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r o0oo Uo O O o o o 0 O o o o O O n O WW o" w ' HE ? e in fnVn iyjliv (PAflfnl IMMflNl imtqpmi,? ii ipw mumifmKmmi jiauj awn mw,,W '.!! waws ' a -a mw. wa) 1,:, G Go Oc ,1 o o s0 o O r 51st Year Medford United Pn ull Lliud Wire 28 P.;.s American Legation Families Prepare For Evacuation " Nagy Rtporttd G soviet armored ttoops & Budapest P CD ; , : ; 1 Budapest (UP) Ruuia ta---. eade-4 rebellious Hungary te '.O-J G 4tf with heeey reinforeannnui 0 G troops, planes and aimoxad O p equipment. The Big Thiaa C Western aowtn imoiadiatalr called Bleating af lb UJ. o Security Council. 0. . 0 Budapest Hungary (U.R) Q- ("The United States, French and (J fllisn legations prepared loaay to send the wives and children 61 their staffs home in the face of reports that Russia has de- iidrd, to retake. Budapest by c force. 0 U There are about 20 wives and children of American Legation p. members here. In Washington. Monsignor J5ela Varga, Hungarian refugee IcadcC an id Communist Premier Imre?Jgy hna rcaigned. Verga O said Vice Premier Zoltan Tildy. chief of t the anti-Communist (23 OifttltU,o,JS party, had suc O (f) cieiled ".Vugy. Varga' said "ire-- jfi)idg,us" Russian armies were O j-enterinjuitiiary to .-a I tier i"rds ATld try to starve the lwngaEjahev into submission. - City Surrounded Many Budapest residents were nlaniang to flee to the west at (tfi -!rst sign of attack from So(4t troop) which nere re o liably reported surrounding the cit 10 to Id .miles from its f 0sfe"er. However, the capital was quiet this morning. No sounds of firing that would indicate the break f fighting were heard. O Tli Austrian radio quoted an r-o-i (Djfioiincement by the "Hungar- rratipnalist Headquarters" this morning that two columns of Soviet tanks and motorized troops wercjdvaucing on Buda pest from the northeast. .The re- port said heavy Soviet bombers GO and jet fighters had crossed the northeastern frontier f Hungary f .at Zoiiany and were heading1 tc 'ard airfields near Budapest. Josef Cardinal Mindszentv ag.tiri took the spotlight fit the potential leader of the almost Qlcfilr.evs revolution.'-' He ap- pcal'jckno the West for help "in hv&critical situation." He said all tiurcavv demands that the Oussimns leave tile country be- p,catfee the Hungarians want to -Avorko for themselves and for ovtn nation." 1 An editor of the official Hun- , (guciari- Mfl News Agency said -S'Oiei armed units had occupied ' ti'e Soviet-Hungarian frontier W statin of Zohany Uiis morning, OaecoVdirg to reliable reports. There have been unconfirmed re prVs tor several days that the Q Russians -have ppured hundreds QTussiansrJiave poured hundreds r(j;ssiani: Komaiiisn and Czeclio Q sovakinn horders. O q "-Budapest Radio broadcast con tiSiuous appeals to employees of firmCtn the shattered city to re gime 'wore,, but life was slow in taking on any aspect of nor malcy. Food was dangerously shoQ, street ears were stalled by lackQit power and buses by a gasoline shorlage. O Thrt0 Businwssmtn 0 Die in Plan Crash - Wilcox, Ariz. (U.f) Three OnorthefB California business men were killed iast night when their plane" crashed on a ranch 14 miles southeast of here short ly a!tr tsking off. Dead were Kenneth Carter, 530Santa Rosa. Clif.. manager of the Sonoma county fair; Louis Basso, 43, Santa Rosa, .and Chrisopher Beck. 48. of Peta lurnaSalif , president of the fair. Carter formerly lived in O Albaijy, Ore. - i Radio Highlights Vie President Richard M. Nixon will be heard' over sta. tion KYJG (1230 ke) at 10:30 tonights MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1936 Shadow and Cattle Rescued From Along Rogue; Heavy Rain Threat Eases About 100 head of Angus cat tle, belonging to Kirtland faimi at Central Point, were .rescued Thursday and moved' to higher. ground when . a grazing " area along the Rogue river became inundated. Mrs. Harriet ' Kendall, who with her husband operates the farms, said about 50 acres -of the pasture were covered with water. Awakened .Thursday The Kendalls were awakened bout 4 a.m. Thursday when nome Horses came from .the pas ture to the house and whinnied. Kendall went to the flooded graz ing area and found some cattle standing .on drift wood and oth ers' tangeled in berry vines. , At daybreak they moved all' but two to- higher ground. One bull joined the rest of .the herd today, Mrs. Kendall said. She theorized it had been marooned somewhere and waited for the water toTeccde. One calf has not as yet returned. She added- the pasture land is frequently flooded and indicated conditions Thursday" were not regared as an emergency. Kirt land Farms has 100 .acres' of land annually subject to floods. Partially Flooded ' The Tom Parker farms, north west of Kirtland farms, was also reported partially inundated as was the Wilton White .'orchard in the same area. A rain-laden storm, which formed off the west' coast, mov ed . northeastward into Alaska today and relieved the.Jtogue valley from the threat of heavy rainfall which might "have caused' flood conditions. While the fi.ve-day' forecast for western Oregon is heavier than normal precipitation the weath er bureau predicted " variable cloudiness in the Medford vicin ity through Saturday 'and fore saw no hard rain, here for a day or two. The Medford weather station, nevertheless, said thafits advice to civil defense leaders and to residents along the Rogue river to get ready .for winter still stands. Alert Workers Ma. Gen. Joseph Hicks alert-, ed civil defense workers yester day for possible emergency flood ' conditions and warned residents along the Rogue to he prepared for possible high water. At the time the weather sta tion said that there-was no imme diate danger but it was watching the storm movement along the coast which with" melfins snow could have met high streams. With the let-up of week-long rainfall, streams of the basin are normal, the weather bureau re- jported. Reading at. Dod?e bridge cn Hcgue river is 2.4 feet. Flood Substance j.r. stage is nine feet. At Grants Pass, where flood stage is 17, the read ing was 2.1. New snow at Crater Lake was .05 of an inch with 52 inches on the ground. Highway 62 through the park was opened yesterday after being closed, since Monday, and the road to the rim was ex pected to be opened later today. State police said there was no snow on Highways 119 over the Siskiyous and-66 over the Green Springs. Ike To Concentrate On War Prevention Washington U.R) President Eisenhower put aside his role of political campaigner today and concentrated on the grim task of preventing World War III. Mr. Eisenhower delivered his "final, formal address of this political campaign" before 18, 000 cheering Republican parti sans in Philadelpha"s Conven tion. Hall Thursday night. . . From here on out, .the Chief Executive will leave to the Re publican ' organization and his political lieutenants the chore cf completing his second term elec tion campaign. ' . Addressing himself to- the grave crisis in the Middle East, the President declared: "I shall continue to take all actions and decisions in these time's, not as a candidate for of fice, but as President of all the United States." ' He pledged to "practice the peace that we preach," saying that "the only way to' win World War ill is to prevent' it." Ike Offers Hungary $20 Million. in Aid Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower today offered Hun gary S20 million worth' of American foodstuffs and medical supplies. . .' Weather FORECAST: Variable cloudi ness tbrouRh Saturday. Mild tmprraturrft. t.nv tonltht .40. High Saturday .near 60. Temp. Hi chest Yesterday 42 Lowest this' Morning 41 Prec. t 4:jff a.m. Today 32 Our Skies Tonighf unrise, fi:ffi a.m. ipsft . 