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ET3 FPti 0 Q nff" ridey Murphy' oes in Hiding To Avoid Excitement (Editor's Note: Following it the first of two dispatches on the wave of in terest in hypnsis and reincarnation that has risen since publication of "The Search For Bridey Murphy." A second dispatch will report on an ex periment in hypnotic ase regression similar to the one that produced the Bridey Murphy phenomenon.) Pueblo, Colo. (U.R) Bridey Murphy is out of touch. Mrs. Virginia Tighe, 33, the Pueblo housewife who serves as Bridey's mouthpiece during ses sions of deep hypnosis, has gone into hiding until the excitement dies down. "The whole affair has wreck ed our family life," her husband told the United Press. Mrs. Tighe left town last week end to get away from the tele phone calls and knocks at the door that have made life miser able since vrd got out that she is the "Ruth Simmons" of the best-selling book "The Search for gridey Murphy." Coasl-to-Coast Fad The book, which has gone through . 10 printings totaling more than 200.000 copies and hag) been serialized in newspa pers in 50 cities, has started a coast-to-coast fad. Hypnotists, amateur and pro fessional, hn hardly rest. Peo ple are pestering them to be "taken back" to their previous existence. Men and women who a few months ago would have pooh poohed any talk of reincarna tion are having a second thought. Could it be true after all that the spirit passes from one body to another? Can a previous life be recalled in a deep hypnotic trance? The fad is taken seriously by some, by others as a joke. A 19-year-old boy in Oklahoma killed himself to find out for sure if he would be reborn. In Denver, invitations to a costume party were inscribed "come as you were." The wags talk of a new "TV program, ' "This . Was ! Your Life." Difference of Opinion Some dismiss Bridey Murphy as a deliberate hoax. Others, in cluding many hypnotists who Ijjive had the same experience with their subjects, believe the "previous existence" recalled by Mrs. Tighe is the work of her imagination or perhaps the mem ory of a book she once read or of stories told to her in child hood. In Pueblo, the Tighes are in terested in only one previous life their own, the quiet one they enjoyed before Mrs. Tighe went through a series of age regression experiments with a farm equipment dealer and ama teur hypnotist named Morey Bernstein. Under deep hypnosis Mrs. Tighe recalled events in her life dating back to the time she was one year old and then, asked to remember even farther back, began telling of life as "Bridey Murphy" in Ireland more than 100 years ago. In his book Bernstein quoted the hypnotic interviews with Bridey and told of ' efforts he made to prove or disprove that such a woman actually lived between 1798 and 1864 in Coun ty Cork. He disguised Mrs Tighe as "Ruth Simmons" in his book but her identity became well kpown around Pueblo. Many Telephone Calls Tighe had his home telephone disconnected after so many peo pie called asking if they could talk to Bridey Murphy. Dozens of calls came from reporters all over America and in "a lot of foreign countries," Tighe dis closed. "Frankly," he said, "we both wish we'd never heard of Bridey Murphy." In New York, the publishers Ike Braves Cold for Round While Waiting Arrival of "White Sulohur Springs, W. Va. (U.R) President Eisenhower plowed doggedly through inter mittent icy rain in a round of golf today while awaiting the start of his meeting with the Preside! t of Mexico and Can ada's Prime Minister. Cold Rain Pelts Group It was a nice cool day shortly after the President arrived from Washington aboard his special, 14-car train. But bad weather set in. Gusts of cold rain pelted the President's foursome for the first three1 holes, but then the sun came out again. The weather would have driven manv golfers from the 6368-yard Old White course. But it did" not deter Mr. Eisenhower. of Bernstein's book are quite happy they heard of her. Double day & Co. had expected the usual rather limited response to a book about hypnotism. The first big demand came from California, and its popularity spread more or less eastward across the country. Bernstein has sold movie rights on his book for S50.000, but has turned down all offers to go on radio and television. Lately he has made himself scarce, and was last reported in Cuba, vacationing. One of Oldest Errors The Bridey Murphy debate ranges into philosophy and theol ogy. The Rev. Pascal P. Parente of the Catholic University of America has reminded Catholics that belief in metempsychosis or the transmigratior of souls is "one of the oldest errors in re ligion and philosophy" and has been condemned by the Roman Catholic church. Dr. J. B. Rhine, the noted parapsychologist at Duke Univer sity, believes the Bridey Murphy craze signifies a desire of the American people to know more about man's spiritual nature and destiny. (Tomorrow: A reporter tries an experiment.) Talent Marshal's Resignation