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Newspaper Page Textml mm', hi IF 11 WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and mild through Wednrsday. Lnw to night 40. Hifh Wednetday 1. Temp. HtghrM Ysfrdv 72 Lowest thu Morning IS Leader of Marine Death Said Under Influence of Court Martial for Sergeant Receives Official Approval Trial Recommended On Four Charges Washington (U.R) The Ma rine Corps charged today that Staff Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon was under the influence of liquor when he led six Marine recruits to their deaths on a night "disciplinary" march at Parris Island, S. C, three weeks ago. A court of inquiry which in vestigated the death march rec ommended formally that the 31-year-old sergeant from Wor cester, Mass., face trial by gen eral court martiak Top Marine officials have approved the rec ommendation. Four Charges The inquiry group recom mended that McKeon be tried on four charges, including man slaughter. The court of inquiry also recommended "appropriate disciplinary action" against T. Sgt. Elwyn B. Scarborough and Sgt. Richard J. King, who ac cording to testimony split part of a bottle of vodka with Mc Keon in the barracks prior to the march. Gen. Randolph McCall Pate, Marine Corps commandant, also recommended that Maj. Gen. J. C. Burger be relieved as com manding officer of the Parris Island Marine Base, and that certain other officers there be transferred to other posts. Shalceup of Boot Camps Pate, in a letter to Navy Sec retary Charles S. Thomas, also disclosed that he has ordered a complete shakeup in Marine Corps training at Parris Island and San Diego, Calif., the two Marine "boot camps." He said he has ordered that "every practice which may have arisen at Parris Island or San Diego which involves or sug gests hazing, punishment or any other form of treatment incom patible with accepted American standards of human dignity be absolutely eliminated." ; Pate's letter to Thomas and the findings of the court of in quiry were made public at a hearing of the House Armed Services committee. Pate said the court soi inquiry found that Sgt. McKeon was "under the influence of alcohol to an undetermined degree. Training in Question "The Marine Corps system of recruit training has been drawn into question," Pate said in his letter to Thomas. "In a very real sense the Marine Corps is on trial for the tragedy of Ribbon Creek just as surely as is Ser- .geant McKeon. "I will not blind myself to this fact, nor will I seek to disown the responsibility which is mine as commandant of the Marine Corns." Burger will be replaced at Parris Island by the present commander at Lejeune, Maj Gen. Homer L. Litzenberg, Headauarters said the switch will be "as soon as possible.' Barneit Road Wafer Main Being Installed Installation of a 12-inch water main started yesterday on Bar nett rd. The mam will extend from Bear creek to Black Oak dr., according to Robert Lee, as sistant water suDerintendent. From Black Oak dr. a 10-inch pipe will extend to Murphy lane, he said. The line will serve as a feeder for lateral lines' in the area, he said, including that of the proposed new Rogue v alley Memorial hosDital The project will cost about $48,000. Bulletin Washington U.R - House farm leaders agreed today to revamp the new farm bill so that it will not interfere with the administration's recently announced plan to provide price support this year for Midwestern corn farmers who overplani their allotments. Medford 51st Year - 18 Pages JOHN VAN DYKE Wins Scholarship Medford Boy Wins Four-Year College Merit Scholarship John Patrick Van Dyke, 18-year-old son of Mr. and ' Mrs. Frank J. Van Dyke, 2 North Modoc ave., Medford, is one of 500 students in the nation to win a National Merit four-year col lege scholarship. Van Dyke, a senior at Med ford High school, was among 60,000 competing for the scholar ships. Selection was conducted by the National Merit Scholar ship corporation of Evanston, 111. The Medford winner plans to study research or teaching at California Institute of Technol ogy. He has also received the Bausch, and Lomb honorary science award and was elected to the National Honor society, of which he is the local president. Other Activities He is also president of the his tory, Economics and Civics asso ciation and program chairman of the International Relations league. Van Dyke is a junior assistant Scoutmaster, a member of the Order of the Arrow, member of the Forensics society, licensed amateur radio operator and staff member of the high school an nual. His hobbies are hiking and mountain climbing. Van Dyke is one of six Oregon students receiving scholarships. High Wind Delays Testing of Rocket White Sands Proving Grounds, N.M. (U.R) The Navy can celled an attempt to break an altitude record with the Aerobee- Hi rocket today, for fear that 100-mile an hour winds at the 60,000-foot level would carry it off the vast White Sands prov ing