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Heart Attacks Are Fatal to Hunters; Two Suffer Wounds By UNITED PRESS A missing 20-year-old deer hunter was found dead near Lake of the Woods last night while Oregon counted at least four dead from heart attacks and two wounded by gunshot after the Klan Stages Large Cross-Burning Rally To Recruit Members By UNITED PRESS The Ku Klux Klan, in the big gest cross-burning rally since World War II. and a White Citi zens Council have launched re cruiting drives with fiery at tacks on racial integration. Robed Klansmcn rallied Sat urday night around three blaz ing crosses at Stone Mountain, old-time Klan meeting spot near Atlanta. Imperial Wizard E. L. Ed wards of Atlanta told an esti mated 3.500 Klansmcn that the new Klan will stay within "laws that are just." A crowd of 500 persons turn ed out Sunday near Knoxvillc. Tenn., to hear John Kaspcr of Washington. D.C.. demand that Tennessee "regain representa tive govern ment." Endorses Andrews Kasper, 26. under indictment on a charge of fomenting a school integration riot at nearby Clinton, endorsed the states' rights movement which has put up T. Coleman Andrews as its presidential candidate. Both rallies rombincd recruit ing drives with oratorical at tacks on racial integration. Kas per. head of a Citizens Council at Washington, signed up several members at S3 per person. Ed wards' fellow Klansmcn were signing up new Klan members at the Atlanta rally. Four newsmen at Kaper's rally were heckled and pushed around. Edwards supervised the "purchase" of film taken from a wire service photographer, saying the press "would use them to distort the facts." Kasper said the "press" dis torted reports of an Alabama speech in which he was quoted as advocating "seizing local con trol of local affairs, and I mean seizing it." Edwards' subordi nate Klan official. Wesley Mor gan, accused the press of "dis torting the facts about the Klan." Six Persons Die In State Accidents By UNITED PRESS Six persons died in Oregon highway accidents during the week end and another person drowned. L. C. Wood. 81. and his 79-year-old wife, Mary, Woodburn, were killed last night when their old model car was struck by a passenger train at Gcrvais. The impact carried the car 300 feet. A man identified as Arthur Johnstan. 24. DuBcise. Ida., was killed early Sunday when struck by a car on Highway 30 and 14 miles west of Pendleton. Douglas Ray McKcevcr, 18. Salem, was killed Saturday when his car plunged off the North Santiam highway into a canyon about 25 miles west of Sisters. Stephen Ellis and Frederick William Robertson, both of Port land, were killed in separate one-car accidents early Saturday. Charles Pfefficr. 19, Gardiner, drowned yesterday in Woahink lake, eight miles south of Flor .. ence. while cruising .his boat at .high speed. He had planned to put it in storage for the winter. A companion. Gary Sylvia. 16. also of Gardiner, managed to cling to the boat until rescued. Humane Society Elects Two New Directors Lawrence L. Clark. First Na tional Bank of Portland trust of ficer, and James Dunlevy, radio station KYJC manager, were elected to the Southern Oregon Humane Society board of direc tors this morning at the board's regular monthly meeting. Other members of the board include Mrs. Robert J. Keency, 4126 Colver rd., Medford, presi dent: Mrs. Moore Hamilton, 43 Rose avc Medford, secretary; Mrs. Glen Farris. Grants Pass: Mrs. Chauncey Florey, Medford: and A. K. (Woody) Morse, 36 Ashland ave., Medford. Radio-TV Highlights Radio Station KYJC will carry President Eisenhower's speech starting at 9:30 p.m. today. Television station KBES-TV officials said the Republican party had reserved time starl ing at 9:30 p.m. today, but they had no final word at noon today if the time was reserved for President Eisen howti'i speech. , first week end of the 1958 deer season. Two other hunters who had been reported lost turned up safe. Paul Eugene Jones. 26. Herm iston, suffered a gunshot wound in the left foot Saturday eve ning when a rifle of a compan ion accidentally discharged while he was preparing to clean it at a camp near Kamela. The body of Donald Barron, Klamath Falls mill worker, was found by bloodhounds last night about 15 miles west of Klamath Falls. Blood and bruises were found on his face but there were no other visible wounds. Suffered Attack Authorities said he may have suffered a heart attack and fallen. An autopsy was sched uled. Those dying of heart attacks while hunting included Charles Newman, 65, McMinnvillc. a Yamhill county commissioner; Raymond A. Allace. 57, Flor ence, and Albert Belchc, 43, The Dalles. John Washington Baker. 71. Portland, suffered a fatal heart atlack while hunting Saturday about 25 miles west of Bend. Clifford Zoner, 22, Aurora, suffered a bullet wound in the shoulder in the season's first gunshot victim. He was wounded on the Ochoco woods in central Oregon when apparently mis taken for a deer by another hunt er. Two other hunters earlier re ported lost were found safe. They are Carl Mitchell, 40, Klamath Falls, and Thomas Chapman, 45, Oregon City. In an accident last Friday, before the hunting season start ed, James F. Miller. 