red China stirred up the Senate. Diplomats said most of the "agreement" was for lower level talks on the Middle East, trade and other issues. Senate Republican Leader Wil lian F. Knowland (Calif.) and other advocates of a tough Red trade policy immediately pro tested. Chairman Styles Bridges (R-NH) of the Senate Republican Policy Committee said he hoped "this country is not going to fall for any such arguments , or en treaties." 1 . v;' .,v House GOP Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.) said such a trade relaxation move .would "put ourselves in even more precarious position." The United States wants to keep ecnomic pressure on Red Chaina. It especially wants to see 13 Americans, now in Red jails, safely home ; before it" makes concessions to the Reds. Therefore, action may be slow on even the few items the United States has agreed to con sider from Eden's- longer list. I ; controls, on Red China trade were equalized with those now in ef ect for Russia, Allied traders could export rubber, small motors, generators, diesel engines, crude petroleum, rail way cars, some ' locomotives, latinum,' asbestos, some scien tific equipment. Trade with Red China now is permitted in paper products, medicines, dyes, watch es, fertilizers, seaweed, . some kinds of light machinery, etc. Ceylon alone ships rubber to Red China in exchange for rice. inunaerier ,rasnes Near Vancouver Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) An F-84 Thunderjet crashed in an open field about three miles west of here Saturday after nnnn but the nilot. CaDt. Brad ley B. Irish, bailed out to safe ty.- V '. Lt. Robert W. Scott, informa tion officer at Portland air base, said the- cause of the crash was not immediately known. Sports Bulletins Medford high zoomed in the final four minutes Saturday night to defeat Roseburg 57 to SO here in a non-conference basketball game. The Black Tornado led' 36 to 33 going into the last quarter but Rose burg gained edges of 41 to 40 and 43 to 42 before the surge began. Central Point The Crater ' Comets made it a clean sweep in their two-game week, end Rogue League Basketball ser- ies with Illinois Valley high by clubbing the Cougars 64 to 31 last night, duplicating their Friday score. " j Phoenix Phoenix high had eight Rouge League triumphs without a loss after lacing the Eagle Point hoop quint 70 to 46 here last night. California 69, Oregon Stale 56. ; Eastern Oregon College 93, SOC 82. So. Calif. 8L Univ. Ore. 71.