Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 15, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHREE Weather FORECAST Mostly cloudy Sunday morning, becoming partly cloudy Sunday after noon and evening. Increasing cloudiness Monday morning. High Sunday 60. Low Sunday night 40. Temp. Highest yesterday , 61 Lowest yesterday 49 JNE A feature story on toll testing and Its effect on crop yields appears on page 14 of today's Mail-Tribune. Press Full Leased Wire 51st Year 32 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1956 Pricee 5c No. 21 2C s Recommended t r SVO IV1 K) H U .KWWl J - V ' " .'f a yilHIIIF 'I ' United Press Full Leased Wire , ANTENNAS HOISTED Microwave anten nas, weighing two tons each, were hoisted into position by mobile crane last week at Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company's new microwave relay stations at Baldy moun tain (shown above) and Siskiyou summit. The, coop-shaped antennas, each 22-feet long'' were put in place on. 37-foot structural steel Mine Drill Instructors Are Court Martialled by Marines Parris Island, S. C. U.R; The Marine Corps confirmed Saturday that nine drill instruc tors at this training base have been court martialled for mal treatment of recruits in the 15 months preceding a "disciplin ary" march into a swamp which led to the death of six Marines. A four-member court of in quiry is now looking into the night maneuver last Sunday in which six Marine "boots" drowned when a drill instructor led his platoon into a chilly, tide-swollen swamp bordering this huge recruit depot. Called Platoon SSgt. Matthew C. McKeon, 31, called the platoon out of the barracks but claimed he did so only to instill "discipline." The court of inquiry heard two wit nesses Saturday including Capt. Richard P. Grey, commanding officer of the company McKeon's platoon was attached to. Capt. Ralph Wood, P a r ri s Island public information offi cer, said he did not expect the court to announce its findings "before Monday evening at the earliest." Wood said six of the nine court-martials since Jan. 1, 1955 for maltreatment resulted in convictions of the drill instruc tors but added that he did not recall the penalties levied on those found guilty. Wood refused to disclose any details of the court-martials, saying that he did not feel they should be made public from here. Accused of Jumping In Washington, it was reveal ed that one of the six convictions involved a sergeant accused of jumping on a recruits stomach, kicking others in the stomach and chest, and beating a Marine with a swagger stick. The sergeant was given six months at hard labor and dis honorably discharged after be ing found guilty on 10 counts of cruelty and maltreatment. Witnesses testified at the court-martial that the drill in structor jumped on a recruit's stomach 19 times while the youth was lying on the ground doing exercises. The sergeant Income Tax Return Deadline Tomorrow Taxpayers must have state and federal income tax returns in the mail by midnight Monday or face possible fines. The usual deadline of April 15 was postponed one day be cau it fall oa Sunday thi rear. i YO1 ' ""r'ummMmmmmMM--rwML&mm claimed he was only trying to toughen the Marine's stomach muscles. On another occasion, the ser geant allegedly "mule-kicked" a recruit in the cehst. He was Stevenson, Kefauver Attack Republicans Miami, Fla. (U.R) Both Adlai Stevenson and Sen. Estes , Ke fauver laid into the Eisenhower foreign policy last night as if they were already trying to beat the Republicans in November rather than vieing for Florida's preference for the Democratic nomination in May. Speaking in Miami, Kefauver blamed the administration's "policy of drift" for Gen. Alfred Gruenther's resignation as com mander of NATO and for the threat of a "fullscale war" in the Middle East. Mentions Heart Attack At Pensacola, far in the north west corner of the state, Stev enson accused the administration of "sweeping the foreign policy problems under the rugs" and Sig Unander To Speak Af GOP Lncheon Here Sig Unander, Oregon state treasurer, will speak at a lunch eon meeting of the Jackson County Young Republican club Thursday, April 19, in the Pio neer room of the Jackson hotel. . Unander is a candidate for re election. He is unopposed in the May 18 primary. Also at the meeting, nomina tions for new officers will be accepted in addition to nomina tions submitted by the nominat ing committee. Cliff Ouellette has been nominated for presi dent, Jim Armson, vice-president, Bill Duhaime, secretary treasurer. Gene Piazza and Allen Holmes, directors. Those interested in attending the meeting may make reserva tions by contacting the Jackson hotel. Munsan. Korea (U.R) The ; United Nations accused the j Communists Saturday of at-; tempting to "raid and capture" ' a Republic of Korea outpost last j Tuesday in "retaliation" for de- j sertion of Red soldiers to the U. X. side. towers. The relay stations will provide a link between Sacramento to Portland for televi sion programs for three networks and tele phone conversations. Both TV programs and conversations are carried through coaxial cable now. The stations are expected to be in operation next August, according to PT&T officials. - .. , - (Pacific Telephone photo.) also accused of hitting a Marine 19 times with a swagger stick because it was the witness' 19th birthday. Thcsergeant