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Poke HbtKoil.' BingI Dayton Beach, Fla. (U.R) Police today expected early ar rest of leaders of a ring if "hot rodders" who touched off a wild riot which armed National Guardsmen quelled with tear gas and a show of bayonets early Sunday. Police said 46 of some 85 per sons picked up by . officers and National Guardsmen during the five-hour riot were booked on charges ranging from drunken ess to rioting but none appeared to be the ring leaders. Hundreds Escape Arrest "Hundreds of others involved in the bottle and rock throw ing, fist-fighting, window smash ing and clashes with police es caped arrest, police said. The disorders started with "scratch races" by hot-rod fans on the main street , Saturday night following the day's events staged at the National Associa tion of Stock Car Auto Racing, holding it annual "speed week" here. "We're going to make a lot more arrests during the next couple of days," a police spokes man said. "We're getting a lot more information by the hour and it appears the ring leaders are local fellows." Suspects Arraigned Arraignments were set this morning for 1J suspects book ed at the City Jail on a variety of charges and ' on Wednesday for 35 others booked at the Vol usia county jail in Deland on the uniform charge of "affray." All but two made bond here but a dozen were still held early today at Deland in lieu of bond. The suspects arrested at the scene, mostly teenagers or men in their early 20s, ranged in age from , 17 to 51, authorities said. Officials said none was connect ed with the NASCAR events. By the time Guardsmen mov ed in with fixed bayonets the mob - "estimated as - numbering CP Woman's Son Is Air Crash Survivor Word was received this morn ing by Mrs. Ray Bosworth, route 2, box 281, Central Point, that her sonl.. Claire A. P. Duitie, 38, York, Pa., is among ' three survivors of an Air Force Trans port plane that crashed last week end in high mountains north of Madrid, Spain. Colonel Duffie and two others were rescued by an Air Force helicopter Sunday and taken to the American military hospital in Madrid. Duffie received fa cial lacerations and fractured ribs and clavicle, but is in good condition, according to a tele gram received : by, Mrs. Bos worth.. The C-47 plane with six men aboard crashed on a flight from ' France to Getafe, Spain, and the wreckage was spotted by a heli copter. Two teams of Air Force paramedics dropped on the scene and spent Saturday night with the survivors. Norblad Announces East Oregon Aides Washington (U.R) Rep. Wal ter Norblad (D)re.) today an nounced the names of his cam paign managers for Eastern Ore gon in his bid for Republican nomination forfgovernor. They include: Former U. S. Representative Lowell Stockman of Pendleton, general manager; former Mayor Robert Thompson of Klamath Falls; former State Representative Alva tidodrich of Bend; ex-county GOPChairman Sam Van Vactor of The Dalles; John Kilkenny, Pendleton attor ney; Roy Kilpatrick of Canyon City; John Day, former state GOP executive board member; Martin and P. J. Gallagher,1 On tario attorneys; Charles A. Reyn olds Jr. of La Grande, insurance official and active Young Repub- lican; Vawter Parker of . Hood River, and Cecil Crisman, Wal lowa attorney. Douglas, Debbie Reynolds Picked by Harvard Lampoon Cambridge, Mass. (U.R) The Harvard Lampoon picked Kirk Douglas as the worst actor and Debbie Reynolds as the worst actress in its annual jolting of Hollywood filmdom . The Harvard comic monthly awarded a "Roscoe" to Actress Sheree North, who said she toys with Yale men as a hobby. June Allyson Gets Award Lampoo neditors awarded their first "Bosco",to June Ally son, citing the advances recent ly made in the science of geria trics." . The actress, Lampoon said, "who with eternally girlish hominess, an aura of fresh-baked deep dish apple pie mother used See Early 3,000 to 4,000 persons had caus ed an estimated $15,000 damag to police cars, parked automo biles and store fronts. Fifteen Persons Hurt Fifteen persons were injured, three of them hospitalized. : "It was a mess," Police Capt. Monthly Pension for Low Income Veterans Of War I Requested Washington (U.R) The Veter ans of Foreign Wars asked Con gress today to vote $100 a month pensions for all World War I veterans with low incomes. ' Timothy. J. Murphy, its com mander in chief, rejected gov ernment estimates that the pro posal would cost taxpayers an additional $1,900,000,000 in its first year alone. Cites Foreign Spending Urging that Congress sot be swayed . solely by economy Convicted Leader Of Communist Party Surrenders ' New York (U.R) Convicted Communist leader Gilbert Green surrendered today as he had said he would, after five years as a fugitive from a federal prison