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Q venson Turns Weather r tt Tribune EDF0KD FORECAST: Increasing cloudi ness tonight and early Friday. Considerable cloudiness and a chance of light showers Fri day afternoon. Low tonight 38; high Friday 58. Temp. Highest Yesterday 67 Lowest this Morning 39 ack on Kefauver for 51st Year 24 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1956 Price 5c No. 7 M ! alifornia Primary Vote Los Angeles (U.R) Adlai Ste venson's all-out attack on Sen. Estes Kefauver today turned the California Democratic presi dential primary into the nation's hottest political battlefront. Stevenson carried his fight for California's 68 delegates to the Democratic National Convention to both ends of the state today on the heels of his free-swinging assault on the Tennessee senator. Stevenson scheduled a news con ference this afternoon and TV and street rally appearances in Los Angeles before leaving by plane for San Francisco. Importance Underscored The importance of victory in the California primary for Ste venson's presidential hopes, hit hard by his upset loss to Kefau ver in the Minnesota primary, was underscored by his attack "Wednesday night on the senator. Stevenson charged Kefauver's campaigning tactics are hurting the Democratic Party and help ing the Republicans. He said in a local address that Kefauver falsely had pictured Stevenso.i backers in Minnesota and CiOifornia as "sinister politi cal bosses who are trying to dic tate the people's choice." "It is entirely improper for a responsible leader of the Demo cratic party to characterize other Democratic leaders as bosses for no other apparent reason than they dirt not endorse him," he said later. Kefauer's attacks, Stevenson said, are "an old device to win popular sympathy as the under dog." "More important even than this effort to injure me and win support by confusing endorse ment with dictation is that by discrediting the leaders of the Democratic Party . . . the senator and his spokesmen can only GOP Asks Court to NameMrs.Jennings A unanimous vote asking the county court to name Mrs. Elva Jennings Jackson county- asses sor was cast last night at a meet ing of the Jackson County Re publican Central committee. The court had requested that the committee recommend some one to fill the office left vacant by the death last week of Robert G. Fowler, a Republican. Mrs. Jennings, of 1026 West 10th st., has been employed in the assessor's office for 28V years and has served as chief deputy since 1951. Hers was the only application and nomination for the office presented at the meeting. It was expected that the court would make the appointment later today. The appointee will hold the post until an assessor named in the fall election takes office Jan. 1, 1957. About 46. committee members from 94 county precincts attend- ed the meeting. Candidates who have filed for the office are Andrew Hawver and Ray J. Schumacher, Demo crats, and Allen D. Curry and John H. Tizzeker, Republicans. Congressmen Prepare For Easter Holiday Washington (U.R) Congress cleaned up odds and ends today before recessing for an Easter holiday. The Senate-House Conference Committee on the farm bill con tinued trying to mould a com promise version of that legisla tion. This was the major activity of the day. Many congressmen already had left. Some merely marked time while others cleared up minor items before taking off for the holiday which ends April 9. Although things were slow to day, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas said this has not been character istic of the entire session. He said the Senate has met oftener and passed more legislation so far this year than it did in the same period last year. Talent Project, Funds Sought Washington (U.R) Rep. Harris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) sought more than $12,300,000 from the House Appropriations Commit tee yesterday for public works projects. Requests included S3,000,000 for the Talent irrigation pro ject; $2,900,000 for Hills Creek dam; $500,000 for planning Green Peter dam; $2,450,000 for Cougar dam; $370,000 for Wil lamette river bank protection and maintenance; $100,000 for weaken and divide the party and thereby help the Republicans," Stevenson said. But while the "new" Steven son was showing a willingness to club Kefauver, he was also pro fessing to be "just plain mad" about suggestions that he spend more time shaking hands and less discussing issues. Stevenson accused Kefauver of trying to "injure me." He said Kefauver did this by labeling party leaders backing Stevenson ICC Order Wouldurt Lumber Economy in State, Morse Claims By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) led off an organ ized protest by small lumber men from Oregon Thursday by telling a Senate committee that a recent freight car order of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion would "cut the economic guts but of the small lumber in dustry of