Asked By City Council Talent A Talent city council meeting will be held Friday at 8 p.m. to consider hiring a new city marshal and hear citizens' complaints concerning last week's firing of Talent City Marshal John Baldwin. Baldwin was fired by the city council at a special meeting Monday night at the home of Mayor Keith Thoreson after his dismissal was recommended by the mayor and unanimously up held by the council. The marshal was then given until April 1 to submit his resig nation, after the council's first recommendation that he be dis missed April 1. Mayor Thoreson said many complaints had been made about the marshal for the past year and one half, but that the final "blow" came at a recent house fire when it was demonstrated that Baldwin did not know how to hook up the fire equipment. Thoreson indicated that al though there has been some agi tation for a public hearing, the city charter makes no provision for such a hearing. . Baldwin was hired about two years ago, according to Thore son and at that time was told that 25 per cent of his duties would be police work, but the remainder would consist of maintenance and other labor needed by the town. Flood Control Meeting Slated Here Tomorrow A meeting of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Re sources association will be held in the auditorium of the Jack son county courthouse tomor row. March 27, at 8 p.m. The group, which was formed following floods that did damage estimated in millions of dollars in the Rogue basin last Decem ber, will meet to discuss progress made toward gaining flood con trol and planned action. Rep resentatives of the fish and wild life service and representatives from Gold Beach will be present at the meeting. The President's doctor. Mai. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, trailed the players. He was un concerned as long as the weather got no worse. Plays With Sammy Snead ' The President and Slammin' Sammy Snead, the White Sul phur Springs pro, played part ners against Bernard Shanley, the White House appointment secretary, and Press Secretary James C. Hagerty. President Adolfo Ruiz Cor tines of Mexico and Prime Min ister Louis St. Laurent of Can ada will fly in later today. After breakfast aboard his train, Mr. Eisenhower motored the short distance to the luxur ious Greenbrier hotel where the celebrated 16-room presidential Baldock Approves Major Portion of Thru-Street Plan Recommends 11th St. Extend to Riverside Further recommendations for Medford's proposed t h r o u g fa street program .have been re ceived from Jl. H. Baldock, state highway engineer. Correspondence has been car ried on between the city and Baldock's office concerning the 10-year through-street program which was presented to the city council Feb. 7. The plan was an alternate to a 25-year state high way commission plan and called for expenditures totaling $1, 656,100 over 10 years, with some 10 per cent of the project completed each year. The highway commission's program, submitted in Septem ber, 1954, would have cost the city 34,130,000. Cost to City Reduced ' The revised plan, prepared by Vernon Thorpe, Medford traffic engineer, contained a number of proposals reducing the' cost to the city and, in general, re-evaluating the proposed through street program. In a letter received here last week Baldock complimented Thorpe and his staff for "a very practical approach in a re-evaluation." He noted the principal changes in the city's recommendations as against those in the original re port treat "primarily with the prohibition of parking during peak hours of traffic flow to ob tain additional street capacity, rather than to widen the streets to accomplish this same end re sult." Eliminates Hazards "This is an excellent method and eliminates the hazards caused by parking maneuvers," Baldock wrote. Baldock recommended extend ing 11th st. from Central ave. to Riverside ave., to avoid a "rather serious bottleneck and inconvenience." He also said, "If the city feels that they can, through enforce ment, control double parking and standing vehicles on a 40 foot street, such as would be the- case between Oakdale-and Riverside aves., if no widening is undertaken on Eighth st., then I think it could operate satifactorily." Baldock said he would pre sent the matter to the state high way commission "for its con sideration to determine if it can participate with the city in the project" when the city is ready to proceed with the Main st. Eighth st. couplet. Second County Budget Hearing Tomorrow Second in a series of hearings on the 1956-57 Jackson county budget will begin In the county court room at 9 a.m. Tuesday. It will be an all-day session, Coun ty Judge Rodney Keating report ed today. Heads of county departments will appear before the budget committee to present and ex plain their budget requests. Anyone interested in meeting with the budget committee may do so, but should call the coun ty court for an appointment, Judge Keating said. Loco Doctor