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 .
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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
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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. , ' .
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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
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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.