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Newspaper Page TextRecommended A feature ltory the fire rm training courie last week appear! on pace IS of today! Mail Tribune. 51st Year Cleveland Ripped By Strong Winds; Five Listed Dead Two Boys Die When Cafe Is Leveled Cleveland, O. OJ.R) The Cleveland police department listed six dead last night, in cluding two boys trapped in a levelled tavern, in the wake of a severe thunderstorm which sent near tornado winds through the city's west side. One man was killed in a hit skip traffic accident during the storm. . No report has been made on the number of injured, but west side hospitals were jammed with residents seeking treatment. Trapped in Cafe The two boys, and another person, were trapped in the Scenery cafe which collapsed at tne height of the storm. Seven other patrons were in the cafe but police managed - to drag them from the debris and rush ed them to hospitals. No report on their condition has been re leased. ' $ Another casualty, a 28-year- old man, was also listed to the tavern collapse. Two men died when they touched live wires The two dead boys were aged seven and five and were broth ers. The storm hit the west side about 9:30 last night. The wea ther bureau at .Cleveland- Hop kins airport plotted its course as three miles north of the air port through the west side rest dential district. The winds at the airport were clocked at 70 ' miles per hour, but the weather bureau said they were much stronger in the main path of the storm. Police and fire crews worked desperately to clear live wires from the streets. One suburb re ported its gas mains had burst in several locations, and trees lying across almost every main thoroughfare blocked rescue op erations. Arraignment Sei For Billy Nunn Billy Junior Nunn will be ar raigned in circuit court at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday on a grand jury indictment charging him with first degree murder in connec tion with the April 19 sex slay ing of Alvin William Eacret, 14, Klamath Falls. Judge H. K. Hanna Saturday morning appointed Sam Harbi son of Crum and Harbison law firm' to represent Nunn, a 28- vear-old Klamath Falls mill- worker. Nunn was arrested in Alturas, Calif., May 2 in connection with the Eacret boy's death and wrote a confession to the crime the following day. The murder vic tim's body was found April 29 at Tub Springs park by two teen-age girls. The grand jury returned the first degree murder indictment against Nunn late Friday after noon. Stevenson's Plane To Refuel Here Today Portland (U.P.) Adlai Ste venson's Oregon headquarters nnnmmred here Saturday that the Democratic presidential hopeful will make his first stop In Oregon today when his char tered plane lands at Medford at 3:30 p.m. for refueling. No public appearances are scheduled in Medford and the stpvpnson party will take off im mediately for Portland with an estimated arrival time of 4:30 p.m. His first appearance here will be at a coffee-dessert hour at Jefferson high school begin' nint nt 7 D.m. The visit will be Stevenson's final bid for write-in votes in ho nreeon Drimary election next Friday. Weather FORECAST: Cloudy this morn ing becoming partly cloudy or clear this afternoon and Monday. Warmer afternoons, cooler tonight with light frost. High today 65. Low to night 32-31 with 29 in coldest places. High Monday SS-7K. " Temp. Highest Yesterday j Lowest yesterday Morning 49 Prec. To 1 P-m. Yesterday 05 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise ntit . 4:52 a.m. 7:24 p.m. vi ..10:58 p.m. First Quarter, Wednesday night PROMINENT STARS The Twins, aboye the Moon VISIBLE JLANET& Venus, north ol the Moon. Jupiter, high In southwest 8:01 p.m. Saturn, rises .. 8:11 P-m. Mars, in southeast 3:07 a.m. MED United Pr ull Leased 28 Pages TO SPEAK HERE Estes Ke fauver, candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for president, will speak in Medford at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, at the Courthouse steps. Handling 1 ocal arrange ments for Kefauver are Russell De Forest and Carl Fichtner. Be fore coming to Medford Kefauv er will speak in Klamath Falls and Ashland. Following his Med ford talk Kefauver will travel to Coos Bay, Roseburg, Lebanon, and Eugene, for short talks Tues day. Search Continues For Missing Plane In SW Washington Vancouver, Wash, U.R) Search for a missing private plane with four Southern Cali fornians aboard centered in southwestern Washington Satur day after a fisherman reported seeing a smoking plane north of Ridgefield, Wash. Ray Murray of Vancouver told search officials that he spot ted a small plane belching smoke between 6 and 7 a.m. Friday at the junction of the Lewis river and Lake Merwin, about 40 miles northeast of Ridgefield. Additional Planes . . . , j Maj. Al Larson of the Civil Air Patrol here immediately sent additional search planes and a helicopter to the area. Larson said he also was checking to de termine if any other small planes were in the area at the time. Murray said he did not see the plane close enough to determine whether it was the red and white Cessna 170 which was reported missing Friday on a flight from Renton, Wash., to Eugene, Ore. Eight planes based at Pearson Field here were covering