Phone
em lemand for 1
hunting Trips
Is Charged to
Washington (U.R) House in
vestigators asserted today that
Immigration Commissioner Jo
seph M. Swing made five hunting
trips outside the United States
traveling at taxpayer expense
in government owned, vehicles
including automobiles, an air
conditioned trailer, and a Border
Patrol plane.
But Swing, a retired lieuten
ant general and West Point class
House Committee
Slashes Funds in
Foreign Aid Bill
Washington (U.R) The House
Appropriations Committee today
slashed President Eisenhower's
foreign aid program to nearly
$3,400,000,000.
The figure was a new low in
the battered $4,900,000,000 pro
gram's progress through Con
gress. It also was well below the
minimum security level set by
the President.
The House-passed foreign aid
bill authorized $3,800,000,000 for
fiscal 1957. The Senate-passed
bill authorizes $4,500,000,000.
Agreement Sought
A conference committee sought
to reach agreement on a com
promise version possibly by Sat
urday. The Appropriations Commit
tee, which approves the money
to carry out the authorized pro
gram, voted to cut a total of
$325,000,000 more than the
House. The committee cut $265
000,000 more in military aid and
$60,000,000 in economic aid.
The President originally ask
ed for $4,900,000,000 in military
and economic aid for the fiscal
year which began last Sunday.
In the face of the economy drive
in Congress, however, he agreed
to go along with a $500,000,000
cut. A greater reduction, he
said, would threaten the nation's
security.
Further Cut Urged
Nevertheless, the House slash
ed the military aid authorization
by $1,000,000,000 and the Appro
priations Committee now has rec
ommended that the actual appro
priation be cut by $1,200,000,000.
The House cut the economic
aid authorization by $109,000,
000. The committee recommend
ed a cut of $170,000,000 in the
actual appropriation.
Bids for Siphons
Being Accepted
Bids for construction of
siphons northeast of Medford in
the Medford and Rogue River
Valley Irrigation districts are be
ing accepted by the bureau of
reclamation here, J. A. Callan,
project construction engineer,
has announced.
Bids will be opened at 10 a.m.,
Aug. 22, in the bureau of recla
mation office here.
Work includes removal of
three existing metal flumes and
earthwork for construction of
two concrete bench flumes, one
concrete wall with spillway, the
Wyant wash siphon, 60 inches,
about 350 feet long, and the Os
borne wash siphon, 54 inches,
about 1,100 feet long. The
siphons will be monolithic con
crete or precast-concrete pipe.
Completion time from the date
of receipt of notice to proceed
is 180 days. It is anticipated
that the specifications will be
ready for mailing about July 23.
Copies of specifications may be
obtained from Callan, post office
box 629, Medford.
Liquor, Pedestrians .
Involved in Mishaps
Salem. (U.R) Drinking driv
ers and pedestrians were involv
ed in slightly more than 17 per
cent of the state's 125 fatal acci
dents during the first five months
of this year.
Capt. Walter Lansing, director
of the state motor vehicle de
partment's safety office, said to
day that drinking drivers who
were usually speeding accounted
for 25 deaths and 27 injuries
from January through May.
Lansing said the figures re
flected an "unusually high per
centage of drinking drivers." He
said a 1952 study indicated only
nine per cent of the state's fatal
crashes involved a drinking driv
er and there were no deaths
evolving drinking pedestrians.
Salem (U.R) The State Ap-
lanticeship Council will meet
at Astoria Monday to consider
new and revised training stand
ards for 14 trades in various
areas of the state.
mate of President Eisenhower,
insisted the trips were made for
official purposes. He testified for
the second day at a closed meet
ing of a Government Operations
Subcommittee.
Subcommittee Chairman Rob
ert H. Mollohan (D-V.Va.) told
newsmen that Swing went hunt
ing on each of the five trips.
"I don't feel that they were
necessary in the public interest,"
Medford
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BABY STOLEN FROM CARRIAGE Six-week-old Peter WeinbtrrgeT was stolen from Ms carriage (left) on the
patio of his parents' $60,000 home in Westbury, N. Y., by a kidnaper who left a ransom note demanding $2000.
