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Fan SSI Medford 51st Year 18 Pages 'Many Israelis' Declared Killed In New Encounter Israel Complains To United Nations Jerusalem (Israeli Sector) (U.R) Egyptian military authori ties announced today in Cairo that "many Israelis" were killed and wounded in u new clash near the Gaza Strip truce line. Four days of fighting in the Gaza area last week already had brought, the Middle East closer to all out war. More than 60 persons were killed in those clashes. The Egyptian announcement today gave few details. It said two Egyptian soldiers were wounded in the new encounter and that "many Israelis" were killed and wounded. Israel complained to the Unit ed Nations only hours before that Egyptian suicide squads struck throughout Israel early today in a series of terror raids Israel condemned the raids as "acts of aggression." Demands Immediate Halt Israeli reports said one Egyp tian was killed and another wounded today in an exchange of fire with an Israeli army patrol. The Egyptians were be lieved members of a commando group operating across the border., s Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, U.N. truce supervisor, sent word Sun day night to Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser demanding an unconditional and immediate halt to the commando raids. Oth erwise he said Egypt risked be ing branded an "aggressor." Ultimatum Report Denied Joseph Tekoa, Israeli Foreign Office spokesman, denied reports Israel had served a 48-hour ulti matum on Nasser threatening re taliation unless the commando operations were stopped. The Cairo military spokesman said an Israeli motorized patrol crossed the truce demarcation line in the Deirelbalah region south of Gaza shortly after mid night and tried to penetrate deep into Egyptian territory. Voter Registrations Now Total 26,435 A total of 26,435 Jackson coun ty residents have registered to vote in the May primary elec tion, according to records in the county clerk's office. Republican registrations to tal 14.542, Democrats 11,367 and miscellaneous 526. A total of 316 voters register ed "between April 3 and April 6, election officials said. Republi cans registering totaled 144, De mocrats 175 and miscellaneous 3. Deadline for registrations is April 17. More than 32,000 vot ers were registered for the 1952 elections in the county. Eugene Hotel Gyms 200; Five Suffer Injuries Eugene li.R A fire in the Eugene hotel here early yester day resulted in minor injury to five persons and forced 200 guests to flee to the street while firemen battled the blaze on the building's upper floors. All five of the injured were reported to have suffered only minor burns and shock. The blaze was believed to have started in a mattress that had been left near the elevator shaft on the sixth floor. Fire of ficials theorized the fire started in the mattress from a dropped cigarette. Damage Confined Firemen fought the flames for 30 minutes before they were brought under control. Damage was confined to the sixth and seventh floors of the hotel and jwas estimated at S25.000. Firemen evacuated at least a dozen persons from the upper floors with ladders and led doz ens of others out of the smoke filled sixth and seventh floors. The fire was first discovered by an unidentified guest who turned in, the alarm to the desk clerk. Another guest, Victor Isaacson, of Las Vegas, Nev., was credited with saving the life of one woman and averting a panic on the sixth floor of the building MEDFORD, Or sv . o -Beirut y """ HMfAJ& Galilee ..m-Ei auja mm mm, n mr- ' ' :f ' ' :' ' :':;:5: EGYPT MANY CASUALTIES are reported in bloody Gaza strip where Egyptian and Israeli forces have been fighting intermittently for several days. (lnternatioifalSov.ndph.oto) Bengtson Withdraws From Judge Election Attorney O. H. Bengtson to day announced his withdrawal as a candidate for the non-partisan office of district judge. He and the incumbent, Rawles Moore, are the only candidates for the office. Although his withdrawal is almost a month past the March 12 deadline for quitting the race, Bengtson requested County Clerk Bereth Hopkins to omit his name from the primary elec tion ballot. But the clerk's office said that it is too late to do so, under Oregon election laws. ,t Urge Moore Vote In this event, Bengtson said, he would urge his supporters to vote for Judge Moore. In a letter to Mrs. Hopkins, Bengtson said he was withdraw ing because, "From a press re lease published Friday, I learned that the Central Labor Council of Jackson county had gone on record endorsing the Honorable Rawles Moore. Therefore, it would appear that I do not have the 100 per cent support of labor that I had expected and I would necessarily have to carry on a very extensive campaign to re ceive the nomination." He also stated, "Many of my friends and supporters have been surprised that I would forsake my practice to devote my time Fire Routs when he threaded his way through the smoke filled corri dors to make sure everyone had been notified of the fire and told them there was no danger if they would wait