sentence. ':"' - Green had been sought by fed eral agents since July 1, 1951, when he failed to appear to begin serving a five-year sentence with others of the top 11 U. S. Com munist leaders convicted of con spiring to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the govern ment.' , ;' Decision Announced' His decision to surrender was announced in a statement re ceived by special : delivery mail by newspaper wire services last Friday morning. The statement said. Green" would give himself up at the federal courthouse here today- He did. - ; Some 500 persons were wait ing on the court house steps when Green stepped from a taxi-cab- ! ' Faces Additional Sentence Green, who faces an additional sentence for contempt of court for fleeing, told newsmen who asked him where he had been that he'd been living in "People's Town, U. S. A." ; His statement last week said he had completed a book, en titled "The -Enemy Forgotten," and sent it to a prospective pub lisher before giving himself up. Two others of the top 11 Com munists convicted in the first of a series of Smith act trials were given additional four-year sentences after fleeing and being apprehended. One is still at large. - Twelve Nations Confer On Atomic Poo! Plan Washington (U.R)- The United States, Russia and : 10 other nations were to confer to day on a charter for an agency to carry out President Eisenhow er's international , atomic pool plan. The agency, if finally set up, will coordinate work on peace ful uses of the atom. Jason Lee, Salem Demo- Files for Post Salem (U.R) Jason Lee, Salem, filed today for the Dem ocratic nomination for U. S. rep resentative from the first con gressional district. ' Lee, who had announced his intehtion"of running earlier, is opposed by Don H. Metheny Brooks, for the Democratic nomination. - Two Republicans R. . F, Cook, Silverton, and William E. Healy, Salem are in the race f or the Republican nomination. to make, and an endless supply of tears, bravely but vainly . at tempts to resist the onslaught of the advancing years." . Douglas ; "won" his accolade from Lampoon for performances in "Ulysses" ' and "The Indian Fighter," while Miss Reynolds was cited for her "work" in "Hit The Deck!" and 'Susan Slept Here." . Hard To Pick Worst Film Lampoon said it was "hard pressed" to choose the worst 10 films from , an assortment of at least 40 possibilities. The magazine singled out "Not As a Stranger" as perhaps the worst of 1955. Arrest eaders A. L. Folsom Jr. said. Folsom said the "hot-rod" fans, many of them teenagers, defied police to stop their pri vate dragraces on the streets. When a police cruiser tried to halt one race the officers were mobbed by the crowd,' he said. grounds Murphy told the House Veterans Committee: , "There are times when ' we get the distinct impression that some of our statesmen who wax enthusiasm over the use of American tax money to build hydro-electric power plants in Italy consider payment of pen sions to aged and needy Ameri cans as a hand-out."- The VFW proposed a $100 per month non-service connected pension for all low-income vet erans of World War I when they reach age 62. The pensions would be ' limited to veterans with incomes of less than $2400 if single and $3600 with de pendents. Warned on Cost The Veterans Administration and Budget Bureau have warned that the plan would cost $1,900,000,000 in its first year and might invite a new "econ omy act" like the 1933 statute that slashed . all veterans bene fits. Veterans pension and com pensation costs now run cldse to $3,000,000,000 annually. Doubt Cast on Housing Oath '.Washington (U.R) The Su preme Court cast new doubt to day on the constitutionality of a 1952 federal law . barring mem bers of subversive organizations from living in government fi nanced low rent housing pro jects. - - ' ' - For the second" time this term", the . court refused to review a lower court ruling that it is un constitutional to , require tenants of .such projects to. file oaths swearing they are not members of any organization listed as sub versive by the Justice Depart ment. 1 '. Some lower courts have up held the law, .however. The i re sult has - been widespread legal confusion,- which may continue until the high court issues a de finitive ruling. . In today's case, it simply issued a brief order up holding the finding of a Califor nia court in ; a case involving five families in Alison Village in Los Angeles. The families were given eviction notices when they refused to sign the path.