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BOMB ATTEMPT IM
Dynamite Found
In Auto of Vice
Probe Figure
Portland 4U.R) An apparent;
attempt on the life of a man who
has figured prominently in the
investigation of vice and corrup
tion charges in Portland was
foiled today.
A crude dynamite bomb was
found under the hood of a car
owned by James Elkins, Port
land night life figure, where it
was parked in a garage. ,
Warning Shots Fired
Raymond F. Clark, an em
ployee o Elkins and owner of
the garage where the car was
stored, said he fired two warn
ing shots at a fleeing figure of
a man who had apparently
placed the bomb. The incident
occurred at about 2:45 a.m. to
day. Police said it was the first
attempt at overt violence since
the Portland vice uproar was
touched off last spring. A wom
an scheduled to appear before
a grand jury investigating the
city's underworld was threatened
with a beating but nothing came
of it.
Bomb Not Connected
The bomb found in Elkins car
had not been connected with
ignition wires, presumably be
cause Clark surprised the man
before he finished his work.
Police demolition experts said
the intended bomb had been in
eptly rigged. It had no detonator
and the dynamite itself was
sodden. They said there was no
conceivable way it could have
been touched off.
Attorney General Robert Y.
Thornton was notified of the in
cident this morning. He is con
ducting the grand jury vice
probe here.'
'Substantial Decrease'
Noted in Polio Cases
Washington 0J.R) The Pub
lic Health Service today reported
a "substantial decrease" in polio
cases during the first six months
of 1956.
The 2.656 cases reported in the
first six months fell more than
1,000 cases short of the 3.706
report during the first half of
1955.
The figures on paralytic cases
are somewhat less favorable. The
1,399 cases reported so far this
year are only slightly behind the
1,482 reported during the first
six months last year.
The health service said 258
new eases were reported last
week compared to 333 during th
sajns week last year.
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Mollohan s
hunting trip.
Mollohan sa a an
air-conditioned auled by
a truck complei with a power
unit, lights and refrigeration. He
also used Immigration Service
passenger cars and a Border Pa
trol plane on the trips, Mollohan
said.
Swing testified that the trips
were made to meet with Mexican
MEDFORD, OREGON,
kidnaper's instructions-
Employment Increases
In County Last Month
An estimated 505 available
persons were unemployed at the
end of June in Jackson county,
14 per cent below the month be
fore and 27 per cent below un
employment at the end of June,
1955.
The figures were released in
the monthly reporj of the Med
ford office of the' state employ
ment service.
The total of weeks of unem
ployment claimed . under the
state unemployment compensa
tion law dropped to 806, about
one-half the number claimed in
May.
John Patton, Medford office
manager said job openings in
the county "are expected to re
main fairly constant for both
men and women who are well
qualified in a skilled occupation.
There are already small short
ages in some skilled occupations.
As summer activity increases,
these shortages are expected to
increase."
Unskilled workers, he said,
are liable to find difficulty in
locating work until the start of
the fruit harvest in August.
Job placements for June more
than doubled those in May.
Those looking for year around
work had little trouble in secur-
Campaign of Arson
Reported in Poland
Berlin (U.R) Anti-Communist
Polish partisans today were
reported conducting an organ
ized campaign or arson against
the Red Warsaw regime.
An organization of refugees
from former German territories
in Poland said the underground
groups have been waging the
arson campaign for months. The
"expellees union" of West Ber
lin said the Polish press has ad
mitted a wave of mysterious
fires razed entire villages.
The union quoted the news
paper Cycie Warsaw as saying
that 63 persons died and 2,900
buildings were destroyed in a
series of 4,900 fires in Poland
this year.
Rocky Marciano Loses
Decision To Daughter
Brockton, Mass. (U.R) It
took his flyweight daughter to
flatten Rocky Marciano.
The retired heavyweight box
ing champ, undefeated in 49
bouts, wound up in the hospital
today with a pulled muscle in
his back. He was decisioned toss
ing 3-year-old Mary Ana Mar
ciano into the air.
.id Canadian officials.