23, St. Helens, was shot and killed at the home of a friend while dis cussing a planned deer hunting trip. Jacksonville Home Destroyed by Fire The home of Mr. and Mrs Donald Heckert, on Old Stage rd., a mile north of Jacksonville, burned to the ground Saturday Relatives reported that only the washing machine from the back porch and clothing on the line outside the house ( were saved. They said that cause o, the fire was not determined but that defective wiring might have been the cause. The Hcckerts were not at home when the fire broke out. They noticed the fire on their return from a trip to Shady Cove. Jacksonville firemen and the Central Point rural fire de partment were called. Central Point firemen said that the resi dence was completely involved in flames when they arrived with two pumper and two tank er trucks. The Heckcrts and their two sons. Michael and Danny, are staying with Heckert's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Heckert, own ers of the house. Thousands View Body Of Anastasio Somoza Managua, Nicaragua U.R) ITiousands of Nicaraguans lined the streets of this capital city to day for a glimpse of the casket of assassinated President Anas tasio Somoza. A U.S. airborne cortege flew the body Sunday from the Pana ma Canal zone where he died Saturday of bullet wounds to the country he had ruled for 20 years. One Air Force C54 car ried the body; another flew as escort. The body lay in state in the National palace during the night and was taken across the square this morning to the Metropolitan cathedral for a pontifical mass. Burial services will be held Tuesday. , New Federal Court Term Starts Tuesday Pre-trial conferences on seven federal court cases will begin at 10 a.m. tomorrow, with Gus J Solomon. Portland. United States district court judge, presiding. Thirsty Mechanic Lands Plane Between Apartment Buildings, Taxies New York (U.R) A thirsty mechanic landed a small plane between big apartment build ings early Sunday and taxied up a Manhattan street to a tavern. Thomas Fitzpatrick. 26. Emer son, N.J.. set the two-seat Cessna 140 down on St. Nicholas Ave., a main thoroughfare Tunning north-south in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. He taxied up the 80-foot wide avenue to 191st St. between apartment buildings averaging six stories in height where he parked the red and white plane next to a fire hydrant. Then 51st Year Medfgp United Press Full Leased Wir 16 Pages Four-Day Campaign Trip Scheduled to Start October 9 Oregon, Washington Locations Listed Washington (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson today announced a four-day campaign trip starting Oct. 9 into Montana, Idaao. Washington, Oregon and Cali fornia. Announcement of the Demo cratic presidential candidate's new trip came shortly after President Eisenhower disclosed he was stepDing ud his campaign schedule. The President also has added a trip to the North west to his itinerary this month, with visits to two states where Stevenson will appear Wash ington and Oregon. Stevenson willstart his West ern tour only two days after winding up a six-day swing starting Tuesday through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York City and New England. Confers With Strategists The tour will include-speeches at Great Falls, Mont.; Boise. Ida., and Seattle, Wash., Oct. 9: one at Portland. Ore., Oct. 10: another at Oakland. Calif., and a national television ad dress in the San Francisco area Oct. II, and speeches Oct. 12 at Fresno. Long Beach and San Diego, Calif. Today. Stevenson worked in Washington, conferring with top Democratic strategists, including liis campaign manager, James A. Finncgan. Stevenson met with his run ning mate. Sen. Estes Kefauver, late Sunday to compare notes on their recent campaign experi ences. Kefauver, who was sched uled to leave today on a vote bidding trip through the South west, said afterwards, "things are looking fine; we're making good progress everywhere." Receive! Optimistic Report Earlier. Kefauver and Steven son conferred with Roger Ste vens, finance chairman of the Stevenson - Kefauver Campaign Committee. While results of this meeting were not divulged, the Democratic presidential nominee received an optimistic report that voluntary contributions to his campaign are pouring it at more than 20 times the rate of his unsuccessful 1952 race. Stevenson and Kefauver had not had a chance to review their campaign strategy for about two weeks. Stevenson's press secre tary, Clayton Fritchey, said in advance that they would "com pare a few notes." Fritchey also announced that Stevenson has named Mrs. Eu genie Anderson of Red Wing, Minn., as a member of his cam paign advisory staff. She was the first U.S. woman ambassa dor. She was named to represent this country in Denmark in 1949 by former President Truman. Stevenson and his son, Bor den, attended All Souls Unitari an Church Sunday morning. Later they played tennis at the home of Alfred Friendly, manag ing