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Newspaper Page TextIFF DE HIES Oil b Wo T 16) ira 10 Mi Medford Unilea Pre -Full Leased Wire 50th Year 16 Pages SirviBios LlysiirQessecftoini 6 Establishments, Offices and Lodge Hall Demolished r Damage Expected To Reach $300,000 Corvallis (U.R) A fire, caused damage estimated as high as $300,000, swept through a business section of Corvallis yes terday, wrecking six business establishment, four offices and a lodge hall. , ' '' ' The fire was first reported at 7:40 a.m. and firemen battled for several hours before it was brought under complete control, The fire wiped out the sprawl ing Masonic building, which cov ered; a half block area in the heart of the Corvallis business section. Also destroyed 'or heav ily damaged were Wagner's res taurant, the Pacific Telephone company office, the City Hall Pharmacy, the Phil Small men's store, four, attorneys' offices, a bakery and a supply house. All were occupants of the Masonic building. Firemen said they were suc cessful in preventing the blaze from spreading to other nearby buildings, but that the "roof fell in" on the Masonic building shortly after they were able to get equipment on the scene. The fife was described as the worst in the history of the down town section of the city. All fire fighting equipment in the city was called outtq. battle, the in ferno. : " ' " The fire was believed to have started in a grease chute in the restaurant. -.- t The Masonic lodge was consid ered to be one of the finest in the country. Firemen said many thousands of dollars had been spent in decorations and furnish ings alone. ; . . , . . , Traffic Accidents Claim Three in Stale By UNITED PRESS, Traffic accidents claimed the lives of three persons in Oregon over the week end, two of them in the vicinity of Portland and one in eastern Oregon. Portland recorded its eighth fatality of the year early. Satur day when Mrs. Rose Jean Fess- ler, 26, was killed in a two-car accident. Arthur E. Westerberg, 74, Mil- waukie, was killed instantly about 5 a.m. Saturday when he was struck by a car. An Elgin insurance and real estate man, Dewey Lewis Bur ton, was killed Friday "night when his automobile went out of control and overturned on the Minak-Elgin highway. Moloney Selected As logue Manor Architect John W. Maloney, Seattle, has been selected as the architect for the planned Rogue Valley Manor retirement home, "the board of trustees for the Manor announced today. - - Constrution of the $2,500,000 home, to be located about three miles south of Medford, will be gin late this fall. - Pickets Battle Westinghouse Pittsburgh (U.R) Massed pickets battled with police and sheriffs deputies at the gates of the Sharon, Pa., plant of West inghouse Electric Corp. today apparently in protest to the breaking off of negotiations in the 120-day walkout against the firm. " ' The violence came as the( gov ernors of five, states awaited the company's reply to their pro posal that .the deadlocked dis pute be submitted to a fact-finding board composed of two na tionally known labor experts. The union accepted the plan, yes terday.; . , . : A Westinghouse spokesman said at noon that the company still had not received the gov ernors' proposal and that no re ply could be made until tha test MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13,9 : ' k DIDNT CET VERY FAR Police close in on three robbers (numbers) just a few minutes after they had robbed a loan and savings association of $5000 at Wihnette, I1L Robbers are John J. O'Brien (1), Lee Robert Simms (2) and John EL Keahe (3). Behind O'Brien is Policeman Edward Eggert who was on the spot and stopped the getaway car. ' Possible Governor Candidates Continue To Bloom in Oreqon Portland (U.R)- Political hats, although not all precisely in the ring for the Oregon gub ernatorial ; nomination, certain ly were in the air today as sev eral possible candidates" indicat ed that they were seriously conJ sidering entering the race. So far only Republicans Wal ter Norblad and ; Earl , Dickson and Democrat Robert D. Holmes had made official confirmation that they would seek the office vacated by the death of Gov. Paul Patterson. . Norblad Saturday said he def initely was in the race for gov ernor. He said he could not go along with the suggestion - of Mrs. Marshal Cornett, GOP Na tional committee woman .that he again run for Congress be cause of fear of ' a Democrat might get, the seat. , , On' the sidelines and giving a great deal of consideration to the race were at least another trio of Democrats. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said that he has' been urged by supporters . to-enter the'race. Ex-state Senator Orval Thompson, an Albany lawyer, said he too, had received urg ing from his supporters to file land Purchased for Adventist Church Site The purchase of a seven acre tract as the site . for a new Seventh Day Adventist church with a seating capacity of 1,200 vas announced today by Elder E. F; Coy, pastor of the church. The property, located at 20S0 Crestbrook rd., south of Siskiyou Memorial park, was formerly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Norman Nelson, and is the present site of the Medford Box and Crate com pany, i The church congregation is now making plans to raise $50,- 000 which, with funds received from the sale of the present church, will , be used for con struction of the new building. Police at J Plant Gates had been studied. The International Union of Electrical Workers agreed to the proposal Sunday shortly after Gov. George M. Leader of Penn sylvania announced appointment of two nationally-known labor arbitrators to : the fact-finding board. ' ' A Westinghouse spokesman said the firm withheld comment on. the appointment of -. Dr. George W. Taylor of Philadel phia and attorney David L. Cole of Paterson, N.J., because com pany officials had not received official notice of the governors' plan. ' . -. Leader said the special board would investigate the ."facts" and then "determine the unre solved issues of the strike . . and present them to the general public, labor and management.' for the top state post. Still un announced is- Multnomah Coun ty -Sheriff Terry Schrunk.' Gov. Elmo Smith, a Republi can, also is considered a possible candidatel' : " ' .'-; -: JThe: Democratic State Central committee me there yesterday and approved 'a $22,000 budget for 1956. Largest item was $6000 to be paid as-salary to Harry J. Hogan of The Dalles, who was named director of organization for the party in "Oregon. There were indications that Democrats might seek campaign funds from industry and business. . Candidates, io Speak State Chairman Howard Mor gan said "every possible Demo cratic candidate for , president and vice-president "would be in Oregon , to speak." Wendell Wyatt, state GOP chairman, spoke at Newport yes terday and said Adlai Stevenson "has now paid his political debt to Sen. Wayne Morse in full." Wyatt said the debt was in curred in 1952 when Morse an nounced his support for Steven son. "The former Illinois govern or praised -Morse in his speech. Rep.- Edith - Green (D-Ore.), was presented with the fourth annual Brotherhood Award' by the Portland Bnai Brith lodge last night. In a speechshe called for an end to governmental in vestigators who act as "unoffic ial, courts" with rules of their own making. She said that every time an American is made to account for -his private beliefs to a congressional inquiry "so much freedom . is 'irretrievably gone." ' . ; City Planners Slate Zone Change Hearing Two public hearings will, be held at a Medford Planning com mission meeting at 7:30 p.m. to day in the city hall. ' The hearings will be on zone changes for. the Leslie property on Boardman st., and Christian Science church property, block six,, Siskiyou Heights addition. , A committee of planning commission-members and property owners will also beappointed at tonight's meeting to study the zoning of the southeast Medford area which was annexed Jan. 17. -Other business will include consideration of an arterial street system report, considera tion of a zone change to include a mortuary on. Highland ave., and setting a date for a hearing on : proposed agricultural zone requirements. . ( City ' Manager Robert Duff will give a report on sanitary sewer districts. DOW-JONES AVERAGES ; New York U.R) Dow-Jones averages: 30 industrials 467.17, off 0.49; 20 railroads 155.27, off 0.13; 15 utilities 65.05, off 0.04, and 65. stocks 166.51, off 0.15. Sales today were about 1,420, 000 shares compared with 1,770, 000 Friday. - i. IBUNE Full Leased Wir Price 5c No. 278 Army, Air Force Rush Supplies To s - London (U.R) The U.S. Army and Air Force today rushed food and clothing' by