for evacuation for the fire crews. Unconscious Woman Revived Witnesses said Isaccson pulled an unconscious woman from the hallway and revived her before he made his rounds to be sure that everyone on the floor was aware of the fire. Firemen identified the injured as Mr. and Mrs. Delmer Drinen, both of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Wil ma Burchell and Mrs. Vinita Howard, both of Salem; and Nan cy Stewart, Portland. Mrs. Olive Starcher, women's editor of the Mail .Tribune, was on-ihe seventh floor of the Eu gene Hotel at the time of the fire. She escaped by climbing down seven stories on the build ing's fire escape. Mrs. Starcher had been at tending the convention of the Press Women of Oregon, during which she received an award for putting out the best Sunday soci ety section of its kind in the state. She returned home by plane this morning. .06 to the public service of district judge. It has been difficult to convince these . . . that I was sincere in seeking the nomina tion." Associate Delayed Bengtson added that his, form er associate, Attorney Don Ped erson, now an Air Force captain, would not be separated from the service until next fall, and "this means that Capt. Pederson can not be here to take over my practice at this time and permit me to devote my time to carry ing on an aggressive campaign." The candidate receiving the majority of votes in the primary is virtually assured the office, as only one name appears in the general election. Only 67 Persons Make Blood Dates Only 67 persons had made ap pointments up to mid-morning today to give blood here tomor row during the regular visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile. It was hoped that 300 or so donors would respond to the call to fill a quota of 250 pints. Red Cross workers appealed for "drop-in" donors tomorrow, preferably between 2 and 6 p.m. The operation begins at 1 p.m., but most of the appointments are for the hour from 1 to 2 p.m. The bloodmobile will be at the Elks temple on North Central ave. It will be in Ashland the following day, at the Elks temple there, also from 1 to 6 p.m. An average of 125 pints is used monthly in Jackson county, according to "Mrs. J. A. Burba, blood bank chairman, and the reserve is nearly gone. In Febru ary, residents exceeded the quota. Sanitation Meeting Set by Area Residents The second of three meetings for residents of the Grandview Kenwood district will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Medford city hall. The meetings are concerned with the sanitation problem in that area, and with possible so lutions to it. The meeting tomor row will "be with city officials to discuss the --advantages and disadvantages of annexation. The first meeting, held recent ly, was with county sanitar ians, and the third will be held later to decide what the resi dents wish to do regarding an nexation or the formation of a sanitary district. Tribune Price 5c No. 16 Washington U.R) President Eisenhower asked Congress to day to increase defense appropriations for the coming fiscal year by $547,100,000. More than half of the extra funds will go to strengthening the nation's H-bomb fleet of B52 jet bombers. Mr. Eisenhower said that only about $400,000,000 of the request ed funds would actually be spent during the 1957 fiscal year start ing July 1. Therefore, he said, the new request "will not unbalance the 1957 budget" which he presented to Congress in January. The budget originally provided for a federal surplus of about $400, 000,000. Mr. Eisenhower earmarked $376,500,000 of the new appropria tion for the Air Force to provide for "accelerated production" of long range B52s, and construction of additional Strategic Air Com mand bases to handle them. Part of the Air Force funds also would go to speed construction of the so-called DEW line or Distant Early Warning line of radar stations stretching 3000 miles across the Arc tic rim of northern Canada. The President also sought $65,600,000 for the Navy; $55,000, 000 for the Army and $50,000,000 for "interservice activities." He said the "interservice funds will go "primarily to pro vide for meeting unforeseen de velopments in the ballistic missile program." He did not elaborate. The Navy funds will provide for additional ship conversions and the Army funds for a mi nor increase in ground forces strength. No details of the new programs were given in Mr. Eis enhower's supplemental appro priation request, which was for mally submitted to Congress after the chief executive left by plane for a golfing holiday in Augusta. Democratic Criticism .: Mr,Eisenhowex- saicLihat jof the Air Force funds, about $248,- 000,000 would go directly for purchase of new B52 bombers and $128,000,000 for construc tion of new B52 bases and the DEW line radar screen. Defense officials said the B52 program will provide 30 of the far reach ing eight-jet bombers. With the support facilities, the B52 pro gram comprises more than nail of the total appropriation re quest. Congressional Republicans are confident the administration move will take the punch out of a coming Senate investigation