Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 12, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI. Writer Tells lLutor' not: lmted Press Staff rorrFiponflrrtt Anthonv laspndish fiss- from Warsaw to Budapest Oct. J aharJ a Polish Rd Cross plane and stalked into Budapest past lone lines f soviet tanks leavmc the burmni; capital. He sull Wat tn Budapest when the Russians returned to berjn de struction of the onre ftcaulifuj clt on the Danube, tavendish now has ar ris ed in lenna after heme captured and held hv the Russians more than in hodis in the Hungarian town of tirntT In the followins dtspatrh he tells the story of the rape of Ihe Hun Ftrlan capital by the Red Arias.) By ANTHOHY CAVENDISH Pnitd Press Correspondent" Vicuna (U.Pi The smell of fV-ath hangs over Budapest. Hun ger and disease stalk the liv ing. ; ' ; . More than,. 200.0UO Soviet trops, equal to 15 full Red Army divisions, hold shattered Hungary in their grip.. C Yet last ditch rebels fight pn gainst the Red invader. When I left Budapest Thurs day to bring out the story of the city's martyrdom, 'the bodies of r MfDITFRPANf AN SEA : . .' ' a '. ' " 5 '. ' ' ' C - -"S-&, .:. v. MA& ' fi. iSOAlilfay j rinf Jim syT .NUM., I . W SINAI PENINSULA 4 "-e " aV (A IOA o SrtfS !.A S. St m OT . l -s b a. a SPORADIC FHiJlTING continues in various areas aTtcr ceaae-flie in Egypt. Cairo reports' fighting continues around Port Said tl) and denies Ismailia (1) has been occupied by AngloeFrench troops. On Sinai Peninsula CJ), arrows .indicate territory captured by Israel, which accuses Jordan (3), of many vaids.( International Soundphoto) Uneasy Truce Seen Between Quarreling Factions of Kremlin Loriflnn -UT.) Diplomatic re ports from Moscow today said an uneasy truce ppcars to. have been established, between the quarreling factions of the Krem lin witr the Red army acting as umpire. Soviet Army Marshal Georgi k Zhukov, minister of national rie fc lense, has increased his influ ence considerably over "old Bol shevik" Vyacheslav Molotov and Communist party boss Nikita S. - Khrushchev, the reports sam. The diplomats said the new power, struggle in the Kremlin i was expected to reach its climax I u (jiext month at the meeting of ; the Communist party's central j committee. I Thi reports said the events in Eastern Europe have had a "pro 3 found effect" on the Kremlin's leadership and have led to con siderable dissension among the Soviet ieaders.c " The collective leadership sccm J ingly h;t agreed on a truce for 3 the time being to enable Russia "to deal first with the urgent po litical anrl military aspects of the (East European uprising and the Mideast crisis, the report said. The Red army was understood r. ' to have stepped in to hold the peace while ."mopping up" oper ation! continue in Hungary and while .Poland's moves remain uncertain. 0 L' Zhiiaiov, hero of the battles of Moscow and Berlin, was report ed gaining rapidly in influence and power. Then was no succcstion so far tharthe Rc army is taking! ver from Khruslichcv. But the j indications were the, army al Scouts Hold Annual Meet, Awards Banquet Scouts and Scout leaders from Jackson, Josephine and Siskiyou counties Sunday attended the annual meeting and recognition banquet of the Crater Lake area Boy Scout council. The event highlights the Scouting year. Featured at the banquet, held in the Ashland Elk's club, was presentation of awards. Scout master William R. Clary, Grants Pass, was presented the Silver Beaver award, the highest award given by the council, for out standing service as a Scout freedom fighters and dead Rus I sians still lay in its streets. I The crump of Russian artillery fire shook the ruins. Smoke rose from still burning build ings. Every now and then the j crack of the rebel guerilla's rifle j shot rang out, followed by the boom of Russian tank guns and the staccato rattle of Soviet tommy gunners. In alleyways, in darkened streets and from the gias.slcss windows of shattered buildings, the fight goes on. .It was the steel-sided tank against the sniper bullet. It was desperate youngsters who spring I up as last as oiners are cut aown. It was the flaming bottle of gaso line against armor and big guns, j It was suicide to be a. Red j Army infantryman in that kind I of battle without quarter. Soviet headquarters in Buda j pest are established in the Hun I garian Defense Ministry. RAMAI lit Avr.pt -.