Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 09, 1956, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, September 9. 1956 Subcommittee Says Witnesses Favor Ending Atomic Bomb Tests Washington 1f.R A Sen ate subcommittee on disarma ment reported Saturday that 75 witnesses who appeared at its hearinss favored ending atomic and hydrogen bomb tests through International agreement. The non-Rovernment witnesses also agreed generally that "all weapons of mass destruction should be eliminated and pro hibited." They also would extend the international ban on weap ons to testing of inter-continental ballistic missiles and develop ment of new "surprise" weapons. The witnesses, many of whom represented private organiza tions, testified here and at Cam bridge. Mass.. and Minneapolis, Minn.. lat April and June. Oroanitations Listed The organizations included the Federation of American Scien tists, the National Council of Churches of Christ, Amvet. the American Veterans Committee, United World Federalists, the Board of World Peace of the Methodist Church, the Coopera tive League of the United States, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the National Farmers Union. The subcommittee r e p o r t ed their stand in an Interim report. President Kisenhower has held It would be foolhardy to stop testing atomic and hydrogen weapons in the absence of some general agreement on disarma ment. And Republican leaders have attacked Democratic Presi dential Candidate Adlai E. Stev enson for proposing that this gov ernment give consideration to halting such tests. The witnesses endorsed Mr. Eisenhower's plan for mutual aerial inspection to prevent a surprise attack and recommend ed tiiat it be carried out by the Lmted nations. I hey agreed with administration witnesses that stockpile nuclear weapons cannot be detected by any inspec tion system now known. The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey ID Minn.) said developments in mass-destruction weapons have both hindered and helped dis armament methods. Secretly Prepare "At best, nations would be far less able to devise agreements to Insure that a nation was in fact living up to its disarmament com mitments and not Instead secret ly preparing for war," the report said. But. it added, 'These develop ments probably account for the increased efforts for disarma ment in 1955." The year 1955 was called ''an important mile stone in disarmament efforts be cause this country and Russia then "recognized that neither na- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is Searched For Lobby Bomb New York UP) The busy main lobby and Peacock Alley bar at the swank Waldorf-Astoria hotel were cleared for more than two hours Saturday while police searched for a bomb that an an onymous telephone caller said would explode before 5:30 p.m. Police ended their search at 5:45 p.m. without finding a trace of a bomb and the hotel's activ ity returned to normal. The caller telephoned at 3:20 p.m. that a bomb would go off in the lobby by 5:20 p m. Police cleared more than 200 persons from the lobby and bar and a makeshift registration desk was set up at the Waldorf drugstore on the street-level floor, below the lobby. Police Search While guests registered in the drugstore, police searched couch es, chairs, offices, cigaret and news stands and other facilities on the huge lobby floor of the hotel, which covers an entire city block. Robert Stone, assistant mana ger of the hotel, said a man tele phoned at 3:20 p.m. EDT. with the latest in a long series of bomb threats that have harassed New York police. "I have a big surprise for you." he said. "It Is to go off in two hours. Some people .will get hurt." Police immediately were sum moned. Patrolmen were sta tioned at all entrances to the lobby and stairways from the street level up one flight to the lobby were closed off. The Waldorf, scene of several small fires a few weeks ago. is the home, of some of the nation's most prominent citizens. Among those living in the Waldorf Tow ers are former President Herbert Hoover. Gen. Douglas MacAr thur. Composer Cole Porter and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. tion could emerge unscathed from a war waged with nuclear weapons." The United States and Russia hae not been able to agree on any disarmament proposals so far. The subcommittee added that administration policy "is not clearly fixed" on whether con ventional armaments can be re duced without accompanying limitations on nuclear weapons. Queries Flood Police In Portland of Red 'Fireball' In Sky Portland U.P. Hun dreds of queriM flooded po lice agencies and local news papers concerning a mysteri ous red "fireball" sighted over Portland for about IS minutes Friday night. Experts today ascribed the phenomenon to a combination of smoke in Portland and the iiiting , planet Mars. The planet came within 35 million miles of the earth this week, the closest since 1924. The red ball was described by some residents as high in the southern sky, while oth ers said it was only a few miles up and small. Smoke from the city com bined with brief atmospheric conditions to create the illu sion that Mars was a nearby fireball, according to observ ers at the Portland airport lower. Hemingways Face Newsmen in France Le Havre, France (U.P) American author Ernest Heming way came to France Saturday to "get away from the crowds." But he and his wife promptly ran into a crowd of newsmen. The Hemingways arrived here aboard the liner He De France for a visit to France and Italy. Hemingway told reporters that he and Mrs. Hemingway had no particular plans except to travel and visit with old friends, includ ing Pablo Picasso. The white-bearded author said he would first visit Mont Saint Michel "for at least a day," then go on to Paris Sunday. . ' V- . sW IKE'S THOUGHTS Presi dent Eisenhower lashes back at Democratic charges that the West has been los ing the cold war with Rus sia since he became Presi dent. He also told news men that the Federal Gov ernment should not act to put down riots against school integration unless local authorities show an in ability or refusal to grapple