of air power. The first target of the inquiry had been B52 production, which Democrats have charged is lagging. The proposed new funds would boost actual defense spending in fiscal 1957 to about $36,000,000, 000, or $1,500,000,000 more than the estimate for the current fiscal year. Planners Set Hearing On Agricultural Zone A hearing, on a proposed change of zoning ordinance to include an agricultural zone will be the first item of business tonight when the city planning commission meets at 7:30 p.m. Other business will include a hearing on vacation of the north and south alley adjacent to three lots on Edward Place addition, discussion of proposed subdivis ion regulations and considera tion for final approval of the Jefferson subdivision plat. Sacred Heart Hospital Gets $17,100 Check A check for $17,100 from the Ford Foundation arrived at Sa cred Heart hospital this morning, half of a foundation grant pro vided the hospital. The second half will be mailed on or about March 15, 1957. Sister Superior Reine said the money is needed for the improve ment program at the hospital, and was, in effect, "used before it arrived." In a letter accompanying the check, Ford Foundation officials said it is hoped the check would assist in meeting some of the needs of the community, and stimulate continued support of the hospital and its program. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 518.52, off 2.53; 20 rail roads 170.90, off 0.68; 15 utilities 67.07, off 0.07, and 65 stocks 181.97, off 0.73. Sales today were about 2,760,000 shares compared with 2,600,000 Friday. Wealher FORECAST Variable high cloudiness tonight. Clear Tuesday. Continued mild. Low tonight 34-36. High Tues day 68. 'Temp. Highest yesterday 70 Lowest this morning 36 OTP Oregon Week End Traffic Mishaps Snuff Eight Lives By UNITED PRESS Eight persons died in week end highway accidents in Ore gon. A three-car accident west of Oakridge on the Willamette pass highway late yesterday claimed two lives Two other persons aiea as me result of an acci dent near Salem Saturday and four- other accidents ;claimed one life each. Mrs. Mildred L. Shumway, 55, McMinnville, and Henry L. Diseker, 43, Eugene, died in the wiiiamene .pass nignway mis hap. Mrs. Shumway's husband, Dr. S. H. Shumway, was hospi talized in Eugene. Clatskanie Man Killed Roy J. Mustola, 29, Clatskan ie, was killed near Portland lasf night in an accident involving two motorcycles and a car. Three other persons were injur ed. They were Ruth D. Berklin, 30, Longview; Thomas Mustola Jr., 34, Clatskanie, brother of the victim, and Mrs. Wanda Mustola, 23, wife of the victim. Another Sunday accident claimed the life of Milford Ken neth Lynn, about 24, when the car he was driving flipped over about two miles south of Half way. Lynn was believed to be from Nebraska. A flaming two-car collision four miles south of Salem on the by-pass Saturday took the life of- Mrs. Everett A. Faber, 49, Cen tral Point. Ellery McClain, 65, Lebanon, died today from injur ies suffered in the same acci dent. 18th. Portland Fatality Mable C. Olson, Portland, be came the city's 18th traffic fatal ity of the year when she . was struck by a car Saturday. Mrs. Bessie Gilbert, Pendle ton, was killed Friday, night when the car in which she . was riding collided with a truck west of Arlington. Salem U.R) Ellery Mc Clain, 65, Lebanon, driver of one of the cars involved in a fiery two-car crash, on the Sa lem bypass Saturday, died of in juries here today. Mrs. Everett A. (Beulah) Fa ber, 49, Central Point was killed at the wheel in the head-on crash. Conditions of the other five occupants of McClain's car were reported improved. They included Eldon McLain, 41, Karen McLain, 10; Karen's grandmother, Leota, 65; Mrs. Le ona McLain, 39, and Ker 14-year-old daughter, Eldonna. Ladino Commission Voting This Evening Nine Jackson county ladino clover growers will vote in a ref erendum at 8 p.m. today on whether or not they want a state-wide ladino clover com mission. The balloting will take place in the auditorium of the Jackson county courthouse. A referen dum on the same issue is also scheduled to take place in Jeffer son county. 2" Kefauyer Accepts Adlai's Challenge To Public Debate Florida Suggested As Possible Site Washington (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson and Sen. Estes . Ke fauver will engage in their first face-to-face debate as part of their battle for Florida's 28 De mocratic National Convention votes. Stevenson proposed the de bate in Chicago Sunday, saying that he would be "delighted to appear with Sen. Kefauver most anywhere." He suggested that an ideal time would be when they both resume their campaigns later this week in Florida. Informed of the challenge in Washington, Kefauver said he would "be very happy to meet with Stevenson whenever it can be arranged." The Tennessee senator suggested they might ar range a joint appearance on a telecast he is slated to make in Miami. To Close Campaign Stevenson formally closes his campaign tonight for Tuesday's primary in his native Illinois with an address at Chicago. Al