editor of the Washington Post and Times Herald. Salem (U.R) A- large section of Spring Valley and the Eola Hills area was without power for about three hours last night when a car sheared off a power pole on Wallace road near the community of Lincoln. Fitzpatrick entered a bar just before the 3 a.m. Sunday clos ing time for a few drinks with old friends. Police, who disapprove of peo ple who park near hydrants, soon arrested the pilot. Authorities agreed that it was quite an aeronautical feat. The plane, which has a landing speed of 50 miles an hour and a wing spread of 32 feet 10 inches, glided between buildings which are 100 feet apart. The street, which was lined with parked cars, was free of normally heavy daytime traffic. Police had aviation experts EISE1M .m 'OPENS UP' OH DEMOS STEVENSON SETS NORTHWEST VISIT iC-:, Traffic Death Toll Continues to Rise Chicago (U.R) The traffic death rate tapered off but still rose 2 per cent in August, the National Safely 'Council reported today. Traffic deaths totaled 3.E00 for the month, compared with 3,530 for August. 1955. The Safely Council said it "was the 18th straight month in which Ihe death loll rose. The council said a new rec ord death loll for the year, somewhere between 41.000 and 42.000. appears to be a certainly. Soviet Leaders Get Tito, Gero Face to Face at Conference London (U.R) The Soviet leaders brought Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and Hungary's Erno Gero face to face today in Yalta in an apparent effort to make them end their long stand ing feud. Moscow radio announced that Gero and Soviet Premier Niko lai Bulganin had joined Tito, Soviet Communist Party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev and secur ity chief Gen. Ivan Serov in the mysterious Communist goings on in the Crimea. The Moscow broadcast made it sound like a pleasant summer outing with a party of 20 or so high Communists and their wives strolling along the beach and sitting down to a luxurious meal. But there were growing indications the meeting was brought on by a maior schism in the Communist party. More Friendly Tito has become more friendly in recent months with most of the Communist satellites. But he has remainrd cool to Hungary and Albania, his neighbors who were second only to Russia in attacking him when he broke with Josef Stalin. The Communists earlier "ap peased" Tito by ousting his arch enemy, Malyas Rakosi, as head of the Communist party in Hun gary and replacing him with Gero. But Tito has never indi cated any great fondness for Gero who has made little radi cal changes in Hungarian policy. Rakosi was dismissed for be ing too strong a Stalin man for following too closely the "cult of the individual." Many obser vers consider Gero equally as pro-Stalin and say that is why Hungarian Yugoslav relations have not improved. Banks Superintendent Sworn in Office Today Sajem (U.R) Marshall A. Case, Portland, was sworn in at 10 a.m. today as Oregon's new state superintendent of banks by Chief Justice Harold J. Warner of the Oregon Supreme Court. After the brief formal cere mony, Justice Warner congratu lated Case by saying: "You're in, boy." Case, 65, succeeds A. A. Rog ers who is retiring. He has been a banker in Portland since 1910. The new superintendent was recently appointed to the state banking board which is made up of the governor, secretary of state and state treasurer. He be came vice president of the Bank of California in 1953 and is a past president of Portland clear ing house. on Street check the plane and reported nothing mechanically wrong with the craft. Fitzpatrick was taken to jail. Hewas arraigned and ordered held in $5,000 bail on suspicion of grand larceny. Fitzpatrick, a licensed pilot who claims to have 400 hours flying time, will ex plain at a hearing Wednesday his violation of a city ordinance which forbids landing of planes on the street, careless and reck less operation of aircraft, im proper landing and landing and possession of an outdated civil aeronautics medical certificate. ! ff "('tfS i a wRD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1956 High Court Opens 1956-57 Session With Heavy Docket 500 Appeals, Motions Set for Consideration Washington (U.R) The Supreme Court formally conven ed its 1956-57 session today. It faces one of the heaviest dock ets in history. The 25-minute session was de voted to the usual opening day formalities. Chief Justice Earl Warren, starting his fourth year on the high court, presided in a warm and friendly manner. He first called on Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. who presented J. Lee Rankin, recently appointed solicitor general. Justice Sherman Minton. soon to be replaced by New Jersey Supreme Court Judge William J. Brcnnan Jr..' sat at his place on the far left of the bench watching the proceedings. Min ton is retiring Oct. 15 because of his health. The nearly 500 appeals and motions filed since last June and 60 previously accepted for review nut a heavy load on the court. They tlso put before the court a number of questions that have far reaching