3:M p.m. S'w Mwn 8:13 a.m. PROMINENT 5TAF5 Mfletoran, In the east 9:11 p.m. Fomaihaut, Jor in ioth- e.it .Ilt33 p.m. VJSIBLE PLANETS Mars, ia the south S:35 p.Tn. ,-lupitr. low in eat 3:15 p.m. Venus, low in east" 1J8 a.m. Price 10c Tribune UnitM Prs Full Leased Wira No. 192 Tappings Heard From Men Trapped Deep in Coal Mine Seven Known Dead; 113 Still Trapped Springhill, N.S. (U.R) A res cue crew today heard "tapping" at the 3,400-foot level of a coal mine where more than 100 miners were trapped by an ex plosion of deadly coal gas. So far, there were 13 known dead in the disaster that struck the mine late. Thursday. The rescue men said they rapped eight times on a com pressed air pipe and received eight raps in return. Then they tapped five times and. were an swered by five. Saan Hopeful Sign They said they were n,ot sure, whether- the answering taps came from above or below them. But the. exchanges were regard ed as a hopeful sign that some of the men caught in the disaster might be still alive. Five men were killed in the explosion and two volunteers died during the rescue work. Five bodies were recovered . or sighted' in' the mine,' "and one man injured in the' explosion died, early today.'-' 113 Left Trapped ' ' That left 113 miners trapped below ground, making the pos sible toll 123. The explosion smashed the mine equipment and crews toil ed today, to set up a new hoist to speed their work. Two of the seriously injured were taken to a hospital in Hali fax today by Navy helicopter. Crowds of quietly -sobbing wives and children, and old men who worked in the pits in their youth, milled around beside cranes and hoists at the pithead refusing to believe ome could not be saved. Several persons were near the scene when the explosion oc curred. - "It was . just like an atomic bomb," an eyewitness said. U.N. Asks Cease Fire; Eden Refuses Answer United Nations, N.Y. (U.R) A. U.N. resolution called for a cease fire in -the Middle East today but Prime Minister An thony Eden refused in the House of- Commons to give his answer to the U.S. sponsored demand. The measure, overwhelmingly approved early today, had called upon Israel to withdraw its troops promptly from Egyptian soil and urged Great Britain and France to halt the movement of military forces and arms into the embattled area. -Eden declined to answer the U.N. resolution despite repeated opposition demands. However, British and French representatives to the United Nations indicated their govern ments' would reject the resolu tion because it "does not meet the situation." North Umpqua Project .Toketee Falls. -The-last of eight power plants in the Cali-fornia-Oregoo Power company streamflow- hydroelectric project on the North Umpqua and Clearwater rivers was cut in yesterday morning. . . The plant. Lemolo No. 2, adds about -33.000 kilowatts of pow er' to the Copco system in' North ern California and southern Ore gon..' The North Uippqua project can' deliver to the Copco net work a "total of .some 185,500 kilowatts with the new plant. All other Copco -installations Contribute 100,170 kilowatts..' About 10 years of work and expenditures of abont $50 mil lion are represented, in the eight power plants in the upper North INVASION Israeli half-track loaded with troops moves eastern banks as hostilities open between Egypt and. IsraeL Central Point Boy Held for Damaging Mail Boxes, Signs A 17-year-old Central Point boy was lodged in the county jail yesterday after admitting damaging or destroying about 100 mail boxes Wednesday night in the area oi Old Stage rd., be tween Beall lane and Kane Kreek rd. Sheriff's deputies said about 40 private signs had been torn from mail boxes and posts, and about 99 metal flags had been removed from mail boxes. The signs were later found in the yard of a residence occupied by Mrs. Ruby Opal Colgan, 617 Cedar St., Central Point.. Discorer Signs Mrs. Colgan discovered the sighs in her yard Thursday morning ' and notified Wallace Bowen, Central