land and air to Italy to alleviate the plight of thousands of Italians isolated in snowbound ; villages.1 ; ; .v;7; i ' .. .ArJn-i ubSllmeniof a pledgeom .; President Eisenhower, the first of a. fleet of CI 19 "Flying Boxcars"- winged over the Alps from Germany to Rome, Naples and Catania, Sicily, - Sunday night. They delivered 10,500 Army blankets - and enough rations to provide 180,000 meals for Ital ians beset by the worst winter weather in a century. Freight Cars Loaded . At the U.S. Army supply base in Leghorn, GIs loaded another 40 freight cars , with food and clothing for distribution in the hardest-hit regions in central and southern Italy.- , v At least 319 persons have died since the icy front moved down out of Siberia over Europe two weeks.ago. Italy was hardest hit, with. 80 dead and the toll was expected to go higher when com munications are re-established' with isolated communities. - The cold spell eased somewhat in some parts of Europe. . Avalanches Loosed Sudden thaws loosed . ava lanches on a workers' mess hall, a power station and a frontier post in Yugoslavia Sunday. The official Yugoslav news .agency Tanjug said "scores" were buried alive although some were res cued. .. ' - . . Temperatures were rising in Britain, but France and Germany still were gripped by the Siberian-born cold. It even swept into usually sunny Spain,, snow ing in scores of villages and orange groves. , . . : The new U.S. air was an nounced following an offer of as sistance for cold -wave sufferers by. President "Eisenhower to President Giovanni Gronchi of Italy: 16 County Democrats Attend Jackson Dinner A group of 16 Jackson county Democrats attended the annual Jackson-Jefferson dinner in Port land Saturday evening at which Adlai Stevenso, Democratic can didate for presidential nomina tion, was.-speaker. Mrs. Edward C. Kelly, for mer party chairman t for the county, introduced Congressman Edith Green who served as mas ter of ceremonies. U.S. Senator Wayne Morse ' introduced Ste venson. David; Shaw, Gold Beach, was general chairman. - The 'Jackson county delega tion included Robert Boyer, Medford, county chairman, Mrs. Boyer, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dun can, - Mr. and . Mrs. Kelly, Miss Margaret McGee, Thomas J. Reeder, James Main and Clyde Fichtner, all of Medford; Mrs. Albert Straus, Sams. Valley; Mr. and Mrs. Pat Redmond, Talent; Al Miller, Ashland, and Mr. and i,Mrs. Marcus Norton, Phoenix. Europe Eisenhower Plans Week's Vacation At Georgia Estate President To Ponder Candidacy Decision " Washington U.R) The White House announced today that President Eisenhower will fly to Thomasville, Ga., Wednesday to relax at the estate of Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey for a week or more. While there, he will ponder his second term decision. But he is not expected to make any an nouncement until he returns to Washington. He said last week he expects to be ready to an nounce his decision by the end of this month. . : Mr. ' Eisenhower will be ac companied by Mrs. Eisenhower and her mother, Mrs. John S. Doud. ' Gets Medical Report Before he departs he will hear some time tomorrow a re evaluation of his medical future and present condition from four physicians who have been close to his case since he suffered, a heart attack in Colorado last Sept. 24. The doctors will meet at the White House tomorrow. They will go over not only the .rec ords from tha President's exam ination at Walter Ree'd hospital Saturday, but all of the medical reports on his condition since his attack. ". ' . - The start of the medical con sultation will depend on the ar rival of Dr. Paul Dudley White, Boston heart specialist, who is flying from the Pacific coast. White is expected to reach the White House tomorrow. .' Ike Must Decide The White House anticipated that White and. his colleagues would be able to make a public report on their findings some time tomorrow afternoon! But no time has been set for a. news conference. -: , . - - --i . The physicians will give the President "findings, and a medi cal opinion" on his health; but they will make no recommenda tion on what he . should decide about a second term. , "That choice will be his," Dr. White told the United Press in SanFrancisco. - .. . . v. Talent Man Killed In Logging Mishap V Floyd Wallace Taylor, .. route 1, box 526, . Talent, was