-. av mim E.tAUIAvvJf' VV-V-'.-. nm.u kt fah tl NAAfrjfAOA8 RED SEA ready has played an important part in swaying the Kremlin's decision in favor of military in tervention in Hungary. Zhukov's view prevailed. And by taking this line, he has giveri support to Molotov, one of Sta lin's closest collaborators. Molo tov moreover was understood to be backed by Marshal Ivan Ko niev. chief of the Warsaw "Red NATO" command. Young Girl Arrested, Admits Shoplifting A 12-year-old Medford girl was arrested Saturday after her mother reported the girl had several stolen articles in her possession, according to Medford police. Police reported the girl ad mitted shoplifting articles valued at S4.98 from the J. C. Penney 's store. 106 'North Central ave., Medtord; S9.98 worth of items from Mann's Department store, 14 North Central ave.. Medford; and S2.98 worth of articles from J. J. Newberry's, 36 North Cen tral ave., Mediord. She also admitted the theft of a boy s Hercules bicycle from the YMCA building Nov. X, ac cording to police. It was regis tered to Nelson Durand Waller, 283 Berrydale ave., Medford. " The girl "was released to her parents, and ordered to appear before juvenile authorities. Salem (U.Ri The State High way Department today reported bare pavement on virtually all Oregon highways. Golden leader awards for out standing service were presented to James A. Johnston, Cubmas ter. Washington PTA Pack 6 of Medford. Eugene S. Pulley. Cave Junction, and Jack R. Daw son. Medford. Officers of the council, elect ed at a meeting in the Southern Oregon college library, were George C. Flanagan, Medford. president: Robert D. Manchel. Grants Pass. George R. Schra der. Mt. Shasta, and Dr. Elmo Stevenson, Ashland, vice presi dents: Frank Bash. Medford, treasurer; and J. A. McDougall, I? m A af I if I ;.-?f:-. ,..,;; of Rape of The Soviet commandant is a Major General Grebennik. No one seemed to know his first name if it matters. But the mastermind behind the Red Army's efforts to crush free Hungary is generally be lieved to be Marshal Georgi Zhu kov himself, conqueror of Ber lin, hero of the Soviet Union, Soviet defense minister. Westerners estimate that crack armored units make up 80 per cent of the Red Army troops throughout Hungary. 51st Year United Press Full Leased Wire 16 Pages Hungary Strike Appears To Gain Some Concessions Bread Offered as Lure For Return To Work Vienna flJ.R) A general strike that has paralyzed Hun gary for 20 days appeared today to be winning concessions from the Soviet-controlled puppet re gime where death and bravery had failed. This ruthless extermination of the freedom fighters by 200,000 Soviet soldiers left only a hand ful of rebels holding out in is olated posts. But the strike brought famine, chaos and em barrassment to the Reds. Bread For Starring Today the puppet rulers held out a promise of bread to the starving in a new attempt to lure workers back to their jobs, but death by starvation rather than by a Soviet bullet appeared a likely choice by many rebels. Premier Janos Kadar faced worse chaos than that used by Moscow as an excuse to depose the government of Imre Nagy and throw its armed might into suppression of the rebellion. Kadar even hinted he might bring Nagy back into the gov ernment to try to win support from the Hungarian people who have suffered between 12.000 and 20.000 dead in their fight for freedom. Freedom Fighieri 'Crushed' Kadar said Sunday the free dom fighters had been "crush ed." He admitted that guerrilla fighting continued in Budapest I and the provinces but brushed aside the effort of die-hard reb els against the mass weight of the Soviet forces. Russia poured in some 4.000 tanks and 200.000 troops to stamp out the anti-Moscow resisitance. Young