Claims Salesman Is Fraudulent Investigations by a Medford doctor indicate that a man posing as a uniform salesman has been taking unauthorized orders here for medical uniforms, city police were told over the week end. The physician reported to po lice that he had called the com pany allegedly represented by the man and also had checked his address given in Sacramento, Calif., and both reports indicated that the man is not a bona fide representative of the company. The doctor said he had warn ed others in the profession. of Golf Officials suite has been reserved for hi use during the three-day confer ence. A crowd of several hun dred persons braved the chill early morning weather to cheer him along the route. -Solidarity Meeting The setting for the conference was the plush hotel, located high in the Allegheny mountains at one of the nation's oldest health and pleasure resorts. The conference between the U. S., Mexican and Canadian leaders was billed as a "hemis pheric solidarity" meeting. It will be informal, with no set agenda and with no particular controversies to be ironed out between the three "good neighbors." M EDF0RD 51st Year 16 Pages Welder's Spark Blamed; Algeria Receives Troops Pro-West Moderates Score Election Victory Algiers (U.R) A huge acci dental fire, at first believed started by Algerian extremists, destroyed part of a French Army gasoline depot in the city of Tlemcen today. The fire started while top French military commanders met to map anti-rebel strategy. It led to reports that Algerian rebels had staged their first major outrage against French authorities in several days. Sparks From Torch Blamed However, despite columns of smoke which rose hundreds of feet into the air over the city of 50,000 near the Moroccan border, only a part of the gaso line stocks were damaged. Offi cials said the blaze was caused by sparks from a welder's torch which ignited fumes. The city of Tlemcen is 70 miles southwest of the big port of Oran and near the mountainous border region where rebels have been active in their campaign for full independence from France. It was occupied by France in 1842 but has remained largely Moslem. Meanwhile, massive troop re-, inforcements poured into Algeria by plane and ship and there were indications the policy of strength and developments in Morocco and Tunisia were aiding the French position. Pro -Western moderates in Tunisia won a smashing victory Sunday over extremists in that country's first free elections while Communists and other groups received only minor sup port. Rebels Await Call In Morocco rebels who only a few days ago were fighting the French have come down from the hills to await being called to the colors of the new National Moroccan Army. The North African develop ments faced French Premier Guy Mollet with another diffi cult week. He must make deci sions which could alter France's military role in the North Atlan tic Treaty Alliance. He meets tomorrow with his cabinet on the Algerian situa tion. He must decide how many more troops he can send to Al geria and whether this will weaken France badly in its West European alliances. Oregon Traffic Takes Five Lives By UNITED PRESS At least five persons were killed in Oregon traffic acci dents during the week end. Mrs. Martha Garland, 46, Stayton, was killed in a three car accident about four miles north of Cottage Grove yester day. Eight other persons, includ ing Mrs. Garland's husband, Kenneth, and four sons, were in jured. Also hurt were Gunder Wilcox, and his mother, Flora, 62, both of Los Angeles, and Harold Mattie, 53, Creswell. Christian Peter O'Loughlin, 38, Superior, Mont., was killed late Saturday in another three car accident near Drain, about 20 miles south of Cottage Grove. State police said his car crashed into a creamery truck and then struck another vehicle. Neither Don Brady, Eugene, driver of the truck, nor Betty Bigelow, Coos Bay, operator of the other car, was hurt. Milton R. Myers, 23, Lake view, was killed Saturday night six miles south of Lakeview in a one-car accident when his veh icle flipped end-over-end into a ditch. Killer in a two-car collision near Klamath Falls Saturday morning were Everett Damon Osborn; 22, and Robert . McKin ley, 31, of Klamath Falls. New York (U.R) Zsa Zsa Gabor has arrived here to attend the wedding of her sister, Mogda, Huge IF Of Free MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1956 ire Destroys WELL BLOW ME DOWN! Sunny, the water-skiing elephant, skims over the water at Sunshine Springs off Sarasota, Fla. as he performs his specialty flanked by lovelies Barbara Laney (left) and Joan Dampier. The 1300-pound baby pachyderm was trained for the act by the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus at their winter quarters at Sunshine Springs. Egyptian Premier Accused as Top Trouble Maker London (U.R) Britain today branded Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser the No. 1 trouble maker in the Middle East. The first accusation came