Trilled in a logging accident on Wagner creek, ' four . miles from Talent, about 2:55 p.m., 'yesterday.! ' Taylor and his son David, also of Talent, were : raising a load ing pole when one of the guy line : cables broke, allowing the pole to fall. It struck Taylor on the back of the lead, according to conorer's deputies. He . was pronounced, dead on arrival' at Ashland General hospital. Taylor was born June 9, 1904 in Wisconsin. He was married to Jeneveve Blevens in Santa Ana, Calif., and in 1929 they moved to. Talent in 1950. He had been a logger for two years.: - . He is survived by : his wife, two sons, David and Floyd, both of Talent; two daughters, Mr s. Billy - Hagert, Ashland,-; and Sheila, of Talent; a .brother, Charles, Willits, .- Calif.; : three sisters, Mrs.. Hazel Hatch, Santa Rosa, Calif.; Mrs. Faye De Motte, Oakland, Calif.; and Mrs,. Midge Sandetson, Los Angeles; . a n d six. grandsons. Funeral services will be held Wednesday,- Feb. 15, at 2 p.m., inLitwiller's , Mountain View Chapel. The Rev. Ross Knotts will officiate. Burial will be in the Mountain View cemetery, Ashland. ' I -,'-V Russia Accepts Plan For Data Exchange . Moscow U.R) The Soviet government announced tonight it has accepted a U.S. State. De partment proposal for cultural and technical exchanges. The Soviet Foreign Ministry announced it had sent to the U.S. Embassy, in oscow an "aide Memoire" Feb.' 3 replying to recent State Department, pro posals for such exchanges. The American proposal ex pressed the 'desirability of ex change based on reciprocity in accordance with " previously worked put programs of mutual interest. ' "; ; ... ' ; " ; The Soviet government accept ed the state department proposal to work out a program, in Wash ington for exchange in medicine and agriculture. The Soviet gov ernment also offered to negotiate exchange in the fields of culture, electronics, . mass feedings, and other . areas. '. Roseburg (U.R) The Melody Inn at tinston, ' eight miles south of here, was destroyed by fire early today. urgess, Rean Show of 7 London U.R) Foreign Sec retary Sedwyn Lloyd said today that the reappearance in Moscow of turncoat British- diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Mac Lean "shows how difficult it is to establish relations of mutual trust" with the Soviet Union. Lloyd made his observation while delivering a statement to the . House of Commons on the strange case of the' two former diplomats who disappeared in May, 1951, and popped up unex pectedly in Moscow last Satur day. 7 Lloyd told Parliament that while the Soviets "profess so much to desire" mutual trust, they had repeatedly greeted Brit ish questions about the two men with a "consistent lack of can dor." . ' , Doubts Their Word The foreign secretary angrily told i Commons he placed "no credence" in the words of Bur gess or McLean, who denied in their; reappearance press confer ence Saturday that they had been Communist spies. Lloyd said the Soviet authori ties probably permitted the two turncoats to come out of hiding in an effort to "create distrust and drive a wedge between the United Kingdom and United Stevenson Would Keep Racial Segregation issue From Campaign Portland, Ore. (U.R) Adlai Stevenson said, yesterday that the issue of segregation should be kept out of the presidential campaign because it pits , sec tion against section : . or race against race." . l-r- ' The . Democratic presidential candidate' said strong federal ac tion .' to ' end" segregation may "actually' delay the process of integration in -education" and said candidates should not f'ex ploit for political ends" racial tensions in the South." Criticized by Liberals , Stevenson has been criticized by liberal elements in his party for advocating . "gradualism" in desegregation. ' He said ; there should be no, slowdown in end ing segregation but warned: "We must recognize that it is reason alone that will determine our rate of continued progress. "Certainly we will not im prove the present condition or future prospects of any Negro citizen by coercive federal action that will arm the extremists and disarm the men of good will in the South : who,' with courage and patience, have already -accomplished so much." .The statement was issued from Timberline; Lodge on Mount Hood where Stevenson is relax ing and working on a hew series of speeches.