Duck Hunter Dies in Accident James Robert Taylor, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Taylor. Braden Mine road. Central Point, drowned near Klamath Falls Sunday, Nov. 11, while on a duck hunting expedition with his brother and two compan ions to the Williamson river. Officers recovered the body from about seven feet of water some three hours after the acci dent. Klamath County Sheriff Mur ray Britton said that Taylor was hunting with his brother, Wil liam Fred Taylor, Robert Cane, Central Point, and Perry James Waterhouse of Gold Hill. The four men were moving down the river in their outboard motor boat at top speed. Britton said, when they shut off the motor. The boat suddenly dipped in the water and the victim fell into the river. His companion's efforts to pull him from the water were unsuc cessful. Taylor is survived by his par ents: fwo brothers, William Fred and Ivan: one sister, Ann; and grandfather, Fred Taylor of Gold Hill. The body is being returned to Medford. Conger-Morris Funeral home will be in charge of ser vices and interment. Portland iU.R) Julian Ar rlen of Vale has been reelected president of the Oregon Wool Growers association. Medford. Scout commissioner. National council representa tives are Flanagan. Manchel. Schrader and Carroll Smith of Ashland. H. D. Christensen, Med ford. and Dr. Stevenson were named national council mem bers. Honoray members are C. R. Adamson, Medford. Seth Bullis. Medford: Henry Enders. Ashland: Howard Hicks. Yreka: Larry Schade Sr., Medford: and Eugene Thorndike, Medford: Christensen and M. N. Ho gan. Medford, were elected ex ecutive committee members-at-large.' MedfordJTribune The Soviets launched their at tack at just 4:50 a.m. on that Sunday Nov. 4. A thunderous artillery barrage crashed into the old city around the former royal castle on the west side of the Danube. A heavy Red Army battery perched on Gellert Hill over looking the city blasted Hun garian rebel strong points. Elephantine T54 tanks with 100-millimeter cannon lumbered into the streets of the city, still only half-awake and unaware MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1956 JL MC AUV Dr. In Portland Sunday Dr. Charles T. Sweeney, 87. well-known physician and resi dent of the Rogue valley since 1910. died at 10:30 a.m. Sunday in Portland. DR. CHARLES T. SWEENEY Dies in Portland Parade Highlights Veterans Day Observance Here A Veterans Day parade start ing at 11 a.m. at the Library park and marching through downtown Medford highlighted the observance of Veterans Day today. About 18 organizations par ticipated in the parade. All schools and federal, coun ty and city offices and banks were closed today in observance of Veterans Day which was yes terday. Other highlights of the day included a 7 a.m. veterans breakfast, sponsored by the Am erican Legion, at the Legion hall, 531 South Riverside ave. Participants in the parade in cluded the Medford High school band. Headquarters Company of the National Guard. Medford: Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War; American tegion, Post 15, and its 40 et 8 locomo tive; Crater Lake chapter of the Ladies Auxiliary; Civilian Air Patrol, Medford; Medford chap ter of the Disabled American Veterans; McLoughlin Junior High school band; Eagles Drill team; Navy reserves: Medford fire department ladder truck; Troop 166 of the Jefferson school Girl Scouts, Den 8, Cub Scouts, Medford; Hedrick Jun ior High school band; American Red Cross and the Rogue Valley Quarter-Midget racing associa tion. Members of the Retail Merch ants association agreed, earlier this month to remain open dur ing the day. Veteran employees, however, were permitted to at tend the breakfast and partici pate in the parade. Ashland Youth Hurt In Target Practice Charles Francis Bounds, 14. of 542 Allison st., Ashland, was ac cidentally shot in the leg Sun day afternoon while target prac tice shooting with two friends, James Skibby and James Lee, sheriff's deputies said. The accident happened about five miles from Ashland on Ash land Loop rd. According