an area south to Salem in the search for A. D. Posten, pilot of the missing Cessna 170; his wife, Dorothy, both of Redondo Beach, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Leep of La Mirada, Calif. Polling Place Change Announced by Clerk The Jackson county clerk has announced another polling place change for the May 18 primary election. Voters in precinct 66, Jack sonville South, will vote at the Odd Fellows hall rather than the city hall. Other polling places are the same as printed in the Friday, May 11, issue of the Mail Tribune. A complete list of polling places in the county will be printed again Thursday. Agreement Reached On Access Road Funds Washington (U.R) House and Senate conferees Friday reached agreement on a $2,000,000 ac cess road construction fund for 18 O and C counties in western Oregon. The fund was contained in a bureau of land management sup plemental appropriations bill for the current fiscal year. 'S Atom-Powered Sub Nautilus Heads to Sea With Newsmen A b o a r d the Nautilus (U.R) The atom-powered submarine Nautilus headed from her Grot on, Conn., base into deep water last night to show a party of newsmen -what she can do. After being put through the paces which make her one of the deadliest war vessels in service and the harbinger of a new era of atomic power for both mil itary and civilian use she went to New York to open observance of Armed Forces week. The Nautilus was scheduled to arrive off the southern tip of Manhattan, in New York har bor, shortly after noon Sunday. She will cruise slowly up the Hudson river to give viewers on both shores a chance to glimpse FORD Wire Spirited Write-in Campaign Is Among Primary Highlights Portland (U.R A spiriited Democratic presidential write-in campaign and a battle for the Re- publican senatorial nomination highlight the Oregon May 18 pri mary election. Out to capture Oregon's 16 delegates to the Democratic nom inating convention are presiden tial hopefuls Adlai Stevenson and Estes "Kefauver. That both think it important to win the Oregon delegation is attested by the fact that while neither is on the ballot each has made whirl wind appearances in the state and each plans to spend three days next week touring the state in vigorous campaigns for write- in votes. In Oregon, nomination con vention delegates are pledged to support the presidential candi date winning the largest num ber of votes- in the primary. Write-in votes are counted. Ike Assured Delegates President Eisenhower is as sured Oregon's 18 GOP dele gates. He is unopposed for the Republican presidential nomina tion. The only other contest which has aroused much interest is the Republican senatorial nomina tion race between Douglas Mc Kay, resigned as Interior secre tary to make the race, and Phil lip Hitchcock, former state sen ator and prominent church lay man. McKay entered the contest with the blesing of President Eisenhower and has the back ing of most of the state's influen tial GOP leaders. But Hitchcock has campaigned strenuously and some party politicans feel he has picked up considerable strength, especially among the church and working people. Both candidates have pitched their "appeals 'to 'the 'voters "on the theme that Democratic Sen. Wayne Morse must be beaten in November. The only difference arising between them is which has the better chance of suc ceeding against Morse. Others in Race Elmer Deetz, a Canby dairy man, and George Altvater, Port land city employe, also are on the GOP senatorial ballot, but they have done little campaign ing in their first attempts to gain national office. Morse, the Republican's No. 1 target in November, has only to ken opposition on the Demo cratic ticket from Woodrow Wil son Smith, a 44-year-old Hood Rive rmechanic who is largely unknown outside his home town. Smith's main efforts have been directed toward having Morse's name removed from the Demo cratic ballot. Smith claimed the senator was not a true Democi5t. The courts overruled him. It will be Morse's first attempt to hold his seat as a Democrat. He was elected six years ago as a Republican. In 1952, he left the GOP to become an independent and later switched his registra tion to Democrat. . ' ? Congressmen Unopposed ' In the congressional contest, Reps. Harris Ellsworth and Sam Coon are unopposed on the GOP ballot and Rep. Edith Green has no orjposition on the Democratic ticket. Rep. Walter Norblad is opposed by R. F. Cook, a Silver ton turkey rancher. Running for the Democratic nomination in Norblad's district are Jason Lee, Salem attorney, and Don Meth eny. Brooks farmer. In , Coon's district, Al Ullman, who was de feated two years ago by Coon, and A. E. Glidewell of Hermis ton are competing for the Demo cratic nomination. Phil Roth, Peter Welch and A. W. Lafferty, all Portland at torneys, and Elizabeth Carson Sailor, a Portland real estate the scant above-water portion of the first vehicle in history to de rive propulsion from atomic en ergy. The Navy promised to pull no punches in demonstrating to 12 newsmen aboard the first press party ever to travel on the Nau tilus the speed, maneuverabil ity, and endurance which en abled her to break four submar ine records last year on her first long voyage. That shakedown cruise was a 