effects in the field of civii rights, state and federal powers, labor relations and business law. Brennan will receive a recess appointment, effective the day Minton retires. A formal nomin ation will go to the Senate when Congress reconvenes next January- Brennan is a Democrat and a Catholic. His appointment leaves the court lineup of six Democrats and three Republi cans unchanged. After th- opening cejemony the justices began weeklong con ferences to determine which among the cases they will accept for review. The rest must stand on lower court decisions. Three Nations Refuse To Join Association London (U.R) Japan, Pakis stan and Ethiopia refused today to join the Suez canal users asso ciation being formed here in the hopes of forcing Egyptian Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser to ne gotiate an end to the Suez crisis. But they kept hopes of even tual Western unity alive by an nouncing their delegates would sit in on the remainder of the third London Suez conference. Eighteen nations which backed the original Dulles plan for plac ing the canal under internation al operation met here today to try to complete the association before the United Nations Secu rity council can act later this week. They were faced not only with a speedup because of early U.N. action but the problem of main taining unity of purpose. Four Registrars . Omitted From List . Names of four registrars in Jackson county, in addition to those previously listed, were an nounced today by Mrs. Bcreth Hopkins, county clerk. The additional registrars in clude Mrs. Lula G. Watson, 1638 Steward ave., Medford. register voters in precincts 58, 64 and 68; Mrs. Mary G. Kelly, 906 West 4th st., Medford, all precincts; Mrs. Kathleen Bash, 1325 Bundy ave., Medford, all precincts; and Mrs. Donna Straus, Sams Val ley, all precincts. Complete list of registrars in the county will be published again in the Mail Tribune to morrow. You Must Be Registered To Vote November 6 Registration Deadline October 6 "... And We Promise You That, If Not Convicted We Will Carry Forward Our Great Program ..." Candidates' Visit Top State's By UNITED PRESS President Eisenhower and Ad lai Stevenson disclosed plans to day to appear in Oregon this month. President Eisenhower will make a major political address in Portland Oct. 18. He will ap pear in Seattle and Tacoma earl ier. Stevenson, Democratic candi date for president, plans a four day campaign into the west start ing Oct. 9. He plans a speech in Portland Oct. 10. The Democrats also billed an other campaigner. Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee plans to be in Oregon Oct. 13 and 14. Sen. Wayne Morse carried his campaign to Eugene yesterday and attacked the administration's record on public housing as "in excusable" and called it a con tributing factor to the slump in the lumber business. Today the senator is schedul ed to be in The Dalles. The rest of the week he planned to be in Linn county Tuesday, Portland Wednesday, Deschutes county on Thursday, and back to Portland Friday. Busy Week Morse's opponent, Douglas Mc Kay, also outlined a busy week. He announced plans to visit Industries Operate On Substitute Power Portland (U.R) Thirteen big Northwest industries were operating with substitute power today after the Bonneville Pow er Administration cut off 500, 000 kilowatts of interruptible power to them. The cutoff was made neces sary because of low water con ditions. The metallurgical industries were operating on 100,000 kilo watts of California-Oregon Pow er company energy and some 400,000 kilowatts of federal pow er from early release of storage water in Hungry Horse reser voir. The industries agreed to re place the amount of Hungry Horse power they use this month if the big reservoir does not fill up next spring. BPA said that the Hungry Horse arrangements make it pos-1 sible to take care of the big customers under any circum stances through October. Interruptible power is that as signed to industries under con tracts which allow the power to be cut off if conditions necessi tate it. T. R. Florey Receives Parking Lot Contract T. R. Florey of Medford was awarded the contract this morn ing for grading and paving the parking lot behind the court house. A bid of $1,575 was accepted for the work which consists of approximately 700 square yards. Other bidder for the project was the Rogue River Paving company also of Medjord. Tribune Politics Washington, Douglas and Lane counties and give major speech es twice in Portland. Gov. Elmo Smith scheduled a campaign trip through eastern Oregon this week, starting with a breakfast at Condon today The schedule will take the gov ernor to many towns in eastern Oregon before he goes to Taft on the Oregon coast Friday. Marshall Swearingen, past president of the Oregon Farm Bureau federation, yesterday was named as campaign director for State Sen. Robert Holmes in his drive to unseat Gov. Smith. The Oregonian Journal, one of the metropolitan daily newspap ers which supported Stevenson in the 1952 presidential cam paign, editorially called for the reelection