- Today's ruling means they are free to continue living in the project. , Air Force Bomber Hits Barn, Killing 7 7 Aboard! . Dayton, O. (U.PJ' A four engine Air Force bomber crashed into a barn near here today kill ing 11 persons, officials at Wright Patterson Air Force Base said. Authorities said the plane struck a. barn, and set it on fire. The blaze spread to a nearby house, believed unoccupied. Officials at Wright-Patterson said there were nine servicemen and two civilians aboard the plane, a B50. "" DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York . (U.R) Dow- Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 485.00, off 0.66; 20 railroads 159.97, off 0.39; 15 ut ilities 65,32,. up 0.05, and 65 stocks 171.52, off 0.22. Sales to- day were about 2,440j000 shares compared with 2,890,000 Friday, ttUIS,ntNS ,ciE N?TRTH POLE-Soviet Arctic operations are shown in photos in U. S. Naval Aviation News made available through the Defense . Department, Cap-' ? ioL,h0t0 says. u-sed for long-distance overland routes because dog sleds cannot compete with motorized transport traveling snow and ice roads of Dickson Island off Arctic coast of USSR. Material is being unloaded from trans ports as aircraft is refueled. The magazine quoted the Russians: "We have not only planted our flag at the Pole, we've sfrqiedftere -- B - - y- WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy with rain tonight and early Tuesday. Occasional gusty southerly winds. Partly cloudy and showers through Wednesday. Low tonight 40. High Tuesday 47. . .Temp. Highest yesterday .40 Lowest this morning 34 Prec. To 4:30 a.m. today . ..04 Eisenhower Plans News Conference For Wednesday Plan for Campaign Decision Unknown Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower "in all proba bility" will hold a news con ference Wednesday, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said today. But Hagerty insisted that he "wouldn't know," whether Mr. Eisenhower plans to announce then his decision on' a second term. Hagerty also said he "cannot tell" yet what, time the news conference will be held. In the past, Mr. Eisenhower has most frequently held White House news conferences at 7:30 a.m. (PST). Wouldn't Tell Ike's Plan The press secretary declined to say whether Mr. Eisenhow er's announcement will be made after the afternoon closing of the New York stock market to minimize its effect on market prices. "Do you know, the Presi dent's intentions?"; he was asked. Asked if the White House had requested radio or television time for the President this week Hagerty answered with a flat "No." Mr. Eisenhower has said that he expected to make his decision by the end of this month, and that he was inclined to announce it at a news conference. Wed nesday is Feb. 29, th" last day of the montlj. . . Belief that Mr. Eisenhower will say "yes" has been strong in Republican circles in the past few days. , . . ' .-" , But Mr. Eisenhower himself has offered no public clues since he returned from his "11 day vacation in South Georgia, where he tested his physical strength with : fairly strenuous golfing and hunting. . ' .' ' ; - Some sources close to Mr. Eisenhower looked for - a "yes, but.. .V- " answer. -- Central Point Youth Hurl iii Auto Mishap Jerry Michaels, 14, of route 2, box 107, Central Point, received critical . head injuries . and two other teenagers were in. Com munity hospital today , as the re sult of an auto accident late Sat urday night at the intersection of Spring st. and Pierce rd. - Lajuariia. Sue Leedy, 13, of route 2, box 87, Central Point, had rib injuries, and James'Wil lie Crawford, 13, of route 2, box 105, Central Point, suffered a fractured arm. They ' were re ported in good condition this morning by hospital attendants. Troy Crawford, 18, with the U.S. Coast Guard in San Fran cisco, driver of the car, received only minor injuries. He was cit ed by state police for driving with no operator's license. He told police he was travel ing north on Pierce rd. wnen he lost control Of the car on a sharp turn. The vehitle skidded and rolled over several times. Michaels' arm was pinned under the car until he was released by police officers. Mrs. Ida B. George Files for Ashland JP ".. Mrs. Ida B. George, 968 Gar den way, Ashland, filed her. can didacy Saturday -for the non partisan office of justice of peace for the Ashland district. She will oppose Nelle Burns, incumbent, . Mrs. George has been a resi dent of Ashland for about seven years and has two children. Her husband, Leslie, is affiliated , with Hassells Inc., a firm manu facturing logging truck stakes. Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 14 Pages mm Irraf I LETTING THE ICE GO THROUGH Upstream from Paris on the Marne River which joins the Seine close to the French capital, river engineers are lowering removable portions of the Saint Maurice Dam to allow ice to flow downstream. Should too much ice collect, there would he a serious risk of floods when tie thaw comes. Europe's death toll is-more than 800 as a result of the cold wave. R3cKay, Bworshak Clash Over long-Eiaifge Minerals Policy Washington U.R) Interior Secretary Douglas McKay clashed with a Republican sen ator today over mineral policy and finally snapped: "You're wasting my time." ' Sen. Henry C. Dworshak (It Ida, protested at a Senate Ap propriations Subcommittee hearr ing that the. 