1,300-mile run from New Lon don, Conn., to San Juan, Puerto Rico. She made the entire trip submerged, averaging 16 knots speed. As for her top speed, the Navy will say only that it is "more than 20 knots." MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1956 woman, seekthe GOP nomination to oppose Mrs. Green in the fall. Competing for the Democratic nomination in Ellsworth's dis trict are Charles O. Porter and David Shaw , both attorneys and both defeated previously by Ells worth. Gov. Elmo Smith is opposed for the GOP gubernatorial nomi nation by Earl Dickson, an Al bany grocer. Robert Holmes, Astoria radio station manager, is unopposed for the Democratic nomination for governor. Oregonians also will pick full slates of candidates for other state offices and the Legislature. Enforcing Law Best Cure for Shortage, Porter Declares "Knocking out the transit lumber shippers is not the way to correct the box car shortage," Charles O. Porter, Eugene at torney and Democratic candi date for Congress, said Satur day night before a small crowd at the Medford Labor temple. "Enforcing the law is the best solution," he declared. Congressman Harris Ells worth's bill on this subject, ac cording to Porter, works on "this same false premise." Porter criticized the Interstate Commerce commission for its order in April forbidding lum ber shipments except on firm orders. "The Commission should have considered that they were issu ing a death sentence to a proved method of ' lumber distribution, a method that accounted for ap proximately $162 million of in come to Oregon last year," he said. Anticipated freight car short ages this summer and fall must be provided for by the Southern Pacific, Porter declared, citing federal law to that effect. "The ICC has the duty to pr- der the Southern Pacific to furn ish the reasonably anticipated car supply, even if it means working week ends and building more cars and borrowing cars from other railroads. This duty was established by law in 1920 and has been re-affirmed time and again in the courts," he stat ed. Porter also spoke on the Al Sarena mining controversy and declared that Douglas McKay is off base" on mining laws and facts. He further stated that public loss of money in the Al Sarena case is important, but he said the wrong attitude of McKay, Ells worth and other public officers is more important. He said "McKay has been mor ally indifferent to losing timber in the Rogue River National for est and does not feel responsibil ity for our national forests or any part of our public domain." McKay Says Business Kept Power Price Low Eugene U.R) Douglas McKay, told a gathering of Re publican women here Friday that low power rates in the Co lumbia river power system had been maintained by good busin ess methods in the Eisenhower administration. The former Interior Secretary now a candidate for the Repub lican nomination for United States senator said basic rates of the Bonneville Power Admin istration had not been raised since they were established in 1939. He said the former Demo cratic administration had an nounced a rate increase for De cember, 1954, but the Republi cans had been able to hold the line. ',: McKay predicted that rates would not have to be raised for at least another year, despite higher construction costs. Sidney Hatkins Is Restored to Payroll Washington (U.R) Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles Saturday personally re stored Sidney Hatkin, suspend ed Air Force statistician, to the government payroll but in a non-sensitive position. Hatkin, suspended 14 months as a security risK, recently re vealed that a Russian embassy .clerk - tried -to hire . him to die lup secret military information. Eden's Government Admits Details of Missing Frogman Russia Reveals Note Exchange on Incident London (U.R) The embar rassed government of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden ad mitted Saturday that it told Rus sia details of the hush-hush case of the missing Navy frogman on the very day it refused to discuss the matter in Parlia ment. Russia's revelation of a secret exchange of notes over the dis appearance of Commander Lion el (Buster) Crabb near the Sov iet criuser Ordz!ionikidze in Portsmouth Harbor April 19 was a "bitter shock" to Eden, sources said. The Socialist opposition was sure to try to capitalize on it. Laborite leaders demanded that the government fire some officials and make "big chang es" at the Admiralty. Taken by Surprise. The Foreign Office obviously was taken by surprise by the. ra dio Moscow report of a Soviet note . of .May 4 and a British reply of May 9 regretting the incident, it was 14 hours before the Foreign Office, with Eden's permission, admitted that the Moscow radio was accurate. Laborites rose to the political bait. On May 9, while Britain told Russia about the frogman's disappearance and "presumed" death, Eden told Commons he could not discuss the case "in the public interest." When Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell charged that the 46-year-old Crabb was engaged in espionage, Eden refused to con firm or deny. He did not tell Parliament that Russia had of ficially protested or that Brit ain had told the Kremlin Crabb apparently was swimming near the cruiser. U.S. Agrees