my state." Morse was to be followed in testifying before an interstate commerce sub-committee by Aaron Jones and Russ Fry berg Construction of Armory Assured; Bids Are Opened Construction of the new Med ford armory is assured, it was learned here today following opening of bids for the building in Salem yesterday afternoon. S. Ferche, Roseburg, submit ted the combined low bid, but the contract may not be award ed to that firm due to techni cal deficiencies in the bid form, it was reported. McLaughlin and Wiley Co., Ashland, sub mitted the second-low bid,' and presumably will receive the contract if the Ferche offer is rejected. Referred to Bureau The bids, which were not . an nounced in Salem, have been re ferred to the National Guard bureau in Washington, D. C. for decision. But those attend ing the bid opening said the bids were in. the range which will permit the construction to proceed This is the second time bids have been made on the armory. The first time all were rejected as too high. The low combined bids were in the $385,000 to $400,000 range, with the amount of the contract to depend on a numb er of alternates which were in the bid specifications, and which will be compiled and figured by the architects and the gov ernmental organizations involv ed. The new armory, to house Medford's two National Guard companies, is a joint city-county-state-federal project, and will include features other than those of a purely military na ture. The building will be built on the fairgrounds, and will re place the old army building largely destroyed by fire several years ago. Petitions To Seek Lower Voting Age Portland (U.R) Petitions will be circulated soon for a constitutional amendment to low er the voting age in Oregon to 18. Sponsors of the move are Dem ocrat Monroe Sweetland and Re publican Mark Hatfield, both of whom are candidates for nomi nation as secretary of state. A total of 40,093 signatures is needed to get it on the Novem ber ballot. Chicago '.U.Rfc The United States faces a serious labor shortage in the next two decades and the only way to meet it is by full use of automation, Gwilym A. Price, chairman and presi dent of Westinghouse Electric Corporation said today. Savage Dam by Ellsworth Amazon creek flood control; $208,000 for Savage Rapids dam fish screens; $400,000 for Rogue, Umpqua and Coquille rivers flood control. An unstated amount for Gold Beach harbor planning; $439,000 for Charleston harbor and chan nel; $130,000 for Umpqua port maintenance; $40,000 for Ban don port maintenance; $1,200,- 000 for Coos Bay port mainten ance and $206,000 for Chetco river at the mouth. . as "sinister political bosses." But Kefauver would not reply to Stevenson's charge. He said that he did not "intend to say anything disparaging about Mr. Stevenson" and had "asked my supporters not to join in any criticism of him." Kefauver, who has just fin ished a week's tour of California campaigned in Arizona Wednes day. He scheduled stops today at Albuquerque and Santa Fe, N.M., en route back to Washington. of Eugene, Dana McBarron of Rogue River, W. O. Kelsay of Roseburg, and Leonard Netzorg, Portland counsel for the Western Forest Industries association. The hearing was called to hear witnesses on the box car short age, which Sen. Shoeppel (R Kan.), acting chairman, said "will be worse this year than last year," and also to take testi mony on a bill requested by the ICC that would empower it to impose heavy fines on railroads that delay movement of cars dur ing car shortage periods. "The ICC has a lot to answer for and the American railroads have a lot to answer for," de clared Morse. "I intend to press this matter (of the causes of the shortage) with all the power I have as a United States senator. The ICC has let the American railroads get away with eco nomic murder in my state." Morse had a breakfast confer ence with the group of Oregon lumbermen, who are scheduled to appear later in the two-day hearing. The group is interested in protesting order 910 issued last week by the ICC. Morse said he and Sen. Richard L. Neu- berger would request the ICC to withdraw the order until hear ings can be held on its effects. Circuitous Routing Target The order, explained ICC Com missioner Owen Clarke as a lead off witness, "attempts to elim inate circuitous routing of ship ments or what we consider to be a waste of car-days by a use of freight cars of warehouses." Clarke told the committee that the ICC wants greater authority to clamp down on such practices by the railroads, which it be lieves is one major reason for the shortage of cars needed by other shippers. "The ICC is just cutting the economic guts out of the small lumber industry of my state," Morse charged. "What they ought to do is go out to Oregon and put on some overalls and see what our problems are." Good Friday Services Scheduled Tomorrow Three Good Friday services, sponsored by the Medford Minis terial association, will be held tomorrow. The