'department's Office7 of -Minerals" Mcibilizatidn'' hasAo long range r national minerals policy.1 McKay Doesn't Agree ; McKay: replied that he was no - expert and -' .the question should be' answered later by As sistant Secretary Felix E. Worm ser. .. "You're making : a mountain out of a molehill," McKay told Dworshak. "I don't agree with you that there is no long range planning." Dworshak persisted that Mc- West Coast Plane Overshoots Airport Pullman,' Wash. (U.R). - A West, Coast Airlines DC3 over shot the airport while landing here last night and "mushed in" on a' plowed field a mile east of the runway. ' Four of the 15 persons aboard suffered minor injuries. The plane, approaching t h e airport in a blinding snowstorm, landed on Merrill Boyd's farm, skidded up a snow-covered slope for about 75 yards and then skidded" sideways to a stop. Its landing gear- came up through one wing and a wheel was torn off. Boyd said the , first " he knew of the crash was when the pilot, A. H. Whithed, Boise Ida., and a : passenger, Dr. D. M. .Loehr, Moscow, Ida., walked up to his house.. . ' New York U.R Handy and Harman, bullion dealers, have reduced the price of silver cent to 90 cents a fine once, the first price cut in oyer v a month. , ' . ''j'c , il MEDFORD, OREGON, MC Kay should answer since he is secretary of interior. . "Wormser .will straighten it out," McKay replied. "You're wasting my time." ' "You're wasting , the time of Congress , unless you come up with the . answer," '. Dworshak said. .- , ' ;. r . T?he.sena.toE.:Said President JEi-j senhower-told' Congress in veto ing a minerals bill last year that OMM had been- set up to formu late a long range policy. But he said Spencer S. Shannon, OMM director, claimed in ' a speech last-week ;that.his agency had no such responsibility and was only Pacific Storm Front Heads Toward Oregon Portland , (U.R) A new Pacific . storm front centered about 900 miles off the Wash ington coast ' headed rapidly to wards Oregon today, with rain and high winds expected by evening. . ' The i weather bureau said the front was stronger than one which passed through Portland late yesterday;. Wind velocities of 30 to 45 miles per hour were expected off the northern Ore gon and Washington coasts and stronger winds were . expected south of the: storm;; center over the southern Oregon and north ern California coasts. Gust y winds were expected through out western Oregon.:.!., V . y General precipitation was re ported in the Northwest yester day with half an inch at Brook ings the most reported in Ore gon. ; , Gonzaga Foursome Wins Music Honors Forest Grove (U.R) A four some from Gonzaga University took top. honors in the "battle of the ballads", here-Saturday night I as Forest : Grove wound up its annual week-long gay nineties celebration and barber shop quartet competition. . t The "G-Men"' harmonized their way to ; top honors in the fea tured event of the festival pro gram ; while second ' place went to the Kord Kings from College of Puget ? Sound at Tacoma, Wash. .' , , . 5 'Match Guns' At Portland Portland (U.R) Children playing with ; "match f guns" were blamed today for causing a $25,000 fire at a new primary school building, one of two cost ly blazes here yesterday. -Hotel Building Damaged Another fire caused an esti mated $13,000 damage to a con demned hotel building. , Consid erable water damage resulted to a book store and a bicycle shop on the street floor Cause of the blazer was, unknown. . : , In a third ' fire ' call, . firemen sped : to St Vincent's hospital n rv en H Tribune Q H United Press Full Leased Wire 8 .Y 27, 1956 Price 5c No. 290 ' ... . .... .... 1 ? . Z- required to plan for mobiliza tion. . McKay asked the subcommit tee to restore an $18,800,000 cut in Interior funds voted by the House. The budget asked for $296,488,600, exclusive of power generating and transmitting funds. Broken Gas line Starts Five Fires West Los Angeles (U.R) Four houses and one' industrial plant erupted in flames today when a pipeline carrying highly vola tile gasoline was accidentally broken, -touching off lines Uke a firecracker series along a two mile stretch of boulevard. Ambulances were seen leaving tne scene shortly after the first of a series of explosions leveled a one-bedroom home, leaving it a ; mass of flames with only a bathtub remaining. First reports did not indicate the extent of casualties. , Three other homes then caught fire as the gasoline, which has