to Jet Shipment by French Paris (U.R) The United States has agreed to the im mediate shipment by France of 12 more Mystere IV jet fighter planes to Israel, the French For eign office announced last night. A communique issued by the Ministry said Washington had approved the immediate delivery of the planes which are manufac tured in France for NATO forces under American offshore con tracts. France said she -also has asked Britain for approval of the ship ment. France recently shipped 12 of the jet fighters to Israel. The Mystere IV planes are among the world's top-performance jet fighters and are believed capable of matching the Soviet-built MIG jet fighters the Communist na tions have supplied Egypt re cently. Israel also is seeking U.S. F-86 jet fighter planes from the United States and Canada. Sports Bulletins Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) The Sacramento Solons missed an opportunity to take over first place in the Pacific Coast League last night when they dropped a 7-2 decision to the San Diego Padres. Seattle U.R) A flawless ninth inning relief job by Larry Jansen enabled the Seattler Rainiers to edge Port land 2-1 last night and square the Pacifci Coast League series al a game apiece. Vancouver, B.C. (U.R) Bob Harrison gave tha Vancouver Mounties an even split in the Saturday Pacific Coast League twin-bill at Capilano stadium by pitching them to a 9 to 2 victory over Hollywood last night. Mrs. Cleo Maletis, Portland Is Selected as 'Mrs. America ; Ellinor Villoge, Fla. (U.R) ; Mrs. Cleo Maletis. a 31-year-old brown-haired homemaking ex pert from Portland, ore., was picked last n i g h t - as "Mrs. America of 1956." Mrs. Maletis, representing her slate in competition against 49 homemakers from 47 other states and the District of Columbia, broke into tears when the an nouncement came that she had been picked the winner. When she regained her com posure she said "I never could have won the contest if I didn't have the wonderful family of RIBUNE Ike s wlti III 'Serf taitiira '' - -"4 r$t ' -T 'W-' ay ROSIE LEARNS THE HARD WAY Mail Tribune Staff Writer Rosie Boley journeyed to the National Guard range last week to write a story about the police firearms training school. (Her story appears on Page 12 today). Solicitous officers saw to it that she got the full, treatment not only the facts and figures, but the exper ience of firing. She is shown above firing the .12 gauge riot gun, which has a kick like a mule, and which gave her a black-and-blue shoulder. Providing moral (and physical) support is Officer Berle Stevens. Looking on skeptically is Medford Police Chief Charles Champlin. The photo was taken by Medford Police Officer Raymond Seely without Miss Boley's knowledge. Tornadoes Hurt 80 in Flint, Mich. (U.R) Twin tornadoes ripped into Michi gan's mid-section last night, kill ing at least four persons and injuring close to 80. One twister hit the southeast edge of Flint, Michigan's second largest city which was rocked by a devastating tornado which killed 116 persons June 8, 1953. The other struck near Ithaca, about 60 miles northwest of here in Gratiot county. There was a report of another twister at Haslett, 60 miles southeast of here. But state po lice who investigated found no damage other than that caused by high winds which whipped over most of lower Michigan. Violent thunderstorms sent wind and rain whipping down on scores of communities short ly after dusk and there were several unconfirmed tornado re ports. The tornado hit at the south east edge of Flint in a thickly populated residential section along U.S. highway 10. The area contained - several hundred homes and two trailer camps. St. Joseph's hospital reported McKeon Court Martial Postponed Until July Washington (U.R) The Navy has postponed until July 14 the court martial trial of S-Sgt. Mat thew C. McKeon on charges of leading six Marine recruits to their death at Parris Island, S.C. Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas announced ' Friday he granted the postponement at the request of defense attorney Emile Zola Burman of New York. Burman said prior com mitments would prevent him from preparing McKeon's de fense earlier. The trial was scheduled to begin Monday. A Marine court of inquiry ac cused McKeon of being "under the influence" of vodka when he ordered the fatal night march as a disciplinary measure April 8. three boys and the encourage ment of my husband." -, Mrs. Maletis has three boys, Chris 7, Thomas 4, and Edward 4. Her husband, Chris Maletis, is a beverage company execu tive in Portland. The brown-eyed Mrs. Maletis, who weighs 122, gave . her mother-in-law credit for persuading her to enter what turned out to be a lucrative venture for her. Mrs. Maletis, who already had won prizes in four phases of the week-long competition, edged second-place winner Mrs. Anne Mitchell, of Monroe, LaH and United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c Kill Four, Michigan treating 27 injured and Hurley hospital said 35 injured " were treated there. " None of the in jured was in critical condition, the hospitals said. Another four persons were re ported injured in the Ithaca area. The others injured here -were treated at an emergency center set up at the east