Point police chief. Boweh reported the com plaint to the sheriff's office and. Deputy Robert Gheysen was as signed to work -with Bowen on the case. Investigation, revealed the mail boxes posts na been up- rooted by hand with the bump-4 er of a car. Samples of blue auto paint were obtained from the posts and officers examined sev eral, blue cars in. the Central Point, area. The youth was stopped on the highway near " Central Point when officers observed the paint op his car matched samples they had taken from posts. The car bumper also was damaged. The boy admitted the act,, deputies said, and said he had been ac companied by two other youths who are on active duty in the Navy. One, 17 years old, is for merly of- Central Point and the other, 18 years old; is formerly of Gold Hill. Postal authorities were noti fied and told officers they would attempt to start proceed ings against the two TIavy youths. Two Bids Received For Project Plant Two bids have -been, submit ted for furnishing a 23,500 horsepower hydraulic turbine and governor for the Green Springs power plant of the Tal ent project, according to the bu reau of reclamation. ' Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing company,- Milwaukee, .Wis., sub mitted a bid of $373,245 f o.b. Rockford, 111., and West Allis, Wis. The Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton -corporation, San Francisco, submitted a -bid of $393,750, f.o.b. San Francisco. The equipment is to be deliv ered to Ashland. Award of con tract will await determination of -freight costs and other fac tors, the bureau said. Umpqua watershed. Six of the eight .plants had been built by- November, 1953', all rtear Clearwater Camp, the construction base. Thi. last two has been regarded by Copco of ficials as. the "most tadjous'' part of the work. A 120-foot dam, 885. feet long, first constructed at . the mouth of Lake creek! which pours -the water of Diamond lake into" the North' Umpqua river about 70 miles northeast of Medford and 85 miles east of Roseburg. Lem olo No. 1, a -plant about three miles downstream, was built and put into service in the summer of 1955.- . Construction of Lemolo No. 2 I was then started about 17 miles Mideast Sidelights Washington (U.P) The Unit ed States announced today that it has cut off all military ahip menta to Israel. Damascus, Syria (U.R) Sil ls broke off diplomatic rela tions with Britain end Fiance today. . . London (U.RI Prime Minis ter Anthony Eden refused to day despite repeated opposition Sample Ballots Still Available Mrs. Bereth HOpkina, county clerk, said today a limited sup ply of sample ballots for- the Nov. 6 general election is stilf available in the county clerk's office. She said those who desire sample ballots should obtain them immediately. Several resi dents have obtained ballots' dur ing the pajt-aeek. She also reminded voters in precinct- 47 that they -will -vote in the Washington school gym nasium and will use the Peach st. entrance to the . building. Y,ot"s tin Pcnct 47-A will use Election department "person- inel will be on duty on and be fore election day.- Those having questions concerning voting procedure may telephone or call at the office in person for infor mation. . Polls, in the county's 94 pre cincts will' be :open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Electors are being urged to vote early in the day if possible in order to avoid a late afternoon and evening rush as working people arrive at the polls. ' ' Light Plane Missing Hear Crescent City ; Gold Beach (U.R) A light plane .carrying three persons on a' flight down' the coast from Newport, Ore., to Eureka, Calif., was reported missing today. Reported aboard the red arid white Tri-Pacer aircraft "were Louis Jansen, 45; the pilot and operator of a Newport trucking company, and John Delzel and Don Dimnjick, both of Newport, according to-the CAA at Cres cent City, Calif.