of President Eisen hower this year. In supporting the President, The Journal said that both can didates were able and "The coun try could not be seriously hurt with the election of either." September Normal Month in Medford September was a pleasant, nor mal month in the Medford vicin ity, the U.S. weather bureau sta tion here reported in its monthly summary today. The month was near average in both precipitation and temper ature. Average temperature for September was 64 degrees and the rainfall was .64 of an inch. Temperature was .4 of a degree below normal and precipitation .01 of an inch below. Hottest day of the month was Sept. 5 when the mercury regis tered 95 degrees. Coolest morn ing was on Sept. 21 when the month's lowest temperature of 34 was recorded. There were four days in which the maximum tem perature was more than 90 de grees. Only measurable rainfall was on Sept. 19. There were traces of precipitation on two other days. September had 20 clear, six partly cloudy and four cloudy days. Clear days were three more than average and cloudy days three less than for the normal September. Milton Eisenhower Is Installed as President Baltimore (U.R) Dr. Milton Eisenhower, the youngest broth er of the President, who was in stalled today as president of Johns Hopkins university, said he "has no political ambitions and does not aspire to the presi dency." Dr. Eisenhower resigned as president of the Pennsylvania State university to accept the presidency of Hopkins. But he said that the proximity of the Hopkins to Washington had nothing to do with his accepting the new post. Salem (U.R) Oregon's As sociation of secondary school principals will hold its 28th fall conference here Oct. 8-9. Price 10c United Press Full Leased Wire No. 164 Ike's Strong Blast Shows Toughening Up of His Campaign Speaks at Cleveland's Broad Public Square Cleveland, Ohio (U.R) Prest kent Eisenhower, using the liarshcstwords of his campaign, today accused the Democrats of condoning "paycheck robbery" by not doing enough to halt in flation. He also accused them of filling the voters' heads with "wicked nonsense" about his administra tion ard with "fancied ills" about the state of the nation. And he said the last time they were in power "special favorit ism, cronyism and laxity" reigned in Washington. Mr. Eisenhower's strong blasts at the opposition party were con tained in a campaign address pre pared for delivery today in Cleveland's broad Public Square. The speech marked the first time the Chief Executive has, in political parlance, fully "opened up" on the Democrats in this campaign. He will follow it up with a second address tonight a na tionwide radio and television, talk to be delivered at 9:30 p.m. from the University of Kentucky Coliseum in Lexington, Ky. it will be carried by the Columbia Broadcasting System. Mora Speeches Added The barbs used in today's ad dress, coupled with a White House announcement Sunday that more speeches are being added to the President's itiner ary, plainly showed Mr. Eisen hower is toughening up his cam paign. The new speeches, the White House said, will be part of a campaign swing into Minne sota, Washington and Oregon Oct. 17-19. In his attack today on the Democrats' handling of the in flation problem, Mr. Eisenhow er said: "The men of the opposition know perfectly well that one of the main reasons they were thrown out of office four years ago was their tolerance of the thievery of inflation." He said inflation cut the value of the average American's pay check by one-third in a seven- year period, "yet the opposition did nothing to stop this economic thievery and they know it." "The record shows we not they (Democrats) have made the most successful fight to stop inflation's robbery of every pay check," he said. Growing Schedule The growing campaign sched ule showed that the President in tended not only to make addi tional speeches, but also to help out in states where he is needed most to improve chances of the GOP regaining control of Con gress. In Cleveland, for instance, the President will confer with Sen. George Bender (R-Ohio) who is fighting for reelection. When he lands this afternoon in Lexing ton, he will be met by John Sher man Cooper and Thurston Mor ton, both running this year for Kentucky's two open Senate seats. On his trip to the Northwest Mr. Eisenhower will go into Washington state where Gov. Arthur B. Langlie is trying to defeat the Democratic incum bent. Sen. Warren Magnuson. He also will visit Oregon where former Interior Secretary Doug las McKay is battling Sen. Wayne Morse, a converted Demo crat, for a Senate seat. (See Story Page 9) Weather FORECAST: rMr tonleht and imrtlv cloudy Tuesday. Low tonight 42. MlKh Tuesday 711... Temp. Hirhest ye&terdav 76 Lowest tills morning ... 40 Our Skies Tonight Sunnsfi S:f8 a.m. Sunset 5:53 B.m. .loonnse luetday 4:jo a.m. New Moon Wednesday nlgnt PltOMNEN'T STARS: Altair, high In soutli 7:17 p.m. Slrtus, in southeast ..3:12am. VISIBLE PLANETS: Saturn, sets 7:43 p.m. Mart. In southeast 7:52 p.m. Venus, rlnei 2:49 am. Jupiter, nor Lb of the moon. i