though not formally opposed in the primary, Stevenson faces a write-in threat from Kefauver supporters. The Illinois primary will pro vide no "popularity" contest be tween Stevenson and President Eisenhower, the lone candidate in the GOP balloting. Unlike the Wisconsin and Minnesota primaries, voters cannot cross party lines. . Kefauver returned to Wash ington Sunday after a campaign tour of New Jersey to seek the District of Columbia's six con vention votes. Before leaving New Jersey, he met with Gov. Robert B. Meyner but failed to budge Meyner from his insist ence that New Jersey's conven tion delegation be unpledged. Returns to New Jersey Kefauver flies back to New Jersey tonight after an after noon speech at Cumberland, Md... . . .......... .. . . In earlier appearance in Flor ida Kefauver has stressed that that state's May 29 primary will provide a test of his anti-segre gation stand and an indication of the position the South will take at the Democratic conven tion. Funeral Arranged For Mrs. Faber Funeral services for Mrs. Ev erett A. (Beulah) Faber, killed in an automobile accident near Sa lem Saturday morning; will be held at the First Methodist church at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Dr. Raymond E. - Balcomb, minister of the church, will offi ciate. Interment will follow in Siskiyou Memorial park. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, those wishing to honor Mrs. Faber make do nations to the memorial fund of the First Methodist church. Besides her husband, a Cen tral Point and Medford business man and television executive, Mrs. Faber leaves a daughter, Mrs. Richard Stratton, Central Point; a son, Donald A. Faber, Central Point; two grandchil dren; her mother, Mrs. Alice Launer, Portland; and three bro thers, Franklin B. Launer, Co lumbia, Mo., Wilson F. Launer, Carnation, Wash., and Linden R. Launer, Portland. Perl Funeral home is in charge of arrangements for the services. Alan Jailed Following Arrest for Burglary Grants Pass state police offi cers Sunday arrested Archie George Loomis, 23, of 731 Sav age Creek rd., on a charge in volving the burglarizing of the J. G. Gernertt home on Savage Creek rd. The complaint charged Loom is entered the Gernertt" home at about 7 p.m. while the occu pants were away and stole a gen erator. He was lodged in jail following his arrest. Irrigation Districts Begin Delivery of Water; General Irrigation Slated Soon The valley's three major irri gation districts have begun de livery of water to the shallower soils of the area, their managers reported today. General irriga tion throughout the valley is ex pected to begin during the next two weeks. Ditches on the east side of the Talent district were carrying water today and west side irri gation will begin tomorrow- A small amount of water ie y Two Jail Inmates Attempt to 'Tunnel' Out of Pokey Here Two inmates awaiting trans fer to the state penitentiary made an unsuccessful attempt to "tunnel" out of the fourth floor of the Jackion county jail Sunday night. Sheriff Howard Gault reported. The two, Lawrence D. Fer guson, 20, Ronton, Wash., and Leon A. Hurd, 24, Yakima, Wash., used a spoon to dig out about one inch of plaster around jail window bars. They also damaged a window amd a window support. District Attorney Walter N u nl y said a cemptaint against the two for the jail damage is being considered. The sheriff also reported that Ferguson previously attempt ed to escape from the Ashland city jail where he was origi nally lodged after his arrest Deputy Sheriff Veryl V. Vanoose today escorted the two to the penitentiary, along with William Hugh Mitchell. 19, Salem, who was sentenced to one year for forgery. Hurd was sentenced to four years for burglary and Ferguson to one year for forgery. Dag Hammarskjold Meets With Pope To Discuss Peace Rome (U.R) U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold met today with Pope Pius XII to discuss peace in the Middle East and the world. Hammarskjold talked private ly with the Pope for 20 minutes and then left the Vatican at 9:50 a.m. to drive back into the. city of Rome for. further talks on the Mid-East. The threat of war between Israel and its Arab neighbors suddenly grew so great Hammar skjold cut short his other sched uled talks and planned to leave for the Mid-East a full day ahead of schedule. Hammarskjold conferred through the week end with United . Nations representatives who flew here from the Middle East, scheduled a conference with President Giovanni Gron chi and was expected to see Premier Antonio Segni and For eign Minister Gaetano Martino before taking off for Beirut, Lebanon. Supervisor Delayed New flareups in the Mid-East prevented U.N. Truce Super visor Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns from coming to Rome for talks with Hammarskjold as sched uled. Burns discussed ways to ease tension in an urgent meet ing .Sunday night with Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion. It was the first time the Pope had met the head of the U.N. since the organization was found ed 11 years ago. Vatican sources said the Pon tiff