- Two planes from the Curry cpunty sheriff's rescue squadron and a Coast Guard plane .made a search just before dark with out finding a trace of the -missing craft.- DOW-JONES AVERAGES - New York (U.PJ Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 490.47,' up 2.85; 20 rail roads 159.54, up 0.76;-15 util ities 67:08, up 0.24, and 65 stocks 173.13, up 0.90. Seles to day were about 2.180J500 shares compared with l,89000 shares Thursday. . Adds 33,000 Kilowatts for Copco downstream. "About "850 Morri- son-Knudsen- employees were working in the area at one tinie last summer.-At'the peak of con struction , -the company was building 4,000-feet of waterway a week.'-. The carnal- was built m scar red 500-foot canyons. At some places the -canyon walls slope at 45' degrees. Much of the can al base is ihade of. loosely-stratified pumice from- the ruins of Mt. Mazama (now Crater Lake). According ' toi company . offi cials, North Umpqua river wa ter wili be .utilized five times in development jot-power through a series of waterways, extending over about 21 miles on the north side of the river. Elevation drops are from '4,145 feet at the toward the Suez Canal's o damanda to give his answer lb the United Nation resolution calling for a caasa fire in fha. Middle East. n Charge Dismissed;0 New One Is Filed A charge of obtaining a nar cotic drug unlawfully agafnst Mrs. Acy E. Yates, Prospect, wis dismissed in district courts last night and a newj charge tijed against her after preliminary hearing before District Judge LRawles Moore.0. 'n Mrs. Yates had -been accused of forging prescriptions for. aiaiua, a pain-renevuig narcooc, at Wainscott's pharmacy. 0She was arrested last Monday.o The judge held that the stater! naa iauea to. snow proat iat she had obtained the arug, Mrs. Yates, who had been he) A-in the county jail since her arrests W'as released. A short -time latarshe was again arrested andTeJurned to the countv iail when Harold C AVaihscott, owner of the phar macy, filed a new charge against her. She is now accused of at- ,. u. . . r B,"8 "UUV" "ouues lawfully. o Time for arraignment on the? new charge had not been jet this morning. o Mrs. Yates 1 husband, 0 also charged, with bbtainipg a nar cotic drug unlawfully, was buupd over to the grand jury after 8 preliminary hearing" Thursday. - .3 - Medford firemen Start0 Annual ChristmasToy Repairing Project 0 . Medford -city fire , depart- ment has begun Its annual pro ject of repairing toys to be used as gifts for youngaters of needy families at Christmas time. - c Fireinen . said ethat persons having broken but repairable. toys to contribute may leave cj them at the main firs' station at Third and Front its. Lady Lions cooperate the project in the distribution of the toys. c. Building Permits Sn9Wo0, Increases inMedford Building p'e'rmits issued in October totaled "e!56.6IO. com9 pared with $195,019 for October last year, according to Oliver R. McNeel, Medford building oin spector. Among permits for ftclobeP, were 16 new homes, S178.0O; 1 homes remodeled, $12,625: tHree apartments remodeled, $6,0(f0; two new" businesses, 5500; tw. uusiiitrases itrniuuvieu, i,uu, and. 13 signs, $8,595. Q Portland (U.Pj A manidi tKied.as John K Bilyeu, 4PoTi gard, was killed today when his car crashed near Beaverto1!, "g reservoir supplying Lemolo No. 1 to 2,000 ftct at the pda,! Springs' plant. That jtives a net effective head of 2,139 ftet for the five plants. Two more plaSts use the waters of the Clearwa ter and. the tfco have a total droo of 1,362 feet. o The. newest plant's enstock drops water 997 feet from Fish creek into the generators of a plant on . the south barSc of thet North Umpqua. In all, more than 33 biiles of flume and can al carry" water from diversion points to the eight power plants in the project. The eight power plants can be controlled from the Toketee power plant. All power i fed west to a switching