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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
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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.