ground. Lt. Cmdr. E. W. Diehl, in charge of the shoot, said that it might be re-scheduled for to morrow. The Navy hoped to fire the rocket 175 miles into the ionosphere and get information that' might help scientists to build the ' first U. S. earth satellite. Dulles Off to Paris For NATO Conferences Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles de parts today for Paris talks . on broadening the non-military as pects of the North Atlantic Treaty. Dulles will meet with the for eign ministers of NATO nations Friday and Saturday to discuss both NATO strategy and the new non-military proposals. UN Brings Jerusalem (Israeli Sector) U.R) The United Nations an nounced today a major agree ment between Egypt and Israel to end their border tension. But Israel immediately fdisclosed a new clash with Jordan. A U.N. spokesman said that Egypt and Israel agreed to the establishment of U.N. observa tion posts and mobile U.N. pa trols along the Gaza strip where ; " '"S t3s. ..... i ; ' i .A. 'jLl MEDFQRD, OREGON, RUSSIANS DISPLAY NEW TYPE JET PLANE IN MAY DAY PARADE Moscow (U.R) The Sov iet Union displayed a new type Mikoyan jet fighter today in the annual May Day show of Rus sian armed might. The swift jets zoomed over Red Square while military and naval units paraded on the ground below Russia's assembled leaders and a crowd of hundreds of thou sands. It was Russia's traditionally biggest annual display of arms and Marshal Georgi Zhukov, the Soviet defense minister, sounded its keynote in an ad dress warning against "compla cencyV while "imperialist circles continue the policy of the cold war." -Must Not Relax Vigilance "Under these circumstances," Zhukov said, "the peoples must not relax their vigilance and de termination in the struggle for peace, against the threat of a new war." Zhukov's speech was regarded as relatively mild, and so was the military part of the parade. It apparently disclosed no new equipment. Forty-eight of the new type jets whistled overhead so fast that witnesses on the ground were unable to describe them closely. Observers said they may be an improved model of the MIG-15. Western observers on the Reception For Mautz Scheduled in Medford A reception will be" held for Bob Mautz, Portland attorney and candidate for Republican National committeeman, in the Rogue room of the Medford hotel Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m., Campaign Chairman Omar (Slug) Palmer, Portland, an nounced today. Co-chairman of the committee backing the candidacy of Mautz is William McAllister, Medford. Jean Eberhard, Ashland, is his co-worker. Mautz, a senior partner in a Portland law firm, is a former University of Oregon football star. He has held appointive of five in the state under tAree governors. The candidate has also served for eight years on the Oregon Board of Bar exam iners and is a past director of the Better Business bureau and Oregon Tuberculosis association. Following his appearance here, Mautz will visit in Kla math Falls, Palmer said. Walter Sutherland Accepts Sandy Position Jacksonville Walter Suther land, superintendent of Jackson ville schools for the past four years, has been elected superin tendent of elementary schools in Sandy, Ore., in Clackamas county, he reported today. He announced some time ago he would not return to Jackson ville for the coming school year. His old contract ends and his new one begins on July 1. Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland are the parents of three children, Robert, now a biology instruc tor at Crater High school, Cen tral Point; Ted, a music teacher in South Dakota, who plans to return to Oregon next year; and a daughter, Sydney, a freshman at Lewis and Clark college, Portland. Egypt-Israel Agreement; New Clash With Jordan Told .... ....... , , , ,.t t- 1 . i. 1... TTUJ -Mitinncf Canwi( a series of incidents recently brought Egypt and Israeli dan gerously close to war. Israeli military spokesman Col. Nehemia Brosh charged that Jordanian infiltrators had slipped across the border at mid night and clashed with Israeli settlers at Nevelor, eight miles south of the Sea of Galilee. Brosh said the infiltrators fled back across the Jordan riv-4 TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1956 March Liquor ground near the Lenin - Stalin Mausoleum were unable to es tablish the identity of the new jet fighter, named for one of the developers of the MIG-15. Three-Day Holiday All offices, factories and stores were closed for the three- day holiday that started Monday and thousands of Muscovites turned out for the balmy spring wea ther. Premier Marshal Nikolai Bul- ganin and Party Secretary Nik ita S. Khrushchev returned from their trip to Britain in time to be on the reviewing stand with other Soviet leaders. Zhukov, in an order of the day, wished his Soviet warriors further success in military and political training. Preliminary Report Indicates Boy Was , Strangled to Death Strangulation was the appar