Sim- day when the Foreign Office pub licly rebuked Nasser for his policies and propaganda against Britain and its allies. Today the British press ac cused Nasser of trying to stir up Saudi Arabia and Yemen against Britain in its oil-rich protector ates in the Middle East. Undiplomatic Step The . Foreign Office blast against Nasser a rare and un diplomatic step apparently signaled a sharp hardening of the British attitude toward Arab challenges in the Middle East. It came as the United Nations Security Council planned to take up an American proposal for "urgent and early" action in the Mideast," probably by sending Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold on a peace mission to the dangerously tense area. No Room for Hate The Foreign Office took note of Nasser interviews in two Sun day London newspapers in which he said there was no room for hate between Egypt and Brit ain.. The Foreign Office replied that so long as Egypt's "actions and propaganda directed against Britain" and its allies continue, "it is difficult to see how there can be hope for improvement in Anglo-Egyptian relations . . ." United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) The Arab states were reported seeking today to postpone the United States' move for "urgent and early" Security Council in tervention in the Middle East. The Security Council called a meeting for 3 p.m. (EST) today to consider the American move which was expected to result in a peace-making trip to the Mid East by U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Dispatches from the Middle East hinted that the Arab states would seek some means of de laying the action and an uncon firmed report from Damascus said the Soviet Union would support them. Auto Accident Victim Condition Still Serious Jose Chacon, 24, of route 1, box 413, Ashland, is reported still in serious condition at Sacred Heart hospital today where he was taken Saturday evening after he had suffered injuries when his car went over an embankment. The accident occurred about two miles north of the Siskiyou summit, according- to a state police report. Chacon received back and head injuries. osoiDinie Huge LA. Dope Raid Nets 149 Suspected Peddlers, Big Stock Los Angeles U.R) A giant narcotics raid that netted ' 149 suspected peddlers and $500,000 worth of narcotics was described by federal officers today as pos sibly the largesbin the nation's history. Among those arrested was Billy Anderson, 28, son of radio and television comedian Eddie (Rochester) Anderson. Anderson, former star athlete at Compton, Calif., college, was arrested at Beverly Hills. Officers said un der coyer agents had purchased two cans of marijuana from An derson about three weeks ago. On Five Years Probation The comic's son said he was given a two-year suspended jail sentence in Louisville, Ky., in 1952 on a charge of "transfer ring marijuana" and placed on five year's probation. Another suspected violator nabbed in the 48-hour raids was former bantamweight boxer Keeny Teran, labeled by raid leaders as the biggest catch and "biggest dealer in town." Teran, held in lieu of ' bail, charged he was the victim of a "frameup." - Teran, of Los Angeles, said he sold powdered sugar to the officers as a "gag." Bail bondsman Milton T. Sha fer, 61, another suspect, previ ously had been convicted of re ceiving and possessing narcotics. Federal, state, city and county law enforcement officers staged the raid on peddlers' haunts in the sprawling Los Angeles area this week-end. Twelve women and a teen-age girl were among those nabbed. Officers Split Into Teams More than 200 officers were split into four and five-man Bulletin ! Portland (U.R) Federal Judge Gus Solomon today denied a motion for dismissal of an indictment against Hugh D'Autremont who is serving a life term in the state prison for murder in connection with the 1923 dynamiting of a Southern Pacific passenger train near Ashland. The indictment charges D'Autremont with assault of a mail clerk in the same mail train robbery. Judge Solomon offered him "the earliest trial you want." D'Autremont'i attorney, Phil lip J. Roth, said he would dis cuss the matter with his client before deciding whether to ac cept the trial invitation. D'Autremont claimed in his motion he had been denied the trial for almost 30 years. His brothers, Ray and Roy, also were convicted in the train dynamiting. k Tribune Price 5c No. 4 PeiDot teams to hit cheap cafes, bars, alleyways, dark doorways, etc. The showup of suspects yester day lasted more than two hours. Teran was once known as the "comeback kid" because of his "victory" over narcotics. Off cers said he was carrying two ounces of pure heroin, worth about $10,000, when taken into custody. George D. Davis, head of the Federal Narcotics bureau here, said he didn't know of a larger roundup in the United States in the past. The crackdown came after months of planning and investi gation. Disarmament Talks In Decisive Phase London U.R) The United Nations five-power disarmament conference entered a second and perhaps decisive phase today. Optimism was still high. The Soviet Union was expect ed to submit its own disarma ment proposals during the week as a counter-proposal to an American and an Anglo-French plan. Informed sources said Russia would press for a firm commit ment to ban production and use of atomic weapons now before considering the Western plans. . But at start of today's meeting allied officials expressed belief the presence here of Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko for Russia mean the Rus sians were willing to talk busi ness. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 512.42, off 0.61; 20 rail roads 171.45, off 0.30; 15 util ities 67.32, unchanged, and 65 stocks 181.12, off 0.29. Sales to day were about 2,720,000 shares compared with 2,980,000 Friday. Port Soviet Revolution Begun, Former Officer Declares Washineton U.R) A former Soviet intelligence officer said today "the revolution of the Russian people against the So viet system has begun." Nikolai E. Khohklov, a Rus sian intelligence officer for 13 years who left Russia two years ago, said the attack on former Premier Josef Stalin means that Communist party leaders "are trying desperately to shift the blame for the intolerable condi tions off their own shoulders." "The people of the Soviet Union, sooner or later . . . are Florida Vacation Plans Changed To 'Slop Kefauverf Reports of Backers Apparently Reason Chicago (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson gave up a Florida vacation and prepared today for a flying "stop Kefauver" trip to California. Stevenson made his sudden change in plans at an emer gency meeting at his Chicago headquarters Sunday. He ex pects to leave Wednesday and final details of his California swing will be hammered out at a staff meeting today. To Work Harder Than Ever An aide said Stevenson will probably stop at San Francisco and Los Angeles in an attempt to head off any mounting popu larity for Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.). Stevenson announced he will "work harder than ever" to gain the Democratic presiden tial nomination after Kefauver whipped him in last week's Min nesota presidential primary. However, he had hoped to rest up this week in Florida with the second eldest of his three sons, John Fell Stevenson. The youth, a Harvard university student, was seriously hurt in a recent auto crash. Stevenson apparently called off his vacation plans on the basis of reports from his back ers in California. The two candidates are match ed in California's June 5 presi idential primary and Kefauver numea to the state immediately xoiiowing ftis Minnesota victory. ne nas been campaigning at an 18-hour-a-day clip and his followers have been predicting another primary victorv. desnite Stevenson's strong organization backing. Stevenson has already made one campaign swing through California and this week's tour is expected to last only two days. He will probably meet with key backers and make some public appearances, his aides said. Plans Given for Medford Armory Six constructior firms have obtained plans and specifications for construction of the Medford armory and may enter bids, ac cording to the Daily Journal of Commerce, Portland. Bids will, be opened at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 28, in the National Guard office in Salem. The $348,000 structure will be erected on a site at the county fairgrounds south of Med ford. It is a joint project, with the city, county, state and fed eral governments participating in financing the building. The new armory will replace the present structure on Jackson st., which was largely, destroyed by fire several years ago. The firms holding plans are Donald M. Drake Co., Portland; S. Ferche, Roseburg; Bessonette & Graff, Medford; H. G. Carl Construction Co., Salem; William E. Brooks and Myers D. Jones, Medford, and McLaughlin & Wiley Co., Ashland. McKav's Resignation Said Expected Today Washington (U.R) Interior Secretary Douglas McKay plan ned to hand in his formal resig nation at the White House today. McKay said he would present his resignation, even though President Eisenhower is 'out of town. He declined to - say the exact date the resignation would become . effective but said - he hopes to leave his cabinet post about April 15. Weather FORECAST: Showers of rain ' mixed with snow this after noon. Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight, 30; high Tuesday, 58. Temp. Highest yesterday 63 Lowest this morning 31 going to rise up and free them selves from Communist rule," he said. "The revolution has al ready begun." "A revolution does not always consist of an armed uprising," he said. "Sometimes it begins with a growth of quiet resist ance that causes a kind of gov ernmental paralysis, a disinte gration of the state system." The former Russian officer also said "the possibility of the Soviets starting a shooting war iB now out of the question."