On the first trip, Nov. 13, 1954,
from Rouses Point, N. Y., across
the Canadian border, Swing told
the subcommittee he took along
a congressman in the party. The
congressman was not identified
and Mollohan said he did not
know who he was.
On Sept. 3-4, 1955, Swing went
to Tamaulipas, Mexico. He said
he met with Mexican officials.
United
FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1956
P
ing employment, Patton said.
The report says that lower
prices for plywood and lumber
caused a reduction in hours in
some plants but there were no
layoffs. New hires were primar
ily in the lumber industry and in
the retail and- wholesale trade,
Patton added. k ..
Salem (U.R) Despite a
rise, in the number of farm and
food processing jobs, the labor
market held about steady last
month, the State Unemployment
Compensation Commission re
ported today.
Reports from 26 local offices
indicated slightly more than 18,
000 persons were looking for
work July 1 as compared with
22,400 a year ago.
Most of the improvement over
mid-1955 came from the Port
land metropolitan area, although
considerable change for the
better was reported from Klam
ath Falls, Medford and Eugene.
Many coastal points were count
ing more unemployed than last
year.
Contract for Bonds
Awarded by Council
The First National bank of
Portland was awarded the con
tract on the Medford Armory
bonds by the Medford city coun
cil this week.-
The First National bank bid
was for $40,000, $4000 denomin-.
ations becoming effective June
1 for 10 years, 1956-1958 and
1961-1967. The council accepted
the bid because it called for
seven maturities at 3 per cent
interest.
Another bid was submitted by
the U.S. National bank of Port
land for $40,000, which called
for only two maturities at 3 per
cent interest.
The $40,000 amount is the
Medford cost on the new armory.
Construction on the new armory
has already started at the old
fairgrounds site.
Depository Installed
In Water Department
A depository has been install
ed in the door of the city water
department where water bills
can be paid on Saturday, when
city offices are closed, Robert
Lee, water superintendent, an
nounced today.
The depository is for use on
Saturdays, Lee said, and can be
used during the week as well.
Envelopes wlil b available t
the door, he said.
ORTLAND FOILED
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xpense
Fficial
On Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 1955, Swing
went to Assiniboia, Saskatche
wan, and said he met with two
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
officials on border problems.
On Nov. 4-6, 1955, and Jan.
12-15, 1956, Swing said he went
to Tamaulipas for additional con
ferences with Mexican officials.
, One subcommittee member
described Swing's testimony as
"fantastic."
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Ike Discusses
General Politics;
Nothing Revealed
Gettysburg, Pa. U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower discussed his
second term intentions with his
staff today for the first time
since his illness.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty announced
that Mr. Eisenhower discussed
both "personal and general poli
tics" in a conference this morn
ing with Hagerty and presiden
tial assistant Sherman Adams.
But there was no immediate
statement on the big question:
Does the President still intend
to run for another term in the
White House?
Gives No Details
Hagerty flatly refused to give
any details of the political con
versations. He said he "wouldn't
know" whether a further state
ment of the President's second
term intentions is required.
"All I'm trying to do is to
keep you informed of the con
versation I have had with the
President," Hagerty said with a
face-splitting grin.
"When might we expect an
announcement of these political
discussions?" a reporter asked.
"I wouldn't know," Hagerty
said.
Hagerty said it "might be"
that Mr. Eisenhower would have
a news conference before he
leaves Gettysburg.
Surprises Newsmen
Hagerty surprised newsmen
by volunteering the information
that he had talked politics with
the President at the farm this
morning. Asked to "elaborate,"
he said, "I'm not going to."
The White House aide said he
believed Mr. Eisenhower him
self initiated the conversation
on politics.
Weather
FORECAST: Clear through Sat
urday except partly cloudy
about sunrise. Low tonight
52. High Saturday 90.
Temp.
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Lowest this Morning 56
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise - 4:41 a.m.
Sunset 7:51 p.m.
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New Moon Saturday night
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VISIBLE PLACETS
Jupiter, sets . 9-A4 p.m.
Mars, rises 11:22 p.m.
Saturn, sets . 1:17 a.m.
Venus, rises .. ,,- 3:50 x-m.
Caller Specifies .