side school near the damage area. Commandoes Raid Algerian City Constantine, Algeria i (U.R Suicide Commandoes of the rebel "Army of Allah" raided Constantine Saturday in the re bellion's first large-scale Guer rilla strike against a major city. The rebel . raiders supped through strong French defense into the Eastern Algerian capi tal. The daring attack came as French authorities reported at least 150 rebels killed in scat tered clashes across the . North west African territory in the past 24 hours. Rebel suicide squads struck in broad daylight against Constan tine. capital of the department of the same name and Algeria s big gest inland city. The raid touched off widespread panic in the city whose normal popula tion of 118,000 has been swelled by European and Moslem refu gees from outlying terrorist-rid den areas. Medford Girl Suffers . Burns Here Saturday Mama Lou Warren, 7, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernie War ren of 346 South Holly st, was taken to Community hospital Saturday afternoon afer suffer ing second degree burns, hospit al attendants reported Saturday. . She was burned at home when she got too close to an electric heater and her dress caught fire, it was reported. Her condition was reported as "fair" Saturday night, hospital attendants said. Housewife, of 1956f third-place winner Mrs. Gloria Buth, of Columbus, Ohio. The new Mrs. America re ceived $15,000 in prizes includ ing an all-expense trip to Eu rope and the Belgian Congo for herself and her husband via Sabena-Belgium World Airways and a 1956 DeSoto automobile. A nationally known board of home economic judges picked Mrs. Maletis who during the week had already been named the best seamstress, awards in civil defense preparation, lunch eon preparation and meal plan ning. N Subscribers To report improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 p.m. daily and 1030 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery anivex short ly after you call please notify office thui eliminating special messenger No. 45 Detailed Medical Report Following Two-Day Physical 'No Symptoms'-of Weakness, Doctors Say Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower's doctors re ported Saturday that he is in "good" physical condition and that his heart shows "no symp toms or findings" of weakness or "insufficiency." The White House made public a detailed medical report on the results of an extensive physical examination which Mr. Eisen hower underwent during the past two days at the Army's Wal ter Reed Medical Center. . Report Issued The report was issued an hour after the President, all smiles and in good spirits, left the hos pital and went to the Burning Tree club for an afternoon of golf. The report cited a number of technical details on the condi tion of Mr. Eisenhower's heart, ''all of which is very good," White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said. "His general condition con tinues good," the report said. "He is physically active and mentally alert. His appearance, appetite and digestion are ex cellent." Injury 'Well Healed' " The "head-to-toe" physical ex amination was the first for the President since he announced Feb. 29 that he would seek a second term. It was his second major physical this year follow ing his heart attack last Sept. 24. As for the condition of his heart, the medical report said the myo-cardial infarction injury to the heart of last September was "well healed as evidence by X-ray and cardiography find ings." "The electrocardiogram show ed residual changes consistent with the healed infarction," the report continued. "There were no symptoms or finding of myo cardial insufficiency muscle weakness' or coronary insuffi ciency angina." The report was signed by Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, per sonal physician to the President, and Maj. Gen. D. Heaton, Walter Reed commanding general. Firemen Call on 952 Homes in Inspection Medford firemen called at 952 city homes during the four days of their home inspection pro gram last week, according to Fire Marshal Truman Nelson. They actually inspected 499 homes. In 413 cases resident were not in, and in 40 cases fire men were refused admittance. Tn 170 of those inspected, no hazards were noted. A total of 517 recommendations for the elimination of fire hazards were made in the other residences. - The home inspection plan is a free service conducted an nually by the Medford fire de nartment in an attempt to cut down the daneer of home fires by pointing out hazards. This year homes on east-west streets were inspected, and next year homes on north-south streets will be visited. The nroiect was conducted using three fire trucks, one from each station, to make the calls. A fireman stood by each radio enuinned vehicle in case it was needed to answer an alarm. Light Installation To Start This Week City crews will start install ing traffic signals this week at Main and Hawthorne sts. and at the school crossing on Stewart and Holly sts., Vern Thorpe, di rector of public works, has an nounced. Work will also begin next week on modification of the traffic signal at Main st". and Crater Lake ave., Thorpe said. Plans and specifications for the projects were authorized last fall by the city council.