to the report. Lee slipped in a rock, dropping his .22 rifle which fired upon hitting the ground. The bullet hit Bounds in the leg between the knee and ankle causing a minor injury to the leg muscle. Hungary of the torture it still faced. Within an hour the Russians occupied all main centers and the bridges across the broad Danube river. Maj. Gen. Pal Maleter, hero of the first rebel stand at Kilian Barracks and now Hungarian de fense headquarters negotiating with the Russians. A Soviet officer marched up to the main door of the Kilian Barracks and demanded entry. A rebel sentry opened the door. The officer was shot dead on O t-sn c io n In recent years, he had made his home at the Lithia hotel in Ashland. Dr. Sweeney was born Sept. 10, 1869, in Johnson county, Mis souri. He began his medical studies at the age of 17 and en tered medical school in Kansas City at the age of 18. He gradu ated three years later. His first eight years of practice were in Chilhowee, Mo., and in 1905 he was awarded an honorary doctor of medicine degree by the medi cal department of the University of Kansas. Moved to Oregon After 10-years of practice in Montana, he moved to Oregon, where he treated his first patient in 1910. His first hospital case was in Mediord in 1911, one year before Sacred Heart hospi tal was completed. Prior to his retirement in 1945, Dr. Sweeney specialized in sur gery and obstetrics. He deliv ered approximately 2,500 babies and performed 400 goiter opera tions. He took special training in goit'er surgery with the Mayo brothers. Demo Representative lie also served one lerm as Democratic representative for Josephine county in the Oregon legislature in 1917. He was on the committee of roads and high ways, which designated the route of the Pacific highway. He also found time to raise dairy caitle as a hobby. Dr. Sweeney- was past presi dent of the Jackson county and Southern Oregon District Medi cal societies and of the Oregon Medical society for the year 1933. He was also past president of the Pacific Northwest Medical society and was a life member of the Fellow American College of Surgeons. He was a lifelong Democrat and a member of the Presbyterian church for more than 80 years. He became a Ma son in 1891 and was also a Shrin er and Son of the American Revolution. , An ardent admirer of Sir Wil liam Osier, Dr. Sweeney shared the famous doctor's belief that 95 per cent of all people are honest. In keeping with this philosophy, he never sent a bill to a patient. Dr. Sweeney was married to Mary E. Cleland on March 30, 1892, in Warrcnsburg, Mo. She died on Dec. 8, 1949 in Carmel, Calif. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ann G. Day, Portland, brother, Ray Sweeney, Warrens burg, Mo.; and a sister, Grace Wilkonson, Carmel. Calif. He was a brother of the late Ralph Sweeney, treasurer of Jackson county for several years until his death last year. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, at Perl's Funeral home. The Rev. B. J. Holland of the First Presbyte rian church of Ashland will of ficate. Pallbearers will- be Dr. W. G. Bishop. Dr. William W. P. Holt, Dr. Charles W. Lemery, Archie Fries, Bill Hansen and Charles W. . Reames. - Entomb ment will be in the Medford Memorial mausoleum. Weather FORECAST: Fob w-h occasion al drizzle tonight and Tuesday morning. Partial clearing Tuesday afternoon. Fair and mild above 3.000 feet. Low tonight 36. High Friday 50. Temp. Hichest yesterday 32 Lowest this morning .. 