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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
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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
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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
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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.