admitted striking the boy but said it was only a light tap. mentioned indirectly the Presi dent's heart condition. The Tennessee senator, wind ing up a three-day campaign for Florida's 28 convention votes, struck hard at both the Presi dent . and Secretary of State Dulles on the NATO issue. Kefauver said he believes Gruenther gave up the job as commander because he was "dis appointed with the fact that in recent years ... no effort has been made by this administra tion, to strengthen NATO and set up machinery within the the organization for settling dif ferences among member na tions." Intensive Handshaking Stevenson, winding up four days Of an intensive handshak ing campaign, charged that the three years of the Eisenhower administration brought the na tion three times to the brink of war, brought farmers to the brink of bankruptcy and wiped out many small businessmen. "We have sustained an un precedented attack of huckster ing, melodrama and misrepre sentation that insults the intel ligence," he said. "The big get bigger and the small get smaller or vanish altogther. This is the most alarming development on the American scene." Deadline for Registration In order to vote at the May 18 primary election you must: 1. Be correctly registered by 8 p.m., Tuesday, April 17. You must re-register if you: 1. Have not voted in one state-wide election within the past two years. 2. Have moved into another precinct or to another county, in the state. 3. Have changed your name by marriage. 4. Desire to change from one political party to another. (It is preferable, but not essential, that you re-register if you have moved within your precinct or have had your address changed by order of the post office.) You may register from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday or from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the county clerk's office in the courthouse or with the deputized registrar for your precinct. Dag Hammarskjold Pays Gaza Skip Surprise Visit New Incidents Are Reported on Arrival Jerusalem (Israeli Sector) (U.R) U. N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold paid a sur prise visit to the tense Gaza Strip Saturday. The U. N.'s peace envoy ar rived on the scene of recent Egyptian-Israeli clashes as Israel reported new incidents in the embattled frontier area between Egypt and Israel. An Israeli military spokesman said five Israeli soldiers were wounded when their patrol car was blown up by a mine near the Gaza Strip yesterday morn ing. Egyptian and Israeli forces fought a one-hour gun battle Saturday afternoon in the Erez area, north of the strip, he said. Charges Egyptians Col. Nehemia Brosh, senior Is raeli military spokesman, charg ed the Egyptians opened fire on the Israelis. He said there were no casualties on the Israeli side in the skirmish. Brosh also reported that an Is raeli shepherd was wounded in an ambush near Beit Gubrin one mile west of the Jordan border. He said an Israeli police car al so was fired on from ambush near Meron in Upper Galilee near the border with Lebanon. The Israeli government met in emergency session in Jerusalem Saturday and discussed, accord ing to an official ' spokesman, "important security and political questions." Hammarskjold made a brief stopover in Gaza, enroute north from Cairo to seek Israel's ac ceptance of an eight-point plan to eliminate the threat of full scale war in the Middle East. The plan already has been ac cepted by Egypt. Refuses Comment . Hammarskjold refused to com-r ment on his talks in Cairo with Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, Foreign Minister Mahmound Fawzi and other Egyptian lead ers. He declined an invitation to tour the areas in the strip where some 55 Arabs were killed by Israeli shelling last week. The Israeli shelling and the resultant "reprisal" actions on both sides intensified the threat of war even while Hammarsk jold embarked on his peace mis sion to the Middle East. Adlai, Esles Invited To Memorial Dinner Both Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver, leading candi dates for the Democratic 'presi dential nomination, are being in vited to attend the annual Roos evelt Memorial dinner here Ap ril 23, it was announced today. Bob Boyer, chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Central committee, which is sponsoring the dinner, and Mrs. Edward C. Kelly, general din ner chairman, issued the invita tions yesterday. Both candidates are expected to be in Oregon at about that time, and both are invited to sit at the speaker's table with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the former president, who will be the only principal speaker at the annual event honoring her late husband. Engineers Ready to Help in Spring Flood Portland (U.R) The Corps of Engineers said Saturday it has boosted its total appropria tion to meet the expected flood emergency in the North Pacific division to $875,000. Earlier $500,000 had been set aside. Brig. Gen. L. H. Foote, divis ion engineer, said $645,500 of the sum had been allocated to a score of projects in the Port land district extending from The Dalles to Rainier along the Co lumbia river. Alarm Displayed Of Repercussions If Bill Rejected Midwestern Governors To Fly to Washington Washington (U.R) Farm belt Republicans displayed an alarm Saturday over the political re percussions of President's