ent cause of death of Alvin Wil liam Eacret, 14, Klamath Falls, whose body was found at Tub Springs State park Sunday, ac cording to a preliminary autopsy report. County Coroner Carlos Mor ris said a final and detailed re port will have to await the re sults of laboratory analyses in Portland, which probably will take two or three weeks. He added that the preliminary ex amination indicated that the boy had been sexually attacked. State police and sheriff's dep uties were continuing their in vestigation of the murder to day, both in the Tub Springs park area, and in Klamath county, where they are probing into the boy's previous contacts. Ran Away His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Eacret, earlier had told officers the youth had run away from home a few times before. He had been missing from home more than a week before . his bruised and naked body was found by two girls near the park Sunday, gagged and with a belt around the neck. The body was being returned to Klamath Falls today by Conger-Morris funeral home for services and interment. The fun eral will be at 1:30 p.m. Thurs day at Ward's funeral home there. The. boy was born in Klamath Falls on Feb. 23, 1942, and was a student at the Klamath Falls Junior High school. Other sur vivors include a sister, Donna, and two brothers, Melvin and Robert. Two Men Are Fined On Driving Charges Two drivers were each fined $255, given 30-day suspended jail sentences and their drivers' licenses were. suspended for 90 days in district court Monday after both pleaded guilty to charges of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. The sentences were given to Jose Covarrubias, 47, of 3761 South Pacific hwy., Medford, and Dewey Earl Robbins, 38, route 1, box 3, Rogue River. er after a sharp exchange of fire. - He also said the casuality toll in Sunday's Gaza strip incidents amounted to two Israelis killed and two wounded. A U.N. announcement said the idea for the observation posts came from Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, chief of the U.N. truce supervision organization and t&at U.N. Secretary General Dag Tribune Price 5c No. 35 Adlai Lists Needs; World Leadership, Domestic Progress Presidential Hopeful Speaks in Medford Adlai Stevenson, candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, said here today there are two reasons why the Democratic party should regain control of the presidency. The first reason, he said, was in order for the United States to reassert its world leadership. The second reason, he said was to step up the development of progress at home. Stevenson spoke before a large crowd this noon from the steps of the Jackson county court house. He was guest at a lunch eon at 1 p.m. today at the Med ford hotel. Robert Duncan, Med ford attorney, Democratic candi date for the legislature, intro duced Stevenson. Inherently Impossible Stevenson declared it is in herently impossible for the Re publican party to give the most effective leadership in these areas, as it is philosophically divided. Therefore, there cannot be any firm, consistent foreign policy as long as the GOP re mains in office, he said. He urged voters to bring to an end the "menacing drift" in American foreign policy, that has only occurred in recent years, and elect a Democratic president. He called for an end to the "defacing' 'of the United States' image, which, he said, reflects a party fundamentally divided. Stevenson accused the admin istration of indifference towards conservation and other domestic issues. The present administra tion is unalterably opposed to change, he said.. Yet, Stevenson said, "look at the GOP administration now The present administration has consistently embraced Demo cratic issues. But for campaign purposes, he said, they have termed the previous Democratic administration "20 years of trea son and socialism." Previous Visit Stevenson said the first time he was in Oregon was in 1933, to order to work out a program to help the farmer who so des perately needed assistance then, He added that not since 1933 has the farmer needed help more than he needs it now. But the Republicans locked the Demo cratic soil bank bill that would have then helped the farmer, he stated. In referring to Sen. Wayne More, Stevenson declared he is one of the great Oregon "natural resources," and that Oregon vot ers should be careful that they don't let the GOP "give him away" as they have given things away in other areas. In closing Stevenson called for more bipartisanship in set tlement of national issues. He said that President Franklin D. Roosevelt's day, he frequent ly called on Republicans for service, but that the reverse has never happened while Eisen hower has been president. Richardson Re-Enters Race for Treasurer Salem U.R) Al Richardson, Salem Democrat, .today re-enter ed the race for state treasurer At the same time he said he will ask Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton to investigate