was ready to do anything in his power to help Hammar skjold silence the guns in the Mid-East. The Pope also was ex pected to mention the Vatican's views on the Holy places of Palestine. Lumbermen Win Stay Against ICC Order Portland (U.R) Lumber mill operators won a temporary re straining order in Federal Court here Saturday against a govern ment order that would have banned slow movement of freight cars loaded with lumber. The order was to have gone into ef fect today. Federal District Judge Wil liam G. East handed down the order after several mill operators had gone into court. The order rstrains an Interstate Commerce Commission ruling which would have halted the slow movement of lumber shipments eastward while negotiations are carried out for their sale. Small mill operators have de fended the slow routing of lum ber shipments, which are sold in transit, on the grounds that it allows them to keep from car rying inventories which would be a financial burden. being delivered to users on the east side of the Medford Irriga tion district, although approxi mately 10 .days work remains to be done on the canal system be fore it is completely repaired. All districts suffered damage to flumes and ditches in the re cent floods. In the Rogue River Valley Ir rigation district, work on the new J Antelope siphon should be com pleted in two weeks, Manager GOP Leaders Urged To Make Effort For Revision Not Necessarily Warning of Veto Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower told congres sional Republican leaders today that the pending farm bill is not a "good bill." He urged them to make a last ditch effort to send it back to a Senate-House Con ference committee for revision. He discussed the bill with leg islative leaders and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson at a White House meeting shortly be fore leaving for a one-week golfing holiday at Augusta, Ga. A formal statement read to re porters by House GOP Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr., of Massa chusetts after the meeting said Mr. Eisenhower feels that the present measure "does not meet the test of a good bill." Veto Not Certain Asked whether this was meant as a warning that Mr. Eisen hower will veto the bill if it reaches him in its present form, Martin replied "not necesarily." Martin said House GOP lead ers will try to send the bill back to conference committee when it comes to the House floor Wed nesday. As approved 8 to 2 by the Conference committee last week the bill would restore rigid high price support for one year, which Mr. Eisenhower strongly opposes. It also contains other features the administration doesn't like, along with the President's own plan for a $1, 200,000,000 soil bank program. Martin evaded efforts by re porters to pin him down about the prospects of a presidential veto if the bill is unchanged. At one point, he said he would be "inclined to think" that Mr. Eisenhower would veto the bill in its present form. But he quickly added that the Presi dent "always reserves his own individual action until a meas ure is before him." Conference Planned Martin said he will call a con ference of all House Republi cans tomorrow afternoon to work out detailed plans for the recommittal move. He said he also expects to talk with Demo cratic congressmen. He declined to say whether elimination of the one-year ex tension of rigid high price sup ports would be the major target of the GOP recommittal move. But he conceded with a smile that would be a logical guess. Consolidation Polls Open Until 8 p.m. Polls will be open until 8 p.m. today for residents to vote on the proposed consolidation of Medford, Oak Grove' and West Side school districts. Voting will take place in the Medford High school girls' gym nasium for Medford district vot ers; Oak Grove school for Oak Grove voters, and West Side" school for voters in that area. Consolidation has been pro posed as a measure to provide that the mutual economic and educational interests could best be served by a merger. If voters favor consolidation. Oak Grove and West Side would not be included in the Medford budget until the 1957-53 school year. Man Admits Guilt in Charge of Bad Check Doyle Dwayne Trapp, 22, of 25 South Orange st., pleaded guilty in circuit court this morn ing to a district attorney's infor mation charging him with draw ing a bank check with insuffi cient funds. Trapp's case was continued pending receipt of FBI records. Bill Foster Humphrey, 36, general delivery, Gold Hill, was arraigned on an indictment charging assault with a deadly weapon. He was given until Fri day to enter a plea. William James Shanks, 47, Reno, Nev., pleaded innocent to a charge of obtaining property under false pretenses. Hearing date has no;: yet been set. Harold Sexton said. In the mean time, water is being delivered to drier soils through a transfer from the Medford district ditch. Sexton said the flume across McAndrews rd., taken out in the floods, will be completed Tues day and the one on Jackson creek should be finished Wednes day. Eagle Point ditches also were carrying water today.