principal three-hour serv ice will be held at the First Methodist church, West Main and Laurel sts; between noon and 3 p.m. Two services will start at 2:15 p.m. tomorrow at the Eastwood Baptist church, Waverly st. and Ridgeway dr., and at the Church of the Nazar- ene, 520 North Holly st. Students in public schools are invited to attend services near est the school which they at tend, the Rev. Thomas McCam- ant, president of the association, said. Children will be excused from school upon presentation of a signed note from a parent or guardian. Services also will be held at St. Peter's Lutheran church, 1020 East Main st., between noon and 3 p.m. with the Rev. Kenneth Korby speaking on "The Seven Words of Christ from the Cross." Final Lenten service will start at 8 p.m. at St. Peter's Lutheran church. President Accepts McKay's Resignation Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower has accepted "with profound personal regrets" the resignation of Interior Secretary Douglas McKay. It is effective April 15. McKay is quitting the Cabinet to seek the Senate seat of Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.). The Oregon primary is May 18. Asked if the White House would wait until April 15 to an nounce a successor to McKay, Press Secretary James C. Hag- erty said he "would think so.' But then he changed his answer to say the President may "signify his intention to nominate" some one for the job. - . , Israel's Bid for American Arms Getting Attention Hammarskjold Trip Delayed by Arabs United .Nations, N.Y. flJ.R) The United States is giving urg ent attention to Israel's bid for American arms despite United Nations moves to ease the Mid dle East crisis, administration sources reported in Washington today. The Arab nations still were delaying American efforts to send Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold on a peace mis sion to Palestine, but the admin istration officials said this was not stalling U.S. action on Is rael's $64,000,000 arms request. Troops Exchange Fire The U.N. and Washington moves coincided with these Mid east developments: 1. An Israeli army spokesman said Egyptian and Israeli patrols exchanged fire for half an hour in the Israel-held Mitzana area Wednesday night. No casualties were reported. 2. Israel announced it was re turning 35 Syrian "war prison ers" today including six infiltra tors who had completed prison terms. Syria announced it was returning four Israeli soldiers and one civilian. 3. A pro-government ' Cairo newspaper said the Soviet had offered uranium to Egypt for use in an "atoms-for-peace" atomic plant in Egypt. Action Postponed Security Council action on the U. S. request was postponed at least until next Tuesday and probably later. The United States promised to make a full explanation of the purpose of the mission then although the Arabs accepted the mission "in principle." Syrian Ambassador Ahmed Shukairy, deputy director of the Arab League, told the council the American initiative in want ing Hammarskjold to investigate compliance with armistice agree ments and previous U.N. direc tives was "worthy of praise and appreciation." - - - But Shukairy made it clear the Arabs want no general re opening of the issues of the Pal estine conflict and want a full voice in framing the directives for Hammarskjold's mission. He insisted the Arabs were not in the wrong and did not fear the mission. Jaycees Designate May Safety Month May has been designated as Safety Month by the Oregon Junior Chamber of Commerce, and plans are under way to launch a state-wide safety cam paign during the month, Thomas J. Reeder, Medford attorney and state Jaycee safety chairman, has announced. Reeder said the 58 Jaycee clubs in Oregon will participate. The campaign is being con ducted to point out that observ ing safety rules will result in a reduction of needless death and injury. The Safety Month campaign will not be limited to traffic safety. Reeder said, but will in clude home and industrial safety as well. Among projects bein& planned is the annual Teen Age Roadeo contest, part of a nation-wide Jaycee project. Another is the "Lite a bumper" program, in which Jaycees will place reflec tive tape on bumpers for a small fee. A state-wide project also will be "operation safety belt" to encourage the use of the de vices by automobile drivers. In addition, local Jaycee groups throughout Oregon will initiate local programs to make the public more safety conscious. All Aboard Sunken Mexican Ship Saved Campeche, Mexico (U.R) All persons aboard a Mexican motorship which burned and sank in the Bay of Campeche off the Yucatan peninsula were reported safe today. American and Mexican Coast Guard craft sped to aid the 35 to 38 survivors of the Matul, which burned and sank yester day morning after an engine room expiosion. The last radio report from the doomed vessel said the pas sengers and crew members were taking to lifeboats and rafts. There were no .known