with the problem. Boys Lead Police On River Chase Kingston, N.Y.. (U.B Three land-weary but adventurous boys led police on a hair-raising chase down the Hudson river Saturday in stolen high powered motor boats. Police chased the boys, aged 12 to 16. in six commandeered boats, but it took them three hours to run down the trio, who stole a total of three boats be fore they were caught. The weekend calm of the Hud son river valley was broken when the three roared off in two motor boats about 1 p.m. Police took off in pursuit in command eered craft. Other police station ed along the shore as lookouts blew whistles as the boys whiz zed past. One boat was halted some 70 miles down river from Kingston, at Piermont, N.Y. The other turn ed around and headed back north from Piermont. Somewhere along the line, it was traded for another boat, which roared north before it, too was stopped. Read and Us. Classified Ads The Community's Biggest Marketplace Two Hurt at Paper Strike at Chester Chester Pa., (U.R) A pretty blonde photograhper and a young printer were injured Sat urday in skirmishes as the Amer ican Newspaper Guild began a strike against the Chester Times newspaper. A $2,500 motion picture cam era was destroyed in another of the altercations which took place while more than 50 pickets pa raded around the newspaper plant during the first few hours of the strike. Later, however, the guild and management reached an agree ment to end mass picketing and scheduled a return to negotia tions Sunday morning on a con tract dispute over job security. Mrs. Doris Kobel. Graysville, Pa., a 25-year-old blonde photog rapher who was selected "Page One Queen" at the Union's Greater Philadelphia ball two years ago. was knocked down and bruised as fellow pickets rushed toward the busines office to prevent four executives from entering. Mrs. Kobel was taken to Chester hospital by police where she was treated for body bruises. Francis Rebilas, 21, of Ridley Park, Pa... was injured by two men while standing across the street from the plant' with four other mechanical department em ployes observing the picket lin- Morse Urges Relief For Potato Farmers Portland U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Saturday asked the Agriculture Department to give some relief to Oregon Pota to farmers to avoid a threatened drop in prices. More wired Secretary of Agri culture Ezra T. Benson that "Po tato growers of Oregon advise me that a serious drop in potato prices threatened for 1956 crop unless prompt action is taken by the Department of Agriculture to remedy the situation." The Oregon senator, running for reelection, urged Benson "to exercise your authority to pur chase or otherwise divert for non-food uses low grade and small-size potatoes" with use of federal funds provided for such purposes. London (U.R) Charles Bur gess Fry, England's "grand old man of cricket" as well as a dip lomat, journalist and educator, died Friday at the age of 84. Kefauver Accuses GOP Administration Of Wrecking REA Crewe, Va. (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver Saturday accus ed the Eisenhower administra tion of trying to wreck the rur al electrification program which he said brought cheap power to most of the nation's farm fam ilies during 20 years of Demo cratic rule. The Democratic vice presiden tial candidate assailed Republi can power policies in a prepar ed speech before the South Side Rural Electrification administra tion cooperative here. It was Ke fauver's first campaign invasion of Virginia a traditionally Dem ocratic state that went for Pres ident Eisenhower in 1952. Kefauver said the Republi cans haven't had "the nerve" to risk the WTath of millions of farmers" by making a direct at tack on the REA system. But he said they have "launched an in siduous flanking attack" on pow er co-ops. Life Blood "They have sought to cut off the very life blood of the sys tems their sources of abun dant, low-cost power," he said. "In this last Congress it was White House pressure which de feated Hells canyon and Niagara and the bill speeding up atomic energy development and provid ing some federal yardsticks on cost. It was While House pres sure which put oyer the Dixon Yates deal in an attempt to de stroy TVA from which 52 co operatives get their power." 'The construction of new and multiple-purpose river projects has virtually been stopped. And where new power comes on the line this administration has made every effort to contract away as much as possible to private power companies so that preference customers could not buy it," he said. Crosby Denies Report He Plans to Marry Hayden Lake, Idaho U.R) Bing Crosby would have nothing to do Saturday with newsmen trying to confirm re ports that he may marry Holly wood starlet Kathryn Grant. Crosby ordered a United Press photographer off his property here Friday when he was asked for a picture, telling the photographer to "take a walk." Earlier Crosby had denied the report of a pending mar riage. There was no sign of Miss Grant, who is Crosby's junior ELECT NEW PRESIDENT Portland (U.R) Rose City Transit company has announced the election of R. L. Clark of Portland as new head of the firm to succeed Gordon G. Steele who retired last month after 45 years of service in the mass tran sit field in Portland. by 30 years, at the plush lake home. Earlier in the day Crosby drove away with the starlet, but he returned to hii home alone a few hours later. The- rumors of possible wed ding bells between Crosby and the dark-haired Miss Grant originated with a studio execu tive in Hollywood. 74 Arrested in Raid On Portland Gambling Portland (U.R) Fourteen persons were arrested at a Northeast Weidler street estab lishment here early yesterday in what authorities called a gamb ling raid. Two nf the 14 arrested were charged with selling liquor il legally and for conducting a gambling game. The others were booked for frequenting the establishment. The dependable electrical contractor says "INSIST ON THf KST M CUSS PANEL RADIANT HUTT BERKG H HEAT OUTSELLS f$ ALL OTHER BRANDSAjC Building a home? Renovating? 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