Eisen hower's expected veto of the farm bill. There was even talk in some GOP quarters that Mr. Eisen hower might jeopardize his own chances of reelection- by reject ing the measure. This .reaction appeared to be a minority viewpoint at this time. However, there was near unanimity among farm state Re publicans and amone the party professionals that a veto would hurt them in House and Senate races in the 1956 elections. Far Reaching Effects Sen. Milton R. Young (R-N.DJ, Ions a critic of administration farm policy, told a reporter that a veto "would have iar-reacn-ing political as well as economic consequences." Young referred to the fact that four mid western GOP governors plan to fly to Washington to make a personal appeal to Mr. Eisenhower next week to sign t.hA farm bill. They are Govs. Leo A. Hoegh of Iowa, Fred Hall of Kansas, Joe oss 01 South Dakota and Victor Ander son of Nebraska. At the same time, most of the 5 Senate Remiblicans who vot ed for the measure were seeking a chance to lay their arguments against a veto before Mr. Eisen hower. The man chosen to seek the audience was Sen. Andrew J. Schoeppel (Kans.), who is chairman of the GOP senatorial ramnaien committee and who is directing the Republican drive to regain control of tne senate. Four Destroyers To Middle-East Newport, R.I. '(U.R) Crews worked around the clock Sat urday to load four destroyers leaving hurriedly for the troubled Near East. The four warships are sched uled to depart today for the Mediterranean where they will join the U.S. Sixth fleet. A Navy spokesman said the ships would be "combat ready don't get excited they always are when they leave port." The spokesman said the de stroyers received their orders to sail Thursday night. The short notice curtailed liberty for crew members, some of whom received only a brief time ashore to telephone families. Twenty-two volunteers were sought from other ships in the harbor to fill out the comple ment of the four ships. The Navy declined comment on whether the hurried depart ure was the result of the tense situation in the Near East. Hitchcock Says GOP Should Oust Morse Eugene (U.R) Phil Hitchcock told a luncheon meeting of the Young Republican state conven here Saturday that every Re publican should have as his un swerving purpose the removal of Sen. Wanye Morse from of fice. The candidate for the GOP nomination for United States senator appeared at a candidate's luncheon of the youth organiza tion. Friday night he spoke before a banquet of the Eugene Hoo Hoo club, an organization of lumbermen. He referred to the recent Interstate Commerce Commission order, now under suspension, that would have ban ned use of boxcars for in-transit lumber warehouses. Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States, in an important move to stabilize the Middle East, will announce next week its decision to throw new support to the five-nation Baghdad defense past strung along Russia's . southern frontier. L VET Recommendations for Nominations Listed By State Labor Group Portland XI.R) Organized labor in Oregon Saturday re leased its recommendations of candidates for nomination in the May 18 primary election. Ten candidates for state and federal office were endorsed jointly by the AFL State Fed eration of Labor and the CIO State Industrial Union council. Of those endorsed, seven were Democrats, two Republicans and one a non-partisan office seeker. The two Republicans approved by the labor groups were State Sen. Carl Francis of Dayton who is running unopposed for the at torney general nomination, and the present state treasurer, Sig Unander, who also is unopposed on the GOP ballot. Francis will face Democratic Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton in November. Recommend Morse Labor also recommended Dem ocratic Sen. Wayne Morse be retained. 1 Democrats were endorsed for all four congressional seats. In the fourth district, no choice was made between David C. Shaw of Gold Beach and Charles O. Port- Four Killed in Oregon Accidents Klamath Falls U.R) Two men died here Friday night when a motorist struck a pedest rian, then swerved and struck a parked car and crashed into a tree, police reported. Gerr'id M. Riddle, 26, was driving a demonstrator ear at the edge of the city when he struck a pedestrian, George Pope, 69. Ridle was killed when his car struck the tree. Salem (U.R) A Nyasa woman was killed and her daughter-in-law was fatally injured when their car collided with a South ern Pacific freight train at a crossing on the outskirts of Salem late Friday. Mrs. Wayne Mason, about 50, of Nyssa was killed, state police said, . and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lois Eileen Mason, 26, of Stayton, died en route to a hos pital. Russians Leave for Visit in England Moscow (U.R) Soviet Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist Party First Secre tary Nikita S. Khrushchev left Saturday on their mission to Britain. The Russian leaders waved farewell to delegations of Sov iet and Western diplomatic offi cials at the Belorussian station and entrained for the Baltic port of Kalingrad where they will board the speedy Soviet naval cruiser Orjonikidze. The cruiser will sail today and is scheduled to arrive at Portsmouth, Eng land, next Wednesday. . - it, -v V ilf " -'' "K 5"5 DEDICATE REDWOOD About 50 boys rep resenting nine dens of Pack 8, Cub