37 Prec. To 10 a.m. today 01 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise :.".H a.m. Sunset 4:52 p.m. Moonset Tuesdav 2:08 a.m. Full Moon " Saturday night MARS, seen near the moon to night, is now about 60 million miles from the Earth. It con tinues to prow Klowlv dimmer as its distance from the Earth Increases. by the spot. Red Army tanks converged on the yellow stone building, al ready pock-marked from the earlier fighting. The tanks opened point-blank fire on it. Within an hour it was blaz ing and more than 300 of the 700 original defenders were either dead or dying. Directly in the line of fire was a children's clinic with more than 200 sick youngsters in it. Doctors and nurses sent out desperate pleas to spare the Price 10c United Preu Full Leased Wire No. 200 With The Greatest Of Ea&e A1- Fog Conditions May Lift for Short Time, . Weatherman Predicts There's some chance the Rogue valley's dense blanket of fog may lift slightly for a day or two, according to the weather bureau at the Medford airport. Weather observers said a cool front approaching from the coast is expected to reach here late tonight and may dissipate fog temporarily. The change is ex pected to be. only moderate and not sufficient to clear fog for a long period of time. Forecast for tonight is light fog with occasional drizzle. Fog hanging over the valley for the past 10 days has resulted in cancellation of 75 per cent of West Coast Air lines flights and 50 per cent of Southwest Air lines flights to and from Med ford. United Air lines officials re port that 70 per. cent of their Morse Off To Capital. For Special Meeting Portland (U.P.) Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), left here yesterday for Washington, D.C. and a special meeting of the Sen ate Foreign Relations commit tee. Morse said the committee was scheduled to hear a complete briefing on the eastern Europe and Middle East situations. MOD CHAIRMAN Jerry Gasti neau, above, district manager for Equitable Life Assurance So ciety, has been named Jackson county chairman of the March of Dimes. The annual fund rais ing appeal for money to combat infantile paralysis will be held from Jan. 2 through 31 and again is sponsored in the county by the Mediord Lions club. I V. .. t , k y , oviet Troops building. But the Red Army gun ners were ruthlessly deaf to the appeals. In an hour the building was. a shambles, piled deep with the mangled bodies of children and other patients. How many were killed there never was known for sure. But certain it is that few escaped. The young men were all out fighting. Or their bodies lay mangled in the streets. Soviet tanks drove callously over them. Almost all had been shot down by the Red Army tank guns. ' Western observers put the Hungarian casualties in the first four days of the battle at around. 5,000 Hungarians and perhaps 500 Russians. But when the city morgue was called -to remove a body last Wednesday a harassed official replied that he already had 12,000 bodtes stacked there. That may or may not have been so. Most likely it was vastly incoming flights have been land ing at Klamath Falls instead of Medford due to the fog. Only United Air lines flight cancella tion has been the flight that ar rives and terminates in Medford at 9:30 p.m. and leaves Me'dford at 7 a.m. State police report only a few traffic accidents have resulted from fog conditions. Officers said, "Most people are scared by the fog and aren't driving ex cept when necessary." , Two Districts Slate Elections . Elections will he held in two irrigation districts between 8 .a.m. and 5 p.m. tomorrow for directors. Incumbent Paul Culbertson. director in Medford Irrigation district, will be opposed -by Harold Compton, Phoenix d. Oompton's name has been in advertently omitted from' prev ious stories on director elections in the Mail Tribune. He filed late the final day for filing, Oct. 29. The MID elcction'will be held in the Phoenix Grange hall. The other election will be in Eagle Point Irrigation district, where incumbent E. H. -Bigham. and Ed Greenwood are seeking a three-year term. Voting will be at the irrigation district 'of fice.. Unopposed for 'director in pther irrigation districts are Otto Bohnert, Rogue River Val ley district; Lester Parks. Gold Hill district; and Homer Moore and Evan Rasmussen, Talent Ir rigation district. When there is no opposition t.o candidates who have filed for the office, no elec tion is held. Arrest of KF Suspect Interrupts Wedding Klamath Falls IU.R) A 28- year-old Klamath Falls elec trician, scheduled to be married Saturday, was taken into custo dy shortly before the ceremony and charged with the $2700 rob bery of the Klamath Falls branch of the First National Bank of Portland last Thursday. Joseph F. Santoina Jr., spe cial agent in charge of the Port land office of the FBI, identified the man as Paul James Lambert son, a resident of Klamath Falls for about 10 years. exaggerated. But the world probably never will now th true toll of death in Budapest -let alone the rest of Hungary in that'week that staggered Vaf world. t The Russians blasted awSy a whale house to kill a single snip er. . o They pulverised the Korvin National theater.0They put the historic former ftyak0 pajjgB O through a cannon meatgrinaer. To add to the terror of tHb Hungarian population, many of the troops they uscdowere0Mon gols, slit-eyed ,-Jighfers of rom dheccP steppes of innermost Aia, turned loose for the second lime o in 11 years on European citH.. Hungarian vcbelsctore "tip pav ing blocks and ripped tfewn street car'wires.'and piled them into barricades. o The: taiiks flattened the barrij cades and the men ijehindothem. First Elements3 O Due To Arrive9 In Cairo Tuesday Soviet Concentration In Arab Countries o Q q Unitert Valine. sr 0,C ..uu.o, s . i. .u.TTJ UN Secretary-gcseraJ. ag o o 0 o 0 o O q .......oiMtjom announced todari p that Egypt had .agreed to accept a UN "police -force -and the first elements will arrive twfte Tues- o day. o o The move pajnc s the United O , Nations rarer!0 t:x C -e,.ws miw; io get Its ptlicecforce intol SueJ 0 iu,,c oeioreo Moscow could make goodn thread to send "volunteers" into the Sad dle East. Hammarskold Giing O Q nammarsaiiold told on conference Mftt he tfss going to the Mideast himself ft see ifiere re no loose0 ends in lis policing arrangnit. o O First oeleflnents of ihft g'Opr 0 lice forci? 're at a staging area at Naples, taly. ee,-0iy ta flv to Egypt as soon as the word is given. , o o O Caii3(iian Maj. Gen. E. L9M. Burns, desienalnrf mmmj.. the UN force set u8 to enforcenn the cease fire w Egypt, flow to Cairo today and conferred with Egyptian learipre on l,ci.i.. details pf thgpla,u. Shortly afterwards, fib of t',e agreed to accept-before" the "po lice force arrives! reached Cairo from'jerusalem. Tii other five O were reported pn rnnU issi !rom Jerusalem to Port "Said. n . Ar afr raid alert was rotorted0 inr'Cairo this mmninf ar:n anti aircraft guns wore Jieard a short time later in Ileliopolis, city D six miles to the north. Thero wtis Q nu lmnrmauon available toln dicate What caused the'-alarm.0 fled Arms, Buildup These'- new mnvrc is t.tt. Tfrf east crisis ,came shortly before me UN General AsseicbJy op ened its remilar TQfiR seylni against a background of blood shed in Hungary and -Russian O n maneuvering in the Arli wdrlif. ree:..:m. i ts::i- . don said the Soviets hadobuilt up largeeir lorce and armored q unit "concentrations tn the Araif) , countries Thpv caiH Mnonu hat "v lent in T6 f.lIG fighters, 50 Ilyushin-28 bombers and 30(f) qO INV.UIU1I1 OIJU s.Bvjr tV.lftS. DUb Moscowdispathes said these'ife- poris couia not re connrmco w official circle thft-e. 0 O However, the official Soviet newspaper Pravda reiterad that S.ovict "voluntec" wo-C eo1nEpvrjt if the Anpln.Frpirth and Israeli "(frees owere not withdrawn immediately Commofiist Chinaalso Treat ed its threat to send vojn- teers" to Egypt, noting that reg- i,iuauon airtaav naa siariea 01 j ''military, medfeal, engineer transport ana otnt volunteer personnel o Op0 MEETINtJ POSTPONED neguiHny scneauiea meengQ of the Medford (JMannJg com mission will ke hpld Tupsriav at 7:30 p.m. instead of tonight be cause of the Veterans De holi day observance today. Bank Robbery Lamcrtson was to have been married Saturday afternoon. Wedding guests waited at the church for the bridegroom until police came to inform them he had been arrested. U. S. Commissioner Bert C. Thomas ordered Lambertson held in lieu of $10,000 bond and bound over to the U. S. grand jury in Portland. Santoina said that a large por tion of the 52,700 taken in the mid-day robbery last Thursday was recovered. o o n O O o c3 ! O O O COl & o i v oo o 0 o o o o 'O o o o