Reply Be Carried
By Papers and TV
Father Ready To
Meet Money Demand
Westbury, N.Y. XU.R) A man
telephoned the father of kid
naped Peter Weinberger today,
said "we have" the month-old
baby, and renewed his ransom
demands, police disclosed.
The call, was made from a pub
lic coin telephone in New York
City, the caller said.
The father, Morris Weinber
ger asked afternoon newspapers
and a television news program
specified by the telephone caller
to carry his reply: "Am ready
to meet your demands. Await
ing your call."
The telephone message came
from a man who indicated to
Weinberger he was calling from
a public telephone in Manhat
tan, police said. He was quoted
as saying:
Message Published
"We have your child and we
want you to make a statement
in the afternoon newspapers
that you will comply with our
demands. We will watch the
newspapers and John K. M. Mc
Caffrey on the TV tonight."
Afternoon newspapers already
were carrying the . mssage. The
National Broadcasting company
assured police the McCaifrey
news show would also carry the
statement.
Police said they had no knowl
edge as to whether the tele
phoner told the father the child
was alive or well.
It was not disclosed what, if
any, assurance had been given
the father that the caller actual
ly was the kidnaper.
Followed Directions -
The call was the first break in
the case since the infant was kid
naped from a covered patio of
his parents' home about 3 p.m.
on the Fourth of July.
Attempts to pay the $2,000
ransom demanded in a note left
on the patio failed Thursday.
Dummy packages were placed as
directed in the kidnap note, but
the kidnaper could not have
picked them up without reveal
ing himself, and they were un
touched.
Weinberger announced this
morning that the family had of
fered the kidnaper a blank
check,, for any amount that he
chooses to fill in payment for
safe return of the child.
He said the check has been
written by his uncle, Mannie
Weinberger, an executive of the
family's New Jersey drug firm.
"My uncle isn't a rich man,"
Weinberger said, "but he will
meet any demand the kidnaper
makes. He '(the kidnaper) can
fill out the check, and if there's
not enough money in the bank
my uncle will guarantee the
amount he writes on the check
will be given to him in cash."
Administration Eyes
School Bill Passage
Washington (U.R) The
administration moved today to
try to get a school construction
bill through Congress before ad
journment. White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said at Gettys
burg, Pa., that President Eisen
hower will urge congressional
leaders to make another attempt
to enact the legislation which
was killed in the House Thurs
day after it became snarled in
the touchy segregation issue.
Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower
would make his Views known to
the congressional leaders either
personally "or through word re
layed throughout legislative rep
resentatives."
"Don't Be Naive That
IVILSOfJ
TO END
MISSILE FIGHT
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
APPROPRIATIONS VOTED
Washington (U.R) The
House Appropriations committee
today called on Defense Secre
tary Charles E. Wilson to take
immediate steps to halt a waste
ful fight between the Army and
the Air Force over ground to air
guided missiles.
"It appears that the taxpayer
will be the principal loser in
such a quarrel," the committee
said in a report approving 51,
400,000,000 in new funds for
military construction.
"It is the responsibility of the
secretary of defense to see that
funds and effort are not wasted
in useless competitive rivalry be
tween the services," the commit
tee said.
The military construction
money was included in a catch
all supplemental appropriation
bill providing all told $1,555,-
535,425 for a variety of govern-
Jensen Sentenced
To Gas Chamber in
Resentencing Today
James Norman Jensen, 28,
Larkspur, Calif., has been sen
tenced to death in the state gas
chamber at Salem Sept. 21. The
date was set at formal resentenc
ing this morning before Circuit
Court Judge H. K. Hanna.
Jensen, who was convicted
with Donald Feme Chesley, Coos
Bay, of the murder of Mrs. Fern
Hile, Medford housewife, No
vember, 1954, previously was
sentenced Jan. 7, 1955.
Appeal Granted
An appeal granted him a stay
of execution until the State Su
preme Court handed down an
opinion last week. No errors
were found in the trial and a
new .trial was denied.
Chesley, who was 18 at the
time of the trial, was sentenced
to two life sentences in the peni
tentiary to run consecutively. He
did not appeal his case so has
been in the state penitentiary
since Dec. 9, 1954. He was con
victed of murder and being a
habitual criminal.