Scouts, from Jackson school were present at a Red wood tree planting in Hawthorne park Wed nesday. The tree, which has grown from a burl with 19 young trees in a cluster, was dedicated to Cub Scouts of the Big Pines dis trict. The tree was presented by John E. Gribble, 139 Kenwood ave., who is standing at far right in back row, who also grew the tree. Besides Cub Scouts, others shown, left to right, rear row, include Harry Barneburg, neighborhood oomratawywr; Byron Griffith. CGEPTABLE": 0 :EXPECTED er of Eugene. Rep. Edith Green of Portland, representing the third district; Jason Lee of Sa lem, seeking the first district seat, and Al Ullman of Baker, in the second district, all re ceived labor's approval. The stamp of approval also was put on Robert D. Holmes of Astoria, unopposed Democratic candidate for governor. Monroe Sweetland, Milwaukie Democrat, was okayed by labor for the secretary of state's office. On the non-partisan ballot for State Supreme Court justice, Hall S. Lusk got labor's nod for reelection. $50,000 Worth of Jewels Taken From Riviera Hotel Room Monte Carlo (U.R) Riviera thieves stole $50,000 worth of jewelry Saturday from the ho tel room of Philadelphia Pub lisher Matthew McCloskey, who came here to be a guest at Grace Kelly's wedding to Prince Rain ier. McCloskey, who publishes the Philadelphia Daily News and is treasurer of the National Demo cratic committee, disclosed the theft of the jewels which his wife had left in a red velvet case in a wardrobe of their room at the Hotel de Paris. Apparently they were taken while the Mc Closkeys were out Friday night. Immediately after discovering the theft, the McCloskeys sent their other valuable to the hotel safe. The hotel spent several hours trying to recover the jewels be fore calling in police Saturday afternoon. Security m e a s u r -e s were ordered, and even the main doors of the luxurious ho tel were sealed off to guests, who were forced to use a side entrance to enter and leave the building. Mrs. McCloskey said the most valuable of the stolen items was a coral and diamond necklace valued at $15,000. A turquoise and diamond necklace and ear rings and a bracelet valued at $10,000 also were taken. McCloskey, a personal friend of the Kelly family, cabled to Philadelphia for details of the jewelry's description to aid in vestigators. Austin, Tex. (U.R) Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson's supporters started booming him Saturday as a full fledged candidate for the Demo cratic presidential nomination. Lewiston, Idaho (U.R) Rich ard M. Nixon was endorsed Sat urday by the Idaho Republican party for renomination as the GOP candidate for the vice-presidency I I chairman of the Pack committee; Mrs. Byron Griffith, Mother Den 2; Mrs. Gilbert Gross, Mother Den 4; Mrs. Donald Emery, Mother Den 5; Mrs. Stuart Forbes, Mother Den 8; Mrs. Dean Barker, assistant Mother Den 7; Mrs. A. Jones, Mother Den 9; Mrs. B. Stephen son, assistant Mother Den 9; Mrs. W. C. Sand erson, Mother Den 7; John B. Lynch, cub master; Leo Thomas, park superintendent who accepted the tree; Sgt. Clifford Poulson of the Ground Observer Post and publicity chairman for Pack 8; and Gribble. Benson Talks With Ike; Says Present Bill Has Benefits Will Administer It If It Becomes Law Augusta, Ga. (U.R Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson said Saturday after a talk with President Eisenhower that he considers the farm bill "unacceptable" but indicated he would stay on to administer it i it becomes law. Benson would not confirm that Mr. Eisenhower would veto the bill. He said he thought the president was "making his de sion" yesterday afternoon. Three-Hour Conference Benson, Mr. Eisenhower and Agriculture department and White House advisers conferred for about three hours on the farm bill. Benson saw the presi dent twice privately for what he estimated to be a total of 20 minutes. Benson said later that if the president did sign the bill his department would do the best to administer it as long as the president desired. When he left the conference in the president's vacation office above the pro shop at the Au gusta National Golf club, Benson conceded that the farm bill has mixed benefits. Questioned about reports Mr. Eisenhower has already decided to veto the fixed-price measure, Benson said he was sure that the decision "has not been made in his own mind yet." McKay to Launch Campaign April 18 Portland (U.R) Pendleton has been picked for the first major address of Douglas Mc Kay in his campaign Wednesday. W. L. Phillips, manager of McKay's campaign for the Re publican nomination for the United States Senate, said candi date McKay would address Eastern Oregon college students Wednesday morning" and La Grande service clubs at noon before travelling to Pendleton for a major speech at a dinner scheduled for 8 p.m. McKay's swing through east ern Oregon will start immediate ly after welcome home recep tions at Portland and Salem. He will be accompanied by Mrs. McKay. McKay will arrive at the Port land airport at 10:10 p.m. today. Carrier Saratoga Is Commissioned New York (U.R) The super aircraft carrier Saratoga, the biggest ship afloat, joined the U. S. fleet Saturday to ply the seven seas as an atom age watch dog. The sixth vessel to bear the name of Saratoga was commis sioned at ceremonies in the New York naval shipyard in Brooklyn.