a rapid evaporation rate, flowed in' liquid and then in fume state along surface and underground routes. : ' ; . ; . A warehouse fronting on the demolished , structure became - a shambles of burning timber and collapsing walls. . . The - break occurred in the vicinity of Sunset blvd. west of Sepulveda blvd., and extended south to between Olympic and Pico'blvds. ; County Planners Slate First Meeting Tonight ' The first : regular meeting of the recently -formed Jackson county planning commission will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in the courthouse,, according to Presi dent John Pletsch. - ' Besides Pletsch, members are Edwin W. Gebhard, Central Point; Edward S. Strother, Shady Cove; Stuart V. McQueen, Med ford; John Niedermeyer, Jack sonville; Lloyd Selby, Ashland; Edward F; Bolt, Gold Hill; Don B.1 Whalin, Medford, and David B. Lowry, Phoenix. , l .The commission will form policies and discuss procedures, Pletsch" said. Blamed for $25,000 Fire Elementary School Building yesterday evening only to find that a young boy had set off a false alarm in the hospital cafe teria; - The school fire caused heavy damage to, the new , $185,OO0r Rose City Park primary school which had been scheduled to open in a few weeks. Flaming Matches Blamed V Battalion Chief William Hicks said evidence showed that flam ing matches had been fired into a number of rooms. In one room a . bucket of paint was touched off. II Defense Minister Named To Ruling Central Presidium Faith Reaffirmed v In Khrushchev Moscow (U.R) The Soviet Communist party promoted De fense Minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov to alternate membership on its ruling Central Committee Presidium today. The group also affirmed its faith in- Nikita S. Khrushchev by reelecting him first secretary, the top position of party power in the Soviet Union. , Bulganin Reelected The Central Committee's Pre sidium, its executive committee, totals 11 men. All of the previ ous 11 presidium members were reelected including Premier Nik olai Bulganin, Khrushchev and former Premier George Malen kov. The promotion of Zhukov, a friend of President Eisenhower and one of the Soviet's top com manders in World War II, was another step in the greater pow er and stronger voice that pro fessional military men gained in Communist inner councils at the recently concluded party congress. -One of Last Acts The business of reelecting the group which will run the Com munist party of the Soviet Union until 1960 was one of the last acts in connection with the re cently ended 20th party congress. Delegates to the congress were on their way home after 12 days of meetings which saw a new doctrine established for world Communism, v . Led by Khrushchev and bul ganin, the congress demolished the cult of one-man rule and firmly established the idea of collectiyeleadership. It extended the 'hand"of .friendship to .West ern' and "neutralist nations, as well as 5 to those of the East. It declared that war between Communism and capitalism was not inevitable. It approved - a sixth five-year plan for economic development of the Soviet Union. Jackson, Josephine In Disaster Areas Salem (U.R) President Ei senhower informed Gov. Elmo Smith today that he had amend ed his Dec. 29 declaration of major disaster areas to include additional ' damage caused by current floods in Jackson and Josephine counties. ' Gov. Smith had wired the President Friday requesting ad ditional federal assistance up to $280,000 for relief for damage to public property hi the Medford and Grants Pass areas. "I hope that the people of Ore gon affected by these floods 'will soon have relief from such re peated distress," the President wired. Oregon Traffic Mishaps Fatal To Two Persons By UNITED PRESS ' Two persons ; were killed in Oregon traffic mishaps during the week end. O Eugene Mayfield, 41-year-old Klamath Falls millworker, was killed Saturday morning when his car skidded into the path of a truck on Highway 97 just south of Klamath Falls. . Roy "Francisco, 28, Portland, was killed in a collision late Fri day night on the Broadway bridge, Portland's 12th traffic death of the year. ; Portland -(U.R) The city council has -approved a vote in the May, 18 primary election on a measure to provide $900,000 for ; wage increases to city em ployees. Two boys were seen in the area earlier firing home-built match guns at passing cars, fire men said. A match gun, made from a clothespin, was found near the school. Holes had been punched in several windows. Matches Found on Floors Dozens of matches were found on the floors of the school around broken windows and nine boxes of . kitchen type matches -were discovered, all empty. ; ' -:-"--'''', Remains of a small bonfire along the rear of the building also were found.