The death sentence was man
datory for Jensen under Oregon
law because the jury did not
recommend leniency when he
was found guilty of first degree
murder. . . ,
He will be returned to the
state penitentiary within the
next 20 days.
California Man Fined
On Driving Charge Here
George Thomas Busby, 36,
Hornbrook, Calif., was fined
$250 in district court Thursday
afternoon after he pleaded guilty
to a charge of driving while
under the influence of intoxi
cating liquor.
Busby's driver's license was
suspended for 90 days and he
also received a suspended 30-day
jail sentence. He was arrested on
Highway 99 at Talent July 4 by
state police.
Was When I was Sick"
ASKED
QUID
ment functions during the fiscal
year that began Sunday.
A lie for Investigation
This was $332,685,900 more
than the President had request
ed. However, the increase was
mostly a matter of bookkeepi: 4 .
The committee called on Wil
son to name a committpp nf
qualified experts from outside
the military departments to make
an objective investigation of the
Air Force Talos and the Army
lMKe missiles.
Armv funds annrnvprf Tw th
committee included S136.00O.nnn
for tactical facilities, mostlv
Nike. The committee said it was
not barrine funds for th Ai,-
Force's Talos projects, but was
leaving tnem to be funded later
if necessary after the Army-Air
Force fight is resolved.
The committee approved the
administration's request for $1,
228,000,000 in new annrnnria.
tions as a step toward an Air
rorce Dunciing program of $1,
600.000.000. cuttino 1p h9n
$17,000,000 from specific pro
jects.
The Air Force cuts include $2,
500.000 reauested for mnetmx.
tion of a hospital at the Lincoln,
sxea.. Air force Base. The com
mittee said it would wait until
the administration makes up its
mind whether to build the new
hospital or convert the present
Veterans hospital at Lincoln to
joint Air Force-VA use.
I Some Cuts Made
The committee elinnprt SO 93 R .
000 from Air Force projects in
the United Kingdom, including
a number of central heating pro
jects. The committee gave no
further explanation or" details.
The committee also said that
no funds should be committed
for further construction of Air
Force bases in overseas areas
where treaties affecting ha
rights are under rpvipu? until
the base rights are "reasonably
secure."
Projects approved in Oregon
include: ,
Umatilla Ordnance D e n n t
$258,000.
Greater Portland arpa. St
Paul, $2,400,000.
Klamath Falls Municipal air
port, $1,025,000.
Suit Filed Against
General Motors Corp.
Detroit (U.R) The Justice
Department today filed its civil
anti-trust suit against General
Motors Corp., charging the firm
has an illegal monopoly in the
sale and manufacture of buses.
The complaint was filed by an
assistant attorney general who
carried it here from Washing
ton. Attorney General Herbert
Brownell Jr. announced Wednes
day the suit would be filed in
Michigan. ,
The suit charges General
Motors, the world's biggest
manufacturing firm, with monop
olizing the sale of transit and
inter-city buses and conspiring
with four bus operating com
panies to promote the exclusive
use of GM buses.
Named as coconspirators, but
not defendants, were the Hertz
Corp., the Greyhound Corp., Na
tional City Lines, Inc., and Pub
lic Service Coordinated Trans
port Corp.
Czechoslovakia
Arms Workers Police
Vienna (U.R) Communist
Czechoslovakia has armed its
workers police, recalled all se
curity troops on leave, an?
placed heavy guards on major
industries to prevent riots sim
ilar to those in Poznan, Poland,
last week, it was reported here
today.
Reports reaching Vienna from
Prague said the Czechs alerted
all security forces for instant
action Tuesday, and cancelled all
future leaves.
In addition, reliable sources
said -major industrial plants in
Czechoslovakia are closely
guarded by militia units.
The Czech workers were the
first behind the Iron Curtain to
revolt against Communist rule
in demonstrations at Pilsen,
Brno, Ostrava, Gottwaldov and
Prague in June, 1953. At least
six were killed and many wound
ed before the revolt was crushed
by security units and militiamen.