charges of graft in state institutions. Richardson withdrew from the campaign last week. He alleged that several mem bers of the Marion county grand jury which had investigated his original charges of graft in state institutions had told him they were dissatisfied with the inves tigation. No indictments result ed from the county probe. Because of the dissatisfaction Richardson said he was jumping back into the race and calling for the new investigation. Hammarskjold submitted them to both Egypt and Israel. The proposal to place observa tion posts on both sides' of the demarcation lines does not re quire withdrawal of either forces a certain distance from the lines as earlier proposed. Israeli had objected to this be cause it meant the evacuation of a number of border villages. ' The observation posts would ALBEN W. BARKLEY Veep Stricken During College Speech Stevenson Promise of To Fellow Portland, Ore. (U.R) Adlai Stevenson, refusing to "promise the moon" to fellow Democrats, winds up a three-day tour of Oregon today with visits to Med ford and Klamath Falls. He leaves late tonight by train for San Francisco and an 11-day swing through California. He promised to return once again to Oregon before the May 18 primary, where he asked vot ers to write his name on the bal lot. His principal opponent for the Democratic presidential nom ination is Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. Oregon has 16 votes in the convention. ' Alliance Deteriorating Speaking last night at Milwau- kie, Stevenson said the great alliance of the West is deterior ating." Council to Hold Public Hearings Two public hearings will be held by the Medford city coun cil at 7:30 p.m. today. One hearing is for change of zone from two family (class IB) to multiple family (class II) for property bounded by Clark st. on the north, Broad st. on the east, Jackson st. on the south and Summit ave. on the west, and for a block in Mary's Place addition. The other hearing is for use of a water main on Bid- die" rd. from Jackson st. to a point 651 feet north. The council also wul con sider petitions for paving on Greenway dr. and Grenway circle, North Keene Way dr, from Jackson st. to Oregon ave., or Ashland ave. from Ninth st. to 11th st.. and on Broad st. from Clark st. to Jackson st. Plans and specifications will be considered for the paving projects, and for paving on Fair mont st. from Summit ave. to tne east end of the street, and for a sanitary sewer in .Verde "Hills area. Adopting plans for several improvement projects also will be considered. Hitchcock 'Delighted' To Debate Wayne Morse Portland (U.R) Phil Hitch cock said today he was "de lighted" to accept an invitation to debate Sen. Wayne Morse on the Eisenhower record at a mock political convention at Willam ette University May 10. Hitchcock, who seeks the Re Dublican nomination to contest the Oregon Democrat in Novem ber, said "I have repeatedly chal lenged Mr. Morse to debate on this very subject and I would be most delighted to meet him on the same platform." The invitation came from Dave Finlay, president of the Willam ette student body. be supplemented with mobile U.N. patrols which could move into tense areas when necessary to iron out local crises before they could develop into more of the dangerous border incidents. A United Nations spokesman said steps would be taken for recruiting the additional observ ers required under this agree ment. The agreement was worked I: J XW-A Refuses Moon Democrats "We have lost -the allegiance of the nations of the world," he said. "We must restore and re capture our moral leadership. This is as difficult and yet as pressing a problem as any that confronts us. "I cannot promise you the moon; I never have and I never will. There is such a thing as wanting to be president too much. Anyone who does shouldn't be president." Stevenson also criticized the Republican administration's han dling of farm and educational problems. He called for enact ment of a farm program "which will use our abundance as an in strument of our foreign policy abroad and as a weapon against hunger at home." - "The Republican indifference to the plight, of agriculture changed only on the eve of an election year, after three years of wanting," the presidential hopeful told his audience. Calls For Farm Program He called for an expanded program of farm credit at lower interest rates, a revitalization of the Rural Electrification Admin istration and restoration of the whole farm program to demo cratically elected local commit tees of farmers. v "Most important of all we must put all of these programs in the hands of an administra tion which really believes in taking constructive action in restoring the farmer to the place in our economy and society he once held," Stevenson Court Seeks Opinion On Salary Increases Members of the Jackson coun- fty court are conducting an inves tigation to determine taxpayers' opinion on salaries of elected of