fatalities, but two passengers were report ed slightly injured. Salem (U.R) Polk county has been recommended for des ignation as a disaster area by Gov. Elmo Smith at the request of dairy and livestock men. HERALDING IN SPRING French dancers, Groupe Folklorique Francais, of San Francisco present "La Bouree aux Batons" as part of the nation's first Spring Wine Festival at Paul Masson vineyards in California's Santa Cruz Mountains near Sara toga. The event was patterned after famous festivals of Europe with colorfully garbed Italian, Austrian, Greek, Swiss and Portugese, as well as the French, taking part. Portal to the winery behind them was recovered from the earthquake and fire ruins of St. Joseph's Church in San Jose, April 18, 1906, the same quake that destroyed San Francisco. Algeria Outlaws Targets of Bloody Fight Near Collo Algiers U.R The French Navy turned its big guns on Arab outlaws in Algeria yester day in a "triphibious invasion" that developed into one of the bloodiest battles of the hit and run guerrilla war, it was an nounced today. The six-inch guns of the crui ser Georges Leygues pounded guerrilla infested hills near Collo, 200 miles east of here and fighter planes strafed suspected outlaw hideouts while Marines swarmed, ashore from landing craft. Inland, tough Senegalese troops massed to cut off the Arab's retreat. The Collo battle accounted for 64 of the 111 persons reported killed in Algeria yesterday, four Frenchmen and at . least 60 Arabs. Another seven French soldiers were slain in a guerrilla ambush 40 miles east of Con stantine, and 40 other persons were slain in scattered clashes. French authorities identified one recent victim of Arab ban ditry as an American citizen, identified only as Ben Ali Zend jabil, who was murdered appar ently because he refused to give money to the guarrillas. Zendjabil, whose American address was unavailable in Al giers, had been living with his family here for about a year. Sanitary Problems Topic of Discussion Residents of the Grandview Kenwood district northeast of Medford are invited to attend a meeting at 8 p.m. today to dis cuss the problem of sanitation in that area. The. meeting will be in the county court room in the court house, and will be devoted to a discussion of the sanitary prob lem and possible methods of solution. Bob Hart, county sanitarian, and Ten Gerow, sanitary en gineer with the state board of health, will attend to answer questions. Additional details can be ob tained from Roy Wilkes, 1863 Crater Lake ave., telephone 3-5485. Hitchcock Challenges Sen. Morse To Debate Portland (U.R) Phil Hitch cock yesterday challenged Sen. Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) to a series of debates over 11 Oregon and southern Washington radio sta tions on March 29. Hitchcock seeks the Republi can nomination to meet Morse in the November election. Ilsworth Accuses Morqan of M Libelous Washington (U.R) Rep. Har ris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) yesterday accused Howard Morgan, Oregon Democratic chairman, of making libelous statements about him in a letter published in the Oregon Journal March 18. Ellsworth said he had no intention of pros ecuting for the alleged libel. Violation Charged . The Congresman said the Mor gan letter to the editor contained "false statements regarding my character and integrity," in vio- Funeral Services for D. LFIynn Friday Funeral services for Diamond L. Flynn, 59, who died unex pectedly of heart attack yester day morning, . will be held in Conger-Morris chapel at 1:30 p.m. Friday. The Rev. Thomas McCamant, of the Community Congregational church, will of ficiate. The Medford Elks lodge will have charge of graveside serv ices in Siskiyou Memorial park. Pallbearers will include Col. H. J. Meiring, Dwight Houghton, Dr. Lawrence Ellis, Ralph Pierce, Glenn Jackson, J. E. Jorgenson, Ernest Scott, B. L. Nutting, Roland Birkholtz, E. L. Bar tholomew, Charles . Wakefield, L. S. Ettinger, Paul Selby, Earl Miller and Robert Duff. The family of the former may or has requested that friends who . wish may make contribu tions to the heart fund in lieu of flowers. Salem (U.R) Salem's popu lation is an estimated '45,812 a gain of two per cent over last year. Misplaced Christmas Gift Fi Owner With A misplaced Christmas gift found its way back home early this week with the assistance of two post office employees, Otto DeJarnett and Rees Baugh man. On Jan. 1 Baughman found in the post office mail drop an un sealed envelope bearing only the name "Jim." Inside was five dollars and a Christmas greet ing card inscribed, "For a cam ellia for your office." It was signed, "Hilde." Put in Trust The money was put in trust for three months awaiting some one who might claim it. Then rrillas afcinq Statements lation of the criminal libel pro visions of the Oregon corrupt practices act. .Ellsworth made public in Washington a reply he said he was sending The Journal branding the Morgan statements as "falsehoods." The Roseburg lawmaker is seeking reelection. He said his letter should not be construed as a warning to the editors of the paper but was "to alert the edi tors with the hope that none of them may inadevertently publish libelous material as the cam paign grows hotter and the plight of our political opposition gets more desperate." Muzzle Said Attempted In ' Portland, Morgan charged that Ellsworth was attempting to muzzle the Oregon press. "The man knows he cannot deny his political machinations in Washington," Morgan said. "This action is a clear cut ex ample of a man in public office who is trying to silence any criti cism of his public acts." Hilt Liquor Store Robbed Yesterday Hilt Trinca Brothers' State Line gasoline station and liquor store was robbed of $150 worth of whiskey yesterday afternoon. State officers, who are investi gating the theft, said the build ing was entered through the back door while the owners were at tending a funeral in Yreka. The theft occurred between 2 and 3 p.m. The only things missing were a number of half -gallon jugs of whiskey, which are legal in Cali fornia though they are not in Oregon. The store is located one mile south of the state line. Assistance by the time came to convert the money to miscellaneous receipts. DeJarnett, assistant postmas ter, decided to do some research. He got out the city directory and the telephone book and started searching each page for a man whose first name was James; or whose first initial was J. Halway through the . H's in the phone book he found J. K. Hoey's name and the city direc tory listed Hoey's wife as Hilde garde. DeJarnett called Hoey. Sure enough, he'd been looking for the five dollars for three months. Rescuers Search For Bodies Under Tons of Rubble Grain Elevator, Silos Flattened Philadelphia (U.R) Rescue workers searched today for the bodies of three buried under tons of rubble in an explosion which rocked two square miles of West Philadel phia last night. Fire Chief William Eckles said the three men were missimr and presumed dead. Fifty-fix persons, including 11 firemen, were injured. Many Barely Escape Many of the injured said thev barely escaped flvine and stone blasted from a grain eievator ana four silos which were flattened by the blast. Anthony Karnell, manager of a restaurant in the block next to tne explosion, said glass and rubble showered over the 3n patrons in his restaurant when tne explosion occurred. "It looked like all hell was breaking loose, and-1 hollered to everybody to get out in a hurry," he said. Knocked Down Four Times Mrs. Margaret Connell, 40, said she was knocked down four times by shock waves. "The fourth time I couldn't get up. I just lay there stunned," she said. "Then a policeman was bending over, helping me up. I had no idea where he came from. I don't remember being brought to the hospital." A. P. Tallent, -Ss.'a' 'fireman for the Pennsylvania Railroad, said he saw flames shoot from the grain elevator. "It started to mushroom like an atomic bomb," he said. . For a few minutes he said he thought the explosion was an atomic blast and feared the mushrooming ball of fire would engulf him. Windows Smashed Hundreds of windows were smashed on the Drexel Institute of Technology campus, only a block from the scene, and more than a score of night school stu dents and faculty members were injured, mainly by flying glass. The thunderous explosion cav ed in part of the lobby ceiling and shattered a large plate glass window in the new $5 million. Evening Bulletin building direct ly across the street from the grain elevator.' Part of the ceil ing was knocked loose in the newspaper's fourth-floor editori al room and newsmen were thrown from their chairs by the concussion. Dozens of windows were shat tered in the Pennsylvania Sta tion. Missing Identified The three men missing in the explosion were identified as Ed ward Johnson, 26, Philadelphia, a new employee at the elevator, and Bayren Weldon and Arthur Harold, truck drivers employed by the John Reginak Trucking Co., Millville, N.J. Frank Morgan and Dominick Mallachi, employees of the Rail way Express Agency who were on -the police missing list all night, were discovered unharm ed today after they worked with company employees through the night. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 511.79 up 1.54, 20 rails 171.82 up 1.47, 15 utilities 67.39 off 0.13 and 65 stocks 181.15 up 0.70. nds Way to Post Office Hoey said he had received the money in an envelope with a Christmas card. So that the camellia funds would not be lost amid Christmas package debris, he put the envelope in an inside pocket. "Seems that a couple of. days after Christmas I shoved some letters to be mailed in my coat pocket," Hoey explained. "The five dollars and Christmas card must have gone down the mail chute with the letters." He said, "I'm not going to stop. I'm going directly to the shop and buy that camellia be fore I lose the money again." (