- It followed on pro tests of Democratic Negfo lead ers in California last week. Disappointment Expressed , The Negro leaders expressed disappointment with Stevenson's "middle of the road" statements on desegregation and indicated they leaned toward rival' caiyii- Portion of Stolen Poison Wheat Found Portland (U.R Police re covered - one ton of poisoned wheat early yesterday but the re maining three tons of the lethal loot still was missing. ' ' Acting', on an anonymous phone call, police discovered one ton of wheat in a gravel pile on north river road. . .. . The wheat originally was dis carded after , it had been "too heavily fumigated" and had been piled on a loading dock for dis posal. - . - . - , . .' Early Friday night owners no ticed that about half .-of th wheat had disappeared. .. ' . An anonymous phone call Sat urday night to Thomas M. Rice, of the , Federal Food and Drug Administration, led to recovery of a portion of the wheat yester day. . ... .' . . . The caller said he had learned through newspaper stories that the wheat was poisoned. FORECAST: Considerable cloud iness tonight and Tuesday with a few light showers. Low tonight 33. High Tuesday 45. Temp. Highest yesterday : 54 Lowest this morning 34 Prec. trace To 4:38 a.m today McLean pearance Said Distrust States governments." "If this is the explanation, they will not succeer," he said. He , said Moscow . also might have produced Burgess and Mac Lean now so that Soviet Premier Nikolai' Bulganin and Commu nist party boss Nikita S. Khrush chev could ""avoid awkward questions" when they visit Brit ain in April. V. Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden added to' Lloyd's statement by saying that the Committee of Privy Councillors authorized to investigate security measures in the light of the Burgess-MacLean defection now had made its re port. Soviets Dodged Questions "I have given it careful study," Eden said. "We are now engaged in considering the steps to . be taken to give effect to it. I would hope to be able to make a state-' ment in due course." Lloyd said, "as recently as Jan. 12, when Mr. Harold Wilson (a Socialist M.P.) saw Khrushchev, he put some questions' to him. Khrushchev is reported to have replied: 'Are they in our country then? I have not heard anything of them from any Soviet officials, nor have I ever met them.' . "The House must form its own opinion about the truth of these statements." . date, Sen. Estes Kefauver. The two mentoured California a week ago in separate efforts to win support of the California bloc, of votes .; in tWe coming Democratic National Convention, The former Illinois governor will remain at the winter sports resort 60 miles east of here until tomorrow morning when he will leave fpr Seattle. He is sched uled to speak in Seattle on. Tues day and at Richland, Wash., on the following day, after which he . will go to. Boise, Ida., and Salt Lake City. Holdup Activity Flares in Portland " Portland U.R) Holdup ac tivity flared up, here over, the week end as several robberies or attempted robberies were re ported and one man was shot -in the chest. . Police today recovered a gun with which s 66-year-old ; Olaf Faleide was wounded, in a pub lic restroom in downtown Port land, last night. , - ; , : Faleide told police two young men opened a compartment door and demanded he hand over his money. He told them he had none and one of the men pulled out a gun and fired, hitting Fa leide in the chest. Another bol: let missed ' and lodged in . the wall behind his back. .Faleide was reported in good condition, v The , 22.-caliber .weapon was found in a garbage can at Cen tral Bus depot. Police said it had been stolen by two men from a hardware store last week. A bandit escaped with week end receipts from a southeast Safeway store last night after opening his" coat and revealing a revolver in his belt. On Saturday night, a holdup man tried to rob grocer Vern Judd but Judd brandished a 10 inch steak knife and the man fi nally fled with no loot., John Martin, proprietor of another grocery, lost $300 to a holdup man and later fired a shot as the bandit fled. West Will Watch Struggle For Power Inside Russia Washington (U.R) The West will watch Russia's Communist V. M. Moletov, former Premier Georgi M. Malenkov or other high Soviet officials who may be on their way down. , Russian experts do not expect any action affecting