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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1956)
Indochina 'General' Dies on Guillotine Cant Ho, Indochina (U.R) A 32-year-old rebel "general" who once vowed he would never cut his hair until he had defeated the French died today on a French guillotine. But ironically it was not the French who executed rebel leader Ba Cut. An impassive Vietnamese executioner, one of his own country-men, released the blade which sliced off the head of the self-styled general. Ba Cut, former leader of the quasi-religious Hoa Hao sect, was found guilty of treason by three separate Vietnamese courts last month and was sentenced to death. Democrats Seize Dixon-Yates Contract as Issue in Campaign Washington (U.R) Demo crats today seized as a ripe cam paign issue administration argu ments in federal court that the Dixon-Yates contract was in valid. The Justice Department filed a brief Thursday in the U. S. Court of Claims saying the Dixon-Yates private power con tract was invalid because of a conflict of interest involving New York banker Adolph H. Wenzell. The Dixon-Yates power com bine is suing the government for S3,534,778 it claims to have lost on the now abandoned power project at West Memphis, Ark. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), a leader for the Dixon-Yates con tract, strongly intimated the government brief will become an important Democratic campaign weapon. He said that as much as any other government project the Dixon-Yates contract had the personal endorsement of Presi dent Eisenhower. Aski Prompt Trial Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), who headed a Senate investiga tion of the contract, said his committee brought out Wenzell's dual role and other faults in the TOP TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE contract "over violent opposition of the administration from the White House down." "It is gratifying," the presi dential candidate said in a pre pared statement, to find that the Justice Department "has re versed its previous position . . . and will now give the govern ment these defenses." He said he hopes the case will be brought to trial "expedi tiously Prior to this fall's elec tion." Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D N.M.), chairman of the Senate House Atomic Energy 'commit tee, praised the Justice Depart ment for finding that the gov ernment has no liability for the contract. He recalled he had made this point after the Presi dent cancelled it. Claim Law Violationi The Justice Department brief said Wenzell's role in negotiat ing the contract "involved a con flict of interest so contrary to public policy" as to make the agreement "null and void." The contract, originally signed by the government in 1954, was cancelled last year by President Eisenhower. The government raised the possibility at the time that a conflict of interest was involved. In its brief, the department issued point by point denials of various claims by the power combine. It cited a series of ir regularities in negotiating the contract which it said involved law violations. Friday, July 13, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTTITE SEVEN : 2 BEEF Heart or Tongue 31 EAST SIXTH ST. MUTTON I PORK ROAST Lb. SAUSAGE Lb. . SLICED BACON Lb. PMQED DON'T BE "WRINGING WET" (CLOTHES) ON THE HOTTEST SUMMER DAYS! YOU WONT HAVE TO WITH A NEW GENERAL ELECTRIC HOME LAUNDRY! AND COMPARE THESE NEW SPECIAL LOW SALE PRICES AT HOME APPLIANCE CO. pin GENERAL ELECTRIC 4 - GENERAL ELECTRIC AUTOMATIC LAUNDRY WITH FILTER-FLO WASHING SYSTEM THAT CLEANS AND RECLEANS THE WATER Automatic Filter-Flo WASHER AUTOMATIC CLOTHES DRYER 26995 11095 BIG CAPACITY FOR FAMILY SIZED WASHES NEEDS NO SPECIAL WIRING OPERATES ON 115 VOLTS ' ; : r-:.- F MODEL WA-750N MODEL DA-720N "FILTER-FLO" AUTOMATIC EASY PAYMENT TERMS The most talked about Washing Improvement in Years . . . The ex clusive G-E "Filter-Flo" washes clothes cleaner, faster and easier! Wash water is circulated and filtered automatically five times . . . Eliminates soap scum, lint, sand particles. Big capacity, too. Com pletely flexible controls allow you to skip, extend or repeat any cycle. Buy now and save. Remember, "You'll always be glad you bought a NEW KIND OF CLOTHES DRYER EASY PAYMENT TERMS Plugs in like a toaster. Operates on either 115 volts or 230. Takes the guess work out of drying. You just set the dial and the correct temperature and heat selection is done for you automatically! Dries, fluffs, and sprinkles your clothes while you relax or do other things. Remember, "You'll always be glad you bought a G-E from Home Appliance." G-E from Home Appliance HAVE YOUR KIDS BEEN VACCINATED FOR POLIO