station at Dixonville, east Oi Roseburg, O -- l 0 n n o o EgypfAipRct S?id)MM Shipping Wsirne Troop Coirtroliorts o Q -, Targt of Airplanes London (U.R)Q- The Agglo French coftimand claimeOoday1) to have wipedeput the Egyptian' Air ForcJ;oJt broadcast warn- in1 the Egyptian peftiis in dicating that invasion-'r the 0 Suez Canal ZotiiV-Vas imminent. Sritairi's Cyurws radio warned Arab listeners that "our war ships v.Ql disembark tanks;nd guns on Eg$ptin(3oil." a The ,Brifi!jh9digiraQ waed all Meiant sifigng keep but of the Mediterranean (be tween Cylrus and EgSpt and out) Of -the Gulf of Suli soiith of 'Egypt. o O . S rA XonUhuniqm; ise8 at An-glo-FrenchpEx&edion Head quarters ofi Cyprus nghied land, sea and air commanders fe the final operafoirO 2 Warn Civiai(s Bjitish and French jet (fight ers and bombers from (Cyprus and airift criers 8f both endjrjof the canajgdiverjed some of their attacks on tftrvntian air- friefrls to (ttoop coricestrations. A British brbadcis't warned Egy Dtfiir5 civilians tn stav nwnv (Jjiwn) "military (amosO around be bombed tonight. 'Igyptian Present Game! Ab) del Naer, assunWifHrirtuSl die- tatorial powers inJiis role as i militarv Alvpftinr cwiAralhan. 5oned Sinai Desert positions Israeli attackers anflj ifnts con centrating hiaf(S)-res nt thn FcanaPfor promised "total war." WaeVTakes Ckta Strip IHvadjng Israeli forces claimed to have5 taken over viSually the enfire Sir PaBinsula, includ- ijig Caza, a city of abgjt 40,000, Sid tho,GJiza Strip jammed with more rthatn 200?j&0 Palestinian rofugeis. O O Capture of the SiiSjPenlnsula meant that the Jsraelis?had taken over -Egyptiag) terory 240 miles King) ad130 iles (flee at its vGdest paoTt09 0 In add-on Q Gaza, the Israi?) lis cliSmed holdahe vital A6u Athelia Road juriQiSn. the Red J janro ui iran arna oena- un-aibahjr anithe road to Port Said. a cc&taT ro3iethe Eevntiamti hSa pianneato use aan escape An Israeli SfDk'esman said other Israeli (TJroops had en--, tcjed" Al y&ish, 50 miles westJ of Gaa. O O q Cease TiraJllumoPs, , o In lieirjit, flier wersj) runors that tliC IsraDs w niifiit be willing to accejS a cease fire. It was the tfctrd da of round the tiiick (firitish aial French boinbing of EgyptSn notary targets. dToijay, Britr twin-jet planefj knocked o the Cairo radio trangmitter. x 0 Communiques said bombera) and arocSet-firing fighters ot the ioint- coriftnand HSffi Dut more ttnaic 120 EgypSanvplanes ,it of acjionCbn thT)ground, effectively crippling Jthe Egyptian Air Fjfrce. le French DjensgjMin istry said the "essential destruc tion nf Kpvati&i airnrniL-pr ronli) ' SjoBsidered Snlete." : o tgypiosajfl snnaa oflwiiea a total of : tr tr (cf ' o plana. e,T M,ii. .v.- Britisg ilanehi stSk one shin iiawayo aiong ie sinr. anai and another a the southern en trance, blocking the waterway to ip!ftng. oUnitekPres Cgf respofident Pfiter Webb af Port Said, the canal( northern ter minusoconfirmed tat the canal was closed. Invaon Seems NarJ Q 0The joint command on Cyprus feharg5 that -ie Egyptians them selves had "partially" blocked the canal b;f deliberately sinking a ftrif.er U.t. lanaing craft mid way along the' channel. TherCwas redirect indication as to what "H-hour" the Anglo French force hd set for the in vasions bu) both air Sand sea landinftppeared imminejj'L, anddistribd throughout the systems. Thp nlantP ar Tatpd -fnt- lows: 33.0C fofo Lemolo 1: 33.000 forT,emo"lo No. 2; 45 000 fftr Tok?e; 20,000 for Slide greek; 12.500 for Soda Springs: 8.000-for Clearwater No. 1; 32.OOO($orClea0vater No. 2; and 12,000 for Fish Creek. All are single-generator plants, except TSketee, which has three. A small community was built during the construction period of theast plant. Copco built ac commodations for construction workers and their families at Clearwater camp. A permanent LGopco maintenance and operat ing crew win oe nousea at mo service ranger station at Toketea Falls. . 3