international affairs to come from the Con gress which would match the dramatic downfall of Malenkov earlier and the rise of the current Khrushchev-Bulgariin team. But these same experts, on the basis of past Russian performances, wouldn't be surprised at any thing. They are sure that power jockeying forv Stalin's mantle, is continuing inside the Soviet Union. Right now Khrushchev and Bulganin seem to be riding high over any opposition. Their trips to the July Geneva confer Committee Ends Investigation Of " Donation To Case Hennings Quits Post On Elections Group Washington U.R) Oil com pany attorney .John M. Neff, who tried to give Sen. Francis Case a $2500 campaign contri bution, testified today that he had not contributed to any other senator's personal campaign funds in connection with the na- He gave this testimony as a blue ribbon Senate committee in- vestigatin coontribution wound up its. hearings at least for the present. The special committee, headed . ,by Sen. Walter F. George OD.-Ga.) recessed its in vestigation "indefinitely" after hearing Neff. Meanwhile, Sen. .Thomas C. Hennings ( D.-Mo.) announced that he is resigning as chairman and. a member of the Senate Elections subcommitte to . clear the way for that group to make a far broader investigation or campaign contributions to all senators than , was made by the George committee. . Hennings bowed to an unwrit ten senate rule that -such inquir ies should not be conducted by members who are up for reelec tion as Hennings is this year. He said he did not agree with as sertions that he was unqualified to direct the inquiry, but is quit ting the subcommittee anyway because "I can ho longer permit my membership on the subcom mittee to serve as a refuge for those who may be adversely af fected by an investigation." . Both Neff and his attorney were . pressed by reporters io elaborate on Neff's testimony that he had(made no contribu tion to any other senator's "per sonal" campaign fund. , i Neff declined comment. Ivan Evans, his attorney, engaged in a brief but stormy exchange with newsmen which offered lit tle clarification. "We wanted to make it clear that .we had made no other con tribution to the personal cam paign funds of any senator," .Evans said. '.-' ... . - ---r r ' - - ' - A newsman immediately ask ed whether Neff had contribut ed to funds that helped elect any other senator. r "N o w wouldn't you like to know," the attorney said, walking away from the newsmen. In questioning Neff, a Lexing--ton, Neb., attorney, today, com mittee counsel Charles W. Stead man asked: "Have you at any time since October, 1955, made contribu tions to the campaign, funds of Other senators in connection with the Harris-Fulbrfght natur al gas bill?" V . " I nave made no other con tribution .to any senator's per-, sonal campaign fund," Neff re plied. - . ; ' Limited Investigation Steadman told Neff he asked the questions about other con tributions because it was "pert inent" to the four-man commit tee's inquiry. He said that if a "pattern", were , shown, . that would be of concern to the com mittee, even though the com mittee's investigation was "lim- Steadman also asked Neff several times when he was par ticularly interested in Case's at titude on the natural gas bill. Neff said he knew that the Superior Oil Co., which he rep resents, was interested in learn-" ing various senators' attitude on the measure, Neff said he decided a cam paign contribution should be made to Case after, he visited the 'senator's office here on Jan. 12. . - Nvssa (U.R) Comnlpfinn of processing of 500,000 tons of sugar beets is expected this week. ', . - ence and Asia later in the year indicated they feel secure in their jobs for the time being. But experts are fairly sure that all is not harmony in the top levels of Soviet government. Lon don sources reported Sunday that the Red Army and the Com munist Party are feuding hotly over recent criticism leveled at Army commanders by regional party meetings. Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov has retaliated with a statement condemning the criticism and calling for stronger backing of the : army. . Zhukov's strongly worded statement was viewed in London as a sign of the growing influence of the army, which has been, holding an - apparently strong sway since the fall of ex ecuted secret police chief Lav- renti B&ria in 1953.