ficials, Judge Rodney Keating said today. The court is sending out ques tionnaires . and interviewing a wide cross-section of taxpayers concerning the matter, he said. Their suggestions will be consid ered and delivered at the next county budget meeting. Date of the meeting has not been set, but the judge indicated it will be held in the near future Salaries of courthouse per sonnel are the last major items now facing the budget commit tee. Objects of the current inves tigation are salaries of the coun ty judge, county commissioners, clerk, treasurer, assessor, sheriff, school superintendent and sur veyor. Bend (U.R) Mrs. Norma Jean Skidgel, 31, of LaPine, Ore., was killed seven miles south of here Monday when a truck and tractor rig swept broadside down the highway and knocked the car in which she wag riding off the road. out by United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in a series of conferences with leaders of Israel and the Arab nations. It would supplement his recently concluded series of cease fire agreements. A dispatch wrom Amman cap ital of Jordan, disclosed that Jordan was falling in with the other Arab nations in agreeing to the cease fire agreements with Israel Nation's Beloved Veep Succumbs on Speaker Platform Funeral Services Will Be Wednesday N Lexington, Va. (U.R Alben W. Barkley, the nation's beloved Veep, died of a heart attack late Monday in the. midst of the live ly political activity heiloved. Today his body began its final journey to Washington, where for nearly half a century the Democratic Party's oid warhorse had served in the House, the Senate and at the right hand of a president. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) Wednesday in Washington at the Foundry Methodist church, with Dr. Fred erick Brown Harris, chaplain of the Senate, officiating. Barkley will be buried Friday at.' his home town of Paducah, Ky. Kentucky Gov. A. B. Chan dler Monday night declared a 30-day state of mourning. Barkley, 78, collapused and died at about 6:15 p.m. (EDT) be fore a stunned audience of 1,700 at a quadrennial mock national convention at Washington and Lee University. Wins Long Applause He had just won lone ap plause with one of the oratorical strokes for which he was fam ous, by this comment on hi latest role of again being Kenr tucky s junior senator: I am willing to be a junior . .1 would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to , sit in the seats of the mighty." Barkley after a pause fell to the floor behind the microphone. The outburst of clapping sudden ly stilled. His wife, the former Mr. Carleton Hadley, who was sit ting in the front row, rushed to the stage and was one of -the first to reach him. Dr. Robert Munger, Lexing ton heart specialist, reached the scene after a rescue squad had tried to revive Barkley with oxygen, and pronounced him dead of a heart attack. The Kentucky senator died while again swinging into a cam paign battle on behalf of his party, but Democrats and Re- publicans ' alike, stunned by Barkley's. death', . immediately poured in their eulogies. Messages flooded in from the. leadership of both political par ties. Mrs. Barkley, who became the Veep's second wife in a public ized romance in 1949, stayed only long enough to see that pre liminary arrangements were made with a funeral home here. Dr. Munger said he apparent ly had died instantly of either ventricular fibrillation or coron ary occlusion. Born in Log House Barkley was . born in a log -house in Graves County, Ky., on Nov. 24, 1 877, the eldest of seven children of John Wilson and Electa Smith Barkley. He work ed his way through Marvin col lege at Clinton, Ky., Emory col lege in Georgia and the Univer sity of Virginia Law schooL As a young lawyer at Padu cah he married Dorothy Bow ers and they had three children. In .1913, he began the first of his 36 years in Congress, 11 of them in the Senate. In all but two of his years in the Senate Barkley was major ity leader, and figured in the historic events of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. After a victory as Mr. Tru man's running mate in 1849 and the then widowed grandfather enlivened the Washington social scene with his courtship of the widow Hadley, then 38, of St. Louis. (See Stories on Page 5) District. 6C Voters Approve Tax Levy Central Point Voters of school district 6C Monday ap proved by a wide margin the proposed tax levy for operation of schools- in the district during the 1956-57 school year. A total of 144 "yes" votes and ' 31 "no" were cast for the levy of $282,255.81 outside the 6 per cent limitation. Baseball AMERICAN Detroit 2 7 2 New York I 9 11 0 Gromek. Marlowe (5), Foy iack (7) and Streuli, Wilwon (7): Ford and Berra. Home runs: Mantle (N Y), Bauer (NY). Kansas City 3 7 0 Boston 2 . 7 1 Kretlow and Ginsberg; Por . ierfield, Sisler (8) and White. Home run: Gernerl, Boston. NATIONAL New York 2 6 2 Chicago . . 1 4 2 Hearn and Katt; Hacker, Brosnan (9) sad Landrith.